I don't know for American cities but for the few European cities that I know: following GPS will cost more.
The GPS always bring you to the largest street they can find on your path and then redirect you. They use it as a backbone or something. Or they will pass through a well known bottleneck.
For European cities it usually means that it leads you directly to the traffic jam. Better not use a GPS in Brussels or in London for example if you know the city...This is what a taxi driver is supposed to know.
There is a religious believe that I found few weeks ago...It put a name on a concept I had for years in mind. Pantheism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
Pantheism states everything is God and God is everything. the Universe is God. As you part of the universe you are then a part of God.
The problem is the big bang. (the fact that the Universe has a beginning)...A God cannot have a beginning...I mean it should be inifinite. otherwise I found it quite seducing (especially for my scientism tendencies).
In my native village (Belgian ardennes), people still collects the birch sap. My mother always told me that it was good for my health and I had to drink a glass per day:-) (it is quite tasty).
I've heard that this habit exists also in baltic countries and I guess a lot of other countries as well (?)
By far the most fun to use is the linux boxes. Never a problem.
Have you ever tried to install software that isn't part of your distribution? It took me 4 hours of configuration/googling and all the last time I did it compared to a... double click on setup with windows or MacOSX.
I do find Linux extremely useful, flexible, powerful...I do find financial/technical reasons to use it and sometimes I have fun using it. But it has its share of problems especially when you try to install new stuffs.
I had too study a broad ranges of subjects too...From Latin to Physic. And I was bored to death, always with mediocre results. Why? Because technical studies were poorly considered and to be a man, you had to study Latin coupled with 12 hours of math per week. I always missed practical learning. Things you can see directly. The best solution for me would have been a mix of theory and practices.
The big problem you've got with the education is that teachers keep it artifically at an abstract level. Even the most complex physic equation you face in high school can be explained with down to earth experiment. Things could can see, comprehend.
The only time in my life I have considered computer science boring was at school. If they can succeed to make it boring for me, it means a lot about their poor performance. Thanks God...in the evening I had to tweak autoexec.bat or config.sys to let my last video game running...And few months later I found myself playing with C++.
Concerning C#, he says [att.com], "It will take a lot to persuade me that the world needs yet another proprietary language (YAPL). It will be especially hard to persuade me that it needs a language that is closely integrated with a specific proprietary operating system."
I'm currently working on C# mono project totally based on Linux (SUSE). If you don't play with windows.Form (the mono version is still under heavy development) and not Windows based UI in general, there is no problem...especially for server-side apps.
The code will be totally portable between linux and Windows (and probably mac too).
Me too. I just had to order a FLASH CS3 pro for some ActionScript 3.0 related work (not possible with the flex SDK cause it should be a work done in partnership with webdesigners).
It cost me 845.79 Euro Tax incl. (+/- USD 1149)
If Microsoft can bring some competitions. I'm all for it.
"br" is still extremely useful for those of us who have to deal with marketing people on a daily basis.
Most of the corrections you receive from such kind of department is commas, text color, justification, bold and break line.
Instead of having tons of different class or style="margin-bottom:XXpx" for each paragraph, more verbose and more time consuming. all you have to do is to put a simple breakline or two and it does the trick.
This probably the most boring part of a web development job. The fastet way to get rid of it, the better.
XHTML, HTML 4.1 transitionnal, HTML 4 , or whatever I really don't care. If it works with Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Konqueror, Opera and pass a WAI test, then I did my job.
Instead of having billions of different ways to write the article class (but also IDs): Article, articles, article, Article, art., (and foreign languages) etc. You've got simple one.
Extremely easy to parse. And if it is extemely easy to parse: new concepts (that we don't know yet) may take advantage of it.
The biggest advantage of all may be search engines. They may get a better perception of the content type.
I'm all in favor of such kind of upgrades. It is a pragmatic, down to earth approach. HTML is more and more used in blogs, CMS, and the like. And they all work with a block based concepts. If HTML upgrades stick to the reality of the Internet, then I'm all for it.
