Exactly, equal opportunities only extend to the prevention of discrimination based on gender, disability and ethnic origin.
They have every right to dismiss your application based on your previous experience. Given how SCO doesn't appear to actually do anything but whine I would be very keen to dismiss anyone applying from SCO. Especially if the role they were applying for was a development role. Companies don't want politics in their work place, if a company wants to move an application over to Linux then you don't want to hire someone from a company that has been calling Linux an OS that supports communism.
Hmmm, as many wise developers have said to me, it only takes about another 10-20% longer to write decent well documented code. When you think of how long it will save you debugging it might save you time.
I think a better approach to upgrades needs to be devised. Perhaps in large organisations a server could download all the updates and then when machines bootup and connect to the network they could check for new updates, apply them and reboot.
Of course security would need to be tight in such a system, but that's for someone else to figure out.
Konqueror is a great browser IMHO. Apple used the KHTML engine in Safari as it was lean and mean.
Anyway, just throwing developers onto a project doesn't mean you get a better product. It's taken years to get anything semi decent out of the Mozilla project, they overdid it with the OO framework stuff. Creating a whole GUI system instead of a browser.
Can't you see the difference between a few dots on the screen and games approaching realism?
GTA allows you to roam cities shooting people at will, you can pick up prostitutes and shag them. It's a much less contrained gaming environment than the 8-bit days.
I'm sure the parents bought it them, but as a precautiion for this sort of thing happening I think all adult games should have very explicit covers. Naked women and men, mashed up corpses etc..
Violent games don't always look that bad when you look at the covers. Take GTAIII, it's all cartoon style violence. Ok there's big guns and explosions but is that much different to the box if Action Man?
Video games are more immersing than traditional toys and this is the problem.
There are plenty of projects underway to make the Windows to Linux easier, Sun are working on Gnome to make it easier to use and China, Japan and Korea have joined forces to work on a Windows replacement (which will be Linux based I would imagine).
OpenOffice is slightly behind StarOffice in terms of file compatibility, but organisations that switch entirely to a standardised Linux desktop will have a transition process. Hopefully this would mean compatibility would only be a problem once. Besides new versions of Office always create breakages in documents.
Also we've moved from terminals to desktops and now we're going back to the dumb terminal approach, largely due to the vast amounts of time and money wasted fixing problems on individual PCs. Although Microsoft does have products for this client server model it isn't quite so natural as the way X works.
If their sales fall then they won't be able to sustain their monolithic enterprise. As soon as they start laying off staff then it's the beginning of the end for Microsoft. News like that doesn't install investor confidence.
Their profit margins on Windows and Office are quite high, if they have to constantly undercut Linux solutions then their income from these two lines will be reduced. Problem with that scenerio is those two product lines keep the company going and allows them to take risks in other markets.
Given all the other materials he's working on I would imagine it is for real. It's in alpha and there is a CVS server, but it will need quite a bit of testing I would imagine.
His PDF mentions it is based more around Natural Language then a typical database query language and also mentions it isn't supposed to replace the OS filesystem. So I would imagine you'd still keep your apps and OS on ext3, reiserfs etc.. but you would have another partition with Storage on it for all your work.
"The oft-misunderstood Windows Future Storage (WinFS), which will include technology from the "Yukon" release of SQL Server, is not a file system," reports Thurrot. "Instead, WinFS is a service that runs on top of - and requires - NTFS."
It's 2003 and we still use keyboards, have Mice/trackballs and use 2D flat screens. We need new input devices and displays for anything radical to happen.
>WinFS--SQL integration into the filesystem. >You'll be able to search gigabytes of data >and metadata.
With a decent filesystem layout you can do this anyway. Plus Windows has an indexing service. Also this feature isn't in the home version.
>* DirectX desktop. Gorgeous visual cues with >no slowdown.
Gimmic
>* Scalable desktop. Vector-based is a way to >put it. If you have a really high-resolution >monitor, things will be correctly scaled for >you so you can see. Things will be the same >size onscreen going from a 1024x768 to >1280x1024 resolution. You can also change >he scale manually.
Waste of time changing resolution then, plus this is already possible.
> Entirely.NET based. Though >Win32-compatibility will no doubt be offered, >everything including explorer.exe will all be >running as.NET managed code.
And the benefit to me is? more slowdown.
>* New, "photorealistic" interface called >Aereo. We'll have to wait and see.
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The 12 year old girl will just be angry at the RIAA and be thankful to the P2P group offering to pay the fine.
RIAA--
P2P++
There's way too much stick and no carrot.
Hey, I use KDE and think it's great. But the language in announcements could be a little more subtle :)
Oh well, it isn't a stable release yet. I just don't want people to be put off KDE.
Exactly, equal opportunities only extend to the prevention of discrimination based on gender, disability and ethnic origin.
They have every right to dismiss your application based on your previous experience. Given how SCO doesn't appear to actually do anything but whine I would be very keen to dismiss anyone applying from SCO. Especially if the role they were applying for was a development role. Companies don't want politics in their work place, if a company wants to move an application over to Linux then you don't want to hire someone from a company that has been calling Linux an OS that supports communism.
"The code is quite rough in many places"
Hmmm, as many wise developers have said to me, it only takes about another 10-20% longer to write decent well documented code. When you think of how long it will save you debugging it might save you time.
