It was compatible when I wrote a eigenfunction/eigenenergy finding program (for physics quantum education).
I wrote it using Swing and Java SE SDK 1.4 (although I only wrote to 1.3) on Linux (Debian). My boss (Windows 2k) ran it fine when I gave it to him. It looked the same on Linux and Windows.
Java is better than Microsoft's offering because of its cross-platform compatibility. I'd recommend it right now to education and certain segments of the dev community because of schools (and businesses) looking to run different OSes; it does allow you to "write once, run anywhere".
the BBC mentatlity that filters "news" through its left-leaning prism.
Very true, in my experience. The moment that brought it home to me was when I was listening to the BBC on the radio. First up was an interview with a VP of Napster (IIRC; some Napster bigwig anyway). The interviewer twisted the VP this way and that especially on DRM, never giving an inch.
Second interview was with an AIDS activist/researcher about the Vatican's stance that condoms aren't safe for birth control nor for AIDS prevention (since they claim that the condoms have holes to let sperm and especially the HIV through). There was no other party to this, and they both were critical of the Vatican's claims. The interviewer seemed to be treating the activist/researcher (I for get what all he was) as a fellow in a pub chat, discussing their common thoughts.
Nobody (in my experience) tells things without a slant. The best you can do is inform yourself from many varied sources, keeping track of their slant. Then you can balance them and figure out where they point.
Just picking an example at random, the University of Arizona is a gun-free zone, which did nothing to preventthe shooting there.
There's one thing lacking in the evidence provided to back up your argument: while you cited evidence (and there's plenty) of cases where unarmed citizens failed to prevent violence, you do not cite cases where armed citizens succeeded in preventing violence.
Said evidence would be much more informative, esp. if provided with a study comparing the death toll under the different scenaria.
Scientific theories and evidence have never been any good in convincing the hysterical please-think-of-the-children crowd. These people have already made their minds and nothing will change their position.
The same can be said of the other party in this debate, fwiw.
Speaking from experience (P1 100MHz, no MMX, 16MB RAM, 500MB disk), going from 2.4 to 2.5 was a beautiful, beautiful thing. Sure, it'll give you a ton more performance on a high-end box, but it makes a low-end box much more usable.
NOOOOOOO!!!! A company trying to protect its hard earned sources for a game and not let anyone else make money off of it.
Heh.
While a valid point, mine remains. Microsoft is the only one making money off this. That was the entirety of my point; not saying it's "evil" or "terrible" or any such.
Ummm... hate to break this to you Trelane, but if it were under the GPL you aren't allowed to sell any derivatives either as anything you make is GPL!
Umm, wow. You're gonna have to "hate to break it to" SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, Sun, Lindows, and a host of others, 'cause they're selling GPLed code right now!!
The advantage price-wise is for Dell. You only order, at most, a few pieces of hardware. Dell orders thousands (at a bulk discount). Dell buys lower down on the supply chain, you have to buy from some variety of store (at a markup for the middlemen).
However, the problem with Dell is that it's crap, just like every other vendor (been soured on vendors after having recently tried to buy a new laptop, all of 'em sucked). Well, crap is perhaps too strong a term; you have significantly less flexibility and control of the part vendor and part choice if you go with a preboxed solution. Your other advantage is that you don't have to pay employees.
From a pure cost perspective, I think it leans towards Dell's advantage (I don't have exact data).
Considering cost + additional, I only want to build my own systems. That's not available for every type of system (e.g. laptops), or every type of person.
The distros are like 60$ and XP is like 100$, the cost really isn't that different.
Actually, the Pro versions of commercial Linux distros run you $60-$90. The Home versions of commercial Linux distros run you $0-$40.
Example here is SuSE. SuSE Personal costs $35; $50 for the academic version; $80 or $90 for the Pro version (although Amazon lists it for $65).
According to Amazon, Windows XP Home upgrade is $100; XP Pro upgrade is $190; XP Home full is $190; XP Pro full is $270. ("List prices" are $100, $200, $200, $300, respectively.)
