... until companies who need mission critical systems have someone they can phone when something goes wrong, and some form of developer accreditation. Don't kid yourself. J2EE isn't picked because of the language, it's because it's got Sun and IBM (through Websphere) behind it.
Illustrators and designers like their shiny macs and have (generally) spent years learning the Adobe suite. Why do you think nobody gives 3 tosses about Corel?
Okay, so 10/10 for style, minus several million for yet another "OMG OPENSOURCE WILL SAVE TEH WORLD SQUEE" post.
And, before anyone says "But, GIMP!" - I work with ACTUAL designers. They all think it's an ugly piece of shit.
Oh, and before anyone asks: "Where do we get the video from?", think about it:
iMovie now supports HD video, as does iDVD, and QuickTime 7.
I know that I would rather edit, export a HD movie, dump it on my iPod and bring it over to a friend's place to preview than waste time burning DVDs of rough cuts.
This shit is cool. And it fits in well with the way Apple seem to be going with iLife.
The iPod Photo plugs into the video-in jack on your TV and displays the images on there.
The iPod also has stereo audio out. Duh. iTunes has started selling video content. But why?
Put the pieces together.
It may not be for a while, but I would bet money that we'll see iPods that are capable of playing QT7 HD/MPEG4 video through a standard RCA AV cable when plugged into a Televison.
Debian wants to exert an interesting amount of control over what they package. That's fine. In my opinion, it's a bit control-freaky, but that's their thing, and they're welcome to it. They're allowed.
Mozilla gives away products. It also gives away the source for those products. It doesn't mind people making alterations to it's products. It just wants you to not call it the same thing.
That's not such a bad thing.
I wouldn't want to install Debian, only to find out that the version of "Firefox" is installed isn't the same as the version I could get from Mozilla.
Where's the problem here, honestly? Call it "Mozilla Firefox - Debian Community Edition" or "Debian Web Browser - Based on Mozilla Technology"
Or just distribute the original thing in it's original form.
Greedo shot first. Didn't we learn our lesson about messing with previous releases?
Where in any of these articles does money come into it? This is about one organisation wanting to protect it's trademarks (which is fair enough), and another organisation debating whether or not that fits in with their social policy.
They still have a future, albeit it's winding down. There's still enough designers and print houses out there using Quark in their workflow that they'll be around for a bit more, but I can't see them growing any more.
Their biggest problem was not getting Quark to OS X fast enough. Quark used to be one of the killer apps for the Mac platform - Adobe got Photoshop there, but Quark took far too long, and Adobe got them with PageMaker/InDesign.
Yeah - I don't think it should, as to me, == is a logical operation.
=== is worse, as it makes no sense.
Using strcmp() is better, but it's somewhat unintuitive.
I guess it's a case of programmers needing to learn how to program.
My main point was that it's unfair to pick on PHP because of something which - when done properly - isn't a problem. (Not comparing 'int' and 'string' for starters...)
There's shit code being written everywhere in every language by people of all sorts of proficiencies.
Well, first of all, I'd ask you to put the crackpipe down. Then I'd belittle your argument by using caustic metaphors, like the following:
You: "PHP! IS A BANANA THE SAME THING AS BOLIVIA?" PHP: "Um... what? Dude, I'm not a typed language. Don't harass me with that shit. That's Java's thing."
PHP has no "Whatchoo talkin' bout willis?" function. If you give it garbage questions, don't expect the answers to make any sense.
It's not that bad. I lasted 5 months on Newstart applying for jobs I had no qualifications for in order to make my quota. They didn't blink.
A guy I knew who had been on it for three years was placed in a voluntary position developing websites for a community organisation. He'd never done HTML in his life, but he was interested in computers.
Another friend who had dropped out of Uni also receieved funds to pay for textbooks and non-HECS fees to go back and finish her degree.
Centerlink does actually work, if you're willing to work too.
If they get qualified / talented people, they will try to find them jobs in their industry. It's only after being terminally unemployed and not doing anything about it that they start turning into job facists.
