If one person chooses BDB over Oracle after they've been using Oracle for a while, that's competition. Granted they may be very different types of software, but if both can achieve the same goal in the end they can still compete against each other.
Quite a few people care. Just because it's an open source project doesn't mean that the amount of work it takes to keep it going is any less significant. If developers are forced to stop working on the project at certain times or if the project needs to be forked, you can expect a large pause in development that can seriously disrupt the project.
Open source is good, but it doesn't miraculously solve all problems.
A hardware calibration device, along with decent software, will make your life much easier. One thing to remember is that you'll have trouble replicating the output of any active display on print. It doesn't matter whether it's CRT or LCD. You have to match the display to the gamut of the printer in order to have a seemless workflow.
I've found just the opposite to be true. I know it's an endless debate, but the fuzziness (great technical term, I know) of CRT's drives me nuts after using LCD's for a while. As far as color reproduction goes, I haven't had many issues. I'm sure that there are some irregularities in the backlighting, but not enough for me to see with my own eyes and I look pretty close. Calibrating LCD's is usually easier than CRT's as well from my experience.
Both types of technology have their own flaws. Personally, I'm much happier working on an LCD.
Babies can't walk upright until they learn to. An AI meant for walking will have that information programmed in and walking will be the only thing the AI has to worry about. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Personally, I'm all for semantically correct (x)HTML for creating my resume. It looks good because I'm forced to keep everything consistent and it's quite portable.
The problem is, everybody knows this would be bad. Unfortunately, big commercial thinks it will line their pockets a little bit better. It's either going to happen or it's not. There's nothing we can do to stop it besides putting together our own backbones, etc.
Ugh. I hate that site. Besides the fact that the IT section is full of spam telling me how I can work from home and make 3 million dollars a year, the site seems like it's always having troubles. I get runtime errors constantly while working on my resume. To hell with monster.com. Craigslist rules.
Well that's not surprising considering NAV runs at least 14 processes. I think it might be 15 including that glorified advertisement they call Norton Protection Center.
We're still selling it at the shop that I work at. I'm not sure why... We recommend AVG Free for most people, but for business users we sell NAV.
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I'm really suprised that something like this hasn't been built on OpenStep actually. I like Java, but I'd love to be able to write software in Objective C that was capable of being compiled accross all three major platforms.
Shouldn't that be improved by going to a hardware accellerated window manager? The work for drawing the graphics will be going to where it should be going.
I'd love to know how OS X has things set up for fullscreen. That's always worked very well for me.
Joe Shmoe home-user doesn't know what programs are spyware and what aren't. Most people are beginning to realize now that there are programs out there that are bad, though. Giving people information as to which programs are bad for their computer usually results in them not using said programs.
It's true that even bad publicity can be good, but don't underestimate the power of information.
I never understood this idea. Do you think windows is going to keep redrawing the screen whether it needs to or not? Granted they're not good on security, but the programmers at microsoft aren't completely stupid.
You seem to ignore the fact that the original point is that open operating systems have been important and influential in the software market. Whether it's linux or BSD doesn't really matter all that much.
Wouldn't a decent optimizing compiler be able to do this while providing a layer of abstraction that would let the same code work on both AMD and Intel processors?
Good, maybe people will stop trying to pretend to be web developers and leave it to those that actually know how to do the job. Back in the day when you needed to know HTML to have a presence on the web this might have been a problem, but now with Myspace, all the blogging software out there, WYSIWYG programs (That will work better with XHTML) etc, I really don't think it's all that important.
That's a good point and maybe it's the right place to start. On the other hand, I think rallys can be helpful if you get the right number of people and go about it the right way. Getting on the news definitely creates a buzz; especially when it's about something that most people haven't even heard of.
In the end, I think it really boils down to orginization. Two women on the corner of a street with scribbled sharpie and cardboard signs are going to look much less reputable than a large group with well made signs and pamphlets.
I think I'm going to go get started on a letter to the editor.
