I love the Power Glove. It's so baaad. Oh, c'mon. This one's on YouTube for cryin' outloud. At least provide some linkage.
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This is where you have to think outside of the box. There are some who believe that Sun may simply be the pawn of Oracle. Oracle could not buy MySQL directly because of anti-trust issues etc.. Not to mention, Sun and Oracle have been "strategic partners" for a very long time. Don't believe everything you read on the Web. There's bad blood between Sun and Oracle right now over Oracle doing their own Red Hat-based Linux. Oracle's long-term strategy is to try to get most of its customers on Oracle Linux. They don't want to be beholden to any platform companies, especially not Sun.
MySQL doesn't make money by enticing the customers with the 'extra bells and whistles' of MySQL Enterprise. They make money because companies who base any important part of their IT infrastructure on MySQL or any open source product will want to pay for support. It's the same reason companies pay for RedHat or SuSE. Who has better support for an open source product than the developer of that product?
Why are you making excuses? If this story were about Microsoft, there would be a chorus of Mac hipsters railing against them. I guess Mac breaks apps in a fashionable way. What advantage would Apple have in breaking a popular Adobe application written on their platform, especially when they don't have a competing product? (Say what you will about iMovie, but it is NOT a professional video editing tool nor was it ever intended to be.)
You miss the point. Updating quicktime should *not* break adobe. You don't understand software development, do you? Software, especially system software like QuickTime, is extremely complex to develop. A developer has to test their software updates against various popular configurations at the very least, and at best, you can test against several common configurations. You can't test every possible edge case -- there are just too many permutations. You'd never release.
After Effects is a professional video editing package from Adobe. Probably not even close to a majority of Apple's userbase is likely to have it on their machines. You can't expect a developer or even Apple to test against every package from every software house that develops for their platform. It would be quite impossible.
Your right that updating QuickTime shouldn't break other apps, but the posters' point was that since you can't expect Apple to test against every possible edge case, you have to ensure that when you update system-level software like QuickTime that you test those updates in your particular configuration before deploying. Especially on a production box (read: machine you use to make money.)
BTW--A great tool do that with is virtualization. Create a VM of your install and you can test new updates in the VM without harming anything. Just make a copy of the virtual disk. If it doesn't work, you restore from your backup with a simple copy. No muss, no fuss. Using a VM doesn't do well with some hardware-dependent apps, but at least you can test software interactions.
This is a misguided attempt of someone trying to keep backwards compatibility. The standards are open and published, adhere to them. Come meet the new Microsoft. Same as the old Microsoft.
You really expected true standards compliance? I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you!
point where you're making little old ladies swallow equines How is a little old lady going to swallow a HORSE.... ? oh, I get.... ewwww....you're sick!
Right. And Memphis, TN is somewhat closer (but still farther away) to Nashville, TN as well. So it was close to Memphis and somewhat close to Nashville. Neat naming.
Too many people misread the whole Windows ME thing. Microsoft's goal since the days of Windows NT 3.1 was always to eventually migrate people from the old DOS/Windows codebase to the new NT codebase. In order to do that, they had to get the APIs synched.
Windows NT 3.1 had Win32 and Windows 3.1 had the older 'Win16' API. So they released Win32s for the older DOS/Windows platform, then Windows NT 4.0 with the new user interface. With the Chicago project -- Windows 95 (based on the new UI for NT4) -- was to be the first of the old codebase with the a full version of the new (NT) API, Win32. With that in hand, they had planned to do one more update to each version -- Nashville became Windows 98, and Daytona became Windows 2000. There was supposed to be a combined release of an operating system called 'Cairo' after that, where they finally dropped the whole DOS/Windows thing, but they got sidetracked because they were under pressure to produce a desktop OS for the low-end of the market. So the result was Windows ME, which was rushed out the door at the last minute and annointed as the last of the DOS/Windows line.
Cairo, which was promised to be totally 'object oriented' -- files would be stored as objects in a big database (sound familiar?), but it never happened. So instead, we get, as the first OS of the newly merged OS lines, Windows XP. And yes, XP looks like the greek letter "Chi" and "Ro", of course XP doesn't end up having anything promised in Cairo.
The Cairo promises were to be fullfilled with Vista, but that never happened because the schedule got pushed more and more and they were under pressure to do SOMETHING since competition from Apple and Linux stepped in to fill the void of 5+ years with no new Microsoft OS. So they pushed Vista out the door with none of the promised features and a bunch glitz stolen from Apple. (The last time they stole from Apple, it went exceedingly well, so what the heck, right?)
