I reserved and got a Wii on the launch date along with Zelda and Red Steel. I have also bought Monkey Ball, Excite Truck and Wii Play games. Currently, I am waiting for a good RPG... I was looking forward for the Dragon Quest game but so far there is no sign of it. I do not like the "mini games" as I have enough of them with Wii Play/Sports and MonkeyBall... also I do not have lots of people to play with... WHERE IS THE INTERNET PLAY!!! THIS IS 2007...
I got bored of my Wii... I am still waiting for a good game, the problem with consoles like this with so few games is that sometimes it is impossible to get a game you like if your "tastes" are not standard... Also, I do not have the £40 to spend on some wannabe game without testing... how am I suppose to see if I like that game? considering that these days, online reviews are less worthless...
You wont believe it... When I came to UK one of the things I aimed to do is to get some of the nice British Metal CD's... I thought they were going to be cheaper than in Mexico... but to my surprise, the cheapest you can find them is £7.00, and that is the cheapest online store. £7 ~= $150 Mexican Pesos, whereas in Mexico you can find them at $99 Mexican Pesos (£4.6). Talk about overpricing stuff uh?
Whatever the question, Windows is probably the wrong answer. The sole exception is a gamer who wants more than a Playstation/X-Box can offer.
Holly fuck, surely that is why Dell, HP, Gateway, Lanix, PC-World, Best Buy and even the guy in the corner PC shop keep offering Windows XP/Windows Vista machines... and not only that *drumrolls*.... people keep buying it...
If you haven't experienced a thin client or server hosted homes on a thick client you can't really understand the difference. In my world (with 100 total seats at six sites) a workstation can die and we don't care. We toss the spare out and get on with our work. NO inportant data lives on the clients even though ours still have the OS on a local HDD. .
In my University they have every document saved in RAID storage which is backed up every night. It is as possible and trivial to configure Windows and Linux to do it, it is also equally possible to make raw disk writing to replace hard disks... most people here use Windows XP, I use Fedora Core and it is equally easy.
But until you experience it and truly understand there is a better way than unreliable Dells running unstable Windows you won't be able to explain it to others..
Unreliable Dells?, Unstable Windows?, come on this is bullshit and you know it. What version of Windows are you using? ME? 98? The cliche that Windows is unstable is in the same level than the cliche that Linux is "not ready for the desktop". Linux zealots hate the later, but they keep trying to believe the former... its plain FUD.
To conclude answering your trollish rant, the Microsoft Windows OS family is aimed to certain population (90% of the whole population by the statistics), CentOS is aimed to other population and Ubuntu to yet another. As I have read again and again in here when someone wants to make kids like you enter in reason, when you grow up, you will understand that these operating systems are just *tools*, each one of those are useful for certain different tasks. Until then, you can get all sentimental with your sets of 0's and 1's which is what Windows and Linux are...
The rest of us? we just use what is needed for the work.
Prices for *everything* in the UK are outrageously higher than in continental Europe, USA and even Mexico. But I guess the main reason for that is because the government let corporations do these kind of things. It is so stupid that they do it *even* against their own companies. For another example see the Tesco vs Levi where Tesco (a Wal*Mart like supermarket) was importing Levi's jeans cheaper than the price they got from Levi's... guess what happened? Levi's sued and they where forced to buy directly from Levi's... at the highest price.
But hey, the guys over here are used to that, if you tell a Briton that they are getting raped with the prices they will have a *hard* time acknowledging it, they do not believe it as most of them have not traveled outside their island... and when they go to Spain they are surprised *how cheap* is it... they should look all around the world to see *how cheap* is everywhere, excepting of course their island.
monitor their children's actions/behavior. That's not to say that it should be 24/7, but the summary's implicit suggestion that "spying" on children is inappropriate displays a vast ignorance of/indifference to responsible parenting.
