What is really surprising is that Doom 3 requires a G5. With the hardware standards they usually set for their games, I thought they were going to ask for a G6...
The plant itself is not bad. You can make a tea out of it ('Mate de Coca' is a common beverage in South America), it tastes good and is not addictive.
The fact that some people discovered or invented or whatever, a complex chemical process that can turn a bunch of this plants into a small quantity of white powder that you can inhale as a drug, does not make the plant bad. It's not even an ugly plant, I don't think it's a weed, it's more like a bush.
I heard some stuff about an effort that was being made during 1999-2000 in the Mexico City government. I don't know much about the details, just that they were trying to dump Microsoft because of costs, and were seriously considering Linux. I don't know how far they got. What I heard was that in the end, the software was going to be a lot cheaper but the people who offered support contracts was charging too much so the savings were not that great and it was probably easy for MS to offer the typical discount.
I just browsed a couple of categories. Some very nice images there.
I downloaded some, and I just realized I don't have any application installed to watch SVG's in my Mac. Does anyone know of a SVG viewer for Mac? And perhaps a converter? I can really use some of these images on a couple of OmniGraffle diagrams that I'm working on...
Yeah, it was so hard for me to persuade my client to use PostgreSQL instead of Oracle...
Oracle: $6K for a single-processor license. We are planning to deploy a custom made application to at least 2 sites, so that's $12K right there. Plus $6K for every new site. PostgreSQL: $0.
They only asked me about stability and features. PostgreSQL has stored procedures, transactions, replication, indexes... all we need. Stability? I did some stress tests and it works OK for out application.
We're deploying PostgreSQL from now on, unless the people at the site require us to use something else (some people have to use Oracle because of company policy, etc).
plus, if some vandal sprays the house and sees the paint just slid away, next day you'll find the house tagged... with a screwdriver instead of spray paint.
Why is this bad? I have so many coasters courtesy of AOL, but they don't last much with the hot coffee on top of them and after several scratches they don't look so nice anymore. Now we'll have longer-lasting, heat-resistant coasters! yay!
Two things: (1)You're talking about drivers. The petition is about the firmware. (2)Most of the reasons you mention are valid reasons for not opening the firmware source. That is not what is being asked. Just the license. In other words, to get permission from the manufacturers to freely redistribute the firmware BINARY. I don't see how you could exceed FCC restrictions if you can't modify the firmware because you don't have the source.
Actually, the iPod doesn't convert anything to anything else. You can use iTunes or other software to convert between formats. The iPod just plays them. It can play AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, Audible, etc.
I spent a couple of minutes figuring out what you were trying to say.
Then I remembered someone told me that Region 1 edition of Mulholland Drive has no chapters and does not allow you to fast-forward or rewind through the movie (or maybe it does but it's one loooong chapter).
The region 4 edition has chapters and allows you to fast-forward or rewind normally...
Why is it called Gambas if it's based on KDE? Shouldn't be called Kambas?
Seriously, I was expecting to see a Gnome-based app...
I guess the Gnome people are going to hit back with something called Krad?
On one hand, it might be good that KDE and Gnome apps stop having stupid names that have to start with a K or a G... but it's going to be confusing at first.
There's a lot of footage taken by common people of a lot of stuff like this and worse. I remember seeing a cartoon somewhere about the footage of some murders that took place outside an embassy (I think it was a US embassy in Egypt or something like that, it was a while ago and I don't really remember the details). The point was that now with all the video cameras, this event proved that "the world is watching"... but the government (or whoever killed all those people) showed that "it doesn't matter".
I think more in terms of classical music... complex business applications such as SAP and similar stuff are written by the musicians but you need someone (a team, more than just a person) to play the role of the director, integrating many pieces of software and putting them to work together. It's not really infrastructure (although you may certainly have to do some low-level stuff) but rather writing all the glue-code and configuring all the stuff needed to make all the software work together. I think much of it could be "high-level" programming, since it may involve modifying business rules, etc, but you need to know a lot about the software you're integrating.
AFAIK, JDO 2.0 is based on Hibernate. The "new" query language that comes with JDO 2.0 is based on HQL (Hibernate Query Language). They did this because Hibernate is the most popular Java ORM out there, and this time I think it was a good decision to base the new standard on an existing open source framework, rather than reinventing the wheel and coming up with something lousy.
I hope someday the EJB stuff becomes easier to deploy, maybe they can take some ideas from Spring, to allow for more container-independency.
Check out Tapestry (part of Jakarta) for a much better web framework than Struts. Integrating these 3 frameworks results in a very nice architecture that allows you to write J2EE applications that can be very container-independent.
Spring allows you to put together your UI code, your persistence code, and your business logic together, without the need to tie any layer to the other ones.
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Or, if it was really really bad, you can feed it to your dog.
You may call the sleeves to put the discs in, Cornholios!
What is really surprising is that Doom 3 requires a G5. With the hardware standards they usually set for their games, I thought they were going to ask for a G6...
Lighten up!
The plant itself is not bad. You can make a tea out of it ('Mate de Coca' is a common beverage in South America), it tastes good and is not addictive.
The fact that some people discovered or invented or whatever, a complex chemical process that can turn a bunch of this plants into a small quantity of white powder that you can inhale as a drug, does not make the plant bad. It's not even an ugly plant, I don't think it's a weed, it's more like a bush.
