There is a big different between wanting to be a programmer and being one. I can want to be a rocket scientist but that doesn't mean I can be a good one. Programming is not just syntax on a page, it's the skill. You can learn C++ in a matter of hours. But if you want to be a programmer it will take some time and learning.
The language is only the start! I'm in a CS degree in university and i have not been taught how to program in C++ or any other language for that matter. I have been taught how to be a software developper. Algorithms, Data Structures etc... That's the heart of programming.
So, what does "excessive skin tone" really mean. is it like a percentage of the picture with certain pixel colors? Well how would it be able to distinguish between a naked chick with a lot of background and a picture of someone's tattoo on their arm.
Now if they can design an algorithm to analyze a picture to tell exactly what part of the body it is... then i'd be impressed. This just seems like just another ploy to make money on something that doesn't really work that great.
I think that K and Gnome should work more on compatibility between the two systems. Things like enabling gnome applets to dock into the Kpanels or K programs to dock into the gnome bar. Or even ability to apply gnome themes to KDE or vice versa.
It's an incredible waste of resources to have two. Separate companies develop two pieces of software that are incorporating similar features. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should only have one WindowManager (or desktop), but I feel that whatever one we choose to use should be able to use technology of the others.
I like gnome a lot (mostly for the look and feel of it) but I also like KDE cause it's faster. Why choose when you can have both?
When you look at the games that are currently being played by University age people (19-25), ie. Q3A and UT, you can easily see why pinball is dying. Pinball is slower paced, no violence and most of all it's not interactive. Single player only. People today want to play with other people via the internet.
If they made a violent multiplayer pinball then it may have a really good chance.
Don't be dissn' DOS 5.0. It was the best... DosShell!
I really liked it while I had it on my 386. Windows just ran a bit too slow for my liking.
Now, U want a crayy DOS... DOS 4.0 (i think there was a 4.1 too). That was the worst ever attempt at an operating system. Look on any DOS program after DOS 5.0 was made. Works with DOS 3.5+ but no DOS 4.0...
I don't believe that it is possible to create AI. I think that it is something that is spawned. You can program a computer to mimic and learn but only with the intelligence that you gave it. We as humans have the ability to learn also, but we likewise can't make ourselves more intelligent.
My question is how can we create intelligence if we can't create or expand our own intelligence.
But it's a different technology. That's like saying... Ya we should have called DVDs CDs cause they are compact and they are discs so... It's a new technology, it deserves a new name.
It's not even like RAM, it uses magnetics. It's also non-volatile so it's more like a Flash-ROM. Speaking of which, Flash Read Only Memory should have a different name too because writing to something read only. It's just plain wierd.
I was wondering if this kind of a system is available for a VMS platform. Since the take over of Digital by Compaq, Compaq has decided to get rid of their VAX's and recommend porting.
I work on a Real-Time simulator that is based on a VAX 4100 running VMS 5.5. The problem with it is that it is connected to a Uni-BUS and a Q-Bus that use customized device drivers. We are considering replacing the VAX with something running either VMS or some flavor of UNIX(or Linux) (even NT although I'm against it).
It would be much easier if we could create a standardized device driver for the current VAX/VMS and then we could port that to another computer with less problems.
This is really only touching on the problem, but if you have any suggestions then it would be a great help. (sorry if this went a bit off topic.)
Wanting to run VMWare is just saying that I can't do all I want to on my current Operating System! This is just Microsofts way of saying, "now you can put linux on it to do the stuff windows can't".
The one reason people run VMWare on Linux is because they can't run some windows programs (even with wine). I just don't get it. Why would Someone want to run Linux on an NT box if Windows NT is "Better"(according to Microsoft)?
This is just the Microsoft way of making you think you are getting something when you are really not. Opening windows source isn't going to benefit too many people. The source is a big mess and too large to sort through without spending a great deal of time on it.
Think about it. In linux... recompile the kernal source the way you want it. In windows... change it and beg microsoft to put it in?!? I don't think so. If you wanted to change how windows worked you would need to distribute your version of windows with your software. And that's assuming that Microsoft would allow you to do that. Even so, you probably would only get it by buying Microsoft VC++ (kinda like MFC source) or some other MS product. Don't expect microsoft to make a GNU Windows!
One of the main things that people do with mp3's is put them on CD's. This is cause most people don't have that many extra GigaBytes of space on their hard drive.
Canadian law has put a Tax on blank CD's and tapes (here at/.). This not only doesn't solve the problem but it condones the mp3 pirating industry. People are more likely to get the newest songs and make a mix CD with no regret because they feel that the bands are being compensated.
I wouldn't be surprised if sales go down in canada this next year. It's not because of the mp3 distributer software, but because of the government's actions have encouraged pirating.
