I have to agree with you entirely. I am a C++ programmer by heart. But lately I have been doing quite a bit of Java again. Wow, does it work cross-platform. I am using a Windows Intel Notebook and a Linux PowerBook from Apple. Only with Java can I move sources and binaries from one machine to another without any problems.
In C++ the Open Source community seems to have stuck its head up its butt in complexity. Take for example building a Open Source application. First we run autoconf, then./configure and then finally we build. Of course lets not forget to include libtool and the likes. PEOPLE what are doing, making work for themselves?
I have dropped the entire notion of using make files and other things. I ended up using ANT to build C++ programs. What a cool tool. Here is something that was re-engineered and it ends up as being a better project management of sources, executables, etc. And what is ANT written in? Java!
C++ needs to get back to the drawing board and start things over and make things simpler! Java have and so has.NET...
Sad to (Really Sad) to say it, but if C++ does not simplify it will run out of steam.
This is what bothers me too. It reminds me of a leech that hangs and says, "Do not worry, just a little blood". But yet you still get rid of the leech because it bothers you.
After having heard the joke played on Bill Gates and Bill's reaction and how MS deals with problems I honestly do think MS will self-implode. And the oddest thing is that it will be their leadership that will cause the self-implosion...
I do not agree with that. Ok I am just an engineer here... BUT Hawking has some interesting ideas. Just from the article "With the 'no boundary' condition, there will be no beginning or end to imaginary time, just as there is no beginning or end to a path on the surface of the Earth."
Ok so lets say that he is right and that imginary time has no beginning or end. And lets say somehow we manage to figure out that time and our universe has NO beginning or end. What would we say? People would seriously go bezerk...
You see I think what the modern world now has to realize is that certain assumptions that we make do not exist. The boundaries created were solely virtual for our own protection. But breaking these boundaries means that our fundenmental existance is questioned. Not something that most people want to explore. Hawking does explore it because his existance should by "normal" terms not exist. But yet he does and he is coming up "with crack-pot" theories.
I think after a couple of hundred years from now when we have broken our initial premises about life Hawking will be remembered for the genius that he was. Just like Da'Vinci and his flying machine!!!;)
Ever since.9.5 I have been basically only using the Mozilla browser. Mozilla is good. To be honest I am really surprised because I have been using Mozilla off and on for the past couple of years. But now Mozilla is good.
I have even switched back to using Mozilla for email.
Congrats folks, good job....
Like a good Barello, it takes time to build a superior product....
I entirely agree with that. People want to pay nothing, but download like maniacs on high speed links. Sorry but that does not work. I like the concept of pay for the byte because it keeps the lines free.
I have 1 MB DSL with a cap and extra charges. But guess what I have full DSL speed access and the lines are always up. You know how much fun it is to download at 1 MB? Tons....
While it is possible practically. I doubt they could pull it off. Lets say you do create a search engine and all of the sudden a huge number of requests come through? What do you do?
Or lets say Google spikes the search request at some competitors to prove they are using Google.
So sure they could do it, but I doubt any popular site could get away with it for long.
First I stated I am willing to build the apps myself. But if I am ignored how can I help myself? Using the argument "you have the source" simply does not work in these times. People DO NOT WANT to tweak where they do not want to. And I cannot give something to my client that needs tweaking.
You see I am on the PowerPC platform not because I am glutton for punishment, but because I want to really see which packages are professional and which are "Open Spirit" packages.
My issue is how come a LINUX Intel application will compile, but LINUX PowerPC will not? Seriously think that one over? There are virtually no differences between the platforms.
Doing Open Source does not mean being immature. Professionalism is always useful regardless of the nature of the excercise. For example when you play tennis with someone, do you try to play the game or just shoot the ball whereever? You play the ball so that you can get excitement. Hence Open Source needs to understand this as well.
There are many packages that work without problems. For example Apache, Java, Perl, Python, Ximain, KDE work like a charm and I never need to tweak much, if anything.
You are right. And hence since most of my buddies do not have Linux machines they should simply ignore Linux, Yes?
There is not having the PPC machine and not being PPC friendly. My point is that many apps are simply not PPC friendly. People assume that it is an Intel world only!
It is a bit of arrogance. And if you mention that a Linux developer can reach 99.x% of the developers by targeting x86 then you are using the same argument as Microsoft. And if I look at the stats then 99.x% of the desktops use Windows hence it would not make sense for me to target Linux? Therefore using that logic LINUX is dead in the water! We might as well all jump to Microsoft!
