That's fine if you have a computer eclipse can run on, but I don't have one. I should note for those that nit-pick here on/. that I am assuming the demo requires eclipse.
Screenshots should still be produced. Screenshots generate interest in an app before committing time to a demo or playing around with code. If a person likes the interface design, or atleast the screen shots, then they can commit the time to playing with the demo if they have a system it can run on.
I like to research projects and apps before I use them--even if I don't have a computer that is fast enough to run them. When I research, I usually start with screenshots to determine how well designed the UI is because nothing pisses me off more than getting excited about an app only to discover the UI sucks and/or was VERY poorly designed. Next, I move on to feature lists, and so on--until I get to the any availble demos and tutorials.
If a project doesn't provide screenshots, then I start off by thinking the project doesn't have a well designed UI. Another possibility is that they are ashamed of the UI. In some cases, project maintainers will put a statement that says something like, "screenshots available soon". This is an except option provided that soon doesn't mean years.
Screenshots are a key part of evaluations of an app or project that contains any type of a UI because people hate to waste time on poorly designed UIs.
I think any "visual" type product should include screen shots, and I could not find anything similar to that on the linked page. Oh course, I might be missing something! Now back to my KDevelop update & upgrades...
I know QT isn't free on Windows, and I doubt it is released under a GPL compatible license for windows. This would be a problem for eclipse's crossplatformness.
A free version of the BuilderX? Where? I would love to try it! I went to the website the other day and tried to find this rumored free version, but I didn't have any luck.
What the Hell are you talking about? I just looked in two different High School History texts and there are chapters on Christianity in both of them along with several other religions. And, besides, you can't TEACH any religion in a public school. You CAN, however, teach the HISTORY of any religion, which they do. I was taught about Christianity in various contexts in AP European History, World History, and American History. I also read a lot of Christian works in British Literature my senior year. You obviously haven't got a clue.
You need a clue. Don't you follow any news? Islam is taught, and glorified, in California's public schools. Didn't you see the massive news coverage on it? Probably not.
That's all nice that Christianity is mentioned in those books, but a Christian can't pray, talk to a student/teacher about Christianity (even when the student ASKS about it), can't bring in a Bible to school without risk of suspension, and Christian students who have a voluntary Bible study club are not given the funds due to a school club. Where is the ACLU in defending these peoples rights of speech and religion? Shouldn't a group called the American Civil Liberties Union actually defend Civil Liberties?
They were not there. It took others to get some of these problems solved. Oh, school are required by law to give funds (or even allow to have one) to Christian clubs if they give funds to other clubs. This has been held up in court, and some school districts have chosen to not allow any clubs rather allow students who want to have a Bible study club to have one.
A racist can hate Jews because they are Jewish (religious discrimination instead of racial), but that doesn't change the fact that they are a racist. The same applies to the ACLU. Just because they prosecute others, doesn't change the fact that they haven't defended the rights of Christians. They only persecute Christians.
If you can't argue in anything more than soundbites, maybe you just shouldn't say anything. Leave it up to people who actually have some insight into the position you hold rather than just feel strongly about it without understanding why. GUNS fire BULLETS which cause TRAUMA in people who DIE. GUNS are FIRED by PEOPLE. Therefore, PEOPLE firing GUNS kill PEOPLE. Therefore, PEOPLE WITH GUNS KILL PEOPLE. Amusingly, this holds true to varying degrees with other weapons such as blades, clubs, and power tools. Of course, unlike, say, automatic weapons, for example, these other items have legitimate, constructive uses.
I made an assumption that those reading it were intelligent. Weapons require something (or someone), usually a human, to activate/use them to injure someone. The real issue is the reason behind the activation/use of the weapon. That is what our laws have focused on in the past. If you remove one weapon, a determined person will find another one to accomplish the task. We must deal with the ration behind using the weapons. Throughout the world there are societies where children have used weapons and knives (like machetes) at very young ages safely. These kids were taught the proper use of the knives and weapons (shot guns for hunting). American society has gotten away from teaching these basic things. We used to teach these things, and back then we didn't have as many problems with the weapons. We didn't need guns locks because kids were taught the proper use of them, or the parents actually told their kids to touch, or use, the gun. The parents then followed up with something that seems out of place in today's society--the punished them for disobeying them.
