I wonder if my setup is typical as a long time Mac user? Primary machine is a Macbook Pro that I only boot into Windows whenever I want to play games. An old PPC G5 that still soldiers on connected to the TV in the bedroom, and then a couple of super cheap Hackintoshs for family use: a Dell Mini 9 and dual bootPC desktop, and then a bunch of old Mac laptops and desktops that have been given out to family members.
Going forward, it looks like that will be the template. One "real" Macintosh, a Macbook, for primary use and Hackintoshs and hand me down Macs for the rest of the family.
I'm not quite grokking this part: "Of the 12 differences, eight had arisen in the cell lines used for the work. Only four were true mutations that had occurred naturally through the generations." Anybody want to explain? I don't get the "8 arising from cell lines used" part. Sounds like there were only 4 "real" mutations? And the other 8 where some consequence of the process used to do the sequencing?
What's up with banks charging *you* when somebody wires money to your account? Isn't the fact you're using my fucking money and not even giving me interest on it enough? Makes about as much sense as phone companies charging to send or receive a text message, since it costs them on the order of, oh, say.0000001 cents to send one.
I confess I'm a game porter, I'm deep into the bowels of finishing off a port of the original Call of Duty to Xbox 360 and PS3 at the moment. Most of the time the ports are outsourced to companies like ours rather than developed in-house by the original developers. We usually have a short development schedule and are pretty much stuck with the code as is, as excellent or crappy as it might be, and we do our best to make what we can from it. I actually find it very intellectually challenging and fun. The schedules are short, and there's always a new project to look forward to while being stuck in the muck of the current project.:) I get to look at a lot of different source code from a lot of different games and learn something new each time usually. Each project is different, sometimes it's easy (if the code is designed well or uses middleware that's available on the platform we're porting to) or a complete nightmare (very platform specific or the middleware it's using isn't available for the platform). At this point I've ported to or from just about every platform out there. Xbox -> PC, PC -> PS3,Xbox, DS -> iPhone, PC -> Mac, etc.
Yeah and you'd have the Twitter-like limitation of all strings being no more 255 characters long.:) Of course, I'm sure they would've eventually implemented a UTF-8 style thing where you'd examine the initial bits to determine the byte size of the initial string length indicator.
I can't believe some of the comments. So you guys are actually defending racists cops? Good thing you're white then I guess. Obviously those officers have every right to their opinions, however they don't have an inalienable right to be police officers, so I say fire their asses. Some professions require a bit higher standard of personal conduct and behavior, and law enforcement is one of them. Which makes this article especially disturbing as well: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/15/neo_nazis_army/index.html
I love the correlationisnotcausation tag every single time an article on any study is posted. Correlation means nothing! Nothing causes anything! There is no order in the universe! It's all chaos!:)
Heck, most people didn't even have colored TVs at that time
The modern politically correct term is "African American" TVs I believe.
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I don't know what it is, but any discussion of Python brings about in me an almost primal reaction of disgust, I just can't help myself.;) Syntactically important whitespace, what...the...@#%!?
You know, if he had decided to make either spaces *or* tabs to delimit blocks, Python would suck so much. I mean, it would still suck, but just not as bad. Who doesn't love a language whose programs can be destroyed by the slightest whim of text editor or paste into a web comment field? Or destroyed by one developer using spaces and another tabs? Lord knows you can't just run indent on a C program to make it formatted exactly the way you want it instead formatted like the insane designer of the language proscribes, except you can use both tabs and spaces to do it, of course.:)
BTW, I think this is next version of Python: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
Yeah I don't know what's going on at Well Fargo. I have an auto loan through the company and they just sent me a letter telling me that I better make sure I have them listed on my insurance as something or other or they would purchase their own insurance and add it to the loan amount. That's the first time I've ever received anything like that on any car loan I've taken out.
I have strange quark hanging outside my office if anyone at Fermilab is interested in observing it.:) I picked up a whole "universe in a box" at particlezoo.net.
Now anyone think this story was posted just because the quark happens to be named "strange"?
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
It's funny you should bring up Maya. That's another another one that I'd haven't seen upgraded. Maya 8.0 or 8.5 is the latest we're using. There's much to be said for the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it mentality" when it comes to software upgrades. If it works fine and you've been using it for years and don't want or need the latest version, why upgrade?
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
How about you use the DVD's you ripped them from as backup? Of course, I'm assuming this is the source you're ripping them from and not, say, illegal torrents or DVR recordings. I know that DVD's don't last forever, but do you really care if you still have your copy of Beverly Hills Chiuaua 20 years from now? This doesn't seem like the most important of data to back up. Oh I lost movie X, oh well so what or if I care enough I'll just buy another copy is probably a lot cheaper than buying an enormous collection or hard drives.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I have very, very little personal data I care enough about to backup. Mostly stuff that's irreplaceable, family photos, personal source code, etc.
To all the smart alecks, no they can't use weapons grade plutonium, which is 239, they need 238, which has a much shorter half-life (88 y compared to 24100 y) and therefore gives off much more energy. They don't need an isoptope that is fissile, they need one with a short half-life.
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Of course the really funny is that is the image is *advertisement* which presumably means Ralph Lauren *pays* people to display that image.
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I wonder if my setup is typical as a long time Mac user? Primary machine is a Macbook Pro that I only boot into Windows whenever I want to play games. An old PPC G5 that still soldiers on connected to the TV in the bedroom, and then a couple of super cheap Hackintoshs for family use: a Dell Mini 9 and dual bootPC desktop, and then a bunch of old Mac laptops and desktops that have been given out to family members.
