On top of being the developers of all but the newest defrag that comes with Windows, the Diskeeper branded version of Diskeeper light came pre-installed on my Thinkpad T60.
Java on desktop is irrelevant in what way? As in the performance is good enough that it doesn't matter or as in it's not really used on the desktop, anyway? I'm curious because I have several java desktop apps that I use on a regular basis in both windows and linux.
Excellent. It's good to hear this stuff from you and the others who responded to my post.
I'm a Perl dev full time and do some C, Java, and C# for hobby stuff. I've written part of a text game engine in C, a little snake clone in C with ncurses, and a space invaders clone in C# using XNA (and I really want to finish this by adding in my awesome plans some day with bosses and multiple weapons). I actually think about writing a game in Scratch every couple of weeks myself just because it looked like a simple, relaxing version of other stuff I do and quick enough to work with that I might finish it instead of adding yet another 80% finished project to the queue of projects I need to finish some day.
I was just looking into this recently for my nephew. Scratch looks really cool. I downloaded it and played for a few minutes and e-mailed my sister to tell her to install it for her kid. She hasn't done it yet, so I don't know if it was as good of an idea as I thought, but it sure looks cool.
It has color coded, drag and drop logic stuff that interlock like a puzzle so that kids can see how it fits together. It takes seconds to get a little animated sprite "walking" and do the fancy, whiz bang, pretty stuff today's kids will be wanting to see right away.
I just hope they can save it, unlike the last website I frequented that this happened to. thespark.com was originally run by some college kids with a sense of humor and some tech skills. It was awesome for years. Then some corporate overlords flashed lots of money at them and like any sane young group of people, they sold. Then it started going downhill. Then the original people got tired of it going downhill and quit. Then it went downhill really, really fast.
While not correct if someone wants to be pedantic about it, it's very common to refer to the entire IP stack as TCP/IP or the TCP/IP stack. I can't think of a book that touches on networking either in part or is the entire subject of the book that I've read that does not use TCP/IP as the generic term for the entire stack. Possibly not a good idea for a legal document, but that's how it is.
Just like even though kleenex is a type of tissue, but tissue is not a type of kleenex, if someone asked you for a kleenex you wouldn't respond "I don't have any. All I've got here are these Great Value Facial Tissues", you'd just point them to whatever you have and know exactly what they meant. The same goes for when someone says "TCP/IP", while TCP/IP is a more specific thing than just IP, you know (or should know) what someone means and know that they very well may be referring to the entire stack, not just TCP and its sub-protocols specifically.
In an ideal world, yes, that's how it would be. Unfortunately, though, that's not how it is and likely never will be while keeping the level of freedom we have on the Internet today.
There's also that group of people who will never care about or bother with the very basics of security, such as not giving out personal info, not following links from random e-mails, etc. Just like we have people who drive every day, sometimes for long distances, who can't change their tire to the spare if it blows or do any other very basic car maintenance (my first slashdot car analogy, I'm so excited!). The Internet people are more like the drunk drivers of the Internet - their lack of concern also negatively affects others. Maybe we can bring back WebTV for these people?
So with all of that in mind, I find it a very interesting and perplexing (I think that may be the first time I've ever used that word) situation we've gotten ourselves into.
You bring up something that I think about somewhat often.
On the one hand, the Internet is incredibly useful and provides so much information and entertainment which I believe everyone SHOULD be able to access. It would be a huge loss to society, imo, for people lose this.
On the other hand, computers are complex. Networks are a complex part of computers. Security is a yet more complex part of computer networks. These are things that people spend years learning about and are constantly learning more about, yet here we are encouraging average, untrained people to stick computers which they are basically system administrators for on the largest, most complex, and hardest to secure network in the world? How much sense does that make?
Much like movies based on super heroes and video games have gotten better, some even to the point of being able to be called good, the same has happened with games based on movies.
Have you played any of the Evil Dead games? Fistful of Boomstick was fun and while I didn't play all of Hail to the King, what I did play of it was good.
Have you played the originalEvil Dead game? I think it proves your point about movie games having improved since that era:)
No I haven't. You've done a rare thing finding a game I was not aware of. Being a video game and evil dead geek, I'm going to have to check it out in spite of it being terrible.
Much like movies based on super heroes and video games have gotten better, some even to the point of being able to be called good, the same has happened with games based on movies.
Have you played any of the Evil Dead games? Fistful of Boomstick was fun and while I didn't play all of Hail to the King, what I did play of it was good. These games even act as sequels to the movies, just like the new Ghostbusters game is intended to do.
Escape From Butcher Bay? I have yet to meet a person who played that game who did not like it or had a complaint other than wishing it was a couple hours longer. This one was a prequel to the movies.
Given that we're making a big deal out of black man running for president and getting the presidency, I'm not so sure we're as on target a you think. If we were where MLK wanted, it wouldn't have been a big deal to have a black man there, because he'd just be another person.
I think this is the first big step in a long time to getting there rather than a sign that we are there.
