Case in point. I learned C in first year university. In second year, we took a file structures course that required use to use C++. I had never used C++. But I did know C. So instead of using strings.h, I used characters arrays. Sure you can do all the same things, but one requires much more work than the other. There's easy ways to do things, and hard ways to do things. If you read a book, you can often find the easy ways to do things, that would be very difficult in another language.
Everybody wants to build a games. Nobody ever does. Building a game takes a lot of time, and really isn't much more interesting than programming any other application. Plus it takes a lot of time before you get something useful. Plus, there's a lot of other skills required. You probably have to do the art, textures, character models (3D or sprites), level design, and the list goes on. Making an application that fits some need you have would probably make a lot better use of your time.
Languages aren't that hard to pick up, it's the API that's important. And you really can't learn an API from a book, you just have to use it. Not only that, C# (.Net more specifically) has a great API reference. There's no reason to buy a book at all. If you understand C++, then you shouldn't have any problems using the same concepts in C#. I never understood employers who required that you have 10 years experience with a certain language. You can learn the Language in 1 week. If you've been working with VB.Net for 3 years, there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to do similar stuff in C# after a week of getting used to the differences in syntax.
I'm not sure, but you may want to try VLC to play DVDs with. Due to the fact that it's multiplatform, I don't think it would include any of these stupid restrictions you tend to get from other software video players.
But if you're using FTP for anonymous file transfers, then there is no password, some clients send the email address, or a fake one you've typed in as your password. Some servers accept anything as a password, even a blank password. The extra overhead for SFTP may not really be a big issue, but there's no reason why FTP can't be used. There's nothing wrong with it. If you are having user logons, then maybe you should migrate to SFTP. However, I don't know a lot of people using it. I took a networking course, and the professor was talking about how SSL was the wrong solution for the problem. This is because the hackers didn't actually listen over the line, what they really did was break into the databases where the retailers stored credit card numbers and such. What they really needed was a system where the retailer could collect payment without the credit card information ever having to be on the retailers servers. Right now it's up to the retailer to make sure they're handling your credit card information correctly.
But if you're just transfering publicly available files over using anonymous accounts, then what is the point of SFTP? I understand the need to get rid of telnet, which I would assume is never anonymous login, but things like FTP do have their place. Why not just get rid of HTTP, and use HTTPS all the the time?
That depends on whether or not you can get judge judy to believe that it was a loan and not a gift. Many judges would be kind of skeptical when someone says they got a 2000 gift from a friend, and aren't giving the money back. If you took the person to court, said the gift was actually a loan, then you may actually get something back out or the situation.
I still call it the WWF. I think its completely ridiculous that a wildlife fund and a wrestling federation can't share a trademark. Trademarks are only supposed to be exclusive for organizations in the same field. This is why Apple continues to be allowed to sell music, as long as they don't produce music, which would make them in conflict with Apple records.
Or you could just get a digital camera that takes AA batteries, and never use the internal memory except when you are in the situation mentioned above. Or you could even buy a couple extra SD cards, They aren't that expensive. It seems to me to be a waste to carry something that you never plan on using. Plus you'll have to deal with carrying that film around afterwards, which can be a pain.
And some places have no standard at all for plug design. My dad travels to Venezuela (i think, that's where the problem is) and they seem to have no standard at all as far a electicity goes. Plug designs can change from one hotel to the next. And to think that people in north america complain that we haven't standardized on 240 volt yet, and are still using 110 volt.
Sounds like it would be way to easy to beat someone playing an FPS with a gamepad if you had a mouse and keyboard. There's just no comparison. I don't know why they don't have games on Consoles you can actually play with a keyboard at mouse (or trackball). It would give them a lot of extra sales I think.
You start by saying that all the blame shouldn't be put on the people, but rather on the producers of the food, and then end by saying that everyone owes it to themselves to take the initiative to learn about the ingredients. You say we can't expect everyone to have a PhD in nutrition, yet you state that people should learn about what's in their food, and not blindly trust the corporation. I'm not sure about your food, but my food (in Canada) has pretty easy to understand labels. Sodium, Saturated Fat, TransFat, Calories, Vitamins, Fibre, Carbohydrates, Protein. These are all terms 98% of the population should understand. It doesn't take much to learn. That along with the ingredients, can tell you a lot about what's in the food. And a good guideline is that if you can't pronounce the ingredients, then it probably isn't healthy. Try to buy more from the fresh foods sections and less from the processed foods and you are already doing yourself a big favour.
