Well this thing is supposedly very slow, so I would probably make a Beowulf cluster of them... no, seriously! that way you can assemble stuff faster...
They're called development releases. You can distinguish them by the odd decimal number (which, coincidentally, is after the first "period" or "dot"). They're unstable, moody, require a lot of maintenance and can shut down or reboot or freeze for no apparent reason.
GanttProject is nice. It's written in Java, so it's especially useful if you're not only using Windows. Works on Linux, works on OSX. It's the one I use. Of course it doesn't have all the features that MS Project does, but it's pretty useful for making initial drafts or working with relatively simple projects.
There's also MrProject for Linux, I don't know if there's a binary for Windows. I compiled this on Linux once and it was nice but it broke pgAdmin, I think it was some version incompatibility with GTK or something.
There are some other similar tools here. Open Workbench Is supposed to be really good, although I haven't tried it. iTeamWork is another free tool.
if you mean damage as in "the server got slashdotted", of psychological damage as in "someone told me to go to this goatse site" (or tubgirl, lemonparty etc), or FUD as in "this microsoft site says linux TCO is higher"...
Oooooh you mean by spyware. Sorry, I use Safari, and Konqueror or Netscape when I'm on Linux.
Yeah $700 per server (or was it per CPU? can't remember). And remember to deploy a gazillion instances of your app with the Monitor because concurrent request handling can become a nightmare since many EOF components are not thread-safe (unless you want to spend countless nights debugging all the thread stuff, counting all those lock() and unlock() calls to EOEditingContext).
I used to love WO but ever since they ported it to Java it wasn't the same thing. Now I prefer JBoss+Tapestry+Hibernate+Spring. All free, too, as in speech & beer.
WO was cool when it was written on ObjC, but porting it to Java without really checking all the J2EE stuff was stupid. You can't even use the java collections so using third-party frameworks with WO is a nightmare. It seems to me that the guys who did the port were learning Java along the way. If WO used OGNL, CGLIB, the javax.sql classes (so you could have pooled connections for EOF) it would be much better, but it looks like WO is being used less and less.
Funny how one of the less known development tools on the mac is written by Apple itself (yeah yeah I know it was originally made by NeXT but the Java port was done for OSX).
Well the list says 'alternative development tools' and I think Eclipse isn't precisely alternative on the Mac, since xCode kinda sucks for java development compared to it, my guess is a lot of people use Eclipse on the mac for Java development, so it's not really alternative.
I managed to compile and run MonoDevelop on my powerbook once. What a royal pain in the ass. You need to compile a whole bunch of GTK stuff, much of it beta, some mozilla stuff, and I don't even remember what else. MonoDevelop only runs on top of X11. It runs better than a Java Swing app but it's just not ready yet... you can do basic apps but not complex WinForms apps or aspx pages. There is an Eclipse plugin for Mono lying around on the net, I think from a french company. I don't know if it's working on E3 yet, though.
Discoveries like this and others facts that disprove their theories are not going to change their views, as they claim that god created the world at $time with everything, including fossils, geological features and other dateable items intact.
Yes but don't forget that it was Slartibartfast who made those nice fjords.
I didn't RTFA either, but I don't think they will eliminate or cut taxes on gas, so maybe the system will be based on how far you drive PLUS how much gas you use...
The problem is, once you learn to play the violin, you want to focus on that. If learning to record your music in Linux is going to be as hard as having learned to play it, it won't be attractive.
Perhaps the Linux music tools should by default be simple like the Windows apps, but should let the user modify all those hidden options once they're comfortable with the basic use of the program. Take an Apple-like approach to those tools. I've used GarageBand and have never read any manual, and it's very simple, yet you can do cool stuff like play around with the software synth generators to get weird sounds different from the pre-programmed ones. And it has an API so you can even write your own plugins.
Reminds me of Aphex Twin. I read an interview with him somewhere, and it said that the guy writes his own software for sequencing, looping, and doing some other weird stuff.
Man, this reminds me so much of the Pan-Galatic Gargle Blaster entry on the Encyclopaedia Galactica vs. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I've always thought of Wikipedia as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Earth. Maybe at some time we will be able to say "the Wikipedia sells rather better than the Encyclopaedia Brittannica"
I have a software company with two other guys. Each one of us is in a different project. I'm handling a project all by myself, writing custom software for a client, and I get to do some small projects from time to time too.
