After paying for a license for windows, visual studio, your $100 fee (per year), you're very close to getting a $2000 full dev kit for the Wii. Although I'm not sure if they'll sell them in units of 1, I think it may be possible if you could get 20 of your closest internet friends together and order 20 dev kits. I don't think they'd really turn you down.
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For software developers who work with the web, Rails is the most productive platform available.
Those two sentences seem very contradictory to me. As the old saying goes, If you want quick, stable, and cheap, you can only pick two. Although I think that rapid application development has it's uses, it's not what I envision as a software engineering solution. I've used.Net more than anything else, and I usually steer clear from all the drag and drop user interface side of things. It's much faster to use drag and drop, but it will usually end up screwing you in the end, once you want to do something that wasn't anticipated by the designers of the framework.
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I tried ruby on rails, although I didn't give it much of a chance. Here's why I didn't like it. If your building a small project, the model-view-controller thing can get really annoying, with the needing of 3 files for a single web page thing. Because it's not compiled, it seems like it's not a good idea for really large projects either. What is the big draw of ruby on rails? I really couldn't find any reason why I'd want to use it above PHP, and it doesn't really have the qualities needed to take on something like Java or.Net.
Hard drives are only $.50 per gigabyte when you talk about low end consumer hard drives where speed and reliability isn't really that big of an issue. However, when you look at server hard drives, that require reliability and speed, you're going to be paying much more per gigabyte. If these drives can offer increases in speed and/or reliability to what we currently have available for servers, then I could see this technology getting adopted for servers, where people are willing to pay a little more if it means improved performance / reliability. You can hardly find any 10k RPM drives available to consumers because the demand isn't there. But if you look in the server world, you can find many 10K RPM and even 15K RPM drives. I'm sure someone could even point me to a 20K RPM drive.
WTF does that mean? Every OS is susceptible to phishing attacks because it's not actually the OS that's the problem. It's the person operating the computer. How do you design an operating system that stops people from typing their password for one site into another site? It's not a software problem. It's a user problem. It's like trying to make a program language that doesn't let you make bugs in the code. It's impossible, and trying to solve it in software makes the users even more susceptible to the problem, because they figure they no longer have to learn anything. Passing the blame for phishing attacks on to the operating system, as well as viruses, and other malware, will only further the problem. Education of the users is all that's necessary. Apart from the worms that works it's way into the computer through an unnecessary open port, or browsers that allow code to be executed, or mail apps that execute stuff when they aren't supposed to, most of the blame falls on the user. So, there is some things that can be done to cut down the number of attack vectors, the stupid user will always be the easiest to exploit.
Yeah, I got an NForce board. It was extremely buggy, and cause errors in every file I downloaded. I had to turn it off, along with all the other features that didn't work. It's an acknoledged bug, with pretty much no fix.
The problem is that there's just too much "fame" in cracking windows authentication. We used Telelogic Tau SDL in university, and it was only available on the university computers, and even there there was a limited number of licenses. We contacted the company to see if we could get some cheap/free licenses. They said no, and that licenses cost around $2000. Which was almost as much as a semesters tuition. Anyway, we also looked to pirating it, and couldn't find it anywhere. The problem was that it wasn't a popular enough program that anybody would bother cracking it. However, with windows, everyone wants it cracked, and everybody wants to be the one to crack it. So it's going to get cracked. I mean, look at the game consoles. People solder chips into the to crack them, but I don't think you'd find a way to install Linux on the v-Tech notebook. People are going to crack what they want to crack.
And the Gamecube had a button on a button. Since the should buttons were analog, some games had a function where if you push the shoulder buttons in a little, then they did one action, and if you pushed them in the whole way, so they clicked, they did a second action.
The summary says that you can throttle the amount of bandwith that applications like bittorrent get. Which is nice, but i've found that windows XP does a good enough job of slowing down my torrents. When comparing Linux and Windows the same connection, I find that Linux almost always gets much faster download rates on torrents, especailly when you talk about high speed downloading. For example, if the Linux machine is getting 15 KB/s then most likely the windows machine will also, however if the Linux machine gets 300 KB/s, then most likely the windows machine will only get 100 KB/s.
I took software engineering in university, and while I'm not yet a P. Eng. I find that there are very few companies out there who want to do real software engineering. I find that taking software engineering provided a good foundation to develop good software, and that I find I'm better off than those who took computer science, but I also find that a lot of my knowledge isn't doing me a lot of good, because companies don't want engineered software. They want something good that doesn't crash all the time, but they don't want something that's perfect, because they don't want to take the extra time necessary to do it right the first time.
