What's the point? Get a normal tower case and put it under your desk where you can't see it. I don't want to see any case on my desk at all, I'd much rather have the space clear for useful equipment or something nice looking like a plant.
True for normal desktop machines, but what about times when the computer is to be in a main living room? A set-top box perhaps, or maybe you live in a studio flat and don't have much room.
I have a Shuttle and a Power Mac G5. The Power Mac dwarfs the Shuttle completely, yet ultimately it's the Power Mac that takes up less usable space for exactly the reason you suggest - it's under my desk, whereas the Shuttle is on top. Fine for its current setting, however think about trying to relocate those machines to the living room. I'd never dream of trying to put the huge Power Mac into the living room. I'd like my marriage to survive, please...
I write websites so I can present ideas to people. I don't want them to see my site the way they want to see it. I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen...If you want to display my content with your own formatting, use my RSS feed.
And how is that? Because HTML was a protocol for transferring information, not for regidly defined formatting or layout. The graphical browsers came along and people started taking the attitude you are espousing "as it was meant to be seen" by you, the creator.
HTML itself however does not support that idea. Different agents (trad. browser, voice agents for the blind etc.), different and also overriding CSS stylessheet et. al. are explicitly catared for in its idea. If the user which to use your content in a manner other than that which you suggested, the intent of the spec is on their side here. HTML is not a fixed layout format. It is for the transmission of information, to be used according to the whims of the receiver.
I was educated regarding this in a news thread with a comic author friend of mine. Here's a link to the thread.
To quote the relevant bit: Also, there's no point just throwing comic characters at me as if I'm saying
all comics are better than film, because I'm not. I'm just saying I can
blatantly see Lucas' influences and I prefered New Gods to Star Wars.
(New Gods had Darkseid and the Source, Star Wars has Darth Vader and the
Force.
Orion is revealed to be Darkseid's son; Luke is Vader's son.
New Gods had a spiritual leader/father figure to Orion called Highfather;
Star Wars has spiritual leader/father figure to Luke called Obi Wan Kenobi.
New Gods:1971. Star Wars: 1977. George Lucas was a comics fan. Say no more).
Now I think back to 1995, when IE focused on user needs over software perfection and the following of published specifications. And look what a mess of incompatibility we have today of javascript, css, java VMs, etc. Mainly because M$ focused on 'the needs of users.' No thanks, I'll stick to the specs.
Utter nonsense. I too can think back to those days, and no browser was following the specs. "Netscape is the next Microsoft" was a common complaint, as Netscape piled proprietary tag after proprietary tag into their browser. And don't even think about their initial CSS stab, the web still suffers from that today.
If windows is not the target operating system. I see failure or at lease non-support.
Windows isn't where the main focus of Java use is. True, deployment of GUI apps is getting nicer with webstart and what have you, but the real focus is on the server side. And that means Linux and Solaris.
The Sun Solaris JVM, for example, is an utter pig to tune. It requires some of the most obscure settings imaginable, and by the time you're finished learning some virtual machine backwards you may as well have written it for the metal anyway (disclaimer: I develop in Java, the apps I write tend to need passable processing done with latencies of under a millisecond. The machines we use are big).
With Apache themselves being primarily on the server side, I would have thought they'd be concentrating on the various Unix derivatives first - with particular focus on Linux and Solaris.
Another interesting point - IBM have tended to use the Apache foundation to get open source code to the world through. I wonder if they're thinking of donating as much as they can (by license) of their own JVM?
I'm have to say that the origins of this are in a nationalistic ferver. Europe is afraid of being overshadowed by America. This project was organized by the French to fend off American Cultural Imperialism(TM).
Good soundbite, but not at all true. The origins of this project are more than a decade old, and I was involved with it in 1993.
The company I worked for at the time did data capture. We won the contract to digitis French National Library - custom scanning software was written, pagination checking, QA software...the lot. This was when you needed custom graphics cards to store an largish group 4-compressed TIFF, and a lot of work went into optimising the deskewing sfotware etc.
Back then the project was called EPBF, European Biblioteqe de Francais (or Every P*ssing Book In France as one scanner operator had it), though the name later changed to just BNF (Bilbioteqe National de Francais). We were always trying to get the British Library interested too, but the dragged their heals and it's not surprising to me that it's taken them twelve years to finally get to the table.
I rather doubt this is anything to do with Google as such. It's just making better use of what they've had for years already, at least in France.
Basically you end up having two different versions of your application, one that works with WS and one that works as a native application, which stinks from a QA perspective
Why? I'm genuinely curious here - I also use WebStart, and I don't need to end up with two versions of the code. Be interested to hear what's restricting you.
Cheers,
Ian
Found it: ISO C standard, sections 5.2.1 and 7.9.2
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Useful usenet posting about this here. Notice the date of the post: 1993.
