No insult to you, but living in Austria, you are the first person Ive heard of of being mugged in Vienna.
After the first time of being mugged, you should have thought about what was going on.
I think, the more dangerous look automatically comes with age, simply once you hit the 30s, you should have developed enough natural muscles (no matter if you workout or not) and one morning shave less and nobody will try to touch you.
But looking more on the dangerous side can really help, no matter which country, having a bald skull is excellent in this regard, but also to look more on the bum side of life if you are on a tour helps to avoid muggers.
and the best advice I can give you is to dress poorly, and look a little bit more on the rundown side while traveling, and for gods sake, try to avoid to look like a tourist.
that doesnt help with getting laid, but helps a lot at least in the western hemisphere to be avoided by muggers.
IBM has a lot of opensource going on.
Their main line of opensource things, besides their kernel stuff is, that they employ a lot of the samba developers full time, and dont forget the myriads of things around eclipse, which is their baby to 100%.
Was a cultural thing in the greek believe. Only heroes could get a semi pleasent afterlife in hades and only a handful were able to achieve god state and didnt have to endure pain and hopelessness in hades.
The problem of the total warfare was, that it basically brought down greek culture to its knees several times and eradicated it almost, also several times.
The pan hellenic war which started as the two superpowers athens and sparta went after each other basically brought decades of huge decline over the greek peninsula, the states of the old cold never recover fully and athens basically was led into semi oblivion.
Greek got another golden age of a few years during Alexanders time, his father was able for the first time in history to unit the hellenic peninsula and they brought the warfare into the middle east and asia. There is no need to mention that after alexanders deadh, everything fell apart and the greek culture declined due to constant warfares again before being safed from total desdruction of itself by the romans.
The real greek culture which was able to survive basically was the greek eastern roman empire, which was brought down the warfare of the surrounding states, but the eastern roman empire was one of the keys that civilization could survive by being a constant source of copies of the old greek and romand philosophers.
Greece is a typical example on how constant warfare can bring a civilization to its knees and almost to its collapse.
First of all, I have a mild form of that disease, I am/was able to integrate it into my life and cope most of the time without meds.
But depending on the severity meds are very important, Schizophrenia can be a constant nightmare for people who have to deal with it and even more for people who suffer from it.
All I can say is, inform yourself, your sister should do the same start a therapy and depending on the severity of her schizophrenia consult a psychiatrist to discuss medication.
But be warned most of the schizo medication has sideeffects, depending on the meds. Most of them make tired and some of them make constantly hungry, so a constant workout schedule is required.
But one thing your sister should not do, is to give in and do nothing, you can live with it, you can get out, but if you do nothing, then you run into a horrible nightmare. Also have in mind that the suicide rate of schizophrenics is very high.
Well 20% performance loss is bad, but newer microkernels are much better in this regard, I just had a look at the L4linux page, they use a linux personality on a mikrokernel and claim only a performance loss of 4% to the plain 2.4 kernel, which is not too shabby given the advantages you get from the design in the long term.
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/index.sht ml
Is an example of a Linux personality running on a mikrokernel architecture.
I havent had a look at it, but the developers claim only a performance penalty of 4% to the monolithic makro kernel standard Linux has.
Actually, since the interview is not reachable anymore, I assume it is right what you said.
But Tannenbaum is right in his sense, a Makrokernel does not really make that much sense, it is easier to program because you simply have method calls instead of messages, but you run into driver compiles, crashes due to the strong binding etc...
Mach at least in its early incarnations was not the best example of a Microkernel, neither is the vaporware hurd, which probably will be finished in about 100 years, but improved Mach kernels derived from newer incarnations already have shown how powerful and stable the concept can be,
Two words:AIX and MacOSX both based on Mach kernels and both excellent and fast operating systems.
Ahem, no date parsing is close to impossible to be screwed up in java, there have been functions for this kind of thing since jdk 1.2 which has been out since 99 or so.
Ntfs does not fragment that strongly as long as you dont hit the 90% full mark of your disk, once you reach that, see the files becoming fragmented in no time.
