I am reading it right now... 3/4 through it... I think it is really great. There is a LOT of knowledge packed into this book. I like thick, dense books. Especially when it is easy to read, like this one. I have recommended it to about 4 other people since picking it up.
When the laptop is not on the shelf... which is likely to happen a lot, the shelf is really, really ugly.
Not to mention that there is no desk space! Where do you put your soda? A mouse? The papers you are working on? I cannot think of a work area I would want to use that did not have other surfaces to put stuff on!
This is a non-story!
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I have not found any music player for Windows better than iTunes. I have about 60 GB of music, and have found that all other players are slow and clunky when indexing my library. iTunes is fast, easy and has a great LAN sharing method that works really well.
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Sure, I can think of a dozen reasons myself... there are a ton of modeling examples I can come up with off the top of my head... Even for website caching, it would be useful. I am more curious to know what the OP wanted it for in the sake of curiosity.:)
Yeah, I know... it is not an answer... and it doesnt really matter... but out of raw curiosity... what are you doing that you need that much memory?
Bilz
The environment that I think of is either AIX or HPUX with the vendor compilers (I dont remember which one), and it happens in shared objects. Either case, the vendor is a pretty big one, and a user such as myself cannot pull weight.
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It must be noted that you loose some portability when creating global objects. Specifically, when you have objects in global space, the constructor must be called by some init code. This does not automatically get called in every environment... especially when the global object is located in a shared object.
Unfortunately, this problem also exists when you include static objects in classes... since these objects exist in global space as well.
What do you mean "Big whoop"? Comparing Grand Haven to Oakland County? You can put a hotspot in a starbucks in Grand Haven and the entire town will have WiFi. Grand Haven is TINY. Oakland County, on the other hand, is very large, with well over a million people... which equates to a lot more users than the users in Grand Haven.
That would be like me saying that I have some sand in my back yard... there's nothing that Grand Haven has to offer...
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They are pretty much saying "Ha Ha! You fools went after the wrong country! We have the weapons of mass destruction. Just try and catch us now! Mu ha ha ha ha!"
If they are worried about comments, shouldnt they also be worried about variables and function names? I have seen many cases where variables are named nCrappyPants, DoSomeShit(), and KillMeNowIHaveNoWillToLive().
Not that I support such naming methods... but If you are worried about comments, you should be worried about these things as well:)
I often hear that Linux costs more to administer than Windows. Would you agree that if the administrator is more familiar with Linux (and other *nix variants), that Microsoft is more costly to administer? Isn't it more of a matter of what the administrator is more familiar with and not the operating system in question?
Dont be too quick to judge. This is a Beta project. I would hazard a guess that the tool will span the globe, and work in more browsers by the time it is fully released. Could be wrong, but the limiting issues are too big for Google to ignore them and be as successful as they are.
Wow! You spend 10 minutes every day deleting spam from your box? You must be getting a ton of spam at work. Somebody is not doing their job. Dont get me wrong... I get a lot of spam, but I never spend more than 20 seconds a day managing it, because my filters take care of the rest for me.
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Huh? Weather you agree with social security or not doesn't really matter. The system is in place, and "idiotic" baby boomers have been told all their lives that the money would be there when they retire. For that reason, they rely on the money.
We, the younger generation, have been told that social security will NOT be there for us, so we are more keen on saving. If we were told that the money would be there for us, would we (as a group) save as much? Nope.
Get rid of your elitist "I have more money than you, therefor I am more responsible than those with less" attitude. It shows you have no empathy.
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They are also innovative in their design. Of all the USB-drive MP3 players out there, this is the sleekest, sexiest design available... especially for the size and battery life (12 hours!?!).
Not so cutting edge, agreed, but innovative nonetheless. This product blows away all devices in its class.
Brian
Yes... a problem. The majority of the worlds population lives in big cities. The majority of knowledge is also in big cities.
I know how to grow tomatoes, I know how to grow corn, I know how to fish, I know how to hunt, I know how to build a fire, I know how to find fresh water and I know how to produce ethanol and biodiesel.
Your're kidding, right? How are you going to grow tomatoes when the cloud of ash has blocked out the sun? How are you going to find fresh water, when it is contaminated with ash? How are you going to hunt, when 90% of the animals have also died for the same reasons?
I'll tell you what happened... I read the post about someone saying that they didnt think that 5 billion people would go dead, and correlated it to yours.
You are right. We agree. We both say that we will not all die, only most of us.
We are also highly specialized for our environment. In our current incarnation, we would surely not survive long. We are way too reliant on our technology to go any further than a few weeks.
We all (mostly) rely on our food being delivered to us via trucks to the grocery store... which needs electricity to function. If our major power sources fail, we will fail too.
