I hate Microsoft because they make my job more difficult. It has a lot to do with standards, and Microsoft leveraging their market share to create de facto standards. Take the browser wars for example. While Firefox, Opera and Safari continue to chip away at IE's browser share, IE could be considered the standard to develop for since it it used by the most people. What's ironic about this, is that IE is the least standards compliant. This makes it a challenge to create websites that render consistently across browsers. Microsoft has more than enough man power and resources to make IE standards compliant, but they *want* developers to cater to their browser, they want websites to render correctly in their browser first and foremost and other browsers to be an after thought. Fortunately, IE's many other shortcomings are taking care of this problem for us, but it will still be a very long time before there is more parity in the browser market share.
This is only one reason of course. Others include MS's attempt to shutout anti-malware vendors from Vista... this and the countless other antitrust claims against them.
I will finish this off on a positive note. While MS seems to do just about everything wrong, there is one place where they seem to be doing everything right, and in the least likely of all places. The Xbox360 is a great console, has a huge lead against the competition which will continue to grow throughout the Christmas season and into '07. Xbox live works great, and they just added a video-on-demand service to it, supporting HD no less. They are getting rights to previously PS3 exclusive titles, and have countered PS3's blue-ray with an optional HD-DVD drive, which coincidentally (or not), costs the same as a premium PS3 if bought as a bundle.
Whenever a great technology comes about (or in this case a fusion of existing technologies) you always have the people who gotta play devils advocate, you know, the guy nobody likes to hang out with because he's negative about everything. Here's one of my favorite parts FTA:
"Last month, I was on my way to visit a friend. It was dark and I got lost, and I tried to find his address in my computer. His coordinates were included in the e-mail he sent me that day. Unluckily for me, that e-mail message was sent to my GMail account, and, being disconnected from the Internet, I was left with quite a negative experience. In one split second, all the benefits of zero-install, a cool UI, labels, free targeted advertisements, an extremely useful search engine, and platform independence were annihilated when I could not find my friend's address because I was out of range of a Wi-Fi hotspot."
GOD DAMN YOU AJAX, CLEARLY YOU HAVE NO COMPASSION FOR THE ILL-PREPARED!! This would have never happened had you been using a non-ajax internet mail application, or even GMail's HTML only version. Ajax isn't only overhyped, it's out to get you. Here's another great snippet:
"JavaScript applications run in a browser, and can be easily reengineered. By loading JavaScript files on demand, you can fool Internet Explorer users; but other browsers, such as Firefox, will eagerly show a user the current DOM in its entirety through the context menu's View Selection Source option. If someone really wants to see your application's entire JavaScript source and analyze it, a simple script built with the Mozilla® Greasemonkey extension, a debugger like Venkman, or a custom Internet Explorer toolbar would do the trick."
Yes folks, he is correct here. Ever since ajax has come about, all the sudden your javascript and DOM is viewable to anyone with enough inclination to do the digging. Before "Asynchronous" and "and XML" came along, this certainly wasn't the case, I liked the good ol' days when it was just "J."
I could go on and about the evils of ajax, but what I would really like to point out, as this guy already has, is that the heart of this evil scourge is the internet itself. Never mind the fact that any 16 year-old girl going to meet a sexual predator on mySpace has the capacity to print a map out before hand because clearly, the intarweb will no longer be available once she has departed on her journey. But thats beside the point. Uninstall your browsers immediatly.
Yeah, haha, you're so right. I can't wait to revert to the days of "This site is viewable only in IE" or "This site is viewable only in Mozilla Firefox." God damn google, their open-sourcing bullshit, and the adoption of a tool kit that allows cleanly written ajax applications that are widely available on different browsers, hell even many legacy browsers. This isn't what we need right now. We need applications written using technology that is still years away from mass adoption! And of course, anyone who could be labeled a "fanboi" (you're clearly a fan of avril lavigne) would be smart enough to pick up java and convert their backend to servlets on the $5 a month LAMP packages without tomcat.
Regardless the average rating of the games (which is arbitrary in the first place, since it's one sources opinion), at least the Wii games are being played outside Best Buy kiosks and video game editor offices.
I see your point, but this is obviously a bigger technical challenge, with much bigger implications. As much heat energy is wasted in both electronics and fuel burning vehicles, we're talking about a technology that could single handedly solve issues that we've been faced with for years, that only become bigger issues as time goes on.
Solar energy is nice as an alternative energy source, but this technology would increase efficiency regardless the energy source.
The best way I can describe it is the perfect marriage between Halo and Resident evil 4. It's not technically a first person shooter which I think is a good thing, since it will bring in non-fps fans while not alienating those who do like FPS's. Top notch production quality for a game too, IMO.
these guys get paid to write this stuff?
