On another note - Padme goes from kicking ass and storming her own freakin' castle in Episode I, to being the Damsel in Distress in Ep.II, to being a pouty little bitch in Ep. III. What's up with that?:)
I have one final thing I want you to consider: (pulling down a diagram of of x86 chip) this is the x86 processor. The x86 is a processor from Intel, but the x86 is now installed in MAC Mini. Now, think about that. That does not make sense!
Why would a x86 processor -- not even a PPC -- come be be found in MAC Mini with a bunch of Mac software? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this post? (calmly) Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this post! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a software developer posting on slashdot, and I'm talkin' about x86 on a Mac. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember, when you're sitting there reading this post and wondering where in the hell is Chewbacca... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this fine website, it does not make sense.
If x86 is now found in Mac hardware, you must accept it!
Because of the Internet more people are going to be exposed to your software and your market is growing but more people will pirate your software.
Doesn't this mean you are going to have a net increase in sales and not a net loss?
They are guessing that more people will pirate software but in order for BSA's numbers to be correct there has to be increase in sales because piracy is only a percentage loss of sales. This looks like a good thing.
Another interesting phenomenon of perception is that if you are walking in a curve with a large enough radius, you will not be able to tell (if blindfolded... or wearing a 3D VR HUD) whether you are walking in a straight line or not. So in theory you can have a fully-navigable VR system inside, say, a hangar, that tricks you into thinking you are walking forever in a straight line (i.e., in any direction in the world) when in actuality you might be walking in large figure 8's on the hangar floor. This of course conjured images in my head of real-life Holodecks and whatnot, but it's interesting nevertheless;)
Sure this is ok if you are the only one using it but throw a few people in there and all of a sudden you have more points of reference to show you where you are.
-- Robert
I've fallen in love with the border-radius CSS property in Mozilla that puts round corners on tables and divs without using images. I use that effect on my Attesoro Java translation editor pages. While it isn't part of the w3c recommendations, it would be a great one for IE to pick up.
That's weird. The tables in the link you provided don't have rounded corners at all!
The answer is for the geeks in these universities to make a friend in business or law. Teach these new buddies all about file sharing and how much fun it is. Then when they start getting harrased by the *AA we just have to wait 4-6 years until they graduate and have them start suing and legislating and calling for reform.
So everyone go out tomorrow and buy a law student a beer and show em where they can download a bit torrent client.
Let's say that I did have a copy of this magazine. I would expect to be paid for it based on Moore's Law. Its only fitting. So with that in mind, let's see how much it woiuld be:
Magazine came out 40 years ago. Moore's Law says it doubles every 18 months. That's 26.6 doublings. Let's take 26 to make it easy. So thats 2^26 of the price.
I could not find what the cover price was but let's be fair and say $0.10 (10 cents). So thats 2^26 * 10 / 100 = $6,710,886.40. Thats a good deal more than the $10,000.00 they are offering.
Its just amazing how colored our perception can be of a story.
When I first read it I assumed it was an infamous April 1 slashdot story so each comment I read was biased based on that perception.
I either thought you were an idiot for replying intelligently to this story or that you were extremely witty and sly in your reply and that demonstrated that you got the joke.
But I did something we rarely do and went to read the story and found it was written 2 days ago.
I guess the joke is on me....oh well at least I can read all about it again tomorrow.
-- Robert
In addition to helping programmers visualize their program better, I think it also promotes writing concise (and therefore) requirements and descriptions.
Nope!.
We don't need a way to transform natural language to program... we need a way to take a program code and produce natural langauge.
I don't know any developer that actually likes writing documentation.
When you have a late-bound, extensible environment it is so easy to mess with it. Plugins by their very nature are supposed to be powerful, with hooks into the system at very low levels. This makes it very easy for virus writers, malware authors and spyware developers to run their code with full priviledge.
But lets forget about Spyware and Virus for a moment. Lets say you have a plugin architecture for an application that does proprietary financial calculations for loan approval. You don't want someone to come along create a plugin and change those calulations.
