This post ends the debate: Linux can scale down (think Mobile Linux, LOAF) Hurd can scale up. The choice comes down to what you need. Period. Any posts beyond this one about Linux being better than Hurd or vice versa should be moderated to flamebait.
Bastard! you stole my post! Shame on you! Seriously though, I'm gonna expand your punch line a little bit here. I really don't understand why FLTK is treated with such neglect by the Open Source community. This toolkit quietly evolved into something extremely powerful and flexible. Several advantages over GTK+ QT come to mind right away:
Coded by someone who understands OO design. The toolkit is immensely object oriented and so consistent that one can almost do away with documentation. Header files are all it takes to understand how it ticks. That's what I call good code.
It is easy to implement additional message loops as FLTK is a toolkit not a Framework. Check the Mico Dispatcher to see an example.
It sports a very nice and extremely flexible layout editor called FLUID. Using fluid beats any experience I had with layout editors
Finally and most importantly using FLTK is Fun! Coding it is a pleasure. This is a quality unheard of in UI toolkits but having experience of MFC, QT and a little bit of OWL I can assure you that FLTK feels like a breath of fresh air.
It's LGPL which means that commercial vendors and Free Software developers can use it alike. You may consider this a disadvantage only if you are an OSS zealot.
It's fast and lean. Immensely. The built binary is around 300KB in size! FLTK redefines the meaning of Lean. With the area of mobile devices looming this could be a particular strength but even the desktop applications could do with less overhead these days.
Obviously FLTK is not without its problems. The biggest one at the moment is a lack of good keyboard handling on non-input widgets but this is about to be ironed out.
The version 2.0 will bring lots of improvements in many areas. Mainly themeability and keyboard handling will be improved.
Try it and if you can appreciate good C++ code FLTK will not disappoint.
How about creating an immigration HOWTO? Simply collate the experiences different people had immigrating to various countries and put together as a reference for future employers/employess. I have a baggage of experience sorting my immigration status in the UK and currently planning to immigrate to Canada. Both countries have their own set of laws and people learn through their experience what works and what doesn't with the different immigration offices. This would be a brilliant guide for those wanting to move countries and for those trying to hire someone from abroad. How does everyone feel about it?
I think so. I think Canada is going to be the next land of opportunity. The extensive immigration programme that Canada managed to set up (read about it here). The country actively seeks specialists from various industries to build the strength of its economy. Even though it is still considered by economists to be poorer than its southern neighbour it's prospects are simply outstanding.
Canada's GDP growth rate last year was over 4% which is unheard of in most developed countries (EU berely struggles to get the balance positive in this respect). The overall economy is reliant on highly talented workforce which results in product output that's described as highly processed (service/information/high tech manufacturing) as opposed to economies that are heavily dependent on export of unprocessed goods. Canada was rated the top country to live in for the fifth consecutive year.
Looking purely at the paycheques doesn't give a whole picture of what life's like in a particular country. the Additional issues that one must consider are:
Prices - very important as it determines the true worth of your wages (eg. UK has relatively high salaries but very high prices make it a mere 17th richest population in the world)
Housing - basically some countries don't have enough land to provide everyone with spacious housing. In those countries detached houses cost extra because the price of plots is ridiculous (think Belgium).
Crime rate - this factor is important not only as statistical data but one has to look at what type of crime is most common. Consider this: UK's most frequent one is car theft, in Poland it is robbery but they have similar crime levels and similar detection rates.
Culture - this is often underestimated by potential immigrants but it's hugely important. Someone who feels right at home in Italy will probably find the reserved British culture completely alien to them. It is important to choose the country that feels right to you. An extended visit or a temporary stay is crucial. Othewise people end up being frustrated and feel rejected as they have hard time integrating into the new society.
Only after all these factors are considered should one decide where and whether at all they want to migrate. To me Canada sound like an ideal place to live (although I'm Polish) but I know that many people prefer to migrate to other countries. Actually I'm not sure why the US is so sought after by prospective immigrants. If you consider _all_ the factors I mentioned on the top of a paycheck the US looks no more attractive than any other developed country.
