I don't wish for this type of misfortune on my worst enemies, as if found legal, will still be a precedent for evil.
You miss the point. See, companies have had portfolios of questionable patents for years. However they were defensive patents. Every company patented every stupid thing they could so if DEC decided to sue IBM over violating there "method for acronyming corporation with three letters" patent, IBM could jsut counter sue based on another patent. This lead to a cold war senario where corporations don't sue each other out of fear of a zero sum senario.
Netscape products seem to be an exception, and netscape rates a lot higher on my usability scale than programs like 'the gimp.'
All image editing software more complex than paint it by nature non intuitive and complex. I got to the point where I auctually like gimp now. My knowledge of photography and other things that fall in the real of art school students is limited so I can't comment how wee Gimp compares to photoshop funactionality wise, but after usign both I consider both different but of about equal usability.
NVI is a good minimialistic vi. Vim supports many more features and in most applications the resource usage is small enough. If your looking to run a hundred VT420 terminals off an i486 then perhaps nvi or elvis would be better choices. However, vim has many advantages over "traditional" versions of vi and are well worth the install, unless your a dirty dirty emacs hippy.
If you want to get the most market share, go for marketing. If you want to sell to executives, go for results. But if you want to reach the techies, target to that 10%.
How about all three? We have the techies. This add will help give us the masses. The executives are a trickier situation.
Advertising is releatively new to the open source world. However, we have the rexources to do it. Tere is enough corporate acceptance of linux where we can access all the marketing channeling if we come up with the money. IBM has put alot of marketing effort into linux. These grassroots efforts to take out ads in the NYT will be very successful as long as we carefully pick our battles. Taing aim at IE at this point is a good idea. However, takimg on excel would be a bad idea.
Selling to executives is harder though. Creating a product that does X is simple. Many of you are saying, "Hey aren't unix programs suppose to do one thing and one thing well and accept text input and spew out text output?" Well yess they are spposed, and yes they do. However, the problem with selling to executives is figuring out exactly what it is they want there product to do. They don't want ACLs or stored procedures or faster reboot time. They want flexible security policies, the ability to integrate there database and middleware and 5 9's up uptime. They look for results and we geeks look at the how. A geek may say that clustering is jsut admiting your software is unstable and makes up for it by having your wagon pulled by a thpusand squirrels. A manager might think its cheaper to feed a thousand horses than a horse. I'me being overly simplistic and my examples are flawed but the pointis if were going to sell to executives, we need to be able to determine what they feel there needs are. That probalyl means focus groups. Yes thats right, were going to have to round up a bunch of PHBs, ask them a bunch of questions and analize the results. Were also going to have to pay attention to the results. I'm not saying we abandon our principles and make bad softwae, just make good quality software that does what the PHBs want.
These C++Builder people can easily switch to Visual C++ -- but they'll hate having to do it.
There are open source compilers out there. There is no good GUI builder for windows, but perhaps a few borland fans could finance/write one. I suggest they team up with Open Watcom. You have a great compiler there with a crappy IDE. The Borland developer community could probally make a kick ass GUI builder with watcom, and help with fleshing out some of the newfangled C++ extensions yet to make its way into the C++ compiler.
Root is disabled by default on all shipping Mac's and if anyone has physical access to your machine then you are in serious trouble anyway.
Right, but the initial setup of every shipping mac out there has the user create an administrative account on there machine. This person can run sudo to execute a root command. The password prompt you get before installing most mac software runs sudo. So an install program effectively runs as root and if the install program silently added this script to your system then it would run.
I don't like the idea of a constitutional amendment being determined based only on how it would affect one specific temporary case.
The 2 term limit was all about FDR. Granted, FDR was grandfathered, but the amendment was put in to prevent another FDR.
As much as I hate America passing term limits because it feels itself to stupid to remove a bad encumbant, I'm glad Clinton isn't feeling our pain at the moment. Then again I'll take him any day over Hillary. Of course I'm in favor of a single 6 year term.
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The fact of the matter is that you will never get such an amendment passed unless people have a specific person in mind.
I have worked as "Enterprise IT Support." Auctually the company has only about 100 employees, but we do colocation and manage other companies lans, so we have to support other people large networks. The company was a microsoft silver partner, which I believe meant unlimited workstation licenses for os and office internally. Externally our large clients have similar site licenses.
We don't religiously ghost our internal machines, due to constantly changing software versions and a very good backup system. When we buy a department new workstations or management gets a new batch of laptops we setup a ghost for that. However, after that people always come to us saying they need this or that program thats not on our blanket license. For example many people need visio. Combine that with the fact that at any given most people have a development version of one of our inhouse projects running on there machine, and ghosting is no longer an ideal solution. For a larger organization that does not consist mostly of IT staff ghost probally works better.
