I use virtual hosting too and I have a certain fear that someday my business website will be taken down because someone uploaded a copyrighted work on the same server my legitimate site is on.
Keep backups at your own company... so you can be on in a very short time if this happens...
Counter question, how many people have died in the meanwhile which could have been saved because the persons in the FBI were bound by this instead of being assigned to real crime prevention and resolution tasks... I guess a lot!
On the other hand if one dead person does not count very much like it is in certain countries then you probably are right *sarcasm off*
Ah those are just the scapegoats for getting better surrveilance technology, the real problem is the movie leaks.. Btw. I thought the same, nobody will care about the movie any more in a few weeks time, but the people bound by this operation probably could have saved a few lives in the meantime.
So speaking of killers, the movie industry in this case is indirectly also involved of some people being killed, because they bound law enforcement in their greed inforces stupidity.
Btw. I could live entirely without movies if that would mean we finally could get rid of the entire movie studios and their stench from hell...
Well for IBM OS/2 is dead for the existing customers eComStation took over. It seems that the customers still using it fell from IBMs worthwhile to support radar hence dropping it! Anyway I dont see a bleak future for Solaris, but I wonder what will happen to Netbeans which by now is far superior to Eclipse (and way more userfriendly)
Some book publishing companies pay about 1$ per copy sold to the author, so 63% is excellent! This should scare publishers to the death because it basically stops them to screw over the authors in the long run... I am all for it!
The floating toolbars in osx have a load of problems, including constantly being hidden in the background somewhere when you need them because they do not stay on top. The reason osx never has used mdi simply was it is not really possible in osx in its metaphor of having the toolbar on top, every osx application sort of is mdi but the mdi is the desktop. I am not sure if this is the correct approach, my guess is either approach has its fair share of problems!
Great so now we have rest which is basically a workaround arund the limitations of http get and it tries to squeeze everything into get.
The biggest issue is that get itself is length limited which makes it hard to get a state into unlimited length forms...
As for post it would not be needed in systems with a real socket interface and a decent connection to it. (you could also name http post a subset of what I am thinking of)
The entire http protocol is fundamentally broken in this regard and systems of around 1980 already were more sophisticated!
I always have the feeling that a lot of web framework designers are so blinded by 20 years of antipatterns that they do not see that their entire work is basically just fixups for a few things which should be solved on protocol level!
When those services appeared sort of like a middle men mostly between me and a public ftp server the first days. I thought to myself, another idiocy which hit the web. Ok I know filefront and others nowadays host content themselves, but it still is rather pointless even to use such a service for a quick sharing of files.
If I would start from scratch, I probably would kill the entire http post get aspects and would make everything get only with unlimited length of the get content!
Why they even made this distinction is beyound me! Besides that I would add subsegment isolation to the dom so that there is a base for a real component set. I would probably stay on javascript for the dynamic binding, but would start off with EcmaScript 4 so that real inheritance and namespaces are added! (Tell me what you will the current state of the art with prototypes and maps just enforces incompatibilities between libraries in those two areas) or I would go for another alternative like ruby entirely!
Websockets or another socket like system must be added to the base protocol.
Also a must would be real multithreading on language level! This together with real sockets would go a long way to get this hack ajax out of the way and add a decent real communications layer!
Also on the political side I would try to enforce a certain branding, so that shenannigans like Microsoft has pulled in the past and still does are prevented (web 2000, web 2008 or so)
Parts which are not broken are xhtml and CSS conceptualwise, the implementations are lousy as they are in most browser with way too many bugs.
And es one part I would overhaul, I would enforce an extended widget set for forms, so that real input forms are possible without hacks (I know there are standards doing this, but no one bothers to implement them)
That basically sums up my list of what has to be fixed on every stage of the current http/html/browser level to make web programming less hackish and less magic!
This does not work that way. Microsoft sits in the consortium, then rips out the ideas and implements 90% of it incompatible under their own umbrella and nails everything they can grab with patents.
Then you have to wait at least 10 years until you get a half working standards implementation from them. Works that way every time. See CSS2, Dom Level2, SVG (which currently is named differently and works only in Silverlight in their 90% fully incompatible implementation), Windows Media 9 etc... The list of those tricks is endless... Even OpenGL and Corba is on that list!
