"Why is this site full of programmers who discount new tools to add to the toolbox out of hand?"
Because they aren't actually programmers. They're kids, hobbyists, and students who want people to see how smart they are, have never written commercial code, and ignore or are unaware of such all-important factors as maintainability and time to market. There's a reason no one pays money for someone to sit there and write PS2 code in vi (as you pointed out), but they can't quite grasp what that reason is.
You don't need admin rights to install Firefox, etc. on Windows. That was his point. This has nothing to do with free software, and everything to do with "Hacked By Chinese" (for those who remember when MS was compromised by Chinese vandals).
How will such a system manage depreciation? Amortization of assets? Automatically deal with purchase orders? These things are mentioned in the requirements. And you simply can't have someone sitting there manually editing the inventory amount every time something gets sold. And what about integration with POS?
Your "solution" MIGHT work for a mom-and-pop shop, but even then, it would be an error-prone, tricky-to-use, work-intensive hassle.
I'm off on a 4 month holiday, and I'm taking a 3 year old laptop with me to play a few games on during downtime (I travel a lot, and I know from experience how many boring moments there can be). I've never played any games on it, and I need advice as to what games I should buy, since obviously it won't support anything close to the latest and greatest. What older games are there that I should seek out?
2.4 GHz P4, 512M, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
My ideal game is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Of course, I can't play it on this laptop, but that should indicate the sort of gameplay I enjoy. Doesn't have to be strictly fantasy, though.
No, only in the popular vernacular. In science circles, it's strictly gravitational theory. In scientific parlance, "theory" means "as close to 100% solid fact as we have". That's why evolutionary theory is, well, a theory. The merits of it are really only debated by anti-science cranks and religious types.
Last time I used Gnome, I couldn't figure out how to save a file via sftp from gedit, I think it was. I didn't know you had to create a separate resource (desktop icon) in order to save remotely. How do you deal with that if you're running the app remotely over an X connection? How do you drag and drop from, say, an sftp connection to an ssh connection from within the same filebrowser window, just out of interest?
No, it's not the same in Gnome, trust me. Read his comment again. What he's doing is all from within the file dialogue, and is thus available to any KDE app by default. There is no need to "connect to a server" explicitly, and then manually move the file. I can pop open a file in Kate via fish:// (in fact, I'm doing that right now), edit it, and periodically hit ctrl-s to save. It transparently uploads it to the server via ssh, and I just keep on editing as if it were a local file. There is no need to manually move the file back up to the server, create a local copy, or whatever.
The KDEPrint framework is the same: every app that can print can print to PDF, by default. The dialogue is always the same; everything is very consistent across apps. In KDE, if you've seen one print dialogue, you've literally seen them all. Gnome feels unintegrated by comparison.
That's not what the parent to your post was talking about. He was describing the shortcomings of the extensions.conf language (it sucks), and the need to extend Asterisk with AGI scripts (although I use Python, not Perl). And he's right; Asterisk comes with only very basic business intelligence tools. It's up to you to either script your own, or pay someone to do it for you. Luckily, Asterisk is so flexible and AGI is so easy to use that creating such tools is generally a snap. We have Asterisk doing all kinds of cool stuff (generating voice prompts on the fly, complex CDR, and tons of other stuff), and it wasn't that tough to do at all.
And yes, I work with Asterisk daily, contribute code to the project, etc. Out of the box, it is suitable only for the most basic of use cases.
Er...let me get this straight. Are you seriously equating the DMCA with female infanticide, forced clitorectomies, forced marriages, and on and on? You have to be kidding me. Civil rights concerns != human rights abuses.
Not grumpy at all. I've just wised up a lot, and realised that outlandish appearances are deceptive. Regarding your anecdotal evidence about your wonderful cancer-researching goth chick, that's great. But the vast majority are hilarious idiots. I still hang out with goths all the time, by the way, since a bunch of female friends are lightly connected with that scene. And my impressions are confirmed every weekend when I'm trapped in a room full of them.
Sounds like you're in an unsatisfactory relationship. Does your girlfriend know you'd rather be dating goths? You should stop lying to her.
What sorts of structural injustices does U.S. culture impose on its own citizens that even compares to the examples given by the grandparent? Get a grip, idiot.
Goths are generally fools, university grads or not. Show me anyone who wears their "uniqueness" on their sleeve, and I'll show you the most boring person in the room. "Freaks" are generally mentally impoverished individuals desperate to secure some kind of separation from the masses, not realising that it is deeds, not appearances, that count.
"OpenOffice.org is written mostly in Java, but its Word Processing ability is a lot more advanced than AjaxWord."
Huh? Last time I checked, it was written in C++. There are a few minor tools that require Java (Report Autopilot, some filters), but nothing that affects core functionality.
