Lets hope they do a better job of translating a game to the big screen. Wing Commander proved chief game designers don't necessarily translate into competent directors. After awhile I thought I was watching a really bad remake of 'Das Boot' interleaved with a really long and boring Calvin Kline commercial. (Come on, weren't you expecting some sort of product placement as the beautiful but no talent actess playing the commander moped around in her quarters?).
The NIST made statements that they would protect all users of the algorithm in case a patent issue came up. In other words, Hitachi would have to deal with the US Govt to resolve the issue, not the people who implemented it.
Bad developer = bad language? And you claim to have experience in VB,C++,Java. Accusations of Job security? How lame. The only reason your employer would feel that way, is because you wanted them to.
Hmmm... So it's already started. The FUD from the MS wogs is gearing up for the release of Kylix.
Look out people,the better Kylix is, the worse the lies and inuendos will get. VB programmers will not idly stand by and allow their future to be threatened.
>>Anyway, these kinds of attitudes--influenced more by the great MS marketing machine than reality--are what is keeping Delphi down. I guess all of us Delphi supporters are hoping that Kylix will be the second wind for Delphi. With the momentum Linux has at the moment, and its lack of a serious RAD tool, Delphi should stand a decent second chance. And please don't anyone mention.NET or I'll have to hunt you down and decompose you into little bits. <<
Excellent points made. MS wogs have been talking about the demise of Borland for over 12 years. Every time they feel threatened the hype starts again. Just watch when Kylix gets out, every MS loyalist will start talking about how Borland is getting ready to go out of business or is gonna get bought by (insert your favorite company to hate here). And of course they heard from a friend of a friend at Borland.
>>"U.S. crporations should have more than one purpose. They also owe something to their workers and the communities in which they operate, and they should sometimes sacrifice some profit for the sake of making things better for their workers and communities." <<
Publicly owned corporations are owned by their stock holders. These stock holders recieve the majority of the income received. Failure to provide the 'owners' with dividends usually means serious trouble for management (as in being replaced).
refering to the quote included at the beginning of my post.... Wal-Mart (mentioned in the article) grants stock to it's employees. People making 5 to 20 dollars an hour are able to retire with several hundred thousand dollars in their retirement account.(They also offer health and other benefits) If Wal-Mart didn't keep costs down and make a good profit, the stock would be worthless. That's an example of corporate responsibility to its' employees. Many other large corporations do the same.
Those small companies that Wal-mart replaces in all those small towns never have and never will offer those types of benefits (but they pay the same low wage to their employees, and charge the consumer higher prices). If anything, it's small privately held companies that exploit employees much more so than large ones (I speak from experience).
Anybody can buy stock if they want to. Investing in a start up is extremely high risk, and usually only the wealthy can afford to do that. There are many more failed startups than successes. The risk is directly proportional to the investment. Without Investors providing start up money, most of todays business' woudln't even exist (where do you think companies get their money before they make an IPO?). It's about creating companies that create jobs, not just about rich people spending their money. And, yes, it's the amount you invest, not the risk to yourself that counts most.
As I said before..most of the problems with fair pay and compenstation revolve around smaller privately held companies. The ones that escape the public eye (and the internet). None of the outspoken critics want to help people at those places, there's not enough money or publicity in it.
Your right about the resolution issue. The latest HD cameras are producing output that many think is better than film (HD = 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels) and has to be downgraded with digital effects to give the final result a 'film' look.
Still if someone could come out with an HD quality camera at less than $5K (the cheapest currently around $48K with no lenses) it would be a boon for the independent film and prosumer market. Maybe there is hope for this new cmos stuff in that market.
I recently purchased a Casio qv3000ex. It has an IBM 340meg microdrive. At 2048x1536 in uncompressed jpeg format, it stores 245 images. Includes software and a Usb cable to get them to your PC. Just came off a trip to Alaska, and it worked especially good outdoors.
Interbase also runs on Win98/NT. Unlike MS SQL, you can design/develop on those platforms, and deploy on any supported platform. This is truly great. Previous to ver 6, IB on Win98 would legally support up to 5 users. Don't know how this works now.
