We fight amongst ourselves so much that we can't present a unified front against (much more organized) Closed Source efforts.
Right, Microsoft, AOL, and Oracle present a big unified, organized front for proprietary software. In other news, the Yankees and Red Sox are merging to defeat the hated Blue Jays...
I've got a ton of.k12.* sites in my Apache log. I bet there's not anybody at these schools tending to the NT servers since it's summer. Not tending to an NT server every day is a bad, bad idea.
Sorry to spoil your propaganda campaign mister, but it's a Well-Known Fact that Bush appointed Ashcroft not to be Attorney General, but rather to head his Special Commission on Stealing Babies to Feed to Bill Gates. You've never heard him deny that he feeds infants to the Microsoft Chairman, have you? Nope. I bet his brother has something to do with this. You think it's a coincidence that 500,000 babies have disappeared from Florida this year alone? And Jeb has yet to allocate state police officers to investigate ANY of this. Can you believe it? Always a conspiracy with those two.
I work as a Systems Adminstrator for a rather technically savy school district. Trust me the teachers will bitch about a non-MS environment.
The fact that you are a sysadmin indicates that your school is more technically savvy than most to begin with. Most places, the teachers only know what they happen to pick up at home.
This is completely wrongheaded, counterproductive thinking. "Teaching Windows" is EXACTLY what is wrong with computer education in schools today. Rather than teach students how to use a computer, schools are teaching them which buttons to press in which order to write a report and print it out, which gives you no background whatsoever on how to work a computer in an environment with which you are unfamiliar. My brother, in 9th grade computer class, was reprimanded by the teacher for hitting CTRL-S instead of clicking the Save button, because that was the day's lesson. How does that help a person be more productive?
And let's not forget the biggest problem of all: who's to know what's going to be in use when they enter the working world (often 10 years after computer classes)? Even if it's still MS/Win/Office, it could be radically different. I was taught nothing but WordPerfect at school. I can count on no fingers how many times I've even seen it being used since high school.
In short, this kind of thinking is exactly the problem, and Free software, which allows students access to more applications at a much lower cost and also educates them on actually using their computers, not letting the computers use them.
I'm not sure where you went to school, but where I did, the teachers didn't know anything about Windows OS's, either. Face it, apart from the sysadmins the school hires (or doesn't, to save money), nobody really knows what's going on with the fancy schmancy computer lab the school bought. With Free/free software, the school can save money on installation and spend it instead on a knowledgeable admin who can double teaching kids how to administrate/program. And *never* have to worry about a Microsoft inquisition.
But as a businessman, there's no way in hell I'd try and drop any of [Linux and/or BSD] on my secretary's desk. Supporting the secretary with it would mean the end of my free time.
I don't know about you, but supporting the idiots at my company with Win98 and Office is already the end of my free time. At least if it were Linux on the desktops (which it will be soon, hopefully), I could just ssh in and fix it, instead of running around like a chicken with my head cut off, because they don't remember where they saved the presentation they're giving to the bank in fifteen minutes.
The other thing you can do is buy a support contract from Mandrake/Red Hat/whoever, and write it up as "Software + Support." They love to see "Support" on a line item. Plus it helps those companies out.
"Mono" doesn't refer to mononucleosis, as some have jokingly suggested. It's actually Spanish for "monkey," which I would assume is supposed to go along with the whole primate/evolution theme. And while having the same moniker as a well-known disease isn't necessarily the best marketing move ever, at least you can search for it in Google (cough C# cough).
I was going to try to reply rationally to your post, but there's just no point. You're completely and utterly ignorant. You don't have the slightest shred of knowledge about ANYTHING you just wrote. Take for example, saying the John Ashcroft spent his life fighting against desegregation. What could possibly make you think that? I mean, while governor of Missouri, he had the highest possible rating for diverse judgeship appointments. You know what, the more I think about it, your statement is not just wrongheaded, it's slanderous. For Christ's sake, why not just say "he appointed John Ashcroft, a man well known for his tendency to eat the souls of the unborn, AG"? It would have made at least as much sense. You're an idiot.
