I think you're the one who "slept through class". C# and VB.Net are essentially the exact same languages, with minor syntax differences. They both use the same standard class libraries, both compile ot the same code, etc etc. ANyone who can read code in one can read code in another. The only purpose of VB.Net is to appease old VB coders who are more used to using things like if-then-end if instead of if(){}.
Under the AFPL. You can download all the source code at sourceforge (http://www.sf.net/projects/winex/) via CVS. The only parts not released are the portions that you need ot read Copy-Protected CD's (with SafeDisk). But many games don't even require this.
When you intersect this article with the previous one (The aging Gamer) you see that what this headline should really read is "Wanted: SOccer Mom Game Testers"
Heh. I also bought that book. But you went through way too much work. The book allowed itself to be printed... heh. So all I did was install a print to file driver, and printed the whole thing to PostScript. Perfect copy. And its simple to go from PostScript PDF HTML Whatever.
Could someone in the US please tell me what a "GRE" exam is? Do you have to take one of these there before going into Computer Science or something? I am about to graduate with my BCS and I have never heard of this thing.
Apparantly you didn't read the comment at all... i was commenting on how incredibly lazy it is to not post a README on the web (takes all of 3 seconds) because people like me do not want to download the whole file, untar it, and view the files just to see what it does. A simple description of what it i and how works would suffice.
Why is there no README or any other info on your site about this thing? I want to know how it works and how it is different from alias rm='mv ~/.trash', or the KDE trashcan, before I download it. Man I hate sites like this that expect you do download the package, then untar it, just to read a README file. How hard is it to throw it on your website with a link?
I run LimeWire straight from console in Linux (and Windows) using "java -jar LimeWire.jar", mainly cause I don't trust their installer to not install spyware. You can download this platform-independant.jar from their website using "LimeWireLinux.tgz" or "LimeWireWinNoVm.zip". Does this spyware exist in the.jar version, or only in the.EXE installer version? And if it is in the.jar file, does it function in Linux (I seriously doubt it)? If so, how?
This Bombardier Beatle "problem" linked to fromt he article is ludicrous. For those who cant stand reading the whole thing, the gist of it s this beatle mixes two extremely volitile chemicals, along with an inhibitor, in its body. When threatened, the beatle shoots them out, sans inhibitor, to create an explosion designed to twart off its puruser. The article then goes on how this is "impossible" to explain using standard evolution.
...Eventually. we are assured, they arrived at the magic formula, but what about the development of the inhibitor? There is no need to evolve an inhibitor unless you already have the two chemicals you are trying to inhibit. On the other hand. if you already have the two chemicals without the inhibitor, it is already too late, for you have just blown yourself up. Obviously, such an arrangement would never arise apart from intelligent foresight and planning.
Bzzt, wrong. How do you know the "inhibitor" didn't dveelop first? Evolution is a complex process, with millions of tiny steps. The "inhibitor" could have developed beforehand, for some other purpose we do not now know about, and which may not even exist in the insect anymore. Only the pre-existance of this inhibitor allowed the other mechanism to evolve. Hence, natural selection.
The rest of the article just goes on and on using this flawed arguement to jump to incredible conclusions, such as "But what would be the motivation for such disastrous, trial and error, piecemeal evolution? Everything in evolution is supposed to make perfect sense and have a logical purpose, or else it would never develop". This is totally wrong, anyone who knows anything about evolution and natural selection knows it is not always totally logical. If it were, then why do humans still have the remains of a tail after X million years? Surely the *logical* solution would be to reject it. However, until that mutation develops, and people gain an advantage from it (I don't see how a person with that little bit less of bone would have any advantage, sexually or otherwise), there will be no changes.
From what I can see, although the first article s interesting, it certainly doesn't "defy" any theory, and the second link is just ridiculous.
Perhaps it is time for some of those wealthy artists like the Offspring and Courtney Love who in the past have spoke out against the RIAA to fund a campaign of their own, promoting music downloads and against the RIAA.
Audacity is a GPL audio recoder / waveform editor for Windows/*Nix, which I found to be very easy to use, and in some respects superior to windows solutions, when I was doing some audio editing in Linux this summer. Check it out.
Use KDE and KDE apps. All printing problems ceased for mt wonce I switched to CUPS/KDE. Everything is a breeze to install and configure, including printing to windows machines over a LAN.
web forum or other small scale non-mission critical information...
