QT costs a large amount of real world currency also.
Qt has a very reasonable business model: Free software developers don't pay, commercial software developers support Trolltech by buying Qt.
Also, a developer can protect themselves by isolating the GUI in their architecture (not impossible), so if Qt goes GPL-only only that portion of the commercial application need be open-sourced. Of course, this takes foresight, which is very rare in the software industry.
complex web apps benefit significantly from JavaScript
What about for people who are blind? I've seen some pretty nasty corporate intranet sites that would probably have a discrimination suit all over them if someone decided to pursue it.
I've generally found that simplicity and logical page structures are the best method to reach the widest audience with the least amount of work. Suprisingly simple pages can look really good, too. I also have the opinion that using JavaScript for anything beyond conveniences like form validation is an excuse for extended employment spinning one's wheels programming eye candy.
Actually, I don't mind at-will employment. It makes the employment contract short and sweet, and it makes my rights very clear. The only thing beyond the one-page employment contract is some stuff about proprietary information, five years, etc., but that's it.
Also, we have the right to ask why we were fired, but there is no implied obligation other than basic courtesy for the employer to provide an answer.
I've never heard of anyone being legally bound to a job for life.
No, but there can be cases regarding the length of contracts, etc.
As far as SUV size goes, it appears that many auto insurance plans will go up to 11 or 12 thousand pounds gross weight. Give it a turbo diesel and 11 MPG, and it'll sell like hot cakes while allowing another 10% less traffic to fit on the roads increasing congestion, reducing visibility, and increasing the occurrance of little grannies getting run over by soccer moms while they were talking on the cell phone.
if he's got a trunkload of sarin gas and is on his way to give everyone in Manhattan a very bad day, then we should simply kill him before he has a chance to activate his weapons.
So, how would you boil away the terrorists head while he is moving without accidentally hitting that trunk of his?
Can you answer this without requiring a small explosive kill switch being embedded into every person's head?
We need to proactively not blow shit up in the interest of peace, not the other way around. Future wars will be over trade, not ideology, and it seems the trend is beginning. Make free trade, not war (kinda stupid play on words, oh well).
Agreed. There was a whole workstation graphics arms race in the 80's that's still going on today. Sun's top-of-the-line, for example, has progressed from massive multi-slot 24-bit "cards" from the 80s to a repackaged 3dLabs Wildcat 4 and a behemoth with 4 MAJC CPUs and a gig of RAM--all just a touch above the consumer gaming cards from the article.
Seems to me you have to given a reason if you are fired.
Nope. Some states have "at-will employment," where people can get fired for no reason at any time and people can quite for no reason at any time. It's a double-edged sword that is very convenient for employees who are tired of their job but also convenient of companies who are tired of their employees. In the end, it really is an issue of personal liberty, to not be tied by the balls to a particular company and vice versa.
When it's essentially a choice between two slick jackasses in suits, neither of which represent your interests, why even bother voting?
To vote for the Libertarian canidate, who isn't a jackass, but everyone calls him that anyway. Why is it that the platform that can reverse the morbid obesity of the government gets badmouthed for taking soup away from Little Tommy, when it's the Democrats who took Little Tommy's dad's job away in the first place through overtaxation and protectionist legislation?!?
FBI wiretap, phone technician with his magic alligator-clip hand-held phone, person with wireless-phone sniffing scanner, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc......
Telephone voting is the stupidest thing ever. I really hope Canada isn't proud of this one!
I just love kid's movies where the kid in the movie kills his uncle out of revenge in the same way that the uncle killed the kid's father. I'm glad that Disney is enriching our children with such valuable lessons in dealing with anger and resolving problems.
In the early days, Disney's films were highly original, because they had to basically invent the process upon which modern animation studios basically get a free ride.
Contrast this with Disney, today, where they use the same characters, personalities, song writers and musicians to recreate a number of different stories that are essentially identical save for a few words and the costumes.
Perhaps I'm hindered from being relatively young, but it seems the Disney movies recently and even the Pixar ones are highly formulaic. Just throw in a tired pop star and a tired yet famous comedian, add just a touch of cynicism to the characters, and the money just starts rolling in.
we will always have his copyright to remember him by.
No, Disney (TM) will always have his copyright so that we are always reminded that Disney (TM) are the people who so gratiously brought Mickey Mouse (copyright, Walt Disney Corporation) into our homes and our hearts, as long as our hearts don't store a digital copy of Mickey Mouse (copyright, Walt Disney Corporation), because then Disney (TM) would submit a cease or explode order forcing us to settle out of court for the sake of preserving our lives.
There are some artistic issues, here. A good artist can intuitively figure out how cloth should move. A good artist generally doesn't have the graduate-level mathematics and physics background to do 3D movement algorithms.