We use open source where we can and contribute back where we can. I'm starting an open source project, writing (yet another) CMS, this one with technologies I'm familiar and feel comfortable with. We plan to use this on some projects with a small web design company, so they can sell a dynamic web site and later we can get to support it (directly or through them, it's all good).
I like to think that the future of software development will be something like mechanics are now (at least here in Mexico). You can take your new or fancy car to the dealer for small repairs and maintenance, but almost everybody takes their car to some small shop run by a couple of guys who know their stuff. They get their clients mostly by word-of-mouth recommendations. Some mechanics try to rip you off, you don't go back, but if you like their work, you'll recommending them to people you know.
So I think there will always be big software companies, making big projects and writing huge complex applications, like SAP and such. Big corporations can make business with this big developers. But many companies will go to the smaller development companies that use open source and run a small shop, to cut costs without sacrificing quality and having more direct contact with the people who are going to write their software.
So maybe the lone coders will not make big big bucks like before, but we can still make a living and enjoy our work.
OK I checked the webpage. So let's see if I got this right... this thing uses a key that must be at least 8300 bytes long? yeah, that is SO practical.
And you need to generate 105MB of prime numbers. Which are supposed to be random. And these are used for encryption/decryption. It doesn't sat in the page, but I'm assuming you need these same numbers for decryption... so if I encrypt something with this method, I have to
Send the key file to the recipient first
Make sure the recipient has the exact same 105MB of prime numbers I have
It seems to me that a 1-time pad might be easier to use (and I'm pretty sure it will be safer).
Long distance calls don't have to be international.
The plans you mention probably only include local calls. If you're outside your city then you get roaming costs, and if you call someone on a different city it's a long distance call, which I'm sure won't cost 2 cents a minute.
Oh and if you travel much, you can call from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the US for the same 2 cents a minute.
Plus, I bet many Skype users are outside the US. I can call any city in the US from Mexico for 2 US cents a minute, instead of 50 US cents from a landline. If I'm outside Mexico City, I can call home for 2 US cents a minute with Skype instead of 25 US cents a minute (national long distance) or more (if I'm in another country).
Hell, even calling from Mexico City to another city in the same country can be cheaper with Skype than with Telmex... around 10 US cents a minute, which is the rate you get from Telmex during nights and weekends... during the day it's 25 US cents a minute.
Perhaps some of these venture capitalists are companies that use all this software. They're investing on companies like JBoss to make sure they continue to exist and support their products. If some of these companies went under, someone else can always maintain the code but in practical terms it would be stalled for some time. Personally, I think that some part of the gazillions of dollars made by the big firms you mentioned are going to finally "trickle down"... small sums will be going to many people who know how to use, configure, or even modify the popular open source projects like JBoss and PostgreSQL. So, you're right to say that you won't make a LOT of money with this, but I think a LOT of people will be making some money off of this. I use open source software to save costs on the projects I develop, not so that I can charge more to my customer, but just so I can offer a cheaper overall solution, since I only have to charge for my services, not for expensive licenses which aren't going to make me any money, and I will probably end up being the first line of support for it anyway (let's face it, the customer won't call Oracle directly if they know I installed it; they're going to come to me first).
Someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the Gmail POP uses SSL, so the connection is encrypted and no one can sniff your email as you download it.
Come to Mexico City and watch Cablevision for a while, you can see the BSOD on their programming guide instead of the previews. This happens often, since they switched to "microsoft tv" and are starting to switch from everything they had to all-Microsoft for their infrastructure.
The satellite TV service Sky is about to do the same thing next year (it's owned by basically the same people). And DirecTV is closing shop in Mexico, so once again there is a monopoly here, this time on satellite TV. And Microsoft is in on it.
I think GP means "if there was anything to listen to on FM, THEN XM And Sirius wouldn't have a business plan". Just another way of saying "who gives a fuck if this thing has FM, there's nothing worth listening to on it"
I like that they made it available in so many diferent colors. That will definately be a selling-point
Right. That way I wouldn't have had to paint my iPod pink. Or that bright blue or that orange... I think the reason Apple had few colors is because they only chose the ones that actually looked good (and I'm not really sure about the green mini). These guys have a lot of colors that look like crap.
Oh, and this thing doesn't have AM radio, just FM.
Nope. I don't like shopping to be so easy. I want to go through several steps before actually confirming my purchase so that I have time to think about what I'm doing and how much I'm spending. I don't want to accidentally click on a link and then something arrives that I didn't want to buy...
But anyway, whether I use it or not, it's an international transaction, right? Yes, 1-click shopping is also a stupid patent but at least it has more merit than this...
