>>Especially the primitive types should be removed.
There are many instances, such as streaming data I/O, that make this a very bad idea. Objects also take up alot more memory than primitive types. This larger memory requirement also effects speed as the computer has to manipulate larger amounts of memory.
OpenOffice is not under the GPL but rather a dual license. From OpenOffice License FAQ:
1. Which license does the OpenOffice.org project use?
OpenOffice.org uses a dual license strategy for the source code. These licenses are the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).
The LGPL license is not the stumbling block but rather the SISSL. It starts sounding like Mozilla's MPL until you read into it.
>>Transgaming already did it. I'll just wait for them to release their source code.
Why would Transgaming release thier proprietary WineX code? Why would anyone think this? Is there some confusion in people wondering if Transgamings WineX is open source?
ZDNet IS very pro Microsoft. They host the largest majority of Microsoft Certified morons anywhere that I know of in ZDNet's crappy Talkback section. Its actually humorous to read at times just HOW confused these individuals really are.
Transgaming is trying to look nice and open, but they're not. If they want to keep things closed, that's fine.
I agree. Transgaming is pulling alot of bull. If they are developing a closed source service based solution to play games on Linux: then say so. If I want it Ill buy it.
A good example: OpenOffice. Its open right? Yeah, you can make code changes but it has Sun moderators running everything. If you duplicate a function in StarOffice and try to implement it into OpenOffice (ie grammar checker) it will be refused.
>>but don't have any illusions about it taking many desktops (corporate or otherwise) from Microsoft.
KDE and Gnome are making increased progress. With Microsoft's subscription policies and heavy cost Im sure businesses will look at these in the future. I must stress future because I agree that neither desktop is ready for the big time.
>>Apple, on the other hand, could tear a huge chunk out of Microsoft's (Windows) market share
I agree 100%. Apple needs to get its snobby head out of its rear and try to move away from trying so hard to be a niche market. To do this, Apple needs to be less interested in pushing hardware and go more for pushing its very well designed OS. I would purchase OS/X for my computer if it could run on an Intel.
Go to www.javasoft.com. On the right hand side you will see a white arrow on blue background that states:"Download J2SE v1.4 Now" on the right. Click on that.
>> Tv is also controlled by americans, and I've seen my local canadian television go downhill when faced against the behemoth of american corporate television.
Note for all people outside the U.S. (in particular Canadians): Emulation is not the real thing. Strike a fresh note and go original. Stop trying to emulate U.S. television. You only come off as a wannabe.
The United States does not purposely use television as a vechile to push American views outside it's borders. They also probably do not own or run your countries television. Typically, foreign companies purchase American programming because its cheaper than creating it from scratch.
>> Why would anyone want to PAY to watch disney, or NBC, or warner?
Because they are entertaining.
>> When we watch tv we are wasting time when we could be doing something productive
Old argument against television. It will never happen.
>> Kids are being brainwashed and having their brains rot from imported japanese tv such as pokemon, which are basically hallucinogenic sessions.
Japan does not have the big bucks of American television programming or movies. THEY did something original and used Anime to fill the void of original Japanese television. Pokemon is not the only Japanese success in this field to affect foreign markets: Digimon, Sailor Moon, and Dragonball Z are good examples.
Several other idiots posted "first post" before you. Spend some time and write postings to the topic. There is no prize for first geek across the posting line.
I use Windows XP and read Slashdot using Internet Explorer. For fun I post to newsgroups in HTML format.;)
To not be offtopic, I find this users Mozilla problems rather troubling. I would hate to believe that RC2 would have such problems after the rather stable RC1. Maybe its a build issue.
>>send in your authorized Windows media and key with a purchase of Red Hat Linux
Could RedHat then sell out the copies of Windows media sent in back out to the commercial market? Say sell Windows XP to people for $10? Im sure there is some legalalities blocking such actions.
>> The states say the can do something, and then say they're not going to?
Im guessing more that the judge was approached by the states with this demo and Microsoft cried to high heaven that they were blind sided by it and needed time to come up with a defense. Microsoft asked for more time from the judge to prepare a defense.
The states bringing it foward and forcing Microsoft to react was enough. They proved thier point.
Grub also has the capability to hide partitions. And although it could be said you have to configure it to do this, there is nothing stopping a Linux distro from setting a box to use grub and hide all linux partitions from windows partitions.
I will agree that grub is better than lilo. But lilo is much easier to install and setup. I have to keep a Linux boot disk handy in case Windows XP on my box takes a nose dive, forcing me to reinstall it, thus overwrite the MBR and grub. What a pain.
I agree. I have seen this too many times where AOL users have no clue that they could use a different browser after they make their initial connection to AOL's ISP server.
This is not a bad thing really. It may pain us, people who use computers constantly, to have to know there are people who know very little about computers and still use them. But, within time newbie's can become super geeks too.
For regular apps written in Java needing security use the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS). JAAS has a pluggable security model (modelled off of PAM) and already has a plugin for Kerberos authenication and authorization.
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That will not work if the code you write to check the version ever becomes incompatible with the jvm you launch it with.
>>Especially the primitive types should be removed.
There are many instances, such as streaming data I/O, that make this a very bad idea. Objects also take up alot more memory than primitive types. This larger memory requirement also effects speed as the computer has to manipulate larger amounts of memory.
I just looked at the most recent docs for hypersonic. It appears it can to inner queries.
>>inner queries
Last time I looked MySQL did not support inner queries either.
I have no idea what you mean by "real big joins". What limition on Hypersonic's join capability are you trying to describe?
And even though Hypersonic can be used for embedded it is not limited to that. It can run as a standalone server.
