Exactly correct. Everything is dependant on the language of the contract. As a web developer, my contracts usually state that the *content* of the pages designed are the property of the client, however, I have complete rights to resuse any code written for any other projects, provided that the other projects are not for competitors of the original client. If your contract does not reserver the rights to the code for your company, then your client has a case (although, not a good one).
Actually, the current prices of music do conform to a free market...its called high demand. The higher the demand, the more people are willing to pay...prices go up. Don't forget, also, that more goes into the cost of purchasing that CD than the cost of manufacture, there's studio time, royalties that go to the band, payroll for audio engineers, marketing, etc. It's not like the only cost involved in producing a CD for Metallica or any other band is just the $1 for the material and pressing process.
I agree that refridgeration should be higher, but I also agree with the listers' choice of Electrification at #1. Without the spread of electricity, none of the other advances listed are possible.
Not long...any large software company out there would immediately start adding some proprietary extensions to work better with their software. Until the inclusion of Mozilla in their browswer (the alpha is out for those of you living in a cave), Netscape used proprietary HTML tags...which made life all kinds of fun for web developers such as myself. On the subject of XML, it actually is a wonderful middle-man for conversion between different formats. And it is true that MS currently uses XML in their Office 2000 suite to allow conversions of documents into different forms. I recently started using XML for various projects, and while it can be a pain to learn, it is incredibly useful. The only drawback I've found is finding good tutorials and what not, since every tutorial has to be written for a specific function working with a specific other language (e.g. Using XML with PERL or XML with ASP, etc.).
Actually, the whole Netscape issue is one of the governments problem areas because the argument that they are using is that MS lowered the cost with the intent of killing Netscape so that they could then raise the price and recoup their losses. Since Netscape responded by not charging for their browser...it would be foolish to think that anyone will ever pay for a browser again. So that argument is hardly a good one. And as far as saying that MS should develop their apps for other platforms....they do...anyone looked at Mac lately? I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure I saw MS apps running on Mac last time I looked. Besides, why should MS design programs for other platforms? Windows = 80% of the market...I want my apps running on Windows...I can lose the other 20% of the market.
"Not to mention the 500+ reboots. I aint lying, I do this at least once a month with my workstation and more regularly with servers. " If you're rebooting this often, maybe you should give me a call and I'll come configure your servers correctly. I had to reboot my NT server for the first time in 6 months last week...cause we moved our servers to another building.
So you're saying that, since MS copied some things from UNIX, which came BEFORE DOS and Windows, MS is inferior? That's not really the best possible argument. If you're against builing on the work of others, I really think that you're involved with the wrong community...isn't building on the work of others the credo of the LINUX community? Or has it become: Anything MS does is evil because someone else who uses LINUX told me so. If you're going to argue that something that Windows does is inferior to how it's handled in UNIX, fine, usually there isn't an argument against that...but don't dimsiss it as inferior because an operating system that was developed almost 20 years after UNIX took a few ideas from it.
Then use LINUX. I'm not saying that W2K is for everyone. Obviously people are going to use what they want to use. Personally, I like to use W2K because it has awesome hardware support, the best plug-n-play on the market, and is stable as hell. I know NT had memory leak problems...hell, I administer 4 NT servers...alongside 2 UNIX boxes and a LINUX box...and 1 W2K Advanced server. If someone is having problems with 2K crashing, they have done something wrong.
Can someone explain to me how this only scores a 1? This is probably the most insightful post on this board...giving a thorough a very accurate description about where Microsoft is taking their software. Poor scoring...good posting Jon.
You're actually the first person I've seen say that they've had problems with massive memory leaks on W2K. I've been running W2K both professional and server for months now...total crashes: 0 I have tried swapping hardware, installing random programs, running 15 applications at once, removing random programs, and even hacking the forbidden zone of the registry to try and bring this thing down, but without any luck. I've had an easier time crashing UNIX systems than the 2000 server sitting in my office. Windows 2000 represents a tremendous improvement in all areas over NT and the 9x operating systems, and maintains an easy-to-use interface (although I'm not too fond of some of the changes they've made for "cosmetic" reasons). There must be a reason for companies like Compaq, GE, Dell, etc. to be rolling out W2K en masse...they wouldn't do it if it didn't make sense. Although I suspect some might tell me that those companies are little more than Imperialist Stooges, bowing to the whim of Bill Gates and his evil empire...isn't it funny...15 years ago when he was taking on IBM, he would have been your hero. Look how we reward success.
