This monstrosity is an overpriced piece of garbage that only true pron addicts will appreciate. It's great if you want to wank in the bathroom at work but otherwise why pay $600 for anything less than a feature-complete computer?
The iPod is almost more a status symbol than a practical piece of equipment. I mean, the battery wears out after a 1 or 2 and then you get to pay another $100 (subscriptions anyone?) to get the thing fixed. So while it's a nice piece of gear, I gotta believe there's more than a few people who are buying these for the prestige value. Is Microsoft completely unaware? Probably not, they're just employing the "throw stuff at wall and see what sticks".
But this is the very reason why I guffaw at all the germophobes out there. It wasn't just a hunch of mine that the germophobes are patently unscientific, it was truth!
You would think that the chairman wouldn't have made such bumbling comments regarding the situation. Just hire a PR/Speechwriter person. These days every business needs one.
What have we come to!?
PayPal is an awesome service and something like this should not stop the ball from rolling. Perhaps PayPal should reduce their fees or offer greater protections, that seems to be the trade-off here. Otherwise leave well enough alone.
Yours is the type of comment which actually causes people to pull out of the market which is PayPal.
I imagine that AT&T like many other businesses is in business to rig taxes and participate in other parties' tax schemes. Is it just me, or does it seem like 80% of the economy is smoke and mirrors, with the 20% of non-smoke-and-mirrors being food/porn/info/med/drugs and other industries which do not require tax finagling because their value is in-itself?
It should be no secret to readers that AMD and Intel share all manner of intellectual property, and probably meatspace property too such as prototypes, engineers, documents, maybe even facilities. Their collaboration/cooperation has been going on for years and years.
This is utter nonsense. I see the author's argument but it is incorrect and pedantic.
In nearly all cases duplicate records are not returned. When I say "nearly all" the exceptions are: tables without a primary key containing otherwise duplicate rows, and the results of multiple SELECT statements using the "UNION ALL" keyword. UNION ALL tells the engine to go ahead and give me ALL of the rows including duplicates.
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Yeah, that kind of thing in a review definitely erodes my confidence in the reviewer. I certainly would not buy this book, nor would I buy ANY programming book that is 900 pages long. Unless it lists out the entire API, and in those cases I'm usually going to go with an O'Reilly book over any other.
If their software is so fscking great why don't these governments just mail us our tax bill? That way we wouldn't be able to make a mistake on it. The tax laws are totally out of control and everyone should read Perfectly Legal and find out how the tax laws are the most politicized of any laws in the US.
You are an idiot. To get a degree in something so specialized as "Network Engineering" is almost anti-education. Study things that human beings give a damn about, study the Computer Science on the down-low, and network with real human beings. Get a job at your Uni's NOC and get your hands on all the gear there.
Computer Science degrees will be trying to replace your network engineering degree. I hope they do it.
I find it amusing that the gist of this article is that they no longer offer "vanilla" cell phones, and at the same time the author wants a cellphone/address book. I thought a vanilla phone would simply make phone calls?
I love Jabber. Got all romantic about it when I read about Psi. So I gave it a try at home and it looks cool. But I need to use IM at work also, and I cannot get anything out of the standard Jabber port. Is there a publicly available proxy on port 80?
You're not going to get a phone with GPS. I believe the other poster was correct in stating that this is calculated on the provider's side using triangulation. I'm only speculating but that sounds reasonable. GPS is satelite based and fairly different from cell phone technology.
The most hackable phones right now are the Nokia 3650, and all of its "Series 60" and "Series 90" cell phones. What other phone offers video?
Additionally, I have seen a pseudo-GPS program available for the 3650. But all it does is keeps a list of towers and tell you which tower you are closest to. Not even close to the kind of GPS your question implies.
I hope to use that meme more frequently in my deepest moments of spacing out. I do believe there are so many walking dead amongst us that we subconsciously block them out of our perceptions. This line of thinking would justify my belief that the United States economy really is in the shitter, we just suffer from irrational exhuberance. Something has got to give.
I had to email it around last night.
But why isn't anyone commenting on what I thought was the main point of the blog entry. That to do most computer programming you don't need to no jacksquat about genetic algorithms or anything about NP-completeness in order to code a friggen HTML form. Or to code an Excel spreadsheet. Or to accomplish 90% of the things we do with computers. Hiring a computer science grad to do web work is like shooting a single soldier with the biggest gun in the arsenal.
The bottom line: software is overvalued.
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Hope this title does not dilute the strength of the "Effective" brand. I know that the Scott Meyers book and the Java book they put out was also killer.
I'm skeptical that XML can be effective in any fashion. Doubtful that this book will change that opinion of mine.
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marijuana: the cause of AND solution to all of our problems. seriously d00d this sounds like a good opportunity for you to get into chronic smoking...
Why did this read "Linux" instead of "Open Source" just an hour ago? Crazy.
The "loss of free espresso and bottled water" contributed to this situation? Come on! Grow a spine!