It's also hilarious in schools when they are forcing you to watch Channel 1 News. I know we always got a laugh when someone brought in a remote that could control the tvs in the classrooms. They do still show that, right?
However, the Slackware jump is (and was at the time) well-documented and there were prior versions to find information about. Someone searching for "Slackware 6" would immediately know what's up. That's not the case if there are no prior versions.
True. It's the first question answered in the faq, I used it to double check that before posting just in case I was remembering something wrong. The Slackware version jump is just what always comes to mind first for me with stuff like this since it was the first time I had seen that and had a big "WTF?" moment when I first caught it all those years ago, until I read the explanation, at which point I still thought it was kind of silly.
It goes to show that a version number on its own doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot, though, even when it comes to respectable, quality software.
I remember long ago when Slackware jumped from 4.0 to 7.0, not because there had been 3 major revisions that just hadn't gotten released or something like that, but because Red Hat was already on 6.0 and Patrick Volkerding was tired of being asked why Slackware wasn't at 6.0 yet.
To answer the original question, version numbers don't mean much. They can give you an initial clue, but you've got to look at the history of the software to know the truth. Sometimes there are huge version jumps just because, sometimes there are major changes but only a change to a minor revision number.
For crying out loud - MAKE IT INTERESTING. I remember doing what I referred to as "Math for the sake of Math". Show how it's useful - the easiest way is through teaching Science.
At least for me, you've hit the nail on the head there. I figured this out back in high school when I had the exact same problem with math - it was math just for the sake of math. Then one day I took a physics class and I noticed something... this is the exact same math I was doing in trig and algebra 2, except it's easy now, because there are real world things for me to relate it to instead of just a bunch of numbers that someone came up with.
Thank you. I was reading along hoping someone else would realize this.
The really ridiculous thing is that you have to pay to be able to send via your short code, anyway. Each carrier has to approve you... or you get an aggregator who got approved and pay that aggregator who, I presume (but could be wrong about), pays some amount to the carriers already.
On top of that, the carrier already also gets a percentage of the money from each premium SMS, if I'm remembering what the guys at work who have done more work on that stuff told me correctly.
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On top of being the developers of all but the newest defrag that comes with Windows, the Diskeeper branded version of Diskeeper light came pre-installed on my Thinkpad T60.
Java on desktop is irrelevant in what way? As in the performance is good enough that it doesn't matter or as in it's not really used on the desktop, anyway? I'm curious because I have several java desktop apps that I use on a regular basis in both windows and linux.
I'm pretty sure they throw you in jail for doing unto others what I would have them do unto me without their permission.
Excellent. It's good to hear this stuff from you and the others who responded to my post.
I'm a Perl dev full time and do some C, Java, and C# for hobby stuff. I've written part of a text game engine in C, a little snake clone in C with ncurses, and a space invaders clone in C# using XNA (and I really want to finish this by adding in my awesome plans some day with bosses and multiple weapons). I actually think about writing a game in Scratch every couple of weeks myself just because it looked like a simple, relaxing version of other stuff I do and quick enough to work with that I might finish it instead of adding yet another 80% finished project to the queue of projects I need to finish some day.
Maybe the kid's gift is being able to consume huge amounts of caffeine?
I was just looking into this recently for my nephew. Scratch looks really cool. I downloaded it and played for a few minutes and e-mailed my sister to tell her to install it for her kid. She hasn't done it yet, so I don't know if it was as good of an idea as I thought, but it sure looks cool.
It has color coded, drag and drop logic stuff that interlock like a puzzle so that kids can see how it fits together. It takes seconds to get a little animated sprite "walking" and do the fancy, whiz bang, pretty stuff today's kids will be wanting to see right away.
Related to this and the story, when I see someone of the opposite sex being sexually stimulated, I too tend to orgasm. It's amazing!
But Uncle Ted is a very old, common nickname for him and can be seen in use right here. Reefer Ted, though? He's very, very, anti-drugs.
Until I got to the cell block bit I was wondering what Ted Nugent had to do with the Internet.
I just hope they can save it, unlike the last website I frequented that this happened to. thespark.com was originally run by some college kids with a sense of humor and some tech skills. It was awesome for years. Then some corporate overlords flashed lots of money at them and like any sane young group of people, they sold. Then it started going downhill. Then the original people got tired of it going downhill and quit. Then it went downhill really, really fast.
While not correct if someone wants to be pedantic about it, it's very common to refer to the entire IP stack as TCP/IP or the TCP/IP stack. I can't think of a book that touches on networking either in part or is the entire subject of the book that I've read that does not use TCP/IP as the generic term for the entire stack. Possibly not a good idea for a legal document, but that's how it is.
Just like even though kleenex is a type of tissue, but tissue is not a type of kleenex, if someone asked you for a kleenex you wouldn't respond "I don't have any. All I've got here are these Great Value Facial Tissues", you'd just point them to whatever you have and know exactly what they meant. The same goes for when someone says "TCP/IP", while TCP/IP is a more specific thing than just IP, you know (or should know) what someone means and know that they very well may be referring to the entire stack, not just TCP and its sub-protocols specifically.
