The impact of the Gates' money is immediate, but in the long run a well-funded knowledge base is much more effective at raising the standard of living worldwide. Again, Google upstages Microsoft. Is there anything they can't fail at?
No, Google donating $2 million to Wikipedia doesn't even come close to upstaging the enormous philanthropy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Need a report that's "like this one except for..."? Take the code for that report and add some mods and there ya go.
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating. Giant swaths of repetitive code pasted in large blocks, all mangled (I mean 'modified') in their own way. It's obvious the guy had no clue what he was doing and it's even harder to understand what his code is doing because so much of it is completely unnecessary.
Your manager would consider you an idiot if you started each project from scratch, re-writing all the functions and methods that already exist in other applications and have perhaps already gone through rigorous QA.
Sure, but building a reusable code base is something I would hardly consider cheating. Building proper and efficient classes and then leveraging them to handle 80% of your work takes experience that you cannot obtain by cheating.
The newer versions of OpenSUSE use Ksplice during the installation process to switch from the kernel used on the boot CD to the kernel recently installed on your system. It's an unbelievably cool concept to patch a kernel as it's running in memory but in my experience it's not incredibly stable. I've installed 11.1 at least five times and watched the system crash at least three times during the ksplice process. It's not a big deal to me because rebooting the system lets me finish up the install, but the ksplice feature is one that I've always considered to be experimental.
Process Explorer kicks the crap out of Task Manager simply for the fact that it doesn't give access denied error messages to admins trying to end protected system processes. Try ending the same processes with Process Explorer and it "just works" -- which goes to show that the Task Manager error message has nothing to do with actual account privileges. The first time I found this I realized it's no wonder Windows has such a problem with malware, the applications I run have more access to my system processes than I do!
So there's iWork and then there's iWork, but I understood you the first time.
iWork will not work on an iPhone / iPod Touch because a) the screen isn't big enough (which validates the "it's a big iPod Touch!" argument) or more realistically b) Apple will use their App Store restrictions to ensure that you can't run iWork on an iPod Touch.
That being said, I think you are taking things a bit too seriously. I mean, seriously, you used the word "seriously" like three times in as many questions.
You can do things on the Ipad that would simply not be possible on the iPod touch.
Like what?
The iPod Touch supports audio and video playback, it has a keyboard for input, WiFi / 3G (if you get the iPhone) connectivity and it runs basically the same exact software as the iPad.
What things will the iPad do that are simply not possible on an iPod Touch?
You're right about this one. Why was this even a question to begin with?
Because practically every other notebook, netbook and tablet device ever created have upgradeable internal (and often external) storage. It's not a silly question.
The iPhone and the iPod Touch both offer native support for Microsoft Exchange. Why not the iPad? The rest of your post is spot on, I don't think any iDevice would support Microsoft Exchange if Apple offered a competing product.
I write PHP every day and I get by very well with KWrite. KDE let's me seamlessly edit remote files over FTP or SSH and KWrite is lightweight but offers a surprising amount of features. It has some pretty awesome syntax highlighting that changes its color coding between PHP blocks, Javascript, style sheets and HTML with remarkable accuracy.
I've used Zend Studio (pre-Eclipse) and Eclipse PDT. I like some of the features such as the way they assist with function parameters and the built in PHP documentation, but other features aren't so nice and cause way too much interference with what I type. Ultimately, it lacks the seamless integration of my KDE environment and is a pain for editing remote files so I always end up going back to KWrite.
Unlocked for GSM carriers, so my choices are the worst network in the nation (T-Mobile) or the second worst (AT&T). I know that CDMA isn't compatible with the rest of the world, but its networks are far better developed here in the States than all of our GSM networks combined.
I can't believe Apple has married another mobile device to AT&T, which immediately renders the 3G model useless for me. I was expecting to hear an announcement about Apple on Verizon for both iPhone and iPad. Instead it sounds like it is more of the same, at some point AT&T's lack of adequate coverage is going to hurt Apple's image.
I've used software with that photo-realistic, it's a fantastic machine UI that you are a fan of and I did not like it one bit. My problem with making fancy physical looking machines on a monitor is the fact I still can't interact with it very well. It's just a flat image that I can only manipulate with a handful of mouse gestures. "Can I click this? Do I drag that? I did not know that lever moved!" It basically hides a bunch of functionality in plain view and really confuses the heck out of me.
I have a Palm Treo 755p which has a full QWERTY keypad on it. The buttons are tiny but they are shaped just right for quick entry. My friends with iPhones agree that the real keypad on my phone is certainly quicker than typing on their touch screens. With a bit more practice, I bet the author would agree.
