A new version should be different from a previous version.
I have seen many "new versions" of programs that lost features but gained a new version number (Norton Utilities Mac is a great example lotst a lot of features between 3,4 and 5; and for those saying that was ancient history, the next version of Office for the Mac will have significant reduction of features - most notable no VBA support)
According to Microsoft some New Versions can just be merely a bug fix in the eyes of the public (ala DOS 6.1).
And new versions being compatible with old versions, well that is another percived misnomer (Printshop for the Mac, lots of new versions little cross compatibility), Though sometimes not being compatible with a previous (buggy) version is a good thing.
MicroSoft BASIC (1976ish) - Most BASIC dialects and computers of the 80s were either running a variation of MicroSoft BASIC or something quite similar. Many of us/.ers got our first computer experience programming BASIC.
Commodore 64 (the sound chip was something not seen before on a computer)
Atari 800 - The gamer computer of the day (four joyports! Star Raiders)
TRS-80 model 100 - A laptop computer w/modem running for tens of hours on 4 AA batteries. Nuf said.
Epson 740i - as a quality color inkjet printer, and versatile interfacing (three interfaces, Apple serial, USB and Parallel)
ClarisWorks/Appleworks - Office suite integration that was weay ahead of most other programs.
iMac - shows that you can have both computer performance and style (too bad the new iMac is so ugly).
FoxBase +/Mac - before Microsoft Windows-compatibleized FoxPro (lamed it for Windows API compatibility) this was the model for foxpro tech and it was fantastic.
(Some flash drive model) - this totally revolutionized the storage market.
TBBS - The Computer Bulletin Board System (1978 - Christensen & Suess) connecting the home computers for many a year.
Not sure of the environment you are going to be taught in but make the most of what tools are at your disposal, also try to get experience in things that interest you.
Since it is a school situation team up with people and build relationshios and swap skills.
Keep in mind once you are out of school, working becomes the #1 priority for most of your day time and learning new stuff is crammed in somewhere below that. Learn what you can now without the pressure of bosses, deadlines and family keeping you from it later on.
One of the most talked about characters in the Star Wars Saga even above Darth Maul!
Yeah this probably relagates it to a troll post, but I could not resist typing the subject line.
Though I would have prioritized the super star destroyer far ahead of Darth Maul, and maybe do a montage with anakins/vader instead of just the vader mask.:-)
What do you expect, they raised the prices when they brought out CDs with the promise that once the technology get efficient the price would come down. Then later. They kept raising the price (even for older tunes, try to buy something good form a pop band in the 80s, usually still $17).
So people are limited to choose either: - an inflated new album price ($17+) - a reasonable priced album if bought used ($10 or less, but no added profit to music biz) - buying only the (good) songs people want on-line ($2 to $4 depending on artist, sometimes only $1)
- Of course this is very limited people have to have the right computer, OS, listening devices, etc. - tape off the air ($0, low quality) digitize etc. - piracy ($0 low karma)
The obvious would be to actually make the albums more affordable, but that seems way beyond the concept of the music industry.
Definately the drawing portionm of open office is a real hot item that MS Office certianly lacks. Ii is like what those old Apple User liked about Appleworks, a nice drawing tool, but better on OOo with snap to object lines that make charting easy. Also lines with auto measurement (you know drawing lines like || ) also nice object Transparency and stuff like that.
The database looks like it is something great too but I haven't used it (shame on me). But as it's cross-platform it puts it light years ahead of Access in my book.
Can convert a lot more then MS can
Document conversion convert over Word Perfect and other files to Word that MS Word can't read.
What's not:
The presentation program is slow (some of the whizes in games dev should go in there and work on the rendering. It is functinally good, but is dog slow when it is presenting.
Not that I use Macros, but some documents (more so spreadsheets than Word documents) contain macros that OOo can't handle. Then again, some of those very documents not even Mac Office 2004 can handle either as the embedded code relies on Active X technologies (and the next version of Mac Office won't have VBA support either).
Font management is a noticeable bottleneck (at least on the Linux version, mac seems to work transparently, probably also in Windows), OOo maintins a seperate Font library, which means if you are installing Linuxc and OOo on a bunch of computers you have to install fonts twice, once in Linux and then again into OOo. (the fonts included are really good - and largely compatible to the MS basics, but I have a lot of ones I like beyond that too).
