"- Locking-in Linux: Working with partners like NVidia and ATI (closed source drivers), possibly Trolltech (the proprietary version of Qt, Qt support for.Net), possibly CodeWeavers (promoting MS Office on Linux, and ActiveX on the Internet), possibly Xandros and a couple of other Linux distributers (proprietary Linux admin tools, Qt-only desktop environment, promoting MS Office on Linux, etc.), possibly Macromedia (Flash), and who knows who else."
"An 18-year-old German high school student has admitted creating the Sasser internet worm, police say." (From the BBC)
It's true that people often do admit to crimes they didn't commit, however I doubt somebody would pretend to write a virus to be 'cool'. Especially not an 18 year old (Maybe a 13 year old would, however).
(heh, I'd like to know who moderated my original post down as Troll! Do they know what that even means?)
I see your point, that for most people, it would be a helpful skill. But for me, it wouldn't, so making me do it would be pointless.
But, I can see, you couldn't make it optional. People who will use cars will not bother learning it if they don't have to. I'm yet to think of a good way out (Maybe instead of PE or something?)
Another thing is, using a car is a Bad Thing if you can help it, so encouraging it in school is a Bad Thing too, don't you think?
"There are two courses *everyone* should have to take in high school - auto mechanics (so you know how to change a tire, among other things) and calculus."
I don't have a car, why should I learn how to change a tire?
Why do you want to force me to learn something which is a total waste of my time?
And, I suppose, other people would have similar ideas about calculus.
Moral: Don't try and force your priorities upon others.
Actually, according to the book "Accidental Empires", it was a program for their school to make time tables. It apparently had a hidden feature which put him in the same class as the nice girls. He was 10 at the time, iirc.
Not sure how true it is. I'm not sure if Robert X Cringely knows either, but interesting none-the-less.
I actually have nothing against GOTO, but BASIC is still a terrible language for doing anything useful in.
Saying that, I know someone who used to program (Badly) in BASIC, but now programs quite well in Javascript (They don't do anything mathematical, just call DOM functions really, and make websites which won't work on anything which isn't MSIE). So I don't think there is much lasting damaged with BASIC.
Myself, I've never used BASIC (Javascript was my first language), but I hear a lot of our current experts started with it. So it can't cause long damage, so long as they don't take it seriously, maybe.
I really, really should had pressed Preview. I was thinking about clicking preview, but I thought, "Nah, I'm not going to make a mistake with HTML am I?"... I forgot about those things called line breaks...
I find there are a lot of books and resources which each Perl, or teach SQL, but don't teach you how to use Perl, or use SQL.
For example, it is perfectly possible to read a book, learn Perl, and not be able to actually use it for anything useful (in regard to websites). Not many books that I've seen have addresses this. My personal knowledge of Perl for use in webpages is scraped together.
Perldoc.com helps a lot, however. Books like this seem useful as a starting ground.
PHP is gaining a lot of ground on PHP (It's overtaken it, I hear). This may be because it is more suited to suited to web development, or it may be more because all it does is web development: As soon as you know PHP, you know how to make a website using PHP.
Most Slashdot readers will be past this point in learning a language I should imagine, so, without reading anymore than this book review, I might suggest it wouldn't be worth buying, but this is certainly the sort of book which should be on the bookselves in shops. A lot more helpful than 101 books about how to use IOSTREAMs in C++.
(This is a repost with correct HTML... why didn't I pressed Preview?:D)
I find there are a lot of books and resources which each Perl, or teach SQL, but don't teach you how to use Perl, or use SQL.
For example, it is perfectly possible to read a book, learn Perl, and not be able to actually use it for anything useful (in regard to websites). Not many books that I've seen have addresses this. My personal knowledge of Perl for use in webpages is scraped together. Perldoc.com helps a lot, however.
Books like this seem useful as a starting ground.
PHP is gaining a lot of ground on PHP (It's overtaken it, I hear). This may be because it is more suited to suited to web development, or it may be more because all it does is web development: As soon as you know PHP, you know how to make a website using PHP.
Most Slashdot readers will be past this point in learning a language I should imagine, so, without reading anymore than this book review, I might suggest it wouldn't be worth buying, but this is certainly the sort of book which should be on the bookselves in shops. A lot more helpful than 101 books about how to use IOSTREAMs in C++.
In Windows, IE is annoying (No tabs) and so on, but it does work quite well at both its jobs (Ignoring that it uses Microsoft-HTML and Microsoft-DOM). KDE Konqueror however is a bad web browser (compared to Mozilla and IE), and has a GUI which is a bit chunky for my liking for a File Browser.
