I thought DivX was dead...and XviD is IMHO dying to H.264 Anyway there should also be support for the Matroska container so I can play the DRM free versions of my HD movies.
But I find the average score from reviews at www.gamerankings.com something I can trust. A good average score simply means that the game is good. One opinion for something can never beat the average of thousands opinions.
Use Varnish HTTP cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_cache It's designed from the ground up as an HTTP accelerator. It's extremly fast, in most cases way faster than Squid. However if you rely a lot on cookies you should look somewhere else.
As I understand this law is that my private server in Germany is now open for brute force attackers because I can't ban their ip address after 3 login failures? Heck I can't even break that law since everyone can easily tell that I'm using a ban list and just call the police.
I think someone in the German government should google brute force attacks and why ban lists are good.
I just don't get why J2ME development has to be so complicated: weird acronyms, half a dozen versions, different packages which may or may not be supported on any particular device, applications that sometimes run and sometimes don't, installers that sometimes work and sometimes don't, etc.
Sun is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; give it another few years and they'll have thoroughly destroyed the mobile Java market as well, just like they did with the Java desktop market. You should try NetBeans 6, the developers have implemented great support for developing J2ME applications. There is even a GUI/Flow designer for Mobile devices included. It's true that before I had to spend a week configuring just to get Hello World up and running, but with a clean NetBeans 6 install I(and probably all of you) can do it within seconds. Also an emulator is included so you can test/debug on your computer, still if you want to test your application on your mobile device you just have to copy the compiled jar file over.
There are several samples included: like sounds, graphics, basic networking, games. I recommend everyone who is interested in developing application for mobile devices to check it out;)
But if you already hate Java, then just stick to the Windows platform. It's also very good.
Vista is the worst thing I've ever installed on a PC. I have a quite high end system. Core 2 Duo running at 3.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Still after a few months use I struggle with constantly disc swapping and 5 minutes waiting everytime I alt-tab out games, for example Warcraft 3. After a week without a reboot Vista use 1.8GB of memory. Some is probably caching, however as I said I struggle with a lot of swapping to the disc and a reboot of Vista helps A LOT!
In two years people will say that 2GB ram for Vista is minimum, and recommended amount of memory is 8GB ram(No I'm not joking). It's like when WinXP was released, 128MB was minimum, and recommended was 512MB. Today it's 256MB minimum and 1GB recommended.
My laptop with WinXP and 512MB ram is way more responsive than my desktop with Vista and 2GB ram:(
The only thing Apple needs is more (especially high end)games and I'm sure people will get a Mac next time. Imagine if Crysis were only to be released on a Mac!
There are other databases which is way better and yet more *free*
In my eyes, MySQL is in the same database league today as Windows 3.1 is in the OS league.
It's time to move on, lets fork SQLite, add networking and support for multiple users, release it as GPL and name it MySQLite.
I use Ubuntu with Samba and maybe NFS.
My gaming computer use Vista, for storage I have a Ubuntu with EXT3 shared folder which uses samba. I can write/delete/execute software easily. All I do is mount a new network disc in Vista. I belive this also work for NFS which is filesharing(SMB://) for unix.
What is most scary is that all projects using LinRails automaticly make their application GPL because of the MySQL client which is GPL. SQLite would have been a much better alternative.
This my experience also.
I just graduated with a bachelor degree in computer systems with below average grades. In my first interview I was asked about my grades and told the interviewer that I really didn't care about my grades. I went to college to learn, not to get good grades. At college you get good grades for memorizing the three rules of database normalization, but being able to ensure good data integrity doesn't matter at all. School favor memorizing and theory too much.
Instead when I was at the interview we focused on my main bachelor project. That project got me the job, the use of design patterns, documentation, and bleeding edge technology impressed the interviewer which is now my boss. I felt like I was selling a new bleeding edge product;)
I belive one should choose the license which one belive is most fair for their project. How many restrictions are you willing to put on your source?
In many cases I think GPL is just unfair. I really prefer LGPL a lot more than GPL.
Let's do an example: I develop a web application which I'm going to sell. I want to integrate an open source database into it, in that case I would have a huge problem with MySQL(GPL). I would have to distribute the source code for my web application to everyone who buys my product, any most of my customers would hate that!
PostgreSQL(BSD) on the other hand just demands that I include a text file which says that the PostgreSQL Global Development Group owns it. However with SQLite(Public Domain) I can just grab the source integrate it into my application and tell my customers that the source in the project is all mine.
Isn't the problem with Java that it tries to be the answer for everything? And because of that your application becomes a hell of a bastard to work with and many solutions which is just mess?
Like if you have 10 programmers in 3 groups working with networking and because Java have so many similar network libraries every group use a different library. And when they're welding it all together a new story begins.
Today there are so many alternatives that I belive Java should only be a last option. Embedded? ANSI C or Assembly. High precision float calculation? Fortran. Web? Ruby/Rails or PHP. And there is probably an endless list of alternatives that I don't know about. I think Java is really painful to work with when it comes to well....everything.
Maybe a combination of Java and Ruby on Rails would be a good solution for many web based projects?
Or am I just completely wrong? Java is the solution for *almost* everything?
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Because the Matroska container isn't supported! Which means you cannot have h.264 video + ac3/dts audio.
I thought DivX was dead...and XviD is IMHO dying to H.264
Anyway there should also be support for the Matroska container so I can play the DRM free versions of my HD movies.
But I find the average score from reviews at www.gamerankings.com something I can trust. A good average score simply means that the game is good.
One opinion for something can never beat the average of thousands opinions.
