Go to the store and just cast a glance around at the magazines in the checkout aisle.
What do you see? "Women's" magazines with beautiful, half-naked models on the covers of 90% of them.
So, it's okay for a woman to encourage women to look like X, but run out the feminist flag if a guy thinks that type of woman is hot.
Rookies love the "click and drag" method of building a GUI because it easy.
I'll even admit it's good for prototyping.
However, "click and drag" interfaces are riddled with many hidden pitfalls, but the key is that once your app gets on a screen resolution that is smaller than the one you developed on, your interface goes out the window. It becomes hideously ugly and unusable.
Java's layout managers may be challenging to learn but they pay for themselves very quickly by correctly sizing your components on the target screen at nearly any resolution. To do that with VBx, VB.NET, C# etc... you are either forced to buy third party components that do it for you (usually in a poor and slow way), or you have to write your own (bleeaahh).
The moral of the story: The quick and easy path lead to the darkside.
A little trick which doesn't seem to be known: Hold down shift when starting Acrobat. This bypasses all the update and plugin junk they load at startup. Rather inconvinient to have to remember every time you start acrobat, but better than nothing.
It's the same type of thinking that produces the argument that we need big government.
<sarcasm>Since Microsoft is obviously so big, and filled with so many professionals they obviously know how to handle security patches and upgrades better than a common user.</sarcasm>
Sure users may not be able to do a good job of keeping their apps patched, but Microsoft doesn't do much better.
SVG does indeed do the job. It can also be used for some very slick and powerful UIs.
However, as the parent said, the tools support is just not there. Once good tools are available and SVG suppport is built into browsers, SVG will really take off.
Therefor, the call to open source developers is to kill Flash by creating good tools for SVG.
I have experience writing web apps with both ASP.NET and Java.
I used ASP.NET for about 2 years at my previous job. I recently moved and we use Java at my new job. I've found Java web apps much easier to deploy and maintain. The great thing about Java is the.war file. Microsoft should take a lesson. I've spent countless hours trying to get an ASP.NET website moved from one server to another. Sure it's easy if all you have are a few forms, but I'm talking moderate sized enterprise type apps. ASP.NET is a nightmare when it comes to deployment.
If you're an ASP.NET user, you might check out Java, Tomcat, and a little server side filter called SiteMesh.
Belive me I've been there and done that and life with Java is much better.
I don't think your argument holds water. Look at Autozone. If a big company wants to use Linux, they have the resources to make it happen.
I've worked in small to midsized IT departments as help desk and sys admin for about 7 years. I can tell you first hand, Windows OSes take a lot of admin and support time.
You either do the work upfront(Linux), or you spread it out over time(Windows).
My experience is that Linux is much easier to maintain.
The problem with investing in tech companies is that people who don't understand technology are the ones who drive the market price.
Therefore, the price fluctuates based on a group of clueless rich people, instead of well-informed tech savvy investors.
That being the case, when you see tech company X is looking at buying company Y and company X's stock falls just realize that it's the clueless rich who make that happen. The price isn't driven by whether the purchase might make sense or not.
All that to say, yes, you are absolutely right. Only Apple and Google stocks rise, because they are the sexy stocks right now.
I don't know if your trolling or really serious, but I feel your post elicits a response either way.
B) To call yourself a fairly technical user then start whining about having to drop into the command line is simply disingenuous. A command line is far more efficient and easy to work with than a GUI. Many times GUIs are a crutch which allow non technical people to do things they shouldn't be doing. Most technical people I know prefer the command line.
A) Recompiling the kernel? Come on. Only in very rare cases do you have to do ANYTHING that requires recompiling the kernel. Your making that problem up. It simply doesn't exist for most users.
C) Just because you don't like MAN pages, doesn't mean you have to villify them. Many volunteers have written great docs on sites like The Linux Documentation Project. If you don't like MAN pages do a little searching on the internet.
If you are going to call yourself an advanced user please act like one.
In terms of the version tracker feature. Open Office should integrate subversion to do the version tracking, thus following the *nix paradigm of do one thing well. Don't reinvent the wheel when there's already a great one out there.
