Good descriptions so far, lemme add my two cents. A professor I had put it this way, "XML is more like a set of rules than a language; XHTML, SVG, etc are languages built using those rules."
I always thought it was a good way to think of the relationship.
I've used Trillian, Miranda and Gaim and I use Gaim now. Trillian was nice but felt a little awkward coming from the official AIM client(IMHO). Miranda was great but it seems to still be using the TOC protocol for AIM instead of the much more featureful OSCAR. Trillian and Gaim use OSCAR, is there a reason Miranda can't? If they added support for it, I'd probably switch to Miranda on my Windows box, and I know a bunch of other people that would as well.
My roommate has fun little plan to get the most for his money from Best Buy. He bought a laptop and the extended warranty about a year ago. His laptop is slated to be totally removed from stock soon, when this happens he plans on frying a usb port (or something else he knows the Best Buy dolts can't fix) and bringing it in to have it replaced with a newer model or store credit to buy a new one with.
On a side note, I used to work for Sam Goody when they were owned by Best Buy and they told us above all push the extended service plans, didn't matter if we had to lie or what, they even kept track of how many you sold. that was where they really made their money. I lasted at that job about a month before I quit, just something about being frisked in the middle of the store, in front of customers that makes you unexcited to go to work.
I use Linux most of the time, one day a friend of mine and I were discussing GUIs. My friend is a long time litestep user and suggested that I try Litestep on my Windows machine, my response was "I did try it for a little while but I ran out of patience trying to configure it." After a moment of thought we had a good laugh about the irony of the statement.
They have a.NET users group at my University. They have lots of meetings and lectures and stuff. Sadly the Linux Users Group here went under before I transferred in; my roommate and I are considering trying to start it back up but it's not easy. I enjoyed going to LUG meetings at my old University, they're good fun.
I'm a 3rd year IT major and something that one of my professors stressed to the class last semester was that he could teach us PHP, SQL, Web Services and such but that would be useless in the long run. Instead his goal was to teach us to be self-sufficient, to be able to find our own answers and teach ourselves what we needed to know to accomplish a given task. I think I learned more in that class than any other, not only the skills I picked up but the confidence gained from learning it on my own, not to mention the fact that I didn't have to sit and listen to a professor drone on about syntax and loop logic (like my comp sci programming classes).
I just hope that when I graduate that capacity to adapt and learn on my own is sufficient to find a position "in the field" as they say.
I seem to remember reading a while ago that they were planning on using a different architecture for the cpu(Power PC?) and ATi for video. If that's the case then they'll have to do some heafty emulation to make the system backwards compatible with current Xbox games and that may affect performance to much to allow for the same experience. I'm not exactly 100% on this, maybe someone else has some better insight.
I worked in a Sam Goody store last summer and I remember a significant number of people buying a CD and then 10 minutes later coming back in complaining it wouldn't work in their car CD player. The manager would usually take the CD in the back and try it on the store CD player which was brand new and the CDs always seemed to work fine. It seemed to always be the same few albums too, at first few we figured it was just a fluke but after it started to become a regular occurrence we looked into the matter and found that those albums had some kind of copy protection and wouldn't work in older CD players. In most cases, if the customer was nice, we'd just take it as a return and give them their money back; I don't even know how many CDs we took back that way .
Kinda OT, I don't think I'm alone on this but I think OS X on x86 would kinda suck. The best part about Apple machines is the software/hardware integration. That'd be nearly impossible on x86 unless they managed to come up with some kind of proprietary x86 technology and then what's the point? That's not to say I wouldn't welcome it, I just don't think it'd be the same experience.
My roommate and I have had many long discussions about this, and came to the conclusion that it would most likely only be desired by geeks to replace their home home x86 boxes. I agree it would be very cool, but it wouldn't be a very popular product, they'd be like BeBoxes, a good idea, great value, etc. but not popular enough to make it worth it to IBM.
I always imagined Marvin as rather tall, sort of a 50's robot look -- boxy and shiny with some flashing lights, at least more like the robot from Lost in Space (the original tv series). The last thing I would have thought of would've been a mini storm trooper with a massive head...
When the author "publishes" the flash movie, they can check off a bunch of features to enable or disable, most likely that's the cause of the discrepancy. That's just my guess though.
Not so much as a defense of Comcast, just part of my experience with their service. My friend wanted to fool around on a unix command line, learn about permissions, basic commands, stuff like that but he didn't want to do a full Linux install and we didn't know about Knoppix, so our solution was an ssh server on my end and PuTTy on his.
I read through Comcast's agreements trying to find something that explicitly forbode or allowed this, I couldn't find anything explicit, so rather than risk it, I emailed Comcast customer service. About a day later I received a very nice email explaining that as long as I was aware of possible security issues and capable of setting this up without any support it was perfectly fine.
I think when it really comes down to it, as long as you're not hurting/effecting anyone else, Comcast doesn't really seem to care what you do. Their agreement(s) just gives them the option to shut you down should you start causing trouble.
