Cause dell would sell you hardware without setting up the drivers for you or making sure to select hardware that works with the OS they are selling you right?
When you buy a windows machine from dell do you have to install your wireless cards drivers? No dell does that for you.
Well, maybe a app I use has a security bug, and the developer decides to update it by requiring the new hardware. Then what?
A perfect example can be seen in OS X. If you use java and you don't have OS X 10.5 you are basically screwed because at some point the security updates for the apps you use are going to require a version of java you can never have. Probably sooner then later.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I like how nimble apple can be at the cost of making everyone buy a new computer every few years (of course like everyone else, I'm not a fan of paying for it). I will probably be getting a new iPhone anyway because my wife wants one.
I'm just stating that if the majority of apps on the app store don't work on phones over a year or two old then the iPhone is going to lose my support as a platform. Now they have not said anything to the effect of dropping support. But it's not up to them really, it's up to the app developers.
and replacing the camera with one that sounds like it might actually be useful.
32gig, a camera, better battery life, and being slightly faster are the things that make it attractive. I'm still not sure I'll bother upgrading mine though.
The only problem I see is the apple mind set of abandoning older platforms. I would suspect that within a year the iPhone I have will no longer be supported by most apps on the app store. Hell it's getting harder and harder to find apps for OSX 10.4.
I tend to use jquery on all my sites. It tends to abstract enough that I'm not writing half as many IE hacks anymore. Style sheets are still an annoyance, but that is trivial to work around.
Our comapny has to support firefox, IE, and safari. I've found that if you can hit safari then everything else but IE falls into place (assuming properly written html).
I switched banks because of IE as a requirement. I moved to mac and was not going to run a virtual machine just to check my balance.
When I closed the account in person the representative was mind boggled that I would close an account over that. He said "Why don't you just use windows like everyone else?"
My new bank works fine in safari, firefox, and yes, even IE.
I suggest you find a new job. That is a time bomb. Any management who won't admit that in 5 years a important part of the business logic is not going to work. Microsoft is going to stop supplying security patches for IE6. It's a fact, at that point you are going to have to run a very insecure browser while you do what you are saying is too expensive to do. Only now you have even more risk then starting the project before it's an emergency.
What happens when new hardware simply will not run XP and you have no choice?
My company just went though this. Luckily they listened to me and were proactive. We had tons of PHP4 code, a lot of it incompatible with php5. I pointed out plans from several projects we use to drop PHP4 support and the fact PHP itself was getting ready to drop support.
So we got approval to start the project. It took us 2 years of modest work in addition to our normal projects. We also made sure all new projects were fine with PHP5. While we were at it, we rewrote everything to conform to a standard that worked in all major browsers at the time IE6, firefox, and safari.
We also came up with a unified plan for the future. Doing things like putting an end to little access databases and random mysql servers. Unifying that took even more work as we had to reverse engineer work from developers long gone.
Now we have a very flexible framework to work in that allows us to quickly change directions as trends change in our field. Boss wants a site to work on his blackberry, no problem. He suddenly switches to an iPhone, again no problem. He goes bonkers and moves to linux, guess what, no problem.
I REALLY wanted a G1, but I had a choice ATT w/ 3g service, or Tmobile with no 3g service.
So I went ATT and because the G1's 3g doesn't support ATT I had to buy an iPhone. I have been happy with it, but I think I would of been happier with the G1.
Handguns are illegal for a child to carry anywhere. Cellphones are not. A very STUPID analogy. Obviously children will abuse any tool given them. The trick is to...well...PARENT them and teach them not to.
I had a calculator in school that could store a cheat sheet on tests. A few other kids did as well. I could have cheated anytime I wanted to. My father taught me not to cheat. I also carried a knife all though school. I could of knifed anyone I wanted at any time. My father taught me not to kill people. I think he could of taught me not to text at school.
I simply don't understand how a school can get away with banning a cell phone. It should be my choice if I want my child (I don't have any yet) to have a device that allows me to contact them or them to contact me.
Inappropriate use should simply just be them telling me so I can discipline my child. More zero tolerance bullshit like the aspirin expulsions.
