Except that those CD-R are Sony specifics, so I doubt they'll be as cheap as 1$ a piece. Plus, 156 MB of storage doesn't mean you can fit as much : since it writes one pic at a time, it must be a multi-session disc... which means huge quantities of wasted space.
I agree on that. Aqua is not only beautifull, it is also based on a brand-new graphic engine, something designed from scratch and not on 20+ year old model (aka Windows or X-Windows). As much as open-source is good for making standard apps based on known and tried models (Web servers/Unix clone/etc...) it is not very good at developping brand new concepts or ideas. BeOS or Aqua, both are really clean new designs, and both are closed source...
You got it all wrong, read the article dammit !
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They want to tax services sold over the Web from outside EU. For products (ie DVD and books) there's allready a tax paid at the customs.
BeOS would make a neat user-friendly OS, it is VERY easy to install (easier that Win2K), fast, clean, easy to configure. It only needs more support from apps makers and hardware vendors.
Pascal is in fact from the second part of the 70s, not the 80s. But then everybody use C which is even more backward and lower level (and from the 70s too). Python is fine for scripting but as far as system programming-heavy application goes it is a little short. I wouldn't code an optimised multithreaded-Web server in Python, but in Delphi I did it pretty quickly. Object Pascal is pretty good at being both low level enough to let you put assembler here and there and do low level pointer stuff, yet at the same time letting you code without even knowing what a pointer is and only manipulate objects and reusable components.
Not all programmers like spending their nite fixing their C code so that the GUI looks right. Some prefer doing real work coding the "logic" of the program, and doing the GUI with a point-and-clic interface.
Kylix/Delphi is not about dumbing down programming, it is about automating the boring and tedious task of writing the GUI code.
I would completely agree with you - accept that from the screenshot I saw it appears the widget used by Kylix are the same is the one on Delphi/Windows. This would make porting Delphi apps a simple matter of recompiling (and rewriting low-level system stuff if you've got any)
The compiler is great indeed - but also Pascal is a language you can compile in one pass, versus several pass required for C or C++. It would saves some time of the whole kernel or X11 was written in Pascal... (not speaking of the added readability and reliability, but I disgress).
Why ? simple : Delphi is much (several order of magnitude) better than any other available solution to design programs with GUI for Linux. I'm not saying gcc or whatever is not good - I'm saying that if you app is 90% GUI and 10% logic (like any user-friendly app should be), then it is a pain to do it with current tool, and a breeze to do it with Delphi.
I bet you drive a free car - using free gas. You probably grow your own food because who would pay for food ?
Just MS is expensive doesn't mean everything good is free. Sometimes you have to pay for something good. And Delphi is REALLY good - defenitely worth whatever price Borland will charge for it !
It is NOT another GUI, it is a visual developpement tool that lets you develop apps for KDE (and Gnome ?) in the blink of an eyes. Want a button here and a tab there ? clic and clic and it's done! Want access to something thru HTTP or FTP ? Drop the HTTP or FTP component on your app and now you can. Delphi is the best thing ever made for the programmer since the invention of assembler to replace machine code. Now it is coming to Delphi !!!
...NOT ! Let's keep the bloated Visual Studio where it is - on Windows. As far as C and C++ is concerned there's already plenty on Linux. The good thing here is that it is Delphi (aka Object Pascal) with the best visual IDE around.
This rocks !!!! The best dev. tool, the best language Delphi, and the best GUI on the best OS brought together !!! I'm probably going to wake up in a few second - but what a dream:)
I think the whole point here is not the net or not, it is this silly country that is so "jail happy". USA is the country with the most jailled people per-capita. On the number of employees, the jails are the third largest gov. "organisation" ! The "John Wayne" syndrom so strong in the US ("there are only good citizens and bad citizen", all repressive and police system) is at work again...
What do you mean not possible? You looked at the world of software/books/music, etc? Except for the media upon which they are printed, there is no net consumption, yet these are HUGE industries.
Errr - I'm affraid not. Take the latest "Britney Spears" album (yeah I know...). Making the disc is already quite polluting in itself - plastic, chemicals, paper, ink, aluminium, etc...
OK so one might say we can distribute it online as MP3... but then someone has to build the cable for your net access, the computer to store and listen it, etc... those are very polluting stuff to make.
Even if the medium is considered as totally ressource-free, we still have to air-condition the record company offices, provide them with paper, ink, computers, etc... we need gallons of gas for the limos offered to artists, etc... so in the end it is still very polluting.
Well - what to do when you have to hire programmers that only know C because they were all trained into it by using Unix and Winblows ? You have to switch to C. This is not because it is the best language, it is because of the market... in the IT industry, the winner is rarely the best products. Can you say "Microsoft" ?
