Netbeans.org doesn't actually say what NetBeans is, except that it's an IDE. Isn't it a reasonable guess that is for the Net and it uses Beans ? If not, then it's extremely poorly named.
I noticed that NetBeans comes bundled with Eclipse. If it were 'yet another IDE', why would they bother making that bundle? Again it seems reasonable to expect that it does something that Eclipse doesn't.
Even the Wiki for netbeans doesn't say anything other than "It is an open source IDE, see also Eclipse". So -- what's the difference?
Both this site, and www.mini-itx.com, are hard to navigate and don't show a lot of appreciation of user interface design, unfortunately.
One article I can't find: how to make a mini-ITX PC boot up into my application, without any guff in the middle like 'Checking DMI table' and the Windows XP logo and the 'loading your settings' window. Someone must have done this before...
Also, I wonder if they could contribute to Eclipse by making it faster. Eclipse runs like a dog on my 900MHz CPU , it's even slower than JBuilder (which is saying something). It doesn't have much more functionality than older IDEs which ran fine on a 100MHz CPU (it can put squiggles under spelling mistakes and it can make your code disappear under little arrows, but that's about it...)
Check that you have set up inbound traffic for BitTorrent. You get shitty speeds if people can't connect to you. You might also want to try using your own inbound ports ( > 10000 ), in case your ISP is throttling the default ports.
I don't recommend Azureus like the other poster did: for me, it regularly gets to 99.0% or thereabouts of a file, and then chokes: it keeps on re-downloading the same faulty bits over and over. I have to close Azureus and finish the file in a different client that isn't so retarded. It is also a gigantic memory hog. The only thing Azureus has going for it, is a lot of whizz-bang frills in its user interface, and a noob-friendly configuration wizard.
You must be on a different planet to me. When I open a Word document with my course assignment instructions, OOO displays it without all the numbering, ie:
FOO
Bar
Baz
instead of
1 FOO
1.1 Bar
1.1.1 Baz
Even Word 97 displays it correctly and that's 8 years old, and numbering is a fairly basic issue. (This only happens with some documents -- others display correctly).
Powerpoint? In MS's version you can print them out six to a page, easy as pie. In OOO you can view them six to a page, but when you then click Print from that view, it prints one to a page! There isn't even a Print Preview option, which is something that MS managed to do, what, 17 years ago?
Opening multiple documents doesn't work properly either: each one appears as a separate taskbar item, cluttering my taskbar. If you open multiple docs in MS Word, they all live as different child windows inside the single MS Word main window; this is how it should be.
In short, I'm pretty disillusioned with OOO at this stage -- although, in terms of value per dollar spent, it beats Office!
While I'm in rant-mode, there is one thing I really hate about PDFs. Sometimes you get one that "plays nice" and it prints out just like a Word document would. But other ones, the fonts look all funny. For example, the left hand side of a letter "n" would be 1 pixel where it should be 2. The end result is a document that is readable but quite hard on the eye. It looks that way on the screen too, and I have been sure to print without any scaling or resizing. Sorry, I'm not sure how better to describe this properly, but it would be good to know if anyone else has noticed the same problem!
How does a larger margin equate to fitting more text on the page? It sounds more like a trade-off between speed-of-readability, and amount of text on the page. I suppose you could argue that smaller margins save trees...
Are there any P2P networks left that you can actually transfer data at a reasonable rate, that aren't full of viruses?
bittorrent is virtually useless, apparently everyone only has parts of any data that i want not equalling a whole
BitTorrent isn't a network. Every tracker file grows its own associated network, totally independent of other tracker files.
If you try and use a tracker that only has 1 or 2 other people on it, and none of them have the full file, obviously you are going to have problems.
Most websites hosting trackers also list how many people are on that tracker at the moment, and how many full copies of the program are there. In fact, my client won't even start downloading until it has ascertained the the full file is present.
What do you mean by 'reasonable rate' ? I usually get 60 kilobytes/sec. But that is limited by my 128 Kbit-up connection (13Kb/sec) -- many trackers implement a 'ratio' where if your upload/download ratio for that file is low (eg. 20%) then your download will be throttled.
Indeed, there may not have been enough funding, but the real problems with fixing the levies were due to multiple fractured levy organizations, the "NOT IN MY BACK YARD" crowd, and repeated lawsuits by enviromental organizations.
Huh? People whose back yard is the levee, did not want it upgraded?
I am so laughing at those people now, and I seriously hope that no taxpayer money goes towards compensating them for their losses. It is also remarkable that the environmentalists would prefer the current situation over the disruption caused by levee upgrades. To them I say, "Pooh to you, with knobs on".
