I am reminded of the line from Revolution OS where the one guy was asked if Linux/FOSS is comparable to communism, and he flipped out: "No! And it makes me very angry when people say that!". Well, now it looks like it is, lol.
That is assuming the Chinese gov will be using some part of it for surveillance (undoubtably).
1: Experts Exchange can have the "solutions" viewed just by scrolling to the bottom, past off of the ads, try it sometime.
2: I don't know whether the comments are "public" or not, if someone wants to confirm this, search for "Google", and tell me if it says "first post" under their result (yes, that was me, can't mod Google comments as "troll" yet).
I really wonder what Google aims to acomplish with this, other than another (potentially privacy-invading) way for users to both log in and to give users "another reason" to use Google over, say, Live or the decaying Yahoo! search, or continue to piss on Ask.com as a search engine.
Either that or my age is starting to show in my/. comments more. . .
You forgot the OS x86 project, so you CAN run Mac OS X Leopard in a virtual machine. I personally triple boot Ubuntu 8.10, Solaris 10, and Mac OS X (iAtkos hack) on my gateway, with every version of windows, solaris, and others in virtual machines (created with fusion, played with player), and it is a really nice setup if you keep the virtual machines on a spare partition so they're writable by all hardware-bootable operating systems.
This is mostly for device driver and web development, in addition to general OS curiosity, and makes for a great development environment.
As far as IDEs go, XCode is (just) alright, Eclipse is excellent, DevC++ is a blessing, and when it comes down to it even good old vim is great (I've heard about Emacs, but it really needs a text editor;).
Wishing we could continue installing Mac OS on our Dell, Gateway and HPs only without fear of any legal repercussions if a crApple lawyer happens to be in the same coffee house as us.
Nothing says we can't keep installing it as long as we don't sell it, but this case was the hackintosh underground's way of using Leopard without any (even vague) legal consequences.
And stop calling them clones, its just an operating system (look up the definition) running on non-Apple hardware, making it ideal for dual/triple booting.
he obviously works in IT, whether he is a LAN, MAN or WAN administrator is not determined since the full size of the rack is not revealed in the photo.
lovely poem, lol! Don't get me wrong, I have 10 computers all running either some Linux distro (mostly debian) or hackintosh. I was just satirizing the typical/. response to the article.
lol, they should release it as a homebrew app to be run on custom iPhone firmware. I doubt Sun would take kindly to it, but it would give more users incentive to get custom firmware in the first place, despite the fact I would prefer safari over opera as far as web rendering goes, but opera's extra features would make it worthwhile.
if this keep going the way it has, the dumb terminal will instead be a minimal OS running a web browser to connect to web services rather than client-side applications. Hence the cloud to drive it all.
Since the internet moved in the direction it did, I've since said that eventually standalone apps will just be web services, and the OS will do little else than connect you to those services, and now everyone's buzzing about the technology that will drive it all: Cloud Computing. Its already started w/ Google Docs, lets see how many others jump on the bandwagon in the near future.
"If MS were split into a few little companies (maybe all under one big umbrella company) that could really make 'em fight against each other to prove how good they are, I think they could seriously improve their image. "
You mean like steve jobs's Macintosh team vs. Lisa team BS? Maybe it would actually get Balmer fired from MS like Jobs...
if you are familiar with macs (despite thecoffeedesk staff being huge FOSS users), click command-space on the keyboard for an easter egg they hid in the website a while back. Doesn't do anything yet AFAIK, but still kinda cool.
In a software-centric world where we already have many, many languages to program in, from scripting to bytecode compiled languages, to frameworks on top of languages and embedded languages, now Redmond wants to bring ANOTHER language to the table, titled âMâ(TM) (for Microsoft?).
The new language is to be a part of Microsoftâ(TM)s new Oslo development and service-oriented strategy, incorporating features from XAML while being textual and domain-specific. M is to be used directly with 2 other components to be released with M along with Visual Studio 2010: Quadrant, a tool for building models visually, and a repository for storing and viewing models in an SQL database.
Microsoft has not said much other than that about the new language, but it will presumably be a compiled.net language (goodbye true native code), and from what Microsoft said, M is to strive to be cross-platformâ¦. with a catch.
By âoecross platformâ, Microsoft means, âoecross platform as long the other platform authors write a backend for the code, and the SQL database MUST be hosted on MS SQL, a proprietary Microsoft Windows serviceâ. It makes perfect sense for being cross platform, if you are Microsoft and trying to purchase many copies of Windows (therefore generating revenue, and presumably the version is Vista or win2k8 since XP is out).