But please no more theorical/ideologic major upgrades, wasting their efforts reinventing the wheel that nobody will ever implement.
I didn't work for me. Firefox 2.0.0.6. There is an issue with Java and this firefox version:
from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.6/relea senotes/ : "The Java Console extension that came with Java SE 6.0u1 (J2SE6.0.01) is incompatible with Firefox as reported in Bugzilla. Java should work as expected, but the menu item "Java Console" will not be available in the Tools menu. This issue has been fixed in Java SE 6.0u2 (J2SE6.0.02) and is available for download from the Java website."
In my case nothing works. I rarely use applets (and frankly I try to avoid it as much as possible on the web) so it isn't a big problem for me.
Look at Europe's history. It lost its first place after World War I and it became a continent of vassals (USSR and USA) after World War II. There is a big difference between having a conflict on your soil and participating in a conflict abroad.
Actually Switzerland has a longer life expectancy and bigger income per citizen. If you don't care about power and glory: It looks more advanced to me.
It is the first time I see a lady assembling a PC for pleasure. Look at what she plans to do with this PC (games, photoshop,etc) and see the final price $US 1417.She spent hours to get it.
If It was purely rationnal she would order the desktop from Dell or HP or from a local shop. she would choose a less expensive configuration.
This is truly for fun and for her pleasure. This is a novelty for me.
Most girls find such things boring. boring not because they couldn't understand it, boring because it is usually plain boring and pointless for them.
am a male worker in a small (~40) IT company. We have three female developers for approximately 30 male devs. I know some female engineers from my school who are in the same situation. All of them said it was very enjoyable to work in these conditions.
If there were just three male developpers and 30 female developpers.
I would say that this a very enjoyable place to work too.
That's why there are treaties and agreements between countries. The declaration of Human Rights is a treaty signed by various UN members. usually the national parliament is responsible to "apply" the treaty into the national laws.
For Europe: There is also a European declaration of Human Rights signed by European council members.
For the UN I don't know if you can defend your rights in a international justice court. But for the later, I do know that an European Court can protect your rights against national juridiction.
Wii means that I've found a common ground with my girlfriend finally. We can both play and having fun doing it. A bit like the dumb ping-pong that I played for the first time on a Atari with my brother. Ten minutes there, 30 minutes later. And then going back to the "normal life".
I guess I'm a bit tired of playing alone...Shadow of the beast, X-wing, Wing commander, civilization, Halo I & II, hitman...Or I'm getting old. I don't know.
> 6 minutes? 20 seconds? Is that true? I use Thunderbird (on Kubuntu), and it starts up in a second. > I can't imagine waiting that long for an email client to load up. What is it doing that takes so > long? Is this typical behavior for Evolution?
in the article : there is a synchronization with MS exchange. It looks like it repeats the whole syncrhonization each time it connect itself to the server.
A bit like an IMAP account on your thunderbird that you run for the first time I guess.
Well personnally I don't understand how these craps can be so worried for the industry.
I have tried them. Screener/bootlegged copy have a very poor/mediocre sound quality. There are large parts of the movie which is blurred, litteraly unwatchable. It gives you headaches. Nobody truly interested by the movie will ever download such a crap.
Ripped DVDs is on the other hand is usually an acceptable quality (comparable to VHS). This by far a biggest threat. and in my case, I usually find Ripped DVDs on a torrent before the European release.
I have visited the states several times now. And seriously the gap isn't so big (for Europe at least). You can find most (if not all) European models in the states.
I'm sure if you look around you, you will find most of the IPhone features. The trick - A genius launched this product. A true marketing masterpiece.
There are several factors to explain the current "relative" gap IMHO - Mobile phone users aren't as "mobile" as their European counterparts. For example I can leave in 48 hours a network for another and I keep my mobile phone number. All I have to do is sign a new contract with my new telco. It does mean that competition is higher. Nobody can protect itself behind outrageous contracts.
- It is illegal in a lot of European countries to sell locked device. A lot of European consumers buy their mobile phone by their own.
All in all It means that there is a vibrant economy (independant phone sellers, etc.) keeping costs down and services high.
