...Apple started advocating drag-and-drop data manipulation. This requires that both the source window and destination window be visible for a drag operation to occur
True, but in Windows, you can drag the data and hold it over a taskbar button, and that app will become active. So drag and drop still works with maximized windows.
"I still believe in e=mc, but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go," said Clark. "I happen to believe that mankind can do it."
Amen, we went through the same experience on a carrier-scale app. Once the app reached a certain 'critical-mass' it just became fucking impossible to maintain.
We trashed it, and started over with a Java-based webapp using Struts, and trust me, it is magnitudes better.
I think the point being made is that everyone bitches about how jobs are moving overseas because of American's extravagant lifestyles, etc. But when someone is willing to move to a place where you can live dirt-cheap, the government over there won't allow it.
And actually you can move right on in to California now, since the retarded state gov is basically trying abolish all immigration law. Come on over!
...like the other side is any better. Some favorite vague fear-inducers, used to further their goals:
"They're trying to steal your Medicare!"
"Capitalism is destroying the environment!"
"Homelessness is increasing!"
"Your Social Security might get cut!"
I just don't think that most geeks would want to be a part of it if they really thought it over, which is why I said what I did.
Well yeah, and North Korea is probably using Linux to track which 'anti-revolutionaries' and their families to kill or lock up in concentration camps. So should we stop coding? That's the world we live in man.
Look man, in this world, it's almost pointless to think that way. I mean Saddam Hussein has/had a lot of stock in the Hachette Filipacchi magazine group (Elle, Car and Driver, etc.) So I guess we should have boycotted those mags, but there's probably a million other examples like that.
Yeah it was to be named 'Georgium Sidus', "King George's Star", in honor of the English King at the time. And I think discover of Neptune (a Frenchman) wanted to name that planet 'Levellier' or some nonsense.
Well, this is some another company bashing it's competition - ooh, what big news.
But while we're on the topic of the Segway: Frankly, I'm surprised at all the negative reaction to the Segway, here (Slashdot) and elsewhere. I mean honestly, it's very innovative, compact, somewhat cheap, enviro-safe, etc. It could really compete with the automobile in many areas. And yet you get the mommy-types bitching about it promoting laziness, dangerous on sidewalks, etc. So nay-sayers, correct my misunderstanding: how exactly will the world be worse if Segways become massively popular? I see nothing but good coming from its adoption.
Saw a show on something related to this, "The Journey of Man", difference was using mutations on X chromosomes, which are passed unchanged from father to son, aside from random mutations. Anyways, a researcher (Spencer Wells) analysed the mutations in the X chromosomes from people all over the world, and came up with a map of sorts on the way people branched out.
In summary, we're all descendant of a man who lived in Africa about 50,00 years ago (~2000 generations), with genes basically the same as bushmen.
The researcher laid it out quite clearly and convincingly, so it's worth a watch/read: http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7442. html
It really made me realize how related we all are, and silences the idiots who think blacks are closer to the apes, and whites are more advanced, etc.
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...Apple started advocating drag-and-drop data manipulation. This requires that both the source window and destination window be visible for a drag operation to occur
True, but in Windows, you can drag the data and hold it over a taskbar button, and that app will become active. So drag and drop still works with maximized windows.
Here's a good resource regarding color anaglyphs:
http://www.aifx.com/3d_cavar.html
and was it more fun than C++ or VB?
Dude, anything is more fun than coding in VB.
And yeah, the C-64 was great, some of the first programs I remember writing:
An English to Jive translator.
A 'Car-Wars' RPG car generator.
Those were the days...
having a team of programmers who:
Like to program,
are properly trained and schooled,
who are paid enough,
and are given enough time to do the job right.
Everything else is fluff or a fad.
why would anyone bother... oh wait, "Posted by michael". Nevermind.
"I still believe in e=mc, but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go," said Clark. "I happen to believe that mankind can do it."
<Grin>
map in void context is no longer expensive. map is now context aware, and will not construct a list if called in void context.
This sounds like some Zen Buddhist zoan.
