My CRT monitor does something similar with my Nokia 6010. My screen distorts ever so slightly like there is a tremor in the Force...and then the phone rings. It's funny how the interference causes the monitor to 'know' the phone is going to ring.
I have a non-Windows Media Center box that is the hub of my media. It really sucked when Zap2It went down. So, I spent an evening looking for a free alternative. I have a laptop that has Media Center 2005 on it (where it automagically downlaods its EPG data) and found a nifty application that will parse it into XMLTV format. I then drop that in a share on my media server where it picks it up and installs the latest data. Rinse, lather, and repeat. It bites that I have to manually do this every so often, but it sure beats manually parsing or screen scraping a website.
I would rather have seen an apples to apples comparison of what VS is used for, ie development in C# or VB. Although Eclipse was primarily designed for Java, like the article mentions, various plugins do exist to C# and VB development (likewise Java development in VS). It also would have been nice to see screenshots of the VS comparison.
The compare and contrast was superfluous at best. This was merely a "my dad's better than your dad" analysis.
"Much of what is in the collection may be surprising when it is released..." Who cares whether we landed on the moon or not! After all these years they're finally going to release the findings from their sex experiments in space!
has decided to change the name of his immensely successful film company to JAWA.
OK, so the company isn't publicly traded, but still, has Sun not been able to get enough attention lately that it has to ride on the coat tails of Java?
OK, OK, the broken email client, camera, and music player were obviously funny, but I'd love to have the rotary interface. I actually thought that one would be fun. In fact, I'd love to have a phone like that again just to bring back the good 'ol days...
Actually, I disagree. If we keep them, they take a job from an American. If we send them home, they compete with us from abroad, and make money for India/China instead of for the US. In either case, Americans lose.
Will Americans lose? Some, yes. But does America lose? No. Something we all need to wake up and realize is that competition is not land locked. More and more every person in some form or another is going to have to compete on a global stage. The sooner Americans realize this, the better America will be.
America wins because it's attracting talent to spend time, money, and resources in America. America wins because hopefully the rising generation realizes that they have to work to make it in the global economy. In the end, those who really desire to succeed, will (it's a free education for cripes sake!), and that is what America is all about.
Surely management understands that redundancy is good. In my experience they only think its good when the incident has already happened and they've handed you your head.
you should start believing now that the commoditization of IT skills has now started to hit a high acceleration point. While the demand for brilliant, computer scientists and engineers will never diminish, simply being able to open a computer up to service it will no longer (if not already) be able to fetch the price it one did.
Is it efficiency that we're after or dependence on, say, oil? As long as oil (or some other foreign nonrenewable resource) wasn't heavily involved in the process of creating the H2, isn't that a plus? As much as the sky is falling over what we're doing to the environment, shouldn't we overcome the issue of renewable energy before we focus on what it does to the environment?
At work and my wrists have thanked me ever since. It took a little while to get used to, because my hand wasn't used to using fingers (as apposed to the whole arm) to finely manipulate the cursor, but after a few weeks I like using better than a mouse. But don't get rid of the mouse! I left my mouse hooked up for those who want to use my terminal and aren't adept at using a trackball.
ODF isn't there to dethrone MS as the word processor of choice, to think so is a bit foolish. It's there to provide a format that *everyone* can use. I will continue to use MS Office because I think it's a superior product, but ODF allows me to *save* my MS Office documents to format that *anyone* else can use, but more importantly convert from when I want to read my own documents in 20 years.
Remember, ODF is not a platform, word processor, gizmo, Office killer, etc. It's only a standard in which to format documents.
Ina similar fashion, I was listening to an NPR news story on how some association for blind people was complaining that newer cars don't make enough noise. They said that the growing trend of making cars less and less noisy was presenting a hazard to blind people ( who I guess are now becoming deaf ). The interviewer asked what sort of noise the car should make, "the sound of waves lapping on the shore?, the sound of wheat plants rustling in the wind?". You could tell that the interviewer was slightly annoyed by the notion that 99.999% of the population would have to deal with noisy cars because someone can't *see* them.
I don't want to denigrate those who have been through horrific traumatic experiences, but having 'bad memories' and learning to cope with them are part of the human experience. How 'bout we help people to overcome on their own without pill popping their experiences away?
