I've personally judge it after using it and it does not offer enough over Google, I find some its results for certain searches to be questionable and quite frankly I don't support any company that uses it advantages in other areas to gain an artificial advantage (ie making your search engine the default in your market dominating browser).
If MS pays to be the search engine on the iPhone I'm fine with that. I wouldn't fight it but I would still think making it the default on IE is wrong.
It will always be an estimate as you never knew who considered Sun but opted to never even contact them.
I'd love to buy from Sun but even I put off buying a couple servers until I see what happens. The sales rep was honest about the situation and his inability to say much so if the hardware side survives, I will still buy from them.
I'd say Netbeans is gaining popularity. The issue is Eclipse started off with a big lead and people don't just up and leave their IDEs over night and their company may dictate what they can use.
Netbeans runs better, imo, and it's slowly adding more support for languages like PHP and Python and it does a good job with them.
I fully expect Netbeans to take off with PHP devs and if they keep going as they are then slowly it'll gain users amongst java devs too.
Why should Oracle change anything? MySQL is doing well. It'd be better not to rock the boat and just sell loads of support for it rather than scare away people that likely won't ever go for Oracle and kill MySQL.
I don't think Oracle will be a problem. However you should look at Postgre because it is good and it will stick to a certain guy who thought he could sell his DB to Sun and get it back for free.
Ignoring any pettiness though, do check out Postgre. I think it's quite nice.
To be fair I would eat the pig anus before the fore skin. I, like many other people, wouldn't eat certain things because quite frankly we don't have to. It doesn't make sense and it's irrational but at least I draw the line at fore skin and not Brussels sprouts as some do.
Even if they are sensitive, why can't they be? Is this something that only women are allowed to be?
You can't go around for decades telling men they're doing things wrong and then and do what they do and expect no one to say anything and if that doesn't make much sense then I refer you to this link: http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=hypocrite&hl=en
They is often used as a neutral reference to people. Using she to reference a group of people that are by far mainly male just stinks of shoving PC thinking in people's face.
It would be the same as referencing Africans as white people. White Africans do indeed exist but the majority aren't so why would you use a white person to represent a black majority?
I've personally found Manning's books to be a bit too wordy with poor examples.
For standard Java, I don't think Core Java volume 1 & 2 can be beat. I've not been entirely pleased with any books on Java frameworks so I've mainly used the net to pick up Spring but it would be nice to have a really nice reference book purely because I prefer reading books than computer screens for serious stuff.
I had this on Safari Books Online for awhile and I finding myself enjoying it so I opted for a real copy which should show up tomorrow.
I would definitely say it's one of the best reference books I've seen in awhile.
Code books in general seem to be lacking these days. Often they cut out the code and just chuck it on a disk. The reason I bought the book is because I want to see the code on paper and importantly right beside the relevant text that I'm reading.
In my opinion the Python Essential Reference has a decent balance between examples and the author speaking and it was only £18 which, imo isn't that bad.
I totally agree with this. I've been working on something that's taken easily twice as long as it should. Given the time we've taken, if we were were allowed to do things our way it would have been flawless and work exactly with our needs.
Instead we've been forced to work with a bit of software that wasn't much better than beta software and putting more effort into making it work around business requirements than we would have working from scratch. Combining this with clueless people demanding silly things and it's a wonder we got as far as we have. Luckily we have had some decent people with a high tolerance for shit.
Because some companies have contracts with MS that have them on Win2k until (if I recall correctly) until the extended support is over which is this summer so MS can't really tell IE6 users to fuck off completely.
I'm sure they could get out of the contract at an unnecessary cost. MS made this mess and unfortunately we're stuck with it for awhile longer. Hopefully once the extended support is over then companies will start dumping their old stuff and upgrading.
In my opinion this shouldn't matter to most sites because they're not meant for business customers. It doesn't matter if Youtube, for instance, works on IE6 as far as I'm concerned. Anyone on IE6 for their home PC should be excluded until they get a real browser.
The BBC's site may always remain free. Perhaps it's not really an issue these days but if they were to charge those outside of the UK then they would have to ensure that their GeoIP code works flawlessly and should they be able to charge licence fee holders purely because they went to France on holiday and want to check the news or because their mobile phone contract may have been purchased from a neighbouring country?
