hell, forgot you can't add a < sign without screwing up the html. someone tell taco to fix the html parser!!
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my guess is that a $500 machine will suffer the same. hell, look at low-end dell's, it's the same thing, crappy screen shitty keyboard. now, it is handy when i go on vacation and want to have dial-up access or something and don't want to bring the ibook with all my important stuff on it, plus, i can ssh in and still get access data. but that's about it.
i have a laptop like that, an old CTX K62-300 w/128mb ram. truth is, machines like this aren't really that good for development because the keyboard sucks and the screen is crappy. my guess is that a
as for wifi, you can get a cheap linksys pc card for $30. a $100 or so PC is a different issue, as the monitor and keyboard are separate. problem with laptops is, and has always been, ergonomics. cheap comes at a price. honestly, unless you're doing windows development, and since this laptop runs linux so you won't be, get an old ibook or thinkpad on ebay. for the same price you're getting much better hardware and the performance hit is minor unless you're rendering a 30MB photoshop file or something. my 700mhz G3 ibook is still great for tons of stuff, and you can pick them up on ebay for around $600. an ibm 700-900mhz P3 goes for around $400. these were once top of the line, with the better screens, keyboards, hard drives, etc., not bottom barrel crap thrown together for a few sheckels. pennywise and pound foolish. i'll tkae older quality over newer crap any day of the week.
maybe microsoft would have adopted linux, maybe we'd have to come up with clever icons for ibm, and be talking about the big blue screen of death. microsoft's control lay ints api's and doc formats. without that control, eventually, they'd have to split from ibm.
hey, i paid good money for my mcse cert., damnit. i'm a professional. it says so right here on this piece of paper. i was recommended to ask slashdot due to its reputation of honest and informed discourse.
but other than office, as I mentioned, how many people use IE or WMP on the mac? my guess is few. safari and firefox as well as QT are the standard. and microsoft uses both ie and wmp as a camel's nose so to speak, to get inside the tent. on windows, ie and wmp basically borg the system, giving microsoft greater control of a variety of features, which they can't do on os x. and as i mentioned, one has to wonder if the ms mac division is worth the expense long term. apple has to know this, and rightly is preparing for the day when no updated office negates an apple solution. ipods and itunes put the mac on more minds, being able to use it as a drop in replacement for a "PC" puts them on more desks. that is linux's gretaest weakness. that, for all the great features, it always has one thing missing, whatever that "one thing" is. thus, linux (on the desktop) isn't a viable replacement in most instances.
i agree completely. i teach the ap comp sci class at my school, and though we're preparing for the ap exam, we're spending the second semester really digging into the 2D api, sockets and threads. i want them to code some cool things, really use java's oop features, so by the time they take the ap exam, it'll be child's play. the guy before me who taught it last year (he's since left for a new HS) was a hardwrae guy, taught the cisco/A+ classes, and was about a day ahead of the class. one of my students was in the class last year first semester, and learned nothing. he dropped the class after the first semester, and thought he'd try it again.
we are working on a drawing program, and it is amazing what you can do with just 4 or 5 classes, and a few hundred lines of code. it does shapes, strokes, fills, etc. it holds the entire graphic in an arraylist, and draws from that. thus, model-view. java makes it simple and easy. java would probably be the best solution, especially considering the cross platform nature. plus, any other language like python, you have to learn a whole other toolkit and game engine. with java, it's all there. and swing is fairly fast with graphics, and since swing does its own double buffering, it eliminates alot of flicker. but you're right, java is the best overall decision.
Lets not forget, Microsoft is one of Apple's largest shareholders.
not any more. ms dumped their stock a year or two ago. that's one of the reasons, when ms said it wasn't updating IE for the mac, apple got safari going. yes, ms still has an active mac division, but officeX is still carbon. and other than office, which might not generate the long term $'s for continued development, what other ms products do yo see on the mac? none. apple knows it has to offer a full package, which is odd considering it is different from its traditional model of being primarily a hardware company. apple can't rely on any one market, as they have discovered playing to the "creative" niche. they now address the geek, the novice, the hip (itunes/ipod), and soon they'll be a serious solution for the SOHO. they still own the creative set, but they won't keep apple in the black forever. in fact, it's probably better that they're weening themselves from redmond.
the average user doesn't give $0.02 whether it's linux, windows, os x, or (___________) OS. they just want to do a few things, like, oh, i don't know: surf the net, chat with friends, look at their dig photos, listen to music, email, type a letter or two, balance their checkbooks, etc. if they buy a printer or a scanner or something else, they wnat it to just work. that's all they want to do. and as for a business desktop, they want even less: to do their work. as for windows, as long as crappy web developers use front page or vbscript, or activeX, or what ever the hell is IE specific, then the onus is on the shitty specs. i hardly imagine someone really says, "hey, let's really fuck with those firefox users, we'll make it IE only!!! mooahahahahaha!!!"