As for anyhting else I have been very happy, I don't do obsessivley huge spreadhseets and Writer handles styles and sauch in large documents quite fine to my liking. I probably use Writer and Draw the most and those are great apps.
...remind me and your enterprise customers not to buy a Thinkpad until the budled crap is removed by Lenevo,
corporate customers dont want their PC's polluted with the kind of crap that the OEM home retailers get away with,even Microsoft call the bundling "craplets" with good reason...
Here is your reminder: it's a company that thought that limiting the users options to a proprietary OS is a "good thing" and would increase thier sales. I guess they forgot to fire that marketing guy who game up with such great ideas.
As a long time Commodore Fan it just makes me want to cry.:-( Though I think those who think Skateboard deck art is really cool will love it.
I was a big fan of the iMac flavors and Blue/Wite & Grey G3s and G4s, this new monoskin instead of a two-tone case look is really lousy looking (I always wished they did a ruby iMac with Chromed speaker grills and black trim.... sweeet.).
I noticed the options were United Kingf\dom and nothing else for country.
But it's not really open, is it? i's based on a DB is controlled by the ICRA. I was thinking of something much more basic, that is a general HTTP meta tag, not something 'officially verified', but voluntter (might be abused by some but most would honor it) That rates the content of the page for the browser to view.
(I also noticed on the ICRA page it extolls it as being "free" and in later pages there is a $35 fee Thier site needs updating.)
They want graduates who don't know what talents they actually have to get them to work cheap and sign away any right to thier creative ideas theve've amassed during thier fomative years. Same with MS and all the other companies.
META or whatever - maybe for directories, include some simple unique character prefix (like ac_directoryname), that would make it able to restrict specific sensitive pages/directories instead of whole servers and such.
It is something that could be implemented readily in content creation, be very open as a standard and filtered with much simpler methods then many of the other ones. I think sometimes we are putting too much though into it, maybe the MPAA with nthier broadcast flag/copy bit has us all messed up.
SMB is a real pain on Macs, I use Samnba on our work servers to: a) Be compliant with the Windows users b) It offers better security then NFS
Locally it does OK but through our VPN it crawls compared to the Linux (and most likely windows), In fact as of 10.4 it seems to have gotten worse (part of it I think is spotlight trying to index everything it sees.)
While I think there are many compelling issues to use Macsa in the enterprise (ease of use, apps) I think I would placce Linux higher, mainly because it communicates way better and is getting a very good app library itself which is very important.
Problem with the on-line library is I need a network connection to access it. I have one of thier CDs "Web Programming CD Bookshelf "
* Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition
* JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
* Programming PHP
* Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
* PHP Cookbook
* Webmaster In a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
It's a little dated (bought on clearance), but good, and it sits in my laptop's CD when I need to lookup something without access to a connection or my bookshelf. Another benefiot is it's in HTML so I can cut and paste code from the books into my editor.
Cookbooks take em or leave em they're OK
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MySQL Cookbook
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I have the PHP Cookbook and there are many useful tidbits, but this axiom applies "there is more than one way to code an Application" so I find them more a good resource for ways to do things I didn't know existed, but not necessaily the way that best suits me or my needs.
I had a chance to skim through the MySQL cookbook a week or so ago and will more than probably pick one up, though I think I need another shelf for my web development/linux books.:-)
irCertaninly the ORielly programming series are very nice books indeed. Not quite used to their Linux OS books yet from them, the Wiley ones are more approachable.
From my persepective I see Google doing a lot of investing in information technology and data (google groups being very significant data aquisition) in which leads to a lot of people finding information which leads them to be tops in advertising revenue. Microsoft on the other hand seems more sligned with the "We have the destination for advertising to users" instead of "we are the destination for users who want to find lots of information (and will see adverting)"
Look MS is a company that makes an OS (and secondly a business suite), that is thier core business, everything else is either a vehicle to boost sales of thier core product or to just generate extra revenue using thier core technologies. Everythng beyond the core seems to be treated as a satellite, and they add and drop those at the blink of an eye.
