The memory footprint would likely be a lot smaller if all of the desktop apps were using the same libraries. The real question is if it would be as functional as KDE and Gnome.
Especially because often, when Canada brings it's own complaints to the US, the reponse is, 'other countries don't dictate our policy' or 'stay out of our business'. Let him waste his breath as far as I'm concerned, until he wants to address a legitimate issue.
That probably wouldn't be too difficult to do using the computer language shootout http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
You have to figure out the equivalent tasks(Mandelbrot seems to be be one) and then flip between the two benchmark pages.
It's kind of an endless loop though. The customers of my company aren't usually that technical. We might be able to come up with a great set of requirements with a whole lot of research, but it's likely that we'd never hit the sweet spot (because the customer changed their mind or plain explained something incorrectly). I figure that most developers are in the same boat that they have to do the best with the requirements that they have and be prepared to shift direction down the road. Sadly, we can't redesign our customers..
I agree, every QA check list needs to have a bunch of steps.
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Code review is as much about semantics as syntax. It's great to be able to find duplicated code and the like, but what about more subtle mistakes? The only way you will really be able to benefit from code reviews is if you frequently have experienced eyes going over the code. In addition, there are lots of suggestions around for how to set up a code review to avoid squabbling (reviewers should only be looking for specific problems, code formatting is not one of them).
The point was poorly made, it might make more sense to think of it as training or incentives? Bear with me, if you want to bring up a child to use good grammar don't you agree that practising good grammar around them and correcting them when they make a mistake is the way to go about this? Yes, how to go about applying this idea to businesses is unclear. Perhaps finding a way to chang the rules to make anti-compative behavior unprofitable to begin with would be a good way? I don't claim to have the answer, but that doesn't mean that they aren't there, and that no one should look for them.
I don't disagree. I really should have argued that in my opinion, the system leans to far towards punishment (specifically punishment long after the fact), than prevention (punishment much closer to the offence and continual efforts to discourage offences before they happen). Obviously, saying it is much easier than doing it.
The problem is that people will always make some poor decisions, regardless of the consequences. There's a very fine balance between making the rules too fine or too broad and the line will always be a moving target:-(
I agree, but that kind of punishment just isn't going to be applied. At this point we're looking at damage done almost a decade ago, which is part of the problem. Sadly, I can't see a clear way that any branch of gov't could have stepped in before 2000 to help fix this before the situation really got out of hand. Now it will take years more, if ever, for the market to really open up to MS alternatives. In the case of software, I think things like open standards backed by governments will help prevent these problems, but we obviously can't have some body explicitly running all the market places (like we have seen with Communism).
Meh, you're making a straw man argument by vastly oversimplified solution. I didn't say it was going to be easy, but nothing is every accomplished unless you try. The legal/justice system is by far not the only way to prevent the problems in society, it's just the most obvious (an likely vastly overused one). Unfortunately, it's hard to say whether any other solutions have been successful (and how much) where the justice system seems to have failed.
No, you're right and that is exactly my point. It isn't justice, and could never have been justice..
Besides, I'll conceed the point that there's no money in provention, except for the money left in "people's" pockets, everone knows how well the capitalism machine works for "people".
I have no grudge against most legal professionals, but what a huge waste of time and money. Rules should be enforced to prevent wrong doing rather than punishing for it. MS throwing a huge amount of money into a settlement does very little to help anyone and does no more to rectify a wrong (prehaps less) than jailing a murderer.
That's why you can build many applications from source and install them in user space. If you don't want to install software as an admin, then you don't have to.
The game mode coined 'Deathmatch' was first used in Doom. In the mid-ninties, most networks with 386's or better would have seen tons of Doom multiplayer action.
The profit largest source of profit that Lycos will get then is customer good will Cripes, that mess should read: If that is the case, then the largest souce of profit that Lycos will get is through customer good will
Yes, but if that were the case it would be hard to assume that the positive response would out-weigh the negative. The one thing I know for sure is, that I something like this happened in the small, little known start-up that I work for, the perpetrator would not touch the ground on the way out.
The profit largest source of profit that Lycos will get then is customer good will. A company has to make money somewhere in order to exist and they will have a hard time doing so by treating people poorly. At the end of the day, a minimal level of courtasy is cheaper to provide than outwrite malice.
For the softcover books that you do end up getting a lot of use out of, some bookstores offer rebinding. Might be a little pricey, but may be better than having a reference that's in 3 or 4 pieces.
I agree. I'd go as far as to say that for any serious work, you should have multiple corroborating sources for a topic, no matter what those sources are. Textbooks, encyclopedias and even peer reviewed papers have been shown to have inaccuracies in the past, might as well improve your odds of getting the right information.
Have a look at the Gaming on Vista article at Tom's Hardware. Apparently there are some problems with getting OpenGL hardware acceleration working properly.
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The memory footprint would likely be a lot smaller if all of the desktop apps were using the same libraries. The real question is if it would be as functional as KDE and Gnome.
