Best OS of 9x line was Windows 95 OSR2. 98 sucked horseballs with its instability, only second to ME's. I praised the Lord for Windows 2000 - the nicest and most professional-looking-and-feeling OS of the NT line.
I don't know how does it work in other countries, but in a country with 4 million people, and with prohibitively high costs of interconnection and license, and in saturated market, I don't think I stand any chance. Only a few operators exist here, and (almost?) all have foreign investors and ownership. So, no deal wrt establishing a telco in Croatia. Market is saturated, from low to high class of service.
Similar with oil company that uses bio fuel. Where and how would I breed the algae?
Not only that, you're also forgetting the fact that to enter a business, you should have either cash to throw around, or sufficient expertise to get someone to give you/lend you the cash. I have neither extra cash nor any expertise in either field. I could run an IT company, or perhaps something simple like opening a store (any kind of). But market is saturated with stores (you can walk around Zagreb and see shops opening every few months, and closing a few months later to be replaced by some other shop). So I'm left with an IT company.
Which still leaves me with depending on oil companies (thankfully, indirectly), on electrical grid operator (a monopoly with tons of corruption), on natural gas distributor (a monopoly, highly inefficient one and corrupted), etc.
I know you're just trying to be funny and are trying to slashdot-counter me. At least I hope you are. That is, I hope you are aware that USA is not the only country in the world.
1. When all candidates have corporate ties, whom to pick?
2. When you have only enough money for the cheapest, poorest product, how can you justify not going to the store with worst policies?
3. In IT world, it's pretty usual that just one company produces the product you need. How to avoid purchasing from, say, Microsoft if only Microsoft supplies Halo or whatever? How to avoid purchasing XBox if you want to play Halo?
You're assuming people everywhere and in every field have choice. Maybe you have enough grocery stores in U.S., and maybe you have a car. Maybe you have multiple gas companies in U.S. Some countries have many more monopolies or near-monopolies. Why I'm continuously speaking of grocery stores? Because I shop at one that it so obviously and disgustingly manipulating prices and their shoppers, so obviously collecting loads of info about customers via loyalty card while they get almost nothing in return... It's a company that doesn't care at all about its customers; there can be lines with dozen-or-two people in them, yet only 4 out of 16 registers work. And it's not rare!
Yet it's the nearest one, the cheapest one, and with their own two "hyper-cheap" labels. How can I justify spending extra half an hour to get to second nearest shop?
How can I justify not releasing game product for Windows (and implicitly, getting Windows for mingw development)?
Not necessarily government intervention. Smells to me more of a private nutjob arranging rise of oil prices resulting in a bit delayed worldwide collapse.
I have no problem with apt-get install libxml2-dev etc. I have problem with painting images in a sensible way without GD. With C++ that's just too much work, especially if you don't use SDL and SDL_image for whatever reason. Even then SDL_image can't encode images.
When it comes to skipping compiling, that's actually a bad thing in my experience. Compile-time type-checking is something that greatly helps you avoid many mistakes, and also I'd love to be able to occasionally distribute compiled PHP code. Best I could do seems to be PHC's obfuscation; not even compiling, since you can't give that to other people to install on shared hosts and such.
So now that the "fuck you" attitude is suddenly coming from this side of the atlantic, it's a problem? Software patents, copyright lobbyists are European products, right? If the coin needs flipping sometimes, I'm all for it.
There's not even a drag and drop mechanism built in that works across all browsers.
Since we're talking HTML5, this demo may be relevant. Since we're talking about HTML5, don't complain about "does not work across all browsers". IE6 and Firefox 2.0 surely don't support HTML5. How did I conclude you're also talking about HTML5? Because you mentioned local storage.
Otherwise, yes, there are numerous problems with web as a platform. They all, however, stem from everyone doing things their own way. You may devise a way to battle with HTML problems in different way than I will. If suddenly browser makers decided that my way is correct, you'd go nuts.
