but Microsoft will find it tough without a huge country like India buying their software packages
Yes, but for another reason. Ok, it might be tough for Microsoft losing a large customer base like India, but I think that the migration of a large number of Indian programmers to Linux poses a much larger thread to Microsoft.
One of the most often head FUD arguments against Linux is that there are not enough programs and this alone would be a reason why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. We all know the chicken/egg problem Linux had to deal with for a long time. With more and more countries considering Linux and a growing user/developer base this argument gets more and more ridiculous. And Indian isn't known for having the worst programmers.
Even worse for Microsoft: Linux still has a little (!) problem with hardware and drivers. There are still too many hardware producers, which do not provide drivers or even specifications of their products. The situation got much better in the last years, but if one is honest, one must admit, that going into a shop and buying an arbitrary piece of hardware can still be result in quite a disappointment for Linux users. Maybe the hardware producers can afford to ignore the Linux users in Europe and America (stupid and short sighted, if you ask me), but can the afford to lose a whole country like India? Yes, Tamil Nadu might not be the whole India, but if this switch works, and there is no technical reason that it doesn't, the rest of India might follow quickly. Over night the remaining hardware/driver problems might be gone. And with that another FUD 'argument'.
Losing India might be the worst that can happen to Microsoft. And not because of some unsold Office and Vista packages in India.
No, not the language. The features sound nice. But I really really hate the name. Same as 'C'. Why? Search for 'D' in Google (or anywhere else). 'C' was pre-internet and pre-search engines, so the name is excused, but today I'd make sure that any program I write or I am responsible for would have at least four letters.
...but where is the problem? Homeless people and Chinese nationals are 'used' by people with money to wait in line for them. Horrific thought. Almost as bad as my boss having me work for him for money. And btw: "get paid 20,000 yen for his services and was then sent away". Pardon? I might have miscalculated, but according to the yahoo currency calculator 20,000 yen are ~170$. Homeless people get $170 to stand in line for someone else? Hey, for whom can I stand in line?
This article is tagged 'racism'? Ridiculous.
I'd say this is not practically possible. Many computers are packaged and may lie quite some time in some storage. How would you update them? Even if you do somehow, a computer, which is secure today might become vulnerable in the time it ships from the store to the customer. Make it a felony to sell a computer that's not already adequately set up und noone dares to sell computers anymore.
I might accept that the regretfully failed dino food knows Unix, but even after years of Unix administration, I would not just hack into an unknown system like she does. Especially not with such a braindead filemanager like the one in the movie.
And I am not even sure of that. Ok, we all know, that they got money from Apple for this. But apart from that, is it that unlikely that a computer expert tweaks such a device for his personal needs? I just ordered a Qtopia Greenphone from Trolltech (hope I get one) and I really doubt that I ever will use it as a telephone. A few of my ideas would probably sound as ridiculous.
I don't know about you, but if the "Login successful" screen did the stars shit every time *I* logged into a computer, I would drag the developer into a dark alley and beat him with a crowbar for a couple of hours.
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Just wait for Windows Vista SP 2.;-)
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Most of it misses the point. As do most of the replys to this article. Many here say, that there is Python, Perl, Ruby. You can even find 1001 flavours of BASIC. So what? What to do with it? When I was young, there were dozends of weekly or monthly journals, which contained game code. Sometimes I took me hours to hack it in. But I had the code. Even more, many magazines explained the code line by line. I was able to change things and see the results immediately. When I had no joystick, I was able to change the game to use keyboard inputs. This was interesting, this was fun. I really doubt I would have invested even half the time I used to hack in those listings, to learn a programming language when all I had where books, which started to explain how to print 'Hello world' on the screen. I think this is the real problem today. There are no materials to interest todays kids. When I go in a bookshop I see dozends of books, which fine if you are an adult who wants or has to learn. When I browse magazines I see game tests, hardware tests, rarely a small project, which is little more interesting than 'Hello world'.
Does anyone today know a magazine like ANTIC for the Atari? Twenty years ago there were dozends. Today? None.
So install whatever programming language you want on you childrens computer. It won't change anything.
The reason children don't code (if that is even true, as it's a completely unsubstantiated assertion) is because they don't want to.
