Ugh I hate to defend Microsoft but I have to be one to disagree with you.
When I provide code for people, projects, or even companies who's software I use, I could really give a rats behind if its open source or not. Sure it would be NICE but hardly REQUIRED by me at least.
If you don't like what will be done with your free labour then don't provide it, no one is forcing you to. I like people who contribute and provide there free time, but I don't like it when those same people feel that since its so called FREE LABOUR that they can start imposing what can and should be done with there FREE LABOUR. It just doesn't work that way
Yes you are providing a service, yes it is welcome by the recipient and community, NO you shouldn't have a say in what way your contributions are disseminated because it was your choice to provide the service and no one else's.
I don't know about you but I provide my code because I want a better end product, not because I want it to be free in the open. If the code I provide will make my life easier then do with it as you will. Just because its not OPEN SOURCE like you say doesn't mean that it doesn't perform any good for the community of users for software X. Besides you wrote the stuff, unless you signed a legal waver to your code then nothing is stopping YOU from releasing it OPEN SOURCE style.
You do realize running a red light and hitting someone is effective attempted murder at worst and assault at best? Please grow up.
A laser which is effective at upwards of 10,000ft (like all the green lasers being posted) would allow someone to aim it near the horizon (or even a ways up) and straight into a helicopter or planes cockpit without even knowing that they are.
With the distances these green lasers work up to, you could easily not know that there is a plane or helicopter a few miles away that you are lighting up like a x-mas tree. You ever been sitting outside and not heard a helicopter or plan until its pretty close? Not knowing that something is off in the distance could be a viable reason as to why an incident like this could occur.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try and take extra care when using these things outside. Frankly with such long distances as these lasers seem to be affective at I think they should be banned. No one needs a laser that can light up the space shuttle flying over head.
Well unless they are lasers for sharks, then thats ok.
What I do is code plugins for a third party application. This application has a very small market so developers don't have many resources to turn to (When I started the SDK only came with 3 plugin examples).
The reason behind releasing some source code is that I've gone through all the pains of figuring out how the application works, I've learned all the ins and outs. By releasing some source code I would like to help others that are just getting started. A sort of reference when you first get started and don't quiet know the process / chain of events of doing something. You can look at my source code as some sort of half assed tutorial.
As you can see my purpose is more for educational purposes and not "Here world, have my stuff and do as you please". I don't mind helping the other guy who does what I do, nor do I mind if it helps his employer make money. What I do mind is for some leech to come along and repackage what is supposed to be for learning purposes into a revenue stream.
Should someone want to buy the source code is why I'd like the option to be able to license it. Now I doubt that will ever happen but to have that option available to me is a whole lot better than not having it available and someone offering to license.
I'm a small time programmer and I've been trying to find a license that allows me to release the source code for anyone to modify/use but not have the ability to take my source code and repackage it in another form and make money off it. I don't have a problem with people using the code itself to make money, my only issue is with repackaging it to sell.
I started looking at the CC license and I was pleased with it until I seen you can't offer exclusive license deals. Now I'm an idiot when it comes to understanding all the legal mumbo jumbo so if I've read something wrong please forgive me. Searching Google hasn't been much of a help because I don't really know what to search for and what I do search for tends to be more mumbo jumbo I can't seem to understand.
So my question is does a license exist for the type of situation I explained above?
Please explain to me just what this "Read the article" thing is you speak of? And what is that underlined text thingy you posted? For some reason it breaks my mouse and turns it into a little hand with its finger pointing.
While I haven't heard about any YouTube email issues like yours I don't doubt it.
They way I've dealt with spam since it started becoming a major PITA was to have an email account that I use for all websites that require either registration or some other retarded request for an email address. I've always named this email address "bunkemail". So if you want to spam me please send an email to bunkemail 'at' comcast.net, yes that is a real email address I have with Comcast.
Back on topic... While I can't remember all the websites I've had trouble with, my bunkemail address has had plenty of email activations not show up. It's not only email activations though, private message notifications from webforums and other general email has time and time again has not showed up in my bunkemail inbox.
