It is you, sir, that your comment shoudl be directed to. Indeed, sir your own half-cocked reply should have been tempered with the perusal of The Fellatious Article, as so noble and well-informedly as the gentleman referenced at the top was when he posted this: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=604653&cid=24065483
(just read the link 'cos the summary's b*ll*cks as usual).
We're a bit stuffed then, whilst zinc is a nice-to-have with electronic stuff, its reasonably important for the well being of humans. Is the story scaremongering, or are we all doomed?
They use an extremely agile processes of basically "just code the shit" and it works for them
I think this is something everyone has missed. So what if they have a chaotic structure, no process, no managers, no testers and little pixies come in every night to add code comments. If it works for them, then good for them. God knows how they do it (probably the pixies) but as they *are* getting stuff done, you can't say its bad.
I know it wouldn't work here. I don't know if that's because of us, our customer base, or our products, but it really doesn't matter one fig.
By that consideration, OOXML would be the perfect standard for document interchange, but no-one agrees. I'm unsure why that standard would be bad, but the CLR standard is ok.
See, I've been around for long enough to remember Microsoft's other attempts at sharing. Its never quite good enough. To the point where you can say its just marketing exercise to show "this is what you can do on your system, but you can do all that *and much more* on windows". I don't know if these attempts in the past were abortive because that was the intent or because they didn't get enough support.
I don't think they'll shut down the Mono project, but I know it'll never be as good as the equivalent on Windows.
You're talking about home users (whom I've found more likely to download ubuntu and try it out!) What we need is for businesses to consider migrating, and business users are very conservative. If their "essential" apps worked on Linux, that'd be enough of a feature to get them to at least try it.
The alternative, is as you say, to continue as always.
And perhaps this is why Linux is not so prevalent on the desktop, and why it never will be.
not trying to Troll, its a fair point - what do most people want. If most people want what Windows offers, and Linux doesn't, then Windows wins for them and Linux remains a niche product for the minority.
Now, if Linux offered something like Wine as a default option, that they could easily run their apps on Linux, you'd see a massive surge to the number of people switching. If Wine isn't stable enough, then that's an issue that needs addressing though I'd hope that with version 1 out now, this wouldn't be a problem.
a bit like SELinux, you get ACLs with that don't you (I'm showing my ignorance on the subject here). This is something that could be installed but generally isn't because it breaks existing apps' assumptions.
Windows in Vista added a few more ACEs, and decided that 'administrator' isn't the same as 'administrator' (run as admin and try and take ownership of some system files - you'll get access denied). Its all gone a bit wonky as they put stupid answers to try and fix things that weren't software engineering problems in the first place.
the NT Executive was never a problem. In fact, it's a piece of software engineering beauty. What makes Windows utterly awful is the shite Win32 userspace on top of that gorgeous kernel.
True, unfortunately we now have the situation where we have NT kernel, then the Win32 userspace on top of that, then the shite.NET framework on top of that. (I'm sure people think the.net class libraries are beautiful, elegant and well-engineered. That's only because Visual Studio writes most of their code for them).
Reading some older MSDN blogs about.NET I'm amazed how poor it is (especially see Chris Brumme's excellent weblog). Don't expect MS to make it good, don't expect that it can run on top of anything other than Win32.
(actually, Win32 isn't that bad for a C API. Now the IE4 shell extensions and stuff like that hacked in from other divisions of MS, now they are the epitome of horror)
that's *if* your code is designed for 2 cores in the first place. In such cases, you'd expect it to scale to 4 quite happily (I always use the 80% rule here - 1 core, you get 100% relative performance, 2 cores you get 180% perf, etc).
The problem is that most code is designed for 1 core. Making it work for 2 is a paradigm shift for most developers.
remember that MS has just embraced.NET and with it the mantra "memory is cheap". So even though the world is moving towards lower-resource systems (especially power), Vista is stuck in last years attitude of "use more for more features (that no-one really wants)".
I am a MS developer for years, since NT came along and blew the hideously expensive Unix workstations away. I've been in love with their dev tools and documentation, but not any more. I feel the lock-in of C# now (yes, and I remember MS's "interoperability" programmes for years back, none of which were designed to do anything but act as marketing for non-crippled "do it on windows instead").
I think the passing of Gates will be seen as a turning point for MS. Media analysts are asking "where now for MS", the world is asking for the opposite of Vista, the DoJ is making sure all the dots are slashed at MS now, Linux is making inroads (slowly) everywhere you look.
