and sadly that increased development cost rarely results in anything worth "more" than the previous gen of games.
Adding more graphics to a game at this point doesn't necessarily make it better, especially if the original game sorta sucked to begin with. Most FPS's and fighting games fall into this category. They're just white washed rehashed bits of the previous generation.
Kind of how Office95 documents removed the ability to interoperate with any other office suite and was forced down upon us via a fortunate (from MS's perspective) set of timings.
But, I concede that excluding the adverb entirely would have been literally correct.
OS/2 was a better OS than Win 3.1/95/98 or NT 3.1/3.5x/4.x. As far as a multithreaded system, it's better than anything MS has today. OK, maybe that last statement is a little strong, but OS/2 certainly promoted better multi-threaded coding than MS ever has. HFS also is better than NTFS by far, as long as you started with HFS386, or it's journaling big brother, JFS. (I have an especially strong dislike for NTFS)
But we should go back even further, to Deskview, GEM and CPM. All better than anything MS had at the time, or even years later. There were an entire slew of alternatives at that time that all did various things better than MS, with one exception: MS ran on a lot of hardware, however badly.
Also, closed source doesn't necessarily mean something is automatically bad. There are several decent closed source items out there. There are a lot of very bad open source items also. Being open or closed has no bearing on quality. And spare me the "you can fix it yourself". I'm doing that now with 2 separate open source products and it's anything less than enjoyable, not to mention that while they're "open source", that doesn't mean that the maintainers have to accept your code, even though you cannot run in production without the fixes. Now you get to maintain your branch forever. Yep, stellar point that.
Now to go to your points about items like your DRM issue, especially regarding your ipod. Why are you updating the firmware on your ipod if you want to run it with Linux? Why not just overwrite it? Nothing prevents you from loading a different firmware. Nothing prevents you from writing your own. Since you're a proponent of open software, I assume you have no problem following through on any of those statements to rectify your situation.
That said, I do like how my mac runs. I dislike quite a few things about Ubuntu. One day I may even blog about it and perhaps someone will read it and something might change, or I'll go with another distro, or perhaps even something else.
I certainly hope it will be less than 10 years before MS loses significant market share. I don't care who picks it up, as long as it's shared among multiple Oses. A duopoly does no one any good in the long run. Breaking MS's hold today, however, can only be cheered.
Actually, I was trying to support his point. We've completely changed how we operate within even the span of a couple of decades. Many of those changes would be incomprehensible to someone from 50 or 100 years ago, or someone from a subsistence culture, but most would be able to adapt relatively quickly to enough things to allow them to function or even flourish. Many have, having lived through those changes. My 100 year old grandmother loves receiving pictures via email, for instance.
Heck, some changes are almost incomprehensible to people currently living through them: witness the the oft repeated joke about the cup holder in the desktop or the continuously flashing 12:00... yet they still manage to function just fine.
It's doubtful. There's still issues with using Linux desktops. I've been running one at work for about a year now, and there's still gotchas that are annoying. Certainly not as annoying as XP/Vista, but far more annoying than my OSX laptop.
I haven't had to muck with the OS portion of my 2 Macs with 2 exceptions: when I upgraded my Powerbook from Panther to Tiger, and when I upgraded my Macbook Pro from Tiger to Leopard. In both cases it was my mistake - using the same user name to do the migration, but even then it was relatively flawless. And the most amazing one was the migration from the Powerbook to the Macbook. Different architecture and the migration was painlessly simple. Everything just worked on that one.
I still can't get my Ubuntu system to sleep or hibernate reliably on my Dell 820. Fedora's been an on again, off again secondary. Just haven't had the time to complete it's configuration for my needs.
