No, no, no. For the love of god no! I don't want to have to have a web browser up to use IM! Even the most streamlined web browser is likely to have a much thicker (2x to 10x) footprint than a focused IM client with mediocre-level efficiency.
This is why I hate buzzword-driven programming ideas...
Excellent. This is just the kind of thing I was looking for. And I get a challenge reading the non-english web page. =) (as nice as it was to get so many replies, most people seemed to miss the point that I wanted to be able to do this via keyboard, not mouse gesture)
I remember the day I got my mail order Boca 14.4Kbps modem for a *mere* $200!! (to replace a Hayes 2400). I would have personally hugged every employee of Rockwell responsible for their wonderful cheap chipset.
They don't. And I don't mean that they don't handle it because everything works itself out. I mean that, IMHO, wikis don't work for controversial topics. There are unfortunately plenty of examples of this on wikipedia, to the point where some articles are rambling and worthless. If you watch, the well-meaning are overrun by the tide of trolls/ideologues/etc. It's amusing to watch, but it makes me wonder why wikipedia even tries to have articles on controversial topics.
It's always seemed to me that we won't understand gravity until we understand mass and inertia. And we won't understand mass an inertia until we understand time.
This is spot on. This is a great time for you to do low hourly rate tech stuff like fixing neighborhood computers, etc. This will teach you a lot of the mechanics behind consulting, drumming up business, etc. without needing to worry about feeding mouths as you will later.
You'll hone your core engineering skills enough as you continue to tinker, be it in college or via personal projects. But you won't really learn a lot of the instinctive business stuff there, like making customers happy, working out fair bargains, building a reputation and knowing how to sell yourself as a reliable ethical hardworking producer. These are traits that will come in very handy if you want to start a more serious business later.
Well, while we're dealing in gross stereotypes, why don't I reverse it? Engineers try to solve problems with real world solutions that are robust and efficient. Computer Science is about solving problems through various ideal elegant solutions. I don't know the number of times I've seen or heard of Comp Sci. PhD's entering the realy world and not thinking to add in things like caching or buffering.
Is she really worth a dollar a week? Because I get *my* snide female urban sophisticate dosage for *free* via wonkette (even though it's not always Ana Marie Cox). Besides, Dowd jumped the shark in approx 1999 IMHO.
Interstingly enough, if you deposit a check at an ATM, and they lose it (maybe a windy day) when unloading the stuff, they aren't liable. This is why I always give deposits to a real person. (yeah, you could get a replacement check from the payer, but that isn't always easy...)
Or Visual Basic. Seriously. If I'm reading the question right, the SDK is going to be.NET IL (written from C#), and you don't care about performance of the UI above that - you just want to experiment with different interfaces with little learning curve for new researchers. Sounds like VB.NET would work fine.
6. the knee - there has got to be a better way- stretched ligaments, torn ACL's etc.
Interestingly, atheletes about 100 years ago almost never had knee problems. But they had a lot more sprained ankles. Shoes have improved to provide significantly more ankle protection. But at what cost? Knee problems often become more serious/chronic than ankle problems. It seems that the body may be better suited to naturally handle ankle wear than knee wear. And we may have circumvented this.
I totally agree. I've loved the Clone Wars miniseries. It's had a few flaws, but they've been easy to overlook. I think they even got to try out some things Lucas had wanted to do in films but couldn't (e.g., the Jedi and Clone Troopers boarding another ship pirate-like only via rocket pack - a scene originally destined for A New Hope).
What we lack: 3 months of snow, subways, and george Steinbrenner.
Tiny text disclaimer: If you live in the panhandle, you will get tons of snow, and you won't even have pretty snow-laden forests. Dallas and Houston do have "light rail" which isn't as smelly as subways (yet) but stops at traffic lights and (special Houston bonus!) cars have a tendency to ram your train. Jerry Jones may or may not be as bad as George Steinbrenner.
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If it weren't for that US dollar would carry little more respect than a peso.
Pulleeze! No offense to Mexico, which has done a lot since we bailed them out a decade ago, but it's economy is an order of magnitude smaller.
Now, your govt isn't stupid and knows this prety well, so they invaded Iraq as soon as Saddam announced that they'd trade Iraqi oil in Euros.
We're in real tinfoil territory now.
OK... let me know when google starts offering a dividend
No, no, no. For the love of god no! I don't want to have to have a web browser up to use IM! Even the most streamlined web browser is likely to have a much thicker (2x to 10x) footprint than a focused IM client with mediocre-level efficiency.
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This is why I hate buzzword-driven programming ideas
Sad, but entirely true.
Boycott dill pickles, eat only kosher pickles! Crunchiness is sinful!
