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  1. Re:I need to ask on The State Of The GTK+ File Selector · · Score: 1
    No the idea is I don't implement the lists, I just use the standard template library. Meaning I use the lists already implemented for me for any datatype I want. By implementing the list in C, you have to write a new one (or modify the old one) for each datatype.

    Let's look at an even more complex idea, in C++ I can create an object, let's call it a drum. It contains a circularly linked list of filenames (images). It's really just a queue, with the front tied to the back. Now I create a list of these objects, drums. And I want to create a digital slot machine that spins the drums each as randomly as is possible. Using the STL and a wrapper class around a queue called drum, I can create this easily within about an hour. Now think about the amount of code it would take to implement the same thing in C, if you have to implement all the linked lists and queues.

  2. Re:Microphone inputs? on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 1

    Look on the bright side. At least your iBook didn't come with 'white spots' as standard equipment. p. Not yet, I haven't had it that long.

  3. Re:I need to ask on The State Of The GTK+ File Selector · · Score: 1
    If you need lists, etc in C, write a 1 page library for yourself.

    Go ahead write one for a list of integers, then one for floats and another one to hold unions. And while your doing that I'll implement all in one little funtion using a template. Then finish off a few functions that use the lists and have time for lunch. Btw, make sure you don't leave any pointers around.

  4. Re:Microphone inputs? on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 1
    I just bought a new ibook and it doesn't. So I'm expected to pay $2500 for a powerbook to be able to use it? Wasn't the ibook marketed for the home market? And the powermac for "business"? According to their site:

    Perfect for everything from doing your homework to playing games, and from watching DVD movies to burning your own music CDs, the 4.9-pound iBook G4 fits snugly in your backpack -- and your life.

    Seems to me a laptop that fits snugly into my life, should be able to use all the apps in iLife!

  5. Microphone inputs? on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 1

    It would have been great idea to put microphone inputs on the iBooks and powerbooks first! It would be a smart business decision to include this little item before writing software that needs it! Or do they think all musicians never leave their homes?

  6. Re:The real winners in globalization on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    Are you a farmer? Less and less people are, comanies like Monsanto now own the majority of farms and migrant labor from mexico and puerto rico are a major source of their labor. How does an agricultural based economy support 300 million people here?

    They CONTROL it. In most cases they don't OWN it. The CEO of Sony, for example, may control billions of dollars, but can't do whatever he likes with it. The benefits of having those assets are shared by every single employee of Sony worldwide.

    Funny you should choose a foriegn company! I never said CEO's. I was refering to the ones that own most of the stock. The ones controlling the CEO's. The ones who pay big bonuses to CEO's for selling out the employees. The ones who don't like to get their hands dirty. Or their names in the media. There are a handful of people who have controlling interests in several companies and many, many banks. These are people whose income exceeds 10 Billion, most of these people inherited their wealth, and it is a large mystery how much they really have because it's diverified across industries and overseas accounts. In fact quite a few don't show up on forbes list because most the money is tied to a foundation trust. 5 of these people have the last name Walton, each has over 20 billion, and together that family is twice as rich as Bill Gates at his peak. BTW, Bill Gates was born very rich, he's not the geek turned rich, he would have you believe.

    There's a difference between influence exerted by corporations, and influence exerted by individuals. People need to understand this.

    I do understand, the individuals I'm refering too are the ones who are pulling the companies strings.

  7. Re:The real winners in globalization on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    I have no problem with a country creating their own economy. What I have a problem with is exporting ours.

    Globalization is the great equalizer. It provides the opportunity for someone born in India or Africa or Indonesia to compete with people in so-called advanced countries on a more equal footing.

    Explain how our companies and their board of directors who enjoy the benefits of being here, and retain all the profits are allowing the poor workers to compete equally! Especially when they don't have to provide health care, retirement or a decent wage to these people.

    What they are doing is selling out the employees that got them where they are. There was a time when employers cared about their employees fellow citizens

    Those with marginal skills are being replaced by more dedicated workers.

    You are very naive if you think that marginal workers are the only ones being replaced! Whole industries are being replaced, remember when we actually manufactered things in this country? Do you really think you cannot be replaced? Go tell 8% percent of this nation, (the latest unemployment figures) they are marginal.That's 24 million out of the 300 million legal US citizens.