Why is the parent comment modded troll? He's absolutely correct. All of the languages that run on the.Net virtual machine are C# with syntactic sugar. Microsoft fully admit this, so the parent is right to suggest that people may as well just write in C#.
Everything that can print in KDE supports exporting to PDF. I can print this very page from Konqueror to a PDF file if I want to.
The real problem, as you noted, is the.doc support. However, I think the hope is that once OpenOffice and KOffice sync up their OpenDocument support, then OpenOffice's.doc support can be used.
Unfortunately, libertarians believe everything should be private property, so things like national parks would be privately owned - and free to be divided up and sold. In theory, ANWAR would be private property also. So as long as no neighbours were affected by, say, polluted water, then the sky is the limit regarding damage because hey, they own it.
Libertarians should stick to the social freedoms thing, because they have lots of good arguments there. When it comes to protecting habitat, what they propose is thus far unworkable because of their simpleminded view of the world.
Ah, I just read your post again, and I noticed the "still a theory" remark, always a dead giveaway of someone who doesn't understand the process of science. So you weren't just kidding - you actually, really cited a Michael Crichton novel as "evidence" against the hard data that was measured in Iceland. The mind boggles.
Er...this is from the link you gave me: "During the past decades, however, they have markedly thinned and retreated owing to a milder climate, and some of the smaller ones have all but vanished."
Okay, are you just kidding around? First you cite a Michael Crichton novel, then you give me a link that directly contradicts your assertion. I thought you were being serious - I guess I missed the joke here? Maybe I'm not so great at picking up sarcasm.
Can you explain how a "theory" differs from "proven science"?
Here's why I ask: you don't prove theories. They are simply the best explanations available for all the available data. So far, relativity, evolutionary theory, Big Bang theory, quantum electrodynamics, and so on have held up in a stellar fashion. Calling something a "theory" in the scientific sense elevates it to the highest degree of certainty there can be. The only controversy around them involves tweaking them as new data appears, and attempting to cloud their acceptance by saying they are "only theories".
So I'd be interested in hearing about this "proven science".
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The parent is a completely offtopic rant. Mods, do your thing.
"Why is this site full of programmers who discount new tools to add to the toolbox out of hand?"
Because they aren't actually programmers. They're kids, hobbyists, and students who want people to see how smart they are, have never written commercial code, and ignore or are unaware of such all-important factors as maintainability and time to market. There's a reason no one pays money for someone to sit there and write PS2 code in vi (as you pointed out), but they can't quite grasp what that reason is.
You don't need admin rights to install Firefox, etc. on Windows. That was his point. This has nothing to do with free software, and everything to do with "Hacked By Chinese" (for those who remember when MS was compromised by Chinese vandals).
How will such a system manage depreciation? Amortization of assets? Automatically deal with purchase orders? These things are mentioned in the requirements. And you simply can't have someone sitting there manually editing the inventory amount every time something gets sold. And what about integration with POS?
Your "solution" MIGHT work for a mom-and-pop shop, but even then, it would be an error-prone, tricky-to-use, work-intensive hassle.
Excellent suggestion, thanks very much.
I'm off on a 4 month holiday, and I'm taking a 3 year old laptop with me to play a few games on during downtime (I travel a lot, and I know from experience how many boring moments there can be). I've never played any games on it, and I need advice as to what games I should buy, since obviously it won't support anything close to the latest and greatest. What older games are there that I should seek out?
2.4 GHz P4, 512M, ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
My ideal game is Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Of course, I can't play it on this laptop, but that should indicate the sort of gameplay I enjoy. Doesn't have to be strictly fantasy, though.
Any suggestions are much appreciated, thanks.
Heh, no worries...I'm having a "no-humour day" at work. Sorry to have misinterpreted you.
No, only in the popular vernacular. In science circles, it's strictly gravitational theory. In scientific parlance, "theory" means "as close to 100% solid fact as we have". That's why evolutionary theory is, well, a theory. The merits of it are really only debated by anti-science cranks and religious types.
Last time I used Gnome, I couldn't figure out how to save a file via sftp from gedit, I think it was. I didn't know you had to create a separate resource (desktop icon) in order to save remotely. How do you deal with that if you're running the app remotely over an X connection? How do you drag and drop from, say, an sftp connection to an ssh connection from within the same filebrowser window, just out of interest?
No, it's not the same in Gnome, trust me. Read his comment again. What he's doing is all from within the file dialogue, and is thus available to any KDE app by default. There is no need to "connect to a server" explicitly, and then manually move the file. I can pop open a file in Kate via fish:// (in fact, I'm doing that right now), edit it, and periodically hit ctrl-s to save. It transparently uploads it to the server via ssh, and I just keep on editing as if it were a local file. There is no need to manually move the file back up to the server, create a local copy, or whatever.
