Maybe microsoft realizes that their products are for people who aren't capable of thinking. Maybe they are dumbing down their product. I wouldn't be surprised if they start distributing IE Home version and IE professional ($200 a pop?). Maybe i'm just trying to be too nice. I can't see them having to remove the whole feature to fix one url handler bug. Maybe their code base is that terrible but i think it has to do with its userbase. Friends don't let friends use IE.
Maybe its because everyone runs windows and cd's aren't reliable enough. Ask a windows user how often they reformat: Once every 3 months, once every 6 months? How often do their poorly manufactured drives last: One year? Two years? Okay, so my computer isn't reliable enough to store these damn things. I should burn them to a CD. How long to CD's last: 2 years, 4 years, will I even have the hardware in the future to read these things?
Books are better. They last and we will be able to read them in the future. You aren't just stuffing some fat over paid under worked probably somewhere hot vacationing right now's pocket.
In our school in our "Database concepts" we were designing databases and creating bachman/bubble diagrams learning the different levels of normalization and talking about uml. When we got deeper into the course (2nd year) we added more practical aspects like writing sql statements by hand: I believe this is where access falls short. I don't believe the syntax of access is 100% standard. Sure its great to be visually able to create queries but it is probably more important to teach the actual concepts and follow standards so they can go home to the platform of their choice and put their learning to good use. Access is nice for quick jobbies but at the same time it creates a more ignorant student because they will be reliant on the gui/wizards. weak.
hmm, you are quite correct. It was just mentioned that reasons for not chosing mozilla was stability. I have been using it for a while and although in its early stages it is a very usable product. I have been using opera on and off for like 4 years but when i recently downloaded it it was "adware". As if the web pages i'm visitting are intrusive enough. Yuck. I'll go check out opera again based on your recommendations but if i start seeing ads consider it shelved.
I think the best thing for an adult party is good music, good food and unwatered down alcohol. The beer should be good and so should the rye. Make sure its not all guys (wives, gfs, inflatables, realdolls all welcomed).
Google is great. The one thing that annoys me though is the amount of useless e-business sites out there. When i'm searching google I want free information. Information, just like the stuff in the library, but without the cold winter walk / late fees. If I'm buying something i'll include a keyword such as "price" or "buy"; heck, I'll even use froogle. The fact of the matter is that these useless companies are just clutter. They should be removed. If we wanted porn we'd just hit usenet.
Good Advice. Fop works great but you may find that it doesn't support the other formats as well as it does PDF. What you should try to do is create a source XML document for your starting point and come up with some XSL + 3rd party apps to do what you need. This will give you full control over each output document. You may not find your solution with just one "document processor" but as long as you are starting with XML pretty much anything is possible.
Open source software and free software are not 100% synonymous with each other. I think that this is a point missed by a lot of people. You can charge $1,000,000 for an open source piece of software that you write... if you wanted to. Of course, now the company has the software and the source but you got your money.
Free software scares microsoft because they spend a lot of money making it and the only way they can continue at the level they are at is keeping everyone running windows so manufacturers keep bundling their computers with it (paying money to do so). If people are giving away software for free then the end-user isn't necessarily going to be willing to pay the extra money for bundled software they don't need.
The more and more free software gets used the less of a market share microsoft will have leading to them not being able to fund more software. But where are we going to get enough free software to make it so that we don't MS? Its already here. How do the people who are making this software stay alive with out starving to death? They are good at what they do. They aren't necessarily sitting at a desk with 2 32" lcd's flaunting an ugly blue XP screen making salary wage. They are sitting on hardware they have accumlated through the past that hey... still is good enough to run the free software coding cause they like it and they want to. (i'm severly generallizing here).
Anyways, the point to my rant: Free Software is not dead, its just getting started. Paying for software is dying, it always has been. We, as users, will easily pay for hardware. Why? we can pick it up, hold it, brag to our friends. Why won't we pay for software? its just making our shiny hardware do what it already could/should do on its own. Its a total mental thing. Hardware companies should be investing in free software and stop forcing users to pay for unethically created software.