    If these other nations are so greatful to globalization, why is it they riot at WTO summits?

  8. The Object Oriented way on Agile Software Development with Scrum · · Score: 1
    project current_project = new project();


    for (int day=0;day != 14;day++)
    {
    current_project.design();
    current_project.build();
    current_project.test();
    current_project.document():
    }

  9. Re:The real winners in globalization on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Good catch! But no, I am looking to discuss this and if nobody wants to seriously look at it, that's cool too. I only decided to use yesterdays post because it was so far down the queue nobody read it. (except I guess you)

  10. Re:The real winners in globalization on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Exactly, we have seen a huge rise in the service sector and an equally large, if not bigger decline in manufacturing. Our college educational system has been getting more and more costly. The states in many cases have been severly cutting funding to state colleges. The dollar is the lowest it's been in decades. While foriegn currancies especially the euro continue to rise. The Bush administration wants to let mexicans work here legally if they have a job waiting. Would you as a businessman pay a legal US citizen $40,000 + benifits (401k, health insurance etc.) or offer a job to a mexican for $20,000 + (maybe health insurance it's required by law). We are shooting ourselves in the foot. But the only reason that it's happening is it profitable to those who are already filthy rich. And the more the US middle class is screwed, the richer they get.

  11. The real winners in globalization on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 4, Insightful
    In the rush to globalization, the US has export most of it's manufacturing capabilities. Count how many products in your home are made in the USA.

    When we no longer produce anything of value here, what do we have to trade? One thing we can do is educate people, foriegn students continue to come to the US in greater numbers to learn. Another is tourism. How many Indian's want to vacation in Detroit? Our college costs keep rising to the point that it is becoming more and more difficult for the middle and lower middle class to get an education here. The middle and lower middle classes make up almost 70 percent of our population. Another thing we have is money lots of it. Not you or I, but the ones really pushing for globalization. The 1 percent of are population that controls most of the worlds wealth and now wants more. These people find a service economy great for them, the lower classes have and always will bow to their every need. In fact, if the cost of service employees gets to high, then they can always push for more immigration, it is especially easy to get haitian or mexican labor to replace those high priced citizenry. It helps to give them a california drivers license. Most of these individuals were born into their position. Do not think for a minute Bill Gates was born into a low or middle class family in the suburbs.

    By moving to a service economy where most of everything is imported, the middle class is left to struggle to maintain their status. More and more that is done with debt, easy credit for a good life now. Pay the rich forever.

    Globalization is great for up and coming economies, it was great for Japan, but they are now losing to Korea, Indonesia, India etc.

    The rich 1 percent would have you believe that this is all for the benefit of poor countries, ignoring the fact that when the labor costs and living standards rise in those countries, they'll be in the same boat. It will be a long time till we see programmers whose native language is Tutsi. But eventually they'll be a source of cheap labor too.

    So what we have in effect is the very rich deciding the middle class is not dependant enough so they have decided to take from the middle and give to the poor.

    Not exactly what Robin Hood advocated.

  12. Re:Great news for the economy on Bangalore Beats Silicon Valley · · Score: 1
    This will allow the average consumer to spend more of their money on other items, including entertainment, debt reduction, maybe even more money towards a mortgage or a new car. Jobs moving to other countries is only good news

    Unless your unemployed, what good is cheap stuff if you can't buy it!

    Mortgage or a new car? Real good let's add more debt! If the average american weren't in hock up to butt already, let's add some more.

  13. Re:Take care of your own planet! on Lonely Planets · · Score: 1

    Agreed! But I don't want to hope for space travel and aliens to clean up the manure here on earth. Who knows? Maybe we are being watched!

  14. Re:Take care of your own planet! on Lonely Planets · · Score: 1

    I believe it's reasonable that we and most likely our grandchildren will never see these sights first hand. I think we need to take care of our own planet so that someday maybe my progeny will be alive to see it. If we cause our own extinction, that's not how I want the aliens to notice us.