Who the fuck is going to be interested in licensing something that obviously has prior art written all over it?
I live in Mexico and have been buying stuff from Amazon numerous times for like 5 years. Does that count as international transactions over the computer?
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Well this thing is supposedly very slow, so I would probably make a Beowulf cluster of them... no, seriously! that way you can assemble stuff faster...
They're called development releases. You can distinguish them by the odd decimal number (which, coincidentally, is after the first "period" or "dot"). They're unstable, moody, require a lot of maintenance and can shut down or reboot or freeze for no apparent reason.
You have been warned.
There's also MrProject for Linux, I don't know if there's a binary for Windows. I compiled this on Linux once and it was nice but it broke pgAdmin, I think it was some version incompatibility with GTK or something.
There are some other similar tools here. Open Workbench Is supposed to be really good, although I haven't tried it. iTeamWork is another free tool.
And finally, this is a list of some more tools.
if you mean damage as in "the server got slashdotted", of psychological damage as in "someone told me to go to this goatse site" (or tubgirl, lemonparty etc), or FUD as in "this microsoft site says linux TCO is higher"...
Oooooh you mean by spyware. Sorry, I use Safari, and Konqueror or Netscape when I'm on Linux.
Yeah $700 per server (or was it per CPU? can't remember). And remember to deploy a gazillion instances of your app with the Monitor because concurrent request handling can become a nightmare since many EOF components are not thread-safe (unless you want to spend countless nights debugging all the thread stuff, counting all those lock() and unlock() calls to EOEditingContext).
I used to love WO but ever since they ported it to Java it wasn't the same thing. Now I prefer JBoss+Tapestry+Hibernate+Spring. All free, too, as in speech & beer.
WO was cool when it was written on ObjC, but porting it to Java without really checking all the J2EE stuff was stupid. You can't even use the java collections so using third-party frameworks with WO is a nightmare. It seems to me that the guys who did the port were learning Java along the way. If WO used OGNL, CGLIB, the javax.sql classes (so you could have pooled connections for EOF) it would be much better, but it looks like WO is being used less and less.
Funny how one of the less known development tools on the mac is written by Apple itself (yeah yeah I know it was originally made by NeXT but the Java port was done for OSX).
Well the list says 'alternative development tools' and I think Eclipse isn't precisely alternative on the Mac, since xCode kinda sucks for java development compared to it, my guess is a lot of people use Eclipse on the mac for Java development, so it's not really alternative.
I managed to compile and run MonoDevelop on my powerbook once. What a royal pain in the ass. You need to compile a whole bunch of GTK stuff, much of it beta, some mozilla stuff, and I don't even remember what else.
MonoDevelop only runs on top of X11. It runs better than a Java Swing app but it's just not ready yet... you can do basic apps but not complex WinForms apps or aspx pages.
There is an Eclipse plugin for Mono lying around on the net, I think from a french company. I don't know if it's working on E3 yet, though.
I didn't RTFA either, but I don't think they will eliminate or cut taxes on gas, so maybe the system will be based on how far you drive PLUS how much gas you use...
The problem is, once you learn to play the violin, you want to focus on that. If learning to record your music in Linux is going to be as hard as having learned to play it, it won't be attractive. Perhaps the Linux music tools should by default be simple like the Windows apps, but should let the user modify all those hidden options once they're comfortable with the basic use of the program. Take an Apple-like approach to those tools. I've used GarageBand and have never read any manual, and it's very simple, yet you can do cool stuff like play around with the software synth generators to get weird sounds different from the pre-programmed ones. And it has an API so you can even write your own plugins. Reminds me of Aphex Twin. I read an interview with him somewhere, and it said that the guy writes his own software for sequencing, looping, and doing some other weird stuff.
I've always thought of Wikipedia as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Earth. Maybe at some time we will be able to say "the Wikipedia sells rather better than the Encyclopaedia Brittannica"
I have a software company with two other guys. Each one of us is in a different project. I'm handling a project all by myself, writing custom software for a client, and I get to do some small projects from time to time too.
We use open source where we can and contribute back where we can. I'm starting an open source project, writing (yet another) CMS, this one with technologies I'm familiar and feel comfortable with. We plan to use this on some projects with a small web design company, so they can sell a dynamic web site and later we can get to support it (directly or through them, it's all good).
