Well, it will make funny of all of MSFT's efforts if those same governments now start stepping forward and declare that they want a format supported by at least two compliant implementations. Let's see Microsoft subvert THAT.
You might want to consider breaking that habit. Why? The thinkpad has all the three buttons, which work perfectly well. And I'm using the red joystick, for which the finger movement is minimal.
Really? This has never been a problem for me. Like what? Like command-line history not working properly in Python, windows not maximizing to the whole of desktop, F11 not working on Mozilla (yes, I know it's a conflict with standard Mac key), etc. There were more, I'm just starting to forget that stuff already.
That's odd Well, the standard Python coming with the system was just bare-bones (which sucks - if they include python, why not make it fully functional? I do not want to have several Python distros on the same machine. I needed Crypto, Paramiko (and potentially PyQT), and in the end, I found that I can get everything working under MacPorts python (no, not under fink, and not under the version from python.org), but that took me quite some time to figure out. Granted, I was a Python newbie at that time, but I'm doubtful I'd spend as nearly as much if I switch to another Linux distro (i.e., from apt to rpm-based one).
When you buy new hardware and want to migrate all your files The same process takes me a couple of hours max, including transferring all of my 20G home dir. Yes, for that reason, I tend to stick to defaults as much as I can, and to limit configuration choices to package selection. But the nice point about Linux is that for me, currently this resuls in a system that is quite usable.
By "Linux laptop", I mean a Thinkpad (T60p), which runs Ubuntu. All the hardware support that I care about (i.e., sleep and wireless) is fine.
I'm sorry, I need my right and middle button even when I'm not using an external mouse.
What actually drove me nuts was the little things, like not having normal buttons for PgUp/PgDown, Delete etc. (I know there are shortcuts for that, but hey, I want to concentrate on what I'm doing and not on remembering wild combination for what should be single keys). Also, many of the Unix-land progs had subtle annoyances like confusing modifier keys etc.
And for drag and drop install/uninstall - ha! 99.9% of what I need is available from Apt, and it's so much simpler than drag-and-drop install. Now in Linux, if something is missing and I want to compile from source, I stand a good chance of it just working. In Mac, no.
For instance, I've spent a day trying to find a python install for Mac that would include all the packages I need for my project, while in Linux, well, all of them are just there. And it's only one example. I really, really tried to configure the Mac to my liking, and btw., I see many people around me using them just fine - but not for real work...
BTW., what's a "hardware upgrade mechanism"? Am I missing something?
3D should not be about gaming only. Right now there are 3D-based window managers, and it's not inconceivable to have more real 3D-based applications. The fact that some mainstream cards have problems with drivers does nothing to help these use cases.
I'm extremely surprised they don't use a digital camera these days. Digital has great quality, and a full-frame digital back of the likes of Mamya, while expensive, pays for itself very quickly if you shoot a lot (and they appear to be doing so continuously). Besides, there would be no need to develop the film and scan it.
"We'll write free drivers for your hardware if only you release the specification" - isn't this the same that was always done in Linux kernel? Or is the issue only about signing the NDA to get the specs?
Just downloaded and installed it. Works OK, will try Office 2003.
However, it still has done nothing for international keyboard support:(. Pretty much unusable for me as I use 3 different layouts.
The idea is that you separate two actions: aiming and firing. It gives you the feedback on your aim, and then, when you're satisfied with it, you do the fire action.
It's exactly the same why shooting arrows from a bow is more precise than throwing stones, and why shooting from a rifle is more precise than shooting arrows: the less movement you need after you got your aim, the more exact will the process be.
Not clear if they are missing from the article or from the phone itself...
1. Bluetooth - extremely important for connectivity. 2. Connector. The Qt Greenphone's solution to this is simple and elegant: its only connection is a mini-USB socket.
On the other hand, D-link does not claim their phone to be an open platform - but if it isn't, think if you will be able to install your own VOIP app? And if not, what's the point?