People and their attitudes are the problem not weapons. Banning weapons only serves to disarm the populace to allow the radicals of political society to more easily force their agenda on the public--such as a change to something like communism, dictatorship, or kingship. When you see these types of changes, it's because the populace has been unarmed. As with most things of power, t
False. My school taught about Christianity in our World History class, right alongside Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and others....
They have also consistently brought lawsuits against non-Christian organizations and people. Wow! They're anti everyone!
If your World History class was in California, then both Jews and Christians complained about the teaching because they made Islam look good and Christianity and Judaism look bad. That's all nice that you were supposedly "taught" about Christianity in World History, but a Christian can't pray, talk to a student/teacher about Christianity (even when the student ASKS about it), can't bring in a Bible to school without risk of suspension, and Christian students who have a voluntary Bible study club are not given the funds due to a school club. Where is the ACLU in defends these peoples rights of speech and religion? Shouldn't a group called the American Civil Liberties Union actually defend Civil Liberties?
They were not there. It took others to get some of these problems solved. Oh, school are required by law to give funds (or even allow to have one) to Christian clubs if they give funds to other clubs. This has been held up in court, and some school districts have chosen to not allow any clubs rather allow students who want to have a Bible study club to have one.
A racist can hate Jews because they are Jewish (religious discrimination instead of racial), but that doesn't change the fact that they are a racist. The same applies to the ACLU. Just because they prosecute others, doesn't change the fact that they haven't defended the rights of Christians. They only persecute Christians.
Nuclear bombs don't kill people, people kill people! Fires don't kill people, smoke inhalation kills people! People don't kill people, blood loss, blunt trauma, and other injuries kill people!
Do you have any idea how absurd using short, cute, and completely irrelevant slogans in a debate makes you seem?
I made an assumption that those reading it were intelligent, but given your response, obviously not everyone is intelligent. Weapons require something (or someone), usually a human, to activate/use them to injure someone. The real issue is the reason behind the activation/use of the weapon. That is what our laws have focused on in the past. If you remove one weapon, a determined person will find another one to accomplish the task. We must deal with the rational behind using the weapons. Throughout the world there are societies where children have used weapons and knives (like machetes) at very young ages safely. These kids were taught the proper use of the knives and weapons (shot guns for hunting). American society has gotten away from teaching these basic things. We used to teach these things, and back then we didn't have as many problems with the weapons. We didn't need guns locks because kids were taught the proper use of them, or the parents actually told there kids not to touch, or use, the gun. The parents then followed up with something that seems out of place in today's society--they punished them for disobeying them.
People and their attitudes are the problem not weapons. Banning weapons only serves to disarm the populace to allow the radicals of political society to more easily force their agenda on the public--such as a change to something like communism, dictatorship, or kingship. When you see these types of changes, it's because the populace has been unarmed. As with most things of power, there comes responsibility, and in America today responsibility is something that is lacking.
Another company tried something like this in the mid 90s (1996 to 1998). Their product was called Icon Author (glorified flow chart using icons and flowchart symbols) it was simpler, but the logic still perplexed some of the temps we hired at the company where I was working during that time. They even tried to make it cross-platform, but they failed because they used MFC (and MFC on the Mac sucked {on purpose probably}). They might have succeed today if they use wxWindows.
The problem with this idea will be getting around the complexities of programming--like the logic. Some people just aren't logical thinkers. Icon author made programming somewhat easier but it didn't make the logic easier. Some people have problems with concepts such as loops and data structures. They may get around this problem, but it will have be done by making sacrifies.