Last August, much of the northeast USA got hit by a blackout. This blackout lasted about 2 days for most people in Detroit (where I am). In that time, we ran out of gas, we were unable to travel (due to lack of gas), stores were not open for food, and everything came to a halt.
Take that example, but assume it happens at a global scale due to a massive earthquake, planetoid strike, or volcano the size of Yosemite. The entire system would likely fail without the ability to recover. All of us in the cities would surely starve to death.
You may say that we could adapt to the threat, but unfortunately, there will be no adaptation time. It is most probable that our warning time for such an event would be as little as one second, or one minute. A planetoid large enough to take out the dinosaurs would come with no warning, and hit with such force, that if it landed in the center of the US, it would likely kill every living being from coast to coast within minutes (via the shockwave).
We, as modern humans are terrible at surviving without our technologies.
No, not everyone would die in the end, but sure 5 out of 6 billion people probably would.
Interesting... I found SuSE 9.1 to be the easiest install for Linux yet. I have installed many popular distros... including Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake and Debian. SuSE 9.1 was the most simple, straight-forward install with the least amount of tweaking.
I am not saying you are wrong. One of the problems with Linux, unfortunately, is its inability to be dynamic on different hardware. Some distros work great on some boxes, others for others. I love Linux... I hope they can figure this part of it out.
There are so many problems with making this task easy... including the lack of driver support by device manufacturers. There are others...
I will try Xandros real soon... to see if it is any better. I hope so. Linux will take off if the install/configure problems can be streamlined.
I think there is still a bit of confusion. The X Server is a server. It serves graphics to an application.
The client application uses the X protocol to send all of it's information from the server application. When the client sends information to the X server, it is still only a request to draw... to provide the service to the client application. The X server can deny that request. It is a high-level monotring system that allows multiple cleints to connect to it... not the other way around.
In contrast, the computer hosting the client application is also a server, serving the application to the user. Still, from the appliction/graphics system perspective, the client app can only request to draw stuff, and receive stuff from the client.
Money is nice... but if you can do it, donate your time. This is something that I wish I did more of. Its easy to give money, but your time is more valuable to many charaties.
As for money gifts, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Big Brother, Big Sister.
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I am reading it right now... 3/4 through it... I think it is really great. There is a LOT of knowledge packed into this book. I like thick, dense books. Especially when it is easy to read, like this one. I have recommended it to about 4 other people since picking it up.
When the laptop is not on the shelf... which is likely to happen a lot, the shelf is really, really ugly. Not to mention that there is no desk space! Where do you put your soda? A mouse? The papers you are working on? I cannot think of a work area I would want to use that did not have other surfaces to put stuff on! This is a non-story!
Dont go to fast. Your patience will be rewarded. We dont want you to turn out like Anakin.
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I have not found any music player for Windows better than iTunes. I have about 60 GB of music, and have found that all other players are slow and clunky when indexing my library. iTunes is fast, easy and has a great LAN sharing method that works really well. B
Sure, I can think of a dozen reasons myself... there are a ton of modeling examples I can come up with off the top of my head... Even for website caching, it would be useful. I am more curious to know what the OP wanted it for in the sake of curiosity. :)
Yeah, I know... it is not an answer... and it doesnt really matter... but out of raw curiosity... what are you doing that you need that much memory? Bilz
The environment that I think of is either AIX or HPUX with the vendor compilers (I dont remember which one), and it happens in shared objects. Either case, the vendor is a pretty big one, and a user such as myself cannot pull weight. B
It must be noted that you loose some portability when creating global objects. Specifically, when you have objects in global space, the constructor must be called by some init code. This does not automatically get called in every environment... especially when the global object is located in a shared object.
Unfortunately, this problem also exists when you include static objects in classes... since these objects exist in global space as well.
What do you mean "Big whoop"? Comparing Grand Haven to Oakland County? You can put a hotspot in a starbucks in Grand Haven and the entire town will have WiFi. Grand Haven is TINY. Oakland County, on the other hand, is very large, with well over a million people... which equates to a lot more users than the users in Grand Haven. That would be like me saying that I have some sand in my back yard... there's nothing that Grand Haven has to offer... B
They are pretty much saying "Ha Ha! You fools went after the wrong country! We have the weapons of mass destruction. Just try and catch us now! Mu ha ha ha ha!"
If they are worried about comments, shouldnt they also be worried about variables and function names? I have seen many cases where variables are named nCrappyPants, DoSomeShit(), and KillMeNowIHaveNoWillToLive().
:)
Not that I support such naming methods... but If you are worried about comments, you should be worried about these things as well
I often hear that Linux costs more to administer than Windows. Would you agree that if the administrator is more familiar with Linux (and other *nix variants), that Microsoft is more costly to administer? Isn't it more of a matter of what the administrator is more familiar with and not the operating system in question?
