Don't know... I can fit two windows of Writer, Firefox and putty side by side on my 1680x1050 screen, but will I still be able to do that if every application starts using vertical side menus?
I'd rather use other programs than having to buy a laptop with a wider snowboard-sized screen and carry it with me. Menus at the top of the window are just fine for me.
Do we make it configurable and let each user choose the preferred layout?
How this http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/hello.C is better than the equivalent Rail application? No thanks, I have better things to do than wrestle with this sort of things
I just can't think how unmaintenable that can become for a real world application.
I've been working a little with Python lately, to experiment with Google App Engine. I found it very verbose (that is: I have to explicitly write many things that Rails gives me for free) but it's still much better than what I saw here.
Anyway, I'm sure that some people with a different background than mine (which however includes C and Java) might find easier to code with Wt than learning Rails or Python.
The war was propagated by two major alliances. The Entente Powers initially consisted of France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and their associated empires and dependencies. Numerous other states joined these allies, most notably Italy in April 1915, and the United States in April 1917. The Central Powers, so named because of their central location on the European continent, initially consisted of Germany and Austria-Hungary and their associated empires. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in October 1914, followed a year later by Bulgaria.
So, how did Italy switch sides in the First World War?
Concerning WW2, Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943, when they occupied the southern half of its territory. Mussolini was put under arrest and then freed by the German army. He's been moved to the north, an area occupied by the German army, where he lead a puppet government. He was opposed by several armed factions and a civil war enraged there for the next two years, while the Germans and the Allies where battling in the middle of the country.
The articles sums up the hurdles of parallel programming and says that NVIDIA's CUDA is doing something to solve them but it doesn't say what.
Even the short Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA tells more about it.
Really? There are many problems with this approach.
Try to figure out how long it would take to arrive to this very comment in this very page, after having dodged the menus and the navigation bars and performed many Ajax requests.
This is far from being the most interesting part of this matter, but the LHC is in Europe and the lawsuit has been filed in Hawaii's U.S. District Court. What could that court do to stop the LHC from being switch on?
I always found blue instrumentation lights very annoying and I vowed never to buy a car with them. This article might provide a rational explanation for my tastes. I also don't like red instrumentation lights, amber is bearable, green is best. Maybe it's just a traffic light syndrome:-)
Ever seen a movie with somebody entering a shop and telling the manager he needs protection?
"Protection from what?"
"Fires"
"There are never been fires here"
"There might be"
"Are you a fireman or do you know somebody setting fires here?"
"None of them"
"So, why do I need your protection?"
"To be sure there are no fires."
Substitute fires with legal action and you get a clearer idea of what this is all about, even if MS might be looking at it in a different way.
I googled a little and found this article http://lwn.net/Articles/211505/. I'm not sure that this is all of the story, but it should be a good starting point for further investigations.
I think you are confusing the GPL with the LGPL. If a library is licensed under the GPL, the program that uses it is GPLed too. You have to link a library licensed under LGPL if you want to keep your software proprietary. That's exactly what the LGPL has been made for.
Exactly. I've got a 10 Mb/s Ethernet cable coming from the ISP's switch in the basement and there are no limits on the incoming and outcoming traffic, with the obvious exception of the overall bandwidth of the pipe. That's since Q1 2000, or was it Q1 2001? Well, too time passed by and the ISP should give us at least a 100 Mb/s connection for that price nowadays:-)
I'd like to share my experience with a similar service I've been using since year 2000 in Italy. I have a symmetrical 10 Mbits fiber optic connection from Fastweb http://www.fastweb.it/. Their offers that can compare to the Verizon one range in the 50-60 Euros per month, so Verizon is definitely cheaper.
The question somebody asked, directly or unspoken, in this forum is: do you really get all that speed? In my case the answer is yes. I FTP at 1000 kB/s (kilobytes) with the other guys in the Fastweb network and it's common to download files at more than 400 kB/s from US servers. CDNs usually bring that figure in the 700-900 kB/s range.
That bandwidth isn't guaranteed by the contract but it never shrunk noticeably in these eight years, despite the fact that the customer base grew 100 times or more.
On the other side, none of the 10 or 20 Mb/s ADSL connections I saw here in Italy (with other ISPs) were faster than one tenth of their nominal bandwidth, when downloading files from the same services I use.
So, if you trust your provider to invest in its interconnection with the Internet at large, those 65$ can be worth the expense. If you think that it will somewhat cap your bandwidth, stay with what you have. In my case I got a six-months-for-free offer and I jumped in at the very beginning of the offering:-) but otherwise I'd have waited some month and read what the other customers said.
Finally, do you really need all that speed? My answer is yes: you find a way to put it at use once you got it and you don't want to go back.
The height/width ratio of the two fonts is very different. Consolas is taller, Courier New is wider. CN at 12pt gives me two more lines with my screen geometry (1680x1050). Yes, Consolas at 12pt gives give me more columns, but I already get to arrange two 80-columns windows side to side with CN and I really don't want to work with more columns. I think I'll stick to CN but if I had a narrower screen I'll probably switch to Consolas at once.
