Actually the repo handling is really SVNs strong side, unsurpassed by newer systems. Externals are extremely powerful so is the simply copy paste algorithm (which internally makes hard links) to chain together cross project source dependencies. Git and others cannot follow that route due to their different way to treat things. For git the server is more or less the dump to dump the files to, while for svn this is the filesystem and the local stuff is just a small copy of what is going on on the server.
Actually SVN has another amazing thing, you can change configurations of your project on the server centrally without filling your servers hds. You have a project 15 dependencies which change over time, simply either use svn:external, or copy them in. The next time the users do an svn:update they get all source dependencies in. Also don't underestimate the power of the webdav support for the average user, they simply can drop the documents into their remote folders and have them versioned. So SVN is not that bad. Git also has a load of problems especially on the command line, the command set sometimes really is awful.
Well DVCs systems are different, I use CVS, SVN, and GIT day in day out, you have to work in DVCS systems differently. In SVN you have your commits thats it. In DVCs systems your commits are local and there you have control and the push is global. So the push is more or less the final straw you have to do. Coming from SVN you have to unlearn certain stuff. Gits nasty side is its quirky command line, coming from SVN Mercurials workflow (which also can be built on top of Git but is not the recommended way) might be closer.
Mercurial is not really superior, it is a subset of about 80% of hits functionality baked into a nicer command line set. Btw. Mercurials strong side is really the relatively clean command line outside of that both systems are so close it is eery.
Corporations are always the last, there are some which drop CVS now and move to SVN. By they time the seriously consider moving away from SVN hits toolchain support already will be mature.
Actually most people just panned Vista because of the slowness the indexing introduced. Either way Lion might not be Apples Vista, but it definitely is a shoddy release. The fun thing is that on the Apple Support forums people are criticizing Lion left and right, while here instantly the fanboys jump in, either way I will give a list of annoyances and as far as I can see most users have the same issues with it.
a) Finder, gray in gray icons, the idea was to make the thing more document centric, the problem is in a file manager the navigational control is an important area more or less the document, now if you want to navigate you have to look at your sidebar twice. I dont have a problem with the gray icons on top. Usability 100% worse. No option to revert it back
b) Versioning in combination with autosave, removes the users ability to keep control whenever it is saved, to the worse save as does not work anymore, you now have to clone first, then issue a save as a second command, but the save option still is there to enforce a save. Catastrophic for users who rely on a try and save or undo workflow. To the worse you cannot turn it off for users who do not want to have this workflow.
A better working worflow would be just to version on save, or at least make this versioning workflow optional
c) Mission control half baked, you cannot see minimized windows anymore, you cannot directly drop from the one small space to another, you have to move to the space first with ctrl left / right and then drop the window from there. Add to that a bug that the spaces windows dissapear from time to time (aka are still there but invisible) 80% done, 20% vital spaces functionality forgotten
d) Local snapshots, while usable, it at least in my case adds about 1 Gig of backup data on a machine which basically idles 95% of the day. Not sure how big the backup grows. After resyncing with time chaine the backup data on the local hd is still there, only turning time machine off removes it. Bad for people with small SSDs. Btw. there is also no way to relocate the backup data to a second hd. Time machine notices the relocation and opens a second backup set.
e) Launcher, half baked again and full of bugs. For some people the programs are stuck in launcher and not removed or added, bug. The bigger problem is, they forgot the fulltext search functionality which is vital and even ios has.
f) Quicktime, nice to have the youtube upload functionality, but the upload is broken and results in gray youtube videos, workaround so far is to export it into 720p format and then upload it
g) Spotlight indexing, one improvement, you finally can search while spotlight is indexing, downside, after every reboot, spotlight is working for about 5 minutes, not a problem for me due to having an ssd, but others might have a problematic experience there. Reminds me a lot on Vista where the indexer was working for 20 minutes which made my machine back then crawl.
h) replacement of well working hotkeys and behaviors with annoying semi working guestures. Pre Lion it was possible to open a Single Window Expose with a reliable long click on the icon, now you have to use a three or four finger guesture, which works in about 90% of the cases.
i) Inconsistency, while the rest of the operating system had a color bleed, the iCal and address book got an annoying new color scheme with partially fake controls, which sticks out very ugly and reduces the usability due to colour clutter (ars technica has written a detailed article about it). They basically made interface design errors or the early 90s there.
