I don't expect all office suites to be like M$. But I do have expectations when the word "suite" is used. In fact I found M$ office suite a disappointment here. For example Visio looks different then the other applications - no Ribbon, no way to get rid of that ugly baby blue.
I expect something like OpenOffice - each and every part has the same look and feel and of course OLE (or equivalent) works absolutely flawless.
Well depends. There are companies who make a living out of suing potential customers. No bidding process, perceived unfairness in the bidding process. Often all what they hope for is a settlement - extra cash without providing any good or services. You see - there case might be hopeless - but the project cant proceed until the court decides. So it might cheaper to just pay them.
Thus no worry about how something will render if one person is using one browser and another is using something else
Which in precisely which I hate flash. I like to lounge in my chair and flash uses super duper tiny fonts - probably 5x7 like the pocket calculators from the 80'th.
It renders all the same - not matter what display size, no matter which dpi, no matter if the user can actually read it.
Flash tramples over the users need. When ohh when will web designers stop being egocentric and start to think about the reader instead.
This is what the GPL is all about: The code is free but not necessarily the finished product.
There are not that many people who are skilled enough to actually compile a JavaME application.
I can - but honestly for â 10 I would not bother. But knowing that I could if I have to: priceless.
Actually I started the FX-602P Simulator because the application I used before (SkinCalculator Professional by Nicevalley) was not ported to UIQ3. If fact it has disappeared all together. I asked for the source code twice but no avail.
On sourceforge no one ever donated a single penny to me. SourceForge only works if you want to give your software away for $0,00.
I have a JavaME sortware for sale [1]. Currently I upload only demo version and source code to sourceforge but I sell on handango, mobile2day or smartsam.
So I welcome the Java shop - it might give me the opportunity to sell the MacOS/Windows/Linux version as well.
Martin
PS: before you wonder: JavaME is a pain to set-up so compiling yourself is not worth the effort compared to the few $ the application actually cost.
How i love those oranisations who's only porpouse in live is to collect money. Tey dont provide any service at all - they don't need to - the goverment provided them with the right to rob you.
And Germany has a lot of those.
Well, good news is: Once you have prooven beyond unreasonable doupt that you left the country then they might give up on you.
You obviously read the Slashdot story that was completely false in its accusations
Actualy I have been observing and discussing Kindle and Amazon for quite a while now. If you had followed the provided link you would have seen that the posting is from Apr 21, 2009 6:25 pm. I had in fact a larger look at things. Not just the flaws of Kindle as a device. Also Amazons purchaise of Mobipocket and what happened afterwards. That Amazon bought Stanza just recently and what might happen.
This is not about reloading Books. That problem you have with all DRM protected eBooks. Recently paperback digital bookshop closed down [1] and there customers are now left in the cold.
It is all the other things Amazon did. Sell only in the USA. Chanced just one byte in the file format so that Kindle files are incompatibel with Mobipocket files. And Mobipocket is there own subsidiary.
These are clearly the actions of an "evil corporation".
Funny that you mention Mobipocket as it is the main reason not to buy a Kindle for me. Apart from the fact that I could not as I do not live in the States.
Reason: Mobipocket is a subsidiary of Amazon yet Mobipcket DRM files can't be shown on Kindle. And I got 200 of those.
I just can not trust a Company which needleesy creates a new DRM formats only to be incompatible with them self.
Incompatible with the competition - that's normal - but incompatible with themself -no no no. That's jsut not right.
But why did you buy Kindle? It is well known that it is a USA-only product in all aspects.
Why not buy something more usefull? Is it the Amazon brand which draged you in.
Note that live outside the USA an I consider to boycot Amazon all to gether. And why not? - Fictionwise Mutiformat is a better eBook offer and Barn and Noble sell dead tree books all over the world as well.
Kindle and Mobipocket use the almost same file format. The differences are so minor that the DRM-Crack program won't care which it is currenty De-DRM-ing.
Leave the question why Kindle is using a a slightly different file format in the first place.
1) True - but you still can read encryptet Mobipocket files. 2) True - but if your Kindle bereaks and you closed your account then your books are gone. 3) Don't need to - Hardware does not last forever. Amazon is patience. 4) Kindle uses the same DRM as mobipocket - if hardware fails you have to re-entrypt for the new device.
