AJAX won't replace the desktop. All it does is allow web-based applications to move some of the presentation code out of a CGI script and into the browser, where (many would argue) (most of) it belongs. Applications that are currently handled by CGI and static HTML forms (where the "OS [and browser] layer" is already "a bit irrelevant"), including calendars, email, and message boards, will become faster and more interactive, but we won't see any mass migration from desktop apps and native UI toolkits to the browser platform.
You know what would be really cool? A combination of transparent background images that cancel out and look normal in a standards-compliant browser, but in IE turn into an eerie silhouette of a lizard on a solid black backdrop.
Why do you even have to use OWA? If your email provider has OWA, that means they have Exchange, which probably means they have IMAP or POP enabled as well as SMTP. These protocols are actually designed for email, unlike HTTP/D?HTML, and are much faster. My school recently converted to Exchange from what was apparently a severly overloaded OSF/VMS network, and I've used OWA about three times in the last year. I always use IMAP with mozilla mail. If you're on a true public computer, as in off-campus or where you don't have access to your personal login account (the kind of machines that breed keyloggers and such), then a web-based system is required. and to tell you the truth, I never noticed any major problems running OWA in mozilla. Granted, I didn't try and crazy stuff like rich text email or other tools of the devil, but if you need real advanced features, doesn't it make more sense to install a real mail client?
If all the linux distros get rid of GIMP in the next release in favor of Inkscape, this thing is gonna be a hit.
No, if mozilla ever includes a full-featured SVG renderer (in my experience it always draws gradients as solid black), and the format catches on for web graphics, and linux distros start packaging Inkskape _in addition_ to the GIMP, then it will be a hit. Not that SVG doesn't already have uses; there's a large selection of SVG-based icon themes for Gnome, etc...
Adobe? I can create pdf files with cups-pdf and read them with ghostscript.... Where's the Adobe?
hmmm I've been looking at this thread off and on for a few hours and have yet to RTFA.
I never liked "This program has performed an illegal operation..." either. It just doesn't have the same ring as "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" or "glibc detected double-free or corruption."
Most Americans can only recognize countries (or states) outside of their own as a single large city surrounded by unpopulated wasteland. Even our own federal government is often referred to as simply "Washington."
If you're comparing stuff at the level of bits, then a divx stream has NO similarity to the DVD it was transcoded from, but no one disagrees that it's the same work. If your argument worked, then publishers would have no reason to pay royalties to authors since a manuscript isn't the same as a bound printed book.
this suit is a stun punch, which will get Intel to stop behaving in an anticompetitive manner while the spotlight is on. If AMD can keep attention on the situation, they can crack into a few major vendors
This is what I think will happen at the end of this. Intel won't be forced to stop building or shipping processors, and any amount of fines or damages to AMD is unlikely to hurt them, since they can already afford to dump billions of dollars into OEMs in the form of rebates, "market development funds," bribes, whatever. What will happen is that Intel will be forced to stop their discriminatory discount programs, which will open the door for OEMs to build more AMD-based systems. And the WILL build them. Each time starts selling an AMD system, they sell very well; most of the products were pulled because the Intel rebates stopped. It will be interesting to see what happens to consumer PC prices and smaller OEMs. As it is now, competition has driven prices (and margins) dangerously low, and the only thing keeping OEMs profitable in some cases is the Intel money. If Intel completely stops most of their rebates, Dell, HP, and IBM will still have high-margin server lines to fall back on, but smaller desktop-only makers may be forced to raise prices or close. It depends on how far processor prices fall after Intel's monopoly is taken away. I don't think we will see any significant competition for Intel from anyone other than AMD. Given the size of the x86 market (AMD quotes it as 200M/year) a startup would need a HUGE amount of capital to quickly start delivering chips in volumes the market needs. Via is probably the only company with the chip designs and manufacturing partners to come anywhere close. But, what do I know? I'm not a lawyer (my father is); I'm just a kid who follows the technology industry in my spare time. For the record, I'm using a now-discontinued emachines/mobile A64.
Intel patented the internal circuit design for the chip, so AMD needed a license to build chips with that exact design, but unless they somehow patented or copyrighted the instruction set, I think anyone is free to design and build a compatible chip.
So, you want a toolkit that will let you throw together a GUI in a few minutes that will instantly work perfectly on X, Windoze, PDAs, and phones? Dream on...
Dsktop platforms are similar enough to support all of them with a single toolkit because the user generally has at least a three-button mouse, a full size keyboard and a screen at least a thousand pixels square, and the operating systems have features like threads and network I/O that can be abstracted easily. Embedded platforms rarely give you that luxury. More devices are using Linux now, so that will make porting easier and allow more complex programs (PalmOS programming is horrible; i've never used Win(CE|Mobile) but I don't expect anything very stable after using its desktop counterpart). But GUIs will always be different, and you can't expect to simply recompile your app on a phone and expect it to be usable. I agree that a portable runtime that allowed the same program logic to run on all platforms would be a great idea, but using a single GUI interface for desktop and pda environments would almost certainly lead to loss of functionality on at least one platform.
