Yeah, I think there is very little demand for video phone. Video requires too much attention. When people are on the phone, they are usually doing something else. Watching TV, on the computer, dishes, something... Nobody wants to spend time on the phone and see someone. Granted, there are uses such as people who never get to see the people on the other end. But I don't think that actually seeing people adds anything to the whole phone experience.
I don't have a plugin. Maybe it's just a bug, but sometimes I see people, and their status is set to invisible. I'm not really sure why it happens. I thought it was a feature.
This really depends on where you live. In Ontario Canada, there's no fault insurance. Which, basically says, that you buy insurance to cover your own car. It doesn't matter whether who's fault the accident was, or whether is not your car was parked when the accident happened. You pay for your own coverage. If you think you want coverage in case of a collision, then you pay for it yourself, and when something happens, you go to your insurance company, and they pay you the money. It doesn't matter if your car was parked, and someone drives over it with a humvee. If you don't pay for insurance to cover it, insurance companies aren't going to pay for it.
Yeah, people can never remember numbers. Like telephone numbers are so hard to remember. most ICQ numbers were 7 or 8 digits, some lucky people had 6. The worst part was that it didn't (originally) save your list on the server, so if you logged in from another machine, you had none of your passwords.
My big question is, is why does MS feel the need to make it's own open format? If they are going to go through the trouble of making their own format, and making it open, then there must be a reason for doing this, over using ODF. Why would they go through all the trouble to think up and XML based document format, and release a spec, when they could just go ahead and implement the ODF spec? If the format is going to be truly open, then why wouldn't they just implement something that already exists. Obviously Microsoft thinks they are gaining something by creating their own spec, what it is, I have no idea.
I've had more than a few instances when i've had to jump through hoops to get sound working on windows. Some people have some pretty non-standard sound hardware. Finding drivers for some of this stuff is almost as hard as writing your own driver.
You're a little off. If he doesn't buy one, then they don't have to produce it. If they lose $160 on every box they sell, then they lose that much when he buys it. If he buys 10, they lose $1600. If he doesn't buy any, then they don't need to produce any, and therefore don't lose any money. The only time they would be losing money, from him not buying, is if they couldn't sell the unit at all. Which doesn't seem to be the case.
Most courses if they mention GOTO at all, tell you never to use it ever. Maybe by not telling you about it, they assume that you won't know about it, and therefore never use it. Nobody in university does learning on their own time. The reason they tell you not to use it, is because it can make spagetti code very easily. However I've found there are good uses for it, and it can make code a little cleaner in certain circumstances. It doesn't pop up very often, but it can be used as a proper method of coding. I am aware that anything can be done with gotos, but at some points, goto actually produces nicer results then the non-goto equivalent.
Obviously this prof was wrong. If he wanted you to code it in as few lines as possible, then he should have expected everyone's code to be completely unreadable, goto's or not. If he wanted your code to be understandable, then he should have asked to make the code as clear as possible, by using as many lines as you may need.
If your project was Open source, then couldn't you include GCC with the project, as well as the code, and provide a means of JIT'ing the C/C++ code? It might make things run faster, and for things that are really speed sensitive, might provide a way of making things just that little bit more faster. If this was done for all of Linux, The OS and the application suite, could we get some major improvements in terms of performance?
We did our own transformers out of lego too. I seriously thought we were the only ones doing this. Apparently we weren't. This kind of goes to show just how many different things you could do with lego. I seriously think that it is "the" best toy ever invented. Even though it's hard to say who actually invented it. It's just a bunch of blocks you can stick together. There's lots of other building toys out there. I think that where lego shines is that every piece fits with every other piece. This lets you be ultimately creative.
Oh, and what's wrong with the flushing toilets that flush themselves when you step away. Clean and sanitary because you don't have to touch them, and clean and sanitary, because the urine goes down the drain, along with the scent.
