One pretty essential feature that a smart phone doesn't have, while a phone + pda has: How do you take notes on your smart phone while talking to someone on said smart phone? And please don't mention separate headsets, i don't live my life in my car.
You're close to the point - every action taken against "software piracy" is good news for Linux. People who can't afford Windows and can't pirate it will eventually switch to a free operating system.
Civilization 3 doesn't work. Laser Squad Nemesis is unplayable, while it works pretty well with the 'normal' wine.
I can afford to spend weekends in Windows, playing the latest and greatest 10-hour-gameplay FPS... but for the two above, which have a lot of replay value and are going to stay on my hard drive for years, i'm out of luck.
I live in Romania and i've been happily buying books from the US with a Mastercard for 5 years. Neither Amazon nor smaller specialized online bookstores seem to mind that I'm in Romania.
I'm not interested in anything else since I'm not about to pay for international shipping for something i can buy from here anyway. Not to mention that having the warranty across an ocean is rather inconvenient.
One decent measure of anti fraud protection i've met is stores refusing to ship anywhere except the card holder's address. Isn't that easily verifiable from inside a merchant account? Isn't that enough, instead of blocking?
Well two facts: (a) John Dean is not the main Rekall developer, that one is Mike Richardson. (b) The Rekall code is owned by TKC. And even if it was owned by the main developer, that one would have been Mike.
Isn't that a bit low for the average piece of hardware in a PC? I bought an ancient (used) ISA sound card for an even more ancient PC and I still got 180 days of warranty for it...
What he wants to do, instead of rejecting the mail immediately, is reject the mails on the greylist after holding the connection for, say, 10 minutes. That will help deter spamming software, since it will slow down the rate at which mail goes out.
You know, there's another use for el cheapo cards. I have a not-so-top-of-the-line lcd monitor that would probably look nasty at 60 fps or more... but it looks good at the 20-30 fps that a cheap video card is capable of doing:) Of course, you *should* buy from a quality manufacturer for stability reasons, but you should buy the slowest GPU in the generation.
Well, i don't know about MFC, i managed to stay away from it, but I *am* thankful to the Kylix/Delphi core developers for their class library. Now if only they'd integrate DirectX with their core libraries, life *would* be easier.
1. My old Siemens pc, a pentium 133, which i use as a firewall, mail server etc stops working one day. I open the case and to my astonishment i find a pool of water on one corner of the motherboard. I figure it was from condensation, as I keep that pc in a remote corner of the room and there's no way i'd get a glass of water there. Well, I let it dry for a couple of hours and turn it back on. Surprise, it works perfectly - except that there is no video signal coming out. I touch the video chip on the motherboard - it's extremely hot, probably fried. The vga connector stings me if i touch it. Same with the first serial port, which was in the same area. That was 1 year ago. Needless to say, the machine still works up to this day, and thanks to Debian, i don't need a monitor on it anyway. And a big thanks to Siemens for making a pc that can work with 15% of the motherboard fried:)
2. Friend of mine, artist type, buys a new sound card for his computer. I was busy that day and he didn't want to wait for me to install it, so he puts it in himself. All goes ok, drivers installed, games work, but then he decides to connect the audio cable from the cd-rom to the sound card. I don't know how he did it, but he connected a floppy power connector to the internal audio connector of the card. Of course, sparks and smoke come out of the pc, he's to frightened to turn it on again, waits for me. I come later, try the pc back on, it works. Try sound, it works. Only the cd audio input on the sound card is fried. Card was as no name as it can get, I had never heard of the chip before, but it still works.
The most useful feature of Delphi/C++ Builder/Kylix is *not* the code completion, but the GUI builder. Why bother positioning all those buttons and grids and whatever in *code* when Delphi has a GUI for that?
As opposed to VB, Delphi doesn't get in the way of the actual programming. You want a graphical GUI builder, you've got one. You want to write low level stuff, you switch to the code window. You can't appreciate that if you haven't used a Delphi derivative. It removes most of the tedium and boredom in writing UIs while letting you use *any* low level feature available in the current platform. It simply saves time.
Disclaimer: i don't work for Borland, but I work *with* Borland products:)
The original poster forgot that you get automatic persistence for published properties (simple types, at least). Does wonders for component writers; i.e. it forces you to think carefully what part of the object state you want saved and what you don't - and what you want available to the user.
While the persistence part may seem like overkill, the actual properties idea *does* belong into the C++ standard. Hopefully Borland don't have a patent for it.
From my windows programming days i remember you could link mostly any dynamic or static library to Delphi/C++ Builder, as long as you didn't want to use classes defined in the dll/lib. This means you can probably link anything written with gcc to a Delphi application, as long as you don't want to use external classes; for that you will need to write some kind of C-level wrapper. Understandable, since not even ANSI dares to define a binary interface for classes.
IMHO Debian is the best *server* distro. Nothing can beat apt updates, especially if the server is thousands of miles away (my particular case). And if Debian isn't stable, what is?
On the other hand, as a Linux programmer, I find it doesn't matter what distro I use on my desktop. Whatever I install, it gets unrecognizable after a few months of compiling stuff from source. So it's Debian for servers and Slackware for desktops for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Or MKV with any subtitles for that matter. If it only plays back WMV crap, it's useless.
One pretty essential feature that a smart phone doesn't have, while a phone + pda has:
How do you take notes on your smart phone while talking to someone on said smart phone?
And please don't mention separate headsets, i don't live my life in my car.
sudo /bin/bash...
You're close to the point - every action taken against "software piracy" is good news for Linux. People who can't afford Windows and can't pirate it will eventually switch to a free operating system.
Most of the buttons on a PalmOS screen are large enough to be operated with a finger anyway. I don't see the news.
