does anyone here have pet cats? how do they effect your coding style? my imaginary girlfriend moved in recently and i have not ben able to write a single line of BASIC or Python on my ti-994a due to their incessant begging and vomiting.
i'd ask this on 'ASK SLASHDOT' but i am repeatedly turned down because 'cats are not computers' even though i call one BSD and the other one CmdrTaco because he shits in my hands
all answers are appreciated!!!!!!!!
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After years and years of Windows/Solaris usage, I finally went out and bought a mac. The OS was stable and unixlike to the point where I couldn't rationalize -not- buying one.
Now, every 8th story on/. is about some angry competitor swearing off the mac. What exactly is causing this? Personally, I'd have to go with the incredible ease of use that Safari/FCP/etc 'suffer' from, but there has to be something else.
Could enough people actually be buying macs now that companies are purposefully trying to pull out of the market to cease the flow of new mac purchasers?
Christ knows I won't be buying another PC until my dev box dies. Yay Apple.
i'm very, very new to java, so i can't deny anything you're saying, however a lot of it seems like fud to me. i hope some senior java guy tells me where i make my mistakes.
Can you think of even one Java application that you use on your desktop and like?
limewire?
Can you think of a single language/runtime that feels so out of place no matter what platform you're running on? A platform that makes you deal with CLASSPATH, non-native and slow widgets, and shell scripts to set a thousand environment variables before starting your "portable" application?
erm.. perl? isn't this what jar's are created for?
Can you think of a single problem domain where Java offers greater portability than the competition?
VB?
java is the solution for me because i want to spend my time -writing applications-, not fussing about with threads and low-level nonsense -IF I DON'T NEED TO-.
i like java. i like the syntax, i like the documentation, and i like the portability. now, everyone start crying how System.out.print() doesn't work on HP-UX or another JVM not created by sun..
Both Apple and Dell are guilty of using misleading prices. For example, Apple gives the price of the low-end G5 as "$1999", and the high-end G5 as "$2999". In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous. This demonstrates that both Apple and Dell are willing to mislead people when stating their prices.
this is exactly like abortion, insofar as the feelings are all over the board and extremely strong.
myself, i totally agree with what 90% of the RIAA guy says. we should -NOT- forget that we did not:
* write the music * produce the music * manufacture/ship/sell the music
now before i get totally flamed, i 100% agree that we should be able to copy/backup music WE PERSONALLY bought for PRIVATE usage. i doubt anyone here can argue with that. however, we honestly have -NO- right to give away the music on a transferable media (tape/cd/mp3/etc). it really is nothing except stealing.
i'm not going to disagree with the fact that cd's are overpriced. they are, no shit. however, running around screaming freedom like RMS on acid isn't going to change the price of cd's. we need to either start supporting stores like apple's iTunes, actually not buying cd's, or both. everyone on here rants saying they don't buy anything new, but i doubt more than 30% are honest.
fairuse is fairuse, but if there was an online suit about some small programmer getting ripped off by AOL, we'd be all over it like jackals. be rational, not radical. it's a money business, and although most of the pop music nowadays is fairly horrible IMO, people are buying it. so, stop.
for the longest time, i've been attempting to defend windows ever since 2k stopped being the 'absolute junk' syndrome. i read about this earlier in the day, and started ranting in irc.
well, since it's easier to bitch than act, i decided to act. i went directly to the local apple store and bought an ibook.
i have -never- been happier. this is literally the best of breed machine i have ever used. all the benefits of unix without the hassle of windows.
so, this is totally offtopic, but as a govt. employee who deals with this sort of thing every day, my old home pc is now strictly a local lan CF/oracle development box, and every damn machine i buy from now on will be apple.
yes, instead let's opt for the 'oh boohoo it's not my fault' ideal.
this is the last thread i'm going to bother replying to until i wake up sunday, but let me tell you, it's people like you that practically beg to not be blamed for your own sloth that are ruining the human race one by one.
even if i -am- wrong, and there is no free will by some sort of oogie-boogie god that you can't prove by any means, it doesn't matter. nobody respects a looter or a slacker except the same.
go ahead, start telling me how you have no power over your own frailty and blah blah blah, i'm still not going to respect, care or hire you.
if you don't have to work on monday, it's because you are either rich enough as you don't have to, you're making an excuse to the fact you have monday off, or you're a slack-assed slive of shit.
if your troubles don't disappear after getting off your ass, i think it's time to recognize your actual problems. 99.9% of problems in people's lives are of their own making and undertaking.
regardless, i know who i am, and why i am where i'm at. the rest of you parasites are just too lazy to take account of your own actions.
i don't care if the entire universe is real, a computer simulation or an atom in a giant being.
