I wrote that page in 1998-1999. If you would like to see a standards compliant page see: My current home page BTW if you look at that pages source, other than the marquee tag ("I have paid RMS many induldanges for that sin") and iFrames its pretty standards compliance. Now consider the web browser market back then Netscape 4 or IE 4. IE4 stood up pretty well to netscape 4. Perhaps one day I will change that stupid javascript to only yell at you if your running netscape 4 or a pre 3.0 version of IE or Netscape.
I didn't even know what an ip address was when I wrote this. I soon bought myself a copy of mandrake 6.0 after that and after much meditation in my CRT shrine now rock the SuSE and FreeBSD at home. I type this at work on my iBook while my boss thinks I'm writing PHP code.
No. You are wrong. The file formats are documented completly internally. You can read these documents if you pay some money and sign some NDAs.
Back in the day most programs stored data in binary format. it was how things were done. XML wasn't a dirty look in the W3C's eyes yet. They changed the format between versions because everyone did it that way. Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
At the Olympics, Puerto Rico and Taiwan compete seperately.
I didnt know puerto Rico was part of the Republic of Taiwan!!!
As far as I'm concerned Puerto Rico is a seperate country leaching off of us. We should make them start paing federal income taxes. Then watch how fast they will vote for statehood.
Need I remind you folks of the days when Office 97 was the fashizzle and people refered to their OS as windows 97 after some super computer geek (the last snotty ass teenager that looked at their computer before you) upgraded them to office 97.
Let me install features such as "File and print sharing" later if and only if I want them.
Amen my brother. I happen to jerk off to centralized logins and file sharing hence my running Samba in my basement. However, I can turn it on and off fine myself tank you very much.
Yes - it is a free market approach to regulation that makes those who injure others pay. It isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing (i.e. tort reform)
Well I want the enrons of the world to sink and the people behind them as well. A publically held company should be honest in the information it reposts publically. As far as I'm concerned those documents forged were legal documents and Enron and Auther Anderson committed perjury. I hate government, but it is an evil neccessisity in a few instances. Health Care is not one of them. Putting those that lie to the public in pound me in the ass prision, (I know thats not whats happening) is.
(Position statement: I lean towards the tax option, or a mandatory health insurance, as with mandatory car insurance.)
Why would anyone demand mandatory health insurance in the same sense of mandatory car insurance. As an employer it might make sense to require my employees to be insured, but as a society I don't give a damn if my neighbor has health insurance. The only car insurance that is mandatory by state law (at least in NY, IANAL) is liability insurance. Now if you are suggesting I should be required to insure myself against people sending me their medical bills, your obvisiously in favor of ambulance chasing.
The Queens borough bus map has that beat. Well the VTA map wins the beauty contest, but in terms of complexity based on number of lines Queens county has it beat.
Slightly over 2 seconds to fully rendered on an iBook (G3 processor, and relatively slow, nowhere near a G4 let alone a G5).
I just tried it on my 800mhz iBook same result. I guess that quartz acceleration really helps. I never bothered to load a subway or bus map on my laptop. I just always happened to be home when I was planning a trip somewhere and dual 21" monitors at 1600x1200 are good for reading maps. I must say I've never seen the subway map or the queens bus map load that fast. To fully appreciate how fast that map renders, load that up on a slow PC running windows or unix. Or a beige powermac.
Well that isnt the case for my Beige powermac upgraded to a G4 500MHz. Perhaps if I turned quartz on. btw are you using acrobat reader or Quartz?
If you want a real challenge for a PDF reader, www.mta.info. Download the NYC subway map.
Seems to me MS is already doing that. If I had to run a 500+ seat network, there is no way in hell I would use anything other than Win2000/XP for the clients, along with an active directory.
Have you looked into LDAP and Samba recently? Yeah it takes a while to understand, but so does Active Directory. We've rolled out AD at my company and there were alot of issues with it. Most of them were related to the exchange server and connecting to printers and such on the old domain, but there were issues.
