Hah! A Microsoft troll complaining about Linus adding extra features and bugs to his code. How long did W2K take to come out, and how many open issues did it have? Would the kettle please refrain from commenting on the colour of the pot. Thank you.
I use Linux because it was the only thing I knew of that offered an alternative to Windows 95 which, at the time, was giving me no end of trouble and preventing me from using my very expensive laptop. After 18 months of relatively hassle-free computing I can clearly see the advantages of open source over closed source, but I have no qualms about paying money for a good piece of software. It's difficult to find, as most companies are quite happy to subscribe to the 'release a piece of shit and fix the bugs that corps complain about' development methodology.
One place I worked at was so cheap that I had NT on a 486 DX2/66 with 64MB RAM. It took 15 minutes to boot up, Word took a couple of minutes to come up, and it was barely usable for anything other than a mainframe session. I think you're talking complete crap somehow.
That's not the syntax, that's the JDK classes. There's nothing to stop you overriding them to make them simpler. Java is good in that a lot of the coding is already there for you in the JDK, but it isn't perfect, or the way you would have done it, so you extend it.
You obviously never have to maintain anything if you disapprove of descriptive names in software. I hate lazy coders who would rather call a variable ccn rather than credit_card_no. I'd rather the original coder was thinking of the poor sod(s) that have to look after his/her code six months down the line rather than just trying to save him/herself typing a few characters.
I don't think Microsoft needed any encouragement to fork a language that was a significant threat to their OS market share. Java has been a good introduction to the concepts of OO for me, as I find the syntax to be less obscure than C++, coming as I do from the world of mainframe COBOL. Think of Java as training wheels for the more powerful but easy to screw up, C++
I don't know many people who have been trained in MS products, they've just been given a PC and a phone number and told to get on with it. One of the many reasons why the for Dummies series is so popular.
MS are making a big mistake here, overtly abusing their customers. IBM made the same mistake when it was a monopoly and now it's just another player. The same thing will happen to MS unless they start treating the people that put them where they are with a little more respect.
But this is a professional environment where PCs will have a standard configuration and the user will not have to do the work. Linux may not be ready for the home environment, but I dispute that any complex OS is. Or are all those sales of Windows for Dummies just a myth. All OSes have to be learned and I don't see why a standard Mandrake 7.2 preinstall would be any harder to get to grips with than a standard Win98 setup for a newbie.
One of the main reasons NS4 is so poor is that Netscape has had to make sure that different huge codebases did the same thing on several platforms. Now they have just a cross-platform framework that allows them to write one browser codebase that runs on many platforms and moving to a new platform needs to just have the framework ported not the whole huge Communicator package. I agree about theming though, it seems a bit unnecessary although the reasoning is that corporations can now have their own browser theme for their employees. What the hell, at least it's here now and real competition can resume, especially when AOL uses NS instead of IE (God that's bad, needing AOL to save the browser market).
A lot of people haven't had Windows training either, all that's required is a Linux+GNOME for Dummies book just like the ones people buy for Windows. On a corporate desktop as well, the relative obscurity of Linux is an advantage, as the users will have to do more than download some crap and double click on it to install. Selling it to the PHBs like that would probably be more successful than the 'more stable than WNT' line as evil hackers writing executable viruses get given more attention than the BSOD.
Unfortunately Microsoft licensing deals with the major OEMs are on a per-CPU basis, so even if you buy a Linux workstation, there is the price of a Win9x license factored into the total cost.
Arts like opera are partially funded by the government in the UK, and the fuss about that in the tabloids was incredible - 'why should we have to subsidise snobs' etc. etc. I can't see them being too happy about having to cough up for greebos singing about Satan or large, gold-wearing black men rapping about guns and bitches.
It's not so much that they are binary-incompatible, but that different distros put different things (such as KDE) in different places. The LSB is supposed to lessen this somewhat by specifying where common libraries and scripts should be.
I disagree. The person who wrote the spec should be the one writing the test cases. That way the program will be tested according to the spec, not according to the way the coder interpreted it.
Perhaps it's because control of the media by just a few individuals is just as bad as control by the government. Since the internet is about (among other things) openness, the above is anathema to many people that post here.
Lack of anti-aliasing does not a poor architecture make. Please drop this tired argument. My KDE 2.0 desktop at home looks loads better than this pisspoor NT desktop I'm using at work.
I remember Bill Gates talking about Embedded NT running medical devices, although that causing a patient's death would be a 'feature' rather than evil intelligence, either that or those badly-written third-party device drivers.
Don't worry, everything will be copyrighted until the end of time anyway, and no-one will be allowed to create anything without the official MPAA/RIAA creation plugin for Microsoft Brain 2010.
Slashdot Mirror
Hah! A Microsoft troll complaining about Linus adding extra features and bugs to his code. How long did W2K take to come out, and how many open issues did it have? Would the kettle please refrain from commenting on the colour of the pot. Thank you.
