"Different I/O and process schedulers? Oh noes! If only we had posix and libc to abstract that crap away!"
I didn't get that either. Unless you're a device driver writer or write custom high end software like CAD or databases then that should not matter. Especially if you are just making web sites??
I am so glad I have an automated package handler that can take care of dependencies on Windows. I love doing c:\sudo apt-get install Milo.exe to take care of everything. Oh wait.
In all seriousness Linux is incompatible with each other. Many people with laptops that are funky with Ubuntu run Fedora or SuSE. I have seen packages that run fine with Ubuntu and if it does not with Fedora then its "runs fine on my ubuntu machine" and users treat it like the only true Linux distro. MacOSX is no different.
What IDE does this guy use I may ask? With CSS you can not use Vi or emacs. Html is out and CSS is in. I hate CSS with a passion but you never will know what it looks like unless you use MS Expressions or Adobe Dreamweaver to give it eye candy to attract users. I wish there was a free gui tool for Linux so I could still use it for this purpose.
I started out in community college. At our school MS did the same thing. The faculty decided to give us a choice. It was a very large community college with several campuses and resources. I got free copies of VS.NET and I decided to choose Java. Java hopefully will stay free so it is not like you need expensive licensing. The circulumn focuses on Eclipse or BlueJ which are also free.
I am now planning to learn Andriod development so I guess Java was the way to go. I still chose Windows intially on my laptop (this was in 2006) and Linux support was spotty then. I wish more colleges would offer both as it boils my blood as colleges turn into marketing programs for companies like Microsoft rather than places of higher learning.
It is funny these same anti java posters probably own Andriod phones.
I hate to break it to you but Andriod apps written in java run very fast on a small smartphone. AWT and Swing got a very negative reputation that just wont go away sadly. Eclipse written in SWT is very fast on older systems
Today if you run Netbeans from Oracle (ohh the evil Oracle) written in Swing you will see it is fast on a modern computer. Just like MacOSX has improved and so has Java.
Really you should not blame the language or platform based on a badly written gui framework from 10 years ago. I think though, the parent was stating using the right language for the job should not be a way to judge a job candidate. Using one language for all is bad.
Not to mention the HR weenies like to see many platforms and languages. If that CEO does not run a Windows platform then yes it makes sense not to hire a.NET programmer but that is not because of a value judgement agaisnt the programmer
We need more carriers and competition. Where was the government when AT&T bought Tmobile? We need more mesh wifis so we can forgo these a**holes. I remember paying $30 for high speed internet and $45 for phone. Now I am paying $250 for both and expect a bandwidth cap on top of it. Screw these greedy bastards.
Maybe instead of deregulation we should forbid such companies to be traded publicly. It is a conflict of interest as the shareholders and by that I mean Goldman Sachs to not care about anyone but their magical ratios and bonuses by having their companies become predatory at all costs.
I remember people using it to run linux apps like perl and shell scripting. It was like the macOS app support were bolted on. In other words it was a unix nerd OS that could run DVDs and look pretty. It was slow as hell and lacked many features of MacOS. Some folks still claim MacOS still had more. I wanted one badly because FreeBSD/Linux were not ready for a real desktop and the enlightenment and other window managers were just hacks.
Faster powerpcs helped too. Now a more modern MacOSX could run on the older imacs much faster surprisingly
Steve Jobs wanted a competitor to Windows NT and it showed. MacOS was more like a better Windows 3.1 with multimedia capabilities of Windows95. Just like Windows NT it was slow, had no apps, not very good practically rather than theoretically for the first few years.
You know smartphones and servers do not have the same issues of a one 1978 era set of instructions compiled executables that have to run only under one platform.
I know Windows NT was first designed on a Mips but that did not help. Maybe byte code interpreters like those on Android will save this. It is a tragedy.
But, in fairness Itanium did suck quite hard compared to Alphas. They overclocked them and crippled the alpha and tried to make their FPUs increadible powerful to do some nice benchmarks. Even with Alpha dead the chips could not do hardware supported threading like Sun's Sparcs nor could it have the performance of a fast AMD Opteron. Intel just had no choice but to make the Core2Duo and i5s and i7s that killed it.... come to think of it Oracle now has sparc processors. I sense to support Itanium would be a conflict of interest at this point.
