Since previous benchmarks showed substantial speed increases even without 64bit optimized applications, there is no reason for them not to announce systems at WWDC - If they are ready. The 970 is quite fast at running 32bit code, including the operating system itself.
I don't undestand what's wrong with HTTP? You can secure it with SSL and have multiple transactions with HTTP 1.1. Sure HTTP is stateless, but stateles protocols scale better under load.
Most browsers support HTTP, and being able to edit content with a browser is a high pritority in my book. Also, there are existing HTTP implementations out there for many diffrent languages.
Lets get real here. Why in the world would an OEM remove the "Start" menu? Any OEM that does this deserves to have confused customers and to go out of business due to lost sales. Does MS think OEMs are that stupid?
1] Microsoft spreds vaporware and spends tons of money marketing to Joe Consumer who doesn't know jack about what is good software.
2] Joe Consumer buys a Microsoft Product and "thinks" he got a great solution.
3] Microsoft makes incremental but relatively useless upgrades to their products while locking users into their products.
4] Mircosoft returns to [1] with even more money to market Joe Consumer. Since Joe Consumer is already using Microsoft Products and doesn't know of alternatives he again buys a Microsoft Product.
Microsoft preys on the uninformed or those who are too lazy to look for better solutions to their problems.
Building market share and R&D costs money.. which Microsoft has a ton of these days.
I'm Not saying that everthing Microsoft makes is complete crap, but there are many good solutions out there that are as good or not better than Microsoft products. These products are at a serious disadvantage due to Microsoft's domination of the current software landscape.
Has anyone read "A Light in the Void", by Poul Anderson?
This was a similar story. The inventor created a time machine, but found that the farther he ventured into the future, the more energy was required to go back (it was exponential) After his third jump into the future he was unable to to his original time, so he continued to move forward - hoping technology would advance to the point that he could get back to where he started from. Along the way, there were at least 3 subplots that he was involved with in some way, even if he was just passing though.
I can't find much about it on the web. I guess it wasn't that popular?
Mozilla uses the Java Plug-in from Sun. This is an API that allows Mozilla to use the lastest version of Java with out having to wait for Netscape to provide support. Need to create an applet that uses Java 1.4 functionaly? Just install the lastest plugin, copy a few files from your JRE to mozilla's plugin directory and restart!
Currently Mozilla needs work in the area of finding the Java Plugin and setting up the connection between the two. Until then, copy the file 'NPOJI610.DLL' from your JRE's bin directory to the plugin folder for Mozilla and restart Mozilla.
One of the most important reasons I use Mozilla is because of it's Non-Commercial nature. My biggest gripe with Internet Explorer is that it is a tool for Microsoft to show 'their view' of the Internet.
Enter a wrong URL in the Address bar? By default, Microsoft gets to see where you were tring to go and even presents their search engine which promotes their affliates and advertisers. With it's built in media player, IE is also a key part of Microsofts Digital Rights Management stratagy.
The ablity to customize my browsing experience is important to me. Compeition is also critical for a product to keep growing. If one company owns the browser market, users are the ones who will loose out in the end.
As a developer, features such as 'View this image', 'Open frame in new window', 'View frame source' and tools like the new Javscript Debugger and DOM Viewer make Mozilla my browser of choice when developing web sites.
Sure, Mozilla has a ways to go, but it's getting there, slowly but surely. And at the moment, it's good enough for me to use on a daily basis.
Java provides access to LDAP by using JNDI and a LDAP provider. The great thing about JNDI is that it will also support DNS and other Remote Object standards like RMI and COS. I believe the Java LDAP tool mentioned earlier uses JNDI to provide access to LDAP services.
you can download a copy of oracle 8i from their technology site..
http://otn.oracle.com
you will need to register, but once you do you can download developer versions of their software, including IFS 1.1, which maps a filesystem to tables and lets you share that data via ftp, http, imap, and ntfs.
i'm just getting started with oracle. it's complex and resource intensive, but from what i've seen so far, it's a top notch product and has excellent administration tools.
make sure you have plenty of RAM and disk space before you even think of installing it. the oracle service for a single database takes up around 85mb of RAM and at least 500mb
~pixel
btw, when will slashdot start supporting XHTML markup when posting? <p/> isn't in the list of allowed HTML tags:(
microsoft is doing the exact same thing to real networks as it did to netscape
[1] start out with a inferior product
[2] buy or appropriate a superior technology [in this case as standard such as MPEG4]
[3] if this technology is a open standard, modify it in some proprietary way to prevent interoperablity with other clients or servers
[4] give it a way for free which...
