LCD's are addressed via a crosshatch scheme and do have actual pixels for a change.
Internally? Yes. Externally? DVI and VGA inputs with ~20 wires, providing the pixel data in essentially serial fashion. The LCD's internals convert the stream to crosshatch signals. So no, you do not need thousands of wires.
And if you translate that to a 48" screen with 4600 x 3400 pixels, each screen will have 16 bad pixels.
Yes, but as the screen resolution increases, a bad pixel matters less. I'll happily take such a screen with hundreds of bad pixels, as long as they're not clustered too closely.
IIRC the Mayans consumed chocolate as a savoury food, not a sweetened one; they'd use it to add flavour to meat and veg, or supplement chilies of various types
Yeah, I had one of those the other day. Funny, though, I couldn't taste the chocolate. It was called something like cocoa vin...
Digital photography, which works better on a Mac than anywhere, is far cheaper than conventional photography.
I plug my Canon A40 into my Windows 98 machine. Software automagically pops up, asking if I want to download the pics, and I click for it to do so. A little while later they're on the hard drive, sorted in folders based on the day the pic was taken, and a slide show commences. What does the Mac do, actually physically plug in the camera for me? 'Cause I can't see it being that much easier.
Thus, your post-commit script could kick off your build farm.
I'd probably have my build farm machines each running a script, checking for new commits periodically, instead. That way I can just add or remove machines as needed, with different hardware/OS/language combinations, and not have to bother the server. But in general using the revision properties sounds like just the ticket.
Since when does drawing somthing faster make it better? It might get it out a month earlier, but really... better pictures?
Yes, because they talk about an iterative process. As in, try it, see how it looks, improve it, try it again, repeat as necessary until it's the best you can make it.
Does that include running a script after a check-in? What about tagging revisions?
What I'd like in the ultimate VCS is the ability to run a compile on multiple platforms, and tag the revision based on success or failure. Then, if the compile succeeds, I want it to run one or more regression tests. When I synchronize my local copy with the database, I want to be able to sync based on the latest version matching some set of criteria, such as "latest that compiled on my platform", "latest that passed regression level 1 on all platforms", etc. Is Subversion aiming for support for anything like this?
Perforce, BTW, supports some of this. However, I don't know if it can conveniently support syncing based on some criteria, rather than always getting the latest.
Well if you want consumer choice, then offer all the varying versions on the shelves at varying prices, but released on the same day.
Why is that an absolute requirement? Making a special DVD takes time, and it's not that long since the movie has come out. It would be much more of a con if they were trying to keep the special version secret, in which case more people would probably buy the original, just to discover the special edition later. But as a potential purchaser, I'm perfectly satisfied that they haven't tried to trick me. If I'm desperate to see it between August and November, I'll just rent it from Blockbuster.
'cept with imdb.com, you should be able to get quotes right. (Although admittedly imdb doesn't always have them right, either...)
Doctor Egon Spengler: I'm worried, Ray. All my readings point to something big on the horizon. Winston Zeddemore: What do you mean, big? Doctor Egon Spengler: Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds. Winston Zeddemore: That's a big Twinkie.
One alternative I wondered about was running distributed clients to support OS. The idea is that the OS coders get paid from the profit of selling distributed client cycles to people doing for-profit computing. I don't know if there's much of a market though.
Biodiesel [biodiesel.org] is one alternative energy means that I think has real potential.
Isn't there a fundamental problem with biomass fuels, that it would require a large increase in the amount of farmed land? Our machines generally require rather more fuel than we do.
First off, who the hell dual boots Windows 2000 and Windows XP?
A developer trying to make sure their code works on both OSes?
Second, why can Microsoft force computer makers to use Windows XP instead of Windows 2000?
Microsoft is not compelled to sell the makers new OS licenses, any more than Toyota can be compelled to keep selling the 2002 models, or Dell Inspiron 4200s (or whatever.) This is really just them declaring their actions in advance so system vendors can be prepared to switch over.
But soon Linux will par Windows and MS will be FUBAR. Can't wait till that day...
It sounds good until the CEO demands a copy of the new business plan he put in C:\randomlocation\plan.doc after the hard drive crashes.
You think even a BOFH gets that much control over the CEO's machine? It's rather tough to require a laptop user to use a network drive for their files.
I'm also upset you aren't keeping [your MP3 collection] on a network drive somewhere... it would be a shame if something were to happen to them...
If anything did, I'd copy them back off of the CD-Rs I brought them in on. You certainly shouldn't be responsible for them, and I shouldn't bog the network or the server down by playing them off of the network.
If I could drop $50 off every desktops cost, by getting a smaller drive, I would have saved $5000 last weekend.
Retail-boxed 80 gig drives are $80 at CompUSA.com today. You really think they can sell hard drives for $30? Heck, the box is probably $5...
So are you going to take your lawyer on your vacation?
