Most simple problems have been solved. Think of something you do every day that would be better with computer intervention. There's not much I can think of.
How about looking for customers. Or a novel that doesn't suck. Or a good jazz record.
"Everything that can be invented, has been invented."
-- U.S. Patent Commissioner, 1899
CSS, Javascript, HTML5, Flash
Oh look, another wiseass who didn't read the question. Now I'm beginning to remember why nobody visits this site any more.
Lolwut
Now I remember.
Are you talking about the IDE or the language?
I'm talking about a Visual Basic EQUIVALENT, jackass.
Learning AI's are really hard to write.
Anything worth doing is hard.
Another towering dick on the Internet acts like a towering dick for no reason and smartasses his way through answers to a question he was invited to think about but won't because he's too busy trying to win the towering dick of the year competition by being a towering dick.
Must be Slashdot, Reddit, Boingboing or some other site frequented by dateless, wiseass, neckbearded towering dicks.
I mean what do the vast majority use these desktops and laptops FOR anyway?
Maybe they would have something to use them for if the software industry would un-fuck itself. Here are some questions to ponder:
1. Why is there only one viable desktop financial application for the PC? Where are the better alternatives? Because Quicken and Quickbooks are pure shit.
2. Why hasn't there been a new desktop application in the last 10 years? New defined as not a clone or an upgrade of an existing application, and not a game. A new desktop application as powerful or more powerful than Photoshop, Excel or Final Cut Pro. Are we going to pull out the "everything has been invented" bullshit?
3. Is TCP/HTML really the best we can do on the Internet? Where are the new network protocols and content types? When is the "browser" going to be replaced with something that reflects technology in 2013 instead of 1990?
4. Where is the Visual Basic equivalent for Linux? It's time.
5. Where is the game that teaches players to strategize and construct their own game engines in the process? Where is the game where the player teaches the computer how to improve?
Instead we're heaving PCs overboard so we can write fiddly shitty apps in fiddly shitty proprietary languages for fiddly shitty toy proprietary gadgets that are guaranteed to be obsolete and useless in 18 months.
My IT department will green light what I tell them to green light. If they don't like my choices the exits are clearly marked.
Since we're listing software, let's put up the whole list, there Captain.
For Desktop Publishing, there is Scribus and LaTeX and LyX.
I have styles for LaTex I wrote in 1996 that still work today exactly the way they did 17 years ago. I can't keep text italicized from one file open to the next in Publisher. Styles? lol
Nobody seriously uses Outbreak unless they are forced to. Anyone who suggests we use it in this office will be fired by me.
For e-mail there are too many clients to list. I'm partial to mutt, since it allows me to use an entire suite of tools to sort, filter and store my e-mail in a database.
Oh, you can't store your e-mail in a searchable SQL database? I can. I did it with a bash script. Oh, I'm terribly sorry. You don't have a proper shell on Windows so you can't do that. Have you ever called up your email in sorted tables in a web browser? Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have a web server on Windows either. Or PHP, or Java, or a proper C compiler, or even a decent text editor.
Nobody seriously uses Dreamweaver any more.
If you need Photoshop that bad, you can spring for a copy of crashware and run it in a VM. Anything else?
Your view of what's possible with a computer is what is crippled. I've been running a business on Linux for 20 years. I've never had a problem with compatibility or anything else. I take the time to learn to use the software properly, and it works exactly the way it is supposed to.
Linux is simply more powerful and more versatile than Windows, and it always will be. Microsoft is going to be out of the software business in five years anyway, so this entire discussion is academic. They will be a third-rate hardware certification and enterprise services company. Appropriate, since they have never been a credible software company.
They got a lucky deal with IBM and they used it to bash the entire world over the head with monopolistic and illegal licensing schemes for 25 years.
Nevertheless, Linux systems will be running the Internet 100 years after the last copy of Windows is activated. Reason? Linux is a superior system.
So now you're going to tell me how I used Linux, huh?
I compiled my own kernels. I wrote my own XF86 configurations (when I needed X) When I needed "office" software, I figured out a way to do what I needed to do with Emacs. I didn't need a scanner.
And it all paid off. Now I run our entire customer records system on Linux, complete with a self-authored terminal-output data entry and control interface written in... wait for it... ANSI C. The equivalent on Windows would cost $2000 and up.
Thing is, I wouldn't trust a grocery list to Windows.
He will establish probable cause to conduct a search of the suspect's effects, then petition a judge for a warrant, as is required by the Fourth Amendment.
You know, the 4th amendment is the law. The Bill of Rights is not a list of suggestions.
Then, when confronted with the reality of just how shitty Windows always has been, they run and hide behind Excel.
I've been using Linux as a primary desktop and enterprise server since 1993. Never had a single problem. I built a 30-person business and four companies on it.