The right way to go for web apps would be to ditch HTML and DOM as such, and even some standard JS functions such as setInterval() (which goes against OOP so horribly that it's undescribable). Browsers should have two modes: web and app, and which could be intermixed via iframes in both modes.
Getting everyone to agree to some standard set of features, however, doesn't seem possible. Is Silverlight (as a concept) and perhaps XPI maybe a step in the right direction? Should something similar, but more app-oriented and not implemented as a plugin be developed? And how is anyone supposed to get Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Apple to agree to a common way to make such a drastic paradigm shift while retaining quality?
As the Sacred scrolls say, "All of this has happened before, all of this shall happen again." And after this post you made, I know exactly who the Cylons are. Not the Iranians.
"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
"Command-line" Javascript? If you're referring to the core language (already separated from browser) that's called ECMAScript.
While most of your complaints are legitimate and I suffer from them as well, a lot of stuff, like existence of functions, can be verified by punching it into a try/catch block. It's fugly, but it's possible.
There's too much web-based software out there to drop Javascript support now. A lot of stuff that was formerly done through Javascript is nowadays done through CSS (dropdown menus for example).
Far greater problem is enormous complexity that browser must have in order to produce correct layout based on combo of CSS, tables and all other elements in there. Frankly I'm amazed that it works with the speed that it does work with. Complexity is not only in Javascript, but more-so in rendering engine itself. Mozilla's Javascript is already a separate library; just go ahead and remove it and see what you get.
Was this or was this not a bad experience for me? Many policies are detrimental to growth if fully implemented.
There are also games with hundreds of thousands of users, with 8 year history, that were never described in a standard, "trusted" medium and thus don't deserve an article. (oh, did I mention the game is open source?)
So it's like "anyone is free to use the internet, provided they submit to the Great Firewall"?
The truth is somewhere between my POV and yours. The truth is established editors make it extremely difficult for anyone else to contribute small changes, in the name of "protecting against vandalism". "Belfast Food" is a well known Croatian band. I wanted to add an article about them, and a reference on list of performers of "Rocky Road to Dublin". Look at the history and the talk page; it nearly got speedy deleted because I didn't find references. I spent a few hours trying to dig "third party and reliable" references to confirm notability, for a band that is well known across an entire nation, just because of bureaucratocratic and obsessive nature of the editors.
It's free to edit... if you have hours and hours and hours doing nothing but looking up references to things that not only you know are notable, but are really notable. Wikipedia should be a repository of knowledge, not just of references.
What % of articles doesn't have a single "flaw-tag"?
Did you try registering for an account and making a few edits to unrelated pages to establish yourself as a serious editor? If so, what was the your Wikipedia username?
What happened to "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit"?
It is fascinating how ofter Wikipedia apoogists seem to repeat this same argument in other comments of this article.
It's the fault of culture of rules and bureaucracy propagated and promoted by... whom? Wikipedia?
When there's police brutality without punishment, do you blame the policeman or the government?
When there's a massacre perpetrated by your authoritarian government, do you blame the army/policemen, or the government?
When Madoff steals money over there in the US, do you blame Madoff or those who didn't stop him?
Of course, you can blame the person who directly committed the crime (or the immoral act, depending on laws). But sometimes, just sometimes, the act is a product of the culture. I have a pratical example of bad culture influencing otherwise smart and good people in my country, but stating my personal experiences directly would make me a racist.
Is it core Wikipedia management's fault that I had problems adding a short stub article about a well-known Croatian band? I don't know. Is it Wikipedia's fault? Yes. Wikipedia is more than just the site, it's also the community. Whoever created the rules is responsible for making active editors and admins behave like shit. Why did [citation needed] have to become a joke?
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I liked their idea of simple installation of BeOS 5 Personal Edition alongside Windows. It's sad that Be, Inc. died such a horrible death.
Best OS of 9x line was Windows 95 OSR2. 98 sucked horseballs with its instability, only second to ME's. I praised the Lord for Windows 2000 - the nicest and most professional-looking-and-feeling OS of the NT line.
