Visual Basic compatibility is a real important issue, since the developers most likely to adopt.Net are current VB programmers. Microsoft has quit supporting Visual Basic in any way. That product is simply a dead end. The problem is, all these VB programmers have to learn object oriented programming.
Also, I think.Net is most suitable for writing web applications running on top of IIS (ASP; mostly VB and VBScript at the moment) and simple, dialog based Windows desktop applications (currently developed using VB, Delphi, C++). Java isn't too suitable for writing desktop apps due to poor support for the native UI widgets, lack of current JRE on most Windows PCs, poor COM interoperability etc.
Exactly. This hot dog and electricity thing is another urban legend. Been there, done that. It simply doesn't work; The result is a mostly cold hot dog with a completely burned area in the center. Nice trick for demonstrations but useless if you plan to eat the hot dog.
For people outside USA: Mountain Dew is Pepsi's wildly popular (especially among programmers) pop brand. The new cherry flavor is called Code Red. Does anyone really know whether the pop got its name from the worm?
http://www.mountaindew.com/code_red/code_red_faq .h tml: > Why did Mountain Dew choose the name Code Red? > Our consumers named Code Red. Consumers thought > Code Red best captured the spirit of the new > brand.
3.1: Network installers; Often times I want to try software on my home PC that has a far slower network connection that my office desktop. Also, I dont want your software to initiate any network connections for me.
Just provide one compressed installer/archive or you're gone.
A valuable addition would be playlists refering other streaming mp3 servers on the Internet (shoutcast/icecast). Maybe this could be done
by hacking the server software?
Cygwin/XFree has improved a lot during the past year and isn't that kludgy anymore. It works very well as an alternative for commercial win32 X servers (Exceed, WinAxe etc).
> Konqueror is arguably the best browser on any
> platform (and is at least as good as MSIE)
You must be kidding. This world has yet to see a standards compliant, bug free web browser. Internet Explorer is far from that but it's still clearly the the best there is. Admit it.
Remember OS/2? What about if Linux never hits the critical mass? The fate of Eazel and Corel took away my hope on desktop Linux. Just name a mature, usable and functional Linux desktop application. Gimp and Star Office seem promising but they arent quite there yet.
Corel's history shows us that Linux community is an unthankful market for commercial software vendors.
Soviet Union collapsed under its own impossibility, not due to loosing in the space/technology competition. I think the US has little merit in wiping away the super power. In communism honest work doesnt pay and wellfare isn't a byproduct of free market.
Besides communism makes people morally handicapped.
Go to Russia and you'll see why Soviet Union didn't work.
Yeah, right. I think the driver deployment model of Linux is almost completely wrong. The supported hardware gets fixed when the kernel is compiled. So writing a new driver requires patching the kernel sources? Oh and I hate browsing through all the different models of HAM radios and ISDN adapters when I just wanna compile firewalling support to my kernel.
My SMC NIC simply doesn't to work with the kernel module drivers. The ALSA driver for my sound card refused to load since Red Hat precompiled kernels didnt have the support compiled in. Only once have I managed to install X without manually editing refresh rates etc. That's so automatic...
Linux is not (yet) as easy to use as Windows. I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
If you really wanna run a full fledged database on Linux, you might want to take a look at IBM DB2 Universal Database. Its not open source and I have no idea whether it can be used from Access.
Good point; At least most Slashdotters know what OpenNap and Napigator are, but how many of them are familiar with e.g. WinMX ?
Most Napster users download much simply beacuse its free. And there's still no easy-to-use, secure and widely available technology for international electronic payments.
Except that the infrastructure of most US urban areas doesn't support alternatives to driving. People live in sparsely built neighborhoods. More tightly built downtown covers just a tiny area.
And where exactly would you be driving your bicycle - the freeway?
Just compare the typical structure of European and US cities. In US there are no alternatives to driving and that's why US Army is active in the middle east.
What types of data can you actually sync with it?
Is it restricted to a few types of information such as addressbook, calendar and email?
Could it be used to synchronize e.g. software for filling out digital forms, running on different platforms (desktop vs. PDA)?
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Visual Basic compatibility is a real important issue, since the developers most likely to adopt .Net are current VB programmers. Microsoft has quit supporting Visual Basic in any way. That product is simply a dead end. The problem is, all these VB programmers have to learn object oriented programming.
