It's a great pity you didn't get modded up and that the parent with his bitterness and hatred managed to sidetrack the conversation. PHP is indeed good for small adhoc projects, butneeds careful use for larger ones. People complain all the time about almost every language, but I've found those with a design goal behind them, such as Java and Python, tend to cause less problems with the language itself during development. The languages that have accumulated too much cruft, and I include Bash and Perl along with PHP here, are the ones that tend to cause a lot of problems with themselves. I think too many people get frightened off by complex concepts in some languages like Java, which is a real pity, and head for simpler but less structured stuff like PHP.
Switzerland joined the European Schengen Agreement a few years ago, which means no more direct border controls. This applies to most of the EU with the exception of the UK and a couple of other places.
I cannot imagine what running CS4 on a Netbook would be like, since it's slow even on a relatively fast 2GHz Centrino. But the speed is likely to be less of a problem than the memory, because anyone who has ever had Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop open all at once can tell you how that bring even very fast modern desktop machines to their knees.
Since I live in Europe (Switzerland), I can state that no, it's not about preventing food imports. It's about the effects on the population, the precedents where the GM crops have gone wrong (Mexico) or where the companies (Monsato mainly) have abused the patent system and numerous other factors (US beef is also not imported in Europe because of the widespread use of growth hormones in the USA, but Argentinian beef is, for example). The resistance to GM foods or foods containing GM products is very high here and all food containing them have to labeled as such where they are allowed. Short story: No one buys them.
Although our spineless Europoliticos have been bravely bending over for Monsato and co, the resistance to GM foods is so high here that there is almost zero chance that it will ever get accepted by the majority of Europe's population, and it doesn't sell either since there are Europe wide laws that GM foods or foods containing GM products have to be labelled as such.
Monsato is like some science fiction corporation gone wrong. Given how many scientific breakthroughs have proven to be dangerous or bad in the long run, Monsato could literally bring a good deal of the world to starvation with their product. God, even that benighted backwater, Zimbabwe refused to accept USAID cornmeal because it had GM maize (what you yanks call corn) in it.
I'm not really into liberals and their crap, but I would be willing to go to jail to stop things like Monsato.
I don't know which world you live in, but the only time Microsoft ever allows things to be more open is because it makes a profit for them or because they have no choice. This has no bearing on the Courier which looks very interesting, but I'm troubled with the idea of a book type split screen with a hinge, which, I think, could close on your hands while you're writing/tapping, if you hold it one handed. The interface and the mix of writing and touching is pretty nice. In fact the only thing about the Courier UI which troubles me is that it's complex and users will take a while to get to feel comfortable with it.
I agree as well, this ribbon interface is an abortion and has not made anyone happier or more productive. It just looks "cool". Thank God I'm a mac user mainly and can switch to Safari, even though I don't really like Safari.
I know Microsoft is frustrated and terrified that Apple is more popular than they are amongst the general public, but Microsoft is, and there's no surprise here, messing it up once again. While times are tough and people will take any job they can, I just cannot see someone selling Vista Home Basic Edition or Zune No One Wants Me Edition with the same passion as they would an iPod, iPhone or a MacBook Pro.
About the only product of Microsoft's that I can think of that is really popular (and not just by default like Windows or Office) is the Xbox.
In the end this will be just one more nail in Microsoft's coffin. Microsoft has copied or tried to copy almost everything that Apple does, from OS features (Win7 Dock, yay) to the Zune and the shops and now they're even trying to steal the staff because they have so little imagination, and still no one's interested.
The only way that Microsoft could ever really change would be to fire the stupid bastards in charge like Ballmer and co, and get younger people who are less nerdy and socially blind who understands brands and marketing and can see that your average person in the street has little interest in tech arguments and poor marketing.
Microsoft, apart from the xbox and zune, aren't really into hardware. Mostly, it's Windows, Office and a few other things. One of the first iterations of the.Net framework stated in the license that you could not use it to write a competitor to MS Office.
