Monsanto are the people that patent genes, have lobbied to have certain legislation* added to the new Iraq constitution, have engineered plants that are sterile and can't be replanted so people have to keep buying new seeds... that's not even the half of it, and lets not even get started on their history of litigation. Once I saw them on there, I promptly closed the browser tab.
Why can't company who have done all those things, be a good employer?
It's not about winning. Giving how Apple has decided to let apps be developed for the iPhone, Safari on Windows effectively serves as a development environment for non-OS X developers who want to deploy iPhone apps.
A 100 posts over here say the same thing - i.e. Apple released Safari on Windows to help devs who are developing for the iPhone. But why then did Steve Jobs make his comment about how in the future the market will be 75% IE & 25% Safari.
I think this is posturing by the fanbois. If Safari on Win is a flop, it would be good to pretend that Apple was never competing. Apple can't possibly compete & lose, can they?
Read the post. "Venezuelan here." Most educated Venezuelans (including my wife) detest Chavez. It's only the poor that really adore him and he's such a populist politician much like Franklin D. Roosevelt (or so a passerby once described him)
Read here why the rich & influential in Venezuela dislike him.
If the iPhone gets launched at a 500$+ price point in Europe, it would be a huge flop. This phone can be a hit in Europe only if Apple reduces the price by 25% atleast & sells it unlocked. The US is the only place where such an expensive locked phone can possibly sell huge numbers. But this time I think even in the US, iPhone is not going to be a huge hit - at best it would be a moderate success at current price levels.
I don't want another Ericcson since Sony bought them. Had a P800, and a P910i (and maybe a P900?), but I'm a Nokia man all the way now. N80ie for me, and N95 from work. Good stuff.
All my life I have had only Nokia & Sony Ericcson phones. I like the Nokia's better, but Nokia's Customer Service sucks. Sony Ericcson's Customer Service on the other hand is amazing.
Couple of years back, sitting in the USA, I had purchased a Sony Ericcson of some website (Made in Thailand, Made for France). I needed a Tri-Band GSM phone for carrying it to Europe & Asia. Along my journey I plugged the travel charger into all kinds of sockets of different sizes with & without socket adaptors. Couple of times had to force it in etc. End of the journey the travel charger stopped working. I called up Sony Ericcson's 800 number & told them about this. They asked me - when did you buy it - I said three months back. That's all - they overnighted me a new charger free. No questions about where I bought it, how it got damaged etc.
The iPhone has always been presented as part of a platform that included the cellular service. It was always tied tightly to the network. I don't know why anyone is surprised, then, that purchase of an iPhone comes with the network as well.
In the GSM world, there is no reason for an instrument to be tied to the network, other than the reason that the provider is subsidising the cost of the phone. Even in that case, all that provider can do is lock the phone. And locked phones can be unlocked at a small cost.
AMD Sempron 3400 Windows Vista Home Basic 512MB SDRAM 160GB Serial ATA Drive 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
2) Mac Mini 599 Dollars
1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo 512MB SDRAM 60GB Serial ATA drive Mac OS X Intel GMA 950 graphics No Keyboard, No Monitor
1) If Article Posted about IE security bugs
- Regular mudfest, everyone throwing mud on Microsoft & IE. Everyone saying I have FF/Linux/Safari whatever, so I am safe. Nobody talks about changing settings, disabling javascript or Activex as a good workaround.
2) If Article Posted about FF security bugs
- Lot of workarounds posted - disable Javascript, get some plugin, change some settings, don't go to the website etc. How great that the it is open source, someone will fix the bug in one hour & release patch. Bugs are avenues to show how great open source is.
Now both are posted together, let's collate responses at the end of the day
Wow! I bet you have never worked on anything other than hobby projects.
Most projects I have worked on cannot do without branching & branching big & I am not talking about branches created for individual devs.
What do you do if you have make patches on an earlier release(s)? What do you do if your project team has 50 devs working on 5 different modules inside? If one guy makes a buggy submit it will break every one else? Typically each team does weekly sanity tests & then propagates the changes to the main.
Yeah - and I agree with Linus - CVS is rubbish.
Have used CVS, Clearcase & Source Depot. Source Depot is a Microsoft internal Source Control system. Microsoft licensed Perforce & developed on it. I used to work with MS long back & Source Depot was the best Source Control System I have ever used.
CVS lacks too many features. 1) Atomic checkins/submits
I am trying to submit changes in 5 files as a single bugfix. A submit/checkin should either succeed for all 5 or fail for all 5. CVS doesn't do this. The end result is that I may end up submitting a change in the header without submitting a correspond change in the implementation file.
2) Changelists
After checking in multiples files together, at any point in time, I should be able to find out all the changes that were checked in at the same time. CVS has no way of doing this - Submitting 5 files together is the same as submitting 5 files separately as far as CVS is concerned.
