Hey, several of my favoruite Windows apps are in Qt (e.g. from my WinXP days: "Launchy", and current versions of TweetDeck and Calibre).
Qt-on-Windows runtime installs much like the Visual C++ runtime, and that, for me, is preferable over any app done in Java/Perl/Python, as I don't have to clutter up my system with RTEs (that are all too often supporting a single app)
...and not one annoying "time to update your runtime... AGAIN"... ever!
Maybe the guy's equipment is always failing because he's in need of a power conditioner.
A/C, old refrigerators, big TV sets, space heaters, guitar amps can all do nasty things to electrical equipment that is running in the same room/from the same outlet.
It's not precisely "tit-for-tat" since these measures were agreed upon by both sides.
IIRC, the news coverage about these decisions said the point was to have the same rules on both sides of the border to reduce the confusion about when/how to apply the rules.
They don't care because it's been a while since NASA has really done anything interesting.
But that's a completely subjective point of view! I, for one, look forward to when NASA publishes new Hubble Telescope images. To me, that is interesting.
...The parent post was right, its youth and short-sightedness and it will change in time.
Honestly, if they left VBA in we'd be questioning M$ for persisting to include a platform that has been notoriously insecure.
Considering that Office 2007 is including InfoPath and Groove as alternatives to distributing forms one has to believe that M$ first move away from VBA is not their last. Frankly having done many Office automation projects over the years I can say that VBA is quite a programming limitation, difficult to scale and prone to memory leaks.
As for alternatives, I have yet to find a management-type who wouldn't leap at the offer of replacing a stodgy, circa-1995 automated Word document with some sort of web-based application instead. For that matter, you can be outside of the M$ camp entirely by rolling out the replacements in PHP, JSP, Struts or FlashMX.
Four horsemen arrived in Seattle today. When approached one horseman was quoted:
Sorry guys, we could have arrived sooner to put a stop to this but we couldn't find a flight in time that would take the horses-- not even Southwestern. Besides, Horseman Tim is afraid of snakes.
So, to wrap it up:
Dogs and cats are sleeping together
Pat Robertson simultaneously converts to Judaism and Islam.
Osama gets laid, changes his mind about destroying world.
...No seriously. If you join an IT department where you're the "big fish in a small pond" people will start to notice, they'll give you the tough jobs (note: NOT read as "fun" or "challenging") and because the rest of the IT department is crap they'll pile it on and I mean it. If you find the right place (i.e. the worst place) they'll stack it up and then slam you for not getting it all done sooner.
Instead of sinking under all that work, it will become you're motivation to raise your game and plow on through. You'll find new techniques to get work done, you'll learn to identify the patterns that get work done in the department and you'll invent new processes out of those patterns. When you start to succeed, you'll master your job and maybe a programming language or two.
Then when you're feeling confident about your skills, QUIT that job and go join a firm with a good reputation, knowing full well you're ready to play with the big boys.
But seriously, don't go searching for a book or learning material. Search for MOTIVATION. It's through motivation that we test how much weight we can pull and it's motivation that will select the subjects that we want to study the most.
Thanks for noticing... I figure Newtons is a measure of kinetic energy so if I'm sitting here reading/. I'm pretty much stationary and therefore exerting 0 Newtons... but don't take my word for it, the last time I took physics doing the "Running Man" was cool.
Having many failed recordings from my garage-band days I'd suggest that the hissing is a symptom of an audio source that has a very weak signal/low volume and a recording device that's got its gain turned very high.
I don't know Mac so good but I'd look for a master audio applet, and check if the volume control for your WAV output is set too low, and check the microphone applet's volume control for being set very high.
Just like writing an essay, it's always better to work with a first draft and a final draft.
Utilizing two languages in the development process guarantees that however complete the Matlab version is, you still require a port over to C++. This becomes a natural opportunity to refactor and re-analyze the original work as you proceed to your final draft.
What's astonishing to me is that your management seems to tolerate you writing the application twice. If that's really so, please tell me where to contact your HR department and send in a resume. A company that's balancing "getting it right" with "getting it out the door" is common enough for my liking.
