I'm in the process of rewritting some small freely available application because the original caused my computer to segfault under two circumstances which I consider normal use. In rewritting it, i've eliminated those errors and maintained the same performance. As well, I decided to start using a memory profiler, Valgrind. The end result is a more user friendly tool because it doesn't crash in normal operation giving bad error messages that only a programmer would understand. It is also more secure... no more buffer overflows.
My point is, moving towards usability shouldn't mean that we should loosen our belts, allowing the user to run amock in the system, we should tighten them.
No widespread use in Linux? Last I checked, KDE uses QT. How many Linux distributions distribute KDE? Probably all the major ones.
What real reasons are there for QT to change it's licensing for the Windows platform? The interview clearly states why they won't. Your logic makes no sense to me. Someone who embraces the predatory licensing of MS-Windows will be afraid of the licensing of non-Free QT? I doubt it. If someone doesn't like non-Free QT license, but will tolerate MS licensing, then they have some weird conflicting views.
Your insight about the QT logo is a bit off the wall, if you ask me. read into it what you want, though.
while true, food isn't as easily distributed as software. I still think you make a good point. Public awareness can help to insure that foreign software not exhibiting these rules should not be downloaded except with extreme caution.
Are the bits that encode the music mine? After all, I bought the hard drive where they reside. Are the cd's that music is stored on mine? I paid for those too.
What *am* I buying when I buy a CD? a license to play the music? if that's the case, They shouldn't care what medium i transfer the music to. But they do care. In fact, They tax me for CDR's assuming I'm going to use them to write their music to.
It will last long enough for the U.S. government to make an overly broad and presumptuous law that takes away yet another sliver of our rights (ours, probably meaning in this case the handicapped)
no sh*t. imagine the battery drain from using a processor that can use openGL. who needs that crap. I'm all for openGL as a 3d standard, but cellphones don't need 3d. cellphones don't need games. Am i going to be ranting about cellphone batteries not lasting an hour, like i am with laptop batteries, in a year?
we have a few remaining win98 machines at work. Last year when viruses were running rampant across the internet in big waves, those were the only machines not infected/affected.
I'm really surprised we didn't "downgrade" to win98 at that time. Well, probably long term contracts like to mentioned. I have no say or information on the matter. Though i'd wager that all our employees wouldn't notice a difference if they used 98 instead of 2k.
They are the stereotypical parents. mid 50s, like to get jokes from friends in email, like pictures in email, browse and buy online, etc. Linux can do all that without them knowing the difference.
Problem is Dad, he is an old school aerospace engineer, programmed in punchcards in college, yada yada, has been in upper management for nearly 20 years now. However he needs (or thinks he needs) MS Word for business compatibility between different companies. It's a mental thing, he wants to know that people will see what he types in a way that he intends. He had Corel Wordperfect for a while, but it had incompatibilities that he visually noticed. I know, PDF is named PDF for a reason, but he doesn't know how to make one, let alone allow other people revise a PDF he makes.
What I'm considering for them is a two computer setup, maybe with a switch to share the same monitor/keyboard/mouse, such that the windows machine is not allowed to make connections with anything but the linux machine. Let them use windows for "content creation" if they absolutely need to, and have a shared file system that they could use to grab files while in linux and attach them as needed. This way, they have fewer virus threats in windows, reduced only to files recieved and copied from linux to the shared filesystem. Those files can be scanned in windows easily though, or something. It's one more step they need to take to get the task done, but it's better than another couple hours spent trying to talk them through a security problem over the phone, which wastes both their time and mine, and they get very frustrated easily.
