If Windows is so easy to use why would they need teams of MCSEs to man the stations? Unless "easy to use" is artificially narrowed to "turn on the machine, double click on an icon, and plow along." But you can do that with virtually any Linux distro already, so why the gripe?
When Windows users move a bit out from that tiny circle they start run into trouble. Has any of these people actually installed Windows from scratch? It is a daunting task in itself, especially when you need to deal with things such as multi-byte languages or strange hardware. The number of options isn't significantly less than most Linux distros. There has been counterparts to "Typical" in many Linux distros for years. After about 30 minutes Windows is installed from CD, but that is not even near completion. The next thing to do is to juggle the pile of CDs containing drivers - some of them needed to be installed in a particular order. After many times of swapping CDs and rebooting - well, you are not done yet. Time to connect yourself to the Net to download all the security patches and service packs (of course you need to watch out for SP2 because it may break apps you may use). It's a race against time. Can you make it before the worms find you? That's not the end of it, either. You probably still need to update the BIOS, device drivers, DirectX, and a bunch of other things.
"Maybe if he was a 'normal' person he would have never tried acid in the first place, but would he create Apple? I think not."
Of course he would. You are forgetting that millions of companies were founded in the 1970's, even though only a few succeeded, and even less would survive till today.
Conflict is *good*; it spurs change, reveals flaws, and pushes people to either put up or shut up.
Not necessarily. Not all conflicts are like that. Even for this subset, they are only good to the extent that conflicts are revolved quickly, without spilling over, creating bad blood, sapping energy from people, and causing other sorts of damage.
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In fact, Robert X Cringely also alleged that Tim Paterson stole the code of QDOS from CP/M in Accidental Empires. If that is true, that Bill in fact sold stolen goods to IBM, the monetary reprecussions could be enormous.
One of the selling points of OSS businesses is that it's (usually) cheaper than proprietary closed-source software, but that point is negated by the fact that piracy is so rampant here that every piece of software is "free".
I doubt parent knows what his talking about. First of all, when the cost of using FOSS in business is concerned, it does not only refer to the initial purchase price of a piece of software. It refers to the TCO (total cost of ownership), which includes such fun items as damages incur by malware. Even if pirated programs were free, Windows still loses in TCO by being such a huge magnet of nastiness.
Secondly, pirated programs are not free. Sure, you can find free ones on warez sites, but then that wouldn't be limited to Asia (read: East Asia). Pirates need to eat, too.
Thirdly, but probably the most important point, is the big push toward Linux in East Asia is all about security. Not only Microsoft stuff got all these huge security holes, but these countries also worry about programs they can't see and examine. What's in the blackbox? Why are all these strange processes calling home? I don't blame them -- in fact, being paranoid is a positive trait in security. So, they are going to FOSS, because they can look at the source and know exactly what the software does.
Don't use that... you can do it in CSS and it only takes 3 times as much code!
This completely neglects the fact that if you need to change the layout, you only need to deal with one file, instead of hundreds of files. Of course, you don't need 3 times as much code to use CSS, which leads me to believe author of parent doesn't know what he's talking or was trolling.
All tags must be terminated explicitly. Because it happens so often that you need to nest a directly within another , with nothing between them.
Never seen anything like that. Though the example has nothing to do with terminating tags. Another case of a confusing or confused person.
CSS can do any styling you want! Unless you want a centered div that's only as wide as a content... or a full-height sidebar... then you're just screwed. (hint: use tables instead)
Sigh. We are looking at one really ignorant person. For example, you can definitely do a full-height sidebar. Just take a look at the numerous examples on the Web about multiple fluid columns.
I agree, though, that automated test suites are underused.
Automated test suites are vastly overrated. If all your subprograms have cleanly defined functions, cleanly defined I/O, and are small enough, it is very easy to run them through a few critical test cases.
Some people even gone so far as to substitute automated testing for clarity in design - the so called Test Driven Design. That seems like a recipe for disaster to me.
The first two articles compared RH7.3 with W2K Advanced Server and Windows XP, no WinCE was involved. The third article does not compare Linux with anything else.
I must say RH7.3 does admirably well, seeing that it was compared with Microsoft's high-end products, and it's not an optimised kernel like W2K AS.
