I've done the printing of raw characters and you just need the correct device, it's quite easy. You can use "/dev/lp0" "LPT1" or even "\\printeserver\FX890". Works on windows, linux..... Heres some simple source code that's actually in production and working nicely:
FileOutputStream os;
PrintStream ps;
String device="LPT1";
os = new FileOutputStream(device);
ps = new PrintStream(os);
ps.print(escapeChar);
char c = 64;
ps.print(c);
At least Google's management are in touch with the Chinese people, the make the same wage: $1. That's really taking into account the culture of the country!
I wouldn't say that.Net has been overlooked..Net is mostly popular with MS centric developers, people that mostly used VB o VC, not so much with Java people. Some Java developers might be tempted to look to what C# has to offer, but at the end of the day, both are only tools. You can build great or crappy programs in any language. Large enterprises that have lot's of J2EE code WILL NOT swtich to.net, simply because J2EE has delievered, while.Net still has to prove to be as robust as Java. Java used to be sexy back in the 90s, now it's the new COBOL.
I've read that one of the biggest problems of cell phones in airplanes is that you are in line of sight to many towers at once, and can therefore cause congestion for the people on the ground.
Sure, they have to program. But there's huge difference between programming, and using an IDE. Have you ever seen a student program with this really cool UI? but then you notice that none of the widgets do anything, then you notice that the "programmer" hasn't written a single line of code. An IDE can be of great help, but is not the silver bullet!! I've been asked to help people "debug" this kind of "programs". One "peer" asked me to help him fix his program, the program didn't do anything. I start looking over the source (it didn't even compile), and he says that he wants me to help him put in a spinning logo and whatnot. I find this pathetic, call me flamebait if you want, but my opinion is that it should be taught from the bottom to the top, for example doing basic non gui stuff with a simple editor, without any codegen. When you know how the grind, you can use IDE tools to improve your game.
... in a particular language, the program sucks. That's not a high level education, but a technical education to mass produce code monkeys. If you know how to program, then picking up a language like C#, VB, Java, phyton, whatever, should be a matter of two days and good reference on the API and basic libraries. Everything else is pretty much the same. You have a problem, and you need a solution, the language is just a tool to solve that problem. I always laugh so hard at people that say "Oh...I can only program in VB (or whatever)". Those people just know how to use the mouse to click on some wizards in a particular IDE to get some result, and to type from memory some code snippets that they memorized in school. That said, pick whatever you want, the one that you think is more "cool" or whatever. My opinion? Java. Why? Better cross-platform implementations. But there are many more reasons to pick Java (or C#).
One of those two methods is bad math
Which one? Why?
Regression is an accepted method to generate a model from data. Of course any model has deficiencies, that where good logic comes into play, to identify those deficiencies, and correct them if possible. It may have taken the professor 7 years to define the right variables and collect the data, but once the data is available, the model can be constructed within a couple of days using Excel.
I can do this with Excel and some previous statistics! How breaktrough it this? Of course, if it's a program that analyzes the script, that would be another matter, but it's not.
Sure, that's my point. I really enjoy games like Zuma and Puzzle Bubble. But my point is with the more "hardcore" games. Take a look at, for me, the best RPG in the SNES, Chrono Trigger. The graphics were good. The game play was awesome. I've played it several times. The sequel, Chrono Cross, had breaktaking graphics, the intro was really really good. The gameplay sucked. A real shame given what COULD have been done with all the money they threw at the game. The game flunked, and probably we won't see another sequel.
I don't think so. Unfortunately a profitable game for gamers needs top of the line graphics. It might be different with casual gamer games, like Zuma. So much money is spent into graphics, that fun aspect of the game is normally not a big thing. You can show graphics (even CGI FMV) in screen shots to create buzz and hype, but it's much harder to do with "fun".
From what I've read, and I consider myself a Libertarian, the only role of the government should be security (things like police, basic criminal laws, and courts; not social security). In the case of Somalia, this government is missing, so is the security it should provide. So this role has been taken by various warlords. You pay then for protection, similar to how you pay taxes to a lean government for security in perferct Libertarism. But besides that, Somalia is as pure capitalism as it can get. Do you have the money? You can go there and set up any kind of business, no questions asked, no taxes to pay, no permits to request. You can even go there and set up a cell phone service, without asking anybody for permition. In fact, Somalia has one of the best and cheapest cellular services in it's area. Of course the negative part is that you have to pay *somebody* for security, but I'm not saying it's perfect Libertarism, just a VERY interesting case of pure market forces at work.
...Somalia. They've been without a central government for 15 years. Some say it's anarchy, some it's the libertarian dream. But it's not a police state for sure.
That why our IT department fills every hole in every computer with epoxy. It's bitch when we have to fix something, but then, a broken computer is not a security threat.
Each core has equal opportunity to schedule and execute a thread.
I don't think so. One core supports SSE3, the other doesn't, they have different cache, different memory controller. Yes, they run at the same speed, but I would hardly think that they have equal opportunity to schedule and execute a thread. Synchronizing an SMP system is (from what I've read) a very tricky bussiness, even with identical cores, much more with slightly different ones.
