"MS Actually let.NET and C# become ISO standards ".NET is not an ISO standard..NET is an umbrella term for a collection of Ms technologies. Only the CLR has been submitted to ECMA (not ISO).
Regardless Ms still owns patents on the numerous.NET technologies have both Ballmer and Gates have repeatedly said they intend to defend their intellectual property vigorously.
Be Aware that your company can be sued for USING patent infringing technology. That's the way the US patent system works. If you company has deep pockets Ms could come after you. If for no other reason then to make you stop using.NET on a non windows platform.
Not worse then MAC OS X server. The GUI on mac os x server is just lame.
The problem is that linux offers so much more then either windows or mac. Most linux distributions come with at least three database servers, five email servers and a thousand other programs you can install from the disk. The Gnome control panel does everything the mac os X control panel does and more.
I for one am tired of these old outdated complaints. Nobody has to compile anything unless they want to. With the exception of gentoo no linux distrubitution requires compiling anything.
A common control panel? Wake me up when windows has one. The control panel works for some things, for other things you need to right click on my computer and manage, still others you have to manually load a snap in, and finally you have to muck with the registry for others. With linux everything is in/etc. If the GUI can't take care of it then you can go in and do it yourself. It may not be perfect but it's better then windows.
As for KDE and GNOME I'll say go to F yourself. I hope to hell everybody disagrees with you because I sure as hell do. Linux is about freedom more then anything else. Who are you to shove a desktop down my throat?
In short yes. It's a mistake to treat documents as applications. Smart people and smart organizations know to save their documents in a non vendor specific format.
Just because you find yourself locked into a vendor that does not mean you should just give up and bend over.
If these guys have locked themselves into office by using macros that's too bad. But they don't have to throw up their hands get reamed by MS every two years.
Ask 10 Americans if the military should manipulate the weather to destroy crops, cause floods or draughts, or other kinds of mayhem in some faroffistan and 8 of them will say "KICK THEIR ASSES!".
There will never be hearings. Americans enjoy their military too much.
I just don't get this "software is hard to install" crap. I use xandros and let me describe the process for those who don't.
There is an icon on the desktop, it says "get software"
You click on it and there is a list of hundreds of pieces of software. Each software has a description along side it. SOme have pictures too. Most are free, some you have to pay for.
When you want something you just click on install and it does, the icon shows up in your menu when you are done.
This is far easier then anything else including mac and windows. All the software that is compatible with your system is in one place. It's right at your desktop. 99% of it is free. It installs with one click.
None of this hunt the web sites, download something, unzip it, install it, click a licence agreement. Just click and install no problems with dependencies or anything.
With dedicated hardware like the pvr-350 card from hauppauge the CPU issue goes away. What I would forsee would be an external device like the Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U but with decoding as well as encoding. Perhaps it could attach to the side of the unit forming something that is about the size of a vcr. It would connect to the mac via firewire in the back so the front would look sleek, or it could be built into a next generation mini mac.
I still don't know what they would do about the drive although many people seem to be just fine with a 40 gig tivo.
Anyway Jobs doesn't seem too interested in television. Music?, movies? yes! TV? not so much.
The ruby soap implementation does not support marshalling complex objects. Also in j2ee you get all that "for free" meaning when you write your bean it's trivial to publish it via soap. In ruby you'd have to do some work. Don't forget transactional isolation and built in queing too.
Sure if you wanted to you might be able to cobble something together that works half as good as j2ee but it's still a cobbled together framework.
It might be interesting to see if the ruby guys can put together something like that but they sure have not yet.
A fit body will make you more attractive and is better for your health. If you can afford plastic surgery it too will make you feel better about yourself, make you more attractive to the opposite sex (which will make you happier).
It has nothing to do with being ugly on the side. Once again many studies have shown good looking people do better and have an easier life.
In a j2ee based environment you have to type maybe 100 times more code then ruby on rails. So the java guys have a lot of tools like ant and IDE plug ins to xdoclet to generate that code for them. Still the number lines you have write are maybe 20 to 50 times as much. I won't even count the number of tokens due to java being strictly typed.
Still though you get more with j2ee. You get scalabitly, queques, fine grained transaction control, ability to publish your business logic as soap, corba or rmi objects, ability to divide up your code and run it on multiple containers etc.