There was some explosion at the nearby ConEdison building and a bunch of smoke was rising from it. That's when we decided it was time to walk down the 45 flights of stairs. I'm in relatively decent shape but the monotonous pattern of steps was starting to make me dizzy and my legs floppy. I'd feel that more the next day in my knees. After that is was either a 3 hour walk to brooklyn or a much shorter 40 block walk to my girlfriends place. Not even sure how to get to brooklyn on foot, being new to the city, i opted for a walk uptown. It was uneventfull, for the most part. Citizens directing traffic at intersections and some dumbasses in cars ignoring all of them. Once uptown, it was obvious that people were either at bars or trying to find food and supplies. Bars mostly. The crowds at bars were overflowing into the street. Everyone was trying to use their cellphones yet nobody was talking into them, just waiting and hoping a signal would go through.
Some time later, i met up with my girlfriend, thankfull she wasn't stuck in the subway. She was leaving a training seminar at work just as it happened, but the subway was already not working by the time she got down to it. So we looked for candles and flashlights at her place and found only 1 of each. We went out looking for more and found a french bakery selling all their refridgerated goods for super cheap. We bought some frozen icey things and they were delicious. At the grocery store, we waiting in line for about a half hour atleast just to get into the store. the store was nearly pitch black inside and they were only letting a handfull of people in at a time. Blindly, we looked for the candles and some other food that we could make for later. Thats about it, just tons of people out walking the sidewalks, hundreds of people sitting on walls on the edge of central park resting or listening to news on someones car radio, a haldfull of inconsiderate asses driving way too fast, ignoring pedestrians and people trying to help direct traffic.
But that alone won't do it. We need to improve system layouts and cooling techniques. Better cooling won't reduce power - it means you can burn MORE power without getting hotter. It doesn't help your battery life.
But the minute your system gets too hot, the fan starts working overtime. How many systems have more than 1 fan these days?
Improved system layout for transfering heat out of the computer would help power consumption, just indirectly.
I think the amount of people here in/. who support copyright infringement is very low. Most would argue to their death about Fair Use before supporting copyright infringement of any kind. You just don't see posts proclaiming "I don't support copyright infringement!" because there isn't really a need to until posts like yours show up.
number of copyright violations on my computer: Zero.
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I don't know, I've seen a lot of interest in people my age this year (mid twenties). Much more than when the last election came lumbering through. I'd love to see some record voter turnout this year.
It is scarey to think about apathy though. I was watching some show about the early 1900's last night. It made me think, wow, my grandparents were alive during all this. And then i took another step back in time, their grandparents were possibly alive during the early 1800's. And another generation or two back and your at the American Revolution. How far we've fell from being accountable for our government, and our government being accountable to us.
Now that they've released WiX, less companies will be willing to pay for, say, InstallShield(/whatever) and as there a more programs that will use WiX, the feel of the OS-operation will be that it is more harmonious.
So you're saying they are using their OS monopoly to crush competitors in the installer market by releasing a free installer?
Is this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?"
Yeah, that's why people diferentiate between "Open Source" and "Free Software". Open Source implies, sometimes falsely, what Free Software explicitly states. One project of SF does not make you a proponent of Free Software. Let's wait and see how MS follows this up.
However, it is interesting if you want to see what MS code looks like. I wonder if they spent weeks cleaning it and going to code reviews to make sure it is a good example of MS software.
Imagine you have some weapon installation in orbit. How are you going to protect it? A small orbiting fleck of paint could tear a hole in it... or I could atleast claim that it wasn't my fault your weapon system blew up.
Big waste of money. Big freakin waste of money. God it's been a long 4 years.
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I'm in the process of rewritting some small freely available application because the original caused my computer to segfault under two circumstances which I consider normal use. In rewritting it, i've eliminated those errors and maintained the same performance. As well, I decided to start using a memory profiler, Valgrind. The end result is a more user friendly tool because it doesn't crash in normal operation giving bad error messages that only a programmer would understand. It is also more secure... no more buffer overflows.
My point is, moving towards usability shouldn't mean that we should loosen our belts, allowing the user to run amock in the system, we should tighten them.
No widespread use in Linux? Last I checked, KDE uses QT. How many Linux distributions distribute KDE? Probably all the major ones.