-a- puts competitors who charge for this technology out of business
-b- lures content providers to use it instead of an open solution
[5] use this technology to lock content providers into their operating system
[6] since this technology has now become popular with content providers, the client is now a barging chip and a tool for spreading FUD about not MS operating systems
-a- provide inferior clients for non microsoft operating systems
-b- use the client to leverage deals with other operating system developers
-c- withhold the client from strong competitors
well, tuesday at javaone i watched steve jobs demo a java 2 application on osx. with it's strong support for java, i'm planning to move my development environment from windows nt to macosx.
and if apple decides to port more than darwin to intel space, i'll start moving the rest of our desktops there as well.
i'm tired of windows, and it would be nice to have a single operating system in our organization - from server to desktop - designers to programmers.
While Apple does provide a large set of standard UI controls, does anyone know what kind of support Apple will give developers when it comes to creating custom UI elements that match the new look of OS X?
Many of the controls look almost as if they were rendered in a 3D package! Creating hilights, shadows and shapes that are consistant with Aqua isn't going to easy. With the release of OS X, could Apple be the first to include 3D objects and scenes in their HI guidelines?
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let's not forget the rumors that Be is developing a version of it's OS to run on the Super H processor. imagine a Be powered handheld device with one of those new IBM hard drives... sounds like the ultimate MP3 player to me!
While I do agree that MacOS X, BeOSs and Linux haven't made any major breakthroughs in the interface arena, Be has done some serious inovation with it's media kit.
the new media kit provides a powerful API/framework for processing audio, video and other data in real-time. The kit handles timing, streaming, codecs, mixing and other system wides issues allowing separate programs to work together and provides a constant environment for programmers and users alike.
While MacOS X will be a great improvment, it finaly brings the Apple up with the rest of the pack when it comes to protective memory and premtive multitasking. While I don't know what the final word is on SMP support in MacOS X, I do know that OSX is wont run on anything less that an G3. Apple hasn't created any MP systems in quite some time and the G3 isn't wasn't desinged to run in a MP system.
The BeOS was designed with SMP and multi-threading from the begining. Most of the OS is thread safe (except for most of the posix stuff) and it breaks down nearly everything into threads. I think the BeOS has made some invoations here as well.
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Since previous benchmarks showed substantial speed increases even without 64bit optimized applications, there is no reason for them not to announce systems at WWDC - If they are ready. The 970 is quite fast at running 32bit code, including the operating system itself.
I don't undestand what's wrong with HTTP? You can secure it with SSL and have multiple transactions with HTTP 1.1. Sure HTTP is stateless, but stateles protocols scale better under load.
Most browsers support HTTP, and being able to edit content with a browser is a high pritority in my book. Also, there are existing HTTP implementations out there for many diffrent languages.
True, but at least defining a single transport, such as SOAP would be a step int the right direction.
Lets get real here. Why in the world would an OEM remove the "Start" menu? Any OEM that does this deserves to have confused customers and to go out of business due to lost sales. Does MS think OEMs are that stupid?
~Scott
I'm sorry, but as I see it....
1] Microsoft spreds vaporware and spends tons of money marketing to Joe Consumer who doesn't know jack about what is good software.
2] Joe Consumer buys a Microsoft Product and "thinks" he got a great solution.
3] Microsoft makes incremental but relatively useless upgrades to their products while locking users into their products.
4] Mircosoft returns to [1] with even more money to market Joe Consumer. Since Joe Consumer is already using Microsoft Products and doesn't know of alternatives he again buys a Microsoft Product.
Microsoft preys on the uninformed or those who are too lazy to look for better solutions to their problems.
Building market share and R&D costs money.. which Microsoft has a ton of these days.
I'm Not saying that everthing Microsoft makes is complete crap, but there are many good solutions out there that are as good or not better than Microsoft products. These products are at a serious disadvantage due to Microsoft's domination of the current software landscape.
Spend the extra money and get Flash 5. The interface is much better and you can always export your movie in Flash 4 format for compatablity.
Has anyone read "A Light in the Void", by Poul Anderson?
This was a similar story. The inventor created a time machine, but found that the farther he ventured into the future, the more energy was required to go back (it was exponential) After his third jump into the future he was unable to to his original time, so he continued to move forward - hoping technology would advance to the point that he could get back to where he started from. Along the way, there were at least 3 subplots that he was involved with in some way, even if he was just passing though.
