libGlade does a similar thing. You define the entire inteface of the application with an XML file. You can redesign the entire application with a change to XML files.
The interview takes a rather dark tone WRT GTK and QT. It's clear that Fountain likes Motif, but at the expense of his own vision.
He doesn't offer any interesting insight why motif is neccessarily better, other than: "We can write proprietary applications and people won't talk about them".
Well, duh! You can write proprietary apps with any widget manager you like! GTK isn't encumbered with any legal virii.
If Joe Schmoe Corporation wanted to make a GTK interface for an internal CVS repository application, then they can.
He acts as if using GTK automatically entitles the GTK group to announce your application on Slashdot and toot their own horns. I'll give you a clue: It's the app builders that toot horns, not the GTK peeps.
If Joe Schmoe Corporation doesn't want their horn tooted, then they'll just keep the shut up!
The reality of the situation is that Motif only exists because of corporations that believe they have to use a proprietary, expensively licensed, widget library in their applications, or they won't be taken seriously.
I seem to recall that Netscape first built on Linux, unencumbered, when LessTif was stable enough to permit linking. That was because LessTif was trying to mimick the Motif API in Open Source. Then GTK came along and it seems the drive behind Lesstif is lessened.
Don't let the FUD mongers that want to see Motif remain a cash cow distract companies from using GTK or QT as their widget of choice.
I can't beleive all the people who are dissing the Lone Gunmen! This show is NOT a geek show, it's a Scooby doo gone high tech. It's about 3(4) bumbling guys that try to solve mysteries and do it comedically.
The Lone Gunmen were all that gave X-Files levity in an otherwise lockjawed-acting-style show.
Some other network HAS to pick up this show, it's so funny to watch them bungle something so badly, then see them turn it around for the good in the end. It's only getting better!
I have nearly every ep on my replay, it's the only show I watch on Fridays, it's gotta go somewhere!
More than you know... In fact, the data is stored in text files, 1 file per cd, keyed on the CD ID. The file contains nothing more than the data you described. Sure it has provisions for notes and lyrics, but it's not much more than a giant cdplayer.ini in the sky. Most applications use tcd or something like that, which makes a local mirror in.cddbslave in your home directory.
As much as I dislike MS, they have a product that would probably work for you. Specifically Visual Source Safe.
Since you've stated that the droids and the techophiles don't use the same OSes, it almost makes sense for the droids to be using a MS centric VC application. It probably handles Office files natively and has a pretty interface.
On the downside, you'll pay mucho diniro for it and you'll need an NT server for it to run on (speculation on my part).
On the other hand, CVS handles binary items just fine, you just can't include RCS tags in them. If you have a nice web based wrapper, then CVS would work fine, cause you can show log items independently through the interface. Browser upload and DL would solve the checkin/out problems.
You are somewhat incorrect. The CDDB.com database was a community project at one time. During that time the CDDB server and database were made available for regular mirroring. When CDDB.com went private, freeDB.org opened up using the latest unencumbered version of the DB and server. Now they have added more to theirs.
If, in fact, CDDB.com has a patent on the CDDB process, they illegally subverted prior art. You cannot patent a process which is obvious. The REASON this is obvious is because the CDDB protocol (the generation of unique ids) was part of the redbook specification. On top of that they patented a process that was already implemented in software that was released freely, not covered under patents or encumbered licenses.
CDDB.com would like for all the work that the original group did, go away. But it won't, it can't, and they don't have a way to stop it.
Perhaps the 5k folks should have taken a dose of their own medicine. I went to the site only to find that every link was to an ASP, of which finally timed out with an MS ODBC SQL error.
Perhaps they should buy a $9.95 5 meg hosting account at one of many hosting companies and put the results there....
No, wait, Geocities gives you 7 MB of space, or is it 7.5 MB???
How is the parser supposed to understand if myControl is a ** or if cntrlRect is a **?
struct Control **p;
struct Control {
void **cntrlRect;
};
This technique is what you'd use for loading a module dynamically and resolving it's functions dynamically. The syntax is C because C++ is C with features builtin to hide the underlying "ugly" C implementation.
The parser can't dereference the ->> at runtime precisely of the above structure layout; it's ambiguous, you need to do it longhand like C programmers have been doing for eons.
