CLI baby. Go back to X windows from a command line. if the user doesnt want to do anything but what they have to on the computer, they won't be doing things that they shouldn't.
Dude he dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft....
Microsoft didn't start overnight. He dropped out because for the first time in his life, he felt competition. And when he did drop out, his father told him that he was going to do something with his life or go back to school. And so Bill decided to do computers and asked daddy for a loan.
It wasn't a decision, it was a response to daddy's threat. And he was AFRAID to go back to school.
You need a background process for that? That's like bitching that your toaster doesn't butter your toast too. It's a portable device. It's not meant to be a REAL computer. You're complaint is in the fact that it is architected to be a portable device instead of a computer. well DUH!
Alot of people saw the timing. He saw the timing was right to steal DOS and sell it to IBM, steal the idea for Windows from Apple and market it as his own, steal the idea for the spreadsheet and market it as his own etc etc.
Not that smart... just a thief who can see others brilliance and mimic it.
He was a smart guy. He scored a near perfect on his SAT, and went into Harvard.
... and while at Harvard, he realized that EVERYONE there was smart and scored a near perfect score on their SAT's. Making him average. So he dropped out. Giving further insight into his psyche; if he has ACTUAL competition, he will quit the game.
This further lends itself to Microsoft' philosphy as a whole. They bought up or destroyed all competition with their monopoly wherever they could so there was no competition. Now that open source and Apple and Google are in town and ganging up on them, they are not having such a good time of it.
Yeah but Windows CLI suxorz. I mean I'd love to see them get a decent shell but what are the chances of that happening when every Windows dev and sys admin is scared of the shell.
What the matter with a good old fashioned stream? or podcast? Or iTunes Radio?
Again, there are alternatives. You just want to list the one way to do things that uses a background process. You don't have to do it with a background process. There are tons of equally acceptable alternatives.
Good point. In fact a good app will have both a CLI and a GUI; this makes it so other programs can interface with it developers want to use it like that. And thats a good thing. Imagine developers building tools based on your tool. As a company, I would totally LOVE that! It would mean more sales. As a devoloper, it would mean more eyeballs on my project (and more sales of my book or more job offers).
Yep, it's a positive and a negative. Alot of developers are going to whine that they can't have daemon processes running in the background but on a portable device that has limited battery power, this really isn't something that should be supported anyway. Especially since it can connect to the web. It can get email notifications and text and IM. you don't need to be running multithreaded daemons on a blackberry or iphone anyway.
Some would disagree but in alot of ways, I think this is a positive move by Apple to enforce good development behaviour.
Depends. There are desktops apps that require next to no support (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc) and then their are server apps that require lots of support (MySQL, Tomcat, Nagios, etc). Now on the server apps, if you installed these, it is generally because you already have developers who know something about what these things are and that they are a low cost alternative and can implement them themselves (or they are willing to learn how).
I have never come across a shop that decided to take those server apps up without someone on hand who knew something about them. For instance I work in an all Windows shop but they want to move alot of stuff to Linux and MySQL and I am their local Linux person since I'm doing everything on a LAMP stack and use Linux for my desktop. So they look to me to help them with transitioning the version control system, setting up replication in MySQL, etc.
You act as if CTO's are morons venturing into open source without a hand to hold. They don't go their without devs or sys admins who know what they are doing... else they hire them before they go there.
Well considering alot of the Web 2.0 applications that are out there, that JS/CSS combo can get pretty convoluted and complex. I've seen some people do some complex stuff with JS/CSS that's used by Google and Yahoo and Amazon. That's why we were talking just about HTMl because I don't think anyone would knock the Web2.0 stuff that's going on which actually involves a bit of know how and the front-end now becomes a development platform as much as the backend.
And for the record, if you are coding, you are at least a commisioned officer in most armies (as it requires a high clearance). Hence, bye bye US citizenship.:)
Again, you are a horrible liar and I'm tempted to pass this around the 43rd district so they can enjoy. A fighter in a foreign army... LOL. That's a laugh riot.
And you don't want to admit that you have lied especially since you haven't admitted the country because that would limit you to the conflict and further prove your bullshit.:)
People like you make me sick. Never served and just sit in your armchair making up stories. Probably would shit your pants if you even were under fire. You're wasting my time.
By the way, I have friends at the UW in Seattle that know you and they said you're full of shit too. Tell you what, you leave the fighting and the storytelling to the REAL soldiers and we'll leave the lame ass wussiness to you, ok?
Already enlisted, civilian. Unlike you who likes to spread bullshit about enlisted for foreign armies while being an elected democratic representative for the seattle 43rd democratic district. Care to change your story yet? I'm intrigued how someone who can enlist in a foreign Army (or so he claims) can hold a public office.:)
Or in case you are unware, those are grounds for losing your citizenship, punk. So please, go ahead and show me how I am wrong. You see unlike you, I actually DID serve. My brothers both served. And I know bullshit when I see it. So go ahead. Tell us all how you served for a foreign Army. I'm all ears.:)
And now calling full on serious bullshit Mr KCDCC Committeeman at 43rd Legislative District in Seattle (http://www.43rddems.org/Officers.aspx). You claim to be fighting for foreign countries yet serving public offices? Serious bullshit now. You want to back out of your statement now before this starts getting forwarded???
And yet you still don't state what country you served in and what WAR you were in where you were being shot at. Because to my knowledge, no other wars were being fought except by the Soviets and Israelis that involved any high tech equipment. And since your name is not Russian nor Israeli, we can safely leave those out. So again, through deductive reasoning, I call bullshit.
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CLI baby. Go back to X windows from a command line. if the user doesnt want to do anything but what they have to on the computer, they won't be doing things that they shouldn't.
I repeat: You are bitching because your portable device isn't a PC?!!
