Any attempt to turn ordinary business users into programmers will fail, simply because the most specialised and difficult part of a programmers job is not writing the code.
It's learning how to figure out _what_ code to write from the vague, and imcomplete specifications, and how to ask the right questions to get beyond which buzzwords the client wants to have associated with the product, and figure out what they really need.
They're not performance ratings - they have nothing whatsoever to do with performance. They're simply model numbers. A higher number within a processor family may indicate a faster chip - but not necesarily, it more likely indicates a newer chip, but I don't think that's certain either.
Also, the Pentium M is in the 700 range, and the Pentium 4 (and Pentium 4 M) is in the 500 range. With the exception of the latest Pentium 4, which is a 720, for some reason...
Well that depends - an integrated graphics processor from ATI or nVidia would be fine... but good luck getting an Intel or SiS IGP to play anything released in the last 5 years...
But no one is expecting the piece to be something you're not embarrased to have your name attached to.
Personally, I've considered giving it a go myself, and I have never been able to write anything....but this sort of thing is sometimes exactly what someone needs to get started.
The only way to ever become good at anything is to do it, and to do it many times. NaNoWriMo gives people a deadline to work to - which often helps motivation, and emphasises that it's about actually doing it, not about doing it well, because doing it well is something that will come later....
Yes, but everyone knows that a room full of Ninjas can be defeated by just one man easily, two rooms if that man is a Samurai. Three if he's a disgraced mercenery Samurai.
Share holders who do not take due care and research the companies who's shares they are buying have only their selves to blame if that company acts in a way in which they always said they would, and that results in lost value.
It's a two way street - yes companies have to look out for their shareholders, but part of the way they do that is by telling people what sort of company they are and how they operate, and then continuing to operate in that way. No one compells anyone to buy shares in a company.
No company is so beholden to their shareholders that they _have_ to compromise themselves, no matter what some people might like to think.
Who the fuck cares whether or not a dictionary definition of "theft" covers obtaining something you did not have a right to.
The fact is that you still did not have the right to have it - quiblling over whether or not that is called "Theft" doesn't make it more right. That's not an argument, it's a diversion.
It's almost as good as the Chewbacca defense.
When someone is prosecuted for software piracy, they are _not_ prosecuted for physical property theft, so the definition of "Theft" is completely and utterly irrelevant.
hmm...actually I think there was a period where they had a new code name a day for their wonderful new operating system that was going to change the world.....
Rhapsody is alive and well - it's called OS X now.
Rhapsody wasn't the name for the x86 port, it was the name for the next generation Mach + NeXT Step based MacOS, which is what became OSX.
It doesn't suprise me that they had x86 builds early on, but I could hardly say they "Made an x86 OS"
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No specialised debugger for me - just the built in debugging support in Eclipse. Or even JBuilder. And I assume all the other IDEs have debuggers built in too. And there's heaps of stand alone ones too. There's bound to be one that suits your needs.
hmmm....googling for "java debugger" gives a nice long list of java debuggers.
".net debugger" gives you a page full of problems with the VS debugger - headed with "The VS7.X Debugger doesn't work, What can I do?" and one or two links that appear to be 3rd party debuggers - but aren't related to.NET at all.
I'm pretty sure that says something...I'm not quite sure what though....
no, it's not. you missed my point. Konqueror is NOT like internet explorer.
iexplore.exe and explorer.exe have totally different guis - which is actually _more_ annoying - why can't I go File|New Window in explorer when I can in ie?. explorer.exe just uses some ie components, and introduced the back and forward buttons to file browsing.
With IE and explorer, it's a clumsy inconsistent combination of technologies - with Konqueror it's consistent and intuitive - and stretches beyond local file management, HTTP and FTP. And every option available to you with local files is available with HTTP, FTP, SMB, fish, sftp, OBEX ftp. When you click on a file, it then opens in an embedded viewer in Konqueror (unless your settings for that file type say otherwise -or there is no viewer) - so going to a web page, is effectively clicking on an HTML file, and it's opened in an embedded HTML viewer (KHTML).
so you're happy with replacing musicians with machines then? I don't think you can really make the comparison.
But that aside - As a musician, I don't know what I feel about the possible end of retail music (although I don't forsee it happening in most of the world for a long time yet). If it happens, it happens, and we'll all just have to deal with it. It's not like I've sold any CDs anyway (though it'd be nice to think that it's something I could do).
But as a music buyer, I think it would be a terrible thing. No online store, or website, or even P2P software if we must go that way, will ever compare to the experience of browsing a good music store, and taking home a brand new shiny CD, with great cover art, and a well presented booklet - that can look good on my shelf with the rest right after I've ripped it. Also, take away retail CDs and you take away the time honoured practice of finding things out about a new girlfriend or boyfriend by browsing their music collection. You can't just log on to their computer and scan around for mp3s while they're making the coffee.....
What's important to you might be irrelevant to someone else, and what's useless for you might be used every day by someone else.
