So is Photoshop. Go to any bookstore and there are more photoshop books than any other book. Photoshop isn't easy or intuitive at all.
Every graphic designer has spent hundreds of hours learning photoshop.. so when they use any other application, their first complaint is "this isn't photoshop".
That's not to say that the gimp couldn't use a lot of UI work, but any complaint from a photoshop user should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm always reminded of the battle between Lightwave and Maya users. Each set swears up and down that their application is easier, and that the other application is a disaster.
I think that separation on the server side is better to avoid client complexity.
Yes, you're right, and it could indeed be the case with iTMS that it is separated on the server side, and joined via xslt before being sent to the client.
I would love to know if Apple has similar plans as Microsoft. They have built one application that uses XML to layout a user interface, there isn't any reason why they couldn't do the same with all of their apps.
I think the whole concept is very promising. Especially for linux. Providing an easy-to-use XML interface for layout control of applications really opens doors. Designers could design application interfaces even after an application has been "published".
It takes the concept of customizing your toolbars to a whole new level.. I would be able to customize the entire interface of an application.
Sure there are bits and pieces of this already in place (XUL for example) but one thing that MS does well is taking a concept and applying it across the board. I want all my gnome apps to work like this.
Anyone remember Wizard of Wor? It was actually the first computer game I ever played, in 1983.
That was a good one. The first computer game I ever played was Mystery House by sierra.
It was the first text-adventure game with graphics. I remember being very frustrated because I couldn't put out the fire because I couldn't figure out how to say "put out fire with pitcher of water"
Wonder if they could possibly work out a deal to have the original C64 version of Defenders of the Crown. God I loved that game on the C64. The PC version never had the graphics and that sorry NES version just never captured the magic.
Have you played the Apple IIgs version? It had the best graphics and sound out of all of them.
I remember it still. First, you had the 100 meter dash. That meant hitting the space bar very fast for about 15 seconds. Then, you had the 200 meter dash. That meant hitting the space bar very fast for 30 seconds. Then, you had the 400 meter dash and you stopped playing.
You don't remember it quite clearly though. It required a joystick. For the sprints, you had to rock the joystick back and forth really rapidly. For things like diving, you basically just beat the shit out of the joystick trying to pull off as many tricks as possible.
I think the Sumemr Games box should have had a picture of a broken joystick on the cover.
Anyone who has spent $10,000 at iTunes Music Store can easily afford $100 for a CD burner and $100 for blank CDs to store 10,000 purchased tracks.
True, but why should they have to? My wife bought a bunch of games off Yahoo. Her harddrive crashed, and yahoo let her download them again.
I bought Worms Armageddon off trygames.com a few years ago. I've since re-osed and trygames let me re-download it.
It seems like fairly standard practice for places where you purchase software online.
It's a simple matter of customer appreciation.
That's what lack of competition gets you. I can guarrantee that as soon as there is some competition in the online music dept, Apple will start offering this as a feature.. and you will all kiss their asses over it.
Multiple downloads could present a somewhat large financial issue for apple... like when a person with 10,000 songs downloaded wipes their harddrive and then suddenly wants to just redownload them again.
Anyone who's spent $10k at iTMS deserves to be able to download load them again.
Apple happily lets everyone and their grandmother download all those huge movie trailers for free, I think they can spare some bandwidth for the guy who just gave them $10,000.
This whole limit of computers is kind of redundant if they let you burn audio cd's. Aren't most people burning an audio cd, and then ripping to MP3 from there?
Why would you do that? Take your protected AAC, open up iMovie, import the AAC, the save it again as an AIFF.
I just want a nice pointy/clicky app to do package management.
Perfectly understandable. up2date on fedora uses yum as its backend... and it's all pointy/clicky. Even has an applet that turns red when there are new packages.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Fedora box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder.
That 17 meg file sure gets around. First you copied it on a Mac LC, then a Powerbook, now a linux box. You must be getting really frustrated having to copy that file around all the time, and it always seems to take forever for you too... sucks to be you.
Hope they get the problems with the drivers for ATI Radeon cards sorted out.
Same with NVidia. NVidia's drivers don't work with fedora's 2.6.5 kernel. You compile the drivers, and then when you try and startx, the system locks up (totally locks up, if you're sshed into the box you'll find it frozen).
echo stripslashes("This isn\\\'t bad for you"); This isn't bad for you
What version of php is that? php 4.3 prints out This isn\'t bad for you.
