I know, and that's a problem, especially since Windows filetype associations decides that all VB scripts are to be executed, and not edited, by default.
... And Tcl/Tk, Python, Perl or PHP. Those are just the commonly used ones. Javascript is slow and poorly documented (no browsers come with a decent Javascript reference, or even a link to one). The four languages I've listed above have gobs of useful information, and are cross-platform. There are some wonderful things on Sun Java that you can't do in MS Java.
That's nice, but University professors weren't exactly stumbling over themselves to make available C compilers or Lisp interpreters from home micros, so we used what we had. It was two choices, assembly or BASIC. Most of us learned to combine the two for short programs, and got some decent reference manuals for doing assembly on the big projects.
Thank heavens for Stallman. If he hadn't come along, I guess the only way I'd get my hands on some decent programming tools would be to spend the taxpayer's money while making fun of them.
I am not claiming we have had this technology for years, but to simply dismiss the notion as lunacy is specious.
We have had fusion technology for 50 years, it's called the "hydrogen" bomb. And what the government learned is that there has to be some kind of boosting to get the tremendous step-up in pressure and heat to cause nuclei to fuse together. That is no longer a top secret. What we're asked to believe here is that there's some sort of spontaneous, low-temperature fusion that only happens in a lab, but nowhere else in nature (as opposed to naturally-occuring fissile atoms). Furthermore, nutjobs who propagate this conspiracy theory are in effect saying that given enough tax dollars, the government can change the laws of physics.
If there is always some truth behind all conspiracy theories, let's see some evidence from several credible sources about a top-secret government cover-up of working cold fusion. See, if they can't produce any evidence, we call that "just making it up", and the label of "crackpot" is justified.
Excellent! That means we'll have cold fusion before November 2nd.
JOE? How about JED?
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Oh sure, JOE gets on the front page of Slashdot. How about JED? It's like the missing editor that Emacs never had. It's also got built-in S-Lang scripting, has built-in syntax highlighting, session recovery, drop-down menus, and has been ported to many platforms.
I guess if we're going to whore our favorites, go here to learn more about JED.
More like up to ~$600 US, depending on what type of volume licensing is available to your firm. Why didn't they compare against the full-blown Star Office?
Let's dump DCC (which isn't that bad, except for the TCP ports) and FTP, and come up with a decent transfer file replacement One that doesn't need 10,000 free ports, special firewall tuning, works through a layer of encryption without problems, but still doesn't generate a lot of overhead.
It wasn't until we moved the wireless router away from that wall (about 2-3 meters) that he could get decent connectivity from his recliner.
Sounds like the pipes became part of the antenna. I've not had any such problems with 802.11 gear at work. In fact, we get way better coverage than we need, which makes me nervous about security.
The problem I have with any of these devices is that even though there is a broad selection, I will always be at the mercy of the content provider, so I will never touch one. A better product would allow me to program the receiver to receive MP3 streams from any Internet site I choose to place in my playlist (2-way communication, like the cell-based IP service the other fellow mentioned). Then I could do things liks "broadcast" my own playlist from my network at home, and pick the sets I want to listen to. If the RIAA gets all pissy about copyrights, there could be authentication before the stream goes.
This is so much better for the consumer, since cheapskates like me could pay only for the bandwidth, but newbies could also pay a company fees to access pre-assembled playlists (leaving room for advertisements too). Depending on the available bandwidth, it could be extremely flexible. You can stream damn near any type of video/audio data, so my home streaming server could do Vorbis, FLAC, MPEG-1 or what have you.
In fact, my idea is so good, that I can be reasonably assured it will never happen.
Do the products cuts have to do with allocating resources to the next generation of DDR technology? If so, then it's perfectly normal for the older tech to experience drops in production.
Excellent point! Can someone produce some statistics as to the amount of fraud stemming directly from intercepted EFTs? (With particular emphasis on the cracking of crypto, or tapping of allegedly private, secure lines of communication). I'd venture to guess that outright robbery, fake ATMs, "identity theft", and check-washing are the preferred means by far.
