1. One time pads
2. Easy to code your own software with the information available right now
3. Software from non-US countries
4. Code languages of different kinds
And just so you know, the blueberries are ripe on the east side of endor...
Hmm, does that mean that Microsoft employees are encouraged to surf as much pr0n as possible, so that they can make sure the pages hasn't been done with frontpage? Call me mad, but it sounds like a pretty sweet arrangement ^_^
More seriously, does USA lack a govermental branch which deals with the rights of its citizens? Free speech? Almost all of us wants to get rid of all the terror and hate in the world, but it would be a terrible price to pay to turn west into the Taliban regime to achieve the goal...
I would suspect that cancelling software projects is far more comman than might be suspected. Releasing software could indeed cost more than canning it, especially if it doesn't at sell or break a lot.
What could make the game industry slightly different is the high make it or break it factor for small software houses. They simply can't afford to can a project and put yet another two three years into the next game.
So the moral of the story? The trick is to have people with a sense of what would see on your team, plus good planning and all the software engineering spiffiness.
Stop caring about the office suite, stop care about whatever Microsoft might be doing. Do something on your own, don't expect changes take place quickly. Heck, there is an opportunity here to do what you want, and all people can do is whine in one way or another (much like myself I must admit, even if I am a software engineer during day time).
It is definitly time to design something new, and implement it well. The net also gives a great opportunity for several different people, who would never meet otherwise, to colaborate. Look at KDE (the team, not the code) team and how well they are doing. More of that!
Microsoft is just about to release the XBox, and already talk about the successor/set top box version/pr0n machine/whatever. Remember the PS2? Remember the rumors about PS3? If you guys aren't satisfied with that is comming our way, live with the fact that there won't be a super machine just around the corner...
I do agree to some degree there. It's the whole mess with vtables/BC etc makes it really hard to not break something in new versions.
But as far as *BSD/Linux goes, it's no problem, just make sure the new version goes into a new version of the distributions, there are things that break everything all the time, but as long as you recompile the whole thing, it's fine.
I guess I am fairly late into the fray, but if I may add my humble opinion, I think it's in the field of debugging that graphical environments make more of a difference.
Most text editors gives you a way to start a shell command, which often is make or similar. It's all about giving you the tools you need, and my personal taste is that I don't want to know everything about the command line options, I want the gui to give me what I need.
Not entirely true. There are a lot of fiber in Sweden that was put there, for good reasons, by the goverment. While I agree that the digital TV thing in Sweden sucks beyond belif, the fiber that were put down beside the railways and in large cities.
The best is if the goverment puts down the fiber, but they don't handle what information goes through the fiber. Handling an infrastructure of this size is nothing the industry can handle right now. Just look at "bredbandsbolaget", how well is the private sector handle it? It's the same with Telia, they should only have handled the infrastructure, owned by the state, and all the services should have become a separate new company, owned by private investors.
If you got a high speed connection, download direct connect and get access to a bunch of DVD rips. When are they going to try to produce something competitive? When are they going to start to _SELL_ instead of try to stop people without much funds anyway for "stealing".
Why always screw it up for the consumer?
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Take a look at europe, the mobile industry work great. I can SMS to anyone I want that has a mobile, and the other way around. I can use the same phone with any carrier, even go to another carriers pre paid services. In other words, the US carriers suck ass. Isn't it time this is sorted out? And not only that, look at regions for DVDs... I let it as an exercise for the readers of slashdot to complete my list.
I recommend that everyone complain, time for the people to sue MPAA, carriers, spammers, telemarketers, and everyone else who only makes our lives less enjoyable...
Didn't you know that capitalism is a virus. Everything else you need some revolution or an army to stay, but sooner or later capitalism takes over anyway. Can I buy some shares in capitalism soon?
What's next? M$IOS, which automatically installs the next version of windows and charges your credit card? In the race for money today, it seems that screwing over the customers is looked upon as good buisiness sense...
Either the content providers (AOL-Time Warner) or the big ass OS manufacturer desides. Hmm, no matter what, there is ONE standard, most certainly not open, that is going to be pushed onto the web etc etc etc. I just say, we loose. I use windows, but I still loose with this. This is just one little step towards the next step, a controlled and censored media (internet, newspapers, TV, radio, etc)...
