"What would I do without such genius insight? Instead of generalizations, how about you dig into the meat of how it will affect users day to day in the normal workflow of them using their computers?"
Last time I checked Adobe reader had built-in OCR and text-to-speech even in the free Acrobat Reader. The IT director was just plain lazy, or there's some lobbying.
Oh, and there were "choose your own adventure" games in Teletext too.
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Actually, around 87-89 in Hungary it wasn't uncommon for radiostations to broadcast homebrew C-64 programs. The C-64 casette-tape only used the audible spectrum by spec anyway.
What about UK and polish migrants (ok, they're not native English speakers, but still not brown)?
"Simon Darby, spokesperson for the British National Party, said that the plane was a symbol of the Battle of Britain and represented the economic struggle the country is facing at the moment.
He said: "It's not like the BNP are against Polish people as a nation. We are against Polish people coming over here and undercutting British workers. "
The only place I could set the keyboard layout was from Yast, and it only allowed one layout. (I used KDE with the default Plasma shell (KDE), and there was no widget called keyboard-layout-switcher.)
I don't know what you mean by 10.10,10.11; (guess not the Ubuntu realeases, as there was none at 10.11). I run Ubuntu 10.04 (gnome) without updates, and the flgrx driver offered by Ubuntu (not from ATIs webpage).
To be honest, in Blender the OpenGL rendered menus behave a bit weird (e.g. don't appear instantly as they're clicked, but you have to move the mouse where the menu should appear; the mousover won't produce appropriate effect on the menuitem beneath it, etc.), but overall useable. It runs tremolous, and other OpenGL games, but they constantly resize the screen resolution after quitting when run in fullscreen). On Centos the only effect I got was extremely slow webpage rendering. On Suse not even the desktop appeared after install.
When I first had the driver problem in Ubuntu (desktop doesnt appear), I tried to remove it from command line (safe/rescue mode), but even after removing fglrx things didnt return to normalcy. So as I see, ATI driver support is totally unpredictable.
I just tried Opensuse 11.3 with KDE, and it was really shiny, but haven't seen anything that boosts productivity (and the SuSE folks even removed keyboard layout switcher widget, so overall, it was worse than my gnome-Ubuntu desktop).
Funny. I just installed 10.04, and this is the first release that works with the ATI drivers. (I have a Radeon HD 3850.) I tried OpenSuse 11.3 and Centos 5.5 for comparison too, and only Ubuntu worked with the ATI binary drivers.
By the way in my country (Hungary) the sickle-hammer symbol is banned, just like the swastika. (Unless it's for representing ww2 history for educational purposes.)
Russians had 20 million casulties in ww2 which is suspiciously high. (Germany had 1 million.)
The university where I'm learning had an EE prof that was executed following a show trial, because he was a board member in an electrical power company. You didn't even had to agitate against socialism/communism to get killed, just a few people envying you.
Annotations have been introduced in Java 1.5, especially for making the JPA more simple. Now the cardinality of relationships* are in the class body, previously they were in XML files, which were hard to maintain consistently. I have never seen vendor specific stuff in annotations, they usually appear in external xml config files (separately from the config files required by the standard).
Developers really hated EJB 2.x, so I don't recommend going that far back (that would mean going back to 2005-2006).
* and the transactional property of methods, ORM mapping settings (how to store class hierarchies: in one table; separate table for extra fields and join etc.)
On the other hand writing internationalized, cross platform c++ apps is a major pain in the ass. In Java you don't have worry about character encoding, true type font rendering libraries (I just spent in 2 days getting ftgl compile), gui libraries, networking (worrying about character encoding again), http, xml parsing (worrying about character encoding again), and they all play along nicely. If you use xerces for xml parsing (25 MB), the Java overhead doesn't seem that bad.
I think GP's point is perfectly valid: only use a stronger language, when absolutely needed. (In the Java world they're Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Beanshell) Macroing is nice, I've done a lot of it in Prolog, but for group project static checking can save a lot of pain in the ass.
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You mean, leave out your bulls, right?
"What would I do without such genius insight? Instead of generalizations, how about you dig into the meat of how it will affect users day to day in the normal workflow of them using their computers?"
Those users should use LTS for work.
I want my eel powered hovercraft.
1, Do they believe in God?
2, Can we have sex with them?
(Yeah, I know, it's a bacteria.)
+5 troll is reserved for 4chan.
Yeah, it's not like regular browsers could display XHTML.
Last time I checked Adobe reader had built-in OCR and text-to-speech even in the free Acrobat Reader. The IT director was just plain lazy, or there's some lobbying.