And that's just one example. Microsoft is the worst of them all, given how long it's been doing this kind of thing. Apple would be as bad as Microsoft if they had the marketshare which they do in the iPod and iPhone space, but not in the Mac space.
The idea is good because it would it that much harder to propagate botnets and even feasible, but the real problem is that almost all end users have no idea what malware is or how to stop it. Unless the enduser is supported in removing the malware, and in the case of rootkits this usually means reinstalling the OS, then it will only result in a huge number of complaints that the ISPs will not be able to cope with.
I need to reply to your last paragraph: "How many people do you know who are interested in general purpose computing and choose to run MacOS? They usually choose a PC which they have built for themselves and run Linux or (gasp) Windows (especially if they are at all into PC gaming)."
About two years ago, laptops overtook desktops in absolute numbers of computers sold. The number of people who actually build computers themselves from components these days is extremely small compared to the overall market.
I'm an admin for a company that has about 80% Macs and 20% Windows (note, I say Windows, because almost all of those are Macs running Windows). The only real reason we need Windows is for CAD. The other few people who are still on Windows complain about it continuously. No one likes it, with two exceptions in the company.
It honestly sounds like you're somewhat unhappy about the iPhone having so many applications in so short a time. However, comparing the iPhone's SDK and the Cocoa frameworks to Sony's very expensive and very difficult to use SDK is somewhat disingenuous, because the Playstation's SDK is far more expensive and the learning curve is far steeper. Also, you attempt to try and state that the number of apps is limited, and I'll call you on that one. How exactly do you get to the feeling that some 75000 apps in two years is in any way limited? That really sounds like envy or denial, and *that* is usually Apple territory...
There are so many apps for the iphone *because* the device is popular. This was the case for Windows and all the popular game consoles. Except that even though the vast majority of apps are written for PCs and Windows, it really isn't cool at the moment, partly because Microsoft is so terrible at marketing and branding, and partly because Apple is much better at keeping its devices and OS in an integrated package both physically and visually and above all keeps them as simple as possible.
MS might at some point eventually fire that moron, Ballmer and get a boss who realises how important, integration, simplicity and unified branding is, as opposed to heavy handed bullying, but I'm not holding my breath.
Your posts are usually good, but here you're just trolling. It should be obvious even to you as an Mac developer that there are far more people developing in C# than in ObjC. The iPhone is becoming popular in large enterprises and some of those might like to develop in house apps, and not having to hire ObjC developers or retrain staff saves money, and in the current financial climate that is very important.
I don't think MonoTouch is meant for your average newbie with his first Mac and XCode in front of him. For one it's kind of expensive for that.
....And there are a whole host of other issues that hindering the US; the entitlement culture, congress, substandard but overpriced work, the list goes on.
Your American penis envy every time anyone else develops an innovative idea isn't exactly helping you to move forward either.....
For a country that's been stuck in a recession since 1990, the Japanese are doing remarkably well, plus, they haven't been wasting trillions of dollars on chinese shit sold in wallmart. You Americans are so fucking envious anytime anyone else comes up with a neat idea it's just not fucking funny.
Your country is spending almost $9 billion a month on a senseless war in Iraq that no one, except for you wanted or needed, yet you feel you have some deep insight on an attempt by another nation to, uhm, you know, actually do something about the energy crisis in the long term and stimulate research at the same time?
You Americans make me lol sometimes, such as when you exhibit your massive insecurity complexes everytime some other country comes up with a neat idea, which you will unquestioningly hate because it isn't American.
Apple definitely is more expensive in Dollar (or Euro or whatever) terms, but ask yourself if Apple is only cosmetically better than Windows why it continues to sell so well. The answer is that OSX is simpler and more stable. I'm a sysadmin for both Macs and Windows and the Macs require significantly less support than the Windows machines do. I think that's why the Macs are so popular, as people are willing to spend more if they don't have to mess around with the operating system to get things done.
