They could also add a "graphical widget" to perl, C++, C, or any other standard.
No, you couldn't add it if it's been copyrighted.
... but they can in fact do the same to any standard....
No and yes. They tried to extend Kerberos but failed cause it wasn't theirs to extend and it was already widely adopted. If they'd try to extend TCP/IP they'd (hopefully) fail too. But if they extend a widely supported, if not by then market dominant, standard that they own... then I think we're in deep sh*t...
Save your above comment ot disk or print it out. In a few years bring it forth, reread it and whipe your tears at your naivism.
... Even if microsoft decides to change it's api or use patented processes it cannot prevent oss-community from essentially getting a free lunch on microsoft's expense because it is impossible to patent something as broad as.net framework....
In the US (and in an internet perspective that's what counts) it has been proved that anything can be patented so don't hold your breath. OneClick shopping anyone?
.. They might be able to lock up some minor details but it is the concept that matters....
When they have locked a minor detail which marketing departments view as "essential", be it a nice graphical widget or whatever, they will be recomending their respective managers to switch to the MS technology that supports it.
Nobody is going to force you to use it but if it is going to increase developers productivity then why not?
See above... Maybe small projects won't be forced, but in major companies it's not the programmer who decides and he seldom has much to say. And small projects is not what MS is conserned about. They want the big bucks.
Keep repeating that to yourself until you get wrongfully busted. When someone then says that you probably belong to the huge intercept and they throw your ass in jail just wait for the goatse.cx:iation of uranus.
Yes, I went to those server once, while CodeRed was ravaging servers left and right... But all I saw on the page was some text saying something like "Hacked by Chinese" and a link to www.worm.com or something...
Even if only 1 of a 100 posts is intelligent and has a point, then it's worth it! That post/point can be taken and used against MS. It's not like we're going to post the entire thread on the upcoming site.
I replaced NT4 Workstation with OpenBSD 2.8 on a Ppro180 that was crashing at an average of 5times/week. It hasn't crashed since and it's running apache, mysql, sendmail and X sometimes.
Sorry, but it won't happen, bacause of tha fact that it is a big corp vs a person. In todays world, especially the Internet world, the odds are given. Sorry Yahoo(person)! BTW I loved his movie Young Frankestein, especially the scene where the prison chef is baking pie with live kittens! You could see them under moving under the dough!.. *lol*...
... it wasn't intended for people playing CS. I went to a school where 10 computers shared a 56kbps modem. The telneters (me and another guy) had no problems with that while the hotmail junkies got pretty annoyed at the low speed. You just have to use the available resources for relevant things... just a thought...
The FDIV error on P1's was supposed to happen like once every 5000 years or something. Of course, maybe that's on average, and *all* of the bugs were happening to you:)
*lol*.. Once in a 5000 years acordign to who?.. Intels marketroids?..;)... Maybe you can take that as once per year to 1 of 5000 users who really uses the FPU. IIRC it was Povray (could have been some other renderer - I never got much into 3D and rendering) under DOS5/Win 3.11. I Rendered first on a portable 486/SLC-25 - took forever but was ok. Then I was going to try the new cool P66:es at school. It was a _lot_ faster but the image was wrong in parts. Then I tried on a stationary 486/DX-33 and the image was fine again. I re-rendered a couple of time on the P66 and it was the same result. Some weeks later I heard about the bug so I assumed I was one of the "victims".
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that would be due to different software/drivers, as opposed to a bizarre float error that might happen to you once in a lifetime at most.
Sorry, it was the same software and the same picture that was rendered with it.:)
If you are talking about the divbug in the early Pentiums... The thing with the divbug wasn's so much that it existed (there are almost always bugs in new processors) it's more how Intel handled the situation. They kept quiet about it although they were well aware of the bugs existance and when it was discovered they tried to play it down as almost insignificant. They were not willing to replace the bad processor at the begining, which they finaly were practically forced to. For many users it didn't matter but for some it really did. I remember rendering pictures which came out allright on a 486 but had strange holes and missing shadows on some objects when rendered on a P66. I didn't know about the bug then so I was very confused...:)
j/k... those _were_ the days!.. *sighs*.. Any Swedes here remember the Compis computer based on 80186? CP/M, Comal and the goddamn best keyboard ever made (and cool looking too)!
If you look at the numbers you see 93% would buy the stuff while 6% are not sure and 1% will not buy it. The shares among these answeres doesn't reflect at all the proportions of anti linux trolls on/. - this would imply that many of the Linuz SUX/is dying trolls are indeed Linux users with nothing better to do...:-)
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Congrats you two.. :)
No, you couldn't add it if it's been copyrighted.
