Text based gui's are still being created but it depends on your backend. Some DBMS's still rely on terminal type input and output natively.
Examples of these are:
d3jBaseibm's u2 family.
There are various options for gui'zing them but they excel at POS and terminal type input and output. Check them out. You can read about these types of databases on usenet @ comp.databases.pick.
If you are looking at jobs that pay marginally more than what you are currently making, maybe you can ask for a raise.
Scope out how much you could get paid for your job and ask for it. You won't get a raise magically (employeers like to pay less) but if you present your case to them logically maybe, if you are worth it, they will give you what you need.
Firbird 0.7 destroys Firefox in stability. I went to firefox and was about to tell all my friends running ie- hey check out the new mozilla, its sweet fast and stable- but i couldn't.
I still got my hopes up for the next version though. No band wagon hopping yet. Even with all of firefox's problems it still keeps my windows box at work spyware free.
I wrote some outlook automation stuff that used the outlook api's only to have the next service pack disable the ability to use half of it because of security lock downs. The only way to get around the problem was to link outlook with exchange. bleh.
i apologize for calling you a fool with no real life experience but yes XP has problems.
I don't want this to be a flame fest but I do (strongly) think that if there were a sdk as good as direct X (which you didn't have to pay an arm and a leg to use) for another platform (where that be the next gen consoles, linux, whatever) it could easily take its place a the market leader.
>Then you ignore that for pretty much the rest of your post and talk about machine cost and non-uniform hardware.
Windows is the problem because of its instabilities that are non-gaming related unless you have a completely separate box for gaming.
>What a frickin' great idea! So what you're saying is that if someone comes out with a better product and price it cheaper, they'll sell lots. That's great. Too bad those silly guys in the industry haven't thought of this.
My point was that consoles can't handle some of the PC games because of limitted hardware. If they over spec'd it a bit more ie (more than 32MB of ram, more than 8GB harddrive) developpers whould have a lot less hoops to jump through. Now selling this cheap is going to be hard but my point is that it'll be worth it because of the sales in games. This is more of a guess at what is going to happen next in the industry.
>A lot of people seem to have these old ideas that Windows is still crashing all the time and has driver problems. It really just doesn't. It did at one time. Windows 95 was really an abomination. Windows XP is really pretty stable.
You are a fool with no real life experience.
>Do you actually play many PC games? CDKeys are actually fairly rare. PC games could run off of the CD without an install if that's what gamers were clamoring for. They apparently aren't. Instead, they want the short load times of having content on the hard disk. >PC games and console games will co-exist for at least a while longer. There's games suited to each, and both options make sense for different people. Just because PC gaming isn't for you doesn't mean it's doomed.
It may exist for a while but my prediction is because of the instability of PC(windows)'s its gonna loose to stability in consoles. The tech is there for a company to come out with a console that will match PC gaming ie network play, high end graphics. PC tech is going to plateau and when it does console will have the advantage of having the same/consistant tech and not running windows.
So why is it dying? I say the answer is the platform.
Okay, i love linux and i try to get everyone i can interested in it. The problem is convincing gamers. "But linux doesn't support direct X" they always say. They want their games easy to install and easy to play. I tell them "thats what a console is for". But nope, they want prettier, revolutionary games that they see on PC: pushing their hardware limits, giving them an excuse to go spend more money on the latest and greatest.
Now Everyone (sane) knows that windows is a joke. Every version we see released we find more and more problems that are being exploited. A gamer will probably have to reinstall their system multiple times a year. Trying to get their drivers working for all games, all the settings that need to be tweaked. Its becoming way to much of a hassle: backing up saved games, keeping patched o/s images up to date- its tonnes of work!
Not to mention to buy a gaming system you need to spend a fair bit to play these games. To me this doesn't seem worth it.
instead of spending 1500-3000cdn on a gaming system they can spend 550 bucks on a pc and ~300 for a console. Consoles are a set platform game developpers concentrate on making sure their games are more polished instead of hacking in compatibility for all sorts of hardware. Its simply easier and more stable to run games on a console. It also makes it easier to transport games to different location. You can't just bring a PC game to another person's house and play them. There is a CDKEY and you aren't supposed to do that. With consoles, you can easily trade games and play them no problem, no questions asked.
