On the down side, when I talk with OEMs and others about Linux pre-loads, I commonly here a "significant percentage" of these Linux pre-loaded systems usually get wiped by their customers and replaced with pirated copies of Windows -- especially in the Asian markets
so quite a lot of them, however given the amount of comments on UEFI bootloaders, that might change and those people with Linux PCs might just keep them as-is if they cannot install Windows 8 on them.
yes, but that's where this gets interesting. Much as think Java is the worst thing to happen to software in the past 2 years, if Oracle wins then whoever owns the copyright to C and Unix can happily come out of the shadows and demand licence payments for everyone who uses it - I guess that would include Linux and the BSDs, and practically every programming language since 1970, including, ironically, Java.
don't forget this is not about whether Java can be copyrighted, but the APIs of the libraries Oracle says they own. No-one is considering Java itself.
I think it becomes troublesome when you realise that the JavaME APIs were never open sourced, Sun intended to make their money off them and indeed everyone but Google has bought a licence to use them.
cyclist should realize that cars are real and will win everytime
in much the same way that car drivers realise that articulated lorries are real and will win everytime. No-one needs to remind a car drive of that. but apparently we need to remind cyclists all the time. I say if a cyclist doesn't get this, they shouldn't be allowed on the roads.
the point of putting your smartphone platform on the car's dash is that you can leverage the developer base and existing software that is already developed. The entertainment software on a car is pretty primitive compared to what you have on your phone, so there's no real reason not to put it there. If you have a problem with putting iOS on a car's dashboard, you've probably got a problem with running the existing software there anyway.
I wouldn't worry about Kernighan asking for anything.... I'd be worried that AT&T will got hold of this idea (as I believe they hold the copyrights to the c programming language)
yes it does - it uses ZFS that has some fancy replication features, especially z-pools that are like software raid. You can have a 100GB vdev on both the 100GB and 3TB drive as a mirror. Of course if you have just those 2 drives, nothing is ever going to get you full data redundancy (obviously!) but ZFS gives you a lot of flexibility to use what you do have.
I think FreeNAS (the BSD based one) is lighter and easier, as OpenFiler seems to be going in a more "fully featured" direction with less support for older hardware, but they're both good.
You don't need a common currency to have free trade - the Scandinavian countries do it quite happily at the moment.
Nor do you need an European Parliament, and Commission, to decide laws affecting each country. (note: we still don't have valid trade laws that promote common trading - VAT is still all over the place in each country for example). And note that the EC still hasn't had its accounts signed off - and the gravy train of expenses and other payments probably means we will never get open accountability from them.
Many eurosceptics want trade and integration with the rest of Europe, its just that they do not want the remarkably dodgy political establishment that we currently have there.
you're confusing a creative work that you created with open APIs. If Oracle said "anyonce can use our APIs without licence as much as they like" then things would be different. As it is, to develop for JavaME you need a licence.
Your book idea, its ok for me to write a history book referencing the same historical events (as they're public domain), but I cannot use any of your words describing them, nor can I create a history book with the same chapters, chapter headings and cover art, even if I changed all the text in the content. So whereas Oracle cannot claim any ownership of say, operations on a string class (as comparing 2 strings is a pretty standard operation) they can claim ownership of a particular string class that has the *exact* same operations, layout and method names as the one they own.
oh, if only there was a patent-free video codec available for general use instead of that horrible h.264 system that evil companies like Microsoft want to force other companies like Google to use.
oh, wait... umm. Well, at least this gives Google some ammunition to prove that they should convert all of Youtube to WebM before they get sued by, umm. errm... oh lord, it's so difficult to know which way's up in the world of IT now!
ah, but if its a case of paying royalties they can begin to deprecate Java on Android... wait a couple of iterations and then drop it completely. In the meantime they will have to pay Oracle per device but eventually they'll become royalty-free.
Maybe they could offer a Java to x converter, and hopefully make x a native code platform and everything will run much faster (even than Xamarin's claims that their C# port runs faster than Java).
They removed mono from Ubuntu 12.04, if you want Tomboy (I think that's the only package it was added for) you'll have to download it and its dependencies yourself.
you think that's bad... the current design pattern du jour for WPF is the MVVM pattern - that's Model, View, Viewmodel. (like they couldn't even come up with a good name... model, view. umm, err. I know! ViewModel!)
You know you got problems when the creator of the pattern says that the overhead involved is too great for simple projects, and the complexity is too great for large projects, and in any case you have to be really careful or you end up using massive amounts of memory in the middle bit.
So, its no good for small, large or intermediate projects then... This is Microsoft's state of the art folks and it's currently the only pattern worth knowing if you're going for a WPF/C# job. It amazes me that so many people blindly follow whatever hype comes out of Redmond sometimes.
its not so different from cnet or zdnet, and I doubt anyone (like us) really reads those. But if/. wants a special section dedicated to MBAs and CTOs, then its fine - just don't bother us with all that buzzword crap that we know better about.
