This is just hillarious... Forcing people to force themselves to uphold moral codes. Not only does this cost the consumer who probably doesn't want or need it.
Why don't they just outlaw the visiting of "immoral" websites? I mean, the whole idea is stupid, but forcing people to use filitering software ON THEIR OWN COMPUTER not only sounds like 1984 but also echos the fact that these new laws have been written by people who plan to enforce them in an equally stupid way.
The stupid thing: its on your computer, you know the password, you don't need or want it, but still you have to pay for it. I can't understand how they plan to enforce this but the method they have chosen is simply hillarious.
PowerPlant is the best framework I've ever used. Pure, good C++, with multiple interitance and etc. It has a nice GUI builder which is not absolutely required but a real convinience.
I wish there was a framework that good on X...
Motif: Blech. Proprietary and ugly. Lesstif: Well, it's free, but it's still ugly and non-themable. I haven't looked into the API though. Qt: Looks ugly. I've heard bad things about the "keywords" it adds. Athena, Xlib, Xt: Yeah right... Maybe in the 70's. Gtk: I personally write programs in GTK. I don't really like its use of its own types but I relize that it kind of is necessary. The GUI looks respectable and is themable. But GTK is SLOOOW and a resource hog, especially when combinded with Imlib. The C interface is object-oriented - and as I C++ programmer I don't see the value of object oriented C, with all of the complexity that it adds. I know that there are other language bindings but they probably don't support multiple inheritance, and they definatwely stick with Gtk's concepts... i.e. packing boxes instead of aligning things on a grid in an interface builder. Java: Well, a very different solution. You need to learn a new language, although most people with Java experience say they would never go back to C++. The GUI toolkit sounds OK, and there are interface builders but AFAIK they are all proprietary (not acceptable). Java is still slow, regardless of what Sun claims (this is the present). And the Java software for Linux/BSD seems pretty weak. But Java is naturally cross-platform, and may be a C++ killer in 5 years. If so, the Java coders will already have the killer apps.
The SEC rules try to ensure that people taking such a high-risk speculative investment don't get ruined. Generally you need about a quarter million dollars and quite a bit of investment experience to invest in an IPO like this. I'm sure E*TRADE would love to have as much demand for reserved shares as possible, but the SEC wont let them.
In one particular mission, a cosmonaut was unable to reenter the Earth's atrmosphere. His wife was brought to Mission Control where they talked until he ran out of oxygen.
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isn't this the textbook reason to avoid all proprietary software?
This is just hillarious... Forcing people to force themselves to uphold moral codes. Not only does this cost the consumer who probably doesn't want or need it.
Why don't they just outlaw the visiting of "immoral" websites? I mean, the whole idea is stupid, but forcing people to use filitering software ON THEIR OWN COMPUTER not only sounds like 1984 but also echos the fact that these new laws have been written by people who plan to enforce them in an equally stupid way.
The stupid thing: its on your computer, you know the password, you don't need or want it, but still you have to pay for it. I can't understand how they plan to enforce this but the method they have chosen is simply hillarious.
Finally we have a database like MySQL available as free software. Kudos to TcX (i think it's called that :)
PowerPlant is the best framework I've ever used. Pure, good C++, with multiple interitance and etc. It has a nice GUI builder which is not absolutely required but a real convinience.
I wish there was a framework that good on X...
Motif: Blech. Proprietary and ugly.
Lesstif: Well, it's free, but it's still ugly and non-themable. I haven't looked into the API though.
Qt: Looks ugly. I've heard bad things about the "keywords" it adds.
Athena, Xlib, Xt: Yeah right... Maybe in the 70's.
Gtk: I personally write programs in GTK. I don't really like its use of its own types but I relize that it kind of is necessary. The GUI looks respectable and is themable. But GTK is SLOOOW and a resource hog, especially when combinded with Imlib. The C interface is object-oriented - and as I C++ programmer I don't see the value of object oriented C, with all of the complexity that it adds. I know that there are other language bindings but they probably don't support multiple inheritance, and they definatwely stick with Gtk's concepts... i.e. packing boxes instead of aligning things on a grid in an interface builder.
Java: Well, a very different solution. You need to learn a new language, although most people with Java experience say they would never go back to C++. The GUI toolkit sounds OK, and there are interface builders but AFAIK they are all proprietary (not acceptable). Java is still slow, regardless of what Sun claims (this is the present). And the Java software for Linux/BSD seems pretty weak. But Java is naturally cross-platform, and may be a C++ killer in 5 years. If so, the Java coders will already have the killer apps.
The SEC rules try to ensure that people taking such a high-risk speculative investment don't get ruined. Generally you need about a quarter million dollars and quite a bit of investment experience to invest in an IPO like this. I'm sure E*TRADE would love to have as much demand for reserved shares as possible, but the SEC wont let them.
Aaron
Who bought 4,000 pre-ipo shares of RHAT
In one particular mission, a cosmonaut was unable to reenter the Earth's atrmosphere. His wife was brought to Mission Control where they talked until he ran out of oxygen.