That is sooooooo nerdy.
Dont be too quick to judge. This is a Beta project. I would hazard a guess that the tool will span the globe, and work in more browsers by the time it is fully released. Could be wrong, but the limiting issues are too big for Google to ignore them and be as successful as they are.
Wow! You spend 10 minutes every day deleting spam from your box? You must be getting a ton of spam at work. Somebody is not doing their job. Dont get me wrong... I get a lot of spam, but I never spend more than 20 seconds a day managing it, because my filters take care of the rest for me. B
Huh? Weather you agree with social security or not doesn't really matter. The system is in place, and "idiotic" baby boomers have been told all their lives that the money would be there when they retire. For that reason, they rely on the money. We, the younger generation, have been told that social security will NOT be there for us, so we are more keen on saving. If we were told that the money would be there for us, would we (as a group) save as much? Nope. Get rid of your elitist "I have more money than you, therefor I am more responsible than those with less" attitude. It shows you have no empathy. B
I use Zina, which is an OpenSource clone of Andromeda. Then, I use an old tablet PC and a web browser in kiosk mode.
They are also innovative in their design. Of all the USB-drive MP3 players out there, this is the sleekest, sexiest design available... especially for the size and battery life (12 hours!?!). Not so cutting edge, agreed, but innovative nonetheless. This product blows away all devices in its class. Brian
This is a problem?
Yes... a problem. The majority of the worlds population lives in big cities. The majority of knowledge is also in big cities.
I know how to grow tomatoes, I know how to grow corn, I know how to fish, I know how to hunt, I know how to build a fire, I know how to find fresh water and I know how to produce ethanol and biodiesel.
Your're kidding, right? How are you going to grow tomatoes when the cloud of ash has blocked out the sun? How are you going to find fresh water, when it is contaminated with ash? How are you going to hunt, when 90% of the animals have also died for the same reasons?
I'll tell you what happened... I read the post about someone saying that they didnt think that 5 billion people would go dead, and correlated it to yours.
You are right. We agree. We both say that we will not all die, only most of us.
B
Yeah, what you said :) Typo. Thanks :)
We are also highly specialized for our environment. In our current incarnation, we would surely not survive long. We are way too reliant on our technology to go any further than a few weeks.
We all (mostly) rely on our food being delivered to us via trucks to the grocery store... which needs electricity to function. If our major power sources fail, we will fail too.
Last August, much of the northeast USA got hit by a blackout. This blackout lasted about 2 days for most people in Detroit (where I am). In that time, we ran out of gas, we were unable to travel (due to lack of gas), stores were not open for food, and everything came to a halt.
Take that example, but assume it happens at a global scale due to a massive earthquake, planetoid strike, or volcano the size of Yosemite. The entire system would likely fail without the ability to recover. All of us in the cities would surely starve to death.
You may say that we could adapt to the threat, but unfortunately, there will be no adaptation time. It is most probable that our warning time for such an event would be as little as one second, or one minute. A planetoid large enough to take out the dinosaurs would come with no warning, and hit with such force, that if it landed in the center of the US, it would likely kill every living being from coast to coast within minutes (via the shockwave).
We, as modern humans are terrible at surviving without our technologies.
No, not everyone would die in the end, but sure 5 out of 6 billion people probably would.
Interesting... I found SuSE 9.1 to be the easiest install for Linux yet. I have installed many popular distros... including Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake and Debian. SuSE 9.1 was the most simple, straight-forward install with the least amount of tweaking. I am not saying you are wrong. One of the problems with Linux, unfortunately, is its inability to be dynamic on different hardware. Some distros work great on some boxes, others for others. I love Linux... I hope they can figure this part of it out. There are so many problems with making this task easy... including the lack of driver support by device manufacturers. There are others... I will try Xandros real soon... to see if it is any better. I hope so. Linux will take off if the install/configure problems can be streamlined.
I think there is still a bit of confusion. The X Server is a server. It serves graphics to an application.
The client application uses the X protocol to send all of it's information from the server application. When the client sends information to the X server, it is still only a request to draw... to provide the service to the client application. The X server can deny that request. It is a high-level monotring system that allows multiple cleints to connect to it... not the other way around.
In contrast, the computer hosting the client application is also a server, serving the application to the user. Still, from the appliction/graphics system perspective, the client app can only request to draw stuff, and receive stuff from the client.
Brian
Money is nice... but if you can do it, donate your time. This is something that I wish I did more of. Its easy to give money, but your time is more valuable to many charaties.
As for money gifts, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Big Brother, Big Sister.