Another source says the language is actually their âDâ(TM) language, only revamped to fit into their new Oslo modeling strategy and renamed to a further letter down the alphabet to attract new interest in an old product. While this may be mostly true, D, which was never really promoted as a.net compilable language (it just kinda disappeared) had many flaws and never really caught on although some were enthusiastic about it (just like Bill Gates said we would write code for OS/2 for the next 10 years after its release).
The fundamentals and principals of the language are attractive, especially for OOP, but its ties to MS SQL and.net would only really make it attractive to Windows-specific applications, although its integration with ASP.net is unclear at this point. The mono project does a descent job of allowing.net code to run on non-windows platforms, and if M adheres to the same standards then after a given time M-written applications will be penguin-friendly as well if Microsoft can get around the MS SQL dependency.
Time will only tell how many will actually use the language outright before Microsoft finds a way to force programmers to use it, most likely by dropping support for some features in all languages except M to promote its usage. For now it appears that the only âoenon-visualâ C/C++ code encouraged for usage with Windows by Microsoft is in fact Windows itself, given the fact that Microsoftâ(TM)s programmers are on Microsoftâ(TM)s payroll. But if all newbie programmers learn these new languages, who will manage the billions of lines of C and C++ we currently use in the future, unless it is implied to be completely be rewritten? Iâ(TM)m sure the folks from the original Bell labs team would be interested in the answer to these questions as well.
I was gonna suggest using iframes to make it seamless and less "whats that strange URL", but then we're right back at square one, and even if it somehow would work, Internet Exploiter would just complain about "some items insecure". At this stage in the process, the user clicks through several dialog boxes, each one +=ing 1 more amount of dislike for the website. Or you could just use TCP obfuscation (my GOD, I think I see how Google thought of it in the first place...).
I am:).
I would attend there if it weren't for Georgia Tech's better CS curriculum, but Trident Tech is excellent for doing the 2+2 program. Then again, if MIT accepts me although up until my current senior year I've taken CP courses, I would gladly hike it up to MA.
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I am reminded of the line from Revolution OS where the one guy was asked if Linux/FOSS is comparable to communism, and he flipped out: "No! And it makes me very angry when people say that!". Well, now it looks like it is, lol.
That is assuming the Chinese gov will be using some part of it for surveillance (undoubtably).
"Your signature is quite possibly the most annoying thing on ".$deity."'s green earth besides lame slashdot memes, you insensitive clod!!"
1: Experts Exchange can have the "solutions" viewed just by scrolling to the bottom, past off of the ads, try it sometime.
/. comments more. . .
2: I don't know whether the comments are "public" or not, if someone wants to confirm this, search for "Google", and tell me if it says "first post" under their result (yes, that was me, can't mod Google comments as "troll" yet).
I really wonder what Google aims to acomplish with this, other than another (potentially privacy-invading) way for users to both log in and to give users "another reason" to use Google over, say, Live or the decaying Yahoo! search, or continue to piss on Ask.com as a search engine.
Either that or my age is starting to show in my
You forgot the OS x86 project, so you CAN run Mac OS X Leopard in a virtual machine. I personally triple boot Ubuntu 8.10, Solaris 10, and Mac OS X (iAtkos hack) on my gateway, with every version of windows, solaris, and others in virtual machines (created with fusion, played with player), and it is a really nice setup if you keep the virtual machines on a spare partition so they're writable by all hardware-bootable operating systems.
;).
This is mostly for device driver and web development, in addition to general OS curiosity, and makes for a great development environment.
As far as IDEs go, XCode is (just) alright, Eclipse is excellent, DevC++ is a blessing, and when it comes down to it even good old vim is great (I've heard about Emacs, but it really needs a text editor
But thats just my humble setup.
Where are the "I don't believe in IP" people?
Wishing we could continue installing Mac OS on our Dell, Gateway and HPs only without fear of any legal repercussions if a crApple lawyer happens to be in the same coffee house as us.
Nothing says we can't keep installing it as long as we don't sell it, but this case was the hackintosh underground's way of using Leopard without any (even vague) legal consequences.
And stop calling them clones, its just an operating system (look up the definition) running on non-Apple hardware, making it ideal for dual/triple booting.
omg this is the funniest comment I've read in a while, gonna post this on that comment website, whatever it is.
Does it come prepackaged with winrar serials, cracks, M$ documents and source code?
he obviously works in IT, whether he is a LAN, MAN or WAN administrator is not determined since the full size of the rack is not revealed in the photo.
lol, now thats funny.
lovely poem, lol! Don't get me wrong, I have 10 computers all running either some Linux distro (mostly debian) or hackintosh. I was just satirizing the typical /. response to the article.
"the design decision to disallow the killing of children in the game."
