I read that the SCOTUS is taking a case to decide if AT&T has property rights. If corporations are people, can companies that ship jobs overseas be tried for treason? Same thing for the companies that caused the crash and put the nation in danger. I mean they are people and everything, right?
Funny how they are people when it comes to rights but not when it comes to responsibilities...
Those kinds of ads are what they use to prove that they couldn't find anyone in the US to do the job and justify their H1B visa for someone who doesn't have all those skills either. That's been happening for years.
Mine was similar, though I also complained about the omission of "the general public" as a "user class" in the policy statement.
They considered commercial, academic, and government use of the data and stated that these classes of users should be represented in deciding data formats, etc, but nowhere did I see anything saying that the interests of the general public should be represented as a class of users equal to commercial, academic, and government users.
I've never used Java or.NET for anything serious, but one of the things I like about what I've heard about.NET is that you can interface managed and unmanaged code at the class / object level.
My understanding is that to integrate Java with my 1 million lines of existing C++ code I would have to provide C wrappers (lose all the OO) for that code.
Has any progress been made in that respect or am I just behind the times w/r/t Java? I'm not really inclined to un-OO this code by providing a C wrapper and there's no way I'd ever have time to rewrite the whole thing in Java.
With.NET I can still use C++ if I want to and even combine them to get the best of both worlds. With Java it's all or nothing. Not everyone is starting a new project from scratch... That's definitely one of the reasons Java never caught on with me...
The Revolutionary War or the French Revolution seem more appropriate.
Guys back in England (CEOs) getting rich by overtaxing (laying off) the producers (Americans).
The producers get pissed, kick out the king, form a new company / country, and keep all the profits...
Or maybe that's what's going to happen to us when Indian and Chineese companies take the technology we've given them (or paid them to produce) and decide they don't need our management anymore. This is already happening in China.
The Chineese are even one step ahead of that though. They get money from selling us stuff only to come over here and invest in US Securities. So basically, they're loaning us the money to buy more stuff from them so that we'll owe them more money. Ingenious! They're going to OWN the US one day...
> I know that there are folks who like DVD+R, but DVD-R is the standard.
> Just because more DVD+R drives have appeared right now means nothing.
Do you still have a Betamax VCR? The market decides the winner in the standards war.
Also, it depends on the user. To YOU maximum compatibility with DVD players is the primary goal. To someone else, the ability to create video DVDs AND have Mt Rainier and lossless linking might be more important.
It does say on their page though that it's all written in ANSI C and Perl 5, both of which are available for Windows... Might not be too hard to get it compiled under Cygwin...
"My point was Opera has to be ported to each toolkit"
That may have been "your point" but that is definitely not what you said. You said, "they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser". You said it is not possible to embed Opera. They have already done it. Now you say you knew they had done it? That's definitely flamebait, hence my call for a mod down.
In your now restated point, I'm assuming that you are referring to the fact that Opera was originally a Windows only app and had to be ported to other platforms and that it would have been better if they started out cross platform from the get go? I can't argue with that, but how is Opera different in that respect compared to other apps out there that started out on one platform and are now cross platform (eg. The Gimp)? Like most projects that start out that way I imagine it will take some time before they are able to support all platforms from a single codebase (eg. the standard Perl distro didn't compile on Win32 for a long time). I would not be suprised if their new code is aligned with that goal.
It's hard to play the "what if" game, but back in the day, Netscape WAS the web to Joe User. It took quite a long while for their marketshare to erode. Heck, I've even run across some Joe User types who were still running the 16-bit Windows Netscape they got from their ISP on 32-bit Windows as recently as a year ago because that's all they knew. If Netscape could have continued to compete they probably wouldn't be as far behind in the market as they are now. When IE first started shipping with Windows a lot of people still didn't use it because it sucked (yes I remember IE 1.0).
"It's so powerful, somebody created XHTML2 support using nothing but XBL."
Ok, but I said relevent examples, and what I mean by "relevent" is "pages in existence today that require those things that Mozilla and IE can do but Opera can't do". As your experience shows, most sites are still supporting NS4. Opera works fine on those sites. Opera also works fine on the increasing number of Flash based sites. Mozilla and IE may "do more" but if few sites are using those features, how important are they to the browsing experience of most users today?