Windows 7 -- if it's true -- sounds like it could be what Vista was supposed to be. Of course, by now no one will care. It'll be too little, too late, IMHO.
Well if we're going to use that excuse then why stop at web site defacement? Why not put out a contract on the heads of the music companies? After all "they had it coming" That's why we call it 'the scales of justice'. The difference is is that would be unequal justice.
If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?
But, for some reason, I'm having a really hard time working up any real sense of moral outrage over it. Four words: They had it coming.
You can't really going around acting like an ass and then expect to be treated with respect by anyone, especially if your site is riddled with basic security problems like SQL injection. Next time, hire a Web developer who isn't a stupid fscktard before gallivanting around, suing everyone, their 80-year-old grandmothers and their 6-year old children into oblivion.
Have you ever been a sysadmin? In many companies, the sysadmins can't just willy nilly reboot machines (even client computers) without some sort of approvals and signoffs. You do what you need to, but if you interfere with someone else's work -- you're going to hear about it.
That's okay. I live along the most dangerous road in America. US 19 in Pinellas and Pasco Counties in Florida does a lot of things you describe. Worse, they've slowly been doing freeway-style upgrades to the road, but it's still a mix of that and traditional intersections. Accidents occur almost every day, tying up traffic endlessly. And the tourists and snowbirds tie up traffic even worse. A 50-minute commute during the summer can be as long as 2-2.5 hours in the winter months.
Absolutely. Business is all about money. NBC believes (or believed) that they had the leverage to get more money out of Apple. No, I don't think they were trying to get more money out of Apple -- they were just trying to cut Apple completely out of the equation and keep all the profits for themselves. In the process, they learned that it's hard to build an online buying community and that Apple's success with iTunes, despite all appearances, did not happen overnight. Apple had to take plenty of losses for a while before they gained enough of an audience to make more money. Apple leveraged the money it made from its other successful businesses -- namely computer hardware and software sales so they had plenty of time to ride out the initial slow period.
Media companies are far less likely to do that. They expect each business unit to stand on its own and aren't as willing to leverage one business unit with another. That's why Big Media took so long to get into online distribution and why Apple had the opportunity to carve itself out a nice niche in the first place.
One of the main problems is that PCs may be running computationally or disk-intensive applications setup to run overnight. Can you be certain that the PCs aren't doing anything?
"Executive privilege" -- yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.
Executive privilege is designed to protect matters of national security. Not political blunders or malfeasance. We're talking about automobile emissions standards, not plans for building an F-117 for crying out loud.
And California has a direct need to have higher standards than the rest of the freakin' country. Have you been to Los Angeles? *cough* *cough* The smog is horrible. And most of it is due to the rather large number of automobiles that operate on the roads there. Traffic sucks bad -- the streets are in constant gridlock.
Hey, man, don't harsh on Eclipse. Eclipse is an extremely useful IDE. Code completion, navigation tool, class hierarchy tree, source-level debugging -- everything you'd expect in a modern IDE.
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MySQL doesn't make money by enticing the customers with the 'extra bells and whistles' of MySQL Enterprise. They make money because companies who base any important part of their IT infrastructure on MySQL or any open source product will want to pay for support. It's the same reason companies pay for RedHat or SuSE. Who has better support for an open source product than the developer of that product?
Microsoft can and has broken software on purpose.
After Effects is a professional video editing package from Adobe. Probably not even close to a majority of Apple's userbase is likely to have it on their machines. You can't expect a developer or even Apple to test against every package from every software house that develops for their platform. It would be quite impossible.
Your right that updating QuickTime shouldn't break other apps, but the posters' point was that since you can't expect Apple to test against every possible edge case, you have to ensure that when you update system-level software like QuickTime that you test those updates in your particular configuration before deploying. Especially on a production box (read: machine you use to make money.)
BTW--A great tool do that with is virtualization. Create a VM of your install and you can test new updates in the VM without harming anything. Just make a copy of the virtual disk. If it doesn't work, you restore from your backup with a simple copy. No muss, no fuss. Using a VM doesn't do well with some hardware-dependent apps, but at least you can test software interactions.
You really expected true standards compliance? I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you!
Sheesh. Humour impaired mods.
At least until some major browsers support it. And it really won't matter until IE supports it. Sad, but true, really.