Finally, to see how badly you're getting screwed, remember that the end user will generally only get Windows with a new PC; the vendors spend $70 or so per copy of Windows (numbers here in the paragraph are from estimations I've heard around), and the Windows group's profit was 416 (or was it 450?) percent, despite the fact that it generally only sells through OEMs for highly discounted rates.
it doesn't mean I am paying for those bed frames or that the bed frames necessarily changed the cost of the software I purchased.
While true in FOSS [the developer may or may not have been paid by your distro], it's not true if they have to pay the developer. While also true in a monopoly situation (since they can charge what they want without impacting the quantity demanded much], if a normal business is paying developers for something, you're helping fund development, and the price would necessarily be less, since the developers have to be paid.
I'd write more, but I have to take a shower and grace my new laptop with Gentoo [can't wait until I can custom-order a PC with Linux reliably. Stupid vendors.].:)
use tables for broad layout (columns, for example) and use CSS for styling and minor presentation details (indetation, spacing within your columns, etc).
This is what I was specifically objecting to. For broad layout, pure CSS works fine. Yes, you have to hunt down the spacings the same as you do in a table, but your recommendation of using tables falls short, imho. I don't see a real reason to abuse tables as a page layout anymore. I've converted a page which is similar to your standard page from a table-based layout to pure divs and CSS, and it worked just fine.
In summary, you can go either way. I like CSS because it simplifies maintenance. You can still abuse tables if you want to, but it's no longer required.
Indeed. If you look at the Linux Atheros driver, Atheros and/or the people who licensed the proprietary bits from them provide a Hardware Access Layer (HAL) module that's binary-only. The rest of the driver can then just be GPL; the HAL takes care of hiding the precise details of talking to the card and doing all the FCC-compliance bits.
I bought the Intel card because I had the choice of Broadcom, which TMK has zero plans to release a Linux driver, and Intel, which has announced plans to. Both suck and will require ndiswrapper, but at least I can theoretically get native drivers for the Intel card in the future. [I just bought a Dell, after trying to get a laptop from other vendors for about 5 months; those were the options for the wifi card.]
I like your method, though. The problem with a HAL driver module is that it has to support your kernel; a.o file that gets wrapped into a module will be able to deal with different kernels better than having the binary bits be a whole module. niiiice.
this complaint is equivalent to asking Apple to send you to Napster when you shop for music with iTunes.
If Apple had 90% of all installed "client" computers, such a complaint would be valid. As it is, Microsoft has a strangle-hold on the computer industry. Want to make hardware? Either play the Microsoft Ballgame, or forget over 90% of the end users out there. Same with software. Microsoft uses this leverage to push competition (e.g. BeOS, DR-DOS, Netscape, Real) out.
the only reason Microsoft has to worry about it is that they are very unpopular with some government agencies right now.
And rightly so, since they have an effective monopoly on client-side computing. The rules magically change once you have a monopoly. You do have to be nice to the competition, or prepare to be sued. What used to be standard business practice is verboten. It's the way things do (and should) work.
Edit->Preferences. In Navigator (is the first thing that shows), you have Display on [Navigator start...] with 3 radio buttons below it: Blank Page, Home Page, Last Page visited.
[Navigator start...] is a drop-down list where you can select from Navigator start, New Window, and New Tab.
Change to New Window in the list, and then activate the Last Page Visited radio button. IIRC, it doesn't follow the history, but it does bring up the last page. I may be wrong on the history, tho; I don't find it that useful.
Much more useful, imho, is the ability to middle-click and have moz bring up the link in a new tab while you finish browsing in your current tab. You can set tab settings in the Tabbed Browsing sub-panel (is under the Navigator section in the prefs dialog you brought up.)
that's an option in "preferences". It doesn't come enabled by default, but it's there.
Also, a very nice thing about tabs (aside from being able to collect tabs in a window by topic) is bookmarking tab groups; all the documentation you want at your fingertips and at the click of a button.
FWIW, I have 3 monitors, and still use tabs; they're just so danged useful.
