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  1. Re:So, nitpicking... on Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Talking about Google, gmail was initiall released on April 1 2004. Based on the CVS logs of http://mozilla.org/xmlextras/index.html and mozilla/extensions/xmlextras it would seem XMLHttpRequest was introduced into the nightly builds early 2001.

    I dont think google was using XMLHttpRequest untill well after it was adopted by things besides IE.

  2. Re:Check out LINQ... on How Would You Improve SQL? · · Score: 1

    Except that its the columns that are relevent, and what your interested in, where as the tables, joins, etc are an implementation detail. I could start talking like Larry Wall and use nifty terms like "end weight", sufficent to say that with a syntax for fetching data, the data is the important part, and the important part should come first.

  3. Re:Moglen is mistaken on GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, then you should't have included the clause "or .. any later version". Pleanty of software is GLP 1 or 2, but lacks that clause. If you diddnt want to leav open the possibility that somehow a third party could screw you, then you shouldn't have included that clause.

    Sucks to be you

  4. Nice theory but... on No Respect for Windows Open Source · · Score: 1
    Perhaps the reason why people dont seem to buy into your OSS CMS isn't
    • because it run on Windows and Windows isnt OSS, but because it runs on Windows and Windows is a piss poor server platform
    • because it run on VB.Net and VB.net isnt OSS, but because it runs on VB.NET and VB.NET is a piss poor platform for anything, least of which web apps
    • because it run on Windows and Windows isnt OSS, but because you make absurd statements like "...built on a Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET) platform, and is easily installed and hosted ..." which may be accurate so far as its technicaly easy to do, but not easy on the pocketbook, with Windows hosting costing a not-insignificant premium on LAMP boxen.
    • because it runs on Windows ... but because your "Framework ideal for creating and maintaining professional Web Applications" has a homepage with internal, generated, broken links.
    • because it run on Windows ... but because you claim that you "try to exemplify true open source ideals" but dont so much as have a public CVS or SVN repo of the source
  5. Re:what a wimpy database on Oracle To Offer A Free Database · · Score: 1

    Only 1GB of RAM? Last time I tried out the demo version of Oracle, 1GB of ram was about its minimum requirement!

  6. Re:Yawn. on Microsoft Releases Game Advisor For Windows · · Score: 1

    Because, despite different hardware, Windows has a similar SDK to the 360. By attracting PC gamers, they increase demand for PC games. This increases development. And when those PC game developers look to port to a console, which one is going to be the first?

  7. Re:Love this quote on Andy Tanenbaum Releases Minix 3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your little case study of Intel only proves that Intel is incapable of creating a long-term-worthy CPU core. And that might not even be true ... The Pentium M is built on the line of P-Pro/P3, not the all-new P4. I dont think that there is a sufficently large pool of modern RISC processors around that one can make any general statements on the R&D cycle of RISC processors.

    What could be stated is that by having a CISC-on-RISC processor one can persue multipe RISC cores and allow them to flourish, die, and be revived on entirely unpredictable market demands, and long term developement costs of a paticular core. This isnt unique to CPU design, nor is it a new concept. Brooks covers multiple implementations in Mythical Man-Month.. Virtual machines be it software ala Java, Smalltalk, Lisp, or the virtual-to-the-exteeem AS/400 platform.

    No new lessons to be learnt here.

  8. Re:Creating ods is darn trivial on OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Tell me, how is writing something in Python not the same as "either macro programming and or automating excel"? I can see how the Office solution would require installing Office on the server, but with ADO/ActiveX/DDE/WTF I dont know if it qualifies as "running it".. At least not the UI part, which would be the resource hog.

    I dont disagree that having a nice documented format is a good thing, but the older OOo docs are too, as is the native formats for Abiword. If what you want is scriptability, you can do that with Office just fine.

  9. Re:Should be more than just source code on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    The wall might have had a velocity of -4mph, but it would have a speed of 4mph.

  10. Re:Why do we still post this garbage? on Stopping Linux Desktop Adoption Sabotage · · Score: 1

    Well, the thing about ATI is that, historicaly, all their drivers suck. Their Linux drivers have just sucked more.

  11. Re:The Rational Unified Process is excelent on IBM Donates Parts of Rational to Open Source · · Score: 1

    Tell me, how can you do "Computer Aided Software Engineering" without tools?

