And you were modded down indeed, as well as your parent post. If only people were not stupid and try to respond to arguments instead of marking a post they disagree with as "troll" or "flamebait".
The price looks interesting but by buying one you will just make what M$ expects : increase their market shares. More consoles sold means they can use those numbers to drag game makers to this platform. Even if you buy one to run Linux on it (a quite stupid idea given what you have to bear to run it) it will help Microsft, and don't even tell me about the urban legend saying that M$ looses money on each console sold, if you're naive enough to believe it then yeah you deserve to get screwed by Microsoft, go ahead and get one, loser !;)
I was already touch typing quite fast before I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout, that did make a big difference. QWERTY was designed to make typing slow unlike Dvorak. Try it, if you haven't yet, it's much safer than holes in your head too !:)
And happy about it ! I kept on trying a distrib after another but yesterday the latest Mandrake (9.1) convinced me there's no need to use M$ Windows on the desktop. And the repeated SCO's MS-like crap pushed it too...
The install was as smooth as a "dumb" Windows install can be, all my peripherals were recognised including my only-sold-in-Japan USB printer, my USB CF card showed up as a new icon on the desktop, as well as my Win2K NTFS partitions. After the install was done I could watch my Divx movies by just clicking on them, no need to install extra software, burning CDs worked fine too (K3b works really well).
All the tools I need are here, I will keep my Windows partition for a while but I'm pretty I will delete it soon.
I know you tried to be funny but if you look at the way the Japanese satellite system works, it's awfully restricted. You cannot have any channel on a Japanese satellite network if it's not properly subtitled, that explains why the choice is so limited.
Of course you can get a 2 metre dish and get signals from "foreign" satellites but only a luck few get that kind of space.
I highly doubt they will be still there after even a few months. Given they even used the non-commercial of Qt for developing their program (you can check that by downloading it , the dll is the qt*nc.dll one), why should I give those morons any of my money ?
I notice you lost much weight between this photo and that one. Given how much money SCO is losing (and it will be dying soon, as you and I both know very well) we're not surprised by that weight loss, you have no money to eat, eh ?
Still if you could find somebody else to get money from (I heard M$ has plenty of it), we'd all be grateful.
Of course it's definitely a good thing having lots of choice regarding open source software, but sometimes, especially for larger projects, people should try reusing dead projects instead of trying to rewrite everything from scratch.
If you take for example the example of project management software, you can find half are half-baked ones and the rest have either been in "planning" phase for 6 months or just stopped working on it, leaving the source code abandonned. Instead of rewriting everything from scratch, people should make use of code already written and improve it. Sure it's not as rewarding as writing everything yourself, at least at first, but then this is the way to reach a much higher target more easily. At my work everybody's using MS Project but if there was an open source USABLE similar tool either running on Windows or Linux I know we would switch right away.
Exactly, and the operation requires loads of cash, not the kinds of things little computer makers can afford. I once read an article (cannot find the URL anymore) wich analyzed the serial numbers in Microsoft products (that was around 4 years ago), and what the guy basically said was that it was total bullshit, with redundancy, ignored digits,... Microsoft didn't give a crap about their serial numbers and could have shipped their products without one but they wanted to keep the appearance of having protected products. Now, like you said, that everybody has copies of MS products and installed Windows everywhere including Mommy's and Granma's PC, bang ! Suck that activation scheme and wait to see how Palladium will feel !
This project really kicks ass, I agree with him that HAM is a fascinating subject too, and I've followed the same path, from HAM to the internet as well. One thing I found a little extreme though was to use packet radio for that purpose, but it must have been very cool to design. Looks like you guys had lots of fun with that, thanks for sharing! Any plans for a version 2 in sight ? What about a cluster of these ?;)
Yeah right, and I'm Mother Teresa. Who would be stupid enough to expect PDF files only, and judge someone on the fact that he can use a simplistic program a 5 year old could probably use ?
Safari's approach is not to let you download all the ebooks you want, at least not easily. You cannot download them automatically (and it's forbidden by the license to use a fetching tool), which makes the task annoying at best.
I don't intend to troll and I'm sure you held a copy of that book in your hands but how can you seriously write it's concise ? I've seen it in a bookstore the other day and all I can say is that it's big, over 1000 pages and bulky.
Regarding it contents, I think it's totally useless. If you install the Winhelp format of the Java documentation (there's one for the JDK1.4 but also the J2EE API and others) you will you find information much quicker (and it's free).
A&W books are usually great but that one is a waste in my opinion.
PS: You can find the Winhelp documentations at this address: http://www.confluent.fr/javadoc/javadoce.html
From the article, it would only be developped for the PS2, at least for now. One would expect that, to live in the dark side, that an XBox version be developped as well...
That's right, but at the same time some were quite interesting. I still remember very well ads from a shop in Hong-Kong selling pirated copies of nearly any commercial application for a few bucks, including a copied manual. I was quite surprised already at this time, but can you imagine that published now ?
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Or better switch to Qt and they'll get a working one !
Seriously, how is that informative ? That problem doesn't affect only Mandrake either, in case you can't read the English.
And you were modded down indeed, as well as your parent post. If only people were not stupid and try to respond to arguments instead of marking a post they disagree with as "troll" or "flamebait".
