As far as I went with the install MythTV looked nice.
However, it dependes on an electronic TV program. And getting this TV schedule depends on where you live. The support in middle Europe is rather lousy. For the German speaking channels a PERL script is used which screen scraps the web page of a TV magazin. Whenever the TV magazin changes there web design... pure joy!
I would have agreed with you eight years ago. Delphi was extremly fast to compile, the VCL as a framework set an abstraction on top of the Win32 that made development much more productive.
However, that was eight years ago. Although Borland did not get worse, Microsoft did get much better.
C# builds extremly fast too
The.NET framework looks suspiciously similar to the VCL
C# got some features that made Delphi as a language special (ex. properties)
There is no reason (except nostalgia) to choose Borland. MS on the other hand will always have a headstart due to their platform knowledge.
I seriously wonder what Borland did during the last eight years. Except charging us 2000 USD each year for an upgrade of JBuilder.
Every euro put into developing code results in additional four euros to maintain this code later. Do you really think writing more code faster is solving any business problem?
Constantly rewriting software is out of question. Legacy software was once written, debugged and spent some time in maintenance. Why do you think you can rewrite the same logic and safe money by doing so?
Writing new software creates a growing wave of maintenance cost following the development activity. Once this catches up with you, you spend all your IT budget in maintenance and you will be unable to fullfill new business requirements. The only way to keep operational is to find ways to do more with the same amount of code. Existing code has to be well structured and documented so that the business logic therein can be reused. Dependencies between systems have to be well controlled to keep the code base maintainable. Nobody can afford or risk major changes of the application landscape.
All this is about architecture and design with a long term outlook. It is not about writing code...
I work for a bigger Swiss bank. How do we do it? Well, there is a list of persons who cannot open an account. And the list does not include any wildchars but is a list of existing defined persons. So lets say you are the prime minister of Dictaturstan; your are on the list. There is also a list where we first have to check with the legal and compliance departement if it is ok to serve this customer.
If you want to open a bank account with us, we do need your ID. It is the law. Any James Bond ideas of just depositing a suitcase full of money and giving a pass phrase to retrieve money are just plain shit. The often cited "numbered accounts" just mean that your ID is stored separately from your account information. Normal bank employees never see the identity of the account holder. Yet, even such account holders were showing an ID when opening there numbered account and we do have their data.
Ok, I am biased but the Swiss banking regulation is extremly strict. Money laundry is rather easy in Britain.
Yeah, the reliability myth of mainframes. We have heard about that one.
Unfortunately, even the most stable system can be brought down by lousy applications. In my small world, I have never ever worked for an enterprise that did not once a week reboot (!) their mainframe (oh, sorry, you call it IPL, but it still is a reboot). Currently, I work for a big bank which is squeezing quite some performance ot of their mainframes. Even IBM is impressed by the way how we manage our data center. Now guess what happens on the weekend early in the morning...
Working as an architect for one of the biggest banks of Switzerland I can say that we do not embrace Linux. Yes, every two years we are looking into the market and make a new positioning of Linux but so far we could not come up with a business case for the introduction of Linux.
Technically, this is/. after all, we speak about replacing the Unix servers with Linux. The desktop was never even considered. All the software we developed inhouse is J2EE based so it would be easy to change.
The main obstacle, beside the lack of a financial benefit;-), is the lack of monitoring software. The products we set as our standard solutions are not available on Linux.
Sorry, statements claiming the financial industry is heading towards Linux are wishfull thinking. Ok, everybody has a linux server somewhere (well our whole trading platform runs on Linux) but that is nothing towards "embracing" Linux.
I especially like the part about "making long distance calls to switzerland to open a swiss account"...
We have seen too many cheap spy movies, haven't we?
There is no bank in Switzerland that would open an account for you because you call them. The Swiss banking laws are some of the most strict ones when it comes to avoid money laundry!
