As I understand it, you can do fully-managed C++ if you want to. C# isn't mandatory for.Net, that was kind of the whole point. It's the legacy Win32 APIs that you should worry about. Wrappers are great, but if it's not wrapping managed code I wouldn't bank on its long-term viability.
Yeah, that's great. What are the chances that Napster is hosting a single band that I'm interested in listening to? Well, thanks to my tuition funds, some freshman kid somewhere can listen to his Limp Bizkit. Awesome. And to think, if I had done a little worse on my SATs, I would have been deprived the privilege of helping society in this way.
The health care is NOT state-provided. Health care is provided by doctors opening practices or groups of doctors running a clinic. Same as the states and elsewhere. The difference is that the government pays the doctor, the user doesn't pay.
And before anyone starts trumpeting about how the U.S. system is better because the government can't do anything right, consider that in the U.S. pretty much the same situation is true -- only in our case, the doctors' purse-strings are controlled not by the government, but by other private, profit-oriented corporations; namely, the insurance companies.
I think you misread the parent post. The poster was an American who worked for a Canadian company when it set up offices in the U.S. The management was primarily Canadian, with Brits and Australians thrown into the mix; thus, the company had a Canadian feel to its business culture.
No joke... the Canadian dollar is NOT strong against the U.S. dollar right now. Be prepared for your lower salary to not stretch as far as you'd like it to.
Conversely, it seems like a great time to live in Canada if you can get paid in U.S. dollars by an American company...
Agreed. I think anybody would be a fool to question the value that access to computers has for education.
On the other hand, computers in the classroom doesn't necessarily sound like a good idea to me. A friend of mine is a teacher at an art college here, where they have invested a ton of money in technology and teaching the latest Web design, 3-D graphics, etc. He says he has a hard time keeping kids' attention in class when every one of them has a computer installed on his or her desk. He'll be trying to give a lecture and they'll be leaning over, giggling at each others screens as they pull up random pages on the Web. And these are *college students*, let alone high school age kids or younger.
Seems like you're better off having a large computer lab that students can use as a resource on their own time, the same way they do the school library. Or, wirelessly networked laptops on the desks would be fine, too -- just so long as they stay closed until it's time to get to work.
It could be because of Google's impending IPO. SEC "quiet periods" are designed to make sure that all the information out there about a company is consistent and accurate. They prevent company execs from putting out their own spin on things in the press right before an IPO. Silverstein has probably been advised to make no forward-looking statements whatsoever, and to only confirm things that have already been well-documented in the press ("thousands" of servers, etc.)
What I find most amusing about Slashdot posts moderated Funny is that the... humor... almost perfectly models the kind of banal, asnine mumblings that would go on if I were spending an entire day sitting in a server room with a couple of my geek friends. It's uncanny.
Speaking of cross-platform, it was interesting to read that Quark will be using Mono for its upcoming release on Mac OS X. For those unfamiliar with the company, QuarkXPress is the industry-leading page layout program for the publishing industry. If you read a magazine this week, it's a safe bet that it was laid out in Quark.
But Quark's decision to use Mono seems pretty strange, considering that:
1. The Mono project is not claiming support for Mono on any platform other than Linux. At this stage, it seems the chances are pretty good that it will run, but there's no guarantees. 2. The Mono project has no bindings for Cocoa, the native Mac OS X windowing/widget set. The only way to build a GUI app in Mono at this time would be to build it with GTK#, in which case you'd need to run it under Apple's X Windows server on Mac OS X. 3. I would warrant that the majority of Quark users still do most of their work on Macs. I could be wrong, but even so, the proportion is huge -- a much greater percentage of publishing professionals are Mac-based than other industries.
Does anyone have any other information, besides Miguel's mention, explaining just what Quark might be using Mono for? (Bear in mind, Quark has never had a track record for strong, timely, bug-free, robust software releases -- but based on the above, writing the next version of QuarkXPress in C# under Mono seems more hairbrained than usual, even for Quark.)
