Actually you don't have to pay taxes to get free health care. At least not here in Norway. If you have a norwegian social number you get free health no matter what.
If you make money, you have to pay taxes. If you don't make money and live in the forest, you don't pay taxes. And you still have free health care.
I'm not really sure how the health care work in details for the rest of europe. But I know it's basically "free" in most european countries compared to the US.
I've played the first game, the game itself is okey. I think Diablo 2 and Titan Quest are both better action rpg's. The musical score in Dungeon Siege is fantastic, Jeremy Soule best soundtrack in a game yet in my opinion.
Screen burns is not an issue. I've owned a plasma TV for more than 4 years now. I've tried to produce screen burns with static images with bright parts, but after 48 hours there was hardly anything. You might see something for 3 seconds, but after those 3 seconds its gone forever.
And the resolution thing is bullshit, when it comes to sharpness on video, high refresh rate is everything.
I may seem unlogical, however my 1024x768 plasma has sharper image when it comes to videoes than a 1080P LCD. This is because of the high refresh rate and that plasma has subpixels. LCD is sharper when it comes to still images, but I still wouldn't show my DLSR images on a LCD TV because the huge lack of colors and contrast.
I think you should go and buy a plasma just to try yourself!
I play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 just fine with a Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
That is high quality settings and 1920x1200 resolution
Framerate? Dont know, its smooth enough which should be around 30-40 frames per second on average.
Spending more than $100 on a graphics card today is just waste of money. Except if you would like to play a game like Crysis on Linux where you need the extra power to get decent performance. Then again,
Once upon a time, we had VGA. This was a pretty simple analogue signal, which was great for driving a CRT. At high resolutions it got a bit blurry though
Im typing this on a 24" LCD with 1920x1200 resolution connected to my PC with a VGA cable. My second screen where I have my code is connected to the computer with a DVI cable. I dont see any difference when I compare text on both screens. And yes the DVI connection is digial and not analog.
I think VGA is still the king when it comes to price/performance ratio.
People claim Apache is slow, but why not using a reverse proxy like Varnish to "speed it up" and still keep the features. I really see no reason why I should use G-WAN or lighttpd.
There is a bug with either X server or Firefox which is causing horrible drawing performance. Try using Opera or Chromium. It's like going from IE6 to Firefox 3 on Windows.
Easy..... When it comes to terminal based there are plenty but I'll mention some GUI based...
Notepad++ beats Notepad Pidgin beats Trillian SMPlayer beats Windows Media Player Filezilla beats Cuteftp
And there are also some extraordinary open source software which doesn't have proprietary counterparts(at least not that I know of).
Synaptic Packet manager for easy installation and maintenance of software. Synfig Vector animation studio. Gobby a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session.
Theora is great for embedded devices like cell phones since it is "cheap" when it comes to cpu cycles. For top quality video, Dirac should be used. I wonder when Firefox, Opera or Konqueror will have native support for Dirac.
Not to mention PyS60 which is Python for Symbian 60 based phones.
Nokia has developed a Python API which give access to GPS, Camera, Internet, Native GUI, Canvas based GUI, SMS, Phonecalls, Phonebook, MMS, accelerometer, OpenGL and a lot more.
And just to show how easy it is to program a SMS application with PyS60:
When it comes to workflow/UI, it's even worse. GIMP is designed by a programmer for another programmer, thinking that it works well for everyone.
I strongly disagree with what you're saying about the workflow and UI in Gimp.
Gimp is exellent for those who have two monitors and want toolbars on one screen and the image they're modifying on another screen.
I'm one of those who learned Photoshop first but lately I've converted to Gimp because it do all I need for designing web pages, its free, and I can easily write my own plugins. Many of the features in Gimp that's missing from Photoshop are available as a plugin. And some features in Gimp are better done than the equivalent in Photoshop (for example sharpening). I still agree that Photoshop is a better product overall, but for web development it's really a non issue in my opinion.
When I tried to learn Gimp I was as frustrated as every other photoshopper who tried to learn Gimp. It was hard and the Gimp UI didn't feel intuitive to learn. But I tried hard to learn Gimp and after a couple of days with practise I became just as productive with Gimp as with Photoshop.
Gimp is great and I strongly belive a true graphics artist who actually spend time learning it will find that some of the features in Gimp are in fact really cool and not available in Photoshop. You should check out the Gimp Plugin Registry, you will find several time savers in there.
I highly recommend using both. You get the best from both worlds and can still deliver outstanding art to your customers.
I have a Nokia N79, and in my opinion I think it's more advanced than both the G1 and iPhone. It's not as fast when it comes to pure speed. But in functionality it delivers "everything". Especially the camera and video recording quality is better done.