Open standards for content is much much more important than bitching about Microsoft Windows. I just wished I could tell you all how to fix this...
This is since they have been thinking when they made NeXTStep which grew into OpenStep and then MacOS X (iStep? MacStep? NextMac? ^_^). To the user, there is one icon == one application. Can it be more simple? I love this, it's great.
What I don't know is how they fix the libraries that are shared... that is still a problem, a big one, and nobody seems to want to fix it. Some try to manage it, but that is seldom a way forward.
There are a bunch of interesting versions out there, XHTML, WAP, iMode (isn't this just a special version of HTML anyways?), you name it. It's just a question of when they will find the right combo at the right time.
You are asking yourself one question, which language should be thought in school. But you should ask yourself two questions. First, which language should one learn to get a job? C/C++, get some added OOP and then Java. Best way of knowing how to code in a work environment.
Then you have the question, which language for teaching OOP. That is a tougher question, since there are a lot more real OO languages out there than most knows about. I have no specific choices to give you, but I know that C++/Java can not teach you OO fully, if you think so, you have fooled yourself greatly. And I will bet that you really do not know OO.<BR>
OO is quite an advanced concept, and takes quite a lot of time to understand. It's still more academic than industry adopted, but it is VERY VERY cool when you finally start to understand it. I wish I had more time to learn even more, but I have to code C++ since that is what I am paid for.<BR><BR>
<LI>Good idea, done right it could really help the mess that is today know as the web. It's close to impossible to find anything sometimes. It's always easier with companies and sites such as sourceforge or freshmeat, but in general it's a far cry from easy to find information out there. How many times have your searches in google or altavista given you nothing?
<LI>The idea done wrong. XHTML, etc should have been extended etc. And to me it seems like the idea is driven by "how can we make more money?"...
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Nasubi was obviously fairly suited for such an ordeal, but how about someone from a western country? Someone overweight? Would our western psyche be able to handle the stress? Because one thing that I am certain of, is that people will watch it, many people even. It's more extreme than "Operation Robinson" even though it lacks the "I don't have a life or interesting friends so I will watch morons on TV instead" genre headed by shows like Big Brother.
The second question, would the amount of competitions in the wester hemisphere be enough? Would it even be easier? Would they do a complete internet based version? Only prizes won online would be ok? When I think of it, maybe they should choose a girl for the next show ^_^
It is all well to speak about how bad all the ISPs are (and I belive you), and it is all well to fear an internet where a few players can control what we are allowed to see (this is definitly the biggest threat in america today). But why not channel all that somewhere better?
We all know modems suck, and ADSL(etc) has been slow in getting here, sometimes not working well, etc. So what would be better? Fiber backbone and ethernet (10Mbit/s is enough for most, but 100Mbit/s is just as cheap). Yeah right, troll, I can hear a storm of moderators scream. But then you are kidding yourself. Take a look at the RSN student network for example (the link is in Swedish, sorry folks).
What was done (back in 95/96 sometime) was that we got the feed from the school and got our own equipment through sponsorships of different kinds. We had our own very nice network. And when the students move away, they just don't think a modem is useful anymore. So what they do is that they nag on their land lords, and want them to hook their houses up to the local fiber (Sweden got tons of fiber, write your congrassman on dead threes and complain if you feel inferior:)) and they put a switch and TP cabels in. Add a modest fee per month and you got a great connection, which is totally free of AOL and you can browse in which ever browser you want. Great huh?
So, all of you slashdotters out there, who hate their modem and fear AOL, go nag on your land lords, tell them how much better people would like them and how people would want to move into their appartments if there is fiber there. Make your city put fiber all over town, go out do something.
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No XScale, no BT as standard. I guess the other rumours were untrue. I wonder when they will come with MPEG1/2/4 decoders as standard;)
1. One time pads
2. Easy to code your own software with the information available right now
3. Software from non-US countries
4. Code languages of different kinds
And just so you know, the blueberries are ripe on the east side of endor...
