Even _with_ the battery requirements, the GameBoy Advance SP can be set up to read eBooks. The only problem is the screen is a little smaller than some people may like. Nevertheless...
Loss of staff - This can be devastating at project-end. There's no time to train new staff; existing members must take up the slack.
And beware the vicious circle. Those staff who left probably left due to the long hours and stress. What do you reckon will happen when the manager tells the remaining staff to do even longer hours?
Oh boy. In the topic of J2SE, IntelliJ IDEA had (albeit experimental) support for 1.5 over half a year ago (was it longer? It might have been a whole year by now.)
I wish that the new Eclipse would have support for the Java which is emerging at the time it comes out.
People often start developing an application while the SDK or APIs they're using are in beta because by the time the app is finished, the API will be in final release. But right now there is no free IDE for editing J2SE 1.5 code (unless you count VIM... but VIM isn't really an IDE.)
What a pain.
Hopefully they at least format generics correctly instead of reporting them as syntax errors. I can wait for the full feature set for 1.5 but if it's going to mark my code as invalid then it can GFI.
Code folding is always the same... in practise it's no better than just looking over at the bottom left window, which shows all the methods and fields in your class. If anything it's a little more inconvenient because you need to keep opening things when you have to edit the insides.
Really at this point the only thing that Eclipse could do to wow me would be fixing bugs like "application performance sucks", or "there is no Qt frontend." The latter of these I've been investigating lately by prodding the right people, and the former, well... that will take some time.
Me too. Every video card I bought up to the last was an NVIDIA, right from the Riva 128 through to a GeForce 2. Now I have a Radeon 9600 because, well, ATI's Linux strategy appears to be slightly better, even if their drivers suck for a few things.
How do you do a remote desktop feature like that on Linux? I've always wondered, because VNC on Linux normally doesn't work like that. The screenshot they have there looks more like VNC on Windows, where you actually do get to takeover the entire remote display.
I don't understand how this one can be slow. There are over 1,000 users and you still can't find enough users to get a decent download rate? Even if you only got 0.1k/s from each user you would still be getting 100k/s. Do you have a limit on the number of simultaneous download threads or something? Are you behind NAT? Also, try limiting the upload to 5k/s or even lower, as the penalisation code is dodgy anyway and won't really hurt your download.
Are there actually any distributions other than Debian which make this [anal] distinction?
I mean the current issue at least for recent desktop machines, is that you probably can't play any games without installing at least one proprietary component.
Based exclusively on the merits of package management then, Gentoo is the best distro. But unfortunately it lacks a few things which would be good for the newbie crowd... no solid GUI for portage yet, and a solid GUI for genkernel would be damn useful too actually (all it would really do is make xconfig instead of menuconfig, and have some sort of progress display to replace what comes out on the console.)
Some would argue that Gentoo is a customised distro, because practically everything can be chosen and the bare install is *really* bare (although it has that dependency on Python, since most of its scripts are written in it.) You could use Gentoo's Catalyst to spin off many different LiveCD distributions, one which is a web server, one which is a desktop, one which is a gaming system, etc.
Although it would be much cooler if you could also use it to build every other distro.;-)
That's just one axis too. You might have someone who wants to set up a web server but is a complete computer newbie (you wouldn't recommend them to use Slackware.) Or you might have someone who wants to use a desktop who is an elite hacker (you wouldn't recommend them to use Mandrake.)
So there is the axis of purpose, and the axis of experience. And that's just a start. A certain distribution might be perfect for the purpose, perfect for the user's level, but require money.
Good analogy. All regions suck. Likewise, all distributions suck, just like all operating systems suck. Some suck less than others but it depends on the needs of the user, which can't be quantified.
Sooner or later they will require you to listen to it through headphones where the signal is transmitted digitally and the headphones decrypt it internally. Sure, you can still head the signal off right before the speaker, but it makes it much harder.
And then after that, they just need to make versions where the digital signal goes all the way into your skull and hooks up directly into the brain. It will be much harder to head that off at the pass, but I'm sure it will still be possible.
In any case audio is the simple case. It's video I'm worried about because you can't just point a camera at the screen and record what it sees, expecting to get decent quality.
If even you are not be able to distribute anti-DRM tools, someone in another country always is, and can put them on a server. Then, someone like Gentoo could put the instructions for compiling those tools into popular programs into portage (or is spreading the instructions illegal too?) so that everything just works out of the box.
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Even _with_ the battery requirements, the GameBoy Advance SP can be set up to read eBooks. The only problem is the screen is a little smaller than some people may like. Nevertheless...
You have Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 fitting in similarly I guess. The second wasn't really a sequel, despite the numbering scheme.
You mean like how Doom 1 and Doom 2 are so different, yet Doom 3 returns to its roots in Doom 1? :-)
Loss of staff - This can be devastating at project-end. There's no time to train new staff; existing members must take up the slack.