The Anti-Christian Left-wingers United is very left wing. In fact, in recent years they have been descriminating against Christians. They very rarely, if ever, defend Christians! In fact, they have gone out of their way to deny Christians their basic rights. For instance, you can teach, or talk about, any religion in school except Christianity. The ACLU has consistently brought lawsuits agains Christian organizations and people.
Get one thing straight you left-wing twit. Guns don't kill people! People kill people! The ACLU is only denying Americans their right to defend themselves from their own government and others. One of the principal reasons that the 2nd Amendment was added was to prevent abuses of the government the founders had experienced in Europe.
That is irrelevant. The other people obviously didn't bother to mentioning that he should talk to David either! It also doesn't exscuse their attitudes! Harold should not have had to asked for the commit provilages. It should have been offered by to him by now since he has been the maintainer of the Cygwin port for roughly 2 years (according to his posts in the thread). Xfree86 is more of a Cathedral project than Open Source projects, and it shows the darker side of Open Source development when a small group of people become teritorial resort to pissing matches to keep the tight grip on a project rather than let it grow organically as it should happen. It's a good thing Linus is better at politics than these guys, or Linux wouldn't be as good as it is today!
I am by no means an avid reader of this list, but I did read the list pertaining to the subject at hand. From what I can see of this project, it is an open source project in name only. This project is more of a Cathedral than a Bazaar--only this Cathedral allows people to see the building structure and workings.
Harold, or his successor (he wants to spend more time with family), should take the Cygwin XFree86 tree elsewhere. He has committed 3 years, the last two years I guess he's been the leader of the Cygwin branch, of his own time to developing and fixing the Cygwin branch, and he can't even get CVS commit access to the Cygwin branch! The only rude people in the list were the main developers with commit privilages.
I say that alll the developers who have been scorned by these wannabe open source primadonas should get together and fork the XFree86 project and they should make the project a true open source project.
I have been playing with knoppix for a while, and I have been impressed. I can run it from a bootable CD. Nothing needs to be installed,a nd it didn't have problems with hardware. It will come in handy the next time a family members PCs crashes to recover files (especially the laptops). That's my primar reason for using knoppix.
I will start by saying that I do not know how Google gets its results, but I have an idea on how this could happen. If the search engine first finds all the results of the first word, and next the search engine finds all the pages that contain the second word within the first results. You will get different results if you reverse the words using this method. On the other hand, if you find all the results from both words then find the interesection of the two results, you should get the same results--otherwise the search engine is messed up.
Maybe not one person, but you can place some, if not all of the blame, on Corporate executives who are outsourcing the jobs to India (and other such countries). In the past, late 1980s & 1990s, exporting of jobs was done for economic reasons, like it is being done today, but there is a major difference. The earlier economic savings were passed on to the customer, but this is not happenning in most cases today. In most cases, the savings is used to boost up profits giving a false sense of an economic upturn in the economy. In addition to this, the money is used to give bonuses, salary increases, and extra incentives to the top executives of companies.
The only way we can make a difference is to bring to light those companies that do outsourcing to foreign companies because it will be a huge negative public relations disaster.
You forgot the importing of foriegners to take American jobs through H-1Bs & L1s. Clinton didn't do much to help out during his term in the office of President. I didn't see him stopping in influx of foriegners through visa programs.
This really has nothign to do with free speech. The constitution says you have the right to free speech, but you are not free fromthe consequences of what you said. The government is only asking for all information in pertaining to the case. If you hack a system, you will have to face the music. Based on the original article, he didn't have permission to hack the systems. It's one thing to be asked to do it by the company/organization. This is the same thing as running up to a parked car, slashing the tire, and then telling the owner of the car how you managed to slash there tires. The car owner would be pissed, and so would a company or organization. Besides that case, who's to say he didn't take stuff like credit card numbers or other information! This guy is not a victim. This guy is a vigilante(sp?).
I find it funny that India did it considering their blooming tech outsourcing industry. What's next blocking the internet? That'd be good...for American jobs.;)
There will always be some who will steal because they want something, but more people find it easier to steal as those conditions I mentioned in the previous post change.
