Eh? The Vikins had religion, not sure what it was but they had it. There was also some woman worshipping religion some 70 000 years ago so religion isn't anything new. It's been with use since before civilization.
Now the Christian religion might have been better than religions it replaced, but there's little truly reliable data on that subject.
Sure, the comps we have at work are likely slower than any G5 and work just fine as long as one stay away from flash heavy websites. However if I took one home it would be too noisy to use as a server, and I can't think of any other use. It pains me to throw away useful hardware, I got three working computers stashed away that will likely never see use again, but ever so often I have to face reality due to space constraints:-(
Unlike my computers a G5 will probably be worth quite a bit in 20-30 years though.
Why should I charge my phone every time I sit down? I charge it whenever I feel like it, and if it runs down so be it. A couple of days ago I gave it to some kids to play with, entertained them for hours but made it useless as I couldn't recharge it then and there - but big deal, didn't even consider that someone would be troubled by such events.
Recharging my cell is a PITA, I prefer to do it as little as possible. My MP3 player can play music for a day on a full charge, my cell only manages 8 hours. If I go on a trip I can leave the charger at home and listen to MP3 music all the way, if I just bring the phone I'll need to bring the charger unless it's a short trip - in which case I don't usualy bother with music anyway.
I've seen apps like that for PCs too, and used them at school, but a real calculator has real buttons and battery life measured in years (I changed batteries once during my six years of schooling). I can perfectly understand why someone wants to use a real calculator over a touch phone, and thus wants to hack them to work the way they want them to instead of hacking an android or pandora or whatever.
And even then, if I want to hack it, I'd go for a Palm or software in an iPhone/ Android. The processor and raphics in these things runs circles around calculators.
Sure, and a PC runs rings around Cell phones. That does not make them great calculators however, as it's the tiny math related buttons you want.
Time for discreet calculators is almost over.
Can't say I've had use for a discreet calculator since my school days, but there will probably always be a small market for 'em.
Wow that's a great idea, if only there were some futuristic operating system that kept apps self-contained inside a single icon of some sort... that could be drag and dropped from one place to another... you could put them side by side in the same folder and stick a version number at the end of the name then run whichever you wanted.
You can do this on Windows for most apps (it depends on how they're written) and there's no OS AFAIK that force its apps into a single folder (or icon as you put it - but encoding an app into an icon would be idiotic). On OSX most apps are delivered in a single folder, but it's not OS enforced and does not guarantee that you can run multiple versions of the app as it may still store it's settings/user data in such a way that they conflict.
Hey, just have the IDEs add "throws exception" to all the methods by default and those folks will be happy. We can then add longjmp() to temp to C holdouts to the embrace of Java, not like the IDE guys would figure out and abuse that call right?, and then finally multiple inheritance to bring in large swaths of old murky C++ code.
That's really too bad. I got the feeling that most coders think "get it done now" rather than "get it done right". It is probably the correct attitude to take, not like you get paid extra for clean code, but still....
IIS with.NET is a hell of a lot easier to configure and tune than Tomcat
I find LAMP easier still, also the main webapp I run at work can't run on ISS7 so I know it's not all green hils over there. Of course I've never written anything big enough to spend any significant time on tuning. Don't make too many DB queries is my general rule.
That said, LINQ is just incredible
I've been looking for some excuse to use LINQ in my code, but the closest I've come is lambda expressions. Do see the value though.
You're supposed to assume that all exceptions can be thrown from all code.
I disagree. I catch the general execeptions up in the code tree from where I will abort the whole opperation when they occur, putting my main focus on exceptions that are likely to be thrown - primarly on how they affect the user. Rare exceptions, even if an exception handeler can make a clean fix, are sent to the error box.
Checked exceptions also give you insight into the function that documentation often lacks. For instance I'm working on an app that connects to a database, the app have to work even when the database is down so it's nice to know which library method will cast database exceptions. It is not always obvious, had a recent bug where a method worked most of the time when the DB was down except for in certain circumstances stemming from an event handeler. In this case I wrote the library myself so I'm the one to blame, but oh well.
Java checked exceptions do absolutely nothing to help when you're working with dynamically-loaded code, for instance.
It is a curious thought that it is not enough to know the meaning of words 300 years ago to understand texts from those days, but their emotional baggage as well. Wonder if there's any dictionary defining that.