as for linux, it handles about 90-95% of 90-95% of users needs. for example my wife is almost all open source (firefox, mozilla mail, even OO.org) on her XP box, excpet she is a semi-pro photographer and needs photoshop CS. (no gimp is not a replacement. for me, yes, for her, no.) so that leaves about 10% of users who need windows. the problem comes in as that 10% is not always the same 10%. so, most linux users are going to have a gap somewhere, a digi camera, scanner, printer, or worse, some stupid small app, probably that came with the scanner, etc. or that bridge game that aunt gertrude sent that you gotta play. so linux is always in the red zone and has to settle for a field goal, which usually goes just wide right (football terms).
what users don't want, however, are 6 million viruses, hackers accessing their CC#'s, spyware, and all the assorted maladies that windows is oh so famous for. but, they put up with the cow shit to get the roses. linux might not have the shit, but it doesn't always give you roses.
wtf was i smoking. i'm on a metaphor high or something. anyways, users want a hammer, whatever the brand, and they want it to hammer nails. that's all.
very true. though, i rather suspect that java will be around a little longer than people predict. kinda like apple, eh? not because i'm a fanboi or anything, though i do like java, it's just that it has lots of uses, is fairly easy to learn, is plenty pwerful, is fairly safe, and mostly platform independent. though i would feel better if were open sourced, like python and perl. java suffered early from sluggishness due to its HUGE memory footprint. but the jdk's with jit compilers have made it alot more responsive, and now, even a $399 2+ Ghz box from best buy or dell has more than enough horsepower to run java apps well. it's still to early to tell if java is just another visual basic or not, though i suspect not. it has a large place in CS programs, and is still the most sought langugage for jobs. and if you think about it, aside from low level protocols and system level programming, there's not really much you can't do with java. while i don't expect to see JPhotoshop anytime soon, swing is just one facet of java.
when you get used to vim, really used to it, you can't live without it. and yes, it does code completion. sadly java is so verbose that it kinda makes vim hard. i have very little c experience, but have done alot of work with perl, python, and php. for scripting languages, especially like perl, it's invaluable. not a user of emacs, but i'm sure it's the same.
however, vim is great for alot of 2-3 class java solutions, and even larger ones as well. not everyone writes huge enterprise apps. an editor gives you total control, whereas an ide still makes you do things "my way". i was trying to compare netbeans versus vim for my ap comp sci class, trying to write a small gui graphics app. by the time i got the JPanel on netbeans to subclass, i would hav ebeen done on vim. as for the other tool i use, jedit rocks.
It also makes sense that Microsoft seems to only enter very large markets, or what it perceives as growing markets.
however, they will also enter markets, or worse, threaten to enter markets to either stifle it, or crush competitors. they have a history of threatening to enter a market before it gets going, thereby stifling alot of nascent development. thankfully, they couldn't do this to the internet. alot of markets that could ave developed, which microsoft couldn't control were stillborn. whose gonna throw any VC to a startup when redmond, inc. is gonna be your main competitor.
The main reason I can see for Apple not doing such a thing is that it might make things seem a bit weird to people who are accustomed to thinking of each computer as a separate device, and not a big cloud of computation/storage/etc., and would rather do the "cloud" functionality via more traditional (to Windows/Mac users, anyway) file-sharing conduits such as AFP, WebDAV, etc.
no, why would apple want you to run os x on non-apple machines. it would be a few days before someone figured out the protocol and they were running os x clients on a linux box. 'cause that'd sell lots of mac hardware.
just the screeen caps. though i do plan on buying iwork when it comes out. i already have keynote 1.0, and it is great for my classroom. i wonder if apple will come out with a spreadsheet. that would be a cool app.
Ever done multi-column layouts in CSS and gotten them to work in most major browsers?
yes. no. actually, isn't kwrite based on something like that. for extremely complex docs, sure, but then most people use word as a desktop publishing/layout program. which it can do, but, isn't it's primary task. i'm trying to think of the most complex crap i've done with word, and how i could turn it into html. for the most part, it could be done. now, where it would break down is maybe with the ole stuff. but as for a snapshot, it seems mostly a matter of effort versus difficulty. if html export was so important, it'd be done right. i just don't think it is.
actually, considering the CSS2.0 support in most browsers, including safari, it shouldn't be as hard as word97->html was. there's no need to use nested tables, invisible.gif spacers, etc. since there a document has precise layout, which can be duplicated with css, and you figure it isn't going to be altered in html format, only.doc or whatever format, then the code itself can get ugly with alot of div's, span's, and inline styles. even text wrap shouldn't be a problem using float. a few years ago, (anything)2html would have been awful. but now, it's just a sign of laziness or desire. and if it uses xml and xslt, then it shoul dbe rather easy. but hey, i don't have the patience, so...
and didn't tom brokaw give a speech in front of a democratic fundraiser? not that's he forbidden from doing speeches, but a political fundraiser? he claimed he didn't know. sure. had he spoken to a republicna fundraiser, all hell would've broken loose.