Ok, that was facetious of me, but really, go wave your dick somewhere else, and while you're at it, ask yourself why your country made so many enemies so fast this past decade and why you're in such ruinous financial straights at the moment that you only really exist because the Chinese need someone to sell their stuff to and are still willing to feed your debt-crack habit. National penis waving contests are only good as long as your viagra supplies last.
I don't mean any offense, but I think a lot of you Americans sort of have some dinky enemy like you've faced in the past three decades in mind, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, the Yugoslavians, Afghanistan, Iraq again when you think of a war, which of course would be very different to fighting some country like India, Russia or China (not that you want to, of course). An aircraft carrier is more or less immune in conflicts where the best cruise missiles the enemy have are only short ranged and are not supersonic weapons fired from 300kms away.
I have no idea at all how such a conflict would work out, but I wouldn't be as confident as you are about sitting in a carrier.
I think that equating any WWII battle with modern warfare is probably not such a good idea. American carrier battle groups can project power at ver long ranges and will above all rely on good intelligence to strike first in a hot war if at all possible so as not to have to face a massed cruise missile attack. The USS Stark in the Iran-Iraq war was hit by an Exocet, which isn't even a particularly fast or long ranged missile as was HMS Sheffield in the Falklands conflict. In both those attacks operational failures led to the missiles getting through and hitting their targets (ECM down for both ships), but the cruise missiles that would be used in a major war would probably be more modern very long ranged like the Russian P-700 Granit with a range of around 600km or hypersonic, like the Indian/Russian Brahmos.
These missiles cost far less than ships and it would be very dangerous for any carrier group if a submarine or aircraft got within 300 kms, thus the reliance on intel to avoid having to face a massed saturation attack in the first place. I think the US Navy is extremely competent, but I wouldn't bet on carriers in a major war against any determined and capable modern aggressor....
And if the whole thing went nuclear, well, then we'ld all be fucked anyway.
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It's a great pity you didn't get modded up and that the parent with his bitterness and hatred managed to sidetrack the conversation. PHP is indeed good for small adhoc projects, butneeds careful use for larger ones. People complain all the time about almost every language, but I've found those with a design goal behind them, such as Java and Python, tend to cause less problems with the language itself during development. The languages that have accumulated too much cruft, and I include Bash and Perl along with PHP here, are the ones that tend to cause a lot of problems with themselves. I think too many people get frightened off by complex concepts in some languages like Java, which is a real pity, and head for simpler but less structured stuff like PHP.
Switzerland joined the European Schengen Agreement a few years ago, which means no more direct border controls. This applies to most of the EU with the exception of the UK and a couple of other places.
No.
I cannot imagine what running CS4 on a Netbook would be like, since it's slow even on a relatively fast 2GHz Centrino. But the speed is likely to be less of a problem than the memory, because anyone who has ever had Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop open all at once can tell you how that bring even very fast modern desktop machines to their knees.
Since I live in Europe (Switzerland), I can state that no, it's not about preventing food imports. It's about the effects on the population, the precedents where the GM crops have gone wrong (Mexico) or where the companies (Monsato mainly) have abused the patent system and numerous other factors (US beef is also not imported in Europe because of the widespread use of growth hormones in the USA, but Argentinian beef is, for example). The resistance to GM foods or foods containing GM products is very high here and all food containing them have to labeled as such where they are allowed. Short story: No one buys them.
Thank God.
Although our spineless Europoliticos have been bravely bending over for Monsato and co, the resistance to GM foods is so high here that there is almost zero chance that it will ever get accepted by the majority of Europe's population, and it doesn't sell either since there are Europe wide laws that GM foods or foods containing GM products have to be labelled as such.
Monsato is like some science fiction corporation gone wrong. Given how many scientific breakthroughs have proven to be dangerous or bad in the long run, Monsato could literally bring a good deal of the world to starvation with their product. God, even that benighted backwater, Zimbabwe refused to accept USAID cornmeal because it had GM maize (what you yanks call corn) in it.
I'm not really into liberals and their crap, but I would be willing to go to jail to stop things like Monsato.