Its not only email though. Currently for the past 5 months my Comcast home page has been inaccessible outside of logging in via ftp. I remember during the summer I put a few pictures on my Comcast ftp for my sister to display on her MySpace webpage. Evidentaly they didn't like that and since then you cant access my Comcast homepage outside of logging into the ftp. Since I could really care less about my Comcast webpage I haven't bothered to ask them whats the problem.
The email that frequently doesn't show up in my bunkemail account isn't just random stuff either. I can do the steps you listed and sure enough emails arrive instantly, resetting the email address back to my Comcast account once again results in no email.
The Comcast turtle commercials are funny as hell, there service on the other hand isn't. Its pathetic and something needs to be done about it.
Well the one thing you never hear talked about with the whole "Drones are the future" topic is what about jamming technology in the future? Your over sized RC plane with some bombs on it isn't gonna do much if it cant relay its data link back to base or a satellite.
If I remember correctly during the beginning of the war in Iraq, some cruise missiles were thrown off target when they were jammed by GPS jamming devices. What is to say that technology in the future wont advance to also include jamming the drones you plan to fly over a foes city? Yes I'm sure as technology advances ways of dealing with it will probably be thought of, however as is most often the case with technology (especially military technology) its a back and forth between counter measure and threat.
Being unable to fly your fancy Quake engine virtual reality RC plans over a target does you little good in warfare.
Maybe one day it will be the future, but right now as it stands I wouldn't be holding your breath for it to be the norm for quiet a while.
Those pushing the drones as the next thing tend to remind me of the militarys thinking back when the US entered the Vietnam war. The military believed dog fighting was a thing of the past and all future air engagements would be with missiles from far away. They stopped training pilots in dog fighting skills and instead believed in what they thought the future air engagements would be. It wasn't long before it was apparent this just wasn't the case, the military soon found itself scrambling to train its pilots in air to air combat; the birth of Top Gun.
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I understand your argument to a point and can see how it can get annoying. However that being said lets face it GIMP isn't exactly portrayed as you speak. Almost every time someone mentions moving over to Linux you will see "Oh and it has this awesome Photoshop style clone called The GiMP and its just as good as Photoshop".
I think another reason you see the GIMP vs Photoshop comparisons is that quit a few people who deal with graphics are going to ask about what types of image manipulation applications does Linux have. There are quiet a few places that run Linux on desktops in the film and video industry. The problem is that those in the graphics industry are FEVERISHLY wishing for some type of Linux application to fill the void that currently exists when it comes to image manipulation applications on Linux.
3D applications and compositing applications for the most part have the support by the industry. Autodesk, Softimage, The Foundry, Apple and most other vendors have Linux ports. What is missing is a image application like Photoshop as well as video editing applications like After Effects, Sony Vegas, etc. These two voids in Linux can make life a little tough. Even for someone not dealing with 3D or film such as a photographer would be hard pressed to switch to Linux with its current offerings of image manipulation applications.
Sure you have small tools that come with Gnome, KDE or even Picasa but those are NOT professional grade applications and thats where part of the GiMP vs Photoshop comparisons come from aside from people pushing GiMP as a Photoshop on Linux clone. Currently Linux really only offers image and video editing applications that are for the mildly retarded and not someone who wants some form of control. Also the current offerings are extremely limited, have horrible looking hard to navigate interfaces, and just plain stink of poo poo. I don't run Photoshop 7 under Crossover Office because I WANT to, I do it becuase I wouldn't be able to work if I didn't plain and simple.
So while I agree with you to a point you have to see WHY do people consistently make the comparisons to fully understand where people are coming from.
Like many will say where is greater then 8bit support, where are the layer filters and so on. I won't lie for the average joe and minor tasks gimp is probably just fine.
My beef is that as of the present day Linux utterly blows when it comes to anything that fits the bill of a Photoshop style of application. And I say Photoshop because quiet frankly its the dominate player for what it does.
I will admit however that I am a little surprised at Krita. If any OSS application has me wishing that it has good fortunes its Krita. Better then 8bit support and the UI is a SDI not a MDI like gimp. One thing I've never liked about gimp is that when you click on a window that belongs to gimp all the other windows don't come forward as well on the desktop. If there is an option for this I would gladly welcome to hear where it is.