The keywords here are spying and monitor, and the confusion that exists on these. My personal opinion is that a parent/guardian cannotspy on their kids in the sense that it is usually given, which is "without consent", because the parents DO NOT need to get permission from children. What parents do is monitor their kids actions. And that is pretty normal AND I would love it was encouraged. When children (kids from 0 to 17.999 year old) are living with their parents, they are under the tutelage of their parents. They *must* abide to their rules and the ways things are done in their [PARENTS] home. It is up to the parents to give kids some independency, privacy and other "rights", depending on the trust that parents have gained from the kids.
There is nothing wrong with knowing where your child is. A child doesn't have the right to conceal their activities/whereabouts from his/her parents. Exactly!
And suddenly, companies that need full fledged Computer Scientists or Software Engineers (instead of code monkeys) turn to India, China, Mexico or any other country to get them... not very far away, considering just some months ago I read a story about the lack of Computer Scientists in USA; and people here were asking themselves why was that, if there are *lots* of unemployed slashdoters
Yes, and my point is that tools like Eclipse, Visual Studio, XML libraries, GUI designers, etc. probably hurt programmer productivity. Their real benefit is to reduce the amount of training people need initially, but whether that is a good tradeoff overall is unclear; one highly skilled programmer may well be more productive and cost-effective overall than ten average programmers.
Not to be misunderstood: I do think there is a place for good tools to support working programmers, it's just that the tools that are widespread are mainly aimed at getting people "hooked" on them, not at supporting experienced professional programmers optimally.
I think you are misunderstanding the objective of the tools you are naming... they have been conceived to help developers in their work. It is not Microsoft's or Eclipse foundation (or the Gnome guys) that wannabe "code monkeys" play with their tools for 2 weeks and add them as a skill in their curriculum. Look at those tools as if they were carpenter tools like an electric drill or handsaw. They are conceived to make easier the work of the carpenter, but yo *do* need to *know* what you are doing. You can not say that they hurt the carpenters productivity because they incite people that do not know anything about woodworking to grab a DIY book and put an add on the newspaper...
uses peer-to-peer technology similar to that used by 'illegal' file sharing networks..
There are no illegal networks, we have enough FUD as the MAFIAA cartels say they are illegal, we do not need the blogger community to call them that... and btw WTF is it with posting a blog entry as a story? when did Digg acquired slashdot?
How about 2 other reasons: First of all, the one that the news agency appearantly saw, i.e. that Google is "stealing" their content. Robots.txt
LoL *chuckle*... Everytime someone comes up with that "the search engine is stealing my content" thing I cant help but laugh really hard... this "web page" content stealing is akin to someone paying $10,000 to put one of these huge ads panels in the street containing their "content" and then bitching because people *can* see it.
If you do not want your content to be seen then for gods sake do not put it in the internet...
Hehe, I agree in some way with this sentiment... the last time I tried to use the CrystalSpace engine you had to compile it from source which meant hacking around with the code (it didnt compile in my Windows XP out of the box)... I got very frustrated and, after emailing to the guys in the mailing list asking for a precompiled binary (I just wanted to test the different capabilites and play with the available API) they told me to compile it and in other words told me "if you cant compile it then you are not worth of using it..." WTF??!!
Please correct me if I am wrong (which I am almost sure I am), but last time I had a look for all the Open Source game engines available they where focused on First Person Shooter type of games... I was doing a 3D puzzle game (sort of like Tetrisphere)... I ended up finishing it in raw OpenGL and SDL... although I would have liked to use an engine to easly add particle effects and other stuff...
I personally hope to find nice answers in this thread... also, from what I have seen in the Gamedev.net forums people over there do not like Open Source stuff... of course I saw some 2 years ago... things surely have changed by now.
Now those people get to see that all their work, their deaths, their commitment is for zip.
And I return to GP argument, it is *just* a fucking game. All your work/effort is worth nothing, ZIP, it is supposed to be entertaining and to let you spend hours of "fun". If it is frustrating you because of any sort of gameplay then just stop playing the darn thing and start playing another game of the same genre.