Actually, Aladdin is not lifted from Arabian folklore - it's not Arabian at all. In the 19th century, there was a craze in Europe for all things Arabian, and translators could sell books by offering the largest collection of the "1001 Arabian Nights." A French translator, in an overzealous attempt to outdo his competitors, made up the Aladdin story to add to his collection. Of course, the story that sounded like it came from Arabic ouvre but still strangely appealed to Europeans (wonder how?) became the most popular.
You mean that they are going to put the nominations through the same political process that all the others nominations have gone two throughout the last 210 years?
Actually, it's really only been going on for about 20 years. The Democrats' blocking of Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork in the mid-80's started the era of political gamesmanship with respect to judicial nominees. The rest of post, about how the GOP and Dems both do it as often as they get a chance (i.e., whenever they're the majority) is totally right. Just pointing out that it actually is a relatively new phenomenon.
Many counties never recounted, even though the law required them to.
That's completely and utterly false. The law did not require a recount of any counties that were not requested to do a recount by one of the candidates. Gore request three counties to recount, Bush zero.
Whatever. This is going nowhere. If there were a resolution to this, it would have come around a long time ago, and we wouldn't be arguing about it in June.
That's the thing about Scalia that most people don't understand. Because he ruled along conservative lines a couple times, everyone assumes he's Jesse Helms' judicial equivalent, but he's not. It's not about ideology with him, it's about how the law was written. In the case of Roe v Wade, it's not that he thinks abortion is wrong, it's that he thinks that Congress, not the Supreme Court, should decide whether it's right or not. In this case, sweeping the neighborhood looking for pot growers with infrared clearly violates the 4th amendment, and so he ruled against it, even though a law-and-order-type like more radical right-wingers would approve of it.
That's why I admire him as a judge - he makes his decisions based on what the law says, not what he wishes it said. Strict constructionism.
I grew up a mile away from a nuclear power plant: namely, Three Mile Island. Here in Pennsylvania, we don't cry and whine about how power plants make things dirty and ugly, and then when we run out of power act like Maryland and New York should just give it to us. Go ahead and complain about neighboring states selling it to you expensively, they'll keep on doing it until you produce your own. Why the hell are Californians so damn arrogant they think the rest of the country needs to subsidizd their big yuppie homes and yuppie businesses? Forget it. And when you successfully defeat the ANWR oil drilling then come back to complain about high gas prices two years from now, you can fuck off then, too. Jackasses.
One place.NET shines over Java is that you are not forced to do all your development in Java but instead can use the right tool for the job in different parts of your project and combine them seemlessly. Utilizing Perl classes from VB or inheriting from C# classes in C++ is very attractive and extremely cool.
This is something that's said pretty often and has almost become conventional wisdom, but I take exception to it on two points:
Java can do that too. There's no reason other languages can't be written to compile to JVM bytecode, as Jython has. Multiple language functionality is not CLR advantage (although you could make the case that active support for so many languages is a.NET advantage).
It's bad programming practice to mix and match languages like that. Take your first example - utilizing Perl classes in VB. What happens if the developer who put your application together leaves? Now instead of finding of Perl developer or a VB developer, you have to find someone who knows both, and even if you do, it's going to be much more difficult for the new guy to get up to speed in a multi-language system.
.NET may have some advantages over J2EE, but I don't think that's one of them. And, as a side note, I think multi-vendorism is the best selling point of J2EE. Right now, I'm building an application using Linux, PostgreSQL, and JBoss (GPL'ed EJB container). If its use takes off, I can very easily upgrade it to Solaris, Oracle, and Weblogic, with almost no code changes.
Good point. Napster case or no Napster case, major label music is terrible. Expand your horizons, listen to real bands. Tell the major labels to fuck off, and get your hands on some Pavement, Super Furry Animals, and Mogwai. You won't be disappointed.
