Sadly the games industry is using less and less programmers, and more and more artists (so good for the artists at least). Look at major 3d games titles at the moment, and you have a small core team of developers (often as few as 10, normally more though) and, for the larger titles at least, 100+ 3d artists. With more and more games projects being based on generic engines and toolkits, and the serious lack of optimisation going into games (PC rather than consoles on that front) pretty soon there will be only a few of us left. Programming is also being outsourced from britain/us to places with cheaper, talented programmers in Italy and the like.
Ive had multiple tomcat servers running on a sunfire E6800 (24 processor, 32GB ram etc..) under solaris using j2ee 1.3 and they have all been working fine, not one single server failure. One of which is a webapp server that has a variety of apps running on it, and the other is essentially an 'xml server' used for a varitey of applications (globus, grid computing etc). Theses are both based on tomcat 4.0, and there are some more running but i forget which version of tomcat they use
Fair enough it might be intimidating to a 'new' user, but its the only installer ive ever used that offers me the flexibility i need. Ive used mandrake, SuSE, lycoris, corel and red hat and with any of those distributions it is impossible to do something that the devlopers didnt think of in advance. Debians installer lets you configure your system in as much detail as you want, and install from a large variety of mediums (various network, physical etc). All in all, id be suprised to see anyone improve it, making it graphical is just eye candy, you cant provide anything 'extra', you just make it more pleasing to the eye.
Initial support for everquest has been added, and there is some functionality in place, but transgaming do NOT support everquest yet nor does everquest work properly yet. Going on previous track record for transgaming though everquest support will likely be finished by the next release.
A google search appliance sounds like it would suit the needs for at least your search requirements. It can also look through MS Office documents (i assume these get emailed to you) and PDF documents and display them as HTML in your browser. With regard to your letters, Clara OCR is free (as in beer, not sure as in speech) for linux (is debian packaged anyway).
$0.50 for the musician? You are very opptimistic. Try more like $0.0005 per CD after the music company has regained ALL costs. Most musicians are lucky to see two bob in royalties.
When (if?) this is ported to other OS's (specifically linux) we will have yet another great filesystem. Im starting to see all those 'linux/bsd/whatever' isnt ready for the enterprise arguments slipping away. Still, why a boat needs a OS is beyond me.
You sell the business - the employees, the sales channels, the contacts. The buying company gets to continue the business with minimum fuss, and can bring the changes they want slowly. When you buy a business your not buying just a product, you get an established company with existing distribution and sales channels, an exisiting product base, and most importantly, an exisiting customer base.
I have a notebook 100 which i have put heavy demand on (carrying in a bag to university every day) for the last two years and have found it to be very solid. It got damp in the rain which killed the CD-ROM drive, but thats my fault. The case has proved to very sturdy, the machine gets a little warm, mostly the hard disk and battery but they have both been reliable (battery life is very poor). I believe the armada 100 is in fact exactly the same machine, but it depends on when/where you bought it. I doubt many people put their laptops through as hard a life as i do, so i must say im suprised to hear of your problems. Guess i might just be lucky. Ive just upgraded to an IBM Thinkpad, also seems very study, hope i get a good 2/3 years life out of that as well.
As a uk resident, i know that the cost of living varies hugely across the country. The north and west of england (including wales and scotland) are fairly reasonable, but the south east (where the jobs are) is VERY expensive. In your sort of job you wouldnt even be able to consider owning a property in or around the London area. If you look at the bbc's website (www.bbc.co.uk/news) there have been many stories in the press recently about this.
Hope this helps a little, and good luck with your significant other:)
Tom
Unfortunately, a major problem with web application is the trade off between the too-simplistic HTML only model, and the too-heavy Java model.
Because Java servlets are designed for LARGE scale services, not simple interactive web sites. HTML is too simplistic to do that, even with Javascript extensions, but it would be an incredibly useful feature for a data entry application.
If you are trying to do this, you probably have no concept of HCI and therefore have a badly designed data entry system. Trying to use Java for it would mean.. well, using Java. Slow to load and slow to use, the trade off here is responsiveness.
You are confusing java applications with java APPLETS. All the great technology is on SERVER SIDE java services. And XML? Big deal. There has been a standard format for data exchange around for years, and it's called 'CSV files'.
Again, you have no understanding of the technology. CSV is a format that says 'here is some data'. XML says 'here is some data, and a description of what that data means'. Please dont post on a subject you are obviously clueless about.
Dlink produce a something 650 card that works very well. Also the cisco airnet, man orinco cards that use lucent chipsets. Just because a cards manufacturer doesnt claim to support linux doesnt mean they dont. Go to pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net, do a search for wvlan on google, or just 'wireless networing linux'. Slashdot really is not an alterntative to a simple google search. Use the web, thats what its for. This really is an incredibly simple question to answer yourself.
