Tom Robbins did an entire book in second person. It's called Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. It was a weird read for me, as "you" are a chinese woman in this book, and I'm not.
Furthermore, according to the many of my fellow grad students who are into Sensor Networks, there is no kind of security on these mobs yet. They can be easily hacked and defeated, which is why they are appropriate for scientific applications, but not military (yet).
Copy protection/DRM is not only not new, it's not workable. It will always be cracked. The business model needs to change to one that works, and benefits everyone. A business model that leaves all control in the hands of the seller is not workable. Treacherous Computing (of which iTunes is one example) in general suffers from this. There ARE workable models that would eliminate most piracy; the ijuts will not embrace them ever, because they are clearly stupid and suicidal. Five years ago no one knew who they were; now everyone hates them. Eventually RIAA's competition will win out when someone else comes along with a better idea.
I think it's you that is the whippersnapper. Back in my day, we didn't have all the fancy line-level debuggers, and we didn't like it that way! In my old age (42), I have seen it all come and go, and I've just gotten too lazy to type the whole damn function name and remember every function interface I've ever used. After about the 15th API I had to learn, I got tired of memorizing all the details of what order the four booleans come in, and so, while I may have used a function many times before, I don't necessarily remember without at least a quick refresher what the exact parameters are. But as you said, to each his own. Auto-complete is my cane.
No, not like Xcode, because xcode sucks. Xcode crashes all the frickin' time, and doesn't really do the things it claims to do. Having used both, I can tell you that Xcode is a freshman effort at doing what the pros at MS do. Sure, it will get better over time and they will eventually fix the debugger, and we can eventually use it like a semi-real development tool instead of having to CodeWarrior on the Mac, but no, not like Xcode. Never like Xcode.
To be honest, what's really great is MS with Whole Tomato on top. See that website for some of the greatest features ever. It's like crack; when I have to develop without these features, like autocomplete, I feel crippled. Whenever you type something like Obj obj = getObj(); and then obj. on the next line, it then pops up a list of valid functions on the Obj class. Of course, you can just keep typing, and it will let you, but as you type it narrows the list to those that match (or if you misspell, none match). If you just hit enter it takes the current match and spells it out. It gives you the ease of typing short names while actually using longer, more descriptive names for functions without burdening the programmer. Also, if you type something like obj.fun( it will then list the parameters in a tooltip for that function. A click will give you all the variant signatures of that function, if any. Then, of course, the MS part of the whole thing is just robust and clean. After 20 years, they've gotten most things right by now.
The post was not meant as a troll, only to answer the usual anti-MS./ BS. Certainly they cost money, and free software has that clear advantage, duh. As a language guy, having written many compilers, I am quite impressed by the pragmatic design of the C# language. It is greatness. Also, I personally don't want to write another line of DB access code; the fact that these tasks are automated, integrated, and yet flexible is one of the strengths of MS tools. All the fancy dialogs and wizards simply generate code that actually works, unlike something like Rose, that has to be tweaked to death. Yet, that code can be modified for flexibility; it isn't just a black box. Also, in MS, exceptions actually work, and I don't have to go back to the 80's technology of setjmp/longjmp. Templates work, and have for nearly a decade, and they compile down in very cleverly optimal ways. Typed collections rock. Duplicate-on-write strings rock. Some folks even write templates in such a way as to get better, more optimal code than without them. The debugger is truly integrated and just works. I can traverse the most god-awful data structures live without it crapping out on me the way Mac/GNU tools do. etc.
The MS tools are far superior to anything else in the world at the moment. They are more robust and easier to use. They are like butter. GNU development reminds me of MS development in the 80's. This is one point on which linux loses bigtime, and there is no sense even arguing it. Now as for security, sure, hundreds of script kiddies use those development tools to create virii for the windows vulnerabilities; if those same script kiddies had as big and dumb an audience, linux would be just as riddled with trouble. No, you joe-slashdot would not have these troubles, but you don't have them under Windows either. But your gramma does.
It is possible to hum one and whistle the other, although I don't know if that would work to generate a DTMF. I've never tried to get any particular frequency(ies) when performing this feat.
You forgot to mention that Dan Castellenata improvised this utterance in replacement for the script line which read (Annoyed Grunt). Which is why the titles of some of the episodes read like: Supercalifragilisticsexpiali(Annoyed Grunt)cious.
