I have a gateway ev700 monitor, and it does it. This is also the first monitor of mine to ever do it.
When I minimize this window, the first time it makes a noise like a poof, that is just like a small, quiet version of turning a TV off going into power save mode. The window has to be up a while - it only does it once in a while, and never happens in fast repeated minimize-restore successions.
Incedetally, the monitor is mostly white (/.'s color scheme) and gets filled with win98's default green when I minimize. I think the difference in colors is key...
Too all of those of you who think my opinion is 'dated'....
The fact is that any developer who does not want to make a GPL app has to pay for a license. I looked into it. It's only GPL if you 1) stick to linux and 2) you write a GPL app.
If you want to write something that is cross-platform (one of the two greatest things about QT) you have to pay $1500. As I have no company, and am only 1 person, and none of my little apps (or even any # of copies of them) could ever add up to be $1500 I have to pony up to do cross platform stuff. Even if I want to write free GPL apps for Windows, I still have to pay.
Repeat after me: Qt is not free.
The Kompany has to and does pay for their licenses.
As s developer, I dispise GNOME. It's a PITA to program in, where as under Qt/KDE it is very easy. Lets face it, C is not well suited for window environments. Sure it can be done, but it's not a Good Thing. Don't beleive me? Look at Windows. MFC is just C++ classes aound C stuff. It is horrid and I hate using it. Having complex the functions organized in self-managing classes is a dream.
I love KDE, but loath the license. I think all GNOME people are fans of KDE, they just won't come out of the closet because they are scared of the license.
What that the License gets you though, is the ability to ship the same high-grade apps on Windows as on Linux, Mac OS X, and whatever other platform you want. This could singlehandedly be the missing element to bring Linux to the masses. If they use cross-platform apps (Kapital for windows), then switching out the OS is small potatoes (Kapital for Linux) because there are no file-format lock-in issues.
I blame several people. KDE, and GNOME are all to blame. If GNOME people worked on Harmony, they'd be set Free, and there'd be no lisensing issues. KDE was foolish for choosing a toolkit with such a license (but it is a GREAT product, regardless).
Qt are the big winners, yet they have an excellent product and deserve to be commended.
BRING BACK HARMONY. Ironically, that will bring harmony to the Linux world. (Harmony is a GPL replacement toolkit that as started then stopped when the Qt license got more OSS friendly)
Can't he read that they are only saying tha the use of the name and logo are their only objections?
If he complies, then, as the letter says, is no objection by PCI-SIG.
Enough melodrama already. Just remove the logos and put the site back up. I beleive their concerns are legit. Furthermore they are bound to do this else they lose the trademark.
Money. In my experiance, the people ricing out honduhs are poor, white-trash. It's easy to mod a car when you only spent $8k on it, new. Then you have lots left over to blow.
Several common things are: Money/Power - to rise above the rest. These people are usually driven by security issues including the need to have a lot of plumage for attracting a mate. Bling Bling. I am not bling bling yet, though I am working on it.
Emotional needs - random acts of kindness, helping others. I have to admit, this is very rewarding. These people are usually secure in who they are. People of prinicpal also belong in this catagory. This includes me. When I die, I want a decernable benefit of me being alove, and more than just procreation. I want to have positively impacted the world.
Survival - the ultimate goal. Some people find it a struggle just to survive. Usually these people like the challenges that they place on themselves. Others lack desire and ambition to take control. Once control is gotten though, one of the two above become the focus.
Ultimately, I think success wholy lies in all three, but one may be enough for some people.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" - Gandalf
I write a program to be translated into 5 languages. Fortunately, all were off the ASCII set, so no multi-byte char issues were present.
I came up with a enum file that held lines like: enum phrases{ IDL_YES=0, IDL_NO, IDL_MAX_PHRASES}; Then a file for each language: English.dic: Yes No
Spanish.dic: Si' No
etc... At runtime it loaded the last language configured or defaulted to English.
I also added support so you could use %s, %d, %x etc, so you can use them in sprintfs. It worked damn well. No need to re-compile. Just drop another.dic file in, have a dialog that at runtime looks for.dic files, and you're done.
It worked extremely well. The only thing it coulf ever ned was milti-byte support, but as I said before that was not a requirement.
PLEASE PLEASE stay waway from the way that MS Dev Studio does it. It sucks ass.
Incedentally, the same class (I used a class when I could use C++) also works well for handling various dialects of SQL. MSSQLServer.dic, PostgreSQL.dic, etc....
