Kylix vs C++ BuilderX on C++ development
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Kylix in Limbo
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I believe Kylix was designed for Delphi development from the beginning. I noticed recently Borland has released C++ BuilderX 1.0 (a Java-based C++ IDE), with Personal Edition available as free download. How will this affect the progress on Kylix? Any ideas?
Erm, if it is about _reading_ the document, I am pretty sure Microsoft will provide Word/Excel/Powerpoint Viewers, even for Office 2003 document format.
What is interesting is how big the change in Office document format so that it will make OpenOffice unable to read it - but if it is to happen - previous Office versions will suffer as well. There is a bet that all 9x/NT4 users will upgrade their OSes just to use Office 2003. And I am not sure it will be as easy as people might think.
For Mozilla 1.5, there is a new section in the Help Menu: For Internet Explorer Users, which will guide former IE users to navigate thru in Mozilla. IE users should find it useful.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
You know, I never understand why people keep using Outlook/Outlook Express on critical development platform; it is long overdue for people to look at non-Microsoft tools for secure communications - not because Microsoft is insecure (it indeed is not well designed in security), but that the target hacker(s) would not have a common target platform to study - Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express on their own machines.
The security expert who got fired next day after publishing a report suggesting Microsoft platform monoculture is dangerous to network / national security is right, and look at what it cost for the Valve and the Half-2 team.
Well I am not sure the 2 year limit applies to every brands of CD-Rs out there. I for one knew some of the CD-Rs are of better quality out there. Another thing is the burning speed could be crucial: 1x recording might be a bit conservative (actually for many CD-writer nowadays 2X/4X is the minimum writing speed) but any burning speed > 12x tends to produce C1 or C2 error sometimes. I personally choose a writing speed of 8X most of the time.
I knew some people who have tried the Beijing-based Red Flag Linux, guess what? It requires you to ENTER A SERIAL NUMBER in order to complete the installation. Reminds me of th Redmond company:P .
I remember reading on the kernel mailing list about Linus' comment on derived work. Essentially, if I remember it right, Linus explained that if the companies/developers can prove to the court that the program is NOT derived work, it doesn't matter whether it links to the GPLed libraries or not.
Now how can it be accomplished? This is one possible scenario:
To prove that such program already existed on a non-GPL platform: eg: Windows or Mac OS X. The existence of such program is a lively example that it is original on its own, for instance some non-GPL file system and other programs ported from Windows. As far as the _extreme_ logic goes, this is still dependent work - call it derived if you like, but its sole existence on other platforms proved it is original in a _common sense_. So which point of view the court will be convinced of? Go figure.
Personally I will be very amused if the program becomes derived work simply because it is ported to Linux using some GPLed libraries over there. If this is the case, no commercial software or games might be interested in the Linux platform. And the interlinking between libraries (such as SDL calling ALSA/OSS and Xlib and such) will becomes pretty messy - since they might use different licenses. Perhaps people will need to call for more dual license (GPL+LGPL) if they want more software for the Linux platform, otherwise it could prove to become self-isolating and self-defeating, to certain point.
It is a nice open source vector drawing program. And it got me interested in looking into the SVG format, which also supports (web) animation:-) . This article explains it a bit more:
Well I don't think it's fair to compare with bank reform, after all. The accumulation of loans and debts have been too deep to be exposed... and the reform will be too embarassing to the Japanese themselves. Dumping Microsoft, on the other hand, at least won't be embarassing. I think the Japanese had put many effort in localizing Linux themselves. Of course others are right that it could be yet another tactic to negotiate a better deal with MS...
According to the news at the FreeBSD-NVIDIA Driver Initiative project site:
"Finally, for those of you who are curious, I have reports of people playing these games with the NVIDIA drivers and having no trouble: UT, UT 2003, Tribes 2, Half-Life (under wine), Quake 3 and TuxRacer. There were some others, but they are lost somewhere in my heap of mail. Enjoy!"
Now my next wish will be the 3D vendors porting their professional animation app (hello Maya, Softimage, 3ds max) to the FreeBSD platform, given strong OpenGL performance is now available.
Maybe I should continue to do some Blender artwork first at the moment.
Someone may also want to check out ePSXe or PCSX Linux with Pete MesaGL plugin, the OpenGL 3D acceleration simply rocks and looks great!
If the FreeBSD driver proves to be stable and reliable, does it make sense for Aliaswavefront and Softimage to port their 3D packages to FreeBSD?
After all FreeBSD is a very stable OS suitable for such task.
Yes, you can try Blender 3D.
A native FreeBSD version is available and you can find it from the Blender.org website. OpenGL accelerated driver is required and now nVidia display cards have got their own.
I have learned a while ago that there are new technologies in the making which would embed a specific frequency in the movie projector on the screen, which would not be distinguishable by human eyes, but would render those video cameras a flickering image which made this type of preview pirating impossible. I think this might be a way to solve things out, at least for a while.
