So it seems they developed their algorithm to only deal with the values 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100. Is it really a surprise that it doesn't take into account other values?
That sounds like something Apple would do: write high-quality software that even resists unexpected tampering.
It should be possible to define rules. Like: i went to Safeway at noon on a weekday -> Lunch Category, otherwise Groceries
So instead of taking 2 seconds to change the category, it would be easier to enter the date/time of the transaction, verify it choose the right category, and correct it if necessary?
What if you go to safeway on a sunday and buy bread and deli meat. Is it pro-rated to the Lunch category if you take a sandwhich to work?
Maybe you should hire an accoutant to follow you around all day and keep track of all your expenses and put them in the right category.
Linux may not be king of the desktop, but it sure is when it comes to the server market. 85% of all web servers run Linux. Why? Because it is rock-solid stable and it takes hit after hit and keeps on coming back for more. Windows can't do that and I am not afraid to admit it!
I think a more important reason is that linux is free, whereas Windows (or Solaris, AIX et alia) cost money up front. There are thousands of webhosting companies trying to compete on price, it's a low margin business and cutting overhead is the only way to survive.
If ignored the low margin and virtual host webservers, I think you'd see more Windows and other commercial OSes being used.
Not that easy - Apple, if you're reading, consider GPLing the source code to OSX. You'll find it a hell of a lot easier to maintain, and you don't make that much money on software compared to your hardware (and future music/video distribution biz)
The GPL (and FREE software) existed before Mac OS X. Why didn't the free software community develop anything as good as OS X? They had a chance (they still do), they didn't do it. (Yes, I know/. is full of people who insist KDE, GNOME, fwvm, E, etc. are all superior to OS X. Then they cream their pants when a leaked OS X86 iso torrent appears.)
If you want to develop something really cool and give it away for free, that's fine. But your asking for other people to develop something and give it away for free.
Average doesn't know or care how much memory is being used, but he knows and cares when his machine grinds to a halt and is unresponsive.
Stability might not impress Average Joe, but when Firefox crashes every 20 minutes (Firefox 1.5, i'm looking at you), he will be even less impressed. I can't recall IE/XP Crashing more than a handful of times. I've never seen Opera crash. Firefox crashes like a demolition derby.
Well, Cocoa is a superset of the OpenStep specification, which GNUStep aims to reproduce. Porting GNUStep to OS X is mostly a recompile, Cocoa to GNUStep could require a lot of work.
Photoshop, however, is Carbon based, so it doesn't even apply.
Did you read the article ("Why photoshop tops linux most wanted apps list")? Nobody suggested that Dreamweaver is more important than Photoshop. In the survey, Photoshop was #1, Dreamweaver was #3.
For years, some linux/FOSS fanatics have insisted that GIMP is as good as photoshop, or even better. Survey says: No.
I'd say try to have lots of little programs that do one specific thing -- easier to test and verify. Also, if (when) a bug is found it should be easier to fix, and hopefully will have less impact than if it was a monolithic application.
I've dealt with software that automatically restarts a dead process, and in my experience, it doesn't work so good. If you want ultra-stable software, you want to know what caused the crash and why.
For your situation, where I guess you're doing lots of time consuming computing, I'd think you should also set checkpoints, save intermediate results, or something, so if it does crash, you can restart in the middle instead of going back to 0. (A standard practice when I was analyzing large databases for corruption, a task that could take days)
Maybe because Apple lets everyone know exactly how many iPods are sold, but there are dozens of accessory manufacturers who don't publish their numbers. Apple doesn't even announce how many iPod accesories they sell.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Symantec fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a DOS 6 PC (with a 180 Meg hard drive) for about 27 hours now while it attempts to copy a 50 Meg file from one sector on the hard drive to another sector. 27 hours. At home, on my 286 running DOS 5 and XCOPY, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this machine, the same operation would take about 1 hour. If that.
In addition, during this defrag, command.com will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Symantec programs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a 486 machine with Norton AntiVirus that has run faster than a 286, despite the 486s faster chip architecture. My 286/16 with 2 megs of ram runs faster than this Norton machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Symantec is a superior software.
Symantec addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Norton over other faster, cheaper, more stable utilities.
I tried out NetBeans a few months back, before settling on Eclipse... my unscientific opinion is that NetBeans feels more sluggish when editing, but had some interesting features (that I didn't need, so Eclipse it is).
I don't know, but I do know that Steve Jobs loved to do Photoshop plugin benchmarks to show how much faster mac photoshop was. Those plugins generally used altivec (if available), which rosetta doesn't support.
Contrast that to the number of African decendants of people who did not choose to go to the USA. This legacy is still visible today in the make-up of our populations.
How about we compare the demographics of any of the carribbean plantation countries, where 50-95% of the population is black, thanks to European forced relocation.
If the UK had the land and climate for large plantations, you most certainly would have been importing slaves as well. It's easy to be opposed to slavery when you don't practice it; it's easy to accept it when you do. Neither the UK nor the northern US had use for slaves; the southern US and carribbean did.
the rest of the Anglo-Saxon community had rejected about 800 years earlier.
If only girls "rejected" me in the same way.
Slavery never was popular in Great Britain, but it was never popular in the northern US either. It was popular in the Southern US and Carribbean, on plantations.
Remind me: How much tobacco, sugar, or cotton does Great Britain produce?
Of course, those plantations were set up and owned by the English (along with the French, Portugese and Spanish). From the 1650s through the early 1800s, the English dominated the slave market. Europeans were very much involved in all aspects of the slave trade, even if you didn't practice it in your own homes.
I agree. firefox is my primary browser, but I've started using Opera a lot more. Since 1.5, FF crashes 4-5 times a day, not counting how many times I need to kill the process manually.
