Trust me... any code I write for fun will be freely available and modifiable and such. I write my code at home for fun (at work... well... they won't let me take my code out). My code is your code. And I got my book on Cocoa yesterday and it seems like it'll be a breeze to get into since I already have a strong hold in Java and J++ with some knowledge of C/C++.
What's the difference between Cocoa and Carbon? I got incredibly ticked off at my PC and sold it and went ahead and purchased the new iMac. I have every intention of programming on it and have mainly a Java background but can do C/++ if needed. Hopefully my iMac will get here soon...
If you click on any of the Techno-Scout links (banner of right side of page) it looks like they might be news stories although it does say advertisment at the top. If you click on a link it goes to techno-scout's website which presents their products in a news-story fashion. This is probably what is being referred to. It's not that big a deal.
I couldn't find the ads either but one thing that might be happenening is if "on occasion it sticks an ad page between the page and the news page (i.e. click link -> see ad page -> auto-forwarded to news) and you have something turned off like javascript it may not autoforward you to the next page. Just a possibility... dunno though.
It's not a problem of getting it right now. It seems to be a problem of getting ahold of the people that provide it. I've called @home from 4 different phone lines and I just get a prerecorded message saying @home isn't available at that location. Well I have it so it is granted it's no technically "@home" anymore. But my provider MediaComm I can't seem to reach either. So how can I get ahold of somebody to hook up new service or change my current service? Anybody?
There are 4 seasons out on DVD already so you can have an X-Files marathon no problem. It'll only last about 173 days though so you should find something else to watch the 2nd half of the year. Hopefully season 5 will be out by then anyhow...:)
Give up your computer for new year's! That's what I'm doing! (But I can still use the one at work for the slashdrug)
This has to be one of the most idiotic things on the consumer end. Here are some things that come to mind. Keep in consideration that this idea is only stupid because the idea of Christmas is giving not recieving and exchange/upgrading cause the present somebody got you sucks.
1) About 1/5 of the gifts given* are joke gifts. The idea of a joke gift isn't to exchange them. They're dumb and that's why they are there. American consumers suck but we buy stupid things cause they're funny.
2) 1/6 of the gifts given* are gift certificates anyhow. As the article states you might as well just give people gift certificates.
3) 1/4 of the gifts given* are clothes. I do see where somebody might want to exchange clothes. They are meant to be worn and if they don't fit right or that style doesn't suit you I can see an exchange. But if you get the clothes online you have to try them on usually anyhow to know if they fit.
4) It just plain defeats my purpose of Christmas. If person X gets 20 pairs of pants they should end up with 20 pairs of pants not an XBox, an extra controller, and some games. If that person really wanted an XBox he/she shoulda told all the people to pool their money together to get them one.
All-in-all I really don't see how the gift certificate doesn't handle this already. Essentially you might as well get them a gift certificate and say "Please buy item X if you like". But they can use it for anything. All that getting them a "gift" that is to be used as store credit does is make them think that you thought of something when really you just wanted to give them a gift certificate. I don't see this as being some nifty new system at all.
(* - all statistics were made up on the fly using the latest in nano-technology, pre-algebra, and Floam(tm))
You might try American Institute of Computer Science. I don't know much about it but I'm in the same boat you are and have thought off and on about going here. It's correspondence and to get your degree (from what I remember) you have to be enrolled a minimum of 9 months or so. So you can theoretically get your degree in a short time.
The survey can't work since I can hardly ever seem to get Linux to utilize my cable modem. And I can't be the only guy filling out his ID-10-T forms at tax time...
Something mildly along the same lines (I believe) are PAR files... you can learn more about them here. It has the ability to reconstruct files that don't exist on your HD. This has recently become quite popular in newsgroups.
When I was in the "rip all my CD's" mood I used both of my CD-rom drives to do it. I'd have it do two while I was in the shower, at work, eating, going to bed, etc... it took a little while but it got done. Now whenever I buy a new CD I rip it even before I listen to it.
I actually do put tape and I do plug everything in the same way every time. But on occasion something needs to be changed for one reason or another. All I'm saying is it would be easier.
I run a 16 and 32 channel mixing board myself and just figuring out which channel goes to which instrument/mic is a pain sometimes. According to the article when the item is plugged in it would show up on the mixing board as "Whomever's Guitar" or whatever it was set to. This would be very very handy I think for the people behind the scenes. Not only will it be beneficial to the quality of the sound but beneficial to people like me. Hopefully this technology will be implemented in more things that guitars, which I'm certain it will.
It'd make life easier if you could upload effects straight to the guitar/mic instead of having to run it through an effects box too.
Let's assume that most CD's are 10 tracks long and $15 a piece. This gives you 10 CD's you can download a month. 10 CD's which you can't play on your CD player. 10 CD's which you do not own. 10 CD's which if your hard drive crashes you may or may not be able to get back because you can't make backups.
Now I feel that I buy a decent amount of CD's. I have about 300 which is a lot for some and a speck of dust to others. But most of the time there isn't even a new CD that comes out each month that I would want to buy. So why not just hold onto my $10 a month and buy my $15 CD's when they come out. The quality of that is guaranteed to be even better than whatever this service is offering and I get to keep it and do what I want with it indefinitely.
