Nah, because Qt isn't free if you want to develop commercial code (see Visual Studio Express or even Microsoft's free standalone compilers for an alternative IDE), and besides, tries to hack C++ for its signals and slots. I like Qt a lot as an open source cross-platform development library, but if you want to develop 1) commercial software 2) pretty much just for Windows (like the guy you're replying to), I don't think it's that competitive. It's a C++ library too, so it doesn't do RAD quite as well.
I'd call any language more popular than Javascript "very popular", yes.
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IMHO, C# also has great developer support in terms of developer environments and e.g. all those dozens and dozens of Channel9 videos, MSDN, their official forums, their newsgroups, etc.
Yes, yes, e.g. Java has too, but I'm not claiming Java isn't a major language.;-)
It's about the training of the consumer to accept upselling to subscription based services.
Hardly, (whoa and why is this modded so high?)
Windows Live would never be able to charge subscription fees for the decoupled software due to the competition. For example, Windows Movie Maker 2 for XP wasn't even bundled, but still available as a free download. They'll never start charging for Live Mail etc, believe me, as little as they'll start charging for usage of IE 8.
From my experience, "normal users" use their ISP's mail accounts, after harassing a friend who knows "computers" to set it up.
Repayment either monetary or via a dinner later.
After these users upgrade to Windows 7, webmail won't suffice, and now they'll (read: their friend) additionally have to download a mail client for the job.
- Dark flow, related to gravity - Dark matter, related to gravity - Dark energy, doesn't interact with any known force... besides gravity. An idea is actually that dark energy *is* part of the law of gravity itself, just not noticed on other scales than cosmological. - Quantum gravity, lacking a theory for - We don't know if gravity can be united with the known fundamental forces of nature - We don't know if the Higgs boson exists, I suppose we hope it does, or the standard model is messed up
Most models passing through expensive modelling schools never even earn enough at modelling jobs to pay back what it cost to go through 'school' and keep their portfolio maintained. The VAST majority never do better than a department store catalog job. And as they age and become less marketable... long before that, in most cases, they find another job.
So most musicians won't be successful enough to live off concert revenue, so what? They can get jobs like everyone else, and can join the ranks of: most poets, most authors, most fencers, most basketball players, most playwrights, most actors, most open source contributors...
Not that it's a bad thing in trying to make it easier to make a living on more kinds of work. That's actually what society should strive to, not stifle the chances. Raising hurdles in building economies is only detrimental to the society and tax payers like you in the long run.
horrible? I thought it was really *really* good. Not only does it help kill the stereotype, but makes the Mac commercials much less effective as well.
Exactly! I'm getting "only on Slashdot" feelings about some comments here.:-S
I'm planning for my first MacBook in a near future, but despite this, I have to commend Microsoft for getting a commercial out that makes Apple's predecessor look plain silly/stupid/childish in comparison.
OK, to be perectly clear here -- what message Microsoft is trying to get across, is that Microsoft doesn't cater to a "kind" of user, like Apple implies in their commercial, but try to cater for all kinds. And in the process of doing so, doesn't try to smear other software platforms, but just speaks for themselves.
I think the commercial is great, especially compared to the offensive-defensive Apple commercial.
A driver should not cause the OS to crash. Your printer should be able to load its driver in a manner such that if it catches fire the kernel stays alive and can tell you so.
Tm
Vista actually improved in that area, at least as for graphics card drivers. More can/must now be done in user space. I actually wonder what kind of driver this is about? Sound card? I mean, it sounds a bit far fetched that connecting an USB device like an iPod should require a Windows kernel driver. Or maybe it doesn't, but it still is one?
I'd be much more interested in hearing the why's about that than the old arguments about operating systems, any operating systems, and kernel drivers.
I tend to have the home button set to a search engine or some portal-ish page, but yeah, when it comes down to it, the home button is actually just a hyperlink. Nothing more. It's a button which follows a link. It could just as well simply be a bookmark in the toolbar.
With "features in FF", I assume you mean "features in FF extensions"? Because a bare bones FF is anything but truly remarkable when you compare it with the competition. My point with this is that if Chrome adds extension support, or Opera does in e.g. version 10, and a sizable crowd starts developing a dozen of varying "killer extensions", then I don't see FF as at all having any special edge.
