"The Calendar is one of the big reasons (that I have found) that people stick with Microsoft Outlook."
Agreed. Is there an open source alternative to the Outlook calendar that is compatible. I would love to dump Outlook completely but need to be compatible with everyone else at my company...
I don't think they've got a copy of the original image! That would explain why they've fixed the text ("SCO finds stolen code in Microsoft Windows XP") but not the image.
"I guess it's just a matter of time before these byte-code interpretters will surpass the speed of C/C++"
I'm sorry, but if an interpreter is simply interpreting bytecode it can never be as fast as native compiled code. An "interpreter" that reads bytecode and compiles it prior ro execution may be as fast but then it's not really an interpreter any more is it?
Not true - HTA is little more than HTML (the main difference is that HTA apps run in a simple window containing an HTML control rather than a full browser). See here and here.
A previous poster was correct when he said that XAML is an XUL rip-off.
Perhaps we should do what the ancient Greeks did and randomly select citizens to run the country. Before you dismiss the idea, bear in mind that this is essentially the same system that we still use to this day in juries.
If I was in your shoes, I would think carefully about exactly what GUI elements you want to use. Most likely you'll find you only really need a small subset of the ones that you'd find in a full toolkit (maybe buttons, menus, text fields and comboboxes/dropdowns). If you insist on using C (and I guess you do), you'll probably find that you can code these in quite an efficient way (because your code won't have to be as flexible as code used in a full toolkit). A basic "toolkit" designed especially for your game isn't as much work or as hard as you think.
On the other hand you could just bite the bullet and use C++. Personally I really like C++, but it took me a long time to lose the prejudice I had towards it.
"Plainly, the Founding Fathers thought otherwise."
Why are the Founding Fathers always viewed as infallible? Is is not possible that they could have made mistakes? Afterall how could they have foreseen how politics and society would change by the 21st century?
I want to know what will happen to all the people who went into computing for the money during the dot-com-boom. Will these people shrug their shoulders and go back to what they were doing before they got into IT or will they continue to apply for the jobs that us geeks are also applying for? Even if I wasn't a geek I might think long and hard about changing careers after investing a couple of years in doing it...
CCTV cameras should not be thought of as an alternative to real policemen, but as an alternative to real witnesses. Unfortunately politicians don't always understand this, and use the installation of CCTV cameras as justification for reducing the amount spent on policing...
But surely the point is that when you're in a public place you're in public and can be observed by anyone. What's the difference between looking at a CCTV cameras recordings after a crime has taken place and asking witnesses? A CCTV camera is more reliable and cannot be intimidated.
I used to have the misfortune of living in a pretty rough neighbourhood where CCTV cameras would have made a big impact on local crime. Unfortunately cameras were not installed because the parents of the local kids (who were the main cause of the problems) complained on the basis of privicy concerns.
I'd love to see Microsoft do one thing in particular (well, two really):
* split the "window manager" part of the GUI into it's own executable * open source the code for the new exe
Within months there'd be a myriad of different Windows window managers, just as there is in Unix-land. This would also benefit MS by helping users of different GUIs to migrate to Windows more easily.
There was no connection between Al Queda and Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq. Hussein was a Baathist socialist, so suggesting a connection between the two would be like suggesting that Lenin supported Christian fundamentalists.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over thirty, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Winston Churchill
But Winston Churchill would say that wouldn't he? This was the politician who changed from Tory (Conservative) to Liberal and back again - this quote is just him justifying his (opportunistic) changing of political allegiances.
"A very special feature of the ARM processor is its conditional execution. We are not talking your basic Branch if Carry Set, the ARM takes this a logical stage further to mean XXX if carry set - where XXX is just about anything."
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Ahh, I was looking for something that will run on Windows...
"The Calendar is one of the big reasons (that I have found) that people stick with Microsoft Outlook."
Agreed. Is there an open source alternative to the Outlook calendar that is compatible. I would love to dump Outlook completely but need to be compatible with everyone else at my company...
I don't think they've got a copy of the original image! That would explain why they've fixed the text ("SCO finds stolen code in Microsoft Windows XP") but not the image.
"I guess it's just a matter of time before these byte-code interpretters will surpass the speed of C/C++"
I'm sorry, but if an interpreter is simply interpreting bytecode it can never be as fast as native compiled code. An "interpreter" that reads bytecode and compiles it prior ro execution may be as fast but then it's not really an interpreter any more is it?