In California we get charged $8.00 (not applicible to sales tax) for every monitor or laptop we buy here. But it's nice when we go to the dump they just take it.
Though if you run a retail business they charge you for dumping monitors (This usually means thrit stores may not have those useful $5 Commodore 1702 monitors on the shelf anymore, only some huge 22" PC beheamoth monitor.)
As the story states Microsoft is after the advertising revenue, not really actually interested in providing the rich content that google strives for.
There is where the difference lies, Microsoft does not see this or many of the other markets it shoves it's foot into as a "we can do this better because we care", it's more like "hey, there's someone making money on this, lets do it too!" and that's how they approach it. They make a shortlist of competitive features and try to cover those.. and little else. Then talk the talk of what people are saying about thier competition ("we're secure, you can share, we're open, we got what you are looking for. etc.")
Microsoft hasn't been innovating for years, it's more like they play a continual game of catch-up.
Animals don't live in a vaccum they see us do things all the time and I am sure they are more aware of our actions than we realize, it's just not thier job to emulate us, they have thier own survival jobs to worry about.
I would think the chimps saw men hunting with spears many times but until there was a food shortage they just didn't worry about it, once there was a shortage it became a really good idea.
Well if he's picking tooling for the accounting dept does he periodically wander down to theatre and tell the surgeons what implements they can and cant use during surgery?
Accountants are users not admins, they get trained on one thing and probably would prefer to still use it. One I know was a big fan of Peachtree and wanted to install it wherever she went even though in some situations it was inadequate for the size or not suited for th type of the business she was working for.
But also you sould choose a system with sonone who knows the financial end of the business so they can tell you if it will work or not (or what problems you might face) before you roll it out.
Thus, 74 million unsold CDs from that year are 'without an excuse for sitting on shelves.
You mean besides the non-music industry perception that they contain music people are not really interested in or are at a price people are not willing to pay?
A lot of us already know MS has been trying to be more like Apple for quite a while (as eveidenced by articles stating them trying to match Mac/iPod feature by feature.)
But Apple has taken a thing or two from MS's strategies
Puting out unfinished software on the market and patching it after the fact - 10.1 was not good till 10.1.5, 10.2, didn't get good till around 10.2.7 or so, etc. (what happened tro just two numbers like 8.6 or 7.1??)
Sometimes charging more for some sigificant bug fixes. Case in point - Mac OS 10.1 (near useless) and 10,2 (usable but with some big probs with networking and such which wasn't resolved till 10.3, which also didn't get good till asbout 10.3.6) and there still are some bad Finder issues related to network shares. This also includes the AppleWorks replacement - iWork (wheres the spreadsheet? how about a Database?). (though the OS price is thankfully a half to a third of what MS tries to foist on their customers.)
Abandoning human interface standards in the sake of development speed. Some of the stuff apple puts out pales in comparison to the OS9 stuff in how they worked, many controls have clear buttons to add records, but none to delete (use the DEL key on keyboard) -such as Address Book and I bleieve Mail as well (the way apple implemented the addressbook/mail interation is pretty wierd too). Printer management is still pretty well hidden, you would think Apple of all people would have the foresight to put in in preferences.
What happened to the Mac?? or the OSX? last MACworld (I stress Mac as it is a show for the Macintosh computer) Apple showed the loyal computer fans it is changing from Apple Computer to Apple Inc. debuted a phone and a device for your TV. Those people who paid up to a thousand dollars to see Apple's latest computer advancements were told to wait till spring. (kind of Like MS heavily marketing the XBox, Zune, MS Live, Windows Mobile, etc. but not really working as hard on retaining the OS they have the market share on.)
We use Macs at work and compared to Windows they are a breeze to work with, nary a problem, and I would not want to switch to Windows. But as much as I like them I've seen Apple streching themselves out sacrificing a bit of the business computer market for the consumer electronics market.
The only group that is serious about business needs now seems to be Linux (and those that have adopted it Oracle, Novell, etc.).
Kepp in mind the G4 towers go all the way back to 350 mghz, which still can run OS 10.4 OK but rather slow (no cutting edge games at those speeds). Maybe he had one of the older ones.
