Try running Firefox or Mozilla on a Pentium 166, or even less. It is slow as molasses. This has nothing to do with Gecko (which is super fast), but the XUL GUI. It is just too slow for these older machines.
Browsers with native toolkits, like K-Meleon or Galeon or Epiphany, fill this void. They use the excellent Mozilla rendering engine with fast, native widgets.
Don't feel too bad - despite what it may seem like on/., many others are in the same boat.
But just ask them what their power bill and rent payments are. Or how much they pay for meat.
People in smaller cities generally make less, but they generally also have less expenses. I live in a small area, and compared to people I know who live in a large city, I make only 60% of their salary.
Then again, I own a 3 bedroom house, and my mortgage payments are less than 1/2 of what they pay on their 2 bedroom apartment.
It is not so bad - you can't judge your progress in life by your salary alone. There are many factors to consider before moving to a larger job market. Real estate prices, food prices, traffic, pollution, privacy, and manners, all come at a premium in a big city. Then again, in a small city, you often need to wait a bit longer to get new products and services.
Your analogy doesn't hold at all to what the quote says.
If you want to stick with the auto analogies, it would be more like saying an 18 wheeler will perform better with 17 tires than 18 tires, one of which is over inflated.
It is all in your head. I really suggest you read up more on this issue (on *informed* sources, not gossip) if you are truely worried about it.
See this source for example (emphasis mine):
"The dose to a person in the United States from working on a CRT for a year is less than a few mrem, which is about 1/10 of the dose from a chest x ray, or about the same amount you get in one day from natural radiation."
None os this has anything to do with "giving a man his due".
If Stan Lee was just a normal guy, paid to do a 9-5 job, and came up with some invention on company time, told his boss to get brownie points, and they never gave him any money, then screw him. He was doing a job he was paid for. I certainly do not sympathize with these whiny babies at all - I certainly do not expect a huge portion of the company's profits for the software I write.
The article clearly states that Lee had a clause ***in his contract*** that said he gets 10 percent. The very fact that Marvel fought him on this is immoral IMO. The contract says what it says - pay up Marvel.
I work in an office of some 30-40 people. We are just all smart people:P You can cut some things back, but not testing. It would be better to cut back on developer's machines than to have a sub-standard testing environment that doesn't match production.
Improper testing and QA procedures is a major cause of failure for startups. Your product needs to be *rock solid*. In order to do this, you should **always** be running QA testing on your target platform. Anything else could lead to improper assumptions, which in turn could lead to lost sales, and eventual failure of the company.
It's common knowledge that the development environment should be the same as the test environment which should mimic the production environment whenever possible.
This is quite mixed up.
The test environment should always be *identical* to the production environment, in all aspects where it is feasably possible. Running tests in an environment that is in any way significantly different than your production environment is basically a waste of time and can lead to huge amounts of unforseen holes in the software.
Assuming the above, the development environment should then be *as close* to the test environment as is reasonable. However, this difference is always going to be somewhat substantial, since you are going to have development/debug copies of libraries, development software, probably more CPU/Ram/Disk on the box, etc. The important thing to remember is that the closer the development environment is to the test environment, the easier it will be for you to find, reproduce, and fix any problems that come up during testing.
I'm currently working on a project where we develop on Dell, test on IBM, and the production system is up in the air
To me, this sounds like a disaster in the making. I would really go straight to your manager and tell him that testing and production really *have* to be identical, or at least reasonably close. If they refuse to give you the resources, I would just reply that you can not not guarentee the testing, and save that email thread. If it impacts the timeline, or the project fails, at least you have an "out".
There is no way I would stand behind testing done on a totally different machine than the target platform.
They just need to make it inconvient enough to not be worht he hassle.
If you can pay two or three bucks to download a legit copy of the movie via a blistering fast pipe with easy-to-use, supported software, why would you bother leeching a pirated copy off IRC, at half the speed, then spending 20 minues unraring it, when you don't even know if what you are going to get is decent quality?
Some people will keep pirating, sure. But mom + pop won't bother, it is not worth the hassle.
All the ??AA groups want is to set the price point right, and make it difficult enough that it is just not worth pirating anymore for the majority of people. Then, they win.
Er.. cable monopoly? On what? Last I checked there was a myriad of satelite TV services that are competition to cable, both for television and for video on demand. Then you have the movie rental outlets, the dirt-cheap online DVD stores..
