As a person worried about the future with.NET, this is a bit of a relief. If you say this, you really don't understand what '.NET' is all about. Why is it so damn hard to just read the damn whatisit page: http://www.microsoft.com/net/defined/? Hailstorm was a project that would use.NET technology, like other projects around the world already do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Traditional versus Innovative, Closed versus Open,
I don't see the link between Innovative and Open Source. Most of the innovative work done in software engineering is done in company-funded researchlabs, not by Open Source hackers.
(NOTE: I'm not debating the issue IF tying IE's core libs to win32 was a WISE decision or not)
The fact that IE's core libs are part of a greater lib-set (the shell extension libraries, part of win32) is discussed a zillion times and can't be denied the tying is there and there to stay. Removing 'IE' from windows by the tools available do not remove the core libraries because these are also used by the shell and a lot of 3rd party tools. Removing also these core libraries is not a solution, especially because 3rd party tool users on windows NEED the libraries to use the 3rd party tools anyway. These tools will break OR these users have to install IE anyway to use these tools, so the removal of these core libs is IMHO not that useful.
Although I'm a sole win32 developer and like some of the Microsoft technologies a lot, I simply can't understand why they say 'Windows is not designed to be modular'. It IS setup and designed to be modular. The problem is: the modules designed are not designed in a way that they are usable:).
Also: windows media player is a technology which uses codec's in the form of COM components. I simply can't see why windows media player can't be removed from windows: it's a shell around COM components.
As I see it, working with OS/400 is as if you're inside oracle or SQL Server: A table in these DBMS'es is a file in OS/400. Nothing special about that.
What's the point in MS' DB filesystem is that you're not INSIDE a database, but ON TOP of the database. So you handle files and bits of data as you are doing today but they're not physical files but views (or query results as you wish) on the data in the database. That's something different than a filesystem with metadata connected to the 'files' like in the article, or an OS that is just a DMBS like OS/400.
You could simulate the behaviour today if you store different pieces of a file in a database (SQL Server, Oracle) as blobs with metadata stored in related fields/tables. Query on the database, f.e. by selecting blobs based on a certain where clause on the metadata, and build some component that will reconstruct a file from the blobs. _THAT_'s what's all about.
they are not even considering putting the full-blown SQL Server into Windows. SQL Server is too resource-intensive. I find this very hard to believe. True, SQLServer eats up everything you feed it, but stays away from the stuff you don't give it: if you forbid it to use a certain CPU, it won't use it; if you tune it to only use XX% of the memory , it will only use that amount of memory (and databases use memory mainly for cache).
they're thinking (nothing decided yet) about including MSDE, which is exactly the same as SQL Server 2000, except it is tuned for 5 concurrent users (and hard-limited to 10) MSDE is limited to 5 concurrent transactions, not users. So every 6th transaction (i.e. a T-SQL command) will get queued and has to wait for an empty slot. This will degrade performance but you can hook up 30 or more users on a single MSDE powered database without noticing it.
Your point about 'including' MSDE and not SQLServer is weird: both share the same codebase and both eat up everything you give them. MSDE too eats up all the memory it can get, even for 5 transactions. Also: a DB Filesystem eats resources, plain and simple, because you have more data to store plus you're not just serving files but VIEWS on bits of data. So caching has to be intensive. Yes this costs memory and perhaps a lot of diskspace.
As for Index Server: Index Server is ment to index textdocuments and documents of a certain format (office docs etc). It's a hog, indeed, but it also doesn't need much maintenance. It does it's own housekeeping, indexes files by itself. Asking a query by the windows search is a bit slow perhaps, but I've never had any performance problem when using indexserver as the searchengine on static websites.
