You have to think, what will come of Open-Sourcing windows? Good things. First and foremost, many current OSS developers might change over to windows. Second, with the influx of new work, it will become more featurefilled than it already is, and hopefully an order of magnitude more stable.
What else would happen? I think the casual user would find Linux less attractive. It's strongest points are reliability and multitasking. If Windows had it all, I doubt Linux would have made it this far on the Desktop front.
Microsoft doesn't just make money off of Windows. They make money off of their corporate customers. They sell Office, BackOffice, SQL server, IIS, and a plethora of other development and commercial software. Without the revenue generated by Windows, I think they would still be a veritable software company.
Windows on every computer merely provided them a VERY broad platform to deliver their other goods.
With the headway made by GNU/FSF, I find it hard to believe that in ten years, the average computer user will still be the same old ignorant follower. I don't blame people for using what's easy, Windows IS easy. But with the curve of advancement of free software, I don't think the closed-source model will be effective at creating top-tier software.
With the recent move by Red Hat I'd guess that "Enterprise" solutions will include Red Hat Linux far more often in the future. As GUI's improve, the useability of Linux(or BSD) will reach the grasp of people who really know little or nothing about computers. At this point,
Microsoft will be at a head: Either change their business model or improve their software.
Seeing as Microsoft is at an inherent disadvantage, I don't expect their software to rise to the level of OSS. It's just not feasible for them; They don't have the manpower.
You're right, they're not going away. But I'm hoping for some positive changes with their policy(lack thereof, really) on Open Source software.
digitalunity
I've taken my Toyota Supra past 160 mph a couple of times. Definitely not suggested. I did this on I84. If you don't know where this is, it's long valey running ajacent to the Columbia River. Very *nice*, long and mostly straight.
In fact, most cars have internal speed limits. Many new cars have speed limits in the area of 110 to 120 MPH.
Case in point: Dodge Intrepid comes with a 3L V6, more than enough horsepower to go about 135. But you'll never know, their speed is electronically limited to 117 mph.
Then, there are new sports cars. Many do not have any form of speed limits; the rest are limited to 155 mph. 155? That's twice the highest National Highway speed limit. It would be just as easy for the manufacturer to place this at 90, or 75 mph.
No, the government needs speeding tickets. That is a major cash cow for local and state governments everywhere. They have Excessive Speed Quotas to meet their budgets.
Exceeding the speed limit is not always illegal either. You may temporarily exceed the posted limit only while passing a slow moving vehicle. I was pulled over doing 93 in a 55 mph zone. I did
not recieve a ticket. I was pulled over and given a warning.
These situations are at the discretion of the officer. He understood my situation. Passing a weaving triple trailer with over 300 hp.
(and there is competition, unlike M$, cause my parents can't use linux / kde / x, I tried it, square pegs don't fit into round holes.)
You need a smaller peg or a bigger hole.
My old two computer household had Win98 on one and Slackware 7 on mine. After about an hour of instruction, they were doing all the same things in Linux that they did in Win98.
Netscape 6 is out though. IMNSHO, Netscape 6 is the best and most compatible version they've made yet. The only major problem I've run into with it
is a small bug in the way tables are displayed. Not a big issue. It crashes far less often than the IE beta 6.00.2462 and has a much prettier GUI.
I'm happy to see Netscape make headway, if for nothing else but competition's sake.
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Actually look at this from a non-humor type standpoint. If you genetically modify cannabis, you've got a fantastic paper supply, some of the strongest twine available, and a good supply of oils, but no THC. If they don't want people smoking weed, fine. But let's put such an amazing plant to good use. It's been proven that this is possible, THC production can be pushed up and down with the DNA. I think something like this would be good for industry. No?