j) SMB Problems, apple now has rolled their own SMB implementation which fails for a load of people
k) The versioning itself is hidden in the top menu under the menu title, close to impossible to find for people without knowing it
l) You cannot put the library folder into the time machine excludes, you only can reach it in finder, by using the alt key on the finders menu
Rest of Lion. Lion so far has been Apples Vista, it is less the bugs, but they downgraded usability to a big degree.
a) Icons which are gray in gray which basically destroy what Finder hat left of usability b) Autosave which cannot be turned off (causing havoc among people who work things out and sometimes drop the working without saving c) Replacing the save as with a clone and save functionality for nothing d) New SMB implementation which is way worse than the old samba based one causing problems among people with NAS e) Mission control which is half finished and omits function from spaces literally everyone was using f) half finished launch pad without and search functionality g) iCal and address book got the user interface design from hell treating
The list goes way further but those are the ones top of my list
Given Apple's unreal marketing machine I wonder what would happen if they introduced a proper social network. In the eyes of consumers they seem incapable of doing any wrong
Given how they let the color vampires on one corner of OSX Lion (Finder) destroy the entire usability and on the other hand how they disneyised and destroyed two other applications (iCal and address book) with too much color and how they rip you off left and right. Apple can do a load of things wrong. It is just that they currently have the press behind them like Microsoft did in the 90s, no matter what garbage Microsoft was putting out then, the press was raving. Apple will have this fortune until the next cool thing comes around the corner and the press is hyping the next company while the old one seems to be so uncool.
Actually the EA games of the 80s were way more fun than the streamlined shit they put out nowadays. Can anyone remember the time when EA called itself Electronic Arts and they put out titles like Pinpall construction set, seven cities of gold, Mule etc... EA back then was like whatever title they put out you can buy it without any reviews.
Hehe I always find it amusing how the magazines and tech sections of the newspapers always hype the latest FIFA as the best bla bla bla, when from the outside I always geht the feeling that in 4 out of 5 iterations of the series they just change the textures and the names.
It really depends on what kind of data you have. In the 90s when OODBs where the next big thing I was in a project where they tried to shoehorn tabular data and operations into an OODB, the project failed utterly, thanks to non existing well working query languages etc... entire simply sql ops became a major pain. Schema updates forget about them every second one broke the existing db and data etc... I assume with nosql the situation is rather similar, blazingly fast for certain use cases but utterly unusable for others.
Well after one year your oh so shiny toy is the last years model... got it? If you buy after shiny you will get i have the newest toy satisfaction only for a handful of months, is that really worth it? My macbook pro is 2 years old by now, I recently pimped it up with a ssd and 8 gig ram, and I intend to use it as long as it holds.
Especially since display port is basically free to integrate and superior to HDMI in so any ways it is a shame. In a few years time probably everyone will have Displayport integrated even on TV and in 10 years HDMI is a thing of the past only supported by Sony anymore.
Being a european I probably have more insight in Europe than the average US citizen. Whining yes and no, we dont have the cowboy mentality of the US, where this mentality of shoot first ask questions later has led to you can see in Irak and Afghanistan. This is simply due to the fact that people here are fed up with wars and still have their tales of their grandparents in mind who had to suffer through 2 really bad wars on local soil.
Secondly loss of an empire. Believe me, no one in europe really wants those old empires back in the european population, absolutely no one.
Loss of direction, pretty much the same as the US, the EU was one big idea but it has become way too fast the same as the US a moloch which is ruled by mostly lobbyists. Problem of the Euro, absolutely the same problem the USD has sorry to say that but the government problems and the monetary problems of the EU and USD are absolutely the same. I would even say if one currency goes down then the other would go with it and vice versa. The idea of a unifiied Europe still is here, but the EU has gotten a bad rep, because it tried to be modern Washington too much (funnily the structural binding is more like a pre Civil war USA still and always will be even any country can leave the union here, this is part of the european constitution, but still despite all its shortcomings it still is better inside the eu than outside)
Actually it is data hosted in Europe not the US... And yes the USA does not have too many friends in the world. To sum it up Europe and Canda and Australia being probably the best friends they have. The rest is either we have to live with them or, we do not wanna live with them.
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Actually the repo handling is really SVNs strong side, unsurpassed by newer systems.
Externals are extremely powerful so is the simply copy paste algorithm (which internally makes hard links)
to chain together cross project source dependencies.
Git and others cannot follow that route due to their different way to treat things.
For git the server is more or less the dump to dump the files to, while for svn this is the filesystem
and the local stuff is just a small copy of what is going on on the server.
