If you cannot get specs you really only have one choice: trial, error, and compare. Print a blank page, then print a page with on pixel. Then print with two pixels. Start simple and make things more complex.
It helps greatly if you buy (or build if you can) some sort of hardware trace tool. I've used this for SCSI devices before, good ones will give you all the data that is transferred to/from the device in question.
If this was simple everyone would do it. However it is complex, and generally boring. A half functioning drive is worthless.
P.S. a better idea would be to return this printer now while you still can. Buy a printer that supports postscript. That hits the bottom line of companies who pull these tricks and in the end is worth more to the linux comunity.
Microsoft is a public company. What you say is (generally) true for a private company. (Their exception is when someone gives them an offer to good to refuse, often about the time the owners want to retire)
For a public company things are different. Remember the corporate raiders of the 1980s? They basically examined companies looking for those who could be bought for less than their assets were worth. Then they bought the company (general only enough to gain control) placed their own people in as the board of directors, and sold everything the company had, distributing the cash to shareholders.
Seeing this opportunity if often hard. Many things are hidden. The $100,000 worth of property might be the price paid in 1935, and today worth millions!
You can bet that people who do this are looking closely at Microsoft. They have a lot of cash in the bank, too much to ignore. Windows and Office are worth a lot to someone (company), when you find the buyer. Not to mention the Microsoft campus buildings. (Unless they are renting) and various other things. Nintendo or Sony are likely to buy the xBox just to make sure there is no xBox2. All it takes is for the stock to slip below whatever that magical price is. It doesn't matter if Microsoft is profitable, just what their assets are worth when sold.
Note for those considering this: You borrow the money to buy the company. Part of your calculation includes interest on the money used to buy the company. You need to factor in that once you start buying stock the price will go up - it will go up more once people learn of your plans, and the SEC requires you to announce your plans before you gain control. You need to have potential buyers for things like Office in place already. (This could be a private company that you start for that purpose with more funds that you borrow) You need to have bankers and other investors behind you. (Nobody does this with their own money)
You obviously do not understand the problem. Assembly is NOT cross platform. No way, no how.
The fact that you asked this question suggests you are in the wrong area of study. I know it sounds like flamebait, but face it, anyone who asks this question has no business programming at all. You clearly have no clue what is really going on. Find something to do with your life that you do have a clue in.
What makes you think NK as it stands now is China's friend? They are speaking terms, but that is about all. China is not stupid enough to believe NK is ruled by other than a lunatic.
Ship paper, not electronics. Don't ship small print either!
Your friend is supposed to be helping these people. When you ship an electronic book she reads it in her off time, and then what? Ship paper and she has something to leave behind as a gift when she leaves. (Note, there may be laws against this) Something that might encourage some of the natives to read for fun, which makes them better.
Prefer books printed on acid free paper. With lose pages from a printer you can count on one getting blown away in the wind and then what? (Note, you can bind your own books, something to look into though I don't know if it is worth it) Normal acid paper will be destroyed in a few years. These are people who will have enough trouble getting books, they don't need to have the few they have destroyed early.
You forgot one important group that could care: union members. In the US this is about 15% of the population, and most are rabid about working conditions. Let the average union worker know what is going on at EA and it will make a difference. Many of these people refuse to buy anything that doesn't have the union involved.
That would be a good idea except for one small problem: we don't have a cable strong enough for the job. Maybe someday someone will make it, maybe not.
I'll agree that we should work for it, but until it is made we should not put all our eggs in one basket. Even then we need some rocket work because the cable needs to be replaced once in a while. (What if it break, and your replacement breaks too?)
I think we have cable strong enough for a mars elevator. Would be interesting to send a space elevator to Mars now (meaning in several years after we build it) and once that is in place use it for future missions there.
There are exceptions. If you like to run high volumes through your speakers it might be a good idea to get this for speakers. If you drop your laptop often (and who doesn't?) it might be a good idea.
However the above is only true if the company will pay out when there is a problem. Good luck finding one of them. In theory though they can be a good idea.
KDE is getting faster all the time. The core of KDE is generally faster now than in the 1.x timeframe. A few things are slower because they do more. Overall though KDE is fast. Effort is being made all the time to make things faster.