i have quanta gold from theKompany. (good on linux, sucks on os x. oh well.) anyways, they bundle all the Qt libs in a single directory. it is theoretically possible, yes, but screws other things up. for example, i had several X clients in my old classroom, and ran them off a P3 933 512MB system. ran fine. but, if i ran 6 copies of mozilla, each with its own libraries, it'd come to a grinding halt. the problem is windowsy really, as with free software it's not usually too hard to update a library. bundled libs are a commercial, not free, way of doing things. technical versus profitable, i guess. os x apps access a set of frameworks, and all specialized frameworks are.app bundle specific, unless yo drag them to/Library/Frameworks. but that's not always possible. it's like those damn activeX controls.
in reality, this is no different than what the MSM has been doing since at least cronkite and vietnam. no the republicans shouldn't have paid williams to carry their water, but is that any different than what the news orgs have been doing for free for the democrats for years? neither is good. the media, at least the news, should be objective, and it is far from it. i have a blog, mostly political stuff (warning: conservative analysis) blogs and talk radio are just an evolving media, whether we like it or not. at least there's more information out there. it's up to the individual to discern the truth.
"XP is a pretty good OS, there's just no denying it if you're remotely sane."
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okay, i admit that i've not used windows since like 1998, but XP is pretty good? please. i bought my wife (yes, a/.er actually has one!!). first, the scanner, HP5300, doesn't work. even with new drivers. no. then two printers, an HP920 something and now an epson 300 stylus photo color something. work sort of. the epson still f***s up labels in word2000.
belkin wireless pci card. nope. linksys usb wireless. yhes, but...half the time it works, other time, don't know. i set her computer up to run in non-admin mode. had to change that. half the apps she runs, like photoshop, want admin mode. and then, she installs nothing, and within like a week her computer grinds to a snails pace. filled with spyware and viruses. and by the way, i set her up with mozilla's mail client, not Lookout Express. all because she needs to run IE for a online pay site.(it's not paypal, it's like verio i think. but that's not right. something close though). anyways, IE f***s up her system, i finally get her to run moz then now firefox. fine. oh yeah, one more thing. so, she needs to burn a cd to give digital pictures to her friend. 30 minutes later i say f*** it, i don't konw how to burn a cd in xp. oh, third party software. are you freakin serious. what od doesn't have cd burning software, even basic shit? please. now, i'm sure that somehow all these problems could be fixed fine. and here's the last thing. i have a WAP in my classroom at school (please don't tell the tech guy!! hell, they'd be too stupid to know!!) a student brings in his laptop. it takes us 30 minutes, and we can't connect to the internet. WTF!! and no, i wasn't even using encrytpion. (yeah, yeah...) anyways, XP is a piece of shit OS.
one, my old P3 mandrake sytsem did wireless better, recognized the scanner and printers (though not all features were there, but they at least worked!!) and spyware, cd-burning, etc. all taken care of. as for my ibook? need i comment. me? i've a master's in educational technology, have been java certified since '99, been doing outside work sysadmin/setup linux since '98, years of perl, few with php, anyways, if i can't figure it out, then how the hell is aunt betty? or my wife. xp is like all the rest of microsofts's os's. it's what comes on the f***ing machine, and it sucks, we learn to work around it, patch it, tweak it, deal with it, and all that, because it plays UT2kX and as long as it is apiece of shit, windows admins got jobs. and as long as they got jobs, microsoft has a defacto lobbying arm in management, and thus real OS's aren't going to get a look. like a windows admin is going to go, "hey boss, if we hose windows and install linux, you know all those crashes, viruses, problems, and emergencies i get paid to fix, well they'll disappear. can i have all my sick days in cash?".
"XP is a pretty good OS, there's just no denying it if you're remotely sane."
belkin wireless pci card. nope. linksys usb wireless. yhes, but...half the time it works, other time, don't know. i set her computer up to run in non-admin mode. had to change that. half the apps she runs, like photoshop, want admin mode. and then, she installs nothing, and within like a week her computer grinds to a snails pace. filled with spyware and viruses. and by the way, i set her up with mozilla's mail client, not Lookout Express. all because she needs to run IE for a online pay site.(it's not paypal, it's like verio i think. but that's not right. something close though). anyways, IE f***s up her system, i finally get her to run moz then now firefox. fine. oh yeah, one more thing. so, she needs to burn a cd to give digital pictures to her friend. 30 minutes later i say f*** it, i don't konw how to burn a cd in xp. oh, third party software. are you freakin serious. what od doesn't have cd burning software, even basic shit? please. now, i'm sure that somehow all these problems could be fixed fine. and here's the last thing. i have a WAP in my classroom at school (please don't tell the tech guy!! hell, they'd be too stupid to know!!) a student brings in his laptop. it takes us 30 minutes, and we can't connect to the internet. WTF!! and no, i wasn't even using encrytpion. (yeah, yeah...) anyways, XP is a piece of shit OS.
one, my old P3 mandrake sytsem did wireless better, recognized the scanner and printers (though not all features were there, but they at least worked!!) and spyware, cd-burning, etc. all taken care of. as for my ibook? need i comment. me? i've a master's in educational technology, have been java certified since '99, been doing outside work sysadmin/setup linux since '98, years of perl, few with php, anyways, if i can't figure it out, then how the hell is aunt betty? or my wife. xp is like all the rest of microsofts's os's. it's what comes on the f***ing machine, and it sucks, we learn to work around it, patch it, tweak it, deal with it, and all that, because it plays UT2kX and as long as it is apiece of shit, windows admins got jobs. and as long as they got jobs, microsoft has a defacto lobbying arm in management, and thus real OS's aren't going to get a look. like a windows admin is going to go, "hey boss, if we hose windows and install linux, you know all those crashes, viruses, problems, and emergencies i get paid to fix, well they'll disappear. can i have all my sick days in cash?".
