someone didn't read the links posted... its nothing about Satan, but commercialisation. But I did love this bit: (as Clapton *is* god).
"Santaism and Santanaism
Santanaism would be the worship of Latin guitar great Carlos Santana. While he is truly impressive, I don't think that anyone seriously thinks he is any sort of guitar diety. What's more, Santanaism, whatever form it took, would probably differ radically from traditional religions, most likely being closest in form to Claptonarianism, another recent development. "
aw thanks. I hope you get some 'informative' mods.
Yeah, I know what you mean - our choice of lettering can be quite poor, however, we've become quite good at recognising them though. Although 'modern' and 'modem' can be the same, we can still undrestnad what we tpye even if its gibbreish. I think that's really impressive, good job we also have context within a sentence to make sense of what we see. We don't really need to distinguish the letters if there's enough context.. err, and we've learned to read, of course. tough on the 5-year olds, but if I managed to learn it...:)
My worst source of confusion is either 1 and l, or 0 and o. Letters.. we havn't even started!
I bet he wasn't being facetious - he was using AWT or Swing.
Its a pity (well, a design 'feature' of Java) that to get good desktop performance out of Java, one has to use a library that... doesn't use Java (ie use Eclipse, that uses native widgets).
Its not a conspiracy - read this/. article (the italics is what you want).
Note how it is designed to stop unscrupulous people from charging you a royalty. Something that GPL doesn't do.
Imagine I add code to Apache that contains a patent I hold. Now, I wait a few years for it to become popular, and then start suing left, right and centre).
The CPL basically says that this bad behaviour is illegal, when you release, you don't just gove away the source, you allow people to use it freely. Under the GPL, you could legitimately charge for the 'free' software.
Of course, this brings out the conspiracy comments mainly because of the religious zealotly over the GPL (oh, and against MS of course). The problem is only that the GPL requires you to release under the GPL, regardless of the original licence. That's why it is incompatible - not for any other reason, and certainly not because the CPL is 'less free' or 'patent encumbered' or 'theyre out to get you and your little FOSS doggie too'
because ruggedised PDAs have been around for ages - example is the Panasonic toughbook which they target at industrial and 'law enforcement' customers (ie, has to be rugged enough to be used to subdue violent suspects).
The industrial ones are very expensive as the customers can afford to buy them.. is this the difference between them and this new Consumer model?
Bristol City (not the football team;) ) went wireless recently, and won an award for it.
That article also has an interview with reasons why and how they did it. It cost £3.2m which was funded by the government, local business and HP. It isn't however, just free wireless access for everyone, it is mainly for businesses and projects to make use of it - eg The first wireless application, Schminky, was launched in March 2003, at the Watershed Art Centre's caf. It allowed tourists to interact using mobile devices to play a 'Simple Simon' style game.
Other applications followed such as Savannah, a project involving the BBC's Natural History unit to help children from six Bristol schools learn about the ecology and ethology of African plains.
The strategy-based educational adventure game using wireless iPaq PDAs allowed children to become 'virtual lions', with predators and prey mapped onto the virtual landscape which overlayed school playing fields.
Further projects include the world's first global positioning system (GPS) 'radio play' recreating the 1831 riot for tourists walking around Queen Square and last November's Harbour Trials, giving tourists a multimedia tour with Bristol Ferry Boat Company.
1. when the laptop lid is closed, AFAIK all laptops turn off the screen. (but this is like one of those 'does the light in the fridge go off when you close the door' scenarios.. can we ever be sure???)
When I'm at home, it's the air conditioner running, when I'm at work it's the PC's in my office
and we wonder why global warming is occurring!:)
I think most people turn lights off during the night - personally, I can't sleep with one on (but I'm strange, and I don't need air con running all the time)
BTW. power requirements of RAM are about 10W per 512Mb just to refresh. Add the gfx card RAM and idling CPU power requirements, and the power required to run your fans and motherboard, even if you have your HDD and monitor turned off with power saving, I think you'll use a fair bit more power than a 60W light bulb. (and way more than if you have one of those 10W energy saving ones)
A colleage used to work for a large firm and was asked for ideas on how to save some money.. he said 'turn all the monitors off overnight'. After several reports it turns out the firm would save £75k per year by doing this... power saving nowadays will do most of that, but quite a few monitors have poor standby consumption (check out standby consumption
Theoretically 15 GB might just be enough for 3 hours HD movie at 1920x1080i. uh-oh, I'm not so sure about the compression encoding, but 3 hours for a disc isn;t going to be enough - where will they fit the optional endings, the deleted scenes, the director's commentary, the PC game, the actor's biographies, the.. etc etc
We'll see what we get in the end, not a lot we can do about it right now.
when a patent made gif files possibly illegal to use?
oh yeah, I remember that really stopped people using Gifs. Especially vigorous in their destruction of gifs because they were patent-encumbered were the kind of people who read this site
it will never run 'natively'. What you'll be able to do is run Windows 'natively' (in a window no doubt), and run office2003 on that.