It's a better operating system, and it always will be.
You know it's funny. People who would normally lecture us about how "cheaper and better" always wins are usually the first to remind us that MS Word and all the other shit that Microsoft peddles is excepted from that rule.
It's time for people to stop with this pretending to write computer games nonsense.
HTML5 is not a suitable development environment. Javascript is not a suitable development environment. Your web browser is not a suitable development environment. HTML5 is vaporware. HTML is designed to display TEXT.
Please re-read those sentences until you get it through your head. If you want to write a computer game, start with a real programming language:
1. C 2. C++
I recommend C so you don't get distracted by all the horse**** theory around OOP.
If you need a graphics engine, fine. Get one. Then code the game in a real development environment on a real computer (not a fiddly mobile device) on the metal. It will be hard, but the results will be worth it. If you can't bring yourself to do this, then you have no business programming or writing computer games.
P.S. I'm not interested in Javascript DOOM or whatever the "gew-gaw of the week" is, and I've been programming computers for 37 years, so I'm not interested in your tech credentials either. Either code the game or don't code the game, but knock it off with this artificial development nonsense.
The historical Jesus is a composite of religious figures? You're not making any sense.
There are multiple corroborating historical sources and archaeological evidence for Jesus. The notion that Jesus didn't exist at all is not seriously entertained by any credible historian.
Yes, as a matter of fact Jewish historians did write about Jesus. He is referenced in both Jewish historical and religious writings. Why would Rome fabricate treason against itself? You're not making any sense.
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Most simple problems have been solved. Think of something you do every day that would be better with computer intervention. There's not much I can think of.
How about looking for customers. Or a novel that doesn't suck. Or a good jazz record.
"Everything that can be invented, has been invented."
-- U.S. Patent Commissioner, 1899
CSS, Javascript, HTML5, Flash
Oh look, another wiseass who didn't read the question. Now I'm beginning to remember why nobody visits this site any more.
Lolwut
Now I remember.
Are you talking about the IDE or the language?
I'm talking about a Visual Basic EQUIVALENT, jackass.
Learning AI's are really hard to write.
Anything worth doing is hard.
Another towering dick on the Internet acts like a towering dick for no reason and smartasses his way through answers to a question he was invited to think about but won't because he's too busy trying to win the towering dick of the year competition by being a towering dick.
Must be Slashdot, Reddit, Boingboing or some other site frequented by dateless, wiseass, neckbearded towering dicks.
Dick.
You're not taking the question seriously, which, strangely enough, answers the question pretty clearly.
You're also a gigantic wiseass, which also answers the question pretty clearly.
I mean what do the vast majority use these desktops and laptops FOR anyway?
Maybe they would have something to use them for if the software industry would un-fuck itself. Here are some questions to ponder:
1. Why is there only one viable desktop financial application for the PC? Where are the better alternatives? Because Quicken and Quickbooks are pure shit.
2. Why hasn't there been a new desktop application in the last 10 years? New defined as not a clone or an upgrade of an existing application, and not a game. A new desktop application as powerful or more powerful than Photoshop, Excel or Final Cut Pro. Are we going to pull out the "everything has been invented" bullshit?
3. Is TCP/HTML really the best we can do on the Internet? Where are the new network protocols and content types? When is the "browser" going to be replaced with something that reflects technology in 2013 instead of 1990?
4. Where is the Visual Basic equivalent for Linux? It's time.
5. Where is the game that teaches players to strategize and construct their own game engines in the process? Where is the game where the player teaches the computer how to improve?
Instead we're heaving PCs overboard so we can write fiddly shitty apps in fiddly shitty proprietary languages for fiddly shitty toy proprietary gadgets that are guaranteed to be obsolete and useless in 18 months.
Programmers have given the fucking store away.
My IT department will green light what I tell them to green light. If they don't like my choices the exits are clearly marked.
Since we're listing software, let's put up the whole list, there Captain.
For Desktop Publishing, there is Scribus and LaTeX and LyX.
I have styles for LaTex I wrote in 1996 that still work today exactly the way they did 17 years ago. I can't keep text italicized from one file open to the next in Publisher. Styles? lol
Nobody seriously uses Outbreak unless they are forced to. Anyone who suggests we use it in this office will be fired by me.
For e-mail there are too many clients to list. I'm partial to mutt, since it allows me to use an entire suite of tools to sort, filter and store my e-mail in a database.
Oh, you can't store your e-mail in a searchable SQL database? I can. I did it with a bash script. Oh, I'm terribly sorry. You don't have a proper shell on Windows so you can't do that. Have you ever called up your email in sorted tables in a web browser? Oh, I'm sorry, you don't have a web server on Windows either. Or PHP, or Java, or a proper C compiler, or even a decent text editor.