I'm glad you pointed this out. The only thing that keeps windows apps consistant is the developers, and they don't even do a good job of it. I would go as far as saying that Microsoft packages often have similar look / feel / functionality but once you leave the MS world and goto another developper produced package this does not hold true.
The point is that its not hard to mimic look / feel in any application and that each of the applications out there could be made to look / feel / function like the next. This could be done in X with the current tools out there.
The hard part is deciding on what is the best and then using that decision when writing software.
What I don't understand is why each application needs to look / feel the same. I would say that every part of my office suite should look the same but I don't want my music player / video player to work the same. Whats the big deal? Not having a standard interface look and feel leads to innovation on the development end. "What works the best?", "How do I want this to work?" Having divercity leads to more applications and more personalization. Who says Windows' and Mac's "consistant" look / feel / functionality in applications (it isn't, but lets say it is) is better than having apps that work the way they were intended?
Point: we could have it but do we want it? I say no. You say yes. I say good bye, you say hello.:(
they don't speak french.... anyways... is the quebec market really that big? Just cut them off. If they want their games they'll have to be reasonable. The games UI's aren't going to be in french so anyone who wants to play is already going to have to know english. Whats the deal huh? No wonder BC wants to separate:)
Re:You mean in only 3 to 4 years, Microsoft will .
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Longhorn's Flash Killer?
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But think of the benefits...
Instead of just getting pictures of people smiling, happy because they had bought some viagra, we could get animated personalized sparkley animations in our inbox now complete with time lapsed grown animations over an hour period. IT'LL BE WONDERFUL.
Microsoft is talking about all this new funtionality thats going to be put into longhorn. Although these features sound great, shouldn't they decide on a feature set and then work to make it stable?
With open source development features seem to be "planned", not just stuck in so they can include buzzwords in their advertising. By MS incorporating all of these features which, IMO most probably could just be at the application level, they will be adding bugs all over the place.
Now security bugs are the worst because they compromise your personal information but I find it really annoying when something doesn't work the way it should. With all of these pieces interacting with each other how easy to use is long horn going to really be? How many of the features are going to work fully and how many are just going to break other ones? When do we draw the line? What features are actually useful to an OS? Don't you think by incorportating all of these things within the OS itself MS is actually taking away 3rd party opportunities. Can't this be done at the application level? Why not release a MS Blogger so for us who might want to use it, we'll go get it. For the rest, they can choose to not run one at all or one of their choice?
Remember "set program access and defaults"? I can imagine microsoft having to add last minute hacks in so that we can actually use our own software.
Maybe they are planning to add security by only allowing their code to run on it. Pretty soon our computers will be contacting a microsoft address to be granted priviliages to run your own code. Sometimes i hear people complaining that linux distros are full of bloat but c'mon. A blogger in an OS? Why?
I tried downloading some code samples from the SDK just to see whats there and to my "surprise", the downloads don't work in netscape 7.1.
Weird huh?
Meh
I think its worth mentionning that linux is usually running stuff worth attacking where as windows is serving "crap" that (generally) no one cares about.
At least we can see the code behind linux. What about all those software programs that you can't see the software?
At least linux is open if you think that some of your code got misappropriated into it then you are at liberty to do something about it but what if you think windows or SCO UnixWare has your code in it? What can you do?
The only flaw the linux software development process has is that people can make unsupported allegations against it and start harassing users / the companies that invest into the future of it.
How much GPL'd code would you find in your software SCO? HUH SCO? HUH?:P
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We love bittorrent because:
1)love the anime
2)love the linux
3)I'm a deadhead, duh!
4)Shiver me timbers, arrr where's me movies?
5)i prefer bitforsale
Maybe microsoft realizes that their products are for people who aren't capable of thinking. Maybe they are dumbing down their product. I wouldn't be surprised if they start distributing IE Home version and IE professional ($200 a pop?). Maybe i'm just trying to be too nice. I can't see them having to remove the whole feature to fix one url handler bug. Maybe their code base is that terrible but i think it has to do with its userbase. Friends don't let friends use IE.