I love KDE, but I think so far GNOME has won in this area. I hope they don't go down the same route. Or at least make it an option.
"Is this because OO was such a hog of system resources and so slow you couldn't be bothered with it" - Not really. It seems okay to me.
"or is it because of the superior functionality of M$ Word?"
In a way. The User Interface of MS Word is so much better than OpenOffice. Word just looks nice, and is easy to use. Since I was working on something which required quite a bit of thinking, I couldn't be bothered to have to think about the program I was using too. I mights as well be using VI with the User Interface of OpenOffice.
I know how you feel. The very reason I am reading Slashdot right now is because I was using windows, Word crashed, and I'd suddenly found out it wasn't saving when I told it do. Thank god for backups.
So, being a bit pissed about that, I thought I'd come to/. to calm down. And then I hear that we all love our computers?! Not at the moment!
Saying that, it isn't my computer I am angry at right now. I've never once had a crash in OpenOffice....
It is annoying when given a 3D engine, it cannot load a 3D Format which happens to be the only one that your 3d Modeller can export to. I would be happy for that problem to disappear!
But how general will it be? If it can handle detailed CAD models, and open landscape, and UT2003 style maps, high polygon characters and so on, then will it end up being unspace-effective for all of them?
Is there a reason why right now 3DS seems to be the nearest to a standard we have, when it doesn't even have many features?
JPEG might be the standard for images, but it isn't used for everything: Sometimes PNG and TIFF are used for particular reasons. TGA and PNG for example support Alpha channels, while JPEG does not. My friend draws pictures, and sometimes she gets good compression with JPEG, but sometimes the quality loss is terrible. Sometimes GIF is better, or something PNG is. And then there are vector graphics.
MP3 is nearly a standard, but we use OGG for political/legal reasons, or a lossless format when that is important. Real is often used when the sound needs to be streaming.
So, really, how useful will this standard be? And how free?
Woah, ignore me before, it suddenly worked again! I got it! Best post it here, eh?:
"Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.
The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform with a straightforward HTML installation guide in English, German, French and Italian as well as the Amiga OS 4.0 SDK.
The Amiga OS 4.0 SDK will allow near effortless migration of existing Amiga OS 3.x source-code to OS 4.0 as well as the creation of altogether new content.
The SDK comprises the following material:
* Complete Installer for easy and painless installation; * GNU C Compiler 2.95.3; * GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1; * vbcc 0.8f; * GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger; * System Includes V 50; * System Autodocs V 50; * PDF Documentation on GNU C compilers and GNU Debugger; * PDF Guide "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0"; * Example programs with source (among others: Reaction, expansion library, Roadshow, FFS2); * Newlib.library (experimential, shared C library); * CLIB2 source code.
Users will be able to register their copy at a soon-to-be-launched portal site which will offer Amiga OS 4.0 related content for download.
Hyperion Entertainment and the AmigaOS 4.0 development and beta-testing teams wish to thank all of you for your patience.
Amiga OS 4.0 (c) 2004 Hyperion Entertainment, developed under license from KMOS, Inc. All rights reserved. "Amiga" and associated trademarks are registered trademarks of Amiga, Inc."
I don't think this is the product for me... I plug in my MP3 player, Digital Camera, Scanner, Printer and Bluetooth Gizmo in from USB (My keyboard is also a mini-USB hub). None of those really have to be a distance from my Computer.
There are already solutions for people who want their Keyboard or Printer a distance away from their computers without wires. What would make these people use this solution?
Slashdot Mirror
My non technicial friends who use Hotmail (Around 16 years old) are always running out of space. I think that limit is 20MB.
Never seen those chain mails? They're big, have images, sound, flash, attachments, lots of text, bad HTML, etc, etc.
Everyone can use space.
"- Locking-in Linux: Working with partners like NVidia and ATI (closed source drivers), possibly Trolltech (the proprietary version of Qt, Qt support for .Net), possibly CodeWeavers (promoting MS Office on Linux, and ActiveX on the Internet), possibly Xandros and a couple of other Linux distributers (proprietary Linux admin tools, Qt-only desktop environment, promoting MS Office on Linux, etc.), possibly Macromedia (Flash), and who knows who else."
Can anyone back that up?
