It doesn't. As previously mentioned, most people are not throughly reading the article and are jumping to the conclusion that Microsoft's new business model as an "Application Service Provider" somehow equal ".NET Licensing Scheme". I can write 500 websites on the.NET platform and it will cost me $0. Or, I can host my web services in MS's new Datacenters and pay the price mentioned in the article.
I see little or no documentation out of Microsoft for the stuff I buy...
This obviously got modded insightful on/. even though this is no where near factual. For example, the.NET documentation (even though it's still in BETA) is some of the most comprehensive that I've seen. MSDN online is an incredibly well organized, content rich site. Microsoft also hosts some incredibly active newsgroups on their own news servers. Microsoft put's a LOT of wieght behind documentation, none of which I have ever paid for (directly anyway). Sure, it's not perfect and could use improvement, but to say that there's "little or no documentation" is ludicrous.
For you and I maybe, but until encryption is easier to use then spell check (because we know most people can't even hit F7 in Outlook to run sepell check), it won't be used by the masses.
You are 100% correct regarding the GIMP vs. Photoshop. The GIMP _MAY_ be a replacement for Paintshop Pro (ok, not quite). The GIMP is "cool" and "neat" (I like having access to the libs from Perl, for example), but it's nowhere near a professional graphics package.
There are still critical assumptions that have yet to be proven right. For example: do we have a scientist from 15,000 years ago confirm that the rock is in fact 15,000 and that our measurement is working? We are assuming that how a rock ages over the past ~200years will age the same way for the next million years.
Jesus didn't have to die for our sins. It was an example for us - God was showing that even though he could wave his hand (a very supernatural concept), he decided to communicate with us on a human level - with the greatest value in humanity being life.
I've been developing in ASP.NET for the last few months and I've found that although it does a TON of IE specific neat little things (actually, some are incredibly powerful and practical), I've found that my sites work very well with Mozilla and Opera. ASP.NET generates most all of the HTML/ECMAScript for you. I'm quite surprised that it's touted "multilevel browser support" (mobile (WML),HTML 3.0,HTML 4.0,IE) really works quite well. And, AFAIK, the final version will allow you to output strict XHTML.
Name one exploit of late that was compromised (read: actual cases, not NTBUGTRAQ "COULD HAPPEN" reports) before M$ released a patch. Most all exploits occurred on unpatched machines when the PATCHES WHERE AVAILABLE well before the script kiddies got ahold of the exploit.
Now, don't get me wrong, some of these holes should be an embarassment to the respective development teams. Hopefully with XP and in the future Microsoft will step up on security issues from a software design level. However, from a response level, they are doing an incredible job.
Compiled means this (in this context): Things are not processed (interpreted) from the "top-down".
A variable exists whethoer you declared it on line 1 or line 500. There are many benefits to this. I'm talking from a developers perspective - byte-code gives me the same end result (essentially).
True and false. Remember I said that no matter how elegant the design, sometimes you just "can't" get the elegance you want from the code in these scripting languages. For example, to create a table in C#, I declare a "MenuBar = new HtmlTable()". Then, let's say somewhere in my code I want to make that table invisible I can say "MenuBar.Visible = false" (this is server side, NOT DHTML). I can then raise an event upon a click of a "link" that fires the "ChangeVisibility" event for my MenuBar, and makes it visible again. Doing this in a scripting language would result in runtime output statements in which I liken to the overuse of precompiler directives:
if ($MenuBarOn) {
HtmlWriter.Output("table...");
}
Personally, I think this is messy. Don't get me wrong, I've written lot's of great Perl scripts, but for a full blown web app, I prefer a compiled, strongly typed, fully OO, event driven environment.
Ahhh yes, the joys of being marked as flaimbat for not recommending an open source solution. Come on guys, STOP moderating based on opinion, and realize that my opiniom comes with 5 years of experience. These are my personal findings, not some "anti-open source" rant.
I agree. Windows 2000 and XP are great OS's for a large consumer base. Microsoft.NET from a technical side (read: hailstorm != technical) is an incredible platform and (IMHO) is what J2EE should have been. The concept of Passport is GREAT for consumers and web developers alike - who want's to fill in the SAME information each time you visit a site? How redundant (more like archaic).
So, I'm sick of the MS bashing here on a lot of what I consider to be very good technology - even though it's not the best technology for EVERY situation (I don't use the deadly Office/Outlook combo on any of my PC's, but I use IIS (in which I lock down properly),.NET, and MSSQL 2000,etc.). However, I do understand a lot of the "business practices" concerns - although some of them are obviously overstated here (there's a slight bias if you haven't noticed!). It's unfortunate that the "suits" can hamper what I believe to be good technology.
