How do you find this wonder of a laptop at their site?!
I hate these damn sites that want to know about me. I use my laptop in my home on the sofa, in my home office for home video and mp3's, in my home office for work, I run a small business, we work for midsized and large businesses. How do I order a pc from Gateway? I just want a list of their products, but they instead want to tell me what they want to sell me.
When I ordered my Compaq laptop 18 months ago I got different prices depending on wether I indicated that I was a small business, home office or large business. What horse crap!
Given a directory full of pictures, some with the extension ".jpg", and some with ".png", at least the user interface can guess that they are all graphics. But what if you put a new file in the directory and mistype the name, calling it "pgn". Well then, it won't show up in dialog boxes that are looking for graphics files, and when you double-click on it in a file manager, who knows what will happen? Mime-types in the file system would fix this.
What if you give the file the wrong mime type of image/pgn? huh? Garbage in, garbage out; it doesn't matter if I store the info in the meta data or in the filename.
What meta information should be stored? I don't think we'll come to agreement, so why not store as little as possible and make up for it else where, like the filemanager.
Your difficulty opening files sounds like a filemanager problem, not a filesystem problem. Would the "Open With..." functionality of Win95 explorer satisfy your need to open the same file types in multiple tools? (Notice, that's not a filesystem feature, it's a filemanager feature.)
You would want wireless for your house if you lived in the midwest. The fastest line I can get for my house is a $65/month POTS line. The telco doesn't offer ISDN, DSL. The cable company doesn't offer cable modems.
I have heard of local parties laying they're own cable, but other than that wireless is the only solution.
Yah, read the kernel developer list. Linus wont help in debugging the kernel (by adding more support for kernel debuggers) partially so that bugs are not easily fixed. He wants the developer to have to think to fix the problem.
I of course can't grok the kernel in 30 minutes a day of effort (even after looking at it since the 0.12 release).
Oh, but the Benford/Bear/Brin additions to the Foundation novels are WONDERFUL!!!
I read the original Foundation series for the story (Asimov wrote great stories), but the new autors write great prose also. I really enjoyed reading Foundation++. I would recommend reading the base Foundation series (even if you get bored with it), just to get to read Foundation++.
I ran Linux/X on a 386/20 with 2 MB of RAM, 20 MB of disk and a Herc monochrome card a hell of a lot better than any competing "OS". Also note that X runs on Compaq's iPAQ handheld.
My experience with H-1B's is that the knowlege is just book knowlege. Questions can e answered, but designs are ugly. I see the same results from everyone who goes into programming for the money.
Misleading contracts, even when properly signed, don't hold up in court. You write a contract that has your neighbor sign over all of his possessions to you, have him sign claiming that it is a petition to get new street lights and you will fail to get his stuff.
Same deal with MS. Same deal with lots of junk in the EULA. Lots of it will not hold up in court. It is there so that it can be argued some day.
The problem is that DC has, in hindsight at least, a lousy business model. It is not the courts' responsibility to defend DC's lousy business. [What if Disney gave away cars and maps and the map had a shrink wrapped license that only allowed you to drive the car to Disney World. Now, a couple Linux folks start giving away maps to allow users to drive the cars elsewhere... It doesn't even make sense to me that the Linux folks would be at fault somehow.]
"We" should not defend a lousy business. Ask Darwin. We should take atvantage of our oppurtunities and cooperate when it helps us achieve our goals.
I see lost of Java that is not indented, or is incorrectly indented, so I never trust the indentation and always have emacs reformat all the code before I even get started.
Wanting only one OS would be like wanting only one tool in the tool box. Use the right tool for the job.
From a less abstract perspective, I would rather want just NT than just one of any Unix OS. NT has more apps and is a generally a better fit for that lowest common denominator spot. Of course, I don't like using sporks, I prefer a spoon and a fork.
Then again, to finish out my wishy washy opinion this morning, it might be best for SGI to get out of the OS business. If SGI, IBM, and Compaq get out of the OS business (transitioning to Linux or some other common code base), then they might be able to leverage each other and focus on less redundant tasks.
Youth are not expected to be up to watch NYPD Blue.
(I was, and I was not respectively.)
The attitude of "you'll do it if I tell you not to, so do it anyway" is less useful than telling the kid not to do what ever. Hence, tell the kid not to do what ever. (it isn't fullproof, but neither are 2 phase commits and we use them.)