Trust me, there is plenty of competition in the home video market.
Seriously - the iPod is an OK device, but it is not *that* much better than your average MP3 player. Not better enought o justify the sales. The iPods aren't flying off the shelves because they are pretty or because they are easy to use. There are thousands of products that meet this criteria that fail every year.
They are flying off the shelves because of the nifty commercials with shadows dancing to Jet. They are flying off the shelves because U2 says to buy one. They are flying off the shelves because ther are in every second music video on MTV. They are flying off the shelves because they are featured in many major motion pictures. They are lfying off the shelves because teeny bop star X had one at the AMAs.
As usual - Apple's marketing as ruled the day. Unless creative can duplicate this marketing magic (I doubt it), they will fail.
I wish/.ers gave more credit to marketing. Sure, you may hate them, but in the majority of cases (there are exceptions - Google, eBay), it is marketing, and marketing alone that makes a product succeed or fail.
I mean, according to this, that means that someone could put a fancy legal document under a manhole cover saying "if you drive over this manhole, you agree to such and such".
It's about the same thing - you never saw the agreement, so how could you have ever agreed to it? Surely they can't argue that a software program can enter into a legally binding agreement on its own - that would open up a whole other can of worms.
Akgregator uses KNotify, so it has the exact same notifications as every other KDE app under the sun.
Namely, it can and will do any combination of: - Log the event to a file - Play a sound - Flash the taskbar entry - Show a corner popup next to the system tray for 2-3 seconds - Pop-up an alert-type dialog that grabs attention - Execute any program or script you see fit to give it
.. the applications that require 3D (mostly games, some 3D apps), and the portions of the OS that will make use of the 3D capabilities (menus, translucent background windows) will never be in use at the same time.
That type of function has nothing at all todo with DBUS in its current state. You should be looking into hotplug. My stock Gentoo install, which I have hardly tweaked at all, automagically mounts and unmounts my USB drive, no problems whatsoever.
I can start a compile of kdelibs, kdebase, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdegraphics, and kdeoffice, on my modest XP 1800, let it run overnight, and I have a new desktop in the morning.
It is called *multitasking*. You can do other things with the computer while it is compiling you know.
Bluefish looks really nice - just the ticket for a Windows user I was recently going to introduce to web development. I was wondering if anyone has managed to build it to a.EXE? Is this possible?
I totally disagree, and I think it is you who needs a course on interface design. . Because in a web application, the user is not using a browser. They are not surfing a web site. They are using an application. The platform the application is running on (the browser), is irrelevant.
For example - I have a web application that presents a list view of items. Looks nearly exactly like a standard windows list view widget. Suppose I right-click on an item. What does the user expect here? Surely not a popup that says "Back", "Reload" etc - I right-clicked on the list item - the context is the list item. Therefore the context menu should reflect actions that can be performed on that item.
There is a reason it is called the context menu - because it is supposed to be context sensitive. When the context is no longer web browsing, the developer should be able to provide a new menu.
HTML is not just the WWW anymore. I need to capture context menu events in web applications I work on *all the time*. Thankfully, both Mozilla and Safari implement IE's contextmenu event, so the apps can be cross-platform in this respect.
Try thinking out of the box - there are a lot more applications that run on the browser nowadays than websites. The browser is now a platform. The W3C is not adapting to that reality quickly enough.
When you compare the standard W3C Dom to the one implimented by IE (and partially by Mozilla), you will find that the standard is sorely lacking.
Properties such as offset(Left|Top|Height|Width) to discover the rendered position of an element are non-existant. The ability to capture context menu events is non-existant. And don't even get me started on the event model.
People may hate how IE co-opted everything, but their DOM APIs are one thing MS got *right* - the IE DOM API is far more flexable and powerful than the W3C standard.
That has nothing at all to do with the subject matter the book is about. The basic concepts that these intro to data comm. textbooks cover have not changed since the 60's.
I wish this had been availlable 4 years ago while I was still in University, it would have saved me $70.
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Try running Firefox or Mozilla on a Pentium 166, or even less. It is slow as molasses. This has nothing to do with Gecko (which is super fast), but the XUL GUI. It is just too slow for these older machines.
Browsers with native toolkits, like K-Meleon or Galeon or Epiphany, fill this void. They use the excellent Mozilla rendering engine with fast, native widgets.
It's when the money was made.
