This is not a troll but a genuine and serious question. Do you really find it necessary to have a PIM (tasks, calender, notes,etc.) integrated with your email? There are plenty of good email clients and plenty of good PIMs out there. But is there really a huge advantage to the integration between the two?
I currently use Thunderbird and Palm Desktop. The two separate, at least for my needs, suffice. Maybe it is just out of my range of use, but I, personally, have not really understood why the two must be integrated.
It is not always the programmers who are saying "It's open source, go ahead and do it" for every suggestion that comes along. It is usually assholes on forums (and the such) that make snarky comments like that. But, as the end user, you have to realize that programmers are not gods that can just snap their finger and make the feature magically appear. Many OSS projects are just a guy or a small team. Many write and maintain these projects more as a hobby or a labor of love and have outside lives and jobs. Suggestions and fixes need to be prioritized. An outline view will probably have a lower priority than the dozens of bug fixes as well as prioritized features that are explicitly wanted by the team themselves (road-map features). Also, jobs are prioritized by level of importance, not how quick they are to implement. A feature may only take a line of code, but it could still be way less important than fixing a major security flaw.
The Openoffice team, (I am guessing here), is probably a small to medium funded team of programmers. Their priorities are for bug fixes (which in an application like OpenOffice, is probably quite a bit) and Road-map features (probably requested by Sun, again I am guessing). They would be lucky to get to any user-requested features within their given time frames.
I am not saying that all programmers are decent, respectable people that care what the users want and implement their wishes if they can. Many are, but there are still a few jerks in the bunch. But what I am saying is don't blame the programmers just because your feature doesn't get implemented. It is all a matter of what is important. Ideally, every reasonable feature would be added, but sometimes the answer is "no", or at best, "If we get around to it".
BlueJ is best for those who are learning Java and/or OO programming (from experience, learned java on BlueJ, later Netbeans). It is not for beginning programmers. Java has it's uses, but java is not the best for beginners./but, that is just me...
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Intelligent Design is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Intelligent Design community when IDC confirmed that Intelligent Design market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all people. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Intelligent Design has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Intelligent Design is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Really Cool Test for Plausibility.
You don't need to be the Amazing Jonathan to predict Intelligent Design's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Intelligent Design faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Intelligent Design because Intelligent Design is dying. Things are looking very bad for Intelligent Design. As many of us are already aware, Intelligent Design continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Intelligent Design leader Pope Benedict XVI states that there about are 2 billion believers of Christianity. How many believers of Intelligent Design are there? Let's see. The number of Christians who believe in Intelligent Design versus Evolution posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 10000. Therefore there are about 2 billion/ 10000 = 200000 believers. The approximate population of the world is 6 Billion. 200000 / 6 Billion * 100 =.003% of the worlds population. This is consistent with the population of the southern United States.
All major surveys show that Intelligent Design has steadily declined in Believers. Intelligent Design is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Intelligent Design is to survive at all it will be among the ignorant and cultists. Intelligent Design continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save Intelligent Design at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GOD is dead. Where is your God now
Fact: *Intelligent Design is dying Where is your God now?
I loved Mario All-Stars. But I did not really find Lost Levels that difficult. Hell, I even beat the game (without Game Genie). I am only a casual gamer. Personally I found Mario 2 (US) more difficult (or maybe just too boring to keep playing).
The future switch of one FreeBSD nerd to Apple hasn't escaped captjc's radar. He cites linguae: "Spoken by a soon-to-be MacBook user currently using FreeBSD" If I were FreeBSD, I'd be worried about this. One BSD fan is switching away from PC's Running FreeBSD to Macs running OS X. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Intelligent Design is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Intelligent Design community when IDC confirmed that Intelligent Design market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all people. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Intelligent Design has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Intelligent Design is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Really Cool Test for Plausibility.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict Intelligent Design's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Intelligent Design faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Intelligent Design because Intelligent Design is dying. Things are looking very bad for Intelligent Design. As many of us are already aware, Intelligent Design continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Intelligent Design leader Pope Benedict XVI states that there about are 2 billion believers of Christianity. How many believers of Intelligent Design are there? Let's see. The number of Christians who believe in Intelligent Design versus Evolution posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 10000. Therefore there are about 2 billion/ 10000 = 200000 believers. The approximate population of the world is 6 Billion. 200000 / 6 Billion * 100 =.003% of the worlds population. This is consistent with the population of the southern United States.