This is why in countries in europe and asia, you see devices that are made to save water, because they could run out, if they can't filter it fast enough and get it back into the system. This is less of a problem in the US, where there is quite a bit of water, at least in most places. It's even less of a problem in Canada. So much so, that I would hardly call it a problem at all. They say, per capita, that Canada is the (or one of the) largest users of water. Well we got a tonne of it. We can't really do anything else with it. I guess we could sell it to the americans. But they aren't hurting that much yet. As long as the water we used gets filtered and put back into the environment in a clean form, then there's many more important environmental problems to worry about like coal power plants.
It's also important to point out that normal healthy people urine is actually quite sterile, and doesn't contain anything that's really going to harm people with an immune system of any kind. Actually, it's safe to drink your urine if you're stranded and don't have any other source of liquids. It won't hold you up for every, but it could keep you alive an extra while till help arrives.
I don't care what they do, provided they can stop those public restrooms from stinking so much. It's amazing that they can clean them every hour (there's a timesheet on the wall that says so) and still have them eternally smelling like Piss. Also, if they could just provide dual flush toilets in all public restrooms, that would probably clear up a lot of the water issues very easily. You probably wouldn't even have to replace the entire unit, just parts in the tank, to be able to make them dual flush. Urinals aren't where the problems are with water usage. It's the other half of the population (women) using 5 gallons on every flush, and going to the bathroom twice as often.
Doesn't it seem like they're advancing a little fast through the versions here. It won't be long before Fedora Core is beyond RHES in terms of version numbers. The kernel is only at version 2.6. Why is Fedora using a number scheme like this? do they want to make it seem more mature?
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Are there any good (shared) hosting companies that support PHP 5(.1). Most of the ones out there seem pretty old in the stuff they support, with Apache, 1.3, a 2.4 kernel, running mysql 4, and php 4. Are there any good hosts out there that run new software? I know the old stuff is reliable and works, but sometimes it would be nice to have hosting with cutting edge tools, when stability doesn't matter so much.
Yeah, they really should make every effort to try and include drivers for all the NICs out there. It would help a lot in getting windows set up. It's amazing how many people lose those floppy disks that come with their network cards. Also, sometimes when upgrading to a new version of windows, the drivers on the floppy disk aren't supported under the new windows. Most current Linux distros are quite good at getting the network running without any problems. It's kind of sad that windows doesn't provide the same features.
So why doesn't Microsoft provide updated copies of its OS with new computers that come out, instead of shipping the exact same disk they've been shipping for the last 5 years? Why don't they go around collecting all the new popular drivers, and have a database of them so it can download them right off the internet, automatically, without having to search around for them?
No, because much of the money that gets given to candidates is given by either the minority of people, with lots of money, or by non-voting entities such as corporations. If each voting entity (person) was only allowed to give a small amount, maybe $5000, and non-voting entities (corporations) were not allowed to give money, then there would be a lot less corrupted things going on, since candidates would have to get a large number of people to give them money, instead of a few very rich people to give them money.
My computer at home is kind of slow, as well as my internet connection. If I scroll while the page is loading, I can almost always make ads appear in the middle of the comments, although not on top of the stuff, usually in line with the text. It looks a little weird, Not sure if its a slashdot bug or a firefox bug.
If you need and want privacy, and it's work related, you should probably set up a meeting in a place where you have some privacy. Or use email or instant messaging if that will suffice. Encrypted if necessary. If it's just some family business you don't want spreading around the office, take a little trip away from your cube. If it's taking up too much time and you're worried that your boss won't like you spending so much time from your cube, then maybe you should take a day off to get your private business in order.
I took software engineering in school. Last month my mom sent me a posting she had seen for a network administrator. I know how to set up a network, and do all that kind of stuff, but I really wouldn't have the faith in my skills to be a network administrator. It's amazing how people group all of IT into one giant pot. They assume that a computer is a computer, and if you do anything that has to do with a computer, then you can do anything that involves a computer.
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Basically what I'm saying is that 99.9% of web pages refresh when you click on something that is supposed to perform an action. When AJAX like technologies are used, the page doesn't refresh. When applications don't behave the way people expect them to, it creates usability issues.
