Eclipse has its strong points, but some people (like me) just don't like it. I can't really say why i don't like it, i guess it just doesn't feel right to me. I do like NetBeans a lot though. NetBeans looks and behaves more like a real OS X application than Eclipse IMO.
And if you're new to Swing development, Matisse (the GUI designer in NetBeans) really helps a lot... it makes it easy to develop java GUI's in the same way that Visual Studio makes it easy to develop winforms GUI's.
If you're a java developer (or are interested in getting started with Java) on OS X, i highly recommend giving NetBeans a shot. It's free, open source, easy to use and powerful.
note: i have nothing to do with the NetBeans project, i just think it's a great free IDE that deserves as much attention as Eclipse.
the golden ratio stuff is interesting, but don't think the Nano isn't gonna sell well because of a different ratio... they're actually shipping 100,000 of these each day
ok... some guy provides copyrighted material so it can be used with iPods... in what way is this an apple story? Should a story be posted everytime someone releases an mp3 of a copyrighted song because it can be used on an iPod?
how exactly is this gonna make the choice between Leopard or Vista (oh wait... one of the 7 different versions of it) any easier?
i'm sure MS has some brilliant people working there... unfortunately none of them are actually running the business or taking care of the marketing of it.
... until developers can get fired for having certain things not working correctly or good enough. KDE and Gnome are both very close to being good enough for every possible type of user. They just lack the finishing touch. And that stuff is hard to code... not because it's difficult but because it's boring and tedious. Developers working for Apple have to do this because they know that if they don't, they _will_ lose their jobs. Same goes for developers working for Microsoft. If they don't get it working the way they've been told it should be, they're in trouble.
In the OSS world it's different. A lot of these developers are volunteers, and are scratching an itch. They are gonna be working on stuff they actually enjoy working on because hey, it's their free time. And who could blame them? Why should they work on boring stuff in their free time? Of course there are also paid developers working on KDE and Gnome. But i have never heard of any of them getting fired for not putting on that finishing touch for their latest release. And that is the reason why every year it's the year of Linux On The Desktop, and it never actually is.
Apple is luring Windows users to OS X despite the Windows monopoly. Linux should've been able to do this as well.. they sure have had enough time to get it done (more than Apple has spent on OS X).
as long as Red Hat is opposed to distributing Mono, Beagle (written in C#) will never be in the default Gnome Desktop... at least not the one Red Hat will ship. So who knows... there may be another high profile fork (red hat gnome vs novell gnome) coming up soon.
Sure, a lot of people are like you and prefer to buy the actual CD. There are however also people like me... if i buy 10 albums in a store it costs me 150$ while it would only cost me 100$ on iTunes. But if i were to buy them in the store, i would also have to take the time go to the store to pick them up, and after that i'd have to rip the CDs so i can transfer them to my iPod. After that, the CD are put away and the next time i'll use them is if i want to rip them again. So for me, iTunes is not only cheaper, it is also more convenient than buying actual CDs because it takes me less time, and i don't have a bunch of CD's lying around. I also take weekly backups of my iTunes music library on a seperate harddrive so the possibility of losing my tracks is rather small.
oh and yes i know i can only listen to my iTunes tracks on 5 concurrent pcs... but seriously, i only have the songs on my iMac and on my iPod. So that only counts as one Authorized Computer because iPods don't count towards your authorized computer total. To me, the DRM is not an issue and if it was, i could remove it with Hymn
My iMac G5 arrived yesterday. I haven't had much time to play around with it but so far i'm very impressed with it. OS X is a bit weird at first, but after a short while you'll feel very comfortable with it.
You're probably gonna get a lot of "wait for the new product announcements" or "wait for Tiger" comments, but seriously, why should you wait? New products might be announced next week... maybe the week after that, maybe the month after that, hell you might end up waiting until June. Or you could just buy one now, and you'll be sure that whatever you buy will most likely still run the latest versions of OS X and other software in 4 years time.
i don't blame him at all... but if you consider how he reacted for instance when Linus started using Bitkeeper for his source control (never mind that there are open source alternatives... if Linus doesn't think they're up to the job it really doesn't matter if there are) you gotta admit that this is somewhat odd for someone who's always been extremely uptight about the whole being Free thing.
i just wonder why he thinks all code should be Free, but art and music don't have to be that way all of the sudden. to me this just seems like a double standard.
stallman wants all code to be free... but he wouldn't mind music and art to be non-free?
in what way does a coder differ from a graphics artist? according to stallman's views, should a graphics artist not be able to freely obtain the art of a game so he could modify it, without having to pay for it? after all, that is what he demands of software. it has to be free so a coder is free to change it without having to pay for it. does he have double standards?
note: i like free software, but i don't feel that every piece of software that i use should be free. i just think it's a little bit odd that stallman is using double standards.
