- I use the gpg plugin for the macosX mail app.. I cant really see the benefit I would get from this. Putting pgp on outlook is like putting lipstick on a pig./m
Yep - they're supposed to actually care of what the public thinks. Problem is that they dont - they dont need to since the only elected officials within the EU machinery are the members of the european parliament and they are completely powerless compared to the european commission. The european union is turning into an institution of navel-gazing nitwits who are gladly spending its citizens hard earned cash on various pointless projects and policies. Responsible fiscal policy is struck down since this means "harmful competition" to its larger and incredibly inefficient member states. I left the EU for a place that still respects the individual (no - not the US - the US is even worse than the EU) and Im never going back.
I dont care... Ill tell y'all what I want: - When the cursor passes under the pointer - I want the cursor to "push aside" the pointer to let me see clearly what I type. Ill switch to the first operating system that gives me this/m
I like Java as a serverside language but as soon as you need to build a gui its useless. Its just too slow - the user experience is similar to a long and painful visit to the dentist. What I would like would be to be able to use Qt or Wxwin with java. Anything like that out there? - I dont like SWT - it may be fast but I dont like the motif downsides when running on linux (irritating to have to use imwheel for mouse wheel support + the poor documentation of SWT). - Any suggestions for a way to build a decent GUI with java but without awt/swing? PS. If you're thinking of responding to this with one of those "use c - java is crap" responses, dont bother. Just accept that Java is big in some sectors - especially the finance industry. Continuous derading of Java actually hurts the free os'es (as in beer/speech) since this - the support for Java - many times is the main requirement for companies in the finance industry. I've seen FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD fall on this hurdle so many times - please dont kill Linux this way. Just accept that usefulness of Java varies depending on the specific needs for that user./m
The only problem (for them) is that TV might go the way of Wang computers. If memory serves me correctly, wang experienced a drop in the demand for their word processing machines because of the increase in PC availability. They reacted by raising the price - since they suddenly needed to recover costs over fewer sold units. This method only could have worked in the Soviet union - unfortunately wang was in the US marketplace and subsequently suffered from their own moronic tactics. - I've nearly stopped watching tv - this new advertising would ensure that I would not waste my time on it ever again. Its gone far enough now, they can keep their crap to themselves.
"If you avoid it once at the grocery store, you won't have to avoid it dozens of times at home".
hmm...pizza delivery ?;-) Seriously, the only diet that I got to work is the hackers diet (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.htm l ). It's working for me. I've lost approx 13 kgs in one year (from 95 kgs to 82kgs) and it makes perfect sense. Just eat less and be more physically active. The percentage of ppl not being able to loose weight due to a medical condition is probably around the 0.1 - 1 % - the rest are just eating too much. Perfectly simple./m
hehe.. read the article again and see which vm they actually want to deliver. the 1.1.4 (!). Ahh..those were the days...we're talking pre y2k java here:-) (was it 95-96?) /m
...in Switzerland,every man must do the military service. After the military service he is obliged to keep his fully automatic assaultrifle at home. This means that roughly *every* household has access to a fully automatic military weapon. Violent crime in Switzerland? - nearly non existant.
laptop? Works better. Thats why you find laptops in server rooms in the third world. Best ups you can get. /m
Re:Sun invented patterns?