Microsoft learnt that the hard way with the idiocy of their hidden menu options in Office 2000. That doesn't mean that there isn't room to improve things - there definitely is - but just ripping out half the UI doesn't solve anything. One of the main goals behind KDE has always been that there are NO hidden options (as in not exposed somewhere in the GUI). If you ever have to edit a config file - or launch a generic configuration application that is nothing more than a thin wrapper around directly editing a text file, then it's a bug.
Also your comments about konqueror kind of show that you've never really used KDE, or you'll never like it.
You're seeing Konqueror as two different applications crammed into one. But it's not. Tt's a universal browser and viewer via embeddable parts and pluggable protocols - which enables it to handle filesystem browsing and management as well as web browsing as just two of the many things it can do - and all by simply providing a light framework for other parts to do the work. If you don't agree with that approach, you'll never like KDE because it's fundamental to it.
It's biased because it has passed judgement on the actions through the wording.
You obviously recognise the difference between using the software to download content you have a right to, and using it to download something you don't have a right to, but that intro makes no allowance for there to be such a difference.
The word that should have been used is "download".
"Copyright Infringement" as suggested by someone else would also not be a good word, because linguistic pendantry aside, it's the same thing - it's also passed judgement on the nature of the downloading.
you seem to forget that evolution is simply change.
So if a change has happened, something has evolved. Whether or not you agree that Hunanity evolved from single celled organisms billions of years ago, you cannot deny that evolution itself happens.
The trouble is, the moment you charge or expect something in return, it ceases to be something you are doing out of a desire to be helpful, and instead becomes a business relationship.
I help my friends and family because I don't mind doing it (mostly). If I'm unable to help, or I decided that I don't feel like it, I can say so. But if money starts coming in to it, people start expecting you to do things simply because they are paying you, and they will be more forward about asking for help, and will have less concern over whether or not it's convenient for you. Bugger that - that's what I have a job for. I don't need friends and family treating me that way too.
It's a dupe and the editors should have known better regardless of who looks at games.slashdot.org and who just looks at the front page. THEY should at least be aware of what's posted in all the sections - especially when it's a dupe of the last article posted in a section.
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that sounds painful....
Well, personally I don't believe that the two roles should be separated - but I do recognise that often they are...
Any attempt to turn ordinary business users into programmers will fail, simply because the most specialised and difficult part of a programmers job is not writing the code.
It's learning how to figure out _what_ code to write from the vague, and imcomplete specifications, and how to ask the right questions to get beyond which buzzwords the client wants to have associated with the product, and figure out what they really need.
Um...no.
They're not performance ratings - they have nothing whatsoever to do with performance.
They're simply model numbers.
A higher number within a processor family may indicate a faster chip - but not necesarily, it more likely indicates a newer chip, but I don't think that's certain either.
Also, the Pentium M is in the 700 range, and the Pentium 4 (and Pentium 4 M) is in the 500 range.
With the exception of the latest Pentium 4, which is a 720, for some reason...
Well that depends - an integrated graphics processor from ATI or nVidia would be fine...
but good luck getting an Intel or SiS IGP to play anything released in the last 5 years...
But no one is expecting the piece to be something you're not embarrased to have your name attached to.
Personally, I've considered giving it a go myself, and I have never been able to write anything....but this sort of thing is sometimes exactly what someone needs to get started.
The only way to ever become good at anything is to do it, and to do it many times.
NaNoWriMo gives people a deadline to work to - which often helps motivation, and emphasises that it's about actually doing it, not about doing it well, because doing it well is something that will come later....
Yes, but everyone knows that a room full of Ninjas can be defeated by just one man easily, two rooms if that man is a Samurai. Three if he's a disgraced mercenery Samurai.
two player co-operative - that's probably about as important as singler player (though sadly lacking in many games), or maybe second most important.
But otherwise you're right...it's not for LAN or Live multiplayer that people buy Halo, there's better games for that.
Share holders who do not take due care and research the companies who's shares they are buying have only their selves to blame if that company acts in a way in which they always said they would, and that results in lost value.
It's a two way street - yes companies have to look out for their shareholders, but part of the way they do that is by telling people what sort of company they are and how they operate, and then continuing to operate in that way. No one compells anyone to buy shares in a company.
No company is so beholden to their shareholders that they _have_ to compromise themselves, no matter what some people might like to think.
gah...I was going to say openstep...
oh well, I'm just doing my bit for keeping the uninformed, non researched, and just plain wrong post quota up.
It wouldn't be slashdot otherwise....
Who the fuck cares whether or not a dictionary definition of "theft" covers obtaining something you did not have a right to.
The fact is that you still did not have the right to have it - quiblling over whether or not that is called "Theft" doesn't make it more right. That's not an argument, it's a diversion.
It's almost as good as the Chewbacca defense.
When someone is prosecuted for software piracy, they are _not_ prosecuted for physical property theft, so the definition of "Theft" is completely and utterly irrelevant.
I thought that was Copland....
hmm...actually I think there was a period where they had a new code name a day for their wonderful new operating system that was going to change the world.....
Rhapsody is alive and well - it's called OS X now.
Rhapsody wasn't the name for the x86 port, it was the name for the next generation Mach + NeXT Step based MacOS, which is what became OSX.