So, one consequence is that an animation that is intended to break new ground (just slightly beyond what current software will do) is no longer a task suitable for one person or possibly even a small team. It seems that for every barrier torn away, a larger barrier is constructed. For example, computers allow one person to do a lot more work, but it also takes a much higher expertise in computing to do cutting edge work that leapfrogs other people's efforts.
Also, in other ways, computers actually increase the amount of work to do, because they make it so much easier to capture more for greater long-term gain. For example, high-end CAD programs allow capturing tremendous detail, physical properties, surface properties, tolerances, etc. to the point that virtual physical simulations of mechanisms is very possible and practical--but only after a ton of effort has be put into making the model, which is a long iterative cycle of modeling and quality assurance.
To me, there's just something wrong with a $40k price tag on the Thunderbird.
I read an article a while back that traced the history of the Corvette and basically arrived at this conclusion. The modern Corvette is now pretty much a mid-life crisis car for people who have worked long enough to afford it. Apparently, the Thunderbird is no different, now.
...and from a few years before 1985. You see, there was this time period where American cars were absolute shit on wheels. GM made a V6 that blew after 85,000 miles, for example. Emissions legislation forced automakers to build these rediculous vacuum-powered pneumatic-computers onto their engines with 5,462 little hoses that would leak. This pissy little EGR valves would stick making these environmentally-friendly engines spew more crap into the air in one day than a unencumbered engine would do in a year.
For the most part, environmentalists suck. Their well-intentioned but extremely naive logic has created a whole era, where cars would run for a number of years then become so unreliable and expensive to maintain due to their crap emissions controls that the cars inevitably end up as toxic waste in junk yards, whose topsoil probably couldn't even grow a tomacco plant. Tell them this, and don't be suprised if they grow silent, trying to weasel an environmentalist explanation for that.
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QT costs a large amount of real world currency also.
Qt has a very reasonable business model: Free software developers don't pay, commercial software developers support Trolltech by buying Qt.
Also, a developer can protect themselves by isolating the GUI in their architecture (not impossible), so if Qt goes GPL-only only that portion of the commercial application need be open-sourced. Of course, this takes foresight, which is very rare in the software industry.
Cover your eye's Johnny!
complex web apps benefit significantly from JavaScript
What about for people who are blind? I've seen some pretty nasty corporate intranet sites that would probably have a discrimination suit all over them if someone decided to pursue it.
I've generally found that simplicity and logical page structures are the best method to reach the widest audience with the least amount of work. Suprisingly simple pages can look really good, too. I also have the opinion that using JavaScript for anything beyond conveniences like form validation is an excuse for extended employment spinning one's wheels programming eye candy.
Microsoft is quite happy with the status quo and will do anything to defend it.
Actually, they will do nothing to defend it. This is the luxury made affordable by their monopoly on desktops and web browsers.
Using an ion engine...
Sorry, but cars simply don't work in space.
In Canada we have these things called rights.
Actually, I don't mind at-will employment. It makes the employment contract short and sweet, and it makes my rights very clear. The only thing beyond the one-page employment contract is some stuff about proprietary information, five years, etc., but that's it.
Also, we have the right to ask why we were fired, but there is no implied obligation other than basic courtesy for the employer to provide an answer.
I've never heard of anyone being legally bound to a job for life.
No, but there can be cases regarding the length of contracts, etc.
As far as SUV size goes, it appears that many auto insurance plans will go up to 11 or 12 thousand pounds gross weight. Give it a turbo diesel and 11 MPG, and it'll sell like hot cakes while allowing another 10% less traffic to fit on the roads increasing congestion, reducing visibility, and increasing the occurrance of little grannies getting run over by soccer moms while they were talking on the cell phone.
Well, that would explain why the new Office CDs taste funny.
if he's got a trunkload of sarin gas and is on his way to give everyone in Manhattan a very bad day, then we should simply kill him before he has a chance to activate his weapons.
So, how would you boil away the terrorists head while he is moving without accidentally hitting that trunk of his?
Can you answer this without requiring a small explosive kill switch being embedded into every person's head?
We need to proactively not blow shit up in the interest of peace, not the other way around. Future wars will be over trade, not ideology, and it seems the trend is beginning. Make free trade, not war (kinda stupid play on words, oh well).
Agreed. There was a whole workstation graphics arms race in the 80's that's still going on today. Sun's top-of-the-line, for example, has progressed from massive multi-slot 24-bit "cards" from the 80s to a repackaged 3dLabs Wildcat 4 and a behemoth with 4 MAJC CPUs and a gig of RAM--all just a touch above the consumer gaming cards from the article.