I'm a creationist myself, but you cannot immediately disqualify the facts because they don't coincide with your personal belief system. I personally believe that dinosaurs really did roam the earth. The fact that modern man has lived on the earth for roughly 6000 years has little bearing on the age of the earth. Whose to say that god didn't create the earth 500 million years ago, start some dinosaur life to fetilize/flourish and then kill them off with a meteor. Wait for everything to warm up, create mankind. You can believe both things at once. From my viewpoint, the bible is accurate. Any inaccuracies are probably due to our own lack of understanding about the laws of nature or the dynamics of the universe.
I think our sample of time is far too small for the magnitude of time we're trying to measure.
Actually, if the evidence of an actual crime points to you, then you ARE guilty until you can redirect the guilt by finger-pointing. When national security is at stake, the Secret Service is less likely to beat around the bush or be diplomatic. They (TM)Take Charge(/TM). That's their job. 'sides, if I was the president, I'd do the same thing. If a threat of bodily harm is proven to come from your computer, I'd pray I still had the logs to prove it was someone else. Would you take the fall for the sake of anonymity? I don't think I could serve 10-20 for an Anonymous Coward.
I think the judge wanted proof that an actual crime had been committed. If the company were trying to legally persue this via a trial with John and Jayn Doe's as defendants, I would think that the courts would be more than happy to help. If in fact the judge agreed that there was sufficient proof that said crime was actual; Anon's would've been thrown to the dogs.
Because I qualify for few deductions, I've always done my own taxes. I refuse to pay even a measly $50 for someone else to save me an single hours time. I figure it wouldn't take them a half an hour, and they certainly wouldn't get me more money back. My tax status is basically this:
A part time student with a full time job. I usually get back a good portion of my federal taxes back and I don't need H&R to explain the already simple-as-cake 1040EZ. Now, If I made a lot of money, were married, or ran my own business then I might consider some sort of professional advice.
I did my own taxes and got back $900. Am I on the line? And I did it in a Perl script for my company so I claimed the time spent on taxes as a deduction.
That's not a very good example. Those 'park-at-your-own-risk" signs really do little to indemnify the lot owner. I know that in the state of Washington, you can be sued and lose to someone who has property damaged in your lot. I worked in a Hotel chain that resides in the State of Oregon and Washington. Only in Washington, they had to change the sign in agreement for Guests that explicitly held the company harmless from all incidents in the parking lot. Nobody ever read's the paragraph of terms, but that isn't important. This still did nothing to exempt the company from damages arising to Visitors cars; who'd signed NO agreement. The sign has little legal consequence, but out of hundreds of incidents in a parking lot, only a couple had ever gone to court. Just goes to show that people believe what they read without checking the facts.
On a more related topic: 1. Don't use the service
This isn't an issue for you, the yahoo.com user. This is an issue for all the Hotmailer's who weren't aware of this until previously. The fact that Microslut won't remove a person from their service; against the user's consent; I think is illegal, or should be anyway.
This might not apply just to Hotmail users. If I send an email to a Hotmail user and they reply with my message quoted; are my statements still owned by me? Their transmission over Hotmail shouldn't make them subject to Hotmail's TOS should it? That's a big concern for someone who relies on email in a business fashion.
Most retailers don't require that they charge it back
to the same card, just that they charge it back to A card.
In fact, many retailers don't store your credit card numbers
at all. They just store payment method. As for online
retailers; have you ever tried to return something? Its a bigger pain in the ass than paying for
whatever crap they wont take back!
My father worked for Bonneville Power Admin.
for 9 years in the Long Term Study program.
He had models of stream flow with over 100 years
of data. All in the form of multi-hunred-MB's
excel spreadsheets. He said the margin for error
was a less than a 1/100th of a percent. For the most
part, excel sucks only as bad as the operator!
It depends on how you take it. If you expect the computing power of a single processor to double every 18 months, than it will end. But, with the process of putting more processor cores on each die you can still maintain this fantastic exponential growth. Look at the POWER processor. Manufactured on industry standard processes, it has significant advances not utilized by the other processors being made.
