My point is that, because of globalization, white people are no longer in the world economic driver seat. So, the old status quo of white's having to share power while minorities could just accumulate it no longer holds. Power sharing now has to take place across all ethnicities. So, things like, accepting racism in what would have been called minority communities should be just as taboo as racism in white communities.
If every country is actually capable of building and maintaining their own operating systems, with all of their complexity, I would tend to think that it is probably safe from a consumer perspective to dispatch with the idea that some countries can make some consumer goods more than others, and let every nation make its own manufactured goods. Cuba with its own Linux? Why not. Viva la Fidel at boot time, but I don't want any cars, toys or consumer goods imported into the USA.
I'm working on a project to put lasers on sharks. Sharks with lasers can help reduce bird clutter, lowers greenhouse emissions, making our skies safer and saving the planet. Can you give me a billion dollars?
Bundling IE is still the number one thing holding back Web technologies and retarding innovation.
No its not. Not at all. It is that it costs a lot of money to write browsers. Opera doesn't have it. Opera can't compete with FireFox and Microsoft and Chrome just flat out kills them. Big fish want to give away browsers and are way better funded than Opera will ever be.
Because space travel is mathematically dead simple
It's only dead simple if you have a rocket that works. Design one of those? If it were so easy, SpaceX would have people up there by now, and I don't even know if they have their first orbit yet.
RSA is a problem that is much more simply stated than landing a man on the moon. You only say landing a man on the moon is easy because it was done. It was the culmination of many, many years of research to do it and it requires a lot of risk management and luck to do it. You say mathematically that landing a rocket on the moon is easier than protein folding, but try a realistic computer model of the effects of fuel spray and burn inside the combustion chamber.
If Microsoft has to unbundle their browser, then EVERY operating system should be required to unbundle browsers and applications as well.
If going after Microsoft is the kind of free trade that Europe envisions, that I think we should cut them off from exports to the USA as well.
Screw them. If they want to have their own os, browser stack, let them have it. Screw free trade. This lawsuit brought by the EU proves that yet again this policy is a total failure.
And of course, we know that the better product, especially if it's software, wins.
In the long run, that usually is the case. Even in the case of OS/2 versus Windows 3.1, which is the most lopsided contest that Microsoft should have lost, the thing that drove Windows 3.1 into more seats was that Windows 3.1 did not require you to get rid of your DOS, and OS/2 did. You could launch Windows, do some stuff with it, then, you could "Program Manager | Exit Windows" and be right back at DOS. Then, when it came down to Warp versus Windows 95, I had both, and in a lot of ways, well, Windows 95 was better.
In other cases, Microsoft was clearly better. Come on, FoxPro for Windows was Way Better than dBase for Windows. There's STILL no answer to MS Access on the desktop. Visual Studio is still the all around best IDE.
The biggest thing that seems to hurt Microsoft's rivals that failed is that once they get a dent in MS market share, they go crazy, neglect to invest in their own core products, and then Microsoft comes out with a new release that kills their core. Borland did this by blowing money on office apps when it had a clear lead in tools. Netscape did this by blowing money on "communicator" but it let Navigator wither at a pretty critical time, and, so do others. But right now, Adobe is doing just fine with PhotoShop and Illustrator, and thus far they've resisted successive Microsoft assaults with the likes of that PhotoDraw, Expressions, and whatever else they've tried to do. Even Silverlight is running into a huge tailwind against Flash, even though Silverlight is better in a lot of ways - it doesn't have some of Flash's effects, so, it's got a 1% market share.
On the other hand, has anyone noticed how Google Chrome has quietly passed Opera for installs? That should tell you bundling is a myth. FireFox is at 20% and climbing, Chrome is climbing, and well, the Opera people just aren't good enough.
Because I also say that I think Ubuntu is better than XP. I like Ubuntu/Kdevelop for C++ better than XP/Visual Studio 2005. But, with VS2008 and Vista, its a different story. For me, I'm into desktop applications development, so I prefer Vista. It's pretty simple.
But if you wanted to just throw up some web pages with a bit of Java, NetBeans on Ubuntu would suit you fine, along with MySQL as a back end.
IE is a good product. IE4 was a GREAT product, but, as of IE6, I think FireFox is taken the lead, but right now, Google Chrome is my favorite.
