The thing he doesn't notice or doesn't point out is that once WINE gets to that point, it suddenly becomes very much in MS's interest to break it and thus far more likely that MS will find it worth moving the target. (And the more people shoved into the.NET vision of apps not stored locally, the easier it will be to make the target move very fast indeed.)
Sorry...someone needs to write up the musical version and call it Paint Your Athlon.
Seriously...if they work reliably, great. (I just want to know when another chipset maker will come out with a multiprocessor-capable chipset for Athlon; I recall reading that AMD doesn't really want to be in the chipset business...)
Bach, Mozart, des Prez, et al. had patrons, people who paid them to do what they do. Nowadays, musicians don't have patrons. Would you pay musicians under an "open source music" model, or would you just contribute to what they call the "free rider problem"?
OTOH, people are trying to put together a patron arrangement on a mass scale, e.g.Todd Rundgren's PatroNet. (Too bad it's based on non-open source software, mumble mumble...)
Well...in one way, nothing at all. Certainly Charles Ives had a lot to say about composers and other jobs, though one could claim he was rationalizing.
OTOH, let's suppose a musician has the proverbial "day job." Wasn't it Rubenstein who said something to the effect of "If I don't practice for a day, I notice it. If I don't practice for two days, my family notices it. If I don't practice for three days, everybody notices it"? Would Vai or Satriani or [fill in your favorite virtuoso here] have the time to keep their skills honed if they had to have a day job?
Specialization has its benefits. What would you say if we substituted "programmer" for "musician" in your question?
Sorry; so-called "positive rights" are not rights at all. We may think it's good to be generous to the needy, and even think less of someone who isn't--but that doesn't give anyone or any group the right to be generous with other peoples' money.
How about a compelling example from before then? Everyone remember Samuel Slater from their American history class? He came to the US, having learned about the English mechanized mills, to set one up of his own. The English were rather particular about intellectual property as well; he had to sneak out of the country in disguise.
I've been trying all morning to grab the Win32 version (for a computer on which I, for historical reasons, run NT), and the Installer has timed out every time it's tried to ftp it.
Yes, it can be applied to other stuff...and there are always CPU-bound problems that can use the speed. (I hope someone knowledgeable about current computer graphics technology can comment on what could be done with the machine under discussion.)
Steve Ballmer, a college friend of company founder Bill Gates and current chief executive officer, said Microsoft would be forced to offer an infinite number of Windows versions under the states' demands, all with or without extra features.
Gee...I wonder how Daimler-Chrysler offers so many versions of the PT Cruiser? Four models, nine colors, manual or automatic transmission, three choices for "security group", side airbags or not, deep tint windows or not, three choices of exterior accents, six more options one can choose or not....let's see, that comes to 165,888 possible variations on the PT Cruiser (and I'm leaving out the "woody" and gold exteriors, I think...). Mr. Ballmer, Henry "you can have a Model T in any color you want as long as it's black" Ford was a long time ago--why should computer users have fewer choices than car buyers?
"Rather than form a federation with Microsoft and work with what we had already created, there was this notion that the world should be offered an alternative," Mundie said. Yes indeed, how dare people think that there should be an alternative to Microsoft!
This is a quote that really needs to be publicized heavily; even better would be video of it that could be run as often as Dukakis in a tank.
I fear you're parroting a bogus claim. (Besides, the anti-dioxin folks claim dioxin is among the most poisonous substance known to man...maybe you could arm-wrestle them over it.) The most poisonous substance known is botulism toxin. People might also wish to read this item by Bernard Cohen on the myth of plutonium toxicity.
MSNBC isn't exactly hampered by grade A reporting. This article is a prime example of their particular brand of News-lite.
You got that right. Anyone reading the article would think that KDE isn't available yet--the authors evidently think that the upcoming version of KDE is the very first version, judging by the way they wrote it up.
I expect that shortly Windows will be one of the most expensive components of computers...but that's just a guess; does anyone know the the terms of MS's deals with OEMs?
