If you, as an individual, is unhappy working with MS crap, but your company is happy, then you need to either learn to put up with it or find a better job.
Who says I'm not looking? The economy isn't what it once was though and I'm just happy to have a job. I do like doing.NET development, but I don't like the crap MS keeps pulling with licensing. As a developer though, I have no say. I work on what I get told to work on. And "finding new clients" isn't nearly as easy as you think it is.
That's actually not fair of me. Our IS dept has been one the hardest hit by layoffs and it's down to a 3 person team supporting a 100 person company. They work their asses off and they're mainly trying not to shake things up because jumping to a new platform would be beyond a nightmare for them.
OK, so lay out a plan for me to move my 100 person company from an Active Directory and Exchange based company that does 66%.NET web development (the other 33% is a combinaation of Java and Flash) to a non-Microsoft platform. I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm being serious. And we do.NET because our clients are asking for it. It used to be an even split of Java and ASP but.NET has a lot of useful features and in truth is actually a good environment for development. How do I sell my CFO and my CEO on non-Microsoft platforms when all our clients want work done using MS technologies?
Your point is "why not use linux when it's a viable alternative" and mine is that for most of what we use MS technology for, it's not a viable alternative. Mail servers, backups? Sure. Collaboration and.NET development? Not really.
I wish to God they would, but they won't. If you run a business of anything beyond a dozen people, you cannot just drop your IT Infrastructure and switch to Macs and/or Linux. I have an iBook. I just installed Red Hat 9 on one of my home servers last night. I think they're great for doing what I want. But I am not a whole company. I also didn't invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into my current set up. Telling a business "Can't you just switch" or "If you don't like it, do use it" is completely naive.
I love Linux and OS X as much as the next guy, but it's not that simple. If you think it is, I can't believe that you work in a mainly microsoft shop like myself and most clients I work with.
Which means that the students liability is ZERO unless the RIAA CAN PROVE HE MADE MONEY OFF IT
no, they only need to prove that they were deprived of possible income by him sharing files. Given the argument that college student X may have bought an album, but didn't because he got the 1 song on it that he liked off of the Wake indexed system, they can "prove" a loss of income. The law isn't black and white which is why this case exists to begin with (as full of holes as it is)
Fraser hasn't yet contacted Apple, and the company didn't respond to requests for comment
Fraser, look dude, you announce to the world (Wired) that you're going to repackage Mac parts, call your machine an iBox, and you haven't contacted Apple about it?? Are you stoned?
I wish this had been posted yesterday. I was thinking of getting a ReplayTV instead of Tivo (I just heard it had more features). I guess this makes the choice easier though.:-(
This is what I have been waiting for: Someone to finally post a review with specs that _wasn't_ using a G4. I assume your 700 MHz iBook has the 16MB video? I'm asking because that's the machine I have and I've been on the fence about Virtual PC since 6 came out. When I tried VPC5 on a PowerMac in the Apple store, I thought it was completely unusable so I didn't even try running it on my iBook. I'm not looking to do much: Run Outlook, maybe Visual Studio.NET, and play Magic: Online. Obviously unless you're into all those things you can't give a real assessment, but overall you're happy with it? Thanks.
For the most part I agree with what you've said. I was not referring to this as a good use of flash, I was responding to the original poster's general disdain of flash.
I'm dubious of anyone that assumes Flash is crap because it's misused in so many places. Flash can be amazing, especially when it's used for navigation, because it allows for absolute positioning and control as opposed to
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Flash is not crap. Just most people using it relegate it to stupid intro movies. It allows the developer to create a completely self contained application, free of the shackles of the HTML dinosaur.
Uhhhh... the reason I _didn't_ buy VPC was because 99% of the message boards I saw said that VPC 5 ran Windows 2000 and XP unacceptably slow, and at least half of the posters were talking about running it on the newer G4 models. I tooled around with VPC 5 a little while ago in an Apple store on a PowerMac and it was awful. With VPC 6, Connectix says that they have gained a 25% performance increase, but I have my doubts. I think what Connectix has done in and of itself is amazing, but I can't say that it runs Windows fast enough for me, and I'm not referring to games. Hopefully MS will increase the performance to a truly usable state, or at least to what VPC 4 under OS 9 was.
what about in physical combat? Knowing where your opponent is striking will help you avoid it. Depending on the strength of the ESP, knowing when and where your opponent is pulling the trigger or pushing the button will help you counter. Just a thought.
But don't argue that they should be included in a browser that strives to have a clean, consistent, friendly UI
We'll just have to agree to disagree. I personally think tabs make it more user friendly and if every program included them like I think they should;-) then it would be consistent. You disagree. I don't think we're going to convince each other.