The problem is that people who live in India who can speak fluent english, that is understood by americans usually have some form of higher education and wouldn't be working in the call centre.
Is the stuff that's going on at MS really all that interesting that 21% of PHD students want to work there? Or is the pay just that good? Or are they just looking for a nice shiny star on their resume? It seems to me that there would be a lot more interesting places to work than MS.
I'm not sure about that. I always thought that when using a pronoun, the apostrophe is not used for the possessive. Examples are yours, its, hers, his, and possible ones, although I'm not really sure about how this applies to "one". Their is the plural term, so it should not be used when referring to the individual. Using "one" is sometimes what happens because there is no widely used gender neutral singular pronouns in English. It's fine just to use his or her, but some people think that's sexist.
Is there anything to stop studios from producing media which has errors throughout it and doesn't actually conform to the standard? Do the discs that DVD Decrypter fails with also fail to play in "legitimate" players such as PowerDVD, WinDVD, et al? I for one would be quite unhappy if I only had a computer to play my DVDs on, or brought some DVDs to watch on my laptop on the plane, and found that they wouldn't play because the movie studios think that people with the actual DVD are the pirates, when we all know the real pirates don't even bother renting or buying the movie, and just straight download it over the internet. I know with CDs they aren't allowed to use the CD-Audio logo unless it conforms to a specific standard, is it the same with DVDs? I've noticed some DVDs i've bought say they have copy protection, but is this kind of labelling mandatory? And can you tell which disks have this kind of protection when you go to rent them?
Just because advertisement is there, doesn't mean you have to look at it. Using the internet for 10 years, as well as reading lots of magazines, and watching a fair amount of TV has trained me to block ads from my mind. It's like I don't even see them anymore. So, I don't need any fancy proxies or ad-blockers, because my brain has it's own ad-filter. I don't get why people go through so much trouble to get rid of ads. It's easy enough to know what the ads are, and not look at them.
5) That the user is a positive contributor, meaning that they have a non-negative karma.
This is the kicker. In order to be a moderator, you must have a positive karma, which means you must post comments that contribute to the slashdot groupthink. Anybody can think up formulaic posts in order to get their karma up, but you rarely see this, because you don't get modpoints that often, and trying to rig the entire moderation system would be hard, impossible, or simply just not worth anyone's time, as it would require many accounts. So, the moderation system just enforces the groupthink, because the only people with the ability to mod are the people that have the same views as everyone else.
And I think this is the main reason we won't see lossless audio downloads for a while. Where are people supposed to store all their music? If you have to burn it all to CD to prevent it from clogging up your hard drive, then you might as well have bought the CD in the first place. People wouldn't buy from iTunes if it meant that they'd have to buy a large hard drive. Between 8 MPixel digital Cameras, and lossless audio, as well as Apple now offering video downloads, most people don't have the room to store lossless audio on their computer. Let alone on their MP3 player.
Yes, you are extremely confused. OGG is lossless and always has been. Actually, OGG is just the container format, and Vorbis is the audio codec, but we aren't going to get into that.
I would personally pay a few cents less to get CD Quality music. Often when I buy CDs they are priced anywhere from 7.99 to 13.99. I think that if you average it out, the CD ends up being about the same price as iTunes, possibly a dollar or two more. But for that extra dollar, you get a physical copy, that's lossless, and doesn't contain any DRM. I try not to buy CDs with copy protection, and even for the few I do, I can still easily rip them, by disabling autorun. The only advantages of iTunes and other music services are, the ability to buy one track, and the ability to have it right away. I don't usually buy music from artists who can't fill up a whole CD with good music, and I'm not that impatient that I can't wait for the CD to arrive from Amazon, or wait until the next time I happen to be in the mall. Sometimes, if I know I won't be in the mall for a while, I'll download the cd in MP3 format and then buy it later. So, I could buy off iTunes, but i'd get music that was of inferior quality, and locked by Apple, which means that I couldn't play it on another MP3 player without degrading the quality even further.
It would most likely be possible if you did a full text index of your hard drive. However, most of the indexing services that work on desktops take more resources than they're worth. If MS took the Full Text Indexing from their DB, and built it into the OS, then Garauntee you could search all the text on your hard drive at a very high speed.
