Adobe pretty much stated on the SVG list that because they got screwed by mozilla once by creating a plugin that played by the rules and then had the rug pulled out from under them, they wont be getting out linux code anytime soon.
i am just waiting for the open software people to figure out that we are redundantly wasting time by having 50% support by batik, 50% in kde (a different 50% mind you), a differnt set of support in mozilla yet no one is near the level of support of adobe or even the corel viewer. Sad Sad I tell you.
Is Windows that old??? my my my, how the years are flying by...
lack of distro support killed it for me
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Kylix in Limbo
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i had a lot of problems with kylix 3.0 until I realized when they said you need RH 7.2, they meant it. not RH 7.2 or better:( I think there is a way to get it to run on RH9 or Mandrake, but the steps are not for the feint of heart. and certainly borland didnt put out any docs describing how to do it.
Borland support was always claming "its only certified to run on rh7.2" and got really cagey about a fix or info on making it work on anything but RH 7.2.
Several e-mails to David Intersimone (the VP of developer relations at Borland) went unacknowledged and unanswered when I asked about the status of kylix. Even if I had gotten a "we dont have a fix, but we are working on it" kind of response to let me know they werent flatlined I would have kept at it.
I finally just had to give up and tell my customer we couldnt do a linux port in the time frame they wanted. That was certainly a day I had to bite down on the pillow that I would have liked to have avoided...
The Delphi product is great, the JBuilder product is great, the C# builder is great, why did they make linux the red-headed stepchild?
when is the SVG support going to improve? seems that since KDE/Konquerer is moving ahead rapidly with SVG that mozilla should be able to "inherit" the advances made by the KDE's svg team. Is this a licensing or "NIH" (not invented here) problem?
2006 is 9 quarters away. and XP has been here 2 years already? I just cant see MS going that long without an OS refresh. XP will look really really long in the tooth by 2006.
all we need is a little wifi and people could converge for a brief time to create an uber cluster and the wonder off to sip coffee and the local coffee shop.
This is probably just a glitch in the sql or whatever engine they use to sieve through their uber database. I have seen various databases where it mattered in inner joins which tables was specified in the On Join Clause (this is from my memory so the syntax might be somewhat off)
select * from a inner join b on (a.somecolumn = b.somecolumn)
would return no recrods with some some database engines where as changing the order of evaluation
select * from a inner join b on (b.somecolumn = a.somecolumn)
would return the records you wanted even though the operations are logically equivelant. I always speculated that it was something with the query optimizer that messed things up or there was some rule in sql that I wasnt aware of.
And the fact that some sites like.ca sight doesnt have the problem but the usa domain could simply be difference in release levels of "google" on various servers and domains.
Holy shit! that's the coolest editor/thing I have ever seen. Why is it that after I shed all my vestiges of Win32 for Linux do I find that all the cool shit is happening on the Mac again?!?!?! Damn, damn damn. How am I supposed to justify a Powerbook to the accounting trolls....
Why do you find it stressful? because you have to share space with another carbon unit? yes, there are situations where pairings can lead to friction - for me if the "pair" is a slow or hunt/peck typer i insist on driving.
on the upside you get the following benefits:
0) two people looking/reviewing the code as its written you get a review/concensus of two people thinking the code as written was a good idea. vs a guy alone in an office who creates something only they can understand/debug/modify which then has to be justified to the group after the time/cost/effort have been expended. I am sure you have reviewed code after it was written and walked away saying "WTF was Ken thinking when he wrote this POS!" With pairing you can keep Ken from polluting the code base or if nothing else be his accomplice in his misdeeds.
1) you aren't likely to "launch make" to justify surfing with someone in your office. while you might be dedicated to being productive you can probably name 2-3 people in cubes/offices around who are more "wired" than working.
2) As someone pointed out it can help facilitate rehabilitating weaker team members who (if they have a clue) will gain from the experience locked away inside the stronger more gifted programmers.
On the otherside if you hate the "working in pairs bit", you can still adopt the other things XP advocates like test driven/test first programming you and can get a quantum leap in reliablity. I always look at XP as the manfestation of Demmings TQC/TQM applied to programming.
This will be cut off as well. most SVG via the browser is done via a plugin from adobe and or corel.
and I doubt adobe will create another moz/netscape version of their plugin after the long running fued on plugin browsers
the other "SVG" implementations out ther are mere shadows of the specification and aren't even close to implementing a quarter of the spec. even the w3 browser (maya?) isn't compliant with the spec.
Hint:
Just go down to medical services and request a script for some Prozac. It'll help releive any tension you are feeling from all this extra scrutiny. Once you get "adjusted" you'll be fine...
Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet.
Pretty much what the article says.
we've been paying for some of the service packs already. Its just that some of the service packs have had fancier names like win 98 SE, windows ME, windows 2000....
With the Patriot Act, I thought it was moot that they needed any advanced warning at all, just start the recording boys
And isn't NSA/Eschelon already doing this 24x7 ?
I used to believe that the Bad Karma Vortex epicenter used to run through 1 Microsoft Way in Redmond, but with SCO and Hatch trying to out do each other I think its shifting down to Orem....
Correct. All this means is that micron is now getting a subsidy of its own from the government. With foreign RAM going up, it will give micron pricing power to raise prices against the foreign RAM.
