A lot of engineers have trouble with the problem "Staying employed during a recession." OOP is the cure - every bit of code you create is now unmanagable to your cow workers. As such, you can't be fired.
Re:Some theories on how to beat systems like this.
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10. Make like a person with a mild (or severe) disability, either mental or physical.
This would work now! I was waiting for 45 minuets in the Tampa airport security line this holiday, and over 5 obese people we weal chaired to the front of the line and allowed though after a helper stuck their crary-ons though the detectors. The fatties themselves weren't even hand checked with a wand because their wheel chairs were metal. These people we so fat that they could have stuck a bomb in one of their fat-rolls and nobody would notice.
The Lisa web server is pretty cool... But get this...
I've just barly managed to get an Microsoft Windows box to pretend it's a... FILESERVER. Nobody will beleive me 'cause I had to train a monkey to hit the reset button everytime the monitor flashes blue - so far the monkey is doing ok, but I'm afraid there isn't a enough time for him to eat. Poor monkey.
Next I'm going to attempt to turn my NetBSD Dreamcast into an Indreima video game console, and after that hopefully I can get my TRS-80 to fake three-voice sound by hooking up a speaker to the casette port, another speaker on the video out port and another speaker on the RS-232 port, on second thought, I should just go but a C-64.
Start your own consulting business by yourself.... The only problem for me, is when my boss sexualy herasses me whenever I'm alone with a fast internet conection....
If you have a problem with Nazi supporters in the US, you need to look to the right and not to the left.
FYI - The Nazi's got their nickname from their Greman party name, translated to the English as "National Socialist Party". The cheif hallmark of Socialism is that millions people wind up dead when ever a dictitorial Socialist takes power - see Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.
If you can't make it in America, the easiet place in the world to live and work, you deserve to starve. Period. You are unfit and need to be plucked out of the gene pool.
While we American fans of SF are still waiting for our flying cars and talking robots, our Russian friends are still waiting for their perpetual vodka stills and mutant psionic six-leged bears.
Hmm..
My experience was with the Win 3.1 GDI model. The stupid thing was so braindead that there were a finite amount of GDI 'Handles' that the computer had - fail to release a few and the stupid OS would crash. If you sent GDI commands to the bottom of the page while the top wasent finished, you'd run out of memory on the HP 500 Deskjet drivers. AFAIK - NT still has GDI crap, but then I wouldent really know as I've moved on to real operating systems and ditched the toys.
Because an encrypted file system is going to prevent the physical theft of your computer?
No, because most thefts are done by people who just pawn the stolen items. An enctryted file system would be enough to keep most not-important things secret. You would then restore from a backup, and file a report with your insurance.
If you are worried about theft, you can just stash it in a safe when you leave for work. Of course, if you're smart, you'd just buy a cheaper desktop computer and encrypt the filesystem.
A Wine printer layer would work well if we got to use the Microsoft drivers - those drivers are simple and to the point. Getting a Wine layer to work with manfactureres priter drivers would be hard, as most manufacturer drivers include the kitchen sink: Flashy dialog boxes, ink level applets, news paper delivery (I kid you not, some HP driver pacakges install software to deliver a newspaper to your printer every day)
I'm not sure how it would work though, as I understand it, you would have to have a buffer for the unix driver to print to and have your Wine app send 'bands' of info to the MS Widnows print driver, as the MS Windows print model was designed to work well with inkjet printer, you cant just send commands ad hoc to the driver to anypary of a page, you must send a complete bands of information to the driver in order from top to bottom. It's kinda of a kludge. But then we know we could expect the 'finest' from Microsoft.
Cool Tokyo phone can't work here.
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Those cool Japanese phones all have a problem - the are very low power and have tiny antennas, and they wont work away from builtup urban centers with *tons* of cell towers. They don't even work on some Japanese college campuses due to the fact that they don't allow cell towers, and yet the phone can't use the tower just a few blocks away. They are a lot of fun, but they just wont work in the American market.
Actually CE was designed for a range of processors
Microsoft is pusing all it's vendors to use StrongARM. The latest develement version of CE, is only StrongARM.
NT was also able to run on Alpha et al, but we all know how long that lasted. NT running on an Alpha was kinga like a dancing bear - you diden't judge it by how well it was dancing, it's just was amazing that it was a bear doing the dancing.
