I've now moved my family over from IE to Firefox - before I wouldn't really have been able to do it as they would have complained when something didn't work the same, but now I have a great reason (stopping our computers getting compromised), and they're all behind it.
My daughters actually prefer it now - citing the way that they don't get pop-up ads any more.
It's good - I think by the time Microsoft come out with a patch they'll be so used to Firefox they won't want to go back to IE.
It's crazy some of the titles that get released at Christmas. All the big boys (well, er... let's make that EA) release big, often licensed games for Christmas, with a huge amount of advertising.
I find it bizarre that publishers put out games like 'Metal Arms: Glitch in the system' at that time which while being a very good game, is hardly going to be able to compete with all the big-name licenses out there at the time.
You have to remember that many of the games that are bought around Christmas are bought for someone else. When Mum, Grandpa or Uncle Alf goes into a game store looking for something to buy little Jimmy, they're going to go for something safe with a brand they recognise. That means FIFA, James Bond, The Matrix, Star Wars, WWE, or something they've seen a lot on the TV.
I should point out that NoMachine's MX was (IIRC) based on existing GPLed Free Software, so this isn't stealing any more than it was for NoMachine to take that GPLed code and make a product out of it. The source code for their stuff is on their website, it's just that another group has now taken that code and put it together in an easier-to-compile distribution. (If I understand the post correctly - I could not reach the Kalyxo webpage...)
As far as I remember, NoMachine's NX software is based on GPL code, which means they had no choice but to release the source code.
I remember trying to build it from source when it first came out, but it proved rather tricky. It's nice that someone's now put in the time to make an easy-to-compile distribution of it.
Actually, I used to have a SCSI drive in my computer. It failed, but that was largely due to a comedy of errors that resulted in the computer and drive severely overheating.
However, again you miss the point. SCSI drives may be very reliable, but they're not completely reliable. They may not fail very often, but they do fail. Only a fool will entrust his important data to the hope that an unlikely event won't happen.
What you seem to fail to grasp is that your 5 year SCSI guarantee does not guarantee you that the disk will not fail within 5 years.. It merely means that the disk is unlikely to fail in that time and they will give you a free replacement if it does.
Therefore, if your data is important you won't just trust that an unlikely event won't happen - you'll assume that it will happen and make sure that it won't affect the integrity of your data.
Therefore you'll be using RAID and preferably regular backups whatever you do. This is what ensures your data integrity, not the reliability or otherwise of your drive.
After that, it's a case weighing performance, the cost (in money, manpower and downtime) of replacing a broken drive and the cost of setup against each other, and this is where it starts to make sense to use IDE drives for RAID:
For instance, say you've got 5 IDE RAID array. Over the space of say, five years you end up having to replace three of the drives - that's eight IDE drives you've had to buy
You also do the same thing with SCSI drives, and luckily none of them break - that's 5 SCSI drives all in all.
Now, say the IDE drives cost $100 each compared to $500 for the SCSI drives. You've spent $800 in the IDE case compared with $2500 in the SCSI case. There was no difference in the safety of your data but the SCSI one cost three times as much.
Therefore to choose SCSI, you'd *really* want to get that extra little bit of speed, which to be honest is more likely to be limited by the network to your server anyway...
So, to recap - assuming your data is valuable to you, the choice between SCSI and IDE has nothing to do with the disk reliability because you'll be relying on some other systems (RAID and backups) for your reliability anyway.
When you try and prove the wealth of Mac games by listing several games that are five years old, you've got to realise that your argument is a little thin.
Yes, I'm sure that Macs are lovely and all, but you're not going to buy a Mac for gaming. Sure, games do come out for them which I'm sure is lovely for all those Mac owners who like to do a little gaming on the side, but if gaming is a big thing that you want to do on your computer, you're going to want to get a PC with Windows.
Of course, it's a lot cheaper just to buy a games console if you're not too bothered about missing out on RTS and the other more cerebal, point-and-clicky games. Console games do seem to work out more expensive though.
The possibility of HDTV in the UK would be nice. We're quite far advanced as far as widescreen and digital TV penetration is concerned, but there aren't any HDTV channels over here at all, and as far as I am aware there are no plans to introduce any...
Next thing they'll be calling burglars 'bulgarizers'...
I mean, if you're going to have 'burglarized', why not start doing the same to other words?
"Someone help me! I've been shooterized!" "Yeah, I went into town the other day to do some shopperizing" "We're not breaking even. We need some way to encourage more shopperizers into the store..."
