"It's not like there's a huge inventory of Win CE software out there that absolutely must be run on these portable devices." yeah I just had a look through some sites: www.smartphone.net www.coolsmartphone.net www.airfagev.com these guys are skirting the plug whole, compared of linux phone apps, ummm.. here: http://freshmeat.net/browse/1038/ game over microsoft!
"Their entire culture involves around theft, acquisition and intimidation." your right! developers are scared, they are only using.NET because they will be hunted down and killed if they don't.
"they've never been able to dominate any other industry" "Expecting Microsoft to compete in a more open marketplace and win" good point, look how they have been blow out of the water in the PDA/console market. when i go down to my local computer store they only stock one or two yellowed devices in the bargin bin. Linux is kicking their ASSES! have you seen how many PDA and consoles there are for linux!
I wanted to develop for my Microsoft Smartphone. I installed VS2003 from a MSDN CD.
it worked.
I wanted to develop for GNOME. LUCKLY there was a webpage listing the files i needed. I had to download and compile half a dozen libaries. but some where not some didn't work. After a few hours I found a page with a list of the libaries which were known to work together. by the time I had a working enviroment I had over a gigs of compiler generated files. I didn't even try and get a DB going. egat - scary.
see my point here?
As a professional CE engineer, and an eMVP, I know better than most the install whoes of working with CE, but linux is no bed of roses either. been there done that. If you want to work with cutting edge tech, you will need to spend sometime updating you machine, thats the same with linux and CE/Windows Mobile.
When you think of Toshiba, you might think of notebooks, but fuel cells? Never.
UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY READ SLASHDOT, rather than just submitting stories. granted searching the slashdot archives for "toshiba" and "fuel cell" is quite tricky, but i think most slashdot users are up to the task
since the poster was anonymous perhaps they arn't a regular reader, so remembering back three months might be to much to ask.
damnit slashdot needs more readers like StateOfTheUnion.
Toshiba To Show Laptop Fuel Cells at CeBit http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/05/19625 6.shtml ?tid=126&tid=184
Fuel Cells Promised For Next Year http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/16/183521 8.shtm l?tid=126&tid=137
Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004 http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/02/231620 5.shtm l
I have two games on my p4 laptop, Galatic Civilations, and the origional Sam'n'Max. I still play it from time to time. There has never been a game that comes close.
Riki
"We're the Freelance Police," said Sam, "and we're in a race against time." "And we're barefoot, too," added Max.
Heres an idea, why not just post the results on the 'net. When you vote you get some code. You enter in you name/number whatever, then your code and check it. This *helps* to prove that your vote may have been correctly counted and not changed. I know i'd feel alot safer if i could check my votes vair another means.
I want to request that stories/categories be a many to many relationship, that way stores like this could be put under "USA" and then they wouldn't be shown on my slashdot page, as it is it seems hardly any stories get classified as this!
Now don't get my wrong i'm sure a power outage is quite exciting, if i lived their, but i don't - so aside a few webservers going down i don't want to know - thats why i ticked the "don't show stories about USA".
Why is it so hard for the Slashdot admins to classifiy stories about USA as USA! and that counts for the countless storeies about kinky lawsuits. I don't mind the odd SCO story or two - hey they are funny, but i don't really need to know about every USA sentric lawsuit, mmkay?! The world is bigger than the USA, and i'm tired of my news being saturated by a relitivly small portion of the world population.
Exammple: one nite i watched the BBC World news and the ABC "World" news. The BBC had one story on england, and the rest on the rest of the world, isrial featured heavly i believe. the ABC had ONE count 'em ONE story NOT on america. Why keep the pretence people - we all know its not world news if its only about one country. Sure its an interesting country and makes quite a bit of news, but please, keep some BALANCE! its not like its the largest country in the world.
but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux)
if you are going to make up number, at least make then sound believeable! how would they make billions off linux? they resell redhat, they make their own servers, how???? even redhat doesn't make billions, in fact it gets about 27m sales for Q4. that now thats how much money people gave them, you have to take out how much it cost them to make that money, like paying the boys at the : RHAL
now ibms Q4 servers divion got 4.2b, and you'd be a fool to think any signifigant number of that was *solely* due to their support of linux. And lets not forget that IBM's OS are a darn site better in the server space than linux is going to be in the next year(s). And I shouldn't need to say this, but, revinue means nothing, gross profit is where it matters.
Sure cheep linux clusters are good at some things, but they are not anywhere near stuff like IBMs Blue Gene
As much as i dislike capitist america, you can't just throw your toys out of the cot when a large company like ibm embraces linux, AND whats more PLAYS BUY THE RULES, even donating code to the kernal, and the community.
The research was done in association with NIWA, heres a link to their computer:
NIWA
Bit old now, bit still an impressive computer to visit (yes i have)
riki
The Films, Videos and Publication's Act requires all films for public exhibition to be classified. There are six standard classifications which may sometimes have a cautionary note attached.
G Suitable for general audiences of all ages. PG Younger children may require parental guidance. M Suitable for mature persons over 16 years of age. R Restricted to persons over 16 years of age unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. R16 Restricted to persons over 16 years of age only. R18 Restricted to persons over 18 years of age only.