How do we recognize a soda can? - last place I set it down (geography) - color - emptiness - size - shape
How do I regonize a term paper? - abstract - time of last edit or creation - tool used for creation - context (home work, job, correspondence)
I suggest that the best identifier here is the abstract. I use big filenames full of spaces.
I think that the context can not be derived from the raw doc. (I use a directory for that.)
The rest of the stuff can be searched on in a file finder.
What's the big deal?
AND and OR are normally interchangable in ordinary conversation. In this part of the midwest so are push and pull, learn and teach, and coke, pop and soda. Some things are education issues. Complex ideas cannot be recorded with out a very exact vocabulary.
[ I do agree that users should not have to save. All data should appear persistent to a degree, but I use emacs, so it is (to a degree):-) ]
try using an inner class like the following to express enums. Works just fine
public class Student { static public final class Car { private Car() {} static public final Olds = new Car(); static public final Chevy = new Car(); static public final Ford = new Car(); } private Car car; public Car getCar() { return car; } public void setCar(Car c) { car = c; } } (You would want to add an id and over ride equals and hashCode if you are using serialization.)
Actually, because of the memory usage of Java and our under estimation of the bottle necks of our system, we've had our server run on WinNT and AIX wihout a hitch.
I develop on Linux and deploy on NT all the time. It's a pretty sweet feeling to be able to do that.
Groups of individuals optimizing to a very simple metric can create very complex systems (see Santa Fe Institute). There may be local "bad" results from greed, but is the greater results of groups of individuals motivated by greed really that bad? I don't know, but the answer is definitely not obvious.
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How do you find this wonder of a laptop at their site?!
I hate these damn sites that want to know about me. I use my laptop in my home on the sofa, in my home office for home video and mp3's, in my home office for work, I run a small business, we work for midsized and large businesses. How do I order a pc from Gateway? I just want a list of their products, but they instead want to tell me what they want to sell me.
When I ordered my Compaq laptop 18 months ago I got different prices depending on wether I indicated that I was a small business, home office or large business. What horse crap!
ARG!
Joe
Given a directory full of pictures, some with the extension ".jpg", and some with ".png", at least the user interface can guess that they are all graphics. But what if you put a new file in the directory and mistype the name, calling it "pgn". Well then, it won't show up in dialog boxes that are looking for graphics files, and when you double-click on it in a file manager, who knows what will happen? Mime-types in the file system would fix this.
What if you give the file the wrong mime type of image/pgn? huh? Garbage in, garbage out; it doesn't matter if I store the info in the meta data or in the filename.
What meta information should be stored? I don't think we'll come to agreement, so why not store as little as possible and make up for it else where, like the filemanager.
Your difficulty opening files sounds like a filemanager problem, not a filesystem problem. Would the "Open With..." functionality of Win95 explorer satisfy your need to open the same file types in multiple tools? (Notice, that's not a filesystem feature, it's a filemanager feature.)
Joe
You would want wireless for your house if you lived in the midwest. The fastest line I can get for my house is a $65/month POTS line. The telco doesn't offer ISDN, DSL. The cable company doesn't offer cable modems.
I have heard of local parties laying they're own cable, but other than that wireless is the only solution.
Joe
Wow! I couldn't remember the games that I liked. I haven't seen the machine since I was 8 (in 1979). The was one of the better games.
Joe
Didn't anyone else play pong, down hill skiing or poker on a Fairchild?
Joe
Yah, read the kernel developer list. Linus wont help in debugging the kernel (by adding more support for kernel debuggers) partially so that bugs are not easily fixed. He wants the developer to have to think to fix the problem.
I of course can't grok the kernel in 30 minutes a day of effort (even after looking at it since the 0.12 release).
what ever.
Joe
For the most part humans define environmental damage as environmental change. This could lead to a big environmental change.
Joe
No, it is simple. The cardinality is almost always one or more clients attach to one server.
One or more X clients (apps) attach to one X server (a single display).
Joe
Oh, but the Benford/Bear/Brin additions to the Foundation novels are WONDERFUL!!!
I read the original Foundation series for the story (Asimov wrote great stories), but the new autors write great prose also. I really enjoyed reading Foundation++. I would recommend reading the base Foundation series (even if you get bored with it), just to get to read Foundation++.
Joe
BS.
I ran Linux/X on a 386/20 with 2 MB of RAM, 20 MB of disk and a Herc monochrome card a hell of a lot better than any competing "OS". Also note that X runs on Compaq's iPAQ handheld.
