This is one of the reasons I liked the Mozilla download manager. It would encapsulate all the little downloads into a single window, which may or may not be focused.
Nothing is more irksome then splash screens that grab focus. Nothing on the desktop should prevent me from doing what I'm doing, and focus my attention unless I choose.
If I want to start an application, I'm not going to sit there, clapping my hands with glee, waiting for the app to start up, staring at wonder at teh 32-bit animations on the title screen. I might be working on something else, and want the app to load up in the background and when it's ready I will choose to switch focus.
I see this name... I'm almost tempted to ask they call it a Pikachu like name. =)
Hydra, the many headed wonder. Chimera is taken by the Mac/Moz derivative.
Or to break from the Greek Mythos, and go Norse: Fenris, the wolf "held down by the unbreakable bonds" Odin, Thor, Tyr, Baldur, Bragi, Sif (all easy to type).
To follow Egyptian Mythos, Ptah, Seker, or my personal favorite, Thoth.
Flash won't let me middle mouseclick / control mouseclick to open up the appropriate link in another tab.
Some of us are STILL on modem, since we're over 17500 distance from a CO, and the only available broadband is iDSL at over $100 / month.
It's pathetic when ads are the majority of the bandwidth from a webpage. Websites like ESPN and CNN have become quite simply obnoxious. Some flash is good, "AdFlash" is just annoying.
The problem is the base assumption that everyone has broadband. That isn't the case. You don't have to live in the sticks to _only_ have a modem line... and sometimes that modem line isn't that great (connects at 28.8)
That's why I'm glad Phoenix came out for Mozilla. I don't need a web browser for email / news / irc / horoscopes / making Belgium waffles. The source is a little less then the main product, and it's all that I would need in the first place.
The one advantage I do have is the accessibility of a co-lo linux box, which I can download to there, then rsync to my home machine. Unfortunately not everyone has this option available. I've noticed the huge size of the linux source tree, and I'm hoping they would start to consider modularizing the source build, similiar to how Xemacs did with their packages.
Right now I can get a top of the line Vaio (with Firewire, DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive, AND memory stick reader) for nearly half the cost of an OSX capable Mac of comparable performance.
Even if Apple decides to use a lot of the POWER technology which is currently in use with the Pseries of computing, they won't see most of the benefits from the technology unless you want to pay for a $30k mac. Only then can I see the "price" worthwhile.
Steve Jobs will ALWAYS retain a tight reign on what Apple will support. I liken them more to a cheap SGI then an expensive PC. The problem is the niche market isn't that robust, and Apple isn't as good as they think they are...
Give me a stripped down Mac that only costs $300-500 on a high performance processor. I'll supply the rest, the video card, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc...
AIX is a *nix for all intents and purposes. It's extremely enterprise friendly.
PSSP and the entire SP2 is an overexpensive solution that IBM has been toting for several years, and it looks like they finally wisened up. The idea of Scalable/Parallel is nice for the scientific community, but means less for real buisiness. Also noone from mainly a Unix background wants to fight both the SDR and ODM registry formats.
I can't enumerate the number of times I've had issues with the SDR. Even with a complex built from scratch, it eventually turns to crap over time with multiple people managing it. The only way to avoid this scenario only exists in places like Lawrence Livermore, where procedure is preached like doctrine.
The new Regatta's are slick. With redundant hardware that is built from the mainframe model. You want administration is is approaching the 9's of mainframe, it's going to come to AIX before you see it on Linux, mainly due to it being lightyears ahead already.
From a buisiness model perspective, it's very simple.
Windows = Cheap Hardware, Expensive Software AIX = Expensive Hardware, Cheap Software Linux = Cheap Hardware, Cheap Software
The platform is only as good as the software that runs on it. You could have the cheapest, most robust platform that is always up, and well supported, but if there are no apps that run on it, then you have issues.
I have both Gvim and GNU Emacs 21.2.1 running on my w2k laptop.
So you can have the best of both worlds. The ability to quickly edit any small file, and then an editting environment.
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Asian does no equal white (honorary or otherwise). _Never_ equate them alike. There is nothing more then I can stand then to listen to this pathetic dribble.
Our largest "cost" is entitlements. The food you eat, grown by farmers via subsidies is one such cost. If you think military spending is in the majority, I suggest you examine the budget before making such baseless claims. You'd be surprised at how little we spend on the military. If you include intelligence and other defense associated costs, it's still small compared to entitlements.
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This is one of the reasons I liked the Mozilla download manager. It would encapsulate all the little downloads into a single window, which may or may not be focused.
