Look my, ST was cool, but --face it-- it was the poor man's mac. Yes, on a $/power factor it killed everything out there, but the mac was lots better (not that I didn't like my ST.) ---
When I initally got my all-in-wonder Pro, I raved about it. I knew it wasn't the fastest 3d card around, but I don't game a LOT. I loved all the multimedia stuff. BUT, ATI has really let me down with their Win2K support. They STILL don't have a driver that supports all the stuff. I have an old beta driver for the all-in-wonder 128 that at least lets me watch TV. I'm really peeved. I mean, this OS came out WAY back. SUPPORT IT already. I despise booting up into 98 just to watch a DVD. Actually, I despise booting into 98 period. 98 is to 2K as my Atari ST was to my first Mac. ---
Yeah, you can do a similar thing. A windows program will "blink" in the taskbar to say it wants focus. It's very similar to the mac thing (didn't the applicaiton menu flash, it's been a while since I used a mac). I like it. It's relatively unobtrusive. I was looking up the API call for it the other day to make a program do it. Pretty easy. ---
Well, as far as email, outlook makes a nice sound and puts a little icon in my system tray with a mail icon that I double click and it opens the new mail. Don't all mail programs do something similar? Also, I have a rule that plays a special sound when it is from my wife, and another for my boss. ---
Wow! I got a comment (at 0) from some TrollAxOr dude saying that was a troll, and someone sacrificed a perfectly good mod point to say it was funny.... Umm, thanks, I guess? ? ---
As many here probably know, I've been quick to rise to the occasion of defending VB. It's what I do for a living, day in day out (although I'm actually taking a new web development position, still be doing some VB COM objects). Anyway, I took a look at Python recently and liked what I saw. Has some needed OO features TODAY -- no wating for VS7. Plus, with the Win32 COM extensions, you can hook into Windows COM objects (note: this is all of the Windows side -- I haven't looked at the Linux part of it).
Anyway, I was pretty impressed. What it is lacking is a good front-end builder (MFC? Bleah...). the author of the Win32 extensions (can't recall the name, sorry.) says he uses VB to throw together a front end and puts all the business logic in Python objects. I could see that. It sounds like this visual toolkit could eventually become a cross-platform GUI builder, rather than building with different things (vb on Winx, whatever on Linux).
Anyway, I think these guys are right on track for a VB-type language in Linux. Plus, it's multi-platform (lots of platforms). I could see it as a great way to do cross-platform work...
For non-free software? I mean, sure, I guess it would be NICE to have a boxed copy of Redhat, but I can download the nice, bootable ISO image of 6.2 from a really fast mirror. What's the incentive? Non-free software, on the other hand, I could see as a potential problem, particularly among smaller sites. ---
well, personally, I don't like movie ratings because they give really violent movies an R or Pg-13, but god forbid we have anything about sex in a movie.
I try to be anti-censorship, but I really do think that if kids play video games where violence against what is obviously humans is a central focus, it desensitizes you against said violence. I saw a game the other day in the arcade called "slient sniper" or something where you have a big rifle with a scope and were picking people off rooftops. Granted, they were "bad guys", but still. If kids' parents are too stupid to think "hey, maybe it's a bad idea to let my kids play this game", then I have no problem with the rest of us (as expressed through the will of our elected representatives) doing it for 'em. ---
Come on, now. We have movie ratings, right? (granted they are easy to get around), I'm as anti-censorship as the next guy, but I fail to see a way to defend letting anyone play this game. ---
Constituent = Voter Voter = Person LOTS of People work for corporation corporation = Lots of Constituent If you don't think Hatch came down on M$ because of Novell, you are hopelessly clueless about how politics in the U.S. works. ---
That is definitely an incorrect assumption. I don't know much about c++, but Delphi is a distinct minority to VB (at least in the corporate world I live in). Not that I'm knocking Delphi, it's a great product. ---
why don't you ask the interviewer if your future supervisor would mind defacating in a jar for you? Just say you have a test for being a jerk. I mean, If they have nothing to hide, it should be no problem, right? ---
With old MacMAME on my mac. Now MAME32 for Win32.. I love it. Despite lots of new games I have, I play the old MAME one's more, like Elevator Action and hypercross and Track and Field and Spy Hunter, the list goes on. Note: you can get just about every ROM from www.mame.dk ---
Maybe these companies will be forced to actually provide some evidence when they claim "we lost $42 million dollars when our web site got cracked." I don't think the insurance company is just got say "sure, $42 million, here ya go!" ---
AMEN! I broke my rule on that a few years ago, because I really wanted this job, and I felt so bad... I can't believe most people just take it for granted. When I went on my latest round of interviews, I asked, told 'em I was against it on moral grounds. ---
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Not that these are actually in use yet, but I can see it someday if we keep going down this path. It seems like we in the U.S. keep giving up more and more of our personal liberties to have a sense of "safety." Americans are whipped into frenzy by the focus of local TV news on sensationalistic crime reporting. Americans believe they are under seige from gun-toting, crack-smoking gangbangers.
