I wasn't arguing against Microsoft doing this. I was laughing at the claims that the Linux world is full of innovation while Microsoft doesn't innovate anything. This ignoring the fact that Linux is a Unix clone and the vast majority of the Linux userland is clones of proprietary apps and clones of other apps.
What's the name of the new functional MS database access API? LINQ?
Wow, which shows you know all of jack and shit about what LINQ is. LINQ is not a database access API. LINQ can query arrays, enumerable classes, XML, as well as relational databases.
A bit buggy under certain conditions, yes, but that will be fixed in the future.
Except this is the exact excuse we get countless times when audio, video, etc don't work in Linux. Just give us more time! We swear it'll work in the future! Then you wait 6 months and all that previous work is scrapped and something new is built. Then we're told again: Just give us more time! We swear it'll work in the future! Lather, rinse, repeat.
It just shows how stupid some people are. Including, apparently, those who can't figure out what he meant.
No we understood what he meant it was just a flawed comparison. The reason why no one complains about Facebook is that people sign up and put up their information purely by their own choice. A government run database of your information is run and your information is put it in contrary to whether you wish it there or not. If you or the GP can't spot the glaring differences between the two you're both huge morons.
Interestingly enough, if the government created a database like facebook to track citizens, people would be outraged, but make it voluntary and it becomes the next new thing.
What exactly is interesting about that? One is mandatory and one is completely voluntary.
Why does this submission treat Foxconn and Hon Hai as if they are distinct entities? Foxconn is the trade name of Hon Hai. They are the same company so to say they are "both" planning something doesn't make any sense.
To me, this isn't even about "free" in the sense of ideology, but it's about making education "cheap" as in $$$.
So then you either download it for free from the university or pay 5 or 10 bucks for it on a CD. Seriously, nothing but a podunk university wouldn't be able to offer this.
They're supposed to milk rich mommies and daddies who send their kids off to join frats, get drunk, and go to football games.
Aww, did some poor little baby not have a social life and was jealous of all the people who did? No wonder your such a loser zealot.
Why should students be forced to spend hundreds of dollars on software licensing when perfectly good alternatives are free?
What podunk university are you going to that either doesn't let you download copies of Windows from them with the use of a volume license key or don't have Windows and other software you need for sale for 5 or 10 bucks? I thought that was pretty much standard.
It's server/client, so someone with a poor connection does not affect the entire server.
The worst case scenario would be that the individual (and no one else on the server) may be jumpier than usual and slightly harder to hit, but his own gameplay is very likely worse due to everyone appearing that jumpy to him*.
Contradict much? If someone is just jumping around in the game due to being laggy that does effect the entire server.
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The fact that you were wrong about what something as basic as LINQ is doesn't make me have a high opinion of your other statements.
I wasn't arguing against Microsoft doing this. I was laughing at the claims that the Linux world is full of innovation while Microsoft doesn't innovate anything. This ignoring the fact that Linux is a Unix clone and the vast majority of the Linux userland is clones of proprietary apps and clones of other apps.
What's the name of the new functional MS database access API? LINQ?
Wow, which shows you know all of jack and shit about what LINQ is. LINQ is not a database access API. LINQ can query arrays, enumerable classes, XML, as well as relational databases.
Maybe Microsoft's new strategy is to split and balkanize the open-source community with a bunch of conflicting licenses and communities.
Microsoft doesn't need to do that. The open-source community has been doing that just fine by themselves for years now.
How can they extinguish a software license?
I think Microsoft sees a lot of good work going on in the open source community and it wants to tap into that source of innovation.
Cloning proprietary applications and OSes is innovation?
Their best plays have been rip-offs of established ideas.
Pot calling the kettle black? Almost any app you see in the Linux land is either a clone of a proprietary app or a clone of a clone (and so on).
A bit buggy under certain conditions, yes, but that will be fixed in the future.
Except this is the exact excuse we get countless times when audio, video, etc don't work in Linux. Just give us more time! We swear it'll work in the future! Then you wait 6 months and all that previous work is scrapped and something new is built. Then we're told again: Just give us more time! We swear it'll work in the future! Lather, rinse, repeat.
No, you're just not funny contrary to what you think.
Because their fucking idiots and bad drivers.
It just shows how stupid some people are. Including, apparently, those who can't figure out what he meant.
No we understood what he meant it was just a flawed comparison. The reason why no one complains about Facebook is that people sign up and put up their information purely by their own choice. A government run database of your information is run and your information is put it in contrary to whether you wish it there or not. If you or the GP can't spot the glaring differences between the two you're both huge morons.
Interestingly enough, if the government created a database like facebook to track citizens, people would be outraged, but make it voluntary and it becomes the next new thing.
What exactly is interesting about that? One is mandatory and one is completely voluntary.
Slashdot better watch out, Follower Technologies might want to look at their source code too.
Why would anyone want to volunatarily look at slashcode?
And, in fact, there is evidence to suggest that it may even be slightly lower than your ordinary, garden variety seasonal flu.
Such as?
No, we understood you. Your post was just lame and unfunny.
The original iPhone and 3G use the ARM 1176JZ(F)-S. The 3GS uses ARM Cortex-A8.
Why does this submission treat Foxconn and Hon Hai as if they are distinct entities? Foxconn is the trade name of Hon Hai. They are the same company so to say they are "both" planning something doesn't make any sense.
Patents- you get say one year- if you can't show it is in use-- it's released.....
Yeah, because it never takes more than 1 year to get from invention to full-scale production on a product.
To me, this isn't even about "free" in the sense of ideology, but it's about making education "cheap" as in $$$.
So then you either download it for free from the university or pay 5 or 10 bucks for it on a CD. Seriously, nothing but a podunk university wouldn't be able to offer this.
They're supposed to milk rich mommies and daddies who send their kids off to join frats, get drunk, and go to football games.
Aww, did some poor little baby not have a social life and was jealous of all the people who did? No wonder your such a loser zealot.
Why require a ridiculously expensive product when you're not making money from it?
What university doesn't have labs with those pieces of software installed on or deals to give you those software for cheap or for free?
Why should students be forced to spend hundreds of dollars on software licensing when perfectly good alternatives are free?
What podunk university are you going to that either doesn't let you download copies of Windows from them with the use of a volume license key or don't have Windows and other software you need for sale for 5 or 10 bucks? I thought that was pretty much standard.
It's server/client, so someone with a poor connection does not affect the entire server.
The worst case scenario would be that the individual (and no one else on the server) may be jumpier than usual and slightly harder to hit, but his own gameplay is very likely worse due to everyone appearing that jumpy to him*.
Contradict much? If someone is just jumping around in the game due to being laggy that does effect the entire server.
Because there are no services outside the US that ever only restrict their services to their own country. No, never it's only Americans that do that.
and you know this because...?
Just kidding. Everyone knows he's hung like a hamster.
As long as they don't go around suing folks over this, I'm perfectly fine with them mocking bad patents.
Who says they filed this to mock bad patents?
UK's Oldest Computer To Be "Rebooted"
Although not the first computer built in the UK
How could it be the UK's oldest computer if it wasn't the first computer built in the UK?