You said it. Hence the "worth his meat". DB programmers who know what theyre doing know that you can't build a proper robust application in a proper relational manner without things like sub selects and views and stored procedures. The rest of the programmers are stuck doing web forums etc, and for some reason they think that because they can write a phpnuke module, they know anything about using RDBMS's properly. Sorry, no.
MOst arguements I have seen against MySQL (including mine) are far from zealotry. SO now (after how long???) it has transactions. Big deal. Let me know when they support sub selects, sequences, schemas, and any other number of basic features any database using programmer worth his meat uses every day, and then maybe I'll have another look. Until then, I'll stick with Postgres, which has had all these features for a long time, and has much better performance than MySQL on any moderate to large database.
Yeah I do, if he is worth his apples. I know I could, as long as i had a reference available for the language. Once you understand the concepts, the rest is nothing but semantics.
There normally is a HUGE difference between someone who gets a BCS degree and someone who has a stackload of certifications. If you have worked with both then you probbaly know what I am talking about. The massive glut of people with certs in the IT industry is the problem, not the solution. Anyone can buy a few books from Amazon.com, study for a month, and get a crapload of certifications. That doesn't mean they know the in depth fundamentals of computer science. What if some problem occurs on the job where they have to design a new algorithm to tackle a problem? Can an MCSD construct a skiplist in some random programming language he has never used before by the end of the day? I think not. It is the depth of education that marks the difference between a university graduate and someone who possess only certifications. Certifications are the equivalent of a vocational education - hands on training in a certain area. Without the acedemic background to be able to expand your knowledge, you will be stuch in nowheresville.
Cable length spec is 1 meter??? Man that wouldn't even reach from the back of my case to my desk, and my case is under my desk. I can't see anything whose cable length is that limited take off for external devices.
It's about time we got some decent USB 2.0 players to compete with the iPod. While the iPod is a nice player and all, I'm not prepared to fork over even more money for a firewiire card when I have 4 perfectly good USB 2.0 ports on my motherboard, which are faster. Plus, people with USB 1 can still use the player until they upgrade. With Apple hardware also supporting USB 2.0, it is a no-brainer choice over firewire in my opinion. This FM tuner on the Yepp is also a very nice feature, especially for switching over to catch the news or something.
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I think you're the one who "slept through class". C# and VB.Net are essentially the exact same languages, with minor syntax differences. They both use the same standard class libraries, both compile ot the same code, etc etc. ANyone who can read code in one can read code in another. The only purpose of VB.Net is to appease old VB coders who are more used to using things like if-then-end if instead of if(){}.
Under the AFPL. You can download all the source code at sourceforge (http://www.sf.net/projects/winex/) via CVS. The only parts not released are the portions that you need ot read Copy-Protected CD's (with SafeDisk). But many games don't even require this.
When you intersect this article with the previous one (The aging Gamer) you see that what this headline should really read is "Wanted: SOccer Mom Game Testers"
Same with KDE. KDe 2.2+ comes with print to PS, PDF, Email (attaches a PDF to an email), and Fax all built in.
Heh. I also bought that book. But you went through way too much work. The book allowed itself to be printed... heh. So all I did was install a print to file driver, and printed the whole thing to PostScript. Perfect copy. And its simple to go from PostScript PDF HTML Whatever.
.... porn!
Could someone in the US please tell me what a "GRE" exam is? Do you have to take one of these there before going into Computer Science or something? I am about to graduate with my BCS and I have never heard of this thing.
I am waiting for a public domain B-52 myself.
Apparantly you didn't read the comment at all... i was commenting on how incredibly lazy it is to not post a README on the web (takes all of 3 seconds) because people like me do not want to download the whole file, untar it, and view the files just to see what it does. A simple description of what it i and how works would suffice.
Why is there no README or any other info on your site about this thing? I want to know how it works and how it is different from alias rm='mv ~/.trash', or the KDE trashcan, before I download it. Man I hate sites like this that expect you do download the package, then untar it, just to read a README file. How hard is it to throw it on your website with a link?
Sounds like approx. two adjacent rooms to me.
I run LimeWire straight from console in Linux (and Windows) using "java -jar LimeWire.jar", mainly cause I don't trust their installer to not install spyware. You can download this platform-independant .jar from their website using "LimeWireLinux.tgz" or "LimeWireWinNoVm.zip". Does this spyware exist in the .jar version, or only in the .EXE installer version? And if it is in the .jar file, does it function in Linux (I seriously doubt it)? If so, how?
