I'll bet on Kurzweil to come up with something resembling true AI way before those other two, especially Hofstadter, who actually seems rather thickheaded and pedestrian, though with a pedigree.
That's all pretty comical. Your view is obviously colored by working at the kind of company that can't hold its high value employees, and you are obviously not one. So just stay at that sorry place where you have the misfortune to be abused every day by incompetent IT staff with unsustainable ties to last century software and the rest of us will have a life. Yes, I would be out of that place you are in like a shot, if I was stupid enough to land there in the first place. And I don't give a rat's fuzzy behind if your idiot PHB thinks that's funny, that's his problem. Anybody who is worth anything will get paid more by leaving a place like that.
it is frustrating that no one would fix these bad bugs.
I guess the bug was not very bad, which you can confirm by RTFA. More to the point: if a bug goes ten years in open source, that's a news item. In proprietary software it's par for the course.
IE is still the most popular browser in the world.
No it isn't, it fell off that perch years ago. Nobody uses Microsoft's browser by choice. Face it, Microsoft's sun is setting. Don't let the chair hit you on the way out.
Excuse me, $200 billion. And if you do not understand that that is real money, which flew out of Apple shareholder's pockets over the last three months into the great land of never never, then I have a bridge to sell you. In short, this ranks among the biggest corporate losses of value in history. Read the figures and weep, Apple fanboi. And Apple deserves to lose more, much more.
Apple's superpower = Making the most money. Isn't that why companies are in business?
Apple has the rather dubious distinction of having lost 300 $billion of its shareholder's money in the three months since iPhone 5 was introduced. That $100 billion of hard earned money, pissed into the wind by Apple. So many shareholders would be richer today if Apple had just disolved itself three months ago.
So, my answer was correct (Samsung outsells Apple by a healthy margin), but because Apple makes more money (i.e.: harvests more cash from the customers), it's all good. Got it.
Very much looking forward to earnings reports next Wednesday. Because if Apple execs lie then they go to jail. Therefore pretty much the only time they don't lie.
Apple makes cuts earlier than other companies and only lets the few chosen projects make any progress in the lifecycle. Whereas other companies take a 'throw everything at the wall and see what sticks' mentality...
A "mentality" that seems to work fine for Samsung as evidenced by Apple lagging far behind in market share. And what was Apple's special superpower again?
Oh right, I forgot, Apple's special superpower is sending in the astroturfer spinmods.
Apple makes cuts earlier than other companies and only lets the few chosen projects make any progress in the lifecycle. Whereas other companies take a 'throw everything at the wall and see what sticks' mentality...
A "mentality" that seems to work fine for Samsung as evidenced by Apple lagging far behind in market share. And what was Apple's special superpower again?
Your blather continues to be FUD. VMware can change licenses all it wants (if it even can, some of the copyrights on the code may not belong to it) and the original, open sourced code will still be licensed the same way. Basic understanding of copyright and licensing seem to be absent on your part.
Win 8 is Microsoft's doom, Apple is closing up their machines, will Linux finally rise to the desktop occasion and save us all?
At Frys yesterday nobody was buying Windows 8 machines. Nobody. Looking but not buying. Buying tablets, yes, and mostly Android tablets at that, from what I could see. Ah, and the Windows 8 tablets. Growing cobwebs, truly. They are so fat and heavy, people pick them up and put them right down again. I was also impressed at how many people weren't buying iPad minis. Something about "not retina".
...Microsoft sold 60 million licenses so far. this place really is the fox news of tech.
Stuffed down the throats of hapless consumers who don't want them, more like it. The number of dazed, confused people not buying computers in the Windows 8 aisle at Frys the other day was truly epic.
It can be an open source project, but the copyright still belongs to the company. Without written permission to show the contrary, the employee does not have any ownership of the projects he or she worked on while under their employ, nor authority to transfer ownership to anyone else.
That's just FUD. What matters is what the distribution license says, not who owns the copyright. Anyway, I don't think VMware will be stupid enough to argue about who owns the copyrights. In that direction lies a much worse bruising than they already got. Remember, VMware needs the community a lot more than the community needs VMware.
This is a clear case of VMWare doing evil. So does this new, distasteful corporate direction have something to do with the arrival of Pat "tick tock crush AMD by fair means or foul" Gelsinger?
Oh wow, VMware spinmods. This is sad. I somehow got the impression that VMware employees are made of better ethical stuff than the likes of Apple or Microsoft. Maybe I was just wrong about that. Advice to you VMware people: if you don't want to really piss off the community, then watch what you do. Don't send out the spinmods.
To be specific, I am referring to the fact that both Apple and Microsoft employ astroturfers to post material favorable to themselves on community sites. Just like morally bankrupt communists. Do you wish me to be more specific? (Just show up with some more spinmod points and I will oblige.)
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Even if it's small, it's incumbent upon him to show it, because he says it's big.
Boy, am I ever glad I don't work where you do. And I'm glad I'm not you, that must really suck. Sorry about that, better luck next life.
I'll bet on Kurzweil to come up with something resembling true AI way before those other two, especially Hofstadter, who actually seems rather thickheaded and pedestrian, though with a pedigree.
