Ehm... I still have to send a stupid FAX to any motherfucking ISP in Spain when I want to cancel off their shit full service of 1Mbs download and 256Kbs upload.
Well of course, just look at all the platforms supported by the JVM and all the projects/enterprises which depend on Java. You can't do what Python did with 3k and break backward compatibility. You can't also do a big framework release as.Net does because Java is not controlled only by a single company nor runs in a single platform.
How often have you grabbed a community Java package to solve some business problem and figured out a little too late that while it does 98% of what you need, you can't get the last 2% done at all without tossing that framework and starting over with a different one?
Luckily, you can implement such 2% of features by your own. Really, it's not that hard and that's what programmers do, not simply put together a bunch of frameworks and visit/.
You need to be aware of which of these things you might pull in don't play well with each other and why.
Then I suppose it's better to have one company to tell you how to do it and to sell you all the solutions.
This is a problem that developers in several other languages just don't, in any practical sense, have.
I suppose you're talking about.Net here, because this happens with C/C++, Python, Ruby and Perl that I know of. Actually, it's worst in some of them.
Do you really believe all the bullshit you just wrote? If you spend all day immersed in MS crap, then I suppose it's not your fault.
The Java platform had so much potential that will go to waste.
Did you read who are part of the JCP? Do you have any idea of how much money and resources have been invested in Java platform? So, you really think these players are just going to say 'Hey, I think it would be better to ditch all of this and become MS resellers'. Actually, it's the other way around.
The future looks fairly bleak for Linux on the server side without a competitive virtual machine.
Sure, Linux is competitive on the server side because of the JVM. Please Mono, come and save Linux! Please let us feel the joy of.Net development.
I like this UI, mybe someone will clone it for Linux to see how it goes. Anyway, M$, how about a good CLI environment? It's about time. Also, Unity and Gnome3 shell are very nice, I like both. KDE not so much. OTOH I despise iOS UI. I don't know why so many praise at its ease of use. It's a very cute piece of crap!
It's not obfuscated, it's condensed to run faster. Also, it's a x86 emulator, it's pretty much obfuscated for 99.99999999999999999999999999% of humans.
Man, I had to touch a W7 machine for the first time because of this stupid malware. A coworker who doesn't use Linux at the office clicked on one of those pop-ups and she asked me the same thing. I told her to never click on anything because she doesn't have any firewall, antivirus, etc... oh! and to use Firefox.
I don't know about my grandma' but my 4 years old daughter is pretty proficient with lubuntu: play media (pocoyo and stuff) from a home NAS, browse her favorite (with marquee plug-in) children game sites, change the look&feel... all this in a pretty old Dell P4 box with 256MB, 20GB and Hello Kitty stickers that took me 30 minutes to clean (it had an old W2K install), install and configure. So yes, it's simpler, more intuitive and closer to people.
BTW, who runs gedit from the CLI? Damn Microsoft fan-boyz.
Software is not a final product and that's the problem many managers can't figure out. There should be an initial analysis and an architecture, but if you don't have code, how are the coders supposed to know what they have to do? Give 6 months at least for each member to know about the business while they do their job: code. Let the application evolve and don't waste your first million on analysis and architecture, because it WILL change, not only because of requirements from the client, but also from other decisions (shall we use PHP or Java?) that can eventually come back and bite you in the ass.
I don't want to criticize on the US, but really, software patents are stupid as they are right now.
What pisses me off the most, is that as with pushing your so call "democracy" your government also tries to influence other countries into accepting this stupid IP laws (Fuck ACTA!), with the corporate giants kicking its ass into it. You have your laws, fine with it, leave other sovereign states handle their own and don't do the dirty job of your industry and for free.
Yeah, because most of those critical apps made for W2k and XP are going to work in W7. Oh! And those nifty documents you made in Office 2003, no luck either, they look like shit in Office 2007, and this has been the same with each new Office version. At least with gnucalc and abi word you get consistency.
I just saw a show on the Discovery channel about this big coal plant, which using different methods managed to produce very low emissions and filtering a near by river's water. This plant produced the same amount of energy produced by thousands of cars with a very high efficiency.
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Ehm... I still have to send a stupid FAX to any motherfucking ISP in Spain when I want to cancel off their shit full service of 1Mbs download and 256Kbs upload.
standard Java is always far behind the curve
Well of course, just look at all the platforms supported by the JVM and all the projects/enterprises which depend on Java. You can't do what Python did with 3k and break backward compatibility. You can't also do a big framework release as .Net does because Java is not controlled only by a single company nor runs in a single platform.
How often have you grabbed a community Java package to solve some business problem and figured out a little too late that while it does 98% of what you need, you can't get the last 2% done at all without tossing that framework and starting over with a different one?
Luckily, you can implement such 2% of features by your own. Really, it's not that hard and that's what programmers do, not simply put together a bunch of frameworks and visit /.