Immigration is a subject that personally touched me as I immigrated to the UK where the process of switching to a permanent resident status is even more complicated and troublesome here.
The points you mentioned are valid but there are one or two things that need more clarification:
With regard to the US lottery the applications are submitted once a year and they draw only once a year. Even with the 1:12 ratio you're still talking about an average wait of 6 years. While the most patient ones will accept it the majority of us will find it _very_ excessive. Besides countries such us UK and Ireland are not entitled to the visa lottery I believe. Besides the immigration system based on luck strikes me as silly. Getting your entry to the US in that way is nothing to brag about.
For those that want to improve their standard of living by migration, Canada and Australia offer much more convincing packages. There is no lottery but a simple selection process based on qualifications and experience. The higher the demand for your job the more likely you are to get a positive answer. The CS skills are currently in demand in both of these countries so you can draw your own conclusions... Yes I know that the GDP per capita is not as high as the US one but at least you know that they took you because they wanted your skills not because you got lucky. Canada offers similar environment to the US with less crime and well, higher taxes. However, they clearly state that they are looking at taking _more_ immigrants in the future.
I think that the US immigration policy is shameful comparing to Canada. Long gone are the days when the US was a land of opportunity with the doors open for everyone. Do a reality check, it's not worth engaging in an extremely painful process with no guarantee of the final outcome just to have that little bit more on your paycheck every month. The IT/CS salaries are decent in most western countries.
So to reiterate Austraila and Canada (New Zaeland and South Africa too) offer immigration packages that are geared towards professionals and do not put you in vacuum once the visa is granted.
Personally I decided on Canada and my application is progressing well so far (touch wood) I'm hoping to move within six months and I only applied last June!
So what if you hated PI. That's fine by me. I liked it because I found it entertaining even though it wasn't terribly deep. Same goes for The Matrix. But it doesn't really matter. What matters is that we don't have a/. section that allows as to discuss those movies (without being offtopic) and that's what I'm calling for here. I mentioned those few films as examples of SF movies that deserve a much more coverage than Lucases pathetic offering. BTW. grab a copy of Cube from their website. It's a debut of a canadian director. Even though it's made on a budget that would not even cover JarJar ears it features a lot more interesting action and suspense. Highly recomended!
Why is slashdot promoting Lucas Films so extensively may I ask? Are you guys into it for money? Because you didn't really enjoy The Phantom Menace did you?
Neither is Star Wars series a real scifi classic nor is it of a particular interest to geeks/nerds unless they are younger than twelve years of age. I mean the episodes IV-VI were passable but the latest LucasFilm production has been such a bastardisation of the SF genre that I felt embarrased and conned with it.
For crying out loud if you have a separate Section for Star Wars instead of a generic Science Fiction one then I demand the following be Slashdot topics too:
... and many many others. Why can't we have news on science fiction releases in general instead of ones on this particularly silly series. I'd really enjoy reading on new SF movies/books/authors but instead I need to have a StarWars filter applied (which still doesn't remove the icon btw)... Am I alone?
Score:-1,Offtopic as there's no other place on/. to say this
Yes, I can hear your mantra about freedom of speech and freedom of opinion. But the truth is that countries that are considered _civilized_ prejudice and racial discrimination is still a common practice. Yes, I understand that those who run stormfront are entitled to their opinions. The problem is that they treat Internet as a medium to recruit and organize racial attacks. I'm all for free speech but I'm against anarchy. Like it or not the law enforcement is necessary in every country that wants to give its citizens any sense of security. Frankly the countries that are lousy on the racial discrimination side usually suck in all other aspects (collapsing economy, corrupt/biased law enforcement).