I've had a hotmail account for years that I don't use for anything (I use their IM so I had to have the account). I've probably gotten one or two spams in that entire time. Spam comes from harvesting, in my experience. I've had a similar experience with my acm account. And no, I'm not posting the account names here;)
If the idiots in the content industries would stop fighting the file-swapping beast and learn to love it, their so-called problems would all go away overnight. If any such idiots are reading this, post e-mail in reply and we can negotiate for my brilliant solution to this problem.
I have seen LCD projectors with the "screen door" effect. It is entirely absent on this projector. I put the light in Low Power mode and I can only hear the fan if I stand right next to the unit. I've always been of the opinion that if you can hear these fans, you've got the volume too low 8) This new generation of HD projectors is head and shoulders better than before. There is a slight problem with vertical bands that appear in specific circumstances depending on signal and content; usually not a problem with any HD source. Go to the avsforum for a lot of info on this and other projectors. Just remember that is the pickyest set of x-phile bastards anywhere ever.
I just got a Panasonic AE700U ceiling-mount projector, and it casts an awesome picture onto an 8-foot (110 diagonal) screen even in light. It is an lcd-based design (yes, LCD's will also get burn-in if left too long on one image). On the plus side, this HDTV unit was around 2100 bucks, and it takes up almost zero real-estate in the room.
The usb spec already provides a certain amount of power to drive things like small gameboy lights or memory stick readers, but these don't always work. For instance, you sometimes have to get a Powered USB Hub just to drive devices such as card scanners. And then you have to plug that in.
Slashdot Mirror
Tom Robbins did an entire book in second person. It's called Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. It was a weird read for me, as "you" are a chinese woman in this book, and I'm not.
Furthermore, according to the many of my fellow grad students who are into Sensor Networks, there is no kind of security on these mobs yet. They can be easily hacked and defeated, which is why they are appropriate for scientific applications, but not military (yet).
but I upgraded to the '05 Maxima. The gas mileage on that thing sucked.
Copy protection/DRM is not only not new, it's not workable. It will always be cracked. The business model needs to change to one that works, and benefits everyone. A business model that leaves all control in the hands of the seller is not workable. Treacherous Computing (of which iTunes is one example) in general suffers from this. There ARE workable models that would eliminate most piracy; the ijuts will not embrace them ever, because they are clearly stupid and suicidal. Five years ago no one knew who they were; now everyone hates them. Eventually RIAA's competition will win out when someone else comes along with a better idea.
I think it's you that is the whippersnapper. Back in my day, we didn't have all the fancy line-level debuggers, and we didn't like it that way! In my old age (42), I have seen it all come and go, and I've just gotten too lazy to type the whole damn function name and remember every function interface I've ever used. After about the 15th API I had to learn, I got tired of memorizing all the details of what order the four booleans come in, and so, while I may have used a function many times before, I don't necessarily remember without at least a quick refresher what the exact parameters are. But as you said, to each his own. Auto-complete is my cane.
No, not like Xcode, because xcode sucks. Xcode crashes all the frickin' time, and doesn't really do the things it claims to do. Having used both, I can tell you that Xcode is a freshman effort at doing what the pros at MS do. Sure, it will get better over time and they will eventually fix the debugger, and we can eventually use it like a semi-real development tool instead of having to CodeWarrior on the Mac, but no, not like Xcode. Never like Xcode.
To be honest, what's really great is MS with Whole Tomato on top. See that website for some of the greatest features ever. It's like crack; when I have to develop without these features, like autocomplete, I feel crippled. Whenever you type something like Obj obj = getObj(); and then obj. on the next line, it then pops up a list of valid functions on the Obj class. Of course, you can just keep typing, and it will let you, but as you type it narrows the list to those that match (or if you misspell, none match). If you just hit enter it takes the current match and spells it out. It gives you the ease of typing short names while actually using longer, more descriptive names for functions without burdening the programmer. Also, if you type something like obj.fun( it will then list the parameters in a tooltip for that function. A click will give you all the variant signatures of that function, if any. Then, of course, the MS part of the whole thing is just robust and clean. After 20 years, they've gotten most things right by now.