The big trick is getting windows to run on your linux OS first - there is more to running windows applications than just translating/emuating/whatever the binary as they all use OS features.
Just like in windows when I run the Gimp I need the GTK framework, in linux, when I run Office 2003 I need a bunch of COM, IE, and WinAPI calls.
I read the article as humourous - after all its talking about 'engineers' - not a broad representative sample of the human male population, and its well-known (even if incorrect) that engineers think differently to the rest of the population (let alone women)
BTW, Have you shown the recipes to any women? All the ones I shown them to said thing like 'whats that do', 'thats just strange', 'why would you do that' etc.
when I work for my first company, there was this presales guy who decided to change role to a team lead. One day he was overheard complaining his bonus was a measly x, instead of y (y being jus a couple of grand less than our salaries at the time).
forward 4 years, I'm recruiting.. and I'm asked to ask questions of this guy they ave n for a fancy job... you guessed. He didn't get the job.
Since then, when I get CVs in, I ask around for people who knew the guy, it does give a good indication of how he'll fit in with the team, and though you don't use just that as a filter, it does play a major part of the hiring decision.
There's one guy I used to work with at my last company who I will not work with ever again. I recommended the product they make to my current employer who will resell it/partner up. That guy *will not* be involved in the new business.
at my previous employer, we saw a bug in a component, and we had the vendor working round the clock to find and fix it for us.
Naturally, we paid money for this service, and we were a 'partner', but practicly everyone could become one of them by using their software, and asking nicely.
In the end, it turned out the bug was in the CTOs fancy string classes, but still - we had excellent support from the vendor. (Who happened to be Microsoft, not that that matters)
I have worked on bugs for individual customers, (am actually on site at the moment doing one). So really, it is you that has no clue. Maybe one day, you'll leave school, get a job working support (asuming its not taking the calls), and you may be out on site, fixing bugs, having the CEO call you because he's been called by the customer CEO, and generally being caught up in the mad panic that happens whan a bug affects a customer. even if you work development, you'll end up seeing this happen - especaly if the developer who worked on the buggy code is dragged out to find out what went wrong.
and, yes, even shrink-wrap-only companies like MS, or consultancy-companies like IBM will do excellent support work for bug fixes for you, if you pay for it.
no, you miss my issue - I see this both on my box at home and at work (though work is a laptop, and I have a lot going on, so its likely the app is swapped out the moment its allowed to).
If you minimise the browser, leave it for a little while, then come back and maximise it ready for some browsing... it takes ages to re-appear and be ready for use. I notice my laptop disk activity goes crazy when I do this.
Now, it could be a theme I'm using (Noia) or you could have so much ram its never really swapped. Nothing to do with multiple users or anything, just the usual delay bringing something out of swap (I guess) but with FF it takes a lot longer than any other app I've ever used - ie. the delay is noticeable.
Although it loks like no IE6 share is impacted, all those IE5 users were scared into upgrading - as the 'bug with no fix' was in the mainstream news.
That, and the fact that firefox had a facelift so it didn't look like the old Netscape-style browser may have a lot to do with it. I use FF now, and if they made the menu's windows-standard instead of some re-invented thing, and optimised th eworking set (cos it takes *minutes* to get back to a useable state if its left minimised for a while) then it'd be the perfect browser.
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It is a shame that companies with failing business models consistently try to earn money through litigation rather than production and innovation.
hmm. you mean like this company's patents?
someone didn't read the links posted... its nothing about Satan, but commercialisation. But I did love this bit: (as Clapton *is* god).
"Santaism and Santanaism
Santanaism would be the worship of Latin guitar great Carlos Santana. While he is truly impressive, I don't think that anyone seriously thinks he is any sort of guitar diety. What's more, Santanaism, whatever form it took, would probably differ radically from traditional religions, most likely being closest in form to Claptonarianism, another recent development. "
aw thanks. I hope you get some 'informative' mods.
:)
Yeah, I know what you mean - our choice of lettering can be quite poor, however, we've become quite good at recognising them though. Although 'modern' and 'modem' can be the same, we can still undrestnad what we tpye even if its gibbreish. I think that's really impressive, good job we also have context within a sentence to make sense of what we see. We don't really need to distinguish the letters if there's enough context.. err, and we've learned to read, of course. tough on the 5-year olds, but if I managed to learn it...
