Re:Its NOT smartphones.
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GObject is not the problem. If you are a C++ programmer which dislikes having to type macros all the time you can just use gtkmm.
The problem is they broke compatibility with GTK+ 2.x with the release of GTK+ 3 and the platform portability remains low. I know several developers who are revolting and porting their code to Qt instead of making the changes to migrate to GTK+ 3.
You can port Qt applications to mobile devices, Windows, and Mac OS X for example while GTK+ applications run well on Linux and poorly everywhere else. The Windows port has always been a bit of a mess even if it works. Slow and full of graphic glitches. The MacOS X port has been in limbo since like forever. The mobile port is non existent.
Re:They shot themselves in the foot
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Great. Then tell me of all the wonderful Qt applications people commonly use. I use GIMP, Inkscape, Gnumeric GTK+ applications quite frequently and have used zero Qt applications so far.
That Japanese submarine would be the I-400 class. I do not see a recovery mechanism working properly on a submersible carrier without using VTOL craft. It would be a lot more practical for the UCAVs to be drone helicopters. The ideal situation would be if you could launch and recover the drones while submerged much like you can launch missiles while submerged.
Blech. I have better things to do than to use legalese when trying to describe something. The "timewarp" effect depends on the market you are into. If you do work on a rural community where everyone knows each other and people have large families quite often the people attending the wedding will buy a lot of prints. If you are doing your job in an urban setting where people don't even know their next door neighbor properly then sure that business model does not work and you have to milk the wedding couple.
Sun Microsystems got bankrupt and then was bought by Oracle. Oracle did diddly squat after the acquisition but IBM had a lot of work from Lotus Symphony which they wanted to merge back. So Oracle decided to push the code to the Apache foundation and IBM is working on it there now. AFAICT.
It is fairly obvious he is talking about the last CEO of Sun Microsystems i.e. Schwartz. But he is quite clearly wrong as OpenOffice was open-sourced when Scott McNealy was CEO.
Sun did a lot of mistakes. One was not getting into x86 workstations fast enough. The other was not firing the UltraSPARC V and MAJC development teams after they failed so miserably. Instead they gave them even more resources to develop Rock. Duh. Another was pushing OpenSolaris when that boat had clearly sailed away and Linux was firmly in control. Even IBM were smarter than that. The final issue was that they never managed to develop a proper consulting business in order to offset their profit losses from lousy hardware sales. Larry, hate his little black heart as much as you wish, seems to have a better grasp at handling the situation.
Schwartz at best open sourced Java which is another quite different thing. But I am not really sure of that either.
The problem with getting IBM on board is that they most likely want to have some way of charging a bundle for their own version of the software much like they do with Eclipse vs Rational Application Developer. They can still earn money doing support and whatnot but they usually prefer to have their own branded product. LibreOffice is GPLv3 so they can't do that.
The main problem is that Star Control II was an action adventure/RPG game and Star Control III just broke that by turning it into make a crappy strategy game.
The core of it is the ship combat game. The next most important layer is the plot, dialog, and the navigation aspects.
Yeah. For whatever reason I liked GalCiv better than GalCiv 2. I still prefer Master of Orion II from SimTex. But Sins of a Solar Empire was nice. Even though Stardock didn't develop the game. They just distribute it.
For all the issues Galactic Civilization II had it was loads better than that piece of utter trash that was Elemental: War of Magic. Or the sequel for that matter. Blech. I expect more from a Master of Magic clone. Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic did it much better.
Also I don't know how it is over there but over here the photographer starts working on the wedding around the early morning when the bride and groom are still getting dressed. If they live far away from each other you often need to have two photographers to be able to shoot them concurrently which means you have to split the pay. Then you have to be in there all the way. During the service, during the party, and afterwards as well. Quite often there is a photo shoot in the night in the house of the couple after the party. A guest is only around for the service and the party so yeah, for them it seems like a couple of hours in which they can be sitting while the photographers are standing all the time. In practice over here you work for at least 14h flat just doing the wedding shoot on site. I am not counting the work done afterwards correcting pictures or handing administrative fluff like prints or handling money which usually takes several days.
Well you earn a lot more than a thousand dollars a day in an advertisement shoot over here. A wedding depends on the wedding. Some of the richer clients here are handled using the business model you described. How many photos are shot for those thousand dollars and do you get anything in the deal other than the shooting work? Is the cost for the extra prints flat? A lot of people often forget that weddings are awfully seasonal. You have lots of them in the middle of the summer then you have next to no work to do the rest of the year. I have known photographers who planned their business activity poorly because of this and end up pawning their equipment in the winter when they don't earn enough to eat. Advertisement shoots can get you a lot of money but they are really hit and miss.
