The reason the patent system was established in the first place was to encourage sharing of information. What company is going to disclose the technical content of the products they sell unless there is something like a patent to protect the compotetitve edge they have won through their technology?
That's just because the US changed the way it measures unemployment, and only counts people that are eligible, and have applied for unemployment benefits.
Not correct at all. Unemployment in the US is measured by doing a door to door survey of about 65,000 households. Those that are not employed but are actively seeking jobs are classified as unemployed.
What it doesn't count are workers who have given up looking for jobs.
http://www.swcollege.com/bef/econ_data/unemploym en t/unemployment_definition.html
It may interest you to know that some of the bands in the Northern Alliance have the same history of human rights violations that the Taliban have been accused of.
So you say. But the fact is that before the Taliban came into power Afgan women held jobs and were able to get an education, and Buddists were not the subject of a pogrom.
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Unless you can present a convincing argument that there was an effective alternative method for dealing with the problem that would lead to better results than the current state of affairs, the US response in fact is clearly moral and justified.
In other words, "please prove a negative". A typical argument these days.
Wrong. I am not asking you to prove a negative. I am asking you to propose an alternative; i,e, to provide an approach that is better than what you are criticizing. Unless you can come up with something better, how can you say that the curren t policy is not the best way?
Tell that to the Afgan women who were being subjected to grossly unjust treatment at the hands of the Taliban. Or the Buddhist population of Afganistan. How about considering the trade-off between their fate under the Taliban (i.e. extinction) vs. the new set of thugs?
It's quite clear that the situation in Afganistan was a severe danger to US security, leading not only to many civilian deaths in the US, but also great oppression and instability in other areas.
The US found a way to deal with the problem. Unless you can present a convincing argument that there was an effective alternative method for dealing with the problem that would lead to better results than the current state of affairs, the US response in fact is clearly moral and justified.
Regardless of whatever phonily inflated statistics of civilian deaths you can fake up.
So it took the Linux community a whole YEAR to stablize their Kernel? If MS doesn't have a patch out in 2 days everyone screams. I guess this proves that MS does not have the most unstahle software. Just the most talked about.
It proves no such thing.
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, or ME are not stable, and never will be. Windows NT, after, what 6 years? is still lagging behind any kernel that RedHat has supplied it's users as far as stability.
Win 2000 is STARTING to approach something akin to the stability of a 2.4 kernel release, although it is nowhere near the stability of the current 2.2 kernel.
Silicon: Chemical Formula Si, Atomic Number 14 in period table of elements, 2nd most common element in Earth's crust behind oxygen. Semiconductor. If silicon were to become obsolete we would need a replacement for stuff like rocks and materials as well as glass and concrete.
Silica: SiO2, as pure a white crystaline material abundant in nature. Fused quartz is pure amorphus silica.
Silicate: chemical compound containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, e.g., aluminum, barium, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium, or zirconium. Found in quartz minerals such as agate, amethyst, chalcedony, flint, jasper, onyx, and rock crystal, opal, sand, sandstone, clay, granite, and many other rocks; in skeletal parts of various protists and animals, such as certain sarcodines, diatoms, and sponges, and in the stems and other tissue of higher plants.
Silicone: inorganic polymer in which atoms of silicon and oxygen alternate in a chain; various organic radicals, such as the methyl group, CH3, are bound to the silicon atoms. As linear polymers silicones form a large class of useful fluids and greases. When crosslinked they form a useful class of synthetic rubbers.
That article on LinuxToday was written by someone crying "the sky is falling" when in fact it is not.
Web Services are a big deal, true. Microsoft deserves a great deal of credit for getting behind the idea early, and supporting SOAP etc.
BUT does that mean Microsoft owns Web Services? Not hardly. Surveys of developers are showing that they have bought into the concept of Web Services, BUT implemented in their own development environments, which increasingly means J2EE these days..NET is okay, by why switch to.NET when you can get the same effect without changing to a new platform?
How does this affect Apache? Not at all! Apache is generally used as a front end to J2EE application servers to handle the tasks that don't need the services of the application server - images, static pages, etc. This is true whether that application server is JBoss or Weblogic.