No, I was curios how the thread would continue and so I am back:-)
I gave up some years ago (more than you seem to give me but there is no need to get personal) to try to argue with people from different cultures about what we consider to be true. Myself, I think it is more helpfull to ask questions.
Picking up the cold war theme, I have to confess that my picture of the US during this period is not much better than that of other super powers. It is better, but not much.
So my question is, the history knowledge you gained did it come from sources inside your own culture? Or to ask more bluntly, have you ever heart of a culture (except the Germans) providing a history book where they confess that they were wrong?
We cannot fairly judge recent history by the sources that are available. Only some future time will have the distance to look unbiased at our time. So why do we not follow Russel in his argument that we should just try to avoid what is obviously wrong. I think excluding other peoples from an overall democratic process because we consider ourself superior is obviously wrong.
Can we at least agree on this?
Actually, that is another thing that strikes me as being funny.
You adore using power because it looks decisive, active. You can enforce your wishes upon others. Cool.
I have never experience a discussion among adult persons that was resolved by somebody forcing the others to bow to his wishes. This might have worked on the old schoolyard and even there it was despised.
Call me old fashioned, but I do believe in some more chivalric values (very old fashioned then). I do believe that especially a position of power calls for being more careful with the defenseless, the weak, the powerless.
It is up to you to decide to be the villain or the knight. And since we might not agree on your goals, it will be the means by which you will be judged.
How comes that the UN has a rather good reputation in Europe and such a bad one in the US?
How comes that the same people speaking about democracy and freedom have so much problems to give other nations the right to vote where they are concerned?
BTW, there are no small meaningless countries. BTW 2, funny that you speak about "random leaders".
Well, I remember the episode with T'Pol and whoever in the air lock. Both rubbing each other in with a substance against who cares what.
Now imagine the same scene with T'Pol not wearing this hint of volcan underwear....
Donations anyone?
This is why I really like payment by bank transfer. Most civilized countries require you to show an ID before you are allowed to open a bank account (even in Switzerland, thanks, no need to joke). Having a bank account number is as good as having seen the ID of your business partner.
German PC magazine "ct" has an article about barebone systems. The S-presso is considered a good barebone with weak gaming perfomance and shitty audio.
The counter example I am always using when discussing with the methodologist in my office:
UML me an application that calculates the average of a set of numbers.
Yes you can model the application in UML and do a lot of the conceptual work. At the end, you have to code the business logic. There is no way around it. If you could express the business logic in UML (or any other modelling language), UML would look as "complicated" as code.
You, Sir, are obviously a geek!
Here in Switzerland, every man is drafted into 17 weeks of military service. There you receive a Swiss army knive for free (surprise!). And this f*cking, stupid version contains NO CORKSCREW!!!
Whenever you have a few minutes of break and you sit around with some french speaking compatriots. Somebody miraculously produces a bottle of wine from somewhere. Now all that is missing for happiness is a corkscrew...
If you don't know what to use the corkscrew for, you are missing a lot in life.
I might be wrong but I think nobody survived the transplant of an artificial heart by five years. So, this is a last ressort not a "solution" and we can rule out cosmetics...
A decent society with a working legal system tends to apply the same law to all people.
So instead of registering finger prints from foereigners, like you do with your own criminals, let's register everybody in the US. It is only common sense to know who is crawling inside the borders of you sovereignty, isn't it?
Does it feel orwellian now?
Sorry, the point about being repeatable is nonsense. First, excavations are repeatable. Yes, another team of archeologists can visit the same site and do their own excavations. They might reconfirm what the first team found. Second, it is not necessary to repeat "exactly" the same thing again to make it scientific. If this were true any experiment concerning partical physics has to be voodoo:-)
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As far as I went with the install MythTV looked nice.
However, it dependes on an electronic TV program. And getting this TV schedule depends on where you live. The support in middle Europe is rather lousy. For the German speaking channels a PERL script is used which screen scraps the web page of a TV magazin. Whenever the TV magazin changes there web design... pure joy!