I used to like HP for Notebooks, I promoted Hp notebooks when my father/brother/mother bought theirs, and they bought them. After [HP-rant] being told to "buy a *new* windows XP disk after your disk crashed because Hp does not ship the rescue disks internationally and cant provide you one that is not from your same country" and after being pissed off because of the ati-broadcom-SDreader-etc-etc-etc Linux driver incompatibility AAAAaaand being unable to get a workstation PC via my Unversity (I bought it via HP.co.uk web page and it never got there... 2 months after that someone at my Department called and they said the Workstation was not available anymore) [/HP-rant]
I would really love to get one of those, seriously, Dell should make these babies available in the UK and Europe... isn't it true that Linux is more widely used over here than in the USA?? Also, Ubuntu parent company (Canonical) is a UK based company... just today I was doing the PC customization in Dell's page... sweet $600 for a PC is very good... too bad it is not available here:(
For quick annotating pages while browsing I use an extension called InterNote. It is part of the small details why I cant switch from Firefox to anOther PossiblE browseR Anyday.
This reminds me one of those toothpaste advertisements...
"Use the programming language that *your* IT guy uses"... "C".
So yeah, you might have PHP, Perl, Python, Cobra, Camel, Zancudo, Lisp, Boa and every other beasty programming language, but all of them are ultimately created using C.
Now, it is important to see that each of those are done for a specific purpose, and as such, C has its specific use and will continue to have in 30 years or more. The difference has been that of these languages (say Python, PHP, Ruby, etc) there are lots of alternative languages to do one thing, and this will make some of them less used than others, and hence few of them will "prevail". But there is no other language that can be used to do certain things you can do with C (Not even assembler as it does not have the "portability" of C), hence it is the *only* language to perform certain tasks.
I will have to agree with other people saying that PDF *is* the way to save web pages for future reference (i used to use MHT but it is propietary and you cant add notes).
For the annotations I would suggest the FoxIT PDF reader (free) and buy the Pro Pack [US$40 ](one of the few softwares I have found so useful and at good price to actually buy) which will allow you to add annotations and mark the text among other things.
I will use this post to ask if anyone knows of an open source alternative to this the ProPack that lets you add comments, marking and other basic editing features. I would think that is something *lot* of people want.
Uh that sounds a lot like the Prince of Persia "anti-pirate" feature which asked you to drink the bottle with the letter in: "Page 13, Line 4, Word 5, Letter 2", after ending the first level...
Nothing that a Hex editor operation in the.SAV file could not fix;-)
3) I went to a colloquium where a gentleman from wall street talked about options pricing and modeling said options in order to make money. He mentioned that today people with Physics, Math, and EE PhDs are in demand on wall street because they can do the complex math involved to model stock/options/commodities markets. (Interestingly, business oriented degrees such as finance and accounting are not considered for these type of jobs.)
Did you know that the most seminal Option Pricing model (Blach-Scholes) Is based on some physical phenomena (as Brownian motion)? Merton et al. where inspired by some physics research when they derived these formulae.
How can you suggest that a company which might have thousands of employees should let them train for such skill as Linux admin/setup "Empirically"? Empirical learning is OK for the mom-basement geeks which might just put their web server online. What are they going to do? are they going to give the guys 2 daily hours to mess around with some computers? uh, *great* use of time (and money).
I would definitely suggest getting some formal (read *real*) training. As others have stated in the thread, there are lots of Linux certification programs. What companies usually do (at least the ones I have been which does not have a lot of money to send 100 monkeys to learn about X or Y technology) is to choose 2 or 3 people and send them to take a course and certificate on the technology (some kind of Linux administrator cert. on http://www.lpi.org/ for example) and then arrange some time to let these guys teach the other people in your place. That way you will have a structured plan of learning.
Of course you may want to have practical sessions (to "try stuff and look online") but you will know what to try and look. I can just imagine a chemist going to the laboratory to "try stuff" in order to learn about the effects of nitroglycerin when combined with different reactants...