Active Directory is nice. I think MS finally got it right. However, give Samba, LDAP, and the latest linux distros a little credit. The time you spend setting up a few FreeBSD servers running qmail, courier imapd, samba, and LDAP will pay for itself in the long run. Their are plenty of whitepapers for doing all the cool active directory stuff like dynamic dns via bind 9.
Not willing to take the up front hit to do a all custom FreeBSD server like that? Look at SuSE or Redhat. Shell out of an enterprise server license. SuSE even has exchange compatiable servers.
Standard apps (such as palm hotsynch) and many games don't work properly as non-root.
The palm desktop requires administrative access. However, the hotsync app does not. If you install hotsync and h=use all third party conduits it handles multiple users no problem.
Here are my issues with your suggestsions. Number on is the threading. Not all people easily thing in threads. The non technical user prefers the simplerformat and will just quotew text to indicate what they are replying to. Also with a threaded discussion you cannot easily reply to two points made by two different authors with a single post. SOmetimes you have to take two seemlingly non releated posts and join them together with your own opinion. This seems non logical when programming, but makes snse in the context of debate.
As for moderation, any system will opress the minority opinion. We need the third party opinion so to speak so we don't get into a I don't want my kids watching Howard Stern vs. I want to hear Howard say the seven words argument
Er... Wasn't that HAPPINESS? Since when has property been the same as property?
Auctually John Locke originally phrased it as I did. Thomas Jefferson, when penning the Declaration of Independance changed it to happiness.
A government (ala Mill) is designed to MAXIMIZE the rights of all of their constituents, meaning balancing the intrinsic greed of corporations with the interests of the individual.
At no point did any American lack the right to makeor use another web browser. Well it can be assumed that many people serving time in jail only had access to machines running IE on Windows. However, the vast majority of people had a right to use netscape or any of the other web browsers or many other operating systems. Many did just this. Did Microsofts dominance affect the web negatively? Definatly. However, thats probally why open source was so succesful.Well making better software helped a little.
Rampant capitalism isn't a solution to anything, it just leads to robber barons, a lesson that history should have taught all of us. It all is a matter of balance.
Do you know what the term robber barron means. It mean they stole from the poor to give to the poor. They exploited workers to build giant industries, and then funded the construction of libraries, theatres, charities, etc. They did keep alot of it for themselves, but they did give to charity. Bill Gates is a robber Barron. He built a giant software industry, and funds the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They do alot of good. Sure, their exposing the people they help to as many microsoft products as possible, butI doubt it that Exxon's charities put Shell gasin their vans.
Yes much of this charity work gts done because its tax deductiable. Microsoft pays zero federal income taxes. This is a good thing. They engage in charitable pursuits in a capitalistic manner.
Governments can and do regulate all sorts of business practices.
I meant that you can't regulate business practice in the sense you can't regulate morality. You can outlaw immoral activities, an in some cases that will stop them from occuring, but that doesn't mean you've created a moral people. Many people don't steal simply out of fear of going to jail.
There is no requirement for help files to use HTML. Even if they are written in HTML it is unlikely (even undesirable) for them to include everything which might be found on a webpage.
Apple has a postscript engine tied into OSX. Its called quartz and integrated with everything. Is apple wrong for doing this? Is it a requirement that a windowing system use postscript? No.
Microsoft decided to give away IE to crush netscape. They integrated it into the OS for the same reason. This was amonopolistic practice. However, the best way to deal with a market tyrant is with a market revolution. A DOJ attack against Microsoft would never be as effective as the war being waged by the market. The government would never come up with the current open source paradim.
Windows and more classical Unix/Linux you either have permission or don't. I think this does genuinely lead to an upgrade in security.
Uh wrong!!!!!
First windows. Windows has a complex as hell ACL system. The problem is its too complex and no one ever sets it right. In the end you either do or dont have permission, However, with groups contianing groupls and order dependant Allow/Deny ACLS their are many reasons you do or don't have permission.