They'll make it subliminal :)
Because you don't know about www.gamefaqs.com ?
Civilization 3 doesn't work.
Laser Squad Nemesis is unplayable, while it works pretty well with the 'normal' wine.
I can afford to spend weekends in Windows, playing the latest and greatest 10-hour-gameplay FPS... but for the two above, which have a lot of replay value and are going to stay on my hard drive for years, i'm out of luck.
I think .to would sell domains to anybody...
And if you mean where it's hosted, it's hosted in the US, at something called emerytech.com.
I live in Romania and i've been happily buying books from the US with a Mastercard for 5 years. Neither Amazon nor smaller specialized online bookstores seem to mind that I'm in Romania.
I'm not interested in anything else since I'm not about to pay for international shipping for something i can buy from here anyway. Not to mention that having the warranty across an ocean is rather inconvenient.
One decent measure of anti fraud protection i've met is stores refusing to ship anywhere except the card holder's address. Isn't that easily verifiable from inside a merchant account? Isn't that enough, instead of blocking?
Well two facts:
(a) John Dean is not the main Rekall developer, that one is Mike Richardson.
(b) The Rekall code is owned by TKC. And even if it was owned by the main developer, that one would have been Mike.
Ah, thanks.
I don't understand, please explain. If there is a warrant against him, isn't he entitled to know what he's accused of?
Well, a book may help when you're trying to make your computer reach google groups :)
http://www.pchdtv.com/faq.php#faq0000007
Isn't that a bit low for the average piece of hardware in a PC? I bought an ancient (used) ISA sound card for an even more ancient PC and I still got 180 days of warranty for it...
What he wants to do, instead of rejecting the mail immediately, is reject the mails on the greylist after holding the connection for, say, 10 minutes. That will help deter spamming software, since it will slow down the rate at which mail goes out.
Actually, the minimum wage here is about $80 per month. That's $0.50 per hour at a 'standard' 160 hour work week.
You know, there's another use for el cheapo cards. I have a not-so-top-of-the-line lcd monitor that would probably look nasty at 60 fps or more... but it looks good at the 20-30 fps that a cheap video card is capable of doing :)
Of course, you *should* buy from a quality manufacturer for stability reasons, but you should buy the slowest GPU in the generation.
Well, i don't know about MFC, i managed to stay away from it, but I *am* thankful to the Kylix/Delphi core developers for their class library.
Now if only they'd integrate DirectX with their core libraries, life *would* be easier.
1. :)
My old Siemens pc, a pentium 133, which i use as a firewall, mail server etc stops working one day.
I open the case and to my astonishment i find a pool of water on one corner of the motherboard. I figure it was from condensation, as I keep that pc in a remote corner of the room and there's no way i'd get a glass of water there.
Well, I let it dry for a couple of hours and turn it back on. Surprise, it works perfectly - except that there is no video signal coming out. I touch the video chip on the motherboard - it's extremely hot, probably fried. The vga connector stings me if i touch it. Same with the first serial port, which was in the same area.
That was 1 year ago. Needless to say, the machine still works up to this day, and thanks to Debian, i don't need a monitor on it anyway. And a big thanks to Siemens for making a pc that can work with 15% of the motherboard fried
2.
Friend of mine, artist type, buys a new sound card for his computer. I was busy that day and he didn't want to wait for me to install it, so he puts it in himself. All goes ok, drivers installed, games work, but then he decides to connect the audio cable from the cd-rom to the sound card.
I don't know how he did it, but he connected a floppy power connector to the internal audio connector of the card. Of course, sparks and smoke come out of the pc, he's to frightened to turn it on again, waits for me.
I come later, try the pc back on, it works. Try sound, it works. Only the cd audio input on the sound card is fried. Card was as no name as it can get, I had never heard of the chip before, but it still works.
Is this the same Sony who sells the sexy Sony Clie with a mp3 player? No Windows on that one, last time I checked...
Hmm, I've never used VB after 3.0 :)
They must have copied Delphi - i've been using that one since the 1.0 days.
The most useful feature of Delphi/C++ Builder/Kylix is *not* the code completion, but the GUI builder. Why bother positioning all those buttons and grids and whatever in *code* when Delphi has a GUI for that?
:)
As opposed to VB, Delphi doesn't get in the way of the actual programming. You want a graphical GUI builder, you've got one. You want to write low level stuff, you switch to the code window. You can't appreciate that if you haven't used a Delphi derivative. It removes most of the tedium and boredom in writing UIs while letting you use *any* low level feature available in the current platform. It simply saves time.
Disclaimer: i don't work for Borland, but I work *with* Borland products
The original poster forgot that you get automatic persistence for published properties (simple types, at least). Does wonders for component writers; i.e. it forces you to think carefully what part of the object state you want saved and what you don't - and what you want available to the user.
While the persistence part may seem like overkill, the actual properties idea *does* belong into the C++ standard. Hopefully Borland don't have a patent for it.
From my windows programming days i remember you could link mostly any dynamic or static library to Delphi/C++ Builder, as long as you didn't want to use classes defined in the dll/lib. This means you can probably link anything written with gcc to a Delphi application, as long as you don't want to use external classes; for that you will need to write some kind of C-level wrapper. Understandable, since not even ANSI dares to define a binary interface for classes.
IMHO Debian is the best *server* distro. Nothing can beat apt updates, especially if the server is thousands of miles away (my particular case). And if Debian isn't stable, what is?
On the other hand, as a Linux programmer, I find it doesn't matter what distro I use on my desktop. Whatever I install, it gets unrecognizable after a few months of compiling stuff from source. So it's Debian for servers and Slackware for desktops for me.