Nope, no physical labor. I'm doing some internet research for an environmental newsletter company, finding contact information for them to market to (no, not spam to). It's amazingly, mind-numbingly boring work, but it pays the bills (barely). I'm gonna hafta find something in the $15/hr range soon - it's all I can do to keep my head above water at $10/hr.:( But, at least I'm still in Seattle!
Yeah, we can all move to India; they'll never notice the influx! We'll make our own little English-speaking-only community and call it 'Little Silicon Valley.'
Okay, I'm in Seattle, and it's already a pretty horrendous job market here - I'm reduced to working a temp job for $10/hr (not in my industry). This is gonna make things even worse. So what's to do? Do we have to have a 'Made by U.S. Programmers' label for software packages?
Nope, the last time I really paid attention to WebCore, it had just been announced. I'm not (yet) on OS X. Gotta save up a lotta $ first for that dual-proc G5! I'm also learning C(99) in preparation to moving to Objective-C once I get the new machine. Sadly, it will be many moons before I can afford said new machine.:(
I don't even wanna know why you'd want to embed the whole frickin' browser in anything, rather than just the renderer. And if you're going to embed the renderer, then just use the system one in WebCore, based on the KHTML renderer.
> Adding a smart chip with biometrics is going to make it a lot harder for people to counterfeit these IDs.
The problem with biometrics and government-issued 'encrypted' biometric data is that once the technology IS cracked (and it WILL be cracked - make no mistake about that!), then what do you do? You can't change your biometric data (well, not without plastic surgery or eye replacements:), so now you're always going to be identified as the person who did _whatever_the_thief_did. It's not like a username/password or email address or telephone # - those can always be exchanged for new ones when your 'identity' is stolen. But when your biometric data gets stolen - your actual identity is stolen, and it's stolen forever. The US passport version, with just a photo, is okay, as it's only replicating what is on existing US passports, but any more biometric data than that is a REMARKABLY bad idea.
I think he mentioned he wanted an installation process.
I think a good candidate might be ALFS - the Automated Linux From Scratch. Also remember that LFS only gets you a barebones system that's not really all that usable except to start installing software onto, so you'll need to also check out the 'Beyond LFS' project to get a usable desktop system, if that's what you're after.
If your 'distribution' won't be 'customizable', then just make the CD bootable and copy the setup or a disk image onto the HD.
That would be an inefficient use of the marketing department's time. Besides, perfection has already been achieved in Slackware (version 9, year 10), tertiary adjunct of Linux Kernel 2.4.21. You will comply.
1) You'd start talking funny, eh. 2) You'd have to use weird words - your dollar currency would be called a "Loonie" (there's a Loon on the dollar coin), and your two-dollar currency would be called a "Twoonie," eh. 3) You'd have to start making fun of people from Newfoundland ("Newfies"). I don't know why, you just would. 4) You'd have to pretend there's a really big cultural difference between Canadians and Americans. To everyone who asks, or doesn't ask. 5) You'd have to listen to Canadian radio and watch Canadian tv, which would basically be American radio and American tv if it weren't for Canadian laws which require a certain portion of broadcast content be native Canadian. Which means you get to hear a LOT of Loverboy, eh. 6) You'd have to claim William Shatner as your own. 7) You'd have to laugh at Jerry Lewis. Oh wait, that's France. Nevermind. 8) Hockey. 9) Curling. (and I don't mean irons) 10) That stupid Labatt(sp?) Blue spokesbear. 11) No littering or cursing allowed in Canada. Also, please be kind; rewind. 12) If it weren't for Canada, all you Europeans would be speaking German right now! Oh, wait, that's America... 13) The inevitable McKenzie Brothers comeback movie, "Dude, Where's My Beer, Eh? (Hoser)" 14) A pound of Canadian bacon a day keeps the doctor away, eh. 15) All the nice imported American acid rain. 16) Americans can't find your country on a globe or a map. 17) That damned South Park song. 18) Having to bow and scrape to the "Queen of Canada." 19) Your socialized health care means you get to wait a _very_ long time to see a doctor. (But at least you can afford it.) 20) Your money ain't worth shit. 21) You'll develop very little sense of humour about your newfound (Newfie!) country, and lists like this one will really piss you off. Eh. 22) When you get candy called "Smarties" at the local food jobber, you won't get the tasty treat you're used to in the U.S. Instead, you'll get a bunch of things that look like M&Ms. They don't, unfortunately, taste like M&Ms. They taste like *STALE* M&Ms. And that's the way they're supposed to taste. When an American brings up this fact, you have to pretend to like them, anyway. 23) You have weird beverages with little balls of cellulose floating in them. On purpose. 24) There is no number 24 in the Canadian number system. Deal.