I would prefer it if it would let you eat the dead babies after killing them, even better if you could... blend... them...
lol, they should release it as a homebrew app to be run on custom iPhone firmware. I doubt Sun would take kindly to it, but it would give more users incentive to get custom firmware in the first place, despite the fact I would prefer safari over opera as far as web rendering goes, but opera's extra features would make it worthwhile.
if this keep going the way it has, the dumb terminal will instead be a minimal OS running a web browser to connect to web services rather than client-side applications. Hence the cloud to drive it all.
And how much does Microsoft pay employees for advertising by way of a /. account?
Since the internet moved in the direction it did, I've since said that eventually standalone apps will just be web services, and the OS will do little else than connect you to those services, and now everyone's buzzing about the technology that will drive it all: Cloud Computing. Its already started w/ Google Docs, lets see how many others jump on the bandwagon in the near future.
AKA the itanic?
"If MS were split into a few little companies (maybe all under one big umbrella company) that could really make 'em fight against each other to prove how good they are, I think they could seriously improve their image. "
You mean like steve jobs's Macintosh team vs. Lisa team BS? Maybe it would actually get Balmer fired from MS like Jobs...
if you are familiar with macs (despite thecoffeedesk staff being huge FOSS users), click command-space on the keyboard for an easter egg they hid in the website a while back. Doesn't do anything yet AFAIK, but still kinda cool.
From thecoffeedesk.com:
.net language (goodbye true native code), and from what Microsoft said, M is to strive to be cross-platformâ¦. with a catch.
.net compilable language (it just kinda disappeared) had many flaws and never really caught on although some were enthusiastic about it (just like Bill Gates said we would write code for OS/2 for the next 10 years after its release).
.net would only really make it attractive to Windows-specific applications, although its integration with ASP.net is unclear at this point. The mono project does a descent job of allowing .net code to run on non-windows platforms, and if M adheres to the same standards then after a given time M-written applications will be penguin-friendly as well if Microsoft can get around the MS SQL dependency.
In a software-centric world where we already have many, many languages to program in, from scripting to bytecode compiled languages, to frameworks on top of languages and embedded languages, now Redmond wants to bring ANOTHER language to the table, titled âMâ(TM) (for Microsoft?).
The new language is to be a part of Microsoftâ(TM)s new Oslo development and service-oriented strategy, incorporating features from XAML while being textual and domain-specific. M is to be used directly with 2 other components to be released with M along with Visual Studio 2010: Quadrant, a tool for building models visually, and a repository for storing and viewing models in an SQL database.
Microsoft has not said much other than that about the new language, but it will presumably be a compiled
By âoecross platformâ, Microsoft means, âoecross platform as long the other platform authors write a backend for the code, and the SQL database MUST be hosted on MS SQL, a proprietary Microsoft Windows serviceâ. It makes perfect sense for being cross platform, if you are Microsoft and trying to purchase many copies of Windows (therefore generating revenue, and presumably the version is Vista or win2k8 since XP is out).
Another source says the language is actually their âDâ(TM) language, only revamped to fit into their new Oslo modeling strategy and renamed to a further letter down the alphabet to attract new interest in an old product. While this may be mostly true, D, which was never really promoted as a
The fundamentals and principals of the language are attractive, especially for OOP, but its ties to MS SQL and
Time will only tell how many will actually use the language outright before Microsoft finds a way to force programmers to use it, most likely by dropping support for some features in all languages except M to promote its usage. For now it appears that the only âoenon-visualâ C/C++ code encouraged for usage with Windows by Microsoft is in fact Windows itself, given the fact that Microsoftâ(TM)s programmers are on Microsoftâ(TM)s payroll. But if all newbie programmers learn these new languages, who will manage the billions of lines of C and C++ we currently use in the future, unless it is implied to be completely be rewritten? Iâ(TM)m sure the folks from the original Bell labs team would be interested in the answer to these questions as well.
Gotta love the slashdot effect.
I was gonna suggest using iframes to make it seamless and less "whats that strange URL", but then we're right back at square one, and even if it somehow would work, Internet Exploiter would just complain about "some items insecure". At this stage in the process, the user clicks through several dialog boxes, each one +=ing 1 more amount of dislike for the website. Or you could just use TCP obfuscation (my GOD, I think I see how Google thought of it in the first place...).
I am :).
I would attend there if it weren't for Georgia Tech's better CS curriculum, but Trident Tech is excellent for doing the 2+2 program. Then again, if MIT accepts me although up until my current senior year I've taken CP courses, I would gladly hike it up to MA.
So the pattern continues...
What were we talking about again?
Must be new here.