There seems to be alot of confusion surrounding the Cell chip. This is not "just another processor", and it certainly has little to do with clock frequencies - the Cell is a whole new architecture, which might just be a glimpse into the future of computing.
Again, I will believe it when I see the thing perform as hyped. There is way too much hot air out there to not take any such announcements with a truckload of salt.
We had things such as the Emotion Engine, the Itanic, HT (hyperthreading), "Trustworthy Computing," etc., etc.
I agree with you. The fact is we can't make transistors much smaller without getting significant quantum effects. Not smaller than 30 IIRC.
There's another problem. Photolithography has been using UV for a long time. Granted, there were some engineering innovations to keep UV in use, but we are probably running very close to its limits, meaning if we want to make smaller circuits, we will need to use beams of shorter wavelength. The problem with x-ray is, of course, we don't know how to focus it.
One, pen input is free form. That means it is far more versatile than a keyboard. With a pencil and paper I can write, draw, and even paint (to a limited extent), all with equal ease, all without switching modes or anything. It's the most versatile and intuitive way of recording information known.
Two, the keyboard is only good for inputting certain phonetic langauges such as English and Romantic ones. It is not designed for, say, Japanese with its two sets of 150 alphabets, let alone Chinese which is without an alphabet at all. Those who favour the keyboard seem to be rather limited in their knowledge of natural languages.
It's not to say that the keyboard has no advantages. Right now I am typing on a keyboard because it is better for English.
I don't think the pen will completely replace the keyboard. They should be complementary forms of input.
Well, that's very nice. However, the way that Micro$oft operating systems are going, they are expanding faster than hardware. So when they finally get an OS to do all this "worldwide distributiion computing," it will be so big that it hogs all the resources for itself. Plus, there will be a BSOD every 5 seconds.
An additional flaw in the analogy is this: The function, or use, of a bridge is quite clear: Extend a roadway over an otherwise impassable divide, such as a river. Simple as that. But deciding what the function or use of a piece of software is much more difficult and complex. Software is told to do many things, and the things it's supposed to do changes over time.
That's why modern software engineering is based on the concept of modules. In Software Engineering 101 we begin to learn how to take a complex problem and break it down to component parts, so that each resulting module has a clear cut function.
What you do then is to take each of these modules, define its input requirements and output format. After that, you program each module as a self-contained unit and test them thoroughly.
Since the early '70s many excellent books have been written on good programming practices. Unfortunately such sound advices are still largely ignored in this time and day.
An additional flaw in the analogy is this: The function, or use, of a bridge is quite clear: Extend a roadway over an otherwise impassable divide, such as a river. Simple as that. But deciding what the function or use of a piece of software is much more difficult and complex. Software is told to do many things, and the things it's supposed to do changes over time.
That's why modern software engineering is based on the concept of modules. In Software Engineering 101 we begin to learn how to take a complex problem and break it down to component parts, so that each resulting module has a clear cut function.
What you do then is to take each of these modules, define its input requirements and output format. After that, you program each module as a self-contained unit and test them thoroughly.
Since the early '70s many excellent books have been written on good programming practices. Unfortunately such sound advices are still largely ignored in this time and day.
The Whois database should stay public because it is the only way a person can track down a hoaxer or a fraudster.
Recently I have received a spam regarding some kind of "pre-registration" scheme of new top level domain names with a link to a website. Now how do I know if this is for real, or just another scam (e.g. e-mail address harvesting)? How else can one start investigating other than going to the Whois records?
Humans are an exception. Rather than evolving to fit the niches, we just make the niches fit us instead. Not that the Bengal tigers are bad, but they just can't stand up to the kind of environmental changes wrought by humans on side and wanton killings on the other.
Translate that into the computer world would be akin to making every user a Linux geek by a variety of means.
In the old days, a monitor is a small resident program on a computer that lets an operator to examine the status of the machine. For example, to look at the contents of registers or to modify them, or to dump memory out to a display somewhere.
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I, as a user, expect the web apps I use to be usable from any web browser available to me, including cellphones and PDAs.
You really do that? Wow. My hat's off to you. Though personally I much rather do less painful things, such as piercing my tongue with hot nails.