hypothesise all you want, it doesn't change the fact that A is A and you have to go to work on monday. the last thing the current american society needs is a new kantian theory to overtake it.
i'm all about philosophy and learning as much as i can, but no matter what, existence exists. wish all you want, carrie anne-moss isn't going to magically appear, and your troubles won't disappear until you get off your ass.
the thing that always gets me, is when people get all hyped up about AI and the like, they never can figure out 'what's so great about it.'
i mean, at best we build a robot modelled to X hot chick that will screw you eight ways from sunday and whatnot. beyond sex and gaming AI, what the hell could it do that's so great?
as far as the private sector goes, i can't say anything on the motives of most contractors.
however, as a government contractor, i must say that the contractors abilities are about the only thing that keeps 90% of the bureaus operational. most of the management types are given their positions more as a 'certificate of attendance' as opposed to earning it on merit/skill.
i mean sure, this is an interesting idea and all, but the probably with his liking it to the coal delivery men of years past, is that unlike music, each piece of coal didn't have a different worth than the other.
so, basically how does this work? artist gets paid per 'download' by the record company? sure, then every artist in the world gets signed with the record people, their thinking being if they got 100 downloads, its money for them with no real payout to the artist.
i'm sure someone in the biz can give a better explanation than i, but i don't see this working as a business model.
no, it should show that when Usless Admin #1 decides to go in and change firewall settings with gnome-lokkit or change runlevels for random services, i'll actually be able to go in and -fix- it.
speaking as an rhce that got his around the same time, if anything, the lower version number should make us more appealing to the slob in HR who looks over our resumes.:P
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fuck you troll, i upgraded to a macintosh and now i use web objects
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SLASHDOT OWNERS AND MODERATORS, please make this webpage viewable in LaTeX because i accidentaully soft linked lynx to
Just because you signed up for the KOTOR list doesn't mean you won't receive phone calls, as the main character is really darth revan.
just goes to show you that you can't trust anyone except the guy who wrote LaTeX.
does anyone here have pet cats? how do they effect your coding style? my imaginary girlfriend moved in recently and i have not ben able to write a single line of BASIC or Python on my ti-994a due to their incessant begging and vomiting.
i'd ask this on 'ASK SLASHDOT' but i am repeatedly turned down because 'cats are not computers' even though i call one BSD and the other one CmdrTaco because he shits in my hands
all answers are appreciated!!!!!!!!
trinity dies at the end of the matrix
I FAIL!!!
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BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DUPLICATE A CAR OR A TV IN A COST EFFECTIVE MANNER.
It's really rather simple. Take music, convert into binary, give away for free. Try sticking a VW into your cd-rom tray and tell me who wins.
Making a copy of something copyrighted or protected intellectually and giving it away for free is ILLEGAL.
there's a reason communism fell, ya know.
*baffled look*
/. is about some angry competitor swearing off the mac. What exactly is causing this? Personally, I'd have to go with the incredible ease of use that Safari/FCP/etc 'suffer' from, but there has to be something else.
After years and years of Windows/Solaris usage, I finally went out and bought a mac. The OS was stable and unixlike to the point where I couldn't rationalize -not- buying one.
Now, every 8th story on
Could enough people actually be buying macs now that companies are purposefully trying to pull out of the market to cease the flow of new mac purchasers?
Christ knows I won't be buying another PC until my dev box dies. Yay Apple.
no wonder there's been such a madhouse rush to move to 2000/xp here at DoS.
nt is dead, rot in hell you log of..
why was this post modded troll you socialist fucktwats?
i'm very, very new to java, so i can't deny anything you're saying, however a lot of it seems like fud to me. i hope some senior java guy tells me where i make my mistakes.
Can you think of even one Java application that you use on your desktop and like?
limewire?
Can you think of a single language/runtime that feels so out of place no matter what platform you're running on? A platform that makes you deal with CLASSPATH, non-native and slow widgets, and shell scripts to set a thousand environment variables before starting your "portable" application?
erm.. perl? isn't this what jar's are created for?
Can you think of a single problem domain where Java offers greater portability than the competition?
VB?
java is the solution for me because i want to spend my time -writing applications-, not fussing about with threads and low-level nonsense -IF I DON'T NEED TO-.
i like java. i like the syntax, i like the documentation, and i like the portability. now, everyone start crying how System.out.print() doesn't work on HP-UX or another JVM not created by sun..
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i am too stupid to round up.
this is exactly like abortion, insofar as the feelings are all over the board and extremely strong.