You will find the VMs are actually very fast. It is the java compilers (except IBM's and possibly others) that produce basically no optimisation. This could be fixed for sun by a cometent programmer in a week, but they wont do it, nor will they hire CS students like me to do it for them real cheap.
But alot of the skill in many weapons disiplines (staff/sword/fencing etc) IS speed. If you can move a sword twice as many times per second as your opponent, you get to block his attack, then make an attack of your own that is virtually guaranteed to hit (example deliberately exagerated to emphasise point). Also, if you studied the 'star wars world' (for want of a better term) by reading the books for instance, you would see that one of the trained force techniques is speed of movement.
To be honest, i think they whole survey is badly designed. The authour takes the most mature - which is a field the developer, not the user base or sourceforge administrators control, therfore the judgement for each project is different. A better survey would be based on the userbase of the project, where projects like gnome, kde, the linux kernel, gcc and openoffice would rate highly. Also note that none of those projects are located on sourceforge. The better survey method in my opinion would be to take the top linux/BSD distributions, and look at the software they install by default. This would almost definately provide a mean possibly greater than 10 or 15, and a mode of at least 5 or 6. Some better mention of commercial projects wouldnt hurt either, so developer numbers could be compared.
It was cheapest on market when i bought it (summer of 2000). It wont blow anyone away with speed (amd k6-2 475) came with 32M ram but i upgraded to 96 (maximum i believe). The thing is solid as a rock, the screen feels a bit loose, but this isnt the case, it is in fact very well attached. And the whole keyboard doesnt sink like on other cheap laptops. All in all very very good, im also a student, so it takes a fair bit of abuse. Oh, and it runs linux great, i never even tortured the girl by running windows on her. It arrived, boot disked and wahey - a solid system with a solid OS. What more can you ask for.
Funtional languages like haskell are very good for doing maths, especially large dynamic sizedd matrix math. The language has a built in list type (thing self memory managing dynamic array) and the language is functional, so the programming style is very mathematical. If you use an environment like hugs (see google), you can do all your programming and use in the same system, which i personally like alot.
Fortran is also popular for engineering types, as i believe it has built in matrix math functions, howeverdont quote me on that.
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Sadly the games industry is using less and less programmers, and more and more artists (so good for the artists at least). Look at major 3d games titles at the moment, and you have a small core team of developers (often as few as 10, normally more though) and, for the larger titles at least, 100+ 3d artists. With more and more games projects being based on generic engines and toolkits, and the serious lack of optimisation going into games (PC rather than consoles on that front) pretty soon there will be only a few of us left. Programming is also being outsourced from britain/us to places with cheaper, talented programmers in Italy and the like.
Ive had multiple tomcat servers running on a sunfire E6800 (24 processor, 32GB ram etc..) under solaris using j2ee 1.3 and they have all been working fine, not one single server failure. One of which is a webapp server that has a variety of apps running on it, and the other is essentially an 'xml server' used for a varitey of applications (globus, grid computing etc). Theses are both based on tomcat 4.0, and there are some more running but i forget which version of tomcat they use
Fair enough it might be intimidating to a 'new' user, but its the only installer ive ever used that offers me the flexibility i need. Ive used mandrake, SuSE, lycoris, corel and red hat and with any of those distributions it is impossible to do something that the devlopers didnt think of in advance. Debians installer lets you configure your system in as much detail as you want, and install from a large variety of mediums (various network, physical etc). All in all, id be suprised to see anyone improve it, making it graphical is just eye candy, you cant provide anything 'extra', you just make it more pleasing to the eye.
Initial support for everquest has been added, and there is some functionality in place, but transgaming do NOT support everquest yet nor does everquest work properly yet. Going on previous track record for transgaming though everquest support will likely be finished by the next release.
A google search appliance sounds like it would suit the needs for at least your search requirements. It can also look through MS Office documents (i assume these get emailed to you) and PDF documents and display them as HTML in your browser. With regard to your letters, Clara OCR is free (as in beer, not sure as in speech) for linux (is debian packaged anyway).
Hope this helps.
$0.50 for the musician? You are very opptimistic. Try more like $0.0005 per CD after the music company has regained ALL costs. Most musicians are lucky to see two bob in royalties.
When (if?) this is ported to other OS's (specifically linux) we will have yet another great filesystem. Im starting to see all those 'linux/bsd/whatever' isnt ready for the enterprise arguments slipping away. Still, why a boat needs a OS is beyond me.
