Yeah, but in French you can always use septante and nonante for soixante dix (seventy, lit. sixty-ten) and quatre-vingt dix (ninety, lit. four-twenty ten) if you want (although you will sound Swiss or Belgium).
Yes, I know Belgian French-speaking use septante and nonante (since I am from Belgium, albeit the Dutch-speaking part), but I've always been told it's not 'proper' French. And I didn't know it was used in Switzerland too.
It's the same in Dutch: honderd drieëntwintig. The french are even worse: 96 in French is quatre-vent seize, literally four-twenty sixteen. (Ha, there you have it, in some cases the order is reversed even in English).
I've always thought 'sic' was not so much used to indicate an error, but to indicate that the text was written exactly as the original: "hey, I know this is not correct, but I'm just quoting something literally". Mostly the same, but when you're using it for something you wrote yourself, you'd be wrong if I'm right. Which might or might not be the case.
There's one thing you should keep in mind whenever you read something written by Joel: Joel doesn't give advice about how to write the best software possible. He gives advice about how to write software and make money from it.
Sometimes it means that you have to deliver something that is not as perfect as you would want it to be; make it more perfect would require too much resources. Resources that you don't have, or that should be used for something else.
It also shows in his opinion about the rewriting of Netscape: one could argue that Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird are very successful after all, but that misses his point: while the software is successful, Netscape as a company is not.
MS has written lots and lots of proza about this vulnerability, but I still don't know how to download the new updated gidplus.dll to redistribute. I've applied the update from windowsupdate.com to my computer, but I guess it would be a good idea to distribute an updated version to our customers. I just can't seem to find it anywhere.
The situation seems to have been changed somewhat, but about half a year ago I couldn't find any card under $100 ( 100 actually, in Belgium). My grieve is not as much the price of midrange cards, but the price of low-end cards. But I believe the two are related: with a low-end card costing 100 - 150, there's no place for a midrange card costing less than 200. With low-ends around 50, there's much more room.
Integrated video is often reasonably priced, but isn't always an option.
Ten to five years ago, I could easily buy a video card costing $50 and it did everything I needed it to do. Today, while all other PC components have dramatically fallen in price, the cheapest cards I can buy cost over $100. Granted, those cards are much more powerfull than those of ten years ago, but sometimes (quite often actually) I don't need all that power. A simple card with good 2D performance, not more than 32 MB RAM and basic 3D functionality is all I need most of the time.
$200 for a 'midrange' card is ridiculous. I can easily assemble a complete system (case, motherboard, HD, CD, cPU, memory,..., but excluding monitor, keyboard and mouse) for $400-$500. A *midrange* video card shouldn't cost almost as much as the rest of the base system.
A midrange *game* card might cost that much, but I feel there's a large (and growing) difference between gaming systems and other systems. When not playing a game, I need: - much RAM - any Intel or AMD CPU these days is fast enough for me - a comfortably large HD, doesn't need to be super-fast - only occasionally I need 3D functionality from the video card
Only when playing a game I need good 3D performance. So why are there no cheap cards with much less emphasis on 3D performance and correspondingly lower cost?
I would like some cache too... at today's memory prices, it would hardly have any effect on the price.
I guess it just doesn't have enough marketing value.
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VRT, the Flemish broadcasting corporation also has a teletext service, and has had for as long as I can remember. What's cool about it is that they also have a web interface to view it via their website. In the graphical view ('Grafisch'), the pages look very much like they do on TV (but on TV they are full screen of course).
The three-digit numbers are links to other pages; in the web interface you can click on them, but on a TV-set you enter them using the remote control. The four colored links at the bottom are shortcuts that can be used by pressing the correspondingly colored button on the remote.
1. I won't buy any hardware that hash such encumbrances, as an end-user.
Let's all hope that it will be possible in the future to even buy hardware without said encumbrances, and that it will interoperate with other machines.
I'm a bit of a skeptic but In your list I would like to see (as necessary features of a modern file system): - online defrag (you don't take the volume offline to do a defrag)
IMO a necessary feature of a modern file system is that it doesn't need to be defragged.
Another thing that helps is explaining the problem to someone else. It also makes you look at the bug from another point of view, and very often you find the solution without the other person even saying a word.
I don't really understand how it's a problem with Slashdot's noncompliant HTML: the same HTML should render the same everytime it gets rendered, no matter how good or how bad it is. Since a simple re-render places everything in the right place (going back and forward in the history is enough to trigger), I have the impression that there is something in the code that doesn't work 100% correct the first time.
