Netscape already uses gtk as its framework, plus some homegrown stuff too. KDE and Gnome neither use Motif. Because of the license of Motif vs gtk / qt I think we will see less and less companies use Motif. It also depends on weather they are going to write open source software or some proprietary stuff and if they want to use C or C++ as there is a difference. There is also the option of gtk-- for C++ as wrapper functions on gtk. It will also depend on weather they can find Motif programmers vs QT / gtk programmers.
Chances are that if they are wring for UNIX it will also depend on which UNIX they write for. Solaris still uses Motif / CDE.
Something to notice is that companies that write for Linux are going with gtk or qt and/or something that they have inhouse. Just look at Corel.... only time will really tell....
I'll have to get this and see how good it does recognition and also how easy it is to program an interface for this. Maybe a gtk or tk interface for a simpel text editor or something.....
flash files are better IMHO.. they can stream also, and it is only a matter of time before other companies catch on to what M$ is all about. They were once partnered with Real, they took the tech then broke the partnership. That is there way. That is how they have been since they released the first versio of there os..
I have been thinking of trying FreeBSD but I do not want to add another partition on my Linux box. It already has NT and Linux. I could add FreeBSD I guess, but I am actually interested in setting up seperate machines for my OS's so I can actually use them at different times.
I do think that FreeBSD is a good OS, althought it is slightly less friendly then Linux (IMHO) distributions Like RH and SuSE. I just tried the RH 6.1 GUI install and it was neat. If FreeBSD were to do a GUI install it would certainly make it an easier adjustment for Newbiews. Just my humble opinion.
I'd imagine he could have a real cushy job working somewhere if he wanted in encryption if he does't already. It kind of figures though that the gov wants the key. They want to know what he has got. They want to know eveything and I personally think that they need to let people have there privacy. I realize that they think of all these national security issues, but where does national security end and personal privacy begin. It is things like this that make life easier for hackers. If the gov would let us all create and use good encryption then the hackers would have a much harder time.
I'd rather send my sins to/dev/null. This is just someones attempt to get attention. A rather lame one at that. I think that there are actually only a few religions that believe in confession.
Why does crap like this get up on slashdot. Lately there stories seem to be less and less interesting.........
I personally see this as an early sign of the unifying and globalizing of the planet. In the 2***'s (some people argue over weather this is the new century or not), I think that we will see more global issues than ever before. The internet is sort of forcing us into a global world. It is the new global standard. English is being pushed as another standard, and there are more. In this case it looks like Intel has patents that may only be valid in the US, and some other countries. But here we see another country create a processor by probably reverse enginerring the celeron or however they do it. How are the laws between countries on this governed. Will the other country have to give in to the US and let Intel have its way? Or will the US let the other country sell it outside of the US? Who wins here, and who looses? More and more over the next 100 years we shall see more issues that arise between countries over problems like this. This will inevitable cause more and more countries to think more open minded about change and diversity. I think now I am babbling and obviosly this flu/sickness is making my mind blabber....
If life here did evolve from life somewhere else the repercussions to teh religious sectors are going to be the worst. Especially to Jerry Fallwell folowers and those people who refuse to believe in Evolution (like the people who passes that law in Kansas). I keep waiting to find intelligent life out there not bacteria.....
I am glad to see that Linux is getting into the goverment, but if you only knew how much of a beaurcratic mess the goverment was then you would wonder if this was really a good thing. The goverment has so many regulations on how they do business that it could inevitable leak over into how Redhat functions. I 'd just hate to see a good thing go bad..
The biggest problem I ever had with debian is that I could never really get dselect. I was able to install it once and then use the system a little, but it was not an enjoyable experience. I have tried slackware and the only problem I had there was that the upgrade was more of a cluge than a real upgrade. I tried SuSE but they like makeing evaluation distributions that are different than there ftp site (ask Linuxmall and linuxcentral about that). I do not have the bandwidth or the time to be downloading a distribution so I turned to Redhat which is a decent distribution. I use it cause it is easy to upgrade and I understand rpm, it is well documented. There is a howto use rpm and also a 400 page manual called maximum rpm which you can download in pdf form. I did n ot find anything like that on dselect.
