Ok, why does she have to switch to another e-mail account when she still has a perfectly good internet connectivity to the usual one? Is your ISP too dumb to use SMTP authentication instead of IP address checks? Just get her a.Mac account and it should solve both problems of SMTP configuration and of sharing photos.
I can imagine lots of applications for this new battery including my own laptop
As if the existing laptops are not bad enough for putting on your lap! After Chernobyl there was a joke in Russia - "if you want to become a father, encase your ____ in lead".
Along comes some big company that grabs your code, renames it, and puts it into their product publically. They submit some patches. Then, they basically stab you in the back.
Slow down cowboy, I think you are talking about SCO here, not Apple! Someone creating a new project based on your free code is a compliment, not a stab in the back. KDE developers should just take any portion of Apple's changes they find useful and let the rest stay in a separate project. If later Apple wants to take advantage of improvements in the new version of KHTML, they will then do the work of integrating their own dirty patches without any prodding.
In the meantime, the rest of us can hope for a GNUStep webcore-based browser and saying goodbye to bloated Linux desktop environments that try to look like Windows.
You can take their shared source, port it to your platform - far easier than writing a new VM, get the port certified and release it. Look at blackdown.org for example. If you want to "embrace and extend" the VM, just make sure your new language is activated via an optional switch and is not called "Java". I don't see a problem with Sun's license unless you are Microsoft or a hobbyist who wants to distribute a VM without compatibility concerns. Then yes, you should write/have written code from scratch.
Well, I wouldn't use them for purchasing decisions, but this kind of studies are sure useful for pointing out weak spots in your favorite product. Time for Apache hackers get busy and fix such embarrassing performance scenarios.
I don't think Apache is the right server for static pages and simple CGIs though. It has so many modules and settings that the code path from filesystem to socket has to be much longer than necessary and longer than the feature-limited competition. They should try a simple server like Boa.
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Tell this to iPod users - think they are going for the budget price or the style? I would say PC knock-offs failed because they were not that good and because people who care would rather go for the real thing. There is some super-heavy Creative player in Sharper Image that is obviously trying to be like iPod. I don't think anyone is buying it either. As for appearance, iMac was intended more for women and children who want a cheerful-looking computer. Check out a G5 desktop or a powerbook if you want a more "traditional" look.
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I would absolutely drive an electric car if it worked better than a gas-powered one in 90% of places I drive and had a small, slower gas engine to get by on roads without charging stations.
Pick up a copy of Win95 from EBay for ten bucks or so, install QEMU (free) and off you go with IE6 and flash. Or contact the anonymous coward for a hard copy - this should encourage them to be more serious about Mac support.
That's because educated people understand problems with status quo - Bush, US, Microsoft - and are eager to support competition - Democrats, Apple, other countries putting their act together - in hope that it will solve some of these problems or force the current leaders to open their eyes. Anything wrong with that?
The truth is, changing out of windows would be like trying to change from gasoline to power cars
For most home "web/e-mail/digital photo" users, dumping Windows for Linux would be like learning to bike for a short distance rather than driving an SUV - less effort than learning to drive, cheaper, safer and more convenient for the task. With Firefox, OpenOffice and Google applications there is really not much of a migration barrier provided the system is pre-installed on a new PC with all the drivers.
As with Firefox, iPod and Mac Mini, Microsoft and most others will dismiss the migration until its well underway and MS will not be able to stop it before losing a big chunk of marker share. Maybe the same US suburban users that drive SUVs will stick with Windows, but there is the rest of the world to think about.
Dude, starving yourself will just push your metabolism down and encourage you to continue being sedentary and overweight. I bet you have cold hands and feel dizzy for most of the day. Get an iPod with star trek audiobooks and walk or jog for half an hour in the morning fast enough to breeze rapidly but not so quickly to get wasted and discouraged. Now reward yourself by eating a nice breakfast with eggs and sausage. Exercise and energy boost will make you feel warm for the rest of the day, burning lots of thermal energy. On the other hand, you probably won't be very hungry for lunch, so you get eat something light and with lots of vitamins. Do they have a Fresh Choice in your area?
Stay away from fat-free foods. They have lots of sugar that your liver will quickly convert into cholesterol and you will feel hungry again. The best bet is eating some fish in a Japanese or Chinese restaurant - a) it has unsaturated fat which cleans your blood vessels, b) fish doesn't have fattening growth hormones like non-organic beef or chicken and c) you will not get hungry soon and eat unhealthy "fat-free" snacks.
