dm0527 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Octopus & the Goldfish (Score 2, Funny) 205

by dm0527 on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @04:03PM (#30448966) Attached to: Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus

I can't think of a better reason to eat the little fish thief...

Comment Re:I beat it ages ago (Score 1) 655

by dm0527 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @12:44PM (#30311946) Attached to: Man "Beats" <em>World of Warcraft</em>

wow...geek movie reference got missed there by a few folks ;)
/loves the WarGames

Lightweight C++ Library For SVG On Windows? 130

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 28, 2009 @02:53PM from the put-a-choke-on-your-tla-dectector dept.

redblue writes "I would like to display vector graphics in my Windows C++ programs with minimal system requirements. Some of the possibilities are: 1. Enhanced Metafile Format format/EMF+, 2. Flash/SWG, 3. Silverlight/XAML, 4. SVG. The non-open proprietary nature of #2 & #3 make them unattractive. Since EMF+ is not amenable to easy editing, it leaves SVG as the only format worth pursuing. The trouble is that the major vendors have a lock on the market with their proprietary formats; leaving SVG high and dry with no easy native OS support. At least not on Windows. From what I could learn on the intertubes, Cairo is the best, if not only, reasonable system that may enable compiled SVG support. Unfortunately, AFAIK, it comes with a price tag of >2MB overhead and the C++ bindings are not straightforward." Read on for the rest of redblue's question; can you improve on his home-brewed solution?

Comment Re:Then go online in your own computer. (Score 1) 94

by dm0527 on Thursday September 27, 2007 @07:39PM (#20776237) Attached to: Gmail Vulnerability May Expose User Information

Regardless of whether or not an employee feels "entitled" to these types of "perks", things like casual Internet access and access to personal email are quickly becoming ubiquitous. If an employer doesn't offer these types of "perks" soon, they'll be looking to SOS for temps to fill the spots of employees who have gone elsewhere. Comparing email access to having personal masseuses is a little bit of a stretch too - I have worked at several jobs where IM/Email was my only contact with my family because I was on site and had no immediate access to a phone.

Sure, it's in the power of an employer to grant or deny these perks, but when a company takes such a hard line attitude towards its own employees, you can bet that they'll act just like they're being treated, and if they feel that is unfairly, well, there it is...

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