Stan was smart and signed this before the Spiderman and XMen franchises took off. He will earn a bundle for this.
Don't feel too bad - despite what it may seem like on /., many others are in the same boat.
But just ask them what their power bill and rent payments are. Or how much they pay for meat.
People in smaller cities generally make less, but they generally also have less expenses. I live in a small area, and compared to people I know who live in a large city, I make only 60% of their salary.
Then again, I own a 3 bedroom house, and my mortgage payments are less than 1/2 of what they pay on their 2 bedroom apartment.
It is not so bad - you can't judge your progress in life by your salary alone. There are many factors to consider before moving to a larger job market. Real estate prices, food prices, traffic, pollution, privacy, and manners, all come at a premium in a big city. Then again, in a small city, you often need to wait a bit longer to get new products and services.
It is all a tradeoff.
Your analogy doesn't hold at all to what the quote says.
If you want to stick with the auto analogies, it would be more like saying an 18 wheeler will perform better with 17 tires than 18 tires, one of which is over inflated.
It is all in your head. I really suggest you read up more on this issue (on *informed* sources, not gossip) if you are truely worried about it.
See this source for example (emphasis mine):
"The dose to a person in the United States from working on a CRT for a year is less than a few mrem, which is about 1/10 of the dose from a chest x ray, or about the same amount you get in one day from natural radiation."
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q1046.html
None os this has anything to do with "giving a man his due".
If Stan Lee was just a normal guy, paid to do a 9-5 job, and came up with some invention on company time, told his boss to get brownie points, and they never gave him any money, then screw him. He was doing a job he was paid for. I certainly do not sympathize with these whiny babies at all - I certainly do not expect a huge portion of the company's profits for the software I write.
The article clearly states that Lee had a clause ***in his contract*** that said he gets 10 percent. The very fact that Marvel fought him on this is immoral IMO. The contract says what it says - pay up Marvel.
I work in an office of some 30-40 people. We are just all smart people :P You can cut some things back, but not testing. It would be better to cut back on developer's machines than to have a sub-standard testing environment that doesn't match production.
Improper testing and QA procedures is a major cause of failure for startups. Your product needs to be *rock solid*. In order to do this, you should **always** be running QA testing on your target platform. Anything else could lead to improper assumptions, which in turn could lead to lost sales, and eventual failure of the company.
It's common knowledge that the development environment should be the same as the test environment which should mimic the production environment whenever possible.
This is quite mixed up.
The test environment should always be *identical* to the production environment, in all aspects where it is feasably possible. Running tests in an environment that is in any way significantly different than your production environment is basically a waste of time and can lead to huge amounts of unforseen holes in the software.
Assuming the above, the development environment should then be *as close* to the test environment as is reasonable. However, this difference is always going to be somewhat substantial, since you are going to have development/debug copies of libraries, development software, probably more CPU/Ram/Disk on the box, etc. The important thing to remember is that the closer the development environment is to the test environment, the easier it will be for you to find, reproduce, and fix any problems that come up during testing.
I'm currently working on a project where we develop on Dell, test on IBM, and the production system is up in the air
To me, this sounds like a disaster in the making. I would really go straight to your manager and tell him that testing and production really *have* to be identical, or at least reasonably close. If they refuse to give you the resources, I would just reply that you can not not guarentee the testing, and save that email thread. If it impacts the timeline, or the project fails, at least you have an "out".
There is no way I would stand behind testing done on a totally different machine than the target platform.
Such as sync your address book and calendar with the phone. This feature alone more than pays for the cable in time saved IMO.
You can also use them to upload free Java games and applications, without paying $$$ to your provider.
They just need to make it inconvient enough to not be worht he hassle.
If you can pay two or three bucks to download a legit copy of the movie via a blistering fast pipe with easy-to-use, supported software, why would you bother leeching a pirated copy off IRC, at half the speed, then spending 20 minues unraring it, when you don't even know if what you are going to get is decent quality?
Some people will keep pirating, sure. But mom + pop won't bother, it is not worth the hassle.
All the ??AA groups want is to set the price point right, and make it difficult enough that it is just not worth pirating anymore for the majority of people. Then, they win.
Er.. cable monopoly? On what? Last I checked there was a myriad of satelite TV services that are competition to cable, both for television and for video on demand. Then you have the movie rental outlets, the dirt-cheap online DVD stores..
Trust me, there is plenty of competition in the home video market.