There is a real, everyday, easy to do, practical thing you can do: Remind everyone you know that violent crime is at a twenty-year low in this country. Most of you have probably heard this, but you'd be surprised at how often it shocks people you meet. Here's a CNN.com article to link to. (I'm sure there are better ones, but I can't find 'em right now. Or point 'em to the FBI's Universal Crime Reports. Really. Do it. ---
<RANT> Gimmie a break! Are you saying that's a racist statement? It's a perfectly acceptable euphemism. A euphemism is a nice shorthand for not having to type out a long explanations like this one: "It's pretty ridiculous to point out a trait in others that you yourself possess" Almost everyone knows exactly what it means. Can we not use the word "black" anymore? Has it become politically unaceptable? I don't see anything in this euphemism that says "black" is a bad trait. </RANT> ---
The scary thing is, after you buy a home and start hacking your house, you don't care about the problem because you don't WANT to leave Home Depot. It's like asking a six-year-old to leave Toys R Us.
I was in there today on my lunch hour getting advice on my plumbing project... I was like "man, I really wanna look at these copper-to-PVC transitions some more, but I gotta go back to work and code..." ---
Probably not. But that has nothing to do with the ideology of the slave involved but a slave being invovled. I guess that seems a subtle distinction. I guess the fact that a software tool's source is open is a characteristic of that thing, like the fact that the tech support is good (that would go into my decision to buy it). But the licensing of that source code or what they do with that source code really doesn't concern me, I guess that is what I'm getting at ---
But you see, I don't WANT lampshades of human skin. Why should I want it. What is the advantage? I, personally, wouldn't ever buy it. But the ideology of it? I don't care if the lamp I buy is made by maoists or christian funamentalists. I just don't care. ---
The ideologoy of a tool? WOW! no wonder I just don't get Open Source. If I'm buying a ratchet, I just buy the best ratchet for the money. I pay my taxes, pay (a little) attention to politics, vote, and expect the collective will of the people, expressed through their elected officials, to keep rampant captalism gone wild in check. Kinda like in this whole anti-trust thing.... I guess I'm just hopelessly naive. ---
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Look my, ST was cool, but --face it-- it was the poor man's mac. Yes, on a $/power factor it killed everything out there, but the mac was lots better (not that I didn't like my ST.)
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When I initally got my all-in-wonder Pro, I raved about it. I knew it wasn't the fastest 3d card around, but I don't game a LOT. I loved all the multimedia stuff. BUT, ATI has really let me down with their Win2K support. They STILL don't have a driver that supports all the stuff. I have an old beta driver for the all-in-wonder 128 that at least lets me watch TV. I'm really peeved. I mean, this OS came out WAY back. SUPPORT IT already. I despise booting up into 98 just to watch a DVD. Actually, I despise booting into 98 period. 98 is to 2K as my Atari ST was to my first Mac.
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Yeah, you can do a similar thing. A windows program will "blink" in the taskbar to say it wants focus. It's very similar to the mac thing (didn't the applicaiton menu flash, it's been a while since I used a mac). I like it. It's relatively unobtrusive. I was looking up the API call for it the other day to make a program do it. Pretty easy.
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Well, as far as email, outlook makes a nice sound and puts a little icon in my system tray with a mail icon that I double click and it opens the new mail. Don't all mail programs do something similar? Also, I have a rule that plays a special sound when it is from my wife, and another for my boss.
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Wow! I got a comment (at 0) from some TrollAxOr dude saying that was a troll, and someone sacrificed a perfectly good mod point to say it was funny.... Umm, thanks, I guess? ?
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As many here probably know, I've been quick to rise to the occasion of defending VB. It's what I do for a living, day in day out (although I'm actually taking a new web development position, still be doing some VB COM objects). Anyway, I took a look at Python recently and liked what I saw. Has some needed OO features TODAY -- no wating for VS7. Plus, with the Win32 COM extensions, you can hook into Windows COM objects (note: this is all of the Windows side -- I haven't looked at the Linux part of it).
Anyway, I was pretty impressed. What it is lacking is a good front-end builder (MFC? Bleah...). the author of the Win32 extensions (can't recall the name, sorry.) says he uses VB to throw together a front end and puts all the business logic in Python objects. I could see that. It sounds like this visual toolkit could eventually become a cross-platform GUI builder, rather than building with different things (vb on Winx, whatever on Linux).
Anyway, I think these guys are right on track for a VB-type language in Linux. Plus, it's multi-platform (lots of platforms). I could see it as a great way to do cross-platform work...
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ummm, you can put a fairly sophisticated animation in 20k. I call that lightweight.
