When I started at my current employer we were an all Windows NT 4 company. Our embedded devices used Dos as well. After discussing the benefits of Linux vs. Windows CE/Pocket PC my manager decided we should write our new software for Linux. Although our software isn't open source, it's a minor step forward (in my opinion). One of our former employees who was incharge of shipping wrote all the databases in Access, which up until now has been a pain in the butt to find an alternative. If you have the time using Apache+PHP+MySQL is a great way to integrate a database for general purposes however it's fairly time consuming. Another alternative is using Open Office's data sources functionality and creating your own forms within the documents. It's similar to Access from what I've played with it, but I'm no Access expert. I do know that you access DBase, MySQL, and several other database types and since OpenOffice is available for Windows/Linux it's something to consider. I haven't found anything good as of yet and the accounting department is pretty reluctant to hand over their software for me to test in Wine. =D
Actually not all airplane computers run sophisticated O/S's. I work for a company that produces GPS guidance/navigation systems for planes/helicopters and our systems use Ms-Dos 6.22, no joke. We're slowly moving our systems to Linux (if everything goes well it'll be done by June) but we've used Dos since '86 in aircraft.
And what freedom is that? The freedom to go poor while americans get rich? The freedom to be declared enemies if you don't believe in a war? Get over your screwed up version of freedom. Real freedom means an Arab can walk into an airport and not be looked at as a terrorist. Real freedom is not having the government which countried you can visit on a vacation or do business with (i.e. Cuba). The only thread Saddam was to the United States was in business interests. Your relations with Saudi Arabia was put into question after 15/19 hijackers were from Saudi decent and you needed an alternative oil source. What better way to get oil then lie to the american people about Iraq creating "weapons of mass destruction" which were partially given to Iraq from your retarded government and help settle the scores the Bush's had with Iraq in the fact they lost the first Iraq war to yet another third world country (for those keeping count North Korea, Vietnam). The united states is no safer today than it was 3 years ago and until you arrogant people stop thinking your the almighty freedom country of the world, people will continue to despise you. Your freedom is nothing more than a word. You always say your country is free but how free is it? Your freedoms are becoming less and less each day in the name of your own security. In the time Junior Bush has been in office, he's been in 2 wars, kill innocent men/women/children in numerous countries Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and others while trying to target some "terrorist".
I laughed at your last presidential election because you call yourselves the "greatest democrasy" yet your voting process was full of scandle. Even Russia has a better voting system in place then the almighty freedom loving americans did. Until the regime of Bush is over, there is no freedom, and standing behind your typical slogan of "we're fighting for your freedom", doesn't make the world safer, but adds more hatred towards your country. This will lead to more killings world wide and eventually to another major attack against your country, when you least expect it. You'll then want the entire world to feel your "pain" for a minor loss compared to the atrocities that happen around the world due to your foreign policies and then you'll want revenge and target a third world country to invade in the name of something stupid to show your "military might". Your freedom is over, face it you've got a dictator who doesn't give a shit about your lives but only about the corporate dollers.
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The problem with Kylix was it's price. Borland was charing a ridiculous price for a product that albeit good wasn't worth the price. It's also hard to convince your boss (atleast in my situation) that Linux was free and came with C/C++ compilers but I had to pay for Kylix.
If they had a reasonable price perhaps it wouldn't flown but lets be realistic, it's not going to get a lot of support without having a cheap price or an open source version available.
It's interesting that his website was not covered under the 1st amendment. Although the material is something of a desired nature, why was he charged for his thoughts on overthrowing the US?
It's interesting that the people in the enron/worldcom/adelphia/etc cases screw people out of millions, yet only some will get jail time. This guy creates as website based on the 1st, yet he's put in jail.
Why is it that in the US only rich white people can get away with murder (with the exception of O.J. simpson), yet the average person who doesn't believe in their government is a "terrorist" or anti-american citizen?
The entire engine was coded around SDL (a cross platform multimedia API). All the functionality for initializing OpenGL, Sound, CD-Audio, Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick), Threads and even Timing are all conveniently packaged into SDL.
The API works in many os's (Linux, Windows, MacOS/X, FreeBSD, and more). In Visual C++ we use the regular project workspace and in Linux I use a small shell script to compile the engine. Check out SDL (www.libsdl.org).
