Yeah, jedit never grabbed me, but I have friends that swear by it. For that level of text editing I like gedit, quick and dirty but uses the paradigm I'm used to for a basic text editor.
Netbeans is a full blown IDE to be sure. You need to be commited just to wait for the bugger to start up. But once started it is everything and more.
When I suggested vi was punishment, I meant doing an entire web app in vi is punishment. I use vi all the time to make little bash scripts that organise files needed to build a site, heavy use of "convert -option in out" etc. I find vi is really quick for those things. That's why I like compiz. I put a multitab terminal on one screen, and IDE on another, a filesystem browser on another and random stuff to distract me/email on the 4th. Works like a charm.
I never noticed that and being a Java application, I am really curious to know how that could happen on a single platform. Got details? Didi you submit a bug report?
His argument against TextMate is in the last link in the summary and he makes some good points. How to get a story tagged "troll". Make sure it casts Apple in a negative light.
Personally, I consider a Mac to be pretty much the ultimate web dev platform, because it gives you easy access to all browsers on all major platforms, and gives you some of the best tools (yes, better than emacs, and even better than vi) to develop with. There are many imperfections, but it's better than all the other options.
All major browsers on all major platforms? Really? How is that different from any other platform? Virtual machines work fine anywhere.
And I agree with the author about NetBeans being a nice IDE. That runs anywhere. It runs on the shitty wintel crap that work gives me, it runs on my lovely shiny Linux gear at home and it will run on your mac. You are of course welcome to use vi, emacs or TextMate if you are glutten for punishment...
I have developed on Linux, Windows and OSX, and by far the easiest, most efficient and most elegant work flow for me is Linux (I like Gnome and Compiz). I recommend checking it out.
Well, I think it's one of the major problems with C# and MS SQL Server. By default the combination allows extremely unsafe code. or I should even say encourages. I'm all for allowing for the coder to take those routes if he wants to, but for the love of god, teach the noobs to program safely. While you can use safe methods with C# and MS SQL Server, other languages encourage it. For example befunge98 combined with Paradox makes sure the programmer is coding safe code. On top of that Paradox is speedy, stable product that is used by millions individuals and enterprises. For me that sure does tell about quality, and by looking at the companies using the PDP-11 I'm even happier to pick it as my platform. btw, I personally found their Paradox Baby Shit Orange cloud-based databases services absolutely stunning. They are highly scalable, ultra fast and automatically taken care of for you. As a hobbies useless pre loaded crapware developer it's performance I wouldn't have money to get elsewhere. And the sheer quality of the service is absolutely great.
or to put it another way, shit programmers write shit code, regardless of the tools they use. Begone to the special Hell they keep for corporate schills you obvious schill. oh and by the way, more people and companies using a product is more likely to mean there is a reality distortion field or illegal anti-competitive behaviour surrounding a product if the past 30 years is anything to go by. Shit for brains.
WP7 needs Zune Software. Personally I found it to be somewhat better than iTunes (at least it's not as slow!), but the requirement to have it installed simply to copy files to/from phone is still annoying.
Well that kills it for me... I use my phone as external storage and wifi hotspot when I am on sight supporting customers. If I have to have iTunes or Zune software installed to copy files around, it is useless to me. I have a work supplied iPhone4 and I still carry my personal phone for that very reason.
Also, I don't run Windows or OS X at home, so It would be a frustrating experience.
I have only briefly played with a WP7 phone (the HTC whatsit), and I agree it is slick. Definitely way ahead of iPhone4 in usability, but not quite enough to get me off Android... I'm hooked on the utility of the Galaxy S.
I haven't played with the LG, but the HTC is way slicker and faster than the iPhone4 my work just gave me.
iPhones are the most constricted and difficult to use pieces of shit in the smart phone market. A good droid definitely kicks arse, and this is speaking from the point of view of one who recently switched from a Nokia to an Android and then got an iPhone4 a few weeks later, so I have been through the "this is all new to me" phase on each device and done a side by side comparison.
Here's an example at how Apple suck at usability but manage to brainwash people into not realising it. If you are sensible and have your SIM lock on, you have to enter a code before the phone is useful. Unlike the Android where you can't access anything until you enter the code, with the iPhone4, you have short opportunity to enter the code before the thing loads the main screen, giving you access to the data on the phone but no phone ability. Worrying from a security standpoint.... oh, but apple is such a secure system...
