OTOH, M$oft "innovations" are evil, not part of the standards process, and should be shunned by all right thinking web developers. If M$oft want to use them on their own site, then that's their privilege and their problem if it goes wrong. No-one else should touch them with the proverbial bargepole.
So you think it is rational for a developer to decide to only offer the customer feature A, when they can use Microsoft stuff and offer features A,B,C,D... Z.
There should be no strict distinction made between machine readable and human readable representation systems. Humans invented the 'machine readable' formats, so I'm sure somebody can read them.
"executable, compiled, binary machine code"
So bytecode is not covered? Does this mean that Nothing written in Java can be licensed under the GPL?
I think Jamie misses the point (not that I agree with the point).
The point is that the act of violence is something that children shouldn't witness. The implication is that the slaughter of a cow in a slaughterhouse is going to be less psychologically damaging to little Johnny than witnessing Columbine-esque chaos on CRT's a few inches away. (Many parents naively still think of pacman when they think of video games).
While it is true that the slaughter of livestock is very real and very horrific for some people (perhaps people who know what actually goes on), eating a hamburger is much different than witnessing and enacting nearly photorealistic carnage and brutality.
the fact that there is the potential for an antitrust investigation and that the entities in the industry haven't found a way to give consumers digital music suggests exactly the opposite conclusion: that we have had too little government involvement!
It's called corrective action. The same thing that the gov't does when it raises interest rates or litigates against a company like Microsoft.
It appears as though open-source software could pave the way for China's entry into a lot of new economic areas. But will entry into those areas create incentives toward capitalism for the Chinese?
If so, where does the GPL fit into the equation. Is it possible that a slightly different license will emerge that better meets the needs of the Chinese linux users? How would this license differ from the GPL?
So does this mean that Microsoft will have less incentive to sell software to OEMs at a reduced price? Absolutely.
This means that OEM's who want to continue selling PC's with Microsoft products will have to start charging more for the PC's.
And this will lead to more expensive PC's for everyone, since OEM's need to offer M$ products in order to be competetive.
Is this any different from a store owner opening up a bag of bite sized candybars and selling them despite the fact that they all have "this item is not packaged for individual retail sale" written on the label?
Is this a real-world scenario? Anyone who would build a quad Xeon box and only put 128MB of RAM in it is a moron. Give me 1 Xeon and a gig of RAM any day.
Win2K Pro (for workstation use) requires at least 256MB of ram before it will handle 20+windows open at once w/o hitting the swapfile pretty hard.
I love to see open source software win in benchmark competitions against the big commercial heavyweights, but I have a hard time considering this a likely hardware configuration for a high performance webserver for use with either OS, however Win2K needs more memory to begin with, so the test really isn't likely to help sysadmins make the right choice.
Anyone can see through sloppy propaganda like this.
how many business travelers use 10% of their processor's available processing power during a 6 hour flight? I'd say very few.
Sure, the notebook running a crusoe might take a second or two longer to load MSWord, but once it's loaded, few people will notice a difference, particularly if the machine has enough RAM.
It all depends on what you idealize in a language:
'features' such as being able to access a list by indexes, and having special types of (property handler) methods that behave like variables are all (in my opinion) shortcuts around aspects of pure OOP that are sometimes a bit inconvenient.
If you are an OOP purist like me, you don't necessarily want to be able to access a list by index, since the beauty of the list collection (as an OOP abstraction of reality) is that you don't need to think about indexes, you only need to think about adding and removing things.
Of course, it is rarely worth a programmer's time to wax nostalgic about smalltalk, however one should not confuse a hack with a feature, even if it's a very useful hack.
(personally, I'd rather have my ints all be objects no matter what)...
Hey, at least Microsoft is trying to start using an open standard for structured data. Believe me, if you've written any code that uses the XML DOM, you're probably not too disappointed about the things that Microsoft has added (they have added a few methods to the DOM standard which are very useful).
I realize that the bodies in charge of creating the standard need to keep better pace with industry, but I think the above comment gives Microsoft an undeserved bad rap on the XML front.
ASP does not mean only that a service replaces the exact functionality of software that you already use. The ASP model lends itself well to scaling well beyond the capabilities of even the most brand-spankin' new Gigahertz moneyeating monster system that you might have.
Consider IMDB, for example, who wants a stack of cdroms on their desk! You may not like the idea of an ASP because you have a paper copy of the "internet yellow pages", but I'll take google any day.
Also, sites such as moviecritic.com and others allow for a new kind of application entirely. Does this mean that the providers of those applications (hint... asp's) are destined for failure? Absolutely not.
In a nutshell, I'd rather use a client-server system for even the most mundane things... enter xntpd.
Who cares whether they attach 'strings' or not! As long as the technology is being developed by companies in the US, then it will benefit the US.
Frankly, I'm not impressed with the way congress has handled funding for NASA.
If mainstream corporate America started dumping money into the space program, it would only help those of us who hope to someday be able to go up in space, even if its as a tourist.
That's right there are restrictions. It is indeed a privilege to generate an electromagnetic field, especially when you don't have to pay to use spectrum space.
Spending the time to get a ham radio license has been very rewarding for me, especially HF contesting, which uses 2.4 KHz of bandwidth!
p.s. If I want encryption, I'll use my ISP which I pay for.
I highly reccommend a cartoon in the New Yorker... it shows a street with two large office buildings, one on each side of the street. The sign outside the building on the left says "Micro", and the sign outside the building on the right says "Soft".
It's too bad that the Gov't needed to be so heavy-handed in this, and I suppose it remains to be seen whether breaking up Microsoft will actually benefit consumers.
