I once wrote a program with an animal as image in the spash screen. When the program took longer than expected to start up (there were some network connections being established), when you pressed the ctrl-alt, the animal yawned...
Are you using a different version of windowsXP than I ?
I run 99% of the time under Linux. Once in a while a game or so under XP.
This is the list of current problems
dit.exe popping up saying that I have media missing ? (about 10 dialogs)
Although I have windows desktop keyboard I cannot get a non windows media
player application to use the media keys.
I use Window Powertoys desktop switching and once in a while (especially when
I am using VC++ it takes literally half a hour or so to switch desktops.
You cannot imagine what I have to do to view a movie on my TV connect to my TVOut. (Involves switching desktop preferences, refreshing desktop icons and not forgetting to leave the TV on while switching back to main display)
Sometimes windows changes the drive letters on my (external) disks causing shortcuts to break.
... just out the top of my head since I type this under linux.
Euh and what about the PJB100 ?
AFAIK it was a compaq device that had... hierarchical menues and had
a 10 GB harddisk in a MUCH more practical packaging than the Nomad (i.e
rectangular ?)
I think that the PJB100 existed WELL BEFORE any Creative device
I do not believe that we can make better code... I think this is a human thing and not a technical problem
IT has be trying for almost 60 years now and it does not get any better. In fact
it gets worse.
But what would it be worth if we had a way to more easily change applications so that fixes can be rolled out more rapidly, say before any calamity occurs ? What if we could install those fixes without the user having to reboot or even to stop the application containing the errors ? What if we can change those
errors without breaking any 'version' relationship between other depending parts of the system ? Could this method perhaps do away with scheduled 'releases' and make software evolve more organically ?
easy, if you have the amount of money MS has,
the can FORCE hardware vendors to write drivers
ONLY for MS or did you think that MS writes
drivers for ATI, DSL e.a. hardware ?
Linux is all about reverse engineering. NO hardware vendor (Besides a few exceptions) share info about their boards.
Moreover hardware ALSO has bugs, writing drivers according to theoretical specs makes lots of 'cheap' cards break because using buggy chips.
I just installed ubuntu out of the box on my brand new DELL D610 laptop and all worked perfectly.
However I must admit that linux is NOT yet ready for real end users. Games is a notable shortcoming. Also LINUX still does require too much tinckering.
well,
We once sent them a mail asking whether they would be interested in something... and we got a reply back that they weren't AND that they consider any information sent to them immediately as their own.
So if you just sent them a message stating that you can do something and it gives them an idea that they previously didn't think about, they claim that the idea is theirs.
It is currently ABSOLUTELY impossible to venture into new Software markets... Why ? because as soon as those markets begin to become profitable, MS will surely dive into them promising heaven to users and dumping their products without any profit on the market, squeezing any newcomer straight out. (like they did many times before and are doing still EXCEPT for Windows and Office for which they charge extravagant profits )
Knowing how much money it takes to market just one software package, you will not find any venture capitalist willing to spend any dollar (or other currency) on it.
correct, go the the public library, lend out the
CD and copy it.
Perfectly OK since your library has paid all royalties and hence you are entitled to listen to the music.
True comparing VC++ to VB is bad but comparing C++/Qt with VB that is a whole other ballgame
Rebooting because of C ? Yes in the DOS days you could have problems. However using Turbo-C was really nice (and you did not have to put printfs in your program to debug it) Also having to reboot your computer has nothing to do with the language but with the quality of the underlying OS and hardware.
Pascal is JUST LIKE C expect for a nice syntax and some more explicit rules about pointers. However Pascal was never intended to become more that a demo language. In fact pascal in the beginning only had 'support' for sequential file access (tape like access to data)
BASIC does not compare to pascal. Basic is nothing more than an enhanced scripting language, Tokenized and interpreted just like many other languages. Of course you do not have things like pointers in Basic (well you do but nobody really uses them) because basic is... well basic. Yes it is easier to build a simple window in Basic... because Basic is about the only thing that MS wrote on their own and since they control the language they could built in enhanced support for GUI and not because Basic is such a superior language.
I always find it strange why pointers are considered such a bad thing. I remember that book 'algoritms+data=programs' which desribes a whole lot of data types which (lists, trees, graphs,...) which cannot be described without pointers.
