I design.NET and java web services for a living. The beauty of web services is that the client can either be browser based, like you say, or a thick client. You can either use Swing or WebForms as a thick client or you might even use open source alternatives.
I thought that astronauts needed daily exercise to avoid bone and muscle loss.
Wouldn't sleeping during the trip be detrimental to their health?
Oh, and I don't thing that using small electric jolts to stimulate the muscles would work. There was a class action lawsuit against a company that sold such a device as exercise equipment because it didn't work. Repetitive arm movements to type and to use the mouse require more muscular strength than those devices produce but you don't see computer geeks (like me) with super strong forearms and wrists.
It was quite funny though... although we are all not french! I gulp my cheap beer with pride!
Oh, by the way, urpmi and apt-get distros are the only ones that I recommend for desktop use. I consider a decent package manager to be a requirement instead of a nice feature.
In Puerto Rico the average temperature inside of an office building is 86F with high humidity. Therefore no money is spent on heating but a LOT is spent on cooling.
"Grab your headphones and crank it up. The ultimate in media storage, this baby does more than just play MP3s. Pack up your stuff and take it with you. Download music, store your favorite photos, and carry homework between school and home."
Cheers, Adolfo
Pyramid Scheme. Amway for tweens!!!
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Pyramid Scheme. Amway and Herbalife for tweens!!!
From their website:
1) You tell a friend.
2) Friend buys a hip-e with your squad leader number.
3) Friend's hip-e is delivered.
4) Friend enjoys hip-e for 30-days.
5) YOU GET PAID!
From the company's perspective:
1) sell a crappy overpriced PC (It won't run high end games)
2) Exploit the devastating power of tween peer pressure, desire of belonging, and naivete to sell the computer to their friends
3) Profit!
"The node features a 120GB internal hard drive and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive mounted vertically on its right side. Underneath the plastic lies a Pentium M processor running at 1.5GHz and an ATI M11 graphics chip" It seems like they failed at copying the iMac's performance.
Sure, I can copy a Rembrant... You say that you want it to look like a Mona Lisa? I can do that too.
I'll be the first one to congratulate MS for promptly releasing the ASP.NET fix. I'll also congratulate them for admiting that: "Microsoft is working on a security update for this reported vulnerability". So, Its not a patch, nevertheless, it is a working temporary solution.
If we criticize them for their flaws, we should praise them when they assume responsibility. Its only fair to be fair.
Are they removing GNome completelly? If they are, what about Evolution, Rythmbox, The GIMP and GTK based apps? Doesn't this make these distributions similar to the crippled Windows versions that are sold overseas?
I just used the program and was simply astonished. Kind of reminds me of the days of X-Drive and such.
Perhaps Google should launch GDrive and provide a web page from where you can upload files to your account. Ok, don't give 1GB, but I think that 50MB should be enough to carry around your bussiness presentations and college writings.
GMail is an excellent web mail service. In fact, it is the best one that I have ever used. They pay for the service and make a profit by pasting ads on their webmail site.
If we use GMail in this fashion, not only are we abusing their trust but also dooming the service and perhaps destroying it.
It is absolutely sad to see that a company that develops, implements, and pushes forward a field such as computing, and thefore society, can be sued by a company that created a vaguely similar idea that it abandoned because of their lack of vision.
Cheers... wait, no, no cheers today...
Adolfo
PS. I am guilty of abusing the use of run on sentences.
1. The suggested fix is small and simple.
A couple of lines in the Global.asax file is harldy a rewrite. You probably wont need more than a couple of minutes to do it.
2. Open source alternatives are not flawless or bug proof.
3. ASP.NET has an excellent track record and it is on a league of its own. Well, except for perhaps Java.
Bashing anything Microsoft won't make you automatically cool, although it helps;-).
Apple should join the PDA market. If they stick to their current trends, their PDA would be super stylish, super user friendly, and compatible with iCal and such. Mac fans would buy them just because... Many others would buy them because of the statement (if not perhaps fashion statement) they would make. Call it a iNewton with old Newton emulation and you would get many loyal Newton advocates to buy them also.