This is the difference though. You only notice the difference with HD DVD and Blu-Ray if you have a $2000 TV, and quality surround sound. That means, to really get any advantage from the new formats, you need to spend over $3000 (player, sound, and TV). It wasn't this way when DVD came out. You could hook up your $500 dvd player to your old TV with low end sound system, and still get a significant number of advantages. No rewind, no tape wear, better sound, better picture, all with only upgrading the player. This is why HD TV isn't catching on either, because you can't just buy the new TV and get a better picture. You have to get more expensive cable (over the air isn't everywhere), and buy new HD-DVDs, . So, upgrading to HD can't be compared to upgrading to DVD because there's more than just buying the player. You have to get a new expensive TV, just to see the difference, and for that TV to make a difference with TV shows, you have to pay even more for cable.
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After paying for a license for windows, visual studio, your $100 fee (per year), you're very close to getting a $2000 full dev kit for the Wii. Although I'm not sure if they'll sell them in units of 1, I think it may be possible if you could get 20 of your closest internet friends together and order 20 dev kits. I don't think they'd really turn you down.
I tried ruby on rails, although I didn't give it much of a chance. Here's why I didn't like it. If your building a small project, the model-view-controller thing can get really annoying, with the needing of 3 files for a single web page thing. Because it's not compiled, it seems like it's not a good idea for really large projects either. What is the big draw of ruby on rails? I really couldn't find any reason why I'd want to use it above PHP, and it doesn't really have the qualities needed to take on something like Java or .Net.
Hard drives are only $.50 per gigabyte when you talk about low end consumer hard drives where speed and reliability isn't really that big of an issue. However, when you look at server hard drives, that require reliability and speed, you're going to be paying much more per gigabyte. If these drives can offer increases in speed and/or reliability to what we currently have available for servers, then I could see this technology getting adopted for servers, where people are willing to pay a little more if it means improved performance / reliability. You can hardly find any 10k RPM drives available to consumers because the demand isn't there. But if you look in the server world, you can find many 10K RPM and even 15K RPM drives. I'm sure someone could even point me to a 20K RPM drive.
Yeah, I got an NForce board. It was extremely buggy, and cause errors in every file I downloaded. I had to turn it off, along with all the other features that didn't work. It's an acknoledged bug, with pretty much no fix.
The problem is that there's just too much "fame" in cracking windows authentication. We used Telelogic Tau SDL in university, and it was only available on the university computers, and even there there was a limited number of licenses. We contacted the company to see if we could get some cheap/free licenses. They said no, and that licenses cost around $2000. Which was almost as much as a semesters tuition. Anyway, we also looked to pirating it, and couldn't find it anywhere. The problem was that it wasn't a popular enough program that anybody would bother cracking it. However, with windows, everyone wants it cracked, and everybody wants to be the one to crack it. So it's going to get cracked. I mean, look at the game consoles. People solder chips into the to crack them, but I don't think you'd find a way to install Linux on the v-Tech notebook. People are going to crack what they want to crack.
And the Gamecube had a button on a button. Since the should buttons were analog, some games had a function where if you push the shoulder buttons in a little, then they did one action, and if you pushed them in the whole way, so they clicked, they did a second action.
Well, Xbox (and Sony I think) already have analog sticks on top of buttons, so I don't see how buttons on top of buttons would be much worse.
The summary says that you can throttle the amount of bandwith that applications like bittorrent get. Which is nice, but i've found that windows XP does a good enough job of slowing down my torrents. When comparing Linux and Windows the same connection, I find that Linux almost always gets much faster download rates on torrents, especailly when you talk about high speed downloading. For example, if the Linux machine is getting 15 KB/s then most likely the windows machine will also, however if the Linux machine gets 300 KB/s, then most likely the windows machine will only get 100 KB/s.
Why do you need optical scanners at all? Why not just have people count the votes? This is the way it works in Canada, and in many other countries.
I took software engineering in university, and while I'm not yet a P. Eng. I find that there are very few companies out there who want to do real software engineering. I find that taking software engineering provided a good foundation to develop good software, and that I find I'm better off than those who took computer science, but I also find that a lot of my knowledge isn't doing me a lot of good, because companies don't want engineered software. They want something good that doesn't crash all the time, but they don't want something that's perfect, because they don't want to take the extra time necessary to do it right the first time.
The problem is that people who live in India who can speak fluent english, that is understood by americans usually have some form of higher education and wouldn't be working in the call centre.
Are you telling me to use Google to look up something about Microsoft's research? Wouldn't Microsofts search engine be a little more appropriate?
