software, hardware> A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
Using buzzwords, is great and everything if you're a marketing droid, but lets try to be a little more precise among ourselves.
I'm not trying to belittle this accomplishment, and I'm sure it is quite valuable, although I personally would give up apt-get only at gun point and to call something crossplatform that only really ones on one 'platform' is silly.
If you answer yes to this one you'll be the only one I know who will. Why? The Nintendo64 had such a sorry array of games when compared to the PS1, its a no-brainer to expect the same of their cube.
I think I represent the average gamer and I want strategy games, fighting games, REALISTIC images, great audio. I want games to move me and scare me. I especially don't want Mario this or Luigi that. Game cube commercials are already touting a new Mario + friends mortal combat style fighting game. I truly think you need to be 11 to get a kick out of that.
I agree. At my old school (mid-sized public school) senior classmates couldn't use the console version of emacs (no mouse manipulatable menu). I have to admit, I'm not a superior emacs user, but I am quite familiar with my editor of choice (vi, well make that vim)
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Unless you're independantly wealthy, lucky, or brilliant school costs money. Money is something you usually have to leave the dorm room to find.
I agree with what you're saying, but what about corba? I realize it is harder, but it seems like a more performance friendly solution, although I admit XML-RPC is more elegant. Perhaps the next corba spec will use xml for communication, although I truly hope not, unless some sort of compression/decompression is performed to reduced transit times.
Do you really think gpa means for shit in the real world?
It's important for grad school, scholarships, etc. Are you suggesting these are not elements of the real world?
A stupid subjective,content free way of letting the over achievers act like ass holes because they got an "A" and someone else got a "B".
Can you suggest a better way to determine what a person has learned? And at what quality level? And at my school the under achievers were the one who acted out.
Yes I teach in my spare time.
And you sound like a truly caring and patient teacher...:)
At work we have software in/opt/- (A more windows-ish way). Some directories in opt are complete messes with little or no structure at all ( e.g. Netscape ldap, weblogic servletengine, etc ). I am vehemently opposed to this. I do my best to preach the benefits of GNU Stow every time a $PATH related confusion arises, but they've fallen on deaf ears thus far.
the first thing I really noticed about Linux after taking the plunge was that things were organized in a far superior manner (for the most part). I like having my PATH be $HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin and at home it is. At work (HPUX) even/etc contains binaries, what a mess.
I've read some of your posts and I find them hilarious, but I'm a little confused why you choose the relatively innocent geeks of slashdot to berate.
I would think that causing mayhem in person would be much more stimulating. Splashing mud on pre-schoolers, molesting nuns, exposing yourself to house pets, running down the elderly, that sort of thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what is XML doing that some homegrown solution couldn't? Obviously clients would have to know the protocol, but with XML that is also the case.
I use XML all the time, maily because of XSLT, but I think its less functional and more hype. Feel free to enlighten me.
Some Java developers want the elegance of Java with an easy way to utlitize Windows native libraries without having to write convoluted JNI interfaces all over the place.
It sounds to me that python might be easy to fit into this situation. The syntax is familiar and relatively easy and it can import c/c++ libraries if you need to. And the documentation, fraught with Monty Python witticism, is hysterical. Python bytecode can be run on a jvm and I've heard rumors there is ongoing work to make it useable via.net, but perhaps someone else with have more info about this aspect.
Although I am looking forward to Perl 6 (which also is rumored to eventually contain.net compatibility), python is filling my needs where perl5 and java are too cumbersome.
Sorry guys. I, wrongfully, assumed most people had already seen CB and wanted to start a thread about its future. In the future I will include the words *SPOILER* (or something to that effect) in the subject line. Again, please forgive my blunder.
A worm that overpowers apache and executes code on my machine as user 'nobody' (The user my apache runs as) really doesn't concern me. I suppose it could delete most of my/tmp partition.
Damn. I hoped Cartoon network would play the first (and only) season of Bebop and make new episodes. I really have a hard time stomaching the last episode, the death of Viscious and Spike.
...most admins are too damn lazy to want to learn how to use it.
I completely agree. I'm amazed by people at work who have been using a large number of software packages and only know enough about them to fufill their typical tasks. If anything unusual arises they are lost. We're computer people, aren't we supposed to assimiliate as much as possible?
I agress, I love farscape, but I find Lexx very confusing and annoying. I think my difficulty is that I don't watch a lot of tv and when I catch Lexx ocassionally the story is just so different from what I recall of the last episode that it is very hard to follow.
I hope it's inexpensive, because people tend to destroy things when no one is watching. I can just imagine these things not getting much use because the jack smells like vagrant urine.
I'll be first to admit comedy central's battlebots is dull. My friend came up with a way to spice it up. His solution... your 200lb, saw covered robot vs a sack of fluffy animals (puppies, kitties, or duckies would all do).
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Do you really think that FreeBSD, Solaris and *-Linux are the same 'platform'?
I think dictionary.com clearly states they are.
cross-platform RPM-based Unix software packaging.
crossplatform:
software, hardware> A term that describes a language, software application or hardware device that works on more than one system platform (e.g. Unix, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh). E.g. Netscape Navigator, Java.
Using buzzwords, is great and everything if you're a marketing droid, but lets try to be a little more precise among ourselves.
I'm not trying to belittle this accomplishment, and I'm sure it is quite valuable, although I personally would give up apt-get only at gun point and to call something crossplatform that only really ones on one 'platform' is silly.
Will you personally buy a game cube?
