As if the sorry state of the network wasn't disgusting enough, the administrator replied that he'd received a Department of Education directive which said he couldn't install any programs for which there was a Microsoft equivalent. That meant no Firefox.
No silly, you are not being creative enough. Firefox is a browser that doesn't automatically download malware just by looking at a jpeg.
I don't think Microsoft have an equivalent to that!
It uses a titanium frame - this allows it to run hot on reentry, which means that heat dissipation issues aren't as serious, and damage isn't as threatening. A side advantage is you'll get a far better payload ratio.
Even if Apple announce the product, there is no telling when it will ship. Go and hire a mac for the next forthnight and buy a new one when it comes out.
On the other hand, for monitors, DPI is not very important.
That may or may not be true, but it's irrelavent to the issue of what resolution means.
A game may specify a minimum resolution of 800x600 because at 640x480 the interface won't fully fit on the screen or be unreadable, and that happens regardless of DPI.
So you'ld be happy to play that game on a monitor that offered
800x600 pixels but at 2000 dpi? I'll supply the magnifying glass. Or perhaps you'ld rather play it on a device with a resolution of 1 dot per mile?
The funny thing is resolution -is- measured with things like Dots Per Inch. They do it with printers, they do it with sattellite photos ("what's the smallest things that can be -resolved- with the camera?")
Resolution is the inverse of dot pitch.
The problem came about because of.... marketing heads.
They didn't know how to talk about screen real estate, so they just grabbed the nearest name that was handy, and said "The resolution of that screen is 640x480".
I have a door on my office, by I could still here the annoyingly loud (and stupid!) email alert from the next office. Asking it to be changed or turned down didn't work so I decided to retaliate.
I put a quicktime movie of the intro to "Super Chicken" on repeat, turned up the volume, and left for a couple of days leave.
Super Chicken was still running when I returned, but the email alert was nowhere to be heard:-)
"In my software engineering course I was taught that the first and foremost thing you do in a project is gather requirements."
Well of course the first thing you should do it start coding:-)
Gathering requirements/building a business model are the first things you should do. It just that you shouldn't always do all of it straight away. Sometimes a little bit of exploratory programming is what's needed to understand the problem.
But don't tar all academics with the same brush please!
*Except* that the MacMini doesn't have optical out/5.1 surround sound. It's the one thing that missing from making it a good home theatre PC/DVD player/games machine.
That was my first thought! But dictionary.com (which is probably not the best resource, but it's easy) listed both definitions for both spellings. They're just variants of one another.
Must be the difference between AUS and US English. My "The Australian Pocket Oxford" Dictionary has them as separate entries which do not refer to each other...
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This is all too often a point of confusion in many debates, sadly.
No silly, you are not being creative enough. Firefox is a browser that doesn't automatically download malware just by looking at a jpeg.
I don't think Microsoft have an equivalent to that!
I'ld find that hard to swallow!
There's a long discussion about this. Some of it is "aluminium is a better heatsink than titanium". I don't think it's as clear cut as you suggest.
No, apparently titanium and aluminium are about the same for "specific stiffness". Aluminium is easier to work with to build stiff structures - see the last posting from Henry Spencer at... http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.space.tech /browse_thread/thread/3d8e2ef67945d1eb/0dd422df731 fdc36?q=titanium+group:sci.space.*&rnum=2&hl=en#0d d422df731fdc36
I want you to get to the guts of this algorithm.
I want you to get to the guts of this...
Can you run that server headless? ... headless?
Can you run that
I've just found the shell!
It Really Just Works
Even if Apple announce the product, there is no telling when it will ship. Go and hire a mac for the next forthnight and buy a new one when it comes out.
That may or may not be true, but it's irrelavent to the issue of what resolution means.
A game may specify a minimum resolution of 800x600 because at 640x480 the interface won't fully fit on the screen or be unreadable, and that happens regardless of DPI.
So you'ld be happy to play that game on a monitor that offered 800x600 pixels but at 2000 dpi? I'll supply the magnifying glass. Or perhaps you'ld rather play it on a device with a resolution of 1 dot per mile?
Resolution is the inverse of dot pitch.
The problem came about because of.... marketing heads. They didn't know how to talk about screen real estate, so they just grabbed the nearest name that was handy, and said "The resolution of that screen is 640x480".
Bloody marketing!
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3533
3. WebObjects
In Soviet Australia, baby eats dingo!
a grass roots campaign to get this one going.
As soon as I heard about Core Data I thought "ah, WebObjects persistence store lives again!".
I put a quicktime movie of the intro to "Super Chicken" on repeat, turned up the volume, and left for a couple of days leave.
Super Chicken was still running when I returned, but the email alert was nowhere to be heard :-)
The C compiler front end doesn't, but at least one other language front end does (i.e. Ada)
it's autumn. Our seasons start on the first of the appropriate month, rather than the (21st/22nd?)
already holds one for the Monkey boy Steve Ballmer!
Well of course the first thing you should do it start coding :-)
Gathering requirements/building a business model are the first things you should do. It just that you shouldn't always do all of it straight away. Sometimes a little bit of exploratory programming is what's needed to understand the problem.
But don't tar all academics with the same brush please!
*Except* that the MacMini doesn't have optical out/5.1 surround sound. It's the one thing that missing from making it a good home theatre PC/DVD player/games machine.
Must be the difference between AUS and US English. My "The Australian Pocket Oxford" Dictionary has them as separate entries which do not refer to each other...
Everytime I see POS I think "Piece Of Shit". Sigh!
BTW Dependant (noun) is a person (e.g. one who is financially supported by another), whereas dependent is the associated adjective.
What? Like when I say my birthday is the 28th of June?