Joe
My experience with H-1B's is that the knowlege is just book knowlege. Questions can e answered, but designs are ugly. I see the same results from everyone who goes into programming for the money.
Joe
It seems absurd that the phone companies encourage businesses to telemarket, then sell services to the consumers to block telemarketers.
Joe
IANALBMBI (I am not a lawyer, but my brother is):
Misleading contracts, even when properly signed, don't hold up in court. You write a contract that has your neighbor sign over all of his possessions to you, have him sign claiming that it is a petition to get new street lights and you will fail to get his stuff.
Same deal with MS. Same deal with lots of junk in the EULA. Lots of it will not hold up in court. It is there so that it can be argued some day.
Joe
The problem is that DC has, in hindsight at least, a lousy business model. It is not the courts' responsibility to defend DC's lousy business. [What if Disney gave away cars and maps and the map had a shrink wrapped license that only allowed you to drive the car to Disney World. Now, a couple Linux folks start giving away maps to allow users to drive the cars elsewhere... It doesn't even make sense to me that the Linux folks would be at fault somehow.]
"We" should not defend a lousy business. Ask Darwin. We should take atvantage of our oppurtunities and cooperate when it helps us achieve our goals.
Joe
Our house was funded by student loans....
We closed up 6 years ago and it still isn't all paid for yet.
I still have the 4x8 sheet of white board. Best investment we made.
Joe
Depends who you work with.
I see lost of Java that is not indented, or is incorrectly indented, so I never trust the indentation and always have emacs reformat all the code before I even get started.
Joe
Check out the way you can type anything into the address line of the taskbar in w2k. How about typing most anything into the Address line of ie.
The command line isn't going away.
Joe
Wanting only one OS would be like wanting only one tool in the tool box. Use the right tool for the job.
From a less abstract perspective, I would rather want just NT than just one of any Unix OS. NT has more apps and is a generally a better fit for that lowest common denominator spot. Of course, I don't like using sporks, I prefer a spoon and a fork.
Then again, to finish out my wishy washy opinion this morning, it might be best for SGI to get out of the OS business. If SGI, IBM, and Compaq get out of the OS business (transitioning to Linux or some other common code base), then they might be able to leverage each other and focus on less redundant tasks.
need coffee....
Joe
Youth are expected in video arcades.
Youth are not expected to be up to watch NYPD Blue.
(I was, and I was not respectively.)
The attitude of "you'll do it if I tell you not to, so do it anyway" is less useful than telling the kid not to do what ever. Hence, tell the kid not to do what ever. (it isn't fullproof, but neither are 2 phase commits and we use them.)
Joe, in Indiana (but not Indianapolis)
How do we recognize a soda can?
:-) ]
- last place I set it down (geography)
- color
- emptiness
- size
- shape
How do I regonize a term paper?
- abstract
- time of last edit or creation
- tool used for creation
- context (home work, job, correspondence)
I suggest that the best identifier here is the abstract. I use big filenames full of spaces.
I think that the context can not be derived from the raw doc. (I use a directory for that.)
The rest of the stuff can be searched on in a file finder.
What's the big deal?
AND and OR are normally interchangable in ordinary conversation. In this part of the midwest so are push and pull, learn and teach, and coke, pop and soda. Some things are education issues. Complex ideas cannot be recorded with out a very exact vocabulary.
[ I do agree that users should not have to save. All data should appear persistent to a degree, but I use emacs, so it is (to a degree)
try using an inner class like the following to express enums. Works just fine
public class Student {
static public final class Car {
private Car() {}
static public final Olds = new Car();
static public final Chevy = new Car();
static public final Ford = new Car();
}
private Car car;
public Car getCar() { return car; }
public void setCar(Car c) { car = c; }
}
(You would want to add an id and over ride equals and hashCode if you are using serialization.)
Joe
I any OTP gets cracked, all future pads are cracked.
Joe
Actually, because of the memory usage of Java and our under estimation of the bottle necks of our system, we've had our server run on WinNT and AIX wihout a hitch.
I develop on Linux and deploy on NT all the time. It's a pretty sweet feeling to be able to do that.
Joe
Nrrrt!
Groups of individuals optimizing to a very simple metric can create very complex systems (see Santa Fe Institute). There may be local "bad" results from greed, but is the greater results of groups of individuals motivated by greed really that bad? I don't know, but the answer is definitely not obvious.
Uh...I burned up a monitor faster than I could hit the power switch in 94.
Burning up monitors was pretty expensive, and fairly common when XFree86 came out.
Joe