Now Linux. That password dialog on OSX to make sure you know what your doing is dangerous is a frontend for sudo, a unix tool.
Really. Which god is that? Jewish? Christian? Hindu?... When did god get involved in "free enterprise"?
To simplify my defense, lets assume were talking about the Abrahamic God, the diety worshiped by Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Now according to these religions God created us and gave us free will. Microsoft is an organization created by and consisting of people. These have according to popularly accepted western philisophy, inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of property. They also have aright to come together to form a government to lead them as a nation. Putting aside the international aspect of microsoft for a moment, It is an organization of people with intristic rights and these people are part of a society that is a nation known as the United States with a soveirgn government.
Now when a government does not allow a society to engage in their God given rights, said society as the right and duty to ensure it can practice those rights by revolution according to the declaration of independance. Microsoft coupled IE with Windows annd created a product to obtain life liberty and the pursuit of property. They have a right to this. The generally accepted litmus test for a right is personss right to punch me in the face ends where my face begins. This passes that litmus test.
As far as MS being a monoply, hell yeah. However, the market will deal with that via the forces of capitalism. And yes, open source can be described in terms of classical capitalism.
Ideally, the DOJ would've at least shown the backbone necessary to force MS to decouple IE from Windows.
To be quite honest, Microsoft has a God given right to couple IE with Windows. You can't regulate proper business practice. The market regulates itself. Thats the only explanation for a finnish college student and his merry band of hippies able to attract a following that has transcended cult status to a legitimate movement.
Yes it does make it harder for other browsers to compete, but does anyone complain that RedHat or SuSE encourages users to use a specific set of apps. Sure, you have choice, but each distro pimps a specific desktop envirorment and office suite as the One True (tm) set of apps. The difference here is that it changes every release.
Also, to be quite frank, the hole bloat argument no longer applies to IE being bundled with windows. Harddrives are huge these days, a gig is a normal amount of ram, and the space IE takes up on an XP or Win2k/2k3 system in negligiable. Its also legitimatly neccessary for Microsoft to bundle the html rendering engine of IE with windows to display help files. Sure we dont need the icon and the auctual browser, but its becoming a mute poit at this stage in the game. No one complains when Redhat or SuSE makes whatever browser the default browser on their default desktop. Sure the enlightened masses like me know enough to install windowmaker and just install KDE and GNOME for the libraries neccessary for konqueror and eveolution to work, but Joe Sixpack has no clue how to pick from the choice of Mozilla, Netscape 4, Firefox, links, lynx, konqueror, galeon (or whaever they call it these days), mosaic and amanda. Even if they get to that level, their most likely to get crossover office and use internet explorer on linux. A though I used to shudder at, until I realized I could ssh into my linux box from my iBook and run IE to test web pages.
Until someone links it with Bochs anyway, which I hear is going to happen...
I believe that was one of the ideas the DarWine project was working on. However, everyone is starting to realize bochs is ass slow. Also, remember windows NT 3.5 ran on PPC and 4.0 ran on alpha. Sure the apps had to be recompiled, but thats an option for all the good open source windows software.
There is GTK for the frame buffer. I'm sure that QT is more mature, and the fact that QT is written in C++ is a plus for many developers. KDE seems to be winning the Linux desktop wars, probally because it appeals to the developers. As Balmer said, developers, developers, developers, developers!!!. Also, for a commercial app $1,000 is nothing. Especially when you dont have to shell that out until you ship the application. Putting asside the closed vs. open source advantages, if your going to release a closed source commercial application, you would probally expect to make more than a thousand dollars off of it.
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Doesn't MS have about 60 billion Dollars in the bank and still can't get its act together?
Read The Mythical Man Month. Throwing more resources at a late project only later makes it.
