Unless I have to listen to sh*tty WMA or mp3 instead. However, I prefer AAC, that your Zune won't play.
But I have a Zune. As an anti-theft device (http://hideapod.com/). Brown one.
WTF you're talking about? Who prevents you to buy an audio CD, rip to mp3 and have it DRM-free? After all, you can get your DRM'ed music out of iTunes Store, burn an audio CD and import it back as a regular mp3 or AAC (whatever format you want). It will cost you additional 50 cents for an empty CD and two minutes to complete the task.
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Linux and Solaris count towards less than 5% of the market.
Right. A *desktop* market. Actually much less than 5%. It is about less than 3% for both.
Google Apps gives me what I want: A browser-based place to write stuff and make spreadsheets and store the documents where I can access them whenever I like.
Yes. Spent 4 years with Zope and Plone. Know both: old Zope 2 (still alive) and new Zope 3. All designed to suck hard. Tried it, used it, supported at production and never never never never ever will do this again. Ever.
I kept it for a week and reloaded Linux. Not ready yet.
Can you be more specific what exactly is missing there for you?. As for me, I have my IDE's, Java, Python, Ruby, I have my Emacs, my terminal, mailer, browser, sound, GIMP, Inkscape, OpenOffice, MPlayer etc... Automounter does not suck as it sucks on Linux and also I have my xVM (VirtualBox) and I can run Windows there for my software tests.
Ruby's Unicode (and not only this) sucks, yes. Well, to be honest, I said about Ruby more like to be nice to Ruby community.:-) But in fact, there are no problems handling Unicode in Python at all. I am doing it like 7+ years so far. Syntax could be better though, but it works rock stable and reliable. Besides, I am Unicode-freak and believe that other encodings must disappear (not yet for SHIFT-JIS though, because Japanese gov is too slow in this), but still I think I know what I am talking about.:-)
Dude, who is using regular expressions these days? "Oh, we have a problem and we can use regexp to fix it!" â" well, now they do have two problems. I do not have any problems with text processing and especially web, using Python. If you use XML, then probably Python or Ruby or Groovy are the only best choices among scripting languages.
Just my few cents. Well, that's interesting, because Chrome is quite nice software. However, personally I think that DHTML (aka Ajax hype) is definitely not where very near future goes. People want rich internet applications instead (M$ Silverlight, Adobe AIR, Sun JavaFX). Therefore I truly doubt someone will really hurry up to install the same WebKit that just has bit different GUI and runs every tab in separate process...
As for me, I have none of issues with Chrome, but as a developer I just get these usual life things:
Now we have to worry one more browser. Despite of it is a clone of the same Safari since based on a WebKit, yet it still has its own bugs and issues. Thus some more checks in your JavaScript.
Your Help Desk will need to reply some more phonecalls.
No, you can not do "Viewable in any browser" anymore, because this specific Ajax widget looks and behaves different on browser $Foo and fonts are rendered in WebKit on Windows very different that are rendered usually with a ClearType.
Personally, the less browsers Ajax developers have â" the less problems appears. I'd love to have one decent browser instead dozen of those that always missing something.
But I hope, no JPerl for upcoming 0xff years ever. Otherwise I will not just "Write once and debug everywhere", but also "Write once and never look at it again".
I fully agree about the contract, but that's still irrelevant. We are talking about the case, when Google abandons one technology and is moving to another. Even if you have a contract with the vendor and your software is not affected in its stability at the very moment, yet you can not develop new versions and have to use different approach. That's what I am talking about...
That did not result in any loss of data. And the SOAP API still is accessible, just deprecated.
But they DID result in YOUR loss of MONEY, if you are vendor of software to your customers and if your software is using unstable and deprecated services. You can not ship "still accessible, just deprecated" product to your customers for commercial sale and support, do you? In order to make it good for some unpredictable time, while stupid vendor's evolution in a progress (see below), you SHOULD spend a TIME to make your software good. And a time IS a money.