Nothing is more irksome then splash screens that grab focus. Nothing on the desktop should prevent me from doing what I'm doing, and focus my attention unless I choose.
If I want to start an application, I'm not going to sit there, clapping my hands with glee, waiting for the app to start up, staring at wonder at teh 32-bit animations on the title screen. I might be working on something else, and want the app to load up in the background and when it's ready I will choose to switch focus.
I see this name... I'm almost tempted to ask they call it a Pikachu like name. =)
Hydra, the many headed wonder.
Chimera is taken by the Mac/Moz derivative.
Or to break from the Greek Mythos, and go Norse:
Fenris, the wolf "held down by the unbreakable bonds"
Odin, Thor, Tyr, Baldur, Bragi, Sif (all easy to type).
To follow Egyptian Mythos, Ptah, Seker, or my personal favorite, Thoth.
Flash won't let me middle mouseclick / control mouseclick to open up the appropriate link in another tab.
Some of us are STILL on modem, since we're over 17500 distance from a CO, and the only available broadband is iDSL at over $100 / month.
It's pathetic when ads are the majority of the bandwidth from a webpage. Websites like ESPN and CNN have become quite simply obnoxious. Some flash is good, "AdFlash" is just annoying.
The problem is the base assumption that everyone has broadband. That isn't the case. You don't have to live in the sticks to _only_ have a modem line... and sometimes that modem line isn't that great (connects at 28.8)
That's why I'm glad Phoenix came out for Mozilla. I don't need a web browser for email / news / irc / horoscopes / making Belgium waffles. The source is a little less then the main product, and it's all that I would need in the first place.
The one advantage I do have is the accessibility of a co-lo linux box, which I can download to there, then rsync to my home machine. Unfortunately not everyone has this option available. I've noticed the huge size of the linux source tree, and I'm hoping they would start to consider modularizing the source build, similiar to how Xemacs did with their packages.
Yeah, it's McDonnell, then merged with Douglas, then slurped up by Boeing.
Sad thing is, when I see McDonald Douglas, like you, I think of "Mac" F/A-18's... super sized, with fries.
1 Billion Dollar Planes served.
Right now I can get a top of the line Vaio (with Firewire, DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive, AND memory stick reader) for nearly half the cost of an OSX capable Mac of comparable performance.
Even if Apple decides to use a lot of the POWER technology which is currently in use with the Pseries of computing, they won't see most of the benefits from the technology unless you want to pay for a $30k mac. Only then can I see the "price" worthwhile.
Steve Jobs will ALWAYS retain a tight reign on what Apple will support. I liken them more to a cheap SGI then an expensive PC. The problem is the niche market isn't that robust, and Apple isn't as good as they think they are...
Give me a stripped down Mac that only costs $300-500 on a high performance processor. I'll supply the rest, the video card, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc...
AIX is a *nix for all intents and purposes. It's extremely enterprise friendly.
PSSP and the entire SP2 is an overexpensive solution that IBM has been toting for several years, and it looks like they finally wisened up. The idea of Scalable/Parallel is nice for the scientific community, but means less for real buisiness. Also noone from mainly a Unix background wants to fight both the SDR and ODM registry formats.
I can't enumerate the number of times I've had issues with the SDR. Even with a complex built from scratch, it eventually turns to crap over time with multiple people managing it. The only way to avoid this scenario only exists in places like Lawrence Livermore, where procedure is preached like doctrine.
The new Regatta's are slick. With redundant hardware that is built from the mainframe model. You want administration is is approaching the 9's of mainframe, it's going to come to AIX before you see it on Linux, mainly due to it being lightyears ahead already.
From a buisiness model perspective, it's very simple.
Windows = Cheap Hardware, Expensive Software
AIX = Expensive Hardware, Cheap Software
Linux = Cheap Hardware, Cheap Software
The platform is only as good as the software that runs on it. You could have the cheapest, most robust platform that is always up, and well supported, but if there are no apps that run on it, then you have issues.
I have both Gvim and GNU Emacs 21.2.1 running on my w2k laptop.
So you can have the best of both worlds. The ability to quickly edit any small file, and then an editting environment.
Asian does no equal white (honorary or otherwise). _Never_ equate them alike. There is nothing more then I can stand then to listen to this pathetic dribble.
Our largest "cost" is entitlements. The food you eat, grown by farmers via subsidies is one such cost. If you think military spending is in the majority, I suggest you examine the budget before making such baseless claims. You'd be surprised at how little we spend on the military. If you include intelligence and other defense associated costs, it's still small compared to entitlements.