There is also the possibility this could have a direct negative impact on crappy MS ACCESS, once the ODBC drivers are stable. A real commercial quality RDBMS to deploy for those stuck in Win98/VB land (thankfully I am not).
Hurray
Please no flames, just pointing out facts.
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I think Borland C++ builder 5 supports the latest standards and features, plus gives you access to the Delphi VCL library, and is compatible with all the MS libraries. I'm looking forward to the Linux version.
Just a thought. There is an opportunity here for the developers of PostGressSQL, MySQL and people at the new Interbase2000 company to join together and create a truly world class RDBMS product.
With open source and the combined talent of these three orgs, it would be possible to create the "definitive" database for Linux, much like what was done on the DEC Vax systems, and make it a powerful and intregal part of Linux. It would be the ultimate counter to SQLServer on Wintel.
If only all involved could set aside egos and personal agendas this could actually happen.
Maybe I will get flamed for this, but the idea keeps cropping up in my thick head, and I had to get it out.
The word I am getting is QT support first, followed next with Gnome. Eventually, the goal is to make an IDE that allows a variety of interfaces to be supported.
Without explaining all the reasons Delphi is superior to VB, here are just a few...
VB has some good points, but to someone who has gotten used to Delphi, VB has too many bad points to even consider using it. Delphi is written in Delphi, it is truly object oriented. Like C++ you can use it to make ActiveX controls (real ones, not Vbx stuff). Has strong type checking (esential in a large project), and the exes are considerably faster. It also plays very well with C. You can create C based intel/OBJ files, and compile them (along with you Object pascal source) into an exe. (it's done all the time).
The real kicker is that Delphi is no harder to learn than VB, offers both high and low level approachs to programming, but requires more discipline than VB to create good code. But because its a "Structured programming language" that requires certain conventions to work, VB people start chokeing and running for the exit, visions of DOS based C++ horrors dancing in their heads. Not realizing there really is nothing to be afraid of, and everything to gain.
If I understand your request, then you might want to check www.href.com.
They make a server side web development toolkit for Delphi developers, that uses state management, wild card ids, no cookies, and supports server clustering (among their own app servers). They have been doing this since Delphi 2 as far as I can tell. They are not the only either, but I can't remember the names of the other companies doing this.
If I understand what I've been reading lately, Interbase2000 will be the new company handling the new open source version of Interbase. It is also the home of the new Interbase Developers Initiative, so coders, developers, writers, users... are invited to join in and have a direct impact on future development. Some of the best IB people in the world are already part of it.
You can easily avoid table locking in IB with proper transaction management. IB defaults to an optimistic locking scheme to avoid lock outs and unresolved deadlocks and unless you write some exceptionally bad SQL, the worst you get is table locking.
The price is that if you leave a lot of transactions open, it's multgenerational architecture can eat up a lot of ram per user. The key is to finish and commit as quickly as possible, and put some code in to automatically rollback after a predetermined timeout period. (yes I have been using it for over 3 years).
In addition to the other comments here, it also supports an external event notification system. You can program in events that are received by external processes that have registered for them. Superior alternative to having external processes poll the database for info. It also supports multiple transactions against multiple databases (through the native API, not through the Borland database engine). It has a mature and tested API for both C and Delphi programmers, and there is an ODBC driver available. It supports SQL statements up to 64k in length. It also supports automatic Database shadowing, and allows a single database to span multiple drives.
Now to balance things. Interbase server side User defined functions are not threaded in the current Linux release (5.x). This can cause slow downs if lots of users are setting them off. On the windows side where IB is truly and fully threaded, UDFs can't make calls to external programs/DLLs (ala SQL Server). Has poor support for temporary tables, though that can be easily overcome with good design and programming.
Overall though, IB is truly multiplatform and very easy to setup and maintain. You don't need a high priced Oracle style DBA to manage it.
>>And worst of all, they force stuff like the backstreet boys and brittney spears on us... <<
Oh yeah, I call it the Manufactured Male Group plague. Take a bunch of handsome, but no talent guys, teach how to carry a basic tune, get them to pretend they can move like a 60's soul group, add the now nauseating standard electronic kazoo background music and hoist them on the public.
