Baby, it's common. It's all bullshit. All tests by company is bullshit. All tests payed by the company is bullshit. Some of the tests in peer review process is bullshit.
That's why I never buy any new product. I wait some time for the early adopters to start bitching about it. Then I see whether I would bitch about the same flaws too, or it's something I don't give shit about.
Your only hope to avoid bullshit is to have the right attitude - assume all's bullshit unless proven otherwise.
If you think this post is bullshit, too... well, you're a fast learner:)
If you just scan the summary of that patent, you will see that it's not as broad as people think, and actually it's pretty trivial to avoid infringement.
Basically, the patent covers automatic conversion of charges to the currency chosen by the user, and calculation of all additional charges (e.g. transport costs) before authorising the order.
So, if your e-shop does not provide currency conversion tool, you should be safe. But of course, IANAL.
Errors and Omissions insurance - if the wedding photo's completely suck, you can have it reshot by the photographer and all of it paid for. This cost about 150 a year.
No, you can't have it reshot. Because it's a one time event, and once you screw up the pictures, it's
gone.
Not because I miss the touch of a real dead tree book. Not because it doesn't bend. Not because it's expensive.
I won't buy it simply because it's ridiculous that the content expires in two months. What's the point of being able to load up to 500 books on that device if they expire 60 days later????
6. You need to take these 5 minutes breaks
before your eyes get tired.
You don't have to leave your desk, just look
around, close your eyes for a while, etc.
Gentlemen, this one is a dupe.
The question is: Was this ask slashdot submitted twice, or did the editor failed to
remove it from submission queue last time?
Yes, when doing animation, having 1 scene file per each frame is exactly THAT BAD. Actually, it's disasterours if you think what happens if you have to make even a small alteration in one frame - then you have modify all scene files for the following frames. And if the guy is rendering 50 frames/sec then, well...
The best way to use RenderMan seems to me what another poster did with PovRAY: perl scripts generating frame files from a single master scene file.
OK, aybe what others wrote about console games
outselling those for PCs is true, I don't know. But
whenever I am at a shop I can see that there are more PC titles on shelves than console titles.
The problem is the limited variety of PC titles. There are FPS, RTS and RPGs and sports simulations. That's it. Gone are adventure games, gone are arcade titles (platform, kill'em all etc.) That's sad.
The customers get all of the copies they need with no incremental cost per seat added. They will have to pay for service.]
My list has two overwhelming requirements for the Linux desktop. First it has to be easy to use. It should pass the "Grandma test" which is when placed in front of the average grandma she would find it intuitive and easy to use.
Uh-oh, who's going to need paid support for
a product that passed Grandma-test? Are they
seriously targetting the niche market of users
even less IT-literate than an average Grand-ma?
Then good luck to them. They will need it a lot.
On a final note, I don't think anything really needs to be said about how his paper on "open source software licensing" is somehow evidence of culpability.
Just a wild guess, but maybe Roberts just assumed that someone writing an essay about open source licensing must be knowledgeable enough to be aware that sharing copyrighted material without proper permission is a copyrigth infrigement.
This just shows that sometimes it is better to be underestimated and considered dumber than in reality;)
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Yup, the problem is squarely with Delphi. It arrived too late on Linux, when there were already free IDEs of comparable quality and in much wider distribution.
1. If I want to develop a GUI app Linux, after I install Linux on a new box, I can either start developing using one or myriad tools that came with
my Linux distro (QT designer, KDevelop, Anjuta etc.), or I can spend time registering for, downloading and installing Kylix. Of course I prefer what I already have, unless Kylix is much
better. But it isn't.
2. If I am a small shareware or commercial developer, the price of Kylix is way too expensive.
3. How many large commercial developer port
from Delphi under Windows to Linux? Few, at best.
4. Others mentioned bugs in Kylix.
5. If I develop under Linux, probably I want my
app to run also on other unixes. Or on Linux, but not only x86 but also other supported platforms. But Kylix limits me to Linux x86.