Gadhaffi and the former Egyptian dictator have billions. Does that make them noble figures that are not losers? It still does not make it right to steal. Whether it is from your own people or Andriod customers.
MS wants Google and others to simply just charge us and have Google and everyone raise the price and get rid of free apps so we can pay Microsoft. To me that is stealing
You know every car has bugs right. We accepted (our parents if you are under 45) that cars will never last past 100k miles, will always leak oil, and always have engine and transmission problems every 35 0 45k miles. That is just what they do and calling it a lemon was silly.
The Japanese showed us otherwise in the late 1970s and 1980s.
If I am paying that much for an Apple you bet your ass that it better work! Otherwise I can save a fortune buying an emachine or Dell if quality is not different. That is the difference as Apply fanbois tell us there machines are supperior.
I think calling them out will help make everyone have better machines. Apple needs to fire some people. No offense but some iPhone and the first generation of intel macs had numerous problems. Why do they keep having them? Revision B ones are the best bet for any Apple even if they are 6 months older.
SQL-Lite already fills this void of minimalism. Infact, it is the most popular database in the world. Its included in every iphone, Firefox installation, and android device out there.
Well it is a good idea Microsoft would never have any legal action agaisnt them for breaking anti trust laws and abusing their position in the market when they were more important.
Microsoft sells a lot more private data on hotmail than any gmail account and use this as an advantage for marketers as to why to chose to sell ads with Microsoft instead. Disgusting.
Wahoo it survived the earthquake! But whats next? Did it survive the tsunami? What about the backup systems? Why isn't the sea water working? etc.
A coal plant may rupture and start a big fire but it wont leak radiation and stay hot after a shutdown. It wont have the same hazards as a nuclear power plant. I know Nuclear power is supported generally on slashdot but these problems are real.
No it is not SAFE as workers would not be risking their lives preventing meltdowns if it were.
The fires right now seem to be started by used rods in a pool where the water is boiling away due to the lack of a cooling system. Nuclear power is simply more dangerous. Yes, great advances in technology has happened but the same was true with deep sea drilling. I was in favor of it and still am with proper regulations. We found out bad management and anything that is more dangerous is still vulnerable as technology does not solve all the problems but rather hides the symptoms and gives a false sense of security.
You can not advert risk by simply creating backup procedures and using technology. You reduce them but they are always still there vs the alternatives
At business school I learned something within the first 20 minutes of finance 101. The most important lesson in the class which was repeated on the final was what is a company's goal?
If you said to make money you are wrong. The goal of a corporation is to raise its stock price, not make money. A third of the course dealt with how to trick investors by creating magical ratios of liquidity (assets that can turn to cash very fast) to make wall street happy and raise the share price. To top it off we studied how going into debt was a great thing as it gave you profit leverage. Holding off paying your suppliers was good too as you can invest the money while you drag your feet.
The rest of the course dealt with a privately held and small companies. Now their goals was to make money as well as have an excellent credit rating and low debt to make sure adequate lines of credit were available in case of an emergency and to plan ahead conservatively without going bankrupt. 2 different worlds.
Private companies are the way to go. They simply make rational decisions and play by the rules. The big boys don't and love risk. If the average CEO job is short you can guarantee yourself you wont be held accountable either for short term gains that cost the company later. WOW
I hate Bank of America with a passion and look forward to the day when I become an ex-customer. I have loans on my credit cards to pay off first due to underemployment.
What is weird? 1. I get charged $9 to talk to a teller. Yes, I am restricted to use an ATM only unless I put $2,000 in checking at all times and agree to outrageous fines and penalties if I ever go under???
2. Pay $125 in fees just to make sure my identity is not stolen for my credit cards. I still have to pay the interest and principal. As a result the $500 I put down each month has a small return on what I am paying the card back.
3. I had them look me right in the eye when I asked about a cash advanced and they told no interest penalties at all if I pay it back in 2 weeks. I was going to be paid so taking $1,000 for christmas travel was no biggie. I went to pay it and BOA said... oh you need to pay off all your credit cards first. That will be 50% interest.! I was about to assault the lady there I was so angry. They simply put the cash advance on my credit card and put it on the last month to pay off. Today I have paid at least $3,000 in interest for that $1,000 3 years ago.