I use KDE 3.3 on a ppro-200 with 128Meg of ram and it works just fine.
That said, there are some things that will be much faster in KDE 4.x because qt4 is better in those areas.
First, make yourself useful. If you don't run VOIP already, proactively set it up. Put it on a server, roll out to everyone in an email, using some Ms Windows program on their desktop. Then point out how much would be saved if everyone was using this. (This is particularly good if you have a partner or supplier across the pond who you can connect to directly saving all long distance costs!) Then when people complain about what a pain it is to use a PC as a phone have their boss - from their budget - order a VOIP phone. Don't do this in the dark, point out to some high executives that their help in negotiating the contract is needed.
Contact your power company. Some local power companies (but not all) will give you a reduced rate if they control your backup generator. (you do have a backup generator, right?) When they get close to their maximum load they turn your generator on and disconnect you from the grid until things ease up. In return you pay half price for power.
For the 100,000 machine office they are not pay per kilowatt-hour like you are. They pay peak-demand, meaning that they pay for however much power they use at the highest moment, as if that was how much they used all day (sometimes even month!). Power at night is free because they pay for it anyway. They agree to this because if you do any management of use at all you can save a lot of money this way.
Places that heat with electric see no change at all because either way energy use just turns into heat. At night things tend to cool down (no humans adding body heat, and the sun isn't adding heat), often a little heat it wanted (but not needed) even in summer months. Some buildings may not even have the ability to heat the building at night if the heat system was designed considering the equipment!
If I know what command to use the man page is great for telling me the details on using it. (in fopen(3) did I want w+, a, or a+) However if you don't know a that strtol(3) exists you will write one yourself that doesn't work as well.
I don't know if this book covers the above though. I've often wished there was some magical "clippy" that would pop up and say "It looks like you are doing a bad re-write of strtok(3)" everytime I re-invent the wheel. Of course it needs to be smart enough to also do "It looks like you are re-implementing proprietaryLibraryFuncInOurCompanyArchitecture()" All that without being as annoying as the MS version it is patterened on. Much better than having our cheif architech complain when he discovered I did such a thing.
Saving lines is useful because you can fit only so many lines on screen at once, and the eye can only scan so many at a time.
The more code I can understand at a time, the easier it is for me to understand the program and fix the bugs. If you know the language well, and the style is good, you don't need real words (which are just representations of something anyway) where a symbol will do.
Note that I said understand. Sometimes adding lines makes code easier to understand, othertimes subtracting lines makes the code more readable. Sometimes that means a if/else sequence using at least 4 lines, othertime the ?: on one line. Depends on what you want to do, and what needs to be understood.
I care that the code is understandable in most cases. In a few rare cases you must sacrifice understandability for performance, but that should be well documented, and very rare.
QT runs on MS windows, but there is no GPL version that runs under MS windows. (at least not an up to date version, there are free-licensed older versions)
Now the most recent stable qt for X11 has been ported to run native under MS windows. Some speculate this is a motivation for making qt 4.0 GPL under Ms Windows.
I'd consider it a disservice to students to not make them use at least Linux/BSD/Unix, Ms Windows and OSX. You need to prepare studnets for the real world, and in the real world there is more than Windows. Particularly in computer science where embedded systems that don't run Ms Windows are big. Not to mention artists who generally don't run MS Windows.
I don't know how you can apply this, but it should be a part of your argument somehow. Good luck.
The MN state legislator for starters. The nuclear power plant near my house has been in danger of being shutdown more than once because they couldn't stand the idea of clean power.
Meanwhile there are several coal power plants in the state that are polluting the air, making eating fish dangerous.
The ability to go a significant percentage of light speed doesn't create a need for something like Hubble. You are still in range of the naked eye at 50% of c! (basically the solar system, as anything else there and back is about 40 years. There are too many things that can go wrong on a trip for that long, not worth it unless we are looking at sending a small city worth of support.
If by significant percentage you were thinking 30,000% of c (without all the pesky time travel business that relativity suggests), then yes Hubble is required to see where we are going. However we are unlikely to see this ever.
