The one child per family rule in China has caused many problems. Firstly the problem of babies being thrown away if they aren't the correct sex. Then the ones that do survive end up being completely spoiled, from being raised as an only child. A co-worker of mine who was from China said this was a big problem, and that there was an entire generation of people who grew up as only children. Obviously the only-child stereotype doesn't affect absolutely everyone, but it didn't become a stereotype without reason.
I've been eating vegetarian a lot lately. I still eat meat 2 or 3 meals a week, but a lot more not meat. I don't really miss meat, and a well prepared vegetarian meal can be just as satisfying (if not moreso) than a meal with meat. I really don't understand why people have a need to eat so much meat. I used to eat meat at every meal, but recently (mostly for health reasons) I've decided to eat less meat. I can't say I really miss it.
I use Visual Studio with SVN at work, and while it doesn't have IDE integration (AnkSVN sucked last time I tried), which would be optimal, I find that using TortoiseSVN to be pretty adequate, if not better than IDE intergration in a lot of ways (Don't have to open the IDE to do an update on your local copy). I think the thing that makes both IDE integration and TortoiseSVN great is to be able to use a nice GUI to manage you checkins and updates. I mean, the command line works, but this is one area where having a nice GUI can really help.
Because the Vista license came with the computer, and buying a Windows 2000 license for the computer would have added quite a percentage to my $500 laptop.
For your roommate, Try setting the theme to "Windows Classic". It will end up looking like Windows 2000, and will speed up the interface by about 100x. I have a Vista Laptop with Celeron 1.7 and 512 MB of RAM. Before windows classic theme, it was slow beyond usable. Not it runs quite respectable. Sure it won't look pretty like Vista is supposed to, but at least you'll be able to get stuff done.
Exactly. The only reason the bible is still around is because there had so many monks tirelessly copying it out many many times (millions?). Same goes for many other religious texts. Very few works survived from the era before the printing press, because it was too costly (in terms of time) to create multiple redundant copies. Now that we have digital recordings that can easily be copied perfectly, bit for bit, it should be much easier to preserve the information we have. The library of congress only hold 20 TB of data. That could easily be fit on a few (20) hard drives, and many copies sent around the world to ensure that in case of a single catastrophe, that all the data there was not lost.
Which is why when I design sites, I usually just specify Sans-Serif, Serif, Monospace, and that's it. I leave it up to the client computer to figure out which font is best. You can't really expect users to have any specific font installed, and even beginning to think they will is just a waste of time. Even specifying Helvetica I find to be a little much, since even though they might have it installed, they might prefer Arial as their sans-serif font.
Ottawa is hardly "Northern Canada". It's at 45.42 degrees north latitude. Slightly below the 49th parallel where most of the Canadian border with the US resides. It's also only about a 1 hour drive from Ogdensburg, New York.
What about everything using the QT libraries to be open source, unless you pay them a hefty license fee? Or what about programs linking to MySQL client libraries that are required to be open source?
The phone companies are usually pretty good for that. You sign up for a certain rate, you keep that rate until you are no longer a customer. Cable companies not so much. You sign up, a year later, prices go up and your rates change. Some channels get added, or removed. What's to stop them from writing a clause into the initial contract that says the rates and channel selection may change at any time?
I think this can be sorted out without resorting to credit card numbers. I'm all for pay sites, if the quality of content is out there, but I'm not going to hand out my credit card number too a thousand different sites. One of them is eventually going to use it. A good moderation system, like Slashdot can go a long way to keeping the trolls at bay. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's better than submitting your credit card number to every site on the internet.
They're only fleecing you if you keep on insisting that 1 KB is 1024 bytes. If you define that 1 KB is 1 billion bytes, then they are are really fleecing you. The only reason that 1024 was used as the size of a KB was because it was much easier, not because we were trying to standardize things, or because it made things simpler to understand. It completely went against all the other standards, just because it made the code a little simpler to write.