That code path may be triggered by the bad HTML, but I still the code is not completely correct either.
A similar service exists in Europe: http://www.heret.de/radioclock/ptb.htm., via a radio transmitter in Frankfurt (Germany). There are quite a lot of all kinds of clocks on the market who get their time from there (I have two of these).
The RDS system for FM radio also supports a time signal, but not all stations use it, and up till now I have only seen one radio that's able to show the time from that signal.
GPS receivers synchronize with the GPS satellites, out of necessity.
I would have like the designers of GSM to include a time synchronization in the system, so that my mobile phone would always have the correct time too.
My digital camera automatically synchronizes its time when I connect it to the computer, which on its turn is synchronized via NTP.
In the registration form you can only choose Germany, Austria or Switzerland; is it possible to sign up if you live anywhere else? Without lying, that is?
Either - they show both the movies for the original system and their system in slow motion, which would make their system even more impressing - they should their movie in real time, and the movie with the original system in slow motion, which would be cheating - they modified the original suspension, made it much softer, which would be cheating also.
I've been told that suspensions in general are stiffer here in Europe than in America, even that suspensions on cars imported from America are stiffened because Europeans like it better (some even say it's because they're not allowed on the road with their soft suspensions). Even if that's true, the suspension in those movies (if not in slow motion) seems softer than anything on the market.
Before the advent of digital technology, they still had a finish photo that looked almost exactly the same as the digital ones.
They used a camera without a traditional shutter, but with a very narrow slit instead. The film, marked with time marks, moved along continuously (instead of one step at a time as with normal photographs). The narrow slit projects the same area of the finish line onto the film as is captured by the narrow CCD of the digital version.
I don't know how the film was synchronized though. The simplest would be that the film starts rolling at the time the starting gun is fired, but that would wast lots of film.
The whole thing worked just fine, but had the disadvantage that you had to develop the film before you could see the result.
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Yes, I know Belgian French-speaking use septante and nonante (since I am from Belgium, albeit the Dutch-speaking part), but I've always been told it's not 'proper' French. And I didn't know it was used in Switzerland too.
It's the same in Dutch: honderd drieëntwintig. The french are even worse: 96 in French is quatre-vent seize, literally four-twenty sixteen. (Ha, there you have it, in some cases the order is reversed even in English).
This one even has a reference to Slack.
I've always thought 'sic' was not so much used to indicate an error, but to indicate that the text was written exactly as the original: "hey, I know this is not correct, but I'm just quoting something literally". Mostly the same, but when you're using it for something you wrote yourself, you'd be wrong if I'm right. Which might or might not be the case.
There's one thing you should keep in mind whenever you read something written by Joel: Joel doesn't give advice about how to write the best software possible. He gives advice about how to write software and make money from it.
Sometimes it means that you have to deliver something that is not as perfect as you would want it to be; make it more perfect would require too much resources. Resources that you don't have, or that should be used for something else.
It also shows in his opinion about the rewriting of Netscape: one could argue that Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird are very successful after all, but that misses his point: while the software is successful, Netscape as a company is not.
I printed a number of pictures on the HP Color LaserJet 3500 at work, and I'm very pleased with the results.
MS has written lots and lots of proza about this vulnerability, but I still don't know how to download the new updated gidplus.dll to redistribute. I've applied the update from windowsupdate.com to my computer, but I guess it would be a good idea to distribute an updated version to our customers. I just can't seem to find it anywhere.
The situation seems to have been changed somewhat, but about half a year ago I couldn't find any card under $100 ( 100 actually, in Belgium). My grieve is not as much the price of midrange cards, but the price of low-end cards. But I believe the two are related: with a low-end card costing 100 - 150, there's no place for a midrange card costing less than 200. With low-ends around 50, there's much more room.
Integrated video is often reasonably priced, but isn't always an option.
Exactly!
..., but excluding monitor, keyboard and mouse) for $400-$500. A *midrange* video card shouldn't cost almost as much as the rest of the base system.
Ten to five years ago, I could easily buy a video card costing $50 and it did everything I needed it to do. Today, while all other PC components have dramatically fallen in price, the cheapest cards I can buy cost over $100. Granted, those cards are much more powerfull than those of ten years ago, but sometimes (quite often actually) I don't need all that power. A simple card with good 2D performance, not more than 32 MB RAM and basic 3D functionality is all I need most of the time.
