I agree in that a pure framework is just a design pattern and that would be easy to implement. The really useful part of these frameworks is likely the libraries they are bundled with. Sure, somebody with the right experience can duplicate all the work of another person but there's obviously the problem of the duplicate of effort and the waste of time. In the case of code that have many users it is also benefiting from the experience of a large community. If the framework/library is open source there's really nothing preventing you from become familiar with the parts of the code you use. When it comes down to it I don't think it's really a matter of developer experience so much as the time it takes to learn another person's code and managing the risks of that external code changing. Really it seems there are benefits to each approach but certainly there are many benefits to using community developed code.
I don't know if the French government took a stand again against the Mormons but they were singling out Jehovah's Witness.
In 1998, the government of France imposed a 60% tax on religious offerings given by Jehovah's Witnesses to their organization, the local branch of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society (WTS). A lien has also been established against their headquarters and printing plant. The intent appears to be to bankrupt the group. The Interior Ministry has refused to register the Temoins de Jehovah as an "association cultuelle" or "association culte." Thus they assert that member's contributions are taxable at the normal 60% rate for gifts in that country, under a 1992 law. The government has calculated that 303 million in French Francs ($50 million in US funds) is owed to the government. This represents 150 million in tax plus 60% in penalty charges and interest). This represents taxes not collected for the past 5 years. The Minister of Finance has refused to confirm this assessment, citing the confidential nature of the information. They do acknowledge that negotiations continue with the WTS.
To be fair to the Wayland developers they are trying to make a protocol that is optimized for today's needs. X11 can be shoehorned into having some of the same functions but things are harder to implement and often have additional overhead in X11 that does not exist with Wayland.
The project leader for Wayland has argued that many things about X cannot be fixed without major protocol changes. The Wayland model is so radically different they cannot justify calling it X12 or X13.
From presentations I've seen from the developers the talking points I've heard are: * X11's client/server protocol has lots of round-trips that make remote applications respond slowly. * X11 has a client/server model but newer toolkits end up transferring bitmaps over the wire and in this case the RDP/vnc is better or at least no worse. * If an X11-like client/server protocol is desired the toolkits are in a better position to implement something X11-like that sends drawing instructions over the wire.
TFA - so does KDE 4.10 already run on Wayland? Or will it be KDE 5.x? That thing seems to need Wayland as well - not just Plasma.
This experimental backend is in KDE 4.11. Martin Gräßlin says that X11 clients communicate with KWin and Kwin renders them to the running wayland compositor, weston. Other than the input limitation mentioned in the summary the other problem is that Kwin cannot yet act as a wayland compositor itself and cannot manage wayland clients. I guess if you launched a wayland client in this environment you would have to have weston manage it for you.
You know back in the day Coleco made a machine called the ADAM. It was a console/computer hybrid. It worked for me at the time. I could see this working.
Of course as the parent pointed out on the console games just work. It's a crap shoot on the PC if the game will run or run acceptably.
I've seen recently released titles like Psyconauts running fine on X-box while they crawl on my better spec'ed PC.
I could probably spend $300 buying a new video card and a sound card to fix my problem but that would probably only little while before I started to hit the wall again. Why not spend my money on the Xbox and have less hassle.
Higher quality, yes? That doesn't matter. The fact is this tiny video files will be easy to copy because of their small size. This will make them a huge target of piracy. Who cares if the DVD is better? Sony will be complaining about lost revenues of $5 movies anyways.
Well if Microsoft goes this way with Windows eventually the rest of the world will, including websites and eventually corporate service lines. Seems like two factor authentication will generate loads of more useful data for data mining.
What's your favorite color? What do you do for a living? What is your favorite coffee? How many purchases have you made in the last month?
I was thinking maybe something more like the horrible ending of The Prisoner. Troi and Riker doing a musical number around the warp core while a jury of borg look on. Archer demands to see Q and discovers it's him... No, it's a laughing monkey! The self-destruct sequence is initiated. Archer escapes to Tijuana.
I think the point in mentioning that he's a priest isn't to say the law doesn't apply to him but that he probably has a good moral character and isn't likely to be doing something malicious. That's not to say that he does have good morals but it's expected of him just because of the position he holds.
He really doesn't seem to be doing anything illegal. If he is then this story just points out that the law is flawed and needs to be changed.
Cripes! Who keeps whoring this article? It has already made its rounds on all the DDR orientated websites. Even there people really aren't too interested in the story of this fool.
Atlantis has a whole new cast and takes place in an entirely different galaxy than SG-1. I imagine it should be fairly easy to pick up.
SG-1 is pretty episodic in comparison to other series like Deep Space Nine or Babylon 5. Since it is more comedy than drama it's not like you don't enjoy watching an episode without background information.
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I agree in that a pure framework is just a design pattern and that would be easy to implement. The really useful part of these frameworks is likely the libraries they are bundled with. Sure, somebody with the right experience can duplicate all the work of another person but there's obviously the problem of the duplicate of effort and the waste of time. In the case of code that have many users it is also benefiting from the experience of a large community. If the framework/library is open source there's really nothing preventing you from become familiar with the parts of the code you use. When it comes down to it I don't think it's really a matter of developer experience so much as the time it takes to learn another person's code and managing the risks of that external code changing. Really it seems there are benefits to each approach but certainly there are many benefits to using community developed code.
