Oh, he's a Lumberjack and he's OK, he sleeps all night and he works all day!
Seriously though, how many people will complain that the new iWood uses wood from precious trees, when the original plastic case uses fossil fuels;) And not to mention just how horribly bad any computer is for the environment...
Time to start the office pool. Put me down for 100 complaint letters to Jobs. $20....
slashbash-2.3/. rm -ed foo* In Soviet Russia, OS performs `rm -rf/*` on you. ... Netcraft confirms it, your system is dead. slashbash-2.3/. ls ls: nothing for you to see here, move along. slashbash-2.3/.
The average user... is not going to be smart enough to edit some "strange file" in a "strange place" with "strange contents".
That's why they are dropping the support by default, but people who want support for internationalized domain names (usually more experienced users, not the AOL set) can edit about:config. Mozilla isn't asking inexperienced users to edit strange things, they're making it so they don't have to.
Is Visual Studio now written in.Net? If it is, no wonder it's so much slower than VS6.
I have VS6 and VS.NET on the same system, and performance is roughly pretty close. VS.NET seems a tad slower, but I think this is probably a result of "creeping featurism" (i.e. bloat, and every programmer is guilty of that) than any compilation or programming differences. The pretty, graphics-hungry interface of VS.NET may make more of an impact. But I find that it starts faster than, say, Firefox;)
All things considered, both are good. I use VS 6.0 more because old habits die hard (same reason I still use Borland C++Builder for certain kinds of projects - I'm used to the debug/stepping interface in certain circumstances).
Reading the article (I know, I let old habits surface every so often) I noticed that he used a moox build of firefox, and that it performed far worse than vanilla Firefox in almost every test.
Especially suprising is the startup performance, which I consider to be the weakness of Firefox versus IE (although understandable, since IE is preloaded and Firefox is not). 20 seconds versus 11.
Firefox already blocks pop-ups. And it takes only two mouse clicks to change from google search on the default configuration to a yahoo search. And it is worth noting to myself that I have *never* been tempted to do so. So I'm not going to download it. Probably rings true for most geeks out there, at least.
It usually is a 10 minute process to login to Wikipedia and call up an edit page. Not to mention that this might help with all of the Slashdottings Wikipedia's servers have to survive;)
Also worth noting, how many viruses/trojans/whatever have started by disabling Norton, or McAfee, or Network Associates? High profile anti-virus programs get targeted for removal all the time. So this isn't just Microsoft's bag.
My local community college has had a very good game development program for 3 years, diversified now into three possible certificates (those who want an Associates need to complete a handful of extra courses, giving them both a Computer Science degree and a Game Programming or Development certificate). The bent of the program is to give students (who already have a basis in computer programming or graphics design) a beginning introduction to the art, then give them time to work on a demo/portfolio.
It's possible to jump into the industry to some degree after completing the program, but far better to go to a specialized university first (DigiPen being a common goal, though not always realized). Game programming is not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination, so jumping in with a two year degree would certainly scare me.
So this is hardly the first place where this sort of thing is taught, in that it exists at the two year as well as the four year level.
Your thought was the same as mine. Windows machines get a lot of diverse, funky software thrown on them.
I'll withhold judgement on Longhorn until I get to play with it. Maybe the changes will be worth the money to upgrade, maybe not. Maybe the graphics will look cheesy (a la XP) and maybe not. Either way, my Slackware box will fill the balance. I think an open mind is a good thing here.
That said, I can foresee (via the Slashdot palantir) a lot of people looking at their screens and wonering if all years of hype and buildup really just produced this. Think Doom 3 here: Yeah, it was entertaining, but it wasn't worth all the years of salivating and my $50.
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Oh, he's a Lumberjack and he's OK, he sleeps all night and he works all day!
Seriously though, how many people will complain that the new iWood uses wood from precious trees, when the original plastic case uses fossil fuels;) And not to mention just how horribly bad any computer is for the environment...
Time to start the office pool. Put me down for 100 complaint letters to Jobs. $20....
Gay Princes' Father: "This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not bicker about who killed who..."