Also, with many other applications that supposedly require admin priveledges it's easy enough to get around it by putting an "Applications" folder in your home directory and installing the application there. Granted that means multiple installs if you have more than one user using that program on the same computer, but it still seems better to me than running as Admin.
Why do they have an obligation to go into China? Why support totalitarianism?
I never said they had any obligation to go into China. It certainly benefits them, however, so why shouldn't they? Could you tell me how a company being in multiple regions is totalitarianism?
Now, that's naive thinking. Google just wants to make money. What makes you think they care about making a difference? if they wanted to make a difference, they would take a stand - not act like every other apologist for China like Microsoft. Doing this now only delays any change. It legitimizes censorship and heavy-handed government tactics.
I don't mean to give the impression that I think they going to go to any great length to make the world a better place. I made that statement as sort of a best case scenario. No, I don't think it's likely, but with how they're dealing with our government I wouldn't be shocked by it either.
So, going against human rights is perfectly OK if it gives people more toys back home? I also don't think this is a good thing. Most of the things Google are currently doing are bad, not good. So, if we can reduce their funding for these projects, then all the better.
I don't think going against human rights is perfectly OK in any situation. It's a lesser of two evils scenario at best. My point was that at least there's some good coming of it. Google has no leverage here against China becaus China doesn't need them. If they actually had any chance of being able to make a difference I might agree that they should take a stand, but it's just not going to happen that way.
Btw, could you tell me exactly what Google is doing right now that is so bad?
Don't believe their lies. Google is founded on exploiting what you do online.
I don't know what Google is planning in the future. Currently, though, they make money of non-intrusive contextually based (read: sometimes useful) advertising. I have no qualms with this. If they screw up in the future, then I might change my opinion about them, but for now they seem like a good company to me.
You make a lot of accusations here, but you haven't backed any of them up. You're not going to change any minds that way.
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If one person chooses BDB over Oracle after they've been using Oracle for a while, that's competition. Granted they may be very different types of software, but if both can achieve the same goal in the end they can still compete against each other.
Quite a few people care. Just because it's an open source project doesn't mean that the amount of work it takes to keep it going is any less significant. If developers are forced to stop working on the project at certain times or if the project needs to be forked, you can expect a large pause in development that can seriously disrupt the project.
Open source is good, but it doesn't miraculously solve all problems.
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A hardware calibration device, along with decent software, will make your life much easier. One thing to remember is that you'll have trouble replicating the output of any active display on print. It doesn't matter whether it's CRT or LCD. You have to match the display to the gamut of the printer in order to have a seemless workflow.
I've found just the opposite to be true. I know it's an endless debate, but the fuzziness (great technical term, I know) of CRT's drives me nuts after using LCD's for a while. As far as color reproduction goes, I haven't had many issues. I'm sure that there are some irregularities in the backlighting, but not enough for me to see with my own eyes and I look pretty close. Calibrating LCD's is usually easier than CRT's as well from my experience.
Both types of technology have their own flaws. Personally, I'm much happier working on an LCD.
22 here and I was a transformers freak when I was a kid.
Btw, they're still around.
Babies can't walk upright until they learn to. An AI meant for walking will have that information programmed in and walking will be the only thing the AI has to worry about. You're comparing apples to oranges.
Personally, I'm all for semantically correct (x)HTML for creating my resume. It looks good because I'm forced to keep everything consistent and it's quite portable.
The problem is, everybody knows this would be bad. Unfortunately, big commercial thinks it will line their pockets a little bit better. It's either going to happen or it's not. There's nothing we can do to stop it besides putting together our own backbones, etc.
Ugh. I hate that site. Besides the fact that the IT section is full of spam telling me how I can work from home and make 3 million dollars a year, the site seems like it's always having troubles. I get runtime errors constantly while working on my resume. To hell with monster.com. Craigslist rules.
I'll look into it. None of us are very pleased with NAV 2k6 and it might be a good time for me to put some pressure on to switch to a better solution.
Either that or you forgo the crappy software firewall options. Buy a router. They're cheap and they don't hose your internet access unexpectedly.
