If you define office software by something that is stable and usable enough to allow you to do any productive work, let me tell it to you so that you don't feel dissapointed: none.
Not to mention the fact that quite a large population of the world doesn't use standard ascii or only latin alphabet. Even if any of the available office suites manages some compatibility with existing software (think M$), none gets any fonts, encodings or just the fucking plain UTF8 right.
Fuck ogg vorbis. You already have your material in crappy, lossy and rarely supported "open source hahaha" format, you can as well write simple script to convert it to another crappy, lossy, but widely supported "closed source" format.
What is really missing is support for flac - the de-facto standard of compression for people that care about their music. That is the thing that really pisses me off - support only for Apple's Lossless Codec that cannot be integrated with anything else I have/use/am used to.
As for everyting else - you could as well listen to it in WMA/64kb profile - would make no difference at all.
The thing is that I, as being the owner of SE W800i walkman phone, easily can imagine how it may affect iPod market share in the future. In fact it definetly already impacts Nano share, just that the markets are currently not overlapping too much (the persons that would be most likely to buy nano are choosing crappy STYLESTYLESTYLEOMGLOUDRINGTONES phones that isn't exactly the target market for SE K750/W800 devices).
The phone has 512 mb of memory and a dedicated button that launches pretty good interface for mp3 player. And the convience to be able to listen to whatever you want and don't discover that you have missed calls or sms's later is excellent. Also I am not a constant listener - I prefer to listen at home on my slightly more adequate system (of course the main problem is that Beyerdynamic headphones are a bit too bulky to walk around with them and then you would need a device that could supply them with adequate power... (iPod cannot)). But for occasional listening to some tracks while on commute or just heck for it - it's perfect. I was thinking about Nano earlier (again, small and suits my needs to drop a few favorite albums in mp3), but alas...
Reccomended headlines for next PHP fanboys posts: - PHP saves granny from death - How to build nuclear reactor using PHP and components from radioshack - Reliable extraterrestial exploration using php.net functions reference comments - PHP programmer cured from cancer, aids and herpes (aciquired while trying to understand any basic computer science topic)... - PHP Saves! Better than Jesus! - PHP - a quick guide to shopping.
C'mon nerds - trying to manipulate XML with common PHP functions is like trying to hang a picture on your wall using McDonalds fries, average sized elephant and twenty years old issue of playboy magazine. Ok, I have no problems to use PHP for what it's intented - quick, dirty and unmaintainable html generators occasionally attempting to simulate functionality of even the most basic OO languages, but please - everything has its limits.
P.S. I occasionally do XML for living. And XSLs are simple.:P
- Windows install (5 minutes and you are up and running. You can argue that Real Developers doesn't use Windows, but on the other hand - Real Developers value their time and tend to choose what allows to get the task done in shortest and easiest timeframe while fulfilling client's needs. MySQL tends to be the safe bet here, especially in small web and workflow applications). - Simple GUI tools (again, I don't want to start writing SQL, if all I want is my table, in a minute and holding some test data). - Examples for most languages, development enviroments and in books presume you use MySQL. Again, no need to figure what is the difference between navigating result set by PK or cursor, in example.
During learning/developement nobody gives a damn about database settings, it's functionality details or scalability. 99% of the developement is projects that doesn't need (or goes without, since developer[s] retains such functionality in app layer) triggers, stored procedures or 'correct' type checking. Therefore we just pick what get's us started NOW, instead of 'after you'll reconfigure that, this, execute such query, update users table manually or wait for a few minutes for everything to load up).
Eeehm... The issue with CD-Rs is not exactly a bug, but the fact that at the time disc transports for consumer electronics that could support CD-R (They are quite a different beasts from your off-the-shelf pressed CDs) wasn't available. This is why at ~2001-2002 you could see full shops with radios or boom-boxes that prominently displayed - CDR compatible,
Actually now. Disney's core compitency now is management of it's IP and distrubution channels. Not quite a lot of actual new content being developed there...;)
Have you ever met a true audiophile? The performance of their systems is not only directly proportional to the cables used, but they also have to lay the cables the "right" way, isolate the room the "right" way, load media the "right" way. Heck, for a lot of them even the power supplied in your perfectly fine wall outlet is just NOT GOOD ENOUGH and causing nausea.
Take what we have now, add whatever we want, for fucking christ sake get something coherent out of it and call it C+++.