Last time I dared mention that, I was told that FF is perfect, it's probably just a buggy extension, which may be true, but if the extensions I like (adblock plus, html tidy, and web developer) don't work, I might as well use Opera or IE.
Opera has a small screen mode which shows how the web site would look with their mobile browser. That doesn't tell you how it looks with windows CE, but Opera is the most popular mobile browser, and squishing it down does give a pretty good guess at how it looks on other devices.
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That sounds like something Apple would do: write high-quality software that even resists unexpected tampering.
So instead of taking 2 seconds to change the category, it would be easier to enter the date/time of the transaction, verify it choose the right category, and correct it if necessary?
What if you go to safeway on a sunday and buy bread and deli meat. Is it pro-rated to the Lunch category if you take a sandwhich to work?
Maybe you should hire an accoutant to follow you around all day and keep track of all your expenses and put them in the right category.
maybe you could refactor it as a duplicate /. story detector.
Yeah, I'm sure all those people that aren't helping OpenWatcom are just waiting around so they can help OpenBorland.
I think a more important reason is that linux is free, whereas Windows (or Solaris, AIX et alia) cost money up front. There are thousands of webhosting companies trying to compete on price, it's a low margin business and cutting overhead is the only way to survive.
If ignored the low margin and virtual host webservers, I think you'd see more Windows and other commercial OSes being used.
No. There is no historical statistical correlation between the lifespan of women based on number of children (or even if they had children).
The GPL (and FREE software) existed before Mac OS X. Why didn't the free software community develop anything as good as OS X? They had a chance (they still do), they didn't do it. (Yes, I know /. is full of people who insist KDE, GNOME, fwvm, E, etc. are all superior to OS X. Then they cream their pants when a leaked OS X86 iso torrent appears.)
If you want to develop something really cool and give it away for free, that's fine. But your asking for other people to develop something and give it away for free.
In anorexic russia, cake jumps out of woman!!!
Stability might not impress Average Joe, but when Firefox crashes every 20 minutes (Firefox 1.5, i'm looking at you), he will be even less impressed. I can't recall IE/XP Crashing more than a handful of times. I've never seen Opera crash. Firefox crashes like a demolition derby.
Do you really think it's a bunch of 20 year old pirates who "must have" Notes, Quickbooks, Visio, Quicken, or Autocad?
Photoshop, however, is Carbon based, so it doesn't even apply.
For years, some linux/FOSS fanatics have insisted that GIMP is as good as photoshop, or even better. Survey says: No.
DMOZ is good, however some of the editors have their own agenda.
I've dealt with software that automatically restarts a dead process, and in my experience, it doesn't work so good. If you want ultra-stable software, you want to know what caused the crash and why.
For your situation, where I guess you're doing lots of time consuming computing, I'd think you should also set checkpoints, save intermediate results, or something, so if it does crash, you can restart in the middle instead of going back to 0. (A standard practice when I was analyzing large databases for corruption, a task that could take days)
OpenStep Interface Builder was all that and more, last century. Of course, VB and Java have more developer market share than OpenStep (or MacOSX).
Maybe because Apple lets everyone know exactly how many iPods are sold, but there are dozens of accessory manufacturers who don't publish their numbers. Apple doesn't even announce how many iPod accesories they sell.
So what you're saying is...
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Symantec fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a DOS 6 PC (with a 180 Meg hard drive) for about 27 hours now while it attempts to copy a 50 Meg file from one sector on the hard drive to another sector. 27 hours. At home, on my 286 running DOS 5 and XCOPY, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this machine, the same operation would take about 1 hour. If that.
In addition, during this defrag, command.com will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Symantec programs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a 486 machine with Norton AntiVirus that has run faster than a 286, despite the 486s faster chip architecture. My 286/16 with 2 megs of ram runs faster than this Norton machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Symantec is a superior software.
Symantec addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Norton over other faster, cheaper, more stable utilities.
Evidently not!
I tried out NetBeans a few months back, before settling on Eclipse... my unscientific opinion is that NetBeans feels more sluggish when editing, but had some interesting features (that I didn't need, so Eclipse it is).
I don't know, but I do know that Steve Jobs loved to do Photoshop plugin benchmarks to show how much faster mac photoshop was. Those plugins generally used altivec (if available), which rosetta doesn't support.
How about we compare the demographics of any of the carribbean plantation countries, where 50-95% of the population is black, thanks to European forced relocation.
If the UK had the land and climate for large plantations, you most certainly would have been importing slaves as well. It's easy to be opposed to slavery when you don't practice it; it's easy to accept it when you do. Neither the UK nor the northern US had use for slaves; the southern US and carribbean did.
If only girls "rejected" me in the same way.
Slavery never was popular in Great Britain, but it was never popular in the northern US either. It was popular in the Southern US and Carribbean, on plantations.
Remind me: How much tobacco, sugar, or cotton does Great Britain produce?
Of course, those plantations were set up and owned by the English (along with the French, Portugese and Spanish). From the 1650s through the early 1800s, the English dominated the slave market. Europeans were very much involved in all aspects of the slave trade, even if you didn't practice it in your own homes.
Last time I dared mention that, I was told that FF is perfect, it's probably just a buggy extension, which may be true, but if the extensions I like (adblock plus, html tidy, and web developer) don't work, I might as well use Opera or IE.
Opera has a small screen mode which shows how the web site would look with their mobile browser. That doesn't tell you how it looks with windows CE, but Opera is the most popular mobile browser, and squishing it down does give a pretty good guess at how it looks on other devices.
No... what's sad is that goatse was the most well known .cx domain.