I don't know which world you live in, but the only time Microsoft ever allows things to be more open is because it makes a profit for them or because they have no choice. This has no bearing on the Courier which looks very interesting, but I'm troubled with the idea of a book type split screen with a hinge, which, I think, could close on your hands while you're writing/tapping, if you hold it one handed. The interface and the mix of writing and touching is pretty nice. In fact the only thing about the Courier UI which troubles me is that it's complex and users will take a while to get to feel comfortable with it.
I agree as well, this ribbon interface is an abortion and has not made anyone happier or more productive. It just looks "cool". Thank God I'm a mac user mainly and can switch to Safari, even though I don't really like Safari.
I know Microsoft is frustrated and terrified that Apple is more popular than they are amongst the general public, but Microsoft is, and there's no surprise here, messing it up once again. While times are tough and people will take any job they can, I just cannot see someone selling Vista Home Basic Edition or Zune No One Wants Me Edition with the same passion as they would an iPod, iPhone or a MacBook Pro.
About the only product of Microsoft's that I can think of that is really popular (and not just by default like Windows or Office) is the Xbox.
In the end this will be just one more nail in Microsoft's coffin. Microsoft has copied or tried to copy almost everything that Apple does, from OS features (Win7 Dock, yay) to the Zune and the shops and now they're even trying to steal the staff because they have so little imagination, and still no one's interested.
The only way that Microsoft could ever really change would be to fire the stupid bastards in charge like Ballmer and co, and get younger people who are less nerdy and socially blind who understands brands and marketing and can see that your average person in the street has little interest in tech arguments and poor marketing.
Microsoft, apart from the xbox and zune, aren't really into hardware. Mostly, it's Windows, Office and a few other things. One of the first iterations of the .Net framework stated in the license that you could not use it to write a competitor to MS Office.
And that's just one example. Microsoft is the worst of them all, given how long it's been doing this kind of thing. Apple would be as bad as Microsoft if they had the marketshare which they do in the iPod and iPhone space, but not in the Mac space.
Wish I could mod you up. It's interesting.
The idea is good because it would it that much harder to propagate botnets and even feasible, but the real problem is that almost all end users have no idea what malware is or how to stop it. Unless the enduser is supported in removing the malware, and in the case of rootkits this usually means reinstalling the OS, then it will only result in a huge number of complaints that the ISPs will not be able to cope with.
I need to reply to your last paragraph: "How many people do you know who are interested in general purpose computing and choose to run MacOS? They usually choose a PC which they have built for themselves and run Linux or (gasp) Windows (especially if they are at all into PC gaming)."
About two years ago, laptops overtook desktops in absolute numbers of computers sold. The number of people who actually build computers themselves from components these days is extremely small compared to the overall market.
I'm an admin for a company that has about 80% Macs and 20% Windows (note, I say Windows, because almost all of those are Macs running Windows). The only real reason we need Windows is for CAD. The other few people who are still on Windows complain about it continuously. No one likes it, with two exceptions in the company.
It honestly sounds like you're somewhat unhappy about the iPhone having so many applications in so short a time. However, comparing the iPhone's SDK and the Cocoa frameworks to Sony's very expensive and very difficult to use SDK is somewhat disingenuous, because the Playstation's SDK is far more expensive and the learning curve is far steeper. Also, you attempt to try and state that the number of apps is limited, and I'll call you on that one. How exactly do you get to the feeling that some 75000 apps in two years is in any way limited? That really sounds like envy or denial, and *that* is usually Apple territory...
There are so many apps for the iphone *because* the device is popular. This was the case for Windows and all the popular game consoles. Except that even though the vast majority of apps are written for PCs and Windows, it really isn't cool at the moment, partly because Microsoft is so terrible at marketing and branding, and partly because Apple is much better at keeping its devices and OS in an integrated package both physically and visually and above all keeps them as simple as possible.
MS might at some point eventually fire that moron, Ballmer and get a boss who realises how important, integration, simplicity and unified branding is, as opposed to heavy handed bullying, but I'm not holding my breath.