I don't think this really is true. When I was a kid there were many journals, which contained game code, which I had to type in manually. Some of those games were actually quite good. Very often the same journals explained the program code. It was relatively easy to modify it and see the results. When I had no joystick, I changed them to use the keyboard. Wasn't always easy at first, but I wanted to play those games. I very much doubt that I would have bothered to learn a programming language and invest even half of that time, when all I had were books, which started with an example of how to write 'Hello world'. I do think that the problem today is, that the starting steps to do something meaningful got much higher. Sure, you can do with Python or Perl the same you could do with BASIC twenty years ago. In theory. If you already can code. But even if all computers still shipped with BASIC, it would not be the same. The do-it-yourself coding culture got lost and therefore practically all of the important literature vanished. Do you know a weekly or even monthly journal, which actually teaches you how to paint a green line across the screen? Twenty years ago I could have named a dozend without even thinking. Today? None.
Also, IIRC cdrecord doesn't (or didn't) support DVD recording except through a propietary program made by schilling. You needed to pay him money in order to get a license and a key.
Be fair. This decision is perfectly in his right to make.
I understand dropping his package, but kicking him? Man, I don't want to upset the Debian team.
You don't want to upset the Debian team? Did you ever follow a discussion with Joerg Schilling? Regardless who is right or wrong, the Debian team must be a bunch of angels. Someone like Ghandi probably would have strangeld him after five minutes.
a kid drowning in America?
Yes, it sounds cruel, but the best thing you can do is just go away. With reports like this and similar ones, you never know what happen after you saved the child. You might be registered just because you might have accidentally touched the kid the wrong way while you pulled it out of the water. An never ever do a mouth-to-mouth breathing until you made sure how old the drowning victim is. Best never ever do a mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, if the vicim is no child, you might still be in legal fire as a rapist.
Strange, when I used Qt 3.x I never noticed those classes. For some reason I always coded like Trolltech proposes it for 4.x:
QWidget *vbox = new QWidget;
QPushButton *child1 = new QPushButton;
QPushButton *child2 = new QPushButton;
QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout;
layout->addWidget(child1);
layout->addWidget(child2);
vbox->setLayout(layout);
Wonder why QVBox and QHBox existed in the first place. They don't even inherit from QLayout, but 'emulate' a QVBoxLayout/QHBoxLayout. Maybe if you ask Trolltech they reimplent it in 4.2.x based on the layout classes as convenience classes? I noticed TT is very open for that kind of requests.
Why not?
No serious as I explained in another forum on a similar question:
For a Java guy? Don't know. For me? Easy to explain. Due to my job in the last 5 - 6 years I hardly had the chance to code in Java. Everyting was C/C++ + Qt. For quite some time I felt a bit sorry that I was more and more losing my Java knowledge. Oh, from time to time I decided just for practice to start a little private Java project. But sooner or later I came to the conclusion: 'Why bother? What I do now can be done so much easier with C++ and Qt'. That alwas was the time when this 'project' died.
A few days ago I installed QtJambi and it felt comfortable. I am quite experienced in Qt, its layout manager, widgets. Knowing them I started coding in Java/QtJambi as if I had done so for years. I'd say an experienced C/C++/Qt developer, who has never written one line Java can do serious development in Java after a few hours skimming through a beginners Java book.
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..or not. If it is real, what is it good for? Radioactive waste is not only radioactive, but at least warm. Now cool it for 100 years down to a few kelvin. This is an energy balance I'd really like to see.
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Hope not, a bit outdated this version. The stable version is 4.2, which is much superior to 4.0. Gentoo currently uses a 4.1 version.
I wish there were Qt bindings from Trolltech. I would switch to D at once.
One of the most often head FUD arguments against Linux is that there are not enough programs and this alone would be a reason why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. We all know the chicken/egg problem Linux had to deal with for a long time. With more and more countries considering Linux and a growing user/developer base this argument gets more and more ridiculous. And Indian isn't known for having the worst programmers.
Even worse for Microsoft: Linux still has a little (!) problem with hardware and drivers. There are still too many hardware producers, which do not provide drivers or even specifications of their products. The situation got much better in the last years, but if one is honest, one must admit, that going into a shop and buying an arbitrary piece of hardware can still be result in quite a disappointment for Linux users. Maybe the hardware producers can afford to ignore the Linux users in Europe and America (stupid and short sighted, if you ask me), but can the afford to lose a whole country like India? Yes, Tamil Nadu might not be the whole India, but if this switch works, and there is no technical reason that it doesn't, the rest of India might follow quickly. Over night the remaining hardware/driver problems might be gone. And with that another FUD 'argument'.
