Hey... oh wait, can't hear me? Head up your ass? Thought so.
Alienware is a newer company. They're also known for quality PCs. Ya know, they sell PCs that don't develop hairline cracks, or laptops that don't catch on fire. (cough, apple, cough)
And, righty, they're 200 dollars less than apple's offering. Yet, they probably offer a lot more in the way of features. And you have the security of knowing it won't crack open and catch on fire.
Seriously, I love apple. But comments like these just make you seem uninformed. Go around on any review site over the last few years, and most of the alienware reviews are really positive, with the only negative bits being about the high price (like apple).
I haven't heard Spare Parts, but I seem to have read a long synopsis of it.
If you watch The Tenth Planet, you get that the idea that the cybermen are walking corpses as well. The blank stares behind the eyes, and the fact that they still have hands just highlights their lost humanity.
By the time we got to Silver Nemesis, things had just gotten silly. I never did like the allergic to gold bit.
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Damn straight...
I really liked the Cybermen from the Troughton years... they acted like cyborgs, no emotion which creeped in to their later appearances, just business.
Actually, you could say the same about the Borg. But then again, the Borg always were cybermen with better costumes.
Swing hasn't been slow for a long time. Bad programmers can make poor Swing slow, sure. Bad programmers can make QT slow. Decent programmers can make GTK do odd things (flicker anyone)...
Try using a tool like SmartCVS... completely swing based, and with a nice look and feel (it ain't ugly). It's fast and responsive, a good example of a well written swing app.
I could have looked, but www.wxwindows.com didn't take me where I wanted to go...:)
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Java is the end all for everything. I'm very fond of QT, have even suffered thru some GTK in the past.
But Java is pretty mature compared to most other things. JDBC, JavaDoc, Swing.... they're all good. Not to mention, and this is the big one for me, one.jar can run on any machine with a modern VM. Because I need to write stuff that runs on a... variety... of operating systems, that's pretty priceless.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't wxWindows just a widget kit?
Part of the appeal of java is, at least for me, the libs that are included. The JDBC is very nice, despite what topic blog poster said about question marks in his PreparedStatements.
But, having said that, and I can't believe I'm saying this... Java is free. I know QT and believe WxWindows have some sort of licensing costs. I'm not sure about the last 2, but I'd bet they're not quite as rich as the first 2, and even... Swing.
Hello World doesn't really count for portability, does it?
I know with Java I can write an application with DB connectivity and a GUI and have it run on AIX, Windows, and Linux. Without having to change a line of code.
Now I know it's possible to do this with C (Actually, is it? Is GTK available on AIX? Is GTK any less horrible on Windows than it used to be), but it'd take much more time, and I'd end up with all sorts of conditional code based on OS.
I might suggest Java is the language of choice for programmers who have jobs to do, need to write tight code, and don't have all the time in the world.
I've owned 3 cars so far. 2 American (Cavalier and Alero) and one European (VW).
The GM's turned into rattletraps after a few years, yeah. Squeaks and rattles galore. But they never, EVER had any sort of mechanical problem.
The VW, on the other hand, has had some odd quirks... Windows that won't open and brake lights that die. NOt to mention that whole "won't shift out of park" incident, which was related to the brake light issue.
I'll bite. Ya see, data doesn't automagically appear in the database. Sometimes you need to take your source data and stick it in there. And sometimes that data comes in excel format.
Many jobs ago I wrote a program that did just that. It took incoming data in the form of excel sheets, picked out the important data and sent it off to the DB.
So mining these formats is somewhat important to some people. Thankfully not to me anymore...
Actually, what I meant to imply was that my old ad agency work was mostly web monkey work (mostly JSP and servlets). Now I'm doing java beans and frameworks. Web monkey perhaps, but a more evolved one.
An aside, but job descriptions that list "J2EE programming" annoy the hell out of me. J2EE is such a huge library/API and some areas of it just aren't applicable to other areas. Sigh.
I have some experience with this. My last company laid most of their programmers off and outsourced the work overseas. In their case it worked since they were essentially an ad agency and all of the websites we did were pretty much "done" by time it came to code them (graphics and manuscripts just handed over).
Now I'm doing j2ee programming (I wasn't always a web monkey) for a different company, mostly financial applications. There is a lot of interaction with the business people, and requirements are quite often fluid. I doubt the business and sales people are going to want to come into work at 1am to conference call over to India to hash out the latest requirements.
Point is, some jobs are more likely to be shipped overseas than others. The pay scales of these jobs are going to fall in line with other white collar jobs (except the criminally underpaid teachers). It's just something we need to accept and move on with.
