IBM probably would have been a better suitor for Sun than Oracle, but now it's all over but the crying.
If we're talking about only the Java part of Sun then you're probably right. But I think the hardware business of Sun is worth more to Oracle than to IBM.
If you want more than that you'd be better off with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or another mini Linux distro. I would have much preferred a stable Linux build of the Google Chrome browser.
As you've already said there are better solutions for people who need more. Google is providing something optimized for those who DON'T need more.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Google is solving a problem that doesn't exist. I have yet to hear anyone ask to do all their computing through a web browser.
I love Chrome. It's my browser of choice most of the time. I'm a Google account/services user. I do think they provide an excellent web experience. I don't see them providing the same experience for my desktop as they do for the web. I guess we'll see how this unfolds though. Something tells me there is more to this than we're seeing.
Most users don't even know what to ask for, be it a web browser or standalone software. They just need a good way (whatever it is) to achieve their goals e.g. email, reading news, watching videos, listening to music, etc... Web-based computing is one of the many ways, and it happens to be the way Google chose to bet their entire business on. So they're doing whatever it takes to improve it. In terms of user experience it's ahead of desktop computing in some ways and lagging behind in others. I'm sure the engineers at Google know that and are working hard on those weaknesses.
Netbeans isn't there in terms of industry backing and support (which is what we hope Oracle will provide). As far as the software itself is concerned I find it to be at least as good if not better than Eclipse. It's been significantly improved over the last couple of years from version 4.x to 6.x. There are two things that I like it better than Eclipse: - it's 100% Java and runs fine on anything that has a JVM (Eclipse's SWT has platform specific dependencies which prevented me from using it on 64bit machines, it took ages for it to have proper x64 support) - better developer experience because of a cleaner and sensibly chosen set of plug-ins that all work out-of-the-box with no dependency hell (Eclipse plug-ins is a mess unless you pay for commercially packaged versions like MyEclipse)
Compared to all those CSS, Javascripts, images, multimedia contents currently being downloaded alongside webpages, it doesn't seem like a nightmare. In some cases it may actually save bandwidth (coz otherwise the text would have to be made as images).
Security? Whoa!
Give browser developers time and things will improve. The implementation is still relatively new and less mature.
Compatibility? Doesn't downgrade nicely (that page looks horrible in a "stable" browser of today and is almost unreadable)
That's the responsibility of the web developers. The spec allows for multiple failover fonts that if used properly should provide graceful downgrade.
Gains? Geocities-like webpages that use every font they can just for the sake of it. Seven million websites written in Comic Sans. And only the sensible browsers will come with options to turn the damn thing off (and thus look even worse).
Then blame those incompetent web developers, not the enabling technology (otherwise you can blame HTML for allowing the use of colors). Look at it from the other side it provides a standardized way for competent developers to improve visual quality of text. It's fine if you want web technology to stay as it was in the 90s but the rest of the world will continue to move on.
Stupid idea, stupid execution (having to DOWNLOAD every font mentioned on a page?)
Developers can specify both local and remote fonts. Only remote fonts need to be downloaded and they will be cached just like images, CSS, etc...
Spend some time understanding something before bashing.
again it's a race between hackers and browser developers... Same thing happened to HTTP, HTML, Javascript, etc...
There is always a risk when processing any data from the net. It's impossible to make something that is 100% secure. But when something gains popularity and is being depended on heavily, the effort going into the implementation will naturally grow and the security will improve.
True, but a counter argument is that if you want larger DOF, the sensor size advantage of the 5D will be offset by the need for a smaller aperture which puts pressure on either the sensitivity or shutter speed.
"The world soundly rejected the first netbooks that came out with Linux," he said. "Printers didn't work, and devices didn't get recognized. The whole thing was a mess."
And how is Windows CE/Mobile any better in that regard? I would think it's even worse.
If you just want to run a standalone web forum, then Google Wave may not offer much more than a ajax php forum. And if you just want email, then SMTP+IMAP/POP is surely good enough.
The power of Google Wave comes from the unification of various communication and collaboration paradigms, it's federated nature, it's extensibility and it's open-standard and web-centric approach. In the old model if I want to participate in a forum I'll have to register on the web, go back to my outlook to get the verification email, and then go back to web. I'll also have to subscribe to email alerts for new posts, then go back to the web to reply. All these context switching is totally unnecessary and can be frustrating when you have say 10 different web forums, 5 social networks, 3 photo sharing sites, and 2 IM networks and 1 blog. And there is no practical way to for me to search and browse through my entire communication history in one place.
Remember what Google is good at? Collective knowledge. Over time they will understand more about how people use Squared and what columns people find relevant for certain types of search, and can use that to optimize the engine. It's like the gmail spam filter which performs so well because of collective knowledge.
By the time it is released people don't need to be convinced to move away from XP, they just will/have to move either because their machines are too obsolete, or too crippled by viruses/spywares/whatever junk accumulated over the years. When they get Win 7 with brand new hardware, they will perceive it as faster (even though the speed up comes primarily from better hardware).
