I thought the same thing at first, but after getting talked into getting them by a girl I work with I think there great though. Also you never touch your eye, you touch the lens and feel nothing. Most of the time (99%) I don't even know I have them in as I usually forget about them. If you touch your eye you're doing something seriously wrong.
All Bill Gates did was bring a GUI about when every other operating system was still command line based. This then enabled non-technical users to use a computer the way that we do today. He also gave people the tools to develop for the system. It wasn't the way he "went around the world" it was supply and demand. The same can be said for Apple too, as they also brought about a GUI, it just wasn't embraced by many people from the start like Windows was.
if you think their support for GPU's is bad under windows, you should see the support or lack there of for their TV tuner cards under windows. Spoken as a owner of both ATI graphics cards and TV tuner cards.
OLPC had a good mission when they wanted everything on the system to be fully open source, with simple point and click applications and the ability to view the source of any application. However then they got into talks with microsoft, and started to include some very complicated applications with their product, and their mission kind of went down the crapper
Dish DVR is not going away, it's their old software that violated the software patents. Their new software does not violate the TiVo software patents. This new software was pushed out by Dish about 3 months ago. Very misleading article.
Software engineers have the capability to make people die when they screw up, you may not think of it but they do. For instance take say the navigation computer in any modern airplane, if the software engineer who wrote the code that runs that box screws up the plane has a very good chance of flying into a obstruction. Or the guy who writes the code that controls any major roller coaster that runs multiple trains, if he screws up on the blocking 2 trains of people could die. And going back to that airplane example if the navigation is screwed up, crashing a fully loaded 747 would kill people in big groups now wouldn't it?
Would you please tell me which one of the hundreds if not thousands of developers should be sued when OSS has a bug in it? Also, there is no way we could process that many law suits...
Why wasnt this patent written so that in X number of years in became extinct and the contents of it went out under the GPL? This is done with other things such as prescription drugs, for so long after the drug is discovered only one company can make it, but then the patent expires so to say and other companies can produce generic versions of the drug. Why hasnt this been the case with ethernet?
Does it really matter if a developer has to put a special tag in? I know that I will be including this tag on my sites, but even if not a developer will still be forced to write special code for MS in order to deal with the previous messes that they released. So in a way IE 8 really gets us nothing except that it starts the very very very very long phase out of all of these custom IE hacks, although I do not believe IE 8 will be very standards compliant considering microsofts track record. So in short, include the tag and still write the "special" code to deal with the crap microsoft handed us in their idea of a web browser, or convince everyone why they absoultly need to upgrade their browsers which is easier said than done.
As a web developer I hate it when it comes to making things work in IE. This is just one of my many issues with microsoft (which is why I use linux boxes). But even for the rendering engine of IE 6, which i've had break with simple HTML once, the HTML 4 standard has been out for how long now? Would it really kill them to make it standards compliant like say opera or fire fox? Same goes for CSS. I wonder when HTML 5 is released how long will it take microsoft to become "compliant" with that in their own terms? Not that it really matters since everyone will just write special IE code anyway...
Am i the only one who thinks these people got too much time on their hands and some cash to burn? I dont know about you but i can think of much better ways to spend money. Some things people do just amaze me and make me ask why?
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10 courses cant get you a degree, just a bunch of credits you'll probably never use. Guess I'm still stuck shelling out 16k a year to go to UB.
I thought the same thing at first, but after getting talked into getting them by a girl I work with I think there great though. Also you never touch your eye, you touch the lens and feel nothing. Most of the time (99%) I don't even know I have them in as I usually forget about them. If you touch your eye you're doing something seriously wrong.
All Bill Gates did was bring a GUI about when every other operating system was still command line based. This then enabled non-technical users to use a computer the way that we do today. He also gave people the tools to develop for the system. It wasn't the way he "went around the world" it was supply and demand. The same can be said for Apple too, as they also brought about a GUI, it just wasn't embraced by many people from the start like Windows was.
if you think their support for GPU's is bad under windows, you should see the support or lack there of for their TV tuner cards under windows. Spoken as a owner of both ATI graphics cards and TV tuner cards.
Its now over 6.8 million, almost 6.9 million. Not bad considering their servers were down for a while. Chalk another one up for FOSS.
OLPC had a good mission when they wanted everything on the system to be fully open source, with simple point and click applications and the ability to view the source of any application. However then they got into talks with microsoft, and started to include some very complicated applications with their product, and their mission kind of went down the crapper
Dish DVR is not going away, it's their old software that violated the software patents. Their new software does not violate the TiVo software patents. This new software was pushed out by Dish about 3 months ago. Very misleading article.
How much did the cost come down? I couldn't find a figure in the article that stated any hard facts that this is really going to materialize.
Would outlawing windows really be that bad? Better yet lets outlaw M$.
Software engineers have the capability to make people die when they screw up, you may not think of it but they do. For instance take say the navigation computer in any modern airplane, if the software engineer who wrote the code that runs that box screws up the plane has a very good chance of flying into a obstruction. Or the guy who writes the code that controls any major roller coaster that runs multiple trains, if he screws up on the blocking 2 trains of people could die. And going back to that airplane example if the navigation is screwed up, crashing a fully loaded 747 would kill people in big groups now wouldn't it?
Crap! UNDELETE UNDELETE!!!!!
Would you please tell me which one of the hundreds if not thousands of developers should be sued when OSS has a bug in it? Also, there is no way we could process that many law suits...
Why wasnt this patent written so that in X number of years in became extinct and the contents of it went out under the GPL? This is done with other things such as prescription drugs, for so long after the drug is discovered only one company can make it, but then the patent expires so to say and other companies can produce generic versions of the drug. Why hasnt this been the case with ethernet?
Does it really matter if a developer has to put a special tag in? I know that I will be including this tag on my sites, but even if not a developer will still be forced to write special code for MS in order to deal with the previous messes that they released. So in a way IE 8 really gets us nothing except that it starts the very very very very long phase out of all of these custom IE hacks, although I do not believe IE 8 will be very standards compliant considering microsofts track record. So in short, include the tag and still write the "special" code to deal with the crap microsoft handed us in their idea of a web browser, or convince everyone why they absoultly need to upgrade their browsers which is easier said than done.
As a web developer I hate it when it comes to making things work in IE. This is just one of my many issues with microsoft (which is why I use linux boxes). But even for the rendering engine of IE 6, which i've had break with simple HTML once, the HTML 4 standard has been out for how long now? Would it really kill them to make it standards compliant like say opera or fire fox? Same goes for CSS. I wonder when HTML 5 is released how long will it take microsoft to become "compliant" with that in their own terms? Not that it really matters since everyone will just write special IE code anyway...
Am i the only one who thinks these people got too much time on their hands and some cash to burn? I dont know about you but i can think of much better ways to spend money. Some things people do just amaze me and make me ask why?