Microsoft didn't start overnight. He dropped out because for the first time in his life, he felt competition. And when he did drop out, his father told him that he was going to do something with his life or go back to school. And so Bill decided to do computers and asked daddy for a loan.
It wasn't a decision, it was a response to daddy's threat. And he was AFRAID to go back to school.
You need a background process for that? That's like bitching that your toaster doesn't butter your toast too. It's a portable device. It's not meant to be a REAL computer. You're complaint is in the fact that it is architected to be a portable device instead of a computer. well DUH!
Making money is not proof of intelligence. Berny Maddof made billions. Is he as smart as Bill Gates? Or are they both thieves?
Alot of people saw the timing. He saw the timing was right to steal DOS and sell it to IBM, steal the idea for Windows from Apple and market it as his own, steal the idea for the spreadsheet and market it as his own etc etc.
Not that smart... just a thief who can see others brilliance and mimic it.
This further lends itself to Microsoft' philosphy as a whole. They bought up or destroyed all competition with their monopoly wherever they could so there was no competition. Now that open source and Apple and Google are in town and ganging up on them, they are not having such a good time of it.
Yeah but Windows CLI suxorz. I mean I'd love to see them get a decent shell but what are the chances of that happening when every Windows dev and sys admin is scared of the shell.
What the matter with a good old fashioned stream? or podcast? Or iTunes Radio?
Again, there are alternatives. You just want to list the one way to do things that uses a background process. You don't have to do it with a background process. There are tons of equally acceptable alternatives.
Good point. In fact a good app will have both a CLI and a GUI; this makes it so other programs can interface with it developers want to use it like that. And thats a good thing. Imagine developers building tools based on your tool. As a company, I would totally LOVE that! It would mean more sales. As a devoloper, it would mean more eyeballs on my project (and more sales of my book or more job offers).
Yep, it's a positive and a negative. Alot of developers are going to whine that they can't have daemon processes running in the background but on a portable device that has limited battery power, this really isn't something that should be supported anyway. Especially since it can connect to the web. It can get email notifications and text and IM. you don't need to be running multithreaded daemons on a blackberry or iphone anyway.
Some would disagree but in alot of ways, I think this is a positive move by Apple to enforce good development behaviour.
Cause Microsoft fanbois still think this is a myth.
antivirus
firewall
explorer
Those are the three apps you get to load. All done
Depends. There are desktops apps that require next to no support (Firefox, OpenOffice, etc) and then their are server apps that require lots of support (MySQL, Tomcat, Nagios, etc). Now on the server apps, if you installed these, it is generally because you already have developers who know something about what these things are and that they are a low cost alternative and can implement them themselves (or they are willing to learn how).
I have never come across a shop that decided to take those server apps up without someone on hand who knew something about them. For instance I work in an all Windows shop but they want to move alot of stuff to Linux and MySQL and I am their local Linux person since I'm doing everything on a LAMP stack and use Linux for my desktop. So they look to me to help them with transitioning the version control system, setting up replication in MySQL, etc.
You act as if CTO's are morons venturing into open source without a hand to hold. They don't go their without devs or sys admins who know what they are doing... else they hire them before they go there.
Yeah it happens... but not in the field, dumbass.
You agree that no one needed to read your post? Wow. If only more Slashdot trolls could be so magnanimous.
I know I definitely didn't need to read your post. Let's start there. :)
Between Microsoft and Google, I vote for the lesser evil. Go Google!
Well considering alot of the Web 2.0 applications that are out there, that JS/CSS combo can get pretty convoluted and complex. I've seen some people do some complex stuff with JS/CSS that's used by Google and Yahoo and Amazon. That's why we were talking just about HTMl because I don't think anyone would knock the Web2.0 stuff that's going on which actually involves a bit of know how and the front-end now becomes a development platform as much as the backend.
Second on web monkey. No design skills and just do front end? Web monkey is the HR term I believe.
And for the record, if you are coding, you are at least a commisioned officer in most armies (as it requires a high clearance). Hence, bye bye US citizenship. :)
Again, you are a horrible liar and I'm tempted to pass this around the 43rd district so they can enjoy. A fighter in a foreign army... LOL. That's a laugh riot.
And you don't want to admit that you have lied especially since you haven't admitted the country because that would limit you to the conflict and further prove your bullshit. :)
People like you make me sick. Never served and just sit in your armchair making up stories. Probably would shit your pants if you even were under fire. You're wasting my time.
By the way, I have friends at the UW in Seattle that know you and they said you're full of shit too. Tell you what, you leave the fighting and the storytelling to the REAL soldiers and we'll leave the lame ass wussiness to you, ok?
Already enlisted, civilian. Unlike you who likes to spread bullshit about enlisted for foreign armies while being an elected democratic representative for the seattle 43rd democratic district. Care to change your story yet? I'm intrigued how someone who can enlist in a foreign Army (or so he claims) can hold a public office. :)
Or in case you are unware, those are grounds for losing your citizenship, punk. So please, go ahead and show me how I am wrong. You see unlike you, I actually DID serve. My brothers both served. And I know bullshit when I see it. So go ahead. Tell us all how you served for a foreign Army. I'm all ears. :)
And now calling full on serious bullshit Mr KCDCC Committeeman at 43rd Legislative District in Seattle (http://www.43rddems.org/Officers.aspx). You claim to be fighting for foreign countries yet serving public offices? Serious bullshit now. You want to back out of your statement now before this starts getting forwarded???
And yet you still don't state what country you served in and what WAR you were in where you were being shot at. Because to my knowledge, no other wars were being fought except by the Soviets and Israelis that involved any high tech equipment. And since your name is not Russian nor Israeli, we can safely leave those out. So again, through deductive reasoning, I call bullshit.