That's one of the reasons MS is trying to move its vic^H^H^Hcustomers to Danegeldware; just as you don't realize how much of your money the government seizes when they do it a bit at a time, you won't notice how much you're paying MS if you do it a bit at a time, and they can play the Polaroid game (sell the cameras cheap, charge mucho $$$ for the film).
I'm sorry, that's completely at variance with what I've seen of the "mainstream media." The mainstream media heavily push a left-leaning, technophobic nanny state with oppressive taxation to pay for the government handouts.
...I'm sure that there are some smoking guns amidst the comments. (Hmmm, will MS have already thought of this and argued that the comments aren't part of the code, leaving the states with a ghastly pile of spaghetti to read, or give the states the code in "shrouded" form a la the way Gimpel distributes source for FlexeLint?)
Well...you may find that the language you want isn't the same in its.NET incarnation. I understand that a bunch of the languages that are being made to target.NET can't move over exactly, so they end up as different languages happening to use the same name.
If a corporation wants my business, it had better listen to me. I vote with my dollars as well as at the ballot box--and, for all the evil they have done, MS has yet to send people with guns to make sure I buy Windows.
Locutus has a point. If Linux ever gets to the point of depending on MS for anything, MS has a means of control. If graphics card makers decide not to provide X drivers or provide the information needed for someone else to do so, with the rationalization "Why bother--they can just use the OpenGL/DirectX compatibility layer," MS can start munging the API to put Linux in a game of perpetual catchup--much the way they did with win32s.dll to screw over OS/2. Linux doesn't need that kind of grief.
I use Linux, but am not terribly familiar with using Linux system calls. I made a point of avoiding learning much about gcc for fear of infecting the compilers I worked on with copyleft, but now I plan on studying gcc. As for cross-compiler experience, much of what I did was cross compiled. I'd relocate to central Oklahoma (family's there), and would consider contract work. (There...that should be offtopic enough to lose me some karma!)
Hang on...the CoCo 3 didn't have the chiclet keys, and there were nice third party keyboards even for the 1 and 2. (For that matter, there have been PClone keyboard adapters for CoCos for some time; anyone wanting one now should check out Mark Marlette at Cloud-9.
[Raises hand] Here...I'm in Des Moines, out of work after 15 years of compiler maintenance, enhancement, and development.
Perversely humorous item: I went over to itmoonlighting.com, entered my vitae, and let it do its search for temporary jobs. Exactly one turned up--it was pretty obviously a college student who wanted someone to do his homework for him and was willing to pay $200 for it. (In case he or she is reading this--write your own RPN calculator for polynomials, OK?)
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You know, I should feel bad to hear that Ms. Siegel is no longer with us, but I can't say that I do.
Hatred, perhaps, but not blind. All that is needed to hate Microsoft is a sense of ethics and knowledge of Microsoft's actions.
Eh? What about Lout?
The thing he doesn't notice or doesn't point out is that once WINE gets to that point, it suddenly becomes very much in MS's interest to break it and thus far more likely that MS will find it worth moving the target. (And the more people shoved into the .NET vision of apps not stored locally, the easier it will be to make the target move very fast indeed.)
Seriously...if they work reliably, great. (I just want to know when another chipset maker will come out with a multiprocessor-capable chipset for Athlon; I recall reading that AMD doesn't really want to be in the chipset business...)
OTOH, people are trying to put together a patron arrangement on a mass scale, e.g. Todd Rundgren's PatroNet. (Too bad it's based on non-open source software, mumble mumble...)
OTOH, let's suppose a musician has the proverbial "day job." Wasn't it Rubenstein who said something to the effect of "If I don't practice for a day, I notice it. If I don't practice for two days, my family notices it. If I don't practice for three days, everybody notices it"? Would Vai or Satriani or [fill in your favorite virtuoso here] have the time to keep their skills honed if they had to have a day job?
Specialization has its benefits. What would you say if we substituted "programmer" for "musician" in your question?
Sorry; so-called "positive rights" are not rights at all. We may think it's good to be generous to the needy, and even think less of someone who isn't--but that doesn't give anyone or any group the right to be generous with other peoples' money.
