Or you could have 100 people writing your own version of each of them.
Seriously, design for change, make your best effort at picking a framework in a given area and start developing. Change later if you chose wrong, your're still going to be ahead of the game and you've learned something. Provide feedback to the Java community about your experiences and recommendations. Despite what some companies have people thinking these days, choice is a good thing.
This decision is especially bad as Wind is one of the few companies that's actually offering competition against the big telcos and cable companies. They have low-priced data plans without long term contracts, and actually seem to want your business. It's too bad they don't cover more area. With this and the usage based billing decision it's becoming more and more obvious that the CRTC is bought and paid for by the existing 'big guys' in the industry.
I've said it before: if I ran the country it would be illegal to have long term communication contracts as it hurts competitiveness. No bundling phones, etc... allow payment plans for them but no tying to long term contracts.
I used Prism (or tried to) for a few standard sites that I pretty much always keep open. Nice idea but there always seemed to be a few problems (with the Linux version anyway). I always had difficulty in getting more than 2 to run at a time, and most plug-ins were at least tedious to use if they worked at all. It had/has promise though... I hope Chromeless improves it a bit. In the meantime, I believe Chrome has the same sort of functionality. I may get around to trying it out but I find that when running Chrome the need to run a different instance of the browser is not as important because of their process model.
From what I've seen of Gnome Shell, it's even less flexible... I hope they keep those of us with wide screens who like side panels in mind rather than restricting them to the top.
I find KDE is awesome where you have a couple of 1900x1200 monitors or better but is complete overkill on a 1366x800 laptop screen. Because of this I find I tend to end up using Gnome more. I do tend to just end up running Eclipse, etc, full screen, so perhaps this is part of it as well. I just don't have the space to appreciate the pretty widgets, etc.
I think tweets can help people learn to be more concise in their writing, but the benefits are greater if they don't use the usual 'texting' abbreviations. It's a great mental excercise to see if you can get the same thought across in fewer words or characters, or just more clearly
Based on the number of mistakes with "then/than", "lose/loose", etc, I see from younger journalists and bloggers, I think spelling in general is getting worse, not better. I find it somewhat jarring when I actually see "lose" used properly.
Annoying your users and generating bad press is not a good long term business strategy. It does seem to be getting to be a popular one in areas that lack enough competition.
As with so many Apple "features", this is about control. It does mean that you can run the main part of the OS on a powerful server somewhere, but in this case it would be Apple's server. Think you didn't own your iDevice before? Hard to jailbreak a device when the OS isn't even local anymore.
I love Vista. Its wonderful performance and "phone home" functionality that sends personal information to Microsoft made me become a happy Linux user. I haven't run Windows at home since.
Playing the ridiculous software patent game is not going to help... getting rid of software patents is. They will effectively end when the Western software industry crashes anyway.
So basically, you are allowed to patent the idea of creating a software system of any specific business operation or operations, without even having a specific implementation, at which point no one is allowed to create their own implementation without paying you? I could patent software for managing the selling and charging of ads for example, assuming it hasn't already been done? It still sounds pretty broken to me.
Developers won't generally use them... as with so may computer related things these days, VDI is not about usefulness, it's about control. It makes it easy to lock employees down to a standard desktop, and provision or restore them with minimal effort. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not really aimed at developers.
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We're number 1 ... so we don't give a rat's ass.
Forget the cost, what about the required Steve worship? Maybe the Pope was waiting until he stepped down.
Your theory does not take a publicized problem and lucrative lawsuit settlements into account.
Or you could have 100 people writing your own version of each of them.
Seriously, design for change, make your best effort at picking a framework in a given area and start developing. Change later if you chose wrong, your're still going to be ahead of the game and you've learned something. Provide feedback to the Java community about your experiences and recommendations. Despite what some companies have people thinking these days, choice is a good thing.
This decision is especially bad as Wind is one of the few companies that's actually offering competition against the big telcos and cable companies. They have low-priced data plans without long term contracts, and actually seem to want your business. It's too bad they don't cover more area. With this and the usage based billing decision it's becoming more and more obvious that the CRTC is bought and paid for by the existing 'big guys' in the industry.
... allow payment plans for them but no tying to long term contracts.
I've said it before: if I ran the country it would be illegal to have long term communication contracts as it hurts competitiveness. No bundling phones, etc
... and get sued by the first person to file?
Doesn't this screw over people who invent something and don't want it patented, or can't afford to?
I used Prism (or tried to) for a few standard sites that I pretty much always keep open. Nice idea but there always seemed to be a few problems (with the Linux version anyway). I always had difficulty in getting more than 2 to run at a time, and most plug-ins were at least tedious to use if they worked at all. It had/has promise though ... I hope Chromeless improves it a bit. In the meantime, I believe Chrome has the same sort of functionality. I may get around to trying it out but I find that when running Chrome the need to run a different instance of the browser is not as important because of their process model.
I used to like NetBeans at least as much as Eclipse, but with Oracle in charge, I'm not sure I can trust the future of anything from them that's free.
Why stop at Islam?
From what I've seen of Gnome Shell, it's even less flexible ... I hope they keep those of us with wide screens who like side panels in mind rather than restricting them to the top.
I find KDE is awesome where you have a couple of 1900x1200 monitors or better but is complete overkill on a 1366x800 laptop screen. Because of this I find I tend to end up using Gnome more. I do tend to just end up running Eclipse, etc, full screen, so perhaps this is part of it as well. I just don't have the space to appreciate the pretty widgets, etc.
Yeah, but onion skins are useful. I find Windows more like the other part of the onion ... it makes me cry.
I think tweets can help people learn to be more concise in their writing, but the benefits are greater if they don't use the usual 'texting' abbreviations. It's a great mental excercise to see if you can get the same thought across in fewer words or characters, or just more clearly
Based on the number of mistakes with "then/than", "lose/loose", etc, I see from younger journalists and bloggers, I think spelling in general is getting worse, not better. I find it somewhat jarring when I actually see "lose" used properly.
Annoying your users and generating bad press is not a good long term business strategy. It does seem to be getting to be a popular one in areas that lack enough competition.
I see your point, but it would reward companies for 'vendor lock-in', which is far too prevalent already.
As with so many Apple "features", this is about control. It does mean that you can run the main part of the OS on a powerful server somewhere, but in this case it would be Apple's server. Think you didn't own your iDevice before? Hard to jailbreak a device when the OS isn't even local anymore.
I love Vista. Its wonderful performance and "phone home" functionality that sends personal information to Microsoft made me become a happy Linux user. I haven't run Windows at home since.
Playing the ridiculous software patent game is not going to help ... getting rid of software patents is. They will effectively end when the Western software industry crashes anyway.
So basically, you are allowed to patent the idea of creating a software system of any specific business operation or operations, without even having a specific implementation, at which point no one is allowed to create their own implementation without paying you? I could patent software for managing the selling and charging of ads for example, assuming it hasn't already been done? It still sounds pretty broken to me.
I can see Russia through her head.
What could possibly go wrong?
Developers won't generally use them ... as with so may computer related things these days, VDI is not about usefulness, it's about control. It makes it easy to lock employees down to a standard desktop, and provision or restore them with minimal effort. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not really aimed at developers.
Their email and calendar solutions are very good, as is their browser. There's that YouTube thing ... and Android of course.
Aren't there criminal charges for providing false evidence?