that if you prepare your presentation to rely on
some technology, then said technology will find some way to stop working just long enough to ruin you presentation. Mind you hot stage lights can also be damaging... ("Developers!Developers!Developers!...")
If you can do a technical presentation without
fancy do-dads and nothing more than your articulate descriptions and perhaps a white board, then you will be able to engage your audience much more effectively. they will listen, rather than watch...
It's effective communication that makes a good presentation, not what media was used.
Remember this neat
keyboard system (it was on slashdot, but I didn't find the linke...) why use the present design of a key board anyway?
You could store your personal layout (suitable to your personal preferences, what you type most often, etc)on your PDA or online and what ever
keyboard you use you simply upload your profile
and the keyboard is remapped.
You could even develop your profile, with a long running algorithm that makes adjustments as you type moving frequently used letters to easier keys to use for your fingers if you have bad arthirtis, etc.
"If you think of all the history of photographs, the development of film and television, they all come from this first image," said senior Getty scientist Dusan Stulik.
Excellent, *tenting fingers*, soon the MPAA will be infringing on my copyright.
"Oh no Mr. Smithers, the MPAA is coming, help me Smithers!"
This just happened to me today...
on
Pet Bugs?
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· Score: 1
Now I haven't yet fully acertained exactly what is causing this bug, but it seems to be a java thing, rather than a me thing
It has to do with using v1.3.1 and java.util.Enumeration to iterate through a collection and calling interated object's equals method. Any sane person would think that a.equals(b) == b.equals(a)
should return true. In this case, it doesn't.
(All test cases not using the cast and enumeration stuff before hand behave sanely)
If anyone slashdotters have run accross something like this before please let me know, otherwise
I will be begin a 1 man coffee bean offensive on java!
The poster is correct in that the emulator was confused with abandonware.
I suppose they are just going through the paces to make doubly sure. God forbid a 'few trinkets slip through their fingers' com'on somebody just had too.
I personnally feel that anyone who doesn't read the books before seeing the movies should have something really *nasty* happen to them when they try and watch it.
Surely the Book Publishers Association of America
has found some anti-pre-movie-watching technology to prevent people from watching the movie prior to buying the book?
Did the guy who contacted it chance upon the satelitte coming online or was he sending messages to it for 20 years and only now realized that it was offline?
I program in Java mostly right now, and so when people begin the usual 'vm is slow' crank I am curious about what they exactly mean.
Programs written to run on vm's can be significantly slower due to the extra layer. Yet, if the design of the vm is done well enough (by perhaps reading this tome?) then the vm should be comparable. Certainly C is faster generally than an interpreted language. But there are native compilers out there than provide very comparable results, and the advantage of a language that forces careful programing. Here is the slashdot
link
If adding layers to programs automatically makes them slower, and so slow that they are useless,
we all would code in assembly.
Good design is important. A badly written C program
of which there are thousands, will be just as slow
(read bad) as a badly written vm program.
Blackadder : Crisis Baldrick, Crisis! No marriage, no money, more bills! For the first time in my life I've decided to follow a suggestion of yours. Saddle Prince George's horse.
Baldrick : Oh sir, you're not going to become a highwayman, are you?
Blackadder : No I'm auditioning for the part of Arnold the bat in Sheridon's new comedy.
Baldrick : Oh that's alright then.
Blackadder : Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick : Yeah! It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
Certainly, the anti-M$ feeling here on slashdot is perhaps a little more energetic than is really necessary. But Microsoft didn't play fair and not only that but they are is such a position but they don't need to care that they did.
We are enthusiastic about speaking against the dreaded Blue-Screen-Of-Death, but with good reason.
Take it with grain of salt. Absolutely, but remember
just because they aren't really that bad doesn't mean that they are not wrong.
If M$ proves that it changed its ways to slashdotters, than and only then will I believe them
I would suspect that the Open-Source troops can
beat 2005 for something similiar...
I am also curious that the article didn't seem bothered that MS broke the law to get to its current dominance.... and of course I couldn't really resist this:
"In 27 years he [B.G] claims he has never called in sick or missed work. Not even once."
Certainly now its proven by science: THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED!
*ring*
*ring*
"Um, Hello?"
"Hi son, how are you?"
"Um, Hi Mom!"
"Son, what are you doing?"
"um, nothing, just (alt-F4 alt-F4 alt-F4)looking at the 'internet', don't worry it wasn't pr0n"
Oh that would be hard to explain...
...but hopefully France and Canada and other second-world nations will follow suit.
France and Canada are second-world nations ?
The second world nations were the communist countries back in the days of the chilly-war...
As for everyone doing they're part for terrorism, the US' long history of support tyrannical dictatorships and also supporting the world's worst terrorist,
Pol Pot, makes a me little hesitant to jump on any US foriegn policy bandwagon....
Online surveillance is quite a hot topic and requires dilligence on all parties to maintain our privacy.
My only concern is that we must not as a online community support or at least condone certain behaviour by not speaking against it. What I am talking about is especially exploitive content and primarily kiddie pr0n.
We only help these peddlers of deviancy if we don't actively speak out against it and support efforts to curb child exploitation.
I am in favour of privacy rights, but we should not shield the wrong people. I want privacy for those who respect the rights of others.
Slashdot Mirror
now if only that server wasn't slashdotted ;)
that if you prepare your presentation to rely on some technology, then said technology will find some way to stop working just long enough to ruin you presentation. Mind you hot stage lights can also be damaging... ("Developers!Developers!Developers!...")
If you can do a technical presentation without fancy do-dads and nothing more than your articulate descriptions and perhaps a white board, then you will be able to engage your audience much more effectively. they will listen, rather than watch...