If the executives & stars didn't make so much, they wouldn't need to charge so much--which would lead to less piracy. Piracy increases as with cost of the product increases while the quality of the product stays the same or declines.
MIT seems to be more about concept than practicality. My favorie part:
still it seems to be too complex for seniors and graduate students in the MIT computer science program, despite the fact that they all had at least one semester of Java experience in 6.170.
Something to complex for an MIT student! {Insert your favorite druggie comment here!}
I know I will take a karma hit for this, but so be it. I find it funny that/. will post articles like this, but they won't post articles about all the unemployed high tech workers, protests at the offshoring conferences, and the results of the protests.
The news doesn't tell the entire story. For instance a lot of these people are maintaining their riches by laying off programmers and transfering the jobs offshore.
Let's say a programmer in America makes on average $50k. Well, they only have to pay someone in India $5k, and they are doing this. Then they use the now extra $45k to artificially inflate profit making it look like things are recovering.
Conferences are being held around the country promoting the offshoring American jobs--not just the tech industry. Call centers (like AT&T) and acounting is being opffshored to India. Theoretically, only jobs that require a physical presence to do something are safe--like service industry jobs which don't pay much.
We need to level the playing field by making the benefits of offshoring nonexistent so that American workers will be able to compete. We need to make it public which companies are offshoring their jobs because they don't want you to know because it is a BIG public relations nightmare! Sign up for the email from this site. They provide a lot of information about the fight to save American middle class jobs! We need to organise and fight back before it's too late, and there are not tech jobs, or middle class jobs, in America!
Actually, you may not write any destructors, but they do get created for you by most compilers. Destructors are one of a few functions that will get created for you if you don't add it.
Personally, I think GC is over rated. GC should be left to langauges like Java where it is built in, and a lot of design consideration was put in to adding it to the langauge. At the bear minimum I think everyone should have to manage their own memory for a while in order to learn what's going and why it's going on. Once you've got the basics and fundamentals down, then you can move on to GC type stuff.
You forgot one thing. In the early days of Sci-fi when space was young and new to us, Sci-fi movies had a lot more fantacy in them. They contained visions of possiblities--both technological and physical. Hard core Sci-fi has removed a lot of these things. You get bogged down with stuff like "you can't do that in real world" or "that's not true according science". All possibility that some new could be true has been cut off like a cancer.
Sci-fi used to predict cool technology and stuff. Now it doesn't. It has gotten dragged down with the rules of science that exist today without leaving the door open for future the future possiblity that it could be true.
That is where Fantacy comes in to the scene. It has take the place of Sci-fi in stiring the immaginations of movie goers and book readers a like. When guessing about laws and rules of the real world and the Universe was removed, they removed a big part of the equation that stirred peoples imagination. So what if it is correct by todays scientific standards--the standards change almost on a daily basis with new discoveries.
Without the stirring of the imagination, there is little left to interest most people. This is why fantacy movies, and other media outlets, have become more popular. I think the boundary between sci-fi and fanctacy should be removed once more.
Hopefully (and I know this is wishfull thinking), that the jobs will be moved back over hear once consumers realise how bad the serve and quality is going to be. In the mean time, we need to get the word out. We need to make this a bad pr nightmare for those companies that use foriegn labor instead of American workers when their is high unemployment.
Not really if the landlord is a real estate company. They have alternative income sources. They can afford to keep the rent higher. In fact a lot of landlords own multiple properties. I am willing to bet that they had a large profit margin during the dotcom era. This means they probably have tennants still paying this amount which they can use to offset the loss. The landlords I know usually save money from the good time to use during the dry times. It takes a long time for rent to go down.
I don't think a lot of the companies have thought this through. They are blinded by the greed of the money they can "save". They pay the India employees $5,000 instead of $50,000 for an American high tech worker. That's about $45,000 dollars they can use to increase their privilaged benefits. Management, especially upper management, generally has a whole other level of benefits. I think the real problem behind a lot of the issues in America today comes down to greed--whether it's the RIAA or Tech companies sending jobs overseas.