The fact that Germans recognize that a man from Austria is an Austrian doesn't sound like "intolerance" to me, either. I've lived in the United States most of my life, but I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. You know what that makes me? A Canadian. That's not a statement of judgment, it's just a fact (backed up by the evidence of my passport). Do I consider the United States my home? Sure, and I've got one of those passports now, too -- but it doesn't change a thing about my nation of origin.
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of TNT, knew this only too well. He created the Nobel prize so people wouldn't remember him as the creator of a weapon.
Actually, from what I've read, evidence supporting the theory that Nobel suffered from some kind of existential angst from having created something (dynamite, as others have mentioned) that could be used as a weapon is pretty thin. He hated war, yet seemed to be something of an optimist about the progress of science -- even where weapons were concerned -- believing that mounting casualties of war would only speed the arrival of a better and lasting peace, once people finally understood how tragic war really was. He invented the Nobel price not out of guilt, but out of a desire to celebrate human achievement. If he was wracked with guilt over his invention of dynamite, he never gave voice to those feelings, either publicly or in private writings.
Yeah, but there you're talking about what's basically your own homebrewed, apt-assembled Linux box. When I used to administer Linux boxes for a living, they seldom resembled what came off the install CD, either. But these days, that seems to be changing. A lot of people will install Mandrake 10, or SuSE 9.1 or whatever, and barring a few patches here and there they might not do any kind of serious update (new kernel etc.) until the next major, packaged release comes out. Or the next set of downloaded ISOs, whatever.
Really? If you told me you were running Debian May 2004, I'd guess it had a 2.4 kernel. That's knowing a little bit about Debian's release policies, etc., which would lead me to believe it wouldn't be using 2.6 yet -- and 2.2 is too old. I don't actually follow what goes on with Debian, though. Would I be wrong?
On the other hand, for all I know SuSE 9.1 wouldn't have a 2.6 kernel because it might have been released in 2002. I can't tell.
It just seems strange to me that totally different packagings of Linux and free software would the same software will use identical version numbers to mean different things. Yes, you can have WordPerfect 5.1 and Microsoft Word 5.1 and it's no surprise to anyone if their features aren't comparable. But if you had products called Microsoft WordPerfect 5.1, Symantec WordPerfect 5.1, and iD Software WordPerfect 5.1, all on the market at the same time, and they all had very different features, that would be confusing.
My initial, kneejerk reaction on reading the headline was that this story was way, way out of date. Then I realized I was thinking of Mandrake. Does anyone else think Linux vendors could maybe come up with more informative ways of naming their releases? Just a month/year might be more appropriate. If someone blurts out that they're running SuSE 9.1, and I'm not familiar with the whole history of SuSE, I have no way of even guessing whether there's a 2.6 kernel in there, let alone all the other software with version numbers that are a whole lot more relevant than the version number of the distro itself.
That may be fine for computers, but my set-top DVD player doesn't give me the option of changing regions when I stick in a disc that isn't Region 1. I don't remember ever seeing one that does.
So now they want more money (because it's actually working) and they want to basically make it stupid for you to buy an album from iTunes because they are more expensive than the $12.99 you can pay at Walmart.
So you're saying the record cartels want to price the iTunes product in such a way that it is too expensive to be competitive, thereby negating Apple's ability to become a major distribution force in the music industry, in favor of companies like Wal-Mart? If that's true, shouldn't they be investigated for anti-trust practices?
(I'm writing to u from Asia, and we have that option, I'm sure American TVs/Computers do too.
Actually, multi-region players and PAL/NTSC conversion are quite common in Europe and Asia, but not so common in the U.S. Most of us here are still dealing with single-region, NTSC-only players. To get region-free, you still have to buy from a "gray market" dealer, or punch in some kind of code that you found out somewhere, to disable the region coding. If you want PAL/NTSC conversion, you want to look for a second-tier brand imported from Asia. I recommend the Koreans, e.g. Daewoo.
Mono and dotGNU guys are trying to take the wind out of Microsoft's sails for what could become a ubiquitous platform for developement (at least on windows).