Actually SVN has another amazing thing, you can change configurations of your project on the server centrally without filling your servers hds. You have a project 15 dependencies which change over time, simply either use svn:external, or copy them in. The next time the users do an svn:update they get all source dependencies in.
Also don't underestimate the power of the webdav support for the average user, they simply can drop the documents into their remote folders and have them versioned.
So SVN is not that bad. Git also has a load of problems especially on the command line, the command set sometimes really is awful.
Well DVCs systems are different, I use CVS, SVN, and GIT day in day out, you have to work in DVCS systems differently. In SVN you have your commits thats it. In DVCs systems your commits are local and there you have control and the push is global.
So the push is more or less the final straw you have to do.
Coming from SVN you have to unlearn certain stuff.
Gits nasty side is its quirky command line, coming from SVN Mercurials workflow (which also can be built on top of Git but is not the recommended way) might be closer.
There is one thing but bucket has which is vital, they have free private repos, in github you have to pay for them.
Mercurial is not really superior, it is a subset of about 80% of hits functionality baked into a nicer command line set. Btw. Mercurials strong side is really the relatively clean command line outside of that both systems are so close it is eery.
Corporations are always the last, there are some which drop CVS now and move to SVN. By they time the seriously consider moving away from SVN hits toolchain support already will be mature.
Bazaaars biggest problems was/is speed.
Actually most people just panned Vista because of the slowness the indexing introduced.
Either way Lion might not be Apples Vista, but it definitely is a shoddy release.
The fun thing is that on the Apple Support forums people are criticizing Lion left and right, while here instantly the fanboys jump in, either way
I will give a list of annoyances and as far as I can see most users have the same issues with it.
a) Finder, gray in gray icons, the idea was to make the thing more document centric, the problem is in a file manager the navigational control
is an important area more or less the document, now if you want to navigate you have to look at your sidebar twice. I dont have a problem with the gray icons on top. Usability 100% worse.
No option to revert it back
b) Versioning in combination with autosave, removes the users ability to keep control whenever it is saved, to the worse save as does not work anymore, you now have to clone first, then issue a save as a second command, but the save option still is there to enforce a save. Catastrophic for users who rely on a try and save or undo workflow.
To the worse you cannot turn it off for users who do not want to have this workflow.
A better working worflow would be just to version on save, or at least make this versioning workflow optional
c) Mission control half baked, you cannot see minimized windows anymore, you cannot directly drop from the one small space to another, you have to move to the space first with ctrl left / right and then drop the window from there. Add to that a bug that the spaces windows dissapear from time to time (aka are still there but invisible) 80% done, 20% vital spaces functionality forgotten
d) Local snapshots, while usable, it at least in my case adds about 1 Gig of backup data on a machine which basically idles 95% of the day.
Not sure how big the backup grows. After resyncing with time chaine the backup data on the local hd is still there, only turning time machine off removes it. Bad for people with small SSDs. Btw. there is also no way to relocate the backup data to a second hd. Time machine notices the relocation and opens a second backup set.
e) Launcher, half baked again and full of bugs. For some people the programs are stuck in launcher and not removed or added, bug.
The bigger problem is, they forgot the fulltext search functionality which is vital and even ios has.
f) Quicktime, nice to have the youtube upload functionality, but the upload is broken and results in gray youtube videos, workaround so far is to export it into 720p format and then upload it
g) Spotlight indexing, one improvement, you finally can search while spotlight is indexing, downside, after every reboot, spotlight is working for about 5 minutes, not a problem for me due to having an ssd, but others might have a problematic experience there. Reminds me a lot on Vista where the indexer was working for 20 minutes which made my machine back then crawl.
h) replacement of well working hotkeys and behaviors with annoying semi working guestures. Pre Lion it was possible to open a Single Window Expose with a reliable long click on the icon, now you have to use a three or four finger guesture, which works in about 90% of the cases.
i) Inconsistency, while the rest of the operating system had a color bleed, the iCal and address book got an annoying new color scheme with partially fake controls, which sticks out very ugly and reduces the usability due to colour clutter (ars technica has written a detailed article about it). They basically made interface design errors or the early 90s there.
j) SMB Problems, apple now has rolled their own SMB implementation which fails for a load of people
k) The versioning itself is hidden in the top menu under the menu title, close to impossible to find for people without knowing it
l) You cannot put the library folder into the time machine excludes, you only can reach it in finder, by using the alt key on the finders menu
m) Gene
Rest of Lion.
