Doing something like this is practical though. He didn't say to have 0 network connection, he said not to be connected to the internet. The employees could still be connected to an intranet to use all the network based apps they need.
I've seen laptops being used for a wide variaty of things. Most of the lecture halls I sit in have wireless internet, and my in my computer science classes, there tend to be around 5 laptops for a 50 person class.
I've seen people IM'ing while in class.. but I've also seen people watch movies or play games in class. There are many classes people go to because we might have a pop-quiz or something along those lines, and the only way to stay away is find anything to do besides listen to the instructor.
I'd prefer to have a laptop and play Counter-Strike against one of my roommates while he's at home, and I'm in class. That'd rock.
I remember back in the early to mid 90's, the *BSD people had some problems with lawsuits and such, and Linux was able to pull right out in front of them. Could SCO going after Linux make more people move over to *BSD?
Possible reason for no Drag and Drop
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Drag and drop has not been fully implemented for all platforms yet. Since the Eclipse GUI is built upon SWT (which spawned from Eclipse), SWT must support Drag and Drop. Currently it is not supported on all OSes that Eclipse runs on.
If you head over to the SWT development page you will notice that Linux/gtk, MacOS and QNX all still need Drag and drop to be implemented. I know for MacOS, Drag and drop will be in Eclipse/SWT 3.0
If this standard does go through, aht GNU supports it via gcc or what have you, this will help companies in a big way.
The company I worked for used to write our software in C++, but moved over to java 3 or 4 years ago for the cross platform abaility of this. There are so many core parts of a program that are system dependent, that supporting 8 different operating systems in C++ is impossible without a standard library of some sorts. Add a standard socket structure will be very nice, and most OSs have very different ways of handling this. Threading is also the other huge issue with crossplatform, there is near zero standard on out threading works in C++.
The one thing that the new C++ proposal is missing is a standard widget/windowing commands. But there is no good way to make standard libraries for something like that, the best if to create a general class to create and control widgets, then write the system specific code for each OS you want it to run on.
It's something I'm looking forward to.
Sun is good for one thing
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And that is moving I/Os. I'm a programmer for a company that makes large scale storage arrays, and Solaris can beat most any other operating system (no matter what hardward) at moving just a bulk ammount of I/Os. We support Linux, AIX, Windows, Solaris, and many others, and Solaris is always a top performer on our tests.
Beyond that, I'm not sure what Sun machine's are good for.
If you jack open the Replay case, remove the harddrive and plug it into your computer, you can get the stuff off of there. I believe there is even a project on SourceForge having to do with this (for read its harddrive I believe).
Also in reponse to people who say to go use MtyhTV, you need like a 1GHz processor to do MPEG encoding in realtime... and it eats up most all the cpu, so dont expect to be using the computer for much else while it is recording.
And in other news, how about free PVR software for us Windows users out there, I can't really find anything decent for windows that is free... any ideas?
http://whistleblowerlaws.com/protection.htm It is against federal law to fire an employee if that employee called out the company, or an employee of the company for illegal activities.
If he wanted to go through it, he could take his employeer to work for this.
One thing that I noticed was Blizzard used to use this Video Codec when they released trailers of their games and such. This would make me believe that they also used Bink for their in game footage. But with the release of Warcraft 3, all their in-game movies are encoded with DivX....
As your parent post said, you are paying for convenience. This really falls into a time is money kinda thing.
Sometimes I want software that just works, and I need it right now. I don't want to have to download some open source program, get that working on whatever machine I have, then find out the X feature is not implemented yet or has a few bugs in it.
For the most part, commercial software will pass this test. You can normally just read the back of the box and it will tell you the features it has, and if it is right for you. If that is not enough, then maybe read a review or 2 online.
This falls under the same reason as why I keep a Windows machine around, convenience. I don't want to find this great app that is Windows only, then try to get it to run under WINE. I want it to work right then and there. And sorry to say it, but Windows still has the largest market share, therefore it will have the most software released for it.
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=2398 I'm guessing there are many other places also to download it from. But if you are willing to wait in line for it at fileshack, its another option.
I still like the REALLY big stuff. If you want some storage, and I mean real storage, you gotta use the stuff that LSI makes.
LSI Logic Storage Solution
Why be limited by 2.8 TB, why not go up to 33TB of max storage, plus you can configure these things in a way, if you get multiple together, you can link their datapower.
The link to the smaller xbox has been blocked. Some smart admins decided to block referer=slashdot.org. Solution: copy and paste the url into a browser.
Its pretty much some useless thing that you run, and see if you can get more time put into it than others. Most people do it just to look at the Statistics and compare with everyone else out there.