That's all pretty comical. Your view is obviously colored by working at the kind of company that can't hold its high value employees, and you are obviously not one. So just stay at that sorry place where you have the misfortune to be abused every day by incompetent IT staff with unsustainable ties to last century software and the rest of us will have a life. Yes, I would be out of that place you are in like a shot, if I was stupid enough to land there in the first place. And I don't give a rat's fuzzy behind if your idiot PHB thinks that's funny, that's his problem. Anybody who is worth anything will get paid more by leaving a place like that.
it is frustrating that no one would fix these bad bugs.
I guess the bug was not very bad, which you can confirm by RTFA. More to the point: if a bug goes ten years in open source, that's a news item. In proprietary software it's par for the course.
How come no took over these very old issues to fix? Did no one care for them? :( I would fix them if I could code.
If it was proprietary software it would have been EOLed by now. Open source... just keeps getting better. You can't unopen it.
The quality of Slashdot comments has really gone downhill.
Really? I liked that one. Droll wit indeed. Deserves upmodding.
As long as IE ships with Windows, it will always have a significant market share because of companies that simply do nothing.
That's the kind of company that can't hold its high value employees. Makes for a good short.
You're being nice. 4. Others use it because they are mentally retarded.
IE is still the most popular browser in the world.
No it isn't, it fell off that perch years ago. Nobody uses Microsoft's browser by choice. Face it, Microsoft's sun is setting. Don't let the chair hit you on the way out.
Does anybody even care what Microsoft does these days? They even seem to fail at being evil, though they still try.
Excuse me, $200 billion. And if you do not understand that that is real money, which flew out of Apple shareholder's pockets over the last three months into the great land of never never, then I have a bridge to sell you. In short, this ranks among the biggest corporate losses of value in history. Read the figures and weep, Apple fanboi. And Apple deserves to lose more, much more.
Apple's superpower = Making the most money. Isn't that why companies are in business?
Apple has the rather dubious distinction of having lost 300 $billion of its shareholder's money in the three months since iPhone 5 was introduced. That $100 billion of hard earned money, pissed into the wind by Apple. So many shareholders would be richer today if Apple had just disolved itself three months ago.
AND... The Fanbois and Apple faithful come out in force with nary a fact between them. But boy, do they get riled up!
It's pretty entertaining actually, in a fascination with the macabre sort of way.
So, my answer was correct (Samsung outsells Apple by a healthy margin), but because Apple makes more money (i.e.: harvests more cash from the customers), it's all good. Got it.
Very much looking forward to earnings reports next Wednesday. Because if Apple execs lie then they go to jail. Therefore pretty much the only time they don't lie.
Apple makes cuts earlier than other companies and only lets the few chosen projects make any progress in the lifecycle. Whereas other companies take a 'throw everything at the wall and see what sticks' mentality...
A "mentality" that seems to work fine for Samsung as evidenced by Apple lagging far behind in market share. And what was Apple's special superpower again?
Oh right, I forgot, Apple's special superpower is sending in the astroturfer spinmods.
Apple makes cuts earlier than other companies and only lets the few chosen projects make any progress in the lifecycle. Whereas other companies take a 'throw everything at the wall and see what sticks' mentality...
A "mentality" that seems to work fine for Samsung as evidenced by Apple lagging far behind in market share. And what was Apple's special superpower again?
Your blather continues to be FUD. VMware can change licenses all it wants (if it even can, some of the copyrights on the code may not belong to it) and the original, open sourced code will still be licensed the same way. Basic understanding of copyright and licensing seem to be absent on your part.
Win 8 is Microsoft's doom, Apple is closing up their machines, will Linux finally rise to the desktop occasion and save us all?
At Frys yesterday nobody was buying Windows 8 machines. Nobody. Looking but not buying. Buying tablets, yes, and mostly Android tablets at that, from what I could see. Ah, and the Windows 8 tablets. Growing cobwebs, truly. They are so fat and heavy, people pick them up and put them right down again. I was also impressed at how many people weren't buying iPad minis. Something about "not retina".
...Microsoft sold 60 million licenses so far. this place really is the fox news of tech.
Stuffed down the throats of hapless consumers who don't want them, more like it. The number of dazed, confused people not buying computers in the Windows 8 aisle at Frys the other day was truly epic.
would that be the Intel LEG processor?
It's all very black and white to me when employees of a given company do evil. The company is entirely responsible, if only for hiring those lamers.
It can be an open source project, but the copyright still belongs to the company. Without written permission to show the contrary, the employee does not have any ownership of the projects he or she worked on while under their employ, nor authority to transfer ownership to anyone else.
That's just FUD. What matters is what the distribution license says, not who owns the copyright. Anyway, I don't think VMware will be stupid enough to argue about who owns the copyrights. In that direction lies a much worse bruising than they already got. Remember, VMware needs the community a lot more than the community needs VMware.
This is a clear case of VMWare doing evil. So does this new, distasteful corporate direction have something to do with the arrival of Pat "tick tock crush AMD by fair means or foul" Gelsinger?
Oh wow, VMware spinmods. This is sad. I somehow got the impression that VMware employees are made of better ethical stuff than the likes of Apple or Microsoft. Maybe I was just wrong about that. Advice to you VMware people: if you don't want to really piss off the community, then watch what you do. Don't send out the spinmods.
To be specific, I am referring to the fact that both Apple and Microsoft employ astroturfers to post material favorable to themselves on community sites. Just like morally bankrupt communists. Do you wish me to be more specific? (Just show up with some more spinmod points and I will oblige.)