Compared to ASP.NET, Java Server Faces is pretty immature, and missing certain controls like a file upload. Nobody seems to use it that much, so the user support community seems pretty small (as you can see by the responses to this story). Also, if you stick the state into the Session, the controls tend break if the user click the back-button. The navigation framework also seems pointless (just use links like a regular person)
I wouldn't make it a large deciding factor though -- in both cases the actual page code is going to be a pretty small part of your app.
Exactly, and he's been quite explicit about it, calling the distros the "customers" and so on. If you want a free OS that focuses on centralized release stability, maybe try Solaris.
Apple and Sun desktop systems looked somewhat similar 15 years ago (back when these mergers were being talked about). Compare an IPX to a Mac LC -- both are lego-ish beige plastic.
If I recall the story, Apple made an insulting low offer to buy Sun in the late 80s, and Sun returned the favor by making an insuliting low offer to buy Apple during the beleaguered 90s.
This is what Linus needs to do. Fire people. Clean house.
You know, Linus is perfectly happy with the situation. He understands that most kernel developers are working for the distributions, and the big value add that distros provide is stability.
The new development model is designed so that Linus n Pals can focus on the fun architectual stuff while letting the salary grunts fix all the bugs for the paying customers.
The old 2.4 series was a bit of a joke when you compared to what RedHat/SuSE was calling "2.4" anyway.
Perhaps it's time for a fork. We need to get back to the release regime which used odd and even numbers to indicate stable and development.
The Fork has already happened -- It's called RedHat Enterprise and SuSE Linux, and Linus is quite open about suggesting that you use one of those for stability.
I should have pointed that out -- it's a third party port of MS's WMV code. But I gave MS credit because they are giving it away for free on their website, which means they must have waved royalties or something.
With a remote control and a webcam, it's probably not totally correct to call these "Pro" models -- there's going to be a lot of rich yuppie home buyers as well.
Microsoft seems to have given up on Windows Media Player for Mac, and instead released a free plugin for QuickTime. Unlike WMP/Mac, this supports WM9 and the latest stuff.
We have Compaq DL360 G2s and HP DL360 G3s & G4s in the same rack, and I've never seen a lick of difference between them (except the CPU speeds). Maybe the AMD models are the garbage ones?
Well, that was 15 years ago, and what passed for "non-geek circles" back in those days is pretty miniscule compared to the modern market.
Jobs stated clearly that they want to get away from "Power"; regardless if it's factual or not, people naturally associate "Power" with "PowerPC". I look at the 25 posts trying to educate slashdot members here and concur that's not worth the effort to save the name.
WMF is (was) use for WYSIWYG printing -- the app can generate the same WMF for both the screen and printing. The driver converts WMF to PostScript or PCL or whatever the printer speaks.
> Powerbook... just about the only systems which NOBODY predicted upgrades for.
Wrong --- Intel PowerBooks were an almost universally accepted rumor going months back. Because it was a rather obvious place for a high-end dual-core laptop chip that had already been announced.
Only in the last week did all the crackmonkeys with their $800 dualcore iBooks, and wishful-thinking PVRs come out of the woodwork.
Only an Intel fanboi would not recognize the fact that since the Pentium 4 took choices to increase processor speed over performance, that this were not a mistake. Also, this is just my opinion.
The PowerPC G5/970 CPU did exactly the same thing. Except much more poorly when compared to Intel -- it's integer performance was very poor, yields were consistantly bad, and it could only achieve high clockspeeds with ridiculous water cooling apparatuses.
Considering the context of this thread, your point is out-of-line. The NetBurst might not have been the greatest design*, but it was better than the G5.
* Although if they hadn't hit previously unknown laws of physics, NetBurst could well have scaled up to 5-8 Ghz and stayed competitive.
The term "equivalently clocked" is entirely meaningless in this discussion -- you're comparing a 3Ghz P4 from 2002 with a 3Ghz A64 from 2006. Pointless.
It was true that P4 Northwood was ahead of AMD K7 for a few years, even by AMD's own P-Ratings. So, to claim the chip was a total failure is simply false.