I don't personally use gimp. I either use Photoshop 7 running under Crossover Office or Krita. However the times I have played with the filters etc I couldn't help but notice some of them are mind numbingly slow and work in weird amount of passes. I went and looked through the source code for some of the filters and I must say some of them are writen with performance not in mind. I write plugins for a film compositing application that works strictly in float. Import a jpg and it is converted to float for working in the compositor. Working with 2k film plates and huge compositing trees I work at the speed gimp idles at. If I wasn't so busy with work, personal life and my own plugins for the compositing application I use, I would probably pick up gimps source code and fix all the slowness that the current filters work at. Its a shame really. Why an 8bit applications filters go so slow you can actually watch the application doing the work is beyond me.
So in the end I'm cheering for Krita. It's already got greater then 8bit support, a great looking UI, and its part of KDE so hopefully it has some backing. Gimp is an ok tool and I'm sure some people have put there hearts into it. But that doesn't mean that it just isn't up to par for where it should be. Gimp isn't some year or two old application, it has been around a while yet its progress moves at a snails pace. For the average Joe gimp is ok and probably is all they need. For us power users on the other hand we are still waiting for a decent fully featured image manipulation application for Linux. I could care less about the year of the desktop, just give me a bloody image tool I can use for all things on Linux.:/
When each were informed of the reprimanded did they magically morph into giant robots and go Super Saiyan 5? Super mega kung-fu energy blasts must of been flying all over the place.
Protection is nice and all but it doesn't hurt to see if shes infected before hand to, I recommend a full OPEN PORT scan just before you sync up with her.
lolita.crabs.exe, lawlerskates_herbies.ini and parishilton_nude_genetal_warts.bat are some pretty nasty viruses. Wouldn't wanna infect your kernel with those if you know what I mean.
I'm sorry but no I didn't pick up as you call it "A Chinese copy", I actually made a type-o and meant to say I had picked up a 2003 version.
Regardless of which version I picked up are you saying that one can't find good deals at roaming computer shows? I can't count how many great deals I've found at the local computer shows, once a month they move around the surrounding area "60 miles or so" and hold these events.
The booths are usually made up of surrounding computer stores and ebay sellers trying to get rid of old hardware or huge quantities of a product that they obtained in bulk. I picked up my first version of Visual Basic 4 way back when at one of these shows for next to nothing. Most of the whats being sold is old hardware, hardware/software bought in bulk, hardware/software obtained from liquidation sales or going out of business auctions.
Maybe next time you can keep your bullshit on your own side of the fence instead of flinging it in other peoples direction.
Eclipse as my personal favorite. Now granted I'm no programming wizard and I'm not part of some OSS project. I create plugins for The Foundry's Nuke film compositor.
Up until about 4 months ago I used nothing but gedit for all my programming. Then I ran into the problem of to many tabs open and the need for using version control. I like Eclipse with CDT, it does it's job for me and the Subclipse plugin works quit well for my small needs. One feature I really like is the perspectives that Eclipse has, one of the first things I did was setup a few for while I am working.
After I had released only Linux versions of my plugins for a while I picked up a cheap copy of Visual Studio 2005 at a computer flee market. So I setup VMWare to do all my Windows compiling and bug fixing things that would compile ok under Linux but Windows would throw a fit. I agree my opinion isn't based from in depth knowledge or long term use of Visual Studio but for my needs I just prefer Eclipse.
I'm sure Eclipse has its pitfalls just like Visual Studio does, in the end they are both just tools and like anything in this world it comes down to personal preference in the end.
Personally I like this link (pdf) in the ariticle.
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Saturday, December 5 1998
To: Bob Muglia, Jon DeVann, Steven Sinofsky
Subject : Office rendering
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.
We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.
I would be glad to explain at a greater length.
Likewise this love of DAV in Office/Exchange is a huge problem. I would also like to make sure people understand this as well.
I'm not saying this as some linux nut job but its things like that which just drive me nuts. Regardless of which ever os I prefer that kind of thinking just boils my blood.