.. or French-Canadian films :)
Seriously - the iPod is an OK device, but it is not *that* much better than your average MP3 player. Not better enought o justify the sales. The iPods aren't flying off the shelves because they are pretty or because they are easy to use. There are thousands of products that meet this criteria that fail every year.
/.ers gave more credit to marketing. Sure, you may hate them, but in the majority of cases (there are exceptions - Google, eBay), it is marketing, and marketing alone that makes a product succeed or fail.
They are flying off the shelves because of the nifty commercials with shadows dancing to Jet. They are flying off the shelves because U2 says to buy one. They are flying off the shelves because ther are in every second music video on MTV. They are flying off the shelves because they are featured in many major motion pictures. They are lfying off the shelves because teeny bop star X had one at the AMAs.
As usual - Apple's marketing as ruled the day. Unless creative can duplicate this marketing magic (I doubt it), they will fail.
I wish
I smell BS in this article.
I mean, according to this, that means that someone could put a fancy legal document under a manhole cover saying "if you drive over this manhole, you agree to such and such".
It's about the same thing - you never saw the agreement, so how could you have ever agreed to it? Surely they can't argue that a software program can enter into a legally binding agreement on its own - that would open up a whole other can of worms.
The list is linked to right in it
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/bots_and_servers.ph p
Akgregator uses KNotify, so it has the exact same notifications as every other KDE app under the sun.
Namely, it can and will do any combination of:
- Log the event to a file
- Play a sound
- Flash the taskbar entry
- Show a corner popup next to the system tray for 2-3 seconds
- Pop-up an alert-type dialog that grabs attention
- Execute any program or script you see fit to give it
.. the applications that require 3D (mostly games, some 3D apps), and the portions of the OS that will make use of the 3D capabilities (menus, translucent background windows) will never be in use at the same time.
That type of function has nothing at all todo with DBUS in its current state. You should be looking into hotplug. My stock Gentoo install, which I have hardly tweaked at all, automagically mounts and unmounts my USB drive, no problems whatsoever.
I can start a compile of kdelibs, kdebase, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdegraphics, and kdeoffice, on my modest XP 1800, let it run overnight, and I have a new desktop in the morning.
It is called *multitasking*. You can do other things with the computer while it is compiling you know.
Bluefish looks really nice - just the ticket for a Windows user I was recently going to introduce to web development. I was wondering if anyone has managed to build it to a .EXE? Is this possible?
I totally disagree, and I think it is you who needs a course on interface design. . Because in a web application, the user is not using a browser. They are not surfing a web site. They are using an application. The platform the application is running on (the browser), is irrelevant.
For example - I have a web application that presents a list view of items. Looks nearly exactly like a standard windows list view widget. Suppose I right-click on an item. What does the user expect here? Surely not a popup that says "Back", "Reload" etc - I right-clicked on the list item - the context is the list item. Therefore the context menu should reflect actions that can be performed on that item.
There is a reason it is called the context menu - because it is supposed to be context sensitive. When the context is no longer web browsing, the developer should be able to provide a new menu.
Nonsense.
HTML is not just the WWW anymore. I need to capture context menu events in web applications I work on *all the time*. Thankfully, both Mozilla and Safari implement IE's contextmenu event, so the apps can be cross-platform in this respect.
Try thinking out of the box - there are a lot more applications that run on the browser nowadays than websites. The browser is now a platform. The W3C is not adapting to that reality quickly enough.
When you compare the standard W3C Dom to the one implimented by IE (and partially by Mozilla), you will find that the standard is sorely lacking.
Properties such as offset(Left|Top|Height|Width) to discover the rendered position of an element are non-existant. The ability to capture context menu events is non-existant. And don't even get me started on the event model.
People may hate how IE co-opted everything, but their DOM APIs are one thing MS got *right* - the IE DOM API is far more flexable and powerful than the W3C standard.
That has nothing at all to do with the subject matter the book is about. The basic concepts that these intro to data comm. textbooks cover have not changed since the 60's.
I wish this had been availlable 4 years ago while I was still in University, it would have saved me $70.
Umm....let's see how hard it is to figure out who is running an AP.
Step 1. Get laptop or $20 Wifi strength meter.
Step 2. Walk around.
Step 3. Use publicly available sources to find out who lives there
And if you really think someone gives a shit if you like LOTR, I think you need a bigger tinfoil hat buddy.