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My CRT monitor does something similar with my Nokia 6010. My screen distorts ever so slightly like there is a tremor in the Force...and then the phone rings. It's funny how the interference causes the monitor to 'know' the phone is going to ring.
that suing that pants off people is not a winning business model. (**AA, take a hint)
Nope.
Well, why not pipe their ad to /dev/null. Page viewed by the computer, not by user.
I have a non-Windows Media Center box that is the hub of my media. It really sucked when Zap2It went down. So, I spent an evening looking for a free alternative. I have a laptop that has Media Center 2005 on it (where it automagically downlaods its EPG data) and found a nifty application that will parse it into XMLTV format. I then drop that in a share on my media server where it picks it up and installs the latest data. Rinse, lather, and repeat. It bites that I have to manually do this every so often, but it sure beats manually parsing or screen scraping a website.
in the whole world, is to be in a place where you can see the whole universe. Makes you realize how insignificant you are in the big picture.
I would rather have seen an apples to apples comparison of what VS is used for, ie development in C# or VB. Although Eclipse was primarily designed for Java, like the article mentions, various plugins do exist to C# and VB development (likewise Java development in VS). It also would have been nice to see screenshots of the VS comparison.
The compare and contrast was superfluous at best. This was merely a "my dad's better than your dad" analysis.
and deduct another 25 when discussed on /.
You're right! We'll just sack network performance to accomplish it!
has decided to change the name of his immensely successful film company to JAWA.
OK, so the company isn't publicly traded, but still, has Sun not been able to get enough attention lately that it has to ride on the coat tails of Java?
OK, OK, the broken email client, camera, and music player were obviously funny, but I'd love to have the rotary interface. I actually thought that one would be fun. In fact, I'd love to have a phone like that again just to bring back the good 'ol days...
Will Americans lose? Some, yes. But does America lose? No. Something we all need to wake up and realize is that competition is not land locked. More and more every person in some form or another is going to have to compete on a global stage. The sooner Americans realize this, the better America will be.
America wins because it's attracting talent to spend time, money, and resources in America. America wins because hopefully the rising generation realizes that they have to work to make it in the global economy. In the end, those who really desire to succeed, will (it's a free education for cripes sake!), and that is what America is all about.
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you should start believing now that the commoditization of IT skills has now started to hit a high acceleration point. While the demand for brilliant, computer scientists and engineers will never diminish, simply being able to open a computer up to service it will no longer (if not already) be able to fetch the price it one did.
Is it efficiency that we're after or dependence on, say, oil? As long as oil (or some other foreign nonrenewable resource) wasn't heavily involved in the process of creating the H2, isn't that a plus? As much as the sky is falling over what we're doing to the environment, shouldn't we overcome the issue of renewable energy before we focus on what it does to the environment?
At work and my wrists have thanked me ever since. It took a little while to get used to, because my hand wasn't used to using fingers (as apposed to the whole arm) to finely manipulate the cursor, but after a few weeks I like using better than a mouse. But don't get rid of the mouse! I left my mouse hooked up for those who want to use my terminal and aren't adept at using a trackball.
ODF isn't there to dethrone MS as the word processor of choice, to think so is a bit foolish. It's there to provide a format that *everyone* can use. I will continue to use MS Office because I think it's a superior product, but ODF allows me to *save* my MS Office documents to format that *anyone* else can use, but more importantly convert from when I want to read my own documents in 20 years.
Remember, ODF is not a platform, word processor, gizmo, Office killer, etc. It's only a standard in which to format documents.
Ina similar fashion, I was listening to an NPR news story on how some association for blind people was complaining that newer cars don't make enough noise. They said that the growing trend of making cars less and less noisy was presenting a hazard to blind people ( who I guess are now becoming deaf ). The interviewer asked what sort of noise the car should make, "the sound of waves lapping on the shore?, the sound of wheat plants rustling in the wind?". You could tell that the interviewer was slightly annoyed by the notion that 99.999% of the population would have to deal with noisy cars because someone can't *see* them.
He writes "guaranteed not DOA".
Have you taken your meds today?
I don't want to denigrate those who have been through horrific traumatic experiences, but having 'bad memories' and learning to cope with them are part of the human experience. How 'bout we help people to overcome on their own without pill popping their experiences away?
I hope my hard drive doesn't develop breast cancer or some other disease when they rupture...