I've always thought it was a funny observation that the rumors around apple products are what great new things will be coming, vs. the rumors with MS products about what great new things they've promised won't actually be coming after all.
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One thing I'm excited about is the possibility of doing something along the lines of X11 support - just change the look & feel of XP windows, and integrate them into the Desktop. That'd be great. I guess we'll have to wait until Leopard to see if the wild speculation pans out. There's been more of that lately.
I'm a CS student, and we've got quite a mix in our lab here. We do graphics/vision/image processing stuff, and different people like different environments. However, given the fact that our machines can be triple-boot, I doubt we'll ever buy another Dell, simply because the lab can afford apple hardware, and it makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside to have beautiful machines..:).
Chances are that you're being called in to help the other sysadmins focus on helping other people.
The other sysadmins are not computer illiterate - they're not going to be installing Bonzi Buddy or anything. Just get them all together and ask them what they'd like you to do. Perhaps they'd like having the admin passwords in case of emergency, or perhaps they've found that that leads to problems. I'd look for a consensus from the people you'll be working with, because they all have sort of the same job, and I imagine they have strong opinions about what you should do for them.
Meh. I'm sure the gameplay people are focused on gameplay. The developers are focused on development. But this article was written by the artists, which are focused on the art.
You've been able to subscribe to NPR podcasts on Audible for quite a while - before the term podcast was widespread anyway. Recently, a few good ones like "Wait wait, don't tell me" have become free via sponsors, while others like "This American Life" are still only available for download for a fee (streaming is free).
The coolest watch I ever owned was the Timex Internet Messenger. It's an alphanumeric pager (1-way unfortunately) that would receive pages via 800 number of email address.
The cool part was that I've got my name as a domain name. So I set up wrist@example.com to forward to my wrist.
Unfortunately, it died while I was giving my kids a bath one night.:|. I'm back to the g-shock I got 12 years ago.
A wise friend of mine once said that in his experience, his quality of life was directly correlated with the speed of his internet connection. When he was on dialup, life was very, very bad.
I have been an admin for a school lab. We had people who prefer OS X, linux, or windows for different tasks. Having a single box that runs all three is exactly what we need. Add to that how nice the hardware is, and I don't see that we'll ever buy another Dell.
Perhaps you weren't around for Windows95, where a working installation key was all 1's.
Or for the upgrade, which disabled that, but let all 1's and a 2 at the end.
just hobby pages and weblogs that look professionally made
If you don't need any fancy interactivity, just a more professional look, I'd suggest starting with css. It basically allows you to get much more control over layout, etc, than you can with just html.
Here's some css inspiration.
If you're looking for certain interaction models, maybe tell us more about what you want the site to do, and we can better recommend technologies.:)
I agree - it was metacity that made me switch from gnome to kde. I had sawfish configured so that when I double-clicked the title, it'd do a vertical maximization. This was really handy for code windows, where doing a horizontal maximization is just a waste of screen space.
Oddly enough, I couldn't find anywhere to turn that functionality on with metacity. I also noticed that some of the other power features I had used were actually being removed. When I'm on linux, it's not the wonderful defaults that can't be changed that excite me - it's customizing the UI to get my work done. KDE is highly customizable. Gnome might be good for people who don't demand much from their UI - but then again, so are windows and OS X. When gnome took out the features that I needed, I switched.
Actually, the laptops are designed to work with either rechargable or disposable D-cells. D-cells were chosen because they're available pretty much anywhere. The crank would simply recharge the batteries.
I don't think the parent was trying to say that the SEC has responsibility for fixing the subject of the article. I think he was just saying that the fishs rots from the head - that is, if you've got executives that think this is a good idea, the ethics/morality/etc. of the company may not be so hot in general, and there may be other violations, over which the SEC has responsibility.
This reminds me of a story back with quake 1.. the best link I could find was in the shugashack archives.
The basic idea is that you needed 250 kills on monitored servers in order to qualify for a tournament. Thresh was so well known, that whenever he joined a server, everyone else would leave, assuming that it would no longer be useful to stick around. In the end, he just got a bye.
1) Performance is now basically the same as C/C++/Objective-C apps.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who takes issue with this. Performance may be comparable if you're otherwise IO bound - for example, Azureus is a great bittorrent client, written in java. But I do image processing, 3d graphics, simluations, machine learning, and other CPU intensive operations. Java is not fast enough.
So, maybe you should say that Java performance is great, as long as the operation isn't CPU bound.
This doesn't really answer your question, but my experience with both brands is that Leapfrog is generally a lot less annoying than VTech. I think this is important, because as a parent I listen to the electronic beeps and so forth of my kids toys quite a bit, and they annoy me much more quickly than the kids.
VTech toys have a habit of going into 'attract mode' like arcade games. For a while after you've played with them, they continue to make noises (the piano actually says 'play with me!'). Ugh.
In general, I prefer Leapfrog toys, although other people keep giving us VTech toys.
This reminds me of a candid camera skit I saw once. The premise was a roadside diner. An unsuspecting customer would walk in, and order. Then, a little while later, an actor sat a few stools down, and ordered the same thing.
The funny part was that the actor's portions were always about 2x the size of the other customer's portions. Different people reacted differently, but all of them were upset.
Personally, I'm pretty pleased about the speed bump, although I might wait until it's official..
This is a bit unrelated, but I miss the old Quake 1 mods. It was really the first large-scale game that had separate and replacable game logic. It also had it's own easy little programming language, which wasn't too hard to get into. As a result, you had all kinds of different and wacky mods. Soccer, racing, pong, a platformer, 3d pacman, various weapons, tanks, runes, superheros, hoverboards, etc.
