Instead of bemoaning the state of the public sector how about actually doing something about it and actively lobby the people in power to keep this free?
...I've just re-read that post and can't believe it. In the current climate of the customer is always right (unless it costs us money) your company is a breath of fresh air.
Bravo, and once I've moved over to linux (as soon as wine supports some of the apps I use, and yes, I'm working on some patches) I will be buying your product instead of running excel through wine.
If only other companies realised that this kind of attitude wins you customers (listen up RIAA) the world could be a better place.
In the U.K. you have to...
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...that's why there is nowhere near as much corruption as in the United States (which is second only to Italy in my books).
Hell, you're not even allowed to lobby MP's to table questions, there was a huge "Cash for Questions" furore a few years ago when a businessman paid an MP to ask two questions in the commons. That one ended up in court (and one disgrased former MP).
I find the whole IDEA of a lobby to be quite chilling, politicians are there to represent the people of their constituency first, not big business who make so much money they have no right bitching about things in the first place.
At the end of the day, if the RIAA members had embraced online music half a decade ago this would all be a moot point, it is their archaic ways that have put them in the mess they are in now - they should get with the times rather than relying on new laws with which to sue their customers.
...Just make sure it's something non-offensive (i.e. jarring and/or discordant - Stravinsky "The Rites of Spring" would probably not be a good shoice.)
Something Baroque (but not choral), or even some of Philip Glass's stuff may work well.
If all else fails stick a Mozart CD in, people will find the tunes familiar.
...Eclipse Computers over in Coventry do this (by the way, if you're in the uk they have some of the cheapest computer parts and really good customer service). Normally you're in position number 4 or so so don't mind waiting. I however did mind listening to the last Britney Spears album whilst on hold!
...I lived in Belgium for 18 years and must say that
a) The meat you get over there tends to be VERY lean, hardly any fat at all (which poses a problem for roast meals). However, their filet steaks are probably some of the best in the world, very tasty despite their being little fat.
and b) They have the best beer(s) in the world:o)
Mmmm, what I wouldn't give for a Steak avec Sauce Bernaise, Frites et un distanguer de Bier from my favourite restaurant over there (if anyone ever goes to Waterloo, Belgium - eat out at l'Amusoir to see what I mean)
...there's an array of Microwave dishes in london operated by (IIRC) the BBC. The software that controls them is running on DOS (don't know the version). Now, the funny thing about this is that the microwave dishes are normally pointing just a few feet above a London Underground line and if the software went completely tits up you'd have a few cooked passengers and one train in need of replacement.
Always found that story amusing for some reason;o)
...you've got two out of four right (fancy and editor).
As for the other two, slow? With JIT compilation and IBM's SWT it feels no slower than any native apps I use (same goes for Azureus bittorrent client).
Memory sucking? Pah, Firefox with four tabs is currently using 75Mb, Eclipse on the other hand with 30+ source files open is using 60. Cubase SX when I use it regularly consumes more than 300Mb, just to put things into perspective.
There are several plugins that allow development of both swing and swt interfaces.
...it was (the first time) to move to a completely new architecture, and the second time to move to a completely new OS architecture. NOT for a Service Pack!
And let us not forget, the second time (the move to OS X) they had a backwards compatible OS 9 layer so that you could still run your old apps whilst waiting
for native versions to become available
to be able to afford said new versions.
Also there's a hell of a lot of companies out there using legacy internal apps developed in things like:
Pascal
QBasic 4.5(I kid you not)
VB 3 4 and 5
Let us also not forget that the NX extensions could prove problematic for VM's (hmm...Java, I bet M$ wouldn't mind 'breaking' that on windows once and for all, something they got sued for, and settled over).
Now it starts to look a little less easy to forgive, doesn't it?
Finally, Apple just doesn't have the same installed base as Microsoft (and Windows XP), especially in business, so this could be one giant headache for corporate IT admins.
At the moment it's been extended to be useful in writing Java programs (code completion, code folding, code refactoring etc).
There is also a PHP plugin/development mode in active development (it is now somewhat useable). The real crux of ecplise is that it can be whatever you want it to be (but a lot of people, myself included simply use it as a kick ass Java IDE).
Google's revenue model for Gmail is such that they need to pipe you adwords based advertising to stop this being a total loss leader.
You could, however, write a screen-scraper to pop3 proxy, which would be fairly trivial (just make sure it's rule based so that when they change their layout/markup it is easy to update).