"XP is a pretty good OS, there's just no denying it if you're remotely sane."
belkin wireless pci card. nope. linksys usb wireless. yhes, but...half the time it works, other time, don't know. i set her computer up to run in non-admin mode. had to change that. half the apps she runs, like photoshop, want admin mode. and then, she installs nothing, and within like a week her computer grinds to a snails pace. filled with spyware and viruses. and by the way, i set her up with mozilla's mail client, not Lookout Express. all because she needs to run IE for a online pay site.(it's not paypal, it's like verio i think. but that's not right. something close though). anyways, IE f***s up her system, i finally get her to run moz then now firefox. fine. oh yeah, one more thing. so, she needs to burn a cd to give digital pictures to her friend. 30 minutes later i say f*** it, i don't konw how to burn a cd in xp. oh, third party software. are you freakin serious. what od doesn't have cd burning software, even basic shit? please. now, i'm sure that somehow all these problems could be fixed fine. and here's the last thing. i have a WAP in my classroom at school (please don't tell the tech guy!! hell, they'd be too stupid to know!!) a student brings in his laptop. it takes us 30 minutes, and we can't connect to the internet. WTF!! and no, i wasn't even using encrytpion. (yeah, yeah...) anyways, XP is a piece of shit OS.
one, my old P3 mandrake sytsem did wireless better, recognized the scanner and printers (though not all features were there, but they at least worked!!) and spyware, cd-burning, etc. all taken care of. as for my ibook? need i comment. me? i've a master's in educational technology, have been java certified since '99, been doing outside work sysadmin/setup linux since '98, years of perl, few with php, anyways, if i can't figure it out, then how the hell is aunt betty? or my wife. xp is like all the rest of microsofts's os's. it's what comes on the f***ing machine, and it sucks, we learn to work around it, patch it, tweak it, deal with it, and all that, because it plays UT2kX and as long as it is apiece of shit, windows admins got jobs. and as long as they got jobs, microsoft has a defacto lobbying arm in management, and thus real OS's aren't going to get a look. like a windows admin is going to go, "hey boss, if we hose windows and install linux, you know all those crashes, viruses, problems, and emergencies i get paid to fix, well they'll disappear. can i have all my sick days in cash?".
i don't what os secunia was referring to, because it doesn't work with firefox on panther. at least not on my ibook. and it doesn't work on safari either. is it only windows related?
i'm teaching the AP Comp Sci class at my high school, and for a demonstration, i wrote a threaded client-server chat program. had one computer as the server, recieving messages, and sending them out to all the clients. the threaded server and client, including swing interface, comes in under 150 LOC. i wanted them to see how threading, vectors, sockets, and I/O work. a few more lines and it could send bytes (binary files) over the same network. in fact, the chat app would work over the internet as long as the router port forwarded port 10000. and any two or more computers could be set up and running in minutes. i don't know where java would fit into your post. it is certainly a high level language. however, assembly wouldn't be as portable, and considering that everything from wrist watches to super-computers runs java, java would be a good choice for p2p apps.
the dollar amont is not as important as the number of units. 9.1 billion is like, what, 100 sun servers? seriously though, the numbers of servers shipped is more important. because alot of that will be replacing NT servers. and alot of that will be new server infrastructure. every linux server sold is one less windows server, regardless whether it replaces a sun/ibm or not. dollar sales are a relative figure. what matters if the total number of servers, or market share. and what matters is what they're used for. are they just serving up web pages or are they running the backbone of business web applications? if linux is relegated to the periphery, it won't matter a whole lot.
you've just expalined the difference between a professional and a "pro". the guy wants to get a porsche for the price of a VW. they're both german, right?!! the fact that linux isn't ready for professional photo use isn't a big deal. apple spent years and millions to own that market. hell, microsoft has tried for a decade, and i still don't think their os is ready for the desktop. the fact that 100 billion people use it doesn't make it ready. (stupid example: i hook up a WAP in my high school classroom. one my students brings in his laptop running XP. my ibook running os x picks up the signal and connects in 5 seconds. his laptop, two days later, still nothing. i have a masters in educational technology, 6 years java developer, plus years and years of perl/cgi and last few with php. he is in
the networking cert program. it isn't like we're morons. dozens of mouse clicks, dozens of dialogs, etc. and i am not even using WEP. WTF!! mandrake's wireless tools are a breeze on my older laptop. XP just sucks with wireless. period. i am sure there's a quick way to do it. but XP didn't do it. and it should.) A professional will not bitch about a few hundred extra dollars when he knows damn well that he'll make many thousands on it. a "pro" is someone who knows enough to sound knowledgable, does enough to have fun, and is dangerous enough to f*** everything up if given half a chance.
