It's true, there are limitations. For one thing, Nvu is really about editing single pages, one at a time, not about creating "projects" of pages. And yes, there are other problems, like the way it rewrites references to external JavaScript when you publish the page up to the website. I don't find the code rewriting to be too bad if you turn on the option to retain the original formatting, though.
Of course, because it's an actively-supported open source project, there's always hope that these bugs will be fixed over time. (Well, not sure about the file-oriented nature, that seems architectural... not that it's necessarily bad, I actually like working that way...)
Nvu is particularly excellent for someone just getting started with building web pages, which is why I recommended its use in my book. And the price is right for most people!
Nvu (note spelling) is indeed a great program. It's an open source project that supports Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X. You can use it in a WYSIWYG mode or you can edit the source of the page directly. Besides being free, it also includes support for editing CSS styles (including external style sheets), a must for building sites today. Plus you can get extensions that add neat new features. Definitely worth a look.
It does seem odd. Not being familar with Blizzard, my first thought was that someone was changing their name after ingesting a Dairy Queen Blizzard treat and why was it being featured in Slashdot? My initial assumption was wrong, but the question's still valid...
A good site for honest phone reviews is Steven Punter's Southern Ontario Cell Phone Page. No, he doesn't review this particular model, but he has interesting things to say about various popular North American phone models. Check it out....
Of course, some people can afford to lose $100,000 if they have fun doing it. (Not me!)
Building new land in virtual space is very similar to what they're doing over in Dubai, it seems, though the actual investment required to build a virtual property is considerably less than building new islands.
Now it all makes sense. The studios released these movies for the same reason that esquivalience was added to the New Oxford American Dictionary, not because they were worth seeing in a movie theatre.
Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.
In Canada, currently the province of Saskatchewan doesn't observe it.
By outsourcing in this case I mean using freelancers (independent contractors) instead of actually employing people. Outsourcing doesn't necessarily mean moving jobs to another country. A lot of the work in the publishing industry is done by freelancers, and there's a trend to do more work that way.
Nope, my argument's based on the fact that Mac users were too smart to struggle with unintuitive Windows (or, yes, pre-Windows) computers with user interfaces designed by geeks for other geeks. Macs were definitely easier. I think they still are, but of course now they're entrenched in publishing and there'd have to be a good reason to switch. But I don't know how much the average computer realizes how entrenched Macs are in that industry.
The point isn't that the applications are available on both platforms, it's which platforms are being used for which processes. Yes, a publisher could work entirely with Windows, but most work with Macs.
Right, I know that Word is available on Mac OS, which is why it's OK for writers to send in documents in that format, because it does integrate well with the editing/layout setups that publishers have in place. The point I was making was that not all writers use Macs, even if the publishing houses themselves do.
And I wonder how many professional journalists have Macs at home as well? Surely a large proportion of them must have Windows-based systems at home, if only because they're cheaper to buy than Macs. If the iPod halo effect works for Apple, of course, the proportion of consumers buying Macs vs. Windows will go up in their favor. Good for them, I say.
You have to separate the writing of articles/columns/books from the editing and layout tasks. The latter are normally done on Macs, yes, and that was a very natural evolution. The non-techies (think English majors, graphic design artists, etc.) found the Mac systems easier and more intuitive to use, so of course the software developers took note and developed software for that market. Seems like a perfect example of one company managing to dominate a vertical market. Kudos to Apple for that.
But how much of the writing is actually done on a Mac? Now, it may be that conventional journalists may use Macs more often than not, but I suspect most freelancers are using Windows systems. Or even Linux. And producing Microsoft Word documents more than likely. Almost everyone I've written for accepts Word documents, for many it's the preferred (often the only) format. (IBM being one exception, they want you to write it using XML, which actually can be more of a pain.)
Yes, it's ironic that most of the pro-Windows books out there today end up being edited and composited on Macs. But that's just the way the industry works today. I think calling it a bias is an exaggeration.
If you think emacs editing sequences are obscure now, imagine how much more fun they'd be with all those "special characters"...
If you're a touch typist, you really want to minimize the number of keys you have to press simultaneously to get something done, especially if you can't use hands separately to do it. Typing two or more normal characters together is much easier.