If you are a lone consultant, sure just google your way to get this new set of knowledge (of course do not get pissed of when the guy who has the Red Hat Certified Engineer cert. gets your job...). But for big companies, you'd better get real training (to justify the time/money you will be spending).
No, there is no way to do it. The/. community (Or if you want to put it this way, the Open Source community) is very heterogeneous. When you talk about a "slashdoter" you find from the mom-basement geek to the PhD in Chemical Engineering (or even professor), some of us are more interested in the actual funcitonality and see things as this as good, while others are more concerned with the philosophy and as such they do not like closed source drivers, etc. And yet others are interested in the capitalistic view of it and hence they see Open source just as somethng else (the Windows or Mac followers).
And then there are others who see computers just as big über-powered calculators which serve a specific purpose as tools and we do not care about following any kind of obscure beard-smelly guy cult. We just use the computer todo our job.
So no, there is no way you can make happy everyone, I would hope that your parents had taught you it is not possible to make everyone happy:) that is what compromises are all about, and that is what I believe Dell is doing here, it is a good start, which could have been done before but, for me, it is just another feature offered by a company, just that. It is like if Ford suddenly decided do add vibrating seats to their cars, cool, just another feature, nothing more, nothing less...
Does it play DVD videos? (both unencrypted and encrypted?) what did you do to make it play? was it easy? Does it Hibernate? does it return alive from hibernation? Does it sleep? (does it return alive from sleeping?) How long does the battery lasts? 1 hour? 2 hours? 4 hours?
Hi, I found your viewtouch app interesting, just a note about the demo page ( http://www.viewtouch.com/demo.html ). You can replace the Cygwin installation (which seems to be *very* overkill for what you want) for a simple Xming + putty install.
BTW I tried to run your demo and I kept getting connection timed out (maybe because I am in the UK).
Slashdot Mirror
I reserved and got a Wii on the launch date along with Zelda and Red Steel. I have also bought Monkey Ball, Excite Truck and Wii Play games. Currently, I am waiting for a good RPG... I was looking forward for the Dragon Quest game but so far there is no sign of it. I do not like the "mini games" as I have enough of them with Wii Play/Sports and MonkeyBall... also I do not have lots of people to play with... WHERE IS THE INTERNET PLAY!!! THIS IS 2007...
I got bored of my Wii... I am still waiting for a good game, the problem with consoles like this with so few games is that sometimes it is impossible to get a game you like if your "tastes" are not standard... Also, I do not have the £40 to spend on some wannabe game without testing... how am I suppose to see if I like that game? considering that these days, online reviews are less worthless...
You wont believe it... When I came to UK one of the things I aimed to do is to get some of the nice British Metal CD's... I thought they were going to be cheaper than in Mexico... but to my surprise, the cheapest you can find them is £7.00, and that is the cheapest online store. £7 ~= $150 Mexican Pesos, whereas in Mexico you can find them at $99 Mexican Pesos (£4.6). Talk about overpricing stuff uh?
Whatever the question, Windows is probably the wrong answer. The sole exception is a gamer who wants more than a Playstation/X-Box can offer.
Holly fuck, surely that is why Dell, HP, Gateway, Lanix, PC-World, Best Buy and even the guy in the corner PC shop keep offering Windows XP/Windows Vista machines... and not only that *drumrolls*.... people keep buying it...
If you haven't experienced a thin client or server hosted homes on a thick client you can't really understand the difference. In my world (with 100 total seats at six sites) a workstation can die and we don't care. We toss the spare out and get on with our work. NO inportant data lives on the clients even though ours still have the OS on a local HDD. .
In my University they have every document saved in RAID storage which is backed up every night. It is as possible and trivial to configure Windows and Linux to do it, it is also equally possible to make raw disk writing to replace hard disks... most people here use Windows XP, I use Fedora Core and it is equally easy.
But until you experience it and truly understand there is a better way than unreliable Dells running unstable Windows you won't be able to explain it to others..
