That's hard to believe, and not entirely relevant. What I'm talking about -as a minimal scenario- is a situation where the original software just doesn't exist any more. Twenty-five years ago in 1985, Word was something called Multi-Tool. I sincerely doubt one of its files would open in Office 2010 without significant effort from a developer.
I thought Word (and later Word for Windows) was a new development effort - didn't realise it was based on that crudware they shipped for Xenix way back. It hasn't improved.
Because if SELinux is still set up the way it was last time I looked, the OP could simply guess. If it still requires jumping through forty hoops just to get an ATI video card working (and I hope it doesn't) or you can never get sound working because of the confusing set of incompatible supplied applications... Or you have to set up 3 or 4 different alternative package sites just to get Avidemux installed and working. These things matter to ordinary users.
It's just the natural way of linux distributions - most of us use the first thing we find that installs and keep using it until something bad happens. If it takes 3 days to install something that plays back an mp3, that's "something bad" and most users will simply move to the next distro.
I started with Yggdrasil because it came on a CD and it "just worked", but the releases stopped coming to I switched to slackware.
Slackware was great because it "just worked" right up until they busted the installer and I couldn't get it to boot on vanilla hardware. So I went Red Hat.
Red Hat "just worked", was slick and was completely awesome but then it suddenly got very spendy. I bought a boxed Red Hat but they started to get hard to find. So I went Fedora (brief flirt with Mandrake/Mandriva *shudder*). I stopped buying linux on CD at this point.
Fedora "just worked" but two releases on SELinux was busted out of the box and installing mp3 players and video playback and even video drivers got progressively worse as time went on. So I went Ubuntu.
At this point I bought an eee pc with Xandros on it, which was hands down the worst distro on the planet. Ubuntu netbook remix "just works" so much better than the pre-installed Xandros it's hard to comprehend why Asus bothered with it.
Ubuntu "just works" (and at least the alternative media packages are pointed at inside the distro, not requiring web searching to find like Fedora) but you know they'll find a way to stuff it up, at which point I'll just move on. The only constant is that it's Linux.
Notice the pattern? Once the distro has screwed the pooch, it's done. People move on and never look back.
The general recommendations were that each smalltalk method should be a few lines at most. Everything small, easy to understand and self contained. That doesn't mean the program couldn't be arbitrarily complex, but it did mean that unit testing was almost redundant as you could test each small functional part in-situ.
Unfortunately, it also meant that you couldn't really show your program to anyone until you were 95% done as it requires a bottom up approach to development. I loved it - if I could get the new C# /.NET stuff into a bubble browsed environment with a little "Do It" popup that used to appear in Smalltalk ("Do It" used to execute whatever you had selected) then I'd be quite a bit more productive. Most smalltalk programmers got used to including a comment in their method that had an example (with arguments if necessary) that you could "do it" and see the results.
Mine's got two disks on it though - a boot disk running ext3 (also where incoming torrents go) and a 1tb external drive that's formatted NTFS.
Using debian and ntfs-3g, mostly used to run Wizd and samba to serve media to a couple of playstation 2's in the kids bedrooms and an old Neuston mc-500 in the lounge room, as well as file storage for the laptops. These boxes have replaced satellite TV for us.
The good: it's running debian so there is lots of software available, and even if you can't get it as a package it'll compile without problems. The bad: Network file performance is woeful, but for something that idles at less than a watt I'm not complaining. If you need something on or off there in a hurry, just unmount the NTFS disk and plug it into anything.
I didn't say it was right, it's just how things are right now.
All I know is this: I commented with my own name on Usenet for many, many years without it being a problem, but recently had a few blog comments brought up during a review. This was a big wake up call for me - because there are no real rules regarding when you are "on" and "off" the clock, the dirtbag company now thinks my name belongs to them.
Sure, we know it doesn't but corporations creepily overstepping the mark are here to stay.
Most people aren't (or at least, not in that artistic sense). Adding elements that require improvisation or creativity just makes the game like work for those who aren't inclined that way. There's nothing necessarily wrong in pandering to an audience that would prefer to be entertained rather than try to entertain themselves. That's why rail shooters are popular and Deus Ex was a flop.
...because in use they aren't terribly functional. One of the secretaries I used to work with back in the eighties had a Radius portrait display on a Mac II - it was awful as seeing the whole page at a time was far less important than seeing what was on the page clearly. Print Preview pretty much killed portrait monitors stone dead.
Not to mention Free McBoot and Simple Media System - being able to play all of your standard def media in the bedroom over the network on a PS2 is very neat.
