I think the comment was directed at your poor grammar. You don't use commas, provided a fine example of a run-on sentence, and misspelled "proportions."
IMHO that's unethical. Holding companies hostage is not a valid business practice, even if made crystal clear up front.
Sounds like a good way to damage your rep. Of course, if he really feels he has to do this, it may be the companies he works for don't really have great reps themselves.
This was probably done in collusion with Children's Television Workshop (CTW) so that they can prevent someone from making an OS X version of "The Grouch", one of the greatest MacOS hacks ever.
It was great. Empty the trash, and Oscar the Grouch would come out of the trashcan singing. Then CTW sued the the muppety pants off the author and it pretty much disappeard.
"AddUser Command is an equivalent to an SQL INSERT -- using the HashMap.put method is the same as inserting data into an indexed relational table."
This makes the assumption that the data table is indexed only on the primary key. However, Oracle and other RDBMS systems allow indexing of any field in the table, not just the primary key. This system has no way of retrieving information based on other criteria of a record.
I suppose the alternative would be to create a class for each criteria that you are looking up by, but that means a lot of objects containing the same data, merely to let it be accessed in different ways. I have a table of 2.8 million records that I need to access based on at least 3 criteria. This just won't cut it.
I refuse to carry more than one device, and there are uses for text pages.
My servers can't call me to tell me they're down, so the phone/voxmail argument is invalid.
I really like getting the gate and time changes sent to my phone when I fly. However, these have been my experiences:
- The message never shows up. - The message tells me what gate I should be at when I'm already sitting on the plane. - The message tells me what time I'm leaving after I've arrived. - 3 messages arrive in 5 minutes, so I don't know which one to trust.
I did some work on a site selling ringtones once, and those things would always disappear in the air. Seemed more like a 15% failure rate to me...
I've been doing OK (not great) into the board at clubs. But it does cut my setup time, which makes for low-stress gigs.
However, I've always DI'ed bass for recording, as opposed to having to find exactly the right mike, mike distance, and bathroom to record guitar sounds in.
Gibson also makes basses, and that's where their early adoption will come. Throw this stuff into some of their Tobias or Steinberger lines, and it will sell. If it's truly open, companies like EMG and Bartolini could take it and run with it.
Most guitarists, who can afford it, are 'purists'. This means guitar (with 50's-era electronics) -> tube amp (with 60's-era electronics). Granted, digital amp-modeling has taken off recently, but basically as a cheap way to get tube tone.
Guitar effects? What's the most popular stompbox? Probably the Ibanez TubeScreamer... 70's technology.
Other musicians, including us bassists, embrace new technology very quickly.
Things many bassists use, that are different from 50's, and adopted much quicker than guitartists:
Active electronics in bass. Do you know any guitarists with active pickups or preamps? When was the last time anyone used the Tone knob on a guitar? I'm all about the 3-band EQ on my bass.
Extra strings (5&6). The 7-string guitar is just starting to catch on, b/c Limp Bizkit made it popular. Steve Vai was using them 5+ years ago. I've had a 5-string bass for 10 years.
Solid-state amps. Ampeg SVTs are frickin' heavy.
New speaker sizes. Most guitarists still play through 12" Celestions, bass players have any combination of 10" to 18", with tweeters and porting.
New pickup types/shapes. Guitars are single-coil or humbucker, like 50's Strats and Les Pauls. Bassists are using soapbars, MM-style, different amounts of polepieces in J's and P's. Some even use that new Lightwave optical pickup system.
New technology is wasted on guitarists. Give it to people who will really use it!
The really interesting problem in DRM is not what happens on the desktop, because on-line/live-time subscriptions aren't too hard to do by issuing new licenses repeatedly.
It's in the portable market where DRM will sink or swim. Right now, very few portables fully implement SDMI or anything else. All but a few lack the secure clock required to prevent people from beating dates by rollback.
The ones that do implement clocks or real security are proprietary and have low market share, like Sony's WMA-wrapped ATRAC3 devices.
Well, IIRC, "Asteroids" and a number of other classic arcade games were done with vector graphics displays. In that case, the display contributed to the design of the game, as there were more interesting angles and a sort of circular-ness to the whole game, vs. the up-and-down-ness of Space Invaders and its ilk.
Also, as my college was run almost exclusively on donated hardware(I was using Sun 3/60s in 1996), we at one point inherited a greenie (text-terminal) that used vector graphics. For me, the ghostly nature of the text was not as strange as the fact that it had separate CR and LF buttons. (I'm young, and it reminded me of my mom's old manual typewriter).
