It's cross platform from the standpoint of the browser plugin works on Windows and Mac, but to create the Silverlight content that runs you need to do it on Windows; at least at this point. Expression isn't a Mac tool. But, I can fire up Flash on Windows or Mac to create Flash content, and also use some Open Source tools on Linux to do that. I think that may be what he means on cross platform.
The only computer I have at my house is a MacBook. When the Comcast technician came to set up my cable internet he tried to find Internet Explorer on my laptop, I told him it's not installed and they don't even make it any more for Mac, would this be an issue? He just made a call to the office to talk to someone on the other side that just turned on the connection from there, and that was it. No software needed to be installed and all was done in around 15 minutes.
When I bought my Gateway laptop from a Gateway store a few years back I told the sales guy I only wanted Window 2000 Professional on it, and all the drivers for the hardware, nothing else installed, and that's what I got. It also only came with a restoration CD and a CD with the drivers. I'm sure if you ask then they won't preload all that stuff, but it's different buying a laptop from somewhere like Best Buy or CompUSA where the laptop is sitting in a box in the back and not being built at the time you order it.
Really, thank you. You have now given me the final reason NOT to upgrade.
And what would that reason be, that you have to purchase that upgrade instead of downloading it for free off some P2P or BitTorrent site? I'm sure Microsoft really hates losing a non-paying customer.
I'll keep my copy of W2K running as long as I can and when, for whatever reason, it is no longer useful I will devote my time and resources to learning how to use Linux though Apple might come first.
So, you won't purchase an upgrade to Vista, to get the full feature set of the product, but you'll start using Apple, which would require an even bigger investment? Interesting.
No, you're not the only one. Now, I don't play video games on my computer, but I do own a PS2 and an XBox, and I will never connect either one of those machines to the internet. This is the main reason I don't buy an XBox 360, if I understand everything correctly I would have to connect it to their XBox Live System so I could download emulators to allow me to play my existing games on it. And of course to connect to the XBox live system you have to create some account, and I'm sure once all that's set up it will always want me to connect so it can make sure no updates are out there or anything; and I just don't want to go through the hassel. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Also, I just have no interest at all in ever playing a game with someone that's not in the same room with me; and I never will. I just hope the day doesn't come where you have no choice but to connect your console to some remote server to play a game.
I think it depends on how you were introduced to First Person Shooters. I never played one until Halo on my XBox. Since then I've played Halo, Halo 2, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Half-Life 2, Doom, etc. all on my console, still never tried the PC, because I use my laptop for coding and my consoles with my 50" HDTV for game playing. I enjoy FPS on the console. If you were trained to use the keyboard + mouse it would be hard to use a controller, but if you started off on the controller it's not bad at all.
And maybe another way to get people to think about switching over to Linux is to stop acting like some elite geek calling all the people you want to switch over "idiots". Thing is, unlike a majority of the/. crowd, 99% of people in this world have a life that doesn't revolve around computers.
I used to love this game on Atari 2600 called Megamania. I played it until I got a score of 999,990 and then the game just stopped. I thought the game had frozen, but that was actually how the game ended, the score field wouldn't hold 1,000,000, so the game just stopped.
Kind of like right-to-life people bombing abortion clinics or shooting doctors that perform abortions.
Actually, they aren't getting bent out of shape about the violence depiction. It's against their religion to print an image of Muhammad, because it could lead to idolatry. That's what they're getting bent out of shape about.
I think the big stink about it is it's a beta you pay for, so you should expect certain things in return for paying for it. You pay for a video, and only after you pay for the video are you told that "It requires Windows XP and an internet connection", so, if you just bought the video on a Mac, would you be pissed or just slap forehead and say, "Oh well, not Googles fault I can't watch the thing I just purchased, it says the site is beta".
In a lot of organizations the Legal or HR department will type up documents in Word that will be placed out on the company website. For them both content and presentation is important. You don't spend hours typing up a document and making it look nice to choose as Save as HTML feature and have it just spit out a long string of text with no formatting. If OpenOffice spit out an HTML page and a corresponding CSS file to style it up, that would be fine, but it doesn't. All those messy spans in the Word save as HTML feature help make it look the same as when you typed it up, something I'm sure most people expect.
While I admit the save as HTML option in Word produces some scary HTML, if you view it in a browser it looks just like the document you saved, with all the proper formatting and everything.
Now, do the same thing in OpenOffice. The last time I tested it, I had a line of text that was left justified, a line of text that was centered, then a line of text that was right justified. I saved as HTML, viewied it in a browser, and everything was left justified. Didn't look anything like the document I saved.
