Yeah, I don't really see how that's any different from XP. After a fresh install, I can't even get the network card to work on my Dell without downloading the driver from their web site on a different computer and burning it to a CD.
On the other hand, Ubuntu and Mandriva have supported everything perfectly on the last 5 computers I've had (3 of them laptops that have tons of unsupported hardware with an XP stock install), so "there's too much custom hardware" is no excuse for a miserable OS installation experience. So he does have a very valid gripe, but it's also nothing new with Vista.
My experience is no different. I also don't know any Mac users who know or care about IT, and we have quite a few of them in my company. Perhaps it is your experience that is different than the norm?
One poor implementation doesn't mean it's not worth it. Denmark gets 19% of its power from wind, and uses the excess energy during high wind / low usage periods to create hydrogen from electrolysis that it then uses to power city buses. So there are clean, efficient ways to do it if people would get past the existing petroleum economy.
No modern fuel cell systems, particularly for moving vehicles, propose storing hydrogen in gas form. The hydrogen is stored in an inert form (i.e. one that cannot explode on impact, or "leak" hydrogen) - for example in these. The hydrogen is extracted with a catalyst during the power generation process.
Frankly what you're describing is just as (or more) likely to happen with a gasoline-powered vehicle than a modern hydrogen fuel cell design.
And if the private encryption key happens to disappear from your computer, that passphrase (or anything else they can get out of you) won't do anyone a lick of good. Who deleted it? Musta been a virus.
And this explains why Linux has so many security vulnerabilities, right? Because just allowing anyone to look at the source code would surely uncover many security holes to be exploited.
Attitudes like that encourage sloppy programming. Rather than thinking of a totally secure way of doing something, it encourages doing something "just secure enough", then crossing your fingers and hoping nobody figures out a way around it.
Postgres can create indexes on functions. So if you need case-insensitive queries, you can create an index like the following on your table:
CREATE INDEX my_index ON my_table(LOWER(column_name));
Then you can use something like the following query:
SELECT * from my_table WHERE LOWER(column_name) = LOWER('Search String');
This gives you case-insensitive searching with no performance penalty. A little more setup involved, but the same functionality as the other DBMS's you mention.
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Not true. Just finished a "Client/SOA"-style app with no page reloads that fully supports back/forward navigation and bookmarking. I'll spare you the technical details, but while it's certainly not an ideal situation, it's not "impossible" by a long shot.
Of course, now the question becomes: if you're building a desktop-like application for the web, why do you even WANT back and forward buttons to function? Does anybody ever complain that Outlook or Evolution don't have back and forward buttons to go back to where they were before? These buttons were designed for assisting navigation in a page-based paradigm. If you abandon that paradigm in your applications, you should have no more need for them. Make the interface well designed, intuitive and easy to navigate and you'll find it's a non-issue entirely.
Many specialized, interactive web applications are specifically designed to break away from a page-based system of organization that may be unsuitable for that application's needs. Everyone who complains about "breaking the back button" in such applications should really sit back and ask themselves - in this application, would the back button really serve a reasonable purpose?
Yeah, that's the only thing that really makes sense. Google's strength is its network computing infrastructure. It's in the position to do what Oracle mistakenly thought they could do years ago - "the network is the computer". Bandwidth is cheap now; the only smart business decision for them in this area would be to provide a standards-based, thin client OS to connect to their online services (Google.com, Gmail, GTalk, Blogger, Maps, etc).
Think about it. What software has Google released? With the exception of software obtained through acquisitions (Picasa, Earth), it only releases web-based software (Gmail, etc) or lightweight clients to more effectively use its internet-based services (Google bar, Google talk, Google desktop).
So assuming this rumor has any merit, you'll probably see:
A much-simplified version of Ubuntu
Possibly a new filesystem
Lots of development focus on Firefox
And hopefully:
Increased attention to Vorbis and Theora
In the short term that may mean they are targeting the internet kiosk market, but I think in the future Google expects all computers to effectively be "internet kiosks".
