I was talking about the Wicket integration into these IDEs. ASP.NET is well integrated into VS. Wicket integration through plugins is relatively thin. Don't get me wrong. I have not used VS in 3-4 years although I have a copy and have been using Netbeans and Eclipse.
It's missing an important piece to be compared to ASP.NET. Proper IDE support. After all that is what this discussion is about (No, the Eclipse, Netbeans plugins don't hold a candle).
> first thing oppressive regimes do is to disarm the populace.
I think that belief is entirely misplaced with the context of guns. Oppressive regimes disarm people alright, but they do so with the more powerful weapons than guns. In this information age, and at least in the case of affluent countries with good constitutions on paper, they do it by disarming us of ideas and information that stand against them. Firearms might have been that weapon a few years ago but they are less relevant now. Besides, the people who cannot even be motivated enough to vote certainly cannot be motivated to pick up weapons and face an army.
Suit yourself. I run Linux 95% of the time. But I find a VM very useful. Some of my hardware is Windows only or just a pain to set up on Linux. So I use Windows in a VM with USB support and it saves me the trouble of worrying about Linux compatibility for occational use devices. There are many niche tools that are Windows only. I don't know the technical implications of having the motherboard manage VT, but I am wondering if it makes providing better access to graphics cards from the VM. That could mean a solution to the last remaining challenge of VT - gaming.
> Even if your kids can't figure out how to circumvent the V-Chip, they simply go to their friends and watch that video there.
I happen to think that it is a deterrent enough. When my parents decided that TV was a distraction for me till I finished a certain important exam and removed the TV (not lock it down just from me, they just removed it completely... for themselves as well), I still did watch a couple of my favorite shows at my friends place. But I watched only 1 hr per week that way, not the usual 2 hrs per day at that time (we just got cable then). Parents just need a reasonable deterrent, not absolute control.
> Software doesn't age or wear out like a car or a washing machine, so theoretically it's just as good when it's 10 years old as it was new.
And yet, I can buy older games remarkably cheaper after just a few years.
I am just annoyed now that I cannot buy a cheaper edition of Windows. I need an older edition that boots quickly and takes minimal resources to run in a VM to run only an occational win32 app from within Linux when WINE won't cut it. I don't need any fancy features, not even a good security layer. I cannot justify the cost for a new OS. I could have done this for any other commodity.
> RIAA just proved how easy it is to manipulate the screenshots.
How? Judges accept lousy quality audio clips and photographs as evidence in routine cases. They can be tampered the same way as well. I am not saying that screenshots are bullet proof evidence. Just that Judges don't look for such evidence in all cases. The defendant can always contest the validity of the evidence.
Huh! Not a good analogy. Your analogy implies that they presented completely wrong evidence. They did not. But they did include along with the valid evidence, other stuff that may damage the defendant. And RIAA may further argue that the folder was presumably willingly made public by the user (who they they at that time did not know was different from the defendant) and therefore could not assume that the constituted private information.
For most part, these days it is very easy to write mostly cross-platform code with any open language and tool chain without even trying. Sure, actually deploying across multiple platforms requires working out some chinks and needs testing. But writing cross-platform code is not as hard as it once was except in the case of low level code. Most user applications in question only need the a portable GUI library. The rest is usually portable by default.
Not technology wise. But MS is commonly criticized to ship first and worry about fixes later. This generally seems to have worked for them, at least with software.
Isn't that usually the case with nearly EVERY FPS? But Halo is not a pure one-man FPS. It has AI (not including Cortana) fighting along side you. Something I prefer when it works (and it did in Halo).
> Playing it co-op with some whiny kid would not add to my experience. Most people I know play co-op with people they know well.
Filing documents is easy when your model of organization is same when you file as well as when you search. This is not always the case. Not everyone deals with the same number of documents. Some of us simply have more. Manual filing is not a scalable process.
Organizing documents I get in email and papers I read is more tedious because they often fall under more than one category and I cannot predict under what information need I will have to review them. So filing is not the right way to do it although I do file in some simple scheme.
Swish-e is OK for creating website indexes, but it does not have any kind of desktop integration that I know of. Google desktop and the open source alternatives, beagle and tracker are specifically built for that.
> If enough of us refuse to buy software, music, or movies from companies that deliberately frustrate their paying customers, then they will either change their strategy or they will deservedly go out of business.
