macports doesn't cut it, neither does brew. yum or apt-get based would be the way to go. Plainly put, the distance to perfect desktop (A decent package manger for the Unixy bits) is closer in Mac OS-X than it is on Linux (Adding a, usable, consistent desktop with usable office apps)
The smart roadster is coming to america as the ac ace. It looks fantastic too. Don't know what engine it'll have but if it has anything around 100nhp and they fix that gearbox they'll have a cracking good car. It's already a blast to drive as it is (minus the gearbox).
A laptop (thinkpad x23, next one will be a powerbook) power brick for laptop. leather gloves - It gets cold in canada. palm pilot - for appointments and stuff ipod/headphones - people bother me. copy of the economist/harpers/newspaper - I like to read. cell phone chapstick Notebook/stormbraining book - for, uh, notes and brain storming. bic griproller pens - the only pen I can write legiblly with.
Then there's parking tickets, passport(s) if i'm traveling and various other documents for my current todo list.
Considering my first (and only) car is a 1976 MGB convertable. If anything, I'll be moving to home grown ecu software (vems), with a K-series engine out of a land rover.
My next car might, _might_ be one of the new mini's. But I'll certainly be replacing the ecu/traction control stuff.
I guess if joe schmoe is cool with having problems in his car like he does with his computer I can't stop him. I can only hope he drives off a cliff and cleans up the gene pool a little.
Something like a timed ticket+ibuttons would work. Doctor arrives at work, logs in his user/password then simply taps his ibutton on whatever system he wants to use. Hit's the logout button when he's done, and moves on to the next machine.
Why do the login/pass thing in the morning? Because people lose small things like ibuttons. So each morning when you login (and for the next 8 hours or however long until the login ticket expires) the ibutton supplies is the new "key". If you lose it, simply get a new one and login again.
PS: Once he's doing his track lessons, he'll be able to outrace a souped up prelude driving a yugo. and it's a good bet that he won't do anything really stupid, if he lasts through the boring (for the "ahh comeon I wanna go drive fast" ricer crowd) lessons he'll have the patience to use his brain and only drive fast where it's safe.
Really, track lessons (as in slolam) teach you a lot about how a car handles. and more importantly, how a car handles before and after you've lost control. Put some extra pressure in the tyres of the family car, join a club and go to the track with him once he's gotten his license. Make him into one of those arrogant pricks who laughs at the rice boys doing burnouts. As in, "haha, look at that dork losing all his energy and adding extra seconds to his time doing a burnout."
Aside from that you might want to look at Racer www.racer.nl It's being used by some schools to design cars. No traffic logic in it, but it's an "accurate" simulation of car handling.
It has better features than the roomba or the trilobite. Like a base station which empties the dustbin. The unit keeps cleaning until it's covered your entire house and finds its way back to the base station every hour to empty itself and recharge before continuing where it left off.
When was the last time you heard someone complaining about Maya's or Mathcad's lack of features? Or them hindering productivity?
Me, the second mma 5 came out. If i'm paying $1500USD for a license of mathematica, I god fuckingdamn well expect a usable ui. Instead, they're still stuck on motif. I'll be switching my work to octave and pari in the future. It does nearly everything we need to do.
If you want to say "my world rocks because I define my world in terms of things that lightwave and matlab give me" then fine. But don't confuse that with being all your options. You/are/ limited.
Leaving sco behind will let you focus on your core business. I was involved in a business that migrated from SGI and SCO boxes to Linux, we saw a dramatic drop in IT costs and at the same time increased flexability. Not to mention we didn't have to pay $150 for a tcpip stack (this was back in '97-99 might have changed).
Not to mention, that you have a lot more commercial applications available on Linux. Really, sco is a mess technically they're behind the times, expensive and just plain crufty. Your programmers will learn to love linux in short order. Further, the C*O's will love linux too. With SCO they're probably used to hearing "Can't be done" or "we'll have to buy a license", it's a nice change to hear "sure, i'll do that this afternoon" or "we can already do that".
You had me right up until the java part. I would have taken out my cc and bought a copy of moneydance then and there. Too bad:-( Hope the next product can be cross platform without java. wxwindows works wonders for that (i'd know, I develop with it).
Donald knuth's the art of computer science. I go this in grade 10. I can't tell you how usefull it was. Now i'm in 3rd year and i've still not learnt anything knew that wasn't already in TAOCP.
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Add real package management to Mac OS-X.
macports doesn't cut it, neither does brew. yum or apt-get based would be the way to go. Plainly put, the distance to perfect desktop (A decent package manger for the Unixy bits) is closer in Mac OS-X than it is on Linux (Adding a, usable, consistent desktop with usable office apps)
Get into experimental aviation. Being able to show up in a plane you've built yourself is the best resume you could have.
