I have a Dell 37" LCD TV (only part that sucks is the VGA port will only run up to 1024x768). I think they came out around 2005-ish? I'm considering one of the Dell Studio Hybrids (refurbs are around $350)....they have HDMI ports and have "wife-appeal).....
There are some converter boxes, but the quality is low. There are also PCMCIA video cards (however, not super cheap). And another option are the USB TV dongles (reasonably priced, adds a TV-tuner, too....but not all have output -- just input).
divide your elements into equal parts, sort each part and combine
sorting is the recursive call combining is a simple step because the two lists are now sorted
Might not be exactly right, but good enough to code a simple recursive sort algorithm which should pass muster for me to retain my residence in the group named Programmers.
I used to own a couple of programming books (Undocumented DOS: http://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-DOS-Programmers-Functions-Structures/dp/0201570645 and a similar Windows one). That's how I learned about hidden OS APIs Microsoft provided (and used internally even though we "normal" programmers weren't supposed to -- can't find the link, but there were lawsuits over it). I almost never used the information, but the books provided some really good insight that made be a better programmer in the long run. However, knowing that these interupts or APIs were liable to disappear with an OS upgrade, it was still sometimes necessary to use them to accomplish a task (within certain restrictions). You would just have to rewrite code when the next OS came out.
Grande is mostly in apartments in Austin. I've submitted my address regularly over the past three or four years checking to see if I could get their service yet. I was at one time under Cox (out of Georgetown) but was forced over to Time Warner. AT&T is just now (within the past three months) available in my neighborhood at anything higher than the lowest tier. I'm not a torrent user, but I'm thinking that all of this dicking around will lead me to switch to AT&T before the end of the summer.
In fact, I think we Austinites need to form some angry mobs and picket their offices.
It's not sloppy so much as forming an online identity.
The best solution is to register your own domain (cheap). You can still use gmail (free version of Google Apps) but your nick/handle/gamertag etc doesn't make for easy guessing (@gmail.com, @yahoo.com, and @hotmail.com should hit 95% of the free mail users). On top of that, you can easily set up a catch-all account and identify who's selling your name. Buying from Amazon? Use Amazon@ as the e-mail address. Buying from eBay? eBay@. Posting on Slashdot? Slashdot@. Then, when you see a "V1agra for 4 cents a pill" sent to SomeRandomSite@, you know which site sold you out.
I think the best compromise (for the single player experience) are the ones where one aspect is fairly structured and another aspect is fairly unstructured. Why was Oblivion considered an awesome game? You had complete freedom.....within the box they put you in.
Jeremey Gibson (http://mdm.gnwc.ca/people/jeremy-gibson) was teaching a class I was taking and he mentioned emmergent(sp?) gameplay. The best example was in one of the Tony Hawk games (I don't remember which one or which level). Basically the game rewards you based on the tricks you perform but that certain players had spent time figuring out that there was a grind path that would take you through the entire level without ever touching the ground. The game put you in a box (skateboard tricks) but within that box, you were free to accomplish the goals (points) however you wanted (grinding an entire tour of the level).
See, this is why Pirates beat Ninjas. What story have you read talks about Brazillian Ninja's taking over satellites? Somalian Ninjas hijack cargo ships? None, that's how many.
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Sun doesn't accept contributions to Netbeans itself citing that their development pace is too fast
Last time I checked, open source just means that the source is available. There's no requirement that they accept external contributions. If you want to contribute, fork it and go from there.
Who the hell does that? -1, Nested, Oldest First. As it should be.
Hear! Hear!
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In the situation described, Windows is "free" because they already *HAVE* it. The cost is sunk and cannot be recovered by installing Linux. Linux could be "expensive" because of the described incompatibilities, learning curve, etc. Heaven forbid if I want to run something (that I already own) on Linux and it doesn't work.
Your argument of free for Linux vs $$ for Windows only comes into play when you are talking about a new purchase (or justifying Linux over an upgrade from versions of Windows).
