Actually, you can replace Access applications with webbased solutions. All you need is XUL, which is an XML based language where you define basic entities like buttons and trees, which get parsed. If you've worked with Firefox/Mozilla you're already familiar with XUL, since the entire interface is built in XUL. Ofcourse it has one major drawback, it only works on Firefox/Mozilla browsers.
Why think about third world countries immediately? I'm a student without rich mommy/daddy to support me (yeah, in a `first world' country). A laptop is out of my reach financially (even though i could really use one since i'm a CS student). I'd love to buy one of these things, if it actually performs well enough for me to do latex, firefox and some eclipse stuff i'm very happy. The form-factor is also very appealing (easy to carry around in a backpack).
I hope they get it together and actually make these things available for privatate purchase in the next year.
So how exactly do they intend to keep unauthorized content out of the search engine on the site? He just made a deal to keep everything copyrighted by members of the MPAA off the engine, but what happens when say for instance the new Harry Potter movie can still be found through his engine?
It would be a huge task to check everything by hand (nearly impossible with all the stuff floating around out there). Or is this just a simple move to show `due diligence', as commented by someone else.
Actually, in order to run VMWare Workstation on Linux you need the kernel module, which has to be either custom built or you have to be running one of the supported distributions.
Can you rely on your internet connection at home not being inspected/recorded by the company offering the connectivity? Not to start folding tin-foil hats here, but there's not such thing as _real_ privacy over the internet. You just have to decide for yourself wether you want to use the service or not.
What would be the legal status of mirroring most of the tv.com content to the new wiki? Considering that the content on tvtome.com was submitted by people from all over the world, could a former tvtome editor place his own text (now part of tv.com) on the wiki? Or can we just outright copy everything over and get a major headstart, the info on tv.com comes (mostly) from tv network's websites/public communication.
Nice, looking at the Newsforge interview he claims that one of OpenBSD's strenghts is being able to move quickly, yet he claims in this article that moving forward quickly in the linux kernel results in sloppy code.
Which only strenghtens my believe that Forbes took everything out of context DeRaadt said in this interview.
Actually i find the concept to authenticate against what you are very insecure. Think for instance about a scenario where you have an equal twin, both with the same face. They could swap passports (or steal, depending on your level of paranoia) and go through customs pretending to be the other one. Make one twin criminal and the other decent and you get my point.
Why is it that when Microsoft bundles an application with Windows (such as Windows Media Player) it's considered to be the root of all evil, yet when a linux distribution does the same (include mplayer, xine, totem and kaffeine on top of xinelib et al) it's a good thing? Sure we give the user more choices, but the majority of users don't know what to do with the ability to choose. They want it to just work.
I might just be trolling here, but giving the user (especially a novice one) a choice from 10 browsers can be somewhat overwhelming. On my first install of mandrake 8.1 i was confused with what to pick and didn't have any clue to what 90% of the programs do, instead of having a clear selection which i could choose to use. Most of the software that make windows bearable for me are freely available (openoffice.org, firefox, thunderbird) and help me though an average day of work. So it's no big deal to have to download these extra, instead of getting them pre-installed by my distro installer (which saves me the trouble of having to download 4+ cd's). Anyways, if Microsoft decided to bundle MS Office with no extra charge most people on/. would be yelling that Microsoft is taking away the choice to use openoffice.org.
Eclipse does an excellent job at providing an environment for java. We just used eclipse to develop a rather large client/server application, incorperating RMI and using the CVS `perspective'. While most of the team used eclipse and one or two chose jbuilder, we could all upload (and download) to/from cvs without messing up the source tree. With the RMI plugin (available for free for educational and non-profit use) it was a breeze to get the client to talk to the server, and vice versa.
Because we had to work on locked down workstations we could just put eclipse and the JDK on a usb memory stick and run from there. And did i mention we used both linux and windows workstations to develop:-)
So far the eclipse developers have done a wonderfull job, thanks!
Correct, just go to mplayerhq.hu and download the `essential' codecs. It's a seperate download from mplayer, and has all the stuff you could want, including realplayer codecs without the nagging of registration, once in a lifetime offers and all that other nasty stuff. Unzip and install to a directory, and tell mplayer about the directory at compile time. That way you can even use mencoder to download those non-seekable streams to avi/mp3 and save them to disk.
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Here in Holland you can't just take someone's picture and publish it. This toy seems to just that. Maybe i don't want my face on the internet at all.
It's already here, even though it's easily breakable. The messed up TOC section on two of my cd's prevent me from playing the cd in my pc. Not a big problem, just put it in your cd-player you migt say. Except for the fact that i do not own a stand-alone cd-player (being a poor student and all), i can barely afford my pc. And don't even get me started on the marker stuff, i find it shouldn't be necessary to do stuff to a cd before i can play it. And how long till they come up with something else?
So i returned the cd's to the store, and downloaded the albums in ogg format from the internet. It's the only way i could listen to my favorite bands, even though i had already purchased the cd's. Thanks **AA.
If i start getting a program together i want it to do what i want, and i don't want to spend to much time on hacking it together. Sure using assembly to create a program will make it faster (when used correctly) but it will take ages to develop. A language which takes this out of my hand and makes my development cycle shorter so i have more time for design and testing is more preferable over the time consuming task of programming it in assembly. Especially since most time spent on software is in design and testing, implementation needs to be as fast as possible. And with the new computers having processing power beyond anything even imaginable 10 years ago the use for assembly is quickly deminishing.
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Actually, you can replace Access applications with webbased solutions. All you need is XUL, which is an XML based language where you define basic entities like buttons and trees, which get parsed. If you've worked with Firefox/Mozilla you're already familiar with XUL, since the entire interface is built in XUL. Ofcourse it has one major drawback, it only works on Firefox/Mozilla browsers.