I would imagine it's easier for the to keep it as is and if everyone else does a pay wall then that's just more business they'll get looking at their ads on the international versions.
Personally, it's my opinion that Gawker sites aren't real news sites and they rely on controversial things, like this to get people looking at their sites. For instance, looking at Kotaku reveals that it's mainly just a bunch of low grade crap that you used to find on someone's Geocities site. The stuff of real substance can be found elsewhere on a site like Edge Online and you don't have to sift through the crap that's padding out the site to get you looking at more ads.
They really are just paparazzi "journalists" and we don't really need their type plaguing the technology sector. It would be nice if they went away.
You don't need to download it. You need a login to see it as you would see Google and that is, if I had to guess, because it's not ready to be competing with Google.
Hopefully some companies, like True Knowledge ( http://www.trueknowledge.com/ ) will take off. It's beta at the moment and not perfect by any means but it's coming a long quite well (may start tinkering with their APIs myself) and it would be nice to see another real contender come into the search market and one that's no fro the same tiny section of the globe.
We do need more competition. Understandably when you competitors are Google and Microsoft, that's enough to put off a lot of people.
If there is an advantage to having that search data would you give it to yet another mobile competitor who will eat into your market share too and who can also use its desktop OS monopoly to heavily tie their mobile OS to it and therefore make it an over all more attractive purchase and possibly harder for Apple to over come where as Google ay end up shooting itself in the foot and becoming yet another Alta Vista or Yahoo?
There's nothing in the bible that says that men and women should share a bathroom and everyone knows life was better and there were no terrorists when men and women had separate beds.
Let's assume that's true. Why does it only affect those on cell phones or are you implying that freshman always walk as couples and only seniors have cell phones?;)
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I've personally judge it after using it and it does not offer enough over Google, I find some its results for certain searches to be questionable and quite frankly I don't support any company that uses it advantages in other areas to gain an artificial advantage (ie making your search engine the default in your market dominating browser).
If MS pays to be the search engine on the iPhone I'm fine with that. I wouldn't fight it but I would still think making it the default on IE is wrong.
Perhaps it's because Google gives enough info to realise the story isn't really worth reading.
It will always be an estimate as you never knew who considered Sun but opted to never even contact them.
I'd love to buy from Sun but even I put off buying a couple servers until I see what happens. The sales rep was honest about the situation and his inability to say much so if the hardware side survives, I will still buy from them.
I'd say Netbeans is gaining popularity. The issue is Eclipse started off with a big lead and people don't just up and leave their IDEs over night and their company may dictate what they can use.
Netbeans runs better, imo, and it's slowly adding more support for languages like PHP and Python and it does a good job with them.
I fully expect Netbeans to take off with PHP devs and if they keep going as they are then slowly it'll gain users amongst java devs too.
I can't belive they'd get rid of Netbeans. It one of the IDEs at the moment. At least it's open source so it can be forked if that happens.
Why should Oracle change anything? MySQL is doing well. It'd be better not to rock the boat and just sell loads of support for it rather than scare away people that likely won't ever go for Oracle and kill MySQL.
I don't think Oracle will be a problem. However you should look at Postgre because it is good and it will stick to a certain guy who thought he could sell his DB to Sun and get it back for free.
Ignoring any pettiness though, do check out Postgre. I think it's quite nice.
As I'm sure everyone knows Python is named after Monty Python so in a way it does.
To be fair I would eat the pig anus before the fore skin. I, like many other people, wouldn't eat certain things because quite frankly we don't have to. It doesn't make sense and it's irrational but at least I draw the line at fore skin and not Brussels sprouts as some do.
Even if they are sensitive, why can't they be? Is this something that only women are allowed to be?
You can't go around for decades telling men they're doing things wrong and then and do what they do and expect no one to say anything and if that doesn't make much sense then I refer you to this link: http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=hypocrite&hl=en
They is often used as a neutral reference to people. Using she to reference a group of people that are by far mainly male just stinks of shoving PC thinking in people's face.
It would be the same as referencing Africans as white people. White Africans do indeed exist but the majority aren't so why would you use a white person to represent a black majority?
