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Thursday Release Party
taktile writes "I started the project about a week and a half ago after learning about Apple's ASCIIMoviePlayer. QuickASCII is an Open Source project to add improvements to Apple's player."
Another user writes, "There is a small group collaboration program called iStorm that is out. It anyone gets tired of severely delayed collaboration over the Internet, maybe he should try an almost telepathic experience with this program."
ludeyork writes "I just saw that BBEdit 7.0 has been released and it's got great new features." It's very cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet. The CVS integration is worth the upgrade for me.
yuck72 writes "Apple has just released version 5.2 of its WebObjects application server. Improvements include better J2EE integration, easy tools for building SOAP-based web services and Java Webstart support. Applications can be deployed on any machine with a Java 1.3.1 compliant JVM. Apple's 'best-kept secret' really deserves more attention than it currently gets considering that it plays in the same league as Websphere and Weblogic." Oops, maybe I should have given it its own story.
...how nice to hear a passel of good news, satisified customers, etc. -- and in the computer industry! OMG.
Thanks for the good vibes. All this carping about Microsoft and the evil spying government gives us indigestion. (It's merely a question of proportions in the "omelette.")
Here's an example. I could create all of the functionality of slashdot, from scratch, including users, moderation, friend/foe, story posting, etc. in about 3 weeks. FROM SCRATCH. Oh, and it would have a hell of a lot better performance and scalability than slasdot has now.
/. doesn't get /.'ed, but Apple does.
That's a big fucking boast. WO is the bomb, but I'm not so sure you could write slash in 3 weeks, and I'm CERTAIN it would not have the same performance/scalability in that time.
The biggest problems (for WOSlash) that I can think of: memory & updates. Sure you could scale it up onto a few machines easily, but the instaneous updates between sessions on multiple machines is a tough act. I don't know slash code, but I think they fetch almost everything from the db almost all the time, and WO simply isn't really good at that. The fact that you can't easily use more than one DB connection from one app is gonna kill you, I think.
Slash is probably one of the heaviest used sites in the world, and it holds up really well. Consider:
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One button mouse.
Keyboards that none wants to use.
Paying for every service pack.
Overpriced hardware.
Mac zealots that hink that PCs only run Windows 95.
Slow processors.
Plunging share price.
Slow software updates.
Poor market share.
Bloated GUI.
Grinning idiots on Apple's homepage.
What about windoze problems?
* Inability to realise you can buy multi-button mice for $10.
* Keyboards with thousands of proprietry keys from thousands of manufacturers (a "check email" key, I mean really!).
* Having to deal with a buggy, broken OS that seems to develop more security holes with each patch applied.
* Inability to realise that 10.1 to 10.2 is like windoze 95 > windows 98. M$ didn't give you a copy of thier peice of shit OS for free did they?
* Users caught in the myth that a 50 GHz processor is useless if the rest of your hardware is rubbish.
* I don't own shares in Apple
* How does lower market share affect my productivity/enjoyment of Apple?
* Crayola GUI in latest OS. Bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain other OS with an X in the name. Copying again M$? tch tch.
* Stock photo idiots on M$'s homepage (remember M$'s supposed "switch" ad?)
* Having to use your own employees to promote your OS in a fake switch ad, since no one else will.
* Lacking a nice Unix core that has proved very useful to me in OSX.
Oh, and one last thing.
* Digital Rights Removal, errr, Digital Restrictions Management, err, no sorry Digital Rights Management.