No and yes. They tried to extend Kerberos but failed cause it wasn't theirs to extend and it was already widely adopted. If they'd try to extend TCP/IP they'd (hopefully) fail too. But if they extend a widely supported, if not by then market dominant, standard that they own... then I think we're in deep sh*t...
In the US (and in an internet perspective that's what counts) it has been proved that anything can be patented so don't hold your breath. OneClick shopping anyone?
When they have locked a minor detail which marketing departments view as "essential", be it a nice graphical widget or whatever, they will be recomending their respective managers to switch to the MS technology that supports it.
Nobody is going to force you to use it but if it is going to increase developers productivity then why not?
See above... Maybe small projects won't be forced, but in major companies it's not the programmer who decides and he seldom has much to say. And small projects is not what MS is conserned about. They want the big bucks.
btw... I'm saving my own comment.. ;-)
shouldn't that be 10 and 10 (binary)?
What did they do?
Did they deface it?
Did they put a link to some page with naked chix on it?
Errr... Never mind...
How about softmodem or softwaremodem... duh... :)
Please cut and paste articles since the websites will die one after the other. Thnx.
Keep repeating that to yourself until you get wrongfully busted. When someone then says that you probably belong to the huge intercept and they throw your ass in jail just wait for the goatse.cx:iation of uranus.
Yes, I went to those server once, while CodeRed was ravaging servers left and right... But all I saw on the page was some text saying something like "Hacked by Chinese" and a link to www.worm.com or something...
I like the sound of it. You gotta admit that .biz doesn't sound like a legitimate bussiness.
Even if only 1 of a 100 posts is intelligent and has a point, then it's worth it! That post/point can be taken and used against MS. It's not like we're going to post the entire thread on the upcoming site.
..he's working for *cough* the man *cough*? Since so many of you are asking what it's for... ;-P
I replaced NT4 Workstation with OpenBSD 2.8 on a Ppro180 that was crashing at an average of 5times/week. It hasn't crashed since and it's running apache, mysql, sendmail and X sometimes.
Let's hope they set their "universal clock" right... Look for a short, bright light in the sky... :)
I tend to bash WinXXXX as the next slashdoter, with good reasons, but netstat exists on Win2k too... check your facts first.. :)
Get a Free MIT Education!!!!
:)
j/k...
Oops... I stand corrected... :)
Sorry, but it won't happen, bacause of tha fact that it is a big corp vs a person. In todays world, especially the Internet world, the odds are given. Sorry Yahoo(person)! BTW I loved his movie Young Frankestein, especially the scene where the prison chef is baking pie with live kittens! You could see them under moving under the dough!.. *lol*...
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... it wasn't intended for people playing CS. I went to a school where 10 computers shared a 56kbps modem. The telneters (me and another guy) had no problems with that while the hotmail junkies got pretty annoyed at the low speed. You just have to use the available resources for relevant things... just a thought...
*lol* .. Once in a 5000 years acordign to who?.. Intels marketroids?.. ;) ... Maybe you can take that as once per year to 1 of 5000 users who really uses the FPU. IIRC it was Povray (could have been some other renderer - I never got much into 3D and rendering) under DOS5/Win 3.11. I Rendered first on a portable 486/SLC-25 - took forever but was ok. Then I was going to try the new cool P66:es at school. It was a _lot_ faster but the image was wrong in parts. Then I tried on a stationary 486/DX-33 and the image was fine again. I re-rendered a couple of time on the P66 and it was the same result. Some weeks later I heard about the bug so I assumed I was one of the "victims".
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that would be due to different software/drivers, as opposed to a bizarre float error that might happen to you once in a lifetime at most.
Sorry, it was the same software and the same picture that was rendered with it. :)
If you are talking about the divbug in the early Pentiums... The thing with the divbug wasn's so much that it existed (there are almost always bugs in new processors) it's more how Intel handled the situation. They kept quiet about it although they were well aware of the bugs existance and when it was discovered they tried to play it down as almost insignificant. They were not willing to replace the bad processor at the begining, which they finaly were practically forced to. For many users it didn't matter but for some it really did. I remember rendering pictures which came out allright on a 486 but had strange holes and missing shadows on some objects when rendered on a P66. I didn't know about the bug then so I was very confused... :)
Translation please!
j/k
If you look at the numbers you see 93% would buy the stuff while 6% are not sure and 1% will not buy it. The shares among these answeres doesn't reflect at all the proportions of anti linux trolls on /. - this would imply that many of the Linuz SUX/is dying trolls are indeed Linux users with nothing better to do... :-)