From the piece of the pie or we stick you dept. Thanks Timothy, we know where your sentiments lie, clearly in the camp of the ruling class, not the workers.
I bet you just saw that subtitle and in one breath typed that post. Snap out of it man. You wanted to see where his sentiments lie. I saw the subtitle and I didn't thing anything of it at all. And I'm not giving my opinion here about unions or anything. I actually think they are a rather useful and necessary part of society. But I'm getting a bit tired of the mindless jabbing at the editors.
You know how it goes on IRC. People ask you to hold their hand, which is NOT how the community works. Yes, we can point you to the knowledge. No, we cannot tell you step-by-step what you must do.
Thanks, and by the way, everyone: it DOES seem to do something. At first this is not obvious since the counter increments very slowly. It's now (an hour later) close to one percent.
Has anyone gotten the client running with Wine or CodeWeaver'sCrossOver? It installs and starts alright, but on the console, a bunch of warnings is printed:
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 60 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 62 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 63 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 64 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 65 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 66 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 67 Not Opened
It doesn't seem to continue further...
Wow thanks man, on behalf of all slashdot readers:D That looks better than the dogs. I am thinking about mailing this baby for a full-color poster-sized photo (the ones with those stapler holes in the middle), but then again, that would be a little obtrusive...
To quote: "The office assistant sort of works, but when it's running, things get weird and break badly. It's fun to try, but remember to turn Clippy off when you're done."
Now that might be a bad example, since Clippy mostly never gets installed, but I've seen MANY customers on the mailinglist who state that they bought the product just because of this honesty.
Consequently, I feel like I can pick up new languages rather easily
Of course you can. But getting used to a syntax is NOT the same as real-life project experience where you get a hang of the do's-and-don'ts, which APIs you should really use, which ones you shouldn't, the use of exceptions et cetera.
It's not about the syntax, it's about whether you can code good and fast -- and for that, you need familiarity with the components that are available.
Why is this scored insightful? I'm getting sick and tired of these messages. Four out of five articles don't interest me. Do you see me complaining in those four? It's a matter of taste, Mr. Whiner.
Don't talk to a doctor. They can't really add to the solution. You'll read more information googling and asking slashdot than your doctor can tell you.
Besides, these problems (RSI, carpal tunnel) are highly personal, as well as the solution. For some people, exercise helps. For others, putting a halt to stress helps. But your doctor, he didn't spend a couple of hours thinking and browsing on your problem.
I never have any pains other than sore muscle [...] A big part of that is time spent in the gym.
I second this. And for those people who don't like going to the gym but do spend some time commuting: do some weightlifting in the car!
Seriously, I spend about 2.5 hours every day travelling. I have two small weights in my car and everytime I hit a traffic jam, I do some lifting. Keep it low, otherwise you'll get some blank looks... And ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD!
This part of WinFS. The idea that given rich metadata, users should be able to easily make rules
I'm still not convinced, usability-wise. Where does the metadata come from? From the user? I've heard colleagues (implementing intranets, content management systems and portals) telling me about how the user will hardly ever take the time to insert useful metadata. Will WinFS automagically categorize documents? Have they invented a new search algorithm that turns up documents with Google-like accuracy? I see lots of cool technology, yes, but I see nothing beyond what a good grep can do.
It's not cool. It's just a filesystem in a database. And it's not innovative, it's been done before. Microsoft can just leverage their OS to integrate it tightly.
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Vim definitely has Unicode support.
I don't know about emacs;-)
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why are we still so married to command line editors?
For the same reason everyone prefers shellscripting instead of a visual development environment, prefers a good comfortable shell to a file explorer, prefers multiple separate windows instead of MDI, etc. Everyone is just used to it?
I don't understand. I just copied an app we have running the jgoodies/jforms XP look and feel over to my RedHat box, and it looks identical to how it looks on my XP box
I downloaded a couple of fonts (the free Microsoft webfonts) and changed the DPI. It looks like crap. I tried the 1.5 beta (Tiger) and it didn't get better. That's how good the integration is.
I love Java however and I'm willing to cut the Sun people some slack. It's probably true that the current rate of integration is probably good enough for most people.
If you want a closed group like for team communication, why don't you go for jabber?
It's a good idea, BUT...
We're at the customer site behind a firewall. The offshore team is on our company network, which doesn't have a net connection at all except for a HTTP proxy. Where would I want to set up a server?...
Yeah VPN blahblah but due to fscking corporate inertia this took a LONG time and only then it was figured out that it was too darn slow from India to Europe. Bizarre huh?
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Well, well mr. know-it-all. If you had bothered to RTFA, you'd see it's just an extra line in the accounting that's called source control.