FYI, 2.4 extended file sizes to 64 bits on intel arch with ext2. Now there is no 2GB limit. Also, 2.4 stopped doing a block/inode check on boot when mounting fses, 2.2 and below would do an inode/block check on an fs even if it was marked clean. For very large fses, it boots MUCH faster now.
I'm happy about the > 2GB support and LVM stuff, because I run DB servers on Linux.
Last time I was at a con, I got a 'demo' copy of Bluecat. Their licensing agreement makes it clear that it's a proprietary development environment based on Linux.
BTW, you have have a 'Closed Source' Linux based OS. All the GPL says is that you have to redistribute source with any changes you make.
It's interesting how he makes an argument that is perfectly valid, however you attack him as a biggot or corporate whore. In fact, you shouldn't be scolding him. You are 'ethics major', therefore you understand that ethics is based on value systems. He has a particular value system and you have a particular value system. His value system doesn't match your value system so you flame him. Making analogies between hitler and 1980's corporate gluttony, doesn't make sense.
It would seem that you don't truely understand ethics at all. Perhaps you need to rely on your 'sociology major' work more.
You know, your trolling is becoming annoying. You are also ethics major and social major. You have posted countering viewpoints in the past couple of weeks and were modded up. People should be made aware of your multi-account trolling and modding scheme.
They aren't talking about 'is my housed securely locked up', they are talking about 'does the door in my house come with holes in the door for locks and strikeplates for the bolt'.
They are trying to make sure you can buy any lockset for your house, without having to mortise in the parts and drill holes in the door.
Linus doesn't care, beyond bug fixes, whether the kerenel is the antithesis of secure OSes, from the kernel side. You can't compare oBSD to Linux because Linux is a kernel and oBSD is an OS distribution.
> I don't know about these guys, but "1.0" means
> that the product is ready for the masses. That
> means tested and working, most features are
> in place and there are binaries for the major
> Linux platforms.
Take it in context. 1.0 of any product is rarely stable and full of all the features that 3.0 has. They got 1.0 out there so that people could play with it. They did it for the exact reasons they state. So why are you trying to villify them?
Methinks you are trying to play the karma-whore by quoting a lot of redundant text from the article and then proceed to call them idiots for doing exactly what they said they'd do!
Grab the rpm src file and you can install it on any RPM based distro: rpm --rebuild blah.src.rpm
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You are a bit pessemistic with those values. Most NA (Naturally Aspirated) engines have a BSFC (Brake Specific Fuel Conspumption) of.5, turbo and super,.6. What this means is that they are only 50% efficient, and 40%, respectively. Then there is VE (Volumetric Efficiency), which is the relative performance efficiency of an engine with respect to it's displacement.
But the rule of thumb is that it generally takes the same amount of fuel to produce the same amount of horsepower. This rule is only upset when you have ultra efficient engines with a BSFC of <.4 or VE of.8 or greater.
I can tell you right now that the 750hl motor is the least efficient motor to use. It has an average of 12MPG with only 300hp produced, so it's BSFC and VE numbers are way off. However if you look at it's CR (Compression Ratio), you'll understand; it's 8.5:1, very low by today's standards. However this enables you to run low octane fuel in it, or add a power-adder (Nitrous, Super and Turbo charging) without making any mechanical changes to the motor. BMW probably thought that a street driven 500hp motor in their luxury car was pushing it a bit, because that's what you'd get if you ran 10:1 CR. That's what many cars today use, some higher when small displacement, and some lower when large displacement.
Has anyone given a thought to what Palm did with the Copilot? Also, the PS3 is in development.
If you consider that the dev machines for making PS games are pretty expensive, and custom hacks, then a software based development platform would be much cheaper. That's why Palm brought the copilot under it's umbrella, it's faster to hack with the copilot.
Now consider the PS3, it's in the dev stage right now. Sony dedicated a chunk of Silicon in the PS2 I/O processor to emulate the PS, if they were to simply load the emulator software into ROM on the PS3, it saves them fabbing costs. Fab costs are much more than software development costs.
Actually, they could have used a much less insidious, but lucrative model: aggregate statistics.
Every time someone accesses the cddb database, they log what was accessed. Then they sell this information to the record companies to find out how popular their music is with a certain market. Additionally they could implement a top-40 style service for the record companies
Yahoo's problem isn't that their ad banners aren't enough to pay the bills, it's that their service isn't worth paying for. Yahoo (the indexing service) is a really simplistic, yet largely ineffectual service. I can't remember the last time I used Yahoo, but I used google's search at least 5 times a day.
