It's not only the Opera part(the actuall number does not matter), you also have the big lumps they call IE and Mozilla.Basicly the measurment are incorrect in several ways. Whats in those two categories, everything with IE or Mozilla in the UA string? Opera's data are fairly accurate, baring user who spoof the user agent string. Mozilla are clearly not correct, taking all the different browsers using Gecko and the like. Another example are Konqueror who by default says, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.89 (like Gecko), do they lump it in with Mozilla too?
I wonder why they have manipulated the statistics like that. They split Opera into different versions and systems, while not doing the same for IE and "Mozilla". In the case of Mozilla it's even worse, the lack of Firefox suggest they lump all Gecko based browsers together as Mozilla. Besides where are Konqueror and Safari?
>If you force people to pay money to make software based on what is touted as a free
>software platform, you are in the wrong line of culture.
You are rather clueless are you not, since you only make people who don't belong to the "culture" pay for making non free software. If you make free software it's free, if not you have to pay. And that's free as in freedom not gratis, as some clueless people like you think.
When you have such big mistakes in your "article" it's really hard to take it seriously and it makes one mistrust the rest of the content and your conclusions, since your research are lacking. Your big mistake: the QPL are an Open Source license, approved by OSI and generally free. In short form QPL are the license you use on Qt when writing open source software not licensed under the GPL.
>How do you know they're usability experts?
In the case of OpenUsability.org the initiators of the site are professionals, making their living of their usability company. It may mark them as experts:-)
But the easiest way to verify actual usability experts are by comparing their statements to the usuall comments about usability you find on OSNews. If they match, they are NOT usability experts only whiners and it's best to ignore them.
>"Buy our great product for a lot of money. By the way, it is almost identical to this other >thing that you can download for absolutely free from another website."
Why not? It works great for both CodeWeavers and TransGaming.
That's not entirely correct, there are NO issues with it for either commercial or non-commercial software as long as such software are open source. For non GPL open source software you use the QPL version of Qt.
Verify you got something like kdegraphichs-ksvg installed. And make sure in settings->configure Konqueror the file association for svg are set to embedding in ksvgplugin.
As you say the electronics degree are the equivalent of the CS. Since lots of skills you learn when getting the degree actually are transferable one often come across people who change their field after completing their degree. Many ends up in the crossover areas, but some change completely. And almost always the change are from EE to CS, not the other way. I'd guess the reason for this are the CS are easier to pick up on your own. Gettin a few books, a computer and some sw, and you are set. Setting up an electronics lab with instruments and other equipment are on the other hand not cheap.
I rather thing one should base such choices of what one find most rewarding, based on personall interests and intellectually challenges. Not on for the promise of easy job market or the biggest paychecks. And given that people with real interested in their craft nearly always becomes highly skilled, and they usually don't have problems with getting the jobs they want.
You have to base such things on personal preferences. If you choose pure software, very likely will end up coding business applications and databases. If you find that interresting go for it. On the other hand, if you add some hardware based skills You may end up doing development in the embedded space, where there a virtually no limits to the types of project you may do.
If the patches are nice it's even possible they get backported and get released with KDE 3.4.2, even.1 if they are super clean and the developers have time:-)
I don't think the Timothy Zahn trilogy are suited for a TV series. Think the x-wing series are much better choice. Not so much the novels, but starting with the stories from the comic books. I think they are much better suited for TV addoption, the Zahn books are more like movie material.
The worst part are going to be the temperature. The weather in Oslo (where opera HC are) have been rather nice the last week, with high temperatures around 15C. But still cold by night, downwards to 2-3C. So you can say it's not summer yet, and not weather to recommend a nice swim. Guess the water temperature are something like 4C or thereabouts:-)
It can get worse. Try having one of the PHB drop by when you're working/debugging on one, in table view(Used Access in this case). And then having him on later project meetings constantly referring to it as "excel sheets". It gets rather hard do convince the management to give resources for further development/bug fixing for those excel sheets, as they never need such for their own.
>It is the bad math that costs money.
Wrong, it's not bad math it's wrong use of math. It's more the case of using wrong models to solve problems.
>fewer mistakes are made with spreadsheets
That should read, more mistakes are made faster with spreadsheets. Take a simple example like a spreadsheet to calculate the cost of some project. Lots of places they use a template, filling in some values and the spreadsheet does the rest. Small mistakes in the template can become seriously expensive when all is accumulated.
That has to be it, a reasonable explanation. Not like it is related to Apples more modular design allowing them to make incremental changes in a safe way, not needing to rebuild the whole OS each time.
You are not serious stating that userbase has any effect on development time? How are that suppose to work? In what way does number of customers affect development time?
>have a nice attitude, they don't take themselves too seriously.
Corporate culture in Norway are very different from what people are used to from Amercan companies.
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No, an iBook does not cut it.
Price of iBook - price of Mini+battery
Size of iBook - size of Mini
QED
>and the request for an injunction was just for the fun of it. And the timing, just in front of a major product release was purely accidental.