We have a "magic" password for our internal website as well as our customer website. It's highly obscure and serves as a great tool for walking our customers through issues they have with the website, since it changes quite a bit depending on who they are. So I'm not really surprised Facebook has (had) a "magic" password, but I was pretty disappointed to read in the summary it was something as simple as "Chuck Norris." Then I read this:
I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less.
Sounds like it was obscure enough to me. If a user just happened to be using that password they would have never known it was magic unless they thought to try it on another user id.
Because your browser doesn't GPG encrypt the saved passwords. Because I access the web from more than one PC. Because entering a long, secure password just to access a text file full of low value passwords strikes me as completely backwards. Because if that one password is compromised, they all are. Because hexadecimal hashes only use 16 of 70+ characters that are easily available on my keyboard.
I don't know about everyone else, but I don't use my work credentials or my root password when I visit sites that look like rockyou.com. They just aren't important enough for me to use secure passwords. Five letters and a digit is more than enough for me to use on most forums, Myspace, and other unimportant sites -- all of whom I don't trust to actually store my passwords in a secure manner. So I am refraining from commenting on the horrible state of passwords when it concerns a horrible state of a website, because I don't think I'm the only one who acts this way.
thats the version that is pushing heavily to OEMs and companies.
I'd say so. I bought a refurb PC with a copy of Windows Vista 32-bit. It was eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 7, which to my surprise came in 64-bit. That was a pleasant surprise, although I'm pretty convinced that Windows 7 is really just Mojave 2.
I too have abandoned using ReiserFS but it's not about the horrible crime Hans committed. It's about the fact I don't think the company that he owned (who developed ReiserFS) has a great future, so I foresee maintenance problems with that filesystem. Sure, somebody else can continue their work but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Not that I RTFA or anything, but I find it interesting that XFS and EXT4 both appear to be equally impressive with benchmarks, and it's implied they are both better than JFS. You must not be a nerd.
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I see what you did there. Very nice.
The impact of the Gates' money is immediate, but in the long run a well-funded knowledge base is much more effective at raising the standard of living worldwide. Again, Google upstages Microsoft. Is there anything they can't fail at?
No, Google donating $2 million to Wikipedia doesn't even come close to upstaging the enormous philanthropy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Need a report that's "like this one except for..."? Take the code for that report and add some mods and there ya go.
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating. Giant swaths of repetitive code pasted in large blocks, all mangled (I mean 'modified') in their own way. It's obvious the guy had no clue what he was doing and it's even harder to understand what his code is doing because so much of it is completely unnecessary.
Your manager would consider you an idiot if you started each project from scratch, re-writing all the functions and methods that already exist in other applications and have perhaps already gone through rigorous QA.
Sure, but building a reusable code base is something I would hardly consider cheating. Building proper and efficient classes and then leveraging them to handle 80% of your work takes experience that you cannot obtain by cheating.
The newer versions of OpenSUSE use Ksplice during the installation process to switch from the kernel used on the boot CD to the kernel recently installed on your system. It's an unbelievably cool concept to patch a kernel as it's running in memory but in my experience it's not incredibly stable. I've installed 11.1 at least five times and watched the system crash at least three times during the ksplice process. It's not a big deal to me because rebooting the system lets me finish up the install, but the ksplice feature is one that I've always considered to be experimental.
I certainly know that sending a SEGV signal to init is a bad idea in *nix, even if certain flavors will let you do it or not.
I've never used any flavor of Linux that ever pretended to know better than root, and that's just the way I like it.
Spoken by someone who apparently hasn't used any other platform on the market.
Process Explorer kicks the crap out of Task Manager simply for the fact that it doesn't give access denied error messages to admins trying to end protected system processes. Try ending the same processes with Process Explorer and it "just works" -- which goes to show that the Task Manager error message has nothing to do with actual account privileges. The first time I found this I realized it's no wonder Windows has such a problem with malware, the applications I run have more access to my system processes than I do!
So there's iWork and then there's iWork, but I understood you the first time.
iWork will not work on an iPhone / iPod Touch because a) the screen isn't big enough (which validates the "it's a big iPod Touch!" argument) or more realistically b) Apple will use their App Store restrictions to ensure that you can't run iWork on an iPod Touch.
That being said, I think you are taking things a bit too seriously. I mean, seriously, you used the word "seriously" like three times in as many questions.
