1. Displaying Virtual Houses before they are build or sold. 2. Getting an 3d walk in a disco before going out. 3. cool statistics effects?
Anyway,
While applications on the desktop will always have their place, webapps have many advantages as well. they can be used everywhere, on every platform, you have your data stored on a single place that is much easier to backup. Much easier to upgrade. Support knows everybody is viewing the thing, you can outsource the whole thing, and many other motives.
For these reasons alone, it makes more then sense to move them to the web. This desire is recognized by the html5 spec. offline store, canvas, video, sound and now perhaps even web3d are among the last components missing for web apps to really kick sky high.
Sure there will be desktop apps for a long time, but their are good motives to work on web apps as well.
But just look at how many times it is diluded. Some ingredients are are deluded beyond the point of a single molecule.
Most people would count that as nothing.
Homeopathy is build with the current assumtions:
1. What causes and ill, also cures it. 2. You don't give people the undiluted substance 3. The more you dillude that substance the more powerful it becomes as a medicine.
If you find something that that has a high dose of something it's not homeopathic by definition.
The principles of homeopathy have no basis in science whatsoever. It made no sense when it was made up and it still makes no sense today.
I wish i was trolling, but trust me, i work for a company that hosts sites, and there is still plenty of php4 around. Most people don't mind the upgrading and staying up to date part so much. But they usually don't like the price that comes attached with it.
I wouldn't mind, but my boss likes to get paid when i work for him...
A general upgrade project we run looks like:
1. We talk to the customer that the site that WE wrote for him now sucks because WE wrote it with function xyz that is now broken and sucks. ( we formulate this different, but this is about how it feels to the customer )
2. customer complains that he paid for his site and that he expects it to just work.
3. we explain that our knowledge of what will happen to future versions of the product is rather limited and that we therefore in principle can only make the best dessisions at a given time, that we regret the problems, but cannot help it. we then usually evaluate the components that are used in the website, CMS version, modules, tweaks, how much was done by outsourcing, etc and send it of to the customer.
4. customers views the estimate and nearly dies from a heart attack when he sees what it will cost to port his website to a new php version without any increase in function.
5. if we were lucky in fase 3 / 4 we have been able to get him addicted to some additional services as well that "only work with php5" making the upgrade path somewhat worth it. If that fails the customer in 90% of the cases won't think the upgrade path is worth it and will arange with us that we will keep hosting the site but without warrenty.
This has not so much to do with being lazy, but more with being in a commercial company and having a customer that does not think it's worth to pay.
At my work we host and have build and maintain a little over 200 php websites. We host them all ourselves. ( the CMS that we use is build in PHP )
We earn money from both the hosting and the developing.
Many of our customers don't want to pay for the porting of their websites to PHP5, let alone PHP6. usually this requires upgrading the CMS as well, making modifications to custom extentions written by outsourcing partys, etc. All in all quite expensive for the site owner.
"Threatening" them with PHP4 server shutdowns only makes them go away to other hosting providers that will over PHP4 to them.
So we ended up virtualising all the PHP4 sites together with a good backup system and making our customers understand that we provide no warrenty anymore. We will help them when things blow up on an paid per hour basis.
Another problem is that we cannot reuse a lot of our code anymore now. Many of our new plugins require php5 so we have to modify them to make them php4 compatible again.
when php6 comes out we will have to support three different php versions... the horrors of that vision already scare me today..
Lego was naar het Europese Hof van justitie gestapt in de strijd tegen de Canadese concurrent Mega Brands, die een blokje op de markt heeft gebracht dat past op die van Lego. Het Hof oordeelde vandaag dat het ontwerp van Lego niet is beschermd door het Europees merkenrecht en dat er dus geen sprake mag zijn van alleenrecht.
Perhaps less fun.. But here is the more correct ( though quick and quite literal ) translation:
Lego went to the "Europese Hof" (a very high justice department in europe) in a battle against the Canadian competitor Mega Brands, who created a brick that fits on the lego brick. The "Hof" decided today that the design of Lego is not protected by the European Market rights, and that there thus cannot be any case for exclusive ownership.
I don't want to destroy the mood that the slashdot editor wanted to create by posting this sensational peace of propaganda. but this is not 122.000 bugs is it? this is a parser generating 122.000 error results. sure it's bad.. but anyone who has ever tried to make code w3c compatible or debug any piece of code will know that just 1 error can result into many many many error results. thus ( despite my will for it to be so ) does not really give you much insight in microsofts compatibility with it's own standard.
well considering the fact that there mission statement is too have "at least one level" we might just as well call it tech demo already.. but he.. i still bought it:p
let's just say I'm not ready to put my faith in a schizo.
