When I'm doing work I've always been partial to Vangelis. My favorite tracks of his are Comet 16, Heaven and Hell (the theme from Cosmos) , 1492 (the whole album in general, but especially Conquest of Paradise) and Voices. What's really impressive is that a lot of his work was done back in the 1970s on analog synthesizers... no computers were involved at all and yet it still sounds great by modern standards.
Those who like Enya should give Loreena McKennitt a try if they haven't done so already.
but not worrying about where to find a pump isn't so bad.
Maybe I’m missing something, but where do you live? In the US, many large intersections in cities and even rural areas have at least one gas station. Even if there's not, chances are you can find one in less than a mile radius. You almost never have to go out of your way to find a place to fill up unless you're waaaaaay out in the sticks and you just went past the last station for 20 miles. (I've only seen one of those and it was clearly marked that there were no other stations on that road for that distance... I watched the odometer and it turns out the sign was telling the truth)
Plus, every Linux DE I've ever used has support for multiple virtual desktops. I've come to take the feature for granted since I can shunt programs I've left idling to other desktops to cut down on GUI clutter. Whenever I have to use Windows, I miss this feature. Badly. The fact that Linux DEs (and other Unix DEs before that) have natively supported virtual desktops since the beginning of time and Windows STILL doesn't have it out of the box (as of Windows 7) is really kind of pathetic.
The problem is that you can go too stable. For instances, most packages are already quite obsolete by the time they make it into Debian's stable branch.
Seconded on Brother's printers. I have a HL-2070n and it works great on Linux. (true, it thinks the printer is a 2060, but the closest-match driver still works flawlessly)
C/C++ is not limited to Windows, yet there are no better IDE for C++ than Visual Studio (especially with Visual Assist).
Only if you're using Microsoft APIs and libraries. However, if you want to do cross-platform development, then you're better off using something like QT. (which works great on Windows with MinGW) I've been using QT Creator for awhile and it is very good. (furthermore, the QT documentation is excellent and has gotten me out of many a problem) True, you can use QT with Visual Studio and get QT projects to build with nmake, but it feels bolted-on compared to using an IDE that was designed with QT in mind.
Yep, I remember seeing something like the Ribbon in Homesite 1.1 as far back as 1996. (the wikipedia article confirmed it) Speaking of Homesite, that was a damn good HTML editor back in the day and the original version actually used to be freeware. I was still using the original 1.1 release up until around the time Adobe bought them out. It was still a serviceable tool once you got it interfaced with the modern browsers of that day. (IIRC Firefox was still called Firebird back then)
The Ribbon concept is ancient by computing standards. Granted, back then it was called a "tabbed toolbar" but the concept is exactly the same.
I thought KOTORII was better than the first, because it focused more on character development rather than the typical Star Wars style action/I-am-your-father revelation moments. The first game was about Revan's quest to find the Star Forge. The second game was about the Exile's quest to find him/herself. Not to mention, both games had HK-47.
Also, I can't be the only one who wished they could have had a teacher like Kreia in real life.
Awhile back, I got one of these too. They told me that my "PC was serving malware and it was traced to my IP" or something like that. Since my public IP address is static, I asked them what IP address this supposed malware was coming from. They gave me a bullshit number and hung up.
Java has its place. If I had to do a quick-and-dirty application I'd probably throw it together in Java SE/Swing, provided that it doesn't have to work with the bare metal or do lots of computational heavy lifting. That said, Java was the first real language I learned (I did lots of VB6 back in my teen years, but I don't want to even speak of the coding abominations I built with that) and looking back on my earlier long-term Java projects there's lots I would have done differently. (or used C++ and QT instead, except I didn't know it at the time.)
QT is one of the nicest C++ frameworks I've come across and it would be sad to see it's future mis-managed.
Seconded. The QT language itself is very mature, well-rounded, and includes things that C++ has sorely needed (decent string support, of all things, not to mention native threading...hell, even Java has built-in threading whereas plain C++ does not) The new QT Creator IDE is very nice as well. (the only drawback is that it's not in my distro's repositories so I have to manually install it) QT actually makes it fun to program in C++.
I switched to Debian from Ubuntu awhile back b/c I didn't liie the way that Ubuntu was going with Unity and all the other Ubuntu-specific stuff they added lately. I want to use plain vanilla GNU/Linux, period. If Ubuntu won't give me that I'll find something else that will.
The only problem with Debian Stable is that some of the packages are old as hell even in the latest release. For instance, Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" still has Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5.16, which is absolutely ancient. Just today, Gmail started showing me notifications that my Firefox is so old that it isn't properly supported any more and that some things might not work right b/c of it.
I like stability as much as anyone, but stable shouldn't be synonymous with obsolete.
