Personally I'll be downloading the Windows version as soon as there is an LGPL variant. I've always wanted to work with Qt, but none of the companies I've worked for would accept the GPL restrictions and they weren't willing to pony up the license fees when they could get GTK-based applications for free.
Qt looks like a nice successor to Neuron Data's Open Interface, based on C++ instead of C with C++ wrappers. Plus Qt seems to have better platform coverage and a much livelier support group.
I agree. I've put in recommendations for several "nice", talented people I've worked with over the years. Most of them ended up getting the job in question.
I've also had the backstabbers come to me for a reference, only to be turned down because it would be a "conflict of interest". (Payback is a bitch.)
Bottom line is that good/nice talented people are hard to find. It's worthwhile to keep in touch over the years, not just because you can help them out from time to time, but because sometimes you're the one who ends up needing their help. I believe it's called "networking", though I just tend to think of them as "friends."
I wouldn't count on "dealing with [it] in another year or two".
I just tried to run the installer on my existing box, a WinXP system with an ATI RS400A chipset. Unfortunately the Windows 7 Beta installer crashes/shuts down on this chipset.
I'm guessing there are similar problems with many older systems which might not have Vista drivers out there, and even corporations are unlikely to do a wholesale replacement of hardware just to run Windows 7. The same arguments in favour of sticking with XP will still apply -- hardware upgrades, retraining costs, and the expense of regression testing of core business applications.
It's also used on corporate intranets, where the company still hasn't "certified" newer browsers. Unfortunately I work for one such company. I hate IE6 with a passion!
Training is expensive, and there would be a re-productivity curve for employees too, and thus a resultant increased cost again.
Actually, our organization recently upgraded MS Office and had to go through the retraining costs because of those stupid "ribbon" interfaces. The newer release is rather radically different from older releases, so the issue of retraining costs is moot.
In addition to that, Open Office actually maintains a better user interface compatability with older releases of MS Office than Office itself does.
A fitting quote at a sad time. The Star Trek and other universes will never be the same without her.
However, I doubt we've seen the end of Star Trek the movies. Hopefully they've plenty of audio footage of her doing the computer so we don't have to suffer a poor imitation.
SOCAN is one of the driving forces behind the Canadian content regulations that led to such forgettable series as 90% of the CBC's production roster. Thanks to their beggaring demands, quality is sacrificed for quantity, and even the most dreadful sludge imaginable gets funding from the public trough because it's "Canadian".
Needless to say I'm not a fan of CanCon regulations. There are enough quality Canadian shows that have made sales overseas and in the US markets to demonstrate that quality sells. Why should my tax money be used to fund crap?
Note that CanCon applies to every Canadian broadcaster, rather than being an isolated requirement of Canada's PBS -- the CBC.
The local hospital has computers in their library. They provide standard wipes for cleaning the keyboard and mouse before you use a computer. They've been doing this for years, with the computers getting their components wiped several times per day. The only "ill" effect is that the keyboards look shiny-new even though they're a few years old.
Then there are people who just don't "get" browsers:
It shouldn't have ways that browser makers can bugger up wysiwyg information in so many ingenious ways.
Browsers are not and should never be considered "WYSIWYG" -- that's an abortive nightmare created by WinXX utilities and the mentality of "one platform." Browsers display content, not WYSIWIG documents.
I just installed it and saw an immediate doubling of my transfer rates after I restarted Azureus. I'd have to say that it seems to work, at least for the torrents I have on the go right now.
Far from it. Even the current efforts make no attempt to open source the J2EE core, which is really the "meat and potatoes" of Java as far as most shops are concerned. Fortunately we've got JBoss to tackle that aspect of OSS Java environments.
I also don't see any mention of open sourcing Java ME, which would be appealing for cell phones and other embedded systems. Still, I guess Sun has to earn something for all the work that went into Java.
It's nothing new to Canada and our long-standing disputes over softwood lumber and other issues. The US even ignores it's own courts when it doesn't like the rulings.