And who came up with that idea that files not terminated with a newline should have a warning about it ? Where the hell is that rule in the C/C++ grammar anyway ?
That's been true for years. MS C 6 (ie. pre Visual C++, in the DOS days) complained about that more than a decade ago. To be honest, I don't know if it's part of the formal spec but I've always assumed it to be the case.
There are two kinds of people, either people with very low LAN connections and people who need a backup of their porn. Not much else use.
Nonsense. I have immediate use for at least that much storage, for example. Lossless music storage, ripping of DVDs (I use an eyeHome for streaming to TV), offloaded Tivo recordings, full dumps of DV tapes from my camcorder for later editing - not a torrent or pr0n stash to be had.
There's plenty of legitimate uses for large amounts of storage. Most revolve around AV it's true, but that AV needn't be swiped stuff from dodgy torrents or half of every posting ever to alt.binaries.redheads...
For programs like freehand, fireworks and indesign!
Hmm? InDesign is a DTP application, with its only near rival being Quark. Most who use them professionally prefer InDesign to Quark on merit, a reversal from the old-time Quark-over-Pagemaker situation. In fact InDesign was the challenger, Quark the established behemoth only a few years ago.
Freehand and Fireworks I'll grant, but Macromedia has nothing in the same area as InDesign.
Not to go crazy on this one, but what is the big deal is requiring your calendar and address book be tied to your email client...It's not difficult to seperate the three and it is certainly not difficult to use them together
Agreed. OS X has these as three separate applications - iCal, Mail and Address Book. They work together pretty much seamlessly and I prefer this approach to having a single monolithic app.
However, shared calendering is still a strength of Windows in general, and Office in particular I feel. I really wish for shared calendaring to become standardised and commoditised soon. It does seem as if steps have been taken recently, but everything seems to need a fair amount of configuration. I would like the configuration to consists of "Enter calendar server", "define calendar user group", "set user group permissions" and be done.
DiDio highlighted Visual Studio as a boon for Windows users in developing software, while completely forgetting IDEs that exist on Linux which help development, and are far better than Visual Studio...To most Linux users, and those in the know, that reeks of bias.
Well, no. Your statement "IDEs...exist on Linux which...are far better than Visual Studio" is a subjective statement, backed up with nothing. That is a biased statement, or a partisan one if you prefer, and you would need facts and figures to back it up.
Also, the fact he has a C implementation will hopefully imply portability between architectures, not just OSes.
Linux isn't the only OS without an MSN video client, OS X/PPC could do with one too. As nice as iChat is, unless everyone you know is on the AIM network you're somewhat limited. I understand AIM is the largest IM network in the US, however in the UK I'd (unscientifically) say that title belongs to MSN.
I'm fully aware that having a C implementation doesn't necessarily mean portability (endianess, 64 vs 32 bit etc.), but it certainly helps.
The official word from Russell Davies has always been that the processions was McCoy -> McGann -> Eccleston.
Skipping quickly over his authority to say that (the Beeb own the character, the Beeb accepted Richard E. Grant , but I digress..), why not have Richard E. Grant in for the next series then? He'd be good I think, and it would round the problem off.
I'm pretty sure they're going to ignore the valyard in any case....
A friend who's deeply in to the series has told me that the Valyard wasn't a regeneration, but was instead a facet of the Doctor's personality somewhere between his penultimate and final regenerations. So he's not a plot point problem anyway, though I do think they could make use of the character if they felt like it. An anti-Doctor teamed with the Master could make for some good episodes.
Taking your comment in a fashion a lot more po-faced than I should be doing...
They might have to come up with a plot device quite soon though. No doubt an expert will correct me, but I thought the Doctor got twelve regenerations? Let's see, we've had...
William Hartnell
Patrick Troughton
John Pertwee
Tom Baker
Peter Davidson
Colin Baker
Sylvester McCoy
Paul McGann
Richard E. Grant (audio, accepted as canon by the Beeb apparently)
Christopher Ecclestone
Arguably, you could include another: Peter Cushing from the films (doubtful though, I'd put him down as a Hartnell'a'like).
So now we've got another series to go which needs another regeneration, that puts it up to eleven minimum and twelve potential (Peter Cushing). Better watch out for those Daleks, Doctor...
"People realize today that the governments worldwide have to play a role. People say the Internet flourished because of the absence of government control. I do not agree with this view. I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?"
His question didn't ask about opposition, so an answer mentioning it is disingenuous. A government may be indifferent and yet a thing may flourish. Indeed, many things can be obtained that a government opposes. For example I'm in the UK, the government is currently on a "healthy eating" drive but I can still go down to the fish'n'chip shop and buy as much as I want.
Developers who want a flexible, configurable, IDE have long preferred plug-in architectures such as Eclipse over what they might view as the bloated, monolithic alternatives.