We have tested a car with three tires instead of four. Does it work? Well, yes, when it's not crashing.
This is got to be one of the most pointless experiments ever done. Does it work? Yes it works when it's design to work, like the XBox 360. SMP stands for SYMETRICAL MULTIPROCESSOR. A dual core and a single core are not symetrical
How so? Investors normally look for the best ROI, and selling a bunch of hardware at a loss isn't the best way to increase your ROI. Sure, the stock might be worth more due to speculation, but that's exactly an example of a bubble, and ask some sock puppet to see what happens when the bubble bursts. Of course, MS is so big it won't hurt as much, but this is NOT their business plan, their business plan is to make money, at least in the long term.
Have you seen how in movies and TV they can zoom and then sharpen any image using software? We'll it seems that technology is finally comming to real life!
I have to second that. Right now, Java can be considered the next-gen COBOL, it runs a LOT of the heavy duty back-end stuff. Where is.Net taking hold? In VB developers that write desktop apps, Microsoft's captive market, anyway. But for a large scale infrastructure, J2EE is way ahead of anything MS has right now. And on.Net being cross-platform, no way. Mono is going to always be far behind, because MS will keep.Net as a moving target. Meanwhile, Java gets released for Windows, Linux, Solaris, officially and at the same time. Some time later for the Mac and other platforms like AIX. And all of this with "official" support from Sun. The only thing that.Net is helping, is putting pressure on Sun to improve Java. Check out Java 5, it's got a whole lot of new stuff.
If the girl was a Match employee, then that would be more like an escort service almost, wouldn't it? How much does an escort cost? How much did he pay at the dating site? This guy shouldn't complain, he got A GREAT BARGAIN !!!
I consider myself to be a huge nerd, in everything I do. But lately that I have been applying the same "methods" to other areas that might not be "nerd specific". For example, hitting on women on bars. I've done trial and error, tried to tweak my style to get better results, paying attention to what other people do to be sucessful, trying out new stuff, etc. Isn't that the same that overclockers do? Isn't that the same that (source) hackers do? I think yes. Am I nerd? Yes. Do I restrict myself to "nerd specific" activities, hell no. Is it trendy to be nerd? No, it's trendy to do stuff, your way, with self confidence. That's the key.
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I've done the printing of raw characters and you just need the correct device, it's quite easy. You can use "/dev/lp0" "LPT1" or even "\\printeserver\FX890". Works on windows, linux ..... Heres some simple source code that's actually in production and working nicely:
FileOutputStream os;
PrintStream ps;
String device="LPT1";
os = new FileOutputStream(device);
ps = new PrintStream(os);
ps.print(escapeChar);
char c = 64;
ps.print(c);
At least Google's management are in touch with the Chinese people, the make the same wage: $1. That's really taking into account the culture of the country!
I wouldn't say that .Net has been overlooked. .Net is mostly popular with MS centric developers, people that mostly used VB o VC, not so much with Java people. Some Java developers might be tempted to look to what C# has to offer, but at the end of the day, both are only tools. You can build great or crappy programs in any language. Large enterprises that have lot's of J2EE code WILL NOT swtich to .net, simply because J2EE has delievered, while .Net still has to prove to be as robust as Java. Java used to be sexy back in the 90s, now it's the new COBOL.
I've read that one of the biggest problems of cell phones in airplanes is that you are in line of sight to many towers at once, and can therefore cause congestion for the people on the ground.
Migraine Boy
... before some case modders opens one of these to replace the clear window with some opaque material?
A method to cheaply and easily turn any given substance into gold has long been the goal of alchemy
I know of a method to turn lead into gold, it's called nuclear reaction.
Sure, they have to program. But there's huge difference between programming, and using an IDE. Have you ever seen a student program with this really cool UI? but then you notice that none of the widgets do anything, then you notice that the "programmer" hasn't written a single line of code. An IDE can be of great help, but is not the silver bullet!! I've been asked to help people "debug" this kind of "programs". One "peer" asked me to help him fix his program, the program didn't do anything. I start looking over the source (it didn't even compile), and he says that he wants me to help him put in a spinning logo and whatnot. I find this pathetic, call me flamebait if you want, but my opinion is that it should be taught from the bottom to the top, for example doing basic non gui stuff with a simple editor, without any codegen. When you know how the grind, you can use IDE tools to improve your game.
... in a particular language, the program sucks. That's not a high level education, but a technical education to mass produce code monkeys. If you know how to program, then picking up a language like C#, VB, Java, phyton, whatever, should be a matter of two days and good reference on the API and basic libraries. Everything else is pretty much the same. You have a problem, and you need a solution, the language is just a tool to solve that problem. I always laugh so hard at people that say "Oh...I can only program in VB (or whatever)". Those people just know how to use the mouse to click on some wizards in a particular IDE to get some result, and to type from memory some code snippets that they memorized in school. That said, pick whatever you want, the one that you think is more "cool" or whatever. My opinion? Java. Why? Better cross-platform implementations. But there are many more reasons to pick Java (or C#).
mobile phone signals of loved ones
I really like that part, because Big Brother loves everyone. And everyone loves Big Brother. Straight from wikipedia:
The Ministry of Love
Newspeak: Miniluv.