As for the film reels, I guess security has greater concern. Maybe they should have hidden cameras put inside the film reels to bust out the pirates in case of breaching.
The way the big three joined forces on this is putting a whole lot of pressure on the company. Eventually, cutting or banning supplies of any products or components to the company will be pending even Lik Sang could win the case in the court. Not to mention the trial fees can bring down Lik Sang by facing three companies with strong financial motives and background (remember Connectix vs Sony on VGS).
In addition, Hong Kong is such a small city that if your company is being exposed to the media for being boycotted by the BIG manufacturer, everybody knows what to do to stay out of trouble (which is actually bad, considering at times there are issues worthy of standing up even against the power players - for the sake of reason, democracy or defending the legal system). Of course the piracy situation is too bad over there to make a convincing case of any "fair use" of modchip...
One more thing, the legal process in Hong Kong is conducted in English whereas over 95% of people over there are native Cantonese and Chinese, meaning going to court could pose great challenge even for the average mortals unless they have decent language education background. In other words, people are afraid to go to court for they are inherently disadvantaged in communication (eg. offering testimony, there are translators but it cost, and not to mention translation might not be 100% accurate...) and hence psychologically disadvantaged as well. The common law system is really British legacy rather than willingly embraced by the locals over there.
In final analysis, why would Lik Sang care what their customers use the modchips for? Their position has nothing to do with their business practice and performance after all.
Think of it as easy and powerful as Cuteftp, but totally free with a intuitive interface. I agree this is another must-have OSS.
http://filezilla.sf.net/
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I believe Kylix was designed for Delphi development from the beginning. I noticed recently Borland has released C++ BuilderX 1.0 (a Java-based C++ IDE), with Personal Edition available as free download. How will this affect the progress on Kylix? Any ideas?
That's an absolutely NO! Judge Jackson's ruling was overthrown because he talked to the press about the anti-trust case against Microsoft.
Erm, if it is about _reading_ the document, I am pretty sure Microsoft will provide Word/Excel/Powerpoint Viewers, even for Office 2003 document format. What is interesting is how big the change in Office document format so that it will make OpenOffice unable to read it - but if it is to happen - previous Office versions will suffer as well. There is a bet that all 9x/NT4 users will upgrade their OSes just to use Office 2003. And I am not sure it will be as easy as people might think.
For Mozilla 1.5, there is a new section in the Help Menu: For Internet Explorer Users, which will guide former IE users to navigate thru in Mozilla. IE users should find it useful.
You know, I never understand why people keep using Outlook/Outlook Express on critical development platform; it is long overdue for people to look at non-Microsoft tools for secure communications - not because Microsoft is insecure (it indeed is not well designed in security), but that the target hacker(s) would not have a common target platform to study - Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express on their own machines.
The security expert who got fired next day after publishing a report suggesting Microsoft platform monoculture is dangerous to network / national security is right, and look at what it cost for the Valve and the Half-2 team.
Well I am not sure the 2 year limit applies to every brands of CD-Rs out there. I for one knew some of the CD-Rs are of better quality out there. Another thing is the burning speed could be crucial: 1x recording might be a bit conservative (actually for many CD-writer nowadays 2X/4X is the minimum writing speed) but any burning speed > 12x tends to produce C1 or C2 error sometimes. I personally choose a writing speed of 8X most of the time.
I knew some people who have tried the Beijing-based Red Flag Linux, guess what? It requires you to ENTER A SERIAL NUMBER in order to complete the installation. Reminds me of th Redmond company :P .
I see, download the manual at Documentation page. It will address the features Speex in detail.
What's the difference between Speex and OGG?
Any comparison on that?
Will it benefit game developers in delivering voiceover game speeches?
I think SVG is the technology for the future.
.SWF (Shockwave Flash) and .SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format specifications
Already open source project such as sodipodi is using SVG to store vector graphic format.
Here are some more information about SVG and comparsion with SWF:
Mozilla SVG Project
Comparing
Flash and SVG
Microsoft is complying to many government demands on this, but similar to the Shared Source Initiative, who will have the rights to the modified code?
If MS owns the rights of those modified code, then isn't it practically getting government expertise/programmers/labor for free?
I remember reading on the kernel mailing list about Linus' comment on derived work. Essentially, if I remember it right, Linus explained that if the companies/developers can prove to the court that the program is NOT derived work, it doesn't matter whether it links to the GPLed libraries or not.
Now how can it be accomplished? This is one possible scenario:
To prove that such program already existed on a non-GPL platform: eg: Windows or Mac OS X. The existence of such program is a lively example that it is original on its own, for instance some non-GPL file system and other programs ported from Windows. As far as the _extreme_ logic goes, this is still dependent work - call it derived if you like, but its sole existence on other platforms proved it is original in a _common sense_. So which point of view the court will be convinced of? Go figure.
