Nat Demos Dashboard

pheared writes "Nat Friedman from Ximian gave a fairly in depth, quite hilarious (got embarrassing screensaver?), and somewhat impromptu, talk about his project "Dashboard" at OLS. From his blog: "The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time." Neat stuff, but I don't think I will be warming up to Mono and C# any time soon."

Comments

Re:Unnecessary commentary?

[Anonymous Coward]

Could you at least give a reason for your statement?

How about the fact that Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer have been making threating noises about Microsoft IPR in GPL software, and Mono is clearly in the line of fire for the first to be up against the wall when the lawyers decend?

Even Miguel himself admits that Mono contains Microsoft patented methods. Shit, he may as well pack shop and go live in a cardboard box now.

MOD PARENT DOWN #@ -1; Goatse Redirect @#

[Anonymous Coward]

Parent contains a redirect link to the infamous "goatse" photo

Re:I'm warming up fast to .net

[Anonymous Coward]

go ahead, the software industry is already saturated with uneducated clubies like yourself. if you don't have a job, you can't code. learn visual basic while you're at it. darwinism in action. don't take it personally.

Re:Please help a Linux Newbie

[floydman]

lolz, where the hell did u find that.... FLAME HIM..

iam sick and tired

[Anonymous Coward]

Now look i don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux fanatics?
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD box (192 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes !. At home, on my Pentium Pro 233 running Win98ME , which by all standards should be a lot slower than this BSD box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Mozilla just will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various *nix boxes, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Sun box that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the faster ram architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 233 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that BSD on a sparc is a superior machine.

Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a BSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

I am sick and tired

[Anonymous Coward]

Now look i don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Java fanatics?
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a 2GHz Pentium 4 box (1 Gig of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to load a Java program. 20 minutes !. Using Mono on my Pentium Pro 233 running Win98ME , which by all standards should be a lot slower than this work box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes using C#. If that.
In addition, the whole system has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with Java, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Java program run faster than its C# counterpart, despite the fact Java's been around longer. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Java is a superior programming language.

Java addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Java over a faster, easier, more stable language.

Re:2nd post!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now look i don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Java fanatics?
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a 2GHz Pentium 4 box (1 Gig of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to load a Java program. 20 minutes !. Using .Net on my Pentium Pro 233 running Win98ME , which by all standards should be a lot slower than this work box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes using C#. If that.
In addition, the whole system has ground to a halt. Even Notepad is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with Java, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Java program run faster than its C# counterpart, despite the fact Java's been around longer. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Java is a superior programming language.

Java addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Java over a faster, easier, more stable language.

Re:Unnecessary commentary?

[abe ferlman]

I think the real question is, can you use its main functionality without Mono/.NET? I'm sure someone else knows the answer to this, I don't. If the answer is yes, your point is valid. If it's no, your point is misleading and the commentary was fully justified.