We provide source code in C++. You may alternatively choose to write your code in Java, in which case you are responsible for implementing any necessary interface code. Your submission must include a Makefile and README, and must compile on Linux 2.2 or 2.4 using g++ (for C++ code) or standard Sun tools (for Java code). --Contest Rules
The winning entry will most defintely NOT be written in C. It will probably be written in C++, though.
No, not at all. I was merely replying to a poster who said that he thought Mac OS X wouldn't succeed because he preferred to build his own computer. I argued that the majority of people see the computer as an appliance - meaning they want it to work right out of the box. It's not about x86 vs. PowerPC or Windows vs. Mac OS.
The point is that you are a minority. Most people don't want to go to the trouble of building their own computers. (Have you ever had parts that were DOA?) They also don't want to install the operating system themselves, and then prey that all their hardware works. They are willing to pay extra to make sure it works when it arrives.
Personally, I think Mac OS X is very attractive. My only complaint is that Apple hardware is a tad too expensive. Maybe once I have more money, I will purchase a Mac.
The whois record for trinary.cc says the registration date was 2000-04-14. Did Steve Grubb maintain the content elsewhere, and then move it over to the trinary.cc domain upon registration?
You probably won't believe this, but we had a set of UPSs arrive (via--you guessed it--UPS) on a pallet a few months ago. The pallet was completely destroyed, and most of the UPSs were dented to shit. We stood in amazement while one person called to request RMA--which took about an hour of explaining what happened. I only wish I had taken a picture of this thing when it arrived.
There is supposedly going to be some sort of dance production to promote Internet2 at the SuperComputing 2001 conference in Denver. The performance is going to be done entirely on Internet2, with choregraphers, dancers, and a sypmhony from various locations around the world.
There's an article here. The project site is here.
From my experience, that's not true. We run Abit BP6 (crappy motherboards!) dual Celeron systems at work, with clock speeds ranging from 366 MHz to 433 MHz. Other than the CPUs, the systems are configured with the same parts. We upgraded one of the 433 Mhz boxen to XP, and kept Windows 2000 on the others. As a sort of half-assed test of XP, we put the XP system next to one of the 366 MHz machines and ran Photoshop tests. The 433 MHz system wasn't any faster than the 366 MHz system, even though it should have been (and was when we were running Windows 2000). Granted, these weren't stringent tests, but I have to say that XP just feels slower.
At work, we put XP on a new Athlon system and watched it grind to a halt. We got a nice BSOD saying that a driver "fell into an infinite loop" and that we should contact the programmer for support. No idea which driver, or what caused it to loop inifintely. You're right, though, the display was real purty.
Some of us are somewhat social animals, who have friends on AOL, or friends who talk to people who use AOL. The majority of these friends don't realize or care that AOL is blocking open-source clients. We still enjoy talking to these people, more often than not in order to get a break from all the geekiness.
I've tried getting my friends to use Jabber - not very hard, mind you - and only one switched over. And he switched only because Gaim uses protocol plugins, which make it almost transparent which service is in use.
I agree entirely. At my high school, the Junior Engineering and Technical Society (JETS) started competing in FIRST during my senior year, when I was preparing for International Baccalaureate exams. I would have really enjoyed this, and I know those who actually found the time got a lot of great experience from it.
By the way, I went to part of the competition this year to support this year's team from my high school. (They did pretty well until the last day.) It was amazing - literally thousands of people cheering for the teams. It's great to see people be so enthusiastic about engineering.
What version of Gaim did you try? I've used the 0.11.0 prereleases and, more recently, the CVS copy. I haven't had any problems with Gaim leaking memory. If I remember correctly, the memory leaks in Gaim were fixed before 0.11.0 prereleases started coming out.
Okay, so Tyler Durden really wouldn't approve of this defense of Starbucks.
It really depends on who makes the cappucino. At my Starbucks, I know many of the baristas, so they take extra care to make my drink. Granted - the newer, less experienced ones usually don't make them very well. Eventually, they get the whole weight thing (a cappucino of a certain size is supposed to weigh a certain amount, meaning you have the correct balance of espresso, steamed milk, and foam).
The only time I've been to Borders for coffee (great computer book section, by the way), they made me a café mocha instead of a cappucino. The mocha tasted like Hershey's chocolate syrup, which really didn't impress me much. I should give them another try, though.
So, when is the Liberator coming to destroy my apartment?;-)
All very good points. For speakers, I would also suggest Polk Audio - they have great output.