Instead of making things smaller, we need to look at parallelism. Making more work done on each clock cycle. The Athlon really shows what can be done with multiple instructions in flight at the same time. My K6-2 tops out at 2 per cycle, while the Athlon can execute 4 consecutively.
You don't need to make a single monolithic processor; especially when multiple processors on the same die can do so much more work.
One of the major setbacks of the processors of today is out of order execution. If this work were done explicitly by the compiler, great strides would be made for faster simpler processors.
Circuits don't have to be faster to make a computer faster, it's all in the architecture and efficiency of the work that it is doing.
I was broke and 3-5 were the only books I could get for free. So, that's what I read. In retrospect, the series would have been much better if I'd waited until I got the first two books.
IMHO, that would be a really dumb idea. Lots of companies make both hardware and software.
But, if they actually did that, Microsoft(ware) would make the games and such. MShardware would be the licenser and patent holder for the XBox. They would also be the one rolling in dough($).
so anyways, I'm not really a geek. I go to concerts. Oh, the terror of it all, I still code, but my love is for live concerts. So, the Offspring came to town and I went with this ultra hot chick I'd known from school. At that concert, I had the distinction of arriving with the first girl to take off her bra. Mother would be so proud;-)
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You have to think, what will come of Open-Sourcing windows? Good things. First and foremost, many current OSS developers might change over to windows. Second, with the influx of new work, it will become more featurefilled than it already is, and hopefully an order of magnitude more stable.
What else would happen? I think the casual user would find Linux less attractive. It's strongest points are reliability and multitasking. If Windows had it all, I doubt Linux would have made it this far on the Desktop front.
Microsoft doesn't just make money off of Windows. They make money off of their corporate customers. They sell Office, BackOffice, SQL server, IIS, and a plethora of other development and commercial software. Without the revenue generated by Windows, I think they would still be a veritable software company.
Windows on every computer merely provided them a VERY broad platform to deliver their other goods.
With the headway made by GNU/FSF, I find it hard to believe that in ten years, the average computer user will still be the same old ignorant follower. I don't blame people for using what's easy, Windows IS easy. But with the curve of advancement of free software, I don't think the closed-source model will be effective at creating top-tier software.
With the recent move by Red Hat I'd guess that "Enterprise" solutions will include Red Hat Linux far more often in the future. As GUI's improve, the useability of Linux(or BSD) will reach the grasp of people who really know little or nothing about computers. At this point, Microsoft will be at a head: Either change their business model or improve their software.
Seeing as Microsoft is at an inherent disadvantage, I don't expect their software to rise to the level of OSS. It's just not feasible for them; They don't have the manpower.
You're right, they're not going away. But I'm hoping for some positive changes with their policy(lack thereof, really) on Open Source software.
digitalunity
What about us web developers? All your Recordset's are belong to us! mwaahaaahaaaaha(smack...)
I've taken my Toyota Supra past 160 mph a couple of times. Definitely not suggested. I did this on I84. If you don't know where this is, it's long valey running ajacent to the Columbia River. Very *nice*, long and mostly straight.
More like electronically stunted.
In fact, most cars have internal speed limits. Many new cars have speed limits in the area of 110 to 120 MPH.
Case in point: Dodge Intrepid comes with a 3L V6, more than enough horsepower to go about 135. But you'll never know, their speed is electronically limited to 117 mph.
Then, there are new sports cars. Many do not have any form of speed limits; the rest are limited to 155 mph. 155? That's twice the highest National Highway speed limit. It would be just as easy for the manufacturer to place this at 90, or 75 mph.
No, the government needs speeding tickets. That is a major cash cow for local and state governments everywhere. They have Excessive Speed Quotas to meet their budgets.
Exceeding the speed limit is not always illegal either. You may temporarily exceed the posted limit only while passing a slow moving vehicle. I was pulled over doing 93 in a 55 mph zone. I did not recieve a ticket. I was pulled over and given a warning.