The KDEPrint framework is the same: every app that can print can print to PDF, by default. The dialogue is always the same; everything is very consistent across apps. In KDE, if you've seen one print dialogue, you've literally seen them all. Gnome feels unintegrated by comparison.
That's not what the parent to your post was talking about. He was describing the shortcomings of the extensions.conf language (it sucks), and the need to extend Asterisk with AGI scripts (although I use Python, not Perl). And he's right; Asterisk comes with only very basic business intelligence tools. It's up to you to either script your own, or pay someone to do it for you. Luckily, Asterisk is so flexible and AGI is so easy to use that creating such tools is generally a snap. We have Asterisk doing all kinds of cool stuff (generating voice prompts on the fly, complex CDR, and tons of other stuff), and it wasn't that tough to do at all.
And yes, I work with Asterisk daily, contribute code to the project, etc. Out of the box, it is suitable only for the most basic of use cases.
Er...let me get this straight. Are you seriously equating the DMCA with female infanticide, forced clitorectomies, forced marriages, and on and on? You have to be kidding me. Civil rights concerns != human rights abuses.
Not grumpy at all. I've just wised up a lot, and realised that outlandish appearances are deceptive. Regarding your anecdotal evidence about your wonderful cancer-researching goth chick, that's great. But the vast majority are hilarious idiots. I still hang out with goths all the time, by the way, since a bunch of female friends are lightly connected with that scene. And my impressions are confirmed every weekend when I'm trapped in a room full of them.
Sounds like you're in an unsatisfactory relationship. Does your girlfriend know you'd rather be dating goths? You should stop lying to her.
What sorts of structural injustices does U.S. culture impose on its own citizens that even compares to the examples given by the grandparent? Get a grip, idiot.
Goths are generally fools, university grads or not. Show me anyone who wears their "uniqueness" on their sleeve, and I'll show you the most boring person in the room. "Freaks" are generally mentally impoverished individuals desperate to secure some kind of separation from the masses, not realising that it is deeds, not appearances, that count.
Signed,
Someone who used to date a lot of goth chicks
"OpenOffice.org is written mostly in Java, but its Word Processing ability is a lot more advanced than AjaxWord."
Huh? Last time I checked, it was written in C++. There are a few minor tools that require Java (Report Autopilot, some filters), but nothing that affects core functionality.
Why is the parent comment modded troll? He's absolutely correct. All of the languages that run on the .Net virtual machine are C# with syntactic sugar. Microsoft fully admit this, so the parent is right to suggest that people may as well just write in C#.
Everything that can print in KDE supports exporting to PDF. I can print this very page from Konqueror to a PDF file if I want to.
.doc support. However, I think the hope is that once OpenOffice and KOffice sync up their OpenDocument support, then OpenOffice's .doc support can be used.
The real problem, as you noted, is the
When hasn't it been? Face it, you've got the short end of the logic stick here.
Uuuh, what you describe is called ActiveX, and it's been shown to have certain issues.
Unfortunately, libertarians believe everything should be private property, so things like national parks would be privately owned - and free to be divided up and sold. In theory, ANWAR would be private property also. So as long as no neighbours were affected by, say, polluted water, then the sky is the limit regarding damage because hey, they own it.
Libertarians should stick to the social freedoms thing, because they have lots of good arguments there. When it comes to protecting habitat, what they propose is thus far unworkable because of their simpleminded view of the world.
Ah, I just read your post again, and I noticed the "still a theory" remark, always a dead giveaway of someone who doesn't understand the process of science. So you weren't just kidding - you actually, really cited a Michael Crichton novel as "evidence" against the hard data that was measured in Iceland. The mind boggles.
Er...this is from the link you gave me: "During the past decades, however, they have markedly thinned and retreated owing to a milder climate, and some of the smaller ones have all but vanished."
Okay, are you just kidding around? First you cite a Michael Crichton novel, then you give me a link that directly contradicts your assertion. I thought you were being serious - I guess I missed the joke here? Maybe I'm not so great at picking up sarcasm.
Your assertion contradicts the data. Can you give me a reference to back up your claim?
l As you can see, Iceland's glaciers are in a state of retreat.
Here is the real data: http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/mbb/mbb8/sum0203.htm
Can you explain how a "theory" differs from "proven science"?
Here's why I ask: you don't prove theories. They are simply the best explanations available for all the available data. So far, relativity, evolutionary theory, Big Bang theory, quantum electrodynamics, and so on have held up in a stellar fashion. Calling something a "theory" in the scientific sense elevates it to the highest degree of certainty there can be. The only controversy around them involves tweaking them as new data appears, and attempting to cloud their acceptance by saying they are "only theories".
So I'd be interested in hearing about this "proven science".