Very simple and fast. The only pain is that you have to come up with a unique IDL_name for each string. I'd like to have an associateive array so you could say IDL("Yes") and have that translated. That was the next setp for me, but I never got the time to do that.
Nah, don't need that. I specifically left it out because so few things in programming need to be spelled correctly, plus the UK spells everything differently.
I cannot begin hto describe the amount of crappy stuff at Sharper Image. It's novel stuff sure, but the novelty is completely compentated for by the lack of quality. It is that reason, and the fact that the crap is over priced that I'll *never* by anything there.
They make a living selling novelty expensively, and because it's expensive you think it's quality when it's jsut novelty that you're buying. So you get jipped.
I am one of the most powerful forces on the planet. I can conjure sets of ordered instructions that can be used to bring down governments, save economies, destroy enimies, save lives and maybe even make me a few dollars.
I'd like to doctor myself, and have myself to blame, but I do not have access to the resources that they do. I can't prescribe stuff for me, nor can I get everything I need.
I usually make my own diagnosis, go to the doctor and I tell them what I know, how I want to be treated, and I usually get it. Sometimes there are minor differences - amox vs ampacillin, etc. I've never had a doctor disagree with me in any big way yet. And even though I go in, and we go through this song and dance, they charge me the same even though I'm there for 5 minutes.
Recently, I requested one hazardous chemical for treating a temorary skin condition normally found on kids (it's used for a variety of things, in this case, it would just speed up the recovery) I was told: you can hurt yourself with that, so no. It ticked me off that they can trust diabetics with needles, which can be deadly, or they prescibe drugs that make you drowsy but you feel good enough to drive, yet I can't get a topical treatment!
Today, the medical profession is the biggest monopoly. Breakignin take years of schooling. We give them money to get better, then we stop giving money. Hell of a way to run a system!
Also the more educated the society, the less children they have. (It was covered on/. a while ago, search for population decline, details are in some study done for the governments of the world)
This will lead to a hude dichotomy between the weathly and educated versus the uneducated, rapidly breeding people in poverty. If something isn't done, shit gonna happen.
The saddest thing though, is that those who are born into poverty don't choose it themselves. Maybe I'm not such a hard-ass after all?
While I'm at it: region, origin They both had old-english roots containing of ge, as in: regere 'to rule' [a region] And for 'origin': origo (ori-go): latin, to be born.
Throughout human history, when the going to tough, we upped and moved. I have no sympathy for anyone who sticks around a famminous area, just like I have no sympathy for people who live on cliff edges, flood plains or coast lines. It's dumb, dumb, dumb. "Canidates for natural selection" is what I call them. If you're dumb enough not to move out of a barren area into a fertile one, then I 'd prefer that you didn't stay in the gene pool.
Now if you are not permitted to leave a country or enter a neighboring one, it's slightly different. But I get pissed at Sally Struthers saying 'feed the children' don't FEED them, MOVE them! Problem solved!
I kknow I sound like a hard-ass but it's for their own good.
I doubt that. the soft 'g' sound (sounds like 'j') comes only from the combination of g followed by e, and only that combination. This soft 'g' has origins lying in French... So to be completely correct, 'gi' is a hard 'g' and not 'ji'. Example: 'Gia'. Pheonetically, it's not 'Jea' but 'g-I-a'
Whomever came up with it in 1962 was wrong. Having said it first, doesn't make it right!!
I forget the name, but it technically is not cloning! Though it's moving a nucleus from a real person to an egg, it's not cloning.
Furthermore, there's some 19-ish (bio majors correct me) cell limit before it becomes and embryo. It's not getting something that resembles a human and tearing it apart for cells, as it never gets past a very small ball of [stem] cells!
Guns are the technology, not the issue. The issue is should we give/allow someone the power to mortally harm another person. Had lasers been first and easy, we'd be talking about lasers.
The ability to arm someone to the point that they can mortally wound someone is a complicated issue. Your decision on whether or not that should be possible will decide your view of guns.
There are times when grandma or little sis should be armed enough to defend herself from abductors. If the situation warrants, killing may be justified, (self-defense, and no other choice)
However, I can also arm myself with the ultimate power: knowlege i.e. martial arts. I can kill people, and even people without that knowlege can still kill people. Just like a gun, I hope I never have to use it on anyone.
But when someone approaches me with a gun, in order to "elevate" himself above me for what ever reason, (mugging, assasination, etc) I would like to be equal with him, or above. I also assume at that time that he has entered into contract with me, that by doing unto me, he is willing to have done unto him, because I reject the notion that someone has a right to life more than another person.
