They work with DirectX and now OpenGL on Windows with Nvidia cards. For about $50 you can get the wireless ones. They fit nicely over glasses (as I can confirm!). they also do a browser plug in so you can view.jps files in 3d too.
well worth $50 i can tell ya. Need For Speed rocks even more in 3d .oO0Oo.
buttons that don't indicated their use before you mouse over them! This means you don't know which elements are buttons and which are graphics. Very poor design.
Try using it without a mouse.
html for design, yeah right.
It's such an unbelievable BAD choice for UI.
The overhead for creating the simplest UI elements far outweighs the slight benefit of having a document holder already built for you.
Cascading menus for instance, or print previews or file dialogs, colour pickers, sliders, spin controls etc. etc. etc. .oO0Oo.
Borland has been of interest for a while due to the on/off Corel merger.
Borland has been a respected developer of Windows tools and an early competitor to MS and took a beating for their efforts.
Like it or not there are many Windows users and programmers who would like to move away from Windows. These people vary from people who just like to tinker about writing silly little apps that do simple admisitration tasks to very complex delphi apps that run core parts of thjeir business.
MS's forthcoming "rent your OS" licensing model and the ever growing complexity is going to drive them away from Windows. When they bob their heads up to see what the alternatives are Borlands tools ported to Linux will shine like a star.
OK it may not be world shattering news for you but it's still news and the 250 or so comments show that it must be worth talking about.
btw. You surely know that there is nothing to compare to MS Office on the Linux platform. The power of the office suite in MS is unrivalled for all the efforts of others. Maybe KOffice will come close but until then it will be Word & Excel as the first choice. Not because of any other reason than it's the best. And it's bound to be with so much effort put in to it. They may have dubious marketing but the amount of $ put in to the development of Office is why it's a winner. .oO0Oo.
this is almost the philosophy of python & php & others and even bash for that matter.
write small objects or programs that perform tasks and then some scripting glue to hold them together.
objects are a great improvement over pipes because they hold state.
but dont think that com was the first or that it's the best. Writing Active X controls for use in IIS is problematic too. The architecture is very complex with different threading models. MS also seem to improve the server every six months. Just when you've learned one way of doing things a bigger more complex version ends up on your machine when you add a service pack to plug the security holes left by the last service pack;-)
Having used NT I think the whole OS is too complex. It tries to do too many things at once. Web Server, Application Server, Terminal Server, File Server, Mail Server, SQL Server, Transaction Server, Proxy and any other services. Want to separatet them on to different machines? You have to buy them all again!
pah, call that user friendly
oops unintended rant but important and true non the less
I mean jeesh. where did i say that all vb programmers weren't serious ffs. I earn very good money once in a while programming VB. But what I wouldn't do is try and write a fps game using it. A decent fps game must be written by a serious programmer. That was my point and I thought it to be very plain.
wtf has compiled size got to do with anything
if you don't care about people's opions how do you get the energy to reply to them
jesus would never be anything because he's a fictional character from a faery story
The more I learn about vb (& I've been using it since v.3) the worse it gets particularly as the demand for networked programs grows.
For what it's worth my favourite widget glue is a python and wxPython combo.
hmm, I would say that the employees are not the recipients, they are the users. If my company lends me a car I am not the owner. but your point is an interesting one. What consititutes distribution? What if I form some sort of association and "lend" them gpl'd code. Is that a release to the public? .oO0Oo.
massive multilpayer games IMHO seem to be creating their own stories.
I'm an Everquest player and although the tasks set for players are kind of linear it's the players themselves that make the narrative. The outcome of many interactions of human intellects makes the story out of what happens.
We (eq players) truly adventure in a fantasy world. We have tales to tell and many memories. Anyone who's been to Neriak can remember what it was like to walk in there. The adrenalin pumping hoping you won't be summoned by Vox to face the bears. Put four eq players together in a room and they'll talk for hours about it. Much more than any amount of Jet Set Willy or Quake players.
The MUD will take over almost entirely i think. It's a virtual world every e-commerce shopping mall can only dream of. If I could do my shopping in EQ, I would. It's what VRML promised and it's coming to a machine near you.
Katz talks crap though and knows as much about computer games as my dog.
it's quite symbolic that we should move from the dark days of electric to the light days of optical.
Maybe the bible is a book of science fiction and not just a bunch of fairy stories.
routing via neural networks on a global optical scale might be the final step to sentience that the network needs.
If the major providers upgrade simultaneously they could create the world in six days and then take a rest day to download porn on their spanking new network.
This forbidden fruit would taint the network and cast it down into eternal damnation but provide the net with free will.
being the super sensible types people are they might read the thread first and see what people say about it and then see your super sensible comment .oO0Oo.
most card billing is done electronically with a PDQ machine. You get a verifaction number AND bear the cost of fraudulent use.