The way I read the writing on the wall is Apple's going to start making their own CPUs, and possibly their own GPUs as well. Whatever they come up with, I expect it to fit in very well with the work they're doing on LLVM and their software OpenGL implementation.
Geeks can press Ctrl-C while sleeping. I use 'at' which forces me through the annoyance of finding out the PID and kill it. It's REALLY irritating and works well.
I think the whole point of OpenCL is that one doesn't need to be concerned about the underlying hardware. It can be a discrete Nvidia/ATI GPU, an chipset integrated GPU, or even a hybrid multi-core CPU with graphics acceleration cores. I've read that both NVidia and ATI/AMD claimed to support OpenCL in the future. From Apple's point of view it's a matter of choosing a vendor who can provide them with the best(by Apple's own standard) hardware solution.
I think the program simply performs some basic automatic tunings such as contrast, saturation and sharpness adjustments. It is not supposed to be a replacement of Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom with tons of sophisticated filters (which mostly are meaningless without manually inputted parameters anyway). It's simply a demo app to show the effect of RELATIVE performance gain one can get from GPU hardware acceleration. Even though it is likely that the stuff still runs faster on my Xeon PC without acceleration than on a low power VIA box with S3 GPU, the improvement can still be significant for users with lower power CPUs.
Interesting bits from those Chinese sites: - (back in 2003) they're already running Linux on it, with applications such as MP3 audio/mpeg movie playing, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games... - (back in 2003) Max clock 300MHz, 1-2W power consumption, 1% CPU load for playing MP3, 23% for mpeg movie, SPEC_CPU2000 score of 300 - will reach 1GHz by early 2006 - it will be used in low-cost PC with price RMB1,000 - the 3rd gen of the chip will incorporate multi-core design
Slashdot Mirror
Siri (in elevated voice): What can I help you with?
IBM probably would have been a better suitor for Sun than Oracle, but now it's all over but the crying.
If we're talking about only the Java part of Sun then you're probably right. But I think the hardware business of Sun is worth more to Oracle than to IBM.
RTFS: "While site speed is a new signal, it doesn't carry as much weight as the relevance of a page"
Also, "our users place a lot of value in speed" does not necessarily conflict with "quality over speed".
Normally, I'm a vim+make guy, but I occasionally have to use Visual Studio. The ViEmu plugin was the best $99 I've ever spent on windows software.
The OP explicitly asked for linux based IDE.
Because of the uncertainty principle, they're still arguing about the exact location and the mass of the goods needed to calculate the duty
If you want more than that you'd be better off with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or another mini Linux distro. I would have much preferred a stable Linux build of the Google Chrome browser.
As you've already said there are better solutions for people who need more. Google is providing something optimized for those who DON'T need more.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Google is solving a problem that doesn't exist. I have yet to hear anyone ask to do all their computing through a web browser.
I love Chrome. It's my browser of choice most of the time. I'm a Google account/services user. I do think they provide an excellent web experience. I don't see them providing the same experience for my desktop as they do for the web. I guess we'll see how this unfolds though. Something tells me there is more to this than we're seeing.
Most users don't even know what to ask for, be it a web browser or standalone software. They just need a good way (whatever it is) to achieve their goals e.g. email, reading news, watching videos, listening to music, etc... Web-based computing is one of the many ways, and it happens to be the way Google chose to bet their entire business on. So they're doing whatever it takes to improve it. In terms of user experience it's ahead of desktop computing in some ways and lagging behind in others. I'm sure the engineers at Google know that and are working hard on those weaknesses.
The only thing that can kill it is user disinterest.
But Oracle's lack of R&D commitment can cause user disinterest.
There is a Vi bindings plug-in for Netbeans
http://netbeans.org/kb/55/vi-integration.html
Netbeans isn't there in terms of industry backing and support (which is what we hope Oracle will provide). As far as the software itself is concerned I find it to be at least as good if not better than Eclipse. It's been significantly improved over the last couple of years from version 4.x to 6.x. There are two things that I like it better than Eclipse:
- it's 100% Java and runs fine on anything that has a JVM (Eclipse's SWT has platform specific dependencies which prevented me from using it on 64bit machines, it took ages for it to have proper x64 support)
- better developer experience because of a cleaner and sensibly chosen set of plug-ins that all work out-of-the-box with no dependency hell (Eclipse plug-ins is a mess unless you pay for commercially packaged versions like MyEclipse)
Licensing? Nightmare.
Bandwidth? Eek.
Compared to all those CSS, Javascripts, images, multimedia contents currently being downloaded alongside webpages, it doesn't seem like a nightmare. In some cases it may actually save bandwidth (coz otherwise the text would have to be made as images).
Security? Whoa!
Give browser developers time and things will improve. The implementation is still relatively new and less mature.
Compatibility? Doesn't downgrade nicely (that page looks horrible in a "stable" browser of today and is almost unreadable)
That's the responsibility of the web developers. The spec allows for multiple failover fonts that if used properly should provide graceful downgrade.