From a Mac more than Windows user perspective - A lot of the time "full screening" of a Windows app is so you can have the window (which contains both the document menu and the palletes) large enough to sufficiently work. On the Mac most of the pallettes and windows are unbundled from a parent the the menu which is shared amongst the open document window(s) is on the top of the screen, making it much easier to work in a full screen environment without needing to fullscreen an app window.
As an example, I found this screenshot from MS Office 2004 which is a Mac bassed app - you can see that the application menu toolbars are not bound inside any sort of application window. So technically all Mac apps run at "full screen."
Slashdot Mirror
Cisco - we hold 100% of the IPv6 market*
Cisco - We circle the globe with IPv6 support.
Cisco - THE standard for aerospace IPv6 deplyment archetecture.
Cisco - Our IPv6 technology is rated "higher" than any of our competitors.
*in space
I can see this as a new excuse for limiting services.
"No we aren't limiting services, we are doing our part to stop piracy."
A new version should be different from a previous version.
I have seen many "new versions" of programs that lost features but gained a new version number (Norton Utilities Mac is a great example lotst a lot of features between 3,4 and 5; and for those saying that was ancient history, the next version of Office for the Mac will have significant reduction of features - most notable no VBA support)
According to Microsoft some New Versions can just be merely a bug fix in the eyes of the public (ala DOS 6.1).
And new versions being compatible with old versions, well that is another percived misnomer (Printshop for the Mac, lots of new versions little cross compatibility), Though sometimes not being compatible with a previous (buggy) version is a good thing.
MicroSoft BASIC (1976ish) - Most BASIC dialects and computers of the 80s were either running a variation of MicroSoft BASIC or something quite similar. Many of us /.ers got our first computer experience programming BASIC.
Commodore 64 (the sound chip was something not seen before on a computer)
Atari 800 - The gamer computer of the day (four joyports! Star Raiders)
TRS-80 model 100 - A laptop computer w/modem running for tens of hours on 4 AA batteries. Nuf said.
Epson 740i - as a quality color inkjet printer, and versatile interfacing (three interfaces, Apple serial, USB and Parallel)
ClarisWorks/Appleworks - Office suite integration that was weay ahead of most other programs.
iMac - shows that you can have both computer performance and style (too bad the new iMac is so ugly).
FoxBase +/Mac - before Microsoft Windows-compatibleized FoxPro (lamed it for Windows API compatibility) this was the model for foxpro tech and it was fantastic.
(Some flash drive model) - this totally revolutionized the storage market.
TBBS - The Computer Bulletin Board System (1978 - Christensen & Suess) connecting the home computers for many a year.
Not sure of the environment you are going to be taught in but make the most of what tools are at your disposal, also try to get experience in things that interest you.
Since it is a school situation team up with people and build relationshios and swap skills.
Keep in mind once you are out of school, working becomes the #1 priority for most of your day time and learning new stuff is crammed in somewhere below that. Learn what you can now without the pressure of bosses, deadlines and family keeping you from it later on.
One of the most talked about characters in the Star Wars Saga even above Darth Maul!
:-)
Yeah this probably relagates it to a troll post, but I could not resist typing the subject line.
Though I would have prioritized the super star destroyer far ahead of Darth Maul, and maybe do a montage with anakins/vader instead of just the vader mask.
What do you expect, they raised the prices when they brought out CDs with the promise that once the technology get efficient the price would come down. Then later. They kept raising the price (even for older tunes, try to buy something good form a pop band in the 80s, usually still $17).
So people are limited to choose either:
- an inflated new album price ($17+)
- a reasonable priced album if bought used ($10 or less, but no added profit to music biz)
- buying only the (good) songs people want on-line ($2 to $4 depending on artist, sometimes only $1)
- Of course this is very limited people have to have the right computer, OS, listening devices, etc.
- tape off the air ($0, low quality) digitize etc.
- piracy ($0 low karma)
The obvious would be to actually make the albums more affordable, but that seems way beyond the concept of the music industry.
