You see, your kind of on the right track.. except of course that Visual Studio is a pretty good and user friendly IDE, and thats the main point... I develop in C++, and I have done development on Linux as well as Windows, and to be honest I much prefer using Visual Studio 2005/2008 to all the things I've tried in Linux to date.
When its easy to develop for a system then more people are going to develop for it, someone really should aim to get an AWESOME IDE made for development on Linux
The software I am currently working on, VenturiOne, uses as many cores as you can throw at it, its been written from scratch with multi-threading in mind. Our demo machine currently has dual quad-cores in it and 8Gb of ram. It will evenly distributing the computation amongst all cores thats available... compared to our competitor's software it can be tens of times faster depending on the files being analysed:)
Its very difficult to multi-thread legacy code correctly, if you want to implement multi-threading effectively then it really has to be a decision being made at the beginning of an application, the same can be said for undo/redo... its one of the great advantages to starting a completely new project.
As a music lover and someone thats used the internet for about 9 years now I still see the main problem being that there still isn't anywhere decent to buy music from legally.
Sure there's iTunes, but I don't want an Ipod, and I dont want it in MP4, and I dont want their MP3's!
If I'm going to pay for digital music I want my audio in something like FLAC or APE, thats lossless, and the quality that I would get if I purchased the CD... or at the very least I'd like it in V0 MP3 so its near perfect quality.
The first person to create a legal site where I have freedom in the format I can have and stocks rock and metal music will make an absolute mint off me as I'm still yet to find such a site!
Oh really? And exactly what would be done with that additional tax? Perhaps exactly what I mentioned:
and with the spare tax money they could use it to fund research into better, renewable fuel sources... Or any number of other useful things, like maybe a national health service so you don't have to rely on health insurance that not everyone can afford?
We write the software to the spec of the company that makes and sells the machines and software, most people PC's run Windows, so they want it to run on Windows... that's how things go in the real world, you do what your paid to do, and you do whatever will make you the most money!:)
Office 2007 is a royal pain in the ass. I had to install it at work and simple things take you 10 minutes to find sometimes... like in Word it took me ages to find how to do a Word Count... you know, that thing that's quite common and should be easy to do?
Although, one of our new products at work uses the Office 2007 style UI and I must admit that its looking rather smart and user friendly, but I still have gripes with some things being hard to find!
The US has politicians that don't want to charge more tax and get more money? Wow... we could do with a few of those!
I think the US pays roughly 1/3 the price for petrol that we do in the UK, if they really wanted people to start helping the environment, they'd add tax onto fuel costs, forcing people to get smaller cars, and with the spare tax money they could use it to fund research into better, renewable fuel sources...
But of course, that makes FAR too much sense for any politician to think about, and certainly nobody would vote for wanting to pay more, so it's unlikely to happen
What I find amusing in the UK is mums taking their toddlers to school in big 4x4's... well, the modern 4x4 which most likely wouldn't survive offroad...
Personally I don't see the need to have such a monstrosity of a vehicle to carry a woman and 1 or 2 kids, unless of course maybe they carry every single item of the children's clothing around with them everywhere?
'Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.'
Its funny that, because the needs of nearly all your customers is that your operating system is reliable and user friendly and runs fast, and every OS that's released from Microsoft is worse is most of those categories compared with the previous version.
I write software that's used in medical analysis of blood, urine, tissue and other samples... we follow extremely strict design, coding and testing rules to ensure that there as few bugs in our program when it reaches the end user as humanly possible...
of course, then its run on Windows... which in my POV just negates all our work, especially seen as its now going to be run on Vista, which has brought us no end of troubles with discrepancies between XP and Vista!
Well fuel usage is also linked to driving style, especially with modern cars... for example most recent cars use no fuel what so ever when your foot is off the accelerator, so when your on a flat road or going downhill, even slightly, knock up a gear and just roll... save you quite a bit once you get used to it... and again, proper gear usage, changing at the right time instead of going high into the revs can save a lot of petrol too.
And yes, converting a lot of cars to petrol/diesel + LPG is a good idea, but a lot of recent cars, especially those with Toyota engines (like the smaller cars of Peugeot, Citroen, and of course Toyota) are more economical and produce less CO2 than most hybrids. Toyota have come leaps and bounds over most of their competitors in terms of eco friendly engines.
I would hope by 2020 we have mostly moved away from petrol and diesel, as with the current consumption rates worldwide by 2020 were going to be struggling to keep up with demand for oil based fuels.
Perhaps it would be better to write bills that clearly define a set of environmental impact limits, ie a maximum CO2 per mile limit or some other such way of determining the impact on the environment.
And by definition does that mean that all electric cars will be illegal as they don't use any gallons of anything?
I don't mean to be offensive but it seems from my POV in the UK that Americans (and other countries like Australia?) need to stop putting such damn big engines in cars/pickups.
I mean seriously, there is no need for everyone to own a vehicle with a 3.0 litre or bigger engine. A big engine in a normal car (non sport) in the UK is around 2.0 litre? Something like a Ford Mondeo?
My car (Peugeot 107) has a 1.0 litre engine, it does upto 60MPG, although I usually get 50 - 55 out of it in the current cold weather, and it gets me to and from work fine and is plenty fast enough for motorway driving too. It has extremely low emissions, one of the lowest of any car you can buy at the moment.