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That's fine if you have a computer eclipse can run on, but I don't have one. I should note for those that nit-pick here on /. that I am assuming the demo requires eclipse.
Screenshots should still be produced. Screenshots generate interest in an app before committing time to a demo or playing around with code. If a person likes the interface design, or atleast the screen shots, then they can commit the time to playing with the demo if they have a system it can run on.
I like to research projects and apps before I use them--even if I don't have a computer that is fast enough to run them. When I research, I usually start with screenshots to determine how well designed the UI is because nothing pisses me off more than getting excited about an app only to discover the UI sucks and/or was VERY poorly designed. Next, I move on to feature lists, and so on--until I get to the any availble demos and tutorials.
If a project doesn't provide screenshots, then I start off by thinking the project doesn't have a well designed UI. Another possibility is that they are ashamed of the UI. In some cases, project maintainers will put a statement that says something like, "screenshots available soon". This is an except option provided that soon doesn't mean years.
Screenshots are a key part of evaluations of an app or project that contains any type of a UI because people hate to waste time on poorly designed UIs.
I think any "visual" type product should include screen shots, and I could not find anything similar to that on the linked page. Oh course, I might be missing something! Now back to my KDevelop update & upgrades...
I know QT isn't free on Windows, and I doubt it is released under a GPL compatible license for windows. This would be a problem for eclipse's crossplatformness.
A free version of the BuilderX? Where? I would love to try it! I went to the website the other day and tried to find this rumored free version, but I didn't have any luck.
What the Hell are you talking about? I just looked in two different High School History texts and there are chapters on Christianity in both of them along with several other religions. And, besides, you can't TEACH any religion in a public school. You CAN, however, teach the HISTORY of any religion, which they do. I was taught about Christianity in various contexts in AP European History, World History, and American History. I also read a lot of Christian works in British Literature my senior year. You obviously haven't got a clue.
You need a clue. Don't you follow any news? Islam is taught, and glorified, in California's public schools. Didn't you see the massive news coverage on it? Probably not.
That's all nice that Christianity is mentioned in those books, but a Christian can't pray, talk to a student/teacher about Christianity (even when the student ASKS about it), can't bring in a Bible to school without risk of suspension, and Christian students who have a voluntary Bible study club are not given the funds due to a school club. Where is the ACLU in defending these peoples rights of speech and religion? Shouldn't a group called the American Civil Liberties Union actually defend Civil Liberties?
They were not there. It took others to get some of these problems solved. Oh, school are required by law to give funds (or even allow to have one) to Christian clubs if they give funds to other clubs. This has been held up in court, and some school districts have chosen to not allow any clubs rather allow students who want to have a Bible study club to have one.
A racist can hate Jews because they are Jewish (religious discrimination instead of racial), but that doesn't change the fact that they are a racist. The same applies to the ACLU. Just because they prosecute others, doesn't change the fact that they haven't defended the rights of Christians. They only persecute Christians.
If you can't argue in anything more than soundbites, maybe you just shouldn't say anything. Leave it up to people who actually have some insight into the position you hold rather than just feel strongly about it without understanding why. GUNS fire BULLETS which cause TRAUMA in people who DIE. GUNS are FIRED by PEOPLE. Therefore, PEOPLE firing GUNS kill PEOPLE. Therefore, PEOPLE WITH GUNS KILL PEOPLE. Amusingly, this holds true to varying degrees with other weapons such as blades, clubs, and power tools. Of course, unlike, say, automatic weapons, for example, these other items have legitimate, constructive uses.
