I think people feel a need to be either "a Stephenson fan" or "not a Stephenson fan," and those in the former group (try to) read his entire catalogue.
Quicksilver and Confusion are very, very different books to Snow Crash and The Big U. Rather than assuming that if you liked Snow Crash, you should like this, and if not there's something wrong with it, some people would be better off realising that regardless of authorship Quicksilver simply isn't to their taste, and they should just not pay it any attention.
I didn't see any mention of the.NET Compact Framework in the linked article, just C#. I suspect this is running on the standard.NET runtime.
The Compact Framework is a.NET runtime targeted at Windows CE running on top of the processors you find in PocketPCs (generally ARM), and ships with a class library that's rather stripped down from what you get with the full desktop runtime. Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded are, btw, different operating systems, although CE implements a large subset of Win32, and there's no doubt a lot of copy-and-paste from the XP userland libraries into CE.
It does make sense to standardize on one set of intellectual property laws internationally.
It gets really confusing to try to figure out the different times at which copyright expires across different countries, or to know where your intellectual property is already protected and where you have to jump through additional hoops.
Here's the thing. I place more importance on having the laws of my country reflect the wishes of myself and my fellow citizens, than I do on making it easy for you to come over here and engage in commerce.
If Apple is making money on the iPods, and using those profits to subsidize losses on the iTMS, why shouldn't Apple be able to tie these two products together?
Depends on what you mean by "tie." If you mean cross-promote and bundle, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to. If you mean legal restrictions against interoperation, they shouldn't be able to because that violates the principle that once you've sold me something, it's mine and I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
So, reverse engineering a protocol so you can interoperate with another company's product, even though said company would prefer you didn't, is bad in Apple's book...
I eagerly await the removal of Mac OS X's ability to access Windows shares.
You are confused in thinking that there's a "Linux community" behind KDE, GNOME and the others.
Rather, there is a KDE community behind KDE, and a GNOME community behind GNOME. And if for some reason Linux were to stagnate and FreeBSD or the HURD or QNX become a dominant free software platform, they would happily concentrate on KDE and GNOME running on top of that platform.
Putting an RFID wristband on your 8 year old does absolutely nothing to impede or degrade their quality of life
What if they're trying to get away from their parents?
Seriously, did you never do anything as a child your parents wouldn't have approved of? Would you be a better person today if they'd been able to stop you?
Business generally wants software to be patentable across the EU, the way it is under U.S. and Japanese law, in order to preserve their right to collect royalties and protect work they have invested in.
What right to collect royalties? Their entire problem is that so far they don't have that right!
Personally, I think that distcc will become more and more useless as computers get faster. [...] on there will be little difference in install time between the source and binary distros,
Some of us are actually writing code, compiling it, testing, editing, recompiling, test again, edit some more, recompiling... rather than just downloading someone else's code and compiling it once.
Until telnetd is totally removed (not just turned off) from Linux, Linux will not be secure. There are just too many exploits involving telnet to take Linux seriously.
Bad example. There's a telnet service in Windows too.
Forgive me for beign naive, but if i went up to the magority of people i know and said 'hey man, there's this kick ass confrence streaming on the internet, and guess what: it's OGG' i'd receive a whoel lot of WTF.
Ultimately, the consumers don't matter as much as the content providers - they're the ones that have to be persuaded. As the whole point of Ogg Theora is that it does not require the streamer to pay up as you do with MPEG/Windows Media/Real/etc, there's an incentive for the content providers to switch given a viable alternative.
Is it an IDE? Is it a GUI toolkit? Is it a component architecture?
As an outsider with no knowledge of Eclipse, I find it hard to figure out what exactly Eclipse is supposed to be.. in fact, I feel exactly the way I did about.NET back when Microsoft was branding everything as.NET, and the entire development community just stood around asking, what the fuck is.NET?
Manufacturers are too cheap to do things like hot dip galvanizing body and frame, but they will use a bunch of nanotech? Ironic. Something as simple and low-tech as galvinizing cars that would double or triple their lifetime are left out as too expensive...
I'm going to trim and rephrase a bit..
Manufacturers are too cheap to do.. something.. that would reduce the number of new cars required by a factor of two or three..
Telecommunications companies own the cellular networks. Different companies develop and manufacture the phones.