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Exactly correct. Everything is dependant on the language of the contract. As a web developer, my contracts usually state that the *content* of the pages designed are the property of the client, however, I have complete rights to resuse any code written for any other projects, provided that the other projects are not for competitors of the original client. If your contract does not reserver the rights to the code for your company, then your client has a case (although, not a good one).
Actually, the current prices of music do conform to a free market...its called high demand. The higher the demand, the more people are willing to pay...prices go up. Don't forget, also, that more goes into the cost of purchasing that CD than the cost of manufacture, there's studio time, royalties that go to the band, payroll for audio engineers, marketing, etc. It's not like the only cost involved in producing a CD for Metallica or any other band is just the $1 for the material and pressing process.
I agree that refridgeration should be higher, but I also agree with the listers' choice of Electrification at #1. Without the spread of electricity, none of the other advances listed are possible.
Not long...any large software company out there would immediately start adding some proprietary extensions to work better with their software. Until the inclusion of Mozilla in their browswer (the alpha is out for those of you living in a cave), Netscape used proprietary HTML tags...which made life all kinds of fun for web developers such as myself. On the subject of XML, it actually is a wonderful middle-man for conversion between different formats. And it is true that MS currently uses XML in their Office 2000 suite to allow conversions of documents into different forms. I recently started using XML for various projects, and while it can be a pain to learn, it is incredibly useful. The only drawback I've found is finding good tutorials and what not, since every tutorial has to be written for a specific function working with a specific other language (e.g. Using XML with PERL or XML with ASP, etc.).
Actually, the whole Netscape issue is one of the governments problem areas because the argument that they are using is that MS lowered the cost with the intent of killing Netscape so that they could then raise the price and recoup their losses. Since Netscape responded by not charging for their browser...it would be foolish to think that anyone will ever pay for a browser again. So that argument is hardly a good one. And as far as saying that MS should develop their apps for other platforms....they do...anyone looked at Mac lately? I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure I saw MS apps running on Mac last time I looked. Besides, why should MS design programs for other platforms? Windows = 80% of the market...I want my apps running on Windows...I can lose the other 20% of the market.
"Not to mention the 500+ reboots. I aint lying, I do this at least once a month with my workstation and more regularly with servers. " If you're rebooting this often, maybe you should give me a call and I'll come configure your servers correctly. I had to reboot my NT server for the first time in 6 months last week...cause we moved our servers to another building.
So you're saying that, since MS copied some things from UNIX, which came BEFORE DOS and Windows, MS is inferior? That's not really the best possible argument. If you're against builing on the work of others, I really think that you're involved with the wrong community...isn't building on the work of others the credo of the LINUX community? Or has it become: Anything MS does is evil because someone else who uses LINUX told me so. If you're going to argue that something that Windows does is inferior to how it's handled in UNIX, fine, usually there isn't an argument against that...but don't dimsiss it as inferior because an operating system that was developed almost 20 years after UNIX took a few ideas from it.
Then use LINUX. I'm not saying that W2K is for everyone. Obviously people are going to use what they want to use. Personally, I like to use W2K because it has awesome hardware support, the best plug-n-play on the market, and is stable as hell. I know NT had memory leak problems...hell, I administer 4 NT servers...alongside 2 UNIX boxes and a LINUX box...and 1 W2K Advanced server. If someone is having problems with 2K crashing, they have done something wrong.
Can someone explain to me how this only scores a 1? This is probably the most insightful post on this board...giving a thorough a very accurate description about where Microsoft is taking their software. Poor scoring...good posting Jon.
You're actually the first person I've seen say that they've had problems with massive memory leaks on W2K. I've been running W2K both professional and server for months now...total crashes: 0 I have tried swapping hardware, installing random programs, running 15 applications at once, removing random programs, and even hacking the forbidden zone of the registry to try and bring this thing down, but without any luck. I've had an easier time crashing UNIX systems than the 2000 server sitting in my office. Windows 2000 represents a tremendous improvement in all areas over NT and the 9x operating systems, and maintains an easy-to-use interface (although I'm not too fond of some of the changes they've made for "cosmetic" reasons). There must be a reason for companies like Compaq, GE, Dell, etc. to be rolling out W2K en masse...they wouldn't do it if it didn't make sense. Although I suspect some might tell me that those companies are little more than Imperialist Stooges, bowing to the whim of Bill Gates and his evil empire...isn't it funny...15 years ago when he was taking on IBM, he would have been your hero. Look how we reward success.