Well, there are people who prefer these. I've been downgraded from a Thinkpad to a Dell:(, and I find the touchpad mightily infcomfortable in comparison to IBM's red nipple. So, even if you prefer one way of doing things, remember that there are lots of people out there, and some might actually disagree with you...
And in any case, a mouse is more convenient than any *pad a laptop can give you. If I had to choose, I'd rather the laptop was supplied with a tiny rechargeable, optical, BT-connected mouse which would somehow dock for storage inside the laptop body (and would maybe have a small slide-out mouse pad for those situations that I'm not working on a table. OK, maybe it should be wired to lessen the chances of having it misplaced.
Well, and there is a significant source of paid programming work that he is (intentionally?) not mentioning.
It's when a company that develops some software product for internal use recognizes that it would benefit if the product is released to the public, even if it is only bug reports that it's going to get, and even if they can never hope to sell (er, should I have said license?) the program.
I myself have participated in several such projects. Moreover, I'm always actively on the lookout for things that would *benefit us* if GPL'ed. I actually have a very easy time convincing people of that. The story goes like this: it happened several times that we took sources of an open project, added to it internally (things like bugfixes, features etc.), but the management refused to release the changes back, citing things like "why should we share our work" and "it's now the company's IP". However, what invariably happened was that our internal source code stagnated, since we found it increasingly hard to migrate our changes whenever the new version of the outside software was released. Ultimately, things came to a screeching halt, when we had no internal updates for a year, while the outside version continued developing. (To be more concrete, one of the examples is when we decided to use XParam (xparam.sf.net).
What I did then, was schedule an appointment with a senior boss and explain him, as clearly as possible, the situation that we got ourselves into. Now, that may be sheer luck, or his good humor at the time, or maybe my persuasiveness:), but I got out of that meeting that, in principle, we are permitted to release any software, provided that we explain that it will not *hurt* the company bottomline (compare to the previous situation, where we had to explain that releasing would *mightily help*, otherwise there was nothing to talk about).
So, to summarize, there's a large source of GPL'ed code coming from paid programmers: it's when companies understand that it serves their interest to make it free rather than keeping it close to the chest. That's not right for any program though...
most companies and users do not want to do that, they want to use functionality.
Right, but then you're free to start a company that specializes in fixing the necessary things in OSS software (that's service, and that's where money is made in Linux). Now imagine starting a service company that provides, er, kernel customizations for Microsoft Windows. Haha.
Who are they hiding the features from?
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Mozilla isn't giving many details on the soon-to-be-launched Firefox 2, but Dotzler says there will be new features not found in current browsers.
It's certainly not from the competitors - since it's still an open source project, Microsoft can get the latest development version, build it and see what new features are there for them to copy. However, we the ordinary users, who don't have time to hunt down the changelog, could use some excitement for the upcoming major release.
This is Davis Wolfgang Hawke, an ex-spammer that lost a $12 million lawsuit from AOL, who are going to seize my $6 million in gold and platinum bars that I've hidden in the area of Boston, MA.
I need to recover the gold bars as soon as possible, before the AOL investigators get a chance to dig them up, however, I am unable to come back to US in fear of being arrested.
To this end, I'm seeking your cooperation. I'm willing to provide you with 10% share of the fortune, which is $600,000 dollars (sig hundred thousand dollars) in gold and platinum bars. Please, this business is extremely urgent and I will need your cooperation soon. I know you are a honest person, because I found your name in one of my extensively verified spam-lists, and I would like to conduct this business with you. You can remain confident that this business is completely safe as there is no risk for you whatsoever, only gains to be made. If you are willing to make this business with me, contact me at grep_shmep_20143@yahoo.com.
It's the same as with easy-to-pick locks: they may prevent access by honest people but are no barrier to real criminals.
Now concerning the license of this soft: do you think any terrorists/spammers/etc., if they need such software, would care to read this license, much less obey it? I'd be SO surprised!
So what you will achieve is (maybe) prevent genuine army forces from using the program - that depends on how you look at these, but these guys are actually busy protecting your ass! And, well, when the choice is kill somebody else or get killed, the decision is easy, at least for me...
