I agree with this. At this juncture, Linux/BSD/Solaris is in a much better position than Windows 2000. It is time to leverage this lead and start touting the advantages of.*[U|l]n[i|u]x\. I have been subscribing to MSDN exactly for this purpose. That way I can pour thru Microsoft documentation and inform my clients in an informed way about the inferiority/shortcomings an non-compliance with standards of Microsoft s/w.
There is nothing like an official Microsoft document in your hands to help you prove your point.
In my mind the few thousand bucks I have given to Microsoft has been well worth in in the millions of dollars that I probably have steered away from Microsoft and in the direction of Unix..
I don't think much of R&D. R&D is basically creativity by edict. Thus those who do R&D tend not to be the best and the brightest, but the best salesmen/politicians. FWIW.
Is this the new Microsoft strategy? Instead of scare tactics using FUD, try to sound reasonable and cool using FUD? Wow!! I like it......!!!! First publish an article and then flood slashdot and newsgroups with reasonable sounding positive FUD instead of negative FUD. I like it, I like it....!!! Nah!! sounds too good to be true....
Sun has been promising now for 9 months that JavaWorkShop will be SCSL'd by this Summer, which now is LAST Summer ( how do they define Summer in California anyway??????)
We had NeWS which used DPS as base, rendered by X. Java is kin to DPS, and XML is becoming second cousin. So is the issue Graphics or the Transport? It appears to me that Transport should be fixed first, since we can go back to NeWS in a rather painless way, and get a better transport to begin with. And then all of X can slowly be replaced by NeWS and we'd be ahead where we'd have been in 1987 if Gosling had his way instead of MIT and DEC.
Probably not even worth $ 0.02 but there it is....
Actually he said OSS ( I think he meant GPL) is not the answer, Free Software ( i.e. NOT GPL but non-restricted Free software , as in antlr from www.antlr.org) is the answer. He was using Free to mean NOT GPL.... in my opinion.
One way to look at it would be that the Universe is a closed bounded (yet expanding) $C-\infty$ Manifold. So it could be the boundary of a higher dimensional manifold. This assumes that the Euler characteristic is 2. If it is zero or -2 then more interesting "expansion" phenomena occur. I don't know a good reference for Super String theory that explores this subject. Differentiable/Riemannian geometry books tend to be a little too esoteric on this subject. A good reference book is
"Gravitation" by Archibald, Thorne and Wheeler.
Others are any articles by William Thurston, Peter Doyle. Also look at
http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/doyle/mpls/ and http://www.geom.umn.edu
I think they are more than a Sun partner. I remember Sun buying them in perestroika days. I also remember HP being quite upset since they were going to buy it, but Sun somehow beat them to it. That is what I remember anyway.
My first computer (well, not mine really, but..) was an SDS-920 (paper-tape reader , paper-tape punch), and then an SDS-930 which had a PRINTER (ooops, I meant a printer, but it was loUD...) The came PDP-11 and HP2107. And they actually had some decent debuggers. Then I had a Compaq 386 with MS windows something or another on top of DOS 3.31 (it was a Compaq remember?). I was so visually shaken by the inferiority of the thing, I got rid of it after six months. Then came Windows 2.0 , at which time I finally decided to spring $5500 for a refurbished SparcStation 1, in 1991. 1992, we added a Sparcstation 1+, and 1993 we got a Mac 840AV. I have to admit that we have a Sony 300MHz Pentium II running Windows at this time, however, the computers that do the real work(read anything other than Quicken) are a Sparcstation 20, and an UltraSparc 2. I am typing this on a Toshiba Tecra740CDT, running Solaris x86 (being used as an X-terminal), with Netscape running on the Ultra, and going thru ipfilter as NAT on the Cable modem. If and When Quicken comes out on Solaris or Linux, will be day that I will say good-bye to ALL MS products. I wish that day was here today. BTW, I did load Windows '98 on this machine ( the Toshiba that is ) last week , and I was so disgusted with it's egocentric behaviour, I took it out on Tuesday and loaded Solaris 7 x86 yesterday. Never again......
Since Microsoft appears to have no shame about doing this kin of stuff, it is best to publicize this by:
1) Find out about each patent in IBM site, 2) Send an e-mail to patent office and register your objections 3) Let us form a web-site where everyone can register their complaints, their opinions and the actual history of patent under question. 4) Publicize this in the newsgroups. 5) Let the publishers/magazines/authors know about this. More articles the better.
Since Microsoft seems to have no shame, let us shame them into it.
No sir, this is not a joke. We are talking about the most dangerous terrorist organization ever lived. Landscape is littered by people whose careers and businesses have been destroyed and have been reduced to the final acceptance state a la 1984 by George Orwell. If you can't see the parallel, you are either too young or too ignorant, or a Microsoft employee.
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I agree with this. At this juncture, Linux/BSD/Solaris is in a much better position than Windows 2000. It is time to leverage this lead and start touting the advantages of .*[U|l]n[i|u]x\. I have been subscribing to MSDN exactly for this purpose. That way I can pour thru Microsoft documentation and inform my clients in an informed way about the inferiority/shortcomings an non-compliance with standards of Microsoft s/w.
There is nothing like an official Microsoft document in your hands to help you prove your point.
In my mind the few thousand bucks I have given to Microsoft has been well worth in in the millions of dollars that I probably have steered away from Microsoft and in the direction of Unix..
