I used in the early ninties, for it's day it was very nice. I think a Opensourced OS/2 would be a good alternative to Linux/BSD, for some folks who want a more gui driven system.... It never hurts to have options.
Well I wasn't just referring to the Linux kernel. There are thousands of utility programs and applications as well as development tools that are developed or at least started out as stuff developed by folks as a hobby (where ever they happened to be sitting when they were typing).
If we were to rely on corporations for an alternative to linux, then behold OS/2, err no. It may not be as much of a hobby now as it was then, but open source started out as geeks writing code in thier spare time.
I'm a contracter at a large goverment (US) complex.
I don`t get no respect. I joined Gambler`s Anonymous. They gave me two to one I don`t make it.
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.
I`m trying a new diet now. The diet is Viagra and prune juice. I tell ya, I don`t know if I`m coming or going.
I tell ya I get no respect....
When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was lost on the beach and the cop helped me look for my parents I said, "Do you think we'll find them?" He said, "I don't know, kid, there's so many places they could hide."
It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
Last Christmas I got no respect. In my stocking, I got an Odor-Eater.
I tell ya I get no respect. I told my dentist to put in a new tooth to match my other teeth. He put in a tooth with four cavities.
With my wife I get no respect. I took her to a drive-in movie. I spent the whole night tryin to find out what car she was in.......
Have a GameCube and PS2 haven't played a PC game in 2+ years and haven't missed it. I plan on getting a Mac Mini.. Great OS underneath, pretty UI on top and all my favorite Open source apps will run on X-windows if nothing else.
What in the world do I winders for?? Oh thats right so I can get all those viruses, Malware and zero security Active X controls.. No thanks.
Exactly, there are interface limits to what you can do with Html, Javascript, DHTML, CSS etc......
You could write your applications as little activeX controls and have one that lets you edit and spell check etc... another handles printing... etc..
Problem is alot of folks want to get away from activeX since it's a major sources of malware/spyware. And you are chained to windows... I bet M$ would have something to say about it's highly profitable office apps being replaced by Google.
Even then, the idiot who wrote this piece talks about getting away from browers and then in the next paragraph she firmly chains herself to them by pushing the idea of a javascript/HTML... etc solution. If you are ditiching browers, then replace them with some thin client layer that lets developers create a nice UI to let the user get at thier data (on google servers?) and services and whatever else. There are much better languages than javascript.
This is the same old Idea that keeps coming up every few years, only to be shot down by the comsumers. After all I'm paying X$ per month for broad band, I've paid for my PC and disk drives are cheap, why would I pay another X+N$ for Google office when I can download Open Office for free? There is photoshop, but again how many months of Google subscriptions till I pay for my own copy of photoshop ( for us cheap scapes we download the Gimp) which usually most folks wait a few versions till they upgrade... Insert whatever software you want here. Unless the monthly charge is mininal it makes no sense.
what happened to Oracle's pro linux thing they were pushing a couple of years ago?? Noticably absent from this group IBM ( sells alot of servers with someone's flavor of linux on them) as well as AIX, HP (Ditto) + HP-UX...
Also some moron in the article, president of something calls solaris the 'one surviving unix....'. Wonder if he's heard of AIX, HP-UX, OSX + BSD..... Actually Apple sells more Unix boxes than sun, they are just smaller..
More crap from the 'we can't innovate so lets scare people with stupid magazine articles' folks.
I'm surprised Anderson, Accenture, AiC and some other slimy consulting companies didn't jump on this band wagon with EDS.
Remeber IBM has thier own clean room version of the JDK, as well as Blackdown, so even if Sun dumped Java tommorow development would continue. Also IBM, BEA and JBoss make java app servers (I'm sure I forgot some). IDE's that are available... NetBeans, Eclipse, WSAD (Eclipse + WepShere + Plugins), Jbuilder, IDEA..... again I'm sure I foregot some.... Supported platforms Win, Mac, Linux, Solaris, BSD......
VB M$ and ???? (sound of wind whistling)
Point is that while java may be vendor owned, it's much more open source-like in terms of support and multi platform availablility.
Yeah remeber there for a while everyone talked about B2B... Every fricken meeting I went to in 1999 and 2000 was B2b, B2b, B2b all these untold b2b riches and in the end who survived?? Good old consumer oriented businesses.
I'm no Bush fan, believe me, but this is something that cannot be laid at his feet. Most dotcoms had no bussiness plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Actully stupider is not a word, you can say more stupid or greater stupidity.....
Why don't you republicans go hang out at the GOP message board, then you can all discuss among yourselves the evils of the school lunch program, why rich people should'nt pay any taxes, the evils of the UN etc... etc...
But.... They love ALL big business, the bigger the better, and believe in little or no regulatory restrictions. They did file a friend of the court brief against the breakup, essentially siding with M$.
So regardless of why, they have give M$ Carte Blanche
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Is it really supprising?
Hee hhehee (in a Dr Evil sort of Laugh)..
If we could roll OS/2 and reactOS together that would rock!
I haven't touched C/C++ in 6 years and I'm ready to volunteer.
I used in the early ninties, for it's day it was very nice. I think a Opensourced OS/2 would be a good alternative to Linux/BSD, for some folks who want a more gui driven system.... It never hurts to have options.
The words Deny and SCO are used in the same sentence, however none of us appear to know if this a good or bad thing.
Hey did they get slaughted in the orange bowl last year by USC (University Souce Closed) ????
Open source U definately needs to work on thier tackling..
"a consistent, well documented, and long-supported API"
Well I wasn't just referring to the Linux kernel. There are thousands of utility programs and applications as well as development tools that are developed or at least started out as stuff developed by folks as a hobby (where ever they happened to be sitting when they were typing).