I can't find much about it on the web. I guess it wasn't that popular?
Mozilla uses the Java Plug-in from Sun. This is an API that allows Mozilla to use the lastest version of Java with out having to wait for Netscape to provide support. Need to create an applet that uses Java 1.4 functionaly? Just install the lastest plugin, copy a few files from your JRE to mozilla's plugin directory and restart!
Currently Mozilla needs work in the area of finding the Java Plugin and setting up the connection between the two. Until then, copy the file 'NPOJI610.DLL' from your JRE's bin directory to the plugin folder for Mozilla and restart Mozilla.
This is documented in the relase notes
One of the most important reasons I use Mozilla is because of it's Non-Commercial nature. My biggest gripe with Internet Explorer is that it is a tool for Microsoft to show 'their view' of the Internet.
Enter a wrong URL in the Address bar? By default, Microsoft gets to see where you were tring to go and even presents their search engine which promotes their affliates and advertisers. With it's built in media player, IE is also a key part of Microsofts Digital Rights Management stratagy.
The ablity to customize my browsing experience is important to me. Compeition is also critical for a product to keep growing. If one company owns the browser market, users are the ones who will loose out in the end.
As a developer, features such as 'View this image', 'Open frame in new window', 'View frame source' and tools like the new Javscript Debugger and DOM Viewer make Mozilla my browser of choice when developing web sites.
Sure, Mozilla has a ways to go, but it's getting there, slowly but surely. And at the moment, it's good enough for me to use on a daily basis.
JNDI homepage
I'm finding the biggest stumbling block for LDAP is.... how to organized things! Are there any good resources for designing a LDAP database?
http://otn.oracle.com
you will need to register, but once you do you can download developer versions of their software, including IFS 1.1, which maps a filesystem to tables and lets you share that data via ftp, http, imap, and ntfs.
i'm just getting started with oracle. it's complex and resource intensive, but from what i've seen so far, it's a top notch product and has excellent administration tools.
make sure you have plenty of RAM and disk space before you even think of installing it. the oracle service for a single database takes up around 85mb of RAM and at least 500mb
~pixel
btw, when will slashdot start supporting XHTML markup when posting? <p /> isn't in the list of allowed HTML tags :(
microsoft is doing the exact same thing to real networks as it did to netscape
[1] start out with a inferior product
[2] buy or appropriate a superior technology [in this case as standard such as MPEG4]
[3] if this technology is a open standard, modify it in some proprietary way to prevent interoperablity with other clients or servers
[4] give it a way for free which...
-a- puts competitors who charge for this technology out of business
-b- lures content providers to use it instead of an open solution
[5] use this technology to lock content providers into their operating system
[6] since this technology has now become popular with content providers, the client is now a barging chip and a tool for spreading FUD about not MS operating systems
-a- provide inferior clients for non microsoft operating systems
-b- use the client to leverage deals with other operating system developers
-c- withhold the client from strong competitors
and if apple decides to port more than darwin to intel space, i'll start moving the rest of our desktops there as well.
i'm tired of windows, and it would be nice to have a single operating system in our organization - from server to desktop - designers to programmers.
if they can actualy pull it off......
Many of the controls look almost as if they were rendered in a 3D package! Creating hilights, shadows and shapes that are consistant with Aqua isn't going to easy. With the release of OS X, could Apple be the first to include 3D objects and scenes in their HI guidelines?
let's not forget the rumors that Be is developing a version of it's OS to run on the Super H processor. imagine a Be powered handheld device with one of those new IBM hard drives... sounds like the ultimate MP3 player to me!
While I do agree that MacOS X, BeOSs and Linux haven't made any major breakthroughs in the interface arena, Be has done some serious inovation with it's media kit.
the new media kit provides a powerful API/framework for processing audio, video and other data in real-time. The kit handles timing, streaming, codecs, mixing and other system wides issues allowing separate programs to work together and provides a constant environment for programmers and users alike.
While MacOS X will be a great improvment, it finaly brings the Apple up with the rest of the pack when it comes to protective memory and premtive multitasking. While I don't know what the final word is on SMP support in MacOS X, I do know that OSX is wont run on anything less that an G3. Apple hasn't created any MP systems in quite some time and the G3 isn't wasn't desinged to run in a MP system.
The BeOS was designed with SMP and multi-threading from the begining. Most of the OS is thread safe (except for most of the posix stuff) and it breaks down nearly everything into threads. I think the BeOS has made some invoations here as well.