I think that what this guy is perhaps worried about is replacing binaries. Tweaking source code to allow security back doors, &c. Of course, you have to have admin privileges. However, in a REAL enterprise (not a dot com), this can be a HUGE chunk of people.
I must correct some things you have gotten factually incorrect. While.NET is AKA "Com+ 2.0", all of COM is gone from it.
No IUnknown, no GUIDs, no stuff in the registry, no IDispatch, no VARIANTs, no DCOM, no RPC (replaced with Soap), and you have implementation inheritance.
It's not COM. It's component based programming but it has completely thrown out all of what was in the "COM" section of MSDN.
i think you'll find that the wife is going to screw things up more than anything:-) no more twenty hour coding sessions "honey where are you? when are you going to be home"... no more sitting up all hours at home "when are you coming to bed? what's so interesting about that?"
What you don't realize is that in 1989, doing the Microsoft thing was the same trip as the Linux thing at the very beginning. In 1993-1995 doing the Microsoft thing was the same as doing the Linux thing now. It was very revolutionary. This isn't the first time revolutions have come around, and it won't be the last. You would do well to remember that as you advocate Linux. Believe it or not, a great many software scientists do groove on the Microsoft thing.
In 1993, a copy of Wordperfect for dos 5.3 cost $495; the Sun admins at school kept everything locked down tight; and everything just sucked. Our revolution was to empower everybody. Just like you!
Let me explain the essential nature of the microsoft trip: your job as the computer lizard lightning king is subordinate to the secretary up front who has to push all them buttons you dream up, and your mom and dad has to groove on it too. That's what we fought against: the idea that IS ruled and the users were secondary. Always make that your watchword, and you'll never find us far apart.
The idea that the non-expert rules the show is also why the marketplace loves it. My job is basically to go lots of places and find all these pretty women and figure out why their foozle ain't fozzling right. That's all anybody cares about. In your private circles you "know" stuff and talk about stuff and groove on stuff but your job is to just help Sally Jane Rottencrotch keep her stuff a' rollin. See, Sally's boss gotta keep Sally happy so he keeps his fatcat pos'n. You make Sally groove, and Sally's boss keeps on writing that check. Simple as peach pie....
Personally, I view it all as Philips Head vs. Flathead screwdrivers anyway, it's just stupid to get all holy about it. It's just a f'ing tool man.
Don't you realize that for every exact but bloated XML text representation there is an equally compact binary representation? Replace each of the 65000 tags with a unique byte and pack that data....... Compressors will have a field day with XML... It's the uniform and hierarchical representation that is the key...... just wait till we have XML Server like SQL Server it'll be just as much faster and huger than SQL Server is over a simple grid..... dig?
I am sorely disappointed that many of you are mad at Microsoft for breaking the rules, and then you break a rule and try to say it's the right thing. Right or wrong, that spec *was* released under an NDA. If you don't believe in it, don't read it. Especially if you don't believe in it, don't post parts of it to people saying why you don't believe in it. If you agree with it and think microsoft is great, don't post parts of the spec and say that you think it's great. If you believe in something, you have to follow it through, no matter what. (I.E. you can't be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty). Inconsistency is really bad. A society is judged by the way it treats its prisoners. And a person is judged by the way he treats those he despises. Please note that this is utterly independent of whether or not Microsoft's Kerberos sucks, or is wrong, or whether or not it's right or wrong that it can be under an NDA. You may certainly have that opinion, and you may discuss it all you wish. But you cannot post parts of the material!
Well, John: how's this grab you? I never owned a copy of Quake1 (just Q2 and Q3), so i've just compiled all the binaries but i don't have any of the wad's!. So now I'm gonna go to the $10 rack at CompUSA and pick up a copy. So, by releasing the source code, you just *sold* another copy of Quake 1...........
Flash! Page 1! Business tries to compete with competitors! Film at 11! Seriously, thank you for spreading the buzz. It just goes to weaken the DOJ's case that much further.
