Unless of course you are stuck in traffic for 4 hours on your commute home from work because of a 5 year project to redo some road which was built from cement, as they have to tear it all up at about 1 mile a week, instead of just using asphalt which you can just throw another layer onto and pave in a day.
Windows Search 4.0?! I HATE that POS. I've made a very deliberate attempt to NOT download this off of windows update, and now if I want to be up to date with my system, I HAVE to install it? Assholes.
I think ultimately, the problem is, while the clones are indeed cheaper, they aren't cheap enough for the hassle... at least to the average folks interested in "Apple compatible hardware". Say maybe I save $150 of the price of the same/similar spec'd Mac at Whatever Superstore. Then I have to wait for it to be built and shipped, and Id wager that this company isn't too quick about such things. You also have nowhere (especially now) to get warranty work done. You have to rely on PsyStar for patches. If I really wanted a Mac, the money saved just isn't worth the trouble.
Are you old enough to remember floppy disks? More specifically, the 3 1/2 floppy disks? The ones made early in this formats life were rock solid. You could barely bend them. I even poked a few holes in one (to blame my missing report that I didn't do on the bad floppy disk), and it read EVERYTHING. At the time, a cheap floppy would cost you ~$1. Skip forward a handful of years where AOL floppy disks were coming in the Sunday newspaper... you could practically bend them in half. The "seems" of the disk wouldn't even be glued together (only at the corners). They cost ~$1 for 20x, retail. 10% per brand new box were bad on first use. If you dropped a good disk, you likely just killed it.
What I am trying to point out here is you CAN be right without the post you are replying to being wrong. Your old media may have just been made stronger and more capable of dealing with what we consider average wear than something produced today, where the goal is driving down costs and increasing features, at the cost of less dependability. It wouldn't be the first time.
You do know that.NET sits on top of win32... even the upcoming.NET 4.0. Sure, one day, they MIGHT port it directly to the NTAPI, but I think you overestimate their willingness to write new code.
Well, it is "security theater" in that, their goal isn't "security". It is all part of the "war on drugs". You know when they scan your Drivers License all over with a UV light? It isn't so they can see the hologram watermarks... it is to check for cocaine residue. Do you know that arc you walk through that blows air at you to check for explosives? Yeah, it's checking for pot. You know why you can't have a container of liquid over 3 oz? Because their little x-ray device doesn't work so great on them, and they don't want you smuggling your drugs in your shampoo.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one
Use/dev/urandom as/dev/random will immediately exhaust your kernel entropy poolWhere do you people come up with this shit? So what if you "entropy" is "exhausted" (whatever that means). Start back from the beginning of your set. Oh? The same numbers might start coming back? Sounds more random to me than something coming from an evenly distributed set.
Almost every "free copies boosted my sales" story I've ever heard has been in regards to fiction.
Perhaps this is your experience, but that says something about you and the people you associate with... not everyone else.
I could see how "searching" would be nice, but all that does for you is enable you to skip things you probably should read. I would recommend reading the whole book and highlighting/bookmarking the relevant parts on your own. You will absorb a lot more. Also, think of how pathetic you would be reading a story to your child from something like a Kindle. A child's book is a perfect example where this works great. Offer up the book electronically so that you can see what it is, then buy a nice pretty illustrated book to read to your child.
Is there truly a difference? I would say daydreaming IS just concentrating... just on something considered "imaginary". At least that is the association everyone makes.
Why does it have to be another topic? I could be daydreaming about what I am at that moment. Just so much so that my ability to function with the surrounding environment has gone down a noticeable level.
Firstly, your site says your paperback edition of "Free for All" is out of stock. Doing a google search shows Barnes & Noble carry it. I think the average human is more likely to take a trip to the book store to also browse other books than to go through the trouble of contacting someone for a copy who advertises they don't have anymore.
Also, "Free for All" is a story. Apparently story readers are happy reading such things not on paper. However, me and just about every other colleague I've ever dealt with wouldn't stand for a reference book coming from anything but paper. I need to be able to scribble on the pages, highlight things, doodle in it, place sticky notes of varying colors everywhere. Very likely, the people "pirating" this compression book are not actually using it and would have never bought it.
What is there to compare the tests with? A breathalyzer from another company? A different breathalyzer from THE SAME company? In this context, I wouldn't trust either. Then we are left with the question of, if this testing mechanism is the de facto standard of accurate, why aren't they using that?
If you look at it from a popular/performance perspective, you are going to find that, generally, the newer software is better performing, because that is a selling point above the competition. It will also be the least popular because it is newer.
PFfffffffffft. Visual C++ STILL makes you do shit the hard way. Want to change the color of the font of a text box? You have to manually catch OnCtlColor/WM_CTLCOLOR and call SetTextColor. Want to change the background color of a button? Have to catch OnEraseBkgrnd/WM_ERASEBKGND, create a brush, select it into the display context, then delete it.
Not hard, but extremely tedious. Especially when something like C++ Builder has these as properties for the widgets in the IDE.
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Unless of course you are stuck in traffic for 4 hours on your commute home from work because of a 5 year project to redo some road which was built from cement, as they have to tear it all up at about 1 mile a week, instead of just using asphalt which you can just throw another layer onto and pave in a day.
