I tried the new interface for a few weeks and just switched back to the old vanilla version a few days ago.
In general, I liked the interface and the way that it looked and acted like a desktop email client.
But, I have two big gripes with it: 1. It was too slow and unresponsive for me. 2. The third column (the one containing the ad) was proportionally too large for the interface. I understand that Yahoo makes their money from ads, but can't they make the ads a little smaller and less annoying?
Granted, if they fixed item 1 I could probably live with item 2 - for awhile, at least.
As an AL resident, I have to agree with the original poster with some caveats. Many of the things that he describes about Hunstville (cheap housing, cheap insurance, etc.) are true of *most* of the rest of the state as well. However, many other items do not apply.
Exhibit 1: Schools. Birmingham is known to have very good schools. I will take his word about Hunstville schools. Schools in the Mobile area == Crap. Schools in the rest of the state have generally been regarded the same way.
Exhibit 2: Housing I live in Baldwin county, which is right on the Gulf Coast. Housing used to be very affordable here. However, somebody must have done a very good job of advertising this fact to urban-dwelling midwesterners a couple of years ago. Retirees are moving here in droves. And, they're building massive, expensive houses and making it harder for the "natives" to afford a decent place. Property taxes are very low, which is one of the reasons why the schools are not very good (see exhibit 1). But, what incentive does a retiree have for increasing property taxes to fund better schools when all of his/her kids are already out of school and he just saved a ton of many by moving from a very expensive/high-tax area to a cheaper area?
Exhibit 3: Climate "Winters are really mild, summers can get hot, but aren't as bad as Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, or Florida. It's not as humid as Florida or the other neighboring states." Yes, all of this is probably true about Huntsville, which is on the extreme northern end of the state. Here on the extreme southern end of the state, the climate is quite different. Down here, it IS as humid as Florida and as hot as Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Sure, we don't have snow and we never have a situation where it's too cold to go outside. But, we have the opposite - it's too friggin hot to go outside right now!
There are many things I like about Alabama, but the climate and the schools are definitely nothing to brag about in my neck of the woods.
So, what's to like down here? Shrimp. We have good seafood down here. We have boiled shrimp. Fried shrimp.......
You just don't understand the economics here....$1 million bucks is a small investment considering how much money the government will get back from the sales of all of the "Shrimp Gone Wild" videos.
My Master's Thesis work is exactly down this alley! I'm working on a Code-by-voice Java IDE built on Eclipse. I've got prototypes already working and hope to be completed early next year (soon, please....will I ever finish school?!?).
And, yes, it's true - the majority of coders can type faster than they would be able to speak. But, for people who suffer from RSI, what other choices are there?
As the parent said, the key is to structure the environment to be more conducive to speech recognition. Thus, rather than simply dictating code into a text editor, I'm taking more of a syntax-directed approach. This means many of the formatting details (parentheses, semicolons, etc.) will be automatically taken care of and the programmer only has to worry about the details - the individual expressions and statements and the overall structure of the code. This is probably too much hand-holding for most people, but it is probably necessary for coding by voice.
If they want you to extend the product with new features, additions, etc., then I agree with the parent. You should charge a fixed rate for an agreed-upon feature set. If the requirements change, you need to renegotiate terms.
If, however, they want you to provide open-ended support, then this is a whole different ballgame. In this case, they basically want you to be on-call to debug and support their users. If this is the situation, I would definitely charge an hourly rate as this can take up quite a bit of your time.
I have been using Ernie Ball strings for years and I will continue to use them with a renews exuberance now.
Not only do they sound great, they are usually cheaper than other strings, and break less often than other strings in my experience. When I was gigging quite often with my old band, I relied on these strings to get me through the night without breaking. I seemed to break all of the other brands (GHS, D'Addario, SIT) I tried without much effort, but the Ernie Balls held up.
The fact that they can produce a superior product for a lower price always impressed me. Maybe now that they've switched to OSS, they can sell their strings for even cheaper (or get a higher profit margin and use some of the extra money to fund OSS projects!).
