Why must a window system be built in? There really isn't a need for it to be built in. If it is built in then what do you do for devices like routers and servers that have no need for a gui? If you want a standard set of widgets then us GTK. It is the standard as far as I am concerned. It doesn't matter if you are running Gnome, KDE, or ICEwm. Odds are close to 100% that you will have GTK installed so you can run Gimp and or GAIM. A monoculture isn't really a benefit. One OS dominating means that one vulnerability effects everyone. A standard for a GUI means little to no room for innovation. If you want to use a standard widget set then GTK is your answer. If you don't mind the up front cost you could buy QT and then have a standard widget set for Windows, OS/X, and Linux. The real point is that there is no need for a windowing system to be built in because just about nobody programs the windowing system anymore everyone uses a framework. On windows you tend to use MFC or WinFX, on Linux/BSD GTK or KDE are the most common frameworks, and on OS/X people use Carbon or Cocoa.
The lack of a "standard" widget set for Linux is a convent myth. There are many reason for you not to port your software to Linux. Cost, time, a lack of a market, or just not wanting to but the lack of a widget set just isn't a valid reason.
BTW didn't you all create some pretty slick software for the Amiga back in the day? If so maybe you should just port to DragonFly BSD for old times sake.
Yea I have to agree. If you are going to have an IPhone you will probably have a car that has built in bluetooth or at the very least a bluetooth headset. That plus voice dialing and your all set. At least that is what I do with my Samsung A900.
Actually there are already companies that make socket 940 FPGAs. Just what you could do with a quad socket 940 motherboard. How fast would a neural net run if you coded it into one or more FPGAs and had a few dual core cpus feeding them data? It does open up some interesting options.
Really I find my current PC fast enough. What I want is lower power and heat for the entire system. Now if AMD can produce a cheap and silent system with good graphics performance I am all for it. Say something as fast as an X24400 and an Nividia 7600 GT all for about $300 then you have a winner. You will sell millions. A quad core system? I just don't need it yet.
binary. Last time I checked the opensource nv driver didn't support 3d. It isn't terrible but I notice a slight lag when I resize or move a window. To me the Eye candy isn't worth any lag.
I tired Beryl under Suse 10.1 and turned it off. It was very slow on my system. While not a speed demon it is an AMD X2 and a GeForce 6150 LE I would expect it to run a desktop without any problems. It does work just fine under straight X so I will live without the eye candy.
I have a good X2 right now and I am not a big gamer so I see no need to buy a new computer right now. Frankly just about anything you buy now will be fast enough if you are not a Hardcore gamer.
I am going to wait and see what comes next from AMD and Intel. Quad core doesn't seem that far away. I might spend some money on Ram and a new Video card now that the DX10s are on the way. Could see some good price drops on the 7900s pretty soon.
I doubt it. They are already doing that now so I don't see that as being a reason for corporations.
I figure that the biggest reason is still that they are afraid that oil will plummet in price and make their investment worthless. Just like what happened in the 80s.
Of course in the 70s people tried to cancel the Indy 500 because of the gas shortage... Just goes to show how stupid people can be.
I do like the Nvidia chipsets but that type of cooperation with Nvidia wouldn't have achieved what AMD wanted. AMD already has an integrated CPU/GPU called the Geode. AMD sees this as the the future for consumer level devices and notebooks. I doubt that Nvidia would have worked with them on that so they had to buy ATI. AMD does make a good chipset for servers so maybe with ATI on board they can create a good desktop chipset. Only time will tell but it may not have been that bad of move.
Your argument is actually logical however their are options. 1. Natural gas and not oil is used for a lot of plastic and fertilizer production. It is cheaper and easier to work with. Coal could be used as well but natural gas is the cheapest. 2. If this power system lives up to its billing then yes you could power ships and trains with it. The US built a nuclear powered cargo ship in the 60s so a fusion powered tanker and or container ship wouldn't be that big of a leap. Using electric motors to power large ships has been done since the early 1900s. The first large US Aircraft carriers the USS Lexington and Saratoga where both "electric" ships. 3. A lot of trains in Europe and Asia run on electricity. While not real practical for large parts of the US if the cost of electricity was low enough then it would become practical along the east and west coast of the US. Finally if you have enough cheap electricity it becomes practical to make liquid hydrocarbons from water and CO2. If this will actually work then you could over time drastically reduce oil consumption.
