"...and our current theories surrounding Hawking radiation says it can't happen anyways."
Then we have Lord Kelvin on heavier-than-air flight:
"...but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of."
I think we all know how Lord Kelvin's "theory" turned out.
...and step into a real corporation, instead of subjecting us to this bumbling techno-editorial.
Honestly - For anyone who works in a position where the desktop currently reigns, the de-facto standard is, and will be, the desktop.
What corporation in their right mind would risk higher cost for a deliberately less mobile workforce? I say less mobile because more corporations are striving for an interchangable workforce as to not "put all their eggs in one basket", if you will. Think highly paid & specialized vs. decentralized, low paid and generic - One is cheaper, in their minds anyway:)
Backstory
I make my living as a software architect for a large national corporation using the Win32 platform. I've got over 15 years coding & design experience.
I started out with Borland products, but slowly migrated to MS products due to the following factors:
1) Tools were built by the makers of the OS
2) API Documentation
3) Microsoft's desire to support the development community
4) OS stability - Laugh if you like, but at the time there wasn't much else to run on an 8088.
Screw The Developers
Recently, Microsoft has decided that the development community needed more "options" - In other words, let's screw all of the MSDN Universal holders into "Upgrading" to a new type of subscription - Therefore changing the concept of "Universal" to mean "Kinda sorta, but not really". You no longer can get "EVERYTHING" any more.
Screw The Consumer
Next - They're moving on to Vista (what a STUPID name) with 7 different flavors. They are "creating" a compositing desktop using the graphics hardware and touting it as the next "New Thing(tm)". Instead of using a bitmapped desktop, they've gone to this "new innovation". Uh - Mac OSX has done this since day 1. Nothing new here.
Along with "Vista", they are incorporating many "new" things - Security concepts that are really just hacks on top of a horrible idea.
Fundamentally, Microsoft has refused to accept that they themselves perpetuate the security problems they currently have. Most Win32 developers have been bottle fed to accept that the local user has admin rights. They code everything with this assumption. Because of this, Microsoft has had a VERY difficult time securing the desktop. Microsoft has no choice but to try and design around a problem of their own creation.
Fact is you cannot secure a machine where there is, effectively, no security. I say "effectively" because if all users have all rights, then where is the security?
Combine the Two Above - Rinse/Wash/Repeat
This long diatribe is really to sum up that Microsoft has ignored the problems for so long, and is not even prepared to address them with the development community. Even their latest development "security" attempts are too little too late for such an egregious flaw.
And now, to top it off, they're going to attempt to baffle the world with bullshit by releasing 7 versions of an OS - What a fantastically stupid idea.
The downward spiral started many years ago, and will end with people like me leaving the platform for something that truly performs - For something not built on technical quicksand.
(BTW - I type this from my G5 Mac in my home where the last remaining PC is serving as print server and remote desktop to host VS.NET so that I can work at home - They're are now 4 other Macs in the house)
COM is implemented using DLL's and is nothing more (at its core) then a binary contract for 3 functions in a vtable: QueryInterface, AddRef and Release. Its an implementation, not a technology!
Now, if you want to talk about ActiveX (IDispatch's and such), which are STILL implementation, then wine* all you want, but get the f@#$k off of here with your silly blather.
Question: Why would Apple release an OS level DRM chip/scheme/driver at this point in the game?
Apple has made it clear that it will take "MacTel" hardware to run OSX. Most/.'ers would love to have that changed to "Any x86" hardware.
Apple is not stupid - Whatever they are cooking up for protecting their hardware wouldn't be put in the hands of the very people that could try to defeat it.
And in case you think I may have missed the point about why there may be support for DRM (as it applies to Music/Movies etc) I haven't. I happen to think this is coming one way or another - Apple may simply use it to lock down OSX to MacTel hardware.
Every time a cost of entry is reduced and the expected prerequisites are thrown aside, the result is a truly less capable *person*, not a more capable tool.
Agreed - There are some things that need smoothing, but I for one am tired of dealing with people who lack a fundamental understanding of the *systems* as a whole. Examples of this are the folks coming out with CS degrees who aren't even capable of following a thought, let alone starting an actual career designing and developing software.
For them, a tool like Java offers an entry level that is acceptable given there current capabilities - A tool geared towards THAT user (and a fine one at that).
But C (and C++) can be leveraged by people who know the tool and *use* the tool for what it can do, even with it's high(er, intellectually) cost of entry.