1) Which distro do I use? The Linux community is so fractured that it is hard for someone to figure out what the differences are and why I would pick one over the other. All posts of "I like X" best have no real meat behind them and are really expressions of preference, nothing else.
2) Which desktop do I use? I'm sure this is heavily influenced by the distro questions, but man, I could be running Ubuntu with KDE or Gnome or I could switch to RedHat with KDE or Gnome. That's pretty confusing to me (and I'm technical enough to grasp that there is a difference).
3) I still can't play all of my games on Linux. Sure, that is really up to the game companies, but still, I spend enough time on my computer playing games that it is important to me.
4) Hardware incompatibilities. Not as big of a hurdle if I truely wanted to adopt Linux because I would build a machine ground up to target Linux, but if I ever decided I liked it and wanted to convert, it would still be a problem for my existing hardware.
5) While the distros are getting better at this, I'm a programmer, not a sysadmin. The few rare times that I need to sysadmin tasks on my Windows box, I appreciate the Pointy-Clicky-Draggy-Droppy approach that Microsoft has taken. I don't *WANT* to open up a command line and sudo anything (I can and would comfortable doing so, but I don't want to). I use my computers to surf the web, play games, manage some files, whatever. I don't want to remember the 20 commands I need to pipe and redirect through in order to get something "magic" to happen.
So, if the Linux community can solve those 5 items to a level I deem satisfactory, I'll go out and buy the hardware I need to run Linux as my primary desktop. The only way that will happen is if the community collapses the different distros into one and eliminates all of the desktop environments down to one. That will never happen because the fight between Distro A and Distro B is just as fierce as the fight between Windows and Linux. It's just that when the fight is between Windows and Linux, the Distro A and Distro B guys can put asside their differences.
Actually, I'm 36, so there aren't any within the past 10 years that I can be charged with.......the act hasn't stopped, but it hasn't been illegal for quite a few years.
I said developer, not code monkey. If I had meant code monkey, I would have used the term coder or programmer. As a developer, I am responsible for design, architecture, code, mentoring, leading, etc. And in my area at work, I can do all of those things better and faster than anyone else.....and not faster in a sloppy way. Do I tell that to anyone else in my area? No. I'll bet those bright mathematicians around you have told some non-mathematicians that they were the best where they work, too. While somewhat bragadocious, it's usually an attempt to lend additional credence to what is being said.....at least when it's true.
If you're interested in skills and weaknesses, my biggest weakness is in the kissing-up.....er politics. I'll probably never make manager because my skills are very technical focused. I fully expect to be one of those 50 year olds with no upward aspirations that they start looking to replace. I can stay relevant by keeping on top of technical trends, but eventually, they will see me as big $$$'s that could be replaced by a 35 year old who just graduated from college.
The problem he *WILL* have is that there will be a lot of 35+ year olds that have had their CS degree for several years and have years of experience (like me, graduated in 94, so 15 years of real experience). You'd like to think that he'd be lumped in with the other fresh-outs, but his age will make people want to lump him in with the experienced people. He'll need to find a good mentor and take to the real learning quickly (school doesn't really teach you how to work in the real world). The faster you catch up to those in your age bracket, the better.
Is 35+ too old? No, I'm almost 37 and by far the best developer in my area (very large company). The people I see being squeezed out are the ones that are over 50 with no upward aspirations......so there's plenty of time to make good on the degree.
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I have a Dell 37" LCD TV (only part that sucks is the VGA port will only run up to 1024x768). I think they came out around 2005-ish? I'm considering one of the Dell Studio Hybrids (refurbs are around $350)....they have HDMI ports and have "wife-appeal).....
HD with VGA input......
And my TV has a VGA in.
There are some converter boxes, but the quality is low. There are also PCMCIA video cards (however, not super cheap). And another option are the USB TV dongles (reasonably priced, adds a TV-tuner, too....but not all have output -- just input).
My dad had an old laptop have the screen go out. It's now hooked to my TV to watch streaming Netflix / Hulu / etc.