I wrote that page in 1998-1999. If you would like to see a standards compliant page see: My current home page BTW if you look at that pages source, other than the marquee tag ("I have paid RMS many induldanges for that sin") and iFrames its pretty standards compliance. Now consider the web browser market back then Netscape 4 or IE 4. IE4 stood up pretty well to netscape 4. Perhaps one day I will change that stupid javascript to only yell at you if your running netscape 4 or a pre 3.0 version of IE or Netscape.
I didn't even know what an ip address was when I wrote this. I soon bought myself a copy of mandrake 6.0 after that and after much meditation in my CRT shrine now rock the SuSE and FreeBSD at home. I type this at work on my iBook while my boss thinks I'm writing PHP code.
No. You are wrong. The file formats are documented completly internally. You can read these documents if you pay some money and sign some NDAs.
Back in the day most programs stored data in binary format. it was how things were done. XML wasn't a dirty look in the W3C's eyes yet. They changed the format between versions because everyone did it that way. Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
At the Olympics, Puerto Rico and Taiwan compete seperately.
I didnt know puerto Rico was part of the Republic of Taiwan!!!
As far as I'm concerned Puerto Rico is a seperate country leaching off of us. We should make them start paing federal income taxes. Then watch how fast they will vote for statehood.
Office 97 replaced Windows 95? Yikes.
Need I remind you folks of the days when Office 97 was the fashizzle and people refered to their OS as windows 97 after some super computer geek (the last snotty ass teenager that looked at their computer before you) upgraded them to office 97.
Let me install features such as "File and print sharing" later if and only if I want them.
Amen my brother. I happen to jerk off to centralized logins and file sharing hence my running Samba in my basement. However, I can turn it on and off fine myself tank you very much.
Yes - it is a free market approach to regulation that makes those who injure others pay. It isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing (i.e. tort reform)
Well I want the enrons of the world to sink and the people behind them as well. A publically held company should be honest in the information it reposts publically. As far as I'm concerned those documents forged were legal documents and Enron and Auther Anderson committed perjury. I hate government, but it is an evil neccessisity in a few instances. Health Care is not one of them. Putting those that lie to the public in pound me in the ass prision, (I know thats not whats happening) is.
(Position statement: I lean towards the tax option, or a mandatory health insurance, as with mandatory car insurance.)
Why would anyone demand mandatory health insurance in the same sense of mandatory car insurance. As an employer it might make sense to require my employees to be insured, but as a society I don't give a damn if my neighbor has health insurance. The only car insurance that is mandatory by state law (at least in NY, IANAL) is liability insurance. Now if you are suggesting I should be required to insure myself against people sending me their medical bills, your obvisiously in favor of ambulance chasing.
I thought that with iTunes 4.6 the itms purchased music all was in that newfangled looslessformat.
The Queens borough bus map has that beat. Well the VTA map wins the beauty contest, but in terms of complexity based on number of lines Queens county has it beat.
Slightly over 2 seconds to fully rendered on an iBook (G3 processor, and relatively slow, nowhere near a G4 let alone a G5).
I just tried it on my 800mhz iBook same result. I guess that quartz acceleration really helps. I never bothered to load a subway or bus map on my laptop. I just always happened to be home when I was planning a trip somewhere and dual 21" monitors at 1600x1200 are good for reading maps. I must say I've never seen the subway map or the queens bus map load that fast. To fully appreciate how fast that map renders, load that up on a slow PC running windows or unix. Or a beige powermac.
God bless Mac OS X, loads PDFs in a second.
Well that isnt the case for my Beige powermac upgraded to a G4 500MHz. Perhaps if I turned quartz on. btw are you using acrobat reader or Quartz?
If you want a real challenge for a PDF reader, www.mta.info. Download the NYC subway map.
Seems to me MS is already doing that. If I had to run a 500+ seat network, there is no way in hell I would use anything other than Win2000/XP for the clients, along with an active directory.
Have you looked into LDAP and Samba recently? Yeah it takes a while to understand, but so does Active Directory. We've rolled out AD at my company and there were alot of issues with it. Most of them were related to the exchange server and connecting to printers and such on the old domain, but there were issues.