Because the documentation for the other operating systems is so damn awesome. Oh wait. It isn't.
actually it is. Look at MSDN or TechNet and you'll have more information than you know what to do with. One thing you have to credit MS with is that they really have hired a boat load of technical authors and white paper writers. And the documentation is very comprehensive. Sure, some of the.NET stuff is outdated and pretty poor, but that's what happens when you churn your dev tooling so much so quickly.
Bug reporting for commercial operating systems is even worse, as in, nonexistent.
much as I hate to rain on your anti-MS parade (no, really, I like Linux, and although I'm a windows dev, I wish there was more alternatives in the world), bug reporting for commercial OS is fantastic... however, you do have to pay for it.
About 10 years ago we paid up for the 'serious' level of MS partnership, and we found a bug. Reported, MS had guys working on it for a week before it was to be escalated to the big Gates boy. Fortunately, it turned out to be a wierd way out CTO was using his COM memory as a return value, but nevertheless, they really did work on it.
Now, I think the cost was prohibitive for most organisations, and a company like RedHat would do a better job all in all, but just so you know the facts. Don't spread FUD - that's for lesser fanbois and marketing shills.
I'm not sure how many of Microsoft's or Google's or Apple's executive staff would want to move to the Bahamas
They would end up becoming 'executive president of not-being-ceo-honest' instead and some other poor schmuck would be 'promoted' to CEO and would then have to spend all his time lying around in the Bahamas doing nothing more than forwarding the mail just to make the tax dodge work.
but if their marketshare exceeds Windows Phone in a reasonable time frame, I will piss my pants laughing. I guess Nokia shareholders will piss their pants for other reasons however.
no, Oracle donated OOo to the Apache Foundation (I guess they couldn't be arsed with it once they realised they couldn't sell it and no-one liked them) so it's noow back to being properly open.
However, I don't think the world needs 2 open office suites, they should merge them together, then they can take the best of LibreOffice (the code) and the best of OpenOffice (the name).
and to think of all the people who claimed that there was nothing wrong with Hotmail security and the PCPro chap who switched to Hotmail over Google must have had his password hacked by an alternative site.....
oh well, I'm sure this is just a coincidence, right.
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RTFA dude.
On the down side, when I talk with OEMs and others about Linux pre-loads, I commonly here a "significant percentage" of these Linux pre-loaded systems usually get wiped by their customers and replaced with pirated copies of Windows -- especially in the Asian markets
so quite a lot of them, however given the amount of comments on UEFI bootloaders, that might change and those people with Linux PCs might just keep them as-is if they cannot install Windows 8 on them.
yes, but that's where this gets interesting. Much as think Java is the worst thing to happen to software in the past 2 years, if Oracle wins then whoever owns the copyright to C and Unix can happily come out of the shadows and demand licence payments for everyone who uses it - I guess that would include Linux and the BSDs, and practically every programming language since 1970, including, ironically, Java.
don't forget this is not about whether Java can be copyrighted, but the APIs of the libraries Oracle says they own. No-one is considering Java itself.
I think it becomes troublesome when you realise that the JavaME APIs were never open sourced, Sun intended to make their money off them and indeed everyone but Google has bought a licence to use them.
cyclist should realize that cars are real and will win everytime
in much the same way that car drivers realise that articulated lorries are real and will win everytime. No-one needs to remind a car drive of that. but apparently we need to remind cyclists all the time. I say if a cyclist doesn't get this, they shouldn't be allowed on the roads.
the point of putting your smartphone platform on the car's dash is that you can leverage the developer base and existing software that is already developed. The entertainment software on a car is pretty primitive compared to what you have on your phone, so there's no real reason not to put it there. If you have a problem with putting iOS on a car's dashboard, you've probably got a problem with running the existing software there anyway.
I wouldn't worry about Kernighan asking for anything.... I'd be worried that AT&T will got hold of this idea (as I believe they hold the copyrights to the c programming language)
it uses ZFS, go read up on it, it is "teh win" in filesystems.
try this post for a quick summary: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2827537&cid=39883221
yes it does - it uses ZFS that has some fancy replication features, especially z-pools that are like software raid. You can have a 100GB vdev on both the 100GB and 3TB drive as a mirror. Of course if you have just those 2 drives, nothing is ever going to get you full data redundancy (obviously!) but ZFS gives you a lot of flexibility to use what you do have.
FreeNAS or OpenFiler.
I think FreeNAS (the BSD based one) is lighter and easier, as OpenFiler seems to be going in a more "fully featured" direction with less support for older hardware, but they're both good.
You don't need a common currency to have free trade - the Scandinavian countries do it quite happily at the moment.
Nor do you need an European Parliament, and Commission, to decide laws affecting each country. (note: we still don't have valid trade laws that promote common trading - VAT is still all over the place in each country for example). And note that the EC still hasn't had its accounts signed off - and the gravy train of expenses and other payments probably means we will never get open accountability from them.
Many eurosceptics want trade and integration with the rest of Europe, its just that they do not want the remarkably dodgy political establishment that we currently have there.
you're confusing a creative work that you created with open APIs. If Oracle said "anyonce can use our APIs without licence as much as they like" then things would be different. As it is, to develop for JavaME you need a licence.
