The funny thing is you obviously didn't read the article, where the author noted that Java was faster for the less-complicated things but the more complex the pages got the more that Rails kicked ass.
Considering that this guy wrote the Spring: A Developer's Notebook for O'Reilly, I'm inclined to believe that he has a clue when it comes to the Java side of things.
If Cairo had been developed, ready, and stable before Trolltech had started developing Qt4, then they would most likely have included support for it. Cairo even today still isn't stable. To quote Carl Worth:
If someone is crazy enough to think cairo belongs in a platform as stable software, right now, then I'll just go break some more APIs just to prove them wrong.
Keep in mind, Qt4 has been in development for quite a while now. They were showing off some crazy early development code back in August of 2003 - which predates Cairo even being remotely usable (let alone stable) by quite some time.
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What software are you using for the ripping & converting?
(feel free to email me instead of following up here, I'm really curious about this as I'm looking for excuses to buy a PSP and this would totally close the deal for me)
It's not up to us to hire everyone on the planet who writes open source code in their spare time, and that wasn't the point of my post.
The point of my post was to point out the logical fallacy in the parent post, which was the assumption that coding free software dooms you to a life of poverty.
But, getting back to your post... You remember that scene from Office Space, where Peter's talking about how he never had an answer for the stupid question about "What would you do if you had a million dollars and didn't have to work anymore?"
This is what I'd do. I'd contribute to open source projects and write code and fix build systems and play with this stuff, because it's what I did when I worked at other places and it's what I did when I didn't have a job. If you don't happen to have that kind of passion for it, that's ok, but don't expect a call from us anytime soon. (And I did this for about four or five years before I got hired at Red Hat.)
Just because you write open code doesn't mean you have chosen poverty.
There are plenty of organizations that sponsor open source development as well as several large companies that hire and pay people exclusively to write open source code.
My employer is one of them. (Starts with 'Red', ends with 'Hat')
I mean, it's not like we (I work for Red Hat) make the source freely available on our own FTP server, or put it in the same tree that gets rsync'd to every RH mirror on the planet.
You know, aside from your posts, I've never even *heard* of Maxthon.
Meanwhile, people ask me about Firefox all time. People who don't know anything about programming or system administration. They do know that their computers have gotten much slower over time thanks to the myriad types of malware that spreads to their computers thanks to IE. And they've heard about Firefox.
I think you're living in some sort of a weird alternate reality where IE is still better. Maybe you could come out of 2002 for a bit and join us here in 2005? It's not that different in most ways; we still don't have flying cars, but we do have a better web browser.
Actually, if you want to be pedantic about it, first there was KDE, and then the GNOME project was formed as a desktop project "like KDE, but all Free Software."
Then KDE improved, and GNOME improved, and KDE improved, and GNOME ripped out all the features and crack that everyone loved, and then KDE improved, and then GNOME improved....
But it's not really that simple, of course. (Just wanted to point out that KDE was actually first, as the "GNOME was first" misconception seems to be popular around here.)
Bluetooth is the name for a short-range radio frequency (RF) technology that operates at 2.4 GHz and is capable of transmitting voice and data. The effective range of Bluetooth devices is 32 feet (10 meters). Bluetooth transfers data at the rate of 1 Mbps, which is from three to eight times the average speed of parallel and serial ports, respectively.
Granted, 32 feet isn't terribly far. However, I can't see the text on my TV from 30 feet away... I doubt I'd want to use the remote like that. And 32 is a damned sight farther than 3.
If you had read the article, you'd know that there was no BSoD. The presentation simply did not respond to Bill's remote control; it happened because the IR receiver at his seat malfunctioned. It could have been a hardware failure or interference from the environment. If Bill were using OpenOffice on Linux, the exact same thing would have happened, so your bashing is quite unfair.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that Microsoft's still using IR with their products? I mean, come on. Line of sight tech is so 90s. It's all about RF - Bluetooth is the new hotness.
Seriously. If Bill's remote had used Bluetooth instead of IR I'd be willing to bet that the entire situation would never have happened. Too bad they're still using such shitty tech. (I bet if Apple had a media center, the remote would be Bluetooth.;)
I don't think it's so much the difficulty of following Jesus that I take issue with - on the contrary, I personally think that's a highly commendable goal.
The problem that I tend to have is those who claim that they follow Him and do terrible things instead, but in His name.
I'm not one to blaspheme, personally, but how do you think Jesus would have felt about homosexuals? Or, for another controversial topic... in your mind's eye, do you see Jesus bombing abortion clinics? Because I don't.