However, that was eight years ago. Although Borland did not get worse, Microsoft did get much better.
- C# builds extremly fast too
- The
.NET framework looks suspiciously similar to the VCL
- C# got some features that made Delphi as a language special (ex. properties)
There is no reason (except nostalgia) to choose Borland. MS on the other hand will always have a headstart due to their platform knowledge.I seriously wonder what Borland did during the last eight years. Except charging us 2000 USD each year for an upgrade of JBuilder.
And do not forget Mr. Kitty who died during the Crusade spin-off!
Every euro put into developing code results in additional four euros to maintain this code later. Do you really think writing more code faster is solving any business problem?
Constantly rewriting software is out of question. Legacy software was once written, debugged and spent some time in maintenance. Why do you think you can rewrite the same logic and safe money by doing so?
Writing new software creates a growing wave of maintenance cost following the development activity. Once this catches up with you, you spend all your IT budget in maintenance and you will be unable to fullfill new business requirements. The only way to keep operational is to find ways to do more with the same amount of code. Existing code has to be well structured and documented so that the business logic therein can be reused. Dependencies between systems have to be well controlled to keep the code base maintainable. Nobody can afford or risk major changes of the application landscape.
All this is about architecture and design with a long term outlook. It is not about writing code...
I work for a bigger Swiss bank. How do we do it? Well, there is a list of persons who cannot open an account. And the list does not include any wildchars but is a list of existing defined persons. So lets say you are the prime minister of Dictaturstan; your are on the list. There is also a list where we first have to check with the legal and compliance departement if it is ok to serve this customer.
If you want to open a bank account with us, we do need your ID. It is the law. Any James Bond ideas of just depositing a suitcase full of money and giving a pass phrase to retrieve money are just plain shit. The often cited "numbered accounts" just mean that your ID is stored separately from your account information. Normal bank employees never see the identity of the account holder. Yet, even such account holders were showing an ID when opening there numbered account and we do have their data.
Ok, I am biased but the Swiss banking regulation is extremly strict. Money laundry is rather easy in Britain.
Yeah, the reliability myth of mainframes. We have heard about that one.
Unfortunately, even the most stable system can be brought down by lousy applications. In my small world, I have never ever worked for an enterprise that did not once a week reboot (!) their mainframe (oh, sorry, you call it IPL, but it still is a reboot). Currently, I work for a big bank which is squeezing quite some performance ot of their mainframes. Even IBM is impressed by the way how we manage our data center. Now guess what happens on the weekend early in the morning...
I am slightly unsatisfied about the chart. Where are the Xeons and the Opterons?
You call yourself a geek and you do not use a CPU that fits to a server?
Working as an architect for one of the biggest banks of Switzerland I can say that we do not embrace Linux. Yes, every two years we are looking into the market and make a new positioning of Linux but so far we could not come up with a business case for the introduction of Linux. /. after all, we speak about replacing the Unix servers with Linux. The desktop was never even considered. All the software we developed inhouse is J2EE based so it would be easy to change. ;-), is the lack of monitoring software. The products we set as our standard solutions are not available on Linux.
Technically, this is
The main obstacle, beside the lack of a financial benefit
Sorry, statements claiming the financial industry is heading towards Linux are wishfull thinking. Ok, everybody has a linux server somewhere (well our whole trading platform runs on Linux) but that is nothing towards "embracing" Linux.
I especially like the part about "making long distance calls to switzerland to open a swiss account"...
We have seen too many cheap spy movies, haven't we?
There is no bank in Switzerland that would open an account for you because you call them. The Swiss banking laws are some of the most strict ones when it comes to avoid money laundry!
No, I was curios how the thread would continue and so I am back :-)
I gave up some years ago (more than you seem to give me but there is no need to get personal) to try to argue with people from different cultures about what we consider to be true. Myself, I think it is more helpfull to ask questions.
