The trouble with wireless cards is that many manufacturers don't release specifications, making it impossible (or at least very, very hard) to write drivers for them. If you want to use wireless with Linux, you may need to replace your card with one made by a manufacturer who will release such data.
Yes, all those babies being born from HIV-infected mothers are real idiots. All those people getting tainted blood transfusions are morons. All those people making one mistake in their lives and dying because of it are complete assholes.
I've been playing Killer 7 the past few days. Even though many publications gave it horrible reviews, it is by far the most artful game I've ever seen on a platform (yes, more so than Katamari Damacy, more so than Metal Gear Solid, more so than anything you can think of). It is (not has -- is) absolutely brilliant artwork. The problem with reviewers nowadays is that they are IDIOTIC TOOLS, and not much else.
That said, if you have a Gamecube, go pick up Killer 7 immediately.
Voting for Nader in a state that was sure to go to Kerry could be seen as a show of support for your preferred candidate. I voted for Nader in New York, and the state went to Kerry by a large margin. No harm done, and my preferred candidate got one more vote in his column.
The widgets have exactly the same style as the ones in Apple's Dashboard... and it is called Yahoo Dashboard!? Surely this is illegal, illegal, and illegal.
The new hardware is not all correctly supported. You will have no wireless. Everything else works fine for me on my newish powerbook with an ATI chipset using Ubuntu. To be honest, I wouldn't waste time with Yellow Dog, given the absurd amount of effort that goes into creating solid deb repositories with PPC packages for Ubuntu and Debian.
As someone who had a brief stint at Cooper Union, I understand exactly what you're saying. Obviously, my comment was a generalization. Also, I never stated that the person who asked is an idiot compared to the originator -- See the sentence directly after the one you quoted.
Considering that your NYT registration is hardly sensitive data, you should just keep a file uploaded somewhere with your account info if you're really going to so many websites that you can't remember any of the logins (in which case, you may have another problem to worry about).
1. The undo functionality is crippled. Undo "undoes" one character at a time. This stops me from working the way I like to, which often involves adding a few lines, testing the code, and hitting undo if it didn't work out.
Er... well that's it actually. What is up with that undo functionality? Someone please correct me if I am doing something wrong here. Maybe I am. Ah well, back to TextWrangler.
Apple would never do this. Dell hardware is nowhere near the quality of Apple hardware (generally speaking -- Apple has had its share of screw-ups too). Steve-O would never stand for such crap shipping with OS X on it. Furthermore, a critical part of OS X is that it knows the hardware and it knows it well. This allows for greater stability and easier configuration, not only for software that comes with the system, but for software written by 3rd parties as well.
The reason little Objective-C is used outside of the Apple/Cocoa world is that it isn't standardized. In order to make the most of it, you need to develop with some framework. Your main choices are either Cocoa or Openstep. That said, Cocoa is Mac only (for now... I have my eye on the upcoming expo) and Openstep is lagging behind in many areas.
That said, you don't need either of them to use Objective-C. GCC comes with a standard "Object" that everything else can inherit from. The problem is that, while you get all of Objective-C, you get none of the lovely frameworks; You're stuck with the standard C library. Depending on what you're doing, this may or may not be a problem.
I personally think Objective-C is a fine choice for cross-platform development sans-frameworks IF: 1. You'd be comfortable doing it with C 2. You're doing largely lower level work or non GUI-work (in which case you'd need to use Openstep) 3. You *like* C, but wouldn't mind getting some objects to go along with it. 4. You're willing to accept a performance hit for message sends versus function calls (minor though, about 1.7x). 5. You'd like to take advantage of some of Obj-C's special features that GCC provides (dynamic module loading, etc)
The problem isn't that Objective-C is a "bad" language. It is rather good actually. The problem is that either you're using Openstep for crossplatform development, which, while I *have not done*, I hear is rough, or you're going in with only the standard C library. If you think of Objective-C as some simple additions to C to make your programming easier, more maintainable, and more enjoyable, then it can be a very useful tool. Just don't expect anything else from it unless you're on the Mac platform or are willing to deal with Openstep.
In summary, Objective-C sans-frameworks can serve as a good replacement for C in a lot of cases where performance is important but not critical, and as a replacement for C++ in some cases (C++ comes with so much more than Objective-C out of the box).
There's no reason to have an IDE in all cases. In most, you don't need one at all. What you do need is a good text editor. I recommend TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com./ It is free, and has almost all the features of the venerable BBEdit. You can always use vi or emacs, but personally I don't think either is worth the effort for Python (emacs definitely isn't -- It might be a different story for something that needs a highly flexible editor like Lisp).
People would rather listen to crap quality music with small, shitty, trendy "earphones" than carry around a proper pair of headphones because they're "too big" or "geeky" or some other such crap.
When people hear of something like this, oftentimes they can feel threatened that someone is so much more intelligent then they are. (If this is true or not, or if intelligence is even quantifiable doesn't matter -- That's how they're feeling.) As a defense, they pose the question "what is this actually good for". They take comfort in that the answer is "not much", hence allowing them to know that at least they're not wasting their time on such useless nonsense, and no matter how "intelligent" the discoverer is, he's still an "idiot" for "wasting his time" on it.
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The trouble with wireless cards is that many manufacturers don't release specifications, making it impossible (or at least very, very hard) to write drivers for them. If you want to use wireless with Linux, you may need to replace your card with one made by a manufacturer who will release such data.
That wasn't flamebait -- It was sarcasm! Check the GP idiots.
Go look up a definition of social darwinism... You can't even use the term properly, must less reason as a compassionate human being.
Not much of a relativist, are you?
And let's not forget Africa -- A bunch of idiots there!!
