He's a (fairly) well-known blogger and Science Fiction author who has been a big proponent of Creative Commons and Copyright reform. He was the first to release a novel under CC, according to Wikipedia.
The reason is pretty clear to me: marketing. Apple has managed to brand itself among consumers as the 'sexy, easy-to-use' alternative to Microsoft. Linux is still viewed by many as 'that geeky thing those nerds are obsessed with', if they know what it is at all.
Second to this. I don't think they sell domains independently from the hosting, but if you want a painless (and cheap!) all-in-one solution, NFS.N is the way to go.
Well, that would only be a problem if our wormhole (or whatever) was not susceptible to gravity and momentum at all as it moves through time. Without having the technology to test, it's impossible to say whether that's the case.
If you're traveling and need a laptop, I can't recommend a tablet enough. I don't know exactly what you're doing, so I can't say whether a slate or convertible would be better for you.
Though if you need a keyboard, (and you carry it quite a ways), it might be better to go with, say, a MacBook Air or a Flybook or something. Convertible tablets aren't as light as their pure slate brethren. Really, it very much depends on what you're doing.
Well, if we're discussing cultural influence, I think we would also have to talk about total world populations. And the fact that Shakespeare plays have been performed for over five hundred years. I doubt (and maybe hope) that people won't still be playing WoW five hundred years from now (though with the habit of sequeling things, I guess we can't rule it out).
Re:So when do we get its successor?
on
X Power Tools
·
· Score: 1
So there are multi-billion-dollar corporations working to keep X11 so entrenched as to ensure profits for said corporations?
If I read the patent right, this is a client-side error handler (Javascript, perhaps?) which, instead of just accepting a 404 error page, forwards the URL to a separate web server which determines another page to display somewhat like mod_speling, but I'd guess it could be more powerful (which I'd imagine would be useful with the URLs I've seen Amazon come up with). But then, who would be hand-typing an Amazon link anyway? Are they recording bad links within Amazon's pages so they can fix them?
It's certainly more powerful than simply customized error pages, but I'm not sure I see a point to it. Other than not letting someone like SCO or Raymond Nero get it.
As the author tried to explain, programmers need a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms before they should even begin looking at Java. The specific problem he calls out (which I actually feel only scratches the surface) is that Java offers such a featureful API that the programmer isn't forced to learn the basics. He is able to simply use a Hashtable, a Sort, a LinkedList, or whatever he needs without understanding why it works. Which is a very dangerous thing for someone training to be a Computer Scientist.
As a current "IT" student, I have to wholeheartedly agree with this. Just last week, I was in a Data Structures class and we were sorting our first array. The guy beside me, instead of writing the bubble sort that we'd been using in previous classes (the intended solution), nearly the first thing he did was pull up the Java documentation and find the Arrays.sort() method. I asked him about it, since we were working on a team. His answer? "Why write out a sort when Java provides it for you?"
To be fair, Java is far from the only language susceptible to this. The C++ STL has sort methods, and I'm sure most other languages have similar features. The real problem is that programs are moving away from programming fundamentals in the interest of getting to the advanced things that employers want. I took the AP Programming classes/test back when it used C++, and I learned things there that we *still* haven't gotten to after two years in the degree plan.
I don't know that it's the specifics of the algorithms that is really what is missing, though. I think the real loss is that students aren't spending time reading through the algorithms and learning how to analyze code, leaving them less able to step through their own code when their Java Servlet won't start up or their Bean disappears. One thing I run into when helping others is that they really can't say what the code they just typed is actually doing either algorithmically or under the hood.
But then, I do hail from a small(er) former community college. YMMV, I suppose.
I've yet to hear anyone call Starbucks coffee good. A lot of people like their oddly-named milk-based drinks, though. I expect it's because there's so little coffee in them that one can't taste how bad it is.
While a great book, I don't know that Understanding Comics is particularly relevant to desktop application design.
If you're designing a visual interface for a game or something like that, however, then it could be something to look through with regard to motion, animations, and communication.
My guess is that those restaurants want to be able to justify their prices, so instead of dropping prices to reflect the portions, they increase portions to match the prices, which probably makes them more money than otherwise. (As you said, economy of scale).
Slashdot Mirror
He's a (fairly) well-known blogger and Science Fiction author who has been a big proponent of Creative Commons and Copyright reform. He was the first to release a novel under CC, according to Wikipedia.