I'm working on recycling my PII-400MHz [512MB RAM; 30GB disk] into a MythTV box. It by itself isn't very beefy, but I've dropped an extra $80 (on top of the regular $100 for a midrange tv tuner card) to buy a WinTV PVR 350, so that the encoding and decoding can be moved off to a dedicated processor, freeing the main cpu and keeping me from having to upgrade. At least, that's the theory; we'll see how reality goes.:)
Eventually, I'll get a mini-ITX board that I can put in a cute container my SO will accept; for now, she's fine with hiding my huge tower behind the sofa.;) When I do that, I'll see if I can myabe get another, cheaper card; the hardware encoding on the 350 will still be a boon then; I'll be able to easily do 2 streams at once. [so she can watch HGTV and I can record Sci-Fi.:]
That's the other good thing about rolling your own--it may be about equal to the cost of a tivo+subscription, but you simply cannot say that the freedom the MythTV box gives you compares to the highly locked-down nature of the TiVo and such; I can add and remove parts; add more hard drives or external drives; stream it across the 'net so I can watch TV or recordings in my study or at school, etc. I see this as being a big reason for a school to work on such a system--they'd have an extremely flexible system for doing audio and video in the classroom; they need only have enough bandwidth and a client in the room; they could have a big beefy server in the back office storing all the clips for the school, all nicely indexed.
I'd also love and pay well (up to 2x the price of windoze software!) to be able to get a copy of quality Linux tax software.
What would be interesting is if someone made a FOSS project that did everything but the specializations inherent between state and federal [and potentially other countries]. It'd then be up to a legally certified group to provide files [strucured with XML?] that provides the list of specializations (e.g. what counts as a deduction, the various worksheets, etc.).
There is a common theme between all the components; someone could start such a project. Then one would plunk down money for your specialization files, since they have to be prepared every year. However, this completely avoids the cost of software development for the tax specialist.
Maybe it's just that I don't live either in New Zealand or the US... but what the hell is twee-ness?
Speaking as a Midwestern Merrikin, I don't have the foggiest either. It's either from another region of the USA or another country. Heck, so far as I know, it could be Martain.;)
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Honestly, I don't see the German-bashing here. Metric arseloads of USA-bashing, but not German-bashing.
;)
Vielleicht wissen die ja alle, dass Deutschland ein Wundertolles Land is', net?
It was compatible when I wrote a eigenfunction/eigenenergy finding program (for physics quantum education).
I wrote it using Swing and Java SE SDK 1.4 (although I only wrote to 1.3) on Linux (Debian). My boss (Windows 2k) ran it fine when I gave it to him. It looked the same on Linux and Windows.
Java is better than Microsoft's offering because of its cross-platform compatibility. I'd recommend it right now to education and certain segments of the dev community because of schools (and businesses) looking to run different OSes; it does allow you to "write once, run anywhere".
Danke. Was exactly what I was asking for.
Very true, in my experience. The moment that brought it home to me was when I was listening to the BBC on the radio. First up was an interview with a VP of Napster (IIRC; some Napster bigwig anyway). The interviewer twisted the VP this way and that especially on DRM, never giving an inch.
Second interview was with an AIDS activist/researcher about the Vatican's stance that condoms aren't safe for birth control nor for AIDS prevention (since they claim that the condoms have holes to let sperm and especially the HIV through). There was no other party to this, and they both were critical of the Vatican's claims. The interviewer seemed to be treating the activist/researcher (I for get what all he was) as a fellow in a pub chat, discussing their common thoughts.
Nobody (in my experience) tells things without a slant. The best you can do is inform yourself from many varied sources, keeping track of their slant. Then you can balance them and figure out where they point.
There's one thing lacking in the evidence provided to back up your argument: while you cited evidence (and there's plenty) of cases where unarmed citizens failed to prevent violence, you do not cite cases where armed citizens succeeded in preventing violence.
Said evidence would be much more informative, esp. if provided with a study comparing the death toll under the different scenaria.
The same can be said of the other party in this debate, fwiw.
Speaking from experience (P1 100MHz, no MMX, 16MB RAM, 500MB disk), going from 2.4 to 2.5 was a beautiful, beautiful thing. Sure, it'll give you a ton more performance on a high-end box, but it makes a low-end box much more usable.