I personally think games would be a secondary use for this box. It would be great to have tuxracer and Loki's games available, but that's not the point for me. How great would it be to have a $350 set-top box that you could plug into your stereo for mp3s (or Ogg!) or into your TV for DVD and Tivo-like recording? I would pay much more than that for an open box that anyone could design applications for. Think about open source application distribution for this thing: just make an.iso, and anyone with a CD-R can get it and burn it. Or an application that would create your own iso, for example a CD with an mp3 player/server application plus 650 MB of mp3s of your choosing. A lot of people are putting it down saying it can't compete with Sega/Nintendo/Microsoft, but I don't think it's designed to do that.
firstly canadians just don't have any nationalist sentiments, or very little. Hell most of us don't even know what it is we identify with as a country
Dude, which Canada are you from? Every time I've been there (mostly to Southern Ontario and the Toronto area), I've been stunned by how many Canadians fly flags and do other patriotic stuff as compared to Americans. At concerts by Canadian bands in the states, there are always Canadians in the crowd waving the flag around. And let's not forget Molson's "I am Canadian" ad campaign. So am I mistaken, or have I just seen a different part of Canada than the one you're from?
There's a blind guy who lives down the hall from me who, in the same time I got one degree in classics, got two in computer science and mathematics, not to mention a Rhodes scholarship. So I'd say yeah.
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Right, Microsoft, AOL, and Oracle present a big unified, organized front for proprietary software. In other news, the Yankees and Red Sox are merging to defeat the hated Blue Jays...
I need more fresh air.
I've got a ton of .k12.* sites in my Apache log. I bet there's not anybody at these schools tending to the NT servers since it's summer. Not tending to an NT server every day is a bad, bad idea.
Sorry to spoil your propaganda campaign mister, but it's a Well-Known Fact that Bush appointed Ashcroft not to be Attorney General, but rather to head his Special Commission on Stealing Babies to Feed to Bill Gates. You've never heard him deny that he feeds infants to the Microsoft Chairman, have you? Nope. I bet his brother has something to do with this. You think it's a coincidence that 500,000 babies have disappeared from Florida this year alone? And Jeb has yet to allocate state police officers to investigate ANY of this. Can you believe it? Always a conspiracy with those two.
And let's not forget the biggest problem of all: who's to know what's going to be in use when they enter the working world (often 10 years after computer classes)? Even if it's still MS/Win/Office, it could be radically different. I was taught nothing but WordPerfect at school. I can count on no fingers how many times I've even seen it being used since high school.
In short, this kind of thinking is exactly the problem, and Free software, which allows students access to more applications at a much lower cost and also educates them on actually using their computers, not letting the computers use them.
I'm not sure where you went to school, but where I did, the teachers didn't know anything about Windows OS's, either. Face it, apart from the sysadmins the school hires (or doesn't, to save money), nobody really knows what's going on with the fancy schmancy computer lab the school bought. With Free/free software, the school can save money on installation and spend it instead on a knowledgeable admin who can double teaching kids how to administrate/program. And *never* have to worry about a Microsoft inquisition.
I don't know about you, but supporting the idiots at my company with Win98 and Office is already the end of my free time. At least if it were Linux on the desktops (which it will be soon, hopefully), I could just ssh in and fix it, instead of running around like a chicken with my head cut off, because they don't remember where they saved the presentation they're giving to the bank in fifteen minutes.
The other thing you can do is buy a support contract from Mandrake/Red Hat/whoever, and write it up as "Software + Support." They love to see "Support" on a line item. Plus it helps those companies out.
"Mono" doesn't refer to mononucleosis, as some have jokingly suggested. It's actually Spanish for "monkey," which I would assume is supposed to go along with the whole primate/evolution theme. And while having the same moniker as a well-known disease isn't necessarily the best marketing move ever, at least you can search for it in Google (cough C# cough).
I was going to try to reply rationally to your post, but there's just no point. You're completely and utterly ignorant. You don't have the slightest shred of knowledge about ANYTHING you just wrote. Take for example, saying the John Ashcroft spent his life fighting against desegregation. What could possibly make you think that? I mean, while governor of Missouri, he had the highest possible rating for diverse judgeship appointments. You know what, the more I think about it, your statement is not just wrongheaded, it's slanderous. For Christ's sake, why not just say "he appointed John Ashcroft, a man well known for his tendency to eat the souls of the unborn, AG"? It would have made at least as much sense. You're an idiot.
(sounds like transmorgify) Can't even spell comic-strip-invented words right!