There is no 'Value Add' to what Yahoo provides. This doesn't count the companies that Yahoo bought. They have purchased a lot of companies in the past, integrated their offerings, yet Yahoo the index is still not worth paying for.
They need to switch from a 'attract eyeballs' revenue model to actually offering services people would pay for, and not services that are derivative parasites of the index (pay to rank).
The truth is that I made a Yahoo in an hour of programming PHP, but people can freely add categories themselves and add content to the categories. There is even a 'rank this item' community rating system that averages the individual votes.
In closing, I'm surprised that Yahoo has even lasted this long.
Toshiba 61" CinemaSeries HDTV
B&K AVR202
M&K Center 75
2 KLH Passive radiator full ranges for front
2 KLH sealed enclosure full ranges for rear
Monitor Audio ASW210, 200W with Magnesium Gold alloy subs
The B&K is a really fine piece. When DTS 6.1 is finalized with them, I can send it to them and they'll stuff a new logic board in it and I'll get 6.1 (maybe 8.1) surround outs. Then I'll use my old Onkyo TX890 (400W RMS into 2 channels) to drive the remaining outputs.
The B&K is rated for 105W RMS/Ch @ 0.09% THD @ 95dB SNR into 8 Ohms. It's actual measured output is 165W/Ch @ 0.03% THD into 4Ohms.
There are some amps out there that are better than 95dB SNR, Adcom makes one that's good for 114dB SNR. It's reasonably priced too.
The B&K is an exceptionally crisp and 'bright' amp, so your tweets and mids are going to take a lot of abuse. It's good for 4hz - 45kHz. The integrated preamp is 4hz - 144kHz.
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libGlade does a similar thing. You define the entire inteface of the application with an XML file. You can redesign the entire application with a change to XML files.
The interview takes a rather dark tone WRT GTK and QT. It's clear that Fountain likes Motif, but at the expense of his own vision.
He doesn't offer any interesting insight why motif is neccessarily better, other than: "We can write proprietary applications and people won't talk about them".
Well, duh! You can write proprietary apps with any widget manager you like! GTK isn't encumbered with any legal virii.
If Joe Schmoe Corporation wanted to make a GTK interface for an internal CVS repository application, then they can.
He acts as if using GTK automatically entitles the GTK group to announce your application on Slashdot and toot their own horns. I'll give you a clue: It's the app builders that toot horns, not the GTK peeps.
If Joe Schmoe Corporation doesn't want their horn tooted, then they'll just keep the shut up!
The reality of the situation is that Motif only exists because of corporations that believe they have to use a proprietary, expensively licensed, widget library in their applications, or they won't be taken seriously.
I seem to recall that Netscape first built on Linux, unencumbered, when LessTif was stable enough to permit linking. That was because LessTif was trying to mimick the Motif API in Open Source. Then GTK came along and it seems the drive behind Lesstif is lessened.
Don't let the FUD mongers that want to see Motif remain a cash cow distract companies from using GTK or QT as their widget of choice.
I can't beleive all the people who are dissing the Lone Gunmen! This show is NOT a geek show, it's a Scooby doo gone high tech. It's about 3(4) bumbling guys that try to solve mysteries and do it comedically.
The Lone Gunmen were all that gave X-Files levity in an otherwise lockjawed-acting-style show.
Some other network HAS to pick up this show, it's so funny to watch them bungle something so badly, then see them turn it around for the good in the end. It's only getting better!
I have nearly every ep on my replay, it's the only show I watch on Fridays, it's gotta go somewhere!
More than you know... In fact, the data is stored in text files, 1 file per cd, keyed on the CD ID. The file contains nothing more than the data you described. Sure it has provisions for notes and lyrics, but it's not much more than a giant cdplayer.ini in the sky. Most applications use tcd or something like that, which makes a local mirror in .cddbslave in your home directory.
As much as I dislike MS, they have a product that would probably work for you. Specifically Visual Source Safe.
Since you've stated that the droids and the techophiles don't use the same OSes, it almost makes sense for the droids to be using a MS centric VC application. It probably handles Office files natively and has a pretty interface.
On the downside, you'll pay mucho diniro for it and you'll need an NT server for it to run on (speculation on my part).