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my guess is that a $500 machine will suffer the same. hell, look at low-end dell's, it's the same thing, crappy screen shitty keyboard. now, it is handy when i go on vacation and want to have dial-up access or something and don't want to bring the ibook with all my important stuff on it, plus, i can ssh in and still get access data. but that's about it.
i have a laptop like that, an old CTX K62-300 w/128mb ram. truth is, machines like this aren't really that good for development because the keyboard sucks and the screen is crappy. my guess is that a
as for wifi, you can get a cheap linksys pc card for $30. a $100 or so PC is a different issue, as the monitor and keyboard are separate. problem with laptops is, and has always been, ergonomics. cheap comes at a price. honestly, unless you're doing windows development, and since this laptop runs linux so you won't be, get an old ibook or thinkpad on ebay. for the same price you're getting much better hardware and the performance hit is minor unless you're rendering a 30MB photoshop file or something. my 700mhz G3 ibook is still great for tons of stuff, and you can pick them up on ebay for around $600. an ibm 700-900mhz P3 goes for around $400. these were once top of the line, with the better screens, keyboards, hard drives, etc., not bottom barrel crap thrown together for a few sheckels. pennywise and pound foolish. i'll tkae older quality over newer crap any day of the week.
maybe microsoft would have adopted linux, maybe we'd have to come up with clever icons for ibm, and be talking about the big blue screen of death. microsoft's control lay ints api's and doc formats. without that control, eventually, they'd have to split from ibm.
hey, i paid good money for my mcse cert., damnit. i'm a professional. it says so right here on this piece of paper. i was recommended to ask slashdot due to its reputation of honest and informed discourse.
but other than office, as I mentioned, how many people use IE or WMP on the mac? my guess is few. safari and firefox as well as QT are the standard. and microsoft uses both ie and wmp as a camel's nose so to speak, to get inside the tent. on windows, ie and wmp basically borg the system, giving microsoft greater control of a variety of features, which they can't do on os x. and as i mentioned, one has to wonder if the ms mac division is worth the expense long term. apple has to know this, and rightly is preparing for the day when no updated office negates an apple solution. ipods and itunes put the mac on more minds, being able to use it as a drop in replacement for a "PC" puts them on more desks. that is linux's gretaest weakness. that, for all the great features, it always has one thing missing, whatever that "one thing" is. thus, linux (on the desktop) isn't a viable replacement in most instances.
i agree completely. i teach the ap comp sci class at my school, and though we're preparing for the ap exam, we're spending the second semester really digging into the 2D api, sockets and threads. i want them to code some cool things, really use java's oop features, so by the time they take the ap exam, it'll be child's play. the guy before me who taught it last year (he's since left for a new HS) was a hardwrae guy, taught the cisco/A+ classes, and was about a day ahead of the class. one of my students was in the class last year first semester, and learned nothing. he dropped the class after the first semester, and thought he'd try it again.
we are working on a drawing program, and it is amazing what you can do with just 4 or 5 classes, and a few hundred lines of code. it does shapes, strokes, fills, etc. it holds the entire graphic in an arraylist, and draws from that. thus, model-view. java makes it simple and easy. java would probably be the best solution, especially considering the cross platform nature. plus, any other language like python, you have to learn a whole other toolkit and game engine. with java, it's all there. and swing is fairly fast with graphics, and since swing does its own double buffering, it eliminates alot of flicker. but you're right, java is the best overall decision.
Lets not forget, Microsoft is one of Apple's largest shareholders.
not any more. ms dumped their stock a year or two ago. that's one of the reasons, when ms said it wasn't updating IE for the mac, apple got safari going. yes, ms still has an active mac division, but officeX is still carbon. and other than office, which might not generate the long term $'s for continued development, what other ms products do yo see on the mac? none. apple knows it has to offer a full package, which is odd considering it is different from its traditional model of being primarily a hardware company. apple can't rely on any one market, as they have discovered playing to the "creative" niche. they now address the geek, the novice, the hip (itunes/ipod), and soon they'll be a serious solution for the SOHO. they still own the creative set, but they won't keep apple in the black forever. in fact, it's probably better that they're weening themselves from redmond.
the average user doesn't give $0.02 whether it's linux, windows, os x, or (___________) OS. they just want to do a few things, like, oh, i don't know: surf the net, chat with friends, look at their dig photos, listen to music, email, type a letter or two, balance their checkbooks, etc. if they buy a printer or a scanner or something else, they wnat it to just work. that's all they want to do. and as for a business desktop, they want even less: to do their work. as for windows, as long as crappy web developers use front page or vbscript, or activeX, or what ever the hell is IE specific, then the onus is on the shitty specs. i hardly imagine someone really says, "hey, let's really fuck with those firefox users, we'll make it IE only!!! mooahahahahaha!!!"
