If Europe ever decides that iPods have a monopoly in the music player industry, expect the companies that went after Microsoft for bundling Windows Media Player with Windows (except for Apple) to go after Apple for bundling iTunes with iPods.
Am I the only one concerned that a company known for collecting tons of data about people has announced a remote desktop product at the same time as they announced a new, slimmed down OS revolving around having an Internet connection?
peculation began when Blizzard trademarked Cataclysm recently, and then later when a test server briefly popped up with the word 'Maelstrom' in its name.
A test server named Maelstrom? Now I know they're pulling shit out of their ass, as Maelstrom is an existing RPPvP server that launched in September of 2006.
Since the Scout update, each class has been getting new, class-specific domination and revenge messages. Almost all of them are funny.
Here are some of my favorite Scout and Spy domination messages: "Hey, here's something you can invent next time: ducking!" -- Scout dominating Engineer (quote #1 of 6) "Don't bring a wrench to a gun fight!" -- Scout dominating Engineer (quote #3 of 6) "$400,00 to fire that gun, huh? Yeah, money well spent!" -- Scout dominating Heavy (quote #3 of 10) "I. Eat. Your. Sandwiches! I eat 'em up!" -- Scout dominating Heavy (quote #7 of 10) "Whoo hoo hoo, your gun shoots medicine... that's intimidatin'." -- Scout dominating Medic (quote #2 of 6) "Where's your precious hippo crates now?" -- Scout dominating Medic (quote #3 of 6) "That fancy scope of yours? I bet you got a REAL good view of me killin' ya." -- Scout dominating Sniper (quote #2 of 5) "It was a mercy killing, you live in a... camper van!" -- Scout dominating Sniper (quote #4 of 5) "You'll never hit me, you'll never hit my tiny head! It's so tiny, I've got a frickin'... such a tiny little head!" -- Scout dominating Sniper (quote #5 of 5) "Hey hey, look, you shape-shifted into a dead guy!" -- Scout dominating Spy (quote #4 of 4) (Not quite so funny now that the Dead Ringer cloaking device exists)
"The black, Scottish cyclops: now extinct." -- Spy dominating Demoman (quote #5 of 7) "Here's what I have that you don't: a functioning liver, depth perception, and a pulse!" -- Spy dominating Demoman (quote #7 of 7) "Oh... too bad this wasn't a pie-eating contest!" -- Spy dominating Heavy (quote #7 of 8) "Did I throw a wrench into your plans?" -- Spy dominating Engineer (quote #4 of 6) "Oh, you almost healed me to death that time!" -- Spy dominating Medic (quote #3 of 6) "I'm looking at your X-ray and I'm afraid you suck!" -- Spy dominating Medic (quote #4 of 6) "Well, off to visit your mother!" -- Spy dominating Scout (quote #1 of 8) "May I borrow your ear piece? 'This is scout, rainbows make me cry, over!'" -- Spy dominating Scout (quote #6 of 8) "So, your deadly skill is jogging? Mine is murdering people." -- Spy dominating Scout (quote #6 of 8) "At least you died for honor... and my amusement!" -- Spy dominating Soldier (quote #3 of 5) "They can bury you in the tomb of the unskilled soldier." -- Spy dominating Soldier (quote #3 of 5) "We all knew you were a Spy!" -- Spy dominating Spy (quote #2 of 5)
Of course, that could just have been fixed in Vista... without trying the hardware on Vista, it's impossible to say.
Vista's sound stack is redesigned though, and moves nearly everything to software. This has certain advantages, such as having separate volume controls for each application, but disables hardware sound mixing to do it.
Furthermore, just like GTK+ and Qt have cross-platform capability, so do the bindings, and if the appropriate binding library for a given platform is installed on that platform, the Java application, too, will be able to be cross-platform without modification. This is, of course, the job of the distribution and/or installer software
This is not a trivial step. There will always be advantages to pure Java code, the most obvious being it runs anywhere you have a JVM, and installs and behaves exactly the same way with no platform dependent code.
Well, actually, it's because that particular platform-specific code is part of the JVM.
Swing takes this route. SWT probably does in IBM produced JVMs... but not in Sun's, since Sun hates SWT.
I believe Fedora ships with the latest Eclipse in their repositories. But clearly debian and ubuntu don't.
Uh, Ubuntu absolutely includes Eclipse in it's repository (at least it's present in 9.04). I installed it just the other day, as a matter of fact.
Skipped a word there, didn't you?
