B&N cannot expect to change the patent system, and attacking the patents will take years and tens of millions of dollars - with no guaranteed outcome. Given that Microsoft is charging more to license the patents for Android than the cost of an equivalent MS OS license, how can their actions be interpreted as anything but anti-competitive?
Whether or not to use C or some higher level language is mostly a matter of economics. If the cost of resources is high, you will use a lower level language to minimize resource usage. If the premium placed on performance is very high, you will use a lower level language to maximize performance. If you already understand how to do object oriented programming in C, C++ or objective C, then you are wasting your time and your employers resources using a higher level language.
For the most part, if you can't do it in C, C++ and objective C, then it can't be done.
I predict that mobile users will simply tunnel all web traffic to a proxy which is not affected by the mobile provider's throttling. The mobile provider will then be unable to distinguish one kind of traffic from another, since it will all be encrypted and connecting to the same port.
All we need is software on the mobile phone to perform the tunneling (ssh anyone?) Sounds like a business opportunity to me!
Run the source file through the GNU 'indent' program, and the indenting will be perfect. Use a better text editor. Vim understands the difference between a commented brace and an uncommented brace. Vim even understands '#if 0... #endif', which is a common way to comment out large blocks of code.
Not much. Therefore i assert that Java is relegated to a few niches, and doesn't have a lot of relevance in the FOSS world.
I know that I'd personally rather use programs which load quickly, run speedily, and don't need to have to have some huge proprietary runtime updated every few months.
It appears that I've been living in a parallel universe for 11 years now, because I've been running both apps and games on Linux. Funny, but I haven't missed Windows one bit during that time.
Then please explain why homeschooled kids do much better on their SAT scores than their peers in public school. It would seem that, on average, parents are better teachers than the professional teachers employed by the public schools here in the USA.
"Caroline Benner is a fellow at the University of Washington's Institute for International Policy. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Benner was a consultant with the geopolitical policy and strategy group at Microsoft."
I just put Debian Sarge on my notebook, and when I close the lid, it hibernates just fine. All you need is a recent 2.6 kernel, and stick
resume=/dev/yourswappartition
on you kernel command line.
I know of no way to put OSX on my laptop, so I suppose that means that OSX is not ready for the desktop.
I personally don't empathize with Mr. Gorman. I am an IT consultant, and I always visit Google first when searching for information. In the span of a few short years, Google has revolutionized the way many of us search for information.
It appears that Mr. Gorman is jealous of Google, because they are receiving so much funding for their book digitizing project. My guess is that Mr. Gorman fears that Google will render librarians such as himself largely obsolete.
Does anybody besides me wonder why anybody can sell expensive message queue software when Sendmail + Procmail can do the same thing? I've set up numerous apps that use this approach for asynchronous messaging.
John Ashcroft calls enabling the distribution of a FACSIMILE of copyrighted material "theft".
However, apparently (mis)using the power of the state to confiscate a citizen's general purpose computer, and ALL the data stored therein, is OK.
Who's the thief?
Notice the use of "facsimile" above. I say this because I have yet to see exact copies of original works available on P2P networks. Everything I have seen is compressed from an original using a "lossy" algorithm. Full fidelity is not preserved.
Microsoft is accustomed to beating competition by undercutting the competitor's price. In the past this was possible because Microsoft:
essentially "printed money" by paying employees largely with stock options.
had a death lock on the PC OEM's, initially through exclusive contracts, and later by leveraging their monopoly status. This helped to mask the cost of M$ software by virtue of the lower hardware costs in a bundled system.
foisted the development cost of hardware drivers onto the hardware manufacturers by leveraging monopoly status.
Now that Microsoft's stock price is stagnant, they can't print money. With the company under close scrutiny for anti-trust violations, they've had to reign in the leveraging of their monopoly status, and PC OEM's will gladly sell you a system preloaded with Linux if you prefer (at least for servers - desktops following soon). Additionally, Open Source software is less expensive to develop, and generally more robust.
Now Microsoft finds themselves in the same position that their competitors used to be in - they must justify a higher price because of better "value", which is intangible.
Because Microsoft's proprietary business model excludes them from participating in the Open Source software development process, they will likely end up with a niche market much like Apple now has.
I just downloaded the Linux demo and installed it on my system and got the following message: root@knoppix:~# ut2004demo Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error
Um, I can't see how OSX is going anywhere in the 3rd world. Apple hardware is more expensive that commodity Intel based hardware, and OSX is more expensive than $0.
Sure, OSX might be easier to administrate, but when you pay the system administrator $200/mo, who cares?
The only real effect this will have is rendering the blocked IP addresses useless. This will decrease the number of available IP's, and force the ISP's to change to IPv6!
OTOH, if they block name-based URL's, there will be virtually no effect whatsoever.
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If the same thing happened to Microsoft, Microsoft wouldn't let anybody know.
My goats and sheep mow the lawn while I drink beer.
B&N cannot expect to change the patent system, and attacking the patents will take years and tens of millions of dollars - with no guaranteed outcome. Given that Microsoft is charging more to license the patents for Android than the cost of an equivalent MS OS license, how can their actions be interpreted as anything but anti-competitive?