NTFS uses the open space for write access and then probably relocates the files in time, once it hits 90% the open space usage algorithm does not seem to work anymore.
The bill has to pass the EU parliament a second time, make your voice heard. Soon are elections (mid june) check out which politions oppose the software patents, write to your representatives of various parties and try to make your voice heard. And for christs sake, go voting this time, the EU parliament usually has a low voting percentage, strengthen those who oppose this bill. People like McCarty, Fortou and Boelkstein have to be voted out or at least weakened.
And for all citizens in the new nations in the EU, please do the same, you now have a good chance to get your economy up, but this bill would cause the same problems in your countries as it does over here in the good ole, west.
Please dont harm them, there are better animals who can do this job.
Politians, CEOs, Lawyers...
Ok, all of these species are less intelligent, but they are perfectly suitable for doing this job.
Face it, there were civilications which went under, for instance Santorini comes to mind.
But Atlantis is a myth.
Plato used Atlantis basically as an example to prove his points, just like the discussions which Aristoteles in his books only probably existed to a certain degree in real life.
Using stuff like this, like putting words into his friends mouth which he probably never said, but were close to what he would have said, are part of Platos philosophical techniques.
Plato is a philosopher, basically one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy, but not a historian, and never was and never intended to be one!
First of all Evolution is a Linux only program, and face it around 90% of the desktops are Windows.
Most Linux users use Evolution, but most Windows users simply dont have the choice to use it:-)
Because somebody posted, that ALSA is the solution to the mess.
Alsa is a mess on its own.
First you have the drivers, fine, then you have a butload of cryptic config files, additionally you have a daemon process and on top of that because alsa does not enforce multiplexing on driver level you have to add your usual sound daemon which basically blocks out the low level driver interface for non daemon apps.
I still havent figured how you can plug a software midi synth on top of this mess so that it works seamlessly for all the other apps.
This thing is hilarious. OSS did defenitely many things wrong, but one thing it did right, you just started the driver and you had sound or not!
What we would need probably would be something like that ( I posted this on osnews also)
start soundcard driver
start optional midi driver for the software synth, and be done...
No daemon processes no sound servers nothing...
Alsa is a typical piece of total overdesign on the user level, it might be excellent for sound technitians but from a user point of view this thing is even a bigger mess than the XFree configuration!
The xpi can become ans slowly is becoming a problem, according to posts in this thread.
I personally think, either sandbox the extensions or simply add an xpi blocker which can be bypassed for certain sites in a whitelist.
Dont get this into the wrong throat, NoMachine is an excellent solution, but compared to RDP on Windows it still is not as good.
The problem is really in the X protocol itself which needs a serious overhaul. The basic idea is excellent and much better than what Windows does
(windows basically streams the desktop with additional meta data for controls to reduce overhead)
Mx does basically the same.
The problem in X is the protocol which is to low level and to much reliant on low latency.
NoMachine MX reduces those problems to a certain degree but the problem still is that it basically just cures symptoms not the cause. Maybe one day Cairo will solve those problems.
Wo does really want to have a game character who grows insane once a month and the other time constantly cleans around the house and starts to nag and bitch at every pixel in the wrong position:-)
Nokia failed due to poor design with the first one. The idea itself is excellent.
Most people carry around a cellphone, and most cellphones have games, but due to the lousy controls they usually are unplayable. But believe me cellphone gaming is a huge market over here in Europe and I think in Asia as well.
The problem is not that the device is a hybrid, most people hate to carry around 2-3 devices because the manufacturers dont want to take the risk of trying new markets. The problem was the lousy execution on nokias part. The NGage failed for several reasons one is the bad design, the other one that Nokia is not known as a console producer. But dont dismiss the idea, the future lies in combined PDA-Gamemachine-Cellphone Combinations, there is no other way.
That depends on the situation, over here the SWT is significantly slower than any Swing app.