That was meant to be funny, right? Because few things are as so monolithically all-encompassing as Eclipse.
I should reveal personal bias from the outset: I despite Eclise. Though it sits open in a window just next this one right now, I still loathe it with an utter passion.
I cannot get its editor to put tabs in realistic, predicable places. I don't want my coding environment to start looking like MS Word, underlining things as problems simply because I haven't finished typing thm yet or am concentrating on another part of the design. I had to immediately turn off most of the auto-typing features such as adding brackets or quotes, because I found it vastly distracting. There's a plug-in to search the preferences! My god, that makes it out of control.
I tried to use it at home the other day to import four existing source files and then generate a build.xml file for me. It never even worked out how to import the files with the right directory root, which given a pattern of src/org/eruvia//FileBelongingToPackage.java should have been src, not src/org/eruvia/appname.
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True for normal desktop machines, but what about times when the computer is to be in a main living room? A set-top box perhaps, or maybe you live in a studio flat and don't have much room.
I have a Shuttle and a Power Mac G5. The Power Mac dwarfs the Shuttle completely, yet ultimately it's the Power Mac that takes up less usable space for exactly the reason you suggest - it's under my desk, whereas the Shuttle is on top. Fine for its current setting, however think about trying to relocate those machines to the living room. I'd never dream of trying to put the huge Power Mac into the living room. I'd like my marriage to survive, please...
Cheers,
Ian
Not here, no. Worked fine before 10.4.1, works fine after 10.4.1. However, you need to upgrade to v1.1 (v42, Tiger).
Cheers,
Ian
And how is that? Because HTML was a protocol for transferring information, not for regidly defined formatting or layout. The graphical browsers came along and people started taking the attitude you are espousing "as it was meant to be seen" by you, the creator.
HTML itself however does not support that idea. Different agents (trad. browser, voice agents for the blind etc.), different and also overriding CSS stylessheet et. al. are explicitly catared for in its idea. If the user which to use your content in a manner other than that which you suggested, the intent of the spec is on their side here. HTML is not a fixed layout format. It is for the transmission of information, to be used according to the whims of the receiver.
To quote the relevant bit:
Also, there's no point just throwing comic characters at me as if I'm saying all comics are better than film, because I'm not. I'm just saying I can blatantly see Lucas' influences and I prefered New Gods to Star Wars. (New Gods had Darkseid and the Source, Star Wars has Darth Vader and the Force. Orion is revealed to be Darkseid's son; Luke is Vader's son. New Gods had a spiritual leader/father figure to Orion called Highfather; Star Wars has spiritual leader/father figure to Luke called Obi Wan Kenobi. New Gods:1971. Star Wars: 1977. George Lucas was a comics fan. Say no more).
Sound convincing enough to me.
Cheers,
Ian
Utter nonsense. I too can think back to those days, and no browser was following the specs. "Netscape is the next Microsoft" was a common complaint, as Netscape piled proprietary tag after proprietary tag into their browser. And don't even think about their initial CSS stab, the web still suffers from that today.
Cheers,
Ian
Windows isn't where the main focus of Java use is. True, deployment of GUI apps is getting nicer with webstart and what have you, but the real focus is on the server side. And that means Linux and Solaris.
The Sun Solaris JVM, for example, is an utter pig to tune. It requires some of the most obscure settings imaginable, and by the time you're finished learning some virtual machine backwards you may as well have written it for the metal anyway (disclaimer: I develop in Java, the apps I write tend to need passable processing done with latencies of under a millisecond. The machines we use are big).
With Apache themselves being primarily on the server side, I would have thought they'd be concentrating on the various Unix derivatives first - with particular focus on Linux and Solaris.
Another interesting point - IBM have tended to use the Apache foundation to get open source code to the world through. I wonder if they're thinking of donating as much as they can (by license) of their own JVM?
Cheers,
Ian
Good soundbite, but not at all true. The origins of this project are more than a decade old, and I was involved with it in 1993.
The company I worked for at the time did data capture. We won the contract to digitis French National Library - custom scanning software was written, pagination checking, QA software...the lot. This was when you needed custom graphics cards to store an largish group 4-compressed TIFF, and a lot of work went into optimising the deskewing sfotware etc.
Back then the project was called EPBF, European Biblioteqe de Francais (or Every P*ssing Book In France as one scanner operator had it), though the name later changed to just BNF (Bilbioteqe National de Francais). We were always trying to get the British Library interested too, but the dragged their heals and it's not surprising to me that it's taken them twelve years to finally get to the table.
I rather doubt this is anything to do with Google as such. It's just making better use of what they've had for years already, at least in France.
Cheers,
Ian
It's in the "It's Funny, Laugh" section. It's newsworthy in a section whose purpose is to make people laugh.
