You need to take off your blinkers. Windows is a great platform for developers and has been stable for around 20 years. Can't say the same for either Mac or Linux.
Wow! I stand corrected. Guess I don't know as much as I thought I did. I always assumed that Linux and OSX were proper grown up client operating systems - apparently not. Makes Windows look pretty good. Developers Developers Developers!
The author implies that adobe can't use gpu for flash on mac. Why not? Is he getting confused with iphone which is different from the mac, at least the last time I checked.
Randall C. Kennedy was an InfoWorld blogger known for his outrageous, inflammatory posts. Often these posts appeared to disregard the facts, overinflate the issues, or otherwise ignore the tenets of basic journalism in favor of sensationalism and manufactured furor.
Combine this with the fact that the guy is already very comfortable using a pseudonym then I heartily recommend him for the post of Slashdot editor!
I don't think you've got this UAC thing straight yet.
I've never seen an app manifested as require-admin that didn't really need admin. If an app is not manifested then it runs virtualized and accesses to restricted areas get redirected to the virtual store. I think that most slashdotters see more UAC than more typical users because they are called in to do system maintenance.
My wife got a Vista laptop around 9 months ago. A few months after she first got it I asked her what she thought about UAC. She replied, "What's UAC?" When I showed her she said that she'd seen that watching me using my machine, but never on her own machine.
Is it really the case that 32 bit apps can be hard to run on 64 bit linux? I find that a little hard to believe. If it's true then it's a bit embarrassing because those supposed incompetent fools from redmond have been doing it on their 64 bit OS for at least five years!
Would somebody like to give a convincing reason for running 64 bit browser and extensions rather than the 32 bit versions? I can't work out why one would want to do so.
Anyone who is capable of using these tools is capable of finding them. Personally, on all machines that I use I copy a folder containing around 200 useful utilities (e.g. grep, ls, cat, cp, bzip2, cpuz, console, depends, ps*, diff, gawk, gzip, less, strings, rapidee, sleep, tar, touch, whoami, whois, zip) and then add it to the path. But, I don't think my mum's going to be using psexec anytime soon.
Let me see if I've got this straight. A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
Well, I think Microsoft have a pretty good track record. I regard both Windows client and Office as excellent. Windows server is darn good these days too.
And as for Apple I think they never seem to get critical judgement. For example the iPod has been widely lauded as a master piece of UI design. But I find it dreadful to use. I'm sorry, but a wheel is not an effective input device for anything other than steering a car! The sad thing is that other companies copy them but they could do much better.
But that's not the main point here. I have a big gripe with a lot of tech commentators who obsess about innovation when it seems to me to be only one part of what goes into good technology engineering.
I didn't say that innovation wasn't important. Both innovation and polishing are also important.
I'm happy for you that you work at a company that recognises intrinsic value. I hope that you get paid with real money and not intrinsic money!
I don't understand why people think that making really good products that aren't wildly innovating is
just rehashing and re-marketing others ideas
. It's not easy to do it well. In fact it's bloody difficuly to do it well. And it certainly won't be done well by accountants - don't you think that the likes of Microsoft and Apple have an awful lot of very fine engineers on their books?
So what? They aren't in the business of doing innovation. They are polishers. So are Apple for what it's worth. You don't have to innovate to be successful. What is so important about innovation?
What a truly lame story. The biggest flaw with the moderation system is that I can't use my mod points to moderate on the actual stories as well as the comments!
Yeah my position is pretty indefensible isn't it! Still, that past participle just sounds awful to my British ears! I just haven't gotten used to it yet!
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Since the most advanced device, pelamis, appears not to work at all this all seems moot right now.
You need to take off your blinkers. Windows is a great platform for developers and has been stable for around 20 years. Can't say the same for either Mac or Linux.
Wow! I stand corrected. Guess I don't know as much as I thought I did. I always assumed that Linux and OSX were proper grown up client operating systems - apparently not. Makes Windows look pretty good. Developers Developers Developers!