Nothing to say about 5 and 6.
But still I have seen the bigger Picture (Mobipocket, Stanza) and I don't want Kindle. Actualy I don't want Amazon any more.
Most important reason: Amazon bought Mobipocket yet Kindle won't display encryptet Mobipocket files and vice vesa. What has that to say about Amazon as a corporation.
But I have seen the bigger Picture (Mobipocket, Stanza) and I am as far as to say that I don't want Kindle any more. Actualy I don't want Amazon any more. Read here to see why:
Slashdot Mirror
Only languages implementations of the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game [1] are used. Read there rues and you know.
Martin
[1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/ [debian.org]
Only languages implementations of the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game [1] are used. Read there rues and you know.
Martin
[1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
The benchmark list compiler names and not language names. And this quite right as compiler implementations are compared.
Ada is therefore GNAT. And the other questions often asked: Fortran is g95.
Martin
PS: Of course the hole Blog is therefore wrong. It's title should relay be The speed, size and dependability of programming languages implementations.
I don't expect all office suites to be like M$. But I do have expectations when the word "suite" is used. In fact I found M$ office suite a disappointment here. For example Visio looks different then the other applications - no Ribbon, no way to get rid of that ugly baby blue.
I expect something like OpenOffice - each and every part has the same look and feel and of course OLE (or equivalent) works absolutely flawless.
Everything else is a misuse of the term suite.
A I see (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Office) a couple of independent program jumbled together. Typical GNOME...
Found it: http://slashdot.org/faq/editorial.shtml#ed850 and the last line says "Last Modified: 10/3/04" - are you sure that is still valid?
Well 95% of the Worlds populations is now using the metric system. Just the USA and two rather unimportant countries are left using feeds and yards.
Martin
Well depends. There are companies who make a living out of suing potential customers. No bidding process, perceived unfairness in the bidding process. Often all what they hope for is a settlement - extra cash without providing any good or services. You see - there case might be hopeless - but the project cant proceed until the court decides. So it might cheaper to just pay them.
Profiling has to be done with same flags enabled as for the production code. Otherwise the result will be meaningless.
Thus no worry about how something will render if one person is using one browser and another is using something else
Which in precisely which I hate flash. I like to lounge in my chair and flash uses super duper tiny fonts - probably 5x7 like the pocket calculators from the 80'th.
It renders all the same - not matter what display size, no matter which dpi, no matter if the user can actually read it.
Flash tramples over the users need. When ohh when will web designers stop being egocentric and start to think about the reader instead.
Martin
So if you boss gives you a gun tells you "Shoot my Secretary" you are going to do that?
Of course he presents the new official company charter which lays that shooting secretaries is now part of your job responsibilities!
And of course you won't be prosecuted - after all you did it only because you where ordered and it is company policy.
Nope I don't think so.
This is what the GPL is all about: The code is free but not necessarily the finished product.
There are not that many people who are skilled enough to actually compile a JavaME application.
I can - but honestly for â 10 I would not bother. But knowing that I could if I have to: priceless.
Actually I started the FX-602P Simulator because the application I used before (SkinCalculator Professional by Nicevalley) was not ported to UIQ3. If fact it has disappeared all together. I asked for the source code twice but no avail.
Martin
This is about browser applications. This is about Desktop applications. And there Java is very strong indeed.
Think Handango [1] or Mobile2Day [2] but for MacOS/Linux/Windows - PCs.
And this is indeed something I am craving for. A simple way for low volumes sales into those markets.
[1] http://www.handango.com/catalog/ProductDetails.jsp?productId=247602
[2] http://www.mobile2day.com/en/plattform:symbian/product_1682341_details.html
On sourceforge no one ever donated a single penny to me. SourceForge only works if you want to give your software away for $0,00.
I have a JavaME sortware for sale [1]. Currently I upload only demo version and source code to sourceforge but I sell on handango, mobile2day or smartsam.
So I welcome the Java shop - it might give me the opportunity to sell the MacOS/Windows/Linux version as well.