Unreliable Dells?, Unstable Windows?, come on this is bullshit and you know it. What version of Windows are you using? ME? 98? The cliche that Windows is unstable is in the same level than the cliche that Linux is "not ready for the desktop". Linux zealots hate the later, but they keep trying to believe the former... its plain FUD.
To conclude answering your trollish rant, the Microsoft Windows OS family is aimed to certain population (90% of the whole population by the statistics), CentOS is aimed to other population and Ubuntu to yet another. As I have read again and again in here when someone wants to make kids like you enter in reason, when you grow up, you will understand that these operating systems are just *tools*, each one of those are useful for certain different tasks. Until then, you can get all sentimental with your sets of 0's and 1's which is what Windows and Linux are...
The rest of us? we just use what is needed for the work.
Prices for *everything* in the UK are outrageously higher than in continental Europe, USA and even Mexico. But I guess the main reason for that is because the government let corporations do these kind of things. It is so stupid that they do it *even* against their own companies. For another example see the Tesco vs Levi where Tesco (a Wal*Mart like supermarket) was importing Levi's jeans cheaper than the price they got from Levi's... guess what happened? Levi's sued and they where forced to buy directly from Levi's... at the highest price.
But hey, the guys over here are used to that, if you tell a Briton that they are getting raped with the prices they will have a *hard* time acknowledging it, they do not believe it as most of them have not traveled outside their island... and when they go to Spain they are surprised *how cheap* is it... they should look all around the world to see *how cheap* is everywhere, excepting of course their island.
monitor their children's actions/behavior. That's not to say that it should be 24/7, but the summary's implicit suggestion that "spying" on children is inappropriate displays a vast ignorance of/indifference to responsible parenting.
The keywords here are spying and monitor, and the confusion that exists on these. My personal opinion is that a parent/guardian cannot spy on their kids in the sense that it is usually given, which is "without consent", because the parents DO NOT need to get permission from children. What parents do is monitor their kids actions. And that is pretty normal AND I would love it was encouraged. When children (kids from 0 to 17.999 year old) are living with their parents, they are under the tutelage of their parents. They *must* abide to their rules and the ways things are done in their [PARENTS] home. It is up to the parents to give kids some independency, privacy and other "rights", depending on the trust that parents have gained from the kids.
There is nothing wrong with knowing where your child is. A child doesn't have the right to conceal their activities/whereabouts from his/her parents.
Exactly!
And suddenly, companies that need full fledged Computer Scientists or Software Engineers (instead of code monkeys) turn to India, China, Mexico or any other country to get them... not very far away, considering just some months ago I read a story about the lack of Computer Scientists in USA; and people here were asking themselves why was that, if there are *lots* of unemployed slashdoters
Yes, and my point is that tools like Eclipse, Visual Studio, XML libraries, GUI designers, etc. probably hurt programmer productivity. Their real benefit is to reduce the amount of training people need initially, but whether that is a good tradeoff overall is unclear; one highly skilled programmer may well be more productive and cost-effective overall than ten average programmers.
Not to be misunderstood: I do think there is a place for good tools to support working programmers, it's just that the tools that are widespread are mainly aimed at getting people "hooked" on them, not at supporting experienced professional programmers optimally.
I think you are misunderstanding the objective of the tools you are naming... they have been conceived to help developers in their work. It is not Microsoft's or Eclipse foundation (or the Gnome guys) that wannabe "code monkeys" play with their tools for 2 weeks and add them as a skill in their curriculum. Look at those tools as if they were carpenter tools like an electric drill or handsaw. They are conceived to make easier the work of the carpenter, but yo *do* need to *know* what you are doing. You can not say that they hurt the carpenters productivity because they incite people that do not know anything about woodworking to grab a DIY book and put an add on the newspaper...
uses peer-to-peer technology similar to that used by 'illegal' file sharing networks..
There are no illegal networks, we have enough FUD as the MAFIAA cartels say they are illegal, we do not need the blogger community to call them that... and btw WTF is it with posting a blog entry as a story? when did Digg acquired slashdot?
