Out of the box? Not sure what you mean... But yeah with emacs and vi and basic command line tools/scripts you can do all that stuff... and you can customize it to work *better* than the way eclipse does it.
And finally, who exactly is using emacs/vi in the way you mentioned for a large project in a commercial environment?
Me? I've used pretty much nothing else other than VIM and command line tools for the last 15 years to edit code for various programming languages, including very large projects in commercial environments. Works fine in windows too, although I rarely use it there. I am generally one of the few on the project who does this, but as long as the results adhere to all the same coding "standards" nobody cares.
Depends on what you mean by 'coding'. Try a large software project with hundreds of source files, multiple geographically separated teams working on different modules. Obviously if you're working on your own or something small, vi or whatever you prefer to use would suffice.
Clearly, you have no idea what you are talking about. If you ever actually used vi or emacs for anything meaningful you would know they are just as powerful as any "IDE" you could point to. You don't need a big bloated "IDE" to write code, not even Java.
You mean kind of like getting eclipse to do what you want when you want? Not exactly a walk in the park either... all depends on which tool you have experience with. Eclipse is probably the worst of the widely used IDEs out there IMO. Not intuitive, buried/redundant configurations, buggy, unstable, ugly as hell... but I hate xcode and VS.NET too... I haven't met an "IDE" that I like yet. Once you know vi or emacs really well, nothing else seems to do what you want anymore.
Why do people always lump notepad/vi/emacs together? Notepad.exe is one of the more basic text editors you'll find with almost no functionality. vim/emacs on the other hand are enormously powerful text editors which are on par with any "IDE" you can come up with.
highlighting? yup.
braces? yup.
automatic formatting/indentation, etc, etc.? yup.
code generation/completion? yup.
easily find your files in large complicated projects? yup.
open/edit multiple files at once and jump around between them? yup.
jump to class/method/variable definitions? yup.
integrated help/documentation? yup.
integrated source control for svn/git/whatever you use? yup.
code folding? yup.
scriptable? yup.
error/warning highlighting? yup.
integrated debugging? yup.
I could continue for a while... but all that stuff which people tend to say you "need" an "IDE" like eclipse for... yeah you can do all that stuff without eclipse.
The idea that Eclipse is needed for Java development is ridiculous. I have been using Java for 15 years on projects big and small... vim and tmux are all I need.
All cars can be stolen in a matter of seconds. The key programming things are just a way for the dealers to rip people off charging $500+ for a new key which actually costs only a few dollars. There are reverse engineered or sometimes even authentic programming devices available for pretty much all but the newest cars (just wait a year or two and those will be available too).
And I might add, that Gentoo should work just as well on Itanium, and there are lots of them dirt cheap on ebay, I've been tempted to pick some up to replace some of my older alpha machines... I can't bear to turn them off though, so maybe just add them to my collection. They seriously use a lot of electricity though. My electric bill is probably at least double what it would be without them running all the time, but I rationalize it by saving gas on my heating bill in the winter:)
Personally, I would go with linux on Alpha, then you can use all the same modern versions of everything that you are used to. I've been running Gentoo on my Alpha boxes for the better part of a decade (2003). These days, I can even run Java if I want to, although compiling icedtea from scratch takes a long time. It does work though.
Looking around while driving and trying to read road signs seems much worse to me, especially here in MA where we have such crappy signs, you never know where the street signs will be because they are never in predictable places, you can never see signs for what street you are actually on, and they are all different sizes and colors. Not to mention you can't just glance at signs, you have to spend some time reading and comprehending them. GPS is way more intuitive and should result in much less distraction. Also can be very frustrating to see signs at night because depending on placement they may not be illuminated by your headlights.
A deer is not an immovable object, they only weigh something like 100 or 200 pounds depending on age/size. Some of the biggest ones may be a little over 300 pounds. That is not enough to instantly stop a vehicle which was traveling at highway speeds.
Seriously, everyone keeps shouting and yelling about all these "free" online services tracking their users but nobody ever mentions the ISP. Your ISP really does track your every move, they can see every site you visit, etc, etc... much worse that google, or anyone else. All that data is available for sale, they won't admit it if you ask them... because it is "collected anonymously" but really, it boggles my mind that they get a free pass in all of this mess.
TiVo is fantastic, I've used other DVR from the cable company, etc and they all suck... they crash, they fail to record properly, the menus suck, the controls suck, TiVo (even a series 1 if you ignore the lack of HD) totally pwns every other DVR I've ever used.
