Yep, I gave it a shot and the performance/quality was lacking. But, valve has a pretty solid history and if they are really committed to platform I think the long-term could be pretty good. We'll see if it makes financial sense for them to tough it out.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Sounds like a good day on the 635 in Dallas )

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Christian Graus wrote:

The jack is, according to the manual, under the back seat. No part of the manual tells me how to lift the back seat. I've been trying to lift it for a good 30 min and can't work it out.

On our old toyota 4runner there was a cloth strap I could pull to lift the seat.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Can you prove this fact? I've know many women that completely out work their male counterparts.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

My wife sees this. She works very hard (harder than I'd ever work) and is sincerely the smartest person I have ever known. She has worked at the same big company for 14 years as an engineer & technical fellow and there has always been a salary discrepancy. Not a huge one but enough to get her upset when she ends picking up the slack for others because she is the type of person that gets things done.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Christian Graus wrote:

Has ANYONE had a positive experience with an electrician or a plumber ?

Sure. I have a complete kick ass plumber that I use. But, it took me a long time and two small claims lawsuits to find him. Not to toot my own horn, but I used to teach electronics classes so unless it is a big job I do my own wiring.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Michel Godfroid wrote:

Still, even if invented elsewhere, not a lot of this stuff seems to make it to Linux distro's ?

It does, like on windows it doesn't get the press. No one talked about the improvements to the networking stack or the NTFS between win2k and XP but those of us who cared knew all about it.

Michel Godfroid wrote:

The UI stuff is usually done by the distro vendors, who use it to market THEIR distro, but in the meantime I don't see a lot happening on the kernel side of things.

Actually, there is some statistic out there in the wild that states that the preponderance of the kernel land work is being done by the distributions (SuSE, RedHat, Canonical) but for some reason it doesn't get the press they way KDE and Gtk do. Personally, I don't care for any of that stuff.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Don't move the goal posts. You claimed that MS was the one innovating the low level stuff when really it had already been done in one form or another before NT was even usable (Win2K). Your example of innovation with transaction NTFS is still not completely honest since transactional/atomic operations on a file system is hardly novel; what NTFS did that was cool imo was allow it to span disks and machines easily but still hardly new.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Michel Godfroid wrote:

microkernel

Mach? BSD?

Michel Godfroid wrote:

UAC

OS X has had a UAC equivalent that works since 10.1. *nix systems have had the lovely and effective sudo forever.

Michel Godfroid wrote:

introduced (and reworked) volume shadow services

LVM snapshots?

Michel Godfroid wrote:

Address Space Layout Randomization

BSD[^]

Michel Godfroid wrote:

bitlocker

Hordes of other OSs have had full disk encryption long before bitlocker.

Michel Godfroid wrote:

powershell

:) Bash, zsh

Michel Godfroid wrote:

Transactional NTFS

Journaling File-systems introduced transactions in the 90s. BeOs had a particularly awesome file system for the time.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Yep, the Board of Hp jumped the shark with the Lou Platt hire. I guess he couldn't screw things up fast enough for them.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Fabio Franco wrote:

[Edit:] It seems rave parties means lots of different things in many regions. This is how it is here (on the big parties, there are also smaller parties called PVTs, for friends and friends of friends): http://img.datatravel.com.br/galeriasV2/Operadoras/1/Pacotes/xxxperience.jpg\[^\]

Looks like fun. But, I've never cared for techno or trance so I don't think I've ever been to a rave.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

My wife got me a kindle last christmas and it was slicker than grease but, the DRM on the ebooks was too restrictive so I returned it.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

I spend a lot of times on plans but I still have no interest in an ebook reader. I'm just too old fashioned about owning the books that I buy. Everything I've read so far indicates that the drm prevents gifting, lending, trading and re-selling of the books. I wish I was wrong because they seem like nifty gizmos (my wife got me a kindle but I sent if back because of the aforementioned drm limitations)

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Versioning is for the weak of memory.

That would be me. :) As my wife likes to teas me the most common phrase I say to her is "What are we taking about?"

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Delete it and preserve the history in your revision control system. Lots of commented out code looks extremely unprofessional in a production code base IMO.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

leppie wrote:

An evaporation cooler is 'better' and a lot easier to make.

But I want a LASER!!! :)

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Personally, I'd love to see Doppler Cooling[^]. I have a neighbor with a bird house and me and those birds have a reckoning coming.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

I hit this wall with the steaming pile of poo that was VS 2005 and, their refusal to deal with existing issues on VS 2003. I haven't used a MS tool or technology for my business since mid 2006. I don't hate them or feel entitled but, I just don't need their products.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

Yep the novelty wears off pretty quickly.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

My house is powered by solar and battery back-ups. So, there was no point.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell