New Powerbooks just came out, but it's been a month or two. Remember the new PB15?
the other book met my needs much better
on
Eclipse in Action
·
· Score: 5, Informative
Heavyweight chapter on plug-in development? The Java Developer's Guild to Eclipse (Sherry Shavor, Jim D'Anjou, Dan Kehn, Scott Fairbrother, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy) has a far better section (over half the book) on plug-in development. From what I can tell, the tutorial section of the book is well-done, though I haven't spent much time with it.
If you've ever used Eclipse, I'd recommend the other book. If you're completely new to Eclipse, check out the included tutorials. They're surprisingly well-done.
Re:George Carlin quote
on
Isn't It Ironic?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Yes, I'm a fan of Carlin, but he's a bit off here. The diabetic is on his way to buy insulin, or engaged in an activity that is a direct effort to prolong his life. Coincidentally, he is killed while pursing in that life-saving activity. It's not the best example of irony, but it is ironic, according to Merriam-Webster definition 3a-1.
Not necessarily true. The very first time you run Eclipse, a number of operations will be performed (essentially, creating the workspace, etc.) that won't be performed again. Subsequent launches will be a good deal faster... not just launches while the app is cached in RAM.
Eclipse isn't the fastest IDE in the world, but later versions (with later JVMs) are making significant progress. I find Eclipse startup/shutdown to be comparable to VS.NET on a nicely equipped machine.
As you say... "Linux yes, open source not so much"... Linux IS open source, and even more so, it's free software. Huh?
Open standards and open source are not necessarily the same thing. However, they are obviously different portions of a greater picture... and to favor one (open source, with Linux and Red Hat) while attacking another (open standards, Sun with Java?) in the same conversation seems strange. Was this quote taken out of a greater context that would explain Ellison's apparent proposal that open standards and software industry success don't mix?
Surely I'm missing something here. I mean, Larry Ellison make an illogical comment about something? Surely no...
There have been severe issues with the AIM transport(s) for Jabber over the past year. While your connectivity may not be suffering at the moment, the protocol changes have frequently horked transport function in the past, and there is always the issue of Jabber servers getting specifically denied access to AOL at an IP level.
Not that AOL is doing anything wrong by denying access to their service, of course... as inconvenient as it may be.
As other replies to this hinted at... VMWare doesn't emulate the processor, only certain other parts of machine hardware. It's a real virtual machine environment, and code runs directly on the system CPU...
Running VMWare on an XBox would be a different issue, since its processor is i386. PS2 would need full emulation, however... something akin to SoftPC for Macintosh.
And, even better yet... go throw $300 at a PS2 now, so you can throw another $100-150 for hardware when the network capability is available? After all, Sony is the most benevolent of companies, feeding the hungry and healing the sick. Downright charitable. Sheesh.
The console industry defined itself from its inception as an arena for hard-core capitalist corporations to milk maximum revenue from content providers and customers. Microsoft deserves a place in that wonderful market segment as much as any other.
If you want to exercise some philosophical consistency, remove Windows and Microsoft Office from every machine you own and/or use (no, you don't deserve to use stolen M$ software just because you disagree with their criminal business practices) and feel comfortable owning both a PS2 and an Xbox. If you want to gripe indirectly about the way a relatively free capitalist economy works, try making a difference for a change.
It's a physiological problem. As soon as the last few developers read to the resource fork portion of the spec, they vomited to the point of dehydration.
RPM does nothing to keep a system administrator from customizing their own packages, assuming they sit down for five minutes and learn how to modify a specfile. All it does is allow you another level of control over the files (and their dependencies... and integrity) on a system.
Uses separate RPM repository, no NLS
on
OpenPKG 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
I notice that an openpkg-installed package populates their own RPM database, rather than using one that may already be on the system. While this may be due to the fact that they need to store additional information that a default RPM4 database doesn't allow for, it would seem to be a horrible inconvenience to maintain two separate RPM databases... even if one allowed you more cross-platform control.
Also, I thought it interesting that they favor English as the only language used on Unix machines, and chose not to include NLS support in OpenPKG. And they're not even Americans!
Read what you want in whatever context you want. You will probably always find OSS developers to be "elitist" if you take comments like mine out of context.
Eclipse has only been a project since November 2001. That's going on three months.
The Evolution newsreader is meant to be a mail reader application for the masses. Early in its development, average users were encouraged to NOT use the application. If a product is not ready for production, users that aren't qualify to pore over its code internals should NOT be using it. Granted, Eclipse has undergone development for more than 2.x months... but, it is likely in a state that needs only "elitist" developers (people involved in FIXING it) using it. At some point of stability, OSS projects make stable releases. Those are screenshot material. You are far too quick to judge this project, based on its age. If you still have to compile the project just to view the IDE after production, stable, releases are made, then you can rush to judge the developers.
Do you call commercial project developers elitist when they don't advertise for you to try their alpha software?