The MS CM version today is a souped up NCompass version, since MS bought NCompass and changed the name into MS Content Management Server. It's ok, but page-focussed (not good IMHO, since a page is a collection of data-elements that are VIEWED by the page but are not part of it), and quite expensive ($35,000.- per CPU)
Most people have a problem defining 'content', or even 'information'. When I see an organisation struggling with their enormous pile of word documents full of sometimes vital information, I know there is something basicly wrong: the start of the storage of a bit of information (or better: a bit of data which can be interpret as 'information') is wrong in a lot of organisations, therefor the usability of this information is limited at best: to use it in expert systems, in general documents for print, in websites and f.e. in general database applications, it has to be extracted from the worddocument by external tools, which is not that easy in most situations.
Some organisations try to use a 'content management system' (CMS) to transfer their pile of worddocs into data inside the CMS, which is then usable as 'content' for websites. However, this process is difficult and error-prone, and the end-result is not what most people want to have but another collided form of the data which was once stored into a huge pile of worddocs.
Here in Europe you have a lot of different CMS's. Some large ones try to grab a lot of external data and 'publish' that on websites, mostly by offering worddoc/office document importers, others are build around 'data' and stick viewers on pieces of data, which can then be used in websites or anywhere else. How I see it is that there should be a general base of data-elements which make up the core base of data-elements for an organisation, which is used in all kinds of systems that use that data, including viewer applications for websites. My CMS (CESys) does this, also others like the Open Source CMS MMBase follow this approach. I think that's the way to go: it forces organisations to think about HOW to store data and how which data is used, instead of keeping organisations at the level of "when you want to store information, open word and start typing". Because: webpublishing is just connecting a viewer and a piece of data to get viewed by that viewer and with the proper storage of data it's an easy job to do.
In there, you'll learn 'NT' was related to the first proc it was targeted to, the 860 of intel, codenamed 'N10', plus some juicy stuff about the development of NT3.1 and win2k, and some related notes to Unix and NT.
The plugin is likely to be found in the directory: \winnt\downloaded program files\ where al the IE plugins are stored. I don't know the correct filename, but you should first de-register it from the registry by using regsvr32/u filename and then delete it from the dir.
Outlook strips all executable attachments, period. Outlook XP does that, Outlook 2000 does that after you've installed the service release (free download).
A rewrite is not necessary, it's already fixed. However, there are still people believing that we're living in 1996 or something and that nothing has changed.
4-6 developers for such a large project is a very small team. However, when tasks are defined well and goals are set with care, you can do a lot with 4 to 6 people. However, after reading the interview, I got the feeling that KOffice is currently being worked over by some demosceners without any big plan nor well defined tasklist. How can they expect people to jump in when the team itself doesn't sound very solid? (For contrast: in the teams I've worked in in the last 10 years, things were planned, done for a reason, people worked on stuff that they knew was filling in the blanks of the total project. This is IMHO not the case with KOffice. Very sad because I don't think that all this effort these programmers are putting in is paying off in the end.)
The double free bug in zlib doesn't affect MS systems since the msvcrt lib isn't affected by a free of a NULL pointer. This article on CNet shows the need for pageviews.
When you look at an 'assembly' in.NET, you'll see it's not 1 file, but a name for a lot of files, with different data. Still, it's seen as 1 unit. The same with f.e. Worddocuments with embedded COM objects. As a unit, the.doc file, it's known to the user, but in fact it's a store with a lot of blocks of data, which could be seen as a 'file'.
_that's_ the reason for this change (which was expected for some time though). The filesystem as it is today is too limited to cope with units with blocks because you can't see a subset of blocks from, say, 3 files, as 1 'file'. You can when you have a 'filesystem' (a store is a better name) that doesn't use 'files' but just stores the atomic units and the relations between these atomic units. A 'query' utilizing these relations will then result in what we know today as a 'file'.
It's nice to see that the store will be based on SQLServer's OFS. MS has 2 database teams: SQLServer and Exchange. For long it was thought that the Exchange serverstore database would be the DB format of choice for this OS store. It's more optimized for using with large amounts of small blobs. But it seems SQLServer can do the job:)
Windows admins don't script, for the most part. They push the same buttons on each system.