As much as they may want to make it different, renting a car should be a straightforward procedure, with terms that DO NOT REQUIRE ME TO BRING MY LAWYER ON VACATION WITH ME. These people in most cases reserved the car in advance, through intermediaries, and can be hundreds of miles from home with few or no alternatives for transportation once they get to the rental place. You (as a rental car company) want special terms? Give them in advance in large letters with the label WARNING -- THESE TERMS COULD MAKE YOU LIABLE FOR THOUSANDS IN FINES FOR DOING NOTHING THAT WE SHOULD GIVE A CRAP ABOUT.
So the hard drives are cheap, but what about the extra backup capacity required for 1000 users with 10+GB of mp3's on their hard drives? Do you have those ever-so-rare users who only keep the company's critical files in the appropriate backed-up locations on the fileserver (as opposed to the huge disk you just gave them)? Or do you just skip backups?
At least at my office, vital files are saved using a source control system, not on individual machines. That source control system is then backed up, both on- and off-site. My MP3s are not backed up any more than my apps are. Most generic backup systems I know of allow you to specify which directories are backed up, and again my MP3 collection wouldn't be part of that.
[...]somewhat similar to how we now Xerox things on a Xerox machine
I think you're showing your age there. I used to xerox things, now I copy them on a copier. I doubt I've talked casually about xeroxing something for the last ten years.
Note that I said "What if," not that I would necessarily take the offer. It is, after all, fundamentally contrived, no one would ever truly have that button and make that offer. But we do make similar decisions every day: buy a Playstation or give money to humanitarian agency that may save lives? Most of the time, we go shopping.
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LCD's are addressed via a crosshatch scheme and do have actual pixels for a change.
Internally? Yes. Externally? DVI and VGA inputs with ~20 wires, providing the pixel data in essentially serial fashion. The LCD's internals convert the stream to crosshatch signals. So no, you do not need thousands of wires.
And if you translate that to a 48" screen with 4600 x 3400 pixels, each screen will have 16 bad pixels.
Yes, but as the screen resolution increases, a bad pixel matters less. I'll happily take such a screen with hundreds of bad pixels, as long as they're not clustered too closely.
IIRC the Mayans consumed chocolate as a savoury food, not a sweetened one; they'd use it to add flavour to meat and veg, or supplement chilies of various types
Yeah, I had one of those the other day. Funny, though, I couldn't taste the chocolate. It was called something like cocoa vin...
You forgot:
P.S. Next time don't forget to include the check.
Digital photography, which works better on a Mac than anywhere, is far cheaper than conventional photography.
I plug my Canon A40 into my Windows 98 machine. Software automagically pops up, asking if I want to download the pics, and I click for it to do so. A little while later they're on the hard drive, sorted in folders based on the day the pic was taken, and a slide show commences. What does the Mac do, actually physically plug in the camera for me? 'Cause I can't see it being that much easier.
Thus, your post-commit script could kick off your build farm.
I'd probably have my build farm machines each running a script, checking for new commits periodically, instead. That way I can just add or remove machines as needed, with different hardware/OS/language combinations, and not have to bother the server. But in general using the revision properties sounds like just the ticket.
i think bill the gates going down to peru indicates that linux, 'free software' is very threatening.
Gates didn't go to Peru, the Peruvian president came to him. Their only meeting has been at Microsoft's HQ. Pretty telling, don't you think?
Since when does drawing somthing faster make it better? It might get it out a month earlier, but really... better pictures?
Yes, because they talk about an iterative process. As in, try it, see how it looks, improve it, try it again, repeat as necessary until it's the best you can make it.
You want scriptability? Hoo. Subversion has it.
Does that include running a script after a check-in? What about tagging revisions?
What I'd like in the ultimate VCS is the ability to run a compile on multiple platforms, and tag the revision based on success or failure. Then, if the compile succeeds, I want it to run one or more regression tests. When I synchronize my local copy with the database, I want to be able to sync based on the latest version matching some set of criteria, such as "latest that compiled on my platform", "latest that passed regression level 1 on all platforms", etc. Is Subversion aiming for support for anything like this?
Perforce, BTW, supports some of this. However, I don't know if it can conveniently support syncing based on some criteria, rather than always getting the latest.
Well if you want consumer choice, then offer all the varying versions on the shelves at varying prices, but released on the same day.
Why is that an absolute requirement? Making a special DVD takes time, and it's not that long since the movie has come out. It would be much more of a con if they were trying to keep the special version secret, in which case more people would probably buy the original, just to discover the special edition later. But as a potential purchaser, I'm perfectly satisfied that they haven't tried to trick me. If I'm desperate to see it between August and November, I'll just rent it from Blockbuster.
You're right, like that guy said in Risky Business: "Sometimes you've just got to say, 'What the hey.'"
Or like Arnold Schwartzenberger said in the Exterminator: "I'm gonna be back."
MAD MAD props on the Ghostbusters quote.
'cept with imdb.com, you should be able to get quotes right. (Although admittedly imdb doesn't always have them right, either...)
