Yup, I think SQLite is a great alternative against Access, however could someone suggest a good GUI for SQLite with similar properties as MS Access? I am not looking for a clone but a program in which my mom could make her simple databases without knowing SQL programming language. Access allows her to do that, but if I want to migrate to Linux there is no alternative. I know that the guys at KDE have some nice apps in developemnt, but I am looking for an application in the lines of "mature" sourceforge status.
Considering the popularity of Launchy (Win), Vista's start search, Quicksilver/Spotlight (Mac), Katapult (KDE) and GNOME Deskbar, I'd say he either hit a home run or knows trends when he sees them.
And this brings me to the question of, why aren't the menu and windows keys binded by default in many of the most popular linux distributions?, here I am writing this in Fedora 8 and neither the menu or any of the two windows keys of the keyobard do anything. The same thing happens in Ubuntu 7.10.
Now, I know there is a super-duper easy way to bind them in X/Y/Z menu or editing certain.conf file, but these keys are in almost every keyboard nowadays and they have specific functions (one open the sytem menu, the other opens the "alternative button" menu. And moreover, if they are binded by default and there is some keyboard that does not have them, it won't hurt the user in any way!
I tried Dragon a number of times, but it feels too much like talking to oneself. Training it is a chore too. 99% accuracy after 5 minutes is probably true, but I type much better than that. I suppose it will be great for people who either can't type properly or are lysdexic. 99% accuracy after 5 minutes is probably true, but I type much better than that. I suppose it will be great for people who either can't type properly or are lysdexic.
99% accuracy means that for every 100 words (a paragraph) you will have a wrong word. Now, that accuracy is in the "optimal conditions" and talking at a specific phase. The problem with the other 1% is that the wrong word might not be even related to the text (whereas when you are writting, the error is mostly in spelling).
Personally, last time I tried Dragon was about 4 years ago (installed it for my mom to test it) and it was terrible. I wonder if it wont be a good idea to design a special soundcard (not only the mic) to aid in the recognition?
If by here you mean the USA,you are wrong. For gods sake, there is even a Prohibition party in the USA! The fact that only two of them share 99% of the power just goes to show how "democratic" the USA is.
I monitor a few open source applications mailing lists and often when a security vulnerability is found, it has been there a long time. How many more are lurking in that mess of C++ code?
Haven't you thought that it is funny how everything is in the last place you look for it?. That is, the place where you find it.
But yeah, I also laugh when reading those comments saying that the "only" thing that can happen if a virus infects a Linux machine is that you could lose your home directory which contains all your data... Sheesh, fortunately all the prgorams (which are available all over the internet, and in my installation disk) will not be touched.
Check out the film mentioned in this comment. I just saw the trailer and seems quite nice. In contrast with elephant dreams, it is not "digial masturbation", but it seems to be a nice film (with a plot and all that).
Personally, I saw elephant dreams and I liked it. And not because it was done in blender or whatnot but because it was "obscure". However, I understand that it was not a mainstream kind of movie.
I just looked at the Guided tour video. Even thogh I have always refused to pay for the overpriced Apple products, I really would like to get one of those (although if the stndard Macs are out of my budget, this is waaaaaay out of my league).
It just comes to show that Apple always has the cool technology:(
Yeah, and also darn Negroponte, locking in the latin american market...
1. Give away laptops without CD/DVD drive to third world kids 2. ??? 3. Profit
For the love of god, CD/DVD is just a device, this specific laptop does not have it. Or do you fill locked in because your washing machine does not comes with a cavity magnetron to heat your food? Not that this computer wont have USB so you will be able to plug any external DVD drive in it...
I know many parents who still use VCRs regularly (like me!). Little kids aren't clamoring for better-than-DVD quality. They don't care or know the difference, and parents aren't going to fork over extra $$ for it.
And yet, these parents are the first ones to buy whatever technology is needed to play the Rataouille or any cartoon that the kids want.
With this I mean it is not a matter of technology, as they have said before, it is a matter of availablility. When you kid wants Toy Story 5 and it is only in BluDisk you will have to buy it.