No. Windows Admins DO script. A lot. You know why? Because it's easy and helps reduce the repetitive buttonclicking. ABN Amro Bank for example build a complete system just with a set of scripts to maintain the complete WAN of windows2000 servers (8000 of them) and workstations (tens of thousands). Central maintainance of all the systems on the wan, software push/installations/configurations, done central by admins using simple scripts.
The days that a group of admins walked around to perform a lot of tasks on every windows desktop box are over. A few years already. Windows2000 server lets you control via VBscript everything on the system and domain. Because of COM and the system objects build in, usable from VBScript. Every Windows2000 admin not using scripts is not worth being called an 'admin' and should be fired.
I hope next time you get your facts straight so your articles about the subject of this thread are more near the truth. Ah well...
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That's the story of Marc Andreessen: he was at the right place at the right time. Think about it: he wrote a program, NCSA's mosaic, at university with some fellow programmers. He got into a fight with NCSA, left, and did it all over again with another team: building a browser. He meets a top executive from SGI, Jim Clark, who starts with him the 'Netscape' company with money from Clark. The internet takes off, Andreessen's Netscape is in the front seat and grows and grows. Why? Because the products are excellent? No, because he delivers what people wants.
Until... The re-incarnation of NCSA's mosaic: Internet Explorer takes over that front seat. Andreessen doesn't care. He sells Netscape to AOL and gets over 1billion dollars.
Was the strategy, the plan that brilliant? Or was it just luck?
(XS4all is my ISP since 1994 and I also do know a person working for the spamming company in this case, AbFab. I receive 15 spammails or so a day on that xs4all account)
There is a problem: The EU. They accepted a law that made spam 'opt-out' or in other words: the user should tell the smapping company to remove the emailaddress of the user from their list. XS4all was and still is fighting this stupid law, but with no luck so far. I've asked them several times to block anything coming from.tw,.kr and.cn at least, but they don't do that for individual customers. Now the ISP can tell the smapping company to quit or they have to pay a fine, but this is not workable with oversees spammingfactories like the taiwanese and korean (which make up the fast majority of the spam IMHO).
AbFab is just a company sending email on behalf of mostly dutch companies. When you look at it that way, it's quite the same as the unsollicited mail you get in your snailmailbox: sometimes it's not totally useless, but most of the time it is: you get advertising shit about products you don't need or even CAN use. If advertising-mail is more targeted at people who will possibly be interested, it would be less annoying.
This verdict will probably the end of AbFab, since other ISP's will now also come with a block request and AbFab can't refuse that now. People will be out of a job.
With J++ 6, MS pushed Java as _THE_ language to write COM components in, which were then compiled to native code. Sun filed a lawsuit, J++ got castrated and MS pushed VB forward as the language of choice to write com components in (for n-tier apps), with all the drawbacks.
I still find this THE missed oppertunity for Sun to win the Win32 developer for their camp. Sun didn't want MS to just use the LANGUAGE java and leave the PLATFORM java behind. Well Sun... big mistake, and after years of urinating MS in the face, it's finally over:.NET is here, and all that's left is the courtroom... or at least it seems that way.
Too bad... J++ was a great RAD tool for writing fast com components without the overhead of C++ and without the drawbacks of VB.:(
Tell me, HOW can a big-iron selling company, solely based on UNIX services, with a core business of selling solely hardware plus services on that hardware, get damaged when MS includes a browser in their OS?
Furthermore, HOW can MS hurt Sun by not including java into their browser, while Sun declared a settled lawsuit last year a 'victory' when that lawsuit was actually stating that MS should not create NEW versions of the JVM (so, on windows people could only use 1.1 applets, pretty crap) and should leave Java after 7 years ?
I won't even mention the native solaris thread code in the Sun JVM, so it cheats as much as the MS jvm did.
Sun is fighting MS now for several years, but not on the front of great software, but on the front of lawsuits and mudthrowing. Sun filed a complaint with the EU, Sun filed several lawsuits over Java (while other companies like HP were left untouched, while they committed the same 'crimes') against MS, it's a fanatic backer of the states that are still in the anti-trust case...