This Bombardier Beatle "problem" linked to fromt he article is ludicrous. For those who cant stand reading the whole thing, the gist of it s this beatle mixes two extremely volitile chemicals, along with an inhibitor, in its body. When threatened, the beatle shoots them out, sans inhibitor, to create an explosion designed to twart off its puruser. The article then goes on how this is "impossible" to explain using standard evolution.
Bzzt, wrong. How do you know the "inhibitor" didn't dveelop first? Evolution is a complex process, with millions of tiny steps. The "inhibitor" could have developed beforehand, for some other purpose we do not now know about, and which may not even exist in the insect anymore. Only the pre-existance of this inhibitor allowed the other mechanism to evolve. Hence, natural selection.
The rest of the article just goes on and on using this flawed arguement to jump to incredible conclusions, such as "But what would be the motivation for such disastrous, trial and error, piecemeal evolution? Everything in evolution is supposed to make perfect sense and have a logical purpose, or else it would never develop". This is totally wrong, anyone who knows anything about evolution and natural selection knows it is not always totally logical. If it were, then why do humans still have the remains of a tail after X million years? Surely the *logical* solution would be to reject it. However, until that mutation develops, and people gain an advantage from it (I don't see how a person with that little bit less of bone would have any advantage, sexually or otherwise), there will be no changes.
From what I can see, although the first article s interesting, it certainly doesn't "defy" any theory, and the second link is just ridiculous.
Ever heard of email? or IM clients? Or NFS/SMB ?
Perhaps it is time for some of those wealthy artists like the Offspring and Courtney Love who in the past have spoke out against the RIAA to fund a campaign of their own, promoting music downloads and against the RIAA.
Audacity is a GPL audio recoder / waveform editor for Windows/*Nix, which I found to be very easy to use, and in some respects superior to windows solutions, when I was doing some audio editing in Linux this summer. Check it out.
...Or am I missing something? the G4 chip has been around for a long time...
Use KDE and KDE apps. All printing problems ceased for mt wonce I switched to CUPS/KDE. Everything is a breeze to install and configure, including printing to windows machines over a LAN.
You said to wake you up...
From the link in the article...Kolab is the name of the server component.
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Once again a /. comment that goes off ranting without folowing any of the links in the story...
web forum or other small scale non-mission critical information...
You said it. Hence the "worth his meat". DB programmers who know what theyre doing know that you can't build a proper robust application in a proper relational manner without things like sub selects and views and stored procedures. The rest of the programmers are stuck doing web forums etc, and for some reason they think that because they can write a phpnuke module, they know anything about using RDBMS's properly. Sorry, no.
MOst arguements I have seen against MySQL (including mine) are far from zealotry. SO now (after how long???) it has transactions. Big deal. Let me know when they support sub selects, sequences, schemas, and any other number of basic features any database using programmer worth his meat uses every day, and then maybe I'll have another look. Until then, I'll stick with Postgres, which has had all these features for a long time, and has much better performance than MySQL on any moderate to large database.
Yeah I do, if he is worth his apples. I know I could, as long as i had a reference available for the language. Once you understand the concepts, the rest is nothing but semantics.
There normally is a HUGE difference between someone who gets a BCS degree and someone who has a stackload of certifications. If you have worked with both then you probbaly know what I am talking about. The massive glut of people with certs in the IT industry is the problem, not the solution. Anyone can buy a few books from Amazon.com, study for a month, and get a crapload of certifications. That doesn't mean they know the in depth fundamentals of computer science. What if some problem occurs on the job where they have to design a new algorithm to tackle a problem? Can an MCSD construct a skiplist in some random programming language he has never used before by the end of the day? I think not. It is the depth of education that marks the difference between a university graduate and someone who possess only certifications. Certifications are the equivalent of a vocational education - hands on training in a certain area. Without the acedemic background to be able to expand your knowledge, you will be stuch in nowheresville.
Cable length spec is 1 meter??? Man that wouldn't even reach from the back of my case to my desk, and my case is under my desk. I can't see anything whose cable length is that limited take off for external devices.
It's about time we got some decent USB 2.0 players to compete with the iPod. While the iPod is a nice player and all, I'm not prepared to fork over even more money for a firewiire card when I have 4 perfectly good USB 2.0 ports on my motherboard, which are faster. Plus, people with USB 1 can still use the player until they upgrade. With Apple hardware also supporting USB 2.0, it is a no-brainer choice over firewire in my opinion. This FM tuner on the Yepp is also a very nice feature, especially for switching over to catch the news or something.