That's the other thing too. Instead of saying, "this or that is the BEST", I say, "this is or that is my favorite for what I do." It's less confrontational and allows people to exhange knowledge of what they prefer, so that other environments can steal ideas from each other.
I mean, for cell phones and stuff they do, but, if you've got a 64 bit machine with 4 CPUs, and a couple gigs of RAM... having a database server bundled with the desktop might not be a bad plan. I think every Linux should come with MySQL and it might not be a bad idea to have a distribution where all the settings are in the database, rather than config files.
I haven't used a Linux distro that blew as badly as Vista does.
See, I can't stand XP compared to Linux but I like Vista better than anything else. XP always looked kinda bad to me, like a little too cute, and I liked it only really because it was a Windows NT kernel that was good for games. XP addressed some important shortcomings of Windows 2000 but it was increasingly dated. Like, the file copy in XP is terrible compared to Vista.
I have both Vista and Ubuntu running on the same machine, each with its own drive, and I think Vista just blows Ubuntu out of the water. The only real two knocks I have with Vista compared to Ubuntu are that I STILL do not have 64 bit SATA drivers for Vista so I have to run 32 bit Vista, and Ubuntu hung in there better when my SATA card flaked out while my Vista choked. On the other hand, I have quite a few with Ubuntu.
I program, and I've always been leaning towards Linux because its more C++ friendly and I always had the sense that Microsoft was abandoning, foolishly, the native desktop application. And, KDevelop started out so well for C++ but is just stagnant now, while meanwhile, team Visual Studio actually decided to do something with C++. That Microsoft completely panicked and went out and licensed a third party widget set that emulates their own Fluent U/I and baked it into MFC interests me. I think Fluent is cool and I am eager to try to the new Vista APIs. That they also threw in a really kick ass icon editor also helps.
Microsoft still needs to watch though...as I think the promising framework for C++ is actually wxWidgets.... but its just not quite there yet - although their forms stuff is really very good where it is implemented... and well, I can run wxWidgets on Windows, and have done that. AS far as the rest of the C++ world goes, I think the SDK in Windows is more consistent than Linux's is, but that's also because I'm more familiar with it, I'll give you that. And Windows does have the horrible mishmash of accessing a bunch of stuff only via COM or even worse,.NET interop. But, a careful study of the OS SDK shows that they too do have a growing collection of useful APIs that are just normal C level function calls and there's some good stuff in there.
As far as what other people are saying goes, I really don't care what other people think. Honestly, there are so many zealots in the Linux camp that are more about the movement of open-ness rather than the software itself, that there's nothing Microsoft could ever do to make them happy. To them, they will always find something that they don't like about Vista, and you can always tell who they are because sooner or later they will rationalize the same thing about Linux.... the software to them is just a vehicle for a social agenda, and it doesn't even really matter what it does. It's as futile as George Bush trying to make liberals happy, or Barrack Obama trying to make conservatives happy. You just can't.
As it is, I'm tempted to blow away my Linux partition for the Windows 7 beta.
Bundling isn't the biggest reason IE users switched to IE, it was because IE4 was better than Netscape Navigator. I'm writing big and long posts about Vista being better than Ubuntu, and I think that it is, but I would never in my right mind use IE7 over Firefox. Although, frankly, right now my favorite browser is Google Chrome. In any case, this isn't like 1994 when people did not know how to download software. Right now, people download stuff all the time, from chat programs to games and utilities, and wallpapers, songs, and more. None of that is bundled, but people manage fine. Same thing with browsers.
I mean, Paint is bundled with Windows, but that hasn't stopped anyone from making their own paint programs, now has it?
pple's market growth, marketing had nothing to do with it?
You need to quit making excuses for Linux. If people liked it, it would go from 0-100 quite quickly. It's just that right now, its not good enough to make people that use something else switch. I mean, come on, if it were all "market" that makes an operating system, then clearly Windows would be going back...
Ubuntu is not as a good as a desktop operating system as Windows Vista. It's just not.
No they aren't. People just like to use what they think is best. For PC's, often it is Microsoft. Sometimes, it is not. A lot of people like Apple. On the other hand, Linux doesn't seem to be making any ground on the desktop. Apple's rapid and recent increase in market share should tell you everything you REALLY want to know about why Linux isn't succeeded. It's the operating system, stupid. People just don't like it.