Webform-based UIs were always inferior, whereas Smalltalk environments offered functionality that is only now being integrated into VB's IDE.
Have you tried gmail? I never used a smalltalk app, but gmail definatly "sucks less" than all the web apps I've ever used. While "sucks less" is not a good end goal, its a good milestone.
Interfaces matter, but its more about familarity than robustness. OSX has a great user interface, but I was using the command shell for things that I didn't need to until a grokked it.
Its a third world country when they take someone elses job. Its a greedy evil country when they take your job so they can have their version of the "American Dream." BTW I'm a laizie faire capitalists and pro out sourcing, though admitingly because I have a job.
And isnt ginseng supposed to be some sort of aphrodisiac? Man, the combination of a 12-pack worth of beer goggles and ginseng.........oh the humanity.
If they would market this to females, even the slashdot crowd would get laid. Not that's that neccesserally a good thing.
The boy is old new england money as is his whole family.
Wow!!! More proof Kerry is Bush light. If only Kerry would take a pro life stance or Bush would realize that belief in God and Darwinism is not mutually exclusive I could not give a shit who won the election. No wait I want a cowboy and as a Catholic I could never vote for one of my own, even if the fucker was in Communion with the Holy See.
Unless of course you're writing the program in VB.;)
Auctyally the frm files are just plain text and can be equated to the many php template engines such as smarty. Granted your better off using the gui builder for thats. however you could if yu wantedd to, and I edited many a.bas file in VIM in my vb days.
Current plans include a Linux version and fixes to work with configure scripts.
The "fixes" to work with configure scripts are auctually wrapper programs that accept the One True(tm) comman line switch standard for cc, ld and friends. Watcom has always been a very exotic development envirorment. wmake calls the toolchain as dlls, and the build tools have their own command line switch structure.
Bull crap.
There will be no GCC 3.5
The next non-bugfix release will be GCC 4.0
I remember Redhat offering gcc-2.96 in redhat 7.0, a hybrid of 2.95/3.0 that had all sorts of increased C++ functionality that a C bigot like myself that treats his K&R manual like the king james bible will never understand. I'm sure history will repeat itself and someone else will make up a version 3.5. I swore off Redhat until Fedora came out because of all the sins against gcc redhat committed with 7.0.
While GAIM might have a very good coverage, as far as IM networks are concerned, I can't say that I enjoy running it in the situations when I have to -- e.g. when I am on my BSD box.
Ok and why don't yopu like gaim? Do you not like X? I agree adium kicks its ass on OS X but its great on BSD, Linux and Windows. If your complaint is that X sucks than your issues with BSD and Linux is the whole desktop sucks.
Hell Yeah!!! I've been using samba since the 2.0 days and its great. From serving mp3s to my fellow college students to accessing windows file shares from my linux and mac boxes, to eventually replacing the windows PDC here at work samba is great. Truely the gateway drug of open source.
I think that's the conservative viewpoint: don't like working so hard? Then work less!
I absolutly agree. Its hard for us that aren't consultants to do that, but ad a fiscal conservative I say thats our damn problem. Personally I work M-F 9-5 and then Friday and Saturday nights. Is it unhealthy? Absolutly. However, I can't stand have 30k in student loans and 2 jobs means twice the contacts in the industry.
For an original game, that means you'll need a good idea (pretty rare in itself), a rudimentary (or better) engine -- that you'll have to code yourself, plus sufficiently well designed graphics and sound to get people interested.
Well Carmack has release the engines for Doom, Quake, and Quake II. Granted their not state fo the art, but I still enjoy a good game of Doom deathmatch. Also look at all the features that are supported by doom these days. OpenGL, mouse look, jumping (from a standstill), and more. Sure most of the creative doom and quake mods are simply counterstrike clones, but they are perfectly good engines that you could make an original game with. The diversity of games cloned with the4 engines prove that.
Eventually, I beleive there will be standard support for real browser-based GUI components. Until then, we are forced to deal with the GUI wannabe crap you get from web-based apps.
Its called webforms. BTW if your making an activex control your using a fat clients GUI api and know how to make a win32 app.
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They did, and they were.
Well there were heroes many protoslashdotters. However, there was no slashdot during that lawsuit.
I don't wish for this type of misfortune on my worst enemies, as if found legal, will still be a precedent for evil.