However, in this case, the vectors we're talking about are purely software. Most hard-core graphics manipulation (scaling, rotation, perspective) is done with vector math. Keeping everything as a vector saves some time in the creation of vectors from points/lines (although I can't see how that would be too computationally intensive.)
The only worry I have is that people will go bonkers with graphics transformations, which are inherently rather large and slow. I think the UI is pretty cool, and I definitely ooh-ed out loud when I saw the window morph up from inside the dock. But I've been waiting for OS-X for a while. All the beauty and simplicity of the MacOS with all the flexiblity and power of BSD command-line.
Well, IIRC, "Asteroids" and a number of other classic arcade games were done with vector graphics displays. In that case, the display contributed to the design of the game, as there were more interesting angles and a sort of circular-ness to the whole game, vs. the up-and-down-ness of Space Invaders and its ilk.
Also, as my college was run almost exclusively on donated hardware(I was using Sun 3/60s in 1996), we at one point inherited a greenie (text-terminal) that used vector graphics. For me, the ghostly nature of the text was not as strange as the fact that it had separate and buttons. (I'm young, and it reminded me of my mom's old manual typewriter).
However, in this case, the vectors we're talking about are purely software. Most hard-core graphics manipulation (scaling, rotation, perspective) is done with vector math. Keeping everything as a vector saves some time in the creation of vectors from points/lines (although I can't see how that would be too computationally intensive.)
The only worry I have is that people will go bonkers with graphics transformations, which are inherently rather large and slow. I think the UI is pretty cool, and I definitely ooh-ed out loud when I saw the window morph up from inside the dock. But I've been waiting for OS-X for a while. All the beauty and simplicity of the MacOS with all the flexiblity and power of BSD command-line.
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> If they're not smart enough to figure out how to use a software package what are they doing there in the first place?
Taking English or Philosophy, where all they really need is to get email and write papers. Why make them change from what they did in high school?
No, he meant Balki from "Perfect Strangers."
Yeah, but who wants to get an Oregonish massage?
<silly>
I think it will be fast because they're going to build it with silicon from the moon.
Since there is 1/6 gravity on the moon, light can move faster so the chip will be 6x faster than anything us Earth suckers can make.
</silly>
Cool. What's your /. password again?
I think the comment was directed at your poor grammar. You don't use commas, provided a fine example of a run-on sentence, and misspelled "proportions."
That's why you have a contract. Legal recourse.
IMHO that's unethical. Holding companies hostage is not a valid business practice, even if made crystal clear up front.
Sounds like a good way to damage your rep. Of course, if he really feels he has to do this, it may be the companies he works for don't really have great reps themselves.
This was probably done in collusion with Children's Television Workshop (CTW) so that they can prevent someone from making an OS X version of "The Grouch", one of the greatest MacOS hacks ever.
It was great. Empty the trash, and Oscar the Grouch would come out of the trashcan singing. Then CTW sued the the muppety pants off the author and it pretty much disappeard.
Of course, assuming you wanted to use it as phone, you wouldn't get T-Mobile. They're not so good with that pesky coverage area thingy.
No, you're confused. You're thinking of oranges.
True. They are the same people who created the 'clucking bunny' for their Easter ads.
What do I think? 25,000 isn't really enough to upgrade my town so that I can produce a third champion. The Night Elves are so gonna kick my butt...
I'm sure the last episode of Animatrix will explain how the evil computers converted anime into live action.
Remember 'The Simpsons' Halloween episode when Homer fell into 3-dimensions and then meatspace? Something like that...
I hope they don't try to launch that brand in the U.K.
The article referenced says:
This makes the assumption that the data table is indexed only on the primary key. However, Oracle and other RDBMS systems allow indexing of any field in the table, not just the primary key. This system has no way of retrieving information based on other criteria of a record.
I suppose the alternative would be to create a class for each criteria that you are looking up by, but that means a lot of objects containing the same data, merely to let it be accessed in different ways. I have a table of 2.8 million records that I need to access based on at least 3 criteria. This just won't cut it.
I refuse to carry more than one device, and there are uses for text pages.
My servers can't call me to tell me they're down, so the phone/voxmail argument is invalid.
I really like getting the gate and time changes sent to my phone when I fly. However, these have been my experiences:
- The message never shows up.
