Ah, suprised no one mentioned Hypercard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercard - I still have clients with working stacks - it was an idea before its time, to bad support for it died in 2004. LONG LIVE HYPERCARD!
I love Colbert, and I sadly pay apple for the privledge of legally downloading his show per a subscription basis.
He Is The Master Of Viral Marketing. His show is skyrocketing in popularity. When is he going to take over John Stewart's slot?:)
I'm still using secureCRT to get to a unix prompt, then I use VI or EMACS to code everything by hand using solid reusable libraries. Doesn't anyone do that anymore? I've done much of photos.sun.com that way, ajax and all. Am I crazy?
One of the most critical features I need is a way to connect the iPhone to my non-mac and sync up files. iPods ability to work with my non-mac OS is the critical reason why it took off. Please don't make me manage my sound files on a tiny interface, I want to do that on my non-mac OS computer. Amd hey, if my music pauses while the phone rings, I can deal with that....... But hey, I agree with you on one point - I can't talk to people via a standard headset, I dont want to have a bluetooth device shoved in my ear all the time, and I doubt they can have a phone with external stero speakers that have good enough quality... without being clunky.
I'll stick to my throw-away nokia, and my iPod shuffle. A little super-glue, and the 2 are mattied happily ever after!:)
HOORAY - another reason to avoid the ugliness and maintance nightmare that is RegEx. Thank you for your wise post. You are a paragon of godly inspired wisdom, my Java son!:)
One of the reasons we as programmers write code is to take a very complex idea, like a software application, and write something that a human engineer can understand. The KISS principle especially applies to coders.
As I get older, my code has gotten more and more straightforward, cause I consider to maintainance cycle of code to be more than 95% of the puzzle. And these days, I have more than one security analyst who is not a senior software engineer poking around me code.
RegEx's are not-so-readable and not-very-maintainable programming abstracts that should be avoided whenever possible. I prefer using string manipulation abstraction classes (such as my own version of StringTokenizer). They are not as fast and furious as other methods like lexical analysis, and the code is more bloated, but the code is Straight Forward And Easy To Read. There is a power is code of this nature, and my clients have thanked me more than once to not focusing on writing "cool code" but for writing "clean and simple" code. I just tried to paste in a few ugly regex samples, but slashdot blocked me calling them "junk characters" I agree!:)
For example, take XPATH, this is a clean and simple way to address XML objects. Sure, there is an additional level of abstraction, but you can look at an XPATH query, even from a layman's point of view, and have a clear understanding as to what it is doing.
There is no way in hades that Colbert thinks this comedic-stunt backfired. He nailed front-page-top-story press in a large number of press sources that target his key demographic.
Plus, this was absolutely hilarious (at least to me and most in the kingdom on geekdom).
PS: Colbert loves Dungeons and Dragons; the man can do no wrong in my eyes!
NYET, Flash memory has a much reduced shelf-life compared to hard-drived in terms of maximum writes before it degrades, not to mention hard drives are way cheaper than flash. Good old hard drives are much more reliable in the long term and cheaper, at least for now...
> where ideas are exchanged freely.
What kind of world do you live in? Internet traffic is:
(1) tracked and recorded and/or manipulated in some way by almost every government
(2) mostly plain-text communication from the moment it leaves your home
So if you meant to say, "Where ideas are exchanged via plaintext for all to see, tracked and recorded by most governments (by ip) for later analysis"
I'm with you, bro!
> this would only work if you had = 256 MB RAM. I don't think too many new systems meet that requirement
I live in a world where most computers around me have at least 1 gig of ram these days. Even Dell's bottom feeder computers have 512 base with frequent 1 gig upgrades for free....
This is what DigiDesign told me to do, these are the folks who make Pro Tools audio software. Hard drive speed REALLY MATTERS A LOT when you are doing digital audio recording. Why the hell would they recommend I do this, and not just defrag?
That doesn't make much sense to me. A defrag using the built-in utility would do the same thing. Or using the CHKDSK / Disk Check tool to scan for bad sectors. (And on modern HDs, once you start seeing bad sectors getting past the SMART sector-remapping, it's time to replace the drive.)
Aye, thanks for your input here!
I got this advice from my Pro Tools 7.0 LE optimization manual. I'm running a digi 002, which allows me 8+ musical inputs connected to my machine by firewire. I record directly to a external hot-swappable eSATA drive. (super fast, plus swappable).
I was told that moving data off, formatting the drive, and putting data back on is a slow but *sure fire* way to optimize a drive. Although its a "slow" process, does it make *any* sense in practice?
I can't help but to think (and practice) that regular wipe-and-reinstall-the-OS strategies are the only way to optimally run windows. And lately I've been taking all data off my external and backup drives, slow formatting them on a regular basis, and then dropping the files back in. Oye, but it makes a hell of a difference.
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Ah, suprised no one mentioned Hypercard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercard - I still have clients with working stacks - it was an idea before its time, to bad support for it died in 2004. LONG LIVE HYPERCARD!
You can also find a 3rd party patch for this here: http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/
Holy cow, I didn't even know Cray was still in business! And, does it run Linux?
I love Colbert, and I sadly pay apple for the privledge of legally downloading his show per a subscription basis. He Is The Master Of Viral Marketing. His show is skyrocketing in popularity. When is he going to take over John Stewart's slot? :)
Is anyone concearned about the gaping security holes in WiFi and Bluetooth?