So what, eventually ALL web services will be deprecated as the specs progress.
Huh? So because of stupid vendor "progress" I have to rewrite my program all the time, just because someone never reads WSDL specifications at W3C and never sticks to the standards?.. WTF?..
It is irrelevant if someone bothers of it or not. It just the fact that someone is watching you, that's it.
And this is just an example for a start. You do not necessary need to be a criminal in order to be suspected in something. Second, if you are valuable, your information can be stolen, copy-pasted, reworked and then successfully reused. That's the whole point of the RMS's talk: you have *no control* on your personal data.
But they dropped SOAP support (web services). And rewriting applications that now should use stupid Ajax with very strict rules instead â" is a nonsense and harmful. You are enforced now to re-spend some time to migrate your software from SOAP to HTML crap, otherwise your application will be not stable, as Google says.
Sorry, folks, but lemme make it clear to myself... So if an application crashes entire OS, then how the heck it can be called "Good OS"? I understand iTunes 8 is a bugware, but in general, is it good operating system that can not withstand stupid software and jail it? I would love see the same thing with Solaris, for example. Or even with the OSX. It sounds to me more like a security problem, because you can write stupid C/C++ program that crashes your Vista machine, put it somehow somewhere (different topic though) and then trigger when it is "needed"... Am I am missing something?..
There are no such thing as a war on touch screen. Frankly, iPhone is not about touch screen. It is about software and about how the things works. Symbian? Windows Mobile? Hahahahahahaha!...
No, because then we will have some more complete morons, who does useless things like "Ubuntu pornographic edition" (although, we have this already anyway...), "Ubuntu gay edition", "Ubuntu anti-Semite edition" and so on and so forth.
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Unless I have to listen to sh*tty WMA or mp3 instead. However, I prefer AAC, that your Zune won't play. But I have a Zune. As an anti-theft device (http://hideapod.com/). Brown one.
WTF you're talking about? Who prevents you to buy an audio CD, rip to mp3 and have it DRM-free? After all, you can get your DRM'ed music out of iTunes Store, burn an audio CD and import it back as a regular mp3 or AAC (whatever format you want). It will cost you additional 50 cents for an empty CD and two minutes to complete the task.
Linux and Solaris count towards less than 5% of the market.
Right. A *desktop* market. Actually much less than 5%. It is about less than 3% for both.
Sun open-sources Java, but now no JavaFX for Linux...
It will be. Just hurry to release it and spin it out. So a widespread desktop systems has a primary priority in this case, I think.
Google Apps gives me what I want: A browser-based place to write stuff and make spreadsheets and store the documents where I can access them whenever I like.
But it does not runs on Microsoft Azure, does it?
*hides*
Have you tried Plone?
Yes. Spent 4 years with Zope and Plone. Know both: old Zope 2 (still alive) and new Zope 3. All designed to suck hard. Tried it, used it, supported at production and never never never never ever will do this again. Ever.
I kept it for a week and reloaded Linux. Not ready yet.
Can you be more specific what exactly is missing there for you?. As for me, I have my IDE's, Java, Python, Ruby, I have my Emacs, my terminal, mailer, browser, sound, GIMP, Inkscape, OpenOffice, MPlayer etc... Automounter does not suck as it sucks on Linux and also I have my xVM (VirtualBox) and I can run Windows there for my software tests.
Seriously. What else I am missing?
But most of them sometimes goes "up to eleven"... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven)
I just wondering how stable this Microsoft Azureus is in order to download my pr0n in torrents...
Ruby's Unicode (and not only this) sucks, yes. Well, to be honest, I said about Ruby more like to be nice to Ruby community. :-) But in fact, there are no problems handling Unicode in Python at all. I am doing it like 7+ years so far. Syntax could be better though, but it works rock stable and reliable. Besides, I am Unicode-freak and believe that other encodings must disappear (not yet for SHIFT-JIS though, because Japanese gov is too slow in this), but still I think I know what I am talking about. :-)
Unless your XML contains Unicode....
