You really don't see any distinction between a "teen sluts" or MLM email and an email from a real company with a real product? I can't see this at all. I think there is a huge difference even if it's not a product I'm interested in.
I'm actually more annoyed by all the real marketing mail I get since that actually waste tons of paper.
The one thing that drives me crazy on my linux box is how inconsistant cutting and pasting is. Is that just the way it is because of all the different toolkits? Is there any way to make this work better? Other than that I like KDE way better than windows and there are many features I miss even when on OS X.
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>> What would be even better is a miniature nautilus >>window for the open / save dialog. I mean, you >>already have nautilus, why reinvent the wheel with >>a different open/save dialog box?
This is a weakness in every Gui. Why are the open/save boxes so different than the regular file management view? I use Mac OS 9, OS X and KDE every day and WinNT fairly often and have been wondering this for years.
The same place the Perl word processors, spreadsheets, databases, operating systems and real world applications are.
Java's good at different things. Java has been used to create really useful apps like Tomcat. It doesn't have to be good at the exact same tasks as C or C++ to be useful.
Everyone who talks about Java being slow is comparing it to C, I never hear people say Perl is too slow by comparing it to C. On server-side apps Java is much faster than Perl CGI's. Is this evidence that Perl is lame and useless? Or just that Perl is best suited for a different problem set?
So to clarify on the Java-Cocoa relationship. You can write an app in Java with Swing and then later switch the UI code to Cocoa when everything is working well?
Is the switch straight forward enought that you could easily maintain a Swing version for Linux/Win/Other and the cocoa version for OS X?
Does it gets truly native behavior like sheets? Aqua's Swing stuff looks good but many things like open/save boxes are clearly not native.
Since Swing is usually the slowest part of a Java app does the performance pick up a lot too?
I would have thought a big reason for China (or Chinese companies) to create their own version of Linux is to have better integration with the Chinese Language. While most OS's have chinese or japanese versions they are adapted from the english originals. It seems they could write an Window Manager or APIs that were better integrated with thier languages.
I'd be interested in the comments of people using Windows or MacOS with the Chinese language packages. Does it feel natural or like you are using something awkwardly grafted together?
I think a big reason people use mySQL is the network effect of so many hosting companies having it. Many web projects start out on a shared hosting box. When I do freelance projects, I end up using MySQL because that's what cheap hosting companies have.
If I hadn't used Postgres before, when I had the chance to use whatever I wanted I would probably have just kept using MySQL.
The fact that more than half of internet time is at the top four companies sites doesn't have anything to do with free speach. That's like saying Americans lack a basic freedom to live where they want because most people live in big cities. The only important issue is can I publish any ideas or beliefs that I want. From what I can tell I can on the net easier than I can any other way. Whether or not my views capture the interest of anyone else is a different issue.
On a feature-by-feature list with Win2k, BeOS gives a very poor showing. Even if we were to assume that it had the driver support you'd want, it STILL would be a poor showing.
Just to name a fwe things that real people who use Win2k in business settings would notice:
.......
I mean really, as a business desktop, not going to fly. For the home user, I dont know. A suprising number of people would prefer a multi-desktop feature like Win98 or WinME might support. Again, besides hardware support, BeOS still was a very immature OS. It was a good performer, and had a nice UI, but in all seriousness, it never was a contender for some very major reasons.
But BeOS wasn't supposted to be a business OS it was supposed to be a media OS. Of course it failed there too because it didn't provide the tools and APIs needed to create great media programs. Multitasking is great but without Quicktime and similar support you're not going to see the kind of programs that make someone want to switch systems
Macs were very popular in desktop publishing because they had better font support adn better postscript support which led to better DTP programs. They got a early lead in desktop video because of Quicktime. They lost the chance to leverage their graphics market into 3D because they didn't support OpenGL in time.
Linux has the same story, it started as a much better server than Windows. That was enough to get people to start using it and gave time for the other stuff to come along
I think Be should have paid whatever the price to get full Quicktime support. They had OpenGL and a good vector font engine. Other than basic internet tools focusing on that one market would have given them a chance. The audio focus was good but they didn't follow through.
Focusing on an area gives you something like a network effect in that people usually use a variety of programs to get their job done. For example, Cinema was going to come out on Be. Great, but who just uses a 3D program and nothing else? Even if Cinema ran twice as well on Be as anywhere else, you would still use Windows or Mac so you could use Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects.
Many posts have brought up adding web services to Apache or how modules can fulfill the services needs? I'm not sure we are looking at this correctly. The MS angle is that the brand is most important (Everything is Windows: servers, desktops, portables, game machines)
Even if Apache is the ultimate web server, if a web server isn't what we need now then why add app server features to apache? If Tomcat is the apache app server project, maybe it makes more sense to add the missing server features to it.
From the tomcat install instructions on coniguring with apache:
1. Tomcat is not as fast as Apache when it comes to static pages.
2. Tomcat is not as configurable as Apache.
3. Tomcat is not as robust as Apache.
4. There are many sites with long time investment in certain web servers, for example, sites that are using CGI scripts/Server API modules/perl/php. We cannot assume that all of them will want to ditch this legacy.