Well, not you (you are not the average consumer, you ar on slashdot) but in general, that is one of the main shop driving forces (why do you think McDonalds is so successful?)
-a move that would allow comptetitors to develop Office clones at will.
In these dates of free (as in what matters to most consumers) office suites, do you thing it really matters if other companies create office suites? The fact that a lot of people and companies use Microsoft Office is due to all the ecosystem of applications which form an integrated Solution (that such thing is good, bad, moral, immoral, has bugs or not; other slashdotters will be very glad to flame about).
Besides, who could put *all* the development effort (money) in order to create an office suite like Microsoft's ? Almost all of the currently available office suites read.DOC files in a way or another and I do not see them winning market against MS Office.
Then there is Open Office which would be the most complete replacement for MS Office. The main advantage is that it is free (as in whatever you appreciate more from a bunch of bites, freedom or price). However it is still leaps behind Microsoft Office (if you consider only the main components) and millions of light years behind if you consider the "extra" components (like Publisher, Visio, Project, among the many others).
Car locks, home locks, e-mail accounts, and computer firewalls all differ greatly from media DRM in (at least) one important way: Not one of the security models used in his analogy depends on giving the key to the potential attacker. With media DRM you are given a restricted format and an obscured key to unlock it. This is its weakness, and has no corollary with the examples he gave.
Ah, that could not be stated in a more insightful way. Thanks.
Copy procopyrighttection is stupid, and I am talking about copy protection for any kind of intellectual property (temporalrly property of the author by means of copyright). The main idea behind all those other locks is deterrent. But with intellectual property you simply can not deter someone from modyfing the bytes of their computers at their couch by putting locks.
I think a better idea would be watermarking. If I was someone like the RIAA, I would spend all the millions of dollars they have spent in the frugal lawsuits in researching better (undetectable, unmodifiable, more incriminating, etc) watermarking methods in order to really deter the people that acquired legally some work from illegaly distributing it.
I was working on, and we put in £17K (thats $28k) , Haha, more like $33,449.08 without trading commission (according to XE).
I believe that we will see phased take up, ie where it is needed most (e.g. like the way airlines put in flat panels instead of CRTs to reduce weight), before the HDD manufacturers will curl up and leave the scene.
We are already seeing this. SSD have opened the possibility of new devices. More than replace the technology from old uses it will allow new uses. I have always thought that, if you can have 4GB in a very very small micro-SD drive then, ho much memory can be contained in the space of a hard disk if you use the same technology!.
Are you honestly so stupid that you think "native" means "indian"?
It appears you are.
Wow man, you really take slashdot very seriously. It was a joke, even I didn't took it wrongly. Making the clarification would be enough, but attacking the poster?
I would remove all frontiers (incoming of course) between Mexico and Canada. All immigration would be legal and people from all the world would be able to work.
I would increase punishments for non native americans who commit crimes. If they commit a crime, everything they got in the USA will be confiscated, they will be added to a criminals database and they would be deported to their countries (I do not want to make taxpayers fund their prison terms).
I would also bring all of the USA troops back home, all and everyone of them. And I will spend a lot of research and development funding on investigating ways to defend USA soil.
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Of course, given that I am not an american, I do not think my views are shared by most people here. but hey, not that it really matters what any of us think
Even if you love working on a project in your spare time eventually you will get sick of people nagging you for features that you don't want to do.
And then you will leave the project and someone else who is interested may retake it (if it is worth it). That is the beauty of Open Source, the programmers does not matter (even if they are the "inventors" of the program). Only the code matters.
After all, as your post demonstrates, good technical writers are hard to find. Wow, yeah AC, sometimes spelling in a language which is not your native language can get tricky, specially at 11:45 pm.
Más bien sería interesante saber, wie viele wie viele sprachen sie sprechen?