The post was not meant as a troll, only to answer the usual anti-MS ./ BS. Certainly they cost money, and free software has that clear advantage, duh. As a language guy, having written many compilers, I am quite impressed by the pragmatic design of the C# language. It is greatness. Also, I personally don't want to write another line of DB access code; the fact that these tasks are automated, integrated, and yet flexible is one of the strengths of MS tools. All the fancy dialogs and wizards simply generate code that actually works, unlike something like Rose, that has to be tweaked to death. Yet, that code can be modified for flexibility; it isn't just a black box. Also, in MS, exceptions actually work, and I don't have to go back to the 80's technology of setjmp/longjmp. Templates work, and have for nearly a decade, and they compile down in very cleverly optimal ways. Typed collections rock. Duplicate-on-write strings rock. Some folks even write templates in such a way as to get better, more optimal code than without them. The debugger is truly integrated and just works. I can traverse the most god-awful data structures live without it crapping out on me the way Mac/GNU tools do. etc.
The MS tools are far superior to anything else in the world at the moment. They are more robust and easier to use. They are like butter. GNU development reminds me of MS development in the 80's. This is one point on which linux loses bigtime, and there is no sense even arguing it. Now as for security, sure, hundreds of script kiddies use those development tools to create virii for the windows vulnerabilities; if those same script kiddies had as big and dumb an audience, linux would be just as riddled with trouble. No, you joe-slashdot would not have these troubles, but you don't have them under Windows either. But your gramma does.
It is possible to hum one and whistle the other, although I don't know if that would work to generate a DTMF. I've never tried to get any particular frequency(ies) when performing this feat.
so it's being decommissioned before it finds buddha.
You forgot to mention that Dan Castellenata improvised this utterance in replacement for the script line which read (Annoyed Grunt). Which is why the titles of some of the episodes read like: Supercalifragilisticsexpiali(Annoyed Grunt)cious.
Games Better Then Books?
I've had a hotmail account for years that I don't use for anything (I use their IM so I had to have the account). I've probably gotten one or two spams in that entire time. Spam comes from harvesting, in my experience. I've had a similar experience with my acm account. And no, I'm not posting the account names here ;)
If the idiots in the content industries would stop fighting the file-swapping beast and learn to love it, their so-called problems would all go away overnight. If any such idiots are reading this, post e-mail in reply and we can negotiate for my brilliant solution to this problem.
I dig the sig. More on topic, this is just a definition anyway, it doesn't make anything legal or illegal AFAIK. IANAL. YMMV.
In the words of poltergeist girl. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index. html
I no longer use the web, or e-mail, or anything, but it is for religious reasons, not from spam. Yours etc., Brigadier Arthur Gormanstrop (Mrs)
You've got it backwards. Iceland is Green. http://weecheng.com/europe/greenice/greenland/gree n1.htm
Hey, that's an interesting pos... Whoa! Anime!
I have seen LCD projectors with the "screen door" effect. It is entirely absent on this projector. I put the light in Low Power mode and I can only hear the fan if I stand right next to the unit. I've always been of the opinion that if you can hear these fans, you've got the volume too low 8) This new generation of HD projectors is head and shoulders better than before. There is a slight problem with vertical bands that appear in specific circumstances depending on signal and content; usually not a problem with any HD source. Go to the avsforum for a lot of info on this and other projectors. Just remember that is the pickyest set of x-phile bastards anywhere ever.
I just got a Panasonic AE700U ceiling-mount projector, and it casts an awesome picture onto an 8-foot (110 diagonal) screen even in light. It is an lcd-based design (yes, LCD's will also get burn-in if left too long on one image). On the plus side, this HDTV unit was around 2100 bucks, and it takes up almost zero real-estate in the room.
The code on the first line should be:+ (;:+* 8!83(88)5*!;
i d=PoeGold.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/eng lish/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
53++!305))6*;4826)4+.)4+);806*;48!8`60))85;1
It's forty, not tweny.
See, for example, this transcription:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?
Good crypto puzzle. I have just one question - 2 B or not 2 B?
The usb spec already provides a certain amount of power to drive things like small gameboy lights or memory stick readers, but these don't always work. For instance, you sometimes have to get a Powered USB Hub just to drive devices such as card scanners. And then you have to plug that in.