as for linux, it handles about 90-95% of 90-95% of users needs. for example my wife is almost all open source (firefox, mozilla mail, even OO.org) on her XP box, excpet she is a semi-pro photographer and needs photoshop CS. (no gimp is not a replacement. for me, yes, for her, no.) so that leaves about 10% of users who need windows. the problem comes in as that 10% is not always the same 10%. so, most linux users are going to have a gap somewhere, a digi camera, scanner, printer, or worse, some stupid small app, probably that came with the scanner, etc. or that bridge game that aunt gertrude sent that you gotta play. so linux is always in the red zone and has to settle for a field goal, which usually goes just wide right (football terms).
what users don't want, however, are 6 million viruses, hackers accessing their CC#'s, spyware, and all the assorted maladies that windows is oh so famous for. but, they put up with the cow shit to get the roses. linux might not have the shit, but it doesn't always give you roses.
wtf was i smoking. i'm on a metaphor high or something. anyways, users want a hammer, whatever the brand, and they want it to hammer nails. that's all.
very true. though, i rather suspect that java will be around a little longer than people predict. kinda like apple, eh? not because i'm a fanboi or anything, though i do like java, it's just that it has lots of uses, is fairly easy to learn, is plenty pwerful, is fairly safe, and mostly platform independent. though i would feel better if were open sourced, like python and perl. java suffered early from sluggishness due to its HUGE memory footprint. but the jdk's with jit compilers have made it alot more responsive, and now, even a $399 2+ Ghz box from best buy or dell has more than enough horsepower to run java apps well. it's still to early to tell if java is just another visual basic or not, though i suspect not. it has a large place in CS programs, and is still the most sought langugage for jobs. and if you think about it, aside from low level protocols and system level programming, there's not really much you can't do with java. while i don't expect to see JPhotoshop anytime soon, swing is just one facet of java.
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when you get used to vim, really used to it, you can't live without it. and yes, it does code completion. sadly java is so verbose that it kinda makes vim hard. i have very little c experience, but have done alot of work with perl, python, and php. for scripting languages, especially like perl, it's invaluable. not a user of emacs, but i'm sure it's the same.
however, vim is great for alot of 2-3 class java solutions, and even larger ones as well. not everyone writes huge enterprise apps. an editor gives you total control, whereas an ide still makes you do things "my way". i was trying to compare netbeans versus vim for my ap comp sci class, trying to write a small gui graphics app. by the time i got the JPanel on netbeans to subclass, i would hav ebeen done on vim. as for the other tool i use, jedit rocks.
It also makes sense that Microsoft seems to only enter very large markets, or what it perceives as growing markets.
however, they will also enter markets, or worse, threaten to enter markets to either stifle it, or crush competitors. they have a history of threatening to enter a market before it gets going, thereby stifling alot of nascent development. thankfully, they couldn't do this to the internet. alot of markets that could ave developed, which microsoft couldn't control were stillborn. whose gonna throw any VC to a startup when redmond, inc. is gonna be your main competitor.
The main reason I can see for Apple not doing such a thing is that it might make things seem a bit weird to people who are accustomed to thinking of each computer as a separate device, and not a big cloud of computation/storage/etc., and would rather do the "cloud" functionality via more traditional (to Windows/Mac users, anyway) file-sharing conduits such as AFP, WebDAV, etc.
no, why would apple want you to run os x on non-apple machines. it would be a few days before someone figured out the protocol and they were running os x clients on a linux box. 'cause that'd sell lots of mac hardware.
just the screeen caps. though i do plan on buying iwork when it comes out. i already have keynote 1.0, and it is great for my classroom. i wonder if apple will come out with a spreadsheet. that would be a cool app.
Ever done multi-column layouts in CSS and gotten them to work in most major browsers?
yes. no. actually, isn't kwrite based on something like that. for extremely complex docs, sure, but then most people use word as a desktop publishing/layout program. which it can do, but, isn't it's primary task. i'm trying to think of the most complex crap i've done with word, and how i could turn it into html. for the most part, it could be done. now, where it would break down is maybe with the ole stuff. but as for a snapshot, it seems mostly a matter of effort versus difficulty. if html export was so important, it'd be done right. i just don't think it is.
actually, considering the CSS2.0 support in most browsers, including safari, it shouldn't be as hard as word97->html was. there's no need to use nested tables, invisible .gif spacers, etc. since there a document has precise layout, which can be duplicated with css, and you figure it isn't going to be altered in html format, only .doc or whatever format, then the code itself can get ugly with alot of div's, span's, and inline styles. even text wrap shouldn't be a problem using float. a few years ago, (anything)2html would have been awful. but now, it's just a sign of laziness or desire. and if it uses xml and xslt, then it shoul dbe rather easy. but hey, i don't have the patience, so...
and didn't tom brokaw give a speech in front of a democratic fundraiser? not that's he forbidden from doing speeches, but a political fundraiser? he claimed he didn't know. sure. had he spoken to a republicna fundraiser, all hell would've broken loose.
i have quanta gold from theKompany. (good on linux, sucks on os x. oh well.) anyways, they bundle all the Qt libs in a single directory. it is theoretically possible, yes, but screws other things up. for example, i had several X clients in my old classroom, and ran them off a P3 933 512MB system. ran fine. but, if i ran 6 copies of mozilla, each with its own libraries, it'd come to a grinding halt. the problem is windowsy really, as with free software it's not usually too hard to update a library. bundled libs are a commercial, not free, way of doing things. technical versus profitable, i guess. os x apps access a set of frameworks, and all specialized frameworks are .app bundle specific, unless yo drag them to /Library/Frameworks. but that's not always possible. it's like those damn activeX controls.
in reality, this is no different than what the MSM has been doing since at least cronkite and vietnam. no the republicans shouldn't have paid williams to carry their water, but is that any different than what the news orgs have been doing for free for the democrats for years? neither is good. the media, at least the news, should be objective, and it is far from it. i have a blog, mostly political stuff (warning: conservative analysis) blogs and talk radio are just an evolving media, whether we like it or not. at least there's more information out there. it's up to the individual to discern the truth.