You could take the guts out and make some sort of robot brain out of it.
Put it in an arcade cabinet and host MAME ROMs.
They are just trying to shed a new light on the subject.....
I agree. In programming, it isn't the normal case that usually has the bug, but the boundary case.
From memory and paraphrased:
divide your elements into equal parts, sort each part and combine
sorting is the recursive call
combining is a simple step because the two lists are now sorted
Might not be exactly right, but good enough to code a simple recursive sort algorithm which should pass muster for me to retain my residence in the group named Programmers.
I used to own a couple of programming books (Undocumented DOS: http://www.amazon.com/Undocumented-DOS-Programmers-Functions-Structures/dp/0201570645 and a similar Windows one). That's how I learned about hidden OS APIs Microsoft provided (and used internally even though we "normal" programmers weren't supposed to -- can't find the link, but there were lawsuits over it). I almost never used the information, but the books provided some really good insight that made be a better programmer in the long run. However, knowing that these interupts or APIs were liable to disappear with an OS upgrade, it was still sometimes necessary to use them to accomplish a task (within certain restrictions). You would just have to rewrite code when the next OS came out.
Grande is mostly in apartments in Austin. I've submitted my address regularly over the past three or four years checking to see if I could get their service yet. I was at one time under Cox (out of Georgetown) but was forced over to Time Warner. AT&T is just now (within the past three months) available in my neighborhood at anything higher than the lowest tier. I'm not a torrent user, but I'm thinking that all of this dicking around will lead me to switch to AT&T before the end of the summer.
In fact, I think we Austinites need to form some angry mobs and picket their offices.
It's not sloppy so much as forming an online identity.
The best solution is to register your own domain (cheap). You can still use gmail (free version of Google Apps) but your nick/handle/gamertag etc doesn't make for easy guessing (@gmail.com, @yahoo.com, and @hotmail.com should hit 95% of the free mail users). On top of that, you can easily set up a catch-all account and identify who's selling your name. Buying from Amazon? Use Amazon@ as the e-mail address. Buying from eBay? eBay@. Posting on Slashdot? Slashdot@. Then, when you see a "V1agra for 4 cents a pill" sent to SomeRandomSite@, you know which site sold you out.
I think the best compromise (for the single player experience) are the ones where one aspect is fairly structured and another aspect is fairly unstructured. Why was Oblivion considered an awesome game? You had complete freedom.....within the box they put you in.
Jeremey Gibson (http://mdm.gnwc.ca/people/jeremy-gibson) was teaching a class I was taking and he mentioned emmergent(sp?) gameplay. The best example was in one of the Tony Hawk games (I don't remember which one or which level). Basically the game rewards you based on the tricks you perform but that certain players had spent time figuring out that there was a grind path that would take you through the entire level without ever touching the ground. The game put you in a box (skateboard tricks) but within that box, you were free to accomplish the goals (points) however you wanted (grinding an entire tour of the level).
See, this is why Pirates beat Ninjas. What story have you read talks about Brazillian Ninja's taking over satellites? Somalian Ninjas hijack cargo ships? None, that's how many.
Sun doesn't accept contributions to Netbeans itself citing that their development pace is too fast
Last time I checked, open source just means that the source is available. There's no requirement that they accept external contributions. If you want to contribute, fork it and go from there.
Who the hell does that? -1, Nested, Oldest First. As it should be.
Hear! Hear!
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We've all see the ads.
Yeah, Lauren was pretty hot!
Here's your CBA:
In the situation described, Windows is "free" because they already *HAVE* it. The cost is sunk and cannot be recovered by installing Linux. Linux could be "expensive" because of the described incompatibilities, learning curve, etc. Heaven forbid if I want to run something (that I already own) on Linux and it doesn't work.
Your argument of free for Linux vs $$ for Windows only comes into play when you are talking about a new purchase (or justifying Linux over an upgrade from versions of Windows).
