Well, its not practical for the vast majority of programmers, but there ARE people who write in Assembly where size (think embedded devices) and performance demand it.
C# DOES support finalize and Dispose methods - finalize runs when GC runs (also unpredictable) but Dispose runs when you want it to. Not quite effective as C++ destructors, but for most applications not a bad compromise.
Well, I just started a C++ program today. Many reasons to use it, but peformance is a biggy over C#/Java - not to mention increased flexibility, compatiability with legacy code, greater control over low level operations (important when dealing with things like barcode scanning or speech recognition). The list of useful things C++ can do goes on...
Tell your company that the energy savings of the LCD will more than make up for the higher initial cost. Of course, I tried that and was told that electricity was included in the rent, so there was no incentive for my company to go the LCD route.
Back in the dot com days, I relied heavily on my Palm Pilot - not just for contacts, but for the calendar, expense tracker (when taking business trips), calculator, notes application (for storing key information like server names, travel itenerarys, etc.), Avant Go for reading latest NY Times and Rolling Stones headlines while riding the El to work, and several other uses. I just bought a new one recently (Palm III finally gave up the ghost), and now I get all of that plus I can take Word and Excel files with me, photos, and music. Too bad they don't run off of AAA batteries anymore though - now I have to take a charger with me, and when the internal battery finally dies after a year or two probably have to buy a whole new device.
Buttons and keys on Star Trek (original series) were never labeled - looks like we have finally achived the same! Personally I never look at the keys as it is now when I type, unless I need some obscure shift character or a function key, so I don't think it would be too difficult to get used to that keyboard. Then again, the question "why" is still begged.
Believe me, they are making money off of you for every day that you have a single dollar in their account. Your money isn't sitting in a big vault somewhere - it is being re-invested by the bank at a much higher rate of return than they pay out to you.
Funny - I remember people in the early 90s saying the same thing about the world wide web. The fact is, you can't really tell for sure what will become a fad and what will turn into a lasting phenomenon.
OK, and old fogey of 41 lending his two cents here - back when Jedi premiered, I could somewhat understand people waiting in line and getting dressed up - Star Wars and Empire were a great couple of movies, there was a big clif hanger at the end, and six years of waiting was coming to fruition. But people that became fans only seeing the NEW movies in the theatre? WTF? Is there a certain subset of people that actually became interested in the series based on the "strengths" of Ep 1 and 2?
I was wondering about his using a blaster too - and was glad to see the line he subsequently gave about it being "uncivilized", which solved that mystery, and tied nicely with Ep. IV!
Actually, in the 1980 or so time frame I remember something about the saga in a way really being about the robots - they were supposed to be the only characters in all 9 (or at one time, 12) movies. Bottom line - Lucas has been making things up as he goes along. I'm sure he'd be the first to admit it.
You just reminded me of something that has always bothered me - why did Han (as a test for Luke) have to be frozen in Carbonite to see the emporer as if Couresant was so very far away that he had to be put in suspended animation, while in the new triology everyone goes from Tattooine and back to Couresant in no time like they are running out for a quart of milk?
You know what? I enjoy the movies, AND I enjoy over-analyzing them. It's kinda fun, like doing a crossword puzzle. Doesn't detract from my overall enjoyment at all, and I don't base whether or not I see a movie soley on the reviews. You are right, it IS escapsism - and part of the fun/escapism is talking about the movie afterward, whether it was debating if Darth Vader was really Lukes father after Empire came out, or debating now how well Eps III and IV tie together.
I saw Ep III twice - the first time I only noticed a (silent) jar-jar once, but during the second viewing noticed him in two scenes and clearly heard his "Excuse Me". The "Nooooo" was the worse moment in the entire film (and the only bordering on cringe-worthy, if you dont mind the cheesy love story dialog). I think it will rival "Khaaaaan" in the annals of bad sci-fi movie screams. Oh, and the Yoda/Chewie thing bothered me as well.
