We did some test apps during the alpha/beta testers program and purchased one license for "recreational use". We created some half-production use web server apps with it, but it was mostly used to play with. Nothing with GUI, though, only server stuff.
Now that I come to think of it, there was something funny with the UI code. Did it hardlink in QT? I think it did. Borland (or whatever they were called at the time) coughed up some dough and got a license where they could link in QT libraries in the executables. It was portable, but probably anything but quick.
The IDE used wine, but the apps were native. You could even do server side Apache dynamic libraries for your linux web server. Technically it was a nice effort (even though the wine IDE discouraged three of the seven potential buyers). Commercially it never stood a chance, it lacked a market and it was obvious it could never create one.
Nice language, dude! The credit card companies, at least here, charged a fixed percentage regardless of the sum. That's why you logic is all wrong, the cost for the merchant is the same (relatively) for a 10 cent purchase as it is for a 100€ purchase. On the contrary, handling cash is way more expensive.
I once tried to by a car with plastic, but was refused because the transaction fee would have been enormous.
And no, I'm not a immigrant, and yes, I have loads of sisu.
I never carry any cash on me and even pay 10 [euro] cent (roughly equaling a dime) purchases with plastic. And I'm certainly not the only one amongst my friends. Cash is clumsy, dirty and so last century. That's Finland for you.
I swapped from Netscape to Firefox because Netscape was "less lighting fast". But yes, I suppose you need to have an old mastodont like Netscape in order to change browser purely for performance reasons.
And in most (all?) countries, I believe it's the unwritten rule that you are supposed to face the doorway in an elevator, not put your back to the doorway and smile at everyone;)...
Oh no, in Finland you're supposed to stand with your back against the wall (which means that everyone ends up standing in a circle) staring at the other passengers shoes and never ever talk to someone you don't know.;)
Actually I'd guess most of Europe has some sort of legalized prostitution. E.g in Finland you can sell yourself but nobody else. So hookers are ok, but brothels not. Costa Rica had some sort of similar legislation, but then again, that country was almost European..
Who changed from spam to prostitution? How did we get here?
LOL! Please come and wipe out half a mug of coffee from my monitor. I hold you personally responsible for accidents due to jokes before eight in the morning (UMT+2).
You speak Finnish then? I don't, so I can't tell what exactly he was fired for. I do. The problem is that he got no reason, we was fired during his four months "trial period" so the employer is not obliged to give a reason. The article certainly tries to hint that the reason was his open speak, but then again, it's pure guesswork as no reason was given.
A chairman is supposed to be objective but I am still stunned. Finland is a place where you're almost always permitted to speak your mind freely. Interesting...
To have opinions is nice but checking them is better. US = 31 inhabitants per square kilometer Finland = 16 / km2
If it's possible here, it should be possible there (especially since the GNP is higher in US). But, I'll give you that, Denmark with it's 129 inhabitants / km2 has it a bit easier - but both Sweden and Norway has a lower density than US (20 and 12). So you can't blame it all on population density. I'd guess that the free collage education system has a lot to do with it...
Oh yeah, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning:)
No seriously, that's the way it works in most places, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Having your parents teach you how to properly use alcohol is way better being taught by older buddies...
This IS basicly what we've done at work. It's tedious and requires a lot of corner-cutting (you just can't support every single perverse sql dialect out there), but once you have it up-and-running designed to your own needs it is really heavenly! We got apps that run on SqlServer, MySQL and Interbase without having to recompile -- the data abstraction layer dynamically alters it's behaviour depending on the data storage used.
That said, creating an all-purpose general fix-it-all data abstraction layer is something else. I'd buy one, if you've got it;)
Yupp I agree. My personal spams index (spams per day) has slowly risen the last few years and is now just below 400. Of the weekly 2000 spams around 4-5 pass SpamAssassin. So far these year I've had one false positive (that I know of), but browsing through the >80000 spams isn't that fun so I rarely do it.
It's a silly waste of bandwidth sending me all those viagra commercials, but at least they're easy to get rid of.
Whaddoyoumean? I think it's hilarious and besides, who needs proper news on a weekend anyway. Excellent hangover reading, IMHO. By the way, slashcrew, when do we get the pink skin as an option for us weirdoes? It kind of grew on me.
Personally, I dislike all kind of autosort behaviour like the office feature of showing only recently used commands. Many (most?) people remember the positions of items and choose before reading the actual bookamark. If the sorted in some random way (like most recently used) then each item has to be read -- and you can't assume that people with a collage degree are able to read:)
Then again: "Billigkontrollere" har i testen vist seg som verdige diskkontrollere, samt at software-RAID faktisk yter meget bra.
I haven't read Norweigan since high school, but if I'm not mistaken, it means that "cheap controllers are worthy disk controllers and SW-RAID actually does a good job".
The author says he was surprised himself, but at least I can't see why, I think the conclusions are a bit messy. You are right, the article isn't very informative.
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We did some test apps during the alpha/beta testers program and purchased one license for "recreational use". We created some half-production use web server apps with it, but it was mostly used to play with. Nothing with GUI, though, only server stuff.
Now that I come to think of it, there was something funny with the UI code. Did it hardlink in QT? I think it did. Borland (or whatever they were called at the time) coughed up some dough and got a license where they could link in QT libraries in the executables. It was portable, but probably anything but quick.