Not to give credits here, because I personally think vistas system administration ui is hilariously overly complex. But you have to refocus your view. The problem I see here in your post is that you are stuck with a certain way how things work and do not want them changed one way or the other. That is a problem which is very common nowadays. It didnt used to be like that 10 years ago, but the persistence of the old win95 UI up to Winxp seems to have branded certain workflows into the brains of the users, so that they welcome every change negatively!
I always ask myself in such situations, is it really worse or am I just so nailed down in my trodden paths that I cannot see that this is really an improvement, if I approach this with a clear mind!
I expect the tie in ratio to be worse than on the wii the games are on the average more expensive. A load of PS3s are relegated to blue ray only because for a long time it was the second best and cheapest player on the market! Another load plays htpc client!
Actually the cutting of the PS2 compatibility cost them probably around 50 mio of possible customers... This will probably go down in history to be one of the biggest mistakes any company who had a market dominance ever did!
Apple is any better? It's not like MS sues people for running windows on non-standard hardware.
It's not like MS refuses to 'license' applications for windows mobile. It's not like MS requires you to become a paid developer to write applications for their mobile OS either.
Actually the entry fee to windows mobile is much steeper, you have to buy windows and their pro development tools before you can start to program for windows mobile, that fee is way over 1000 USD! In the end the costs are up to par depending whether you have to buy an apple computer or not, if you have already one the costs for developing on the iphone are mostly neglectable around 99USD per year! Dev tools and emulators are free!
Tell me. What does OSX have that Linux or Windows on a PC doesn't?
Actually a backup capability which really works... You are not even forced to upgrade to a higher version of the same operating system for a half working restore...
Unix tools out of the box, No file locking, which makes it important if you do some serious development!
No registry which is the root of many evils in windows.
A system administration frontend which does not try to make you insane by distributing its functionality over 15.000 ui dialogs.
User Access Control which actually works as expected!
A filesystem which does not fragment as hell in serious development tasks.
A real working distributed component framework all the infrastructure is built upon which actually is usable!
It does not thrash my harddisk for minutes after bootup with tasks hidden by the process explorer (happend to me in vista)!
It does not lock my ui half a minute after showing it because it needs to load other things, und just tries to give the impression of being usable while it clearly isnÂt.
It comes with SSH and VNC and Xwindows out of the box.
The file sharing capabilities and printer sharing capabilities are superior thanks to Rendevouz!
Dashboard actually is usable instead if trying to pointlessly shove the widgets into the working area of many people!
It has a browser which follows web standards which are newer than 2003!
It has users who do not insist of using a 10 year old browser despite being numerously the victims of worms and virii induced by the shortcoming of this browser!
Actually the mini has found its nieche, it is used by htpc enthusiasts they love this machine due to the fact that it is very low on power consumption (the current model is 13 watts on idle, and 28 watt on full load, and neglegtable on standby) It is also loved by home server enthusiasts and collocation people due to the same reasons! The main issue is that there are not too many machines with the same low power/price ratio in the pc arena, I only can remember one from ACER but I am not sure if that one is not even more expensive! It might be a joke for the average geek but it definitely has found its market and given the monthly sales numbers form amazon it is one of the most successful products in apples computer line up!
The funny thing is that the current mini is not that much of a joke anymore actually it has quite nice hardware, but you get notebook performance, which is enough for many people for the tasks the mini is intended for!
This design choice as well as the registry which imposes backup restore problems make any system from a system administration and development view superior to Windows... You asked for: What does OS X do that Windows 7 can't, which makes it so superior?
I just gave honest answers why I hate to develop under Windows because it is subpar for my tasks!
It probably will be another typical wince bases phone, probably rather similar to the Touch and others, on the first look an iphone clone ui, but as soon as you hit the start button wince will rear its ugly head out of it and you will be forced to use the stylus...
Na IBM knows when to get out of a market, normally at a time when companies like Dell take over. IBM always goes for the high margin, as soon as down with quality discounters appear they leave....
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I use virtual hosting too and I have a certain fear that someday my business website will be taken down because someone uploaded a copyrighted work on the same server my legitimate site is on.
Keep backups at your own company... so you can be on in a very short time if this happens...
Counter question, how many people have died in the meanwhile which could have been saved because the persons in the FBI were bound by this instead of being assigned to real crime prevention and resolution tasks...
I guess a lot!
