There is more licenses in here than you can shake a stick at. I bet there is lawyers all over this. What we need is a good old-fashioned Coach and Horses license.
Commercial art is down graded in our minds because it is given away for free by the people that commissioned it (the advertiser).
We put a lot of store by the traditional mediums because we have to shell hard cash to take it home and hang it on our wall.
(I guess the 'shit on a stick' art that keeps the press in gravy is probably a result of some people being able to shell out more cash.)
We have all seen famous master pieces (in galleries, in books, in the papers, on TV, or maybe the net), but we don't feel we own those like we own that cheap watercolour of the Yorkshire Dales in our living room. Why else do people fill their homes with such stuff rather than newspaper clippings of the Mona Lisa.
Computer art is going to be difficult to sell. You probably cannot expose it without effectively giving away the original. If it's interesting it will be flashed around the world and probably pasted onto everyones backdrop.
Asked to comment on the bacterium's toxicity to people, it replied: "I assume you mean people (homo sapiens). The following would not make sense: People Magazine."
Do you know. I have to work with people that talk like this all the time. They like to think they are intelligent too.
Yep it does now startup when I'm running IE. That's good (but don't ask why).
However, I notice that if I change the default search engine it keeps setting it back to netscape. It can't possible be doing it on purpose. Er, could it?
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The little green fishy icon nearly disappears when you put a shortcut on the (default green) Windows desktop.
Why can't we have that nice fiery lizard from the splash screen as the icon?
My gut feel is that you are right and lots of companies rarely use any substainial amount of software for more than 3 years (unless they wrote it in house). However, most companies do not realise this and will probably balk at signing a contract that shows software to be a consumable.
This might backfire on MS. But then again, this is nothing that a little 'education' cannot overcome.
This was the first question that came to mind when I saw the article posted. What about the COM stuff? Anyway I went looking for it. According to the User's Guide whitepaper section on Using Chill!Soft ASP, step 8 it does do COM, just not on Linux. I wonder if it accurately simulates the thread blocking problems you can get with MFC COM objects.
I find it highly amusing that a "wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc" should feel the need put out a clone of IIS. Are they trying to complete with MS on two fronts? Are they determined to kick the chair out from under Bill?
It may be totally malicous on Sun's part, but it might give those dorks that bought into the IIS thing and are not prepared to rewrite an escape route. (But probably not a very satifactory one).
Extend it with.NET. Probably with enough useful functionality to get folks developing on it.
Then when the time is right, and enough people have got themselves seriously committed to.NET, break the Linux version. This would effectively move all Linux.NET shops to Windows.
You might think we would all know better by now. However, there are all sorts of issues with other tools that they can promise to solve for us (say speed in Java). And they probably can because hindsight is an exact science. It's only the issues that haven't appeared yet that will fox them.
Maybe what he means is that there may be more than one representation.
Unix is hardware independant because it can be compiled for more than one piece of hardware. This does not mean that it would actually have more than one representation. As you know Windows NT is hardware independant, you just can't buy it for anything other that wintel anymore.
However, I don't know if this is what the guy means, because the lack of pictures makes it difficult for the hard of understanding (such as myself) to get a handle on what he is talking about.
I wonder if this representation-independence what Microsoft is trying to do with.NET? They want an underlying runtime bytecode that can be compiled from several languages.
... but bash with filename completion means I move damned fast when I want a file
I want a file manager that inserts the file I click on into the command line. I want a file manager that opens a command line in the directory I'm working in. Is this too much to ask? Probably, I'm stuck on windows with some morons that nest directories to 10 levels and give files 25 character names.
True. It probably isn't going to handle destructors very well either. People writing C++ code tend to reply on them getting called immediately to clear down resources etc..
IBM apparently have a source to native, or bytecode to native compiler, that is now part of the VisualAge for Java dobury. I don't know much about it there is a reference here on alphaworks. Goto "Technologies" -> "Java" -> "High Performance Compiler for Java".
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There is more licenses in here than you can shake a stick at. I bet there is lawyers all over this. What we need is a good old-fashioned Coach and Horses license.
Computer art is going to be difficult to sell. You probably cannot expose it without effectively giving away the original. If it's interesting it will be flashed around the world and probably pasted onto everyones backdrop.
Do you know. I have to work with people that talk like this all the time. They like to think they are intelligent too.
Really? Well. I can think of one ... and its name begins with M.
However, I notice that if I change the default search engine it keeps setting it back to netscape. It can't possible be doing it on purpose. Er, could it?
Why can't we have that nice fiery lizard from the splash screen as the icon?
... or would that be too simple. Obviously the TV companies aren't that bother about it.
This might backfire on MS. But then again, this is nothing that a little 'education' cannot overcome.
Sorry? Did I hear you say: "using laptops on planes"? I though that made them fall out of the sky.
I find it highly amusing that a "wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc" should feel the need put out a clone of IIS. Are they trying to complete with MS on two fronts? Are they determined to kick the chair out from under Bill?
It may be totally malicous on Sun's part, but it might give those dorks that bought into the IIS thing and are not prepared to rewrite an escape route. (But probably not a very satifactory one).
You're right about tag libraries they really do make the whole JSP thing worthwhile. There is a good introduction in the Wrox JSP book available here.
- They embrace Linux.
- Extend it with
.NET. Probably with enough useful functionality to get folks developing on it. - Then when the time is right, and enough people have got themselves seriously committed to
.NET, break the Linux version. This would effectively move all Linux .NET shops to Windows.
You might think we would all know better by now. However, there are all sorts of issues with other tools that they can promise to solve for us (say speed in Java). And they probably can because hindsight is an exact science. It's only the issues that haven't appeared yet that will fox them.Mr Cringley had go on this very subject last week.
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Who is APL?
Unix is hardware independant because it can be compiled for more than one piece of hardware. This does not mean that it would actually have more than one representation. As you know Windows NT is hardware independant, you just can't buy it for anything other that wintel anymore.
However, I don't know if this is what the guy means, because the lack of pictures makes it difficult for the hard of understanding (such as myself) to get a handle on what he is talking about. I wonder if this representation-independence what Microsoft is trying to do with .NET? They want an underlying runtime bytecode that can be compiled from several languages.
Wait for someone to clear the leaves of the track?
I want a file manager that inserts the file I click on into the command line. I want a file manager that opens a command line in the directory I'm working in. Is this too much to ask? Probably, I'm stuck on windows with some morons that nest directories to 10 levels and give files 25 character names.
Not according to this link
One of Lucas' best. But so sad (seeing those 60's Trumph Motorbikes get trashed). Didn't we all wince when that guy got his ear stapled.
After that long in one job, it is no wonder Ken is calling it a day.
These pooters are not as small as they look.
Is there a standard API for Java browser plugins in 1.3? Is called a Pluglet?
The EU and the US taking the same stand. Now that would be time to be paranoid.
True. It probably isn't going to handle destructors very well either. People writing C++ code tend to reply on them getting called immediately to clear down resources etc..
IBM apparently have a source to native, or bytecode to native compiler, that is now part of the VisualAge for Java dobury. I don't know much about it there is a reference here on alphaworks. Goto "Technologies" -> "Java" -> "High Performance Compiler for Java".