That really depends on the area, I have friends in areas where it's sunny 90% of the year with little variation in temps, for me, I'm in WI right next to the Mississippi, for us the weather changes every 6 hours or so.
interesting, I've noticed some of that but it mostly seams to be clearing up some confusion in the masking of the orrigional company/people involved and answering questions that people bring up.
To add to your mentions of OpenCL and Grand Central, from what I've seen it looks like both will be used in the background for most processes, so by default your system will be sending blocks of instructions to CPU or GPU cores depending on who would get it done faster. This would seriously rock and really increase the power of the system!
I can even see that chip company Apple bought creating specialized chips that can be dropped in place and used by Grand Central and OpenCL automatically without the developer having to worry about it.
I will definitely be purchasing 10.6, if nothing else to show support to a company willing to spend time/resources going back and cleaning up their work. It's something I've always wanted to do after every project I've worked on, but it's something that's nearly impossible to sell to the customer.
UAC was a change to the security model for the operating system and had nothing to do with UI other then the cancel/allow message boxes.
My statement was not "I had no problems with the upgrade so it's OK for everyone", it was "I had no problems with the upgrade, and most of the comments I've heard are complaints with the UI, so this should not be considered a 'fiasco'".
10.5 was a 'fiasco'? where did that come from? I never had problems with 10.5, bought soon after it came out and installed on a fairly new MBPro. I've installed all the updates as soon as they came out, no problems encountered.
Others have had issues with UI changes (stacks, transparent menu bar, the new dock, icon changes, etc) but that would not merit the label "fiasco".
.NET is dying? why is that? I thought it was a fairly powerful language/framework and had lots of potential, why is it falling behind? I'd really like to know.
Go to a book store and count the number of SF/FF books they carry, now figure myself, I go through 60 to 80 books a year right now, and the bookstore has what, 500? 1000? 5000 SF/FF books? I don't have the time to read through all of them, the descriptions on the back aren't very good at telling you how good the book is or if it matches with what you are interested in... This is a problem even for serious readers, not for the lazy.
With the iPhone SDK coming out and being 100% Objective C (v2.0) and Apple development in general being mostly Objective C (v2.0 in Leopard, v1.x in Tiger and earlier), I wonder how long it will be before it shows up on the list.
And in case you are wondering, Objective C v2.0 introduced optional Garbage Collection to this language, designed to be somewhat backwards compatible (GC can be required or optional, if optional it will run on Objective C 1.x systems).
there is a bit of a difference, not all 360's have hard drives (and are therefore unable to take advantage of downloaded content), but all PS3's have hard drives (minimum of 40gb), therefore all PS3 owners who have the PS3 connected to the internet using a high-speed connection would be able to take advantage of this service.
Netflix (and any other computer based media download service) is computer only at the moment, while nice not many people like watching movies on their PC while their TV sits unused
AppleTV needs more units out there to be noticed (I think current numbers out there are less then 200k?), but eventually it will become a major competitor (ease-of-use if nothing else).
It will really depend on what the pricing will be for this service... hopefully it will be cheap, otherwise I won't bother that much with it.
You are right... I shouldn't trivialize it, sorry about that.
The point I was trying to make is that this is not something new to the Iraq war but something common to all wars and to events outside of war. The yahoo article quoted by the person I was replying to implied (at least to me) that this was a major problem of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, may have been reading that wrong but hey...
So, what you are saying is that the Test is 5-10 Months away, and getting it to 100% efficiency is 5-10 years away.
So in theory we could be seeing this with $2 or $3 a gallon gas fairly soon, and after a while the production cost will be reduced (though the price will probably stay where it is.):)
Also, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is common to ALL wars/police actions/cops shootout with drug dealers/etc. just look at the name "Post TRAUMATIC", any traumatic event (where life is threatened) can trigger this, it's just the soldier in war who gets most of it because they regularly go into circumstances where their life is threatened. I've known several soldiers with light PTSD, you just don't make any sudden noises/moves around them and you're all good. That article on yahoo can best be described as "DUH".