IE6 and Mozilla now have powerful DOM engines, but what is the percentage of the market using IE6 and Mozilla? How many million AOL users are still using IE 5 or lower? How long will it be before the majority of browsers in service are using those new versions and professional web developers can take advantage of those features without fear of losing users/customers? Until the majority of browsers in service have robust DOM support and a lot more sites start using it, it will be a nice thing to have, but won't impact the everyday browsing experience of most folks.
By the time this happens, Opera 7 will be released with their new DOM engine and it won't matter how bad the 6.0 DOM engine was...
"Their fixed position support (In CSS) either doesn't work on their Linux version or at all. Come on, Konqueror 2 supported it, although IE doesn't for some reason."
Totally agree. They were the leader in CSS support at first and haven't kept that lead. I wouldn't be suprised if part of that is due to people not using positioning because IE doesn't support it (there's no pressure to implement it since IE doesn't, or at least not as much pressure as there is to fix their DOM now that IE and Mozilla have good DOM implementations).
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My guess is jobs won't improve much either way. As long as CEOs who layoff make more than those that don't, what's the incentive?
http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/executive_excess_2010
Uh, no.
http://www.tcf.org/list.asp?type=PB&pubid=482
http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/1/0/3/6/p110361_index.html
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2006/wolff120606.html
Got any facts yourself?
Obama can't even control his own branch when it comes to this:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500202
She must be teaching in India or China...
Agreed.
I read that the SCOTUS is taking a case to decide if AT&T has property rights. If corporations are people, can companies that ship jobs overseas be tried for treason? Same thing for the companies that caused the crash and put the nation in danger. I mean they are people and everything, right?
Funny how they are people when it comes to rights but not when it comes to responsibilities...
Those kinds of ads are what they use to prove that they couldn't find anyone in the US to do the job and justify their H1B visa for someone who doesn't have all those skills either. That's been happening for years.
My son likes the "Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chester" games from these guys:
http://www.viva-media.com/vivaChess.html
I prefer Tenne-C myself (http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/0tenny.htm l).
Check out the apps here:
http://www.jgoodies.com/
JDiskReport in particular is fast and a nice GUI. Doesn't look native on Windows, but still quite nice.
Yeah there are a bunch of sites claiming that (eg. http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/082705.htm) .
I wonder what ever happened with this technology:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1469610.stm
Don't know how you define most, but some stats at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion#Present_day
So would Bush be the anti-Christ or Rove?
Mine was similar, though I also complained about the omission of "the general public" as a "user class" in the policy statement.
They considered commercial, academic, and government use of the data and stated that these classes of users should be represented in deciding data formats, etc, but nowhere did I see anything saying that the interests of the general public should be represented as a class of users equal to commercial, academic, and government users.
I've never used Java or .NET for anything serious, but one of the things I like about what I've heard about .NET is that you can interface managed and unmanaged code at the class / object level.
.NET I can still use C++ if I want to and even combine them to get the best of both worlds. With Java it's all or nothing. Not everyone is starting a new project from scratch... That's definitely one of the reasons Java never caught on with me...
My understanding is that to integrate Java with my 1 million lines of existing C++ code I would have to provide C wrappers (lose all the OO) for that code.
Has any progress been made in that respect or am I just behind the times w/r/t Java? I'm not really inclined to un-OO this code by providing a C wrapper and there's no way I'd ever have time to rewrite the whole thing in Java.
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In the old days, we called it the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution...
The Revolutionary War or the French Revolution seem more appropriate.
Guys back in England (CEOs) getting rich by overtaxing (laying off) the producers (Americans).
The producers get pissed, kick out the king, form a new company / country, and keep all the profits...
Or maybe that's what's going to happen to us when Indian and Chineese companies take the technology we've given them (or paid them to produce) and decide they don't need our management anymore. This is already happening in China.
The Chineese are even one step ahead of that though. They get money from selling us stuff only to come over here and invest in US Securities. So basically, they're loaning us the money to buy more stuff from them so that we'll owe them more money. Ingenious! They're going to OWN the US one day...