ProgressQuest is worse and better at the same time. It does not eat up all your CPU cycles like d.net does, but it has no purpose what so ever.
Unlimited PCS Vision. Sprint may deny or terminate service without notice where use is in connection with server devices or host computer applications, other systems that drive continuous heavy traffic or data sessions, or as substitutes for private lines or frame relay connections. Unlimited PCS Vision offer for PCS Free & Clear Plans with Vision is: (a) only available with a Vision capable PCS Phone or PCS smart phone device; and (b) not available with Connection Cards, Aircards, or any other device used in connection with a computer or PDA - including phones, smart phones or other devices used with connection kits or similar phone-to-computer/PDA accessories. Sprint reserves the right to deny or to terminate service without notice for misuse.
They will just cut you off if you are running a server or some other mode that continuously uses up their bandwidth.
Eclipse is just an IDE, that is it. There are no compilers what so ever that go along with eclipse. And the CDT (c++) plugin for Eclipse is not the best thing in the world, but I have not used it in a while, so I can't say.
The Serial ATA architecture replaces the wide Parallel ATA ribbon cable with a thin, flexible cable that can be up to 1 meter in length. The serial cable is smaller and easier to route inside the chassis (see Figure 2). The small-diameter cable can help improve air flow inside the PC system chassis and will facilitate future designs of smaller PC systems.
I agree, the file locking thing is really nice. It gives a nice graphical view of the history of a file. I will check for loose ends that have not been linked up to the main path of the file too. It makes having files that you work on across projects really nice too, since you can have the object in both, and you change it in one, it changes in the other. I also agree that there is a learning curve to it, but after you pass that by, its really easy and keeps life clean.
I know our company has like 3 people just dedicated to maintaining Continuus.
Here at work, we use a nice program called Continuus/CM. It has all the fun features of CVS with a lot of extra features and a cool frontend. In the version control it has build in Task management and all the fun tools you need to manage a project, all you need is another enviroment (emacs?) to edit the files. I don't know any of the advanced features of the program, but if anyone else has any good experience with this program, please post away.
It's probebly not a program for Linux to move to since it is a little pricy from what I understand.
Those storage arrays are really fun to play with. If you want to see what they are using for storage arrays check out LSI Storage Systems. StorageTek might sell them, but the good people over at LSI Storage Systems make the things. They are all fiberchannel harddrives, normally around 50GB each. Depending on what is needed by the customer we have 10k and 15kRPM drives that can go in. Everything is hotswappable, and I mean everything. They have some really good transfer rates (I want to say around 850MB/sec when benchmarked). And are pretty with all the flashing lights on them.
But don't think about getting any for home, the controllers alone cost as much as a family sedan.
Impressions of eclipse (a few months with it)
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I do have to agree with boa13, Eclipse lacks some features that are nice when developing java as a side project or for school. If you were to have to design some large complex GUI interface, doing it in Eclipse would suck big time. But first I'll do some history.
As many of you know, Eclipse is written and developed by IBM, all open source (YAY!!). IBMs last product was the hideous VisualAge for Java. This IDE was an abomination to the world of programming. I was forced to use it at school, and I will never forgive my instructor for that. You were stuck in one view, which was nothing like a file view (they ducplicated the view in Eclipse, but it works a lot better now). Getting VisualAge to show you an entire file was a pain in the butt, and if you were able to get to that point, if you messed up any syntax in that file (such as messing up a class declaration or having one to many closing brackets) VisualAge would not let you save the file nor tell you what was wrong. Next with it, all the Java files were hidden in one large database file that VisualAge maintained, exported also sucked.
Ok, so IBM decided drop Visual which was a $800 program or so for professional. Eclipse offers a wide range of features and settings. From here out, I'll be comparing Eclipse to VisualCafe (which I have used most to VisualAge). Eclipse has a decent line formatter that I have been very happy with. It is nothing robust like JIndent, but that is something I hope they would improve upon. Most of the auto formating features are comperable to all other IDEs I have ever used. As far as hotkeys with eclipse, some of them are not as intuitive as others. There is a common hotkey (ctrl-tab), which most IDEs will switch between open files, and eclipse does not follow this; they use ctrl-F6 (dunno). But after you get past that, most of the hotkeys are pretty good.
Speed: This is one thing I have to say I enjoy over VisualCafe. There is the use of SWT vs AWT, which does help a lot. But as far as how it handles the class/method browsers, it works quite a faster. It seems to pick up errors quickly and compiles just like anything else out there.