Not only that, look at the stuff that's in the top 20. 2 versions of borat, 3 versions of Casino royale (including the Blu-Ray), Some diet DVD, The James Bond Box Set (I really can't see that selling to many copies at $180), and few other movies that look good, but not extraordinary. What are the actual sales numbers for Casino Royale BluRay, because it doesn't seem like it's beating anything taht I would expect to see selling more.
Why not just extract the audio from the video, and burn that to the CD? You mean that I have to buy the music video, and the audio track if I want to listen to the song on CD?
I found this to be a big problem with Puretracks. They started offering MP3s, and finding the MP3s is a real hassle. If you don't care which one you get, then it's not so much of a problem, but if you're looking for MP3s, it's impossible to actually just search for stuff that's available as MP3. I don't expect that most users would be able to understand why they could play mp3 files on their new ipod, but couldn't play their WMA files. I went with eMusic, where everything is MP3. Sure they don't have a lot of big name bands, but they have a lot of good music, with a huge variety. Most b&m music stores don't even have a punk section (they group it with rock). eMusic has a punk section further subdivided into things like emo, ska, and regular punk.
Grocery stores just sell what people buy. If people didn't but crap food, they wouldn't sell it. Don't blame the grocery store for lack of nutrition. Blame the people buying/eating the food. Gun stores don't kill people, people kill people.
I think it's fine to have places like KFC that are completely unhealthy for you. You shouldn't eat there every day, but it's nice to have the choice to eat unhealthy once in a while. I think that McDonalds is losing it's way, trying to be the be-all-and-end-all of food. Offering salads, deli sandwiches, pizza (although the pizza is good), and many other things just to try and say "we have it too". If they would just stick to doing what they do best, they wouldn't have so much problem getting customers. I know that when I want something really unhealthy and tasty, I can always go to KFC. McDonald's on the other hand, I'm not sure what they're going to try and sell me this week.
What if the gain is in the number of years you live, or in how good you feel while you're living those years? Do you want the gain if that's what it is? because that's what the real gain is.
I completely agree. I was never much good at the sports they did in school. I never really liked just about any team sport because of the way they are done in school. I remember a couple of my classmates who were equally bad at sports started just playing without the other kids, because we realized that it was much more fun if we could actually play, rather than just sit on the sideline, or run around, hoping the ball would be passed to us. We didn't really care that we weren't that good at sports. It's sad that most kids don't figure this kind of stuff out though. I think there's a lot of people missing out on a lot of fun and exercise because of the bad experiences they've had with sports as children.
Even then I find that firefox is still something developers tend to use a lot themselves. Either by testing their own web development, or just browsing the web. OpenOffice on the other hand, doesn't get used that much, just so much as they use it when they have to, and not because they want to. This may account for the quality of openoffice, which I find to be quite far off from other open source projects. Although it's probably more to do with the history of openoffice as staroffice, and from what I hear, a completely terrible codebase that nobody really wants to work on.
But those tests are only so lengthy and expensive because just about anything can change. If you know that there's a change in Samba, you only have to test the things that depend on Samba, you don't have to retest everything in the system. The fact that you have to test so many things when you upgrade is just a microsoft thing. There isn't a lot of things that break if your patch consists of actually just fixing a single, or small number of bugs.
Why does Mandriva get so little attention on the desktop front? I've found that it's been the easiest to use distro since Version 7, around 2000. I haven't found another distro that works as well as Mandriva, and I've tried Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, Caldera, Corel, Suse, and a few others. Haven't found one that installed as easily, or made installing new hardware/software as easy as Mandrive (ake). I've heard so much about how Ubuntu is going to conquer the desktop, but every time I try it, I'm amazed at how much worse it is than Mandriva.