Scene: Adobe Acrobat comes home after a hard day of making side-deals with other companies and binging on smaller applications. Once, Acrobat would have leapt up the stairs to reach his 2nd-floor apartment. Once upon a time this valued member of the community helped countless others read and share documents. But now, after years of bloat, Acrobat reaches his second floor apartment sweating and turning purple in the face. He wipes the sweat from his eyes and unlocks the door to his apartment to find all his friends there...
Acrobat: Wha... what are all you guyes doing here?
Photoshop: Acrobat, first we'd like to say the-- WE LOVE YOU... Everybody in this room loves you... And we're worried... about YOU.
Acrobat: What's going on?
Photshop: Acrobat, you have to stop this.
Acrobat: Stop what? What do you mean "stop"? Stop what?
Photoshop: Here, read this...
Acrobat: Humm... RrrRRrrrrRrr... Humm... Would you mind if I just call the office and make sure there's no updates before I read you this document? No? Ok, but there' could be a security issue.... Hummm... RrRrrRRrr... Hummm...
Foxit: Give me that! [Snatches document from Acrobat's hands] You know what this says, Adobe? It says you've put on weight... AGAIN. No one can remember the last time you were under 10Mb! And at this rate, you'll be pushing 30Mb by the end of the year!
Acrobat: Hey! Today's document rendering world is COMPLEX, I've just be putting on a little extra CODE to get the job done!
Foxit: Oh that is such bullshit Acrobat! I do nearly everything you do, and I'm still under 3Mb!
Photoshop: Acrobat, it's time you admitted you have a problem. For starters, you're going to have to stop haning around with those Google and Yahoo kids, they're TROUBLE.
Foxit:...and here's some reading material on how to curb your bloat [drops large pile of documents in Acrobat's lap]
Photoshop: Foxit, oh god no! Acrobat hasn't been able to manage documents of that size for years, he's so out-of-shape! What have you done? Call 9-1-1!
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Trent Reznor is in the business of making cat videos? That's news to me.
Hey, several of my favoruite Windows apps are in Qt (e.g. from my WinXP days: "Launchy", and current versions of TweetDeck and Calibre).
Qt-on-Windows runtime installs much like the Visual C++ runtime, and that, for me, is preferable over any app done in Java/Perl/Python, as I don't have to clutter up my system with RTEs (that are all too often supporting a single app)
...and not one annoying "time to update your runtime... AGAIN" ... ever!
"Send more pigeons"
...you're welcome.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop posting on /.
Well of course there was no recipe-- that cake was a proprietary, closed-source dessert.
Will we be hearing alot of "How did that get there?" as versions of BSD get patched up?
That is, wouldn't somebody in the past quarter century have exploited this bug to hide a malicious executable file or two?
Not sayin', just wonderin'...
Try a little less Old Spice before putting on the spacesuit...
Maybe the guy's equipment is always failing because he's in need of a power conditioner.
A/C, old refrigerators, big TV sets, space heaters, guitar amps can all do nasty things to electrical equipment that is running in the same room/from the same outlet.
OSQ: Hello, this is Happy Dude. If you'd like to know more, send one dollar to: "Happy Dude", P.O. Box 14, Springfield. ... You have the power.
600 million pounds? Oh right, opposition MPs in the UK in will say anything to get in the papers.
I'm not saying its impossible to be greener than Windows, but 600mil is likely way overstated considering the source.
IIRC, the news coverage about these decisions said the point was to have the same rules on both sides of the border to reduce the confusion about when/how to apply the rules.
Very true! ...Wag the Dog.
But that's a completely subjective point of view! I, for one, look forward to when NASA publishes new Hubble Telescope images. To me, that is interesting.
...The parent post was right, its youth and short-sightedness and it will change in time.
Honestly, if they left VBA in we'd be questioning M$ for persisting to include a platform that has been notoriously insecure.
Considering that Office 2007 is including InfoPath and Groove as alternatives to distributing forms one has to believe that M$ first move away from VBA is not their last. Frankly having done many Office automation projects over the years I can say that VBA is quite a programming limitation, difficult to scale and prone to memory leaks.
As for alternatives, I have yet to find a management-type who wouldn't leap at the offer of replacing a stodgy, circa-1995 automated Word document with some sort of web-based application instead. For that matter, you can be outside of the M$ camp entirely by rolling out the replacements in PHP, JSP, Struts or FlashMX.