NIC's are cool - They x86 and the bios is not weird. Their CD-Rom is a laptop form factor, and the while thing is quite small. Their memory is normal 100 Mhz SDRAM (there's only one slot). Because there is no hard-drive, there is no swap space - adding 256 Megs helps, and if you burn your own Linux, you can get them to boot off a network.
My only gripe, is that the fans could be a *bit* quieter, and the keyoard is one of those stupid ones with all the extra 'internet' buttons. I just throw it away and use an normal one.
Good greif,
I love OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but I'd hate to have them take over the world. Diversity in computing is cool and fun. Would we really be happy if Linux took over the world? There'd be no more Amiga users to poke fun at;)
Anything that isn't Microsoft is getting shuffled out to pasture.
Even if things stay the same - we're having an effect. Examples - Unix TCP/IP is now the default network protocall for all desktop computers: We use to have NetBUI,AppleTalk, Banyan Vines, Novell IPX. Windows is getting being force to be more reliable - and Mozilla is helping keep the WWW from being a Microsoft company town.
Keep in mind that Microsoft's stock has gone sideways for the last year and a half, and Windows XP is selling less in it's first month than Windows 98 did.
Also - A new user to Mandrake 8.1 could do everything they could possible need using OpenSource/GPL software.
The educational market has been locked up by Apple and Microsoft - but people learn Java and C++ in programming classes, not MS C# . Nobody even bothers with VB much in class anymore.
The Windows monopoly has -won-. Buisnesses need Office,
Not my customers. For medium sized offies, a lot of my clinets are switching to FreeBSD for servers and OpenBSD for firewalls/email. Two of them (~25 seats) have switched to Linux on most of the desktops - we've been able to do this due to AbiWord and the fact that I do the GL/Invoing/JobCosting/etc database programming for them.
For small offices - Office, Quickbooks and Peer-To-Peer NetBios networking still is ok. Even some of them are starting to ask if thee are alternatived to the Microsoft Outlook/Windows bug of the week. Some have switched to Netscape 6.0 to get away fro Outlook/Outlook Express. Thinks are a changein' .
Always put the trademark SPAM in all capital letters.
Follow SPAM with "Luncheon Meat" or other descriptor. Remember, a trademark is a formal adjective and as such, should always be followed by a noun.
If you've been in computing you'd know that Mirosoft copied the name Windows from the windows metaphore for the GUI in OS-9 Level II that was available in 1982. See Microware.com for details.
"Windows" is a generic term for computing sonftware - just like "Office" is. Hell, there have been scores of vensors of the "X Widnows System" over the years.
The point of the spreadsheet is data analysis and presentation.
145 Excell docements sitting in a global "My Documents" folder on an NT SP6 'server' does not a business mangment system make.
Any business that locks in it's data and analysis into a speadsheet is asking to be put out of business when it's database driven competition can enter data asier and can retreive answers from the database with ease.
Hell - Qucik books is better a blob of Excell files.
but do you REALLY honestly feel Linux has better techsupport than MS products??
Linux and most open-source software doesen't *need* the tech support that MS software does. Here's an example: A clinet of mine was worried that replacing the NT server with OpenBSD/Samba would cause support probler - He was worried that he'd have to learn command line stuff. I told him, that once it's up an running, there's no need to even look at the box again. Two years of uptime later, the server is working great and the keyboard and mouse that are attached to it have a nice thick layer of dust on them. With NT, he would have to learn how to reboot the thing every week.
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The only benifit that I can see for GTK vs QT is that GTK is LGPL and QT is GPL.
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/new-downloads. html
is a good starting point. GTK makes a good attempt at cross platform - I've had better luck with QT myself though. YMMV.
i don't think GTK has done anything except make it look better,
The coolist things about GTK are #1 - It's Free (Speach) and #2 It's cross platform (Unix, Max and Win32)
A lot of engineers have trouble with the problem "Staying employed during a recession." OOP is the cure - every bit of code you create is now unmanagable to your cow workers. As such, you can't be fired.
10. Make like a person with a mild (or severe) disability, either mental or physical.
This would work now! I was waiting for 45 minuets in the Tampa airport security line this holiday, and over 5 obese people we weal chaired to the front of the line and allowed though after a helper stuck their crary-ons though the detectors. The fatties themselves weren't even hand checked with a wand because their wheel chairs were metal. These people we so fat that they could have stuck a bomb in one of their fat-rolls and nobody would notice.
