First thing, the key combo has to be Ctrl + Alt + something. This limits me to 26 ops and also not a convenient one. On my fav window managers, I usually pick Ctrl + Shift + key. It does not matter what the particular key combo is, but I can pick whatever I want. It is not possible with Windows.
Also, I have a single stroke shortcuts for minimizing a window etc. I don't know of any way to achieve that in Windows.
Once I've got my OS customized to my liking, it's irrelevant which one I'm using for day to day work.
That is where _I_ like Linux (most of the window managers) and CDE better than Windows. I do not know about OS X. The various window managers that come with Linux and CDE which is the default on most other unices (SunOS/HPUX/Tru64 etc) are so easy to customize. I hate having to take my hand off keyboard. So I despise having to use mouse. And I like to bind a zillion keys to bring up applications or do various operations. I can customize all these with edition one or a few.rc files in these window managers. I can virtually map any key combination to do anything I want. I don't know (may be because I have not researched/hacked enough) how to accomplish this on windows. That makes me much less productive on windows. That is why I am hanging on to an old, Tru64 box for a desktop although our company does not need it any longer for a business purpose.
3) after being told exactly how to find it by someone else who found it through methods 1, 2
or upon being leaked by the developers themselves. I think this is one of the common ways easter eggs get discovered. From what I've seen of the access codes to some, I don't think anyone would have discovered it without some help.
From their open letter...
Inside the world of PE futures and future options (this includes traders, customers, FCMs, ISVs, exchanges, etc.), TT would forfeit the right to be the aggressor in any patent infringement lawsuit, permanently; in that way allowing absolutely anyone to use TT's current and future patent protected concepts any way they desire . . . We believe the invention of the MD Trader concept represents an end to a process, meaning that there is no way to equal or better the function that it performs.
So basically they are saying they will simply sit on their a$$es and do nothing, while the world keeps them on the gravy train forever! Cool!
He seems like the perfect choice for me for this administration. After all, he can do with technology what the government has been trying to do through legislation - making it easy for the government to spy on people.
What matters is how much of the fraction of pollution/emission in the world is caused by each country. By that measure, developed world will have a significant portion of the contribution to global warming.
It _is_ a tough decision. Loss of 800 jobs is immediate, obvious and can lose them votes. I don't know anything about Denmark specifically, but I'm assuming it is a normal democracy. Where as the second choice is non-obvious, and may not win them much votes except for those of a few geeks!
Why not just ahve a flat tax of something like 25% (for starters) and adjust it from there?
I thought this is such an old, stupid idea and has been killed, but I guess you're a new kid in the world of taxes. In progressive tax system, everyone is paying according to their priorities. A guy who is making just 5 bucks a day - has much less stake in keeping this system running, than a guy who is making 100 bucks a day. If I have just 5 bucks, my priority would be my basic needs - food, clothing, shelter. Security, roads, infrastructure come much less. I would definitely not want to pay 25% for that stuff. Where as when I make 10 grand every month, I have much higher interest in keeping the society and the current system. My basic needs are satisfied with much less proportion of my income and I would be willing to shell out more for other needs.
I am from India and for me, it seemed natural and just, that flag-burning and insulting any other national symbol should be a crime. Only on reading all these comments by others, am I beginning to understand a different concept - of America, which is so much based on individual freedom.
But I think there is a reason for us to be this way. We had struggled under an alien and racist regime and fought really hard to attain our independence. The flags, the national anthem etc were symbols that unified the crores of people and motivated them to fight against the much more physically powerful and abusive government. And the government forces always used to abuse the symbols that were considered dear. So it is only natural that those acts incite people and I think it followed naturally that all those acts were made a crime in the constitution.
While I like GPL and I have benefitted from it (lots of freeware I use), I have just one complaint. The way GPL is, the first guy who ever writes the code, controls its destiny. Even if the first coder's contribution is very limited, and he kind of does nothing later, the code will still have to remain under GPL. A guy who comes after him and say does a substantially improves the code and does lots of things will not have a say in deciding or changing the terms.
He isn't accusing MS of stealing the TCP/IP protocol, he's accusing them of stealing the acutal BSD TCP/IP stack code.