Okay, that's enough of these off the top of my head.:)
> I've been sitting here on my sofa in front of a cat (a sealpoint siamese) for about 20 minutes now while attempting to get it's attention away from a bug on the floor. 20 minutes.
I guess that the labrador cross is smarter than you. I doubt it'd spend 20 minutes trying to get the cat to do anything. Another thing you should consider is that having an attention span of under 2 minutes isn't exactly a resounding vote for 'intelligence' in an animal.
> I've never seen a cat that fetches as much as it's canine counterpart
You clearly don't understand cats. Cats don't fetch. Dogs fetch. Humans fetch. Cats do not fetch.
> From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the cat is a superior animal.
There is no measurable ROI for a cat. If that's what you want out of a pet, get a dog. Clearly you prefer dogs, so why not just stick with dogs? Dogs are like Windows. Cats are like Linux. Cats just aren't for you - why put yourself through the aggravation?:)
Personally, I would not buy the product no matter what platform it runs on because of the (sad) state of SVG support in the browser market, and the foreseen SVG support in the coming years. With IE not being updated for the next 2 years, only Mozilla, Opera, & KHTML variants will be likely to have any decent SVG support anytime soon, and even that is just a possibility, and hardly a foregone conclusion. Your product may be the greatest thing for SVG that has come along (not that that would be saying much, considering), but SVG support, for all _practical_ considerations, is nearly non-existent in browsers, and as a percentage of the surfing public goes, will remain so for years to come. Your product seems like a solution waiting for a market to develop. I don't think that market is GOING to develop for another 2 years, at the soonest. We'll have to wait and see if Microsoft deigns to include usable SVG support in the Longhorn-generation of IE, or whether they cripple & abandon it like they did PNG support. If the latter is the case, then your product may never be useful enough for Corel to continue to support unless Mozilla/Opera/KHTML-based browsers actually start taking significant browser marketshare away from IE.
Good luck on what seems like a fun project, though. Some people will certainly find this product useful, but whether it's enough of a customer base to continue development on is a big guess. Risk big, win big, though!
Okay, so when are the Mac OS X and Linux versions due out? This is a pretty amusing situation - a development studio/language for something that isn't viewable without a plugin on its only supported OS?
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Nope, no physical labor. I'm doing some internet research for an environmental newsletter company, finding contact information for them to market to (no, not spam to). It's amazingly, mind-numbingly boring work, but it pays the bills (barely). I'm gonna hafta find something in the $15/hr range soon - it's all I can do to keep my head above water at $10/hr. :( But, at least I'm still in Seattle!
The only real way to 'protect' an industry is by tariffs on imported goods. If the software is created by offshore programmers, well, tough luck.
Yeah, we can all move to India; they'll never notice the influx! We'll make our own little English-speaking-only community and call it 'Little Silicon Valley.'
Okay, I'm in Seattle, and it's already a pretty horrendous job market here - I'm reduced to working a temp job for $10/hr (not in my industry). This is gonna make things even worse. So what's to do? Do we have to have a 'Made by U.S. Programmers' label for software packages?