DeveloperWorks has not come out with anything all that interesting lately. How very odd that they make it to Slashdot every week, like clockwork. They couldn't be paying for placement, could they?
Probably irrelevant for 99% of the developers though. They might have to sit through an initial build that may be longer, but building and testing incremental changes are where the real time savings comes into play.
New, but not neccesarily accurate. As it says at the top of the page in the second link:
All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both encyclopaedias. In a small number of cases some material, such as reference lists, was removed to make the lengths of the entries more similar.
Without actual links to the articles in question, I'd tend to believe Nature's assertion rather than "a pair of endeavoring wikipedians".
You realize that many companies spend all day, every day to provide valuable content or services to you, the user, for free, right? Maybe you'll recognize some of them: Google. Slashdot. Hotmail. CNN.
How do you suppose it's economically feasible for them to do this? I'll give you a hint: it doesn't involve tooth fairies or magical elves. It does, however, have a loose connection to online advertising.
Yeah, the download manager is a complete pain in the ass. When I upgraded my distro, no amount of tweaking could get it to work again.
If you don't need a user interface though, and want it to Just Work, I wrote a replacement download manager replacement in Perl. Just set it to handle all.emp files in your browser. It will use your existing download manager configuration for file/directory naming, download directory, etc.
Yeah, you get access to some commercial and club-only software packages, and you can vote on which packages should go into the next release. Gives the user a nice say in what their distro becomes.
Yes, because he wouldn't have to audacity to forward our questions to his PR people, and then reply with their responses, would he?
Slashdotters and open-source types are just a new target market for them. I think they view us as Honda views street racers - not a significant enough chunk to make money from, but damn, does it give you street cred if they like your products. Every public response they make to us will be vetted to appeal to that demographic.
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...which is one reason couriers exist.
Yeah, I don't really see how that's any different from XP. After a fresh install, I can't even get the network card to work on my Dell without downloading the driver from their web site on a different computer and burning it to a CD.
On the other hand, Ubuntu and Mandriva have supported everything perfectly on the last 5 computers I've had (3 of them laptops that have tons of unsupported hardware with an XP stock install), so "there's too much custom hardware" is no excuse for a miserable OS installation experience. So he does have a very valid gripe, but it's also nothing new with Vista.
and the government will get a kickback of the revenue.
That's called "lobbying".
My experience is no different. I also don't know any Mac users who know or care about IT, and we have quite a few of them in my company. Perhaps it is your experience that is different than the norm?
One poor implementation doesn't mean it's not worth it. Denmark gets 19% of its power from wind, and uses the excess energy during high wind / low usage periods to create hydrogen from electrolysis that it then uses to power city buses. So there are clean, efficient ways to do it if people would get past the existing petroleum economy.
Not sure how this got modded "Informative"...
No modern fuel cell systems, particularly for moving vehicles, propose storing hydrogen in gas form. The hydrogen is stored in an inert form (i.e. one that cannot explode on impact, or "leak" hydrogen) - for example in these. The hydrogen is extracted with a catalyst during the power generation process.
Frankly what you're describing is just as (or more) likely to happen with a gasoline-powered vehicle than a modern hydrogen fuel cell design.
Definitely not my area of expertise, but I believe nickel nanoparticles can now be used to replace platinum as a catalyst:
r es/spheres.html
http://www.memagazine.org/supparch/nanoapr05/sphe
Much more available and cheaper than platinum. Anybody know of any downsides to this?
And if the private encryption key happens to disappear from your computer, that passphrase (or anything else they can get out of you) won't do anyone a lick of good. Who deleted it? Musta been a virus.
And this explains why Linux has so many security vulnerabilities, right? Because just allowing anyone to look at the source code would surely uncover many security holes to be exploited.
Attitudes like that encourage sloppy programming. Rather than thinking of a totally secure way of doing something, it encourages doing something "just secure enough", then crossing your fingers and hoping nobody figures out a way around it.
Security by obscurity is bullshit.