That said, I have five TiVos and they are all sitting out in my garage gathering dust because I grew disgusted with the cable company (poor service, price increases, stupid fees, morons for technicians). Now I have AppleTVs in all my rooms and a central media server which hosts all my content. I can easily purchase/rent and watch virtually any TV show or movie I want anytime and it doesn't even begin to approach the cost of paying $100+ per month for cable packages. It is much better to just pay for what I actually want to watch instead of shelling out over a thousand dollars a year for a bunch of content I never watch.
In short, TiVo is failing mainly because the industry is changing and their product is not in a great position to survive those changes. The days of broadcast are numbered IMO.
It won't matter which one you take, whatever job you end up doing, you will be solving specific types of problems based on the type of work. If you are smart you will become skilled at those types of problems just by working with it all the time. College is not there to teach you everything you need for your future job, it just isn't possible and employers know this. Companies look for smart people who have the aptitude to learn as both technology and your job requirements evolve.
Trust me, I barely passed my high level/advanced math course, but when it comes time to put it in practice in real life rather being stuck in an academic/testing environment, it suddenly makes a lot more sense when you actually know what it is useful for. The grades you get in classes typically have little to do with how you will perform in real life unless there are other reasons such as irresponsible/self destructive behavior which could make you difficult to employ. The most important thing is that you "get" programming. I can't tell you how many otherwise intelligent people there are out there who just don't "get" programming, it almost seems like it is a genetic trait.
Wait, are you serious? LIDAR is neither easier to aim, nor more accurate. You're telling me that from at least 100 yards away you can hit a license plate on a vehicle in heavy traffic going 85 MPH? Is your name Jack Bauer? Holy crap.
No, actually, LIDAR is MUCH harder to aim. It is also not really any more accurate as long as the comparable radar gun is used properly. In fact in certain conditions (rain snow, etc), LIDAR can be horribly wrong while radar still works just fine.
Are you serious? AppleCare for my wife's laptop $350.00... I said no way. She's had it for two years and the hard drive just died, but I replaced it AND tripled her RAM while I was at it for a total of $44 by just ordering the parts myself from newegg. Apple wanted $350 for the repair. I even mounted the old drive in linux and was able to recover some of her data which I probably warned her about 50 times that she should be backing up!!
Extended warranties are a racket and a rip-off. The manufacturers LOVE them though because they are almost pure profit, most people who buy them never have a single incident and the ones that do almost never have anything which comes close to what they paid for the extra coverage.
The only reason people seem to think AppleCare is worth it is because Apple charges such insane amounts for simple repairs which people could do themselves for a fraction of that price.
Are you one of those people who can't tell the difference between sponsored links and search results?
Looks like there is nothing wrong with those searches at all. You just didn't realize those sections which are highlighted in a different background color and a very visible sponsored link disclaimer are actually not search results.
I've already tried Skyfire Beta and it sucks. It does some cool stuff, but ultimately it is too slow, and I have serious doubts about how it will ever be able to scale (Microsoft tried something similar and abandoned it). It also makes me nervous to send sensitive info since they are acting as a middle man.
I would love to try the new Opera Mobile, but I got so fed up with my Windows Mobile device that I gave up and sold it on eBay already... sold it for $400 and turned around and got the new iPhone for $199. Unless the whole phone is really usable, you won't notice how good the browser is.
I think one of the biggest obstacles on the mobile platform is the overall user experience, not just the browser. On Windows Mobile I had constant crashes, and freezes, and most of the features I frequently used were buried several levels deep in the OS. Very poor. Also the GPS would take like 5 minutes to get a signal. I pity the fool paid $400 for my phone on eBay!
I got stopped for speeding near my house once. The guy claimed he got me on radar going 60 mph in a 30 mph zone. I was going around a sharp corner and he was approaching from the opposite direction. It was total bullshit.
I don't know exactly what the reason for the bad radar reading was, but among other things, when I requested all the info about the device it turned out that it hadn't been calibrated for 4 years and the device used to calibrate it had NEVER been calibrated and was discontinued by the manufacturer more than a decade before including a published statement saying that it was not reliable enough and would no longer be supported and upgrading to their new device was recommended.
In court the officer ended up pretty much admitting that the gun may have had a false reading but that he was still an expert in visually estimating the speed of moving objects.
That theory was shot to pieces when I dropped two different objects from the same height and asked him to estimate their speed just before hitting the floor. He gave different guesses and they were both off by a lot.
If I'd had a GPS in my car it would have probably made my case a whole lot easier. But in the end I was found innocent anyway.
more than 33.5 inches is considered overweight for me? Thats sort of crazy. I run marathons and I'm just about as skinny as they come (although I am 6'7") and my waist is more than 33.5"
Hopefully the facts are a little exaggerated in this story.
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So you think you can't do all those things in vim or emacs? Interesting....
And finally, who exactly is using emacs/vi in the way you mentioned for a large project in a commercial environment?
