2 out of 5 laptops sold last year were Apples. Apple realizes that the 'static' desktop market is not the future; the portable market is the future. This is why they are focusing on portable music players, portable computers and portable phones.
People are portable and they expect their devices to be as well and though Windows can work on portable devices, as usual, they are late to the game and this time I doubt Apple will make the same mistake they made the first time by letting Microsoft step all over them. But then again, they also need Microsoft otherwise they will becoem just as evil (*cough* iPhone *cough*).
HA! Check those prices again. Even at FRY's you woudn't be able to get those prices on a good day. Try 1.5 to 2 times that. You live in a nice dream world buddy. I especially like the one where you leave out the network card, monitor, fans, antivirus, windows tax, and sound card not to mention giving yourself an employee discount on all this that would make the geek squad drool.
Really? Every tried to play anything released after 2005 on anything under $500?? Played Halflife 2 on anything under $1000? And now with Vista requiring 2 GB to run well, a 250MB graphics card, etc etc, $2000 is what it ow costs for a gamer machine on Windows.
It's sad to think that some people think that a game is the epitome of what a computer can do. Like I said, if you want buy an Xbox... it's cheaper. Otherwise, just get Cedega on Linux. Better framerate and still cheaper than Windows (and antispyware and antivirus and extra ram etc etc).
Like I said before, it's usually because people are uninformed about how games on Linux work. Just because you were uninformed about Cedega and how many games work on Linux and how the framerate is higher than in Windows, doesn't mean they aren't available; it simply means that you were uninformed and didn't know.
(side note: opening separate windows in windows and causing slowdowns, lockups and crashes is the most common complaint I hear from all the windows users in my guild of about 150. So as per usual when I here this kind of stuff from a windows user like yourself, you must be the 'magical exception')
Then why the hell do you Microsoft fanboys keep preaching about the lack of choice being such a great thing? Personally I like being able to open up a spare window when playing WOW without crashing or locking up or bluscreening like the other people in my guold on windows when they try the same thing.
But they can't because they don't have options... or at least they don't believe they do because they (like you) are ignorant of the fact that Linux has the capability to play games.
So please get over your ignorance for all our sakes.
$2000 is an awful expensive price to pay for an Xbox. If you want games, get a console. If you want a computer, get a computer. If you DESPERATELY NEED GAMES, VMWARE and CEDEGA are still very useful. I play City og Heroes and WOW and Halflife on Linux in Cedega just fine. And if you hate that, VMWARE is always another solution fo you.
Ok, I bought a copy of Xandros before going to Ubuntu a year later. They pissed me off with how unhelpful they were and how they wanted to CHARGE you for everything that Ubuntu does for free. Linspire isn't much better.
Well for one, Apple will never be sued for a monopoly because they are not a software manufactuer... they are an 'appliance' manufacturer; if they sell their OS SEPARATE from their hardware so that it runs on other systems, they would then be vulnerable to such lawsuits or government interference. But since they are merely an appliance manufacturer, there is no rule that anyone else can also build an appliance.
It means that page, is loading and parsing PHP and PHP tags. If that was NOT a PHP page, that would not work. Expose_php is within the PHP.ini and NOT the APACHE.conf therefore you are looking at a PHP page and NOT a RUBY page (which is why they leave out the file extension for the page). If you knew anything about Apache, you would know this.
Instantly productive like any framework will make them in any language. Ruby on Rails though has serious scalability issues that limits it in a production environment. This is why the RUBY website and RUBY ON RAILS website all use PHP on their frontend.
If they no longer show it's because they have expose_php turned off but several of these sites still show. They have yet to resolve their scalability issues and this is a well known issue with RUBY and why no main website uses it in production; it's only for small blogs or news sites but nothing major.
Even 43things in their switch had to use 2 as much hardware to scale RUBY and they still had to fall back on PHP to get it to scale. The move was a nightmare (though the president keeps saying it was 'smooth').
Like the others pointed out, this is true in principal but not in practice. So you have to plan your database around the idea that there will be duplicate ISBN's as we learned at Amazon.:)
Having worked as a publisher and having helped build the buying department for Amazon.com from 1995-1997, I can tell you that ISBN's are purchased by the publisher for association with their book. That number is never truly OWNED as it is recirculated once the book goes out of print; many books have the same ISBN but only one in print book at a time can use it. If a book wants to come back into print, it must be reissued another ISBN.
