Yeah, and Rational Software used to be a separate company too. Does anyone really think SpringSource will be a threat for any significant length of time?
Not only no, but youtube for pay would be quickly mooted by new free services erupting elsewhere. Unless Google bought youtube specifically to destroy it, they should probably rethink.
Why is it even news? There were programs like this as far back as the seventies. The tv series Adam 12 did a "public service" episode on this topic back when we didn't have anything else to watch on TV.
Back in the 1980's, a common slogan in Harley-Davidson advertisements was "The best handling bike we've ever made". Now, the FXR (1982 to around 1990, I think) was a radical change in frame design, and objectively, it did handle pretty well -- arguably better than Harleys made before and after, (my opinion) with more neutral steering and lower center of gravity that many superbikes available during that time. But at the time, it seemed like damning with faint praise.
If a sentence translates easily to "Our best attempt at something we're not good at", one's objective expectations can't be very high.
A lot of us use bluetooth mice at work with laptops, and my daughter owns one for her laptop at home. They work fine but have very short range.
An old Logitech wireless trackball had a much longer range -- it was our "remote" for the media PC before we invested in Windows Media Center. But it's hard to find drivers for it now.
I'd like to find a modern ambidextrous trackball with a range of about 20 feet, for gaming on the media center. But the manufacturers usually don't advertise the range.
Or sending unsolicited pr0n, apparently. Massive pr0n in our mailbox from people we didn't know was the final straw that gave me the energy to brave their intentionally horrid disconnect process.
"Top-down" coding produced readable but horribly inefficient code. Doesn't do any good for the code to work if it doesn't fit in the e-prom.
"Bottom up" code produced reasonably efficient spaghetti. Good luck remembering how it worked in 6 months.
"Inside-out" coding was the way to go.
You wrote your inside loops first, then the loop around that, then the loop around that. Assuming the problem was small enough that you could hold the whole thing in your head at one time, the "inside-out" technique guaranteed the most efficient code, and was moderately readable.
At least, that's the way I remember it. 'S been a long time...
Now, these new-fangled tools do all the optimizing for you. 'S taken all the fun outta coding.
> A number of people have their old @aol.com email addresses that they are loath to let go of, and they're scared to cancel their AOL accounts because of the horror stories you may have heard about trying to cancel.
Heard? I've lived it. I tried for 11 days, hours and hours on the phone to quit AOL. I finally canceled the Visa that they insisted on dinging even after they said I had quit. I half expected them to take me to small claims court because they couldn't continue to charge the canceled card for the service that I had canceled.
AOL gave new meaning to the word "shyster". Time Warner was sullied by the association.
Regarding "backup" dialup, even that has become redundant. I can drive 2 blocks to the coffee shop and get internet.
I mean, like you couldn't see that coming. AOL only had relevance when there was still a big dial-up business. They were a media company only in the sense that they were adept at scraping an eclectic batch of content from other sources and surrounding them with blocky, juvenile graphics.
Broadband to the home made AOL redundant. Without Time Warner to prop it up, AOL would have ceased to exist years ago.
Or, maybe not... I am continually astonished at the number of people with cable or DSL to their home who think they need a third-party ISP on top of the ISP they already have, by definition, with their broadband service. In that respect, AOL has been a marketing phenomenon, continuing to sell services long after those services became largely unnecessary. But that's not a sustainable business model. (Nor is making it as difficult as possible to quit.)
Red Hat 5 on a Sparc 1+. Worked fairly well. It was only a curiosity and I gave away the machine soon after.
Second experience: Red Hat 7 on a Compaq notebook. It was tricky to set up (especially the sound drivers and supporting the native 1024X600 screen) but it ran faster than XP and did what I needed to do. This was soon followed by Red Hat 7 on an old Celeron box, which hosted the family website. The website still exists, and has been hosted on successive versions of Red Hat (currently Fedora 10) ever since.
More importantly, if you shoot to disable their boat, you are "shooting to stop" rather than "shooting to kill", which puts you on a much better moral footing. This has the added feature of taking one more pirate boat out of the fleet. Also, it's a tactic that they're unlikely to emulate, because they want your boat, or what's on it -- they would avoid sinking it if they can.
Agreed. I was thinking, a few RPGs might come in handy also. (I hear there's a lot of them around...) Hole the pirate ship below the water line, and then run away while it flounders. I was first going to say "stinger missiles", but I hear those suckers are expensive.
> Hers is an 800MHz single G4. Other than for CPU-intensive stuff, it's still a great machine for all the reasons you mentioned.