I run my own indie game company and let me tell you, there's nothing better than having the freedom to do whatever you like in the development process. Many game companies, especially the big ones, make you work one position and your input isn't appreciated on other topics. With Indie game companies you'll have anywhere from 1-15 people working at the company making something that truly (in most cases) want to play themselves.
The ideas portrayed in many indie games, although not blockbusters, are normally fun to play, small in size and are fairly inexpensive. With my company I have the freedom to code in whatever OS's I want, so my companies next game will be released for Linux/Windows at the same time, absolutely no code changes, literally. Most companies don't give that sort of freedom, where indie projects do!
Not to dis Americans, but if the problem doesn't concern them directly, they don't care about it. At the moment they've got lots of IP's, so they don't care. When the IP's are almost out in the US, then you'll hear a frantic concern about it.
They removed their caps the beginning of July 2003, and they've upgraded their lines to 1.5Mbps instead of 1.0Mbps, check your facts before complaining. Their website has all the details of their upgrades in english or read the forums of dslreports.com in the Sympatico channel.
I hate saying this but you've got wrong information. Bell removed their caps at the beginning of the month so they have unlimited bandwidth. Bell just recently upgraded their lines 1.5Mbps which is where Rogers claims to be at. By the way, which modem does your friend have? Did your friend remember to put the filters on each phone line? Did he tweak things out to the proper settings and NOT use access manager? My speeds are on Bell Ultra (3.5Mbps) are far faster than anyone I know on Rogers or most ADSL companies.
By the way, Rogers has silently reduced their speeds by 50% over the past year to accomodate new users.
Although Open Source has it's benefits, this new law is not the way to advocate it. The world doesn't revolve around Microsoft, many companies would be affected by this. The average computer user doesn't care whether the source code is available or not, they want the program just work. This type of bullying is what Microsoft pulled for many years and got caught.
If the author of the program doesn't want to show their code, they shouldn't be penalized for it. Furthurmore it will hurt the entire hobbyist/shareware movements which barely make any money to begin with. I hope this sort of communist approach isn't passed in North America, because both OSS/Closed-source programs have their benefits. The whole point of OSS was to have choice, not to have choice while penalizing the competition.
Every time a news station or reporter takes a picture, they'll claim that they've broken the DMCA and demand money!
In reality, it'll be interesting to see how they can persuade buyers to those planes over others. Many airlines use planes that are from the 70's and 80's because of the costs in purchasing (and leasing) the aircraft these days and because of all the issues flying these days.
Thats pretty awesome, however with some people > 5Km from their CO, they may not get a proper sync rate. I'm, thankfully, very close to my CO, and have a 3mbps line now. Downloading at 350kb/sec is awesome, but after a while the cool-factor wears off. It's handy when Red Hat and other distros of interest are released but otherwise it's an expensive (70 Canuckles a month)toy.
The biggest problem when flying and using mobile phones is the phones themselves. When you are flying, the phone may try to communicate (roam) with many towers which causes cell network problems. Imagine the area of towers you could hit at 30,000ft in the sky.
Because every other Networking company will have their source code and tradesecrets for free, which could potentially lose revenue if the competition uses their source code.
If SCO decides to actually sue Linus, I hope all the server companies (or atleast the big ones like IBM, Red Hat, Penguin Computing, etc.) will help with his legal costs. After all, he did give them a great product without them do all the R&D themselves.
I'm happy those bogus errors will finally be put to an end, atleast from Bonzi. I'm rather disturbed that the firm that won this lawsuit is called Annis. Am I to believe that all lawyers are assholes, or just in that one practice?
The PS2 has no hidden registration or annual fees, making it *free* to play after buying a network adapter. The network adapter doesn't even need to be from Sony either (I use a USB Linksys adapter).
Why would you want to talk to your friends on an X-Box? There are a gazillion different online chat programs in the world, yet you chose to talk to them at 640x480 graphics? An online chat program for $50 a year seems rather steep.
If Microsoft had've written DirectX in C, instead of their freeko C++/COM methods, this would probably be avoided. OpenGL was written in C, and it works fine all sorts of platforms, regardless of what other functions are available. Microsoft has cleaned up much of their in recent versions, but for the longest time DirectX was a nightmare to code in.