If you need any of that ruby on rails (or any other project using python, ruby, perl etc) falls flat.
In ruby simple things are simple, complex things are not possible.
In java simple things and are overly complicated and hard but complex things are possible if you want to endure relentless pain of dealing with the j2ee architecture.
There won't be a single standard. Did you notice which names are NOT on the list? MS and Apple, the two largest companies pushing their own DRM technologies. Also note the absence of content providors such as RIAA.
Sad thing is that he is likely to be replaced by an even bigger asshole just like what happened to his father.
The Powell family has not had a good run in this administration. Both of them have lost whatever credibility and respect they might have had and are discarded after their usefulness has ended.
DOn't kid yourself. If like the vast majority of the people on this planet you plan on working for a company and hoping somebody gives you a raise or a promotion you MUST learn how to dress, hang around with the right people and kiss a lot of ass.
Popularity is extrememly important.
BTW looks are also very important. Study after study shows that good looking people do better then ugly people.
My advice to high schoolers, work out, get and keep a great body. Get plastic surgery if you need it. Learn to sidle up to the rich and powerful. Hang out where rich people hang out, learn their lingo, learn their likes and dislikes, learn their habit. Finally think of something that would be irresistable to them and start selling it.
During the recent recession the sales of luxury items went up. Last chrismas luxury items sold very well while retailers like walmart were disapointed.
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I stand corrected.
I'd still like to see somebody address the patent problem though.
And on the desktop, Linux has very little to offer.
It depends. For corporate use it's perfect. For your grandma almost there.
" C# is one of the best ECMA compliant languages today"
.net and the jvm.
I am glad you put that qualifier in there. It's definately not better then python or ruby IMHO.
Wait till parrot comes out. I predict it will destroy mono,
It will be faster and more cross platform then all those other VMS and it will pretty much instantly have the largest library on the planet.
"MS Actually let .NET and C# become ISO standards " .NET is not an ISO standard. .NET is an umbrella term for a collection of Ms technologies. Only the CLR has been submitted to ECMA (not ISO).
.NET technologies have both Ballmer and Gates have repeatedly said they intend to defend their intellectual property vigorously.
.NET on a non windows platform.
Regardless Ms still owns patents on the numerous
Be Aware that your company can be sued for USING patent infringing technology. That's the way the US patent system works. If you company has deep pockets Ms could come after you. If for no other reason then to make you stop using
90% of the .NET platform is not an open standard.
MS has lots of patents and they have said publicly that they intend to "defend their intellectual property".
Even if it's a standard Ms can sue you for patent infringement.
Not worse then MAC OS X server. The GUI on mac os x server is just lame.
The problem is that linux offers so much more then either windows or mac. Most linux distributions come with at least three database servers, five email servers and a thousand other programs you can install from the disk. The Gnome control panel does everything the mac os X control panel does and more.
Why are you using all those open source software on windows?
You should switch to linux for the same reason.
Installing a key for a VPN to their workplace.
God the same old crap time and time again.
/etc. If the GUI can't take care of it then you can go in and do it yourself. It may not be perfect but it's better then windows.
I for one am tired of these old outdated complaints. Nobody has to compile anything unless they want to. With the exception of gentoo no linux distrubitution requires compiling anything.
A common control panel? Wake me up when windows has one. The control panel works for some things, for other things you need to right click on my computer and manage, still others you have to manually load a snap in, and finally you have to muck with the registry for others. With linux everything is in
As for KDE and GNOME I'll say go to F yourself. I hope to hell everybody disagrees with you because I sure as hell do. Linux is about freedom more then anything else. Who are you to shove a desktop down my throat?
Perfectly said.
there is no use surrounding yourself with amoral people.
In short yes. It's a mistake to treat documents as applications. Smart people and smart organizations know to save their documents in a non vendor specific format.
Just because you find yourself locked into a vendor that does not mean you should just give up and bend over.
If these guys have locked themselves into office by using macros that's too bad. But they don't have to throw up their hands get reamed by MS every two years.
That's so cool. The idea that open source software will hurt the profitability of Microsofts monopoly products is the beauty of market forces at work.
Unfortunately for MS this relentless downward pressure on their profitibility is not going to end and indeed will increase with time.
Their stock price is already pretty much stagnant so I see no good reason for anybody to invest in MS stock if they are interested in growth.
All around bad news for MS which means good news for everybody else.