I use Linux because it was the only thing I knew of that offered an alternative to Windows 95 which, at the time, was giving me no end of trouble and preventing me from using my very expensive laptop. After 18 months of relatively hassle-free computing I can clearly see the advantages of open source over closed source, but I have no qualms about paying money for a good piece of software. It's difficult to find, as most companies are quite happy to subscribe to the 'release a piece of shit and fix the bugs that corps complain about' development methodology.
One place I worked at was so cheap that I had NT on a 486 DX2/66 with 64MB RAM. It took 15 minutes to boot up, Word took a couple of minutes to come up, and it was barely usable for anything other than a mainframe session. I think you're talking complete crap somehow.
That's not the syntax, that's the JDK classes. There's nothing to stop you overriding them to make them simpler. Java is good in that a lot of the coding is already there for you in the JDK, but it isn't perfect, or the way you would have done it, so you extend it.
You obviously never have to maintain anything if you disapprove of descriptive names in software. I hate lazy coders who would rather call a variable ccn rather than credit_card_no. I'd rather the original coder was thinking of the poor sod(s) that have to look after his/her code six months down the line rather than just trying to save him/herself typing a few characters.
I don't think Microsoft needed any encouragement to fork a language that was a significant threat to their OS market share. Java has been a good introduction to the concepts of OO for me, as I find the syntax to be less obscure than C++, coming as I do from the world of mainframe COBOL. Think of Java as training wheels for the more powerful but easy to screw up, C++
I don't know many people who have been trained in MS products, they've just been given a PC and a phone number and told to get on with it. One of the many reasons why the for Dummies series is so popular.
MS are making a big mistake here, overtly abusing their customers. IBM made the same mistake when it was a monopoly and now it's just another player. The same thing will happen to MS unless they start treating the people that put them where they are with a little more respect.
But this is a professional environment where PCs will have a standard configuration and the user will not have to do the work. Linux may not be ready for the home environment, but I dispute that any complex OS is. Or are all those sales of Windows for Dummies just a myth. All OSes have to be learned and I don't see why a standard Mandrake 7.2 preinstall would be any harder to get to grips with than a standard Win98 setup for a newbie.
One of the main reasons NS4 is so poor is that Netscape has had to make sure that different huge codebases did the same thing on several platforms. Now they have just a cross-platform framework that allows them to write one browser codebase that runs on many platforms and moving to a new platform needs to just have the framework ported not the whole huge Communicator package. I agree about theming though, it seems a bit unnecessary although the reasoning is that corporations can now have their own browser theme for their employees. What the hell, at least it's here now and real competition can resume, especially when AOL uses NS instead of IE (God that's bad, needing AOL to save the browser market).
Last I heard it was in Mozilla, but Netscape decided to leave it out for what ever reason.
A lot of people haven't had Windows training either, all that's required is a Linux+GNOME for Dummies book just like the ones people buy for Windows. On a corporate desktop as well, the relative obscurity of Linux is an advantage, as the users will have to do more than download some crap and double click on it to install. Selling it to the PHBs like that would probably be more successful than the 'more stable than WNT' line as evil hackers writing executable viruses get given more attention than the BSOD.
Unfortunately Microsoft licensing deals with the major OEMs are on a per-CPU basis, so even if you buy a Linux workstation, there is the price of a Win9x license factored into the total cost.
Arts like opera are partially funded by the government in the UK, and the fuss about that in the tabloids was incredible - 'why should we have to subsidise snobs' etc. etc. I can't see them being too happy about having to cough up for greebos singing about Satan or large, gold-wearing black men rapping about guns and bitches.
It's not so much that they are binary-incompatible, but that different distros put different things (such as KDE) in different places. The LSB is supposed to lessen this somewhat by specifying where common libraries and scripts should be.
I disagree. The person who wrote the spec should be the one writing the test cases. That way the program will be tested according to the spec, not according to the way the coder interpreted it.
Perhaps it's because control of the media by just a few individuals is just as bad as control by the government. Since the internet is about (among other things) openness, the above is anathema to many people that post here.
It's also one of the few dot-coms currently making a profit.
I have a wonderful bridge to sell you, the people of London don't need it anymore.
MS can't even leave DOS behind, never mind ia32.
A child might fall down a well, and try to survive on the smelly water in daddy's cell phone battery.
This is a sign of how screwed up the US is that this incredibly remote possibility should even have to be taken into account.
Lack of anti-aliasing does not a poor architecture make. Please drop this tired argument. My KDE 2.0 desktop at home looks loads better than this pisspoor NT desktop I'm using at work.
Looks ok to me in IE4, what browser are you using?
"We will support the digital rights management system to the Nth degree."
Digital rights for corps but not for consumers, of course. Sorry John, you've just lost a customer.
I remember Bill Gates talking about Embedded NT running medical devices, although that causing a patient's death would be a 'feature' rather than evil intelligence, either that or those badly-written third-party device drivers.
Don't worry, everything will be copyrighted until the end of time anyway, and no-one will be allowed to create anything without the official MPAA/RIAA creation plugin for Microsoft Brain 2010.