Anybody remember the press blackout for the invasion of Grenada? Some thought that it was an exercise in control of information during wartime. That was pre-web.
So let's see - islamic nuclear nation, crawling with terrorists, hostile to us, unstable military dictatorship, surrounded by US troops...
No, I can't imagine any reason that we'd want to stop information from coming OUT of Pakistan. Nossir. Nothing to see. Move along.
This thread really warms the hearts of Windows serfs. It illustrates the recursive fractal division of the Linux community that keeps Linux from having a truly coherent desktop offering.
We can't even select the right root here. Then subdivide recursively by window manager, application programming model, metadata repository, etc. etc. Could a community be more divided?
It's Unix all over again, people, just with less funding.
Word to the wise: stop starting new desktop "initiatives." Fold your project (and someone elses) into an existing development thread. Suppress your NIBMP (not invented by me personally.)
Do you really want to spend the first decade of the 21st century achieving parity with Windows XP, or do you want to deliver something truly new? Free crap is still crap.
Unique. Hmm.
Anyone who has worked as a dev for any period of time whatsoever should be able to see this for exactly what it is: more work, for free, for your boss.
Everyone is under pressure to deliver things faster. It's how you survive and get ahead: by exceeding your peers. If you don't know this already, then I'll take fries with that order.
So you're going to knock off at 4 to work on your "special project?" Wrong. You're going to "cheat" and use that time to get a better review for your real work.
Then you're going to use your weekend to write more code for the Man so you have something to enter in the Happy Employee Super Fun Creativity Contest. And if you don't, then I'll take fries with that, too.
It's still capitalism, people.
As usual, you can search and replace "XML" (in the original post) with "umm, what was I talking about."
What the author is really asking for, without realizing it, is a better programming environment where you can do things like embed pictures.
We don't have this now because coders won't let go of their ascii files. XML adds nothing to this equation; it's still ascii but now it looks like vomit, so programmers still won't accept it.
Better to just get a nice tiny binary format for code annotation, and then trust your intelligent, graphical, literate editor to hide the annnotations and just show you the logic.
This would support that - barely - but with no advantage over binary and no additional chance of success in the marketplace.
It's the IDE, stupid.
C'mon folks. Let's grapple briefly with reality here.
Picasa is clearly a precursor towards a rich client for search and organization. In other words, a shell replacement. Tags? Sharing? Search? Gee, anything else missing for a Longhorn/Tiger competitor?
Unfortunately, they're still lobbing these helium-filled softballs into the marketplace. Depressingly, the model seems to be moving somewhat backwards -- what's with the emphasis on folders?
Folders are to modern storage as pointers are to modern memory managers: semantically crippled. Folders will be gone within a decade (at least to the extent floppy disks are gone now.)
So c'mon Google, grow some reproductive organs. Let's see a swing for the bleachers.
Or are you too IPO?
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Anybody remember the press blackout for the invasion of Grenada? Some thought that it was an exercise in control of information during wartime. That was pre-web.
So let's see - islamic nuclear nation, crawling with terrorists, hostile to us, unstable military dictatorship, surrounded by US troops...
No, I can't imagine any reason that we'd want to stop information from coming OUT of Pakistan. Nossir. Nothing to see. Move along.
This thread really warms the hearts of Windows serfs. It illustrates the recursive fractal division of the Linux community that keeps Linux from having a truly coherent desktop offering.
We can't even select the right root here. Then subdivide recursively by window manager, application programming model, metadata repository, etc. etc. Could a community be more divided?
It's Unix all over again, people, just with less funding.
Word to the wise: stop starting new desktop "initiatives." Fold your project (and someone elses) into an existing development thread. Suppress your NIBMP (not invented by me personally.)
Do you really want to spend the first decade of the 21st century achieving parity with Windows XP, or do you want to deliver something truly new? Free crap is still crap.
Unique. Hmm. Anyone who has worked as a dev for any period of time whatsoever should be able to see this for exactly what it is: more work, for free, for your boss. Everyone is under pressure to deliver things faster. It's how you survive and get ahead: by exceeding your peers. If you don't know this already, then I'll take fries with that order. So you're going to knock off at 4 to work on your "special project?" Wrong. You're going to "cheat" and use that time to get a better review for your real work. Then you're going to use your weekend to write more code for the Man so you have something to enter in the Happy Employee Super Fun Creativity Contest. And if you don't, then I'll take fries with that, too. It's still capitalism, people.
As usual, you can search and replace "XML" (in the original post) with "umm, what was I talking about." What the author is really asking for, without realizing it, is a better programming environment where you can do things like embed pictures. We don't have this now because coders won't let go of their ascii files. XML adds nothing to this equation; it's still ascii but now it looks like vomit, so programmers still won't accept it. Better to just get a nice tiny binary format for code annotation, and then trust your intelligent, graphical, literate editor to hide the annnotations and just show you the logic. This would support that - barely - but with no advantage over binary and no additional chance of success in the marketplace. It's the IDE, stupid.
C'mon folks. Let's grapple briefly with reality here. Picasa is clearly a precursor towards a rich client for search and organization. In other words, a shell replacement. Tags? Sharing? Search? Gee, anything else missing for a Longhorn/Tiger competitor? Unfortunately, they're still lobbing these helium-filled softballs into the marketplace. Depressingly, the model seems to be moving somewhat backwards -- what's with the emphasis on folders? Folders are to modern storage as pointers are to modern memory managers: semantically crippled. Folders will be gone within a decade (at least to the extent floppy disks are gone now.) So c'mon Google, grow some reproductive organs. Let's see a swing for the bleachers. Or are you too IPO?