Consoles are what games are suited to most. Thats why PC gaming is struggling. As far as I'm concerned if a company could come out with a very high spec'd console equipment, sold it at a next-to-nothing profit(priced close to existing consoles) but made it easy to develop for, they'd 0wn the industry. If sony did this and made it play the existing game library it'd be hard to catch up to them!.
In the 7 billion they plan to spend on search technology, I hope they spend some money on fixing win XP's search within file option. For me, it sporatically works. I often have to use a windows 2000 box over the network to search an XP drive in order to "search within file".
I use openoffice as much as I can but one of the pains i often run into is accessing a spreadsheet with more than 32000 lines. Excel handles this no problem but openoffice still needs work
If you are using KDE, the apps page, has a feedback option. It doesn't automatically guess what packages are better but the more people who use it the better it'll be.
Look at what is causing all of these outbreaks. Windows/Windows users.
If there were no windows users, none of the current virus epidemics would be a problem.
You think that virus's on another mainstream OS would take over? Doubtful.
Consider the distribution of OS's left (-windows): you get a melange of flavors. Virus writers would have to be far more sophisticated to hijack that number of dissimilar systems with one set of code.
In my experience this will elimintate a lot of garbage that gets built up on windows installations.
Thanks to google bombing it takes less that 5 minutes of surfing the web to get spyware installed on your computer when using IE.
Install firefox and configure the blocking capabilities.
Some may argue that some pages won't work but to remedy this you can install the "view page in ie" plugin so they only enter "the forbidden app zone" when necessary.
They have to realize that they are a software company. All of these companies have had a jump on these technologies for a long time. If they are to succeed, their product will simply have to be better than what is included offered at a valuable price to the consumer.
Now, the software business is no different than anything else. In order to reduce risk, you have to diverisfy. If your soul business is personal/firewall and antivirus you will know that you are in a highly competative market(high risk).
If you expect to run a business you will have to design your operations to be able to overcome industry trends or you will fail. There is no sense to cry, its just logical.
Its like a programmer concentrating on 1 language. Sure its great if you know the one language, but when companies don't wanna spend money on developping in that language any more what are you going to do?
or maybe that surplus money in their bank accound is burning a hole and they like being sued.
Apples done quite a bit of-- I don't wanna say stupid, but i have to-- stupid, things recently that were/are obvious litigation material?
If you rip of a song and share it, you are going to get sued. We're not talking p2p here, we're talking using them for their own financial gain. Hello?
Windows XP only takes 30 minutes to install if you never plan on connecting it to a network. Try two-three hours after patching, installing AV, office, firewall etc.
Typically, when you install a linux distribution, given a typical desktop installtion, you've installed your os, all your apps you need and you can be securely connected to the internet - assuming u've used the latest release of your favorite distribution. This should take an hour roughguesstimate?
As for your problems getting linux working, what hardware are you using? I can see ye' olde hardware being tough to get going but linux pretty much works out of the box now-a-days. Maybe you need to find a 2.6 distro?
A beer fridge for their underlings A freezer of mugs for their underlings Beer for the beer fridge/mugs A toleration for non-sober underlings A toleration for working, but not necessarily coherant code.
50 minutes to install XP maybe if you have a custom image of XP including all of the service packs / hot fixes. If you have to download all of these and install them add at least an hour + another 10 reboots.
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Text based gui's are still being created but it depends on your backend. Some DBMS's still rely on terminal type input and output natively. Examples of these are: d3 jBase ibm's u2 family. There are various options for gui'zing them but they excel at POS and terminal type input and output. Check them out. You can read about these types of databases on usenet @ comp.databases.pick.
If you are looking at jobs that pay marginally more than what you are currently making, maybe you can ask for a raise.
Scope out how much you could get paid for your job and ask for it. You won't get a raise magically (employeers like to pay less) but if you present your case to them logically maybe, if you are worth it, they will give you what you need.
Firbird 0.7 destroys Firefox in stability. I went to firefox and was about to tell all my friends running ie- hey check out the new mozilla, its sweet fast and stable- but i couldn't.
