What's the point in buying a "pretty" version of a piece of hardware if all it's going to do is hide inside the case of your PC? Now if I had one of those cool see-thru cases that may be different, but most of us don't. This just seems like a big waste of money. I say buy OEM and buy ugly;)
What's so horrible about MDI? Most IDEs use it fairly well to handle opening multiple source code files. As long as there is an easy way (ie tabs) to open the multiple docs at will then I am all for it. Problem is some programs I have seen force you to go to the Windows-> menu to select the next one to display if it is not currently viewable.
Is it just me or are some of these new 3D games not quite as fun as their predecessors. I loved Super Mario Bros. I remember people lined up at the arcade to play it. A lot of these new 3D renditions just don't seem as interesting to me. I rented Frogger for the PS2 a while back and I couldn't stand it.:(
Oh well, out with the old and in with the new I suppose. Just because the new consoles CAN handle 3D doesn't necessarily mean every game should be 3D does it?
I was reading an article last week in EE Times about an apparent attitude shift in the embedded linux area. The article claimed that enthusiasm is dying.
EE Times interviewed Lineo's CEO who said: "We assumed in 1999 that the market would pay for embedded Linux the same way it pays for VxWorks. But we've learned that a model built on extracting revenue from nothing more than Linux is doomed to failure," Harris told EE Times."
I know there are people out there still using/planing to use embedded Linux but I can't help but wonder what the future really holds. Most Linux development is after all in the desktop/server markets.
Another interesting quote:
At the recent Embedded Systems Conference, Wind River chairman of the board and co-founder Jerry Fiddler told EE Times that the company no longer considers Linux to be a strong presence in the embedded market. "Linux is a phantasm," he said. "Software isn't free, and companies are beginning to realize that."
If anyone knows the embedded arena, it's Wind River.
I've been getting this free since the second issue. I don't believe it was worth paying for. Sure, it had some semi-interesting articles but all in all I think you'd be better off getting your info from other sources.
Stallman says that declining to give a service is not coercion in the Microsoft way. Actually, I thought the denial of service was Microsoft's biggest coercion tactic...that is, denying to sell vendors Windows at a decent price unless they met certain requirements.
Joe Barr claims in his original article that Stallman is not about ego. After reading his reply, I can't help but think there's a hell of a lot of ego here.
First, we couldn't believe every thing we heard...
Then, we couldn't believe everything we read...
Now, we can't believe everything we see...
I can't help but wonder what potential uses this could have. "Tonight at nine...Bill Gates admits Linux is superior to what he now refers to as 'Windoze'"
By conciously adding a utility to disable viewing the EULA, aren't you in effect agreeing to it? I mean, you KNOW the EULA is going to be there and you are choosing to install the software anyway. How is that different than seeing it and installing the software?
I agree. As has been mentioned on here in the past, the days of the garage shop startups like hewlett/packard is long gone. With all of the specialized hardware and test equipment required to develop anything of any signifigance it would be crazy to think someone would finance it on their own. Back in the day you might be able to produce a good wirewrap of a then high-speed circuit but what about now? A lot of items need to go straight from computer design to PCB to make sure noise is low, propagation delays are matched, etc...
My thinking is that the DIY people of this century will be working almost entirely in software. After all, the open source community is really just a community of DIYs.
Well, probably because the word "gadget" brings to mind a small device. Now of course it sounds like the Japanese translation does not need the word gadget, but if you use it as part of the translation then I can see how someone would think small was part of it.
Right, this is not unreasonable. I think the issue here is that if they allow this, then things could get worse. Imagine in the future that TV studios could sell ad space to other companies and digitally impose them in real time during live events...whether it be news or coverage of new years eve.
How does DSL reliability increase if you have two separate accounts. I mean, they share a common link to the phone company's central office...isn't that where the major source of problems were with DSL reliability?
For any of us doing embedded development, legacy ports are a MUST. Most emulators and eval boards use at least the serial port, if not both the serial port AND the parallel port. Hell, I had to buy a card to add a couple more RS232 ports to my PC because the two on my motherboard weren't enough. Oh well, hopefully the other manufacturers won't be dropping those ports too soon.
BTW, did anyone look at those benchmarks? They weren't impressive. Why would anyone shell out the cash for that board?
