Don't they have some kind of database with all the keys in it.. (after all, a lot of games out there such as anything newer by blizzard works that way)!
Money talks, BS walks as the old saying goes.. Let's face it, any company in this same situation would probably be doing the same. After all, we're talking politics here. Mo money equals Mo influence in washington, that's the way it has always been and probably always will be. That's why MS is probably going to win this war... It's all about the money when you get right down to it. And MS has a lot of it! Until they don't have a lot of it they will be a monopoly. Ironically that is a catch 22... They won't be a monopoly if they aren't making Mo Money from Windows, which means customers aren't happy and have better alternatives. So now we are back to good 'ol capitalism. It's the American way!
Sounds really cool. I think I'd like to get one of these bad boys. I wonder how the details will work from an implementation perspective.. will one have to put all of their documents on one file server, or will it span multiple machines?
Also, how will it detect relavance? I'm pretty sure right now Google analyzes hyperlinks as part of its relevance algorithm... How will that work with internal documents if they aren't hyperlinked? How useful will this thing actually be? I'm sure they will think of something.
What about security... This seems like it could really be a privacy issue. I would think anyone driving around with a portable could sniff your network (assuming they had the right wireless adapater)! Anyone know more about the technology that is used here?
This sounds like FUD. He didn't really post any examples about what kind of problems C# has for security, that would have been helpful.
I think a lot of people are upset because MS has actually come out with something that can compare with Java finally.. The ability to write unsafe (unmanaged is what that really means, meaning the garbage collector and built in memory management features of the CLR won't touch it) is an added bonus to Java.
I think the real question is- how secure is the.NET common language runtime?
"... not covered by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and lays the ground for the mother of all sue-fests with the number of large and rich companies who are most certainly not going to agree with him. Tin hats all round. "
Somehow I have a feeling whoever has the deepest pockets is going to with the lawsuits. Isn't that just about how it always works?? That and whoever squeals the loudest... Well we all know how the RIAA is!
Wouldn't that make a precedent for *all* publically funded institutions (such as state universities) would have to release the source code that was written? Where do you draw the line? I could see a huge domino effect.
I'd be a little concerned if I were a computer science professor-- all of my students code (technically thats research, isn't it?) could be public domain.. that would mean coming up with different homework assignments for every class!:)
I wonder how many starving children in Africa that would feed a month?:P
I pay $25/month for phone, $50 for basic cable + cable modem = $75. Do I really want to pay an extra $155/ month to watch movies whenever I want? I don't think so. $155 rents a lot of videos down the street. That would be 155 of probably the same quality stuff they will be showing "on demand". What is so convenient about it anyway? I just don't get it.
Is someone really willing to pay that much to write out a single check instead of multiple ones and save a trip to blockbuster?
I couldn't find Steve Case (CEO of AOL) in the marketing section. I mean come on, this guy should be at least a runner-up with all those billions and billions of CD's sent out. AOL *is* somewhat responsible for making the Internet as "value added" as it is today (at least according to Bob Metcalfes rule- the more people on the network the more valuable).
Cool, you were on Computrek? Me too. Remember playing Tele-Arena? That game rocked. We used to have some good times playing that.. I remember once figuring out how to win free credits on that board as a monthly subscriber in the Casino game... What was your handle? Remember Jaxom? Athena? WeaponX? Cyric? Zor? Gwar?
Bush may think the Internet is dangerous, but at least he doesn't think he invented it.
The main issue as I see it is that Bush wants less government control essentially.. A smaller government means less rules/regulations and interference in our society!!
Bush may think the internet is dangerous for children, but is he going to regulate it with the government?? Hah! Good luck. Gore, on the other hand, may very well try if public opinion would sway enough... although neither of them would probably have much luck- at least we wouldn't be paying for it under Bush!
And just think of all the other areas Gore wants to get the government in.. I'd rather depend on my own means than the government!
Heh, scarry but I'm a good match to the "stressed out fried" syndrome.. I guess that happens when you spend 4 weeks straight doing nothing but coding...
But really what do you do?? I prefer a game of starcraft or two, but lately when I go home I'm to tired to even do that. It's like a never ending cycle.. *sigh* Get a new project, code to near death, barely make the deadline, repeat. And why do we do this again??:)
</end rant>
Corporate greed will never die. In a way this doesn't suprise me- it sounds like AOL/TW want to be Microsoft of cable (actually they may already be in truth).
