Err...he's paying for considerably more than a repackaging effort. Mozilla Composer's not that great, but what they're planning to turn it into looks like it's going to be fantastic.
Err...no, 10Base-T will be fine. I don't know about anywhere else, but in the UK the average broadband house has a 512Kbit connection. Whilst the big push towards 1Mbit has now started, consumer connections aren't going to be much faster than 2Mbit in 2006.
Nice, but I wonder how good the actual rendering engine is. Does it finally supported fixed positioning? Is it actually standards compliant, as opposed to IE6's "standards compliant" mode?
Except they're being taught things like "C supports streams", which it clearly doesn't. It's misleading and likely to confuse the students. In fact, seeing as you're now labelling it as some sort of "fundamentals of programming" course, why isn't it called that? None of my modules have ever been named after the languages used to teach it. Sorry, I tell a lie, I had a 2-day "crash course in C" module.
"If Apple was really so "behind the times", their resale prices would be crap. If Apple equipment was really so obsolete, resale values would follow the trend you see other obsolete items take--they'd be worthless. Want to test the theory?"
Remember back when the G4 was stuck at 500MHz? It was stuck there for, what was it, something like 18 months? Only recently have Apple managed to get back in the performance game with the G5, yet AMD seem to have stolen their thunder a bit.
"Unfair...how? For pointing out that while you were suckered in by the low, up-front cost, then will end up getting dinged for endless upgrades to get your PC to do what my Mac did out of the box?" Eh? This PC I'm using right now was originally bought in 1997. Macs did not come with CD burners out of the box back then. I've been incrementally upgrading it since, rather than purchasing a new box every X years. It's almost impossible to come up with some sort of meaningful comparison in that respect.
Re: Windows XP. I've run XP on an 800MHz Duron before. It ran fine. Hitting the swap file is a sign you've got too little memory. Tell me, how much RAM did that P3 have? Not even a 256MB machine would be that bad unless you had it laden with absolute crap.
And for my laptop, at least get your currencies right. I also never called it a "mac-slayer", or anything of the kind. I was pointing out there are plenty of people who buy a computer and never spend another penny until they replace it. My mother did it. The only thing she bought was a printer. I don't recall Macs coming with printers as standard.
Also, my Portege is a 650MHz PIII, it's from the 7200 series. I bought it because it was slim, cheap and reasonably powerful. God knows what your "Protege" is.
Let me get this straight, they're teaching you language features of C++ whilst claiming to be a C class. What will all these people do when they actually have to code in C and suddenly discovered they don't actually know C, they know a subset of C++?
PCs only lose value because better things come along so quickly. You could consider the lack of Mac deprecation a sign of Apple lagging behind and general stagnation.
While people may make these big large chunks of change, I've been incrementally upgrading my computer for 7 years. The biggest change was when I went for a new motherboard, processor and RAM all in one.
Looking at my computer, the upgrades have generally been of 2 forms: 1) Adding functionality. A CD burner, a Zip drive, a 3D graphics card. 2) Increasing performance. Adding extra RAM so I can have more software running at once. A CPU upgrade so compiling Mozilla takes less time.
The sort of people who boast about how they've not spent much money on their Mac aside from the purchase price are being a bit unfair, IMO. My mother's had her laptop for 4 years. The only reason she's getting rid of it is because she has to give it back when she leaves the job she's doing. I've just picked up a Toshiba Portege for 400 and it would suit her fine for another 4 years.
Really? That's interesting. I've got a server running just outside this room that's never had a hardware faliure and it's running a Celeron 366 with 4 hard drives ranging from around 4 to 1 years old.
The computer I'm currently running has had a single hard drive failure. That's the only hardware failure in its 7-year life that's failed through no fault of my own. Sure, it's been upgraded, but that's only to get better performance. After all, the floppy drive's still the original floppy drive I've had since 1996.
So stop spreading your bullshit lies just to try and make a Mac look better than it is.
Actually, Mozilla.org only ever really used the green lizard in their splash screen, and that was always a sticking point. They didn't have the rights to use the green lizard for some reason, so they created the red one. They only ever use the red lizard. Firebird and Thunderbird don't use the lizard, they use what evolved from their Phoenix logo.