On the other hand, CVS handles binary items just fine, you just can't include RCS tags in them. If you have a nice web based wrapper, then CVS would work fine, cause you can show log items independently through the interface. Browser upload and DL would solve the checkin/out problems.
May the force be with you.
You are somewhat incorrect. The CDDB.com database was a community project at one time. During that time the CDDB server and database were made available for regular mirroring. When CDDB.com went private, freeDB.org opened up using the latest unencumbered version of the DB and server. Now they have added more to theirs.
If, in fact, CDDB.com has a patent on the CDDB process, they illegally subverted prior art. You cannot patent a process which is obvious. The REASON this is obvious is because the CDDB protocol (the generation of unique ids) was part of the redbook specification. On top of that they patented a process that was already implemented in software that was released freely, not covered under patents or encumbered licenses.
CDDB.com would like for all the work that the original group did, go away. But it won't, it can't, and they don't have a way to stop it.
It was a joke; the whole thing is about 5k, so it was a joke to add that extra .5 MB.
Perhaps the 5k folks should have taken a dose of their own medicine. I went to the site only to find that every link was to an ASP, of which finally timed out with an MS ODBC SQL error.
Perhaps they should buy a $9.95 5 meg hosting account at one of many hosting companies and put the results there....
No, wait, Geocities gives you 7 MB of space, or is it 7.5 MB???
Here's a question for you:
How is the parser supposed to understand if myControl is a ** or if cntrlRect is a **?
struct Control **p;
struct Control {
void **cntrlRect;
};
This technique is what you'd use for loading a module dynamically and resolving it's functions dynamically. The syntax is C because C++ is C with features builtin to hide the underlying "ugly" C implementation.
The parser can't dereference the ->> at runtime precisely of the above structure layout; it's ambiguous, you need to do it longhand like C programmers have been doing for eons.
FYI, 2.4 extended file sizes to 64 bits on intel arch with ext2. Now there is no 2GB limit. Also, 2.4 stopped doing a block/inode check on boot when mounting fses, 2.2 and below would do an inode/block check on an fs even if it was marked clean. For very large fses, it boots MUCH faster now.
I'm happy about the > 2GB support and LVM stuff, because I run DB servers on Linux.
Uhh, it's called BlueCat.
Last time I was at a con, I got a 'demo' copy of Bluecat. Their licensing agreement makes it clear that it's a proprietary development environment based on Linux.
BTW, you have have a 'Closed Source' Linux based OS. All the GPL says is that you have to redistribute source with any changes you make.
It's interesting how he makes an argument that is perfectly valid, however you attack him as a biggot or corporate whore. In fact, you shouldn't be scolding him. You are 'ethics major', therefore you understand that ethics is based on value systems. He has a particular value system and you have a particular value system. His value system doesn't match your value system so you flame him. Making analogies between hitler and 1980's corporate gluttony, doesn't make sense.
It would seem that you don't truely understand ethics at all. Perhaps you need to rely on your 'sociology major' work more.
You know, your trolling is becoming annoying. You are also ethics major and social major. You have posted countering viewpoints in the past couple of weeks and were modded up. People should be made aware of your multi-account trolling and modding scheme.
Stop it now.
Quit trolling and read the post you numbskull.
They aren't talking about 'is my housed securely locked up', they are talking about 'does the door in my house come with holes in the door for locks and strikeplates for the bolt'.
They are trying to make sure you can buy any lockset for your house, without having to mortise in the parts and drill holes in the door.
Linus doesn't care, beyond bug fixes, whether the kerenel is the antithesis of secure OSes, from the kernel side. You can't compare oBSD to Linux because Linux is a kernel and oBSD is an OS distribution.
> I don't know about these guys, but "1.0" means
> that the product is ready for the masses. That
> means tested and working, most features are
> in place and there are binaries for the major
> Linux platforms.
Take it in context. 1.0 of any product is rarely stable and full of all the features that 3.0 has. They got 1.0 out there so that people could play with it. They did it for the exact reasons they state. So why are you trying to villify them?
Methinks you are trying to play the karma-whore by quoting a lot of redundant text from the article and then proceed to call them idiots for doing exactly what they said they'd do!
Grab the rpm src file and you can install it on any RPM based distro: rpm --rebuild blah.src.rpm
You're a tactless prick, go piss off.
