The best mod of all: Half-Life: Scientist. You play a scientist and all you do is cower when anyone approaches you. You also have the cool ability to say "Leave me alone" and "I'm too busy" whenever you see Gordon Freeman.
> You're right, of course, but why would you ask GP to be modded offtopic? Please. Unless I missed the irony, it's people like you who get modpoints that make Slashdot discussion so unpleasant.
Er, let's see. GP was off topic so I wondered out loud why he would be marked as insightful. I get one mod point. You whine that "people like me" make slashdot discussions unpleasant and post a pic of a girl who cuts herself and you get 2 points. Yeah, I think you missed the irony.
BTW I just got 5 mod points which I can't use in this discussion.;)
I don't know how this gets modded as insightful. You're making an argument comparing an OS to games. If people 'played' OSs for 2 weeks and threw them out you might have a point but otherwise it's completely irrelevant.
+ it was an academic language designed to demonstrate the benefits of structured programming. Academic languages are never very successful. See smalltalk, logo & fortran as examples.
Biggest mistake Borland ever made
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The biggest mistake Borland ever made was probably the target marketing for Delphi.
Borland already had a VB killer and it was called Visual dBASE.
Now only a shell of what it once was - dBASE at the time was more RAD and more OOP than VB.
dBASE had back in 90-91:
2 way design tools
A subclassable component model
XDML (xBase database manipulation language)
A Basic-like syntax
And more
Borland messed up by thinking all those "visual beginners" could understand basically an academic language (which was Pascal).
Every review I ever read of Delphi said basically the same thing: "Better than VB - IF you want to learn Pascal".
They should have tarketed Visual dBASE at the VB market and Delphi at the C++ market (which they also lost).
>>I'll bet you anything that they have unix servers and oracles databases for comparison purposes though.
>Probably they do, but how mcuh real comparison can you do without running production systems? It could be just a small piece, but to ignore what it's like to maintain other products in production is short-sighted, I would say.
Does that matter? Microsoft has the marketing money to sell anyone anything. What does technological excellence have to do with it?
I usually write a version of a knowledge base (for web apps anyway).
They're pretty strait forward - a couple of tables and a couple of pages. But they have enough to cover the bases.
The main reason those languages did not catch on is because they came from academia instead of from business. All the successful languages made it for concrete business reasons.
Sucessful:
COBOL - Business language - sort of cross platform (for the 70s anyway)
C - High performance, Cross platform.
BASIC - Retardedly easy for retards.
C++ - OOP, Cross platform.
Java - Write once etc..
Not successful:
Pascal - Oooh the elegance of structured programming.
Smalltalk - Oooh the elegance of object oriented programming.
"Three years ago, the resort implemented an e-commerce system that used Red Hat Inc. Linux, The Apache Software Foundation's Apache Web servers and MySQL AB's MySQL database; the system was programmed in PHP."
First mistake: Using PHP and MySQL for an enterprise class application.
Quote:
"There was a limit set up within the program that said you can only order 'x' amount of products within one transaction," Roy said. "When one of our guests went over the limit, it crashed the whole store. We then had to manually identify the erroneous credit card charges."
Second mistake: Hiring a PHP script kiddie to write an enterprise application.
They could have used java/jboss/tomcat with a real database on Linux and still saved a ton of change and had a real enterprise solution.
But they should be limited to a 6 month life-span after which they go to the public domain. 6 months IMO is plenty of time to bring an idea to market with software.
Like double-clicking.:)
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The best mod of all: Half-Life: Scientist. You play a scientist and all you do is cower when anyone approaches you. You also have the cool ability to say "Leave me alone" and "I'm too busy" whenever you see Gordon Freeman.
I can think of 101 reasons why not use .NET:
http://www.manageability.org/manageabilityWiki/Why JavaIsBetterThanDotNet
Er, let's see. GP was off topic so I wondered out loud why he would be marked as insightful. I get one mod point. You whine that "people like me" make slashdot discussions unpleasant and post a pic of a girl who cuts herself and you get 2 points. Yeah, I think you missed the irony. ;)
BTW I just got 5 mod points which I can't use in this discussion.
I don't know how this gets modded as insightful. You're making an argument comparing an OS to games. If people 'played' OSs for 2 weeks and threw them out you might have a point but otherwise it's completely irrelevant.
Er, java 5: System.out.printf( "%10.2f", x);
JSF. http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscre ator/index.jsp
(sorry, I had a very rough day)
I hate M$ but I'm realistic. Once IE7 comes out - matter how badly it will support standards, people will go back to it.
+ it was an academic language designed to demonstrate the benefits of structured programming. Academic languages are never very successful. See smalltalk, logo & fortran as examples.
Borland already had a VB killer and it was called Visual dBASE.
Now only a shell of what it once was - dBASE at the time was more RAD and more OOP than VB.
dBASE had back in 90-91:
- 2 way design tools
- A subclassable component model
- XDML (xBase database manipulation language)
- A Basic-like syntax
- And more
Borland messed up by thinking all those "visual beginners" could understand basically an academic language (which was Pascal).Every review I ever read of Delphi said basically the same thing: "Better than VB - IF you want to learn Pascal".
They should have tarketed Visual dBASE at the VB market and Delphi at the C++ market (which they also lost).
Sheesh I wish I had mod points. :(
I could understand camping out for Star Trek but this???
>>I'll bet you anything that they have unix servers and oracles databases for comparison purposes though.
>Probably they do, but how mcuh real comparison can you do without running production systems? It could be just a small piece, but to ignore what it's like to maintain other products in production is short-sighted, I would say. Does that matter? Microsoft has the marketing money to sell anyone anything. What does technological excellence have to do with it?
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I usually write a version of a knowledge base (for web apps anyway).
They're pretty strait forward - a couple of tables and a couple of pages. But they have enough to cover the bases.
This might bring the stink of software patents to the forefront of the media. It might help the push for change.
... and since it's Java, it performs almost as fast as C and C++!
:)
Quote:
"Three years ago, the resort implemented an e-commerce system that used Red Hat Inc. Linux, The Apache Software Foundation's Apache Web servers and MySQL AB's MySQL database; the system was programmed in PHP."
First mistake: Using PHP and MySQL for an enterprise class application.
Quote:
"There was a limit set up within the program that said you can only order 'x' amount of products within one transaction," Roy said. "When one of our guests went over the limit, it crashed the whole store. We then had to manually identify the erroneous credit card charges."
Second mistake: Hiring a PHP script kiddie to write an enterprise application.
They could have used java/jboss/tomcat with a real database on Linux and still saved a ton of change and had a real enterprise solution.
Live and learn I guess....
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The requested URL
Can I download it for Windows? :)
Are we extra bored this week?
True. I hope a few /.ers will donate like I did. :)
Hasn't Kirk been done to death?
This: Startship Exeter is a much better project IMO. New characters. Different ship. Same era as TOS.
But they should be limited to a 6 month life-span after which they go to the public domain. 6 months IMO is plenty of time to bring an idea to market with software. :)
Like double-clicking.