He admitted it:
"An 18-year-old German high school student has admitted creating the Sasser internet worm, police say." (From the BBC)
It's true that people often do admit to crimes they didn't commit, however I doubt somebody would pretend to write a virus to be 'cool'. Especially not an 18 year old (Maybe a 13 year old would, however).
I hear this on BBC Radio news. A quick search of the BBC website gave me this link.
:D)
I also noticed this story from a while back, entitled "Hunt is on for Sasser worm writer".
(You've gotta love the BBCs use of Stock Graphics!
(heh, I'd like to know who moderated my original post down as Troll! Do they know what that even means?)
I see your point, that for most people, it would be a helpful skill. But for me, it wouldn't, so making me do it would be pointless.
But, I can see, you couldn't make it optional. People who will use cars will not bother learning it if they don't have to. I'm yet to think of a good way out (Maybe instead of PE or something?)
Another thing is, using a car is a Bad Thing if you can help it, so encouraging it in school is a Bad Thing too, don't you think?
"There are two courses *everyone* should have to take in high school - auto mechanics (so you know how to change a tire, among other things) and calculus."
I don't have a car, why should I learn how to change a tire?
Why do you want to force me to learn something which is a total waste of my time?
And, I suppose, other people would have similar ideas about calculus.
Moral: Don't try and force your priorities upon others.
Actually, according to the book "Accidental Empires", it was a program for their school to make time tables. It apparently had a hidden feature which put him in the same class as the nice girls. He was 10 at the time, iirc.
Not sure how true it is. I'm not sure if Robert X Cringely knows either, but interesting none-the-less.
I actually have nothing against GOTO, but BASIC is still a terrible language for doing anything useful in.
Saying that, I know someone who used to program (Badly) in BASIC, but now programs quite well in Javascript (They don't do anything mathematical, just call DOM functions really, and make websites which won't work on anything which isn't MSIE). So I don't think there is much lasting damaged with BASIC.
Myself, I've never used BASIC (Javascript was my first language), but I hear a lot of our current experts started with it. So it can't cause long damage, so long as they don't take it seriously, maybe.
I say we just keep SMTP so we can sue our employers. Sounds good to me.
Yeah I'm pretty sure what you are describing is fixed in Word 2000. Word '97 was a mess, imho.
Yes. I'm an idiot. Fair point.
I really, really should had pressed Preview. I was thinking about clicking preview, but I thought, "Nah, I'm not going to make a mistake with HTML am I?"... I forgot about those things called line breaks...
JaxWeb (Score: -1, Retarded)
I find there are a lot of books and resources which each Perl, or teach SQL, but don't teach you how to use Perl, or use SQL.
:D)
For example, it is perfectly possible to read a book, learn Perl, and not be able to actually use it for anything useful (in regard to websites). Not many books that I've seen have addresses this. My personal knowledge of Perl for use in webpages is scraped together.
Perldoc.com helps a lot, however. Books like this seem useful as a starting ground.
PHP is gaining a lot of ground on PHP (It's overtaken it, I hear). This may be because it is more suited to suited to web development, or it may be more because all it does is web development: As soon as you know PHP, you know how to make a website using PHP.
Most Slashdot readers will be past this point in learning a language I should imagine, so, without reading anymore than this book review, I might suggest it wouldn't be worth buying, but this is certainly the sort of book which should be on the bookselves in shops. A lot more helpful than 101 books about how to use IOSTREAMs in C++.
(This is a repost with correct HTML... why didn't I pressed Preview?
I find there are a lot of books and resources which each Perl, or teach SQL, but don't teach you how to use Perl, or use SQL. For example, it is perfectly possible to read a book, learn Perl, and not be able to actually use it for anything useful (in regard to websites). Not many books that I've seen have addresses this. My personal knowledge of Perl for use in webpages is scraped together. Perldoc.com helps a lot, however. Books like this seem useful as a starting ground. PHP is gaining a lot of ground on PHP (It's overtaken it, I hear). This may be because it is more suited to suited to web development, or it may be more because all it does is web development: As soon as you know PHP, you know how to make a website using PHP. Most Slashdot readers will be past this point in learning a language I should imagine, so, without reading anymore than this book review, I might suggest it wouldn't be worth buying, but this is certainly the sort of book which should be on the bookselves in shops. A lot more helpful than 101 books about how to use IOSTREAMs in C++.
However KDE does a worse job of it than Windows.
In Windows, IE is annoying (No tabs) and so on, but it does work quite well at both its jobs (Ignoring that it uses Microsoft-HTML and Microsoft-DOM). KDE Konqueror however is a bad web browser (compared to Mozilla and IE), and has a GUI which is a bit chunky for my liking for a File Browser.