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In this screenshot... http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshot s/najdi_rozdily.png
I couldn't tell which was the real X/GTK based file selector dialog and which was the GTK/curses based file selector dialog.
Well, k3b seems to be one of the more popular cd burning programs around and is gaining a lot of mindshare.
I used to use xcdroast exclusively. But once I started playing with k3b, it's been impossible to go back. Feature wise it approaches some of the windows cd burning programs, which is no easy task.
Isn't xine more popular than MPlayer, and doesn't xine use their own toolkit, and not GTK? Gaim is great, but isn't there a qtopia version of it? Will a QT version be far beind?
Haven't they been talking about fixing the GTK file dialog for years now?
I don't know if that's what RH did in their last AS, but Sun's JDK worked just fine. RH just didn't support it, just the broken IBM JDK.
Further, why bother? If you can't run java, and let's be realistic, a lot of their enterprise customers are going to want to do just that very thing (be it an application server, or oracle), what's the point of the product?
This is not so much a review as a rehash of the feature list. I don't care about bluecureve or the wonderful interface on an advanced server product.
As they're not shipping a JDK with it, it's hard to know if their kernel modifications will break whatever JDK they do ship with (like the last RHAS did). Or if they only let you install to ext3, unless you feel like playing with command line install options.
That java thing was a horrible mess, and was why we ultimately went with SuSE. Don't bill yourself as an OS for running those java application servers unless you test. Hopefully RH has fixed their issues this time around.
It does have just such a setting. Somewhere under privacy there's a "Allow only people in my buddy list to contact me" option. To everyone not in your buddy list, you appear offline.
Wait! Maybe they mean the middle-eastern country "Palestine" that the Jordanians and Egyptians gave to their Arab brothers when they controlled 100% of Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem from 1948-1967.
Well, certainly Israel wasn't in control of those lands prior to 1948, and it was in fact a largely palestinian area.
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Hey... oh wait, can't hear me? Head up your ass? Thought so.
Alienware is a newer company. They're also known for quality PCs. Ya know, they sell PCs that don't develop hairline cracks, or laptops that don't catch on fire. (cough, apple, cough)
And, righty, they're 200 dollars less than apple's offering. Yet, they probably offer a lot more in the way of features. And you have the security of knowing it won't crack open and catch on fire.
Seriously, I love apple. But comments like these just make you seem uninformed. Go around on any review site over the last few years, and most of the alienware reviews are really positive, with the only negative bits being about the high price (like apple).
Oh come on... this is slashdot. Do you think anyone here actually knows who Shaq is? And the joke you're referencing?
Now if it were a Monty Python joke, you'd be golden. But anything sports related, and you're boned.
How about them Marlins, eh?
How about sign up for unemployment and look for a job.
After all, if you put money into it, you're entitled to your 6 months, you self righetous bastard.
Where can it be obtained? Feel free to email shops info.
I haven't heard Spare Parts, but I seem to have read a long synopsis of it.
If you watch The Tenth Planet, you get that the idea that the cybermen are walking corpses as well. The blank stares behind the eyes, and the fact that they still have hands just highlights their lost humanity.
By the time we got to Silver Nemesis, things had just gotten silly. I never did like the allergic to gold bit.
Damn straight...
I really liked the Cybermen from the Troughton years... they acted like cyborgs, no emotion which creeped in to their later appearances, just business.
Actually, you could say the same about the Borg. But then again, the Borg always were cybermen with better costumes.
See... that's bad....
Swing hasn't been slow for a long time. Bad programmers can make poor Swing slow, sure. Bad programmers can make QT slow. Decent programmers can make GTK do odd things (flicker anyone)...
Try using a tool like SmartCVS... completely swing based, and with a nice look and feel (it ain't ugly). It's fast and responsive, a good example of a well written swing app.
I could have looked, but www.wxwindows.com didn't take me where I wanted to go... :)
.jar can run on any machine with a modern VM. Because I need to write stuff that runs on a... variety... of operating systems, that's pretty priceless.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think Java is the end all for everything. I'm very fond of QT, have even suffered thru some GTK in the past.
But Java is pretty mature compared to most other things. JDBC, JavaDoc, Swing.... they're all good. Not to mention, and this is the big one for me, one
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't wxWindows just a widget kit?
Part of the appeal of java is, at least for me, the libs that are included. The JDBC is very nice, despite what topic blog poster said about question marks in his PreparedStatements.
Actually, I *do* like QT.