Just imagine
God (daddy god) sending himself (son) to this world so that he can get himself (jesus) nailed to a cross, where he himself (jesus) is left without himself (daddy god) to be crusified to himself (daddy god), raised by himself (jesus?) to go get back to himself (daddy god) so that he can then send himself (ghost/spirit) back to this world until he himself (jesus) will go back in order to judge the world according to the laws he made up himself (daddy god)
All while being the very same being (the one trinity god)... At least... that's what they told me.
I am from the netherlands and well.. what shall i say.
Would there be any purpose in having a commision if they where NOT allowed to give a negative advice? the entire purpose of the commision was to give advise about the direction we should move in.
If a commision does not have the freedom to draw its own conclusion without incuring risk to itself it would in my eyes only serve to keep the populous ignorant and happy about something that was already decided beforehand.
I work for a company in the netherlands that creates all it's sites in typo3, and I agree that it's a nice cms. takes a while to get you really started, but once your up and running its a very nice program.
but all the codeweavers code ends up in wine anyway, so perhaps it's just better that the other developers focus there strengh elsewhere. not to mention that many parts of office (DOM, etc) aren't much fun to get working properly anyway.
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Let's hope this time they keep the user interface the same on all platforms. :)
Some of the mockups look pretty good though
1. Displaying Virtual Houses before they are build or sold.
2. Getting an 3d walk in a disco before going out.
3. cool statistics effects?
Anyway,
While applications on the desktop will always have their place, webapps have many advantages as well. they can be used everywhere, on every platform, you have your data stored on a single place that is much easier to backup. Much easier to upgrade. Support knows everybody is viewing the thing, you can outsource the whole thing, and many other motives.
For these reasons alone, it makes more then sense to move them to the web.
This desire is recognized by the html5 spec.
offline store, canvas, video, sound and now perhaps even web3d are among the last components missing for web apps to really kick sky high.
Sure there will be desktop apps for a long time, but their are good motives to work on web apps as well.
Well it contains water thats for sure.
But just look at how many times it is diluded.
Some ingredients are are deluded beyond the point of a single molecule.
Most people would count that as nothing.
Homeopathy is build with the current assumtions:
1. What causes and ill, also cures it.
2. You don't give people the undiluted substance
3. The more you dillude that substance the more powerful it becomes as a medicine.
If you find something that that has a high dose of something it's not homeopathic by definition.
The principles of homeopathy have no basis in science whatsoever.
It made no sense when it was made up and it still makes no sense today.
Well... i have to grant you that without sex all of these things would indeed not exist.. :p
as a kde user, i was more worried about the usage of that library itself.
( as i don't plan on installing half of gnome for a webbrowser )
Great..., another package that wants me to install half of gnome.
( it's linked against gconf. )
As a kde user i'll have to say no this round.
I'll stick to firefox/konqueror for the time being.
Welcome to the netherlands, where free only exists in freedom, and gratis only in price ;)
Nice, didn't know that.
I wish i was trolling, but trust me, i work for a company that hosts sites, and there is still plenty of php4 around. Most people don't mind the upgrading and staying up to date part so much. But they usually don't like the price that comes attached with it.
I wouldn't mind, but my boss likes to get paid when i work for him...
A general upgrade project we run looks like:
1. We talk to the customer that the site that WE wrote for him now sucks because WE wrote it with function xyz that is now broken and sucks. ( we formulate this different, but this is about how it feels to the customer )
2. customer complains that he paid for his site and that he expects it to just work.
3. we explain that our knowledge of what will happen to future versions of the product is rather limited and that we therefore in principle can only make the best dessisions at a given time, that we regret the problems, but cannot help it. we then usually evaluate the components that are used in the website, CMS version, modules, tweaks, how much was done by outsourcing, etc and send it of to the customer.
4. customers views the estimate and nearly dies from a heart attack when he sees what it will cost to port his website to a new php version without any increase in function.
5. if we were lucky in fase 3 / 4 we have been able to get him addicted to some additional services as well that "only work with php5" making the upgrade path somewhat worth it. If that fails the customer in 90% of the cases won't think the upgrade path is worth it and will arange with us that we will keep hosting the site but without warrenty.
This has not so much to do with being lazy, but more with being in a commercial company and having a customer that does not think it's worth to pay.