So in effect, ISBN's are owned by no one except for the distributing and maintaining body.
no they just turned expose_php to off. All of them use PHP to scale. Even 43things has to use PHP to scale. That's the big complaint about RUBY is that it can't scale and has to again lean on PHP in order to do that.
What? Linux uses fewer resources and runs on machines with older hardware. Are you trying to say that Linux is going to cause older hardware to burn like a sun in your lap? Get serious.
I ran PHPulse, the world's fastest MVC framework for PHP with a 10 terabyte database backend gets millions of hits daily and having to send data to our team in Manila and Tijuana. PHPulse gave us near split second page loads. As for not scaling, tell that to all the companies like Disney, IBM, AT&T, MTV and others who use it on their frontend. It's the most widely deployed web language out there and there is example after example after example of it scaling.
Silverlight may port but all the stuff that Silverlight pograms are going to link into are NOT. ActiveX, DirectX, etc are not going to port. Unless Microsoft plans on going whole hog on cross platform compatibility, this is only an attempt to get the web dev community which has historically been LAMP/JAVA based to switch to Microsoft products and not to actually provide a cros platform product. People think Silverlight is the answer but once people start tying into Microsofts backend (as I'm sure they want), you can say goodbye to that cross platform compatibility and Firefox's market share as you will again require IE and Windows to use Silverlight alot of those programs that use AciveX and DirectX and others of the Microsoft non-cross platform tools and features.
Who said PHP was the answer to Ruby's scalability?
Every RUBY site out there who needs it. rubyonrails.com, basecamp.com, 43things.com, etc. They all need and use it and you can't tell me that they all just need a CMS... on the frontpage. Why use RUBY at all?
yeah... that's the reason... CMS's are the reason why no big sites are deploying RUBY. CMS's are the reason why PHP is the answer to RUBY's scalability. That must be it. You figured it out!
I'm SURE that's why rubyonrails.com, basecamp.com and the other main ruby sites do it... because they have no CHOICE. Because CMS's are so difficult to build. And sarcasm is so hard to craft.
Well the productivity boost is gained by the FRAMEWORK (RAILS), not the language. Add a good framework and training to any language and you have better productivity. Still better productivity means nothing if once your web applications starts getting a million hits a day you have to convert all your code to PHP or JAVA to get it to scale. All the productivity is suddenly lost because you have to rewrite all your code.
And productivity gains at a small to medium size level are MINIMAL to the gains made at a large to enterprise level. Still, I'd like to see how RUBY solves this issue in the future because it is the one issue that keeps it from adoption at any meaningful level aside from a hobbyist level or 'mom and pop' website. I would love to see Amazon using it on the front-end or Yahoo or Google and see it be able to handle the same amount of pressure as PERL, PHP or PYTHON. RAILS makes it easy to develop in but it's achilles heel it's still it's scalability; and it has a problem scaling due to the way it's architectured. This won't get fixed anytime soon but I look forward to seeing what the fix will be and how they are going to fix it.
Sinve the rubyonrails.com, basecamp.com and other ruby websites all run PHP on their frontend, I was wondering how to scale RUBY. Everytime you talk to RUBY people about scalability, they always point to 43things.com and that seems to be the only one; even so, they require 2-3 times the hardware to so the same job and STILL require PHP in places.
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People are portable and they expect their devices to be as well and though Windows can work on portable devices, as usual, they are late to the game and this time I doubt Apple will make the same mistake they made the first time by letting Microsoft step all over them. But then again, they also need Microsoft otherwise they will becoem just as evil (*cough* iPhone *cough*).
nice try. Please come again.
It's sad to think that some people think that a game is the epitome of what a computer can do. Like I said, if you want buy an Xbox... it's cheaper. Otherwise, just get Cedega on Linux. Better framerate and still cheaper than Windows (and antispyware and antivirus and extra ram etc etc).
(side note: opening separate windows in windows and causing slowdowns, lockups and crashes is the most common complaint I hear from all the windows users in my guild of about 150. So as per usual when I here this kind of stuff from a windows user like yourself, you must be the 'magical exception')
But they can't because they don't have options... or at least they don't believe they do because they (like you) are ignorant of the fact that Linux has the capability to play games.
So please get over your ignorance for all our sakes.
$2000 is an awful expensive price to pay for an Xbox. If you want games, get a console. If you want a computer, get a computer. If you DESPERATELY NEED GAMES, VMWARE and CEDEGA are still very useful. I play City og Heroes and WOW and Halflife on Linux in Cedega just fine. And if you hate that, VMWARE is always another solution fo you.