I don't know if anybody pointed this out but while Apache may be running the most sites, Windows is running the most servers [netcraft.com]. Now granted some of those Windows servers may be running Apache but I don't think there is a significant amount there. The truth is that a lot of web hosting companies choose Apache because it is free and more scalable for large amounts of virtual domains.
Not to mention that Apache is more flexible - the availability of source code is a big advantage if you need to customize your server - I just finished a project that required exactly that. It would have been impossible to do the same thing with IIS.
As Netcraft also pointed out, Windows is most popular with end-user and self hosted sites, where the host to computer ratio is much smaller.
It is unlikely that these small sites are going to take the time to replace IIS with Apache because their needs are limited to perhaps a few static pages and one domain. It also accounts for the fact that hacks like Nimda are so succesful - these sites are not administered by a real sysadmin.
Unfortunately none of these statistics say much about what the real impact of IIS vs. Apache to the whole interent is. For that we need a traffic weighted analysis.
What the GNU community has to do now is create quality configuration tools for our text based config files.
My opinion is that text based configuration for servers is far superior to the Microsoft GUI approach. Here are some of reasons why:
- No need to run some sort of windowing protocol over the network, be it X or PC Anywhere or whatever. These are SLOW. Hell, on Linux/Unix servers there is no need for any sort of GUI.
- Please explain how you grep a GUI interface to find that key coniguration parameter you want to change?
- Want to experiment with a configuration change? cp the text file to a backup copy, and hack away secure in the knowledge that reversion is just another cp away!
- GUI configuration tools under Microsoft are very misleading because they do not give you access to the whole story. Example - what does it take to install another service using port 80 on a Win2K server? You have to hit the command line!
There are many others.
The ulitmate proof of my argument is that there have been a number of projects to develop GUI configuration tools for Apache. Does anyone use them? No! Why? Because text configuration if far superior.
Monopoly isn't technically defined as any number. That is a persistent myth
Not correct. There are a number of quantitative measures that are used in various legal arenas to test for the presence anti-competitve market concentrations.
Example:
HERFINDAHL-HIRSCHMAN INDEX (HHI)--A measure of market concentration that's used primarily in merger cases. See the Justice/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines of 1992, 1.5 (Antitrust Law & Economics Review, Vol. 23:2, at 68, 73, n. 17.) This concentration measure is calculated by summing the squares of the individual market shares of all competing firms there. Thus a market consisting of only 4 firms with shares of 30%, 30%, 20%, and 20% has an HHI of 2600 (30 x 30 + 30 x 30 + 20 x 20 + 20 x 20 = 900 + 900 + 400 + 400 = 2600). The HHI ranges from a high of 10,000 (a single-firm monopolist) to a number approaching zero (an atomistic market with, say, hundreds of very small firms). "Moderate" concentration is said to begin with an HHI of 1000 and "high" concentration at 1800. Id., pp. 69-70. The latter is roughly approximated by a top-4-firm share of around 50%.
Thus Microsoft's 95% desktop market share gives an HHI index greater than 9025, which is WAY above the high market concentration expected to lead to constrained competition.
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While I absolutely despise Microsoft as a company because of it's predatory and illegal business practices, even I recognize this article as a troll.
Also, remember that under the WIPO treaties, large (and not-so-large) US companies have lots of power over companies in other countries regarding trademarks and copyrights
I think that argument doesn't stand up to rational examination. WIPO treaties were signed by participating countries - they willing agreed to establish laws that came up to the standards of this treaty. These laws are establishing a world wide uniform code for IPO rights.
The premise of this article is that people may be vulnerable to foriegn contries that have established very different standards, i.e. a problem with laws being very different in another juristiction. Exactly the opposite of the effect of WIPO.
Windows and linux will be on equal footing for stability and security...
Microsoft is compelled by their business plan to churn their user base ever year or two with new versions of their OS products. As we have seen with the introduction of Windows XP, each new version will introduce a new set of security and stability problems. Therefore it is very unlikely that Windows will ever match Linux stability or security.
I'm more afraid that the introduction of Web services will be a disadvantage for Apache.
Hmmm why? I see nothing in the current concepts or implementations of Web Services that give Microsoft an advantage of any sort over Apache. In fact the availability of lighter weight implementations like XML-RPC that can be harnessed by programmers without making large conceptual investments that Microsoft technologies require seems to me to point to an advantage for Apache. Recent publications on sites the The Server Side also seem to indicate that the Java crowd is adopting the concepts of Web Services without buying into the.NET framework.
