What makes you think so? History is full of incidents of wars where to intertwined counties went to war. I not so sure that economic relationships insure peace and tranquility, Adam Smith be damed.
So what now, Vaclav Klaus the President of the Czech Republic is a Genius (Czech President Calls Man-Made Global Warming a Myth, Questions Al Gore's Sanity see link at http://newsbusters.org/node/10773 ).
Is anyone else questioning the Political Positions on Global Warming? This kind of stuff make Rush Limba look like a biblical prophet.
Every thug since time on immemorial has threatened to off a key witness at some time. Some would call it a time honored tradition in the right circles. My thought is the DA was just piling on the charges in order to get an easy plea deal. Still there are murders doing 10 years or less, but thank heaven they didn't Commit Spam and avoid the plea deals.
I am not a fan of Spammers, if that would matter to anyone.
*BTW - Never Criticize or present a valid argument against a major advertiser (MS or Apple from what I can tell) on \. else you will be looking a Karma "Smack Down".
Guess they need to make an example of someone, so the kids are done for, American Justice at its finest.
*Brand me as Flamebait and ding my Karma down again.
Why is this post rated as flamebait and take Karma hit?
He poses a perfectly good illistration of the problem with the American Justice System and how it applies to the internet.
"30 years for spam and a Laundry List v.s. 3-5 for a preteen rape and plea deal for 3-5 years".
Sounds like a sound argument to me with supporting facts.
A few weeks back Bill Gates stated "that piracy made things easyer for Microsoft" or words to that effect. Now they are complaining the pirates are getting their cut while making things easyer for Microsoft. I wish they would make up their minds and quit whinning about it, as their market share grows in china.
(Stike me down as a Troll or Flamebate, and ding my Karma down again)
Hey wait a second, Shader are cool stuff but not in the first salvo of class. If you want to turn these kids on, you need to show them stuff like how to make their own games. There are tones of graphic libraries to help in the Shader Area. Then they can show their buddies how cool they are, and nature will take it course from there in terms of motivation.
However, +1 point for "Shady" self promoting post. (Sorry couldn't resist)
Games Workshop always was the biggest control freaks out there. These Brits could have ruled the Gaming World, but decided to keep changing the Rulz. How Un-British!!!
How do I count running Linux Binaries on the BSD's? Is this 1, or do i get a 1/2 for each. I also run several version of Linux in VMware. Do I get partial credit for them too, since I usually keep 8 or 9 different Linux partitions laying around?
No Kidding, but we usually assign version control to the least experienced members of teams because any kid on an internship can do it. Hell, there are complete products suites on multiple platforms(the Unix world has several) to help you do this. I have written many myself at the script level depending on how the development goes, but I don't really count these as suites or a major effort, rather more nuisance than anything else.
|It does nothing to help you ensure you don't break any random code that depends on your software - especially when you don't have access to that code.|
Random Code, I like that. Tell me just how much random code do you have in your operating system. In the "Old Days" if someone did find a Hack(figuring a way to do something to improve the operation, performance, or general improvement) Microsoft would call it a "Feature" and would become a permit fixture in the software.
This kind of hostile attitude has driven developers away in droves. Sad part about it, you are so closed minded to the Microsoft way you don't even know the company's own history either negative or positive.
Keep up the positive reinforcement, and us developers will all be "Goose Stepping" to your tune in know time. We all love the Gurbles routine.
|I could go on, but from this answer alone it's pretty evident that you really don't know what you're talking about.|
Come back and talk to me after you have wrote your first Million Lines of Code. And for just you, you can write your own Version Control software to assist in the process.(Like I said any intern can do it, and I have on numerous occasion just to avoid the interns.)
|You missed everything. I'm sorry for you.|
You are an inspiration to the IT field. Your lesson in Version Control have been "en lighting" and worthy of a Nobel Prize. How could I have ever have made it, all these 3 decades without your assistance. I have been saved.
