Well it is the one reason why they cannot be sued as a monopoly for iPod's/Mac's whereas Microsoft has been; court cases have been brought forward but the point has been made that they are an appliance manufacturer. You may not believe me but the courts have already ruled in Apples favor as such with that decree. They do make some software but that is not their main revenue model.
This is a poll of other CEO's. In other word's they asked other money grubbing rich white guys what companies are making them the most money. And obviously Vista is not making them much money lately so they threw it in the arena and gave it a thumbs down. They don't invest in Apple because Apple isn't owned, eaten, bought, worn or driven by 80% of the populace yet so why should they give a shit?
Apple is technically an appliance manufacturer and not a software manufacturer. Alot of people confuse this. Sure they make computers and they make software that runs on ONLY their computers but thats why they are considered an appliance manufacturer and not software manufacturer. Probably why they are not on the list else they would be #1 as they have a very strong brand.
What you actually mean to say is that if the rest of the world was able to tie their product into a pre-existing monopoly, then none of this would be a problem, right?
if you are looking for a replacement for your Blackbery, I SERIOUSLY doubt you would have been running Eclipse (much less developing) on your Blackberry; thats what the original conversation was.
Well considering that alot of the apps you mentioned either exist on the iPod touch or as a web app, I still don't see the prob (except typing which is a good point as typing on any PDA sux).
Touch iPod has wireless, email, web browsing and soon VOIP. It also has a patch coming out to integrate it better with Exchange servers. Why would you need anything more than that? Need a phone too? Get the iPhone.
Cant agree more. Bad PHP scripts are the core issue with most of the problems of this nature over the years and now the author is using spurios logic to try and state that it is Apache and Linux's fault that people can't program PHP well.
This report draws poor conclusions and blames the OS and the server for badly written PHP apps. Badly written PHP apps have been the bane of the LAWP community and now this is haw they make Linux look bad. This is just another FUD attack.
Yep... angry, bitter, swearing, demeaning to anyone who disagrees and not backing up anything you say with facts. Definitely a troll trying to spread FUD.
I used the term cert as in certification... not degree. A degree by no means is a certification. A certification is generates skae and bake candidates who do not fully understand what they have just been tested on. I myself have a cert and when I got that DBA cert years ago, I would never have hired myself as a DBA (and probably still wouldn't) but at least now after years of practice I can say the class came in handy in helping me to understand and gave me a foundation. Unfortunately, some people think that cert proves they are experts in the field as if they are equivalent to a comp sci degree or 10 years in the field. It's just not so.
So what I was trying to say is that a few classes and a couple of tests do not prove that you know what you are doing; coworkers, resumes, and open source projects (so you can see their code) show alot more than a cert can ever show. It's probably why Google likes their candidates to have an open source project and a published article before they consider them.
LOL. Never trust the candidate with the cert. It's the candidate who who has spent time in the field for 5-10 years working with the same tools that you are looking to use. This person knows the ins and outs, how to integrate them in weird setups, tweaks and patches for odd problems you may encounter, etc. That cert will never be able to tell the candidate how to figure out all the things that experience will be able to give them and experience only comes with spending time in the field and at home tweaking and learning.
I think this is where the hobbyist has the advantage over the person with the cert.
Ah... ok so you are arguing semantics. Not BETA but RTM. Had I said ALPHA we would probably be having the same discussion. Point still being that VISTA was not yet released regardless which was the main point of the discussion and not whether is was ALPHA, BETA or RTM. And That fact still does not alter any point of the original discussion. The article came out prior to VISTA's GENERAL RELEASE TO OEM's and the public, and after the fact, the DRM issues have proven to mostly be true. Some minor ones have been fixed with patches but the vast majority have not and internally it has been partially blamed for the lack of uptake in Vista.
That's actually an old article filled with half truths that only show one particular point of view of the DRM on Vista. It was released shortly after beta and now that Vista has been on the market for months, it has actually shown that 75% of the DRM problems were actually true (while the rest were exaggerations).
The parent implied as 'popularity contest'. But if you doubt a crusade against open source technologies with comments by microsoft such as 'cancer' and 'communism' then you are very naive sir. If a pattern exists and continues to persist, all likelihood points to the pattern being repeated again.
For someone who thinks with their emotions, you might think that people are basing their decisions on what people think but it is moreso based upon a history and pattern of actions taken by Microsoft towards the open source community. Actons and patterns that to this day have not changed. And when Miguel said 'come on everyone, jump on aboard the Microsoft bandwagon', we knew that he was going to live to regret it because we knew the history and their pattern of actions.
He, as a vice president, was thinking with his pocket book and not as an engineer. Not he realizes the folly of his ways as an engineer, and regrets the decision. Should we as engineers instantly forgive him and accept him back into the fold or is his still one of the infected? Time will tell but for time being I hold him at bay saying 'UNCLEAN UNCLEAN!'
PHP is a GPL language; ZEND is a company than makes products that extend the language. FastCGI is a protocol; Microsoft and other companies make products you purchase that extend that protocol. Sounds to mean that you are complaining about the same thing I am and would rather have an Apache module as well.:)
mod_php doesn't cost anything. Apache doesn't cost anything. FastCGI on the other hand is a product which has upgrades and a server product that costs. So it sounds more like FastCGI and Microsoft have more to sell than the Apache foundation.
Yeah but thats mod_perl. mod_perl has been known to suck. The recommended way from Zend and Apache for PHP has always been as an apache module. Also to get alot of the added benefits like virtual hosting and stuff, you need to upgrade and the upgrade costs. For that you may as well stick with the apache module.