I won't use.NET for game development, period. I guess I'm old fashioned, but I like my SDK's as simple as possible, something Microsoft doesn't seem to like making anymore.
Rather than waste time writing copyright laws, why don't they fix their infrastructure, health/education systems and provide essential services. No offense to copyright holders (I myself being one of them) but basic human rights should come before protecting whats yours.
Where should the line be drawn when the spammer uses peoples email addresses for profit, and annoys the user, then turns around and sues for their protection. If the spammer can sue why can't the user do the same thing with their email address? I know people who have threatened to sue using the DMCA as their weapon because their domains use their copyrights company names.
As for their address, I'm sorry to say but thats the risk you take when you have a home office. If any regular person has a home office and they pissed off a customer, they would have the same security concerns as well. Why should these guys be treated any different because they are paid to piss off/annoy the general public.
It's amazing how quickly people turn on France because they don't agree with you. The wonderful thing about America is that it allows you to voice your opinion about anything. By not allowing the original poster to speak, your no better then Saddam Hussein and other dictators who do not believe in freedom of speech. You may not agree with what the poster has to say, but don't mach what they have to say because you do not like it or don't agree with it. This is all too rampant into the United States, especially with regards to the Iraq "War".
If France is such a horrible country, how about you destroy the "American Treature", the statue of liberty, because it's not American. It was a gift from France. Also, why not kick everyone Cajun's/French out of Louisiana (mind spelling) because many have french backgrounds and today they widely speak french down there.
There is no almighty country to live in. Although many people think the USA 1, which they have every right to, other countries offer the same things and some don't. Be proud of where you live, but don't disrespect others because of their views on other topics.
Apparently Prey was scrapped because it wasn't going anywhere and some of the key people of the project left and went to Ritual and I think Xatrix as well.
Back in the day, the build engine was among one of the best engines thanks to publicity by 3D Realms/Apogee for using it. I'm was always amazed that Ken Silverman (I believe thats his name), made the engine when he was in his late teens and early 20's. It's a shame he didn't continue making game engines, perhaps we would have seen Duke Forever by name, or maybe Prey.
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"much of the labor savings, while Canadian programmers are nearby, speak English with nearly American accents,"
Speak English? Obviously you've never met a programmer in Toronto. And it's a sin to speak any other language except Quebecois in Quebec.
When I started at my current employer we were an all Windows NT 4 company. Our embedded devices used Dos as well. After discussing the benefits of Linux vs. Windows CE/Pocket PC my manager decided we should write our new software for Linux. Although our software isn't open source, it's a minor step forward (in my opinion). One of our former employees who was incharge of shipping wrote all the databases in Access, which up until now has been a pain in the butt to find an alternative. If you have the time using Apache+PHP+MySQL is a great way to integrate a database for general purposes however it's fairly time consuming. Another alternative is using Open Office's data sources functionality and creating your own forms within the documents. It's similar to Access from what I've played with it, but I'm no Access expert. I do know that you access DBase, MySQL, and several other database types and since OpenOffice is available for Windows/Linux it's something to consider. I haven't found anything good as of yet and the accounting department is pretty reluctant to hand over their software for me to test in Wine. =D
Actually not all airplane computers run sophisticated O/S's. I work for a company that produces GPS guidance/navigation systems for planes/helicopters and our systems use Ms-Dos 6.22, no joke. We're slowly moving our systems to Linux (if everything goes well it'll be done by June) but we've used Dos since '86 in aircraft.
And what freedom is that? The freedom to go poor while americans get rich? The freedom to be declared enemies if you don't believe in a war? Get over your screwed up version of freedom. Real freedom means an Arab can walk into an airport and not be looked at as a terrorist. Real freedom is not having the government which countried you can visit on a vacation or do business with (i.e. Cuba). The only thread Saddam was to the United States was in business interests. Your relations with Saudi Arabia was put into question after 15/19 hijackers were from Saudi decent and you needed an alternative oil source. What better way to get oil then lie to the american people about Iraq creating "weapons of mass destruction" which were partially given to Iraq from your retarded government and help settle the scores the Bush's had with Iraq in the fact they lost the first Iraq war to yet another third world country (for those keeping count North Korea, Vietnam). The united states is no safer today than it was 3 years ago and until you arrogant people stop thinking your the almighty freedom country of the world, people will continue to despise you. Your freedom is nothing more than a word. You always say your country is free but how free is it? Your freedoms are becoming less and less each day in the name of your own security. In the time Junior Bush has been in office, he's been in 2 wars, kill innocent men/women/children in numerous countries Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and others while trying to target some "terrorist".
