Speaking of speed issues, I'm still struggling with OS X's slower performance in floating point code compared to OS 9. I've seen a claim that the problem may be due to mathlib for OS X being based on C-coded BSD math code, whereas the equivalent code in OS 9 is supposedly hand-tuned PowerPC assembly. Does anyone out there have more concrete info on this (or know of a source for confirming/denying this)?
This is ridiculous -- there's loads of prior art on this one.
As I recall, the particularly outstanding element was that the tabbed dialogs could be separated, rejoined, hidden, etc. It's more than just the idea of having tabbed dialogs.
But if you have prior art of the former, have at it.
Or would luke-warm, or even cold steam do the trick?
Probably not, since the glue probably isn't as affected by the low pressure as the water would be, and it's the heat melting the glue that breaks the seal. (The lower the pressure, the lower the temperature at which water will turn to gas.) So you may need a different technique to break the seal without tearing it on, say, Mars.
I would prefer a glass monitor because LCD's blow chunks when it comes to motion, although an LCD would be nice to stare at my source listings all day long.
Seems to me that if you can afford one of these, you can also afford a CRT and a monitor switch, and then have the best of both worlds, albeit with a more crowded desk.
As long as we're on the topic of displays, does anyone have any experience using big HDTVs as "monitors" for playing computer games? The concept of playing a flight simulator on a big screen sounds appealing, but it seems like there are real questions about the effective resolution you get. Do any TV-out solutions put out HDTV component video?
Instead, I feel as though we are more like (the soccer teams) Manchester United
You do know that Arsenal is most likely to win the league this year, right? And Man U better score another goal soon, or they're out of the Champions League.
It leaves me wondering if people are making a big fuss out of nothing [...]
One of our marketing folks sent Klez to our press-release mailing list.
My mother-in-law got a message about the "sulfnbk virus", and my wife "cleaned up" our PC. Too bad it's not a virus, just a standard Windows file. (Although in a sense it's a virus, it just infects the users who unsuspectingly do damage to their system!) It's starting to be a good argument for me to switch to Linux...
In Switzerland, the common practice for employment contracts is to have 1 or 2 month delay to quit or be fired
But you "pay" for that. The greater the obligation a company has for taking on an employee, the less willing they will be to do so. And when they have those obligations, that can limit their ability to recover from short-term losses, as they cannot reduce expenses (by laying off some) to all them to keep paying others.
All I'm trying to say is, some of us are no longer idiots, but still manage to find ourselves in this position.
I think the main issue is, if you realize you aren't in the financial position you should be, you should adjust your saving and spending habits until you are. If you have big high-interest rate loans, then yes, you need to pay those off ASAP. If rooming with Mom'n'Dad is an option if you get laid off, then you can focus even more on debt repaying and less on establishing savings. But once the debt is gone, don't start cranking up the spending until you do have a good cash reserve.
You may have been foolish before. Whether or not you are an idiot now should be judged based on what you are doing now. The true idiots are those who don't learn from their mistakes.
But when I specify a product for my company to buy, I prefer commercial software. I think it's hypocritical for a professional software engineer, paid to develop software, to look for ways to keep from paying other software engineers.
I think it's dishonest to recommend anything other than that which best serves your employer's needs (whether it's open or closed-source.)
"Several artists have attempted to distribute music via MP3, but the RIAA has smacked them down for doing so."Interesting...I had not heard of this before - do you have a link ? WTF should the RIAA get involved if a band is not signed to a major record label ?
It's not unsigned ones, it's RIAA-signed artists. They wanted to distribute an MP3 of some song or other, but their label smacked 'em down for trying to do so.
Given that this is in their contract, it wouldn't particularly annoy me, except that the recording industry is an oligopoly. Want airplay? Shelf space? A decent producer? It's almost all owned by the RIAA.
Lets say you buy a 50 pack of CD's....I might burn 5 music CD's from that.
Get yo hands offa mah CDs!
" That's the weird thing about 'N Sync and its rivals: It's impossible to appreciate their staying power, or fully fathom their genius, right down to the seemingly witless banter, unless they make you want to vomit."
--The Washington Post, 4/23/02
I'm convinced that amateurs are usually better at most things than professionals, for the simple reason that they care more.
Oh, no question, The problem is that there aren't enough toilet cleaning enthusiasts to handle that task. Likewise, there aren't enough free software enthusiasts -- and they aren't spending 40+ hours a week writing free software, unlike the tens of thousands at work at Microsoft and the like -- for free software to match the feature set of proprietary code.
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Speaking of speed issues, I'm still struggling with OS X's slower performance in floating point code compared to OS 9. I've seen a claim that the problem may be due to mathlib for OS X being based on C-coded BSD math code, whereas the equivalent code in OS 9 is supposedly hand-tuned PowerPC assembly. Does anyone out there have more concrete info on this (or know of a source for confirming/denying this)?
Heh. Because the caffeine would make them jumpy.
"Penfold, shush."
I got to it earlier, but it's Slashdotted now.
Oh my god! You slashdotted Peru!
Yeah, well, I thought the headline said "deadly squirrels", so you can think how much more confused I was...
They do have nasty pointed teeth!
"I soiled my armor, I was so scared..."
Quick question: should "anal retentive" be hyphenated?
I prefer:
"Is there a dash in anal retentive?"
because then someone can respond
"Damnit, it's a HYPHEN!"