(proud owner of a gmail account since the day before yesterday:o)
...because they can copy possibly copyrighted songs, ditto photocopiers, digital cameras (taking a photo of a copyrighted document for example). I cannot believe that the dishonourable senator actually thinks he is acting in the interest of america with this piece of shit masquerading as a bill. For shame.
From the looks of things he's done some other deeper tcp/ip stuff before. Better doing that for three hours than sitting in front of the TV like a zombie or playing whatever the first person shooter de jour is.
People who go "why?" miss the whole point of a project like this, it's meant as a bit of a joke, a way to forget about the mundane world of work and just write a program...gasp...for fun.
Yes PHP has lousy garbage collection, mainly because its designed for scripts that typically only run for a few tenths/hundredths/thousandths of a second, it doesn't have a JITC either...it's not meant for running for prolonged periods. That's why it's fun to see if it can. Plus, it's lasted 3+ hours on the front page of slashdot running on a 450MHZ pIII. Now thats damned impressive.
...made all searches for nigritude ultramarine return results in a random order, shouldn't be that hard for them to do, would have been side splittingly funny as well, hah...SEO spammers...take that, and heres another one for your pointless competition;o)
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When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Not if you've already got 2.0.0a, it's simply a 178 MB (IIRC) upgrade file, which I downloaded in a little over 15 minutes on my connection here.
If you are in the states however you can pick up a copy at most army recruitment centres (or so I have been led to believe, I'm a brit myself so wouldn't be able to check that out.)
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...here is a link to the Word Document being used by the Private Weather Sector to give details about where/how to lobby to NOAA.
Instead of bemoaning the state of the public sector how about actually doing something about it and actively lobby the people in power to keep this free?
...I've just re-read that post and can't believe it. In the current climate of the customer is always right (unless it costs us money) your company is a breath of fresh air.
Bravo, and once I've moved over to linux (as soon as wine supports some of the apps I use, and yes, I'm working on some patches) I will be buying your product instead of running excel through wine.
If only other companies realised that this kind of attitude wins you customers (listen up RIAA) the world could be a better place.
...that's why there is nowhere near as much corruption as in the United States (which is second only to Italy in my books).
Hell, you're not even allowed to lobby MP's to table questions, there was a huge "Cash for Questions" furore a few years ago when a businessman paid an MP to ask two questions in the commons. That one ended up in court (and one disgrased former MP).
I find the whole IDEA of a lobby to be quite chilling, politicians are there to represent the people of their constituency first, not big business who make so much money they have no right bitching about things in the first place.
At the end of the day, if the RIAA members had embraced online music half a decade ago this would all be a moot point, it is their archaic ways that have put them in the mess they are in now - they should get with the times rather than relying on new laws with which to sue their customers.
...Just make sure it's something non-offensive (i.e. jarring and/or discordant - Stravinsky "The Rites of Spring" would probably not be a good shoice.)
Something Baroque (but not choral), or even some of Philip Glass's stuff may work well.
If all else fails stick a Mozart CD in, people will find the tunes familiar.
...Eclipse Computers over in Coventry do this (by the way, if you're in the uk they have some of the cheapest computer parts and really good customer service). Normally you're in position number 4 or so so don't mind waiting. I however did mind listening to the last Britney Spears album whilst on hold!
...I can say that they have some of the tastiest steak on the face of the planet...really lean, but yet still very, very flavoursome.
...I lived in Belgium for 18 years and must say that
:o)
a) The meat you get over there tends to be VERY lean, hardly any fat at all (which poses a problem for roast meals). However, their filet steaks are probably some of the best in the world, very tasty despite their being little fat.
and b) They have the best beer(s) in the world
Mmmm, what I wouldn't give for a Steak avec Sauce Bernaise, Frites et un distanguer de Bier from my favourite restaurant over there (if anyone ever goes to Waterloo, Belgium - eat out at l'Amusoir to see what I mean)
...we simply kicked the puritans out and they deemed fit to settle there.
;o)
"The Founding Fathers - so stuck up even the British kicked them out"
...there's an array of Microwave dishes in london operated by (IIRC) the BBC. The software that controls them is running on DOS (don't know the version). Now, the funny thing about this is that the microwave dishes are normally pointing just a few feet above a London Underground line and if the software went completely tits up you'd have a few cooked passengers and one train in need of replacement.
;o)
Always found that story amusing for some reason
...you've got two out of four right (fancy and editor).
