.. compared to the results of some production vehicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_lap_times)
but the car sure looks fabulous, and they probably can do faster with better weather.
Alternatively if you get the error message and don't want to recompile, it probably helps if you run md5coll as Administrator. (At least that helped for me)
This is not really about Javas coolness or not (could not even read the article).
To my experience when Java programmers switch to C++ they tend to produce code that is full of memory leaks (new in Java and C++ are VERY different) and have a tendency to write overdesigned and unnecessary complex code.
What you will always see from a person done Java in the past and now doing C++ is things like:
DoSomething() { C * c = new C(); if( ! C->doSomething() ) return; C->doMore(); delete c; }
.. and it absolutely was easy to do the most important simple thing:
I cut immediately start typing text.
And I can do the most important tasks by pressing easy to find buttons. From my experiences with beginners: they all could that within 1 minute. Learning how to move around with the mouse usually took more time.
Now try explaing a novice how to use LaTeX.
PS: "that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers," - The Scrabble mentioned was probably not produced by Microsoft!
PPS: I would never use anything but LaTeX for a text with more than one formula.
I don't have the time to read all the 27 claims in detail, but the way I read this (especially claim 18) is that this is about the time the button being pressed. It never mentions the length of the pause between the button presses.
The way I understand a "double click" is that it is is two clicks with only a short time inbetween - it does not matter how long the individual clicks are.
And the thing is only about launching applications on a "limited resource computing device" (whatever that really is).
But the internet does not stop at apache and sendmail. What most users see as "the internet" is a mail client and a web browser: Outlook and IE.
And even if all the web servers in the world would use Apache, that does not make a single user switch from IE to Mozilla.
2. "The Internet is the carrier for open source."
3. "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
I don't see why that should give open source a big break through. But I agree that only the internet makes open source really possible.
But in the same way it also helps closed source development.
4. "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Why? I am sure that an unix based system is more secure than windows by design. But why does that prevent an open source email client from executing any worm/virus/...?
And even more: Who cares? For most users (including me) any worm that does not delete the hard disk is only a minor problem (like catching a cold - not very nice but also no big deal).
5. "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
When first reading this statement I through: YES. But when thinking about it for some time: No. That would apply to all software - open source or not. Opera and The Bat! are not the standard browser and mail client.
6. "Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
So does working in any job - unless you want to be fired really soon (except if you are in a position to fire everyone else first).
7. "Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
So closed source means standing on the shoulders of open source standing on the sholders of giants?!?
Or does closed source and open source each stand on one sholder?
8. "Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
Servers are still expensive and Windows also runs on AMD;-)
9. "Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
Really? I would guess the are using linux as operating system - but the actual "application" is very closed source, and without the right hardware quite useless.
Or does anyone think there will be a community about the latest updates for the software in your waching machines.
10. "There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
I would say that most companies developing software are not software companies. And especially those companies don't want to give their competitors any more information than absolutely necessary.
11. "Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
So they port some of their software to one open source operating system - some years ago they might have done so for some other *ix. But still they want to sell something (hardware and/or software - which is not open source).
And does that make them use open office, mozilla and apache?
12. "It's free."
Most PCs offered today for home users include so much software they don't need to by any extra (except games of course) - and that for a price ofen less then the sum of the individual hardware components.
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.. compared to the results of some production vehicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring_lap_times) but the car sure looks fabulous, and they probably can do faster with better weather.
The picture is now Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sounds like a Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
so really nothing new.
Alternatively if you get the error message and don't want to recompile, it probably helps if you run md5coll as Administrator. (At least that helped for me)
This is not really about Javas coolness or not (could not even read the article).
To my experience when Java programmers switch to C++ they tend to produce code that is full of memory leaks (new in Java and C++ are VERY different) and have a tendency to write overdesigned and unnecessary complex code.
What you will always see from a person done Java in the past and now doing C++ is things like:
Harald.. and it absolutely was easy to do the most important simple thing:
I cut immediately start typing text.
And I can do the most important tasks by pressing easy to find buttons. From my experiences with beginners: they all could that within 1 minute. Learning how to move around with the mouse usually took more time.
Now try explaing a novice how to use LaTeX.
PS: "that means that Microsoft is not satisfying their customers," - The Scrabble mentioned was probably not produced by Microsoft!
PPS: I would never use anything but LaTeX for a text with more than one formula.
I don't have the time to read all the 27 claims in detail, but the way I read this (especially claim 18) is that this is about the time the button being pressed. It never mentions the length of the pause between the button presses.
The way I understand a "double click" is that it is is two clicks with only a short time inbetween - it does not matter how long the individual clicks are.
And the thing is only about launching applications on a "limited resource computing device" (whatever that really is).
harald
1. "The Internet is powered by open source."
;-)
But the internet does not stop at apache and sendmail. What most users see as "the internet" is a mail client and a web browser: Outlook and IE.
And even if all the web servers in the world would use Apache, that does not make a single user switch from IE to Mozilla.
2. "The Internet is the carrier for open source."
3. "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
I don't see why that should give open source a big break through. But I agree that only the internet makes open source really possible.
But in the same way it also helps closed source development.
4. "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Why?
I am sure that an unix based system is more secure than windows by design. But why does that prevent an open source email client from executing any worm/virus/...?
And even more: Who cares? For most users (including me) any worm that does not delete the hard disk is only a minor problem (like catching a cold - not very nice but also no big deal).
5. "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
When first reading this statement I through: YES.
But when thinking about it for some time: No.
That would apply to all software - open source or not. Opera and The Bat! are not the standard browser and mail client.
6. "Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
So does working in any job - unless you want to be fired really soon (except if you are in a position to fire everyone else first).
7. "Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
So closed source means standing on the shoulders of open source standing on the sholders of giants?!?
Or does closed source and open source each stand on one sholder?
8. "Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
Servers are still expensive and Windows also runs on AMD
9. "Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
Really?
I would guess the are using linux as operating system - but the actual "application" is very closed source, and without the right hardware quite useless.
Or does anyone think there will be a community about the latest updates for the software in your waching machines.
10. "There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
I would say that most companies developing software are not software companies. And especially those companies don't want to give their competitors any more information than absolutely necessary.
11. "Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
So they port some of their software to one open source operating system - some years ago they might have done so for some other *ix. But still they want to sell something (hardware and/or software - which is not open source).
And does that make them use open office, mozilla and apache?
12. "It's free."
Most PCs offered today for home users include so much software they don't need to by any extra (except games of course) - and that for a price ofen less then the sum of the individual hardware components.