The Lisa web server is pretty cool... But get this...
... FILESERVER. Nobody will beleive me 'cause I had to train a monkey to hit the reset button everytime the monitor flashes blue - so far the monkey is doing ok, but I'm afraid there isn't a enough time for him to eat. Poor monkey.
I've just barly managed to get an Microsoft Windows box to pretend it's a
Next I'm going to attempt to turn my NetBSD Dreamcast into an Indreima video game console, and after that hopefully I can get my TRS-80 to fake three-voice sound by hooking up a speaker to the casette port, another speaker on the video out port and another speaker on the RS-232 port, on second thought, I should just go but a C-64.
Start your own consulting business by yourself.... The only problem for me, is when my boss sexualy herasses me whenever I'm alone with a fast internet conection....
If you have a problem with Nazi supporters in the US, you need to look to the right and not to the left.
FYI - The Nazi's got their nickname from their Greman party name, translated to the English as "National Socialist Party". The cheif hallmark of Socialism is that millions people wind up dead when ever a dictitorial Socialist takes power - see Stalin, Mao, and Hitler.
If you can't make it in America, the easiet place in the world to live and work, you deserve to starve. Period. You are unfit and need to be plucked out of the gene pool.
While we American fans of SF are still waiting for our flying cars and talking robots, our Russian friends are still waiting for their perpetual vodka stills and mutant psionic six-leged bears.
Hmm..
My experience was with the Win 3.1 GDI model. The stupid thing was so braindead that there were a finite amount of GDI 'Handles' that the computer had - fail to release a few and the stupid OS would crash. If you sent GDI commands to the bottom of the page while the top wasent finished, you'd run out of memory on the HP 500 Deskjet drivers. AFAIK - NT still has GDI crap, but then I wouldent really know as I've moved on to real operating systems and ditched the toys.
Because an encrypted file system is going to prevent the physical theft of your computer?
No, because most thefts are done by people who just pawn the stolen items. An enctryted file system would be enough to keep most not-important things secret. You would then restore from a backup, and file a report with your insurance.
If you are worried about theft, you can just stash it in a safe when you leave for work. Of course, if you're smart, you'd just buy a cheaper desktop computer and encrypt the filesystem.
A Wine printer layer would work well if we got to use the Microsoft drivers - those drivers are simple and to the point. Getting a Wine layer to work with manfactureres priter drivers would be hard, as most manufacturer drivers include the kitchen sink: Flashy dialog boxes, ink level applets, news paper delivery (I kid you not, some HP driver pacakges install software to deliver a newspaper to your printer every day)
I'm not sure how it would work though, as I understand it, you would have to have a buffer for the unix driver to print to and have your Wine app send 'bands' of info to the MS Widnows print driver, as the MS Windows print model was designed to work well with inkjet printer, you cant just send commands ad hoc to the driver to anypary of a page, you must send a complete bands of information to the driver in order from top to bottom. It's kinda of a kludge. But then we know we could expect the 'finest' from Microsoft.
Those cool Japanese phones all have a problem - the are very low power and have tiny antennas, and they wont work away from builtup urban centers with *tons* of cell towers. They don't even work on some Japanese college campuses due to the fact that they don't allow cell towers, and yet the phone can't use the tower just a few blocks away. They are a lot of fun, but they just wont work in the American market.
Actually CE was designed for a range of processors
Microsoft is pusing all it's vendors to use StrongARM. The latest develement version of CE, is only StrongARM.
NT was also able to run on Alpha et al, but we all know how long that lasted. NT running on an Alpha was kinga like a dancing bear - you diden't judge it by how well it was dancing, it's just was amazing that it was a bear doing the dancing.
NT on an Alpha was just a waste of a good Alpha.
NIC's are cool - They x86 and the bios is not weird. Their CD-Rom is a laptop form factor, and the while thing is quite small. Their memory is normal 100 Mhz SDRAM (there's only one slot). Because there is no hard-drive, there is no swap space - adding 256 Megs helps, and if you burn your own Linux, you can get them to boot off a network.
My only gripe, is that the fans could be a *bit* quieter, and the keyoard is one of those stupid ones with all the extra 'internet' buttons. I just throw it away and use an normal one.
