And all I can say is, what a joy to work with this QT toolkit is.
Before I wrote software which uses QT, I wrote it using Motif. The designer that comes with QT is light-years ahead of any designer I've used for Motif. The "slot/socket" mechanism that it uses allows me to use a more abstract GUI design. And the geometry management is much nicer as well.
Just thought I'd throw those thoughts in. No, I don't work for Trolltech. Lykke til Trolltech!
Plus, with a flat panel, you can use sub-pixel rendering to increase the apparent resolution of your high-contrast text (black on white). Since this creates impression that your horizontal resolution is THREE TIMES HIGHER, it makes for much clearer text. For example, many people turn off anti-aliasing entirely for text of sizes 7-15 or so, because normal anti-aliasing can make text of these sizes look too blurry. But, with sub-pixel rendering turned on, even these sizes look clean and sharp.
Are you assuming that the anthropologists of the future will be unable to figure all this out? Every record of humankind, by the same measure, is biased and incomplete. A thousand years ago, only the most elite and highest-in-rank in our society could even write. We still find value in their written records, however, and anthropologists are aware of the bias. Erik Hill
It's worse than that. Giving only 1.329% of his total wealth away means less to him than someone poorer than him giving 1.329% of their wealth away. If I had only $2000 in assets to my name, then giving $26.58 away might actually affect my lifestyle for a short while. That's food money! Or at least, books and software. I assure you that Gates' donations have not in any way affected his lifestyle. His life is identical (possibly better because of good publicity) than it would have been had he not donated anything. A poor person giving less, however, might actually have to sacrifice something. Erik Hill
One more good thing about this service
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This service also implies an automatic repair of your music. If your CD is scratched up, but the mymp3 server still recognizes it, then the music you can then download will be perfect (probably), off their server, and their archived version of your CD's. Not to mention, if you LOSE your CD, or it gets stolen.
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Bingo! MacOS X.1, PPC, and (the one that clinched the deal), the iPod. $860 later and I am now a proud Mac owner and user.
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Or, since it sounds more geeky (and therefore more slashdot) I am now a proud BSD user. Plus a shiny GUI. I like shiny too
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This is the first time on Slashdot I wish something could be marked Score: 6 -- Funny.
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Not sure what you are talking about... IIFC one can recomplile QT from scratch. This, of course, would require absolutely all of the code.
And all I can say is, what a joy to work with this QT toolkit is.
Before I wrote software which uses QT, I wrote it using Motif. The designer that comes with QT is light-years ahead of any designer I've used for Motif. The "slot/socket" mechanism that it uses allows me to use a more abstract GUI design. And the geometry management is much nicer as well.
Just thought I'd throw those thoughts in. No, I don't work for Trolltech. Lykke til Trolltech!
Hope I said that right. It's been years.
Plus, with a flat panel, you can use sub-pixel rendering to increase the apparent resolution of your high-contrast text (black on white). Since this creates impression that your horizontal resolution is THREE TIMES HIGHER, it makes for much clearer text. For example, many people turn off anti-aliasing entirely for text of sizes 7-15 or so, because normal anti-aliasing can make text of these sizes look too blurry. But, with sub-pixel rendering turned on, even these sizes look clean and sharp.
Are you assuming that the anthropologists of the future will be unable to figure all this out? Every record of humankind, by the same measure, is biased and incomplete. A thousand years ago, only the most elite and highest-in-rank in our society could even write. We still find value in their written records, however, and anthropologists are aware of the bias. Erik Hill
It's worse than that. Giving only 1.329% of his total wealth away means less to him than someone poorer than him giving 1.329% of their wealth away. If I had only $2000 in assets to my name, then giving $26.58 away might actually affect my lifestyle for a short while. That's food money! Or at least, books and software. I assure you that Gates' donations have not in any way affected his lifestyle. His life is identical (possibly better because of good publicity) than it would have been had he not donated anything. A poor person giving less, however, might actually have to sacrifice something. Erik Hill
This service also implies an automatic repair of your music. If your CD is scratched up, but the mymp3 server still recognizes it, then the music you can then download will be perfect (probably), off their server, and their archived version of your CD's. Not to mention, if you LOSE your CD, or it gets stolen.