People think that martial arts are a good way to defend themselves. They are a good way to do harm too. A grandma should be able to defend herself from a martial artist attacker. This is best done by a gun. It's a classic escalation problem.
Until we eliminate violence from humanity (never) we should allow equalizing technology, unless we adopt that violence is ok and that grandma and sis have outlived their usefullness.
PS. I live near the I-95 area of the snipers of a few months ago. Show me one person that did not want to be carrying a gun.
All devices (especially PnP devices) should have drivers built into them. Then you only need a meta-level driver who'se protocol would work on any bus.
You'd need the following functions: enum_driver_arch()// don't forget binary drivers are made for an architecture! get_driver_offset(this_arch) get_driver_size() retrieve_driver(offset, size)...and a few others... i.e. get_device_text_id() as well as: store_driver(driver, arch)// upgrade the driver
The problem is you'd end up adding a few $ to each device by adding flash, even NAND flash. With the scale of production, I don't think it'd work out economically. It'll come down to a guy in the store seeing two modems, one is $3 more, and says that there will ne no driver hassle, and the one next to it says "plug-n-play"
Which one are you going to choose? The cheaper one!
Whoo hoo! Now people who know that O(n^2) is worse than O(n log2 n) (and know how to make a function that will run in that) will be able to find better paying jobs. Finally my B.S. degree will pay off!
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I have a gateway ev700 monitor, and it does it. This is also the first monitor of mine to ever do it.
When I minimize this window, the first time it makes a noise like a poof, that is just like a small, quiet version of turning a TV off going into power save mode. The window has to be up a while - it only does it once in a while, and never happens in fast repeated minimize-restore successions.
Incedetally, the monitor is mostly white (/.'s color scheme) and gets filled with win98's default green when I minimize. I think the difference in colors is key...
Too all of those of you who think my opinion is 'dated'....
The fact is that any developer who does not want to make a GPL app has to pay for a license. I looked into it. It's only GPL if you 1) stick to linux and 2) you write a GPL app.
If you want to write something that is cross-platform (one of the two greatest things about QT) you have to pay $1500. As I have no company, and am only 1 person, and none of my little apps (or even any # of copies of them) could ever add up to be $1500 I have to pony up to do cross platform stuff. Even if I want to write free GPL apps for Windows, I still have to pay.
Repeat after me:
Qt is not free.
The Kompany has to and does pay for their licenses.
As s developer, I dispise GNOME. It's a PITA to program in, where as under Qt/KDE it is very easy. Lets face it, C is not well suited for window environments. Sure it can be done, but it's not a Good Thing. Don't beleive me? Look at Windows. MFC is just C++ classes aound C stuff. It is horrid and I hate using it. Having complex the functions organized in self-managing classes is a dream.
I love KDE, but loath the license. I think all GNOME people are fans of KDE, they just won't come out of the closet because they are scared of the license.
What that the License gets you though, is the ability to ship the same high-grade apps on Windows as on Linux, Mac OS X, and whatever other platform you want. This could singlehandedly be the missing element to bring Linux to the masses. If they use cross-platform apps (Kapital for windows), then switching out the OS is small potatoes (Kapital for Linux) because there are no file-format lock-in issues.
I blame several people. KDE, and GNOME are all to blame. If GNOME people worked on Harmony, they'd be set Free, and there'd be no lisensing issues. KDE was foolish for choosing a toolkit with such a license (but it is a GREAT product, regardless).
Qt are the big winners, yet they have an excellent product and deserve to be commended.
BRING BACK HARMONY. Ironically, that will bring harmony to the Linux world. (Harmony is a GPL replacement toolkit that as started then stopped when the Qt license got more OSS friendly)
Can't he read that they are only saying tha the use of the name and logo are their only objections?
If he complies, then, as the letter says, is no objection by PCI-SIG.
Enough melodrama already. Just remove the logos and put the site back up. I beleive their concerns are legit. Furthermore they are bound to do this else they lose the trademark.
I think their letter is fair and just.
Money. In my experiance, the people ricing out honduhs are poor, white-trash. It's easy to mod a car when you only spent $8k on it, new. Then you have lots left over to blow.
See this page for more info: here
Most of these dumb-asses don't know that an exhaust that is too big is a BAD thing, and will decrease HP.
There are a few that can do it right, and those that know that, and choose honda as a platform do it because the cars are so damn light.
No, you can't do single words. My example was terse. You can (and I do mainly) use whole phrases, then you sprintf() them to make the complete text.