I forsee cable taking the same path as AOL has taken though(for more than one reason).. It's almost like we have a parallel here. In the days of 56K modems, AOL was getting customers like crazy, and everyone (except the geeks of course) looked at it as the next best thing to sliced bread. Pretty soon, everyone started getting busy signals... then a lot of people started switching (granted there are stilly plenty of suckers still using AOL).
I think something similar could happen with cable. Once everyone starts "getting the internet" with cable modems, instead of getting busy signals they are going to get slow and crappy connection due to the technology. However, what is the alternative? I hope some form of DSL comes along soon that just about anyone can get, and get without problems... There really isn't much else right now.
Anyone remember this game? It was on Major BBS's back in the days before MUDs were big (or anything on the Internet really).. I can remember memorizing the entire maps. writing telemate scripts to follow players (and other cruel things).
I think that is quite possibly the best text-adventure game ever.. Anyone know if that game is available anywhere (telnet?)...
It basically shows that a C++ built com+ object running on Win2K smoked away every other platform (hard to believe I know..) Doesn't make a whole lot of sense but this seems to be coming from a good source.
I think MS has been doing a good job putting up some competition in the web server market. Apache is nice, but it's so simple to get ASP up and running on IIS.. (granted, PHP on Apache isn't bad either but throwing up a simple vb or c++ COM object for scalability is cake on IIS).
Solar Realms Elite rocked. I bought a copy of that when I was running goober bbs (Andersen AFB, guam). I think I was running Spitfire at the time.. Eventually I smarted up though, and ran Renegade!
Makes me want to scrounge up my old disk (I had a registered copy) and start up the BBS again...:)
All the more reason to stick with my PC! Maybe once these bugs get worked out I'll add one to my enternainment center. But until then, my PC-DVD works great, I can play all the games just as good if not better...
This also makes me wonder what Nintendo is coming up with.... It might be worth while to wait a little and see before plunking down the $$'s.
Tax + Shipping = about as much as I can get it at Best Buy for most stuff. That's going to put the rip-off retail stores in the advantage again (who wants to have to wait a week to get something shipped, and have to pay about the same price as in stores)
I think the government should subsidize shipping if they are going to charge tax (I'm sure that will happen). Oh well. Why should we be suprised that they want to get their hands in another money pot?
In one way online stores are taking away state revenue, because everyone is realizing "wow, look how much cheaper I can get the same exact product for on-line". If stores would lower their prices to be more competitive with the on-line stores I think that would fix a lot of the problem.
In todays postmodern society, people are just looking for something to pin the blame on.
No one is responsible for their own actions, it's always someone/something elses fault. With this type of outlook I think we're going to see things get a lot worse before they get better, IF they get better.
I play video games all the time (Starcraft mostly) and used to play DOOM, etc. I admit that I get a bit rowdy when I play these, and as a kid in high school I think it might have even affected my tempermant a little.. But in reality, that could NEVER be the sole reason for such an awful thing as this. Sure, it might not have helped much, but if video games and the Internet were the #1 contributor, guess what? There wouldn't be any high school students left. Every high school in the US has geeks, and I'm sure they all get on the Internet, play Starcraft, and doom/quake/whatever.
Our culture needs some absolutes, some morals.. until then things are going to keep deteriorating. In this society there is a decreasing moral code, and every man is doing more and more as he see's fit. These High School kids apparently saw that it was fit to go ahead and waste their peers.
It's a bummer that the stereotype of "geek" is now heading toward the dark side.
What can we do? Well, voice our opinions of course. I for one will be praying.
I've got an old 486 box that partially fried. I plugged the 3.5 floppy cable in one pin off because I bumped it while installing a new hdd.. as I was hurrying to get the stuff plugged back in. 2 minutes after powering up the PC I wondered why the floppy light wouldn't shut off, 3 minutes later I wondered why black smoke was coming out of my machine. I looked and saw that the power cable was melted, along with another cable close by.
After powering off, I ended up clipping the melted cable and duct-taping the others it oozed on. I've got the floppy still running in another 486 box to this day. It's not the most reliable, but it still works. Quite amazing! The power supply still works, too, although I occasionaly smell smoke every now and then...
I liked their terminolgy, especially how Linus "wrote linux", and did so on a "266-mhz" 386. Hah! Typical non-techie article. Otherwise I thought it was pretty interesting.
I figured Linus was more a Slakware kind of guy.. Maybe I'll have to take a look at Red Hat.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't they have some kind of database with all the keys in it.. (after all, a lot of games out there such as anything newer by blizzard works that way)!
Correction.. slashdot your FIANCE's website now buddy! :)
Congrats Taco!!!! You picked a good one.
