Can you tell me under Linux how I go about installing that second monitor using YAST or another graphic wizard?
If I'm not mistaken NVidia provides an app to configure your displays in X. Check NVidia's website where you downloaded the drivers from. It's been a while, but from what I remember all you do is plug in the second display, run the app as root, and point and click the appropriate configuration options.
Note the caveat here is that whatever X desktop you're using has to support multiple displays.
Actually many highly competent developers write great code that is completely non-portable. It's called Direct-X which is in no way shape or form portable to another platform (without reimplementing the entire API on the target platform).
It has zero to do with programmer competency and everything to do with API choices. If your game is programmatically tied to Windows, odds are it will not be ported.
Personally I think this is a stupid move by developers, but that's just me.
The similarities in A Call to Arms and Legend of the Rangers suggest to me that the man has a massive story thought out; one which probably would last another 5 seasons and which he would like to tell us eagerly.
Actually, there's AT LEAST 5 seasons of story done. Crusade was supposed to be a five year story arc.
Then there's the plot introduced in Legend of the Rangers.
Personally, I just hope they get into how powerful Galen actually is. Read the techno mage novels and you'll see what I mean. The books also made some of his comments in Crusade much more amusing as well.
Interesting. I had preloaded over Steam a while ago. I got home last night and started the unlock process at ~6:40PM. I was playing the game by 7:00PM.
And for those that wonder, yes it is worth the wait =)
Yes, this has been on slashdot before. It's a technology that was developed a LONG time ago and still has never seen a commercial application. The company that holds the patents is a shell corporation that issues press releases every few years but never quite seems to deliver a commercial product.
There is actually a good book that documents the development and what has become of it... wish I could remember the title;-)
Didn't we have a similiar scare about 15 years ago with the auto industry and everyone thought that auto-workers' jobs would go overseas? Hasn't happened yet.
Yup. You know the difference? There are major import taxes on cars coming in to the country from overseas. That's why if you're driving a Honda it was built in the US. It's also why if you're driving a VW there's a 90% chance it was built in the US. The government saw a major industry that was being hurt by foreign competition and took measures to stop it.
The difference here is that the software industry is being hurt by offshoring and the government is encouraging it with tax breaks for companies moving development overseas. We are losing high paying jobs and telling highly educated people that the solution is to go back to college.
The only light at the end of this tunnel is that most companies are discovering that offshore development is more of a PITA than it's worth. I know a guy that actually has a successful business just doing damage control on software 'developed' overseas.
"In short, very few users are debating the worthiness, usability, or power of an operating system these days.
You're right on this point. However most people could give a damn about flexibility. They want a machine that isn't going to get eaten alive by viruses every other week. Windows does not provide this. Period.
As for the other points you raise, aside from gaming I have never had a problem finding either hardware or software for my Mac.
I am also not a Mac zealot, as I use Linux, Windows, and OS X on a regular basis. I have to say for servers Linux wins every time. For games Windows wins every time. For actually getting work done, OS X wins hands down every time.
"$500 for professional edition and I am including some cash to purchase alternatives for Access and Publisher.
The Abobe figures are accurate.
$450 for Acrobat, $1250 for Creative Suite, $1500 for Video Collection, and I'm not going into the cost of all those plug ins."
Well, you can eliminate that $500. For Access use mysql/postgresql and one of the myriad of free guis for them. As for Publisher, WTF are you using it for if you've got the Adobe Creative Suite??? There's just no reason to touch Publisher if you've got the full Creative Suite.
I'm also assuming you run your own business or are borderline insane to have purchased all of those for personal use.
It's a very cool system. I'm sitting in front of a PowerBook in an office with two iSight firewire cams and would love to play with this or better yet take a look at the source. It's a shame that it's patented so we'll probably never see it unless Apple happens to integrate it into the OS, and even then we'll never see the code.
I am not an Open Source/Free Software zealot, but it does irritate me somewhat when publicly funded institutions patent research projects =)
I also mean no disrespect to the developers, as I am aware how little control they have over this fact.
I'm also on Comcast and have been using On Demand without any problems for some time. It actually sounds like either you have a bad box or a bad connection somewhere.
