I have to disagree. Mono has grown out of it's cheap-copy-of-.NET state. It tries to keep compatibility with.NET, but it has become a great framework itself.
Ahm...you didn't look around in the IT industry lately, did you? It's common practice to copy ideas of others. I mean, without Seamonkey/Firefox there would be no IE7 and 8. MacOS-Users wonder why so many things look so damn similar in Windows 7, and Linux Users just smile politely because they know those graphic-effects since years from Compiz and KDE.
And one last thing, you _can't steal ideas_. I mean, you can, you listen to my idea and then rip my skull open...otherwise it would be _cloning_ or _copying_.
...but does totally depend on the programmer himself. BASIC (including VB6, VB.NET) gives you many bad habits and wrong estimations about how programming is (Case-Sensitivity, Implicit Type-Casting...). It's an easy to learn language, but you _have_ to look beyond your own nose if you wanna start with a C-like language afterwards.
That's because with one hand they're feeding and stroking you, with the other they're trying to break your feet with a sledgehammer.
OOXML was too late, it was too bad and it violated the ISO in many ways (http://www.noooxml.org/). But I have to agree on C# and.NET...I believe that those promises are legally binding and they'll stick with them (including releasing the 4.0 Micro-Framework under an OSI License)...but I'm afraid of that other hand...
Somebody (here or on SuperUser) actually did put a Linux-Live-CD into the drive, and glue the drive shut...his mother didn't have any problems since then.;)
What has a broken video card to do with the OS?;)
And if you mean 'break' as in 'the new kernel didn't boot', then why not just select the old one from the boot menu and keep going?
And the answer is the only right one: "Ohhh...Ive got a Windows copy right here for $ XXX.XX if you want it."
I mean, we all know what happens afterwards, but at least they may realize that Windows is not cheap or even free of charge.
I thought the same thing. But I guess this is the Microsoft-Strategy "We'll enclose your feet in this concrete block, but you're allowed to look into any direction we let you!" and the clients all go "Wow!".
You mean like a real Multi-User-Environment which UNIX copied 40 years ago from Microsoft? Or the headless-server-mode which 'invented' Microsoft in 2008? Or the Desktop-Effects/Widgets which Gnome/KDE copied 2002? Or the OpenDocument-Format which was just a former copy of OOXML? Or Firefox which was just a cheap copy of Internet Explorer 7?
The pattern is pretty similar to dictatorship and revolution...if one guy stands up against it, everybody is laughing, but somewhere someone is also standing up "Hey, if he can do it, I can do it, too!", and that's the point where the Domino-Effect kicks in.
Same do I. I've enjoyed HOMM 5 on the hardest level until the moment I couldn't make it anymore (end of Queens campaign, yeah, I suck). Lowered the difficulty to hard and I keep going at the moment (with some minor setbacks, but hey, who needs towns anyway?;) ).
I've also played Half-Life 2 on Hard and found it fun. It's the first thing I do if I get a new game, I raise the difficulty (though, 'The Fall' really sends me to the brink of despair).
Google copies Microsoft. Google is showing no imagination. First their own OS, Browser and now security features that MS originally put in their browser.
I didn't knew that MS invented operating systems and browsers, and when you write your own that you're copying from MS.
I never said that I'm against copyright...I said that file sharing is not theft and it is not stealing. It is _copying_ (theoretically, it's the opposite of theft) something without paying for it...and you can't even say that every copied song is one sell less, because that's not true.
ALWAYS! Or didn't make the sentence "Microsoft 'always respect[s] trademarks and other people's intellectual property...'" from the "Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark" story make you laugh out loud?
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No problem: sudo apt-get remove mono-runtime mono-complete
I have to disagree. Mono has grown out of it's cheap-copy-of-.NET state. It tries to keep compatibility with .NET, but it has become a great framework itself.
How could open source survive without it? :)
Ahm...you didn't look around in the IT industry lately, did you? It's common practice to copy ideas of others. I mean, without Seamonkey/Firefox there would be no IE7 and 8. MacOS-Users wonder why so many things look so damn similar in Windows 7, and Linux Users just smile politely because they know those graphic-effects since years from Compiz and KDE.