$200 for a 'midrange' card is ridiculous. I can easily assemble a complete system (case, motherboard, HD, CD, cPU, memory,
A midrange *game* card might cost that much, but I feel there's a large (and growing) difference between gaming systems and other systems. When not playing a game, I need:
- much RAM
- any Intel or AMD CPU these days is fast enough for me
- a comfortably large HD, doesn't need to be super-fast
- only occasionally I need 3D functionality from the video card
Only when playing a game I need good 3D performance. So why are there no cheap cards with much less emphasis on 3D performance and correspondingly lower cost?
I would like some cache too... at today's memory prices, it would hardly have any effect on the price.
I guess it just doesn't have enough marketing value.
VRT, the Flemish broadcasting corporation also has a teletext service, and has had for as long as I can remember. What's cool about it is that they also have a web interface to view it via their website. In the graphical view ('Grafisch'), the pages look very much like they do on TV (but on TV they are full screen of course).
The three-digit numbers are links to other pages; in the web interface you can click on them, but on a TV-set you enter them using the remote control. The four colored links at the bottom are shortcuts that can be used by pressing the correspondingly colored button on the remote.
Only if you are Roland Piquepaille or whatever his name is.
1. I won't buy any hardware that hash such encumbrances, as an end-user.
Let's all hope that it will be possible in the future to even buy hardware without said encumbrances, and that it will interoperate with other machines.
IMO a necessary feature of a modern file system is that it doesn't need to be defragged.
Another thing that helps is explaining the problem to someone else. It also makes you look at the bug from another point of view, and very often you find the solution without the other person even saying a word.
I don't really understand how it's a problem with Slashdot's noncompliant HTML: the same HTML should render the same everytime it gets rendered, no matter how good or how bad it is. Since a simple re-render places everything in the right place (going back and forward in the history is enough to trigger), I have the impression that there is something in the code that doesn't work 100% correct the first time.
That code path may be triggered by the bad HTML, but I still the code is not completely correct either.
A similar service exists in Europe: http://www.heret.de/radioclock/ptb.htm., via a radio transmitter in Frankfurt (Germany). There are quite a lot of all kinds of clocks on the market who get their time from there (I have two of these).
The RDS system for FM radio also supports a time signal, but not all stations use it, and up till now I have only seen one radio that's able to show the time from that signal.
GPS receivers synchronize with the GPS satellites, out of necessity.
I would have like the designers of GSM to include a time synchronization in the system, so that my mobile phone would always have the correct time too.
My digital camera automatically synchronizes its time when I connect it to the computer, which on its turn is synchronized via NTP.
In the registration form you can only choose Germany, Austria or Switzerland; is it possible to sign up if you live anywhere else? Without lying, that is?
I haven't had any invites yet. My account is only 2 days old, but that's much longer than your 20 mins.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Either
- they show both the movies for the original system and their system in slow motion, which would make their system even more impressing
- they should their movie in real time, and the movie with the original system in slow motion, which would be cheating
- they modified the original suspension, made it much softer, which would be cheating also.
I've been told that suspensions in general are stiffer here in Europe than in America, even that suspensions on cars imported from America are stiffened because Europeans like it better (some even say it's because they're not allowed on the road with their soft suspensions). Even if that's true, the suspension in those movies (if not in slow motion) seems softer than anything on the market.
I vote for cat-5. No, make that cat-6.
maybe stopping on the way to drop off other passengers
They don't even need to stop. That way, air taxis give a whole new meaning to the concept of dropping off passengers.
The technology is not exlusive to FinishLynx: TimeTronics uses the same technology.
And as I explained in another post, the analog version of finish photo, giving about the same result, has been used for decades.
Before the advent of digital technology, they still had a finish photo that looked almost exactly the same as the digital ones.
They used a camera without a traditional shutter, but with a very narrow slit instead. The film, marked with time marks, moved along continuously (instead of one step at a time as with normal photographs). The narrow slit projects the same area of the finish line onto the film as is captured by the narrow CCD of the digital version.
I don't know how the film was synchronized though. The simplest would be that the film starts rolling at the time the starting gun is fired, but that would wast lots of film.
The whole thing worked just fine, but had the disadvantage that you had to develop the film before you could see the result.
So it's okay to copy movies because the candy and the drinks are too expensive??