MS only hope is developer lock-in with.NET, to ensure that Windows has a future because of all the 3rd party software that is written for it means businesses cannot live without it, or cannot get the same software on Linux.
That's the way things go - the world moves on no matter how big you used to be.
and if you use pageant, password is a one-time affair. However, if he's using a closed-lan system, then he could use a passwordless key so he can SSH on just by clicking a link.
- If all required Diablo 2 '.MPQ' files are installed on the
hard drive, the game will no longer require the CD to play.
For users that originally performed a 'Full Installation'
and wish to run without the CD, all '.MPQ' files should
be copied from the Diablo 2 CDs to the Diablo 2 directory.
Most users will only need to copy D2Music.mpq from the
Diablo 2 Play CD and/or D2xMusic.mpq from the Lord of
Destruction CD. Mac users will need to copy these music
files and rename them to 'Diablo II Music' and
'Diablo II Expansion Music' respectively.
Anyone who did not perform a 'Full Installation' will need
to re-install from CD again to ultimately play without the CD.
In this case, a 'Full Installation' is required, followed by file
copy step noted above.
nice of them to think about letting us play these old games like this.
This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!
Century 12, Quatrain 5 says:
Gore, of old, would tell that six is all on the day the silver tubes stopped passing; terrible anguish would ensue as tube of you could not be contacted.
the joke, really, is that Java is used to power the systems in a lot of eCommerce sites (think eBay or Amazon) and Publishing (if you consider some of the big online media sites to be publishing).
So is it a joke, or is it a serious comment, which is it? Is it true, or is it false?:-)
but I wish MS would be a little more careful about how much they bake windows into everything. But if they didn't bake so much Win32 into it, there wouldn't be any reason to use MS Windows... see where I'm going with this?
I read that part as "why would I have to reboot right this instant" when he says "Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?".
A better example would be to ask 100 random people what Visio does, probably less than half could tell you. and ask anyone you like what Biztalk does....:-)
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It is you, sir, that your comment shoudl be directed to. Indeed, sir your own half-cocked reply should have been tempered with the perusal of The Fellatious Article, as so noble and well-informedly as the gentleman referenced at the top was when he posted this: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=604653&cid=24065483
(just read the link 'cos the summary's b*ll*cks as usual).
gorgeous fembots with a penchant for evil.
and this is a bad thing? "Hey girls, I'm evil, over here, yep, come to bad daddy" :-)
now, imagine a beowulf cluster of .. oh never mind.
There SHOULD be a "glass ceiling" for Marketing and Sales guys.
don't forget the glass floor and sides to go with that. And a heavy weight. Some rope. And a deep stretch of water. :-)
Yeah. We need to make ships out of something else.. has anyone tried wood?
We're a bit stuffed then, whilst zinc is a nice-to-have with electronic stuff, its reasonably important for the well being of humans. Is the story scaremongering, or are we all doomed?
They use an extremely agile processes of basically "just code the shit" and it works for them
I think this is something everyone has missed. So what if they have a chaotic structure, no process, no managers, no testers and little pixies come in every night to add code comments. If it works for them, then good for them. God knows how they do it (probably the pixies) but as they *are* getting stuff done, you can't say its bad.
I know it wouldn't work here. I don't know if that's because of us, our customer base, or our products, but it really doesn't matter one fig.
Perhaps they're all ex-opensource developers and so don't know what this "version 1.0" thing you refer to is.
By that consideration, OOXML would be the perfect standard for document interchange, but no-one agrees. I'm unsure why that standard would be bad, but the CLR standard is ok.
See, I've been around for long enough to remember Microsoft's other attempts at sharing. Its never quite good enough. To the point where you can say its just marketing exercise to show "this is what you can do on your system, but you can do all that *and much more* on windows". I don't know if these attempts in the past were abortive because that was the intent or because they didn't get enough support.
I don't think they'll shut down the Mono project, but I know it'll never be as good as the equivalent on Windows.
You're talking about home users (whom I've found more likely to download ubuntu and try it out!)
What we need is for businesses to consider migrating, and business users are very conservative. If their "essential" apps worked on Linux, that'd be enough of a feature to get them to at least try it.
The alternative, is as you say, to continue as always.
they mean: so the investment Microsoft made will start to pay off. They don't give a damn about you.
Most Linux users though are not most people
And perhaps this is why Linux is not so prevalent on the desktop, and why it never will be.
not trying to Troll, its a fair point - what do most people want. If most people want what Windows offers, and Linux doesn't, then Windows wins for them and Linux remains a niche product for the minority.
