A bit of an aside, but there was short period of time where facebook was serving it's PHP source as plain text. I'm sure it could be found somewhere out there in some obscure location.
I made the switch to Mac in 2005, got a first generation MacBook Pro. I was so excited to be using a corporate-backed, posix-compliant, end-user operating system. I was an evangelist. I snuffed my nose at Windows users. Any "issues" I had with OS X I attributed to just being new to it. Then I had to gut-check myself. I hated OS X.
UI Consistency? Really? That green plus button does a million different things, depending on the application you are using. Is there a sane way to show hidden files in finder? Command-line hack. Wow, that's user friendly. Don't get me started on HFS+. Wanna develop apps for it? Well, you're stuck with objective-c. That will come in handy... nowhere else. Oh wait, there's openStep, excuse me. It was also nice to see a dual core brought to its knees by the simplest of tasks, 10+ seconds to load an application. Good thing they made that pretty rainbow beach ball, because you'll be staring at it a lot.
Oh yeah, and when you receive your new $3000 laptop, you come to find out that an "error" in manufacturing resulted in gobs of thermal paste being put on the processor, gpu and southbridge, acting as an insulator against the copper backing, instead of aiding heat transfer. And, since apple doesn't own up to it, you have to void your warranty to fix the problem yourself. I have pictures if anyone is interested.
Let's be honest, apple users are label whores, who get off on slick presentation and packaging. They proudly display the apple logo on the back of their hybrid and take great joy in sniffing their own flatulence.
I hear this kind of complaint all the time from linux peeps. They want two very different, conflicting things to happen at once. First of all, they want linux to evolve while maintaining all the flexibility that it is known for, while also wanting so desperately for each year to be the "year of the Linux desktop." This is an either/or situation. Gnome and KDE are both aiming to be user-friendly desktops, and therefore shouldn't be criticized because they don't meet the productivity needs of a sysadmin. Like you said, vim, mutt, and wmaker are still around and kickin'.
It seems like console games and computer games have little if any distinction besides input method (controller vs keyboard/mouse). With USB coming standard on the next gen systems, why not "upgrade" your console with a keyboard/mouse? It wouldn't take much from game devs to allow this control scheme, especially for games that are going to see a PC port anyway. The whole PC gaming thing never made much sense to me. You can spend $500 on a console that performs as well as a computer at 3 times the cost. It is significantly more efficient both energy wise and processing wise.
Seven or eight years ago I wrote an AOL spammer that connected to an arbitrary number of AIM names using the toc protocol. It was insanely easy back then, the only deterrent was the rate limit imposed on each screen name, which was easily bypassed by the spammer essentially acting as a client for 10 to 12 AIM screen names. Then the spammer would just grab name from all of AOL's adult chatrooms which made for a great click/signup ratio. The best part? It wasn't technically illegal. And I was in highschool, making about $600/month. Not bad.
Maybe not so relevant now, however gaining relevance quickly: Try running Windows remote desktop on a wireless phone. Sure, remote desktop may be convenient if you're on a good connection and more comfortable administering with the UI, but SSH is much more accessible.
The difference is, however, that developers waste tons of development time implementing effects that mimic lighting, refraction, and reflection. With raytracing, this behavior is implied. The increased simplicity will benefit all, once we have the horsepower to do such a thing.
Oh please... spare me. Just because a web browser seems to be a manadatory part of a web enabled VIDEO GAME console, doesn't mean enough people will seriously use it to surf the web. Anyone who would be so inclined would just load linux on their PS3 (and I'm sure Wii isn't far behind). In any case, yes, it does run on PS3 and potentially Wii, as linux runs on just about anything.
While they are certainly useful in certain situations, they are a pain in the ass to debug. It would be nice if they could add some sort of vendor specific command - anything - that would allow me to see output in a console while a stored procedure/function is running. They are useful at times, but i dread writing them.
...And it wouldn't be hard. Just use an existing OSS database as the back-end solution (mySQL, PostgreSQL comes to mind) and then create a front-end that makes it easy for the layperson to set up tables and create queries, forms and reports. Considering the resources Google has at hand, this wouldn't be too difficult and would have a free stable core already available to them.
I've never noticed anything in outlook/exchange that makes it noticeably superior to up and coming alternatives. The only thing keeping Outlook in the picture is it's ties to the rest of the Office suite, noticeably Excel and Word, for which there are no viable replacements at this time for serious users (please don't say Open Office, it's like saying The Gimp is a viable alternative to Photoshop for professionals).
Study High? Didn't you have trouble retaining information? I have programmed high, a lot...LOT, but thats different. Not that I think it makes me better at programming, but it does allow me to solve problems more creatively or come to a solution that I was having trouble solving in an unaltered state.
How come the ol' "My homework is driving me to smoke pot" trick didn't work when I was in school?
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As someone who's spent more than 4 years with PHP, I couldn't agree with you more. The only thing PHP has going for it is that it is widely supported among web hosts. I also think that Ruby and Python syntax may scare off a lot of people, whereas PHP is pretty much C syntax.
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A bit of an aside, but there was short period of time where facebook was serving it's PHP source as plain text. I'm sure it could be found somewhere out there in some obscure location.
Common anti-microsoft fud. MS released a compatibility pack for older versions of office when Office 2007 was released.