There aren't enough four-letter words to describe this.
That's a really alarmist opinion to take. What would the solution be? Take a pill dude.
This monstrosity is an overpriced piece of garbage that only true pron addicts will appreciate. It's great if you want to wank in the bathroom at work but otherwise why pay $600 for anything less than a feature-complete computer? The iPod is almost more a status symbol than a practical piece of equipment. I mean, the battery wears out after a 1 or 2 and then you get to pay another $100 (subscriptions anyone?) to get the thing fixed. So while it's a nice piece of gear, I gotta believe there's more than a few people who are buying these for the prestige value. Is Microsoft completely unaware? Probably not, they're just employing the "throw stuff at wall and see what sticks".
But this is the very reason why I guffaw at all the germophobes out there. It wasn't just a hunch of mine that the germophobes are patently unscientific, it was truth!
Who cares how I would do it. The proper question is how does iTunes Music Store do it?
You would think that the chairman wouldn't have made such bumbling comments regarding the situation. Just hire a PR/Speechwriter person. These days every business needs one. What have we come to!?
Isn't that wheel doohicky patented!?! Lock up those coders. They are clearly obdurate patent-infringers.
PayPal is an awesome service and something like this should not stop the ball from rolling. Perhaps PayPal should reduce their fees or offer greater protections, that seems to be the trade-off here. Otherwise leave well enough alone. Yours is the type of comment which actually causes people to pull out of the market which is PayPal.
I imagine that AT&T like many other businesses is in business to rig taxes and participate in other parties' tax schemes. Is it just me, or does it seem like 80% of the economy is smoke and mirrors, with the 20% of non-smoke-and-mirrors being food/porn/info/med/drugs and other industries which do not require tax finagling because their value is in-itself?
It should be no secret to readers that AMD and Intel share all manner of intellectual property, and probably meatspace property too such as prototypes, engineers, documents, maybe even facilities. Their collaboration/cooperation has been going on for years and years.
This is utter nonsense. I see the author's argument but it is incorrect and pedantic. In nearly all cases duplicate records are not returned. When I say "nearly all" the exceptions are: tables without a primary key containing otherwise duplicate rows, and the results of multiple SELECT statements using the "UNION ALL" keyword. UNION ALL tells the engine to go ahead and give me ALL of the rows including duplicates.
Yeah, that kind of thing in a review definitely erodes my confidence in the reviewer. I certainly would not buy this book, nor would I buy ANY programming book that is 900 pages long. Unless it lists out the entire API, and in those cases I'm usually going to go with an O'Reilly book over any other.
If their software is so fscking great why don't these governments just mail us our tax bill? That way we wouldn't be able to make a mistake on it. The tax laws are totally out of control and everyone should read Perfectly Legal and find out how the tax laws are the most politicized of any laws in the US.
You are an idiot. To get a degree in something so specialized as "Network Engineering" is almost anti-education. Study things that human beings give a damn about, study the Computer Science on the down-low, and network with real human beings. Get a job at your Uni's NOC and get your hands on all the gear there. Computer Science degrees will be trying to replace your network engineering degree. I hope they do it.
I find it amusing that the gist of this article is that they no longer offer "vanilla" cell phones, and at the same time the author wants a cellphone/address book. I thought a vanilla phone would simply make phone calls?
I love Jabber. Got all romantic about it when I read about Psi. So I gave it a try at home and it looks cool. But I need to use IM at work also, and I cannot get anything out of the standard Jabber port. Is there a publicly available proxy on port 80?
You're not going to get a phone with GPS. I believe the other poster was correct in stating that this is calculated on the provider's side using triangulation. I'm only speculating but that sounds reasonable. GPS is satelite based and fairly different from cell phone technology. The most hackable phones right now are the Nokia 3650, and all of its "Series 60" and "Series 90" cell phones. What other phone offers video? Additionally, I have seen a pseudo-GPS program available for the 3650. But all it does is keeps a list of towers and tell you which tower you are closest to. Not even close to the kind of GPS your question implies.
In your face! Conventional Wisdom! Take that! And that!
I hope to use that meme more frequently in my deepest moments of spacing out. I do believe there are so many walking dead amongst us that we subconsciously block them out of our perceptions. This line of thinking would justify my belief that the United States economy really is in the shitter, we just suffer from irrational exhuberance. Something has got to give.
Enough said.
I had to email it around last night. But why isn't anyone commenting on what I thought was the main point of the blog entry. That to do most computer programming you don't need to no jacksquat about genetic algorithms or anything about NP-completeness in order to code a friggen HTML form. Or to code an Excel spreadsheet. Or to accomplish 90% of the things we do with computers. Hiring a computer science grad to do web work is like shooting a single soldier with the biggest gun in the arsenal. The bottom line: software is overvalued.
Hope this title does not dilute the strength of the "Effective" brand. I know that the Scott Meyers book and the Java book they put out was also killer. I'm skeptical that XML can be effective in any fashion. Doubtful that this book will change that opinion of mine.