4. I was late for one payment and my interest rate jumped to 38%.
I realize my own personal irresponsibility got me into this mess. But someone with a previous 715 credit score should not be rapped HARD in the a** for these things. I am very angry and hope they rot in jail! Moral of the story is if you are short on cash never never use a credit card. There should be laws agaisnt this.
BOA is no different than the mob in my opinion and is a deviant evil empire. Strong words, but after they way they have stolen from me and treated me I have nothing left to say.
I should have them paid off by September and will happily switch to a credit union then.
They were not as evil when Walton still ran it and made sure it was a 100% American owned with American products that helped the US economy.
Today we have Walmart to thank for outsourcing our jobs more than any other company. Walmart kept telling suppliers "Move to China NOW or we wont stock your PRODUCT!.."So they started the ball rolling. Now if you have a product you MUST eliminate most of your American jobs before Target or Walmart will even talk to you.
They are just giving me information I want and products I want through the advertising. Doesn't sound bad to me.
Microsoft is very evil. They took advantage of Google's promise not to sell confidential keywords in gmail's email to outside parties with hotmail. Basically they promised advertisers free data on your hotmail accounts. Google's ads work on computer algorithms from its servers but that data is not directly sold to third parties.
Novel's crippling of fonts due to its deal with Microsoft made me abandon it. I use Fedora on older hadware and like it. I just can't get used to KDE and Yast.
Is it worth trying again or am I supporting SCO and MS by trying it out? The politics of this make it painful for me to consider
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"Different I/O and process schedulers? Oh noes! If only we had posix and libc to abstract that crap away!"
I didn't get that either. Unless you're a device driver writer or write custom high end software like CAD or databases then that should not matter. Especially if you are just making web sites??
I am so glad I have an automated package handler that can take care of dependencies on Windows. I love doing c:\sudo apt-get install Milo.exe to take care of everything. Oh wait.
In all seriousness Linux is incompatible with each other. Many people with laptops that are funky with Ubuntu run Fedora or SuSE. I have seen packages that run fine with Ubuntu and if it does not with Fedora then its "runs fine on my ubuntu machine" and users treat it like the only true Linux distro. MacOSX is no different.
What IDE does this guy use I may ask? With CSS you can not use Vi or emacs. Html is out and CSS is in. I hate CSS with a passion but you never will know what it looks like unless you use MS Expressions or Adobe Dreamweaver to give it eye candy to attract users. I wish there was a free gui tool for Linux so I could still use it for this purpose.
That is terrible.
I started out in community college. At our school MS did the same thing. The faculty decided to give us a choice. It was a very large community college with several campuses and resources. I got free copies of VS.NET and I decided to choose Java. Java hopefully will stay free so it is not like you need expensive licensing. The circulumn focuses on Eclipse or BlueJ which are also free.
I am now planning to learn Andriod development so I guess Java was the way to go. I still chose Windows intially on my laptop (this was in 2006) and Linux support was spotty then. I wish more colleges would offer both as it boils my blood as colleges turn into marketing programs for companies like Microsoft rather than places of higher learning.
It is funny these same anti java posters probably own Andriod phones.
I hate to break it to you but Andriod apps written in java run very fast on a small smartphone. AWT and Swing got a very negative reputation that just wont go away sadly. Eclipse written in SWT is very fast on older systems
Today if you run Netbeans from Oracle (ohh the evil Oracle) written in Swing you will see it is fast on a modern computer. Just like MacOSX has improved and so has Java.
Really you should not blame the language or platform based on a badly written gui framework from 10 years ago. I think though, the parent was stating using the right language for the job should not be a way to judge a job candidate. Using one language for all is bad.
Not to mention the HR weenies like to see many platforms and languages. If that CEO does not run a Windows platform then yes it makes sense not to hire a .NET programmer but that is not because of a value judgement agaisnt the programmer
We need more carriers and competition. Where was the government when AT&T bought Tmobile? We need more mesh wifis so we can forgo these a**holes. I remember paying $30 for high speed internet and $45 for phone. Now I am paying $250 for both and expect a bandwidth cap on top of it. Screw these greedy bastards.
