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  1. Re:easy. on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 5, Funny

    SAVE MONEY!! Once you can afford to, buy a house. Marry someone sensible and like yourself.

    And don't forget the sunscreen.

  2. Re:Exciting Developments on Nokia Releases Qt SDK For Mobile Development · · Score: 1

    Nokia Qt SDK - yes.

  3. Re:Exciting Developments on Nokia Releases Qt SDK For Mobile Development · · Score: 1

    In fact, once 4.7 is released within the next couple months, you will be able to publish directly to the n900, interact with your app, and trigger break points in Qt-Creator on your PC.

    What you want is PR1.2, not Qt 4.7. PR1.2 will happen earlier.

  4. Re:Oh please on History Repeats Itself — Mac & the iPad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh please, Apple has come out with some Spiffy stuff.
    The I-Pad is a Vanilla offering undeserving of the apple moniker..
    And no, I'm no Mac Fan.

    If you are no mac fan, why do you use the phrase "undeserving of the apple moniker"?

  5. Re:What's in it for Google? on Towards an Open Geolocation Database · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For all intents and purposes, Google can implement this themselves and do whatever they want without the help of anyone else in the named list.

    I don't think they can. Google doesn't own the map data, they just license it.

  6. )avascript on Multi-Platform App Created Using Single Code Base · · Score: 1

    How about plain old javascript? I heard it's pretty cross platform as well.

  7. Re:Tech enthusiast closed mindedness? on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 1

    I really can't get anyone who considers themselves a tech enthusiast being too close minded to try one for themselves.

    ...

    Boycotting EA and Draconian DRM. Supporting 2dboy.com, gog.com.

    See the contradiction here?

  8. Re:First DEVEL release on Intel and Nokia Provide First MeeGo Release · · Score: 1

    It's not suitable for application developers either, there are no application development frameworks unless you count x libs.

    If you want to make apps for future MeeGo, you can start now by making Qt apps for N900.

  9. Re:Encouraging on Intel and Nokia Provide First MeeGo Release · · Score: 1

    Upgrading phones should "just work" without any fear of breakage. Using apt this is known to work and it is not known that yum is superior. I would add that I have seen only unconvincing arguments that yum is even as good as apt, so I call it inferior.

    Whether upgrade works or not is the result of hard work of people preparing the upgrade, not some "magic" provided by apt/yum.

  10. Re:Disappointing on Intel and Nokia Provide First MeeGo Release · · Score: 5, Informative

    I cannot imagine that switching to a Fedora base will make anything better, and I expect it will make many things worse.

    MeeGo is not using Fedora base, it's a new distribution that happens to use RPM.

    While it probably was not reason for the switch (they cite existing infrastructure and people intel have in place), RPM packaging is allegedly easier than Debian packaging (only need to edit one file and you are good to go).

  11. Limuxwatch on The Woes of Munich's Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Seems that the good ol' Limuxwatch troll woke up again:

    http://limuxwatch.blogspot.com/

  12. Re:When the second paragraph is factually wrong on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    I won't read the rest of the article.

    New here?

  13. Re:Check List on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll be willing to spend bucks polishing Linux, since they don't have to buy the OS to begin with. Especially if it means doubling their sales, or more.

    It's impossible to buy iPad OS in the first place. What you can do is

    - Ship Android (Linux kernel, rest is Googlestuff)
    - Ship Moblin (real Linux, will turn to MeeGo)
    - Wait for MeeGo/ChromeOS (real Linux)
    - Ship Windows CE

  14. Re:Why will people buy iPads? on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    It's apps that sell hardware, not operating system awesomeness.

    Funny, I thought a cheap device with a good browser would land a purchase or two.

  15. Re:Check List on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    Sure linux is free and all that but you tend to have to have a gun to a linux developer's head to get him to spend time on polishing the UI.

    We have people paid to do that, you know. No weapon needed.

  16. Re:Adapting a mouse app for touch control on Here Come the Linux iPad Clones · · Score: 1

    Adapting a mouse app for touch control has two major steps: 1. eliminate anything requiring a hover, and 2. make the controls big so that they're easier to hit. Or what am I missing?

    You'll have to enable flicking (in order to not suck).

  17. Re:Mono on New Crossover Release With Improved Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Good that you brought this up. I have given up on wine ages ago, since I am satisfied with the 2-3 .net apps out there.

  18. Re:Cover art on Learning Python, 4th Edition · · Score: 5, Funny

    The rat is there because python is still learning.

  19. Re:Adobe Flash will die on Apple's Change of Heart On Flash · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe HTML5 in Firefox should mean that I can right click and "save as". Then it won't really matter.

    You don't need to do even that. Clicking on a video could just send the file to external video player (which always has all the warez codecs you need). Actually, that's the way I want to view my video anyway, I don't want them inside the browser, crashing and hanging all over the place.

  20. Re:n800 on Firefox Mobile Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Great news. I'm using Tear on my n810 mostly, let's see if this can top it...

  21. Re:Truth is that Postgress Rocks, dual licenses su on Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    KDE & QT are under LGPL, which, unlike GPL, avoid this vulnerability. The only reason for getting a commercial license for otherwise LGPL'd software is that either 1) you need static linking or 2) you need to make secret modifications to the library.

  22. Re:Chrome OS on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    It means a custom window manager on top of X.

  23. Re:Not a prob on Microsoft Promises Not To Sue Moonlight 2.0 Users · · Score: 1

    Then build something better.

    HTML5 should be enough.

  24. Not a prob on Microsoft Promises Not To Sue Moonlight 2.0 Users · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is not being sued.

    The problem is that we don't necessarily want this MS-driven environment to become popular among devs.

  25. Re:Chrome OS on ARM-Powered Laptops To Increase Linux Market Share · · Score: 1

    if the official Google announcements stating that Chrome OS will not run X11 don't convince you,

    They have never announced anything to that effect.

    I'd love to see a citation straight from the horses mouth that X won't be used. Notably, the following says nothing about X:

    Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.