Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't cooperative multitasking the root of all multitasking evil? One bad app that doesn't relinquish control in a timely manner then things start getting sluggish/frozen.
If you're the one setting up the machine for your mother, and you set up Windows XP, then SHAME on you for not making Mozilla the default browser and installing AntiVirus and turning on automatic updates. For shame.
My XP machine has visited some of the less savory sites on the web.
Spyware to date: 0
Viruses to date: 0
A solid, easy to use, trouble free WinXP machine IS possible, you just have to take precautions (more so than other platforms, of course). This is NOT an onerous thing to do.
And those rules and exceptions are just the tip of the iceberg! I really admire folk who pick up English as a second language (well, those who are actually good at it!).
When I was learning German, I was pleasantly surprised at how logical that language was. Past-tense always sounded a bit silly to me, but for the most part it all just made sense.
The beginning of this year I received a fair bonus in addition stock options, so no complaints there. However, they DID just raise the price of items in our vending machines by 25%, and I'm PISSED.
Oh, and health insurance took an expensive turn for the worse. Seems like if they raise the prices of snickers and less people eat them, that health insurance would be less expensive.
For all of the "Choice is GOOD" comments I've seen scattered throughout other articles on KDE vs Gnome, Emacs vs VI, etc., it's pretty amazing that the majority of people seem to be leaning towards "Why the hell does this exist, Kylix/Glad/Eclipse/etc. already does it."
Ah, but a critical component wasn't discussed: his laptop's available memory vs. your desktop's available memory. Also hard-drive performance will probably have an effect, especially in low memory situations.
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What appservers are available for C# though?
Wrong question. C#, VB.NET, x.NET, all compile to the same intermediate language. The correct question would have been "what appservers are available for.NET?"
With Mono on the.NET bandwagon, it's just a matter of time until you have both closed and open app servers.
You do realize that if you left off the ';' at the beginning of your sections, that the readers wouldn't suddenly begin executing your statements, don't you...?
Use XP and do a file search (you know, open explorer, right-click and choose search). You'll be greeted by a cute lil' puppy that makes search oh-so-efficient you'll wonder how you searched without it!
Remember those Clippy-is-dead articles? They failed to mention that he lives on IN THE OS! Clippy didn't die, he was promoted, for God's sake!
Sorry for off-topic (and probably way too late for anyone to even read this), but:
I'm an ex-astronomer
Why ex? It's a field I've always been quite interested in joining, and was wondering if you'd be willing to say why you no longer consider yourself an astronomer.
Guess it depends on what's useful to you. I know a bunch of folk who despise google. They don't want to "learn" how to use an efficient search engine. They want buttons to do the majority of things they're interested in. They want a search history so that if they're repeatedly looking for things, they can find it.
What's interesting to me is the meta data they have on sites. For instance, I typed a search on Gentoo, and, of course, the Gentoo home page was first on the list. But then I saw a "Site Info" button next to the link. Clicked on it, and was taken to an Amazon (?!) page that told me semi-interesting facts about the site. For me, very cool!
With the A9 toolbar, the site becomes even more useful to those folk it's targeting. The ability to take notes on sites seems like it could have interesting possibilities.
Anyway, I think the sites pretty useful. Since I have broadband, the "bloat" doesn't bug me one bit. I also compile modules into my kernel:)
Unclick the Images button on the right side. Problem solved. And since the service seems to cater towards personalization, perhaps it'll remember that you don't want images included in your results?
The books button was not automatically selected for me, so you actually have to actively be looking for info in books, it doesn't just serve up Amazon results.
The latest issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal has a 3-page pullout of questions from Google: "Score high enough and we'll be in touch."
Some interesting questions, some difficult, some trivial ("This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness").
Those examples you gave really blow my mind! Sounds like you'd need to do quite a bit of work adding enough meta-data to make some of it work (i.e., Find all pictures containing a Bluebird). Of course, once WinFS is released and generally accepted, a lot of the media you get will probably have rich meta-data embedded in it.
That's if they go with the standard, old wizard format. I bet there's a better than 50% chance that they won't, as there's nothing about that format that allows for the sort of rich results that he seems to be talking about.
IMO, the whole idea behind winFS is to take all of that structured information (meta-tags, perhaps?) and allow complex queries on it ("richly find").
However, the problem they're probably facing is making such potentially complicated queries easy for "grandma." Most programmers I've worked with have trouble creating SQL queries that do exactly what they want it to for complex results, how on earth will grandma find anything?
It'll be really interesting to see how they solve that problem.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't cooperative multitasking the root of all multitasking evil? One bad app that doesn't relinquish control in a timely manner then things start getting sluggish/frozen.
If you're the one setting up the machine for your mother, and you set up Windows XP, then SHAME on you for not making Mozilla the default browser and installing AntiVirus and turning on automatic updates. For shame.
My XP machine has visited some of the less savory sites on the web.
Spyware to date: 0
Viruses to date: 0
A solid, easy to use, trouble free WinXP machine IS possible, you just have to take precautions (more so than other platforms, of course). This is NOT an onerous thing to do.
It's an old Roleplaying game that used to be made by TSR (of D&D fame). Maybe WotC have released another version? I'm too lazy to check.
