Of course, let us not forget everyone who contributes to FOSS, be it Samba, Apache, Bind or Squirrelmail, and of course our own Jesus look-alike, RMS;)
Naturally, RMS would have been a candidate for "Person of the Year" except for this incident:
Web technologies evolve and there is no value in supporting a product which cannot render the latest standards.
Web developers have been plagued by browsers that do not support xhtml, css and ecmascript. Consequently they have had to 'dumb-down' content to be displayable in older browsers.
Microsoft will release a new version of IE for Vista. It's challenge of firefox evangelists to convince everyone else to use gecko or khtml-derived engines.
There's a certain skepticism about the AJAX revolution given legacy browsers that still exist. Discontinuing an ancient version of IE is a step in the right direction.
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Local authorities pass a law making open access points a civil offence. Let's say a 50 euro on the spot fine with a 14 day compliance period.
IT savvy police officer Catarella contacts the cyber crime unit for possible solutions. Bingo, every officer and parking inspector is issued with a handheld device with wardriving software. Every time that thing beeps, another 50 euros in revenue.
why aren't they stepping up and doing something more effective, such as a computer login or swipecard?
Well it may come to that. When on vacation in Spain and Austria I noticed a variety of billing methods for net labs. The most common was 'quisiera usar Internet' - 'bien, usa ordenador numero ocho'. and settle payment when you left. (Sorry if my Spanish is wrong!) Some did make you pay upfront for half hour blocks with a temporary login and password. (Printed out on a POS docket). Others were timed with a coin slot.
That was mainly net access in pay by the hour computer labs. Whilst there wasn't any ID check it's not too far removed.
For actual cafes, whose main revenue is food and drink the following scenario might apply: Some multinational coffee chains already have membership swipe cards that allow for rewards such as a free coffee after every umpteenth purchase. Every time you buy coffee and a muffin you might get, say, 15 mins free net access -forcing you to go back for more food to extend your time. Premium members might pay for credits in advance. Beats sticking a coin in a slot every 10 minutes.
Poorly Dressed Anonymous Coward wrote to mention are article run in the Syndney Morning Herald saying that IT workers have been dubbed the worst dressed corporate employees.
wrote to mention are article - what language is this?
It's Sydney, pronounced 'Sid-knee' not Syndney ('Sinned-knee').
High-screen, that would be handy, because then you can see more of the document you are typing. But why anyone would want a widescreen laptop is beyond me.
Well, if you're only using your notebook for word processing...
As a developer, here are several uses off the top of my head
Databases/Spreadsheets with lots of columns. I would think that any document that you need to print in landscape would benefit...
Development environments, e.g. eclipse. In the middle you have a text editor but 'sidebars' of information, e.g. in trees.
Revision control. Viewing two documents side by side to see changes.
If and when Apple releases a lightweight 12" intel 'book expect it to compete with similar specs to say the Dell 700m. That model is due for a refresh soon I'd predict. i.e. with 533mhz bus & DDR2
Qt apps make the cardinal UI mistake of looking like OS X apps, but not behaving like them. As a trivial example, the key combinations for skipping forward or backward a line or a word are different in Qt apps to every single other app on the system. This is insanely irritating, since it's the kind of thing you don't even do consciously.
I see. Thinking out loud here, I'm wondering whether that's a limitation of the toolkit as such. Or, whether each application ought to specify key bindings and other platform specific localisation, e.g. X11 or OS X, through a configuration file.
An X11 version, at least, will look different and so give a visual clue that it is going to behave differently.
So, at least from knowing what to expect it's easier to have the overhead of an X11 server running than using native widgets which look but don't feel the same?
I guess that's the difference between a native port and a recompile.:(
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Naturally, RMS would have been a candidate for "Person of the Year" except for this incident:
Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat :)
Web technologies evolve and there is no value in supporting a product which cannot render the latest standards.
Web developers have been plagued by browsers that do not support xhtml, css and ecmascript. Consequently they have had to 'dumb-down' content to be displayable in older browsers.
Microsoft will release a new version of IE for Vista. It's challenge of firefox evangelists to convince everyone else to use gecko or khtml-derived engines.
