Where do they say they invented everything under the sun?
Miguel himself has said that Gnumeric was heavily inspired by Excel, and Evolution by Outlook.
Why is it wrong that Gnome get attention?
It's great that Gnome and because of it open software get attention so more people will open their eyes and see that there's an alternative to Windows.
Have you tried USB under win95???
It's pure crap!
My father bought a laptop with win95 and of course wanted to use his usb-zip, should just be to plug it in? Right!
It detects it. good.
Reboot... starting win95, oh wait not zip...
hmm install it again... detects it... reboot...
no zip! install again... no zip. Tried copying usb files to other directories after some talk with some other people... Didn't work
Went to the manufacturers homepage and downloaded usb-fix. That should take care of it...
Ok, detects zip... reboot... zip working!
Confident I turn it over to my father... He starts using it... turns it off... no zip...
reboots... no zip... install usb-fix again... detects zip... shutdown... starting win95 no zip!
I just settled on making a nice icon on the desktop with the name "Find zip-drive", and suggested that he should get win98 upgrade.
Why isn't the win98 cd we have working, he asks me. It doesn't have the drivers, I tell him...
He can't really understand that you would need to buy a new win98 cd to upgrade his laptop.
So Linux isn't more than 2 years behind win (win98) in getting usb to work!
Ok, would people stop thinking Ericsson is a phone only company. =) The mainly make phoneswitches and complete solutions for mobile phones, include basestations and stuff like that. They even made a loss from selling phones in the first 6 months, but made great profit from basestations and stuff like that.
And aside from the phonebusiness the make a lot of intresting research, for example they invented Bluetooth. They desided that people would benefit from an standard so they standardized it. They also make radars and similar equipment for army use. I belive they made some part for ESA (european space agency). In the 80s they even made computers.
They are also the makers of Erlang a functional language made for high availability use. From Ericssons website: "Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. The most popular implementation of Erlang is available as open source from the open source erlang site." There is even a Debian package of Erlang.
Recently they have started to get in to the world of internet by buying of a lot of small companies with intresting products aimed for the net.
Besides being members of Symbian they have a deal with Microsoft for using Pocket-pc And now a deal with Red Hat.
They are a huge company about 100 000 employees but they are too often compared to Nokia which is mainly a phonecompany.
Ok enough about this... I am btw not connected to Ericsson in anyway other than using their products about every time a make a phonecall. Kind a hard to avoid it if I would like to, considering their equipment basicly runs the swedish phonesystem.
it's not like they're gonna lose any money on it, those who need more functions will buy the full version and they gain an active userbase who else would not have afford it and would get an illegal copy or choose another product. Great news anyway! Thanks Discreet!
Sure you could blame the programmer, calling him a bad programmer, but seriously how many programs have bufferoverruns and similar problems? I bet most of the more advanced programs you are running have or have had such problems. I bet programs like Apache have or have had them (don't blame me if it doesn't, it was just an example =))! Why? Well I wouldn't say because of bad programmers, rather because of a language that allows buffer overruns to happen easily. I mean even the best programmers makes mistakes. Mistakes of this kind are easy to make.
Languages like Java have checking against overruns but the main argument why not to use Java seems to be speed. Sure checking for Exploits of this kind makes the programs slower but it's worth it!
I heard rumors that Ericsson have started using Java despite it is slower than C, why?
First because it takes less time to write a program because lots of code is already written, which saves money.
Secondly because it is easier to debug, you are less likely to make errors (easier syntax, etc), which saves money.
They are just 2 examples, in a big project they can save lots of money, which means that they can by a faster computer that makes up for the fact that Java i slower than C.
Sure Java isn't a perfect language for everyone and every program but it's an alternative one should consider when starting to make a program.
I read an article about IPv6 a couple of years ago, where a scientist said: "With this new protocol we'll be able to have one address for every molecule on earth, and we're gonna need that!"
Not sure exactly how he said it but it's pretty close... even though I don't know if there really are that many addresses.
Well as the search engines really don't check all the avaliable ip numbers, but they mostly follow links from site to site, the time to index them is relative to the number of websites not the number of possible combinations.
I think the main problem is not the capability of the gaming consoles, it's the TV! Sure you can have nice looking jpgs but i would like to see the consoles on a standard tv. 768x576 or whatever they are... I guess I could get a wooping framerate on my athlon/geforce... oh wait, I don't play on that resolution because it looks _sooo_ much better in 1024x768.
Plus the tv doesn't exactly have good contrast either. Try playing some 3d games like armymen 4 players... it's not pretty. The tv just isn't made for 3d games, wait for hdtv or whatever before even starting to compare visual quality to a pc!
I wasn't saying that there aren't any ps viewers. I was just saying that on most of the computers I am running, there isn't. And I can't install on those, unless I have administrator access. This is NT boxes at my university.
html would be good, but far too often companies use PDF for specs, manuals and so on. We usually get ps files at the university for old exams which plain sucks because most computers don't have software that lets you read ps. Acrobat Reader is freely available for about every os you could imagine. I would rather have pdf that TeX or ps.
Slashdot Mirror
*Cough* RAM *Cough*
Sure you might have space for 100 different 100x100 32 bit images on your harddrive but
do you have enough RAM?
Where do they say they invented everything under the sun?
Miguel himself has said that Gnumeric was heavily inspired by Excel, and Evolution by Outlook.