I don't know, but isnt't here a USA saying "Deeds do talk a hell of a lot louder than words" ? Sun: put your money where your mouth is and create kick ass software that knocks out MS and WILL win the majority of DEVELOPERS in this world. That's right, with this crap going on in courts, developers will not trust you for being 'THE company that is at the top BECAUSE the software is great'.
The Epiphone guitars I have are indeed not that great. (but hey, they weren't that expensive:)). My custom Ibanez plays very great, and my custom Yamaha pacifica is my fav. guitar (the pacifica is pretty ok, but with some nice hardware it's a great guitar, especially for the price)
Les Pauls etc are ok, but playing these for 3 hours breaks your back:) and the price is IMHO too much. I never played a Fernandes though.
Everybody is free to have a sig. of their choice. If some people have a problem with my sig, well.. that's their problem. This is a site for NERDS, not a site for linux zealots alone, but apparantly it seems like it is. Sad. (but, there is hope. If I can get 49 karma points HERE, times MUST be changin':))
What's also sad is the link there seems to be between "Awesome software developer" and "Linux user" while when you seem to like MS goods you CAN'T BE a good software developer. Ah well..
Ok, I wouldn't go on stage with these horrible fretboard-with-vintage-pickups-guitars, but I disagree that all Japanese instruments are crap. Ibanez makes some FINE guitars played by some of the best players around (*cough* satriani *cough*).:)
The guitarbody paints were ok, the fretboard is too much... UUUH:) (the knobs are kinda cool though)
f.e. the speechlibrary IIRC, or the windows CE code. Win32 plus a hell of a lot other libraries are not comming with such a license. So the remark AC made was correct in some way but very 'trollish' also because it reads like MS is shipping every lib they create with a license you can't create OSS with it. Which is of course bull.
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As a person worried about the future with .NET, this is a bit of a relief. .NET technology, like other projects around the world already do. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you say this, you really don't understand what '.NET' is all about. Why is it so damn hard to just read the damn whatisit page: http://www.microsoft.com/net/defined/?
Hailstorm was a project that would use
Traditional versus Innovative, Closed versus Open,
I don't see the link between Innovative and Open Source. Most of the innovative work done in software engineering is done in company-funded researchlabs, not by Open Source hackers.
(NOTE: I'm not debating the issue IF tying IE's core libs to win32 was a WISE decision or not)
:).
The fact that IE's core libs are part of a greater lib-set (the shell extension libraries, part of win32) is discussed a zillion times and can't be denied the tying is there and there to stay. Removing 'IE' from windows by the tools available do not remove the core libraries because these are also used by the shell and a lot of 3rd party tools. Removing also these core libraries is not a solution, especially because 3rd party tool users on windows NEED the libraries to use the 3rd party tools anyway. These tools will break OR these users have to install IE anyway to use these tools, so the removal of these core libs is IMHO not that useful.
Although I'm a sole win32 developer and like some of the Microsoft technologies a lot, I simply can't understand why they say 'Windows is not designed to be modular'. It IS setup and designed to be modular. The problem is: the modules designed are not designed in a way that they are usable
Also: windows media player is a technology which uses codec's in the form of COM components. I simply can't see why windows media player can't be removed from windows: it's a shell around COM components.
As I see it, working with OS/400 is as if you're inside oracle or SQL Server: A table in these DBMS'es is a file in OS/400. Nothing special about that.
What's the point in MS' DB filesystem is that you're not INSIDE a database, but ON TOP of the database. So you handle files and bits of data as you are doing today but they're not physical files but views (or query results as you wish) on the data in the database. That's something different than a filesystem with metadata connected to the 'files' like in the article, or an OS that is just a DMBS like OS/400.
You could simulate the behaviour today if you store different pieces of a file in a database (SQL Server, Oracle) as blobs with metadata stored in related fields/tables. Query on the database, f.e. by selecting blobs based on a certain where clause on the metadata, and build some component that will reconstruct a file from the blobs. _THAT_'s what's all about.
they are not even considering putting the full-blown SQL Server into Windows. SQL Server is too resource-intensive.