Performance is not that critical (anyway not on current PC hardware but perhaps on other) but when you mix two languages or systems together then you are in trouble especially under windows because the each have different calling conventions, memory models etc. Hopefully.Net will solve this.
No changes ? Yes probably. That is why you need those 'far pascal __decl and about a gazillion options if you want to compile something on windows.
If it was not impossible why then do they only support intel CPU's. Intel was correct because I referred to Arm/x86 at the same time.
I also remember that nasty habit of VB not having to declare variables. I.e every Capital letter typo delivers nice hours of debugging (yes : it is very hard to remember if the variable was Counter or counter...)
I am not sure about that...
C is EXTREMELY simple (Compare the thickness of a C-programmers guide and the tomes of VB books) The problem is that hardware is not easy. Visual basic does not care about the hardware (runs only on intel anyway)
So you advice to do the same as the US 'outsources' do. Go for the cheapest solution ?
Indeed the US dollar CHEAP for Europe meaning that it is MORE interesting to buy stuff in the US than in Europe, just like an indian tekkie is cheaper than a US tekkie....
Weard reasoning...
If only they installed a better bootloader and not the one hard linked to pocket, then they would not need to preinstall and leave the choice to the user.
W
Difficult ?
We have been voting electronically in belgium for 10 years now. Simple touch screen based, results put on magnetic card, card scanned in special box (kind of safe) which tallies and final results put on floppy.
I have been developing software for many years now and I cannot imagine voting difficult EXCEPT if you want to do it remotely. But if you just replace paper voting with electronic devices...
Well I'm not sure since IT staff when ordering stuff
need to present a budget which generally gets decided on by the one who holds the wallet.
And that person generally is also influenced by 'business' or other 'non technical' criteria...
I hope that you are not serious about this ? If you are, please reread your history books again... and I do mean the ones that talk about dates BEFORE the 17 hunderds
I hope that you are not serious about this ? If you are, please reread your history books again... and I do mean the ones that treat about dates BEFORE the 17 hunderds
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I once wrote a program with an animal as image in the spash screen. When the program took longer than expected to start up (there were some network connections being established), when you pressed the ctrl-alt, the animal yawned ...
I'm sure you would like to be governed by a single dictatorial autocracy ... then thins can go REALLY fast ...
Euh and what about the PJB100 ? AFAIK it was a compaq device that had ... hierarchical menues and had
a 10 GB harddisk in a MUCH more practical packaging than the Nomad (i.e
rectangular ?)
I think that the PJB100 existed WELL BEFORE any Creative device
I do not believe that we can make better code ... I think this is a human thing and not a technical problem
IT has be trying for almost 60 years now and it does not get any better. In fact it gets worse.
But what would it be worth if we had a way to more easily change applications so that fixes can be rolled out more rapidly, say before any calamity occurs ? What if we could install those fixes without the user having to reboot or even to stop the application containing the errors ? What if we can change those errors without breaking any 'version' relationship between other depending parts of the system ? Could this method perhaps do away with scheduled 'releases' and make software evolve more organically ?
well,
- size : laptops ARE generally larger
- power consumption : more peripherals to support disks, IO ports, DVDs larger screens.
- Heat : more equipement means more power needed
- bloated : requires more powerful equipement meaning more power needed again
- bloated : a laptop can do a lot more stuff but that makes its use more complicated for non-tech savvy.
m2cperhaps Gentoo uses a different kernel ubuntu uses 2.6.10 with patches and I must say that everything worked (even hybernate)
easy, if you have the amount of money MS has, the can FORCE hardware vendors to write drivers ONLY for MS or did you think that MS writes drivers for ATI, DSL e.a. hardware ? Linux is all about reverse engineering. NO hardware vendor (Besides a few exceptions) share info about their boards. Moreover hardware ALSO has bugs, writing drivers according to theoretical specs makes lots of 'cheap' cards break because using buggy chips. I just installed ubuntu out of the box on my brand new DELL D610 laptop and all worked perfectly. However I must admit that linux is NOT yet ready for real end users. Games is a notable shortcoming. Also LINUX still does require too much tinckering.
well, We once sent them a mail asking whether they would be interested in something ... and we got a reply back that they weren't AND that they consider any information sent to them immediately as their own.
