I had the same hinges wear out, actually the screws sheared off on my Dell. After I managed to figure out who to call, then sent me the parts for about $40 no fuss. And I got a direct number if ever something else wears out. My monitor now stands and a nice 90degree vertical instead of the droopy 45degrees of old age:)
But they also told me that the bezel of the monitor itself, because I also broke the clips that hold the thing shut, were unreplaceable. and to my eyes it does seem glued together.
I was also stunned a while ago when I had 2 of the same PDAs. 1 had bad memory so I got a new one from ebay. later my some broke the screen on that one so I thought I could combine the two. Nada. Its glued together. and so flimsy that opening the case just ripped it apart...
Third, Java 1.4.2 performed as well as or better than the fully compiled gcc C benchmark, after discounting the odd trigonometry performance. I found this to be the most surprising result of these tests, since it only seems logical that running bytecode within a JVM would introduce some sort of performance penalty relative to native machine code. But for reasons unclear to me, this seems not to be true for these tests.
I dont know why the reasons are not clear to him. Perhaps its because he still thinks the JVM is "running bytecode" and does not understand what JITs did or what HotSpot compilers do. Byte code is only run the first few passes, after which its optimized into native code. Native being whatever the compiler of the c program used to compile the JVM could do. This is fundamental. Which explains his results, and points to a poor HotSpot implementation where trig functions are concerned.
There's that, and the fact that MS does not have any "languages."
On a realer note, the JVMs are written in "C" a fact that some people just don't seem to understand. A Java program when running is a form of a C program. Thus, their is no reason to have slower math functions except that the JVM was poorly written.
The whole comparison of non-graphic Java to C or C++ is moot as C or C++ is the basis of all JVMs I know of.
Just because Swing is slow does not make it crappy. It meets nicely what it was designed to do. I use swing applications all the time. Today we have 1GHz processors, its not even an issue any longer, but it wont be allowed to die...
Eclipse is nice, I love eclipse. But I dont mistake it as a Swing replacement. AWT has a purpose, as does Swing and SWT, they are all different.
I believe AWT should be as fast as SWT because its also natively implemented.
interesting, but wouldnt your free mailbox fill up if you dont check it regurlarly, thus stopping even the forwarding actions?
on a side note, I wish evolution would say which username it was checking as opposed to simply the mail server, I have a domain with several single purpose emails but all evolution shows when its checking is a bunch of the same server names, hard to know which failed.
Your most important concern on a laptop will be powermanagement acpi vs apm and sleep mode. currently you have to do some wild trickery and editing of bios files to get it all going on 2.4. I heart 2.6 was supposed to be better. unsure.
If you spend any times in the yahoo scox forums you will immediately know this stock is under total manipulation. And its really quite easy with a stock so termendously illiquid like SCOX.
I think this might be DARLs 4th straight profitable quarter coming up, that brings him a nice bonus of stock, then we can expect to see him start selling as well.
The problem with thinking of this sort is the assumption that economics is a zero sum game. It isn't. Despite the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore and all the hand-wringing about it the fact is that the US economy had continued to grow pretty well during this offshoring.
But this is not what I suggested. I did leave room for growth. "The rich continue to get richer." Furthermore, growth of the economy does not equal wealth for the masses.
Another falacy is that job loss to developing economies is a one way street and that these job losses are permanent
Name some that have returned to their place/country of origin? Mexico is loosing jobs to China as we speak, so I don't know how Canada can gain jobs that Mexico can't even hold onto.
The problem is that during these changes there will be people who are dislocated. Governments need to deal with these dislocations with training and so on. Subsidies and interference with free trade is the wrong approach because you are trying to delay the inevetable rather than take advantage of the changes.
Both replies to my post went on the attack against subsidies and protectionism, but I never suggested those would be viable options. If their is protectionism, it should be on a finer grained level, such as protecting the wealth of those who do not have enough wealth to protect it themselves. And not just moving the government to the benefit of huge corporations and rich folk.
If the program claims that you can lock a document against modification, then shouldn't it provide verification of that? Or does it believe in its infallability.
I know MS word includes signatures, why wouldn't a signature be an automatic feature on a locked document???
I can only claim to be better than those I defeat.
If all I can claim is the defeat of idiots, then it does not say much about my skill. Weird how this always seems to get past these oh so intelligent peoples.
Hehe. Thats just how it comes out. I have no idea why my fingers are typing different words than my mind is thinking. Happy my mouth is at bit better at translation.
SCO is a successful marketing company, not software company. When you view them as a marketing company, you will understand why they continue to make friends.
Notwithstanding, they have yet to "make" money, and are only profitable due to one of the richest companies in the world. As an extension of the will of MS, their stock price deserves to be higher.