There is an interesting (and rather negative) review about OOP here (OOP Criticism [geocities.com]).
OOP is by no means a magic solution to programming problems.
The criticism page brought up some areas that OOP has alledged weaknesses. Many of these are highly contrived. One of these examples is the issue of mapping OOP to databases, and in particular the widely used relational database model. The problem with this particular analysis is that the mismatch occurs not due to problems in OOP, but rather with the limitations associated with mapping many types of data structures to the RDBMS model. One can hardly criticize OOP becasue it maps poorly with a technology that is far more limited than OOP is. The problem is with the RDBMS model, not OOP.
Other objections, such as data mapping from one OOP language to another are equally contrived. Already we have methodologies gaining widespread acceptance that actually do this.
The idea that OOP will fall out of favor in 15 years or so seems rather outlandish. OOP has been around for a LONG time already (LISP dates back to the mid '50s.). OOP's record of utility is well established. It's very hard to claim with a straight face that something is a fad when it in fact has been gaining acceptance and wider use over a 50 year period, spanning essentially the total time period of the development of the practice of programming.
It is true that OOP is not a magic solution to ALL programming problems. I would not use OOP in coding an FFT algorithm. However not having OOP in your toolbox markedly reduces the number of programming problems that you can map to working code in a clean, logical manner.
Do corporate execs actually write emails like that?
Some of the internal use stuff seemed overdone to me. The pep talk seemed more realistic to me - sales force motivation is often a very gung ho over the top kind of thing. Remember that we are talking about a company headed by Steve Balmer here. I am sure you have seen some of the vids of his public performances.
Destroy Linux anywhere and everywhere you find it!". I don't know. There's just something disturbing about a huge corporation attempting to utterly crush free, open source software.
Microsoft is not known for being a shrinking violet when it comes to competitiveness.
As small time or 'unused' domains disappear, you should see the Apache continue to decline.
Actually, Apache's percentage of 'active' domains is significantly higher than for all domains. Apparently it's Microsoft that is inflated by inactive domains, not Apache.
Microsoft's server market share is at its highest level ever, with much of the increased share coming from Apache.
That's NOT what Netcraft actually said.
"The drop has had particularly evident impact this month at the popular registrar register.com, which has seen the number of registered but unused sites parked at futuresite.register.com drop by 300k, accounting for the drop in Apache numbers this month."
In other words the drop in Apache numbers was actually due to lack of registration renewals at Register.com, NOT due to any gains by Microsoft.
If you look at the percentages based on ACTIVE sites, Apache actually INCREASED share this month, from 61.88 to 63.34, +1.46, while Microsoft increased at a much slower rate,
26.40 to 26.62, or +0.22.
Lest anyone claim that Apache's share is inflated by inactive sites compared to Microsoft, the Netcraft survey shows the Apache share for total active + inactive to be lower than the active share, while Microsoft's share adding inactive sites is HIGHER than it's active site share. This clearly Microsoft's numbers are inflated by a large number of inactive sites.
In fact, if you look at total number of active sites for the past THREE months, IIS has actually declined, while Apache has increased .
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Is there a major irony deficiency here?
Yes, there is. The deficiency is about Europeans carping about American ignorance while they still manage to elect governments with strong Neo-Nazi elements.
Reading comments from Europeans denegrating freedom in the US is ridiculous. You are looking at a nation populated by ex-Europeans seeking escape from political,economic and religious oppression in Europe.
If some Europeans find parts of the American culture distasteful, it probably isn't because they're xenophobic.
Perhaps, but we are still talking about a Europe intent on ignoring a European government bent on genocide a mere two years ago. Some of the leaders of this nation are currently undergoing trial for war crimes as I write this.
Hooray for the Europeans putting aside centuries of war and national rivalry. It is an example to the world.
I would be very happy to see Europe united and at peace. Both my father and grandfather had to fight in wars in Europe; there are American peacekeeping troops my sons' age serving in Europe today.
If some Europeans find parts of the American culture distasteful, it probably isn't because they're xenophobic. It's probably because they tried it and didn't like it.