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These WebOS's that keep popping up are nothing more than proof-of-concept web pages that do nothing except prove that you can emulate the look and feel of a desktop OS using web technologies. They are in no way practical and anyone who thinks that a real company would pursue this option as a real OS solution rode the short bus as a child.
Looking at things from Google's perspective, they should want to support whatever could help topple MS. They have a spot of Apple's board, so they are helping Apple from a strategic standpoint. I think it is also important to note that Google is a supporter of open source and Linux, and it would not make sense for them to release their own distro when they could help to support an existing and privatly funded distro that has already made huge inroads (relatively speaking of course, in comparison to other linux desktops) in the desktop market, that being Ubuntu. I personally would like to see google throw their weight behind Ubuntu, as it would really get linux out there as a viable alternative to windows.
The idea that google is gonna release their own OS? Never gonna happen.
I beg to differ. Its been a year since 360 came out, and it retails for just as much. Good luck finding any PC with graphics on par with Gears of War. If you think you're computer could run fall of man at 1080i looking as good as ps3, once again, give me what you're smokin on.
PC is cost effective? Are you insane? Even if you spend $3000 on a PC and you will never get the kind of graphics that the PS3 is capable of running at a 1080 resolution. Half your system resources are dedicated to running a bloated and inneficient operating system. You're $3000 system will be worth half that a year later -- if you're lucky. A year from now, PS3 will still retail for, tada, $600. But whatever your smokin, I want some.
The guy was resisting arrest. He would not let them handcuff him. They may have already pepper sprayed him, but we don't know because we don't see the entire incident. You're not gonna be gentle and polite to someone who could potentially hurt you. This is nothing like the Rodney King incident, where you see him getting pulled out of the vehicle and beaten. I can't believe this garbage is gathering so much attention. All we need are violent criminals getting away or cops getting killed because they are scared of someone portraying them as brutal when they are trying to do a very difficult and dangerous job.
I don't know if it's at all related, but some people have a bump on the back of their head, and I've read before that those with the bump are generally more intelligent than those without. It has a name, can't remember, but I think it was some German word. I'm sure some slashdotter out there will be able to expand on this...
Mac's don't enjoy a huge portion of the market share when looking at the overall picture, but when you look at some key professional markets -- music, video, and web design and programming, Mac's are actually pretty popular. Only makes sense that Google, who has catered unconditionally to developers would do such a thing. Not to mention, it just makes sense to support a platform that is in direct competition with Google's own competition, that being Microsoft.
If the timing of this news is some sort of political stunt, it's not a very good one. It brings the ONLY closure that we will ever get out of a war that we will be fighting for the foreseeable future.
There is a strict protocol and stringent guidelines in the creation and deployment of ATM's. Why not just adopt these same guidelines in developing a voting machine?
The misconception is that the layperson actually goes through the process of installing an operating system, ever. Most people don't realize that a computer and the operating system are two different things. They buy it, and everything works. The key to Linux becoming mainstream is extremely simple yet very difficult. Get hardware vendors to ship computers with Linux preloaded and get these computers into the retail stores like Best Buy, CompUSA, etc. The other part to all this is making migration of a new OS easy on the layperson. This is the direction certain distros have been taking, Ubuntu being one of them. The last big thing... wireless drivers, wireless drivers, wireless drivers. People want laptops, people want to go wireless. Give the people what they want.
Windows CE Kernel source opened, Microsoft offers support for Suse Linux, and now they revise the Vista EULA in a way that embraces their customers? Looks like I'll be bringing that winter jacket to hell when it's my time.
I agree that winamp is an awsome media player, but winamp 2 and winamp 5 look *identical* out of the box. i believe it was winamp 3 that overhauled the interface, it failed, and they continued the 2.x series as the 5.x series from that point on.
Too soon -- as in, got caught up in the hype before it became a time tested, proven and successful development platform. But that's really beside the point.
From what I've seen with rails, read on forums, etc, there are a lot of ways to do something the wrong way. What you may initially learn in some tutorial or book doesn't necessarily transcend to the real world, with certain features and methods not scaling well when brought into production. I've seen this in other similar frameworks, like Prado for PHP. Yes, initial development time is cut down significantly, but then you spend a lot of your time working on caching techniques and scaling in order to improve performance, which is often gonna be the case when you have a framework doing so much of the work for you.
Anyone think Apple jumped on the RoR bandwagon a little too soon? The whole "movement" has lost a lot of steam and it doesn't appear to be the silver bullet everyone originally thought it was.
Also, is this just part of the developer suite, or is RoR support somehow built in to the OEM OS?
No no no... it's Warm Tea. Hot Tea is along the lines of lemon party... But the point still stands, brits get the shaft (no pun intended) with this analogy.