Finally, I work with white characters on a black background and Consolas seems to pack more pixels per area of unit. I prefer CN because it keeps the overall luminous intensity of the window low. For the same reason, I prefer Consolas to CN when displaying text on a white background. I'll end up using CN in my consoles and Consolas for
They could offer a bonus to each developer just after the buy out, in exchange for a non competition agreement for the next N years. No agreement, no bonus. Many people will sign it if the bonus is high enough. It's basically what happens with the management in most acquisition deals.
OSX won't replace Windows anytime soon because it's tied with the Mac and only Apple can make and sell a Mac. There is no way Apple can manufacture as many Macs as the Windows-PCs made by Dell, HP & Co. Ff everybody stop buying Windows-PC and go buying Macs, there simply won't be enough offer to meet the demand. Prices will skyrocket or delivery times will get impossibly long and most people will have to buy PCs no matter what.
OSX can replace Windows only if Apple sells it as Microsoft does, but that means becoming a software company and compete with other manufacturers for the hardware, and likely lose the HW market. Remember what happened when Mac clones started to be successful in the past? Apple shut them down.
Probably Apple is still not interested to change its business model and is happy with OSX being a niche OS, maybe a large niche, but still a niche compared with Windows market share. After all the revenues aren't that bad and MS has no particular reason to look at them as particularly dangerous. I suppose they're thinking, we're making a lot of easy money now, so why take risks and change?
Safari looks so bad in the middle of a Windows desktop because of its non standard widgets, that I think it's doing a very poor service to the cause of moving people from Windows to the Mac: "Would I use an OS that looks so bad?! No thanks." To see this from the other side, just think about an application running with standard Windows widgets in the middle of a OSX desktop: not a nice view, right? In conclusion, Safari for Windows it's great for cross platform compatibility tests but I won't use it for anything else. Furthermore from a developer's point of view it lacks all those extensions that make writing web apps with Firefox so easy (thanks Firebug!).
I don't know if it's really so cool.
It uses the OSX widget sets so it feels as out of place on a Windows desktop as a Windows app feels on a OSX one, and I don't think that having only that little bottom right handle to resize the window is an improvement over standard Windows apps, but I'm starting to dangerously approach religious issues:-) (but... no tooltips on buttons? Do I really have to click them to discover what they do?)
On the plus side, I can start testing for Safari and Konqueror compatibility from my development machine now, so this is a great day.
BTW, does Safari have anything close to Firebug for debugging web pages?
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Don't know... I can fit two windows of Writer, Firefox and putty side by side on my 1680x1050 screen, but will I still be able to do that if every application starts using vertical side menus? I'd rather use other programs than having to buy a laptop with a wider snowboard-sized screen and carry it with me. Menus at the top of the window are just fine for me.
Do we make it configurable and let each user choose the preferred layout?
How this http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/hello.C is better than the equivalent Rail application? No thanks, I have better things to do than wrestle with this sort of things
b->clicked.connect(SLOT(this, HelloApplication::greet));nameEdit_->enterPressed.connect(SLOT(this, HelloApplication::greet)); }
I just can't think how unmaintenable that can become for a real world application.
I've been working a little with Python lately, to experiment with Google App Engine. I found it very verbose (that is: I have to explicitly write many things that Rails gives me for free) but it's still much better than what I saw here.
Anyway, I'm sure that some people with a different background than mine (which however includes C and Java) might find easier to code with Wt than learning Rails or Python.
I quote from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_world_war
So, how did Italy switch sides in the First World War?
Concerning WW2, Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943, when they occupied the southern half of its territory. Mussolini was put under arrest and then freed by the German army. He's been moved to the north, an area occupied by the German army, where he lead a puppet government. He was opposed by several armed factions and a civil war enraged there for the next two years, while the Germans and the Allies where battling in the middle of the country.
Agreed.
The articles sums up the hurdles of parallel programming and says that NVIDIA's CUDA is doing something to solve them but it doesn't say what. Even the short Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA tells more about it.
Really? There are many problems with this approach. Try to figure out how long it would take to arrive to this very comment in this very page, after having dodged the menus and the navigation bars and performed many Ajax requests.
This is far from being the most interesting part of this matter, but the LHC is in Europe and the lawsuit has been filed in Hawaii's U.S. District Court. What could that court do to stop the LHC from being switch on?
I always found blue instrumentation lights very annoying and I vowed never to buy a car with them. This article might provide a rational explanation for my tastes. I also don't like red instrumentation lights, amber is bearable, green is best. Maybe it's just a traffic light syndrome :-)
Sound, better movement (both character and ice blocks), rankings.
Furthermore you seem never to run out of time in the copy. I hate games that try their best to make you win.
Luckily for me there will be always ways to fly around the US on intercontinental routes, but I'm feeling sad for who has to live in there.
Ever seen a movie with somebody entering a shop and telling the manager he needs protection?