Except SCO themselves were distrubuting the Linux kernel long after the suit against IBM was filed. Therefore, SCO were distributing their code under the GPL. Therefore, you owe SCO Jack Shit.
Actually, it's easily solved. If you have a div containing a mangled e-mail address such as "bob (at) foo (.) bar", you have the Javascript overwrite that section with the real mailto: link.
Of course, this goes completely out the window if enough people use it since the spammer would just use a rendering engine to pull the content and parse the DOM for mailto: links or anything looking like an e-mail address.
Ah yes, I had missed that part. You are right, but I'm not entirely sure the versioning is a bad thing. Sure, MS may well just add aditional APIs, but I'd be surprised if they didn't. After all, the new one may be better designed and what-not. Sun add new APIs to Java, I don't see the likes of GNU Classpath complaining, except for the really bone-headed APIs.
Wrong. An API change would affect users. If functions suddenly started behaving differently, lots of software on lots of users' machines would start behaving incorrectly or not at all.
Eh? Things like obfuscation contests aside, obfuscated code is very much frowned upon by any serious open source project. The only time I can think of where people will obfuscate is when you need absolute speed from a certain section of code. Projects like GNOME and KDE are very much looking at their interfaces from a user's point of view these days. Don't you remember the big hoo-ha about the supposed dumbing down of GNOME when 2.0 came out?
There used to be a big problem with trolls posting massive strings of characters with no space in them, thus forcing the page to become wider than the screen. It's very, very annoying to have to scroll to read each and every line. Thus, Slashcode was patched to ensure there was a space every x characters.
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Err...he's paying for considerably more than a repackaging effort. Mozilla Composer's not that great, but what they're planning to turn it into looks like it's going to be fantastic.
I don't know, why don't you ask the author of Virtualdub?
Err...no, 10Base-T will be fine. I don't know about anywhere else, but in the UK the average broadband house has a 512Kbit connection. Whilst the big push towards 1Mbit has now started, consumer connections aren't going to be much faster than 2Mbit in 2006.
Nice, but I wonder how good the actual rendering engine is. Does it finally supported fixed positioning? Is it actually standards compliant, as opposed to IE6's "standards compliant" mode?
Considering how much XAML is a rip off of Mozilla, you have to wonder...
Except they're being taught things like "C supports streams", which it clearly doesn't. It's misleading and likely to confuse the students. In fact, seeing as you're now labelling it as some sort of "fundamentals of programming" course, why isn't it called that? None of my modules have ever been named after the languages used to teach it. Sorry, I tell a lie, I had a 2-day "crash course in C" module.
What the hell are you talking about?
"If Apple was really so "behind the times", their resale prices would be crap. If Apple equipment was really so obsolete, resale values would follow the trend you see other obsolete items take--they'd be worthless. Want to test the theory?"
Remember back when the G4 was stuck at 500MHz? It was stuck there for, what was it, something like 18 months? Only recently have Apple managed to get back in the performance game with the G5, yet AMD seem to have stolen their thunder a bit.
"Unfair...how? For pointing out that while you were suckered in by the low, up-front cost, then will end up getting dinged for endless upgrades to get your PC to do what my Mac did out of the box?"
Eh? This PC I'm using right now was originally bought in 1997. Macs did not come with CD burners out of the box back then. I've been incrementally upgrading it since, rather than purchasing a new box every X years. It's almost impossible to come up with some sort of meaningful comparison in that respect.
Re: Windows XP. I've run XP on an 800MHz Duron before. It ran fine. Hitting the swap file is a sign you've got too little memory. Tell me, how much RAM did that P3 have? Not even a 256MB machine would be that bad unless you had it laden with absolute crap.
And for my laptop, at least get your currencies right. I also never called it a "mac-slayer", or anything of the kind. I was pointing out there are plenty of people who buy a computer and never spend another penny until they replace it. My mother did it. The only thing she bought was a printer. I don't recall Macs coming with printers as standard.
