Of course LAMP is better suited for next-generation applications than Java.
Why "of course"?
Am I alone in wondering exactly what a "next-generation application" is anyway?
What qualities or requirements define a "next-generation application", other than it not having been developed yet?
Anyhow, it was my take on the article that the use of 'P' languages was incidental, it was the grid concept and the horizontal scaling. The 'P' languages just happen to be part of a readily available set of tools for implementing this idea.
MS owns less and less of the web server market share, and I can't see how they could stop PHP working with IIS unless they blocked CGI.
MS already has some proprietary extensions to CSS (like variable transparency) and it's no big deal. Either you use these features or let them gracefully degrade so the user still has a workable web site.
And FrontPage users are a vanishing breed (thankfully).
Just recently switched from Outlook to TB 0.8 under W2K SP4. As an email client, I'm pretty happy with it. Most things work well enough.
Had some issues with importing and managing large mail folders from Outlook - TB would not delete imported folders and would hang when trying to traverse them.
I still can't get away from Outlook's calendar and scheduling functions. Nothing available that really replaces that in Thunderbird as far as I know.
As far as I can see from Adobe's web site, you can only upgrade to a newer version (e.g. CS) on the *same* platform.
I'm about to replace my laptop and would consider a Powermac if I could crossgrade and not have to buy the full Adobe application suite all over again.
>>This is the Linux revolutions biggest draw back in making headway into many environments. No kickbacks, no lobster dinners or pre-paid trips.
I see where you're going with this but surely there must be an opportunity for businesses to make an honest crust from this (Linux, OSS whatever) whithout jumping on the junket waggon - otherwise where does it all go?
Businesses need to be able to rely on mutually-beneficial, cooperative relationships (i.e. trading).
If some guy kindly offers to do something I really depend on 'for free', I don't really feel comfortable with that.
It means I'm reliant on his continued good will affability and whims. Do you see what I mean?
>>While most government contracts do go to the lowest bidder
I respectfully disagree. Contracts rarely go to the lowest bidder, govt. ones especially.
Most govt. contracts go to outfits that the purchasing agency feel most comfortable with, totally *regardless* of cost.
You know. Those firms where the head of said department (or indeed the minister) can look forward to a lucrative, stress-free, post-political career as a non-exec director on (or 'special advisor' to) the board.
One or two of the current UK ministers in charge of these things are actually former execs of Andersons etc. and will probably return to the bosom of their alma mater, at some hugely elevated rank, when they are political dead meat.
The OS may be free but complete solutions aren't. Organizations (govt. or private) invite bids for Solutions, not operating systems. An OS is only a small part of the solution.
The current UK govt. has a terrible track record on It projects. The go back time and time again to the same suppliers that failed them and overran their budget to alarming proportions (notable names here include: EDS, C(r)AP Gemini, Arthur Anderson - the usual suspects...).
The cost of a desktop/small-server OS is almost incidental to the cost of a major IT project.
Generally, non-driving adults are looked upon as being rather eccentric in the UK.
I speak as one who chooses not to drive (even though that would be the easier thing for me to do).
Everyone is always surprised, even shocked when I tell them I don't drive. They either thing you're very poor, disabled in some way or are very slightly mad.
It seems to me that the BBC is one of the few parts of the British media that is challenging the govenment at all.
Saw an excellent BBC documentary last night called "The Power of nightmares" which shows how the right has manufactured 'imaginary enemies' and exagerated threats (we all know which ones) so that they can tighen their grip on power.
Nevertheless, there's something quite handy about being able to take a snapshot with a mobile phone.
The immediacy of it is attractive. I have done a couple of large montage prints of various things/events using a camera phone. Although the individual images are small and crappy, they quite look good when montaged together to make collages or wierd panoramas.
I do have a DLSR camera outfit but don't take it everywhere I go, unlike my phone.
Agree that 5mp images on a phone with a weeny, crappy lens is just marketing hype. 2-3mp would be more than enough.
Not exactly sure, but possibly:
1) A built-in AM antenna (ferrite rod type) is too bulky to fit inside the case. With FM you can use the headphone cord as an antenna.
2) The noise generated by the clock signals of the player's circuitry would affect AM reception too much. FM is generally broadcast on higher frequencies than AM and stands up better to interference.