And one last thing, you _can't steal ideas_. I mean, you can, you listen to my idea and then rip my skull open...otherwise it would be _cloning_ or _copying_.
...but does totally depend on the programmer himself. BASIC (including VB6, VB.NET) gives you many bad habits and wrong estimations about how programming is (Case-Sensitivity, Implicit Type-Casting...). It's an easy to learn language, but you _have_ to look beyond your own nose if you wanna start with a C-like language afterwards.
That's because with one hand they're feeding and stroking you, with the other they're trying to break your feet with a sledgehammer.
.NET...I believe that those promises are legally binding and they'll stick with them (including releasing the 4.0 Micro-Framework under an OSI License)...but I'm afraid of that other hand...
OOXML was too late, it was too bad and it violated the ISO in many ways (http://www.noooxml.org/). But I have to agree on C# and
Wait a minute, I thought there's no spoon?
I thought powering up Sony devices would be save, but you have to make a blood test for DNA clarification first. http://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-08-21
Somebody (here or on SuperUser) actually did put a Linux-Live-CD into the drive, and glue the drive shut...his mother didn't have any problems since then. ;)
What has a broken video card to do with the OS? ;)
And if you mean 'break' as in 'the new kernel didn't boot', then why not just select the old one from the boot menu and keep going?
And the answer is the only right one: "Ohhh...Ive got a Windows copy right here for $ XXX.XX if you want it." I mean, we all know what happens afterwards, but at least they may realize that Windows is not cheap or even free of charge.
I thought the same thing. But I guess this is the Microsoft-Strategy "We'll enclose your feet in this concrete block, but you're allowed to look into any direction we let you!" and the clients all go "Wow!".
You mean like a real Multi-User-Environment which UNIX copied 40 years ago from Microsoft? Or the headless-server-mode which 'invented' Microsoft in 2008? Or the Desktop-Effects/Widgets which Gnome/KDE copied 2002? Or the OpenDocument-Format which was just a former copy of OOXML? Or Firefox which was just a cheap copy of Internet Explorer 7?
Enough of this! Leuk, release him!
It must be metric, the imperial innovations are called "Software Patents".
"...and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future."
Reads:
"We'll try to force everyone to use Windows in the future."
Well...who expected something different anyway?
The pattern is pretty similar to dictatorship and revolution...if one guy stands up against it, everybody is laughing, but somewhere someone is also standing up "Hey, if he can do it, I can do it, too!", and that's the point where the Domino-Effect kicks in.
Same do I. I've enjoyed HOMM 5 on the hardest level until the moment I couldn't make it anymore (end of Queens campaign, yeah, I suck). Lowered the difficulty to hard and I keep going at the moment (with some minor setbacks, but hey, who needs towns anyway? ;) ).
I've also played Half-Life 2 on Hard and found it fun. It's the first thing I do if I get a new game, I raise the difficulty (though, 'The Fall' really sends me to the brink of despair).
I might actually believe that a fully patched IE8 is on par with other browsers...
Ahm no, not really. Browser Comparison
Google copies Microsoft. Google is showing no imagination. First their own OS, Browser and now security features that MS originally put in their browser.
I didn't knew that MS invented operating systems and browsers, and when you write your own that you're copying from MS.
Just because he got that job (from hist long-year friend und co-partner), doesn't qualify him to be _not_ a moron.
I never said that I'm against copyright...I said that file sharing is not theft and it is not stealing. It is _copying_ (theoretically, it's the opposite of theft) something without paying for it...and you can't even say that every copied song is one sell less, because that's not true.
But how do they check what you're copying...
They don't, that's the problem...if I wanna burn some Ubuntu CDs I'm giving money to the MI for...well, nothing!
No, it isn't: http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3756/artsharingfz4.jpg
Same over here in Austria and Germany. Germany even has (or had?) a tax on printers, because you could "copy copyrighted material".
...do they play by their own rules?
ALWAYS! Or didn't make the sentence "Microsoft 'always respect[s] trademarks and other people's intellectual property...'" from the "Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark" story make you laugh out loud?