What is dead is traditional advertising. The younger generation who has grown up with a barrage of ads everywhere have become desensitized to them. Perhaps Google has some ideas up their sleeve to revive the industry?
I find code that is littered with comments hard to read. It's like mixing french with english so the french-speaking people can figure out what the english means. This is what code with comments looks like to me:
/* Cette phrase est au sujet de l'opinion de l'auteur de poteau sur le code de programmation de commentaire. */ Comments are bad// montrer une aversion forte because they make code more difficult to read.
Open-source software is a relatively recent development in computing.
Open source software dates back to the '60s. Considering the computer as we know it isn't much older, I fail to see how it's a relatively recent development.
Now would you say it would be a good idea to take those screwdrivers off the market?
But you have to remember that this new screwdriver also allows the average Joe to build a brand new house in a matter of days, with no other costs beyond the initial investment of screwdriver. The housing industry will see this new screwdriver as a threat to their industry and will do anything to get the screwdriver off the market.
Your analogy fails because it assumes that houses are not broken into because it's too difficult to gain entry. In reality that isn't true at all. So, if you can't stand stupid analogies, please don't spread them yourself.
Now why in the HELL haven't we seen THESE on the market?!?!
Because it shifts the burden to the power generation stations. In case you haven't noticed we're already short on power as it is. And since nobody wants a power generation station in their backyard, increasing that capacity is extremely difficult.
They remind one of ruby syntax while some of the other parts of the language remind one of perl.
That's exactly what I though. The environment even looks and acts a lot like irb. I'm not sure that is good thing however. As nice as ruby is, I would never want to use irb as my shell.
the product would not be ready for sale until it is old and outdated
This is a very important point. Software testing is not free. All of a sudden your $300 copy of Windows is now $30000. Sure, it's 100% secure, but it becomes to expensive to license.
If security is critical to the operation, I'm sure software companies will offer you vulnerability free software. But the costs will be astronomical.
But, for my day to day computer usage I'd rather have a mostly secure product that is in my price range.
The distinction between what is public and private is not so clearly defined on the internet. How is anyone supposed to know that appending../ to the end of a URL is not supposed to be public information?
By making a computer accessible to the internet, you are inviting others to use it (like for downloading a website, etc.). There is a fundamental flaw in putting unknown and arbitrary limits on what people are allowed to access and only notifying them (via the Police) after they have accessed something they shouldn't have. If the boundaries were clearly defined that would be another matter.
Frankly, I don't see Google [or anyone else] replicating M$FT's COM/DCOM functionality anytime in the near future.
Perhaps you should check out KDE again. It's entire system is based on small COM-like objects (known as KParts) that are joined together to make full applications.
I love to program. I enjoy pointer arithmetic. Not everday though. Somedays I want to do something else.
I agree. I love programming, but I also love visual design. And I find I need a mix of both to do my job well. And while these two tasks go together perfectly, (who doesn't like a slick, well designed application interface?) it seems that the two jobs are mutually exclusive to most companies. To combat the problem I have started my own business which gives me the freedom to do both, as well as some farming on the side to fulfill my hard labour desire. But of course it also brings along it's own challenges.
Perhaps our jobs have become too well defined and the burnout is related to concentrating on the same task (no matter how much you love it) all of the time?
If the web is the platform, is there any reason for a Google OS?
There is no reason for Google to create an OS, even if this does not transpire. I predict that in a few (several) years the OS will be about as important as the BIOS. It will be still there, but you won't know or care about it.
but having only about 3% of the consumer market share You forgot a 0. It's more like 30%. It's the business market that brings Apple down to around 3% overall.
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Apple already made a successful platform jump once before (from 680x0 to PPC)
More importantly, NeXTStep made the jump to Intel in the past. So OS X already has a history of running on x86.
If Canada is not part of North America, what continent is it a part of??
What is dead is traditional advertising. The younger generation who has grown up with a barrage of ads everywhere have become desensitized to them. Perhaps Google has some ideas up their sleeve to revive the industry?
Who wants to read something like that?
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Open-source software is a relatively recent development in computing.
Open source software dates back to the '60s. Considering the computer as we know it isn't much older, I fail to see how it's a relatively recent development.