That really depends on who's missing him. Maybe he wasn't lost, injured, or kidnapped, but that doesn't mean that somebody reported him missing. Maybe he just decided that he had enough of his wife and wanted to get away form her, without the messy arguing that usually happens. Are they allowed to track him down without a warrant because his wife reported him missing?
I guess what they need is WOWOW. Which would be Windows On Windows On Windows. Just run the WOW 32-16 bit layer one the WOW 64-32 bit layer, and all your problems are solved.
That's why programming on windows would ideally be done in.Net. At least they have kept that API relatively clean. Sure it might be slower than doing stuff in c++ and compiling to machine code, but for many apps, you don't need the blazing fast speed.
Exactly my point. A 2.8 lb thinkpad is a great thing. It's probably full size, isn't it. I'm not saying the light isn't the way go to. But that tiny screens and tiny keyboards probably isn't the way to go for most people.
Because if you actually want to get any real work done while away from home, a laptop works a lot better. An ultraportable is good for some web surfing, or some simple document editing. Maybe sending a few emails. But if you have to do any coding, edit some images (larger than the screen resolution), or work on large spreadsheets, then the tiny screen and cramped keyboard could prove to be quite limiting.
I have a $500 full size laptop, and I don't find it hard to carry around by any means. It's has a 14.1 inch screen and is pretty light and pretty thin. It weighs just over 5 lbs, battery included. Comparing it to the eee PC, it's quite a bit bigger, but neither one can just be shoved in your pocket as you leave the house. Both of them require some kind of backpack or shoulder bag to bring with you. So as far as I see it, the ultraportables, don't really offer much in terms of portability, because you can' just put them in your pocket, and a standard laptop lets you get your work done much easier.
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The one child per family rule in China has caused many problems. Firstly the problem of babies being thrown away if they aren't the correct sex. Then the ones that do survive end up being completely spoiled, from being raised as an only child. A co-worker of mine who was from China said this was a big problem, and that there was an entire generation of people who grew up as only children. Obviously the only-child stereotype doesn't affect absolutely everyone, but it didn't become a stereotype without reason.
I've been eating vegetarian a lot lately. I still eat meat 2 or 3 meals a week, but a lot more not meat. I don't really miss meat, and a well prepared vegetarian meal can be just as satisfying (if not moreso) than a meal with meat. I really don't understand why people have a need to eat so much meat. I used to eat meat at every meal, but recently (mostly for health reasons) I've decided to eat less meat. I can't say I really miss it.
Find me a $500 laptop that comes preinstalled with Linux.
On IDE Integration
I use Visual Studio with SVN at work, and while it doesn't have IDE integration (AnkSVN sucked last time I tried), which would be optimal, I find that using TortoiseSVN to be pretty adequate, if not better than IDE intergration in a lot of ways (Don't have to open the IDE to do an update on your local copy). I think the thing that makes both IDE integration and TortoiseSVN great is to be able to use a nice GUI to manage you checkins and updates. I mean, the command line works, but this is one area where having a nice GUI can really help.
Because the Vista license came with the computer, and buying a Windows 2000 license for the computer would have added quite a percentage to my $500 laptop.
For your roommate, Try setting the theme to "Windows Classic". It will end up looking like Windows 2000, and will speed up the interface by about 100x. I have a Vista Laptop with Celeron 1.7 and 512 MB of RAM. Before windows classic theme, it was slow beyond usable. Not it runs quite respectable. Sure it won't look pretty like Vista is supposed to, but at least you'll be able to get stuff done.
Exactly. The only reason the bible is still around is because there had so many monks tirelessly copying it out many many times (millions?). Same goes for many other religious texts. Very few works survived from the era before the printing press, because it was too costly (in terms of time) to create multiple redundant copies. Now that we have digital recordings that can easily be copied perfectly, bit for bit, it should be much easier to preserve the information we have. The library of congress only hold 20 TB of data. That could easily be fit on a few (20) hard drives, and many copies sent around the world to ensure that in case of a single catastrophe, that all the data there was not lost.