The price looks interesting but by buying one you will just make what M$ expects : increase their market shares. More consoles sold means they can use those numbers to drag game makers to this platform. Even if you buy one to run Linux on it (a quite stupid idea given what you have to bear to run it) it will help Microsft, and don't even tell me about the urban legend saying that M$ looses money on each console sold, if you're naive enough to believe it then yeah you deserve to get screwed by Microsoft, go ahead and get one, loser ! ;)
I was already touch typing quite fast before I switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout, that did make a big difference. QWERTY was designed to make typing slow unlike Dvorak. Try it, if you haven't yet, it's much safer than holes in your head too ! :)
Or better, you can try it online http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/ in English, French, Spanish and German.
And happy about it ! I kept on trying a distrib after another but yesterday the latest Mandrake (9.1) convinced me there's no need to use M$ Windows on the desktop. And the repeated SCO's MS-like crap pushed it too...
The install was as smooth as a "dumb" Windows install can be, all my peripherals were recognised including my only-sold-in-Japan USB printer, my USB CF card showed up as a new icon on the desktop, as well as my Win2K NTFS partitions.
After the install was done I could watch my Divx movies by just clicking on them, no need to install extra software, burning CDs worked fine too (K3b works really well).
All the tools I need are here, I will keep my Windows partition for a while but I'm pretty I will delete it soon.
I know you tried to be funny but if you look at the way the Japanese satellite system works, it's awfully restricted.
You cannot have any channel on a Japanese satellite network if it's not properly subtitled, that explains why the choice is so limited.
Of course you can get a 2 metre dish and get signals from "foreign" satellites but only a luck few get that kind of space.
I highly doubt they will be still there after even a few months. Given they even used the non-commercial of Qt for developing their program (you can check that by downloading it , the dll is the qt*nc.dll one), why should I give those morons any of my money ?
Still if you could find somebody else to get money from (I heard M$ has plenty of it), we'd all be grateful.
Thanks in advance. Sincerely,
Jack.
Is it all you could find as a way to collect as much money as possible for your shareholders before you go out of business ?
Of course it's definitely a good thing having lots of choice regarding open source software, but sometimes, especially for larger projects, people should try reusing dead projects instead of trying to rewrite everything from scratch.
If you take for example the example of project management software, you can find half are half-baked ones and the rest have either been in "planning" phase for 6 months or just stopped working on it, leaving the source code abandonned. Instead of rewriting everything from scratch, people should make use of code already written and improve it. Sure it's not as rewarding as writing everything yourself, at least at first, but then this is the way to reach a much higher target more easily.
At my work everybody's using MS Project but if there was an open source USABLE similar tool either running on Windows or Linux I know we would switch right away.
Exactly, and the operation requires loads of cash, not the kinds of things little computer makers can afford.
I once read an article (cannot find the URL anymore) wich analyzed the serial numbers in Microsoft products (that was around 4 years ago), and what the guy basically said was that it was total bullshit, with redundancy, ignored digits,... Microsoft didn't give a crap about their serial numbers and could have shipped their products without one but they wanted to keep the appearance of having protected products.
Now, like you said, that everybody has copies of MS products and installed Windows everywhere including Mommy's and Granma's PC, bang ! Suck that activation scheme and wait to see how Palladium will feel !
Cool link, but frankly the next is not that funny, try doing it without Homer's voice and it will sound just plain.
This project really kicks ass, I agree with him that HAM is a fascinating subject too, and I've followed the same path, from HAM to the internet as well. One thing I found a little extreme though was to use packet radio for that purpose, but it must have been very cool to design. ;)
Looks like you guys had lots of fun with that, thanks for sharing!
Any plans for a version 2 in sight ? What about a cluster of these ?
Yeah right, and I'm Mother Teresa.
Who would be stupid enough to expect PDF files only, and judge someone on the fact that he can use a simplistic program a 5 year old could probably use ?
Safari's approach is not to let you download all the ebooks you want, at least not easily. You cannot download them automatically (and it's forbidden by the license to use a fetching tool), which makes the task annoying at best.
Hum, did you read the post ? It says it's a beta so you don't have to expect the documentation on their site.
You obviously didn't download it either, the docs are there. Stop whining and download it if you're really interested.
That's right, and if you want full Unicode support you have only that choice remaining.
I don't intend to troll and I'm sure you held a copy of that book in your hands but how can you seriously write it's concise ? I've seen it in a bookstore the other day and all I can say is that it's big, over 1000 pages and bulky. Regarding it contents, I think it's totally useless. If you install the Winhelp format of the Java documentation (there's one for the JDK1.4 but also the J2EE API and others) you will you find information much quicker (and it's free). A&W books are usually great but that one is a waste in my opinion.
PS: You can find the Winhelp documentations at this address: http://www.confluent.fr/javadoc/javadoce.html
Oh really ? I remember I checked the specs some time ago and it didn't show any. Still mono is better than nothing, thanks for the information !
The Revo is definitely a great PDA, but I wish it had audio output. Being able to play MP3s is almost as important as keeping my schedule up to date.
From the article, it would only be developped for the PS2, at least for now. One would expect that, to live in the dark side, that an XBox version be developped as well...
I also remember a game called Nipple but I was too young to play at that time.
That's right, but at the same time some were quite interesting. I still remember very well ads from a shop in Hong-Kong selling pirated copies of nearly any commercial application for a few bucks, including a copied manual.
I was quite surprised already at this time, but can you imagine that published now ?