How about a compelling example from before then? Everyone remember Samuel Slater from their American history class? He came to the US, having learned about the English mechanized mills, to set one up of his own. The English were rather particular about intellectual property as well; he had to sneak out of the country in disguise.
I've been trying all morning to grab the Win32 version (for a computer on which I, for historical reasons, run NT), and the Installer has timed out every time it's tried to ftp it.
Yes, it can be applied to other stuff...and there are always CPU-bound problems that can use the speed. (I hope someone knowledgeable about current computer graphics technology can comment on what could be done with the machine under discussion.)
Gee...I wonder how Daimler-Chrysler offers so many versions of the PT Cruiser? Four models, nine colors, manual or automatic transmission, three choices for "security group", side airbags or not, deep tint windows or not, three choices of exterior accents, six more options one can choose or not....let's see, that comes to 165,888 possible variations on the PT Cruiser (and I'm leaving out the "woody" and gold exteriors, I think...). Mr. Ballmer, Henry "you can have a Model T in any color you want as long as it's black" Ford was a long time ago--why should computer users have fewer choices than car buyers?
This is a quote that really needs to be publicized heavily; even better would be video of it that could be run as often as Dukakis in a tank.
I fear you're parroting a bogus claim. (Besides, the anti-dioxin folks claim dioxin is among the most poisonous substance known to man...maybe you could arm-wrestle them over it.) The most poisonous substance known is botulism toxin. People might also wish to read this item by Bernard Cohen on the myth of plutonium toxicity.
You got that right. Anyone reading the article would think that KDE isn't available yet--the authors evidently think that the upcoming version of KDE is the very first version, judging by the way they wrote it up.
That's one of the reasons MS is trying to move its vic^H^H^Hcustomers to Danegeldware; just as you don't realize how much of your money the government seizes when they do it a bit at a time, you won't notice how much you're paying MS if you do it a bit at a time, and they can play the Polaroid game (sell the cameras cheap, charge mucho $$$ for the film).
I'm sorry, that's completely at variance with what I've seen of the "mainstream media." The mainstream media heavily push a left-leaning, technophobic nanny state with oppressive taxation to pay for the government handouts.
...I'm sure that there are some smoking guns amidst the comments. (Hmmm, will MS have already thought of this and argued that the comments aren't part of the code, leaving the states with a ghastly pile of spaghetti to read, or give the states the code in "shrouded" form a la the way Gimpel distributes source for FlexeLint?)
Well...you may find that the language you want isn't the same in its .NET incarnation. I understand that a bunch of the languages that are being made to target .NET can't move over exactly, so they end up as different languages happening to use the same name.
If a corporation wants my business, it had better listen to me. I vote with my dollars as well as at the ballot box--and, for all the evil they have done, MS has yet to send people with guns to make sure I buy Windows.
Locutus has a point. If Linux ever gets to the point of depending on MS for anything, MS has a means of control. If graphics card makers decide not to provide X drivers or provide the information needed for someone else to do so, with the rationalization "Why bother--they can just use the OpenGL/DirectX compatibility layer," MS can start munging the API to put Linux in a game of perpetual catchup--much the way they did with win32s.dll to screw over OS/2. Linux doesn't need that kind of grief.
I use Linux, but am not terribly familiar with using Linux system calls. I made a point of avoiding learning much about gcc for fear of infecting the compilers I worked on with copyleft, but now I plan on studying gcc. As for cross-compiler experience, much of what I did was cross compiled. I'd relocate to central Oklahoma (family's there), and would consider contract work. (There...that should be offtopic enough to lose me some karma!)
Hang on...the CoCo 3 didn't have the chiclet keys, and there were nice third party keyboards even for the 1 and 2. (For that matter, there have been PClone keyboard adapters for CoCos for some time; anyone wanting one now should check out Mark Marlette at Cloud-9.
Now that you mention it...
Perversely humorous item: I went over to itmoonlighting.com, entered my vitae, and let it do its search for temporary jobs. Exactly one turned up--it was pretty obviously a college student who wanted someone to do his homework for him and was willing to pay $200 for it. (In case he or she is reading this--write your own RPN calculator for polynomials, OK?)