Personally I will be very amused if the program becomes derived work simply because it is ported to Linux using some GPLed libraries over there. If this is the case, no commercial software or games might be interested in the Linux platform. And the interlinking between libraries (such as SDL calling ALSA/OSS and Xlib and such) will becomes pretty messy - since they might use different licenses. Perhaps people will need to call for more dual license (GPL+LGPL) if they want more software for the Linux platform, otherwise it could prove to become self-isolating and self-defeating, to certain point.
I was wondering how we can be prepared for this, interestingly I stumbled over an SVG Vector drawing program named sodipodi a while ago:
:-) . This article explains it a bit more:
Sodipodi
Sodipodi screenshots on Linux with GTK Geramik theme
It is a nice open source vector drawing program. And it got me interested in looking into the SVG format, which also supports (web) animation
SWF Is Not Flash (and Other Vectored Thoughts)
Anyway I think SVG will have a bright future and even can replace Flash (SWF) in certain extent, more info on SVG can be found at W3C.org here:
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification
Mozilla SVG Project
Well I don't think it's fair to compare with bank reform, after all. The accumulation of loans and debts have been too deep to be exposed... and the reform will be too embarassing to the Japanese themselves. Dumping Microsoft, on the other hand, at least won't be embarassing. I think the Japanese had put many effort in localizing Linux themselves. Of course others are right that it could be yet another tactic to negotiate a better deal with MS...
According to the news at the FreeBSD-NVIDIA Driver Initiative project site:
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"Finally, for those of you who are curious, I have reports of people playing these games with the NVIDIA drivers and having no trouble: UT, UT 2003, Tribes 2, Half-Life (under wine), Quake 3 and TuxRacer. There were some others, but they are lost somewhere in my heap of mail. Enjoy!"
Now my next wish will be the 3D vendors porting their professional animation app (hello Maya, Softimage, 3ds max) to the FreeBSD platform, given strong OpenGL performance is now available.
Maybe I should continue to do some Blender artwork first at the moment
Someone may also want to check out ePSXe or PCSX Linux with Pete MesaGL plugin, the OpenGL 3D acceleration simply rocks and looks great!
I believe nVidia has assigned contracts to WinFast to manufacture and produce Quadro boards.
If the FreeBSD driver proves to be stable and reliable, does it make sense for Aliaswavefront and Softimage to port their 3D packages to FreeBSD? After all FreeBSD is a very stable OS suitable for such task.
Yes, you can try Blender 3D. A native FreeBSD version is available and you can find it from the Blender.org website. OpenGL accelerated driver is required and now nVidia display cards have got their own.
I have learned a while ago that there are new technologies in the making which would embed a specific frequency in the movie projector on the screen, which would not be distinguishable by human eyes, but would render those video cameras a flickering image which made this type of preview pirating impossible. I think this might be a way to solve things out, at least for a while. As for the film reels, I guess security has greater concern. Maybe they should have hidden cameras put inside the film reels to bust out the pirates in case of breaching.
China does not practice common law.
Also the official language in the legal process is Chinese, not English. And Chinese intellectual property law is still in infancy...
This is over-simplification of the whole issue.
The way the big three joined forces on this is putting a whole lot of pressure on the company. Eventually, cutting or banning supplies of any products or components to the company will be pending even Lik Sang could win the case in the court. Not to mention the trial fees can bring down Lik Sang by facing three companies with strong financial motives and background (remember Connectix vs Sony on VGS).
In addition, Hong Kong is such a small city that if your company is being exposed to the media for being boycotted by the BIG manufacturer, everybody knows what to do to stay out of trouble (which is actually bad, considering at times there are issues worthy of standing up even against the power players - for the sake of reason, democracy or defending the legal system). Of course the piracy situation is too bad over there to make a convincing case of any "fair use" of modchip...
One more thing, the legal process in Hong Kong is conducted in English whereas over 95% of people over there are native Cantonese and Chinese, meaning going to court could pose great challenge even for the average mortals unless they have decent language education background. In other words, people are afraid to go to court for they are inherently disadvantaged in communication (eg. offering testimony, there are translators but it cost, and not to mention translation might not be 100% accurate...) and hence psychologically disadvantaged as well. The common law system is really British legacy rather than willingly embraced by the locals over there.
In final analysis, why would Lik Sang care what their customers use the modchips for? Their position has nothing to do with their business practice and performance after all.
A very interesting project, thank you.
Thank you very much that's a great collections!
I agree. This one actually offer decent Virtual Desktop capability for Windows.
Think of it as easy and powerful as Cuteftp, but totally free with a intuitive interface. I agree this is another must-have OSS. http://filezilla.sf.net/