If we were to rely on corporations for an alternative to linux, then behold OS/2, err no. It may not be as much of a hobby now as it was then, but open source started out as geeks writing code in thier spare time.
-Perhaps the world doesn't actually give a stuff of the opinions of a load of geeks in their bedrooms?
No, but they sure seem to love thier code??? Oui?
Most of the time have no OS.
5,872,666: Method and apparatus for remotely blowing up head of presented subscriber if they change channel during commericals.
I'm a contracter at a large goverment (US) complex.
......
I don`t get no respect. I joined Gambler`s Anonymous. They gave me two to one I don`t make it.
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.
I`m trying a new diet now. The diet is Viagra and prune juice. I tell ya, I don`t know if I`m coming or going.
I tell ya I get no respect....
When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was lost on the beach and the cop helped me look for my parents I said, "Do you think we'll find them?" He said, "I don't know, kid, there's so many places they could hide."
It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.
Last Christmas I got no respect. In my stocking, I got an Odor-Eater.
I tell ya I get no respect. I told my dentist to put in a new tooth to match my other teeth. He put in a tooth with four cavities.
With my wife I get no respect. I took her to a drive-in movie. I spent the whole night tryin to find out what car she was in.
It had to be done.. Rodney RIP
Have a GameCube and PS2 haven't played a PC game in 2+ years and haven't missed it. I plan on getting a Mac Mini.. Great OS underneath, pretty UI on top and all my favorite Open source apps will run on X-windows if nothing else.
What in the world do I winders for?? Oh thats right so I can get all those viruses, Malware and zero security Active X controls.. No thanks.
I don't belive it had to GPL compatible, however it had to be usable by smaller companies and M$ license fee was too expensive.
They could probably comply with the EU by cutting the license fee by 75%.
J-LO as wonderwoman..... Ben Affleck as the Col....
Exactly, there are interface limits to what you can do with Html, Javascript, DHTML, CSS etc......
... etc..
... Insert whatever software you want here. Unless the monthly charge is mininal it makes no sense.
You could write your applications as little activeX controls and have one that lets you edit and spell check etc... another handles printing
Problem is alot of folks want to get away from activeX since it's a major sources of malware/spyware. And you are chained to windows... I bet M$ would have something to say about it's highly profitable office apps being replaced by Google.
Even then, the idiot who wrote this piece talks about getting away from browers and then in the next paragraph she firmly chains herself to them by pushing the idea of a javascript/HTML... etc solution. If you are ditiching browers, then replace them with some thin client layer that lets developers create a nice UI to let the user get at thier data (on google servers?) and services and whatever else. There are much better languages than javascript.
This is the same old Idea that keeps coming up every few years, only to be shot down by the comsumers. After all I'm paying X$ per month for broad band, I've paid for my PC and disk drives are cheap, why would I pay another X+N$ for Google office when I can download Open Office for free? There is photoshop, but again how many months of Google subscriptions till I pay for my own copy of photoshop ( for us cheap scapes we download the Gimp) which usually most folks wait a few versions till they upgrade
what happened to Oracle's pro linux thing they were pushing a couple of years ago?? Noticably absent from this group IBM ( sells alot of servers with someone's flavor of linux on them) as well as AIX, HP (Ditto) + HP-UX ...
Also some moron in the article, president of something calls solaris the 'one surviving unix....'. Wonder if he's heard of AIX, HP-UX, OSX + BSD..... Actually Apple sells more Unix boxes than sun, they are just smaller..
More crap from the 'we can't innovate so lets scare people with stupid magazine articles' folks.
I'm surprised Anderson, Accenture, AiC and some other slimy consulting companies didn't jump on this band wagon with EDS.
Remeber IBM has thier own clean room version of the JDK, as well as Blackdown, so even if Sun dumped Java tommorow development would continue. Also IBM, BEA and JBoss make java app servers (I'm sure I forgot some). IDE's that are available... NetBeans, Eclipse, WSAD (Eclipse + WepShere + Plugins), Jbuilder, IDEA ..... again I'm sure I foregot some.... Supported platforms Win, Mac, Linux, Solaris, BSD ......
VB M$ and ???? (sound of wind whistling)
Point is that while java may be vendor owned, it's much more open source-like in terms of support and multi platform availablility.
Back home they used to call moonshine sunshine in a jug. Are you sure we're not talking about home made booze??
Yeah remeber there for a while everyone talked about B2B... Every fricken meeting I went to in 1999 and 2000 was B2b, B2b, B2b all these untold b2b riches and in the end who survived?? Good old consumer oriented businesses.
I'm no Bush fan, believe me, but this is something that cannot be laid at his feet. Most dotcoms had no bussiness plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
We have a winner.
I found a guy that did my taxes for around $90, state, fed and a extra form or 2 for some ebay sales and side contact work I had done.
Best of all if you get audited over the taxes they did, they will come with you to the audit.... turbo tax doesn't do that.
http://www.answers.com/stupider&r=67
Wow your right, my college english prof raked me over the coals for using stupider in a paper...
Hmm wonder if I can go back some 18 years later and get my grade changed...
Doesn't change the facts, nothing I said was stupid or stupider... just my opinion. You are apparently the one that doesn't like differing opnions.
So you are a democrat that voted for Bush, who cares..
Actully stupider is not a word, you can say more stupid or greater stupidity.....
Why don't you republicans go hang out at the GOP message board, then you can all discuss among yourselves the evils of the school lunch program, why rich people should'nt pay any taxes, the evils of the UN etc... etc...
But.... They love ALL big business, the bigger the better, and believe in little or no regulatory restrictions. They did file a friend of the court brief against the breakup, essentially siding with M$.
So regardless of why, they have give M$ Carte Blanche