Jeez people. VB is much lower level than Java. Unless you don't know how to use VB. You can simulate pointers in VB with copymemory() and the long datatype easily. You can use the windows API to your heart's content and have all the freedom of a C programming. In java, you can access native libraries, but only by complying with JNI naming standards....and even then, you can't get a C application to directly modify your java application's memory or things like that. Java is much, much higher level, you can't be sure how memory is mapped, and you can't pass objects as raw memory mapped files to native functions. VB also has a much faster native compiler. With all the Java IDEs coming out that are basically clones of the IDE style VB pioneered, Java is becoming what VB already is - except crossplatform support.
Please people, Java doesn't even support 2 button mice. F**** apple.
All those products are free with NT Server enterprise. And IIS, MTS(transaction server), MSMQ(message que) are free to download for all Win9x/NT systems.
Re: BSOD crap is getting old
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NT BSODs about the same as Linux does it's lovely kernel panics.
Most 'crashes' in windows are caused by bad programmers. Windows catches these and terminates the application before it goes and does bad things. It's very rare to catch a crash that's solely the fault of MS or Windows since Windows' architechture allows 3rd parties to make kernel plugins with drivers and vxds. Just wait till hardware manufacturers start abusing the linux kernel.
Windows CE still has many advantages
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Windows CE has a decent graphical engine. Linux has X. erk. (you could make custom ones based on svgalib or wotever..but the time it would take). The casio E100 PalmPC for example can play MPEG movies. Windows CE3 will be fully realtime.
I can't imagine linux running on a cellphone or palmpc. But I can imagine CE tho (simply cause it already does!!!). CE3 will come with a small webserver for remote admin. If you want more features you could always use embedded NT.
If pricing is an issue, go with Linux. But I can't stand the weenies around here who try to muddle things up by saying. Linux is open source, CE isn't open source, therefore Linux is better than CE at everything embedded.
Re:NT can handle files in the terabyte range
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It's not a charity he founded. It's a charity organisation ihs father founded.
Stuff like that pisses me off, cause you obviously know NOTHING solid and are just spreading crap hoping that noone here will notice cause everyone here knows Linus==GOD Bill==Devil.
Like hell, Linus is arrogant and ignorant compared to gates. Running around yelling windows sucks, and yet claims to never use windows.
And because you didn't spread FUD about the big evil Microsoft - I actually enjoyed reading it. It pretty much outlined the need for standards, and gave examples (using IBM and MS) or companies that don't often use standards. Tho i believe that Microsoft should be allowed to extend technologies - rather than be tied up by any limitations in existing ones (IE for example has very advanced technologies - that go beyond Netscape) - I think that the changes should be opened up (MS have submitted their DOM (Document Object Model for IE) for standardisation tho). Microsoft are getting better at adopting standards, realising it's all for the better....insisting on TCP/IP, DNS etc....rather than NetBeui and WINS.
It's nice to read something that doesn't blindly poke pins into Microsoft as a matter of principle.
Unlike most linux evangelists. Some of us who live with both Windows and Linux or maybe just Windows want to see both sides of the coin. A lot of linux weenies are college students who have only seen Unix (Torvalds for example) and no Windows, and they continue to spout crap about how NT crashes etc without having *tried* NT. Torvalds is especially guilty of claiming not to use Windows, but then harrasses the hell out of Windows, Microsoft and Gates. If Linux is so good - why does he need to attack Windows (a product he knows little about)? Pretty sad.
I enjoy surfing microsoft websites, especially msdn.microsoft.com - but i also enjoy surfing linux sites like slashdot.
Windows Media Player has played MP3 for years. The new version plays WMA.
Casio E-100 and E-105 (WIN CE) does it already.
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http://www.casio.com/hpc/detail.cfm?PID=1182
They can play MP3 & MPG (video in full colour). Some Palm-size PCs also support voice recognition as well as hand writing recognition. The E series come with 240x320 displays with a 16bit colour screen. The NEW E-105 has 32MB of memory...and like the E-100 supports PC Card devices (you can use cdroms etc).
They run a true preemptive multitasking, multithreaded OS (Windows CE). Yes, it's made by Microsoft, but it works, and it's the most powerful OS for PDAs. It's totally modular (has very small footprint) and supports heaps of processors (AMD, ARM, Cyrix, Intel, Hitachi, Motorola (inc PPC), IBM, NEC, Philips, STME, Toshiba).
Windows CE 3 will support even more features that start making it look more like 98/NT. Eg. DirectX, Java, and a free (optional) web server for remote admin of embedded devices - but CE3 remains very modular.
You don't need to wait 2 years for 3COM to catch up with Casio/Microsoft. You can have a multimedia palm-sized pc today. I mean, Palm doesn't even have a colour screen, let alone sound beyond beeps. Windows CE is licensed to many manufacturers, so you can buy your PalmPC from heaps of manufacturers. www.nino.philips.com www.casio.com
...to name two leaders
www.microsoft.com/windowsce for more...
No I don't work for Microsoft.:P It's just hard to ignore coolness like being able to play full colour MPG files on a palmpc...regardless of what OS it runs.
Slashdot Mirror
Jeez people.