You aren't an un-American SOB because you don't like capitalism. You are an un-American SOB because you want to impose your own tyranny onto other people. Just because you are following a bunch of losers doesn't mean that you have the right to impose your views on everyone else. When Linux hits its mark, people will get it, and, shockingly, where Linux does execute well, people DO use it. Funny how those markets work, now isn't it?
My dual Opteron is nice and all but all I have is AGP on it because I was an idiot three and a half years ago and I did not think that in a million years PC-Express would kill off AGP as fast it did, my graphics card is a wimpy GeForce 6200. What I really need is a quad processor board with a PC-Express 2 pair of slots, so I can have all sorts of multiple monitors, one of which would be devoted to Trek. Now I just have to figure out how to get my company to pay for it.
And by that, I mean, classic Trek. See, the current vogue is that every character has to have faults and be greedy and weak somehow... I mean, in the new Galactica everyone has more issues than a Windows Beta, and its like, it sucks. Men are all crying, cheating, pathetic, and I'm supposed to draw some moral lesson from these people? What a joke.
On the other hand, there's Captain Kirk, decorated, confident, successful. Now, he goes and tells me that there is a better way, that, I don't have to be a big jackass and we can solve social problems, learn about the world around us, and not be sissies about it, that's all good.
Don't blame Microsoft for Son #1's lack of curiosity. That's your dumb fault, not Bill Gates'. Curiosity is how you learn and you were probably too strict with him as a kid, burned it out of him before he even got off the ground.
The entire argument that having the source code makes for better learning is ridiculous. Having the source code is just cheating. If you are using a closed source Windows application, and you want that behavior in your own application, you have to sit down and go through the uses cases, then figure out how to make it yourself. That exertion gives you deep knowledge and experience in how to do something. What does the open source world offer? Why, just cut and paste and gussy up some code to make it look like yours. That's not learning. That's just copying.
If you really wanted to learn how hardware worked on a machine, then, Linux is arguably even worse because the whole point is to write portable code. The best operating system to learn about hardware is arguably an old MS-DOS. There, you have launch right into real mode, one program at a time, you make assembly calls in the DOS executive to do the stupidest possible things and then after that you don't bother with it, because you wind up just writing memory out yourself. If you want kids to really learn hardware, then, don't even bother with the operating system! Given them Turbo C, DOS, and let them go mashing up pointers in frame buffers and flipping to protect mode, setting up rings, and all of that stuff. That's hardware.
If you want to know how computers really work, then operating systems are for sissies.
This the NEA that Republicans always bitching about? The one that pays for art and orchestras and stuff? The one with the 144 *million* dollar budget? That's about 50 cents for each of you a year..
This is a liberal media, from movies, to books, to magazines, to the fine arts, that routinely emphasizes magical, emotional thinking over rational thinking. It is a multibillion dollar industry that subsists entirely on selling people emotional pap for what they want to hear, that celebrates self destruction, idolizes the weak, rationalizes dishonesty... and the biggest criticism or thing to do is to be hip, be cool, don't be too white, and hey, white people put man on the moon - even Gil Scott Heron got up from his rats and his self pitying fixes long enough to notice that. For the last 30-40 years we've had nothing but a steady diet of how smart you are is equated directly to how you look, that intelligence is tied to talking, but really, the best role model for intelligence and study was in fact that very guy that everyone rips with the big glasses and pocket protectors and wanted to have a normal 1950s lifestyle, not some fricking MTVish Real World teenage drama.
In my book, anyone that is hip, or even too well spoken, is probably stupid in some fundamental way.
After all, it would be down right un-American to not work my ass off to help cloth and feed a bunch of rich assholes!
So, while we are at it then, do you want to do something about universities owning huge patent portfolios paid for by your tax dollars, while at the same time raising tuition faster than even the price of gasoline?
A university is supposed to educate a child as to the world of software, not just that which you are ideologically in favor of. Do you think you are good for humanity just sheltering children from MS-Word? I doubt it.
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My point is that, because of globalization, white people are no longer in the world economic driver seat. So, the old status quo of white's having to share power while minorities could just accumulate it no longer holds. Power sharing now has to take place across all ethnicities. So, things like, accepting racism in what would have been called minority communities should be just as taboo as racism in white communities.