Active Directory is nice. I think MS finally got it right. However, give Samba, LDAP, and the latest linux distros a little credit. The time you spend setting up a few FreeBSD servers running qmail, courier imapd, samba, and LDAP will pay for itself in the long run. Their are plenty of whitepapers for doing all the cool active directory stuff like dynamic dns via bind 9.
Not willing to take the up front hit to do a all custom FreeBSD server like that? Look at SuSE or Redhat. Shell out of an enterprise server license. SuSE even has exchange compatiable servers.
Standard apps (such as palm hotsynch) and many games don't work properly as non-root.
The palm desktop requires administrative access. However, the hotsync app does not. If you install hotsync and h=use all third party conduits it handles multiple users no problem.
Here are my issues with your suggestsions. Number on is the threading. Not all people easily thing in threads. The non technical user prefers the simplerformat and will just quotew text to indicate what they are replying to. Also with a threaded discussion you cannot easily reply to two points made by two different authors with a single post. SOmetimes you have to take two seemlingly non releated posts and join them together with your own opinion. This seems non logical when programming, but makes snse in the context of debate.
As for moderation, any system will opress the minority opinion. We need the third party opinion so to speak so we don't get into a I don't want my kids watching Howard Stern vs. I want to hear Howard say the seven words argument
Its rumored that was the creation of Melinda before she become Mrs, Gates. The corrolary to that rumor of course is what her punishment was.
So's the "5" in Java5... it's referring to 2005, which is when they expect to release that version.
No, They're dropping the 1 from the version liek they dropped the 2 from Solaris. It went frm 2.6 to 7.
Er... Wasn't that HAPPINESS? Since when has property been the same as property?
Auctually John Locke originally phrased it as I did. Thomas Jefferson, when penning the Declaration of Independance changed it to happiness.
A government (ala Mill) is designed to MAXIMIZE the rights of all of their constituents, meaning balancing the intrinsic greed of corporations with the interests of the individual.
At no point did any American lack the right to makeor use another web browser. Well it can be assumed that many people serving time in jail only had access to machines running IE on Windows. However, the vast majority of people had a right to use netscape or any of the other web browsers or many other operating systems. Many did just this. Did Microsofts dominance affect the web negatively? Definatly. However, thats probally why open source was so succesful.Well making better software helped a little.
Rampant capitalism isn't a solution to anything, it just leads to robber barons, a lesson that history should have taught all of us. It all is a matter of balance.
Do you know what the term robber barron means. It mean they stole from the poor to give to the poor. They exploited workers to build giant industries, and then funded the construction of libraries, theatres, charities, etc. They did keep alot of it for themselves, but they did give to charity. Bill Gates is a robber Barron. He built a giant software industry, and funds the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They do alot of good. Sure, their exposing the people they help to as many microsoft products as possible, butI doubt it that Exxon's charities put Shell gasin their vans.
Yes much of this charity work gts done because its tax deductiable. Microsoft pays zero federal income taxes. This is a good thing. They engage in charitable pursuits in a capitalistic manner.
Governments can and do regulate all sorts of business practices.
I meant that you can't regulate business practice in the sense you can't regulate morality. You can outlaw immoral activities, an in some cases that will stop them from occuring, but that doesn't mean you've created a moral people. Many people don't steal simply out of fear of going to jail.
There is no requirement for help files to use HTML. Even if they are written in HTML it is unlikely (even undesirable) for them to include everything which might be found on a webpage.
Apple has a postscript engine tied into OSX. Its called quartz and integrated with everything. Is apple wrong for doing this? Is it a requirement that a windowing system use postscript? No.
Microsoft decided to give away IE to crush netscape. They integrated it into the OS for the same reason. This was amonopolistic practice. However, the best way to deal with a market tyrant is with a market revolution. A DOJ attack against Microsoft would never be as effective as the war being waged by the market. The government would never come up with the current open source paradim.