Try the enormous gulf just between 1995 and today.
the web
cell phones
death of in-country long distance fees
death of CDs
ipods and music downloads
death of VHS
Netflix
VoD
last and certainly not least: Google
Go back another 10 years
computers
email
outsourcing of white collar jobs
access to 100s of TV channels and the death of "snow"
the rise (and fall) of casette tapes (8-track and reel-to-reel sucked, if you ever used either for storing and convenient playback)
the rise of CDs and artificially inflated prices leading to the rise of the current RIAA juggernaut
VCRs
death of rotary phones and the Ma Bell stranglehold on telecom
There were huge similar sweeping changes for each decade all the way back to roughly the 1870s or so when the effects of the industrial revolution started directly affecting people's lives and livelihoods. And here's a hint: the degree of change is accelerating still, we'll probably see some of the most interesting times we can imagine, old Chinese curses not withstanding.
MS dominates the market due to a fortunate timing incident and illegal contracts and tying of products. Nothing more, and nothing less. Several very good OSes were trampled by MS, and many decent products were literally yanked from consumers' grasps.
However, see today's story on MS's software dipping below 90% market share for the first time since 1995, and you'll see that more and more people are realizing the emperor has no clothes.
First off, I have at least 5 OSes installed on my laptop. I don't run Vista. There's no reason. So I wouldn't know about it's space hogging ways. So with that out of the way, I run multiple copies of OSes for web development, some in virtual machines as needed, along with a full suite of developer tools and supporting applications. Oh, and I need to run the entire system and at least a single VM to see how things look in various flavors of IE while running in debug mode.
So what, exactly, are you doing that I'm not other than running a single flavor of an OS?
And yes, I have servers available also, but it's easier to debug locally for specialty scenarios.
In today's world of <$100 TB drives, if you have a disk space issue, you're doing something I'm not, and neither is 99.999% of the other folks on here.
Should have spent the 2 minutes downloading InfoZip's Zip/Unzip and used that for your compression needs.
And to add to the nostalgia, I was running OS/2 on my 64MB RAM 486 DX66. Along with the two 1 GB SCSI drives, that machine was a monster back in 91.:) Windows 95 shipped with "SmartDrive" (AKA - DumbDrive") which had this minor bug in it that would wipe the CMOS of the EISA motherboard in this machine.
and who, exactly, is spouting that crap? Be honest, how long did it take you to figure out to click the MS Windows icony thing in the ribbon to get the File Save menu?
I disliked Office 2007 so much that it finally goaded me into loading Open Office. Shortly after that, the stupid synchronize "feature" (read that as slow your login to a "go to the bathroom, get coffee, chat with all your co-workers, maybe it'll be ready when you get back" crawl) and case insensitive file system drove me into the Linux world.
Great - so config has moved into annotations. What's so great about that other than you no longer have to write XML? Now, if you want to change a config, you'll have to make a code change. Yep, that's much better.
This still doesn't remove the fact that you shouldn't need Spring within your codebase. You should only be using it at the application edges to begin with, which is where most go wrong with Spring.
And Spring enables circular dependencies. It doesn't deal with them.
Spring is a solution in search of a problem. It's "bettering" itself from all the criticism leveled at it, but it really doesn't solve any real world problems that aren't more simply solved via straight code.
Now we get to Hibernate. Hibernate is fine if used as directed. The problem arises when that direction clashes with your requirements, and you wind up starting to write code to deal with specific mutations to that direction. 25K LOCs later, you have a mess that could have been easily avoided by avoiding Hibernate. Yes, I'm looking at my third project with more than 25K LOCs dealing with specific issues related to Hibernate, and this last one has Spring injected transactions to boot - oh joy! BTW, did you realize that you can side step Spring insecurity easily? Or that Hibernate sessions can be hijacked? There's all sorts of fun you can have is you put your mind to it. My point here is that these frameworks are a hindrance rather than a help when it comes to larger, more complicated projects. And what if you want to access a DB "controlled" via Spring/Hibernate? That's a fun one, especially if you'd like to extend it, or cross reference data from several objects.
Maybe I'm just grumbly, but Hibernate and Spring both sound a lot like the koolaid passed around for EJB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, JDO, Hibernate 1-2,.NET, JHTML, JSP, ASP, etc etc etc. Some of those had good features, but many were problematic in practice, especially for larger projects.