Cheers,
Ian
Why? I'm genuinely curious here - I also use WebStart, and I don't need to end up with two versions of the code. Be interested to hear what's restricting you.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
That's been true for years. MS C 6 (ie. pre Visual C++, in the DOS days) complained about that more than a decade ago. To be honest, I don't know if it's part of the formal spec but I've always assumed it to be the case.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Nonsense. I have immediate use for at least that much storage, for example. Lossless music storage, ripping of DVDs (I use an eyeHome for streaming to TV), offloaded Tivo recordings, full dumps of DV tapes from my camcorder for later editing - not a torrent or pr0n stash to be had.
There's plenty of legitimate uses for large amounts of storage. Most revolve around AV it's true, but that AV needn't be swiped stuff from dodgy torrents or half of every posting ever to alt.binaries.redheads...
Cheers,
Ian
Hmm? InDesign is a DTP application, with its only near rival being Quark. Most who use them professionally prefer InDesign to Quark on merit, a reversal from the old-time Quark-over-Pagemaker situation. In fact InDesign was the challenger, Quark the established behemoth only a few years ago.
Freehand and Fireworks I'll grant, but Macromedia has nothing in the same area as InDesign.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes. The two scenarios aren't mutually exclusive.
Cheers,
Ian
(who is actually a scenario 3 type of guy - when will the first patches for Tiger come out...?)
Agreed. OS X has these as three separate applications - iCal, Mail and Address Book. They work together pretty much seamlessly and I prefer this approach to having a single monolithic app.
However, shared calendering is still a strength of Windows in general, and Office in particular I feel. I really wish for shared calendaring to become standardised and commoditised soon. It does seem as if steps have been taken recently, but everything seems to need a fair amount of configuration. I would like the configuration to consists of "Enter calendar server", "define calendar user group", "set user group permissions" and be done.
Cheers,
Ian
Well, no. Your statement "IDEs...exist on Linux which...are far better than Visual Studio" is a subjective statement, backed up with nothing. That is a biased statement, or a partisan one if you prefer, and you would need facts and figures to back it up.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Linux isn't the only OS without an MSN video client, OS X/PPC could do with one too. As nice as iChat is, unless everyone you know is on the AIM network you're somewhat limited. I understand AIM is the largest IM network in the US, however in the UK I'd (unscientifically) say that title belongs to MSN.
I'm fully aware that having a C implementation doesn't necessarily mean portability (endianess, 64 vs 32 bit etc.), but it certainly helps.
Cheers,
Ian
Skipping quickly over his authority to say that (the Beeb own the character, the Beeb accepted Richard E. Grant , but I digress..), why not have Richard E. Grant in for the next series then? He'd be good I think, and it would round the problem off.
Cheers,
Ian
A friend who's deeply in to the series has told me that the Valyard wasn't a regeneration, but was instead a facet of the Doctor's personality somewhere between his penultimate and final regenerations. So he's not a plot point problem anyway, though I do think they could make use of the character if they felt like it. An anti-Doctor teamed with the Master could make for some good episodes.
Cheers,
Ian
They might have to come up with a plot device quite soon though. No doubt an expert will correct me, but I thought the Doctor got twelve regenerations? Let's see, we've had...
Arguably, you could include another: Peter Cushing from the films (doubtful though, I'd put him down as a Hartnell'a'like).
So now we've got another series to go which needs another regeneration, that puts it up to eleven minimum and twelve potential (Peter Cushing). Better watch out for those Daleks, Doctor...
Cheers,
Ian
His question didn't ask about opposition, so an answer mentioning it is disingenuous. A government may be indifferent and yet a thing may flourish. Indeed, many things can be obtained that a government opposes. For example I'm in the UK, the government is currently on a "healthy eating" drive but I can still go down to the fish'n'chip shop and buy as much as I want.
Cheers,
Ian
I also can't type. Good, ambiguous typo though - "I despise Eclipse", "I code despite Eclipse"? You be the judge.
Cheers,
Ian
That was meant to be funny, right? Because few things are as so monolithically all-encompassing as Eclipse.
I should reveal personal bias from the outset: I despite Eclise. Though it sits open in a window just next this one right now, I still loathe it with an utter passion.
I cannot get its editor to put tabs in realistic, predicable places. I don't want my coding environment to start looking like MS Word, underlining things as problems simply because I haven't finished typing thm yet or am concentrating on another part of the design. I had to immediately turn off most of the auto-typing features such as adding brackets or quotes, because I found it vastly distracting. There's a plug-in to search the preferences! My god, that makes it out of control.
I tried to use it at home the other day to import four existing source files and then generate a build.xml file for me. It never even worked out how to import the files with the right directory root, which given a pattern of src/org/eruvia//FileBelongingToPackage.java should have been src, not src/org/eruvia/appname.
Can't stand the thing.
Cheers,
Ian