Windows Search 4.0?! I HATE that POS. I've made a very deliberate attempt to NOT download this off of windows update, and now if I want to be up to date with my system, I HAVE to install it? Assholes.
BRILLIANT!
I think ultimately, the problem is, while the clones are indeed cheaper, they aren't cheap enough for the hassle... at least to the average folks interested in "Apple compatible hardware". Say maybe I save $150 of the price of the same/similar spec'd Mac at Whatever Superstore. Then I have to wait for it to be built and shipped, and Id wager that this company isn't too quick about such things. You also have nowhere (especially now) to get warranty work done. You have to rely on PsyStar for patches. If I really wanted a Mac, the money saved just isn't worth the trouble.
Are you old enough to remember floppy disks? More specifically, the 3 1/2 floppy disks? The ones made early in this formats life were rock solid. You could barely bend them. I even poked a few holes in one (to blame my missing report that I didn't do on the bad floppy disk), and it read EVERYTHING. At the time, a cheap floppy would cost you ~$1. Skip forward a handful of years where AOL floppy disks were coming in the Sunday newspaper... you could practically bend them in half. The "seems" of the disk wouldn't even be glued together (only at the corners). They cost ~$1 for 20x, retail. 10% per brand new box were bad on first use. If you dropped a good disk, you likely just killed it.
What I am trying to point out here is you CAN be right without the post you are replying to being wrong. Your old media may have just been made stronger and more capable of dealing with what we consider average wear than something produced today, where the goal is driving down costs and increasing features, at the cost of less dependability. It wouldn't be the first time.
You do know that .NET sits on top of win32... even the upcoming .NET 4.0. Sure, one day, they MIGHT port it directly to the NTAPI, but I think you overestimate their willingness to write new code.
How did you create said shim?
More likely x, y, z, ana/kata, and Chuck Norris
Well, it is "security theater" in that, their goal isn't "security". It is all part of the "war on drugs". You know when they scan your Drivers License all over with a UV light? It isn't so they can see the hologram watermarks... it is to check for cocaine residue. Do you know that arc you walk through that blows air at you to check for explosives? Yeah, it's checking for pot. You know why you can't have a container of liquid over 3 oz? Because their little x-ray device doesn't work so great on them, and they don't want you smuggling your drugs in your shampoo.
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one
Use /dev/urandom as /dev/random will immediately exhaust your kernel entropy poolWhere do you people come up with this shit? So what if you "entropy" is "exhausted" (whatever that means). Start back from the beginning of your set. Oh? The same numbers might start coming back? Sounds more random to me than something coming from an evenly distributed set.
Almost every "free copies boosted my sales" story I've ever heard has been in regards to fiction.
Perhaps this is your experience, but that says something about you and the people you associate with... not everyone else.
I could see how "searching" would be nice, but all that does for you is enable you to skip things you probably should read. I would recommend reading the whole book and highlighting/bookmarking the relevant parts on your own. You will absorb a lot more. Also, think of how pathetic you would be reading a story to your child from something like a Kindle. A child's book is a perfect example where this works great. Offer up the book electronically so that you can see what it is, then buy a nice pretty illustrated book to read to your child.
Is there truly a difference? I would say daydreaming IS just concentrating... just on something considered "imaginary". At least that is the association everyone makes.
Why does it have to be another topic? I could be daydreaming about what I am at that moment. Just so much so that my ability to function with the surrounding environment has gone down a noticeable level.
Firstly, your site says your paperback edition of "Free for All" is out of stock. Doing a google search shows Barnes & Noble carry it. I think the average human is more likely to take a trip to the book store to also browse other books than to go through the trouble of contacting someone for a copy who advertises they don't have anymore.
Also, "Free for All" is a story. Apparently story readers are happy reading such things not on paper. However, me and just about every other colleague I've ever dealt with wouldn't stand for a reference book coming from anything but paper. I need to be able to scribble on the pages, highlight things, doodle in it, place sticky notes of varying colors everywhere. Very likely, the people "pirating" this compression book are not actually using it and would have never bought it.
What is there to compare the tests with? A breathalyzer from another company? A different breathalyzer from THE SAME company? In this context, I wouldn't trust either. Then we are left with the question of, if this testing mechanism is the de facto standard of accurate, why aren't they using that?
If you look at it from a popular/performance perspective, you are going to find that, generally, the newer software is better performing, because that is a selling point above the competition. It will also be the least popular because it is newer.
You poke fun, but this happens with genetically modified corn
Not sure what they used, but I like the trusty "Unplug the router from the internets" to ward off an attack.
Illusion of choice my friend.
Pardon me... what the hell is "faster than real time"? Does that mean it comes up with the answers before you ask the question?
PFfffffffffft. Visual C++ STILL makes you do shit the hard way. Want to change the color of the font of a text box? You have to manually catch OnCtlColor/WM_CTLCOLOR and call SetTextColor. Want to change the background color of a button? Have to catch OnEraseBkgrnd/WM_ERASEBKGND, create a brush, select it into the display context, then delete it.
Not hard, but extremely tedious. Especially when something like C++ Builder has these as properties for the widgets in the IDE.
Why? So we can have another war when a couple of those countries disagree? No thanks.
In the House of Representatives, Linda Sanchez fucks YOU
Have you EVER used these applications? Apparently not. You wouldn't sarcastically imply they were "polished" if you did...