You miss the point. See, companies have had portfolios of questionable patents for years. However they were defensive patents. Every company patented every stupid thing they could so if DEC decided to sue IBM over violating there "method for acronyming corporation with three letters" patent, IBM could jsut counter sue based on another patent. This lead to a cold war senario where corporations don't sue each other out of fear of a zero sum senario.
Netscape products seem to be an exception, and netscape rates a lot higher on my usability scale than programs like 'the gimp.'
All image editing software more complex than paint it by nature non intuitive and complex. I got to the point where I auctually like gimp now. My knowledge of photography and other things that fall in the real of art school students is limited so I can't comment how wee Gimp compares to photoshop funactionality wise, but after usign both I consider both different but of about equal usability.
NVI is a good minimialistic vi. Vim supports many more features and in most applications the resource usage is small enough. If your looking to run a hundred VT420 terminals off an i486 then perhaps nvi or elvis would be better choices. However, vim has many advantages over "traditional" versions of vi and are well worth the install, unless your a dirty dirty emacs hippy.
Thats right we should all be using FreeBSD, with the vim port installed of course.
If you want to get the most market share, go for marketing. If you want to sell to executives, go for results. But if you want to reach the techies, target to that 10%.
How about all three? We have the techies. This add will help give us the masses. The executives are a trickier situation.
Advertising is releatively new to the open source world. However, we have the rexources to do it. Tere is enough corporate acceptance of linux where we can access all the marketing channeling if we come up with the money. IBM has put alot of marketing effort into linux. These grassroots efforts to take out ads in the NYT will be very successful as long as we carefully pick our battles. Taing aim at IE at this point is a good idea. However, takimg on excel would be a bad idea.
Selling to executives is harder though. Creating a product that does X is simple. Many of you are saying, "Hey aren't unix programs suppose to do one thing and one thing well and accept text input and spew out text output?" Well yess they are spposed, and yes they do. However, the problem with selling to executives is figuring out exactly what it is they want there product to do. They don't want ACLs or stored procedures or faster reboot time. They want flexible security policies, the ability to integrate there database and middleware and 5 9's up uptime. They look for results and we geeks look at the how. A geek may say that clustering is jsut admiting your software is unstable and makes up for it by having your wagon pulled by a thpusand squirrels. A manager might think its cheaper to feed a thousand horses than a horse. I'me being overly simplistic and my examples are flawed but the pointis if were going to sell to executives, we need to be able to determine what they feel there needs are. That probalyl means focus groups. Yes thats right, were going to have to round up a bunch of PHBs, ask them a bunch of questions and analize the results. Were also going to have to pay attention to the results. I'm not saying we abandon our principles and make bad softwae, just make good quality software that does what the PHBs want.
These C++Builder people can easily switch to Visual C++ -- but they'll hate having to do it. There are open source compilers out there. There is no good GUI builder for windows, but perhaps a few borland fans could finance/write one. I suggest they team up with Open Watcom. You have a great compiler there with a crappy IDE. The Borland developer community could probally make a kick ass GUI builder with watcom, and help with fleshing out some of the newfangled C++ extensions yet to make its way into the C++ compiler.
Root is disabled by default on all shipping Mac's and if anyone has physical access to your machine then you are in serious trouble anyway. Right, but the initial setup of every shipping mac out there has the user create an administrative account on there machine. This person can run sudo to execute a root command. The password prompt you get before installing most mac software runs sudo. So an install program effectively runs as root and if the install program silently added this script to your system then it would run.
I don't like the idea of a constitutional amendment being determined based only on how it would affect one specific temporary case.
The 2 term limit was all about FDR. Granted, FDR was grandfathered, but the amendment was put in to prevent another FDR.
As much as I hate America passing term limits because it feels itself to stupid to remove a bad encumbant, I'm glad Clinton isn't feeling our pain at the moment. Then again I'll take him any day over Hillary. Of course I'm in favor of a single 6 year term.
[/soapbox] The fact of the matter is that you will never get such an amendment passed unless people have a specific person in mind.
I have worked as "Enterprise IT Support." Auctually the company has only about 100 employees, but we do colocation and manage other companies lans, so we have to support other people large networks. The company was a microsoft silver partner, which I believe meant unlimited workstation licenses for os and office internally. Externally our large clients have similar site licenses. We don't religiously ghost our internal machines, due to constantly changing software versions and a very good backup system. When we buy a department new workstations or management gets a new batch of laptops we setup a ghost for that. However, after that people always come to us saying they need this or that program thats not on our blanket license. For example many people need visio. Combine that with the fact that at any given most people have a development version of one of our inhouse projects running on there machine, and ghosting is no longer an ideal solution. For a larger organization that does not consist mostly of IT staff ghost probally works better.