It's not "business" - it costs the car maker extra money to put leather seats in a car instead of cloth.
What is stupid about the Microsoft "decontenting" is that it cost *more* for them to cripple the home version and sell it for less. It's dumb for them, and it's dumb for the customer. It costs no more for microsoft to copy the fully featured version than the home version (barring 3rd party licenses) - it's just a waste.
It's true, I do use Ubuntu on my desktop PC at home and there's an NSLU2 running Linux as well, so we're not unfamiliar with it, but the price of the smallest EEEPC (linux only) is now $327AUD which suddenly makes it a helluva bargain compared with a second hand notebook. You'll be seeing them everywhere, very soon.
If you look at the latest versions of.NET, silverlight, integration of Ajax and the overwhelming popularity of the Ajax model in delivering web content, they will have little choice. I suspect they know the architecture of IE just isn't suited to the technology they are trying to deliver their next generation of applications on.
In other words, they want to own the server, not the client, when the applications will be delivered from there. Even their own developers use Firefox/firebug for debugging work (who doesn't?)
Given they never released a working driver for the SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 for XP (despite it being an incredibly expensive piece of kit back in the day), I wouldn't hold my breath. That was the first and last piece of hardware I bought from them.
Yeah, that's the one. I assume they will simply gut it and put the new protocol underneath (with a couple of "special" extensions to make it backwards compatible).
I can't even remember it's name, although it's installed here somewhere.
The IBM MQ product is actually OK to use (very simple, lots of platforms supported) and especially double plus good if you have an IBM mainframe somewhere on your network.
TIBCO? Shudder. About three quarters of the money they charge goes towards getting your manager drunk enough to sign the purchase order. The product itself isn't worth a damn.
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Thanks Sheldon, say hi to Penny for me.
I thought Word (and later Word for Windows) was a new development effort - didn't realise it was based on that crudware they shipped for Xenix way back. It hasn't improved.
Nope, it was easier to disable than it was to change, which makes it an epic fail.
Because if SELinux is still set up the way it was last time I looked, the OP could simply guess. If it still requires jumping through forty hoops just to get an ATI video card working (and I hope it doesn't) or you can never get sound working because of the confusing set of incompatible supplied applications... Or you have to set up 3 or 4 different alternative package sites just to get Avidemux installed and working. These things matter to ordinary users.
It's just the natural way of linux distributions - most of us use the first thing we find that installs and keep using it until something bad happens. If it takes 3 days to install something that plays back an mp3, that's "something bad" and most users will simply move to the next distro.
I started with Yggdrasil because it came on a CD and it "just worked", but the releases stopped coming to I switched to slackware.
Slackware was great because it "just worked" right up until they busted the installer and I couldn't get it to boot on vanilla hardware. So I went Red Hat.
Red Hat "just worked", was slick and was completely awesome but then it suddenly got very spendy. I bought a boxed Red Hat but they started to get hard to find. So I went Fedora (brief flirt with Mandrake/Mandriva *shudder*). I stopped buying linux on CD at this point.
Fedora "just worked" but two releases on SELinux was busted out of the box and installing mp3 players and video playback and even video drivers got progressively worse as time went on. So I went Ubuntu.
At this point I bought an eee pc with Xandros on it, which was hands down the worst distro on the planet. Ubuntu netbook remix "just works" so much better than the pre-installed Xandros it's hard to comprehend why Asus bothered with it.
Ubuntu "just works" (and at least the alternative media packages are pointed at inside the distro, not requiring web searching to find like Fedora) but you know they'll find a way to stuff it up, at which point I'll just move on. The only constant is that it's Linux.
Notice the pattern? Once the distro has screwed the pooch, it's done. People move on and never look back.
+1 to dependency hell, largely because of the copyright issues over media playback and the completely broken way that Fedora tried to get around it.
And not just dependency hell, but that "SELinux" stuff that secures your OS by the simple act of not allowing anything at all to run, ever.
Ubuntu netbook remix is a winner.
The general recommendations were that each smalltalk method should be a few lines at most. Everything small, easy to understand and self contained. That doesn't mean the program couldn't be arbitrarily complex, but it did mean that unit testing was almost redundant as you could test each small functional part in-situ.
Unfortunately, it also meant that you couldn't really show your program to anyone until you were 95% done as it requires a bottom up approach to development. I loved it - if I could get the new C# / .NET stuff into a bubble browsed environment with a little "Do It" popup that used to appear in Smalltalk ("Do It" used to execute whatever you had selected) then I'd be quite a bit more productive. Most smalltalk programmers got used to including a comment in their method that had an example (with arguments if necessary) that you could "do it" and see the results.