You might also want to look in a phone book for locally run stores specfically devoted to audio equipment in your home town. The owners are in the business because they are audiophiles. Granted, the prices are generally a bit more expensive, but you could at least go to see which brands they respect and carry, and then shop around online for the same brands.
By the way - if you ever win the lottery or come across a large sum of money, you should check out NAD. They rule.
The court cases that give this precedent are Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., which involved the design of each company's operating system, and Lotus v. Borland, which involved the contents of the menus of each company's product. Essentially, both cases involved the look and feel of the plaintiff's product. It was decided that the look and feel had to be virtually identical for any legal action to take place.
Based on these cases, according to a computer law professor I had this semester, you do have the right to create a desktop environment that looks and feels like theirs, but you do not have the right to create one that looks and feels exactly like theirs. In the case of the Aqua themes, I'd say that the look and feel is virtually identical to that of Aqua in Mac OS X--I think that's the point of the themes. Thus, Apple can indeed ask themes.org to remove the offending themes expecting to see some action take place.
In addition to the economics of developing a new process, you have to consider how expensive a processor made of gold would be--especially in terms of the average user. It all comes down to marketing, I guess; how many average users would buy a new processor if it cost more than their car? (That's not to say that prices will come down as more research is done on semiconductors, though.)
You have to remember that Gore, as vice president, didn't really have much power. Any promises he made as vice president (or as a candidate for vice president) were primarily to help Clinton out.
The election is coming down to my state, Florida, where the difference between Bush and Gore is 2000 votes. This is where the difference is really going to hurt (am I the only person who sees differences between Bush and Gore on the issues of education and reproductive rights?), and one reason why the vote swapping sites seemed like a really good idea.
How large is your campus? That 150 m distance limit might be a problem, you know.
Personally, I know I wouldn't be able to use one of these in this manner. I wouldn't be able to get very far on my campus. And that's not even taking into consideration the interference I might encounter.
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Hemos will probably be CmdrTaco's best man. I think it was the other way around when Hemos got married.
It has sparked some interesting discussion, primarily related to the possiblity that Google Image Search will have to change.
Also, if you want a more user-organizaed tech news site, go to kuro5hin.
The winning entry will most defintely NOT be written in C. It will probably be written in C++, though.
(Or is that what you call a joke?)
After which they would sell whatever information they had about you.
What kind of card is it? If it's a Linksys, check out this page. Otherwise, Google turns up a few results.
Good luck.
I assume you've tried reinstalling Windows, as opposed to using your old install.
I guess my problem is that I want a TiBook, but simply don't have between $2300 and $3600 for one right now (price range from the Apple Store). :-)
No, not at all. I was merely replying to a poster who said that he thought Mac OS X wouldn't succeed because he preferred to build his own computer. I argued that the majority of people see the computer as an appliance - meaning they want it to work right out of the box. It's not about x86 vs. PowerPC or Windows vs. Mac OS.
The point is that you are a minority. Most people don't want to go to the trouble of building their own computers. (Have you ever had parts that were DOA?) They also don't want to install the operating system themselves, and then prey that all their hardware works. They are willing to pay extra to make sure it works when it arrives.
Personally, I think Mac OS X is very attractive. My only complaint is that Apple hardware is a tad too expensive. Maybe once I have more money, I will purchase a Mac.
The whois record for trinary.cc says the registration date was 2000-04-14. Did Steve Grubb maintain the content elsewhere, and then move it over to the trinary.cc domain upon registration?
You probably won't believe this, but we had a set of UPSs arrive (via--you guessed it--UPS) on a pallet a few months ago. The pallet was completely destroyed, and most of the UPSs were dented to shit. We stood in amazement while one person called to request RMA--which took about an hour of explaining what happened. I only wish I had taken a picture of this thing when it arrived.
There is supposedly going to be some sort of dance production to promote Internet2 at the SuperComputing 2001 conference in Denver. The performance is going to be done entirely on Internet2, with choregraphers, dancers, and a sypmhony from various locations around the world.
There's an article here. The project site is here.
From my experience, that's not true. We run Abit BP6 (crappy motherboards!) dual Celeron systems at work, with clock speeds ranging from 366 MHz to 433 MHz. Other than the CPUs, the systems are configured with the same parts. We upgraded one of the 433 Mhz boxen to XP, and kept Windows 2000 on the others. As a sort of half-assed test of XP, we put the XP system next to one of the 366 MHz machines and ran Photoshop tests. The 433 MHz system wasn't any faster than the 366 MHz system, even though it should have been (and was when we were running Windows 2000). Granted, these weren't stringent tests, but I have to say that XP just feels slower.