This is what I (who is making a PhD in finance/artificial Intelligence) is doing (in conjunction with other collegues, however we are not releasing the code yet.:
You can release your application at sourceforge.net, however make your application web based. Create whatever "client" you need as a web based interface (you can use Java or even Flash if you need more complex interfaces) and you can make the backend in Java or any other server side processing technology. Then you sell a suscription service in which customers pay to use whatever service you are selling (that will include other types of expertise).
In my case, we sell simulation software services where people provide scenarios (configured by a web based or some other GUI) and then use such configuration files to run simulations in the server side of the system. That way you also have no piracy issues (in the case of open source that is of course not an issue).
I find other advise qutie funny, like the book writing idea. For me it is aking to opening some shop and then putting a coffee shop or restaurant in order to make some profit because the first thing you did is not profitable. Why didn't you opened the restaurant in the first place!!
I just saw the video. I did not know what was this about. At first, I thought it was hilarious. Yes, the prank was nice. But then I thought that such acting is vandalism. I mean, the company (maybe motorlola?) that got their monitors turned off while it was presenting really should be able to sue these guys for vandalism. I know they should grow a sense of humour, but at the very least the guys should apologize publicaly to the companies that they affected.
This kind of stuff is what you do only *ïf* you are prepared to face the consequences, and even though maybe turning off TVs would not have a lot of effect at the doctor's office or at some random public area, in this kind of technology shows it really affects the people.
It is all about parental responsability. The problem is that first, it is the parents who are not educated to eat healtly, they are the first ones to take their kids to McDonalds and the like; second, because they do not like responsability, they blame whatever is to blame right now. McDonalds is just a food provider, just like any other (take the healthier choices like subway or 100% natural), however while they get a lot of demand of junk food, they will continue to produce it.
The issue here is that the government should educate the parents but in the USA you are talking about people that think "wtf I dont like the government telling me what to do". Or at least, try to educate the kids.
I've got two examples of that. One is here in the UK, I read some time ago that some schools in Scotlands where implementing a "points" program for kids lunch. They provide certain healthy menu, but the problem they had is that kids went to buy crap food, so they made each food had some points in value and kids could then change the points for videogames and the like.
Such thing would not work in the USA because of the mentality of the parents (wtf you [the government] are inciting my kids to eat something!!).
The second example is related to "teaching kids". Campeche, Mexico used to be a very very dirty city (I lived there for 15 years). However, something like 7 years ago, the government established a program that thaught in government schools (where the majority of kids go) about polluting and thrash issues. It was amazing that you could see that the kids *told* to their parents to pick up the thrash when they threw it by the street. It was the kids who where educating the parents! If you go to the city now, there is an outstanding difference.
But hey, let everybody blame everybody else. Of course McDonalds won't say that the parents are to blame because they would be shooting themselves in the foot by attacking their customers.
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I think the summary at OSNews had it right. KDE 4.0 is not KDE 4 per-se, this release represents the technology backend release (the middleware) to developers all over the world. It is from now on that developers should get attention to KDE 4.0 and start porting or writing applications for it.
From the perspective of the average user, XP's install is the easiest by far. They take the computer out of the box it came in, plug it in, turn it on, and XP is right there.
You misspelled OSX. I understand, those keys are very close to each other.
Seriously, although the only time I have used apple machines is in Apple stores (I do not have cash to waste buying overpriced hardware) I agree that for the end user, they are the most friendly machines. Now Linux... even a Ubuntu machine preloaded from any vendor will be a pain in the ass to configure for the end user. Just today a guy was suggesting to "cp whatever/media/usb;sync" in order to avoid the Linux usb stick flash memory plug/unplug problems... and that is one of the problems I have most frequently in Linux (FC8 and Ubuntu, waiting endlessly for a safe unmount after copying one or two files...).
I keep saying that those kind of "rough edges" that we can not name but that pisses us off very frequently while using Linux are what makes it not usable for the common user. (I am writing this from KUBUNTU 7.10.. btw I prefer Ubuntu + some KDE apps which I can't live with like Kile, kubuntu is sooo unreliable)
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Yup, I think SQLite is a great alternative against Access, however could someone suggest a good GUI for SQLite with similar properties as MS Access? I am not looking for a clone but a program in which my mom could make her simple databases without knowing SQL programming language. Access allows her to do that, but if I want to migrate to Linux there is no alternative. I know that the guys at KDE have some nice apps in developemnt, but I am looking for an application in the lines of "mature" sourceforge status.