Not by default. By default, it uses de NetInfo database. type into a terminal:
/
.
/etc/hosts file).
nidump hosts
or
nidump hosts
and you get the real list of hosts that OSX is using (unless you fiddled with the configuration and set it to read the
I heard some stuff about an effort that was being made during 1999-2000 in the Mexico City government. I don't know much about the details, just that they were trying to dump Microsoft because of costs, and were seriously considering Linux. I don't know how far they got. What I heard was that in the end, the software was going to be a lot cheaper but the people who offered support contracts was charging too much so the savings were not that great and it was probably easy for MS to offer the typical discount.
I just browsed a couple of categories. Some very nice images there.
I downloaded some, and I just realized I don't have any application installed to watch SVG's in my Mac. Does anyone know of a SVG viewer for Mac? And perhaps a converter? I can really use some of these images on a couple of OmniGraffle diagrams that I'm working on...
Yeah, it was so hard for me to persuade my client to use PostgreSQL instead of Oracle...
Oracle: $6K for a single-processor license. We are planning to deploy a custom made application to at least 2 sites, so that's $12K right there. Plus $6K for every new site.
PostgreSQL: $0.
They only asked me about stability and features. PostgreSQL has stored procedures, transactions, replication, indexes... all we need. Stability? I did some stress tests and it works OK for out application.
We're deploying PostgreSQL from now on, unless the people at the site require us to use something else (some people have to use Oracle because of company policy, etc).
Dude, you managed to offend the Mono team, the KDE and GNOME team, and everyone involved in Linux kernel development, all in one post!
plus, if some vandal sprays the house and sees the paint just slid away, next day you'll find the house tagged... with a screwdriver instead of spray paint.
Why is this bad? I have so many coasters courtesy of AOL, but they don't last much with the hot coffee on top of them and after several scratches they don't look so nice anymore. Now we'll have longer-lasting, heat-resistant coasters! yay!
Two things:
(1)You're talking about drivers. The petition is about the firmware.
(2)Most of the reasons you mention are valid reasons for not opening the firmware source. That is not what is being asked. Just the license. In other words, to get permission from the manufacturers to freely redistribute the firmware BINARY. I don't see how you could exceed FCC restrictions if you can't modify the firmware because you don't have the source.
For C I think you can use GTK. For C++ I think Qt is a good option.
Actually, the iPod doesn't convert anything to anything else. You can use iTunes or other software to convert between formats. The iPod just plays them. It can play AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless, Audible, etc.
Don't forget AIFF and WAV. So it reads 5 audio formats.
I spent a couple of minutes figuring out what you were trying to say. Then I remembered someone told me that Region 1 edition of Mulholland Drive has no chapters and does not allow you to fast-forward or rewind through the movie (or maybe it does but it's one loooong chapter). The region 4 edition has chapters and allows you to fast-forward or rewind normally...
Why is it called Gambas if it's based on KDE? Shouldn't be called Kambas?
Seriously, I was expecting to see a Gnome-based app...
I guess the Gnome people are going to hit back with something called Krad?
On one hand, it might be good that KDE and Gnome apps stop having stupid names that have to start with a K or a G... but it's going to be confusing at first.
There's a lot of footage taken by common people of a lot of stuff like this and worse. I remember seeing a cartoon somewhere about the footage of some murders that took place outside an embassy (I think it was a US embassy in Egypt or something like that, it was a while ago and I don't really remember the details). The point was that now with all the video cameras, this event proved that "the world is watching"... but the government (or whoever killed all those people) showed that "it doesn't matter".
You forgot to imagine-a-Beowulf-cluster-of-those...-be-gone
I think more in terms of classical music... complex business applications such as SAP and similar stuff are written by the musicians but you need someone (a team, more than just a person) to play the role of the director, integrating many pieces of software and putting them to work together. It's not really infrastructure (although you may certainly have to do some low-level stuff) but rather writing all the glue-code and configuring all the stuff needed to make all the software work together. I think much of it could be "high-level" programming, since it may involve modifying business rules, etc, but you need to know a lot about the software you're integrating.
Ah yes, the Lallafa incident... please don't give any ideas to those greedy correction fluid companies! Join the Campain for Real Time!
(I'll probably be modded offtopic, but WTF, I'm reading the whole 5 books again, it's a blast)
AFAIK, JDO 2.0 is based on Hibernate. The "new" query language that comes with JDO 2.0 is based on HQL (Hibernate Query Language). They did this because Hibernate is the most popular Java ORM out there, and this time I think it was a good decision to base the new standard on an existing open source framework, rather than reinventing the wheel and coming up with something lousy.
I hope someday the EJB stuff becomes easier to deploy, maybe they can take some ideas from Spring, to allow for more container-independency.
Check out Tapestry (part of Jakarta) for a much better web framework than Struts. Integrating these 3 frameworks results in a very nice architecture that allows you to write J2EE applications that can be very container-independent.
Spring allows you to put together your UI code, your persistence code, and your business logic together, without the need to tie any layer to the other ones.
My banking site forces me to use IE. Some stuff works on Netscape, but there are certain operations that only work on IE.
I'm considering taking my money to a different bank, but I haven't met anyone using the other banks' sites to tell me how they work.