Well, they used to be, but reportedly a lot of the platform people have already been let go...
Switching to Intel just so they could "customize" it by removing invisible parts seems rather pointless anyway. Intel's main feature is economies of scale, and that means standard chipsets. If they wanted to introduce artificial Windows-incompatbility, there's other ways to do it.
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> I'll be happy to pay up to $5 per photo (even $20 in some cases) to have them cleaned up as needed by semi-pros or even pros.
I used to do print work like 10 years ago, and this was a common service at pre-press shops and the like.
It is an outdated requirement from the days of SCSI CD-ROMs (how are you going to load a driver from the CD if the CDROM is connected to the thing you need a driver for?). Should have been fixed 5 years ago, but just because the installer is ancient doesn't say anything about the OS itself.
Windows users by in large never see the installer. Even most "Real IT" Windows people use silent installs or Ghost etc. On the other hand, every Linux user sees the installer, so for the most part, the Linux installation programs are much more advanced.
My system will reliably bluescreen if one plugs in a Firewire iPod without unplugging the external 1394 drives -- even tho there are two different ports. Furthermore, my external drives often will not mount, or will just disappear with strange errors in the event log. Firewire support on XP is crap. (Which is ironic because MS made a big show of pushing FW over USB2.)
No, I just thought it was something desired by us cross-platform heretics. I would love to have a Windows booting Powerbook (assuming they add another mouse button har har).
Intel chipsets include PIC, PIT, UART and all the legacy stuff as part of the package. I woudl be nontrival to take it out. I think it's very likely that Apple hardware will be 100% PC AT Compatible, even if OSX is not.
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Compared to ASP.NET, Java Server Faces is pretty immature, and missing certain controls like a file upload. Nobody seems to use it that much, so the user support community seems pretty small (as you can see by the responses to this story). Also, if you stick the state into the Session, the controls tend break if the user click the back-button. The navigation framework also seems pointless (just use links like a regular person)
I wouldn't make it a large deciding factor though -- in both cases the actual page code is going to be a pretty small part of your app.
Exactly, and he's been quite explicit about it, calling the distros the "customers" and so on. If you want a free OS that focuses on centralized release stability, maybe try Solaris.
Apple and Sun desktop systems looked somewhat similar 15 years ago (back when these mergers were being talked about). Compare an IPX to a Mac LC -- both are lego-ish beige plastic.
If I recall the story, Apple made an insulting low offer to buy Sun in the late 80s, and Sun returned the favor by making an insuliting low offer to buy Apple during the beleaguered 90s.
This is what Linus needs to do. Fire people. Clean house.
You know, Linus is perfectly happy with the situation. He understands that most kernel developers are working for the distributions, and the big value add that distros provide is stability.
The new development model is designed so that Linus n Pals can focus on the fun architectual stuff while letting the salary grunts fix all the bugs for the paying customers.
The old 2.4 series was a bit of a joke when you compared to what RedHat/SuSE was calling "2.4" anyway.
Perhaps it's time for a fork. We need to get back to the release regime which used odd and even numbers to indicate stable and development.
The Fork has already happened -- It's called RedHat Enterprise and SuSE Linux, and Linus is quite open about suggesting that you use one of those for stability.
I should have pointed that out -- it's a third party port of MS's WMV code. But I gave MS credit because they are giving it away for free on their website, which means they must have waved royalties or something.
With a remote control and a webcam, it's probably not totally correct to call these "Pro" models -- there's going to be a lot of rich yuppie home buyers as well.
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Microsoft seems to have given up on Windows Media Player for Mac, and instead released a free plugin for QuickTime. Unlike WMP/Mac, this supports WM9 and the latest stuff.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/pla
Supposedly some incompatibilities with QuickTime 7.04 (released yesterday).
We have Compaq DL360 G2s and HP DL360 G3s & G4s in the same rack, and I've never seen a lick of difference between them (except the CPU speeds). Maybe the AMD models are the garbage ones?
Moore's law doesn't say anything about frequency scaling.