So i'd say, with the proper legal framework, it would take one year or two to reach Europe. The problem is not technologic, you've got everything you need. for Japan I don't know, never been there.
The real reason is that you had to pay a fortune for a dial-up (cost per minute in most countries). I still remember my first internet/phone bill in 1995. It was a true nightmare.
Around 2000 all European countries (with few exceptions) were lamenting about their poor position in the Internet economy.
The real trick was to enforce a true free-market. The European commission forced european countries to allow cross-broder mergers. To allow foreign actors, etc. Telcos were forced to sell bandwidth to their opponents. Suddently there were a a myriad of way to access the internet (Satellite, TV cable, phones, etc.).
The only plan was to establish a free market. There were no bureaucrat science.Just one goal: free market.
There are two schools in Europe. The free market school is led by the UK. The protectionist school is led by France. Germany tends to be more and more free-market these days. But there are still a lot of protectionist fans here on the continent. France isn't alone.
This a proposition and I hope free market minded representants are (still) a majority.
I'm currently developping a PHP5 driven web service (front-end web site). It is certainly a huge improvment over PHP4. You 've got absract, extends, and so on. Great
But I just spent two hours trying to do a dumb thing like an array/collection of objects inside a class : a dumb thing like in c# String[] myobjects;
All I got was this fatal error: "Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string" I had to go backward and use a messy hash table instead. I'm sure it is possible(I hope so), but I didn't have enough time to do it.
PHP5 is still half-glue language half object oriented. Fast, Easy and Fun but for a true object oriented solution you should look elsewhere.
I rather prefer a package (you know like this dumb doubleclick on windows) with absolutly everything you need to get started than the Linux way of installation. Each time I have to install a new stuff, it fails on the first run (except those which are part of the distribution)...And three hours of googling later it "may" install the program and it "may" run. You feel like you are wasting your time (especially if it is for your job).
Why?
I just spent a whole afternoon yesterday to install a popular program such as Eclipse 3.1 on a OpenSuse 10.1.
First Chapter No JAVA Environment
There were no JAVA on the SUSE CDs because of license issues (I understand but it is rather annoying), I had to browse the internet to find the appropriate way to install the package from a remote source (and understand how YAST handles FTP).
Second Chapter even JAVA is fragmented ?
And then...It turned out that this Java environement wasn't enough for Eclipse. There was a missing libswt3-gtk2-3.1.1.X. Again googling, reading forums, and find the appropriate way to install it.
Third Chapter Eclipse not so simple
The fun didn't end. I had to install the PyDev plug-in fo Python development. The lastest PyDev 3.X package was incompatible with Eclipse 3.1...It needed Eclipse 3.2. Using the automatic Eclispe Updater was impossible (no way to download/install previous releases). I don't want to upgrade to openSuSe 10.2 (and I don't know if it provides Eclipse 3.2) and I don't know how to upgrade Eclipse 3.1 to 3.2 (I tried. I downloaded it, unzipped it but when I doubleclick on eclipse.bin all I've got is the splash screen then nothing)
So again I had to browse various web site, forums to finally find the source (sourfeforge) to get previous releases and understand how to install "manually" this Eclipse plug-in (trying everything from PyDev 2.9 to...PyDev 1.8).
The result
Windows...Probably +/- 30 min. to get started. Linux...5 hours.
PS:
I'm certainly not bitching the open source community. I've got everything for free and I have to shut my mouth up...But if somebody comes with a single package philosophy, I will support him.
Question: Why don't you choose Ubuntu, X or Z? Because OpneSuSe 10.1 (choise made on +/- April 2007) was the only one distribution handling correctly my 20'' LCD, the MonoDevelop IDE installation was straightforward (read part of the distribution). I tried Ubuntu, it failed (resolution: 640X480 instead of 1680X1050).
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I don't know for American cities but for the few European cities that I know: following GPS will cost more.
The GPS always bring you to the largest street they can find on your path and then redirect you. They use it as a backbone or something. Or they will pass through a well known bottleneck.