Why should a company like Apple or Google have the power to decide what a video or a song is worth?
Because they are the buyer. The buyer is always the one with the ultimate power of deciding the final price.
The results:Then again, it was a Ruby job site...
Now would you say it would be a good idea to take those screwdrivers off the market?
But you have to remember that this new screwdriver also allows the average Joe to build a brand new house in a matter of days, with no other costs beyond the initial investment of screwdriver. The housing industry will see this new screwdriver as a threat to their industry and will do anything to get the screwdriver off the market.
Your analogy fails because it assumes that houses are not broken into because it's too difficult to gain entry. In reality that isn't true at all. So, if you can't stand stupid analogies, please don't spread them yourself.
Now why in the HELL haven't we seen THESE on the market?!?!
Because it shifts the burden to the power generation stations. In case you haven't noticed we're already short on power as it is. And since nobody wants a power generation station in their backyard, increasing that capacity is extremely difficult.
Quick, someone better tell Adobe, because they don't seem to be aware of that fact.
They remind one of ruby syntax while some of the other parts of the language remind one of perl.
That's exactly what I though. The environment even looks and acts a lot like irb. I'm not sure that is good thing however. As nice as ruby is, I would never want to use irb as my shell.
the product would not be ready for sale until it is old and outdated
This is a very important point. Software testing is not free. All of a sudden your $300 copy of Windows is now $30000. Sure, it's 100% secure, but it becomes to expensive to license.
If security is critical to the operation, I'm sure software companies will offer you vulnerability free software. But the costs will be astronomical.
But, for my day to day computer usage I'd rather have a mostly secure product that is in my price range.
Google begs to differ.
When you are repeatedly denied access after doing so.
Which this guy was.
So, to correlate with the real world. As long as I can bust down your door on the first try, I'm free to enter?
The distinction between what is public and private is not so clearly defined on the internet. How is anyone supposed to know that appending ../ to the end of a URL is not supposed to be public information?
By making a computer accessible to the internet, you are inviting others to use it (like for downloading a website, etc.). There is a fundamental flaw in putting unknown and arbitrary limits on what people are allowed to access and only notifying them (via the Police) after they have accessed something they shouldn't have. If the boundaries were clearly defined that would be another matter.
Google doesn't run Solaris
Uhh, yes they do. They said so during the announcement. And they plan to increase it's usage in their organization.
COM/DCOM will never leave Windows until a replacement technology is in place
That doesn't make it any less deprecated.
The feature everyone is really talking about (document embedding) is a more specific thing known originally as OLE (Object Linking and Embedding.)
KParts/KoParts does that as well. See: KOffice.
Frankly, I don't see Google [or anyone else] replicating M$FT's COM/DCOM functionality anytime in the near future.
Perhaps you should check out KDE again. It's entire system is based on small COM-like objects (known as KParts) that are joined together to make full applications.
Also, COM/DCOM is deprecated.
is Apple still Apple?
No, Apple has been NeXT for quite a few years now.
The recording industry represents the advertising model. The internet has failed to address that issue thus far.
I love to program. I enjoy pointer arithmetic. Not everday though. Somedays I want to do something else.
I agree. I love programming, but I also love visual design. And I find I need a mix of both to do my job well. And while these two tasks go together perfectly, (who doesn't like a slick, well designed application interface?) it seems that the two jobs are mutually exclusive to most companies. To combat the problem I have started my own business which gives me the freedom to do both, as well as some farming on the side to fulfill my hard labour desire. But of course it also brings along it's own challenges.
Perhaps our jobs have become too well defined and the burnout is related to concentrating on the same task (no matter how much you love it) all of the time?
There is no reason for Google to create an OS, even if this does not transpire. I predict that in a few (several) years the OS will be about as important as the BIOS. It will be still there, but you won't know or care about it.
but having only about 3% of the consumer market share
You forgot a 0. It's more like 30%. It's the business market that brings Apple down to around 3% overall.
I think this has got to be a personal preference thing. I actually prefer that it clears when you open a new tab.
I agree. The operative word here is 'new'. When you are starting something new, what you have done before should not follow.