FWIW....My father used the Super Home Suite from Punch Software when he was having his house built. I don't have firsthand knowledge of this software, but he seemed to think it was quite capable (and his house is still standing!).
However, I do know that he also tried "3D Home Architect" from Broderbund and liked the Punch suite much better.
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I'll second this comment about The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse...I've nearly read the whole thing cover-to-cover and it has lots of good information on Plug-In development and extending Eclipse in general.
If you're looking to develop a solution based on Eclipse, this is the way to go, as it collects everything in one place (versus the scattered assortment of Eclipse docs found on the web). It also has an excellent exercises section with lots of sample code. However, it really only has one chapter that deals directly with using Eclipse as a Java IDE.
The reviewed book may be a better choice if you wish to use Eclipse as a Java IDE rather than extend it.
Counterexamples... Gollum/Smeagol: Born a "good" Hobbit, becomes Gollum - not necessarily evil, but not necessarily good either.
Saruman: A "good" wizard, becomes an "evil" ally of Sauron.
Isildur: A "good" king of men, who is overcome with greed upon possessing the One Ring (does that make him "evil")
Other moral ambiguities... Elves are generally considered "good" guys, as are Dwarves. But, they typically hate each other. Does their hate make them no longer good?
Gimli and Legolas first typify this hatred between elves and dwarves, but they grow to respect each other. And, Gimli's opinion of Elves changes dramatically upon meeting Galadriel.
So, the moral position of the characters are not set in stone - they do change. Sometimes they change for the better, sometimes for the worse.
While you have a point - there are never any cases of a repentant Orc (that I know of), for instance - I think it's a bit much to state that none of characters change. In fact, that seems to be one of the main themes of the novels - the corrupting power of the One Ring upon all who touch it.
Has anyone thought that this may have nothing at all to do with Office. Maybe it is related to IE, instead.
Why?
Because of desktop Linux? No. I don't really think MS is really serious about this at this point.
Maybe there is something else. . .
Think of all the non-PC devices (webpads, handhelds, etc.) that are running or that will be running Linux. Don't you think it breaks Bill's heart to have all these devices running with out one lick of MS software. With IE for these non-PC platforms, Bill can possibly gain a foothold here and use this to try to hook everyone into some type of Microsoft service.
Ok, so my theory's a little nebulous, but it could happen!
Have you heard of PMFirewall?
I use an @Home cable modem and run Gnome with this package.
Basically, PMFirewall is just a script to help you configure all of your TCP ports and IPCHAINS/IPMASQ. I have found it easy to use, but I am sure there are alternatives that are just as good.
I would like to point out that I haven't performed a complete and thorough test to determine how secure my system is. I did run the "ShieldsUp" test at grc.com and it couldn't find any open ports or access any services. This may not be the most exhaustive test around, however, so I can't give any guarantees.
While you're there, make sure you check out GPr and libppd. I am the lead developer of GPr and would like to get some feedback!
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No, religion DICTATES what it expects us to swallow as "truth".
If you sit in a classroom, does the teacher not DICTATE what he expects you to receive as the truth.
They "edited" the dead sea scrolls and the old testament to fit the power structure they were seeking to make.
When were the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered? I don't know the exact date, but I know it was fairly recently (as in sometime in the last 200 years). When was the Canonical list of the books of the Bible compiled? Third or Fourth century AD, if memory serves me correctly. Did they purposely exclude the Dead Sea Scrolls? Ummm, I rather doubt it as no one was aware of the scrolls at the time the Canon was compiled.
If you could cite examples of how the Old Testament was edited by the Church, I would be happy to hear about them.
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Based upon your sound supporting arguments, I am firmly convinced that you are correct! Your eloquence has, once again, shown me the truth, O Anonymous Coward!
You have forgotten one prime example, however. Mother Teresa. She surely made many people miserable.
Give me a break.
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I appreciate both the Catholic and the Anglican article on this subject. As the popular culture is so Anti-Church and Anti-Christianity, all we hear are the "facts" that put the Church in a bad light. In this particular case, we see that it is not clearly, "Good Galileo-Bad Pope". There were obviously some mistakes made on both sides, but one would never know this from the history books.