If Windows is so easy to use why would they need teams of MCSEs to man the stations? Unless "easy to use" is artificially narrowed to "turn on the machine, double click on an icon, and plow along." But you can do that with virtually any Linux distro already, so why the gripe?
When Windows users move a bit out from that tiny circle they start run into trouble. Has any of these people actually installed Windows from scratch? It is a daunting task in itself, especially when you need to deal with things such as multi-byte languages or strange hardware. The number of options isn't significantly less than most Linux distros. There has been counterparts to "Typical" in many Linux distros for years. After about 30 minutes Windows is installed from CD, but that is not even near completion. The next thing to do is to juggle the pile of CDs containing drivers - some of them needed to be installed in a particular order. After many times of swapping CDs and rebooting - well, you are not done yet. Time to connect yourself to the Net to download all the security patches and service packs (of course you need to watch out for SP2 because it may break apps you may use). It's a race against time. Can you make it before the worms find you? That's not the end of it, either. You probably still need to update the BIOS, device drivers, DirectX, and a bunch of other things.
In comparison, even Gentoo is easy to install.
Well, that explains the original iMac.
Jobs had nothing to do with the original Skinny Mac. In fact, he tried to kill it in favour of the Lisa.
"If you're talented, smart, and *most importantly* not lazy, not having a degree doesn't matter in the big scheme of things."
Sure about that? What about those jobs that require a degree? Think you are going to have problems?
"Maybe if he was a 'normal' person he would have never tried acid in the first place, but would he create Apple? I think not."
Of course he would. You are forgetting that millions of companies were founded in the 1970's, even though only a few succeeded, and even less would survive till today.
Conflict is *good*; it spurs change, reveals flaws, and pushes people to either put up or shut up.
Not necessarily. Not all conflicts are like that. Even for this subset, they are only good to the extent that conflicts are revolved quickly, without spilling over, creating bad blood, sapping energy from people, and causing other sorts of damage.
What kind of sytle does Google has, anyway?
It's not that simple.
In fact, Robert X Cringely also alleged that Tim Paterson stole the code of QDOS from CP/M in Accidental Empires . If that is true, that Bill in fact sold stolen goods to IBM, the monetary reprecussions could be enormous.
One of the selling points of OSS businesses is that it's (usually) cheaper than proprietary closed-source software, but that point is negated by the fact that piracy is so rampant here that every piece of software is "free".
I doubt parent knows what his talking about. First of all, when the cost of using FOSS in business is concerned, it does not only refer to the initial purchase price of a piece of software. It refers to the TCO (total cost of ownership), which includes such fun items as damages incur by malware. Even if pirated programs were free, Windows still loses in TCO by being such a huge magnet of nastiness.
Secondly, pirated programs are not free. Sure, you can find free ones on warez sites, but then that wouldn't be limited to Asia (read: East Asia). Pirates need to eat, too.
Thirdly, but probably the most important point, is the big push toward Linux in East Asia is all about security. Not only Microsoft stuff got all these huge security holes, but these countries also worry about programs they can't see and examine. What's in the blackbox? Why are all these strange processes calling home? I don't blame them -- in fact, being paranoid is a positive trait in security. So, they are going to FOSS, because they can look at the source and know exactly what the software does.
Parent g0t Insightful??
Don't use that ... you can do it in CSS and it only takes 3 times as much code!
This completely neglects the fact that if you need to change the layout, you only need to deal with one file, instead of hundreds of files. Of course, you don't need 3 times as much code to use CSS, which leads me to believe author of parent doesn't know what he's talking or was trolling.
All tags must be terminated explicitly. Because it happens so often that you need to nest a directly within another , with nothing between them.
Never seen anything like that. Though the example has nothing to do with terminating tags. Another case of a confusing or confused person.
CSS can do any styling you want! Unless you want a centered div that's only as wide as a content... or a full-height sidebar... then you're just screwed. (hint: use tables instead)
Sigh. We are looking at one really ignorant person. For example, you can definitely do a full-height sidebar. Just take a look at the numerous examples on the Web about multiple fluid columns.
I agree, though, that automated test suites are underused.
Automated test suites are vastly overrated. If all your subprograms have cleanly defined functions, cleanly defined I/O, and are small enough, it is very easy to run them through a few critical test cases.