Heh.
While a valid point, mine remains. Microsoft is the only one making money off this. That was the entirety of my point; not saying it's "evil" or "terrible" or any such.
Umm, wow. You're gonna have to "hate to break it to" SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, Sun, Lindows, and a host of others, 'cause they're selling GPLed code right now!!
Seriously, though. GPL doesn't prevent selling.
It's an alright license, so long as you make danged sure they don't have patents that cover the code, and you're not going to sell it.
It's very annoying that nobody's allowed to sell any derivatives but Microsoft. The GPL it ain't.
The advantage price-wise is for Dell. You only order, at most, a few pieces of hardware. Dell orders thousands (at a bulk discount). Dell buys lower down on the supply chain, you have to buy from some variety of store (at a markup for the middlemen).
However, the problem with Dell is that it's crap, just like every other vendor (been soured on vendors after having recently tried to buy a new laptop, all of 'em sucked). Well, crap is perhaps too strong a term; you have significantly less flexibility and control of the part vendor and part choice if you go with a preboxed solution. Your other advantage is that you don't have to pay employees.
From a pure cost perspective, I think it leans towards Dell's advantage (I don't have exact data).
Considering cost + additional, I only want to build my own systems. That's not available for every type of system (e.g. laptops), or every type of person.
Actually, the Pro versions of commercial Linux distros run you $60-$90. The Home versions of commercial Linux distros run you $0-$40. Example here is SuSE. SuSE Personal costs $35; $50 for the academic version; $80 or $90 for the Pro version (although Amazon lists it for $65).
According to Amazon, Windows XP Home upgrade is $100; XP Pro upgrade is $190; XP Home full is $190; XP Pro full is $270. ("List prices" are $100, $200, $200, $300, respectively.)
Finally, to see how badly you're getting screwed, remember that the end user will generally only get Windows with a new PC; the vendors spend $70 or so per copy of Windows (numbers here in the paragraph are from estimations I've heard around), and the Windows group's profit was 416 (or was it 450?) percent, despite the fact that it generally only sells through OEMs for highly discounted rates.
While true in FOSS [the developer may or may not have been paid by your distro], it's not true if they have to pay the developer. While also true in a monopoly situation (since they can charge what they want without impacting the quantity demanded much], if a normal business is paying developers for something, you're helping fund development, and the price would necessarily be less, since the developers have to be paid.
I'd write more, but I have to take a shower and grace my new laptop with Gentoo [can't wait until I can custom-order a PC with Linux reliably. Stupid vendors.]. :)
This is what I was specifically objecting to. For broad layout, pure CSS works fine. Yes, you have to hunt down the spacings the same as you do in a table, but your recommendation of using tables falls short, imho. I don't see a real reason to abuse tables as a page layout anymore. I've converted a page which is similar to your standard page from a table-based layout to pure divs and CSS, and it worked just fine.
In summary, you can go either way. I like CSS because it simplifies maintenance. You can still abuse tables if you want to, but it's no longer required.
Go visit the CSS Zen Garden. Pure CSS-XHTML separation is available now.
Cool. Thankye.
I had thought all TrueMobile chips were Broadcom....
Indeed. If you look at the Linux Atheros driver, Atheros and/or the people who licensed the proprietary bits from them provide a Hardware Access Layer (HAL) module that's binary-only. The rest of the driver can then just be GPL; the HAL takes care of hiding the precise details of talking to the card and doing all the FCC-compliance bits.
I bought the Intel card because I had the choice of Broadcom, which TMK has zero plans to release a Linux driver, and Intel, which has announced plans to. Both suck and will require ndiswrapper, but at least I can theoretically get native drivers for the Intel card in the future. [I just bought a Dell, after trying to get a laptop from other vendors for about 5 months; those were the options for the wifi card.]
I like your method, though. The problem with a HAL driver module is that it has to support your kernel; a .o file that gets wrapped into a module will be able to deal with different kernels better than having the binary bits be a whole module. niiiice.