You need to be aware of which of these things you might pull in don't play well with each other and why.
Then I suppose it's better to have one company to tell you how to do it and to sell you all the solutions.
This is a problem that developers in several other languages just don't, in any practical sense, have.
I suppose you're talking about .Net here, because this happens with C/C++, Python, Ruby and Perl that I know of. Actually, it's worst in some of them.
If your CS department is any good you will be downloading Linux kernel source code, studying it, modifying and compiling it etc.
No, if your CS department was any good your foundations would be completely OS agnostic and would NOT be exclusively focusing on Linux.
Yeah, but you can't download Windows source code nor most of the parts from MacOS, so Linux is a good case study.
Yeah, it's stupid. Maybe they should go ahead as Linus did and release version 2 for once and for all.
Do you really believe all the bullshit you just wrote? If you spend all day immersed in MS crap, then I suppose it's not your fault.
The Java platform had so much potential that will go to waste.
Did you read who are part of the JCP? Do you have any idea of how much money and resources have been invested in Java platform? So, you really think these players are just going to say 'Hey, I think it would be better to ditch all of this and become MS resellers'. Actually, it's the other way around.
The future looks fairly bleak for Linux on the server side without a competitive virtual machine.
Sure, Linux is competitive on the server side because of the JVM. Please Mono, come and save Linux! Please let us feel the joy of .Net development.
Wish I read your explanation of Xen a few years ago. In those few sentences you explained more than in a whole 200 pages book about Xen.
I like this UI, mybe someone will clone it for Linux to see how it goes. Anyway, M$, how about a good CLI environment? It's about time.
Also, Unity and Gnome3 shell are very nice, I like both. KDE not so much. OTOH I despise iOS UI. I don't know why so many praise at its ease of use. It's a very cute piece of crap!
Oh please! The MacOS terminal is a PITA! You can see where Apple puts their UI design efforts.
I'm not a Mac fanboy by far, but don't compare those computers' design with the one provided by Apple. They could try, but they're bat-shit ugly.
It's not obfuscated, it's condensed to run faster. Also, it's a x86 emulator, it's pretty much obfuscated for 99.99999999999999999999999999% of humans.
we should buy a machine with a more politically correct logo on the front of the box
You have to explain this, please. A vendor with a political incorrect logo? That guy should have an MBA at least!
Man, I had to touch a W7 machine for the first time because of this stupid malware. A coworker who doesn't use Linux at the office clicked on one of those pop-ups and she asked me the same thing. I told her to never click on anything because she doesn't have any firewall, antivirus, etc... oh! and to use Firefox.
I don't know about my grandma' but my 4 years old daughter is pretty proficient with lubuntu: play media (pocoyo and stuff) from a home NAS, browse her favorite (with marquee plug-in) children game sites, change the look&feel... all this in a pretty old Dell P4 box with 256MB, 20GB and Hello Kitty stickers that took me 30 minutes to clean (it had an old W2K install), install and configure. So yes, it's simpler, more intuitive and closer to people.
BTW, who runs gedit from the CLI? Damn Microsoft fan-boyz.
I also like how Groovy handles getters and setters. Much nicer than Java IMHO.
Software is not a final product and that's the problem many managers can't figure out. There should be an initial analysis and an architecture, but if you don't have code, how are the coders supposed to know what they have to do?
Give 6 months at least for each member to know about the business while they do their job: code. Let the application evolve and don't waste your first million on analysis and architecture, because it WILL change, not only because of requirements from the client, but also from other decisions (shall we use PHP or Java?) that can eventually come back and bite you in the ass.
And he doesn't seem to know about 'ls'. If I was sitting next to this guy, I would mash his head on the keyboard.
The thread will collapse to a CSS black hole.
Well, they broke the RSS, so comments don't show in GReader. But, on the other hand, I really like this new replying box and buttons.
I don't want to criticize on the US, but really, software patents are stupid as they are right now.
What pisses me off the most, is that as with pushing your so call "democracy" your government also tries to influence other countries into accepting this stupid IP laws (Fuck ACTA!), with the corporate giants kicking its ass into it. You have your laws, fine with it, leave other sovereign states handle their own and don't do the dirty job of your industry and for free.
Yeah, because most of those critical apps made for W2k and XP are going to work in W7. Oh! And those nifty documents you made in Office 2003, no luck either, they look like shit in Office 2007, and this has been the same with each new Office version.
At least with gnucalc and abi word you get consistency.
I just saw a show on the Discovery channel about this big coal plant, which using different methods managed to produce very low emissions and filtering a near by river's water. This plant produced the same amount of energy produced by thousands of cars with a very high efficiency.
COBOL?
Tell me, how is Scala supposed to work if, for some reason, some of the features it uses, go to the pay-to-use JVM?
I used MSIE8 the other day and after what, twenty years, this stupid piece of corporate crap doesn't even support SVG. Come on!
I thought I was changing my screensaver today!!!