Incidentally, in NZ, a few months ago there were some floods that wiped out hundreds of houses -- nothing like NOLA tho -- and about half of the homeowners had no insurance, mostly because they were holiday homes that had been in the family for generations and the owners were too stupid/lazy to organize insurance. Unfortunately, our Communist government decided it would pay compensation to all those people without insurance.
Get Superman to fly around the world so fast that it starts spinning in reverse. This will make the hurricane spin slow down (due to Coriolis effect being reversed) and it will peter out.
I don't know how to make a network of IRC bots controlled by zombies around the world. But I do know how to prevent my IRC channel being DOS'd by such a network.
I don't know how to write an internet worm, but I do know how to not let one onto my PC.
My relationship with them has been one in which they give me free database software, don't restrict how I use it, and I give them nothing. How did you manage to get use of the software without restrictions?
Most of us have to comply with their licence agreement. Or are you simply ignoring it and hoping they don't bother to sue you?
Huh? Why aren't they saying that Internet Explorer is for criminals because it puts things in different places to Netscape?
Netscape had 90% market share before IE came along.. so why is IE considered a 'standard' and Firefox isn't? Especially considering that IE stores the forensic data in harder-to-reach formats?
Why is this story getting posted on Slashdot? I don't see the nerd content, and I don't see how it is different to any of the other storm flooding that is going on in the world all the time.
And let's not even get started on all the people being displaced from their homes and having their lifes endangered by non-weather causes.
I have always hoped that should a real cure for AIDs be developed that the United States government would sieze the intellectual property and put it into the public domain.
Who needs Comedy Central when you've got Slashdot?
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Netbeans.org doesn't actually say what NetBeans is, except that it's an IDE. Isn't it a reasonable guess that is for the Net and it uses Beans ? If not, then it's extremely poorly named.
I noticed that NetBeans comes bundled with Eclipse. If it were 'yet another IDE', why would they bother making that bundle? Again it seems reasonable to expect that it does something that Eclipse doesn't.
Even the Wiki for netbeans doesn't say anything other than "It is an open source IDE, see also Eclipse". So -- what's the difference?
Eight-hundred Megs And Continuously Swapping? Sounds like Moore's Law is alive and well! I guess my vi-guy nature is showing through, huh?
Both this site, and www.mini-itx.com, are hard to navigate and don't show a lot of appreciation of user interface design, unfortunately.
One article I can't find: how to make a mini-ITX PC boot up into my application, without any guff in the middle like 'Checking DMI table' and the Windows XP logo and the 'loading your settings' window. Someone must have done this before...
I'm not making any JavaBeans, and it isn't an internet application.. 0/2
Jave has a Millennium Edition now?
Also, I wonder if they could contribute to Eclipse by making it faster. Eclipse runs like a dog on my 900MHz CPU , it's even slower than JBuilder (which is saying something). It doesn't have much more functionality than older IDEs which ran fine on a 100MHz CPU (it can put squiggles under spelling mistakes and it can make your code disappear under little arrows, but that's about it...)
Check that you have set up inbound traffic for BitTorrent. You get shitty speeds if people can't connect to you. You might also want to try using your own inbound ports ( > 10000 ), in case your ISP is throttling the default ports.
I don't recommend Azureus like the other poster did: for me, it regularly gets to 99.0% or thereabouts of a file, and then chokes: it keeps on re-downloading the same faulty bits over and over. I have to close Azureus and finish the file in a different client that isn't so retarded. It is also a gigantic memory hog. The only thing Azureus has going for it, is a lot of whizz-bang frills in its user interface, and a noob-friendly configuration wizard.
I'm surprised that 2 or 3-column layout isn't more popular than it is; then you can have minuscule margins and still have good readability.
One factor to take into account is that the smaller the width available for text, the more space is lost to word-wrapping.
You must be on a different planet to me. When I open a Word document with my course assignment instructions, OOO displays it without all the numbering, ie:
FOO
Bar
Baz
instead of
1 FOO
1.1 Bar
1.1.1 Baz
Even Word 97 displays it correctly and that's 8 years old, and numbering is a fairly basic issue. (This only happens with some documents -- others display correctly).
Powerpoint? In MS's version you can print them out six to a page, easy as pie. In OOO you can view them six to a page, but when you then click Print from that view, it prints one to a page! There isn't even a Print Preview option, which is something that MS managed to do, what, 17 years ago?
Opening multiple documents doesn't work properly either: each one appears as a separate taskbar item, cluttering my taskbar. If you open multiple docs in MS Word, they all live as different child windows inside the single MS Word main window; this is how it should be.
In short, I'm pretty disillusioned with OOO at this stage -- although, in terms of value per dollar spent, it beats Office!