I think about this all the time because I have been developing plugin frameworks for the past 7 or 8 years. I really don't want to limit the functionality of the plugins because in all honesty I want the plugins to be as powerful as they can be so they change the calulations. I know it sounds like I am contradicting myself but the truth is I am not. Creating a plugin architecture is not a decision that you should take lightly.
When deciding to create a plugin system you have to be sure that you can handle the complexity and the inherent insecurity that decision brings you.
#1 point with plugin systems. Plugins are all powerful.
Are you seriously implying Windows XP crashes once a day? Windows XP is stable as long as the hardware you've got in your machine has stable drivers.
I want to make a point about this. I use Windows XP Pro SP2. I am a software developer and I have never had a Windows XP machine crash on me. Never. Win NT4, and Win2000 yes I had crashes but never in Win XP.
The only crashes I see are in my own apps during development when I don't have proper exception handling in place. But this has never once taken down the whole operating system.
I find it hilarious when someone says that Mac OSX only crashes once a month and acts like this is so much better than XP. We now have modern operating systems and if you get a system crash at all you should have your hardware fixed or get better drivers for your hardware. You should never ever get a system crash.
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Right. I read an article in Scientific American on hibernation which discussed this also. I thought it still has a way to go before testing on humans.
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Here is the link http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?cha
Unfortunately, it is just a synopsis for the digital version you have to buy.
1. no boyfriend - supressed sexual tension
2. boy friend - in love - sex makes her dependant
3. Pregnant. - need I explain this one?
-- Robert
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have one final thing I want you to consider: (pulling down a diagram of of x86 chip) this is the x86 processor. The x86 is a processor from Intel, but the x86 is now installed in MAC Mini. Now, think about that. That does not make sense!
Why would a x86 processor -- not even a PPC -- come be be found in MAC Mini with a bunch of Mac software? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this post? (calmly) Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this post! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a software developer posting on slashdot, and I'm talkin' about x86 on a Mac. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember, when you're sitting there reading this post and wondering where in the hell is Chewbacca... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this fine website, it does not make sense.
If x86 is now found in Mac hardware, you must accept it!
End Post.
There's no way Apple will want to compete directly with commodity PCs (the Clone Wars showed that much).
I think I must have missed that episode.
Because of the Internet more people are going to be exposed to your software and your market is growing but more people will pirate your software.
Doesn't this mean you are going to have a net increase in sales and not a net loss?
They are guessing that more people will pirate software but in order for BSA's numbers to be correct there has to be increase in sales because piracy is only a percentage loss of sales. This looks like a good thing.
-- Robert
Another interesting phenomenon of perception is that if you are walking in a curve with a large enough radius, you will not be able to tell (if blindfolded... or wearing a 3D VR HUD) whether you are walking in a straight line or not. So in theory you can have a fully-navigable VR system inside, say, a hangar, that tricks you into thinking you are walking forever in a straight line (i.e., in any direction in the world) when in actuality you might be walking in large figure 8's on the hangar floor. This of course conjured images in my head of real-life Holodecks and whatnot, but it's interesting nevertheless ;)
Sure this is ok if you are the only one using it but throw a few people in there and all of a sudden you have more points of reference to show you where you are. -- Robert
We got hit with this on Friday at 3:30 PST. I work for a company in Los Angeles and I was one of the first hit in the company.
We thought it was a virus and it took us about an hour and half to figure out it was OfficeScan it self that was bad.
I've fallen in love with the border-radius CSS property in Mozilla that puts round corners on tables and divs without using images. I use that effect on my Attesoro Java translation editor pages. While it isn't part of the w3c recommendations, it would be a great one for IE to pick up.
That's weird. The tables in the link you provided don't have rounded corners at all!
Anyone have a link to the screen shots? I really would love to see how good the 3d effect is.
Robert
David Tennant already had part on the Dr. Who mini series "Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka" as the Caretaker.
Archer: "I'm from New York. I only work in Canada."