Alas, people are ignorant. When MS is finished with them, or when IBM makes them pay, or when Redhat gets their day in court, it will be a rude awakening. All insiders are selling. Its elementary.
Yes, but what is balance? Note that America has an abundance of the world's wealth, and India's region has an abundance of its poverty.
Balance will be when much of the wealth in America is shifted to India and the like. I know this is the right thing to do. However, the problem is the wealth shift will be removed from the middle class in the US, and as usual the Rich have well protected themselves and will still grow richer...
Most of what SCOX has been doing is already actionable. They are being sued by IBM and Redhat and probably a few others.
The problem is "SCO" is being sued, and not the CEO or the CEO of the parent company Canopy. SCO was bankrupt when they started, so whats the point if suing a bankrupt company? SCO has never had value and still does not. So unless they can take legal action against a person instead of just against a corporation, this will continue until the lawsuits settle and the judge orders "the company's" assets siezed. (and again, when you are bankrupt you have no assets)
Note, they do have assets, but it seems as if they only keep enough assets on hand to pay the lawyers they employ, notice how they have no long term contracts...
Unfortunately once they do this the companies worth will be based on its stock price instead of vice versa. And its stock price will be based on public opinion instead of tangible assets and the like..
Thus, while the original owners will maintain the appearance of control, the value of the company will fall into the realm of public opinion. As a result, in order to maintain company health it becomes necessary to start bullshitting (considering public opinion is based heavily on marketing)...
And since they'll have enough money to buy anything they could ever want for the rest of their lives, up to and including sending a probe to Mars, so long as they retain a controlling interest, it's highly unlikely that any price will cause them to fuck up the wonderful thing that is Google.
The argument that people become good when they become rich is oxymoronic.
1/3 of the companies value, or 1/3 of the available shares will be floated?
Or both?
If they are not floting all the shares, then whats the point, your value will be reduced by 2/3 when they float the rest of the shares considering most people wont be paying much attention until the shares hit the open...
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I had the same hinges wear out, actually the screws sheared off on my Dell. After I managed to figure out who to call, then sent me the parts for about $40 no fuss. And I got a direct number if ever something else wears out. My monitor now stands and a nice 90degree vertical instead of the droopy 45degrees of old age :)
But they also told me that the bezel of the monitor itself, because I also broke the clips that hold the thing shut, were unreplaceable. and to my eyes it does seem glued together.
I was also stunned a while ago when I had 2 of the same PDAs. 1 had bad memory so I got a new one from ebay. later my some broke the screen on that one so I thought I could combine the two. Nada. Its glued together. and so flimsy that opening the case just ripped it apart...
Thus I bought treo, i suppose i gave in.
I knew if I read long enough I wouldnt have to make that point. Wish I had mod points for ya.
...making the allocation sometime even faster than C.
I suppose its legitimate to say one C program is faster than another. Considering, as I have said, they are both C programs.
Third, Java 1.4.2 performed as well as or better than the fully compiled gcc C benchmark, after discounting the odd trigonometry performance. I found this to be the most surprising result of these tests, since it only seems logical that running bytecode within a JVM would introduce some sort of performance penalty relative to native machine code. But for reasons unclear to me, this seems not to be true for these tests.
I dont know why the reasons are not clear to him. Perhaps its because he still thinks the JVM is "running bytecode" and does not understand what JITs did or what HotSpot compilers do. Byte code is only run the first few passes, after which its optimized into native code. Native being whatever the compiler of the c program used to compile the JVM could do. This is fundamental. Which explains his results, and points to a poor HotSpot implementation where trig functions are concerned.
There's that, and the fact that MS does not have any "languages."
On a realer note, the JVMs are written in "C" a fact that some people just don't seem to understand. A Java program when running is a form of a C program. Thus, their is no reason to have slower math functions except that the JVM was poorly written.
The whole comparison of non-graphic Java to C or C++ is moot as C or C++ is the basis of all JVMs I know of.
Just because Swing is slow does not make it crappy. It meets nicely what it was designed to do. I use swing applications all the time. Today we have 1GHz processors, its not even an issue any longer, but it wont be allowed to die...
Eclipse is nice, I love eclipse. But I dont mistake it as a Swing replacement. AWT has a purpose, as does Swing and SWT, they are all different.
I believe AWT should be as fast as SWT because its also natively implemented.
interesting, but wouldnt your free mailbox fill up if you dont check it regurlarly, thus stopping even the forwarding actions?
on a side note, I wish evolution would say which username it was checking as opposed to simply the mail server, I have a domain with several single purpose emails but all evolution shows when its checking is a bunch of the same server names, hard to know which failed.
Your most important concern on a laptop will be powermanagement acpi vs apm and sleep mode. currently you have to do some wild trickery and editing of bios files to get it all going on 2.4. I heart 2.6 was supposed to be better. unsure.