Nope, the last time I really paid attention to WebCore, it had just been announced. I'm not (yet) on OS X. Gotta save up a lotta $ first for that dual-proc G5! I'm also learning C(99) in preparation to moving to Objective-C once I get the new machine. Sadly, it will be many moons before I can afford said new machine. :(
The site also mentioned a question as to whether WebCore is javascript-enabled, and I must say, I don't know the answer to that question, either.
I don't even wanna know why you'd want to embed the whole frickin' browser in anything, rather than just the renderer. And if you're going to embed the renderer, then just use the system one in WebCore, based on the KHTML renderer.
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- Anonymous Coward
"Run, Anonymous Coward!"
- Sinistar
> Adding a smart chip with biometrics is going to make it a lot harder for people to counterfeit these IDs.
:), so now you're always going to be identified as the person who did _whatever_the_thief_did. It's not like a username/password or email address or telephone # - those can always be exchanged for new ones when your 'identity' is stolen. But when your biometric data gets stolen - your actual identity is stolen, and it's stolen forever. The US passport version, with just a photo, is okay, as it's only replicating what is on existing US passports, but any more biometric data than that is a REMARKABLY bad idea.
The problem with biometrics and government-issued 'encrypted' biometric data is that once the technology IS cracked (and it WILL be cracked - make no mistake about that!), then what do you do? You can't change your biometric data (well, not without plastic surgery or eye replacements
I think he mentioned he wanted an installation process.
I think a good candidate might be ALFS - the Automated Linux From Scratch. Also remember that LFS only gets you a barebones system that's not really all that usable except to start installing software onto, so you'll need to also check out the 'Beyond LFS' project to get a usable desktop system, if that's what you're after.
If your 'distribution' won't be 'customizable', then just make the CD bootable and copy the setup or a disk image onto the HD.
That would be an inefficient use of the marketing department's time. Besides, perfection has already been achieved in Slackware (version 9, year 10), tertiary adjunct of Linux Kernel 2.4.21. You will comply.
Why is there no "too stupid to live" mod? Even better, "retroactive abortion needed"...Hmmm...I sense a fork of Slashcode coming...
> why would I _not_ want to move to Canada?
:)
1) You'd start talking funny, eh.
2) You'd have to use weird words - your dollar currency would be called a "Loonie" (there's a Loon on the dollar coin), and your two-dollar currency would be called a "Twoonie," eh.
3) You'd have to start making fun of people from Newfoundland ("Newfies"). I don't know why, you just would.
4) You'd have to pretend there's a really big cultural difference between Canadians and Americans. To everyone who asks, or doesn't ask.
5) You'd have to listen to Canadian radio and watch Canadian tv, which would basically be American radio and American tv if it weren't for Canadian laws which require a certain portion of broadcast content be native Canadian. Which means you get to hear a LOT of Loverboy, eh.
6) You'd have to claim William Shatner as your own.
7) You'd have to laugh at Jerry Lewis. Oh wait, that's France. Nevermind.
8) Hockey.
9) Curling. (and I don't mean irons)
10) That stupid Labatt(sp?) Blue spokesbear.
11) No littering or cursing allowed in Canada. Also, please be kind; rewind.
12) If it weren't for Canada, all you Europeans would be speaking German right now! Oh, wait, that's America...
13) The inevitable McKenzie Brothers comeback movie, "Dude, Where's My Beer, Eh? (Hoser)"
14) A pound of Canadian bacon a day keeps the doctor away, eh.
15) All the nice imported American acid rain.
16) Americans can't find your country on a globe or a map.
17) That damned South Park song.
18) Having to bow and scrape to the "Queen of Canada."
19) Your socialized health care means you get to wait a _very_ long time to see a doctor. (But at least you can afford it.)
20) Your money ain't worth shit.
21) You'll develop very little sense of humour about your newfound (Newfie!) country, and lists like this one will really piss you off. Eh.