Now, if Linux offered something like Wine as a default option, that they could easily run their apps on Linux, you'd see a massive surge to the number of people switching. If Wine isn't stable enough, then that's an issue that needs addressing though I'd hope that with version 1 out now, this wouldn't be a problem.
a bit like SELinux, you get ACLs with that don't you (I'm showing my ignorance on the subject here). This is something that could be installed but generally isn't because it breaks existing apps' assumptions.
Windows in Vista added a few more ACEs, and decided that 'administrator' isn't the same as 'administrator' (run as admin and try and take ownership of some system files - you'll get access denied). Its all gone a bit wonky as they put stupid answers to try and fix things that weren't software engineering problems in the first place.
the NT Executive was never a problem. In fact, it's a piece of software engineering beauty. What makes Windows utterly awful is the shite Win32 userspace on top of that gorgeous kernel.
True, unfortunately we now have the situation where we have NT kernel, then the Win32 userspace on top of that, then the shite .NET framework on top of that. (I'm sure people think the .net class libraries are beautiful, elegant and well-engineered. That's only because Visual Studio writes most of their code for them).
Reading some older MSDN blogs about .NET I'm amazed how poor it is (especially see Chris Brumme's excellent weblog). Don't expect MS to make it good, don't expect that it can run on top of anything other than Win32.
(actually, Win32 isn't that bad for a C API. Now the IE4 shell extensions and stuff like that hacked in from other divisions of MS, now they are the epitome of horror)
that's *if* your code is designed for 2 cores in the first place. In such cases, you'd expect it to scale to 4 quite happily (I always use the 80% rule here - 1 core, you get 100% relative performance, 2 cores you get 180% perf, etc).
The problem is that most code is designed for 1 core. Making it work for 2 is a paradigm shift for most developers.
remember that MS has just embraced .NET and with it the mantra "memory is cheap". So even though the world is moving towards lower-resource systems (especially power), Vista is stuck in last years attitude of "use more for more features (that no-one really wants)".
I am a MS developer for years, since NT came along and blew the hideously expensive Unix workstations away. I've been in love with their dev tools and documentation, but not any more. I feel the lock-in of C# now (yes, and I remember MS's "interoperability" programmes for years back, none of which were designed to do anything but act as marketing for non-crippled "do it on windows instead").
I think the passing of Gates will be seen as a turning point for MS. Media analysts are asking "where now for MS", the world is asking for the opposite of Vista, the DoJ is making sure all the dots are slashed at MS now, Linux is making inroads (slowly) everywhere you look.
MS only hope is developer lock-in with .NET, to ensure that Windows has a future because of all the 3rd party software that is written for it means businesses cannot live without it, or cannot get the same software on Linux.
That's the way things go - the world moves on no matter how big you used to be.
and if you use pageant, password is a one-time affair. However, if he's using a closed-lan system, then he could use a passwordless key so he can SSH on just by clicking a link.
Just browsing, and look what I found:
- Patch 1.12
Downloadable Installer Support
- If all required Diablo 2 '.MPQ' files are installed on the
hard drive, the game will no longer require the CD to play.
For users that originally performed a 'Full Installation'
and wish to run without the CD, all '.MPQ' files should
be copied from the Diablo 2 CDs to the Diablo 2 directory.
Most users will only need to copy D2Music.mpq from the
Diablo 2 Play CD and/or D2xMusic.mpq from the Lord of
Destruction CD. Mac users will need to copy these music
files and rename them to 'Diablo II Music' and
'Diablo II Expansion Music' respectively.
Anyone who did not perform a 'Full Installation' will need
to re-install from CD again to ultimately play without the CD.
In this case, a 'Full Installation' is required, followed by file
copy step noted above.
nice of them to think about letting us play these old games like this.
This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!
Century 12, Quatrain 5 says:
Gore, of old, would tell that six is all
on the day the silver tubes stopped passing;
terrible anguish would ensue
as tube of you could not be contacted.
See. We're doomed.
I didn't repeat anything. Check the times dude.
the joke, really, is that Java is used to power the systems in a lot of eCommerce sites (think eBay or Amazon) and Publishing (if you consider some of the big online media sites to be publishing).
So is it a joke, or is it a serious comment, which is it? Is it true, or is it false? :-)
Everyone knows Java is in heavy use in various industries
particularly Publishing and eCommerce :-)
I read that part as "why would I have to reboot right this instant" when he says "Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?".