Now there is no obvious way to unlock the SIM, so most people would turn it off and on again, this time staring at the apple logo. See what's going on there? These people are being brainwashed into the church of Apple. Having the Apple burned into their psyche. Masses of drooling Apple drones staring at the shiny Apple deity waiting for thier opportunity to be truly shiny too.
There is another way to do it... go to Settings > Phone > SIM lock and turn the SIM lock off, enter your PIN, turn the SIM lock on and enter your PIN again... yeh, Apple gear is so easy to use...
I'm a non MS type usually and my personal phone is an android thing, but I have to say I'm impressed by the WP7 HTC I played with recently. Really responsive and sensibly laid out. I would definitely consider it over the shitty little thing work gave me called an iPhone4.
Hence the term, non renewable. No need to waste your breath.
That's my point. Oil is renewable, it just takes a very long time to make it. How much would you charge if you had to grow the biomass, bury it and monitor it for ~100,000 years to make sure the conditions are right to make oil? If you did it at a price to make it competitive with naturally occurring oil, it would be a really crappy investment. But it would be potentially "green", assuming the location of the burial pit was appropriate.
When considered in those terms, green technologies look better because they take into account a more complete cycle, but when thought of in this way, they start looking really cheap. Hell, when when appropriate insurance costs are factored into green energy production versus coal or nuclear, solar/wind wins out every time.
Remember, economics is a human construct, not a science. We can change the rules if we want and it's more sensible to change them so they match the science.
Why do so many green solutions seem to reduce efficiency and increase energy usage when the end-to-end cycle is considered?
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Because the old way of doing things never measures the full end to end cost.
If you want to measure the full cost of production of a petroleum sourced PET bottle, you need to take into account the initial production of biomass and then at least a couple of hundred thousand years of high pressure cellaring. When you look at it like that, the green solutions look cheap,
I'm not so much an anti nuke activist, but to me this highlights the dangers. Japan was always at risk of these sorts of natural disasters. To say nuclear power is safe because it killed fewer people in the immediate aftermath is stupid beyond belief.
First, we have no idea how many deaths will result from the ongoing crisis. Second, the plants have made a bad situation even worse.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, transport accidents, labour strikes, wild fires, wars and extreme weather events happen. If you think that building these plants is fine because the tsunami is the problem, I guess I could take that advice and never wear a seat belt, disable my airbags and carry small heavy objects loose inside the cabin because it's not driving a car that's dangerous. It's just the other idiots on the road and I can't do anything about that.
This is why I think fission for large scale energy production is stupid. It is only safe in an ideal imaginary world where nothing ever goes wrong. New Zealand and Iceland rely heavily on geothermal. Japan and the west coast of the USA on nuclear. You don't think that's just a little bat shit crazy?
Here in Oz we've had new push for nuclear when there are off the shelf systems that can supply more energy than we need from solar and hot rocks. I hope these events in Japan change the focus from "let's go nuke because I invested in uranium mining" to "what's the best solution in our extreme environment?".
If the U.S. administration of the time hadn't deliberately delayed going after bin Laden, he would have been captured. It's got nothing to do with Pakistan and nukes, it has to do with the number of powerful Americans who will be compromised if he is captured and speaks to anyone.
That was not a typical "RTFM n00b" response, that was me pointing out that the problems you had would be just as easily encountered switching from Mac or Linux to Windows.
In fact, switching to windows is potentially more difficult than any other direction because you have that whole circular shit fight that is "My Computer"/"My Documents"/etc that are quasi links to hidden locations on the file system. I know I have introduced non technical users to Ubuntu and they have loved how simple it is to use compare to Windows. For example, when they want to edit a photo, they look under "Graphics" in the "Applications" menu rather than looking in "Adobe" or "Accessories" in the "Start" menu. Everything under the home folder makes sense and points to where it actually is on the file system. The whole "Windows is more user friendly than Linux" argument is a bad joke.
It seems to me that you are confusing "I am used to the polished turd that is Windows" with "Windows is fundamentally easier to use". I would suggest that switching to any other operating system will be difficult for you because you use something that makes no sense as a benchmark.
E150-SERIES looks crap, not full sized lcd, price difference is not that huge. We arent poor students here any more, ipod is affordable.
So you would spend more on an iPood with shittier sound because it has a bigger screen? I'm just curious here, I use my phone to play music (it even lets me listen to FM radio).