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I hate Microsoft because they make my job more difficult. It has a lot to do with standards, and Microsoft leveraging their market share to create de facto standards. Take the browser wars for example. While Firefox, Opera and Safari continue to chip away at IE's browser share, IE could be considered the standard to develop for since it it used by the most people. What's ironic about this, is that IE is the least standards compliant. This makes it a challenge to create websites that render consistently across browsers. Microsoft has more than enough man power and resources to make IE standards compliant, but they *want* developers to cater to their browser, they want websites to render correctly in their browser first and foremost and other browsers to be an after thought. Fortunately, IE's many other shortcomings are taking care of this problem for us, but it will still be a very long time before there is more parity in the browser market share.
This is only one reason of course. Others include MS's attempt to shutout anti-malware vendors from Vista... this and the countless other antitrust claims against them.
I will finish this off on a positive note. While MS seems to do just about everything wrong, there is one place where they seem to be doing everything right, and in the least likely of all places. The Xbox360 is a great console, has a huge lead against the competition which will continue to grow throughout the Christmas season and into '07. Xbox live works great, and they just added a video-on-demand service to it, supporting HD no less. They are getting rights to previously PS3 exclusive titles, and have countered PS3's blue-ray with an optional HD-DVD drive, which coincidentally (or not), costs the same as a premium PS3 if bought as a bundle.
Whenever a great technology comes about (or in this case a fusion of existing technologies) you always have the people who gotta play devils advocate, you know, the guy nobody likes to hang out with because he's negative about everything. Here's one of my favorite parts FTA:
"Last month, I was on my way to visit a friend. It was dark and I got lost, and I tried to find his address in my computer. His coordinates were included in the e-mail he sent me that day. Unluckily for me, that e-mail message was sent to my GMail account, and, being disconnected from the Internet, I was left with quite a negative experience. In one split second, all the benefits of zero-install, a cool UI, labels, free targeted advertisements, an extremely useful search engine, and platform independence were annihilated when I could not find my friend's address because I was out of range of a Wi-Fi hotspot."
GOD DAMN YOU AJAX, CLEARLY YOU HAVE NO COMPASSION FOR THE ILL-PREPARED!! This would have never happened had you been using a non-ajax internet mail application, or even GMail's HTML only version. Ajax isn't only overhyped, it's out to get you. Here's another great snippet:
"JavaScript applications run in a browser, and can be easily reengineered. By loading JavaScript files on demand, you can fool Internet Explorer users; but other browsers, such as Firefox, will eagerly show a user the current DOM in its entirety through the context menu's View Selection Source option. If someone really wants to see your application's entire JavaScript source and analyze it, a simple script built with the Mozilla® Greasemonkey extension, a debugger like Venkman, or a custom Internet Explorer toolbar would do the trick."
Yes folks, he is correct here. Ever since ajax has come about, all the sudden your javascript and DOM is viewable to anyone with enough inclination to do the digging. Before "Asynchronous" and "and XML" came along, this certainly wasn't the case, I liked the good ol' days when it was just "J."
I could go on and about the evils of ajax, but what I would really like to point out, as this guy already has, is that the heart of this evil scourge is the internet itself. Never mind the fact that any 16 year-old girl going to meet a sexual predator on mySpace has the capacity to print a map out before hand because clearly, the intarweb will no longer be available once she has departed on her journey. But thats beside the point. Uninstall your browsers immediatly.
Yeah, haha, you're so right. I can't wait to revert to the days of "This site is viewable only in IE" or "This site is viewable only in Mozilla Firefox." God damn google, their open-sourcing bullshit, and the adoption of a tool kit that allows cleanly written ajax applications that are widely available on different browsers, hell even many legacy browsers. This isn't what we need right now. We need applications written using technology that is still years away from mass adoption! And of course, anyone who could be labeled a "fanboi" (you're clearly a fan of avril lavigne) would be smart enough to pick up java and convert their backend to servlets on the $5 a month LAMP packages without tomcat.
Regardless the average rating of the games (which is arbitrary in the first place, since it's one sources opinion), at least the Wii games are being played outside Best Buy kiosks and video game editor offices.
A perpetual motion machine would assume 100% energy efficiency. This technology does not claim, nor come close to claiming this.
I see your point, but this is obviously a bigger technical challenge, with much bigger implications. As much heat energy is wasted in both electronics and fuel burning vehicles, we're talking about a technology that could single handedly solve issues that we've been faced with for years, that only become bigger issues as time goes on.
Solar energy is nice as an alternative energy source, but this technology would increase efficiency regardless the energy source.
The best way I can describe it is the perfect marriage between Halo and Resident evil 4. It's not technically a first person shooter which I think is a good thing, since it will bring in non-fps fans while not alienating those who do like FPS's. Top notch production quality for a game too, IMO.
These WebOS's that keep popping up are nothing more than proof-of-concept web pages that do nothing except prove that you can emulate the look and feel of a desktop OS using web technologies. They are in no way practical and anyone who thinks that a real company would pursue this option as a real OS solution rode the short bus as a child.
