I'm always the first to point out the sucess of something as marketing over technical merit.
The earlier points in the thread were, however disdain for Apple's decision to load the entire file vs. treating the file as a streaming object.
As someone who is constantly having to rename "funny.mp3" or one of a hundred other needs for re-calssification, I find the iTunes approach excellent, as in many cases, I have no idea what's inside an audio file until I'm listenting to it.
That said, I usually don't limit myself to one of anything when it comes to software (I still keep around media player, the one that came with my sound card, and Winamp along with iTunes), since pretty much everything sucks in some way or another.
And at the end of the day, who can complain with choices like those?
Well there are other issues as well, falling under the "ease of use" umbrella.
It doesn't have to be a heavy task--I noticed in iTunes you can modify a playing file in all kinds of odd ways--there is no need to lock the file after its been loaded and started playing.
WinAmp just falls down here--update a playing file's ID tags and it skips (on a modern, otherwise unfetterd system) or try to rename it outside of the application, and it fails miserably because the file is (obviously) locked.
You may not like Apple's approach, but it works well enough for everyone else.
Same reason the people who hate drunk driving aren't going after auto-manufacturers. This is a bad analogy, and would be more suitable for going after the power company for providing power to the computer to run with a virus on it.
On the other hand, what you will find in many places is that bartenders are often held liable for their patrons' actions after the fact, and I'm sure at some point or another people who hate drunk driving have gone after bartenders to accomodate this.
You register yourself as a firearms owner (and in the process tell them you're not a criminal, not a child, etc, etc) or a firearms purchaser/owner and they send you a photo id.
Then you buy a gun, fill out a simple form telling them its s/n, make, model and then they give you a sticker that goes on the gun stating it is registered and voila!
Now, that said it may be more difficut to be a legitmate arms "dealer" than a user, not being a dealer I have no idea, but on a scale of one to ten, owning a firearm in Canada is "easy".
If the price is too high for PMPRB, the drug never comes to Canada.
Take for example, Lantus Insulin. Of course Banting would turn over in his grave if he knew how much companies were now billing for advances in his discovery, but I digress.
I have a degree in CS from a Canadian University which as "reputable" goes, falls somewhere between Ivy-league and state college.
What I've found about my old classmates and myself, is that having any degree can get you a foot in the door and a strong basis upon which to work, but its not going to do anything for you that you can't accomp[lish by yourself.
A number of very reputable people in CS have minimal schooling, or schooling from some backwoods campus, whereas a number of MIT grads go on to great mediocrity.
My honest belief, and experience given the way the Internet works now, is that if there is a specific sub-field of CS you want to persue, most people who are established there will be receptive to enthusiasm from a newcomer, and will find mutually beneficial ways to further their research or assist with a project they are working on with the newcomer, so long as the newcomer genuinely has something to offer. (You probably won't be paid to do this at first either.) Very few people of talent will be hung up on the "quality" of a degree, but at the same time, they will get hung up on a lack of "fundamentals." Some schools offer better fundamentals than others, but again, the bottom line is its all stuff you can teach yourself. There are no hard rules about what will get you a job, but social networking with people who are doing what you want to be doing is the best "in" for anything.
Your best bet is to run through IRC, web forums usenet, or mailing lists and find a group who are doing what you're specifically interested in and get a feel for what you should know, how you can know it if you don't already, and not worry about who gives you a degree. Some highly specialized fields aren't as open and may require some more specialization from a school, but if you just want to roll code, all you have to do is roll code. If you're good at it, someone will pay you to do it for them.
I have a terrible shortcoming when it comes to grasping what social confomity brings to the table or why it would have any value to anyone, but that's my lack of understanding. Given its going to happen in spite of what I think, I suppose I can at least mimic some respect for it--for the sake of The Impressionable Youth and all.
What I'm asking is that we don't make the blanket assumption that everyone else should share that opinion, and we should express our opinions in a way that makes that distinction clear.
I don't see the need for clear expression here, as I always assume this to be implicitly true, (unless I'm expressing myelf to a child, or simpleton who may take my opinion as more than just that or lacks the insight or experience to see things differently).
Neither example arguement is compelling. I'd expect them to be backed by some form of evidence--even some weak rhetoric, as both are highly complicated, and involves some understanding of many issues and not simply an emotional response of discomfort, (given the only evidence of that is having expressed or acted on it). I'd expect most people to do the same, especially if they present a view on an open forum rife with flames.
The dynamics of this kind of violence are complex, but they are not as arbitrary as you imply.
Well said. I'll have to think about that some more, and I AM compelled to look at it as you've illustrated cases I haven't looked at. Obviously Milgram's experiements may factor into this sort of thing as well, but I'm not sure I accept the complexities that I dismissed will break down so simply as stemming from someone being "inhuman outsiders" either.
Why would I have to be physically ill to be uncomfortable with an image? At what level do I have a right to express and act on my discomfort? Yes, there is a huge difference, but the world at large is generally less extreme than that (though the media will have you believe otherwise).