Whites are the smallest minority when considered world wide.
If every country is actually capable of building and maintaining their own operating systems, with all of their complexity, I would tend to think that it is probably safe from a consumer perspective to dispatch with the idea that some countries can make some consumer goods more than others, and let every nation make its own manufactured goods. Cuba with its own Linux? Why not. Viva la Fidel at boot time, but I don't want any cars, toys or consumer goods imported into the USA.
I was kinda making a joke back.
Finally us white aristocratic land owners won't be the only ones electing the president!
Um, can you explain how that's a good thing if you are white?
I'm working on a project to put lasers on sharks. Sharks with lasers can help reduce bird clutter, lowers greenhouse emissions, making our skies safer and saving the planet. Can you give me a billion dollars?
Bundling IE is still the number one thing holding back Web technologies and retarding innovation.
No its not. Not at all. It is that it costs a lot of money to write browsers. Opera doesn't have it. Opera can't compete with FireFox and Microsoft and Chrome just flat out kills them. Big fish want to give away browsers and are way better funded than Opera will ever be.
And, frankly, OPERA SUCKS.
Because space travel is mathematically dead simple
It's only dead simple if you have a rocket that works. Design one of those? If it were so easy, SpaceX would have people up there by now, and I don't even know if they have their first orbit yet.
RSA is a problem that is much more simply stated than landing a man on the moon. You only say landing a man on the moon is easy because it was done. It was the culmination of many, many years of research to do it and it requires a lot of risk management and luck to do it. You say mathematically that landing a rocket on the moon is easier than protein folding, but try a realistic computer model of the effects of fuel spray and burn inside the combustion chamber.
If Microsoft has to unbundle their browser, then EVERY operating system should be required to unbundle browsers and applications as well.
If going after Microsoft is the kind of free trade that Europe envisions, that I think we should cut them off from exports to the USA as well.
Screw them. If they want to have their own os, browser stack, let them have it. Screw free trade. This lawsuit brought by the EU proves that yet again this policy is a total failure.
I don't understand why all of the newer space telescopes seem to forsake visible light.
And of course, we know that the better product, especially if it's software, wins.
In the long run, that usually is the case. Even in the case of OS/2 versus Windows 3.1, which is the most lopsided contest that Microsoft should have lost, the thing that drove Windows 3.1 into more seats was that Windows 3.1 did not require you to get rid of your DOS, and OS/2 did. You could launch Windows, do some stuff with it, then, you could "Program Manager | Exit Windows" and be right back at DOS. Then, when it came down to Warp versus Windows 95, I had both, and in a lot of ways, well, Windows 95 was better.
In other cases, Microsoft was clearly better. Come on, FoxPro for Windows was Way Better than dBase for Windows. There's STILL no answer to MS Access on the desktop. Visual Studio is still the all around best IDE.
The biggest thing that seems to hurt Microsoft's rivals that failed is that once they get a dent in MS market share, they go crazy, neglect to invest in their own core products, and then Microsoft comes out with a new release that kills their core. Borland did this by blowing money on office apps when it had a clear lead in tools. Netscape did this by blowing money on "communicator" but it let Navigator wither at a pretty critical time, and, so do others. But right now, Adobe is doing just fine with PhotoShop and Illustrator, and thus far they've resisted successive Microsoft assaults with the likes of that PhotoDraw, Expressions, and whatever else they've tried to do. Even Silverlight is running into a huge tailwind against Flash, even though Silverlight is better in a lot of ways - it doesn't have some of Flash's effects, so, it's got a 1% market share.
On the other hand, has anyone noticed how Google Chrome has quietly passed Opera for installs? That should tell you bundling is a myth. FireFox is at 20% and climbing, Chrome is climbing, and well, the Opera people just aren't good enough.
s for your suggestion about a distribution with all settings in a database. It's called the Windows Registry, and we all know how well _that_ works.
Well, I think it would be a bit presumptuous to call the Registry a "Database", don't you think?
Because I also say that I think Ubuntu is better than XP. I like Ubuntu/Kdevelop for C++ better than XP/Visual Studio 2005. But, with VS2008 and Vista, its a different story. For me, I'm into desktop applications development, so I prefer Vista. It's pretty simple.