The answer is for the geeks in these universities to make a friend in business or law. Teach these new buddies all about file sharing and how much fun it is. Then when they start getting harrased by the *AA we just have to wait 4-6 years until they graduate and have them start suing and legislating and calling for reform.
So everyone go out tomorrow and buy a law student a beer and show em where they can download a bit torrent client.
Let's say that I did have a copy of this magazine. I would expect to be paid for it based on Moore's Law. Its only fitting. So with that in mind, let's see how much it woiuld be:
Magazine came out 40 years ago. Moore's Law says it doubles every 18 months. That's 26.6 doublings. Let's take 26 to make it easy. So thats 2^26 of the price.
I could not find what the cover price was but let's be fair and say $0.10 (10 cents). So thats 2^26 * 10 / 100 = $6,710,886.40. Thats a good deal more than the $10,000.00 they are offering.
I think its a rip-off.
BTW: here is a link to the original article in PDF format.
How Do you explain Hellen Keller?
-- Robert
Maybe this is the first time a WBEL wobbled and actually fell down!
If everyone started using power during off-peak times (at night) wouldn't that become the new peak time?
When I first read it I thought maybe Jonathan Archer got a new pet.
Then I wondered, did he get rid of the dog or did the new snake just eat him?
Its just amazing how colored our perception can be of a story.
When I first read it I assumed it was an infamous April 1 slashdot story so each comment I read was biased based on that perception.
I either thought you were an idiot for replying intelligently to this story or that you were extremely witty and sly in your reply and that demonstrated that you got the joke.
But I did something we rarely do and went to read the story and found it was written 2 days ago.
I guess the joke is on me....oh well at least I can read all about it again tomorrow. -- Robert
Now when I find a bug in my code I can just reconfigure the photonic matrix and reverse the polarity of the power coupling.
And if that doesn't work I'll try modulating the field harmonics.
This can really save me in a tight situation.
Robert
True, I tried to forget about the free ebook. It came out 2 days after I ordered the dead tree version. :-S
Robert
In addition to helping programmers visualize their program better, I think it also promotes writing concise (and therefore) requirements and descriptions.
Nope!.
We don't need a way to transform natural language to program... we need a way to take a program code and produce natural langauge.
I don't know any developer that actually likes writing documentation.
For more information take a look at Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop
This is a book about the development of SharpDevelop. Even though I don't agree with alot of their design decisions I found it was not a bad read.
Robert
I can't stress enough how important security is!
When you have a late-bound, extensible environment it is so easy to mess with it. Plugins by their very nature are supposed to be powerful, with hooks into the system at very low levels. This makes it very easy for virus writers, malware authors and spyware developers to run their code with full priviledge.
But lets forget about Spyware and Virus for a moment. Lets say you have a plugin architecture for an application that does proprietary financial calculations for loan approval. You don't want someone to come along create a plugin and change those calulations.
I think about this all the time because I have been developing plugin frameworks for the past 7 or 8 years. I really don't want to limit the functionality of the plugins because in all honesty I want the plugins to be as powerful as they can be so they change the calulations. I know it sounds like I am contradicting myself but the truth is I am not. Creating a plugin architecture is not a decision that you should take lightly.
When deciding to create a plugin system you have to be sure that you can handle the complexity and the inherent insecurity that decision brings you.
#1 point with plugin systems. Plugins are all powerful.
Robert
Are you seriously implying Windows XP crashes once a day? Windows XP is stable as long as the hardware you've got in your machine has stable drivers.
I want to make a point about this. I use Windows XP Pro SP2. I am a software developer and I have never had a Windows XP machine crash on me. Never. Win NT4, and Win2000 yes I had crashes but never in Win XP.
The only crashes I see are in my own apps during development when I don't have proper exception handling in place. But this has never once taken down the whole operating system.
I find it hilarious when someone says that Mac OSX only crashes once a month and acts like this is so much better than XP. We now have modern operating systems and if you get a system crash at all you should have your hardware fixed or get better drivers for your hardware. You should never ever get a system crash.
My 2cents.
-- Robert