Some people even gone so far as to substitute automated testing for clarity in design - the so called Test Driven Design. That seems like a recipe for disaster to me.
I don't know what you are talking about.
The first two articles compared RH7.3 with W2K Advanced Server and Windows XP, no WinCE was involved. The third article does not compare Linux with anything else.
I must say RH7.3 does admirably well, seeing that it was compared with Microsoft's high-end products, and it's not an optimised kernel like W2K AS.
There seems to be alot of confusion surrounding the Cell chip. This is not "just another processor", and it certainly has little to do with clock frequencies - the Cell is a whole new architecture, which might just be a glimpse into the future of computing.
Again, I will believe it when I see the thing perform as hyped. There is way too much hot air out there to not take any such announcements with a truckload of salt.
We had things such as the Emotion Engine, the Itanic, HT (hyperthreading), "Trustworthy Computing," etc., etc.
I agree with you. The fact is we can't make transistors much smaller without getting significant quantum effects. Not smaller than 30 IIRC.
There's another problem. Photolithography has been using UV for a long time. Granted, there were some engineering innovations to keep UV in use, but we are probably running very close to its limits, meaning if we want to make smaller circuits, we will need to use beams of shorter wavelength. The problem with x-ray is, of course, we don't know how to focus it.
There are two major advantages to pen input.
One, pen input is free form. That means it is far more versatile than a keyboard. With a pencil and paper I can write, draw, and even paint (to a limited extent), all with equal ease, all without switching modes or anything. It's the most versatile and intuitive way of recording information known.
Two, the keyboard is only good for inputting certain phonetic langauges such as English and Romantic ones. It is not designed for, say, Japanese with its two sets of 150 alphabets, let alone Chinese which is without an alphabet at all. Those who favour the keyboard seem to be rather limited in their knowledge of natural languages.
It's not to say that the keyboard has no advantages. Right now I am typing on a keyboard because it is better for English.
I don't think the pen will completely replace the keyboard. They should be complementary forms of input.
Whose prank is this, anyway? :D
People will gladly pay for a piece of software if it (a) works (b) gets the job done (c) is worth the price.
Developers who want to turn a profit have to stop treating users like thieves and produce something that's useful.
This sounds like more of the famous MS(TM) FUD(TM). Something "supersecret" that's leaked by an anonymous source.
Could this be more of the famous MS(TM) FUD(TM)? Something "supersecret" that's leaked by an anonymous source?
Well, that's very nice. However, the way that Micro$oft operating systems are going, they are expanding faster than hardware. So when they finally get an OS to do all this "worldwide distributiion computing," it will be so big that it hogs all the resources for itself. Plus, there will be a BSOD every 5 seconds.
That's why modern software engineering is based on the concept of modules. In Software Engineering 101 we begin to learn how to take a complex problem and break it down to component parts, so that each resulting module has a clear cut function.
What you do then is to take each of these modules, define its input requirements and output format. After that, you program each module as a self-contained unit and test them thoroughly.
Since the early '70s many excellent books have been written on good programming practices. Unfortunately such sound advices are still largely ignored in this time and day.
That's why modern software engineering is based on the concept of modules. In Software Engineering 101 we begin to learn how to take a complex problem and break it down to component parts, so that each resulting module has a clear cut function.
What you do then is to take each of these modules, define its input requirements and output format. After that, you program each module as a self-contained unit and test them thoroughly.
Since the early '70s many excellent books have been written on good programming practices. Unfortunately such sound advices are still largely ignored in this time and day.
The Whois database should stay public because it is the only way a person can track down a hoaxer or a fraudster.
Recently I have received a spam regarding some kind of "pre-registration" scheme of new top level domain names with a link to a website. Now how do I know if this is for real, or just another scam (e.g. e-mail address harvesting)? How else can one start investigating other than going to the Whois records?
Humans are an exception. Rather than evolving to fit the niches, we just make the niches fit us instead. Not that the Bengal tigers are bad, but they just can't stand up to the kind of environmental changes wrought by humans on side and wanton killings on the other.
Translate that into the computer world would be akin to making every user a Linux geek by a variety of means.
In the old days, a monitor is a small resident program on a computer that lets an operator to examine the status of the machine. For example, to look at the contents of registers or to modify them, or to dump memory out to a display somewhere.