I like to think that the future of software development will be something like mechanics are now (at least here in Mexico). You can take your new or fancy car to the dealer for small repairs and maintenance, but almost everybody takes their car to some small shop run by a couple of guys who know their stuff. They get their clients mostly by word-of-mouth recommendations. Some mechanics try to rip you off, you don't go back, but if you like their work, you'll recommending them to people you know.
So I think there will always be big software companies, making big projects and writing huge complex applications, like SAP and such. Big corporations can make business with this big developers. But many companies will go to the smaller development companies that use open source and run a small shop, to cut costs without sacrificing quality and having more direct contact with the people who are going to write their software.
So maybe the lone coders will not make big big bucks like before, but we can still make a living and enjoy our work.
And you need to generate 105MB of prime numbers. Which are supposed to be random. And these are used for encryption/decryption. It doesn't sat in the page, but I'm assuming you need these same numbers for decryption... so if I encrypt something with this method, I have to
- Send the key file to the recipient first
- Make sure the recipient has the exact same 105MB of prime numbers I have
It seems to me that a 1-time pad might be easier to use (and I'm pretty sure it will be safer).We've all heard about the short uptime of Windows, but this is ridiculous.
I always thought they had named that song after Marvin, even though it has nothing to do with Marvin OR HHGTTG
Long distance calls don't have to be international.
The plans you mention probably only include local calls. If you're outside your city then you get roaming costs, and if you call someone on a different city it's a long distance call, which I'm sure won't cost 2 cents a minute.
Oh and if you travel much, you can call from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the US for the same 2 cents a minute.
Plus, I bet many Skype users are outside the US. I can call any city in the US from Mexico for 2 US cents a minute, instead of 50 US cents from a landline. If I'm outside Mexico City, I can call home for 2 US cents a minute with Skype instead of 25 US cents a minute (national long distance) or more (if I'm in another country).
Hell, even calling from Mexico City to another city in the same country can be cheaper with Skype than with Telmex... around 10 US cents a minute, which is the rate you get from Telmex during nights and weekends... during the day it's 25 US cents a minute.
Perhaps some of these venture capitalists are companies that use all this software. They're investing on companies like JBoss to make sure they continue to exist and support their products. If some of these companies went under, someone else can always maintain the code but in practical terms it would be stalled for some time.
Personally, I think that some part of the gazillions of dollars made by the big firms you mentioned are going to finally "trickle down"... small sums will be going to many people who know how to use, configure, or even modify the popular open source projects like JBoss and PostgreSQL. So, you're right to say that you won't make a LOT of money with this, but I think a LOT of people will be making some money off of this.
I use open source software to save costs on the projects I develop, not so that I can charge more to my customer, but just so I can offer a cheaper overall solution, since I only have to charge for my services, not for expensive licenses which aren't going to make me any money, and I will probably end up being the first line of support for it anyway (let's face it, the customer won't call Oracle directly if they know I installed it; they're going to come to me first).
Someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread that the Gmail POP uses SSL, so the connection is encrypted and no one can sniff your email as you download it.
Come to Mexico City and watch Cablevision for a while, you can see the BSOD on their programming guide instead of the previews. This happens often, since they switched to "microsoft tv" and are starting to switch from everything they had to all-Microsoft for their infrastructure.
The satellite TV service Sky is about to do the same thing next year (it's owned by basically the same people). And DirecTV is closing shop in Mexico, so once again there is a monopoly here, this time on satellite TV. And Microsoft is in on it.
This has probably been said before a lot before, but... THIS is a real iPod Killer. Under $20, too.
I think GP means "if there was anything to listen to on FM, THEN XM And Sirius wouldn't have a business plan". Just another way of saying "who gives a fuck if this thing has FM, there's nothing worth listening to on it"
Right. That way I wouldn't have had to paint my iPod pink. Or that bright blue or that orange... I think the reason Apple had few colors is because they only chose the ones that actually looked good (and I'm not really sure about the green mini). These guys have a lot of colors that look like crap.
Oh, and this thing doesn't have AM radio, just FM.
Nope. I don't like shopping to be so easy. I want to go through several steps before actually confirming my purchase so that I have time to think about what I'm doing and how much I'm spending. I don't want to accidentally click on a link and then something arrives that I didn't want to buy...
But anyway, whether I use it or not, it's an international transaction, right? Yes, 1-click shopping is also a stupid patent but at least it has more merit than this...
Who the fuck is going to be interested in licensing something that obviously has prior art written all over it? I live in Mexico and have been buying stuff from Amazon numerous times for like 5 years. Does that count as international transactions over the computer?