The main lesson I get out of this articles is: "Avoid being served." This seems to speak more to the ineffiecency of the beauracracy surrounding the legal system than any maliciousness on Comcast's part. Then again, (a) if this would have happened to me, I wouldn't have sweated one minute, because if you can legitimately explain such a low low low level offense, there ain't gonna be no big deal in court; (b) If you get dismissed in the first two seconds of court, you really haven't been hassled.
on my 266 P2 win98 box 6:00 pm EST, streamed perfectly, no hitches no delays before watching, downloaded the rest in real time as I was watching excellent!
Um, the clipboard is used to copy a lot more than simple text, in a well designed application you can copy objects not just pictures and text. Example: Forms programming. You can highlight a command button and copy/paste it. And the functionality is *system-wide* not application-dependant, i.e., the programmer doesn't have to think about it.
Criminy. The anti-microsoft propaganda is so formulaic these days. It is utterly amazing how "open-minded" people can become so "closed-minded" in such a short space of time. "Beware when the learned man becomes dogmatic." -Nietzche
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no, it's not a legal reason to use a crack!
The noise about this surely disabuses us of the notion that the ABM camp isn't capable of FUD.
Hey dumbass.
In 1993 a copy of WordPerfect cost $500.
A copy of Lotus 1-2-3 cost $500.
Compiler licenses were in the thousand dollar ranges.
don't like c#?
change the hell out of it!
just compile IL in the CRT and who gives a crap
if it's composed of abacus symbols
guess what? you'll be able to interop with anbody else's idea of what code should look like -- that's why it's an open standard
Hey dumbass.
A = code in IE
B = code needed to run Windows
A runs somewhere else does not
preclude A subset of B.
http://www.tpc.org/new_result/ttperf.idc
I think that what this guy is perhaps worried about is replacing binaries. Tweaking source code to allow security back doors, &c. Of course, you have to have admin privileges. However, in a REAL enterprise (not a dot com), this can be a HUGE chunk of people.
yes -- driver model -- can't hack it
um, it's a subset of the same api as windows
I must correct some things you have gotten factually incorrect. While .NET is AKA "Com+ 2.0", all of COM is gone from it.
No IUnknown, no GUIDs, no stuff in the registry, no IDispatch, no VARIANTs, no DCOM, no RPC (replaced with Soap), and you have implementation inheritance.
It's not COM. It's component based programming but it has completely thrown out all of what was in the "COM" section of MSDN.
time sharing sux
i think you'll find that the wife is going to screw things up more than anything :-) no more twenty hour coding sessions "honey where are you? when are you going to be home"... no more sitting up all hours at home "when are you coming to bed? what's so interesting about that?"
What you don't realize is that in 1989, doing the Microsoft thing was the same trip as the Linux thing at the very beginning. In 1993-1995 doing the Microsoft thing was the same as doing the Linux thing now. It was very revolutionary. This isn't the first time revolutions have come around, and it won't be the last. You would do well to remember that as you advocate Linux. Believe it or not, a great many software scientists do groove on the Microsoft thing.
In 1993, a copy of Wordperfect for dos 5.3 cost $495; the Sun admins at school kept everything locked down tight; and everything just sucked. Our revolution was to empower everybody. Just like you!
Let me explain the essential nature of the microsoft trip: your job as the computer lizard lightning king is subordinate to the secretary up front who has to push all them buttons you dream up, and your mom and dad has to groove on it too. That's what we fought against: the idea that IS ruled and the users were secondary. Always make that your watchword, and you'll never find us far apart.
The idea that the non-expert rules the show is also why the marketplace loves it. My job is basically to go lots of places and find all these pretty women and figure out why their foozle ain't fozzling right. That's all anybody cares about. In your private circles you "know" stuff and talk about stuff and groove on stuff but your job is to just help Sally Jane Rottencrotch keep her stuff a' rollin. See, Sally's boss gotta keep Sally happy so he keeps his fatcat pos'n. You make Sally groove, and Sally's boss keeps on writing that check. Simple as peach pie....