At my work we host and have build and maintain a little over 200 php websites. We host them all ourselves. ( the CMS that we use is build in PHP )
We earn money from both the hosting and the developing.
Many of our customers don't want to pay for the porting of their websites to PHP5, let alone PHP6. usually this requires upgrading the CMS as well, making modifications to custom extentions written by outsourcing partys, etc. All in all quite expensive for the site owner.
"Threatening" them with PHP4 server shutdowns only makes them go away to other hosting providers that will over PHP4 to them.
So we ended up virtualising all the PHP4 sites together with a good backup system and making our customers understand that we provide no warrenty anymore. We will help them when things blow up on an paid per hour basis.
Another problem is that we cannot reuse a lot of our code anymore now. Many of our new plugins require php5 so we have to modify them to make them php4 compatible again.
when php6 comes out we will have to support three different php versions... the horrors of that vision already scare me today..
without wanting to be overly sarcastic..
What features are they gonne break this time?
don't you know that everyone is born with BASIC cognitive functions?
I suppose that running it twice or trice will increase the accuracy a lot more.
Which makes it still blazing fast.
Lego was naar het Europese Hof van justitie gestapt in de strijd tegen de Canadese concurrent Mega Brands, die een blokje op de markt heeft gebracht dat past op die van Lego. Het Hof oordeelde vandaag dat het ontwerp van Lego niet is beschermd door het Europees merkenrecht en dat er dus geen sprake mag zijn van alleenrecht.
Perhaps less fun..
But here is the more correct ( though quick and quite literal ) translation:
Lego went to the "Europese Hof" (a very high justice department in europe) in a battle against the Canadian competitor Mega Brands, who created a brick that fits on the lego brick. The "Hof" decided today that the design of Lego is not protected by the European Market rights, and that there thus cannot be any case for exclusive ownership.
I don't want to destroy the mood that the slashdot editor wanted to create by posting this sensational peace of propaganda. but this is not 122.000 bugs is it? this is a parser generating 122.000 error results. sure it's bad.. but anyone who has ever tried to make code w3c compatible or debug any piece of code will know that just 1 error can result into many many many error results. thus ( despite my will for it to be so ) does not really give you much insight in microsofts compatibility with it's own standard.
Yet another web markup thingy i have to learn..
Web development surely is a bitch.
well considering the fact that there mission statement is too have "at least one level" we might just as well call it tech demo already.. but he.. i still bought it :p
ok ok.. I admit..
I figured out that my 486DX2 was capable of running at both 120V and 230V (220V back then actually) with this small switch on the power supply.
So i wanted to see if there would be much performance difference when running it at 120V
I never heard about voltage differences between countrys
I figured that if the performence loss wasn't that great i would run my pc on 120V and save some power.
Seemed like a really good idea at the time.
It gave a big POOF and the power supply died with a burning smell.
I was around 12 years old back then so please don't kill me..
he runs kde --> linux.. thus the joe command won't work.
unless this is future episode special with kde4 ported to windows. (without kicker/kwin etc)
let's just say I'm not ready to put my faith in a schizo.
Just imagine
God (daddy god) sending himself (son) to this world so that he can get himself (jesus) nailed to a cross, where he himself (jesus) is left without himself (daddy god) to be crusified to himself (daddy god), raised by himself (jesus?) to go get back to himself (daddy god) so that he can then send himself (ghost/spirit) back to this world until he himself (jesus) will go back in order to judge the world according to the laws he made up himself (daddy god)
All while being the very same being (the one trinity god)...
At least... that's what they told me.
Luckily i am now saved from Christianity.
I am from the netherlands and well.. what shall i say.
Would there be any purpose in having a commision if they where NOT allowed to give a negative advice?
the entire purpose of the commision was to give advise about the direction we should move in.
If a commision does not have the freedom to draw its own conclusion without incuring risk to itself it would in my eyes only serve to keep the populous ignorant and happy about something that was already decided beforehand.
I work for a company in the netherlands that creates all it's sites in typo3, and I agree that it's a nice cms. takes a while to get you really started, but once your up and running its a very nice program.
I am actually running nvidia under xen right NOW.
:D
http://en.opensuse.org/Use_Nvidia_driver_with_Xen
a big shame its not the latest driver... but it works
no idea if it is easy to hack this fix into later versions of the nvidia driver though..
but i agree that official nvidia support would be a lot better...
but all the codeweavers code ends up in wine anyway, so perhaps it's just better that the other developers focus there strengh elsewhere. not to mention that many parts of office (DOM, etc) aren't much fun to get working properly anyway.