Looking at things from Google's perspective, they should want to support whatever could help topple MS. They have a spot of Apple's board, so they are helping Apple from a strategic standpoint. I think it is also important to note that Google is a supporter of open source and Linux, and it would not make sense for them to release their own distro when they could help to support an existing and privatly funded distro that has already made huge inroads (relatively speaking of course, in comparison to other linux desktops) in the desktop market, that being Ubuntu. I personally would like to see google throw their weight behind Ubuntu, as it would really get linux out there as a viable alternative to windows.
The idea that google is gonna release their own OS? Never gonna happen.
The FCC shouldn't be wasting time on this. We have yet to find out who stole the cookie from the cookie jar. Who me? Couldn't be. Then who?
I beg to differ. Its been a year since 360 came out, and it retails for just as much. Good luck finding any PC with graphics on par with Gears of War. If you think you're computer could run fall of man at 1080i looking as good as ps3, once again, give me what you're smokin on.
PC is cost effective? Are you insane? Even if you spend $3000 on a PC and you will never get the kind of graphics that the PS3 is capable of running at a 1080 resolution. Half your system resources are dedicated to running a bloated and inneficient operating system. You're $3000 system will be worth half that a year later -- if you're lucky. A year from now, PS3 will still retail for, tada, $600. But whatever your smokin, I want some.
The guy was resisting arrest. He would not let them handcuff him. They may have already pepper sprayed him, but we don't know because we don't see the entire incident. You're not gonna be gentle and polite to someone who could potentially hurt you. This is nothing like the Rodney King incident, where you see him getting pulled out of the vehicle and beaten. I can't believe this garbage is gathering so much attention. All we need are violent criminals getting away or cops getting killed because they are scared of someone portraying them as brutal when they are trying to do a very difficult and dangerous job.
I don't know if it's at all related, but some people have a bump on the back of their head, and I've read before that those with the bump are generally more intelligent than those without. It has a name, can't remember, but I think it was some German word. I'm sure some slashdotter out there will be able to expand on this...
Get bought out by google
Mac's don't enjoy a huge portion of the market share when looking at the overall picture, but when you look at some key professional markets -- music, video, and web design and programming, Mac's are actually pretty popular. Only makes sense that Google, who has catered unconditionally to developers would do such a thing. Not to mention, it just makes sense to support a platform that is in direct competition with Google's own competition, that being Microsoft.
If the timing of this news is some sort of political stunt, it's not a very good one. It brings the ONLY closure that we will ever get out of a war that we will be fighting for the foreseeable future.
There is a strict protocol and stringent guidelines in the creation and deployment of ATM's. Why not just adopt these same guidelines in developing a voting machine?
The misconception is that the layperson actually goes through the process of installing an operating system, ever. Most people don't realize that a computer and the operating system are two different things. They buy it, and everything works. The key to Linux becoming mainstream is extremely simple yet very difficult. Get hardware vendors to ship computers with Linux preloaded and get these computers into the retail stores like Best Buy, CompUSA, etc. The other part to all this is making migration of a new OS easy on the layperson. This is the direction certain distros have been taking, Ubuntu being one of them. The last big thing... wireless drivers, wireless drivers, wireless drivers. People want laptops, people want to go wireless. Give the people what they want.
Windows CE Kernel source opened, Microsoft offers support for Suse Linux, and now they revise the Vista EULA in a way that embraces their customers? Looks like I'll be bringing that winter jacket to hell when it's my time.
Game Journalist - oxymoron?
Wait... what??
I agree that winamp is an awsome media player, but winamp 2 and winamp 5 look *identical* out of the box. i believe it was winamp 3 that overhauled the interface, it failed, and they continued the 2.x series as the 5.x series from that point on.
Too soon -- as in, got caught up in the hype before it became a time tested, proven and successful development platform. But that's really beside the point. From what I've seen with rails, read on forums, etc, there are a lot of ways to do something the wrong way. What you may initially learn in some tutorial or book doesn't necessarily transcend to the real world, with certain features and methods not scaling well when brought into production. I've seen this in other similar frameworks, like Prado for PHP. Yes, initial development time is cut down significantly, but then you spend a lot of your time working on caching techniques and scaling in order to improve performance, which is often gonna be the case when you have a framework doing so much of the work for you.
Anyone think Apple jumped on the RoR bandwagon a little too soon? The whole "movement" has lost a lot of steam and it doesn't appear to be the silver bullet everyone originally thought it was. Also, is this just part of the developer suite, or is RoR support somehow built in to the OEM OS?
No no no... it's Warm Tea. Hot Tea is along the lines of lemon party... But the point still stands, brits get the shaft (no pun intended) with this analogy.