Mabe Mozilla could lend some of these guys time to the GIMP??
After all, they use the GIMP toolkit.
Considering the popularity of Launchy (Win), Vista's start search, Quicksilver/Spotlight (Mac), Katapult (KDE) and GNOME Deskbar, I'd say he either hit a home run or knows trends when he sees them.
And this brings me to the question of, why aren't the menu and windows keys binded by default in many of the most popular linux distributions?, here I am writing this in Fedora 8 and neither the menu or any of the two windows keys of the keyobard do anything. The same thing happens in Ubuntu 7.10.
Now, I know there is a super-duper easy way to bind them in X/Y/Z menu or editing certain.conf file, but these keys are in almost every keyboard nowadays and they have specific functions (one open the sytem menu, the other opens the "alternative button" menu. And moreover, if they are binded by default and there is some keyboard that does not have them, it won't hurt the user in any way!
99% accuracy means that for every 100 words (a paragraph) you will have a wrong word. Now, that accuracy is in the "optimal conditions" and talking at a specific phase. The problem with the other 1% is that the wrong word might not be even related to the text (whereas when you are writting, the error is mostly in spelling).
Personally, last time I tried Dragon was about 4 years ago (installed it for my mom to test it) and it was terrible. I wonder if it wont be a good idea to design a special soundcard (not only the mic) to aid in the recognition?
If by here you mean the USA,you are wrong.
For gods sake, there is even a Prohibition party in the USA! The fact that only two of them share 99% of the power just goes to show how "democratic" the USA is.
I monitor a few open source applications mailing lists and often when a security vulnerability is found, it has been there a long time. How many more are lurking in that mess of C++ code?
Haven't you thought that it is funny how everything is in the last place you look for it?. That is, the place where you find it.
But yeah, I also laugh when reading those comments saying that the "only" thing that can happen if a virus infects a Linux machine is that you could lose your home directory which contains all your data... Sheesh, fortunately all the prgorams (which are available all over the internet, and in my installation disk) will not be touched.
Check out the film mentioned in this comment. I just saw the trailer and seems quite nice. In contrast with elephant dreams, it is not "digial masturbation", but it seems to be a nice film (with a plot and all that).
Personally, I saw elephant dreams and I liked it. And not because it was done in blender or whatnot but because it was "obscure". However, I understand that it was not a mainstream kind of movie.
I just looked at the Guided tour video. Even thogh I have always refused to pay for the overpriced Apple products, I really would like to get one of those (although if the stndard Macs are out of my budget, this is waaaaaay out of my league).
:(
It just comes to show that Apple always has the cool technology
Oh and by the way, I do not own any Apple computer as they are out of my budget (and I consider them overprized)
Yeah, and also darn Negroponte, locking in the latin american market ...
1. Give away laptops without CD/DVD drive to third world kids
2. ???
3. Profit
For the love of god, CD/DVD is just a device, this specific laptop does not have it. Or do you fill locked in because your washing machine does not comes with a cavity magnetron to heat your food? Not that this computer wont have USB so you will be able to plug any external DVD drive in it...
I know many parents who still use VCRs regularly (like me!).
Little kids aren't clamoring for better-than-DVD quality. They don't care or know the difference, and parents aren't going to fork over extra $$ for it.
And yet, these parents are the first ones to buy whatever technology is needed to play the Rataouille or any cartoon that the kids want.
With this I mean it is not a matter of technology, as they have said before, it is a matter of availablility. When you kid wants Toy Story 5 and it is only in BluDisk you will have to buy it.
Well, not you (you are not the average consumer, you ar on slashdot) but in general, that is one of the main shop driving forces (why do you think McDonalds is so successful?)