I, for one, am glad they did. That is one less buggy part in my windoze box. Imagine if M$ wrote the code themselves. We would have to deal with another zillion exploits of probably every M$ bundled program that uses any TCP/IP;-)
While there are some features that make it easier to code for novice programmers, I certainly cannot agree they are far superior to everything else. Have you ever tried some serious debugging? One basic feature I use with gdb is break point commands. I can associate commands with breakpoints. And this command language can handle most of the operations, so much so that I can give out a debugger script to my customer, ask him to just run gdb with my _closed source_ application and I get traces of whatever I want. Can you even imagine doing such a thing with VS?
Yes, while the spirit of the article is totally agreeable. He picked wrong examples of words. He simply should have picked the words from this instead.
Btw, one of my pet peeves these days is framework.
How about each one post the word they hate most? It will be a nice collection. May be we can even have a slashdot poll on picking the winner
There is a significant difference. M$ could afford to make IE free because it is not their main source of revenue. Opera is offering its source of revenue for free. Of course, it is arguable how many, if any, universities would have paid and obtained these licenses anyway. I agree with the other posts that said it is basically an act of desperation. Firefox surely is big threat to Opera.
Most of the open source (or free software anyway) is done by developers to solve the problems they face individually. It could _also_ solve the problem of community but the the big motivation is personal itch. IMHO, ERP software does not solve any problem the hacker community faces. That could be one reason why it may not get too much interest.
You could argue what stops a company from making an open source ERP software. I don't know...
C'mon guys - don't ascribe too many ulterior motives. I am guessing it is just a favor to a chum. (IBM - friend of OpenSource community, OR IBM - foe of SCO - foe of OpenSource community)
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I know that, but it is not enough.
First thing, the key combo has to be Ctrl + Alt + something. This limits me to 26 ops and also not a convenient one. On my fav window managers, I usually pick Ctrl + Shift + key. It does not matter what the particular key combo is, but I can pick whatever I want. It is not possible with Windows.
Also, I have a single stroke shortcuts for minimizing a window etc. I don't know of any way to achieve that in Windows.
Once I've got my OS customized to my liking, it's irrelevant which one I'm using for day to day work.
.rc files in these window managers. I can virtually map any key combination to do anything I want. I don't know (may be because I have not researched/hacked enough) how to accomplish this on windows. That makes me much less productive on windows. That is why I am hanging on to an old, Tru64 box for a desktop although our company does not need it any longer for a business purpose.
That is where _I_ like Linux (most of the window managers) and CDE better than Windows. I do not know about OS X. The various window managers that come with Linux and CDE which is the default on most other unices (SunOS/HPUX/Tru64 etc) are so easy to customize. I hate having to take my hand off keyboard. So I despise having to use mouse. And I like to bind a zillion keys to bring up applications or do various operations. I can customize all these with edition one or a few
3) after being told exactly how to find it by someone else who found it through methods 1, 2
or upon being leaked by the developers themselves. I think this is one of the common ways easter eggs get discovered. From what I've seen of the access codes to some, I don't think anyone would have discovered it without some help.
From their open letter...
Inside the world of PE futures and future options (this includes traders, customers, FCMs, ISVs, exchanges, etc.), TT would forfeit the right to be the aggressor in any patent infringement lawsuit, permanently; in that way allowing absolutely anyone to use TT's current and future patent protected concepts any way they desire
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We believe the invention of the MD Trader concept represents an end to a process, meaning that there is no way to equal or better the function that it performs.
So basically they are saying they will simply sit on their a$$es and do nothing, while the world keeps them on the gravy train forever! Cool!
He seems like the perfect choice for me for this administration. After all, he can do with technology what the government has been trying to do through legislation - making it easy for the government to spy on people.
Does it mean they're going to hire people to go through all porn and judge which is legal?! Where can I send my resume?!?!
Im gonna take some comment rated +5, Insightful the last time this story was posted. After all, I can do with some good comment ratings
How does the population matter?
What matters is how much of the fraction of pollution/emission in the world is caused by each country. By that measure, developed world will have a significant portion of the contribution to global warming.
Yeah right. Do the same thing with the same employees, and get sued to hell by M$!
It's not as easy...
It _is_ a tough decision. Loss of 800 jobs is immediate, obvious and can lose them votes. I don't know anything about Denmark specifically, but I'm assuming it is a normal democracy. Where as the second choice is non-obvious, and may not win them much votes except for those of a few geeks!