  12. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Yes, your right. Typo. Thats my point, dumbass: a country with a significantly smaller economy and about half the population contributes > 20x the troops to UN operations.

  13. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Somehow I doubt that the DPKO is confused about its own numbers.

    http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/contributors/

  14. Re:The UN, dictatorships and the Internet... on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1

    Well, China is a Permanent Member of the UN security council.. I suppose if anyone tried to kick them out, they could just veto it.

  15. Re:The UN has finally lost it on EU, UN to Wrestle Internet Control From US · · Score: 1, Interesting

    According to the UN Department of Peackekeping Operations, the United States of America has a grand total of 344 personal deployed on UN missions. 315 of them are civilian police, most being deployed to with UNMK, the mission in Kossovo.

    Compare this to, say Bangladesh, which has 8,812 personal. Bangladesh has a GDP of $275 billion, to the US's $11.75 billion. (and Walmart, with ~ $300 billion in revenue).

    The US contributes almost nothing to the UN.

  16. Re:hm on SpreadFirefox Security Breached (again) · · Score: 1

    Well, that is a frequent result of web site security hacks.

  17. Perfect. on Tim Bray on Implications of OpenDocument Format · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Neither the audio or video have the complete presentation. Nice. Very nice.

  18. Re:ISS Orbit on NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Could they of? Marketing spin, possibly.

    Should they of? Yes. The shuttle fleet has operated better then the initial safety specs called for.

  19. Re:You may NOT want to hire a lawyer. on Owning Your Own IP at a Company? · · Score: 1

    More to the point, the only good contract has been one that has been explored by the court system. Lawyers may be able to produce a contract that is more likely to stand up in court, but there is nothing inherently to the system that pervents a lay person from doing so.

  20. Re:Examine t he license carefully!! on MySQL 5.0 Candidate Released · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Under the Open Source License, you must release the complete source code for the application that is built on MySQL

    Well, I suppose that is a question of semantics. I would say that if you take MySQL had hack it, relese it as BobSQL, then this applies - BobSQL is built with MySQL. If you write a recepie organizer that uses MySQL, then you need to do nothing.

    Read more about the FLOSS License Exception.

    What is the problem? MySQL has a client library, which is released under the GPL. Generaly, if you want to use and distribute MySQL client libraries, you also need to release whaterver is yours as GPL. If its commercial, you can always buy a license from MySQL AB. For other OSS project this may be unacceptable - and for PHP it was, for example. So provided that these other OSS projects conform to specific guidelines, they are free to distribute the client libs.

    You always, always, have the option of using MySQL in a non OSS enviroment. Buy a license.

    I cant see how their license plan could be any more friendly, unless they switch to a BSD style license. Want to just use it? Knock yourself out. Want to hack on it and continue to release it under the GPL? Knock yourself out. Want to release it with another, non-GPL, OSS license? Knock yourself out. Want to not release the source? Buy a license.

  21. What is your opinion... on Ask Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    On the illegal distribution of "very old" software, i.e. Pirates! for the C=64.

  22. Re:Just the beginning on Massachusetts Finalizes OpenDocument Standard Plan · · Score: 1

    OpenDocument covers spreadsheets, presentations and database documents, and a bunch more.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument#File_typ es

  23. Re:Keep rocking like its 1995! on Sun President Says PCs Are Relics · · Score: 1

    Id guess anyone but Dell. Hell, Id even wager on Microsoft over Dell. Dell has their head firmly up Intels ass that its entirely possible they dont even know what OpenBoot, let alone what a UltraSparc, is. They sure wouldnt risk buying a company that sells AMD systems (and apparently some other stuff, too).

  24. Excelent on London Tube Dangerous for Technophiles? · · Score: 1

    My Female Breast Inspector shirt will come in handy now.

  25. Re:Ok, I'm going to be an asshole here: on Pre-Selling Domain Names? · · Score: 1
    • Perhaps, but ignoring it wasn't the solution. And if she diddnt know, I guess she should have paid more attention during probate to see whats what.
    • So? Not realy the point here.
    • Yes. But the cop, at least in the movie, pronounced it wrong. The mispronouncation was what mad him snap and grab the cops gun.
    But frankly, Im supprised anyone got the reference.