If you're not doing commercial work, you could try Komodo, which doesn't cost too much ($29.95) for the noncommercial license. You can try it for free for 21 days first to see if you like it.
So, if you think you could afford it, it's definitely worth a look. It doesn't have any GUI designing tools, but it does have project management and an integrated debugger.
Unfortunately there is no free version of Qt for Windows, otherwise I would have thought Qt would be a natural choice.
Teaching? Yes. Applications? Er.. why?
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I'm sure it's a great teaching tool for learning assembler, and if you need to do a bit of assembler for some reason, cool.
However, using it to teach new programmers how to program applications? Why?
It's
a) Harder to learn than a High Level Language. b) Takes a lot more work to get anything done when compared to High Level Languages. c) Is much less use in a working envronment than knowledge of a High Level language is.
You gotta wonder though what makes a mugger decide to pick on the guy all dressed up in armour. I mean, what the fuck? If a guy is walking around in public in medieval armour, what the hell else might he do? You'd have thought the mugger would go after someone more normal-looking...
Okay, then what, exactly, is the purpose of martial arts? If they don't give you an edge in combat then there's no practical reason beyond exercise for learning them, right?
Oh, I'm quite sure that it gives you an edge in combat. However, the point that almost everyone replying to this post seems to have missed is that it won't make you invulnerable. Sure, it might meant that 7 times out of 10 the sensei would have kicked the mugger's ass, but those other three times the mugger manages to do enough damage with his knife that the sensei is seriously disadvantaged and then killed.
Sure, martial arts may increase your chances, but that doesn't mean that you won't die horribly if you're unlucky.
'course, giving over the cash is no guarantee of not dying horribly either...
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I don't develop any Java software, but my current editor of choice is Jedit, a Java-based editor. I use it every working day on Linux.
I've now moved my family over from IE to Firefox - before I wouldn't really have been able to do it as they would have complained when something didn't work the same, but now I have a great reason (stopping our computers getting compromised), and they're all behind it.
My daughters actually prefer it now - citing the way that they don't get pop-up ads any more.
It's good - I think by the time Microsoft come out with a patch they'll be so used to Firefox they won't want to go back to IE.
It's crazy some of the titles that get released at Christmas. All the big boys (well, er... let's make that EA) release big, often licensed games for Christmas, with a huge amount of advertising.
I find it bizarre that publishers put out games like 'Metal Arms: Glitch in the system' at that time which while being a very good game, is hardly going to be able to compete with all the big-name licenses out there at the time.
You have to remember that many of the games that are bought around Christmas are bought for someone else. When Mum, Grandpa or Uncle Alf goes into a game store looking for something to buy little Jimmy, they're going to go for something safe with a brand they recognise. That means FIFA, James Bond, The Matrix, Star Wars, WWE, or something they've seen a lot on the TV.
What about the emergency services?
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22217.107.218.147% 22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N&filter =0
/. puts spaces in long urls...
Because
I should point out that NoMachine's MX was (IIRC) based on existing GPLed Free Software, so this isn't stealing any more than it was for NoMachine to take that GPLed code and make a product out of it. The source code for their stuff is on their website, it's just that another group has now taken that code and put it together in an easier-to-compile distribution. (If I understand the post correctly - I could not reach the Kalyxo webpage...)
As far as I remember, NoMachine's NX software is based on GPL code, which means they had no choice but to release the source code.
I remember trying to build it from source when it first came out, but it proved rather tricky. It's nice that someone's now put in the time to make an easy-to-compile distribution of it.
A tonne is 2240lbs, whereas a ton is 2000lbs.
er.
I think.
And a metric ton is 1000kg, which is fairly close to a tonne, which is around 1016kg.
It's Metre.
I'm a parent
Yeah, me too, but that's no excuse to leave your phone on in a theatre.
If you feel you must have it on, put it on silent and vibrate. If your phone won't do that - tough. Buy a new one.
Also, even if you do get a phone call, don't talk until you've got out of the theatre.
You need to set a good example to your kids of good manners...
Hmm. Good point.
Well, a good example is Photoshop if you want to be able to manipulate really big images...
Win4Lin is pretty spiffy, but it only works with programs that will run on windows 98 and only require 128Mb of memory...
Actually, I used to have a SCSI drive in my computer. It failed, but that was largely due to a comedy of errors that resulted in the computer and drive severely overheating.
However, again you miss the point. SCSI drives may be very reliable, but they're not completely reliable. They may not fail very often, but they do fail. Only a fool will entrust his important data to the hope that an unlikely event won't happen.