The smart roadster is coming to america as the ac ace. It looks fantastic too. Don't know what engine it'll have
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but if it has anything around 100nhp and they fix that gearbox they'll have a cracking good car.
It's already a blast to drive as it is (minus the gearbox).
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I'm becoming less geeky as I age. But..
A laptop (thinkpad x23, next one will be a powerbook)
power brick for laptop.
leather gloves - It gets cold in canada.
palm pilot - for appointments and stuff
ipod/headphones - people bother me.
copy of the economist/harpers/newspaper - I like to read.
cell phone
chapstick
Notebook/stormbraining book - for, uh, notes and brain storming.
bic griproller pens - the only pen I can write legiblly with.
Then there's parking tickets, passport(s) if i'm traveling and various other documents for my current todo list.
With the way the american public is maybe they should start giving out free jenny craig memberships with every car sold then?
Considering my first (and only) car is a 1976 MGB convertable. If anything, I'll be moving to home grown ecu software (vems), with a K-series engine out of a land rover.
My next car might, _might_ be one of the new mini's. But I'll certainly be replacing the ecu/traction control stuff.
I guess if joe schmoe is cool with having problems in his car like he does with his computer I can't stop him. I can only hope he drives off a cliff and cleans up the gene pool a little.
Something like a timed ticket+ibuttons would work.
Doctor arrives at work, logs in his user/password then simply taps his ibutton on whatever system he wants to use. Hit's the logout button when he's done, and moves on to the next machine.
Why do the login/pass thing in the morning? Because people lose small things like ibuttons. So each morning when you login (and for the next 8 hours or however long until the login ticket expires) the ibutton supplies is the new "key". If you lose it, simply get a new one and login again.
ibutton url
PS: Once he's doing his track lessons, he'll be able to outrace a souped up prelude driving a yugo. and it's a good bet that he won't do anything really stupid, if he lasts through the boring (for the "ahh comeon I wanna go drive fast" ricer crowd) lessons he'll have the patience to use his brain and only drive fast where it's safe.
Really, track lessons (as in slolam) teach you a lot about how a car handles. and more importantly, how a car handles before and after you've lost control. Put some extra pressure in the tyres of the family car, join a club and go to the track with him once he's gotten his license. Make him into one of those arrogant pricks who laughs at the rice boys doing burnouts. As in, "haha, look at that dork losing all his energy and adding extra seconds to his time doing a burnout."
Aside from that you might want to look at Racer
www.racer.nl It's being used by some schools to design cars. No traffic logic in it, but it's an "accurate" simulation of car handling.
It's called x86. There's even hardware acceleration of the bytecode these days. It's cool, you should check it out.
It has better features than the roomba or the trilobite. Like a base station which empties the dustbin. The unit keeps cleaning until it's covered your entire house and finds its way back to the base station every hour to empty itself and recharge before continuing where it left off.
robocleaner CTV review of the robocleanerCould you claim it was a homebuilt?
When was the last time you heard someone complaining about Maya's or Mathcad's lack of features? Or them hindering productivity?
/are/ limited.
Me, the second mma 5 came out. If i'm paying $1500USD for a license of mathematica, I god fuckingdamn well expect a usable ui. Instead, they're still stuck on motif. I'll be switching my work to octave and pari in the future. It does nearly everything we need to do.
If you want to say "my world rocks because I define my world in terms of things that lightwave and matlab give me" then fine. But don't confuse that with being all your options. You
You're new to this industry aren't you?
Leaving sco behind will let you focus on your core business.
I was involved in a business that migrated from SGI and SCO boxes to Linux, we saw a dramatic drop in IT costs and at the same time increased flexability. Not to mention we didn't have to pay $150 for a tcpip stack (this was back in '97-99 might have changed).
Not to mention, that you have a lot more commercial
applications available on Linux. Really, sco is a mess technically
they're behind the times, expensive and just plain crufty. Your programmers will learn to love linux in short order. Further, the C*O's will love linux too. With SCO they're probably used to hearing "Can't be done" or "we'll have to buy a license", it's a nice change to hear "sure, i'll do that this afternoon" or "we can already do that".
You had me right up until the java part. I would have taken out my cc and bought a copy of moneydance then and there. Too bad :-( Hope the next product can be cross platform without java. wxwindows works wonders for that (i'd know, I develop with it).
Donald knuth's the art of computer science.
I go this in grade 10. I can't tell you how usefull it was. Now i'm in 3rd year and i've still not learnt anything knew that wasn't already in TAOCP.
Evolution will do this and sync with palm. No doubt support will be expanded with time. Perhaps a gnokii module?
How did you work up your incredible alcohol tolerance?
Which security text book was this? I've been looking for a decent one and haven't fouind it yet