Oh my god! Not 1 whole megabyte! How will our modern computers with gigabytes of HDD space and 100s of megs of ram ever be able to handle a 1+ megabyte binary!
But that's not what happened. IBM seems to have pulled the article that was linked in the summary due to some unknown reason. The date on it was May 5th 2009
His game persona should be pretty well known to anyone who would care about the games enough to post a story to/.
So then what is your excuse for not knowing that in Tabula Rasa his persona was called General British?
In anticipation of next week's launch of Tabula Rasa, we would like to invite you to join us in our end of beta event. The Tabula Rasa team will be playing and challenging you to take on General British himself on Friday, October 26, 2007 from 10:00 PM to 11:59 PM Central Time.
In the google case, it's google who is using the Internet to generate profits. Why should only the end user have to bear ALL the burden?
They don't. Google pays for the bandwidth it uses to its upstream providers. Again, what is being proposed is for them to not only pay for their own bandwidth but then subsidize other people's bandwidth. They have no such obligation.
Isn't it fair that everyone who dips their bucket into the pond to drink should also help pay for making sure nobody pisses in it, and that everyone has fair access?
Yes, it is fair hence why Google (just like every other internet company) pays an upstream provider for the bandwidth it uses. Did you somehow think that Google gets all the bandwidth it uses for free?
So IBM is going to quake in its boots over something that they can pick up and freely use in their own Java stack (since its Apache 2.0) basically putting Spring out of business? Wow that sounds like a solid winner there! Secondly, why should Microsoft care when the greatest share of developers for its platform are using either C/C++ or C#?
Instead of asserting the alleged inconsistencies in my response, why don't you state what you are trying to prove because I somehow fail to see any coherent message
I'm stating that you can still see dll hell in various programs and that.NET does nothing to solve this issue because the programs that you see them with are written in C/C++ not a.NET language. Was that simple enough for you?
Read the summary - or better yet, read the article. The tax is to help pay for the roll-out of universal broadband. The summary says it might also be used to subsidize the BBC - pure speculation.
That hardly improves the case. It isn't Google's job to subsidize universal broadband.
So, why shouldn't google help pay for the pipes that they'll benefit from
Because they already pay for their traffic usage to their upstream provider? Why should they have to pay double?
- or do you believe google is so benevolent that you'd rather they OWNED the pipes, like they've proposed in some areas?
No, I don't believe that because I don't subscribe to your false dichotomy. I think they should neither be forced to subsidize universal broadband nor should they have exclusive ownership of the pipes.
IBM is targeting SUN, they arn't targeting all computer manufacturers.
So what? That has little bearing on the law. There is nothing illegal in the fact that they are targeting one company's client base.
The equivelent would be: FORD giving everyone a discount on a new vehicle if they traded in a GM. The guy who owned a DODGE would be out of luck.
Which would be neither anti-competitive nor illegal. To run with your analogy there is nothing in the law that obligates a dealer to give trade-in discounts to everyone.
It's pretty clear here that IBM is trying to scoop SUN's customer base. This could have been the reason they wanted to aquire SUN in the first place.
Well of course they are trying to take away Sun's old customer's. That's what you see between any competing companies.
they were bragging about how much better and faster their new Intel chipped products were over their old PPC systems. I guess in the end processing speed of the CPU does mean something after all!
You mean except the fact that the Core2Duos/Quads they sell are usually of a lower stock clock speed than the ridiculously shitty P4s they used to compete against? Yes, these new Intel CPUs are faster but it's because they are multicore and have a better IPC performance not because of raw gigahertz speed.
What is immoral about their offer? Is it also immoral for a car dealership to offer you a discount on your purchase if you trade in an old car? Because what IBM is offering is no different.
This is the price for one class of people, this other price for a second class that uses a competitor.
How is that any different than a car dealer who takes a few thousands dollars off the price of a car when you trade in your old car? Is that also anti-competitive?
As for the legality I would assume it is legal as IBM does not have a monopoly.
They would have some defense as a benefits consumers argument too.
How would it be illegal even if they did have a monopoly?
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and have a 1+mb
Oh my god! Not 1 whole megabyte! How will our modern computers with gigabytes of HDD space and 100s of megs of ram ever be able to handle a 1+ megabyte binary!
But that would actually involve Ulrich actually admitting that he's ever been wrong.
Yo Dawg! We herd you liek forking software, so we put a fork in your fork so you can fork while you forking!
Is that you Joerg?
He claims random crap like that all the time when he refuses to fix bugs.
The *game character* being General British doesn't change the fact that his *in real life* nickname is Lord British.
And for the game Tabula Rasa he used the name General British hence that is why it was used in the summary.
But that's not what happened. IBM seems to have pulled the article that was linked in the summary due to some unknown reason. The date on it was May 5th 2009
No, that isn't the link from the article. What you linked is a year old, the link from the article was published yesterday.
But if Python does it, its okay?