Cooking dinner at home would really do wonders. Restaurants tend to use the cheapest components and cook food for best taste and fastest cooking speed, not the most healthy dish. But I guess your milage may vary and it's possible to find relatively healthy restaurants.
NASA should certainly fix any bad design in the Space Shuttle and it's launch procedure. But basically going to space is dangerous and I wonder if what they are going after now are unavoidable risks of having both very hot and very cold stuff onboard. Personally I would accept a 10% risk to my life for seeing space and helping serious science like repairing Hubble and I am sure so would thousands of other people. They should continue flying both shuttles and do cool stuff including sending space tourists until whatever replacement launch vehicles are ready. Look at how many people die in Iraq, in car accidents or doing extreme sports just for kicks. Compared to that, a space flight is much more safe and meaningful.
Ok, enlighten me - which servers did he connect to to type "help" and where did he get copies of local repositories to examine? If he was careful to avoid using OSDLs free licenses or work time, BitMover should have just revoked the license of whoever gave him servers/repositories instead.
For diverting countless talented volunteer programmers towards his own agenda rather than cool projects. Linus is already working full time on free software under RMSes favorite license. Let him use Visual Studio, SourceSafe and Word to do it if he wants. If someone else wants to write a free source control system, word processor and so on, let them go ahead and Linus can try those tools if he chooses.
I know RMS technically didn't force BitMover to revoke the free license, but he sure encouraged free software developers and OSDL in particular to show hostile attitude that led to that event. OSDL should have recognized that Linux is a more important project than reverse-engineering BitKeeper and told their employees not to do that on company time/servers or get fired.
This is not the first time RMS screwed things up. As I understand, he encouraged creation of Gnome because KDE was somehow not free enough for him. Now there is a massive duplication of effort when everyone could be working on making one thing better. The end effect of any zealot's actions is to hurt their own cause more than any enemy.
Your sex acts should happen outside office for most jobs, but people commonly express love and sexuality in everyday life and it's stupid to expect them to stop while at work. Would an attractively dressed woman "catch shit" from you at work? How about a coworker with a picture of his wife and children on his desk? Someone kissing a date in the company cafeteria during lunch break?
If not, I don't see how you can complain about gays doing similar things. Personally, I would be offended by these things (start with thinking about "attractively dressed". yuck!), but I understand that it's easier for me to avert my gaze than for them to be constantly repressed and forced not to be themselves. I am sure all of us offended other people before and would never be happy if we were forced to live by all of their rules.
Procedures are for doing reusable or at least logically separate things, not for pure code formatting. You don't want proc that calls proc1 and proc2 (because there are no meaningful names for what they are doing) with 10 arguments each. Boilerplate code like string manipulation can be naturally factored out to procedures, classes etc. Functionality unique to your application often can not be and, as long as it's not reusable, there is no reason to waste time thinking about it. Rather, write comments, use gotos instead of deeply nested ifs and be happy.
I swear C.Sci professors ban using goto for much the same reasons religions control sex - to bully students into total obedience by giving them difficult, meaningless restrictions. In this case, transforming code that is naturally expressed with goto by adding boolean flags, switch statements and so on. Unnecessary inline functions is a new one for me though:-)
In fact, C if statements nested more than 3 levels are damn hard to read, especially once "}" is not on the same page as "{". It's a very common mistake to put some code after the wrong brace. In this case, outer levels of if/else should be replaced with if (...) goto for readability.
And if you get seriously sick, are you going to cover your own healthcare expenses or ask government for a handout? Because if I am paying tax for your treatment, either I should have some say about your lifestyle or you should pay extra tax for unhealthy foods and activities.
Because if you are posting on a website, you should use something that works for others. HTML would be nice actually. You can have a business with a parking lot that supports only white Honda Accord and have no problem finding customers in Bay Area. But you are still losing some customers and you are mean to a nice lady who thinks different and drives a New Beetle.
Because later you might want to delete or rename stuff inside your music library and damage your system by mistake. For example, if you rename/Library/Audio to/Library/mp3, you will cause microphone on your webcam to stop working.
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Ok, why does she have to switch to another e-mail account when she still has a perfectly good internet connectivity to the usual one? Is your ISP too dumb to use SMTP authentication instead of IP address checks? Just get her a .Mac account and it should solve both problems of SMTP configuration and of sharing photos.