This is ridiculous -- there's loads of prior art on this one.
As I recall, the particularly outstanding element was that the tabbed dialogs could be separated, rejoined, hidden, etc. It's more than just the idea of having tabbed dialogs.
But if you have prior art of the former, have at it.
Or would luke-warm, or even cold steam do the trick?
Probably not, since the glue probably isn't as affected by the low pressure as the water would be, and it's the heat melting the glue that breaks the seal. (The lower the pressure, the lower the temperature at which water will turn to gas.) So you may need a different technique to break the seal without tearing it on, say, Mars.
The DMCA forbids the creation and distribution of access control circumvention devices.
:-)
Perhaps it could be spread as a virus, then?
"Darn it, I got the Kill.Eula virus!"
I would prefer a glass monitor because LCD's blow chunks when it comes to motion, although an LCD would be nice to stare at my source listings all day long.
Seems to me that if you can afford one of these, you can also afford a CRT and a monitor switch, and then have the best of both worlds, albeit with a more crowded desk.
As long as we're on the topic of displays, does anyone have any experience using big HDTVs as "monitors" for playing computer games? The concept of playing a flight simulator on a big screen sounds appealing, but it seems like there are real questions about the effective resolution you get. Do any TV-out solutions put out HDTV component video?
Instead, I feel as though we are more like (the soccer teams) Manchester United
You do know that Arsenal is most likely to win the league this year, right? And Man U better score another goal soon, or they're out of the Champions League.
It leaves me wondering if people are making a big fuss out of nothing [...]
One of our marketing folks sent Klez to our press-release mailing list.
My mother-in-law got a message about the "sulfnbk virus", and my wife "cleaned up" our PC. Too bad it's not a virus, just a standard Windows file. (Although in a sense it's a virus, it just infects the users who unsuspectingly do damage to their system!) It's starting to be a good argument for me to switch to Linux...
In Switzerland, the common practice for employment contracts is to have 1 or 2 month delay to quit or be fired
But you "pay" for that. The greater the obligation a company has for taking on an employee, the less willing they will be to do so. And when they have those obligations, that can limit their ability to recover from short-term losses, as they cannot reduce expenses (by laying off some) to all them to keep paying others.
All I'm trying to say is, some of us are no longer idiots, but still manage to find ourselves in this position.
I think the main issue is, if you realize you aren't in the financial position you should be, you should adjust your saving and spending habits until you are. If you have big high-interest rate loans, then yes, you need to pay those off ASAP. If rooming with Mom'n'Dad is an option if you get laid off, then you can focus even more on debt repaying and less on establishing savings. But once the debt is gone, don't start cranking up the spending until you do have a good cash reserve.
You may have been foolish before. Whether or not you are an idiot now should be judged based on what you are doing now. The true idiots are those who don't learn from their mistakes.
But when I specify a product for my company to buy, I prefer commercial software. I think it's hypocritical for a professional software engineer, paid to develop software, to look for ways to keep from paying other software engineers.
I think it's dishonest to recommend anything other than that which best serves your employer's needs (whether it's open or closed-source.)
"Several artists have attempted to distribute music via MP3, but the RIAA has smacked them down for doing so."Interesting...I had not heard of this before - do you have a link ? WTF should the RIAA get involved if a band is not signed to a major record label ?
It's not unsigned ones, it's RIAA-signed artists. They wanted to distribute an MP3 of some song or other, but their label smacked 'em down for trying to do so.
Given that this is in their contract, it wouldn't particularly annoy me, except that the recording industry is an oligopoly. Want airplay? Shelf space? A decent producer? It's almost all owned by the RIAA.
When this lame movie comes out on DVDCCA region-encoded SSSCA copy-protected discs you'll all be like kids in a toy store
Look at it this way. Senator Disney can't get laws passed that cripple source, because it'll end up crippling the movie industry folks too.
Lets say you buy a 50 pack of CD's....I might burn 5 music CD's from that.
Get yo hands offa mah CDs!
" That's the weird thing about 'N Sync and its rivals: It's impossible to appreciate their staying power, or fully fathom their genius, right down to the seemingly witless banter, unless they make you want to vomit."
--The Washington Post, 4/23/02
Hrm your adveritsing to join the blackout.. and yet you're posting LOL :)
Well of course. If everyone else joins, it's a lot easier to get first post...
"If we're unlucky, he'll want to read us some poetry first."
It's quite interesting and explains why he hated Jar Jar Binks so much
Does that really need explaining?
I would much prefer an API that is written well enough that I do not need to see the source to work out what is going on.
How many APIs, commercial or free, do you trust to that level?
The source, after all, is the truest documentation of how the code works. (Although comments are often much less obtuse.)
I'm convinced that amateurs are usually better at most things than professionals, for the simple reason that they care more.
Oh, no question, The problem is that there aren't enough toilet cleaning enthusiasts to handle that task. Likewise, there aren't enough free software enthusiasts -- and they aren't spending 40+ hours a week writing free software, unlike the tens of thousands at work at Microsoft and the like -- for free software to match the feature set of proprietary code.
Um, I think it's the other way around - Palau used to be a US territory until a few years ago.
In the immortal words of Arnie, "I'll be back."
Big F---ing Profits?
Thank God someone like him, with no alteriour motives and a heart of gold
Gold? Nothing near so cheap for him. Maybe of buckyballs or something...