People forget that napster isn't the only way to get mp3's, therefore I don't think it's a direct cause from napster or these kinds of software.
This is the point where man meets machine. In order for a human to control it efficently then it MUST resemble a human or at least have human traits. Think about it. How would a human know how to operate the helicopter remotely. But if it's a human resemblence, the controler can react much faster because they would be using normal body functions to control the machine. (Plus we can already make a remote controled helicopter)
BUT. It's one less thing I have to do when I install. It comes with all the extra programs that I usually download right when I get RH installed. Also, it is compiled for the pentium so I don't have to. It may not be hard to do and not insanely better but why would you get something that you have to configure more when you can get exactly what you want the first time.
"This seems like one of the areas in which we actually arent competing with microsoft."
Everyone here is forgetting one major point...
Of course we are not. Microsoft only makes the operating system. It's up to the professional developpers to choose what OS they deliver their system. If we can prove to them Linux is better, then we may see professional suites ported.
The market is not a very stable one. My Father purchased a copy of Encore from Passport. It was a fairly well know notation software program and the company well belly-up. It would be great to get some to port existing code such as encore, fix the bugs and open the source...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most Virus software finds programs that have known viruses attached to them and warns the user. If there are no known viruses that are extremely dangerous then of course there is no software to battle them. You can't make a program to fight something that doesn't exist yet (if you can then you can make millions).
If indeed we get a "plague" of virus attacks on Linux then the anti-virus software will start becoming more available then.
Another problem with midi under Linux is that not all sound cards are supported. I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and it has no midi support in Linux. (at least with Mandrake 6.1). This is something that Linux will need in the future because a lot of cards today are PCI.
"Microsoft could simply recompile its applications to run under other OSes. But this strategy goes against normal corporate instincts..."
There is two main reason that Microsoft isn't porting their software right now:
1) They Can't - There is no way that they can port their software that easily. It's not a matter of recompiling the application. Microsoft is used to customizing the operating system to the application as much as the application to the OS. Most of their application are built up now with layers of.dll's and Active-X/OLE controls. As far as I know this doesn't exist on Linux or at least not how Microsoft needs it. 2) They don't want to yet - Microsoft has the upper hand right now. They OWN the software world. If you could run Office on Linux, many businesses would be able to switch to Linux easily. On the other hand, because there is no Office, and people have become so dependant of the Microsoft way to do things, they keep it how it is and you use Windows. I realize the Office clones are quite good (I use StarOffice) but they are not what the average user is used to. As long as they have the software market, their OS will still be used.
This is more of a question then anything else. I am consider rewriting a fairly elaborate piece of software for work. It's currently written for windows in C. One of the reasons is to give the users a User Interface that is more up to today's standards as well as increase the functionality. The logical choice that Microsoft gives is to port to C++ using MFC. The problem with this is that I don't want to shoot myself in the foot when Microsoft decides that they don't want to support MFC anymore.
I am considering writing it using QT. Troll says that their libraries are for multiple platforms. It would be nice to write the thing in QT for Linux and compile it under Linux as well as windows. Our customer base is ALL windows because that is what the company computers are, but that will probably change in a few years.
I guess what I'm asking is if anyone has used KDE between Windows and Linux and does it work good.
Now, what I can't seem to do is have the floating windows floating at the bottom of the screen.
That's an easy one. You still have the 'docking View' on. If you right click on the window and take the docking view off then you are left with a regular window. Then it no longer pops into the panels. This is how I always use it because you can fit a number of code windows on the screen at one time.
One of my <b>favorite features</b> is the rectangular cut and paste. If you hold alt and drag, you can cut a vertical block of text. It's really useful in the work I do. This feature has been lost in many of the graphical editors of today.
VC++ has it's bugs too, but it's a pretty good editor.
Right now 300 MHz sounds like quite the powerful machine. It could replace some of the lower-end computers. But it lacks in the software to do so. By the time that you get all the software to do computing then they will have the PSX3, which will be faster, and people will say it will replace the computer...
My point is that 800 MHz machines are becoming more popular. Soon the 300 MHz PSX2 will be less and less powerful with todays standards.
(and in a few years we will be emulating the "old" PSX2 on our 1.3 GHz machines...)
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There is a big different between wanting to be a programmer and being one. I can want to be a rocket scientist but that doesn't mean I can be a good one. Programming is not just syntax on a page, it's the skill. You can learn C++ in a matter of hours. But if you want to be a programmer it will take some time and learning.
The language is only the start! I'm in a CS degree in university and i have not been taught how to program in C++ or any other language for that matter. I have been taught how to be a software developper. Algorithms, Data Structures etc... That's the heart of programming.