Picking up the cold war theme, I have to confess that my picture of the US during this period is not much better than that of other super powers. It is better, but not much.
So my question is, the history knowledge you gained did it come from sources inside your own culture? Or to ask more bluntly, have you ever heart of a culture (except the Germans) providing a history book where they confess that they were wrong?
We cannot fairly judge recent history by the sources that are available. Only some future time will have the distance to look unbiased at our time. So why do we not follow Russel in his argument that we should just try to avoid what is obviously wrong. I think excluding other peoples from an overall democratic process because we consider ourself superior is obviously wrong.
Can we at least agree on this?
Actually, that is another thing that strikes me as being funny.
You adore using power because it looks decisive, active. You can enforce your wishes upon others. Cool.
I have never experience a discussion among adult persons that was resolved by somebody forcing the others to bow to his wishes. This might have worked on the old schoolyard and even there it was despised.
Call me old fashioned, but I do believe in some more chivalric values (very old fashioned then). I do believe that especially a position of power calls for being more careful with the defenseless, the weak, the powerless. It is up to you to decide to be the villain or the knight. And since we might not agree on your goals, it will be the means by which you will be judged.
How comes that the UN has a rather good reputation in Europe and such a bad one in the US?
How comes that the same people speaking about democracy and freedom have so much problems to give other nations the right to vote where they are concerned?
BTW, there are no small meaningless countries.
BTW 2, funny that you speak about "random leaders".
How comes that the same people who are speaking so elaborately about freedom do so easily reject 20% of the world their vote.
Just because you do not like their opinion?
Well, I remember the episode with T'Pol and whoever in the air lock. Both rubbing each other in with a substance against who cares what. Now imagine the same scene with T'Pol not wearing this hint of volcan underwear.... Donations anyone?
This is why I really like payment by bank transfer. Most civilized countries require you to show an ID before you are allowed to open a bank account (even in Switzerland, thanks, no need to joke). Having a bank account number is as good as having seen the ID of your business partner.
German PC magazine "ct" has an article about barebone systems. The S-presso is considered a good barebone with weak gaming perfomance and shitty audio.
The counter example I am always using when discussing with the methodologist in my office: UML me an application that calculates the average of a set of numbers.
Yes you can model the application in UML and do a lot of the conceptual work. At the end, you have to code the business logic. There is no way around it. If you could express the business logic in UML (or any other modelling language), UML would look as "complicated" as code.
My father is Austrian, my mother is German, myself I got Swiss citzenship. My wife is Belgian but part of her family lives in France.
Do you think I met Americans knowing a lot about any of these countries?
Well, on the other hand, what do I know about Kentucky?
That's an easy one.
Behave decently and nobody hates you. Then there is no reason to fight.
You, Sir, are obviously a geek! Here in Switzerland, every man is drafted into 17 weeks of military service. There you receive a Swiss army knive for free (surprise!). And this f*cking, stupid version contains NO CORKSCREW!!! Whenever you have a few minutes of break and you sit around with some french speaking compatriots. Somebody miraculously produces a bottle of wine from somewhere. Now all that is missing for happiness is a corkscrew... If you don't know what to use the corkscrew for, you are missing a lot in life.
I might be wrong but I think nobody survived the transplant of an artificial heart by five years. So, this is a last ressort not a "solution" and we can rule out cosmetics...
A decent society with a working legal system tends to apply the same law to all people. So instead of registering finger prints from foereigners, like you do with your own criminals, let's register everybody in the US. It is only common sense to know who is crawling inside the borders of you sovereignty, isn't it? Does it feel orwellian now?
Sorry, the point about being repeatable is nonsense. First, excavations are repeatable. Yes, another team of archeologists can visit the same site and do their own excavations. They might reconfirm what the first team found. Second, it is not necessary to repeat "exactly" the same thing again to make it scientific. If this were true any experiment concerning partical physics has to be voodoo :-)
It's not "dinosaur 99", you mean S/390