I am not trying to be sarcastic or pedandic. I am just using the argument that you gave me.
I am always willing to build the apps myself. But the problem is that most of the folks simply choose to ignore me. Ok I will admit that there was a really helpful person on the Anjuta mailing list. But that was clearly the exception. What I would like is that people just think a bit more than simply x86.
Sorry I cannot agree with that. I like YDL because they are the only ones trying to keep up with the latest and greatest. Look at Suse and Mandrake and there is no effort whatsoever.
I use YDL 2.1 with Natilaus installed and have say it is totally cool. Have not looked back.
I use my Powerbook and have to say that yes it is nice, but no it is not nice.
It is nice in the sense that the notebook works well. But it is a major headache to get software to work.
While some folks may say, it is LINUX and therefore it will work, that is a figment of the imagination.
Firstly when using closed software people only say Linux. When I mention PowerPC they say no problem if it is Linux it works. But then I mention it is not Intel and they say "oh, sorry, but it works on Intel".
Secondly when using open source many people do not setup the./configure and autoconf properly to take into account a PowerPc platform. Many times I get platform not support or it simply does not compile. Case in point, Anjuta, or PNET. Sure it could be fixed with a bunch of tweaks, but it gets my goat that I need to tweak at all!!!
The only software that has worked without problem whatsoever are the bigger projects (Apache, Perl, etc) and Java. I am amazed at how well Java moves from Windows, Linux Intel and Linux PowerPC.
My conclusion is that even Open Source and closed source are as arrogant about non-intel platforms.
And PowerPC CPU's are consistently slower than any of my Intel boxes. I use LINUX on both PowerPC and Intel. My Intel boxs run circles around the PowerPC.
While I thought that would be a good way to do things as well I ran into several situations where that does not work out worth a darn...
I have an American keyboard, prefer Canadian settings, but live in Switzerland. So what settings should be default?
The settings that are default are according to the version of Windows you use. For example if you buy UK Windows you get UK settings German Windows you get German settings. That I think would be the most logical solution.
Seriously, while I agree that it sucks that the guy cannot submit code, Apple's hands are bound. Apple is a corporation that has a board, shareholders, etc. And while they would like to do otherwise it simply is NOT POSSIBLE.
I hope at least that they give him a free computer or something like that. Show him some appreciation...
I have no idea why people are talking about brand names and clones here...
What the company is doing in Taiwan is building computers not designing it. The same thing happens in the car industry already. Magna Corporation (one of the largest car suppliers) supplies parts for ALL of the car manufacturers. However, nobody in the car industry says that a FORD car is driving GM parts.
So the comparison of clones produced by the Taiwanese is not the same as building computers for Dell, Compaq etc.
And if you think that the Taiwanese are learning from Dell and Compaq to put into their own brands, forget it. It is much more lucractive for the Taiwanese to build the computers than to "borrow" and clone.
The same occurs in the car industry. Magna basically makes every part of the car. And they could in theory build their own car. But they do not. It is much more lucrative to build the parts.
That is exactly it. Regardless of how a contract is worded employers cannot claim it if you do it on your own time, with your own equipment and not related to the company. It would be like saying you are building a garden and the company laying claim to the vegetables grown. Sure they could try, but it would not hold up in court.
And yes every law has a clause stating that a contract cannot override the law. If that did not exist then within a contract your could be a "wife beater", which is quite justly illegal.
The US is not the biggest waster of energy. On a per capita basis the US's neighbor to the North beats everyone (Canada).
I know I live in Quebec and to us energy is nothing to gripe about. We have our own well and heat our houses with electricity (Cheap). But let me tell you it is nice to have a warm home and water left, right and to the center...
There is now even evidence that the planet at one time was a huge chunk of ice. It seemed like a crazy idea at first, but evidence is mounting. But notice even after the chunk of ice ordeal the planet is still around?
Not to say that Global Warming does not exist. Maybe it does maybe it does not. But does it matter?
Seriously, look at history. About 1000 years ago Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada was capable of growing grape wines. That must have indicated that the entire area was very warm. But yet people survived and proposered. After that period the world went into a very mini ice age with the peak being around 1400's. Since then the world has been warming up.