While this attitude is perhaps fine for other industries, IT is not one of them.
In IT managers MUST have a bit of technical background and expertise.
The reason is clear, and I haven't seen anyone on slashdot mention it yet. Managers generally have a say in what hardware and software is purchased for the company. If these managers have no technical background you get things like a single exchange server with no failover running on the cheapest dell server money can buy, and then expect the IT personell to keep it running 24/7.
Stupidity and ignorance in management cause those of us who work under them countless wasted hours fighting loosing battles against insufficient hardware and low quality software.
The people who will actually work on the systems should be the ones with the say in what is purchased. Not some manager who's swayed by pretty graphics and loud marketing.
If I had mod points I'd mod you as a troll. Star/Open Office has had Microsoft interoperability since thei first release. Star/Open Office has been out about 5 years now and Microsoft still refuses to add code to read Star/Open Office files.
Undoubtedly they refuse because they know it would decrease their market share.
Reading the article it would appear that the Scottish Police Force admins are too incompetent to set up the systems properly. Perhaps they would rather use Microsoft's brain dead 3 clicks and you're configured interface, but they sacrifice security in doing so.
If you want to pay $800 bucks to use a product that assumes you're as dumb as 90% of the market go ahead.
Compiling software for your distro is not a bad thing. Once compiled the software is optimized for your specific system.
With windows you get a pre-compiled binary that will probably run on your system, but will not be optimized for you specifically. Prepackaging is very convinient, but much is sacrificed in doing so.
You make the choice.
Choose software for which you can examine the code, or use someone's prepacked binaries which rely on libraries written by morons.
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Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to read MSDN documentation can see that Barrett speaks the truth.
I second this motion. The last thing I want to read on Slashdot is anything related to Dvorak.
Go to the store and just cast a glance around at the magazines in the checkout aisle.
What do you see? "Women's" magazines with beautiful, half-naked models on the covers of 90% of them.
So, it's okay for a woman to encourage women to look like X, but run out the feminist flag if a guy thinks that type of woman is hot.
Do I detect a double standard?
I'll even admit it's good for prototyping.
However, "click and drag" interfaces are riddled with many hidden pitfalls, but the key is that once your app gets on a screen resolution that is smaller than the one you developed on, your interface goes out the window. It becomes hideously ugly and unusable.
Java's layout managers may be challenging to learn but they pay for themselves very quickly by correctly sizing your components on the target screen at nearly any resolution. To do that with VBx, VB.NET, C# etc... you are either forced to buy third party components that do it for you (usually in a poor and slow way), or you have to write your own (bleeaahh).
The moral of the story: The quick and easy path lead to the darkside.
A little trick which doesn't seem to be known: Hold down shift when starting Acrobat. This bypasses all the update and plugin junk they load at startup. Rather inconvinient to have to remember every time you start acrobat, but better than nothing.
Office workers are baffled and make serious business blunders.
An alternative to the sphere idea is the floor movement idea.
Basically the floor senses where you are going and makes sure to put a moving panel under your foot no matter which way you go.
More info: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6299This type of thinking is fundamentally flawed.
It's the same type of thinking that produces the argument that we need big government.
<sarcasm>Since Microsoft is obviously so big, and filled with so many professionals they obviously know how to handle security patches and upgrades better than a common user.</sarcasm>Sure users may not be able to do a good job of keeping their apps patched, but Microsoft doesn't do much better.
Just look how many things Windows XP SP2 broke.
I rest my case.
SVG does indeed do the job. It can also be used for some very slick and powerful UIs.
However, as the parent said, the tools support is just not there. Once good tools are available and SVG suppport is built into browsers, SVG will really take off.
Therefor, the call to open source developers is to kill Flash by creating good tools for SVG.
I have experience writing web apps with both ASP.NET and Java.
I used ASP.NET for about 2 years at my previous job. I recently moved and we use Java at my new job. I've found Java web apps much easier to deploy and maintain. The great thing about Java is the .war file. Microsoft should take a lesson. I've spent countless hours trying to get an ASP.NET website moved from one server to another. Sure it's easy if all you have are a few forms, but I'm talking moderate sized enterprise type apps. ASP.NET is a nightmare when it comes to deployment.