Lakshman.
Why not just ahve a flat tax of something like 25% (for starters) and adjust it from there?
I thought this is such an old, stupid idea and has been killed, but I guess you're a new kid in the world of taxes. In progressive tax system, everyone is paying according to their priorities. A guy who is making just 5 bucks a day - has much less stake in keeping this system running, than a guy who is making 100 bucks a day. If I have just 5 bucks, my priority would be my basic needs - food, clothing, shelter. Security, roads, infrastructure come much less. I would definitely not want to pay 25% for that stuff. Where as when I make 10 grand every month, I have much higher interest in keeping the society and the current system. My basic needs are satisfied with much less proportion of my income and I would be willing to shell out more for other needs.
I am from India and for me, it seemed natural and just, that flag-burning and insulting any other national symbol should be a crime. Only on reading all these comments by others, am I beginning to understand a different concept - of America, which is so much based on individual freedom.
But I think there is a reason for us to be this way. We had struggled under an alien and racist regime and fought really hard to attain our independence. The flags, the national anthem etc were symbols that unified the crores of people and motivated them to fight against the much more physically powerful and abusive government. And the government forces always used to abuse the symbols that were considered dear. So it is only natural that those acts incite people and I think it followed naturally that all those acts were made a crime in the constitution.
The "Funny" mods should have some kind of "group check" system, so that every "Funny" point is agreed on by 3 or 4 mods.
... ;-)
I was about to mod you funny
While I like GPL and I have benefitted from it (lots of freeware I use), I have just one complaint. The way GPL is, the first guy who ever writes the code, controls its destiny. Even if the first coder's contribution is very limited, and he kind of does nothing later, the code will still have to remain under GPL. A guy who comes after him and say does a substantially improves the code and does lots of things will not have a say in deciding or changing the terms.
He isn't accusing MS of stealing the TCP/IP protocol, he's accusing them of stealing the acutal BSD TCP/IP stack code.
;-)
I, for one, am glad they did. That is one less buggy part in my windoze box. Imagine if M$ wrote the code themselves. We would have to deal with another zillion exploits of probably every M$ bundled program that uses any TCP/IP
While there are some features that make it easier to code for novice programmers, I certainly cannot agree they are far superior to everything else. Have you ever tried some serious debugging? One basic feature I use with gdb is break point commands. I can associate commands with breakpoints. And this command language can handle most of the operations, so much so that I can give out a debugger script to my customer, ask him to just run gdb with my _closed source_ application and I get traces of whatever I want. Can you even imagine doing such a thing with VS?
Just the sort of person who can take a mediocre systems-software company and turn them into a globe-trotting monopoly.
;-)
;-)
Just curious, what were you trying to do while in M$ sales? Not the same thing?
Arguably, he is good at his job
Yes, while the spirit of the article is totally agreeable. He picked wrong examples of words. He simply should have picked the words from this instead.
Btw, one of my pet peeves these days is framework. How about each one post the word they hate most? It will be a nice collection. May be we can even have a slashdot poll on picking the winner
I just hope my dad hasn't produced me under one of those contracts. We're expecting a kid and now I'm scared!
There is a significant difference. M$ could afford to make IE free because it is not their main source of revenue. Opera is offering its source of revenue for free. Of course, it is arguable how many, if any, universities would have paid and obtained these licenses anyway. I agree with the other posts that said it is basically an act of desperation. Firefox surely is big threat to Opera.
Isn't CNN going to "embed" any journalists and cameramen and going to broadcast the event live?!
Most of the open source (or free software anyway) is done by developers to solve the problems they face individually. It could _also_ solve the problem of community but the the big motivation is personal itch. IMHO, ERP software does not solve any problem the hacker community faces. That could be one reason why it may not get too much interest.
You could argue what stops a company from making an open source ERP software. I don't know...
C'mon guys - don't ascribe too many ulterior motives. I am guessing it is just a favor to a chum. (IBM - friend of OpenSource community, OR IBM - foe of SCO - foe of OpenSource community)
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Never ascribe to malice what can probably be explained by stupidity.
Everyone I have spoken with has had new, undiscovered apps discovered running on their machine after installing and running the beta.
;-)
Key question: Were those new applications present before installing and running the beta?
Are they totally portable? Or will I have to write a separate 64-bit version? ;-)