Excuse me, but I don't think MythTV is that hard to get working. Try harder next time. Maybe you didn't *click* hard0enough.
you don't have to circumvent technology, you just have you use different technology:
n do w_103.html
http://www.javacrafts.com/dhtml_script_dhtml_wi
Maybe its because everyone runs windows and cd's aren't reliable enough. Ask a windows user how often they reformat: Once every 3 months, once every 6 months? How often do their poorly manufactured drives last: One year? Two years? Okay, so my computer isn't reliable enough to store these damn things. I should burn them to a CD. How long to CD's last: 2 years, 4 years, will I even have the hardware in the future to read these things?
Books are better. They last and we will be able to read them in the future. You aren't just stuffing some fat over paid under worked probably somewhere hot vacationing right now's pocket.
hmmf.
Freenet lacked the ability of searching. Yes it had spiders but this obviously offers less anonymity but offers the ability to search.
In our school in our "Database concepts" we were designing databases and creating bachman/bubble diagrams learning the different levels of normalization and talking about uml. When we got deeper into the course (2nd year) we added more practical aspects like writing sql statements by hand: I believe this is where access falls short. I don't believe the syntax of access is 100% standard. Sure its great to be visually able to create queries but it is probably more important to teach the actual concepts and follow standards so they can go home to the platform of their choice and put their learning to good use. Access is nice for quick jobbies but at the same time it creates a more ignorant student because they will be reliant on the gui/wizards. weak.
hmm, you are quite correct. It was just mentioned that reasons for not chosing mozilla was stability. I have been using it for a while and although in its early stages it is a very usable product. I have been using opera on and off for like 4 years but when i recently downloaded it it was "adware". As if the web pages i'm visitting are intrusive enough. Yuck. I'll go check out opera again based on your recommendations but if i start seeing ads consider it shelved.
Thanks for the insight.
I think the best thing for an adult party is good music, good food and unwatered down alcohol. The beer should be good and so should the rye. Make sure its not all guys (wives, gfs, inflatables, realdolls all welcomed).
Thunderbird 0.4 is really nice. Check it out.
Google is great. The one thing that annoys me though is the amount of useless e-business sites out there. When i'm searching google I want free information. Information, just like the stuff in the library, but without the cold winter walk / late fees. If I'm buying something i'll include a keyword such as "price" or "buy"; heck, I'll even use froogle. The fact of the matter is that these useless companies are just clutter. They should be removed. If we wanted porn we'd just hit usenet.
Good Advice. Fop works great but you may find that it doesn't support the other formats as well as it does PDF. What you should try to do is create a source XML document for your starting point and come up with some XSL + 3rd party apps to do what you need. This will give you full control over each output document. You may not find your solution with just one "document processor" but as long as you are starting with XML pretty much anything is possible.
First,
Before any of these laws are set in place we should ask Bill Gates why and how so many computers have trojans installed on them.
-Adam
Open source software and free software are not 100% synonymous with each other. I think that this is a point missed by a lot of people. You can charge $1,000,000 for an open source piece of software that you write... if you wanted to. Of course, now the company has the software and the source but you got your money.
Free software scares microsoft because they spend a lot of money making it and the only way they can continue at the level they are at is keeping everyone running windows so manufacturers keep bundling their computers with it (paying money to do so). If people are giving away software for free then the end-user isn't necessarily going to be willing to pay the extra money for bundled software they don't need.
The more and more free software gets used the less of a market share microsoft will have leading to them not being able to fund more software. But where are we going to get enough free software to make it so that we don't MS? Its already here. How do the people who are making this software stay alive with out starving to death? They are good at what they do. They aren't necessarily sitting at a desk with 2 32" lcd's flaunting an ugly blue XP screen making salary wage. They are sitting on hardware they have accumlated through the past that hey... still is good enough to run the free software coding cause they like it and they want to. (i'm severly generallizing here).
