I think Apple should license their OS one way or another. For American people, they don't care whether Apple dominate whole personal computer business or not. But for other parts of World, it doesn't make sense that they have to pay one US company for the OS AND the Computer. There're many PC vendors throughout the World. And most PC profit will be kept within their countries. But not so much if everyone has to buy Apple computer.
I think at least, Apple could start 'OS X Compatible' sticker program, so they can get some cut for clone PC and license their OS.
I'm using Acrobat 8 and Firefox 2, and the acrobat plugin displays "This operation is not allowed" when I clicked the pdf link with javascript. Maybe everyone should upgrade their Acrobat reader.
You could make lighter version by removing unnecessary plug-ins. It seems my browser displays pdf documents more quickly.
http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html#acrobat
I own a UltraNav Keyboard. I really love trackPoint from thinkpad, that's why I've ordered it.. (even it's little bit pricy). You can enable either trackPoint or trackPad or both at the same time. I only enabled trackPoint, because it is right under your index finger. When the keyboard package arrived, I didn't think there's keyboard inside of the package because it was quite thin. And the weight of keyboard is little lighter than other usual keyboard. It also has 2 USB ports on the back which I use frequently for my USB drive.
I wouldn't be surprised if IBM to recreate java class libraries. IBM developed lot of different compilers, not to mention several languagues themselves. Also most of java technology is borrowed from Corba. That's why most of Corba vendors, including IBM, now develop J2EE products. So, it's probably time consuming but not difficult for IBM to recreate java class libraries. Besides, IBM has to improve java performance on their server (zOS? AIX? or Linux?) anyway.
I guess if EVERYONE is converting to JAVA, then nobody is using any other language...:)
C/C++ had been a number 1 choice for lot of software vendor. When java first came out, you didn't see whole lot of company behind it. Only Sun, of course, Netscape and IBM were one of them. Then we saw more company support java. Java became more mature product, it's been around several years. You can't just compare user space between.net and java for now.
And if you are worried about.net might not be cross platform compatible, it's all depend how to code it. You can even write java that is not cross platform compatible. Because mono doesn't fully implemented windows form (gui stuff), they can't created a sample program that compatible on MS windows.
We'll definately see current software vendors that support MS window will use.net in the future. And you will see.net support on Unix. If a company has lot of code that written in Cobol, then it will be much easier for them to convert their code to support.net than java.
Of course, it's microsoft. It's something we can't never trust. But technology-wise,.net is more interesting than java. For server side programming, why should you lock yourself to just one language? (well, maybe 2 including jython)
So I visited www.jpeg.org As an official site of one of very popular graphic format, I found it's very crappy looking Well, I shouldn't judge the web site by its look, but someone has to clean up that cheesy look.
While I agree with you that MS won't be happy if mono/unix become more popular platform than windows, as long as they steal programmers and companies from java world, I think MS will be happy.
I think.net is more nice framework than java/j2ee..net already has not only C# but visual basic, C++, eiffel and etc. Only other popular language than can run on java runtime is jython(python). And I'm sure jython people can easily ported their code to.net. After all, all the nice new features of C# is copied from java.
Think about it. If this trend continue, lot of current language developers want to port their language to.net. And.net will be their favorable choice.
As long as MS makes damn good development tool, eg. Visual Studio.net, Windows will be major platform to develop software, whether the software will be deployed on mainframe Unix (assuming it has.net framework either by MS or mom), or other desktop.
XML is here to stay. But I guess java and J2EE will have some tough journey again.NET
I see J2EE as some solid implementation similar to CORBA. But one of big disadvantage is the language. While there are maybe hundred other language project that try to create java byte code, other than jython I don't see any big suppor. Meanwhile,.NET already has C#, C++, Visual Basic, Perl, Python and etc. And those languages are hugely popular ones also (well... maybe not C# for now, but it will be..). I'm not sure how much you can do java stuff with J#, but you could say.NET has some level of java compatibility also.
.NET is heading the way that once CORBA had dreamed of. Old CORBA vendors/developers are now doing J2EE instead. I don't blame them, since J2EE is much easy to do than CORBA. And maybe those shops will join.NET in the future. Of course MS doesn't provide.NET for UNIX yet, but we'll see what MS will do at LinuxWorld Expo.
I think only way CORBA to survive is to implment something like.NET as CORBA 3.0 (or 4.0)
While I agree that most of people who play violent game won't be criminals, I still think we have to think about this kind of game. Lot of people, including me, think GTA or other killing game is OK. Then how about the game about rape? I heard about this japanese game that if player follow this girl long enough, you can rape her at the end. I guess people can say same thing about this game. "This game is fun". "I like to play this game but I'm not a rapist". But when I first heard about this game, I thought this is too extreme. Then I relized how much I'm comfortable with violence in game. Sure I don't think I will be a violent person, yet somehow I'm enjoying the role in a game. Who knows, when I play the rape game, maybe I will enjoy playing the rapist role too.
I'm not saying we should ban all of violent games. But we should think about this... somehow... I don't have a good solution myself.