Excellent. This is just the kind of thing I was looking for. And I get a challenge reading the non-english web page. =)
(as nice as it was to get so many replies, most people seemed to miss the point that I wanted to be able to do this via keyboard, not mouse gesture)
I remember the day I got my mail order Boca 14.4Kbps modem for a *mere* $200!! (to replace a Hayes 2400). I would have personally hugged every employee of Rockwell responsible for their wonderful cheap chipset.
...like something equivalent to CTRL-ALT-DELETE, ENTER (does "lock computer").
They don't. And I don't mean that they don't handle it because everything works itself out. I mean that, IMHO, wikis don't work for controversial topics. There are unfortunately plenty of examples of this on wikipedia, to the point where some articles are rambling and worthless. If you watch, the well-meaning are overrun by the tide of trolls/ideologues/etc. It's amusing to watch, but it makes me wonder why wikipedia even tries to have articles on controversial topics.
It's always seemed to me that we won't understand gravity until we understand mass and inertia. And we won't understand mass an inertia until we understand time.
That's my non-insightful insight for the day...
HEY....
don't rag on Hee-Haw.
Well, while we're playing this game, here are my votes:
Unusually good MS OSes:
MS-DOS 3.3 (credit IBM for much of this, though)
MS-DOS 5.0
Win98 SE
Win 2K
Unusually bad MS OSes:
MS-DOS 4.0
Win ME
WinXP Home
This is spot on. This is a great time for you to do low hourly rate tech stuff like fixing neighborhood computers, etc. This will teach you a lot of the mechanics behind consulting, drumming up business, etc. without needing to worry about feeding mouths as you will later.
You'll hone your core engineering skills enough as you continue to tinker, be it in college or via personal projects. But you won't really learn a lot of the instinctive business stuff there, like making customers happy, working out fair bargains, building a reputation and knowing how to sell yourself as a reliable ethical hardworking producer. These are traits that will come in very handy if you want to start a more serious business later.
The politicians and bueraucrats will be enforcing it... we'll be firing them into space at the billboards! =)
Well, while we're dealing in gross stereotypes, why don't I reverse it?
Engineers try to solve problems with real world solutions that are robust and efficient. Computer Science is about solving problems through various ideal elegant solutions. I don't know the number of times I've seen or heard of Comp Sci. PhD's entering the realy world and not thinking to add in things like caching or buffering.
Is she really worth a dollar a week? Because I get *my* snide female urban sophisticate dosage for *free* via wonkette (even though it's not always Ana Marie Cox). Besides, Dowd jumped the shark in approx 1999 IMHO.
Interstingly enough, if you deposit a check at an ATM, and they lose it (maybe a windy day) when unloading the stuff, they aren't liable. This is why I always give deposits to a real person.
(yeah, you could get a replacement check from the payer, but that isn't always easy...)
Or Visual Basic. Seriously. If I'm reading the question right, the SDK is going to be .NET IL (written from C#), and you don't care about performance of the UI above that - you just want to experiment with different interfaces with little learning curve for new researchers. Sounds like VB.NET would work fine.
6. the knee - there has got to be a better way- stretched ligaments, torn ACL's etc.
Interestingly, atheletes about 100 years ago almost never had knee problems. But they had a lot more sprained ankles. Shoes have improved to provide significantly more ankle protection. But at what cost? Knee problems often become more serious/chronic than ankle problems. It seems that the body may be better suited to naturally handle ankle wear than knee wear. And we may have circumvented this.
They got it from ***** in ******. Duh!
I totally agree. I've loved the Clone Wars miniseries. It's had a few flaws, but they've been easy to overlook. I think they even got to try out some things Lucas had wanted to do in films but couldn't (e.g., the Jedi and Clone Troopers boarding another ship pirate-like only via rocket pack - a scene originally destined for A New Hope).
I can only hope Ep 3 will be as good...
What we lack: 3 months of snow, subways, and george Steinbrenner.
Tiny text disclaimer: If you live in the panhandle, you will get tons of snow, and you won't even have pretty snow-laden forests. Dallas and Houston do have "light rail" which isn't as smelly as subways (yet) but stops at traffic lights and (special Houston bonus!) cars have a tendency to ram your train. Jerry Jones may or may not be as bad as George Steinbrenner.
=)
Don't tell these guys that: http://cyc.com/
They'll get that white whale any day now. =)
Sorry, can't resist:
Latin's not dead; it's just Roman around.
Yes, unfortunately 'Agile' is the new buzzword, and most of the talk sounds like this (was nice knowing you 'XP'!)
When will people learn that buzzwords and trendy methodologies are no substititute for real knowledge, experience, and creativity? Apparently never...