The author implies that adobe can't use gpu for flash on mac. Why not? Is he getting confused with iphone which is different from the mac, at least the last time I checked.
Guess it actually had a different destiny!
Combine this with the fact that the guy is already very comfortable using a pseudonym then I heartily recommend him for the post of Slashdot editor!
I don't think you've got this UAC thing straight yet.
I've never seen an app manifested as require-admin that didn't really need admin. If an app is not manifested then it runs virtualized and accesses to restricted areas get redirected to the virtual store. I think that most slashdotters see more UAC than more typical users because they are called in to do system maintenance.
My wife got a Vista laptop around 9 months ago. A few months after she first got it I asked her what she thought about UAC. She replied, "What's UAC?" When I showed her she said that she'd seen that watching me using my machine, but never on her own machine.
OK, so I'm out of my mind. Thanks for letting me know.
It's a good point you make though, everyone knows that Apple has a fantastic track record when it comes to security.
Yeah, because turning away customers is always a sure-fire guarantee of success in business!!
Is it really the case that 32 bit apps can be hard to run on 64 bit linux? I find that a little hard to believe. If it's true then it's a bit embarrassing because those supposed incompetent fools from redmond have been doing it on their 64 bit OS for at least five years!
On x64 32 bit apps do take full advantage of hardware so long as they don't need more than 4GB memory. Or am I missing something?
Would somebody like to give a convincing reason for running 64 bit browser and extensions rather than the 32 bit versions? I can't work out why one would want to do so.
These are tools for running on Windows!! So, no, they are not ubiquitous.
Anyone who is capable of using these tools is capable of finding them. Personally, on all machines that I use I copy a folder containing around 200 useful utilities (e.g. grep, ls, cat, cp, bzip2, cpuz, console, depends, ps*, diff, gawk, gzip, less, strings, rapidee, sleep, tar, touch, whoami, whois, zip) and then add it to the path. But, I don't think my mum's going to be using psexec anytime soon.
Let me see if I've got this straight. A great set of tools that run on Windows demonstrates how rubbish Windows is. A great set of tools that run on Linux demonstrates how fantastic Linux is.
This sounds a bit like Raymond Chen's post today: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2010/02/09/9960102.aspx.
Why can't they let us decide?!
Er, I guess you've not used the Ribbon, or not used Bluefish perhaps, if you think that their UI is comparable.
Well, I think Microsoft have a pretty good track record. I regard both Windows client and Office as excellent. Windows server is darn good these days too.
And as for Apple I think they never seem to get critical judgement. For example the iPod has been widely lauded as a master piece of UI design. But I find it dreadful to use. I'm sorry, but a wheel is not an effective input device for anything other than steering a car! The sad thing is that other companies copy them but they could do much better.
But that's not the main point here. I have a big gripe with a lot of tech commentators who obsess about innovation when it seems to me to be only one part of what goes into good technology engineering.
I didn't say that innovation wasn't important. Both innovation and polishing are also important.
I'm happy for you that you work at a company that recognises intrinsic value. I hope that you get paid with real money and not intrinsic money!
I don't understand why people think that making really good products that aren't wildly innovating is
just rehashing and re-marketing others ideas
. It's not easy to do it well. In fact it's bloody difficuly to do it well. And it certainly won't be done well by accountants - don't you think that the likes of Microsoft and Apple have an awful lot of very fine engineers on their books?
So what? They aren't in the business of doing innovation. They are polishers. So are Apple for what it's worth. You don't have to innovate to be successful. What is so important about innovation?
What a truly lame story. The biggest flaw with the moderation system is that I can't use my mod points to moderate on the actual stories as well as the comments!
The pass rate seems quite respectable. I'm sure slashdot commenters and editors would have a much worse pass rate!
Yeah my position is pretty indefensible isn't it! Still, that past participle just sounds awful to my British ears! I just haven't gotten used to it yet!
Grammar snobs have sex too!
What the hell kind of word is gotten?! Can't you people learn the language?!!