(and I suspect, soon, Motorola)? Motorola? Motor-ola?
They are leaders in embedded tech. What does the idiot think? That because Motorola is going to go broke because Apple is shifting a small volume over to IBM (lets face it, its a small volume, they're great but 5 million CPUs/year is a drop in Motorolla's bucket.)
It was complaining about running low on virtual memory.
Zeroeth thing is "What is this message doing on the screen of a banking machine." I want a banking machine, not a BSOD or a dialog box equivalent, telling me that "there something wrong, help!"
First thing is: "WTF is a message about running low in virtual memory doing in a banking machine screen?" Do they expect a customer to walk up and reboot the machine? How is he going to play with the VM settings without a mouse or keyboard, just a number pad in the street?
The second thing is: "These machine weren't even running." The bank branch isn't even open yet.
Would you want to put your money in that bank? I sure as heck ain't going to do business with them.
Start something, like a lawsuit against a really big player or writing an early version of something that eventually competes against the "Juggernaut From Redmond", sell out, cash out and buy a plot of land somewhere sunny. Like Barbados... (Not land there... The whole island.)
The stalling's been to give IBM more time to make Derle and co. an offer they are dying to get.
Unfortunately, IBM decided that they weren't playing that way. IBM's not interested. They told their legal department to hold fast onto their prey and sharpen their fangs and claws.
I bet Derle's real sorry now. Nothing to do but shift money, that should be going to his own lawyers, off-shore into a numbered account and wait for SCO to go bankrupt.
SCO will cease to exist and Derle will go to 'Club Fed.' for a few before taking up a life of ease somewhere...
The home user doesn't figure worth a crap in M$ strategy or in their monopolistic behavior. All that stuff is just added to the long litany of crap they put up with at the office on a daily basis.(1)
It will take major corporations deserting to make any dent in Redmond's unethical behavior. And that will only happen when they see the $ benefits.
The ideology in a corporation starts at the top. We just happen to have the bad luck of a capo or a consiglieri in the mafia.
1) I "almost" worked with/for somebody who'se PC was a veritable virulence factory. There were live examples of almost every [expletive deleted] virus on her desktop. She didn't even know that anti-wirus software had to be installed. That it wasn't enough to just go and buy a CD-ROM...
And this was NOT just some bovine piece of fluff with a room temperature IQ. But computers were indistinguishable from magic. (Nothing to see. Nothing tactile to grab onto.)
Face it. The computing industry and its uses is not an important facet of life on earth. It just isn't.
The only way we're going to break up something like M$, or any a cash bloated behemoth (remember Unsafe at Any Speed), is when something really B-A-D happens; like people dying as a direct result of using it; as if the/0 error had happened while the ship was under fire from terrorists...
Why don't they get some one competent to start from scratch with some coding practices and buffer limit checks (like bounds checkin' takes SOOoo L-O-N-G, eh?)... Nooo that way they'd end up with Mozilla.
We used it to scan specs and generate a Smalltalk/V Win "Proof of Concept" on the CommonDepartmentalFinancialSystem I was working on back in the early '90s.
It was an open file format and I could strip out all the formatting code and parse just the content.
There were other things about that were good, like linking files and so on, but the open files were great.
You don't write apps "from the screen in" because that's wrong from the get go.
You design apps from the objects and relationships (not to mention security considerations mean that an individual may not be entitled to see all of them) out.
Presentation occutrs in whatever language/ script/ medium is available.
Interaction and therefore selection of triggers to object events, depends on what the individual is allowed to do.
Gates will go the way of Smalltalk and Java PARTs and other visual programming toys.
He hasn't got a fucking clue how the world works. I pity him.
(obviously THAT's not it,) is something like a ring with a holographic memory, optical processor, projection video display and audio and a projected keyboard that just hangs there.
The whole thing should be invisible except when you want it.
Jonathan Ives design any jewelry?
I can see what M$ would make of this. A seven pound wrist cuff in ugly colors.
The fact that the US win its anti-trust court date only to have the penalties pulled, and that the EU is also winning and showing some guts, shows how dumb your line of reasoning is.
I can only assume that Microsoft thought that he'd bowl them over with his charm.
Yeah... Sure...
Strategically, this was a dumb move. Steve Balmer is the archetypal ugly, swetty-pitted,, "Bull-in-a-china-shop" American.
The European must have just loved having to deal with the troglodite.
The result is that their OS is about to have to "cease and desist" its "expand and embrace. Now that they have home-grown competition that they can't steam-roll over, legally or otherwise, they'll have to settle for being just an OS in Europe.
This has a few more details. It looks like the OS that's O.S. is getting its licks in where it counts.
Why spend, or more likely rip off, an OS and productivity suite when you can get a legit one for free.
The PC got in because "Nobody even got fired for buying IBM" and then they gave away the hardware specs. (As opposed to the Amiga, TRS-80, Atari, Apple II et alia.)