I find this very hard to believe. True, SQLServer eats up everything you feed it, but stays away from the stuff you don't give it: if you forbid it to use a certain CPU, it won't use it; if you tune it to only use XX% of the memory , it will only use that amount of memory (and databases use memory mainly for cache).
they're thinking (nothing decided yet) about including MSDE, which is exactly the same as SQL Server 2000, except it is tuned for 5 concurrent users (and hard-limited to 10)
MSDE is limited to 5 concurrent transactions, not users. So every 6th transaction (i.e. a T-SQL command) will get queued and has to wait for an empty slot. This will degrade performance but you can hook up 30 or more users on a single MSDE powered database without noticing it.
Your point about 'including' MSDE and not SQLServer is weird: both share the same codebase and both eat up everything you give them. MSDE too eats up all the memory it can get, even for 5 transactions. Also: a DB Filesystem eats resources, plain and simple, because you have more data to store plus you're not just serving files but VIEWS on bits of data. So caching has to be intensive. Yes this costs memory and perhaps a lot of diskspace.
As for Index Server: Index Server is ment to index textdocuments and documents of a certain format (office docs etc). It's a hog, indeed, but it also doesn't need much maintenance. It does it's own housekeeping, indexes files by itself. Asking a query by the windows search is a bit slow perhaps, but I've never had any performance problem when using indexserver as the searchengine on static websites.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?UR L=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/90 1/msdncompositedoc.xml. Shared source license, but you can use it in classes and courses. So the push is definitely there. The sourcecode is for Windows and FreeBSD
The MS CM version today is a souped up NCompass version, since MS bought NCompass and changed the name into MS Content Management Server. It's ok, but page-focussed (not good IMHO, since a page is a collection of data-elements that are VIEWED by the page but are not part of it), and quite expensive ($35,000.- per CPU)
Most people have a problem defining 'content', or even 'information'. When I see an organisation struggling with their enormous pile of word documents full of sometimes vital information, I know there is something basicly wrong: the start of the storage of a bit of information (or better: a bit of data which can be interpret as 'information') is wrong in a lot of organisations, therefor the usability of this information is limited at best: to use it in expert systems, in general documents for print, in websites and f.e. in general database applications, it has to be extracted from the worddocument by external tools, which is not that easy in most situations.
Some organisations try to use a 'content management system' (CMS) to transfer their pile of worddocs into data inside the CMS, which is then usable as 'content' for websites. However, this process is difficult and error-prone, and the end-result is not what most people want to have but another collided form of the data which was once stored into a huge pile of worddocs.
Here in Europe you have a lot of different CMS's. Some large ones try to grab a lot of external data and 'publish' that on websites, mostly by offering worddoc/office document importers, others are build around 'data' and stick viewers on pieces of data, which can then be used in websites or anywhere else. How I see it is that there should be a general base of data-elements which make up the core base of data-elements for an organisation, which is used in all kinds of systems that use that data, including viewer applications for websites. My CMS (CESys) does this, also others like the Open Source CMS MMBase follow this approach. I think that's the way to go: it forces organisations to think about HOW to store data and how which data is used, instead of keeping organisations at the level of "when you want to store information, open word and start typing". Because: webpublishing is just connecting a viewer and a piece of data to get viewed by that viewer and with the proper storage of data it's an easy job to do.
Slideshow: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invite dtalks/lucovsky_html/.
In there, you'll learn 'NT' was related to the first proc it was targeted to, the 860 of intel, codenamed 'N10', plus some juicy stuff about the development of NT3.1 and win2k, and some related notes to Unix and NT.
The plugin is likely to be found in the directory: /u filename and then delete it from the dir.
\winnt\downloaded program files\
where al the IE plugins are stored. I don't know the correct filename, but you should first de-register it from the registry by using regsvr32
Outlook strips all executable attachments, period. Outlook XP does that, Outlook 2000 does that after you've installed the service release (free download).