Windows and more classical Unix/Linux you either have permission or don't. I think this does genuinely lead to an upgrade in security.
Uh wrong!!!!!
First windows. Windows has a complex as hell ACL system. The problem is its too complex and no one ever sets it right. In the end you either do or dont have permission, However, with groups contianing groupls and order dependant Allow/Deny ACLS their are many reasons you do or don't have permission.
Now Linux. That password dialog on OSX to make sure you know what your doing is dangerous is a frontend for sudo, a unix tool.
Really. Which god is that? Jewish? Christian? Hindu? ... When did god get involved in "free enterprise"?
To simplify my defense, lets assume were talking about the Abrahamic God, the diety worshiped by Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Now according to these religions God created us and gave us free will. Microsoft is an organization created by and consisting of people. These have according to popularly accepted western philisophy, inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of property. They also have aright to come together to form a government to lead them as a nation. Putting aside the international aspect of microsoft for a moment, It is an organization of people with intristic rights and these people are part of a society that is a nation known as the United States with a soveirgn government.
Now when a government does not allow a society to engage in their God given rights, said society as the right and duty to ensure it can practice those rights by revolution according to the declaration of independance. Microsoft coupled IE with Windows annd created a product to obtain life liberty and the pursuit of property. They have a right to this. The generally accepted litmus test for a right is personss right to punch me in the face ends where my face begins. This passes that litmus test.
As far as MS being a monoply, hell yeah. However, the market will deal with that via the forces of capitalism. And yes, open source can be described in terms of classical capitalism.
Ideally, the DOJ would've at least shown the backbone necessary to force MS to decouple IE from Windows. To be quite honest, Microsoft has a God given right to couple IE with Windows. You can't regulate proper business practice. The market regulates itself. Thats the only explanation for a finnish college student and his merry band of hippies able to attract a following that has transcended cult status to a legitimate movement.
Yes it does make it harder for other browsers to compete, but does anyone complain that RedHat or SuSE encourages users to use a specific set of apps. Sure, you have choice, but each distro pimps a specific desktop envirorment and office suite as the One True (tm) set of apps. The difference here is that it changes every release. Also, to be quite frank, the hole bloat argument no longer applies to IE being bundled with windows. Harddrives are huge these days, a gig is a normal amount of ram, and the space IE takes up on an XP or Win2k/2k3 system in negligiable. Its also legitimatly neccessary for Microsoft to bundle the html rendering engine of IE with windows to display help files. Sure we dont need the icon and the auctual browser, but its becoming a mute poit at this stage in the game. No one complains when Redhat or SuSE makes whatever browser the default browser on their default desktop. Sure the enlightened masses like me know enough to install windowmaker and just install KDE and GNOME for the libraries neccessary for konqueror and eveolution to work, but Joe Sixpack has no clue how to pick from the choice of Mozilla, Netscape 4, Firefox, links, lynx, konqueror, galeon (or whaever they call it these days), mosaic and amanda. Even if they get to that level, their most likely to get crossover office and use internet explorer on linux. A though I used to shudder at, until I realized I could ssh into my linux box from my iBook and run IE to test web pages.
Don't confuse Wall Streets expectations with apple consumers
Until someone links it with Bochs anyway, which I hear is going to happen...
I believe that was one of the ideas the DarWine project was working on. However, everyone is starting to realize bochs is ass slow. Also, remember windows NT 3.5 ran on PPC and 4.0 ran on alpha. Sure the apps had to be recompiled, but thats an option for all the good open source windows software.
There is GTK for the frame buffer. I'm sure that QT is more mature, and the fact that QT is written in C++ is a plus for many developers. KDE seems to be winning the Linux desktop wars, probally because it appeals to the developers. As Balmer said, developers, developers, developers, developers!!!. Also, for a commercial app $1,000 is nothing. Especially when you dont have to shell that out until you ship the application. Putting asside the closed vs. open source advantages, if your going to release a closed source commercial application, you would probally expect to make more than a thousand dollars off of it.