Gains? Geocities-like webpages that use every font they can just for the sake of it. Seven million websites written in Comic Sans. And only the sensible browsers will come with options to turn the damn thing off (and thus look even worse).
Then blame those incompetent web developers, not the enabling technology (otherwise you can blame HTML for allowing the use of colors). Look at it from the other side it provides a standardized way for competent developers to improve visual quality of text. It's fine if you want web technology to stay as it was in the 90s but the rest of the world will continue to move on.
Stupid idea, stupid execution (having to DOWNLOAD every font mentioned on a page?)
Developers can specify both local and remote fonts. Only remote fonts need to be downloaded and they will be cached just like images, CSS, etc...
Spend some time understanding something before bashing.
again it's a race between hackers and browser developers... Same thing happened to HTTP, HTML, Javascript, etc...
There is always a risk when processing any data from the net. It's impossible to make something that is 100% secure. But when something gains popularity and is being depended on heavily, the effort going into the implementation will naturally grow and the security will improve.
ain't those things what HTML5 is aiming to address?
Picasa doesn't have a monopoly like Windows
True, but a counter argument is that if you want larger DOF, the sensor size advantage of the 5D will be offset by the need for a smaller aperture which puts pressure on either the sensitivity or shutter speed.
Mike Rayfield:
"The world soundly rejected the first netbooks that came out with Linux," he said. "Printers didn't work, and devices didn't get recognized. The whole thing was a mess."
And how is Windows CE/Mobile any better in that regard? I would think it's even worse.
If you just want to run a standalone web forum, then Google Wave may not offer much more than a ajax php forum. And if you just want email, then SMTP+IMAP/POP is surely good enough.
The power of Google Wave comes from the unification of various communication and collaboration paradigms, it's federated nature, it's extensibility and it's open-standard and web-centric approach. In the old model if I want to participate in a forum I'll have to register on the web, go back to my outlook to get the verification email, and then go back to web. I'll also have to subscribe to email alerts for new posts, then go back to the web to reply. All these context switching is totally unnecessary and can be frustrating when you have say 10 different web forums, 5 social networks, 3 photo sharing sites, and 2 IM networks and 1 blog. And there is no practical way to for me to search and browse through my entire communication history in one place.
Remember what Google is good at? Collective knowledge. Over time they will understand more about how people use Squared and what columns people find relevant for certain types of search, and can use that to optimize the engine. It's like the gmail spam filter which performs so well because of collective knowledge.
By the time it is released people don't need to be convinced to move away from XP, they just will/have to move either because their machines are too obsolete, or too crippled by viruses/spywares/whatever junk accumulated over the years. When they get Win 7 with brand new hardware, they will perceive it as faster (even though the speed up comes primarily from better hardware).
The way I read the writing on the wall is Apple's going to start making their own CPUs, and possibly their own GPUs as well. Whatever they come up with, I expect it to fit in very well with the work they're doing on LLVM and their software OpenGL implementation.
-jcr
I guess you mean OpenCL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL
Geeks can press Ctrl-C while sleeping. I use 'at' which forces me through the annoyance of finding out the PID and kill it. It's REALLY irritating and works well.
I think the whole point of OpenCL is that one doesn't need to be concerned about the underlying hardware. It can be a discrete Nvidia/ATI GPU, an chipset integrated GPU, or even a hybrid multi-core CPU with graphics acceleration cores. I've read that both NVidia and ATI/AMD claimed to support OpenCL in the future. From Apple's point of view it's a matter of choosing a vendor who can provide them with the best(by Apple's own standard) hardware solution.
I think the program simply performs some basic automatic tunings such as contrast, saturation and sharpness adjustments. It is not supposed to be a replacement of Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom with tons of sophisticated filters (which mostly are meaningless without manually inputted parameters anyway). It's simply a demo app to show the effect of RELATIVE performance gain one can get from GPU hardware acceleration. Even though it is likely that the stuff still runs faster on my Xeon PC without acceleration than on a low power VIA box with S3 GPU, the improvement can still be significant for users with lower power CPUs.
Tap the trackpad with two fingers is equivalent to right click. It's much better than having to move between the pad and the button.
A brief description with picture of the chip:u /0312/258718.html/
u /0312/258719.html/
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pchardware/foreline/cp
A 13-page write-up documenting the tough work and challenges faced by one of the chip scientists (e.g. pipelines/branch-prediction/cache design, packaging, etc...):
http://www.pconline.com.cn/pchardware/foreline/cp
Interesting bits from those Chinese sites:
- (back in 2003) they're already running Linux on it, with applications such as MP3 audio/mpeg movie playing, Mozilla, OpenOffice, games...
- (back in 2003) Max clock 300MHz, 1-2W power consumption, 1% CPU load for playing MP3, 23% for mpeg movie, SPEC_CPU2000 score of 300
- will reach 1GHz by early 2006
- it will be used in low-cost PC with price RMB1,000
- the 3rd gen of the chip will incorporate multi-core design