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Well...the sentence: The structure itself is devoted to uncovering antipatterns , a term Tate uses because it plays off the way that Sun offered Java patterns to help programmers use the new tools efficiently
makes it sound as if Tate invented the term antipatterns to counter something (patterns) that was started by sun. Does Tate really use the term antipatterns to play off suns offering of patterns? I would be surprised since the concept and practice of patterns _AND_ antipatters existed long before sun decided to provide them to developers. Tate did not invent the concept of Antipatterns - antipatterns make up an established way of learning from other peoples mistakes in a more structured way. The first antipatterns book that I saw was in 1998 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471197130 / id=1021560084/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-1927364-003916 8) well before sun started offering patterns to dev's. /m
Theres nothing wrong with making money for shareholders. There is - however - something very wrong when you've strayed so far from your core business (as a manager) that you dont know how value is created within your organisation or who actually creates it. Sacking people across the board is idiotic - it just proves that you are completely unable to prioritize even though that is a managers responsibility. Its like curing a headache by removing the upper part of the body - including torso. - Best thing to do right now is to start up your own company so that you dont have to deal with being managed by people who just haven't got a clue. Ok VC money isnt really flowing at the moment - BUT: Good talent is cheap(er) and competition isnt that fierce (companies are too busy trying to find their arse with both hands). /m
..Also had hardware problems...after removing the harddrive and doing a low level format I noticed that it had a *lot* of errors rendering around 4 Gb useless. They replaced the drive (onsite!) and gave me a drive twice as big with no extra cost. That was the wonderful part. - The bad part was that a lot of the hardware was incompatible with Linux (due to the fact that it wasn't me choosing the machine there was a lot of win-only hardware; soundcard, modem etc.). I have since come to terms with the fact that Dell simply aren't selling products that I want - I now buy IBM or Apple. If they want me or people like me as a customer - they'll have to change. /m
Heres an idea...why not create a site that rates compatibility (say on a 5 level scale with 5 meaning "they provide the source freely" to 1 meaning "binary driver only usable on kernel 1.1.13") rating could be done through users voting (?) and the end result would be a product with a rating made by the community. - The manufacturers who make it onto the list gets one of those icons "compatible with linux" (with level rating and a link to a page that would explain the meaning of the rating) use when advertising. - This would enable the companies supporting linux to market this in a more efficient way, thereby increasing the pressure on the companies that dont support Linux yet. ... just my 2 c.. /m
I've previously had Compaq and Dell laptops. I've had a IBM Thinkpad A21P for about a year now. - I must say that it is the best laptop I've ever seen/used. It's display is a dream. Sound,graphics card, pcmcia, networking (miniPCI + Dlink DWL650) worked out of the box when installing linux as well as FreeBSD (installing Win2K or NT means hunting for drivers online ). /m
Some universities (under the pressure from non-cs departments) are deploying more and more win machines with the motivation "the students are going to need to know how to use windows since thats what theyll use when they leave university". This is absolute bull. I sometime receive job applications that proudly list their skills as being microsoft only. We never hire them. A person who only knows one os cant call him/herself a computer professional. The "bad guy" in this case is usually non-cs management who think theyre doing the student a favour while actually ruining the possibility for the student to receive a solid academic education. One thing that would be valuable to me would be a directory that lists all universities that do windows only training in their computer science classes. This would be efficient for me as I could redirect these applicants to the round filing cabinet under my desk without having to waste my time reading their cvs. /m
- my isp leaves it all open (and even says so to subscribers) - its up to me to block...but then again. ADSL / Cable providers seem to be human in this country (Switzerland) not the traditional morons that you find most anywhere... /m
I was thinking about Monaco at first - its a really nice place. However, I moved to Switzerland instead. And its really good here. Taxes are humane - the government isnt socialist or of the terrible expansionist kind. So much better than within the EU. /m
By giving the common man your knowledge, all they have to do is have skill and apply it, this means you'll be without a job when you are fired and replaced by joe blow.
- No one has ever been "given" knowledge. Knowledge is gained through the laborious process of studying. - That someone is "given" knowledge implies that there is no effort whatsoever involved and, furthermore, that it is to be regarded as an activity that requires a healthy brain. - I will never be scared of the "common man" taking my job. However, I'll always be scared of "the common man" suddenly demanding me to handover the fruits of my labour (through taxes). This is a solvable problem though - just move to whatever country appreciates people who are educated and productive.
Although...you'd probably get more attention if you dont wear anything under the cardboard:-) . Any attention is good attention.