Call Comcast. I've been amazed with their service. We had a similar problem with one of our two boxes on several digital channels. The guy that came out spent a few hours going through all potential sources of the interference until is was fixed. Actually it was kind of funny as the first thing he did was switched out the box. The problem was still there so he proceeded to systematically replace every component between the incoming feed and that room. After two hours the problem was still there with all pristine gear going to that room. So he switched out the box for a third one. The box was the problem, the first replacement box was bad too;-)
I imagine all of the big premium cable channels are going to go this way...
Actually, they already have. Comcast has On Demand for all the major premium channels (Starz, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc.). The system rocks and is replacing pay per view. Basically you've got on demand movies that are pay for 24 hours, then free content from all the major premium channels that you happen to subscribe to, plus other added content like on demand anime. The service actually makes is worth paying for my digital cable subscription.
You'll note the review you linked to is for the FIRST edition and this is about the SECOND edition. The second edition is revised for 10.3 which includes XCode. You can identify the second edition easily as it seems to have a scary bright yellow cover.
Hit the B&N link under the review to see a photo
and come back home with plenty of experience and money to spend.
From that sentence it looks like the original post certainly stated coming back.
My argument is quite simple. If you choose to go to India to find a job, don't plan on ever coming back, unless you want to start from square one economically. This is based on experience and knowing people that have worked in India. You will not earn enough money working in India to save and come back with any kind of reasonable nest egg to provide for yourself back in the US.
Now if you don't want to come back, then yes you might be able to expatriate and live quite comfortably. Personally I've talked to too many people that have actually lived in India to have any desire to do so myself.
I am using India in my examples becasuse that is the region I have personal knowledge of. I make no claims for any other region, as I simply don't have enough information to make any informed statements.
As for being for or against globalism, it's a moot point. It IS happening.
No one should be forced(economically) to do something he doesn't like because he doesn't have a choice(due to the economy).
Great concept in theory. If you can come up with a way to make it work in practice let all of us know. Hell, let the whole world know, as it it'd be great.
The fact is, high-growth areas are those that have the least social protection. I say teach the youngs to want to go make money there for a while, after their graduation, while they're young, and come back home with plenty of experience and money to spend.
The problem being that this is not possible. Wage rates in India etc. are LOW compared to the western world. There is no way to go and work in Idia and save and come back to the west.
The whole reason India is a high-growth area is there are reasonably well educated people that will work cheap. That's the whole reason US firms are outsourcing there, you can pay an Indian much less to do the same job than a comparably educated American.
LOL you have no idea how hard it was not to make derogatory comments about Stallman or the FSF or Classpath while writing that original post. I had to go back and delete paragraphs 3 times;-)
Ahh, the price of not wanting to be modded flamebait
Java is an open specification. The libs are open specifications. Just because the FSF hasn't been able to finish an implementation doesn't mean it can't be done.
Stallman's argument about libraries being required to conform to the specs if they're publicly available is also a load of crap. Basically it only applies if YOU CLAIM TO IMPLEMENT THE API. In other words, don't claim to be J2EE compliant until you actually are. There is nothing stopping anyone from starting a project and saying "Out goal is to build a system fully compliant with API x." and developing it. The only restriction is you can't claim to be API x compliant until you are. That's a real hardship, being required to actually support the feature set you claim to.
I'm sorry, I develop in Java (in addition to C, C++, Perl, and PHP) and I like to know that if something says it complies with specification X that it actually does.
Also, as a side note, Java is not going anywhere. SAP, Oracle, and IBM have too much of an investment to let Java die. Sun could declare bankruptcy tomorrow and IBM would buy the technology tomorrow, guaranteed.
Interesting. Does anybody have links/citations for any of the "numerous studies" by psychologists done on the topic? The link provided in the parent has no citations to anything aside from one repetition of the Ft. Lee experiment (and that's more an anecdote than a citation to a reputable source).
I should also note that I have no opinion on the topic one way or the other, I'd just be interested in reading the studies.