The United States has been falling behind on the capacity game for a long time now, so it only makes sense that the ISPs and telcos there are crying the blues about the need for upgrades. Had they been upgrading all the way along as other countries have, they wouldn't have the capacity shortfall that they do now.
I deal with SaskTel as my ISP. We actually get the full use of the provisioned bandwidth as promised, with no filtering, traffic shaping, or other artificial impediments. The downside? My internet connection costs $45/month instead of $22 for the basic "DSL Lite" subscription.
Your information isn't "copyright" per se, but needs to be treated the same as any other information published by a phone book. i.e. If you have a private unlisted number, then your contact information isn't published.
Personally I don't see what the big uproar is. An online phone book has the same content as the printed phone book. If you don't want your information published, you pay extra for an unlisted number. The same should apply to the online phone book.
Hemp (the industrial cousin of Cannabis) tends to be high in CBD's with very little THC. If you want cannabidiol, consume hemp. You won't get high, but you will get a relatively large amount of CBDs.
Aspartame has some of the "smoking gun" evidence you mention, yet it is still on the market. The number of people actually poisoned by Aspartame are very low, and treated as "statistically insignificant", so the product continues to be used.
Even if the GMO corn is used by humans and someone is killed by it (not just poisoned), there would just be a number of studies and some finger pointing to show that it was actually something else that may have been responsible for the poisoning. As long as something else may be responsible, there is reasonable doubt and the GMO food would remain on the market.
You need a lot of "smoking guns" to get a product off the market after it's been established. It's much easier to keep such products off the market in the first place.
The article was a rather long read with very little useful information in the end. The differences highlighted had far more to do with the video subsystem employed by the boxen than it did with CPU, memory, or any other factors that differed between the systems. Despite being "latest generation" hardware, some of the tests would not even run.
Thumbs down on both for promoting "multimedia" PC capabilities without handling video cadence properly.
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Personally I'll be downloading the Windows version as soon as there is an LGPL variant. I've always wanted to work with Qt, but none of the companies I've worked for would accept the GPL restrictions and they weren't willing to pony up the license fees when they could get GTK-based applications for free.
Qt looks like a nice successor to Neuron Data's Open Interface, based on C++ instead of C with C++ wrappers. Plus Qt seems to have better platform coverage and a much livelier support group.
I agree. I've put in recommendations for several "nice", talented people I've worked with over the years. Most of them ended up getting the job in question.
I've also had the backstabbers come to me for a reference, only to be turned down because it would be a "conflict of interest". (Payback is a bitch.)
Bottom line is that good/nice talented people are hard to find. It's worthwhile to keep in touch over the years, not just because you can help them out from time to time, but because sometimes you're the one who ends up needing their help. I believe it's called "networking", though I just tend to think of them as "friends."
So obligatory that it's a tag...
I wouldn't count on "dealing with [it] in another year or two".
I just tried to run the installer on my existing box, a WinXP system with an ATI RS400A chipset. Unfortunately the Windows 7 Beta installer crashes/shuts down on this chipset.
I'm guessing there are similar problems with many older systems which might not have Vista drivers out there, and even corporations are unlikely to do a wholesale replacement of hardware just to run Windows 7. The same arguments in favour of sticking with XP will still apply -- hardware upgrades, retraining costs, and the expense of regression testing of core business applications.
Just die already, SCO!
That was the single best posting of advice in this entire thread. If I had moderator points, I'd definitely give you a boost!
It's also used on corporate intranets, where the company still hasn't "certified" newer browsers. Unfortunately I work for one such company. I hate IE6 with a passion!
Training is expensive, and there would be a re-productivity curve for employees too, and thus a resultant increased cost again.
Actually, our organization recently upgraded MS Office and had to go through the retraining costs because of those stupid "ribbon" interfaces. The newer release is rather radically different from older releases, so the issue of retraining costs is moot.
In addition to that, Open Office actually maintains a better user interface compatability with older releases of MS Office than Office itself does.
A fitting quote at a sad time. The Star Trek and other universes will never be the same without her.
However, I doubt we've seen the end of Star Trek the movies. Hopefully they've plenty of audio footage of her doing the computer so we don't have to suffer a poor imitation.
