Try BlitzMax (http://blitzmax.com/Products/blitzmax.php). It can do GUI, console, games, even CGI. Nice OOP language with hundreds of libraries and east C integration. It made me love programming again, the way I did back when I first learned. It's a great language to bang out a quick tool or idea.
I suggest looking into the Bilt application: http://buildadatabaseapp.com/
It's a fairly easy to extend system built for creating adhoc shared database applications without having to write any code. You could use a bit of custom PHP on top of it to integrate into whatever public forms or whatever you need to pull data from. All your operators and employees would only need to interact with the UI provided by Bilt.
I thought I should clarify that the bonus we use for OT work is paid by the hour. This is a direct incentive to work more hours. If the hours make the company more money then it makes sense.
This can work for short periods of time, up to a couple of weeks IF you pay an overtime bonus to the sallaried employees. My company does this and most people actually look forward to the infrequent times when it is needed because we are well compensated for it (in addition to our profit sharing program).
No what we need is a grep for Firefox that turns "privacy" into "porn viewing" or perhaps just "porn", everywhere it occurs on the internet.
I did something like this once, can't for the life of me remember what the replacement was. It was quite amusing for like 1 minute.
Side note: it's pretty cool how easy this sort of thing actually is to do in FF.
A committee cannot design a good interface, and neither can any piece of software. One extremely good designer should be placed in charge of the GUI, and his word should be scripture.
The irony of course is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
Um, no. If they get a job at all (which would be surprising since they will likely completely fail initial interviews if the interviewers are worth anything at all), and even if it is at a company that outsources development, their work will consist of things that are not farmed out. Therefore they will fail, junior/associate level developers are not in charge of overseeing overseas development.
The actual specs on the page you linked to seem to defeat your own argument. The MobilePro is quite a bit faster than the Psion NetBook:
CPU Clock Speed: 400 MHz RAM: 64 MB
That's double the RAM and more than double the speed of the cited Psion. This I would expect to handle CSS and pretty complex graphical layouts. 190 MHz? Uh. No.
Anyway, I wish there were more of these machines. Just ordered an even older Psion (5mx) simply to have a word processor in my pocket. I find the Q1 Ultra to be a bit low on utility and the Eee PC just a little uncomfortable - and neither can boot as fast as a CE device (should) or a Psion.
We'll make a couple of 'em and see how it works out
From the article:
...MDI is actively seeking licensees, with according to the company, 50 factories in Europe, America and Asia signed already.
It is predicted that the factory will produce 3.000 cars each year, with 70 staff working only one 8-hour shift a day. If there were 3 shifts some 9.000 cars could be produced a year.
That's each factory. Whoever wrote the synopsis of the article didn't read it very closely.
So if they run it like a car factory runs now, that's at least 450,000 cars per year. The US alone produces 11 million cars a year so this still is not a large number. Half a million still isn't a bad test batch.
Keep in mind that's just "already signed factories". Based on the low manufacturing complexity (the car's design is very simple and mostly relies on wireless technology), the number of factories could probably double (at least) within a few months of release. We could see millions of these cars within a year or two if they catch on.
I mean really, who cares? Glazer said, "It would be amazingly confusing." Come on. Code (password, PIN, etc.), code (source code), and co-ed (awesome) are pretty easy to keep apart, it's called the rest of the sentence. I doubt anyone would confuse the two definitions of pluton in context.
How is a wiki based application an example of Web 2.0? WikiWikiWeb was first created in 1994 and wikis have been somewhat programmable for quite some time.
Not saying it isn't a cool idea, just saying it isn't Web 2.0. Unless of course Web 2.0 just means "everything we do from now on". Sigh.
The Pocket PC 6700 from Sprint and other carriers already does all this and it's based on Windows Mobile 5.0 instead of the presumably new or limited market share OS that Nokia will use. I just got one last weekend and so far I am very happy with it: Bluetooth, wi-fi, wireless broadband (Based on EV-DO: "3G" to some people), 1.3 MP camera & video. Mobile IE can handle most website okay, but the screen is a bit small. Any larger and it wouldn't be very useful as a phone though, so it's a good balance.
Sprint rather predominantly advertises the wi-fi feature of this device, so I disagree with the article that "telcos" are threatened by hybrid wi-fi devices. I bet they freaking love the ability to have someone using a device with their branding but not consuming their resources. Maybe when you throw in a working VOIP application it becomes a bit different, but for pure data stuff, they'd love that.
Nokia is only #2 in my book (to market anyway), the PPC-6700 has already done all this.
Why on earth can't they run virus software? Switch off packet sniffing, shore up the firewall, but get antivirus software on those. If you're saying it's too much of a performance penalty, that's a bit hard to believe. If that's the case your hardware is just too slow anyway. The hard drives should probably SATA, but if a virus scan is bogging it down I venture to guess you're using slow IDE drives. Big mistake. Linux isn't going to be all that much more secure if you can't even make a baseline investment in the system.