SDL uses OpenGL and DirectX for its backend (and DIB's/native windows APIs and...), but you get the idea - its just a layer on top of the for-metioned API's)
(well it uses OpenGL for 2D after some proding care of David Olofson olofson.net)
i have lost days of otherwise productive work to this damn game. first it was geting a max 0Heading 0Pitch game. (80,000 odd) then it was getting no damage at all. then it was getting over 600,000. (645,449 then 669,165 then 672,169) thats not skill that just shear perseverance. yes u have to use angles like 179Heading and 79 Pitch.
including steven hawkings? in his book he pointed out that no one can guess what happened before the big bang, and he put it down to God, god created the universe before the big bang. since god is infalable he set the big bang up *exactlly* how he wanted it and we are here reading slashdot, by his design.
personally i'm not a christian, but i liked his reasoning.
> Since about Mozilla 0.8 or so, Mozilla has rendered faster than any version of IE.
for HTML, hmmm yeah suppose so. for DHTML, nope not even close, even with the recent DHTML. i'm a web developer and spend most of my time in mozilla, flicking over to IE6 to check any kinky DHTML/DOM/JScript i'm doing, and mozilla just doesn't cut it. i'm running a P4 1.8 with 512 megs and its till slow.
for exmaple: http://www.cross-browser.com/ss/solar_system.html try that in IE then mozilla (remember to only have one brower on the page at a time). granted not an everyday use, but i use DHTML for a dragable toolbar for my page layout tool with opacity and their is a notisable difference.
and the whole - "opps forgot to emit the mouseoff event" is really annoying. and the fact i can crash mozilla with some legacy IE4 code is annoying too - but i'm sure that will get fixed at some point.
now linux maynot be better but don't be thinking microsoft is shiny - if it was i wouldn't need to have these four lines to get my program working correctly:
#ifndef _DEBUG
if (GetVersion() < 0x80000000)
tmp->tm_hour ++;
#endif
besides my understanding is that the ABI has only changed because they oppsied and found it wasn't able to handle some new/bezar C++ functions, hence old c apps are unaffected - but i must confess theres more guesswork than fact in that statement.
Slashdot Mirror
"It's not like there's a huge inventory of Win CE software out there that absolutely must be run on these portable devices."t
.NET because they will be hunted down and killed if they don't.
yeah I just had a look through some sites:
www.smartphone.net
www.coolsmartphone.ne
www.airfagev.com
these guys are skirting the plug whole, compared of linux phone apps, ummm.. here: http://freshmeat.net/browse/1038/
game over microsoft!
"Their entire culture involves around theft, acquisition and intimidation."
your right! developers are scared, they are only using
"they've never been able to dominate any other industry"
"Expecting Microsoft to compete in a more open marketplace and win"
good point, look how they have been blow out of the water in the PDA/console market. when i go down to my local computer store they only stock one or two yellowed devices in the bargin bin. Linux is kicking their ASSES! have you seen how many PDA and consoles there are for linux!
riki
I wanted to develop for my Microsoft Smartphone. I installed VS2003 from a MSDN CD.
it worked.
I wanted to develop for GNOME. LUCKLY there was a webpage listing the files i needed. I had to download and compile half a dozen libaries. but some where not some didn't work. After a few hours I found a page with a list of the libaries which were known to work together. by the time I had a working enviroment I had over a gigs of compiler generated files. I didn't even try and get a DB going. egat - scary.
see my point here?
As a professional CE engineer, and an eMVP, I know better than most the install whoes of working with CE, but linux is no bed of roses either. been there done that. If you want to work with cutting edge tech, you will need to spend sometime updating you machine, thats the same with linux and CE/Windows Mobile.
Riki
www.embeddedfusion.com
When you think of Toshiba, you might think of notebooks, but fuel cells? Never.
5 6.shtml ?tid=126&tid=184
1 8.shtm l?tid=126&tid=137
0 5.shtm l
UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY READ SLASHDOT, rather than just submitting stories. granted searching the slashdot archives for "toshiba" and "fuel cell" is quite tricky, but i think most slashdot users are up to the task
since the poster was anonymous perhaps they arn't a regular reader, so remembering back three months might be to much to ask.
damnit slashdot needs more readers like StateOfTheUnion.
Toshiba To Show Laptop Fuel Cells at CeBit
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/05/1962
Fuel Cells Promised For Next Year
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/16/18352
Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/02/23162
riki
I have two games on my p4 laptop, Galatic Civilations, and the origional Sam'n'Max. I still play it from time to time. There has never been a game that comes close.
Riki
"We're the Freelance Police," said Sam, "and we're in a race against time."
"And we're barefoot, too," added Max.
Heres an idea, why not just post the results on the 'net. When you vote you get some code. You enter in you name/number whatever, then your code and check it. This *helps* to prove that your vote may have been correctly counted and not changed. I know i'd feel alot safer if i could check my votes vair another means.