While I'm in rant-mode, there is one thing I really hate about PDFs. Sometimes you get one that "plays nice" and it prints out just like a Word document would. But other ones, the fonts look all funny. For example, the left hand side of a letter "n" would be 1 pixel where it should be 2. The end result is a document that is readable but quite hard on the eye. It looks that way on the screen too, and I have been sure to print without any scaling or resizing. Sorry, I'm not sure how better to describe this properly, but it would be good to know if anyone else has noticed the same problem!
How does a larger margin equate to fitting more text on the page? It sounds more like a trade-off between speed-of-readability, and amount of text on the page. I suppose you could argue that smaller margins save trees...
It's hard enough explaining to a 'normal' person what i is, and what e is, and what non-integral powers are.. let alone non-real powers.
How many here can extract a square root by hand?
I can. It's a far simpler algorithm than using a Taylor series and PI to find a sine or cosine..
If you can't remember
a / sin A = b / sin B = c / sin C
then you won't remember
Q1 / s1 = Q2 / s2 = Q3 / s3
etc. It's just different notation for the exact same operations (instead of 'spread' think 'sine squared').
You gotta love how they advertise their leaded petrol (do they even have the right to sell that ?) : "a bit of lead never hurt anyone".
Petrol lead is less toxic than benzene and the dozens of other chemicals that were added to unleaded petrol to replace the lead.
Are there any P2P networks left that you can actually transfer data at a reasonable rate, that aren't full of viruses?
bittorrent is virtually useless, apparently everyone only has parts of any data that i want not equalling a whole
BitTorrent isn't a network. Every tracker file grows its own associated network, totally independent of other tracker files.
If you try and use a tracker that only has 1 or 2 other people on it, and none of them have the full file, obviously you are going to have problems.
Most websites hosting trackers also list how many people are on that tracker at the moment, and how many full copies of the program are there. In fact, my client won't even start downloading until it has ascertained the the full file is present.
What do you mean by 'reasonable rate' ? I usually get 60 kilobytes/sec. But that is limited by my 128 Kbit-up connection (13Kb/sec) -- many trackers implement a 'ratio' where if your upload/download ratio for that file is low (eg. 20%) then your download will be throttled.
Indeed, there may not have been enough funding, but the real problems with fixing the levies were due to multiple fractured levy organizations, the "NOT IN MY BACK YARD" crowd, and repeated lawsuits by enviromental organizations.
Huh? People whose back yard is the levee, did not want it upgraded?
I am so laughing at those people now, and I seriously hope that no taxpayer money goes towards compensating them for their losses. It is also remarkable that the environmentalists would prefer the current situation over the disruption caused by levee upgrades. To them I say, "Pooh to you, with knobs on".
Incidentally, in NZ, a few months ago there were some floods that wiped out hundreds of houses -- nothing like NOLA tho -- and about half of the homeowners had no insurance, mostly because they were holiday homes that had been in the family for generations and the owners were too stupid/lazy to organize insurance. Unfortunately, our Communist government decided it would pay compensation to all those people without insurance.
Get Superman to fly around the world so fast that it starts spinning in reverse. This will make the hurricane spin slow down (due to Coriolis effect being reversed) and it will peter out.
I propose a new scale for measuring the damage done by a hurricane: the Library of Congress Equivalent.
1 LOCE is the amount of damage needed to destroy the Library of Congress.
I don't know how to make a network of IRC bots controlled by zombies around the world. But I do know how to prevent my IRC channel being DOS'd by such a network.
I don't know how to write an internet worm, but I do know how to not let one onto my PC.
Need I continue?
How can it be a DVD RECORDER if it is recording onto two HARD DRIVES ?
What is the point of recording 1TB of data onto harddrives if you can only fit 4.7Gb on a DVD?
Sure, you can play it back off the hard drives, but then you have not recorded any DVDs.
My relationship with them has been one in which they give me free database software, don't restrict how I use it, and I give them nothing.
How did you manage to get use of the software without restrictions?
Most of us have to comply with their licence agreement. Or are you simply ignoring it and hoping they don't bother to sue you?
So how long before the next version of Windows won't allow connections to Google?
Huh? Why aren't they saying that Internet Explorer is for criminals because it puts things in different places to Netscape?
Netscape had 90% market share before IE came along..
so why is IE considered a 'standard' and Firefox isn't? Especially considering that IE stores the forensic data in harder-to-reach formats?
Why is this story getting posted on Slashdot? I don't see the nerd content, and I don't see how it is different to any of the other storm flooding that is going on in the world all the time.
And let's not even get started on all the people being displaced from their homes and having their lifes endangered by non-weather causes.
The evening of the 4th in the USA is the morning of the 5th in Britain.
I have always hoped that should a real cure for AIDs be developed that the United States government would sieze the intellectual property and put it into the public domain.
Who needs Comedy Central when you've got Slashdot?