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[Izack]

I've never really been a person who focused a lot on lyrics*. IMO, the best part is the melody and voice.

*sometimes, I did, but not that often

Fair enough, and I agree on most counts. But some of the Vocaloid pieces out there certainly beat the (generally speaking) shallow, meaningless and unrelateable lyrics the radio spews. (Subjective, of course - enough people seem to like those, and we're hardly typical people as far as taste goes.)

And some people would like to add the caboose to the list of best parts, apparently. :lol:

 

[Mattyv]

The College of Engineering extending a warm welcome to prospective students:lol:

 

[TMac3000]

The College of Engineering extending a warm welcome to prospective students:lol:

Welcome back, Matty

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And some people would like to add the caboose to the list of best parts, apparently. :lol:

Damn right!For a hologram, that little gal sure can shake it:thumbup:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I don't know guys... If I were to get hung up on an animated character, I think I'd choose Dr. Ross from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Or maybe Lana or Cheryl from Archer (of maybe Lana and Cheryl, but I don't think Lana would go for it).

 

[Quick_Nick]

The College of Engineering extending a warm welcome to prospective students:lol:

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Problem accessing /service/home/~/IMAG0042.jpg. Reason:

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[n122vu]

 

[Mattyv]

HTTP ERROR 404
Problem accessing /service/home/~/IMAG0042.jpg. Reason:

must authenticate

Whoops, you're right.

 

[garyw]

Worked fine here. Even raised a smile

I might have to do a 'turn back now!!' on the whiteboards in our meeting rooms :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Sometimes I think, that the people who develop Java try to make it a more infamous version of C++:

• If you try to access a file inside a .jar archive in Windows, it ignores capitalization.
• If you try that in UNIX/Linux, it cares for capitalization and makes silent errors.

Why can't they make the behavior in their own file format really operation system independent? Why let even such kind of existing code be legal?

Is a bit annoying, if you have a logger configuration file (log4J2.xml) working under Windows despite you having done a small error (Log4J2.xml), while under Linux, the configuration is not found and only default logging is used.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Sometimes I think, that the people who develop Java try to make it a more infamous version of C++:

• If you try to access a file inside a .jar archive in Windows, it ignores capitalization.
• If you try that in UNIX/Linux, it cares for capitalization and makes silent errors.

Why can't they make the behavior in their own file format really operation system independent? Why let even such kind of existing code be legal?

Is a bit annoying, if you have a logger configuration file (log4J2.xml) working under Windows despite you having done a small error (Log4J2.xml), while under Linux, the configuration is not found and only default logging is used.

Sounds like a good excuse for me to give up on Java and focus on C(++)... :rofl:

 

[Urwumpe]

Sounds like a good excuse for me to give up on Java and focus on C(++)... :rofl:

I wish I could do that that easily. :lol:

But first of all, Java still has some many advantages, especially if you like programming Rich Clients. Second, programming Java pays my extremely expensive hobbies.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

I saw our Gary tweeting about crappy rail services in Kent. Is it really THAT bad in Britain? :huh:

 

[TMac3000]

Put some memory in my computer over the weekend, upping it to 2 GB. The difference is quite impressive

 

[Urwumpe]

Put some memory in my computer over the weekend, upping it to 2 GB. The difference is quite impressive

I have 16 GB now. And still no software to use it. :lol::lol::lol: I hope for paraview.

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I saw our Gary tweeting about crappy rail services in Kent. Is it really THAT bad in Britain? :huh:

Yes. By all that I have heard and what I learned comparing it to German rail... yes. German rail is already annoying, but generally works if you adopt to its quirks. It is not the Swiss Rail.

 

[MattBaker]

I have 16 GB now. And still no software to use it. :lol::lol::lol: I hope for paraview.

Is there some software in your kind of work that uses up this much?
Because I've never used more than 6 GB...

 

[TMac3000]

My friend's computer is a AlienWare with 16 GB. Nobody really needs that much memory, but it's nice to have

 

[Urwumpe]

Is there some software in your kind of work that uses up this much?
Because I've never used more than 6 GB...

Yes, many kinds of software. Alone the CFD solvers are happy with more, regardless which kind of more. More CPUs, more RAM, more GPU, more network, more HDD...all more. And already the preparation of the data for the simulation can be very hardware-demanding, like generating the voxels or partitioning the model volume for the number of CPUs.

And the post-processing software, like EnSight or Paraview can also be pretty demanding, depending on the size of the simulation results.

The current workstations here have Linux, 2x Hexacore CPUs, dual Quadro GPUs and 48 - 96 GB RAM.

 

[n122vu]

My friend's computer is a AlienWare with 16 GB. Nobody really needs that much memory, but it's nice to have

My desktop (Acer Predator) also has 16GB. No one program has even scratched the surface yet, but I can have a few machines going in Virtual Box and not bat an eye. :thumbup:

 

[Linguofreak]

Sometimes I think, that the people who develop Java try to make it a more infamous version of C++:

• If you try to access a file inside a .jar archive in Windows, it ignores capitalization.
• If you try that in UNIX/Linux, it cares for capitalization and makes silent errors.

Why can't they make the behavior in their own file format really operation system independent? Why let even such kind of existing code be legal?

Probably it's trying to be consistent with the way the system it's running on deals with files (Windows ignores capitalization, Unices have case-sensitive filenames). I suppose they could make it always case sensitive, but then you'd have some Windows developers finding that their code broke when they jarred it. Or they could make it always case insensitive, but then you'd have the potential for stuff to break if extracted from a jar on a *n?x (plus, Java itself is case-sensitive).

 

[Eccentrus]

OMG I do really have to buy another 4 GB for my laptop