So, besides a very limited and niche market of commercial GUI apps ported from Delphi/Windows to Kylix/Linux, there is no good reason to pay for Kylix on Linux. No wonder it failed.
The other guy was partially right - although STARTTLS
is a different story, that Universal PGP is not
something really new. I've been using GPG Relay
for long time and does what U-PGP does, but is free
software (as in both beer and freedom).
Can you me tell which hosting company are you
using for selling your software? Do you have own
merchant account or are you using some company
for processing CC orders?
The parent poster is right - look out for dead
pixels. And before you buy - look out for the monitor
with the right warranty.
Recently I bought 15" Philips 150B3T panel, with
3 yrs warranty. After I asked for this model, the
shop assistant tried to peddle to me an Philips 150F4
or something like this, claiming the same technical
parameters. Fortunately I refused and insisten on
the one I have seen on display. At home it turned
out that the one they wanted to sell me had a warrany
that kicks in only if the monitor has at least 5 bright pixels or 10 black pixes. OTherwise it;s
considered OK. On the other hand The one I got (for the same price) is guaranteed to have 0 bright
pixels and less than 5 black ones (mine has 0/0,
luckily).
The options screen for most printer drivers
under Windows has an option for this. For
example in Epson drivers it's called "Poster
Printing". Select this option and then set
the number of pages your print out will span and
you are done.
Hope this helps
On similiar note, if I develop my application
using Mono and Gtk#, can I run it under Windows?
Do I need to install any additional software, or
will MS.NET framework suffice?
Of course hackers are not only in software developement! People who tune their cars are
hackers, people who hack on electronic circuitry
are hackers, people who roll on their own boats,
gliders, bicycles and so on, are hackers too.
Maybe I will be a bit off-topic here, but there's
one thing that always bugged me: how does one
measure the frame rate, for example in Quake?
I want to benchmark my notebook but couldn't find
anywhere in the docs how to show the frame rate.
Do I need a patch/plug in or is there a magic
command line option?
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Baby, it's common. It's all bullshit. All tests by company is bullshit. All tests payed by the company is bullshit. Some of the tests in peer review process is bullshit.
:)
That's why I never buy any new product. I wait some time for the early adopters to start bitching about it. Then I see whether I would bitch about the same flaws too, or it's something I don't give shit about.
Your only hope to avoid bullshit is to have the right attitude - assume all's bullshit unless proven otherwise.
If you think this post is bullshit, too... well, you're a fast learner
If you just scan the summary of that patent, you will see that it's not as broad as people think, and actually it's pretty trivial to avoid infringement.
Basically, the patent covers automatic conversion of charges to the currency chosen by the user, and calculation of all additional charges (e.g. transport costs) before authorising the order.
So, if your e-shop does not provide currency conversion tool, you should be safe. But of course, IANAL.
Errors and Omissions insurance - if the wedding photo's completely suck, you can have it reshot by the photographer and all of it paid for. This cost about 150 a year. No, you can't have it reshot. Because it's a one time event, and once you screw up the pictures, it's gone.
It's about a band of teenage criminals who'll pound the shit out of anyone not bowing down to their requests, whatever it would be.
Internet access is just a coincidal background of this story.
But if they don't update, then the rest with legal copies is also affected when pirates computers get infected by worms.
I have a modest proposition: MS should made for pirates a "special" version of the security update: one that will disable the whole TPC/IP stack
Muahahahahaha!!!!! Take that, Mr. Pirate!!!!
Not because I miss the touch of a real dead tree book. Not because it doesn't bend. Not because it's expensive.
I won't buy it simply because it's ridiculous that the content expires in two months. What's the point of being able to load up to 500 books on that device if they expire 60 days later????
Ha! In my county we only have a pub association, you insensitive clod!!!
6. You need to take these 5 minutes breaks before your eyes get tired. You don't have to leave your desk, just look around, close your eyes for a while, etc.
Gentlemen, this one is a dupe. The question is: Was this ask slashdot submitted twice, or did the editor failed to remove it from submission queue last time?