Anyways, the point to my rant:
Free Software is not dead, its just getting started. Paying for software is dying, it always has been. We, as users, will easily pay for hardware. Why? we can pick it up, hold it, brag to our friends. Why won't we pay for software? its just making our shiny hardware do what it already could/should do on its own. Its a total mental thing. Hardware companies should be investing in free software and stop forcing users to pay for unethically created software.
I'm glad you pointed this out. The only thing that keeps windows apps consistant is the developers, and they don't even do a good job of it. I would go as far as saying that Microsoft packages often have similar look / feel / functionality but once you leave the MS world and goto another developper produced package this does not hold true.
:(
The point is that its not hard to mimic look / feel in any application and that each of the applications out there could be made to look / feel / function like the next. This could be done in X with the current tools out there.
The hard part is deciding on what is the best and then using that decision when writing software.
What I don't understand is why each application needs to look / feel the same. I would say that every part of my office suite should look the same but I don't want my music player / video player to work the same. Whats the big deal? Not having a standard interface look and feel leads to innovation on the development end. "What works the best?", "How do I want this to work?" Having divercity leads to more applications and more personalization. Who says Windows' and Mac's "consistant" look / feel / functionality in applications (it isn't, but lets say it is) is better than having apps that work the way they were intended?
Point: we could have it but do we want it? I say no. You say yes. I say good bye, you say hello.
they don't speak french.... anyways... is the quebec market really that big? Just cut them off. If they want their games they'll have to be reasonable. The games UI's aren't going to be in french so anyone who wants to play is already going to have to know english. Whats the deal huh? No wonder BC wants to separate :)
But think of the benefits...
Instead of just getting pictures of people smiling, happy because they had bought some viagra, we could get animated personalized sparkley animations in our inbox now complete with time lapsed grown animations over an hour period. IT'LL BE WONDERFUL.
c'mon, can't you share my vision?
Maybe AMD could use them on Intel and then Apple on AMD then maybe Linus on Microsoft then maybe Apple on Microsoft.
Hmmm.... Apple wins.
"Microsoft Adding Bugs to Longhorn?"
Microsoft is talking about all this new funtionality thats going to be put into longhorn. Although these features sound great, shouldn't they decide on a feature set and then work to make it stable?
With open source development features seem to be "planned", not just stuck in so they can include buzzwords in their advertising. By MS incorporating all of these features which, IMO most probably could just be at the application level, they will be adding bugs all over the place.
Now security bugs are the worst because they compromise your personal information but I find it really annoying when something doesn't work the way it should. With all of these pieces interacting with each other how easy to use is long horn going to really be? How many of the features are going to work fully and how many are just going to break other ones? When do we draw the line? What features are actually useful to an OS? Don't you think by incorportating all of these things within the OS itself MS is actually taking away 3rd party opportunities. Can't this be done at the application level? Why not release a MS Blogger so for us who might want to use it, we'll go get it. For the rest, they can choose to not run one at all or one of their choice?
Remember "set program access and defaults"? I can imagine microsoft having to add last minute hacks in so that we can actually use our own software.
Maybe they are planning to add security by only allowing their code to run on it. Pretty soon our computers will be contacting a microsoft address to be granted priviliages to run your own code. Sometimes i hear people complaining that linux distros are full of bloat but c'mon. A blogger in an OS? Why?
Yes commercial software is great for us; It makes us money. Open software is good it lets us create better software.
Software can benefit from both of these at the same time. Get with the program.
I tried downloading some code samples from the SDK just to see whats there and to my "surprise", the downloads don't work in netscape 7.1.
Weird huh?
Meh
I think its worth mentionning that linux is usually running stuff worth attacking where as windows is serving "crap" that (generally) no one cares about.
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At least we can see the code behind linux. What about all those software programs that you can't see the software?
:P
At least linux is open if you think that some of your code got misappropriated into it then you are at liberty to do something about it but what if you think windows or SCO UnixWare has your code in it? What can you do?
The only flaw the linux software development process has is that people can make unsupported allegations against it and start harassing users / the companies that invest into the future of it.
How much GPL'd code would you find in your software SCO? HUH SCO? HUH?
:D
-Adam