One problem with subversion is that it stores all its data in a DB. If that DB gets corrupted, you're FUCKED. Repair tools are rudimentary at best, and when I had my DB corruption with it no matter what I tried I could not restore.
You could use 3 channels in a grid pattern and place access points so that APs using the same channel cause no interference to each other. Then, you could use some hardcore APs which provide QOS to wireless clients, so if you're running bittorrent, you get 128K download rate, whereas someone just browsing the web would get the rest of the bandwidth. It's all technical problems that can be solved.
I'm not related to Newegg in any way. I just run one of these at home as file/web/dhcp server, and I think it's freakin' insane that you can buy this kind of barebone so cheap. Add HDD and RAM and you're good to go.
It does not support Unicode. No unicode strings, no unicode regexps. So if you write your apps with l10n/i18n in mind, Java is still your best choice (or.NET/C# if you're on Windows).
Unicode is expected in v2.0, but nobody knows when it will come out.
Plus, the IDE doesn't support code completion, and having worked with code completion for years now I'm now much less productive without it.
Office and OS is hardly ever enough for businesses these days. They want CRM, they want ERP, they want SCM. And these things cost an arm, a leg and a newborn right now. Not because they're that expensive to produce, but because greedy stupid CEOs are pricing themselves out of reach of all but the richest companies.
Having said that, the code that I've seen come from India (our company does outsource strategically insignificant development) and I would never rely on anything that comes out of there. Worst of all, these fellas think they're the best programmers in the world. Copy & paste is OK, the most important thing is to meet the schedule and kiss their bosses ass.
Wait until Indian software companies enter US market. Lots of shitty, poorly made software for the cheap. Seems to work for chinese companies manufacturing goods.
Its APIs were so beautiful, it hurt me to even look at WinAPI again. Cocoa is far less elegant. Plus I think all the "lickable" bullshit looks worse than BeOS UI elements. It had its quirks, yes, but it had a very, very good "feel" to it. You kinda felt you were born and raised on it after 5 minutes of using their UI.
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>> Did you notice after the Soviet Union broke up, how >> most of the good business consultants were ex-KGB. >> That's because the KGB was where a lot of Soviet society's top talent had made its home.
I call bullshit. That's because these people still had a very powerful network of old KGB buddies behind them and knew a lot more than mere mortals possibly could.
Cheap media - 10 years of _guaranteed_ reliability (storage industry radically changes every 10 years) Expensive media - forever (for governments, libraries, archives, motion picture industry, etc.)
If their IT people are anything like US federal employees, there are only two possible outcomes, unfortunately:
1. They fuck everything up beyond any recognintion 2. They fuck everything up and then go back to Microsoft, ready to pay anything MS wants them to pay.
There's no way in heck a large migration like this will succeed without top notch IT people ready to tackle the most dramatic of the scenarios. And governments (of any country) aren't well known for employing top notch IT personnel.
I guess it's that "having sex with prostitutes" part that she's having problems with. Because she obviously has no problem approving murders in Iraq and elsewhere.
Let's fix this shortage of solar cell grade silicon and create another one - of solar cell grade titanium. Titanium is ridiculously difficult and expensive to produce and work with. It's stronger than steel, too, and has much higher melting temperature, so this titanium foil will probably be more expensive than golden foil of the same thickness. This is not to say that technology has no future, but you gotta realize that silicon is the second most abundant mineral on the planet, and titanium is the ninth.
I have PS CS Mac, and I don't see how they expect me to pony up the dough for the upgrade, even though their upgrades are cheap. I'm maybe using 20% of the features right now, and I absolutely don't feel constrained by anything except their RAW converter. But it's unlikely that it will significantly improve, and even if it does, I don't think it will exceed the image quality offered by well known market leaders (Capture One for example). I think a lot of designers will think the same way. Watch Adobe try to pull the same trick as the one Microsoft attempted to pull - subscriptions. Pay us $300 a year and you'll get a new version of photoshop every time it comes out. Needless to say, it's not gonna work. I know designers who are still using PS 3.
The only Yahoo thing I use is Yahoo Finance. They've done a good job there, better than anyone else (although it's arguably a matter of taste). And having Adblock enabled I don't worry much about ads because I don't see any.
Most large apps require installation. Final Cut express does. Photoshop does. PhaseOne CaptureOne does. The list can go on and on. And they really poop their libraries all over your hard drive. Worse yet, on Mac OS X there's no uninstaller. You just drag the corresponding dirs to the trash can. Trouble is, they're in half a dozen different places.
I like the idea of bundles, though, and I like the apps that I can cleanly uninstall by dragging them into the trash can. But, unfortunately, not all apps on the Mac conform to this ideal.
A nice mix between what Mac OS X got right
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A nice mix between what Mac OS X got right and what Windows got right. First part is stolen from Mac OS X, second part (list of installed apps) - from Windows.
Looks very promising overall. Now if it also downloads binary dependencies, I'd say we got a winner. If it doesn't - I'll have to continue using Yum.
Wouldn't it be cool if they released an SDK for indie game studios, and other folks who want to write useful software for this thing. Even better, release UMD recorders and sell UMD media.
But no, this won't happen before hell freezes over, thaws and then freezes again, complete with flying pigs and everything. Except if Microsoft releases a WinCE based portable gaming console.:0)
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Nope. It's using Berkeley DB still.
One problem with subversion is that it stores all its data in a DB. If that DB gets corrupted, you're FUCKED. Repair tools are rudimentary at best, and when I had my DB corruption with it no matter what I tried I could not restore.