Sun VM for Linux. 'Nuff said.
Why think about third world countries immediately? I'm a student without rich mommy/daddy to support me (yeah, in a `first world' country). A laptop is out of my reach financially (even though i could really use one since i'm a CS student). I'd love to buy one of these things, if it actually performs well enough for me to do latex, firefox and some eclipse stuff i'm very happy. The form-factor is also very appealing (easy to carry around in a backpack). I hope they get it together and actually make these things available for privatate purchase in the next year.
So how exactly do they intend to keep unauthorized content out of the search engine on the site? He just made a deal to keep everything copyrighted by members of the MPAA off the engine, but what happens when say for instance the new Harry Potter movie can still be found through his engine?
It would be a huge task to check everything by hand (nearly impossible with all the stuff floating around out there). Or is this just a simple move to show `due diligence', as commented by someone else.
Actually, in order to run VMWare Workstation on Linux you need the kernel module, which has to be either custom built or you have to be running one of the supported distributions.
But VMWare Workstation still rocks.
Can you rely on your internet connection at home not being inspected/recorded by the company offering the connectivity? Not to start folding tin-foil hats here, but there's not such thing as _real_ privacy over the internet. You just have to decide for yourself wether you want to use the service or not.
How about a nice rubik's cube and frozen-bubble installed on that pc. Helps relax the mind when you get stuck on some problem.
What would be the legal status of mirroring most of the tv.com content to the new wiki? Considering that the content on tvtome.com was submitted by people from all over the world, could a former tvtome editor place his own text (now part of tv.com) on the wiki? Or can we just outright copy everything over and get a major headstart, the info on tv.com comes (mostly) from tv network's websites/public communication.
Nice, looking at the Newsforge interview he claims that one of OpenBSD's strenghts is being able to move quickly, yet he claims in this article that moving forward quickly in the linux kernel results in sloppy code.
Which only strenghtens my believe that Forbes took everything out of context DeRaadt said in this interview.
Gee .. using a zip file to store a few XML files and images. I've never seen anything innovative like this before *cough*OpenOffice.org*cough*
Actually i find the concept to authenticate against what you are very insecure. Think for instance about a scenario where you have an equal twin, both with the same face. They could swap passports (or steal, depending on your level of paranoia) and go through customs pretending to be the other one. Make one twin criminal and the other decent and you get my point.
Why is it that when Microsoft bundles an application with Windows (such as Windows Media Player) it's considered to be the root of all evil, yet when a linux distribution does the same (include mplayer, xine, totem and kaffeine on top of xinelib et al) it's a good thing? Sure we give the user more choices, but the majority of users don't know what to do with the ability to choose. They want it to just work.
/. would be yelling that Microsoft is taking away the choice to use openoffice.org.
I might just be trolling here, but giving the user (especially a novice one) a choice from 10 browsers can be somewhat overwhelming. On my first install of mandrake 8.1 i was confused with what to pick and didn't have any clue to what 90% of the programs do, instead of having a clear selection which i could choose to use. Most of the software that make windows bearable for me are freely available (openoffice.org, firefox, thunderbird) and help me though an average day of work. So it's no big deal to have to download these extra, instead of getting them pre-installed by my distro installer (which saves me the trouble of having to download 4+ cd's). Anyways, if Microsoft decided to bundle MS Office with no extra charge most people on
Eclipse does an excellent job at providing an environment for java. We just used eclipse to develop a rather large client/server application, incorperating RMI and using the CVS `perspective'. While most of the team used eclipse and one or two chose jbuilder, we could all upload (and download) to/from cvs without messing up the source tree. With the RMI plugin (available for free for educational and non-profit use) it was a breeze to get the client to talk to the server, and vice versa.
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Because we had to work on locked down workstations we could just put eclipse and the JDK on a usb memory stick and run from there. And did i mention we used both linux and windows workstations to develop
So far the eclipse developers have done a wonderfull job, thanks!
Correct, just go to mplayerhq.hu and download the `essential' codecs. It's a seperate download from mplayer, and has all the stuff you could want, including realplayer codecs without the nagging of registration, once in a lifetime offers and all that other nasty stuff. Unzip and install to a directory, and tell mplayer about the directory at compile time. That way you can even use mencoder to download those non-seekable streams to avi/mp3 and save them to disk.
Here in Holland you can't just take someone's picture and publish it. This toy seems to just that. Maybe i don't want my face on the internet at all.
It's already here, even though it's easily breakable. The messed up TOC section on two of my cd's prevent me from playing the cd in my pc. Not a big problem, just put it in your cd-player you migt say. Except for the fact that i do not own a stand-alone cd-player (being a poor student and all), i can barely afford my pc. And don't even get me started on the marker stuff, i find it shouldn't be necessary to do stuff to a cd before i can play it. And how long till they come up with something else? So i returned the cd's to the store, and downloaded the albums in ogg format from the internet. It's the only way i could listen to my favorite bands, even though i had already purchased the cd's. Thanks **AA.
Sounds like you could use The Tabbrowser extension for firefox
If i start getting a program together i want it to do what i want, and i don't want to spend to much time on hacking it together. Sure using assembly to create a program will make it faster (when used correctly) but it will take ages to develop. A language which takes this out of my hand and makes my development cycle shorter so i have more time for design and testing is more preferable over the time consuming task of programming it in assembly. Especially since most time spent on software is in design and testing, implementation needs to be as fast as possible. And with the new computers having processing power beyond anything even imaginable 10 years ago the use for assembly is quickly deminishing.