With all due respect to Dapper (and a well-deserved one, I'm running it right now and it works fantastically), how is this news? So it will be out in a week - it was known.
Don't understand me wrong. The *NEWS* about it getting delayed was news. The *MORE OR LESS NEWS* about it on the release day is news. But this is just publishing a countdown - what will be next? 5 days to Dapper, 4 days to Dapper,... articles?
And again, this is a very fine Linux distro, which deserves a lot of coverage... but come on!
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Well, it will make funny of all of MSFT's efforts if those same governments now start stepping forward and declare that they want a format supported by at least two compliant implementations. Let's see Microsoft subvert THAT.
Well, given that I open links in new tabs about 50% of the time, you can see why having to use a popup for that is annoying.
By "Linux laptop", I mean a Thinkpad (T60p), which runs Ubuntu. All the hardware support that I care about (i.e., sleep and wireless) is fine. I'm sorry, I need my right and middle button even when I'm not using an external mouse. What actually drove me nuts was the little things, like not having normal buttons for PgUp/PgDown, Delete etc. (I know there are shortcuts for that, but hey, I want to concentrate on what I'm doing and not on remembering wild combination for what should be single keys). Also, many of the Unix-land progs had subtle annoyances like confusing modifier keys etc. And for drag and drop install/uninstall - ha! 99.9% of what I need is available from Apt, and it's so much simpler than drag-and-drop install. Now in Linux, if something is missing and I want to compile from source, I stand a good chance of it just working. In Mac, no. For instance, I've spent a day trying to find a python install for Mac that would include all the packages I need for my project, while in Linux, well, all of them are just there. And it's only one example. I really, really tried to configure the Mac to my liking, and btw., I see many people around me using them just fine - but not for real work... BTW., what's a "hardware upgrade mechanism"? Am I missing something?
I have recently tried to use a MacBookPro.
Yes, it has fink, yes, it can use some of the programs which are so effortlessly available under Ubuntu.
To make long story short, I returned it in disgust and got a Linux laptop instead. So far, all is fine.
Apple might be good for a grandma or for a graphic designer, but for a programmer it's an annoyance.
3D should not be about gaming only. Right now there are 3D-based window managers, and it's not inconceivable to have more real 3D-based applications. The fact that some mainstream cards have problems with drivers does nothing to help these use cases.
Any ideas why they do so?
Yes, if this news is true, expect the standard configurations to come with 2-4 GB of memory. Imagine what a feast it will be under Linux!
"We'll write free drivers for your hardware if only you release the specification" - isn't this the same that was always done in Linux kernel? Or is the issue only about signing the NDA to get the specs?
Just downloaded and installed it. Works OK, will try Office 2003. However, it still has done nothing for international keyboard support :(. Pretty much unusable for me as I use 3 different layouts.
It's called a "Homograph Attack". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
And moreover, I think it's +5 Insightful to note that this comment was posted by an AC.
It's way more precise.
The idea is that you separate two actions: aiming and firing. It gives you the feedback on your aim, and then, when you're satisfied with it, you do the fire action.
It's exactly the same why shooting arrows from a bow is more precise than throwing stones, and why shooting from a rifle is more precise than shooting arrows: the less movement you need after you got your aim, the more exact will the process be.
Except that in animals, most of the K offsprings don't survive long enough to reproduce. Won't happen to humans - and thus the K type will dominate.
"Yahoo is reporting the release of Google Gadgets".
Not clear if they are missing from the article or from the phone itself...
1. Bluetooth - extremely important for connectivity.
2. Connector. The Qt Greenphone's solution to this is simple and elegant: its only connection is a mini-USB socket.
On the other hand, D-link does not claim their phone to be an open platform - but if it isn't, think if you will be able to install your own VOIP app? And if not, what's the point?
Is Linux Kernel compilation. It should rock there, that's an inherently parallelizable task.
:)
As a programmer, I want one. No, I want two
Well, there are people who prefer these. I've been downgraded from a Thinkpad to a Dell :(, and I find the touchpad mightily infcomfortable in comparison to IBM's red nipple. So, even if you prefer one way of doing things, remember that there are lots of people out there, and some might actually disagree with you...