All major surveys show that Intelligent Design has steadily declined in Believers. Intelligent Design is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Intelligent Design is to survive at all it will be among the ignorant and cultists. Intelligent Design continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save Intelligent Design at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GOD is dead. Where is your God now
Fact: *Intelligent Design is dying Where is your God now?
As I know it, Affirmative Action is not bad, it is how it is implemented that is bad. There are two ways to do it.
Quotas: This method is fast and effective, and therefore was loved by employers. This is where a set number of minority applicants must be chosen, usually regardless of qualifications. It usually leads to poor workplace performance. This is what people think of when they hear "Affirmative Action". As I understand it, this has been made illegal in the US, but there are many ways around the laws.
Equal-Opportunity Hiring Practices: This method is slow, and not always leads to gender and race equality. It does guarantees that the person best qualified gets chosen. But if the white man is more qualified than the black woman, then it is easy to cry discrimination. Most companies incorperate something like this. While this seems like the best thing for society and companies, It doesn't fix the problems that create the imbalances in the first place.
It looks really nice but is there anything that it can do that firefox can't without the right extensions? Personally I think it will end up being a really cool experiment that, in the end, will just go back into firefox where it started. Any killer-app type features will probably go back to firefox natively (and probably other browsers too). Site specific features will probably become extensions.
I would love to see OS X and Solaris 10 merge into an insanly great OS. They would seem to compliment each other. I love OS X. It has a wonderful interface but, IMHO, it is lacking on the UNIX side. Darwinports and the Fink project have done much to fix this, but it is not perfect. Solaris is wonderfully advanced with features like predictive self healing and tools like dtrace. But Solaris is really lacking on the user interface side (last time I tried Solaris, the Desktop was a modified version of Gnome 2.6).
Sun and Apple seem fairly similar in that each have their own unique OS and Hardware that is more or less designed for the OS. Platform specific features applying to both isn't that far-fetched.
There are many reasons people run homebrew. Unfortunately Piracy is one of them. But to say that people only use it for illegal purposes sounds quite short-sighted and fairly ignorant. There are other reasons people write and use homebrew games and applications.
First it is to get the console to do something that people want it to do but, for some reason, it doesn't. The XBox media center is a good example of this. I believe it plays videos, music, and can even download podcasts (I do not own an XBox, so I am not completely certain). These are all legitimate purposes (yes, they can be misused for illegal purposes, but few things can't). Not everyone wants to wait for Nintendo to release software to let the DS stream Internet radio. It may happen, but it probably won't. Why not write it yourself?
The second is to add more games to a commercially dead console. Not everyone can afford new games and in some cases games can be hard to find. There are plenty of free or cheap alternatives. The Atari 2600 has a thriving homebrew scene. I doubt that most of those games and such are for illegal purposes (yes, there may always be some for illegal purposes). The dreamcast also has a large following. It doesn't need a chip (at least for the models before a certain date, I believe). It is, I think, not that hard to write for it since it uses a modified version of Windows CE. And since it uses CD-ROMs as media, any one with a burner can download and burn the disc. Yes, this will lead to some piracy and so forth. But it also means that people are porting many open source games to it, and even writing their own. This means that more games can be played on this great console.
There are plenty more homebrew games than just clones of pong or other 1980's arcade games. The reason why there are so many old arcade ports are because they are easy to write. They are usually used as a building block by developers to learn about the system and how to code on it. If you want to program on a system that you are unfamiliar with, you don't start on something as complex as an FPS or RTS or anything like that, you start small. For game programming, Pong is a good place start. Learning to program on a console is another reason people homebrew. It is a challenge and overcoming intellectual challenges are fun.
Don't start saying that all homebrew is piracy or that letting people write their own applications will only lead to illegal activities. There is a lot of good in homebrew development. Will it be misused, yes. But does that mean that most, if not all, of it is just warez and illegal applications, no. This is the same thinking that put even tighter restrictions on software and development.
Reminds me of my computer. It is a 2 year old cheap Compaq Presario with a Taped on Apple Sticker (Old Rainbow logo, circa 1995). Yet some people still think I have an iBook.
You are an educated singularity idiot who can stupidily deny Nature's Harmonic 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth, or even make parody of the Cubic Creation Principle - but your mental ability to comprehend the greatest social and scientific discovery of all human existence has been lobotomized by the evil academic singularity bastards hired to destroy your ability to think opposite.