Here's an article that gives more information including source code for some small sample applications (C# and the XML based UI stuff).
Worth reading if you want to get a quick feel for what this stuff will look like in practice.
Right! That's one of things I haven't seen mentioned much.
People are saying how this will be good for consumers.
People without jobs don't really consume much...
If 2% of the country's jobs go away, so do 2% of the consumers...
> I know that there are folks who like DVD+R, but DVD-R is the standard.
> Just because more DVD+R drives have appeared right now means nothing.
Do you still have a Betamax VCR? The market decides the winner in the standards war.
Also, it depends on the user. To YOU maximum compatibility with DVD players is the primary goal. To someone else, the ability to create video DVDs AND have Mt Rainier and lossless linking might be more important.
DVD+R discs can be had for as little as $1.58 if you know where to shop.
+R is supported by a LOT more companies than -R. So much for dying...
It does say on their page though that it's all written in ANSI C and Perl 5, both of which are available for Windows... Might not be too hard to get it compiled under Cygwin...
Ok, but who says you have to use GTK/gtkmm directly?
Why not port the MFC to wxWindows?
You don't have to pay for it, and you still have all the listed advantages of using Qt (Linux, Windows, and Mac from the same source tree).
Yup, totally agree. I'd expect EFF to do something like that rather than Slashdot though...
In case anyone was wondering...
Just get a Transmeta processor and hack the Pentium emulation layer...
"My point was Opera has to be ported to each toolkit"
That may have been "your point" but that is definitely not what you said. You said, "they're producing a non-embeddable, platform-specific web browser". You said it is not possible to embed Opera. They have already done it. Now you say you knew they had done it? That's definitely flamebait, hence my call for a mod down.
In your now restated point, I'm assuming that you are referring to the fact that Opera was originally a Windows only app and had to be ported to other platforms and that it would have been better if they started out cross platform from the get go? I can't argue with that, but how is Opera different in that respect compared to other apps out there that started out on one platform and are now cross platform (eg. The Gimp)? Like most projects that start out that way I imagine it will take some time before they are able to support all platforms from a single codebase (eg. the standard Perl distro didn't compile on Win32 for a long time). I would not be suprised if their new code is aligned with that goal.
It's hard to play the "what if" game, but back in the day, Netscape WAS the web to Joe User. It took quite a long while for their marketshare to erode. Heck, I've even run across some Joe User types who were still running the 16-bit Windows Netscape they got from their ISP on 32-bit Windows as recently as a year ago because that's all they knew. If Netscape could have continued to compete they probably wouldn't be as far behind in the market as they are now. When IE first started shipping with Windows a lot of people still didn't use it because it sucked (yes I remember IE 1.0).
"It's so powerful, somebody created XHTML2 support using nothing but XBL."
Ok, but I said relevent examples, and what I mean by "relevent" is "pages in existence today that require those things that Mozilla and IE can do but Opera can't do". As your experience shows, most sites are still supporting NS4. Opera works fine on those sites. Opera also works fine on the increasing number of Flash based sites. Mozilla and IE may "do more" but if few sites are using those features, how important are they to the browsing experience of most users today?
IE6 and Mozilla now have powerful DOM engines, but what is the percentage of the market using IE6 and Mozilla? How many million AOL users are still using IE 5 or lower? How long will it be before the majority of browsers in service are using those new versions and professional web developers can take advantage of those features without fear of losing users/customers? Until the majority of browsers in service have robust DOM support and a lot more sites start using it, it will be a nice thing to have, but won't impact the everyday browsing experience of most folks.
By the time this happens, Opera 7 will be released with their new DOM engine and it won't matter how bad the 6.0 DOM engine was...
"Their fixed position support (In CSS) either doesn't work on their Linux version or at all. Come on, Konqueror 2 supported it, although IE doesn't for some reason."
Totally agree. They were the leader in CSS support at first and haven't kept that lead. I wouldn't be suprised if part of that is due to people not using positioning because IE doesn't support it (there's no pressure to implement it since IE doesn't, or at least not as much pressure as there is to fix their DOM now that IE and Mozilla have good DOM implementations).