What you seem to fail to grasp is that your 5 year SCSI guarantee does not guarantee you that the disk will not fail within 5 years.. It merely means that the disk is unlikely to fail in that time and they will give you a free replacement if it does.
Therefore, if your data is important you won't just trust that an unlikely event won't happen - you'll assume that it will happen and make sure that it won't affect the integrity of your data.
Therefore you'll be using RAID and preferably regular backups whatever you do. This is what ensures your data integrity, not the reliability or otherwise of your drive.
After that, it's a case weighing performance, the cost (in money, manpower and downtime) of replacing a broken drive and the cost of setup against each other, and this is where it starts to make sense to use IDE drives for RAID:
For instance, say you've got 5 IDE RAID array. Over the space of say, five years you end up having to replace three of the drives - that's eight IDE drives you've had to buy
You also do the same thing with SCSI drives, and luckily none of them break - that's 5 SCSI drives all in all.
Now, say the IDE drives cost $100 each compared to $500 for the SCSI drives. You've spent $800 in the IDE case compared with $2500 in the SCSI case. There was no difference in the safety of your data but the SCSI one cost three times as much.
Therefore to choose SCSI, you'd *really* want to get that extra little bit of speed, which to be honest is more likely to be limited by the network to your server anyway...
So, to recap - assuming your data is valuable to you, the choice between SCSI and IDE has nothing to do with the disk reliability because you'll be relying on some other systems (RAID and backups) for your reliability anyway.
I'm sorry, but he's got a point.
When you try and prove the wealth of Mac games by listing several games that are five years old, you've got to realise that your argument is a little thin.
Yes, I'm sure that Macs are lovely and all, but you're not going to buy a Mac for gaming. Sure, games do come out for them which I'm sure is lovely for all those Mac owners who like to do a little gaming on the side, but if gaming is a big thing that you want to do on your computer, you're going to want to get a PC with Windows.
Of course, it's a lot cheaper just to buy a games console if you're not too bothered about missing out on RTS and the other more cerebal, point-and-clicky games. Console games do seem to work out more expensive though.
The possibility of HDTV in the UK would be nice. We're quite far advanced as far as widescreen and digital TV penetration is concerned, but there aren't any HDTV channels over here at all, and as far as I am aware there are no plans to introduce any...
Something I forgot to mention in the parent post...
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woo!
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Does anyone know why the cheat for 'Realistic Damage' is 'SWEDISHARMY'?
It really sounds like it's a reference to something...
Surely 'burglarize' isn't listed?
Next thing they'll be calling burglars 'bulgarizers'...
I mean, if you're going to have 'burglarized', why not start doing the same to other words?
"Someone help me! I've been shooterized!"
"Yeah, I went into town the other day to do some shopperizing"
"We're not breaking even. We need some way to encourage more shopperizers into the store..."
Madness!
If you're not doing commercial work, you could try Komodo, which doesn't cost too much ($29.95) for the noncommercial license. You can try it for free for 21 days first to see if you like it.
So, if you think you could afford it, it's definitely worth a look. It doesn't have any GUI designing tools, but it does have project management and an integrated debugger.
Unfortunately there is no free version of Qt for Windows, otherwise I would have thought Qt would be a natural choice.
I'm sure it's a great teaching tool for learning assembler, and if you need to do a bit of assembler for some reason, cool.
However, using it to teach new programmers how to program applications? Why?
It's
a) Harder to learn than a High Level Language.
b) Takes a lot more work to get anything done when compared to High Level Languages.
c) Is much less use in a working envronment than knowledge of a High Level language is.
You gotta wonder though what makes a mugger decide to pick on the guy all dressed up in armour. I mean, what the fuck? If a guy is walking around in public in medieval armour, what the hell else might he do? You'd have thought the mugger would go after someone more normal-looking...
Okay, then what, exactly, is the purpose of martial arts? If they don't give you an edge in combat then there's no practical reason beyond exercise for learning them, right?
Oh, I'm quite sure that it gives you an edge in combat. However, the point that almost everyone replying to this post seems to have missed is that it won't make you invulnerable. Sure, it might meant that 7 times out of 10 the sensei would have kicked the mugger's ass, but those other three times the mugger manages to do enough damage with his knife that the sensei is seriously disadvantaged and then killed.
Sure, martial arts may increase your chances, but that doesn't mean that you won't die horribly if you're unlucky.
'course, giving over the cash is no guarantee of not dying horribly either...