Eclipse has some other fun built in features such as CVS browser (I think), pluggins, and lots of different views to choose from, all of which are quite customizable. For the Java Virtual Machine, you can choose between 1.3.1 and 1.4, which can cause problems if you have to change code that was originally written in 1.2 or 1.1.7 even. When compiling code, it is smart and will only compile changed files, or code in other files that has been affected.
My use of Eclipse: I work in a dept of about 50 Java developers, which I am now trying to move to Eclipse. Here we do all of our visual development by hand, as to be able to get the exact behaviors we want. I work with projects that have 1500+ files in them, and a few files that are 7000+ lines. Eclipse handles the files well for browsing, but when it comes to a 7000+ line file, it can tend to lag a little (on my P2-233Mhz machine). At any one time Eclipse is running, it seems to use around 60-70 megs of memory, 20 more then VisualCafe, but should not be a big deal for most developers out there.
Eclipse seems to be a very good IDE, and I have been happy with how it has performed. I have been using snapshots for a few months now, and it has become more stable, and I have yet to have it crash on me since its release (in that whole day Friday). Eclipse is a well suited IDE for large project development, as well as small, but seems to be designed to help with large projects.
I am looking forward to more fixes features that IBM and partners will release with Eclipse (such as being able to print SELECTED text).
This kind of technology I doubt will compete with pay-per-view. The main idea of pay-per-view (ppv), is that you do not have to even move off your couch to order it. With Satalite, you can hit a few buttons on a remote. With Cable, you have to make a call, that that is also pretty easy.
So I have to run to the store, buy something that will cost what.. $2 (I would hope), bring it back, pop it in.. watch.. remove. Place coffee on.
This is certainly not convenience. I could see, maybe ordering them online, have them shipped to your house, then watch.. but again, you dont have it when you wanted it (when you ordered). PPV allows you to watch it RIGHT then. But you have to look at the side of these DVDs, if you are allowed to rewind, and pause, that would be great, it would have that advantage over PPV.
Should be interesting to see if this idea actually works.
Slashdot Mirror
If you click on the link straight through, it works fine. But I have ctrl-click open in a new tab in the background, and that will crash Moz.
Doing something like this is practical though. He didn't say to have 0 network connection, he said not to be connected to the internet. The employees could still be connected to an intranet to use all the network based apps they need.
But slashdot needs a feature where we users can mod the actual articals.... This one would be at a good
Score: -97 (Offtopic)
I've seen laptops being used for a wide variaty of things. Most of the lecture halls I sit in have wireless internet, and my in my computer science classes, there tend to be around 5 laptops for a 50 person class.
I've seen people IM'ing while in class.. but I've also seen people watch movies or play games in class. There are many classes people go to because we might have a pop-quiz or something along those lines, and the only way to stay away is find anything to do besides listen to the instructor.
I'd prefer to have a laptop and play Counter-Strike against one of my roommates while he's at home, and I'm in class. That'd rock.
I remember back in the early to mid 90's, the *BSD people had some problems with lawsuits and such, and Linux was able to pull right out in front of them. Could SCO going after Linux make more people move over to *BSD?
Drag and drop has not been fully implemented for all platforms yet. Since the Eclipse GUI is built upon SWT (which spawned from Eclipse), SWT must support Drag and Drop. Currently it is not supported on all OSes that Eclipse runs on.
If you head over to the SWT development page you will notice that Linux/gtk, MacOS and QNX all still need Drag and drop to be implemented. I know for MacOS, Drag and drop will be in Eclipse/SWT 3.0
If this standard does go through, aht GNU supports it via gcc or what have you, this will help companies in a big way.
The company I worked for used to write our software in C++, but moved over to java 3 or 4 years ago for the cross platform abaility of this. There are so many core parts of a program that are system dependent, that supporting 8 different operating systems in C++ is impossible without a standard library of some sorts. Add a standard socket structure will be very nice, and most OSs have very different ways of handling this. Threading is also the other huge issue with crossplatform, there is near zero standard on out threading works in C++.
The one thing that the new C++ proposal is missing is a standard widget/windowing commands. But there is no good way to make standard libraries for something like that, the best if to create a general class to create and control widgets, then write the system specific code for each OS you want it to run on.
It's something I'm looking forward to.
And that is moving I/Os. I'm a programmer for a company that makes large scale storage arrays, and Solaris can beat most any other operating system (no matter what hardward) at moving just a bulk ammount of I/Os. We support Linux, AIX, Windows, Solaris, and many others, and Solaris is always a top performer on our tests.
Beyond that, I'm not sure what Sun machine's are good for.
