When it comes down to it, if your area of expertise requires keeping your knowledge secret then you're fucked. In the end, someone younger and hungrier will always be able to meet or surpass the knowledge level you have unless you keep moving forward and your old 'secrets' will be common industry knowledge.
Just wanted to let you know that I have this paragraph printed and posted on my cube. Too few people realize that monopoly on knowledge, if such thing is even possible, is very short-lived. It's a great motivation to know that there are others who are marching forward equally as diligently as I. Cheers to that!
I like to write code that's easily understood. When I work in a pair, I'm forced to explain what I'm about to write, thus the code that's actually written is already verified to be understood more easily.
Hiding the Java code from you is not a problem if you consider App Inventor blocks as a new programming language; it's not a translator therefore it doesn't need to show you an equivalent "generated code" that people claim it's missing.
However, as a new language, it's missing a big feature: googleability. In order to debug and ask questions, you need to be able to easily show a piece of code and let people search it through Google. This means that you need the code to be in text, not diagrams.
Adding a feature like, right click on a block -> export to XML, would be tremendously helpful to make this prime time.
I think you're missing the point of these 2 minute videos. They're not trying to teach the string theory(they have physicists to do that). They just want people to know that such thing exists, and get them interested.
My parents don't know about the existance of such theory. Thanks to this 2 minute ducky video, they now know that someone's trying to explain the universe with some vibrations in multi dimensions. My mom would go, "well that's nice," and move on. My dad might do the same, or look it up on howstuffworks.com.
Now two more people in the world knows about the string theory. Great! Were they going to listen to me talk about point-particles and some infinity stuff? Probably not.
The new browser will be integrated with our social news system that has been live on Netscape.com since July 2006
Please take that out, along with the other great features that you added, then I might give it a try.
It really amazes me that some people *STILL* don't get it after years and years of trial-and-error.
I couldn't agree more.
Two weeks ago, I went out to a shopping mall, and dropped by at SonyStyle, Bose, Discovery, Brookstone, and SharperImages to try all the noise cancelling headsets they had.
For my ears, in terms of qualtify, Bose QC was the winner(yes, I know it costs x2 for 10% improvement). I eagerly went home with QC2, hoping to block out my roommate's computers' fan noise.
The very next day, I went back to Bose shop to exchange it for QC3, hoping that this one is not toally worthless.
From my experience, QC3 somewhat does the job, but it is nothing near the term "cancellation". You will still hear all the fans, just slightly quieter. I would've probably kept it if it were $100, but it's going back to store since it was $350!
So, my recommendation is that you stick to the earplugs. If they get too annoying, go to a gun store and get a real noise muffling cups.
Media PC for my place doesn't have surround sound since all our video files have 2 channel audio.
In fact, I had to go to my friend's parents' place and diagnose their surround sound problem: they were using 7.1 speaker for divx movies and it sounded like crap.
Maybe it's just not time for surround sound yet.
Popup ads are a bad use of a tech, not a bad tech.
Popup, the root technology behind this evilness, is an awesome idea which brought a z-axis into the 2-D world of web.
Gun violence is bad, not the guns themselves.. Flame on.
Multi-lingual support is better, especially Chinese and such using Unicode fonts.
Do you know how that compares to OOo's multilingual support?
Korean user here.
Generally speaking, MS does Korean better than non-MS overall, mainly because the computer usage in Korea(not speaking for China or Japan since I don't know) exploded with the use of Win98 or WinXP. It could be said that MS almost defined what CJK handling should be like.
I could go into details, but I'll leave it at that for now.
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As a person who was deeply disappointed by DVD format, here's why I think new standards are necessary.
1. Capacity
I'd like to suggest the following relationship:
1. documents on 3.5
2. music on CD
3. TV series on X
4. movies on Y
I may be dreaming, but I wish this 100-files-per-media trend that's shown on 1 and 2 to continue on to 3 and 4.
If you count a medium quality movie to be 5mb per 1 min(600mb for 2hr movie), that would require the media X to be 5mb*30min*100 = 15gig, and Y to be 5mb*120min*100 = 60gig.
Therefore, we need a media that needs to be at least 60gig. As you know DVD is nowhere near 60gig. This is also a reason why I prefer 50gig Blu-Ray over 30gig HD-DVD.
2. Quality of the video
As for the clarity of Blu-Ray over DVD, I could actually tell a huge difference(I was at CES). It also bugs me that DVD isn't even filling up the entire 1080p, and I need to stretch it for the new TVs. I guess the general public will decide whether DVD is good enough of not.
While I agree with you that the penetration of the next-gen media will be unlikely for the home theater systems, I think it's in dire need for the computer market. I have 4000 songs(about 20gig) on my computer, and I really wish I can burn the entire collection onto one disk.
We do not want an art exhibit, we want a web page.
What if somebody wants to build an art exhibit webpage then? Depending on the websites, the content is graphical presentation.