Now I'm not saying that a Windows or Macintosh machine is not computing power, just that these systems are consumer boxes *WITHOUT* compilers.
When did you get a Mac without a compiler? Or the one where you can not compile your own kernel for that matter? Must be at least 5 years ago?
Do you have a link to this great RMS story? It sure explains a lot.
Are you surrounded by IBM-compatible machines or Lenovo-compatible machines?
I can imagine lots of applications for this new battery including my own laptop
As if the existing laptops are not bad enough for putting on your lap! After Chernobyl there was a joke in Russia - "if you want to become a father, encase your ____ in lead".
Along comes some big company that grabs your code, renames it, and puts it into their product publically. They submit some patches. Then, they basically stab you in the back.
Slow down cowboy, I think you are talking about SCO here, not Apple! Someone creating a new project based on your free code is a compliment, not a stab in the back. KDE developers should just take any portion of Apple's changes they find useful and let the rest stay in a separate project. If later Apple wants to take advantage of improvements in the new version of KHTML, they will then do the work of integrating their own dirty patches without any prodding.
In the meantime, the rest of us can hope for a GNUStep webcore-based browser and saying goodbye to bloated Linux desktop environments that try to look like Windows.
You can take their shared source, port it to your platform - far easier than writing a new VM, get the port certified and release it. Look at blackdown.org for example. If you want to "embrace and extend" the VM, just make sure your new language is activated via an optional switch and is not called "Java". I don't see a problem with Sun's license unless you are Microsoft or a hobbyist who wants to distribute a VM without compatibility concerns. Then yes, you should write/have written code from scratch.
Except that even extreme sports will on average your health and life expectancy, while drinking beer in a bar.. well.
Well, I wouldn't use them for purchasing decisions, but this kind of studies are sure useful for pointing out weak spots in your favorite product. Time for Apache hackers get busy and fix such embarrassing performance scenarios.
I don't think Apache is the right server for static pages and simple CGIs though. It has so many modules and settings that the code path from filesystem to socket has to be much longer than necessary and longer than the feature-limited competition. They should try a simple server like Boa.
Tell this to iPod users - think they are going for the budget price or the style? I would say PC knock-offs failed because they were not that good and because people who care would rather go for the real thing. There is some super-heavy Creative player in Sharper Image that is obviously trying to be like iPod. I don't think anyone is buying it either. As for appearance, iMac was intended more for women and children who want a cheerful-looking computer. Check out a G5 desktop or a powerbook if you want a more "traditional" look.
I would absolutely drive an electric car if it worked better than a gas-powered one in 90% of places I drive and had a small, slower gas engine to get by on roads without charging stations.
Pick up a copy of Win95 from EBay for ten bucks or so, install QEMU (free) and off you go with IE6 and flash. Or contact the anonymous coward for a hard copy - this should encourage them to be more serious about Mac support.
That's because educated people understand problems with status quo - Bush, US, Microsoft - and are eager to support competition - Democrats, Apple, other countries putting their act together - in hope that it will solve some of these problems or force the current leaders to open their eyes. Anything wrong with that?
The truth is, changing out of windows would be like trying to change from gasoline to power cars
For most home "web/e-mail/digital photo" users, dumping Windows for Linux would be like learning to bike for a short distance rather than driving an SUV - less effort than learning to drive, cheaper, safer and more convenient for the task. With Firefox, OpenOffice and Google applications there is really not much of a migration barrier provided the system is pre-installed on a new PC with all the drivers.
As with Firefox, iPod and Mac Mini, Microsoft and most others will dismiss the migration until its well underway and MS will not be able to stop it before losing a big chunk of marker share. Maybe the same US suburban users that drive SUVs will stick with Windows, but there is the rest of the world to think about.
Dude, starving yourself will just push your metabolism down and encourage you to continue being sedentary and overweight. I bet you have cold hands and feel dizzy for most of the day. Get an iPod with star trek audiobooks and walk or jog for half an hour in the morning fast enough to breeze rapidly but not so quickly to get wasted and discouraged. Now reward yourself by eating a nice breakfast with eggs and sausage. Exercise and energy boost will make you feel warm for the rest of the day, burning lots of thermal energy. On the other hand, you probably won't be very hungry for lunch, so you get eat something light and with lots of vitamins. Do they have a Fresh Choice in your area?
