Except the time that I had an Office2003 beta,
and wanted to revert to a OfficeXP, and
discovered that there was no love comin' from
that godforsaken.pst file.
Then I moved to Mozilla, whose lovely mail
mail client can be configured to point to a Fat32
partition, which will then be visible when
I boot RH9. Breath deep and inhale the freedom.
Aside:/. looks a little wierd under lynx.
Coudn't disagree more. Their strategic goal is always profit, but that may be obscured by tactical goals, e.g. market share.
I submit that a commonplace, bad assumption in statements like
Not always is their goal to make a profit, but rather market share...
is that there is only one goal driver at a time. Such thinking rarely models the real situation. Hope this doesn't sound a flame.;)
I would carry your analysis a step further and note that chip and drive manufacturers don't make money by downgrading their product. I daresay they've a statistical model that has them doing enough sampling to maximize profit, and the means minimizing the amount of irritated customers calling in about problems.
This is not like highway engineering, where they have to figure in weather, vehicles, and Aunt Tillie before posting a speed sign for a curve, so they lowball it heavily.
True enough, assuming a spurious lawsuit.
However, if you had tremendous amounts of R&D money invested, and someone else was turning your effort into market share and killing you, you might fail to detect humor in the situation.
I think your anecdote just gets at the fundamental market segmentation that most slashdotters ignore.
Most users in the broader public really do want just the crayonware interface.
The minority that actually dig reading the source and compiling for themselves are, tragically, a minority. Alas.
The allusion to the story is made from an external, no internal, viewpoint.
Best quote in the article:
Linux is "going to force Microsoft to spend more time on security and stability, and less time on adding new features. That probably has the effect of slowing revenue growth."
Am I the only one who finds MS's newer crayonware interfaces a colossal PITA? You've got everything pretty much set with an unprivileged account. You need to change something, so you log out and log in as administrator, and you've got asinine little bubbles popping up telling you obvious stuff "New Applications Installed" or something, right over the logout button. You have to wait for the OS to get done wasting your time, so you can get back to slashd^H^H^H^H^Hwork.
The good news is that, for a small further waste of your time, you can usually dig around and restore the OS to the classic mode you already understand.
One can see, through the salesman's eye, the importance of pseudofeaturitis, as a means of convincing the customer that there's some 'there' there when we advertise the new version.
The technical eye still wants to know why a commentable, versionable, plain text configuration file isn't a better solution.
Maybe someone in Redmond will read this.
Uhh, the grammar nazi would like to point out that you took a noun, the individual copy, and type-cast it to a verb, 'to copy'.
The rest of your arguments hinge on whether or not not you throw a read-time error at that point.
IANAL, but if I was, and across the table, this is where I would start.
Adding my $0.02 to yours.
Or, like me, you take a look at Perl, say, 'Great ideas, but rather colloquial; I wonder if Perl6 will tidy that up?' and just enjoy the summaries over on O'Reilly.
A similar diatribe to ESR's could be written on trying to burn a backup DVD under RH9. Gave up; I just FTP my backup over to my Lose2003 box, where the driver worky-worky.
Yeah, I dunno about that baseless attack. Committed as they are to EULA euthenasia, I would be kinda surprised. The backlash over the hypocrisy of thugging GPL code, compiling, and selling it would likely chop the arms right off MS. But, as Axl Rose noted, when your arms get shorter, your pockets get deeper, right?
Before I rant, let me just shout out to the dudes doing that excellent work over at Jakarta. Jakarta, Indonesia may be rather hellish (at least it was last time I went there, in '97), but j00 guys are teh 5hizn17. Tomcat is everthing IIS wants to be when it grows up, though I haven't looked at the.Net version, so maybe it has been drinking milk.
Now: rant. It just blows me away how thoroghly the 'write once, run everywhere' ideology has been crushed by these competing GUI libraries.
As somebody who is relatively new to the scene, about to do a school project, I'd like to throw a loud WTF? to the java community.
While it's cool that everyone has room to express themselves in Open Source, keep in mind that your fragmentation, across the board, helps darn few outside the Monopolistic Satrap in Redmond. I have no guess as to which one is the optimal choice for the front end of my project. Probably just shag it all and do a straight web front end.