There has been so much focus on iPhone, Android and Windows application development in the media the last few years. And yet no one as far as I can remember has ever mentioned that Nokia has a great open source development platform for their phones which runs on newer Symbian 60 called PyS60(Python for Symbian 60) http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/Installing_PyS60
With PyS60you have access to about every feature in the phone. Everything from SMS, to the accelerometer. Not to mention that programming in Python is fun, and if speed is an issue, you still have access to several Python C++ Extensions http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/C%2B%2B_Python_Extensions and there is support for developing your own c++ extensions. On the Nokia wiki there are several small easy to read examples of how to use all the technology in their phones http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Category:Python
Yet I don't understand why developers and media ignore this development platform. Isn't powerful applications that can be coded in less than hundred lines pure joy for a developer? There is a lot of people with Symbian 60 phones out there, more than Android and iPhone together(not sure about Windows though).
Im a web developer and I find almost nothing that works better in IE 7 than IE 6. Javascript is still the same thing, no support for for each loops nor iterators, the setAttribute() function is still useless, dynamic CSS only works correctly with the element.style.cssText attribute and a lot of other IMPORTANT improvements in Javascript is still missing.
I always have to spend more time supporting IE, and supporting both of them at the same time is a piece of cake, because they're hardly any different. Most of the CSS issues gets solved by using Javascript. However that margin/padding bug is still freakin me out.
This ANTI IE campaign is still utter bullshit as long IE 7 is a suggested upgrade, IE7 is basically a minor patch to IE 6 and a new skin.
A social network can be catched, because you don't need *real-time* data. If you have hundreds of requests per second a mid level or front end cache saves you a lot of system resources and the users don't notice anything.
If you read how Memcached works here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached , you will see that everytime a user updates or adds something it also updates the cache.
And for your knowledge, the count() function in MySQL is already cached in the DB. That is because it can be cached, because MyISAM lacks transactions. InnoDB however has the same slow count() function as other databases.
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Actually you don't have to pay taxes to get free health care. At least not here in Norway. If you have a norwegian social number you get free health no matter what.
If you make money, you have to pay taxes. If you don't make money and live in the forest, you don't pay taxes. And you still have free health care.
I'm not really sure how the health care work in details for the rest of europe. But I know it's basically "free" in most european countries compared to the US.
Health insurance is free in Europe.
I've played the first game, the game itself is okey. I think Diablo 2 and Titan Quest are both better action rpg's. The musical score in Dungeon Siege is fantastic, Jeremy Soule best soundtrack in a game yet in my opinion.
Screen burns is not an issue. I've owned a plasma TV for more than 4 years now. I've tried to produce screen burns with static images with bright parts, but after 48 hours there was hardly anything. You might see something for 3 seconds, but after those 3 seconds its gone forever.
And the resolution thing is bullshit, when it comes to sharpness on video, high refresh rate is everything.
I may seem unlogical, however my 1024x768 plasma has sharper image when it comes to videoes than a 1080P LCD. This is because of the high refresh rate and that plasma has subpixels.
LCD is sharper when it comes to still images, but I still wouldn't show my DLSR images on a LCD TV because the huge lack of colors and contrast.
I think you should go and buy a plasma just to try yourself!
Your monitor, graphics card support hdcp through dvi.
Try using a really old lcd monitor.
I play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 just fine with a Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
That is high quality settings and 1920x1200 resolution
Framerate? Dont know, its smooth enough which should be around 30-40 frames per second on average.
Spending more than $100 on a graphics card today is just waste of money. Except if you would like to play a game like Crysis on Linux where you need the extra power to get decent performance. Then again,
Actually no one in my office can tell the difference, even when it comes to colors.
The biggest difference is when I have my cellphone between the cables and someone call in. The display with the VGA connector will then flicker.
If you have a problem, then you most likely have the wrong settings on your display or just a very very bad one. You can also try another VGA cable.
Once upon a time, we had VGA. This was a pretty simple analogue signal, which was great for driving a CRT. At high resolutions it got a bit blurry though
Im typing this on a 24" LCD with 1920x1200 resolution connected to my PC with a VGA cable. My second screen where I have my code is connected to the computer with a DVI cable. I dont see any difference when I compare text on both screens. And yes the DVI connection is digial and not analog.
I think VGA is still the king when it comes to price/performance ratio.
What? The open source replication alternatives are good enough
You have:
* PGCluster
* Slony-I
* DBBalancer
* pgpool
* PostgreSQL table comparator
* SkyTools
* Sequoia
* Bucardo
* Mammoth Replicator
* Cybercluster
* GridSQL (shared-nothing)
All are open source and some even offer additional commercial support.
People claim Apache is slow, but why not using a reverse proxy like Varnish to "speed it up" and still keep the features. I really see no reason why I should use G-WAN or lighttpd.
There is a bug with either X server or Firefox which is causing horrible drawing performance. Try using Opera or Chromium. It's like going from IE6 to Firefox 3 on Windows.
Easy.....
When it comes to terminal based there are plenty but I'll mention some GUI based...
Notepad++ beats Notepad
Pidgin beats Trillian
SMPlayer beats Windows Media Player
Filezilla beats Cuteftp
And there are also some extraordinary open source software which doesn't have proprietary counterparts(at least not that I know of).
Synaptic Packet manager for easy installation and maintenance of software.
Synfig Vector animation studio.
Gobby a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session.