Before you hype SDL too much for hardware acceleration, you should check out this thread.
Only one comment and you bastards have killed the server. Now that I honestly can't RTFA, let me resume normal slashdot mode:
In further news, the LSB implementation of the LCC Project will require LSD usage to be fully appreciated.
Thanks you, thank you, I'll be silly all night. Be sure to tip your kernel hackers.
And those rules and exceptions are just the tip of the iceberg! I really admire folk who pick up English as a second language (well, those who are actually good at it!).
When I was learning German, I was pleasantly surprised at how logical that language was. Past-tense always sounded a bit silly to me, but for the most part it all just made sense.
The beginning of this year I received a fair bonus in addition stock options, so no complaints there. However, they DID just raise the price of items in our vending machines by 25%, and I'm PISSED.
Oh, and health insurance took an expensive turn for the worse. Seems like if they raise the prices of snickers and less people eat them, that health insurance would be less expensive.
Some times I just don't understand the world.
They weren't using Windows 2000/XP, then.
Both int and long are 32-bit data types.
Maybe they were using a short. Who knows? We can't see the code.
For all of the "Choice is GOOD" comments I've seen scattered throughout other articles on KDE vs Gnome, Emacs vs VI, etc., it's pretty amazing that the majority of people seem to be leaning towards "Why the hell does this exist, Kylix/Glad/Eclipse/etc. already does it."
Bunch of whiners.
Ah, but a critical component wasn't discussed: his laptop's available memory vs. your desktop's available memory. Also hard-drive performance will probably have an effect, especially in low memory situations.
What appservers are available for C# though?
.NET?"
.NET bandwagon, it's just a matter of time until you have both closed and open app servers.
Wrong question. C#, VB.NET, x.NET, all compile to the same intermediate language. The correct question would have been "what appservers are available for
With Mono on the
You do realize that if you left off the ';' at the beginning of your sections, that the readers wouldn't suddenly begin executing your statements, don't you...?
That's true.
Doesn't make it less free (though the format is potentially un-Free in some, if not all, meanings of the word Free).
Here's another article.
Yet it will be up to camera makers to support the specification, which Adobe is making available for free.
So it looks like they aren't charging for it. And if everyone can standardize on a single format, that'd make EVERYONE'S life a lot easier.
Then what will I do to get my morning Clippy Fix.
Use XP and do a file search (you know, open explorer, right-click and choose search). You'll be greeted by a cute lil' puppy that makes search oh-so-efficient you'll wonder how you searched without it!
Remember those Clippy-is-dead articles? They failed to mention that he lives on IN THE OS! Clippy didn't die, he was promoted, for God's sake!
Sorry for off-topic (and probably way too late for anyone to even read this), but:
I'm an ex-astronomer
Why ex? It's a field I've always been quite interested in joining, and was wondering if you'd be willing to say why you no longer consider yourself an astronomer.
Guess it depends on what's useful to you. I know a bunch of folk who despise google. They don't want to "learn" how to use an efficient search engine. They want buttons to do the majority of things they're interested in. They want a search history so that if they're repeatedly looking for things, they can find it.
:)
What's interesting to me is the meta data they have on sites. For instance, I typed a search on Gentoo, and, of course, the Gentoo home page was first on the list. But then I saw a "Site Info" button next to the link. Clicked on it, and was taken to an Amazon (?!) page that told me semi-interesting facts about the site. For me, very cool!
With the A9 toolbar, the site becomes even more useful to those folk it's targeting. The ability to take notes on sites seems like it could have interesting possibilities.
Anyway, I think the sites pretty useful. Since I have broadband, the "bloat" doesn't bug me one bit. I also compile modules into my kernel
Unclick the Images button on the right side. Problem solved. And since the service seems to cater towards personalization, perhaps it'll remember that you don't want images included in your results?
The books button was not automatically selected for me, so you actually have to actively be looking for info in books, it doesn't just serve up Amazon results.
So, in conclusion, pick the results you want.
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Your compiler: We hates it, it burns us, precious, nasty syntax it is!
The latest issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal has a 3-page pullout of questions from Google: "Score high enough and we'll be in touch."
Some interesting questions, some difficult, some trivial ("This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness").
but it has to be said:
In Soviet Russia, the Bill Gates building crashes You!
You should probably check the source of the article before getting too paranoid.
Of course MSNBC DID pick it up, but I would be surprised if they were the only ones.
Those examples you gave really blow my mind! Sounds like you'd need to do quite a bit of work adding enough meta-data to make some of it work (i.e., Find all pictures containing a Bluebird). Of course, once WinFS is released and generally accepted, a lot of the media you get will probably have rich meta-data embedded in it.
Very cool, thanks for the info!
That's if they go with the standard, old wizard format. I bet there's a better than 50% chance that they won't, as there's nothing about that format that allows for the sort of rich results that he seems to be talking about.
IMO, the whole idea behind winFS is to take all of that structured information (meta-tags, perhaps?) and allow complex queries on it ("richly find").
However, the problem they're probably facing is making such potentially complicated queries easy for "grandma." Most programmers I've worked with have trouble creating SQL queries that do exactly what they want it to for complex results, how on earth will grandma find anything?
It'll be really interesting to see how they solve that problem.