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/.er actually has one!!). first, the scanner, HP5300, doesn't work. even with new drivers. no. then two printers, an HP920 something and now an epson 300 stylus photo color something. work sort of. the epson still f***s up labels in word2000.
"XP is a pretty good OS, there's just no denying it if you're remotely sane."
. okay, i admit that i've not used windows since like 1998, but XP is pretty good? please. i bought my wife (yes, a
belkin wireless pci card. nope. linksys usb wireless. yhes, but...half the time it works, other time, don't know. i set her computer up to run in non-admin mode. had to change that. half the apps she runs, like photoshop, want admin mode. and then, she installs nothing, and within like a week her computer grinds to a snails pace. filled with spyware and viruses. and by the way, i set her up with mozilla's mail client, not Lookout Express. all because she needs to run IE for a online pay site.(it's not paypal, it's like verio i think. but that's not right. something close though). anyways, IE f***s up her system, i finally get her to run moz then now firefox. fine. oh yeah, one more thing. so, she needs to burn a cd to give digital pictures to her friend. 30 minutes later i say f*** it, i don't konw how to burn a cd in xp. oh, third party software. are you freakin serious. what od doesn't have cd burning software, even basic shit? please. now, i'm sure that somehow all these problems could be fixed fine. and here's the last thing. i have a WAP in my classroom at school (please don't tell the tech guy!! hell, they'd be too stupid to know!!) a student brings in his laptop. it takes us 30 minutes, and we can't connect to the internet. WTF!! and no, i wasn't even using encrytpion. (yeah, yeah...) anyways, XP is a piece of shit OS.
one, my old P3 mandrake sytsem did wireless better, recognized the scanner and printers (though not all features were there, but they at least worked!!) and spyware, cd-burning, etc. all taken care of. as for my ibook? need i comment. me? i've a master's in educational technology, have been java certified since '99, been doing outside work sysadmin/setup linux since '98, years of perl, few with php, anyways, if i can't figure it out, then how the hell is aunt betty? or my wife. xp is like all the rest of microsofts's os's. it's what comes on the f***ing machine, and it sucks, we learn to work around it, patch it, tweak it, deal with it, and all that, because it plays UT2kX and as long as it is apiece of shit, windows admins got jobs. and as long as they got jobs, microsoft has a defacto lobbying arm in management, and thus real OS's aren't going to get a look. like a windows admin is going to go, "hey boss, if we hose windows and install linux, you know all those crashes, viruses, problems, and emergencies i get paid to fix, well they'll disappear. can i have all my sick days in cash?".
my post got messed up. here's the whole one:
"XP is a pretty good OS, there's just no denying it if you're remotely sane."
belkin wireless pci card. nope. linksys usb wireless. yhes, but...half the time it works, other time, don't know. i set her computer up to run in non-admin mode. had to change that. half the apps she runs, like photoshop, want admin mode. and then, she installs nothing, and within like a week her computer grinds to a snails pace. filled with spyware and viruses. and by the way, i set her up with mozilla's mail client, not Lookout Express. all because she needs to run IE for a online pay site.(it's not paypal, it's like verio i think. but that's not right. something close though). anyways, IE f***s up her system, i finally get her to run moz then now firefox. fine. oh yeah, one more thing. so, she needs to burn a cd to give digital pictures to her friend. 30 minutes later i say f*** it, i don't konw how to burn a cd in xp. oh, third party software. are you freakin serious. what od doesn't have cd burning software, even basic shit? please. now, i'm sure that somehow all these problems could be fixed fine. and here's the last thing. i have a WAP in my classroom at school (please don't tell the tech guy!! hell, they'd be too stupid to know!!) a student brings in his laptop. it takes us 30 minutes, and we can't connect to the internet. WTF!! and no, i wasn't even using encrytpion. (yeah, yeah...) anyways, XP is a piece of shit OS.
one, my old P3 mandrake sytsem did wireless better, recognized the scanner and printers (though not all features were there, but they at least worked!!) and spyware, cd-burning, etc. all taken care of. as for my ibook? need i comment. me? i've a master's in educational technology, have been java certified since '99, been doing outside work sysadmin/setup linux since '98, years of perl, few with php, anyways, if i can't figure it out, then how the hell is aunt betty? or my wife. xp is like all the rest of microsofts's os's. it's what comes on the f***ing machine, and it sucks, we learn to work around it, patch it, tweak it, deal with it, and all that, because it plays UT2kX and as long as it is apiece of shit, windows admins got jobs. and as long as they got jobs, microsoft has a defacto lobbying arm in management, and thus real OS's aren't going to get a look. like a windows admin is going to go, "hey boss, if we hose windows and install linux, you know all those crashes, viruses, problems, and emergencies i get paid to fix, well they'll disappear. can i have all my sick days in cash?".