On the other hand if one dead person does not count very much like it is in certain countries then you probably are right *sarcasm off*
Ah those are just the scapegoats for getting better surrveilance technology, the real problem is the movie leaks.. Btw. I thought the same, nobody will care about the movie any more in a few weeks time, but the people bound by this operation probably could have saved a few lives in the meantime.
So speaking of killers, the movie industry in this case is indirectly also involved of some people being killed, because they bound law enforcement in their greed inforces stupidity.
Btw. I could live entirely without movies if that would mean we finally could get rid of the entire movie studios and their stench from hell...
Burglaries, Drug kings, heck free roaming so called ceoÂs who stripped their customers and companies via shady practices...
Well not important a leaked movie is almost the end of the world, the FBI has to act immediately.
I am glad they know their priorites!
Well for IBM OS/2 is dead for the existing customers eComStation took over. It seems that the customers still using it fell from IBMs worthwhile to support radar hence dropping it!
Anyway I dont see a bleak future for Solaris, but I wonder what will happen to Netbeans which by now is far superior to Eclipse (and way more userfriendly)
I dont see IBM supporting it in the long run!
Really? I'm posting this comment from a workstation running a commercial UNIX. I'm using a Mac.
Heh. +1 pedant.
It has lost most of the characteristics people identify as Unix though.
Like what, specifically? What characteristics of unix do you feel MacOSX doesn't have?
No usable gui
Age of Reason, followed by Age of Stupidity and Laywers...
Some book publishing companies pay about 1$ per copy sold to the author, so 63% is excellent!
This should scare publishers to the death because it basically stops them to screw over the authors in the long run...
I am all for it!
The floating toolbars in osx have a load of problems, including constantly being hidden in the background somewhere when you need them because they do not stay on top. The reason osx never has used mdi simply was it is not really possible in osx in its metaphor of having the toolbar on top, every osx application sort of is mdi but the mdi is the desktop. I am not sure if this is the correct approach, my guess is either approach has its fair share of problems!
Great so now we have rest which is basically a workaround arund the limitations of http get and it tries to squeeze everything into get.
The biggest issue is that get itself is length limited which makes it hard to get a state into unlimited length forms...
As for post it would not be needed in systems with a real socket interface and a decent connection to it. (you could also name http post a subset of what I am thinking of)
The entire http protocol is fundamentally broken in this regard and systems of around 1980 already were more sophisticated!
I always have the feeling that a lot of web framework designers are so blinded by 20 years of antipatterns that they do not see that their entire work is basically just fixups for a few things which should be solved on protocol level!
When those services appeared sort of like a middle men mostly between me and a public ftp server the first days. I thought to myself, another idiocy which hit the web. Ok I know filefront and others nowadays host content themselves, but it still is rather pointless even to use such a service for a quick sharing of files.
If I would start from scratch, I probably would kill the entire http post get aspects and would make everything get only with unlimited length of the get content!
Why they even made this distinction is beyound me!
Besides that I would add subsegment isolation to the dom so that there is a base for a real component set. I would probably stay on javascript for the dynamic binding, but would start off with EcmaScript 4 so that real inheritance and namespaces are added! (Tell me what you will the current state of the art with prototypes and maps just enforces incompatibilities between libraries in those two areas) or I would go for another alternative like ruby entirely!
Websockets or another socket like system must be added to the base protocol.
Also a must would be real multithreading on language level! This together with real sockets would go a long way to get this hack ajax out of the way and add a decent real communications layer!
Also on the political side I would try to enforce a certain branding, so that shenannigans like Microsoft has pulled in the past and still does are prevented (web 2000, web 2008 or so)
Parts which are not broken are xhtml and CSS conceptualwise, the implementations are lousy as they are in most browser with way too many bugs.
And es one part I would overhaul, I would enforce an extended widget set for forms, so that real input forms are possible without hacks (I know there are standards doing this, but no one bothers to implement them)
That basically sums up my list of what has to be fixed on every stage of the current http/html/browser level to make web programming less hackish and less magic!
This does not work that way. Microsoft sits in the consortium, then rips out the ideas and implements 90% of it incompatible under their own umbrella and nails everything they can grab with patents.
Then you have to wait at least 10 years until you get a half working standards implementation from them. Works that way every time. See CSS2, Dom Level2, SVG (which currently is named differently and works only in Silverlight in their 90% fully incompatible implementation), Windows Media 9 etc...
The list of those tricks is endless...