For European cities it usually means that it leads you directly to the traffic jam. Better not use a GPS in Brussels or in London for example if you know the city...This is what a taxi driver is supposed to know.
There is a religious believe that I found few weeks ago...It put a name on a concept I had for years in mind. Pantheism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism
Pantheism states everything is God and God is everything. the Universe is God. As you part of the universe you are then a part of God.
The problem is the big bang. (the fact that the Universe has a beginning)...A God cannot have a beginning...I mean it should be inifinite. otherwise I found it quite seducing (especially for my scientism tendencies).
In my native village (Belgian ardennes), people still collects the birch sap. My mother always told me that it was good for my health and I had to drink a glass per day :-) (it is quite tasty).
I've heard that this habit exists also in baltic countries and I guess a lot of other countries as well (?)
Minitel was a marvel at that time. Its biggest flauw : a monopoly.
France Telecom was in charge of it. They kept as much as 70% (or more) of any revenue you could possibly make out of it.
By far the most fun to use is the linux boxes. Never a problem.
Have you ever tried to install software that isn't part of your distribution?
It took me 4 hours of configuration/googling and all the last time I did it compared to a... double click on setup with windows or MacOSX.
I do find Linux extremely useful, flexible, powerful...I do find financial/technical reasons to use it and sometimes I have fun using it. But it has its share of problems especially when you try to install new stuffs.
My Belgian equivalent is slightly the same.
I had too study a broad ranges of subjects too...From Latin to Physic. And I was bored to death, always with mediocre results. Why? Because technical studies were poorly considered and to be a man, you had to study Latin coupled with 12 hours of math per week.
I always missed practical learning. Things you can see directly. The best solution for me would have been a mix of theory and practices.
The big problem you've got with the education is that teachers keep it artifically at an abstract level. Even the most complex physic equation you face in high school can be explained with down to earth experiment. Things could can see, comprehend.
The only time in my life I have considered computer science boring was at school. If they can succeed to make it boring for me, it means a lot about their poor performance. Thanks God...in the evening I had to tweak autoexec.bat or config.sys to let my last video game running...And few months later I found myself playing with C++.
Purity will be finally restored to the FOSS platform
:-)
I feel like a heretic during the Spanish inquisition
Personally I don't care if it pure or not. All I want is things that works according to the client needs. Welcome in the real world young Jedi.
Concerning C#, he says [att.com], "It will take a lot to persuade me that the world needs yet another proprietary language (YAPL). It will be especially hard to persuade me that it needs a language that is closely integrated with a specific proprietary operating system."
I'm currently working on C# mono project totally based on Linux (SUSE). If you don't play with windows.Form (the mono version is still under heavy development) and not Windows based UI in general, there is no problem...especially for server-side apps.
The code will be totally portable between linux and Windows (and probably mac too).
Me too. I just had to order a FLASH CS3 pro for some ActionScript 3.0 related work (not possible with
the flex SDK cause it should be a work done in partnership with webdesigners).
It cost me 845.79 Euro Tax incl. (+/- USD 1149)
If Microsoft can bring some competitions. I'm all for it.
"br" is still extremely useful for those of us who have to deal with marketing people on a daily basis.
Most of the corrections you receive from such kind of department is commas, text color, justification, bold and break line.
Instead of having tons of different class or style="margin-bottom:XXpx" for each paragraph, more verbose and more time consuming. all you have to do is to put a simple breakline or two and it does the trick.
This probably the most boring part of a web development job. The fastet way to get rid of it, the better.
XHTML, HTML 4.1 transitionnal, HTML 4 , or whatever I really don't care. If it works with Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Konqueror, Opera and pass a WAI test, then I did my job.
It does.
Instead of having billions of different ways to write the article class (but also IDs): Article, articles, article, Article, art., (and foreign languages) etc. You've got simple one.
Extremely easy to parse. And if it is extemely easy to parse: new concepts (that we don't know yet) may take advantage of it.
The biggest advantage of all may be search engines. They may get a better perception of the content type.