Seriously: seeing the changes in the US is interesting. When I visited the US (I was considering moving there) I noticed that it was full of people who erroneously thought that the people of the US were the most free people in the world. After judging for myself I decided that I did not want to live in the US. I moved to Switzerland instead. Every day that goes by reaffirms my decision. In my eyes, the people in the US do not have much individual freedom (in this discussion we're actually discussing people wanting to become political refugees due to US policies (!) ) - they just dont realize it yet. Maybe because there isn't much actual knowledge or experience - among americans - of life in other countries? /m
Well, "owned by the workers" is a slightly misleading description since it will be controlled by the state - not by the individual workers.
- In a society where the means of production are controlled by the government the individual will be powerless and opressed. There is no way of combining this type of state control with individual freedom. In other words - libertarian socialism is like military intelligence; an oxymoron.
Kinda interesting... you say:
* liberal == the general population is too stupid to take care of itself, so the government will come to the rescue.
- Thats not liberal. Thats being Socialist. This is one thing strange about the us...you think that one is liberal if one has that - the government should take care of you - attitude. It's not. It's Socialism./m
I was actually planning to buy the PS2 and a Cybershot camera with the scubadiving kit. I was warned by friends that I shouldnt go for Sony camera since you lock yourself into a closed standard with the memorystick (instead of fi flash memory). This piece of news actually helped me in making up my mind. Im not buying a single piece of equipment from Sony anymore. If they want my - and others like me - business, they better behave in a more civilized way.
/m
Re:Globalism is not the problem: Government is
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The logic is not weird. Your government (and many others) are using their clout to secure dominant positions for "American" companies in the global marketplace. This means that global companies are subsidised by local government because they are perceived to be of a certain nationality. This usually promotes incompetence while punishing companies that are competitive in the global marketplace.
The problem of subsidies and taxes in the international marketplace is quite well described in various basic textbooks in Economics. Global trade is usually dealt with during the first or second term in uni.
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- I use the gpg plugin for the macosX mail app .. I cant really see the benefit I would get from this. Putting pgp on outlook is like putting lipstick on a pig. /m
Yep - they're supposed to actually care of what the public thinks. Problem is that they dont - they dont need to since the only elected officials within the EU machinery are the members of the european parliament and they are completely powerless compared to the european commission. The european union is turning into an institution of navel-gazing nitwits who are gladly spending its citizens hard earned cash on various pointless projects and policies. Responsible fiscal policy is struck down since this means "harmful competition" to its larger and incredibly inefficient member states. I left the EU for a place that still respects the individual (no - not the US - the US is even worse than the EU) and Im never going back.
... Or you could do this:d =1408 /m
http://www.sys-con.com/java/articlea.cfm?i
I dont care... Ill tell y'all what I want: /m
- When the cursor passes under the pointer - I want the cursor to "push aside" the pointer to let me see clearly what I type. Ill switch to the first operating system that gives me this
I like Java as a serverside language but as soon as you need to build a gui its useless. Its just too slow - the user experience is similar to a long and painful visit to the dentist. What I would like would be to be able to use Qt or Wxwin with java. Anything like that out there? - I dont like SWT - it may be fast but I dont like the motif downsides when running on linux (irritating to have to use imwheel for mouse wheel support + the poor documentation of SWT). /m
- Any suggestions for a way to build a decent GUI with java but without awt/swing?
PS. If you're thinking of responding to this with one of those "use c - java is crap" responses, dont bother. Just accept that Java is big in some sectors - especially the finance industry. Continuous derading of Java actually hurts the free os'es (as in beer/speech) since this - the support for Java - many times is the main requirement for companies in the finance industry. I've seen FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD fall on this hurdle so many times - please dont kill Linux this way. Just accept that usefulness of Java varies depending on the specific needs for that user.
