Except that it kind of has the opposite effect. I get more annoyed that I have to wait *after* pressing the button. Without the button I just think to myself, "of course I have to wait, there's no button"
Exactly, plus until the Galaxy S came out a week ago AT&T didn't even have a high end Android phone. They has some pretty poor hardware running an outdated version of the OS. Their phones couldn't run most of the new software which makes them think there are no apps on Android. Give them a Galaxy S and then see what they say.
This is part of the reason banks have to honor what the amount as written in longhand rather than the numeric value. If the box says $1000.00 but the longhand text says "one hundred and no/100" then the check is for $100.00. So unless you can change that to say "thousand" when it used to say "hundred" then it doesn't matter.
I bought a PS3 for the main purpose of watching movies and for my kids to play a few games on here and there. I use it for watching BluRay and DVD and find the interface as easy as any DVD player I've ever owned. I own the remote control also, but even when the kids have lost it and I have to use the controller it's pretty much just one button click to get the movie going.
I never owned a PS2 so I don't know how it compares. I did use an original XBOX as a DVD player for a little while and found it so pitiful (even with the remote) that I bought a separate DVD player instead, however my XBOX remote was flaky and I don't know which one caused the other.
Seagate has long been my brand of choice for hard drives. I have never had one of their drives fail. I still use one of their 9 GB SCSI drives in an old Sun Ultra 5. That drive is about 12 years old. Recent news makes me wonder if I've been lucky and whether I need to start looking elsewhere.
In the past, I've lost more WD drives than I can count but they seem to be doing better in recent times. I lost all four drives in a Hitachi RAID within one week of each other (makes you really doubt the controller). I lost one of the four in an old Maxtor RAID, but there have been no issues with the RAID in the approximately 2 years since replacing that drive.
I have about 15 Fujitsu drives that are still in their static wrap. A friend gave them to me after having an entire RAID replaced off an RMA. He never trusted the drives enough to use them after that. I never hooked them up either so I don't have any personal experience with them.
StarOffice is designed for the enterprise that wants a reliable and stable release rather than cutting edge features. Sun can stand behind it and offer better support because of the slower development cycle.
Yeah, I think at RedHat, candidates for the CEO position are interviewed by a panel of gardener, janitor, and head of cleaning personnel.
It's the open source way!
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I forced myself into learning vim when I started my current job because I got tired of waiting for emacs on the relatively slow computer I used. I used emacs part time for years. Within a week I was comfortable with vim. Within a month of using it full time I was as fluent with vim as I was with emacs. Now, less than a year later, I get frustrated that every text entry box doesn't support vim keystrokes.
A lot of managers don't think of "if we spend this we'll save twice that" they think "if we spend this we immediately reduce the bottom line by the same amount, fuck that!"
I agree. Very few managers that I worked for in the past could look at the long term gain. Instead, they focused on the immediate cost. I've heard them say that time is free because they have to pay the salary regardless. I remember one manager that looked at long term, but would rather sacrifice this type of productivity gain in order to get more people under him.
I'm lucky now. I do software development for a great company that will provide its employees with nearly any request that can be justified. I have two computers with five 20" monitors between them. All of the developers have similar setups. It is the most productive environment that I've ever worked. It's not necessarily because of the monitors, but the overall attitude of providing the employees with what they need rather than fighting them and trying to profit at the employees expense. The cost of the equipment is tiny compared to the increase in productivity and employee retention.
A $5 difference in the cost of an embedded system that is being mass produced adds up to a lot of money. A change in software has a one time cost. A change in hardware is multiplied by the million or so units they plan to ship. Not to mention, reducing the memory usage may improve the overall responsiveness of the system leading to a more satisfactory user experience. In a system like this, that can go a long way to moving the units out the door.
Does anybody really care if one of them copied the other? Maybe Apple/Microsoft because they want to fight out patents. Personally, all I care about is which one does a better job of implementing the features I want.
I started grad school while working full time with a wife and 3 children. I quickly realized it was going to take a lot more of my time and had to cut back on the number of classes I was taking at any time. You can do it, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. It is going to take a very long time to complete and you better have a very supportive spouse.
I think they knew about the problem beforehand, and that is one of the reasons for the limited supply. They are busy retooling the factories to fix it, which causes supply to be a bit lower.
One of the CS professors at my university before I attended was named Dr. Null. I thought other students were joking for quite a while because I didn't believe them either.
Goto is at least Japanese apparently. Maybe it's a popular name there...
Having picked up Java after using C/C++ for about 10 years, I find the biggest irratation to be the speed (or lack of) that programs run. The language itself is great. The UI is usually the worst part. I highly recommend checking out SWT from Eclipse. I think a lot of the hardcore Java freaks don't like it because it's not true Java and goes direct to the OS, but it can produce a great UI that isn't painful to use.
In theory, the JIT should be able to produce code that runs as fast or faster than C/C++. The JIT compiler has much more knowledge of the execution environment (CPU, memory, graphics) and should be able to optimize the program exactly for this one computer. It has't happened yet though. I'm waiting for it though because Java 5.0 is a fantastic language and I would love to drop C++ for it.
Right now, SWT is the only thing I've found that makes Java UIs bearable for the majority of programs. There are always exceptions to the rule and I'm sure there are some applications where the developers have been able to get decent speed with Java, but the typical C++ program has a considerably more responsive UI than the equivalent Java program when written by programmers of similar talent.
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When was the last time you saw anyone smiling on a plane?