-a move that would allow comptetitors to develop Office clones at will.
.DOC files in a way or another and I do not see them winning market against MS Office.
In these dates of free (as in what matters to most consumers) office suites, do you thing it really matters if other companies create office suites? The fact that a lot of people and companies use Microsoft Office is due to all the ecosystem of applications which form an integrated Solution (that such thing is good, bad, moral, immoral, has bugs or not; other slashdotters will be very glad to flame about).
Besides, who could put *all* the development effort (money) in order to create an office suite like Microsoft's ? Almost all of the currently available office suites read
Then there is Open Office which would be the most complete replacement for MS Office. The main advantage is that it is free (as in whatever you appreciate more from a bunch of bites, freedom or price). However it is still leaps behind Microsoft Office (if you consider only the main components) and millions of light years behind if you consider the "extra" components (like Publisher, Visio, Project, among the many others).
Car locks, home locks, e-mail accounts, and computer firewalls all differ greatly from media DRM in (at least) one important way:
Not one of the security models used in his analogy depends on giving the key to the potential attacker. With media DRM you are given a restricted format and an obscured key to unlock it. This is its weakness, and has no corollary with the examples he gave.
Ah, that could not be stated in a more insightful way. Thanks.
Copy procopyrighttection is stupid, and I am talking about copy protection for any kind of intellectual property (temporalrly property of the author by means of copyright). The main idea behind all those other locks is deterrent. But with intellectual property you simply can not deter someone from modyfing the bytes of their computers at their couch by putting locks.
I think a better idea would be watermarking. If I was someone like the RIAA, I would spend all the millions of dollars they have spent in the frugal lawsuits in researching better (undetectable, unmodifiable, more incriminating, etc) watermarking methods in order to really deter the people that acquired legally some work from illegaly distributing it.
I was working on, and we put in £17K (thats $28k) ,
Haha, more like $33,449.08 without trading commission (according to XE).
I believe that we will see phased take up, ie where it is needed most (e.g. like the way airlines put in flat panels instead of CRTs to reduce weight), before the HDD manufacturers will curl up and leave the scene.
We are already seeing this. SSD have opened the possibility of new devices. More than replace the technology from old uses it will allow new uses. I have always thought that, if you can have 4GB in a very very small micro-SD drive then, ho much memory can be contained in the space of a hard disk if you use the same technology!.
Are you honestly so stupid that you think "native" means "indian"?
It appears you are.
Wow man, you really take slashdot very seriously. It was a joke, even I didn't took it wrongly. Making the clarification would be enough, but attacking the poster?
I'd try to get the first four items done within the first 24 hours
Just as Jack Bauer how many issues can happen around a president in those 24 hours... they might be more difficult than you think!
I would remove all frontiers (incoming of course) between Mexico and Canada. All immigration would be legal and people from all the world would be able to work.
I would increase punishments for non native americans who commit crimes. If they commit a crime, everything they got in the USA will be confiscated, they will be added to a criminals database and they would be deported to their countries (I do not want to make taxpayers fund their prison terms).
I would also bring all of the USA troops back home, all and everyone of them. And I will spend a lot of research and development funding on investigating ways to defend USA soil.
---
Of course, given that I am not an american, I do not think my views are shared by most people here. but hey, not that it really matters what any of us think
Even if you love working on a project in your spare time eventually you will get sick of people nagging you for features that you don't want to do.
And then you will leave the project and someone else who is interested may retake it (if it is worth it). That is the beauty of Open Source, the programmers does not matter (even if they are the "inventors" of the program). Only the code matters.
And yeah, Sunday night is a good time to feed the trolls =oP
After all, as your post demonstrates, good technical writers are hard to find.
Wow, yeah AC, sometimes spelling in a language which is not your native language can get tricky, specially at 11:45 pm.
Más bien sería interesante saber, wie viele wie viele sprachen sie sprechen?
But hey, you keep your editing work going!