Back before spark plugs were invented gas engines you to use hot tube ignition. You got a tube in the head red hot, and then cranked the engine. Gas from ignition would not enter that tube until the piston was most of the way to the top, then the gas would light in the tube, and expand outwords. Once the engine was running the tube stayed hot. It worked, but there is good reason we use spark plugs no, not that system.
The old DecNet required that all ethernet cards have the ability to change their mac address. Part of the protocol, and you couldn't connect to DecNet unless you had the right mac address. (which was changed as part of the network protocol, you normally didn't change this manually)
Just in case a customer ever tries to use their chipset with DecNet nearly all cards allow, software to change the mac address. Since all current chips have the ability, when designing a modification to the old chip it is easier to leave that ability in than take it out.
I don't know if anyone in the world still runs DecNet, but it isn't a chance network vendors are willing to take.
Simming pool: $6000. Home Spa: $3000. Sauna (build it yourself): $700. adds no value to your house
Freeweights, dumbells, bars, various benches: $250.
Racquetball court $4000.
Gym membership: $7-$100/month. (the cheapest requires health insurance to cover some of the cost) Has all the above (except DDR) in high quality equipment. And for those who pay with Master Card it also has: Cute Girls working out next to you: priceless!
The most important consideration is will you use it. If you won't go to the gym you are better off getting your own stuff - if you will use that. If you will go to the gym, then the gym is a better deal because you get so much more for so little money. Add it all up, and even a lifetime of membership won't pay for everything you use at the club. (if you use it all) Any there is no extra storage space needed for all of it.
Of course some things are free. You can run on the sidewalk/road for nothing. Most parks have basketball hoops. If you don't mind rain/sun/snow.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention secret manipulation of certain basement dwelling slashdotters.
True, but remember the Russians are mostly using Soyuz which is 1960's technology, so the Shuttle is still ahead from that standpoint.
That doesn't make the shuttle any good, though. Just high tech the doesn't solve the problems we need solved.
If you cannot get specs you really only have one choice: trial, error, and compare. Print a blank page, then print a page with on pixel. Then print with two pixels. Start simple and make things more complex.
It helps greatly if you buy (or build if you can) some sort of hardware trace tool. I've used this for SCSI devices before, good ones will give you all the data that is transferred to/from the device in question.
If this was simple everyone would do it. However it is complex, and generally boring. A half functioning drive is worthless.
P.S. a better idea would be to return this printer now while you still can. Buy a printer that supports postscript. That hits the bottom line of companies who pull these tricks and in the end is worth more to the linux comunity.
Microsoft is a public company. What you say is (generally) true for a private company. (Their exception is when someone gives them an offer to good to refuse, often about the time the owners want to retire)
For a public company things are different. Remember the corporate raiders of the 1980s? They basically examined companies looking for those who could be bought for less than their assets were worth. Then they bought the company (general only enough to gain control) placed their own people in as the board of directors, and sold everything the company had, distributing the cash to shareholders.
Seeing this opportunity if often hard. Many things are hidden. The $100,000 worth of property might be the price paid in 1935, and today worth millions!
You can bet that people who do this are looking closely at Microsoft. They have a lot of cash in the bank, too much to ignore. Windows and Office are worth a lot to someone (company), when you find the buyer. Not to mention the Microsoft campus buildings. (Unless they are renting) and various other things. Nintendo or Sony are likely to buy the xBox just to make sure there is no xBox2. All it takes is for the stock to slip below whatever that magical price is. It doesn't matter if Microsoft is profitable, just what their assets are worth when sold.
Note for those considering this: You borrow the money to buy the company. Part of your calculation includes interest on the money used to buy the company. You need to factor in that once you start buying stock the price will go up - it will go up more once people learn of your plans, and the SEC requires you to announce your plans before you gain control. You need to have potential buyers for things like Office in place already. (This could be a private company that you start for that purpose with more funds that you borrow) You need to have bankers and other investors behind you. (Nobody does this with their own money)
You obviously do not understand the problem. Assembly is NOT cross platform. No way, no how.
The fact that you asked this question suggests you are in the wrong area of study. I know it sounds like flamebait, but face it, anyone who asks this question has no business programming at all. You clearly have no clue what is really going on. Find something to do with your life that you do have a clue in.