Actually, Aladdin is not lifted from Arabian folklore - it's not Arabian at all. In the 19th century, there was a craze in Europe for all things Arabian, and translators could sell books by offering the largest collection of the "1001 Arabian Nights." A French translator, in an overzealous attempt to outdo his competitors, made up the Aladdin story to add to his collection. Of course, the story that sounded like it came from Arabic ouvre but still strangely appealed to Europeans (wonder how?) became the most popular.
Ever take a look at the Red Hat source disc? The kernel code's all right there, troll.
Actually, it's really only been going on for about 20 years. The Democrats' blocking of Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork in the mid-80's started the era of political gamesmanship with respect to judicial nominees. The rest of post, about how the GOP and Dems both do it as often as they get a chance (i.e., whenever they're the majority) is totally right. Just pointing out that it actually is a relatively new phenomenon.
That's completely and utterly false. The law did not require a recount of any counties that were not requested to do a recount by one of the candidates. Gore request three counties to recount, Bush zero.
Whatever. This is going nowhere. If there were a resolution to this, it would have come around a long time ago, and we wouldn't be arguing about it in June.
In regards to your title...
That's the thing about Scalia that most people don't understand. Because he ruled along conservative lines a couple times, everyone assumes he's Jesse Helms' judicial equivalent, but he's not. It's not about ideology with him, it's about how the law was written. In the case of Roe v Wade, it's not that he thinks abortion is wrong, it's that he thinks that Congress, not the Supreme Court, should decide whether it's right or not. In this case, sweeping the neighborhood looking for pot growers with infrared clearly violates the 4th amendment, and so he ruled against it, even though a law-and-order-type like more radical right-wingers would approve of it.
That's why I admire him as a judge - he makes his decisions based on what the law says, not what he wishes it said. Strict constructionism.
I grew up a mile away from a nuclear power plant: namely, Three Mile Island. Here in Pennsylvania, we don't cry and whine about how power plants make things dirty and ugly, and then when we run out of power act like Maryland and New York should just give it to us. Go ahead and complain about neighboring states selling it to you expensively, they'll keep on doing it until you produce your own. Why the hell are Californians so damn arrogant they think the rest of the country needs to subsidizd their big yuppie homes and yuppie businesses? Forget it. And when you successfully defeat the ANWR oil drilling then come back to complain about high gas prices two years from now, you can fuck off then, too. Jackasses.
This is something that's said pretty often and has almost become conventional wisdom, but I take exception to it on two points:
.NET may have some advantages over J2EE, but I don't think that's one of them. And, as a side note, I think multi-vendorism is the best selling point of J2EE. Right now, I'm building an application using Linux, PostgreSQL, and JBoss (GPL'ed EJB container). If its use takes off, I can very easily upgrade it to Solaris, Oracle, and Weblogic, with almost no code changes.
Yes.
Good point. Napster case or no Napster case, major label music is terrible. Expand your horizons, listen to real bands. Tell the major labels to fuck off, and get your hands on some Pavement, Super Furry Animals, and Mogwai. You won't be disappointed.
I personally think games would be a secondary use for this box. It would be great to have tuxracer and Loki's games available, but that's not the point for me. How great would it be to have a $350 set-top box that you could plug into your stereo for mp3s (or Ogg!) or into your TV for DVD and Tivo-like recording? I would pay much more than that for an open box that anyone could design applications for. Think about open source application distribution for this thing: just make an .iso, and anyone with a CD-R can get it and burn it. Or an application that would create your own iso, for example a CD with an mp3 player/server application plus 650 MB of mp3s of your choosing. A lot of people are putting it down saying it can't compete with Sega/Nintendo/Microsoft, but I don't think it's designed to do that.
Dude, which Canada are you from? Every time I've been there (mostly to Southern Ontario and the Toronto area), I've been stunned by how many Canadians fly flags and do other patriotic stuff as compared to Americans. At concerts by Canadian bands in the states, there are always Canadians in the crowd waving the flag around. And let's not forget Molson's "I am Canadian" ad campaign. So am I mistaken, or have I just seen a different part of Canada than the one you're from?
Ha ha ha ha!
There's a blind guy who lives down the hall from me who, in the same time I got one degree in classics, got two in computer science and mathematics, not to mention a Rhodes scholarship. So I'd say yeah.