I can frankly say that I have the same experience as you have with OS X on a MacBook, but with Ubuntu 10.10 on my Thinkpad T42(with "broken" video drivers)...
I call crap on your statement that Windows beats Linux in any way. I have had a lot of non tech people use my Linux desktop without any issues. The only thing I had to do is create the user...
Btw, the only subset of people, that I ever let use my Ubuntu desktop, that had any issues with Linux were the tech people. For others, it works and they don't care.
You do know that if you want to deploy to a non jailbroken Apple device you need a license, do you? It's no surprise that there are 100'000, Apple basically forces people to become a licensed developer or jailbreak.
as it's easier to port the native runtime to any platform
Well, unless you have some chunks of code that are platform dependent. And I bet Flash has those pieces of code. Otherwise wou would have had Flash 64 bit without any issues, since you know, it would only require a recompile....
Actually, geographically speaking Europe ends at the Ural mountains in the East and a line between the northern part of Sea of Azov and opposing side of Kaspian sea. So, there are 2 points now "fighting" for the title: onw in Lithuania the other is in Belarus.
Maybe Austrians declared themselves to be the center of EU?
Integrations of popular dynamic languages with popular web servers are widely available and easy to set up. Setting up a Java-based web application is the sort of thing people write whole books about, dropping the names of half a dozen different technologies along the way.
There are no books on how to set-up a Java web app. Because it's trivial. There are books on how to develop with RoR and there are equivalent books on how to develop with JSF.
PS: You don't develop a Ruby based web app without any framework also. That is the curse of a general purpose programming language. See PHP as a counterexample.
Likewise, integrations of popular dynamic languages with popular database systems are widely available and easy to use.
Equivalent tools bring equivalent results. RoR's ActiveRecord is pretty much equivalent in practice to Java Persistence API or Hibernate.(I actually use all). The main point is the learning curve of dynamic languages.
Practice shows that global escape analysis is nowhere near as good as programmer's knowledge about how things should be. Yes, HotSpot can theoretically optimize those things away completely, but in practice it often cannot do even trivial stuff, such as avoiding boxing overhead in many common scenarios.
That is the reason it called HotSpot. It's not there to optimize the trivial cases, it's there to optimize the most used ones. And in practice JVM HotSpot does an exceptionally good job.
Depending on what you do. Unsafe pointers are indispensable in systems programming, and in interfacing with low-level or legacy (i.e. C/C++) APIs.
And if you're doing system programming, you wouldn't want to use a managed runtime then. And Java language and VM were designed to remove the need for those pointers..NET has that feature, but when comparing managed vs managed runtimes having unsafe(unmanaged) pointers is a disadvantage.
PPC (for Xbox360)
Can we drop proprietary hardware? Because then Java just overshadows XBox360 by being in the BluRay spec.
PS: I'm sure.NET runs on more systems than you described, just Java is actually supported and not experimental on those.
Java and JVM have not been reviewed for a few years now. There are mostly debates what should be changed. While I agree 100% that.NET has more features, I will have to take a neutral position on witch one is more advanced. Java VM is older and has quite a few tricks up it's sleeve(including overall VM performance),.NET's VM is younger and more dynamic.
Apparently, USofA operates under capitalism for the middle and lower income classes and socialism for the higher income classes. Who was bailed out by the tax payer?
Sweden has OIL!?!?!? Maybe you are confusing Sweden with Norway?
PS: Geography is a major contributor to voting with your feet.
PPS: Americans do not leave their beloved homeland en masse, because of patriotic indoctrination from childhood. And proportionally there are not a lot of migrants on both sides, specially considering the last 20 years.
A completely free market would be just as bad as a completely government controlled society.
Both extremes are possible if 100% of population is 100% honest. If all people where honest and fair, then there would be no difference how much free market or government control there would be. It's all down to people ultimately.
Why should people in densely populated areas subsidize election districts in sparsely populated areas? If people want to have their voices heard, make them pay for it. Right?
No. You always assume you are connected to a USB port of a computer. That is how you do things. Apple decided not to and went for not allowing unlicensed stuff. That just adds more proof to claims that they are control freaks.
To translate that into a simple English: US thrives because it had given the opportunity to plunder the lands that were not plundered and after the WW1 most of the world was in debt to US.
Do you really think that the British empire was rich due to something else other than plundering the rest of the world? US is not much different in that respect.
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I can frankly say that I have the same experience as you have with OS X on a MacBook, but with Ubuntu 10.10 on my Thinkpad T42(with "broken" video drivers)...