Well that's not surprising considering NAV runs at least 14 processes. I think it might be 15 including that glorified advertisement they call Norton Protection Center.
We're still selling it at the shop that I work at. I'm not sure why... We recommend AVG Free for most people, but for business users we sell NAV.
I'm really suprised that something like this hasn't been built on OpenStep actually. I like Java, but I'd love to be able to write software in Objective C that was capable of being compiled accross all three major platforms.
Shouldn't that be improved by going to a hardware accellerated window manager? The work for drawing the graphics will be going to where it should be going.
I'd love to know how OS X has things set up for fullscreen. That's always worked very well for me.
Joe Shmoe home-user doesn't know what programs are spyware and what aren't. Most people are beginning to realize now that there are programs out there that are bad, though. Giving people information as to which programs are bad for their computer usually results in them not using said programs.
It's true that even bad publicity can be good, but don't underestimate the power of information.
I never understood this idea. Do you think windows is going to keep redrawing the screen whether it needs to or not? Granted they're not good on security, but the programmers at microsoft aren't completely stupid.
An AC with an informative post? Looks like this warm winter we've been having is about to come to an end.
Next time your found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around
Just what makes that little old ant
Think he'll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can't
Move a rubber tree plant
But he's got high hopes, he's got high hopes
He's got high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your gettin' low
'stead of lettin' go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant
When troubles call, and your back's to the wall
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall
Once there was a silly old ram
Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin' that dam
'cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your feelin' bad
'stead of feelin' sad
Just remember that ram
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam
All problems just a toy balloon
They'll be bursted soon
They're just bound to go pop
Oops there goes another problem kerplop
--Writer(s): cahn/van heusen
You seem to ignore the fact that the original point is that open operating systems have been important and influential in the software market. Whether it's linux or BSD doesn't really matter all that much.
Wouldn't a decent optimizing compiler be able to do this while providing a layer of abstraction that would let the same code work on both AMD and Intel processors?
Good, maybe people will stop trying to pretend to be web developers and leave it to those that actually know how to do the job. Back in the day when you needed to know HTML to have a presence on the web this might have been a problem, but now with Myspace, all the blogging software out there, WYSIWYG programs (That will work better with XHTML) etc, I really don't think it's all that important.
That's a good point and maybe it's the right place to start. On the other hand, I think rallys can be helpful if you get the right number of people and go about it the right way. Getting on the news definitely creates a buzz; especially when it's about something that most people haven't even heard of.
In the end, I think it really boils down to orginization. Two women on the corner of a street with scribbled sharpie and cardboard signs are going to look much less reputable than a large group with well made signs and pamphlets.
I think I'm going to go get started on a letter to the editor.
Also, with many other applications that supposedly require admin priveledges it's easy enough to get around it by putting an "Applications" folder in your home directory and installing the application there. Granted that means multiple installs if you have more than one user using that program on the same computer, but it still seems better to me than running as Admin.
I never said they had any obligation to go into China. It certainly benefits them, however, so why shouldn't they? Could you tell me how a company being in multiple regions is totalitarianism?
I don't mean to give the impression that I think they going to go to any great length to make the world a better place. I made that statement as sort of a best case scenario. No, I don't think it's likely, but with how they're dealing with our government I wouldn't be shocked by it either.
I don't think going against human rights is perfectly OK in any situation. It's a lesser of two evils scenario at best. My point was that at least there's some good coming of it. Google has no leverage here against China becaus China doesn't need them. If they actually had any chance of being able to make a difference I might agree that they should take a stand, but it's just not going to happen that way.
Btw, could you tell me exactly what Google is doing right now that is so bad?
I don't know what Google is planning in the future. Currently, though, they make money of non-intrusive contextually based (read: sometimes useful) advertising. I have no qualms with this. If they screw up in the future, then I might change my opinion about them, but for now they seem like a good company to me.
You make a lot of accusations here, but you haven't backed any of them up. You're not going to change any minds that way.