Science and Religion should both be a discovery of the truth. Science studies the truth of our physical world while Religion seeks the Truth that includes and, yet, goes beyond that which science can discern. It would seem that the study of history should similarly seek to expose the true events of the past. In the same manner, the modern news media should present the facts of current events. Yet, history books, newspapers, and newscasts are often so steeped in opinion as to render the truth nearly invisible. Revisionist historians can paint any picture of the past they want to. We are forced to accept this based upon the credentials of the historian. Shouldn't the truth itself carry its own credentials? This is not to discredit all historians - we certainly benefit from our knowledge of the past. But, when the ego and opinions of the historian get in the way of the facts, when the "interpretation" of history is more important than all of the facts, we lose the truth. We might as well be reading a work of fiction rather than a history book!
It would be interesting to know how many of the great events in history truly happened the way we were taught in textbooks. How often have we received history and how often have we received propaganda?
I think Linus holds the trademark on the Linux name. At least it seems that every time I see "Linux" in a press release it lists "copyright Linus Torvalds" (or something similar) at the bottom.
Perhaps this is just a little market research. Maybe they're trying to see how many/.'ers (primarily Linux users) are interested in MS Office. They want to see how many more poor bastards they can steal 500 bucks from with a Linux port of MS Office.
The OfficeJet 1150C uses a PCL3C controller, so you should be able to get it to work in some capacity. I don't know if the color works or not - I haven't personally used one of these printer's under linux.
The 1150C is just a DeskJet 850 with a built-in scanner. If the 850 is supported in linux, the 1150 should work.
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I agree with you completely.
I tried the new interface for a few weeks and just switched back to the old vanilla version a few days ago.
In general, I liked the interface and the way that it looked and acted like a desktop email client.
But, I have two big gripes with it:
1. It was too slow and unresponsive for me.
2. The third column (the one containing the ad) was proportionally too large for the interface. I understand that Yahoo makes their money from ads, but can't they make the ads a little smaller and less annoying?
Granted, if they fixed item 1 I could probably live with item 2 - for awhile, at least.
As an AL resident, I have to agree with the original poster with some caveats. Many of the things that he describes about Hunstville (cheap housing, cheap insurance, etc.) are true of *most* of the rest of the state as well. However, many other items do not apply.
Exhibit 1: Schools.
Birmingham is known to have very good schools. I will take his word about Hunstville schools.
Schools in the Mobile area == Crap. Schools in the rest of the state have generally been regarded the same way.
Exhibit 2: Housing
I live in Baldwin county, which is right on the Gulf Coast. Housing used to be very affordable here. However, somebody must have done a very good job of advertising this fact to urban-dwelling midwesterners a couple of years ago. Retirees are moving here in droves. And, they're building massive, expensive houses and making it harder for the "natives" to afford a decent place. Property taxes are very low, which is one of the reasons why the schools are not very good (see exhibit 1). But, what incentive does a retiree have for increasing property taxes to fund better schools when all of his/her kids are already out of school and he just saved a ton of many by moving from a very expensive/high-tax area to a cheaper area?
Exhibit 3: Climate
"Winters are really mild, summers can get hot, but aren't as bad as Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, or Florida. It's not as humid as Florida or the other neighboring states."
Yes, all of this is probably true about Huntsville, which is on the extreme northern end of the state. Here on the extreme southern end of the state, the climate is quite different. Down here, it IS as humid as Florida and as hot as Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
Sure, we don't have snow and we never have a situation where it's too cold to go outside. But, we have the opposite - it's too friggin hot to go outside right now!
There are many things I like about Alabama, but the climate and the schools are definitely nothing to brag about in my neck of the woods.
So, what's to like down here? Shrimp. We have good seafood down here. We have boiled shrimp. Fried shrimp.......
Seeing the picture reminded me of the famous scene from "This Is Spinal Tap".
Where is Moke with the blowtorch when you need him?
What is it with people high up in the Perl community and legal troubles?? Didn't Randal L. Schwartz also get into trouble with a past employer?
This should be reason #1 to use Python.