First off, I RTFA...
It implies that the iPod & iTMS, not the Mac, could drive Apple's future.
What is Apple without the Mac? What is Apple without OSX?
If the simple answer is a "portable media player company with ties to the RIAA & MPAA", then so be it - But that answer is shortsighted. This can be seen by Microsoft's foray into this arena (witness Windows Media and Media Center PC's), along with Linux's abilities (Myth) in this same subset of the market.
It's the Media stupid!
The media is *not* the player.
If Apple, which the article supposes, is out to drive the hand-held player market with it's technology, then it may very well succeed - In hand-helds that is.
If it ignores the Mac as the center of *their* digital world, they may end up with a cute player and nothing more.
No matter how much HP you get a Civic to, it's still a civic.
I had 20(+/-) year old guy and his girlfriend in a Civic SI come up next to my 427SC Cobra replica that I built (412hp, 420tq & 2200lbs total weight) and try to run me from a roll at 65mph.
I don't care how much ECU tweaking someone does, there is:
a) No replacement for displacement
b) HP/TQ to weight ratio is KING
c) "NAWS" on a stock motor will only last so long
d) If your driving a Civic and want to roll against a open-side-piped, fire-breathing light-weight 427SC Cobra, you might want to have your head examined....and the girlfriend thought it was the funniest damn thing when I left 2 black lines for 100ft down the interstate...
On the technical side - Most of the ODBII compliant ECU's take a lot of time to crack. Many folks have done it on different models, but an easier way is to piggyback them most of the time.
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OMG - Ponies! Sony needs to put the crack pipe down.
Wow - A Full 500 huh?
Never was a truer post made on Slashdot I have no mod points, but if I did, it'd be ++5 for Truth.
Looks like someone may need to wrestle their account back
Sorry - But IndiaTech is not worth what you pay for it most times.
"good developers" == "Caveat Emptor"
;)
Lotus is the WORST FUCKING PIECE of software I have EVER used.
Period.
Bar NONE.
End of comment
It doesn't matter what set of data was picked.
Comparing Apple's to Apple's in the same data set, AMD won. Period.
And no, I don't think it's indicitive of the actual market, but it is a noteworthy sign. (pun anyone?)
So let me get this straight - We're supposed to take advice from a Helpdesk driver?
Developers, developers, developers.
If you make it tough for developers to write code for your device, you are (I think the term is Scottish) -> füch'd
Apple did it, and has fixed it. IBM did it, and still hasn't recovered, and now Microsoft is doing it (read: MSDN subscription changes).
When I wanted to play with the SDK for the Palm, they made is so tough that I gave up.
"It's the Developers, stupid!"(c)(tm)
...and step into a real corporation, instead of subjecting us to this bumbling techno-editorial.
:)
Honestly - For anyone who works in a position where the desktop currently reigns, the de-facto standard is, and will be, the desktop.
What corporation in their right mind would risk higher cost for a deliberately less mobile workforce? I say less mobile because more corporations are striving for an interchangable workforce as to not "put all their eggs in one basket", if you will. Think highly paid & specialized vs. decentralized, low paid and generic - One is cheaper, in their minds anyway
Backstory
I make my living as a software architect for a large national corporation using the Win32 platform. I've got over 15 years coding & design experience.
I started out with Borland products, but slowly migrated to MS products due to the following factors:
1) Tools were built by the makers of the OS
2) API Documentation
3) Microsoft's desire to support the development community
4) OS stability - Laugh if you like, but at the time there wasn't much else to run on an 8088.
Screw The Developers
Recently, Microsoft has decided that the development community needed more "options" - In other words, let's screw all of the MSDN Universal holders into "Upgrading" to a new type of subscription - Therefore changing the concept of "Universal" to mean "Kinda sorta, but not really". You no longer can get "EVERYTHING" any more.
Screw The Consumer
Next - They're moving on to Vista (what a STUPID name) with 7 different flavors. They are "creating" a compositing desktop using the graphics hardware and touting it as the next "New Thing(tm)". Instead of using a bitmapped desktop, they've gone to this "new innovation". Uh - Mac OSX has done this since day 1. Nothing new here.
Along with "Vista", they are incorporating many "new" things - Security concepts that are really just hacks on top of a horrible idea.