It doesn't suprise me that they had x86 builds early on, but I could hardly say they "Made an x86 OS"
No specialised debugger for me - just the built in debugging support in Eclipse.
.NET at all.
Or even JBuilder.
And I assume all the other IDEs have debuggers built in too.
And there's heaps of stand alone ones too. There's bound to be one that suits your needs.
hmmm....googling for "java debugger" gives a nice long list of java debuggers.
".net debugger" gives you a page full of problems with the VS debugger - headed with "The VS7.X Debugger doesn't work, What can I do?"
and one or two links that appear to be 3rd party debuggers - but aren't related to
I'm pretty sure that says something...I'm not quite sure what though....
no, it's not. you missed my point.
Konqueror is NOT like internet explorer.
iexplore.exe and explorer.exe have totally different guis - which is actually _more_ annoying - why can't I go File|New Window in explorer when I can in ie?. explorer.exe just uses some ie components, and introduced the back and forward buttons to file browsing.
With IE and explorer, it's a clumsy inconsistent combination of technologies - with Konqueror it's consistent and intuitive - and stretches beyond local file management, HTTP and FTP. And every option available to you with local files is available with HTTP, FTP, SMB, fish, sftp, OBEX ftp.
When you click on a file, it then opens in an embedded viewer in Konqueror (unless your settings for that file type say otherwise -or there is no viewer) - so going to a web page, is effectively clicking on an HTML file, and it's opened in an embedded HTML viewer (KHTML).
so you're happy with replacing musicians with machines then?
I don't think you can really make the comparison.
But that aside -
As a musician, I don't know what I feel about the possible end of retail music (although I don't forsee it happening in most of the world for a long time yet). If it happens, it happens, and we'll all just have to deal with it. It's not like I've sold any CDs anyway (though it'd be nice to think that it's something I could do).
But as a music buyer, I think it would be a terrible thing.
No online store, or website, or even P2P software if we must go that way, will ever compare to the experience of browsing a good music store, and taking home a brand new shiny CD, with great cover art, and a well presented booklet - that can look good on my shelf with the rest right after I've ripped it.
Also, take away retail CDs and you take away the time honoured practice of finding things out about a new girlfriend or boyfriend by browsing their music collection. You can't just log on to their computer and scan around for mp3s while they're making the coffee.....
define "important widgets"
What's important to you might be irrelevant to someone else, and what's useless for you might be used every day by someone else.
Microsoft learnt that the hard way with the idiocy of their hidden menu options in Office 2000.
That doesn't mean that there isn't room to improve things - there definitely is - but just ripping out half the UI doesn't solve anything. One of the main goals behind KDE has always been that there are NO hidden options (as in not exposed somewhere in the GUI). If you ever have to edit a config file - or launch a generic configuration application that is nothing more than a thin wrapper around directly editing a text file, then it's a bug.
Also your comments about konqueror kind of show that you've never really used KDE, or you'll never like it.
You're seeing Konqueror as two different applications crammed into one. But it's not. Tt's a universal browser and viewer via embeddable parts and pluggable protocols - which enables it to handle filesystem browsing and management as well as web browsing as just two of the many things it can do - and all by simply providing a light framework for other parts to do the work.
If you don't agree with that approach, you'll never like KDE because it's fundamental to it.
and yet you STILL can't just change the colour scheme....
It's biased because it has passed judgement on the actions through the wording.
You obviously recognise the difference between using the software to download content you have a right to, and using it to download something you don't have a right to, but that intro makes no allowance for there to be such a difference.
The word that should have been used is "download".
"Copyright Infringement" as suggested by someone else would also not be a good word, because linguistic pendantry aside, it's the same thing - it's also passed judgement on the nature of the downloading.
you seem to forget that evolution is simply change.
So if a change has happened, something has evolved.
Whether or not you agree that Hunanity evolved from single celled organisms billions of years ago, you cannot deny that evolution itself happens.
The trouble is, the moment you charge or expect something in return, it ceases to be something you are doing out of a desire to be helpful, and instead becomes a business relationship.
I help my friends and family because I don't mind doing it (mostly). If I'm unable to help, or I decided that I don't feel like it, I can say so. But if money starts coming in to it, people start expecting you to do things simply because they are paying you, and they will be more forward about asking for help, and will have less concern over whether or not it's convenient for you. Bugger that - that's what I have a job for. I don't need friends and family treating me that way too.
but no one was doing that....
;)
bah...it's a silly argument anyway
It's a dupe and the editors should have known better regardless of who looks at games.slashdot.org and who just looks at the front page. THEY should at least be aware of what's posted in all the sections - especially when it's a dupe of the last article posted in a section.
I was unaware that games.slashdot.org was required reading....
Do those of us who don't check it every five minutes have to give back our consoles or something?
I don't get it..
is someone just wandering around randomly moderating things troll?
This is the second completely on topic and reasonable post I've seen marked troll...
Has moderation lowered to the point where you just flip a coin these days?
But that problem doesn't exist with other apps.
Just look at Konqueror and Kate in your own screenshots.
The border in Konsole is not some inherent QT flaw, it's a design decision (albeit an odd one)....