My worst source of confusion is either 1 and l, or 0 and o. Letters.. we havn't even started!
Thus the b/d/p/q set shows a single form that occurs in four different orientations
you obviously havn't seen my handwriting.
or the dsylexic occultist who sold his soul to santa.
I guess he'll get his reward in the afterli.. well, boxing day at worst.
who-hoo. You've obviously 'been there' with Java apps. I added you as a friend for that rant :)
Incidentally, did you spot the poster's home URL? I think some things are quite telling.
110% accurate? how would that work?
"you appear to have said 'errorprone' which I do not detect as good grammar, shall I correct this to 'prone to errors'" ?
It'd be like Clippy for voice recognition.. lets just stick to getting 100% accurate please.
I bet he wasn't being facetious - he was using AWT or Swing.
... doesn't use Java (ie use Eclipse, that uses native widgets).
Its a pity (well, a design 'feature' of Java) that to get good desktop performance out of Java, one has to use a library that
Java: it's the new Lisp.
:)
Don't you go bad-mouthing Lisp like that, some things are just too insulting
looks like the kind of device they use to write parking tickets.
which is what they will have in their hands when the disgruntled motorist decides he doesn't want a ticket after all.
Besides, from my experience with policemen (we supply these things to UK forces) they don't treat them with as much respect as a normal PDA requires.
Its not a conspiracy - read this /. article (the italics is what you want).
Note how it is designed to stop unscrupulous people from charging you a royalty. Something that GPL doesn't do.
Imagine I add code to Apache that contains a patent I hold. Now, I wait a few years for it to become popular, and then start suing left, right and centre).
The CPL basically says that this bad behaviour is illegal, when you release, you don't just gove away the source, you allow people to use it freely. Under the GPL, you could legitimately charge for the 'free' software.
Of course, this brings out the conspiracy comments mainly because of the religious zealotly over the GPL (oh, and against MS of course).
The problem is only that the GPL requires you to release under the GPL, regardless of the original licence. That's why it is incompatible - not for any other reason, and certainly not because the CPL is 'less free' or 'patent encumbered' or 'theyre out to get you and your little FOSS doggie too'
because ruggedised PDAs have been around for ages - example is the Panasonic toughbook which they target at industrial and 'law enforcement' customers (ie, has to be rugged enough to be used to subdue violent suspects).
The industrial ones are very expensive as the customers can afford to buy them.. is this the difference between them and this new Consumer model?
Bristol City (not the football team ;) ) went wireless recently, and won an award for it.
That article also has an interview with reasons why and how they did it. It cost £3.2m which was funded by the government, local business and HP. It isn't however, just free wireless access for everyone, it is mainly for businesses and projects to make use of it - eg The first wireless application, Schminky, was launched in March 2003, at the Watershed Art Centre's caf. It allowed tourists to interact using mobile devices to play a 'Simple Simon' style game.
Other applications followed such as Savannah, a project involving the BBC's Natural History unit to help children from six Bristol schools learn about the ecology and ethology of African plains.
The strategy-based educational adventure game using wireless iPaq PDAs allowed children to become 'virtual lions', with predators and prey mapped onto the virtual landscape which overlayed school playing fields.
Further projects include the world's first global positioning system (GPS) 'radio play' recreating the 1831 riot for tourists walking around Queen Square and last November's Harbour Trials, giving tourists a multimedia tour with Bristol Ferry Boat Company.
Artciles about the Savannah project is here
Other links: here and at the BBC
1. when the laptop lid is closed, AFAIK all laptops turn off the screen. (but this is like one of those 'does the light in the fridge go off when you close the door' scenarios.. can we ever be sure???)
When I'm at home, it's the air conditioner running, when I'm at work it's the PC's in my office
:)
and we wonder why global warming is occurring!
I think most people turn lights off during the night - personally, I can't sleep with one on (but I'm strange, and I don't need air con running all the time)
BTW. power requirements of RAM are about 10W per 512Mb just to refresh. Add the gfx card RAM and idling CPU power requirements, and the power required to run your fans and motherboard, even if you have your HDD and monitor turned off with power saving, I think you'll use a fair bit more power than a 60W light bulb. (and way more than if you have one of those 10W energy saving ones)
I don't think people realise how much power their PCs actually use. Have a look at Gfx Card Power consumption or the rough power consumption of pc components
A colleage used to work for a large firm and was asked for ideas on how to save some money.. he said 'turn all the monitors off overnight'. After several reports it turns out the firm would save £75k per year by doing this... power saving nowadays will do most of that, but quite a few monitors have poor standby consumption (check out standby consumption
what's so wrong with shutting down daily?