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For non-free software? I mean, sure, I guess it would be NICE to have a boxed copy of Redhat, but I can download the nice, bootable ISO image of 6.2 from a really fast mirror. What's the incentive? Non-free software, on the other hand, I could see as a potential problem, particularly among smaller sites.
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well, personally, I don't like movie ratings because they give really violent movies an R or Pg-13, but god forbid we have anything about sex in a movie.
I try to be anti-censorship, but I really do think that if kids play video games where violence against what is obviously humans is a central focus, it desensitizes you against said violence. I saw a game the other day in the arcade called "slient sniper" or something where you have a big rifle with a scope and were picking people off rooftops. Granted, they were "bad guys", but still. If kids' parents are too stupid to think "hey, maybe it's a bad idea to let my kids play this game", then I have no problem with the rest of us (as expressed through the will of our elected representatives) doing it for 'em.
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Come on, now. We have movie ratings, right? (granted they are easy to get around), I'm as anti-censorship as the next guy, but I fail to see a way to defend letting anyone play this game.
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Constituent = Voter Voter = Person LOTS of People work for corporation corporation = Lots of Constituent If you don't think Hatch came down on M$ because of Novell, you are hopelessly clueless about how politics in the U.S. works.
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That is definitely an incorrect assumption. I don't know much about c++, but Delphi is a distinct minority to VB (at least in the corporate world I live in). Not that I'm knocking Delphi, it's a great product.
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why don't you ask the interviewer if your future supervisor would mind defacating in a jar for you? Just say you have a test for being a jerk. I mean, If they have nothing to hide, it should be no problem, right?
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With old MacMAME on my mac. Now MAME32 for Win32.. I love it. Despite lots of new games I have, I play the old MAME one's more, like Elevator Action and hypercross and Track and Field and Spy Hunter, the list goes on. Note: you can get just about every ROM from www.mame.dk
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Maybe these companies will be forced to actually provide some evidence when they claim "we lost $42 million dollars when our web site got cracked." I don't think the insurance company is just got say "sure, $42 million, here ya go!"
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AMEN! I broke my rule on that a few years ago, because I really wanted this job, and I felt so bad... I can't believe most people just take it for granted. When I went on my latest round of interviews, I asked, told 'em I was against it on moral grounds.
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Not that these are actually in use yet, but I can see it someday if we keep going down this path. It seems like we in the U.S. keep giving up more and more of our personal liberties to have a sense of "safety." Americans are whipped into frenzy by the focus of local TV news on sensationalistic crime reporting. Americans believe they are under seige from gun-toting, crack-smoking gangbangers.
There is a real, everyday, easy to do, practical thing you can do: Remind everyone you know that violent crime is at a twenty-year low in this country. Most of you have probably heard this, but you'd be surprised at how often it shocks people you meet. Here's a CNN.com article to link to. (I'm sure there are better ones, but I can't find 'em right now. Or point 'em to the FBI's Universal Crime Reports. Really. Do it.---
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Gimmie a break! Are you saying that's a racist statement? It's a perfectly acceptable euphemism. A euphemism is a nice shorthand for not having to type out a long explanations like this one: "It's pretty ridiculous to point out a trait in others that you yourself possess" Almost everyone knows exactly what it means. Can we not use the word "black" anymore? Has it become politically unaceptable? I don't see anything in this euphemism that says "black" is a bad trait.
</RANT>
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The scary thing is, after you buy a home and start hacking your house, you don't care about the problem because you don't WANT to leave Home Depot. It's like asking a six-year-old to leave Toys R Us.
... I was like "man, I really wanna look at these copper-to-PVC transitions some more, but I gotta go back to work and code..."
I was in there today on my lunch hour getting advice on my plumbing project
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Probably not. But that has nothing to do with the ideology of the slave involved but a slave being invovled. I guess that seems a subtle distinction. I guess the fact that a software tool's source is open is a characteristic of that thing, like the fact that the tech support is good (that would go into my decision to buy it). But the licensing of that source code or what they do with that source code really doesn't concern me, I guess that is what I'm getting at
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But you see, I don't WANT lampshades of human skin. Why should I want it. What is the advantage? I, personally, wouldn't ever buy it. But the ideology of it? I don't care if the lamp I buy is made by maoists or christian funamentalists. I just don't care.
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The ideologoy of a tool? WOW! no wonder I just don't get Open Source. If I'm buying a ratchet, I just buy the best ratchet for the money. I pay my taxes, pay (a little) attention to politics, vote, and expect the collective will of the people, expressed through their elected officials, to keep rampant captalism gone wild in check. Kinda like in this whole anti-trust thing.... I guess I'm just hopelessly naive.
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yeah, you know, even my old Atari BASIC had functions. I can't think of a basic I've seen that doesn't. I've never really used QBasic much.
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yeah, I mean kinda like doing Asteroids entirely in DHTML. Like here (warning MS IE 5 only!)
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Yeah, I mean. No BASIC's have f unctions.
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