Yes, all those babies being born from HIV-infected mothers are real idiots. All those people getting tainted blood transfusions are morons. All those people making one mistake in their lives and dying because of it are complete assholes.
Yes, because as we all know, the spec sheet is everything.
I assume you also decide what speakers to buy after looking at specs in a book?
I've been playing Killer 7 the past few days. Even though many publications gave it horrible reviews, it is by far the most artful game I've ever seen on a platform (yes, more so than Katamari Damacy, more so than Metal Gear Solid, more so than anything you can think of). It is (not has -- is) absolutely brilliant artwork. The problem with reviewers nowadays is that they are IDIOTIC TOOLS, and not much else.
That said, if you have a Gamecube, go pick up Killer 7 immediately.
I realize this is way off topic, but...
Voting for Nader in a state that was sure to go to Kerry could be seen as a show of support for your preferred candidate. I voted for Nader in New York, and the state went to Kerry by a large margin. No harm done, and my preferred candidate got one more vote in his column.
The widgets have exactly the same style as the ones in Apple's Dashboard... and it is called Yahoo Dashboard!? Surely this is illegal, illegal, and illegal.
The new hardware is not all correctly supported. You will have no wireless. Everything else works fine for me on my newish powerbook with an ATI chipset using Ubuntu. To be honest, I wouldn't waste time with Yellow Dog, given the absurd amount of effort that goes into creating solid deb repositories with PPC packages for Ubuntu and Debian.
It has always been all about the OS. You think I wanted a G4?
Then he, showed me how to put a face to my new blog, taking out his digital camera.
Wow.
Very true... Seems like a perfect fit for Google. They have an immense amount of cash to throw at something like this.
I'm going to have to put in a request for evidence.
No, I think you described a bugmenot where the passwords actually work every time.
;-)
I'm just teasing you man...
As someone who had a brief stint at Cooper Union, I understand exactly what you're saying. Obviously, my comment was a generalization. Also, I never stated that the person who asked is an idiot compared to the originator -- See the sentence directly after the one you quoted.
Considering that your NYT registration is hardly sensitive data, you should just keep a file uploaded somewhere with your account info if you're really going to so many websites that you can't remember any of the logins (in which case, you may have another problem to worry about).
No, you're confused. GCC *does* come with "Object". You can use that instead of "NSObject" if you don't want to be tied to Cocoa.
Mac users... *sigh*
I dislike TextMate.
1. The undo functionality is crippled. Undo "undoes" one character at a time. This stops me from working the way I like to, which often involves adding a few lines, testing the code, and hitting undo if it didn't work out.
Er... well that's it actually. What is up with that undo functionality?
Someone please correct me if I am doing something wrong here. Maybe I am.
Ah well, back to TextWrangler.
Apple would never do this. Dell hardware is nowhere near the quality of Apple hardware (generally speaking -- Apple has had its share of screw-ups too). Steve-O would never stand for such crap shipping with OS X on it. Furthermore, a critical part of OS X is that it knows the hardware and it knows it well. This allows for greater stability and easier configuration, not only for software that comes with the system, but for software written by 3rd parties as well.
The reason little Objective-C is used outside of the Apple/Cocoa world is that it isn't standardized. In order to make the most of it, you need to develop with some framework. Your main choices are either Cocoa or Openstep. That said, Cocoa is Mac only (for now... I have my eye on the upcoming expo) and Openstep is lagging behind in many areas.
That said, you don't need either of them to use Objective-C. GCC comes with a standard "Object" that everything else can inherit from. The problem is that, while you get all of Objective-C, you get none of the lovely frameworks; You're stuck with the standard C library. Depending on what you're doing, this may or may not be a problem.
I personally think Objective-C is a fine choice for cross-platform development sans-frameworks IF:
1. You'd be comfortable doing it with C
2. You're doing largely lower level work or non GUI-work (in which case you'd need to use Openstep)
3. You *like* C, but wouldn't mind getting some objects to go along with it.
4. You're willing to accept a performance hit for message sends versus function calls (minor though, about 1.7x).
5. You'd like to take advantage of some of Obj-C's special features that GCC provides (dynamic module loading, etc)
The problem isn't that Objective-C is a "bad" language. It is rather good actually. The problem is that either you're using Openstep for crossplatform development, which, while I *have not done*, I hear is rough, or you're going in with only the standard C library. If you think of Objective-C as some simple additions to C to make your programming easier, more maintainable, and more enjoyable, then it can be a very useful tool. Just don't expect anything else from it unless you're on the Mac platform or are willing to deal with Openstep.
In summary, Objective-C sans-frameworks can serve as a good replacement for C in a lot of cases where performance is important but not critical, and as a replacement for C++ in some cases (C++ comes with so much more than Objective-C out of the box).
There's no reason to have an IDE in all cases. In most, you don't need one at all. What you do need is a good text editor. I recommend TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com./ It is free, and has almost all the features of the venerable BBEdit. You can always use vi or emacs, but personally I don't think either is worth the effort for Python (emacs definitely isn't -- It might be a different story for something that needs a highly flexible editor like Lisp).
People would rather listen to crap quality music with small, shitty, trendy "earphones" than carry around a proper pair of headphones because they're "too big" or "geeky" or some other such crap.
When people hear of something like this, oftentimes they can feel threatened that someone is so much more intelligent then they are. (If this is true or not, or if intelligence is even quantifiable doesn't matter -- That's how they're feeling.) As a defense, they pose the question "what is this actually good for". They take comfort in that the answer is "not much", hence allowing them to know that at least they're not wasting their time on such useless nonsense, and no matter how "intelligent" the discoverer is, he's still an "idiot" for "wasting his time" on it.