Yeah, the Salary Wizard. I (re)built and maintain a network with Windows, Netware and Samba (on Linux) fileservers, manage the e-mail servers, web servers, various other types of network services (like streaming audio), maintain some web-based apps in Perl and PHP, script various things in Tcl, a little light utility programming in C, hardware and software maintenance, project planning related to the work that we do, data collection for the agencies we answer to, and I train my co-workers when the need arises. I manage a little over 500 machines (about 9 servers) with one other person. I handle the network from the wire to the switches, including the routers we use to connect to our WAN and to our ISP as well. Also a little inhouse caching DNS box for good measure.
Wow, that's really good starting pay for just a four-year CS degree (and no experience?). I guess it depends on the school you attended, too. I've got a friend with a basic CS degree too. He's now working in an unrelated field. I wonder what's going to happen to this job market in the future. A grad who majored just because he thought he'd make a buck isn't much better than an self-taught amateur with lots of hands-on experience with all the free programming tools and documentation out there. (I'm not assuming that you took computer science just because you wanted to make a buck, but a lot of them do.)
I have a theory that as open source reaches it's critical mass, it'll drive down programmers salaries, since finding someone with at least a code-monkey skillset will be easy.
Yeah, no kidding. How about someone show up with a mic and a laptop, and distribute the material in a Vorbis format? I can't believe that folks would make a big fuss over dragging a camcorder into some cheesy movie, but no one had the bright idea to record these events.
- Some distros have the mixer volume at 0 by default.
ALL ALSA drivers have all the mixer channels muted by default. They explain why, too. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if the de facto support was for ALSA drivers, instead of OSS drivers. If that was the case, then all the channels would show up in the mixer apps, and the user could see that the channels were muted.
- Some distros suck at configuring sound even when it is supported by Linux drivers (Mandrake's biggest weakness IMHO).
Not Mandrake's fault. KDE's mixer, for example, supports only the minimal channels typical of OSS drivers. I agree that this is a big problem, and it's because the Linux community won't let go of open source sound system.
- Microsoft has enough clout to get every manufacturor to ship Windows sound drivers with their cards. Not really Linux's fault that they won't write drivers or open the specs.
Not really. I've had horrible luck with XP's default drivers. In almost every case, you're better off hunting down the manufacturer's support site and getting their updated drivers.
I'm sitting here in my den, with two fairly recent computers in on my desk. Both have newer sound cards. Actually, there's also a spare sound card sitting next to one of the PCs. Two are AC '97 compatible, one is a Creative MM product. I got news for this guy: None of these standard soundcards work with Windows 95!. Oh my lord! That must mean that every version of Windows since isn't suitable for any task.
Anyway, all the cards work fine under Slackware (k.2.4.24) and Windows XP.
I'm sorry, was there an issue here? He doesn't name a distro, kernel version, specific brand and model of sound card, or give any other specifics about it. I've seen lots of trollers use this same tactic on Usenet, and the sound card turns out to be some 8-channel pro thing that requires a monster third-party driver and application suite to function properly under Windows. I'm exaggerating here, but I seriously want to know the specifics.
I could say this:
"Fred Discovers Achilles Heel of Windows
So, I was installing this expansion card the other day, and I booted up and got a blue screen with some register values shown in white. Now, other people give too much leniency to XYZ Monopoly, but I paid ten times as much for X[YZ]P. This is a card that works fine in Linux!"
Anyway, the article is extremely light on detail, and some of the things he says make absolutely no sense, so I have no clue what he did/didn't do.
Amen! You beat me to the point. A more meaningful survey would be to find how how many broadband/high-speed users came over from dial-up, if they are happy with it, and how many would consider going back.
That 'lame pulsing sound' is the sound from when it was originally recorded. It's the sound of the wax cylinder spinning.
You've probably got experience dealing with these old recordings and I don't. But, I've got a couple questions. Would they have made the master on a wax cylinder at that time? And wouldn't it show up as a low-frequency rumbling instead of a high-frequency hiss?
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VBScript is surprisingly capable.
I know, and that's a problem, especially since Windows filetype associations decides that all VB scripts are to be executed, and not edited, by default.
It's all about using the appropriate tool for the task at hand.
How about:
echo Hello World!