These situations are at the discretion of the officer. He understood my situation. Passing a weaving triple trailer with over 300 hp.
digitalunity
(I dabble, but I do ass-sucking VB in uncle-humping Windows to pay the bills)
You too, eh?
I hate windows, and I hate VB and VBScript even more.
I come home from work everyday rubbing my a$$ from getting bent over by IIS.
all your Recordsets are belong to us.
You need a smaller peg or a bigger hole.
My old two computer household had Win98 on one and Slackware 7 on mine. After about an hour of instruction, they were doing all the same things in Linux that they did in Win98.
- Parents Activities, in order:
- Check E-mail
- Write new e-mail
- Check Weather
- Check News
- Check Stocks
What else is there?Netscape 6 is out though. IMNSHO, Netscape 6 is the best and most compatible version they've made yet. The only major problem I've run into with it
is a small bug in the way tables are displayed. Not a big issue. It crashes far less often than the IE beta 6.00.2462 and has a much prettier GUI.
I'm happy to see Netscape make headway, if for nothing else but competition's sake.
Actually look at this from a non-humor type standpoint. If you genetically modify cannabis, you've got a fantastic paper supply, some of the strongest twine available, and a good supply of oils, but no THC. If they don't want people smoking weed, fine. But let's put such an amazing plant to good use. It's been proven that this is possible, THC production can be pushed up and down with the DNA. I think something like this would be good for industry. No?
Digitalunity strikes again.
I'm a creationist myself, but you cannot immediately disqualify the facts because they don't coincide with your personal belief system. I personally believe that dinosaurs really did roam the earth. The fact that modern man has lived on the earth for roughly 6000 years has little bearing on the age of the earth. Whose to say that god didn't create the earth 500 million years ago, start some dinosaur life to fetilize/flourish and then kill them off with a meteor. Wait for everything to warm up, create mankind. You can believe both things at once. From my viewpoint, the bible is accurate. Any inaccuracies are probably due to our own lack of understanding about the laws of nature or the dynamics of the universe.
I think our sample of time is far too small for the magnitude of time we're trying to measure.
Mike
Actually, if the evidence of an actual crime points to you, then you ARE guilty until you can redirect the guilt by finger-pointing. When national security is at stake, the Secret Service is less likely to beat around the bush or be diplomatic. They (TM)Take Charge(/TM). That's their job. 'sides, if I was the president, I'd do the same thing. If a threat of bodily harm is proven to come from your computer, I'd pray I still had the logs to prove it was someone else. Would you take the fall for the sake of anonymity? I don't think I could serve 10-20 for an Anonymous Coward.
I think the judge wanted proof that an actual crime had been committed. If the company were trying to legally persue this via a trial with John and Jayn Doe's as defendants, I would think that the courts would be more than happy to help. If in fact the judge agreed that there was sufficient proof that said crime was actual; Anon's would've been thrown to the dogs.
Because I qualify for few deductions, I've always done my own taxes. I refuse to pay even a measly $50 for someone else to save me an single hours time. I figure it wouldn't take them a half an hour, and they certainly wouldn't get me more money back. My tax status is basically this:
A part time student with a full time job. I usually get back a good portion of my federal taxes back and I don't need H&R to explain the already simple-as-cake 1040EZ. Now, If I made a lot of money, were married, or ran my own business then I might consider some sort of professional advice.
I did my own taxes and got back $900. Am I on the line? And I did it in a Perl script for my company so I claimed the time spent on taxes as a deduction.
That's legal; right?
That's not a very good example. Those 'park-at-your-own-risk" signs really do little to indemnify the lot owner. I know that in the state of Washington, you can be sued and lose to someone who has property damaged in your lot. I worked in a Hotel chain that resides in the State of Oregon and Washington. Only in Washington, they had to change the sign in agreement for Guests that explicitly held the company harmless from all incidents in the parking lot. Nobody ever read's the paragraph of terms, but that isn't important. This still did nothing to exempt the company from damages arising to Visitors cars; who'd signed NO agreement. The sign has little legal consequence, but out of hundreds of incidents in a parking lot, only a couple had ever gone to court. Just goes to show that people believe what they read without checking the facts.