I'd hope to God that Discovery has regular viewers, and people to deal with other things where I'm uncomfortable because without people like them, a number of important things are just not happening. But in my experience, everyone has some level of discomfort with something, and that discomfort may have no direct correlation with whether they think its a good thing or not. This is all I'm saying here.
Its unfortunate that people die in violent ways, but lets step back a minute and ask ourselves if people get beaten to death is really due to homophobia or something else.
Frankly anyone beating someone else to death has some serious psychological and or developement issues, and homophobia is not a justification, its a weak excuse at best. It seems to me that someone exhibiting that much hostility, and that out of sync with reason would beat someone else to death for any stupid excuse they can find a catalyst for, (including overexposure to paint drying, though I'd wager it would more likely look like spousal abuse, road rage or Columbine) its simply a matter of time and opportunity. Just some food for thought.
That's not true actually, but on my system it had to be installed manually.
In the IBM jre/bin directory are a handful of netscape/mozilla plugin DLLs (this is on Windows).
Simply copy anything that matches the signature np*.dll to your mozilla/plugins directory and assuming the JRE is installed correctly, you're locked and loaded to run IBM Applets in Mozilla.
You know, I happen have absolutely nothing against appendectomies (or any surgery, come to think of it), and childbirth. In fact, I think these are great things having undergone them myself--but if you think I have any comfort level watching either of them, you're missing a clue.
The same can go for bum darts, washing dishes, writing software, watching paint dry or pretty much anything else someone can concievably approve or disapprove of.
For some people the only issue is frames per second, and in that case, you're right--no one will give a lick when a game's refresh rate is substantially higher than a monitor's refresh rate.
What you're missing however, is that newer games are using substantially more RAM to introduce higher quality textures, and more textures overall, thereby improving the visual image.
They're also making more use of the newer shaders. The facial expressions in HL2 and env-mapped water and caustics from that and other games don't happen magically by themselves.
The bottom line is you'll get better visal quality in a newer game using a newer card. This doesn't mean an older card won't play it, but the visual component of the experience isn't going to be as good.
Most 3D Software (games especially, and other visualization-heavy portions of the industry, including film and CAD) is generally developed on and targeted at the best card available at the time of developement. The best card however will not be this one, as this is a midrange gamer card from the most recent generation.
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I mean if quantity is cool, why go to the second largest?
Zinda! His face black, his eyes red!
...and stop calling me Shirley
I'm always the first to point out the sucess of something as marketing over technical merit.
The earlier points in the thread were, however disdain for Apple's decision to load the entire file vs. treating the file as a streaming object.
As someone who is constantly having to rename "funny.mp3" or one of a hundred other needs for re-calssification, I find the iTunes approach excellent, as in many cases, I have no idea what's inside an audio file until I'm listenting to it.
That said, I usually don't limit myself to one of anything when it comes to software (I still keep around media player, the one that came with my sound card, and Winamp along with iTunes), since pretty much everything sucks in some way or another.
And at the end of the day, who can complain with choices like those?
I can get directions to and from my house to places around town, and it will paint a blue line describing the route, but it doesn't show any streets.
Since its a beta, I'll assume that'll get better, but for now, its more or less useless compared to the current offerings for maps on the net.
It also fails my "completeness" test (as do all the others) when I feed it the address of a condo a buddy of mine lives at.
It doesn't have to be a heavy task--I noticed in iTunes you can modify a playing file in all kinds of odd ways--there is no need to lock the file after its been loaded and started playing.
WinAmp just falls down here--update a playing file's ID tags and it skips (on a modern, otherwise unfetterd system) or try to rename it outside of the application, and it fails miserably because the file is (obviously) locked.
You may not like Apple's approach, but it works well enough for everyone else.
This is a bad analogy, and would be more suitable for going after the power company for providing power to the computer to run with a virus on it.
On the other hand, what you will find in many places is that bartenders are often held liable for their patrons' actions after the fact, and I'm sure at some point or another people who hate drunk driving have gone after bartenders to accomodate this.
You register yourself as a firearms owner (and in the process tell them you're not a criminal, not a child, etc, etc) or a firearms purchaser/owner and they send you a photo id.
Then you buy a gun, fill out a simple form telling them its s/n, make, model and then they give you a sticker that goes on the gun stating it is registered and voila!
Now, that said it may be more difficut to be a legitmate arms "dealer" than a user, not being a dealer I have no idea, but on a scale of one to ten, owning a firearm in Canada is "easy".
take a wild guess who Stroustrup was working for (and still is today) when he released that language and first implementation thereof...
How the hell are you supposed to replace a failed drive when its integrated with its live mirror?
There's alot of info about fast vegetables here
Either that the world as a whole is
- more engrossed with ideas than the notion of expressing them correctly.
- lazy.
I think the truth lies somewhere in between.Of course here, its the greifer I wind up taking a like to.
And if you have a significant other/room mate? Perhaps you're behind a NAT?