And in any case, a mouse is more convenient than any *pad a laptop can give you. If I had to choose, I'd rather the laptop was supplied with a tiny rechargeable, optical, BT-connected mouse which would somehow dock for storage inside the laptop body (and would maybe have a small slide-out mouse pad for those situations that I'm not working on a table. OK, maybe it should be wired to lessen the chances of having it misplaced.
Well, and there is a significant source of paid programming work that he is (intentionally?) not mentioning. It's when a company that develops some software product for internal use recognizes that it would benefit if the product is released to the public, even if it is only bug reports that it's going to get, and even if they can never hope to sell (er, should I have said license?) the program.
I myself have participated in several such projects. Moreover, I'm always actively on the lookout for things that would *benefit us* if GPL'ed. I actually have a very easy time convincing people of that. The story goes like this: it happened several times that we took sources of an open project, added to it internally (things like bugfixes, features etc.), but the management refused to release the changes back, citing things like "why should we share our work" and "it's now the company's IP". However, what invariably happened was that our internal source code stagnated, since we found it increasingly hard to migrate our changes whenever the new version of the outside software was released. Ultimately, things came to a screeching halt, when we had no internal updates for a year, while the outside version continued developing. (To be more concrete, one of the examples is when we decided to use XParam (xparam.sf.net).
What I did then, was schedule an appointment with a senior boss and explain him, as clearly as possible, the situation that we got ourselves into. Now, that may be sheer luck, or his good humor at the time, or maybe my persuasiveness :), but I got out of that meeting that, in principle, we are permitted to release any software, provided that we explain that it will not *hurt* the company bottomline (compare to the previous situation, where we had to explain that releasing would *mightily help*, otherwise there was nothing to talk about).
So, to summarize, there's a large source of GPL'ed code coming from paid programmers: it's when companies understand that it serves their interest to make it free rather than keeping it close to the chest. That's not right for any program though...
Dear Sir,
This is Davis Wolfgang Hawke, an ex-spammer that lost a $12 million lawsuit from AOL, who are going to seize my $6 million in gold and platinum bars that I've hidden in the area of Boston, MA.
I need to recover the gold bars as soon as possible, before the AOL investigators get a chance to dig them up, however, I am unable to come back to US in fear of being arrested.
To this end, I'm seeking your cooperation. I'm willing to provide you with 10% share of the fortune, which is $600,000 dollars (sig hundred thousand dollars) in gold and platinum bars. Please, this business is extremely urgent and I will need your cooperation soon. I know you are a honest person, because I found your name in one of my extensively verified spam-lists, and I would like to conduct this business with you. You can remain confident that this business is completely safe as there is no risk for you whatsoever, only gains to be made. If you are willing to make this business with me, contact me at grep_shmep_20143@yahoo.com.
Best Regards,
Davis
It's the same as with easy-to-pick locks: they may prevent access by honest people but are no barrier to real criminals.
Now concerning the license of this soft: do you think any terrorists/spammers/etc., if they need such software, would care to read this license, much less obey it? I'd be SO surprised!
So what you will achieve is (maybe) prevent genuine army forces from using the program - that depends on how you look at these, but these guys are actually busy protecting your ass! And, well, when the choice is kill somebody else or get killed, the decision is easy, at least for me...
"People who use apt-get from CLI surely know the commands, but it's hebrew to people who never used it."
:).
Hebrew is not such a hard language to learn, I did that myself
Here in Israel we say "chinese" when we mean "something hard to learn"
With all due respect to Dapper (and a well-deserved one, I'm running it right now and it works fantastically), how is this news? So it will be out in a week - it was known. Don't understand me wrong. The *NEWS* about it getting delayed was news. The *MORE OR LESS NEWS* about it on the release day is news. But this is just publishing a countdown - what will be next? 5 days to Dapper, 4 days to Dapper, ... articles?
And again, this is a very fine Linux distro, which deserves a lot of coverage... but come on!