I love KDE, but I think so far GNOME has won in this area. I hope they don't go down the same route. Or at least make it an option.
Move the scroll-bar? What do you mean? (I'm not being pedantic, I don't know what you mean)
When I move the tracker on the scrollbar the text scrolls fine. Maybe there is an option for it?
Or was that not what you meant?
"Is this because OO was such a hog of system resources and so slow you couldn't be bothered with it" - Not really. It seems okay to me.
"or is it because of the superior functionality of M$ Word?"
In a way. The User Interface of MS Word is so much better than OpenOffice. Word just looks nice, and is easy to use. Since I was working on something which required quite a bit of thinking, I couldn't be bothered to have to think about the program I was using too. I mights as well be using VI with the User Interface of OpenOffice.
I know how you feel. The very reason I am reading Slashdot right now is because I was using windows, Word crashed, and I'd suddenly found out it wasn't saving when I told it do. Thank god for backups.
/. to calm down. And then I hear that we all love our computers?! Not at the moment!
So, being a bit pissed about that, I thought I'd come to
Saying that, it isn't my computer I am angry at right now. I've never once had a crash in OpenOffice....
It is annoying when given a 3D engine, it cannot load a 3D Format which happens to be the only one that your 3d Modeller can export to. I would be happy for that problem to disappear!
But how general will it be? If it can handle detailed CAD models, and open landscape, and UT2003 style maps, high polygon characters and so on, then will it end up being unspace-effective for all of them?
Is there a reason why right now 3DS seems to be the nearest to a standard we have, when it doesn't even have many features?
JPEG might be the standard for images, but it isn't used for everything: Sometimes PNG and TIFF are used for particular reasons. TGA and PNG for example support Alpha channels, while JPEG does not. My friend draws pictures, and sometimes she gets good compression with JPEG, but sometimes the quality loss is terrible. Sometimes GIF is better, or something PNG is. And then there are vector graphics.
MP3 is nearly a standard, but we use OGG for political/legal reasons, or a lossless format when that is important. Real is often used when the sound needs to be streaming.
So, really, how useful will this standard be? And how free?
It wouldn't be if it wasn't the guy who got Munich for SUSE, and it is wasn't Microsoft.
But both those are true, so it is Slashdot-news.
Grr!
Every single story, someone has to say "This isn't news". I just wish these people would STFU, but they seem to get modded up every time anyway.
That's it, in future, I'm going to join the idiots and write such comments in every story. I could do with a Karam Bonus point.
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FT.com (A good one!)
Woah, ignore me before, it suddenly worked again! I got it! Best post it here, eh?:
"Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.
The Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release consists of a current snapshot of AmigaOS 4.0 for the AmigaOne platform with a straightforward HTML installation guide in English, German, French and Italian as well as the Amiga OS 4.0 SDK.
The Amiga OS 4.0 SDK will allow near effortless migration of existing Amiga OS 3.x source-code to OS 4.0 as well as the creation of altogether new content.
The SDK comprises the following material:
* Complete Installer for easy and painless installation;
* GNU C Compiler 2.95.3;
* GNU C Compiler 3.4.0 RC 1;
* vbcc 0.8f;
* GNU GDB Source-Level Debugger;
* System Includes V 50;
* System Autodocs V 50;
* PDF Documentation on GNU C compilers and GNU Debugger;
* PDF Guide "Project Migration to AmigaOS 4.0";
* Example programs with source (among others: Reaction, expansion library, Roadshow, FFS2);
* Newlib.library (experimential, shared C library);
* CLIB2 source code.
Users will be able to register their copy at a soon-to-be-launched portal site which will offer Amiga OS 4.0 related content for download.
Hyperion Entertainment and the AmigaOS 4.0 development and beta-testing teams wish to thank all of you for your patience.
Amiga OS 4.0 (c) 2004 Hyperion Entertainment, developed under license from KMOS, Inc. All rights reserved. "Amiga" and associated trademarks are registered trademarks of Amiga, Inc."
Unfortunately it is slashdotted already, and there were only 10 comments when I tried!
I don't know much about this project, however.
I don't think this is the product for me... I plug in my MP3 player, Digital Camera, Scanner, Printer and Bluetooth Gizmo in from USB (My keyboard is also a mini-USB hub). None of those really have to be a distance from my Computer.
There are already solutions for people who want their Keyboard or Printer a distance away from their computers without wires. What would make these people use this solution?