I'm just joking everyone...nothing to see here...carry on.
Wild Shrimp!!! Woo Hoo!
You just don't understand the economics here....$1 million bucks is a small investment considering how much money the government will get back from the sales of all of the "Shrimp Gone Wild" videos.
My Master's Thesis work is exactly down this alley! I'm working on a Code-by-voice Java IDE built on Eclipse. I've got prototypes already working and hope to be completed early next year (soon, please....will I ever finish school?!?).
And, yes, it's true - the majority of coders can type faster than they would be able to speak. But, for people who suffer from RSI, what other choices are there?
As the parent said, the key is to structure the environment to be more conducive to speech recognition. Thus, rather than simply dictating code into a text editor, I'm taking more of a syntax-directed approach. This means many of the formatting details (parentheses, semicolons, etc.) will be automatically taken care of and the programmer only has to worry about the details - the individual expressions and statements and the overall structure of the code. This is probably too much hand-holding for most people, but it is probably necessary for coding by voice.
I think it depends on the nature of the work....
If they want you to extend the product with new features, additions, etc., then I agree with the parent. You should charge a fixed rate for an agreed-upon feature set. If the requirements change, you need to renegotiate terms.
If, however, they want you to provide open-ended support, then this is a whole different ballgame. In this case, they basically want you to be on-call to debug and support their users. If this is the situation, I would definitely charge an hourly rate as this can take up quite a bit of your time.
I have been using Ernie Ball strings for years and I will continue to use them with a renews exuberance now.
Not only do they sound great, they are usually cheaper than other strings, and break less often than other strings in my experience. When I was gigging quite often with my old band, I relied on these strings to get me through the night without breaking. I seemed to break all of the other brands (GHS, D'Addario, SIT) I tried without much effort, but the Ernie Balls held up.
The fact that they can produce a superior product for a lower price always impressed me. Maybe now that they've switched to OSS, they can sell their strings for even cheaper (or get a higher profit margin and use some of the extra money to fund OSS projects!).
FWIW....My father used the Super Home Suite from Punch Software when he was having his house built. I don't have firsthand knowledge of this software, but he seemed to think it was quite capable (and his house is still standing!).
However, I do know that he also tried "3D Home Architect" from Broderbund and liked the Punch suite much better.
I'll second this comment about The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse...I've nearly read the whole thing cover-to-cover and it has lots of good information on Plug-In development and extending Eclipse in general.
If you're looking to develop a solution based on Eclipse, this is the way to go, as it collects everything in one place (versus the scattered assortment of Eclipse docs found on the web). It also has an excellent exercises section with lots of sample code. However, it really only has one chapter that deals directly with using Eclipse as a Java IDE.
The reviewed book may be a better choice if you wish to use Eclipse as a Java IDE rather than extend it.
You could always use SWT instead of Swing - it looks like it belongs on Windows (or it blends in with GTK, if you're under Linux).
Hey, you SOB! I'm a White Alabaman! And I consider your post offensive to my sensibilities.
I hereby demand that Taco edit it and post a White Alabaman-friendly version immediately.
Counterexamples...
Gollum/Smeagol: Born a "good" Hobbit, becomes Gollum - not necessarily evil, but not necessarily good either.
Saruman: A "good" wizard, becomes an "evil" ally of Sauron.
Isildur: A "good" king of men, who is overcome with greed upon possessing the One Ring (does that make him "evil")
Other moral ambiguities...
Elves are generally considered "good" guys, as are Dwarves. But, they typically hate each other. Does their hate make them no longer good?
Gimli and Legolas first typify this hatred between elves and dwarves, but they grow to respect each other. And, Gimli's opinion of Elves changes dramatically upon meeting Galadriel.
So, the moral position of the characters are not set in stone - they do change. Sometimes they change for the better, sometimes for the worse.
While you have a point - there are never any cases of a repentant Orc (that I know of), for instance - I think it's a bit much to state that none of characters change. In fact, that seems to be one of the main themes of the novels - the corrupting power of the One Ring upon all who touch it.