Unfortunately I can't get the song out of my head now...
First there was linux and then there was mac do doo do dee do do now we've put windows on the open source track (although i thought the port of qt3 from x11 to cygwin and eventually partially to windows native was an amusing idea)
This could be a huge breakthrough for all kinds of medical treatment; I hope they can perfect this in the next few years and make it safe and reliably enough to routinely perform on humans. Still, it's a little creepy. Cryogenics and other hibernation techniques have been in science fiction for decades -- everywhere from 2001 to Futurama -- but I had no idea researchers had gotten this close in real life.
What? Microsoft actually has a reason for charging what they charge? I thought it was because they can manipulate the market enough to make anyone pay whatever they want and no one has the balls to challenge them. Seriously, given the volume of licenses that MS sells, there can't be that many costs to be recuperated.
Word processors file formats are best used for writing a document and printing it yourself. For publishing a text document on the web or through email, HTML is more than enough. If you need precise layout that a professional print lab can understand, use PostScript.
My problems with Qt are not language- or license-related. I just think it's ugly, with many features copied from Windows. File browser dialogs by default appear as a side-scrolling multicolumn list, which requires a lot of up and down eye movement to find a specific file by name. None of the themes that come with KDE are very good, and it's difficult to find/install/tweak new ones. Most are poor knock-offs of Motif or Windows (ew) or older KDE releases. Keramic is hideous. Plastik is the only one that I find remotely usable. Gnome on the other hand includes 4 or 5 decent themes for GTK. The other thing I don't like about KDE is how they seem to implement their own replacement for every other existing library in an attempt to make sure every line of every program on the desktop originated in the KDE project (or Trolltech).
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He's just a Stupid American who tried to use the metric system to look better but failed miserably...
AJAX won't replace the desktop. All it does is allow web-based applications to move some of the presentation code out of a CGI script and into the browser, where (many would argue) (most of) it belongs. Applications that are currently handled by CGI and static HTML forms (where the "OS [and browser] layer" is already "a bit irrelevant"), including calendars, email, and message boards, will become faster and more interactive, but we won't see any mass migration from desktop apps and native UI toolkits to the browser platform.
You know what would be really cool? A combination of transparent background images that cancel out and look normal in a standards-compliant browser, but in IE turn into an eerie silhouette of a lizard on a solid black backdrop.
Why do you even have to use OWA? If your email provider has OWA, that means they have Exchange, which probably means they have IMAP or POP enabled as well as SMTP. These protocols are actually designed for email, unlike HTTP/D?HTML, and are much faster. My school recently converted to Exchange from what was apparently a severly overloaded OSF/VMS network, and I've used OWA about three times in the last year. I always use IMAP with mozilla mail. If you're on a true public computer, as in off-campus or where you don't have access to your personal login account (the kind of machines that breed keyloggers and such), then a web-based system is required. and to tell you the truth, I never noticed any major problems running OWA in mozilla. Granted, I didn't try and crazy stuff like rich text email or other tools of the devil, but if you need real advanced features, doesn't it make more sense to install a real mail client?
If all the linux distros get rid of GIMP in the next release in favor of Inkscape, this thing is gonna be a hit.
No, if mozilla ever includes a full-featured SVG renderer (in my experience it always draws gradients as solid black), and the format catches on for web graphics, and linux distros start packaging Inkskape _in addition_ to the GIMP, then it will be a hit. Not that SVG doesn't already have uses; there's a large selection of SVG-based icon themes for Gnome, etc...
Adobe? I can create pdf files with cups-pdf and read them with ghostscript.... Where's the Adobe? hmmm I've been looking at this thread off and on for a few hours and have yet to RTFA.
HTML version? I'd call that a GIF version. So it's the same size as the PDF, but the colors are ugly
Um... The same way Apple sold iPods with 1-2 year battery life?
I never liked "This program has performed an illegal operation..." either. It just doesn't have the same ring as "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" or "glibc detected double-free or corruption."
Most Americans can only recognize countries (or states) outside of their own as a single large city surrounded by unpopulated wasteland. Even our own federal government is often referred to as simply "Washington."
Point one: There's something beautifully ironic about someone duplicating the word "AND" in a comment bitching about a duplicate story (I know, the it's hard to remember what you typed before the Point two: STFU! I think moderators should agree to start modding these posts as off-topic, unless the post has some relevant information besides a complaint. And give the editors a break. It's a miracle the site is still operating, let alone somewhat useful given the traffic/abuse they get currently.