Remember, few people get smart by going to college. The poster should get some idea of what he is lacking and pick a particular program based on conversations with the faculty and a few students. The title of the department often has very little to do with what is really learned (vs. taught) there.
At most schools, CS is the software-based academic program based in engineering and/or math. Most of the time it's a part of an engineering department, and if it's not, it's most certainly part of the math. department. If you want to portray a technical edge simply from a diploma, CS is usually better than MIS. However, when you consider the image that portrays, you would probably be better off with a dual degree in math. and CS or MIS. Any interviewer worth a crap will realize that programs vary enormously, and the addition of a more traditional degree such as math. may be more beneficial in showing strengths.
The original poster will probably be disappointed to discover that his original industry experience (granted that it is really quality work, rather than a slathering of industry buzzwords sprinkled over a number of short-termed consulting gigs) is infinitely more valuable for his resume than any university degree. If you are already qualified to participate in a real technical interview, you will benefit little technically from most university programs (unless you want to pursue academia as your profession, of course.). Going to school to improve one's resume is rarely a wise decision.
What a good CS program really delivers is the ability to not worry about the real world, and to hack on problems (with intelligent encouragement) for their pure academic value. The whole capacity to learn cliche ends up being true... it's often only valuable as a financially-isolated proving ground for learning skills (well, that and getting past the possibility of a no-degree-at-all-no-interview situation).
Be careful with your enthusiasm about Eclipse's kitchen-sink capabilities. Look at successes and failures with the Mozilla project, for one. Similar expectations.
As a side note, you will find many developers with previous coding experience running full speed away from VAJ simply due to its repository system.
The Eclipse project has only been OSS since November 2001. At the project's current state, the developers are probably not very interested in the support efforts of (1) developers who can't compile their development tools, (2) Linux users who can't deal with RPM interdependencies, or (3) developers who primarily pick their development tools based on website screenshots.
The people using this software should currently be the ones reading the source code... or at least ones capable of doing it. That's the way these projects reach a user-friendly state, rather than sinking into the negative murmurings of a thousand well-meaning users who aren't qualified to touch alpha code.
Of course, previous versions of the Linux-based UI were based off of Motif... would >you post screenshots of a Motif-based app?;)
Slashdot Mirror
They did. Not as much as you'd like, but the PB17 now starts at $2799 instead of $2999.
New Powerbooks just came out, but it's been a month or two. Remember the new PB15?
Heavyweight chapter on plug-in development? The Java Developer's Guild to Eclipse (Sherry Shavor, Jim D'Anjou, Dan Kehn, Scott Fairbrother, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy) has a far better section (over half the book) on plug-in development. From what I can tell, the tutorial section of the book is well-done, though I haven't spent much time with it.
If you've ever used Eclipse, I'd recommend the other book. If you're completely new to Eclipse, check out the included tutorials. They're surprisingly well-done.
Yes, I'm a fan of Carlin, but he's a bit off here. The diabetic is on his way to buy insulin, or engaged in an activity that is a direct effort to prolong his life. Coincidentally, he is killed while pursing in that life-saving activity. It's not the best example of irony, but it is ironic, according to Merriam-Webster definition 3a-1.
Not necessarily true. The very first time you run Eclipse, a number of operations will be performed (essentially, creating the workspace, etc.) that won't be performed again. Subsequent launches will be a good deal faster... not just launches while the app is cached in RAM.
Eclipse isn't the fastest IDE in the world, but later versions (with later JVMs) are making significant progress. I find Eclipse startup/shutdown to be comparable to VS.NET on a nicely equipped machine.
What did Ellison mean by that quote?
As you say... "Linux yes, open source not so much"... Linux IS open source, and even more so, it's free software. Huh?
Open standards and open source are not necessarily the same thing. However, they are obviously different portions of a greater picture... and to favor one (open source, with Linux and Red Hat) while attacking another (open standards, Sun with Java?) in the same conversation seems strange. Was this quote taken out of a greater context that would explain Ellison's apparent proposal that open standards and software industry success don't mix?
Surely I'm missing something here. I mean, Larry Ellison make an illogical comment about something? Surely no...
There have been severe issues with the AIM transport(s) for Jabber over the past year. While your connectivity may not be suffering at the moment, the protocol changes have frequently horked transport function in the past, and there is always the issue of Jabber servers getting specifically denied access to AOL at an IP level.
Not that AOL is doing anything wrong by denying access to their service, of course... as inconvenient as it may be.
As other replies to this hinted at... VMWare doesn't emulate the processor, only certain other parts of machine hardware. It's a real virtual machine environment, and code runs directly on the system CPU...
Running VMWare on an XBox would be a different issue, since its processor is i386. PS2 would need full emulation, however... something akin to SoftPC for Macintosh.