Not attacking you, but I'm wondering what a webbuilder should do if s/he were making a persentational website. The relative picture resizing sucks because IE and FF's picture resampling capability is very crude. Also, it would be a waste of bandwidth if the webbulider posted 100000x100000 sized pictures for everything and shrunk it in real time reletive to the browser's size.
If the content of a website is graphical, what's the solution to make it one-size-fit-all?
The horrible memories of having to learn English over the past 8 years overwhelmed me and I went berserk.
The following sentence: "I would prefer an easy-to-learn (but comprehensive) system" hit me on the personal level, because at the moment it sounded like you were completely undermining the difficulty of learning a language and trivializing all my effort to learn English.
Now that I'm calm, I understand that what I just said is completely ridiculous and irrational, but that's how I felt at the moment. I should've been more careful. I apologize for my harsh reactions that was uncalled for.
I guess what I want to say at this point is that learning a language under pressure can be very harsh: harsh enough to make you feel victimized whenever someone says anything about it.
Good luck with learning Spanish. I hope your experience is not as agonizing as mine.
I would prefer an easy-to-learn (but comprehensive) system that includes audio CDs, as well as textbook material, to follow along with.
As an immigrant who had to learn English from the scratch, that statement is almost offensive.
Learning a language is not easy. Especially if you actually NEED it, it's painful. You'll fucking hate it. You'll hate all the Spanish speaking countries. You'll hate all the fucking Mexicans. And THAT'S what it takes to learn a language "comprehensively".
You should get your mind set straight about learning a language before you do anything. There is no "easy-to-learn (but comprehensive) system" in learning a language.
If you want to learn beyond "traveller's need" level, do what the Asian kids do when they come to America:
Memorize 100 words per day, everyday for 3 years
Memorize 5 sentence structures a day, and make 20 sentences for each structure, per day, everyday for 3 years
Watch Spanish TV 3 to 5 hours per day with the caption on, and repeat out loud everything you hear. When you see a word you don't recognize, add it to your list of 100 words per day. When you see a sentence structure you don't recognize, add it to your 5 sentence structures a day.
Every damn day for minimum of 3 years is REQUIERD.
Sounds impossible? I did it. All my immigrant friends did it. All your fellow Chinese Ph.Ds did it.
Sounds hard? YOU BET!!
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When it comes down to it, if your area of expertise requires keeping your knowledge secret then you're fucked. In the end, someone younger and hungrier will always be able to meet or surpass the knowledge level you have unless you keep moving forward and your old 'secrets' will be common industry knowledge.
Just wanted to let you know that I have this paragraph printed and posted on my cube. Too few people realize that monopoly on knowledge, if such thing is even possible, is very short-lived. It's a great motivation to know that there are others who are marching forward equally as diligently as I. Cheers to that!
Jolla means "Fucking" (adjective) in Korean. I wonder how they would debut in Korean market.
The Incredible Machine, or its modern counterparts.
I like to write code that's easily understood. When I work in a pair, I'm forced to explain what I'm about to write, thus the code that's actually written is already verified to be understood more easily.
Hiding the Java code from you is not a problem if you consider App Inventor blocks as a new programming language; it's not a translator therefore it doesn't need to show you an equivalent "generated code" that people claim it's missing.
However, as a new language, it's missing a big feature: googleability. In order to debug and ask questions, you need to be able to easily show a piece of code and let people search it through Google. This means that you need the code to be in text, not diagrams.
Adding a feature like, right click on a block -> export to XML, would be tremendously helpful to make this prime time.
Developers may search for JRE on Android...which is also called G1.
Do you really want mixed results on Google search for "G1 Java"?
what its purchaser will pay for.
Stop submitting Dvorak's articles.
Stop accepting Dvorak's articles.
I think you're missing the point of these 2 minute videos. They're not trying to teach the string theory(they have physicists to do that). They just want people to know that such thing exists, and get them interested.
My parents don't know about the existance of such theory. Thanks to this 2 minute ducky video, they now know that someone's trying to explain the universe with some vibrations in multi dimensions. My mom would go, "well that's nice," and move on. My dad might do the same, or look it up on howstuffworks.com.
Now two more people in the world knows about the string theory. Great! Were they going to listen to me talk about point-particles and some infinity stuff? Probably not.
Why not make a click-screen?
The new browser will be integrated with our social news system that has been live on Netscape.com since July 2006
Please take that out, along with the other great features that you added, then I might give it a try.
It really amazes me that some people *STILL* don't get it after years and years of trial-and-error.
3.5" isn't bad for a floppy
I couldn't agree more.
Two weeks ago, I went out to a shopping mall, and dropped by at SonyStyle, Bose, Discovery, Brookstone, and SharperImages to try all the noise cancelling headsets they had.
For my ears, in terms of qualtify, Bose QC was the winner(yes, I know it costs x2 for 10% improvement). I eagerly went home with QC2, hoping to block out my roommate's computers' fan noise.