My point is that maybe the world is warming up. BUT SO WHAT!!! Humans adapt and we will survive. It is all part of the cycle of the planet.
What we should really be concerned about is that we are becoming inflexible in dealing with change. And that can cause our demise!!!!
As much as I hate to agree with you I think you are right. DELL is the number one PC supplier and they need volume. If LINUX only sells a small amount then the infrastructure that DELL needs may be too big. Also DELL may have seen that the folks who actually buy and use LINUX do not need support. Either way you look at it, DELL does not make extra money.
I would get concerned if DELL started building notebooks that could not run LINUX...
BUT and this is a big BUT... They had partners showing off the X-BOX with software from the partners. So technically MS was not breaking the rules, but because the partners were selling add-ons they were not breaking the rules either.
Sony did not have this luck.
I saw it on NTV and people were annoyed.
You know the stupidity of MS never ceases to amaze me. MS has everyone breathing down their neck. And what do they do? They yell and scream when someone else is breaking the rules.
A good punishment of MS would not be to break the company or anything related to licensing software. Get the top brass to retire immediately and sell their stocks for a fair price. As Lou Gerstner says, after ten years running a company change needs to occur otherwise you become stale and uncreative...
I agree with that point. I see in the Open Source community two camps. Those that actually have the know how to finish the application. And those that say "Finish it yourself".
The reason why I know this quite well is because I use a PowerPC Notebook with Linux. And in 95% of the cases there is no BINARY. Hence I am forced to build everything. And when building from scratch I see which projects actually take the time to do things professionally.
For example most Java projects are pretty professional. I can usually get a Java application to work. Apache is very professional. Apache builds everywhere without problems. Redhat is very professional since I can get basically everything to build.
But many other projects are not. Often I get problems of things not building because of dependency problems. Especially bad are GNOME projects. They seem to forget that the rest of world may not have all of the GNOME libs installed. KDE projects seem to be pretty good and I can get them to compile in most cases.
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I have to agree with you entirely. I am a C++ programmer by heart. But lately I have been doing quite a bit of Java again. Wow, does it work cross-platform. I am using a Windows Intel Notebook and a Linux PowerBook from Apple. Only with Java can I move sources and binaries from one machine to another without any problems.
./configure and then finally we build. Of course lets not forget to include libtool and the likes. PEOPLE what are doing, making work for themselves?
.NET...
In C++ the Open Source community seems to have stuck its head up its butt in complexity. Take for example building a Open Source application. First we run autoconf, then
I have dropped the entire notion of using make files and other things. I ended up using ANT to build C++ programs. What a cool tool. Here is something that was re-engineered and it ends up as being a better project management of sources, executables, etc. And what is ANT written in? Java!
C++ needs to get back to the drawing board and start things over and make things simpler! Java have and so has
Sad to (Really Sad) to say it, but if C++ does not simplify it will run out of steam.
This is what bothers me too. It reminds me of a leech that hangs and says, "Do not worry, just a little blood". But yet you still get rid of the leech because it bothers you.
After having heard the joke played on Bill Gates and Bill's reaction and how MS deals with problems I honestly do think MS will self-implode. And the oddest thing is that it will be their leadership that will cause the self-implosion...
I do not agree with that. Ok I am just an engineer here... BUT Hawking has some interesting ideas. Just from the article "With the 'no boundary' condition, there will be no beginning or end to imaginary time, just as there is no beginning or end to a path on the surface of the Earth."
;)
Ok so lets say that he is right and that imginary time has no beginning or end. And lets say somehow we manage to figure out that time and our universe has NO beginning or end. What would we say? People would seriously go bezerk...
You see I think what the modern world now has to realize is that certain assumptions that we make do not exist. The boundaries created were solely virtual for our own protection. But breaking these boundaries means that our fundenmental existance is questioned. Not something that most people want to explore. Hawking does explore it because his existance should by "normal" terms not exist. But yet he does and he is coming up "with crack-pot" theories.
I think after a couple of hundred years from now when we have broken our initial premises about life Hawking will be remembered for the genius that he was. Just like Da'Vinci and his flying machine!!!
Ever since .9.5 I have been basically only using the Mozilla browser. Mozilla is good. To be honest I am really surprised because I have been using Mozilla off and on for the past couple of years. But now Mozilla is good.
I have even switched back to using Mozilla for email.
Congrats folks, good job....
Like a good Barello, it takes time to build a superior product....