Me? I've used pretty much nothing else other than VIM and command line tools for the last 15 years to edit code for various programming languages, including very large projects in commercial environments. Works fine in windows too, although I rarely use it there. I am generally one of the few on the project who does this, but as long as the results adhere to all the same coding "standards" nobody cares.
Depends on what you mean by 'coding'. Try a large software project with hundreds of source files, multiple geographically separated teams working on different modules. Obviously if you're working on your own or something small, vi or whatever you prefer to use would suffice.
Clearly, you have no idea what you are talking about. If you ever actually used vi or emacs for anything meaningful you would know they are just as powerful as any "IDE" you could point to. You don't need a big bloated "IDE" to write code, not even Java.
You mean kind of like getting eclipse to do what you want when you want? Not exactly a walk in the park either... all depends on which tool you have experience with. Eclipse is probably the worst of the widely used IDEs out there IMO. Not intuitive, buried/redundant configurations, buggy, unstable, ugly as hell... but I hate xcode and VS.NET too... I haven't met an "IDE" that I like yet. Once you know vi or emacs really well, nothing else seems to do what you want anymore.
Why do people always lump notepad/vi/emacs together? Notepad.exe is one of the more basic text editors you'll find with almost no functionality. vim/emacs on the other hand are enormously powerful text editors which are on par with any "IDE" you can come up with. highlighting? yup. braces? yup. automatic formatting/indentation, etc, etc.? yup. code generation/completion? yup. easily find your files in large complicated projects? yup. open/edit multiple files at once and jump around between them? yup. jump to class/method/variable definitions? yup. integrated help/documentation? yup. integrated source control for svn/git/whatever you use? yup. code folding? yup. scriptable? yup. error/warning highlighting? yup. integrated debugging? yup. I could continue for a while... but all that stuff which people tend to say you "need" an "IDE" like eclipse for... yeah you can do all that stuff without eclipse.
The idea that Eclipse is needed for Java development is ridiculous. I have been using Java for 15 years on projects big and small... vim and tmux are all I need.
All cars can be stolen in a matter of seconds. The key programming things are just a way for the dealers to rip people off charging $500+ for a new key which actually costs only a few dollars. There are reverse engineered or sometimes even authentic programming devices available for pretty much all but the newest cars (just wait a year or two and those will be available too).
And I might add, that Gentoo should work just as well on Itanium, and there are lots of them dirt cheap on ebay, I've been tempted to pick some up to replace some of my older alpha machines... I can't bear to turn them off though, so maybe just add them to my collection. They seriously use a lot of electricity though. My electric bill is probably at least double what it would be without them running all the time, but I rationalize it by saving gas on my heating bill in the winter :)
Personally, I would go with linux on Alpha, then you can use all the same modern versions of everything that you are used to. I've been running Gentoo on my Alpha boxes for the better part of a decade (2003). These days, I can even run Java if I want to, although compiling icedtea from scratch takes a long time. It does work though.
Looking around while driving and trying to read road signs seems much worse to me, especially here in MA where we have such crappy signs, you never know where the street signs will be because they are never in predictable places, you can never see signs for what street you are actually on, and they are all different sizes and colors. Not to mention you can't just glance at signs, you have to spend some time reading and comprehending them. GPS is way more intuitive and should result in much less distraction. Also can be very frustrating to see signs at night because depending on placement they may not be illuminated by your headlights.
If you are shooting from great distances wouldn't you still need to actually keep the laser on the target if the target moves?
A deer is not an immovable object, they only weigh something like 100 or 200 pounds depending on age/size. Some of the biggest ones may be a little over 300 pounds. That is not enough to instantly stop a vehicle which was traveling at highway speeds.
Seriously, everyone keeps shouting and yelling about all these "free" online services tracking their users but nobody ever mentions the ISP. Your ISP really does track your every move, they can see every site you visit, etc, etc... much worse that google, or anyone else. All that data is available for sale, they won't admit it if you ask them... because it is "collected anonymously" but really, it boggles my mind that they get a free pass in all of this mess.
Begun, the clone war has.
Don't worry, I'm sure the shiny new $150 million replacement facility will be able to keep up the search.
Actually, you can get a pci-e video card on a mac mini... but you need to open the case and relocate to a bigger case and get an adapter.
TiVo is fantastic, I've used other DVR from the cable company, etc and they all suck... they crash, they fail to record properly, the menus suck, the controls suck, TiVo (even a series 1 if you ignore the lack of HD) totally pwns every other DVR I've ever used.