Untrue. You'd choose Intel if clock cycles over power consumption are important. If you're footing the power bill and AMD CPUs are adequate, you'd quite likely buy anything but Intel. If you need more power than 2 Intel chips can provide, you are also only left with AMD or non x86 chips. Intel is wholly outclassed in the 4+ CPU market.
I have both an X2 and a Q6600. The X2 runs far cooler, although it is less powerful. However, I can get a Phenom in the same TPD range that comes near the Q6600 in performance and costs less in the bargain.
The choice is not nearly as clear as you make it seem.
Or Doostang now. Seems LinkedIn is getting too many unwashed masses in there and not enough "professionals".
And isn't MySpace just the place that's going to kill music distributors once and for all? (with some OMG PONIES hung on the side?)
FaceBook is seriously for those ~23-28 that opened accounts and got hooked while in college and those that try to take advantage of them. No one else uses it.
Spring will bite you. It makes it entirely too easy to create bad architecture, and is entirely unnecessary.
I'm sure you can create a "usable" project with Spring, but I doubt it will ever be simpler. Hibernate can be simpler, until your data model exceeds the basic constructs Hibernate supports.
And lastly, yes, byzantine code is possible without Spring, Spring just makes it easier by spiking the koolaid. Dependency Injection is just a fancy way of saying "Factory Pattern", and factories are after all so notoriously difficult to write. Even Factories that build on reflection are easy which is actually the only time I might concede Spring might be a fit except for the huge dislike of Spring in my project and the fact that writing the code will only take me 1-2 minutes, whereas Spring will take me much longer, as I'll have to find the right XML file and remember the XML configuration and type in 3 times as much garbage for the same ends.
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and sadly that increased development cost rarely results in anything worth "more" than the previous gen of games.
Adding more graphics to a game at this point doesn't necessarily make it better, especially if the original game sorta sucked to begin with. Most FPS's and fighting games fall into this category. They're just white washed rehashed bits of the previous generation.
That would be prior to AOL coming onboard.... *sigh* good times.
Yep, anything 24K+ miles long and thin as a wire and zipping through the upper reaches of the atmosphere would probably be "shaky"....
Kind of how Office95 documents removed the ability to interoperate with any other office suite and was forced down upon us via a fortunate (from MS's perspective) set of timings.
But, I concede that excluding the adverb entirely would have been literally correct.
OS/2 was a better OS than Win 3.1/95/98 or NT 3.1/3.5x/4.x. As far as a multithreaded system, it's better than anything MS has today. OK, maybe that last statement is a little strong, but OS/2 certainly promoted better multi-threaded coding than MS ever has. HFS also is better than NTFS by far, as long as you started with HFS386, or it's journaling big brother, JFS. (I have an especially strong dislike for NTFS)
But we should go back even further, to Deskview, GEM and CPM. All better than anything MS had at the time, or even years later. There were an entire slew of alternatives at that time that all did various things better than MS, with one exception: MS ran on a lot of hardware, however badly.
Also, closed source doesn't necessarily mean something is automatically bad. There are several decent closed source items out there. There are a lot of very bad open source items also. Being open or closed has no bearing on quality. And spare me the "you can fix it yourself". I'm doing that now with 2 separate open source products and it's anything less than enjoyable, not to mention that while they're "open source", that doesn't mean that the maintainers have to accept your code, even though you cannot run in production without the fixes. Now you get to maintain your branch forever. Yep, stellar point that.
Now to go to your points about items like your DRM issue, especially regarding your ipod. Why are you updating the firmware on your ipod if you want to run it with Linux? Why not just overwrite it? Nothing prevents you from loading a different firmware. Nothing prevents you from writing your own. Since you're a proponent of open software, I assume you have no problem following through on any of those statements to rectify your situation.
That said, I do like how my mac runs. I dislike quite a few things about Ubuntu. One day I may even blog about it and perhaps someone will read it and something might change, or I'll go with another distro, or perhaps even something else.