Have I a deal for you. Upgrade the CPU. 1.2, 1.6 and 1.8 Ghz drop-in processors are available. (Search for "encore processor" on amazon.com.) The 1.8 Ghz upgrade is a little over $300, a fraction of the cost of forklifting the entire box. This doesn't speed up your memory access, of course, but for CPU-intensive applications, it might be just what you need. And you don't have to reinstall anything, re-purchase the Intel version of any software, or worry about transferring your data to a new machine.
There are some caveats; you have to upgrade your bios, for instance, but it's worth looking at.
> Well, it depends on the pump behind the water. Fire hoses have been used for crowd control with great success, so long as the water pressure is sufficient. The force from a deck-mounted 3" hose equipped with a high-pressure pump will knock you and your 10 lineman buddies flat on your collective asses. And of course if you're pumping seawater, you won't run out of ammo any time soon.
Right, and I'm sure this hasn't occurred to the brainiacs who thought of this -- in crowd control situations, the crowds are not armed to the teeth. In cases when the crowd *is* armed to the teeth, and aggressively mean you ill, you don't use crowd control tactics. You use battle tactics.
> But in my mind it's still a form of giving in, compromising by NOT hurting the poor widdle pirates, and at best it'll merely discourage them from your one ship, but leaves them free to try again on someone else's ship. Conversely if you shoot them and sink their boat, you now have that many fewer pirates.
Agree completely. The problem seems to be that a lot of the pirates are teens recruited from poverty. And for some reason (even though it only takes six pounds of pressure to pull an AK47 trigger) a teen with a gun is somehow more sympathetic than a grizzled old fart similarly equipped, which creates a stigma on defending yourself with deadly force.
Wait until the complaints start about water cannons knocking pirates into the water, where they could drown or get eaten by sharks.
Why in heaven's name play patty-cake with pirates? You're going to piss them off with loud sounds and a water hose, and they have GUNS? Someone really thought this was a good idea?
If you're not going to repel them decisively, raise your hands and give them what they want. You'll be treated better. Hopefully your family can afford the ransom.
Spraying a water hose at pirates with guns. I want to see that when it goes up on youtube. They must think we're morons. They might even be right.
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Yeah, and Rational Software used to be a separate company too. Does anyone really think SpringSource will be a threat for any significant length of time?
Not only no, but youtube for pay would be quickly mooted by new free services erupting elsewhere. Unless Google bought youtube specifically to destroy it, they should probably rethink.
Why is it even news? There were programs like this as far back as the seventies. The tv series Adam 12 did a "public service" episode on this topic back when we didn't have anything else to watch on TV.
What we need is a motorcycle analogy!
Back in the 1980's, a common slogan in Harley-Davidson advertisements was "The best handling bike we've ever made". Now, the FXR (1982 to around 1990, I think) was a radical change in frame design, and objectively, it did handle pretty well -- arguably better than Harleys made before and after, (my opinion) with more neutral steering and lower center of gravity that many superbikes available during that time. But at the time, it seemed like damning with faint praise.
If a sentence translates easily to "Our best attempt at something we're not good at", one's objective expectations can't be very high.
Wow, that needs to pass into our lexicon. "Bucket XP".
A lot of us use bluetooth mice at work with laptops, and my daughter owns one for her laptop at home. They work fine but have very short range.
An old Logitech wireless trackball had a much longer range -- it was our "remote" for the media PC before we invested in Windows Media Center. But it's hard to find drivers for it now.
I'd like to find a modern ambidextrous trackball with a range of about 20 feet, for gaming on the media center. But the manufacturers usually don't advertise the range.
Or sending unsolicited pr0n, apparently. Massive pr0n in our mailbox from people we didn't know was the final straw that gave me the energy to brave their intentionally horrid disconnect process.
"Top-down" coding produced readable but horribly inefficient code. Doesn't do any good for the code to work if it doesn't fit in the e-prom.
"Bottom up" code produced reasonably efficient spaghetti. Good luck remembering how it worked in 6 months.
"Inside-out" coding was the way to go.
You wrote your inside loops first, then the loop around that, then the loop around that. Assuming the problem was small enough that you could hold the whole thing in your head at one time, the "inside-out" technique guaranteed the most efficient code, and was moderately readable.
At least, that's the way I remember it. 'S been a long time...
Now, these new-fangled tools do all the optimizing for you. 'S taken all the fun outta coding.
> A number of people have their old @aol.com email addresses that they are loath to let go of, and they're scared to cancel their AOL accounts because of the horror stories you may have heard about trying to cancel.
Heard? I've lived it. I tried for 11 days, hours and hours on the phone to quit AOL. I finally canceled the Visa that they insisted on dinging even after they said I had quit. I half expected them to take me to small claims court because they couldn't continue to charge the canceled card for the service that I had canceled.
AOL gave new meaning to the word "shyster". Time Warner was sullied by the association. Regarding "backup" dialup, even that has become redundant. I can drive 2 blocks to the coffee shop and get internet.