Probably the last time I flew to Las Vegas. The trip home on the other hand was a different matter...not so many smiles.
Except that it kind of has the opposite effect. I get more annoyed that I have to wait *after* pressing the button. Without the button I just think to myself, "of course I have to wait, there's no button"
Exactly, plus until the Galaxy S came out a week ago AT&T didn't even have a high end Android phone. They has some pretty poor hardware running an outdated version of the OS. Their phones couldn't run most of the new software which makes them think there are no apps on Android. Give them a Galaxy S and then see what they say.
This is part of the reason banks have to honor what the amount as written in longhand rather than the numeric value. If the box says $1000.00 but the longhand text says "one hundred and no/100" then the check is for $100.00. So unless you can change that to say "thousand" when it used to say "hundred" then it doesn't matter.
Normally I wouldn't say that a bank has a lot of clout, but considering that USAA happens to be "the" bank of the United States military...
I bought a PS3 for the main purpose of watching movies and for my kids to play a few games on here and there. I use it for watching BluRay and DVD and find the interface as easy as any DVD player I've ever owned. I own the remote control also, but even when the kids have lost it and I have to use the controller it's pretty much just one button click to get the movie going. I never owned a PS2 so I don't know how it compares. I did use an original XBOX as a DVD player for a little while and found it so pitiful (even with the remote) that I bought a separate DVD player instead, however my XBOX remote was flaky and I don't know which one caused the other.
Who the hell sifts through all these pictures after they are taken?
And for your career 1) Like what you do 2) Make lots of money 3) Operate within the law
Pick any two
Seagate has long been my brand of choice for hard drives. I have never had one of their drives fail. I still use one of their 9 GB SCSI drives in an old Sun Ultra 5. That drive is about 12 years old. Recent news makes me wonder if I've been lucky and whether I need to start looking elsewhere.
In the past, I've lost more WD drives than I can count but they seem to be doing better in recent times. I lost all four drives in a Hitachi RAID within one week of each other (makes you really doubt the controller). I lost one of the four in an old Maxtor RAID, but there have been no issues with the RAID in the approximately 2 years since replacing that drive.
I have about 15 Fujitsu drives that are still in their static wrap. A friend gave them to me after having an entire RAID replaced off an RMA. He never trusted the drives enough to use them after that. I never hooked them up either so I don't have any personal experience with them.
No experience with Samsung drives either.
StarOffice is designed for the enterprise that wants a reliable and stable release rather than cutting edge features. Sun can stand behind it and offer better support because of the slower development cycle.
Back in '88, I had sex with three women at once;...
the good news is that you should be able to make lots of money with 3 penises
We should replace it with nothing. Just eliminate it. It would simplify life at no cost.
Damn, you're just trying to get all the houses to burn down.
Maybe that's why "Leonard Part 6" was a flop. Didn't seem to matter for Catch-22 though.
I forced myself into learning vim when I started my current job because I got tired of waiting for emacs on the relatively slow computer I used. I used emacs part time for years. Within a week I was comfortable with vim. Within a month of using it full time I was as fluent with vim as I was with emacs. Now, less than a year later, I get frustrated that every text entry box doesn't support vim keystrokes.
I agree. Very few managers that I worked for in the past could look at the long term gain. Instead, they focused on the immediate cost. I've heard them say that time is free because they have to pay the salary regardless. I remember one manager that looked at long term, but would rather sacrifice this type of productivity gain in order to get more people under him.
I'm lucky now. I do software development for a great company that will provide its employees with nearly any request that can be justified. I have two computers with five 20" monitors between them. All of the developers have similar setups. It is the most productive environment that I've ever worked. It's not necessarily because of the monitors, but the overall attitude of providing the employees with what they need rather than fighting them and trying to profit at the employees expense. The cost of the equipment is tiny compared to the increase in productivity and employee retention.
A $5 difference in the cost of an embedded system that is being mass produced adds up to a lot of money. A change in software has a one time cost. A change in hardware is multiplied by the million or so units they plan to ship. Not to mention, reducing the memory usage may improve the overall responsiveness of the system leading to a more satisfactory user experience. In a system like this, that can go a long way to moving the units out the door.
Does anybody really care if one of them copied the other?
Maybe Apple/Microsoft because they want to fight out patents. Personally, all I care about is which one does a better job of implementing the features I want.
I started grad school while working full time with a wife and 3 children. I quickly realized it was going to take a lot more of my time and had to cut back on the number of classes I was taking at any time. You can do it, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. It is going to take a very long time to complete and you better have a very supportive spouse.
print "Results not found";
I think they knew about the problem beforehand, and that is one of the reasons for the limited supply. They are busy retooling the factories to fix it, which causes supply to be a bit lower.
I like the part where the discs are going to retail for $100 each. The 1.6TB potential might make it worth it though.
Goto is at least Japanese apparently. Maybe it's a popular name there...
In theory, the JIT should be able to produce code that runs as fast or faster than C/C++. The JIT compiler has much more knowledge of the execution environment (CPU, memory, graphics) and should be able to optimize the program exactly for this one computer. It has't happened yet though. I'm waiting for it though because Java 5.0 is a fantastic language and I would love to drop C++ for it.
Right now, SWT is the only thing I've found that makes Java UIs bearable for the majority of programs. There are always exceptions to the rule and I'm sure there are some applications where the developers have been able to get decent speed with Java, but the typical C++ program has a considerably more responsive UI than the equivalent Java program when written by programmers of similar talent.
They don't have to have immediate turnaround. They get 8 years to work on it.