How can any committee deciding on open standards seriously take a company which has been proven time and time again to play by its own rules and whenever it offers something labeled OPEN its about as open as the doors to Fort Knock are to the average person.
Are you serious? No Earth atmosphere is gonna stop a 17 mile wide rock coming at the Earth. I suggest you go read up on what that comet did to Jupiter when it slammed into it a few years back.
Yeah I guess all them pot holes we see on the moon, other planets and their moons show just how small a chance it is for a big rock to slam into another body in space.
Why this is modded interesting confuses me, then again after looking at your sig I can see why you said what you did. If you wanna turn any conversation dealing with weapons into some governmental conspiracy then so be it I guess, I on the other hand do realize the REAL possibility of a life destroying huge rock slamming into the earth and will support anyone who tries to prepare for such an event.
You just cant ignore compatibility with Windows. People will and do use different operating systems then one another, this is why you have to spend some amount of time making sure both can work with the same material.
Since Windows is the dominant OS as of today it is only logical for another OS to have some form of compatibility with Windows. An example would be applications for OSX or Linux that are used for XYZ, XYZ should/would like to make sure the application for Windows that is similar to XYZ can open XYZ files and also save them. This is only common sense, with your logic it would be like Apple only designing the iPod to work with Windows.
I think you maybe don't understand the purpose of compatibility. It's not about escaping Windows or Linux or OSX, it's about making sure whatever OS person "A" uses can create and share things with person "B" who uses another OS.
People have typically done this with video editing suites for client side sessions, you stick the box back in your server room and just run long cables to the equipment in the suite.
The client doesn't want to hear your big 4tb raid array clanging away and the wonderful hum of a computer while the he asks you to move that logo over to the left a bit.
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Ugh I hate to defend Microsoft but I have to be one to disagree with you.
When I provide code for people, projects, or even companies who's software I use, I could really give a rats behind if its open source or not. Sure it would be NICE but hardly REQUIRED by me at least.
If you don't like what will be done with your free labour then don't provide it, no one is forcing you to. I like people who contribute and provide there free time, but I don't like it when those same people feel that since its so called FREE LABOUR that they can start imposing what can and should be done with there FREE LABOUR. It just doesn't work that way
Yes you are providing a service, yes it is welcome by the recipient and community, NO you shouldn't have a say in what way your contributions are disseminated because it was your choice to provide the service and no one else's.
I don't know about you but I provide my code because I want a better end product, not because I want it to be free in the open. If the code I provide will make my life easier then do with it as you will. Just because its not OPEN SOURCE like you say doesn't mean that it doesn't perform any good for the community of users for software X. Besides you wrote the stuff, unless you signed a legal waver to your code then nothing is stopping YOU from releasing it OPEN SOURCE style.
Whoosh!!!!
That one went over your head UACinformed the UAC base on Mars of the impending DOOM that is heading there way?
You do realize running a red light and hitting someone is effective attempted murder at worst and assault at best? Please grow up.
A laser which is effective at upwards of 10,000ft (like all the green lasers being posted) would allow someone to aim it near the horizon (or even a ways up) and straight into a helicopter or planes cockpit without even knowing that they are.
With the distances these green lasers work up to, you could easily not know that there is a plane or helicopter a few miles away that you are lighting up like a x-mas tree. You ever been sitting outside and not heard a helicopter or plan until its pretty close? Not knowing that something is off in the distance could be a viable reason as to why an incident like this could occur.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try and take extra care when using these things outside. Frankly with such long distances as these lasers seem to be affective at I think they should be banned. No one needs a laser that can light up the space shuttle flying over head.
Well unless they are lasers for sharks, then thats ok.
Thank you.
What I do is code plugins for a third party application. This application has a very small market so developers don't have many resources to turn to (When I started the SDK only came with 3 plugin examples).
The reason behind releasing some source code is that I've gone through all the pains of figuring out how the application works, I've learned all the ins and outs. By releasing some source code I would like to help others that are just getting started. A sort of reference when you first get started and don't quiet know the process / chain of events of doing something. You can look at my source code as some sort of half assed tutorial.