Educators teach assumed math, but are too damn dumb, stupid and evil to know that until Word is cornered, Math is fictitious. http://timecube.com/
Not to troll, but you totally sound like the Time Cube Guy...
"The more you [micro$oft] tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers." /* meh, I won't be using it until about 3-5 years after it is standard on all PCs. Hopefully, linux will be more than usable by then...or I can afford a Mac. */
I agree, it seems more likely that Apple would switch to windows before OS X would take over the PC world. And Running Windows XP on Mac kinda shows this. But as long as Jobs is CEO of Apple, I do not see a windows shift. Steve jobs is a good business man but he is filled with many personal biases. He hates Bill Gates with a passion. The Bootcamp seems more like a way to help users switch to Apple just like the mac-mini is a low cost option to switch.
But I believe something big is going to happen. I foresee an OS war similar to the Yom Kippur war: Israel (Apple) Vs the Middle East (Windows). While windows has a huge market share, Apple does have a fighting chance. It will either end with Apple going Windows, or Apple liscensing their OS to other companies to put on their systems (and provide drivers and support).
Hopefully by the time this happens, OpenSource *nix (BSD / Linux) will be a more viable option, especially for laptops.
Granted he is wrong quite often, but he is still awesome IMHO.
Maybe reading his columns is like reading the Weekly World News. But sometimes what he says are distinct possibilities. He just likes to go off on a limb and scream things as opposed to just riding it out until there is more evidence than random events and hearsay.
But that is just my opinion...
Love him or hate him, I say "Here's to the crazy ones..."/* Yes, I realize the Irony in quoting Apple's Think Different ads for a man who said that Apple will go over to the dark side. */
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This is not a troll but a genuine and serious question. Do you really find it necessary to have a PIM (tasks, calender, notes,etc.) integrated with your email? There are plenty of good email clients and plenty of good PIMs out there. But is there really a huge advantage to the integration between the two?
I currently use Thunderbird and Palm Desktop. The two separate, at least for my needs, suffice. Maybe it is just out of my range of use, but I, personally, have not really understood why the two must be integrated.
It is not always the programmers who are saying "It's open source, go ahead and do it" for every suggestion that comes along. It is usually assholes on forums (and the such) that make snarky comments like that. But, as the end user, you have to realize that programmers are not gods that can just snap their finger and make the feature magically appear. Many OSS projects are just a guy or a small team. Many write and maintain these projects more as a hobby or a labor of love and have outside lives and jobs. Suggestions and fixes need to be prioritized. An outline view will probably have a lower priority than the dozens of bug fixes as well as prioritized features that are explicitly wanted by the team themselves (road-map features). Also, jobs are prioritized by level of importance, not how quick they are to implement. A feature may only take a line of code, but it could still be way less important than fixing a major security flaw.
The Openoffice team, (I am guessing here), is probably a small to medium funded team of programmers. Their priorities are for bug fixes (which in an application like OpenOffice, is probably quite a bit) and Road-map features (probably requested by Sun, again I am guessing). They would be lucky to get to any user-requested features within their given time frames.
I am not saying that all programmers are decent, respectable people that care what the users want and implement their wishes if they can. Many are, but there are still a few jerks in the bunch. But what I am saying is don't blame the programmers just because your feature doesn't get implemented. It is all a matter of what is important. Ideally, every reasonable feature would be added, but sometimes the answer is "no", or at best, "If we get around to it".
BlueJ is best for those who are learning Java and/or OO programming (from experience, learned java on BlueJ, later Netbeans). It is not for beginning programmers. Java has it's uses, but java is not the best for beginners. /but, that is just me...
OMFG. I never thought I would say this, but Bob Saget kicks ass.
One can't look up at the stars any more, there is too much light pollution. (at least where I am anyway)
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Intelligent Design is dying
.003% of the worlds population. This is consistent with the population of the southern United States.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Intelligent Design community when IDC confirmed that Intelligent Design market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all people. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Intelligent Design has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Intelligent Design is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Really Cool Test for Plausibility.