This is Australia we're talking about. I can only think of ONE shrink-wrapped product that's developed here that has made any impact. (MYOB)
Whereas I know for a fact that the developer of Webmin is an Aussie, as well as one of the key contributors to OpenSSL. Plus, a few others I've heard about.
Microsoft Australia is nothing but a marketing and publishing arm... no actual development is done here, AFAIK.
Plus, what with the Govt publishing guidelines on using OSS, I can't see it being a bad thing.
Some overzealous modder needs a sense of humour...
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I was trying to point something out. The odds of google releasing their tools as open-source is remote. This makes the possibility of most Linux users installing it even remoter.
Draw a circle. This is all the people using a F/OSS desktop environment.
Now, draw another circle inside that one, almost exactly the same size, but not quite. These are the F/OSS zealots who won't install anything unless it's GNU licenced.
The area between the boundaries of those two circles are the only people who would install it. And I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure the other guy in that part of the chart understands that.
The way to beat them is not to beg for them to open up their standard, but to create a better open standard backed by the community
YEAH! What a great idea!
While we're at it, let's solve world peace! All we need to do is get all the world leaders to sit down and back an idea on how things could be made better...
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In Australia, 'thongs' are a form of footwear. You call them flip-flops.
"We leave our doors open, but how can we stop people from stealing things?"
I'd re-consider allowing such open access to root.
... until companies who need mission critical systems have someone they can phone when something goes wrong, and some form of developer accreditation. Don't kid yourself. J2EE isn't picked because of the language, it's because it's got Sun and IBM (through Websphere) behind it.
Illustrators and designers like their shiny macs and have (generally) spent years learning the Adobe suite. Why do you think nobody gives 3 tosses about Corel?
Okay, so 10/10 for style, minus several million for yet another "OMG OPENSOURCE WILL SAVE TEH WORLD SQUEE" post.
And, before anyone says "But, GIMP!" - I work with ACTUAL designers. They all think it's an ugly piece of shit.
ICT = Information and Communication Technology.
Basically, ITv2 in market-speak.
I'm getting a real "Luke Skywalker" thing from you, my young padawan.
Luke: "I'm not afraid!"
Yoda: "You will be."
keep up that enthusiasm man, you sound a hell of a lot like I did when I was your age. but, it gets to you.
ah, to be young again.
Oh, and before anyone asks: "Where do we get the video from?", think about it:
iMovie now supports HD video, as does iDVD, and QuickTime 7.
I know that I would rather edit, export a HD movie, dump it on my iPod and bring it over to a friend's place to preview than waste time burning DVDs of rough cuts.
This shit is cool. And it fits in well with the way Apple seem to be going with iLife.
Think outside the little box.
The iPod Photo plugs into the video-in jack on your TV and displays the images on there.
The iPod also has stereo audio out. Duh.
iTunes has started selling video content. But why?
Put the pieces together.
It may not be for a while, but I would bet money that we'll see iPods that are capable of playing QT7 HD/MPEG4 video through a standard RCA AV cable when plugged into a Televison.
Go to Help -> About Firefox...
"Some trademark rights used under licence from The Charlton Company."
Debian wants to exert an interesting amount of control over what they package. That's fine. In my opinion, it's a bit control-freaky, but that's their thing, and they're welcome to it. They're allowed.
Mozilla gives away products. It also gives away the source for those products. It doesn't mind people making alterations to it's products. It just wants you to not call it the same thing.
That's not such a bad thing.
I wouldn't want to install Debian, only to find out that the version of "Firefox" is installed isn't the same as the version I could get from Mozilla.
Where's the problem here, honestly? Call it "Mozilla Firefox - Debian Community Edition" or "Debian Web Browser - Based on Mozilla Technology"
Or just distribute the original thing in it's original form.
Greedo shot first. Didn't we learn our lesson about messing with previous releases?
Where in any of these articles does money come into it? This is about one organisation wanting to protect it's trademarks (which is fair enough), and another organisation debating whether or not that fits in with their social policy.
