I used to use the application about 5 years ago, since it was the best free IDE around for Java. The problem was that it was really heavy on the CPU and memory. Previously to that I used VisualCafe, and NetBeans was certainly an improvement.
Move on a bit and I discover Eclipse (maybe through a friend or collegue) and really got to like it. A few things that I liked were the performance and the ability to open multiple projects at the same time. I am hooked on Eclipse, but I am always willing to take a look at the alternatives, since sometimes they come up with an innovative approach for doing something. One thing that I miss in Eclipse is having no GUI builder.
Maybe this goes to show you how bad the AOL Mail client is. My mail client by default turns off images, but lets you display them if you wish, by clicking on a button.
I hope they do fight it. Big media has been talking about everything we can and will be able to do with internet. Adding this sort of limitation would prevent people accessing the content they put out. This reminds me of the pricing problem:
You charge $1.00 for an item and people happily pay for it. You decide that you could take advantage of the popularity and make a bit more money, so you start charging $1.10. People still buy it in the same numbers as before. Wanting to make a bit more money still, you charge $1.12, and you find that your customer base is down to a quarter of what it was. The moral here is that there is a tipping point between what people feel is a reasonable price, and what is just over-priced. Don't let greed kill your profits.
The other thing, is why should I pay extra if site X decides to stuff it full of 2MB Flash players, that all loaded every time I visit a page? In many cases we download more than we need to because of badly designed sites.
The other problem is that if it becomes too expensive to distribute media, or access it, whether it be films, music, software or whatever, then people will turn back to off-line solutions.
Something else to note is that when you plug the headphones into the iPod, it actually defaults to a 'safe' volume, even if you had previously cranked it up.
I agree this claim is bogus, since it is not exclusive to a) Apple, and he could have sued Sony for the Walkman and b) the person should realise that if you can't hear anything else then it is too loud. Why does common-sense seem to be no existent in litigous USA?
Maybe we need the 'Warning label' iPod, where the whole body is covered with as many precautions as possible, including, but not limited to: 'Not to be used by idiots, or other people not willing to accept common-sense'.
Would anonymous electronic wire-tapping be seen as ok? For example you can have a computer sniff out the data, but require a warrant to humanly read the content and see who is associated with that data.
I don't appreciate my rights being trampled on, but I do prefer a proper discussion about an issue, rather than a knee jerk reaction.
You make a good point, but there are still hurdles left:
- not all DNS entries yet have a AAAA attribute
- transistion technologies still half-baked. For example no home router gateway supports it. There is no suitable NAT compatible tunnel that I have yet found - this is true for the Mac at least.
- NAT provides a means for individuals to easily allocate a private address space without having to register each appliance. So far I haven't seen any suggestions on how IPv6 solves that one.
- No suitable forum for private individuals to talk about the technology. All that I have seen are $$ and targeted at industry groups. Sometimes it is not the people with the money that end up pushing the technology.
If some of those were solved then I would being using IPv6 for the gee-wizz factor (goes with the gadget mentality;).
Issue is tha it's SOE we're talking about, they've been angering their player base and overall destroying the user's experience ever since they took control of EQ instead of letting Verant in charge, I don't see that changing any time soon...
Aw come on, Sony really understands its customers and the market
- Their MP3, uh, ATRAC player
- Being helpful and installing damaging software on PCs via CDs
No, I kid. Overall I don't have much faith these days in the company. I see it is more the exception they get right, than in general.
The jobs I have got have either been via people I know or head hunters. While one or two have been a pain, I found they usually leave you alone if you tell them you aren't in the market. Since head hunters are interested in getting their cut, don't be afraid as using them as a resource to find out what you could realistically get in terms of salaries an conditions. They can also tell you what the company is willing to give and what will prevent you from getting through the door.
Don't limit yourself to one head hunter and definitely make a note of everyone your CV has been sent to. In company getting your CV from two different sources will trash it, since it is less complicated then trying to work out who gets the comission. In fact you should tell your head hunters only to send your CV to companies you authorise for this sort of reason.
Truth is Yellow Dog has always been a PowerPC distribution and that's where it is good at. On the x86 side of things there are plenty of distributions to choose from, including Suse and Redhat. Doing a search for "EFI Linux" with Google gives me the following links amongst others:
From reading the above sites it would seem that if you are ready to diverge from a standard install, then it should already be possible to run Linux on EFI based Macs. Linux has the biggest advantage of having code which is easily modifiable by whoever has an itch to scratch, whereas MS-Windows depends on Microsoft having a business case for doing so.
Anime seems to suggest this sort of thing:
- Ghost in the Shell, in the form of the Tachikomas
- Gundam in the form of their huge space 'robots'
- Patlabor has something similar as the giant robots, but are used for policing instead.
This is only the first generation of Intel Macs. The Intel chip is faster for some things and slower for others. One thing that the PowerPC chip was the Altivec unit which did help it in certain multimedia applications. I wonder whether Apple has the rights to get it adapted to the Intel chip. Something else that is likely to change is the performance of Rosetta. Apple has a history of starting off with slowish products and then trying everything to improve the performance.