Hint: it's not anymore. Your thinking is so 1999.
Other than that camera we have hidden in the ceiling tiles above your desk.
-- Your boss.
Or Microsoft Office Communicator. *cringe*.
Right. And Memphis, TN is somewhat closer (but still farther away) to Nashville, TN as well. So it was close to Memphis and somewhat close to Nashville. Neat naming.
s/Daytona/Memphis. Daytona was something else. Memphis was chosen as a place being 'very close to Cairo.'
Too many people misread the whole Windows ME thing. Microsoft's goal since the days of Windows NT 3.1 was always to eventually migrate people from the old DOS/Windows codebase to the new NT codebase. In order to do that, they had to get the APIs synched.
Windows NT 3.1 had Win32 and Windows 3.1 had the older 'Win16' API. So they released Win32s for the older DOS/Windows platform, then Windows NT 4.0 with the new user interface. With the Chicago project -- Windows 95 (based on the new UI for NT4) -- was to be the first of the old codebase with the a full version of the new (NT) API, Win32. With that in hand, they had planned to do one more update to each version -- Nashville became Windows 98, and Daytona became Windows 2000. There was supposed to be a combined release of an operating system called 'Cairo' after that, where they finally dropped the whole DOS/Windows thing, but they got sidetracked because they were under pressure to produce a desktop OS for the low-end of the market. So the result was Windows ME, which was rushed out the door at the last minute and annointed as the last of the DOS/Windows line.
Cairo, which was promised to be totally 'object oriented' -- files would be stored as objects in a big database (sound familiar?), but it never happened. So instead, we get, as the first OS of the newly merged OS lines, Windows XP. And yes, XP looks like the greek letter "Chi" and "Ro", of course XP doesn't end up having anything promised in Cairo.
The Cairo promises were to be fullfilled with Vista, but that never happened because the schedule got pushed more and more and they were under pressure to do SOMETHING since competition from Apple and Linux stepped in to fill the void of 5+ years with no new Microsoft OS. So they pushed Vista out the door with none of the promised features and a bunch glitz stolen from Apple. (The last time they stole from Apple, it went exceedingly well, so what the heck, right?)
Windows 7 -- if it's true -- sounds like it could be what Vista was supposed to be. Of course, by now no one will care. It'll be too little, too late, IMHO.
If someone punches you in the face, do you beat them to death with a crowbar? No, you punch them back. If someone pulls a knife on you, do you pull out your grenade launcher?
You can't really going around acting like an ass and then expect to be treated with respect by anyone, especially if your site is riddled with basic security problems like SQL injection. Next time, hire a Web developer who isn't a stupid fscktard before gallivanting around, suing everyone, their 80-year-old grandmothers and their 6-year old children into oblivion.
Have you ever been a sysadmin? In many companies, the sysadmins can't just willy nilly reboot machines (even client computers) without some sort of approvals and signoffs. You do what you need to, but if you interfere with someone else's work -- you're going to hear about it.
That's okay. I live along the most dangerous road in America. US 19 in Pinellas and Pasco Counties in Florida does a lot of things you describe. Worse, they've slowly been doing freeway-style upgrades to the road, but it's still a mix of that and traditional intersections. Accidents occur almost every day, tying up traffic endlessly. And the tourists and snowbirds tie up traffic even worse. A 50-minute commute during the summer can be as long as 2-2.5 hours in the winter months.
Media companies are far less likely to do that. They expect each business unit to stand on its own and aren't as willing to leverage one business unit with another. That's why Big Media took so long to get into online distribution and why Apple had the opportunity to carve itself out a nice niche in the first place.
One of the main problems is that PCs may be running computationally or disk-intensive applications setup to run overnight. Can you be certain that the PCs aren't doing anything?
"Executive privilege" -- yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.
Executive privilege is designed to protect matters of national security. Not political blunders or malfeasance. We're talking about automobile emissions standards, not plans for building an F-117 for crying out loud.
And California has a direct need to have higher standards than the rest of the freakin' country. Have you been to Los Angeles? *cough* *cough* The smog is horrible. And most of it is due to the rather large number of automobiles that operate on the roads there. Traffic sucks bad -- the streets are in constant gridlock.
Hey, man, don't harsh on Eclipse. Eclipse is an extremely useful IDE. Code completion, navigation tool, class hierarchy tree, source-level debugging -- everything you'd expect in a modern IDE.