Does Visual Studio do all that stuff? Of course not. You can always find features for ANY tool that some other tool has. The point of my post is CDT does nearly everything that a VS user expects.
>> Eclipse sure use large amounts of ram and cpu, but I don't see much payoff in terms of features for all that resource usage.
Sigh. Is this even an argument anymore? My 5 year old PC manages CDT just fine. Your PC must really suck.
You aren't really stuck. I use Delphi 6 and find no reason to upgrade. The later enhancements aren't exactly killer features. Personally, for what I do, I think Delphi 3 is quite adequate and I am fine with Wine performance.
It's Anjuta and KDevelop. Personally, I think CDT is quite at par with Visual C++. I never liked their MFC integration into their IDE after being spoilt on Delphi. But really, what is CDT missing as a modern C++ IDE?
Now that Google acquired DoubleClick, Google has far more information than just what users "knowingly" provide it. Google has the ability now to collate your perfectly identifiable personal information (GMail, Checkout) and can match that with info gathered from its ad service when you think you may not be using Google. You no longer know how much Google knows about you. That may be clear to the geeks at Slashdot, but not so for most public out there. If Google wants to claim that they "do no evil", they need to disclose what info they collect.
Myself included, most people don't care if the data is simply used for anonymous stats and for user profiling for internal use to improve their search performance. As censorship threats grow, we need better laws of disclosure when consumer information businesses grow beyond a certain point. We know ISP logs have been reviewed by the govt. I doubt if similar move has not been made with Google.
Now for conspiracy theories - Imagine a cabal that collects online records of all citizens for future use so that they may be discredited by their past harmless private behaviors when they develop public lives in time.
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Let me put it this way. Java IDEs are the ONLY programs that make me wish I have a newer computer.
I was talking about the Wicket integration into these IDEs. ASP.NET is well integrated into VS. Wicket integration through plugins is relatively thin. Don't get me wrong. I have not used VS in 3-4 years although I have a copy and have been using Netbeans and Eclipse.
It's missing an important piece to be compared to ASP.NET. Proper IDE support. After all that is what this discussion is about (No, the Eclipse, Netbeans plugins don't hold a candle).
> After all, the "Powell Doctrine" of always going in with overwhelming force was named after him.
Oh! All this time, I thought that was the StarCraft or Command and Conquer doctrine (in single player anyway).
> first thing oppressive regimes do is to disarm the populace.
I think that belief is entirely misplaced with the context of guns. Oppressive regimes disarm people alright, but they do so with the more powerful weapons than guns. In this information age, and at least in the case of affluent countries with good constitutions on paper, they do it by disarming us of ideas and information that stand against them. Firearms might have been that weapon a few years ago but they are less relevant now. Besides, the people who cannot even be motivated enough to vote certainly cannot be motivated to pick up weapons and face an army.
Suit yourself. I run Linux 95% of the time. But I find a VM very useful. Some of my hardware is Windows only or just a pain to set up on Linux. So I use Windows in a VM with USB support and it saves me the trouble of worrying about Linux compatibility for occational use devices. There are many niche tools that are Windows only. I don't know the technical implications of having the motherboard manage VT, but I am wondering if it makes providing better access to graphics cards from the VM. That could mean a solution to the last remaining challenge of VT - gaming.
> Even if your kids can't figure out how to circumvent the V-Chip, they simply go to their friends and watch that video there.
I happen to think that it is a deterrent enough. When my parents decided that TV was a distraction for me till I finished a certain important exam and removed the TV (not lock it down just from me, they just removed it completely... for themselves as well), I still did watch a couple of my favorite shows at my friends place. But I watched only 1 hr per week that way, not the usual 2 hrs per day at that time (we just got cable then). Parents just need a reasonable deterrent, not absolute control.
> Software doesn't age or wear out like a car or a washing machine, so theoretically it's just as good when it's 10 years old as it was new.
And yet, I can buy older games remarkably cheaper after just a few years.
I am just annoyed now that I cannot buy a cheaper edition of Windows. I need an older edition that boots quickly and takes minimal resources to run in a VM to run only an occational win32 app from within Linux when WINE won't cut it. I don't need any fancy features, not even a good security layer. I cannot justify the cost for a new OS. I could have done this for any other commodity.
