There seems to be an opening here for some company like Skype to produce a Skype Fax Machine that connects to the net, but performs exactly like a normal fax. You could even have a SkypeIn number for recieving documents from normal fax machines.
Slashdot needs a "comment of the month", because that's what I think this comment deserves. Funny, insightful, interesting, and a little bit of troll. I think there is a history of the US Govt funding political groups that they favour, not all of which have peaceful methods, so its naturally follows that civilians with money would like to possess similar influences.
Actually I don't use my WP7 for facebook, I use OneNote, the calendar functionality which is great because its intergrated with the hotmail calendar, watching pre recorded tv shows, some business accounting stuff in an excel spreadsheet that I've set up on my desktop and put on my phone, e-mail, weather, stock trading. Facebook is something I update and read when I have some idle time at a desktop PC. It could be that facebook junkies tend to be more likely to use an iPhone and the Android clone of it.
I see this as an excellent opportunity for defence to be able to utilise the innovation of the small software vendor. Generally software supply contracts are won by big players. A platform like this enables small players to more easily get in the game as they can release apps tagged as defence apps, and the forces can see if they are useful or not. And yes, I haven't used American spelling in my post.
You ask a question "what language makes the most sense now to get the jobs", but then you don't want to hear the answer (C# and web based.NET frameworks). How can you expect anyone to take this question seriously then? It's like a smoker going to the doctor and saying "I want you to tell me how I can get rid of this cough, but I have no desire to give up smoking, so I've eliminated that as an option." The doctor would have nothing to say.
Dude, you'll attract the wrath of the fans of steam. I travel so much I'm practically homeless. I have computers for a temporary amount of time. Steam is a god send, I log onto the computer, I install steam, my life's collection of games are there. Any game that isn't on steam is dead to me now.
you've got two kinds of users. Idiots and non-idiots. The former category is a lost cause and will just use IE anyway because that's what they know.
Yep and if I was living in Europe all those idiots who I would've sneakily converted to Firefox will now get this ballot pop up and change themselves back to IE. Will be interesting to see the before and after browser popularity stats.
These percentage figures don't give the complete picture, who can say if the number of XP users has really reduced. I notice the mobile OSs have gone up which means that more people are able to check the web from their mobile while on the go, doesn't mean that it reduces the number of desktop os users. A table of percentages, and absolute numbers would give a clearer picture.
"Microsoft has not and will not put "backdoors" into Windows"
"the agency had worked on the operating system."
So Microsoft finally got backdoored by a government agency. That should make the anti-MS crowd happy right? Or maybe Microsoft is so straight these days they've bricked up their back door.
I live in a European country with socialized medicine and suffer from a condition for which I must buy what I've been prescribed every three months and the receipt says 2 000+ EUR (almost $ 3 000) but I pay only 3 EUR (about $ 4).
I live in a country with socialized medicine. All my prescriptions state the purchase price, and none of them have any number other than that. I'm curious where you are that they give you a receipt that doesn't match what you pay. What's the drug? Perhaps someone else who gets it in the US could say what it costs there.
Sounds like there's a lot of bull somewhere in the grandparent then.
Since then however, the hardware has always been "good enough"
That's because most games are now being written for consoles and then being ported to PC, so the graphics requirements are based on what's in an X-Box 360. Unfortunately consoles are on something like a 5 year cycle. People are now buying a game console + a cheap PC for their other stuff for cheaper than the ol gaming rig. Makes sense in a way.
Thanks for the explanation. I don't have a car, so I wasn't clear on how the system worked, but rather just had an idea about what was going from what I had seen.
In Taiwan it appears driver friendly rather than operator friendly. People just park and leave, then a parking inspector would come round every 30 minutes or something, take a photo of their number plate with a device, and leave a waterproof ticket on their windshield. Each time the inspector comes round he or she leaves more tickets on each windshield. When the driver comes back they get all the tickets and pay them at the nearest 7-11. I assume you have a certain grace period to pay the tickets.
I've had this problem where I've sunk into a funk, there's a few things I did to cure it:
- Quit coffee for a while and get your sleep patterns back to normal
- Exercise more. Sitting at a desk I can get my breathing down to almost nothing and my pulse down to 40. Do this for a year and your body becomes inefficient at getting oxygen into your system. Exercise and stretch your lungs. I do 50 pushups a day, and jogging on the weekend and it's changed my life.
- Once an hour move around a bit, again increasing your breathing and heart rate.
- Try to get more sunlight in your life.
- Stop reading slashdot for a while - it sucks the life force out of you. In fact try to cut down on tv and internet browsing and do stuff requires more active involvement.