- The message tells me what gate I should be at when I'm already sitting on the plane.
- The message tells me what time I'm leaving after I've arrived.
- 3 messages arrive in 5 minutes, so I don't know which one to trust.
I did some work on a site selling ringtones once, and those things would always disappear in the air. Seemed more like a 15% failure rate to me...
-Wembley
More proof that Fernandes is dumb:
They only have Boba Fett on the goofy little travel guitars. I bet if they put him on the full-sized one it would sell like mad.
And howcome the guitars don't have the bizarro Fernandes Sustainer system? Have they given up on that gimmick?
I've been doing OK (not great) into the board at clubs. But it does cut my setup time, which makes for low-stress gigs.
However, I've always DI'ed bass for recording, as opposed to having to find exactly the right mike, mike distance, and bathroom to record guitar sounds in.
Gibson also makes basses, and that's where their early adoption will come. Throw this stuff into some of their Tobias or Steinberger lines, and it will sell. If it's truly open, companies like EMG and Bartolini could take it and run with it.
Most guitarists, who can afford it, are 'purists'. This means guitar (with 50's-era electronics) -> tube amp (with 60's-era electronics). Granted, digital amp-modeling has taken off recently, but basically as a cheap way to get tube tone.
Guitar effects? What's the most popular stompbox? Probably the Ibanez TubeScreamer... 70's technology.
Other musicians, including us bassists, embrace new technology very quickly. Things many bassists use, that are different from 50's, and adopted much quicker than guitartists:
New technology is wasted on guitarists. Give it to people who will really use it!
Love, WembleyMonster instrument cables are severely overrated.
I had a right-angle plug on a bass cable die within a month.
Of course, I did get another monster cable free b/c of their lifetime warranty...
The really interesting problem in DRM is not what happens on the desktop, because on-line/live-time subscriptions aren't too hard to do by issuing new licenses repeatedly.
It's in the portable market where DRM will sink or swim. Right now, very few portables fully implement SDMI or anything else. All but a few lack the secure clock required to prevent people from beating dates by rollback.
The ones that do implement clocks or real security are proprietary and have low market share, like Sony's WMA-wrapped ATRAC3 devices.
Well, IIRC, "Asteroids" and a number of other classic arcade games were done with vector graphics displays. In that case, the display contributed to the design of the game, as there were more interesting angles and a sort of circular-ness to the whole game, vs. the up-and-down-ness of Space Invaders and its ilk.
Also, as my college was run almost exclusively on donated hardware(I was using Sun 3/60s in 1996), we at one point inherited a greenie (text-terminal) that used vector graphics. For me, the ghostly nature of the text was not as strange as the fact that it had separate CR and LF buttons. (I'm young, and it reminded me of my mom's old manual typewriter).
However, in this case, the vectors we're talking about are purely software. Most hard-core graphics manipulation (scaling, rotation, perspective) is done with vector math. Keeping everything as a vector saves some time in the creation of vectors from points/lines (although I can't see how that would be too computationally intensive.)
The only worry I have is that people will go bonkers with graphics transformations, which are inherently rather large and slow. I think the UI is pretty cool, and I definitely ooh-ed out loud when I saw the window morph up from inside the dock. But I've been waiting for OS-X for a while. All the beauty and simplicity of the MacOS with all the flexiblity and power of BSD command-line.
Well, IIRC, "Asteroids" and a number of other classic arcade games were done with vector graphics displays. In that case, the display contributed to the design of the game, as there were more interesting angles and a sort of circular-ness to the whole game, vs. the up-and-down-ness of Space Invaders and its ilk.
Also, as my college was run almost exclusively on donated hardware(I was using Sun 3/60s in 1996), we at one point inherited a greenie (text-terminal) that used vector graphics. For me, the ghostly nature of the text was not as strange as the fact that it had separate and buttons. (I'm young, and it reminded me of my mom's old manual typewriter).
However, in this case, the vectors we're talking about are purely software. Most hard-core graphics manipulation (scaling, rotation, perspective) is done with vector math. Keeping everything as a vector saves some time in the creation of vectors from points/lines (although I can't see how that would be too computationally intensive.)
The only worry I have is that people will go bonkers with graphics transformations, which are inherently rather large and slow. I think the UI is pretty cool, and I definitely ooh-ed out loud when I saw the window morph up from inside the dock. But I've been waiting for OS-X for a while. All the beauty and simplicity of the MacOS with all the flexiblity and power of BSD command-line.