You make a fair point. I know I was over the top, but the general gist is don't be too smug about your security. It will do the job in most cases, but don't expect miracles. Expect even less miracles on MS-Windows.
At the same time the amount of security you need is relative to the environment you live in. In some place you can leave a door unlocked and not expect anyone to intrude and in other two bolt locks is just the basic requirements to keeping people out.
I am a Mac user, albeit one that also spends equal time on Unix and MS-Windows, and realise there is an equal proportion of Mac and Linux users who reckon just because you aren't logged in as root you suddenly become invunerable to viruses and worms. In fact there have been viruses that targeted the pre-MacOS X systems and even a few worms that targeted BSD in the past.
True security is an active mechanism: The three points on security:
1. No castle wall in the past ever kept the invaders out indefinetly 2. Never understimate a determined person. 3. In view of points of 1. and 2. you are truely a fool if you think you have found the perfect method of security.
I suppose I could add 4: You are also truely a fool if you a salesman convinces you that their product is 100% secure to all security issues. It may be safe today, but we don't know what tomorrow holds.
If you didn't want things like Flash, you wouldn't be buying a Mac anyway.
Ande how does this differ from your average PC user? I would hesitate to say that it is only a small percentage of users on both MS-Windows and MacOS X that care about shutting off Flash.
Or as a friend once put it, what some companies think to themselves:
Looking at my server stats I see that only 10% of users are non-IE users. In that case I will concentrate on IE. The next month server stats indicated 5%, so was definetly right to concentrate on IE only. Next month 2%. Then they do end up testing on a non-IE browser and find out no one can view it on any other browser but IE. Certainly explains in the declines in non-IE based visitors.
This thinking can be applied to many web sites with the use of technologies that end up preventing certain users from visiting the website, because of compatibility issues.
What is needed is something that would allow a viewer to add the submitter to an ignore list. That way you don't see stories submitted by that person. Everyone else gets to see the story.
What about being able to click a link next to the article which adds a filter so that you don't see any more posts from that person. Everyone would continue on as normal.
This would mean that when virtual PC is ported to run on MacOS X, it will need to include a BIOS emulator if MS-Windows is going to be run. I am not sure how much work that would be, but would be an important feature if they want to sell it. While running Linux in a virtualised machine is tempting to some, the largest portion of potential users are those wanting to run MS-Windows.
Quite honestly it would be nice not to have to, but until programs such as AutoCAD are ported, this will be the only way to go.
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I used to use the application about 5 years ago, since it was the best free IDE around for Java. The problem was that it was really heavy on the CPU and memory. Previously to that I used VisualCafe, and NetBeans was certainly an improvement.
Move on a bit and I discover Eclipse (maybe through a friend or collegue) and really got to like it. A few things that I liked were the performance and the ability to open multiple projects at the same time. I am hooked on Eclipse, but I am always willing to take a look at the alternatives, since sometimes they come up with an innovative approach for doing something. One thing that I miss in Eclipse is having no GUI builder.
Maybe this goes to show you how bad the AOL Mail client is. My mail client by default turns off images, but lets you display them if you wish, by clicking on a button.
The other problem is that if it becomes too expensive to distribute media, or access it, whether it be films, music, software or whatever, then people will turn back to off-line solutions.
Something else to note is that when you plug the headphones into the iPod, it actually defaults to a 'safe' volume, even if you had previously cranked it up.
I agree this claim is bogus, since it is not exclusive to a) Apple, and he could have sued Sony for the Walkman and b) the person should realise that if you can't hear anything else then it is too loud. Why does common-sense seem to be no existent in litigous USA?
Maybe we need the 'Warning label' iPod, where the whole body is covered with as many precautions as possible, including, but not limited to: 'Not to be used by idiots, or other people not willing to accept common-sense'.
Would anonymous electronic wire-tapping be seen as ok? For example you can have a computer sniff out the data, but require a warrant to humanly read the content and see who is associated with that data.
I don't appreciate my rights being trampled on, but I do prefer a proper discussion about an issue, rather than a knee jerk reaction.
You make a good point, but there are still hurdles left:
;).
- not all DNS entries yet have a AAAA attribute
- transistion technologies still half-baked. For example no home router gateway supports it. There is no suitable NAT compatible tunnel that I have yet found - this is true for the Mac at least.
- NAT provides a means for individuals to easily allocate a private address space without having to register each appliance. So far I haven't seen any suggestions on how IPv6 solves that one.
- No suitable forum for private individuals to talk about the technology. All that I have seen are $$ and targeted at industry groups. Sometimes it is not the people with the money that end up pushing the technology.
If some of those were solved then I would being using IPv6 for the gee-wizz factor (goes with the gadget mentality
Issue is tha it's SOE we're talking about, they've been angering their player base and overall destroying the user's experience ever since they took control of EQ instead of letting Verant in charge, I don't see that changing any time soon...