.Net is most suitable for writing web applications running on top of IIS (ASP; mostly VB and VBScript at the moment) and simple, dialog based Windows desktop applications (currently developed using VB, Delphi, C++). Java isn't too suitable for writing desktop apps due to poor support for the native UI widgets, lack of current JRE on most Windows PCs, poor COM interoperability etc.
Also, I think
Exactly. This hot dog and electricity thing is another urban legend. Been there, done that. It simply doesn't work; The result is a mostly cold hot dog with a completely burned area in the center. Nice trick for demonstrations but useless if you plan to eat the hot dog.
For people outside USA: Mountain Dew is Pepsi's wildly popular (especially among programmers) pop brand. The new cherry flavor is called Code Red. Does anyone really know whether the pop got its name from the worm?
q .h tml:
http://www.mountaindew.com/code_red/code_red_fa
> Why did Mountain Dew choose the name Code Red?
> Our consumers named Code Red. Consumers thought
> Code Red best captured the spirit of the new
> brand.
3.1: Network installers; Often times I want to try software on my home PC that has a far slower network connection that my office desktop. Also, I dont want your software to initiate any network connections for me.
Just provide one compressed installer/archive or you're gone.
A russian company is already offering a few minutes of weighlessness on an aeroplane for a decent price.
A valuable addition would be playlists refering other streaming mp3 servers on the Internet (shoutcast/icecast). Maybe this could be done
by hacking the server software?
Cygwin/XFree has improved a lot during the past year and isn't that kludgy anymore. It works very well as an alternative for commercial win32 X servers (Exceed, WinAxe etc).
> All manufacturer x needs to do is dust off some old driver diskettes
> and stick them online and Windows is covered
Aren't you a bit oversimplifying? Like there weren't any differences in the driver model of Win95 and Win2k. Eat my shorts.
As close to art as photography.
Check this out.
> Netscape is utterly stable
Now that is absolute nonsense! Ever monitored the amount of memory it leaks (NN 4.7 on both win32 and Linux)?
And what about those hundreds of uncorrected bugs (remained uncorrected for years) causing this browser render a lot of HTML and CSS completely wrong?
> Konqueror is arguably the best browser on any
> platform (and is at least as good as MSIE)
You must be kidding. This world has yet to see a standards compliant, bug free web browser. Internet Explorer is far from that but it's still clearly the the best there is. Admit it.
Remember OS/2? What about if Linux never hits the critical mass? The fate of Eazel and Corel took away my hope on desktop Linux. Just name a mature, usable and functional Linux desktop application. Gimp and Star Office seem promising but they arent quite there yet.
Corel's history shows us that Linux community is an unthankful market for commercial software vendors.
I agree. Monkey Island 2 is simply the best computer game ever produced. It's sad during the past few years we've seen less and less games like it.
Soviet Union collapsed under its own impossibility, not due to loosing in the space/technology competition. I think the US has little merit in wiping away the super power. In communism honest work doesnt pay and wellfare isn't a byproduct of free market. Besides communism makes people morally handicapped.
Go to Russia and you'll see why Soviet Union didn't work.
Yeah, right. I think the driver deployment model of Linux is almost completely wrong. The supported hardware gets fixed when the kernel is compiled. So writing a new driver requires patching the kernel sources? Oh and I hate browsing through all the different models of HAM radios and ISDN adapters when I just wanna compile firewalling support to my kernel.
My SMC NIC simply doesn't to work with the kernel module drivers. The ALSA driver for my sound card refused to load since Red Hat precompiled kernels didnt have the support compiled in. Only once have I managed to install X without manually editing refresh rates etc. That's so automatic...
Linux is not (yet) as easy to use as Windows. I'm sorry, but it's the truth.
If you really wanna run a full fledged database on Linux, you might want to take a look at IBM DB2 Universal Database. Its not open source and I have no idea whether it can be used from Access.
Good point; At least most Slashdotters know what OpenNap and Napigator are, but how many of them are familiar with e.g. WinMX ?
Most Napster users download much simply beacuse its free. And there's still no easy-to-use, secure and widely available technology for international electronic payments.
Except that the infrastructure of most US urban areas doesn't support alternatives to driving. People live in sparsely built neighborhoods. More tightly built downtown covers just a tiny area. And where exactly would you be driving your bicycle - the freeway? Just compare the typical structure of European and US cities. In US there are no alternatives to driving and that's why US Army is active in the middle east.
What types of data can you actually sync with it? Is it restricted to a few types of information such as addressbook, calendar and email? Could it be used to synchronize e.g. software for filling out digital forms, running on different platforms (desktop vs. PDA)?