On a more related topic:
1. Don't use the service
This isn't an issue for you, the yahoo.com user. This is an issue for all the Hotmailer's who weren't aware of this until previously. The fact that Microslut won't remove a person from their service; against the user's consent; I think is illegal, or should be anyway.
This might not apply just to Hotmail users. If I send an email to a Hotmail user and they reply with my message quoted; are my statements still owned by me? Their transmission over Hotmail shouldn't make them subject to Hotmail's TOS should it? That's a big concern for someone who relies on email in a business fashion.
Then again, that could be the THC talking.
Mike
Most retailers don't require that they charge it back
to the same card, just that they charge it back to A card.
In fact, many retailers don't store your credit card numbers
at all. They just store payment method. As for online
retailers; have you ever tried to return something?
Its a bigger pain in the ass than paying for
whatever crap they wont take back!
My father worked for Bonneville Power Admin.
for 9 years in the Long Term Study program.
He had models of stream flow with over 100 years
of data. All in the form of multi-hunred-MB's
excel spreadsheets. He said the margin for error
was a less than a 1/100th of a percent. For the most
part, excel sucks only as bad as the operator!
Since my power supply fans failed, my computer :)
is really quiet. I didn't realize it for over a
month; my computer is still rock solid too
Not that it matter's. I have NIN and A Perfect
Circle drowning out any extemporanious noise anyways.
It depends on how you take it. If you expect the
computing power of a single processor to double
every 18 months, than it will end. But, with
the process of putting more processor cores on
each die you can still maintain this fantastic
exponential growth. Look at the POWER processor.
Manufactured on industry standard processes, it
has significant advances not utilized by the other
processors being made.
Instead of making things smaller, we need to look
at parallelism. Making more work done on each
clock cycle. The Athlon really shows what can be
done with multiple instructions in flight at the
same time. My K6-2 tops out at 2 per cycle, while
the Athlon can execute 4 consecutively.
You don't need to make a single monolithic
processor; especially when multiple processors
on the same die can do so much more work.
One of the major setbacks of the processors of
today is out of order execution. If this work were
done explicitly by the compiler, great strides
would be made for faster simpler processors.
Circuits don't have to be faster to make a
computer faster, it's all in the architecture
and efficiency of the work that it is doing.
funding? Just details.
Just tell me when I can get the hell off this
planet and enjoy my new condo on mars. Then
I'll be happy.
I was broke and 3-5 were the only books I could
get for free. So, that's what I read. In
retrospect, the series would have been much better
if I'd waited until I got the first two books.
IMHO, that would be a really dumb idea. Lots of
companies make both hardware and software.
But, if they actually did that, Microsoft(ware)
would make the games and such. MShardware would
be the licenser and patent holder for the XBox.
They would also be the one rolling in dough($).
digitalunity
fantastic.
The last 3 books out of the five were the best
books I'd ever read. Still are. Better than
sliced ham, slashdot, and cowboyneal!
Funny, I never read the first or second. I didn't
really understand everything that was happening
until book 4. The ending to 5 was frigin wonderful.
digitalunity - taking offtopic-ness to new heights
so anyways, I'm not really a geek. I go to ;-)
concerts. Oh, the terror of it all, I still
code, but my love is for live concerts. So,
the Offspring came to town and I went with
this ultra hot chick I'd known from school.
At that concert, I had the distinction of
arriving with the first girl to take off her
bra. Mother would be so proud
Anyways, mandatory geek content: c++ rules.
Overkill? Not if you need it. like, animators! ;-]
mmmmm, I can smell the FPU goodness from here
digitalun