If you answer yes to this one you'll be the only one I know who will. Why? The Nintendo64 had such a sorry array of games when compared to the PS1, its a no-brainer to expect the same of their cube.
I think I represent the average gamer and I want strategy games, fighting games, REALISTIC images, great audio. I want games to move me and scare me. I especially don't want Mario this or Luigi that. Game cube commercials are already touting a new Mario + friends mortal combat style fighting game. I truly think you need to be 11 to get a kick out of that.
My office is now 100% Window-less as of about 6 months ago, but we're instead 100% Mac OS X (currently 10.1).
You don't find it just a little hypocritical to demean MS Windows in one breath and praise your Mac because it runs MS office?
I agree. At my old school (mid-sized public school) senior classmates couldn't use the console version of emacs (no mouse manipulatable menu). I have to admit, I'm not a superior emacs user, but I am quite familiar with my editor of choice (vi, well make that vim)
I'm afraid you're mistaken. Unless you're independantly wealthy, lucky, or brilliant school costs money. Money is something you usually have to leave the dorm room to find.
I agree with what you're saying, but what about corba? I realize it is harder, but it seems like a more performance friendly solution, although I admit XML-RPC is more elegant. Perhaps the next corba spec will use xml for communication, although I truly hope not, unless some sort of compression/decompression is performed to reduced transit times.
Do you really think gpa means for shit in the real world?
It's important for grad school, scholarships, etc. Are you suggesting these are not elements of the real world?
A stupid subjective,content free way of letting the over achievers act like ass holes because they got an "A" and someone else got a "B".
Can you suggest a better way to determine what a person has learned? And at what quality level? And at my school the under achievers were the one who acted out.
Yes I teach in my spare time.
And you sound like a truly caring and patient teacher... :)
At work we have software in /opt/- (A more windows-ish way). Some directories in opt are complete messes with little or no structure at all ( e.g. Netscape ldap, weblogic servletengine, etc ). I am vehemently opposed to this. I do my best to preach the benefits of GNU Stow every time a $PATH related confusion arises, but they've fallen on deaf ears thus far.
the first thing I really noticed about Linux after taking the plunge was that things were organized in a far superior manner (for the most part). I like having my PATH be $HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin and at home it is. At work (HPUX) even /etc contains binaries, what a mess.
I've read some of your posts and I find them hilarious, but I'm a little confused why you choose the relatively innocent geeks of slashdot to berate.
I would think that causing mayhem in person would be much more stimulating. Splashing mud on pre-schoolers, molesting nuns, exposing yourself to house pets, running down the elderly, that sort of thing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what is XML doing that some homegrown solution couldn't? Obviously clients would have to know the protocol, but with XML that is also the case.
I use XML all the time, maily because of XSLT, but I think its less functional and more hype. Feel free to enlighten me.
I agree, its certainly not flamebait, just not well informed. There are many forks of the linux kernel as others have already mentioned.
Thats a very amusing comic, much more so than UF. Any idea why its never mentioned on SD?
Imagine trying to connect to a crisis assistance site after a devastating earthquake, only to find its among a vast IP group being blocked by RBL
Do people really use the internet for such a purpose? I would think a cellphone would be the best means to contact help after a major accident.
Ever use a commercial unix? I use HPUX at work and True64/Solaris at school. Of those, linux programs are the most understandable when things go awry.
Linux is a recreation of a system that has historically been 'terse'. Can we expect it to be very different?
Some Java developers want the elegance of Java with an easy way to utlitize Windows native libraries without having to write convoluted JNI interfaces all over the place.
It sounds to me that python might be easy to fit into this situation. The syntax is familiar and relatively easy and it can import c/c++ libraries if you need to. And the documentation, fraught with Monty Python witticism, is hysterical. Python bytecode can be run on a jvm and I've heard rumors there is ongoing work to make it useable via .net, but perhaps someone else with have more info about this aspect.
Although I am looking forward to Perl 6 (which also is rumored to eventually contain .net compatibility), python is filling my needs where perl5 and java are too cumbersome.
Sorry guys. I, wrongfully, assumed most people had already seen CB and wanted to start a thread about its future. In the future I will include the words *SPOILER* (or something to that effect) in the subject line. Again, please forgive my blunder.
A worm that overpowers apache and executes code on my machine as user 'nobody' (The user my apache runs as) really doesn't concern me. I suppose it could delete most of my /tmp partition.
Damn. I hoped Cartoon network would play the first (and only) season of Bebop and make new episodes. I really have a hard time stomaching the last episode, the death of Viscious and Spike.
See you space cowboy...
I completely agree. I'm amazed by people at work who have been using a large number of software packages and only know enough about them to fufill their typical tasks. If anything unusual arises they are lost. We're computer people, aren't we supposed to assimiliate as much as possible?
I agress, I love farscape, but I find Lexx very confusing and annoying. I think my difficulty is that I don't watch a lot of tv and when I catch Lexx ocassionally the story is just so different from what I recall of the last episode that it is very hard to follow.
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There, no more nasty pop-up ads (for Netscape/Mozilla) atleast.
Bite me x10.
this publisher who puts a different animal on the cover of each book. The name escapes me at the moment, but I'd try there genius.
are you going to vandalize/destroy today?
I hope it's inexpensive, because people tend to destroy things when no one is watching. I can just imagine these things not getting much use because the jack smells like vagrant urine.
I'll be first to admit comedy central's battlebots is dull. My friend came up with a way to spice it up. His solution... your 200lb, saw covered robot vs a sack of fluffy animals (puppies, kitties, or duckies would all do).
I didn't say it was a good idea