Don't forget that before Windows came out people were still using all kinds of languages. When MS-DOS was king, plenty of guys used Turbo Pascal to code, as well as assembler.
First you need an MP3 player that support CompactFlash format. The Smartmedia is crappy and limited, but unfortunately it is the most widely used on portable MP3 players (but I know the RCA/Thomson Lyra does use CompactFlash and is widely available).
Once you have the CompactFlash-ready player, use a CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter... they are cheap because CompactFlash is basically PCMCIA in a smaller form factor and lower pin count. Then use a PCMCIA harddrive or harddrive adapter, and here you are ! Or even easier, you can use the minidrive from IBM which is already in CompactFlash form factor, then you just put it in and use it. It is limited to 340 MB but then it is still cool...
That's the beauty of CompactFlash : since it is in fact PCMCIA, it supports right out of the box all kind of devices, not just Flash memory:)
In fact for every Firewire port a manufacturer puts on a product, he has to pay Apple a fee for it. It once went has high as 1$/port. That's why Intel is pushing USB 2.0 (also USB 2.0 is compatible with USB 1.0, which is nice)
I haven't seen the movie (fortunately), but if it is a CompactFlash memory card (stamp sized) then YES, Kodak makes some 32 MB cards like these. In fact they are manufactured by Sandisk and rebranded by Kodak. I've always though that if I have to sneak some datas around I would use a CompactFlash card as a storage medium. Goes up to 192 MB (or 340 with the IBM minidrive), which is plenty to store secret plans/virus datas/prototype datasheets and you can hide them pretty much everywhere.
I've to say that MacOS X is the first OS since BeOS to really make me want to drop Window$. It looks sleek, is nicely designed and powerfull. I'm very glad Apple didn't just put a GUI on top of X, which would have really been a mess. And with Applie behind it there should be plenty of apps (not just the unix apps like Apache or vi, but apps my grandmother can use everyday)
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Except that those CD-R are Sony specifics, so I doubt they'll be as cheap as 1$ a piece. Plus, 156 MB of storage doesn't mean you can fit as much : since it writes one pic at a time, it must be a multi-session disc... which means huge quantities of wasted space.
I agree on that. Aqua is not only beautifull, it is also based on a brand-new graphic engine, something designed from scratch and not on 20+ year old model (aka Windows or X-Windows). As much as open-source is good for making standard apps based on known and tried models (Web servers/Unix clone/etc...) it is not very good at developping brand new concepts or ideas. BeOS or Aqua, both are really clean new designs, and both are closed source...
They want to tax services sold over the Web from outside EU. For products (ie DVD and books) there's allready a tax paid at the customs.
BeOS would make a neat user-friendly OS, it is VERY easy to install (easier that Win2K), fast, clean, easy to configure. It only needs more support from apps makers and hardware vendors.
Pascal is in fact from the second part of the 70s, not the 80s. But then everybody use C which is even more backward and lower level (and from the 70s too). Python is fine for scripting but as far as system programming-heavy application goes it is a little short. I wouldn't code an optimised multithreaded-Web server in Python, but in Delphi I did it pretty quickly. Object Pascal is pretty good at being both low level enough to let you put assembler here and there and do low level pointer stuff, yet at the same time letting you code without even knowing what a pointer is and only manipulate objects and reusable components.
Not all programmers like spending their nite fixing their C code so that the GUI looks right. Some prefer doing real work coding the "logic" of the program, and doing the GUI with a point-and-clic interface.
Kylix/Delphi is not about dumbing down programming, it is about automating the boring and tedious task of writing the GUI code.
I would completely agree with you - accept that from the screenshot I saw it appears the widget used by Kylix are the same is the one on Delphi/Windows. This would make porting Delphi apps a simple matter of recompiling (and rewriting low-level system stuff if you've got any)
The compiler is great indeed - but also Pascal is a language you can compile in one pass, versus several pass required for C or C++. It would saves some time of the whole kernel or X11 was written in Pascal... (not speaking of the added readability and reliability, but I disgress).
Why ? simple : Delphi is much (several order of magnitude) better than any other available solution to design programs with GUI for Linux. I'm not saying gcc or whatever is not good - I'm saying that if you app is 90% GUI and 10% logic (like any user-friendly app should be), then it is a pain to do it with current tool, and a breeze to do it with Delphi.
I bet you drive a free car - using free gas. You probably grow your own food because who would pay for food ?
Just MS is expensive doesn't mean everything good is free. Sometimes you have to pay for something good. And Delphi is REALLY good - defenitely worth whatever price Borland will charge for it !