3) More Changelist features for non-submitted changes Let us say I am working on 3 different bugfixes. Source Depot allows me group together my changes in different changelists even before I submit the changes. That is I can create changelist A B & C. In changelist A - I have files a.c & a1.c changed, in changelist B, I have b.c & b1.c changed & so on. So I decide I am done with all the changes required in the subset A, I can submit it very easily or undo all changes in changelist B.
4) Merges Merges between branches are a breeze with Source Depot. With CVS it's a pain. Source Depot stores a lot of information about merges which have already happened which in invaluable. In CVS, merges between branches are very little more than changes manually copied from one branch to another. I can do a lot of stuff which I can't do with CVS - I can very trivally merge Bugfix 1111 (comprising of 5 files checked into changelist XXXX) from a branch to another branch or the main trunk. - Because Source Depot stores information about merges, I can do periodic single command merges very easily between a branch & the trunk - Source Depot will not try to merge in changes which have already been merged the last time I did a merge.
I could go on & on, but the point is that something Source Depot makes a developers life so much more easier. I could work around all these things in CVS (i.e. do it in multiple steps) but the ease is something worth paying for I think. If Microsoft ever released Source Depot as a commercial product, it would be great, but I don't suppose their license with Perforce would allow it.
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Why would someone google for the phrase "People Ready Business"?
If you use this app on your iTunes Plus tracks you will be buying lossless for full price like a newbie.
Can't you keep a non-modified copy for this purpose?
So if I sit in Britain & buy an NTSC TV & pay for the TV license, then BBC
should be forced to broadcast in NTSC also for me.
No. 10 on the list :3.974
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10. Arcelor Mittal
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This is a company which used to be French.
But now it's owned by a Brit, Mittal.
The French made a lot of xenophobic hue & cry before they finally sold the company
to him.
Victims of Microsoft's "Oh, sorry about including a feature that fucks up your business" mentality.
What about Apple & Konfabulator?
it seems like I have to stop coming here to Slashdot.
Bye. Don't let the door hit you on your way out.
it annoys me no end that MS Paint, Notepad and Calc NEVER get updated. What kind of updates are you looking for?
Monsanto are the people that patent genes, have lobbied to have certain legislation* added to the new Iraq constitution, have engineered plants that are sterile and can't be replanted so people have to keep buying new seeds... that's not even the half of it, and lets not even get started on their history of litigation.
Once I saw them on there, I promptly closed the browser tab.
Why can't company who have done all those things, be a good
employer?
Check the slashdot story when Microsoft OS'es got a similiar certification.
Let's compare the comments at the end of the day.
Yes. Just like GPL3 was to prevent Tivoisation,
GPL4 will be to prevent RIAAisation - RMS.
It's not about winning. Giving how Apple has decided to let apps be developed for the iPhone, Safari on Windows effectively serves as a development environment for non-OS X developers who want to deploy iPhone apps.
A 100 posts over here say the same thing - i.e. Apple released Safari on Windows to help devs
who are developing for the iPhone.
But why then did Steve Jobs make his comment about how in the future the market will be
75% IE & 25% Safari.
I think this is posturing by the fanbois. If Safari on Win is a flop, it would be good
to pretend that Apple was never competing. Apple can't possibly compete & lose, can they?
Basically, you have regurgitated American propaganda. If you look to my original
post, I asked for something other than American Propaganda.
Read the post. "Venezuelan here." Most educated Venezuelans (including my wife) detest Chavez. It's only the poor that really adore him and he's such a populist politician much like Franklin D. Roosevelt (or so a passerby once described him)
Read here why the rich & influential in
Venezuela dislike him.
Why do you hate Chavez?
Is it because of American propaganda against him
or is there any other concrete reason?
If the iPhone gets launched at a 500$+ price point
in Europe, it would be a huge flop. This phone can
be a hit in Europe only if Apple reduces the price
by 25% atleast & sells it unlocked. The US is the
only place where such an expensive locked phone
can possibly sell huge numbers. But this time I
think even in the US, iPhone is not going to be
a huge hit - at best it would be a moderate success
at current price levels.
I don't want another Ericcson since Sony bought them. Had a P800, and a P910i (and maybe a P900?), but I'm a Nokia man all the way now. N80ie for me, and N95 from work. Good stuff.
All my life I have had only Nokia & Sony Ericcson phones.
I like the Nokia's better, but Nokia's Customer Service sucks.
Sony Ericcson's Customer Service on the other hand is amazing.
Couple of years back, sitting in the USA, I had purchased a
Sony Ericcson of some website (Made in Thailand, Made for
France). I needed a Tri-Band GSM phone for carrying it to
Europe & Asia. Along my journey I plugged the travel
charger into all kinds of sockets of different sizes
with & without socket adaptors. Couple of times had
to force it in etc. End of the journey the travel
charger stopped working. I called up Sony Ericcson's
800 number & told them about this. They asked me
- when did you buy it - I said three months back.