Doctor Egon Spengler: I'm worried, Ray. All my readings point to something big on the horizon.
Winston Zeddemore: What do you mean, big?
Doctor Egon Spengler: Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning's reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
Winston Zeddemore: That's a big Twinkie.
One alternative I wondered about was running distributed clients to support OS. The idea is that the OS coders get paid from the profit of selling distributed client cycles to people doing for-profit computing. I don't know if there's much of a market though.
How many fast food joints are there in North America again?
There are ~30,000 McDonalds in the entire world, ~12,000 Burger Kings. There are a hell of a lot more cars than that.
Biodiesel [biodiesel.org] is one alternative energy means that I think has real potential.
Isn't there a fundamental problem with biomass fuels, that it would require a large increase in the amount of farmed land? Our machines generally require rather more fuel than we do.
First off, who the hell dual boots Windows 2000 and Windows XP?
A developer trying to make sure their code works on both OSes?
Second, why can Microsoft force computer makers to use Windows XP instead of Windows 2000?
Microsoft is not compelled to sell the makers new OS licenses, any more than Toyota can be compelled to keep selling the 2002 models, or Dell Inspiron 4200s (or whatever.) This is really just them declaring their actions in advance so system vendors can be prepared to switch over.
But soon Linux will par Windows and MS will be FUBAR. Can't wait till that day...
You'n'me both.
It sounds good until the CEO demands a copy of the new business plan he put in C:\randomlocation\plan.doc after the hard drive crashes.
You think even a BOFH gets that much control over the CEO's machine? It's rather tough to require a laptop user to use a network drive for their files.
I'm also upset you aren't keeping [your MP3 collection] on a network drive somewhere... it would be a shame if something were to happen to them...
If anything did, I'd copy them back off of the CD-Rs I brought them in on. You certainly shouldn't be responsible for them, and I shouldn't bog the network or the server down by playing them off of the network.
If I could drop $50 off every desktops cost, by getting a smaller drive, I would have saved $5000 last weekend.
Retail-boxed 80 gig drives are $80 at CompUSA.com today. You really think they can sell hard drives for $30? Heck, the box is probably $5...
THATS THE WHOLE POINT OF RENTAL CARS.
So are you going to take your lawyer on your vacation?
As much as they may want to make it different, renting a car should be a straightforward procedure, with terms that DO NOT REQUIRE ME TO BRING MY LAWYER ON VACATION WITH ME. These people in most cases reserved the car in advance, through intermediaries, and can be hundreds of miles from home with few or no alternatives for transportation once they get to the rental place. You (as a rental car company) want special terms? Give them in advance in large letters with the label WARNING -- THESE TERMS COULD MAKE YOU LIABLE FOR THOUSANDS IN FINES FOR DOING NOTHING THAT WE SHOULD GIVE A CRAP ABOUT.
So the hard drives are cheap, but what about the extra backup capacity required for 1000 users with 10+GB of mp3's on their hard drives? Do you have those ever-so-rare users who only keep the company's critical files in the appropriate backed-up locations on the fileserver (as opposed to the huge disk you just gave them)? Or do you just skip backups?
At least at my office, vital files are saved using a source control system, not on individual machines. That source control system is then backed up, both on- and off-site. My MP3s are not backed up any more than my apps are. Most generic backup systems I know of allow you to specify which directories are backed up, and again my MP3 collection wouldn't be part of that.
Why doesn't anyone make cheap, fast, small (3-6gig) HDs?
Probably because it costs no less to manufacture than large, fast hard drives.
There really is ZERO reason for the office folk at my workplace to have the 30gig drives that we are getting these days.
Shouldn't your userID be BOFH? I have 10+ gigs of MP3s from my CD collection on my hard drive.
So they just wind up only getting a 6 gig partition.
You do this intentionally? I'm sure your userID needs changing.
Lotta waste.
Of what? It's the same amount of matter.
[...]somewhat similar to how we now Xerox things on a Xerox machine
I think you're showing your age there. I used to xerox things, now I copy them on a copier. I doubt I've talked casually about xeroxing something for the last ten years.
Hmm. You know, I'm sure a bad Ent Whistle joke is lurking in there somewhere.
Now that sounds like a challenge. Here goes:
Q: Do ents come when you whistle?
A: Are you kidding? It takes them 3 to 4 days just to "get in the mood!"
Best I can come up with spur of the moment; perhaps someone else can do better?
I might have missed something, but I thought [Apple] were playing nicely with the Open Source community, with the *BSD stuff and all...
Apple has a tendency to throw lawyers at anyone who creates something with an Apple "look and feel", such as Aqua-like themes at themes.org.
Huh???? wtf are you smoking???
Note that I said "What if," not that I would necessarily take the offer. It is, after all, fundamentally contrived, no one would ever truly have that button and make that offer. But we do make similar decisions every day: buy a Playstation or give money to humanitarian agency that may save lives? Most of the time, we go shopping.