It is NOT another GUI, it is a visual developpement tool that lets you develop apps for KDE (and Gnome ?) in the blink of an eyes. Want a button here and a tab there ? clic and clic and it's done! Want access to something thru HTTP or FTP ? Drop the HTTP or FTP component on your app and now you can. Delphi is the best thing ever made for the programmer since the invention of assembler to replace machine code. Now it is coming to Delphi !!!
...NOT ! Let's keep the bloated Visual Studio where it is - on Windows. As far as C and C++ is concerned there's already plenty on Linux. The good thing here is that it is Delphi (aka Object Pascal) with the best visual IDE around.
This rocks !!!! The best dev. tool, the best language Delphi, and the best GUI on the best OS brought together !!! I'm probably going to wake up in a few second - but what a dream :)
No - it is 15000 rpm now thanx to the new Seagate Cheetah 15X. This drives is a killer !
I think the whole point here is not the net or not, it is this silly country that is so "jail happy". USA is the country with the most jailled people per-capita. On the number of employees, the jails are the third largest gov. "organisation" ! The "John Wayne" syndrom so strong in the US ("there are only good citizens and bad citizen", all repressive and police system) is at work again...
What do you mean not possible? You looked at the world of software/books/music, etc? Except for the media upon which they are printed, there is no net consumption, yet these are HUGE industries.
Errr - I'm affraid not. Take the latest "Britney Spears" album (yeah I know...). Making the disc is already quite polluting in itself - plastic, chemicals, paper, ink, aluminium, etc...
OK so one might say we can distribute it online as MP3... but then someone has to build the cable for your net access, the computer to store and listen it, etc... those are very polluting stuff to make.
Even if the medium is considered as totally ressource-free, we still have to air-condition the record company offices, provide them with paper, ink, computers, etc... we need gallons of gas for the limos offered to artists, etc... so in the end it is still very polluting.
Well - what to do when you have to hire programmers that only know C because they were all trained into it by using Unix and Winblows ? You have to switch to C. This is not because it is the best language, it is because of the market... in the IT industry, the winner is rarely the best products. Can you say "Microsoft" ?
Don't forget that before Windows came out people were still using all kinds of languages. When MS-DOS was king, plenty of guys used Turbo Pascal to code, as well as assembler.
First you need an MP3 player that support CompactFlash format. The Smartmedia is crappy and limited, but unfortunately it is the most widely used on portable MP3 players (but I know the RCA/Thomson Lyra does use CompactFlash and is widely available).
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Once you have the CompactFlash-ready player, use a CompactFlash to PCMCIA adapter... they are cheap because CompactFlash is basically PCMCIA in a smaller form factor and lower pin count. Then use a PCMCIA harddrive or harddrive adapter, and here you are ! Or even easier, you can use the minidrive from IBM which is already in CompactFlash form factor, then you just put it in and use it. It is limited to 340 MB but then it is still cool...
That's the beauty of CompactFlash : since it is in fact PCMCIA, it supports right out of the box all kind of devices, not just Flash memory
I don't think so - Pascal is fully capable of dealing with very large projects. I think the Mac apps used to be coded in Pascal...
Well in France that is about the same price, 3000 F for a 64 Kbit leased line. Of course ADSL or cable is cheaper, but not as reliable.
Now you know why we all host our sites in the US...
In fact for every Firewire port a manufacturer puts on a product, he has to pay Apple a fee for it. It once went has high as 1$/port. That's why Intel is pushing USB 2.0 (also USB 2.0 is compatible with USB 1.0, which is nice)
A mobile cluster ? Harnessing the power of millions of WAP cell-phones with distributed-low bandwidth computations ?
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Think about it : your Nokia 7110 cracking RC5 keys for the distributed.net cracking contest
Out of the last 5 RAM price hike, the IT press has successfully predicted 47 of them.
I haven't seen the movie (fortunately), but if it is a CompactFlash memory card (stamp sized) then YES, Kodak makes some 32 MB cards like these. In fact they are manufactured by Sandisk and rebranded by Kodak. I've always though that if I have to sneak some datas around I would use a CompactFlash card as a storage medium. Goes up to 192 MB (or 340 with the IBM minidrive), which is plenty to store secret plans/virus datas/prototype datasheets and you can hide them pretty much everywhere.
I've to say that MacOS X is the first OS since BeOS to really make me want to drop Window$. It looks sleek, is nicely designed and powerfull. I'm very glad Apple didn't just put a GUI on top of X, which would have really been a mess. And with Applie behind it there should be plenty of apps (not just the unix apps like Apache or vi, but apps my grandmother can use everyday)