There are also several mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) running ARM which have OpenCL support and zero CUDA support. Not to mention that it is also a web standard namely WebCL.
In my experience CUDA is not any faster than OpenCL. Frameworks don't solve the problem properly. There are a lot of debugging tools for OpenCL my guess is you did not look hard enough. You can run OpenCL programs without installing all the cruft required to do CUDA development since the driver will compile and run code by itself. This means a lot of people don't bother looking for tools but they are out there.
Well you are going to have less process engineers working if you have less fabs open. Plus the escalating costs of semiconduction manufacturing plants are a well known problem. See Rock's Law.
You do not seem to know the business model very well. Wedding photographers usually have zero and sometimes even negative profit selling photos to the newlyweds once you take into account equipment and consumables. The profit is achieved by selling copies of the prints to people attending the wedding itself. A lot of these photographers do contract work for advertisement agencies as well. In this case the client gets to own the digital files. The difference is the client pays a lot more, a whole lot more than a wedding couple is willing to pay.
Oh I am pretty familiar with ketogenic diets. I tried them, among others, at one time. You do lose weight and feel less undernourished than under some other diets but it is still fairly easy to have problems getting enough nutrients like folic acid, vitamin C, or magnesium. A lot of the people who used to eat all meat diets in the wild ate organs rich in nutrients which aren't commonly found in a western diet. It is also fairly easy to get in your system metabolites from a protein rich diet that will cause problems with the kidneys or pain in the joints. But sure. Keep thinking that other people are ignorant and downmod them as trolls to stroke your ego. Don't believe me just go browse PubMed for yourself.
If all you want is to lose weight you are doing yourself a disservice by not eating fruits and vegetables. There is nothing wrong with eating tomatoes or lettuce for crying out loud. I can understand cutting down on the starches to lose weight but enough is enough.
Actually Malthus's theory was just plain bullshit because he claimed population growth was exponential and the growth of crops was not. Which is plain wrong. Crops and cattle can grow exponentially just as well as humans can. The reproduction mechanisms are pretty much the same. Heck cattle even has litter sizes often bigger than humans do.
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GObject is not the problem. If you are a C++ programmer which dislikes having to type macros all the time you can just use gtkmm.
The problem is they broke compatibility with GTK+ 2.x with the release of GTK+ 3 and the platform portability remains low. I know several developers who are revolting and porting their code to Qt instead of making the changes to migrate to GTK+ 3.
You can port Qt applications to mobile devices, Windows, and Mac OS X for example while GTK+ applications run well on Linux and poorly everywhere else. The Windows port has always been a bit of a mess even if it works. Slow and full of graphic glitches. The MacOS X port has been in limbo since like forever. The mobile port is non existent.
Great. Then tell me of all the wonderful Qt applications people commonly use. I use GIMP, Inkscape, Gnumeric GTK+ applications quite frequently and have used zero Qt applications so far.
That Japanese submarine would be the I-400 class. I do not see a recovery mechanism working properly on a submersible carrier without using VTOL craft. It would be a lot more practical for the UCAVs to be drone helicopters. The ideal situation would be if you could launch and recover the drones while submerged much like you can launch missiles while submerged.
Blech. I have better things to do than to use legalese when trying to describe something. The "timewarp" effect depends on the market you are into. If you do work on a rural community where everyone knows each other and people have large families quite often the people attending the wedding will buy a lot of prints. If you are doing your job in an urban setting where people don't even know their next door neighbor properly then sure that business model does not work and you have to milk the wedding couple.
Sun Microsystems got bankrupt and then was bought by Oracle. Oracle did diddly squat after the acquisition but IBM had a lot of work from Lotus Symphony which they wanted to merge back. So Oracle decided to push the code to the Apache foundation and IBM is working on it there now. AFAICT.
It is fairly obvious he is talking about the last CEO of Sun Microsystems i.e. Schwartz. But he is quite clearly wrong as OpenOffice was open-sourced when Scott McNealy was CEO.
Sun did a lot of mistakes. One was not getting into x86 workstations fast enough. The other was not firing the UltraSPARC V and MAJC development teams after they failed so miserably. Instead they gave them even more resources to develop Rock. Duh. Another was pushing OpenSolaris when that boat had clearly sailed away and Linux was firmly in control. Even IBM were smarter than that. The final issue was that they never managed to develop a proper consulting business in order to offset their profit losses from lousy hardware sales. Larry, hate his little black heart as much as you wish, seems to have a better grasp at handling the situation.
Schwartz at best open sourced Java which is another quite different thing. But I am not really sure of that either.