Your book idea, its ok for me to write a history book referencing the same historical events (as they're public domain), but I cannot use any of your words describing them, nor can I create a history book with the same chapters, chapter headings and cover art, even if I changed all the text in the content. So whereas Oracle cannot claim any ownership of say, operations on a string class (as comparing 2 strings is a pretty standard operation) they can claim ownership of a particular string class that has the *exact* same operations, layout and method names as the one they own.
oh, if only there was a patent-free video codec available for general use instead of that horrible h.264 system that evil companies like Microsoft want to force other companies like Google to use.
oh, wait... umm. Well, at least this gives Google some ammunition to prove that they should convert all of Youtube to WebM before they get sued by, umm. errm... oh lord, it's so difficult to know which way's up in the world of IT now!
ah, but if its a case of paying royalties they can begin to deprecate Java on Android... wait a couple of iterations and then drop it completely. In the meantime they will have to pay Oracle per device but eventually they'll become royalty-free.
Maybe they could offer a Java to x converter, and hopefully make x a native code platform and everything will run much faster (even than Xamarin's claims that their C# port runs faster than Java).
If you don't start, you never get anywhere.
They removed mono from Ubuntu 12.04, if you want Tomboy (I think that's the only package it was added for) you'll have to download it and its dependencies yourself.
you think that's bad... the current design pattern du jour for WPF is the MVVM pattern - that's Model, View, Viewmodel. (like they couldn't even come up with a good name... model, view. umm, err. I know! ViewModel!)
You know you got problems when the creator of the pattern says that the overhead involved is too great for simple projects, and the complexity is too great for large projects, and in any case you have to be really careful or you end up using massive amounts of memory in the middle bit.
So, its no good for small, large or intermediate projects then... This is Microsoft's state of the art folks and it's currently the only pattern worth knowing if you're going for a WPF/C# job. It amazes me that so many people blindly follow whatever hype comes out of Redmond sometimes.
oh dear. Alan Kay is going to be very, very rich indeed.
I doubt it's going to be that bad, unless you copy the entire API as-is, can't you get away with a fair-use defence?
Or the only languages that will matter are those released under the GPL.
Or maybe Google could just claim Dalvik was a parody of Java :)
its not so different from cnet or zdnet, and I doubt anyone (like us) really reads those. But if /. wants a special section dedicated to MBAs and CTOs, then its fine - just don't bother us with all that buzzword crap that we know better about.
Because the documentation for the other operating systems is so damn awesome. Oh wait. It isn't.
actually it is. Look at MSDN or TechNet and you'll have more information than you know what to do with. One thing you have to credit MS with is that they really have hired a boat load of technical authors and white paper writers. And the documentation .NET stuff is outdated and pretty poor, but that's what happens when you churn your dev tooling so much so quickly.
is very comprehensive. Sure, some of the
Then she slams Linux servers, which are so unstable they run half the Internet
no, Linux servers run 75% of the internet.
So perhaps the header should be "When will it be the year of Windows in the datacentre?". We need more Sharepoint!
Bug reporting for commercial operating systems is even worse, as in, nonexistent.
much as I hate to rain on your anti-MS parade (no, really, I like Linux, and although I'm a windows dev, I wish there was more alternatives in the world), bug reporting for commercial OS is fantastic... however, you do have to pay for it.
About 10 years ago we paid up for the 'serious' level of MS partnership, and we found a bug. Reported, MS had guys working on it for a week before it was to be escalated to the big Gates boy. Fortunately, it turned out to be a wierd way out CTO was using his COM memory as a return value, but nevertheless, they really did work on it.
Now, I think the cost was prohibitive for most organisations, and a company like RedHat would do a better job all in all, but just so you know the facts. Don't spread FUD - that's for lesser fanbois and marketing shills.
I'm not sure how many of Microsoft's or Google's or Apple's executive staff would want to move to the Bahamas
They would end up becoming 'executive president of not-being-ceo-honest' instead and some other poor schmuck would be 'promoted' to CEO and would then have to spend all his time lying around in the Bahamas doing nothing more than forwarding the mail just to make the tax dodge work.
Where do I sign up?!!?!
but if their marketshare exceeds Windows Phone in a reasonable time frame, I will piss my pants laughing. I guess Nokia shareholders will piss their pants for other reasons however.
more importantly, will Microsoft go out of their way and build an OS that works on this architecture?
Chances are there will be a GCC update within weeks and recompiled Linux a month after that.
no, Oracle donated OOo to the Apache Foundation (I guess they couldn't be arsed with it once they realised they couldn't sell it and no-one liked them) so it's noow back to being properly open.
However, I don't think the world needs 2 open office suites, they should merge them together, then they can take the best of LibreOffice (the code) and the best of OpenOffice (the name).
and to think of all the people who claimed that there was nothing wrong with Hotmail security and the PCPro chap who switched to Hotmail over Google must have had his password hacked by an alternative site.....
oh well, I'm sure this is just a coincidence, right.