So, what does "excessive skin tone" really mean.
is it like a percentage of the picture with certain pixel colors? Well how would it be able to distinguish between a naked chick with a lot of background and a picture of someone's tattoo on their arm.
Now if they can design an algorithm to analyze a picture to tell exactly what part of the body it is... then i'd be impressed. This just seems like just another ploy to make money on something that doesn't really work that great.
Here is a comment I posted in the last KDE article. There are a few interesting comments on the same topic.
http://slashdot.org/co mments.pl?sid=00/06/15/1241213&cid=104
I think that K and Gnome should work more on compatibility between the two systems. Things like enabling gnome applets to dock into the Kpanels or K programs to dock into the gnome bar. Or even ability to apply gnome themes to KDE or vice versa.
It's an incredible waste of resources to have two. Separate companies develop two pieces of software that are incorporating similar features. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should only have one WindowManager (or desktop), but I feel that whatever one we choose to use should be able to use technology of the others.
I like gnome a lot (mostly for the look and feel of it) but I also like KDE cause it's faster. Why choose when you can have both?
There is nothing gnew here.
I think it's good. It distinguished them from gtk apps. Most of them start with g too so stop complaining.
I'd rather know that I need the K-libraries to run KOffice then waste time downloading Generic Office program to find out I'm missing libraries.
When you look at the games that are currently being played by University age people (19-25), ie. Q3A and UT, you can easily see why pinball is dying. Pinball is slower paced, no violence and most of all it's not interactive. Single player only. People today want to play with other people via the internet.
If they made a violent multiplayer pinball then it may have a really good chance.
Don't be dissn' DOS 5.0. It was the best... DosShell!
I really liked it while I had it on my 386. Windows just ran a bit too slow for my liking.
Now, U want a crayy DOS... DOS 4.0 (i think there was a 4.1 too). That was the worst ever attempt at an operating system. Look on any DOS program after DOS 5.0 was made.
Works with DOS 3.5+ but no DOS 4.0...
I don't believe that it is possible to create AI. I think that it is something that is spawned. You can program a computer to mimic and learn but only with the intelligence that you gave it. We as humans have the ability to learn also, but we likewise can't make ourselves more intelligent.
My question is how can we create intelligence if we can't create or expand our own intelligence.
But it's a different technology. That's like saying... Ya we should have called DVDs CDs cause they are compact and they are discs so... It's a new technology, it deserves a new name.
Why have RAM in the name...
It's not even like RAM, it uses magnetics. It's also non-volatile so it's more like a Flash-ROM. Speaking of which, Flash Read Only Memory should have a different name too because writing to something read only. It's just plain wierd.
Ahh, I give up
I was wondering if this kind of a system is available for a VMS platform. Since the take over of Digital by Compaq, Compaq has decided to get rid of their VAX's and recommend porting.
I work on a Real-Time simulator that is based on a VAX 4100 running VMS 5.5. The problem with it is that it is connected to a Uni-BUS and a Q-Bus that use customized device drivers. We are considering replacing the VAX with something running either VMS or some flavor of UNIX(or Linux) (even NT although I'm against it).
It would be much easier if we could create a standardized device driver for the current VAX/VMS and then we could port that to another computer with less problems.
This is really only touching on the problem, but if you have any suggestions then it would be a great help.
(sorry if this went a bit off topic.)
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Wanting to run VMWare is just saying that I can't do all I want to on my current Operating System! This is just Microsofts way of saying, "now you can put linux on it to do the stuff windows can't".
The one reason people run VMWare on Linux is because they can't run some windows programs (even with wine). I just don't get it. Why would Someone want to run Linux on an NT box if Windows NT is "Better"(according to Microsoft)?
...including releasing source code for Windows...
This is just the Microsoft way of making you think you are getting something when you are really not. Opening windows source isn't going to benefit too many people. The source is a big mess and too large to sort through without spending a great deal of time on it.
Think about it. In linux... recompile the kernal source the way you want it. In windows... change it and beg microsoft to put it in?!? I don't think so. If you wanted to change how windows worked you would need to distribute your version of windows with your software. And that's assuming that Microsoft would allow you to do that. Even so, you probably would only get it by buying Microsoft VC++ (kinda like MFC source) or some other MS product. Don't expect microsoft to make a GNU Windows!
One of the main things that people do with mp3's is put them on CD's. This is cause most people don't have that many extra GigaBytes of space on their hard drive.
/.). This not only doesn't solve the problem but it condones the mp3 pirating industry. People are more likely to get the newest songs and make a mix CD with no regret because they feel that the bands are being compensated.