Next time you have an "I'll re-invent this wheel; I can make it rounder! A rational pi!" moment, contribute to an existing project instead.
Thankee.
Aw, c'mon now, props to Larry Wall and the fellas.
Perl pushed the envelope on language design. Later efforts may have been less ideosyncratic, e.g. python, but, hey.
Perl6, if you've been following the summaries, P6 will raise the bar yet again.
I just wonder if this parrot chassis underneath will permit something as groovy as Boost.Python.
A leiomyosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor consisting of smooth muscle cells and small cell sarcoma tumor.
ref
A less than flattering release name.
Thought it might have meant "cancer of my flower necklace" or something.
What of the programmability? The killer feature of MS Office isn't the applications themselves, but VBA.
just wanted to make this statement. php has still a long way to go to make it to the real enterprise market where perl and java are already ready. the new version of php doesn't include any major necessary components to achieve the raise to real enterprise developement market.
Possibly PHP targets a different market. *HP did originally mean Home Pages, IIRC.
Thus, PHP may be positioning itself to support individual efforts, or prototyping for the enterprise market. Not nececcesarily a Bad Thing, more of a Why Bother thing.
I, for one, yawn at Yet Another Tool For Which Plenty of Other Solutions Exist. I submit that, over time, the market is going to weed out the tools, and the ones that last will have compelling mixes of licensing, speed, and capability.
What good was gained from doing this? What benifit is there?
This whole affair is going to have one effect similar to that of major virus upgrades: it will scare the recalcitrant to upgrade.
Deliberately falling short of carrying that analysis any further...
They're not just for tracking stuff. They can track you too.
No kidding. Life takes on a similarity to the chessboard. There are no surprises in chess, just players not quite working out all of the move combinations.
Quick, some MBA step in here and explain 'Market Segmentation'.
MACs have always represented a luxury/SUV computer.
In addition to the publishing/art markets, there have always been people who just aren't dealing with the BSoDomy of Microsoft, and have the budget to choose otherwise.
Balls, if I had the loot, I'd be sporting that groovy new system with a flat monitor half the size o' Monica Lewinsky, too.
Slashdot Mirror
Except the time that I had an Office2003 beta, .pst file. /. looks a little wierd under lynx.
and wanted to revert to a OfficeXP, and
discovered that there was no love comin' from
that godforsaken
Then I moved to Mozilla, whose lovely mail
mail client can be configured to point to a Fat32
partition, which will then be visible when
I boot RH9. Breath deep and inhale the freedom.
Aside:
because it allows union , which is unchecked.
I thought that was a stupid argument--who, outside of embedded programmers, would go there?
I submit that a commonplace, bad assumption in statements like
is that there is only one goal driver at a time. Such thinking rarely models the real situation.
Hope this doesn't sound a flame.
I would carry your analysis a step further and note that chip and drive manufacturers don't make money by downgrading their product.
I daresay they've a statistical model that has them doing enough sampling to maximize profit, and the means minimizing the amount of irritated customers calling in about problems.
This is not like highway engineering, where they have to figure in weather, vehicles, and Aunt Tillie before posting a speed sign for a curve, so they lowball it heavily.
True enough, assuming a spurious lawsuit.
However, if you had tremendous amounts of R&D money invested, and someone else was turning your effort into market share and killing you, you might fail to detect humor in the situation.
I think your anecdote just gets at the fundamental market segmentation that most slashdotters ignore.
Most users in the broader public really do want just the crayonware interface.
The minority that actually dig reading the source and compiling for themselves are, tragically, a minority. Alas.
Best quote in the article:
Am I the only one who finds MS's newer crayonware interfaces a colossal PITA? You've got everything pretty much set with an unprivileged account. You need to change something, so you log out and log in as administrator, and you've got asinine little bubbles popping up telling you obvious stuff "New Applications Installed" or something, right over the logout button. You have to wait for the OS to get done wasting your time, so you can get back to slashd^H^H^H^H^Hwork.
The good news is that, for a small further waste of your time, you can usually dig around and restore the OS to the classic mode you already understand.
One can see, through the salesman's eye, the importance of pseudofeaturitis, as a means of convincing the customer that there's some 'there' there when we advertise the new version.