They don't need to, Apple has already anticipated this. Parental controls can be setup, kid cannot purchase any music listed as explicit (they do mark such music), or movies rated PG13 or higher (or whatever you set it at). It's not that difficult to setup (naturally for an Apple product) and works well.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302251
Of the six computers in Apple's lineup 3 have Firewire 800 ports (Macbook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro's even have 2), I already have a couple external drives that use Firewire 800 (500gb and 320gb). I haven't looked at other manufacturers (for the simple reason that I don't care) but Apple seems to be pushing it forward. And those FW800 drives are nice, the gb's just fly by.:)
My second idea of why they would do it this way would be stability/security. If each piece has to exist on its own it should be easier to produce good code which should be both more stable and less exploit prone. Easier... not really, creating modular code that has no inter-dependancies will be difficalt, if they go this route expect a lot of modules that require other modules to run properly, and I bet there will be quite a few of these that are not documented.
All in all this is a marketing thing, not something for good/stable code.
In the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson that exact thing happened. The space elevator was actually designed to use a small moon as the counterweight (instead of simply using the weight of the elevator itself), in a revolt they blew up the connection between the moon and the elevator, sending the moon out into space and causing the elevator to come down. The length of the elevator was still sufficient to wrap around mars 2x and was effected by the spin of the planet into incredible speed and force. I don't know what sources were used in the writing of that event but it sounds like if there is a failure of the elevator it may not fall straight down but start falling in a line... and doing some major damage.
The real problem is not that the best and brightest in the FOSS world, it's that they are independent and are working in different directions. The big part of the beauty of OSX is that they have spent $$$ on designing guidelines for the UI, and most of their development works from those guidelines. This gives a very uniform UI, once you learn how to do something here you can use the same thing there and there and there as well.
With FOSS software each bit of software has their own idea and implementation of the UI, the very foundation of FOSS works against a uniform UI, it'll never happen.
I've worked with Linux almost as long as I've worked with Windows, I've only just gotten into Mac in the last two years.
In Linux the command line is king, there is very little room for doing your own thing, and the general rules are accepted by all. I prefer the Linux command line to the Linux GUI, and the funny thing is there are times I prefer the Linux command line to the Windows GUI.
In Windows, there is a scattering of UI design, but again everyone goes in their own direction, even with MS's own software, however it's still more uniform then Linux desktop.
Mac's have a very uniform UI, 95% of their internal software goes by that standard, and most Mac developers do the same simply because it's well defined and people are already working with it easily. Also on Mac the UI gets more focus, it's part of the reason to use a Mac, so developers not following the UI are often singled out and pulled back into line by peers.
You should also take range into account. While an office chair accelerated to a lethal speed may stay at that speed for approx 20 feet, a harddrive (either in case or drive platter alone, fired edge-on) accelerated at lethal speed should have a range 5x or more then that of the chair simply because of density and drag.
I started in home schooling in the 2nd grade and went all the way to graduation. I didn't go to a 4 year college but instead worked for a couple years before going to SW Tech College for computer networking, graduated with honors. I took every optional class I could, tutored for several classes, and was the assistant teacher for Linux/Unix class. I am now going back to MATC Madison for MS.NET Certificate (just starting this semester).
About the only problem I've had as a home schooled kid relating to public-schooled kids is getting that 4 year pattern figured out (freshman, junior, senior, and whatever, still haven't).
The other big problem is when trying to get into college they want a transcript from highschool, something we neglected to keep up during my homeschooling (Note to all Home Schooling parents out there, MAKE AND KEEP A TRANSCRIPT FOR YOUR KID!).
I'm willing to admit my education was lacking in some places and better in others, my main weakness is higher math (beyond Algebra), and early 80's rock bands, but for the most part I've been able to get by.
The biggest thing about Home Schooling is that it teaches kids to Learn. Many times in home-schooling, when a kid asks their parent about something it's used as an opportunity to learn researching and to find out for themselves (with parents assistance, but still the kid doing a majority of the research). Instead of answering with a negative my parents would often grab the dictionary or encyclopedia and we'd start researching. Many of my home schooled friends have had similar experiences, where an interest or a question is used as the basis for several weeks of research and fact-finding. One family I know of went so far as to open up a mini-restaurant in their house to teach their kids all the responsibilities that go along with owning and operating a business, the kids took care of everything from ordering supplies to budgeting to taxes to making the menu.
I wouldn't trade home schooling for anything and if I ever do get married and have kids I will home school them as well.
Have you ever looked into the case of an older PC? Get something two years old sitting on the (carpeted) floor, in a house that has central air, and you have 50% of the open space in that PC full of lint and dust and other interesting stuff... even more if the owner's a smoker or has pets. You get a lint filled PC on carpet next to a sofa and something decides to make a spark and you have your fire bomb, expecially if it's right next to a case fan.