What real reasons are there for QT to change it's licensing for the Windows platform? The interview clearly states why they won't. Your logic makes no sense to me. Someone who embraces the predatory licensing of MS-Windows will be afraid of the licensing of non-Free QT? I doubt it. If someone doesn't like non-Free QT license, but will tolerate MS licensing, then they have some weird conflicting views.
Your insight about the QT logo is a bit off the wall, if you ask me. read into it what you want, though.
Java is a bright success! All fortune 500 companies are using it in one way or the other.
All the fortune 500 companies are also probably scamming their shareholders in one way or another. That doesn't make it a good thing.
$6.66 should get the message across loud and clear.
;)
What's that, 1/100th of a SCO license?
while true, food isn't as easily distributed as software. I still think you make a good point. Public awareness can help to insure that foreign software not exhibiting these rules should not be downloaded except with extreme caution.
Are the bits that encode the music mine? After all, I bought the hard drive where they reside. Are the cd's that music is stored on mine? I paid for those too.
What *am* I buying when I buy a CD? a license to play the music? if that's the case, They shouldn't care what medium i transfer the music to. But they do care. In fact, They tax me for CDR's assuming I'm going to use them to write their music to.
It will last long enough for the U.S. government to make an overly broad and presumptuous law that takes away yet another sliver of our rights (ours, probably meaning in this case the handicapped)
rather, Can i drive so freakin fast that it turns from red to blue?
no sh*t. imagine the battery drain from using a processor that can use openGL. who needs that crap. I'm all for openGL as a 3d standard, but cellphones don't need 3d. cellphones don't need games. Am i going to be ranting about cellphone batteries not lasting an hour, like i am with laptop batteries, in a year?
again, vote with your wallet.
seriously.
we have a few remaining win98 machines at work. Last year when viruses were running rampant across the internet in big waves, those were the only machines not infected/affected.
I'm really surprised we didn't "downgrade" to win98 at that time. Well, probably long term contracts like to mentioned. I have no say or information on the matter. Though i'd wager that all our employees wouldn't notice a difference if they used 98 instead of 2k.
They are the stereotypical parents. mid 50s, like to get jokes from friends in email, like pictures in email, browse and buy online, etc. Linux can do all that without them knowing the difference.
Problem is Dad, he is an old school aerospace engineer, programmed in punchcards in college, yada yada, has been in upper management for nearly 20 years now. However he needs (or thinks he needs) MS Word for business compatibility between different companies. It's a mental thing, he wants to know that people will see what he types in a way that he intends. He had Corel Wordperfect for a while, but it had incompatibilities that he visually noticed. I know, PDF is named PDF for a reason, but he doesn't know how to make one, let alone allow other people revise a PDF he makes.
What I'm considering for them is a two computer setup, maybe with a switch to share the same monitor/keyboard/mouse, such that the windows machine is not allowed to make connections with anything but the linux machine. Let them use windows for "content creation" if they absolutely need to, and have a shared file system that they could use to grab files while in linux and attach them as needed. This way, they have fewer virus threats in windows, reduced only to files recieved and copied from linux to the shared filesystem. Those files can be scanned in windows easily though, or something. It's one more step they need to take to get the task done, but it's better than another couple hours spent trying to talk them through a security problem over the phone, which wastes both their time and mine, and they get very frustrated easily.
Just say no to upgrading to Longhorn!
Watch our for their dropped packets!
splat.
I for one do not welcome our sugar coated OSX overlords.