As far as the mysql slashing goes, he's right, doing an addslashes into mysql and a stripslashes when it comes out would work reguardless of magic_quotes_gpc.
It's still as ugly a hack as my nested slash example, and the best solution is still to just turn off magic_quotes_gpc.
I know this concept from Perl DBI, but in PHP I haven't seen anyone (phpBB,...) using bind_param. Why is this? Performance? Keeping the code short and simple?
Probably because mysqli (the improved mysql class) is fairly new, and not many people have it compiled into their php.
providing you addslashes before entering and stripslashes after reading from db then it'll be fine whether it's on or off.
Um, no. If you have magic_quotes turned on, and you addslashes() on $_GET or $_POST var, you\\\'ll get a lot of extra slashes. And stripslashes() will only remove one level of slashes.
In order to write a script that doesn't care whether or not magic_quotes is on, you have to do stupid crap like: $myvar=addslashes(stripslashes($myvar)); before you insert it into the database.
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I'm surprised he didn't mention Darwin even once. Darwin, the open source core of OS X, can run on x86.
Maybe because without Aqua, Darwin is useless. It's extremely slow and has horrible device support.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
The sites with the longest uptime run OpenBSD
thats who uses it
That's not a valid list.
$ uname -sr
SunOS 5.7
$ uptime
12:11am up 1585 day(s), 8:41, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.27, 0.26
That puts us in the top 10, and we're not the only ones. The problem is the uptime solaris reports to netcraft rolls over every 495 days.
The Gimp is damn hard to learn and use.
So is Photoshop. Go to any bookstore and there are more photoshop books than any other book. Photoshop isn't easy or intuitive at all.
Every graphic designer has spent hundreds of hours learning photoshop.. so when they use any other application, their first complaint is "this isn't photoshop".
That's not to say that the gimp couldn't use a lot of UI work, but any complaint from a photoshop user should be taken with a grain of salt.
I'm always reminded of the battle between Lightwave and Maya users. Each set swears up and down that their application is easier, and that the other application is a disaster.
I think that separation on the server side is better to avoid client complexity.
Yes, you're right, and it could indeed be the case with iTMS that it is separated on the server side, and joined via xslt before being sent to the client.
I would love to know if Apple has similar plans as Microsoft. They have built one application that uses XML to layout a user interface, there isn't any reason why they couldn't do the same with all of their apps.
I think the whole concept is very promising. Especially for linux. Providing an easy-to-use XML interface for layout control of applications really opens doors. Designers could design application interfaces even after an application has been "published".
It takes the concept of customizing your toolbars to a whole new level.. I would be able to customize the entire interface of an application.
Sure there are bits and pieces of this already in place (XUL for example) but one thing that MS does well is taking a concept and applying it across the board. I want all my gnome apps to work like this.
Anyone remember Wizard of Wor? It was actually the first computer game I ever played, in 1983.
That was a good one. The first computer game I ever played was Mystery House by sierra.
It was the first text-adventure game with graphics. I remember being very frustrated because I couldn't put out the fire because I couldn't figure out how to say "put out fire with pitcher of water"
Wonder if they could possibly work out a deal to have the original C64 version of Defenders of the Crown. God I loved that game on the C64. The PC version never had the graphics and that sorry NES version just never captured the magic.
Have you played the Apple IIgs version? It had the best graphics and sound out of all of them.
I remember it still. First, you had the 100 meter dash. That meant hitting the space bar very fast for about 15 seconds. Then, you had the 200 meter dash. That meant hitting the space bar very fast for 30 seconds. Then, you had the 400 meter dash and you stopped playing.
You don't remember it quite clearly though. It required a joystick. For the sprints, you had to rock the joystick back and forth really rapidly. For things like diving, you basically just beat the shit out of the joystick trying to pull off as many tricks as possible.
I think the Sumemr Games box should have had a picture of a broken joystick on the cover.
Anyone who has spent $10,000 at iTunes Music Store can easily afford $100 for a CD burner and $100 for blank CDs to store 10,000 purchased tracks.
True, but why should they have to? My wife bought a bunch of games off Yahoo. Her harddrive crashed, and yahoo let her download them again.
I bought Worms Armageddon off trygames.com a few years ago. I've since re-osed and trygames let me re-download it.
It seems like fairly standard practice for places where you purchase software online.
It's a simple matter of customer appreciation.