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Yeah, I think there is very little demand for video phone. Video requires too much attention. When people are on the phone, they are usually doing something else. Watching TV, on the computer, dishes, something... Nobody wants to spend time on the phone and see someone. Granted, there are uses such as people who never get to see the people on the other end. But I don't think that actually seeing people adds anything to the whole phone experience.
I don't have a plugin. Maybe it's just a bug, but sometimes I see people, and their status is set to invisible. I'm not really sure why it happens. I thought it was a feature.
This really depends on where you live. In Ontario Canada, there's no fault insurance. Which, basically says, that you buy insurance to cover your own car. It doesn't matter whether who's fault the accident was, or whether is not your car was parked when the accident happened. You pay for your own coverage. If you think you want coverage in case of a collision, then you pay for it yourself, and when something happens, you go to your insurance company, and they pay you the money. It doesn't matter if your car was parked, and someone drives over it with a humvee. If you don't pay for insurance to cover it, insurance companies aren't going to pay for it.
Here's the best feature on GAIM. Ability to see people who have set themselves to invisible.
Yeah, people can never remember numbers. Like telephone numbers are so hard to remember. most ICQ numbers were 7 or 8 digits, some lucky people had 6. The worst part was that it didn't (originally) save your list on the server, so if you logged in from another machine, you had none of your passwords.
My big question is, is why does MS feel the need to make it's own open format? If they are going to go through the trouble of making their own format, and making it open, then there must be a reason for doing this, over using ODF. Why would they go through all the trouble to think up and XML based document format, and release a spec, when they could just go ahead and implement the ODF spec? If the format is going to be truly open, then why wouldn't they just implement something that already exists. Obviously Microsoft thinks they are gaining something by creating their own spec, what it is, I have no idea.
I've had more than a few instances when i've had to jump through hoops to get sound working on windows. Some people have some pretty non-standard sound hardware. Finding drivers for some of this stuff is almost as hard as writing your own driver.
You're a little off. If he doesn't buy one, then they don't have to produce it. If they lose $160 on every box they sell, then they lose that much when he buys it. If he buys 10, they lose $1600. If he doesn't buy any, then they don't need to produce any, and therefore don't lose any money. The only time they would be losing money, from him not buying, is if they couldn't sell the unit at all. Which doesn't seem to be the case.
Most courses if they mention GOTO at all, tell you never to use it ever. Maybe by not telling you about it, they assume that you won't know about it, and therefore never use it. Nobody in university does learning on their own time. The reason they tell you not to use it, is because it can make spagetti code very easily. However I've found there are good uses for it, and it can make code a little cleaner in certain circumstances. It doesn't pop up very often, but it can be used as a proper method of coding. I am aware that anything can be done with gotos, but at some points, goto actually produces nicer results then the non-goto equivalent.
Obviously this prof was wrong. If he wanted you to code it in as few lines as possible, then he should have expected everyone's code to be completely unreadable, goto's or not. If he wanted your code to be understandable, then he should have asked to make the code as clear as possible, by using as many lines as you may need.
If your project was Open source, then couldn't you include GCC with the project, as well as the code, and provide a means of JIT'ing the C/C++ code? It might make things run faster, and for things that are really speed sensitive, might provide a way of making things just that little bit more faster. If this was done for all of Linux, The OS and the application suite, could we get some major improvements in terms of performance?
We did our own transformers out of lego too. I seriously thought we were the only ones doing this. Apparently we weren't. This kind of goes to show just how many different things you could do with lego. I seriously think that it is "the" best toy ever invented. Even though it's hard to say who actually invented it. It's just a bunch of blocks you can stick together. There's lots of other building toys out there. I think that where lego shines is that every piece fits with every other piece. This lets you be ultimately creative.
Oh, and what's wrong with the flushing toilets that flush themselves when you step away. Clean and sanitary because you don't have to touch them, and clean and sanitary, because the urine goes down the drain, along with the scent.