Stop fucking trolling, man. Really. You're just speculating and you're sounding scared, that's all.
Your posts are usually good, but here you're just trolling. It should be obvious even to you as an Mac developer that there are far more people developing in C# than in ObjC. The iPhone is becoming popular in large enterprises and some of those might like to develop in house apps, and not having to hire ObjC developers or retrain staff saves money, and in the current financial climate that is very important.
I don't think MonoTouch is meant for your average newbie with his first Mac and XCode in front of him. For one it's kind of expensive for that.
I thought there would be a semi rational explanation behind the usual Slashdot hysteria.
....And there are a whole host of other issues that hindering the US; the entitlement culture, congress, substandard but overpriced work, the list goes on.
Your American penis envy every time anyone else develops an innovative idea isn't exactly helping you to move forward either.....
For a country that's been stuck in a recession since 1990, the Japanese are doing remarkably well, plus, they haven't been wasting trillions of dollars on chinese shit sold in wallmart. You Americans are so fucking envious anytime anyone else comes up with a neat idea it's just not fucking funny.
Your country is spending almost $9 billion a month on a senseless war in Iraq that no one, except for you wanted or needed, yet you feel you have some deep insight on an attempt by another nation to, uhm, you know, actually do something about the energy crisis in the long term and stimulate research at the same time?
Sad, really, sad.
You Americans make me lol sometimes, such as when you exhibit your massive insecurity complexes everytime some other country comes up with a neat idea, which you will unquestioningly hate because it isn't American.
Sad bunch of fuckers, truly.
Apple definitely is more expensive in Dollar (or Euro or whatever) terms, but ask yourself if Apple is only cosmetically better than Windows why it continues to sell so well. The answer is that OSX is simpler and more stable. I'm a sysadmin for both Macs and Windows and the Macs require significantly less support than the Windows machines do. I think that's why the Macs are so popular, as people are willing to spend more if they don't have to mess around with the operating system to get things done.
.... if you're a US ally you're pretty safe.
You mean like the Iraqis used to be?
Ok, that was facetious of me, but really, go wave your dick somewhere else, and while you're at it, ask yourself why your country made so many enemies so fast this past decade and why you're in such ruinous financial straights at the moment that you only really exist because the Chinese need someone to sell their stuff to and are still willing to feed your debt-crack habit. National penis waving contests are only good as long as your viagra supplies last.
I don't mean any offense, but I think a lot of you Americans sort of have some dinky enemy like you've faced in the past three decades in mind, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, the Yugoslavians, Afghanistan, Iraq again when you think of a war, which of course would be very different to fighting some country like India, Russia or China (not that you want to, of course). An aircraft carrier is more or less immune in conflicts where the best cruise missiles the enemy have are only short ranged and are not supersonic weapons fired from 300kms away.
I have no idea at all how such a conflict would work out, but I wouldn't be as confident as you are about sitting in a carrier.
I think that equating any WWII battle with modern warfare is probably not such a good idea. American carrier battle groups can project power at ver long ranges and will above all rely on good intelligence to strike first in a hot war if at all possible so as not to have to face a massed cruise missile attack. The USS Stark in the Iran-Iraq war was hit by an Exocet, which isn't even a particularly fast or long ranged missile as was HMS Sheffield in the Falklands conflict. In both those attacks operational failures led to the missiles getting through and hitting their targets (ECM down for both ships), but the cruise missiles that would be used in a major war would probably be more modern very long ranged like the Russian P-700 Granit with a range of around 600km or hypersonic, like the Indian/Russian Brahmos.
These missiles cost far less than ships and it would be very dangerous for any carrier group if a submarine or aircraft got within 300 kms, thus the reliance on intel to avoid having to face a massed saturation attack in the first place. I think the US Navy is extremely competent, but I wouldn't bet on carriers in a major war against any determined and capable modern aggressor....
And if the whole thing went nuclear, well, then we'ld all be fucked anyway.