Your are right. The law doesn't prevent an artist from using the net and mp3 format to ditribute their content. It does give the artist(or copyright holder) the right to decide how and where it is done. New artists can still use the net, set up their own recording companies, create mp3 CDs if they so choose. If they choose not to, they at least have some protection.
There is still the possibiblity for abuse though. The RIAA in the past has used strong arm tactics to get artists to sign, threatening to not allow them to participate in concerts and other events unless they sign up. That really is a violation of Constitutional rights, but is usually too expensive for the artist to take legal action.
>>Oddly enough, despite the often held belief that computers and internet are for the young, it's the elderly who are really getting their money's worth. The internet allows those people unable to get around easily to meet and talk to people of similar ages and with similar experiences. When you reach an age where most of your friends have passed on it's nice to have a place where you can make new friends<<
Absolutely right. We got my wifes' mom WebTV (please no flames, the explanation would take too long). Now she emails the whole family at least twice a week, and gets email in return. It's wonderful for all of us.
Keeps us more in touch and saves her mom a lot of time (letter writing) and money (no postage, a lot less long distance phone calls, etc....).
My own mom is an avid email user and internet surfer, she is over 60 and has no problems using her laptop to organize her life.
I have to agree with some of the respondents, just what planet were the researchers studying?
Not blaming Canada here, but if all the developers over in Scotts Valley start leaving because they don't like what's going on, then Borland will probably go the way of WordPerfect in the Windows world. Some may not care, some may.
Will Corel keep the American programmers, or shift everything up to Canada? I can garuantee people wont leave Scotts Valley for the Great and very cold White North.
Somthing similar happened to the guy who invented in-line skates. He created the product, built a brand name, ran the factory, then got kicked out by the VCs. Worse, he had no legal ground to stand on. I saw the story on one of the cable news channels a couple of years ago, very sad.
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Lets hope they do a better job of translating a game to the big screen. Wing Commander proved chief game designers don't necessarily translate into competent directors. After awhile I thought I was watching a really bad remake of 'Das Boot' interleaved with a really long and boring Calvin Kline commercial. (Come on, weren't you expecting some sort of product placement as the beautiful but no talent actess playing the commander moped around in her quarters?).
The NIST made statements that they would protect all users of the algorithm in case a patent issue came up. In other words, Hitachi would have to deal with the US Govt to resolve the issue, not the people who implemented it.
Bad developer = bad language? And you claim to have experience in VB,C++,Java. Accusations of Job security? How lame. The only reason your employer would feel that way, is because you wanted them to.
Hmmm... So it's already started. The FUD from the MS wogs is gearing up for the release of Kylix.
Look out people,the better Kylix is, the worse the lies and inuendos will get. VB programmers will not idly stand by and allow their future to be threatened.
shadrack
>>Anyway, these kinds of attitudes--influenced more by the great MS marketing machine than reality--are what is keeping Delphi down. I guess all of us Delphi supporters are hoping that Kylix will be the second wind for Delphi. With the momentum Linux has at the moment, and its lack of a serious RAD tool, Delphi should stand a decent second chance. And please don't anyone mention .NET or I'll have to hunt you down and decompose you into little bits. <<
Excellent points made. MS wogs have been talking about the demise of Borland for over 12 years. Every time they feel threatened the hype starts again. Just watch when Kylix gets out, every MS loyalist will start talking about how Borland is getting ready to go out of business or is gonna get bought by (insert your favorite company to hate here). And of course they heard from a friend of a friend at Borland.
Really pathetic.
Shadrack
>>"U.S. crporations should have more than one purpose. They also owe something to their workers and the communities in which they operate, and they should sometimes sacrifice some profit for the sake of making things better for their workers and communities." <<
Publicly owned corporations are owned by their stock holders. These stock holders recieve the majority of the income received. Failure to provide the 'owners' with dividends usually means serious trouble for management (as in being replaced).
refering to the quote included at the beginning of my post.... Wal-Mart (mentioned in the article) grants stock to it's employees. People making 5 to 20 dollars an hour are able to retire with several hundred thousand dollars in their retirement account.(They also offer health and other benefits) If Wal-Mart didn't keep costs down and make a good profit, the stock would be worthless. That's an example of corporate responsibility to its' employees. Many other large corporations do the same.