It's not only the Opera part(the actuall number does not matter), you also have the big lumps they call IE and Mozilla.Basicly the measurment are incorrect in several ways. Whats in those two categories, everything with IE or Mozilla in the UA string? Opera's data are fairly accurate, baring user who spoof the user agent string. Mozilla are clearly not correct, taking all the different browsers using Gecko and the like. Another example are Konqueror who by default says, Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.89 (like Gecko), do they lump it in with Mozilla too?
Nope, you'r not alone:-)
I wonder why they have manipulated the statistics like that. They split Opera into different versions and systems, while not doing the same for IE and "Mozilla". In the case of Mozilla it's even worse, the lack of Firefox suggest they lump all Gecko based browsers together as Mozilla. Besides where are Konqueror and Safari?
>If you force people to pay money to make software based on what is touted as a free
>software platform, you are in the wrong line of culture.
You are rather clueless are you not, since you only make people who don't belong to the "culture" pay for making non free software. If you make free software it's free, if not you have to pay. And that's free as in freedom not gratis, as some clueless people like you think.
When you have such big mistakes in your "article" it's really hard to take it seriously and it makes one mistrust the rest of the content and your conclusions, since your research are lacking. Your big mistake: the QPL are an Open Source license, approved by OSI and generally free. In short form QPL are the license you use on Qt when writing open source software not licensed under the GPL.
>How do you know they're usability experts?
In the case of OpenUsability.org the initiators of the site are professionals, making their living of their usability company. It may mark them as experts:-)
But the easiest way to verify actual usability experts are by comparing their statements to the usuall comments about usability you find on OSNews. If they match, they are NOT usability experts only whiners and it's best to ignore them.
Since compilers are one of Borlands core products, I think they very much care.
>"Buy our great product for a lot of money. By the way, it is almost identical to this other
>thing that you can download for absolutely free from another website."
Why not? It works great for both CodeWeavers and TransGaming.
That's not entirely correct, there are NO issues with it for either commercial or non-commercial software as long as such software are open source. For non GPL open source software you use the QPL version of Qt.
Verify you got something like kdegraphichs-ksvg installed. And make sure in settings->configure Konqueror the file association for svg are set to embedding in ksvgplugin.
As you say the electronics degree are the equivalent of the CS. Since lots of skills you learn when getting the degree actually are transferable one often come across people who change their field after completing their degree. Many ends up in the crossover areas, but some change completely. And almost always the change are from EE to CS, not the other way. I'd guess the reason for this are the CS are easier to pick up on your own. Gettin a few books, a computer and some sw, and you are set. Setting up an electronics lab with instruments and other equipment are on the other hand not cheap.
I rather thing one should base such choices of what one find most rewarding, based on personall interests and intellectually challenges. Not on for the promise of easy job market or the biggest paychecks. And given that people with real interested in their craft nearly always becomes highly skilled, and they usually don't have problems with getting the jobs they want.
You have to base such things on personal preferences. If you choose pure software, very likely will end up coding business applications and databases. If you find that interresting go for it. On the other hand, if you add some hardware based skills You may end up doing development in the embedded space, where there a virtually no limits to the types of project you may do.
I'd say it's smarter to stop wasting time downloading, and just steal your DVDs in shops. Afterall the punishment for shoplifting are much lower.
If the patches are nice it's even possible they get backported and get released with KDE 3.4.2, even .1 if they are super clean and the developers have time:-)
Better to chose the x-wing series, lots of action and none of the main SW characters in any leading part.
I don't think the Timothy Zahn trilogy are suited for a TV series. Think the x-wing series are much better choice. Not so much the novels, but starting with the stories from the comic books. I think they are much better suited for TV addoption, the Zahn books are more like movie material.
Simple it's on the same page as the Car, Inc address, you have to read your phone book more carefully.
The worst part are going to be the temperature. The weather in Oslo (where opera HC are) have been rather nice the last week, with high temperatures around 15C. But still cold by night, downwards to 2-3C. So you can say it's not summer yet, and not weather to recommend a nice swim. Guess the water temperature are something like 4C or thereabouts:-)
It can get worse. Try having one of the PHB drop by when you're working/debugging on one, in table view(Used Access in this case). And then having him on later project meetings constantly referring to it as "excel sheets". It gets rather hard do convince the management to give resources for further development/bug fixing for those excel sheets, as they never need such for their own.
>It is the bad math that costs money.
Wrong, it's not bad math it's wrong use of math. It's more the case of using wrong models to solve problems.
>fewer mistakes are made with spreadsheets
That should read, more mistakes are made faster with spreadsheets. Take a simple example like a spreadsheet to calculate the cost of some project. Lots of places they use a template, filling in some values and the spreadsheet does the rest. Small mistakes in the template can become seriously expensive when all is accumulated.
They ship more computers than Dell and have higher profit margins per unit shipped, I'd say Jobs has more than enough reasons to comment.
That has to be it, a reasonable explanation. Not like it is related to Apples more modular design allowing them to make incremental changes in a safe way, not needing to rebuild the whole OS each time.
You are not serious stating that userbase has any effect on development time? How are that suppose to work? In what way does number of customers affect development time?
>have a nice attitude, they don't take themselves too seriously.
Corporate culture in Norway are very different from what people are used to from Amercan companies.