Ubuntu Intrepid includes Eclipse 3.2.2. The latest version of Eclipse is Eclipse 3.5. Eclipse 3.3 was released just over two years ago, so no, 3.2.2 is nowhere near latest.
.NET (at least on Windows) has always had a form designer which is very quick to learn and rapid develop over Swing/Eclipse which has been code-based (I know, behind the GUI forms is code in.NET), but for a lot of us (like me) our CS programs focused on CS, not software development/engineering and we've had almost no exposure to the GUI packages in Java or C, which have a bit of a learning curve even for the educated.
NetBeans has a nice GUI designer for Swing. Unfortunately, most Java developers tend to use Eclipse, which hasn't had *any* SWT GUI designer for 3 versions now.
I believe the version of Eclipse in Debian and Ubuntu is so far behind because the packagers haven't been able to produce a package of newer versions that runs using the GCJ native compiler, and they don't want to ship a version that uses the regular JVM. Why they would rather ship an ancient version of eclipse, than ship a java program that uses the JVM, I do not know.
This is doubly ridiculous when you realize that the Sun JDK is no longer in non-free... as openjdk-6-jdk.
It's funny that you mention Web Services, as it's one of the places Java has actually moved forwards.
Gone are the days where you need Apache Axis. Java comes with a web service stack right out of the box now. They're really easy to set up in Netbeans, too.
Unfortunately, the Java poster-child, Eclipse, hasn't adopted this web service stack yet. Not that I dislike Eclipse, but it tends to ignore things added to Java in favor of third party implementations... such as Apache Axis 1... and SWT.
Given that SWT is an Eclipse product, Eclipse has exceptionally poor support for it. Eclipse's Visual Editor Project doesn't even work on Eclipse 3.3, 3.4, or 3.5... the latest stable version of VEP being released on January 30, 2007. It finally resumed development a few months ago, but who knows how long it will be until a stable release comes out.
Servlets are downright evil. JSP's tag soup isn't much better. JSF sounds interesting, but until Facelets become more common, it's fairly useless.
Even Oracle is starting to push certain third party products. Oracle's Eclipse distribution (which we use where I work) includes plugins for webapp tools such as the Spring Framework.
I suggest you look at System.IO.FileAttributes enumeration before you tell someone else that.NET's APIs aren't designed for Windows first. This enumeration contains values not only specific to Windows, but specific to NTFS.
I'm sure there are lots of other Windows specifics as well... places like System.Security.Policy would be a likely place to start...
Like it or not, Windows 7 is just Vista with a new Taskbar, a major video display bugfix, a few new control panel applets (at least one of which (ClearType Tuner) used to be a Windows XP PowerToy), some new fonts and the first upgrade to the Font Control Panel Applet in 15 years, and some other misc bugfixes.
Seriously, you're still using the same Vista you all decided to hate on before; you've just fallen victim to the marketing hype.
Bing is just a rename of MSN Search or Live Search or whatever it was called before. Microsoft products have gone through name changes just for the sake of it under BG too.
No they haven't! Now, stop distracting me; I'm trying to finish this month's budget in Multiplan!
The web isn't what it used to be. The days when the web was mostly a collection of static pages are long gone. The web is dynamic, interactive, and user-driven. The web is
I may be a power user, but I have a feeling that I'm in the majority for at least some of these:
email
I use GMail. I access it via IMAP using Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.22 and find it's a much better user experience than the web version. However, I'll give you this one simply because most people these days seem to use webmail these days.
ftp
Uh, what? Maybe you use your web browser to download from FTP sites, but last I checked browsers sucked at ftp uploads.
Filezilla is a nice, free FTP app that even supports ftps and sftp.
live video
Really? I don't recall my web browser having access to my quickcam*.
* I'm lying, I don't have a quickcam, but it still wouldn't have access to it. Even Flash requires my explicit permission to be able to access it, however if you're talking about a flash app, I've replied to flash separately farther down.
instant messaging
On my home computer, I usually have Pidgin, Skype, Steam, and Xfire running. None of these are web-apps.
All the major IM networks still have their own clients: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, YIM, etc...
word processing
I know this one is the minority. Like it or not, Microsoft Office is the most widely used word processor in the world. Personally, I use OpenOffice, but like I said... I'm a power user. Of course, neither of the apps I mentioned are web apps.
photo galleries
I don't do photo galleries, but my mom does. She uses Windows XP's Slideshow to view them.