I entirely agree with that. People want to pay nothing, but download like maniacs on high speed links. Sorry but that does not work. I like the concept of pay for the byte because it keeps the lines free.
I have 1 MB DSL with a cap and extra charges. But guess what I have full DSL speed access and the lines are always up. You know how much fun it is to download at 1 MB? Tons....
While it is possible practically. I doubt they could pull it off. Lets say you do create a search engine and all of the sudden a huge number of requests come through? What do you do?
Or lets say Google spikes the search request at some competitors to prove they are using Google.
So sure they could do it, but I doubt any popular site could get away with it for long.
First I stated I am willing to build the apps myself. But if I am ignored how can I help myself? Using the argument "you have the source" simply does not work in these times. People DO NOT WANT to tweak where they do not want to. And I cannot give something to my client that needs tweaking.
You see I am on the PowerPC platform not because I am glutton for punishment, but because I want to really see which packages are professional and which are "Open Spirit" packages.
My issue is how come a LINUX Intel application will compile, but LINUX PowerPC will not? Seriously think that one over? There are virtually no differences between the platforms.
Doing Open Source does not mean being immature. Professionalism is always useful regardless of the nature of the excercise. For example when you play tennis with someone, do you try to play the game or just shoot the ball whereever? You play the ball so that you can get excitement. Hence Open Source needs to understand this as well.
There are many packages that work without problems. For example Apache, Java, Perl, Python, Ximain, KDE work like a charm and I never need to tweak much, if anything.
You are right. And hence since most of my buddies do not have Linux machines they should simply ignore Linux, Yes?
There is not having the PPC machine and not being PPC friendly. My point is that many apps are simply not PPC friendly. People assume that it is an Intel world only!
It is a bit of arrogance. And if you mention that a Linux developer can reach 99.x% of the developers by targeting x86 then you are using the same argument as Microsoft. And if I look at the stats then 99.x% of the desktops use Windows hence it would not make sense for me to target Linux? Therefore using that logic LINUX is dead in the water! We might as well all jump to Microsoft!
I am not trying to be sarcastic or pedandic. I am just using the argument that you gave me.
I am always willing to build the apps myself. But the problem is that most of the folks simply choose to ignore me. Ok I will admit that there was a really helpful person on the Anjuta mailing list. But that was clearly the exception. What I would like is that people just think a bit more than simply x86.
Fair enough... Sorry for forgetting about Debian
Sorry I cannot agree with that. I like YDL because they are the only ones trying to keep up with the latest and greatest. Look at Suse and Mandrake and there is no effort whatsoever.
I use YDL 2.1 with Natilaus installed and have say it is totally cool. Have not looked back.
I use my Powerbook and have to say that yes it is nice, but no it is not nice.
./configure and autoconf properly to take into account a PowerPc platform. Many times I get platform not support or it simply does not compile. Case in point, Anjuta, or PNET. Sure it could be fixed with a bunch of tweaks, but it gets my goat that I need to tweak at all!!!
It is nice in the sense that the notebook works well. But it is a major headache to get software to work.
While some folks may say, it is LINUX and therefore it will work, that is a figment of the imagination.
Firstly when using closed software people only say Linux. When I mention PowerPC they say no problem if it is Linux it works. But then I mention it is not Intel and they say "oh, sorry, but it works on Intel".
Secondly when using open source many people do not setup the
The only software that has worked without problem whatsoever are the bigger projects (Apache, Perl, etc) and Java. I am amazed at how well Java moves from Windows, Linux Intel and Linux PowerPC.
My conclusion is that even Open Source and closed source are as arrogant about non-intel platforms.
And PowerPC CPU's are consistently slower than any of my Intel boxes. I use LINUX on both PowerPC and Intel. My Intel boxs run circles around the PowerPC.
While I thought that would be a good way to do things as well I ran into several situations where that does not work out worth a darn...
I have an American keyboard, prefer Canadian settings, but live in Switzerland. So what settings should be default?
The settings that are default are according to the version of Windows you use. For example if you buy UK Windows you get UK settings German Windows you get German settings. That I think would be the most logical solution.
Seriously, while I agree that it sucks that the guy cannot submit code, Apple's hands are bound. Apple is a corporation that has a board, shareholders, etc. And while they would like to do otherwise it simply is NOT POSSIBLE.
I hope at least that they give him a free computer or something like that. Show him some appreciation...