As you can see my purpose is more for educational purposes and not "Here world, have my stuff and do as you please". I don't mind helping the other guy who does what I do, nor do I mind if it helps his employer make money. What I do mind is for some leech to come along and repackage what is supposed to be for learning purposes into a revenue stream.
Should someone want to buy the source code is why I'd like the option to be able to license it. Now I doubt that will ever happen but to have that option available to me is a whole lot better than not having it available and someone offering to license.
the CC license.
I'm a small time programmer and I've been trying to find a license that allows me to release the source code for anyone to modify/use but not have the ability to take my source code and repackage it in another form and make money off it. I don't have a problem with people using the code itself to make money, my only issue is with repackaging it to sell.
I started looking at the CC license and I was pleased with it until I seen you can't offer exclusive license deals. Now I'm an idiot when it comes to understanding all the legal mumbo jumbo so if I've read something wrong please forgive me. Searching Google hasn't been much of a help because I don't really know what to search for and what I do search for tends to be more mumbo jumbo I can't seem to understand.
So my question is does a license exist for the type of situation I explained above?
Read the article?
Please explain to me just what this "Read the article" thing is you speak of? And what is that underlined text thingy you posted? For some reason it breaks my mouse and turns it into a little hand with its finger pointing.
Psh... You know how many x-mas lights I got outside?
:)
I think you need to do your 20kg figure again
While I haven't heard about any YouTube email issues like yours I don't doubt it.
They way I've dealt with spam since it started becoming a major PITA was to have an email account that I use for all websites that require either registration or some other retarded request for an email address. I've always named this email address "bunkemail". So if you want to spam me please send an email to bunkemail 'at' comcast.net, yes that is a real email address I have with Comcast.
Back on topic... While I can't remember all the websites I've had trouble with, my bunkemail address has had plenty of email activations not show up. It's not only email activations though, private message notifications from webforums and other general email has time and time again has not showed up in my bunkemail inbox.
Its not only email though. Currently for the past 5 months my Comcast home page has been inaccessible outside of logging in via ftp. I remember during the summer I put a few pictures on my Comcast ftp for my sister to display on her MySpace webpage. Evidentaly they didn't like that and since then you cant access my Comcast homepage outside of logging into the ftp. Since I could really care less about my Comcast webpage I haven't bothered to ask them whats the problem.
The email that frequently doesn't show up in my bunkemail account isn't just random stuff either. I can do the steps you listed and sure enough emails arrive instantly, resetting the email address back to my Comcast account once again results in no email.
The Comcast turtle commercials are funny as hell, there service on the other hand isn't. Its pathetic and something needs to be done about it.
Well the one thing you never hear talked about with the whole "Drones are the future" topic is what about jamming technology in the future? Your over sized RC plane with some bombs on it isn't gonna do much if it cant relay its data link back to base or a satellite.
If I remember correctly during the beginning of the war in Iraq, some cruise missiles were thrown off target when they were jammed by GPS jamming devices. What is to say that technology in the future wont advance to also include jamming the drones you plan to fly over a foes city? Yes I'm sure as technology advances ways of dealing with it will probably be thought of, however as is most often the case with technology (especially military technology) its a back and forth between counter measure and threat.
Being unable to fly your fancy Quake engine virtual reality RC plans over a target does you little good in warfare.
Maybe one day it will be the future, but right now as it stands I wouldn't be holding your breath for it to be the norm for quiet a while.
Those pushing the drones as the next thing tend to remind me of the militarys thinking back when the US entered the Vietnam war. The military believed dog fighting was a thing of the past and all future air engagements would be with missiles from far away. They stopped training pilots in dog fighting skills and instead believed in what they thought the future air engagements would be. It wasn't long before it was apparent this just wasn't the case, the military soon found itself scrambling to train its pilots in air to air combat; the birth of Top Gun.
I understand your argument to a point and can see how it can get annoying. However that being said lets face it GIMP isn't exactly portrayed as you speak. Almost every time someone mentions moving over to Linux you will see "Oh and it has this awesome Photoshop style clone called The GiMP and its just as good as Photoshop".