I think that it is good that there are companies making distributions on debian. I hope that they help create a better interface to dselect so that it is much friendlier. If that obstacle were overcome, I think more woudl switch to debian. A debian distribution has more packages per dollar than any other distribution. You can get the debian distribution for a few dollars at cheapbytes and get more software than a Redhat or SuSE distro. Since I never use the manuals anyway this is a better thing for me.
First read the fine print in your offer letter. I have had offer letters that said that they could terminate my employment at ANY time. I'm still there. If there is a clause like this then it is possible. However an offer letter IS a contract and a legal binding document. If you have a laywer friend or there is a laywer here, then you'd be best to solicit his services, as well he'd need to (I'd love to) see the contract.
Personally I think it is in poor taste on the employers part, and if they pull something like this NOW then they are NOT the company you want to work for.
There could also be the possiblility that they found out something about you. Although they should do all their checking before they extend the offer letter, did you have to take a drug test? Was there any reason that they may do this?
I'd also look into to see how the company is doing. Is it a start up? Is it public, then how is their stock? If so that is the problem right there. If you are new out of college stay away from start up's. They are hokey, and unless you know how a work place should run, they can really screw you over, and you wont know it.
If you cannot think of ANY reason that they might recind an offer, and there is NOT a clause that gives them the right to do this, then talk to a laywer and do release their name here, so that we all can stay away from this company.
I don't want a lot, I just want it all!
Flame away, I have a hose!
Is what any study has shown on the effects of RF on the body. WHile I too am an EE, and yes I am not to keen on 2.4Gig Hz waves going through the air, the use of a cell phone has shown no correlation to brain cancer / tumors.
HOWEVER: They have done studies that show that the cell phones DO heat the brain, but only to levels that are considered NORMAL. Of cource this is NORMAL for someone doing heavy thinking, like working a crossword, or similar though intensive stuff.
Personally I think it will be at least 10 years before we know the effects of these waves on our bodies. Look at how long it has taken them to show a relation between smoking and enphazema(sp). People thought (in the 1920's) that smoking was 'good' for you. Now we know that it is not healthy for you. It has taken us many many years. Maybe in 10 years we will know enough about bio chemistry and bio electricity that we will be able to make any determinations about that.
I don't want a lot, I just want it all!
Flame away, I have a hose!
I work for NBCi otherwise known as snap.com, xoom.com, accesshollywood.com, videoseeker.com, email.com, and nbci.com. They do ergonomic studies for there employees which is super cool. They recommend the ergonomic keyboards as a standard. Ergonomic mouse is suposed to be better than a track bal. When you type your arms should be at 90 degree angles and there is lots more but alas I am afraid this is post 150 or so.... so will anyone likely read it..
that is the sound of the gun as I shoot my self for not having the money at the time that I was invited to buy the stock.. does anyone else want to shoot them selves because of similar situation.. I am glad that they are doing so well, I just wish I was on the bandwagon...
Hmm I am still running 3.3.x I am wondering if I need to go upgrade to 3.5? I also wonder how many people will need to go to 4.0? I had heard that in 4.0 they were talking a whole redoing of teh way X was going to be. More modularized and such. Also with support for multi-headed systems. It would be neat to get 2 or three monitors and run different desktops on them. Or one big long wide desktop:-) I always think I need more screen realestate:-). A faster X would also be nicer, but I need newer hardware anyway.
As one person said clean up your code first. Make it readable, and well documented. Then go ahead and if you have the time optimize it. The problem today that there are so many slow crappy applications out there is that people say let the compiler do th ejob of optimizing, and do not bother optimizing at all. A cluge here and a cludge there add up, especially when you start getting into more than 5000 lines of code. If optimizing your code can shave off 20 lines of code each time you optimize and you optimize 5 times then you have shaved off 1000 lines of code. You can then use that 1000 lines of code to add features. A good design is usually better than optimizing though. If you write your detailed design with pseudo code in it you can check the pseudo code before even codeing to make sure the algorythms are good. Then you will not even need to optimize. I have seen people write the crappiest of code, that after being optimized it went from 72 days of runtime on the dataset to 2 hours. Besides how much do you know about how your compiler and its optimizations?
