My web development environment consists of Firefox with Web Developer plugin, and DOM Inspector plugin, plus Mozilla with it's superb javascript debugger. on a side note, does firefox have a javascript debugger plugin?
either way, i can't recommend that enough. the web developer plugin has all sorts of goodies like w3c validator, turning css stuff on/off (and even inserting css stuff on the fly). combine that with the javascript console and javascript debugger for debugging those DOM scripts. i'll also often use the DOM inspector to get a vew of my webpage's DOM tree or find suspect nodes which aren't coming up properly in my javascript.
and i can't stress this enough: strive for 100% w3c compliance always. nothing is worse than a website that doesn't comply to the standards, because if it does not, it introduces nothing but headaches with the major rendering engines: khtml, gecko, opera, and mshtml. yes. some of the w3c specs want you to do fairly dumb things. who cares, just do it. i hate seeing sites that don't comply and then users ask "why doesn't it render properly in <insert my browser>
lets see. if you have a ddr system, (or god forbid a plane sdram) upgrading it would pretty much entail: new cpu, new mobo, new ram (ddr2). want that new graphics card? pci-express graphics card. ohh. got a new SATA motherboard now. guess i'll get one of those matching SATA drives (10k if you want to endulge). so you haven't upgraded.. power supply + case ($20 on newegg) and your cd rom drive-drives ($20-100 depending on if it's a burner, etc). so you save between $40 and $120 for a new machine if you're upgrading from a machine with reasonable quake3-ut 2003 specs. you'll probably pay $40 - $120 in LABOR for those sorts of upgrades, so really, buying a new machine depending on your old one's age isn't that bad of an idea anymore now is it?
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everyone keeps replying to you saying it's because they're selling like hotcakes, or it's marketing, etc. bla bla..
sorry, the truth is it costs almost the same amount to make a 15gb hd as a 20gb. infact, i bet the difference is measurable in a few dollars. so what's your choice. offer a 15gb at $290 and 20gb at $300, or just a 20gb at $300? it's pretty simple which one apple's going to sell. until the manufacturing costs come way down on miniturized hard drives, it will pretty much be the same price for years to come.
I think i've had my ipod for like 2 or 3 years. I forgot. It was whenever the first $300 windows versions starting hitting the market. Anyways, my battery life is hardly any worse than when i bought it. Two brothers make a half-truth documentary and complain they couldn't figure out how to replace the battery themselves go and start that video/website (which did they mention they turned around and bought another $400 iPod right after?) which feeds the trolls for the next few years.
Look, go take a peek at ipodbattery.com. For an operation you have to do once ever 2-3 (or maybe even MORE) years, i think holding off just because of a non replacable battery is stupid. i bet you'd get a new ipod just because's better within that span of time anyways, then ebay it for an extra $150 off your new iPod.
that's kind of hard to do when the company's explicitly still going to be under the control of the two founders. if you read their IPO, they are retaining ownership of the company when it goes "public." it's actually unfounded, and google is the first to do this. since they have such high mindshare in the tech industry though they're managing to get away with it.
does qemu have ppc on ppc support? i've always wanted something like mac-on-linux, accept instead, linux-on-mac. If you have to do anything special with qemu i'd be interested to know..
with blue laser discs around the corner, we can get hd-dvd with the h264 codec. i just think that people will make dvd and hd-dvd players for many years to come once they are released, so unlike vhs, you don't have to worry about re-buying all your movies. the switch will be much easier now than going from an analog to digital player. i don't see why people are worried.
plus i'm also looking forward to 20gig burnable cds.
i dunno. my CS lab at RIT is around a couple hundred solaris machines, all used as desktops. irix is a graphics os, primarily used as a desktop os. aix, sure.. that's server only. not a good example there:). same with netbsd/openbsd. not really desktop oses usually. though freebsd, beos, irix, solaris (sometimes!), os/2, amiga are all pretty much desktop based.
i don't think it's too far fetched that it's everything less than 1 percent lumped together. between freebsd, beos, amiga, os/2, aix, irix, solaris, openbsd, netbsd, and i'm sure quite a few others, it's not hard to total up to something as high as 5%. although it *does* sound a little large.
that says it all, really. mac is 3%, and steve jobs said quite clearly at the 2004 WWDC that mac os x is in use by 50% of ma cusers. half of 3 is at least 1.5%, which is definitely above linux.
if you're targeting desktop unix, os x is more popular.
i keep wanting to take your intro to modern physics course, but i would be suffering to take it at 8am. this is the only course i see at RIT that is almost always only offered at 8am. is there a reason?
first off, it's a lithium ion battery. if you recharge it from empty 500 times in 18 months, regardless of the manufacturer, the battery will die. second, it's not a bug, it's called physics.
actually i've found that's often not true. mac users, in my experience, are either professionals (doctors, graphics, publishing, video, engineering) or highly computer technical (IT, web design, computer science). i don't know where the "mac users are idiots" stereotype came from. probably because macs are easier to use, people automatically assume it means the person is also automatically less intelligent. i believe it's quite the opposite. it takes the more intelligent people to realize that the mac lets them get work done easier and faster.