Martin
PS: before you wonder: JavaME is a pain to set-up so compiling yourself is not worth the effort compared to the few $ the application actually cost.
[1] http://fx-602p.krischik.com/
How i love those oranisations who's only porpouse in live is to collect money. Tey dont provide any service at all - they don't need to - the goverment provided them with the right to rob you.
And Germany has a lot of those.
Well, good news is: Once you have prooven beyond unreasonable doupt that you left the country then they might give up on you.
Yes it is sad that Linux is still GPL 2 which allowes closed designs like Kindle. One more reason not to buy one.
But if you buy a new device the you get a new PID and with the new PID you cant read the books any longer.
Yes I know about MobiDeDRM - but isn't that illegal in the USA - the only country where Kindle is sold?
You obviously read the Slashdot story that was completely false in its accusations
Actualy I have been observing and discussing Kindle and Amazon for quite a while now. If you had followed the provided link you would have seen that the posting is from Apr 21, 2009 6:25 pm. I had in fact a larger look at things. Not just the flaws of Kindle as a device. Also Amazons purchaise of Mobipocket and what happened afterwards. That Amazon bought Stanza just recently and what might happen.
This is not about reloading Books. That problem you have with all DRM protected eBooks. Recently paperback digital bookshop closed down [1] and there customers are now left in the cold.
It is all the other things Amazon did. Sell only in the USA. Chanced just one byte in the file format so that Kindle files are incompatibel with Mobipocket files. And Mobipocket is there own subsidiary.
These are clearly the actions of an "evil corporation".
Martin
[1] http://www.mobipocket.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9766
The Kindle continues to work fine, and your books ON the Kindle continue to work fine.
And for how long? I don't think Kindle is anything like my CASIO calculatror which lasted 28 years.
Funny that you mention Mobipocket as it is the main reason not to buy a Kindle for me. Apart from the fact that I could not as I do not live in the States.
Reason: Mobipocket is a subsidiary of Amazon yet Mobipcket DRM files can't be shown on Kindle. And I got 200 of those.
I just can not trust a Company which needleesy creates a new DRM formats only to be incompatible with them self.
Incompatible with the competition - that's normal - but incompatible with themself -no no no. That's jsut not right.
But why did you buy Kindle? It is well known that it is a USA-only product in all aspects.
Why not buy something more usefull? Is it the Amazon brand which draged you in.
Note that live outside the USA an I consider to boycot Amazon all to gether. And why not? - Fictionwise Mutiformat is a better eBook offer and Barn and Noble sell dead tree books all over the world as well.
I cannot find any info about hacking Kindle, so I am making assumptions. Correct me if I am wrong.
What do you want to hack - the Kindle file format or the Kindle hardware device?
For the file format you just have to know that it is almost the same file format as Mobipocket so you use the same hacking tools.
Kindle and Mobipocket use the almost same file format. The differences are so minor that the DRM-Crack program won't care which it is currenty De-DRM-ing.
Leave the question why Kindle is using a a slightly different file format in the first place.
Facts are enough.
1) True - but you still can read encryptet Mobipocket files.
2) True - but if your Kindle bereaks and you closed your account then your books are gone.
3) Don't need to - Hardware does not last forever. Amazon is patience.
4) Kindle uses the same DRM as mobipocket - if hardware fails you have to re-entrypt for the new device.
Nothing to say about 5 and 6.
But still I have seen the bigger Picture (Mobipocket, Stanza) and I don't want Kindle. Actualy I don't want Amazon any more.
Most important reason: Amazon bought Mobipocket yet Kindle won't display encryptet Mobipocket files and vice vesa. What has that to say about Amazon as a corporation.
Want me to elaborate:
http://www.mobipocket.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15520
(Please don't disort the pool - vote only if you are a mobipocket user)
Martin
You are not the only one.
But I have seen the bigger Picture (Mobipocket, Stanza) and I am as far as to say that I don't want Kindle any more. Actualy I don't want Amazon any more. Read here to see why:
http://www.mobipocket.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15520
(Please don't disort the pool - vote only if you are a mobipocket user)
Amazon bought Mobipocket yet Kindle won't display encryptet Mobipocket files and vice vesa. What has that to say about Amazon as a corporation.
Martin