Personally, I view it all as Philips Head vs. Flathead screwdrivers anyway, it's just stupid to get all holy about it. It's just a f'ing tool man.
Don't you realize that for every exact but bloated XML text representation there is an equally compact binary representation? Replace each of the 65000 tags with a unique byte and pack that data....... Compressors will have a field day with XML... It's the uniform and hierarchical representation that is the key...... just wait till we have XML Server like SQL Server it'll be just as much faster and huger than SQL Server is over a simple grid..... dig?
it just works
it runs *every* windows app full screen
or in a window SQL Server Exchange Server
NT Server Win 98 Direct3d games
they never crash
they run fast
it also runs linux
anytime anybody offers a solution that "just works" you always call it propaganda
Ever see SoftPC/SoftWindows run on a powerpc?
Um, it kinda leaves Wine/VMWare standing in the dust.
Listen, bros. You got jobs now. You're not in school anymore. Just shell out a few bucks for a decent piece of software!
Come on, it won't kill you.
You hate windows, don't buy windows. But you'd be suprised what hooking a programmer up with a few dollars can do.
Spare me the philosophy please. Simple: give thing money. thing does stuff. stuff is good.
man you are so gay 'mom, i want you to learn about .so dynamic libraries' -- hey man it's cool to dig it but don't drag mom into it
I am sorely disappointed that many of you are mad at Microsoft for breaking the rules, and then you break a rule and try to say it's the right thing. Right or wrong, that spec *was* released under an NDA. If you don't believe in it, don't read it. Especially if you don't believe in it, don't post parts of it to people saying why you don't believe in it. If you agree with it and think microsoft is great, don't post parts of the spec and say that you think it's great. If you believe in something, you have to follow it through, no matter what. (I.E. you can't be anti-abortion and pro-death penalty). Inconsistency is really bad. A society is judged by the way it treats its prisoners. And a person is judged by the way he treats those he despises. Please note that this is utterly independent of whether or not Microsoft's Kerberos sucks, or is wrong, or whether or not it's right or wrong that it can be under an NDA. You may certainly have that opinion, and you may discuss it all you wish. But you cannot post parts of the material!
Well, John: how's this grab you? I never owned a copy of Quake1 (just Q2 and Q3), so i've just compiled all the binaries but i don't have any of the wad's!. So now I'm gonna go to the $10 rack at CompUSA and pick up a copy. So, by releasing the source code, you just *sold* another copy of Quake 1...........
Flash! Page 1! Business tries to compete with competitors! Film at 11! Seriously, thank you for spreading the buzz. It just goes to weaken the DOJ's case that much further.
Y'all can have fun in your little world. :-)
See y'all on the other side
(Humming the refrain from Once in a Lifetime,
"Same as it ever was..."), I'm...
Saint Stephen
P.S. Check out THX-1187 (or is it 1137) for a perfect description of "The World of Today"
The main lesson I get out of this articles is: "Avoid being served." This seems to speak more to the ineffiecency of the beauracracy surrounding the legal system than any maliciousness on Comcast's part. Then again, (a) if this would have happened to me, I wouldn't have sweated one minute, because if you can legitimately explain such a low low low level offense, there ain't gonna be no big deal in court; (b) If you get dismissed in the first two seconds of court, you really haven't been hassled.
on my 266 P2 win98 box 6:00 pm EST, streamed perfectly, no hitches no delays before watching, downloaded the rest in real time as I was watching excellent!
Um, the clipboard is used to copy a lot more than simple text, in a well designed application you can copy objects not just pictures and text. Example: Forms programming. You can highlight a command button and copy/paste it. And the functionality is *system-wide* not application-dependant, i.e., the programmer doesn't have to think about it.
Criminy. The anti-microsoft propaganda is so formulaic these days. It is utterly amazing how "open-minded" people can become so "closed-minded" in such a short space of time. "Beware when the learned man becomes dogmatic." -Nietzche