Postgres can create indexes on functions. So if you need case-insensitive queries, you can create an index like the following on your table:
CREATE INDEX my_index ON my_table(LOWER(column_name));
Then you can use something like the following query:
SELECT * from my_table WHERE LOWER(column_name) = LOWER('Search String');
This gives you case-insensitive searching with no performance penalty. A little more setup involved, but the same functionality as the other DBMS's you mention.
Not true. Just finished a "Client/SOA"-style app with no page reloads that fully supports back/forward navigation and bookmarking. I'll spare you the technical details, but while it's certainly not an ideal situation, it's not "impossible" by a long shot.
Of course, now the question becomes: if you're building a desktop-like application for the web, why do you even WANT back and forward buttons to function? Does anybody ever complain that Outlook or Evolution don't have back and forward buttons to go back to where they were before? These buttons were designed for assisting navigation in a page-based paradigm. If you abandon that paradigm in your applications, you should have no more need for them. Make the interface well designed, intuitive and easy to navigate and you'll find it's a non-issue entirely.
Many specialized, interactive web applications are specifically designed to break away from a page-based system of organization that may be unsuitable for that application's needs. Everyone who complains about "breaking the back button" in such applications should really sit back and ask themselves - in this application, would the back button really serve a reasonable purpose?
Yeah, that's the only thing that really makes sense. Google's strength is its network computing infrastructure. It's in the position to do what Oracle mistakenly thought they could do years ago - "the network is the computer". Bandwidth is cheap now; the only smart business decision for them in this area would be to provide a standards-based, thin client OS to connect to their online services (Google.com, Gmail, GTalk, Blogger, Maps, etc).
Think about it. What software has Google released? With the exception of software obtained through acquisitions (Picasa, Earth), it only releases web-based software (Gmail, etc) or lightweight clients to more effectively use its internet-based services (Google bar, Google talk, Google desktop).
So assuming this rumor has any merit, you'll probably see:
And hopefully:
In the short term that may mean they are targeting the internet kiosk market, but I think in the future Google expects all computers to effectively be "internet kiosks".
Great, another cookie-cutter, marginally informative post from IBM DeveloperWorks. This is getting old.
DeveloperWorks has not come out with anything all that interesting lately. How very odd that they make it to Slashdot every week, like clockwork. They couldn't be paying for placement, could they?
Slashdot has jumped the shark.
Probably irrelevant for 99% of the developers though. They might have to sit through an initial build that may be longer, but building and testing incremental changes are where the real time savings comes into play.
Without actual links to the articles in question, I'd tend to believe Nature's assertion rather than "a pair of endeavoring wikipedians".
But what they didn't mention is that the new features implemented by the "linux counterparts" also crash 68% less often.
Yeah. Screw those weird African words. I'm sticking with a distro named after a HAT!
-j
Maybe in the future we can just use the same computer forever Hahahahahahahahaha!
True, but it still does need LDAP support for addressbooks.
You realize that many companies spend all day, every day to provide valuable content or services to you, the user, for free, right? Maybe you'll recognize some of them: Google. Slashdot. Hotmail. CNN.
How do you suppose it's economically feasible for them to do this? I'll give you a hint: it doesn't involve tooth fairies or magical elves. It does, however, have a loose connection to online advertising.
Yeah, the download manager is a complete pain in the ass. When I upgraded my distro, no amount of tweaking could get it to work again.
.emp files in your browser. It will use your existing download manager configuration for file/directory naming, download directory, etc.
If you don't need a user interface though, and want it to Just Work, I wrote a replacement download manager replacement in Perl. Just set it to handle all
Yeah, you get access to some commercial and club-only software packages, and you can vote on which packages should go into the next release. Gives the user a nice say in what their distro becomes.
Yes, because he wouldn't have to audacity to forward our questions to his PR people, and then reply with their responses, would he?
Slashdotters and open-source types are just a new target market for them. I think they view us as Honda views street racers - not a significant enough chunk to make money from, but damn, does it give you street cred if they like your products. Every public response they make to us will be vetted to appeal to that demographic.
-j