What's hot:
Definately the drawing portionm of open office is a real hot item that MS Office certianly lacks. Ii is like what those old Apple User liked about Appleworks, a nice drawing tool, but better on OOo with snap to object lines that make charting easy. Also lines with auto measurement (you know drawing lines like || ) also nice object Transparency and stuff like that.
The database looks like it is something great too but I haven't used it (shame on me). But as it's cross-platform it puts it light years ahead of Access in my book.
Can convert a lot more then MS can
Document conversion convert over Word Perfect and other files to Word that MS Word can't read.
What's not:
The presentation program is slow (some of the whizes in games dev should go in there and work on the rendering. It is functinally good, but is dog slow when it is presenting.
Not that I use Macros, but some documents (more so spreadsheets than Word documents) contain macros that OOo can't handle. Then again, some of those very documents not even Mac Office 2004 can handle either as the embedded code relies on Active X technologies (and the next version of Mac Office won't have VBA support either).
Font management is a noticeable bottleneck (at least on the Linux version, mac seems to work transparently, probably also in Windows), OOo maintins a seperate Font library, which means if you are installing Linuxc and OOo on a bunch of computers you have to install fonts twice, once in Linux and then again into OOo. (the fonts included are really good - and largely compatible to the MS basics, but I have a lot of ones I like beyond that too).
As for anyhting else I have been very happy, I don't do obsessivley huge spreadhseets and Writer handles styles and sauch in large documents quite fine to my liking. I probably use Writer and Draw the most and those are great apps.
...remind me and your enterprise customers not to buy a Thinkpad until the budled crap is removed by Lenevo,
corporate customers dont want their PC's polluted with the kind of crap that the OEM home retailers get away with,even Microsoft call the bundling "craplets" with good reason...
Here is your reminder: it's a company that thought that limiting the users options to a proprietary OS is a "good thing" and would increase thier sales. I guess they forgot to fire that marketing guy who game up with such great ideas.This Case says it all
As a long time Commodore Fan it just makes me want to cry. :-( Though I think those who think Skateboard deck art is really cool will love it.
I was a big fan of the iMac flavors and Blue/Wite & Grey G3s and G4s, this new monoskin instead of a two-tone case look is really lousy looking (I always wished they did a ruby iMac with Chromed speaker grills and black trim.... sweeet.).
I noticed the options were United Kingf\dom and nothing else for country.
But it's not really open, is it? i's based on a DB is controlled by the ICRA. I was thinking of something much more basic, that is a general HTTP meta tag, not something 'officially verified', but voluntter (might be abused by some but most would honor it) That rates the content of the page for the browser to view.
(I also noticed on the ICRA page it extolls it as being "free" and in later pages there is a $35 fee Thier site needs updating.)
They want graduates who don't know what talents they actually have to get them to work cheap and sign away any right to thier creative ideas theve've amassed during thier fomative years. Same with MS and all the other companies.
META or whatever - maybe for directories, include some simple unique character prefix (like ac_directoryname), that would make it able to restrict specific sensitive pages/directories instead of whole servers and such.
It is something that could be implemented readily in content creation, be very open as a standard and filtered with much simpler methods then many of the other ones. I think sometimes we are putting too much though into it, maybe the MPAA with nthier broadcast flag/copy bit has us all messed up.
SMB is a real pain on Macs, I use Samnba on our work servers to:
a) Be compliant with the Windows users
b) It offers better security then NFS
Locally it does OK but through our VPN it crawls compared to the Linux (and most likely windows), In fact as of 10.4 it seems to have gotten worse (part of it I think is spotlight trying to index everything it sees.)
While I think there are many compelling issues to use Macsa in the enterprise (ease of use, apps) I think I would placce Linux higher, mainly because it communicates way better and is getting a very good app library itself which is very important.
Problem with the on-line library is I need a network connection to access it. I have one of thier CDs "Web Programming CD Bookshelf "
* Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd Edition
* JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
* Programming PHP
* Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL
* PHP Cookbook
* Webmaster In a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
It's a little dated (bought on clearance), but good, and it sits in my laptop's CD when I need to lookup something without access to a connection or my bookshelf. Another benefiot is it's in HTML so I can cut and paste code from the books into my editor.