Ha!, Ontario thinks so!
Because Canada isn't a French only country. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine, which is part of the problem.
Especially because often, when Canada brings it's own complaints to the US, the reponse is, 'other countries don't dictate our policy' or 'stay out of our business'. Let him waste his breath as far as I'm concerned, until he wants to address a legitimate issue.
MyEclipse is an extension of Eclipse with a bunch proprietary J2EE build tools. There are similar free tools available as well, like Netbeans 5.5.
That probably wouldn't be too difficult to do using the computer language shootout http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
You have to figure out the equivalent tasks(Mandelbrot seems to be be one) and then flip between the two benchmark pages.
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It's kind of an endless loop though. The customers of my company aren't usually that technical. We might be able to come up with a great set of requirements with a whole lot of research, but it's likely that we'd never hit the sweet spot (because the customer changed their mind or plain explained something incorrectly). I figure that most developers are in the same boat that they have to do the best with the requirements that they have and be prepared to shift direction down the road. Sadly, we can't redesign our customers..
I agree, every QA check list needs to have a bunch of steps.
Code review is as much about semantics as syntax. It's great to be able to find duplicated code and the like, but what about more subtle mistakes? The only way you will really be able to benefit from code reviews is if you frequently have experienced eyes going over the code. In addition, there are lots of suggestions around for how to set up a code review to avoid squabbling (reviewers should only be looking for specific problems, code formatting is not one of them).
The point was poorly made, it might make more sense to think of it as training or incentives? Bear with me, if you want to bring up a child to use good grammar don't you agree that practising good grammar around them and correcting them when they make a mistake is the way to go about this? Yes, how to go about applying this idea to businesses is unclear. Perhaps finding a way to chang the rules to make anti-compative behavior unprofitable to begin with would be a good way? I don't claim to have the answer, but that doesn't mean that they aren't there, and that no one should look for them.
I don't disagree. I really should have argued that in my opinion, the system leans to far towards punishment (specifically punishment long after the fact), than prevention (punishment much closer to the offence and continual efforts to discourage offences before they happen). Obviously, saying it is much easier than doing it.
The problem is that people will always make some poor decisions, regardless of the consequences. There's a very fine balance between making the rules too fine or too broad and the line will always be a moving target :-(
I agree, but that kind of punishment just isn't going to be applied. At this point we're looking at damage done almost a decade ago, which is part of the problem. Sadly, I can't see a clear way that any branch of gov't could have stepped in before 2000 to help fix this before the situation really got out of hand. Now it will take years more, if ever, for the market to really open up to MS alternatives. In the case of software, I think things like open standards backed by governments will help prevent these problems, but we obviously can't have some body explicitly running all the market places (like we have seen with Communism).
Meh, you're making a straw man argument by vastly oversimplified solution. I didn't say it was going to be easy, but nothing is every accomplished unless you try. The legal/justice system is by far not the only way to prevent the problems in society, it's just the most obvious (an likely vastly overused one). Unfortunately, it's hard to say whether any other solutions have been successful (and how much) where the justice system seems to have failed.
No, you're right and that is exactly my point. It isn't justice, and could never have been justice..
Besides, I'll conceed the point that there's no money in provention, except for the money left in "people's" pockets, everone knows how well the capitalism machine works for "people".
I have no grudge against most legal professionals, but what a huge waste of time and money. Rules should be enforced to prevent wrong doing rather than punishing for it. MS throwing a huge amount of money into a settlement does very little to help anyone and does no more to rectify a wrong (prehaps less) than jailing a murderer.
That's why you can build many applications from source and install them in user space. If you don't want to install software as an admin, then you don't have to.
The game mode coined 'Deathmatch' was first used in Doom. In the mid-ninties, most networks with 386's or better would have seen tons of Doom multiplayer action.
If that is the case, then the largest souce of profit that Lycos will get is through customer good will
Yes, but if that were the case it would be hard to assume that the positive response would out-weigh the negative. The one thing I know for sure is, that I something like this happened in the small, little known start-up that I work for, the perpetrator would not touch the ground on the way out.
The profit largest source of profit that Lycos will get then is customer good will. A company has to make money somewhere in order to exist and they will have a hard time doing so by treating people poorly. At the end of the day, a minimal level of courtasy is cheaper to provide than outwrite malice.
For the softcover books that you do end up getting a lot of use out of, some bookstores offer rebinding. Might be a little pricey, but may be better than having a reference that's in 3 or 4 pieces.
I agree. I'd go as far as to say that for any serious work, you should have multiple corroborating sources for a topic, no matter what those sources are. Textbooks, encyclopedias and even peer reviewed papers have been shown to have inaccuracies in the past, might as well improve your odds of getting the right information.
Have a look at the Gaming on Vista article at Tom's Hardware. Apparently there are some problems with getting OpenGL hardware acceleration working properly.