Losing India might be the worst that can happen to Microsoft. And not because of some unsold Office and Vista packages in India.
No, not the language. The features sound nice. But I really really hate the name. Same as 'C'. Why? Search for 'D' in Google (or anywhere else). 'C' was pre-internet and pre-search engines, so the name is excused, but today I'd make sure that any program I write or I am responsible for would have at least four letters.
...but where is the problem? Homeless people and Chinese nationals are 'used' by people with money to wait in line for them. Horrific thought. Almost as bad as my boss having me work for him for money. And btw: "get paid 20,000 yen for his services and was then sent away". Pardon? I might have miscalculated, but according to the yahoo currency calculator 20,000 yen are ~170$. Homeless people get $170 to stand in line for someone else? Hey, for whom can I stand in line? This article is tagged 'racism'? Ridiculous.
I'd say this is not practically possible. Many computers are packaged and may lie quite some time in some storage. How would you update them? Even if you do somehow, a computer, which is secure today might become vulnerable in the time it ships from the store to the customer. Make it a felony to sell a computer that's not already adequately set up und noone dares to sell computers anymore.
Just wait for Windows Vista SP 2.
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...the decision is easy. Publish the bugs after five days. This should be enough. They proved they can deliver patches after three days.
Most of it misses the point. As do most of the replys to this article. Many here say, that there is Python, Perl, Ruby. You can even find 1001 flavours of BASIC. So what? What to do with it? When I was young, there were dozends of weekly or monthly journals, which contained game code. Sometimes I took me hours to hack it in. But I had the code. Even more, many magazines explained the code line by line. I was able to change things and see the results immediately. When I had no joystick, I was able to change the game to use keyboard inputs. This was interesting, this was fun. I really doubt I would have invested even half the time I used to hack in those listings, to learn a programming language when all I had where books, which started to explain how to print 'Hello world' on the screen. I think this is the real problem today. There are no materials to interest todays kids. When I go in a bookshop I see dozends of books, which fine if you are an adult who wants or has to learn. When I browse magazines I see game tests, hardware tests, rarely a small project, which is little more interesting than 'Hello world'.
Does anyone today know a magazine like ANTIC for the Atari? Twenty years ago there were dozends. Today? None.
So install whatever programming language you want on you childrens computer. It won't change anything.
You are sooo mean. This was a good password. Now it isn't anymore. :-)
...manipulate my /etc/resolv.conf or my /etc/hosts?
I used liquid soap. Before my vasectomy.
a kid drowning in America? Yes, it sounds cruel, but the best thing you can do is just go away. With reports like this and similar ones, you never know what happen after you saved the child. You might be registered just because you might have accidentally touched the kid the wrong way while you pulled it out of the water. An never ever do a mouth-to-mouth breathing until you made sure how old the drowning victim is. Best never ever do a mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, if the vicim is no child, you might still be in legal fire as a rapist.
Why not?
No serious as I explained in another forum on a similar question:
For a Java guy? Don't know. For me? Easy to explain. Due to my job in the last 5 - 6 years I hardly had the chance to code in Java. Everyting was C/C++ + Qt. For quite some time I felt a bit sorry that I was more and more losing my Java knowledge. Oh, from time to time I decided just for practice to start a little private Java project. But sooner or later I came to the conclusion: 'Why bother? What I do now can be done so much easier with C++ and Qt'. That alwas was the time when this 'project' died. A few days ago I installed QtJambi and it felt comfortable. I am quite experienced in Qt, its layout manager, widgets. Knowing them I started coding in Java/QtJambi as if I had done so for years. I'd say an experienced C/C++/Qt developer, who has never written one line Java can do serious development in Java after a few hours skimming through a beginners Java book.
..or not. If it is real, what is it good for? Radioactive waste is not only radioactive, but at least warm. Now cool it for 100 years down to a few kelvin. This is an energy balance I'd really like to see.
cells is outdated. I am not an expert, but more and more I hear of different results, e.g. here: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s59648. htm