... And Tcl/Tk, Python, Perl or PHP. Those are just the commonly used ones. Javascript is slow and poorly documented (no browsers come with a decent Javascript reference, or even a link to one). The four languages I've listed above have gobs of useful information, and are cross-platform. There are some wonderful things on Sun Java that you can't do in MS Java.
That's nice, but University professors weren't exactly stumbling over themselves to make available C compilers or Lisp interpreters from home micros, so we used what we had. It was two choices, assembly or BASIC. Most of us learned to combine the two for short programs, and got some decent reference manuals for doing assembly on the big projects.
Thank heavens for Stallman. If he hadn't come along, I guess the only way I'd get my hands on some decent programming tools would be to spend the taxpayer's money while making fun of them.
Note how the program ends abruptly if you skip the central portion and go right for the profits.
I am not claiming we have had this technology for years, but to simply dismiss the notion as lunacy is specious.
We have had fusion technology for 50 years, it's called the "hydrogen" bomb. And what the government learned is that there has to be some kind of boosting to get the tremendous step-up in pressure and heat to cause nuclei to fuse together. That is no longer a top secret. What we're asked to believe here is that there's some sort of spontaneous, low-temperature fusion that only happens in a lab, but nowhere else in nature (as opposed to naturally-occuring fissile atoms). Furthermore, nutjobs who propagate this conspiracy theory are in effect saying that given enough tax dollars, the government can change the laws of physics.
If there is always some truth behind all conspiracy theories, let's see some evidence from several credible sources about a top-secret government cover-up of working cold fusion. See, if they can't produce any evidence, we call that "just making it up", and the label of "crackpot" is justified.
Excellent! That means we'll have cold fusion before November 2nd.
Oh sure, JOE gets on the front page of Slashdot. How about JED? It's like the missing editor that Emacs never had. It's also got built-in S-Lang scripting, has built-in syntax highlighting, session recovery, drop-down menus, and has been ported to many platforms.
I guess if we're going to whore our favorites, go here to learn more about JED.
More like up to ~$600 US, depending on what type of volume licensing is available to your firm. Why didn't they compare against the full-blown Star Office?
Let's dump DCC (which isn't that bad, except for the TCP ports) and FTP, and come up with a decent transfer file replacement One that doesn't need 10,000 free ports, special firewall tuning, works through a layer of encryption without problems, but still doesn't generate a lot of overhead.
It wasn't until we moved the wireless router away from that wall (about 2-3 meters) that he could get decent connectivity from his recliner.
Sounds like the pipes became part of the antenna. I've not had any such problems with 802.11 gear at work. In fact, we get way better coverage than we need, which makes me nervous about security.
The problem I have with any of these devices is that even though there is a broad selection, I will always be at the mercy of the content provider, so I will never touch one. A better product would allow me to program the receiver to receive MP3 streams from any Internet site I choose to place in my playlist (2-way communication, like the cell-based IP service the other fellow mentioned). Then I could do things liks "broadcast" my own playlist from my network at home, and pick the sets I want to listen to. If the RIAA gets all pissy about copyrights, there could be authentication before the stream goes.
This is so much better for the consumer, since cheapskates like me could pay only for the bandwidth, but newbies could also pay a company fees to access pre-assembled playlists (leaving room for advertisements too). Depending on the available bandwidth, it could be extremely flexible. You can stream damn near any type of video/audio data, so my home streaming server could do Vorbis, FLAC, MPEG-1 or what have you.
In fact, my idea is so good, that I can be reasonably assured it will never happen.
Do the products cuts have to do with allocating resources to the next generation of DDR technology? If so, then it's perfectly normal for the older tech to experience drops in production.
Excellent point! Can someone produce some statistics as to the amount of fraud stemming directly from intercepted EFTs? (With particular emphasis on the cracking of crypto, or tapping of allegedly private, secure lines of communication). I'd venture to guess that outright robbery, fake ATMs, "identity theft", and check-washing are the preferred means by far.