Why is it wrong that Gnome get attention?
It's great that Gnome and because of it open software get attention so more people will open their eyes and see that there's an alternative to Windows.
Have you tried USB under win95???
It's pure crap!
My father bought a laptop with win95 and of course wanted to use his usb-zip, should just be to plug it in? Right!
It detects it. good.
Reboot... starting win95, oh wait not zip...
hmm install it again... detects it... reboot...
no zip! install again... no zip. Tried copying usb files to other directories after some talk with some other people... Didn't work
Went to the manufacturers homepage and downloaded usb-fix. That should take care of it...
Ok, detects zip... reboot... zip working!
Confident I turn it over to my father... He starts using it... turns it off... no zip...
reboots... no zip... install usb-fix again... detects zip... shutdown... starting win95 no zip!
I just settled on making a nice icon on the desktop with the name "Find zip-drive", and suggested that he should get win98 upgrade.
Why isn't the win98 cd we have working, he asks me. It doesn't have the drivers, I tell him...
He can't really understand that you would need to buy a new win98 cd to upgrade his laptop.
So Linux isn't more than 2 years behind win (win98) in getting usb to work!
Ok, would people stop thinking Ericsson is a phone only company. =) The mainly make phoneswitches and complete solutions for mobile phones, include basestations and stuff like that. They even made a loss from selling phones in the first 6 months, but made great profit from basestations and stuff like that.
And aside from the phonebusiness the make a lot of intresting research, for example they invented Bluetooth. They desided that people would benefit from an standard so they standardized it.
They also make radars and similar equipment for army use. I belive they made some part for ESA (european space agency).
In the 80s they even made computers.
They are also the makers of Erlang a functional language made for high availability use. From Ericssons website:
"Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson. The most popular implementation of Erlang is available as open source from the open source erlang site."
There is even a Debian package of Erlang.
Recently they have started to get in to the world of internet by buying of a lot of small companies with intresting products aimed for the net.
Besides being members of Symbian they have a deal with Microsoft for using Pocket-pc And now a deal with Red Hat.
They are a huge company about 100 000 employees but they are too often compared to Nokia which is mainly a phonecompany.
Ok enough about this... I am btw not connected to Ericsson in anyway other than using their products about every time a make a phonecall. Kind a hard to avoid it if I would like to, considering their equipment basicly runs the swedish phonesystem.
it's not like they're gonna lose any money on it, those who need more functions will buy the full version and they gain an active userbase who else would not have afford it and would get an illegal copy or choose another product. Great news anyway! Thanks Discreet!
Sure you could blame the programmer, calling him a bad programmer, but seriously how many programs have bufferoverruns and similar problems?
I bet most of the more advanced programs you are running have or have had such problems. I bet programs like Apache have or have had them (don't blame me if it doesn't, it was just an example =))!
Why? Well I wouldn't say because of bad programmers, rather because of a language that allows buffer overruns to happen easily. I mean even the best programmers makes mistakes. Mistakes of this kind are easy to make.
Languages like Java have checking against overruns but the main argument why not to use Java seems to be speed.
Sure checking for Exploits of this kind makes the programs slower but it's worth it!
I heard rumors that Ericsson have started using Java despite it is slower than C, why?
First because it takes less time to write a program because lots of code is already written, which saves money.
Secondly because it is easier to debug, you are less likely to make errors (easier syntax, etc), which saves money.
They are just 2 examples, in a big project they can save lots of money, which means that they can by a faster computer that makes up for the fact that Java i slower than C.
Sure Java isn't a perfect language for everyone and every program but it's an alternative one should consider when starting to make a program.
From their homepage it's said to do something similar to what you're asking for...
I read an article about IPv6 a couple of years ago, where a scientist said:
"With this new protocol we'll be able to have one address for every molecule on earth, and we're gonna need that!"
Not sure exactly how he said it but it's pretty close... even though I don't know if there really are that many addresses.
Well as the search engines really don't check all the avaliable ip numbers, but they mostly follow links from site to site, the time to index them is relative to the number of websites not the number of possible combinations.
Since blue's .plan service seems to be slashdotted, why don't you guys go slashdot www.stomped.com's .plan service instead... ;)
Seems Star Trek is low tech, I never heard them say: warp 300! ;)
I think the main problem is not the capability of the gaming consoles, it's the TV!
Sure you can have nice looking jpgs but i would like to see the consoles on a standard tv.
768x576 or whatever they are... I guess I could get a wooping framerate on my athlon/geforce... oh wait, I don't play on that resolution because it looks _sooo_ much better in 1024x768.
Plus the tv doesn't exactly have good contrast either. Try playing some 3d games like armymen 4 players... it's not pretty.
The tv just isn't made for 3d games, wait for hdtv or whatever before even starting to compare visual quality to a pc!
I wasn't saying that there aren't any ps viewers.
I was just saying that on most of the computers I am running, there isn't.
And I can't install on those, unless I have administrator access. This is NT boxes at my university.
html would be good, but far too often companies use PDF for specs, manuals and so on.
We usually get ps files at the university for old exams which plain sucks because most computers don't have software that lets you read ps.
Acrobat Reader is freely available for about every os you could imagine.
I would rather have pdf that TeX or ps.
Seems like Intel is finally going the right way.
Releasing the specs to Itanium and now this.
Great for the opensource world.