How about 2 other reasons: First of all, the one that the news agency appearantly saw, i.e. that Google is "stealing" their content.
Robots.txt
LoL *chuckle*... Everytime someone comes up with that "the search engine is stealing my content" thing I cant help but laugh really hard... this "web page" content stealing is akin to someone paying $10,000 to put one of these huge ads panels in the street containing their "content" and then bitching because people *can* see it.
If you do not want your content to be seen then for gods sake do not put it in the internet...
Hehe, I agree in some way with this sentiment... the last time I tried to use the CrystalSpace engine you had to compile it from source which meant hacking around with the code (it didnt compile in my Windows XP out of the box)... I got very frustrated and, after emailing to the guys in the mailing list asking for a precompiled binary (I just wanted to test the different capabilites and play with the available API) they told me to compile it and in other words told me "if you cant compile it then you are not worth of using it..." WTF??!!
Please correct me if I am wrong (which I am almost sure I am), but last time I had a look for all the Open Source game engines available they where focused on First Person Shooter type of games... I was doing a 3D puzzle game (sort of like Tetrisphere)... I ended up finishing it in raw OpenGL and SDL... although I would have liked to use an engine to easly add particle effects and other stuff...
I personally hope to find nice answers in this thread... also, from what I have seen in the Gamedev.net forums people over there do not like Open Source stuff... of course I saw some 2 years ago... things surely have changed by now.
Now those people get to see that all their work, their deaths, their commitment is for zip.
And I return to GP argument, it is *just* a fucking game. All your work/effort is worth nothing, ZIP, it is supposed to be entertaining and to let you spend hours of "fun". If it is frustrating you because of any sort of gameplay then just stop playing the darn thing and start playing another game of the same genre.
"Mum, theres a *huge* hairy hole in the living room wall..."
I used to like HP for Notebooks, I promoted Hp notebooks when my father/brother/mother bought theirs, and they bought them. After
:(
[HP-rant]
being told to "buy a *new* windows XP disk after your disk crashed because Hp does not ship the rescue disks internationally and cant provide you one that is not from your same country" and after being pissed off because of the ati-broadcom-SDreader-etc-etc-etc Linux driver incompatibility AAAAaaand being unable to get a workstation PC via my Unversity (I bought it via HP.co.uk web page and it never got there... 2 months after that someone at my Department called and they said the Workstation was not available anymore)
[/HP-rant]
I would really love to get one of those, seriously, Dell should make these babies available in the UK and Europe... isn't it true that Linux is more widely used over here than in the USA?? Also, Ubuntu parent company (Canonical) is a UK based company... just today I was doing the PC customization in Dell's page... sweet $600 for a PC is very good... too bad it is not available here
For quick annotating pages while browsing I use an extension called InterNote. It is part of the small details why I cant switch from Firefox to anOther PossiblE browseR Anyday.
This reminds me one of those toothpaste advertisements...
"Use the programming language that *your* IT guy uses"... "C".
So yeah, you might have PHP, Perl, Python, Cobra, Camel, Zancudo, Lisp, Boa and every other beasty programming language, but all of them are ultimately created using C.
Now, it is important to see that each of those are done for a specific purpose, and as such, C has its specific use and will continue to have in 30 years or more. The difference has been that of these languages (say Python, PHP, Ruby, etc) there are lots of alternative languages to do one thing, and this will make some of them less used than others, and hence few of them will "prevail". But there is no other language that can be used to do certain things you can do with C (Not even assembler as it does not have the "portability" of C), hence it is the *only* language to perform certain tasks.
I will have to agree with other people saying that PDF *is* the way to save web pages for future reference (i used to use MHT but it is propietary and you cant add notes).
For the annotations I would suggest the FoxIT PDF reader (free) and buy the Pro Pack [US$40 ](one of the few softwares I have found so useful and at good price to actually buy) which will allow you to add annotations and mark the text among other things.
I will use this post to ask if anyone knows of an open source alternative to this the ProPack that lets you add comments, marking and other basic editing features. I would think that is something *lot* of people want.