Actually, no... at least in the case of Mono, it was written because Miguel de Icaza and the Ximian guys like.Net. They want to use it to develop their own software. They're not too concerned with what Microsoft plans to do with it. If Microsoft abandoned C# and.Net tomorrow, Miguel would probably be really, really puzzled... and keep on working on his own version anyway.
Oh, you tease! Um, OK, errr... Christ, I don't know. Novell repositions its strategy around Linux, pours a bunch of money into a Linux distribution -- maybe SuSE, I don't know -- and people writing desktop applications -- like for instance Ximian, but maybe somebody else -- and goes head to head against Microsoft? No, I don't know. I give up. Help me out here.
While I agree that this person -- who had no participation in the original coinage -- has little if any claim to any kind of compensation, the fact is that she's right. It is derivative. (Scroll down to the very bottom.)
That's not possible. Copyright is implicit upon creation.
Yes, but in the United States, registering copyright provides additional benefits. That may be what the original poster is referring to; in some cases I believe you can actually register after a violation and still gain some benefits.
Humans are designed to survive much dirtier conditions then we live in now, that's what we have an immune system for.
Too right. I love my body. It's amazing. To think of all the outrageous hell I've put it through, over the years... scraping my knees open on the dirty ground, getting cut so the skin just hangs right open, swallowing expired milk and other "beverages" that, in sufficient quantities, must surely be described as poisons. And throughout it all, I can say with confidence that I have never -- ever -- caught my death from a shower curtain.
My body is an awesome machine. I have no interest in over-burdening its already taxed resources with the mental anguish of germ paranoia.
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As I understand it, you can do fully-managed C++ if you want to. C# isn't mandatory for .Net, that was kind of the whole point. It's the legacy Win32 APIs that you should worry about. Wrappers are great, but if it's not wrapping managed code I wouldn't bank on its long-term viability.
Yeah, that's great. What are the chances that Napster is hosting a single band that I'm interested in listening to? Well, thanks to my tuition funds, some freshman kid somewhere can listen to his Limp Bizkit. Awesome. And to think, if I had done a little worse on my SATs, I would have been deprived the privilege of helping society in this way.
I think you misread the parent post. The poster was an American who worked for a Canadian company when it set up offices in the U.S. The management was primarily Canadian, with Brits and Australians thrown into the mix; thus, the company had a Canadian feel to its business culture.
No joke ... the Canadian dollar is NOT strong against the U.S. dollar right now. Be prepared for your lower salary to not stretch as far as you'd like it to.
Conversely, it seems like a great time to live in Canada if you can get paid in U.S. dollars by an American company...
Agreed. I think anybody would be a fool to question the value that access to computers has for education.
On the other hand, computers in the classroom doesn't necessarily sound like a good idea to me. A friend of mine is a teacher at an art college here, where they have invested a ton of money in technology and teaching the latest Web design, 3-D graphics, etc. He says he has a hard time keeping kids' attention in class when every one of them has a computer installed on his or her desk. He'll be trying to give a lecture and they'll be leaning over, giggling at each others screens as they pull up random pages on the Web. And these are *college students*, let alone high school age kids or younger.
Seems like you're better off having a large computer lab that students can use as a resource on their own time, the same way they do the school library. Or, wirelessly networked laptops on the desks would be fine, too -- just so long as they stay closed until it's time to get to work.
...that's right, chumps! Time to welcome your new Editorial Overlords!!!
It could be because of Google's impending IPO. SEC "quiet periods" are designed to make sure that all the information out there about a company is consistent and accurate. They prevent company execs from putting out their own spin on things in the press right before an IPO. Silverstein has probably been advised to make no forward-looking statements whatsoever, and to only confirm things that have already been well-documented in the press ("thousands" of servers, etc.)
What I find most amusing about Slashdot posts moderated Funny is that the ... humor ... almost perfectly models the kind of banal, asnine mumblings that would go on if I were spending an entire day sitting in a server room with a couple of my geek friends. It's uncanny.