Reading the unicast site and viewing their ad demos, it uses Flash.
:)
Looks like this will push Flash blocking through quickly.
If Apple had 90% of all installed "client" computers, such a complaint would be valid. As it is, Microsoft has a strangle-hold on the computer industry. Want to make hardware? Either play the Microsoft Ballgame, or forget over 90% of the end users out there. Same with software. Microsoft uses this leverage to push competition (e.g. BeOS, DR-DOS, Netscape, Real) out.
And rightly so, since they have an effective monopoly on client-side computing. The rules magically change once you have a monopoly. You do have to be nice to the competition, or prepare to be sued. What used to be standard business practice is verboten. It's the way things do (and should) work.
Aight. Sorry it's not what you were looking for.
Would you like to file a bug on it? If so, please post the bug number, so I can track it.
Edit->Preferences.
In Navigator (is the first thing that shows), you have Display on [Navigator start...] with 3 radio buttons below it: Blank Page, Home Page, Last Page visited.
[Navigator start...] is a drop-down list where you can select from Navigator start, New Window, and New Tab.
Change to New Window in the list, and then activate the Last Page Visited radio button. IIRC, it doesn't follow the history, but it does bring up the last page. I may be wrong on the history, tho; I don't find it that useful.
Much more useful, imho, is the ability to middle-click and have moz bring up the link in a new tab while you finish browsing in your current tab. You can set tab settings in the Tabbed Browsing sub-panel (is under the Navigator section in the prefs dialog you brought up.)
that's an option in "preferences". It doesn't come enabled by default, but it's there.
Also, a very nice thing about tabs (aside from being able to collect tabs in a window by topic) is bookmarking tab groups; all the documentation you want at your fingertips and at the click of a button.
FWIW, I have 3 monitors, and still use tabs; they're just so danged useful.
What keeps you locked into excel, especially considering the documented bugs that give you wrong answers?
Personally, I like OO's Calc and gnumeric.
Indeed.
I'm working on recycling my PII-400MHz [512MB RAM; 30GB disk] into a MythTV box. It by itself isn't very beefy, but I've dropped an extra $80 (on top of the regular $100 for a midrange tv tuner card) to buy a WinTV PVR 350, so that the encoding and decoding can be moved off to a dedicated processor, freeing the main cpu and keeping me from having to upgrade. At least, that's the theory; we'll see how reality goes. :)
Eventually, I'll get a mini-ITX board that I can put in a cute container my SO will accept; for now, she's fine with hiding my huge tower behind the sofa. ;) When I do that, I'll see if I can myabe get another, cheaper card; the hardware encoding on the 350 will still be a boon then; I'll be able to easily do 2 streams at once. [so she can watch HGTV and I can record Sci-Fi. :]
That's the other good thing about rolling your own--it may be about equal to the cost of a tivo+subscription, but you simply cannot say that the freedom the MythTV box gives you compares to the highly locked-down nature of the TiVo and such; I can add and remove parts; add more hard drives or external drives; stream it across the 'net so I can watch TV or recordings in my study or at school, etc. I see this as being a big reason for a school to work on such a system--they'd have an extremely flexible system for doing audio and video in the classroom; they need only have enough bandwidth and a client in the room; they could have a big beefy server in the back office storing all the clips for the school, all nicely indexed.
I'd also love and pay well (up to 2x the price of windoze software!) to be able to get a copy of quality Linux tax software.
What would be interesting is if someone made a FOSS project that did everything but the specializations inherent between state and federal [and potentially other countries]. It'd then be up to a legally certified group to provide files [strucured with XML?] that provides the list of specializations (e.g. what counts as a deduction, the various worksheets, etc.).
There is a common theme between all the components; someone could start such a project. Then one would plunk down money for your specialization files, since they have to be prepared every year. However, this completely avoids the cost of software development for the tax specialist.
It could work
Maybe it's just that I don't live either in New Zealand or the US... but what the hell is twee-ness?
Speaking as a Midwestern Merrikin, I don't have the foggiest either. It's either from another region of the USA or another country. Heck, so far as I know, it could be Martain. ;)