I'm afraid you have no idea what you're talking about.
KDE and Qt also fully support switching out the widget rendering engine - I should know, as I've been writing style plugins that do this for *years* now.
And this isn't a recent feature - this has been available since KDE 2.0.
If Sun opens the Java source properly - e.g. some acceptable license, like BSD/MIT style (which I think is much more likely than any form of the GPL or LGPL, simply because Sun's coders seem to have a distinct aversion to the GPL)...
GNOME will have no more questions about which next-generation platform or language they move to. As soon as Java is really open, Red Hat will include it on their CDs, and they'll be writing their next-gen desktop apps using it. I don't know if you've been paying attention, but there's been a huge debate in the GNOME community lately because there is no Right Choice right now for them to upgrade to; Mono is not only a potential patent minefield, but the entire.NET system is owned by the one company who has every single reason to use their IP to blockade or hinder us; Java is not open enough, and Red Hat can't ship it until it is, and it's also potentially patent-encumbered, although Sun is much more GNOME and Linux-friendly than Microsoft.
Novell is ignoring the patent issues and going full-steam ahead with Mono. More power to them for it, I say; anything that takes GNOME development out of the stone age and into the modern world is cool with me. Red Hat is being a bit more careful, but if Java were open sourced, their decision would be made.
(My perspective on this whole situation is as a KDE developer watching from the sidelines; we're all pretty happy with C++ and I don't see us switching away any time soon. But it's still interesting to watch the whole debate rage.)
What exactly about Red Hat isn't free or open? I mean, aside from the Red Hat Network crap - but all of the software included on the Red Hat discs is Open Source and/or Free Software.
Even their custom system administration utilities - the former redhat-config-* scripts, now known as the system-config-* scripts - are all open sourced. Granted, they're in Python, but the source is still there and available.
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The funny thing is you obviously didn't read the article, where the author noted that Java was faster for the less-complicated things but the more complex the pages got the more that Rails kicked ass.
Considering that this guy wrote the Spring: A Developer's Notebook for O'Reilly, I'm inclined to believe that he has a clue when it comes to the Java side of things.
There's a transcript available at gameFAQs which you might find enlightening.
Careful, there's a lot of text there.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
If Cairo had been developed, ready, and stable before Trolltech had started developing Qt4, then they would most likely have included support for it. Cairo even today still isn't stable. To quote Carl Worth:
Keep in mind, Qt4 has been in development for quite a while now. They were showing off some crazy early development code back in August of 2003 - which predates Cairo even being remotely usable (let alone stable) by quite some time.
What software are you using for the ripping & converting?
(feel free to email me instead of following up here, I'm really curious about this as I'm looking for excuses to buy a PSP and this would totally close the deal for me)
Code Red.
(Remember that? It's still out there.)
It's not up to us to hire everyone on the planet who writes open source code in their spare time, and that wasn't the point of my post.
The point of my post was to point out the logical fallacy in the parent post, which was the assumption that coding free software dooms you to a life of poverty.
But, getting back to your post... You remember that scene from Office Space, where Peter's talking about how he never had an answer for the stupid question about "What would you do if you had a million dollars and didn't have to work anymore?"
This is what I'd do. I'd contribute to open source projects and write code and fix build systems and play with this stuff, because it's what I did when I worked at other places and it's what I did when I didn't have a job. If you don't happen to have that kind of passion for it, that's ok, but don't expect a call from us anytime soon. (And I did this for about four or five years before I got hired at Red Hat.)
Yeah, there were a lot of issues there and a lot of unhappiness all around.
One of them was that North Carolina just sucks, which is why we now have an office in Westford, MA.
Just because you write open code doesn't mean you have chosen poverty.
There are plenty of organizations that sponsor open source development as well as several large companies that hire and pay people exclusively to write open source code.
My employer is one of them. (Starts with 'Red', ends with 'Hat')
Actually, the upcoming version of RHEL with X.org is RHEL 4.0, not RHEL5. RHEL5 is still a whisper and a dream at this point.
(disclaimer: I work for Red Hat, and may actually know what I'm talking about. Please do not let this disrupt your regular Slashdot experience.)
Where indeed.
I mean, it's not like we (I work for Red Hat) make the source freely available on our own FTP server, or put it in the same tree that gets rsync'd to every RH mirror on the planet.
Oh, wait. We do.
You know, aside from your posts, I've never even *heard* of Maxthon.