As a CGI you still have to make extra system calls that you don't have to make as an apache module. Running under FastCGI is a good first step but it still doesn't make it as fast as running it as an Apache Module. In a recent post on Slashdot about how Microsoft is learning from open source, they claim they made IIS more modular like Apache but this is not the case as PHP proves otherwise they could run it as a module.
I applaud the effort to embrace open source languages though and hope they continue along this path of self improvement.
If you feed into the hype of your own product, as an engineer, you and your producn\t are equally to blame for it not meeting the standards when you could have so easily corrected any over statement. Zealous marketing is no excuse.
Yeah RUBY devs will definitely MOD you as troll but the fact is you are right. The hype was far greater than the language could deliver and the fanboi's made it worse as they cannot face the limitations of the language. I mean no language is perfect and they all have serious flaws but for some reason RUBY devs think they are immune to criticism which seems to make it a bit worse.
I have sympathy for your loss of mod points due to others ignorance.
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Well it is the one reason why they cannot be sued as a monopoly for iPod's/Mac's whereas Microsoft has been; court cases have been brought forward but the point has been made that they are an appliance manufacturer. You may not believe me but the courts have already ruled in Apples favor as such with that decree. They do make some software but that is not their main revenue model.
This is a poll of other CEO's. In other word's they asked other money grubbing rich white guys what companies are making them the most money. And obviously Vista is not making them much money lately so they threw it in the arena and gave it a thumbs down. They don't invest in Apple because Apple isn't owned, eaten, bought, worn or driven by 80% of the populace yet so why should they give a shit?
Apple is technically an appliance manufacturer and not a software manufacturer. Alot of people confuse this. Sure they make computers and they make software that runs on ONLY their computers but thats why they are considered an appliance manufacturer and not software manufacturer. Probably why they are not on the list else they would be #1 as they have a very strong brand.
What you actually mean to say is that if the rest of the world was able to tie their product into a pre-existing monopoly, then none of this would be a problem, right?
if you are looking for a replacement for your Blackbery, I SERIOUSLY doubt you would have been running Eclipse (much less developing) on your Blackberry; thats what the original conversation was.
Well considering that alot of the apps you mentioned either exist on the iPod touch or as a web app, I still don't see the prob (except typing which is a good point as typing on any PDA sux).
Touch iPod has wireless, email, web browsing and soon VOIP. It also has a patch coming out to integrate it better with Exchange servers. Why would you need anything more than that? Need a phone too? Get the iPhone.
Cant agree more. Bad PHP scripts are the core issue with most of the problems of this nature over the years and now the author is using spurios logic to try and state that it is Apache and Linux's fault that people can't program PHP well.
This report draws poor conclusions and blames the OS and the server for badly written PHP apps. Badly written PHP apps have been the bane of the LAWP community and now this is haw they make Linux look bad. This is just another FUD attack.
Yep... angry, bitter, swearing, demeaning to anyone who disagrees and not backing up anything you say with facts. Definitely a troll trying to spread FUD.
Sounds to me like you are the one trying to spread FUD.
So what I was trying to say is that a few classes and a couple of tests do not prove that you know what you are doing; coworkers, resumes, and open source projects (so you can see their code) show alot more than a cert can ever show. It's probably why Google likes their candidates to have an open source project and a published article before they consider them.
I think this is where the hobbyist has the advantage over the person with the cert.
Ah... ok so you are arguing semantics. Not BETA but RTM. Had I said ALPHA we would probably be having the same discussion. Point still being that VISTA was not yet released regardless which was the main point of the discussion and not whether is was ALPHA, BETA or RTM. And That fact still does not alter any point of the original discussion. The article came out prior to VISTA's GENERAL RELEASE TO OEM's and the public, and after the fact, the DRM issues have proven to mostly be true. Some minor ones have been fixed with patches but the vast majority have not and internally it has been partially blamed for the lack of uptake in Vista.
Article says September which as you noted, was still before RTM in November as I stated. Do your own reading.
That's actually an old article filled with half truths that only show one particular point of view of the DRM on Vista. It was released shortly after beta and now that Vista has been on the market for months, it has actually shown that 75% of the DRM problems were actually true (while the rest were exaggerations).
The parent implied as 'popularity contest'. But if you doubt a crusade against open source technologies with comments by microsoft such as 'cancer' and 'communism' then you are very naive sir. If a pattern exists and continues to persist, all likelihood points to the pattern being repeated again.
He, as a vice president, was thinking with his pocket book and not as an engineer. Not he realizes the folly of his ways as an engineer, and regrets the decision. Should we as engineers instantly forgive him and accept him back into the fold or is his still one of the infected? Time will tell but for time being I hold him at bay saying 'UNCLEAN UNCLEAN!'
One simple acronym... MVC
PHP is a GPL language; ZEND is a company than makes products that extend the language. FastCGI is a protocol; Microsoft and other companies make products you purchase that extend that protocol. Sounds to mean that you are complaining about the same thing I am and would rather have an Apache module as well. :)
mod_php doesn't cost anything. Apache doesn't cost anything. FastCGI on the other hand is a product which has upgrades and a server product that costs. So it sounds more like FastCGI and Microsoft have more to sell than the Apache foundation.
Yeah but thats mod_perl. mod_perl has been known to suck. The recommended way from Zend and Apache for PHP has always been as an apache module. Also to get alot of the added benefits like virtual hosting and stuff, you need to upgrade and the upgrade costs. For that you may as well stick with the apache module.
I applaud the effort to embrace open source languages though and hope they continue along this path of self improvement.
If you feed into the hype of your own product, as an engineer, you and your producn\t are equally to blame for it not meeting the standards when you could have so easily corrected any over statement. Zealous marketing is no excuse.
I have sympathy for your loss of mod points due to others ignorance.