Point three: Was some engineer just REALLY bored or something? Seriously, how many cockroaches will be able to afford one of these?
If you're comparing stuff at the level of bits, then a divx stream has NO similarity to the DVD it was transcoded from, but no one disagrees that it's the same work. If your argument worked, then publishers would have no reason to pay royalties to authors since a manuscript isn't the same as a bound printed book.
This is what I think will happen at the end of this. Intel won't be forced to stop building or shipping processors, and any amount of fines or damages to AMD is unlikely to hurt them, since they can already afford to dump billions of dollars into OEMs in the form of rebates, "market development funds," bribes, whatever. What will happen is that Intel will be forced to stop their discriminatory discount programs, which will open the door for OEMs to build more AMD-based systems. And the WILL build them. Each time starts selling an AMD system, they sell very well; most of the products were pulled because the Intel rebates stopped. It will be interesting to see what happens to consumer PC prices and smaller OEMs. As it is now, competition has driven prices (and margins) dangerously low, and the only thing keeping OEMs profitable in some cases is the Intel money. If Intel completely stops most of their rebates, Dell, HP, and IBM will still have high-margin server lines to fall back on, but smaller desktop-only makers may be forced to raise prices or close. It depends on how far processor prices fall after Intel's monopoly is taken away. I don't think we will see any significant competition for Intel from anyone other than AMD. Given the size of the x86 market (AMD quotes it as 200M/year) a startup would need a HUGE amount of capital to quickly start delivering chips in volumes the market needs. Via is probably the only company with the chip designs and manufacturing partners to come anywhere close. But, what do I know? I'm not a lawyer (my father is); I'm just a kid who follows the technology industry in my spare time. For the record, I'm using a now-discontinued emachines/mobile A64.
Intel patented the internal circuit design for the chip, so AMD needed a license to build chips with that exact design, but unless they somehow patented or copyrighted the instruction set, I think anyone is free to design and build a compatible chip.
So, you want a toolkit that will let you throw together a GUI in a few minutes that will instantly work perfectly on X, Windoze, PDAs, and phones? Dream on...
Dsktop platforms are similar enough to support all of them with a single toolkit because the user generally has at least a three-button mouse, a full size keyboard and a screen at least a thousand pixels square, and the operating systems have features like threads and network I/O that can be abstracted easily. Embedded platforms rarely give you that luxury. More devices are using Linux now, so that will make porting easier and allow more complex programs (PalmOS programming is horrible; i've never used Win(CE|Mobile) but I don't expect anything very stable after using its desktop counterpart). But GUIs will always be different, and you can't expect to simply recompile your app on a phone and expect it to be usable. I agree that a portable runtime that allowed the same program logic to run on all platforms would be a great idea, but using a single GUI interface for desktop and pda environments would almost certainly lead to loss of functionality on at least one platform.
Unfortunately I can't get the song out of my head now...
First there was linux and then there was mac do doo do dee do do now we've put windows on the open source track (although i thought the port of qt3 from x11 to cygwin and eventually partially to windows native was an amusing idea)
You speak as if this was in the past, but ATI cards still exist....
Is the tracker called "Mr. Torrent" or something? At least that looked like a SpaceBalls reference.
This could be a huge breakthrough for all kinds of medical treatment; I hope they can perfect this in the next few years and make it safe and reliably enough to routinely perform on humans. Still, it's a little creepy. Cryogenics and other hibernation techniques have been in science fiction for decades -- everywhere from 2001 to Futurama -- but I had no idea researchers had gotten this close in real life.
CONFIG_SUSPEND2=y
What? Microsoft actually has a reason for charging what they charge? I thought it was because they can manipulate the market enough to make anyone pay whatever they want and no one has the balls to challenge them. Seriously, given the volume of licenses that MS sells, there can't be that many costs to be recuperated.
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Word processors file formats are best used for writing a document and printing it yourself. For publishing a text document on the web or through email, HTML is more than enough. If you need precise layout that a professional print lab can understand, use PostScript.
My problems with Qt are not language- or license-related. I just think it's ugly, with many features copied from Windows. File browser dialogs by default appear as a side-scrolling multicolumn list, which requires a lot of up and down eye movement to find a specific file by name. None of the themes that come with KDE are very good, and it's difficult to find/install/tweak new ones. Most are poor knock-offs of Motif or Windows (ew) or older KDE releases. Keramic is hideous. Plastik is the only one that I find remotely usable. Gnome on the other hand includes 4 or 5 decent themes for GTK. The other thing I don't like about KDE is how they seem to implement their own replacement for every other existing library in an attempt to make sure every line of every program on the desktop originated in the KDE project (or Trolltech).