> the PDP line was a frigen mainframe system
Hardly. The PDP was a mini.
A contemporary mainframe system would have been the IBM System/360 or later S/370
These filled a good sized computer room if you include the DASD, printers, tape units, punches/readers, terminal controllers etc.
A PDP was always a small rack you could tuck away in a corner of the room.
> When you produce something that can be installed by an ordinary musician, that has user documentation, that is easy to use, that supports MIDI and commidity sound-cards (like Soundblaster and chips built into laptops), then please let us know.
It's piched at the pro-audio user. Why the hell should it support commodity audio hardware?
> When you produce something that can be installed by an ordinary musician, that has user documentation, that is easy to use, that supports MIDI and commidity sound-cards (like Soundblaster and chips built into laptops), then please let us know.
It's piched at the pro-audio user. Why the hell should it support 'commodity' audio hardware?
> It's 8 in the morning here, and starting drinking this early would techinically be more pathetic than flamewars on/.
Yeah. I keep a bottle of JD under the bed for my early morning drinking;P
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I've always found that proper use of OO makes things easier to change and adapt.
It's the 'proper use' bit that's tricky. It requires a bit of design and planning rather than just cranking up the editor and coding to the metal.
Why "of course"?
Am I alone in wondering exactly what a "next-generation application" is anyway?
What qualities or requirements define a "next-generation application", other than it not having been developed yet?
Anyhow, it was my take on the article that the use of 'P' languages was incidental, it was the grid concept and the horizontal scaling. The 'P' languages just happen to be part of a readily available set of tools for implementing this idea.
MS owns less and less of the web server market share, and I can't see how they could stop PHP working with IIS unless they blocked CGI.
MS already has some proprietary extensions to CSS (like variable transparency) and it's no big deal.
Either you use these features or let them gracefully degrade so the user still has a workable web site.
And FrontPage users are a vanishing breed (thankfully).
How can they freeze out PHP with IE?
PHP is a server-side technology. The browser has no direct interaction with, or knowledge of PHP.
Now it would be possible for MS to make a browser that would 'freeze out' CSS - but what would be the point? Just so they could piss everyone off?
MS aren't going to freeze out PHP or CSS. It makes no sense!
Just recently switched from Outlook to TB 0.8 under W2K SP4. As an email client, I'm pretty happy with it. Most things work well enough.
Had some issues with importing and managing large mail folders from Outlook - TB would not delete imported folders and would hang when trying to traverse them.
I still can't get away from Outlook's calendar and scheduling functions. Nothing available that really replaces that in Thunderbird as far as I know.
Thanks for the info.
Not sure what you mean by 'working with Adobe'?
Do you have any more information on this?
As far as I can see from Adobe's web site, you can only upgrade to a newer version (e.g. CS) on the *same* platform.
I'm about to replace my laptop and would consider a Powermac if I could crossgrade and not have to buy the full Adobe application suite all over again.
But Adobe deson't offer crossgrades between the Mac and Windows product lines AFIAK.
That means you must have had to pay for full versions of PS and Illustrator for the Mac, even though you aleady owned the Windows versions. Ouch!
Yes I understood that already.
What's your point?
>>This is the Linux revolutions biggest draw back in making headway into many environments. No kickbacks, no lobster dinners or pre-paid trips.
I see where you're going with this but surely there must be an opportunity for businesses to make an honest crust from this (Linux, OSS whatever) whithout jumping on the junket waggon - otherwise where does it all go?
Businesses need to be able to rely on mutually-beneficial, cooperative relationships (i.e. trading).
If some guy kindly offers to do something I really depend on 'for free', I don't really feel comfortable with that.
It means I'm reliant on his continued good will affability and whims. Do you see what I mean?
>>The UK satirical magazine Private Eye has followed this story for a number of years.
Yes. It's odd how nobody in the mainstream press seems to take any notice of this.
I mean, it's not your typical 'tinfoil hat' conspiracy stuff - it's quite open and blatent.
They're so arrogant they think nobody that matters cares.
Unfortunately they seem to be entirely correct in that assumption at the moment.
>>While most government contracts do go to the lowest bidder
I respectfully disagree. Contracts rarely go to the lowest bidder, govt. ones especially.