Yeah. Having used Maemo for the last year, I think that would be awesome with a full sized keyboard and screen. Or Meego i guess (haven't used it). I had a play with LXDE on my n900 and apart from the processor being to slow for it to be practical, it showed some promise. The new generation of ARM chips would cope a lot better, methinks.
While Android is great for phones/tablets, I kind of think trying to run it as a desktop is a bit square peg meets round hole.
Because nothing says "Cheap and crappy" like a custom SoC with a Billion dollars in R&D costs.
That there is typical fanboi. Because they spent a billion dollars on it it must be better. Like because some idiot spends more an an ipod than they would on an equivalent iriver, the lower specs of the ipod are somehow magically better? If they spent so much on it, it kind of shows they are idiots, but thankfully there are enough idiots out there who will buy the crap.
I wouldn't call Macbook Pros a triumph of industrial design, they're ok, but "triumph" is a bit over the top... and for what you get, they are too expensive. The windows tax is bad enough, the apple tax is ridiculous.
I have no problem with polycarbonate cases. I am more concerned about how well the machines are assembled and how much freedom I have to do what I want with them... right down to ordering them with my choice of OS and partitioning.
Blaming it on China is certainly misplacing blame. On the whole, China does a great job of manufacturing electronics (environmental and labour issues aside). Apple on the other hand... Get some 2nd rate hardware, throw it together as cheaply as possible, put it in a shiny case and whack an apple logo on it... then sell it for 50x what it's actually worth. Don't forget to make sure it only inter-operates with other overpriced crap with an apple logo on it.
Alright, slight exaggeration, but take iPod, iPhone 4... what goes into them is really pretty cheap and crappy. The laptops are ok, but there are cheaper/better alternatives provided you don't mind something that isn't shiny.
Yeah. I don't do business with PayPal. Trying to figure out how to stop doing business with Visa and Mastercard too.
I would love for them to be forced to pay me every time they do something unfair in support of 1930's Germany^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H2010's United States. All four of my grandparents risked their lives to defeat fascism.
Ummm, Multimedia Fusion is not intended to run on Linux. I don't know what problems you have getting Renoise to work, but I know I left Windows behind for Linux years ago and I haven't looked back. I get better performance from audio applications than I could every get on Windows and everything I use is usually integrated through jack so I could never return to windows for that stuff.
As far as things exploding with updates, care to be specific? I have had that happen more with windows systems than with my linux systems at home.
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Yeah, jedit never grabbed me, but I have friends that swear by it. For that level of text editing I like gedit, quick and dirty but uses the paradigm I'm used to for a basic text editor.
Netbeans is a full blown IDE to be sure. You need to be commited just to wait for the bugger to start up. But once started it is everything and more.
When I suggested vi was punishment, I meant doing an entire web app in vi is punishment. I use vi all the time to make little bash scripts that organise files needed to build a site, heavy use of "convert -option in out" etc. I find vi is really quick for those things. That's why I like compiz. I put a multitab terminal on one screen, and IDE on another, a filesystem browser on another and random stuff to distract me/email on the 4th. Works like a charm.
I never noticed that and being a Java application, I am really curious to know how that could happen on a single platform. Got details? Didi you submit a bug report?
His argument against TextMate is in the last link in the summary and he makes some good points. How to get a story tagged "troll". Make sure it casts Apple in a negative light.
All major browsers on all major platforms? Really? How is that different from any other platform? Virtual machines work fine anywhere.
And I agree with the author about NetBeans being a nice IDE. That runs anywhere. It runs on the shitty wintel crap that work gives me, it runs on my lovely shiny Linux gear at home and it will run on your mac. You are of course welcome to use vi, emacs or TextMate if you are glutten for punishment...
I have developed on Linux, Windows and OSX, and by far the easiest, most efficient and most elegant work flow for me is Linux (I like Gnome and Compiz). I recommend checking it out.
Well, I think it's one of the major problems with C# and MS SQL Server. By default the combination allows extremely unsafe code. or I should even say encourages. I'm all for allowing for the coder to take those routes if he wants to, but for the love of god, teach the noobs to program safely. While you can use safe methods with C# and MS SQL Server, other languages encourage it. For example befunge98 combined with Paradox makes sure the programmer is coding safe code. On top of that Paradox is speedy, stable product that is used by millions individuals and enterprises. For me that sure does tell about quality, and by looking at the companies using the PDP-11 I'm even happier to pick it as my platform. btw, I personally found their Paradox Baby Shit Orange cloud-based databases services absolutely stunning. They are highly scalable, ultra fast and automatically taken care of for you. As a hobbies useless pre loaded crapware developer it's performance I wouldn't have money to get elsewhere. And the sheer quality of the service is absolutely great.
or to put it another way, shit programmers write shit code, regardless of the tools they use. Begone to the special Hell they keep for corporate schills you obvious schill.
oh and by the way, more people and companies using a product is more likely to mean there is a reality distortion field or illegal anti-competitive behaviour surrounding a product if the past 30 years is anything to go by. Shit for brains.