Lion so far has been Apples Vista, it is less the bugs, but they downgraded usability to a big degree.
a) Icons which are gray in gray which basically destroy what Finder hat left of usability
b) Autosave which cannot be turned off (causing havoc among people who work things out and sometimes drop the working without saving
c) Replacing the save as with a clone and save functionality for nothing
d) New SMB implementation which is way worse than the old samba based one causing problems among people with NAS
e) Mission control which is half finished and omits function from spaces literally everyone was using
f) half finished launch pad without and search functionality
g) iCal and address book got the user interface design from hell treating
The list goes way further but those are the ones top of my list
Given Apple's unreal marketing machine I wonder what would happen if they introduced a proper social network. In the eyes of consumers they seem incapable of doing any wrong
Given how they let the color vampires on one corner of OSX Lion (Finder) destroy the entire usability and on the other hand how they disneyised and destroyed two other applications (iCal and address book) with too much color and how they rip you off left and right. Apple can do a load of things wrong. It is just that they currently have the press behind them like Microsoft did in the 90s, no matter what garbage Microsoft was putting out then, the press was raving. Apple will have this fortune until the next cool thing comes around the corner and the press is hyping the next company while the old one seems to be so uncool.
Because it sucks less than Facebook.
Actually the EA games of the 80s were way more fun than the streamlined shit they put out nowadays.
Can anyone remember the time when EA called itself Electronic Arts and they put out titles like Pinpall construction set,
seven cities of gold, Mule etc...
EA back then was like whatever title they put out you can buy it without any reviews.
Hehe I always find it amusing how the magazines and tech sections of the newspapers always hype the latest FIFA as the best bla bla bla, when from the outside
I always geht the feeling that in 4 out of 5 iterations of the series they just change the textures and the names.
It really depends on what kind of data you have. In the 90s when OODBs where the next big thing I was in a project where they tried to shoehorn tabular data and operations into an OODB, the project failed utterly, thanks to non existing well working query languages etc... entire simply sql ops became a major pain.
Schema updates forget about them every second one broke the existing db and data etc...
I assume with nosql the situation is rather similar, blazingly fast for certain use cases but utterly unusable for others.
Given how bad some versions of mysql support sql itself you can qualify them as nosql as well :-)
The external AIR DVD drive still will work, I guess.
Well after one year your oh so shiny toy is the last years model... got it?
If you buy after shiny you will get i have the newest toy satisfaction only for a handful of months, is that really worth it?
My macbook pro is 2 years old by now, I recently pimped it up with a ssd and 8 gig ram, and I intend to use it as long as it holds.
In the country where I live the labor laws regulate it.
You get double paid for every night or weekend shift, period, there is no discussion.
Especially since display port is basically free to integrate and superior to HDMI in so any ways it is a shame.
In a few years time probably everyone will have Displayport integrated even on TV and in 10 years HDMI is a thing of the past only supported by Sony anymore.
Not the US mentality... shoot first ask questions later, if at all..
Between the 1930s and 1960s the major labels also were money laundering companies for the US mob, guess nothing has changed.
Being a european I probably have more insight in Europe than the average US citizen.
Whining yes and no, we dont have the cowboy mentality of the US, where this mentality of shoot first
ask questions later has led to you can see in Irak and Afghanistan. This is simply due to the fact
that people here are fed up with wars and still have their tales of their grandparents in mind who had
to suffer through 2 really bad wars on local soil.
Secondly loss of an empire. Believe me, no one in europe really wants those old empires back in
the european population, absolutely no one.
Loss of direction, pretty much the same as the US, the EU was one big idea but it has become way too fast
the same as the US a moloch which is ruled by mostly lobbyists. Problem of the Euro, absolutely the same problem
the USD has sorry to say that but the government problems and the monetary problems of the EU and
USD are absolutely the same. I would even say if one currency goes down then the other would go with it and vice versa. The idea of a unifiied Europe still is here, but the EU has gotten a bad rep, because it tried to be modern
Washington too much (funnily the structural binding is more like a pre Civil war USA still and always will be
even any country can leave the union here, this is part of the european constitution, but still despite all its shortcomings
it still is better inside the eu than outside)
Actually it is data hosted in Europe not the US...
And yes the USA does not have too many friends in the world.
To sum it up Europe and Canda and Australia being probably the best friends they have. The rest is either
we have to live with them or, we do not wanna live with them.
be the death of Indian callcenters.
Not so sure about that, pretty much everyone i know has a big monitor and the xbox gamepad is very popular among the pc crowd as well.