Check this out if you want high-bandwidth, hi-fi, hi-res video conferencing: http://ultravideo.mcgill.ca/ The software runs on Linux and can be downloaded by anyone interested.
"another that drank three to six cups of decaffeinated coffee a day; and a third, the control group, that drank no coffee." ha! maybe they got stressed and developed LDL cholesterol on withdrawal.
Wal-Mart, McDonalds, UPS, GM, and Ford? Ugh, can anyone image any worse companies that will most certainly NOT turn green any time soon? It has to go the other way around. All the young little guys pushing up will eventually change the senile corporate mind of those companies.
My current manager (research lab) says that 'You should always find a job that is above your skill level so that you can learn and be challenged.' I think he's right, but is that something Slashdot readers agree with? What was your job coming out of university?"
If you've never been on the job market before, any kind of job related to computers will be ample "new", trust me. Dealing with people, your boss, your coworkers, your ideas, their ideas, meetings, marketing, arg... it's not easy! And it's something you need to _learn_.
Of course, Visual Studio is faster than Eclipse, JBuilder or NetBeans for that matter. It's written in C/C++. "Good" old (at least) code in there. C# is being added gradually, but most of it is still C/C++.
I see it more this following way. Some people want to see movies in their home. Something the MPAA and most big movie companies won't let them do until the movie is 2+ months old so the SAME companies can make more money. It's their marketing strategy! Sure, it's their right. But it's something I don't like, and the Internet is changing the cards here with technologies like Bittorrent, and I'm happy about it.
If some people like the ones at Lokitorrent want to fight for some cause of theirs, that's their right. What I'm thinking about is if in the end it's going to help what I care about the most: being able to watch new movies in my room if I feel like it.
Because I want to be able to legally download and watch movies at the same time they come out in theatres, something MPAA doesn't want, trust me. They explain the whole process of "marketing a movie" on their own website.
I am considering helping Lokitorrent in their fight, if it can help MPAA and the related to companies to change their minds.
In Windows world, all applications use Win32, and most of them MFC, COM, OLE and the rest of the kit, and now maybe.NET. Of course, we can say otherwise for new applications from Macromedia and Adobe, but... that's not the point. When the user clicks the "Microsoft Word" icon, all the framework (Win32, OLE, COM, yes) is already loaded by Explorer at boot time, and that's why it's so fast to load. Other application that use their own frameworks like OpenOffice, Mozilla, Photoshop, Java and Flash, well, take a few seconds to load.
Now, on to Linux... ok, let's examine a typical session. The desktop loads, say KDE. All the Qt and KDE libs load. A few seconds and ~30 megs later, we have the framework loaded. Now the user loads Gimp or Evolution, so GTK and some parts of Gnome have to load. A few seconds and ~30 megs later, we have that framework loaded, again. Mozilla and XPCOM, bang, another ~30 megs, OpenOffice, bang, Java, bang, Mono, bang, Wine, bang. We're fast approaching the 200 megs barrier and all we have done is spent time loading frameworks.
It's good to have choices, but sometimes, too much choice is not a good idea anymore. Especially when one has to load up everything in one session...
Now if we make a search of Linux on usenet, again, we get ~20 millions hit and ~7 millions for FreeBSD, thus 104000 users of Linux... hum is Linux dying too?;)
I also did note that Sun's JVM run _a lot_ more slowly on Athlon than on Pentium III/4... the IBM's JVM, however, seems to perform pretty much equally well on both Athlon and Pentium. Go figure!
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Check this out if you want high-bandwidth, hi-fi, hi-res video conferencing:
http://ultravideo.mcgill.ca/
The software runs on Linux and can be downloaded by anyone interested.
"another that drank three to six cups of decaffeinated coffee a day; and a third, the control group, that drank no coffee." ha! maybe they got stressed and developed LDL cholesterol on withdrawal.
Wal-Mart, McDonalds, UPS, GM, and Ford? Ugh, can anyone image any worse companies that will most certainly NOT turn green any time soon? It has to go the other way around. All the young little guys pushing up will eventually change the senile corporate mind of those companies.
Soon to come: The Great Inside Firewall of America. aka: TGIF America
Brought to you by the RIAA, MPAA, etc.
If you've never been on the job market before, any kind of job related to computers will be ample "new", trust me. Dealing with people, your boss, your coworkers, your ideas, their ideas, meetings, marketing, arg... it's not easy! And it's something you need to _learn_.
Of course, Visual Studio is faster than Eclipse, JBuilder or NetBeans for that matter. It's written in C/C++. "Good" old (at least) code in there. C# is being added gradually, but most of it is still C/C++.
Don't we do it??
I see it more this following way. Some people want to see movies in their home. Something the MPAA and most big movie companies won't let them do until the movie is 2+ months old so the SAME companies can make more money. It's their marketing strategy! Sure, it's their right. But it's something I don't like, and the Internet is changing the cards here with technologies like Bittorrent, and I'm happy about it.
If some people like the ones at Lokitorrent want to fight for some cause of theirs, that's their right. What I'm thinking about is if in the end it's going to help what I care about the most: being able to watch new movies in my room if I feel like it.
Anybody with thoughts on this?
Because I want to be able to legally download and watch movies at the same time they come out in theatres, something MPAA doesn't want, trust me. They explain the whole process of "marketing a movie" on their own website. I am considering helping Lokitorrent in their fight, if it can help MPAA and the related to companies to change their minds.
ROTLOL ... I shouldn't have been drinking coffee when I read that!!
Just save to PDF... then use PDF Reader.
In Windows world, all applications use Win32, and most of them MFC, COM, OLE and the rest of the kit, and now maybe .NET. Of course, we can say otherwise for new applications from Macromedia and Adobe, but... that's not the point. When the user clicks the "Microsoft Word" icon, all the framework (Win32, OLE, COM, yes) is already loaded by Explorer at boot time, and that's why it's so fast to load. Other application that use their own frameworks like OpenOffice, Mozilla, Photoshop, Java and Flash, well, take a few seconds to load.
Now, on to Linux... ok, let's examine a typical session. The desktop loads, say KDE. All the Qt and KDE libs load. A few seconds and ~30 megs later, we have the framework loaded. Now the user loads Gimp or Evolution, so GTK and some parts of Gnome have to load. A few seconds and ~30 megs later, we have that framework loaded, again. Mozilla and XPCOM, bang, another ~30 megs, OpenOffice, bang, Java, bang, Mono, bang, Wine, bang. We're fast approaching the 200 megs barrier and all we have done is spent time loading frameworks.
It's good to have choices, but sometimes, too much choice is not a good idea anymore. Especially when one has to load up everything in one session...
ROTFLOL ... you should have posted this with your longin user name :)
The kind that converts UV rays to visible light!
No, it is OK to store pressed CDs and DVDs in any position you like AFAIK. They are only talking about CD-R, DVD-R, and the likes.
Now if we make a search of Linux on usenet, again, we get ~20 millions hit and ~7 millions for FreeBSD, thus 104000 users of Linux... hum is Linux dying too? ;)
I also did note that Sun's JVM run _a lot_ more slowly on Athlon than on Pentium III/4 ... the IBM's JVM, however, seems to perform pretty much equally well on both Athlon and Pentium. Go figure!
Gee, I see some people are scared of 60 hours per week. Don't go to Japan, as 100 hours per week is pretty frequent.
For those wondering wth CmdrTaco is refering to, tadam Haro