Unless you need to carry passengers regularly or your constantly transporting things in your car then there is no need for a big car with a big engine, its just pointless! Wasting your money, wasting oil and ruining the environment!
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You see, your kind of on the right track.. except of course that Visual Studio is a pretty good and user friendly IDE, and thats the main point... I develop in C++, and I have done development on Linux as well as Windows, and to be honest I much prefer using Visual Studio 2005/2008 to all the things I've tried in Linux to date.
When its easy to develop for a system then more people are going to develop for it, someone really should aim to get an AWESOME IDE made for development on Linux
The software I am currently working on, VenturiOne, uses as many cores as you can throw at it, its been written from scratch with multi-threading in mind. Our demo machine currently has dual quad-cores in it and 8Gb of ram. It will evenly distributing the computation amongst all cores thats available... compared to our competitor's software it can be tens of times faster depending on the files being analysed :)
Its very difficult to multi-thread legacy code correctly, if you want to implement multi-threading effectively then it really has to be a decision being made at the beginning of an application, the same can be said for undo/redo... its one of the great advantages to starting a completely new project.
As a music lover and someone thats used the internet for about 9 years now I still see the main problem being that there still isn't anywhere decent to buy music from legally.
Sure there's iTunes, but I don't want an Ipod, and I dont want it in MP4, and I dont want their MP3's!
If I'm going to pay for digital music I want my audio in something like FLAC or APE, thats lossless, and the quality that I would get if I purchased the CD... or at the very least I'd like it in V0 MP3 so its near perfect quality.
The first person to create a legal site where I have freedom in the format I can have and stocks rock and metal music will make an absolute mint off me as I'm still yet to find such a site!
We write the software to the spec of the company that makes and sells the machines and software, most people PC's run Windows, so they want it to run on Windows... that's how things go in the real world, you do what your paid to do, and you do whatever will make you the most money! :)
Office 2007 is a royal pain in the ass. I had to install it at work and simple things take you 10 minutes to find sometimes... like in Word it took me ages to find how to do a Word Count... you know, that thing that's quite common and should be easy to do?
Although, one of our new products at work uses the Office 2007 style UI and I must admit that its looking rather smart and user friendly, but I still have gripes with some things being hard to find!
The US has politicians that don't want to charge more tax and get more money? Wow... we could do with a few of those!
I think the US pays roughly 1/3 the price for petrol that we do in the UK, if they really wanted people to start helping the environment, they'd add tax onto fuel costs, forcing people to get smaller cars, and with the spare tax money they could use it to fund research into better, renewable fuel sources...
But of course, that makes FAR too much sense for any politician to think about, and certainly nobody would vote for wanting to pay more, so it's unlikely to happen
What I find amusing in the UK is mums taking their toddlers to school in big 4x4's... well, the modern 4x4 which most likely wouldn't survive offroad...
Personally I don't see the need to have such a monstrosity of a vehicle to carry a woman and 1 or 2 kids, unless of course maybe they carry every single item of the children's clothing around with them everywhere?
Its funny that, because the needs of nearly all your customers is that your operating system is reliable and user friendly and runs fast, and every OS that's released from Microsoft is worse is most of those categories compared with the previous version.
I write software that's used in medical analysis of blood, urine, tissue and other samples... we follow extremely strict design, coding and testing rules to ensure that there as few bugs in our program when it reaches the end user as humanly possible...
of course, then its run on Windows... which in my POV just negates all our work, especially seen as its now going to be run on Vista, which has brought us no end of troubles with discrepancies between XP and Vista!
Well fuel usage is also linked to driving style, especially with modern cars... for example most recent cars use no fuel what so ever when your foot is off the accelerator, so when your on a flat road or going downhill, even slightly, knock up a gear and just roll... save you quite a bit once you get used to it... and again, proper gear usage, changing at the right time instead of going high into the revs can save a lot of petrol too.
And yes, converting a lot of cars to petrol/diesel + LPG is a good idea, but a lot of recent cars, especially those with Toyota engines (like the smaller cars of Peugeot, Citroen, and of course Toyota) are more economical and produce less CO2 than most hybrids. Toyota have come leaps and bounds over most of their competitors in terms of eco friendly engines.
I would hope by 2020 we have mostly moved away from petrol and diesel, as with the current consumption rates worldwide by 2020 were going to be struggling to keep up with demand for oil based fuels. Perhaps it would be better to write bills that clearly define a set of environmental impact limits, ie a maximum CO2 per mile limit or some other such way of determining the impact on the environment. And by definition does that mean that all electric cars will be illegal as they don't use any gallons of anything?
I don't mean to be offensive but it seems from my POV in the UK that Americans (and other countries like Australia?) need to stop putting such damn big engines in cars/pickups. I mean seriously, there is no need for everyone to own a vehicle with a 3.0 litre or bigger engine. A big engine in a normal car (non sport) in the UK is around 2.0 litre? Something like a Ford Mondeo? My car (Peugeot 107) has a 1.0 litre engine, it does upto 60MPG, although I usually get 50 - 55 out of it in the current cold weather, and it gets me to and from work fine and is plenty fast enough for motorway driving too. It has extremely low emissions, one of the lowest of any car you can buy at the moment. Unless you need to carry passengers regularly or your constantly transporting things in your car then there is no need for a big car with a big engine, its just pointless! Wasting your money, wasting oil and ruining the environment!