Theora is great for embedded devices like cell phones since it is "cheap" when it comes to cpu cycles. For top quality video, Dirac should be used. I wonder when Firefox, Opera or Konqueror will have native support for Dirac.
What about all of the P2P games out there? Like Civilization 4.
They can't block multiple incoming connections
Not exactly.
Quake 3 runs better on Nokia 95 than the second generation iPhone.
Quake 3 on Nokia 95:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEdf6Wq-x5w&feature=related
Quake 3 on iPhone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFQGpRAhwGU
The hardware in Nokia phones doesn't suck as much as you think.
Not to mention PyS60 which is Python for Symbian 60 based phones.
Nokia has developed a Python API which give access to GPS, Camera, Internet, Native GUI, Canvas based GUI, SMS, Phonecalls, Phonebook, MMS, accelerometer, OpenGL and a lot more.
And just to show how easy it is to program a SMS application with PyS60:
import messaging
messaging.sms_send("number", u"message")
But it's not only Python, you can still write software in C/C++ and J2ME. Though C++ applications requires a signature from nokia to be able to run.
When it comes to workflow/UI, it's even worse. GIMP is designed by a programmer for another programmer, thinking that it works well for everyone.
I strongly disagree with what you're saying about the workflow and UI in Gimp.
Gimp is exellent for those who have two monitors and want toolbars on one screen and the image they're modifying on another screen.
I'm one of those who learned Photoshop first but lately I've converted to Gimp because it do all I need for designing web pages, its free, and I can easily write my own plugins. Many of the features in Gimp that's missing from Photoshop are available as a plugin. And some features in Gimp are better done than the equivalent in Photoshop (for example sharpening). I still agree that Photoshop is a better product overall, but for web development it's really a non issue in my opinion.
When I tried to learn Gimp I was as frustrated as every other photoshopper who tried to learn Gimp. It was hard and the Gimp UI didn't feel intuitive to learn. But I tried hard to learn Gimp and after a couple of days with practise I became just as productive with Gimp as with Photoshop.
Gimp is great and I strongly belive a true graphics artist who actually spend time learning it will find that some of the features in Gimp are in fact really cool and not available in Photoshop. You should check out the Gimp Plugin Registry, you will find several time savers in there.
I highly recommend using both. You get the best from both worlds and can still deliver outstanding art to your customers.
I've never tried it, when I do web design I do it with Gimp, Vim and Firebug. And I think that combo works great!
How do Dreamweaver compare to Vim? Is it advanced enough to not fool users to use css styled text for strong expressions?
Most of the new phones with the Symbian 60 OS support PyS60. I found an outdated list for older phones -> http://pythonlinks.blogspot.com/2008/01/python-programming-with-pys60-and-nokia.html
I have a Nokia N79, and in my opinion I think it's more advanced than both the G1 and iPhone. It's not as fast when it comes to pure speed. But in functionality it delivers "everything". Especially the camera and video recording quality is better done.
There has been so much focus on iPhone, Android and Windows application development in the media the last few years. And yet no one as far as I can remember has ever mentioned that Nokia has a great open source development platform for their phones which runs on newer Symbian 60 called PyS60(Python for Symbian 60) http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/Installing_PyS60
With PyS60you have access to about every feature in the phone. Everything from SMS, to the accelerometer. Not to mention that programming in Python is fun, and if speed is an issue, you still have access to several Python C++ Extensions http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/C%2B%2B_Python_Extensions and there is support for developing your own c++ extensions. On the Nokia wiki there are several small easy to read examples of how to use all the technology in their phones http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Category:Python
Yet I don't understand why developers and media ignore this development platform. Isn't powerful applications that can be coded in less than hundred lines pure joy for a developer? There is a lot of people with Symbian 60 phones out there, more than Android and iPhone together(not sure about Windows though).
Im a web developer and I find almost nothing that works better in IE 7 than IE 6. Javascript is still the same thing, no support for for each loops nor iterators, the setAttribute() function is still useless, dynamic CSS only works correctly with the element.style.cssText attribute and a lot of other IMPORTANT improvements in Javascript is still missing.
I always have to spend more time supporting IE, and supporting both of them at the same time is a piece of cake, because they're hardly any different. Most of the CSS issues gets solved by using Javascript. However that margin/padding bug is still freakin me out.
This ANTI IE campaign is still utter bullshit as long IE 7 is a suggested upgrade, IE7 is basically a minor patch to IE 6 and a new skin.
Most read-only systems with PostgreSQL, Oracle or even MySQL use a cache engine like Memcached or OSCache so the database mostly just idles.
I know Java has a lot of different security frameworks like JSecurity or AcegiSecurity, but I'm not so sure about PHP.
For some years ago Slashdot had a news article about this http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
A social network can be catched, because you don't need *real-time* data. If you have hundreds of requests per second a mid level or front end cache saves you a lot of system resources and the users don't notice anything.
If you read how Memcached works here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached
, you will see that everytime a user updates or adds something it also updates the cache.
And for your knowledge, the count() function in MySQL is already cached in the DB. That is because it can be cached, because MyISAM lacks transactions. InnoDB however has the same slow count() function as other databases.