What a lonely life you must lead, thinking plastic is sexy.
Women are great.
A) Plastic? ORLY? B) You can have both. C) You won't get much of a woman for $3000, but you can fill a heck of a lot of lonely evenings with $3000 worth of laptop loving.
My 7 year old laptop had a 1920x1200 resolution and when I bought a new one a few months ago I had to look all over just to find one that had a 1920x1080 resolution.
Which is precisely why I went to a macbook. Apple isn't perfect, but goddamn they make sexy hardware.
Geroge Lucas is a whore and stole the entire concept of star wars from the Dune series. It's not even thinly veiled, and original drafts of the scripts even had the the princes smuggling "Aura spice" instead of weapons plans. The princess name in Dune was pronounced "a-leia" The producers of the Dune movie even tried to sue lucas for ripping off their costume ideas, which is rather clear he did when you compare the 2 films.
The man hasn't had an orgional idea in his life, and the idea that he's now selling out to Disney, the originators of ripping off other peoples work and then repackaging and re-copyrighting it (Check with the brothers Grimm) is the ultimate in irony.
I would have said "The Forbidden Fortress" meets "Dune". However the Dune movie was released in 1984, while Star Wars was 1977.
1977 was etched permanently in my brain, I was eight. My Mom finished her degree that spring and we spent the whole summer (4 months) in the UK while my Dad did a sabbatical. We came back and North America had gone Star Wars crazy.
In most languages you don't need a debugger for stuff like null pointers; perfectly fine exceptions are thrown and reported telling you exactly what you did wrong. When is the last time you ever used a debugger to track down such a bug? You use debuggers to analyse why some algorithm isn't worked as it's supposed to; for finding flaws in human thinking.
I'm thinking you've never worked on a multi-threaded application with millions of lines of code. With a debugger, set an exception breakpoint and you can usually see exactly why something bad happened with almost no time wasted on "analysis". If I can reproduce a problem in a debugger I can usually fic it about 10x faster and more reliably than if all I have is a stack trace.
About 15 years ago I was doing C++ on Solaris, our team was split between vi and emacs using the oobr (Object oriented browser) extension.
It was one of the nicest C++ environments I've seen. (I've been doing mostly Java in Eclipse for the past decade. I can't imagine working without a feature rich extensible editor that integrates project and file managment. Inline versioning with git rocks.)
Curious. My Eclipse project is the Linux Kernel. Works fine.
Tip for young players: Eclipse runs on the JVM, the important bit is the last two letters "VM" - "Virtual Machine". The out of the box configuration gives Eclipse ~128MB of memory.... how many VMs do you run with that much memory? Change the default values to something sane (ie 2GB) and suddenly Eclipse is fast, responsive and useful. Remember VM = Virtual Machine.
Word up. At IBM 100 projects is a small workspace.
I don't understand why they didn't set sail sooner, even with a tow to speed it up.
This is what sunk them. Safest place to be when a hurricane smashes into your home port, is 500 miles away on a sunny beach sipping a margarita. Even just 150 miles off to the side in a really bad rainstorm is better than right in the path of the hurricane.
I've personally done this on a much smaller scale with thunderstorms on a sailboat. Both the distances and warning times are shorter by about the same fraction.
Right, so why was he sailing to Florida? If it had been me I'd have been running her northeast *away from the storm* as fast as I could go.
It would have been "bloody" not "dang" or possibly even "bloody bastard" had it been said with a Welsh accent.
But you bloody well know that, don't you boyo?
I was about to ask what the Welsh phrase for "grammar nazi" is... but according to google translate its "gramadeg Natsïaidd".
Seriously though, it was the general tone, not the specific words that gave me the warm and fuzzy feeling. To this day my Dad takes great pleasure in performing ad-hoc experiments with household items and random gadgets from hobby shops.
It's that dang phosphate backbone that's too willing to run off and go have reactions with any trallop of a molecule that wanders on by.
That line made my day. (Possibly because that's the kind of language my parents used when talking about physics or chemistry to us as children. Imagine it with a colloquial Midlands or South Wales accent)
Better healthcare? That seems like a statement of perspective. I would bet that a majority of your neighbors to the south have better healthcare than a majority of Canadians.
Rich Americans have better healthcare than most Canadians. Canadians will not die in poverty to pay a Cancer health bill.
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Yes, that's been around forever, but in 2005 it could not CREATE vms, when did that start?
Your knowledge of VMware is a bit out of date.
VMware player can create virtual machines (and has for some time) and it is still free. It works well on Windows and Linux hosts.
That's good to know, I've been avoiding VMWare outside of work for that reason. How long has this been the case?
It has easy to install and operate clients in Windows and Linux (can't speak for Mac)
Works great on OSX, just the other day I whipped up a FreeBSD vm on my macbook to test something for a customer.
What a lonely life you must lead, thinking plastic is sexy.
Women are great.
A) Plastic? ORLY?
B) You can have both.
C) You won't get much of a woman for $3000, but you can fill a heck of a lot of lonely evenings with $3000 worth of laptop loving.
... (it's a shame that bootcamp doesn't support linux)....
I have not tried this but there appear to be instructions for installing ubuntu on macbooks.
My 7 year old laptop had a 1920x1200 resolution and when I bought a new one a few months ago I had to look all over just to find one that had a 1920x1080 resolution.
Which is precisely why I went to a macbook. Apple isn't perfect, but goddamn they make sexy hardware.