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I've never understood how job openings on a job board give any indication of how popular a programming language is. If my company posts 10.NET Programmer openings and 10 Java Programmer openings on Monster.com, and we have 6.NET developers apply and get hired and have 2 Java developers apply and get hired; then you go out to Monster and run some sort of statistic on it, what do you see? 4.NET openings and 8 Java openings. That must mean Java is more popular!?! Nope, just means it's harder to fill the positions because it's becoming less popular. (This is just one way to look at it, not saying.NET is more popular than Java or the other way around).
If I remember right, it's a version of Red Hat. I'm just wondering what desktop they would run. Performance of Gnome or KDE sucks on most $1000+ laptops, hate to imagine it running on a $100 laptop.
Have you ever used Outlook Web Access? It's one of the original applications using what people have recently labelled AJAX (Microsoft created the XMLHttpRequest object back in IE 5 and use it in their Outlook Web Client). So, they were a step ahead of everyone else in regards to an AJAX Web Mail interface, they just limited it to Outlook Web Access instead of putting it in MSN Mail or Hotmail.
X-Box isn't about cracking the best graphics or anything like that... its all about X-Box live and the multiplay capability.
I couldn't tell from the article, but it almost sounded like part of setting up the machine is creating an XBox-Live account. Is that right? Here's the part I'm referring to
When you first turn on your Xbox 360 and take care of initial set-up (choosing a language, time zone, etc.), you're prompted to either set up or transfer an Xbox Live account. Doing so is an easy, painless process that takes no more than 10 or 15 minutes. (You'll also need to set up an Xbox Live/Microsoft Passport account if you don't have one already).
I currently own an XBox and a PS2 and plan on eventually upgrading to the newer consoles, but I have never been interested in online play. I don't enjoy it, which is what turned me off of Final Fantasy XI, because it seemed like it was only geared to playing online. I would hope it's not something you have to do to be able to use the machine.
Yes. I've always felt they should rename it "News about FOSS/Linux. Because nothing else matters."
At least then you'd know to bypass most of the stories because it's really just become an open source poke-and-jab at Microsoft at least once a day web site.
Nothing to back up that statement, just a simple yes? One of the things that helps Linux at the moment is that the majority of the users are geeks who entire life revolves around computers. They keep up with every application on their machine and patch as soon as bugs are found and fixed. A lot of viruses on Windows are exploiting bugs that have been fixed, but the users don't keep up to date with their fixes. So, like I said, these users switch to Linux and you think all the sudden they'll be updating daily?
I always see these comments, but I want to know; if the mass of people using Windows today all switched over and were using Linux tomorrow, do you honestly think all of a sudden the computer world would be a safer place? Do you envision this utopia where all users suddenly start keeping their machines up to date to thwart off the latest exploit? Would we suddenly have ma and pa computer user logging into application.bugzilla.com and filing bug reports? If a trojan/worm/virus/etc was sent out and the user got infected and a dialog popped up saying they had to enter their root password to run it, do you think these same users that download everything off the net, always just click "yes" without reading anything, are going to say "if I log in as root I can cause serious damage" and not log in as root? no, a majority of them will log in as root and get exploited.
The only difference I see will be all the Linux zealots either a) switching to another OS because now it's not 1337 to be running Linux or b) the same people that blame Microsoft for all the users problems, will now start blaming the user (instead of blaming Linux).
Same here. I told my paper why would I pay to have a paper delivered each day that had news from yesterday when I could hop online and get more up-to-the-minute news. Plus, I have found that the Atlanta Journal Constitution is pretty weak on reporters; compared to other cities their news reporting isn't very good.
Does it really matter? One thing I liked about Open Source when I first got into it was that it was all about choice. Now days it seems like the matra is "OSS/Linux is all about freedom and choice, as long as the choice you make is OSS/Linux". I enjoy using FireFox, GAIM and Apache. Not a fan of OpenOffice.org but it's a choice if I need one. I'm not a fan of Linux, so I enjoy the choice and freedom to use the apps I like on my platform of choice which happens to be Windows. I hear all the arguments how such and such app only exists on Windows and that's just so evil yet here this person is talking about only having the apps exist on Linux. I'm all for multi platform applications, let the user choose the OS they want.
I work at Time Warner as a developer. Started out as a contractor, was brought aboard full time later. Just like every other developer that works there. Some companies use it as a way to test drive their staff, find out who they want to bring aboard.