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Case in point. I learned C in first year university. In second year, we took a file structures course that required use to use C++. I had never used C++. But I did know C. So instead of using strings.h, I used characters arrays. Sure you can do all the same things, but one requires much more work than the other. There's easy ways to do things, and hard ways to do things. If you read a book, you can often find the easy ways to do things, that would be very difficult in another language.
Everybody wants to build a games. Nobody ever does. Building a game takes a lot of time, and really isn't much more interesting than programming any other application. Plus it takes a lot of time before you get something useful. Plus, there's a lot of other skills required. You probably have to do the art, textures, character models (3D or sprites), level design, and the list goes on. Making an application that fits some need you have would probably make a lot better use of your time.
Languages aren't that hard to pick up, it's the API that's important. And you really can't learn an API from a book, you just have to use it. Not only that, C# (.Net more specifically) has a great API reference. There's no reason to buy a book at all. If you understand C++, then you shouldn't have any problems using the same concepts in C#. I never understood employers who required that you have 10 years experience with a certain language. You can learn the Language in 1 week. If you've been working with VB.Net for 3 years, there's no reason that you shouldn't be able to do similar stuff in C# after a week of getting used to the differences in syntax.
I'm not sure, but you may want to try VLC to play DVDs with. Due to the fact that it's multiplatform, I don't think it would include any of these stupid restrictions you tend to get from other software video players.
But if you're using FTP for anonymous file transfers, then there is no password, some clients send the email address, or a fake one you've typed in as your password. Some servers accept anything as a password, even a blank password. The extra overhead for SFTP may not really be a big issue, but there's no reason why FTP can't be used. There's nothing wrong with it. If you are having user logons, then maybe you should migrate to SFTP. However, I don't know a lot of people using it. I took a networking course, and the professor was talking about how SSL was the wrong solution for the problem. This is because the hackers didn't actually listen over the line, what they really did was break into the databases where the retailers stored credit card numbers and such. What they really needed was a system where the retailer could collect payment without the credit card information ever having to be on the retailers servers. Right now it's up to the retailer to make sure they're handling your credit card information correctly.
But if you're just transfering publicly available files over using anonymous accounts, then what is the point of SFTP? I understand the need to get rid of telnet, which I would assume is never anonymous login, but things like FTP do have their place. Why not just get rid of HTTP, and use HTTPS all the the time?
That depends on whether or not you can get judge judy to believe that it was a loan and not a gift. Many judges would be kind of skeptical when someone says they got a 2000 gift from a friend, and aren't giving the money back. If you took the person to court, said the gift was actually a loan, then you may actually get something back out or the situation.
That's right. After seeing your comment, I found this page and remembered it was Brazil that had many different plugs.
I still call it the WWF. I think its completely ridiculous that a wildlife fund and a wrestling federation can't share a trademark. Trademarks are only supposed to be exclusive for organizations in the same field. This is why Apple continues to be allowed to sell music, as long as they don't produce music, which would make them in conflict with Apple records.
Or you could just get a digital camera that takes AA batteries, and never use the internal memory except when you are in the situation mentioned above. Or you could even buy a couple extra SD cards, They aren't that expensive. It seems to me to be a waste to carry something that you never plan on using. Plus you'll have to deal with carrying that film around afterwards, which can be a pain.
And some places have no standard at all for plug design. My dad travels to Venezuela (i think, that's where the problem is) and they seem to have no standard at all as far a electicity goes. Plug designs can change from one hotel to the next. And to think that people in north america complain that we haven't standardized on 240 volt yet, and are still using 110 volt.
Sounds like it would be way to easy to beat someone playing an FPS with a gamepad if you had a mouse and keyboard. There's just no comparison. I don't know why they don't have games on Consoles you can actually play with a keyboard at mouse (or trackball). It would give them a lot of extra sales I think.
You start by saying that all the blame shouldn't be put on the people, but rather on the producers of the food, and then end by saying that everyone owes it to themselves to take the initiative to learn about the ingredients. You say we can't expect everyone to have a PhD in nutrition, yet you state that people should learn about what's in their food, and not blindly trust the corporation. I'm not sure about your food, but my food (in Canada) has pretty easy to understand labels. Sodium, Saturated Fat, TransFat, Calories, Vitamins, Fibre, Carbohydrates, Protein. These are all terms 98% of the population should understand. It doesn't take much to learn. That along with the ingredients, can tell you a lot about what's in the food. And a good guideline is that if you can't pronounce the ingredients, then it probably isn't healthy. Try to buy more from the fresh foods sections and less from the processed foods and you are already doing yourself a big favour.