You sell the business - the employees, the sales channels, the contacts. The buying company gets to continue the business with minimum fuss, and can bring the changes they want slowly. When you buy a business your not buying just a product, you get an established company with existing distribution and sales channels, an exisiting product base, and most importantly, an exisiting customer base.
How about anyone who streams music/radio?
Simple answer - No.
The USA is the only country with such ill educated government officials
I have a notebook 100 which i have put heavy demand on (carrying in a bag to university every day) for the last two years and have found it to be very solid. It got damp in the rain which killed the CD-ROM drive, but thats my fault. The case has proved to very sturdy, the machine gets a little warm, mostly the hard disk and battery but they have both been reliable (battery life is very poor). I believe the armada 100 is in fact exactly the same machine, but it depends on when/where you bought it. I doubt many people put their laptops through as hard a life as i do, so i must say im suprised to hear of your problems. Guess i might just be lucky. Ive just upgraded to an IBM Thinkpad, also seems very study, hope i get a good 2/3 years life out of that as well.
As a uk resident, i know that the cost of living varies hugely across the country. The north and west of england (including wales and scotland) are fairly reasonable, but the south east (where the jobs are) is VERY expensive. In your sort of job you wouldnt even be able to consider owning a property in or around the London area. If you look at the bbc's website (www.bbc.co.uk/news) there have been many stories in the press recently about this. :)
Hope this helps a little, and good luck with your significant other
Tom
Unfortunately, a major problem with web application is the trade off between the too-simplistic HTML only model, and the too-heavy Java model. .. well, using Java. Slow to load and slow to use, the trade off here is responsiveness.
Because Java servlets are designed for LARGE scale services, not simple interactive web sites.
HTML is too simplistic to do that, even with Javascript extensions, but it would be an incredibly useful feature for a data entry application.
If you are trying to do this, you probably have no concept of HCI and therefore have a badly designed data entry system.
Trying to use Java for it would mean
You are confusing java applications with java APPLETS. All the great technology is on SERVER SIDE java services.
And XML? Big deal. There has been a standard format for data exchange around for years, and it's called 'CSV files'.
Again, you have no understanding of the technology. CSV is a format that says 'here is some data'. XML says 'here is some data, and a description of what that data means'. Please dont post on a subject you are obviously clueless about.
Dlink produce a something 650 card that works very well. Also the cisco airnet, man orinco cards that use lucent chipsets. Just because a cards manufacturer doesnt claim to support linux doesnt mean they dont. Go to pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net, do a search for wvlan on google, or just 'wireless networing linux'. Slashdot really is not an alterntative to a simple google search. Use the web, thats what its for. This really is an incredibly simple question to answer yourself.
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You will find the VMs are actually very fast. It is the java compilers (except IBM's and possibly others) that produce basically no optimisation. This could be fixed for sun by a cometent programmer in a week, but they wont do it, nor will they hire CS students like me to do it for them real cheap.
But alot of the skill in many weapons disiplines (staff/sword/fencing etc) IS speed. If you can move a sword twice as many times per second as your opponent, you get to block his attack, then make an attack of your own that is virtually guaranteed to hit (example deliberately exagerated to emphasise point). Also, if you studied the 'star wars world' (for want of a better term) by reading the books for instance, you would see that one of the trained force techniques is speed of movement.
To be honest, i think they whole survey is badly designed. The authour takes the most mature - which is a field the developer, not the user base or sourceforge administrators control, therfore the judgement for each project is different. A better survey would be based on the userbase of the project, where projects like gnome, kde, the linux kernel, gcc and openoffice would rate highly. Also note that none of those projects are located on sourceforge. The better survey method in my opinion would be to take the top linux/BSD distributions, and look at the software they install by default. This would almost definately provide a mean possibly greater than 10 or 15, and a mode of at least 5 or 6. Some better mention of commercial projects wouldnt hurt either, so developer numbers could be compared.
It was cheapest on market when i bought it (summer of 2000). It wont blow anyone away with speed (amd k6-2 475) came with 32M ram but i upgraded to 96 (maximum i believe). The thing is solid as a rock, the screen feels a bit loose, but this isnt the case, it is in fact very well attached. And the whole keyboard doesnt sink like on other cheap laptops. All in all very very good, im also a student, so it takes a fair bit of abuse. Oh, and it runs linux great, i never even tortured the girl by running windows on her. It arrived, boot disked and wahey - a solid system with a solid OS. What more can you ask for.
Funtional languages like haskell are very good for doing maths, especially large dynamic sizedd matrix math. The language has a built in list type (thing self memory managing dynamic array) and the language is functional, so the programming style is very mathematical. If you use an environment like hugs (see google), you can do all your programming and use in the same system, which i personally like alot. Fortran is also popular for engineering types, as i believe it has built in matrix math functions, howeverdont quote me on that.