My personal biggest hurdles to Linux adoption:
1) Which distro do I use? The Linux community is so fractured that it is hard for someone to figure out what the differences are and why I would pick one over the other. All posts of "I like X" best have no real meat behind them and are really expressions of preference, nothing else.
2) Which desktop do I use? I'm sure this is heavily influenced by the distro questions, but man, I could be running Ubuntu with KDE or Gnome or I could switch to RedHat with KDE or Gnome. That's pretty confusing to me (and I'm technical enough to grasp that there is a difference).
3) I still can't play all of my games on Linux. Sure, that is really up to the game companies, but still, I spend enough time on my computer playing games that it is important to me.
4) Hardware incompatibilities. Not as big of a hurdle if I truely wanted to adopt Linux because I would build a machine ground up to target Linux, but if I ever decided I liked it and wanted to convert, it would still be a problem for my existing hardware.
5) While the distros are getting better at this, I'm a programmer, not a sysadmin. The few rare times that I need to sysadmin tasks on my Windows box, I appreciate the Pointy-Clicky-Draggy-Droppy approach that Microsoft has taken. I don't *WANT* to open up a command line and sudo anything (I can and would comfortable doing so, but I don't want to). I use my computers to surf the web, play games, manage some files, whatever. I don't want to remember the 20 commands I need to pipe and redirect through in order to get something "magic" to happen.
So, if the Linux community can solve those 5 items to a level I deem satisfactory, I'll go out and buy the hardware I need to run Linux as my primary desktop. The only way that will happen is if the community collapses the different distros into one and eliminates all of the desktop environments down to one. That will never happen because the fight between Distro A and Distro B is just as fierce as the fight between Windows and Linux. It's just that when the fight is between Windows and Linux, the Distro A and Distro B guys can put asside their differences.
A desert does not describe the temperature of a region but the (lack of) rainfall/moisture.
http://desertgardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/definition_of_a_desert (link found using Google).
And besides, put the containers underground and I'm pretty sure that "hot" you refer to becomes a non-issue as well.
Sadly, I'll probably never get that particular medal next to my name.........
Actually, I'm 36, so there aren't any within the past 10 years that I can be charged with.......the act hasn't stopped, but it hasn't been illegal for quite a few years.
Only today can someone be sent to jail and put on a sex offender's registry for sexually abusing themselves
I'm glad they couldn't charge me when I was a kid for sexually abusing myself.......I did it quite often.
Feeding the troll, but, whatever....
I said developer, not code monkey. If I had meant code monkey, I would have used the term coder or programmer. As a developer, I am responsible for design, architecture, code, mentoring, leading, etc. And in my area at work, I can do all of those things better and faster than anyone else.....and not faster in a sloppy way. Do I tell that to anyone else in my area? No. I'll bet those bright mathematicians around you have told some non-mathematicians that they were the best where they work, too. While somewhat bragadocious, it's usually an attempt to lend additional credence to what is being said.....at least when it's true.
If you're interested in skills and weaknesses, my biggest weakness is in the kissing-up.....er politics. I'll probably never make manager because my skills are very technical focused. I fully expect to be one of those 50 year olds with no upward aspirations that they start looking to replace. I can stay relevant by keeping on top of technical trends, but eventually, they will see me as big $$$'s that could be replaced by a 35 year old who just graduated from college.
The problem he *WILL* have is that there will be a lot of 35+ year olds that have had their CS degree for several years and have years of experience (like me, graduated in 94, so 15 years of real experience). You'd like to think that he'd be lumped in with the other fresh-outs, but his age will make people want to lump him in with the experienced people. He'll need to find a good mentor and take to the real learning quickly (school doesn't really teach you how to work in the real world). The faster you catch up to those in your age bracket, the better.
Is 35+ too old? No, I'm almost 37 and by far the best developer in my area (very large company). The people I see being squeezed out are the ones that are over 50 with no upward aspirations......so there's plenty of time to make good on the degree.
So, do you know where I can "borrow" this automatic auditing software of which you speak???
But Mauve has the most RAM.