On the other hand, the poorer person may spend most of their money on food and items which may not be taxed while the wealthier will be taxed on non-essential purchases.
It depends on the state you live in. My state levies a sales tax on food items, so I have to pay the bastards an extra 9% just for the privilege of staying alive.
Many drugs that make it through the FDA process still end up harming people (Phen Phen, Vioxx, Accutane, etc. are just a few off the top of my head) so what's your point?
One more thing I forgot to mention earlier: The crash safety (e.g. how you can crash the plane during practice and get to start over without dying) of the Learning to Fly plane was buggy as hell. Sometimes it works properly, but other times the plane exploded when I missed the checkpoints and crashed into a mountain or something. That means that I lose all my weapons and have to drive all the way back out to the airfield. GTA games are notorious for being buggy.. if something goes wrong during a mission there's often no way to finish properly w/o reloading from a save. Many of Rockstar's concepts are good, it's just that they always botch it in the execution phase. I never bothered with GTA IV b/c I heard the PC version was all but unplayable. (extreme DRM and very poorly optimized)
Failing to finish a Rockstar game is no surprise whatsoever; they're not necessarily bad, but an open-world game almost always has that one goddamn mission that makes you really want to quit it. I think San Andreas was the only one I've ever finished myself, and I don't have anything to do with my time but play videogames.
I've only played San Andreas as a PC port, (I don't own any consoles) and it was horribly done. That "Learning to Fly" mission was the absolute worst thing I've ever played... The plane in that mission had the maneuverability of a brick so controlling it with a keyboard was damn near impossible. (none of the other planes in the game behaved like that and were usable enough after some practice/key remapping, but the learning to fly plane never got any better) I just about gave up on the game after that since it was impossible to progress without passing that mission (it really should have been optional, like the driving school in San Fierro)
Of course they voted this way... why would a federal circuit court do anything that reduces the power of the federal government? These days, representative government is a lie.
Yeah, stubble is no big deal, I only shave one or twice a week most of the time. In the summer, I tend to do it more often because it's too damn hot and it gets itchy after a few day's worth of growth. Way back in college I tried out having a full beard for about 6 months, and for a time it was good... I had more beer money since I didn't have to buy blades all the time. Although I can grow a nice even beard, (based on what I've heard, not every guy can) I eventually got tired of trimming it. My rationale was that if I still had to spend time manicuring it every week so I didn't look like a bum, I may as well shave the rest of it off and be done with it.
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Fair enough if you're talking about home use, but Linux has tons of enterprise-level support from companies like Red Hat, Canonical, and Novell.
I'd personally love to have a GPS that sounds like HK-47 from KOTOR && KOTOR II . Bonus points if it refers to the driver as "meatbag".
Actually, Vangelis wrote the themes for both.
Oh, I can't believe I forgot to mention Karl Jenkins.
When I'm doing work I've always been partial to Vangelis. My favorite tracks of his are Comet 16, Heaven and Hell (the theme from Cosmos) , 1492 (the whole album in general, but especially Conquest of Paradise) and Voices. What's really impressive is that a lot of his work was done back in the 1970s on analog synthesizers... no computers were involved at all and yet it still sounds great by modern standards.
Those who like Enya should give Loreena McKennitt a try if they haven't done so already.
Maybe I’m missing something, but where do you live? In the US, many large intersections in cities and even rural areas have at least one gas station. Even if there's not, chances are you can find one in less than a mile radius. You almost never have to go out of your way to find a place to fill up unless you're waaaaaay out in the sticks and you just went past the last station for 20 miles. (I've only seen one of those and it was clearly marked that there were no other stations on that road for that distance... I watched the odometer and it turns out the sign was telling the truth)
Plus, every Linux DE I've ever used has support for multiple virtual desktops. I've come to take the feature for granted since I can shunt programs I've left idling to other desktops to cut down on GUI clutter. Whenever I have to use Windows, I miss this feature. Badly. The fact that Linux DEs (and other Unix DEs before that) have natively supported virtual desktops since the beginning of time and Windows STILL doesn't have it out of the box (as of Windows 7) is really kind of pathetic.
The problem is that you can go too stable. For instances, most packages are already quite obsolete by the time they make it into Debian's stable branch.
Seconded on Brother's printers. I have a HL-2070n and it works great on Linux. (true, it thinks the printer is a 2060, but the closest-match driver still works flawlessly)
Only if you're using Microsoft APIs and libraries. However, if you want to do cross-platform development, then you're better off using something like QT. (which works great on Windows with MinGW) I've been using QT Creator for awhile and it is very good. (furthermore, the QT documentation is excellent and has gotten me out of many a problem) True, you can use QT with Visual Studio and get QT projects to build with nmake, but it feels bolted-on compared to using an IDE that was designed with QT in mind.