After panicking about this I have a thought: why not separate cable usage times like the cell phone companies have? You would have your anytime bytes and you night/weekend bytes. After all, if they are worried about businesses hogging the bandwidth then it would make sense to put incentives in place to not use the service as much during the day. Then at night we can all still get our kernel/kde/gnome/pron downloads without worry! Could the big guys be convinced to go for this idea?
Ummm, or maybe some insulation between the cabin and the lower portion of the craft. Besides, if they are moving along through the ice they won't sit in any one place for long. Surely the ice won't melt in that amount of time.
Actually yes. What we need are for little guys to push their rediculous patents on the big guys. The big guys will then spend their cash and influence politicians to amend our patent laws.
Not quite, however if you use IE south of the equator the IE globe will spin in the opposite direction. Likewise, if you use it right on the equator, the globe will not spin at all.;)
Sony is going to have to weigh the benefits of BC with the insane amount it would cost to attain it. Think about it, they are making these things by the millions. Adding just $10 to the price of a unit by introducing extra components for BC would cost a lot. With Nintendo and Microsoft in the arena, they are going to have to shave every last dollar (or yen, lira, pound...) off the price.
With the complexity of the PS2, it's going to cost some money. Oh well.
Well, I remember that ncsa mosaic was free for the taking even back then. I am pretty sure netscape was as well, weren't they just trying to make money off their server software?
Look, the reason the people chose Netscape back then and not now is simple. Back then netscape was superior to internet explorer. Microsoft has since taken the lead. As much as I like netscape and use it on Linux, Internet Explorer just runs a hell of a lot better on windows. And as we all know, the general public runs windows.
Lynx? Forget that, with all the new console apps coming out using the new version of Qt for the console (announced earlier), Lynx will be a thing of the past. Javascript? I understand that Qt for the console already has support built right in. Bwahahahaaa.
I'm going to write a console browser based on it, I'll call it Qynx. It should be available this time next year;)
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Last I heard Germany had one of the best economies in Europe (if not THE best). They are most definitely a "major venue."
What's the point in buying a "pretty" version of a piece of hardware if all it's going to do is hide inside the case of your PC? Now if I had one of those cool see-thru cases that may be different, but most of us don't. This just seems like a big waste of money. I say buy OEM and buy ugly ;)
fertile? great, anyone here with fertility problems should just expose themselves...that will fix the problem.
What's so horrible about MDI? Most IDEs use it fairly well to handle opening multiple source code files. As long as there is an easy way (ie tabs) to open the multiple docs at will then I am all for it. Problem is some programs I have seen force you to go to the Windows-> menu to select the next one to display if it is not currently viewable.
Is it just me or are some of these new 3D games not quite as fun as their predecessors. I loved Super Mario Bros. I remember people lined up at the arcade to play it. A lot of these new 3D renditions just don't seem as interesting to me. I rented Frogger for the PS2 a while back and I couldn't stand it. :(
Oh well, out with the old and in with the new I suppose. Just because the new consoles CAN handle 3D doesn't necessarily mean every game should be 3D does it?
I was reading an article last week in EE Times about an apparent attitude shift in the embedded linux area. The article claimed that enthusiasm is dying.
EE Times interviewed Lineo's CEO who said: "We assumed in 1999 that the market would pay for embedded Linux the same way it pays for VxWorks. But we've learned that a model built on extracting revenue from nothing more than Linux is doomed to failure," Harris told EE Times."
I know there are people out there still using/planing to use embedded Linux but I can't help but wonder what the future really holds. Most Linux development is after all in the desktop/server markets.
Another interesting quote:
At the recent Embedded Systems Conference, Wind River chairman of the board and co-founder Jerry Fiddler told EE Times that the company no longer considers Linux to be a strong presence in the embedded market. "Linux is a phantasm," he said. "Software isn't free, and companies are beginning to realize that."
If anyone knows the embedded arena, it's Wind River.
I've been getting this free since the second issue. I don't believe it was worth paying for. Sure, it had some semi-interesting articles but all in all I think you'd be better off getting your info from other sources.
Stallman says that declining to give a service is not coercion in the Microsoft way. Actually, I thought the denial of service was Microsoft's biggest coercion tactic...that is, denying to sell vendors Windows at a decent price unless they met certain requirements.