I am sure that some Europeans don't like the inroads American culture has made into their society. However I am sort of puzzled by the apparent feeling of European governments that they must legislate to insure local content in their media. What sort of freedom is this? Shouldn't Europeans be free to listen or watch whatever they please?
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On that note, scanning this thread one finds a mind-numbing array of ignorance and misconceptions about Europe
Scanning this tread also reveals a mind-numbing amount of European prejudice and ignorance about America, presumably from Europeans. Not only do Europeans seem to have these xenophobic and parochial attitudes, but they also seem to feel compelled to display them at every opportunity, furthering the impression that they are both ignorant and ill-mannered.
It's sad, really that attitudes of Europeans prevalent since the discovery of America towards the "colonies" still persist some 500 years later.
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Germans speak German and the French speak French. See the problem?
Well, in Europe the French also speak German, and the Germans speak French. And most speak English as well.
Still, I do imagine there is a certain economic cost to supporting and using several different languages.
The problem with current HDTV's is that broadcasters are working on ways to control your viewing times through encryption of the HDTV signal. If this becomes widely accepted, you will need a DVI interface on your HDTV to view a program at maximum resolution - and essentially none of the HDTV sets on the market currently offer a DVI interface. Therefore if you buy one of these now, it's quite possible that two years from now you will be frozen out of full resolution HDTV broadcasts.
The only manufacturer that I know of that is 'future proofing' its sets is Mitsubishi - they promise upgradability to a DVI interface in the future. Even then though it's an expesive guarantee - that upgrade is likely to cost about $1000.
It's a damn shame, because the price/performance of HDTV sets has improved dramatically over the past year.
Yeah, I just finished doing something like this. I needed an way of managing accounts to an IMAP mail server from a Java based web site - on the mail server I wanted to use a Perl IMAP module. XML-RPC to the rescue. A Java client and a Perl server - done.
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The reason the patent system was established in the first place was to encourage sharing of information. What company is going to disclose the technical content of the products they sell unless there is something like a patent to protect the compotetitve edge they have won through their technology?
That's just because the US changed the way it measures unemployment, and only counts people that are eligible, and have applied for unemployment benefits.
m en t/unemployment_definition.html
Not correct at all. Unemployment in the US is measured by doing a door to door survey of about 65,000 households. Those that are not employed but are actively seeking jobs are classified as unemployed.
What it doesn't count are workers who have given up looking for jobs.
http://www.swcollege.com/bef/econ_data/unemploy
It may interest you to know that some of the bands in the Northern Alliance have the same history of human rights violations that the Taliban have been accused of.
So you say. But the fact is that before the Taliban came into power Afgan women held jobs and were able to get an education, and Buddists were not the subject of a pogrom.
.
Unless you can present a convincing argument that there was an effective alternative method for dealing with the problem that would lead to better results than the current state of affairs, the US response in fact is clearly moral and justified.
In other words, "please prove a negative". A typical argument these days.
Wrong. I am not asking you to prove a negative. I am asking you to propose an alternative; i,e, to provide an approach that is better than what you are criticizing. Unless you can come up with something better, how can you say that the curren t policy is not the best way?
Very clear. Very moral. Very justified.
Tell that to the Afgan women who were being subjected to grossly unjust treatment at the hands of the Taliban. Or the Buddhist population of Afganistan. How about considering the trade-off between their fate under the Taliban (i.e. extinction) vs. the new set of thugs?
It's quite clear that the situation in Afganistan was a severe danger to US security, leading not only to many civilian deaths in the US, but also great oppression and instability in other areas.
The US found a way to deal with the problem. Unless you can present a convincing argument that there was an effective alternative method for dealing with the problem that would lead to better results than the current state of affairs, the US response in fact is clearly moral and justified.
Regardless of whatever phonily inflated statistics of civilian deaths you can fake up.
So it took the Linux community a whole YEAR to stablize their Kernel? If MS doesn't have a patch out in 2 days everyone screams. I guess this proves that MS does not have the most unstahle software. Just the most talked about.
It proves no such thing.
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, or ME are not stable, and never will be. Windows NT, after, what 6 years? is still lagging behind any kernel that RedHat has supplied it's users as far as stability.