The IDE used wine, but the apps were native. You could even do server side Apache dynamic libraries for your linux web server. Technically it was a nice effort (even though the wine IDE discouraged three of the seven potential buyers). Commercially it never stood a chance, it lacked a market and it was obvious it could never create one.
Nice language, dude! The credit card companies, at least here, charged a fixed percentage regardless of the sum. That's why you logic is all wrong, the cost for the merchant is the same (relatively) for a 10 cent purchase as it is for a 100€ purchase. On the contrary, handling cash is way more expensive.
I once tried to by a car with plastic, but was refused because the transaction fee would have been enormous.
And no, I'm not a immigrant, and yes, I have loads of sisu.
I never carry any cash on me and even pay 10 [euro] cent (roughly equaling a dime) purchases with plastic. And I'm certainly not the only one amongst my friends. Cash is clumsy, dirty and so last century. That's Finland for you.
World domination? Isn't that what they've been trying for two millennia.
Hilarious! Somebody mod parent up, I'm out of mod points.
Actually since Conan is "between jobs" maybe we could make him King instead?
Exactly what kind of colleagues do you have, with family but no girlfriend or wife? :)
Nitpicking module deactivated.
I know! Me misses it, too!
I think this thread is about 5 question for MW that he has already answered :)
Fascist! :)
But why did you mention Europe?
Maybe because large parts of the population of Russia (including the inhabitants of its capital) lives in Europe? Just a hunch, though...
At least one. I.
I swapped from Netscape to Firefox because Netscape was "less lighting fast". But yes, I suppose you need to have an old mastodont like Netscape in order to change browser purely for performance reasons.
96666? that's awesome luck, dude.
Have you noticed how all UID:s between 95678 and 96665 are totally unsed?
And in most (all?) countries, I believe it's the unwritten rule that you are supposed to face the doorway in an elevator, not put your back to the doorway and smile at everyone ;)...
Oh no, in Finland you're supposed to stand with your back against the wall (which means that everyone ends up standing in a circle) staring at the other passengers shoes and never ever talk to someone you don't know. ;)
Whoaa! At least something came down the tubes. And bloody fast, I might add.
Actually I'd guess most of Europe has some sort of legalized prostitution. E.g in Finland you can sell yourself but nobody else. So hookers are ok, but brothels not. Costa Rica had some sort of similar legislation, but then again, that country was almost European..
Who changed from spam to prostitution? How did we get here?
LOL! Please come and wipe out half a mug of coffee from my monitor. I hold you personally responsible for accidents due to jokes before eight in the morning (UMT+2).
A chairman is supposed to be objective but I am still stunned. Finland is a place where you're almost always permitted to speak your mind freely. Interesting...
To have opinions is nice but checking them is better.
US = 31 inhabitants per square kilometer
Finland = 16 / km2
If it's possible here, it should be possible there (especially since the GNP is higher in US). But, I'll give you that, Denmark with it's 129 inhabitants / km2 has it a bit easier - but both Sweden and Norway has a lower density than US (20 and 12). So you can't blame it all on population density. I'd guess that the free collage education system has a lot to do with it...
The marvels of Internet...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Soviet_Russia
What I don't get is, how come the entire planet seems to be packed with people who suffer from Acute Sparetime Overload Disorder?
Oh yeah, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning :)
No seriously, that's the way it works in most places, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Having your parents teach you how to properly use alcohol is way better being taught by older buddies...
This IS basicly what we've done at work. It's tedious and requires a lot of corner-cutting (you just can't support every single perverse sql dialect out there), but once you have it up-and-running designed to your own needs it is really heavenly! We got apps that run on SqlServer, MySQL and Interbase without having to recompile -- the data abstraction layer dynamically alters it's behaviour depending on the data storage used.
;)
That said, creating an all-purpose general fix-it-all data abstraction layer is something else. I'd buy one, if you've got it
Yupp I agree. My personal spams index (spams per day) has slowly risen the last few years and is now just below 400. Of the weekly 2000 spams around 4-5 pass SpamAssassin. So far these year I've had one false positive (that I know of), but browsing through the >80000 spams isn't that fun so I rarely do it.
It's a silly waste of bandwidth sending me all those viagra commercials, but at least they're easy to get rid of.
Whaddoyoumean? I think it's hilarious and besides, who needs proper news on a weekend anyway. Excellent hangover reading, IMHO. By the way, slashcrew, when do we get the pink skin as an option for us weirdoes? It kind of grew on me.
Personally, I dislike all kind of autosort behaviour like the office feature of showing only recently used commands. Many (most?) people remember the positions of items and choose before reading the actual bookamark. If the sorted in some random way (like most recently used) then each item has to be read -- and you can't assume that people with a collage degree are able to read :)
Then again:
"Billigkontrollere" har i testen vist seg som verdige diskkontrollere, samt at software-RAID faktisk yter meget bra.
I haven't read Norweigan since high school, but if I'm not mistaken, it means that "cheap controllers are worthy disk controllers and SW-RAID actually does a good job".
The author says he was surprised himself, but at least I can't see why, I think the conclusions are a bit messy. You are right, the article isn't very informative.