I spit on what others call "national values". Giving any fuck about ones nationality in the age where people change their host countries few times in their lives is stupid and pointless. Besides countries run by nationalist governments end up trailing economically and lose political influence and credibility (see: Russia, Slovakia). We are digressing here though. As far as free speech is concerned you can't simply assume that everything goes. That is not your right. Your right is to live your life in peace and relative safety from hatred and discrimination. By giving racists the right to free speech you are denying some minorities their basic right to safety and equal freedom. Put it this way: it's impossible to guarantee everyone a total freedom of speech. Some society members are plain dangerous and should be closely watched and restrained if necessary and possibly thrown in jail or executed where applicable. The word freedom does not imply anarchy! There is freedom and there is freedom. If you decide to give people who run stormfront freedom you are denying it someone who is on the receiving end of their hatred.
Now go on kids and moderate this to Flamebait since it's so contrary to your stupid simplistic ideas about freedom. In case you wonder I'm white.
Clearly ahead of its time (although behind every other vehicle on the road including golf buggies). Still can't get over why it hasn't stormed the world the way speccy did:o)
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C|Net announced this as a takeover by VA Linux. Methinks is Slashdot now into spindoctoring its stories? I'm slightly concerned.
This post ends the debate: Linux can scale down (think Mobile Linux, LOAF) Hurd can scale up. The choice comes down to what you need. Period. Any posts beyond this one about Linux being better than Hurd or vice versa should be moderated to flamebait.
- Coded by someone who understands OO design. The toolkit is immensely object oriented and so consistent that one can almost do away with documentation. Header files are all it takes to understand how it ticks. That's what I call good code.
- It is easy to implement additional message loops as FLTK is a toolkit not a Framework. Check the Mico Dispatcher to see an example.
- It sports a very nice and extremely flexible layout editor called FLUID. Using fluid beats any experience I had with layout editors
- Finally and most importantly using FLTK is Fun! Coding it is a pleasure. This is a quality unheard of in UI toolkits but having experience of MFC, QT and a little bit of OWL I can assure you that FLTK feels like a breath of fresh air.
- It's LGPL which means that commercial vendors and Free Software developers can use it alike. You may consider this a disadvantage only if you are an OSS zealot.
- It's fast and lean. Immensely. The built binary is around 300KB in size! FLTK redefines the meaning of Lean. With the area of mobile devices looming this could be a particular strength but even the desktop applications could do with less overhead these days.
Obviously FLTK is not without its problems. The biggest one at the moment is a lack of good keyboard handling on non-input widgets but this is about to be ironed out.The version 2.0 will bring lots of improvements in many areas. Mainly themeability and keyboard handling will be improved.
Try it and if you can appreciate good C++ code FLTK will not disappoint.
How about creating an immigration HOWTO? Simply collate the experiences different people had immigrating to various countries and put together as a reference for future employers/employess. I have a baggage of experience sorting my immigration status in the UK and currently planning to immigrate to Canada. Both countries have their own set of laws and people learn through their experience what works and what doesn't with the different immigration offices. This would be a brilliant guide for those wanting to move countries and for those trying to hire someone from abroad. How does everyone feel about it?
Canada's GDP growth rate last year was over 4% which is unheard of in most developed countries (EU berely struggles to get the balance positive in this respect). The overall economy is reliant on highly talented workforce which results in product output that's described as highly processed (service/information/high tech manufacturing) as opposed to economies that are heavily dependent on export of unprocessed goods. Canada was rated the top country to live in for the fifth consecutive year.
Looking purely at the paycheques doesn't give a whole picture of what life's like in a particular country. the Additional issues that one must consider are:
Only after all these factors are considered should one decide where and whether at all they want to migrate. To me Canada sound like an ideal place to live (although I'm Polish) but I know that many people prefer to migrate to other countries. Actually I'm not sure why the US is so sought after by prospective immigrants. If you consider _all_ the factors I mentioned on the top of a paycheck the US looks no more attractive than any other developed country.
The points you mentioned are valid but there are one or two things that need more clarification:
With regard to the US lottery the applications are submitted once a year and they draw only once a year. Even with the 1:12 ratio you're still talking about an average wait of 6 years. While the most patient ones will accept it the majority of us will find it _very_ excessive. Besides countries such us UK and Ireland are not entitled to the visa lottery I believe. Besides the immigration system based on luck strikes me as silly. Getting your entry to the US in that way is nothing to brag about.