You are a bit pessemistic with those values. Most NA (Naturally Aspirated) engines have a BSFC (Brake Specific Fuel Conspumption) of .5, turbo and super, .6. What this means is that they are only 50% efficient, and 40%, respectively. Then there is VE (Volumetric Efficiency), which is the relative performance efficiency of an engine with respect to it's displacement.
.4 or VE of .8 or greater.
But the rule of thumb is that it generally takes the same amount of fuel to produce the same amount of horsepower. This rule is only upset when you have ultra efficient engines with a BSFC of <
I can tell you right now that the 750hl motor is the least efficient motor to use. It has an average of 12MPG with only 300hp produced, so it's BSFC and VE numbers are way off. However if you look at it's CR (Compression Ratio), you'll understand; it's 8.5:1, very low by today's standards. However this enables you to run low octane fuel in it, or add a power-adder (Nitrous, Super and Turbo charging) without making any mechanical changes to the motor. BMW probably thought that a street driven 500hp motor in their luxury car was pushing it a bit, because that's what you'd get if you ran 10:1 CR. That's what many cars today use, some higher when small displacement, and some lower when large displacement.
Has anyone given a thought to what Palm did with the Copilot? Also, the PS3 is in development.
If you consider that the dev machines for making PS games are pretty expensive, and custom hacks, then a software based development platform would be much cheaper. That's why Palm brought the copilot under it's umbrella, it's faster to hack with the copilot.
Now consider the PS3, it's in the dev stage right now. Sony dedicated a chunk of Silicon in the PS2 I/O processor to emulate the PS, if they were to simply load the emulator software into ROM on the PS3, it saves them fabbing costs. Fab costs are much more than software development costs.
Actually, they could have used a much less insidious, but lucrative model: aggregate statistics.
Every time someone accesses the cddb database, they log what was accessed. Then they sell this information to the record companies to find out how popular their music is with a certain market. Additionally they could implement a top-40 style service for the record companies
Intel announced a PROCESS, not a prototype. The one buckyball transistor was a PROTOTYPE, not PROCESS. These are NOT the same.
A PROCESS is a way of actually manufacturing the transistor, a PROTOTYPE is simply the EXISTENCE of a transistor.
Intel could manufacture the 30nm transistor, however the 1nm transistor is merely a lab toy.
There is a HUGE distinction, get it straight.
Yeah: http://63.197.152.21/imaging/
It's got pr0n that people added, so be aware.
Yahoo's problem isn't that their ad banners aren't enough to pay the bills, it's that their service isn't worth paying for. Yahoo (the indexing service) is a really simplistic, yet largely ineffectual service. I can't remember the last time I used Yahoo, but I used google's search at least 5 times a day.
There is no 'Value Add' to what Yahoo provides. This doesn't count the companies that Yahoo bought. They have purchased a lot of companies in the past, integrated their offerings, yet Yahoo the index is still not worth paying for.
They need to switch from a 'attract eyeballs' revenue model to actually offering services people would pay for, and not services that are derivative parasites of the index (pay to rank).
The truth is that I made a Yahoo in an hour of programming PHP, but people can freely add categories themselves and add content to the categories. There is even a 'rank this item' community rating system that averages the individual votes.
In closing, I'm surprised that Yahoo has even lasted this long.
Is Slashdot, or the other cool websites Andover bought, being affected by this?
You're such a troll!
Toshiba 61" CinemaSeries HDTV
B&K AVR202
M&K Center 75
2 KLH Passive radiator full ranges for front
2 KLH sealed enclosure full ranges for rear
Monitor Audio ASW210, 200W with Magnesium Gold alloy subs
The B&K is a really fine piece. When DTS 6.1 is finalized with them, I can send it to them and they'll stuff a new logic board in it and I'll get 6.1 (maybe 8.1) surround outs. Then I'll use my old Onkyo TX890 (400W RMS into 2 channels) to drive the remaining outputs.
The B&K is rated for 105W RMS/Ch @ 0.09% THD @ 95dB SNR into 8 Ohms. It's actual measured output is 165W/Ch @ 0.03% THD into 4Ohms.
There are some amps out there that are better than 95dB SNR, Adcom makes one that's good for 114dB SNR. It's reasonably priced too.
The B&K is an exceptionally crisp and 'bright' amp, so your tweets and mids are going to take a lot of abuse. It's good for 4hz - 45kHz. The integrated preamp is 4hz - 144kHz.