"XP is a pretty good OS, there's just no denying it if you're remotely sane."
belkin wireless pci card. nope. linksys usb wireless. yhes, but...half the time it works, other time, don't know. i set her computer up to run in non-admin mode. had to change that. half the apps she runs, like photoshop, want admin mode. and then, she installs nothing, and within like a week her computer grinds to a snails pace. filled with spyware and viruses. and by the way, i set her up with mozilla's mail client, not Lookout Express. all because she needs to run IE for a online pay site.(it's not paypal, it's like verio i think. but that's not right. something close though). anyways, IE f***s up her system, i finally get her to run moz then now firefox. fine. oh yeah, one more thing. so, she needs to burn a cd to give digital pictures to her friend. 30 minutes later i say f*** it, i don't konw how to burn a cd in xp. oh, third party software. are you freakin serious. what od doesn't have cd burning software, even basic shit? please. now, i'm sure that somehow all these problems could be fixed fine. and here's the last thing. i have a WAP in my classroom at school (please don't tell the tech guy!! hell, they'd be too stupid to know!!) a student brings in his laptop. it takes us 30 minutes, and we can't connect to the internet. WTF!! and no, i wasn't even using encrytpion. (yeah, yeah...) anyways, XP is a piece of shit OS.
one, my old P3 mandrake sytsem did wireless better, recognized the scanner and printers (though not all features were there, but they at least worked!!) and spyware, cd-burning, etc. all taken care of. as for my ibook? need i comment. me? i've a master's in educational technology, have been java certified since '99, been doing outside work sysadmin/setup linux since '98, years of perl, few with php, anyways, if i can't figure it out, then how the hell is aunt betty? or my wife. xp is like all the rest of microsofts's os's. it's what comes on the f***ing machine, and it sucks, we learn to work around it, patch it, tweak it, deal with it, and all that, because it plays UT2kX and as long as it is apiece of shit, windows admins got jobs. and as long as they got jobs, microsoft has a defacto lobbying arm in management, and thus real OS's aren't going to get a look. like a windows admin is going to go, "hey boss, if we hose windows and install linux, you know all those crashes, viruses, problems, and emergencies i get paid to fix, well they'll disappear. can i have all my sick days in cash?".
i don't what os secunia was referring to, because it doesn't work with firefox on panther. at least not on my ibook. and it doesn't work on safari either. is it only windows related?
i'm teaching the AP Comp Sci class at my high school, and for a demonstration, i wrote a threaded client-server chat program. had one computer as the server, recieving messages, and sending them out to all the clients. the threaded server and client, including swing interface, comes in under 150 LOC. i wanted them to see how threading, vectors, sockets, and I/O work. a few more lines and it could send bytes (binary files) over the same network. in fact, the chat app would work over the internet as long as the router port forwarded port 10000. and any two or more computers could be set up and running in minutes. i don't know where java would fit into your post. it is certainly a high level language. however, assembly wouldn't be as portable, and considering that everything from wrist watches to super-computers runs java, java would be a good choice for p2p apps.
the dollar amont is not as important as the number of units. 9.1 billion is like, what, 100 sun servers? seriously though, the numbers of servers shipped is more important. because alot of that will be replacing NT servers. and alot of that will be new server infrastructure. every linux server sold is one less windows server, regardless whether it replaces a sun/ibm or not. dollar sales are a relative figure. what matters if the total number of servers, or market share. and what matters is what they're used for. are they just serving up web pages or are they running the backbone of business web applications? if linux is relegated to the periphery, it won't matter a whole lot.
you've just expalined the difference between a professional and a "pro". the guy wants to get a porsche for the price of a VW. they're both german, right?!! the fact that linux isn't ready for professional photo use isn't a big deal. apple spent years and millions to own that market. hell, microsoft has tried for a decade, and i still don't think their os is ready for the desktop. the fact that 100 billion people use it doesn't make it ready. (stupid example: i hook up a WAP in my high school classroom. one my students brings in his laptop running XP. my ibook running os x picks up the signal and connects in 5 seconds. his laptop, two days later, still nothing. i have a masters in educational technology, 6 years java developer, plus years and years of perl/cgi and last few with php. he is in the networking cert program. it isn't like we're morons. dozens of mouse clicks, dozens of dialogs, etc. and i am not even using WEP. WTF!! mandrake's wireless tools are a breeze on my older laptop. XP just sucks with wireless. period. i am sure there's a quick way to do it. but XP didn't do it. and it should.) A professional will not bitch about a few hundred extra dollars when he knows damn well that he'll make many thousands on it. a "pro" is someone who knows enough to sound knowledgable, does enough to have fun, and is dangerous enough to f*** everything up if given half a chance.