As though a few hundred cobol coders cried out in terror, and were suddenly obsolete
No its the other way round. Now we can get rid of all these useless Java programmer, use our Cobol programmers who know what they are doing, and then convert their code to Java so that the PHBs who've been sold on Java can be happy.
I tried LiveMesh too, but it would crash from time to time so it is no longer on my system
I had problems with earlier versions of LiveMesh but I haven't had any problems for a while. For a few months from November 2008 to February 2009 I'd been using both DropBox and LiveMesh. Now I'm using just LiveMesh. For me what swung it for LiveMesh was:
- Being able to sync any folder on my PC, e.g I sync my favorites folder between 4 PCs
- Being able to easily control which PCs get updated with what as I don't want everything synced between all my PCs
- Being able to configure folders to be transferred just PC to PC, e.g. I have 30GB of family photos that I sync between my wife, myself, and my parents accounts on their respective PCs. I don't need these photos in online storage
One tip though when using such sync tools - keep a backup as if one person trashes the folder it trashes everyones folder
A social life isn't just something you can walk into. Like anything else you need to build up experience before you can succeed at it. You'll fail spectacularly at first but you need to try to learn what you did wrong and gradually improve your techniques until you succeed. There's a few resources, like read some psychology books, read "How to make friends and influence people", and maybe watch the tv series "The Pick Up Artist" where a guy exposes how he turned his life around from being a geek to being a pickup artist.
The main thing is that you need to put yourself out there, get noticed, maybe carry around interesting conversation pieces with you, and every now and then an opportunity will come along.
In parking stations you often need to pay for parking - they should give you an option, exit the normal way and pay for your parking, or drive to the roof and into a car elevator that lowers you smoothly to the ground generating electricity. A 1500kg car lowered say 100m off a 20 storey parking station would give you 1500kg x 9.8g x 100m = 1500KJ, enough to run a 400W PC for an hour if you got 100% efficiency out of the thing.
After putting up with using Eclipse for a year, forking over $250 for Visual Studio 2008 standard didn't seem to bother me anymore. Trying to save a few hundred bucks just became too counter productive in the long run. There is always the free Visual C++ Express if you just want to program in one language.
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Yes the code I posted was for C#, I was replying to a Java guy who was saying that Java has LINQ but looks like this http://slashdot.org/submission/1810940/java-linq
Wow, is that what you call LINQ? In C# LINQ looks like this:
var filteredStrings =
from s in myStrings
from p in myPrefixes
where s.StartsWith(p)
select s;
I guess Java really is light years behind. In C# you can multithread this as well:
var filteredStrings =
from s in myStrings.AsParallel()
from p in myPrefixes.AsParallel()
where s.StartsWith(p)
select s;
Awesome until you code in C++/CLI, which missed out on intellisense this time round, which is a total pain in the arse.
But Eclipse blows for C++ development.
There seems to be an opening here for some company like Skype to produce a Skype Fax Machine that connects to the net, but performs exactly like a normal fax. You could even have a SkypeIn number for recieving documents from normal fax machines.
Slashdot needs a "comment of the month", because that's what I think this comment deserves. Funny, insightful, interesting, and a little bit of troll. I think there is a history of the US Govt funding political groups that they favour, not all of which have peaceful methods, so its naturally follows that civilians with money would like to possess similar influences.
Actually I don't use my WP7 for facebook, I use OneNote, the calendar functionality which is great because its intergrated with the hotmail calendar, watching pre recorded tv shows, some business accounting stuff in an excel spreadsheet that I've set up on my desktop and put on my phone, e-mail, weather, stock trading. Facebook is something I update and read when I have some idle time at a desktop PC. It could be that facebook junkies tend to be more likely to use an iPhone and the Android clone of it.
I see this as an excellent opportunity for defence to be able to utilise the innovation of the small software vendor. Generally software supply contracts are won by big players. A platform like this enables small players to more easily get in the game as they can release apps tagged as defence apps, and the forces can see if they are useful or not. And yes, I haven't used American spelling in my post.
You ask a question "what language makes the most sense now to get the jobs", but then you don't want to hear the answer (C# and web based .NET frameworks). How can you expect anyone to take this question seriously then? It's like a smoker going to the doctor and saying "I want you to tell me how I can get rid of this cough, but I have no desire to give up smoking, so I've eliminated that as an option." The doctor would have nothing to say.
Dude, you'll attract the wrath of the fans of steam. I travel so much I'm practically homeless. I have computers for a temporary amount of time. Steam is a god send, I log onto the computer, I install steam, my life's collection of games are there. Any game that isn't on steam is dead to me now.