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If this is true, Google must be preparing to welcome its new Microsoft overlords....
i am just waiting for the open software people to figure out that we are redundantly wasting time by having 50% support by batik, 50% in kde (a different 50% mind you), a differnt set of support in mozilla yet no one is near the level of support of adobe or even the corel viewer. Sad Sad I tell you.
Is Windows that old??? my my my, how the years are flying by...
Borland support was always claming "its only certified to run on rh7.2" and got really cagey about a fix or info on making it work on anything but RH 7.2.
Several e-mails to David Intersimone (the VP of developer relations at Borland) went unacknowledged and unanswered when I asked about the status of kylix. Even if I had gotten a "we dont have a fix, but we are working on it" kind of response to let me know they werent flatlined I would have kept at it.
I finally just had to give up and tell my customer we couldnt do a linux port in the time frame they wanted. That was certainly a day I had to bite down on the pillow that I would have liked to have avoided...
The Delphi product is great, the JBuilder product is great, the C# builder is great, why did they make linux the red-headed stepchild?
Down In Front!
You're cuasing me to drop packets!
>but I agree...I want SVG support =D i think that in a year or so SVG will blur the distinction between standalone app and web application
when is the SVG support going to improve? seems that since KDE/Konquerer is moving ahead rapidly with SVG that mozilla should be able to "inherit" the advances made by the KDE's svg team. Is this a licensing or "NIH" (not invented here) problem?
2006 is 9 quarters away. and XP has been here 2 years already? I just cant see MS going that long without an OS refresh. XP will look really really long in the tooth by 2006.
all we need is a little wifi and people could converge for a brief time to create an uber cluster and the wonder off to sip coffee and the local coffee shop.
select * from a inner join b on (a.somecolumn = b.somecolumn)
would return no recrods with some some database engines where as changing the order of evaluation
select * from a inner join b on (b.somecolumn = a.somecolumn)
would return the records you wanted even though the operations are logically equivelant. I always speculated that it was something with the query optimizer that messed things up or there was some rule in sql that I wasnt aware of.
And the fact that some sites like .ca sight doesnt have the problem but the usa domain could simply be difference in release levels of "google" on various servers and domains.
oh wait. these are embbeded systems for things security, monitoring equipment etc. yeah i can see reboot times being critical.
Holy shit! that's the coolest editor/thing I have ever seen. Why is it that after I shed all my vestiges of Win32 for Linux do I find that all the cool shit is happening on the Mac again?!?!?! Damn, damn damn. How am I supposed to justify a Powerbook to the accounting trolls....
on the upside you get the following benefits:
0) two people looking/reviewing the code as its written you get a review/concensus of two people thinking the code as written was a good idea. vs a guy alone in an office who creates something only they can understand/debug/modify which then has to be justified to the group after the time/cost/effort have been expended. I am sure you have reviewed code after it was written and walked away saying "WTF was Ken thinking when he wrote this POS!" With pairing you can keep Ken from polluting the code base or if nothing else be his accomplice in his misdeeds.
1) you aren't likely to "launch make" to justify surfing with someone in your office. while you might be dedicated to being productive you can probably name 2-3 people in cubes/offices around who are more "wired" than working.
2) As someone pointed out it can help facilitate rehabilitating weaker team members who (if they have a clue) will gain from the experience locked away inside the stronger more gifted programmers.
On the otherside if you hate the "working in pairs bit", you can still adopt the other things XP advocates like test driven/test first programming you and can get a quantum leap in reliablity. I always look at XP as the manfestation of Demmings TQC/TQM applied to programming.
This will be cut off as well. most SVG via the browser is done via a plugin from adobe and or corel.
and I doubt adobe will create another moz/netscape version of their plugin after the long running fued on plugin browsers
the other "SVG" implementations out ther are mere shadows of the specification and aren't even close to implementing a quarter of the spec. even the w3 browser (maya?) isn't compliant with the spec.
this sucks and blows
Hint: Just go down to medical services and request a script for some Prozac. It'll help releive any tension you are feeling from all this extra scrutiny. Once you get "adjusted" you'll be fine...
Sick Balls!
YES! I will finally being able to download pizza at 3:00am!
Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet.
Pretty much what the article says.
we've been paying for some of the service packs already. Its just that some of the service packs have had fancier names like win 98 SE, windows ME, windows 2000....
With friends like these? who needs enemas?
With the Patriot Act, I thought it was moot that they needed any advanced warning at all, just start the recording boys And isn't NSA/Eschelon already doing this 24x7 ?
Damn. I read that at Titties Unlimited, the company proposing the breast,
I really, really need to get some lovin. Soon.
Posting on slashdot is directly proportional to the probability of getting some soon...
I used to believe that the Bad Karma Vortex epicenter used to run through 1 Microsoft Way in Redmond, but with SCO and Hatch trying to out do each other I think its shifting down to Orem....
Hatch is on the Senate Judiciary committee
Hatch is strongly in favor of extending the length covered by copyright holders.
Obviously he doesn't thing copyright laws apply to him...
Maybe this should say "sit on me timber..."
I wonder if the judiciary committee will look into the COPA violations....
Correct. All this means is that micron is now getting a subsidy of its own from the government. With foreign RAM going up, it will give micron pricing power to raise prices against the foreign RAM.