It was my understanding that all but alpha and i386 was dropped after 3.51. I have a terminal server cd that has i386 and alpha binaries.
Webform-based UIs were always inferior, whereas Smalltalk environments offered functionality that is only now being integrated into VB's IDE.
Have you tried gmail? I never used a smalltalk app, but gmail definatly "sucks less" than all the web apps I've ever used. While "sucks less" is not a good end goal, its a good milestone.
Interfaces matter, but its more about familarity than robustness. OSX has a great user interface, but I was using the command shell for things that I didn't need to until a grokked it.
IBM can "manage" software; they just can't MARKET it worth a damn. :-)
This is afterall the company that employed the author of the Mythical Man Month.
Its a third world country when they take someone elses job. Its a greedy evil country when they take your job so they can have their version of the "American Dream." BTW I'm a laizie faire capitalists and pro out sourcing, though admitingly because I have a job.
And isnt ginseng supposed to be some sort of aphrodisiac? Man, the combination of a 12-pack worth of beer goggles and ginseng.........oh the humanity.
If they would market this to females, even the slashdot crowd would get laid. Not that's that neccesserally a good thing.
The boy is old new england money as is his whole family.
Wow!!! More proof Kerry is Bush light. If only Kerry would take a pro life stance or Bush would realize that belief in God and Darwinism is not mutually exclusive I could not give a shit who won the election. No wait I want a cowboy and as a Catholic I could never vote for one of my own, even if the fucker was in Communion with the Holy See.
Unless of course you're writing the program in VB. ;)
.bas file in VIM in my vb days.
Auctyally the frm files are just plain text and can be equated to the many php template engines such as smarty. Granted your better off using the gui builder for thats. however you could if yu wantedd to, and I edited many a
He wrote a vbscript using notepad. You don't need an IDE to write programs.
Current plans include a Linux version and fixes to work with configure scripts.
The "fixes" to work with configure scripts are auctually wrapper programs that accept the One True(tm) comman line switch standard for cc, ld and friends. Watcom has always been a very exotic development envirorment. wmake calls the toolchain as dlls, and the build tools have their own command line switch structure.
Bull crap. There will be no GCC 3.5 The next non-bugfix release will be GCC 4.0
I remember Redhat offering gcc-2.96 in redhat 7.0, a hybrid of 2.95/3.0 that had all sorts of increased C++ functionality that a C bigot like myself that treats his K&R manual like the king james bible will never understand. I'm sure history will repeat itself and someone else will make up a version 3.5. I swore off Redhat until Fedora came out because of all the sins against gcc redhat committed with 7.0.
While GAIM might have a very good coverage, as far as IM networks are concerned, I can't say that I enjoy running it in the situations when I have to -- e.g. when I am on my BSD box.
Ok and why don't yopu like gaim? Do you not like X? I agree adium kicks its ass on OS X but its great on BSD, Linux and Windows. If your complaint is that X sucks than your issues with BSD and Linux is the whole desktop sucks.
Hell Yeah!!! I've been using samba since the 2.0 days and its great. From serving mp3s to my fellow college students to accessing windows file shares from my linux and mac boxes, to eventually replacing the windows PDC here at work samba is great. Truely the gateway drug of open source.
I think that's the conservative viewpoint: don't like working so hard? Then work less!
I absolutly agree. Its hard for us that aren't consultants to do that, but ad a fiscal conservative I say thats our damn problem. Personally I work M-F 9-5 and then Friday and Saturday nights. Is it unhealthy? Absolutly. However, I can't stand have 30k in student loans and 2 jobs means twice the contacts in the industry.
For an original game, that means you'll need a good idea (pretty rare in itself), a rudimentary (or better) engine -- that you'll have to code yourself, plus sufficiently well designed graphics and sound to get people interested.
Well Carmack has release the engines for Doom, Quake, and Quake II. Granted their not state fo the art, but I still enjoy a good game of Doom deathmatch. Also look at all the features that are supported by doom these days. OpenGL, mouse look, jumping (from a standstill), and more. Sure most of the creative doom and quake mods are simply counterstrike clones, but they are perfectly good engines that you could make an original game with. The diversity of games cloned with the4 engines prove that.
Eventually, I beleive there will be standard support for real browser-based GUI components. Until then, we are forced to deal with the GUI wannabe crap you get from web-based apps.
Its called webforms. BTW if your making an activex control your using a fat clients GUI api and know how to make a win32 app.