...the ISP was contacted about the money through an email with the subject "YOU HAVE JUST WON 1 BILLION DOLLARS!!!" which they obviously deleted, and now they can't receive their money.
from the article: "By exploiting all vulnerabilities discovered in SP2 by Finjan, attackers can silently and remotely take over an SP2 machine when the user simply browses a Web page,"
gee... why am i not surprised that Internet Explorer once again introduces huge security problems?
allthough i must admit... SP2 has had a good run... most of the recent security problems in XP/IE were non-issues in SP2. Too bad it couldn't last longer.
you're right about all those things... but it gets tedious to implement the same logic (eventhough it's just presentation logic) more than once. I don't like UI code, to me it's the most boring part of application development. It would be very nice if i'd only have to write that code once and have it work on both Windows and Linux. Now i have to do this boring work twice, once in SWF, and once in GTK#
i can definitely understand that Mono/GTK# isn't ready for that yet... i know they could definitely use more developers, and that's not always easy for an open source project. But what bothers me is that the Mono developers are always claiming that Mono/GTK# is the answer to the cross platform problem and that it's ready for it when pretty basic GTK# code doesn't even run on on Windows without crashing.
Instead of doing so many interviews and posting on Slashdot, perhaps they should actually try to fix those things and make their software do what they claim it does.
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Eclipse has its strong points, but some people (like me) just don't like it. I can't really say why i don't like it, i guess it just doesn't feel right to me. I do like NetBeans a lot though. NetBeans looks and behaves more like a real OS X application than Eclipse IMO.
And if you're new to Swing development, Matisse (the GUI designer in NetBeans) really helps a lot... it makes it easy to develop java GUI's in the same way that Visual Studio makes it easy to develop winforms GUI's.
If you're a java developer (or are interested in getting started with Java) on OS X, i highly recommend giving NetBeans a shot. It's free, open source, easy to use and powerful.
note: i have nothing to do with the NetBeans project, i just think it's a great free IDE that deserves as much attention as Eclipse.
considering the rate at which new debian releases come out, i'm sure debian will be safe for years to come ;)
the golden ratio stuff is interesting, but don't think the Nano isn't gonna sell well because of a different ratio... they're actually shipping 100,000 of these each day
see this: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1422/
ok... some guy provides copyrighted material so it can be used with iPods... in what way is this an apple story? Should a story be posted everytime someone releases an mp3 of a copyrighted song because it can be used on an iPod?
how exactly is this gonna make the choice between Leopard or Vista (oh wait... one of the 7 different versions of it) any easier?
i'm sure MS has some brilliant people working there... unfortunately none of them are actually running the business or taking care of the marketing of it.
yea, just think of all that potential revenue coming from those millions of SCO customers
... until developers can get fired for having certain things not working correctly or good enough. KDE and Gnome are both very close to being good enough for every possible type of user. They just lack the finishing touch. And that stuff is hard to code... not because it's difficult but because it's boring and tedious. Developers working for Apple have to do this because they know that if they don't, they _will_ lose their jobs. Same goes for developers working for Microsoft. If they don't get it working the way they've been told it should be, they're in trouble.
In the OSS world it's different. A lot of these developers are volunteers, and are scratching an itch. They are gonna be working on stuff they actually enjoy working on because hey, it's their free time. And who could blame them? Why should they work on boring stuff in their free time? Of course there are also paid developers working on KDE and Gnome. But i have never heard of any of them getting fired for not putting on that finishing touch for their latest release. And that is the reason why every year it's the year of Linux On The Desktop, and it never actually is.
Apple is luring Windows users to OS X despite the Windows monopoly. Linux should've been able to do this as well.. they sure have had enough time to get it done (more than Apple has spent on OS X).