BTW it is economical right now to convert Coal into gasoline and diesel fuel. I can only think of two things stopping it. Fear that the oil prices will fall. It will take billions to create refineries that can convert Coal into oil. And the fact that it will create a lot of Carbon, probably many times more than just burning Oil.
Well if you are not careful you will find out that IE7 will also fail on some of your pages. I got bit by that when I was working on a page and I checked it in IE6 and Firefox. I figured if it worked in IE6 and FireFox it would work just fine in IE7... Wrong... Frontpage makes really crappy code. Yea it is time to move on up to anything else.
"There is still no full consensus over how certain things should be displayed." SMACK!!!!!! I hate statements like that. There is a thing called the W3C and they have defined standards. There is not consensus because Microsoft has refused to follow standards. Firefox3, Safari, and Opera follow those standards much more closely than Microsoft does. I am not a typical Microsoft basher. I will say that my XP machines have been stable and pretty secure for the most part but when it comes to IE... That is one of them many nightmares that they have forced on us. MFC is another one but only people that have written code for it know that pain.
Sounds like an Audiophile to me. Can I interest you into some great $2000 speaker cables? They are pure copper alloy and have been demagnetized as well. I also have a demagnetized granite shelf to mount your equipment on for 20,000. And a tuned power cable for $500. You know that price is a sure indicator of quality.
You may want to look at Appgen for accounting if you want a supported commercial accounting system. Quicken and TurboTax/Taxcut are the big ones that keep my wife on Windows. For me it is Microsoft Flight simulator and Age of Empires. There is good free software but I am also willing to buy software for Linux if it is available. I think a lot of Linux users would buy Quicken and TurboTax if you could get it on Linux. Just about every thing from Adobe would probably find buyers. I will have to take a look at Quanta. I am using HTMLToolkit.
Last time I checked school ended around 3 pm. The workday tends to end between 5 and 6 pm. They could do it after school. Also I have to wonder about going after a minor at all. Can you claim that a minor understands copyright law? This going after kids gives me such warm fuzzys for the music companies to start with.
As a few people have already pointed out. Intel probably already supports their own extensions. Also a lot of places that develop these types of custom applications will take the time to hand optimize critical path code.
If you are running simulations or other custom heavy number crunching applications then yes you will take the time to recompile your code for SSE4. Not everyone runs off the self software.
Okay here is a chicken and egg for you. What software for Linux can you buy? I would buy Quicken for Linux tomorrow, I would buy TaxCut or TurboTax next year. My wife would buy Photoshop elements tomorrow she is already pretty good with GIMP but GIMP can not do everything that Elements can. And I bought XPlane which does have a Linux version included. I don't buy much Windows software ether. I a few games but I would buy them for Linux in a heartbeat if I could. I don't mind paying for software for Linux IF I could buy the software I want. I have paid for a few SUSE bistros and a RedHat distro as well but I don't feel the value added for a home user is worth cost.
If the programs I need where available I would buy them. I get the programs that provide me the best bang for my buck. Often those are free but sometimes they cost. When they cost I will pay.
Oh well If you where in our market then you would know better since we are ranked as having the best support in our industry. It is just much shorter to say They lie and they don't know they are lying than every time a customer provides you with false information to say over and over again. They are not observant and or don't know how to state their needs in a clear way. Good think our techs here know better than to take the joke literally.
Adobe is better than Microsoft but can you say SVG? If Adobe really means that it is going to provide cross platform support how about Photoshop for Linux? The are doing better with Flash now so I can not flame them too much.