And, even better yet... go throw $300 at a PS2 now, so you can throw another $100-150 for hardware when the network capability is available? After all, Sony is the most benevolent of companies, feeding the hungry and healing the sick. Downright charitable. Sheesh.
The console industry defined itself from its inception as an arena for hard-core capitalist corporations to milk maximum revenue from content providers and customers. Microsoft deserves a place in that wonderful market segment as much as any other.
If you want to exercise some philosophical consistency, remove Windows and Microsoft Office from every machine you own and/or use (no, you don't deserve to use stolen M$ software just because you disagree with their criminal business practices) and feel comfortable owning both a PS2 and an Xbox. If you want to gripe indirectly about the way a relatively free capitalist economy works, try making a difference for a change.
It's a physiological problem. As soon as the last few developers read to the resource fork portion of the spec, they vomited to the point of dehydration.
Many French speak English. When was the last time you heard a Frenchman say he preferred English?
In case you haven't heard of it, there is a joke stereotype of Americans being linguistically inflexible.
I appreciate your stats. Before your remark, I was completely convinced that the majority of English-speakers were Austrialian. Or was it Austrian?
Oh, and in case you weren't aware, Americans don't speak English. We speak American.
Or, even more amazingly...
$ rpm -ta yourSourceThatAmazinglyHasASpec.tar.gz
RPM does nothing to keep a system administrator from customizing their own packages, assuming they sit down for five minutes and learn how to modify a specfile. All it does is allow you another level of control over the files (and their dependencies... and integrity) on a system.
I notice that an openpkg-installed package populates their own RPM database, rather than using one that may already be on the system. While this may be due to the fact that they need to store additional information that a default RPM4 database doesn't allow for, it would seem to be a horrible inconvenience to maintain two separate RPM databases... even if one allowed you more cross-platform control.
Also, I thought it interesting that they favor English as the only language used on Unix machines, and chose not to include NLS support in OpenPKG. And they're not even Americans!
Read what you want in whatever context you want. You will probably always find OSS developers to be "elitist" if you take comments like mine out of context.
Eclipse has only been a project since November 2001. That's going on three months.
The Evolution newsreader is meant to be a mail reader application for the masses. Early in its development, average users were encouraged to NOT use the application. If a product is not ready for production, users that aren't qualify to pore over its code internals should NOT be using it. Granted, Eclipse has undergone development for more than 2.x months... but, it is likely in a state that needs only "elitist" developers (people involved in FIXING it) using it. At some point of stability, OSS projects make stable releases. Those are screenshot material. You are far too quick to judge this project, based on its age. If you still have to compile the project just to view the IDE after production, stable, releases are made, then you can rush to judge the developers.
Do you call commercial project developers elitist when they don't advertise for you to try their alpha software?
Remember, few people get smart by going to college. The poster should get some idea of what he is lacking and pick a particular program based on conversations with the faculty and a few students. The title of the department often has very little to do with what is really learned (vs. taught) there.
At most schools, CS is the software-based academic program based in engineering and/or math. Most of the time it's a part of an engineering department, and if it's not, it's most certainly part of the math. department. If you want to portray a technical edge simply from a diploma, CS is usually better than MIS. However, when you consider the image that portrays, you would probably be better off with a dual degree in math. and CS or MIS. Any interviewer worth a crap will realize that programs vary enormously, and the addition of a more traditional degree such as math. may be more beneficial in showing strengths.
The original poster will probably be disappointed to discover that his original industry experience (granted that it is really quality work, rather than a slathering of industry buzzwords sprinkled over a number of short-termed consulting gigs) is infinitely more valuable for his resume than any university degree. If you are already qualified to participate in a real technical interview, you will benefit little technically from most university programs (unless you want to pursue academia as your profession, of course.). Going to school to improve one's resume is rarely a wise decision.
What a good CS program really delivers is the ability to not worry about the real world, and to hack on problems (with intelligent encouragement) for their pure academic value. The whole capacity to learn cliche ends up being true... it's often only valuable as a financially-isolated proving ground for learning skills (well, that and getting past the possibility of a no-degree-at-all-no-interview situation).
Be careful with your enthusiasm about Eclipse's kitchen-sink capabilities. Look at successes and failures with the Mozilla project, for one. Similar expectations.
As a side note, you will find many developers with previous coding experience running full speed away from VAJ simply due to its repository system.
The Eclipse project has only been OSS since November 2001. At the project's current state, the developers are probably not very interested in the support efforts of (1) developers who can't compile their development tools, (2) Linux users who can't deal with RPM interdependencies, or (3) developers who primarily pick their development tools based on website screenshots.
;)
The people using this software should currently be the ones reading the source code... or at least ones capable of doing it. That's the way these projects reach a user-friendly state, rather than sinking into the negative murmurings of a thousand well-meaning users who aren't qualified to touch alpha code.
Of course, previous versions of the Linux-based UI were based off of Motif... would >you post screenshots of a Motif-based app?