Win 2000 is STARTING to approach something akin to the stability of a 2.4 kernel release, although it is nowhere near the stability of the current 2.2 kernel.
Silicon: Chemical Formula Si, Atomic Number 14 in period table of elements, 2nd most common element in Earth's crust behind oxygen. Semiconductor. If silicon were to become obsolete we would need a replacement for stuff like rocks and materials as well as glass and concrete.
Silica: SiO2, as pure a white crystaline material abundant in nature. Fused quartz is pure amorphus silica.
Silicate: chemical compound containing silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, e.g., aluminum, barium, beryllium, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium, or zirconium. Found in quartz minerals such as agate, amethyst, chalcedony, flint, jasper, onyx, and rock crystal, opal, sand, sandstone, clay, granite, and many other rocks; in skeletal parts of various protists and animals, such as certain sarcodines, diatoms, and sponges, and in the stems and other tissue of higher plants.
Silicone: inorganic polymer in which atoms of silicon and oxygen alternate in a chain; various organic radicals, such as the methyl group, CH3, are bound to the silicon atoms. As linear polymers silicones form a large class of useful fluids and greases. When crosslinked they form a useful class of synthetic rubbers.
That article on LinuxToday was written by someone crying "the sky is falling" when in fact it is not.
.NET is okay, by why switch to .NET when you can get the same effect without changing to a new platform?
Web Services are a big deal, true. Microsoft deserves a great deal of credit for getting behind the idea early, and supporting SOAP etc.
BUT does that mean Microsoft owns Web Services? Not hardly. Surveys of developers are showing that they have bought into the concept of Web Services, BUT implemented in their own development environments, which increasingly means J2EE these days.
How does this affect Apache? Not at all! Apache is generally used as a front end to J2EE application servers to handle the tasks that don't need the services of the application server - images, static pages, etc. This is true whether that application server is JBoss or Weblogic.
I don't know if anybody pointed this out but while Apache may be running the most sites, Windows is running the most servers [netcraft.com]. Now granted some of those Windows servers may be running Apache but I don't think there is a significant amount there. The truth is that a lot of web hosting companies choose Apache because it is free and more scalable for large amounts of virtual domains.
Not to mention that Apache is more flexible - the availability of source code is a big advantage if you need to customize your server - I just finished a project that required exactly that. It would have been impossible to do the same thing with IIS.
As Netcraft also pointed out, Windows is most popular with end-user and self hosted sites, where the host to computer ratio is much smaller.
It is unlikely that these small sites are going to take the time to replace IIS with Apache because their needs are limited to perhaps a few static pages and one domain. It also accounts for the fact that hacks like Nimda are so succesful - these sites are not administered by a real sysadmin.
Unfortunately none of these statistics say much about what the real impact of IIS vs. Apache to the whole interent is. For that we need a traffic weighted analysis.
What the GNU community has to do now is create quality configuration tools for our text based config files.
My opinion is that text based configuration for servers is far superior to the Microsoft GUI approach. Here are some of reasons why:
- No need to run some sort of windowing protocol over the network, be it X or PC Anywhere or whatever. These are SLOW. Hell, on Linux/Unix servers there is no need for any sort of GUI.
- Please explain how you grep a GUI interface to find that key coniguration parameter you want to change?
- Want to experiment with a configuration change? cp the text file to a backup copy, and hack away secure in the knowledge that reversion is just another cp away!
- GUI configuration tools under Microsoft are very misleading because they do not give you access to the whole story. Example - what does it take to install another service using port 80 on a Win2K server? You have to hit the command line!
There are many others.
The ulitmate proof of my argument is that there have been a number of projects to develop GUI configuration tools for Apache. Does anyone use them? No! Why? Because text configuration if far superior.
Monopoly isn't technically defined as any number. That is a persistent myth
Not correct. There are a number of quantitative measures that are used in various legal arenas to test for the presence anti-competitve market concentrations.