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It's cross platform from the standpoint of the browser plugin works on Windows and Mac, but to create the Silverlight content that runs you need to do it on Windows; at least at this point. Expression isn't a Mac tool. But, I can fire up Flash on Windows or Mac to create Flash content, and also use some Open Source tools on Linux to do that. I think that may be what he means on cross platform.
The only computer I have at my house is a MacBook. When the Comcast technician came to set up my cable internet he tried to find Internet Explorer on my laptop, I told him it's not installed and they don't even make it any more for Mac, would this be an issue? He just made a call to the office to talk to someone on the other side that just turned on the connection from there, and that was it. No software needed to be installed and all was done in around 15 minutes.
When I bought my Gateway laptop from a Gateway store a few years back I told the sales guy I only wanted Window 2000 Professional on it, and all the drivers for the hardware, nothing else installed, and that's what I got. It also only came with a restoration CD and a CD with the drivers. I'm sure if you ask then they won't preload all that stuff, but it's different buying a laptop from somewhere like Best Buy or CompUSA where the laptop is sitting in a box in the back and not being built at the time you order it.
Something that other tabbed browsers (Safari, Opera, IE7) can do just as fast, or faster, without the caching.
Really, thank you. You have now given me the final reason NOT to upgrade.
And what would that reason be, that you have to purchase that upgrade instead of downloading it for free off some P2P or BitTorrent site? I'm sure Microsoft really hates losing a non-paying customer.
I'll keep my copy of W2K running as long as I can and when, for whatever reason, it is no longer useful I will devote my time and resources to learning how to use Linux though Apple might come first.
So, you won't purchase an upgrade to Vista, to get the full feature set of the product, but you'll start using Apple, which would require an even bigger investment? Interesting.
No, you're not the only one. Now, I don't play video games on my computer, but I do own a PS2 and an XBox, and I will never connect either one of those machines to the internet. This is the main reason I don't buy an XBox 360, if I understand everything correctly I would have to connect it to their XBox Live System so I could download emulators to allow me to play my existing games on it. And of course to connect to the XBox live system you have to create some account, and I'm sure once all that's set up it will always want me to connect so it can make sure no updates are out there or anything; and I just don't want to go through the hassel. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). Also, I just have no interest at all in ever playing a game with someone that's not in the same room with me; and I never will. I just hope the day doesn't come where you have no choice but to connect your console to some remote server to play a game.
I think it depends on how you were introduced to First Person Shooters. I never played one until Halo on my XBox. Since then I've played Halo, Halo 2, Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Half-Life 2, Doom, etc. all on my console, still never tried the PC, because I use my laptop for coding and my consoles with my 50" HDTV for game playing. I enjoy FPS on the console. If you were trained to use the keyboard + mouse it would be hard to use a controller, but if you started off on the controller it's not bad at all.
And maybe another way to get people to think about switching over to Linux is to stop acting like some elite geek calling all the people you want to switch over "idiots". Thing is, unlike a majority of the /. crowd, 99% of people in this world have a life that doesn't revolve around computers.
I used to love this game on Atari 2600 called Megamania. I played it until I got a score of 999,990 and then the game just stopped. I thought the game had frozen, but that was actually how the game ended, the score field wouldn't hold 1,000,000, so the game just stopped.
Kind of like right-to-life people bombing abortion clinics or shooting doctors that perform abortions. Actually, they aren't getting bent out of shape about the violence depiction. It's against their religion to print an image of Muhammad, because it could lead to idolatry. That's what they're getting bent out of shape about.
I think the big stink about it is it's a beta you pay for, so you should expect certain things in return for paying for it. You pay for a video, and only after you pay for the video are you told that "It requires Windows XP and an internet connection", so, if you just bought the video on a Mac, would you be pissed or just slap forehead and say, "Oh well, not Googles fault I can't watch the thing I just purchased, it says the site is beta".
You can use GTK# along with Glade to create GUI applications.
I stopped using Google a while back, I get great search results from Yahoo. http://search.yahoo.com/
In a lot of organizations the Legal or HR department will type up documents in Word that will be placed out on the company website. For them both content and presentation is important. You don't spend hours typing up a document and making it look nice to choose as Save as HTML feature and have it just spit out a long string of text with no formatting. If OpenOffice spit out an HTML page and a corresponding CSS file to style it up, that would be fine, but it doesn't. All those messy spans in the Word save as HTML feature help make it look the same as when you typed it up, something I'm sure most people expect.
While I admit the save as HTML option in Word produces some scary HTML, if you view it in a browser it looks just like the document you saved, with all the proper formatting and everything. Now, do the same thing in OpenOffice. The last time I tested it, I had a line of text that was left justified, a line of text that was centered, then a line of text that was right justified. I saved as HTML, viewied it in a browser, and everything was left justified. Didn't look anything like the document I saved.