But for the record: I hate the way OS X deals with their preferences. It seems klunky. And why can I get to the System preferences eight different ways? I should be able to do it one way. Again, these are matters of opinion and I don't think either of us will ever be "right". It's all personal preference.
I received an HP photo printer (7350?) for Christmas and it does a pretty remarkable job. It's pretty dificult with your nose not actually on the paper to tell it was printed with a printer and not at the photomat. And if you're Windows (tm) free, no problem because you can use the memory cards from your camera directly with the printer. No computer needed. I think the HP line of phot printers start at $200
Oh, please. You have got to be kidding me. Tabs don't even really belong in preference dialogs, though that's where they got their start and that's where they mostly remain entrenched.
So you should have a separate window for every preference dialog? Please tell me you're kidding. As for looking at two windows at one time, which I admit is useful, I should be able to open a second instance of the browser. But I shouldn't be forced to. What kills me is that people bitch about something like wanting tabs, and people come around saying "No. It doesn't make your life any easier because I say it doesn't. It's bad design because I think it's ugly and non-useful. Therefor it should never exist". How about they implement it and if it makes my life easier I use them. If you don't like them, don't use them.
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Who says I'm not looking? The economy isn't what it once was though and I'm just happy to have a job. I do like doing .NET development, but I don't like the crap MS keeps pulling with licensing. As a developer though, I have no say. I work on what I get told to work on. And "finding new clients" isn't nearly as easy as you think it is.
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That's actually not fair of me. Our IS dept has been one the hardest hit by layoffs and it's down to a 3 person team supporting a 100 person company. They work their asses off and they're mainly trying not to shake things up because jumping to a new platform would be beyond a nightmare for them.
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That's the funny thing about living on cash reserves... they can keep a company afloat while not having enough to give the developers raises. :-(
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My boss might know this, but he's the Director of Engineering, not the Director of IS.
If the company's IT department can't save money by switching to open source, then they're all incompetent and should be fired ;-)
*hacking cough* no comment ;-)
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Your point is "why not use linux when it's a viable alternative" and mine is that for most of what we use MS technology for, it's not a viable alternative. Mail servers, backups? Sure. Collaboration and .NET development? Not really.
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I love Linux and OS X as much as the next guy, but it's not that simple. If you think it is, I can't believe that you work in a mainly microsoft shop like myself and most clients I work with.
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no, they only need to prove that they were deprived of possible income by him sharing files. Given the argument that college student X may have bought an album, but didn't because he got the 1 song on it that he liked off of the Wake indexed system, they can "prove" a loss of income. The law isn't black and white which is why this case exists to begin with (as full of holes as it is)
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If you want a web server that has security features disabled by default, there are other options.
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Fraser, look dude, you announce to the world (Wired) that you're going to repackage Mac parts, call your machine an iBox, and you haven't contacted Apple about it?? Are you stoned?
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This is what I have been waiting for: Someone to finally post a review with specs that _wasn't_ using a G4. I assume your 700 MHz iBook has the 16MB video? I'm asking because that's the machine I have and I've been on the fence about Virtual PC since 6 came out. When I tried VPC5 on a PowerMac in the Apple store, I thought it was completely unusable so I didn't even try running it on my iBook. I'm not looking to do much: Run Outlook, maybe Visual Studio.NET, and play Magic: Online. Obviously unless you're into all those things you can't give a real assessment, but overall you're happy with it? Thanks.
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Flash is not crap. Just most people using it relegate it to stupid intro movies. It allows the developer to create a completely self contained application, free of the shackles of the HTML dinosaur.
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*shaking head*
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We'll just have to agree to disagree. I personally think tabs make it more user friendly and if every program included them like I think they should ;-) then it would be consistent. You disagree. I don't think we're going to convince each other.
But for the record: I hate the way OS X deals with their preferences. It seems klunky. And why can I get to the System preferences eight different ways? I should be able to do it one way. Again, these are matters of opinion and I don't think either of us will ever be "right". It's all personal preference.
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So you should have a separate window for every preference dialog? Please tell me you're kidding. As for looking at two windows at one time, which I admit is useful, I should be able to open a second instance of the browser. But I shouldn't be forced to. What kills me is that people bitch about something like wanting tabs, and people come around saying "No. It doesn't make your life any easier because I say it doesn't. It's bad design because I think it's ugly and non-useful. Therefor it should never exist". How about they implement it and if it makes my life easier I use them. If you don't like them, don't use them.
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