Results could be better than just adding a few additional patches keeping the previous crud. And think about the possibilities that writing and publishing a whole bunch of new "definite" books would create;)
Rental agencies always have some percentage of damaged returns - that's part of the business that is taken into account. Posting a note that there may be a problem with product X from a company Y that prevents user to rent specific products for that product from the company has two following effects:
* Company Y, especially if the product X may suffer from the bad press of aknowledgement that there is a problem with a product may and probably will take notice. Take into perspective the particular company Y and try to guess what their reaction could be? As far as I know the XBox games offered for rent are licensed from renting directly from company Y (correct me if I am wrong)
* Client of the rental company receives essentially a slap from the company - of course this is not good for the relations with the particular customer as well. Customers bring money, and in the rental business money is made from long-term relations with the customers.
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Now, come and think about it. What could have pushed this particular rental company to actually raise this issue, offend its supplier and aleniate a customer, if some specific percentage of damaged goods are already calculated in the costs of business?
My guess would be that their boxes are as cheap as they are Just Because they are using Intel processors.
Think of it as manifacturers subsidized computer company, that, altough doesn't brings any profit, but ensures that large number of potential customers are constantly exposed to Intel processors and associate "Intel" with "Computer" without thinking.
It's not exactly a monopoly, buy it is some hell of a good marketing.
Cmoon guys - since currently the main use of Java is for large and/or internal applications, should we consider as an advertisement "Migrate to.Net immediately - your preferred tool is dying"? Also, please don't forget that your handset games most probably are implemented in Java and as it seems will be around and kicking for good next 5 years at least (on a growing market).
LAMP is marvelous for what it does good - Q&D solutions where result matters. Java and.Net is excellent where neccessity to demonstrate maintainability and robustness of implementation to management matters (Also I find it easier to work with Java when multiple developers have to work on the same parts of system).
No, really. What do they expect? Unless there will be a normal (unabused) policy about keeping such information only to contact domain owners by their registrants or in case if any law is broken, people will keep suplying false data.
I certainly DON'T feel comfortable to publish my home address, name, phone, e-mail in a public way that closely relates me to my domain names or online identity on a public poster or a front page of my site. Even if I'm not doing any mischief. I JUST DON'T LIKE IT.
because configuring things like amount of connection threads alive requires to think about expected load of the system and capabilities of the system. Because there is a difference if you want to configure apache to have php/python_mod built in or you want to handle anything thru cgi, because there is a requirement to understand how http security domains work if you want to use http authentication, because good installation includes setting apropriate mod-masks on servable content. And then, there is, of course html vs. htm debate.
In short - GUI frontend wouldn't take care of thinking about your apache install as a system, dare I say, _service_ that fits your needs and infrastructure. On the other hand - there is a lot of people who took care to learn what it all means, took care to think about their needs and took care to configure their apache as they see it fit - and they did good.
If someone isn't capable to understand options in text file, he won't be capable to understand them when presented in a shiny GUI no matter what.
P.S. Apache config file really is _simple_. Really! Once you know why the hell those options are there. And if you don't - take the default one and you'll probably be ok.
Because it is NOT AN AUDIO CD (as in red book). Those discs doesn't even have good old philips CD-DA logo on them. It is one of those hybrid thingies I would LOVE to rip the support off the drivers (and most of the hardware I have an access to, too).
Aaah, what a beauty. The real questions that should concern this are more in lines of the following: - What is a development envorement? - What is QA? - How can I test code before putting it on production? - How can I plan for and track team progress in development? - What kind of documentation will I need? - What is a process? - How do you declare/manage process? - Who is responsible for builds, who writes specs? - Do we have separate QA team? - Is there any testcases? (silly, I know, but shows the scope of his position a bit)
YET we have 300 comments + discussion of using or not using hungarian notation in naming variables.
Perrfect!:)
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No, you are wrong. Audio CD (think red book) will be played as audio cd no matter where and what (granted the dye material is compatible with the particular readers optical pickup - which it should, if the reader confirms to any specification at all too).
The true problem is that I would be so brave as to claim that about a THIRD of the CD's and DVD's on the reputable musical store here DOESN'T confirm to the red book or dvd forum's spec regarding video disks - and, if you'll look closely - about a half of those discs doesn't even feature "CD-DA" logo. This is the true root of the problem, that we are accepting and buying something that doesn't contains the media we would expect it to contain (and occassionally even marks it so on the packaging).
Some customer awareness campaign from Philips (buy true CD's) and corresponding actions against those that put CDDA logo on noncompliant packages seems to be the best way of action here. Philips? Are you listening!?
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RAM uses power too. Generally ~10W per desktop DDR module (512/1024mb, depends) and 2-5w per SODIMM module. So more ram isn't exactly an answer.
If you define office software by something that is stable and usable enough to allow you to do any productive work, let me tell it to you so that you don't feel dissapointed: none.
Not to mention the fact that quite a large population of the world doesn't use standard ascii or only latin alphabet. Even if any of the available office suites manages some compatibility with existing software (think M$), none gets any fonts, encodings or just the fucking plain UTF8 right.