When I was in elementary and middle school I had to walk to school because I was one of three kids in my area. The walk was a rather long one. When I got to high school which was only a half a mile away, they sent a bus.
My Junior year of high school all the little kids in the area became school age, instantly there was buses. That really pissed me off thinking of all the cold winters I had to walk in below zero temps.
Then I realized that I was finally old enough to tell those "when i was your age stories"!!!
I really like the look of KDE, but I prefer ubuntu as my desktop. I just wish kubuntu would put the effort into KDE that ubuntu puts into making gnome such a success.
To me it feels like kubuntu is a red headed step child. So many things just feel tacked on and half assed. Other KDE distros feel a lot more put together, but unfortunately I love and know ubuntu.
And it's own set of annoyances and quirks. But you are right. I've fallen for OSX and converted my wife as well. I now have 3 macs, 1 windows machine, and a linux server.
Most end users don't need to buy USB wifi sticks. Case in point I recently got ATT home internet service. The tech came out and gave me 3 usb wireless devices. I plugged them into 3 different machines, a windows machine, a mac, and a ubuntu 8.04 linux machine. All 3 worked with zero, yes zero configuration. Just a simple little USB 2wire device.
I also got a printer free with the purchase of a cannon camera. It was usb only so I plugged it into my airport extreme (which I bought because it looked pretty and I wanted wireless N) My mac, my windows machine, and my linux box all just worked.
TV tuner? Never had a need for that, after all I have ATT and they give me the ability to record and pause live TV. Why would I want to watch TV on a measly little 24 inch monitor?
Like it or not, hardware companies are coming around. And at the same speed, linux hackers are covering the ground for those who don't want to come around.
I'm not a linux user anymore, i've fallen for mac, but my last linux machine is still in use. I don't care if things work on it. I care about my mac. By and large I find more things work on my linux computer then my mac. Apple doesn't want GPLed drivers, or open sourced applications. Interesting.
Why does a windows driver written on 2003 still work in windows xp? Because windows XP has not fundamentally changed in that time. Now will that 2003 driver work in windows 7?
If you are still using Ubuntu 6.10 I bet those old drivers will still work. Some distro's even keep security patches up for 5+ years. If you want the latest and greatest, even in windows, stuff breaks.
Yea XCode supports SVN and CVS. We use SVN, so I like the built in integration. However I like your method as well. Our team only has 4 developers and we have talked about moving to git for some time now. I could live without built in support if it improved my workflow.
It's not so much that it has features that vim does not have (with or without other shell tools). Ti's that everything I wanted is basically there out of the box.
I didn't have to configure my code completion or color scheme, I didn't have to mess around getting debugging and output to work the way I wanted. I just open it up and write code. When I want to build an interface I find the interface builder dead simple to use and it's drag and drop messaging interface fool proof.
Other things that are nice are the total integration with the OS. The command + something buttons do what they should and sadly the more I use OSX the more my hands start to naturally want to use the command + something shortcuts. So instead of k I find myself pressing command-x. Other buttons like command shortcuts to pop up symbols, macros, etc. The type ahead really fills out a lot of code for you quickly. Type @imp and get a very nice implementation skeleton. Or whi and get a very complete while loop example. It knows about your variables, functions, and methods (messages, etc). So it auto completes them as well. I'm also a big fan of the design of the interface. Everything is there and easily broken out or removed if you don't need it.
By large my favorite feature is the snapshot. No need to commit to my repository until I ready. If I want to try a major risky change I can just snapshot with a single click and roll back if it really gets screwed up. I also enjoy how the editor points out errors quickly and simply. It makes it easy to find my problems.
I also enjoy textmate and use it for a lot of my web work. It is very powerful and for a good while I even considered using it as a external editor for xcode. Now I use it for quick scripts where opening a full IDE is foolish, and as my everyday text editor.
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Cause dell would sell you hardware without setting up the drivers for you or making sure to select hardware that works with the OS they are selling you right?
When you buy a windows machine from dell do you have to install your wireless cards drivers? No dell does that for you.
Does apple provide security updates to java on 10.3 still?
Well, maybe a app I use has a security bug, and the developer decides to update it by requiring the new hardware. Then what?