On the topic of quality, MP3's as they currently are are pretty dang good to most people's ears. The amount of people that hear a difference between the two formats is questionable.
While I don't have any reccommendations don't forget that your PS2 can play PSX games. A lot of my friends have PS2's and for some reason are not aware of this or just forget about this. There are a *ton* of PSX games out there. I'm sure something will suit her fancy...
I'm not down with web servers and ISP's but I would think it would be good for an ISP to cache common url's that people goto (i.e. msn.com for people that don't know how to change their default start page). So if my ISP is caching msn.com and I go to msn.com but never use msn's web servers then who gets the money? My ISP or msn? MSN made the page but my ISP is "hosting" the page.
I've sort of found it funny that as disk space goes up compression has been making files smaller. The amount we actually need to store keeps getting smaller while the amount of hard drive space people have keeps getting larger. If you were to honestly go through your archive of whatever it is that you archive and get rid of every file you haven't opened in the past 6 months you'd probably go down to less than 5 gigs anyhow. Of course not everybody. Some people run 24 hour a day porn slide shows.
I had heard this story before and once used it as a time filler in the beginning of a report I had to give in school.... here it is...
while(true)
{
It was a dark and stormy night... and the rain came down in turrents.... and the skipper said to the captain, "Spin us a yarn!". And so he did...
}
I don't think my teacher was paying attention to my speech because I said it about 10 times before proceeding to the report... but it took up some time and I got an A anyhow...
If you never reboot your system and the power never goes off you've got nothing to worry about... and my power usually doesn't go off... oh crap... nevermind...
They now have purple ketchup also as my mother showed me. So now the condiment can match the recipient. On a side note... green ketchup... maybe... purple ketchup... no.
If you've actually looked at the list you'll realize how ridiculous the list is... call your local radio station and request the songs... see what they say...
"Bob, don't play any of these songs... Sally lets roll the news and ummm... lets show more videos of the planes crashing and the current rubble situation."
I keep getting "lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!" when I try to post this so instead here is a link to what I was going to post (but posted in the UserFriendly comment threads).
In summary it contains:
"I went to church at 7pm tonight to pray. A piece of paper was handed out to those that attended. I retype it here for those of you that may not be sure what to pray for, maybe looking for more to pray for, or bible verses to aid you in this time of tragedy."
Slashdot Mirror
Trust me... any code I write for fun will be freely available and modifiable and such. I write my code at home for fun (at work... well... they won't let me take my code out). My code is your code. And I got my book on Cocoa yesterday and it seems like it'll be a breeze to get into since I already have a strong hold in Java and J++ with some knowledge of C/C++.
What's the difference between Cocoa and Carbon? I got incredibly ticked off at my PC and sold it and went ahead and purchased the new iMac. I have every intention of programming on it and have mainly a Java background but can do C/++ if needed. Hopefully my iMac will get here soon...
If you click on any of the Techno-Scout links (banner of right side of page) it looks like they might be news stories although it does say advertisment at the top. If you click on a link it goes to techno-scout's website which presents their products in a news-story fashion. This is probably what is being referred to. It's not that big a deal.
I couldn't find the ads either but one thing that might be happenening is if "on occasion it sticks an ad page between the page and the news page (i.e. click link -> see ad page -> auto-forwarded to news) and you have something turned off like javascript it may not autoforward you to the next page. Just a possibility... dunno though.
It's not a problem of getting it right now. It seems to be a problem of getting ahold of the people that provide it. I've called @home from 4 different phone lines and I just get a prerecorded message saying @home isn't available at that location. Well I have it so it is granted it's no technically "@home" anymore. But my provider MediaComm I can't seem to reach either. So how can I get ahold of somebody to hook up new service or change my current service? Anybody?
*note to self: learn to do math properly...*
:)
so it'd really be about 3 days... stupid minutes instead of hours...
There are 4 seasons out on DVD already so you can have an X-Files marathon no problem. It'll only last about 173 days though so you should find something else to watch the 2nd half of the year. Hopefully season 5 will be out by then anyhow... :)
Give up your computer for new year's! That's what I'm doing! (But I can still use the one at work for the slashdrug)
This has to be one of the most idiotic things on the consumer end. Here are some things that come to mind. Keep in consideration that this idea is only stupid because the idea of Christmas is giving not recieving and exchange/upgrading cause the present somebody got you sucks.
1) About 1/5 of the gifts given* are joke gifts. The idea of a joke gift isn't to exchange them. They're dumb and that's why they are there. American consumers suck but we buy stupid things cause they're funny.
2) 1/6 of the gifts given* are gift certificates anyhow. As the article states you might as well just give people gift certificates.
3) 1/4 of the gifts given* are clothes. I do see where somebody might want to exchange clothes. They are meant to be worn and if they don't fit right or that style doesn't suit you I can see an exchange. But if you get the clothes online you have to try them on usually anyhow to know if they fit.
4) It just plain defeats my purpose of Christmas. If person X gets 20 pairs of pants they should end up with 20 pairs of pants not an XBox, an extra controller, and some games. If that person really wanted an XBox he/she shoulda told all the people to pool their money together to get them one.