But if you wanted to just throw up some web pages with a bit of Java, NetBeans on Ubuntu would suit you fine, along with MySQL as a back end.
IE is a good product. IE4 was a GREAT product, but, as of IE6, I think FireFox is taken the lead, but right now, Google Chrome is my favorite.
That's the other thing too. Instead of saying, "this or that is the BEST", I say, "this is or that is my favorite for what I do." It's less confrontational and allows people to exhange knowledge of what they prefer, so that other environments can steal ideas from each other.
I mean, for cell phones and stuff they do, but, if you've got a 64 bit machine with 4 CPUs, and a couple gigs of RAM... having a database server bundled with the desktop might not be a bad plan. I think every Linux should come with MySQL and it might not be a bad idea to have a distribution where all the settings are in the database, rather than config files.
I haven't used a Linux distro that blew as badly as Vista does.
See, I can't stand XP compared to Linux but I like Vista better than anything else. XP always looked kinda bad to me, like a little too cute, and I liked it only really because it was a Windows NT kernel that was good for games. XP addressed some important shortcomings of Windows 2000 but it was increasingly dated. Like, the file copy in XP is terrible compared to Vista.
I have both Vista and Ubuntu running on the same machine, each with its own drive, and I think Vista just blows Ubuntu out of the water. The only real two knocks I have with Vista compared to Ubuntu are that I STILL do not have 64 bit SATA drivers for Vista so I have to run 32 bit Vista, and Ubuntu hung in there better when my SATA card flaked out while my Vista choked. On the other hand, I have quite a few with Ubuntu.
I program, and I've always been leaning towards Linux because its more C++ friendly and I always had the sense that Microsoft was abandoning, foolishly, the native desktop application. And, KDevelop started out so well for C++ but is just stagnant now, while meanwhile, team Visual Studio actually decided to do something with C++. That Microsoft completely panicked and went out and licensed a third party widget set that emulates their own Fluent U/I and baked it into MFC interests me. I think Fluent is cool and I am eager to try to the new Vista APIs. That they also threw in a really kick ass icon editor also helps.
Microsoft still needs to watch though...as I think the promising framework for C++ is actually wxWidgets.... but its just not quite there yet - although their forms stuff is really very good where it is implemented... and well, I can run wxWidgets on Windows, and have done that. AS far as the rest of the C++ world goes, I think the SDK in Windows is more consistent than Linux's is, but that's also because I'm more familiar with it, I'll give you that. And Windows does have the horrible mishmash of accessing a bunch of stuff only via COM or even worse, .NET interop. But, a careful study of the OS SDK shows that they too do have a growing collection of useful APIs that are just normal C level function calls and there's some good stuff in there.
As far as what other people are saying goes, I really don't care what other people think. Honestly, there are so many zealots in the Linux camp that are more about the movement of open-ness rather than the software itself, that there's nothing Microsoft could ever do to make them happy. To them, they will always find something that they don't like about Vista, and you can always tell who they are because sooner or later they will rationalize the same thing about Linux.... the software to them is just a vehicle for a social agenda, and it doesn't even really matter what it does. It's as futile as George Bush trying to make liberals happy, or Barrack Obama trying to make conservatives happy. You just can't.
As it is, I'm tempted to blow away my Linux partition for the Windows 7 beta.
Bundling isn't the biggest reason IE users switched to IE, it was because IE4 was better than Netscape Navigator. I'm writing big and long posts about Vista being better than Ubuntu, and I think that it is, but I would never in my right mind use IE7 over Firefox. Although, frankly, right now my favorite browser is Google Chrome. In any case, this isn't like 1994 when people did not know how to download software. Right now, people download stuff all the time, from chat programs to games and utilities, and wallpapers, songs, and more. None of that is bundled, but people manage fine. Same thing with browsers.
I mean, Paint is bundled with Windows, but that hasn't stopped anyone from making their own paint programs, now has it?
pple's market growth, marketing had nothing to do with it?
You need to quit making excuses for Linux. If people liked it, it would go from 0-100 quite quickly. It's just that right now, its not good enough to make people that use something else switch. I mean, come on, if it were all "market" that makes an operating system, then clearly Windows would be going back...
Ubuntu is not as a good as a desktop operating system as Windows Vista. It's just not.