I want to request that stories/categories be a many to many relationship, that way stores like this could be put under "USA" and then they wouldn't be shown on my slashdot page, as it is it seems hardly any stories get classified as this!
Now don't get my wrong i'm sure a power outage is quite exciting, if i lived their, but i don't - so aside a few webservers going down i don't want to know - thats why i ticked the "don't show stories about USA".
Why is it so hard for the Slashdot admins to classifiy stories about USA as USA! and that counts for the countless storeies about kinky lawsuits. I don't mind the odd SCO story or two - hey they are funny, but i don't really need to know about every USA sentric lawsuit, mmkay?! The world is bigger than the USA, and i'm tired of my news being saturated by a relitivly small portion of the world population.
Exammple: one nite i watched the BBC World news and the ABC "World" news. The BBC had one story on england, and the rest on the rest of the world, isrial featured heavly i believe. the ABC had ONE count 'em ONE story NOT on america. Why keep the pretence people - we all know its not world news if its only about one country. Sure its an interesting country and makes quite a bit of news, but please, keep some BALANCE! its not like its the largest country in the world.
riki
but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux)
if you are going to make up number, at least make then sound believeable! how would they make billions off linux? they resell redhat, they make their own servers, how???? even redhat doesn't make billions, in fact it gets about 27m sales for Q4. that now thats how much money people gave them, you have to take out how much it cost them to make that money, like paying the boys at the : RHAL
now ibms Q4 servers divion got 4.2b, and you'd be a fool to think any signifigant number of that was *solely* due to their support of linux. And lets not forget that IBM's OS are a darn site better in the server space than linux is going to be in the next year(s). And I shouldn't need to say this, but, revinue means nothing, gross profit is where it matters.
Sure cheep linux clusters are good at some things, but they are not anywhere near stuff like IBMs Blue Gene
As much as i dislike capitist america, you can't just throw your toys out of the cot when a large company like ibm embraces linux, AND whats more PLAYS BUY THE RULES, even donating code to the kernal, and the community.
riki
The estimates vary widely from $10 billion to $87 billion per year for American workers, and even more for global costs.
Well lucky they said it was more globally, here i was thinking it would be less.
riki
The research was done in association with NIWA, heres a link to their computer: NIWA Bit old now, bit still an impressive computer to visit (yes i have) riki
The Films, Videos and Publication's Act requires all films for public exhibition to be classified. There are six standard classifications which may sometimes have a cautionary note attached.
G Suitable for general audiences of all ages.
PG Younger children may require parental guidance.
M Suitable for mature persons over 16 years of age.
R Restricted to persons over 16 years of age unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
R16 Restricted to persons over 16 years of age only.
R18 Restricted to persons over 18 years of age only.
SDL uses OpenGL and DirectX for its backend (and DIB's/native windows APIs and...), but you get the idea - its just a layer on top of the for-metioned API's)
(well it uses OpenGL for 2D after some proding care of David Olofson olofson.net)
riki
i have lost days of otherwise productive work to this damn game. first it was geting a max 0Heading 0Pitch game. (80,000 odd) then it was getting no damage at all. then it was getting over 600,000. (645,449 then 669,165 then 672,169) thats not skill that just shear perseverance. yes u have to use angles like 179Heading and 79 Pitch.
>(including the "intelligent design" crowd)
including steven hawkings? in his book he pointed out that no one can guess what happened before the big bang, and he put it down to God, god created the universe before the big bang. since god is infalable he set the big bang up *exactlly* how he wanted it and we are here reading slashdot, by his design.
personally i'm not a christian, but i liked his reasoning.
> Since about Mozilla 0.8 or so, Mozilla has rendered faster than any version of IE.
for HTML, hmmm yeah suppose so.
for DHTML, nope not even close, even with the recent DHTML. i'm a web developer and spend most of my time in mozilla, flicking over to IE6 to check any kinky DHTML/DOM/JScript i'm doing, and mozilla just doesn't cut it. i'm running a P4 1.8 with 512 megs and its till slow.
for exmaple: http://www.cross-browser.com/ss/solar_system.html
try that in IE then mozilla (remember to only have one brower on the page at a time). granted not an everyday use, but i use DHTML for a dragable toolbar for my page layout tool with opacity and their is a notisable difference.
and the whole - "opps forgot to emit the mouseoff event" is really annoying. and the fact i can crash mozilla with some legacy IE4 code is annoying too - but i'm sure that will get fixed at some point.
lastly i love mozilla - like a lizard.
now linux maynot be better but don't be thinking microsoft is shiny - if it was i wouldn't need to have these four lines to get my program working correctly:
#ifndef _DEBUG
if (GetVersion() < 0x80000000)
tmp->tm_hour ++;
#endif
besides my understanding is that the ABI has only changed because they oppsied and found it wasn't able to handle some new/bezar C++ functions, hence old c apps are unaffected - but i must confess theres more guesswork than fact in that statement.
to copy from one is plagiarism, to copy from three or more is research - didn't u learn althing in skool?
SGI's make cool computers (there new PC's look so sexy)
but there CRAYS are *SO* much better then HP/IBM/compaq/etc
they should sell cases!!!!!!!!