All-in-all I really don't see how the gift certificate doesn't handle this already. Essentially you might as well get them a gift certificate and say "Please buy item X if you like". But they can use it for anything. All that getting them a "gift" that is to be used as store credit does is make them think that you thought of something when really you just wanted to give them a gift certificate. I don't see this as being some nifty new system at all.
(* - all statistics were made up on the fly using the latest in nano-technology, pre-algebra, and Floam(tm))
You might try American Institute of Computer Science. I don't know much about it but I'm in the same boat you are and have thought off and on about going here. It's correspondence and to get your degree (from what I remember) you have to be enrolled a minimum of 9 months or so. So you can theoretically get your degree in a short time.
The survey can't work since I can hardly ever seem to get Linux to utilize my cable modem. And I can't be the only guy filling out his ID-10-T forms at tax time...
Something mildly along the same lines (I believe) are PAR files... you can learn more about them here. It has the ability to reconstruct files that don't exist on your HD. This has recently become quite popular in newsgroups.
http://www.disc-chord.com/smartpar/index.html
When I was in the "rip all my CD's" mood I used both of my CD-rom drives to do it. I'd have it do two while I was in the shower, at work, eating, going to bed, etc... it took a little while but it got done. Now whenever I buy a new CD I rip it even before I listen to it.
I actually do put tape and I do plug everything in the same way every time. But on occasion something needs to be changed for one reason or another. All I'm saying is it would be easier.
I run a 16 and 32 channel mixing board myself and just figuring out which channel goes to which instrument/mic is a pain sometimes. According to the article when the item is plugged in it would show up on the mixing board as "Whomever's Guitar" or whatever it was set to. This would be very very handy I think for the people behind the scenes. Not only will it be beneficial to the quality of the sound but beneficial to people like me. Hopefully this technology will be implemented in more things that guitars, which I'm certain it will.
It'd make life easier if you could upload effects straight to the guitar/mic instead of having to run it through an effects box too.
Let's assume that most CD's are 10 tracks long and $15 a piece. This gives you 10 CD's you can download a month. 10 CD's which you can't play on your CD player. 10 CD's which you do not own. 10 CD's which if your hard drive crashes you may or may not be able to get back because you can't make backups.
Now I feel that I buy a decent amount of CD's. I have about 300 which is a lot for some and a speck of dust to others. But most of the time there isn't even a new CD that comes out each month that I would want to buy. So why not just hold onto my $10 a month and buy my $15 CD's when they come out. The quality of that is guaranteed to be even better than whatever this service is offering and I get to keep it and do what I want with it indefinitely.
On the topic of quality, MP3's as they currently are are pretty dang good to most people's ears. The amount of people that hear a difference between the two formats is questionable.
While I don't have any reccommendations don't forget that your PS2 can play PSX games. A lot of my friends have PS2's and for some reason are not aware of this or just forget about this. There are a *ton* of PSX games out there. I'm sure something will suit her fancy...
Does playing the latest MMORPG with people from work count as socializing?
I'm not down with web servers and ISP's but I would think it would be good for an ISP to cache common url's that people goto (i.e. msn.com for people that don't know how to change their default start page). So if my ISP is caching msn.com and I go to msn.com but never use msn's web servers then who gets the money? My ISP or msn? MSN made the page but my ISP is "hosting" the page.
I've sort of found it funny that as disk space goes up compression has been making files smaller. The amount we actually need to store keeps getting smaller while the amount of hard drive space people have keeps getting larger. If you were to honestly go through your archive of whatever it is that you archive and get rid of every file you haven't opened in the past 6 months you'd probably go down to less than 5 gigs anyhow. Of course not everybody. Some people run 24 hour a day porn slide shows.
I had heard this story before and once used it as a time filler in the beginning of a report I had to give in school.... here it is...
while(true)
{
It was a dark and stormy night... and the rain came down in turrents.... and the skipper said to the captain, "Spin us a yarn!". And so he did...
}
I don't think my teacher was paying attention to my speech because I said it about 10 times before proceeding to the report... but it took up some time and I got an A anyhow...
If you never reboot your system and the power never goes off you've got nothing to worry about... and my power usually doesn't go off... oh crap... nevermind...
According to this link this product is no longer for sale since nobody can actually get to the site... :)
They now have purple ketchup also as my mother showed me. So now the condiment can match the recipient. On a side note... green ketchup... maybe... purple ketchup... no.
If you've actually looked at the list you'll realize how ridiculous the list is... call your local radio station and request the songs... see what they say...
"Bob, don't play any of these songs... Sally lets roll the news and ummm... lets show more videos of the planes crashing and the current rubble situation."
I keep getting "lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!" when I try to post this so instead here is a link to what I was going to post (but posted in the UserFriendly comment threads).
A Call of Prayer for Our Nation
In summary it contains:
"I went to church at 7pm tonight to pray. A piece of paper was handed out to those that attended. I retype it here for those of you that may not be sure what to pray for, maybe looking for more to pray for, or bible verses to aid you in this time of tragedy."