I'm all in favor of such kind of upgrades. It is a pragmatic, down to earth approach. HTML is more and more used in blogs, CMS, and the like. And they all work with a block based concepts. If HTML upgrades stick to the reality of the Internet, then I'm all for it.
But please no more theorical/ideologic major upgrades, wasting their efforts reinventing the wheel that nobody will ever implement.
I didn't work for me. Firefox 2.0.0.6. There is an issue with Java and this firefox version:
a senotes/ :
from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.6/rele
"The Java Console extension that came with Java SE 6.0u1 (J2SE6.0.01) is incompatible with Firefox as reported in Bugzilla. Java should work as expected, but the menu item "Java Console" will not be available in the Tools menu. This issue has been fixed in Java SE 6.0u2 (J2SE6.0.02) and is available for download from the Java website."
In my case nothing works. I rarely use applets (and frankly I try to avoid it as much as possible on the web) so it isn't a big problem for me.
Look at Europe's history. It lost its first place after World War I and it became a continent of vassals (USSR and USA) after World War II. There is a big difference between having a conflict on your soil and participating in a conflict abroad.
Actually Switzerland has a longer life expectancy and bigger income per citizen. If you don't care about power and glory: It looks more advanced to me.
It is the first time I see a lady assembling a PC for pleasure.
Look at what she plans to do with this PC (games, photoshop,etc) and see the final price $US 1417.She spent hours to get it.
If It was purely rationnal she would order the desktop from Dell or HP or from a local shop. she would choose a less expensive configuration.
This is truly for fun and for her pleasure. This is a novelty for me.
Most girls find such things boring. boring not because they couldn't understand it, boring because it is usually plain boring and pointless for them.
If there were just three male developpers and 30 female developpers. I would say that this a very enjoyable place to work too.
That's why there are treaties and agreements between countries. The declaration of Human Rights is a treaty signed by various UN members. usually the national parliament is responsible to "apply" the treaty into the national laws.
For Europe: There is also a European declaration of Human Rights signed by European council members.
For the UN I don't know if you can defend your rights in a international justice court. But for the later, I do know that an European Court can protect your rights against national juridiction.
Wii means that I've found a common ground with my girlfriend finally. We can both play and having fun doing it. A bit like the dumb ping-pong that I played for the first time on a Atari with my brother. Ten minutes there, 30 minutes later. And then going back to the "normal life".
:-)
I guess I'm a bit tired of playing alone...Shadow of the beast, X-wing, Wing commander, civilization, Halo I & II, hitman...Or I'm getting old. I don't know.
Let's "resocialize"
> 6 minutes? 20 seconds? Is that true? I use Thunderbird (on Kubuntu), and it starts up in a second.
> I can't imagine waiting that long for an email client to load up. What is it doing that takes so
> long? Is this typical behavior for Evolution?
in the article : there is a synchronization with MS exchange. It looks like it repeats the whole syncrhonization each time it connect itself to the server.
A bit like an IMAP account on your thunderbird that you run for the first time I guess.
Well personnally I don't understand how these craps can be so worried for the industry.
I have tried them.
Screener/bootlegged copy have a very poor/mediocre sound quality. There are large parts of the movie which is blurred, litteraly unwatchable. It gives you headaches. Nobody truly interested by the movie will ever download such a crap.
Ripped DVDs is on the other hand is usually an acceptable quality (comparable to VHS). This by far a biggest threat. and in my case, I usually find Ripped DVDs on a torrent before the European release.
I have visited the states several times now. And seriously the gap isn't so big (for Europe at least). You can find most (if not all) European models in the states.
I'm sure if you look around you, you will find most of the IPhone features. The trick
- A genius launched this product. A true marketing masterpiece.
There are several factors to explain the current "relative" gap IMHO
- Mobile phone users aren't as "mobile" as their European counterparts. For example I can leave in 48 hours a network for another and I keep my mobile phone number. All I have to do is sign a new contract with my new telco. It does mean that competition is higher. Nobody can protect itself behind outrageous contracts.
- It is illegal in a lot of European countries to sell locked device. A lot of European consumers buy their mobile phone by their own.