I do indeed. I work with semiconductor fab quite often. It's part of my business selling horticultural LED lighting.
Interesting. I've heard lots of hype about LED for horticultural uses, but I'm not sure I believe it. I will be checking out your LiveJournal, thanks.
You can do things on the Ipad that would simply not be possible on the iPod touch.
Like what?
The iPod Touch supports audio and video playback, it has a keyboard for input, WiFi / 3G (if you get the iPhone) connectivity and it runs basically the same exact software as the iPad.
What things will the iPad do that are simply not possible on an iPod Touch?
Will the iPad's internal storage be upgradable?
You're right about this one. Why was this even a question to begin with?
Because practically every other notebook, netbook and tablet device ever created have upgradeable internal (and often external) storage. It's not a silly question.
Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email?
Not likely.
The iPhone and the iPod Touch both offer native support for Microsoft Exchange. Why not the iPad? The rest of your post is spot on, I don't think any iDevice would support Microsoft Exchange if Apple offered a competing product.
I write PHP every day and I get by very well with KWrite. KDE let's me seamlessly edit remote files over FTP or SSH and KWrite is lightweight but offers a surprising amount of features. It has some pretty awesome syntax highlighting that changes its color coding between PHP blocks, Javascript, style sheets and HTML with remarkable accuracy.
I've used Zend Studio (pre-Eclipse) and Eclipse PDT. I like some of the features such as the way they assist with function parameters and the built in PHP documentation, but other features aren't so nice and cause way too much interference with what I type. Ultimately, it lacks the seamless integration of my KDE environment and is a pain for editing remote files so I always end up going back to KWrite.
If you don't trust the website then why are you trying to connect to it?
Free ringtones.
Unlocked for GSM carriers, so my choices are the worst network in the nation (T-Mobile) or the second worst (AT&T). I know that CDMA isn't compatible with the rest of the world, but its networks are far better developed here in the States than all of our GSM networks combined.
I can't believe Apple has married another mobile device to AT&T, which immediately renders the 3G model useless for me. I was expecting to hear an announcement about Apple on Verizon for both iPhone and iPad. Instead it sounds like it is more of the same, at some point AT&T's lack of adequate coverage is going to hurt Apple's image.
the woosh.
I've used software with that photo-realistic, it's a fantastic machine UI that you are a fan of and I did not like it one bit. My problem with making fancy physical looking machines on a monitor is the fact I still can't interact with it very well. It's just a flat image that I can only manipulate with a handful of mouse gestures. "Can I click this? Do I drag that? I did not know that lever moved!" It basically hides a bunch of functionality in plain view and really confuses the heck out of me.
I have a Palm Treo 755p which has a full QWERTY keypad on it. The buttons are tiny but they are shaped just right for quick entry. My friends with iPhones agree that the real keypad on my phone is certainly quicker than typing on their touch screens. With a bit more practice, I bet the author would agree.
I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less.
Sounds like it was obscure enough to me. If a user just happened to be using that password they would have never known it was magic unless they thought to try it on another user id.
Because your browser doesn't GPG encrypt the saved passwords.
Because I access the web from more than one PC.
Because entering a long, secure password just to access a text file full of low value passwords strikes me as completely backwards.
Because if that one password is compromised, they all are.
Because hexadecimal hashes only use 16 of 70+ characters that are easily available on my keyboard.
I think that's enough reasons for now.
I don't know about everyone else, but I don't use my work credentials or my root password when I visit sites that look like rockyou.com. They just aren't important enough for me to use secure passwords. Five letters and a digit is more than enough for me to use on most forums, Myspace, and other unimportant sites -- all of whom I don't trust to actually store my passwords in a secure manner. So I am refraining from commenting on the horrible state of passwords when it concerns a horrible state of a website, because I don't think I'm the only one who acts this way.
thats the version that is pushing heavily to OEMs and companies.
I'd say so. I bought a refurb PC with a copy of Windows Vista 32-bit. It was eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 7, which to my surprise came in 64-bit. That was a pleasant surprise, although I'm pretty convinced that Windows 7 is really just Mojave 2.
I too have abandoned using ReiserFS but it's not about the horrible crime Hans committed. It's about the fact I don't think the company that he owned (who developed ReiserFS) has a great future, so I foresee maintenance problems with that filesystem. Sure, somebody else can continue their work but I'm not going to hold my breath.
News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Not that I RTFA or anything, but I find it interesting that XFS and EXT4 both appear to be equally impressive with benchmarks, and it's implied they are both better than JFS. You must not be a nerd.