I laughed at your last presidential election because you call yourselves the "greatest democrasy" yet your voting process was full of scandle. Even Russia has a better voting system in place then the almighty freedom loving americans did. Until the regime of Bush is over, there is no freedom, and standing behind your typical slogan of "we're fighting for your freedom", doesn't make the world safer, but adds more hatred towards your country. This will lead to more killings world wide and eventually to another major attack against your country, when you least expect it. You'll then want the entire world to feel your "pain" for a minor loss compared to the atrocities that happen around the world due to your foreign policies and then you'll want revenge and target a third world country to invade in the name of something stupid to show your "military might". Your freedom is over, face it you've got a dictator who doesn't give a shit about your lives but only about the corporate dollers.
The problem with Kylix was it's price. Borland was charing a ridiculous price for a product that albeit good wasn't worth the price. It's also hard to convince your boss (atleast in my situation) that Linux was free and came with C/C++ compilers but I had to pay for Kylix.
If they had a reasonable price perhaps it wouldn't flown but lets be realistic, it's not going to get a lot of support without having a cheap price or an open source version available.
It's interesting that his website was not covered under the 1st amendment. Although the material is something of a desired nature, why was he charged for his thoughts on overthrowing the US?
It's interesting that the people in the enron/worldcom/adelphia/etc cases screw people out of millions, yet only some will get jail time. This guy creates as website based on the 1st, yet he's put in jail.
Why is it that in the US only rich white people can get away with murder (with the exception of O.J. simpson), yet the average person who doesn't believe in their government is a "terrorist" or anti-american citizen?
The entire engine was coded around SDL (a cross platform multimedia API). All the functionality for initializing OpenGL, Sound, CD-Audio, Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick), Threads and even Timing are all conveniently packaged into SDL.
The API works in many os's (Linux, Windows, MacOS/X, FreeBSD, and more). In Visual C++ we use the regular project workspace and in Linux I use a small shell script to compile the engine. Check out SDL (www.libsdl.org).
I run my own indie game company and let me tell you, there's nothing better than having the freedom to do whatever you like in the development process. Many game companies, especially the big ones, make you work one position and your input isn't appreciated on other topics. With Indie game companies you'll have anywhere from 1-15 people working at the company making something that truly (in most cases) want to play themselves.
The ideas portrayed in many indie games, although not blockbusters, are normally fun to play, small in size and are fairly inexpensive. With my company I have the freedom to code in whatever OS's I want, so my companies next game will be released for Linux/Windows at the same time, absolutely no code changes, literally. Most companies don't give that sort of freedom, where indie projects do!
Not to dis Americans, but if the problem doesn't concern them directly, they don't care about it. At the moment they've got lots of IP's, so they don't care. When the IP's are almost out in the US, then you'll hear a frantic concern about it.
They removed their caps the beginning of July 2003, and they've upgraded their lines to 1.5Mbps instead of 1.0Mbps, check your facts before complaining. Their website has all the details of their upgrades in english or read the forums of dslreports.com in the Sympatico channel.
I hate saying this but you've got wrong information. Bell removed their caps at the beginning of the month so they have unlimited bandwidth. Bell just recently upgraded their lines 1.5Mbps which is where Rogers claims to be at. By the way, which modem does your friend have? Did your friend remember to put the filters on each phone line? Did he tweak things out to the proper settings and NOT use access manager? My speeds are on Bell Ultra (3.5Mbps) are far faster than anyone I know on Rogers or most ADSL companies.
By the way, Rogers has silently reduced their speeds by 50% over the past year to accomodate new users.
Although Open Source has it's benefits, this new law is not the way to advocate it. The world doesn't revolve around Microsoft, many companies would be affected by this. The average computer user doesn't care whether the source code is available or not, they want the program just work. This type of bullying is what Microsoft pulled for many years and got caught.
If the author of the program doesn't want to show their code, they shouldn't be penalized for it. Furthurmore it will hurt the entire hobbyist/shareware movements which barely make any money to begin with. I hope this sort of communist approach isn't passed in North America, because both OSS/Closed-source programs have their benefits. The whole point of OSS was to have choice, not to have choice while penalizing the competition.