All in all It means that there is a vibrant economy (independant phone sellers, etc.) keeping costs down and services high.
So i'd say, with the proper legal framework, it would take one year or two to reach Europe. The problem is not technologic, you've got everything you need. for Japan I don't know, never been there.
Olivier
Because otherwise they wouldn't have made the headlines of various technical web sites. GPL V2 is so passé. GPL V3 is trendy.
The real reason is that you had to pay a fortune for a dial-up (cost per minute in most countries). I still remember my first internet/phone bill in 1995. It was a true nightmare.
Around 2000 all European countries (with few exceptions) were lamenting about their poor position in the Internet economy.
The real trick was to enforce a true free-market. The European commission forced european countries to allow cross-broder mergers. To allow foreign actors, etc. Telcos were forced to sell bandwidth to their opponents. Suddently there were a a myriad of way to access the internet (Satellite, TV cable, phones, etc.).
The only plan was to establish a free market. There were no bureaucrat science.Just one goal: free market.
There are two schools in Europe.
The free market school is led by the UK.
The protectionist school is led by France.
Germany tends to be more and more free-market these days. But there are still a lot of protectionist fans here on the continent. France isn't alone.
This a proposition and I hope free market minded representants are (still) a majority.
I'm currently developping a PHP5 driven web service (front-end web site). It is certainly a huge improvment over PHP4. You 've got absract, extends, and so on. Great
But I just spent two hours trying to do a dumb thing like an array/collection of objects
inside a class :
a dumb thing like in c#
String[] myobjects;
All I got was this fatal error:
"Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string"
I had to go backward and use a messy hash table instead.
I'm sure it is possible(I hope so), but I didn't have enough time to do it.
PHP5 is still half-glue language half object oriented. Fast, Easy and Fun but for a true object oriented solution you should look elsewhere.
I don't.
I rather prefer a package (you know like this dumb doubleclick on windows) with absolutly everything you need to get started than the Linux way of installation. Each time I have to install a new stuff, it fails on the first run (except those which are part of the distribution)...And three hours of googling later it "may" install the program and it "may" run. You feel like you are wasting your time (especially if it is for your job).
Why?
I just spent a whole afternoon yesterday to install a popular program such as Eclipse 3.1 on a OpenSuse 10.1.
First Chapter No JAVA Environment
There were no JAVA on the SUSE CDs because of license issues (I understand but it is rather annoying), I had to browse the internet to find the appropriate way to install the package from a remote source (and understand how YAST handles FTP).
Second Chapter even JAVA is fragmented ?
And then...It turned out that this Java environement wasn't enough for Eclipse. There was a missing libswt3-gtk2-3.1.1.X. Again googling, reading forums, and find the appropriate way to install it.
Third Chapter Eclipse not so simple
The fun didn't end. I had to install the PyDev plug-in fo Python development. The lastest PyDev
3.X package was incompatible with Eclipse 3.1...It needed Eclipse 3.2. Using the automatic Eclispe Updater was impossible (no way to download/install previous releases). I don't want to upgrade to openSuSe 10.2 (and I don't know if it provides Eclipse 3.2) and I don't know how to upgrade Eclipse 3.1 to 3.2 (I tried. I downloaded it, unzipped it but when I doubleclick on eclipse.bin all I've got is the splash screen then nothing)
So again I had to browse various web site, forums to finally find the source (sourfeforge) to get previous releases and understand how to install "manually" this Eclipse plug-in (trying everything from PyDev 2.9 to...PyDev 1.8).
The result
Windows...Probably +/- 30 min. to get started.
Linux...5 hours.
PS:
I'm certainly not bitching the open source community. I've got everything for free and I have to shut my mouth up...But if somebody comes with a single package philosophy, I will support him.
Question:
Why don't you choose Ubuntu, X or Z?
Because OpneSuSe 10.1 (choise made on +/- April 2007) was the only one distribution handling correctly my 20'' LCD, the MonoDevelop IDE installation was straightforward (read part of the distribution). I tried Ubuntu, it failed (resolution: 640X480 instead of 1680X1050).
Olivier