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Just a Phone?
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Point of clarification: In Canada and the USA, the device being discussed here is called the "cell phone" while in the rest of the world, it's called the mobile phone. I mean the English speaking world.
Just wanted to let slashdotters know since it took me time to adjust to refering to it as a "cell phone" after comming to the USA.
Though the author is just a student, this is positive. I also applaud his consideration for Firefox first. What will it take for him to consider "the other" browser? Next, let me look for a torrent of the other newly released movie. I guess slashdotters know it.
Cumulative patch? Now, that's a new term. Microsoft's ways are forcing us to get used to new terms in the computer field. Since this business of patching has become "business as usual" for M$, how about a new acronym for the procedure? I suggest cumpatch to stand for "cumulative patch".
This time, I supprised myself. I seems I've been under some rock for sometime. Why? Because I really never knew that NetBeans a serious contender in the Java IDE field! My be this is because I'm no Java person.
For those in the know, how does NetBeans compare to ther Java IDEs especially on Linux?
With hard disks as cheap as they are, and the advanced archiving capabilities of todays' software, I wonder why they would delete these emails except for the purpose of destroying/frustrating investigations.
Even in a "third world" country I visited recently, they had emails dated 1997, stored on a Slackware box!
This time, I agree with the US justice system. They deserved it...I am sorry to say.
This is yet another "innovation" from Google, but when will it stop? This is a plea to Google: "Bring on more features but keep Firefox users close at heart."
I wish them well after all Google's moto is "Do no Evil!"
Seriously...are our policy makers blind? I think so and here is why:
The problem is our open southern border which guys like Osama and the like can exploit fully three yeras after 9/11 and with an elected president "fighting the war on terror".
The problem is out-sourcing which is eroding our industrial base to the extent that already, about one-third of our defense machinery is foreign made.
The problem is the lack of competitive leverage that is now known of American workers. This is helping out-sourcing.
The problem is big business. This is evidenced by the fact that all innovation in important fields is coming from Europe/Asia. Look around your living room and tell me what you see. Where were those electronics made?
The problem is hypocricy. Consider this: In year one, India and Pakistan must not have nuclear weapons and all efforts are taken to ensure this is the case. In year two, they are our best allies even after testing the same weapons. You know why? It's because we do not have an answer to a nuclear bomb. This bomb once on its way to its destination, it cannot be stopped. That's why we as USA do not want Iran to get this weapon.
More problems: Cuba/China and so many others.
Have a good nite guys.
When will we have a DB conversion tool for MS-Access (read Microsoft's Jet engine)? Who will finance it any way? Slashdotters, this is a request to you to head over to http://koffice.org/kexi/ and contribute in any way you can. I do my part by the way. Kexi still has a pretty long way to go to catch up with Jet's scripting possibilities. We still have a challenge to attract all those VB programmers to the language kexi will use for scripting in the quest to add business logic to an application.
Some of my best VB code was one that converted money to words. The other was report printing depending on what the user selected...all was done on the fly. I have no idea how I'd implement that in kexi. This I guess will call for learning a new language. I know there is an opensource one on sourceforge but it's not there yet.
I was supprised when my post http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=149370&cid=125 24267 was replied by one slashdotter to the effect that no browser today has 100% W3C compatible implementations. Why is this the case? In authoring the post, I was of the impression that Firefox is 100% compliant.
This begs the question: "Whose implementation does this book emphasize/teach?"
Yes, I am. What I can say is that Zen on Linux, is kind-of slow, not as agile and feature rich as its Windows counterpart. All in all, it provides a good first step since improvements will always be done.
Tell me please: Why should I, as an end user, download and use Apache's Harmony instead of using SUN's "real" Java. They are both "free" for me to obtain. In short, I wouldn't. I also believe that for software that requires Java, application developers will continue to direct users to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html. So there you go!
I have had the chance to listen to LUGRadio but apart from the interview portion, I do not listen to the rest because I fing that they use a lot of distasteful language and also laugh a lot. It it why some people take Linux evengelists to be at the very bottom or near the bottom of the social ladder?
