Alan, is that you?;-) Well if it is a theme park, it was way more fun than Alton Towers when I wnet to their open day (but then I find discussing the remote repair systems of a nuclear fusion reactor with it's designeers much more fun than sitting in a roller-coaster, YMMV...)
Amen to that - I had a dual PII 450 which went to PIII 550 later and I have only just replaced with an AMD64 3000+. It was only when Eclipse 3 came out that I felt I needed (wanted?) to upgrade the hardware. Now, Firebird opens instantly, if only I could get the Eclipse debugger to work in 64-bitness... Prices for a 4200+ X2 should be pretty sweet by Xmas:)
"Windows XP installs without hitch" but it also says "Some prodding managed to get the screen to 1600x1200, but sources were unable to get Windows to take advantage of the entire screen." Isn't it unlikely they'd be keen to make it work, given that if the hardware's was any good and priced competitively, people would buy them and run Windows ?
Remember, that windows users usually run as Administrator because they are the only user of the system. A normal user logging into a linux system is logically the same thing as windows user powering up the system and logging as administrator.
Err, where do you get this idea? A normal user logging on to a Linux system is just that - a normal user. Most people will use 'su' or 'sudo' to run tasks that require privileged access to the system (certainly that's what they should be doing. How many people always log into their *nix box as root?). Older versions of Windows required logging out and logging in as Administrator to achieve this, or giving (some) users membership of the Administrator group (common practice in many companies I've worked/consulted at). Newer versions have that "Run As" menu entry in Explorer, but I've come across several software packages that don't install properly if you use that option... So, tell me again how this is the same thing?
Because they were willing to go the extra mile in creating a profitable product ?
How is someone else adding value to your work, but not telling anyone else how, "limiting the freedom of others" ? By keeping their own hard work to themselves ? By seeking payment for the work they have done ?
Because they're doing on the back of my work. They have the right to create a 'profitable product', of course no one is denying that. They don't have the right do it with my work, which I've specifically copyleft-ed to say that they can't! They can jolly well go and re-write the code themselves and then they have the right to do any damn thing they like with it! Or they can choose some code covered by a non-GPL licence that allows them to use it any way they want, and do what they want with it! I really don't see what the problem is...
As others have pointed out, Hutton is a (supposedly neutral) law lord, i.e. judge.
As such he's part of the establishment (now where's my tin-foil hat..?). As a judge he cleared the police and the Crown Prosecution Service of any 'mishandling' of evidence in the case of two men, Gary Mills and Tony Poole, accused of murder. Appeal judges finally freed the two men, and the case was subject to judicial review by Lord Woolf, who describe the case as "a chapter of errors" where "almost every aspect of the prosecution is tarnished".
Before Hutton was a judge, he was counsel for the Ministry of Defence at the inquest into the Bloody Sunday shootings in N. Ireland in 1972. After the coroner observed that by shooting indiscriminately at unarmed civilians, the British army had effectively committed "sheer, unadulterated murder", young Brian Hutton rebuked the coroner (!), saying "It is not for you or the jury to express such wide-ranging views".
So Hutton is obviously a fine, upstanding citizen who's opinion is completely unbiased. MY ARSE!
Tell that to the the Greeks... I think Greek has had plenty long enough to get out of sink, and hasn't (I'm talking ancient Greek here - modern Greek is a very young written language). Ancient and modern Greek are What-You-See-Is-What-You-Hear languages. And that's with a load of anarchic Greeks using it for thousands of years! So I disagree with the above post. Come to think of it, how old is German as a written language?
By the way, if it's so obvious how to pronounce 'Linux' in English from the spelling:
writing - written diner - dinner miner - midden
I could go on just to wind people up, but I won't... (yes, I *know* it is possible to come up with counter-examples to the above, it just seems silly to get all religious about English spelling versus pronounciation - oh, wait, this is/.)
Just my (l-eye-nux, gUH-nu, gNome) tuppence-worth...
Conclusions from the first article that the parent's Google search points to:
If you don't need cross-platform development and your target OS is supported (Windows, for example), you may consider SWT, especially if your customers have old, limited machines where Swing use can be prohibitive. For all other scenarios, Swing provides the conservative choice.
I don't know anything about SWT other than what I read in the article but you haven't sold it to me!
Every day we're updated on how many soldiers have died since we declared victory, but they don't talk about the infrastructure that's been rebuilt at all.