You are my new god, I throw all my extra flash drives and at your feet and bow to your non-IDE uber enviornment!
These trolling phenomena, encrypted or not, really get to me! It seems to senseless and a waste of time! ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US
I'm still using secureCRT to get to a unix prompt, then I use VI or EMACS to code everything by hand using solid reusable libraries. Doesn't anyone do that anymore? I've done much of photos.sun.com that way, ajax and all. Am I crazy?
One of the most critical features I need is a way to connect the iPhone to my non-mac and sync up files. iPods ability to work with my non-mac OS is the critical reason why it took off. Please don't make me manage my sound files on a tiny interface, I want to do that on my non-mac OS computer. Amd hey, if my music pauses while the phone rings, I can deal with that.... ... But hey, I agree with you on one point - I can't talk to people via a standard headset, I dont want to have a bluetooth device shoved in my ear all the time, and I doubt they can have a phone with external stero speakers that have good enough quality... without being clunky.
I'll stick to my throw-away nokia, and my iPod shuffle. A little super-glue, and the 2 are mattied happily ever after! :)
HOORAY - another reason to avoid the ugliness and maintance nightmare that is RegEx. Thank you for your wise post. You are a paragon of godly inspired wisdom, my Java son! :)
One of the reasons we as programmers write code is to take a very complex idea, like a software application, and write something that a human engineer can understand. The KISS principle especially applies to coders.
:)
As I get older, my code has gotten more and more straightforward, cause I consider to maintainance cycle of code to be more than 95% of the puzzle. And these days, I have more than one security analyst who is not a senior software engineer poking around me code.
RegEx's are not-so-readable and not-very-maintainable programming abstracts that should be avoided whenever possible. I prefer using string manipulation abstraction classes (such as my own version of StringTokenizer). They are not as fast and furious as other methods like lexical analysis, and the code is more bloated, but the code is Straight Forward And Easy To Read. There is a power is code of this nature, and my clients have thanked me more than once to not focusing on writing "cool code" but for writing "clean and simple" code. I just tried to paste in a few ugly regex samples, but slashdot blocked me calling them "junk characters" I agree!
For example, take XPATH, this is a clean and simple way to address XML objects. Sure, there is an additional level of abstraction, but you can look at an XPATH query, even from a layman's point of view, and have a clear understanding as to what it is doing.
There is no way in hades that Colbert thinks this comedic-stunt backfired. He nailed front-page-top-story press in a large number of press sources that target his key demographic. Plus, this was absolutely hilarious (at least to me and most in the kingdom on geekdom). PS: Colbert loves Dungeons and Dragons; the man can do no wrong in my eyes!
NYET, Flash memory has a much reduced shelf-life compared to hard-drived in terms of maximum writes before it degrades, not to mention hard drives are way cheaper than flash. Good old hard drives are much more reliable in the long term and cheaper, at least for now...
> where ideas are exchanged freely. What kind of world do you live in? Internet traffic is: (1) tracked and recorded and/or manipulated in some way by almost every government (2) mostly plain-text communication from the moment it leaves your home So if you meant to say, "Where ideas are exchanged via plaintext for all to see, tracked and recorded by most governments (by ip) for later analysis" I'm with you, bro!
> this would only work if you had = 256 MB RAM. I don't think too many new systems meet that requirement
I live in a world where most computers around me have at least 1 gig of ram these days. Even Dell's bottom feeder computers have 512 base with frequent 1 gig upgrades for free....
This is what DigiDesign told me to do, these are the folks who make Pro Tools audio software. Hard drive speed REALLY MATTERS A LOT when you are doing digital audio recording. Why the hell would they recommend I do this, and not just defrag?
> that Apple sells hardware
Apple also sells Software. http://www.apple.com/software/ Duh?
That doesn't make much sense to me. A defrag using the built-in utility would do the same thing. Or using the CHKDSK / Disk Check tool to scan for bad sectors. (And on modern HDs, once you start seeing bad sectors getting past the SMART sector-remapping, it's time to replace the drive.) Aye, thanks for your input here! I got this advice from my Pro Tools 7.0 LE optimization manual. I'm running a digi 002, which allows me 8+ musical inputs connected to my machine by firewire. I record directly to a external hot-swappable eSATA drive. (super fast, plus swappable). I was told that moving data off, formatting the drive, and putting data back on is a slow but *sure fire* way to optimize a drive. Although its a "slow" process, does it make *any* sense in practice?
I can't help but to think (and practice) that regular wipe-and-reinstall-the-OS strategies are the only way to optimally run windows. And lately I've been taking all data off my external and backup drives, slow formatting them on a regular basis, and then dropping the files back in. Oye, but it makes a hell of a difference.
There comes a point where paying for the electricity (and heat output) costs for your 1 gig hard drive is just not worth it!
Which means, you can write a thin .net layer that has a entire Java backend! W00T!
This is a metaphor to working with Apple technology. A closed, locked-in proprietary system that once you enter, you may never leave.
Yea but I want my pedometer to also give me a groove techno beat in time with my steps!
After I hacked in a free solid copy of x86 Mac OS - sure looks like a mac to me!
mp3sugar is my favorite as long as you dont mind giving your CC number to a moscow company! :)