Whether or not to use C or some higher level language is mostly a matter of economics. If the cost of resources is high, you will use a lower level language to minimize resource usage. If the premium placed on performance is very high, you will use a lower level language to maximize performance. If you already understand how to do object oriented programming in C, C++ or objective C, then you are wasting your time and your employers resources using a higher level language.
For the most part, if you can't do it in C, C++ and objective C, then it can't be done.
Maybe Google is patenting these strategies so they can then sue all the companies that infringe their patent. Hey, at least I can dream....
I predict that mobile users will simply tunnel all web traffic to a proxy which is not affected by the mobile provider's throttling. The mobile provider will then be unable to distinguish one kind of traffic from another, since it will all be encrypted and connecting to the same port.
All we need is software on the mobile phone to perform the tunneling (ssh anyone?) Sounds like a business opportunity to me!
Do all you Java fanbois remember capriciously dismissing concerns about Sun's licensing of Java way back when? I hope you enjoy
EATING CROW!!!!
AdBlock for Chrome! Blocks ads all over the web
I'm using it right now, and works as good as adblock+ in Firefox.
Run the source file through the GNU 'indent' program, and the indenting will be perfect. Use a better text editor. Vim understands the difference between a commented brace and an uncommented brace. Vim even understands '#if 0 ... #endif', which is a common way to comment out large blocks of code.
Hey Peter, You don't suppose no one is buying the printed version because your website lists it as "out of stock"?
Not much. Therefore i assert that Java is relegated to a few niches, and doesn't have a lot of relevance in the FOSS world.
I know that I'd personally rather use programs which load quickly, run speedily, and don't need to have to have some huge proprietary runtime updated every few months.
It appears that I've been living in a parallel universe for 11 years now, because I've been running both apps and games on Linux. Funny, but I haven't missed Windows one bit during that time.
Then please explain why homeschooled kids do much better on their SAT scores than their peers in public school. It would seem that, on average, parents are better teachers than the professional teachers employed by the public schools here in the USA.
Caveat at the bottom says it all.
"Caroline Benner is a fellow at the University of Washington's Institute for International Policy. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Benner was a consultant with the geopolitical policy and strategy group at Microsoft."
I just put Debian Sarge on my notebook, and when I close the lid, it hibernates just fine. All you need is a recent 2.6 kernel, and stick
resume=/dev/yourswappartition
on you kernel command line.
I know of no way to put OSX on my laptop, so I suppose that means that OSX is not ready for the desktop.
Could the editors of /. please create a "slashdot.net", where all .NET developers could have their discussions?
Discussing VB.NET on "slashdot.org" is like discussing training wheel technologies in a professional bicycling forum.
Blech!
I personally don't empathize with Mr. Gorman. I am an IT consultant, and I always visit Google first when searching for information. In the span of a few short years, Google has revolutionized the way many of us search for information.
It appears that Mr. Gorman is jealous of Google, because they are receiving so much funding for their book digitizing project. My guess is that Mr. Gorman fears that Google will render librarians such as himself largely obsolete.
Does anybody besides me wonder why anybody can sell expensive message queue software when Sendmail + Procmail can do the same thing? I've set up numerous apps that use this approach for asynchronous messaging.
JDR
It's pretty scary if this guy is one of the better programmer's at Microsoft. For his benefit, here is how you decode one of these uber tricky bugs:
Funny, I've never had this problem with vim.
John Ashcroft calls enabling the distribution of a FACSIMILE of copyrighted material "theft".
However, apparently (mis)using the power of the state to confiscate a citizen's general purpose computer, and ALL the data stored therein, is OK.
Who's the thief?
Notice the use of "facsimile" above. I say this because I have yet to see exact copies of original works available on P2P networks. Everything I have seen is compressed from an original using a "lossy" algorithm. Full fidelity is not preserved.
JDR
Microsoft is accustomed to beating competition by undercutting the competitor's price. In the past this was possible because Microsoft:
Now that Microsoft's stock price is stagnant, they can't print money. With the company under close scrutiny for anti-trust violations, they've had to reign in the leveraging of their monopoly status, and PC OEM's will gladly sell you a system preloaded with Linux if you prefer (at least for servers - desktops following soon). Additionally, Open Source software is less expensive to develop, and generally more robust.
Now Microsoft finds themselves in the same position that their competitors used to be in - they must justify a higher price because of better "value", which is intangible.
Because Microsoft's proprietary business model excludes them from participating in the Open Source software development process, they will likely end up with a niche market much like Apple now has.
Q3A works fine. I ran strace and I see that it opens "/usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1", reads 512 bytes, does an fstat64() and then closes that file handle.
I just downloaded the Linux demo and installed it on my system and got the following message:
root@knoppix:~# ut2004demo
Could not load OpenGL library
History:
Exiting due to error
Specs:
What gives?
Um, I can't see how OSX is going anywhere in the 3rd world. Apple hardware is more expensive that commodity Intel based hardware, and OSX is more expensive than $0.
Sure, OSX might be easier to administrate, but when you pay the system administrator $200/mo, who cares?
The only real effect this will have is rendering the blocked IP addresses useless. This will decrease the number of available IP's, and force the ISP's to change to IPv6!
OTOH, if they block name-based URL's, there will be virtually no effect whatsoever.