A perfect example can be seen in OS X. If you use java and you don't have OS X 10.5 you are basically screwed because at some point the security updates for the apps you use are going to require a version of java you can never have. Probably sooner then later.
I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I like how nimble apple can be at the cost of making everyone buy a new computer every few years (of course like everyone else, I'm not a fan of paying for it). I will probably be getting a new iPhone anyway because my wife wants one.
I'm just stating that if the majority of apps on the app store don't work on phones over a year or two old then the iPhone is going to lose my support as a platform. Now they have not said anything to the effect of dropping support. But it's not up to them really, it's up to the app developers.
and replacing the camera with one that sounds like it might actually be useful.
32gig, a camera, better battery life, and being slightly faster are the things that make it attractive. I'm still not sure I'll bother upgrading mine though.
When I bought my iPhone I was told that apple does not cover damage, only manufacturing failures.
I would of gotten a G1, except T-Mobile doesn't have 3G network anywhere I go. The nearest one is Chicago. ATT has 3g EVERYWHERE I go.
Hmmmmm....G1 wont' work on att 3g networks.....what to pick....
The only problem I see is the apple mind set of abandoning older platforms. I would suspect that within a year the iPhone I have will no longer be supported by most apps on the app store. Hell it's getting harder and harder to find apps for OSX 10.4.
Or they use a proxy server and you need to setup Firefox to use that as well.
I tend to use jquery on all my sites. It tends to abstract enough that I'm not writing half as many IE hacks anymore. Style sheets are still an annoyance, but that is trivial to work around.
Our comapny has to support firefox, IE, and safari. I've found that if you can hit safari then everything else but IE falls into place (assuming properly written html).
I switched banks because of IE as a requirement. I moved to mac and was not going to run a virtual machine just to check my balance.
When I closed the account in person the representative was mind boggled that I would close an account over that. He said "Why don't you just use windows like everyone else?"
My new bank works fine in safari, firefox, and yes, even IE.
I suggest you find a new job. That is a time bomb. Any management who won't admit that in 5 years a important part of the business logic is not going to work. Microsoft is going to stop supplying security patches for IE6. It's a fact, at that point you are going to have to run a very insecure browser while you do what you are saying is too expensive to do. Only now you have even more risk then starting the project before it's an emergency.
What happens when new hardware simply will not run XP and you have no choice?
My company just went though this. Luckily they listened to me and were proactive. We had tons of PHP4 code, a lot of it incompatible with php5. I pointed out plans from several projects we use to drop PHP4 support and the fact PHP itself was getting ready to drop support.
So we got approval to start the project. It took us 2 years of modest work in addition to our normal projects. We also made sure all new projects were fine with PHP5. While we were at it, we rewrote everything to conform to a standard that worked in all major browsers at the time IE6, firefox, and safari.
We also came up with a unified plan for the future. Doing things like putting an end to little access databases and random mysql servers. Unifying that took even more work as we had to reverse engineer work from developers long gone.
Now we have a very flexible framework to work in that allows us to quickly change directions as trends change in our field. Boss wants a site to work on his blackberry, no problem. He suddenly switches to an iPhone, again no problem. He goes bonkers and moves to linux, guess what, no problem.
I REALLY wanted a G1, but I had a choice ATT w/ 3g service, or Tmobile with no 3g service.
So I went ATT and because the G1's 3g doesn't support ATT I had to buy an iPhone. I have been happy with it, but I think I would of been happier with the G1.
I can't help but imagine a week long training marathon on new employees on the proper way to pump gas.
Handguns are illegal for a child to carry anywhere. Cellphones are not. A very STUPID analogy.
Obviously children will abuse any tool given them. The trick is to...well...PARENT them and teach them not to.
I had a calculator in school that could store a cheat sheet on tests. A few other kids did as well. I could have cheated anytime I wanted to. My father taught me not to cheat. I also carried a knife all though school. I could of knifed anyone I wanted at any time. My father taught me not to kill people. I think he could of taught me not to text at school.
Is it really possible NOT to be exposed to 24/7 RF?
I simply don't understand how a school can get away with banning a cell phone. It should be my choice if I want my child (I don't have any yet) to have a device that allows me to contact them or them to contact me.
