1. I was joking re Python. Since Eiffel was brought up as a contender, I figured any language was fair game - Fortran, BASIC, Perl, Java and PHP all went through my mind, but I figured the Gentoo/Gnome angle would get a few more +1 Funnies out of the mods. I probably should have claimed Klisp, Koberon or InterKal was being considered for KDE...
2. Perl is a scripting language, not a compiled language. It seems to me a fundamental requirement for this kind of development is speed. Perl is fast for a script lingo but not compared to the compiled languages out there.
Ah, yes, of course. I knew it was something beginning with an E, though...
I sit corrected and wish to exchange the Interesting and any possible Insightful moderations I got for my original post for a few Funny and an Overrated.
Might as well use Python, then Gnome can use the Zope database for its filesystem, Plone to manage the calendar, document workflow and so on, and it's a sure fit with Gentoo. Well, Gentoo begins with a G, anyway. And portage uses Python. Am I right or am i right? Right!
Eiffel, indeed... What are the reasons for switching and won't it be totally painful to switch language NOW? Maybe the article author has been laid off from Ericsson, I believe they used (use?) Eiffel a lot in-house.
The nearest I could find in the generic kernel (2.6.4) is intel ICH5 support, and it appears the 6300ESB I/O bus in the E7210 has the same (or at least similar) chip.
If not, this should keep you happy:
The Intel® 6300ESB ICH contains a set of registers that shadow the contents of the legacy IDE
registers. The behavior of the Command and Control Block registers, PIO and DMA data transfers,
resets, and interrupts are all emulated.
I wonder if Microsoft employs people to come in here and moderate or if it's just brainwashing? I mean, people joke about being modded down for defending Microsoft, "after all this is Slashdot, hehehe" and then this post, full of propaganda and lies, gets modded Insightful? WTF, did I surf to Channel 9 by mistake today?
MS got to be market dominant (which is NOT a true monopoly) by making genuinely good programs. For a business-person's definition of good, that is. They work well enough, their cost is reasonable compared to their utility, their faults are known and can be planned around, and the qualified user pool is huge.
Circular reasoning. How did the user pool grow huge unless they already had a monopoly? They cut deals to preload DOS and Windows on computers. All computers. Monopoly.
They hold market dominance solely because it would be uneconomic -- wastefully expensive -- for anyone to replace them.
A total lie. Ecomomics thrive on competition. Monopolies stifle competition and hurts the economy.
The theories of the anti-corp types would see all success dragged low, deliberate waste foisted upon the productive in the name of "fairness", and the result would be economic ruin.
We're not anti-corp, we're anti-monopoly. We'd like to see all success promoted, not only Bill Gates'. If someone else sets up shop, innovates and provides a service that in a working economic system would create prosperity and success, Microsoft either scares them off or buys them out. There are numerous examples of this. Check out Go for one of the most glaring ones - they saw an opportunity to innovate -- Microsoft responded by creating a similar vaporware product, spread FUD and drive them out of the market. The economic value that would have resulted from Go prospering, creating unique customer value and success was wasted. Deliberately wasted by none other than Bill Gates himself. IBM used to be the big bad boy, but they learned how to behave responsibly in the marketplace and play by the rules. Why can't Microsoft?
.plan
1. Research a way to create earthquakes.
2. Trigger one in the Cascades.
3. Watch Redmond slide into the Pacific Ocean.
4. Profit!
5. Oh yeah: Warn the Japanese about the tsunami. (Note, maybe we should bring this item up higher on the list?)
You're kidding, right? Ford. General Electric. DuPont. Most of the seven sisters of Big Oil. Ericsson. And those are just off the top of my head. There are thousands more. When they get to a certain size, they go zombie. Nothing really kills them - they just merge, spin off daughters and re-brand. Maybe some kind of silver bullet would work, like for Enron. But even if Microsoft did invent that kind of accounting, they have the cash flow to prop it up, almost indefinitely.
Would be to have a new company come along and actually produce something new rather than recycle old and existing ideas.
