"however, are concerned with Eclipse's use of SWT rather than the standard Swing widget set"
Wait, what's exactly wrong with SWT? It's not like they force you to use SWT for your projects, I have a good Swing based project in Eclipse right now.
If anything SWT makes eclipse feel snappier, it's the IDE's choice, and doesn't have to be yours. Stop whining.
What MS need to assure is that MicroSoft finally will become a company that provides what the customers want.
I don't think you grasp the type of monopoly that MS has on most of the market.
First, they don't _need_ to care about their customers, as long as 85% (or whatever) of the OEM machines from Dell, HP, Gateway, that get sold to regular old consumers, they will have plenty of money.
A policy which will never work in the long run.
Most consumers don't understand or want anything customized, that just want 'what they're used to' and for a long time since, and to come, it's beem microsoft
MicroSoft should adopt to this idea, and in the long run they can become a very successful supplier of wanted software, designed by the customer for the customer.
They're already insanely rich, they don't need to do crap
I've had some doozies of experiences at a couple CompUSA.
One time the guy tried to explain to me that I would need about $50+ more hardware than necessary to fix what I suspected to be a buggy RAM problem.
On another occasion, I was with a friend, checking out a couple hot-swap IDE cages for a development server I was building and a CompUSA dorkus walks buy and says "They're really overrated, and you probably don't need them, unless you're building a server (guy leaves)"
I didn't know what to say, he didn't help, he just offered a stupid opinion and left. So I left too.
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"however, are concerned with Eclipse's use of SWT rather than the standard Swing widget set"
Wait, what's exactly wrong with SWT? It's not like they force you to use SWT for your projects, I have a good Swing based project in Eclipse right now.
If anything SWT makes eclipse feel snappier, it's the IDE's choice, and doesn't have to be yours. Stop whining.
I must have just missed the longer straw, Mike _always_ gets to test things before me
aw, shucks
Yeah, I submitted mine today...it's called......um....gImmeaprize
Did I win?
Yeah, I understand how SuSE & Novell become involved in this, but can someone explain what this does? I mean, what's the hoopla about?
Paying $3k for the latest cool thing is so the 90's
Making do with what you have is in, get with the program
Keep in mind that for both World Wars, the 'Allies' were losing until shortly after the U.S. showed up ;)
Food for thought
What MS need to assure is that MicroSoft finally will become a company that provides what the customers want.
I don't think you grasp the type of monopoly that MS has on most of the market.
First, they don't _need_ to care about their customers, as long as 85% (or whatever) of the OEM machines from Dell, HP, Gateway, that get sold to regular old consumers, they will have plenty of money.
A policy which will never work in the long run.
Most consumers don't understand or want anything customized, that just want 'what they're used to' and for a long time since, and to come, it's beem microsoft
MicroSoft should adopt to this idea, and in the long run they can become a very successful supplier of wanted software, designed by the customer for the customer.
They're already insanely rich, they don't need to do crap
Please enlighten.. warcraft is impt to me
I think I speak for the whole linux community when I say,
no
All this really means is that they will not concentrate their efforts on the Alpha port as much as AMD64, and i386.
;)
It is by no means dead, if you have an Alpha, you can try to help them out
I don't need 400GB, hell I don't need 160GB; I need a hard drive that is more reliable
These are cool and all, i'd love to have one, but I'll rest easier knowing that my 80GB, let alone 400GB is safe and reliable for some time to come.
Why the need to post a slashdot article on the selling of it?
I mean, it's news, but it doesn't matter.
The concept of selling this guy's stuff for him is lost on me.
Yeah I mean, who would want to ever have a wireless network in their HOUSE! Ha!
Seriously, I live in a small town, in texas no less, and it's almost common for people with broadband to have wireless, just because it's easier
Crazy Terrorist ;)
;)
Honestly though, if and when i've done video chat, it's been via Yahoo. Maybe we could somehow bribe gaim into making an iChat compatible version
Believe it or not, Pocket PC's have a backup program :-)
iPaq batteries also last about 72 hours with somewhat frequent use, and if you use it sparingly, an entire week.
From my experience (Palm Zire, Tungsten, and iPaq) battery life is definitely NOT a problem with PDA's, being useful is.
With WWDC coming up, isn't it somewhat obvious that apple is preparing a new PowerMac? Most likely a new revision of most of there stuff.
I mean, they are coming out with 10.4 at the WWDC, why not new hardware to run it on?
Awwwwww, sounds like someone's jealous that they don't have a mac :'(
MOM!?
/. ??
Since when do you
::whimper::
I used to have (a year or two ago) a good old 12Mhz DOS machine that I used to play all those wonderful old games from back in the day.
You just can't replicated that experience on a newer box running MS-DOS under WinXP or anything.
Long live old games!
It'll be damn near impossible to generate much revenue from your site through those type-of-ads.
;)
The best bet would to setup a donation button, and point out that your project survives off donations.
Or if your product is nifty enough, and many folks use it, pay-for-support.
At last resort, you can put a neato logo on a t-shirt for cafepress.com
The human eye can only detect so many frames per second, when he takes out that many, it just leaves out the stuff we wouldn't be able to see anyways
The limit on what we can percieve is 60 frames per second or something in that arena, you do the math.
Apple never advertised fastest computer, they clearly said the 'first 64-bit/fastest personal computer ever'
in that sense they are right, Sun, Alpha never made PC's.
And depending on who's benchmarks you look at, they are the fastest pc's.
Now all I need is that G5 :-)
were not functioning correctly due to being hit by lightening
::snicker::
Sorry to reply to my own thread, but these are funny. BUT
HIT BY LIGHTENING?
Jeez, I can't imagine why they weren't working....
I've had some doozies of experiences at a couple CompUSA.
One time the guy tried to explain to me that I would need about $50+ more hardware than necessary to fix what I suspected to be a buggy RAM problem.
On another occasion, I was with a friend, checking out a couple hot-swap IDE cages for a development server I was building and a CompUSA dorkus walks buy and says "They're really overrated, and you probably don't need them, unless you're building a server (guy leaves)"
I didn't know what to say, he didn't help, he just offered a stupid opinion and left. So I left too.
Flip a coin, it doesn't really matter which you choose:
;)
FreeBSD is something i'd put on a critical nfs/http/ftp server or something
OpenBSD is something I'd put on a Pentium 200Mhz box to keep that nfs/http/ftp box safe.
Nothing prevents you from doing either one with either operating system. It's just about preference