Good greif, ;)
I love OpenBSD and FreeBSD, but I'd hate to have them take over the world. Diversity in computing is cool and fun. Would we really be happy if Linux took over the world? There'd be no more Amiga users to poke fun at
Anything that isn't Microsoft is getting shuffled out to pasture.
Even if things stay the same - we're having an effect. Examples - Unix TCP/IP is now the default network protocall for all desktop computers: We use to have NetBUI,AppleTalk, Banyan Vines, Novell IPX. Windows is getting being force to be more reliable - and Mozilla is helping keep the WWW from being a Microsoft company town.
Keep in mind that Microsoft's stock has gone sideways for the last year and a half, and Windows XP is selling less in it's first month than Windows 98 did.
Also - A new user to Mandrake 8.1 could do everything they could possible need using OpenSource/GPL software.
The educational market has been locked up by Apple and Microsoft - but people learn Java and C++ in programming classes, not MS C# . Nobody even bothers with VB much in class anymore.
I think things are going ok, not great, but ok.
The Windows monopoly has -won-. Buisnesses need Office,
Not my customers. For medium sized offies, a lot of my clinets are switching to FreeBSD for servers and OpenBSD for firewalls/email. Two of them (~25 seats) have switched to Linux on most of the desktops - we've been able to do this due to AbiWord and the fact that I do the GL/Invoing/JobCosting/etc database programming for them.
For small offices - Office, Quickbooks and Peer-To-Peer NetBios networking still is ok. Even some of them are starting to ask if thee are alternatived to the Microsoft Outlook/Windows bug of the week. Some have switched to Netscape 6.0 to get away fro Outlook/Outlook Express. Thinks are a changein' .
In Trademark law, a company is requires to use it's bran as an adjective.
Examples:
Spam brand Lunch Meat.
Fritos brand Corn Chips.
Chevrolet Motor Division.
By failing to use their trademark in this manor, Microsoft is treading on thin ice.
From our frinds at Hormel:
Proper Trademark Use Guidelines. http://www.spam.com/hp/hp_lg.htm
Always put the trademark SPAM in all capital letters.
Follow SPAM with "Luncheon Meat" or other descriptor. Remember, a trademark is a formal adjective and as such, should always be followed by a noun.
"Windows" is such a ubiquitous name
If you've been in computing you'd know that Mirosoft copied the name Windows from the windows metaphore for the GUI in OS-9 Level II that was available in 1982. See Microware.com for details.
"Windows" is a generic term for computing sonftware - just like "Office" is. Hell, there have been scores of vensors of the "X Widnows System" over the years.
Instead of measuring Linux vs MS in desktop use, lets measure them but the criterea of brain power.
.2% * 200 (IQ) = 100 Points
.2 * 6801 (IQ) = 1360 Points
Lets see:
(Numbers pulled out of me bum)
Microsoft
Windows 98 : 45% * 56 (IQ) = 2520 Points
Windows XP : 3% * 3 (IQ) =9 Points
Windows NT SP 1,2,3,4,5 and 6: 11 * 90 (IQ) = 990
Other
Linux : 1% * 140 (IQ) = 140 Points
Emacs :
Tenet On Port 80:
Amiga, OS/2, Be, Ti/99a, C64: 1 * 201 = 201 Points
Windows Users Behind a Unix Firewall 'cause Windows Has Bugs and Sucurity Holes: 38 * 57 = 2166 Points
Thus, one can see the 'Other' represents more brain power than the Windows crowd.
The point of the spreadsheet is data analysis and presentation.
145 Excell docements sitting in a global "My Documents" folder on an NT SP6 'server' does not a business mangment system make.
Any business that locks in it's data and analysis into a speadsheet is asking to be put out of business when it's database driven competition can enter data asier and can retreive answers from the database with ease.
Hell - Qucik books is better a blob of Excell files.
but do you REALLY honestly feel Linux has better techsupport than MS products??
Linux and most open-source software doesen't *need* the tech support that MS software does. Here's an example: A clinet of mine was worried that replacing the NT server with OpenBSD/Samba would cause support probler - He was worried that he'd have to learn command line stuff. I told him, that once it's up an running, there's no need to even look at the box again. Two years of uptime later, the server is working great and the keyboard and mouse that are attached to it have a nice thick layer of dust on them. With NT, he would have to learn how to reboot the thing every week.