Nobody seriously uses Dreamweaver any more.
If you need Photoshop that bad, you can spring for a copy of crashware and run it in a VM. Anything else?
They'll all run just fine in a VM.
Your view of what's possible with a computer is what is crippled. I've been running a business on Linux for 20 years. I've never had a problem with compatibility or anything else. I take the time to learn to use the software properly, and it works exactly the way it is supposed to.
Linux is simply more powerful and more versatile than Windows, and it always will be. Microsoft is going to be out of the software business in five years anyway, so this entire discussion is academic. They will be a third-rate hardware certification and enterprise services company. Appropriate, since they have never been a credible software company.
They got a lucky deal with IBM and they used it to bash the entire world over the head with monopolistic and illegal licensing schemes for 25 years.
Nevertheless, Linux systems will be running the Internet 100 years after the last copy of Windows is activated. Reason? Linux is a superior system.
Have a nice day.
So now you're going to tell me how I used Linux, huh?
I compiled my own kernels. I wrote my own XF86 configurations (when I needed X) When I needed "office" software, I figured out a way to do what I needed to do with Emacs. I didn't need a scanner.
And it all paid off. Now I run our entire customer records system on Linux, complete with a self-authored terminal-output data entry and control interface written in... wait for it... ANSI C. The equivalent on Windows would cost $2000 and up.
Thing is, I wouldn't trust a grocery list to Windows.
Whenever I see one of these screeds all I can think of is a ten-month old in a high chair screaming with a full diaper.
Stop using the docx format.
He will establish probable cause to conduct a search of the suspect's effects, then petition a judge for a warrant, as is required by the Fourth Amendment.
You know, the 4th amendment is the law. The Bill of Rights is not a list of suggestions.
And for those 11951, install a VM.
Anything else?
Then, when confronted with the reality of just how shitty Windows always has been, they run and hide behind Excel.
I've been using Linux as a primary desktop and enterprise server since 1993. Never had a single problem. I built a 30-person business and four companies on it.
It's a better operating system, and it always will be.
Wine is a native environment. Windows software works fine on Linux.
Taking a bite out of a shot glass is a good alternative to Windows. If you're that obsessed with Billycrash, run a VM.
Anyone working for me who seriously suggested we use IIS and ASP.NET would be fired.
Anyway, this list is fake. You just grabbed everything from winehq that doesn't work today and listed them in order.
I see we have a new generation that needs to be educated about blatant FUD.
You know it's funny. People who would normally lecture us about how "cheaper and better" always wins are usually the first to remind us that MS Word and all the other shit that Microsoft peddles is excepted from that rule.
Windows software runs on Linux just fine.
There's no America left to defend.
They want control of your hardware, and you are going to let them have it.
And then you'll live in Apple's comfortable little cage, and they'll give you everything you need.
I think I made it pretty clear my remarks were directed specifically at games.
It "rocks" a 12-core Intel Xeon processor
sigh
C is a portable assembler. As long as we are writing directly to memory, it's on the metal.
No mobile code is written on the hardware. The mobile OS companies want a cut.
I Googled "most successful HTML5 game"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/22/ludei/
This was the result.
Looking at all the work Apple has done on that Mac Pro and Macbook Air, it seems they aren't putting all their eggs in the mobile basket any more.
Good to see some common sense. Post-PC is marketing hype. The PC will be standard technology for at least the next 100 years.
It's time for people to stop with this pretending to write computer games nonsense.
HTML5 is not a suitable development environment. Javascript is not a suitable development environment. Your web browser is not a suitable development environment. HTML5 is vaporware. HTML is designed to display TEXT.
Please re-read those sentences until you get it through your head. If you want to write a computer game, start with a real programming language:
1. C
2. C++
I recommend C so you don't get distracted by all the horse**** theory around OOP.
If you need a graphics engine, fine. Get one. Then code the game in a real development environment on a real computer (not a fiddly mobile device) on the metal. It will be hard, but the results will be worth it. If you can't bring yourself to do this, then you have no business programming or writing computer games.
P.S. I'm not interested in Javascript DOOM or whatever the "gew-gaw of the week" is, and I've been programming computers for 37 years, so I'm not interested in your tech credentials either. Either code the game or don't code the game, but knock it off with this artificial development nonsense.
That is all.
The historical Jesus is a composite of religious figures? You're not making any sense.
There are multiple corroborating historical sources and archaeological evidence for Jesus. The notion that Jesus didn't exist at all is not seriously entertained by any credible historian.
Yes, as a matter of fact Jewish historians did write about Jesus. He is referenced in both Jewish historical and religious writings. Why would Rome fabricate treason against itself? You're not making any sense.