Rather than trying to get app server features into Apache why not get the first 3 of these into Tomcat? Especially 2 and 3, 1 might not matter because there are not too many of these in the kind of sites Tomcat is geared for.
I was very surprised when the guy who came and cleaned my carpets the other day asked me what Linux was. He was doing my office and saw some linux books by my computer. He said a guy in his investment club brought up a linux company and was wondering what it was. He seemed to understand my explanation easily enough.
I gave another guy some old 72-pin simms the other day and asked if he needed to backup his old ram before he put in the new ram. I don't think I would try to explain linux to him.
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You really don't see any distinction between a "teen sluts" or MLM email and an email from a real company with a real product? I can't see this at all. I think there is a huge difference even if it's not a product I'm interested in.
I'm actually more annoyed by all the real marketing mail I get since that actually waste tons of paper.
The one thing that drives me crazy on my linux box is how inconsistant cutting and pasting is. Is that just the way it is because of all the different toolkits? Is there any way to make this work better? Other than that I like KDE way better than windows and there are many features I miss even when on OS X.
>> What would be even better is a miniature nautilus
>>window for the open / save dialog. I mean, you
>>already have nautilus, why reinvent the wheel with
>>a different open/save dialog box?
This is a weakness in every Gui. Why are the open/save boxes so different than the regular file management view? I use Mac OS 9, OS X and KDE every day and WinNT fairly often and have been wondering this for years.
The same place the Perl word processors, spreadsheets, databases, operating systems and real world applications are.
Java's good at different things. Java has been used to create really useful apps like Tomcat. It doesn't have to be good at the exact same tasks as C or C++ to be useful.
Everyone who talks about Java being slow is comparing it to C, I never hear people say Perl is too slow by comparing it to C. On server-side apps Java is much faster than Perl CGI's. Is this evidence that Perl is lame and useless? Or just that Perl is best suited for a different problem set?
So to clarify on the Java-Cocoa relationship. You can write an app in Java with Swing and then later switch the UI code to Cocoa when everything is working well?
Is the switch straight forward enought that you could easily maintain a Swing version for Linux/Win/Other and the cocoa version for OS X?
Does it gets truly native behavior like sheets? Aqua's Swing stuff looks good but many things like open/save boxes are clearly not native.
Since Swing is usually the slowest part of a Java app does the performance pick up a lot too?
I would have thought a big reason for China (or Chinese companies) to create their own version of Linux is to have better integration with the Chinese Language. While most OS's have chinese or japanese versions they are adapted from the english originals. It seems they could write an Window Manager or APIs that were better integrated with thier languages.
I'd be interested in the comments of people using Windows or MacOS with the Chinese language packages. Does it feel natural or like you are using something awkwardly grafted together?
I think a big reason people use mySQL is the network effect of so many hosting companies having it. Many web projects start out on a shared hosting box. When I do freelance projects, I end up using MySQL because that's what cheap hosting companies have.
If I hadn't used Postgres before, when I had the chance to use whatever I wanted I would probably have just kept using MySQL.
Other solutions are already on the way.
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The fact that more than half of internet time is at the top four companies sites doesn't have anything to do with free speach. That's like saying Americans lack a basic freedom to live where they want because most people live in big cities. The only important issue is can I publish any ideas or beliefs that I want. From what I can tell I can on the net easier than I can any other way. Whether or not my views capture the interest of anyone else is a different issue.
But BeOS wasn't supposted to be a business OS it was supposed to be a media OS. Of course it failed there too because it didn't provide the tools and APIs needed to create great media programs. Multitasking is great but without Quicktime and similar support you're not going to see the kind of programs that make someone want to switch systems
Macs were very popular in desktop publishing because they had better font support adn better postscript support which led to better DTP programs. They got a early lead in desktop video because of Quicktime. They lost the chance to leverage their graphics market into 3D because they didn't support OpenGL in time.
Linux has the same story, it started as a much better server than Windows. That was enough to get people to start using it and gave time for the other stuff to come along
I think Be should have paid whatever the price to get full Quicktime support. They had OpenGL and a good vector font engine. Other than basic internet tools focusing on that one market would have given them a chance. The audio focus was good but they didn't follow through.
Focusing on an area gives you something like a network effect in that people usually use a variety of programs to get their job done. For example, Cinema was going to come out on Be. Great, but who just uses a 3D program and nothing else? Even if Cinema ran twice as well on Be as anywhere else, you would still use Windows or Mac so you could use Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects.
Even if Apache is the ultimate web server, if a web server isn't what we need now then why add app server features to apache? If Tomcat is the apache app server project, maybe it makes more sense to add the missing server features to it.
From the tomcat install instructions on coniguring with apache:
Rather than trying to get app server features into Apache why not get the first 3 of these into Tomcat? Especially 2 and 3, 1 might not matter because there are not too many of these in the kind of sites Tomcat is geared for.I was very surprised when the guy who came and cleaned my carpets the other day asked me what Linux was. He was doing my office and saw some linux books by my computer. He said a guy in his investment club brought up a linux company and was wondering what it was. He seemed to understand my explanation easily enough. I gave another guy some old 72-pin simms the other day and asked if he needed to backup his old ram before he put in the new ram. I don't think I would try to explain linux to him.