HTML is fine, the problem is more political since each provider wants to render it the way they want it according to their objectives of world domination. IMO the only browser which gets truly in the way is MSIE since a well made web page will work with any browser which is not it. Build for FF and Chrome, Opera and Safari will work also without much hassle.
Another thing XPDF already exist, not just what you're thinking of:
http://linux.die.net/man/1/xpdf
Well, LCD's are costing less and less, and with technologies like Pixel Qi which extend on LCDs, I think we're gonna be using LCDs (on computers) for some time.
The thing I hated the most about IT was doing others' jobs. There wasn't a day on which a user would come asking for help on doing something with Excel, Word or Powerpoint when IMO these are tools of your trade and you should learn how to use them. And I'm not talking about real problems, I'm talking about merging cells or adding sound to a sheet and stupid things like those... and I don't even know how to do those sort of things since I use OpenOffice!
I remember sometime ago I saw a documentary which had a part about Second Life and some guy that paid a lot of money (from a mortgage on his house) to build some sort of mall or club. Is this guy homeless yet?
Exactly my thoughts. I mean, couldn't all this great work I'm sure some of those volunteers are doing night after night wouldn't be best used on real world projects that are down on human resources? Guys, go help build GNU/Hurd for once and for all! I grew using Mac System 1.0 but I wouldn't waste a key type on porting any of it to today's computers... except for Dark Castle.
Agree, when working on IT I hated wearing my clothes to work just to go under a desk and get them all filthed. This and having to teach every moron on the office how to use Excel when they should know how made me migrate to development.
In this respect, uniforms aren't a bad thing, also, you don't have to think what to wear every morning. They might even let you choose your own uniform so go to thinkgeek and get some "I will not fix your computer" t-shirts.
Then have Apple invest in this thing. Oh wait, I'll seat here until the laugh at this proposition.
It's Apple, best thing they would do is hack the shit out of VLC and make iVLC only for Mac.
Apple, so much hate at you people.
Darwin is not OSX or whatever it's called. It's like saying that Debian is Linux. Darwin is just the kernel, OSX is the real deal. Open Source everything that sits on top of Darwin and maybe I'll call OSX open source. OSX-OSS???
Then that's why I haven't get my ass kicked from Live. I knew it had something to do with MW2. My Xbox is modded (it's legal over here) but I only have been playing original games. What kind of idiot it takes to play a pirated game the day/week before release? It's like wetting yourself with blood in the middle of a forest when a bunch of wolves are looking for you
I really like the Touchbook, but throw it a PixelQi display and I'm sold. Actually, I would have bought one with this display technology long time ago.
When people talk about "bloated" I always think about the reason I ditched XEmacs in 2000: it was bloated. Just imagine it, 12MB! Come on Linus, we've got multicore processors with plenty of memory. Soon we'll have even faster hard drives and faster memory at an amazing size. Believe me, a 4MB kernel footprint is much. I really believe that maybe, it would be a good idea to keep separate goals for the kernel, pretty much like Java does. Servers (J2EE), Desktop (J2SE) and embeded (J2ME). Why every distro I try, goes and tries to install bluetooth and PCMCIA on my servers? (by default) Maybe he's thinking about going the Microkernel way? Now finally Linus can do what he always wanted: run Minix!
that is, your old COBOL system was necessarily reliable, because if it wasn't, it wouldn't have lasted this long.
Totally agree, I would like to check on the first year of that COBOL app running and see if it didn't bring down a whole mainframe to its knees. I believe that it isn't a feature of COBOL to be stable, secure or fast. It's just that those apps running in COBOL have 20+ years of maintenance put into them to make them work as they should. So even your VB app (ugh!) with 20+ years of patches and coding should run nicely, some day... give it 30 years xD
Or the Javascript code. I mean, can anyone on a netbook browse Slashdot without having an Atom Fusion? My PC with an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz sounds like a 747 during lift-off when Slashdot's JS is on.
Slashdot Mirror
That's right. Now your grandmother will be able to write a program to configure her IP address, instead of calling you to do it manually.
TFTFY
AFAICSOTV (as fas as I can see on the video) you can issue a tab keypress to jump to different controls. Maybe you can try that out.