Even OpenGL and Corba is on that list!
Not to give credits here, because I personally think vistas system administration ui is hilariously overly complex. But you have to refocus your view. The problem I see here in your post is that you are stuck with a certain way how things work and do not want them changed one way or the other. That is a problem which is very common nowadays. It didnt used to be like that 10 years ago, but the persistence of the old win95 UI up to Winxp seems to have branded certain workflows into the brains of the users, so that they welcome every change negatively!
I always ask myself in such situations, is it really worse or am I just so nailed down in my trodden paths that I cannot see that this is really an improvement, if I approach this with a clear mind!
I expect the tie in ratio to be worse than on the wii the games are on the average more expensive. A load of PS3s are relegated to blue ray only because for a long time it was the second best and cheapest player on the market!
Another load plays htpc client!
Actually the cutting of the PS2 compatibility cost them probably around 50 mio of possible customers...
This will probably go down in history to be one of the biggest mistakes any company who had a market dominance ever did!
depends on the platform the thing was pretty easy to drive on the PC...
The entire game was way better on the PC than on the xbox, and cheaper as well
Apple is any better? It's not like MS sues people for running windows on non-standard hardware.
It's not like MS refuses to 'license' applications for windows mobile. It's not like MS requires you to become a paid developer to write applications for their mobile OS either.
Actually the entry fee to windows mobile is much steeper, you have to buy windows and their pro development tools before you can start to program for windows mobile, that fee is way over 1000 USD!
In the end the costs are up to par depending whether you have to buy an apple computer or not, if you have already one the costs for developing on the iphone are mostly neglectable around 99USD per year! Dev tools and emulators are free!
Same here, after my Acer has fallen apart and written off I will get a refurbished aluminium macbook pro...
Tell me. What does OSX have that Linux or Windows on a PC doesn't?
Actually a backup capability which really works...
You are not even forced to upgrade to a higher version of the same operating system for a half working restore...
Unix tools out of the box,
No file locking, which makes it important if you do some serious development!
No registry which is the root of many evils in windows.
A system administration frontend which does not try to make you insane by distributing its functionality over 15.000 ui dialogs.
User Access Control which actually works as expected!
A filesystem which does not fragment as hell in serious development tasks.
A real working distributed component framework all the infrastructure is built upon which actually is usable!
It does not thrash my harddisk for minutes after bootup with tasks hidden by the process explorer (happend to me in vista)!
It does not lock my ui half a minute after showing it because it needs to load other things, und just tries to give the impression of being usable while it clearly isnÂt.
It comes with SSH and VNC and Xwindows out of the box.
The file sharing capabilities and printer sharing capabilities are superior thanks to Rendevouz!
Dashboard actually is usable instead if trying to pointlessly shove the widgets into the working area of many people!
It has a browser which follows web standards which are newer than 2003!
It has users who do not insist of using a 10 year old browser despite being numerously the victims of worms and virii induced by the shortcoming of this browser!
Actually the mini has found its nieche, it is used by htpc enthusiasts they love this machine due to the fact that it is very low on power consumption (the current model is 13 watts on idle, and 28 watt on full load, and neglegtable on standby)
It is also loved by home server enthusiasts and collocation people due to the same reasons!
The main issue is that there are not too many machines with the same low power/price ratio in the pc arena, I only can remember one from ACER but I am not sure if that one is not even more expensive!
It might be a joke for the average geek but it definitely has found its market and given the monthly sales numbers form amazon it is one of the most successful products in apples computer line up!
The funny thing is that the current mini is not that much of a joke anymore actually it has quite nice hardware, but you get notebook performance, which is enough for many people for the tasks the mini is intended for!
This design choice as well as the registry which imposes backup restore problems make any system from a system administration and development view superior to Windows...
You asked for:
What does OS X do that Windows 7 can't, which makes it so superior?
I just gave honest answers why I hate to develop under Windows because it is subpar for my tasks!
It probably will be another typical wince bases phone, probably rather similar to the Touch and others, on the first look an iphone clone ui, but as soon as you hit the start button wince will rear its ugly head out of it and you will be forced to use the stylus...
Na IBM knows when to get out of a market, normally at a time when companies like Dell take over. IBM always goes for the high margin, as soon as down with quality discounters appear they leave....
What would you do if you were the owner of Apple?
I would close the company!
Michael Dell ca 1997....