That said, I have five TiVos and they are all sitting out in my garage gathering dust because I grew disgusted with the cable company (poor service, price increases, stupid fees, morons for technicians). Now I have AppleTVs in all my rooms and a central media server which hosts all my content. I can easily purchase/rent and watch virtually any TV show or movie I want anytime and it doesn't even begin to approach the cost of paying $100+ per month for cable packages. It is much better to just pay for what I actually want to watch instead of shelling out over a thousand dollars a year for a bunch of content I never watch.
In short, TiVo is failing mainly because the industry is changing and their product is not in a great position to survive those changes. The days of broadcast are numbered IMO.
FYI: AltaVista == Yahoo! They were aquired by Y! along with Overture.
It won't matter which one you take, whatever job you end up doing, you will be solving specific types of problems based on the type of work. If you are smart you will become skilled at those types of problems just by working with it all the time. College is not there to teach you everything you need for your future job, it just isn't possible and employers know this. Companies look for smart people who have the aptitude to learn as both technology and your job requirements evolve.
Trust me, I barely passed my high level/advanced math course, but when it comes time to put it in practice in real life rather being stuck in an academic/testing environment, it suddenly makes a lot more sense when you actually know what it is useful for. The grades you get in classes typically have little to do with how you will perform in real life unless there are other reasons such as irresponsible/self destructive behavior which could make you difficult to employ. The most important thing is that you "get" programming. I can't tell you how many otherwise intelligent people there are out there who just don't "get" programming, it almost seems like it is a genetic trait.
Wait, are you serious? LIDAR is neither easier to aim, nor more accurate. You're telling me that from at least 100 yards away you can hit a license plate on a vehicle in heavy traffic going 85 MPH? Is your name Jack Bauer? Holy crap.
No, actually, LIDAR is MUCH harder to aim. It is also not really any more accurate as long as the comparable radar gun is used properly. In fact in certain conditions (rain snow, etc), LIDAR can be horribly wrong while radar still works just fine.
Are you serious? AppleCare for my wife's laptop $350.00... I said no way. She's had it for two years and the hard drive just died, but I replaced it AND tripled her RAM while I was at it for a total of $44 by just ordering the parts myself from newegg. Apple wanted $350 for the repair. I even mounted the old drive in linux and was able to recover some of her data which I probably warned her about 50 times that she should be backing up!!
Extended warranties are a racket and a rip-off. The manufacturers LOVE them though because they are almost pure profit, most people who buy them never have a single incident and the ones that do almost never have anything which comes close to what they paid for the extra coverage.
The only reason people seem to think AppleCare is worth it is because Apple charges such insane amounts for simple repairs which people could do themselves for a fraction of that price.
Are you one of those people who can't tell the difference between sponsored links and search results?
Looks like there is nothing wrong with those searches at all. You just didn't realize those sections which are highlighted in a different background color and a very visible sponsored link disclaimer are actually not search results.
I've already tried Skyfire Beta and it sucks. It does some cool stuff, but ultimately it is too slow, and I have serious doubts about how it will ever be able to scale (Microsoft tried something similar and abandoned it). It also makes me nervous to send sensitive info since they are acting as a middle man.
I would love to try the new Opera Mobile, but I got so fed up with my Windows Mobile device that I gave up and sold it on eBay already... sold it for $400 and turned around and got the new iPhone for $199. Unless the whole phone is really usable, you won't notice how good the browser is.
I think one of the biggest obstacles on the mobile platform is the overall user experience, not just the browser. On Windows Mobile I had constant crashes, and freezes, and most of the features I frequently used were buried several levels deep in the OS. Very poor. Also the GPS would take like 5 minutes to get a signal. I pity the fool paid $400 for my phone on eBay!
I got stopped for speeding near my house once. The guy claimed he got me on radar going 60 mph in a 30 mph zone. I was going around a sharp corner and he was approaching from the opposite direction. It was total bullshit.
I don't know exactly what the reason for the bad radar reading was, but among other things, when I requested all the info about the device it turned out that it hadn't been calibrated for 4 years and the device used to calibrate it had NEVER been calibrated and was discontinued by the manufacturer more than a decade before including a published statement saying that it was not reliable enough and would no longer be supported and upgrading to their new device was recommended.
In court the officer ended up pretty much admitting that the gun may have had a false reading but that he was still an expert in visually estimating the speed of moving objects.
That theory was shot to pieces when I dropped two different objects from the same height and asked him to estimate their speed just before hitting the floor. He gave different guesses and they were both off by a lot.
If I'd had a GPS in my car it would have probably made my case a whole lot easier. But in the end I was found innocent anyway.
more than 33.5 inches is considered overweight for me? Thats sort of crazy. I run marathons and I'm just about as skinny as they come (although I am 6'7") and my waist is more than 33.5"
Hopefully the facts are a little exaggerated in this story.