Stay away from fat-free foods. They have lots of sugar that your liver will quickly convert into cholesterol and you will feel hungry again. The best bet is eating some fish in a Japanese or Chinese restaurant - a) it has unsaturated fat which cleans your blood vessels, b) fish doesn't have fattening growth hormones like non-organic beef or chicken and c) you will not get hungry soon and eat unhealthy "fat-free" snacks.
Cooking dinner at home would really do wonders. Restaurants tend to use the cheapest components and cook food for best taste and fastest cooking speed, not the most healthy dish. But I guess your milage may vary and it's possible to find relatively healthy restaurants.
NASA should certainly fix any bad design in the Space Shuttle and it's launch procedure. But basically going to space is dangerous and I wonder if what they are going after now are unavoidable risks of having both very hot and very cold stuff onboard. Personally I would accept a 10% risk to my life for seeing space and helping serious science like repairing Hubble and I am sure so would thousands of other people. They should continue flying both shuttles and do cool stuff including sending space tourists until whatever replacement launch vehicles are ready. Look at how many people die in Iraq, in car accidents or doing extreme sports just for kicks. Compared to that, a space flight is much more safe and meaningful.
Some day is now. Enjoy :-)
Ok, enlighten me - which servers did he connect to to type "help" and where did he get copies of local repositories to examine? If he was careful to avoid using OSDLs free licenses or work time, BitMover should have just revoked the license of whoever gave him servers/repositories instead.
For diverting countless talented volunteer programmers towards his own agenda rather than cool projects. Linus is already working full time on free software under RMSes favorite license. Let him use Visual Studio, SourceSafe and Word to do it if he wants. If someone else wants to write a free source control system, word processor and so on, let them go ahead and Linus can try those tools if he chooses.
I know RMS technically didn't force BitMover to revoke the free license, but he sure encouraged free software developers and OSDL in particular to show hostile attitude that led to that event. OSDL should have recognized that Linux is a more important project than reverse-engineering BitKeeper and told their employees not to do that on company time/servers or get fired.
This is not the first time RMS screwed things up. As I understand, he encouraged creation of Gnome because KDE was somehow not free enough for him. Now there is a massive duplication of effort when everyone could be working on making one thing better. The end effect of any zealot's actions is to hurt their own cause more than any enemy.
Your sex acts should happen outside office for most jobs, but people commonly express love and sexuality in everyday life and it's stupid to expect them to stop while at work. Would an attractively dressed woman "catch shit" from you at work? How about a coworker with a picture of his wife and children on his desk? Someone kissing a date in the company cafeteria during lunch break?
If not, I don't see how you can complain about gays doing similar things. Personally, I would be offended by these things (start with thinking about "attractively dressed". yuck!), but I understand that it's easier for me to avert my gaze than for them to be constantly repressed and forced not to be themselves. I am sure all of us offended other people before and would never be happy if we were forced to live by all of their rules.
Procedures are for doing reusable or at least logically separate things, not for pure code formatting. You don't want proc that calls proc1 and proc2 (because there are no meaningful names for what they are doing) with 10 arguments each. Boilerplate code like string manipulation can be naturally factored out to procedures, classes etc. Functionality unique to your application often can not be and, as long as it's not reusable, there is no reason to waste time thinking about it. Rather, write comments, use gotos instead of deeply nested ifs and be happy.
I swear C.Sci professors ban using goto for much the same reasons religions control sex - to bully students into total obedience by giving them difficult, meaningless restrictions. In this case, transforming code that is naturally expressed with goto by adding boolean flags, switch statements and so on. Unnecessary inline functions is a new one for me though :-)
In fact, C if statements nested more than 3 levels are damn hard to read, especially once "}" is not on the same page as "{". It's a very common mistake to put some code after the wrong brace. In this case, outer levels of if/else should be replaced with if (...) goto for readability.
And if you get seriously sick, are you going to cover your own healthcare expenses or ask government for a handout? Because if I am paying tax for your treatment, either I should have some say about your lifestyle or you should pay extra tax for unhealthy foods and activities.
Because if you are posting on a website, you should use something that works for others. HTML would be nice actually. You can have a business with a parking lot that supports only white Honda Accord and have no problem finding customers in Bay Area. But you are still losing some customers and you are mean to a nice lady who thinks different and drives a New Beetle.
You did say "corporate". And with a PowerPoint compiler, your visions for synergy of paradigms can not be beat!
Because later you might want to delete or rename stuff inside your music library and damage your system by mistake. For example, if you rename /Library/Audio to /Library/mp3, you will cause microphone on your webcam to stop working.