This is why in countries in europe and asia, you see devices that are made to save water, because they could run out, if they can't filter it fast enough and get it back into the system. This is less of a problem in the US, where there is quite a bit of water, at least in most places. It's even less of a problem in Canada. So much so, that I would hardly call it a problem at all. They say, per capita, that Canada is the (or one of the) largest users of water. Well we got a tonne of it. We can't really do anything else with it. I guess we could sell it to the americans. But they aren't hurting that much yet. As long as the water we used gets filtered and put back into the environment in a clean form, then there's many more important environmental problems to worry about like coal power plants.
It's also important to point out that normal healthy people urine is actually quite sterile, and doesn't contain anything that's really going to harm people with an immune system of any kind. Actually, it's safe to drink your urine if you're stranded and don't have any other source of liquids. It won't hold you up for every, but it could keep you alive an extra while till help arrives.
I don't care what they do, provided they can stop those public restrooms from stinking so much. It's amazing that they can clean them every hour (there's a timesheet on the wall that says so) and still have them eternally smelling like Piss. Also, if they could just provide dual flush toilets in all public restrooms, that would probably clear up a lot of the water issues very easily. You probably wouldn't even have to replace the entire unit, just parts in the tank, to be able to make them dual flush. Urinals aren't where the problems are with water usage. It's the other half of the population (women) using 5 gallons on every flush, and going to the bathroom twice as often.
Doesn't it seem like they're advancing a little fast through the versions here. It won't be long before Fedora Core is beyond RHES in terms of version numbers. The kernel is only at version 2.6. Why is Fedora using a number scheme like this? do they want to make it seem more mature?
Are there any good (shared) hosting companies that support PHP 5(.1). Most of the ones out there seem pretty old in the stuff they support, with Apache, 1.3, a 2.4 kernel, running mysql 4, and php 4. Are there any good hosts out there that run new software? I know the old stuff is reliable and works, but sometimes it would be nice to have hosting with cutting edge tools, when stability doesn't matter so much.
Yeah, they really should make every effort to try and include drivers for all the NICs out there. It would help a lot in getting windows set up. It's amazing how many people lose those floppy disks that come with their network cards. Also, sometimes when upgrading to a new version of windows, the drivers on the floppy disk aren't supported under the new windows. Most current Linux distros are quite good at getting the network running without any problems. It's kind of sad that windows doesn't provide the same features.
So why doesn't Microsoft provide updated copies of its OS with new computers that come out, instead of shipping the exact same disk they've been shipping for the last 5 years? Why don't they go around collecting all the new popular drivers, and have a database of them so it can download them right off the internet, automatically, without having to search around for them?
No, because much of the money that gets given to candidates is given by either the minority of people, with lots of money, or by non-voting entities such as corporations. If each voting entity (person) was only allowed to give a small amount, maybe $5000, and non-voting entities (corporations) were not allowed to give money, then there would be a lot less corrupted things going on, since candidates would have to get a large number of people to give them money, instead of a few very rich people to give them money.
My computer at home is kind of slow, as well as my internet connection. If I scroll while the page is loading, I can almost always make ads appear in the middle of the comments, although not on top of the stuff, usually in line with the text. It looks a little weird, Not sure if its a slashdot bug or a firefox bug.
If you need and want privacy, and it's work related, you should probably set up a meeting in a place where you have some privacy. Or use email or instant messaging if that will suffice. Encrypted if necessary. If it's just some family business you don't want spreading around the office, take a little trip away from your cube. If it's taking up too much time and you're worried that your boss won't like you spending so much time from your cube, then maybe you should take a day off to get your private business in order.
I took software engineering in school. Last month my mom sent me a posting she had seen for a network administrator. I know how to set up a network, and do all that kind of stuff, but I really wouldn't have the faith in my skills to be a network administrator. It's amazing how people group all of IT into one giant pot. They assume that a computer is a computer, and if you do anything that has to do with a computer, then you can do anything that involves a computer.
Basically what I'm saying is that 99.9% of web pages refresh when you click on something that is supposed to perform an action. When AJAX like technologies are used, the page doesn't refresh. When applications don't behave the way people expect them to, it creates usability issues.