You missed my point, completely. Sure I know it works fine on OS X and on any recent Linux distro, duh. IPP printers don't work like that on Windows, though. What users need, and expect, and what you as an admin need for your sanity, is that a machine is joined to the domain, the user logs in, and their printers are automatically reconnected. For this you need either a Windows Server, or Samba, but recent Samba versions broke this important functionality. I use OS X clients, Linux (RHEL) servers and clients, and Windows clients in a mixed environment, so I'm supposed to know from experience what I'm talking about. If Windows worked like OS X does when exposed to Cups/IPP printers, I wouldn't worry about printing horkage in Samba. I wouldn't have to expose any printers via Samba, then.
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C++ is C with RAII and some code generation added. It helps with reducing the verbosity of the code. Properly designed C++ applications and frameworks don't have to be any slower than C. My main gripe with C is that it's just such a low-level language. It's not very expressive, it uses very low-level abstractions. It's a very crude tool.
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Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.
So, Glade is akin to Qt Designer. So Glade is not a framework, GTK is.
And that's my problem how exactly? You're claiming that Qt is making it intentionally hard for autoit. I'd think you know exactly what the problem is. You know, with your repeated claims that it's Qt's fault...
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They have nowhere near the functionality of Qt. Never mind the handwritten introspections in GTK. You'd think people could use, you know, computers to do the mundane for them. The distaste for using tools other than the holy compiler is awful. You've got all those beautiful resources, yet you choose to be confined to the expressiveness (rather, lack thereof) of C. Yay.
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So, what exactly would you use to target Windows, OS X, common Unices, and some embedded devices, all from one codebase?
I don't think you know how it all works with virtualization. Linux will run, albeit not all that smoothly, without modification on many virtualization platforms, including Microsoft's. To provide better performance, they need to have drivers that let the client OS talk through to the virtualized devices in the hypervisor using a better abstraction layer than that written for real hardware. VMware does it, MS does it, Oracle does it (for VirtualBox). The claim that "what Microsoft is doing here is submitting changes to the Linux kernel that allow Microsoft to maintain a closed, proprietary product line that competes with free alternatives" is technically inaccurate. Even if MS's hypervisor was FOSS, Linux would still need drivers for it. There are AFAIK no hypervisor driver standards, so everyone rolls their own, MS is no worse and no better than competitors. I mean, heck, even XEN clients need custom drivers!
Preemptive multitasking was in daily use well before Commodore or Atari got incorporated. Video and music playback on workstations also predates consumer computing availability of the same.
In all seriousness, there's some cool stuff coming out from Microsoft Research. Everything else, if it can be considered innovative, is half-baked. The dimwits who specified and documented winapi had no clue how to formally specify stuff. Thus all the undocumented behavior that applications exploit in light of no documentation and no clear direction as to the rationale and intended uses behind various APIs. Thus we have stuff that MS had to work around over and over to maintain compatibility with broken applications; stuff that wine people have to deal with as well. As far as MS complaining that app writers are getting things wrong: well duh idiots, you can't write the docs, you'll pay for it. Yeah, I've been consistently pissed about that, even back in the times of 16 bit winapi -- even as a kid back then I realized that they were not saying things that should have been said.
Of course with various non-standard Linux APIs, you're entirely on your own. But at least there's no pretense of documentation, and you can look at the code.
WTF is wrong with you and host files? They work for some people, some other people (myself included) block bad stuff at the local caching nameserver. Big fucking deal.
Alas, your insistence may signify an underlying psychiatric disease. I'd talk to a doctor. You may be getting first signs of schizophrenia or somesuch. And I am serious. There's a form of schizophrenia that manifests itself with people believing, initially maybe innocuously, that others are there to "get them" in a way. You show that pattern. Get evaluated. You'll save yourself and your family potentially a lot of grief. Or else you're just dim.
IIRC from reading the forums and bugreports, samba has accumulated plenty of printing regressions since 3.2 or so, and nothing was ever done about them. It's been quite long since one could use, say, driver for HP LaserJet 8000/8100 directly via samba, without using a local printer port:(
People leave stuff on planes. That's a fact. People carry weird looking electronics on board. That's a fact too. You can't scream bloody murder unless there's one. Just because someone has wires n'shit doesn't mean it's dangerous.
That's a yet another pile of dung, I agree. Way too many HR people, whether by vocation, acting or happenstance, are so dumb that there needs to be a new scale of dumbness devised just for them. I've heard it all. People who want recent college graduates with 5+ years of on-the-job experience in a field that's normally closed to non-grads. People who only look at matching up buzzwords and acronyms they have no idea of. People who don't have any idea about what the job may entail. Etc. Sigh.
