"Formidable" is an interesting way to describe prose. I'm not sure if I'd be willing to tackle something labeled as formidable (Joyce's Finnegan's Wake comes to mind).
I guess from the review, I don't really get if the book is worth trudging through. What is its captivation?
The first console in the US to use CD-ROMs was the TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine in Japan), but some people would argue that the Commodore CDTV was the first CD-ROM based game system.
You should post the source to Star Trek on your Web site. I know I would like to see it, and possibly use your approach to learn a new programming language.
I'm known to execute CREATE PROCEDURE statements in the master database, since that's what Query Analyzer defaults to when you open it from the Start bar.
Interesting idea, in theory, but it wouldn't work with most bookstores. See, bookstores don't buy books from publishers. They buy books from one of the major bookselling middlemen. If the middleman doesn't have the book in its computer, the book never gets ordered, regardless of what one Barnes & Noble store wants.
When a publisher decides to publish a book, that doesn't mean the book automatically gets to bookstores. The publisher has to sell the book to the middleman (most authors have to fill out a sales form, which contains marketing info for the book). If the middleman doesn't think the book will sell, they won't bother with it...they don't want to spend time and money trying to sell the book to the stores, only to have the stores reject it. That's business.
Ten or twenty people at a Podunk, IA Barnes and Noble are not going to drive enough demand for the middleman to spend money selling the book to B&N, and definitely not enough for B&N to put the book in their stores. Ten or twenty thousand people, maybe.
Active MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers may request a set of software distributed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 (PDC), including the preview versions of the "Longhorn" operating system and SDK, and Visual Studio "Whidbey".
I just called MSDN customer service and ordered my set. It was really easy, and it will take 7-10 days for the discs to arrive. Note that it's DVD-ROM format only.
Did you not finish the article? Tim Bray writes at the end:
The Exception
Which is not to say that the browser is the right answer for everything. Here's an overgeneralization which I think works. Computer applications, excluding games, fall into one of three baskets: information retrieval, database interaction, and content creation. History shows that the Web browser, or something like it, is the right way to do the first two. Which leaves content creation.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you HP fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a HP (a 49G+ w/2 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to calculate the differential of a second order polynomial. 20 minutes. At home, on my TI-89, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this HP, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this calculation, Tetris will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the Solver is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various HPs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a HP that has run faster than its TI counterpart, despite the HPs' faster chip architecture. My TI-35 with 32K of RAM runs faster than this 75Mhz ARM machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Hewlett-Packard calculator is a superior machine.
HP addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a HP over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
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He was in They Live, arguably an overlooked Best Picture candidate.
Yes! I know he was mad at the Academy for overlooking Meet the Feebles and Dead Alive!
Tell him to look at a Braille display and see if it works out for him. Remind him to keep an eye open for good deals.
"Formidable" is an interesting way to describe prose. I'm not sure if I'd be willing to tackle something labeled as formidable (Joyce's Finnegan's Wake comes to mind). I guess from the review, I don't really get if the book is worth trudging through. What is its captivation?
The first console in the US to use CD-ROMs was the TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine in Japan), but some people would argue that the Commodore CDTV was the first CD-ROM based game system.
...but is there any news on the HMS Pinafore?
Start the new season with the same cast and about 20 demons. Then, week to week, a demon is voted off the show and killed.
Disclaimer: Click's is owned by my mother.
Lemme guess... you're half Irish, half Russian.
You should post the source to Star Trek on your Web site. I know I would like to see it, and possibly use your approach to learn a new programming language.
Ok, so you want Apple to bundle the iApps in OS X, right? Do you also want Microsoft to bundle apps in Windows?
I'm known to execute CREATE PROCEDURE statements in the master database, since that's what Query Analyzer defaults to when you open it from the Start bar.
Why not just build the GNU tools, Apache, and postfix on an OS X machine?
Interesting idea, in theory, but it wouldn't work with most bookstores. See, bookstores don't buy books from publishers. They buy books from one of the major bookselling middlemen. If the middleman doesn't have the book in its computer, the book never gets ordered, regardless of what one Barnes & Noble store wants.
When a publisher decides to publish a book, that doesn't mean the book automatically gets to bookstores. The publisher has to sell the book to the middleman (most authors have to fill out a sales form, which contains marketing info for the book). If the middleman doesn't think the book will sell, they won't bother with it...they don't want to spend time and money trying to sell the book to the stores, only to have the stores reject it. That's business.
Ten or twenty people at a Podunk, IA Barnes and Noble are not going to drive enough demand for the middleman to spend money selling the book to B&N, and definitely not enough for B&N to put the book in their stores. Ten or twenty thousand people, maybe.
Then again, this is George Luca$ we're talking about.
What is an impoverished person going to do with a supercomputer? High-powered calculations of negative numbers?
Free, as long as you have a qualifying MSDN subscription.
Active MSDN Operating Systems, Professional, Enterprise, and Universal subscribers may request a set of software distributed at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003 (PDC), including the preview versions of the "Longhorn" operating system and SDK, and Visual Studio "Whidbey".
I just called MSDN customer service and ordered my set. It was really easy, and it will take 7-10 days for the discs to arrive. Note that it's DVD-ROM format only.
Hope that helps.
It was a UNIX command...those were SGIs.
The Exception
Which is not to say that the browser is the right answer for everything. Here's an overgeneralization which I think works. Computer applications, excluding games, fall into one of three baskets: information retrieval, database interaction, and content creation. History shows that the Web browser, or something like it, is the right way to do the first two. Which leaves content creation.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you HP fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a HP (a 49G+ w/2 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to calculate the differential of a second order polynomial. 20 minutes. At home, on my TI-89, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this HP, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this calculation, Tetris will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even the Solver is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various HPs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a HP that has run faster than its TI counterpart, despite the HPs' faster chip architecture. My TI-35 with 32K of RAM runs faster than this 75Mhz ARM machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Hewlett-Packard calculator is a superior machine.
HP addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a HP over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I love the retro design. Makes me think of the old HP business calculators from years past.
That's a big range, especially if you're talking about customers. 50-90 million customers would be, what, $100 million to $180 million in revenue?
I really like FastMail. They're "the Fastest Email Service on the Planet." Free POP3 access too. Give them a try.
I can't quote anything scientific, just anecdotal:
1. A fountain pen gives smooth writing. The pen slides across the paper, giving little sensation of friction.
2. A fountain pen requires a light touch, giving your fingers and wrist a rest.
Like I said, these are my personal pros for using a fountain pen.