Now, as Jay Leno commented, Bill Gates is no longer the richest guy in the world... he's now the two richest guys in the world.
Slashdot Mirror
moderate this guy up! This is a voice that slashdot needs to hear!
So you think it is rational for a developer to decide to only offer the customer feature A, when they can use Microsoft stuff and offer features A,B,C,D ... Z.
Wake up and smell the money!
"executable, compiled, binary machine code"
So bytecode is not covered? Does this mean that Nothing written in Java can be licensed under the GPL?
The point is that the act of violence is something that children shouldn't witness. The implication is that the slaughter of a cow in a slaughterhouse is going to be less psychologically damaging to little Johnny than witnessing Columbine-esque chaos on CRT's a few inches away. (Many parents naively still think of pacman when they think of video games).
While it is true that the slaughter of livestock is very real and very horrific for some people (perhaps people who know what actually goes on), eating a hamburger is much different than witnessing and enacting nearly photorealistic carnage and brutality.
depending on the bitrate that is used to encode a song as mp3, the md5sum would probably not be consistent across songs.
antitrust investigation and that the entities
in the industry haven't found a way to give
consumers digital music suggests exactly the
opposite conclusion: that we have had too
little government involvement!
It's called corrective action. The same thing
that the gov't does when it raises interest rates or
litigates against a company like Microsoft.
If so, where does the GPL fit into the equation. Is it possible that a slightly different license will emerge that better meets the needs of the Chinese linux users? How would this license differ from the GPL?
This means that OEM's who want to continue selling PC's with Microsoft products will have to start charging more for the PC's.
And this will lead to more expensive PC's for everyone, since OEM's need to offer M$ products in order to be competetive.
Is this any different from a store owner opening up a bag of bite sized candybars and selling them despite the fact that they all have "this item is not packaged for individual retail sale" written on the label?
Call it 'even steven'.
Win2K Pro (for workstation use) requires at least 256MB of ram before it will handle 20+windows open at once w/o hitting the swapfile pretty hard.
I love to see open source software win in benchmark competitions against the big commercial heavyweights, but I have a hard time considering this a likely hardware configuration for a high performance webserver for use with either OS, however Win2K needs more memory to begin with, so the test really isn't likely to help sysadmins make the right choice.
Anyone can see through sloppy propaganda like this.
"Show me the money"
-Cuba Gooding Jr.
uh... my comment was supposed to be a joke.
I'm sure that Brian Walker will be getting a few phone calls asking to buy his technology.
Sure, the notebook running a crusoe might take a second or two longer to load MSWord, but once it's loaded, few people will notice a difference, particularly if the machine has enough RAM.
I'd enjoy a quad-crusoe laptop...
Semantical sugar!
moderate the above comment up... and, by the way, when is someone going to write a front-end for slashdot that allows for moderation of this kind...
'features' such as being able to access a list by indexes, and having special types of (property handler) methods that behave like variables are all (in my opinion) shortcuts around aspects of pure OOP that are sometimes a bit inconvenient.
If you are an OOP purist like me, you don't necessarily want to be able to access a list by index, since the beauty of the list collection (as an OOP abstraction of reality) is that you don't need to think about indexes, you only need to think about adding and removing things.
Of course, it is rarely worth a programmer's time to wax nostalgic about smalltalk, however one should not confuse a hack with a feature, even if it's a very useful hack.
(personally, I'd rather have my ints all be objects no matter what)...
c# was created by microsoft, and was written for profit
forgive me if i'm thinking critically here, but what is the difference?
Most windows users' passwords are the user's first name.
AND The .net stuff uses Microsoft software.
THEREFORE
Any hacker will be able to steal any company's top secret information from the system.
... utter nonsense. Any system, no matter how strong its encryption, is weakened by a predictable password.
I realize that the bodies in charge of creating the standard need to keep better pace with industry, but I think the above comment gives Microsoft an undeserved bad rap on the XML front.
ASP does not mean only that a service replaces the exact functionality of software that you already use. The ASP model lends itself well to scaling well beyond the capabilities of even the most brand-spankin' new Gigahertz moneyeating monster system that you might have.
Consider IMDB, for example, who wants a stack of cdroms on their desk! You may not like the idea of an ASP because you have a paper copy of the "internet yellow pages", but I'll take google any day.
Also, sites such as moviecritic.com and others allow for a new kind of application entirely. Does this mean that the providers of those applications (hint ... asp's) are destined for failure? Absolutely not.
In a nutshell, I'd rather use a client-server system for even the most mundane things... enter xntpd.
Frankly, I'm not impressed with the way congress has handled funding for NASA.
If mainstream corporate America started dumping money into the space program, it would only help those of us who hope to someday be able to go up in space, even if its as a tourist.
Spending the time to get a ham radio license has been very rewarding for me, especially HF contesting, which uses 2.4 KHz of bandwidth!
p.s. If I want encryption, I'll use my ISP which I pay for.
Yorker... it shows a street with two large
office buildings, one on each side of the
street. The sign outside the building on the
left says "Micro", and the sign outside the
building on the right says "Soft".
It's too bad that the Gov't needed to be so
heavy-handed in this, and I suppose it
remains to be seen whether breaking up
Microsoft will actually benefit consumers.
Now, as Jay Leno commented, Bill Gates is no
longer the richest guy in the world... he's
now the two richest guys in the world.
>me two chips at once!
agreed! I'm waiting for an excuse to repurpose
my k6III... I would love dual Athlon 750's...