It's effective communication that makes a good presentation, not what media was used.
Remember this neat keyboard system (it was on slashdot, but I didn't find the linke...)
why use the present design of a key board anyway?
You could store your personal layout (suitable to your personal preferences, what you type most often, etc)on your PDA or online and what ever keyboard you use you simply upload your profile and the keyboard is remapped.
You could even develop your profile, with a long running algorithm that makes adjustments as you type moving frequently used letters to easier keys to use for your fingers if you have bad arthirtis, etc.
Ok so what is Navahoe for 1?
....
ok, 0?
"If you think of all the history of photographs, the development of film and television, they all come from this first image," said senior Getty scientist Dusan Stulik.
Excellent, *tenting fingers*, soon the MPAA will be infringing on my copyright.
"Oh no Mr. Smithers, the MPAA is coming, help me Smithers!"
Now I haven't yet fully acertained exactly what is causing this bug, but it seems to be a java thing, rather than a me thing
It has to do with using v1.3.1 and java.util.Enumeration to iterate through a collection and calling interated object's equals method. Any sane person would think that
a.equals(b) == b.equals(a)
should return true. In this case, it doesn't. (All test cases not using the cast and enumeration stuff before hand behave sanely)
If anyone slashdotters have run accross something like this before please let me know, otherwise I will be begin a 1 man coffee bean offensive on java!
The poster is correct in that the emulator was confused with abandonware.
I suppose they are just going through the paces to make doubly sure. God forbid a 'few trinkets slip through their fingers'
com'on somebody just had too.
Cpt. Obvious
I personnally feel that anyone who doesn't read the books before seeing the movies should have something really *nasty* happen to them when they try and watch it.
Surely the Book Publishers Association of America has found some anti-pre-movie-watching technology to prevent people from watching the movie prior to buying the book?
*** GO BPAA ****
*** SHAMELESS CHANCE TO POKE FUN ALERT ***
Definately joking :)
though thx for the info. I have no radio/satellite knowledge...
Did the guy who contacted it chance upon the satelitte coming online or was he sending messages to it for 20 years and only now realized that it was offline?
I program in Java mostly right now, and so when people begin the usual 'vm is slow' crank I am curious about what they exactly mean.
Programs written to run on vm's can be significantly slower due to the extra layer. Yet, if the design of the vm is done well enough (by perhaps reading this tome?) then the vm should be comparable. Certainly C is faster generally than an interpreted language. But there are native compilers out there than provide very comparable results, and the advantage of a language that forces careful programing. Here is the slashdot link
If adding layers to programs automatically makes them slower, and so slow that they are useless, we all would code in assembly.
Good design is important. A badly written C program of which there are thousands, will be just as slow (read bad) as a badly written vm program.
Blackadder : Crisis Baldrick, Crisis! No marriage, no money, more bills! For the first time in my life I've decided to follow a suggestion of yours. Saddle Prince George's horse.
Baldrick : Oh sir, you're not going to become a highwayman, are you?
Blackadder : No I'm auditioning for the part of Arnold the bat in Sheridon's new comedy.
Baldrick : Oh that's alright then.
Blackadder : Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick : Yeah! It's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
Certainly, the anti-M$ feeling here on slashdot is perhaps a little more energetic than is really necessary. But Microsoft didn't play fair and not only that but they are is such a position but they don't need to care that they did.
We are enthusiastic about speaking against the dreaded Blue-Screen-Of-Death, but with good reason. Take it with grain of salt. Absolutely, but remember just because they aren't really that bad doesn't mean that they are not wrong.
If M$ proves that it changed its ways to slashdotters, than and only then will I believe them
I would suspect that the Open-Source troops can beat 2005 for something similiar...
I am also curious that the article didn't seem bothered that MS broke the law to get to its current dominance.... and of course I couldn't really resist this:
"In 27 years he [B.G] claims he has never called in sick or missed work. Not even once."Certainly now its proven by science: THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED!
Actually you would probably want something like this....
1) Buy 1 suitably active cat or suitably small dog.
2) Attach appropiate self-charging generator to faithful pet's collar
3) Find a way to get the generated power into your PC without using any wires.
4) Load Quake
5) Get a another hyper-active pet to run your nearby beer fridge
6) Enjoy FPS, with a cold beer and low power bills,
It will run "most Microsoft programs"....
The phrase had to be removed, because not even Windows can run "most Microsoft programs".
Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, SuSE, FreeBSD.... Ahhhh
the linux hacker's wet dream....
Jenna Jameson, Raylene, Pamela Anderson, Taylor Hanes....
sorry ladies, kernels await!
*ring* *ring* "Um, Hello?" "Hi son, how are you?" "Um, Hi Mom!" "Son, what are you doing?" "um, nothing, just (alt-F4 alt-F4 alt-F4)looking at the 'internet', don't worry it wasn't pr0n" Oh that would be hard to explain...
France and Canada are second-world nations ? The second world nations were the communist countries back in the days of the chilly-war...
As for everyone doing they're part for terrorism, the US' long history of support tyrannical dictatorships and also supporting the world's worst terrorist, Pol Pot, makes a me little hesitant to jump on any US foriegn policy bandwagon....
Online surveillance is quite a hot topic and requires dilligence on all parties to maintain our privacy. My only concern is that we must not as a online community support or at least condone certain behaviour by not speaking against it. What I am talking about is especially exploitive content and primarily kiddie pr0n. We only help these peddlers of deviancy if we don't actively speak out against it and support efforts to curb child exploitation. I am in favour of privacy rights, but we should not shield the wrong people. I want privacy for those who respect the rights of others.