Heh one domain? You're lucky. I host 5 and handle email for all of them. I REALLY can't afford $10,000 just to provide my family with email addresses. This entire proposal is insane.
This is really not a new idea. I was one of the developers of the first system that allowed a service rep to approach a person surfing a web site in 1998 at a firm called SneakerLabs. The system was called iServe and basically allowed a service rep to launch a console that showed where every visitor on a web site was at, and allowed the rep to launch a text chat with a visitor. A visitor could also click a button on the web pages to request help. There were several other products on the market that allowed someone to request help, but iServe was the first to allow a rep to approach a customer.
Basically the company ended up being acquired by E.piphany. No idea if anything was ever done with the technology after that (I had moved on by that point).
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If I'm not mistaken NVidia provides an app to configure your displays in X. Check NVidia's website where you downloaded the drivers from. It's been a while, but from what I remember all you do is plug in the second display, run the app as root, and point and click the appropriate configuration options.
Note the caveat here is that whatever X desktop you're using has to support multiple displays.
The yellow pages don't list all businesses, you have to pay for an add.
This informational message brought to you by:Actually many highly competent developers write great code that is completely non-portable. It's called Direct-X which is in no way shape or form portable to another platform (without reimplementing the entire API on the target platform).
It has zero to do with programmer competency and everything to do with API choices. If your game is programmatically tied to Windows, odds are it will not be ported.
Personally I think this is a stupid move by developers, but that's just me.
The similarities in A Call to Arms and Legend of the Rangers suggest to me that the man has a massive story thought out; one which probably would last another 5 seasons and which he would like to tell us eagerly.
Actually, there's AT LEAST 5 seasons of story done. Crusade was supposed to be a five year story arc.
Then there's the plot introduced in Legend of the Rangers.
Personally, I just hope they get into how powerful Galen actually is. Read the techno mage novels and you'll see what I mean. The books also made some of his comments in Crusade much more amusing as well.
Let me sum up. It came on TV. The first two episodes sucked, and mostly everyone stopped watching it at that point. It got canceled.
I was one of those that stopped watching it. If someone loans me the DVDs I'll watch them and give it a chance. Otherwise I could care less about it.
I experienced this, but moving my sound card up a pci slot and deleting an extrra sounds driver that XP installed seems to have corrected the problem.
Interesting. I had preloaded over Steam a while ago. I got home last night and started the unlock process at ~6:40PM. I was playing the game by 7:00PM.
And for those that wonder, yes it is worth the wait =)
There is actually a good book that documents the development and what has become of it... wish I could remember the title ;-)
Nothing to see here, move along.
Yup. You know the difference? There are major import taxes on cars coming in to the country from overseas. That's why if you're driving a Honda it was built in the US. It's also why if you're driving a VW there's a 90% chance it was built in the US. The government saw a major industry that was being hurt by foreign competition and took measures to stop it.
The difference here is that the software industry is being hurt by offshoring and the government is encouraging it with tax breaks for companies moving development overseas. We are losing high paying jobs and telling highly educated people that the solution is to go back to college.
The only light at the end of this tunnel is that most companies are discovering that offshore development is more of a PITA than it's worth. I know a guy that actually has a successful business just doing damage control on software 'developed' overseas.
You're right on this point. However most people could give a damn about flexibility. They want a machine that isn't going to get eaten alive by viruses every other week. Windows does not provide this. Period.
As for the other points you raise, aside from gaming I have never had a problem finding either hardware or software for my Mac.
I am also not a Mac zealot, as I use Linux, Windows, and OS X on a regular basis. I have to say for servers Linux wins every time. For games Windows wins every time. For actually getting work done, OS X wins hands down every time.
The Abobe figures are accurate.
$450 for Acrobat, $1250 for Creative Suite, $1500 for Video Collection, and I'm not going into the cost of all those plug ins."
Well, you can eliminate that $500. For Access use mysql/postgresql and one of the myriad of free guis for them. As for Publisher, WTF are you using it for if you've got the Adobe Creative Suite??? There's just no reason to touch Publisher if you've got the full Creative Suite.
I'm also assuming you run your own business or are borderline insane to have purchased all of those for personal use.
