Surely Borland isn't effectively dead. True, they no longer have the wide range of products they used to have, but they never made any money out of them. Remember C++ for OS/2? It almost killed Borland, no wonder they discontinued it. But Delphi is still a good product.
Try Media-Box - a very promising application. Not full featured yet, but what's there is good. Kon, the author, claims it will compile on Linux too but so far only binaries for Windows are available.
"Our funding comes from the public. From people like you, who would like to see more and better freely available software.
We have received our first donation, of $35,000, from John Gilmore. Will you be next? He is funding Tom Jennings to work on peer-to-peer sharing of free software RPMs."
I don't know about the typical public software user, but I don't have $35K to spend. On the other hand, I don't need any software that I don't already have. The $35K donation does not come from a typical user and I would hardly call the project typical. Anyway, it will be fun to see if PubSoft's idea catches on.
I was finally able to read this after many tries. Lots a good points which I will try when the times comes.
I could have wanted more "physical appearence" tricks, but it seems to deal mostly with putting slides together. If you are making presentations often, you (hopefully) are aware of how you react in such situations, but if you, like me, give perhaps one presentation every third year you might find these few tricks handy. I know they work for me.
Prepare! Prepare! Prepare!
Don't hide yourself behind a desk. Come out in the open where people can see you. This also solves the problem of presenters taking to the desk instead of the audience.
If you're nervous you might tend to do a lot of weight shifting from one leg to the other... don't. There's really no need to show the audience that you are almost pooping your pants. It helps if you make yourself aware that you are nervous. You could start off with a joke, make the audience laugh and make the tension less.
If you have to hold a piece of paper in your hands make sure you are not shaking. The shaking will really attract the audience's attention, drawing focus away from what you're saying. If the shaking is a problem for you, put the paper on a desk, look at it once in a while or memorize it.
Walk around. Too much = too nervous. Too little = just another piece of dead meat.
Don't say "eh..." or other pause words. There's no need to, because you followed my first advice!
Nice article on CNN, but was it really nescessarry to include that photo of her mother? It's plain bad taste, and it doesn't seem to go with the "spirit" of the article. Seems like tabloid stuff to me.
Personally I know a lot of software engineers who think they are God's gift to the software industry and they often bash "non-educated" software developers. It's like that degree wildly boosted their ego.
Then again, I also know software engineers who are real nice people.:)
Use what you know, learn what you don't know, have an open mind. Now, wouldn't that define a good programmer?
If that is the point of the GPL it should be stated explicitely in the GPL. As the GPL is now, the original poster can do it without being in violation. So don't bash the guy, bash the GPL.
I think they forgot to mention how much fun it was to develop KDE 2.0.1. So much fun that they forgot about KDE League and improving speed.
What that is said, I think I will use Konqueror in my GNOME envoronment. Not a bad browser at all, except that the 2.0 version could not be used with iDrive. Can't wait to see if that is fixed.
I say, a new planet! Just as we all thought seven were enough, along comes some smaller planets that all want the same attention as the original seven. Mind you, my guess is that the public is sick and tired of all those planet wannabees, so the enthusiam will most likely be low. I mean, new planets are really out in the cold.
I must admit the screenshots look good, but I feel that the KDE Team should use more time on getting better performance from KDE 2 than playing around with more eye candy. KDE 2 is slow as you-know-what on my machine, and I don't feel like spending more bucks on hardware just to be able to run a desktop environment with so-so speed.
Does anyone else think that the KDE children deserve get a good slappin' and to be put early to bed? I mean, grow up... if you can't handle the competetion in a way thats not completely embarrassing to yourself, then shut up.
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Surely Borland isn't effectively dead. True, they no longer have the wide range of products they used to have, but they never made any money out of them. Remember C++ for OS/2? It almost killed Borland, no wonder they discontinued it. But Delphi is still a good product.
Try Media-Box - a very promising application. Not full featured yet, but what's there is good. Kon, the author, claims it will compile on Linux too but so far only binaries for Windows are available.
Install a web server, publish everything you have, then let Google cache it...
From PubSoft's funding page:
"Our funding comes from the public. From people like you, who would like to see more and better freely available software.
We have received our first donation, of $35,000, from John Gilmore. Will you be next? He is funding Tom Jennings to work on peer-to-peer sharing of free software RPMs."
I don't know about the typical public software user, but I don't have $35K to spend. On the other hand, I don't need any software that I don't already have. The $35K donation does not come from a typical user and I would hardly call the project typical. Anyway, it will be fun to see if PubSoft's idea catches on.
I could have wanted more "physical appearence" tricks, but it seems to deal mostly with putting slides together. If you are making presentations often, you (hopefully) are aware of how you react in such situations, but if you, like me, give perhaps one presentation every third year you might find these few tricks handy. I know they work for me.
Summer hits /. hard! Forced to fall back to stories about them good old days!
Me too.
So, what did the K in KDE stand for?
Nice article on CNN, but was it really nescessarry to include that photo of her mother? It's plain bad taste, and it doesn't seem to go with the "spirit" of the article. Seems like tabloid stuff to me.
I believe you are right.
:)
Personally I know a lot of software engineers who think they are God's gift to the software industry and they often bash "non-educated" software developers. It's like that degree wildly boosted their ego.
Then again, I also know software engineers who are real nice people.
Use what you know, learn what you don't know, have an open mind. Now, wouldn't that define a good programmer?
If that is the point of the GPL it should be stated explicitely in the GPL. As the GPL is now, the original poster can do it without being in violation. So don't bash the guy, bash the GPL.
I think they forgot to mention how much fun it was to develop KDE 2.0.1. So much fun that they forgot about KDE League and improving speed.
What that is said, I think I will use Konqueror in my GNOME envoronment. Not a bad browser at all, except that the 2.0 version could not be used with iDrive. Can't wait to see if that is fixed.
--Can we fix it? Yes we can!
I say, a new planet! Just as we all thought seven were enough, along comes some smaller planets that all want the same attention as the original seven. Mind you, my guess is that the public is sick and tired of all those planet wannabees, so the enthusiam will most likely be low. I mean, new planets are really out in the cold.
--- Can we fix it? Yes we can!
I must admit the screenshots look good, but I feel that the KDE Team should use more time on getting better performance from KDE 2 than playing around with more eye candy. KDE 2 is slow as you-know-what on my machine, and I don't feel like spending more bucks on hardware just to be able to run a desktop environment with so-so speed.
---Can we fix it? Yes we can!
Does anyone else think that the KDE children deserve get a good slappin' and to be put early to bed? I mean, grow up... if you can't handle the competetion in a way thats not completely embarrassing to yourself, then shut up.
>The other half of the quote is "Information wants to be expensive" - Don't quote the popular half until you understand the context
...really? Who said it?
/Bent Pedersen