In an ideal world, yes, that's how it would be. Unfortunately, though, that's not how it is and likely never will be while keeping the level of freedom we have on the Internet today.
There's also that group of people who will never care about or bother with the very basics of security, such as not giving out personal info, not following links from random e-mails, etc. Just like we have people who drive every day, sometimes for long distances, who can't change their tire to the spare if it blows or do any other very basic car maintenance (my first slashdot car analogy, I'm so excited!). The Internet people are more like the drunk drivers of the Internet - their lack of concern also negatively affects others. Maybe we can bring back WebTV for these people?
So with all of that in mind, I find it a very interesting and perplexing (I think that may be the first time I've ever used that word) situation we've gotten ourselves into.
You bring up something that I think about somewhat often.
On the one hand, the Internet is incredibly useful and provides so much information and entertainment which I believe everyone SHOULD be able to access. It would be a huge loss to society, imo, for people lose this.
On the other hand, computers are complex. Networks are a complex part of computers. Security is a yet more complex part of computer networks. These are things that people spend years learning about and are constantly learning more about, yet here we are encouraging average, untrained people to stick computers which they are basically system administrators for on the largest, most complex, and hardest to secure network in the world? How much sense does that make?
Just because the others don't know that all spiders are trying to eat them doesn't mean the spiders aren't.
Because for every spider we send to space, that's one less left here on earth trying to eat us.
Now if only we had a name for the sort of people who argue over the differences between geeks and nerds.
Much like movies based on super heroes and video games have gotten better, some even to the point of being able to be called good, the same has happened with games based on movies.
Have you played any of the Evil Dead games? Fistful of Boomstick was fun and while I didn't play all of Hail to the King, what I did play of it was good.
Have you played the original Evil Dead game? I think it proves your point about movie games having improved since that era :)
No I haven't. You've done a rare thing finding a game I was not aware of. Being a video game and evil dead geek, I'm going to have to check it out in spite of it being terrible.
Much like movies based on super heroes and video games have gotten better, some even to the point of being able to be called good, the same has happened with games based on movies.
Have you played any of the Evil Dead games? Fistful of Boomstick was fun and while I didn't play all of Hail to the King, what I did play of it was good. These games even act as sequels to the movies, just like the new Ghostbusters game is intended to do.
Escape From Butcher Bay? I have yet to meet a person who played that game who did not like it or had a complaint other than wishing it was a couple hours longer. This one was a prequel to the movies.
Given that we're making a big deal out of black man running for president and getting the presidency, I'm not so sure we're as on target a you think. If we were where MLK wanted, it wouldn't have been a big deal to have a black man there, because he'd just be another person.
I think this is the first big step in a long time to getting there rather than a sign that we are there.
It's also hilarious in schools when they are forcing you to watch Channel 1 News. I know we always got a laugh when someone brought in a remote that could control the tvs in the classrooms. They do still show that, right?
However, the Slackware jump is (and was at the time) well-documented and there were prior versions to find information about. Someone searching for "Slackware 6" would immediately know what's up. That's not the case if there are no prior versions.
True. It's the first question answered in the faq, I used it to double check that before posting just in case I was remembering something wrong. The Slackware version jump is just what always comes to mind first for me with stuff like this since it was the first time I had seen that and had a big "WTF?" moment when I first caught it all those years ago, until I read the explanation, at which point I still thought it was kind of silly.
It goes to show that a version number on its own doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot, though, even when it comes to respectable, quality software.
I remember long ago when Slackware jumped from 4.0 to 7.0, not because there had been 3 major revisions that just hadn't gotten released or something like that, but because Red Hat was already on 6.0 and Patrick Volkerding was tired of being asked why Slackware wasn't at 6.0 yet.
To answer the original question, version numbers don't mean much. They can give you an initial clue, but you've got to look at the history of the software to know the truth. Sometimes there are huge version jumps just because, sometimes there are major changes but only a change to a minor revision number.
So what you're saying is that I need to find a Taoist chick and convince her that she needs to recycle my sperm's energy through her body.
For crying out loud - MAKE IT INTERESTING. I remember doing what I referred to as "Math for the sake of Math". Show how it's useful - the easiest way is through teaching Science.
At least for me, you've hit the nail on the head there. I figured this out back in high school when I had the exact same problem with math - it was math just for the sake of math. Then one day I took a physics class and I noticed something... this is the exact same math I was doing in trig and algebra 2, except it's easy now, because there are real world things for me to relate it to instead of just a bunch of numbers that someone came up with.
Thank you. I was reading along hoping someone else would realize this.
The really ridiculous thing is that you have to pay to be able to send via your short code, anyway. Each carrier has to approve you... or you get an aggregator who got approved and pay that aggregator who, I presume (but could be wrong about), pays some amount to the carriers already.
On top of that, the carrier already also gets a percentage of the money from each premium SMS, if I'm remembering what the guys at work who have done more work on that stuff told me correctly.