Money talks, BS walks as the old saying goes.. Let's face it, any company in this same situation would probably be doing the same. After all, we're talking politics here. Mo money equals Mo influence in washington, that's the way it has always been and probably always will be. That's why MS is probably going to win this war... It's all about the money when you get right down to it. And MS has a lot of it! Until they don't have a lot of it they will be a monopoly. Ironically that is a catch 22... They won't be a monopoly if they aren't making Mo Money from Windows, which means customers aren't happy and have better alternatives. So now we are back to good 'ol capitalism. It's the American way!
Sounds really cool. I think I'd like to get one of these bad boys. I wonder how the details will work from an implementation perspective.. will one have to put all of their documents on one file server, or will it span multiple machines?
Also, how will it detect relavance? I'm pretty sure right now Google analyzes hyperlinks as part of its relevance algorithm... How will that work with internal documents if they aren't hyperlinked? How useful will this thing actually be? I'm sure they will think of something.
What about security... This seems like it could really be a privacy issue. I would think anyone driving around with a portable could sniff your network (assuming they had the right wireless adapater)! Anyone know more about the technology that is used here?
This sounds like FUD. He didn't really post any examples about what kind of problems C# has for security, that would have been helpful.
.NET common language runtime?
I think a lot of people are upset because MS has actually come out with something that can compare with Java finally.. The ability to write unsafe (unmanaged is what that really means, meaning the garbage collector and built in memory management features of the CLR won't touch it) is an added bonus to Java.
I think the real question is- how secure is the
with one point-
"... not covered by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and lays the ground for the mother of all sue-fests with the number of large and rich companies who are most certainly not going to agree with him. Tin hats all round. "
Somehow I have a feeling whoever has the deepest pockets is going to with the lawsuits. Isn't that just about how it always works?? That and whoever squeals the loudest... Well we all know how the RIAA is!
Wow, I didn't know a toaster could do all that! I mean, is that the greatest thing since sliced bread or what??
Sorry, couldn't help it. Seriously, is that some kind of British thing? Can someone translate?
Wouldn't that make a precedent for *all* publically funded institutions (such as state universities) would have to release the source code that was written? Where do you draw the line? I could see a huge domino effect.
:)
I'd be a little concerned if I were a computer science professor-- all of my students code (technically thats research, isn't it?) could be public domain.. that would mean coming up with different homework assignments for every class!
I wonder how many starving children in Africa that would feed a month? :P
I pay $25/month for phone, $50 for basic cable + cable modem = $75. Do I really want to pay an extra $155/ month to watch movies whenever I want? I don't think so. $155 rents a lot of videos down the street. That would be 155 of probably the same quality stuff they will be showing "on demand". What is so convenient about it anyway? I just don't get it.
Is someone really willing to pay that much to write out a single check instead of multiple ones and save a trip to blockbuster?
I couldn't find Steve Case (CEO of AOL) in the marketing section. I mean come on, this guy should be at least a runner-up with all those billions and billions of CD's sent out. AOL *is* somewhat responsible for making the Internet as "value added" as it is today (at least according to Bob Metcalfes rule- the more people on the network the more valuable).
Two words:
... ;)
DR DOS
I can see blue screens happening every time that popup comes along
Cool, you were on Computrek? Me too. Remember playing Tele-Arena? That game rocked. We used to have some good times playing that.. I remember once figuring out how to win free credits on that board as a monthly subscriber in the Casino game... What was your handle? Remember Jaxom? Athena? WeaponX? Cyric? Zor? Gwar?
Vote Bush!
Bush may think the Internet is dangerous, but at least he doesn't think he invented it.
The main issue as I see it is that Bush wants less government control essentially.. A smaller government means less rules/regulations and interference in our society!!
Bush may think the internet is dangerous for children, but is he going to regulate it with the government?? Hah! Good luck. Gore, on the other hand, may very well try if public opinion would sway enough... although neither of them would probably have much luck- at least we wouldn't be paying for it under Bush!
And just think of all the other areas Gore wants to get the government in.. I'd rather depend on my own means than the government!
Heh, scarry but I'm a good match to the "stressed out fried" syndrome.. I guess that happens when you spend 4 weeks straight doing nothing but coding...
But really what do you do?? I prefer a game of starcraft or two, but lately when I go home I'm to tired to even do that. It's like a never ending cycle.. *sigh* Get a new project, code to near death, barely make the deadline, repeat. And why do we do this again??