Sinan
I believe way back in 1991 or 1992 , they had a demo for computing fractals using rpc.
Sinan
Above receivers ( and probably more) can not be controlled by this remote....
I don't think much of R&D. R&D is basically creativity by edict. Thus those who do R&D tend not to be the best and the brightest, but the best salesmen/politicians. FWIW.
Sinan
Is this the new Microsoft strategy? Instead of scare tactics using FUD, try to sound reasonable and cool using FUD? Wow!! I like it......!!!! First publish an article and then flood slashdot and newsgroups with reasonable sounding positive FUD instead of negative FUD. I like it, I like it....!!! Nah!! sounds too good to be true....
Sinan
Does anyone know if MMIX will only run on 2009 or will 1009 be able to execute it.
Sinan
Sun has been promising now for 9 months that JavaWorkShop will be SCSL'd by this Summer, which now is LAST Summer ( how do they define Summer in California anyway??????)
Looong Talk and maybe soon action?????
Sinan
Hey, this is a great idea. However I am a little foggy on the implementation. How do you specify the
Will
127.0.0.1 localhost www.doubleclick.com doubleclick.com
work?
I guess I should just try it...
Sinan
>>[1]: Spivak is fun! [2]: Before Computers. but you knew that.
;)
In a TeXie way or are you differentiating at all?
Sinan
We had NeWS which used DPS as base, rendered by X. Java is kin to DPS, and XML is becoming second cousin. So is the issue Graphics or the Transport?
It appears to me that Transport should be fixed first, since we can go back to NeWS in a rather painless way, and get a better transport to begin with. And then all of X can slowly be replaced by NeWS and we'd be ahead where we'd have been in 1987 if Gosling had his way instead of MIT and DEC.
Probably not even worth $ 0.02 but there it is....
Sinan
So does that mean no prior art can be demonstrated, thus anyone can patent it? Maybe AudioHighway?
Sinan
Actually he said OSS ( I think he meant GPL) is not the answer, Free Software ( i.e. NOT GPL but non-restricted Free software , as in antlr from www.antlr.org) is the answer. He was using Free to mean NOT GPL.... in my opinion.
Sinan
One way to look at it would be that the Universe is a closed bounded (yet expanding) $C-\infty$ Manifold.
So it could be the boundary of a higher dimensional manifold. This assumes that the Euler characteristic is 2. If it is zero or -2 then more interesting "expansion" phenomena occur. I don't know a good reference for Super String theory that explores this subject. Differentiable/Riemannian geometry books tend to be a little too esoteric on this subject. A good reference book is
"Gravitation" by Archibald, Thorne and Wheeler.
Others are any articles by William Thurston, Peter Doyle.
Also look at
http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/doyle/mpls/
and
http://www.geom.umn.edu
I think NeWS fits this.
NeWS( Network Extendible Windowing System) Basically spawned Java, since they both came
from Goslings mind. There was the tNt ( the NeWS
toolkit. )
Also what about tooltalk ?
I think they are more than a Sun partner. I remember Sun buying them in perestroika days. I also remember HP being quite upset since they were going to buy it, but Sun somehow beat them to it. That is what I remember anyway.
Sinan
My first computer (well, not mine really, but..)
was an SDS-920 (paper-tape reader , paper-tape punch), and then an SDS-930 which had a PRINTER
(ooops, I meant a printer, but it was loUD...)
The came PDP-11 and HP2107. And they actually
had some decent debuggers. Then I had a Compaq
386 with MS windows something or another on top
of DOS 3.31 (it was a Compaq remember?). I was
so visually shaken by the inferiority of the thing, I got rid of it after six months. Then came Windows 2.0 , at which time I finally decided to spring $5500 for a refurbished SparcStation 1, in
1991. 1992, we added a Sparcstation 1+, and 1993
we got a Mac 840AV. I have to admit that we have a Sony 300MHz Pentium II running Windows at this time, however, the computers that do the real work(read anything other than Quicken) are a Sparcstation 20, and an UltraSparc 2. I am typing this on a Toshiba Tecra740CDT, running Solaris x86 (being used as an X-terminal), with Netscape running on the Ultra, and going thru ipfilter as NAT on the Cable modem. If and When Quicken comes out on Solaris or Linux, will be day that I will say good-bye to ALL MS products. I wish that day was here today.
BTW, I did load Windows '98 on this machine ( the Toshiba that is ) last week , and I was so disgusted with it's egocentric behaviour, I took it out on Tuesday and loaded Solaris 7 x86 yesterday. Never again......
Sinan
Since Microsoft appears to have no shame about doing this kin of stuff, it is best to publicize this by:
1) Find out about each patent in IBM site,
2) Send an e-mail to patent office and register
your objections
3) Let us form a web-site where everyone can
register their complaints, their opinions
and the actual history of patent under
question.
4) Publicize this in the newsgroups.
5) Let the publishers/magazines/authors
know about this. More articles the better.
Since Microsoft seems to have no shame, let us shame them into it.
Sinan
No sir, this is not a joke. We are talking about the most dangerous terrorist organization ever lived. Landscape is littered by people whose careers and businesses have been destroyed and have been reduced to the final acceptance state a la 1984 by George Orwell. If you can't see the parallel, you are either too young or too ignorant, or a Microsoft employee.