I worked on an e-commerce thing and learned a lot about the chain of validation.
Address checking is hard electronically because of Spelling & word layout.
21, St. Andrews St. 21 St. Andrews Street 21 Saint Andrews Street Saint Andrews St.
A bit contrived I know but throw in Village, Town and County and things get more complicated.
You could just try street number and post code but we're not obliged to memorize such things as post codes.
I've thought that one-shot pre-paid billing from a clearing house might be some sort of solution. Kind of like buying credits you can use, especially for those of us that can't get credit cards because of our previous "activities";-)
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I use the 3d Revelator from ELSA
.jps files in 3d too.
.oO0Oo.
They work with DirectX and now OpenGL on Windows with Nvidia cards. For about $50 you can get the wireless ones. They fit nicely over glasses (as I can confirm!). they also do a browser plug in so you can view
well worth $50 i can tell ya. Need For Speed rocks even more in 3d
Anything you can do with a GUI toolkit you can do with DHTML
.oO0Oo.
Can you show me a DHTML page with a slider on it please.
I'm not sure but can DHTML do DDE?
Have you got a url for a DHTML ftp client?
Talla
.oO0Oo.
poor UI
buttons that don't indicated their use before you mouse over them! This means you don't know which elements are buttons and which are graphics. Very poor design.
Try using it without a mouse.
html for design, yeah right.
It's such an unbelievable BAD choice for UI.
The overhead for creating the simplest UI elements far outweighs the slight benefit of having a document holder already built for you.
Cascading menus for instance, or print previews or file dialogs, colour pickers, sliders, spin controls etc. etc. etc.
you need to see a context
.oO0Oo.
Borland has been of interest for a while due to the on/off Corel merger.
Borland has been a respected developer of Windows tools and an early competitor to MS and took a beating for their efforts.
Like it or not there are many Windows users and programmers who would like to move away from Windows. These people vary from people who just like to tinker about writing silly little apps that do simple admisitration tasks to very complex delphi apps that run core parts of thjeir business.
MS's forthcoming "rent your OS" licensing model and the ever growing complexity is going to drive them away from Windows. When they bob their heads up to see what the alternatives are Borlands tools ported to Linux will shine like a star.
OK it may not be world shattering news for you but it's still news and the 250 or so comments show that it must be worth talking about.
btw. You surely know that there is nothing to compare to MS Office on the Linux platform. The power of the office suite in MS is unrivalled for all the efforts of others. Maybe KOffice will come close but until then it will be Word & Excel as the first choice. Not because of any other reason than it's the best. And it's bound to be with so much effort put in to it. They may have dubious marketing but the amount of $ put in to the development of Office is why it's a winner.
you're a freakin tool matey
.oO0Oo.
RAD gives people the chance to learn programming in a hand held manner.
Someone else then gives them the chance to share it with the world all in one place which meakes them feel good about themselves.
Other people learning can take a look at the stuff and get inspired to copy & improve.
and you think this is bad?
I bet you would rather they didn't have computers at all!
this is almost the philosophy of python & php & others and even bash for that matter.
;-)
.oO0Oo.
write small objects or programs that perform tasks and then some scripting glue to hold them together.
objects are a great improvement over pipes because they hold state.
but dont think that com was the first or that it's the best. Writing Active X controls for use in IIS is problematic too. The architecture is very complex with different threading models. MS also seem to improve the server every six months. Just when you've learned one way of doing things a bigger more complex version ends up on your machine when you add a service pack to plug the security holes left by the last service pack
Having used NT I think the whole OS is too complex. It tries to do too many things at once. Web Server, Application Server, Terminal Server, File Server, Mail Server, SQL Server, Transaction Server, Proxy and any other services. Want to separatet them on to different machines? You have to buy them all again!
pah, call that user friendly
oops unintended rant but important and true non the less
hehe I used the ICQ History Grab as my clue
.oO0Oo.
I couldn't get the screenshots 'cos it was timing out.
I mean jeesh. where did i say that all vb programmers weren't serious ffs. I earn very good money once in a while programming VB. But what I wouldn't do is try and write a fps game using it. A decent fps game must be written by a serious programmer. That was my point and I thought it to be very plain.
wtf has compiled size got to do with anything
if you don't care about people's opions how do you get the energy to reply to them
jesus would never be anything because he's a fictional character from a faery story
The more I learn about vb (& I've been using it since v.3) the worse it gets particularly as the demand for networked programs grows.