There was some explosion at the nearby ConEdison building and a bunch of smoke was rising from it. That's when we decided it was time to walk down the 45 flights of stairs. I'm in relatively decent shape but the monotonous pattern of steps was starting to make me dizzy and my legs floppy. I'd feel that more the next day in my knees. After that is was either a 3 hour walk to brooklyn or a much shorter 40 block walk to my girlfriends place. Not even sure how to get to brooklyn on foot, being new to the city, i opted for a walk uptown. It was uneventfull, for the most part. Citizens directing traffic at intersections and some dumbasses in cars ignoring all of them. Once uptown, it was obvious that people were either at bars or trying to find food and supplies. Bars mostly. The crowds at bars were overflowing into the street. Everyone was trying to use their cellphones yet nobody was talking into them, just waiting and hoping a signal would go through.
Some time later, i met up with my girlfriend, thankfull she wasn't stuck in the subway. She was leaving a training seminar at work just as it happened, but the subway was already not working by the time she got down to it. So we looked for candles and flashlights at her place and found only 1 of each. We went out looking for more and found a french bakery selling all their refridgerated goods for super cheap. We bought some frozen icey things and they were delicious. At the grocery store, we waiting in line for about a half hour atleast just to get into the store. the store was nearly pitch black inside and they were only letting a handfull of people in at a time. Blindly, we looked for the candles and some other food that we could make for later. Thats about it, just tons of people out walking the sidewalks, hundreds of people sitting on walls on the edge of central park resting or listening to news on someones car radio, a haldfull of inconsiderate asses driving way too fast, ignoring pedestrians and people trying to help direct traffic.
But that alone won't do it. We need to improve system layouts and cooling techniques.
Better cooling won't reduce power - it means you can burn MORE power without getting hotter. It doesn't help your battery life.
But the minute your system gets too hot, the fan starts working overtime. How many systems have more than 1 fan these days?
Improved system layout for transfering heat out of the computer would help power consumption, just indirectly.
Now that we have more room we are being lazy and only concentrating on making things "larger than life" instead of faster and smaller.
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And that's why Java is so usefull
I think the amount of people here in /. who support copyright infringement is very low. Most would argue to their death about Fair Use before supporting copyright infringement of any kind. You just don't see posts proclaiming "I don't support copyright infringement!" because there isn't really a need to until posts like yours show up.
number of copyright violations on my computer: Zero.
I don't know, I've seen a lot of interest in people my age this year (mid twenties). Much more than when the last election came lumbering through. I'd love to see some record voter turnout this year.
It is scarey to think about apathy though. I was watching some show about the early 1900's last night. It made me think, wow, my grandparents were alive during all this. And then i took another step back in time, their grandparents were possibly alive during the early 1800's. And another generation or two back and your at the American Revolution. How far we've fell from being accountable for our government, and our government being accountable to us.
Now that they've released WiX, less companies will be willing to pay for, say, InstallShield(/whatever) and as there a more programs that will use WiX, the feel of the OS-operation will be that it is more harmonious.
So you're saying they are using their OS monopoly to crush competitors in the installer market by releasing a free installer?
Call the EU! Give MS another 600B fine!
Is this another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy, or do you think they are embracing on the Open Source movement?"
Yeah, that's why people diferentiate between "Open Source" and "Free Software". Open Source implies, sometimes falsely, what Free Software explicitly states. One project of SF does not make you a proponent of Free Software. Let's wait and see how MS follows this up.
However, it is interesting if you want to see what MS code looks like. I wonder if they spent weeks cleaning it and going to code reviews to make sure it is a good example of MS software.
Imagine you have some weapon installation in orbit. How are you going to protect it? A small orbiting fleck of paint could tear a hole in it... or I could atleast claim that it wasn't my fault your weapon system blew up.
Big waste of money. Big freakin waste of money. God it's been a long 4 years.
...the editors of Slashdot were seen beating a dead horse at a local Michigan farm.
Netcraft confirms, Game Boy Advanced is dead!
"that's not a moon..."
"that's a great white god!"
oh.. wrong movie. I was thinking the quote from the old "Moby Dick" movie, "That ain't a whale!..."
man, /. is teh suck on April 1. goodbye till tomorrow. until then i'll be reading the last 2 months of dilbert.com