As for the other two, slow? With JIT compilation and IBM's SWT it feels no slower than any native apps I use (same goes for Azureus bittorrent client).
Memory sucking? Pah, Firefox with four tabs is currently using 75Mb, Eclipse on the other hand with 30+ source files open is using 60. Cubase SX when I use it regularly consumes more than 300Mb, just to put things into perspective.
There are several plugins that allow development of both swing and swt interfaces.
Next time do some research.
...it was (the first time) to move to a completely new architecture, and the second time to move to a completely new OS architecture. NOT for a Service Pack!
And let us not forget, the second time (the move to OS X) they had a backwards compatible OS 9 layer so that you could still run your old apps whilst waitingAlso there's a hell of a lot of companies out there using legacy internal apps developed in things like:
- Pascal
- QBasic 4.5(I kid you not)
- VB 3 4 and 5
Let us also not forget that the NX extensions could prove problematic for VM's (hmm...Java, I bet M$ wouldn't mind 'breaking' that on windows once and for all, something they got sued for, and settled over).Now it starts to look a little less easy to forgive, doesn't it?
Finally, Apple just doesn't have the same installed base as Microsoft (and Windows XP), especially in business, so this could be one giant headache for corporate IT admins.
Love the demos, the music is always the thing that blows me away on the FB ones.
;o)
Is there a VSTi version of your softsynth? and if so, where can I get my grubby mitts on a copy
Eclipse is an extensible application framework.
At the moment it's been extended to be useful in writing Java programs (code completion, code folding, code refactoring etc).
There is also a PHP plugin/development mode in active development (it is now somewhat useable). The real crux of ecplise is that it can be whatever you want it to be (but a lot of people, myself included simply use it as a kick ass Java IDE).
...ah...but I just finished downloading 3.0RC3 on my 2400 baud modem :o( (not really, I'm on broadband but I HAVE just downloaded RC3, oh well).
That's the beaty of it, it's not just a Java IDE, it can be anything.
:o)
There's already a plugin that mostly works for editing PHP so why don't you get a few java/ruby hackers together and create one?)
As for a mail reader, I don't know about that, but there is tetris and snake available
...by spam bayes outlook plugin, almost missed the three week window too, so yeah, it does look very spammy.
...one of the reasons: stupidly high license fees from msn/microsoft.
Ebay is the only big-name site (apart from hotmail of course) that I can recall as using it.
1) POP/IMAP access to account
:o)
Google's revenue model for Gmail is such that they need to pipe you adwords based advertising to stop this being a total loss leader.
You could, however, write a screen-scraper to pop3 proxy, which would be fairly trivial (just make sure it's rule based so that when they change their layout/markup it is easy to update).
(proud owner of a gmail account since the day before yesterday
...because they can copy possibly copyrighted songs, ditto photocopiers, digital cameras (taking a photo of a copyrighted document for example). I cannot believe that the dishonourable senator actually thinks he is acting in the interest of america with this piece of shit masquerading as a bill. For shame.
...because they have dual use, preparing food and also breaking the law by being used in a stabbing.
America, land of the free? My arse it is. In soviet russia etc.etc.
...how this chap directs his talents?
From the looks of things he's done some other deeper tcp/ip stuff before. Better doing that for three hours than sitting in front of the TV like a zombie or playing whatever the first person shooter de jour is.
People who go "why?" miss the whole point of a project like this, it's meant as a bit of a joke, a way to forget about the mundane world of work and just write a program...gasp...for fun.
Yes PHP has lousy garbage collection, mainly because its designed for scripts that typically only run for a few tenths/hundredths/thousandths of a second, it doesn't have a JITC either...it's not meant for running for prolonged periods. That's why it's fun to see if it can. Plus, it's lasted 3+ hours on the front page of slashdot running on a 450MHZ pIII. Now thats damned impressive.
...made all searches for nigritude ultramarine return results in a random order, shouldn't be that hard for them to do, would have been side splittingly funny as well, hah...SEO spammers...take that, and heres another one for your pointless competition ;o)
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Not if you've already got 2.0.0a, it's simply a 178 MB (IIRC) upgrade file, which I downloaded in a little over 15 minutes on my connection here.
If you are in the states however you can pick up a copy at most army recruitment centres (or so I have been led to believe, I'm a brit myself so wouldn't be able to check that out.)
And have finally answered the age old question (oh, and step four should read Profit!).
;o)
Finally, with this question answered there will be one less annoying slashdot cliche to contend with