You don't need to be the Amazing Jonathan to predict Intelligent Design's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Intelligent Design faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Intelligent Design because Intelligent Design is dying. Things are looking very bad for Intelligent Design. As many of us are already aware, Intelligent Design continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Intelligent Design leader Pope Benedict XVI states that there about are 2 billion believers of Christianity. How many believers of Intelligent Design are there? Let's see. The number of Christians who believe in Intelligent Design versus Evolution posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 10000. Therefore there are about 2 billion/ 10000 = 200000 believers. The approximate population of the world is 6 Billion. 200000 / 6 Billion * 100 =
All major surveys show that Intelligent Design has steadily declined in Believers. Intelligent Design is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Intelligent Design is to survive at all it will be among the ignorant and cultists. Intelligent Design continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save Intelligent Design at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GOD is dead. Where is your God now
Fact: *Intelligent Design is dying Where is your God now?
I loved Mario All-Stars. But I did not really find Lost Levels that difficult. Hell, I even beat the game (without Game Genie). I am only a casual gamer. Personally I found Mario 2 (US) more difficult (or maybe just too boring to keep playing).
The future switch of one FreeBSD nerd to Apple hasn't escaped captjc's radar. He cites linguae: "Spoken by a soon-to-be MacBook user currently using FreeBSD" If I were FreeBSD, I'd be worried about this. One BSD fan is switching away from PC's Running FreeBSD to Macs running OS X. Nerds are a small demographic, but they can also be the canary in the coal mine with stuff like this.
I am captjc, and I approved this message.
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: Intelligent Design is dying
.003% of the worlds population. This is consistent with the population of the southern United States.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Intelligent Design community when IDC confirmed that Intelligent Design market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all people. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Intelligent Design has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Intelligent Design is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Really Cool Test for Plausibility.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict Intelligent Design's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Intelligent Design faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Intelligent Design because Intelligent Design is dying. Things are looking very bad for Intelligent Design. As many of us are already aware, Intelligent Design continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Intelligent Design leader Pope Benedict XVI states that there about are 2 billion believers of Christianity. How many believers of Intelligent Design are there? Let's see. The number of Christians who believe in Intelligent Design versus Evolution posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1 to 10000. Therefore there are about 2 billion/ 10000 = 200000 believers. The approximate population of the world is 6 Billion. 200000 / 6 Billion * 100 =
All major surveys show that Intelligent Design has steadily declined in Believers. Intelligent Design is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Intelligent Design is to survive at all it will be among the ignorant and cultists. Intelligent Design continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save Intelligent Design at this point in time. For all practical purposes, GOD is dead. Where is your God now
Fact: *Intelligent Design is dying Where is your God now?
Note: satire
As I know it, Affirmative Action is not bad, it is how it is implemented that is bad. There are two ways to do it.
Quotas: This method is fast and effective, and therefore was loved by employers. This is where a set number of minority applicants must be chosen, usually regardless of qualifications. It usually leads to poor workplace performance. This is what people think of when they hear "Affirmative Action". As I understand it, this has been made illegal in the US, but there are many ways around the laws.
Equal-Opportunity Hiring Practices: This method is slow, and not always leads to gender and race equality. It does guarantees that the person best qualified gets chosen. But if the white man is more qualified than the black woman, then it is easy to cry discrimination. Most companies incorperate something like this. While this seems like the best thing for society and companies, It doesn't fix the problems that create the imbalances in the first place.
It looks really nice but is there anything that it can do that firefox can't without the right extensions? Personally I think it will end up being a really cool experiment that, in the end, will just go back into firefox where it started. Any killer-app type features will probably go back to firefox natively (and probably other browsers too). Site specific features will probably become extensions.
-- my $ 0.02
I would love to see OS X and Solaris 10 merge into an insanly great OS. They would seem to compliment each other. I love OS X. It has a wonderful interface but, IMHO, it is lacking on the UNIX side. Darwinports and the Fink project have done much to fix this, but it is not perfect. Solaris is wonderfully advanced with features like predictive self healing and tools like dtrace. But Solaris is really lacking on the user interface side (last time I tried Solaris, the Desktop was a modified version of Gnome 2.6).
Sun and Apple seem fairly similar in that each have their own unique OS and Hardware that is more or less designed for the OS. Platform specific features applying to both isn't that far-fetched.
Just a thought...
There are many reasons people run homebrew. Unfortunately Piracy is one of them. But to say that people only use it for illegal purposes sounds quite short-sighted and fairly ignorant. There are other reasons people write and use homebrew games and applications.
