Battery life iBook: about 4,5 hours, Dell: about 4 hours. Memory needed to run MS Word properly: Apple: 384 Mb (according to sales guy. costing an additional USD 100), Dell: 128 Mb (included).
802.11 not inluded in any of the configurations at that price. Of course there was no tweaking necessary for OSX or XP to "get it to run with portable hardware".
Time to boot iBook and start MS Word: about 150 secs, Dell: about 45 secs.
In addition to the article it would have been interesting if someone put together a test and compared "back for the buck" ratios of different platforms.
I recently bought an iBook and a Dell laptop for about the same price. The iBook lags behind in almost all applications and also takes longer to boot. I guess in the end, it is the design that you pay for when buying a Mac.
I got the basic model of the iBook (USD 999). While speaking to the apple sales guy on the phone(the intenet store crashed) he tells me that the laptop will be "almost unusable" in that configuration. I need to upgrade the memory to at least 384 Mb of RAM for it to boot properly.
Having used both a $999 Apple laptop and a $999 intel based laptop I can safely say that you get most bang for the buck buying the intel based one...
How stupid is tree sitting? These clueless idiots don't realize that trees are a plant and you can grow more?
They are not as clueless as you are, that's for sure. Chopping down a large part of a forest will destroy the habitat for animals and other species living there, some of which may be very rare.
If you would have read their weblog you would have known more about why they are protesting.
I have heard about them when their offices were raided by 70 officials of the Swedish court, acting on behalf of Microsoft and three other software companies.
Aberdeen Research Group has this to say about open source and Linux security:
Open Source and Linux: 2002 Poster Children for Security Problems
November 12, 2002 Open source software is now the major source of elevated security vulnerabilities for IT buyers. Security advisories from Cert for the first 10 months of 2002 show that open source and Linux software accounted for more than half of all advisories. The poster child for security glitches is no longer Microsoft; this label now belongs to open source and Linux software suppliers.
After all your old games will work flawlessly with such a machine compared to the hassles of getting director-based games to run on Linux.
Why you have to reboot you Windows XP machine is a mystery to me. I have used it for some time now and have no trouble whatsoever. And my PC is loaded with development stuff for work.
I recently bought the basic iBook model (700 Mhz G3, 128Mb ram) and it feels slower than my 400 Mhz PII with Win2K. Talking to apple they tell me that 128Mb "makes your machine almost unusable". Jeez!
But after putting in another 256 Mb of RAM the machine seems faster, but still sluggish compared to a similarly priced PC.
There is already a good start in the open source initiatives. This has eliminated a huge part of the costs that are associated with "joining the internet".
Developing countries do not primarily require enormous computation power for research etc. The need to be part of the international community and be able to exchange ideas with other entities using the internet. This can be achieved on hardware that most people in the northern part of the hemisphere consider out of date.
What is required:
1. Client hardware (donate "old computers" to developing countries) 2. Client software (open source->low cost) 3. Infrastructure (i.e. internet access and networks)
Number 1 & 2 can be achieved today.
How can low cost infrastructure be provided to developing countries? In the form of development aid?
Please note that they are using Lotus Domino as their web server. This means that there are no physical directories that you can chmod or "look into".
The URL contains the Domino internal document ID (similar to a GUID) and I still can not understand how Reuters "guessed" that. Sounds to me like this is an internal leak...
I have been using Windows for a couple of years now and have never experienced any problems even though I have been using the computer for development and have a ton of applications running on it.
I use windows update frequently and it has never failed.
What did happen though is when I tried Mandrake last year my computer froze after booting KDE and I had to redo the installation to get it right.
This has been available in europe for quite some time now. In sweden the service is cheap (ca 15 cents per search), and you can access it through a web or wap interface. Using the web interface you will get a nice zoomable map that displays the location of your friends (they have to opt-in).
Last time I tried though the map indicted that one of my friends was in the middle of a lake when he in fact was miles away from the indicated position. I guess it will take some tuning to get it right.
Of course properly written functionality test scripts (doing what the user does) will find most bugs. The downside is that it is boring to follow test scripts manually.
My company has been successful implementing automated functionality tests with Rational Robot (part of teamtest). If you just take the time to define proper test scripts you can easily redo all functionality tests on various platforms (if you use VMWare or similar sw to simulate different platforms) at the click of a button.
This saves time every release as the developers can focus on finding the really tough bugs instead of running boring functionality tests again.
That's true. But you also have to concider that there are more professional people who know VB than Java. So, to set up a team of 10 experienced VB developers will still be cheaper than setting up a team of 10 experienced Java or C++ developers.
Let's say that these two teams will solve the problem in the same amount of time. In that case you will have solved the problem for a lower cost using the experienced VB developers.
If you take license costs for the development tools into consideration VB will be even cheaper in comparison. So, from a price/performance ratio I still consider it hard to beat.
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Battery life iBook: about 4,5 hours, Dell: about 4 hours. Memory needed to run MS Word properly: Apple: 384 Mb (according to sales guy. costing an additional USD 100), Dell: 128 Mb (included).
802.11 not inluded in any of the configurations at that price. Of course there was no tweaking necessary for OSX or XP to "get it to run with portable hardware".
Time to boot iBook and start MS Word: about 150 secs, Dell: about 45 secs.