I remember that some of the magic of these games was the beauty of the backdrops. Yes, even in 16 colors. 3D hardware still lacks the power to render vast and rich environments down to the smallest detail. We are getting closer and closer, but we haven't arrived to the point where we can make 3D artworks that compare to their 2D counterparts.
Now, how about a Monkey Island petition. I am even willing to forget that MI 3 and 4 were ever made.;-)
Cheers
Adolfo
PS. I'll give a GMail Invite to the first 5 people to email me at adolfojp at hot mail dot com answering the following question: What is the secret of the Monkey Island?
Lets look at somne important facts first so we can have an eduated and informed discussion.
Mono with the.NET, ASP.NET and ADO.NET compatibility layers might run into trouble in the long run because those libraries are patent encumbered.
Mono with GTK#, Gnome, Mozilla and other libraries doesn't have that problem because the only thing that it uses from Microsoft is the ECMA standard C# language implementation.
Why Mono and not Java? Mono is 100% open source.
Why Mono and not Python? Mono uses a virtual machine environment that is faster than an interpreted language. Some people prefer the Java and C++ similarities that C# offers. Mono is cuasi language independent. You can use Python in Mono (See Iron Python).
"Miguel de Icaza is wasting his time..." Miguel works on Mono because he likes it, he is not employed by you (except if you are Novell) so he spends his time as he sees fit. He owes you nothing.
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"kiss my shiny metal ass"
cheers,
Adolfo
I design .NET and java web services for a living. The beauty of web services is that the client can either be browser based, like you say, or a thick client. You can either use Swing or WebForms as a thick client or you might even use open source alternatives.
Cheers,
Adolfo
I thought that astronauts needed daily exercise to avoid bone and muscle loss.
Wouldn't sleeping during the trip be detrimental to their health?
Oh, and I don't thing that using small electric jolts to stimulate the muscles would work. There was a class action lawsuit against a company that sold such a device as exercise equipment because it didn't work. Repetitive arm movements to type and to use the mouse require more muscular strength than those devices produce but you don't see computer geeks (like me) with super strong forearms and wrists.
Cheers,
Adolfo
Actually, they attacked Mandrake users by implying that they are all French. If you don't call that an insult... ;-) Just kidding.
Cheers,
Adolfo
It was quite funny though... although we are all not french! I gulp my cheap beer with pride!
Oh, by the way, urpmi and apt-get distros are the only ones that I recommend for desktop use. I consider a decent package manager to be a requirement instead of a nice feature.
Cheers,
Adolfo
In Puerto Rico the average temperature inside of an office building is 86F with high humidity. Therefore no money is spent on heating but a LOT is spent on cooling.
Coding under this weather will drive you insane.
Cheers,
Adolfo
playme
From the website:
"Grab your headphones and crank it up. The ultimate in media storage, this baby does more than just play MP3s. Pack up your stuff and take it with you. Download music, store your favorite photos, and carry homework between school and home."
Cheers, Adolfo
Pyramid Scheme. Amway and Herbalife for tweens!!!
From their website:
1) You tell a friend.
2) Friend buys a hip-e with your squad leader number.
3) Friend's hip-e is delivered.
4) Friend enjoys hip-e for 30-days.
5) YOU GET PAID!
From the company's perspective:
1) sell a crappy overpriced PC (It won't run high end games)
2) Exploit the devastating power of tween peer pressure, desire of belonging, and naivete to sell the computer to their friends
3) Profit!
Not only inmoral, but also barelly legal
Cheers, Adolfo
"The node features a 120GB internal hard drive and a CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive mounted vertically on its right side. Underneath the plastic lies a Pentium M processor running at 1.5GHz and an ATI M11 graphics chip" It seems like they failed at copying the iMac's performance.
Sure, I can copy a Rembrant... You say that you want it to look like a Mona Lisa? I can do that too.
Cheers
Adolfo
I'll be the first one to congratulate MS for promptly releasing the ASP.NET fix. I'll also congratulate them for admiting that: "Microsoft is working on a security update for this reported vulnerability". So, Its not a patch, nevertheless, it is a working temporary solution.
If we criticize them for their flaws, we should praise them when they assume responsibility. Its only fair to be fair.