If you jack open the Replay case, remove the harddrive and plug it into your computer, you can get the stuff off of there. I believe there is even a project on SourceForge having to do with this (for read its harddrive I believe).
Also in reponse to people who say to go use MtyhTV, you need like a 1GHz processor to do MPEG encoding in realtime... and it eats up most all the cpu, so dont expect to be using the computer for much else while it is recording.
And in other news, how about free PVR software for us Windows users out there, I can't really find anything decent for windows that is free... any ideas?
http://whistleblowerlaws.com/protection.htm
It is against federal law to fire an employee if that employee called out the company, or an employee of the company for illegal activities.
If he wanted to go through it, he could take his employeer to work for this.
One thing that I noticed was Blizzard used to use this Video Codec when they released trailers of their games and such. This would make me believe that they also used Bink for their in game footage. But with the release of Warcraft 3, all their in-game movies are encoded with DivX....
Who knows.
As your parent post said, you are paying for convenience. This really falls into a time is money kinda thing.
Sometimes I want software that just works, and I need it right now. I don't want to have to download some open source program, get that working on whatever machine I have, then find out the X feature is not implemented yet or has a few bugs in it.
For the most part, commercial software will pass this test. You can normally just read the back of the box and it will tell you the features it has, and if it is right for you. If that is not enough, then maybe read a review or 2 online.
This falls under the same reason as why I keep a Windows machine around, convenience. I don't want to find this great app that is Windows only, then try to get it to run under WINE. I want it to work right then and there. And sorry to say it, but Windows still has the largest market share, therefore it will have the most software released for it.
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=2398
I'm guessing there are many other places also to download it from. But if you are willing to wait in line for it at fileshack, its another option.
I still like the REALLY big stuff. If you want some storage, and I mean real storage, you gotta use the stuff that LSI makes. LSI Logic Storage Solution Why be limited by 2.8 TB, why not go up to 33TB of max storage, plus you can configure these things in a way, if you get multiple together, you can link their datapower.
The link to the smaller xbox has been blocked. Some smart admins decided to block referer=slashdot.org. Solution: copy and paste the url into a browser.
http://www.funxbox.com/news.php?newsid=619
Its pretty much some useless thing that you run, and see if you can get more time put into it than others. Most people do it just to look at the Statistics and compare with everyone else out there.
ProgressQuest is worse and better at the same time. It does not eat up all your CPU cycles like d.net does, but it has no purpose what so ever.
Unlimited PCS Vision. Sprint may deny or terminate service without notice where use is in connection with server devices or host computer applications, other systems that drive continuous heavy traffic or data sessions, or as substitutes for private lines or frame relay connections. Unlimited PCS Vision offer for PCS Free & Clear Plans with Vision is: (a) only available with a Vision capable PCS Phone or PCS smart phone device; and (b) not available with Connection Cards, Aircards, or any other device used in connection with a computer or PDA - including phones, smart phones or other devices used with connection kits or similar phone-to-computer/PDA accessories. Sprint reserves the right to deny or to terminate service without notice for misuse.
They will just cut you off if you are running a server or some other mode that continuously uses up their bandwidth.
Eclipse is just an IDE, that is it. There are no compilers what so ever that go along with eclipse. And the CDT (c++) plugin for Eclipse is not the best thing in the world, but I have not used it in a while, so I can't say.
Try again.
The Serial ATA architecture replaces the wide Parallel ATA ribbon cable with a thin, flexible cable that can be up to 1 meter in length. The serial cable is smaller and easier to route inside the chassis (see Figure 2). The small-diameter cable can help improve air flow inside the PC system chassis and will facilitate future designs of smaller PC systems.
As from here
Just wondering, do you know how much it costs?
I agree, the file locking thing is really nice. It gives a nice graphical view of the history of a file. I will check for loose ends that have not been linked up to the main path of the file too. It makes having files that you work on across projects really nice too, since you can have the object in both, and you change it in one, it changes in the other. I also agree that there is a learning curve to it, but after you pass that by, its really easy and keeps life clean.
I know our company has like 3 people just dedicated to maintaining Continuus.
Here at work, we use a nice program called Continuus/CM. It has all the fun features of CVS with a lot of extra features and a cool frontend. In the version control it has build in Task management and all the fun tools you need to manage a project, all you need is another enviroment (emacs?) to edit the files. I don't know any of the advanced features of the program, but if anyone else has any good experience with this program, please post away.
It's probebly not a program for Linux to move to since it is a little pricy from what I understand.