The problem with getting IBM on board is that they most likely want to have some way of charging a bundle for their own version of the software much like they do with Eclipse vs Rational Application Developer. They can still earn money doing support and whatnot but they usually prefer to have their own branded product. LibreOffice is GPLv3 so they can't do that.
The main problem is that Star Control II was an action adventure/RPG game and Star Control III just broke that by turning it into make a crappy strategy game.
The core of it is the ship combat game. The next most important layer is the plot, dialog, and the navigation aspects.
Yeah. For whatever reason I liked GalCiv better than GalCiv 2. I still prefer Master of Orion II from SimTex. But Sins of a Solar Empire was nice. Even though Stardock didn't develop the game. They just distribute it.
For all the issues Galactic Civilization II had it was loads better than that piece of utter trash that was Elemental: War of Magic. Or the sequel for that matter. Blech. I expect more from a Master of Magic clone. Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic did it much better.
Also I don't know how it is over there but over here the photographer starts working on the wedding around the early morning when the bride and groom are still getting dressed. If they live far away from each other you often need to have two photographers to be able to shoot them concurrently which means you have to split the pay. Then you have to be in there all the way. During the service, during the party, and afterwards as well. Quite often there is a photo shoot in the night in the house of the couple after the party. A guest is only around for the service and the party so yeah, for them it seems like a couple of hours in which they can be sitting while the photographers are standing all the time. In practice over here you work for at least 14h flat just doing the wedding shoot on site. I am not counting the work done afterwards correcting pictures or handing administrative fluff like prints or handling money which usually takes several days.
Well you earn a lot more than a thousand dollars a day in an advertisement shoot over here. A wedding depends on the wedding. Some of the richer clients here are handled using the business model you described. How many photos are shot for those thousand dollars and do you get anything in the deal other than the shooting work? Is the cost for the extra prints flat? A lot of people often forget that weddings are awfully seasonal. You have lots of them in the middle of the summer then you have next to no work to do the rest of the year. I have known photographers who planned their business activity poorly because of this and end up pawning their equipment in the winter when they don't earn enough to eat. Advertisement shoots can get you a lot of money but they are really hit and miss.
There are also several mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) running ARM which have OpenCL support and zero CUDA support. Not to mention that it is also a web standard namely WebCL.
In my experience CUDA is not any faster than OpenCL. Frameworks don't solve the problem properly. There are a lot of debugging tools for OpenCL my guess is you did not look hard enough. You can run OpenCL programs without installing all the cruft required to do CUDA development since the driver will compile and run code by itself. This means a lot of people don't bother looking for tools but they are out there.
OpenCL requires a lot of boilerplate code to initialize resources and whatever. But the code is a lot more machine portable than CUDA.
Well you are going to have less process engineers working if you have less fabs open. Plus the escalating costs of semiconduction manufacturing plants are a well known problem. See Rock's Law.
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You do not seem to know the business model very well. Wedding photographers usually have zero and sometimes even negative profit selling photos to the newlyweds once you take into account equipment and consumables. The profit is achieved by selling copies of the prints to people attending the wedding itself. A lot of these photographers do contract work for advertisement agencies as well. In this case the client gets to own the digital files. The difference is the client pays a lot more, a whole lot more than a wedding couple is willing to pay.
Batman does not have any superpowers either.
Superman Returns, Green Lantern, Lone Ranger.
Not the Lone Ranger it isn't.
If content was almighty then the Dune movie wouldn't have been a flop. I am perfectly fine watching a well present utterly banal story.
Oh I am pretty familiar with ketogenic diets. I tried them, among others, at one time. You do lose weight and feel less undernourished than under some other diets but it is still fairly easy to have problems getting enough nutrients like folic acid, vitamin C, or magnesium. A lot of the people who used to eat all meat diets in the wild ate organs rich in nutrients which aren't commonly found in a western diet. It is also fairly easy to get in your system metabolites from a protein rich diet that will cause problems with the kidneys or pain in the joints. But sure. Keep thinking that other people are ignorant and downmod them as trolls to stroke your ego. Don't believe me just go browse PubMed for yourself.
If all you want is to lose weight you are doing yourself a disservice by not eating fruits and vegetables. There is nothing wrong with eating tomatoes or lettuce for crying out loud. I can understand cutting down on the starches to lose weight but enough is enough.
Actually Malthus's theory was just plain bullshit because he claimed population growth was exponential and the growth of crops was not. Which is plain wrong. Crops and cattle can grow exponentially just as well as humans can. The reproduction mechanisms are pretty much the same. Heck cattle even has litter sizes often bigger than humans do.