Episode I: Directed by J.J. Abrams
Episode II: Directed by Christopher Nolan
Episode III: Directed by Guillermo del Toro
If J.J. does it will start with a time warp of some kind. I'm with one of the earlier poster, let Joss Whedon have a bash at it.
Geroge Lucas is a whore and stole the entire concept of star wars from the Dune series. It's not even thinly veiled, and original drafts of the scripts even had the the princes smuggling "Aura spice" instead of weapons plans. The princess name in Dune was pronounced "a-leia" The producers of the Dune movie even tried to sue lucas for ripping off their costume ideas, which is rather clear he did when you compare the 2 films.
The man hasn't had an orgional idea in his life, and the idea that he's now selling out to Disney, the originators of ripping off other peoples work and then repackaging and re-copyrighting it (Check with the brothers Grimm) is the ultimate in irony.
I would have said "The Forbidden Fortress" meets "Dune". However the Dune movie was released in 1984, while Star Wars was 1977.
1977 was etched permanently in my brain, I was eight. My Mom finished her degree that spring and we spent the whole summer (4 months) in the UK while my Dad did a sabbatical. We came back and North America had gone Star Wars crazy.
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Someone get Apple on this - it makes a good stunt, at the very least. "iPhone 7 - now delivered by dirigible".
There and back again, take customers around the world by dirigible with a stop in China to pick up their phone/tablet/laptop. I'd do that in a second.
In most languages you don't need a debugger for stuff like null pointers; perfectly fine exceptions are thrown and reported telling you exactly what you did wrong. When is the last time you ever used a debugger to track down such a bug? You use debuggers to analyse why some algorithm isn't worked as it's supposed to; for finding flaws in human thinking.
I'm thinking you've never worked on a multi-threaded application with millions of lines of code. With a debugger, set an exception breakpoint and you can usually see exactly why something bad happened with almost no time wasted on "analysis". If I can reproduce a problem in a debugger I can usually fic it about 10x faster and more reliably than if all I have is a stack trace.
Ah. So emacs is an IDE now?
About 15 years ago I was doing C++ on Solaris, our team was split between vi and emacs using the oobr (Object oriented browser) extension.
It was one of the nicest C++ environments I've seen. (I've been doing mostly Java in Eclipse for the past decade. I can't imagine working without a feature rich extensible editor that integrates project and file managment. Inline versioning with git rocks.)
Eclipse failed because projects have to be small.
Curious. My Eclipse project is the Linux Kernel. Works fine.
Tip for young players: Eclipse runs on the JVM, the important bit is the last two letters "VM" - "Virtual Machine". The out of the box configuration gives Eclipse ~128MB of memory.... how many VMs do you run with that much memory? Change the default values to something sane (ie 2GB) and suddenly Eclipse is fast, responsive and useful. Remember VM = Virtual Machine.
Word up. At IBM 100 projects is a small workspace.
I don't understand why they didn't set sail sooner, even with a tow to speed it up.
This is what sunk them. Safest place to be when a hurricane smashes into your home port, is 500 miles away on a sunny beach sipping a margarita. Even just 150 miles off to the side in a really bad rainstorm is better than right in the path of the hurricane.
I've personally done this on a much smaller scale with thunderstorms on a sailboat. Both the distances and warning times are shorter by about the same fraction.
Right, so why was he sailing to Florida? If it had been me I'd have been running her northeast *away from the storm* as fast as I could go.
It would have been "bloody" not "dang" or possibly even "bloody bastard" had it been said with a Welsh accent.
But you bloody well know that, don't you boyo?
I was about to ask what the Welsh phrase for "grammar nazi" is... but according to google translate its "gramadeg Natsïaidd".
Seriously though, it was the general tone, not the specific words that gave me the warm and fuzzy feeling. To this day my Dad takes great pleasure in performing ad-hoc experiments with household items and random gadgets from hobby shops.
Welcome to Dodo Park.
Sorry, it just doesn't have the same ring to it.
That's why they called it Washington DC instead.
...since the world is only about 6000 years old!
Don't know if you were aiming for funny/ironic or trolling or simply delusional.
In any case you made me smile.
It's that dang phosphate backbone that's too willing to run off and go have reactions with any trallop of a molecule that wanders on by.
That line made my day. (Possibly because that's the kind of language my parents used when talking about physics or chemistry to us as children. Imagine it with a colloquial Midlands or South Wales accent)
well.. don't those same restrictions apply to screwdrivers sold in USA?
Victory screwdrivers?
:)
Isn't that what we will be doing starting this Fall?
Perhaps in Soviet Amerika, in the free world we'll be lying on a beach in Cuba.
From the website: Not for sale to the Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, or North Korea.
Apple ... They have one of the weakest mobile browsers on the market now.
Sure they have room to grow, but weakest? Honestly?
Better healthcare? That seems like a statement of perspective. I would bet that a majority of your neighbors to the south have better healthcare than a majority of Canadians.
Rich Americans have better healthcare than most Canadians. Canadians will not die in poverty to pay a Cancer health bill.
That's barely beyond practical bicycle range.
In my town, practical bicycle range is an inverse function of the number of feet of snow on the ground.
...American right-wing radio and TV clown Glenn Beck...
Now, I'm not commenting on whether he's right or wrong, but this in an accepted summary? Seems a bit much even by Slashdot standards.
Give me five clear examples of where he said something intelligent and insightful.