If you have your PC at home, you shut down at night so you can save electricity, and stop the noise from the fans.
If you're at work, sure you have less incentive to shut down, except to save electricity again. (save the planet, man)
Personally, I leave my w2k work box running all the time, but even then it gets shut down for the weekend.
Theoretically 15 GB might just be enough for 3 hours HD movie at 1920x1080i. .. etc etc
uh-oh, I'm not so sure about the compression encoding, but 3 hours for a disc isn;t going to be enough - where will they fit the optional endings, the deleted scenes, the director's commentary, the PC game, the actor's biographies, the
We'll see what we get in the end, not a lot we can do about it right now.
when a patent made gif files possibly illegal to use?
oh yeah, I remember that really stopped people using Gifs. Especially vigorous in their destruction of gifs because they were patent-encumbered were the kind of people who read this site
it will never run 'natively'. What you'll be able to do is run Windows 'natively' (in a window no doubt), and run office2003 on that.
The big trick is getting windows to run on your linux OS first - there is more to running windows applications than just translating/emuating/whatever the binary as they all use OS features.
Just like in windows when I run the Gimp I need the GTK framework, in linux, when I run Office 2003 I need a bunch of COM, IE, and WinAPI calls.
I read the article as humourous - after all its talking about 'engineers' - not a broad representative sample of the human male population, and its well-known (even if incorrect) that engineers think differently to the rest of the population (let alone women)
BTW, Have you shown the recipes to any women? All the ones I shown them to said thing like 'whats that do', 'thats just strange', 'why would you do that' etc.
Its not about cooking, its about mind-sets.
So true.
when I work for my first company, there was this presales guy who decided to change role to a team lead. One day he was overheard complaining his bonus was a measly x, instead of y (y being jus a couple of grand less than our salaries at the time).
forward 4 years, I'm recruiting.. and I'm asked to ask questions of this guy they ave n for a fancy job... you guessed. He didn't get the job.
Since then, when I get CVs in, I ask around for people who knew the guy, it does give a good indication of how he'll fit in with the team, and though you don't use just that as a filter, it does play a major part of the hiring decision.
There's one guy I used to work with at my last company who I will not work with ever again. I recommended the product they make to my current employer who will resell it/partner up. That guy *will not* be involved in the new business.
at my previous employer, we saw a bug in a component, and we had the vendor working round the clock to find and fix it for us.
Naturally, we paid money for this service, and we were a 'partner', but practicly everyone could become one of them by using their software, and asking nicely.
In the end, it turned out the bug was in the CTOs fancy string classes, but still - we had excellent support from the vendor. (Who happened to be Microsoft, not that that matters)
I have worked on bugs for individual customers, (am actually on site at the moment doing one). So really, it is you that has no clue. Maybe one day, you'll leave school, get a job working support (asuming its not taking the calls), and you may be out on site, fixing bugs, having the CEO call you because he's been called by the customer CEO, and generally being caught up in the mad panic that happens whan a bug affects a customer. even if you work development, you'll end up seeing this happen - especaly if the developer who worked on the buggy code is dragged out to find out what went wrong.
and, yes, even shrink-wrap-only companies like MS, or consultancy-companies like IBM will do excellent support work for bug fixes for you, if you pay for it.
everything on your corporate LAN is low-latency anyway, right?
no, you miss my issue - I see this both on my box at home and at work (though work is a laptop, and I have a lot going on, so its likely the app is swapped out the moment its allowed to).
If you minimise the browser, leave it for a little while, then come back and maximise it ready for some browsing... it takes ages to re-appear and be ready for use. I notice my laptop disk activity goes crazy when I do this.
Now, it could be a theme I'm using (Noia) or you could have so much ram its never really swapped. Nothing to do with multiple users or anything, just the usual delay bringing something out of swap (I guess) but with FF it takes a lot longer than any other app I've ever used - ie. the delay is noticeable.
Although it loks like no IE6 share is impacted, all those IE5 users were scared into upgrading - as the 'bug with no fix' was in the mainstream news.
That, and the fact that firefox had a facelift so it didn't look like the old Netscape-style browser may have a lot to do with it. I use FF now, and if they made the menu's windows-standard instead of some re-invented thing, and optimised th eworking set (cos it takes *minutes* to get back to a useable state if its left minimised for a while) then it'd be the perfect browser.