As if it hasn't been tried a few thousand times? Every single time, Microsoft has either bought the company in question and either integrated it or disbanded it, or created enough vaporware and FUD to shut it down. Remember Go, anyone? Where do you think Visio, Excel and Exchange comes from? Developed in-house? Ha! One of the guys behind Exchange even came over and tried to "ease our transition" when Bill'n'Steve bought us [1] out. You can not out-innovate someone who buys and steals innovations for a living and has forty billion dollars to play with. It can not be done, not on the same playing field. You will have to either out-gun them (maybe IBM could, if they had a visionary to push them, which they don't) or take the fight elsewhere and play by different rules as OSS is doing.
I think Bill Gates himself has proven that it only takes someone in a garage with a damn good idea...
Jobs and Wozniak proved that. Bill never worked out of a garage, his parents were a bit too wealthy for that kind of rough start. He was speeding his Porsche down in Albuquerque from day one.
Mod me down if you wish, just an honest opinion from someone sick of hearing about Microsoft's monopoly.
Well, I'm sick of living it. And I have been for close to ten years now. Do some research and you'll know why you're hearing about it. God knows there's enough books and websites written by the ones who have gotten their de-programming and gotten out. Start with Marlin Eller and go from there.
[1] Sendit, later known as Microsoft Mobile Internet Business Group and now known as NOTHING since they killed it off, apparently just for fun. Forty billion dollars allows you to have fun like that. Laugh, dammit!
In Spider-Man® 2, the latest installment in the blockbuster Spider-Man® series, based on the classic Marvel Comics hero, Tobey Maguire returns as the mild-mannered Peter Parker, who is juggling the delicate balance of his dual life as a college student and a superhuman crime fighter.
The entertaining adventure escalates and Spider-Man's life becomes even more complicated when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius, (Alfred Molina) who has been reincarnated as the maniacal and multi-tentacled "Doc Ock."
(Disclaimer: All I know about console games is what I learn from Penny Arcade)
Were Zelda and MP still 'hot' games at the time or had everyone who wanted to play them more or less already bought them? Most game sales would appear to happen right at the release with sales quickly tapering down after a few weeks or so and if that's the case here, bundling 'old' games would have a low percieved value in the eye of the customers.
It probably depends a lot on what games they bundle. If it isn't a killer game, too few will really value it. It's like the shite games bundled with graphics cards, no one would have bought them separately, 'least not at anything near full price.
In unrelated news, media reports that many websites carrying "news for nerds, stuff that matters" spontaneously combust, especially when lots of people are witnessing it. Apparently, a Sicilian hosting company has been hit particularly hard.
Ah, you've been searching for the wrong title. That would be Darl McBride's Illustrated Guide to Forking Everyone in their Rear Orifice and Charging $699 for the Pleasure. I hear it's coming out in a For Dummies version soon.
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But what happens when the cats over-eat, get fat and die?
2. Perl is a scripting language, not a compiled language. It seems to me a fundamental requirement for this kind of development is speed. Perl is fast for a script lingo but not compared to the compiled languages out there.
I don't have any modpoints right now, but I'll write you an IOU: +1 Funny.
I sit corrected and wish to exchange the Interesting and any possible Insightful moderations I got for my original post for a few Funny and an Overrated.
Eiffel, indeed... What are the reasons for switching and won't it be totally painful to switch language NOW? Maybe the article author has been laid off from Ericsson, I believe they used (use?) Eiffel a lot in-house.
Reanimating the 2004 Slashdotting of www.scyandtelescone.com
How about letting their poor sysadmin reanimate the webserver? Kiss of life!
At least his footnotes know they are footnotes.
I'm afraid 10 kgs isn't enough to send your principal to the moon.
That's a very, very good point. My excuse is that I'm not a native English speaker. :-)
If not, this should keep you happy:
That should be +5 Kinformative, Kmoderators! Ksheesh...
That's the whole point, ain't it? It's Microsoft-funded. Connect the dots.
MS got to be market dominant (which is NOT a true monopoly) by making genuinely good programs. For a business-person's definition of good, that is. They work well enough, their cost is reasonable compared to their utility, their faults are known and can be planned around, and the qualified user pool is huge.
Circular reasoning. How did the user pool grow huge unless they already had a monopoly? They cut deals to preload DOS and Windows on computers. All computers. Monopoly.