Seems to me you have to given a reason if you are fired.
Nope. Some states have "at-will employment," where people can get fired for no reason at any time and people can quite for no reason at any time. It's a double-edged sword that is very convenient for employees who are tired of their job but also convenient of companies who are tired of their employees. In the end, it really is an issue of personal liberty, to not be tied by the balls to a particular company and vice versa.
When it's essentially a choice between two slick jackasses in suits, neither of which represent your interests, why even bother voting?
To vote for the Libertarian canidate, who isn't a jackass, but everyone calls him that anyway. Why is it that the platform that can reverse the morbid obesity of the government gets badmouthed for taking soup away from Little Tommy, when it's the Democrats who took Little Tommy's dad's job away in the first place through overtaxation and protectionist legislation?!?
Common reactions include "slacker" and "lazy", when a moment's pause will convince you that nothing's amiss.
My knee-jerk reaction was "what if we aren't assuming a five-day workweek with weekends off?"
If people in Florida couldn't figure out a damn punch card, then I'd like to make a wager with you whether they can navigate phone menus or a website!
"Oh drat, I meant to press two!"
apply the transitive property
It doesn't even take whizz-bang mathematics.
FBI wiretap, phone technician with his magic alligator-clip hand-held phone, person with wireless-phone sniffing scanner, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc......
Telephone voting is the stupidest thing ever. I really hope Canada isn't proud of this one!
Lion King
I just love kid's movies where the kid in the movie kills his uncle out of revenge in the same way that the uncle killed the kid's father. I'm glad that Disney is enriching our children with such valuable lessons in dealing with anger and resolving problems.
In the early days, Disney's films were highly original, because they had to basically invent the process upon which modern animation studios basically get a free ride.
Contrast this with Disney, today, where they use the same characters, personalities, song writers and musicians to recreate a number of different stories that are essentially identical save for a few words and the costumes.
Perhaps I'm hindered from being relatively young, but it seems the Disney movies recently and even the Pixar ones are highly formulaic. Just throw in a tired pop star and a tired yet famous comedian, add just a touch of cynicism to the characters, and the money just starts rolling in.
we will always have his copyright to remember him by.
No, Disney (TM) will always have his copyright so that we are always reminded that Disney (TM) are the people who so gratiously brought Mickey Mouse (copyright, Walt Disney Corporation) into our homes and our hearts, as long as our hearts don't store a digital copy of Mickey Mouse (copyright, Walt Disney Corporation), because then Disney (TM) would submit a cease or explode order forcing us to settle out of court for the sake of preserving our lives.
(E.g., modelling how clothing reacts to motion.)
There are some artistic issues, here. A good artist can intuitively figure out how cloth should move. A good artist generally doesn't have the graduate-level mathematics and physics background to do 3D movement algorithms.
So, one consequence is that an animation that is intended to break new ground (just slightly beyond what current software will do) is no longer a task suitable for one person or possibly even a small team. It seems that for every barrier torn away, a larger barrier is constructed. For example, computers allow one person to do a lot more work, but it also takes a much higher expertise in computing to do cutting edge work that leapfrogs other people's efforts.
Also, in other ways, computers actually increase the amount of work to do, because they make it so much easier to capture more for greater long-term gain. For example, high-end CAD programs allow capturing tremendous detail, physical properties, surface properties, tolerances, etc. to the point that virtual physical simulations of mechanisms is very possible and practical--but only after a ton of effort has be put into making the model, which is a long iterative cycle of modeling and quality assurance.
To me, there's just something wrong with a $40k price tag on the Thunderbird.
I read an article a while back that traced the history of the Corvette and basically arrived at this conclusion. The modern Corvette is now pretty much a mid-life crisis car for people who have worked long enough to afford it. Apparently, the Thunderbird is no different, now.
For the most part, environmentalists suck. Their well-intentioned but extremely naive logic has created a whole era, where cars would run for a number of years then become so unreliable and expensive to maintain due to their crap emissions controls that the cars inevitably end up as toxic waste in junk yards, whose topsoil probably couldn't even grow a tomacco plant. Tell them this, and don't be suprised if they grow silent, trying to weasel an environmentalist explanation for that.
drive by wire
... GPF at 0xAAAAARRRRGGGGH!"
Nice idea, but I'll pass on this one. For example:
"I see you are trying to stop, would you like some help
It should have been named XXL, so I could make a mint selling sweatshirts to geeks.
I seem to remember a movie about this called "Inner Space". However, imdb.com doesn't list it, so it must have never existed. I smell a conspiracy!
If you check out Sun, you'll find that they still sell parts for even their oldest systems.
And, if Sun won't sell it to you, there's a secondary market who will (at a significant discount, too).