Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft just moved its German Headquarters with about 2000 employees from Unterschleißheim (near Munich) to Schwabing (in Munich), and is now presumably a major tax payer in the city.
Spatial memory, maybe; but this has nothing to do with muscle memory. The way you hold a cell phone is very different from the way you "hold" a PC keyboard. I for one have never wanted to type on my PC's numpad using my two thumbs...
I agree that ALSA sucks (for many reasons, the hideous API probably being the most important one).
But, as an application developer, you simply shouldn't use ALSA directly, it's not worth the hassle. If your app does any "serious" audio work, use JACK. Period. If you're aiming at the average desktop user, use another high-level audio API. PulseAudio appears to be a good choice.
Actually, they just took the virus to space to have it readily available when the aliens attack. Of course they didn't remember to also take a Mac to upload it to the alien base ship, so I guess we're doomed.
For some of them it's obvious why they became typographers. No one was able to decipher their handwriting, so they just had to come up with an alternative...
Last year, googling my own name was fun, because it actually turned up a few interesting things I had almost forgotten about. This year, despite the fact that there are several pieces of open source software released under my real name, and hundreds of mailing list posts, most of the results appear to be useless pages in Ubuntu's Launchpad. Which I didn't even use, except for reporting a few bugs...
Yeah, you should design your code from the start in a way that allows it to grow and stay beautiful. But don't forget about refactoring. When it turns out that things don't fulfill the needs the way they are, don't just work around it by adding even more messy code. Of course, changing the structure of your code to adjust to new requirements takes time, but sometimes it's the only way keep things clean. And sooner or later you'll be glad you did it.
I always get burned at the stake when I say this, but the biggest problem with OSS that I run into is horribly ugly code with very few useful comments. The sad thing is, as far as I can tell, this is true for the vast majority of closed source code as well. You just don't tend to see closed source code as often...
Isn't it on the Sci-Fi network? You don't have cable TV? What the heck is wrong with you?
Uhm, perhaps there are places in the world where there's no sci-fi network on cable tv? Not everyone lives in the US.
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Huh?! The article you linked to is almost 5 years old!
All Linux distributions I've tried recently (Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, and others) come with anti-aliasing enabled and working by default. And it looks quite well out of the box, although it's often possible to tweak it a little more, but that's also a matter of taste.
What actually seems to be difficult these days is completely disabling font anti-aliasing...
In fact the situation here in Germany seems to be different from most of the rest of the world. I use ICQ almost exclusively. The only reason I also have an AIM account was for some contacts from the US.
ICQ even started cooperating with a major TV station, and running some TV ads recently. So it's anything but dead, at least in Germany. And by the way, feature-wise ICQ still seems to be superior to most of the other instant messengers.
An.scr *is* really just an.exe file. You can take any.exe, rename it to.scr, and use it as a screensaver. A "real" screensaver should recognise certain command line parameters for running in preview or configuration mode, but apart from that it's not different from any other program.
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Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft just moved its German Headquarters with about 2000 employees from Unterschleißheim (near Munich) to Schwabing (in Munich), and is now presumably a major tax payer in the city.
And the dumb will deny that anyone can understand the sampling theorem and the anatomy of the human ear because they can't.
I pity the dumb.
Spatial memory, maybe; but this has nothing to do with muscle memory. The way you hold a cell phone is very different from the way you "hold" a PC keyboard. I for one have never wanted to type on my PC's numpad using my two thumbs...
I thought the PlayBook wasn't even released yet, and they're already thinking about replacing it?
(a confused BlackBerry user)
Best mouse for any work that isn't intrinsically mouse-centric: none
I agree that ALSA sucks (for many reasons, the hideous API probably being the most important one).
But, as an application developer, you simply shouldn't use ALSA directly, it's not worth the hassle. If your app does any "serious" audio work, use JACK. Period.
If you're aiming at the average desktop user, use another high-level audio API. PulseAudio appears to be a good choice.
Actually, they just took the virus to space to have it readily available when the aliens attack. Of course they didn't remember to also take a Mac to upload it to the alien base ship, so I guess we're doomed.
For some of them it's obvious why they became typographers. No one was able to decipher their handwriting, so they just had to come up with an alternative...
BASIC is still alive and well these days
Uhmm... it may be alive, but I'm sure it has never been well...
It's probably MAX_INT.
In that case, let's hope they build no more than two of these.
Or else we're ALL going to die...!
But does it run on Linux?
Speaking of changing google results... This article is currently the third hit for "inadvertantly"...
Last year, googling my own name was fun, because it actually turned up a few interesting things I had almost forgotten about. This year, despite the fact that there are several pieces of open source software released under my real name, and hundreds of mailing list posts, most of the results appear to be useless pages in Ubuntu's Launchpad. Which I didn't even use, except for reporting a few bugs...
Yeah, you should design your code from the start in a way that allows it to grow and stay beautiful. But don't forget about refactoring. When it turns out that things don't fulfill the needs the way they are, don't just work around it by adding even more messy code. Of course, changing the structure of your code to adjust to new requirements takes time, but sometimes it's the only way keep things clean. And sooner or later you'll be glad you did it.
> (and lotes was written for the CIA?)
Of course it was. It was just not intended to be used by themselves, but by everyone else.
What is it with this "Related Stories" thing? Is that new, or why did I never notice it before?
:)
And most importantly: Will it also list the dupes?
I didn't fart, that was my prostate cancer prophylaxis!
Isn't it on the Sci-Fi network? You don't have cable TV? What the heck is wrong with you?
Uhm, perhaps there are places in the world where there's no sci-fi network on cable tv? Not everyone lives in the US.
Huh?! The article you linked to is almost 5 years old!
All Linux distributions I've tried recently (Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, and others) come with anti-aliasing enabled and working by default. And it looks quite well out of the box, although it's often possible to tweak it a little more, but that's also a matter of taste.
What actually seems to be difficult these days is completely disabling font anti-aliasing...
In fact the situation here in Germany seems to be different from most of the rest of the world. I use ICQ almost exclusively. The only reason I also have an AIM account was for some contacts from the US.
ICQ even started cooperating with a major TV station, and running some TV ads recently. So it's anything but dead, at least in Germany. And by the way, feature-wise ICQ still seems to be superior to most of the other instant messengers.
An .scr *is* really just an .exe file. You can take any .exe, rename it to .scr, and use it as a screensaver. A "real" screensaver should recognise certain command line parameters for running in preview or configuration mode, but apart from that it's not different from any other program.
How do the python crowd expect to get taken seriously when implementing a wiki takes an whopping 125% as long in python as in ruby!!!!!!????
How do you expect to get taken seriously when you don't know that it's 133%, not 125%?