Inappropriate use should simply just be them telling me so I can discipline my child. More zero tolerance bullshit like the aspirin expulsions.
Isn't New Jersey the state where the people who live there are so stupid the state doesn't trust them to pump their own gas?
I kid, I kid!
When I was in elementary and middle school I had to walk to school because I was one of three kids in my area. The walk was a rather long one. When I got to high school which was only a half a mile away, they sent a bus.
My Junior year of high school all the little kids in the area became school age, instantly there was buses. That really pissed me off thinking of all the cold winters I had to walk in below zero temps.
Then I realized that I was finally old enough to tell those "when i was your age stories"!!!
That looks promising. Just sew it right into her backpack.
I really like the look of KDE, but I prefer ubuntu as my desktop. I just wish kubuntu would put the effort into KDE that ubuntu puts into making gnome such a success.
To me it feels like kubuntu is a red headed step child. So many things just feel tacked on and half assed. Other KDE distros feel a lot more put together, but unfortunately I love and know ubuntu.
And it's own set of annoyances and quirks. But you are right. I've fallen for OSX and converted my wife as well. I now have 3 macs, 1 windows machine, and a linux server.
Most end users don't need to buy USB wifi sticks. Case in point I recently got ATT home internet service. The tech came out and gave me 3 usb wireless devices. I plugged them into 3 different machines, a windows machine, a mac, and a ubuntu 8.04 linux machine. All 3 worked with zero, yes zero configuration. Just a simple little USB 2wire device.
I also got a printer free with the purchase of a cannon camera. It was usb only so I plugged it into my airport extreme (which I bought because it looked pretty and I wanted wireless N) My mac, my windows machine, and my linux box all just worked.
TV tuner? Never had a need for that, after all I have ATT and they give me the ability to record and pause live TV. Why would I want to watch TV on a measly little 24 inch monitor?
Like it or not, hardware companies are coming around. And at the same speed, linux hackers are covering the ground for those who don't want to come around.
I'm not a linux user anymore, i've fallen for mac, but my last linux machine is still in use. I don't care if things work on it. I care about my mac. By and large I find more things work on my linux computer then my mac. Apple doesn't want GPLed drivers, or open sourced applications. Interesting.
Why does a windows driver written on 2003 still work in windows xp? Because windows XP has not fundamentally changed in that time. Now will that 2003 driver work in windows 7?
If you are still using Ubuntu 6.10 I bet those old drivers will still work. Some distro's even keep security patches up for 5+ years. If you want the latest and greatest, even in windows, stuff breaks.
Yea XCode supports SVN and CVS. We use SVN, so I like the built in integration. However I like your method as well. Our team only has 4 developers and we have talked about moving to git for some time now. I could live without built in support if it improved my workflow.
It's not so much that it has features that vim does not have (with or without other shell tools). Ti's that everything I wanted is basically there out of the box.
I didn't have to configure my code completion or color scheme, I didn't have to mess around getting debugging and output to work the way I wanted. I just open it up and write code. When I want to build an interface I find the interface builder dead simple to use and it's drag and drop messaging interface fool proof.
Other things that are nice are the total integration with the OS. The command + something buttons do what they should and sadly the more I use OSX the more my hands start to naturally want to use the command + something shortcuts. So instead of k I find myself pressing command-x. Other buttons like command shortcuts to pop up symbols, macros, etc. The type ahead really fills out a lot of code for you quickly. Type @imp and get a very nice implementation skeleton. Or whi and get a very complete while loop example. It knows about your variables, functions, and methods (messages, etc). So it auto completes them as well. I'm also a big fan of the design of the interface. Everything is there and easily broken out or removed if you don't need it.
By large my favorite feature is the snapshot. No need to commit to my repository until I ready. If I want to try a major risky change I can just snapshot with a single click and roll back if it really gets screwed up. I also enjoy how the editor points out errors quickly and simply. It makes it easy to find my problems.
I also enjoy textmate and use it for a lot of my web work. It is very powerful and for a good while I even considered using it as a external editor for xcode. Now I use it for quick scripts where opening a full IDE is foolish, and as my everyday text editor.