Not only that, look at the stuff that's in the top 20. 2 versions of borat, 3 versions of Casino royale (including the Blu-Ray), Some diet DVD, The James Bond Box Set (I really can't see that selling to many copies at $180), and few other movies that look good, but not extraordinary. What are the actual sales numbers for Casino Royale BluRay, because it doesn't seem like it's beating anything taht I would expect to see selling more.
I thought the Zune wasn't playsforsure compatible?
Why not just extract the audio from the video, and burn that to the CD? You mean that I have to buy the music video, and the audio track if I want to listen to the song on CD?
I found this to be a big problem with Puretracks. They started offering MP3s, and finding the MP3s is a real hassle. If you don't care which one you get, then it's not so much of a problem, but if you're looking for MP3s, it's impossible to actually just search for stuff that's available as MP3. I don't expect that most users would be able to understand why they could play mp3 files on their new ipod, but couldn't play their WMA files. I went with eMusic, where everything is MP3. Sure they don't have a lot of big name bands, but they have a lot of good music, with a huge variety. Most b&m music stores don't even have a punk section (they group it with rock). eMusic has a punk section further subdivided into things like emo, ska, and regular punk.
Grocery stores just sell what people buy. If people didn't but crap food, they wouldn't sell it. Don't blame the grocery store for lack of nutrition. Blame the people buying/eating the food. Gun stores don't kill people, people kill people.
I think it's fine to have places like KFC that are completely unhealthy for you. You shouldn't eat there every day, but it's nice to have the choice to eat unhealthy once in a while. I think that McDonalds is losing it's way, trying to be the be-all-and-end-all of food. Offering salads, deli sandwiches, pizza (although the pizza is good), and many other things just to try and say "we have it too". If they would just stick to doing what they do best, they wouldn't have so much problem getting customers. I know that when I want something really unhealthy and tasty, I can always go to KFC. McDonald's on the other hand, I'm not sure what they're going to try and sell me this week.
What if the gain is in the number of years you live, or in how good you feel while you're living those years? Do you want the gain if that's what it is? because that's what the real gain is.
I completely agree. I was never much good at the sports they did in school. I never really liked just about any team sport because of the way they are done in school. I remember a couple of my classmates who were equally bad at sports started just playing without the other kids, because we realized that it was much more fun if we could actually play, rather than just sit on the sideline, or run around, hoping the ball would be passed to us. We didn't really care that we weren't that good at sports. It's sad that most kids don't figure this kind of stuff out though. I think there's a lot of people missing out on a lot of fun and exercise because of the bad experiences they've had with sports as children.
Even then I find that firefox is still something developers tend to use a lot themselves. Either by testing their own web development, or just browsing the web. OpenOffice on the other hand, doesn't get used that much, just so much as they use it when they have to, and not because they want to. This may account for the quality of openoffice, which I find to be quite far off from other open source projects. Although it's probably more to do with the history of openoffice as staroffice, and from what I hear, a completely terrible codebase that nobody really wants to work on.
But those tests are only so lengthy and expensive because just about anything can change. If you know that there's a change in Samba, you only have to test the things that depend on Samba, you don't have to retest everything in the system. The fact that you have to test so many things when you upgrade is just a microsoft thing. There isn't a lot of things that break if your patch consists of actually just fixing a single, or small number of bugs.
Why does Mandriva get so little attention on the desktop front? I've found that it's been the easiest to use distro since Version 7, around 2000. I haven't found another distro that works as well as Mandriva, and I've tried Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware, Caldera, Corel, Suse, and a few others. Haven't found one that installed as easily, or made installing new hardware/software as easy as Mandrive (ake). I've heard so much about how Ubuntu is going to conquer the desktop, but every time I try it, I'm amazed at how much worse it is than Mandriva.