It's a bit of a bastard child of SVG. Microsft is going to use is as one of the building blocks for XAML(their glade-on-steroids). Microsoft choose the nice "pre-cooked" SVG standard because it was convenient. Then they looked at their needs and what SVG could provide. Turned out MS wanted to add some shortcuts, etc that SVG didn't have. They also added a bunch of features that were lacking from svg, but were needed for writing windows apps. Basicly WVG is to SVG what Microst tried to do with Java, but failed. It's microsoft saying "Hey, it's a good idea, lets make use of it in a cool yet incompatible way".
I agree about mozilla.It so frustraing to see a "standards-compliant" browser avoid such revolutionary standards like SVG and MNG.
Regarding KDE3.2. It's a brand new svg implementation so it's probably be a bit on the buggy side, but it's a step in the right direction. Can't wait until I easily incorporate svg into my webwork:)
I have given up on getting any info out of marketting people. "Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak" would make sense to anybody. It might even make sense to a learned-by-doing marketer. However if the person has an MBA and has worked in an industry for a few years their ability to produce a non-fluffy reply disappears. I think the inherent problem is that these people feel insecure about saying what they they actually think or how they feel on a subject. Years of making things look pretty and downplaying any flaws make them unable to give an opinion about anything half-way important. I'm taking some business courses as an option to my CSC degree. It's quite frustrating. Everytime I ask a marketing person a direct question(about anything), they avoid it. They all give me a bunch of fluf and top it up with a salesman's smile. It's bloody annoying and it doesn't even seem that they do it to me on purpose.
Yay for stock speculation! Just think, sco execs can inflate the value of their stock to some ridiculous point, then sell it and then buy a real linux company and have cash left-over. Oh well, I'm going to be soo sorry for the less-techy SCO investors when their bubble will burst and the stock/lawsuit/etc will crash & burn.
Alright, Apple is just trying to rip people off now. IBM has a very similar Powerpc 970 configuration for $1699. I can't find the link right now, but that's $1000 less. It's also in a blade form, so it's small and probably consumes less power. Oh and it's designed to run linux:) Seems like a much better deal to me.
Computers can help us achieve marvelous things. They can help us organize, process input and schedule other interactions.
For example it was never very exciting to work with somebody across the world. Chess, other work, all had huge mail "lag". Now most of the projects on sf are maintained by authours in different geographical areas. Even linux is!
Marvelous open source technologies such as iRATE will make crappy music radio stations obsolete. The internet allows iRATE's listeners to only listen to what they like and have their tastes correlated with others who have similar music taste. That means death to backstreet boys and britney
Oh yah, my sexy homepage will also replace news channels:)
Naww. My buddy who codes j-alice.org with me..He swears by the windows codewarrior and never really used the mac one. He even liked BeIDE cos it was written by the same folks.
Some people just like ugly mac guis that don't fit into the the windows world:)
However, both me and him think VC++ is a poor excuse for an IDE and wonder why so many people swear by it. It sucks for debugging, it sucks for compilation..even IntelliSense is b0rkable and sometimes lies(altho vs.net is much less buggy that way).
Using a similar trick me and my buddy turned Linksys WEP11 access points into DLINK DWLsomething-or-other. This way I got cheaper hw with much better features.
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It's a bit of a bastard child of SVG. Microsft is going to use is as one of the building blocks for XAML(their glade-on-steroids).
Microsoft choose the nice "pre-cooked" SVG standard because it was convenient. Then they looked at their needs and what SVG could provide. Turned out MS wanted to add some shortcuts, etc that SVG didn't have. They also added a bunch of features that were lacking from svg, but were needed for writing windows apps. Basicly WVG is to SVG what Microst tried to do with Java, but failed. It's microsoft saying "Hey, it's a good idea, lets make use of it in a cool yet incompatible way".
I agree about mozilla.It so frustraing to see a "standards-compliant" browser avoid such revolutionary standards like SVG and MNG. Regarding KDE3.2. It's a brand new svg implementation so it's probably be a bit on the buggy side, but it's a step in the right direction. Can't wait until I easily incorporate svg into my webwork :)
I have given up on getting any info out of marketting people.
"Stripped of all the jargon and market-speak" would make sense to anybody. It might even make sense to a learned-by-doing marketer. However if the person has an MBA and has worked in an industry for a few years their ability to produce a non-fluffy reply disappears.
I think the inherent problem is that these people feel insecure about saying what they they actually think or how they feel on a subject. Years of making things look pretty and downplaying any flaws make them unable to give an opinion about anything half-way important.
I'm taking some business courses as an option to my CSC degree. It's quite frustrating. Everytime I ask a marketing person a direct question(about anything), they avoid it. They all give me a bunch of fluf and top it up with a salesman's smile. It's bloody annoying and it doesn't even seem that they do it to me on purpose.
Lack of money/need :) And it's a dual 1.8ghz blade. I've never dealt with blades before so I didn't realize that you needed to buy a rack thing for it.
Yay for stock speculation! Just think, sco execs can inflate the value of their stock to some ridiculous point, then sell it and then buy a real linux company and have cash left-over.
Oh well, I'm going to be soo sorry for the less-techy SCO investors when their bubble will burst and the stock/lawsuit/etc will crash & burn.
Alright, Apple is just trying to rip people off now. IBM has a very similar Powerpc 970 configuration for $1699. :)
I can't find the link right now, but that's $1000 less. It's also in a blade form, so it's small and probably consumes less power. Oh and it's designed to run linux
Seems like a much better deal to me.
Computers can help us achieve marvelous things. They can help us organize, process input and schedule other interactions.
For example it was never very exciting to work with somebody across the world. Chess, other work, all had huge mail "lag". Now most of the projects on sf are maintained by authours in different geographical areas. Even linux is!
Oh yah, my sexy homepage will also replace news channels :)
Naww. My buddy who codes j-alice.org with me..He swears by the windows codewarrior and never really used the mac one. He even liked BeIDE cos it was written by the same folks.
:)
Some people just like ugly mac guis that don't fit into the the windows world
However, both me and him think VC++ is a poor excuse for an IDE and wonder why so many people swear by it. It sucks for debugging, it sucks for compilation..even IntelliSense is b0rkable and sometimes lies(altho vs.net is much less buggy that way).
Using a similar trick me and my buddy turned Linksys WEP11 access points into DLINK DWLsomething-or-other. This way I got cheaper hw with much better features.