I believe the search for Mersenne primes continues solely for the purpose of impressing women in bars. No, I don't think it would work either.
Penny Arcade reference in 3...2...1
Believe me, don't renew. There's this one commercial with ... Oh hell, I don't want to cause you that kind of pain.
Actually, it wasn't an accounting issue. You see, the spreadsheet was run on a Pentium...
But the TARDIS never looked like a DeLorean, it looked like a police box. Someone needs to brush up on foreign television...
(For my fellow Americans there is a link.)
Seeing how rabid some of the Apple fans* are here on Slashdot, Apple won't lose enough karma from this to send them under.
*(Not that I blame them, the Linux/*BSD/MS Bob fans all get there drooling in too).
What's six times seven?
That's why they are dropping the support by default, but people who want support for internationalized domain names (usually more experienced users, not the AOL set) can edit about:config. Mozilla isn't asking inexperienced users to edit strange things, they're making it so they don't have to.
I have VS6 and VS
All things considered, both are good. I use VS 6.0 more because old habits die hard (same reason I still use Borland C++Builder for certain kinds of projects - I'm used to the debug/stepping interface in certain circumstances).
Considering your nick, it will happen right after you move to the African jungle.
The machine, however, says 42. Odd...
In Soviet Russia, the dragon pets YOU!
Reading the article (I know, I let old habits surface every so often) I noticed that he used a moox build of firefox, and that it performed far worse than vanilla Firefox in almost every test.
Especially suprising is the startup performance, which I consider to be the weakness of Firefox versus IE (although understandable, since IE is preloaded and Firefox is not). 20 seconds versus 11.
Unfortunately, politicians abound, and aren't limited to the United States.
Firefox already blocks pop-ups. And it takes only two mouse clicks to change from google search on the default configuration to a yahoo search. And it is worth noting to myself that I have *never* been tempted to do so. So I'm not going to download it. Probably rings true for most geeks out there, at least.
It usually is a 10 minute process to login to Wikipedia and call up an edit page. Not to mention that this might help with all of the Slashdottings Wikipedia's servers have to survive;)
Also worth noting, how many viruses/trojans/whatever have started by disabling Norton, or McAfee, or Network Associates? High profile anti-virus programs get targeted for removal all the time. So this isn't just Microsoft's bag.
Grad Student: "Good afternoon, officer, I'm so happy you came right away. You see, I need your help with registering something as stolen property."
Cop: "Could you give me a description of the stolen property?"
Grad Student: "Yes, you see, she was about 1.7 or 1.8 meters, brown hair, in a black body bag...."
Cop: (WTF?)
My local community college has had a very good game development program for 3 years, diversified now into three possible certificates (those who want an Associates need to complete a handful of extra courses, giving them both a Computer Science degree and a Game Programming or Development certificate). The bent of the program is to give students (who already have a basis in computer programming or graphics design) a beginning introduction to the art, then give them time to work on a demo/portfolio. It's possible to jump into the industry to some degree after completing the program, but far better to go to a specialized university first (DigiPen being a common goal, though not always realized). Game programming is not a vacation by any stretch of the imagination, so jumping in with a two year degree would certainly scare me. So this is hardly the first place where this sort of thing is taught, in that it exists at the two year as well as the four year level.
Ah, I read the blog, and now I know why he was fired.
Someone noticed he didn't have a degree from Stanford or MIT.
*rimshot*
Ummm, Martha Stewart?
Your thought was the same as mine. Windows machines get a lot of diverse, funky software thrown on them.
I'll withhold judgement on Longhorn until I get to play with it. Maybe the changes will be worth the money to upgrade, maybe not. Maybe the graphics will look cheesy (a la XP) and maybe not. Either way, my Slackware box will fill the balance. I think an open mind is a good thing here.
That said, I can foresee (via the Slashdot palantir) a lot of people looking at their screens and wonering if all years of hype and buildup really just produced this. Think Doom 3 here: Yeah, it was entertaining, but it wasn't worth all the years of salivating and my $50.