Ask 10 Americans if the military should manipulate the weather to destroy crops, cause floods or draughts, or other kinds of mayhem in some faroffistan and 8 of them will say "KICK THEIR ASSES!".
There will never be hearings. Americans enjoy their military too much.
I just don't get this "software is hard to install" crap. I use xandros and let me describe the process for those who don't.
There is an icon on the desktop, it says "get software"
You click on it and there is a list of hundreds of pieces of software. Each software has a description along side it. SOme have pictures too. Most are free, some you have to pay for.
When you want something you just click on install and it does, the icon shows up in your menu when you are done.
This is far easier then anything else including mac and windows. All the software that is compatible with your system is in one place. It's right at your desktop. 99% of it is free. It installs with one click.
None of this hunt the web sites, download something, unzip it, install it, click a licence agreement. Just click and install no problems with dependencies or anything.
How much easier could it possibly be?
With dedicated hardware like the pvr-350 card from hauppauge the CPU issue goes away. What I would forsee would be an external device like the Plextor ConvertX PVR PX-TV402U but with decoding as well as encoding. Perhaps it could attach to the side of the unit forming something that is about the size of a vcr. It would connect to the mac via firewire in the back so the front would look sleek, or it could be built into a next generation mini mac.
I still don't know what they would do about the drive although many people seem to be just fine with a 40 gig tivo.
Anyway Jobs doesn't seem too interested in television. Music?, movies? yes! TV? not so much.
The ruby soap implementation does not support marshalling complex objects. Also in j2ee you get all that "for free" meaning when you write your bean it's trivial to publish it via soap. In ruby you'd have to do some work. Don't forget transactional isolation and built in queing too.
Sure if you wanted to you might be able to cobble something together that works half as good as j2ee but it's still a cobbled together framework.
It might be interesting to see if the ruby guys can put together something like that but they sure have not yet.
At the high school level (our supposed target audience) rich people do not manage money. They get money from daddy and spend it.
A fit body will make you more attractive and is better for your health. If you can afford plastic surgery it too will make you feel better about yourself, make you more attractive to the opposite sex (which will make you happier).
It has nothing to do with being ugly on the side. Once again many studies have shown good looking people do better and have an easier life.
I don't doubt it. The problem might be that in order to do all that your framework might have to be complex.
In a j2ee based environment you have to type maybe 100 times more code then ruby on rails. So the java guys have a lot of tools like ant and IDE plug ins to xdoclet to generate that code for them. Still the number lines you have write are maybe 20 to 50 times as much. I won't even count the number of tokens due to java being strictly typed.
Still though you get more with j2ee. You get scalabitly, queques, fine grained transaction control, ability to publish your business logic as soap, corba or rmi objects, ability to divide up your code and run it on multiple containers etc.
If you need any of that ruby on rails (or any other project using python, ruby, perl etc) falls flat.
In ruby simple things are simple, complex things are not possible.
In java simple things and are overly complicated and hard but complex things are possible if you want to endure relentless pain of dealing with the j2ee architecture.
There won't be a single standard. Did you notice which names are NOT on the list? MS and Apple, the two largest companies pushing their own DRM technologies. Also note the absence of content providors such as RIAA.
I have a better idea. Let's see if he has done more harm then good and then decide.
.......
Let me think
Yup he has done more harm then good. Feel free to bash him all you want.
Sad thing is that he is likely to be replaced by an even bigger asshole just like what happened to his father.
The Powell family has not had a good run in this administration. Both of them have lost whatever credibility and respect they might have had and are discarded after their usefulness has ended.
DOn't kid yourself. If like the vast majority of the people on this planet you plan on working for a company and hoping somebody gives you a raise or a promotion you MUST learn how to dress, hang around with the right people and kiss a lot of ass.
Popularity is extrememly important.
BTW looks are also very important. Study after study shows that good looking people do better then ugly people.
My advice to high schoolers, work out, get and keep a great body. Get plastic surgery if you need it. Learn to sidle up to the rich and powerful. Hang out where rich people hang out, learn their lingo, learn their likes and dislikes, learn their habit. Finally think of something that would be irresistable to them and start selling it.
During the recent recession the sales of luxury items went up. Last chrismas luxury items sold very well while retailers like walmart were disapointed.
Maybe it's cynical but it's true.