The very next day, I went back to Bose shop to exchange it for QC3, hoping that this one is not toally worthless.
From my experience, QC3 somewhat does the job, but it is nothing near the term "cancellation". You will still hear all the fans, just slightly quieter. I would've probably kept it if it were $100, but it's going back to store since it was $350!
So, my recommendation is that you stick to the earplugs. If they get too annoying, go to a gun store and get a real noise muffling cups.
Clearly, he is an idiot. Why are we still listening to them?
Stop submitting his articles. Stop accepting his articles.
Media PC for my place doesn't have surround sound since all our video files have 2 channel audio.
In fact, I had to go to my friend's parents' place and diagnose their surround sound problem: they were using 7.1 speaker for divx movies and it sounded like crap.
Maybe it's just not time for surround sound yet.
We do at work. They're great as an internal chat system.
Let's start with "popup ads..."
Popup ads are a bad use of a tech, not a bad tech.
Popup, the root technology behind this evilness, is an awesome idea which brought a z-axis into the 2-D world of web.
Gun violence is bad, not the guns themselves.. Flame on.
Best name, EVER1!11!!!
Does it read "we" or "why"?
Multi-lingual support is better, especially Chinese and such using Unicode fonts.
Do you know how that compares to OOo's multilingual support?
Korean user here.
Generally speaking, MS does Korean better than non-MS overall, mainly because the computer usage in Korea(not speaking for China or Japan since I don't know) exploded with the use of Win98 or WinXP. It could be said that MS almost defined what CJK handling should be like.
I could go into details, but I'll leave it at that for now.
As a person who was deeply disappointed by DVD format, here's why I think new standards are necessary.
1. Capacity
I'd like to suggest the following relationship:
1. documents on 3.5
2. music on CD
3. TV series on X
4. movies on Y
I may be dreaming, but I wish this 100-files-per-media trend that's shown on 1 and 2 to continue on to 3 and 4.
If you count a medium quality movie to be 5mb per 1 min(600mb for 2hr movie), that would require the media X to be 5mb*30min*100 = 15gig, and Y to be 5mb*120min*100 = 60gig.
Therefore, we need a media that needs to be at least 60gig. As you know DVD is nowhere near 60gig. This is also a reason why I prefer 50gig Blu-Ray over 30gig HD-DVD.
2. Quality of the video
As for the clarity of Blu-Ray over DVD, I could actually tell a huge difference(I was at CES). It also bugs me that DVD isn't even filling up the entire 1080p, and I need to stretch it for the new TVs. I guess the general public will decide whether DVD is good enough of not.
While I agree with you that the penetration of the next-gen media will be unlikely for the home theater systems, I think it's in dire need for the computer market. I have 4000 songs(about 20gig) on my computer, and I really wish I can burn the entire collection onto one disk.
Just my personal opinion.
We do not want an art exhibit, we want a web page.
What if somebody wants to build an art exhibit webpage then? Depending on the websites, the content is graphical presentation.
Not attacking you, but I'm wondering what a webbuilder should do if s/he were making a persentational website. The relative picture resizing sucks because IE and FF's picture resampling capability is very crude. Also, it would be a waste of bandwidth if the webbulider posted 100000x100000 sized pictures for everything and shrunk it in real time reletive to the browser's size.
If the content of a website is graphical, what's the solution to make it one-size-fit-all?
The horrible memories of having to learn English over the past 8 years overwhelmed me and I went berserk.
The following sentence: "I would prefer an easy-to-learn (but comprehensive) system" hit me on the personal level, because at the moment it sounded like you were completely undermining the difficulty of learning a language and trivializing all my effort to learn English.
Now that I'm calm, I understand that what I just said is completely ridiculous and irrational, but that's how I felt at the moment. I should've been more careful. I apologize for my harsh reactions that was uncalled for.
I guess what I want to say at this point is that learning a language under pressure can be very harsh: harsh enough to make you feel victimized whenever someone says anything about it.
Good luck with learning Spanish. I hope your experience is not as agonizing as mine.
As an immigrant who had to learn English from the scratch, that statement is almost offensive.
Learning a language is not easy. Especially if you actually NEED it, it's painful. You'll fucking hate it. You'll hate all the Spanish speaking countries. You'll hate all the fucking Mexicans. And THAT'S what it takes to learn a language "comprehensively".
You should get your mind set straight about learning a language before you do anything. There is no "easy-to-learn (but comprehensive) system" in learning a language.
If you want to learn beyond "traveller's need" level, do what the Asian kids do when they come to America:
Every damn day for minimum of 3 years is REQUIERD.
Sounds impossible? I did it. All my immigrant friends did it. All your fellow Chinese Ph.Ds did it.
Sounds hard? YOU BET!!
Seriously.
Imagine Baller sueing everyone who said anything about a chair.
Did I say chair? I didn't say chair. No sir, not me.