I still got my hopes up for the next version though. No band wagon hopping yet. Even with all of firefox's problems it still keeps my windows box at work spyware free.
I wrote some outlook automation stuff that used the outlook api's only to have the next service pack disable the ability to use half of it because of security lock downs. The only way to get around the problem was to link outlook with exchange. bleh.
What a waste of time.
i apologize for calling you a fool with no real life experience but yes XP has problems.
I don't want this to be a flame fest but I do (strongly) think that if there were a sdk as good as direct X (which you didn't have to pay an arm and a leg to use) for another platform (where that be the next gen consoles, linux, whatever) it could easily take its place a the market leader.
Allow me to back myself up
>Then you ignore that for pretty much the rest of your post and talk about machine cost and non-uniform hardware.
Windows is the problem because of its instabilities that are non-gaming related unless you have a completely separate box for gaming.
>What a frickin' great idea! So what you're saying is that if someone comes out with a better product and price it cheaper, they'll sell lots. That's great. Too bad those silly guys in the industry haven't thought of this.
My point was that consoles can't handle some of the PC games because of limitted hardware. If they over spec'd it a bit more ie (more than 32MB of ram, more than 8GB harddrive) developpers whould have a lot less hoops to jump through. Now selling this cheap is going to be hard but my point is that it'll be worth it because of the sales in games. This is more of a guess at what is going to happen next in the industry.
>A lot of people seem to have these old ideas that Windows is still crashing all the time and has driver problems. It really just doesn't. It did at one time. Windows 95 was really an abomination. Windows XP is really pretty stable.
You are a fool with no real life experience.
>Do you actually play many PC games? CDKeys are actually fairly rare. PC games could run off of the CD without an install if that's what gamers were clamoring for. They apparently aren't. Instead, they want the short load times of having content on the hard disk.
>PC games and console games will co-exist for at least a while longer. There's games suited to each, and both options make sense for different people. Just because PC gaming isn't for you doesn't mean it's doomed.
It may exist for a while but my prediction is because of the instability of PC(windows)'s its gonna loose to stability in consoles. The tech is there for a company to come out with a console that will match PC gaming ie network play, high end graphics. PC tech is going to plateau and when it does console will have the advantage of having the same/consistant tech and not running windows.
connect the dots la la la
So why is it dying? I say the answer is the platform.
Okay, i love linux and i try to get everyone i can interested in it. The problem is convincing gamers. "But linux doesn't support direct X" they always say. They want their games easy to install and easy to play. I tell them "thats what a console is for". But nope, they want prettier, revolutionary games that they see on PC: pushing their hardware limits, giving them an excuse to go spend more money on the latest and greatest.
Now Everyone (sane) knows that windows is a joke. Every version we see released we find more and more problems that are being exploited. A gamer will probably have to reinstall their system multiple times a year. Trying to get their drivers working for all games, all the settings that need to be tweaked. Its becoming way to much of a hassle: backing up saved games, keeping patched o/s images up to date- its tonnes of work!
Not to mention to buy a gaming system you need to spend a fair bit to play these games. To me this doesn't seem worth it.
instead of spending 1500-3000cdn on a gaming system they can spend 550 bucks on a pc and ~300 for a console. Consoles are a set platform game developpers concentrate on making sure their games are more polished instead of hacking in compatibility for all sorts of hardware. Its simply easier and more stable to run games on a console. It also makes it easier to transport games to different location. You can't just bring a PC game to another person's house and play them. There is a CDKEY and you aren't supposed to do that. With consoles, you can easily trade games and play them no problem, no questions asked.
Consoles are what games are suited to most. Thats why PC gaming is struggling. As far as I'm concerned if a company could come out with a very high spec'd console equipment, sold it at a next-to-nothing profit(priced close to existing consoles) but made it easy to develop for, they'd 0wn the industry. If sony did this and made it play the existing game library it'd be hard to catch up to them!.
In the 7 billion they plan to spend on search technology, I hope they spend some money on fixing win XP's search within file option. For me, it sporatically works. I often have to use a windows 2000 box over the network to search an XP drive in order to "search within file".