What do the french say about Mormonism?
I don't know if the French government took a stand again against the Mormons but they were singling out Jehovah's Witness.
In 1998, the government of France imposed a 60% tax on religious offerings given by Jehovah's Witnesses to their organization, the local branch of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society (WTS). A lien has also been established against their headquarters and printing plant. The intent appears to be to bankrupt the group. The Interior Ministry has refused to register the Temoins de Jehovah as an "association cultuelle" or "association culte." Thus they assert that member's contributions are taxable at the normal 60% rate for gifts in that country, under a 1992 law. The government has calculated that 303 million in French Francs ($50 million in US funds) is owed to the government. This represents 150 million in tax plus 60% in penalty charges and interest). This represents taxes not collected for the past 5 years. The Minister of Finance has refused to confirm this assessment, citing the confidential nature of the information. They do acknowledge that negotiations continue with the WTS.
source:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/rt_franc1.htm#witness
To be fair to the Wayland developers they are trying to make a protocol that is optimized for today's needs. X11 can be shoehorned into having some of the same functions but things are harder to implement and often have additional overhead in X11 that does not exist with Wayland.
The project leader for Wayland has argued that many things about X cannot be fixed without major protocol changes. The Wayland model is so radically different they cannot justify calling it X12 or X13.
Client / Server is fundamental to thin clients.
There's a vnc/rdp client is about as thin as you get. Wayland compositors can do this. What else is needed?
The client/server model is not a Wayland problem.
From presentations I've seen from the developers the talking points I've heard are:
* X11's client/server protocol has lots of round-trips that make remote applications respond slowly.
* X11 has a client/server model but newer toolkits end up transferring bitmaps over the wire and in this case the RDP/vnc is better or at least no worse.
* If an X11-like client/server protocol is desired the toolkits are in a better position to implement something X11-like that sends drawing instructions over the wire.
TFA - so does KDE 4.10 already run on Wayland? Or will it be KDE 5.x? That thing seems to need Wayland as well - not just Plasma.
This experimental backend is in KDE 4.11. Martin Gräßlin says that X11 clients communicate with KWin and Kwin renders them to the running wayland compositor, weston. Other than the input limitation mentioned in the summary the other problem is that Kwin cannot yet act as a wayland compositor itself and cannot manage wayland clients. I guess if you launched a wayland client in this environment you would have to have weston manage it for you.
“Good Morning, Dr. Chandra. I’m ready for my first lesson now.”
sigh...
That didn't exactly end well for the humans.
Isn't this the same strategy DirecTV used against people who had purchased satellite card hacking hardware?
I thought that's what 'quirks' mode was. IIRC, quirks mode is enabled for anything without a proper DOCTYPE.
You mean you don't know how to use the three seashells?
I thought we could combat global warming with giant ice cubes mined from Haley's comet.
You know back in the day Coleco made a machine called the ADAM. It was a console/computer hybrid. It worked for me at the time. I could see this working.
Of course as the parent pointed out on the console games just work. It's a crap shoot on the PC if the game will run or run acceptably.
I've seen recently released titles like Psyconauts running fine on X-box while they crawl on my better spec'ed PC.
I could probably spend $300 buying a new video card and a sound card to fix my problem but that would probably only little while before I started to hit the wall again. Why not spend my money on the Xbox and have less hassle.
Dude it's the legend of soltar with action missles! It'll kick your zits to the curb yo!
So, basically the Nintendo DS IS the controller.
Higher quality, yes? That doesn't matter. The fact is this tiny video files will be easy to copy because of their small size. This will make them a huge target of piracy. Who cares if the DVD is better? Sony will be complaining about lost revenues of $5 movies anyways.
Well if Microsoft goes this way with Windows eventually the rest of the world will, including websites and eventually corporate service lines. Seems like two factor authentication will generate loads of more useful data for data mining.
What's your favorite color?
What do you do for a living?
What is your favorite coffee?
How many purchases have you made in the last month?
I was thinking maybe something more like the horrible ending of The Prisoner. Troi and Riker doing a musical number around the warp core while a jury of borg look on. Archer demands to see Q and discovers it's him... No, it's a laughing monkey! The self-destruct sequence is initiated. Archer escapes to Tijuana.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/07/ 1015212&tid=202&tid=156&tid=10
The HDD is faster and able to be written more times?
I think the point in mentioning that he's a priest isn't to say the law doesn't apply to him but that he probably has a good moral character and isn't likely to be doing something malicious. That's not to say that he does have good morals but it's expected of him just because of the position he holds.
He really doesn't seem to be doing anything illegal. If he is then this story just points out that the law is flawed and needs to be changed.
Well at least they said they're going to use point and click instead of that awful keyboard control.
Cripes! Who keeps whoring this article? It has already made its rounds on all the DDR orientated websites. Even there people really aren't too interested in the story of this fool.
Atlantis has a whole new cast and takes place in an entirely different galaxy than SG-1. I imagine it should be fairly easy to pick up.
SG-1 is pretty episodic in comparison to other series like Deep Space Nine or Babylon 5. Since it is more comedy than drama it's not like you don't enjoy watching an episode without background information.
They didn't really know the ancient language. They just kept telling Daniel what he had figured out last time they went through the loop.