much in the same way game developers first and foremost target windows for game development, C++ is targted for commercial or large project development.
it doesn't mean windows and c++ are better, just that they are the "defacto" standard. i know as well as the others why c++ was chosen for qt, but that doesn't mean i enjoy using the language to do development with it. my motives for programming are not for profit, but for enjoyment. money is a side effect for me really, so if i'm not enjoying it.. why am i doing it? of course it's always more complex than that. people have to put food on the table. however when i have a choice on a project's development where we start from scratch, or if it's a personal project, c++ is pretty far down on my list of languages to choose. somewhere near perl and pascal.
btw, a competent, and enjoyable, replacement for c++ does exist today. check out objective-c sometime. here's my tutorial page or Wikipedia's article on it. despite the common misconception, it's not a mac only language. it's just as portable as c++, with a compiler on just about every major platform (thanks to gcc) and you can easily write code with c-linked libraries.
it's not so much performance/bloat that many of us are concerned with, but the language used. Not only does Qt require a hack language on top of C, but it requires moc, a hack on top of a hack language.
by hack i more or less mean a poorly designed language. of course gcc's implementation is good, but that has little to do with the design of c++. C has many advantages over c++ including but not limited to the fact that: you can write c++ in c (or at least do OOP in C to the similar functionaly of c++) and you can bind with just about every other language with minimal effort.
this is coming. but i should note that bluetooth has only 1mbps bandwidth. not nearly enough to be usable. heck a usb 1.1 cable has more throughput. wait for wireless firewire or wireless usb to come along in the next couple years before this is viable.
I don't mean to pry, but why would you want to not like them? I know a lot of people don't like the idea of a company taking open source software and using it to their monetary advantage, but Apple's done a lot of great things with it.
I fear the world where Microsoft totally crushed Apple back in the late 90s when Steve Jobs never sold NeXT to Apple. If you thought we had little consumer choice then, imagine how bad it would be now without this company advocating for the I-don't-fit-in-the-box people.
I talked to some of the elgato people at the WWDC booth about eyetv. My favorite thing about this system is it easily scriptable via apple script, and all the hdtv files are just straight mpeg2 (easily accessible). I hope with Tiger they support automator and give metadata based on tv show recordings.. Will make tv recording that much easier.
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My web development environment consists of Firefox with Web Developer plugin, and DOM Inspector plugin, plus Mozilla with it's superb javascript debugger. on a side note, does firefox have a javascript debugger plugin?
either way, i can't recommend that enough. the web developer plugin has all sorts of goodies like w3c validator, turning css stuff on/off (and even inserting css stuff on the fly). combine that with the javascript console and javascript debugger for debugging those DOM scripts. i'll also often use the DOM inspector to get a vew of my webpage's DOM tree or find suspect nodes which aren't coming up properly in my javascript.
and i can't stress this enough: strive for 100% w3c compliance always. nothing is worse than a website that doesn't comply to the standards, because if it does not, it introduces nothing but headaches with the major rendering engines: khtml, gecko, opera, and mshtml. yes. some of the w3c specs want you to do fairly dumb things. who cares, just do it. i hate seeing sites that don't comply and then users ask "why doesn't it render properly in <insert my browser>
last i checked there weren't any 10k RPM EIDE disks. the firewire comment is just trolling, so i won't touch that.
lets see. if you have a ddr system, (or god forbid a plane sdram) upgrading it would pretty much entail: new cpu, new mobo, new ram (ddr2). want that new graphics card? pci-express graphics card. ohh. got a new SATA motherboard now. guess i'll get one of those matching SATA drives (10k if you want to endulge). so you haven't upgraded.. power supply + case ($20 on newegg) and your cd rom drive-drives ($20-100 depending on if it's a burner, etc). so you save between $40 and $120 for a new machine if you're upgrading from a machine with reasonable quake3-ut 2003 specs. you'll probably pay $40 - $120 in LABOR for those sorts of upgrades, so really, buying a new machine depending on your old one's age isn't that bad of an idea anymore now is it?
man, if i had the points to mod you up..
everyone keeps replying to you saying it's because they're selling like hotcakes, or it's marketing, etc. bla bla..
sorry, the truth is it costs almost the same amount to make a 15gb hd as a 20gb. infact, i bet the difference is measurable in a few dollars. so what's your choice. offer a 15gb at $290 and 20gb at $300, or just a 20gb at $300? it's pretty simple which one apple's going to sell. until the manufacturing costs come way down on miniturized hard drives, it will pretty much be the same price for years to come.