Well, that was 15 years ago, and what passed for "non-geek circles" back in those days is pretty miniscule compared to the modern market.
Jobs stated clearly that they want to get away from "Power"; regardless if it's factual or not, people naturally associate "Power" with "PowerPC". I look at the 25 posts trying to educate slashdot members here and concur that's not worth the effort to save the name.
Or graybeards with fond memories of Proliant 5000s :)
(Compaq/HP has been the #1 PC Server vendor since the early 90s, so a lot of people buy them, obviously.)
WMF is (was) use for WYSIWYG printing -- the app can generate the same WMF for both the screen and printing. The driver converts WMF to PostScript or PCL or whatever the printer speaks.
> Powerbook... just about the only systems which NOBODY predicted upgrades for.
Wrong --- Intel PowerBooks were an almost universally accepted rumor going months back. Because it was a rather obvious place for a high-end dual-core laptop chip that had already been announced.
Only in the last week did all the crackmonkeys with their $800 dualcore iBooks, and wishful-thinking PVRs come out of the woodwork.
The iMac was a suprise to everyone though.
True, except nobody but hardcore Mac geeks know that, so it makes sense from a branding perspective to drop "Power" and not confuse the customer.
Also, I wouldn't be suprised if there was some trademark agreement with IBM that wouldn't be worth fight over.
Only an Intel fanboi would not recognize the fact that since the Pentium 4 took choices to increase processor speed over performance, that this were not a mistake. Also, this is just my opinion.
The PowerPC G5/970 CPU did exactly the same thing. Except much more poorly when compared to Intel -- it's integer performance was very poor, yields were consistantly bad, and it could only achieve high clockspeeds with ridiculous water cooling apparatuses.
Considering the context of this thread, your point is out-of-line. The NetBurst might not have been the greatest design*, but it was better than the G5.
* Although if they hadn't hit previously unknown laws of physics, NetBurst could well have scaled up to 5-8 Ghz and stayed competitive.
I think you've alredy smoked too much already.
The term "equivalently clocked" is entirely meaningless in this discussion -- you're comparing a 3Ghz P4 from 2002 with a 3Ghz A64 from 2006. Pointless.
It was true that P4 Northwood was ahead of AMD K7 for a few years, even by AMD's own P-Ratings. So, to claim the chip was a total failure is simply false.
Well, they used to be, but reportedly a lot of the platform people have already been let go ...
Switching to Intel just so they could "customize" it by removing invisible parts seems rather pointless anyway. Intel's main feature is economies of scale, and that means standard chipsets. If they wanted to introduce artificial Windows-incompatbility, there's other ways to do it.
> I'll be happy to pay up to $5 per photo (even $20 in some cases) to have them cleaned up as needed by semi-pros or even pros.
I used to do print work like 10 years ago, and this was a common service at pre-press shops and the like.
It is an outdated requirement from the days of SCSI CD-ROMs (how are you going to load a driver from the CD if the CDROM is connected to the thing you need a driver for?). Should have been fixed 5 years ago, but just because the installer is ancient doesn't say anything about the OS itself.
Windows users by in large never see the installer. Even most "Real IT" Windows people use silent installs or Ghost etc. On the other hand, every Linux user sees the installer, so for the most part, the Linux installation programs are much more advanced.
My system will reliably bluescreen if one plugs in a Firewire iPod without unplugging the external 1394 drives -- even tho there are two different ports. Furthermore, my external drives often will not mount, or will just disappear with strange errors in the event log. Firewire support on XP is crap. (Which is ironic because MS made a big show of pushing FW over USB2.)
No, I just thought it was something desired by us cross-platform heretics. I would love to have a Windows booting Powerbook (assuming they add another mouse button har har).
> Not sure where you got the idea that these products were acquired by Apple
Check the Wikipedia.
Intel chipsets include PIC, PIT, UART and all the legacy stuff as part of the package. I woudl be nontrival to take it out. I think it's very likely that Apple hardware will be 100% PC AT Compatible, even if OSX is not.
Original TiBook had peeling paint and warping lids -- was later redesigned.
White iBook had a motherboard recall/repair program.