I believe that's one configuration that they're offering the system in, they show a pic on the page of a board with 2 sockets. I thought the same thing when I started reading, then the pics finished loading...
Heh, I've been hit twice in my Jeep (Wrangler) the first time was some woman in a mini-van, I was stopped at a light and she just kinda rolled up and forgot to stop. Damage done to my Jeep -- Nothing, not even a scratch; damage to her mini-van -- I'm not sure of the cost but she certainly needed a whole new front bumper, it had the distinct imprint of my rear bumper in it.
The second time my Jeep was parked out in front of my house and some asswipe speeding down my street saw a turtle (actually it was a terapin but most people don't know the difference) crossing so he decided to pull the E-brake. He nailed the back corner of my Jeep, small (maybe 4 inches in diameter) dent in my bumper, and his whole front end was smashed in, not to mention his alignment was all out of wack. So I have to give it to Jeep they make one hell of a solid SUV.
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At my school, in order to get internet access we have to authenticate against the school's proxy server. All the wifi access points have the same SSID (the ingenious 12345). So a few bright individuals create ad hoc wifi networks with their laptops with an SSID of 12345, then build a simple page with a prompt like the one the proxy gives and they harvest school id/password combos.
Luckily, my own laptop(iBook) differentiates between normal and ad hoc wifi networks and prompts me before connecting to an ad hoc system but the ones distributed by the school don't as far as I can tell. So how does one verify that they're connected to a real AP and not some kid's laptop?
Funny, my Griffin Powermate does different things depending on the length of the "click", I guess that's just another item on the list of things that already exhibit this behavior...
Dunno if you're looking for a nice new(er?) AIM client for OS X, but I recently (re)discovered Adium, seems they've really cleaned up their act since I last tried thier client. It's now called Adium X and actually uses the gaim libraries, and the interface is incredibly clean(you can float your list on the desktop with no window/tilebar. Good stuff, I'm enjoying it.
Yeah, I bought a new digital camera(Fuji) and it uses the xD cards, they're pretty cheap as far as I've seen so far. I was expecting to get gouged for a decent sized memeory card but $60 for a 128MB card isn't to bad, and they're utterly tiny which always adds to the nifty factor.
NJIT's a great place, I'm currently an IT major there. ktulu1115 is right though, some professors expect you to teach yourself a significant amount of material, but I think that just may be that the subject matter lends itself to that method better than sitting there listening to someone drone on about it for an hour and a half.
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Good descriptions so far, lemme add my two cents. A professor I had put it this way, "XML is more like a set of rules than a language; XHTML, SVG, etc are languages built using those rules."
I always thought it was a good way to think of the relationship.
I've used Trillian, Miranda and Gaim and I use Gaim now. Trillian was nice but felt a little awkward coming from the official AIM client(IMHO). Miranda was great but it seems to still be using the TOC protocol for AIM instead of the much more featureful OSCAR. Trillian and Gaim use OSCAR, is there a reason Miranda can't? If they added support for it, I'd probably switch to Miranda on my Windows box, and I know a bunch of other people that would as well.
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My roommate has fun little plan to get the most for his money from Best Buy. He bought a laptop and the extended warranty about a year ago. His laptop is slated to be totally removed from stock soon, when this happens he plans on frying a usb port (or something else he knows the Best Buy dolts can't fix) and bringing it in to have it replaced with a newer model or store credit to buy a new one with.
On a side note, I used to work for Sam Goody when they were owned by Best Buy and they told us above all push the extended service plans, didn't matter if we had to lie or what, they even kept track of how many you sold. that was where they really made their money. I lasted at that job about a month before I quit, just something about being frisked in the middle of the store, in front of customers that makes you unexcited to go to work.
I use Linux most of the time, one day a friend of mine and I were discussing GUIs. My friend is a long time litestep user and suggested that I try Litestep on my Windows machine, my response was "I did try it for a little while but I ran out of patience trying to configure it." After a moment of thought we had a good laugh about the irony of the statement.
They have a .NET users group at my University. They have lots of meetings and lectures and stuff. Sadly the Linux Users Group here went under before I transferred in; my roommate and I are considering trying to start it back up but it's not easy. I enjoyed going to LUG meetings at my old University, they're good fun.
Or a KDE user.
I'm a 3rd year IT major and something that one of my professors stressed to the class last semester was that he could teach us PHP, SQL, Web Services and such but that would be useless in the long run. Instead his goal was to teach us to be self-sufficient, to be able to find our own answers and teach ourselves what we needed to know to accomplish a given task. I think I learned more in that class than any other, not only the skills I picked up but the confidence gained from learning it on my own, not to mention the fact that I didn't have to sit and listen to a professor drone on about syntax and loop logic (like my comp sci programming classes).
I just hope that when I graduate that capacity to adapt and learn on my own is sufficient to find a position "in the field" as they say.
I seem to remember reading a while ago that they were planning on using a different architecture for the cpu(Power PC?) and ATi for video. If that's the case then they'll have to do some heafty emulation to make the system backwards compatible with current Xbox games and that may affect performance to much to allow for the same experience. I'm not exactly 100% on this, maybe someone else has some better insight.