Uh that sounds a lot like the Prince of Persia "anti-pirate" feature which asked you to drink the bottle with the letter in:
.SAV file could not fix ;-)
"Page 13, Line 4, Word 5, Letter 2", after ending the first level...
Nothing that a Hex editor operation in the
I would go for the Atari Paddles; intuitive controls with just one "fire" button. Even my granma could play games with that.
;-)).
Just compare the simplicity of that with current joysticks (Like this
3) I went to a colloquium where a gentleman from wall street talked about options pricing and modeling said options in order to make money. He mentioned that today people with Physics, Math, and EE PhDs are in demand on wall street because they can do the complex math involved to model stock/options/commodities markets. (Interestingly, business oriented degrees such as finance and accounting are not considered for these type of jobs.)
Did you know that the most seminal Option Pricing model (Blach-Scholes) Is based on some physical phenomena (as Brownian motion)? Merton et al. where inspired by some physics research when they derived these formulae.
How can you suggest that a company which might have thousands of employees should let them train for such skill as Linux admin/setup "Empirically"? Empirical learning is OK for the mom-basement geeks which might just put their web server online. What are they going to do? are they going to give the guys 2 daily hours to mess around with some computers? uh, *great* use of time (and money).
I would definitely suggest getting some formal (read *real*) training. As others have stated in the thread, there are lots of Linux certification programs. What companies usually do (at least the ones I have been which does not have a lot of money to send 100 monkeys to learn about X or Y technology) is to choose 2 or 3 people and send them to take a course and certificate on the technology (some kind of Linux administrator cert. on http://www.lpi.org/ for example) and then arrange some time to let these guys teach the other people in your place. That way you will have a structured plan of learning.
Of course you may want to have practical sessions (to "try stuff and look online") but you will know what to try and look. I can just imagine a chemist going to the laboratory to "try stuff" in order to learn about the effects of nitroglycerin when combined with different reactants...
If you are a lone consultant, sure just google your way to get this new set of knowledge (of course do not get pissed of when the guy who has the Red Hat Certified Engineer cert. gets your job...). But for big companies, you'd better get real training (to justify the time/money you will be spending).
using restricted-mode execution by default and access by signed digital certificates.
Yeah, similarly on how signed extensions would make firefox safer??
I have yet to se 1 (ONE) signed firefox extension...
No, there is no way to do it. The /. community (Or if you want to put it this way, the Open Source community) is very heterogeneous. When you talk about a "slashdoter" you find from the mom-basement geek to the PhD in Chemical Engineering (or even professor), some of us are more interested in the actual funcitonality and see things as this as good, while others are more concerned with the philosophy and as such they do not like closed source drivers, etc. And yet others are interested in the capitalistic view of it and hence they see Open source just as somethng else (the Windows or Mac followers).
:) that is what compromises are all about, and that is what I believe Dell is doing here, it is a good start, which could have been done before but, for me, it is just another feature offered by a company, just that. It is like if Ford suddenly decided do add vibrating seats to their cars, cool, just another feature, nothing more, nothing less...
And then there are others who see computers just as big über-powered calculators which serve a specific purpose as tools and we do not care about following any kind of obscure beard-smelly guy cult. We just use the computer todo our job.
So no, there is no way you can make happy everyone, I would hope that your parents had taught you it is not possible to make everyone happy
I'm not sure what else anyone can want.
Does it play DVD videos? (both unencrypted and encrypted?) what did you do to make it play? was it easy?
Does it Hibernate? does it return alive from hibernation?
Does it sleep? (does it return alive from sleeping?)
How long does the battery lasts? 1 hour? 2 hours? 4 hours?
Hi, I found your viewtouch app interesting, just a note about the demo page ( http://www.viewtouch.com/demo.html ). You can replace the Cygwin installation (which seems to be *very* overkill for what you want) for a simple Xming + putty install.
BTW I tried to run your demo and I kept getting connection timed out (maybe because I am in the UK).
Cheers.