I personally think frames suck, and several people have stated good reasons why frames suck.
See the posting -> From the w3c itself: Frames have not been depreciated in HTML 4.0.
The company I just left uses frames. Here are the propblems that I saw with there application and there use of frames.
If you have frames you need to have scroll bars. They didn't. They assume that they can enforce users to use a resolution of 1024x768, on a 17" monitor. Many users refuse to do this as they claim they cannot read the text or it hurts there eyes. scrolling is bad for the eyes too.
If you are designing an application and need to have that many frames or that many nested tables you may want to rethink the design to have less content on the page, or lay the content out better. Remeber HTML 4.0 support the div tags also which allows one to lay out content better and place it better.
Forcing a certain browser requirement is bad if you are on the internet, but if it is an intranet, you can upgrade the users and make it a requirement. Many companies are moving towards IE5.0 as it actually has implemented more of the HTML4.0 features as opposed to Netscape 4.x however Mozilla is looking real nice, but needs some clean up (IMHO). Personally I'd prefer opera as it is faster than both of those browsers, and smaller, however it costs money. Opera also implements more HTML 4.0 features than Netscape or IE5.0
Learnign HTML is not that difficult, and the best resource out there is www.w3.org. There are also many examples at bother netscape and IE developers sites, and dozons of books.
Maybe he shoudl check out cybertown.com. THey are an interactive site, that seems to be interested in doing some pretty cool stuff. They are in SF, CA somewhere.
This is not really informative, as I only have a PC I have no idea what you are talking about here. To actually be informative maybe you could try to tell us what I should expect to see. And what OS I need to visit this site with.
I have used it. It is somewhat like th ecde. SO if you are into the cde then it will suit you just fine. IT has a sound utility, and a way of configuring sounds thru gtk. There are icons on the desk top. You can configure the control panel menues and items. Desktop backgrounds. To change the root menue or at least the last time I used it you had to manually edit the file for that, but that may have chnaged. When I tried it it was versio n3.0, and most things were fully user configurable thru GUI's like kde and gnome. There were not as many bells and whistles thou. All in all I think it is a good GUI, but I personally did not like the cde look and feel, I am more into Windowmaker, running kfm and the gnome panel.
Sun is slow on supporting other unix platforms it seems. They have been promising help for Linux for the jdk 1.2 on Linux and I still see it is in beta. I think it would be great if they were to thelp FreeBSD, but will not hold my breath for that one to take place. Sun seems more interested in kicking M$ out of the market and then taking M$'s place in the market and screwing all the other UNIX vendors. Solaris is a good OS but is just to expensive and Linux and FreeBSD offer less expensive UNIX type solutions for smaller business, I think Sun is worried a lot about this. IF Java were GPL there would probably be quicker ports of Java to other OSes.
Did you read the first line of my comment? I said it was humorous. I know it was a joke, but I seriously think that the average person is getting dumber. Some of us are getting smarter.... I also think you missed my joke.. reverse evolution.. algae... like I said 5%
This is humorous. I wonder what my fish will think of this. Does this mean that by growing algae in my tanks that I am infringing? Has this world just gotton stupider over the years? I am beginning to see trends of reverse evolution, in american culture. We seem to be getting dumber and dumber as we create more technology. We seem to use less of our brains as we get computers to do more. What now we use 5% instead of 8%. Why aren't we using like 12 to 15% by now?
The screenshot is really nice looking. I am actually looking forward to the release of kde 2.0 now as it looks more and more promising. But here are some points that I hope they ponder and I am sure they will.
More browsers are good. It means competition and choice for users. Choice is usually good.