So if you just sent them a message stating that you can do something and it gives them an idea that they previously didn't think about, they claim that the idea is theirs.
Yes, Freedom of good, money and people ... remember
3d is more than look there should also be added functional benefit. Checkout http://croquetproject.org/
My dear man,
in what age are you living ?
It is currently ABSOLUTELY impossible to venture into new Software markets ... Why ? because as soon as those markets begin to become profitable, MS will surely dive into them promising heaven to users and dumping their products without any profit on the market, squeezing any newcomer straight out. (like they did many times before and are doing still EXCEPT for Windows and Office for which they charge extravagant profits )
Knowing how much money it takes to market just one software package, you will not find any venture capitalist willing to spend any dollar (or other currency) on it.
correct, go the the public library, lend out the CD and copy it. Perfectly OK since your library has paid all royalties and hence you are entitled to listen to the music.
Another possibility might be that they only needed the elapse time. I.e. to mesure the time between these events ?
True comparing VC++ to VB is bad but comparing C++/Qt with VB that is a whole other ballgame Rebooting because of C ? Yes in the DOS days you could have problems. However using Turbo-C was really nice (and you did not have to put printfs in your program to debug it) Also having to reboot your computer has nothing to do with the language but with the quality of the underlying OS and hardware. Pascal is JUST LIKE C expect for a nice syntax and some more explicit rules about pointers. However Pascal was never intended to become more that a demo language. In fact pascal in the beginning only had 'support' for sequential file access (tape like access to data) BASIC does not compare to pascal. Basic is nothing more than an enhanced scripting language, Tokenized and interpreted just like many other languages. Of course you do not have things like pointers in Basic (well you do but nobody really uses them) because basic is ... well basic. Yes it is easier to build a simple window in Basic ... because Basic is about the only thing that MS wrote on their own and since they control the language they could built in enhanced support for GUI and not because Basic is such a superior language.
I always find it strange why pointers are considered such a bad thing. I remember that book 'algoritms+data=programs' which desribes a whole lot of data types which (lists, trees, graphs, ...) which cannot be described without pointers.
Performance is not that critical (anyway not on current PC hardware but perhaps on other) but when you mix two languages or systems together then you are in trouble especially under windows because the each have different calling conventions, memory models etc. Hopefully .Net will solve this.
No changes ? Yes probably. That is why you need those 'far pascal __decl and about a gazillion options if you want to compile something on windows. If it was not impossible why then do they only support intel CPU's. Intel was correct because I referred to Arm/x86 at the same time. I also remember that nasty habit of VB not having to declare variables. I.e every Capital letter typo delivers nice hours of debugging (yes : it is very hard to remember if the variable was Counter or counter ...)
I am not sure about that ...
C is EXTREMELY simple (Compare the thickness of a C-programmers guide and the tomes of VB books) The problem is that hardware is not easy. Visual basic does not care about the hardware (runs only on intel anyway)
So you advice to do the same as the US 'outsources' do. Go for the cheapest solution ? Indeed the US dollar CHEAP for Europe meaning that it is MORE interesting to buy stuff in the US than in Europe, just like an indian tekkie is cheaper than a US tekkie ....
Weard reasoning ...
If only they installed a better bootloader and not the one hard linked to pocket, then they would not need to preinstall and leave the choice to the user. W
Difficult ? We have been voting electronically in belgium for 10 years now. Simple touch screen based, results put on magnetic card, card scanned in special box (kind of safe) which tallies and final results put on floppy. I have been developing software for many years now and I cannot imagine voting difficult EXCEPT if you want to do it remotely. But if you just replace paper voting with electronic devices ...
Well I'm not sure since IT staff when ordering stuff need to present a budget which generally gets decided on by the one who holds the wallet. And that person generally is also influenced by 'business' or other 'non technical' criteria ...
I hope that you are not serious about this ? If you are, please reread your history books again ... and I do mean the ones that talk about dates BEFORE the 17 hunderds
I hope that you are not serious about this ? If you are, please reread your history books again ... and I do mean the ones that treat about dates BEFORE the 17 hunderds