It all comes down to "The Invisible Hand" that Adam Smith illustrates in his work "The Wealth of Nations."
In a nutshell...
The better, more effective, and often cheaper, product/maker is risen up by invisible hand, while the not as good, less effective, and often more expensive, product/maker is lowered and eventually crushed by the hand.
It all comes down to who can provide the best for the cheapest price... and short of paying people to use a product, its difficult to beat FREE.
Mind you, this doesn't mean that the big boys can't beat open source. As much as I hate to admit it, Open Source Software CAN be more difficult and often less appealing to new user; THIS is its greatest downfall. If businesses want to make money, all they have to do is keep coming up with more innovative and easier to use products, and get it through their thick skulls that they CAN'T win every battle.
has anyone else read A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift?
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
(no this is not off-topic, go enlighten yourself if you haven't already)
Considering the "College Board" http://www.collegeboard.com/ has made Java the new language for the AP Computer Science test, replacing C++, I'd say Java isn't going anywhere...
Personally, I think this was a bad move on the College Board's part, but I also love my C++...
Re:basic... very basic.
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I bought a similar system, for my daughter, a few months ago:
Intel celeron 2ghz 512mb ram 50gb hdd 4 usb "useable" onboard sound and video 56k modem ethernet card Red Hat 10 installed Keyboard/mouse
total cost: $150 at Fry's
granted this didn't include a printer or monitor... however, you can buy a 17" monitor for around $100, winxp home for around $100 (ish) and a ok printer for $50-100
so total cost... 150+100+100+50 = $400
and... I get to pick my ISP, or put it on my network and share my connection.
Yeah, I've been dealing with cross browser compliancy for the past month and have spent an equal amount of time slamming my head against my monitor for firefox and IE. Granted, Firefox was a lot more compliant than IE, there were still several things that bugged the ever-living crap out of me, namely funky rendering of padding on div's that have a width of 100%. To add another degree of fun, I then decided to test my site in opera... and safari... and IE for the Mac... and KDE...
Everything renders fine now... but my code is so fubar that I'm glad I'm using a template engine to output data:(
I sure do wish people would stick to at least some standard...:( even if its crappy rendering all around the house
Regarding the "Genie" effect:
While yea, osx does use some very spiffy 3d rendering for genie and a couple other features, that rendering is only done when the min/max commands are invoked. The system isn't constantly building a 3d desktop.
of course all of this is gunna change coming soon. MS is already doing it with longhorn, and i'm sure everyone else will follow suite.
what i don't get is what exactly are REAL advantages of a 3d desktop over a 2d one?
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My bad, http://gospel.booleangate.org/mojo/site2/index.htm l
Click the little "maximize" button next to "SoCal Mountains" It should expand the div
http://gospel.booleangate.org/mojo/site2/index.htm l
works in IE, Mozilla/FF, Opera...
What the... I know this is WAY off topic, but I logged in when I posted that, why does it have me as an AC?
I agree...
It all comes down to "The Invisible Hand" that Adam Smith illustrates in his work "The Wealth of Nations."
In a nutshell...
The better, more effective, and often cheaper, product/maker is risen up by invisible hand, while the not as good, less effective, and often more expensive, product/maker is lowered and eventually crushed by the hand.
It all comes down to who can provide the best for the cheapest price... and short of paying people to use a product, its difficult to beat FREE.
Mind you, this doesn't mean that the big boys can't beat open source. As much as I hate to admit it, Open Source Software CAN be more difficult and often less appealing to new user; THIS is its greatest downfall. If businesses want to make money, all they have to do is keep coming up with more innovative and easier to use products, and get it through their thick skulls that they CAN'T win every battle.
That's ok, I have the RSS extension for thunderbird checking every minute...
has anyone else read A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift? http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html (no this is not off-topic, go enlighten yourself if you haven't already)
Unlikely...
i st.php ?Cat=&Board=UBB10
The developers at 3drealms have more than once said that they wil NOT be using the doom3 engine.
They swear up and down that they're "closer" to finishing the new engine.
check out the forums for more info
http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/postl
Considering the "College Board" http://www.collegeboard.com/
has made Java the new language for the AP Computer Science test, replacing C++, I'd say Java isn't going anywhere...
Personally, I think this was a bad move on the College Board's part, but I also love my C++...
I bought a similar system, for my daughter, a few months ago:
Intel celeron 2ghz
512mb ram
50gb hdd
4 usb
"useable" onboard sound and video
56k modem
ethernet card
Red Hat 10 installed
Keyboard/mouse
total cost: $150 at Fry's
granted this didn't include a printer or monitor... however, you can buy a 17" monitor for around $100, winxp home for around $100 (ish) and a ok printer for $50-100
so total cost...
150+100+100+50 = $400
and... I get to pick my ISP, or put it on my network and share my connection.
Yeah, I've been dealing with cross browser compliancy for the past month and have spent an equal amount of time slamming my head against my monitor for firefox and IE. Granted, Firefox was a lot more compliant than IE, there were still several things that bugged the ever-living crap out of me, namely funky rendering of padding on div's that have a width of 100%.
:(
:( even if its crappy rendering all around the house
To add another degree of fun, I then decided to test my site in opera... and safari... and IE for the Mac... and KDE...
Everything renders fine now... but my code is so fubar that I'm glad I'm using a template engine to output data
I sure do wish people would stick to at least some standard...
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail78.html ...but this week I will now instruct you on how to make a wet computer out of Strong Bad's computer:
-first you will need a two liter bottle of mountain dew
-then get strong bad's computer
-apply liberally...
Regarding the "Genie" effect: While yea, osx does use some very spiffy 3d rendering for genie and a couple other features, that rendering is only done when the min/max commands are invoked. The system isn't constantly building a 3d desktop. of course all of this is gunna change coming soon. MS is already doing it with longhorn, and i'm sure everyone else will follow suite. what i don't get is what exactly are REAL advantages of a 3d desktop over a 2d one?