Not to go too OT here, but you reminded me of a classic Jack Chick satiration from the comics section of my University a few years back...
If the price is too high for PMPRB, the drug never comes to Canada. Take for example, Lantus Insulin. Of course Banting would turn over in his grave if he knew how much companies were now billing for advances in his discovery, but I digress.
What I've found about my old classmates and myself, is that having any degree can get you a foot in the door and a strong basis upon which to work, but its not going to do anything for you that you can't accomp[lish by yourself.
A number of very reputable people in CS have minimal schooling, or schooling from some backwoods campus, whereas a number of MIT grads go on to great mediocrity.
My honest belief, and experience given the way the Internet works now, is that if there is a specific sub-field of CS you want to persue, most people who are established there will be receptive to enthusiasm from a newcomer, and will find mutually beneficial ways to further their research or assist with a project they are working on with the newcomer, so long as the newcomer genuinely has something to offer. (You probably won't be paid to do this at first either.) Very few people of talent will be hung up on the "quality" of a degree, but at the same time, they will get hung up on a lack of "fundamentals." Some schools offer better fundamentals than others, but again, the bottom line is its all stuff you can teach yourself. There are no hard rules about what will get you a job, but social networking with people who are doing what you want to be doing is the best "in" for anything.
Your best bet is to run through IRC, web forums usenet, or mailing lists and find a group who are doing what you're specifically interested in and get a feel for what you should know, how you can know it if you don't already, and not worry about who gives you a degree. Some highly specialized fields aren't as open and may require some more specialization from a school, but if you just want to roll code, all you have to do is roll code. If you're good at it, someone will pay you to do it for them.
I have a terrible shortcoming when it comes to grasping what social confomity brings to the table or why it would have any value to anyone, but that's my lack of understanding. Given its going to happen in spite of what I think, I suppose I can at least mimic some respect for it--for the sake of The Impressionable Youth and all.
I don't see the need for clear expression here, as I always assume this to be implicitly true, (unless I'm expressing myelf to a child, or simpleton who may take my opinion as more than just that or lacks the insight or experience to see things differently).
Neither example arguement is compelling. I'd expect them to be backed by some form of evidence--even some weak rhetoric, as both are highly complicated, and involves some understanding of many issues and not simply an emotional response of discomfort, (given the only evidence of that is having expressed or acted on it). I'd expect most people to do the same, especially if they present a view on an open forum rife with flames.
The dynamics of this kind of violence are complex, but they are not as arbitrary as you imply.
Well said. I'll have to think about that some more, and I AM compelled to look at it as you've illustrated cases I haven't looked at. Obviously Milgram's experiements may factor into this sort of thing as well, but I'm not sure I accept the complexities that I dismissed will break down so simply as stemming from someone being "inhuman outsiders" either.
I'd hope to God that Discovery has regular viewers, and people to deal with other things where I'm uncomfortable because without people like them, a number of important things are just not happening. But in my experience, everyone has some level of discomfort with something, and that discomfort may have no direct correlation with whether they think its a good thing or not. This is all I'm saying here.
Its unfortunate that people die in violent ways, but lets step back a minute and ask ourselves if people get beaten to death is really due to homophobia or something else.
Frankly anyone beating someone else to death has some serious psychological and or developement issues, and homophobia is not a justification, its a weak excuse at best. It seems to me that someone exhibiting that much hostility, and that out of sync with reason would beat someone else to death for any stupid excuse they can find a catalyst for, (including overexposure to paint drying, though I'd wager it would more likely look like spousal abuse, road rage or Columbine) its simply a matter of time and opportunity. Just some food for thought.
In the IBM jre/bin directory are a handful of netscape/mozilla plugin DLLs (this is on Windows).
Simply copy anything that matches the signature np*.dll to your mozilla/plugins directory and assuming the JRE is installed correctly, you're locked and loaded to run IBM Applets in Mozilla.
You know, I happen have absolutely nothing against appendectomies (or any surgery, come to think of it), and childbirth. In fact, I think these are great things having undergone them myself--but if you think I have any comfort level watching either of them, you're missing a clue.
The same can go for bum darts, washing dishes, writing software, watching paint dry or pretty much anything else someone can concievably approve or disapprove of.
Its not square when you use really wide numbers--then its more of a rectangle.
I think Triumph may disagree with you there.
What you're missing however, is that newer games are using substantially more RAM to introduce higher quality textures, and more textures overall, thereby improving the visual image.
They're also making more use of the newer shaders. The facial expressions in HL2 and env-mapped water and caustics from that and other games don't happen magically by themselves.
The bottom line is you'll get better visal quality in a newer game using a newer card. This doesn't mean an older card won't play it, but the visual component of the experience isn't going to be as good.
Most 3D Software (games especially, and other visualization-heavy portions of the industry, including film and CAD) is generally developed on and targeted at the best card available at the time of developement. The best card however will not be this one, as this is a midrange gamer card from the most recent generation.