For what it's worth my favourite widget glue is a python and wxPython combo.
hmm, I would say that the employees are not the recipients, they are the users. If my company lends me a car I am not the owner. but your point is an interesting one. What consititutes distribution? What if I form some sort of association and "lend" them gpl'd code. Is that a release to the public?
.oO0Oo.
With the long appeals process coming up, the last thing we need is another operating system Microsoft can claim as competition in the marketplace.
.oO0Oo.
sorry bud, can't see the word new in there anywhere
Taking law into your own hands is _always_ wrong.
.oO0Oo.
Like the French Resistance during WW2
or the American Revolution
the government takes the law into it's own hands.
What's so different about yours?
she's using icq
.oO0Oo.
and left sharing open
simple install subseven on her machine
not heard of it?
nvr mind
don't take me so literal matey
.oO0Oo.
I was amused by the fact that it's the transition from electrons to photons. taking the genesis story of creation as a metaphor for it.
Did you really think was expecting to come downstairs one morning to find my 3Com Router making me a cup of coffee!
jeez, try getting an imagination
massive multilpayer games IMHO seem to be creating their own stories.
.oO0Oo.
I'm an Everquest player and although the tasks set for players are kind of linear it's the players themselves that make the narrative. The outcome of many interactions of human intellects makes the story out of what happens.
We (eq players) truly adventure in a fantasy world. We have tales to tell and many memories. Anyone who's been to Neriak can remember what it was like to walk in there. The adrenalin pumping hoping you won't be summoned by Vox to face the bears. Put four eq players together in a room and they'll talk for hours about it. Much more than any amount of Jet Set Willy or Quake players.
The MUD will take over almost entirely i think. It's a virtual world every e-commerce shopping mall can only dream of. If I could do my shopping in EQ, I would. It's what VRML promised and it's coming to a machine near you.
Katz talks crap though and knows as much about computer games as my dog.
you don't half talk some crap
.oO0Oo.
stick you head out of your bubble once in a while
I don't know any serious programmers or engineers who like to play games
what about the hundreds nay thousands of serious programmers who WRITE games. It's no done in VB ffs.
you're obviously not very good at them
it's quite symbolic that we should move from the dark days of electric to the light days of optical.
.oO0Oo.
Maybe the bible is a book of science fiction and not just a bunch of fairy stories.
routing via neural networks on a global optical scale might be the final step to sentience that the network needs.
If the major providers upgrade simultaneously they could create the world in six days and then take a rest day to download porn on their spanking new network.
This forbidden fruit would taint the network and cast it down into eternal damnation but provide the net with free will.
sod tv on demand how about movies on demand.
.oO0Oo.
get down the cinema and choose which film you want not what's showing.
might have to book in advance and make it movie with the most votes get's shown this week or something like that but there's an opportunity there.
I would go to the pictures if they were showing some films I never saw there.
like, er Mad Max
and well i'm sure I could think of some if there was a menu system!
it did it again! ah at least it's not me
.oO0Oo.
hehe now i cut and pasted it without deleting the space
w are-html/data-sheets/poseidon-120-panel-pc .htm
.oO0Oo.
http://www.attro.co.uk/industrial-computer-hard
Signal11
Signal 11
Signail 11
http://www.attro.co.uk/industrial-computer-hardwar e-html/data-sheets/poseidon-120-panel-pc .htm
.oO0Oo.
when I cut & pasted it!
If you've got two grand spare check these out
w are-html/data-sheets/poseidon-120-panel-pc .htm
.oO0Oo.
http://www.attro.co.uk/industrial-computer-hard
here
being the super sensible types people are they might read the thread first and see what people say about it and then see your super sensible comment
.oO0Oo.
address checking?
;-)
.oO0Oo.
most card billing is done electronically with a PDQ machine. You get a verifaction number AND bear the cost of fraudulent use.
I worked on an e-commerce thing and learned a lot about the chain of validation.
Address checking is hard electronically because of Spelling & word layout.
21, St. Andrews St.
21 St. Andrews Street
21 Saint Andrews Street
Saint Andrews St.
A bit contrived I know but throw in Village, Town and County and things get more complicated.
You could just try street number and post code but we're not obliged to memorize such things as post codes.
I've thought that one-shot pre-paid billing from a clearing house might be some sort of solution. Kind of like buying credits you can use, especially for those of us that can't get credit cards because of our previous "activities"
addresses are not printed on cards in this part of the world.
.oO0Oo.
In the UK the only thing known about a card holder that you use is the card number & expiry.
That's it
anything else is just bogus anyway
"You want my address. Well I've got two houses, what use is that?"
"Here's my photo. Of course you didn't see me have it taken"
I've personally been asked to fax my signature as some sort of proof before.
People are clueless and easily fooled because they want to trust you.