They hold market dominance solely because it would be uneconomic -- wastefully expensive -- for anyone to replace them.
A total lie. Ecomomics thrive on competition. Monopolies stifle competition and hurts the economy.
The theories of the anti-corp types would see all success dragged low, deliberate waste foisted upon the productive in the name of "fairness", and the result would be economic ruin.
We're not anti-corp, we're anti-monopoly. We'd like to see all success promoted, not only Bill Gates'. If someone else sets up shop, innovates and provides a service that in a working economic system would create prosperity and success, Microsoft either scares them off or buys them out. There are numerous examples of this. Check out Go for one of the most glaring ones - they saw an opportunity to innovate -- Microsoft responded by creating a similar vaporware product, spread FUD and drive them out of the market. The economic value that would have resulted from Go prospering, creating unique customer value and success was wasted . Deliberately wasted by none other than Bill Gates himself. IBM used to be the big bad boy, but they learned how to behave responsibly in the marketplace and play by the rules. Why can't Microsoft?
Microsoft is a monopoly. They own the desktop.
They live by the old adage that it's safer to be feared than loved. And this is true, for a period of time.
.plan
1. Research a way to create earthquakes.
2. Trigger one in the Cascades.
3. Watch Redmond slide into the Pacific Ocean.
4. Profit!
5. Oh yeah: Warn the Japanese about the tsunami. (Note, maybe we should bring this item up higher on the list?)
You're kidding, right? Ford. General Electric. DuPont. Most of the seven sisters of Big Oil. Ericsson. And those are just off the top of my head. There are thousands more. When they get to a certain size, they go zombie. Nothing really kills them - they just merge, spin off daughters and re-brand. Maybe some kind of silver bullet would work, like for Enron. But even if Microsoft did invent that kind of accounting, they have the cash flow to prop it up, almost indefinitely.
As if it hasn't been tried a few thousand times? Every single time, Microsoft has either bought the company in question and either integrated it or disbanded it, or created enough vaporware and FUD to shut it down. Remember Go, anyone? Where do you think Visio, Excel and Exchange comes from? Developed in-house? Ha! One of the guys behind Exchange even came over and tried to "ease our transition" when Bill'n'Steve bought us [1] out. You can not out-innovate someone who buys and steals innovations for a living and has forty billion dollars to play with. It can not be done, not on the same playing field. You will have to either out-gun them (maybe IBM could, if they had a visionary to push them, which they don't) or take the fight elsewhere and play by different rules as OSS is doing.
I think Bill Gates himself has proven that it only takes someone in a garage with a damn good idea...
Jobs and Wozniak proved that. Bill never worked out of a garage, his parents were a bit too wealthy for that kind of rough start. He was speeding his Porsche down in Albuquerque from day one.
Mod me down if you wish, just an honest opinion from someone sick of hearing about Microsoft's monopoly.
Well, I'm sick of living it. And I have been for close to ten years now. Do some research and you'll know why you're hearing about it. God knows there's enough books and websites written by the ones who have gotten their de-programming and gotten out. Start with Marlin Eller and go from there.
[1] Sendit, later known as Microsoft Mobile Internet Business Group and now known as NOTHING since they killed it off, apparently just for fun. Forty billion dollars allows you to have fun like that. Laugh, dammit!
RTFA, it says 60 meters up. Wow, the colours...
Yeah, I think I meant the other one...
+1 Insightful for your sig, BTW.
If there's nothing else, I'll just go back to playing Far Cry instead of working then, shall I? Right. OK.
Were Zelda and MP still 'hot' games at the time or had everyone who wanted to play them more or less already bought them? Most game sales would appear to happen right at the release with sales quickly tapering down after a few weeks or so and if that's the case here, bundling 'old' games would have a low percieved value in the eye of the customers.
It probably depends a lot on what games they bundle. If it isn't a killer game, too few will really value it. It's like the shite games bundled with graphics cards, no one would have bought them separately, 'least not at anything near full price.
In unrelated news, media reports that many websites carrying "news for nerds, stuff that matters" spontaneously combust, especially when lots of people are witnessing it. Apparently, a Sicilian hosting company has been hit particularly hard.
SCO - Fucking their customers with style.