I made an assumption that those reading it were intelligent. Weapons require something (or someone), usually a human, to activate/use them to injure someone. The real issue is the reason behind the activation/use of the weapon. That is what our laws have focused on in the past. If you remove one weapon, a determined person will find another one to accomplish the task. We must deal with the ration behind using the weapons. Throughout the world there are societies where children have used weapons and knives (like machetes) at very young ages safely. These kids were taught the proper use of the knives and weapons (shot guns for hunting). American society has gotten away from teaching these basic things. We used to teach these things, and back then we didn't have as many problems with the weapons. We didn't need guns locks because kids were taught the proper use of them, or the parents actually told their kids to touch, or use, the gun. The parents then followed up with something that seems out of place in today's society--the punished them for disobeying them.
People and their attitudes are the problem not weapons. Banning weapons only serves to disarm the populace to allow the radicals of political society to more easily force their agenda on the public--such as a change to something like communism, dictatorship, or kingship. When you see these types of changes, it's because the populace has been unarmed. As with most things of power, t
False. My school taught about Christianity in our World History class, right alongside Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and others. ...
They have also consistently brought lawsuits against non-Christian organizations and people. Wow! They're anti everyone!
If your World History class was in California, then both Jews and Christians complained about the teaching because they made Islam look good and Christianity and Judaism look bad. That's all nice that you were supposedly "taught" about Christianity in World History, but a Christian can't pray, talk to a student/teacher about Christianity (even when the student ASKS about it), can't bring in a Bible to school without risk of suspension, and Christian students who have a voluntary Bible study club are not given the funds due to a school club. Where is the ACLU in defends these peoples rights of speech and religion? Shouldn't a group called the American Civil Liberties Union actually defend Civil Liberties?
They were not there. It took others to get some of these problems solved. Oh, school are required by law to give funds (or even allow to have one) to Christian clubs if they give funds to other clubs. This has been held up in court, and some school districts have chosen to not allow any clubs rather allow students who want to have a Bible study club to have one.
A racist can hate Jews because they are Jewish (religious discrimination instead of racial), but that doesn't change the fact that they are a racist. The same applies to the ACLU. Just because they prosecute others, doesn't change the fact that they haven't defended the rights of Christians. They only persecute Christians.
Nuclear bombs don't kill people, people kill people! Fires don't kill people, smoke inhalation kills people! People don't kill people, blood loss, blunt trauma, and other injuries kill people!
Do you have any idea how absurd using short, cute, and completely irrelevant slogans in a debate makes you seem?
I made an assumption that those reading it were intelligent, but given your response, obviously not everyone is intelligent. Weapons require something (or someone), usually a human, to activate/use them to injure someone. The real issue is the reason behind the activation/use of the weapon. That is what our laws have focused on in the past. If you remove one weapon, a determined person will find another one to accomplish the task. We must deal with the rational behind using the weapons. Throughout the world there are societies where children have used weapons and knives (like machetes) at very young ages safely. These kids were taught the proper use of the knives and weapons (shot guns for hunting). American society has gotten away from teaching these basic things. We used to teach these things, and back then we didn't have as many problems with the weapons. We didn't need guns locks because kids were taught the proper use of them, or the parents actually told there kids not to touch, or use, the gun. The parents then followed up with something that seems out of place in today's society--they punished them for disobeying them.
People and their attitudes are the problem not weapons. Banning weapons only serves to disarm the populace to allow the radicals of political society to more easily force their agenda on the public--such as a change to something like communism, dictatorship, or kingship. When you see these types of changes, it's because the populace has been unarmed. As with most things of power, there comes responsibility, and in America today responsibility is something that is lacking.
Another company tried something like this in the mid 90s (1996 to 1998). Their product was called Icon Author (glorified flow chart using icons and flowchart symbols) it was simpler, but the logic still perplexed some of the temps we hired at the company where I was working during that time. They even tried to make it cross-platform, but they failed because they used MFC (and MFC on the Mac sucked {on purpose probably}). They might have succeed today if they use wxWindows.
The problem with this idea will be getting around the complexities of programming--like the logic. Some people just aren't logical thinkers. Icon author made programming somewhat easier but it didn't make the logic easier. Some people have problems with concepts such as loops and data structures. They may get around this problem, but it will have be done by making sacrifies.