Azureus automatically pulls it's updates as well, so maybe there's a way to get Azureus to auto-subscribe to files, too.
SOCAN is one of the driving forces behind the Canadian content regulations that led to such forgettable series as 90% of the CBC's production roster. Thanks to their beggaring demands, quality is sacrificed for quantity, and even the most dreadful sludge imaginable gets funding from the public trough because it's "Canadian".
Needless to say I'm not a fan of CanCon regulations. There are enough quality Canadian shows that have made sales overseas and in the US markets to demonstrate that quality sells. Why should my tax money be used to fund crap?
Note that CanCon applies to every Canadian broadcaster, rather than being an isolated requirement of Canada's PBS -- the CBC.
Personally it's a question of whether it's a ".0" release. Never buy a ".0" product -- it's the beta nowadays.
I'm surprised, too. They're much more aggressive with Vista, from what I've heard.
The local hospital has computers in their library. They provide standard wipes for cleaning the keyboard and mouse before you use a computer. They've been doing this for years, with the computers getting their components wiped several times per day. The only "ill" effect is that the keyboards look shiny-new even though they're a few years old.
Then there are people who just don't "get" browsers:
Browsers are not and should never be considered "WYSIWYG" -- that's an abortive nightmare created by WinXX utilities and the mentality of "one platform." Browsers display content, not WYSIWIG documents.
I just installed it and saw an immediate doubling of my transfer rates after I restarted Azureus. I'd have to say that it seems to work, at least for the torrents I have on the go right now.
Oops. Forgot about "Glassfish". My bad.
Far from it. Even the current efforts make no attempt to open source the J2EE core, which is really the "meat and potatoes" of Java as far as most shops are concerned. Fortunately we've got JBoss to tackle that aspect of OSS Java environments.
I also don't see any mention of open sourcing Java ME, which would be appealing for cell phones and other embedded systems. Still, I guess Sun has to earn something for all the work that went into Java.
It's nothing new to Canada and our long-standing disputes over softwood lumber and other issues. The US even ignores it's own courts when it doesn't like the rulings.
The United States has been falling behind on the capacity game for a long time now, so it only makes sense that the ISPs and telcos there are crying the blues about the need for upgrades. Had they been upgrading all the way along as other countries have, they wouldn't have the capacity shortfall that they do now.
I deal with SaskTel as my ISP. We actually get the full use of the provisioned bandwidth as promised, with no filtering, traffic shaping, or other artificial impediments. The downside? My internet connection costs $45/month instead of $22 for the basic "DSL Lite" subscription.
Personally I can't believe Slashdot published this "article" as news. It's just some guy having an ego-stroking rant.
Your information isn't "copyright" per se, but needs to be treated the same as any other information published by a phone book. i.e. If you have a private unlisted number, then your contact information isn't published.
Personally I don't see what the big uproar is. An online phone book has the same content as the printed phone book. If you don't want your information published, you pay extra for an unlisted number. The same should apply to the online phone book.
Hemp (the industrial cousin of Cannabis) tends to be high in CBD's with very little THC. If you want cannabidiol, consume hemp. You won't get high, but you will get a relatively large amount of CBDs.
Aspartame has some of the "smoking gun" evidence you mention, yet it is still on the market. The number of people actually poisoned by Aspartame are very low, and treated as "statistically insignificant", so the product continues to be used.
Even if the GMO corn is used by humans and someone is killed by it (not just poisoned), there would just be a number of studies and some finger pointing to show that it was actually something else that may have been responsible for the poisoning. As long as something else may be responsible, there is reasonable doubt and the GMO food would remain on the market.
You need a lot of "smoking guns" to get a product off the market after it's been established. It's much easier to keep such products off the market in the first place.
The article was a rather long read with very little useful information in the end. The differences highlighted had far more to do with the video subsystem employed by the boxen than it did with CPU, memory, or any other factors that differed between the systems. Despite being "latest generation" hardware, some of the tests would not even run.
Thumbs down on both for promoting "multimedia" PC capabilities without handling video cadence properly.