So you didn't hear about the riots in Basra (bbc.co.uk) the last couple of days, apparently about the lack of fuel and electricity...
I particularly liked the following quote from Micro$hite in the article:
"We're...very committed to respecting others' intellectual property, and we request the same respect applied to our innovations and those of our partners," the company said in the statement
Can you say 'hypocracy' (or 'Java')? You just know they're lying 'cos their lips are moving...
I read an article about 10 years ago which was about some guy in Brasil, I think it was, whose rubber company was about to go down the toilet financially. So he went to his workforce and said "Here's the situation - we're up shit creek financially, either I make half of you redundant, or we take half pay, until the situation improves - you decide" and put it to the vote. The workforce apparently decided on the half pay option, but productivity soon improved and they could afford to pay their old salary. The guy went on to experiment with introducing worker democracy on a wide scale - salaries, job descriptions etc. and apparently the company became very successful. I've always thought that sounded like an interesting idea, has anyone else heard of this?
The problem with id is not what problems it causes now, but the potential for it's abuse. Sure, our current governments would never dream of misusing the data that are held about us, but what about when a democratically elected government, e.g. the Nazis in pre-war Germany turns out to be a bunch of loonies who want to persecute those who disagree with them, and those who just happen to offend their arbitary prejudices. Then, you are in BIG trouble, unless you are a Nazi... So it is very important that these issues are taken serious, and not treated with the "well I've got nothing to hide, you must have" mentality...
but the fact remains is that nobody has any dificulty finding stuff using Microsofts registry
haha, hahahaha, haha....
Hmm, now, just remind me again, was that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ {1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-99D2-00AA006E086C}or was that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ {1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-98D2-00AA006E086C}? I forget...
Depends how you define success. I am the only one of my closest friends who did not graduate (although I did go to what was then a polytechnic here in the U.K. but dropped out and took a job) and I am the second highest earner. Mind you I did learn a lot when I was there. And I think I.T. gives you more opportunity to succeed without qualifications than some other (engineering) fields. I think it's probably been easier for me to convince people that I can make their computers do what they want than I it would be to convince people to let me design their bridges if I'd done civil engineering instead of electrical/electronic.
My conclusion - ability and no qualifications can take you as far as no ability and qualifications with luck and a following wind...
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Alan, is that you? ;-) Well if it is a theme park, it was way more fun than Alton Towers when I wnet to their open day (but then I find discussing the remote repair systems of a nuclear fusion reactor with it's designeers much more fun than sitting in a roller-coaster, YMMV...)
Amen to that - I had a dual PII 450 which went to PIII 550 later and I have only just replaced with an AMD64 3000+. It was only when Eclipse 3 came out that I felt I needed (wanted?) to upgrade the hardware. Now, Firebird opens instantly, if only I could get the Eclipse debugger to work in 64-bitness... Prices for a 4200+ X2 should be pretty sweet by Xmas :)
"Windows XP installs without hitch" but it also says "Some prodding managed to get the screen to 1600x1200, but sources were unable to get Windows to take advantage of the entire screen." Isn't it unlikely they'd be keen to make it work, given that if the hardware's was any good and priced competitively, people would buy them and run Windows ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't a broken space elevator just float..?
Ever think that perhaps he just wants to see you and doesn't know how to say it? Took me a while to work out that's the way it work with my ol' man...
Neils Bohr, Enrico Fermi anyone?
Err, where do you get this idea? A normal user logging on to a Linux system is just that - a normal user. Most people will use 'su' or 'sudo' to run tasks that require privileged access to the system (certainly that's what they should be doing. How many people always log into their *nix box as root?). Older versions of Windows required logging out and logging in as Administrator to achieve this, or giving (some) users membership of the Administrator group (common practice in many companies I've worked/consulted at). Newer versions have that "Run As" menu entry in Explorer, but I've come across several software packages that don't install properly if you use that option... So, tell me again how this is the same thing?
How is someone else adding value to your work, but not telling anyone else how, "limiting the freedom of others" ? By keeping their own hard work to themselves ? By seeking payment for the work they have done ?
Because they're doing on the back of my work. They have the right to create a 'profitable product', of course no one is denying that. They don't have the right do it with my work, which I've specifically copyleft-ed to say that they can't! They can jolly well go and re-write the code themselves and then they have the right to do any damn thing they like with it! Or they can choose some code covered by a non-GPL licence that allows them to use it any way they want, and do what they want with it! I really don't see what the problem is...
