State-run telcos are not the answer. Private telcos are not the answer. See Australia, we've tried both, and we're still screwed. Also definitely don't sell off your state-owned monopoly. Competition is the only thing that works, and sometimes that need government intervention to give it a kick in the pants.
Re:Today's Editor War: Eclipse vs. NetBeans
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Having used both recently, netbeans is better at playing nice with people who are using other editors. Eclipse is better at everything else.
With regards to the slowness, on a 3ish GHz P4 with 512MB RAM eclipse is fast enough to not piss me off. Netbeans isn't. Running netbeans on an UltraSPARC dev server with ridiculous amounts of RAM, fast disc and CPU is a whole other story. It still seems to do more stupid things than eclipse though.
Try playing unprotected HD stuff on your non-DRM machine, with protected stuff playing in the background. Please report back, because this is the situation that everyone is worried about. Pay specific attention to audio quality.
School didn't teach me how to work when I don't want to work. On the other hand, MONEY often motivates me to work when I wouldn't otherwise want to. And there is the difference between school and "the real world": if the real world, work has meaningful rewards.
Also, chem didn't teach me any "thinking skills". All it taught me was to ignore my teacher's bad analogies and instead read a textbook if I wanted to know about something.
Here in Australia, the first 11 years of school gradually bludgeoned me into the "don't care" group. Year 12 tried to get people to care again, but it didn't matter because my intelligence (rather than hard work) got me through to an OP2 (on a scale of 1-25, 1 being the top ~2% of the state) and into my degree (BE). Now that I'm at uni and learning stuff that's interesting to me, I find that I care again.
The problem with generation-old hardware is it's a generation old in features. I'm particularly looking forward to DX10, which I wouldn't get if I was to buy a 7600, or a 7900, or a X1900XTX Extreme Edition Pro Super-Dooper Performance Enhanced Super-Sayian Bitchmaster GT.
Well I've had to re-activate by simply overclocking (2.8GHz prescott to 3.5GHz). I've also had to re-activate due to swapping NICs, but interestingly I haven't had to reactivate after swapping out my 3500+ for a 4200+ X2 (required BIOS upgrade). All my other upgrades (mobo, hard drive etc) required a re-install anyway so of course I had to re-activate.
This is not funny, it's sad because it's true. Proxy avoidance/is/ an important skill these days. I'm moving out of college next year because here I'm stuck behind a HTTP proxy and the Dean can't seem to understand how that would limit my ability to learn.
That's nothing. I own a box that SP2 will not boot on. Tried to install SP2 on it when SP2 was first released and MS was running their "free support for any SP2 issues" campaign. After trying a few different things, they basically said "give up".
So the box is still running SP1 which is about to become unsupported. $150 wasted on that XP license.
I find it funny that I can install windows and hear that music while I tell it my name etc but then once windows boots for real(TM) I have to install audio drivers before I get any sort of sound...
No, people say "virii" when they should say "viruses". Other, even more annoying people use apostrophes where they have no business being. Other, still more annoying people bitch about these things on slashdot;)
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State-run telcos are not the answer. Private telcos are not the answer. See Australia, we've tried both, and we're still screwed. Also definitely don't sell off your state-owned monopoly. Competition is the only thing that works, and sometimes that need government intervention to give it a kick in the pants.
Vista ReadyBoost?
Having used both recently, netbeans is better at playing nice with people who are using other editors. Eclipse is better at everything else.
With regards to the slowness, on a 3ish GHz P4 with 512MB RAM eclipse is fast enough to not piss me off. Netbeans isn't. Running netbeans on an UltraSPARC dev server with ridiculous amounts of RAM, fast disc and CPU is a whole other story. It still seems to do more stupid things than eclipse though.
Try playing unprotected HD stuff on your non-DRM machine, with protected stuff playing in the background. Please report back, because this is the situation that everyone is worried about. Pay specific attention to audio quality.
TIA
The correct tag for this article is obviously "god"...
Feeding the troll, but hey I'm not the first...
DX10 can never be backported to XP because it relies on the completely different driver model that vista uses.
School didn't teach me how to work when I don't want to work. On the other hand, MONEY often motivates me to work when I wouldn't otherwise want to. And there is the difference between school and "the real world": if the real world, work has meaningful rewards.
Also, chem didn't teach me any "thinking skills". All it taught me was to ignore my teacher's bad analogies and instead read a textbook if I wanted to know about something.
Here in Australia, the first 11 years of school gradually bludgeoned me into the "don't care" group. Year 12 tried to get people to care again, but it didn't matter because my intelligence (rather than hard work) got me through to an OP2 (on a scale of 1-25, 1 being the top ~2% of the state) and into my degree (BE). Now that I'm at uni and learning stuff that's interesting to me, I find that I care again.
There was something like that in WoW. News article about it.
*WOOSH*
Vista has DX10. This is why I will be running vista Vista also has an assload of bugs. This is why IT departments will not be running vista.
MS wishes they owned java, .NET is trying to compete with java!
The problem with generation-old hardware is it's a generation old in features. I'm particularly looking forward to DX10, which I wouldn't get if I was to buy a 7600, or a 7900, or a X1900XTX Extreme Edition Pro Super-Dooper Performance Enhanced Super-Sayian Bitchmaster GT.
That's because Dailytech is a news site rather than a review site ;)
Or: (in a less fucked-up system) you can pay nothing and use bluetooth or a USB cable from your computer!
The xbox was (close to) a regular PC. The xbox 360 is a lot more custom, and a far cry from a regular PC.
Well I've had to re-activate by simply overclocking (2.8GHz prescott to 3.5GHz). I've also had to re-activate due to swapping NICs, but interestingly I haven't had to reactivate after swapping out my 3500+ for a 4200+ X2 (required BIOS upgrade). All my other upgrades (mobo, hard drive etc) required a re-install anyway so of course I had to re-activate.
This is not funny, it's sad because it's true. Proxy avoidance /is/ an important skill these days. I'm moving out of college next year because here I'm stuck behind a HTTP proxy and the Dean can't seem to understand how that would limit my ability to learn.
That's nothing. I own a box that SP2 will not boot on. Tried to install SP2 on it when SP2 was first released and MS was running their "free support for any SP2 issues" campaign. After trying a few different things, they basically said "give up". So the box is still running SP1 which is about to become unsupported. $150 wasted on that XP license.
Well we could put them to work as part of the backbone of the internet...
I find it funny that I can install windows and hear that music while I tell it my name etc but then once windows boots for real(TM) I have to install audio drivers before I get any sort of sound...
OTOH = On The Other Hand
D&C = Dilation and Curettage (gynaecological procedure)
FAQ = Frequently Asked Question(s)
P&L = Profit & Loss statement
I find my self trying to use find-as-you-type in all sorts of documents (even hard-copy) then remembering that I'm not using firefox...
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