But that speed difference can be attributed to the slowlyness of GTK2 compared the the Blackdown 1.4.2 Swing implementation.
The swt itself performs more or less as fast as the underlying gui toolkit does since it only is a meta layer over existing toolkits.
On windows Swing and SWT performe slightly the same, with the SWT being better integrated but Swing being more flexible with its pluggable look and feel system.
And on the mac I think it makes no difference, since Swing on the Mac is fast and tightly integrated into Aqua.
You said two years ago, that was before 1.4. Java, well Swing is getting better. There were two factors you encountered back then. Swing back then was less optimized than it is today, and back then Swing didnt revert to the underlying hardware acceleration but the the Windows native toolkits already did.
The situation currently is more or less, that the speed difference in Swing compared to native toolkits is neglectable and in some cases even better. The reason for this is, that Swing now reverts to hardware acceleration for its 2d drawing functions and the library is better optimized.
The current situation is following: Windows JDK 1.4: Speed difference neglegtable and acceptable Windows JDK 1.5: Speed difference barely visible at all
Linux: JDK 1.4 Sun: Swing is still much slower than every other toolkit but has acceptable speed Linux Sun JDK 1.5: Swing is faster but still slower than GTK2 (havent tried the OpenGL option yet) Linux Blackdown 1.4.2RC1: Swing is faster than GTK2 and a tad slower than Qt Mac: no noticable speed difference since 1.4, in fact with a little bit of tweaking you dont notice any difference to nativ apps at all due to the excellent L&F Apple provides.
So the situation is not that bad as everbody shouts. The funny thing is most people who scream Java is slow, Java guis are slow neither have seen the SWT in action nor have probably seen a post JDK 1.3 JDK, their knowledge basically is outdated by more than two years.
Over here we slowly are moving away from web based guis, due to the imminent fork of Microsoft with HTML which currently is in the beginning stages and will be completed with Longhorn. Swing has become fast enough and is very flexible.
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the biggest secret of history will be revealed, were the old atlanteans already able to cook pancakes :-)
The bards tale seems to have come to an end...
No insult to you, but living in Austria, you are the first person Ive heard of of being mugged in Vienna. After the first time of being mugged, you should have thought about what was going on. I think, the more dangerous look automatically comes with age, simply once you hit the 30s, you should have developed enough natural muscles (no matter if you workout or not) and one morning shave less and nobody will try to touch you. But looking more on the dangerous side can really help, no matter which country, having a bald skull is excellent in this regard, but also to look more on the bum side of life if you are on a tour helps to avoid muggers.
and the best advice I can give you is to dress poorly, and look a little bit more on the rundown side while traveling, and for gods sake, try to avoid to look like a tourist. that doesnt help with getting laid, but helps a lot at least in the western hemisphere to be avoided by muggers.
IBM has a lot of opensource going on. Their main line of opensource things, besides their kernel stuff is, that they employ a lot of the samba developers full time, and dont forget the myriads of things around eclipse, which is their baby to 100%.
Was a cultural thing in the greek believe. Only heroes could get a semi pleasent afterlife in hades and only a handful were able to achieve god state and didnt have to endure pain and hopelessness in hades.
The problem of the total warfare was, that it basically brought down greek culture to its knees several times and eradicated it almost, also several times.
The pan hellenic war which started as the two superpowers athens and sparta went after each other basically brought decades of huge decline over the greek peninsula, the states of the old cold never recover fully and athens basically was led into semi oblivion.
Greek got another golden age of a few years during Alexanders time, his father was able for the first time in history to unit the hellenic peninsula and they brought the warfare into the middle east and asia. There is no need to mention that after alexanders deadh, everything fell apart and the greek culture declined due to constant warfares again before being safed from total desdruction of itself by the romans.
The real greek culture which was able to survive basically was the greek eastern roman empire, which was brought down the warfare of the surrounding states, but the eastern roman empire was one of the keys that civilization could survive by being a constant source of copies of the old greek and romand philosophers.
Greece is a typical example on how constant warfare can bring a civilization to its knees and almost to its collapse.