I guess you didn't read rule 2. The customers don't know they are lying. Let me give you an example. A new tech was just on a call. The customer said she wanted to number the documents with letters instead of numbers. She went to senior tech and he knew that that wasn't want the customer meant but the new tech kept saying that is what the customer said. Finally she went back and asked the customer, "do you mean you want to number the pages with letters and numbers, like a1, a2?" That is what the customer did mean. You are correct that the customer has no malice that is why we have rule two. It is just a lot easier to tell a new tech that Rule 1. Is the customer lies and Rule 2. is they don't know they are lying. I also try and teach the techs here they we shouldn't help customers shoot themselves in the foot. You have no idea how many times a customer is trying to do something that is really wrong or even dangerous. I try to get the techs to ask the real question of what are you trying to accomplish, instead of what are you trying to do.
Of course we did have the customer that couldn't restore a vital backup from a CD she burned. She sent it to us and we found the problem right a way. She labeled it with a black marker on BOTH sides of the disk. We used some rubbing alcohol and cleaned off the data side and immediately copied off the data and burned a new CD for her.
And yes sometime they do lie. They do it with intent but rarely malice. Sometimes they will tell you what they think they want you to hear. I guess that it is just part of human nature. I try to tech new tech to use none leading questions. So instead of is asking if this or that option is checked you ask them what options are checked.
eInk is great if you don't need to refresh the display much. It is useless for any type of scrolling display or animation. For an Ebook, clock, or watch it isn't bad.
Yep. When trying to solve a problem in Technical support we teach the tech Rule 1. They are lying. Rule 2. They don't know that they are lying. Just trying to find out what they really want to do is often the biggest problem. Combine that with they don't want to look like an idiot so if you ask them a question about their settings they will often give you the answer they think you want to hear.
And yes my company has been scammed by people without support using other peoples names or other wise breaking their licenses agreement. It costs money to train support techs, pay them, provide health insurance for them, put money in their retirement accounts, and keep the lights on.
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Why must a window system be built in? There really isn't a need for it to be built in. If it is built in then what do you do for devices like routers and servers that have no need for a gui?
If you want a standard set of widgets then us GTK. It is the standard as far as I am concerned. It doesn't matter if you are running Gnome, KDE, or ICEwm. Odds are close to 100% that you will have GTK installed so you can run Gimp and or GAIM.
A monoculture isn't really a benefit. One OS dominating means that one vulnerability effects everyone. A standard for a GUI means little to no room for innovation.
If you want to use a standard widget set then GTK is your answer. If you don't mind the up front cost you could buy QT and then have a standard widget set for Windows, OS/X, and Linux.
The real point is that there is no need for a windowing system to be built in because just about nobody programs the windowing system anymore everyone uses a framework. On windows you tend to use MFC or WinFX, on Linux/BSD GTK or KDE are the most common frameworks, and on OS/X people use Carbon or Cocoa.
The lack of a "standard" widget set for Linux is a convent myth. There are many reason for you not to port your software to Linux. Cost, time, a lack of a market, or just not wanting to but the lack of a widget set just isn't a valid reason.
BTW didn't you all create some pretty slick software for the Amiga back in the day? If so maybe you should just port to DragonFly BSD for old times sake.
Tero and Windows Mobile both let offer development tools for little to no cost.
Actually I think every smart phone does.
Yea I have to agree. If you are going to have an IPhone you will probably have a car that has built in bluetooth or at the very least a bluetooth headset. That plus voice dialing and your all set. At least that is what I do with my Samsung A900.
Actually there are already companies that make socket 940 FPGAs. Just what you could do with a quad socket 940 motherboard.
How fast would a neural net run if you coded it into one or more FPGAs and had a few dual core cpus feeding them data?
It does open up some interesting options.
Really I find my current PC fast enough. What I want is lower power and heat for the entire system.
Now if AMD can produce a cheap and silent system with good graphics performance I am all for it. Say something as fast as an X24400 and an Nividia 7600 GT all for about $300 then you have a winner. You will sell millions.
A quad core system? I just don't need it yet.
binary. Last time I checked the opensource nv driver didn't support 3d.