From TFA: "SCO Has a Customer-Driven Roadmap"
as in: We drive our customers away, thus no new features on the roadmap!
as long as Red Hat is opposed to distributing Mono, Beagle (written in C#) will never be in the default Gnome Desktop... at least not the one Red Hat will ship. So who knows... there may be another high profile fork (red hat gnome vs novell gnome) coming up soon.
don't create laws to allow patenting of software
... in a week when the first person finishes compiling it ;)
Apple Good, Microsoft Bad,
OS X Good, Windows Bad,
PowerPC Good, Intel Bad
everybody clear on this?
Sure, a lot of people are like you and prefer to buy the actual CD. There are however also people like me... if i buy 10 albums in a store it costs me 150$ while it would only cost me 100$ on iTunes. But if i were to buy them in the store, i would also have to take the time go to the store to pick them up, and after that i'd have to rip the CDs so i can transfer them to my iPod. After that, the CD are put away and the next time i'll use them is if i want to rip them again. So for me, iTunes is not only cheaper, it is also more convenient than buying actual CDs because it takes me less time, and i don't have a bunch of CD's lying around. I also take weekly backups of my iTunes music library on a seperate harddrive so the possibility of losing my tracks is rather small.
oh and yes i know i can only listen to my iTunes tracks on 5 concurrent pcs... but seriously, i only have the songs on my iMac and on my iPod. So that only counts as one Authorized Computer because iPods don't count towards your authorized computer total. To me, the DRM is not an issue and if it was, i could remove it with Hymn
yes and when you're done compiling, Longhorn will be out ;)
wow... the name really does reflect the stuff they cover
a story like that is bound to impress the ladies ;)
My iMac G5 arrived yesterday. I haven't had much time to play around with it but so far i'm very impressed with it. OS X is a bit weird at first, but after a short while you'll feel very comfortable with it.
You're probably gonna get a lot of "wait for the new product announcements" or "wait for Tiger" comments, but seriously, why should you wait? New products might be announced next week... maybe the week after that, maybe the month after that, hell you might end up waiting until June. Or you could just buy one now, and you'll be sure that whatever you buy will most likely still run the latest versions of OS X and other software in 4 years time.
i don't blame him at all... but if you consider how he reacted for instance when Linus started using Bitkeeper for his source control (never mind that there are open source alternatives... if Linus doesn't think they're up to the job it really doesn't matter if there are) you gotta admit that this is somewhat odd for someone who's always been extremely uptight about the whole being Free thing.
i just wonder why he thinks all code should be Free, but art and music don't have to be that way all of the sudden. to me this just seems like a double standard.
stallman wants all code to be free... but he wouldn't mind music and art to be non-free?
in what way does a coder differ from a graphics artist? according to stallman's views, should a graphics artist not be able to freely obtain the art of a game so he could modify it, without having to pay for it? after all, that is what he demands of software. it has to be free so a coder is free to change it without having to pay for it. does he have double standards?
note: i like free software, but i don't feel that every piece of software that i use should be free. i just think it's a little bit odd that stallman is using double standards.
it's only a matter of time now before they start cloning the Olsen Twins... not that i would object.
...the ISP was contacted about the money through an email with the subject "YOU HAVE JUST WON 1 BILLION DOLLARS!!!" which they obviously deleted, and now they can't receive their money.
from the article:
"By exploiting all vulnerabilities discovered in SP2 by Finjan, attackers can silently and remotely take over an SP2 machine when the user simply browses a Web page,"
gee... why am i not surprised that Internet Explorer once again introduces huge security problems?
in the meantime, a patch can be downloaded here
allthough i must admit... SP2 has had a good run... most of the recent security problems in XP/IE were non-issues in SP2. Too bad it couldn't last longer.
If you don't know how to use big words, please don't bother trying.
:)
you must be new here
surely you ment hundreds of geeks... let's not get carried away :)
you're right about all those things... but it gets tedious to implement the same logic (eventhough it's just presentation logic) more than once. I don't like UI code, to me it's the most boring part of application development. It would be very nice if i'd only have to write that code once and have it work on both Windows and Linux. Now i have to do this boring work twice, once in SWF, and once in GTK#
i can definitely understand that Mono/GTK# isn't ready for that yet... i know they could definitely use more developers, and that's not always easy for an open source project. But what bothers me is that the Mono developers are always claiming that Mono/GTK# is the answer to the cross platform problem and that it's ready for it when pretty basic GTK# code doesn't even run on on Windows without crashing.
Instead of doing so many interviews and posting on Slashdot, perhaps they should actually try to fix those things and make their software do what they claim it does.