I certainly hope it will be less than 10 years before MS loses significant market share. I don't care who picks it up, as long as it's shared among multiple Oses. A duopoly does no one any good in the long run. Breaking MS's hold today, however, can only be cheered.
Only a subset of people from 1955 would be freaked out about some of those things. For others, they would be irrelevant or accepted, some even gladly.
Actually, I was trying to support his point. We've completely changed how we operate within even the span of a couple of decades. Many of those changes would be incomprehensible to someone from 50 or 100 years ago, or someone from a subsistence culture, but most would be able to adapt relatively quickly to enough things to allow them to function or even flourish. Many have, having lived through those changes. My 100 year old grandmother loves receiving pictures via email, for instance.
Heck, some changes are almost incomprehensible to people currently living through them: witness the the oft repeated joke about the cup holder in the desktop or the continuously flashing 12:00... yet they still manage to function just fine.
It's doubtful. There's still issues with using Linux desktops. I've been running one at work for about a year now, and there's still gotchas that are annoying. Certainly not as annoying as XP/Vista, but far more annoying than my OSX laptop.
I haven't had to muck with the OS portion of my 2 Macs with 2 exceptions: when I upgraded my Powerbook from Panther to Tiger, and when I upgraded my Macbook Pro from Tiger to Leopard. In both cases it was my mistake - using the same user name to do the migration, but even then it was relatively flawless. And the most amazing one was the migration from the Powerbook to the Macbook. Different architecture and the migration was painlessly simple. Everything just worked on that one.
I still can't get my Ubuntu system to sleep or hibernate reliably on my Dell 820. Fedora's been an on again, off again secondary. Just haven't had the time to complete it's configuration for my needs.
Try the enormous gulf just between 1995 and today.
Go back another 10 years
There were huge similar sweeping changes for each decade all the way back to roughly the 1870s or so when the effects of the industrial revolution started directly affecting people's lives and livelihoods. And here's a hint: the degree of change is accelerating still, we'll probably see some of the most interesting times we can imagine, old Chinese curses not withstanding.
MS dominates the market due to a fortunate timing incident and illegal contracts and tying of products. Nothing more, and nothing less. Several very good OSes were trampled by MS, and many decent products were literally yanked from consumers' grasps.
However, see today's story on MS's software dipping below 90% market share for the first time since 1995, and you'll see that more and more people are realizing the emperor has no clothes.
First off, I have at least 5 OSes installed on my laptop. I don't run Vista. There's no reason. So I wouldn't know about it's space hogging ways. So with that out of the way, I run multiple copies of OSes for web development, some in virtual machines as needed, along with a full suite of developer tools and supporting applications. Oh, and I need to run the entire system and at least a single VM to see how things look in various flavors of IE while running in debug mode.
So what, exactly, are you doing that I'm not other than running a single flavor of an OS?
And yes, I have servers available also, but it's easier to debug locally for specialty scenarios.
In today's world of <$100 TB drives, if you have a disk space issue, you're doing something I'm not, and neither is 99.999% of the other folks on here.
Should have spent the 2 minutes downloading InfoZip's Zip/Unzip and used that for your compression needs.
And to add to the nostalgia, I was running OS/2 on my 64MB RAM 486 DX66. Along with the two 1 GB SCSI drives, that machine was a monster back in 91. :) Windows 95 shipped with "SmartDrive" (AKA - DumbDrive") which had this minor bug in it that would wipe the CMOS of the EISA motherboard in this machine.
Ahh yes, good times....
and who, exactly, is spouting that crap? Be honest, how long did it take you to figure out to click the MS Windows icony thing in the ribbon to get the File Save menu?
I disliked Office 2007 so much that it finally goaded me into loading Open Office. Shortly after that, the stupid synchronize "feature" (read that as slow your login to a "go to the bathroom, get coffee, chat with all your co-workers, maybe it'll be ready when you get back" crawl) and case insensitive file system drove me into the Linux world.