Then you're not using Yahoo! Mail, right? It always shows this stupid message about "your Operating System haven't been tested"
HTML is fine, the problem is more political since each provider wants to render it the way they want it according to their objectives of world domination. IMO the only browser which gets truly in the way is MSIE since a well made web page will work with any browser which is not it. Build for FF and Chrome, Opera and Safari will work also without much hassle. Another thing XPDF already exist, not just what you're thinking of: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xpdf
He's THE guy who was going to take the ASM course. I'm sure he wasn't getting his hands dirty "under the hood".
Which software is it you're talking about? Maybe some volunteers here would be willing to help them with this GUI stuff.
Well, LCD's are costing less and less, and with technologies like Pixel Qi which extend on LCDs, I think we're gonna be using LCDs (on computers) for some time.
The thing I hated the most about IT was doing others' jobs. There wasn't a day on which a user would come asking for help on doing something with Excel, Word or Powerpoint when IMO these are tools of your trade and you should learn how to use them. And I'm not talking about real problems, I'm talking about merging cells or adding sound to a sheet and stupid things like those... and I don't even know how to do those sort of things since I use OpenOffice!
I remember sometime ago I saw a documentary which had a part about Second Life and some guy that paid a lot of money (from a mortgage on his house) to build some sort of mall or club. Is this guy homeless yet?
Exactly my thoughts. I mean, couldn't all this great work I'm sure some of those volunteers are doing night after night wouldn't be best used on real world projects that are down on human resources? Guys, go help build GNU/Hurd for once and for all! I grew using Mac System 1.0 but I wouldn't waste a key type on porting any of it to today's computers... except for Dark Castle.
Craiglist!
Agree, when working on IT I hated wearing my clothes to work just to go under a desk and get them all filthed. This and having to teach every moron on the office how to use Excel when they should know how made me migrate to development. In this respect, uniforms aren't a bad thing, also, you don't have to think what to wear every morning. They might even let you choose your own uniform so go to thinkgeek and get some "I will not fix your computer" t-shirts.
Then I would use Java or Python or Ruby or Perl or, hell forgive me, JavaScript.
Phones and tablets and netbooks and...
Then have Apple invest in this thing. Oh wait, I'll seat here until the laugh at this proposition. It's Apple, best thing they would do is hack the shit out of VLC and make iVLC only for Mac. Apple, so much hate at you people.
By now they are probably booting a Ubuntu LiveCD
Darwin is not OSX or whatever it's called. It's like saying that Debian is Linux. Darwin is just the kernel, OSX is the real deal. Open Source everything that sits on top of Darwin and maybe I'll call OSX open source. OSX-OSS???
Then that's why I haven't get my ass kicked from Live. I knew it had something to do with MW2. My Xbox is modded (it's legal over here) but I only have been playing original games. What kind of idiot it takes to play a pirated game the day/week before release? It's like wetting yourself with blood in the middle of a forest when a bunch of wolves are looking for you
I really like the Touchbook, but throw it a PixelQi display and I'm sold. Actually, I would have bought one with this display technology long time ago.
Or simply steal the stupid laptop when you go to the bathroom.
When people talk about "bloated" I always think about the reason I ditched XEmacs in 2000: it was bloated. Just imagine it, 12MB! Come on Linus, we've got multicore processors with plenty of memory. Soon we'll have even faster hard drives and faster memory at an amazing size. Believe me, a 4MB kernel footprint is much.
I really believe that maybe, it would be a good idea to keep separate goals for the kernel, pretty much like Java does. Servers (J2EE), Desktop (J2SE) and embeded (J2ME). Why every distro I try, goes and tries to install bluetooth and PCMCIA on my servers? (by default)
Maybe he's thinking about going the Microkernel way? Now finally Linus can do what he always wanted: run Minix!
Totally agree, I would like to check on the first year of that COBOL app running and see if it didn't bring down a whole mainframe to its knees. I believe that it isn't a feature of COBOL to be stable, secure or fast. It's just that those apps running in COBOL have 20+ years of maintenance put into them to make them work as they should. So even your VB app (ugh!) with 20+ years of patches and coding should run nicely, some day... give it 30 years xD
Or the Javascript code. I mean, can anyone on a netbook browse Slashdot without having an Atom Fusion? My PC with an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz sounds like a 747 during lift-off when Slashdot's JS is on.
A proof of concept of not running GNOME/KDE on a server
Not if you count cleaning all the crap that pidgeons generate. Go to Rome some weekend and watch (and smell) the show.