I think i've had my ipod for like 2 or 3 years. I forgot. It was whenever the first $300 windows versions starting hitting the market. Anyways, my battery life is hardly any worse than when i bought it. Two brothers make a half-truth documentary and complain they couldn't figure out how to replace the battery themselves go and start that video/website (which did they mention they turned around and bought another $400 iPod right after?) which feeds the trolls for the next few years. Look, go take a peek at ipodbattery.com. For an operation you have to do once ever 2-3 (or maybe even MORE) years, i think holding off just because of a non replacable battery is stupid. i bet you'd get a new ipod just because's better within that span of time anyways, then ebay it for an extra $150 off your new iPod.
that's kind of hard to do when the company's explicitly still going to be under the control of the two founders. if you read their IPO, they are retaining ownership of the company when it goes "public." it's actually unfounded, and google is the first to do this. since they have such high mindshare in the tech industry though they're managing to get away with it.
does qemu have ppc on ppc support? i've always wanted something like mac-on-linux, accept instead, linux-on-mac. If you have to do anything special with qemu i'd be interested to know..
with blue laser discs around the corner, we can get hd-dvd with the h264 codec. i just think that people will make dvd and hd-dvd players for many years to come once they are released, so unlike vhs, you don't have to worry about re-buying all your movies. the switch will be much easier now than going from an analog to digital player. i don't see why people are worried.
plus i'm also looking forward to 20gig burnable cds.
i dunno. my CS lab at RIT is around a couple hundred solaris machines, all used as desktops. irix is a graphics os, primarily used as a desktop os. aix, sure.. that's server only. not a good example there :). same with netbsd/openbsd. not really desktop oses usually. though freebsd, beos, irix, solaris (sometimes!), os/2, amiga are all pretty much desktop based.
oh pullllease. scamming these people should be a pastime.
i don't think it's too far fetched that it's everything less than 1 percent lumped together. between freebsd, beos, amiga, os/2, aix, irix, solaris, openbsd, netbsd, and i'm sure quite a few others, it's not hard to total up to something as high as 5%. although it *does* sound a little large.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
that says it all, really. mac is 3%, and steve jobs said quite clearly at the 2004 WWDC that mac os x is in use by 50% of ma cusers. half of 3 is at least 1.5%, which is definitely above linux.
if you're targeting desktop unix, os x is more popular.
i keep wanting to take your intro to modern physics course, but i would be suffering to take it at 8am. this is the only course i see at RIT that is almost always only offered at 8am. is there a reason?
first off, it's a lithium ion battery. if you recharge it from empty 500 times in 18 months, regardless of the manufacturer, the battery will die. second, it's not a bug, it's called physics.
it's nice to see your copy-pasting skills from the article are honed. was that even suppose to serve a purpose?
actually i've found that's often not true. mac users, in my experience, are either professionals (doctors, graphics, publishing, video, engineering) or highly computer technical (IT, web design, computer science). i don't know where the "mac users are idiots" stereotype came from. probably because macs are easier to use, people automatically assume it means the person is also automatically less intelligent. i believe it's quite the opposite. it takes the more intelligent people to realize that the mac lets them get work done easier and faster.
much in the same way game developers first and foremost target windows for game development, C++ is targted for commercial or large project development.
it doesn't mean windows and c++ are better, just that they are the "defacto" standard. i know as well as the others why c++ was chosen for qt, but that doesn't mean i enjoy using the language to do development with it. my motives for programming are not for profit, but for enjoyment. money is a side effect for me really, so if i'm not enjoying it.. why am i doing it? of course it's always more complex than that. people have to put food on the table. however when i have a choice on a project's development where we start from scratch, or if it's a personal project, c++ is pretty far down on my list of languages to choose. somewhere near perl and pascal.
btw, a competent, and enjoyable, replacement for c++ does exist today. check out objective-c sometime. here's my tutorial page or Wikipedia's article on it. despite the common misconception, it's not a mac only language. it's just as portable as c++, with a compiler on just about every major platform (thanks to gcc) and you can easily write code with c-linked libraries.
it's not so much performance/bloat that many of us are concerned with, but the language used. Not only does Qt require a hack language on top of C, but it requires moc, a hack on top of a hack language.
by hack i more or less mean a poorly designed language. of course gcc's implementation is good, but that has little to do with the design of c++. C has many advantages over c++ including but not limited to the fact that: you can write c++ in c (or at least do OOP in C to the similar functionaly of c++) and you can bind with just about every other language with minimal effort.
this is coming. but i should note that bluetooth has only 1mbps bandwidth. not nearly enough to be usable. heck a usb 1.1 cable has more throughput. wait for wireless firewire or wireless usb to come along in the next couple years before this is viable.
13 Reasons to use firefox over IE
I think i once saw a page with like 100 reasons. But this covers the major ones.
I don't mean to pry, but why would you want to not like them? I know a lot of people don't like the idea of a company taking open source software and using it to their monetary advantage, but Apple's done a lot of great things with it.
I fear the world where Microsoft totally crushed Apple back in the late 90s when Steve Jobs never sold NeXT to Apple. If you thought we had little consumer choice then, imagine how bad it would be now without this company advocating for the I-don't-fit-in-the-box people.
I talked to some of the elgato people at the WWDC booth about eyetv. My favorite thing about this system is it easily scriptable via apple script, and all the hdtv files are just straight mpeg2 (easily accessible). I hope with Tiger they support automator and give metadata based on tv show recordings.. Will make tv recording that much easier.
the safari 1.3 beta is quite a bit faster. my results came out around here:
Camino 0.8 - 41 sec
Safari 1.3 preview - 42 sec
download a userContent.css file with ad blocking. put it in the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/chrome
was that so hard?