No. From whose ass did you pull that strawman from?
I heard it'll be released the same day as Duke Nukem Forever as 3D Realms will be using it in the relaunch of their site for the game.
His game persona should be pretty well known to anyone who would care about the games enough to post a story to /.
So then what is your excuse for not knowing that in Tabula Rasa his persona was called General British?
In anticipation of next week's launch of Tabula Rasa, we would like to invite you to join us in our end of beta event. The Tabula Rasa team will be playing and challenging you to take on General British himself on Friday, October 26, 2007 from 10:00 PM to 11:59 PM Central Time.
http://www.playtr.com/news/latest_news/the_tabula_rasa_end_of_beta_event.html
Considering how defensive you get over this company in the 5 posts you've made in this thread I doubt it.
No it isn't. They are already one of the most common, if not the most common, java enterprise frameworks in use today.
Astroturf much?
In the google case, it's google who is using the Internet to generate profits. Why should only the end user have to bear ALL the burden?
They don't. Google pays for the bandwidth it uses to its upstream providers. Again, what is being proposed is for them to not only pay for their own bandwidth but then subsidize other people's bandwidth. They have no such obligation.
Isn't it fair that everyone who dips their bucket into the pond to drink should also help pay for making sure nobody pisses in it, and that everyone has fair access?
Yes, it is fair hence why Google (just like every other internet company) pays an upstream provider for the bandwidth it uses. Did you somehow think that Google gets all the bandwidth it uses for free?
So IBM is going to quake in its boots over something that they can pick up and freely use in their own Java stack (since its Apache 2.0) basically putting Spring out of business? Wow that sounds like a solid winner there! Secondly, why should Microsoft care when the greatest share of developers for its platform are using either C/C++ or C#?
Instead of asserting the alleged inconsistencies in my response, why don't you state what you are trying to prove because I somehow fail to see any coherent message
I'm stating that you can still see dll hell in various programs and that .NET does nothing to solve this issue because the programs that you see them with are written in C/C++ not a .NET language. Was that simple enough for you?
Read the summary - or better yet, read the article. The tax is to help pay for the roll-out of universal broadband. The summary says it might also be used to subsidize the BBC - pure speculation.
That hardly improves the case. It isn't Google's job to subsidize universal broadband.
So, why shouldn't google help pay for the pipes that they'll benefit from
Because they already pay for their traffic usage to their upstream provider? Why should they have to pay double?
- or do you believe google is so benevolent that you'd rather they OWNED the pipes, like they've proposed in some areas?
No, I don't believe that because I don't subscribe to your false dichotomy. I think they should neither be forced to subsidize universal broadband nor should they have exclusive ownership of the pipes.
Hint: They're not *that* benevolent.
Hint: I never claimed they were.
Paying to take your competitors product off the market is reducing competition in the market.
So Sun is now unable to sell future SPARC machines because of this? If not I'm failing to see how this is reducing competition.
IBM is targeting SUN, they arn't targeting all computer manufacturers.
So what? That has little bearing on the law. There is nothing illegal in the fact that they are targeting one company's client base.
The equivelent would be: FORD giving everyone a discount on a new vehicle if they traded in a GM. The guy who owned a DODGE would be out of luck.
Which would be neither anti-competitive nor illegal. To run with your analogy there is nothing in the law that obligates a dealer to give trade-in discounts to everyone.
It's pretty clear here that IBM is trying to scoop SUN's customer base. This could have been the reason they wanted to aquire SUN in the first place.
Well of course they are trying to take away Sun's old customer's. That's what you see between any competing companies.
Somehow, a car dealer being on the right side of moral discussion just seems......well, wrong.
While the car dealer himself may be immoral, there is nothing immoral (or anti-competitive) in a trade-in discount which is all this is.
they were bragging about how much better and faster their new Intel chipped products were over their old PPC systems. I guess in the end processing speed of the CPU does mean something after all!
You mean except the fact that the Core2Duos/Quads they sell are usually of a lower stock clock speed than the ridiculously shitty P4s they used to compete against? Yes, these new Intel CPUs are faster but it's because they are multicore and have a better IPC performance not because of raw gigahertz speed.
While certainly not a moral way to do business,
What is immoral about their offer? Is it also immoral for a car dealership to offer you a discount on your purchase if you trade in an old car? Because what IBM is offering is no different.
It is pretty clearly anti-competitive.
In what way? How does it stifle competition?
This is the price for one class of people, this other price for a second class that uses a competitor.
How is that any different than a car dealer who takes a few thousands dollars off the price of a car when you trade in your old car? Is that also anti-competitive?
As for the legality I would assume it is legal as IBM does not have a monopoly.
They would have some defense as a benefits consumers argument too.
How would it be illegal even if they did have a monopoly?
but does this not seem like an anti-competitive type of move?
No, it sounds like a very highly competitive move on IBM's part. Exactly what in this offer is anti-competitive?