However, a good many people do use the web for photo galleries, so I'll give this one to you.
forums
duh, of course these are web apps.
flash, games, television
Bad choice. Flash Player is native code and doesn't require a web browser to run as long as you have a Flash player app.
Oh, and of course most of the games and television that you watch over the web are done in Flash. There are exception, such as abc.com's video is done as a browser plugin.
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If Europe ever decides that iPods have a monopoly in the music player industry, expect the companies that went after Microsoft for bundling Windows Media Player with Windows (except for Apple) to go after Apple for bundling iTunes with iPods.
Referencing both 2001 and Idiocracy?
Am I the only one concerned that a company known for collecting tons of data about people has announced a remote desktop product at the same time as they announced a new, slimmed down OS revolving around having an Internet connection?
*shiver*
I wonder if it'd be faster running under IronPython on Mono... ...nah!
This does indicate it may be the RTM build, but not because it has a new build number... but because it has a build number ending in 00.
Larry Osterman's post Thinking about Windows Build numbers goes into this in more depth.
A test server named Maelstrom? Now I know they're pulling shit out of their ass, as Maelstrom is an existing RPPvP server that launched in September of 2006.
Since the Scout update, each class has been getting new, class-specific domination and revenge messages. Almost all of them are funny.
Here are some of my favorite Scout and Spy domination messages:
"Hey, here's something you can invent next time: ducking!" -- Scout dominating Engineer (quote #1 of 6)
"Don't bring a wrench to a gun fight!" -- Scout dominating Engineer (quote #3 of 6)
"$400,00 to fire that gun, huh? Yeah, money well spent!" -- Scout dominating Heavy (quote #3 of 10)
"I. Eat. Your. Sandwiches! I eat 'em up!" -- Scout dominating Heavy (quote #7 of 10)
"Whoo hoo hoo, your gun shoots medicine... that's intimidatin'." -- Scout dominating Medic (quote #2 of 6)
"Where's your precious hippo crates now?" -- Scout dominating Medic (quote #3 of 6)
"That fancy scope of yours? I bet you got a REAL good view of me killin' ya." -- Scout dominating Sniper (quote #2 of 5)
"It was a mercy killing, you live in a... camper van!" -- Scout dominating Sniper (quote #4 of 5)
"You'll never hit me, you'll never hit my tiny head! It's so tiny, I've got a frickin'... such a tiny little head!" -- Scout dominating Sniper (quote #5 of 5)
"Hey hey, look, you shape-shifted into a dead guy!" -- Scout dominating Spy (quote #4 of 4) (Not quite so funny now that the Dead Ringer cloaking device exists)
"The black, Scottish cyclops: now extinct." -- Spy dominating Demoman (quote #5 of 7)
"Here's what I have that you don't: a functioning liver, depth perception, and a pulse!" -- Spy dominating Demoman (quote #7 of 7)
"Oh... too bad this wasn't a pie-eating contest!" -- Spy dominating Heavy (quote #7 of 8)
"Did I throw a wrench into your plans?" -- Spy dominating Engineer (quote #4 of 6)
"Oh, you almost healed me to death that time!" -- Spy dominating Medic (quote #3 of 6)
"I'm looking at your X-ray and I'm afraid you suck!" -- Spy dominating Medic (quote #4 of 6)
"Well, off to visit your mother!" -- Spy dominating Scout (quote #1 of 8)
"May I borrow your ear piece? 'This is scout, rainbows make me cry, over!'" -- Spy dominating Scout (quote #6 of 8)
"So, your deadly skill is jogging? Mine is murdering people." -- Spy dominating Scout (quote #6 of 8)
"At least you died for honor... and my amusement!" -- Spy dominating Soldier (quote #3 of 5)
"They can bury you in the tomb of the unskilled soldier." -- Spy dominating Soldier (quote #3 of 5)
"We all knew you were a Spy!" -- Spy dominating Spy (quote #2 of 5)
Well, here's the thing: They can refuse to present evidence. However, the act of refusal itself weakens their case.
Failing to show evidence and refusing to show evidence are two entirely different things.
Shouldn't that be
"Have as many Billable new versions as is Ballmeringly possible."
?
Of course, that could just have been fixed in Vista... without trying the hardware on Vista, it's impossible to say.
Vista's sound stack is redesigned though, and moves nearly everything to software. This has certain advantages, such as having separate volume controls for each application, but disables hardware sound mixing to do it.
Well, actually, it's because that particular platform-specific code is part of the JVM.