Every time a news station or reporter takes a picture, they'll claim that they've broken the DMCA and demand money!
In reality, it'll be interesting to see how they can persuade buyers to those planes over others. Many airlines use planes that are from the 70's and 80's because of the costs in purchasing (and leasing) the aircraft these days and because of all the issues flying these days.
Thats pretty awesome, however with some people > 5Km from their CO, they may not get a proper sync rate. I'm, thankfully, very close to my CO, and have a 3mbps line now. Downloading at 350kb/sec is awesome, but after a while the cool-factor wears off. It's handy when Red Hat and other distros of interest are released but otherwise it's an expensive (70 Canuckles a month)toy.
The biggest problem when flying and using mobile phones is the phones themselves. When you are flying, the phone may try to communicate (roam) with many towers which causes cell network problems. Imagine the area of towers you could hit at 30,000ft in the sky.
Because every other Networking company will have their source code and tradesecrets for free, which could potentially lose revenue if the competition uses their source code.
If SCO decides to actually sue Linus, I hope all the server companies (or atleast the big ones like IBM, Red Hat, Penguin Computing, etc.) will help with his legal costs. After all, he did give them a great product without them do all the R&D themselves.
I'm happy those bogus errors will finally be put to an end, atleast from Bonzi. I'm rather disturbed that the firm that won this lawsuit is called Annis. Am I to believe that all lawyers are assholes, or just in that one practice?
The PS2 has no hidden registration or annual fees, making it *free* to play after buying a network adapter. The network adapter doesn't even need to be from Sony either (I use a USB Linksys adapter).
Why would you want to talk to your friends on an X-Box? There are a gazillion different online chat programs in the world, yet you chose to talk to them at 640x480 graphics? An online chat program for $50 a year seems rather steep.
If Microsoft had've written DirectX in C, instead of their freeko C++/COM methods, this would probably be avoided. OpenGL was written in C, and it works fine all sorts of platforms, regardless of what other functions are available. Microsoft has cleaned up much of their in recent versions, but for the longest time DirectX was a nightmare to code in.
.NET for game development, period. I guess I'm old fashioned, but I like my SDK's as simple as possible, something Microsoft doesn't seem to like making anymore.
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Rather than waste time writing copyright laws, why don't they fix their infrastructure, health/education systems and provide essential services. No offense to copyright holders (I myself being one of them) but basic human rights should come before protecting whats yours.
Where should the line be drawn when the spammer uses peoples email addresses for profit, and annoys the user, then turns around and sues for their protection. If the spammer can sue why can't the user do the same thing with their email address? I know people who have threatened to sue using the DMCA as their weapon because their domains use their copyrights company names.
As for their address, I'm sorry to say but thats the risk you take when you have a home office. If any regular person has a home office and they pissed off a customer, they would have the same security concerns as well. Why should these guys be treated any different because they are paid to piss off/annoy the general public.
It's amazing how quickly people turn on France because they don't agree with you. The wonderful thing about America is that it allows you to voice your opinion about anything. By not allowing the original poster to speak, your no better then Saddam Hussein and other dictators who do not believe in freedom of speech. You may not agree with what the poster has to say, but don't mach what they have to say because you do not like it or don't agree with it. This is all too rampant into the United States, especially with regards to the Iraq "War".
If France is such a horrible country, how about you destroy the "American Treature", the statue of liberty, because it's not American. It was a gift from France. Also, why not kick everyone Cajun's/French out of Louisiana (mind spelling) because many have french backgrounds and today they widely speak french down there.
There is no almighty country to live in. Although many people think the USA 1, which they have every right to, other countries offer the same things and some don't. Be proud of where you live, but don't disrespect others because of their views on other topics.
Apparently Prey was scrapped because it wasn't going anywhere and some of the key people of the project left and went to Ritual and I think Xatrix as well.
Back in the day, the build engine was among one of the best engines thanks to publicity by 3D Realms/Apogee for using it. I'm was always amazed that Ken Silverman (I believe thats his name), made the engine when he was in his late teens and early 20's. It's a shame he didn't continue making game engines, perhaps we would have seen Duke Forever by name, or maybe Prey.