Heh. On the subject of the revolutionary France. "The Committee for Public Safety" somehow managed to sound completely evil to me, even before knowing what they did.
Which is pretty much Visual Basic with Java syntax. I find Java source code a tad easier to read and Javadoc make C#'s cumbersome "compiled comments" look silly. Does Java still have checked exceptions in common use? In that case I envy you guys. Scratching my head over which exceptions can spew out of a library is annoying, even if checked exceptions can be annoying at times too.
I don't get the gesture hype myself. Opera started it back in the nineties and now it's on the track pads. It was one of the bullet point features on my laptop but I've only used it once or twice, there are quicker ways of scrolling and plenty of keyboard shortcuts.
The next step must be eye tracking. Use the webcam to see where your eyes are looking and scroll up and down ala middle click auto scroll. That's when we know we're in the future.
But by the looks of things Apple has again, taken an idea that has been around for some time and made it easy enough to use that the level of convenience is nearly the same as a phone call.
??? On the last phone I tried video calling with it was no harder than making a normal phone call. Of course, I had to hold the phone so that it could film my face, and the other guy had to be able to receive the call to begin with, but that was it. There was no setup or anything... but if I phoned someone that couldn't view video the call would disconnect. The iPhone might do better on that point.
Or more to the point why didn't they make it that small to big with. Since all the guy did was cutdown a normal SIM card!
My mom had a cell where you put in the entire credit card sized SIM, then came the smaller SIMs that you broke away from the "credit card". I'm guessing they made it that big simply because it's easier to handle big objects - rember that the target marked back then was butterfingered rich men.
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Eh? The Vikins had religion, not sure what it was but they had it. There was also some woman worshipping religion some 70 000 years ago so religion isn't anything new. It's been with use since before civilization.
Now the Christian religion might have been better than religions it replaced, but there's little truly reliable data on that subject.
Sure, the comps we have at work are likely slower than any G5 and work just fine as long as one stay away from flash heavy websites. However if I took one home it would be too noisy to use as a server, and I can't think of any other use. It pains me to throw away useful hardware, I got three working computers stashed away that will likely never see use again, but ever so often I have to face reality due to space constraints :-(
Unlike my computers a G5 will probably be worth quite a bit in 20-30 years though.
In those benchmarks the Core 2 was running Rosetta (a PPC emulator) so they're hardly a good measure for comparing G5 to Core 2 performance.
Why should I charge my phone every time I sit down? I charge it whenever I feel like it, and if it runs down so be it. A couple of days ago I gave it to some kids to play with, entertained them for hours but made it useless as I couldn't recharge it then and there - but big deal, didn't even consider that someone would be troubled by such events.
Recharging my cell is a PITA, I prefer to do it as little as possible. My MP3 player can play music for a day on a full charge, my cell only manages 8 hours. If I go on a trip I can leave the charger at home and listen to MP3 music all the way, if I just bring the phone I'll need to bring the charger unless it's a short trip - in which case I don't usualy bother with music anyway.
I've seen apps like that for PCs too, and used them at school, but a real calculator has real buttons and battery life measured in years (I changed batteries once during my six years of schooling). I can perfectly understand why someone wants to use a real calculator over a touch phone, and thus wants to hack them to work the way they want them to instead of hacking an android or pandora or whatever.
Go for HP then. (learn RPN!!)
IIRC HP quit the calculator business.
And even then, if I want to hack it, I'd go for a Palm or software in an iPhone/ Android. The processor and raphics in these things runs circles around calculators.
Sure, and a PC runs rings around Cell phones. That does not make them great calculators however, as it's the tiny math related buttons you want.
Time for discreet calculators is almost over.
Can't say I've had use for a discreet calculator since my school days, but there will probably always be a small market for 'em.
Wow that's a great idea, if only there were some futuristic operating system that kept apps self-contained inside a single icon of some sort... that could be drag and dropped from one place to another... you could put them side by side in the same folder and stick a version number at the end of the name then run whichever you wanted.
You can do this on Windows for most apps (it depends on how they're written) and there's no OS AFAIK that force its apps into a single folder (or icon as you put it - but encoding an app into an icon would be idiotic). On OSX most apps are delivered in a single folder, but it's not OS enforced and does not guarantee that you can run multiple versions of the app as it may still store it's settings/user data in such a way that they conflict.