Then M$ got in because "Nobody ever got fired for saving a buck." (The attack of the clones.)
It stayed in because Gates screamed "Make it more like the Mac" three(.one) times. (Remember Windows 1.0 or 2.0? He didn't stand a chance until he ripped off IBM [Man were they dumb!] for the GUI to OS/2.)
Now Linux is getting in because "Nobody ever got fired for saving even more bucks."
And screw the phoney IP "issues" with SCO.
Why doesn't he go on the web and LOOK for sh*t?
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Its people like that, ign'urnt, lazy-ass, lame-brained twits, that give me a pain u know where.
Windows got in to the office because it was NOT perceived as a "game" OS.
Remember "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."?
Soon to be replaced by "Nobody ever got fired for saving their company money." (by NOT paying the IBM premium?)
As Windows gets gamier and gamier (, I love the British expression,) it is perceived as less and less of a serious OS. Face it, its broken adn it can't be fixed. Its not a "serious" OS.
IBM's OS died from trying to compete by tying hardware in with the software when they'd given the store away to the clones.
Mac OS was never in the running (except that X-Serve running OS X has a shot.)
Windows is losing mind and marker share. WHY?
Linux is now in the running to win the marbles.
Don't blow it by running games.
Linux is poised to conquer the office PRECICELY because its NOT a game platform and its cheaper than having a bunch of MSCE flubbing things.
Ninety-nine percent of all laws are passed by the interested parties. The law makers are just reacting to the 'paying' constituency.
Pick an issue, a 'dead dog' issue, and start up some agit-prop about it, real agit prop no the freebie email campaign kind, and you'll be able to get whatever you want passed without recourse to the law.
Your problem is that you aren't pre-emptive. You guys wait until the opposition is 'talking to its friends', who aren't its friends at all but merely respond to whoever makes the most noise, and of course they put the screws to you.
Why wasn't P2P agitating way back since the beginning FOR, instead of trying to row upriver...
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(and I suspect, soon, Motorola)? Motorola? Motor-ola?
They are leaders in embedded tech. What does the idiot think? That because Motorola is going to go broke because Apple is shifting a small volume over to IBM (lets face it, its a small volume, they're great but 5 million CPUs/year is a drop in Motorolla's bucket.)
It was complaining about running low on virtual memory.
Zeroeth thing is "What is this message doing on the screen of a banking machine." I want a banking machine, not a BSOD or a dialog box equivalent, telling me that "there something wrong, help!"
First thing is: "WTF is a message about running low in virtual memory doing in a banking machine screen?" Do they expect a customer to walk up and reboot the machine? How is he going to play with the VM settings without a mouse or keyboard, just a number pad in the street?
The second thing is: "These machine weren't even running." The bank branch isn't even open yet.
Would you want to put your money in that bank? I sure as heck ain't going to do business with them.
Start something, like a lawsuit against a really big player or writing an early version of something that eventually competes against the "Juggernaut From Redmond", sell out, cash out and buy a plot of land somewhere sunny. Like Barbados... (Not land there... The whole island.)
The stalling's been to give IBM more time to make Derle and co. an offer they are dying to get.
Unfortunately, IBM decided that they weren't playing that way. IBM's not interested. They told their legal department to hold fast onto their prey and sharpen their fangs and claws.
I bet Derle's real sorry now. Nothing to do but shift money, that should be going to his own lawyers, off-shore into a numbered account and wait for SCO to go bankrupt.
SCO will cease to exist and Derle will go to 'Club Fed.' for a few before taking up a life of ease somewhere...
to get off the treadmill of watching and buying.
/. :-)
I find it leaves me with more time for
Turn off the tube and you'll have a life...
Put up yore boxen and weee'll seeee
Just on GP.
The home user doesn't figure worth a crap in M$ strategy or in their monopolistic behavior. All that stuff is just added to the long litany of crap they put up with at the office on a daily basis.(1)
It will take major corporations deserting to make any dent in Redmond's unethical behavior. And that will only happen when they see the $ benefits.
The ideology in a corporation starts at the top. We just happen to have the bad luck of a capo or a consiglieri in the mafia.
1) I "almost" worked with/for somebody who'se PC was a veritable virulence factory. There were live examples of almost every [expletive deleted] virus on her desktop. She didn't even know that anti-wirus software had to be installed. That it wasn't enough to just go and buy a CD-ROM...
And this was NOT just some bovine piece of fluff with a room temperature IQ. But computers were indistinguishable from magic. (Nothing to see. Nothing tactile to grab onto.)
The only way we're going to break up something like M$, or any a cash bloated behemoth (remember Unsafe at Any Speed ), is when something really B-A-D happens; like people dying as a direct result of using it; as if the /0 error had happened while the ship was under fire from terrorists...
Until then... Learn to cope with the beast.