Both will try to maximise their own profits. The phone manufacturers are plugging in extra features in an attempt to move more units. This is completely independant of any action the telcos may or may not take to improve their networks.
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I think people feel a need to be either "a Stephenson fan" or "not a Stephenson fan," and those in the former group (try to) read his entire catalogue.
Quicksilver and Confusion are very, very different books to Snow Crash and The Big U. Rather than assuming that if you liked Snow Crash, you should like this, and if not there's something wrong with it, some people would be better off realising that regardless of authorship Quicksilver simply isn't to their taste, and they should just not pay it any attention.
Well the IOC wants you to get permission via snail mail to link to their site in the href portion of an anchor tag.
:)
No doubt they'd think it entirely reasonable to demand permission for you to make a link featuring their trademark in the visible text, too
"OLE? DDE?"
.NET?"
Sorry, I think you meant to say:
"DDE? OLE? OLE2? COM? COM+? ActiveX? DCOM? SOAP?
Sure, you have it, but do you actually use it? :)
I didn't see any mention of the .NET Compact Framework in the linked article, just C#. I suspect this is running on the standard .NET runtime.
The Compact Framework is a .NET runtime targeted at Windows CE running on top of the processors you find in PocketPCs (generally ARM), and ships with a class library that's rather stripped down from what you get with the full desktop runtime. Windows CE and Windows XP Embedded are, btw, different operating systems, although CE implements a large subset of Win32, and there's no doubt a lot of copy-and-paste from the XP userland libraries into CE.
.. that the reality distortion field was ionising?
Here's the thing. I place more importance on having the laws of my country reflect the wishes of myself and my fellow citizens, than I do on making it easy for you to come over here and engage in commerce.
Depends on what you mean by "tie." If you mean cross-promote and bundle, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to. If you mean legal restrictions against interoperation, they shouldn't be able to because that violates the principle that once you've sold me something, it's mine and I should be able to do whatever I want with it.
So, reverse engineering a protocol so you can interoperate with another company's product, even though said company would prefer you didn't, is bad in Apple's book ...
I eagerly await the removal of Mac OS X's ability to access Windows shares.
You are confused in thinking that there's a "Linux community" behind KDE, GNOME and the others.
Rather, there is a KDE community behind KDE, and a GNOME community behind GNOME. And if for some reason Linux were to stagnate and FreeBSD or the HURD or QNX become a dominant free software platform, they would happily concentrate on KDE and GNOME running on top of that platform.
If you've managed to blot it out of your memory, I'll spare you the cruelty of a reminder.
You might not get worked up, but can you imagine the front page come Sunday?
W.A. RETIREES LEFT WITHOUT NEWSPAPER
Had nothing to do at 5 a.m.
If anyone can afford to pay for wifi and an iPod, it's people who can afford to live in SF.
I read about it in the manual. The manual wasn't massive - just a little 16-small-page leaflet.
And Elvis and the record companies knew it 50 years ago, when they were making the music in the first place.
What if they're trying to get away from their parents?
Seriously, did you never do anything as a child your parents wouldn't have approved of? Would you be a better person today if they'd been able to stop you?
What right to collect royalties? Their entire problem is that so far they don't have that right!
Some of us are actually writing code, compiling it, testing, editing, recompiling, test again, edit some more, recompiling... rather than just downloading someone else's code and compiling it once.
Bad example. There's a telnet service in Windows too.
Ultimately, the consumers don't matter as much as the content providers - they're the ones that have to be persuaded. As the whole point of Ogg Theora is that it does not require the streamer to pay up as you do with MPEG/Windows Media/Real/etc, there's an incentive for the content providers to switch given a viable alternative.
.. the other soccer mom's kid, because that was clearly a late tackle on little Johnny and should have landed someone in the ref's book.
Thanks, that helps.
Is it an IDE? Is it a GUI toolkit? Is it a component architecture?
.. in fact, I feel exactly the way I did about .NET back when Microsoft was branding everything as .NET, and the entire development community just stood around asking, what the fuck is .NET?
As an outsider with no knowledge of Eclipse, I find it hard to figure out what exactly Eclipse is supposed to be
I'm going to trim and rephrase a bit..
Telecommunications companies own the cellular networks. Different companies develop and manufacture the phones.
Both will try to maximise their own profits. The phone manufacturers are plugging in extra features in an attempt to move more units. This is completely independant of any action the telcos may or may not take to improve their networks.