Note that this announcement is for BlackBerry Connect, which essentially gives Palm access to the protocols that BlackBerry devices use to talk to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). You still end up using the Treo's mail client -- the actual BlackBerry software (which is all written in Java and runs on top of RIM's own VM implementation) is not part of this deal. (That's covered by a different program called BlackBerry Built-In, which includes the VM and everything needed to run the standard BlackBerry software.) This is all about improving the Treo's ability to connect to different mail/contact servers. It won't improve the software on the Treo itself.
If your company doesn't install the agent on the Exchange server, then yes, you have to do it to the desktop but that's not what it was designed for.
Actually, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) came later. The devices (remember when they were called the Inter@ctive Pager?) were originally designed to sync via your desktop. The direct sync to the mail server was a later addition, and of course now that's the standard (and most reliable) way to do it.
Either way, I doubt that the real problem is that IT managers are oblivious to the vendor lock-in MS represents, but rather that the lock-in has already taken place, and now the question is, how do you get out?
The real problem isn't vendor lock-in at the IT level, but vendor lock-in at the user level. Day-to-day users of Office don't even want to upgrade the version of Office they're using, let alone switch to a comparable but completely new product. Too many things to re-learn. That's a huge amount of intertia to overcome and a big barrier to entry for anyone to overcome.
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It's true, there are limitations. For one thing, Nvu is really about editing single pages, one at a time, not about creating "projects" of pages. And yes, there are other problems, like the way it rewrites references to external JavaScript when you publish the page up to the website. I don't find the code rewriting to be too bad if you turn on the option to retain the original formatting, though.
Of course, because it's an actively-supported open source project, there's always hope that these bugs will be fixed over time. (Well, not sure about the file-oriented nature, that seems architectural... not that it's necessarily bad, I actually like working that way...)
Nvu is particularly excellent for someone just getting started with building web pages, which is why I recommended its use in my book. And the price is right for most people!
Eric
Nvu (note spelling) is indeed a great program. It's an open source project that supports Linux, Win32 and Mac OS X. You can use it in a WYSIWYG mode or you can edit the source of the page directly. Besides being free, it also includes support for editing CSS styles (including external style sheets), a must for building sites today. Plus you can get extensions that add neat new features. Definitely worth a look.
Eric
Invisible Fence Guide (CSS to make it fancy is still coming...)
Everyone knows it's not gamers that set the priorities.
Eric
See your HTTP headers
But I thought Slashdot have evolved beyond that... whoops, what am I saying...
It does seem odd. Not being familar with Blizzard, my first thought was that someone was changing their name after ingesting a Dairy Queen Blizzard treat and why was it being featured in Slashdot? My initial assumption was wrong, but the question's still valid...
Eric
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A good site for honest phone reviews is Steven Punter's Southern Ontario Cell Phone Page. No, he doesn't review this particular model, but he has interesting things to say about various popular North American phone models. Check it out....
Eric
Of course, some people can afford to lose $100,000 if they have fun doing it. (Not me!)
Building new land in virtual space is very similar to what they're doing over in Dubai, it seems, though the actual investment required to build a virtual property is considerably less than building new islands.
EricRead my Invisible Fence Guide
Now it all makes sense. The studios released these movies for the same reason that esquivalience was added to the New Oxford American Dictionary, not because they were worth seeing in a movie theatre.
EricMy essays on random things
If that's the aussie definition of a rootkit, what's the aussie definition of a trojan? Ahhh... never mind...
EricHow the Vioxx recall reduced worldwide spam
Funny, I didn't think the DEC Alpha had such a long history.
EricView your headers here
From webexhibits.org:
Daylight Saving Time, for the U.S. and its territories, is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana, and the state of Arizona (not the Navajo Indian Reservation, which does observe). Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its large size and location in three states.
In Canada, currently the province of Saskatchewan doesn't observe it.
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By outsourcing in this case I mean using freelancers (independent contractors) instead of actually employing people. Outsourcing doesn't necessarily mean moving jobs to another country. A lot of the work in the publishing industry is done by freelancers, and there's a trend to do more work that way.
Nope, my argument's based on the fact that Mac users were too smart to struggle with unintuitive Windows (or, yes, pre-Windows) computers with user interfaces designed by geeks for other geeks. Macs were definitely easier. I think they still are, but of course now they're entrenched in publishing and there'd have to be a good reason to switch. But I don't know how much the average computer realizes how entrenched Macs are in that industry.