Taiwan and China aren't the same country. In fact China has 1000s of missiles pointed at Taiwan http://www.tibetanreview.net/news.php?cat=2&cp=8&&id=4667, and Taiwan desires F-16s so it can defend itself against china http://www.defensestudies.org/?p=1512
Yep and if I was living in Europe all those idiots who I would've sneakily converted to Firefox will now get this ballot pop up and change themselves back to IE. Will be interesting to see the before and after browser popularity stats.
These percentage figures don't give the complete picture, who can say if the number of XP users has really reduced. I notice the mobile OSs have gone up which means that more people are able to check the web from their mobile while on the go, doesn't mean that it reduces the number of desktop os users. A table of percentages, and absolute numbers would give a clearer picture.
So Microsoft finally got backdoored by a government agency. That should make the anti-MS crowd happy right? Or maybe Microsoft is so straight these days they've bricked up their back door.
What about for making everyone use Lotus Notes? I assume that's what IBM will be providing.
Sounds like there's a lot of bull somewhere in the grandparent then.
That's because most games are now being written for consoles and then being ported to PC, so the graphics requirements are based on what's in an X-Box 360. Unfortunately consoles are on something like a 5 year cycle. People are now buying a game console + a cheap PC for their other stuff for cheaper than the ol gaming rig. Makes sense in a way.
Traditionally this has been the realm of SGI boxes. So really there should be a comment somewhere about SGI being dead.
Thanks for the explanation. I don't have a car, so I wasn't clear on how the system worked, but rather just had an idea about what was going from what I had seen.
In Taiwan it appears driver friendly rather than operator friendly. People just park and leave, then a parking inspector would come round every 30 minutes or something, take a photo of their number plate with a device, and leave a waterproof ticket on their windshield. Each time the inspector comes round he or she leaves more tickets on each windshield. When the driver comes back they get all the tickets and pay them at the nearest 7-11. I assume you have a certain grace period to pay the tickets.
I've had this problem where I've sunk into a funk, there's a few things I did to cure it:
- Quit coffee for a while and get your sleep patterns back to normal
- Exercise more. Sitting at a desk I can get my breathing down to almost nothing and my pulse down to 40. Do this for a year and your body becomes inefficient at getting oxygen into your system. Exercise and stretch your lungs. I do 50 pushups a day, and jogging on the weekend and it's changed my life.
- Once an hour move around a bit, again increasing your breathing and heart rate.
- Try to get more sunlight in your life.
- Stop reading slashdot for a while - it sucks the life force out of you. In fact try to cut down on tv and internet browsing and do stuff requires more active involvement.
No its the other way round. Now we can get rid of all these useless Java programmer, use our Cobol programmers who know what they are doing, and then convert their code to Java so that the PHBs who've been sold on Java can be happy.
I had problems with earlier versions of LiveMesh but I haven't had any problems for a while. For a few months from November 2008 to February 2009 I'd been using both DropBox and LiveMesh. Now I'm using just LiveMesh. For me what swung it for LiveMesh was:
- Being able to sync any folder on my PC, e.g I sync my favorites folder between 4 PCs
- Being able to easily control which PCs get updated with what as I don't want everything synced between all my PCs
- Being able to configure folders to be transferred just PC to PC, e.g. I have 30GB of family photos that I sync between my wife, myself, and my parents accounts on their respective PCs. I don't need these photos in online storage
One tip though when using such sync tools - keep a backup as if one person trashes the folder it trashes everyones folder
A social life isn't just something you can walk into. Like anything else you need to build up experience before you can succeed at it. You'll fail spectacularly at first but you need to try to learn what you did wrong and gradually improve your techniques until you succeed. There's a few resources, like read some psychology books, read "How to make friends and influence people", and maybe watch the tv series "The Pick Up Artist" where a guy exposes how he turned his life around from being a geek to being a pickup artist.
The main thing is that you need to put yourself out there, get noticed, maybe carry around interesting conversation pieces with you, and every now and then an opportunity will come along.
In parking stations you often need to pay for parking - they should give you an option, exit the normal way and pay for your parking, or drive to the roof and into a car elevator that lowers you smoothly to the ground generating electricity. A 1500kg car lowered say 100m off a 20 storey parking station would give you 1500kg x 9.8g x 100m = 1500KJ, enough to run a 400W PC for an hour if you got 100% efficiency out of the thing.
After putting up with using Eclipse for a year, forking over $250 for Visual Studio 2008 standard didn't seem to bother me anymore. Trying to save a few hundred bucks just became too counter productive in the long run. There is always the free Visual C++ Express if you just want to program in one language.