Yeah, the Salary Wizard. I (re)built and maintain a network with Windows, Netware and Samba (on Linux) fileservers, manage the e-mail servers, web servers, various other types of network services (like streaming audio), maintain some web-based apps in Perl and PHP, script various things in Tcl, a little light utility programming in C, hardware and software maintenance, project planning related to the work that we do, data collection for the agencies we answer to, and I train my co-workers when the need arises. I manage a little over 500 machines (about 9 servers) with one other person. I handle the network from the wire to the switches, including the routers we use to connect to our WAN and to our ISP as well. Also a little inhouse caching DNS box for good measure.
Which job description should I pick?
Really? Which would you hire: MIT graduate, top of his class, or someone that attended East Arsefsck Community College?
Wow, that's really good starting pay for just a four-year CS degree (and no experience?). I guess it depends on the school you attended, too. I've got a friend with a basic CS degree too. He's now working in an unrelated field. I wonder what's going to happen to this job market in the future. A grad who majored just because he thought he'd make a buck isn't much better than an self-taught amateur with lots of hands-on experience with all the free programming tools and documentation out there. (I'm not assuming that you took computer science just because you wanted to make a buck, but a lot of them do.)
I have a theory that as open source reaches it's critical mass, it'll drive down programmers salaries, since finding someone with at least a code-monkey skillset will be easy.
Wouldn't it be far cheaper and easier to train a bastard operator to remove the files and hassle the users?
There's a second chin that's sort of dangling.
Yeah, no kidding. How about someone show up with a mic and a laptop, and distribute the material in a Vorbis format? I can't believe that folks would make a big fuss over dragging a camcorder into some cheesy movie, but no one had the bright idea to record these events.
- Some distros have the mixer volume at 0 by default.
ALL ALSA drivers have all the mixer channels muted by default. They explain why, too. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if the de facto support was for ALSA drivers, instead of OSS drivers. If that was the case, then all the channels would show up in the mixer apps, and the user could see that the channels were muted.
- Some distros suck at configuring sound even when it is supported by Linux drivers (Mandrake's biggest weakness IMHO).
Not Mandrake's fault. KDE's mixer, for example, supports only the minimal channels typical of OSS drivers. I agree that this is a big problem, and it's because the Linux community won't let go of open source sound system.
- Microsoft has enough clout to get every manufacturor to ship Windows sound drivers with their cards. Not really Linux's fault that they won't write drivers or open the specs.
Not really. I've had horrible luck with XP's default drivers. In almost every case, you're better off hunting down the manufacturer's support site and getting their updated drivers.
": Improper use will result in blindness, hysterical laughter and permanent insanity"
Slashdot should have that warning label as well, especially considering the DIY Tron Costume article.
I'm sitting here in my den, with two fairly recent computers in on my desk. Both have newer sound cards. Actually, there's also a spare sound card sitting next to one of the PCs. Two are AC '97 compatible, one is a Creative MM product. I got news for this guy: None of these standard soundcards work with Windows 95!. Oh my lord! That must mean that every version of Windows since isn't suitable for any task.
Anyway, all the cards work fine under Slackware (k.2.4.24) and Windows XP.
I'm sorry, was there an issue here? He doesn't name a distro, kernel version, specific brand and model of sound card, or give any other specifics about it. I've seen lots of trollers use this same tactic on Usenet, and the sound card turns out to be some 8-channel pro thing that requires a monster third-party driver and application suite to function properly under Windows. I'm exaggerating here, but I seriously want to know the specifics.
I could say this:
" Fred Discovers Achilles Heel of Windows
So, I was installing this expansion card the other day, and I booted up and got a blue screen with some register values shown in white. Now, other people give too much leniency to XYZ Monopoly, but I paid ten times as much for X[YZ]P. This is a card that works fine in Linux!"
Anyway, the article is extremely light on detail, and some of the things he says make absolutely no sense, so I have no clue what he did/didn't do.
Amen! You beat me to the point. A more meaningful survey would be to find how how many broadband/high-speed users came over from dial-up, if they are happy with it, and how many would consider going back.
That 'lame pulsing sound' is the sound from when it was originally recorded. It's the sound of the wax cylinder spinning.
You've probably got experience dealing with these old recordings and I don't. But, I've got a couple questions. Would they have made the master on a wax cylinder at that time? And wouldn't it show up as a low-frequency rumbling instead of a high-frequency hiss?