First of all, I have a mild form of that disease, I am/was able to integrate it into my life and cope most of the time without meds. But depending on the severity meds are very important, Schizophrenia can be a constant nightmare for people who have to deal with it and even more for people who suffer from it. All I can say is, inform yourself, your sister should do the same start a therapy and depending on the severity of her schizophrenia consult a psychiatrist to discuss medication. But be warned most of the schizo medication has sideeffects, depending on the meds. Most of them make tired and some of them make constantly hungry, so a constant workout schedule is required. But one thing your sister should not do, is to give in and do nothing, you can live with it, you can get out, but if you do nothing, then you run into a horrible nightmare. Also have in mind that the suicide rate of schizophrenics is very high.
Well 20% performance loss is bad, but newer microkernels are much better in this regard, I just had a look at the L4linux page, they use a linux personality on a mikrokernel and claim only a performance loss of 4% to the plain 2.4 kernel, which is not too shabby given the advantages you get from the design in the long term.
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/index.sht ml
Is an example of a Linux personality running on a mikrokernel architecture.
I havent had a look at it, but the developers claim only a performance penalty of 4% to the monolithic makro kernel standard Linux has.
Actually, since the interview is not reachable anymore, I assume it is right what you said. But Tannenbaum is right in his sense, a Makrokernel does not really make that much sense, it is easier to program because you simply have method calls instead of messages, but you run into driver compiles, crashes due to the strong binding etc... Mach at least in its early incarnations was not the best example of a Microkernel, neither is the vaporware hurd, which probably will be finished in about 100 years, but improved Mach kernels derived from newer incarnations already have shown how powerful and stable the concept can be, Two words:AIX and MacOSX both based on Mach kernels and both excellent and fast operating systems.
Ahem, no date parsing is close to impossible to be screwed up in java, there have been functions for this kind of thing since jdk 1.2 which has been out since 99 or so.
Ntfs does not fragment that strongly as long as you dont hit the 90% full mark of your disk, once you reach that, see the files becoming fragmented in no time. NTFS uses the open space for write access and then probably relocates the files in time, once it hits 90% the open space usage algorithm does not seem to work anymore.
How ea always manges to get rid of the competition by the quality of their products! :-(
The bill has to pass the EU parliament a second time, make your voice heard.
Soon are elections (mid june)
check out which politions oppose the software patents, write to your representatives of various parties and try to make your voice heard.
And for christs sake, go voting this time, the EU parliament usually has a low voting percentage, strengthen those who oppose this bill.
People like McCarty, Fortou and Boelkstein have to be voted out or at least weakened.
And for all citizens in the new nations in the EU, please do the same, you now have a good chance to get your economy up, but this bill would cause the same problems in your countries as it does over here in the good ole, west.
Please dont harm them, there are better animals who can do this job. Politians, CEOs, Lawyers... Ok, all of these species are less intelligent, but they are perfectly suitable for doing this job.
They had the base for appliances like these in their portfolio with the Cobalt line, but they dropped the ball a few years ago.
Face it, there were civilications which went under, for instance Santorini comes to mind. But Atlantis is a myth. Plato used Atlantis basically as an example to prove his points, just like the discussions which Aristoteles in his books only probably existed to a certain degree in real life. Using stuff like this, like putting words into his friends mouth which he probably never said, but were close to what he would have said, are part of Platos philosophical techniques. Plato is a philosopher, basically one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy, but not a historian, and never was and never intended to be one!
First of all Evolution is a Linux only program, and face it around 90% of the desktops are Windows. Most Linux users use Evolution, but most Windows users simply dont have the choice to use it :-)
Because somebody posted, that ALSA is the solution to the mess. Alsa is a mess on its own. First you have the drivers, fine, then you have a butload of cryptic config files, additionally you have a daemon process and on top of that because alsa does not enforce multiplexing on driver level you have to add your usual sound daemon which basically blocks out the low level driver interface for non daemon apps. I still havent figured how you can plug a software midi synth on top of this mess so that it works seamlessly for all the other apps. This thing is hilarious. OSS did defenitely many things wrong, but one thing it did right, you just started the driver and you had sound or not! What we would need probably would be something like that ( I posted this on osnews also) start soundcard driver start optional midi driver for the software synth, and be done... No daemon processes no sound servers nothing... Alsa is a typical piece of total overdesign on the user level, it might be excellent for sound technitians but from a user point of view this thing is even a bigger mess than the XFree configuration!