Those small companies that Wal-mart replaces in all those small towns never have and never will offer those types of benefits (but they pay the same low wage to their employees, and charge the consumer higher prices). If anything, it's small privately held companies that exploit employees much more so than large ones (I speak from experience).
Anybody can buy stock if they want to. Investing in a start up is extremely high risk, and usually only the wealthy can afford to do that. There are many more failed startups than successes. The risk is directly proportional to the investment. Without Investors providing start up money, most of todays business' woudln't even exist (where do you think companies get their money before they make an IPO?). It's about creating companies that create jobs, not just about rich people spending their money. And, yes, it's the amount you invest, not the risk to yourself that counts most.
As I said before..most of the problems with fair pay and compenstation revolve around smaller privately held companies. The ones that escape the public eye (and the internet). None of the outspoken critics want to help people at those places, there's not enough money or publicity in it.
Your right about the resolution issue. The latest HD cameras are producing output that many think is better than film (HD = 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels) and has to be downgraded with digital effects to give the final result a 'film' look.
Still if someone could come out with an HD quality camera at less than $5K (the cheapest currently around $48K with no lenses) it would be a boon for the independent film and prosumer market. Maybe there is hope for this new cmos stuff in that market.
I recently purchased a Casio qv3000ex. It has an IBM 340meg microdrive. At 2048x1536 in uncompressed jpeg format, it stores 245 images. Includes software and a Usb cable to get them to your PC. Just came off a trip to Alaska, and it worked especially good outdoors.
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Amen Winston.
Could someone point me to a site showing the
differences between PIII and PIV? And why should I ever want one?
Thanks in advance
Interbase also runs on Win98/NT. Unlike MS SQL, you can design/develop on those platforms, and deploy on any supported platform. This is truly great. Previous to ver 6, IB on Win98 would legally support up to 5 users. Don't know how this works now.
There is also the possibility this could have a direct negative impact on crappy MS ACCESS, once the ODBC drivers are stable. A real commercial quality RDBMS to deploy for those stuck in Win98/VB land (thankfully I am not).
Hurray
Please no flames, just pointing out facts.
I think Borland C++ builder 5 supports the latest standards and features, plus gives you access to the Delphi VCL library, and is compatible with all the MS libraries. I'm looking forward to the Linux version.
They copied those features from Borland products, so when Kylix gets out, maybe more people will start looking at Linux.
Just a thought. There is an opportunity here for the developers of PostGressSQL, MySQL and people at the new Interbase2000 company to join together and create a truly world class RDBMS product.
With open source and the combined talent of these three orgs, it would be possible to create the "definitive" database for Linux, much like what was done on the DEC Vax systems, and make it a powerful and intregal part of Linux. It would be the ultimate counter to SQLServer on Wintel.
If only all involved could set aside egos and personal agendas this could actually happen.
Maybe I will get flamed for this, but the idea keeps cropping up in my thick head, and I had to get it out.
The word I am getting is QT support first, followed next with Gnome. Eventually, the goal is to make an IDE that allows a variety of interfaces to be supported.
Without explaining all the reasons Delphi is superior to VB, here are just a few...
VB has some good points, but to someone who has gotten used to Delphi, VB has too many bad points to even consider using it. Delphi is written in Delphi, it is truly object oriented. Like C++ you can use it to make ActiveX controls (real ones, not Vbx stuff). Has strong type checking (esential in a large project), and the exes are considerably faster. It also plays very well with C. You can create C based intel/OBJ files, and compile them (along with you Object pascal source) into an exe. (it's done all the time).
The real kicker is that Delphi is no harder to learn than VB, offers both high and low level approachs to programming, but requires more discipline than VB to create good code. But because its a "Structured programming language" that requires certain conventions to work, VB people start chokeing and running for the exit, visions of DOS based C++ horrors dancing in their heads. Not realizing there really is nothing to be afraid of, and everything to gain.
If I understand your request, then you might want to check www.href.com.