Fundamentally, Microsoft has refused to accept that they themselves perpetuate the security problems they currently have. Most Win32 developers have been bottle fed to accept that the local user has admin rights. They code everything with this assumption. Because of this, Microsoft has had a VERY difficult time securing the desktop. Microsoft has no choice but to try and design around a problem of their own creation.
Fact is you cannot secure a machine where there is, effectively, no security. I say "effectively" because if all users have all rights, then where is the security?
Combine the Two Above - Rinse/Wash/Repeat
This long diatribe is really to sum up that Microsoft has ignored the problems for so long, and is not even prepared to address them with the development community. Even their latest development "security" attempts are too little too late for such an egregious flaw.
And now, to top it off, they're going to attempt to baffle the world with bullshit by releasing 7 versions of an OS - What a fantastically stupid idea.
The downward spiral started many years ago, and will end with people like me leaving the platform for something that truly performs - For something not built on technical quicksand.
(BTW - I type this from my G5 Mac in my home where the last remaining PC is serving as print server and remote desktop to host VS.NET so that I can work at home - They're are now 4 other Macs in the house)
Parent is uninformed (read: A wannabe)
;)
Uhhhh - DLL's are shared libraries...
COM is implemented using DLL's and is nothing more (at its core) then a binary contract for 3 functions in a vtable: QueryInterface, AddRef and Release. Its an implementation, not a technology!
Now, if you want to talk about ActiveX (IDispatch's and such), which are STILL implementation, then wine* all you want, but get the f@#$k off of here with your silly blather.
*(Pun intended
Question: Why would Apple release an OS level DRM chip/scheme/driver at this point in the game?
/.'ers would love to have that changed to "Any x86" hardware.
Apple has made it clear that it will take "MacTel" hardware to run OSX. Most
Apple is not stupid - Whatever they are cooking up for protecting their hardware wouldn't be put in the hands of the very people that could try to defeat it.
And in case you think I may have missed the point about why there may be support for DRM (as it applies to Music/Movies etc) I haven't. I happen to think this is coming one way or another - Apple may simply use it to lock down OSX to MacTel hardware.
...is this busniess in Japan?
Every time a cost of entry is reduced and the expected prerequisites are thrown aside, the result is a truly less capable *person*, not a more capable tool.
Agreed - There are some things that need smoothing, but I for one am tired of dealing with people who lack a fundamental understanding of the *systems* as a whole. Examples of this are the folks coming out with CS degrees who aren't even capable of following a thought, let alone starting an actual career designing and developing software.
For them, a tool like Java offers an entry level that is acceptable given there current capabilities - A tool geared towards THAT user (and a fine one at that).
But C (and C++) can be leveraged by people who know the tool and *use* the tool for what it can do, even with it's high(er, intellectually) cost of entry.
First off, I RTFA... It implies that the iPod & iTMS, not the Mac, could drive Apple's future. What is Apple without the Mac? What is Apple without OSX? If the simple answer is a "portable media player company with ties to the RIAA & MPAA", then so be it - But that answer is shortsighted. This can be seen by Microsoft's foray into this arena (witness Windows Media and Media Center PC's), along with Linux's abilities (Myth) in this same subset of the market. It's the Media stupid! The media is *not* the player. If Apple, which the article supposes, is out to drive the hand-held player market with it's technology, then it may very well succeed - In hand-helds that is. If it ignores the Mac as the center of *their* digital world, they may end up with a cute player and nothing more.
AvgGeek != 3.36M - Thats why.
The blurb says Earthlink is not in the top 20. Mindspring, listed as 17th most infected, is Earthlink.
"How to Use Semicolons To Avoid Compiler Errors"
No matter how much HP you get a Civic to, it's still a civic. I had 20(+/-) year old guy and his girlfriend in a Civic SI come up next to my 427SC Cobra replica that I built (412hp, 420tq & 2200lbs total weight) and try to run me from a roll at 65mph. I don't care how much ECU tweaking someone does, there is: a) No replacement for displacement b) HP/TQ to weight ratio is KING c) "NAWS" on a stock motor will only last so long d) If your driving a Civic and want to roll against a open-side-piped, fire-breathing light-weight 427SC Cobra, you might want to have your head examined. ...and the girlfriend thought it was the funniest damn thing when I left 2 black lines for 100ft down the interstate...
On the technical side - Most of the ODBII compliant ECU's take a lot of time to crack. Many folks have done it on different models, but an easier way is to piggyback them most of the time.