It's all about "design patterns", ie. the sorting and naming of common design problems a programmer has to face in object-oriented programming, and how to solve them right, so the code remains as maintainable and cohesive as possible.
For anyone doing object-oriented programming, this should be required reading IMHO. It gives you a solid base on how to solve most moderately complex problems.
In my software engineering studies, virtually all of my teachers swear by the design patterns of the Gang of Four book for all object-oriented programming projects.
It's a no-brainer that Apple is going to upgrade the video cards on the Mac mini. After the release of Tiger they started upgrading video cards on all of their lines to something more decent (most likely to be able to actually use the fancy Core Video feature) but the Mac mini was left untouched, still bearing a piss-poor 32MB Radeon 9200 to this day.
The real problem with Apple and one-button-mice is that unless you buy a Mac mini, Apple FORCES you to buy their stupid single button mouse along with your new Mac (or worse, a built-in single button trackpad on their laptops).
Am I the only one who finds Apple's laptop screens quite poor? Even the way-too-big 17 inch Powerbook has a miserable 1440x900 display. WTF? A friend of mine's Dell laptop has a 1680x1050 display, and it's only 15 inches!! With Apple, a 15 inches Powerbook gives you a mere 1280x854. Yuck.
Anyway I hope they'll upgrade to non-shitty screens before the Intel machines get out. I'm planning on making the Switch(tm) to an Apple laptop as soon as they start selling their x86 models, but their screens are a real show-stopper for me.
"My FC4 has two clipboards, one is the auto-copy-when-highlighted, paste with a middle click; the other is the ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-x to cut, ctrl-v to paste. They can hold different things at the same time."
And this is a bad thing because...?
The average user won't use the middle-click-paste anyway, so I really don't see why the concept of having two clipboards for two different kinds of copy-pastings is so wrong.
I like that "Steve Jobs is not the only employee at Apple" argument. These days we hear too much "Steve Jobs does this" and "Steve Jobs will do that", as if Apple was actually one man doing every single fucking thing. That's just dumb.
Actually, I remember reading somewhere that back in the NES/SNES days Nintendo was very commited to making their games as universally appealing as possible.
For example, in the early days of Nintendo of America, it was administered by a mix of Japanese and American people, so that they could act as some kind of ambassadors who would report back to Nintendo HQ about current trends and cultural issues.
They seemed to have stopped doing that now though.
Firefox extensions are written in their internal script (XUL), so unless someone does some stupid unportable shit (backslashes!!) they will run on any platform.
N64 and NeoGeo games were overexpensive because of the physical media used (ie. ROM cartridges). Mass produced CDs or DVDs cost are the complete opposite, costing only a few cents each. That's the biggest reason why consoles (and coin-ups) have shifted to optical disc media.
SkyOS looks interesting, however its creator appears to hate open source and has a very commercial-oriented agenda, which is bound to failure. Be Inc. tried that, and failed horribly, because there's no way in hell that one can compete with Microsoft. SkyOS is heading the same route.
Hey. I saw this episode on Star Trek. The same thing kept happening over and over again until Data finally kept the ship from blowing up. That's what's happening on/. Now we need to repeat all of our original posts, while sending a message with tachyon beams back to our original selves...
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It's all about "design patterns", ie. the sorting and naming of common design problems a programmer has to face in object-oriented programming, and how to solve them right, so the code remains as maintainable and cohesive as possible.
For anyone doing object-oriented programming, this should be required reading IMHO. It gives you a solid base on how to solve most moderately complex problems.
In my software engineering studies, virtually all of my teachers swear by the design patterns of the Gang of Four book for all object-oriented programming projects.
It's a no-brainer that Apple is going to upgrade the video cards on the Mac mini. After the release of Tiger they started upgrading video cards on all of their lines to something more decent (most likely to be able to actually use the fancy Core Video feature) but the Mac mini was left untouched, still bearing a piss-poor 32MB Radeon 9200 to this day.
1024x768 screen. 'Nuff said.
Seriously, I don't understand how people can still buy a laptop with a lowly 1024x768 display in 2005.
The real problem with Apple and one-button-mice is that unless you buy a Mac mini, Apple FORCES you to buy their stupid single button mouse along with your new Mac (or worse, a built-in single button trackpad on their laptops).
Is this another one of those dumb analysis where they count every non-Windows user as a Mac user?
Am I the only one who finds Apple's laptop screens quite poor? Even the way-too-big 17 inch Powerbook has a miserable 1440x900 display. WTF? A friend of mine's Dell laptop has a 1680x1050 display, and it's only 15 inches!! With Apple, a 15 inches Powerbook gives you a mere 1280x854. Yuck.
Anyway I hope they'll upgrade to non-shitty screens before the Intel machines get out. I'm planning on making the Switch(tm) to an Apple laptop as soon as they start selling their x86 models, but their screens are a real show-stopper for me.
Get out of whatever rock you were in for the past 10 years. Both GTK+ and Qt manage it the same for quite a long time now.
"My FC4 has two clipboards, one is the auto-copy-when-highlighted, paste with a middle click; the other is the ctrl-c to copy, ctrl-x to cut, ctrl-v to paste. They can hold different things at the same time."
And this is a bad thing because...?
The average user won't use the middle-click-paste anyway, so I really don't see why the concept of having two clipboards for two different kinds of copy-pastings is so wrong.
I like that "Steve Jobs is not the only employee at Apple" argument. These days we hear too much "Steve Jobs does this" and "Steve Jobs will do that", as if Apple was actually one man doing every single fucking thing. That's just dumb.
"(The name, but not the shows or people was sold in 2004.)"
Good thing it's only the name they sold, because I think it's illegal to sell people.
Actually, I remember reading somewhere that back in the NES/SNES days Nintendo was very commited to making their games as universally appealing as possible.
For example, in the early days of Nintendo of America, it was administered by a mix of Japanese and American people, so that they could act as some kind of ambassadors who would report back to Nintendo HQ about current trends and cultural issues.
They seemed to have stopped doing that now though.
From your linked article:
"the idea is so obvious that I'd be amazed if anyone could sustain a patent on it."
WTF? Compared to most software patents we see these days, what he did is nothing short of rocket science.
You're right. I should've said: "Why not a language that sucks less than BASIC?"
Wait, why BASIC? Why not a language that doesn't suck?
Yeah! Or, we could NOT mix them.
Seriously, no thanks.
Firefox extensions are written in their internal script (XUL), so unless someone does some stupid unportable shit (backslashes!!) they will run on any platform.
Nah, she was categorized as "hot grits", silly.
"But Apple isn't overstocked on Macs."
They will be soon. Who wants to buy a PPC Mac now?
N64 and NeoGeo games were overexpensive because of the physical media used (ie. ROM cartridges). Mass produced CDs or DVDs cost are the complete opposite, costing only a few cents each. That's the biggest reason why consoles (and coin-ups) have shifted to optical disc media.
SkyOS looks interesting, however its creator appears to hate open source and has a very commercial-oriented agenda, which is bound to failure. Be Inc. tried that, and failed horribly, because there's no way in hell that one can compete with Microsoft. SkyOS is heading the same route.
Hey. I saw this episode on Star Trek. The same thing kept happening over and over again until Data finally kept the ship from blowing up. /. Now we need to repeat all of our original posts, while sending a message with tachyon beams back to our original selves...
That's what's happening on
I guess I have a secret enemy or something.
He said Pentium M, not Pentium 4.
She's probably related to Darl McBride.