If you're an ASP.NET user, you might check out Java, Tomcat, and a little server side filter called SiteMesh.
Belive me I've been there and done that and life with Java is much better.
I found when I first started using Firefox I didn't use tabs either. Probably just a habit gleaned from IE, but I always opened a new window.
However, the more you use Firefox the more you begin to appreciate tabbed browsing.
Give me tabs anyday.
1. Get awesome at game X
2. Find big company to sponsor you.
3. ?????
4. Profit!
I don't think your argument holds water. Look at Autozone. If a big company wants to use Linux, they have the resources to make it happen.
I've worked in small to midsized IT departments as help desk and sys admin for about 7 years. I can tell you first hand, Windows OSes take a lot of admin and support time.
You either do the work upfront(Linux), or you spread it out over time(Windows).
My experience is that Linux is much easier to maintain.
Sounds like Craig Mundie slinging DoMB FUD again.
The problem with investing in tech companies is that people who don't understand technology are the ones who drive the market price.
Therefore, the price fluctuates based on a group of clueless rich people, instead of well-informed tech savvy investors.
That being the case, when you see tech company X is looking at buying company Y and company X's stock falls just realize that it's the clueless rich who make that happen. The price isn't driven by whether the purchase might make sense or not.
All that to say, yes, you are absolutely right. Only Apple and Google stocks rise, because they are the sexy stocks right now.
I don't know if your trolling or really serious, but I feel your post elicits a response either way.
B) To call yourself a fairly technical user then start whining about having to drop into the command line is simply disingenuous. A command line is far more efficient and easy to work with than a GUI. Many times GUIs are a crutch which allow non technical people to do things they shouldn't be doing. Most technical people I know prefer the command line.
A) Recompiling the kernel? Come on. Only in very rare cases do you have to do ANYTHING that requires recompiling the kernel. Your making that problem up. It simply doesn't exist for most users.
C) Just because you don't like MAN pages, doesn't mean you have to villify them. Many volunteers have written great docs on sites like The Linux Documentation Project. If you don't like MAN pages do a little searching on the internet.
If you are going to call yourself an advanced user please act like one.
In terms of the version tracker feature. Open Office should integrate subversion to do the version tracking, thus following the *nix paradigm of do one thing well. Don't reinvent the wheel when there's already a great one out there.
While this attitude is perhaps fine for other industries, IT is not one of them.
In IT managers MUST have a bit of technical background and expertise.
The reason is clear, and I haven't seen anyone on slashdot mention it yet. Managers generally have a say in what hardware and software is purchased for the company. If these managers have no technical background you get things like a single exchange server with no failover running on the cheapest dell server money can buy, and then expect the IT personell to keep it running 24/7.
Stupidity and ignorance in management cause those of us who work under them countless wasted hours fighting loosing battles against insufficient hardware and low quality software.
The people who will actually work on the systems should be the ones with the say in what is purchased. Not some manager who's swayed by pretty graphics and loud marketing.
That's why MS hates linux so much. Linux already runs on the Cells, but MS can't steal it.
Because their brainwashing techniques are no longer effective.
If I had mod points I'd mod you as a troll. Star/Open Office has had Microsoft interoperability since thei first release. Star/Open Office has been out about 5 years now and Microsoft still refuses to add code to read Star/Open Office files.
Undoubtedly they refuse because they know it would decrease their market share.
Reading the article it would appear that the Scottish Police Force admins are too incompetent to set up the systems properly. Perhaps they would rather use Microsoft's brain dead 3 clicks and you're configured interface, but they sacrifice security in doing so.
If you want to pay $800 bucks to use a product that assumes you're as dumb as 90% of the market go ahead.
The rest of us will happily use Open Office 2.0.
Woman lucy = new Woman();
With windows you get a pre-compiled binary that will probably run on your system, but will not be optimized for you specifically. Prepackaging is very convinient, but much is sacrificed in doing so.
You make the choice.
Choose software for which you can examine the code, or use someone's prepacked binaries which rely on libraries written by morons.