Most govt. contracts go to outfits that the purchasing agency feel most comfortable with, totally *regardless* of cost.
You know. Those firms where the head of said department (or indeed the minister) can look forward to a lucrative, stress-free, post-political career as a non-exec director on (or 'special advisor' to) the board.
One or two of the current UK ministers in charge of these things are actually former execs of Andersons etc. and will probably return to the bosom of their alma mater, at some hugely elevated rank, when they are political dead meat.
The OS may be free but complete solutions aren't.
Organizations (govt. or private) invite bids for Solutions, not operating systems. An OS is only a small part of the solution.
The current UK govt. has a terrible track record on It projects. The go back time and time again to the same suppliers that failed them and overran their budget to alarming proportions (notable names here include: EDS, C(r)AP Gemini, Arthur Anderson - the usual suspects...).
The cost of a desktop/small-server OS is almost incidental to the cost of a major IT project.
True. It was when I moved to London that I stopped driving. Even though I don't live there anymore, I still don't drive.
Believe me, in some of the more provincial parts of the country, they think it's very odd if you choose not to drive.
I don't know where you get you're idead from.
Generally, non-driving adults are looked upon as being rather eccentric in the UK.
I speak as one who chooses not to drive (even though that would be the easier thing for me to do).
Everyone is always surprised, even shocked when I tell them I don't drive. They either thing you're very poor, disabled in some way or are very slightly mad.
It seems to me that the BBC is one of the few parts of the British media that is challenging the govenment at all.
Saw an excellent BBC documentary last night called "The Power of nightmares" which shows how the right has manufactured 'imaginary enemies' and exagerated threats (we all know which ones) so that they can tighen their grip on power.
Hardly toeing the government line is it?
I agree entirely.
Nevertheless, there's something quite handy about being able to take a snapshot with a mobile phone.
The immediacy of it is attractive. I have done a couple of large montage prints of various things/events using a camera phone. Although the individual images are small and crappy, they quite look good when montaged together to make collages or wierd panoramas.
I do have a DLSR camera outfit but don't take it everywhere I go, unlike my phone.
Agree that 5mp images on a phone with a weeny, crappy lens is just marketing hype. 2-3mp would be more than enough.
IIRC it wasn't just stuff you developed on their time.
It was anything and everything you developed while you were an IBM employee, even if it was done on your own time, using your own equipment.
Well that may work for you but it doesn't work for businesses. Change your name every 6-9 months? I don't think so.
What kind of science are you qualified in? It's certainly not climatology.
Not exactly sure, but possibly: 1) A built-in AM antenna (ferrite rod type) is too bulky to fit inside the case. With FM you can use the headphone cord as an antenna. 2) The noise generated by the clock signals of the player's circuitry would affect AM reception too much. FM is generally broadcast on higher frequencies than AM and stands up better to interference.
Sybase is a damn good database (superior in many ways to Postgre IMHO) and they are *giving away* a perfectly usable version.
Now you're bitching and moaning that the source isn't open.
The source code for Postgre is available, but I, for one have never bothered looking at it. Have you?
Some people are never happy I guess.
And no, I'm not missing the point. The Sybase people have done a good thing. Give them some credit!
> the PDP line was a frigen mainframe system Hardly. The PDP was a mini. A contemporary mainframe system would have been the IBM System/360 or later S/370 These filled a good sized computer room if you include the DASD, printers, tape units, punches/readers, terminal controllers etc. A PDP was always a small rack you could tuck away in a corner of the room.
Sorry, reposted in Plain Old Text mode...
> When you produce something that can be installed by an ordinary musician, that has user documentation, that is easy to use, that supports MIDI and commidity sound-cards (like Soundblaster and chips built into laptops), then please let us know.
It's piched at the pro-audio user. Why the hell should it support commodity audio hardware?
> When you produce something that can be installed by an ordinary musician, that has user documentation, that is easy to use, that supports MIDI and commidity sound-cards (like Soundblaster and chips built into laptops), then please let us know. It's piched at the pro-audio user. Why the hell should it support 'commodity' audio hardware?
> It's 8 in the morning here, and starting drinking this early would techinically be more pathetic than flamewars on /.
Yeah. I keep a bottle of JD under the bed for my early morning drinking ;P