Note that I am not suggesting you do this for word for word, but that only the variables are substituted.
"There are %d oranges"
sprinf(temp, IDL_THEREARE_X_ORAGES, count);
"There are %d %s"
sprinf(temp, IDL_THEREARE_X_ORAGES, count, (count ==1) ? IDL_ORANGE: IDL_ORANGES);
Then it all works.
The answer depends on the person and his values.
Several common things are:
Money/Power - to rise above the rest. These people are usually driven by security issues including the need to have a lot of plumage for attracting a mate. Bling Bling. I am not bling bling yet, though I am working on it.
Emotional needs - random acts of kindness, helping others. I have to admit, this is very rewarding. These people are usually secure in who they are. People of prinicpal also belong in this catagory. This includes me. When I die, I want a decernable benefit of me being alove, and more than just procreation. I want to have positively impacted the world.
Survival - the ultimate goal. Some people find it a struggle just to survive. Usually these people like the challenges that they place on themselves. Others lack desire and ambition to take control. Once control is gotten though, one of the two above become the focus.
Ultimately, I think success wholy lies in all three, but one may be enough for some people.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" - Gandalf
I write a program to be translated into 5 languages. Fortunately, all were off the ASCII set, so no multi-byte char issues were present.
.dic file in, have a dialog that at runtime looks for .dic files, and you're done.
I came up with a enum file that held lines like:
enum phrases{
IDL_YES=0,
IDL_NO,
IDL_MAX_PHRASES};
Then a file for each language:
English.dic:
Yes
No
Spanish.dic:
Si'
No
etc... At runtime it loaded the last language configured or defaulted to English.
I also added support so you could use %s, %d, %x etc, so you can use them in sprintfs. It worked damn well. No need to re-compile. Just drop another
It worked extremely well. The only thing it coulf ever ned was milti-byte support, but as I said before that was not a requirement.
PLEASE PLEASE stay waway from the way that MS Dev Studio does it. It sucks ass.
Incedentally, the same class (I used a class when I could use C++) also works well for handling various dialects of SQL. MSSQLServer.dic, PostgreSQL.dic, etc....
Very simple and fast.
The only pain is that you have to come up with a unique IDL_name for each string. I'd like to have an associateive array so you could say
IDL("Yes") and have that translated. That was the next setp for me, but I never got the time to do that.
Hope that helps!
Nah, don't need that. I specifically left it out because so few things in programming need to be spelled correctly, plus the UK spells everything differently.
I cannot begin hto describe the amount of crappy stuff at Sharper Image. It's novel stuff sure, but the novelty is completely compentated for by the lack of quality. It is that reason, and the fact that the crap is over priced that I'll *never* by anything there.
They make a living selling novelty expensively, and because it's expensive you think it's quality when it's jsut novelty that you're buying. So you get jipped.
Not directly, but I can send a few emails, get it done, pay for it over the internet.
All tha that brought to you by programmers and complilers.
The world as you know it today has been brought to you by programmers. Realize your potential or be useless. It's your choice.
I am one of the most powerful forces on the planet. I can conjure sets of ordered instructions that can be used to bring down governments, save economies, destroy enimies, save lives and maybe even make me a few dollars.
I'll never give that kind of power up.
I'd like to doctor myself, and have myself to blame, but I do not have access to the resources that they do. I can't prescribe stuff for me, nor can I get everything I need.
I usually make my own diagnosis, go to the doctor and I tell them what I know, how I want to be treated, and I usually get it. Sometimes there are minor differences - amox vs ampacillin, etc. I've never had a doctor disagree with me in any big way yet. And even though I go in, and we go through this song and dance, they charge me the same even though I'm there for 5 minutes.
Recently, I requested one hazardous chemical for treating a temorary skin condition normally found on kids (it's used for a variety of things, in this case, it would just speed up the recovery) I was told: you can hurt yourself with that, so no. It ticked me off that they can trust diabetics with needles, which can be deadly, or they prescibe drugs that make you drowsy but you feel good enough to drive, yet I can't get a topical treatment!
Today, the medical profession is the biggest monopoly. Breakignin take years of schooling. We give them money to get better, then we stop giving money. Hell of a way to run a system!
My bad. I meant go through Italian first. Keep em coming though! :-) I like these challenges!
FYI: the complete transition is:
(Most recnet)
Engish giraffe -> French girafe, -> Italian giraffa, -> Arabic zirfa
(Oldest)
Note that G+i in itiallian is very much a 'j' sound.