I think another reason you see the GIMP vs Photoshop comparisons is that quit a few people who deal with graphics are going to ask about what types of image manipulation applications does Linux have. There are quiet a few places that run Linux on desktops in the film and video industry. The problem is that those in the graphics industry are FEVERISHLY wishing for some type of Linux application to fill the void that currently exists when it comes to image manipulation applications on Linux.
3D applications and compositing applications for the most part have the support by the industry. Autodesk, Softimage, The Foundry, Apple and most other vendors have Linux ports. What is missing is a image application like Photoshop as well as video editing applications like After Effects, Sony Vegas, etc. These two voids in Linux can make life a little tough. Even for someone not dealing with 3D or film such as a photographer would be hard pressed to switch to Linux with its current offerings of image manipulation applications.
Sure you have small tools that come with Gnome, KDE or even Picasa but those are NOT professional grade applications and thats where part of the GiMP vs Photoshop comparisons come from aside from people pushing GiMP as a Photoshop on Linux clone. Currently Linux really only offers image and video editing applications that are for the mildly retarded and not someone who wants some form of control. Also the current offerings are extremely limited, have horrible looking hard to navigate interfaces, and just plain stink of poo poo. I don't run Photoshop 7 under Crossover Office because I WANT to, I do it becuase I wouldn't be able to work if I didn't plain and simple.
So while I agree with you to a point you have to see WHY do people consistently make the comparisons to fully understand where people are coming from.
Like many will say where is greater then 8bit support, where are the layer filters and so on. I won't lie for the average joe and minor tasks gimp is probably just fine.
:/
My beef is that as of the present day Linux utterly blows when it comes to anything that fits the bill of a Photoshop style of application. And I say Photoshop because quiet frankly its the dominate player for what it does.
I will admit however that I am a little surprised at Krita. If any OSS application has me wishing that it has good fortunes its Krita. Better then 8bit support and the UI is a SDI not a MDI like gimp. One thing I've never liked about gimp is that when you click on a window that belongs to gimp all the other windows don't come forward as well on the desktop. If there is an option for this I would gladly welcome to hear where it is.
I don't personally use gimp. I either use Photoshop 7 running under Crossover Office or Krita. However the times I have played with the filters etc I couldn't help but notice some of them are mind numbingly slow and work in weird amount of passes. I went and looked through the source code for some of the filters and I must say some of them are writen with performance not in mind. I write plugins for a film compositing application that works strictly in float. Import a jpg and it is converted to float for working in the compositor. Working with 2k film plates and huge compositing trees I work at the speed gimp idles at. If I wasn't so busy with work, personal life and my own plugins for the compositing application I use, I would probably pick up gimps source code and fix all the slowness that the current filters work at. Its a shame really. Why an 8bit applications filters go so slow you can actually watch the application doing the work is beyond me.
So in the end I'm cheering for Krita. It's already got greater then 8bit support, a great looking UI, and its part of KDE so hopefully it has some backing. Gimp is an ok tool and I'm sure some people have put there hearts into it. But that doesn't mean that it just isn't up to par for where it should be. Gimp isn't some year or two old application, it has been around a while yet its progress moves at a snails pace. For the average Joe gimp is ok and probably is all they need. For us power users on the other hand we are still waiting for a decent fully featured image manipulation application for Linux. I could care less about the year of the desktop, just give me a bloody image tool I can use for all things on Linux.
When each were informed of the reprimanded did they magically morph into giant robots and go Super Saiyan 5? Super mega kung-fu energy blasts must of been flying all over the place.
Marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar marklar. Marklar marklar marklar marklar
Intergalactic Translator: I regret to inform you American Express is not accepted on the planet Marklar. Have a nice day.
Protection is nice and all but it doesn't hurt to see if shes infected before hand to, I recommend a full OPEN PORT scan just before you sync up with her.
lolita.crabs.exe, lawlerskates_herbies.ini and parishilton_nude_genetal_warts.bat are some pretty nasty viruses. Wouldn't wanna infect your kernel with those if you know what I mean.
I don't know why we are in a tunnel but it sure does smell like ASS in here.
I love the guy standing over him with the camera in that link of yours.