Joe Barr claims in his original article that Stallman is not about ego. After reading his reply, I can't help but think there's a hell of a lot of ego here.
First, we couldn't believe every thing we heard...
Then, we couldn't believe everything we read...
Now, we can't believe everything we see...
I can't help but wonder what potential uses this could have. "Tonight at nine...Bill Gates admits Linux is superior to what he now refers to as 'Windoze'"
By conciously adding a utility to disable viewing the EULA, aren't you in effect agreeing to it? I mean, you KNOW the EULA is going to be there and you are choosing to install the software anyway. How is that different than seeing it and installing the software?
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/05/145
I thought we had hashed this one out already
I agree. As has been mentioned on here in the past, the days of the garage shop startups like hewlett/packard is long gone. With all of the specialized hardware and test equipment required to develop anything of any signifigance it would be crazy to think someone would finance it on their own. Back in the day you might be able to produce a good wirewrap of a then high-speed circuit but what about now? A lot of items need to go straight from computer design to PCB to make sure noise is low, propagation delays are matched, etc...
My thinking is that the DIY people of this century will be working almost entirely in software. After all, the open source community is really just a community of DIYs.
Well, probably because the word "gadget" brings to mind a small device. Now of course it sounds like the Japanese translation does not need the word gadget, but if you use it as part of the translation then I can see how someone would think small was part of it.
Right, this is not unreasonable. I think the issue here is that if they allow this, then things could get worse. Imagine in the future that TV studios could sell ad space to other companies and digitally impose them in real time during live events...whether it be news or coverage of new years eve.
How does DSL reliability increase if you have two separate accounts. I mean, they share a common link to the phone company's central office...isn't that where the major source of problems were with DSL reliability?
For any of us doing embedded development, legacy ports are a MUST. Most emulators and eval boards use at least the serial port, if not both the serial port AND the parallel port. Hell, I had to buy a card to add a couple more RS232 ports to my PC because the two on my motherboard weren't enough. Oh well, hopefully the other manufacturers won't be dropping those ports too soon.
BTW, did anyone look at those benchmarks? They weren't impressive. Why would anyone shell out the cash for that board?
After panicking about this I have a thought: why not separate cable usage times like the cell phone companies have? You would have your anytime bytes and you night/weekend bytes. After all, if they are worried about businesses hogging the bandwidth then it would make sense to put incentives in place to not use the service as much during the day. Then at night we can all still get our kernel/kde/gnome/pron downloads without worry! Could the big guys be convinced to go for this idea?
Ummm, or maybe some insulation between the cabin and the lower portion of the craft. Besides, if they are moving along through the ice they won't sit in any one place for long. Surely the ice won't melt in that amount of time.
Actually yes. What we need are for little guys to push their rediculous patents on the big guys. The big guys will then spend their cash and influence politicians to amend our patent laws.
Not quite, however if you use IE south of the equator the IE globe will spin in the opposite direction. Likewise, if you use it right on the equator, the globe will not spin at all. ;)
Sony is going to have to weigh the benefits of BC with the insane amount it would cost to attain it. Think about it, they are making these things by the millions. Adding just $10 to the price of a unit by introducing extra components for BC would cost a lot. With Nintendo and Microsoft in the arena, they are going to have to shave every last dollar (or yen, lira, pound...) off the price.
With the complexity of the PS2, it's going to cost some money. Oh well.
Well, I remember that ncsa mosaic was free for the taking even back then. I am pretty sure netscape was as well, weren't they just trying to make money off their server software?
Look, the reason the people chose Netscape back then and not now is simple. Back then netscape was superior to internet explorer. Microsoft has since taken the lead. As much as I like netscape and use it on Linux, Internet Explorer just runs a hell of a lot better on windows. And as we all know, the general public runs windows.
How can they claim to be very close? If they haven't found anything yet then there is no way they can know when they will, if ever.
Lynx? Forget that, with all the new console apps coming out using the new version of Qt for the console (announced earlier), Lynx will be a thing of the past. Javascript? I understand that Qt for the console already has support built right in. Bwahahahaaa.
;)
I'm going to write a console browser based on it, I'll call it Qynx. It should be available this time next year