I've never understood how job openings on a job board give any indication of how popular a programming language is. If my company posts 10 .NET Programmer openings and 10 Java Programmer openings on Monster.com, and we have 6 .NET developers apply and get hired and have 2 Java developers apply and get hired; then you go out to Monster and run some sort of statistic on it, what do you see? 4 .NET openings and 8 Java openings. That must mean Java is more popular!?! Nope, just means it's harder to fill the positions because it's becoming less popular. (This is just one way to look at it, not saying .NET is more popular than Java or the other way around).
If I remember right, it's a version of Red Hat. I'm just wondering what desktop they would run. Performance of Gnome or KDE sucks on most $1000+ laptops, hate to imagine it running on a $100 laptop.
Have you ever used Outlook Web Access? It's one of the original applications using what people have recently labelled AJAX (Microsoft created the XMLHttpRequest object back in IE 5 and use it in their Outlook Web Client). So, they were a step ahead of everyone else in regards to an AJAX Web Mail interface, they just limited it to Outlook Web Access instead of putting it in MSN Mail or Hotmail.
X-Box isn't about cracking the best graphics or anything like that... its all about X-Box live and the multiplay capability.
I couldn't tell from the article, but it almost sounded like part of setting up the machine is creating an XBox-Live account. Is that right? Here's the part I'm referring to
When you first turn on your Xbox 360 and take care of initial set-up (choosing a language, time zone, etc.), you're prompted to either set up or transfer an Xbox Live account. Doing so is an easy, painless process that takes no more than 10 or 15 minutes. (You'll also need to set up an Xbox Live/Microsoft Passport account if you don't have one already).
I currently own an XBox and a PS2 and plan on eventually upgrading to the newer consoles, but I have never been interested in online play. I don't enjoy it, which is what turned me off of Final Fantasy XI, because it seemed like it was only geared to playing online. I would hope it's not something you have to do to be able to use the machine.
This whole "news for nerds" website is a troll.
Yes. I've always felt they should rename it "News about FOSS/Linux. Because nothing else matters."
At least then you'd know to bypass most of the stories because it's really just become an open source poke-and-jab at Microsoft at least once a day web site.
Nothing to back up that statement, just a simple yes? One of the things that helps Linux at the moment is that the majority of the users are geeks who entire life revolves around computers. They keep up with every application on their machine and patch as soon as bugs are found and fixed. A lot of viruses on Windows are exploiting bugs that have been fixed, but the users don't keep up to date with their fixes. So, like I said, these users switch to Linux and you think all the sudden they'll be updating daily?
I always see these comments, but I want to know; if the mass of people using Windows today all switched over and were using Linux tomorrow, do you honestly think all of a sudden the computer world would be a safer place? Do you envision this utopia where all users suddenly start keeping their machines up to date to thwart off the latest exploit? Would we suddenly have ma and pa computer user logging into application.bugzilla.com and filing bug reports? If a trojan/worm/virus/etc was sent out and the user got infected and a dialog popped up saying they had to enter their root password to run it, do you think these same users that download everything off the net, always just click "yes" without reading anything, are going to say "if I log in as root I can cause serious damage" and not log in as root? no, a majority of them will log in as root and get exploited.
The only difference I see will be all the Linux zealots either a) switching to another OS because now it's not 1337 to be running Linux or b) the same people that blame Microsoft for all the users problems, will now start blaming the user (instead of blaming Linux).
Same here. I told my paper why would I pay to have a paper delivered each day that had news from yesterday when I could hop online and get more up-to-the-minute news. Plus, I have found that the Atlanta Journal Constitution is pretty weak on reporters; compared to other cities their news reporting isn't very good.
Does it really matter? One thing I liked about Open Source when I first got into it was that it was all about choice. Now days it seems like the matra is "OSS/Linux is all about freedom and choice, as long as the choice you make is OSS/Linux". I enjoy using FireFox, GAIM and Apache. Not a fan of OpenOffice.org but it's a choice if I need one. I'm not a fan of Linux, so I enjoy the choice and freedom to use the apps I like on my platform of choice which happens to be Windows. I hear all the arguments how such and such app only exists on Windows and that's just so evil yet here this person is talking about only having the apps exist on Linux. I'm all for multi platform applications, let the user choose the OS they want.
I work at Time Warner as a developer. Started out as a contractor, was brought aboard full time later. Just like every other developer that works there. Some companies use it as a way to test drive their staff, find out who they want to bring aboard.