People are brainwashed
No they aren't. People just like to use what they think is best. For PC's, often it is Microsoft. Sometimes, it is not. A lot of people like Apple. On the other hand, Linux doesn't seem to be making any ground on the desktop. Apple's rapid and recent increase in market share should tell you everything you REALLY want to know about why Linux isn't succeeded. It's the operating system, stupid. People just don't like it.
You aren't an un-American SOB because you don't like capitalism. You are an un-American SOB because you want to impose your own tyranny onto other people. Just because you are following a bunch of losers doesn't mean that you have the right to impose your views on everyone else. When Linux hits its mark, people will get it, and, shockingly, where Linux does execute well, people DO use it. Funny how those markets work, now isn't it?
My dual Opteron is nice and all but all I have is AGP on it because I was an idiot three and a half years ago and I did not think that in a million years PC-Express would kill off AGP as fast it did, my graphics card is a wimpy GeForce 6200. What I really need is a quad processor board with a PC-Express 2 pair of slots, so I can have all sorts of multiple monitors, one of which would be devoted to Trek. Now I just have to figure out how to get my company to pay for it.
And by that, I mean, classic Trek. See, the current vogue is that every character has to have faults and be greedy and weak somehow... I mean, in the new Galactica everyone has more issues than a Windows Beta, and its like, it sucks. Men are all crying, cheating, pathetic, and I'm supposed to draw some moral lesson from these people? What a joke.
On the other hand, there's Captain Kirk, decorated, confident, successful. Now, he goes and tells me that there is a better way, that, I don't have to be a big jackass and we can solve social problems, learn about the world around us, and not be sissies about it, that's all good.
Don't blame Microsoft for Son #1's lack of curiosity. That's your dumb fault, not Bill Gates'. Curiosity is how you learn and you were probably too strict with him as a kid, burned it out of him before he even got off the ground.
The entire argument that having the source code makes for better learning is ridiculous. Having the source code is just cheating. If you are using a closed source Windows application, and you want that behavior in your own application, you have to sit down and go through the uses cases, then figure out how to make it yourself. That exertion gives you deep knowledge and experience in how to do something. What does the open source world offer? Why, just cut and paste and gussy up some code to make it look like yours. That's not learning. That's just copying.
If you really wanted to learn how hardware worked on a machine, then, Linux is arguably even worse because the whole point is to write portable code. The best operating system to learn about hardware is arguably an old MS-DOS. There, you have launch right into real mode, one program at a time, you make assembly calls in the DOS executive to do the stupidest possible things and then after that you don't bother with it, because you wind up just writing memory out yourself. If you want kids to really learn hardware, then, don't even bother with the operating system! Given them Turbo C, DOS, and let them go mashing up pointers in frame buffers and flipping to protect mode, setting up rings, and all of that stuff. That's hardware.
If you want to know how computers really work, then operating systems are for sissies.
This the NEA that Republicans always bitching about? The one that pays for art and orchestras and stuff? The one with the 144 *million* dollar budget? That's about 50 cents for each of you a year..
This is a liberal media, from movies, to books, to magazines, to the fine arts, that routinely emphasizes magical, emotional thinking over rational thinking. It is a multibillion dollar industry that subsists entirely on selling people emotional pap for what they want to hear, that celebrates self destruction, idolizes the weak, rationalizes dishonesty... and the biggest criticism or thing to do is to be hip, be cool, don't be too white, and hey, white people put man on the moon - even Gil Scott Heron got up from his rats and his self pitying fixes long enough to notice that. For the last 30-40 years we've had nothing but a steady diet of how smart you are is equated directly to how you look, that intelligence is tied to talking, but really, the best role model for intelligence and study was in fact that very guy that everyone rips with the big glasses and pocket protectors and wanted to have a normal 1950s lifestyle, not some fricking MTVish Real World teenage drama.
In my book, anyone that is hip, or even too well spoken, is probably stupid in some fundamental way.
After all, it would be down right un-American to not work my ass off to help cloth and feed a bunch of rich assholes!
So, while we are at it then, do you want to do something about universities owning huge patent portfolios paid for by your tax dollars, while at the same time raising tuition faster than even the price of gasoline?
A university is supposed to educate a child as to the world of software, not just that which you are ideologically in favor of. Do you think you are good for humanity just sheltering children from MS-Word? I doubt it.