</end rant>
Corporate greed will never die. In a way this doesn't suprise me- it sounds like AOL/TW want to be Microsoft of cable (actually they may already be in truth).
I forsee cable taking the same path as AOL has taken though(for more than one reason).. It's almost like we have a parallel here. In the days of 56K modems, AOL was getting customers like crazy, and everyone (except the geeks of course) looked at it as the next best thing to sliced bread. Pretty soon, everyone started getting busy signals... then a lot of people started switching (granted there are stilly plenty of suckers still using AOL).
I think something similar could happen with cable. Once everyone starts "getting the internet" with cable modems, instead of getting busy signals they are going to get slow and crappy connection due to the technology. However, what is the alternative? I hope some form of DSL comes along soon that just about anyone can get, and get without problems... There really isn't much else right now.
Anyone remember this game? It was on Major BBS's back in the days before MUDs were big (or anything on the Internet really).. I can remember memorizing the entire maps. writing telemate scripts to follow players (and other cruel things).
I think that is quite possibly the best text-adventure game ever.. Anyone know if that game is available anywhere (telnet?)...
Greg
http://www.zdnet .com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2290989,00.html
It basically shows that a C++ built com+ object running on Win2K smoked away every other platform (hard to believe I know..) Doesn't make a whole lot of sense but this seems to be coming from a good source.
I think MS has been doing a good job putting up some competition in the web server market. Apache is nice, but it's so simple to get ASP up and running on IIS.. (granted, PHP on Apache isn't bad either but throwing up a simple vb or c++ COM object for scalability is cake on IIS).
Solar Realms Elite rocked. I bought a copy of that when I was running goober bbs (Andersen AFB, guam). I think I was running Spitfire at the time.. Eventually I smarted up though, and ran Renegade!
Makes me want to scrounge up my old disk (I had a registered copy) and start up the BBS again...:)
This also makes me wonder what Nintendo is coming up with.... It might be worth while to wait a little and see before plunking down the $$'s.
Tax + Shipping = about as much as I can get it at Best Buy for most stuff. That's going to put the rip-off retail stores in the advantage again (who wants to have to wait a week to get something shipped, and have to pay about the same price as in stores)
I think the government should subsidize shipping if they are going to charge tax (I'm sure that will happen). Oh well. Why should we be suprised that they want to get their hands in another money pot?
In one way online stores are taking away state revenue, because everyone is realizing "wow, look how much cheaper I can get the same exact product for on-line". If stores would lower their prices to be more competitive with the on-line stores I think that would fix a lot of the problem.
Ordinary eyeglasses? Man, I haven't had a pair like those since the early 80's...
In todays postmodern society, people are just looking for something to pin the blame on.
No one is responsible for their own actions, it's always someone/something elses fault. With this type of outlook I think we're going to see things get a lot worse before they get better, IF they get better.
I play video games all the time (Starcraft mostly) and used to play DOOM, etc. I admit that I get a bit rowdy when I play these, and as a kid in high school I think it might have even affected my tempermant a little.. But in reality, that could NEVER be the sole reason for such an awful thing as this. Sure, it might not have helped much, but if video games and the Internet
were the #1 contributor, guess what? There wouldn't be any high school students left. Every high school in the US has geeks, and I'm sure they all get on the Internet, play Starcraft, and doom/quake/whatever.
Our culture needs some absolutes, some morals.. until then things are going to keep deteriorating. In this society there is a decreasing moral code, and every man is doing more and more as he see's fit. These High School kids apparently saw that it was fit to go ahead and waste their peers.
It's a bummer that the stereotype of "geek" is now heading toward the dark side.
What can we do? Well, voice our opinions of course. I for one will be praying.
I've got an old 486 box that partially fried. I plugged the 3.5 floppy cable in one pin off because I bumped it while installing a new hdd.. as I was hurrying to get the stuff plugged back in. 2 minutes after powering up the PC I wondered why the floppy light wouldn't shut off, 3 minutes later I wondered why black smoke was coming out of my machine. I looked and saw that the power cable was melted, along with another cable close by.
After powering off, I ended up clipping the melted cable and duct-taping the others it oozed on. I've got the floppy still running in another 486 box to this day. It's not the most reliable, but it still works. Quite amazing! The power supply still works, too, although I occasionaly smell smoke every now and then...
I liked their terminolgy, especially how Linus
"wrote linux", and did so on a "266-mhz" 386. Hah! Typical non-techie article. Otherwise I thought it was pretty interesting.
I figured Linus was more a Slakware kind of guy.. Maybe I'll have to take a look at Red Hat.