A rewrite is not necessary, it's already fixed. However, there are still people believing that we're living in 1996 or something and that nothing has changed.
4-6 developers for such a large project is a very small team. However, when tasks are defined well and goals are set with care, you can do a lot with 4 to 6 people. However, after reading the interview, I got the feeling that KOffice is currently being worked over by some demosceners without any big plan nor well defined tasklist. How can they expect people to jump in when the team itself doesn't sound very solid? (For contrast: in the teams I've worked in in the last 10 years, things were planned, done for a reason, people worked on stuff that they knew was filling in the blanks of the total project. This is IMHO not the case with KOffice. Very sad because I don't think that all this effort these programmers are putting in is paying off in the end.)
The double free bug in zlib doesn't affect MS systems since the msvcrt lib isn't affected by a free of a NULL pointer. This article on CNet shows the need for pageviews.
When you look at an 'assembly' in .NET, you'll see it's not 1 file, but a name for a lot of files, with different data. Still, it's seen as 1 unit. The same with f.e. Worddocuments with embedded COM objects. As a unit, the .doc file, it's known to the user, but in fact it's a store with a lot of blocks of data, which could be seen as a 'file'.
:)
_that's_ the reason for this change (which was expected for some time though). The filesystem as it is today is too limited to cope with units with blocks because you can't see a subset of blocks from, say, 3 files, as 1 'file'. You can when you have a 'filesystem' (a store is a better name) that doesn't use 'files' but just stores the atomic units and the relations between these atomic units. A 'query' utilizing these relations will then result in what we know today as a 'file'.
It's nice to see that the store will be based on SQLServer's OFS. MS has 2 database teams: SQLServer and Exchange. For long it was thought that the Exchange serverstore database would be the DB format of choice for this OS store. It's more optimized for using with large amounts of small blobs. But it seems SQLServer can do the job
Windows admins don't script, for the most part. They push the same buttons on each system.
No. Windows Admins DO script. A lot. You know why? Because it's easy and helps reduce the repetitive buttonclicking. ABN Amro Bank for example build a complete system just with a set of scripts to maintain the complete WAN of windows2000 servers (8000 of them) and workstations (tens of thousands). Central maintainance of all the systems on the wan, software push/installations/configurations, done central by admins using simple scripts.
The days that a group of admins walked around to perform a lot of tasks on every windows desktop box are over. A few years already. Windows2000 server lets you control via VBscript everything on the system and domain. Because of COM and the system objects build in, usable from VBScript. Every Windows2000 admin not using scripts is not worth being called an 'admin' and should be fired.
I hope next time you get your facts straight so your articles about the subject of this thread are more near the truth. Ah well...
That's the story of Marc Andreessen: he was at the right place at the right time. Think about it: he wrote a program, NCSA's mosaic, at university with some fellow programmers. He got into a fight with NCSA, left, and did it all over again with another team: building a browser. He meets a top executive from SGI, Jim Clark, who starts with him the 'Netscape' company with money from Clark. The internet takes off, Andreessen's Netscape is in the front seat and grows and grows. Why? Because the products are excellent? No, because he delivers what people wants.
Until... The re-incarnation of NCSA's mosaic: Internet Explorer takes over that front seat. Andreessen doesn't care. He sells Netscape to AOL and gets over 1billion dollars.
Was the strategy, the plan that brilliant? Or was it just luck?
I should have used the preview button yadda yadda. haha :) what a stupid typo.
(XS4all is my ISP since 1994 and I also do know a person working for the spamming company in this case, AbFab. I receive 15 spammails or so a day on that xs4all account)
.tw, .kr and .cn at least, but they don't do that for individual customers. Now the ISP can tell the smapping company to quit or they have to pay a fine, but this is not workable with oversees spammingfactories like the taiwanese and korean (which make up the fast majority of the spam IMHO).