Those storage arrays are really fun to play with. If you want to see what they are using for storage arrays check out LSI Storage Systems. StorageTek might sell them, but the good people over at LSI Storage Systems make the things. They are all fiberchannel harddrives, normally around 50GB each. Depending on what is needed by the customer we have 10k and 15kRPM drives that can go in. Everything is hotswappable, and I mean everything. They have some really good transfer rates (I want to say around 850MB/sec when benchmarked). And are pretty with all the flashing lights on them.
But don't think about getting any for home, the controllers alone cost as much as a family sedan.
I do have to agree with boa13, Eclipse lacks some features that are nice when developing java as a side project or for school. If you were to have to design some large complex GUI interface, doing it in Eclipse would suck big time. But first I'll do some history.
As many of you know, Eclipse is written and developed by IBM, all open source (YAY!!). IBMs last product was the hideous VisualAge for Java. This IDE was an abomination to the world of programming. I was forced to use it at school, and I will never forgive my instructor for that. You were stuck in one view, which was nothing like a file view (they ducplicated the view in Eclipse, but it works a lot better now). Getting VisualAge to show you an entire file was a pain in the butt, and if you were able to get to that point, if you messed up any syntax in that file (such as messing up a class declaration or having one to many closing brackets) VisualAge would not let you save the file nor tell you what was wrong. Next with it, all the Java files were hidden in one large database file that VisualAge maintained, exported also sucked.
Ok, so IBM decided drop Visual which was a $800 program or so for professional. Eclipse offers a wide range of features and settings. From here out, I'll be comparing Eclipse to VisualCafe (which I have used most to VisualAge). Eclipse has a decent line formatter that I have been very happy with. It is nothing robust like JIndent, but that is something I hope they would improve upon. Most of the auto formating features are comperable to all other IDEs I have ever used. As far as hotkeys with eclipse, some of them are not as intuitive as others. There is a common hotkey (ctrl-tab), which most IDEs will switch between open files, and eclipse does not follow this; they use ctrl-F6 (dunno). But after you get past that, most of the hotkeys are pretty good.
Speed: This is one thing I have to say I enjoy over VisualCafe. There is the use of SWT vs AWT, which does help a lot. But as far as how it handles the class/method browsers, it works quite a faster. It seems to pick up errors quickly and compiles just like anything else out there.
Eclipse has some other fun built in features such as CVS browser (I think), pluggins, and lots of different views to choose from, all of which are quite customizable. For the Java Virtual Machine, you can choose between 1.3.1 and 1.4, which can cause problems if you have to change code that was originally written in 1.2 or 1.1.7 even. When compiling code, it is smart and will only compile changed files, or code in other files that has been affected.
My use of Eclipse: I work in a dept of about 50 Java developers, which I am now trying to move to Eclipse. Here we do all of our visual development by hand, as to be able to get the exact behaviors we want. I work with projects that have 1500+ files in them, and a few files that are 7000+ lines. Eclipse handles the files well for browsing, but when it comes to a 7000+ line file, it can tend to lag a little (on my P2-233Mhz machine). At any one time Eclipse is running, it seems to use around 60-70 megs of memory, 20 more then VisualCafe, but should not be a big deal for most developers out there.
Eclipse seems to be a very good IDE, and I have been happy with how it has performed. I have been using snapshots for a few months now, and it has become more stable, and I have yet to have it crash on me since its release (in that whole day Friday). Eclipse is a well suited IDE for large project development, as well as small, but seems to be designed to help with large projects.
I am looking forward to more fixes features that IBM and partners will release with Eclipse (such as being able to print SELECTED text).
Well, its not microsoft servers
130.94.214.143:
Netname: VRIO-130-094
Netblock: 130.94.0.0 - 130.94.255.255
Maintainer: VRIO
198.63.57.204:
Netname: VRIO-198-063
Netblock: 198.63.0.0 - 198.66.255.255
Maintainer: VRIO
Microsoft probebly just told Verio to move their site to a server.
This kind of technology I doubt will compete with pay-per-view. The main idea of pay-per-view (ppv), is that you do not have to even move off your couch to order it. With Satalite, you can hit a few buttons on a remote. With Cable, you have to make a call, that that is also pretty easy.
So I have to run to the store, buy something that will cost what.. $2 (I would hope), bring it back, pop it in.. watch.. remove. Place coffee on.
This is certainly not convenience. I could see, maybe ordering them online, have them shipped to your house, then watch.. but again, you dont have it when you wanted it (when you ordered). PPV allows you to watch it RIGHT then. But you have to look at the side of these DVDs, if you are allowed to rewind, and pause, that would be great, it would have that advantage over PPV.
Should be interesting to see if this idea actually works.