The Anti-Christian Left-wingers United is very left wing. In fact, in recent years they have been descriminating against Christians. They very rarely, if ever, defend Christians! In fact, they have gone out of their way to deny Christians their basic rights. For instance, you can teach, or talk about, any religion in school except Christianity. The ACLU has consistently brought lawsuits agains Christian organizations and people.
Get one thing straight you left-wing twit. Guns don't kill people! People kill people! The ACLU is only denying Americans their right to defend themselves from their own government and others. One of the principal reasons that the 2nd Amendment was added was to prevent abuses of the government the founders had experienced in Europe.
That is irrelevant. The other people obviously didn't bother to mentioning that he should talk to David either! It also doesn't exscuse their attitudes! Harold should not have had to asked for the commit provilages. It should have been offered by to him by now since he has been the maintainer of the Cygwin port for roughly 2 years (according to his posts in the thread). Xfree86 is more of a Cathedral project than Open Source projects, and it shows the darker side of Open Source development when a small group of people become teritorial resort to pissing matches to keep the tight grip on a project rather than let it grow organically as it should happen. It's a good thing Linus is better at politics than these guys, or Linux wouldn't be as good as it is today!
I am by no means an avid reader of this list, but I did read the list pertaining to the subject at hand. From what I can see of this project, it is an open source project in name only. This project is more of a Cathedral than a Bazaar--only this Cathedral allows people to see the building structure and workings.
Harold, or his successor (he wants to spend more time with family), should take the Cygwin XFree86 tree elsewhere. He has committed 3 years, the last two years I guess he's been the leader of the Cygwin branch, of his own time to developing and fixing the Cygwin branch, and he can't even get CVS commit access to the Cygwin branch! The only rude people in the list were the main developers with commit privilages.
I say that alll the developers who have been scorned by these wannabe open source primadonas should get together and fork the XFree86 project and they should make the project a true open source project.
I have been playing with knoppix for a while, and I have been impressed. I can run it from a bootable CD. Nothing needs to be installed,a nd it didn't have problems with hardware. It will come in handy the next time a family members PCs crashes to recover files (especially the laptops). That's my primar reason for using knoppix.
I will start by saying that I do not know how Google gets its results, but I have an idea on how this could happen. If the search engine first finds all the results of the first word, and next the search engine finds all the pages that contain the second word within the first results. You will get different results if you reverse the words using this method. On the other hand, if you find all the results from both words then find the interesection of the two results, you should get the same results--otherwise the search engine is messed up.
Maybe not one person, but you can place some, if not all of the blame, on Corporate executives who are outsourcing the jobs to India (and other such countries). In the past, late 1980s & 1990s, exporting of jobs was done for economic reasons, like it is being done today, but there is a major difference. The earlier economic savings were passed on to the customer, but this is not happenning in most cases today. In most cases, the savings is used to boost up profits giving a false sense of an economic upturn in the economy. In addition to this, the money is used to give bonuses, salary increases, and extra incentives to the top executives of companies.
The only way we can make a difference is to bring to light those companies that do outsourcing to foreign companies because it will be a huge negative public relations disaster.
You forgot the importing of foriegners to take American jobs through H-1Bs & L1s. Clinton didn't do much to help out during his term in the office of President. I didn't see him stopping in influx of foriegners through visa programs.
This really has nothign to do with free speech. The constitution says you have the right to free speech, but you are not free fromthe consequences of what you said. The government is only asking for all information in pertaining to the case. If you hack a system, you will have to face the music. Based on the original article, he didn't have permission to hack the systems. It's one thing to be asked to do it by the company/organization. This is the same thing as running up to a parked car, slashing the tire, and then telling the owner of the car how you managed to slash there tires. The car owner would be pissed, and so would a company or organization. Besides that case, who's to say he didn't take stuff like credit card numbers or other information! This guy is not a victim. This guy is a vigilante(sp?).
