I think it's better than most desktop keyboards. The only exception is if you're one of those people who still hangs on to their clicky IBM AT keyboard, or if you like those freaky 'natural' keyboards.
No, Sun used the CDDL because they hate the restrictions on GPL. The sharing issues go both ways, Sun wanted to keep some ownership. It's not like the BSD license exists just to spite GPL.
Submitter asked about Java, which takes care of half the equation. Some enterprise shops are C#, some shops are Java. Not everyone wants to deploy on Windows.
You know, I can hate Linux with the best of them, but.. I know that in Ubuntu, when you are in Firefox, and the first time you browse to a Flash site, it goes, "hey, want to install flash?", and it installs Flash once you click yes.
Facebook services out of memcached backed by a normalized storage system, and had it been designed by people who weren't dolts in the beginning, things would probably be different now anyway.
Well, no, not entirely. Not many sites out there run purely from memcached. Memcached is a component of a larger architecture. The fact remains that technologies like NoSQL are usually used/desired by people who have no understanding of system architecture, design an inefficient application, and then blame the database software for their poor decisions.
It really depends on the operation and the code being run -- bad code is bad code, after all -- but in general, yes. Native code is generally(eight thousand asterisks here) faster than VM/Sandboxed/JITd/whatever code.
Sorry, PHP is still an archaic, over keyworded language. Surefire way to find out if a company doesn't know what they're doing: they use PHP at the command line.
Nope. My productivity and stress level are important. Linux sucks as a desktop. Windows sucks in a different way. I use OS X because it's a well designed operating system. Manufacturer doesn't play fair? Then neither do I.
Any of the multitouch macbooks allow you to place two fingers down and click the lower button to right click. The unibody MacBooks with everything being the button, just push down with two fingers to make the right click.
Look, I know it's not ideal, but those laptops have a huge trackpad, and the whole trackpad is a button. You click, it clicks. You click with two fingers down, it right clicks. You configure the click on the right hand side, it'll right click. It's not like you're stuck with one button forever -- the advanced users will do what they want to do, and Apple provides that.
I wasn't saying all PC laptops are two inches thick. In fact, I use a ThinkPad, and it's right around an inch.
I speak of the type of laptop that has a RAID setup for its hard drive(s). The airflow and space necessary for that kind of setup destroys the idea of a 'thin and light' category, unless you're talking SSD.
(Also, to be pedantic, a small screen and small size does not make a netbook, unless the Vaio TZ is now a netbook.)
Note, I don't own a MacBook right now, as they also don't make the laptop I want, having everything to do with display resolution and chiclet keyboards.
The MacBooks have a decent touchpad, it's the button layout you don't like. Any laptop with a RAID setup is automatically going to add weight and thickness. Yes, you can position two drives side by side, but you still have an airflow problem, which means more thickness, more fans, and less battery life. My guess is that the day that Apple puts two drives in a laptop, it'll be a SSD and a spinner, because that's the only way the airflow and battery life will pan out.
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I think it's better than most desktop keyboards. The only exception is if you're one of those people who still hangs on to their clicky IBM AT keyboard, or if you like those freaky 'natural' keyboards.
Never used a ThinkPad, eh?
It's not hard to be incompatible with the GPL. The GPL prohibits a lot of actions. Good for some, not for others.
No, Sun used the CDDL because they hate the restrictions on GPL. The sharing issues go both ways, Sun wanted to keep some ownership. It's not like the BSD license exists just to spite GPL.
Submitter asked about Java, which takes care of half the equation. Some enterprise shops are C#, some shops are Java. Not everyone wants to deploy on Windows.
Minimal to perl's real audience: sysadmins.
We should probably continue this.
PHP's real audience: 14 year old kids
Python's real audience: Basement dwelling jobless hacks
Ruby's real audience: No one, anymore
You: Troll.
QuickDraw's addons and new APIs were an extension, but core QuickDraw is required for the entire Mac UI. That was a system level API.
How to find a bad developer 101.
You know, I can hate Linux with the best of them, but.. I know that in Ubuntu, when you are in Firefox, and the first time you browse to a Flash site, it goes, "hey, want to install flash?", and it installs Flash once you click yes.
I'm failing to see the difficulty of that.
pedantic = on
It's the 'Carlson School of Management', not Carleton.
Facebook services out of memcached backed by a normalized storage system, and had it been designed by people who weren't dolts in the beginning, things would probably be different now anyway.
Now they have a PHP to C compiler. What.
Well, no, not entirely. Not many sites out there run purely from memcached. Memcached is a component of a larger architecture. The fact remains that technologies like NoSQL are usually used/desired by people who have no understanding of system architecture, design an inefficient application, and then blame the database software for their poor decisions.
I've never seen a JIT C compiler, so I can't fairly answer your question. That said, JIT still means there's a step before execution, so likely, yes.
It really depends on the operation and the code being run -- bad code is bad code, after all -- but in general, yes. Native code is generally(eight thousand asterisks here) faster than VM/Sandboxed/JITd/whatever code.
Not PHP.
Sorry, PHP is still an archaic, over keyworded language. Surefire way to find out if a company doesn't know what they're doing: they use PHP at the command line.
Which negates the statement from the coward up there.
Most of the Live services, especially Hotmail.
You don't actually create web pages, do you?
Nope. My productivity and stress level are important. Linux sucks as a desktop. Windows sucks in a different way. I use OS X because it's a well designed operating system. Manufacturer doesn't play fair? Then neither do I.
Any of the multitouch macbooks allow you to place two fingers down and click the lower button to right click. The unibody MacBooks with everything being the button, just push down with two fingers to make the right click.
Look, I know it's not ideal, but those laptops have a huge trackpad, and the whole trackpad is a button. You click, it clicks. You click with two fingers down, it right clicks. You configure the click on the right hand side, it'll right click. It's not like you're stuck with one button forever -- the advanced users will do what they want to do, and Apple provides that.
I wasn't saying all PC laptops are two inches thick. In fact, I use a ThinkPad, and it's right around an inch.
I speak of the type of laptop that has a RAID setup for its hard drive(s). The airflow and space necessary for that kind of setup destroys the idea of a 'thin and light' category, unless you're talking SSD.
(Also, to be pedantic, a small screen and small size does not make a netbook, unless the Vaio TZ is now a netbook.)
Note, I don't own a MacBook right now, as they also don't make the laptop I want, having everything to do with display resolution and chiclet keyboards.
The MacBooks have a decent touchpad, it's the button layout you don't like. Any laptop with a RAID setup is automatically going to add weight and thickness. Yes, you can position two drives side by side, but you still have an airflow problem, which means more thickness, more fans, and less battery life. My guess is that the day that Apple puts two drives in a laptop, it'll be a SSD and a spinner, because that's the only way the airflow and battery life will pan out.
You are completely not their target market. Apparently, you want a two inch thick laptop that runs Linux and KDE. There are plenty of them. Buy them.