Maybe instead of deregulation we should forbid such companies to be traded publicly. It is a conflict of interest as the shareholders and by that I mean Goldman Sachs to not care about anyone but their magical ratios and bonuses by having their companies become predatory at all costs.
Just curious
I remember people using it to run linux apps like perl and shell scripting. It was like the macOS app support were bolted on. In other words it was a unix nerd OS that could run DVDs and look pretty. It was slow as hell and lacked many features of MacOS. Some folks still claim MacOS still had more. I wanted one badly because FreeBSD/Linux were not ready for a real desktop and the enlightenment and other window managers were just hacks.
Faster powerpcs helped too. Now a more modern MacOSX could run on the older imacs much faster surprisingly
Steve Jobs wanted a competitor to Windows NT and it showed. MacOS was more like a better Windows 3.1 with multimedia capabilities of Windows95. Just like Windows NT it was slow, had no apps, not very good practically rather than theoretically for the first few years.
Jython runs on the Andriod. This means you can use that to run python code. Cool hack.
I wonder if you could use the Andriod apis? I can't see why not.
You know smartphones and servers do not have the same issues of a one 1978 era set of instructions compiled executables that have to run only under one platform.
I know Windows NT was first designed on a Mips but that did not help. Maybe byte code interpreters like those on Android will save this. It is a tragedy.
But, in fairness Itanium did suck quite hard compared to Alphas. They overclocked them and crippled the alpha and tried to make their FPUs increadible powerful to do some nice benchmarks. Even with Alpha dead the chips could not do hardware supported threading like Sun's Sparcs nor could it have the performance of a fast AMD Opteron. Intel just had no choice but to make the Core2Duo and i5s and i7s that killed it. ... come to think of it Oracle now has sparc processors. I sense to support Itanium would be a conflict of interest at this point.
Gadhaffi and the former Egyptian dictator have billions. Does that make them noble figures that are not losers? It still does not make it right to steal. Whether it is from your own people or Andriod customers.
MS wants Google and others to simply just charge us and have Google and everyone raise the price and get rid of free apps so we can pay Microsoft. To me that is stealing
Hopefully then a quick driver update will fix the issue.
You know every car has bugs right. We accepted (our parents if you are under 45) that cars will never last past 100k miles, will always leak oil, and always have engine and transmission problems every 35 0 45k miles. That is just what they do and calling it a lemon was silly.
The Japanese showed us otherwise in the late 1970s and 1980s.
If I am paying that much for an Apple you bet your ass that it better work! Otherwise I can save a fortune buying an emachine or Dell if quality is not different. That is the difference as Apply fanbois tell us there machines are supperior.
I think calling them out will help make everyone have better machines. Apple needs to fire some people. No offense but some iPhone and the first generation of intel macs had numerous problems. Why do they keep having them? Revision B ones are the best bet for any Apple even if they are 6 months older.
SQL-Lite already fills this void of minimalism. Infact, it is the most popular database in the world. Its included in every iphone, Firefox installation, and android device out there.
Well it is a good idea Microsoft would never have any legal action agaisnt them for breaking anti trust laws and abusing their position in the market when they were more important.
Microsoft sells a lot more private data on hotmail than any gmail account and use this as an advantage for marketers as to why to chose to sell ads with Microsoft instead. Disgusting.
Why is this legal?
Having a monopolist sue for unfair competition? Who is the monopolist?
In all seriousness Joe Six Pack is right.
Wahoo it survived the earthquake! But whats next? Did it survive the tsunami? What about the backup systems? Why isn't the sea water working? etc.
A coal plant may rupture and start a big fire but it wont leak radiation and stay hot after a shutdown. It wont have the same hazards as a nuclear power plant. I know Nuclear power is supported generally on slashdot but these problems are real.
No it is not SAFE as workers would not be risking their lives preventing meltdowns if it were.
