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Programming

Platform Independent C++ OS Library? 310

Posted by timothy from the one-to-rule-them-all dept.
quench writes "Hello! I have been away from Windows and Linux application software for 5 years or so, doing mainly C-like embedded C++ programming. Now, I am about to start a project emulating embedded hardware on Windows. Been there, doing #ifdef WIN32 and #ifdef LINUX stuff, don't really want to go there any more. What I actually need is a platform independent lib covering Windows and Linux variants to handle sockets, IPC and threads abstractions. And a rock solid but simple embedded database to emulate flash memory. My reflex said, go for ACE and Berkeley-DB. Tell me, am I out of time? Am I missing something new and trendy, easier to use and better? Did time stand still?"
Microsoft

Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties 830

Posted by kdawson from the tone-deaf-and-two-left-hands dept.
lurking_giant writes "Well, Microsoft has done it again with the YouTube Windows 7 launch party video that is turning the stomachs of even the mainstream press with its clueless and campy marketing style. A Washington Post reader was quoted as saying 'If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.'" Even the Guardian's resident die-hard Apple hater calls it "the most nauseating advert in history."

Comment Chrome FTW! (Score 1) 1124

by sadler121 (#29521649) Attached to: Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon

More of a reason to switch to Chrome, or if you are privacy sensitive, SRWare Iron. Running the dev channel means I can get extensions, which allows for the opportunity for ad block.

Firefox is just to damned slow. Maybe if they speed the whole damn browser up I'll look at it, sense Firefox's extensions are still better, but by the time Firefox 4 comes out, Google should have extensions very working well.

Comment Re:Eyecandy in cost of usability (Score 1) 1124

by sadler121 (#29521447) Attached to: Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon

Yes, Microsoft has patented the ribbon interface, and you need a license to use it. Microsoft will not allow "clone products" to be licensed, which means sense Firefox is a "clone product" to IE (in Microsoft's eyes) then Microsoft will not give Mozilla a license.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx
GUI

Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon 1124

Posted by timothy from the what-about-in-gnome? dept.
Barence writes "Mozilla has announced that its plans to bring Office 2007's Ribbon interface to Firefox, as it looks to tidy up its 'dated' browser. 'Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menu bar is going away,' notes Mozilla in its plans for revamping the Firefox user interface. '[It will] be replaced with things like the Windows Explorer contextual strip, or the Office Ribbon, [which is] now in Paint and WordPad, too.' The change will also bring Windows' Aero Glass effects to the browser." Update: 09/24 05:01 GMT by T : It's not quite so simple, says Alexander Limi, who works on the Firefox user experience. "We are not putting the Ribbon UI on Firefox. The article PCpro quotes talks about Windows applications in general, not Firefox." So while the currently proposed direction for Firefox 3.7 involves some substantial visual updates for Windows users (including a menu bar hidden by default, and integration of Aero-styled visual elements), it's not actually a ribbon interface. Limi notes, too, that Linux and Mac versions are unaffected by the change.
First Person Shooters (Games)

Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany 625

Posted by Soulskill from the ach-mein-leben dept.
D1gital_Prob3 tips news that Activision's recently-released shooter, Wolfenstein, is being recalled in Germany due to the appearance of swastikas in the game. Such symbols are banned in Germany, and the German version of the game went through heavy editing to remove them. Apparently, they missed some. Activision said, "Although it is not a conspicuous element in the normal game ... we have decided to take this game immediately from the German market." Reader eldavojohn points out a review that has screenshot comparisons between the two versions of the game.

Comment Re:Dodgy statesmen (Score 1) 681

by sadler121 (#29514677) Attached to: Microsoft Tax Dodge At Issue In Washington State

Oh and the reason the American death age is 1 year lower than EU rates has *nothing* to do with the government. Correlation =/= causation. The real cause is that we eating fatty foods that clog arteries & shorten lifespans. Like this ice cream I'm eating for breakfast. ;-)

an unhealthy lifestyle is only part of the reason we have a lower lifespan in the US. A major contributing factor is violent deaths (especially in the inner city) are much higher here than in the EU, which drag down the numbers quite a bit. If you eliminate violent deaths from the lifespan number, then we would actually have a higher lifespan than the EU.

Comment We don't even have 100 years (Score 4, Insightful) 638

by sadler121 (#29510243) Attached to: Soviets Built a Doomsday Machine; It's Still Alive

Giving us 10,000 years is very kind. To be honest I don't see us surviving the next 100 years. As you mentioned there are way too many crazies that are in the process of, or have nuclear weapons.

This is why we need to get off this rock asap. Yes, space is hostile, but it is about to get just as hostile here in a short amount of time.

We should put nukes in the hands of atheists, who have no sense of an afterlife. Having them in the hands of Christian fundamentalists (USA) or Muslim fundamentalists (Iran, Pakistan) is not a good idea.

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