Hey, just have the IDEs add "throws exception" to all the methods by default and those folks will be happy. We can then add longjmp() to temp to C holdouts to the embrace of Java, not like the IDE guys would figure out and abuse that call right?, and then finally multiple inheritance to bring in large swaths of old murky C++ code.
That's really too bad. I got the feeling that most coders think "get it done now" rather than "get it done right". It is probably the correct attitude to take, not like you get paid extra for clean code, but still....
IIS with .NET is a hell of a lot easier to configure and tune than Tomcat
I find LAMP easier still, also the main webapp I run at work can't run on ISS7 so I know it's not all green hils over there. Of course I've never written anything big enough to spend any significant time on tuning. Don't make too many DB queries is my general rule.
That said, LINQ is just incredible
I've been looking for some excuse to use LINQ in my code, but the closest I've come is lambda expressions. Do see the value though.
You're supposed to assume that all exceptions can be thrown from all code.
I disagree. I catch the general execeptions up in the code tree from where I will abort the whole opperation when they occur, putting my main focus on exceptions that are likely to be thrown - primarly on how they affect the user. Rare exceptions, even if an exception handeler can make a clean fix, are sent to the error box.
Checked exceptions also give you insight into the function that documentation often lacks. For instance I'm working on an app that connects to a database, the app have to work even when the database is down so it's nice to know which library method will cast database exceptions. It is not always obvious, had a recent bug where a method worked most of the time when the DB was down except for in certain circumstances stemming from an event handeler. In this case I wrote the library myself so I'm the one to blame, but oh well.
Java checked exceptions do absolutely nothing to help when you're working with dynamically-loaded code, for instance.
I did not know that.
It is a curious thought that it is not enough to know the meaning of words 300 years ago to understand texts from those days, but their emotional baggage as well. Wonder if there's any dictionary defining that.
Heh. On the subject of the revolutionary France. "The Committee for Public Safety" somehow managed to sound completely evil to me, even before knowing what they did.
Which is pretty much Visual Basic with Java syntax. I find Java source code a tad easier to read and Javadoc make C#'s cumbersome "compiled comments" look silly. Does Java still have checked exceptions in common use? In that case I envy you guys. Scratching my head over which exceptions can spew out of a library is annoying, even if checked exceptions can be annoying at times too.
I don't get the gesture hype myself. Opera started it back in the nineties and now it's on the track pads. It was one of the bullet point features on my laptop but I've only used it once or twice, there are quicker ways of scrolling and plenty of keyboard shortcuts.
The next step must be eye tracking. Use the webcam to see where your eyes are looking and scroll up and down ala middle click auto scroll. That's when we know we're in the future.
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/DeepZoom/Default.html
That photo was awesome. Wonder how they took it.
Oddly enough it ran better in IE8 than FF3.6.
Damn Vulnerable Linux
Finally the distro I'm been waiting for. I'm ditching Vista!
You most certainly can block it -- it resides nicely between two tags.
Will blocking the tag stop the underlying javascripts from running?
Will there be possible to have "CanvasBlock" on future browsers or are we stuck with CPU eating html5 animations?
But by the looks of things Apple has again, taken an idea that has been around for some time and made it easy enough to use that the level of convenience is nearly the same as a phone call.
??? On the last phone I tried video calling with it was no harder than making a normal phone call. Of course, I had to hold the phone so that it could film my face, and the other guy had to be able to receive the call to begin with, but that was it. There was no setup or anything... but if I phoned someone that couldn't view video the call would disconnect. The iPhone might do better on that point.
Looking at that chart I see that Power and Opteron is about equal in performance and number of systems. Curious.
I would like to see this graphic chart to include that...
They got 18% of the performance: http://www.top500.org/overtime/list/35/procfam
Sounds good, especially if you get to pick the PSN title
Sounds like a "book of the month" club to me. Just with games and no option to send games you don't want back.
Or more to the point why didn't they make it that small to big with. Since all the guy did was cutdown a normal SIM card!
My mom had a cell where you put in the entire credit card sized SIM, then came the smaller SIMs that you broke away from the "credit card". I'm guessing they made it that big simply because it's easier to handle big objects - rember that the target marked back then was butterfingered rich men.
Ahh, yeah. Over the air. Funny how I had forgotten it was possible to get TV that way :)