The problem is that real-time issues aren't necessarily limited to a "get there before it's too late" scenario. In many real-time scenarios you have to comply with a timing "window" where being early is just as bad as being late. Imagine how bad music would sound if the time between notes were merely guaranteed to not exceed a certain maximum.
In any case, PC's are a bad platform for software-based real-time unless you can turn off things like caches that introduce unpredictable delays.
There's a big difference between making it difficult to use the old technologies and not retrofitting old technologies with new features.
Standard.NET graphics still go through the same Win32 calls that have been around for years. It's WPF applications that bypass Win32 and use DirectX instead (of course, you can still use DirectX without.NET).
Actually, I don't see IBM smashing SCO is good PR outside of the Linux community. Sounds more like the actions of a predatory monopoly to the casual observer.
"Seems to me SCO was a fly speck compared to who they were suing, yet they still managed to cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to their opponents when all they were holding was a few pieces of boilerplate code that are probably in a million other C source files that have nothing to do with operating systems."
The plural of "copyright infringement" isn't "public domain". AT&T should be thanked for hiring lawyers that fucked up their intellectual properties. Did those guys end up at IBM and helped them negotiate the deal with Microsoft?
These add-ons or plug-ins (whatever the hell they are) are there to allow FireFox to take advantage of.Net features. If they didn't exist people would be complaining the MS was trying to lock-out Firefox by only supporting.Net in IE.
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Everybody leaves the Ark and Moses addresses the animals "Go forth and multiply".
So all the animals go into the forest, but Moses notices two snakes that haven't moved.
"Why don't you go and multiply?", He asks.
One of the snakes answers "We can't, we're Adders!".
So Moses and his sons chop down one of the trees and form it into a rough-hewn table.
He addresses the snakes and says "Here is your log table, now go forth and multiply".
If you come to a MySQL fork in the road, take it proprietary.
Sure, you could just have a really long neck.
"I've come while embracing transsexuals?"
"I already have a working hand for that, thank you though."
Yes, but it's a lot easier to hold the magazine with two hands.
No, it's a hand.
Just another company claiming rights over something Xerox invented. Thank God Xerox didn't invent MP3 players.
Here in CA I saw Windows 7 desktop machines in Walmart on Saturday. 64-bit with 6MB of RAM for $398, sitting on the shelf ready to be purchased.
The problem is that real-time issues aren't necessarily limited to a "get there before it's too late" scenario. In many real-time scenarios you have to comply with a timing "window" where being early is just as bad as being late. Imagine how bad music would sound if the time between notes were merely guaranteed to not exceed a certain maximum.
In any case, PC's are a bad platform for software-based real-time unless you can turn off things like caches that introduce unpredictable delays.
If you have a point, please make it.
Hey, the AC said nobody looks at the documents. If you don't trust him maybe his whole story was made up.
"Now no one ever looks at those documents."
So either there's nothing of importance in the documents or the workers aren't doing their job anymore.
There's a big difference between making it difficult to use the old technologies and not retrofitting old technologies with new features.
Standard .NET graphics still go through the same Win32 calls that have been around for years. It's WPF applications that bypass Win32 and use DirectX instead (of course, you can still use DirectX without .NET).
Actually, I don't see IBM smashing SCO is good PR outside of the Linux community. Sounds more like the actions of a predatory monopoly to the casual observer.
"They have a policy of defending against bogus IP suits"
And most probably a policy of defending against legitimate IP suits as well, don't you think?
"Did anyone even pay a professional to track down Darl?"
That depends on where you stand on the issue of who develops FOSS, basement-dwellers or paid professionals?
"He probably is the most hated man in technology."
I'll bet most technical folks not involved with Linux never heard of the guy.
Does Slashdot have the ability to mod an entire branch Off-Topic?
Have any other SCO stockholders had a marriage or bar mitzvah we should know about?
"Seems to me SCO was a fly speck compared to who they were suing, yet they still managed to cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to their opponents when all they were holding was a few pieces of boilerplate code that are probably in a million other C source files that have nothing to do with operating systems."
The plural of "copyright infringement" isn't "public domain". AT&T should be thanked for hiring lawyers that fucked up their intellectual properties. Did those guys end up at IBM and helped them negotiate the deal with Microsoft?
That's got to be IBM, right? Oh, IBM is the "Big Blue House", I forgot. Sorry, Bear.
If you're really interested, you could go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716877.aspx and read about it.
Somebody on Slashdot didn't use their real name!
"You are probably the only person on slashdot NOT running linux."
I doubt that is true, but if it is there must be a lot of busybodies on Slashdot complaining about an add-in for an OS they don't use.
These add-ons or plug-ins (whatever the hell they are) are there to allow FireFox to take advantage of .Net features. If they didn't exist people would be complaining the MS was trying to lock-out Firefox by only supporting .Net in IE.
"MS forced everybody to adopt it by simply dropping support for all other development technologies."
No. You can still use the Win32 API, MFC, ATL, WMI, vbscript, jscript etc.