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That really depends on the area, I have friends in areas where it's sunny 90% of the year with little variation in temps, for me, I'm in WI right next to the Mississippi, for us the weather changes every 6 hours or so.
interesting, I've noticed some of that but it mostly seams to be clearing up some confusion in the masking of the orrigional company/people involved and answering questions that people bring up.
To add to your mentions of OpenCL and Grand Central, from what I've seen it looks like both will be used in the background for most processes, so by default your system will be sending blocks of instructions to CPU or GPU cores depending on who would get it done faster. This would seriously rock and really increase the power of the system!
I can even see that chip company Apple bought creating specialized chips that can be dropped in place and used by Grand Central and OpenCL automatically without the developer having to worry about it.
I will definitely be purchasing 10.6, if nothing else to show support to a company willing to spend time/resources going back and cleaning up their work. It's something I've always wanted to do after every project I've worked on, but it's something that's nearly impossible to sell to the customer.
Two points:
UAC was a change to the security model for the operating system and had nothing to do with UI other then the cancel/allow message boxes.
My statement was not "I had no problems with the upgrade so it's OK for everyone", it was "I had no problems with the upgrade, and most of the comments I've heard are complaints with the UI, so this should not be considered a 'fiasco'".
You're striking out in T-ball here...
10.5 was a 'fiasco'? where did that come from? I never had problems with 10.5, bought soon after it came out and installed on a fairly new MBPro. I've installed all the updates as soon as they came out, no problems encountered. Others have had issues with UI changes (stacks, transparent menu bar, the new dock, icon changes, etc) but that would not merit the label "fiasco".
.NET is dying? why is that? I thought it was a fairly powerful language/framework and had lots of potential, why is it falling behind? I'd really like to know.
so WinFS == Duke Nukem Forever?
Go to a book store and count the number of SF/FF books they carry, now figure myself, I go through 60 to 80 books a year right now, and the bookstore has what, 500? 1000? 5000 SF/FF books? I don't have the time to read through all of them, the descriptions on the back aren't very good at telling you how good the book is or if it matches with what you are interested in... This is a problem even for serious readers, not for the lazy.
'Course there's an EMACS command to do that... the butterfly thing that is.
With the iPhone SDK coming out and being 100% Objective C (v2.0) and Apple development in general being mostly Objective C (v2.0 in Leopard, v1.x in Tiger and earlier), I wonder how long it will be before it shows up on the list.
And in case you are wondering, Objective C v2.0 introduced optional Garbage Collection to this language, designed to be somewhat backwards compatible (GC can be required or optional, if optional it will run on Objective C 1.x systems).
there is a bit of a difference, not all 360's have hard drives (and are therefore unable to take advantage of downloaded content), but all PS3's have hard drives (minimum of 40gb), therefore all PS3 owners who have the PS3 connected to the internet using a high-speed connection would be able to take advantage of this service.
Netflix (and any other computer based media download service) is computer only at the moment, while nice not many people like watching movies on their PC while their TV sits unused
AppleTV needs more units out there to be noticed (I think current numbers out there are less then 200k?), but eventually it will become a major competitor (ease-of-use if nothing else).
It will really depend on what the pricing will be for this service... hopefully it will be cheap, otherwise I won't bother that much with it.
You are right... I shouldn't trivialize it, sorry about that.
The point I was trying to make is that this is not something new to the Iraq war but something common to all wars and to events outside of war. The yahoo article quoted by the person I was replying to implied (at least to me) that this was a major problem of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, may have been reading that wrong but hey...
So, what you are saying is that the Test is 5-10 Months away, and getting it to 100% efficiency is 5-10 years away.
So in theory we could be seeing this with $2 or $3 a gallon gas fairly soon, and after a while the production cost will be reduced (though the price will probably stay where it is.) :)
You have problems, anger issues and so forth...
Also, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is common to ALL wars/police actions/cops shootout with drug dealers/etc. just look at the name "Post TRAUMATIC", any traumatic event (where life is threatened) can trigger this, it's just the soldier in war who gets most of it because they regularly go into circumstances where their life is threatened. I've known several soldiers with light PTSD, you just don't make any sudden noises/moves around them and you're all good. That article on yahoo can best be described as "DUH".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_traumatic_stress_disorderhttp://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/hybrid/product1.en.html If you have a Mac this one will do nicely, and for only $150.
Wouldn't you just love a computer shaped like a grenade? Talk about a data explosion!