At work, we put XP on a new Athlon system and watched it grind to a halt. We got a nice BSOD saying that a driver "fell into an infinite loop" and that we should contact the programmer for support. No idea which driver, or what caused it to loop inifintely. You're right, though, the display was real purty.
Some of us are somewhat social animals, who have friends on AOL, or friends who talk to people who use AOL. The majority of these friends don't realize or care that AOL is blocking open-source clients. We still enjoy talking to these people, more often than not in order to get a break from all the geekiness.
I've tried getting my friends to use Jabber - not very hard, mind you - and only one switched over. And he switched only because Gaim uses protocol plugins, which make it almost transparent which service is in use.
I agree entirely. At my high school, the Junior Engineering and Technical Society (JETS) started competing in FIRST during my senior year, when I was preparing for International Baccalaureate exams. I would have really enjoyed this, and I know those who actually found the time got a lot of great experience from it.
This year, the team from my high school was aided by engineers from the University of Florida College of Engineering, NASA, and various companies. The members learned problem solving skills and people skills that can't be learned in standard classes.
By the way, I went to part of the competition this year to support this year's team from my high school. (They did pretty well until the last day.) It was amazing - literally thousands of people cheering for the teams. It's great to see people be so enthusiastic about engineering.
What version of Gaim did you try? I've used the 0.11.0 prereleases and, more recently, the CVS copy. I haven't had any problems with Gaim leaking memory. If I remember correctly, the memory leaks in Gaim were fixed before 0.11.0 prereleases started coming out.
Okay, so Tyler Durden really wouldn't approve of this defense of Starbucks.
;-)
It really depends on who makes the cappucino. At my Starbucks, I know many of the baristas, so they take extra care to make my drink. Granted - the newer, less experienced ones usually don't make them very well. Eventually, they get the whole weight thing (a cappucino of a certain size is supposed to weigh a certain amount, meaning you have the correct balance of espresso, steamed milk, and foam).
The only time I've been to Borders for coffee (great computer book section, by the way), they made me a café mocha instead of a cappucino. The mocha tasted like Hershey's chocolate syrup, which really didn't impress me much. I should give them another try, though.
So, when is the Liberator coming to destroy my apartment?
At $3.29 per grande cappucino at Starbucks (maybe more depending on location), they're about right.
:-)
It's unfortunate that I can't do without my Starbucks grande cappucinos.
All very good points. For speakers, I would also suggest Polk Audio - they have great output.
You might also want to look in a phone book for locally run stores specfically devoted to audio equipment in your home town. The owners are in the business because they are audiophiles. Granted, the prices are generally a bit more expensive, but you could at least go to see which brands they respect and carry, and then shop around online for the same brands.
By the way - if you ever win the lottery or come across a large sum of money, you should check out NAD. They rule.
The court cases that give this precedent are Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., which involved the design of each company's operating system, and Lotus v. Borland, which involved the contents of the menus of each company's product. Essentially, both cases involved the look and feel of the plaintiff's product. It was decided that the look and feel had to be virtually identical for any legal action to take place.
Based on these cases, according to a computer law professor I had this semester, you do have the right to create a desktop environment that looks and feels like theirs, but you do not have the right to create one that looks and feels exactly like theirs. In the case of the Aqua themes, I'd say that the look and feel is virtually identical to that of Aqua in Mac OS X--I think that's the point of the themes. Thus, Apple can indeed ask themes.org to remove the offending themes expecting to see some action take place.
(For more information about Apple v. Microsoft, see Apple v. Microsoft Under a Microscope.)
In addition to the economics of developing a new process, you have to consider how expensive a processor made of gold would be--especially in terms of the average user. It all comes down to marketing, I guess; how many average users would buy a new processor if it cost more than their car? (That's not to say that prices will come down as more research is done on semiconductors, though.)
You have to remember that Gore, as vice president, didn't really have much power. Any promises he made as vice president (or as a candidate for vice president) were primarily to help Clinton out.
The election is coming down to my state, Florida, where the difference between Bush and Gore is 2000 votes. This is where the difference is really going to hurt (am I the only person who sees differences between Bush and Gore on the issues of education and reproductive rights?), and one reason why the vote swapping sites seemed like a really good idea.
How large is your campus? That 150 m distance limit might be a problem, you know.
Personally, I know I wouldn't be able to use one of these in this manner. I wouldn't be able to get very far on my campus. And that's not even taking into consideration the interference I might encounter.
Make that $15000. Well, $14,999. That's enough to fly to Japan, buy a PS2, and fly back. Maybe twice.