Hmm, does that mean that Microsoft employees are encouraged to surf as much pr0n as possible, so that they can make sure the pages hasn't been done with frontpage? Call me mad, but it sounds like a pretty sweet arrangement ^_^
More seriously, does USA lack a govermental branch which deals with the rights of its citizens? Free speech? Almost all of us wants to get rid of all the terror and hate in the world, but it would be a terrible price to pay to turn west into the Taliban regime to achieve the goal...
I would suspect that cancelling software projects is far more comman than might be suspected. Releasing software could indeed cost more than canning it, especially if it doesn't at sell or break a lot.
What could make the game industry slightly different is the high make it or break it factor for small software houses. They simply can't afford to can a project and put yet another two three years into the next game.
So the moral of the story? The trick is to have people with a sense of what would see on your team, plus good planning and all the software engineering spiffiness.
Stop caring about the office suite, stop care about whatever Microsoft might be doing. Do something on your own, don't expect changes take place quickly. Heck, there is an opportunity here to do what you want, and all people can do is whine in one way or another (much like myself I must admit, even if I am a software engineer during day time).
It is definitly time to design something new, and implement it well. The net also gives a great opportunity for several different people, who would never meet otherwise, to colaborate. Look at KDE (the team, not the code) team and how well they are doing. More of that!
Took three days to declare war after Pearl Harbour (corect me if I am wrong)...
Microsoft is just about to release the XBox, and already talk about the successor/set top box version/pr0n machine/whatever. Remember the PS2? Remember the rumors about PS3? If you guys aren't satisfied with that is comming our way, live with the fact that there won't be a super machine just around the corner...
I do agree to some degree there. It's the whole mess with vtables/BC etc makes it really hard to not break something in new versions.
But as far as *BSD/Linux goes, it's no problem, just make sure the new version goes into a new version of the distributions, there are things that break everything all the time, but as long as you recompile the whole thing, it's fine.
I guess I am fairly late into the fray, but if I may add my humble opinion, I think it's in the field of debugging that graphical environments make more of a difference.
Most text editors gives you a way to start a shell command, which often is make or similar. It's all about giving you the tools you need, and my personal taste is that I don't want to know everything about the command line options, I want the gui to give me what I need.
Take a peak at IKEA's line of office furniture, they can be extended quite a lot, and then you can just add whatever comes to mind:)
Not entirely true. There are a lot of fiber in Sweden that was put there, for good reasons, by the goverment. While I agree that the digital TV thing in Sweden sucks beyond belif, the fiber that were put down beside the railways and in large cities.
The best is if the goverment puts down the fiber, but they don't handle what information goes through the fiber. Handling an infrastructure of this size is nothing the industry can handle right now. Just look at "bredbandsbolaget", how well is the private sector handle it? It's the same with Telia, they should only have handled the infrastructure, owned by the state, and all the services should have become a separate new company, owned by private investors.
If you got a high speed connection, download direct connect and get access to a bunch of DVD rips. When are they going to try to produce something competitive? When are they going to start to _SELL_ instead of try to stop people without much funds anyway for "stealing".
Take a look at europe, the mobile industry work great. I can SMS to anyone I want that has a mobile, and the other way around. I can use the same phone with any carrier, even go to another carriers pre paid services. In other words, the US carriers suck ass. Isn't it time this is sorted out? And not only that, look at regions for DVDs... I let it as an exercise for the readers of slashdot to complete my list.
I recommend that everyone complain, time for the people to sue MPAA, carriers, spammers, telemarketers, and everyone else who only makes our lives less enjoyable...
Didn't you know that capitalism is a virus. Everything else you need some revolution or an army to stay, but sooner or later capitalism takes over anyway. Can I buy some shares in capitalism soon?
Sarcasm or criticising society? You decide;)What's next? M$IOS, which automatically installs the next version of windows and charges your credit card? In the race for money today, it seems that screwing over the customers is looked upon as good buisiness sense...
This reminds me of a certain book by Neal Stephenson ^_^ Anyone who could guess which? ^_^
//John
Either the content providers (AOL-Time Warner) or the big ass OS manufacturer desides. Hmm, no matter what, there is ONE standard, most certainly not open, that is going to be pushed onto the web etc etc etc. I just say, we loose. I use windows, but I still loose with this. This is just one little step towards the next step, a controlled and censored media (internet, newspapers, TV, radio, etc)...