Who cares if it hasn't been updated for a while? Should we stop using the "ls" command just because it hasn't been updated for a while?
Source code does not suffer from bit rot as far as I know.
Apart from when it crashes FireFox :(
I still have it installed though - I just wish they'd fix it...
...would have had the poll listing the following options:
() Bush
() Kerry
() Other
() Would vote Bush if I could
() Would vote Kerry if I could
() Would vote Other if I could
That way everyone could have voiced their opinions properly. The results would have been much more interesting too...
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Not true - HTA is little more than HTML (the main difference is that HTA apps run in a simple window containing an HTML control rather than a full browser). See here and here.
A previous poster was correct when he said that XAML is an XUL rip-off.
Perhaps we should do what the ancient Greeks did and randomly select citizens to run the country. Before you dismiss the idea, bear in mind that this is essentially the same system that we still use to this day in juries.
If I was in your shoes, I would think carefully about exactly what GUI elements you want to use. Most likely you'll find you only really need a small subset of the ones that you'd find in a full toolkit (maybe buttons, menus, text fields and comboboxes/dropdowns). If you insist on using C (and I guess you do), you'll probably find that you can code these in quite an efficient way (because your code won't have to be as flexible as code used in a full toolkit). A basic "toolkit" designed especially for your game isn't as much work or as hard as you think.
On the other hand you could just bite the bullet and use C++. Personally I really like C++, but it took me a long time to lose the prejudice I had towards it.
Good luck!
But have you seen the bloated HTML that MS Word creates? A fast workstation could take months! :D
"Plainly, the Founding Fathers thought otherwise."
Why are the Founding Fathers always viewed as infallible? Is is not possible that they could have made mistakes? Afterall how could they have foreseen how politics and society would change by the 21st century?
Moderate drinkers earn more too! Mine's a pint please.
I want to know what will happen to all the people who went into computing for the money during the dot-com-boom. Will these people shrug their shoulders and go back to what they were doing before they got into IT or will they continue to apply for the jobs that us geeks are also applying for? Even if I wasn't a geek I might think long and hard about changing careers after investing a couple of years in doing it...
"Study after study has shown that CCTV has NO effect on violent crime."
Maybe, but it would have prevented the attempted murder that happened opposite my house!
CCTV cameras should not be thought of as an alternative to real policemen, but as an alternative to real witnesses. Unfortunately politicians don't always understand this, and use the installation of CCTV cameras as justification for reducing the amount spent on policing...
But surely the point is that when you're in a public place you're in public and can be observed by anyone. What's the difference between looking at a CCTV cameras recordings after a crime has taken place and asking witnesses? A CCTV camera is more reliable and cannot be intimidated.
I used to have the misfortune of living in a pretty rough neighbourhood where CCTV cameras would have made a big impact on local crime. Unfortunately cameras were not installed because the parents of the local kids (who were the main cause of the problems) complained on the basis of privicy concerns.
LiteStep is not a window manager as it does not reparent the "client" window - instead it's really just an explorer.exe replacement.
Conversely, if you program a web-based app in C, you're a fucking moron.
Please break it gently to Google!
Is Google written in Java using J2EE? No? Why's that? How many J2EE sites have been slashdotted, while Slashdot, written in Perl, is fine? Hmm...
I'd love to see Microsoft do one thing in particular (well, two really):
* split the "window manager" part of the GUI into it's own executable
* open source the code for the new exe
Within months there'd be a myriad of different Windows window managers, just as there is in Unix-land. This would also benefit MS by helping users of different GUIs to migrate to Windows more easily.
There was no connection between Al Queda and Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq. Hussein was a Baathist socialist, so suggesting a connection between the two would be like suggesting that Lenin supported Christian fundamentalists.
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over thirty, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
-Winston Churchill
But Winston Churchill would say that wouldn't he? This was the politician who changed from Tory (Conservative) to Liberal and back again - this quote is just him justifying his (opportunistic) changing of political allegiances.
Ahh, spoke to soon - a quick Google led me here:
"A very special feature of the ARM processor is its conditional execution. We are not talking your basic Branch if Carry Set, the ARM takes this a logical stage further to mean XXX if carry set - where XXX is just about anything."