Cheers,
Adolfo
Are they removing GNome completelly? If they are, what about Evolution, Rythmbox, The GIMP and GTK based apps? Doesn't this make these distributions similar to the crippled Windows versions that are sold overseas?
Thanks for the info. I find this to be quite interesting indeed.
I just used the program and was simply astonished. Kind of reminds me of the days of X-Drive and such.
Perhaps Google should launch GDrive and provide a web page from where you can upload files to your account. Ok, don't give 1GB, but I think that 50MB should be enough to carry around your bussiness presentations and college writings.
Cheers,
Adolfo
GMail is an excellent web mail service. In fact, it is the best one that I have ever used. They pay for the service and make a profit by pasting ads on their webmail site.
If we use GMail in this fashion, not only are we abusing their trust but also dooming the service and perhaps destroying it.
Cheers,
Adolfo
It is absolutely sad to see that a company that develops, implements, and pushes forward a field such as computing, and thefore society, can be sued by a company that created a vaguely similar idea that it abandoned because of their lack of vision.
Cheers... wait, no, no cheers today...
Adolfo
PS. I am guilty of abusing the use of run on sentences.
1. The suggested fix is small and simple. A couple of lines in the Global.asax file is harldy a rewrite. You probably wont need more than a couple of minutes to do it.
;-).
2. Open source alternatives are not flawless or bug proof.
3. ASP.NET has an excellent track record and it is on a league of its own. Well, except for perhaps Java.
Bashing anything Microsoft won't make you automatically cool, although it helps
Cheers,
Adolfo
The only viable choice to ASP.NET is Java (a mix of JSP, Servelets, Beans, Enterprise Beans, JSF and perhaps Struts).
Never mix apples and oranges... except if you are making a cocktail.
Cheers,
Adolfo
People will keep complaining about GMail and its lack of features, GMail and its privacy issues, GMail and its ads.
Don't complain about a free service that no one is forcing you to use.
Cheers,
Adolfo
PS. I have a couple of invites left. Email me at adolfojp at g mail with a good reason or with a funny story and I will send you one.
I remember that movie. They tried to remove the key but the broke it. Funny stuff.
Cheers
Adolfo
Apple should join the PDA market. If they stick to their current trends, their PDA would be super stylish, super user friendly, and compatible with iCal and such. Mac fans would buy them just because... Many others would buy them because of the statement (if not perhaps fashion statement) they would make. Call it a iNewton with old Newton emulation and you would get many loyal Newton advocates to buy them also.
Cheers,
Adolfo
It is true, but I bet that most of us don't have the kind of rendering farms that Pixar/Dreamworks have. Much less sitting in our desktops ;-).
Cheers,
Adolfo
I agree 100 percent
I remember that some of the magic of these games was the beauty of the backdrops. Yes, even in 16 colors. 3D hardware still lacks the power to render vast and rich environments down to the smallest detail. We are getting closer and closer, but we haven't arrived to the point where we can make 3D artworks that compare to their 2D counterparts.
Cheers
Adolfo
Now, how about a Monkey Island petition. I am even willing to forget that MI 3 and 4 were ever made. ;-)
Cheers
Adolfo
PS. I'll give a GMail Invite to the first 5 people to email me at adolfojp at hot mail dot com answering the following question: What is the secret of the Monkey Island?
Lets look at somne important facts first so we can have an eduated and informed discussion.
.NET, ASP.NET and ADO.NET compatibility layers might run into trouble in the long run because those libraries are patent encumbered.
Mono with the
Mono with GTK#, Gnome, Mozilla and other libraries doesn't have that problem because the only thing that it uses from Microsoft is the ECMA standard C# language implementation.
Why Mono and not Java? Mono is 100% open source.
Why Mono and not Python? Mono uses a virtual machine environment that is faster than an interpreted language. Some people prefer the Java and C++ similarities that C# offers. Mono is cuasi language independent. You can use Python in Mono (See Iron Python).
"Miguel de Icaza is wasting his time..." Miguel works on Mono because he likes it, he is not employed by you (except if you are Novell) so he spends his time as he sees fit. He owes you nothing.
Cheers,
Adolfo
Reminds me of the MPC Muntimedia PC specification. Of course we all know how well that worked.
Cheers
Adolfo