The reason is pretty clear to me: marketing. Apple has managed to brand itself among consumers as the 'sexy, easy-to-use' alternative to Microsoft. Linux is still viewed by many as 'that geeky thing those nerds are obsessed with', if they know what it is at all.
Second to this. I don't think they sell domains independently from the hosting, but if you want a painless (and cheap!) all-in-one solution, NFS.N is the way to go.
Since when does OS X run Windows programs natively?
And you didn't even rickroll anyone with that link. This is serious.
Works for me.
No, it's just that the original bill was geared toward organizations of Anonymous Cowards.
Well, that would only be a problem if our wormhole (or whatever) was not susceptible to gravity and momentum at all as it moves through time. Without having the technology to test, it's impossible to say whether that's the case.
Someone please mod that redundant.
Yes, and probably not.
Third base!
I know, it's not the same thing. Still, it seemed fitting.
If you're traveling and need a laptop, I can't recommend a tablet enough. I don't know exactly what you're doing, so I can't say whether a slate or convertible would be better for you.
Though if you need a keyboard, (and you carry it quite a ways), it might be better to go with, say, a MacBook Air or a Flybook or something. Convertible tablets aren't as light as their pure slate brethren. Really, it very much depends on what you're doing.
Confusing grammar aside, you just proved his statement. He had said that his GP had said 1/1 billion, and his parent 1/1 million.
Hold on, let me set up my mirror first.
Well, if we're discussing cultural influence, I think we would also have to talk about total world populations. And the fact that Shakespeare plays have been performed for over five hundred years. I doubt (and maybe hope) that people won't still be playing WoW five hundred years from now (though with the habit of sequeling things, I guess we can't rule it out).
So there are multi-billion-dollar corporations working to keep X11 so entrenched as to ensure profits for said corporations?
So a Haiku-Myth combo would be something to look forward to?
You have a 100 GB database and you're not concerned with stability??
Do you work for the government?
If I read the patent right, this is a client-side error handler (Javascript, perhaps?) which, instead of just accepting a 404 error page, forwards the URL to a separate web server which determines another page to display somewhat like mod_speling, but I'd guess it could be more powerful (which I'd imagine would be useful with the URLs I've seen Amazon come up with). But then, who would be hand-typing an Amazon link anyway? Are they recording bad links within Amazon's pages so they can fix them?
It's certainly more powerful than simply customized error pages, but I'm not sure I see a point to it. Other than not letting someone like SCO or Raymond Nero get it.
As a current "IT" student, I have to wholeheartedly agree with this. Just last week, I was in a Data Structures class and we were sorting our first array. The guy beside me, instead of writing the bubble sort that we'd been using in previous classes (the intended solution), nearly the first thing he did was pull up the Java documentation and find the Arrays.sort() method. I asked him about it, since we were working on a team. His answer? "Why write out a sort when Java provides it for you?"
To be fair, Java is far from the only language susceptible to this. The C++ STL has sort methods, and I'm sure most other languages have similar features. The real problem is that programs are moving away from programming fundamentals in the interest of getting to the advanced things that employers want. I took the AP Programming classes/test back when it used C++, and I learned things there that we *still* haven't gotten to after two years in the degree plan.
I don't know that it's the specifics of the algorithms that is really what is missing, though. I think the real loss is that students aren't spending time reading through the algorithms and learning how to analyze code, leaving them less able to step through their own code when their Java Servlet won't start up or their Bean disappears. One thing I run into when helping others is that they really can't say what the code they just typed is actually doing either algorithmically or under the hood.
But then, I do hail from a small(er) former community college. YMMV, I suppose.
I've yet to hear anyone call Starbucks coffee good. A lot of people like their oddly-named milk-based drinks, though. I expect it's because there's so little coffee in them that one can't taste how bad it is.
So Congress is just sick of getting those EFF emails?
Windows has almost never given me this message. And if I was to pull my drive while the little light is blinking, that's my own fault.
While a great book, I don't know that Understanding Comics is particularly relevant to desktop application design.
If you're designing a visual interface for a game or something like that, however, then it could be something to look through with regard to motion, animations, and communication.
My guess is that those restaurants want to be able to justify their prices, so instead of dropping prices to reflect the portions, they increase portions to match the prices, which probably makes them more money than otherwise. (As you said, economy of scale).