The one who thought packing CDE into Solaris for a few years is a good idea should be hanged. I still sometimes have nightmares about it.
I don't know how does it work in other countries, but in a country with 4 million people, and with prohibitively high costs of interconnection and license, and in saturated market, I don't think I stand any chance. Only a few operators exist here, and (almost?) all have foreign investors and ownership. So, no deal wrt establishing a telco in Croatia. Market is saturated, from low to high class of service.
Similar with oil company that uses bio fuel. Where and how would I breed the algae?
Not only that, you're also forgetting the fact that to enter a business, you should have either cash to throw around, or sufficient expertise to get someone to give you/lend you the cash. I have neither extra cash nor any expertise in either field. I could run an IT company, or perhaps something simple like opening a store (any kind of). But market is saturated with stores (you can walk around Zagreb and see shops opening every few months, and closing a few months later to be replaced by some other shop). So I'm left with an IT company.
Which still leaves me with depending on oil companies (thankfully, indirectly), on electrical grid operator (a monopoly with tons of corruption), on natural gas distributor (a monopoly, highly inefficient one and corrupted), etc.
I know you're just trying to be funny and are trying to slashdot-counter me. At least I hope you are. That is, I hope you are aware that USA is not the only country in the world.
1. When all candidates have corporate ties, whom to pick?
... It's a company that doesn't care at all about its customers; there can be lines with dozen-or-two people in them, yet only 4 out of 16 registers work. And it's not rare!
2. When you have only enough money for the cheapest, poorest product, how can you justify not going to the store with worst policies?
3. In IT world, it's pretty usual that just one company produces the product you need. How to avoid purchasing from, say, Microsoft if only Microsoft supplies Halo or whatever? How to avoid purchasing XBox if you want to play Halo?
You're assuming people everywhere and in every field have choice. Maybe you have enough grocery stores in U.S., and maybe you have a car. Maybe you have multiple gas companies in U.S. Some countries have many more monopolies or near-monopolies. Why I'm continuously speaking of grocery stores? Because I shop at one that it so obviously and disgustingly manipulating prices and their shoppers, so obviously collecting loads of info about customers via loyalty card while they get almost nothing in return
Yet it's the nearest one, the cheapest one, and with their own two "hyper-cheap" labels. How can I justify spending extra half an hour to get to second nearest shop?
How can I justify not releasing game product for Windows (and implicitly, getting Windows for mingw development)?
Not necessarily government intervention. Smells to me more of a private nutjob arranging rise of oil prices resulting in a bit delayed worldwide collapse.
If all companies implement the policy that I don't agree with, what should I do? Start my own oil company? Start my own telco?
I have no problem with apt-get install libxml2-dev etc. I have problem with painting images in a sensible way without GD. With C++ that's just too much work, especially if you don't use SDL and SDL_image for whatever reason. Even then SDL_image can't encode images.
When it comes to skipping compiling, that's actually a bad thing in my experience. Compile-time type-checking is something that greatly helps you avoid many mistakes, and also I'd love to be able to occasionally distribute compiled PHP code. Best I could do seems to be PHC's obfuscation; not even compiling, since you can't give that to other people to install on shared hosts and such.
Is it easier to conquer faraway primitive places, or your European neighbors who are at the same tech level as you are?
So now that the "fuck you" attitude is suddenly coming from this side of the atlantic, it's a problem? Software patents, copyright lobbyists are European products, right? If the coin needs flipping sometimes, I'm all for it.
I too have only realized that it exists upon stumbling upon that site.
Which is why O3D is being developed and proposed.
Since we're talking HTML5, this demo may be relevant. Since we're talking about HTML5, don't complain about "does not work across all browsers". IE6 and Firefox 2.0 surely don't support HTML5. How did I conclude you're also talking about HTML5? Because you mentioned local storage.
Otherwise, yes, there are numerous problems with web as a platform. They all, however, stem from everyone doing things their own way. You may devise a way to battle with HTML problems in different way than I will. If suddenly browser makers decided that my way is correct, you'd go nuts.