That might be a welcome change from the 10+ buttons, plus joysticks, plus DPad that some of the current consoles have.
Is the stuff that's going on at MS really all that interesting that 21% of PHD students want to work there? Or is the pay just that good? Or are they just looking for a nice shiny star on their resume? It seems to me that there would be a lot more interesting places to work than MS.
I'm not sure about that. I always thought that when using a pronoun, the apostrophe is not used for the possessive. Examples are yours, its, hers, his, and possible ones, although I'm not really sure about how this applies to "one". Their is the plural term, so it should not be used when referring to the individual. Using "one" is sometimes what happens because there is no widely used gender neutral singular pronouns in English. It's fine just to use his or her, but some people think that's sexist.
Is there anything to stop studios from producing media which has errors throughout it and doesn't actually conform to the standard? Do the discs that DVD Decrypter fails with also fail to play in "legitimate" players such as PowerDVD, WinDVD, et al? I for one would be quite unhappy if I only had a computer to play my DVDs on, or brought some DVDs to watch on my laptop on the plane, and found that they wouldn't play because the movie studios think that people with the actual DVD are the pirates, when we all know the real pirates don't even bother renting or buying the movie, and just straight download it over the internet. I know with CDs they aren't allowed to use the CD-Audio logo unless it conforms to a specific standard, is it the same with DVDs? I've noticed some DVDs i've bought say they have copy protection, but is this kind of labelling mandatory? And can you tell which disks have this kind of protection when you go to rent them?
Just because advertisement is there, doesn't mean you have to look at it. Using the internet for 10 years, as well as reading lots of magazines, and watching a fair amount of TV has trained me to block ads from my mind. It's like I don't even see them anymore. So, I don't need any fancy proxies or ad-blockers, because my brain has it's own ad-filter. I don't get why people go through so much trouble to get rid of ads. It's easy enough to know what the ads are, and not look at them.
And I think this is the main reason we won't see lossless audio downloads for a while. Where are people supposed to store all their music? If you have to burn it all to CD to prevent it from clogging up your hard drive, then you might as well have bought the CD in the first place. People wouldn't buy from iTunes if it meant that they'd have to buy a large hard drive. Between 8 MPixel digital Cameras, and lossless audio, as well as Apple now offering video downloads, most people don't have the room to store lossless audio on their computer. Let alone on their MP3 player.
Yes, you are extremely confused. OGG is lossless and always has been. Actually, OGG is just the container format, and Vorbis is the audio codec, but we aren't going to get into that.
I would personally pay a few cents less to get CD Quality music. Often when I buy CDs they are priced anywhere from 7.99 to 13.99. I think that if you average it out, the CD ends up being about the same price as iTunes, possibly a dollar or two more. But for that extra dollar, you get a physical copy, that's lossless, and doesn't contain any DRM. I try not to buy CDs with copy protection, and even for the few I do, I can still easily rip them, by disabling autorun. The only advantages of iTunes and other music services are, the ability to buy one track, and the ability to have it right away. I don't usually buy music from artists who can't fill up a whole CD with good music, and I'm not that impatient that I can't wait for the CD to arrive from Amazon, or wait until the next time I happen to be in the mall. Sometimes, if I know I won't be in the mall for a while, I'll download the cd in MP3 format and then buy it later. So, I could buy off iTunes, but i'd get music that was of inferior quality, and locked by Apple, which means that I couldn't play it on another MP3 player without degrading the quality even further.
It would most likely be possible if you did a full text index of your hard drive. However, most of the indexing services that work on desktops take more resources than they're worth. If MS took the Full Text Indexing from their DB, and built it into the OS, then Garauntee you could search all the text on your hard drive at a very high speed.
This is the difference though. You only notice the difference with HD DVD and Blu-Ray if you have a $2000 TV, and quality surround sound. That means, to really get any advantage from the new formats, you need to spend over $3000 (player, sound, and TV). It wasn't this way when DVD came out. You could hook up your $500 dvd player to your old TV with low end sound system, and still get a significant number of advantages. No rewind, no tape wear, better sound, better picture, all with only upgrading the player. This is why HD TV isn't catching on either, because you can't just buy the new TV and get a better picture. You have to get more expensive cable (over the air isn't everywhere), and buy new HD-DVDs, . So, upgrading to HD can't be compared to upgrading to DVD because there's more than just buying the player. You have to get a new expensive TV, just to see the difference, and for that TV to make a difference with TV shows, you have to pay even more for cable.