I use openoffice as much as I can but one of the pains i often run into is accessing a spreadsheet with more than 32000 lines. Excel handles this no problem but openoffice still needs work
If you are using KDE, the apps page, has a feedback option. It doesn't automatically guess what packages are better but the more people who use it the better it'll be.
You are missing the point.
Look at what is causing all of these outbreaks. Windows/Windows users.
If there were no windows users, none of the current virus epidemics would be a problem.
You think that virus's on another mainstream OS would take over? Doubtful.
Consider the distribution of OS's left (-windows): you get a melange of flavors. Virus writers would have to be far more sophisticated to hijack that number of dissimilar systems with one set of code.
I hate this TOO!!!
I hate phones with slow loading menus. Half written call logging and poorly designed SMS interfaces.
If I were you I'd take them back on their 30 day guarantee's and make it cost them money for not letting you try out the phone yourself.
Its a hassle, but if everyone did it, it'd cost them less to show some display models.
google cash
Make sure you install Firefox instead of IE.
In my experience this will elimintate a lot of garbage that gets built up on windows installations.
Thanks to google bombing it takes less that 5 minutes of surfing the web to get spyware installed on your computer when using IE.
Install firefox and configure the blocking capabilities.
Some may argue that some pages won't work but to remedy this you can install the "view page in ie" plugin so they only enter "the forbidden app zone" when necessary.
The chart in the article shoes mozilla not having visual notifcations of new mail.
I am using thunderbird 0.5 and if you goto
tools/options
and look for show an alert, make sure checked.
ta-da
IT RELATED DOCUMENTATION? how vague is that?
A custom DTD is simple? Why not create your own?
sounds like you need something more custom. maybe you should hire someone who knows what they are doing to help you out.
I think the government should use Microsofts tax contributions exclusively on linux upgrades.
Now wouldn't that be grande?
We need not sell a better product. We just have to monkey around a bit to keep non-believers (Closed Source Junkies) hooked.
Its a marketting game and nothing to do with superior technology. </Paraphrase>
Linux, in the end, will end up being the superior product. Why? Cause we'll make it so.
Well look,
They have to realize that they are a software company. All of these companies have had a jump on these technologies for a long time. If they are to succeed, their product will simply have to be better than what is included offered at a valuable price to the consumer.
Now, the software business is no different than anything else. In order to reduce risk, you have to diverisfy. If your soul business is personal/firewall and antivirus you will know that you are in a highly competative market(high risk).
If you expect to run a business you will have to design your operations to be able to overcome industry trends or you will fail. There is no sense to cry, its just logical.
Its like a programmer concentrating on 1 language. Sure its great if you know the one language, but when companies don't wanna spend money on developping in that language any more what are you going to do?
Eggs in one basket? Please think.
or maybe that surplus money in their bank accound is burning a hole and they like being sued.
Apples done quite a bit of-- I don't wanna say stupid, but i have to-- stupid, things recently that were/are obvious litigation material?
If you rip of a song and share it, you are going to get sued. We're not talking p2p here, we're talking using them for their own financial gain. Hello?
Eminem rules. Buy 8 mile. Buy his C.D.'s.
Windows XP only takes 30 minutes to install if you never plan on connecting it to a network. Try two-three hours after patching, installing AV, office, firewall etc.
Typically, when you install a linux distribution, given a typical desktop installtion, you've installed your os, all your apps you need and you can be securely connected to the internet - assuming u've used the latest release of your favorite distribution. This should take an hour roughguesstimate?
As for your problems getting linux working, what hardware are you using? I can see ye' olde hardware being tough to get going but linux pretty much works out of the box now-a-days. Maybe you need to find a 2.6 distro?
Teams leads need to have these qualitys:
A beer fridge for their underlings
A freezer of mugs for their underlings
Beer for the beer fridge/mugs
A toleration for non-sober underlings
A toleration for working, but not necessarily coherant code.
Apache FOP and IText are great solutions.
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50 minutes to install XP maybe if you have a custom image of XP including all of the service packs / hot fixes. If you have to download all of these and install them add at least an hour + another 10 reboots.
XP is weak.