That's the "paradox"....
I call crap on your statement that Windows beats Linux in any way. I have had a lot of non tech people use my Linux desktop without any issues. The only thing I had to do is create the user...
Btw, the only subset of people, that I ever let use my Ubuntu desktop, that had any issues with Linux were the tech people. For others, it works and they don't care.
Did you think that only MS advocates are biased!??!?!?!
Sorry, but OS X Server is a joke by Apple, to provide Apple shops with another Apple product to buy.
Incentives to pay for the app or buy bundled services.
When people want statistics to be believable, they explain how those statistics were gathered. Those are the facts.
PS: Their "facts" are mere claims.
You do know that if you want to deploy to a non jailbroken Apple device you need a license, do you? It's no surprise that there are 100'000, Apple basically forces people to become a licensed developer or jailbreak.
Well, unless you have some chunks of code that are platform dependent. And I bet Flash has those pieces of code. Otherwise wou would have had Flash 64 bit without any issues, since you know, it would only require a recompile....
Yeah, but you need to pay $99 just to run your app on your iDevice and not in an emulator. (Jailbreaking aside)
Actually, geographically speaking Europe ends at the Ural mountains in the East and a line between the northern part of Sea of Azov and opposing side of Kaspian sea. So, there are 2 points now "fighting" for the title: onw in Lithuania the other is in Belarus.
Maybe Austrians declared themselves to be the center of EU?
There are no books on how to set-up a Java web app. Because it's trivial. There are books on how to develop with RoR and there are equivalent books on how to develop with JSF.
PS: You don't develop a Ruby based web app without any framework also. That is the curse of a general purpose programming language. See PHP as a counterexample.
Equivalent tools bring equivalent results. RoR's ActiveRecord is pretty much equivalent in practice to Java Persistence API or Hibernate.(I actually use all). The main point is the learning curve of dynamic languages.
Otherwise, good points.
Oh....And... Get off my lawn!
Please... PHP is a weakly and dynamically typed language. That brings a lot of issues with types and adding 1 to a string representing number 2.
Read a lot on MSDN blogs, have yet to be convinced that .NET 4 has a GC as good as G1. Java VM has the years riding behind it, plain and simple.
That is the reason it called HotSpot. It's not there to optimize the trivial cases, it's there to optimize the most used ones. And in practice JVM HotSpot does an exceptionally good job.
And if you're doing system programming, you wouldn't want to use a managed runtime then. And Java language and VM were designed to remove the need for those pointers. .NET has that feature, but when comparing managed vs managed runtimes having unsafe(unmanaged) pointers is a disadvantage.
Can we drop proprietary hardware? Because then Java just overshadows XBox360 by being in the BluRay spec. .NET runs on more systems than you described, just Java is actually supported and not experimental on those.
.NET has more features, I will have to take a neutral position on witch one is more advanced. Java VM is older and has quite a few tricks up it's sleeve(including overall VM performance), .NET's VM is younger and more dynamic.
PS: I'm sure
Java and JVM have not been reviewed for a few years now. There are mostly debates what should be changed. While I agree 100% that
Ahem... Please keep your personal opinions to yourself...
Apparently, USofA operates under capitalism for the middle and lower income classes and socialism for the higher income classes. Who was bailed out by the tax payer?
Sweden has OIL!?!?!? Maybe you are confusing Sweden with Norway?
PS: Geography is a major contributor to voting with your feet.
PPS: Americans do not leave their beloved homeland en masse, because of patriotic indoctrination from childhood. And proportionally there are not a lot of migrants on both sides, specially considering the last 20 years.
Yeah... We all know that no-one opens that email file attachment titled "Nude pictures of (insert your favorite hot and young famous person).txt.exe".
It's all about the money! No control = no money.
Both extremes are possible if 100% of population is 100% honest. If all people where honest and fair, then there would be no difference how much free market or government control there would be. It's all down to people ultimately.
Why should people in densely populated areas subsidize election districts in sparsely populated areas? If people want to have their voices heard, make them pay for it. Right?
No. You always assume you are connected to a USB port of a computer. That is how you do things. Apple decided not to and went for not allowing unlicensed stuff. That just adds more proof to claims that they are control freaks.
To translate that into a simple English: US thrives because it had given the opportunity to plunder the lands that were not plundered and after the WW1 most of the world was in debt to US.
Do you really think that the British empire was rich due to something else other than plundering the rest of the world? US is not much different in that respect.
That is how you do multitasking on older iPhones... You get two!