Example:
HERFINDAHL-HIRSCHMAN INDEX (HHI)--A measure of market concentration that's used primarily in merger cases. See the Justice/FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines of 1992, 1.5 (Antitrust Law & Economics Review, Vol. 23:2, at 68, 73, n. 17.) This concentration measure is calculated by summing the squares of the individual market shares of all competing firms there. Thus a market consisting of only 4 firms with shares of 30%, 30%, 20%, and 20% has an HHI of 2600 (30 x 30 + 30 x 30 + 20 x 20 + 20 x 20 = 900 + 900 + 400 + 400 = 2600). The HHI ranges from a high of 10,000 (a single-firm monopolist) to a number approaching zero (an atomistic market with, say, hundreds of very small firms). "Moderate" concentration is said to begin with an HHI of 1000 and "high" concentration at 1800. Id., pp. 69-70. The latter is roughly approximated by a top-4-firm share of around 50%.
Thus Microsoft's 95% desktop market share gives an HHI index greater than 9025, which is WAY above the high market concentration expected to lead to constrained competition.
While I absolutely despise Microsoft as a company because of it's predatory and illegal business practices, even I recognize this article as a troll.
What is even worse are winmail.dat files leaking out of sundry and various Exchange servers!
Also, remember that under the WIPO treaties, large (and not-so-large) US companies have lots of power over companies in other countries regarding trademarks and copyrights
I think that argument doesn't stand up to rational examination. WIPO treaties were signed by participating countries - they willing agreed to establish laws that came up to the standards of this treaty. These laws are establishing a world wide uniform code for IPO rights.
The premise of this article is that people may be vulnerable to foriegn contries that have established very different standards, i.e. a problem with laws being very different in another juristiction. Exactly the opposite of the effect of WIPO.
I'm a Junior in high school wanting to go into a computer major in college.
I really stink at computer programming plus i pretty much hate it.
ive only been in alg 1 and got a C in that, shows you how much I hate Math.
It seems to me that you really should find something you like rather than going into a program that you are sure ti dislike.
Windows and linux will be on equal footing for stability and security...
Microsoft is compelled by their business plan to churn their user base ever year or two with new versions of their OS products. As we have seen with the introduction of Windows XP, each new version will introduce a new set of security and stability problems. Therefore it is very unlikely that Windows will ever match Linux stability or security.
So linux is free, which is great, but what else?
For me freedom is enough.
I'm more afraid that the introduction of Web services will be a disadvantage for Apache.
.NET framework.
Hmmm why? I see nothing in the current concepts or implementations of Web Services that give Microsoft an advantage of any sort over Apache. In fact the availability of lighter weight implementations like XML-RPC that can be harnessed by programmers without making large conceptual investments that Microsoft technologies require seems to me to point to an advantage for Apache. Recent publications on sites the The Server Side also seem to indicate that the Java crowd is adopting the concepts of Web Services without buying into the
There is an interesting (and rather negative) review about OOP here (OOP Criticism [geocities.com]).
OOP is by no means a magic solution to programming problems.
The criticism page brought up some areas that OOP has alledged weaknesses. Many of these are highly contrived. One of these examples is the issue of mapping OOP to databases, and in particular the widely used relational database model. The problem with this particular analysis is that the mismatch occurs not due to problems in OOP, but rather with the limitations associated with mapping many types of data structures to the RDBMS model. One can hardly criticize OOP becasue it maps poorly with a technology that is far more limited than OOP is. The problem is with the RDBMS model, not OOP.
Other objections, such as data mapping from one OOP language to another are equally contrived. Already we have methodologies gaining widespread acceptance that actually do this.
The idea that OOP will fall out of favor in 15 years or so seems rather outlandish. OOP has been around for a LONG time already (LISP dates back to the mid '50s.). OOP's record of utility is well established. It's very hard to claim with a straight face that something is a fad when it in fact has been gaining acceptance and wider use over a 50 year period, spanning essentially the total time period of the development of the practice of programming.
It is true that OOP is not a magic solution to ALL programming problems. I would not use OOP in coding an FFT algorithm. However not having OOP in your toolbox markedly reduces the number of programming problems that you can map to working code in a clean, logical manner.
Do corporate execs actually write emails like that?
Some of the internal use stuff seemed overdone to me. The pep talk seemed more realistic to me - sales force motivation is often a very gung ho over the top kind of thing. Remember that we are talking about a company headed by Steve Balmer here. I am sure you have seen some of the vids of his public performances.
Destroy Linux anywhere and everywhere you find it!". I don't know. There's just something disturbing about a huge corporation attempting to utterly crush free, open source software.