First it is to get the console to do something that people want it to do but, for some reason, it doesn't. The XBox media center is a good example of this. I believe it plays videos, music, and can even download podcasts (I do not own an XBox, so I am not completely certain). These are all legitimate purposes (yes, they can be misused for illegal purposes, but few things can't). Not everyone wants to wait for Nintendo to release software to let the DS stream Internet radio. It may happen, but it probably won't. Why not write it yourself?
The second is to add more games to a commercially dead console. Not everyone can afford new games and in some cases games can be hard to find. There are plenty of free or cheap alternatives. The Atari 2600 has a thriving homebrew scene. I doubt that most of those games and such are for illegal purposes (yes, there may always be some for illegal purposes). The dreamcast also has a large following. It doesn't need a chip (at least for the models before a certain date, I believe). It is, I think, not that hard to write for it since it uses a modified version of Windows CE. And since it uses CD-ROMs as media, any one with a burner can download and burn the disc. Yes, this will lead to some piracy and so forth. But it also means that people are porting many open source games to it, and even writing their own. This means that more games can be played on this great console.
There are plenty more homebrew games than just clones of pong or other 1980's arcade games. The reason why there are so many old arcade ports are because they are easy to write. They are usually used as a building block by developers to learn about the system and how to code on it. If you want to program on a system that you are unfamiliar with, you don't start on something as complex as an FPS or RTS or anything like that, you start small. For game programming, Pong is a good place start. Learning to program on a console is another reason people homebrew. It is a challenge and overcoming intellectual challenges are fun.
Don't start saying that all homebrew is piracy or that letting people write their own applications will only lead to illegal activities. There is a lot of good in homebrew development. Will it be misused, yes. But does that mean that most, if not all, of it is just warez and illegal applications, no. This is the same thinking that put even tighter restrictions on software and development.
sorry, my bad
Reminds me of my computer. It is a 2 year old cheap Compaq Presario with a Taped on Apple Sticker (Old Rainbow logo, circa 1995). Yet some people still think I have an iBook.
awesome pic...
25 Anniv. Mac, but cooler looking.
You are an educated singularity idiot who
can stupidily deny Nature's Harmonic 4
simultaneous 24 hour days within a single
rotation of Earth, or even make parody of
the Cubic Creation Principle - but your
mental ability to comprehend the greatest
social and scientific discovery of all human
existence has been lobotomized by the evil
academic singularity bastards hired to
destroy your ability to think opposite.
Educators teach assumed math, but are too
damn dumb, stupid and evil to know that
until Word is cornered, Math is fictitious.
http://timecube.com/
Not to troll, but you totally sound like the Time Cube Guy...
Nobody Messes with Nintendo Wii!
then again, maybe someone just stole Nintendo's Lite-brite pieces...
For those who still don't get the joke.
"The more you [micro$oft] tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers." /* meh, I won't be using it until about 3-5 years after it is standard on all PCs. Hopefully, linux will be more than usable by then...or I can afford a Mac. */
I agree, it seems more likely that Apple would switch to windows before OS X would take over the PC world. And Running Windows XP on Mac kinda shows this. But as long as Jobs is CEO of Apple, I do not see a windows shift. Steve jobs is a good business man but he is filled with many personal biases. He hates Bill Gates with a passion. The Bootcamp seems more like a way to help users switch to Apple just like the mac-mini is a low cost option to switch.
But I believe something big is going to happen. I foresee an OS war similar to the Yom Kippur war: Israel (Apple) Vs the Middle East (Windows). While windows has a huge market share, Apple does have a fighting chance. It will either end with Apple going Windows, or Apple liscensing their OS to other companies to put on their systems (and provide drivers and support).
Hopefully by the time this happens, OpenSource *nix (BSD / Linux) will be a more viable option, especially for laptops.
Ahh George Carlin is the man. He once had a problem with a noisy dog. He prayed to Joe, and he took care of it with a Baseball Bat
Don't Talk shit about Dvorak.
/* Yes, I realize the Irony in quoting Apple's Think Different ads for a man who said that Apple will go over to the dark side. */
Granted he is wrong quite often, but he is still awesome IMHO.
Maybe reading his columns is like reading the Weekly World News. But sometimes what he says are distinct possibilities. He just likes to go off on a limb and scream things as opposed to just riding it out until there is more evidence than random events and hearsay.
But that is just my opinion...
Love him or hate him, I say "Here's to the crazy ones..."
HEY! Don't talk shit about pico!
The world doesn't revolve around the USA...
Haven't you seen Team America, World Police?
I say America, F@ck Yeah!