Is it age, or is it the trend to more freelancing (journalism isn't safe from outsourcing, either) as opposed to permanent jobs? Or maybe it's both...
The point isn't that the applications are available on both platforms, it's which platforms are being used for which processes. Yes, a publisher could work entirely with Windows, but most work with Macs.
EricView your HTTP headers
Right, I know that Word is available on Mac OS, which is why it's OK for writers to send in documents in that format, because it does integrate well with the editing/layout setups that publishers have in place. The point I was making was that not all writers use Macs, even if the publishing houses themselves do.
And I wonder how many professional journalists have Macs at home as well? Surely a large proportion of them must have Windows-based systems at home, if only because they're cheaper to buy than Macs. If the iPod halo effect works for Apple, of course, the proportion of consumers buying Macs vs. Windows will go up in their favor. Good for them, I say.
EricBlackBerry programming stuff
You have to separate the writing of articles/columns/books from the editing and layout tasks. The latter are normally done on Macs, yes, and that was a very natural evolution. The non-techies (think English majors, graphic design artists, etc.) found the Mac systems easier and more intuitive to use, so of course the software developers took note and developed software for that market. Seems like a perfect example of one company managing to dominate a vertical market. Kudos to Apple for that.
But how much of the writing is actually done on a Mac? Now, it may be that conventional journalists may use Macs more often than not, but I suspect most freelancers are using Windows systems. Or even Linux. And producing Microsoft Word documents more than likely. Almost everyone I've written for accepts Word documents, for many it's the preferred (often the only) format. (IBM being one exception, they want you to write it using XML, which actually can be more of a pain.)
Yes, it's ironic that most of the pro-Windows books out there today end up being edited and composited on Macs. But that's just the way the industry works today. I think calling it a bias is an exaggeration.
EricHow I keep my dogs safe in my yard
but here it is just because it has "Apple" in the title
Unlike every Linux story.
EricAre clicks from China and India automatically invalid?
On the other hand, wireless costs are significantly higher in Canada than the US. Things vary by country, it seems. What a concept!
EricInvisible Fence Guide
iPod, iMac, iTunes, iLife, iTax... though initially the latter was going to be a competitor to QuickTax.
EricInvisible Fence Guide
If I need to use a vulcan death grip
If you think emacs editing sequences are obscure now, imagine how much more fun they'd be with all those "special characters"...
If you're a touch typist, you really want to minimize the number of keys you have to press simultaneously to get something done, especially if you can't use hands separately to do it. Typing two or more normal characters together is much easier.
EricGet some stroller advice here
Note that this announcement is for BlackBerry Connect, which essentially gives Palm access to the protocols that BlackBerry devices use to talk to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). You still end up using the Treo's mail client -- the actual BlackBerry software (which is all written in Java and runs on top of RIM's own VM implementation) is not part of this deal. (That's covered by a different program called BlackBerry Built-In, which includes the VM and everything needed to run the standard BlackBerry software.) This is all about improving the Treo's ability to connect to different mail/contact servers. It won't improve the software on the Treo itself.
EricBlackBerry programming stuff
If your company doesn't install the agent on the Exchange server, then yes, you have to do it to the desktop but that's not what it was designed for.
Actually, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) came later. The devices (remember when they were called the Inter@ctive Pager?) were originally designed to sync via your desktop. The direct sync to the mail server was a later addition, and of course now that's the standard (and most reliable) way to do it.
EricSome BlackBerry programming stuff
... it shouldn't be surprising that someone took it literally and tried to claim it all for himself.
EricWilliam Shatner boldly goes like no man has before
Either way, I doubt that the real problem is that IT managers are oblivious to the vendor lock-in MS represents, but rather that the lock-in has already taken place, and now the question is, how do you get out?
The real problem isn't vendor lock-in at the IT level, but vendor lock-in at the user level. Day-to-day users of Office don't even want to upgrade the version of Office they're using, let alone switch to a comparable but completely new product. Too many things to re-learn. That's a huge amount of intertia to overcome and a big barrier to entry for anyone to overcome.
EricVioxx recall reduces spam