Re:slightly different paradigm
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Vim 7 Released
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(For one: Except for capital letters I've never had to press two buttons at once, ever... you escape to exit your edit mode and then it is all single key sequences to do what you want. Simple things but, for example, hitting the control button requires shifting your hand in an akward position wheras:w you don't have to move whatsoever... )
Please do tell me how you get the ":" without hitting two keys at the same time. You must have a very special keyboard.
And when I was in school everyone was on friendster.com. That service sniffed the $$$ and went to hell too. If all it would take to throw off facebook is a new innovative feature that would enthrall the masses, don't you think $2B would be better spent developming that?
It seems to me Microsoft could use it to get into every box using IE that contacts msn.com
That's got to be at least a few.
I imagine they could just turn this into a wmf file and run whatever code they want on millions of PCs.
Re:Looks... pretty much the same as everything els
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Review: Darkwatch
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The average computer uses as much as 1¾ Titanics worth of coal to run on any given day.
Where did you get this number? It seems a bit extreme.
That "someone" wouldn't happen to be you would it? I guess it could just be a coincidence that your slashdot user name and the seller's eBay ID are the same...
Greasemonkey 0.3.5 is a "neutered" version of Greasemonkey, lacking any of the GM* APIs which make Greasemonkey scripts more powerful than regular HTML. This means that scripts which depend on GM* APIs will fail with Greasemonkey 0.3.5.
When I use free software, I download, compile, and run. Boom, done, simple. With proprietary software, I must enter activation numbers, pray a dongle works, and/or call up the parent company and say "Can I please have the ability to use this software that I paid some damn good money for?"
When I use free software, I download, run configure, find out I'm missing a dependancy, download that, run configure, find out a library I've already installed needs to be upgraded, and basically repeat the process until I don't even know what's on my system anymore. Which isn't a problem only because my system is _mine_ and is not shared with anyone else. Now I don't mind doing all that, but it's pretty easy to see why the great majority of users would much rather just buy a box, enter an authorization code, and have their software work.
When I was in school (1999) I requested a static IP address so I could run an FTP server off my PC. At the time, I was hosting about 20 gigs of live recorded music. None of this was illegal, since I only had music from bands that allowed the recording and distribution of their live performances.
A couple of months later I got a letter from the IT people telling me I had to take my site down since I was illegally distributing pirated material. I sent them a letter back explaining the legality of my site, and received a somewhat sheepish respsonse explaining that I still needed to take my site down. It seemed that I was using approximately 50% of the college's outgoing bandwidth from my computer. I don't know why they didn't just choke of my outgoing connection from their end. But we reached a compromise and I agreed to put limits on my FTP server's outgoing bandwidth, without them having to take any action against me.
Basically, I would suggest that you engage these people with an open mind, keeping in mind that they are trying to stay abreast of changing technology, and that they are also trying to make sure there's enough network for everyone. If you play nice, you will probably end up reaching a solution that's beneficial to everyone.
Every time someone asks about the camparative benefits of CMS packages, it seems like someone has to mention each package out there at least once. So here goes...
I use PostNuke and I found it easy to set up and use. I have programming experience, but was pretty unfamilliar with PHP/mySQL and HTML when I started using this package. I don't run a newspaper site, but this package would easily do the trick. Also, PHP/mySQL are part of most hosting packages out there, so your serve probably already supports it.
It's too bad the site hosting the package sucks so bad...
But the whole point of the gmail approach (along with the search capabilities) is that you should "Never Have To Delete Another Email". There isn't even a way to delete emails from your account: you can only "Archive" them. Does the POP3 service give you option of actually making them go away forever? If so, this seems goes against their whole email philosophy.
Gambling is illegal in most states (except for Nevada, I think). If the federal govt were to all of a sudden say, "Okay, online gambling is legal everywhere!", it might set a precedent upon which state gambling laws would be overturned.
What do you call the lottery? Last time I checked, most states have them, and I'm pretty sure that's gambling. And don't forget about New Jersey. As Homer said, "I gave you a glittering Vegas, and you turned it into a skanky Atlantic City". And the hundreds of Indian Casinos across the country. And horse and dog tracks. Gambling is a part of American culture across the board. Our government just doesn't want to admit that we might have a problem with it.
If these games were open source projects, these sorts of enhancements could be possible. Since the code is open and shared, some guy with a low-end machine wants better performance, so he writes simpler algorithms to emulate the real ones. When you build your own copy, you just pick which optimization level you want to be at.
If these games were open source projects, we wouldn't have to worry about these questions at all, because there would be no high detail textures to render on old hardware. Most high end games that go open source choose to make only the engines available freely, not the large amounts of data which make up such a huge portion of a game's total cost of production. We still need to buy the games to get the neccesary data, and the open source engine that has been optimized for a low-end machine will probably still choke on the high detail graphic data purchased from the games' original publisher.
when I was in college, I was probably responsible for getting about half of my dorm onto the campus network, installing ethernet cards, netware drivers, etc. At the time I was only 19, so I made anyone I helped out buy me a 6 pack for my troubles. In fact, it became my going rate, and I drank for free for most of my first semester. These days access to beer is not the hard part, but I still do tech support for my friends, and I still make them pay me in beer. Just last night my roomates motherboard fried, so I swapped out his harddrive and peripherals into an old gateway box i had lying around. It took me about an hour, but it was definitely worth the sixer.
