People have been saying that "any day now, the general public will be making software" for decades.
So far, we're not much closer to that goal than 20 years ago. Hell, even VB 6 is way beyond what the average person can deal with.
VB.Net became even less noob-friendly, as they added more features... So there's not a lot of hope there.
it's not that simple
not just anyone can start a business. especially in mature industries, large corporations maintain such high barriers to entry that is is impossible for new players to compete.
in mature industries, large players then proceed to set their product's price at whatever the market will stand and whatever gets them the most profit, and then compete for 'market share'. they do not compete by lowering their prices (i.e. by giving society more benefit. nooo, that would lower profits), they do it by spending more on advertising.
businesses do not exist to benefit society. they exist to make a profit.
The fact that PHP is so high quality, open and free, gives it some leeway that Microsoft's ASP.NET implementation doesn't deserve
technically, ASP.Net is free too.
so perhaps holding asp.net to a higher standard than PHP is unjustified, IMO.
the windows / linux debate is another story.
Slashdot Mirror
i really like the look of the EmailXT system. can anyone see why it wouldn't work?
People have been saying that "any day now, the general public will be making software" for decades. So far, we're not much closer to that goal than 20 years ago. Hell, even VB 6 is way beyond what the average person can deal with. VB.Net became even less noob-friendly, as they added more features... So there's not a lot of hope there.
it's not that simple not just anyone can start a business. especially in mature industries, large corporations maintain such high barriers to entry that is is impossible for new players to compete. in mature industries, large players then proceed to set their product's price at whatever the market will stand and whatever gets them the most profit, and then compete for 'market share'. they do not compete by lowering their prices (i.e. by giving society more benefit. nooo, that would lower profits), they do it by spending more on advertising. businesses do not exist to benefit society. they exist to make a profit.
Couldn't you just get a large mirror and bounce the ray right back at the user?
i just tried the stanford search...
:)
i then clicked on the link to stanford university
i didn't notice any speed increase... the images still had to download as normal.
this makes me think that if there is any prefetching going on, it's just the HTML not the images too
so that rules out the inadvertant porn fear. you won't be littering your hard disk with child-porn-1.jpg files
The fact that PHP is so high quality, open and free, gives it some leeway that Microsoft's ASP.NET implementation doesn't deserve technically, ASP.Net is free too. so perhaps holding asp.net to a higher standard than PHP is unjustified, IMO. the windows / linux debate is another story.
just because a package is installed, doesn't mean that it's used. for e.g. i have vi, but i don't use it.