Swing takes this route. SWT probably does in IBM produced JVMs... but not in Sun's, since Sun hates SWT.
Sorry, I meant to say Jaunty included Eclipse 3.2.2. For that matter, Karmic is set to include Eclipse 3.2.2 as well.
Skipped a word there, didn't you?
Ubuntu Intrepid includes Eclipse 3.2.2. The latest version of Eclipse is Eclipse 3.5. Eclipse 3.3 was released just over two years ago, so no, 3.2.2 is nowhere near latest.
NetBeans has a nice GUI designer for Swing. Unfortunately, most Java developers tend to use Eclipse, which hasn't had *any* SWT GUI designer for 3 versions now.
This is doubly ridiculous when you realize that the Sun JDK is no longer in non-free... as openjdk-6-jdk.
What Debian distribution is he using? Even Debian Lenny (the current stable) uses 3.2!
It's funny that you mention Web Services, as it's one of the places Java has actually moved forwards.
Gone are the days where you need Apache Axis. Java comes with a web service stack right out of the box now. They're really easy to set up in Netbeans, too.
Unfortunately, the Java poster-child, Eclipse, hasn't adopted this web service stack yet. Not that I dislike Eclipse, but it tends to ignore things added to Java in favor of third party implementations... such as Apache Axis 1... and SWT.
Given that SWT is an Eclipse product, Eclipse has exceptionally poor support for it. Eclipse's Visual Editor Project doesn't even work on Eclipse 3.3, 3.4, or 3.5... the latest stable version of VEP being released on January 30, 2007. It finally resumed development a few months ago, but who knows how long it will be until a stable release comes out.
Servlets are downright evil. JSP's tag soup isn't much better. JSF sounds interesting, but until Facelets become more common, it's fairly useless.
Even Oracle is starting to push certain third party products. Oracle's Eclipse distribution (which we use where I work) includes plugins for webapp tools such as the Spring Framework.
I suggest you look at System.IO.FileAttributes enumeration before you tell someone else that .NET's APIs aren't designed for Windows first. This enumeration contains values not only specific to Windows, but specific to NTFS.
I'm sure there are lots of other Windows specifics as well... places like System.Security.Policy would be a likely place to start...
or Microsoft. :)
"I should have linked the Moblin pages."
I see what you did there!
Like it or not, Windows 7 is just Vista with a new Taskbar, a major video display bugfix, a few new control panel applets (at least one of which (ClearType Tuner) used to be a Windows XP PowerToy), some new fonts and the first upgrade to the Font Control Panel Applet in 15 years, and some other misc bugfixes.
Seriously, you're still using the same Vista you all decided to hate on before; you've just fallen victim to the marketing hype.
Yup, Microsoft clearly has no interest in launching a cloud computing service.
Oh, wait...
No they haven't! Now, stop distracting me; I'm trying to finish this month's budget in Multiplan!
[citation needed]
Why exactly would Google have clout with OEMs? How many computers have you seen that ship with Google Earth, etc...?
I may be a power user, but I have a feeling that I'm in the majority for at least some of these:
I use GMail. I access it via IMAP using Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.22 and find it's a much better user experience than the web version. However, I'll give you this one simply because most people these days seem to use webmail these days.
Uh, what? Maybe you use your web browser to download from FTP sites, but last I checked browsers sucked at ftp uploads.
Filezilla is a nice, free FTP app that even supports ftps and sftp.
Really? I don't recall my web browser having access to my quickcam*.
* I'm lying, I don't have a quickcam, but it still wouldn't have access to it. Even Flash requires my explicit permission to be able to access it, however if you're talking about a flash app, I've replied to flash separately farther down.
On my home computer, I usually have Pidgin, Skype, Steam, and Xfire running. None of these are web-apps.
All the major IM networks still have their own clients: AIM, Windows Live Messenger, YIM, etc...
I know this one is the minority. Like it or not, Microsoft Office is the most widely used word processor in the world. Personally, I use OpenOffice, but like I said... I'm a power user. Of course, neither of the apps I mentioned are web apps.
I don't do photo galleries, but my mom does. She uses Windows XP's Slideshow to view them.
However, a good many people do use the web for photo galleries, so I'll give this one to you.
duh, of course these are web apps.
Bad choice. Flash Player is native code and doesn't require a web browser to run as long as you have a Flash player app.
Oh, and of course most of the games and television that you watch over the web are done in Flash. There are exception, such as abc.com's video is done as a browser plugin.