VB is much lower level than Java. Unless you don't know how to use VB.
You can simulate pointers in VB with copymemory() and the long datatype easily. You can use the windows API to your heart's content and have all the freedom of a C programming.
In java, you can access native libraries, but only by complying with JNI naming standards....and even then, you can't get a C application to directly modify your java application's memory or things like that. Java is much, much higher level, you can't be sure how memory is mapped, and you can't pass objects as raw memory mapped files to native functions.
VB also has a much faster native compiler. With all the Java IDEs coming out that are basically clones of the IDE style VB pioneered, Java is becoming what VB already is - except crossplatform support.
Please people, Java doesn't even support 2 button mice. F**** apple.
All those products are free with NT Server enterprise.
And IIS, MTS(transaction server), MSMQ(message que) are free to download for all Win9x/NT systems.
NT BSODs about the same as Linux does it's lovely kernel panics.
Most 'crashes' in windows are caused by bad programmers. Windows catches these and terminates the application before it goes and does bad things.
It's very rare to catch a crash that's solely the fault of MS or Windows since Windows' architechture allows 3rd parties to make kernel plugins with drivers and vxds.
Just wait till hardware manufacturers start abusing the linux kernel.
Windows CE has a decent graphical engine. Linux has X. erk. (you could make custom ones based on svgalib or wotever..but the time it would take).
The casio E100 PalmPC for example can play MPEG movies.
Windows CE3 will be fully realtime.
I can't imagine linux running on a cellphone or palmpc. But I can imagine CE tho (simply cause it already does!!!).
CE3 will come with a small webserver for remote admin.
If you want more features you could always use embedded NT.
If pricing is an issue, go with Linux. But I can't stand the weenies around here who try to muddle things up by saying. Linux is open source, CE isn't open source, therefore Linux is better than CE at everything embedded.
Windows 2000 supports 64gigabytes of memory too.
There is nothing about COM+ that ties it to windows. It was designed to be cross platform and languagte nuetral.
It's not a charity he founded. It's a charity organisation ihs father founded.
Stuff like that pisses me off, cause you obviously know NOTHING solid and are just spreading crap hoping that noone here will notice cause everyone here knows
Linus==GOD
Bill==Devil.
Like hell, Linus is arrogant and ignorant compared to gates. Running around yelling windows sucks, and yet claims to never use windows.
And because you didn't spread FUD about the big evil Microsoft - I actually enjoyed reading it. It pretty much outlined the need for standards, and gave examples (using IBM and MS) or companies that don't often use standards.
Tho i believe that Microsoft should be allowed to extend technologies - rather than be tied up by any limitations in existing ones (IE for example has very advanced technologies - that go beyond Netscape) - I think that the changes should be opened up (MS have submitted their DOM (Document Object Model for IE) for standardisation tho).
Microsoft are getting better at adopting standards, realising it's all for the better....insisting on TCP/IP, DNS etc....rather than NetBeui and WINS.
It's nice to read something that doesn't blindly poke pins into Microsoft as a matter of principle.
Unlike most linux evangelists. Some of us who live with both Windows and Linux or maybe just Windows want to see both sides of the coin.
A lot of linux weenies are college students who have only seen Unix (Torvalds for example) and no Windows, and they continue to spout crap about how NT crashes etc without having *tried* NT. Torvalds is especially guilty of claiming not to use Windows, but then harrasses the hell out of Windows, Microsoft and Gates. If Linux is so good - why does he need to attack Windows (a product he knows little about)? Pretty sad.
I enjoy surfing microsoft websites, especially msdn.microsoft.com - but i also enjoy surfing linux sites like slashdot.
It's called an open mind.
in one way or another :P
Windows Media Player has played MP3 for years.
The new version plays WMA.
http://www.casio.com/hpc/detail.cfm?PID=1182
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:P
They can play MP3 & MPG (video in full colour). Some Palm-size PCs also support voice recognition as well as hand writing recognition.
The E series come with 240x320 displays with a 16bit colour screen. The NEW E-105 has 32MB of memory...and like the E-100 supports PC Card devices (you can use cdroms etc).
They run a true preemptive multitasking, multithreaded OS (Windows CE). Yes, it's made by Microsoft, but it works, and it's the most powerful OS for PDAs. It's totally modular (has very small footprint) and supports heaps of processors (AMD, ARM, Cyrix, Intel, Hitachi, Motorola (inc PPC), IBM, NEC, Philips, STME, Toshiba).
Windows CE 3 will support even more features that start making it look more like 98/NT. Eg. DirectX, Java, and a free (optional) web server for remote admin of embedded devices - but CE3 remains very modular.
You don't need to wait 2 years for 3COM to catch up with Casio/Microsoft. You can have a multimedia palm-sized pc today.
I mean, Palm doesn't even have a colour screen, let alone sound beyond beeps.
Windows CE is licensed to many manufacturers, so you can buy your PalmPC from heaps of manufacturers.
www.nino.philips.com
www.casio.com
...to name two leaders
www.microsoft.com/windowsce for more
No I don't work for Microsoft.
It's just hard to ignore coolness like being able to play full colour MPG files on a palmpc...regardless of what OS it runs.