Guys, autopackage http://autopackage.org/ or something like it, is the key in software installation in my view. I feel so bad when I see some "Linux specialists" dismiss it as a non starter, yet to Joe SixPack, it does not matter. Linux will be no where even in a generation if it requires software authors to write n packages for n distros. When one visits Nomachine http://nomachine.com/, you find a single windows binary and several Linux binaries, and that does not guarantee successful installation on all distros. Such a situation is very very frustrating. Guys, let's jump onto autopackage and let Linux fly.
Can HP guarantee [100]% that no MS Tax will be added to the cost of these notebook systems? Is this a valid question one can ask HP sales personnel anyway?
Will Firefox make it to the computer systems IBM ships as the default browser? That will even be better. Can IBM flex muscles here? I doubt. The surest way of denting IE's share is by governments ordering PCs specifying that the browser installed should meet all W3C standards that the browser supports 100%. I understand that in procurement, specifying a product name is not allowed, so mentioning Firefox as the browser is a non-starter.
Before I take a break for my weekend, I'd like to request slashdotters to throw some light on what methodology these WebSideStory guys use to get their numbers. Is it the case that when I fire up IE, the IE numbers get a plus and when I switch do Firefox, even on the same machine, Firefox numbers get updated accordingly...and this happens wherever on this earth I might be? What software could do this?
What will Microsoft's reaction to this development be this time round? As a slashdotter and an upcoming pundit in the Computer Operating Systems' world, I am very interested. Is there an active community being built to improve this product? Hope so. Have a good weekend guys.
Is it only me who finds that KDE Print just has too many icons, buttons and configuration options? Just take a look at this: http://printing.kde.org/screenshots/. Without intimately knowing the system/environment you are working at, it might be impossible to setup a printer. It happened to me once...and I am not that much of a newbie. Or is it that I am not that bright?
My wish for KDE applications, in addition to supporting all that the usability guys are doing, is to be able to re-order all icons on the menu bar. It is some what possible now, but in many cases, you fire-up your application and find that the menu bar is disorganized! Re-ordering at this moment becomes impossible! After restarting the app, re-ordering may be possible.
I can think of MS-Office, whose menu bar icons can be re-ordered in any way wanted. When one "squeezes" or forces another menu bar to share the same area with another, this is possible with arrows indicating the availability of other items beyond the arrow.
Remember his sayings about how much memory we'll ever need? What about his view on Linux in 1999? What about inter-operability? The problem is many people believe him. I don't.
How did they author the videos?
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I have watched the video...my question is how they authored it. Was it a Java "thing" similar to what was at http://mirror.fluendo.com/cortado/? Was it a Windows Media embeded file, or RealPlayer? Quicktime? The browser URL does not say much. I have not tried it on Linux so I do not know.
Overall, I was impressed. Technical slashdotters, please elaborate. Thanx.
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Just wanted to let slashdotters know since it took me time to adjust to refering to it as a "cell phone" after comming to the USA.
Though the author is just a student, this is positive. I also applaud his consideration for Firefox first. What will it take for him to consider "the other" browser? Next, let me look for a torrent of the other newly released movie. I guess slashdotters know it.
Mod parent down -- "Redundant."
Cumulative patch? Now, that's a new term. Microsoft's ways are forcing us to get used to new terms in the computer field. Since this business of patching has become "business as usual" for M$, how about a new acronym for the procedure? I suggest cumpatch to stand for "cumulative patch".
For those in the know, how does NetBeans compare to ther Java IDEs especially on Linux?
Even in a "third world" country I visited recently, they had emails dated 1997, stored on a Slackware box!
This time, I agree with the US justice system. They deserved it...I am sorry to say.
I wish them well after all Google's moto is "Do no Evil!"
The problem is our open southern border which guys like Osama and the like can exploit fully three yeras after 9/11 and with an elected president "fighting the war on terror".
The problem is out-sourcing which is eroding our industrial base to the extent that already, about one-third of our defense machinery is foreign made.
The problem is the lack of competitive leverage that is now known of American workers. This is helping out-sourcing.
The problem is big business. This is evidenced by the fact that all innovation in important fields is coming from Europe/Asia. Look around your living room and tell me what you see. Where were those electronics made?