The only problem (for them) is that TV might go the way of Wang computers. If memory serves me correctly, wang experienced a drop in the demand for their word processing machines because of the increase in PC availability. They reacted by raising the price - since they suddenly needed to recover costs over fewer sold units. This method only could have worked in the Soviet union - unfortunately wang was in the US marketplace and subsequently suffered from their own moronic tactics.
- I've nearly stopped watching tv - this new advertising would ensure that I would not waste my time on it ever again. Its gone far enough now, they can keep their crap to themselves.
"If you avoid it once at the grocery store, you won't have to avoid it dozens of times at home".
;-)m l ). It's working for me. I've lost approx 13 kgs in one year (from 95 kgs to 82kgs) and it makes perfect sense. Just eat less and be more physically active. The percentage of ppl not being able to loose weight due to a medical condition is probably around the 0.1 - 1 % - the rest are just eating too much. Perfectly simple. /m
hmm...pizza delivery ?
Seriously, the only diet that I got to work is the hackers diet (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.ht
hehe .. read the article again and see which vm they actually want to deliver. the 1.1.4 (!). Ahh..those were the days...we're talking pre y2k java here :-) (was it 95-96?)
/m
...in Switzerland,every man must do the military service. After the military service he is obliged to keep his fully automatic assaultrifle at home. This means that roughly *every* household has access to a fully automatic military weapon. Violent crime in Switzerland? - nearly non existant.
laptop? Works better. Thats why you find laptops in server rooms in the third world. Best ups you can get.
/m
Well...the sentence:
0 / id=1021560084/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-1927364-003916 8) well before sun started offering patterns to dev's.
The structure itself is devoted to uncovering antipatterns , a term Tate uses because it plays off the way that Sun offered Java patterns to help programmers use the new tools efficiently
makes it sound as if Tate invented the term antipatterns to counter something (patterns) that was started by sun. Does Tate really use the term antipatterns to play off suns offering of patterns? I would be surprised since the concept and practice of patterns _AND_ antipatters existed long before sun decided to provide them to developers. Tate did not invent the concept of Antipatterns - antipatterns make up an established way of learning from other peoples mistakes in a more structured way. The first antipatterns book that I saw was in 1998 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047119713
/m
Theres nothing wrong with making money for shareholders. There is - however - something very wrong when you've strayed so far from your core business (as a manager) that you dont know how value is created within your organisation or who actually creates it. Sacking people across the board is idiotic - it just proves that you are completely unable to prioritize even though that is a managers responsibility. Its like curing a headache by removing the upper part of the body - including torso.
- Best thing to do right now is to start up your own company so that you dont have to deal with being managed by people who just haven't got a clue.
Ok VC money isnt really flowing at the moment - BUT: Good talent is cheap(er) and competition isnt that fierce (companies are too busy trying to find their arse with both hands).
/m
..Also had hardware problems...after removing the harddrive and doing a low level format I noticed that it had a *lot* of errors rendering around 4 Gb useless. They replaced the drive (onsite!) and gave me a drive twice as big with no extra cost. That was the wonderful part.
- The bad part was that a lot of the hardware was incompatible with Linux (due to the fact that it wasn't me choosing the machine there was a lot of win-only hardware; soundcard, modem etc.). I have since come to terms with the fact that Dell simply aren't selling products that I want - I now buy IBM or Apple.
If they want me or people like me as a customer - they'll have to change.
/m
Heres an idea...why not create a site that rates compatibility (say on a 5 level scale with 5 meaning "they provide the source freely" to 1 meaning "binary driver only usable on kernel 1.1.13")
rating could be done through users voting (?) and the end result would be a product with a rating made by the community.
- The manufacturers who make it onto the list gets one of those icons "compatible with linux" (with level rating and a link to a page that would explain the meaning of the rating) use when advertising.
- This would enable the companies supporting linux to market this in a more efficient way, thereby increasing the pressure on the companies that dont support Linux yet.
... just my 2 c..