...And in yet more news:
Four horsemen arrived in Seattle today. When approached one horseman was quoted:
So, to wrap it up:
...No seriously. If you join an IT department where you're the "big fish in a small pond" people will start to notice, they'll give you the tough jobs (note: NOT read as "fun" or "challenging") and because the rest of the IT department is crap they'll pile it on and I mean it. If you find the right place (i.e. the worst place) they'll stack it up and then slam you for not getting it all done sooner.
Instead of sinking under all that work, it will become you're motivation to raise your game and plow on through. You'll find new techniques to get work done, you'll learn to identify the patterns that get work done in the department and you'll invent new processes out of those patterns. When you start to succeed, you'll master your job and maybe a programming language or two.
Then when you're feeling confident about your skills, QUIT that job and go join a firm with a good reputation, knowing full well you're ready to play with the big boys.
But seriously, don't go searching for a book or learning material. Search for MOTIVATION. It's through motivation that we test how much weight we can pull and it's motivation that will select the subjects that we want to study the most.
...When the system crashed, you knew it crashed. That's how we lost Ug, we really miss Ug.
Thanks for noticing... I figure Newtons is a measure of kinetic energy so if I'm sitting here reading /. I'm pretty much stationary and therefore exerting 0 Newtons... but don't take my word for it, the last time I took physics doing the "Running Man" was cool.
You young punks and blue-screens-of-panic blah, blah blah!
...In my day, we didn't even HAVE screens, just a blinking light and if that light ever stopped blinking, you knew there was trouble, boy...
I don't know Mac so good but I'd look for a master audio applet, and check if the volume control for your WAV output is set too low, and check the microphone applet's volume control for being set very high.
Utilizing two languages in the development process guarantees that however complete the Matlab version is, you still require a port over to C++. This becomes a natural opportunity to refactor and re-analyze the original work as you proceed to your final draft.
What's astonishing to me is that your management seems to tolerate you writing the application twice. If that's really so, please tell me where to contact your HR department and send in a resume. A company that's balancing "getting it right" with "getting it out the door" is common enough for my liking.
Three words: tin foil hats.
Scene: Adobe Acrobat comes home after a hard day of making side-deals with other companies and binging on smaller applications. Once, Acrobat would have leapt up the stairs to reach his 2nd-floor apartment. Once upon a time this valued member of the community helped countless others read and share documents. But now, after years of bloat, Acrobat reaches his second floor apartment sweating and turning purple in the face. He wipes the sweat from his eyes and unlocks the door to his apartment to find all his friends there...
...and here's some reading material on how to curb your bloat [drops large pile of documents in Acrobat's lap]
Acrobat: Wha... what are all you guyes doing here?
Photoshop: Acrobat, first we'd like to say the-- WE LOVE YOU... Everybody in this room loves you... And we're worried... about YOU.
Acrobat: What's going on?
Photshop: Acrobat, you have to stop this.
Acrobat: Stop what? What do you mean "stop"? Stop what?
Photoshop: Here, read this...
Acrobat: Humm... RrrRRrrrrRrr... Humm... Would you mind if I just call the office and make sure there's no updates before I read you this document? No? Ok, but there' could be a security issue.... Hummm... RrRrrRRrr... Hummm...
Foxit: Give me that! [Snatches document from Acrobat's hands] You know what this says, Adobe? It says you've put on weight... AGAIN. No one can remember the last time you were under 10Mb! And at this rate, you'll be pushing 30Mb by the end of the year!
Acrobat: Hey! Today's document rendering world is COMPLEX, I've just be putting on a little extra CODE to get the job done!
Foxit: Oh that is such bullshit Acrobat! I do nearly everything you do, and I'm still under 3Mb!
Photoshop: Acrobat, it's time you admitted you have a problem. For starters, you're going to have to stop haning around with those Google and Yahoo kids, they're TROUBLE.
Foxit:
Photoshop: Foxit, oh god no! Acrobat hasn't been able to manage documents of that size for years, he's so out-of-shape! What have you done? Call 9-1-1!
End scene