I made the switch to Mac in 2005, got a first generation MacBook Pro. I was so excited to be using a corporate-backed, posix-compliant, end-user operating system. I was an evangelist. I snuffed my nose at Windows users. Any "issues" I had with OS X I attributed to just being new to it. Then I had to gut-check myself. I hated OS X. UI Consistency? Really? That green plus button does a million different things, depending on the application you are using. Is there a sane way to show hidden files in finder? Command-line hack. Wow, that's user friendly. Don't get me started on HFS+. Wanna develop apps for it? Well, you're stuck with objective-c. That will come in handy... nowhere else. Oh wait, there's openStep, excuse me. It was also nice to see a dual core brought to its knees by the simplest of tasks, 10+ seconds to load an application. Good thing they made that pretty rainbow beach ball, because you'll be staring at it a lot. Oh yeah, and when you receive your new $3000 laptop, you come to find out that an "error" in manufacturing resulted in gobs of thermal paste being put on the processor, gpu and southbridge, acting as an insulator against the copper backing, instead of aiding heat transfer. And, since apple doesn't own up to it, you have to void your warranty to fix the problem yourself. I have pictures if anyone is interested. Let's be honest, apple users are label whores, who get off on slick presentation and packaging. They proudly display the apple logo on the back of their hybrid and take great joy in sniffing their own flatulence.
I hear this kind of complaint all the time from linux peeps. They want two very different, conflicting things to happen at once. First of all, they want linux to evolve while maintaining all the flexibility that it is known for, while also wanting so desperately for each year to be the "year of the Linux desktop." This is an either/or situation. Gnome and KDE are both aiming to be user-friendly desktops, and therefore shouldn't be criticized because they don't meet the productivity needs of a sysadmin. Like you said, vim, mutt, and wmaker are still around and kickin'.
I'd suffer from a severe case of self-loathing...
At first I thought the headline was about a Pitfall movie. I could see it now, Michael Jackson to star as white stick man. :(
For those of you who don't know, the term "Sol" means "A whale's vagina."
Yes, because until then, PC's are just a commodity. :)
True, but none of these games warrant a "gaming" PC.
It seems like console games and computer games have little if any distinction besides input method (controller vs keyboard/mouse). With USB coming standard on the next gen systems, why not "upgrade" your console with a keyboard/mouse? It wouldn't take much from game devs to allow this control scheme, especially for games that are going to see a PC port anyway. The whole PC gaming thing never made much sense to me. You can spend $500 on a console that performs as well as a computer at 3 times the cost. It is significantly more efficient both energy wise and processing wise.
Seven or eight years ago I wrote an AOL spammer that connected to an arbitrary number of AIM names using the toc protocol. It was insanely easy back then, the only deterrent was the rate limit imposed on each screen name, which was easily bypassed by the spammer essentially acting as a client for 10 to 12 AIM screen names. Then the spammer would just grab name from all of AOL's adult chatrooms which made for a great click/signup ratio. The best part? It wasn't technically illegal. And I was in highschool, making about $600/month. Not bad.
Well, not supporting Java 6 kinda deviates from the whole "It Just Works" mantra, doesn't it?
Maybe not so relevant now, however gaining relevance quickly: Try running Windows remote desktop on a wireless phone. Sure, remote desktop may be convenient if you're on a good connection and more comfortable administering with the UI, but SSH is much more accessible.
The difference is, however, that developers waste tons of development time implementing effects that mimic lighting, refraction, and reflection. With raytracing, this behavior is implied. The increased simplicity will benefit all, once we have the horsepower to do such a thing.
It should be noted that mySQL is planning an IPO, scratch one of their points. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/021121 0&from=rss
Oh please... spare me. Just because a web browser seems to be a manadatory part of a web enabled VIDEO GAME console, doesn't mean enough people will seriously use it to surf the web. Anyone who would be so inclined would just load linux on their PS3 (and I'm sure Wii isn't far behind). In any case, yes, it does run on PS3 and potentially Wii, as linux runs on just about anything.
That would be great, but I don't have thousands of dollars to pay for the array of licenses I'd need to do so.
While they are certainly useful in certain situations, they are a pain in the ass to debug. It would be nice if they could add some sort of vendor specific command - anything - that would allow me to see output in a console while a stored procedure/function is running. They are useful at times, but i dread writing them.
...And it wouldn't be hard. Just use an existing OSS database as the back-end solution (mySQL, PostgreSQL comes to mind) and then create a front-end that makes it easy for the layperson to set up tables and create queries, forms and reports. Considering the resources Google has at hand, this wouldn't be too difficult and would have a free stable core already available to them.
I've never noticed anything in outlook/exchange that makes it noticeably superior to up and coming alternatives. The only thing keeping Outlook in the picture is it's ties to the rest of the Office suite, noticeably Excel and Word, for which there are no viable replacements at this time for serious users (please don't say Open Office, it's like saying The Gimp is a viable alternative to Photoshop for professionals).
Study High? Didn't you have trouble retaining information? I have programmed high, a lot...LOT, but thats different. Not that I think it makes me better at programming, but it does allow me to solve problems more creatively or come to a solution that I was having trouble solving in an unaltered state.
How come the ol' "My homework is driving me to smoke pot" trick didn't work when I was in school?
As someone who's spent more than 4 years with PHP, I couldn't agree with you more. The only thing PHP has going for it is that it is widely supported among web hosts. I also think that Ruby and Python syntax may scare off a lot of people, whereas PHP is pretty much C syntax.
Step 1: Purchase Photoshop Step 2: ???????? Step 3: PROFIT!!
What's funny is the article never states how or why it increases the chance of survival, just that it does.