There were lots of crappy ones, but they sure were a whole lot of fun. I still miss the hoverboard mod (I think it was called Slide), and I haven't seen anything similar on more recent FPS's.
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I think I speak for many of us when I say that the most historically significant computers are whatever ones I happened to have access to.
Also, thundercats rule.
I've always thought it was a funny observation that the rumors around apple products are what great new things will be coming, vs. the rumors with MS products about what great new things they've promised won't actually be coming after all.
One thing I'm excited about is the possibility of doing something along the lines of X11 support - just change the look & feel of XP windows, and integrate them into the Desktop. That'd be great. I guess we'll have to wait until Leopard to see if the wild speculation pans out. There's been more of that lately.
I'm a CS student, and we've got quite a mix in our lab here. We do graphics/vision/image processing stuff, and different people like different environments. However, given the fact that our machines can be triple-boot, I doubt we'll ever buy another Dell, simply because the lab can afford apple hardware, and it makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside to have beautiful machines.. :).
The other sysadmins are not computer illiterate - they're not going to be installing Bonzi Buddy or anything. Just get them all together and ask them what they'd like you to do. Perhaps they'd like having the admin passwords in case of emergency, or perhaps they've found that that leads to problems. I'd look for a consensus from the people you'll be working with, because they all have sort of the same job, and I imagine they have strong opinions about what you should do for them.
And a lot of various colored lasers.
Meh. I'm sure the gameplay people are focused on gameplay. The developers are focused on development. But this article was written by the artists, which are focused on the art.
You've been able to subscribe to NPR podcasts on Audible for quite a while - before the term podcast was widespread anyway. Recently, a few good ones like "Wait wait, don't tell me" have become free via sponsors, while others like "This American Life" are still only available for download for a fee (streaming is free).
The cool part was that I've got my name as a domain name. So I set up wrist@example.com to forward to my wrist.
Unfortunately, it died while I was giving my kids a bath one night. :|. I'm back to the g-shock I got 12 years ago.
A wise friend of mine once said that in his experience, his quality of life was directly correlated with the speed of his internet connection. When he was on dialup, life was very, very bad.
I have been an admin for a school lab. We had people who prefer OS X, linux, or windows for different tasks. Having a single box that runs all three is exactly what we need. Add to that how nice the hardware is, and I don't see that we'll ever buy another Dell.
Perhaps you weren't around for Windows95, where a working installation key was all 1's. Or for the upgrade, which disabled that, but let all 1's and a 2 at the end.
If you don't need any fancy interactivity, just a more professional look, I'd suggest starting with css. It basically allows you to get much more control over layout, etc, than you can with just html.
Here's some css inspiration.
If you're looking for certain interaction models, maybe tell us more about what you want the site to do, and we can better recommend technologies.
I agree - it was metacity that made me switch from gnome to kde. I had sawfish configured so that when I double-clicked the title, it'd do a vertical maximization. This was really handy for code windows, where doing a horizontal maximization is just a waste of screen space.
Oddly enough, I couldn't find anywhere to turn that functionality on with metacity. I also noticed that some of the other power features I had used were actually being removed. When I'm on linux, it's not the wonderful defaults that can't be changed that excite me - it's customizing the UI to get my work done. KDE is highly customizable. Gnome might be good for people who don't demand much from their UI - but then again, so are windows and OS X. When gnome took out the features that I needed, I switched.
Actually, the laptops are designed to work with either rechargable or disposable D-cells. D-cells were chosen because they're available pretty much anywhere. The crank would simply recharge the batteries.
Meh.
I'm still waiting for stuponfucious to make it in.
Have you looked at GLUI?
I don't think the parent was trying to say that the SEC has responsibility for fixing the subject of the article. I think he was just saying that the fishs rots from the head - that is, if you've got executives that think this is a good idea, the ethics/morality/etc. of the company may not be so hot in general, and there may be other violations, over which the SEC has responsibility.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=directed+grap h+layout
This reminds me of a story back with quake 1.. the best link I could find was in the shugashack archives.
The basic idea is that you needed 250 kills on monitored servers in order to qualify for a tournament. Thresh was so well known, that whenever he joined a server, everyone else would leave, assuming that it would no longer be useful to stick around. In the end, he just got a bye.
1) Performance is now basically the same as C/C++/Objective-C apps.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who takes issue with this. Performance may be comparable if you're otherwise IO bound - for example, Azureus is a great bittorrent client, written in java. But I do image processing, 3d graphics, simluations, machine learning, and other CPU intensive operations. Java is not fast enough.
So, maybe you should say that Java performance is great, as long as the operation isn't CPU bound.
If you enjoy TeX, you might want to take a look at TeXmacs.
It's a wysiwyg editor.
VTech toys have a habit of going into 'attract mode' like arcade games. For a while after you've played with them, they continue to make noises (the piano actually says 'play with me!'). Ugh.
In general, I prefer Leapfrog toys, although other people keep giving us VTech toys.
The funny part was that the actor's portions were always about 2x the size of the other customer's portions. Different people reacted differently, but all of them were upset.
Personally, I'm pretty pleased about the speed bump, although I might wait until it's official..
This is a bit unrelated, but I miss the old Quake 1 mods. It was really the first large-scale game that had separate and replacable game logic. It also had it's own easy little programming language, which wasn't too hard to get into. As a result, you had all kinds of different and wacky mods. Soccer, racing, pong, a platformer, 3d pacman, various weapons, tanks, runes, superheros, hoverboards, etc.
There were lots of crappy ones, but they sure were a whole lot of fun. I still miss the hoverboard mod (I think it was called Slide), and I haven't seen anything similar on more recent FPS's.