I've personally found Manning's books to be a bit too wordy with poor examples.
For standard Java, I don't think Core Java volume 1 & 2 can be beat. I've not been entirely pleased with any books on Java frameworks so I've mainly used the net to pick up Spring but it would be nice to have a really nice reference book purely because I prefer reading books than computer screens for serious stuff.
I had this on Safari Books Online for awhile and I finding myself enjoying it so I opted for a real copy which should show up tomorrow.
I would definitely say it's one of the best reference books I've seen in awhile.
Code books in general seem to be lacking these days. Often they cut out the code and just chuck it on a disk. The reason I bought the book is because I want to see the code on paper and importantly right beside the relevant text that I'm reading.
In my opinion the Python Essential Reference has a decent balance between examples and the author speaking and it was only £18 which, imo isn't that bad.
I totally agree with this. I've been working on something that's taken easily twice as long as it should. Given the time we've taken, if we were were allowed to do things our way it would have been flawless and work exactly with our needs.
Instead we've been forced to work with a bit of software that wasn't much better than beta software and putting more effort into making it work around business requirements than we would have working from scratch. Combining this with clueless people demanding silly things and it's a wonder we got as far as we have. Luckily we have had some decent people with a high tolerance for shit.
I don't care how good the pizza tastes if it's made with pig anus and old fore skin. So how something is made does matter under certain circumstances.
Because some companies have contracts with MS that have them on Win2k until (if I recall correctly) until the extended support is over which is this summer so MS can't really tell IE6 users to fuck off completely.
I'm sure they could get out of the contract at an unnecessary cost. MS made this mess and unfortunately we're stuck with it for awhile longer. Hopefully once the extended support is over then companies will start dumping their old stuff and upgrading.
In my opinion this shouldn't matter to most sites because they're not meant for business customers. It doesn't matter if Youtube, for instance, works on IE6 as far as I'm concerned. Anyone on IE6 for their home PC should be excluded until they get a real browser.
I'm drawing a good pay check from the Judean People's Front for spying on Google.
The Daily Mail doesn't even contain news. I'm not sure the parent is aware of that.
The BBC's site may always remain free. Perhaps it's not really an issue these days but if they were to charge those outside of the UK then they would have to ensure that their GeoIP code works flawlessly and should they be able to charge licence fee holders purely because they went to France on holiday and want to check the news or because their mobile phone contract may have been purchased from a neighbouring country?
I would imagine it's easier for the to keep it as is and if everyone else does a pay wall then that's just more business they'll get looking at their ads on the international versions.
Personally, it's my opinion that Gawker sites aren't real news sites and they rely on controversial things, like this to get people looking at their sites. For instance, looking at Kotaku reveals that it's mainly just a bunch of low grade crap that you used to find on someone's Geocities site. The stuff of real substance can be found elsewhere on a site like Edge Online and you don't have to sift through the crap that's padding out the site to get you looking at more ads.
They really are just paparazzi "journalists" and we don't really need their type plaguing the technology sector. It would be nice if they went away.
You don't need to download it. You need a login to see it as you would see Google and that is, if I had to guess, because it's not ready to be competing with Google.
Hopefully some companies, like True Knowledge ( http://www.trueknowledge.com/ ) will take off. It's beta at the moment and not perfect by any means but it's coming a long quite well (may start tinkering with their APIs myself) and it would be nice to see another real contender come into the search market and one that's no fro the same tiny section of the globe.
We do need more competition. Understandably when you competitors are Google and Microsoft, that's enough to put off a lot of people.
If there is an advantage to having that search data would you give it to yet another mobile competitor who will eat into your market share too and who can also use its desktop OS monopoly to heavily tie their mobile OS to it and therefore make it an over all more attractive purchase and possibly harder for Apple to over come where as Google ay end up shooting itself in the foot and becoming yet another Alta Vista or Yahoo?
There's nothing in the bible that says that men and women should share a bathroom and everyone knows life was better and there were no terrorists when men and women had separate beds.
Let's assume that's true. Why does it only affect those on cell phones or are you implying that freshman always walk as couples and only seniors have cell phones? ;)