22) When you get candy called "Smarties" at the local food jobber, you won't get the tasty treat you're used to in the U.S. Instead, you'll get a bunch of things that look like M&Ms. They don't, unfortunately, taste like M&Ms. They taste like *STALE* M&Ms. And that's the way they're supposed to taste. When an American brings up this fact, you have to pretend to like them, anyway.
23) You have weird beverages with little balls of cellulose floating in them. On purpose.
24) There is no number 24 in the Canadian number system. Deal.
Okay, that's enough of these off the top of my head.
> But the biggie is socialism. Bad bad bad socialism. Socialism is authoritarian communist crap.
No. Socialism is socialism, and communism is communism. Equating socialism with communism is typical American ignorance.
> Hate to break it to you, but Slashdot is not one homogenous entity.
:)
Yes we are!
Oh, wait, I can't disagree with you if we're one homogenous entity.
Now I'm confused. Yes, _now_ I'm one with Slashdot! w00t!
> Did anyone else read WozNet and think, oh great, another porno network.
:)
Nope, just you, you sick bastard.
> My cousin had one that would fetch most any object it could get into its mouth
That's a defective cat. Please take it to the nearest authorized service center immediately. Be careful with it - it could explode at any moment!
I can't _wait_ to see MS port anything to the PPC970! :)
> I've been sitting here on my sofa in front of a cat (a sealpoint siamese) for about 20 minutes now while attempting to get it's attention away from a bug on the floor. 20 minutes.
:)
I guess that the labrador cross is smarter than you. I doubt it'd spend 20 minutes trying to get the cat to do anything. Another thing you should consider is that having an attention span of under 2 minutes isn't exactly a resounding vote for 'intelligence' in an animal.
> I've never seen a cat that fetches as much as it's canine counterpart
You clearly don't understand cats. Cats don't fetch. Dogs fetch. Humans fetch. Cats do not fetch.
> From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the cat is a superior animal.
There is no measurable ROI for a cat. If that's what you want out of a pet, get a dog. Clearly you prefer dogs, so why not just stick with dogs? Dogs are like Windows. Cats are like Linux. Cats just aren't for you - why put yourself through the aggravation?
Any G4-compatible Linux should run with no modification on the G5. Did you mean in 64-bit mode, perhaps?
Personally, I would not buy the product no matter what platform it runs on because of the (sad) state of SVG support in the browser market, and the foreseen SVG support in the coming years. With IE not being updated for the next 2 years, only Mozilla, Opera, & KHTML variants will be likely to have any decent SVG support anytime soon, and even that is just a possibility, and hardly a foregone conclusion. Your product may be the greatest thing for SVG that has come along (not that that would be saying much, considering), but SVG support, for all _practical_ considerations, is nearly non-existent in browsers, and as a percentage of the surfing public goes, will remain so for years to come. Your product seems like a solution waiting for a market to develop. I don't think that market is GOING to develop for another 2 years, at the soonest. We'll have to wait and see if Microsoft deigns to include usable SVG support in the Longhorn-generation of IE, or whether they cripple & abandon it like they did PNG support. If the latter is the case, then your product may never be useful enough for Corel to continue to support unless Mozilla/Opera/KHTML-based browsers actually start taking significant browser marketshare away from IE.
Good luck on what seems like a fun project, though. Some people will certainly find this product useful, but whether it's enough of a customer base to continue development on is a big guess. Risk big, win big, though!
Okay, so when are the Mac OS X and Linux versions due out? This is a pretty amusing situation - a development studio/language for something that isn't viewable without a plugin on its only supported OS?
>> don't cross the streams. It would be ... bad. Cats and dogs living together ... MASS HYSTERIA!
> Maybe even something weirder: Middle East peace
Well, no need to talk crazylike. Cats and dogs can live together. There will never be peace in the Middle East.
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Total protonic reversal.
> Or what mad scientist can do without his own particle accelerator
... bad.
... MASS HYSTERIA!
If you get more than one, don't cross the streams. It would be
Cats and dogs living together