Yep, I remember seeing something like the Ribbon in Homesite 1.1 as far back as 1996. (the wikipedia article confirmed it) Speaking of Homesite, that was a damn good HTML editor back in the day and the original version actually used to be freeware. I was still using the original 1.1 release up until around the time Adobe bought them out. It was still a serviceable tool once you got it interfaced with the modern browsers of that day. (IIRC Firefox was still called Firebird back then)
The Ribbon concept is ancient by computing standards. Granted, back then it was called a "tabbed toolbar" but the concept is exactly the same.
I thought KOTORII was better than the first, because it focused more on character development rather than the typical Star Wars style action/I-am-your-father revelation moments. The first game was about Revan's quest to find the Star Forge. The second game was about the Exile's quest to find him/herself. Not to mention, both games had HK-47.
Also, I can't be the only one who wished they could have had a teacher like Kreia in real life.
Awhile back, I got one of these too. They told me that my "PC was serving malware and it was traced to my IP" or something like that. Since my public IP address is static, I asked them what IP address this supposed malware was coming from. They gave me a bullshit number and hung up.
Java has its place. If I had to do a quick-and-dirty application I'd probably throw it together in Java SE/Swing, provided that it doesn't have to work with the bare metal or do lots of computational heavy lifting. That said, Java was the first real language I learned (I did lots of VB6 back in my teen years, but I don't want to even speak of the coding abominations I built with that) and looking back on my earlier long-term Java projects there's lots I would have done differently. (or used C++ and QT instead, except I didn't know it at the time.)
When I said "QT language", I meant "QT framework".
Seconded. The QT language itself is very mature, well-rounded, and includes things that C++ has sorely needed (decent string support, of all things, not to mention native threading...hell, even Java has built-in threading whereas plain C++ does not) The new QT Creator IDE is very nice as well. (the only drawback is that it's not in my distro's repositories so I have to manually install it) QT actually makes it fun to program in C++.
I switched to Debian from Ubuntu awhile back b/c I didn't liie the way that Ubuntu was going with Unity and all the other Ubuntu-specific stuff they added lately. I want to use plain vanilla GNU/Linux, period. If Ubuntu won't give me that I'll find something else that will.
The only problem with Debian Stable is that some of the packages are old as hell even in the latest release. For instance, Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" still has Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5.16, which is absolutely ancient. Just today, Gmail started showing me notifications that my Firefox is so old that it isn't properly supported any more and that some things might not work right b/c of it.
I like stability as much as anyone, but stable shouldn't be synonymous with obsolete.
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It depends on the state you live in. My state levies a sales tax on food items, so I have to pay the bastards an extra 9% just for the privilege of staying alive.
Many drugs that make it through the FDA process still end up harming people (Phen Phen, Vioxx, Accutane, etc. are just a few off the top of my head) so what's your point?
One more thing I forgot to mention earlier: The crash safety (e.g. how you can crash the plane during practice and get to start over without dying) of the Learning to Fly plane was buggy as hell. Sometimes it works properly, but other times the plane exploded when I missed the checkpoints and crashed into a mountain or something. That means that I lose all my weapons and have to drive all the way back out to the airfield. GTA games are notorious for being buggy.. if something goes wrong during a mission there's often no way to finish properly w/o reloading from a save. Many of Rockstar's concepts are good, it's just that they always botch it in the execution phase. I never bothered with GTA IV b/c I heard the PC version was all but unplayable. (extreme DRM and very poorly optimized)
I've only played San Andreas as a PC port, (I don't own any consoles) and it was horribly done. That "Learning to Fly" mission was the absolute worst thing I've ever played... The plane in that mission had the maneuverability of a brick so controlling it with a keyboard was damn near impossible. (none of the other planes in the game behaved like that and were usable enough after some practice/key remapping, but the learning to fly plane never got any better) I just about gave up on the game after that since it was impossible to progress without passing that mission (it really should have been optional, like the driving school in San Fierro)
Based on what I've heard, the same thing works on racoons. Just swap out the fruit for something shiny.
Of course they voted this way... why would a federal circuit court do anything that reduces the power of the federal government? These days, representative government is a lie.
Yeah, stubble is no big deal, I only shave one or twice a week most of the time. In the summer, I tend to do it more often because it's too damn hot and it gets itchy after a few day's worth of growth. Way back in college I tried out having a full beard for about 6 months, and for a time it was good... I had more beer money since I didn't have to buy blades all the time. Although I can grow a nice even beard, (based on what I've heard, not every guy can) I eventually got tired of trimming it. My rationale was that if I still had to spend time manicuring it every week so I didn't look like a bum, I may as well shave the rest of it off and be done with it.