Now I know that Google should Sue Microsoft. The inmates are running the asylum over there.
|Developers that don't follow the guidelines and get burned because they took a dependency on an undocumented API should be blamed for building their app around a faulty assumption.|
I almost agree with this, but when I look back at all the documented API's that got Killed. The fire is on both sides of the API issue with Microsoft. They are not the only company to drop documented code. I have seen a lot of documented code go has by the wayside do to non-techie issues like corporate mergers, splits, and buyouts. Again, pick and choose your poison carefully. Again Embrace and Enhance aint by accident.
|If it's not documented, it's not guaranteed to be there next time around, end of story.|
Guarantees? So I am guaranteed something next time around if Microsoft buys out a competitor(or even a partner) that their acquired documented code will be there in the future. I had a lot of VB code that broke with documented API calls on patches. I Also remember the joys of VB 4.0, what are you smoking? Get out your risk calculator.
|It's not like this hasn't been explained, publicly and repeatedly, for the last 15 years.|
So if I use the documented API's from 15 year ago my apps will work? (I just broke my risk calculator on that one.)
|I understand your frustration- you want a perfectly interoperable system with perfect compatibility and APIs that do everything for you and never need to change, that consume zero resources and take no time to happen and will run on yesterday's hardware, and are completely, perfectly documented, transparent, and anticipate all future use cases and as-yet uninvented technologies adequately.|
Wow you can do that?
|The problem here is that your expectation is unrealistic.|
In Short, my expectations is that I expect my computer to run the apps that are preinstalled on it from Best Buy, that I just got, without Vista throwing DLL errors on Google when I start it up. Thank you, now I can see the unrealistic aspects of my problem.
Unrealistic? no wonder "Made in the USA" doesn't mean what it use to. Maybe Mr. Bill is right in moving to Canada...
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What makes you think so? History is full of incidents of wars where to intertwined counties went to war. I not so sure that economic relationships insure peace and tranquility, Adam Smith be damed.
So what now, Vaclav Klaus the President of the Czech Republic is a Genius (Czech President Calls Man-Made Global Warming a Myth, Questions Al Gore's Sanity see link at http://newsbusters.org/node/10773 ).
Is anyone else questioning the Political Positions on Global Warming? This kind of stuff make Rush Limba look like a biblical prophet.
Better yet, unplug the Senate Commerce Committee.
I RTFA the first time.
Every thug since time on immemorial has threatened to off a key witness at some time. Some would call it a time honored tradition in the right circles. My thought is the DA was just piling on the charges in order to get an easy plea deal. Still there are murders doing 10 years or less, but thank heaven they didn't Commit Spam and avoid the plea deals.
I am not a fan of Spammers, if that would matter to anyone.
*BTW - Never Criticize or present a valid argument against a major advertiser (MS or Apple from what I can tell) on \. else you will be looking a Karma "Smack Down".
Guess they need to make an example of someone, so the kids are done for, American Justice at its finest. *Brand me as Flamebait and ding my Karma down again.
Why is this post rated as flamebait and take Karma hit? He poses a perfectly good illistration of the problem with the American Justice System and how it applies to the internet. "30 years for spam and a Laundry List v.s. 3-5 for a preteen rape and plea deal for 3-5 years". Sounds like a sound argument to me with supporting facts.
enuff said...
Hope he gets his own ship...
Keep it up, and you will get the same Karma as I did...
A few weeks back Bill Gates stated "that piracy made things easyer for Microsoft" or words to that effect. Now they are complaining the pirates are getting their cut while making things easyer for Microsoft. I wish they would make up their minds and quit whinning about it, as their market share grows in china. (Stike me down as a Troll or Flamebate, and ding my Karma down again)
I have been reading /. for a long time and never seen this befor. So...
Where is the Info on Discussion2?
(Stike me as a troll, and ding my Karma down again...)
Yep, PR Stunt looking for investors, looks like he wants Microsoft or Cisco to write him a check.
So what's next "Anit-Open Source Software" to remove it?
What with the Windows only crap. The article just got /.
Don't know. Liquor store was in a dry county, maybe? BTW. Moderator is tuff today.
IMHO
Hey wait a second, Shader are cool stuff but not in the first salvo of class. If you want to turn these kids on, you need to show them stuff like how to make their own games. There are tones of graphic libraries to help in the Shader Area. Then they can show their buddies how cool they are, and nature will take it course from there in terms of motivation.