But, having said that, and I can't believe I'm saying this... Java is free. I know QT and believe WxWindows have some sort of licensing costs. I'm not sure about the last 2, but I'd bet they're not quite as rich as the first 2, and even... Swing.
Yeah, that type checking stuff is really bad.
Making sure your String is really a String so you don't throw exceptions during runtime is such a bitch.
Hello World doesn't really count for portability, does it?
I know with Java I can write an application with DB connectivity and a GUI and have it run on AIX, Windows, and Linux. Without having to change a line of code.
Now I know it's possible to do this with C (Actually, is it? Is GTK available on AIX? Is GTK any less horrible on Windows than it used to be), but it'd take much more time, and I'd end up with all sorts of conditional code based on OS.
I might suggest Java is the language of choice for programmers who have jobs to do, need to write tight code, and don't have all the time in the world.
Dunno about said comment.
I've owned 3 cars so far. 2 American (Cavalier and Alero) and one European (VW).
The GM's turned into rattletraps after a few years, yeah. Squeaks and rattles galore. But they never, EVER had any sort of mechanical problem.
The VW, on the other hand, has had some odd quirks... Windows that won't open and brake lights that die. NOt to mention that whole "won't shift out of park" incident, which was related to the brake light issue.
American cars always brake? I think not.
I'll bite. Ya see, data doesn't automagically appear in the database. Sometimes you need to take your source data and stick it in there. And sometimes that data comes in excel format.
Many jobs ago I wrote a program that did just that. It took incoming data in the form of excel sheets, picked out the important data and sent it off to the DB.
So mining these formats is somewhat important to some people. Thankfully not to me anymore...
Actually, what I meant to imply was that my old ad agency work was mostly web monkey work (mostly JSP and servlets). Now I'm doing java beans and frameworks. Web monkey perhaps, but a more evolved one.
An aside, but job descriptions that list "J2EE programming" annoy the hell out of me. J2EE is such a huge library/API and some areas of it just aren't applicable to other areas. Sigh.
I have some experience with this. My last company laid most of their programmers off and outsourced the work overseas. In their case it worked since they were essentially an ad agency and all of the websites we did were pretty much "done" by time it came to code them (graphics and manuscripts just handed over).
Now I'm doing j2ee programming (I wasn't always a web monkey) for a different company, mostly financial applications. There is a lot of interaction with the business people, and requirements are quite often fluid. I doubt the business and sales people are going to want to come into work at 1am to conference call over to India to hash out the latest requirements.
Point is, some jobs are more likely to be shipped overseas than others. The pay scales of these jobs are going to fall in line with other white collar jobs (except the criminally underpaid teachers). It's just something we need to accept and move on with.
In this screenshot... http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshot s/najdi_rozdily.png
I couldn't tell which was the real X/GTK based file selector dialog and which was the GTK/curses based file selector dialog.
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Well, k3b seems to be one of the more popular cd burning programs around and is gaining a lot of mindshare.
I used to use xcdroast exclusively. But once I started playing with k3b, it's been impossible to go back. Feature wise it approaches some of the windows cd burning programs, which is no easy task.
Isn't xine more popular than MPlayer, and doesn't xine use their own toolkit, and not GTK? Gaim is great, but isn't there a qtopia version of it? Will a QT version be far beind?
Haven't they been talking about fixing the GTK file dialog for years now?
Is RHEL the same as RHAS?
I don't know if that's what RH did in their last AS, but Sun's JDK worked just fine. RH just didn't support it, just the broken IBM JDK.
Further, why bother? If you can't run java, and let's be realistic, a lot of their enterprise customers are going to want to do just that very thing (be it an application server, or oracle), what's the point of the product?
This is not so much a review as a rehash of the feature list. I don't care about bluecureve or the wonderful interface on an advanced server product.
As they're not shipping a JDK with it, it's hard to know if their kernel modifications will break whatever JDK they do ship with (like the last RHAS did). Or if they only let you install to ext3, unless you feel like playing with command line install options.
That java thing was a horrible mess, and was why we ultimately went with SuSE. Don't bill yourself as an OS for running those java application servers unless you test. Hopefully RH has fixed their issues this time around.
I feel the same way, and I usually just end up turning the feature on and off.
No harm done.
It does have just such a setting. Somewhere under privacy there's a "Allow only people in my buddy list to contact me" option. To everyone not in your buddy list, you appear offline.
Seriously. I've tested it, it works.
You really expect some "christian professor at some college" to realise this? It's just religious propaganda.
Well, certainly Israel wasn't in control of those lands prior to 1948, and it was in fact a largely palestinian area.