Open standards for content is much much more important than bitching about Microsoft Windows. I just wished I could tell you all how to fix this...
This is since they have been thinking when they made NeXTStep which grew into OpenStep and then MacOS X (iStep? MacStep? NextMac? ^_^). To the user, there is one icon == one application. Can it be more simple? I love this, it's great.
What I don't know is how they fix the libraries that are shared... that is still a problem, a big one, and nobody seems to want to fix it. Some try to manage it, but that is seldom a way forward.
*laughs* Just read the manual backwards for the same effect ^_^
There are a bunch of interesting versions out there, XHTML, WAP, iMode (isn't this just a special version of HTML anyways?), you name it. It's just a question of when they will find the right combo at the right time.
You are asking yourself one question, which language should be thought in school. But you should ask yourself two questions. First, which language should one learn to get a job? C/C++, get some added OOP and then Java. Best way of knowing how to code in a work environment.
Then you have the question, which language for teaching OOP. That is a tougher question, since there are a lot more real OO languages out there than most knows about. I have no specific choices to give you, but I know that C++/Java can not teach you OO fully, if you think so, you have fooled yourself greatly. And I will bet that you really do not know OO.<BR>
OO is quite an advanced concept, and takes quite a lot of time to understand. It's still more academic than industry adopted, but it is VERY VERY cool when you finally start to understand it. I wish I had more time to learn even more, but I have to code C++ since that is what I am paid for.<BR><BR>
//John
<LI>Good idea, done right it could really help the mess that is today know as the web. It's close to impossible to find anything sometimes. It's always easier with companies and sites such as sourceforge or freshmeat, but in general it's a far cry from easy to find information out there. How many times have your searches in google or altavista given you nothing?
<LI>The idea done wrong. XHTML, etc should have been extended etc. And to me it seems like the idea is driven by "how can we make more money?"...
</OL>
The idea is to let more than one radar recieve the output from any other radar in the system. Voila, found the bugger.
Besides, there *must* be something better we can do with our time than first hiding machines of mass destruction, and then try to find them...
Nasubi was obviously fairly suited for such an ordeal, but how about someone from a western country? Someone overweight? Would our western psyche be able to handle the stress? Because one thing that I am certain of, is that people will watch it, many people even. It's more extreme than "Operation Robinson" even though it lacks the "I don't have a life or interesting friends so I will watch morons on TV instead" genre headed by shows like Big Brother.
The second question, would the amount of competitions in the wester hemisphere be enough? Would it even be easier? Would they do a complete internet based version? Only prizes won online would be ok? When I think of it, maybe they should choose a girl for the next show ^_^
It is all well to speak about how bad all the ISPs are (and I belive you), and it is all well to fear an internet where a few players can control what we are allowed to see (this is definitly the biggest threat in america today). But why not channel all that somewhere better?
We all know modems suck, and ADSL(etc) has been slow in getting here, sometimes not working well, etc. So what would be better? Fiber backbone and ethernet (10Mbit/s is enough for most, but 100Mbit/s is just as cheap). Yeah right, troll, I can hear a storm of moderators scream. But then you are kidding yourself. Take a look at the RSN student network for example (the link is in Swedish, sorry folks).
What was done (back in 95/96 sometime) was that we got the feed from the school and got our own equipment through sponsorships of different kinds. We had our own very nice network. And when the students move away, they just don't think a modem is useful anymore. So what they do is that they nag on their land lords, and want them to hook their houses up to the local fiber (Sweden got tons of fiber, write your congrassman on dead threes and complain if you feel inferior:)) and they put a switch and TP cabels in. Add a modest fee per month and you got a great connection, which is totally free of AOL and you can browse in which ever browser you want. Great huh?
So, all of you slashdotters out there, who hate their modem and fear AOL, go nag on your land lords, tell them how much better people would like them and how people would want to move into their appartments if there is fiber there. Make your city put fiber all over town, go out do something.