Fuck ogg vorbis. You already have your material in crappy, lossy and rarely supported "open source hahaha" format, you can as well write simple script to convert it to another crappy, lossy, but widely supported "closed source" format.
What is really missing is support for flac - the de-facto standard of compression for people that care about their music. That is the thing that really pisses me off - support only for Apple's Lossless Codec that cannot be integrated with anything else I have/use/am used to.
As for everyting else - you could as well listen to it in WMA/64kb profile - would make no difference at all.
The thing is that I, as being the owner of SE W800i walkman phone, easily can imagine how it may affect iPod market share in the future. In fact it definetly already impacts Nano share, just that the markets are currently not overlapping too much (the persons that would be most likely to buy nano are choosing crappy STYLESTYLESTYLEOMGLOUDRINGTONES phones that isn't exactly the target market for SE K750/W800 devices).
The phone has 512 mb of memory and a dedicated button that launches pretty good interface for mp3 player. And the convience to be able to listen to whatever you want and don't discover that you have missed calls or sms's later is excellent. Also I am not a constant listener - I prefer to listen at home on my slightly more adequate system (of course the main problem is that Beyerdynamic headphones are a bit too bulky to walk around with them and then you would need a device that could supply them with adequate power... (iPod cannot)). But for occasional listening to some tracks while on commute or just heck for it - it's perfect. I was thinking about Nano earlier (again, small and suits my needs to drop a few favorite albums in mp3), but alas...
Reccomended headlines for next PHP fanboys posts:
:P
- PHP saves granny from death
- How to build nuclear reactor using PHP and components from radioshack
- Reliable extraterrestial exploration using php.net functions reference comments
- PHP programmer cured from cancer, aids and herpes (aciquired while trying to understand any basic computer science topic)...
- PHP Saves! Better than Jesus!
- PHP - a quick guide to shopping.
C'mon nerds - trying to manipulate XML with common PHP functions is like trying to hang a picture on your wall using McDonalds fries, average sized elephant and twenty years old issue of playboy magazine. Ok, I have no problems to use PHP for what it's intented - quick, dirty and unmaintainable html generators occasionally attempting to simulate functionality of even the most basic OO languages, but please - everything has its limits.
P.S. I occasionally do XML for living. And XSLs are simple.
Why MySQL beats PostgreSQL:
- Windows install (5 minutes and you are up and running. You can argue that Real Developers doesn't use Windows, but on the other hand - Real Developers value their time and tend to choose what allows to get the task done in shortest and easiest timeframe while fulfilling client's needs. MySQL tends to be the safe bet here, especially in small web and workflow applications).
- Simple GUI tools (again, I don't want to start writing SQL, if all I want is my table, in a minute and holding some test data).
- Examples for most languages, development enviroments and in books presume you use MySQL. Again, no need to figure what is the difference between navigating result set by PK or cursor, in example.
During learning/developement nobody gives a damn about database settings, it's functionality details or scalability. 99% of the developement is projects that doesn't need (or goes without, since developer[s] retains such functionality in app layer) triggers, stored procedures or 'correct' type checking. Therefore we just pick what get's us started NOW, instead of 'after you'll reconfigure that, this, execute such query, update users table manually or wait for a few minutes for everything to load up).
Eeehm... The issue with CD-Rs is not exactly a bug, but the fact that at the time disc transports for consumer electronics that could support CD-R (They are quite a different beasts from your off-the-shelf pressed CDs) wasn't available. This is why at ~2001-2002 you could see full shops with radios or boom-boxes that prominently displayed - CDR compatible,
The rest of the discussion, it seems, completely ingores this small detail :)
Actually now. Disney's core compitency now is management of it's IP and distrubution channels. Not quite a lot of actual new content being developed there... ;)
hell, we could just drop it to jobs inbox. Who will?
Yeah, what a business model. Going to market just a days before or at the day of keynote, where the "rumours" were about a tablet from mac itself.
I think you will find a disclaimer that you are buying a picture somwhere.
Yet they are usually the ones that drives the ferrari.
Have you ever met a true audiophile? The performance of their systems is not only directly proportional to the cables used, but they also have to lay the cables the "right" way, isolate the room the "right" way, load media the "right" way. Heck, for a lot of them even the power supplied in your perfectly fine wall outlet is just NOT GOOD ENOUGH and causing nausea.
;)
Now, does this rings a bell to you?
Take what we have now, add whatever we want, for fucking christ sake get something coherent out of it and call it C+++.
;)
Results could be better than just adding a few additional patches keeping the previous crud. And think about the possibilities that writing and publishing a whole bunch of new "definite" books would create
Hmm, let's lok at this the following way:
Rental agencies always have some percentage of damaged returns - that's part of the business that is taken into account.