They don't need to, Apple has already anticipated this. Parental controls can be setup, kid cannot purchase any music listed as explicit (they do mark such music), or movies rated PG13 or higher (or whatever you set it at). It's not that difficult to setup (naturally for an Apple product) and works well. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302251
Of the six computers in Apple's lineup 3 have Firewire 800 ports (Macbook Pro, iMac, and Mac Pro's even have 2), I already have a couple external drives that use Firewire 800 (500gb and 320gb). I haven't looked at other manufacturers (for the simple reason that I don't care) but Apple seems to be pushing it forward. And those FW800 drives are nice, the gb's just fly by. :)
In the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanly Robinson that exact thing happened. The space elevator was actually designed to use a small moon as the counterweight (instead of simply using the weight of the elevator itself), in a revolt they blew up the connection between the moon and the elevator, sending the moon out into space and causing the elevator to come down. The length of the elevator was still sufficient to wrap around mars 2x and was effected by the spin of the planet into incredible speed and force. I don't know what sources were used in the writing of that event but it sounds like if there is a failure of the elevator it may not fall straight down but start falling in a line... and doing some major damage.
The real problem is not that the best and brightest in the FOSS world, it's that they are independent and are working in different directions. The big part of the beauty of OSX is that they have spent $$$ on designing guidelines for the UI, and most of their development works from those guidelines. This gives a very uniform UI, once you learn how to do something here you can use the same thing there and there and there as well. With FOSS software each bit of software has their own idea and implementation of the UI, the very foundation of FOSS works against a uniform UI, it'll never happen. I've worked with Linux almost as long as I've worked with Windows, I've only just gotten into Mac in the last two years. In Linux the command line is king, there is very little room for doing your own thing, and the general rules are accepted by all. I prefer the Linux command line to the Linux GUI, and the funny thing is there are times I prefer the Linux command line to the Windows GUI. In Windows, there is a scattering of UI design, but again everyone goes in their own direction, even with MS's own software, however it's still more uniform then Linux desktop. Mac's have a very uniform UI, 95% of their internal software goes by that standard, and most Mac developers do the same simply because it's well defined and people are already working with it easily. Also on Mac the UI gets more focus, it's part of the reason to use a Mac, so developers not following the UI are often singled out and pulled back into line by peers.
You should also take range into account. While an office chair accelerated to a lethal speed may stay at that speed for approx 20 feet, a harddrive (either in case or drive platter alone, fired edge-on) accelerated at lethal speed should have a range 5x or more then that of the chair simply because of density and drag.
I started in home schooling in the 2nd grade and went all the way to graduation. I didn't go to a 4 year college but instead worked for a couple years before going to SW Tech College for computer networking, graduated with honors. I took every optional class I could, tutored for several classes, and was the assistant teacher for Linux/Unix class. I am now going back to MATC Madison for MS .NET Certificate (just starting this semester).
About the only problem I've had as a home schooled kid relating to public-schooled kids is getting that 4 year pattern figured out (freshman, junior, senior, and whatever, still haven't).
The other big problem is when trying to get into college they want a transcript from highschool, something we neglected to keep up during my homeschooling (Note to all Home Schooling parents out there, MAKE AND KEEP A TRANSCRIPT FOR YOUR KID!).
I'm willing to admit my education was lacking in some places and better in others, my main weakness is higher math (beyond Algebra), and early 80's rock bands, but for the most part I've been able to get by.
The biggest thing about Home Schooling is that it teaches kids to Learn. Many times in home-schooling, when a kid asks their parent about something it's used as an opportunity to learn researching and to find out for themselves (with parents assistance, but still the kid doing a majority of the research). Instead of answering with a negative my parents would often grab the dictionary or encyclopedia and we'd start researching. Many of my home schooled friends have had similar experiences, where an interest or a question is used as the basis for several weeks of research and fact-finding. One family I know of went so far as to open up a mini-restaurant in their house to teach their kids all the responsibilities that go along with owning and operating a business, the kids took care of everything from ordering supplies to budgeting to taxes to making the menu.
I wouldn't trade home schooling for anything and if I ever do get married and have kids I will home school them as well.
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Have you ever looked into the case of an older PC? Get something two years old sitting on the (carpeted) floor, in a house that has central air, and you have 50% of the open space in that PC full of lint and dust and other interesting stuff... even more if the owner's a smoker or has pets. You get a lint filled PC on carpet next to a sofa and something decides to make a spark and you have your fire bomb, expecially if it's right next to a case fan.