Canadian law has put a Tax on blank CD's and tapes (here at
I wouldn't be surprised if sales go down in canada this next year. It's not because of the mp3 distributer software, but because of the government's actions have encouraged pirating.
People forget that napster isn't the only way to get mp3's, therefore I don't think it's a direct cause from napster or these kinds of software.
This is the point where man meets machine. In order for a human to control it efficently then it MUST resemble a human or at least have human traits. Think about it. How would a human know how to operate the helicopter remotely. But if it's a human resemblence, the controler can react much faster because they would be using normal body functions to control the machine. (Plus we can already make a remote controled helicopter)
why don't people read all of the comments before they post. This same solution (but with some different sites) is listed not 10 comments back.
Talk about a short and simple objective.
That's the point. It's simple...
BUT. It's one less thing I have to do when I install. It comes with all the extra programs that I usually download right when I get RH installed. Also, it is compiled for the pentium so I don't have to. It may not be hard to do and not insanely better but why would you get something that you have to configure more when you can get exactly what you want the first time.
Don't re-invent the wheel.
"This seems like one of the areas in which we actually arent competing with microsoft."
Everyone here is forgetting one major point...
Of course we are not. Microsoft only makes the operating system. It's up to the professional developpers to choose what OS they deliver their system. If we can prove to them Linux is better, then we may see professional suites ported.
The market is not a very stable one. My Father purchased a copy of Encore from Passport. It was a fairly well know notation software program and the company well belly-up. It would be great to get some to port existing code such as encore, fix the bugs and open the source...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most Virus software finds programs that have known viruses attached to them and warns the user. If there are no known viruses that are extremely dangerous then of course there is no software to battle them. You can't make a program to fight something that doesn't exist yet (if you can then you can make millions).
If indeed we get a "plague" of virus attacks on Linux then the anti-virus software will start becoming more available then.
If it's not broke don't fix it.
I have used Brahams and It's great.
Another problem with midi under Linux is that not all sound cards are supported. I have a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and it has no midi support in Linux. (at least with Mandrake 6.1). This is something that Linux will need in the future because a lot of cards today are PCI.
"Microsoft could simply recompile its applications to run under other OSes. But this strategy goes against normal corporate instincts..."
.dll's and Active-X/OLE controls. As far as I know this doesn't exist on Linux or at least not how Microsoft needs it.
There is two main reason that Microsoft isn't porting their software right now:
1) They Can't - There is no way that they can port their software that easily. It's not a matter of recompiling the application. Microsoft is used to customizing the operating system to the application as much as the application to the OS. Most of their application are built up now with layers of
2) They don't want to yet - Microsoft has the upper hand right now. They OWN the software world. If you could run Office on Linux, many businesses would be able to switch to Linux easily. On the other hand, because there is no Office, and people have become so dependant of the Microsoft way to do things, they keep it how it is and you use Windows. I realize the Office clones are quite good (I use StarOffice) but they are not what the average user is used to. As long as they have the software market, their OS will still be used.
This is more of a question then anything else. I am consider rewriting a fairly elaborate piece of software for work. It's currently written for windows in C. One of the reasons is to give the users a User Interface that is more up to today's standards as well as increase the functionality. The logical choice that Microsoft gives is to port to C++ using MFC. The problem with this is that I don't want to shoot myself in the foot when Microsoft decides that they don't want to support MFC anymore.
I am considering writing it using QT. Troll says that their libraries are for multiple platforms. It would be nice to write the thing in QT for Linux and compile it under Linux as well as windows. Our customer base is ALL windows because that is what the company computers are, but that will probably change in a few years.
I guess what I'm asking is if anyone has used KDE between Windows and Linux and does it work good.
Now, what I can't seem to do is have the floating windows floating at the bottom of the screen.
That's an easy one. You still have the 'docking View' on. If you right click on the window and take the docking view off then you are left with a regular window. Then it no longer pops into the panels. This is how I always use it because you can fit a number of code windows on the screen at one time.
One of my <b>favorite features</b> is the rectangular cut and paste. If you hold alt and drag, you can cut a vertical block of text. It's really useful in the work I do. This feature has been lost in many of the graphical editors of today.
VC++ has it's bugs too, but it's a pretty good editor.
I find it rather ironic that Microsoft is claiming that they are more reliable than the sun...
(It's a joke, ok...)
Right now 300 MHz sounds like quite the powerful machine. It could replace some of the lower-end computers. But it lacks in the software to do so. By the time that you get all the software to do computing then they will have the PSX3, which will be faster, and people will say it will replace the computer...
My point is that 800 MHz machines are becoming more popular. Soon the 300 MHz PSX2 will be less and less powerful with todays standards.
(and in a few years we will be emulating the "old" PSX2 on our 1.3 GHz machines...)