Aw come on, Sony really understands its customers and the market
- Their MP3, uh, ATRAC player
- Being helpful and installing damaging software on PCs via CDs
No, I kid. Overall I don't have much faith these days in the company. I see it is more the exception they get right, than in general.
The jobs I have got have either been via people I know or head hunters. While one or two have been a pain, I found they usually leave you alone if you tell them you aren't in the market. Since head hunters are interested in getting their cut, don't be afraid as using them as a resource to find out what you could realistically get in terms of salaries an conditions. They can also tell you what the company is willing to give and what will prevent you from getting through the door.
Don't limit yourself to one head hunter and definitely make a note of everyone your CV has been sent to. In company getting your CV from two different sources will trash it, since it is less complicated then trying to work out who gets the comission. In fact you should tell your head hunters only to send your CV to companies you authorise for this sort of reason.
Truth is Yellow Dog has always been a PowerPC distribution and that's where it is good at. On the x86 side of things there are plenty of distributions to choose from, including Suse and Redhat. Doing a search for "EFI Linux" with Google gives me the following links amongst others:
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo
- http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1247/ch05s21.html
- Search for EFI at RedHat
From reading the above sites it would seem that if you are ready to diverge from a standard install, then it should already be possible to run Linux on EFI based Macs. Linux has the biggest advantage of having code which is easily modifiable by whoever has an itch to scratch, whereas MS-Windows depends on Microsoft having a business case for doing so.
Question is now: can I only access these if I live in the USA? It would be ashame if they limited this content's distribution.
You've got it all wrong. It is actually written in C, but uses a properiety \n\r\n record separator with various ASCII characters in between ;-)
Diebold's arguments are as good as SCO's.
I think the better word would be "pre-production" model.
It takes less and less time these days.
It does. Though have to admit I go with philosphy that your computer is already outdatted by the time you get it out of the shop.
If this URL is represents a sample photocast, then it works for me when using the Wizz RSS extension in Firefox:
n dex.rss
http://web.mac.com/mrakes/iPhoto/photocast_test/i
Konqueror 3.5 passes the Acid2 test.
As it should. It too is based on KHTML, just as Safari is.
Anime seems to suggest this sort of thing:
- Ghost in the Shell, in the form of the Tachikomas
- Gundam in the form of their huge space 'robots'
- Patlabor has something similar as the giant robots, but are used for policing instead.
This is only the first generation of Intel Macs. The Intel chip is faster for some things and slower for others. One thing that the PowerPC chip was the Altivec unit which did help it in certain multimedia applications. I wonder whether Apple has the rights to get it adapted to the Intel chip. Something else that is likely to change is the performance of Rosetta. Apple has a history of starting off with slowish products and then trying everything to improve the performance.
You make a fair point. I know I was over the top, but the general gist is don't be too smug about your security. It will do the job in most cases, but don't expect miracles. Expect even less miracles on MS-Windows.
At the same time the amount of security you need is relative to the environment you live in. In some place you can leave a door unlocked and not expect anyone to intrude and in other two bolt locks is just the basic requirements to keeping people out.
1. Last time I checked, the Mongol Horde never did get into China. Walls work fine if you build them tall enough, thick enough and long enough.
Was this because of the wall by itself, or because the wall was backed up by an active patrol?
I am a Mac user, albeit one that also spends equal time on Unix and MS-Windows, and realise there is an equal proportion of Mac and Linux users who reckon just because you aren't logged in as root you suddenly become invunerable to viruses and worms. In fact there have been viruses that targeted the pre-MacOS X systems and even a few worms that targeted BSD in the past.
True security is an active mechanism: The three points on security:
1. No castle wall in the past ever kept the invaders out indefinetly
2. Never understimate a determined person.
3. In view of points of 1. and 2. you are truely a fool if you think you have found the perfect method of security.
I suppose I could add 4: You are also truely a fool if you a salesman convinces you that their product is 100% secure to all security issues. It may be safe today, but we don't know what tomorrow holds.
If you didn't want things like Flash, you wouldn't be buying a Mac anyway.
Ande how does this differ from your average PC user? I would hesitate to say that it is only a small percentage of users on both MS-Windows and MacOS X that care about shutting off Flash.
This thinking can be applied to many web sites with the use of technologies that end up preventing certain users from visiting the website, because of compatibility issues.
What is needed is something that would allow a viewer to add the submitter to an ignore list. That way you don't see stories submitted by that person. Everyone else gets to see the story.
What about being able to click a link next to the article which adds a filter so that you don't see any more posts from that person. Everyone would continue on as normal.
This would mean that when virtual PC is ported to run on MacOS X, it will need to include a BIOS emulator if MS-Windows is going to be run. I am not sure how much work that would be, but would be an important feature if they want to sell it. While running Linux in a virtualised machine is tempting to some, the largest portion of potential users are those wanting to run MS-Windows.
Quite honestly it would be nice not to have to, but until programs such as AutoCAD are ported, this will be the only way to go.