Amen, we went through the same experience on a carrier-scale app. Once the app reached a certain 'critical-mass' it just became fucking impossible to maintain.
We trashed it, and started over with a Java-based webapp using Struts, and trust me, it is magnitudes better.
Informative my ass...
Dude, show me a better IDE than Intellij IDEA which is entirely written in Java, and then we'll start talkin'.
I think the point being made is that everyone bitches about how jobs are moving overseas because of American's extravagant lifestyles, etc. But when someone is willing to move to a place where you can live dirt-cheap, the government over there won't allow it.
And actually you can move right on in to California now, since the retarded state gov is basically trying abolish all immigration law. Come on over!
...like the other side is any better. Some favorite vague fear-inducers, used to further their goals:
"They're trying to steal your Medicare!"
"Capitalism is destroying the environment!"
"Homelessness is increasing!"
"Your Social Security might get cut!"
So, name your poison.
I just don't think that most geeks would want to be a part of it if they really thought it over, which is why I said what I did.
Well yeah, and North Korea is probably using Linux to track which 'anti-revolutionaries' and their families to kill or lock up in concentration camps.
So should we stop coding? That's the world we live in man.
Look man, in this world, it's almost pointless to think that way. I mean Saddam Hussein has/had a lot of stock in the Hachette Filipacchi magazine group (Elle, Car and Driver, etc.)
So I guess we should have boycotted those mags, but there's probably a million other examples like that.
Yeah it was to be named 'Georgium Sidus', "King George's Star", in honor of the English King at the time. And I think discover of Neptune (a Frenchman) wanted to name that planet 'Levellier' or some nonsense.
Didn't they realize Darmstadtium is an anagram of "Mama Rudd's Tit"?
What the hell were they thinking?
Well, this is some another company bashing it's competition - ooh, what big news.
But while we're on the topic of the Segway: Frankly, I'm surprised at all the negative reaction to the Segway, here (Slashdot) and elsewhere. I mean honestly, it's very innovative, compact, somewhat cheap, enviro-safe, etc. It could really compete with the automobile in many areas. And yet you get the mommy-types bitching about it promoting laziness, dangerous on sidewalks, etc. So nay-sayers, correct my misunderstanding: how exactly will the world be worse if Segways become massively popular? I see nothing but good coming from its adoption.
Seriously, how much money is being lost by people trading some of these songs?
"Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind of Wonderful"???
I mean, come on... Half this crap is only found on 2 dollar compilation CDs at WalMart.
No, it's human interpretation the makes something poetry.
Computers/processes are quite capable of producing works we percieve as art.
there was Hunt the Wumpus
Okay well it's not box art, but it's from the days before there were boxed games.
I remember Miner 2049er had particularly crappy art:
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Image here
(http://www.mutantes.com.ar/images/miner%202049
Gotta love the marketing differences between Apples and PCs:
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The 17" Apple has a softly-glowing apple logo
The 17" PC laptop has a chrome badge labeled "Notebook":
http://www.powernotebooks.com/images/4760/front-c
Little green orcs, harvesting gold and lumbar
Oooh neato, like those spine-stealers from 'Battle-Angel Alita'?
What's funnier than this post is that it was marked interesting instead of funny... gotta love those moderators.
The Shenzhou spacecraft looks just like Russia's Soyuz space vehicle - bummer.
When are we going to get some new space vehicles, damnit?
Zzzzz.....
Saw a show on something related to this, "The Journey of Man", difference was using mutations on X chromosomes, which are passed unchanged from father to son, aside from random mutations. Anyways, a researcher (Spencer Wells) analysed the mutations in the X chromosomes from people all over the world, and came up with a map of sorts on the way people branched out.
. html
In summary, we're all descendant of a man who lived in Africa about 50,00 years ago (~2000 generations), with genes basically the same as bushmen.
The researcher laid it out quite clearly and convincingly, so it's worth a watch/read:
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7442
It really made me realize how related we all are, and silences the idiots who think blacks are closer to the apes, and whites are more advanced, etc.