But the North Korean is different from other "Axis of Evil" (man, don't I love this terms). Kim, Jung-Il is not a religious fanatic like others. What's that mean? Unless he is really stupid, he won't invade sound korea, because it's suicidal attack. Kim Jung-Il can maintain North Korea just it is. They won't have any civil riot, because it's very harsh country.
It's just another excuse from Bush administration. They want to get rid of any country that don't agree with them. They are just waiting for these country to make any mistake. And US will attack them.. and they will call it world peace.
I totally agree with this. That's why every country SHOULD have their own nuclear weapons. How convinient is that? If one country is under attack, all they can decide whether they should send nuclear missles away or not
Even Operating system support full double-byte characters or Unicode, if an application assume input character only as one byte character, then you can't use CJK characters. Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla has some problem also.
"Poorly written English or European language software cannot cope with the double-byte characters for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese"
You mean all written English or European language (meaning one-byte character) softwares support double-byte characters? Then I guess you only need to hire a language traslator to build localized versions
Not that I like NSync, but some celebrities as cameo in starwars is not so bad idea. You probably remember ET and other characters in EP1. It was kinda good.
Well.. the problem is casting. Lucas definately has some problem with casting. He should hire someone to do it.
BTW, I haven't heard any exciting news on slashdot lately... What's going on here..
You said "no one give RMS much credit".
I don't know why the author of python or any other open source software have to give RMS credit at all.
You probably think not so many programmer who program on MS Windows platform give Bill Gates much credit.
I thought the purpose of free/open software is to let people to see source code and share the idea.
While there are several softwares are open source with different copyrights, RMS refuse to accept none other than GPL.
I can understand why RMS is obssesed with GPL. He wrote it, and it's his ideal copyright for every software.
But why other people are so obssesed with GPL?
Difference between QPL and GPL is quite small (compare to MS windows license and GPL).
Still, lot of people said they won't use KDE, because of copyright problem.
I guess those people don't use MS Windows.
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Remove first 'A' from NASA
MS should include Scott Forstall to the candidate list
I think Apple should license their OS one way or another. For American people, they don't care whether Apple dominate whole personal computer business or not. But for other parts of World, it doesn't make sense that they have to pay one US company for the OS AND the Computer. There're many PC vendors throughout the World. And most PC profit will be kept within their countries. But not so much if everyone has to buy Apple computer.
I think at least, Apple could start 'OS X Compatible' sticker program, so they can get some cut for clone PC and license their OS.
I've been suffering too long time from the hard drive noise. If the price is reasonable I want SSD to have quiet environment.
So, why don't we all have it as a regular meals? http://thimg.dreamwiz.com/upfile/200804/1207481786152_1.jpg
I'm using Acrobat 8 and Firefox 2, and the acrobat plugin displays "This operation is not allowed" when I clicked the pdf link with javascript. Maybe everyone should upgrade their Acrobat reader.
You could make lighter version by removing unnecessary plug-ins. It seems my browser displays pdf documents more quickly. http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html#acrobat
I own a UltraNav Keyboard. I really love trackPoint from thinkpad, that's why I've ordered it.. (even it's little bit pricy). You can enable either trackPoint or trackPad or both at the same time. I only enabled trackPoint, because it is right under your index finger. When the keyboard package arrived, I didn't think there's keyboard inside of the package because it was quite thin. And the weight of keyboard is little lighter than other usual keyboard. It also has 2 USB ports on the back which I use frequently for my USB drive.
I wouldn't be surprised if IBM to recreate java class libraries. IBM developed lot of different compilers, not to mention several languagues themselves. Also most of java technology is borrowed from Corba. That's why most of Corba vendors, including IBM, now develop J2EE products. So, it's probably time consuming but not difficult for IBM to recreate java class libraries. Besides, IBM has to improve java performance on their server (zOS? AIX? or Linux?) anyway.
A friend of mine at IBM is doing a project just that. He is part of team that write Perl to download driver for IBM server.
I guess if EVERYONE is converting to JAVA, then nobody is using any other language... :)
.net and java for now.
.net might not be cross platform compatible, it's all depend how to code it. You can even write java that is not cross platform compatible. Because mono doesn't fully implemented windows form (gui stuff), they can't created a sample program that compatible on MS windows.
We'll definately see current software vendors that support MS window will use .net in the future. And you will see .net support on Unix. If a company has lot of code that written in Cobol, then it will be much easier for them to convert their code to support .net than java.
.net is more interesting than java. For server side programming, why should you lock yourself to just one language? (well, maybe 2 including jython)
C/C++ had been a number 1 choice for lot of software vendor. When java first came out, you didn't see whole lot of company behind it. Only Sun, of course, Netscape and IBM were one of them. Then we saw more company support java. Java became more mature product, it's been around several years. You can't just compare user space between
And if you are worried about
Of course, it's microsoft. It's something we can't never trust. But technology-wise,
So I visited www.jpeg.org
As an official site of one of very popular graphic format, I found it's very crappy looking
Well, I shouldn't judge the web site by its look, but someone has to clean up that cheesy look.