Meanwhile, people ask me about Firefox all time. People who don't know anything about programming or system administration. They do know that their computers have gotten much slower over time thanks to the myriad types of malware that spreads to their computers thanks to IE. And they've heard about Firefox.
I think you're living in some sort of a weird alternate reality where IE is still better. Maybe you could come out of 2002 for a bit and join us here in 2005? It's not that different in most ways; we still don't have flying cars, but we do have a better web browser.
Uh.... Sparks? Can I marry people?
Actually, if you want to be pedantic about it, first there was KDE, and then the GNOME project was formed as a desktop project "like KDE, but all Free Software."
Then KDE improved, and GNOME improved, and KDE improved, and GNOME ripped out all the features and crack that everyone loved, and then KDE improved, and then GNOME improved....
But it's not really that simple, of course. (Just wanted to point out that KDE was actually first, as the "GNOME was first" misconception seems to be popular around here.)
Granted, 32 feet isn't terribly far. However, I can't see the text on my TV from 30 feet away... I doubt I'd want to use the remote like that. And 32 is a damned sight farther than 3.
If you had read the article, you'd know that there was no BSoD. The presentation simply did not respond to Bill's remote control; it happened because the IR receiver at his seat malfunctioned. It could have been a hardware failure or interference from the environment. If Bill were using OpenOffice on Linux, the exact same thing would have happened, so your bashing is quite unfair.
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Am I the only one who finds it amusing that Microsoft's still using IR with their products? I mean, come on. Line of sight tech is so 90s. It's all about RF - Bluetooth is the new hotness.
Seriously. If Bill's remote had used Bluetooth instead of IR I'd be willing to bet that the entire situation would never have happened. Too bad they're still using such shitty tech. (I bet if Apple had a media center, the remote would be Bluetooth.
I don't think it's so much the difficulty of following Jesus that I take issue with - on the contrary, I personally think that's a highly commendable goal.
The problem that I tend to have is those who claim that they follow Him and do terrible things instead, but in His name.
I'm not one to blaspheme, personally, but how do you think Jesus would have felt about homosexuals? Or, for another controversial topic... in your mind's eye, do you see Jesus bombing abortion clinics? Because I don't.
Anyway. That's my little rant for today.
At the risk of comparing Linus to Jesus... There's a lot to be said about how little the followers actually attempt to emulate that which they follow.
Just a thought.
oh man. I still love those games.
::sigh::
giant robot combat with lasers and missiles.
such good times.
I'm afraid you have no idea what you're talking about.
KDE and Qt also fully support switching out the widget rendering engine - I should know, as I've been writing style plugins that do this for *years* now.
And this isn't a recent feature - this has been available since KDE 2.0.
-clee
If by "quite a few" you mean "almost a dozen" then yes, "quite a few" core KDE developers are paid by SuSE and/or Trolltech.
/me cynically notes that Red Hat makes a profit and Novell doesn't.
(disclaimer: I work for Red Hat)
Here's the thing.
.NET system is owned by the one company who has every single reason to use their IP to blockade or hinder us; Java is not open enough, and Red Hat can't ship it until it is, and it's also potentially patent-encumbered, although Sun is much more GNOME and Linux-friendly than Microsoft.
If Sun opens the Java source properly - e.g. some acceptable license, like BSD/MIT style (which I think is much more likely than any form of the GPL or LGPL, simply because Sun's coders seem to have a distinct aversion to the GPL)...
GNOME will have no more questions about which next-generation platform or language they move to. As soon as Java is really open, Red Hat will include it on their CDs, and they'll be writing their next-gen desktop apps using it. I don't know if you've been paying attention, but there's been a huge debate in the GNOME community lately because there is no Right Choice right now for them to upgrade to; Mono is not only a potential patent minefield, but the entire
Novell is ignoring the patent issues and going full-steam ahead with Mono. More power to them for it, I say; anything that takes GNOME development out of the stone age and into the modern world is cool with me. Red Hat is being a bit more careful, but if Java were open sourced, their decision would be made.
(My perspective on this whole situation is as a KDE developer watching from the sidelines; we're all pretty happy with C++ and I don't see us switching away any time soon. But it's still interesting to watch the whole debate rage.)
Just a quick question...
What exactly about Red Hat isn't free or open? I mean, aside from the Red Hat Network crap - but all of the software included on the Red Hat discs is Open Source and/or Free Software.
Even their custom system administration utilities - the former redhat-config-* scripts, now known as the system-config-* scripts - are all open sourced. Granted, they're in Python, but the source is still there and available.
Where the HELL are my mod points when I need them? ::sigh::
Preach on, brother.