The agency responsible for the identification, monitoring, arrest, and torture of dissidents, real or imagined.
One of those two methods is bad math
Which one? Why?
Regression is an accepted method to generate a model from data. Of course any model has deficiencies, that where good logic comes into play, to identify those deficiencies, and correct them if possible. It may have taken the professor 7 years to define the right variables and collect the data, but once the data is available, the model can be constructed within a couple of days using Excel.
I can do this with Excel and some previous statistics! How breaktrough it this? Of course, if it's a program that analyzes the script, that would be another matter, but it's not.
Sure, that's my point. I really enjoy games like Zuma and Puzzle Bubble. But my point is with the more "hardcore" games. Take a look at, for me, the best RPG in the SNES, Chrono Trigger. The graphics were good. The game play was awesome. I've played it several times. The sequel, Chrono Cross, had breaktaking graphics, the intro was really really good. The gameplay sucked. A real shame given what COULD have been done with all the money they threw at the game. The game flunked, and probably we won't see another sequel.
I don't think so. Unfortunately a profitable game for gamers needs top of the line graphics. It might be different with casual gamer games, like Zuma. So much money is spent into graphics, that fun aspect of the game is normally not a big thing. You can show graphics (even CGI FMV) in screen shots to create buzz and hype, but it's much harder to do with "fun".
From what I've read, and I consider myself a Libertarian, the only role of the government should be security (things like police, basic criminal laws, and courts; not social security). In the case of Somalia, this government is missing, so is the security it should provide. So this role has been taken by various warlords. You pay then for protection, similar to how you pay taxes to a lean government for security in perferct Libertarism. But besides that, Somalia is as pure capitalism as it can get. Do you have the money? You can go there and set up any kind of business, no questions asked, no taxes to pay, no permits to request. You can even go there and set up a cell phone service, without asking anybody for permition. In fact, Somalia has one of the best and cheapest cellular services in it's area. Of course the negative part is that you have to pay *somebody* for security, but I'm not saying it's perfect Libertarism, just a VERY interesting case of pure market forces at work.
...Somalia. They've been without a central government for 15 years. Some say it's anarchy, some it's the libertarian dream. But it's not a police state for sure.
That why our IT department fills every hole in every computer with epoxy. It's bitch when we have to fix something, but then, a broken computer is not a security threat.
Each core has equal opportunity to schedule and execute a thread.
I don't think so. One core supports SSE3, the other doesn't, they have different cache, different memory controller. Yes, they run at the same speed, but I would hardly think that they have equal opportunity to schedule and execute a thread. Synchronizing an SMP system is (from what I've read) a very tricky bussiness, even with identical cores, much more with slightly different ones.
We have tested a car with three tires instead of four. Does it work? Well, yes, when it's not crashing.
This is got to be one of the most pointless experiments ever done. Does it work? Yes it works when it's design to work, like the XBox 360. SMP stands for SYMETRICAL MULTIPROCESSOR. A dual core and a single core are not symetrical
How so? Investors normally look for the best ROI, and selling a bunch of hardware at a loss isn't the best way to increase your ROI. Sure, the stock might be worth more due to speculation, but that's exactly an example of a bubble, and ask some sock puppet to see what happens when the bubble bursts. Of course, MS is so big it won't hurt as much, but this is NOT their business plan, their business plan is to make money, at least in the long term.
Have you seen how in movies and TV they can zoom and then sharpen any image using software? We'll it seems that technology is finally comming to real life!
I have to second that. Right now, Java can be considered the next-gen COBOL, it runs a LOT of the heavy duty back-end stuff. Where is .Net taking hold? In VB developers that write desktop apps, Microsoft's captive market, anyway. But for a large scale infrastructure, J2EE is way ahead of anything MS has right now. And on .Net being cross-platform, no way. Mono is going to always be far behind, because MS will keep .Net as a moving target. Meanwhile, Java gets released for Windows, Linux, Solaris, officially and at the same time. Some time later for the Mac and other platforms like AIX. And all of this with "official" support from Sun. The only thing that .Net is helping, is putting pressure on Sun to improve Java. Check out Java 5, it's got a whole lot of new stuff.
If the girl was a Match employee, then that would be more like an escort service almost, wouldn't it? How much does an escort cost? How much did he pay at the dating site? This guy shouldn't complain, he got A GREAT BARGAIN !!!
Check out My Youth In Arcadia. Kind of old, but has the best characters ever.
I consider myself to be a huge nerd, in everything I do. But lately that I have been applying the same "methods" to other areas that might not be "nerd specific". For example, hitting on women on bars. I've done trial and error, tried to tweak my style to get better results, paying attention to what other people do to be sucessful, trying out new stuff, etc. Isn't that the same that overclockers do? Isn't that the same that (source) hackers do? I think yes. Am I nerd? Yes. Do I restrict myself to "nerd specific" activities, hell no. Is it trendy to be nerd? No, it's trendy to do stuff, your way, with self confidence. That's the key.