While I agree with you that MS won't be happy if mono /unix become more popular platform than windows, as long as they steal programmers and companies from java world, I think MS will be happy.
.net is more nice framework than java/j2ee. .net already has not only C# but visual basic, C++, eiffel and etc. Only other popular language than can run on java runtime is jython(python). And I'm sure jython people can easily ported their code to .net. After all, all the nice new features of C# is copied from java.
.net. And .net will be their favorable choice.
.net, Windows will be major platform to develop software, whether the software will be deployed on mainframe Unix (assuming it has .net framework either by MS or mom), or other desktop.
I think
Think about it. If this trend continue, lot of current language developers want to port their language to
As long as MS makes damn good development tool, eg. Visual Studio
XML is here to stay. But I guess java and J2EE will have some tough journey again .NET
.NET already has C#, C++, Visual Basic, Perl, Python and etc. And those languages are hugely popular ones also (well... maybe not C# for now, but it will be..). I'm not sure how much you can do java stuff with J#, but you could say .NET has some level of java compatibility also.
.NET is heading the way that once CORBA had dreamed of. Old CORBA vendors/developers are now doing J2EE instead. I don't blame them, since J2EE is much easy to do than CORBA. And maybe those shops will join .NET in the future. Of course MS doesn't provide .NET for UNIX yet, but we'll see what MS will do at LinuxWorld Expo.
.NET as CORBA 3.0 (or 4.0)
I see J2EE as some solid implementation similar to CORBA. But one of big disadvantage is the language. While there are maybe hundred other language project that try to create java byte code, other than jython I don't see any big suppor. Meanwhile,
I think only way CORBA to survive is to implment something like
King Crimson's first album In The Court Of The Crimson King also include quite a long silent moment. And they made this album in 1969!
Korn's Follow The Leader album has first 12 tracks with no sounds.
While I agree that most of people who play violent game won't be criminals, I still think we have to think about this kind of game. Lot of people, including me, think GTA or other killing game is OK. Then how about the game about rape? I heard about this japanese game that if player follow this girl long enough, you can rape her at the end. I guess people can say same thing about this game. "This game is fun". "I like to play this game but I'm not a rapist". But when I first heard about this game, I thought this is too extreme. Then I relized how much I'm comfortable with violence in game. Sure I don't think I will be a violent person, yet somehow I'm enjoying the role in a game. Who knows, when I play the rape game, maybe I will enjoy playing the rapist role too.
I'm not saying we should ban all of violent games. But we should think about this... somehow... I don't have a good solution myself.
Problem is... I think Mozilla (0.99) still lack of support CSS.. It's difficult to use mozilla when you study CSS. I wonder how much v1.0 got improved
I like to see it, quick..
But the North Korean is different from other "Axis of Evil" (man, don't I love this terms). Kim, Jung-Il is not a religious fanatic like others. What's that mean? Unless he is really stupid, he won't invade sound korea, because it's suicidal attack. Kim Jung-Il can maintain North Korea just it is. They won't have any civil riot, because it's very harsh country.
It's just another excuse from Bush administration. They want to get rid of any country that don't agree with them. They are just waiting for these country to make any mistake. And US will attack them.. and they will call it world peace.
I totally agree with this. That's why every country SHOULD have their own nuclear weapons. How convinient is that? If one country is under attack, all they can decide whether they should send nuclear missles away or not
Even Operating system support full double-byte characters or Unicode, if an application assume input character only as one byte character, then you can't use CJK characters. Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla has some problem also.
"Poorly written English or European language software cannot cope with the double-byte characters for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese"
You mean all written English or European language (meaning one-byte character) softwares support double-byte characters? Then I guess you only need to hire a language traslator to build localized versions
Not that I like NSync, but some celebrities as cameo in starwars is not so bad idea. You probably remember ET and other characters in EP1. It was kinda good.
Well.. the problem is casting. Lucas definately has some problem with casting. He should hire someone to do it.
BTW, I haven't heard any exciting news on slashdot lately... What's going on here..
I thought in episode 1 DVD, lucas said he will never replace yoda to CG character. Or maybe I remember wrong
You said "no one give RMS much credit". I don't know why the author of python or any other open source software have to give RMS credit at all. You probably think not so many programmer who program on MS Windows platform give Bill Gates much credit. I thought the purpose of free/open software is to let people to see source code and share the idea. While there are several softwares are open source with different copyrights, RMS refuse to accept none other than GPL. I can understand why RMS is obssesed with GPL. He wrote it, and it's his ideal copyright for every software. But why other people are so obssesed with GPL? Difference between QPL and GPL is quite small (compare to MS windows license and GPL). Still, lot of people said they won't use KDE, because of copyright problem. I guess those people don't use MS Windows.
I don't understand this.
So some of you guys think Miguel won the award because his contribution is more recent?
Then why do they even bother to include Knuth as one of three finalists?
There are tons of free software projects out there. Why didn't they pick one of those programmers? And how Larry Wall got the award last year?