As an american, I think we can stand to burn off a few million White dudes :)
Now what are those sun-screen stock's again?
If you spend any times in the yahoo scox forums you will immediately know this stock is under total manipulation. And its really quite easy with a stock so termendously illiquid like SCOX.
I think this might be DARLs 4th straight profitable quarter coming up, that brings him a nice bonus of stock, then we can expect to see him start selling as well.
Whats the difference? You still have to wade through it all if any important email is ever comming there.
Because that creates classism. Something the USA claims it stands against.
The problem with thinking of this sort is the assumption that economics is a zero sum game. It isn't. Despite the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore and all the hand-wringing about it the fact is that the US economy had continued to grow pretty well during this offshoring.
But this is not what I suggested. I did leave room for growth. "The rich continue to get richer." Furthermore, growth of the economy does not equal wealth for the masses.
Another falacy is that job loss to developing economies is a one way street and that these job losses are permanent
Name some that have returned to their place/country of origin? Mexico is loosing jobs to China as we speak, so I don't know how Canada can gain jobs that Mexico can't even hold onto.
The problem is that during these changes there will be people who are dislocated. Governments need to deal with these dislocations with training and so on. Subsidies and interference with free trade is the wrong approach because you are trying to delay the inevetable rather than take advantage of the changes.
Both replies to my post went on the attack against subsidies and protectionism, but I never suggested those would be viable options. If their is protectionism, it should be on a finer grained level, such as protecting the wealth of those who do not have enough wealth to protect it themselves. And not just moving the government to the benefit of huge corporations and rich folk.
If the program claims that you can lock a document against modification, then shouldn't it provide verification of that? Or does it believe in its infallability.
I know MS word includes signatures, why wouldn't a signature be an automatic feature on a locked document???
shame.
I can only claim to be better than those I defeat.
If all I can claim is the defeat of idiots, then it does not say much about my skill. Weird how this always seems to get past these oh so intelligent peoples.
If the stock is not liquid enough, floating the rest of the shares will destroy shareholder value. (even if company true value is unaffected)
But when companies start trading stock for assets in other companies, the whole thing gets quickly very messy.
Hehe. Thats just how it comes out. I have no idea why my fingers are typing different words than my mind is thinking. Happy my mouth is at bit better at translation.
Interesting. I recind my declaration of "Bullshit."
SCO is a successful marketing company, not software company. When you view them as a marketing company, you will understand why they continue to make friends.
Notwithstanding, they have yet to "make" money, and are only profitable due to one of the richest companies in the world. As an extension of the will of MS, their stock price deserves to be higher.
Alas, people are ignorant. When MS is finished with them, or when IBM makes them pay, or when Redhat gets their day in court, it will be a rude awakening. All insiders are selling. Its elementary.
Yes, but what is balance? Note that America has an abundance of the world's wealth, and India's region has an abundance of its poverty.
Balance will be when much of the wealth in America is shifted to India and the like. I know this is the right thing to do. However, the problem is the wealth shift will be removed from the middle class in the US, and as usual the Rich have well protected themselves and will still grow richer...
Most of what SCOX has been doing is already actionable. They are being sued by IBM and Redhat and probably a few others.
The problem is "SCO" is being sued, and not the CEO or the CEO of the parent company Canopy. SCO was bankrupt when they started, so whats the point if suing a bankrupt company? SCO has never had value and still does not. So unless they can take legal action against a person instead of just against a corporation, this will continue until the lawsuits settle and the judge orders "the company's" assets siezed. (and again, when you are bankrupt you have no assets)
Note, they do have assets, but it seems as if they only keep enough assets on hand to pay the lawyers they employ, notice how they have no long term contracts...
Unfortunately once they do this the companies worth will be based on its stock price instead of vice versa. And its stock price will be based on public opinion instead of tangible assets and the like..
Thus, while the original owners will maintain the appearance of control, the value of the company will fall into the realm of public opinion. As a result, in order to maintain company health it becomes necessary to start bullshitting (considering public opinion is based heavily on marketing)...
Et tu Google.
And since they'll have enough money to buy anything they could ever want for the rest of their lives, up to and including sending a probe to Mars, so long as they retain a controlling interest, it's highly unlikely that any price will cause them to fuck up the wonderful thing that is Google.
The argument that people become good when they become rich is oxymoronic.
1/3 of the companies value, or 1/3 of the available shares will be floated?
Or both?
If they are not floting all the shares, then whats the point, your value will be reduced by 2/3 when they float the rest of the shares considering most people wont be paying much attention until the shares hit the open...
Regular mortals will be in on the IPO. Somebody has to pay for the fall.