The problem is hypocricy. Consider this: In year one, India and Pakistan must not have nuclear weapons and all efforts are taken to ensure this is the case. In year two, they are our best allies even after testing the same weapons. You know why? It's because we do not have an answer to a nuclear bomb. This bomb once on its way to its destination, it cannot be stopped. That's why we as USA do not want Iran to get this weapon.
More problems: Cuba/China and so many others. Have a good nite guys.
Cb..
Some of my best VB code was one that converted money to words. The other was report printing depending on what the user selected...all was done on the fly. I have no idea how I'd implement that in kexi. This I guess will call for learning a new language. I know there is an opensource one on sourceforge but it's not there yet.
This begs the question: "Whose implementation does this book emphasize/teach?"
The trouble is some of the pundits know so little to even know that they, (the pundits) know nothing. We live in interesting times, don't we?
> Is anyone using Zen with Novell Desktop Linux?
Yes, I am. What I can say is that Zen on Linux, is kind-of slow, not as agile and feature rich as its Windows counterpart. All in all, it provides a good first step since improvements will always be done.
Tell me please: Why should I, as an end user, download and use Apache's Harmony instead of using SUN's "real" Java. They are both "free" for me to obtain. In short, I wouldn't. I also believe that for software that requires Java, application developers will continue to direct users to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html. So there you go!
I have had the chance to listen to LUGRadio but apart from the interview portion, I do not listen to the rest because I fing that they use a lot of distasteful language and also laugh a lot. It it why some people take Linux evengelists to be at the very bottom or near the bottom of the social ladder?
Guys, autopackage http://autopackage.org/ or something like it, is the key in software installation in my view. I feel so bad when I see some "Linux specialists" dismiss it as a non starter, yet to Joe SixPack, it does not matter. Linux will be no where even in a generation if it requires software authors to write n packages for n distros. When one visits Nomachine http://nomachine.com/, you find a single windows binary and several Linux binaries, and that does not guarantee successful installation on all distros. Such a situation is very very frustrating. Guys, let's jump onto autopackage and let Linux fly.
You most be a poor sorry a*s, and a failure in life.
Can HP guarantee [100]% that no MS Tax will be added to the cost of these notebook systems? Is this a valid question one can ask HP sales personnel anyway?
Will Firefox make it to the computer systems IBM ships as the default browser? That will even be better. Can IBM flex muscles here? I doubt. The surest way of denting IE's share is by governments ordering PCs specifying that the browser installed should meet all W3C standards that the browser supports 100%. I understand that in procurement, specifying a product name is not allowed, so mentioning Firefox as the browser is a non-starter.
Before I take a break for my weekend, I'd like to request slashdotters to throw some light on what methodology these WebSideStory guys use to get their numbers. Is it the case that when I fire up IE, the IE numbers get a plus and when I switch do Firefox, even on the same machine, Firefox numbers get updated accordingly...and this happens wherever on this earth I might be? What software could do this?
What will Microsoft's reaction to this development be this time round? As a slashdotter and an upcoming pundit in the Computer Operating Systems' world, I am very interested. Is there an active community being built to improve this product? Hope so. Have a good weekend guys.
Is it only me who finds that KDE Print just has too many icons, buttons and configuration options? Just take a look at this: http://printing.kde.org/screenshots/. Without intimately knowing the system/environment you are working at, it might be impossible to setup a printer. It happened to me once...and I am not that much of a newbie. Or is it that I am not that bright?
I can think of MS-Office, whose menu bar icons can be re-ordered in any way wanted. When one "squeezes" or forces another menu bar to share the same area with another, this is possible with arrows indicating the availability of other items beyond the arrow.
That's my wish.
Remember his sayings about how much memory we'll ever need? What about his view on Linux in 1999? What about inter-operability? The problem is many people believe him. I don't.
Overall, I was impressed. Technical slashdotters, please elaborate. Thanx.
Java is a free language just like Adobe's PDF product is.
The only non free issue surrounding Java is SUN's implementation...which is patented. Right?
That's why we have projects like Kaffe, ClassPath, GCJ and the newly announced Harmony from the Apache group.
If this is the case, then I do not see any problem. We have software like Flash that run on Linux and we've had no problems whatsoever.