Ya, but they don't use MSN either. And in the "rest of the world", AOL is still the most popular ISP - they just don't have the "sheep" customer base that Americans so easily provide:).
I love Perl - it's a great scripting language. So is PHP (as seen on my useless website). However, for powerful web applications I could do without either one. No matter how elegant the design, the word "spaghetti" comes to mind. Now, switch over to a fully compiled, OOP, event driven "paradigm" (sorry), and you've got me hooked. Whethor it be Java Servlet's with JSP, or more favorably ASP.NET with C#.
What's legal is not always ethical, what's ethical is not always legal. A corporation is designed to make money, yes, but in an ethical way. They are not designed to exploit our rights and do everything in their power to make money in an evil and immoral way.
Now look at Microsoft: big difference between Win 3.1 and Win '95. Not so big to '98, not so big to ME...
Please take no offense, but this is a highly uneducated observation. Win95 to 98 was not a dramatic rewrite of the OS, true, but the change was huge. It is so much easier to support 98 then 95, for a whole slew of reasons. ME is an even bigger step forward. Sure, on the front they all look very similar, but they are definatly reasonble upgrades. Then, take 2000 and XP into account, and you have yet another "leaps and bounds" improvement.
And show me a company that will actually support your line of thinking - espcially when many measure your output based on "features" not on "performs well" or "code will scale".
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support for UNION and boolean fulltext search
I'm sorry, I don't mean to troll, but those of use who have been using these features for years just have to laugh sometimes:-).
(This is a legit observation, not a troll). I love it how they advertise that "Slashdot", the site I visit way too often and is DOWN way too often(!), uses innoDB. I'm not saying it's a MySQL problem, but how many posts have we seen that says, "Sorry, the DB server crashed... again". Not my idea of a promo!
True, cell phones need this too. But Palm's need it as well. Try writing an email by hand on a piece of paper, then try writing on the palm... it will take you 2-3x longer on the palm. I'd much rather speak it (assuming I'm in my office and not bothering everyone around me).
Slashdot Mirror
It doesn't. As previously mentioned, most people are not throughly reading the article and are jumping to the conclusion that Microsoft's new business model as an "Application Service Provider" somehow equal ".NET Licensing Scheme". I can write 500 websites on the .NET platform and it will cost me $0. Or, I can host my web services in MS's new Datacenters and pay the price mentioned in the article.
another thing to consider is that there are no deadlines or date accountability in open source software...
:-)
This reminds me of the countless, "Well the next nightly build for Mozilla should have a semi-stable version of that feature" type comments
I see little or no documentation out of Microsoft for the stuff I buy...
/. even though this is no where near factual. For example, the .NET documentation (even though it's still in BETA) is some of the most comprehensive that I've seen. MSDN online is an incredibly well organized, content rich site. Microsoft also hosts some incredibly active newsgroups on their own news servers. Microsoft put's a LOT of wieght behind documentation, none of which I have ever paid for (directly anyway). Sure, it's not perfect and could use improvement, but to say that there's "little or no documentation" is ludicrous.
This obviously got modded insightful on
Use PGP or GPG... It's not that hard...
For you and I maybe, but until encryption is easier to use then spell check (because we know most people can't even hit F7 in Outlook to run sepell check), it won't be used by the masses.
You are 100% correct regarding the GIMP vs. Photoshop. The GIMP _MAY_ be a replacement for Paintshop Pro (ok, not quite). The GIMP is "cool" and "neat" (I like having access to the libs from Perl, for example), but it's nowhere near a professional graphics package.
There are still critical assumptions that have yet to be proven right. For example: do we have a scientist from 15,000 years ago confirm that the rock is in fact 15,000 and that our measurement is working? We are assuming that how a rock ages over the past ~200years will age the same way for the next million years.
Jesus didn't have to die for our sins. It was an example for us - God was showing that even though he could wave his hand (a very supernatural concept), he decided to communicate with us on a human level - with the greatest value in humanity being life.
Yes, anyone can sit on code for 5 years and never release a DOT OH and keep using that, "not even a version one yet" crap.
I've been developing in ASP.NET for the last few months and I've found that although it does a TON of IE specific neat little things (actually, some are incredibly powerful and practical), I've found that my sites work very well with Mozilla and Opera. ASP.NET generates most all of the HTML/ECMAScript for you. I'm quite surprised that it's touted "multilevel browser support" (mobile (WML),HTML 3.0,HTML 4.0,IE) really works quite well. And, AFAIK, the final version will allow you to output strict XHTML.
Then you where talking to uneducated creationists, or you believed in evidence that was clearly just as faith based as many religious beliefs.
Name one exploit of late that was compromised (read: actual cases, not NTBUGTRAQ "COULD HAPPEN" reports) before M$ released a patch. Most all exploits occurred on unpatched machines when the PATCHES WHERE AVAILABLE well before the script kiddies got ahold of the exploit.