Galen gets sick of it and destroys Earth (and yes, he IS powerful enough, read the books).
I am not an Open Source/Free Software zealot, but it does irritate me somewhat when publicly funded institutions patent research projects =)
I also mean no disrespect to the developers, as I am aware how little control they have over this fact.
Call Comcast. I've been amazed with their service. We had a similar problem with one of our two boxes on several digital channels. The guy that came out spent a few hours going through all potential sources of the interference until is was fixed. Actually it was kind of funny as the first thing he did was switched out the box. The problem was still there so he proceeded to systematically replace every component between the incoming feed and that room. After two hours the problem was still there with all pristine gear going to that room. So he switched out the box for a third one. The box was the problem, the first replacement box was bad too ;-)
Anyways, call them, they will fix the problem.
I imagine all of the big premium cable channels are going to go this way...
Actually, they already have. Comcast has On Demand for all the major premium channels (Starz, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc.). The system rocks and is replacing pay per view. Basically you've got on demand movies that are pay for 24 hours, then free content from all the major premium channels that you happen to subscribe to, plus other added content like on demand anime. The service actually makes is worth paying for my digital cable subscription.
You'll note the review you linked to is for the FIRST edition and this is about the SECOND edition. The second edition is revised for 10.3 which includes XCode. You can identify the second edition easily as it seems to have a scary bright yellow cover. Hit the B&N link under the review to see a photo
What's this got to do with Longhorn?
From that sentence it looks like the original post certainly stated coming back.
My argument is quite simple. If you choose to go to India to find a job, don't plan on ever coming back, unless you want to start from square one economically. This is based on experience and knowing people that have worked in India. You will not earn enough money working in India to save and come back with any kind of reasonable nest egg to provide for yourself back in the US.
Now if you don't want to come back, then yes you might be able to expatriate and live quite comfortably. Personally I've talked to too many people that have actually lived in India to have any desire to do so myself.
I am using India in my examples becasuse that is the region I have personal knowledge of. I make no claims for any other region, as I simply don't have enough information to make any informed statements.
As for being for or against globalism, it's a moot point. It IS happening.
No one should be forced(economically) to do something he doesn't like because he doesn't have a choice(due to the economy).
Great concept in theory. If you can come up with a way to make it work in practice let all of us know. Hell, let the whole world know, as it it'd be great.
The problem being that this is not possible. Wage rates in India etc. are LOW compared to the western world. There is no way to go and work in Idia and save and come back to the west.
The whole reason India is a high-growth area is there are reasonably well educated people that will work cheap. That's the whole reason US firms are outsourcing there, you can pay an Indian much less to do the same job than a comparably educated American.
So basically, your idea is bullshit.
Ahh, the price of not wanting to be modded flamebait
Java is an open specification. The libs are open specifications. Just because the FSF hasn't been able to finish an implementation doesn't mean it can't be done.
Stallman's argument about libraries being required to conform to the specs if they're publicly available is also a load of crap. Basically it only applies if YOU CLAIM TO IMPLEMENT THE API. In other words, don't claim to be J2EE compliant until you actually are. There is nothing stopping anyone from starting a project and saying "Out goal is to build a system fully compliant with API x." and developing it. The only restriction is you can't claim to be API x compliant until you are. That's a real hardship, being required to actually support the feature set you claim to.
I'm sorry, I develop in Java (in addition to C, C++, Perl, and PHP) and I like to know that if something says it complies with specification X that it actually does.
Also, as a side note, Java is not going anywhere. SAP, Oracle, and IBM have too much of an investment to let Java die. Sun could declare bankruptcy tomorrow and IBM would buy the technology tomorrow, guaranteed.
That's because we've withdrawn from any treaties that restricted this
I should also note that I have no opinion on the topic one way or the other, I'd just be interested in reading the studies.
Heh one domain? You're lucky. I host 5 and handle email for all of them. I REALLY can't afford $10,000 just to provide my family with email addresses. This entire proposal is insane.
Basically the company ended up being acquired by E.piphany. No idea if anything was ever done with the technology after that (I had moved on by that point).