Mod parent informative! I guess a lot of Gimp users want this =)
You're correct, I just googled this http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php
Does there exists more open source projects with such agreements?
Open source companies that loves good money and dual licensing!
So I can create a few hours of extra fun from Bioshock for myself and the whole world.
Use Varnish HTTP cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_cache
It's designed from the ground up as an HTTP accelerator. It's extremly fast, in most cases way faster than Squid. However if you rely a lot on cookies you should look somewhere else.
As I understand this law is that my private server in Germany is now open for brute force attackers because I can't ban their ip address after 3 login failures? Heck I can't even break that law since everyone can easily tell that I'm using a ban list and just call the police.
I think someone in the German government should google brute force attacks and why ban lists are good.
Sun is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; give it another few years and they'll have thoroughly destroyed the mobile Java market as well, just like they did with the Java desktop market. You should try NetBeans 6, the developers have implemented great support for developing J2ME applications. There is even a GUI/Flow designer for Mobile devices included. It's true that before I had to spend a week configuring just to get Hello World up and running, but with a clean NetBeans 6 install I(and probably all of you) can do it within seconds. Also an emulator is included so you can test/debug on your computer, still if you want to test your application on your mobile device you just have to copy the compiled jar file over.
There are several samples included: like sounds, graphics, basic networking, games. I recommend everyone who is interested in developing application for mobile devices to check it out
But if you already hate Java, then just stick to the Windows platform. It's also very good.
With shader 4.0 benchmarking!
I find the hardware extremly expensive today, however this will hopefully change in a few years.
Does it require more resources than XP - probably but not to any greater amount than I've come to expect from other OS upgrades.
Install XP on a system with 256MB ram
Install Vista on a systen with 512MB ram
Now tell which OS you think is most responsive!
My experience with both is that a default installation of XP with 256MB ram performs similar to default installation of Vista with 1GB ram.
Vista is the worst thing I've ever installed on a PC. I have a quite high end system. Core 2 Duo running at 3.2Ghz with 2GB ram. Still after a few months use I struggle with constantly disc swapping and 5 minutes waiting everytime I alt-tab out games, for example Warcraft 3. After a week without a reboot Vista use 1.8GB of memory. Some is probably caching, however as I said I struggle with a lot of swapping to the disc and a reboot of Vista helps A LOT!
:(
In two years people will say that 2GB ram for Vista is minimum, and recommended amount of memory is 8GB ram(No I'm not joking). It's like when WinXP was released, 128MB was minimum, and recommended was 512MB. Today it's 256MB minimum and 1GB recommended.
My laptop with WinXP and 512MB ram is way more responsive than my desktop with Vista and 2GB ram
The only thing Apple needs is more (especially high end)games and I'm sure people will get a Mac next time. Imagine if Crysis were only to be released on a Mac!
I actually have a 10% faster internet connection! All I need to do is to upgrade to Linux.
There are other databases which is way better and yet more *free* In my eyes, MySQL is in the same database league today as Windows 3.1 is in the OS league. It's time to move on, lets fork SQLite, add networking and support for multiple users, release it as GPL and name it MySQLite.
I use Ubuntu with Samba and maybe NFS. My gaming computer use Vista, for storage I have a Ubuntu with EXT3 shared folder which uses samba. I can write/delete/execute software easily. All I do is mount a new network disc in Vista. I belive this also work for NFS which is filesharing(SMB://) for unix.
Hardly worth making OSS if I can never make any money from it. By following that example you wouldn't be able to post this on slashdot.
is the same as writing litterature with a programming language.
What is most scary is that all projects using LinRails automaticly make their application GPL because of the MySQL client which is GPL. SQLite would have been a much better alternative.
And SQLite is faster than MyISAM
This my experience also. I just graduated with a bachelor degree in computer systems with below average grades. In my first interview I was asked about my grades and told the interviewer that I really didn't care about my grades. I went to college to learn, not to get good grades. At college you get good grades for memorizing the three rules of database normalization, but being able to ensure good data integrity doesn't matter at all. School favor memorizing and theory too much. Instead when I was at the interview we focused on my main bachelor project. That project got me the job, the use of design patterns, documentation, and bleeding edge technology impressed the interviewer which is now my boss. I felt like I was selling a new bleeding edge product ;)
I belive one should choose the license which one belive is most fair for their project. How many restrictions are you willing to put on your source? In many cases I think GPL is just unfair. I really prefer LGPL a lot more than GPL. Let's do an example: I develop a web application which I'm going to sell. I want to integrate an open source database into it, in that case I would have a huge problem with MySQL(GPL). I would have to distribute the source code for my web application to everyone who buys my product, any most of my customers would hate that! PostgreSQL(BSD) on the other hand just demands that I include a text file which says that the PostgreSQL Global Development Group owns it. However with SQLite(Public Domain) I can just grab the source integrate it into my application and tell my customers that the source in the project is all mine.
Isn't the problem with Java that it tries to be the answer for everything? And because of that your application becomes a hell of a bastard to work with and many solutions which is just mess? Like if you have 10 programmers in 3 groups working with networking and because Java have so many similar network libraries every group use a different library. And when they're welding it all together a new story begins. Today there are so many alternatives that I belive Java should only be a last option. Embedded? ANSI C or Assembly. High precision float calculation? Fortran. Web? Ruby/Rails or PHP. And there is probably an endless list of alternatives that I don't know about. I think Java is really painful to work with when it comes to well....everything. Maybe a combination of Java and Ruby on Rails would be a good solution for many web based projects? Or am I just completely wrong? Java is the solution for *almost* everything?
If you want something similar to Rails for Java then you should take a look at Groovy for Grails