Now, don't get me wrong, some of these holes should be an embarassment to the respective development teams. Hopefully with XP and in the future Microsoft will step up on security issues from a software design level. However, from a response level, they are doing an incredible job.
OF COURSE they stole the code - why do you think they "closed the source" :-).
Because musicians (generally) use MAC's. Some are starting to use Win2K/XP as well. Musicians need a stable and simple GUI, first and formost.
Compiled means this (in this context): Things are not processed (interpreted) from the "top-down".
A variable exists whethoer you declared it on line 1 or line 500. There are many benefits to this. I'm talking from a developers perspective - byte-code gives me the same end result (essentially).
Spaghetti code comes from a spaghetti mind.
True and false. Remember I said that no matter how elegant the design, sometimes you just "can't" get the elegance you want from the code in these scripting languages. For example, to create a table in C#, I declare a "MenuBar = new HtmlTable()". Then, let's say somewhere in my code I want to make that table invisible I can say "MenuBar.Visible = false" (this is server side, NOT DHTML). I can then raise an event upon a click of a "link" that fires the "ChangeVisibility" event for my MenuBar, and makes it visible again. Doing this in a scripting language would result in runtime output statements in which I liken to the overuse of precompiler directives:
#ifdef MenuBarOn
HtmlWriter.Output("table...");
#endif
This is the same, IMHO, as going
if ($MenuBarOn) {
HtmlWriter.Output("table...");
}
Personally, I think this is messy. Don't get me wrong, I've written lot's of great Perl scripts, but for a full blown web app, I prefer a compiled, strongly typed, fully OO, event driven environment.
Ahhh yes, the joys of being marked as flaimbat for not recommending an open source solution. Come on guys, STOP moderating based on opinion, and realize that my opiniom comes with 5 years of experience. These are my personal findings, not some "anti-open source" rant.
I agree. Windows 2000 and XP are great OS's for a large consumer base. Microsoft.NET from a technical side (read: hailstorm != technical) is an incredible platform and (IMHO) is what J2EE should have been. The concept of Passport is GREAT for consumers and web developers alike - who want's to fill in the SAME information each time you visit a site? How redundant (more like archaic).
.NET, and MSSQL 2000,etc.). However, I do understand a lot of the "business practices" concerns - although some of them are obviously overstated here (there's a slight bias if you haven't noticed!). It's unfortunate that the "suits" can hamper what I believe to be good technology.
So, I'm sick of the MS bashing here on a lot of what I consider to be very good technology - even though it's not the best technology for EVERY situation (I don't use the deadly Office/Outlook combo on any of my PC's, but I use IIS (in which I lock down properly),
Ya, but they don't use MSN either. And in the "rest of the world", AOL is still the most popular ISP - they just don't have the "sheep" customer base that Americans so easily provide :).
I love Perl - it's a great scripting language. So is PHP (as seen on my useless website). However, for powerful web applications I could do without either one. No matter how elegant the design, the word "spaghetti" comes to mind. Now, switch over to a fully compiled, OOP, event driven "paradigm" (sorry), and you've got me hooked. Whethor it be Java Servlet's with JSP, or more favorably ASP.NET with C#.
What's legal is not always ethical, what's ethical is not always legal. A corporation is designed to make money, yes, but in an ethical way. They are not designed to exploit our rights and do everything in their power to make money in an evil and immoral way.
Now look at Microsoft: big difference between Win 3.1 and Win '95. Not so big to '98, not so big to ME...
Please take no offense, but this is a highly uneducated observation. Win95 to 98 was not a dramatic rewrite of the OS, true, but the change was huge. It is so much easier to support 98 then 95, for a whole slew of reasons. ME is an even bigger step forward. Sure, on the front they all look very similar, but they are definatly reasonble upgrades. Then, take 2000 and XP into account, and you have yet another "leaps and bounds" improvement.
And show me a company that will actually support your line of thinking - espcially when many measure your output based on "features" not on "performs well" or "code will scale".
support for UNION and boolean fulltext search
:-).
I'm sorry, I don't mean to troll, but those of use who have been using these features for years just have to laugh sometimes
(This is a legit observation, not a troll). I love it how they advertise that "Slashdot", the site I visit way too often and is DOWN way too often(!), uses innoDB. I'm not saying it's a MySQL problem, but how many posts have we seen that says, "Sorry, the DB server crashed... again". Not my idea of a promo!
True, cell phones need this too. But Palm's need it as well. Try writing an email by hand on a piece of paper, then try writing on the palm... it will take you 2-3x longer on the palm. I'd much rather speak it (assuming I'm in my office and not bothering everyone around me).