They make a server side web development toolkit for Delphi developers, that uses state management, wild card ids, no cookies, and supports server clustering (among their own app servers). They have been doing this since Delphi 2 as far as I can tell. They are not the only either, but I can't remember the names of the other companies doing this.
If I understand what I've been reading lately, Interbase2000 will be the new company handling the new open source version of Interbase. It is also the home of the new Interbase Developers Initiative, so coders, developers, writers, users... are invited to join in and have a direct impact on future development. Some of the best IB people in the world are already part of it.
You can easily avoid table locking in IB with proper transaction management. IB defaults to an optimistic locking scheme to avoid lock outs and unresolved deadlocks and unless you write some exceptionally bad SQL, the worst you get is table locking.
The price is that if you leave a lot of transactions open, it's multgenerational architecture can eat up a lot of ram per user. The key is to finish and commit as quickly as possible, and put some code in to automatically rollback after a predetermined timeout period. (yes I have been using it for over 3 years).
In addition to the other comments here, it also supports an external event notification system. You can program in events that are received by external processes that have registered for them. Superior alternative to having external processes poll the database for info. It also supports multiple transactions against multiple databases (through the native API, not through the Borland database engine). It has a mature and tested API for both C and Delphi programmers, and there is an ODBC driver available. It supports SQL statements up to 64k in length. It also supports automatic Database shadowing, and allows a single database to span multiple drives.
Now to balance things. Interbase server side User defined functions are not threaded in the current Linux release (5.x). This can cause slow downs if lots of users are setting them off.
On the windows side where IB is truly and fully threaded, UDFs can't make calls to external programs/DLLs (ala SQL Server). Has poor support for temporary tables, though that can be easily overcome with good design and programming.
Overall though, IB is truly multiplatform and very easy to setup and maintain. You don't need a high priced Oracle style DBA to manage it.
>>And worst of all, they force stuff like the backstreet boys and brittney spears on us... <<
Oh yeah, I call it the Manufactured Male Group plague.
Take a bunch of handsome, but no talent guys, teach how to carry a basic tune, get them to pretend they can move like a 60's soul group, add the now nauseating standard electronic kazoo background music and hoist them on the public.
barf barf barf.
Your are right. The law doesn't prevent an artist from using the net and mp3 format to ditribute their content. It does give the artist(or copyright holder) the right to decide how and where it is done. New artists can still use the net, set up their own recording companies, create mp3 CDs if they so choose. If they choose not to, they at least have some protection.
There is still the possibiblity for abuse though. The RIAA in the past has used strong arm tactics to get artists to sign, threatening to not allow them to participate in concerts and other events unless they sign up. That really is a violation of Constitutional rights, but is usually too expensive for the artist to take legal action.
>>Oddly enough, despite the often held belief that computers and internet are for the young, it's the elderly who are really getting their money's worth. The internet allows those people unable to get around easily to meet and talk to people of similar ages and with similar experiences. When you reach an age where most of your friends have passed on it's nice to have a place where you can make new friends<<
Absolutely right. We got my wifes' mom WebTV (please no flames, the explanation would take too long). Now she emails the whole family at least twice a week, and gets email in return. It's wonderful for all of us.
Keeps us more in touch and saves her mom a lot of time (letter writing) and money (no postage, a lot less long distance phone calls, etc....).
My own mom is an avid email user and internet surfer, she is over 60 and has no problems using her laptop to organize her life.
I have to agree with some of the respondents, just what planet were the researchers studying?
And true to form, you engineers 'borrowed' someone elses design. Which is why you can't sell it outside of mother Russia.
Not blaming Canada here, but if all the developers over in Scotts Valley start leaving because they don't like what's going on, then Borland will probably go the way of WordPerfect in the Windows world. Some may not care, some may.
Will Corel keep the American programmers, or shift everything up to Canada? I can garuantee people wont leave Scotts Valley for the Great and very cold White North.
Somthing similar happened to the guy who invented in-line skates. He created the product, built a brand name, ran the factory, then got kicked out by the VCs. Worse, he had no legal ground to stand on. I saw the story on one of the cable news channels a couple of years ago, very sad.