That guy (gal? I can't tell from the photos) didn't either, he had his mom do it.
What makes you think NK as it stands now is China's friend? They are speaking terms, but that is about all. China is not stupid enough to believe NK is ruled by other than a lunatic.
Ship paper, not electronics. Don't ship small print either!
Your friend is supposed to be helping these people. When you ship an electronic book she reads it in her off time, and then what? Ship paper and she has something to leave behind as a gift when she leaves. (Note, there may be laws against this) Something that might encourage some of the natives to read for fun, which makes them better.
Prefer books printed on acid free paper. With lose pages from a printer you can count on one getting blown away in the wind and then what? (Note, you can bind your own books, something to look into though I don't know if it is worth it) Normal acid paper will be destroyed in a few years. These are people who will have enough trouble getting books, they don't need to have the few they have destroyed early.
You forgot one important group that could care: union members. In the US this is about 15% of the population, and most are rabid about working conditions. Let the average union worker know what is going on at EA and it will make a difference. Many of these people refuse to buy anything that doesn't have the union involved.
That would be a good idea except for one small problem: we don't have a cable strong enough for the job. Maybe someday someone will make it, maybe not.
I'll agree that we should work for it, but until it is made we should not put all our eggs in one basket. Even then we need some rocket work because the cable needs to be replaced once in a while. (What if it break, and your replacement breaks too?)
I think we have cable strong enough for a mars elevator. Would be interesting to send a space elevator to Mars now (meaning in several years after we build it) and once that is in place use it for future missions there.
There are exceptions. If you like to run high volumes through your speakers it might be a good idea to get this for speakers. If you drop your laptop often (and who doesn't?) it might be a good idea.
However the above is only true if the company will pay out when there is a problem. Good luck finding one of them. In theory though they can be a good idea.
KDE is getting faster all the time. The core of KDE is generally faster now than in the 1.x timeframe. A few things are slower because they do more. Overall though KDE is fast. Effort is being made all the time to make things faster.
I use KDE 3.3 on a ppro-200 with 128Meg of ram and it works just fine.
That said, there are some things that will be much faster in KDE 4.x because qt4 is better in those areas.
Worst case in AZ you are going from 130 to 70. or a 60 degree difference. Worst case up north we are going from -40 to 70 a 110 degree difference.
First, make yourself useful. If you don't run VOIP already, proactively set it up. Put it on a server, roll out to everyone in an email, using some Ms Windows program on their desktop. Then point out how much would be saved if everyone was using this. (This is particularly good if you have a partner or supplier across the pond who you can connect to directly saving all long distance costs!) Then when people complain about what a pain it is to use a PC as a phone have their boss - from their budget - order a VOIP phone. Don't do this in the dark, point out to some high executives that their help in negotiating the contract is needed.
Contact your power company. Some local power companies (but not all) will give you a reduced rate if they control your backup generator. (you do have a backup generator, right?) When they get close to their maximum load they turn your generator on and disconnect you from the grid until things ease up. In return you pay half price for power.
Your assumptions are incorrect.
For the 100,000 machine office they are not pay per kilowatt-hour like you are. They pay peak-demand, meaning that they pay for however much power they use at the highest moment, as if that was how much they used all day (sometimes even month!). Power at night is free because they pay for it anyway. They agree to this because if you do any management of use at all you can save a lot of money this way.
Places that heat with electric see no change at all because either way energy use just turns into heat. At night things tend to cool down (no humans adding body heat, and the sun isn't adding heat), often a little heat it wanted (but not needed) even in summer months. Some buildings may not even have the ability to heat the building at night if the heat system was designed considering the equipment!
If I know what command to use the man page is great for telling me the details on using it. (in fopen(3) did I want w+, a, or a+) However if you don't know a that strtol(3) exists you will write one yourself that doesn't work as well.
I don't know if this book covers the above though. I've often wished there was some magical "clippy" that would pop up and say "It looks like you are doing a bad re-write of strtok(3)" everytime I re-invent the wheel. Of course it needs to be smart enough to also do "It looks like you are re-implementing proprietaryLibraryFuncInOurCompanyArchitecture()" All that without being as annoying as the MS version it is patterened on. Much better than having our cheif architech complain when he discovered I did such a thing.