In an editorial today, the Wall Street Journal claims in regards to IT jobs in India, "At the bottom end, some coding has become comparable to semi-skilled labor; some training is required but not a lot of brain power. These are the jobs moving to India."
By the tone of most of the replies in this thread, it seems to me that this statement is patently untrue. Of course the WSJ doesn't provide any source to back up their point. Is there any truth in their statement, or is this just another example of this newspaper's racist tendencies? I imagine if I was an Indian programmer doing high-level project management, I would be pretty offended by this claim.
Most likely, I imagine this is another means for the right to maintain their foothold with the middle and upper middle class by convincing them that while manufacturing jobs may be disapearing from the US, there is no reason the believe that more skilled positions will follow.
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And when I was in school everyone was on friendster.com. That service sniffed the $$$ and went to hell too. If all it would take to throw off facebook is a new innovative feature that would enthrall the masses, don't you think $2B would be better spent developming that?
It seems to me Microsoft could use it to get into every box using IE that contacts msn.com
That's got to be at least a few.
I imagine they could just turn this into a wmf file and run whatever code they want on millions of PCs.
The average computer uses as much as 1¾ Titanics worth of coal to run on any given day.
Where did you get this number? It seems a bit extreme.
That "someone" wouldn't happen to be you would it? I guess it could just be a coincidence that your slashdot user name and the seller's eBay ID are the same...
When I use free software, I download, run configure, find out I'm missing a dependancy, download that, run configure, find out a library I've already installed needs to be upgraded, and basically repeat the process until I don't even know what's on my system anymore. Which isn't a problem only because my system is _mine_ and is not shared with anyone else. Now I don't mind doing all that, but it's pretty easy to see why the great majority of users would much rather just buy a box, enter an authorization code, and have their software work.
When I was in school (1999) I requested a static IP address so I could run an FTP server off my PC. At the time, I was hosting about 20 gigs of live recorded music. None of this was illegal, since I only had music from bands that allowed the recording and distribution of their live performances. A couple of months later I got a letter from the IT people telling me I had to take my site down since I was illegally distributing pirated material. I sent them a letter back explaining the legality of my site, and received a somewhat sheepish respsonse explaining that I still needed to take my site down. It seemed that I was using approximately 50% of the college's outgoing bandwidth from my computer. I don't know why they didn't just choke of my outgoing connection from their end. But we reached a compromise and I agreed to put limits on my FTP server's outgoing bandwidth, without them having to take any action against me. Basically, I would suggest that you engage these people with an open mind, keeping in mind that they are trying to stay abreast of changing technology, and that they are also trying to make sure there's enough network for everyone. If you play nice, you will probably end up reaching a solution that's beneficial to everyone.
Every time someone asks about the camparative benefits of CMS packages, it seems like someone has to mention each package out there at least once. So here goes...
I use PostNuke and I found it easy to set up and use. I have programming experience, but was pretty unfamilliar with PHP/mySQL and HTML when I started using this package. I don't run a newspaper site, but this package would easily do the trick. Also, PHP/mySQL are part of most hosting packages out there, so your serve probably already supports it.
It's too bad the site hosting the package sucks so bad...
But the whole point of the gmail approach (along with the search capabilities) is that you should "Never Have To Delete Another Email". There isn't even a way to delete emails from your account: you can only "Archive" them. Does the POP3 service give you option of actually making them go away forever? If so, this seems goes against their whole email philosophy.
I use it all the time. They still haven't come out with a PS2 game as good as Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo!!
If these games were open source projects, we wouldn't have to worry about these questions at all, because there would be no high detail textures to render on old hardware. Most high end games that go open source choose to make only the engines available freely, not the large amounts of data which make up such a huge portion of a game's total cost of production. We still need to buy the games to get the neccesary data, and the open source engine that has been optimized for a low-end machine will probably still choke on the high detail graphic data purchased from the games' original publisher.
I went to sign the petition to save films from their directors, but they told me they were all out of free hats...
when I was in college, I was probably responsible for getting about half of my dorm onto the campus network, installing ethernet cards, netware drivers, etc. At the time I was only 19, so I made anyone I helped out buy me a 6 pack for my troubles. In fact, it became my going rate, and I drank for free for most of my first semester. These days access to beer is not the hard part, but I still do tech support for my friends, and I still make them pay me in beer. Just last night my roomates motherboard fried, so I swapped out his harddrive and peripherals into an old gateway box i had lying around. It took me about an hour, but it was definitely worth the sixer.
By the tone of most of the replies in this thread, it seems to me that this statement is patently untrue. Of course the WSJ doesn't provide any source to back up their point. Is there any truth in their statement, or is this just another example of this newspaper's racist tendencies? I imagine if I was an Indian programmer doing high-level project management, I would be pretty offended by this claim.
Most likely, I imagine this is another means for the right to maintain their foothold with the middle and upper middle class by convincing them that while manufacturing jobs may be disapearing from the US, there is no reason the believe that more skilled positions will follow.