  15. Re:We know other life exists on Lonely Planets · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Have you ever calculated the actual odds of life?

    Well how exactly do you arrive at a true calculation of the odds? Have we mapped enough of the universe to know how many planets there are? Have we travelled outside our own solar system to even look at others? If so, and since all stars and planets presumably follow the same physical laws, what was so special about earth that it is the anomoly of anomolies? Do we really know enough about the universe to calculate the odds of life. Do we really know how life started here? The exact conditions to create life? If so, then why is it we have not been creating life from scratch? What exactly is self awarenes and intelligence. My dog seems very self aware, not smart but alive and self aware. Are we really the most intelligent creature on our own planet? Whales have much larger brains and seem to have a language, if we could talk to whales and test them, is it possible we are less inately intelligent? Until we know how to create life with 100 percent certainty and know with 100 percent certainty that life cannot exist in another form, exactly how many planets there are, and why did the universe form. What caused the big bang? What existed before the big bang? Was there really a big bang? Or did the universe start expanding from a smaller universe and not a singularity? How would we know? You can't really calculate the odds with any certainty. You would only be using big made up numbers to show how smart you are and make statements that you nor anyone else can really back up with hard facts.

  16. Consumers vs Producers on Long Term Effects of Outsourcing · · Score: 1
    In any economy, trade is a service or product provided in exchange for another service or product. Money is used to facilitate this exchange. In the rush to globalization, the US has export most of it's manufacturing capabilities. Count how many products in your home are made in the USA.

    When we no longer produce anything of value here, what do we have to trade? One thing we can do is educate people, foriegn students continue to come to the US in greater numbers to learn. Another is tourism. How many Indian's want to vacation in Detroit? Our college costs keep rising to the point that it is becoming more and more difficult for the middle and lower middle class to get an education here. The middle and lower middle classes make up almost 70 percent of our population.

    Another thing we have is money lots of it. Not you or I, but the ones really pushing for globalization. The 1 percent of are population that controls most of the worlds wealth and now wants more. These people find a service economy great for them, the lower classes have and always will bow to their every need. In fact, if the cost of service employees gets to high, then they can always push for more immigration, it is especially easy to get haitian or mexican labor to replace those high priced citizenry. It helps to give them a california drivers license. Most of these individuals were born into their position. Do not think for a minute Bill Gates was born into a low or middle class family in the suburbs.

    By moving to a service economy where most of everything is imported, the middle class is left to struggle to maintain their status. More and more that is done with debt, easy credit for a good life now. Pay the rich forever.

    Globalization is great for up and coming economies, it was great for Japan, but they are now losing to Korea, Indonesia, India etc.

    The rich 1 percent would have you believe that this is all for the benefit of poor countries, ignoring the fact that when the labor costs and living standards rise in those countries, they'll be in the same boat. It will be a long time till we see programmers whose native language is Tutsi. But eventually they'll be a source of cheap labor too.

    So what we have in effect is the very rich deciding the middle class is not dependant enough so they have decided to take from the middle and give to the poor.

    Not exactly what Robin Hood advocated.

  17. Re:none at all on Wasting Time Fixing Computers · · Score: 1
    Actually no, I don't. I install a cron job that checks the logs for me and only emails me if somethings not right. Patching? No I just do Mandrake update once a week. Install new programs? That I don't do, all I do is install a new version of Mandrake once a year. Besides, installing a new program you found is not your computers fault, you wanted to install it right? I'm of the mind that if a program doesn't easily install with a quick urpmi or ./configure, make it's not worth it and I move on. Seting up a machine usually takes about 3-4 hours because I setup iptables, install my scripts configure everything (NVIDIA),additional stuff like mplayer. And Mandrake seems compelled to break at least something. I usually skip releases. After the initial setup,it's pretty much ignored for another year. The idea here is it's my home network I don't want to work on it. I do enough of that at work.

    Actually, I have an ibook, 2 linux machines and a Windows 2000 machine. The windows machine takes far mor time than the others combined, mainly due to things like xupiter search, gator, bonzai buddy you name it! My wife and daughter have downloaded it. Then their is the fact that there always seems to be some problem, can't print or some other peripherial does't work etc. It amazes me that I have to install a special driver and software for my Kodak camera in windows, but it just works in linux and OSX.