There is a problem: The EU. They accepted a law that made spam 'opt-out' or in other words: the user should tell the smapping company to remove the emailaddress of the user from their list. XS4all was and still is fighting this stupid law, but with no luck so far. I've asked them several times to block anything coming from
AbFab is just a company sending email on behalf of mostly dutch companies. When you look at it that way, it's quite the same as the unsollicited mail you get in your snailmailbox: sometimes it's not totally useless, but most of the time it is: you get advertising shit about products you don't need or even CAN use. If advertising-mail is more targeted at people who will possibly be interested, it would be less annoying.
This verdict will probably the end of AbFab, since other ISP's will now also come with a block request and AbFab can't refuse that now. People will be out of a job.
With J++ 6, MS pushed Java as _THE_ language to write COM components in, which were then compiled to native code. Sun filed a lawsuit, J++ got castrated and MS pushed VB forward as the language of choice to write com components in (for n-tier apps), with all the drawbacks.
.NET is here, and all that's left is the courtroom... or at least it seems that way.
:(
I still find this THE missed oppertunity for Sun to win the Win32 developer for their camp. Sun didn't want MS to just use the LANGUAGE java and leave the PLATFORM java behind. Well Sun... big mistake, and after years of urinating MS in the face, it's finally over:
Too bad... J++ was a great RAD tool for writing fast com components without the overhead of C++ and without the drawbacks of VB.
Tell me, HOW can a big-iron selling company, solely based on UNIX services, with a core business of selling solely hardware plus services on that hardware, get damaged when MS includes a browser in their OS?
Furthermore, HOW can MS hurt Sun by not including java into their browser, while Sun declared a settled lawsuit last year a 'victory' when that lawsuit was actually stating that MS should not create NEW versions of the JVM (so, on windows people could only use 1.1 applets, pretty crap) and should leave Java after 7 years ?
I won't even mention the native solaris thread code in the Sun JVM, so it cheats as much as the MS jvm did.
Sun is fighting MS now for several years, but not on the front of great software, but on the front of lawsuits and mudthrowing. Sun filed a complaint with the EU, Sun filed several lawsuits over Java (while other companies like HP were left untouched, while they committed the same 'crimes') against MS, it's a fanatic backer of the states that are still in the anti-trust case...
I don't know, but isnt't here a USA saying "Deeds do talk a hell of a lot louder than words" ? Sun: put your money where your mouth is and create kick ass software that knocks out MS and WILL win the majority of DEVELOPERS in this world. That's right, with this crap going on in courts, developers will not trust you for being 'THE company that is at the top BECAUSE the software is great'.
But perhaps it's just me...
The Epiphone guitars I have are indeed not that great. (but hey, they weren't that expensive :)). My custom Ibanez plays very great, and my custom Yamaha pacifica is my fav. guitar (the pacifica is pretty ok, but with some nice hardware it's a great guitar, especially for the price)
:) and the price is IMHO too much. I never played a Fernandes though.
Les Pauls etc are ok, but playing these for 3 hours breaks your back
Everybody is free to have a sig. of their choice. If some people have a problem with my sig, well.. that's their problem. This is a site for NERDS, not a site for linux zealots alone, but apparantly it seems like it is. Sad. (but, there is hope. If I can get 49 karma points HERE, times MUST be changin' :))
What's also sad is the link there seems to be between "Awesome software developer" and "Linux user" while when you seem to like MS goods you CAN'T BE a good software developer. Ah well..
Ok, I wouldn't go on stage with these horrible fretboard-with-vintage-pickups-guitars, but I disagree that all Japanese instruments are crap. Ibanez makes some FINE guitars played by some of the best players around (*cough* satriani *cough*). :)
:) (the knobs are kinda cool though)
The guitarbody paints were ok, the fretboard is too much... UUUH
f.e. the speechlibrary IIRC, or the windows CE code. Win32 plus a hell of a lot other libraries are not comming with such a license. So the remark AC made was correct in some way but very 'trollish' also because it reads like MS is shipping every lib they create with a license you can't create OSS with it. Which is of course bull.