However, +1 point for "Shady" self promoting post. (Sorry couldn't resist)
High Performance it ain't. There are better ways.
Games Workshop always was the biggest control freaks out there. These Brits could have ruled the Gaming World, but decided to keep changing the Rulz. How Un-British!!!
Tick Based Accounting v.s. Time Sliced/Sample Based Billing
(Reminds me of some Zombies Processes I have seen in the past.)
We always want stuff faster, but we get epically testy about Open Source. Welcome to /.
Follow the Market Share, Money, Monopolies, and/or Political Mojo and see what happens in this case. I wonder which is in play this time?
How do I count running Linux Binaries on the BSD's? Is this 1, or do i get a 1/2 for each. I also run several version of Linux in VMware. Do I get partial credit for them too, since I usually keep 8 or 9 different Linux partitions laying around?
|Version control aids the development process.|
No Kidding, but we usually assign version control to the least experienced members of teams because any kid on an internship can do it. Hell, there are complete products suites on multiple platforms(the Unix world has several) to help you do this. I have written many myself at the script level depending on how the development goes, but I don't really count these as suites or a major effort, rather more nuisance than anything else.
|It does nothing to help you ensure you don't break any random code that depends on your software - especially when you don't have access to that code.|
Random Code, I like that. Tell me just how much random code do you have in your operating system. In the "Old Days" if someone did find a Hack(figuring a way to do something to improve the operation, performance, or general improvement) Microsoft would call it a "Feature" and would become a permit fixture in the software.
This kind of hostile attitude has driven developers away in droves. Sad part about it, you are so closed minded to the Microsoft way you don't even know the company's own history either negative or positive.
Keep up the positive reinforcement, and us developers will all be "Goose Stepping" to your tune in know time. We all love the Gurbles routine.
|I could go on, but from this answer alone it's pretty evident that you really don't know what you're talking about.|
Come back and talk to me after you have wrote your first Million Lines of Code. And for just you, you can write your own Version Control software to assist in the process.(Like I said any intern can do it, and I have on numerous occasion just to avoid the interns.)
|You missed everything. I'm sorry for you.|
You are an inspiration to the IT field. Your lesson in Version Control have been "en lighting" and worthy of a Nobel Prize. How could I have ever have made it, all these 3 decades without your assistance. I have been saved.
Now I know that Google should Sue Microsoft. The inmates are running the asylum over there.
|Developers that don't follow the guidelines and get burned because they took a dependency on an undocumented API should be blamed for building their app around a faulty assumption.|
I almost agree with this, but when I look back at all the documented API's that got Killed. The fire is on both sides of the API issue with Microsoft. They are not the only company to drop documented code. I have seen a lot of documented code go has by the wayside do to non-techie issues like corporate mergers, splits, and buyouts. Again, pick and choose your poison carefully. Again Embrace and Enhance aint by accident.
|If it's not documented, it's not guaranteed to be there next time around, end of story.|
Guarantees? So I am guaranteed something next time around if Microsoft buys out a competitor(or even a partner) that their acquired documented code will be there in the future. I had a lot of VB code that broke with documented API calls on patches. I Also remember the joys of VB 4.0, what are you smoking? Get out your risk calculator.
|It's not like this hasn't been explained, publicly and repeatedly, for the last 15 years.|
So if I use the documented API's from 15 year ago my apps will work? (I just broke my risk calculator on that one.)
|I understand your frustration- you want a perfectly interoperable system with perfect compatibility and APIs that do everything for you and never need to change, that consume zero resources and take no time to happen and will run on yesterday's hardware, and are completely, perfectly documented, transparent, and anticipate all future use cases and as-yet uninvented technologies adequately.|
Wow you can do that?
|The problem here is that your expectation is unrealistic.|
In Short, my expectations is that I expect my computer to run the apps that are preinstalled on it from Best Buy, that I just got, without Vista throwing DLL errors on Google when I start it up. Thank you, now I can see the unrealistic aspects of my problem.
Unrealistic? no wonder "Made in the USA" doesn't mean what it use to. Maybe Mr. Bill is right in moving to Canada...