I wonder is he thinking to himself... "What a dumbass this will get me more money then my Paris Hilton upskirt shot from last week"Well when you work for ComputerWorld blog what more do you expect?
I think its a tad lame someone who works for a company can have so many articles approved. She's earning her pay for ComputerWorld thats for sure.I'm sorry but no I didn't pick up as you call it "A Chinese copy", I actually made a type-o and meant to say I had picked up a 2003 version.
Regardless of which version I picked up are you saying that one can't find good deals at roaming computer shows? I can't count how many great deals I've found at the local computer shows, once a month they move around the surrounding area "60 miles or so" and hold these events.
The booths are usually made up of surrounding computer stores and ebay sellers trying to get rid of old hardware or huge quantities of a product that they obtained in bulk. I picked up my first version of Visual Basic 4 way back when at one of these shows for next to nothing. Most of the whats being sold is old hardware, hardware/software bought in bulk, hardware/software obtained from liquidation sales or going out of business auctions.
Maybe next time you can keep your bullshit on your own side of the fence instead of flinging it in other peoples direction.
Eclipse as my personal favorite. Now granted I'm no programming wizard and I'm not part of some OSS project. I create plugins for The Foundry's Nuke film compositor.
Up until about 4 months ago I used nothing but gedit for all my programming. Then I ran into the problem of to many tabs open and the need for using version control. I like Eclipse with CDT, it does it's job for me and the Subclipse plugin works quit well for my small needs. One feature I really like is the perspectives that Eclipse has, one of the first things I did was setup a few for while I am working.
After I had released only Linux versions of my plugins for a while I picked up a cheap copy of Visual Studio 2005 at a computer flee market. So I setup VMWare to do all my Windows compiling and bug fixing things that would compile ok under Linux but Windows would throw a fit. I agree my opinion isn't based from in depth knowledge or long term use of Visual Studio but for my needs I just prefer Eclipse.
I'm sure Eclipse has its pitfalls just like Visual Studio does, in the end they are both just tools and like anything in this world it comes down to personal preference in the end.
Sent: Saturday, December 5 1998
To: Bob Muglia, Jon DeVann, Steven Sinofsky
Subject : Office rendering
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company.
We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.
I would be glad to explain at a greater length.
Likewise this love of DAV in Office/Exchange is a huge problem. I would also like to make sure people understand this as well.
I'm not saying this as some linux nut job but its things like that which just drive me nuts. Regardless of which ever os I prefer that kind of thinking just boils my blood.
How can any committee deciding on open standards seriously take a company which has been proven time and time again to play by its own rules and whenever it offers something labeled OPEN its about as open as the doors to Fort Knock are to the average person.
Are you serious? No Earth atmosphere is gonna stop a 17 mile wide rock coming at the Earth. I suggest you go read up on what that comet did to Jupiter when it slammed into it a few years back.
Yeah I guess all them pot holes we see on the moon, other planets and their moons show just how small a chance it is for a big rock to slam into another body in space.
Why this is modded interesting confuses me, then again after looking at your sig I can see why you said what you did. If you wanna turn any conversation dealing with weapons into some governmental conspiracy then so be it I guess, I on the other hand do realize the REAL possibility of a life destroying huge rock slamming into the earth and will support anyone who tries to prepare for such an event.
You just cant ignore compatibility with Windows. People will and do use different operating systems then one another, this is why you have to spend some amount of time making sure both can work with the same material.
Since Windows is the dominant OS as of today it is only logical for another OS to have some form of compatibility with Windows. An example would be applications for OSX or Linux that are used for XYZ, XYZ should/would like to make sure the application for Windows that is similar to XYZ can open XYZ files and also save them. This is only common sense, with your logic it would be like Apple only designing the iPod to work with Windows.
I think you maybe don't understand the purpose of compatibility. It's not about escaping Windows or Linux or OSX, it's about making sure whatever OS person "A" uses can create and share things with person "B" who uses another OS.
People have typically done this with video editing suites for client side sessions, you stick the box back in your server room and just run long cables to the equipment in the suite.
The client doesn't want to hear your big 4tb raid array clanging away and the wonderful hum of a computer while the he asks you to move that logo over to the left a bit.