That's all - they overnighted me a new charger
free. No questions about where I bought it, how
it got damaged etc.
Nokia's Customer Service OTOH, is barely OK.
The iPhone has always been presented as part of a platform that included the cellular service. It was always tied tightly to the network. I don't know why anyone is surprised, then, that purchase of an iPhone comes with the network as well.
In the GSM world, there is no reason for an instrument to be tied
to the network, other than the reason that the provider is
subsidising the cost of the phone. Even in that case, all that
provider can do is lock the phone. And locked phones can be
unlocked at a small cost.
I can't believe people get paid for writing such delusional crap.
The Yahoo client has some features all of
which aren't available on the other clients.
- At login time, itself you can invisible. In
some other clients, I have tried, you have first
login as visible & then change to invisiblw
- You can be invisible overall, but just visible
to one person or a group of people.
If I find a client in both of these features
are available, I'll switch.
Absolutely right.
1) Dell Dimension C521 - 359 Dollars
AMD Sempron 3400
Windows Vista Home Basic
512MB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA Drive
48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
56K PCI Data Fax Modem
2) Mac Mini 599 Dollars
1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB SDRAM
60GB Serial ATA drive
Mac OS X
Intel GMA 950 graphics
No Keyboard, No Monitor
But with that said, the Mac OS comes with a richer suite of applications than Windows does, that's for damned sure.
Like what?
I drive a 1500$ used car, you insensitive clod.
From a Seinfeld episode
---
Kramer: Well, I have to say this seems capricious and arbitrary.
Dean Jones: You fly is open.
---
1) If Article Posted about IE security bugs
- Regular mudfest, everyone throwing mud on Microsoft
& IE. Everyone saying I have FF/Linux/Safari whatever,
so I am safe. Nobody talks about changing settings,
disabling javascript or Activex as a good workaround.
2) If Article Posted about FF security bugs
- Lot of workarounds posted - disable Javascript,
get some plugin, change some settings, don't go to
the website etc. How great that the it is open source,
someone will fix the bug in one hour & release patch.
Bugs are avenues to show how great open source is.
Now both are posted together, let's collate responses
at the end of the day
So don't do it
Wow! I bet you have never worked on anything other than hobby
projects.
Most projects I have worked on cannot do without branching &
branching big & I am not talking about branches created for
individual devs.
What do you do if you have make patches on an earlier release(s)?
What do you do if your project team has 50 devs working on
5 different modules inside? If one guy makes a buggy submit
it will break every one else? Typically each team does weekly
sanity tests & then propagates the changes to the main.
Yeah - and I agree with Linus - CVS is rubbish.
Have used CVS, Clearcase & Source Depot. Source Depot
is a Microsoft internal Source Control system. Microsoft
licensed Perforce & developed on it. I used to work with
MS long back & Source Depot was the best Source Control
System I have ever used.
CVS lacks too many features.
1) Atomic checkins/submits
I am trying to submit changes in 5 files as a single bugfix.
A submit/checkin should either succeed for all 5 or fail for all 5.
CVS doesn't do this. The end result is that I may end up submitting
a change in the header without submitting a correspond change in the
implementation file.
2) Changelists
After checking in multiples files together, at any point in time, I should
be able to find out all the changes that were checked in at the same time.
CVS has no way of doing this - Submitting 5 files together is the same as
submitting 5 files separately as far as CVS is concerned.
3) More Changelist features for non-submitted changes
Let us say I am working on 3 different bugfixes. Source Depot allows me
group together my changes in different changelists even before I
submit the changes. That is I can create changelist A B & C.
In changelist A - I have files a.c & a1.c changed, in changelist
B, I have b.c & b1.c changed & so on. So I decide I am done with
all the changes required in the subset A, I can submit it very easily
or undo all changes in changelist B.
4) Merges
Merges between branches are a breeze with Source Depot. With CVS it's
a pain. Source Depot stores a lot of information about merges which have
already happened which in invaluable. In CVS, merges between branches
are very little more than changes manually copied from one branch to
another.
I can do a lot of stuff which I can't do with CVS
- I can very trivally merge Bugfix 1111 (comprising of 5 files
checked into changelist XXXX) from a branch to another branch or
the main trunk.
- Because Source Depot stores information about merges, I can do periodic
single command merges very easily between a branch & the trunk - Source Depot
will not try to merge in changes which have already been merged the last
time I did a merge.
I could go on & on, but the point is that something Source Depot makes
a developers life so much more easier. I could work around all these
things in CVS (i.e. do it in multiple steps) but the ease is something
worth paying for I think. If Microsoft ever released Source Depot
as a commercial product, it would be great, but I don't suppose their
license with Perforce would allow it.