I have the PHP Cookbook and there are many useful tidbits, but this axiom applies "there is more than one way to code an Application" so I find them more a good resource for ways to do things I didn't know existed, but not necessaily the way that best suits me or my needs.
:-)
I had a chance to skim through the MySQL cookbook a week or so ago and will more than probably pick one up, though I think I need another shelf for my web development/linux books.
irCertaninly the ORielly programming series are very nice books indeed. Not quite used to their Linux OS books yet from them, the Wiley ones are more approachable.
From my persepective I see Google doing a lot of investing in information technology and data (google groups being very significant data aquisition) in which leads to a lot of people finding information which leads them to be tops in advertising revenue. Microsoft on the other hand seems more sligned with the "We have the destination for advertising to users" instead of "we are the destination for users who want to find lots of information (and will see adverting)"
Look MS is a company that makes an OS (and secondly a business suite), that is thier core business, everything else is either a vehicle to boost sales of thier core product or to just generate extra revenue using thier core technologies. Everythng beyond the core seems to be treated as a satellite, and they add and drop those at the blink of an eye.
In California we get charged $8.00 (not applicible to sales tax) for every monitor or laptop we buy here. But it's nice when we go to the dump they just take it.
Though if you run a retail business they charge you for dumping monitors (This usually means thrit stores may not have those useful $5 Commodore 1702 monitors on the shelf anymore, only some huge 22" PC beheamoth monitor.)
As the story states Microsoft is after the advertising revenue, not really actually interested in providing the rich content that google strives for.
There is where the difference lies, Microsoft does not see this or many of the other markets it shoves it's foot into as a "we can do this better because we care", it's more like "hey, there's someone making money on this, lets do it too!" and that's how they approach it. They make a shortlist of competitive features and try to cover those.. and little else. Then talk the talk of what people are saying about thier competition ("we're secure, you can share, we're open, we got what you are looking for. etc.")
Microsoft hasn't been innovating for years, it's more like they play a continual game of catch-up.
Animals don't live in a vaccum they see us do things all the time and I am sure they are more aware of our actions than we realize, it's just not thier job to emulate us, they have thier own survival jobs to worry about.
I would think the chimps saw men hunting with spears many times but until there was a food shortage they just didn't worry about it, once there was a shortage it became a really good idea.
Well if he's picking tooling for the accounting dept does he periodically wander down to theatre and tell the surgeons what implements they can and cant use during surgery?
Accountants are users not admins, they get trained on one thing and probably would prefer to still use it. One I know was a big fan of Peachtree and wanted to install it wherever she went even though in some situations it was inadequate for the size or not suited for th type of the business she was working for.
But also you sould choose a system with sonone who knows the financial end of the business so they can tell you if it will work or not (or what problems you might face) before you roll it out.
Thus, 74 million unsold CDs from that year are 'without an excuse for sitting on shelves.
You mean besides the non-music industry perception that they contain music people are not really interested in or are at a price people are not willing to pay?
I see it going both ways
A lot of us already know MS has been trying to be more like Apple for quite a while (as eveidenced by articles stating them trying to match Mac/iPod feature by feature.)
But Apple has taken a thing or two from MS's strategies
We use Macs at work and compared to Windows they are a breeze to work with, nary a problem, and I would not want to switch to Windows. But as much as I like them I've seen Apple streching themselves out sacrificing a bit of the business computer market for the consumer electronics market.
The only group that is serious about business needs now seems to be Linux (and those that have adopted it Oracle, Novell, etc.).
Kepp in mind the G4 towers go all the way back to 350 mghz, which still can run OS 10.4 OK but rather slow (no cutting edge games at those speeds). Maybe he had one of the older ones.
From a Mac more than Windows user perspective - A lot of the time "full screening" of a Windows app is so you can have the window (which contains both the document menu and the palletes) large enough to sufficiently work. On the Mac most of the pallettes and windows are unbundled from a parent the the menu which is shared amongst the open document window(s) is on the top of the screen, making it much easier to work in a full screen environment without needing to fullscreen an app window.
As an example, I found this screenshot from MS Office 2004 which is a Mac bassed app - you can see that the application menu toolbars are not bound inside any sort of application window. So technically all Mac apps run at "full screen."