There's a certain skepticism about the AJAX revolution given legacy browsers that still exist. Discontinuing an ancient version of IE is a step in the right direction.
Buy more RAM. :)
So with corn syrup it becomes... Coffee XP?
Probably not as difficult as you might think.
Consider:
Local authorities pass a law making open access points a civil offence. Let's say a 50 euro on the spot fine with a 14 day compliance period.
IT savvy police officer Catarella contacts the cyber crime unit for possible solutions. Bingo, every officer and parking inspector is issued with a handheld device with wardriving software. Every time that thing beeps, another 50 euros in revenue.
But I've probably just upset an army of caffeine-deprived nerds who actually like the taste of said multinational chain's 'dish-water'. :)
Well it may come to that. When on vacation in Spain and Austria I noticed a variety of billing methods for net labs. The most common was 'quisiera usar Internet' - 'bien, usa ordenador numero ocho'. and settle payment when you left. (Sorry if my Spanish is wrong!) Some did make you pay upfront for half hour blocks with a temporary login and password. (Printed out on a POS docket). Others were timed with a coin slot.
That was mainly net access in pay by the hour computer labs. Whilst there wasn't any ID check it's not too far removed.
For actual cafes, whose main revenue is food and drink the following scenario might apply: Some multinational coffee chains already have membership swipe cards that allow for rewards such as a free coffee after every umpteenth purchase. Every time you buy coffee and a muffin you might get, say, 15 mins free net access -forcing you to go back for more food to extend your time. Premium members might pay for credits in advance. Beats sticking a coin in a slot every 10 minutes.
Does Bill code anymore? One interview I read he was quoted that he hadn't written any serious code for Microsoft since 1983!
This is Macedonia we're talking about, not New Zealand.
This was all and well in teaching me how to schedule appointments but 'management' kept wanting to hold real meetings at the same time... :(
Why, is he from New Zealand? :)
Yeah, I made that up! I was hoping admin would mod it 'Funny' or, better still, 'Informative'.
:)
Still, I'm impressed you actually went to the trouble of googling for it!
Hence Whataever --> Whatever.
Well, maybe not 2Ghz overnight, but there's life in the G4 yet: dual core...
I'd rather have one of these powering a mac-mini than a celeron-m. Such is life...
Well, if you're only using your notebook for word processing...
As a developer, here are several uses off the top of my head
If and when Apple releases a lightweight 12" intel 'book expect it to compete with similar specs to say the Dell 700m. That model is due for a refresh soon I'd predict. i.e. with 533mhz bus & DDR2
Essentially:
'Cocoa' and Java.
hot women read Slashdot? Where? :)
They were working on emulating x86 on PPC but there were discussions about implementing the display technology in Quartz instead of X11 too.
I thought the active BeOS community were biding their time with BeOS Max Edition before Haiku is ready.
No issues with Haiku and price. :)
Besides, I don't believe that any of the ex Be employees have the legal right to work on Zeta or haiku due to IP constraints.
Java2D is now OpenGL accelerated under mustang.
Glitz provides support for hardware acceleration too.
So, usage of OpenGL is increasing...
I see. Thinking out loud here, I'm wondering whether that's a limitation of the toolkit as such. Or, whether each application ought to specify key bindings and other platform specific localisation, e.g. X11 or OS X, through a configuration file.
An X11 version, at least, will look different and so give a visual clue that it is going to behave differently.
So, at least from knowing what to expect it's easier to have the overhead of an X11 server running than using native widgets which look but don't feel the same?
I guess that's the difference between a native port and a recompile. :(
I understand that a Qt app mightn't behave as smoothly as a Cocoa one but how does Qt/Mac compare to using X11?
I've wondered how Lyx (for scientific papes) would perform under OS X if I ever switch to an x86-64 macmini. From your feedback not well?
Are there issues with native Qt on the Mac as opposed to the X11 version? Or are you just favouring the Cocoa/Carbon toolkits with your laughter??
Ummm, wouldn't that be 668? :)
Try Solar