It is, but you have to go through latin first. ... from Italian giraffa, from Arabic dialectal zirfa...
Also the more educated the society, the less children they have. (It was covered on /. a while ago, search for population decline, details are in some study done for the governments of the world)
This will lead to a hude dichotomy between the weathly and educated versus the uneducated, rapidly breeding people in poverty. If something isn't done, shit gonna happen.
The saddest thing though, is that those who are born into poverty don't choose it themselves. Maybe I'm not such a hard-ass after all?
While I'm at it: region, origin
They both had old-english roots containing of ge, as in: regere 'to rule' [a region]
And for 'origin': origo (ori-go): latin, to be born.
Foriegn. Not derived from English, German or Latin (the two main parts of English)
Gin is Dutch
Giraffe is French
Nice try though.
Throughout human history, when the going to tough, we upped and moved. I have no sympathy for anyone who sticks around a famminous area, just like I have no sympathy for people who live on cliff edges, flood plains or coast lines. It's dumb, dumb, dumb. "Canidates for natural selection" is what I call them. If you're dumb enough not to move out of a barren area into a fertile one, then I 'd prefer that you didn't stay in the gene pool.
Now if you are not permitted to leave a country or enter a neighboring one, it's slightly different. But I get pissed at Sally Struthers saying 'feed the children' don't FEED them, MOVE them! Problem solved!
I kknow I sound like a hard-ass but it's for their own good.
You can lick'em, and stick'em to each other, other things, and even walls and filinf cabinets. I made a sphere out of them for a mobile once.
I doubt that. the soft 'g' sound (sounds like 'j') comes only from the combination of g followed by e, and only that combination. This soft 'g' has origins lying in French...
So to be completely correct, 'gi' is a hard 'g' and not 'ji'. Example: 'Gia'. Pheonetically, it's not 'Jea' but 'g-I-a'
Whomever came up with it in 1962 was wrong. Having said it first, doesn't make it right!!
I forget the name, but it technically is not cloning! Though it's moving a nucleus from a real person to an egg, it's not cloning.
Furthermore, there's some 19-ish (bio majors correct me) cell limit before it becomes and embryo. It's not getting something that resembles a human and tearing it apart for cells, as it never gets past a very small ball of [stem] cells!
Guns are the technology, not the issue. The issue is should we give/allow someone the power to mortally harm another person. Had lasers been first and easy, we'd be talking about lasers.
The ability to arm someone to the point that they can mortally wound someone is a complicated issue. Your decision on whether or not that should be possible will decide your view of guns.
There are times when grandma or little sis should be armed enough to defend herself from abductors. If the situation warrants, killing may be justified, (self-defense, and no other choice)
However, I can also arm myself with the ultimate power: knowlege i.e. martial arts. I can kill people, and even people without that knowlege can still kill people. Just like a gun, I hope I never have to use it on anyone.
But when someone approaches me with a gun, in order to "elevate" himself above me for what ever reason, (mugging, assasination, etc) I would like to be equal with him, or above. I also assume at that time that he has entered into contract with me, that by doing unto me, he is willing to have done unto him, because I reject the notion that someone has a right to life more than another person.
People think that martial arts are a good way to defend themselves. They are a good way to do harm too. A grandma should be able to defend herself from a martial artist attacker. This is best done by a gun. It's a classic escalation problem.
Until we eliminate violence from humanity (never) we should allow equalizing technology, unless we adopt that violence is ok and that grandma and sis have outlived their usefullness.
PS. I live near the I-95 area of the snipers of a few months ago. Show me one person that did not want to be carrying a gun.
All devices (especially PnP devices) should have drivers built into them. Then you only need a meta-level driver who'se protocol would work on any bus.
// don't forget binary drivers are made for an architecture! ...and a few others... i.e. get_device_text_id() // upgrade the driver
You'd need the following functions:
enum_driver_arch()
get_driver_offset(this_arch)
get_driver_size()
retrieve_driver(offset, size)
as well as:
store_driver(driver, arch)
The problem is you'd end up adding a few $ to each device by adding flash, even NAND flash. With the scale of production, I don't think it'd work out economically. It'll come down to a guy in the store seeing two modems, one is $3 more, and says that there will ne no driver hassle, and the one next to it says "plug-n-play"
Which one are you going to choose? The cheaper one!
Whoo hoo! Now people who know that O(n^2) is worse than O(n log2 n) (and know how to make a function that will run in that) will be able to find better paying jobs. Finally my B.S. degree will pay off!