:
myself, i totally agree with what 90% of the RIAA guy says. we should -NOT- forget that we did not
* write the music
* produce the music
* manufacture/ship/sell the music
now before i get totally flamed, i 100% agree that we should be able to copy/backup music WE PERSONALLY bought for PRIVATE usage. i doubt anyone here can argue with that. however, we honestly have -NO- right to give away the music on a transferable media (tape/cd/mp3/etc). it really is nothing except stealing.
i'm not going to disagree with the fact that cd's are overpriced. they are, no shit. however, running around screaming freedom like RMS on acid isn't going to change the price of cd's. we need to either start supporting stores like apple's iTunes, actually not buying cd's, or both. everyone on here rants saying they don't buy anything new, but i doubt more than 30% are honest.
fairuse is fairuse, but if there was an online suit about some small programmer getting ripped off by AOL, we'd be all over it like jackals. be rational, not radical. it's a money business, and although most of the pop music nowadays is fairly horrible IMO, people are buying it. so, stop.
you know..
for the longest time, i've been attempting to defend windows ever since 2k stopped being the 'absolute junk' syndrome. i read about this earlier in the day, and started ranting in irc.
well, since it's easier to bitch than act, i decided to act. i went directly to the local apple store and bought an ibook.
i have -never- been happier. this is literally the best of breed machine i have ever used. all the benefits of unix without the hassle of windows.
so, this is totally offtopic, but as a govt. employee who deals with this sort of thing every day, my old home pc is now strictly a local lan CF/oracle development box, and every damn machine i buy from now on will be apple.
yes, instead let's opt for the 'oh boohoo it's not my fault' ideal.
this is the last thread i'm going to bother replying to until i wake up sunday, but let me tell you, it's people like you that practically beg to not be blamed for your own sloth that are ruining the human race one by one.
even if i -am- wrong, and there is no free will by some sort of oogie-boogie god that you can't prove by any means, it doesn't matter. nobody respects a looter or a slacker except the same.
go ahead, start telling me how you have no power over your own frailty and blah blah blah, i'm still not going to respect, care or hire you.
nite,
--d.
oh, good.
try to travel back in time and fix it, jagoff.
peace is accepting reality. about the same time you do that, you may be able to stop spouting off.
i'm working to debunk idiots like you.
if you don't have to work on monday, it's because you are either rich enough as you don't have to, you're making an excuse to the fact you have monday off, or you're a slack-assed slive of shit.
if your troubles don't disappear after getting off your ass, i think it's time to recognize your actual problems. 99.9% of problems in people's lives are of their own making and undertaking.
regardless, i know who i am, and why i am where i'm at. the rest of you parasites are just too lazy to take account of your own actions.
i don't care if the entire universe is real, a computer simulation or an atom in a giant being.
hypothesise all you want, it doesn't change the fact that A is A and you have to go to work on monday. the last thing the current american society needs is a new kantian theory to overtake it.
i'm all about philosophy and learning as much as i can, but no matter what, existence exists. wish all you want, carrie anne-moss isn't going to magically appear, and your troubles won't disappear until you get off your ass.
just read infinite jest by david foster wallace, or atlas shrugged by ayn rand.
either way, you're either old enough to appreciate them both, or you'll at least enjot the volume vs. price at borders.
--d.
the thing that always gets me, is when people get all hyped up about AI and the like, they never can figure out 'what's so great about it.'
i mean, at best we build a robot modelled to X hot chick that will screw you eight ways from sunday and whatnot. beyond sex and gaming AI, what the hell could it do that's so great?
as far as the private sector goes, i can't say anything on the motives of most contractors.
however, as a government contractor, i must say that the contractors abilities are about the only thing that keeps 90% of the bureaus operational. most of the management types are given their positions more as a 'certificate of attendance' as opposed to earning it on merit/skill.
just a slightly OT 2 cents.
i mean sure, this is an interesting idea and all, but the probably with his liking it to the coal delivery men of years past, is that unlike music, each piece of coal didn't have a different worth than the other.
so, basically how does this work? artist gets paid per 'download' by the record company? sure, then every artist in the world gets signed with the record people, their thinking being if they got 100 downloads, its money for them with no real payout to the artist.
i'm sure someone in the biz can give a better explanation than i, but i don't see this working as a business model.
i'm crushed. i should probably go kill myself.
so next time i have a sql problem, i should look up www.ReturningNullErrorString.com?
that's like walking up and down library isles until you find the book you want instead of using the computer/card catalogue.
sounds like user error, albeit your low /. uid.
no, it should show that when Usless Admin #1 decides to go in and change firewall settings with gnome-lokkit or change runlevels for random services, i'll actually be able to go in and -fix- it.
speaking as an rhce that got his around the same time, if anything, the lower version number should make us more appealing to the slob in HR who looks over our resumes. :P