In general, GSM works fine inside buildings, but of course you need a decent amount of transmitter stations spread around... well we have that here in Europe *smiles*
BTW, no need for a springboard module here, I just need to line up my cellphone (Nokia 8210) and my PDA (Palm Vx) and off ya' go... IRDA is cool (though of course BlueTooth would be even cooler, as I wouldn't have to align the IR sensors on the two devices anymore).
Ah, sorry, it appears you haven't looked closely enough. KDE is a UN*X desktop, it works on everything from AIX to Solaris, so mentioning Linux is just for marketing reasons (and the fact that the installed base of Linux is probably higher than that for all other Unices combined - as shown by a study recently conducted by the German UN*X magazine iX).
You are misinformed. There are Qt bindings for C, Python,...
I don't know about Perl, but if there aren't any bindings, doing them wouldn't be so hard.
Qt is FREE. Period. You can port it to Windows, MacOS, whatever you like. There IS a non-free Windows version, but that doesn't hinder you in porting the GPL version yourself.
As for a Qt => GTK wrapper: write one if you want it so much. It would certainly attract quite an amount of attention!
Could you please be a bit more specific? KDE 2.0 is rock solid over here (K6-III with Debian "Potato").
"It's unstable. It sucks." is fud unless you can back that up somewhat. And the original post complained about "not using the drag-and-drop paradigm everywhere", which is not quite the same as "unstable".
Big deal. It's not like development suddenly ceases, on the contrary. There has been a feature freeze in effect to get the codebase stable for a release, that freeze has now been lifted.
New features are rolling into CVS all the time now, and the 2.1 release won't take 2 years, that's a promise!
No, I don't see this "clearly". I find it a bit preposturous to assume to know what "the Axis was out to [do]".
In order for someone to be able to fight for American independence, the Axis would first have had to invade the US. This didn't happen (and no, Perl Harbour wasn't an invasion).
The US joining the war certainly was a good thing, but American soldiers weren't fighting for US independence in any but the most loose meaning of the word.
As for the British buring Washington, I seem to recall that the US started that war, and the burning of Washington was the revenge for the razing of York (later named Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada.
Claiming that those soldiers were fighting for American independence in 1812 is like German Wehrmacht veterans claiming they were fighting to protect their homeland in Russia or Yugoslavia...
Thank god my parents and their peers, who fought World War 2 to preserve American independence, didn't think like you.
What kind of history books have you got? Not that I don't value the American contribution to overthrowing Nazi Germany, but when for God's sake has "American independence" ever been in danger after the War of Independence?
I still don't think this is likely. The thing about only releasing debug-ROMs MIGHT happen, but some errors don't show up with debug-enabled compiles, so that's not an ideal solution either...
As for only running in POSE: possible, but that would defeat its purpose (being an EXACT duplicate of the real hardware) somewhat, so I don't really fear this avenue either.
As for the waiting period: yes, it took some time (about 3 weeks IIRC), but that's not soo long... I do think their policy of requiring a snail-mailed (not faxed!) NDA is a bit extreme, though, and rather unfair towards non-US developers, but it's not unworkable.
Not true. The only thing that is more "difficult" for non-US developers is printing out an NDA and mailing it to Palm.
That's it. It takes a few weeks, but non-US people also get access to the ROM-seeding area.
And I really doubt that "there will be some toughening up on this method", since without ROMs for the POSE, how should a developer test his programs? Unless Palm is really stupid (and despite the announcement we're discussing here I don't think they are stupid), the won't change their policy regarding developer access to ROMs, SDKs,...
Oh please, have you got anything more besides that (quoted) email saying "we don't KNOW whether we would sue or not"? Sounds like hearsay (aka FUD) to me...
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Must have been a nutcase. Really, no-one does that (dissing people for crossing the street).
:-)
Besides, Munich is the capital of decidedly Catholic Bavaria
Ah!, and your humble contribution to this discussion of course has been nothing but constructivce criticism and supportive comments...
Actually, isn't it released under a dual license?
who didn't let moral concerns stand in the way of his work
Nice attitude, pal!
Actually, they were hanged, not burned...
But who cares for history nowadays...
CORBA is a mechanism, not an object model. The Open Group DID design an object model for CORBA, but the standard does not specify one per se.
In general, GSM works fine inside buildings, but of course you need a decent amount of transmitter stations spread around... well we have that here in Europe *smiles*
BTW, no need for a springboard module here, I just need to line up my cellphone (Nokia 8210) and my PDA (Palm Vx) and off ya' go... IRDA is cool (though of course BlueTooth would be even cooler, as I wouldn't have to align the IR sensors on the two devices anymore).