So I have to pretend I want to make a phone call to get email and calendar to sync? Of course! Silly me. :/
So I have to pretend I want to make a call to get my email and calendar to sync? So convenient!
Well that kills it for me... I use my phone as external storage and wifi hotspot when I am on sight supporting customers. If I have to have iTunes or Zune software installed to copy files around, it is useless to me. I have a work supplied iPhone4 and I still carry my personal phone for that very reason.
Also, I don't run Windows or OS X at home, so It would be a frustrating experience.
I have only briefly played with a WP7 phone (the HTC whatsit), and I agree it is slick. Definitely way ahead of iPhone4 in usability, but not quite enough to get me off Android... I'm hooked on the utility of the Galaxy S.
You picked the iPhone!?!?!?
I haven't played with the LG, but the HTC is way slicker and faster than the iPhone4 my work just gave me.
iPhones are the most constricted and difficult to use pieces of shit in the smart phone market. A good droid definitely kicks arse, and this is speaking from the point of view of one who recently switched from a Nokia to an Android and then got an iPhone4 a few weeks later, so I have been through the "this is all new to me" phase on each device and done a side by side comparison.
Here's an example at how Apple suck at usability but manage to brainwash people into not realising it. If you are sensible and have your SIM lock on, you have to enter a code before the phone is useful. Unlike the Android where you can't access anything until you enter the code, with the iPhone4, you have short opportunity to enter the code before the thing loads the main screen, giving you access to the data on the phone but no phone ability. Worrying from a security standpoint.... oh, but apple is such a secure system...
Now there is no obvious way to unlock the SIM, so most people would turn it off and on again, this time staring at the apple logo. See what's going on there? These people are being brainwashed into the church of Apple. Having the Apple burned into their psyche. Masses of drooling Apple drones staring at the shiny Apple deity waiting for thier opportunity to be truly shiny too.
There is another way to do it... go to Settings > Phone > SIM lock and turn the SIM lock off, enter your PIN, turn the SIM lock on and enter your PIN again... yeh, Apple gear is so easy to use...
I'm a non MS type usually and my personal phone is an android thing, but I have to say I'm impressed by the WP7 HTC I played with recently. Really responsive and sensibly laid out. I would definitely consider it over the shitty little thing work gave me called an iPhone4.
Hmmm.
That's my point. Oil is renewable, it just takes a very long time to make it. How much would you charge if you had to grow the biomass, bury it and monitor it for ~100,000 years to make sure the conditions are right to make oil? If you did it at a price to make it competitive with naturally occurring oil, it would be a really crappy investment. But it would be potentially "green", assuming the location of the burial pit was appropriate.
When considered in those terms, green technologies look better because they take into account a more complete cycle, but when thought of in this way, they start looking really cheap. Hell, when when appropriate insurance costs are factored into green energy production versus coal or nuclear, solar/wind wins out every time.
Remember, economics is a human construct, not a science. We can change the rules if we want and it's more sensible to change them so they match the science.
Which is why economics is a flawed construct. Although these things are starting to get factored into insurance costs.
Yes. This is "ethical" in the same sense as the word "standard" is used to describe OOXML.
I think the whole OOXML thing was unethical. Buying off members of a standards body.
Because the old way of doing things never measures the full end to end cost.
If you want to measure the full cost of production of a petroleum sourced PET bottle, you need to take into account the initial production of biomass and then at least a couple of hundred thousand years of high pressure cellaring. When you look at it like that, the green solutions look cheap,
I'm not so much an anti nuke activist, but to me this highlights the dangers. Japan was always at risk of these sorts of natural disasters. To say nuclear power is safe because it killed fewer people in the immediate aftermath is stupid beyond belief.