  18. Re:first? on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why don't you post your name and address? Seems you are a subhuman classified as intolerant, chicken shit asshole!

  19. Re:S.C.O on Getting Over the Stigma of a Previous Job? · · Score: 1
    There are quite a few commercial software companies that don't hire programmers who have worked on open source no matter what.

    Where is your proof? You have actual examples here?

    If Paul Allen co-founder of microsoft and a major investor in Transmeta can share the stage with Linus Torvolds upon the launching of Crusoe processor. I think that pretty much says it all. Bruce Perens - Hewlett Packard. And there are undoubtably alot of others.

  20. Re:Holy shit! on PCLinuxOS 2K4: Mandrake Meets The Live CD · · Score: 1

    How many packages have you contributed to the community? I've used his packages to upgrade all of KDE, add things like kmplayer and k3b so I could burn dvd's. How are these funny little programs? I've rarely ever had a problem with texstars stuff, again where are your packages?

  21. Re:A solution already exists (we're using it) on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1
    The ISP costs are already there if you have a broadband connection for your PC, it's not that high if you have cable TV and high speed internet. Most coffee shops have a TV, are you charging for that?

    Then, you have the other local area businesses and college students (the coffee shop is next to the University of Washington's Bothell campus) that would leech, saturate, and overload the connection. If you only sold it for a couple of bucks an hour it would easily be profitable in one day.

    If you use the system I described, you won't be transmitting out of the premises if you keep it below 5 feet from the floor. The idea here is to give your customers something that makes them think they are getting something of value for free. The ISP connection and equipment can be written off as a legitimate expense and you can even write off so much anually for maintenance.

  22. Re:wep key on receipt! on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1

    It's a coffee shop not your ISP! You should be using your ISP's webmail or secure ports (Authenticated using TLS not 25). You can open 143, 110 etc. But incoming smtp is not going to happen! The idea here is for the average customer to be able to get mail, browse the web, maybe download a file and thats it. The message in my post is it can be done for under $100, if you don't try and charge for the service.

  23. Re:A solution already exists (we're using it) on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 1

    You could have given the service away much cheaper! For $79 you can get a linksys wireless gateway router with (built-in) a four-port switch, NAT router/firewall, and wireless AP. Advertise free wireless and the customers will come in greater numbers. Think of wireless as a condiment or advertisement, something to draw in more customers to buy what you are selling not another product. If you sell a service, customers expect support! That means If I can't connect, I want you to come connect me. With a free service you don't have to deal with WEP keys, the hardware is much cheaper and you can get away with simple how to connect instruction written on the back of the menu! Are you a coffee shop or a wannabe ISP? The firewall is just as powerfull as your systems, but no printer to print out connection times.

  24. Re:wep key on receipt! on Wireless APs in Homebrew Coffee Shops? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Just block the IP ports. You can block mail ports , kaaza etc. Hell block everything except http,https,ftp and DNS.That will stop anyone from abusing it, it can usually be setup in the wireless gateway/router.

    I have a linksys system in my home that is working fine in that capacity, plus by putting the router in a location low only about 4-5 feet off the ground, you pretty much limit the working range to just inside your establishment. If you use 2 routers one wireless one not, you can block access to the companies computers to the wireless users again it can be done on the routers themselves, no extra PC needed.

  25. Re:One attorney;s opinion on New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit · · Score: 1
    Identical comments. It's not the first time I've heard that statement. That's not a matter of "it can only be done this way" or "it's common knowledge." That's fucking freeform text that is irrelevant to the rest of the source. If those match, you're pretty much fucked.

    Okay I'll bite where is the proof that SCO's is the original file? Can you actually prove anything? Show me absolute proof which is the original? AT&T vs. BSD was lost because when it came down to specifics, Berkley had proof that AT&T had copied BSD not the other way around. Ever heard of posix? The Open Group Base Specifications IEEE Std 1003.1 ? The so called list of files are all header files from an open standard. Look at this link errno.h

    It's but one of the so called offending files.

    Now go back to jerking off and leave intelligent discussions to people with brains.