> RIAA just proved how easy it is to manipulate the screenshots.
How? Judges accept lousy quality audio clips and photographs as evidence in routine cases. They can be tampered the same way as well. I am not saying that screenshots are bullet proof evidence. Just that Judges don't look for such evidence in all cases. The defendant can always contest the validity of the evidence.
Huh! Not a good analogy. Your analogy implies that they presented completely wrong evidence. They did not. But they did include along with the valid evidence, other stuff that may damage the defendant. And RIAA may further argue that the folder was presumably willingly made public by the user (who they they at that time did not know was different from the defendant) and therefore could not assume that the constituted private information.
For most part, these days it is very easy to write mostly cross-platform code with any open language and tool chain without even trying. Sure, actually deploying across multiple platforms requires working out some chinks and needs testing. But writing cross-platform code is not as hard as it once was except in the case of low level code. Most user applications in question only need the a portable GUI library. The rest is usually portable by default.
Unfortunately, MS seems to be discovering that only now :-).
Not technology wise. But MS is commonly criticized to ship first and worry about fixes later. This generally seems to have worked for them, at least with software.
Why not? It worked with Windows.
> I'm modding it back up
How did you mod a post and yet manage to post on this story? Doesn't Slashdot cancel your mod assignments if you post on the story?
> they gave a sense of "one man vs. the universe"
Isn't that usually the case with nearly EVERY FPS? But Halo is not a pure one-man FPS. It has AI (not including Cortana) fighting along side you. Something I prefer when it works (and it did in Halo).
> Playing it co-op with some whiny kid would not add to my experience.
Most people I know play co-op with people they know well.
Filing documents is easy when your model of organization is same when you file as well as when you search. This is not always the case.
Not everyone deals with the same number of documents. Some of us simply have more. Manual filing is not a scalable process.
Organizing documents I get in email and papers I read is more tedious because they often fall under more than one category and I cannot predict under what information need I will have to review them. So filing is not the right way to do it although I do file in some simple scheme.
Swish-e is OK for creating website indexes, but it does not have any kind of desktop integration that I know of. Google desktop and the open source alternatives, beagle and tracker are specifically built for that.
> did they run Linux? ;-)
Run, at that size with a waddle gait? No, they only 'roamed' Linux.
> If enough of us refuse to buy software, music, or movies from companies that deliberately frustrate their paying customers, then they will either change their strategy or they will deservedly go out of business.
Or they will lobby and push for a levy.
http://neil.eton.ca/copylevy.shtml
Never mind, I just found
1. cdcat
2. gwhere
3. gtktalog
4. katalog
already.
>> Does it do everything that .....?
Does Visual Studio do all that stuff? Of course not. You can always find features for ANY tool that some other tool has. The point of my post is CDT does nearly everything that a VS user expects.
>> Eclipse sure use large amounts of ram and cpu, but I don't see much payoff in terms of features for all that resource usage.
Sigh. Is this even an argument anymore? My 5 year old PC manages CDT just fine. Your PC must really suck.
You aren't really stuck. I use Delphi 6 and find no reason to upgrade. The later enhancements aren't exactly killer features. Personally, for what I do, I think Delphi 3 is quite adequate and I am fine with Wine performance.
It's Anjuta and KDevelop. Personally, I think CDT is quite at par with Visual C++. I never liked their MFC integration into their IDE after being spoilt on Delphi. But really, what is CDT missing as a modern C++ IDE?
Now that Google acquired DoubleClick, Google has far more information than just what users "knowingly" provide it. Google has the ability now to collate your perfectly identifiable personal information (GMail, Checkout) and can match that with info gathered from its ad service when you think you may not be using Google. You no longer know how much Google knows about you. That may be clear to the geeks at Slashdot, but not so for most public out there. If Google wants to claim that they "do no evil", they need to disclose what info they collect.
Myself included, most people don't care if the data is simply used for anonymous stats and for user profiling for internal use to improve their search performance. As censorship threats grow, we need better laws of disclosure when consumer information businesses grow beyond a certain point. We know ISP logs have been reviewed by the govt. I doubt if similar move has not been made with Google.
Now for conspiracy theories - Imagine a cabal that collects online records of all citizens for future use so that they may be discredited by their past harmless private behaviors when they develop public lives in time.