Posting a note that there may be a problem with product X from a company Y that prevents user to rent specific products for that product from the company has two following effects:
* Company Y, especially if the product X may suffer from the bad press of aknowledgement that there is a problem with a product may and probably will take notice. Take into perspective the particular company Y and try to guess what their reaction could be? As far as I know the XBox games offered for rent are licensed from renting directly from company Y (correct me if I am wrong)
* Client of the rental company receives essentially a slap from the company - of course this is not good for the relations with the particular customer as well. Customers bring money, and in the rental business money is made from long-term relations with the customers.
---
Now, come and think about it. What could have pushed this particular rental company to actually raise this issue, offend its supplier and aleniate a customer, if some specific percentage of damaged goods are already calculated in the costs of business?
Ya still think there isn't a problem?
My guess would be that their boxes are as cheap as they are Just Because they are using Intel processors.
Think of it as manifacturers subsidized computer company, that, altough doesn't brings any profit, but ensures that large number of potential customers are constantly exposed to Intel processors and associate "Intel" with "Computer" without thinking.
It's not exactly a monopoly, buy it is some hell of a good marketing.
uhmmm... You do realize that you say that you apply for credit (VISA) without SIN to prevent that someone might apply to the credit using your SIN?
Cmoon guys - since currently the main use of Java is for large and/or internal applications, should we consider as an advertisement "Migrate to .Net immediately - your preferred tool is dying"? Also, please don't forget that your handset games most probably are implemented in Java and as it seems will be around and kicking for good next 5 years at least (on a growing market).
.Net is excellent where neccessity to demonstrate maintainability and robustness of implementation to management matters (Also I find it easier to work with Java when multiple developers have to work on the same parts of system).
LAMP is marvelous for what it does good - Q&D solutions where result matters. Java and
No, really. What do they expect? Unless there will be a normal (unabused) policy about keeping such information only to contact domain owners by their registrants or in case if any law is broken, people will keep suplying false data.
I certainly DON'T feel comfortable to publish my home address, name, phone, e-mail in a public way that closely relates me to my domain names or online identity on a public poster or a front page of my site. Even if I'm not doing any mischief. I JUST DON'T LIKE IT.
because configuring things like amount of connection threads alive requires to think about expected load of the system and capabilities of the system. Because there is a difference if you want to configure apache to have php/python_mod built in or you want to handle anything thru cgi, because there is a requirement to understand how http security domains work if you want to use http authentication, because good installation includes setting apropriate mod-masks on servable content. And then, there is, of course html vs. htm debate.
In short - GUI frontend wouldn't take care of thinking about your apache install as a system, dare I say, _service_ that fits your needs and infrastructure. On the other hand - there is a lot of people who took care to learn what it all means, took care to think about their needs and took care to configure their apache as they see it fit - and they did good.
If someone isn't capable to understand options in text file, he won't be capable to understand them when presented in a shiny GUI no matter what.
P.S. Apache config file really is _simple_. Really! Once you know why the hell those options are there. And if you don't - take the default one and you'll probably be ok.
Because it is NOT AN AUDIO CD (as in red book). Those discs doesn't even have good old philips CD-DA logo on them. It is one of those hybrid thingies I would LOVE to rip the support off the drivers (and most of the hardware I have an access to, too).
Aaah, what a beauty. The real questions that should concern this are more in lines of the following:
:)
- What is a development envorement?
- What is QA?
- How can I test code before putting it on production?
- How can I plan for and track team progress in development?
- What kind of documentation will I need?
- What is a process?
- How do you declare/manage process?
- Who is responsible for builds, who writes specs?
- Do we have separate QA team?
- Is there any testcases?
(silly, I know, but shows the scope of his position a bit)
YET we have 300 comments + discussion of using or not using hungarian notation in naming variables.
Perrfect!
No, you are wrong. Audio CD (think red book) will be played as audio cd no matter where and what (granted the dye material is compatible with the particular readers optical pickup - which it should, if the reader confirms to any specification at all too).
The true problem is that I would be so brave as to claim that about a THIRD of the CD's and DVD's on the reputable musical store here DOESN'T confirm to the red book or dvd forum's spec regarding video disks - and, if you'll look closely - about a half of those discs doesn't even feature "CD-DA" logo. This is the true root of the problem, that we are accepting and buying something that doesn't contains the media we would expect it to contain (and occassionally even marks it so on the packaging).
Some customer awareness campaign from Philips (buy true CD's) and corresponding actions against those that put CDDA logo on noncompliant packages seems to be the best way of action here. Philips? Are you listening!?
The real question should sound: "Is linux ready for desktop?"
probably they wont. Just filter out by MAC adress - that's the best they can do, I guess :)