Right now, what I think is helping FF tremendously is its extension support, combined with that it was the first widely available open source browser that didn't try to be something else.
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Oh and "Windows NT 6.0" above of course stand for my personal pet OS I just happened to name the same thing as Microsoft's well-known OS. It's of course based on Linux. *looks straight into eyes*
Yep.
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I wonder if Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Opera, Apple and others could get together
Earlier I believe Opera tried to mask its ua string, but it does this no longer by default.
Judging by the rest of your post, what you really mean is that the address bar does belong with the page. But so do tabs.
Hm.. It can also be seen as tabs not belonging to a page, but rather being a controller to display what belongs on a page. And then, once again, the address bar should be below the tab bar.;)
In other news, Slashdot has among the worst international character support I'm aware of. Come on, you've had years to fix this aspect of Slash? Why not fix that before doing all those fancy-schmancy-Ajax:y things? This isn't even Unicode, it's part of a pretty standard Western alphabet. Bah.
Which begs the question, why hasn't Mozilla put more effort in making Firefox easy for enterprise users to deploy?
Because Mozilla don't want to support ActiveX and such junk due to the security problems? That'll lead to the aformentioned problems with e.g. weird Intranet sites and the likes. Or what do you mean -- that Mozilla is lacking good support channels for enterprise users? That Mozilla is lacking good installers for enterprise users?
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Nah, because Qt isn't free if you want to develop commercial code (see Visual Studio Express or even Microsoft's free standalone compilers for an alternative IDE), and besides, tries to hack C++ for its signals and slots. I like Qt a lot as an open source cross-platform development library, but if you want to develop 1) commercial software 2) pretty much just for Windows (like the guy you're replying to), I don't think it's that competitive. It's a C++ library too, so it doesn't do RAD quite as well.
I'd call any language more popular than Javascript "very popular", yes.
IMHO, C# also has great developer support in terms of developer environments and e.g. all those dozens and dozens of Channel9 videos, MSDN, their official forums, their newsgroups, etc.
Yes, yes, e.g. Java has too, but I'm not claiming Java isn't a major language. ;-)
Because they're now shipping an upgrade to Windows Live Mail from Outlook Express if downloading security updates?
It'll perhaps be hard now to find a good replacement due to backwards compatibility needs.
It's about the training of the consumer to accept upselling to subscription based services.
Hardly, (whoa and why is this modded so high?)
Windows Live would never be able to charge subscription fees for the decoupled software due to the competition. For example, Windows Movie Maker 2 for XP wasn't even bundled, but still available as a free download. They'll never start charging for Live Mail etc, believe me, as little as they'll start charging for usage of IE 8.
From my experience, "normal users" use their ISP's mail accounts, after harassing a friend who knows "computers" to set it up.
Repayment either monetary or via a dinner later.
After these users upgrade to Windows 7, webmail won't suffice, and now they'll (read: their friend) additionally have to download a mail client for the job.
Heh, yes, it's starting to pile up, isn't it?
- Dark flow, related to gravity
- Dark matter, related to gravity
- Dark energy, doesn't interact with any known force... besides gravity. An idea is actually that dark energy *is* part of the law of gravity itself, just not noticed on other scales than cosmological.
- Quantum gravity, lacking a theory for
- We don't know if gravity can be united with the known fundamental forces of nature
- We don't know if the Higgs boson exists, I suppose we hope it does, or the standard model is messed up
Having said that, business ethics is of course important. That's where RIAA's main issue lies, IMHO.
Most models passing through expensive modelling schools never even earn enough at modelling jobs to pay back what it cost to go through 'school' and keep their portfolio maintained. The VAST majority never do better than a department store catalog job. And as they age and become less marketable... long before that, in most cases, they find another job.
So most musicians won't be successful enough to live off concert revenue, so what? They can get jobs like everyone else, and can join the ranks of: most poets, most authors, most fencers, most basketball players, most playwrights, most actors, most open source contributors...