"Protection from what?" "Fires" "There are never been fires here" "There might be" "Are you a fireman or do you know somebody setting fires here?" "None of them" "So, why do I need your protection?" "To be sure there are no fires."
Substitute fires with legal action and you get a clearer idea of what this is all about, even if MS might be looking at it in a different way.
I googled a little and found this article http://lwn.net/Articles/211505/. I'm not sure that this is all of the story, but it should be a good starting point for further investigations.
So, is this a way to finally find a use for all those excess fast food calories?
(fun intended)
It's not, well, sort of. It seems that GD changes the User Agent string of IE. Check this thread. However it didn't do anything to my Firefox.
I think you are confusing the GPL with the LGPL. If a library is licensed under the GPL, the program that uses it is GPLed too. You have to link a library licensed under LGPL if you want to keep your software proprietary. That's exactly what the LGPL has been made for.
I don't think so
Exactly. I've got a 10 Mb/s Ethernet cable coming from the ISP's switch in the basement and there are no limits on the incoming and outcoming traffic, with the obvious exception of the overall bandwidth of the pipe. That's since Q1 2000, or was it Q1 2001? Well, too time passed by and the ISP should give us at least a 100 Mb/s connection for that price nowadays :-)
I'd like to share my experience with a similar service I've been using since year 2000 in Italy. I have a symmetrical 10 Mbits fiber optic connection from Fastweb http://www.fastweb.it/. Their offers that can compare to the Verizon one range in the 50-60 Euros per month, so Verizon is definitely cheaper. :-) but otherwise I'd have waited some month and read what the other customers said.
The question somebody asked, directly or unspoken, in this forum is: do you really get all that speed? In my case the answer is yes. I FTP at 1000 kB/s (kilobytes) with the other guys in the Fastweb network and it's common to download files at more than 400 kB/s from US servers. CDNs usually bring that figure in the 700-900 kB/s range. That bandwidth isn't guaranteed by the contract but it never shrunk noticeably in these eight years, despite the fact that the customer base grew 100 times or more. On the other side, none of the 10 or 20 Mb/s ADSL connections I saw here in Italy (with other ISPs) were faster than one tenth of their nominal bandwidth, when downloading files from the same services I use.
So, if you trust your provider to invest in its interconnection with the Internet at large, those 65$ can be worth the expense. If you think that it will somewhat cap your bandwidth, stay with what you have. In my case I got a six-months-for-free offer and I jumped in at the very beginning of the offering
Finally, do you really need all that speed? My answer is yes: you find a way to put it at use once you got it and you don't want to go back.
They could offer a bonus to each developer just after the buy out, in exchange for a non competition agreement for the next N years. No agreement, no bonus. Many people will sign it if the bonus is high enough. It's basically what happens with the management in most acquisition deals.
I always save as ODT, I re-save as DOC if I need to share a file with somebody using Word. If only Word would read ODT...
OSX won't replace Windows anytime soon because it's tied with the Mac and only Apple can make and sell a Mac. There is no way Apple can manufacture as many Macs as the Windows-PCs made by Dell, HP & Co. Ff everybody stop buying Windows-PC and go buying Macs, there simply won't be enough offer to meet the demand. Prices will skyrocket or delivery times will get impossibly long and most people will have to buy PCs no matter what.
OSX can replace Windows only if Apple sells it as Microsoft does, but that means becoming a software company and compete with other manufacturers for the hardware, and likely lose the HW market. Remember what happened when Mac clones started to be successful in the past? Apple shut them down.
Probably Apple is still not interested to change its business model and is happy with OSX being a niche OS, maybe a large niche, but still a niche compared with Windows market share. After all the revenues aren't that bad and MS has no particular reason to look at them as particularly dangerous. I suppose they're thinking, we're making a lot of easy money now, so why take risks and change?
Safari looks so bad in the middle of a Windows desktop because of its non standard widgets, that I think it's doing a very poor service to the cause of moving people from Windows to the Mac: "Would I use an OS that looks so bad?! No thanks."
To see this from the other side, just think about an application running with standard Windows widgets in the middle of a OSX desktop: not a nice view, right?
In conclusion, Safari for Windows it's great for cross platform compatibility tests but I won't use it for anything else. Furthermore from a developer's point of view it lacks all those extensions that make writing web apps with Firefox so easy (thanks Firebug!).
I know, I tried it but it definitely doesn't compare with Firebug. Anyway, thanks for replying. Very kind of you.
I don't know if it's really so cool. It uses the OSX widget sets so it feels as out of place on a Windows desktop as a Windows app feels on a OSX one, and I don't think that having only that little bottom right handle to resize the window is an improvement over standard Windows apps, but I'm starting to dangerously approach religious issues :-) (but... no tooltips on buttons? Do I really have to click them to discover what they do?)
On the plus side, I can start testing for Safari and Konqueror compatibility from my development machine now, so this is a great day.
BTW, does Safari have anything close to Firebug for debugging web pages?