Huh? Where did the minority lending come into the discussion at all? People who couldn't pay the loans back were not only minorities, not by a long shot! I'd say there has been plenty of firmly middle-class whites who thought that just because someone would lend them $500k+ for a house in a city where $150k gets you what'd pass for a mansion, they should jump on it. Lack of reasoning skills of the sort you'd expect from an 8th grader isn't racially biased. There's plenty of those in D.C., yaknow, and they are plenty white allright.
Russia has been paranoid and autocratic since before the reign of Ivan the Terrible, let alone during Stalin. They're still paranoid and autocratic, albeit to a lesser extent.
To vet: their president is a self-admitted street thug. LOL.
I doubt very much that this 5-per-opening situation is across all the jobs. There are technical jobs where my first hand experience is: 0-per-opening. We can't find people, and we're not looking for Nobel prize winners either. Anyone who's qualified thinks they should be managers or something. There's so much "manager material" out there that they've forgot that there won't be anyone left to manage...
I've used two Parallax Propellers, working in lockstep, to speak directly (via general purporse I/O -- GPIO pins) to gigabyte DDR3 sticks. The latter run fine even if you clock them at a couple MHz. The Prop cannot really "address" anything besides the built-in cog and hub memories! You don't have to use the CPU's native bus to address memory -- heck, many MCUs these days do not expose internal busses at all, the pins are only GPIO. The Propeller has 512 32-bit words of cog memory, and 64 kbytes of hub memory (half ROM, half RAM). I've found that when designing for consumer RAM, it pays to use the most recent spec -- it's usually the cheapest.
The unemployment is simply a reflection of the available workforce not matching the needs of the employers. There's less and less low-qualified jobs, and that's a good thing. The problem is that the workforce is 20+ years behind the needs. We don't need more unqualified people. We need people who are educated and smart -- not on paper, but in reality. It's incredibly hard to find qualified people for many positions. Yes, in the U.S.
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You missed my point, completely. Sure I know it works fine on OS X and on any recent Linux distro, duh. IPP printers don't work like that on Windows, though. What users need, and expect, and what you as an admin need for your sanity, is that a machine is joined to the domain, the user logs in, and their printers are automatically reconnected. For this you need either a Windows Server, or Samba, but recent Samba versions broke this important functionality. I use OS X clients, Linux (RHEL) servers and clients, and Windows clients in a mixed environment, so I'm supposed to know from experience what I'm talking about. If Windows worked like OS X does when exposed to Cups/IPP printers, I wouldn't worry about printing horkage in Samba. I wouldn't have to expose any printers via Samba, then.
C++ is C with RAII and some code generation added. It helps with reducing the verbosity of the code. Properly designed C++ applications and frameworks don't have to be any slower than C. My main gripe with C is that it's just such a low-level language. It's not very expressive, it uses very low-level abstractions. It's a very crude tool.
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.
So, Glade is akin to Qt Designer. So Glade is not a framework, GTK is.
Someone on a mission, ah?
It's a windows domain environment. You log in, you see printers, the drivers get autoinstalled. How again would I do it with CUPS/IPP?
And that's my problem how exactly? You're claiming that Qt is making it intentionally hard for autoit. I'd think you know exactly what the problem is. You know, with your repeated claims that it's Qt's fault...
They have nowhere near the functionality of Qt. Never mind the handwritten introspections in GTK. You'd think people could use, you know, computers to do the mundane for them. The distaste for using tools other than the holy compiler is awful. You've got all those beautiful resources, yet you choose to be confined to the expressiveness (rather, lack thereof) of C. Yay.
So, what exactly would you use to target Windows, OS X, common Unices, and some embedded devices, all from one codebase?
"QT created interfaces masks and by intent" Either say something that makes technical sense, or shut up. Thank you.
+5 insightful.
I don't think you know how it all works with virtualization. Linux will run, albeit not all that smoothly, without modification on many virtualization platforms, including Microsoft's. To provide better performance, they need to have drivers that let the client OS talk through to the virtualized devices in the hypervisor using a better abstraction layer than that written for real hardware. VMware does it, MS does it, Oracle does it (for VirtualBox). The claim that "what Microsoft is doing here is submitting changes to the Linux kernel that allow Microsoft to maintain a closed, proprietary product line that competes with free alternatives" is technically inaccurate. Even if MS's hypervisor was FOSS, Linux would still need drivers for it. There are AFAIK no hypervisor driver standards, so everyone rolls their own, MS is no worse and no better than competitors. I mean, heck, even XEN clients need custom drivers!