Gee whiz, I must be a psychic. Look at this
Has anyone thought that this may have nothing at all to do with Office. Maybe it is related to IE, instead.
Why?
Because of desktop Linux? No. I don't really think MS is really serious about this at this point.
Maybe there is something else. . .
Think of all the non-PC devices (webpads, handhelds, etc.) that are running or that will be running Linux. Don't you think it breaks Bill's heart to have all these devices running with out one lick of MS software. With IE for these non-PC platforms, Bill can possibly gain a foothold here and use this to try to hook everyone into some type of Microsoft service.
Ok, so my theory's a little nebulous, but it could happen!
Basically, PMFirewall is just a script to help you configure all of your TCP ports and IPCHAINS/IPMASQ. I have found it easy to use, but I am sure there are alternatives that are just as good.
I would like to point out that I haven't performed a complete and thorough test to determine how secure my system is. I did run the "ShieldsUp" test at grc.com and it couldn't find any open ports or access any services. This may not be the most exhaustive test around, however, so I can't give any guarantees.
Check out http://printing.sourceforge.net
While you're there, make sure you check out GPr and libppd. I am the lead developer of GPr and would like to get some feedback!
No, religion DICTATES what it expects us to swallow as "truth".
If you sit in a classroom, does the teacher not DICTATE what he expects you to receive as the truth.
They "edited" the dead sea scrolls and the old testament to fit the power structure they were seeking to make.
When were the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered? I don't know the exact date, but I know it was fairly recently (as in sometime in the last 200 years). When was the Canonical list of the books of the Bible compiled? Third or Fourth century AD, if memory serves me correctly. Did they purposely exclude the Dead Sea Scrolls? Ummm, I rather doubt it as no one was aware of the scrolls at the time the Canon was compiled.
If you could cite examples of how the Old Testament was edited by the Church, I would be happy to hear about them.
Amen.
Based upon your sound supporting arguments, I am firmly convinced that you are correct! Your eloquence has, once again, shown me the truth, O Anonymous Coward!
You have forgotten one prime example, however. Mother Teresa. She surely made many people miserable.
Give me a break.
I appreciate both the Catholic and the Anglican article on this subject. As the popular culture is so Anti-Church and Anti-Christianity, all we hear are the "facts" that put the Church in a bad light. In this particular case, we see that it is not clearly, "Good Galileo-Bad Pope". There were obviously some mistakes made on both sides, but one would never know this from the history books.
Science and Religion should both be a discovery of the truth. Science studies the truth of our physical world while Religion seeks the Truth that includes and, yet, goes beyond that which science can discern. It would seem that the study of history should similarly seek to expose the true events of the past. In the same manner, the modern news media should present the facts of current events. Yet, history books, newspapers, and newscasts are often so steeped in opinion as to render the truth nearly invisible. Revisionist historians can paint any picture of the past they want to. We are forced to accept this based upon the credentials of the historian. Shouldn't the truth itself carry its own credentials? This is not to discredit all historians - we certainly benefit from our knowledge of the past. But, when the ego and opinions of the historian get in the way of the facts, when the "interpretation" of history is more important than all of the facts, we lose the truth. We might as well be reading a work of fiction rather than a history book!
It would be interesting to know how many of the great events in history truly happened the way we were taught in textbooks. How often have we received history and how often have we received propaganda?
Aye, Aye, Captain! You've hit the nail upon the head!
I'm all for patriotism, but not if it involves Coors, Bud, or Miller.
Guinness for Strength!
I think Linus holds the trademark on the Linux name. At least it seems that every time I see "Linux" in a press release it lists "copyright Linus Torvalds" (or something similar) at the bottom.
Perhaps this is just a little market research. Maybe they're trying to see how many /.'ers (primarily Linux users) are interested in MS Office. They want to see how many more poor bastards they can steal 500 bucks from with a Linux port of MS Office.
The OfficeJet 1150C uses a PCL3C controller, so you should be able to get it to work in some capacity. I don't know if the color works or not - I haven't personally used one of these printer's under linux.
The 1150C is just a DeskJet 850 with a built-in scanner. If the 850 is supported in linux, the 1150 should work.