Going forward, it looks like that will be the template. One "real" Macintosh, a Macbook, for primary use and Hackintoshs and hand me down Macs for the rest of the family.
Yeah here's the API. http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?ABAddressBook
I use the API in a couple of my apps actually to allow the user to select an e-mail contact.
Haha! That's a good one. Although I'm sure the developers of the 250 games that have shipped with Unity probably care somewhat. :)
Unity, www.unity3d.com, which uses Mono, has been available on the iPhone for some now.
I'm not quite grokking this part: "Of the 12 differences, eight had arisen in the cell lines used for the work. Only four were true mutations that had occurred naturally through the generations." Anybody want to explain? I don't get the "8 arising from cell lines used" part. Sounds like there were only 4 "real" mutations? And the other 8 where some consequence of the process used to do the sequencing?
So no .se website for my favorite author then, I guess.
What's the deal with people misspelling Seinfeld? Or people misspelling the word misspell? Or airline peanuts?
What's up with banks charging *you* when somebody wires money to your account? Isn't the fact you're using my fucking money and not even giving me interest on it enough? Makes about as much sense as phone companies charging to send or receive a text message, since it costs them on the order of, oh, say .0000001 cents to send one.
I confess I'm a game porter, I'm deep into the bowels of finishing off a port of the original Call of Duty to Xbox 360 and PS3 at the moment. Most of the time the ports are outsourced to companies like ours rather than developed in-house by the original developers. We usually have a short development schedule and are pretty much stuck with the code as is, as excellent or crappy as it might be, and we do our best to make what we can from it. I actually find it very intellectually challenging and fun. The schedules are short, and there's always a new project to look forward to while being stuck in the muck of the current project. :) I get to look at a lot of different source code from a lot of different games and learn something new each time usually. Each project is different, sometimes it's easy (if the code is designed well or uses middleware that's available on the platform we're porting to) or a complete nightmare (very platform specific or the middleware it's using isn't available for the platform). At this point I've ported to or from just about every platform out there. Xbox -> PC, PC -> PS3,Xbox, DS -> iPhone, PC -> Mac, etc.
Yeah and you'd have the Twitter-like limitation of all strings being no more 255 characters long. :) Of course, I'm sure they would've eventually implemented a UTF-8 style thing where you'd examine the initial bits to determine the byte size of the initial string length indicator.
Wow, I didn't realize there were that many 100+ year old Slashdot readers pining for the early 1900s.
I can't believe some of the comments. So you guys are actually defending racists cops? Good thing you're white then I guess. Obviously those officers have every right to their opinions, however they don't have an inalienable right to be police officers, so I say fire their asses. Some professions require a bit higher standard of personal conduct and behavior, and law enforcement is one of them. Which makes this article especially disturbing as well: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/15/neo_nazis_army/index.html
I love the correlationisnotcausation tag every single time an article on any study is posted. Correlation means nothing! Nothing causes anything! There is no order in the universe! It's all chaos! :)
Heck, most people didn't even have colored TVs at that time
The modern politically correct term is "African American" TVs I believe.
I don't know what it is, but any discussion of Python brings about in me an almost primal reaction of disgust, I just can't help myself. ;) Syntactically important whitespace, what...the...@#%!?
You know, if he had decided to make either spaces *or* tabs to delimit blocks, Python would suck so much. I mean, it would still suck, but just not as bad. Who doesn't love a language whose programs can be destroyed by the slightest whim of text editor or paste into a web comment field? Or destroyed by one developer using spaces and another tabs? Lord knows you can't just run indent on a C program to make it formatted exactly the way you want it instead formatted like the insane designer of the language proscribes, except you can use both tabs and spaces to do it, of course. :)
BTW, I think this is next version of Python: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
Yeah I don't know what's going on at Well Fargo. I have an auto loan through the company and they just sent me a letter telling me that I better make sure I have them listed on my insurance as something or other or they would purchase their own insurance and add it to the loan amount. That's the first time I've ever received anything like that on any car loan I've taken out.
Now anyone think this story was posted just because the quark happens to be named "strange"?
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
It's funny you should bring up Maya. That's another another one that I'd haven't seen upgraded. Maya 8.0 or 8.5 is the latest we're using. There's much to be said for the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it mentality" when it comes to software upgrades. If it works fine and you've been using it for years and don't want or need the latest version, why upgrade?
Heck no one I've worked with has even upgraded to 2008 yet, it's been either VS 2005 or 2003.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
How about you use the DVD's you ripped them from as backup? Of course, I'm assuming this is the source you're ripping them from and not, say, illegal torrents or DVR recordings. I know that DVD's don't last forever, but do you really care if you still have your copy of Beverly Hills Chiuaua 20 years from now? This doesn't seem like the most important of data to back up. Oh I lost movie X, oh well so what or if I care enough I'll just buy another copy is probably a lot cheaper than buying an enormous collection or hard drives.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I have very, very little personal data I care enough about to backup. Mostly stuff that's irreplaceable, family photos, personal source code, etc.
To all the smart alecks, no they can't use weapons grade plutonium, which is 239, they need 238, which has a much shorter half-life (88 y compared to 24100 y) and therefore gives off much more energy. They don't need an isoptope that is fissile, they need one with a short half-life.