I hate to nag, but the pendulum on a grandfather clock doesn't stop due to the weights hanging on it, which turn a wheel, whi..nevermind. It's just cause of the weights at the bottom.
Interesting, but the two people you mention were both the business geniuses rather than the technical people in those companies. If it weren't for Paul Allen, we'd probably never have heard of Bill Gates, and the same goes for Woz.
I hate to play the Devil's advocate, but Wine/Cedega is a damned poor excuse for a viable solution.
I don't play PC games, so I don't have to worry about it. If I want to run Windows apps, I fire up VirtualBox, and run XP, where there aren't any of the API compatibility issues (aside from the normal Windows issues), but of course there's no 3D acceleration for gamers, so they're left without a solution.
API translations are good, but they're constantly playing catch-up, and they'll never be 100% compatible as long as they have to reverse engineer software to continue their development. Sad but true.
I really think that it depends on the scope of the project.
There are a few times where I suppose I could have used objects in my shell scripts, but then I'm insane sometimes. A shell script utilizing objects is probably more effective in another language.
An example where I could see using objects in bash might be in my getrss
If you haven't seen it (and I assume you have, but just in case) check out Antitrust. An overly enjoyable movie full of cheese with some pretty nice looking girls.
There was a point where the head security guard was like "dust for prints on the shift and control keys; keys geeks use, but other people don't". I remember thinking "that's a pretty good idea".
Utterly off topic, but I've used that interface (or one very very similar) and it sucks, because it's constantly doing disk checks to see how big directories are so it can render them "properly". Basically the equivalent of running "du -h" on every directory. It makes it really slow to just browse around. Otherwise a neat effect, though.
At the risk of giving ideas to people who don't need them....
How hard would it be to flash patterns that flickered at a rate known to give seizures, and just give the police forces polarized glasses to field them out.
Even coordinating a moving pattern among multiple units could be very distracting and make it hard to attack an individual. Three lines of police officers covered in LCDs that just display the classic "static" would be very effective camouflage from attackers on the ground.
Man, I hope they don't suck as much as the SNAP appliances. I've got about 2TB of NAS (and I use that term loosely) on SNAP server. I'm never buying another one. Crap reliability, crap features, crap adminstration.
But at what point in that process do you quit because you're dealing with a sentient life? Would you like to be marooned on Mars for the rest of your life, without any human contact except for radio transmissions? What if you didn't have a natural life-span, because you were effectively immortal? What would be 100+ years between your arrival and human colonization be like? What if we blow ourselves up before we colonized and stranded that human-like brain there until it decided to kill itself?
There are moral implications of the decisions we're making in this territory.
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I hate to nag, but the pendulum on a grandfather clock doesn't stop due to the weights hanging on it, which turn a wheel, whi..nevermind. It's just cause of the weights at the bottom.
The magnetic stirrer under the glass doesn't run on pixie dust...
This is a home server, though. Data viability should be the main requisite, then space, then speed, all tempered by cost.
Honestly, I'd probably just go with a home NAS. That way you don't even have to screw with it beyond a web config.
Right. But the port on the bottom can output to whatever you'd like, and play it on your 90" DLP TV
Interesting, but the two people you mention were both the business geniuses rather than the technical people in those companies. If it weren't for Paul Allen, we'd probably never have heard of Bill Gates, and the same goes for Woz.
I hate to play the Devil's advocate, but Wine/Cedega is a damned poor excuse for a viable solution.
I don't play PC games, so I don't have to worry about it. If I want to run Windows apps, I fire up VirtualBox, and run XP, where there aren't any of the API compatibility issues (aside from the normal Windows issues), but of course there's no 3D acceleration for gamers, so they're left without a solution.
API translations are good, but they're constantly playing catch-up, and they'll never be 100% compatible as long as they have to reverse engineer software to continue their development. Sad but true.
http://labs.google.com
Not to mention that if Spore was open source, we'd all be playing beta versions of it right now.
Terrific. As if we needed MORE ability to splinter java and make it incompatible with itself...
Ack! You, sir, offend my sensibilities.
Isn't it RAM intensive to do that, though?
I hate to say it, but you've got a point.
Hard coded in Gentoo? Isn't that against the law or something?
I really think that it depends on the scope of the project.
There are a few times where I suppose I could have used objects in my shell scripts, but then I'm insane sometimes. A shell script utilizing objects is probably more effective in another language.
An example where I could see using objects in bash might be in my getrss
If you haven't seen it (and I assume you have, but just in case) check out Antitrust. An overly enjoyable movie full of cheese with some pretty nice looking girls.
There was a point where the head security guard was like "dust for prints on the shift and control keys; keys geeks use, but other people don't". I remember thinking "that's a pretty good idea".
Utterly off topic, but I've used that interface (or one very very similar) and it sucks, because it's constantly doing disk checks to see how big directories are so it can render them "properly". Basically the equivalent of running "du -h" on every directory. It makes it really slow to just browse around. Otherwise a neat effect, though.
You need a video buffer? Wuss.
Buy a plane ticket before they change their minds!
I don't think they've been around for the timespan they say they're good for yet, have they?
At the risk of giving ideas to people who don't need them....
How hard would it be to flash patterns that flickered at a rate known to give seizures, and just give the police forces polarized glasses to field them out.
Even coordinating a moving pattern among multiple units could be very distracting and make it hard to attack an individual. Three lines of police officers covered in LCDs that just display the classic "static" would be very effective camouflage from attackers on the ground.
I think that you are, somehow, missing the point.
I don't give a damn how strong the crossbow is. He shot it at the monitor and it bounced off
Man, I hope they don't suck as much as the SNAP appliances. I've got about 2TB of NAS (and I use that term loosely) on SNAP server. I'm never buying another one. Crap reliability, crap features, crap adminstration.
But at what point in that process do you quit because you're dealing with a sentient life? Would you like to be marooned on Mars for the rest of your life, without any human contact except for radio transmissions? What if you didn't have a natural life-span, because you were effectively immortal? What would be 100+ years between your arrival and human colonization be like? What if we blow ourselves up before we colonized and stranded that human-like brain there until it decided to kill itself?
There are moral implications of the decisions we're making in this territory.
It sounds like they should be making wiis and not memory. Solve a few problems at once
You know, it seems like FedEx uses this technology on their planes right now!