Speaking of cross-platform, it was interesting to read that Quark will be using Mono for its upcoming release on Mac OS X. For those unfamiliar with the company, QuarkXPress is the industry-leading page layout program for the publishing industry. If you read a magazine this week, it's a safe bet that it was laid out in Quark.
But Quark's decision to use Mono seems pretty strange, considering that:
1. The Mono project is not claiming support for Mono on any platform other than Linux. At this stage, it seems the chances are pretty good that it will run, but there's no guarantees.
2. The Mono project has no bindings for Cocoa, the native Mac OS X windowing/widget set. The only way to build a GUI app in Mono at this time would be to build it with GTK#, in which case you'd need to run it under Apple's X Windows server on Mac OS X.
3. I would warrant that the majority of Quark users still do most of their work on Macs. I could be wrong, but even so, the proportion is huge -- a much greater percentage of publishing professionals are Mac-based than other industries.
Does anyone have any other information, besides Miguel's mention, explaining just what Quark might be using Mono for? (Bear in mind, Quark has never had a track record for strong, timely, bug-free, robust software releases -- but based on the above, writing the next version of QuarkXPress in C# under Mono seems more hairbrained than usual, even for Quark.)
The fact that Germans recognize that a man from Austria is an Austrian doesn't sound like "intolerance" to me, either. I've lived in the United States most of my life, but I was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. You know what that makes me? A Canadian. That's not a statement of judgment, it's just a fact (backed up by the evidence of my passport). Do I consider the United States my home? Sure, and I've got one of those passports now, too -- but it doesn't change a thing about my nation of origin.
Yeah, but there you're talking about what's basically your own homebrewed, apt-assembled Linux box. When I used to administer Linux boxes for a living, they seldom resembled what came off the install CD, either. But these days, that seems to be changing. A lot of people will install Mandrake 10, or SuSE 9.1 or whatever, and barring a few patches here and there they might not do any kind of serious update (new kernel etc.) until the next major, packaged release comes out. Or the next set of downloaded ISOs, whatever.
Really? If you told me you were running Debian May 2004, I'd guess it had a 2.4 kernel. That's knowing a little bit about Debian's release policies, etc., which would lead me to believe it wouldn't be using 2.6 yet -- and 2.2 is too old. I don't actually follow what goes on with Debian, though. Would I be wrong?
On the other hand, for all I know SuSE 9.1 wouldn't have a 2.6 kernel because it might have been released in 2002. I can't tell.
It just seems strange to me that totally different packagings of Linux and free software would the same software will use identical version numbers to mean different things. Yes, you can have WordPerfect 5.1 and Microsoft Word 5.1 and it's no surprise to anyone if their features aren't comparable. But if you had products called Microsoft WordPerfect 5.1, Symantec WordPerfect 5.1, and iD Software WordPerfect 5.1, all on the market at the same time, and they all had very different features, that would be confusing.
My initial, kneejerk reaction on reading the headline was that this story was way, way out of date. Then I realized I was thinking of Mandrake. Does anyone else think Linux vendors could maybe come up with more informative ways of naming their releases? Just a month/year might be more appropriate. If someone blurts out that they're running SuSE 9.1, and I'm not familiar with the whole history of SuSE, I have no way of even guessing whether there's a 2.6 kernel in there, let alone all the other software with version numbers that are a whole lot more relevant than the version number of the distro itself.
That may be fine for computers, but my set-top DVD player doesn't give me the option of changing regions when I stick in a disc that isn't Region 1. I don't remember ever seeing one that does.
So you're saying the record cartels want to price the iTunes product in such a way that it is too expensive to be competitive, thereby negating Apple's ability to become a major distribution force in the music industry, in favor of companies like Wal-Mart? If that's true, shouldn't they be investigated for anti-trust practices?
While I agree that this person -- who had no participation in the original coinage -- has little if any claim to any kind of compensation, the fact is that she's right. It is derivative. (Scroll down to the very bottom.)
...your compiler is calling.
My body is an awesome machine. I have no interest in over-burdening its already taxed resources with the mental anguish of germ paranoia.