It isn't terrible but I notice a slight lag when I resize or move a window. To me the Eye candy isn't worth any lag.
I tired Beryl under Suse 10.1 and turned it off. It was very slow on my system. While not a speed demon it is an AMD X2 and a GeForce 6150 LE I would expect it to run a desktop without any problems.
It does work just fine under straight X so I will live without the eye candy.
I have a good X2 right now and I am not a big gamer so I see no need to buy a new computer right now.
Frankly just about anything you buy now will be fast enough if you are not a Hardcore gamer.
I am going to wait and see what comes next from AMD and Intel. Quad core doesn't seem that far away. I might spend some money on Ram and a new Video card now that the DX10s are on the way. Could see some good price drops on the 7900s pretty soon.
I doubt it. They are already doing that now so I don't see that as being a reason for corporations.
I figure that the biggest reason is still that they are afraid that oil will plummet in price and make their investment worthless. Just like what happened in the 80s.
Of course in the 70s people tried to cancel the Indy 500 because of the gas shortage... Just goes to show how stupid people can be.
I do like the Nvidia chipsets but that type of cooperation with Nvidia wouldn't have achieved what AMD wanted. AMD already has an integrated CPU/GPU called the Geode. AMD sees this as the the future for consumer level devices and notebooks. I doubt that Nvidia would have worked with them on that so they had to buy ATI. AMD does make a good chipset for servers so maybe with ATI on board they can create a good desktop chipset.
Only time will tell but it may not have been that bad of move.
Your argument is actually logical however their are options.
1. Natural gas and not oil is used for a lot of plastic and fertilizer production. It is cheaper and easier to work with. Coal could be used as well but natural gas is the cheapest.
2. If this power system lives up to its billing then yes you could power ships and trains with it. The US built a nuclear powered cargo ship in the 60s so a fusion powered tanker and or container ship wouldn't be that big of a leap. Using electric motors to power large ships has been done since the early 1900s. The first large US Aircraft carriers the USS Lexington and Saratoga where both "electric" ships.
3. A lot of trains in Europe and Asia run on electricity. While not real practical for large parts of the US if the cost of electricity was low enough then it would become practical along the east and west coast of the US.
Finally if you have enough cheap electricity it becomes practical to make liquid hydrocarbons from water and CO2.
If this will actually work then you could over time drastically reduce oil consumption.
BTW it is economical right now to convert Coal into gasoline and diesel fuel. I can only think of two things stopping it. Fear that the oil prices will fall. It will take billions to create refineries that can convert Coal into oil. And the fact that it will create a lot of Carbon, probably many times more than just burning Oil.
I can not make up anything as stupid as reality.
Well if you are not careful you will find out that IE7 will also fail on some of your pages.
I got bit by that when I was working on a page and I checked it in IE6 and Firefox. I figured if it worked in IE6 and FireFox it would work just fine in IE7... Wrong...
Frontpage makes really crappy code. Yea it is time to move on up to anything else.
"There is still no full consensus over how certain things should be displayed."
SMACK!!!!!!
I hate statements like that. There is a thing called the W3C and they have defined standards. There is not consensus because Microsoft has refused to follow standards. Firefox3, Safari, and Opera follow those standards much more closely than Microsoft does.
I am not a typical Microsoft basher. I will say that my XP machines have been stable and pretty secure for the most part but when it comes to IE... That is one of them many nightmares that they have forced on us.
MFC is another one but only people that have written code for it know that pain.
Sounds like an Audiophile to me. Can I interest you into some great $2000 speaker cables? They are pure copper alloy and have been demagnetized as well. I also have a demagnetized granite shelf to mount your equipment on for 20,000. And a tuned power cable for $500.
You know that price is a sure indicator of quality.
You may want to look at Appgen for accounting if you want a supported commercial accounting system.
Quicken and TurboTax/Taxcut are the big ones that keep my wife on Windows. For me it is Microsoft Flight simulator and Age of Empires.