I mean, like you couldn't see that coming. AOL only had relevance when there was still a big dial-up business. They were a media company only in the sense that they were adept at scraping an eclectic batch of content from other sources and surrounding them with blocky, juvenile graphics.
Broadband to the home made AOL redundant. Without Time Warner to prop it up, AOL would have ceased to exist years ago.
Or, maybe not... I am continually astonished at the number of people with cable or DSL to their home who think they need a third-party ISP on top of the ISP they already have, by definition, with their broadband service. In that respect, AOL has been a marketing phenomenon, continuing to sell services long after those services became largely unnecessary. But that's not a sustainable business model. (Nor is making it as difficult as possible to quit.)
Thought one: Human hair -- why would that be a problem for anyone?
Thought two: Now, if they could do it with dog hair, they'd really have something!
Mostly. You still can't update a G4 bios from OSX.
Thanks for the explanation.
> The new thing is actually running a whole copy of XP in a VM.
Red Hat 5 on a Sparc 1+. Worked fairly well. It was only a curiosity and I gave away the machine soon after.
Second experience: Red Hat 7 on a Compaq notebook. It was tricky to set up (especially the sound drivers and supporting the native 1024X600 screen) but it ran faster than XP and did what I needed to do. This was soon followed by Red Hat 7 on an old Celeron box, which hosted the family website. The website still exists, and has been hosted on successive versions of Red Hat (currently Fedora 10) ever since.
With the rumors of performance optimization and now this, Microsoft appears to go all out to make Win7 an instant success.
Still waiting for the other shoe to drop...
More importantly, if you shoot to disable their boat, you are "shooting to stop" rather than "shooting to kill", which puts you on a much better moral footing. This has the added feature of taking one more pirate boat out of the fleet. Also, it's a tactic that they're unlikely to emulate, because they want your boat, or what's on it -- they would avoid sinking it if they can.
> Was I a fool for opting out?
Yes.
> Is my email address being harvested when I opt out?
Yes. That's what it's for.
> Has anybody had similar experience?
I'm certain of it. I suggest you drop that address, create another one somewhere else, and then don't do that again.
> A few serious machine guns should suffice.
Agreed. I was thinking, a few RPGs might come in handy also. (I hear there's a lot of them around...) Hole the pirate ship below the water line, and then run away while it flounders. I was first going to say "stinger missiles", but I hear those suckers are expensive.
> Hers is an 800MHz single G4. Other than for CPU-intensive stuff, it's still a great machine for all the reasons you mentioned.
Have I a deal for you. Upgrade the CPU. 1.2, 1.6 and 1.8 Ghz drop-in processors are available. (Search for "encore processor" on amazon.com.) The 1.8 Ghz upgrade is a little over $300, a fraction of the cost of forklifting the entire box. This doesn't speed up your memory access, of course, but for CPU-intensive applications, it might be just what you need. And you don't have to reinstall anything, re-purchase the Intel version of any software, or worry about transferring your data to a new machine.
There are some caveats; you have to upgrade your bios, for instance, but it's worth looking at.
Conserve resources -- upgrade, don't replace.
> Well, it depends on the pump behind the water. Fire hoses have been used for crowd control with great success, so long as the water pressure is sufficient. The force from a deck-mounted 3" hose equipped with a high-pressure pump will knock you and your 10 lineman buddies flat on your collective asses. And of course if you're pumping seawater, you won't run out of ammo any time soon.
Right, and I'm sure this hasn't occurred to the brainiacs who thought of this -- in crowd control situations, the crowds are not armed to the teeth. In cases when the crowd *is* armed to the teeth, and aggressively mean you ill, you don't use crowd control tactics. You use battle tactics.
> But in my mind it's still a form of giving in, compromising by NOT hurting the poor widdle pirates, and at best it'll merely discourage them from your one ship, but leaves them free to try again on someone else's ship. Conversely if you shoot them and sink their boat, you now have that many fewer pirates.
Agree completely. The problem seems to be that a lot of the pirates are teens recruited from poverty. And for some reason (even though it only takes six pounds of pressure to pull an AK47 trigger) a teen with a gun is somehow more sympathetic than a grizzled old fart similarly equipped, which creates a stigma on defending yourself with deadly force.
Wait until the complaints start about water cannons knocking pirates into the water, where they could drown or get eaten by sharks.
Why in heaven's name play patty-cake with pirates? You're going to piss them off with loud sounds and a water hose, and they have GUNS? Someone really thought this was a good idea?
If you're not going to repel them decisively, raise your hands and give them what they want. You'll be treated better. Hopefully your family can afford the ransom.
Spraying a water hose at pirates with guns. I want to see that when it goes up on youtube. They must think we're morons. They might even be right.