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Very fast, very high testing marks. Not free but you get what you pay for - it is worth it.
Try BlitzMax (http://blitzmax.com/Products/blitzmax.php). It can do GUI, console, games, even CGI. Nice OOP language with hundreds of libraries and east C integration. It made me love programming again, the way I did back when I first learned. It's a great language to bang out a quick tool or idea.
I suggest looking into the Bilt application: http://buildadatabaseapp.com/ It's a fairly easy to extend system built for creating adhoc shared database applications without having to write any code. You could use a bit of custom PHP on top of it to integrate into whatever public forms or whatever you need to pull data from. All your operators and employees would only need to interact with the UI provided by Bilt.
I thought I should clarify that the bonus we use for OT work is paid by the hour. This is a direct incentive to work more hours. If the hours make the company more money then it makes sense.
This can work for short periods of time, up to a couple of weeks IF you pay an overtime bonus to the sallaried employees. My company does this and most people actually look forward to the infrequent times when it is needed because we are well compensated for it (in addition to our profit sharing program).
OP was suggesting that objecting libertarians be formed into a line
and shot?
Fuck yes it is.
What concept is this proof of?
Reply with a resignation letter signed by all of the programmers. He'll let you use your music players.
And tell them that it's because they're insane. Because they are insane.
No what we need is a grep for Firefox that turns "privacy" into "porn viewing" or perhaps just "porn", everywhere it occurs on the internet. I did something like this once, can't for the life of me remember what the replacement was. It was quite amusing for like 1 minute. Side note: it's pretty cool how easy this sort of thing actually is to do in FF.
It's near impossible to go grab "COBOL for Dummies"
http://www.amazon.com/COBOL-Dummies-Arthur-Griffith/dp/0764502980
A committee cannot design a good interface, and neither can any piece of software. One extremely good designer should be placed in charge of the GUI, and his word should be scripture.
we'll never know what could have been.
Maybe we will - http://www.haiku-os.org/
You insensitive
The actual specs on the page you linked to seem to defeat your own argument. The MobilePro is quite a bit faster than the Psion NetBook:
CPU Clock Speed: 400 MHz
RAM: 64 MB
That's double the RAM and more than double the speed of the cited Psion. This I would expect to handle CSS and pretty complex graphical layouts. 190 MHz? Uh. No.
Anyway, I wish there were more of these machines. Just ordered an even older Psion (5mx) simply to have a word processor in my pocket. I find the Q1 Ultra to be a bit low on utility and the Eee PC just a little uncomfortable - and neither can boot as fast as a CE device (should) or a Psion.
That was his point.
I'm sorry.
From the article:
That's each factory. Whoever wrote the synopsis of the article didn't read it very closely.
So if they run it like a car factory runs now, that's at least 450,000 cars per year. The US alone produces 11 million cars a year so this still is not a large number. Half a million still isn't a bad test batch.
Keep in mind that's just "already signed factories". Based on the low manufacturing complexity (the car's design is very simple and mostly relies on wireless technology), the number of factories could probably double (at least) within a few months of release. We could see millions of these cars within a year or two if they catch on.
I mean really, who cares? Glazer said, "It would be amazingly confusing." Come on. Code (password, PIN, etc.), code (source code), and co-ed (awesome) are pretty easy to keep apart, it's called the rest of the sentence. I doubt anyone would confuse the two definitions of pluton in context.
How is a wiki based application an example of Web 2.0? WikiWikiWeb was first created in 1994 and wikis have been somewhat programmable for quite some time. Not saying it isn't a cool idea, just saying it isn't Web 2.0. Unless of course Web 2.0 just means "everything we do from now on". Sigh.
The Pocket PC 6700 from Sprint and other carriers already does all this and it's based on Windows Mobile 5.0 instead of the presumably new or limited market share OS that Nokia will use. I just got one last weekend and so far I am very happy with it: Bluetooth, wi-fi, wireless broadband (Based on EV-DO: "3G" to some people), 1.3 MP camera & video. Mobile IE can handle most website okay, but the screen is a bit small. Any larger and it wouldn't be very useful as a phone though, so it's a good balance.
Sprint rather predominantly advertises the wi-fi feature of this device, so I disagree with the article that "telcos" are threatened by hybrid wi-fi devices. I bet they freaking love the ability to have someone using a device with their branding but not consuming their resources. Maybe when you throw in a working VOIP application it becomes a bit different, but for pure data stuff, they'd love that.
Nokia is only #2 in my book (to market anyway), the PPC-6700 has already done all this.
Is this supposed to be funny? Sad what passes for comedy these days.
Why on earth can't they run virus software? Switch off packet sniffing, shore up the firewall, but get antivirus software on those. If you're saying it's too much of a performance penalty, that's a bit hard to believe. If that's the case your hardware is just too slow anyway. The hard drives should probably SATA, but if a virus scan is bogging it down I venture to guess you're using slow IDE drives. Big mistake. Linux isn't going to be all that much more secure if you can't even make a baseline investment in the system.