/m
I've previously had Compaq and Dell laptops. I've had a IBM Thinkpad A21P for about a year now. - I must say that it is the best laptop I've ever seen/used. It's display is a dream. Sound,graphics card, pcmcia, networking (miniPCI + Dlink DWL650) worked out of the box when installing linux as well as FreeBSD (installing Win2K or NT means hunting for drivers online ).
/m
Some universities (under the pressure from non-cs departments) are deploying more and more win machines with the motivation "the students are going to need to know how to use windows since thats what theyll use when they leave university". This is absolute bull. I sometime receive job applications that proudly list their skills as being microsoft only. We never hire them. A person who only knows one os cant call him/herself a computer professional.
The "bad guy" in this case is usually non-cs management who think theyre doing the student a favour while actually ruining the possibility for the student to receive a solid academic education.
One thing that would be valuable to me would be a directory that lists all universities that do windows only training in their computer science classes. This would be efficient for me as I could redirect these applicants to the round filing cabinet under my desk without having to waste my time reading their cvs.
/m
- my isp leaves it all open (and even says so to subscribers) - its up to me to block...but then again. ADSL / Cable providers seem to be human in this country (Switzerland) not the traditional morons that you find most anywhere...
/m
I was thinking about Monaco at first - its a really nice place. However, I moved to Switzerland instead. And its really good here. Taxes are humane - the government isnt socialist or of the terrible expansionist kind. So much better than within the EU.
/m
By giving the common man your knowledge, all they have to do is have skill and apply it, this means you'll be without a job when you are fired and replaced by joe blow.
- No one has ever been "given" knowledge. Knowledge is gained through the laborious process of studying. - That someone is "given" knowledge implies that there is no effort whatsoever involved and, furthermore, that it is to be regarded as an activity that requires a healthy brain.
- I will never be scared of the "common man" taking my job. However, I'll always be scared of "the common man" suddenly demanding me to handover the fruits of my labour (through taxes). This is a solvable problem though - just move to whatever country appreciates people who are educated and productive.
Although...you'd probably get more attention if you dont wear anything under the cardboard :-) . Any attention is good attention.
Seriously: seeing the changes in the US is interesting. When I visited the US (I was considering moving there) I noticed that it was full of people who erroneously thought that the people of the US were the most free people in the world. After judging for myself I decided that I did not want to live in the US. I moved to Switzerland instead. Every day that goes by reaffirms my decision. In my eyes, the people in the US do not have much individual freedom (in this discussion we're actually discussing people wanting to become political refugees due to US policies (!) ) - they just dont realize it yet. Maybe because there isn't much actual knowledge or experience - among americans - of life in other countries?
/m
Well, "owned by the workers" is a slightly misleading description since it will be controlled by the state - not by the individual workers.
- In a society where the means of production are controlled by the government the individual will be powerless and opressed. There is no way of combining this type of state control with individual freedom. In other words - libertarian socialism is like military intelligence; an oxymoron.
Another good standard down the drain...
Kinda interesting... you say: * liberal == the general population is too stupid to take care of itself, so the government will come to the rescue. /m
- Thats not liberal. Thats being Socialist. This is one thing strange about the us...you think that one is liberal if one has that - the government should take care of you - attitude. It's not. It's Socialism.
I was actually planning to buy the PS2 and a Cybershot camera with the scubadiving kit. I was warned by friends that I shouldnt go for Sony camera since you lock yourself into a closed standard with the memorystick (instead of fi flash memory). This piece of news actually helped me in making up my mind. Im not buying a single piece of equipment from Sony anymore. If they want my - and others like me - business, they better behave in a more civilized way.
/m
The logic is not weird. Your government (and many others) are using their clout to secure dominant positions for "American" companies in the global marketplace. This means that global companies are subsidised by local government because they are perceived to be of a certain nationality. This usually promotes incompetence while punishing companies that are competitive in the global marketplace.
The problem of subsidies and taxes in the international marketplace is quite well described in various basic textbooks in Economics. Global trade is usually dealt with during the first or second term in uni.