Why don't they get some one competent to start from scratch with some coding practices and buffer limit checks (like bounds checkin' takes SOOoo L-O-N-G, eh?) ... Nooo that way they'd end up with Mozilla.
Europe and setting up some form of geo dynamic electrical field.
As to why Sicily? Its at the bottom and subject to the most force.
And you REuse the code. If I had to I'd reimplement it but in the end it would be the same way. (How many ways can you think to write a parser?)
We used it to scan specs and generate a Smalltalk/V Win "Proof of Concept" on the CommonDepartmentalFinancialSystem I was working on back in the early '90s.
It was an open file format and I could strip out all the formatting code and parse just the content.
There were other things about that were good, like linking files and so on, but the open files were great.
x% of $0.00 = right...
Otherwise, its not a fair tax.
He lied, locked in, ripped off and anti-trusted his way to $100,000,000,000.
And he did it without ever having a published price list.
Now THAT's balls!
You don't write apps "from the screen in" because that's wrong from the get go.
You design apps from the objects and relationships (not to mention security considerations mean that an individual may not be entitled to see all of them) out.
Presentation occutrs in whatever language/ script/ medium is available.
Interaction and therefore selection of triggers to object events, depends on what the individual is allowed to do.
Gates will go the way of Smalltalk and Java PARTs and other visual programming toys.
He hasn't got a fucking clue how the world works. I pity him.
The reason SUsE got the nod is that the've been tight with IBM since 2000.
They've earned the right by helping get Linux on BIG IRON.
Any M$ product on any other architecture gets pulled off instantly or Gates and Balmer get a "Go To Jail" card.
Let M$ got the way of DRI and for the same reason.
(obviously THAT's not it,) is something like a ring with a holographic memory, optical processor, projection video display and audio and a projected keyboard that just hangs there.
The whole thing should be invisible except when you want it.
Jonathan Ives design any jewelry?
I can see what M$ would make of this. A seven pound wrist cuff in ugly colors.
I think not.
The fact that the US win its anti-trust court date only to have the penalties pulled, and that the EU is also winning and showing some guts, shows how dumb your line of reasoning is.
What next "Religion is a science." ?
I can only assume that Microsoft thought that he'd bowl them over with his charm.
Yeah... Sure...
Strategically, this was a dumb move. Steve Balmer is the archetypal ugly, swetty-pitted,, "Bull-in-a-china-shop" American.
The European must have just loved having to deal with the troglodite.
The result is that their OS is about to have to "cease and desist" its "expand and embrace. Now that they have home-grown competition that they can't steam-roll over, legally or otherwise, they'll have to settle for being just an OS in Europe.
Why spend, or more likely rip off, an OS and productivity suite when you can get a legit one for free.
The PC got in because "Nobody even got fired for buying IBM" and then they gave away the hardware specs. (As opposed to the Amiga, TRS-80, Atari, Apple II et alia.)
Then M$ got in because "Nobody ever got fired for saving a buck." (The attack of the clones.)
It stayed in because Gates screamed "Make it more like the Mac" three(.one) times. (Remember Windows 1.0 or 2.0? He didn't stand a chance until he ripped off IBM [Man were they dumb!] for the GUI to OS/2.)
Now Linux is getting in because "Nobody ever got fired for saving even more bucks."
And screw the phoney IP "issues" with SCO.
Its people like that, ign'urnt, lazy-ass, lame-brained twits, that give me a pain u know where.
Windows got in to the office because it was NOT perceived as a "game" OS.
Remember "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."?
Soon to be replaced by "Nobody ever got fired for saving their company money." (by NOT paying the IBM premium?)
As Windows gets gamier and gamier (, I love the British expression,) it is perceived as less and less of a serious OS. Face it, its broken adn it can't be fixed. Its not a "serious" OS.
IBM's OS died from trying to compete by tying hardware in with the software when they'd given the store away to the clones.
Mac OS was never in the running (except that X-Serve running OS X has a shot.)
Windows is losing mind and marker share. WHY?
Linux is now in the running to win the marbles.
Don't blow it by running games.
Linux is poised to conquer the office PRECICELY because its NOT a game platform and its cheaper than having a bunch of MSCE flubbing things.
Ninety-nine percent of all laws are passed by the interested parties. The law makers are just reacting to the 'paying' constituency.
Pick an issue, a 'dead dog' issue, and start up some agit-prop about it, real agit prop no the freebie email campaign kind, and you'll be able to get whatever you want passed without recourse to the law.
Your problem is that you aren't pre-emptive. You guys wait until the opposition is 'talking to its friends', who aren't its friends at all but merely respond to whoever makes the most noise, and of course they put the screws to you.
Why wasn't P2P agitating way back since the beginning FOR, instead of trying to row upriver...
"Since there's no warning sticker on this spindle of blank CD-ROMs on my desk, I think I'll see how many of them I can shove down my throat."