I had considered ATI but heard bad things about the driver situation at the time (open source problems hadn't fully been worked through at the time).
How is $YOUR_LINUX_DISTRO these days with open-source ATI drivers? Any problems with Linux games, other programs requiring 3D (like KDE Stars), and Windows games running on Wine?
The weird thing about the bailouts is that Wall Street got their money, forgiving their mistakes, but only a few hundred billion could've paid for all of the residential mortgages in America.
is that any Senator can block any bill anytime for no reason at all.
The Senate depends on unanimous consent to get much of its work done, and a single senator can throw a monkey wrench into the works by withdrawing consent.
There's definitely one senator out there who'll be man enough to block the bill, either a leftie or a hardcore righty.
True that. It's just more work for developers (cross-compiling, though Nokia does have a compile farm, I believe).
Might run into trouble if a user thinks he can move an app for one processor line to another phone. Though most people probably just download directly from the store to their phone.
>every single processor line is actually just two lines. arm and x86.
Really? I didn't know that. Thanks. Given that's the case, it's an advantage for a C++ API, I would think.
Btw, do the latest ARM processors feature new instruction sets, like 686 features more instructions than 486? Or do most mobile devs target the ARM equivalent of 486?
Meego defines the OS, but there's nothing saying an implementation of it has to be ugly. Nokia, please for the love of silicon,
-get rid of those "laughing amigos". They might look cute to (some) geeks, but to no one else. -get some artists to create some nice icons, you know antialiased, glossy, shiny stuff. Not the pathetic 2D ugly colored ones you have now. -either depreciate the name of the OS, or you should have picked a better name (Amigo woudn't have been bad)
Offshoring maintenance? As in having maint done in a stopover in Hong Kong or Cyprus instead of the States? I hadn't heard of that. Any more info on that?
Someone saw my post as a troll, but I was just remarking on what the headline evoked in me, a not unheard-of meme on Slashdot.
Anyways, regardless of your opinion on AGW, I think it's true that Europeans see the US as backwards in regards to that issue and they see it as part of a general US anti-science climate. Some Americans will agree and others won't.
I think BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), on the other hand, don't know, don't care, or can't afford to care whether AGW is happening or not.
Not only that, but it leads to re-inventing the wheel by iterating over huge datasets in (Java/PHP/etc.) to generate reports that could have been handled by one single declarative SQL statement (albeit a complicated one).
When you get into outer joins, grouping, subqueries, etc. things can get ornery, but it's still much better to let the DB churn the data, than sending it over the wire and iterating over it.
I thought this was going to be a global warming study, rising sea levels...
with the US singled out for special opprobrium because it's basically the only country unwilling to accept the consensus of (most) scientists that global warming is happening.
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I had considered ATI but heard bad things about the driver situation at the time (open source problems hadn't fully been worked through at the time).
How is $YOUR_LINUX_DISTRO these days with open-source ATI drivers? Any problems with Linux games, other programs requiring 3D (like KDE Stars), and Windows games running on Wine?
Isn't there a point where th language has enough features?
I think as new features are required in the development world, they're properly added to libraries. E.g., XML, RSS, ssh, XMLRPC, etc. libraries.
And if you want a language with the syntax-of-the-day, there plenty of languages running on the JVM.
AmigaOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS
trash talk the filibuster now?
The weird thing about the bailouts is that Wall Street got their money, forgiving their mistakes, but only a few hundred billion could've paid for all of the residential mortgages in America.
The funny thing is they don't do anything about illegal infil, while harassing legal border-crossers (and citizens).
is that any Senator can block any bill anytime for no reason at all.
The Senate depends on unanimous consent to get much of its work done, and a single senator can throw a monkey wrench into the works by withdrawing consent.
There's definitely one senator out there who'll be man enough to block the bill, either a leftie or a hardcore righty.
True that. It's just more work for developers (cross-compiling, though Nokia does have a compile farm, I believe).
Might run into trouble if a user thinks he can move an app for one processor line to another phone. Though most people probably just download directly from the store to their phone.
Thinker: v. to tinker while cogitating.
I like it! And I'll use it. (If refudiate is good enough for OED, thinker's great, too.)
The biggest plus is that photos are about the moment; you have a camera on you, and you take the shot.
Only thing about them is that you can't zoom in (optically).
How's trac installation these days?
Brings back memories of (barely) running the first version of Visual C++ on a 386SX.
What's wrong with it? (Having never heard of it before.)
>every single processor line is actually just two lines. arm and x86.
Really? I didn't know that. Thanks. Given that's the case, it's an advantage for a C++ API, I would think.
Btw, do the latest ARM processors feature new instruction sets, like 686 features more instructions than 486? Or do most mobile devs target the ARM equivalent of 486?
Maybe I'm missing something, but by going with Meego, which features C++ APIs, devs have to recompile for every different processor line.
How does this help the desire of Meego partners to have a single large Meego app store?
This.
Meego defines the OS, but there's nothing saying an implementation of it has to be ugly. Nokia, please for the love of silicon,
-get rid of those "laughing amigos". They might look cute to (some) geeks, but to no one else.
-get some artists to create some nice icons, you know antialiased, glossy, shiny stuff. Not the pathetic 2D ugly colored ones you have now.
-either depreciate the name of the OS, or you should have picked a better name (Amigo woudn't have been bad)
http://meego.com/devices/handset/handset-screenshots
Mind-blowing. (Also probably plane-blowing at some point in the future.)
Offshoring maintenance? As in having maint done in a stopover in Hong Kong or Cyprus instead of the States? I hadn't heard of that. Any more info on that?
Obligatory Khan Youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 ^H^H^H^H
Oops, scratch that. Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMA5_op9aOA
Someone saw my post as a troll, but I was just remarking on what the headline evoked in me, a not unheard-of meme on Slashdot.
Anyways, regardless of your opinion on AGW, I think it's true that Europeans see the US as backwards in regards to that issue and they see it as part of a general US anti-science climate. Some Americans will agree and others won't.
I think BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), on the other hand, don't know, don't care, or can't afford to care whether AGW is happening or not.
Thanks! Actually, I was aiming for Funny, but someone came along and saw it as a Troll.
I guess that means you won't be sympathetic to "Micro-Soft is the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company of software."
Not only that, but it leads to re-inventing the wheel by iterating over huge datasets in (Java/PHP/etc.) to generate reports that could have been handled by one single declarative SQL statement (albeit a complicated one).
When you get into outer joins, grouping, subqueries, etc. things can get ornery, but it's still much better to let the DB churn the data, than sending it over the wire and iterating over it.
Were you doing hand-coded Swing, or using a GUI builder like Netbeans' Matisse?
And how do the GUI tools on .NET compare?
I thought this was going to be a global warming study, rising sea levels ...
with the US singled out for special opprobrium because it's basically the only country unwilling to accept the consensus of (most) scientists that global warming is happening.