Preemptive multitasking was in daily use well before Commodore or Atari got incorporated. Video and music playback on workstations also predates consumer computing availability of the same.
In all seriousness, there's some cool stuff coming out from Microsoft Research. Everything else, if it can be considered innovative, is half-baked. The dimwits who specified and documented winapi had no clue how to formally specify stuff. Thus all the undocumented behavior that applications exploit in light of no documentation and no clear direction as to the rationale and intended uses behind various APIs. Thus we have stuff that MS had to work around over and over to maintain compatibility with broken applications; stuff that wine people have to deal with as well. As far as MS complaining that app writers are getting things wrong: well duh idiots, you can't write the docs, you'll pay for it. Yeah, I've been consistently pissed about that, even back in the times of 16 bit winapi -- even as a kid back then I realized that they were not saying things that should have been said.
Of course with various non-standard Linux APIs, you're entirely on your own. But at least there's no pretense of documentation, and you can look at the code.
WTF is wrong with you and host files? They work for some people, some other people (myself included) block bad stuff at the local caching nameserver. Big fucking deal.
Alas, your insistence may signify an underlying psychiatric disease. I'd talk to a doctor. You may be getting first signs of schizophrenia or somesuch. And I am serious. There's a form of schizophrenia that manifests itself with people believing, initially maybe innocuously, that others are there to "get them" in a way. You show that pattern. Get evaluated. You'll save yourself and your family potentially a lot of grief. Or else you're just dim.
IIRC from reading the forums and bugreports, samba has accumulated plenty of printing regressions since 3.2 or so, and nothing was ever done about them. It's been quite long since one could use, say, driver for HP LaserJet 8000/8100 directly via samba, without using a local printer port :(
People leave stuff on planes. That's a fact. People carry weird looking electronics on board. That's a fact too. You can't scream bloody murder unless there's one. Just because someone has wires n'shit doesn't mean it's dangerous.
+1 insightful.
Till the day you bump into a smoker and end up covered by a layer of smoldering polyethylene, that is.
That's a yet another pile of dung, I agree. Way too many HR people, whether by vocation, acting or happenstance, are so dumb that there needs to be a new scale of dumbness devised just for them. I've heard it all. People who want recent college graduates with 5+ years of on-the-job experience in a field that's normally closed to non-grads. People who only look at matching up buzzwords and acronyms they have no idea of. People who don't have any idea about what the job may entail. Etc. Sigh.
Huh? Where did the minority lending come into the discussion at all? People who couldn't pay the loans back were not only minorities, not by a long shot! I'd say there has been plenty of firmly middle-class whites who thought that just because someone would lend them $500k+ for a house in a city where $150k gets you what'd pass for a mansion, they should jump on it. Lack of reasoning skills of the sort you'd expect from an 8th grader isn't racially biased. There's plenty of those in D.C., yaknow, and they are plenty white allright.
Russia has been paranoid and autocratic since before the reign of Ivan the Terrible, let alone during Stalin. They're still paranoid and autocratic, albeit to a lesser extent.
To vet: their president is a self-admitted street thug. LOL.
I doubt very much that this 5-per-opening situation is across all the jobs. There are technical jobs where my first hand experience is: 0-per-opening. We can't find people, and we're not looking for Nobel prize winners either. Anyone who's qualified thinks they should be managers or something. There's so much "manager material" out there that they've forgot that there won't be anyone left to manage...
I agree with the first sentence, but you just botched it horribly in the second one. Growing to be a big company doesn't make you a narcissist, sorry.
I've used two Parallax Propellers, working in lockstep, to speak directly (via general purporse I/O -- GPIO pins) to gigabyte DDR3 sticks. The latter run fine even if you clock them at a couple MHz. The Prop cannot really "address" anything besides the built-in cog and hub memories! You don't have to use the CPU's native bus to address memory -- heck, many MCUs these days do not expose internal busses at all, the pins are only GPIO. The Propeller has 512 32-bit words of cog memory, and 64 kbytes of hub memory (half ROM, half RAM). I've found that when designing for consumer RAM, it pays to use the most recent spec -- it's usually the cheapest.
The unemployment is simply a reflection of the available workforce not matching the needs of the employers. There's less and less low-qualified jobs, and that's a good thing. The problem is that the workforce is 20+ years behind the needs. We don't need more unqualified people. We need people who are educated and smart -- not on paper, but in reality. It's incredibly hard to find qualified people for many positions. Yes, in the U.S.