But you're wrong in the case of less than 4 cores and 4GB and XP compared to Vista on the same hardware.
Great - so config has moved into annotations. What's so great about that other than you no longer have to write XML? Now, if you want to change a config, you'll have to make a code change. Yep, that's much better.
This still doesn't remove the fact that you shouldn't need Spring within your codebase. You should only be using it at the application edges to begin with, which is where most go wrong with Spring.
And Spring enables circular dependencies. It doesn't deal with them.
Spring is a solution in search of a problem. It's "bettering" itself from all the criticism leveled at it, but it really doesn't solve any real world problems that aren't more simply solved via straight code.
Now we get to Hibernate. Hibernate is fine if used as directed. The problem arises when that direction clashes with your requirements, and you wind up starting to write code to deal with specific mutations to that direction. 25K LOCs later, you have a mess that could have been easily avoided by avoiding Hibernate. Yes, I'm looking at my third project with more than 25K LOCs dealing with specific issues related to Hibernate, and this last one has Spring injected transactions to boot - oh joy! BTW, did you realize that you can side step Spring insecurity easily? Or that Hibernate sessions can be hijacked? There's all sorts of fun you can have is you put your mind to it. My point here is that these frameworks are a hindrance rather than a help when it comes to larger, more complicated projects. And what if you want to access a DB "controlled" via Spring/Hibernate? That's a fun one, especially if you'd like to extend it, or cross reference data from several objects.
Maybe I'm just grumbly, but Hibernate and Spring both sound a lot like the koolaid passed around for EJB 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, JDO, Hibernate 1-2, .NET, JHTML, JSP, ASP, etc etc etc. Some of those had good features, but many were problematic in practice, especially for larger projects.
If you are looking at increasing your penis size ...
You're posting on /. and talking about this? I'm guessing size won't matter....
Untrue. You'd choose Intel if clock cycles over power consumption are important. If you're footing the power bill and AMD CPUs are adequate, you'd quite likely buy anything but Intel. If you need more power than 2 Intel chips can provide, you are also only left with AMD or non x86 chips. Intel is wholly outclassed in the 4+ CPU market.
I have both an X2 and a Q6600. The X2 runs far cooler, although it is less powerful. However, I can get a Phenom in the same TPD range that comes near the Q6600 in performance and costs less in the bargain.
The choice is not nearly as clear as you make it seem.
Intel makes lots of claims. I'd wait and see the real hardware performance before believing Intel claiming such a large jump in I/O.
There's this little number on the back of your card. Call it. Dispute the charges.
Or Doostang now. Seems LinkedIn is getting too many unwashed masses in there and not enough "professionals".
And isn't MySpace just the place that's going to kill music distributors once and for all? (with some OMG PONIES hung on the side?)
FaceBook is seriously for those ~23-28 that opened accounts and got hooked while in college and those that try to take advantage of them. No one else uses it.
You should just run with NoScript. AdBlock appears to have a significant performance hit of late. Guess the black list is getting long....
Spring will bite you. It makes it entirely too easy to create bad architecture, and is entirely unnecessary.
I'm sure you can create a "usable" project with Spring, but I doubt it will ever be simpler. Hibernate can be simpler, until your data model exceeds the basic constructs Hibernate supports.
And lastly, yes, byzantine code is possible without Spring, Spring just makes it easier by spiking the koolaid. Dependency Injection is just a fancy way of saying "Factory Pattern", and factories are after all so notoriously difficult to write. Even Factories that build on reflection are easy which is actually the only time I might concede Spring might be a fit except for the huge dislike of Spring in my project and the fact that writing the code will only take me 1-2 minutes, whereas Spring will take me much longer, as I'll have to find the right XML file and remember the XML configuration and type in 3 times as much garbage for the same ends.
Close:
Europese Hof van justitie = European Court of Justice
merkenrecht = TradeMark rights
alleenrecht = exclusive rights
Then you deserve even more kudos.
May you succeed in this seemingly Quixotic quest.