Ok, I bought a copy of Xandros before going to Ubuntu a year later. They pissed me off with how unhelpful they were and how they wanted to CHARGE you for everything that Ubuntu does for free. Linspire isn't much better.
Well for one, Apple will never be sued for a monopoly because they are not a software manufactuer... they are an 'appliance' manufacturer; if they sell their OS SEPARATE from their hardware so that it runs on other systems, they would then be vulnerable to such lawsuits or government interference. But since they are merely an appliance manufacturer, there is no rule that anyone else can also build an appliance.
It means that page, is loading and parsing PHP and PHP tags. If that was NOT a PHP page, that would not work. Expose_php is within the PHP.ini and NOT the APACHE.conf therefore you are looking at a PHP page and NOT a RUBY page (which is why they leave out the file extension for the page). If you knew anything about Apache, you would know this.
If they no longer show it's because they have expose_php turned off but several of these sites still show. They have yet to resolve their scalability issues and this is a well known issue with RUBY and why no main website uses it in production; it's only for small blogs or news sites but nothing major.
Even 43things in their switch had to use 2 as much hardware to scale RUBY and they still had to fall back on PHP to get it to scale. The move was a nightmare (though the president keeps saying it was 'smooth').
So... Microsoft Bob was a winner in your mind??
Like the others pointed out, this is true in principal but not in practice. So you have to plan your database around the idea that there will be duplicate ISBN's as we learned at Amazon. :)
So in effect, ISBN's are owned by no one except for the distributing and maintaining body.
no they just turned expose_php to off. All of them use PHP to scale. Even 43things has to use PHP to scale. That's the big complaint about RUBY is that it can't scale and has to again lean on PHP in order to do that.
Follow the link... they still do
What? Linux uses fewer resources and runs on machines with older hardware. Are you trying to say that Linux is going to cause older hardware to burn like a sun in your lap? Get serious.
Looks like the OS already crashed.
Hell even the RUBY and RUBY ON RAILS people use PHP in order to get their sites to scale
Hell, even the Ruby, and Ruby on Rails site http://shiflett.org/blog/2006/feb/php-easter-eggs> need PHP in order to scale
Silverlight may port but all the stuff that Silverlight pograms are going to link into are NOT. ActiveX, DirectX, etc are not going to port. Unless Microsoft plans on going whole hog on cross platform compatibility, this is only an attempt to get the web dev community which has historically been LAMP/JAVA based to switch to Microsoft products and not to actually provide a cros platform product. People think Silverlight is the answer but once people start tying into Microsofts backend (as I'm sure they want), you can say goodbye to that cross platform compatibility and Firefox's market share as you will again require IE and Windows to use Silverlight alot of those programs that use AciveX and DirectX and others of the Microsoft non-cross platform tools and features.
yeah... that's the reason... CMS's are the reason why no big sites are deploying RUBY. CMS's are the reason why PHP is the answer to RUBY's scalability. That must be it. You figured it out!
I'm SURE that's why rubyonrails.com, basecamp.com and the other main ruby sites do it... because they have no CHOICE. Because CMS's are so difficult to build. And sarcasm is so hard to craft.
Well the productivity boost is gained by the FRAMEWORK (RAILS), not the language. Add a good framework and training to any language and you have better productivity. Still better productivity means nothing if once your web applications starts getting a million hits a day you have to convert all your code to PHP or JAVA to get it to scale. All the productivity is suddenly lost because you have to rewrite all your code.
And productivity gains at a small to medium size level are MINIMAL to the gains made at a large to enterprise level. Still, I'd like to see how RUBY solves this issue in the future because it is the one issue that keeps it from adoption at any meaningful level aside from a hobbyist level or 'mom and pop' website. I would love to see Amazon using it on the front-end or Yahoo or Google and see it be able to handle the same amount of pressure as PERL, PHP or PYTHON. RAILS makes it easy to develop in but it's achilles heel it's still it's scalability; and it has a problem scaling due to the way it's architectured. This won't get fixed anytime soon but I look forward to seeing what the fix will be and how they are going to fix it.
Sinve the rubyonrails.com, basecamp.com and other ruby websites all run PHP on their frontend, I was wondering how to scale RUBY. Everytime you talk to RUBY people about scalability, they always point to 43things.com and that seems to be the only one; even so, they require 2-3 times the hardware to so the same job and STILL require PHP in places.