Plugins and features. It looked like it rendered slashdot very well adn looked rather nice. However slashdot is mostly server side generated HTML (I believe) and does not uses plugins. Rendering tables adn frames is important as well as cookies and such, but more users flock towards the plugins. IE will usres X be able to listen to those wave files that are embeded or I believe the M$ browsers uses sound="wavehere.wav" (don't quote me on that thou). Netscape 4.7 has been fairly good for me as far as browsing the web. THere are a few sites that I do hit that uses plugins and if the new browser for kde will embed stuff in the browser that woudl be even better. Then I'd just need the other kde files like kde multimedia (I have this too )
Something to note is that this is not just progress for Linux, but all versions of UNIX that can run kde so this will benifit the Solaris community as well as the FreeBSD community.
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Chances are that if they are wring for UNIX it will also depend on which UNIX they write for. Solaris still uses Motif / CDE.
Something to notice is that companies that write for Linux are going with gtk or qt and/or something that they have inhouse. Just look at Corel.... only time will really tell ....
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I do think that FreeBSD is a good OS, althought it is slightly less friendly then Linux (IMHO) distributions Like RH and SuSE. I just tried the RH 6.1 GUI install and it was neat. If FreeBSD were to do a GUI install it would certainly make it an easier adjustment for Newbiews. Just my humble opinion.
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Why does crap like this get up on slashdot. Lately there stories seem to be less and less interesting.........
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yes I am a pesimist
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I think that it is good that there are companies making distributions on debian. I hope that they help create a better interface to dselect so that it is much friendlier. If that obstacle were overcome, I think more woudl switch to debian. A debian distribution has more packages per dollar than any other distribution. You can get the debian distribution for a few dollars at cheapbytes and get more software than a Redhat or SuSE distro. Since I never use the manuals anyway this is a better thing for me.
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Personally I think it is in poor taste on the employers part, and if they pull something like this NOW then they are NOT the company you want to work for.
There could also be the possiblility that they found out something about you. Although they should do all their checking before they extend the offer letter, did you have to take a drug test? Was there any reason that they may do this?
I'd also look into to see how the company is doing. Is it a start up? Is it public, then how is their stock? If so that is the problem right there. If you are new out of college stay away from start up's. They are hokey, and unless you know how a work place should run, they can really screw you over, and you wont know it.
If you cannot think of ANY reason that they might recind an offer, and there is NOT a clause that gives them the right to do this, then talk to a laywer and do release their name here, so that we all can stay away from this company.
I don't want a lot, I just want it all!
Flame away, I have a hose!
Is what any study has shown on the effects of RF on the body. WHile I too am an EE, and yes I am not to keen on 2.4Gig Hz waves going through the air, the use of a cell phone has shown no correlation to brain cancer / tumors.
HOWEVER: They have done studies that show that the cell phones DO heat the brain, but only to levels that are considered NORMAL. Of cource this is NORMAL for someone doing heavy thinking, like working a crossword, or similar though intensive stuff.
Personally I think it will be at least 10 years before we know the effects of these waves on our bodies. Look at how long it has taken them to show a relation between smoking and enphazema(sp). People thought (in the 1920's) that smoking was 'good' for you. Now we know that it is not healthy for you. It has taken us many many years. Maybe in 10 years we will know enough about bio chemistry and bio electricity that we will be able to make any determinations about that.
I don't want a lot, I just want it all!
Flame away, I have a hose!
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See the posting -> From the w3c itself: Frames have not been depreciated in HTML 4.0.
The company I just left uses frames. Here are the propblems that I saw with there application and there use of frames.
Learnign HTML is not that difficult, and the best resource out there is www.w3.org. There are also many examples at bother netscape and IE developers sites, and dozons of books.
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just my .02cents..
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The screenshot is really nice looking. I am actually looking forward to the release of kde 2.0 now as it looks more and more promising. But here are some points that I hope they ponder and I am sure they will.
Something to note is that this is not just progress for Linux, but all versions of UNIX that can run kde so this will benifit the Solaris community as well as the FreeBSD community.
Ahh the joys of computing .....
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