I find it funny that India did it considering their blooming tech outsourcing industry. What's next blocking the internet? That'd be good...for American jobs. ;)
There will always be some who will steal because they want something, but more people find it easier to steal as those conditions I mentioned in the previous post change.
If the executives & stars didn't make so much, they wouldn't need to charge so much--which would lead to less piracy. Piracy increases as with cost of the product increases while the quality of the product stays the same or declines.
Something to complex for an MIT student! {Insert your favorite druggie comment here!}
I know I will take a karma hit for this, but so be it. I find it funny that /. will post articles like this, but they won't post articles about all the unemployed high tech workers, protests at the offshoring conferences, and the results of the protests.
The news doesn't tell the entire story. For instance a lot of these people are maintaining their riches by laying off programmers and transfering the jobs offshore.
Let's say a programmer in America makes on average $50k. Well, they only have to pay someone in India $5k, and they are doing this. Then they use the now extra $45k to artificially inflate profit making it look like things are recovering.
Conferences are being held around the country promoting the offshoring American jobs--not just the tech industry. Call centers (like AT&T) and acounting is being opffshored to India. Theoretically, only jobs that require a physical presence to do something are safe--like service industry jobs which don't pay much.
We need to level the playing field by making the benefits of offshoring nonexistent so that American workers will be able to compete. We need to make it public which companies are offshoring their jobs because they don't want you to know because it is a BIG public relations nightmare! Sign up for the email from this site. They provide a lot of information about the fight to save American middle class jobs! We need to organise and fight back before it's too late, and there are not tech jobs, or middle class jobs, in America!
Actually, you may not write any destructors, but they do get created for you by most compilers. Destructors are one of a few functions that will get created for you if you don't add it.
Personally, I think GC is over rated. GC should be left to langauges like Java where it is built in, and a lot of design consideration was put in to adding it to the langauge. At the bear minimum I think everyone should have to manage their own memory for a while in order to learn what's going and why it's going on. Once you've got the basics and fundamentals down, then you can move on to GC type stuff.
You forgot one thing. In the early days of Sci-fi when space was young and new to us, Sci-fi movies had a lot more fantacy in them. They contained visions of possiblities--both technological and physical. Hard core Sci-fi has removed a lot of these things. You get bogged down with stuff like "you can't do that in real world" or "that's not true according science". All possibility that some new could be true has been cut off like a cancer.
Sci-fi used to predict cool technology and stuff. Now it doesn't. It has gotten dragged down with the rules of science that exist today without leaving the door open for future the future possiblity that it could be true.
That is where Fantacy comes in to the scene. It has take the place of Sci-fi in stiring the immaginations of movie goers and book readers a like. When guessing about laws and rules of the real world and the Universe was removed, they removed a big part of the equation that stirred peoples imagination. So what if it is correct by todays scientific standards--the standards change almost on a daily basis with new discoveries.
Without the stirring of the imagination, there is little left to interest most people. This is why fantacy movies, and other media outlets, have become more popular. I think the boundary between sci-fi and fanctacy should be removed once more.
Hopefully (and I know this is wishfull thinking), that the jobs will be moved back over hear once consumers realise how bad the serve and quality is going to be. In the mean time, we need to get the word out. We need to make this a bad pr nightmare for those companies that use foriegn labor instead of American workers when their is high unemployment.
Not really if the landlord is a real estate company. They have alternative income sources. They can afford to keep the rent higher. In fact a lot of landlords own multiple properties. I am willing to bet that they had a large profit margin during the dotcom era. This means they probably have tennants still paying this amount which they can use to offset the loss. The landlords I know usually save money from the good time to use during the dry times. It takes a long time for rent to go down.
I don't think a lot of the companies have thought this through. They are blinded by the greed of the money they can "save". They pay the India employees $5,000 instead of $50,000 for an American high tech worker. That's about $45,000 dollars they can use to increase their privilaged benefits. Management, especially upper management, generally has a whole other level of benefits. I think the real problem behind a lot of the issues in America today comes down to greed--whether it's the RIAA or Tech companies sending jobs overseas.