After seeing this movie opening day, I left feeling that Lucas did a great job tying Eps III and IV together (Obi-Wan thinks blasters are "uncivilized", Annakin doesn't realize Padme is having twins, etc.). But, after further review (and at the risk of sounding like comic book guy) here are a few of my nitpicks:
1. Obi-Wan is still called Obi-Wan after twins are born, and yet in Ep IV he states that he hasn't gone by that name "Since before you were born"
2. Obi-Wan tells Luke in Ep IV that his father wanted him to have his light sabre when he was old enough. Unless I missed something, Annakin never gave Obi-Wan his light sabre, let alone told him to pass it along to his son.
3. Not really a continuity error but - don't they have ultrasounds in a galaxy far far away? Why did Padme not know she was having twins until the last minute?
4. OK, so C3PO's memory was wiped (a cheat, if you ask me). But what about R2D2's memory? And in Ep III Obi-Wan interacts extensively with both droids, and yet HIS memory isn't wiped - in Ep IV he doesn't recognize the robots at all.
I thought of the same thing at first - especially since "Death Star 2" in ROTJ only took the time between films (6 years?) to construct. But, here's my rationalization - the first one took longer to construct because it was the first. By the time they built the second one, they had all the kinks ironed out and could do it a lot faster. Besides, you might remember that they had to "double our efforts" to get Death Star 2 done in time for the Emproers satisfaction. Presumably they weren't that rushed the first time around.
Nothing about this on the Apple website, at least on the home page. "Hot News" is that "Tiger Roars and Soars". Unfortunatley the link provided in the story has been slashdotted, so I will have to wait to see if my iBook had the bad battery. (unless someone is kind enough to post info...)
Seeing the movie opening day was a great experience - only hardcore fans were there, and everyone was completely, totally QUIET throughout the entire movie (unlike the usual talking, cell phones, kids running up and down the aisles, etc.). Heck, no one even talked during the previews! For an "event" movie like this, opening day was the best way to enjoy it in the full cinematic experience.
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I had (well have, its still in a box in my basement) a Centris 660AV - at the time I thought it was a phenomenal macine, with a separate processor to handle things like speech recognition and a CD-ROM drive built in (you had to use a special caddy for each CD, never mind slot loading!) Like the Lisa, it was ahead of its time.
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One reason and one reason only - Star Wars Trilogy BEFORE it became the special edition.
Well, its not practical for the vast majority of programmers, but there ARE people who write in Assembly where size (think embedded devices) and performance demand it.
C# DOES support finalize and Dispose methods - finalize runs when GC runs (also unpredictable) but Dispose runs when you want it to. Not quite effective as C++ destructors, but for most applications not a bad compromise.
Well, I just started a C++ program today. Many reasons to use it, but peformance is a biggy over C#/Java - not to mention increased flexibility, compatiability with legacy code, greater control over low level operations (important when dealing with things like barcode scanning or speech recognition). The list of useful things C++ can do goes on...
Tell your company that the energy savings of the LCD will more than make up for the higher initial cost. Of course, I tried that and was told that electricity was included in the rent, so there was no incentive for my company to go the LCD route.
Back in the dot com days, I relied heavily on my Palm Pilot - not just for contacts, but for the calendar, expense tracker (when taking business trips), calculator, notes application (for storing key information like server names, travel itenerarys, etc.), Avant Go for reading latest NY Times and Rolling Stones headlines while riding the El to work, and several other uses. I just bought a new one recently (Palm III finally gave up the ghost), and now I get all of that plus I can take Word and Excel files with me, photos, and music. Too bad they don't run off of AAA batteries anymore though - now I have to take a charger with me, and when the internal battery finally dies after a year or two probably have to buy a whole new device.
Give me your adress, I'll send you 2 bucks to buy an actual calculator.
Buttons and keys on Star Trek (original series) were never labeled - looks like we have finally achived the same! Personally I never look at the keys as it is now when I type, unless I need some obscure shift character or a function key, so I don't think it would be too difficult to get used to that keyboard. Then again, the question "why" is still begged.
Yeah, good luck with that Bill. No wonder they have to conduct a nationwide search!
Believe me, they are making money off of you for every day that you have a single dollar in their account. Your money isn't sitting in a big vault somewhere - it is being re-invested by the bank at a much higher rate of return than they pay out to you.
hmm you just gave me a great business idea!