Get the Motorola Tri-Band. Nice form factor, good battery life and works in Europe and the US. I have one and think it is REALLY nice.
The Nextel multi-band are simply too brickish...
I have no idea why people are talking about brand names and clones here...
What the company is doing in Taiwan is building computers not designing it. The same thing happens in the car industry already. Magna Corporation (one of the largest car suppliers) supplies parts for ALL of the car manufacturers. However, nobody in the car industry says that a FORD car is driving GM parts.
So the comparison of clones produced by the Taiwanese is not the same as building computers for Dell, Compaq etc.
And if you think that the Taiwanese are learning from Dell and Compaq to put into their own brands, forget it. It is much more lucractive for the Taiwanese to build the computers than to "borrow" and clone.
The same occurs in the car industry. Magna basically makes every part of the car. And they could in theory build their own car. But they do not. It is much more lucrative to build the parts.
That is the problem exactly.
The comment was that if you installed phpAdmin you would be ready in five minutes.
First phpAdmin would require more complex installation either of the PHP runtime or a web server.
Second you need to configure it and get it running
And then you need to get a browser to look at it.
I can just imagine a user... "But all I wanted to do was add a couple of records"
That is exactly it. Regardless of how a contract is worded employers cannot claim it if you do it on your own time, with your own equipment and not related to the company. It would be like saying you are building a garden and the company laying claim to the vegetables grown. Sure they could try, but it would not hold up in court.
And yes every law has a clause stating that a contract cannot override the law. If that did not exist then within a contract your could be a "wife beater", which is quite justly illegal.
The US is not the biggest waster of energy. On a per capita basis the US's neighbor to the North beats everyone (Canada).
I know I live in Quebec and to us energy is nothing to gripe about. We have our own well and heat our houses with electricity (Cheap). But let me tell you it is nice to have a warm home and water left, right and to the center...
Exactly...
There is now even evidence that the planet at one time was a huge chunk of ice. It seemed like a crazy idea at first, but evidence is mounting. But notice even after the chunk of ice ordeal the planet is still around?
Not to say that Global Warming does not exist. Maybe it does maybe it does not. But does it matter?
Seriously, look at history. About 1000 years ago Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada was capable of growing grape wines. That must have indicated that the entire area was very warm. But yet people survived and proposered. After that period the world went into a very mini ice age with the peak being around 1400's. Since then the world has been warming up.
My point is that maybe the world is warming up. BUT SO WHAT!!! Humans adapt and we will survive. It is all part of the cycle of the planet.
What we should really be concerned about is that we are becoming inflexible in dealing with change. And that can cause our demise!!!!
As much as I hate to agree with you I think you are right. DELL is the number one PC supplier and they need volume. If LINUX only sells a small amount then the infrastructure that DELL needs may be too big. Also DELL may have seen that the folks who actually buy and use LINUX do not need support. Either way you look at it, DELL does not make extra money.
I would get concerned if DELL started building notebooks that could not run LINUX...
Ah no Microsoft followed the rule of the show.
BUT and this is a big BUT... They had partners showing off the X-BOX with software from the partners. So technically MS was not breaking the rules, but because the partners were selling add-ons they were not breaking the rules either.
Sony did not have this luck.
I saw it on NTV and people were annoyed.
You know the stupidity of MS never ceases to amaze me. MS has everyone breathing down their neck. And what do they do? They yell and scream when someone else is breaking the rules.
A good punishment of MS would not be to break the company or anything related to licensing software. Get the top brass to retire immediately and sell their stocks for a fair price. As Lou Gerstner says, after ten years running a company change needs to occur otherwise you become stale and uncreative...
I agree with that point. I see in the Open Source community two camps. Those that actually have the know how to finish the application. And those that say "Finish it yourself".
The reason why I know this quite well is because I use a PowerPC Notebook with Linux. And in 95% of the cases there is no BINARY. Hence I am forced to build everything. And when building from scratch I see which projects actually take the time to do things professionally.
For example most Java projects are pretty professional. I can usually get a Java application to work. Apache is very professional. Apache builds everywhere without problems. Redhat is very professional since I can get basically everything to build.
But many other projects are not. Often I get problems of things not building because of dependency problems. Especially bad are GNOME projects. They seem to forget that the rest of world may not have all of the GNOME libs installed. KDE projects seem to be pretty good and I can get them to compile in most cases.