That's what lack of competition gets you. I can guarrantee that as soon as there is some competition in the online music dept, Apple will start offering this as a feature.. and you will all kiss their asses over it.
It IS programming and it IS in CODE because it has a syntax , a grammer and a vocabulary.
Then so is the english language, so is a config file, so is a cake recipe.
I believe he meant "programming language" when he said "code".
It's not a programming language until you can bootstrap it. Once you write a XAML parser using XAML, it can be called a programming language.
Having said that, why isn't there an far-reaching OSS project to replace HTML?
Well, that's not really what XAML is, it's a way of marking up UIs.
Apple does the same thing with iTMS.
The structure of iTMS XML is similar to the structure of a Gtk app (in fact, I'm currently working on implementing a viewer of iTMS XML using Gtk).
In general, iTMS XML isn't as powerful as html+css, but it does do some things that html can't do.
Because both XAML and iTMS XML mix content with presentation, neither is a good replacement for html+css, but both are interesting none-the-less.
Multiple downloads could present a somewhat large financial issue for apple... like when a person with 10,000 songs downloaded wipes their harddrive and then suddenly wants to just redownload them again.
Anyone who's spent $10k at iTMS deserves to be able to download load them again.
Apple happily lets everyone and their grandmother download all those huge movie trailers for free, I think they can spare some bandwidth for the guy who just gave them $10,000.
This whole limit of computers is kind of redundant if they let you burn audio cd's. Aren't most people burning an audio cd, and then ripping to MP3 from there?
Why would you do that? Take your protected AAC, open up iMovie, import the AAC, the save it again as an AIFF.
# emerge mplayer
# emerge win32codecs
# emerge realvideo-codecs
Cost: $0.
The look on your face when gentoo is forced to stop distributing MS and Real's intellectual property: priceless.
I just want a nice pointy/clicky app to do package management.
Perfectly understandable. up2date on fedora uses yum as its backend... and it's all pointy/clicky. Even has an applet that turns red when there are new packages.
I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Fedora box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder.
That 17 meg file sure gets around. First you copied it on a Mac LC, then a Powerbook, now a linux box. You must be getting really frustrated having to copy that file around all the time, and it always seems to take forever for you too... sucks to be you.
I don't know of a URL, but I'm running Core 2 on both my powerbook and my desktop.
Here's the most obvious changes I've seen:
Kernel 2.6.5 instead of 2.4.22
Gnome 2.6 instead of 2.4
x.org instead of XFree86
Mozilla 1.6
SELinux (although it's been turned off)
and upgraded versions of gcc, python, glibc, and a most other software.
Also instead of redhat-config-* it's all system-config now.
Still it lacks the amazing 'apt-get' feature that makes me love debian.
What makes yum less amazing than 'apt-get'? They appear to do the same thing.
Hope they get the problems with the drivers for ATI Radeon cards sorted out.
Same with NVidia. NVidia's drivers don't work with fedora's 2.6.5 kernel. You compile the drivers, and then when you try and startx, the system locks up (totally locks up, if you're sshed into the box you'll find it frozen).
double the_power_of_C = pow(x,299792458);
What a waste, you can install *all* of those things at once just by installing Kazaa Media Desktop.
echo stripslashes("This isn\\\'t bad for you"); This isn't bad for you
What version of php is that? php 4.3 prints out This isn\'t bad for you.
As far as the mysql slashing goes, he's right, doing an addslashes into mysql and a stripslashes when it comes out would work reguardless of magic_quotes_gpc.
It's still as ugly a hack as my nested slash example, and the best solution is still to just turn off magic_quotes_gpc.
I know this concept from Perl DBI, but in PHP I haven't seen anyone (phpBB,
Probably because mysqli (the improved mysql class) is fairly new, and not many people have it compiled into their php.
providing you addslashes before entering and stripslashes after reading from db then it'll be fine whether it's on or off.
Um, no. If you have magic_quotes turned on, and you addslashes() on $_GET or $_POST var, you\\\'ll get a lot of extra slashes. And stripslashes() will only remove one level of slashes.
In order to write a script that doesn't care whether or not magic_quotes is on, you have to do stupid crap like: $myvar=addslashes(stripslashes($myvar)); before you insert it into the database.
I remember the obligatory messages from people who thought that laser light in the eye automatically meant you'd go blind.
She blinded me! With science!
When I was in the Marines way back in 1989, I read about tests with little retina-mapped lasers for grunts.
Quick! Call Tactical-to-Practical and get yourself a story credit.