Funny - I remember people in the early 90s saying the same thing about the world wide web. The fact is, you can't really tell for sure what will become a fad and what will turn into a lasting phenomenon.
OK, and old fogey of 41 lending his two cents here - back when Jedi premiered, I could somewhat understand people waiting in line and getting dressed up - Star Wars and Empire were a great couple of movies, there was a big clif hanger at the end, and six years of waiting was coming to fruition. But people that became fans only seeing the NEW movies in the theatre? WTF? Is there a certain subset of people that actually became interested in the series based on the "strengths" of Ep 1 and 2?
I was wondering about his using a blaster too - and was glad to see the line he subsequently gave about it being "uncivilized", which solved that mystery, and tied nicely with Ep. IV!
Hmmm you may be right - guess it was my 16 year old imagination (in 1980) taking hold.
Actually, in the 1980 or so time frame I remember something about the saga in a way really being about the robots - they were supposed to be the only characters in all 9 (or at one time, 12) movies. Bottom line - Lucas has been making things up as he goes along. I'm sure he'd be the first to admit it.
You just reminded me of something that has always bothered me - why did Han (as a test for Luke) have to be frozen in Carbonite to see the emporer as if Couresant was so very far away that he had to be put in suspended animation, while in the new triology everyone goes from Tattooine and back to Couresant in no time like they are running out for a quart of milk?
You know what? I enjoy the movies, AND I enjoy over-analyzing them. It's kinda fun, like doing a crossword puzzle. Doesn't detract from my overall enjoyment at all, and I don't base whether or not I see a movie soley on the reviews. You are right, it IS escapsism - and part of the fun/escapism is talking about the movie afterward, whether it was debating if Darth Vader was really Lukes father after Empire came out, or debating now how well Eps III and IV tie together.
I saw Ep III twice - the first time I only noticed a (silent) jar-jar once, but during the second viewing noticed him in two scenes and clearly heard his "Excuse Me". The "Nooooo" was the worse moment in the entire film (and the only bordering on cringe-worthy, if you dont mind the cheesy love story dialog). I think it will rival "Khaaaaan" in the annals of bad sci-fi movie screams. Oh, and the Yoda/Chewie thing bothered me as well.
1. Obi-Wan is still called Obi-Wan after twins are born, and yet in Ep IV he states that he hasn't gone by that name "Since before you were born"
2. Obi-Wan tells Luke in Ep IV that his father wanted him to have his light sabre when he was old enough. Unless I missed something, Annakin never gave Obi-Wan his light sabre, let alone told him to pass it along to his son.
3. Not really a continuity error but - don't they have ultrasounds in a galaxy far far away? Why did Padme not know she was having twins until the last minute?
4. OK, so C3PO's memory was wiped (a cheat, if you ask me). But what about R2D2's memory? And in Ep III Obi-Wan interacts extensively with both droids, and yet HIS memory isn't wiped - in Ep IV he doesn't recognize the robots at all.
And yes, I know it's just a movie! :-)
1. Get Bunch of moon rocks
2. Offer to trade moon rocks to a medical supply company for a tank full of oxygen
3. ???
4. Profit!
Nothing about this on the Apple website, at least on the home page. "Hot News" is that "Tiger Roars and Soars". Unfortunatley the link provided in the story has been slashdotted, so I will have to wait to see if my iBook had the bad battery. (unless someone is kind enough to post info...)
Seeing the movie opening day was a great experience - only hardcore fans were there, and everyone was completely, totally QUIET throughout the entire movie (unlike the usual talking, cell phones, kids running up and down the aisles, etc.). Heck, no one even talked during the previews! For an "event" movie like this, opening day was the best way to enjoy it in the full cinematic experience.
I had (well have, its still in a box in my basement) a Centris 660AV - at the time I thought it was a phenomenal macine, with a separate processor to handle things like speech recognition and a CD-ROM drive built in (you had to use a special caddy for each CD, never mind slot loading!) Like the Lisa, it was ahead of its time.