There are plenty of databases out there.
".NET is finding a sweet spot for programmed user interfaces, while J2EE continues to enjoy its sweet spot for server-side applications."
So its just business as usual?
".NET is finding a sweet spot for programmed user interfaces, while J2EE continues to enjoy its sweet spot for server-side applications."
So its basically business as usual?
OpenOffice is not under the GPL but rather a dual license. From OpenOffice License FAQ:
1. Which license does the OpenOffice.org project use?
OpenOffice.org uses a dual license strategy for the source code. These licenses are the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).
The LGPL license is not the stumbling block but rather the SISSL. It starts sounding like Mozilla's MPL until you read into it.
>>Transgaming already did it. I'll just wait for them to release their source code.
Why would Transgaming release thier proprietary WineX code? Why would anyone think this? Is there some confusion in people wondering if Transgamings WineX is open source?
ZDNet IS very pro Microsoft. They host the largest majority of Microsoft Certified morons anywhere that I know of in ZDNet's crappy Talkback section. Its actually humorous to read at times just HOW confused these individuals really are.
Transgaming is trying to look nice and open, but they're not. If they want to keep things closed, that's fine.
I agree. Transgaming is pulling alot of bull. If they are developing a closed source service based solution to play games on Linux: then say so. If I want it Ill buy it.
A good example: OpenOffice. Its open right? Yeah, you can make code changes but it has Sun moderators running everything. If you duplicate a function in StarOffice and try to implement it into OpenOffice (ie grammar checker) it will be refused.
>>but don't have any illusions about it taking many desktops (corporate or otherwise) from Microsoft.
KDE and Gnome are making increased progress. With Microsoft's subscription policies and heavy cost Im sure businesses will look at these in the future. I must stress future because I agree that neither desktop is ready for the big time.
>>Apple, on the other hand, could tear a huge chunk out of Microsoft's (Windows) market share
I agree 100%. Apple needs to get its snobby head out of its rear and try to move away from trying so hard to be a niche market. To do this, Apple needs to be less interested in pushing hardware and go more for pushing its very well designed OS. I would purchase OS/X for my computer if it could run on an Intel.
Go to www.javasoft.com. On the right hand side you will see a white arrow on blue background that states:"Download J2SE v1.4 Now" on the right. Click on that.
Oh, the new improved mouse trap. We wait ever so eagerly....
>> Tv is also controlled by americans, and I've seen my local canadian television go downhill when faced against the behemoth of american corporate television.
Note for all people outside the U.S. (in particular Canadians): Emulation is not the real thing. Strike a fresh note and go original. Stop trying to emulate U.S. television. You only come off as a wannabe.
The United States does not purposely use television as a vechile to push American views outside it's borders. They also probably do not own or run your countries television. Typically, foreign companies purchase American programming because its cheaper than creating it from scratch.
>> Why would anyone want to PAY to watch disney, or NBC, or warner?
Because they are entertaining.
>> When we watch tv we are wasting time when we could be doing something productive
Old argument against television. It will never happen.
>> Kids are being brainwashed and having their brains rot from imported japanese tv such as pokemon, which are basically hallucinogenic sessions.
Japan does not have the big bucks of American television programming or movies. THEY did something original and used Anime to fill the void of original Japanese television. Pokemon is not the only Japanese success in this field to affect foreign markets: Digimon, Sailor Moon, and Dragonball Z are good examples.
Im curious if Verisign can be spoofed similiarly. This would mean I could get a certificate that says "www.microsoft.com". The evil I could do....
You were not first. You lose. How about writing something that relates to topics in the future.
Several other idiots posted "first post" before you. Spend some time and write postings to the topic. There is no prize for first geek across the posting line.
I use Windows XP and read Slashdot using Internet Explorer. For fun I post to newsgroups in HTML format. ;)
To not be offtopic, I find this users Mozilla problems rather troubling. I would hate to believe that RC2 would have such problems after the rather stable RC1. Maybe its a build issue.
>>send in your authorized Windows media and key with a purchase of Red Hat Linux
Could RedHat then sell out the copies of Windows media sent in back out to the commercial market? Say sell Windows XP to people for $10? Im sure there is some legalalities blocking such actions.
>> The states say the can do something, and then say they're not going to?
Im guessing more that the judge was approached by the states with this demo and Microsoft cried to high heaven that they were blind sided by it and needed time to come up with a defense. Microsoft asked for more time from the judge to prepare a defense.
The states bringing it foward and forcing Microsoft to react was enough. They proved thier point.
Im guessing the person is talking about Active Server Pages? But how removing them (IIS?) and installing Linux instead makes no sense.
If the MBR gets wiped
Not wiped but rather overwritten by XP. Both grub and lilo can overwrite XP in turn but lilo requires less knowledge to accomplish this.
Grub also has the capability to hide partitions. And although it could be said you have to configure it to do this, there is nothing stopping a Linux distro from setting a box to use grub and hide all linux partitions from windows partitions.
I will agree that grub is better than lilo. But lilo is much easier to install and setup. I have to keep a Linux boot disk handy in case Windows XP on my box takes a nose dive, forcing me to reinstall it, thus overwrite the MBR and grub. What a pain.
I agree. I have seen this too many times where AOL users have no clue that they could use a different browser after they make their initial connection to AOL's ISP server.
This is not a bad thing really. It may pain us, people who use computers constantly, to have to know there are people who know very little about computers and still use them. But, within time newbie's can become super geeks too.
Kerberos is good.
For regular apps written in Java needing security use the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS). JAAS has a pluggable security model (modelled off of PAM) and already has a plugin for Kerberos authenication and authorization.