Realizing that nobody cares if their copy of "The Davinci Code" lasts for 500 years.
Which is why when I design sites, I usually just specify Sans-Serif, Serif, Monospace, and that's it. I leave it up to the client computer to figure out which font is best. You can't really expect users to have any specific font installed, and even beginning to think they will is just a waste of time. Even specifying Helvetica I find to be a little much, since even though they might have it installed, they might prefer Arial as their sans-serif font.
Ottawa is hardly "Northern Canada". It's at 45.42 degrees north latitude. Slightly below the 49th parallel where most of the Canadian border with the US resides. It's also only about a 1 hour drive from Ogdensburg, New York.
What about everything using the QT libraries to be open source, unless you pay them a hefty license fee? Or what about programs linking to MySQL client libraries that are required to be open source?
Who cares if your website font supports unicode when all your content only contains unaccented characters from the English alphabet.
The phone companies are usually pretty good for that. You sign up for a certain rate, you keep that rate until you are no longer a customer. Cable companies not so much. You sign up, a year later, prices go up and your rates change. Some channels get added, or removed. What's to stop them from writing a clause into the initial contract that says the rates and channel selection may change at any time?
I have 3 monitors on my desk right now. I'd rather have two smaller monitors (17 inch) than 1 larger display.
Just do what we do in Ottawa. No modifications required.
I think this can be sorted out without resorting to credit card numbers. I'm all for pay sites, if the quality of content is out there, but I'm not going to hand out my credit card number too a thousand different sites. One of them is eventually going to use it. A good moderation system, like Slashdot can go a long way to keeping the trolls at bay. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's better than submitting your credit card number to every site on the internet.
They're only fleecing you if you keep on insisting that 1 KB is 1024 bytes. If you define that 1 KB is 1 billion bytes, then they are are really fleecing you. The only reason that 1024 was used as the size of a KB was because it was much easier, not because we were trying to standardize things, or because it made things simpler to understand. It completely went against all the other standards, just because it made the code a little simpler to write.
That really depends on who's missing him. Maybe he wasn't lost, injured, or kidnapped, but that doesn't mean that somebody reported him missing. Maybe he just decided that he had enough of his wife and wanted to get away form her, without the messy arguing that usually happens. Are they allowed to track him down without a warrant because his wife reported him missing?
I guess what they need is WOWOW. Which would be Windows On Windows On Windows. Just run the WOW 32-16 bit layer one the WOW 64-32 bit layer, and all your problems are solved.
That's why programming on windows would ideally be done in .Net. At least they have kept that API relatively clean. Sure it might be slower than doing stuff in c++ and compiling to machine code, but for many apps, you don't need the blazing fast speed.
Exactly my point. A 2.8 lb thinkpad is a great thing. It's probably full size, isn't it. I'm not saying the light isn't the way go to. But that tiny screens and tiny keyboards probably isn't the way to go for most people.
I'm not saying you need a super fast machine. On the contrary. You could have a low power computer, but just make it full size.
Because if you actually want to get any real work done while away from home, a laptop works a lot better. An ultraportable is good for some web surfing, or some simple document editing. Maybe sending a few emails. But if you have to do any coding, edit some images (larger than the screen resolution), or work on large spreadsheets, then the tiny screen and cramped keyboard could prove to be quite limiting.
I have a $500 full size laptop, and I don't find it hard to carry around by any means. It's has a 14.1 inch screen and is pretty light and pretty thin. It weighs just over 5 lbs, battery included. Comparing it to the eee PC, it's quite a bit bigger, but neither one can just be shoved in your pocket as you leave the house. Both of them require some kind of backpack or shoulder bag to bring with you. So as far as I see it, the ultraportables, don't really offer much in terms of portability, because you can' just put them in your pocket, and a standard laptop lets you get your work done much easier.