There is good free software but I am also willing to buy software for Linux if it is available. I think a lot of Linux users would buy Quicken and TurboTax if you could get it on Linux.
Just about every thing from Adobe would probably find buyers.
I will have to take a look at Quanta. I am using HTMLToolkit.
Last time I checked school ended around 3 pm. The workday tends to end between 5 and 6 pm.
They could do it after school.
Also I have to wonder about going after a minor at all. Can you claim that a minor understands copyright law? This going after kids gives me such warm fuzzys for the music companies to start with.
As a few people have already pointed out. Intel probably already supports their own extensions. Also a lot of places that develop these types of custom applications will take the time to hand optimize critical path code.
If you are running simulations or other custom heavy number crunching applications then yes you will take the time to recompile your code for SSE4. Not everyone runs off the self software.
Okay here is a chicken and egg for you.
What software for Linux can you buy?
I would buy Quicken for Linux tomorrow, I would buy TaxCut or TurboTax next year. My wife would buy Photoshop elements tomorrow she is already pretty good with GIMP but GIMP can not do everything that Elements can. And I bought XPlane which does have a Linux version included.
I don't buy much Windows software ether. I a few games but I would buy them for Linux in a heartbeat if I could.
I don't mind paying for software for Linux IF I could buy the software I want.
I have paid for a few SUSE bistros and a RedHat distro as well but I don't feel the value added for a home user is worth cost.
If the programs I need where available I would buy them. I get the programs that provide me the best bang for my buck. Often those are free but sometimes they cost. When they cost I will pay.
Oh well If you where in our market then you would know better since we are ranked as having the best support in our industry. It is just much shorter to say They lie and they don't know they are lying than every time a customer provides you with false information to say over and over again. They are not observant and or don't know how to state their needs in a clear way. Good think our techs here know better than to take the joke literally.
Adobe is better than Microsoft but can you say SVG? If Adobe really means that it is going to provide cross platform support how about Photoshop for Linux?
The are doing better with Flash now so I can not flame them too much.
I guess you didn't read rule 2. The customers don't know they are lying.
Let me give you an example. A new tech was just on a call. The customer said she wanted to number the documents with letters instead of numbers. She went to senior tech and he knew that that wasn't want the customer meant but the new tech kept saying that is what the customer said. Finally she went back and asked the customer, "do you mean you want to number the pages with letters and numbers, like a1, a2?" That is what the customer did mean.
You are correct that the customer has no malice that is why we have rule two. It is just a lot easier to tell a new tech that Rule 1. Is the customer lies and Rule 2. is they don't know they are lying.
I also try and teach the techs here they we shouldn't help customers shoot themselves in the foot. You have no idea how many times a customer is trying to do something that is really wrong or even dangerous. I try to get the techs to ask the real question of what are you trying to accomplish, instead of what are you trying to do.
Of course we did have the customer that couldn't restore a vital backup from a CD she burned. She sent it to us and we found the problem right a way. She labeled it with a black marker on BOTH sides of the disk. We used some rubbing alcohol and cleaned off the data side and immediately copied off the data and burned a new CD for her.
And yes sometime they do lie. They do it with intent but rarely malice. Sometimes they will tell you what they think they want you to hear. I guess that it is just part of human nature. I try to tech new tech to use none leading questions. So instead of is asking if this or that option is checked you ask them what options are checked.
eInk is great if you don't need to refresh the display much.
It is useless for any type of scrolling display or animation.
For an Ebook, clock, or watch it isn't bad.
Yep.
When trying to solve a problem in Technical support we teach the tech
Rule 1. They are lying.
Rule 2. They don't know that they are lying.
Just trying to find out what they really want to do is often the biggest problem. Combine that with they don't want to look like an idiot so if you ask them a question about their settings they will often give you the answer they think you want to hear.
And yes my company has been scammed by people without support using other peoples names or other wise breaking their licenses agreement.
It costs money to train support techs, pay them, provide health insurance for them, put money in their retirement accounts, and keep the lights on.