The right way to go for web apps would be to ditch HTML and DOM as such, and even some standard JS functions such as setInterval() (which goes against OOP so horribly that it's undescribable). Browsers should have two modes: web and app, and which could be intermixed via iframes in both modes.
Getting everyone to agree to some standard set of features, however, doesn't seem possible. Is Silverlight (as a concept) and perhaps XPI maybe a step in the right direction? Should something similar, but more app-oriented and not implemented as a plugin be developed? And how is anyone supposed to get Mozilla, Microsoft, Google and Apple to agree to a common way to make such a drastic paradigm shift while retaining quality?
sscanf() ditto. I never considered that one vendor/locale specific, but meh.
"Command-line" Javascript? If you're referring to the core language (already separated from browser) that's called ECMAScript.
While most of your complaints are legitimate and I suffer from them as well, a lot of stuff, like existence of functions, can be verified by punching it into a try/catch block. It's fugly, but it's possible.
There's too much web-based software out there to drop Javascript support now. A lot of stuff that was formerly done through Javascript is nowadays done through CSS (dropdown menus for example).
Far greater problem is enormous complexity that browser must have in order to produce correct layout based on combo of CSS, tables and all other elements in there. Frankly I'm amazed that it works with the speed that it does work with. Complexity is not only in Javascript, but more-so in rendering engine itself. Mozilla's Javascript is already a separate library; just go ahead and remove it and see what you get.
It seems people enjoy mixing up low browser's DOM performance with low Javascript/ECMAScript performance.
Was this or was this not a bad experience for me? Many policies are detrimental to growth if fully implemented.
There are also games with hundreds of thousands of users, with 8 year history, that were never described in a standard, "trusted" medium and thus don't deserve an article. (oh, did I mention the game is open source?)
So it's like "anyone is free to use the internet, provided they submit to the Great Firewall"?
... if you have hours and hours and hours doing nothing but looking up references to things that not only you know are notable, but are really notable. Wikipedia should be a repository of knowledge, not just of references.
The truth is somewhere between my POV and yours. The truth is established editors make it extremely difficult for anyone else to contribute small changes, in the name of "protecting against vandalism". "Belfast Food" is a well known Croatian band. I wanted to add an article about them, and a reference on list of performers of "Rocky Road to Dublin". Look at the history and the talk page; it nearly got speedy deleted because I didn't find references. I spent a few hours trying to dig "third party and reliable" references to confirm notability, for a band that is well known across an entire nation, just because of bureaucratocratic and obsessive nature of the editors.
It's free to edit
What % of articles doesn't have a single "flaw-tag"?
Did you try registering for an account and making a few edits to unrelated pages to establish yourself as a serious editor? If so, what was the your Wikipedia username?
What happened to "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit"?
It is fascinating how ofter Wikipedia apoogists seem to repeat this same argument in other comments of this article.
... whom? Wikipedia?
It's the fault of culture of rules and bureaucracy propagated and promoted by
When there's police brutality without punishment, do you blame the policeman or the government?
When there's a massacre perpetrated by your authoritarian government, do you blame the army/policemen, or the government?
When Madoff steals money over there in the US, do you blame Madoff or those who didn't stop him?
Of course, you can blame the person who directly committed the crime (or the immoral act, depending on laws). But sometimes, just sometimes, the act is a product of the culture. I have a pratical example of bad culture influencing otherwise smart and good people in my country, but stating my personal experiences directly would make me a racist.
Is it core Wikipedia management's fault that I had problems adding a short stub article about a well-known Croatian band? I don't know. Is it Wikipedia's fault? Yes. Wikipedia is more than just the site, it's also the community. Whoever created the rules is responsible for making active editors and admins behave like shit. Why did [citation needed] have to become a joke?
As far as I understand GSM, a key stored on SIM is used to log in onto the network. Invalid login data == no access.
Friend got USB-host to work on his N810, and as far as I remember, he used USB port on my laptop to charge his N810. Don't know about N900 though.
Whoops. Wrong key pressed. Thanks.