The xpi can become ans slowly is becoming a problem, according to posts in this thread. I personally think, either sandbox the extensions or simply add an xpi blocker which can be bypassed for certain sites in a whitelist.
Dont get this into the wrong throat, NoMachine is an excellent solution, but compared to RDP on Windows it still is not as good. The problem is really in the X protocol itself which needs a serious overhaul. The basic idea is excellent and much better than what Windows does (windows basically streams the desktop with additional meta data for controls to reduce overhead) Mx does basically the same. The problem in X is the protocol which is to low level and to much reliant on low latency. NoMachine MX reduces those problems to a certain degree but the problem still is that it basically just cures symptoms not the cause. Maybe one day Cairo will solve those problems.
Wo does really want to have a game character who grows insane once a month and the other time constantly cleans around the house and starts to nag and bitch at every pixel in the wrong position :-)
Nokia failed due to poor design with the first one. The idea itself is excellent. Most people carry around a cellphone, and most cellphones have games, but due to the lousy controls they usually are unplayable. But believe me cellphone gaming is a huge market over here in Europe and I think in Asia as well. The problem is not that the device is a hybrid, most people hate to carry around 2-3 devices because the manufacturers dont want to take the risk of trying new markets. The problem was the lousy execution on nokias part. The NGage failed for several reasons one is the bad design, the other one that Nokia is not known as a console producer. But dont dismiss the idea, the future lies in combined PDA-Gamemachine-Cellphone Combinations, there is no other way.
That depends on the situation, over here the SWT is significantly slower than any Swing app. But that speed difference can be attributed to the slowlyness of GTK2 compared the the Blackdown 1.4.2 Swing implementation. The swt itself performs more or less as fast as the underlying gui toolkit does since it only is a meta layer over existing toolkits. On windows Swing and SWT performe slightly the same, with the SWT being better integrated but Swing being more flexible with its pluggable look and feel system. And on the mac I think it makes no difference, since Swing on the Mac is fast and tightly integrated into Aqua.
You said two years ago, that was before 1.4.
Java, well Swing is getting better.
There were two factors you encountered back then.
Swing back then was less optimized than it is today, and back then Swing didnt revert to the underlying hardware acceleration but the the Windows native toolkits already did.
The situation currently is more or less, that the speed difference in Swing compared to native toolkits is neglectable and in some cases even better.
The reason for this is, that Swing now reverts to hardware acceleration for its 2d drawing functions and the library is better optimized.
The current situation is following:
Windows JDK 1.4: Speed difference neglegtable and acceptable
Windows JDK 1.5: Speed difference barely visible at all
Linux: JDK 1.4 Sun: Swing is still much slower than every other toolkit but has acceptable speed
Linux Sun JDK 1.5: Swing is faster but still slower than GTK2 (havent tried the OpenGL option yet)
Linux Blackdown 1.4.2RC1: Swing is faster than GTK2 and a tad slower than Qt
Mac: no noticable speed difference since 1.4, in fact with a little bit of tweaking you dont notice any difference to nativ apps at all due to the excellent L&F Apple provides.
So the situation is not that bad as everbody shouts. The funny thing is most people who scream Java is slow, Java guis are slow neither have seen the SWT in action nor have probably seen a post JDK 1.3 JDK, their knowledge basically is outdated by more than two years.
Over here we slowly are moving away from web based guis, due to the imminent fork of Microsoft with HTML which currently is in the beginning stages and will be completed with Longhorn.
Swing has become fast enough and is very flexible.