The technical eye still wants to know why a commentable, versionable, plain text configuration file isn't a better solution.
Maybe someone in Redmond will read this.
Uhh, the grammar nazi would like to point out that you took a noun, the individual copy, and type-cast it to a verb, 'to copy'.
The rest of your arguments hinge on whether or not not you throw a read-time error at that point.
IANAL, but if I was, and across the table, this is where I would start.
Adding my $0.02 to yours.
...that this organization does not tolerate
<nibbles pinky nail in pseudo-fascist solute>
failure...
But It Only Shows Bad Ideas Often Succeed By Intrigue Or Stealth.
Or, like me, you take a look at Perl, say, 'Great ideas, but rather colloquial; I wonder if Perl6 will tidy that up?' and just enjoy the summaries over on O'Reilly.
But when you say 'OK-mull', the actual sound is rather Australian, Bruce.
Yellow Dog offered a negative review.
Because you are right, your loose definition of tautology is true.
Though I hope Sun doesn't die
No, Severian will bring a new one. Stay tuned.
A similar diatribe to ESR's could be written on trying to burn a backup DVD under RH9. Gave up; I just FTP my backup over to my Lose2003 box, where the driver worky-worky.
Yeah, I dunno about that baseless attack. Committed as they are to EULA euthenasia, I would be kinda surprised. The backlash over the hypocrisy of thugging GPL code, compiling, and selling it would likely chop the arms right off MS.
But, as Axl Rose noted, when your arms get shorter, your pockets get deeper, right?
Before I rant, let me just shout out to the dudes doing that excellent work over at Jakarta. Jakarta, Indonesia may be rather hellish (at least it was last time I went there, in '97), but j00 guys are teh 5hizn17. Tomcat is everthing IIS wants to be when it grows up, though I haven't looked at the .Net version, so maybe it has been drinking milk.
Now: rant. It just blows me away how thoroghly the 'write once, run everywhere' ideology has been crushed by these competing GUI libraries.
As somebody who is relatively new to the scene, about to do a school project, I'd like to throw a loud WTF? to the java community.
While it's cool that everyone has room to express themselves in Open Source, keep in mind that your fragmentation, across the board, helps darn few outside the Monopolistic Satrap in Redmond. I have no guess as to which one is the optimal choice for the front end of my project. Probably just shag it all and do a straight web front end.
Next time you have an "I'll re-invent this wheel; I can make it rounder! A rational pi!" moment, contribute to an existing project instead.
Thankee.
Aw, c'mon now, props to Larry Wall and the fellas.
Perl pushed the envelope on language design. Later efforts may have been less ideosyncratic, e.g. python, but, hey.
Perl6, if you've been following the summaries, P6 will raise the bar yet again.
I just wonder if this parrot chassis underneath will permit something as groovy as Boost.Python.
A less than flattering release name.
Thought it might have meant "cancer of my flower necklace" or something.
What of the programmability? The killer feature of MS Office isn't the applications themselves, but VBA.
Speed?
Security?
Power requirements?
Range?
Cost?
Possibly PHP targets a different market. *HP did originally mean Home Pages, IIRC.
Thus, PHP may be positioning itself to support individual efforts, or prototyping for the enterprise market. Not nececcesarily a Bad Thing, more of a Why Bother thing.
I, for one, yawn at Yet Another Tool For Which Plenty of Other Solutions Exist. I submit that, over time, the market is going to weed out the tools, and the ones that last will have compelling mixes of licensing, speed, and capability.
What good was gained from doing this? What benifit is there?
This whole affair is going to have one effect similar to that of major virus upgrades: it will scare the recalcitrant to upgrade.
Deliberately falling short of carrying that analysis any further...
No kidding. Life takes on a similarity to the chessboard. There are no surprises in chess, just players not quite working out all of the move combinations.
Quick, some MBA step in here and explain 'Market Segmentation'.
MACs have always represented a luxury/SUV computer.
In addition to the publishing/art markets, there have always been people who just aren't dealing with the BSoDomy of Microsoft, and have the budget to choose otherwise.
Balls, if I had the loot, I'd be sporting that groovy new system with a flat monitor half the size o' Monica Lewinsky, too.