How is it +5 insightful to admit publically that you're a complete physical wimp?
Harden up, get on your bike!
Me too.
Mine's got two disks on it though - a boot disk running ext3 (also where incoming torrents go) and a 1tb external drive that's formatted NTFS.
Using debian and ntfs-3g, mostly used to run Wizd and samba to serve media to a couple of playstation 2's in the kids bedrooms and an old Neuston mc-500 in the lounge room, as well as file storage for the laptops. These boxes have replaced satellite TV for us.
The good: it's running debian so there is lots of software available, and even if you can't get it as a package it'll compile without problems.
The bad: Network file performance is woeful, but for something that idles at less than a watt I'm not complaining. If you need something on or off there in a hurry, just unmount the NTFS disk and plug it into anything.
I didn't say it was right, it's just how things are right now.
All I know is this: I commented with my own name on Usenet for many, many years without it being a problem, but recently had a few blog comments brought up during a review. This was a big wake up call for me - because there are no real rules regarding when you are "on" and "off" the clock, the dirtbag company now thinks my name belongs to them.
Sure, we know it doesn't but corporations creepily overstepping the mark are here to stay.
This is why you should use social networking services with a pseudonym - otherwise the company thinks you're on their clock, all the time.
How many at retail prices? I got my copy free with a video card, otherwise it was almost impossible to find in local shops.
...thinking that other people are creative too.
Most people aren't (or at least, not in that artistic sense). Adding elements that require improvisation or creativity just makes the game like work for those who aren't inclined that way. There's nothing necessarily wrong in pandering to an audience that would prefer to be entertained rather than try to entertain themselves. That's why rail shooters are popular and Deus Ex was a flop.
...because in use they aren't terribly functional. One of the secretaries I used to work with back in the eighties had a Radius portrait display on a Mac II - it was awful as seeing the whole page at a time was far less important than seeing what was on the page clearly. Print Preview pretty much killed portrait monitors stone dead.
Not to mention Free McBoot and Simple Media System - being able to play all of your standard def media in the bedroom over the network on a PS2 is very neat.
Not an undersea, unexplained mass sponge migration?
And did they move more than a foot and a half?
I run an NSLU2 as well, it's not quite fast enough for a DVB TV usb dongle unfortunately, whereas this thing might be.
Add MythTV to the Wizd / rtorrent software I usually run and I'd be golden. I want one, with a couple of TB hanging off it it'd be sweet.
It's not "business" - it costs the car maker extra money to put leather seats in a car instead of cloth.
What is stupid about the Microsoft "decontenting" is that it cost *more* for them to cripple the home version and sell it for less. It's dumb for them, and it's dumb for the customer. It costs no more for microsoft to copy the fully featured version than the home version (barring 3rd party licenses) - it's just a waste.
Debian is available for the NSLU2 - I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to push it out to other ARM based devices.
It's true, I do use Ubuntu on my desktop PC at home and there's an NSLU2 running Linux as well, so we're not unfamiliar with it, but the price of the smallest EEEPC (linux only) is now $327AUD which suddenly makes it a helluva bargain compared with a second hand notebook. You'll be seeing them everywhere, very soon.
Although, I swear I only read it in the dentists waiting room for the articles.
If you look at the latest versions of .NET, silverlight, integration of Ajax and the overwhelming popularity of the Ajax model in delivering web content, they will have little choice. I suspect they know the architecture of IE just isn't suited to the technology they are trying to deliver their next generation of applications on.
In other words, they want to own the server, not the client, when the applications will be delivered from there. Even their own developers use Firefox/firebug for debugging work (who doesn't?)
Given they never released a working driver for the SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 for XP (despite it being an incredibly expensive piece of kit back in the day), I wouldn't hold my breath. That was the first and last piece of hardware I bought from them.
Yeah, that's the one. I assume they will simply gut it and put the new protocol underneath (with a couple of "special" extensions to make it backwards compatible).
I can't even remember it's name, although it's installed here somewhere.
The IBM MQ product is actually OK to use (very simple, lots of platforms supported) and especially double plus good if you have an IBM mainframe somewhere on your network.
TIBCO? Shudder. About three quarters of the money they charge goes towards getting your manager drunk enough to sign the purchase order. The product itself isn't worth a damn.
Nah. We've already got those.