Microsoft is not known for being a shrinking violet when it comes to competitiveness.
As small time or 'unused' domains disappear, you should see the Apache continue to decline.
Actually, Apache's percentage of 'active' domains is significantly higher than for all domains. Apparently it's Microsoft that is inflated by inactive domains, not Apache.
Microsoft's server market share is at its highest level ever, with much of the increased share coming from Apache.
That's NOT what Netcraft actually said.
"The drop has had particularly evident impact this month at the popular registrar register.com, which has seen the number of registered but unused sites parked at futuresite.register.com drop by 300k, accounting for the drop in Apache numbers this month."
In other words the drop in Apache numbers was actually due to lack of registration renewals at Register.com, NOT due to any gains by Microsoft.
If you look at the percentages based on ACTIVE sites, Apache actually INCREASED share this month, from 61.88 to 63.34, +1.46, while Microsoft increased at a much slower rate,
26.40 to 26.62, or +0.22.
Lest anyone claim that Apache's share is inflated by inactive sites compared to Microsoft, the Netcraft survey shows the Apache share for total active + inactive to be lower than the active share, while Microsoft's share adding inactive sites is HIGHER than it's active site share. This clearly Microsoft's numbers are inflated by a large number of inactive sites.
In fact, if you look at total number of active sites for the past THREE months, IIS has actually declined, while Apache has increased .
Is there a major irony deficiency here?
Yes, there is. The deficiency is about Europeans carping about American ignorance while they still manage to elect governments with strong Neo-Nazi elements.
Reading comments from Europeans denegrating freedom in the US is ridiculous. You are looking at a nation populated by ex-Europeans seeking escape from political,economic and religious oppression in Europe.
If some Europeans find parts of the American culture distasteful, it probably isn't because they're xenophobic.
Perhaps, but we are still talking about a Europe intent on ignoring a European government bent on genocide a mere two years ago. Some of the leaders of this nation are currently undergoing trial for war crimes as I write this.
Hooray for the Europeans putting aside centuries of war and national rivalry. It is an example to the world.
I would be very happy to see Europe united and at peace. Both my father and grandfather had to fight in wars in Europe; there are American peacekeeping troops my sons' age serving in Europe today.
If some Europeans find parts of the American culture distasteful, it probably isn't because they're xenophobic. It's probably because they tried it and didn't like it.
I am sure that some Europeans don't like the inroads American culture has made into their society. However I am sort of puzzled by the apparent feeling of European governments that they must legislate to insure local content in their media. What sort of freedom is this? Shouldn't Europeans be free to listen or watch whatever they please?
On that note, scanning this thread one finds a mind-numbing array of ignorance and misconceptions about Europe
Scanning this tread also reveals a mind-numbing amount of European prejudice and ignorance about America, presumably from Europeans. Not only do Europeans seem to have these xenophobic and parochial attitudes, but they also seem to feel compelled to display them at every opportunity, furthering the impression that they are both ignorant and ill-mannered.
It's sad, really that attitudes of Europeans prevalent since the discovery of America towards the "colonies" still persist some 500 years later.
Germans speak German and the French speak French. See the problem?
Well, in Europe the French also speak German, and the Germans speak French. And most speak English as well.
Still, I do imagine there is a certain economic cost to supporting and using several different languages.
The problem with current HDTV's is that broadcasters are working on ways to control your viewing times through encryption of the HDTV signal. If this becomes widely accepted, you will need a DVI interface on your HDTV to view a program at maximum resolution - and essentially none of the HDTV sets on the market currently offer a DVI interface. Therefore if you buy one of these now, it's quite possible that two years from now you will be frozen out of full resolution HDTV broadcasts.
The only manufacturer that I know of that is 'future proofing' its sets is Mitsubishi - they promise upgradability to a DVI interface in the future. Even then though it's an expesive guarantee - that upgrade is likely to cost about $1000.
It's a damn shame, because the price/performance of HDTV sets has improved dramatically over the past year.
Yeah, I just finished doing something like this. I needed an way of managing accounts to an IMAP mail server from a Java based web site - on the mail server I wanted to use a Perl IMAP module. XML-RPC to the rescue. A Java client and a Perl server - done.