Yeah and after you are done doing all those jobs, she'll be all over you, horny as hell, but... you're too tired!!
I bet you just saw that subtitle and in one breath typed that post. Snap out of it man. You wanted to see where his sentiments lie. I saw the subtitle and I didn't thing anything of it at all. And I'm not giving my opinion here about unions or anything. I actually think they are a rather useful and necessary part of society. But I'm getting a bit tired of the mindless jabbing at the editors.
You know how it goes on IRC. People ask you to hold their hand, which is NOT how the community works. Yes, we can point you to the knowledge. No, we cannot tell you step-by-step what you must do.
I'm not saying I'll run it very long, I'm just always trying out which software works and doesn't work. Wine/CrossOver rocks!!
Using Crossover Office 2.1 for this.
Has anyone gotten the client running with Wine or CodeWeaver'sCrossOver? It installs and starts alright, but on the console, a bunch of warnings is printed:
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 60 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 62 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 63 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 64 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 65 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 66 Not Opened
CLOSE: WARNING: Unit 67 Not Opened
It doesn't seem to continue further...
Wow thanks man, on behalf of all slashdot readers :D That looks better than the dogs. I am thinking about mailing this baby for a full-color poster-sized photo (the ones with those stapler holes in the middle), but then again, that would be a little obtrusive...
Has anyone any photos of this geek girl? Yes, I tried Google images, but I don't think she looks like a puppy.
This is exactly what CodeWeavers does, for example here.
To quote: "The office assistant sort of works, but when it's running, things get weird and break badly. It's fun to try, but remember to turn Clippy off when you're done."
Now that might be a bad example, since Clippy mostly never gets installed, but I've seen MANY customers on the mailinglist who state that they bought the product just because of this honesty.
Of course you can. But getting used to a syntax is NOT the same as real-life project experience where you get a hang of the do's-and-don'ts, which APIs you should really use, which ones you shouldn't, the use of exceptions et cetera.
It's not about the syntax, it's about whether you can code good and fast -- and for that, you need familiarity with the components that are available.
Read the other comments. Now dare repeating it's not a matter of taste.
Why is this scored insightful? I'm getting sick and tired of these messages. Four out of five articles don't interest me. Do you see me complaining in those four? It's a matter of taste, Mr. Whiner.
Don't talk to a doctor. They can't really add to the solution. You'll read more information googling and asking slashdot than your doctor can tell you.
Besides, these problems (RSI, carpal tunnel) are highly personal, as well as the solution. For some people, exercise helps. For others, putting a halt to stress helps. But your doctor, he didn't spend a couple of hours thinking and browsing on your problem.
I second this. And for those people who don't like going to the gym but do spend some time commuting: do some weightlifting in the car!
Seriously, I spend about 2.5 hours every day travelling. I have two small weights in my car and everytime I hit a traffic jam, I do some lifting. Keep it low, otherwise you'll get some blank looks... And ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD!
I'm still not convinced, usability-wise. Where does the metadata come from? From the user? I've heard colleagues (implementing intranets, content management systems and portals) telling me about how the user will hardly ever take the time to insert useful metadata. Will WinFS automagically categorize documents? Have they invented a new search algorithm that turns up documents with Google-like accuracy? I see lots of cool technology, yes, but I see nothing beyond what a good grep can do.
It's not cool. It's just a filesystem in a database. And it's not innovative, it's been done before. Microsoft can just leverage their OS to integrate it tightly.
Vim definitely has Unicode support. ;-)
I don't know about emacs
For the same reason everyone prefers shellscripting instead of a visual development environment, prefers a good comfortable shell to a file explorer, prefers multiple separate windows instead of MDI, etc. Everyone is just used to it?
It's a de facto standard. Which is probably more important than any other standard.
Well yeah since it now has Unicode support. Which is quite handy if you need to edit an XML document, HTML or something else with accents.
On the other hand, it's still profit that has to be made somehow.
I downloaded a couple of fonts (the free Microsoft webfonts) and changed the DPI. It looks like crap. I tried the 1.5 beta (Tiger) and it didn't get better. That's how good the integration is.
I love Java however and I'm willing to cut the Sun people some slack. It's probably true that the current rate of integration is probably good enough for most people.
This is all nice on Windows but have you seen it on Linux? It looks like shit. I thought it couldn't get more bad than Metal -- well, it can.
It's a good idea, BUT... We're at the customer site behind a firewall. The offshore team is on our company network, which doesn't have a net connection at all except for a HTTP proxy. Where would I want to set up a server?...
Yeah VPN blahblah but due to fscking corporate inertia this took a LONG time and only then it was figured out that it was too darn slow from India to Europe. Bizarre huh?