First, we have no idea how many deaths will result from the ongoing crisis. Second, the plants have made a bad situation even worse.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, transport accidents, labour strikes, wild fires, wars and extreme weather events happen. If you think that building these plants is fine because the tsunami is the problem, I guess I could take that advice and never wear a seat belt, disable my airbags and carry small heavy objects loose inside the cabin because it's not driving a car that's dangerous. It's just the other idiots on the road and I can't do anything about that.
This is why I think fission for large scale energy production is stupid. It is only safe in an ideal imaginary world where nothing ever goes wrong. New Zealand and Iceland rely heavily on geothermal. Japan and the west coast of the USA on nuclear. You don't think that's just a little bat shit crazy?
Here in Oz we've had new push for nuclear when there are off the shelf systems that can supply more energy than we need from solar and hot rocks. I hope these events in Japan change the focus from "let's go nuke because I invested in uranium mining" to "what's the best solution in our extreme environment?".
If the U.S. administration of the time hadn't deliberately delayed going after bin Laden, he would have been captured. It's got nothing to do with Pakistan and nukes, it has to do with the number of powerful Americans who will be compromised if he is captured and speaks to anyone.
That was not a typical "RTFM n00b" response, that was me pointing out that the problems you had would be just as easily encountered switching from Mac or Linux to Windows.
In fact, switching to windows is potentially more difficult than any other direction because you have that whole circular shit fight that is "My Computer"/"My Documents"/etc that are quasi links to hidden locations on the file system. I know I have introduced non technical users to Ubuntu and they have loved how simple it is to use compare to Windows. For example, when they want to edit a photo, they look under "Graphics" in the "Applications" menu rather than looking in "Adobe" or "Accessories" in the "Start" menu. Everything under the home folder makes sense and points to where it actually is on the file system. The whole "Windows is more user friendly than Linux" argument is a bad joke.
It seems to me that you are confusing "I am used to the polished turd that is Windows" with "Windows is fundamentally easier to use". I would suggest that switching to any other operating system will be difficult for you because you use something that makes no sense as a benchmark.
So you would spend more on an iPood with shittier sound because it has a bigger screen? I'm just curious here, I use my phone to play music (it even lets me listen to FM radio).
Yeah. Having used Maemo for the last year, I think that would be awesome with a full sized keyboard and screen. Or Meego i guess (haven't used it). I had a play with LXDE on my n900 and apart from the processor being to slow for it to be practical, it showed some promise. The new generation of ARM chips would cope a lot better, methinks.
While Android is great for phones/tablets, I kind of think trying to run it as a desktop is a bit square peg meets round hole.
That there is typical fanboi. Because they spent a billion dollars on it it must be better. Like because some idiot spends more an an ipod than they would on an equivalent iriver, the lower specs of the ipod are somehow magically better? If they spent so much on it, it kind of shows they are idiots, but thankfully there are enough idiots out there who will buy the crap.
I wouldn't call Macbook Pros a triumph of industrial design, they're ok, but "triumph" is a bit over the top... and for what you get, they are too expensive. The windows tax is bad enough, the apple tax is ridiculous.
I have no problem with polycarbonate cases. I am more concerned about how well the machines are assembled and how much freedom I have to do what I want with them... right down to ordering them with my choice of OS and partitioning.
Blaming it on China is certainly misplacing blame. On the whole, China does a great job of manufacturing electronics (environmental and labour issues aside). Apple on the other hand... Get some 2nd rate hardware, throw it together as cheaply as possible, put it in a shiny case and whack an apple logo on it... then sell it for 50x what it's actually worth. Don't forget to make sure it only inter-operates with other overpriced crap with an apple logo on it.
Alright, slight exaggeration, but take iPod, iPhone 4... what goes into them is really pretty cheap and crappy. The laptops are ok, but there are cheaper/better alternatives provided you don't mind something that isn't shiny.
Yeah. I don't do business with PayPal. Trying to figure out how to stop doing business with Visa and Mastercard too.
I would love for them to be forced to pay me every time they do something unfair in support of 1930's Germany^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H2010's United States. All four of my grandparents risked their lives to defeat fascism.
Ummm, Multimedia Fusion is not intended to run on Linux. I don't know what problems you have getting Renoise to work, but I know I left Windows behind for Linux years ago and I haven't looked back. I get better performance from audio applications than I could every get on Windows and everything I use is usually integrated through jack so I could never return to windows for that stuff.
As far as things exploding with updates, care to be specific? I have had that happen more with windows systems than with my linux systems at home.
You, sir, are an idiot.