For those that want to improve their standard of living by migration, Canada and Australia offer much more convincing packages. There is no lottery but a simple selection process based on qualifications and experience. The higher the demand for your job the more likely you are to get a positive answer. The CS skills are currently in demand in both of these countries so you can draw your own conclusions... Yes I know that the GDP per capita is not as high as the US one but at least you know that they took you because they wanted your skills not because you got lucky. Canada offers similar environment to the US with less crime and well, higher taxes. However, they clearly state that they are looking at taking _more_ immigrants in the future.
I think that the US immigration policy is shameful comparing to Canada. Long gone are the days when the US was a land of opportunity with the doors open for everyone. Do a reality check, it's not worth engaging in an extremely painful process with no guarantee of the final outcome just to have that little bit more on your paycheck every month. The IT/CS salaries are decent in most western countries.
So to reiterate Austraila and Canada (New Zaeland and South Africa too) offer immigration packages that are geared towards professionals and do not put you in vacuum once the visa is granted.
Personally I decided on Canada and my application is progressing well so far (touch wood) I'm hoping to move within six months and I only applied last June!
punched cards. The only media to survive a nuclear blast radiation! Hope this helps.
So what if you hated PI. That's fine by me. I liked it because I found it entertaining even though it wasn't terribly deep. Same goes for The Matrix. But it doesn't really matter. /. section that allows as to discuss those movies (without being offtopic) and that's what I'm calling for here. I mentioned those few films as examples of SF movies that deserve a much more coverage than Lucases pathetic offering.
What matters is that we don't have a
BTW. grab a copy of Cube from their website. It's a debut of a canadian director. Even though it's made on a budget that would not even cover JarJar ears it features a lot more interesting action and suspense. Highly recomended!
Neither is Star Wars series a real scifi classic nor is it of a particular interest to geeks/nerds unless they are younger than twelve years of age. I mean the episodes IV-VI were passable but the latest LucasFilm production has been such a bastardisation of the SF genre that I felt embarrased and conned with it.
For crying out loud if you have a separate Section for Star Wars instead of a generic Science Fiction one then I demand the following be Slashdot topics too:
Score:-1,Offtopic as there's no other place on /. to say this
I spit on what others call "national values". Giving any fuck about ones nationality in the age where people change their host countries few times in their lives is stupid and pointless.
Besides countries run by nationalist governments end up trailing economically and lose political influence and credibility (see: Russia, Slovakia). We are digressing here though. As far as free speech is concerned you can't simply assume that everything goes. That is not your right. Your right is to live your life in peace and relative safety from hatred and discrimination. By giving racists the right to free speech you are denying some minorities their basic right to safety and equal freedom. Put it this way: it's impossible to guarantee everyone a total freedom of speech. Some society members are plain dangerous and should be closely watched and restrained if necessary and possibly thrown in jail or executed where applicable. The word freedom does not imply anarchy! There is freedom and there is freedom. If you decide to give people who run stormfront freedom you are denying it someone who is on the receiving end of their hatred.
Now go on kids and moderate this to Flamebait since it's so contrary to your stupid simplistic ideas about freedom.
In case you wonder I'm white.
OpenInventor is no longer sgi's. I believe it now belongs to them.
And what about porn? Likely a far more important invention in the slashdot community.
I will now officialy reveal to you all that the greatest invention of the century has been (drums...) Sinclair C5 electric tricycle :
- cheap (5*zx spectrum+)
- environment friendly
- low power consumption (but if you're slim it helps even further)
- immensely safe (provided everyone switches over)
- lightweight (esp. without the battery in it)
- cool looking (no? OK maybe not!)
- efficient beyond belief (20miles/battery downhill)
- ultrafast (particularly on a steep slope)
Clearly ahead of its time (although behind every other vehicle on the road including golf buggies). Still can't get over why it hasn't stormed the world the way speccy did