The fires right now seem to be started by used rods in a pool where the water is boiling away due to the lack of a cooling system. Nuclear power is simply more dangerous. Yes, great advances in technology has happened but the same was true with deep sea drilling. I was in favor of it and still am with proper regulations. We found out bad management and anything that is more dangerous is still vulnerable as technology does not solve all the problems but rather hides the symptoms and gives a false sense of security.
You can not advert risk by simply creating backup procedures and using technology. You reduce them but they are always still there vs the alternatives
I typically work for the private sector as in private companies. So to me this came as a surprise. But that is a company rather than a corporation.
Not to mention they now charge for Xcode.
Giggles and returns to his Android phone.
What are you smoking?
XBOX overheats, and windows 7 mobile has many issues with bad icons and has single digit marketshare.
Apple and Google have
At business school I learned something within the first 20 minutes of finance 101. The most important lesson in the class which was repeated on the final was what is a company's goal?
If you said to make money you are wrong. The goal of a corporation is to raise its stock price, not make money. A third of the course dealt with how to trick investors by creating magical ratios of liquidity (assets that can turn to cash very fast) to make wall street happy and raise the share price. To top it off we studied how going into debt was a great thing as it gave you profit leverage. Holding off paying your suppliers was good too as you can invest the money while you drag your feet.
The rest of the course dealt with a privately held and small companies. Now their goals was to make money as well as have an excellent credit rating and low debt to make sure adequate lines of credit were available in case of an emergency and to plan ahead conservatively without going bankrupt. 2 different worlds.
Private companies are the way to go. They simply make rational decisions and play by the rules. The big boys don't and love risk. If the average CEO job is short you can guarantee yourself you wont be held accountable either for short term gains that cost the company later. WOW
I hate Bank of America with a passion and look forward to the day when I become an ex-customer. I have loans on my credit cards to pay off first due to underemployment.
What is weird?
1. I get charged $9 to talk to a teller. Yes, I am restricted to use an ATM only unless I put $2,000 in checking at all times and agree to outrageous fines and penalties if I ever go under???
2. Pay $125 in fees just to make sure my identity is not stolen for my credit cards. I still have to pay the interest and principal. As a result the $500 I put down each month has a small return on what I am paying the card back.
3. I had them look me right in the eye when I asked about a cash advanced and they told no interest penalties at all if I pay it back in 2 weeks. I was going to be paid so taking $1,000 for christmas travel was no biggie. I went to pay it and BOA said ... oh you need to pay off all your credit cards first. That will be 50% interest.! I was about to assault the lady there I was so angry. They simply put the cash advance on my credit card and put it on the last month to pay off. Today I have paid at least $3,000 in interest for that $1,000 3 years ago.
4. I was late for one payment and my interest rate jumped to 38%.
I realize my own personal irresponsibility got me into this mess. But someone with a previous 715 credit score should not be rapped HARD in the a** for these things. I am very angry and hope they rot in jail! Moral of the story is if you are short on cash never never use a credit card. There should be laws agaisnt this.
BOA is no different than the mob in my opinion and is a deviant evil empire. Strong words, but after they way they have stolen from me and treated me I have nothing left to say.
I should have them paid off by September and will happily switch to a credit union then.
... gets back on my android phone
That kind of reminds me or Walmart.
They were not as evil when Walton still ran it and made sure it was a 100% American owned with American products that helped the US economy.
Today we have Walmart to thank for outsourcing our jobs more than any other company. Walmart kept telling suppliers "Move to China NOW or we wont stock your PRODUCT! .."So they started the ball rolling. Now if you have a product you MUST eliminate most of your American jobs before Target or Walmart will even talk to you.
Why are what they are doing evil?
They are just giving me information I want and products I want through the advertising. Doesn't sound bad to me.
Microsoft is very evil. They took advantage of Google's promise not to sell confidential keywords in gmail's email to outside parties with hotmail. Basically they promised advertisers free data on your hotmail accounts. Google's ads work on computer algorithms from its servers but that data is not directly sold to third parties.
I trust Google more.
I am tempted to download it and try it out.
Novel's crippling of fonts due to its deal with Microsoft made me abandon it. I use Fedora on older hadware and like it. I just can't get used to KDE and Yast.
Is it worth trying again or am I supporting SCO and MS by trying it out? The politics of this make it painful for me to consider