Not that it's a bad thing in trying to make it easier to make a living on more kinds of work. That's actually what society should strive to, not stifle the chances. Raising hurdles in building economies is only detrimental to the society and tax payers like you in the long run.
horrible? I thought it was really *really* good. Not only does it help kill the stereotype, but makes the Mac commercials much less effective as well.
Exactly! I'm getting "only on Slashdot" feelings about some comments here. :-S
I'm planning for my first MacBook in a near future, but despite this, I have to commend Microsoft for getting a commercial out that makes Apple's predecessor look plain silly/stupid/childish in comparison.
OK, to be perectly clear here -- what message Microsoft is trying to get across, is that Microsoft doesn't cater to a "kind" of user, like Apple implies in their commercial, but try to cater for all kinds. And in the process of doing so, doesn't try to smear other software platforms, but just speaks for themselves.
I think the commercial is great, especially compared to the offensive-defensive Apple commercial.
And nobody will care, because the thing is named "PC-BSD". What is this, 1985?
Close, I think it's 1984 these days. :-(
Oh and yeah, sound cards must also now (in Vista) run more in user space.
That actually caused a ton of people to complain on Microsoft as it could no longer as easily do Creative EAX. Damn if you do, damn if you don't.
A driver should not cause the OS to crash. Your printer should be able to load its driver in a manner such that if it catches fire the kernel stays alive and can tell you so.
Tm
Vista actually improved in that area, at least as for graphics card drivers. More can/must now be done in user space. I actually wonder what kind of driver this is about? Sound card? I mean, it sounds a bit far fetched that connecting an USB device like an iPod should require a Windows kernel driver. Or maybe it doesn't, but it still is one?
I'd be much more interested in hearing the why's about that than the old arguments about operating systems, any operating systems, and kernel drivers.
Because the Windows registry is an absolute pain.
Huh, what? It's no harder for an installer to remove registry entries than it is for either an installer or application to add them.
Exactly, very weird article, I tagged it "badarticle". :-p
I was left clueless of what should supersede it according to Samsung. USB sticks? Internet downloads? Holodiscs?
I tend to have the home button set to a search engine or some portal-ish page, but yeah, when it comes down to it, the home button is actually just a hyperlink. Nothing more. It's a button which follows a link. It could just as well simply be a bookmark in the toolbar.
With "features in FF", I assume you mean "features in FF extensions"? Because a bare bones FF is anything but truly remarkable when you compare it with the competition. My point with this is that if Chrome adds extension support, or Opera does in e.g. version 10, and a sizable crowd starts developing a dozen of varying "killer extensions", then I don't see FF as at all having any special edge.
Right now, what I think is helping FF tremendously is its extension support, combined with that it was the first widely available open source browser that didn't try to be something else.
Oh and "Windows NT 6.0" above of course stand for my personal pet OS I just happened to name the same thing as Microsoft's well-known OS. It's of course based on Linux. *looks straight into eyes*
Yep.
I wonder if Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Opera, Apple and others could get together
Earlier I believe Opera tried to mask its ua string, but it does this no longer by default.
Opera/9.52 (Windows NT 6.0; U; sv)
Woot!
Judging by the rest of your post, what you really mean is that the address bar does belong with the page. But so do tabs.
Hm.. It can also be seen as tabs not belonging to a page, but rather being a controller to display what belongs on a page. And then, once again, the address bar should be below the tab bar. ;)
In other news, Slashdot has among the worst international character support I'm aware of. Come on, you've had years to fix this aspect of Slash? Why not fix that before doing all those fancy-schmancy-Ajax:y things? This isn't even Unicode, it's part of a pretty standard Western alphabet. Bah.
Hmm, good question. I suppose only SchrÃdinger's Cat knows for sure. :-/
Which begs the question, why hasn't Mozilla put more effort in making Firefox easy for enterprise users to deploy?
Because Mozilla don't want to support ActiveX and such junk due to the security problems? That'll lead to the aformentioned problems with e.g. weird Intranet sites and the likes. Or what do you mean -- that Mozilla is lacking good support channels for enterprise users? That Mozilla is lacking good installers for enterprise users?
Or set it to "wannafuck" and hope the one on the other end sounds like a hot member of the opposite sex.
A bit risky plan though.