You could use 3 channels in a grid pattern and place access points so that APs using the same channel cause no interference to each other. Then, you could use some hardcore APs which provide QOS to wireless clients, so if you're running bittorrent, you get 128K download rate, whereas someone just browsing the web would get the rest of the bandwidth. It's all technical problems that can be solved.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA =0&description=56-110-030&ATT=Barebone+Systems&CMP =KNC-goog13
I'm not related to Newegg in any way. I just run one of these at home as file/web/dhcp server, and I think it's freakin' insane that you can buy this kind of barebone so cheap. Add HDD and RAM and you're good to go.
And no, it doesn't have code completion. Plus, it uses FOX UI toolkit. Why not GTK? I have no idea whatsoever.
It does not support Unicode. No unicode strings, no unicode regexps. So if you write your apps with l10n/i18n in mind, Java is still your best choice (or .NET/C# if you're on Windows).
Unicode is expected in v2.0, but nobody knows when it will come out.
Plus, the IDE doesn't support code completion, and having worked with code completion for years now I'm now much less productive without it.
Next thing you know, they'll sue a certain aged woman for showing her boob on TV in prime time. What the world is coming to?
Office and OS is hardly ever enough for businesses these days. They want CRM, they want ERP, they want SCM. And these things cost an arm, a leg and a newborn right now. Not because they're that expensive to produce, but because greedy stupid CEOs are pricing themselves out of reach of all but the richest companies.
Having said that, the code that I've seen come from India (our company does outsource strategically insignificant development) and I would never rely on anything that comes out of there. Worst of all, these fellas think they're the best programmers in the world. Copy & paste is OK, the most important thing is to meet the schedule and kiss their bosses ass.
Wait until Indian software companies enter US market. Lots of shitty, poorly made software for the cheap. Seems to work for chinese companies manufacturing goods.
MS SharePoint stores _everything_ in SQL, and it's pretty darn zippy.
It actually depends on the type of the grass you burn. With certain types of grass you can forget about the fuel (and car) entirely.
Its APIs were so beautiful, it hurt me to even look at WinAPI again. Cocoa is far less elegant. Plus I think all the "lickable" bullshit looks worse than BeOS UI elements. It had its quirks, yes, but it had a very, very good "feel" to it. You kinda felt you were born and raised on it after 5 minutes of using their UI.
That Windows is better than Linux.
>> Did you notice after the Soviet Union broke up, how
>> most of the good business consultants were ex-KGB.
>> That's because the KGB was where a lot of Soviet society's top talent had made its home.
I call bullshit. That's because these people still had a very powerful network of old KGB buddies behind them and knew a lot more than mere mortals possibly could.
Cheap media - 10 years of _guaranteed_ reliability (storage industry radically changes every 10 years)
Expensive media - forever (for governments, libraries, archives, motion picture industry, etc.)
If their IT people are anything like US federal employees, there are only two possible outcomes, unfortunately:
1. They fuck everything up beyond any recognintion
2. They fuck everything up and then go back to Microsoft, ready to pay anything MS wants them to pay.
There's no way in heck a large migration like this will succeed without top notch IT people ready to tackle the most dramatic of the scenarios. And governments (of any country) aren't well known for employing top notch IT personnel.
I guess it's that "having sex with prostitutes" part that she's having problems with. Because she obviously has no problem approving murders in Iraq and elsewhere.
Let's fix this shortage of solar cell grade silicon and create another one - of solar cell grade titanium. Titanium is ridiculously difficult and expensive to produce and work with. It's stronger than steel, too, and has much higher melting temperature, so this titanium foil will probably be more expensive than golden foil of the same thickness. This is not to say that technology has no future, but you gotta realize that silicon is the second most abundant mineral on the planet, and titanium is the ninth.
I have PS CS Mac, and I don't see how they expect me to pony up the dough for the upgrade, even though their upgrades are cheap. I'm maybe using 20% of the features right now, and I absolutely don't feel constrained by anything except their RAW converter. But it's unlikely that it will significantly improve, and even if it does, I don't think it will exceed the image quality offered by well known market leaders (Capture One for example). I think a lot of designers will think the same way. Watch Adobe try to pull the same trick as the one Microsoft attempted to pull - subscriptions. Pay us $300 a year and you'll get a new version of photoshop every time it comes out. Needless to say, it's not gonna work. I know designers who are still using PS 3.
The only Yahoo thing I use is Yahoo Finance. They've done a good job there, better than anyone else (although it's arguably a matter of taste). And having Adblock enabled I don't worry much about ads because I don't see any.
Most large apps require installation. Final Cut express does. Photoshop does. PhaseOne CaptureOne does. The list can go on and on. And they really poop their libraries all over your hard drive. Worse yet, on Mac OS X there's no uninstaller. You just drag the corresponding dirs to the trash can. Trouble is, they're in half a dozen different places.
I like the idea of bundles, though, and I like the apps that I can cleanly uninstall by dragging them into the trash can. But, unfortunately, not all apps on the Mac conform to this ideal.
A nice mix between what Mac OS X got right and what Windows got right. First part is stolen from Mac OS X, second part (list of installed apps) - from Windows.
Looks very promising overall. Now if it also downloads binary dependencies, I'd say we got a winner. If it doesn't - I'll have to continue using Yum.
You don't have to. It just would be a great thing for indie game publishers.
Wouldn't it be cool if they released an SDK for indie game studios, and other folks who want to write useful software for this thing. Even better, release UMD recorders and sell UMD media.
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But no, this won't happen before hell freezes over, thaws and then freezes again, complete with flying pigs and everything. Except if Microsoft releases a WinCE based portable gaming console.