It's Plan 9 from outer space.
Oh, and there were "choose your own adventure" games in Teletext too.
Actually, around 87-89 in Hungary it wasn't uncommon for radiostations to broadcast homebrew C-64 programs. The C-64 casette-tape only used the audible spectrum by spec anyway.
Are you suggesting it's better to pay back the debt and then borrow again then not paying back and not borrowing? (Protip: not paying intrest)
Yeah, saving the goverment saving the banks is really the fault of the proles ...
What about UK and polish migrants (ok, they're not native English speakers, but still not brown)?
"Simon Darby, spokesperson for the British National Party, said that the plane was a symbol of the Battle of Britain and represented the economic struggle the country is facing at the moment.
He said: "It's not like the BNP are against Polish people as a nation. We are against Polish people coming over here and undercutting British workers. "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4935429/BNP-uses-Polish-Spitfire-in-anti-immigration-poster.html
But 1 euro is wortth 1.324 USD. And the Irish GDP per capita is lower too (41k vs 46k).
The only place I could set the keyboard layout was from Yast, and it only allowed one layout. (I used KDE with the default Plasma shell (KDE), and there was no widget called keyboard-layout-switcher.)
So you acknowledged that Linux is a religion :) ...
But for going to heaven you have to choose the right text editor too
I don't know what you mean by 10.10,10.11; (guess not the Ubuntu realeases, as there was none at 10.11). I run Ubuntu 10.04 (gnome) without updates, and the flgrx driver offered by Ubuntu (not from ATIs webpage).
To be honest, in Blender the OpenGL rendered menus behave a bit weird (e.g. don't appear instantly as they're clicked, but you have to move the mouse where the menu should appear; the mousover won't produce appropriate effect on the menuitem beneath it, etc.), but overall useable. It runs tremolous, and other OpenGL games, but they constantly resize the screen resolution after quitting when run in fullscreen).
On Centos the only effect I got was extremely slow webpage rendering. On Suse not even the desktop appeared after install.
When I first had the driver problem in Ubuntu (desktop doesnt appear), I tried to remove it from command line (safe/rescue mode), but even after removing fglrx things didnt return to normalcy. So as I see, ATI driver support is totally unpredictable.
I just tried Opensuse 11.3 with KDE, and it was really shiny, but haven't seen anything that boosts productivity (and the SuSE folks even removed keyboard layout switcher widget, so overall, it was worse than my gnome-Ubuntu desktop).
Funny. I just installed 10.04, and this is the first release that works with the ATI drivers. (I have a Radeon HD 3850.) I tried OpenSuse 11.3 and Centos 5.5 for comparison too, and only Ubuntu worked with the ATI binary drivers.
Well, Ubuntu 9.x had some issues with ATI drivers. (Updated Xorg, and the ATI binary driver didn't work.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
By the way in my country (Hungary) the sickle-hammer symbol is banned, just like the swastika. (Unless it's for representing ww2 history for educational purposes.)
Russians had 20 million casulties in ww2 which is suspiciously high. (Germany had 1 million.)
The university where I'm learning had an EE prof that was executed following a show trial, because he was a board member in an electrical power company. You didn't even had to agitate against socialism/communism to get killed, just a few people envying you.
She doesn't want tp catch fishes. She just wants to play the ultimate 3D motion controlled video game.
On the other hand the stupid humans haven't figured out that they can't fuck a porn magazine.
Annotations have been introduced in Java 1.5, especially for making the JPA more simple. Now the cardinality of relationships* are in the class body, previously they were in XML files, which were hard to maintain consistently. I have never seen vendor specific stuff in annotations, they usually appear in external xml config files (separately from the config files required by the standard).
Developers really hated EJB 2.x, so I don't recommend going that far back (that would mean going back to 2005-2006).
* and the transactional property of methods, ORM mapping settings (how to store class hierarchies: in one table; separate table for extra fields and join etc.)
On the other hand writing internationalized, cross platform c++ apps is a major pain in the ass. In Java you don't have worry about character encoding, true type font rendering libraries (I just spent in 2 days getting ftgl compile), gui libraries, networking (worrying about character encoding again), http, xml parsing (worrying about character encoding again), and they all play along nicely.
If you use xerces for xml parsing (25 MB), the Java overhead doesn't seem that bad.
I think GP's point is perfectly valid: only use a stronger language, when absolutely needed. (In the Java world they're Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Beanshell) Macroing is nice, I've done a lot of it in Prolog, but for group project static checking can save a lot of pain in the ass.