This is what I (who is making a PhD in finance/artificial Intelligence) is doing (in conjunction with other collegues, however we are not releasing the code yet.:
You can release your application at sourceforge.net, however make your application web based. Create whatever "client" you need as a web based interface (you can use Java or even Flash if you need more complex interfaces) and you can make the backend in Java or any other server side processing technology. Then you sell a suscription service in which customers pay to use whatever service you are selling (that will include other types of expertise).
In my case, we sell simulation software services where people provide scenarios (configured by a web based or some other GUI) and then use such configuration files to run simulations in the server side of the system. That way you also have no piracy issues (in the case of open source that is of course not an issue).
I find other advise qutie funny, like the book writing idea. For me it is aking to opening some shop and then putting a coffee shop or restaurant in order to make some profit because the first thing you did is not profitable. Why didn't you opened the restaurant in the first place!!
I just saw the video. I did not know what was this about. At first, I thought it was hilarious. Yes, the prank was nice. But then I thought that such acting is vandalism. I mean, the company (maybe motorlola?) that got their monitors turned off while it was presenting really should be able to sue these guys for vandalism. I know they should grow a sense of humour, but at the very least the guys should apologize publicaly to the companies that they affected.
This kind of stuff is what you do only *ïf* you are prepared to face the consequences, and even though maybe turning off TVs would not have a lot of effect at the doctor's office or at some random public area, in this kind of technology shows it really affects the people.
It is all about parental responsability. The problem is that first, it is the parents who are not educated to eat healtly, they are the first ones to take their kids to McDonalds and the like; second, because they do not like responsability, they blame whatever is to blame right now. McDonalds is just a food provider, just like any other (take the healthier choices like subway or 100% natural), however while they get a lot of demand of junk food, they will continue to produce it.
The issue here is that the government should educate the parents but in the USA you are talking about people that think "wtf I dont like the government telling me what to do". Or at least, try to educate the kids.
I've got two examples of that. One is here in the UK, I read some time ago that some schools in Scotlands where implementing a "points" program for kids lunch. They provide certain healthy menu, but the problem they had is that kids went to buy crap food, so they made each food had some points in value and kids could then change the points for videogames and the like.
Such thing would not work in the USA because of the mentality of the parents (wtf you [the government] are inciting my kids to eat something!!).
The second example is related to "teaching kids". Campeche, Mexico used to be a very very dirty city (I lived there for 15 years). However, something like 7 years ago, the government established a program that thaught in government schools (where the majority of kids go) about polluting and thrash issues. It was amazing that you could see that the kids *told* to their parents to pick up the thrash when they threw it by the street. It was the kids who where educating the parents! If you go to the city now, there is an outstanding difference.
But hey, let everybody blame everybody else. Of course McDonalds won't say that the parents are to blame because they would be shooting themselves in the foot by attacking their customers.
I think the summary at OSNews had it right. KDE 4.0 is not KDE 4 per-se, this release represents the technology backend release (the middleware) to developers all over the world. It is from now on that developers should get attention to KDE 4.0 and start porting or writing applications for it.
From the perspective of the average user, XP's install is the easiest by far. They take the computer out of the box it came in, plug it in, turn it on, and XP is right there.
/media/usb;sync" in order to avoid the Linux usb stick flash memory plug/unplug problems... and that is one of the problems I have most frequently in Linux (FC8 and Ubuntu, waiting endlessly for a safe unmount after copying one or two files...).
You misspelled OSX. I understand, those keys are very close to each other.
Seriously, although the only time I have used apple machines is in Apple stores (I do not have cash to waste buying overpriced hardware) I agree that for the end user, they are the most friendly machines. Now Linux... even a Ubuntu machine preloaded from any vendor will be a pain in the ass to configure for the end user. Just today a guy was suggesting to "cp whatever
I keep saying that those kind of "rough edges" that we can not name but that pisses us off very frequently while using Linux are what makes it not usable for the common user. (I am writing this from KUBUNTU 7.10.. btw I prefer Ubuntu + some KDE apps which I can't live with like Kile, kubuntu is sooo unreliable)