And beware the vicious circle. Those staff who left probably left due to the long hours and stress. What do you reckon will happen when the manager tells the remaining staff to do even longer hours?
Does NetBeans 3.6 have J2SE 1.5 support as well? I'm curious since I'm playing with it and may end up using it for a real app Real Soon Now.
Oh boy. In the topic of J2SE, IntelliJ IDEA had (albeit experimental) support for 1.5 over half a year ago (was it longer? It might have been a whole year by now.)
I wish that the new Eclipse would have support for the Java which is emerging at the time it comes out.
People often start developing an application while the SDK or APIs they're using are in beta because by the time the app is finished, the API will be in final release. But right now there is no free IDE for editing J2SE 1.5 code (unless you count VIM... but VIM isn't really an IDE.)
What a pain.
Hopefully they at least format generics correctly instead of reporting them as syntax errors. I can wait for the full feature set for 1.5 but if it's going to mark my code as invalid then it can GFI.
Code folding is always the same... in practise it's no better than just looking over at the bottom left window, which shows all the methods and fields in your class. If anything it's a little more inconvenient because you need to keep opening things when you have to edit the insides.
Really at this point the only thing that Eclipse could do to wow me would be fixing bugs like "application performance sucks", or "there is no Qt frontend." The latter of these I've been investigating lately by prodding the right people, and the former, well... that will take some time.
Me too. Every video card I bought up to the last was an NVIDIA, right from the Riva 128 through to a GeForce 2. Now I have a Radeon 9600 because, well, ATI's Linux strategy appears to be slightly better, even if their drivers suck for a few things.
Don't lets be silly. Dell shipping with AMD would lower their prices and they can't have that. Must .. stay .. expensive!
How do you do a remote desktop feature like that on Linux? I've always wondered, because VNC on Linux normally doesn't work like that. The screenshot they have there looks more like VNC on Windows, where you actually do get to takeover the entire remote display.
If I said something embarrassing I would want to deny it too.
I don't understand how this one can be slow. There are over 1,000 users and you still can't find enough users to get a decent download rate? Even if you only got 0.1k/s from each user you would still be getting 100k/s. Do you have a limit on the number of simultaneous download threads or something? Are you behind NAT? Also, try limiting the upload to 5k/s or even lower, as the penalisation code is dodgy anyway and won't really hurt your download.
Sure, with a cross-compiler and the Windows source code. Maybe.
DVD burners may be more expensive, but they are still less than US$100 and the blanks are still less than $1.
And maintaining two images isn't a pain. Presumably they script creation of the thing anyway, like normal people.
I would hope that they dropped Abiword as well, because it's more of a waste of space due to being less useful.
Are there actually any distributions other than Debian which make this [anal] distinction?
I mean the current issue at least for recent desktop machines, is that you probably can't play any games without installing at least one proprietary component.
Based exclusively on the merits of package management then, Gentoo is the best distro. But unfortunately it lacks a few things which would be good for the newbie crowd... no solid GUI for portage yet, and a solid GUI for genkernel would be damn useful too actually (all it would really do is make xconfig instead of menuconfig, and have some sort of progress display to replace what comes out on the console.)
Some would argue that Gentoo is a customised distro, because practically everything can be chosen and the bare install is *really* bare (although it has that dependency on Python, since most of its scripts are written in it.) You could use Gentoo's Catalyst to spin off many different LiveCD distributions, one which is a web server, one which is a desktop, one which is a gaming system, etc.
Although it would be much cooler if you could also use it to build every other distro. ;-)
That's just one axis too. You might have someone who wants to set up a web server but is a complete computer newbie (you wouldn't recommend them to use Slackware.) Or you might have someone who wants to use a desktop who is an elite hacker (you wouldn't recommend them to use Mandrake.)
So there is the axis of purpose, and the axis of experience. And that's just a start. A certain distribution might be perfect for the purpose, perfect for the user's level, but require money.
And so on, and so forth.
Good analogy. All regions suck. Likewise, all distributions suck, just like all operating systems suck. Some suck less than others but it depends on the needs of the user, which can't be quantified.
They should be looking for the lack of a graphical installer, and a clear set of instructions on how to install the system without one.
Sooner or later they will require you to listen to it through headphones where the signal is transmitted digitally and the headphones decrypt it internally. Sure, you can still head the signal off right before the speaker, but it makes it much harder.
And then after that, they just need to make versions where the digital signal goes all the way into your skull and hooks up directly into the brain. It will be much harder to head that off at the pass, but I'm sure it will still be possible.
In any case audio is the simple case. It's video I'm worried about because you can't just point a camera at the screen and record what it sees, expecting to get decent quality.
If even you are not be able to distribute anti-DRM tools, someone in another country always is, and can put them on a server. Then, someone like Gentoo could put the instructions for compiling those tools into popular programs into portage (or is spreading the instructions illegal too?) so that everything just works out of the box.
And are too lazy to download the version which isn't DRM'd from any P2P network they want.