I once saw the following espoused on a RoR website: What would you think if I told you that you could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework? You can--without making any sacrifices in the quality of your application! How is this possible?
I'll tell you how it's possible.... YOU FORGOT TO IMPLEMENT THE DAMN SECURITY AND A STABLE FRAMEWORK!!! Seriously, it might be an ideal application for my college course class, but the excessive hype around this project has never sold me on using RoR for anything where my responsibility lay.
I definitely agree with your observations about what the "ideal" browser embodied during the 90's until now. I remember trying to get everybody to switch from IE to NN until they started to tack on so much crap that Netscape would start crashing everywhere. Pretty soon the lightweight IE was getting stable and I was evangelizing for its use instead.
My primary concern nowadays is with the exploitations and proprietary tags that afflict internet explorer. For most purposes IE is still a respectable browser, but hit the wrong webpage and BAM! 40 popups crowd your screen, active-x runs a trojan on your computer, CRAM toolbar decides to invade your toolbar. And in true microsoft fashion, they started embedding their own proprietary tags that only IE is able to render in an attempt to use their browser clout. I would say that it's the number one reason people will not be switching to Firefox as soon as they should be, and maybe not ever.
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I once saw the following espoused on a RoR website: What would you think if I told you that you could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework? You can--without making any sacrifices in the quality of your application! How is this possible?
I'll tell you how it's possible.... YOU FORGOT TO IMPLEMENT THE DAMN SECURITY AND A STABLE FRAMEWORK!!! Seriously, it might be an ideal application for my college course class, but the excessive hype around this project has never sold me on using RoR for anything where my responsibility lay.
I definitely agree with your observations about what the "ideal" browser embodied during the 90's until now. I remember trying to get everybody to switch from IE to NN until they started to tack on so much crap that Netscape would start crashing everywhere. Pretty soon the lightweight IE was getting stable and I was evangelizing for its use instead. My primary concern nowadays is with the exploitations and proprietary tags that afflict internet explorer. For most purposes IE is still a respectable browser, but hit the wrong webpage and BAM! 40 popups crowd your screen, active-x runs a trojan on your computer, CRAM toolbar decides to invade your toolbar. And in true microsoft fashion, they started embedding their own proprietary tags that only IE is able to render in an attempt to use their browser clout. I would say that it's the number one reason people will not be switching to Firefox as soon as they should be, and maybe not ever.
In Ubuntu 6.06, the tortured process to install fglrx drivers for my ATI Radeon X200M
Step 1: Go to synaptic and select the drivers
That's it!