Not to mention fuel taxes and insurance companies charging depending on average mileage. These are already charges based on how much you drive.
I think a better approach to upgrades needs to be devised. Perhaps in large organisations a server could download all the updates and then when machines bootup and connect to the network they could check for new updates, apply them and reboot.
Of course security would need to be tight in such a system, but that's for someone else to figure out.
Watch out, that's circumvention! :)
It's using an exploit to gain access without authorisation.
Gecko is actually slightly faster than KHTML and it's also more accurate. But on the whole I find the Konqueror GUI more responsive.
I agree, it's not perfect and it renders pages with more errors than the Moz family.
But crucially for me it starts faster than Firebird and the GUI is KDE style, which when running KDE is important.
If I was running Gnome I might use Galleon.
Konqueror is a great browser IMHO. Apple used the KHTML engine in Safari as it was lean and mean.
Anyway, just throwing developers onto a project doesn't mean you get a better product. It's taken years to get anything semi decent out of the Mozilla project, they overdid it with the OO framework stuff. Creating a whole GUI system instead of a browser.
I'm 29, I had many years without video games.
Can't you see the difference between a few dots on the screen and games approaching realism?
GTA allows you to roam cities shooting people at will, you can pick up prostitutes and shag them. It's a much less contrained gaming environment than the 8-bit days.
I'm sure the parents bought it them, but as a precautiion for this sort of thing happening I think all adult games should have very explicit covers. Naked women and men, mashed up corpses etc..
Violent games don't always look that bad when you look at the covers. Take GTAIII, it's all cartoon style violence. Ok there's big guns and explosions but is that much different to the box if Action Man?
Video games are more immersing than traditional toys and this is the problem.
On p2p the porn isn't waved in your face, but some spams are very explicit and you can't really avoid it unless you're clued up on spam filtering.
DAT is uncompressed audio, MD is lossy compressed audio. Thus DAT is better for those who want every detail preserved.
I would imagine a hard disk based device would be better suited to the job, DAT tapes can get a bit knackered causing clicks.
There are plenty of projects underway to make the Windows to Linux easier, Sun are working on Gnome to make it easier to use and China, Japan and Korea have joined forces to work on a Windows replacement (which will be Linux based I would imagine).
OpenOffice is slightly behind StarOffice in terms of file compatibility, but organisations that switch entirely to a standardised Linux desktop will have a transition process. Hopefully this would mean compatibility would only be a problem once. Besides new versions of Office always create breakages in documents.
Also we've moved from terminals to desktops and now we're going back to the dumb terminal approach, largely due to the vast amounts of time and money wasted fixing problems on individual PCs. Although Microsoft does have products for this client server model it isn't quite so natural as the way X works.
If their sales fall then they won't be able to sustain their monolithic enterprise. As soon as they start laying off staff then it's the beginning of the end for Microsoft. News like that doesn't install investor confidence.
Their profit margins on Windows and Office are quite high, if they have to constantly undercut Linux solutions then their income from these two lines will be reduced. Problem with that scenerio is those two product lines keep the company going and allows them to take risks in other markets.
Given all the other materials he's working on I would imagine it is for real. It's in alpha and there is a CVS server, but it will need quite a bit of testing I would imagine.
His PDF mentions it is based more around Natural Language then a typical database query language and also mentions it isn't supposed to replace the OS filesystem. So I would imagine you'd still keep your apps and OS on ext3, reiserfs etc.. but you would have another partition with Storage on it for all your work.
http://theregister.com/content/4/30670.html
"The oft-misunderstood Windows Future Storage (WinFS), which will include technology from the "Yukon" release of SQL Server, is not a file system," reports Thurrot. "Instead, WinFS is a service that runs on top of - and requires - NTFS."
So what? don't most OSes bypass most of the BIOS code anyway?
But this car is fast on the water and fast on the road.
But not important enough to include in the test?
Would have been a rather useful benchmark me thinks.
Why don't they use Vodka then? you're telling me people have spent years perfecting fuel cells when vodka would have done the trick?
When the choice of camera used by some systems have quite a low resolution.
You need very high quality images for recognition to work well. Try OCR-ing a badly skewed very low resolution scan and that's just text.
With facial recognition you have to worry about shadows, different angles, glasses, changing hairstyles, facial hair and so on....
It's 2003 and we still use keyboards, have Mice/trackballs and use 2D flat screens. We need new input devices and displays for anything radical to happen.
>WinFS--SQL integration into the filesystem. >You'll be able to search gigabytes of data >and metadata.
.NET based. Though >Win32-compatibility will no doubt be offered, >everything including explorer.exe will all be >running as .NET managed code.
With a decent filesystem layout you can do this anyway. Plus Windows has an indexing service. Also this feature isn't in the home version.
>* DirectX desktop. Gorgeous visual cues with >no slowdown.
Gimmic
>* Scalable desktop. Vector-based is a way to >put it. If you have a really high-resolution >monitor, things will be correctly scaled for >you so you can see. Things will be the same >size onscreen going from a 1024x768 to >1280x1024 resolution. You can also change >he scale manually.
Waste of time changing resolution then, plus this is already possible.
> Entirely
And the benefit to me is? more slowdown.
>* New, "photorealistic" interface called >Aereo. We'll have to wait and see.
Gimmic, playing catch up to OSX.