Kelvin is not a relative scale and thus it has no degrees. Celsius and Fahrenheit are relative scales and have degrees.
Overall your point is correct.
Saving lines is useful because you can fit only so many lines on screen at once, and the eye can only scan so many at a time.
The more code I can understand at a time, the easier it is for me to understand the program and fix the bugs. If you know the language well, and the style is good, you don't need real words (which are just representations of something anyway) where a symbol will do.
Note that I said understand. Sometimes adding lines makes code easier to understand, othertimes subtracting lines makes the code more readable. Sometimes that means a if/else sequence using at least 4 lines, othertime the ?: on one line. Depends on what you want to do, and what needs to be understood.
I care that the code is understandable in most cases. In a few rare cases you must sacrifice understandability for performance, but that should be well documented, and very rare.
QT runs on MS windows, but there is no GPL version that runs under MS windows. (at least not an up to date version, there are free-licensed older versions)
Now the most recent stable qt for X11 has been ported to run native under MS windows. Some speculate this is a motivation for making qt 4.0 GPL under Ms Windows.
I'd consider it a disservice to students to not make them use at least Linux/BSD/Unix, Ms Windows and OSX. You need to prepare studnets for the real world, and in the real world there is more than Windows. Particularly in computer science where embedded systems that don't run Ms Windows are big. Not to mention artists who generally don't run MS Windows.
I don't know how you can apply this, but it should be a part of your argument somehow. Good luck.
The MN state legislator for starters. The nuclear power plant near my house has been in danger of being shutdown more than once because they couldn't stand the idea of clean power.
Meanwhile there are several coal power plants in the state that are polluting the air, making eating fish dangerous.
The ability to go a significant percentage of light speed doesn't create a need for something like Hubble. You are still in range of the naked eye at 50% of c! (basically the solar system, as anything else there and back is about 40 years. There are too many things that can go wrong on a trip for that long, not worth it unless we are looking at sending a small city worth of support.
If by significant percentage you were thinking 30,000% of c (without all the pesky time travel business that relativity suggests), then yes Hubble is required to see where we are going. However we are unlikely to see this ever.
Back before spark plugs were invented gas engines you to use hot tube ignition. You got a tube in the head red hot, and then cranked the engine. Gas from ignition would not enter that tube until the piston was most of the way to the top, then the gas would light in the tube, and expand outwords. Once the engine was running the tube stayed hot. It worked, but there is good reason we use spark plugs no, not that system.
The old DecNet required that all ethernet cards have the ability to change their mac address. Part of the protocol, and you couldn't connect to DecNet unless you had the right mac address. (which was changed as part of the network protocol, you normally didn't change this manually)
Just in case a customer ever tries to use their chipset with DecNet nearly all cards allow, software to change the mac address. Since all current chips have the ability, when designing a modification to the old chip it is easier to leave that ability in than take it out.
I don't know if anyone in the world still runs DecNet, but it isn't a chance network vendors are willing to take.
Lets add it up:
PS2: $150. DDR: $50. Good pad $100. total: $300. (Subtract the cost of a PS2 if you would have it anyway)
Cheap Wal-mart treadmill/exercise bike: $400. Quality treadmill/bike: $1200.
Simming pool: $6000. Home Spa: $3000. Sauna (build it yourself): $700. adds no value to your house
Freeweights, dumbells, bars, various benches: $250.
Racquetball court $4000.
Gym membership: $7-$100/month. (the cheapest requires health insurance to cover some of the cost) Has all the above (except DDR) in high quality equipment. And for those who pay with Master Card it also has: Cute Girls working out next to you: priceless!
The most important consideration is will you use it. If you won't go to the gym you are better off getting your own stuff - if you will use that. If you will go to the gym, then the gym is a better deal because you get so much more for so little money. Add it all up, and even a lifetime of membership won't pay for everything you use at the club. (if you use it all) Any there is no extra storage space needed for all of it.
Of course some things are free. You can run on the sidewalk/road for nothing. Most parks have basketball hoops. If you don't mind rain/sun/snow.