Also, my Portege is a 650MHz PIII, it's from the 7200 series. I bought it because it was slim, cheap and reasonably powerful. God knows what your "Protege" is.
Let me get this straight, they're teaching you language features of C++ whilst claiming to be a C class. What will all these people do when they actually have to code in C and suddenly discovered they don't actually know C, they know a subset of C++?
PCs only lose value because better things come along so quickly. You could consider the lack of Mac deprecation a sign of Apple lagging behind and general stagnation.
While people may make these big large chunks of change, I've been incrementally upgrading my computer for 7 years. The biggest change was when I went for a new motherboard, processor and RAM all in one.
Looking at my computer, the upgrades have generally been of 2 forms:
1) Adding functionality. A CD burner, a Zip drive, a 3D graphics card.
2) Increasing performance. Adding extra RAM so I can have more software running at once. A CPU upgrade so compiling Mozilla takes less time.
The sort of people who boast about how they've not spent much money on their Mac aside from the purchase price are being a bit unfair, IMO. My mother's had her laptop for 4 years. The only reason she's getting rid of it is because she has to give it back when she leaves the job she's doing. I've just picked up a Toshiba Portege for 400 and it would suit her fine for another 4 years.
Really? That's interesting. I've got a server running just outside this room that's never had a hardware faliure and it's running a Celeron 366 with 4 hard drives ranging from around 4 to 1 years old.
The computer I'm currently running has had a single hard drive failure. That's the only hardware failure in its 7-year life that's failed through no fault of my own. Sure, it's been upgraded, but that's only to get better performance. After all, the floppy drive's still the original floppy drive I've had since 1996.
So stop spreading your bullshit lies just to try and make a Mac look better than it is.
Actually, Mozilla.org only ever really used the green lizard in their splash screen, and that was always a sticking point. They didn't have the rights to use the green lizard for some reason, so they created the red one. They only ever use the red lizard. Firebird and Thunderbird don't use the lizard, they use what evolved from their Phoenix logo.
Galeon has been Gtk2 for ages. Epiphany uses Gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine.
Except SCO themselves were distrubuting the Linux kernel long after the suit against IBM was filed. Therefore, SCO were distributing their code under the GPL. Therefore, you owe SCO Jack Shit.
Actually, it's easily solved. If you have a div containing a mangled e-mail address such as "bob (at) foo (.) bar", you have the Javascript overwrite that section with the real mailto: link.
Of course, this goes completely out the window if enough people use it since the spammer would just use a rendering engine to pull the content and parse the DOM for mailto: links or anything looking like an e-mail address.
That's a very ironic double-negative there...
Liar.
Please explain why wanting to run your own servers is a "business level of service".
Ah yes, I had missed that part. You are right, but I'm not entirely sure the versioning is a bad thing. Sure, MS may well just add aditional APIs, but I'd be surprised if they didn't. After all, the new one may be better designed and what-not. Sun add new APIs to Java, I don't see the likes of GNU Classpath complaining, except for the really bone-headed APIs.
Wrong. An API change would affect users. If functions suddenly started behaving differently, lots of software on lots of users' machines would start behaving incorrectly or not at all.
A pre-requisit of abusing your monopoly position is to be a monopoly.
Eh? Things like obfuscation contests aside, obfuscated code is very much frowned upon by any serious open source project. The only time I can think of where people will obfuscate is when you need absolute speed from a certain section of code. Projects like GNOME and KDE are very much looking at their interfaces from a user's point of view these days. Don't you remember the big hoo-ha about the supposed dumbing down of GNOME when 2.0 came out?
Eh?! Mozilla's pop-up blocking only blocks pop-ups during page load. Don't believe me? Here's the sodding variable that controls it:
dom.disable_open_during_load
Doesn't get much more descriptive than that, does it?
Netscape 4 was released in 1997, so it's more like 6 years.
There used to be a big problem with trolls posting massive strings of characters with no space in them, thus forcing the page to become wider than the screen. It's very, very annoying to have to scroll to read each and every line. Thus, Slashcode was patched to ensure there was a space every x characters.
I think you'll find that to most people, apathy => don't care.