I worked in a Sam Goody store last summer and I remember a significant number of people buying a CD and then 10 minutes later coming back in complaining it wouldn't work in their car CD player. The manager would usually take the CD in the back and try it on the store CD player which was brand new and the CDs always seemed to work fine. It seemed to always be the same few albums too, at first few we figured it was just a fluke but after it started to become a regular occurrence we looked into the matter and found that those albums had some kind of copy protection and wouldn't work in older CD players. In most cases, if the customer was nice, we'd just take it as a return and give them their money back; I don't even know how many CDs we took back that way .
If you uninstall the "click to play" extension from 0.8 before you install 0.9 it should be OK.
Kinda OT, I don't think I'm alone on this but I think OS X on x86 would kinda suck. The best part about Apple machines is the software/hardware integration. That'd be nearly impossible on x86 unless they managed to come up with some kind of proprietary x86 technology and then what's the point? That's not to say I wouldn't welcome it, I just don't think it'd be the same experience.
My roommate and I have had many long discussions about this, and came to the conclusion that it would most likely only be desired by geeks to replace their home home x86 boxes. I agree it would be very cool, but it wouldn't be a very popular product, they'd be like BeBoxes, a good idea, great value, etc. but not popular enough to make it worth it to IBM.
I always imagined Marvin as rather tall, sort of a 50's robot look -- boxy and shiny with some flashing lights, at least more like the robot from Lost in Space (the original tv series). The last thing I would have thought of would've been a mini storm trooper with a massive head...
When the author "publishes" the flash movie, they can check off a bunch of features to enable or disable, most likely that's the cause of the discrepancy. That's just my guess though.
Not so much as a defense of Comcast, just part of my experience with their service. My friend wanted to fool around on a unix command line, learn about permissions, basic commands, stuff like that but he didn't want to do a full Linux install and we didn't know about Knoppix, so our solution was an ssh server on my end and PuTTy on his.
I read through Comcast's agreements trying to find something that explicitly forbode or allowed this, I couldn't find anything explicit, so rather than risk it, I emailed Comcast customer service. About a day later I received a very nice email explaining that as long as I was aware of possible security issues and capable of setting this up without any support it was perfectly fine.
I think when it really comes down to it, as long as you're not hurting/effecting anyone else, Comcast doesn't really seem to care what you do. Their agreement(s) just gives them the option to shut you down should you start causing trouble.
I believe that's one configuration that they're offering the system in, they show a pic on the page of a board with 2 sockets. I thought the same thing when I started reading, then the pics finished loading...
Heh, I've been hit twice in my Jeep (Wrangler) the first time was some woman in a mini-van, I was stopped at a light and she just kinda rolled up and forgot to stop. Damage done to my Jeep -- Nothing, not even a scratch; damage to her mini-van -- I'm not sure of the cost but she certainly needed a whole new front bumper, it had the distinct imprint of my rear bumper in it.
The second time my Jeep was parked out in front of my house and some asswipe speeding down my street saw a turtle (actually it was a terapin but most people don't know the difference) crossing so he decided to pull the E-brake. He nailed the back corner of my Jeep, small (maybe 4 inches in diameter) dent in my bumper, and his whole front end was smashed in, not to mention his alignment was all out of wack. So I have to give it to Jeep they make one hell of a solid SUV.
At my school, in order to get internet access we have to authenticate against the school's proxy server. All the wifi access points have the same SSID (the ingenious 12345). So a few bright individuals create ad hoc wifi networks with their laptops with an SSID of 12345, then build a simple page with a prompt like the one the proxy gives and they harvest school id/password combos.
Luckily, my own laptop(iBook) differentiates between normal and ad hoc wifi networks and prompts me before connecting to an ad hoc system but the ones distributed by the school don't as far as I can tell. So how does one verify that they're connected to a real AP and not some kid's laptop?
Funny, my Griffin Powermate does different things depending on the length of the "click", I guess that's just another item on the list of things that already exhibit this behavior...
Dunno if you're looking for a nice new(er?) AIM client for OS X, but I recently (re)discovered Adium, seems they've really cleaned up their act since I last tried thier client. It's now called Adium X and actually uses the gaim libraries, and the interface is incredibly clean(you can float your list on the desktop with no window/tilebar. Good stuff, I'm enjoying it.
Same here, bought a cheap scanner brand new in 2001 worked in 2000 and 98/Me. Can't even fool it into working in XP, but SANE has no problem with it.
Yeah, I bought a new digital camera(Fuji) and it uses the xD cards, they're pretty cheap as far as I've seen so far. I was expecting to get gouged for a decent sized memeory card but $60 for a 128MB card isn't to bad, and they're utterly tiny which always adds to the nifty factor.
NJIT's a great place, I'm currently an IT major there. ktulu1115 is right though, some professors expect you to teach yourself a significant amount of material, but I think that just may be that the subject matter lends itself to that method better than sitting there listening to someone drone on about it for an hour and a half.