It's got precicely SFA to do with money.
They still have a future, albeit it's winding down. There's still enough designers and print houses out there using Quark in their workflow that they'll be around for a bit more, but I can't see them growing any more.
Their biggest problem was not getting Quark to OS X fast enough. Quark used to be one of the killer apps for the Mac platform - Adobe got Photoshop there, but Quark took far too long, and Adobe got them with PageMaker/InDesign.
Yeah - I don't think it should, as to me, == is a logical operation.
=== is worse, as it makes no sense.
Using strcmp() is better, but it's somewhat unintuitive.
I guess it's a case of programmers needing to learn how to program.
My main point was that it's unfair to pick on PHP because of something which - when done properly - isn't a problem. (Not comparing 'int' and 'string' for starters...)
There's shit code being written everywhere in every language by people of all sorts of proficiencies.
Well, first of all, I'd ask you to put the crackpipe down. Then I'd belittle your argument by using caustic metaphors, like the following:
You: "PHP! IS A BANANA THE SAME THING AS BOLIVIA?"
PHP: "Um... what? Dude, I'm not a typed language. Don't harass me with that shit. That's Java's thing."
PHP has no "Whatchoo talkin' bout willis?" function. If you give it garbage questions, don't expect the answers to make any sense.
This is why you EMPTY the trash when you want to get rid of an application, dummy.
Well, yeah. They don't do any of the job-finding work themselves. But I'm abstracting to make a point.
There are parts of it that suck, but it's not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be.
Dude, Newstart pays sweet fuck all, and the hoops you have to jump through to keep getting it are a good incentive to get off it.
I'm making THREE TIMES as much as a Junior web grunt as I was when I was on the dole.
Get your facts together.
It's not that bad. I lasted 5 months on Newstart applying for jobs I had no qualifications for in order to make my quota. They didn't blink.
A guy I knew who had been on it for three years was placed in a voluntary position developing websites for a community organisation. He'd never done HTML in his life, but he was interested in computers.
Another friend who had dropped out of Uni also receieved funds to pay for textbooks and non-HECS fees to go back and finish her degree.
Centerlink does actually work, if you're willing to work too.
If they get qualified / talented people, they will try to find them jobs in their industry. It's only after being terminally unemployed and not doing anything about it that they start turning into job facists.
This is Australia we're talking about. I can only think of ONE shrink-wrapped product that's developed here that has made any impact. (MYOB)
Whereas I know for a fact that the developer of Webmin is an Aussie, as well as one of the key contributors to OpenSSL. Plus, a few others I've heard about.
Microsoft Australia is nothing but a marketing and publishing arm... no actual development is done here, AFAIK.
Plus, what with the Govt publishing guidelines on using OSS, I can't see it being a bad thing.
I was trying to point something out. The odds of google releasing their tools as open-source is remote. This makes the possibility of most Linux users installing it even remoter.
Maybe if I hadn't used the word Zealot...
Draw a circle. This is all the people using a F/OSS desktop environment.
Now, draw another circle inside that one, almost exactly the same size, but not quite. These are the F/OSS zealots who won't install anything unless it's GNU licenced.
The area between the boundaries of those two circles are the only people who would install it. And I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure the other guy in that part of the chart understands that.
... and there's no comedians, glow-in-the-dark villians, kids, or Joel Schumacer in sight.
How could it suck?
At this point, maybe not. But as a proof-of-concept of a new way of defeating a disease, this is an order of magnitude 'better'.
As our understanding of human physology and biochemistry progresses, things like immuno-suppresants will become redundant.
If you look beyond the scope of one person's life (which, of course, is not insignficiant,) this is awesome.
The way to beat them is not to beg for them to open up their standard, but to create a better open standard backed by the community
YEAH! What a great idea!
While we're at it, let's solve world peace! All we need to do is get all the world leaders to sit down and back an idea on how things could be made better...
You confuse 'Read' with 'Look At' ;)