Yes, when doing animation, having 1 scene file per each frame is exactly THAT BAD. Actually, it's disasterours if you think what happens if you have to make even a small alteration in one frame - then you have modify all scene files for the following frames. And if the guy is rendering 50 frames/sec then, well... The best way to use RenderMan seems to me what another poster did with PovRAY: perl scripts generating frame files from a single master scene file.
This is Slashdot, news for nerds. So the logical answer to your question is: run a simulation and calculate the data you need!!!
OK, aybe what others wrote about console games outselling those for PCs is true, I don't know. But whenever I am at a shop I can see that there are more PC titles on shelves than console titles. The problem is the limited variety of PC titles. There are FPS, RTS and RPGs and sports simulations. That's it. Gone are adventure games, gone are arcade titles (platform, kill'em all etc.) That's sad.
Yup, the problem is squarely with Delphi. It arrived too late on Linux, when there were already free IDEs of comparable quality and in much wider distribution.
1. If I want to develop a GUI app Linux, after I install Linux on a new box, I can either start developing using one or myriad tools that came with my Linux distro (QT designer, KDevelop, Anjuta etc.), or I can spend time registering for, downloading and installing Kylix. Of course I prefer what I already have, unless Kylix is much better. But it isn't.
2. If I am a small shareware or commercial developer, the price of Kylix is way too expensive.
3. How many large commercial developer port from Delphi under Windows to Linux? Few, at best.
4. Others mentioned bugs in Kylix.
5. If I develop under Linux, probably I want my app to run also on other unixes. Or on Linux, but not only x86 but also other supported platforms. But Kylix limits me to Linux x86.
So, besides a very limited and niche market of commercial GUI apps ported from Delphi/Windows to Kylix/Linux, there is no good reason to pay for Kylix on Linux. No wonder it failed.
The other guy was partially right - although STARTTLS is a different story, that Universal PGP is not something really new. I've been using GPG Relay for long time and does what U-PGP does, but is free software (as in both beer and freedom).
Hi esconsult1,
Can you me tell which hosting company are you using for selling your software? Do you have own merchant account or are you using some company for processing CC orders?
Thanks a lot in advance
Bromba
In other news: "Melissinos redefines the meaning of the expression 'high-performance'. Gamers disagree." ;)
The parent poster is right - look out for dead pixels. And before you buy - look out for the monitor with the right warranty.
Recently I bought 15" Philips 150B3T panel, with 3 yrs warranty. After I asked for this model, the shop assistant tried to peddle to me an Philips 150F4 or something like this, claiming the same technical parameters. Fortunately I refused and insisten on the one I have seen on display. At home it turned out that the one they wanted to sell me had a warrany that kicks in only if the monitor has at least 5 bright pixels or 10 black pixes. OTherwise it;s considered OK. On the other hand The one I got (for the same price) is guaranteed to have 0 bright pixels and less than 5 black ones (mine has 0/0, luckily).
Why not to use the old and tried name for all those guys: BOFH, I say!!!
The options screen for most printer drivers under Windows has an option for this. For example in Epson drivers it's called "Poster Printing". Select this option and then set the number of pages your print out will span and you are done. Hope this helps
On similiar note, if I develop my application using Mono and Gtk#, can I run it under Windows? Do I need to install any additional software, or will MS .NET framework suffice?
Of course hackers are not only in software developement! People who tune their cars are hackers, people who hack on electronic circuitry are hackers, people who roll on their own boats, gliders, bicycles and so on, are hackers too.
Maybe I will be a bit off-topic here, but there's one thing that always bugged me: how does one measure the frame rate, for example in Quake? I want to benchmark my notebook but couldn't find anywhere in the docs how to show the frame rate. Do I need a patch/plug in or is there a magic command line option?
Of course, furthermore, try go 32-way and see if you got there in the first place.
No problem. NEC has a 32-way ccNUMA system with Itanium2 (McKinley) processors. It's called Tx7i.