All XML is in unicode. What's wrong with Unicode anyways? It works for years to everybody.
Dude, who is using regular expressions these days? "Oh, we have a problem and we can use regexp to fix it!" â" well, now they do have two problems. I do not have any problems with text processing and especially web, using Python. If you use XML, then probably Python or Ruby or Groovy are the only best choices among scripting languages.
Perl?.. Hahahaha!..
OK, what about AIDS-fighting condoms?...
Just my few cents. Well, that's interesting, because Chrome is quite nice software. However, personally I think that DHTML (aka Ajax hype) is definitely not where very near future goes. People want rich internet applications instead (M$ Silverlight, Adobe AIR, Sun JavaFX). Therefore I truly doubt someone will really hurry up to install the same WebKit that just has bit different GUI and runs every tab in separate process...
As for me, I have none of issues with Chrome, but as a developer I just get these usual life things:
Personally, the less browsers Ajax developers have â" the less problems appears. I'd love to have one decent browser instead dozen of those that always missing something.
Not really. It was in NeXTSTEP yet in 1987 and earlier...
But I hope, no JPerl for upcoming 0xff years ever. Otherwise I will not just "Write once and debug everywhere", but also "Write once and never look at it again".
I fully agree about the contract, but that's still irrelevant. We are talking about the case, when Google abandons one technology and is moving to another. Even if you have a contract with the vendor and your software is not affected in its stability at the very moment, yet you can not develop new versions and have to use different approach. That's what I am talking about...
That did not result in any loss of data. And the SOAP API still is accessible, just deprecated.
But they DID result in YOUR loss of MONEY, if you are vendor of software to your customers and if your software is using unstable and deprecated services. You can not ship "still accessible, just deprecated" product to your customers for commercial sale and support, do you? In order to make it good for some unpredictable time, while stupid vendor's evolution in a progress (see below), you SHOULD spend a TIME to make your software good. And a time IS a money.
So what, eventually ALL web services will be deprecated as the specs progress.
Huh? So because of stupid vendor "progress" I have to rewrite my program all the time, just because someone never reads WSDL specifications at W3C and never sticks to the standards?.. WTF?..
It is irrelevant if someone bothers of it or not. It just the fact that someone is watching you, that's it.
And this is just an example for a start. You do not necessary need to be a criminal in order to be suspected in something. Second, if you are valuable, your information can be stolen, copy-pasted, reworked and then successfully reused. That's the whole point of the RMS's talk: you have *no control* on your personal data.
I use windows Live services, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Notebook. Having these things online and accessible from anywhere is a great convenience...
...for police, CIA, FBI and other government institutions that successfully watching you.
But they dropped SOAP support (web services). And rewriting applications that now should use stupid Ajax with very strict rules instead â" is a nonsense and harmful. You are enforced now to re-spend some time to migrate your software from SOAP to HTML crap, otherwise your application will be not stable, as Google says.
Sorry, folks, but lemme make it clear to myself... So if an application crashes entire OS, then how the heck it can be called "Good OS"? I understand iTunes 8 is a bugware, but in general, is it good operating system that can not withstand stupid software and jail it? I would love see the same thing with Solaris, for example. Or even with the OSX. It sounds to me more like a security problem, because you can write stupid C/C++ program that crashes your Vista machine, put it somehow somewhere (different topic though) and then trigger when it is "needed"... Am I am missing something?..
There are no such thing as a war on touch screen. Frankly, iPhone is not about touch screen. It is about software and about how the things works. Symbian? Windows Mobile? Hahahahahahaha!...
No, because then we will have some more complete morons, who does useless things like "Ubuntu pornographic edition" (although, we have this already anyway...), "Ubuntu gay edition", "Ubuntu anti-Semite edition" and so on and so forth.
Interesting name though. Associates to me something like "bounty jackass antelope" or similar... Very creative. :-)