As others have pointed out, Hutton is a (supposedly neutral) law lord, i.e. judge.
As such he's part of the establishment (now where's my tin-foil hat..?). As a judge he cleared the police and the Crown Prosecution Service of any 'mishandling' of evidence in the case of two men, Gary Mills and Tony Poole, accused of murder. Appeal judges finally freed the two men, and the case was subject to judicial review by Lord Woolf, who describe the case as "a chapter of errors" where "almost every aspect of the prosecution is tarnished".
Before Hutton was a judge, he was counsel for the Ministry of Defence at the inquest into the Bloody Sunday shootings in N. Ireland in 1972. After the coroner observed that by shooting indiscriminately at unarmed civilians, the British army had effectively committed "sheer, unadulterated murder", young Brian Hutton rebuked the coroner (!), saying "It is not for you or the jury to express such wide-ranging views".
So Hutton is obviously a fine, upstanding citizen who's opinion is completely unbiased. MY ARSE!
Call me sad, but I've had no reason to upgrade my 512MB dual PIII 550MHz box. It runs Eclipse well enough, unlike Netbeans... Just my tuppence 'worth.
Well, according to this article (pointed to by this recent slashdot posting), it is!
Er, Greece, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to my knowledge.
I could be wrong, there may be more than that... ;-)
Tell that to the the Greeks... I think Greek has had plenty long enough to get out of sink, and hasn't (I'm talking ancient Greek here - modern Greek is a very young written language). Ancient and modern Greek are What-You-See-Is-What-You-Hear languages. And that's with a load of anarchic Greeks using it for thousands of years! So I disagree with the above post. Come to think of it, how old is German as a written language?
/.)
By the way, if it's so obvious how to pronounce 'Linux' in English from the spelling:
writing - written
diner - dinner
miner - midden
I could go on just to wind people up, but I won't... (yes, I *know* it is possible to come up with counter-examples to the above, it just seems silly to get all religious about English spelling versus pronounciation - oh, wait, this is
Just my (l-eye-nux, gUH-nu, gNome) tuppence-worth...
Conclusions from the first article that the parent's Google search points to:
If you don't need cross-platform development and your target OS is supported (Windows, for example), you may consider SWT, especially if your customers have old, limited machines where Swing use can be prohibitive. For all other scenarios, Swing provides the conservative choice.
I don't know anything about SWT other than what I read in the article but you haven't sold it to me!
When we've all got broadband access and webcams then it'll be like 1984...
I read an article about 10 years ago which was about some guy in Brasil, I think it was, whose rubber company was about to go down the toilet financially. So he went to his workforce and said "Here's the situation - we're up shit creek financially, either I make half of you redundant, or we take half pay, until the situation improves - you decide" and put it to the vote. The workforce apparently decided on the half pay option, but productivity soon improved and they could afford to pay their old salary. The guy went on to experiment with introducing worker democracy on a wide scale - salaries, job descriptions etc. and apparently the company became very successful. I've always thought that sounded like an interesting idea, has anyone else heard of this?
The problem with id is not what problems it causes now, but the potential for it's abuse. Sure, our current governments would never dream of misusing the data that are held about us, but what about when a democratically elected government, e.g. the Nazis in pre-war Germany turns out to be a bunch of loonies who want to persecute those who disagree with them, and those who just happen to offend their arbitary prejudices. Then, you are in BIG trouble, unless you are a Nazi... So it is very important that these issues are taken serious, and not treated with the "well I've got nothing to hide, you must have" mentality...
but the fact remains is that nobody has any dificulty finding stuff using Microsofts registry
\ {1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-99D2-00AA006E086C}or was that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers\ {1F2E5C40-9550-11CE-98D2-00AA006E086C}? I forget...
haha, hahahaha, haha....
Hmm, now, just remind me again, was that HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\PropertySheetHandlers
Depends how you define success. I am the only one of my closest friends who did not graduate (although I did go to what was then a polytechnic here in the U.K. but dropped out and took a job) and I am the second highest earner. Mind you I did learn a lot when I was there. And I think I.T. gives you more opportunity to succeed without qualifications than some other (engineering) fields. I think it's probably been easier for me to convince people that I can make their computers do what they want than I it would be to convince people to let me design their bridges if I'd done civil engineering instead of electrical/electronic.
My conclusion - ability and no qualifications can take you as far as no ability and qualifications with luck and a following wind...
No, it's always been you're dead ;-)
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Is this how computers will reproduce and take over the world?