Why not put them in jail and improve the US world record in imprisonment statistics?
In addition to the article it would have been interesting if someone put together a test and compared "back for the buck" ratios of different platforms.
I recently bought an iBook and a Dell laptop for about the same price. The iBook lags behind in almost all applications and also takes longer to boot. I guess in the end, it is the design that you pay for when buying a Mac.
I got the basic model of the iBook (USD 999). While speaking to the apple sales guy on the phone(the intenet store crashed) he tells me that the laptop will be "almost unusable" in that configuration. I need to upgrade the memory to at least 384 Mb of RAM for it to boot properly.
Having used both a $999 Apple laptop and a $999 intel based laptop I can safely say that you get most bang for the buck buying the intel based one...
He is also trying to sell the concept of a film at this address
Why don't we just ask him what he is up to? His email address is: dervoron@linkeseite.zzn.com
They are not as clueless as you are, that's for sure. Chopping down a large part of a forest will destroy the habitat for animals and other species living there, some of which may be very rare.
If you would have read their weblog you would have known more about why they are protesting.
Read more on this link.
Aberdeen Research Group has this to say about open source and Linux security:
Open Source and Linux: 2002 Poster Children for Security Problems
November 12, 2002
Open source software is now the major source of elevated security vulnerabilities for IT buyers. Security advisories from Cert for the first 10 months of 2002 show that open source and Linux software accounted for more than half of all advisories. The poster child for security glitches is no longer Microsoft; this label now belongs to open source and Linux software suppliers.
Read more here
Why not let them use an old PC with Windows 98?
After all your old games will work flawlessly with such a machine compared to the hassles of getting director-based games to run on Linux.
Why you have to reboot you Windows XP machine is a mystery to me. I have used it for some time now and have no trouble whatsoever. And my PC is loaded with development stuff for work.
I recently bought the basic iBook model (700 Mhz G3, 128Mb ram) and it feels slower than my 400 Mhz PII with Win2K. Talking to apple they tell me that 128Mb "makes your machine almost unusable". Jeez!
But after putting in another 256 Mb of RAM the machine seems faster, but still sluggish compared to a similarly priced PC.
There is already a good start in the open source initiatives. This has eliminated a huge part of the costs that are associated with "joining the internet".
Developing countries do not primarily require enormous computation power for research etc. The need to be part of the international community and be able to exchange ideas with other entities using the internet. This can be achieved on hardware that most people in the northern part of the hemisphere consider out of date.
What is required:
1. Client hardware (donate "old computers" to developing countries)
2. Client software (open source->low cost)
3. Infrastructure (i.e. internet access and networks)
Number 1 & 2 can be achieved today.
How can low cost infrastructure be provided to developing countries? In the form of development aid?
Did you read the original post?
"Java is not currently an option for the high-performance numerical and immersive graphical aspect of our applications"
Why is it that Java on IBM/Sun always seem to require hefty amounts of hardware to get any performance to speak of?
Is it just me or does someone else see a pattern here?
Maybe if you type really fast?
Please note that they are using Lotus Domino as their web server. This means that there are no physical directories that you can chmod or "look into".
The URL contains the Domino internal document ID (similar to a GUID) and I still can not understand how Reuters "guessed" that. Sounds to me like this is an internal leak...
I have been using Windows for a couple of years now and have never experienced any problems even though I have been using the computer for development and have a ton of applications running on it.
I use windows update frequently and it has never failed.
What did happen though is when I tried Mandrake last year my computer froze after booting KDE and I had to redo the installation to get it right.
This has been available in europe for quite some time now. In sweden the service is cheap (ca 15 cents per search), and you can access it through a web or wap interface. Using the web interface you will get a nice zoomable map that displays the location of your friends (they have to opt-in).
Last time I tried though the map indicted that one of my friends was in the middle of a lake when he in fact was miles away from the indicated position. I guess it will take some tuning to get it right.
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Of course properly written functionality test scripts (doing what the user does) will find most bugs. The downside is that it is boring to follow test scripts manually.
My company has been successful implementing automated functionality tests with Rational Robot (part of teamtest). If you just take the time to define proper test scripts you can easily redo all functionality tests on various platforms (if you use VMWare or similar sw to simulate different platforms) at the click of a button.
This saves time every release as the developers can focus on finding the really tough bugs instead of running boring functionality tests again.
But aren't women from Venus?
From the article: "The crew will have to be specially selected to be able to cope. Should it be a mixed crew or all men, or all women? "
For some reason I think that it shouldn't be all women... Maybe one geek guy and the rest of the crew women?
Make sure you read the entire contents of the EULA before continuing.
Good Luck!
That's true. But you also have to concider that there are more professional people who know VB than Java. So, to set up a team of 10 experienced VB developers will still be cheaper than setting up a team of 10 experienced Java or C++ developers.
Let's say that these two teams will solve the problem in the same amount of time. In that case you will have solved the problem for a lower cost using the experienced VB developers.
If you take license costs for the development tools into consideration VB will be even cheaper in comparison. So, from a price/performance ratio I still consider it hard to beat.
From a price/performance standpoint that is exactly why you should go for VB. VB programmers are chaper than Ferrari-owners...
Let me shoot you in your foot next time. I aim better.
Is there anything that works with Mozilla?