Are you talking about the miniseries (the 4 "movies" with Eva Habermann) or the regular series (being in Europe and thus having no access to SciFi)?
I only know the miniseries... and it rocks *g* it's one of the funniest SF parodies I've ever seen.
Wasn't it "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind"?
de jure: Latin for "according to the law"
vs.
de facto: Latin for "according to facts"
(although I agree the original poster probably meant "du jour")
1. it says "a standard desktop" not "the standard desktop", that's a crucial difference.
2. KDE != KDE League, so your quote is not "KDE's mission statement"
Ah, sorry, it appears you haven't looked closely enough. KDE is a UN*X desktop, it works on everything from AIX to Solaris, so mentioning Linux is just for marketing reasons (and the fact that the installed base of Linux is probably higher than that for all other Unices combined - as shown by a study recently conducted by the German UN*X magazine iX).
So why do you even bother to post?
Oh, and yes, I did notice the last sentence.
How so? AFAIK Kylix supports KDE/Qt natively, and this whole release-it-to-them-thing is just a cheap way to get GNOME-support, too!
You are misinformed. There are Qt bindings for C, Python, ...
I don't know about Perl, but if there aren't any bindings, doing them wouldn't be so hard.
Qt is FREE. Period. You can port it to Windows, MacOS, whatever you like. There IS a non-free Windows version, but that doesn't hinder you in porting the GPL version yourself.
As for a Qt => GTK wrapper: write one if you want it so much. It would certainly attract quite an amount of attention!
Both TrueType and Adobe Type1 fonts already contain hints (well, they can at least).
:(
Whether or not the renderer actually uses those is a different matter, of course.
At least the Type1 renderer donated to X11 by IBM ages ago isn't very good
Could you please be a bit more specific? KDE 2.0 is rock solid over here (K6-III with Debian "Potato").
"It's unstable. It sucks." is fud unless you can back that up somewhat. And the original post complained about "not using the drag-and-drop paradigm everywhere", which is not quite the same as "unstable".
Oh, and the golfing "tee" isn't named after the shape, is it? :-)
So there are bugs, missing features, ...
Big deal. It's not like development suddenly ceases, on the contrary. There has been a feature freeze in effect to get the codebase stable for a release, that freeze has now been lifted.
New features are rolling into CVS all the time now, and the 2.1 release won't take 2 years, that's a promise!
T-shirt: uh, isn't it named that way because it fucking LOOKS like a capital "T"? so a lower-case "t" would be somewhat beside the point, wouldn't it?
No, I don't see this "clearly". I find it a bit preposturous to assume to know what "the Axis was out to [do]".
In order for someone to be able to fight for American independence, the Axis would first have had to invade the US. This didn't happen (and no, Perl Harbour wasn't an invasion).
The US joining the war certainly was a good thing, but American soldiers weren't fighting for US independence in any but the most loose meaning of the word.
As for the British buring Washington, I seem to recall that the US started that war, and the burning of Washington was the revenge for the razing of York (later named Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada.
Claiming that those soldiers were fighting for American independence in 1812 is like German Wehrmacht veterans claiming they were fighting to protect their homeland in Russia or Yugoslavia...
Thank god my parents and their peers, who fought World War 2 to preserve American independence, didn't think like you.
What kind of history books have you got? Not that I don't value the American contribution to overthrowing Nazi Germany, but when for God's sake has "American independence" ever been in danger after the War of Independence?
I still don't think this is likely. The thing about only releasing debug-ROMs MIGHT happen, but some errors don't show up with debug-enabled compiles, so that's not an ideal solution either...
As for only running in POSE: possible, but that would defeat its purpose (being an EXACT duplicate of the real hardware) somewhat, so I don't really fear this avenue either.
As for the waiting period: yes, it took some time (about 3 weeks IIRC), but that's not soo long... I do think their policy of requiring a snail-mailed (not faxed!) NDA is a bit extreme, though, and rather unfair towards non-US developers, but it's not unworkable.
Not true. The only thing that is more "difficult" for non-US developers is printing out an NDA and mailing it to Palm.
...
That's it. It takes a few weeks, but non-US people also get access to the ROM-seeding area.
And I really doubt that "there will be some toughening up on this method", since without ROMs for the POSE, how should a developer test his programs? Unless Palm is really stupid (and despite the announcement we're discussing here I don't think they are stupid), the won't change their policy regarding developer access to ROMs, SDKs,
Oh please, have you got anything more besides that (quoted) email saying "we don't KNOW whether we would sue or not"? Sounds like hearsay (aka FUD) to me...