In a bizarre twist of shared mid-life crisis,
Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, Brian Kernighan, and Andrew Koenig decided to give up software engineering and form a "barbershop disco" quartet. Initial plans are to take the soaring harmonies of their namesake and give them a doo-wop makeover. Plans for a tour in 2004 with Spinal Tap are in negotiation.
Blackhearted to the bone,
Older than the Rolling Stones,
Been to heaven, been to hell,
Bought the farm, and I won't sell...
------->I'm So Bad (Baby, I Don't Care)
I just want to know why he didn't run for Governor of California...
-1 Offtopic, but this is Lemmy...
You had arms? You were looky! After a full round of limb amputations, we were suspended in front of the AN/UYK-7 input panel on meathooks, and had to load the memory locations in binary via the push-buttons on the panel with a stylus mounted on our noses!
I got better...
Offering beta versions of movies vie P2P is a great way "sex up" the product through illegality.
You might even make a buck by suing someone not "in the loop" who does it.
A possibly better way to advertise products might simply be to have better products.
But then, I'm known for my unorthodox ideas.
At a higher level of abstraction, capitalism is darwinian.
The zero-sum games balance out in the long run.
While the trend of world governments away from MS is alarming, particularly if there is a lot of MSFT in your portfolio, it really is a cause of rejoicing for the rest of us.
The death of the 800 pound gorilla will foment a golden age of IT employment. Somebody has to figure out what to do with the bazillion different configurations that are going to come out of all this. Massive Shift! Multi-lateralism Superior! Monopoly Sucks!
This is going to a lot of trouble...
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My completely untestable theory is that you really need to be an order of magnitude "better" than whatever currently exists in order to overcome the static friction of the end user.
People hate the current state of affairs less than they hate change.
Dry cleaning, man; it's the wave of the future.
I like having technology at hand, but I also don't like having it touching me.
Given the complexity of human life, I wonder if all of these gadgets will be a modern lead pipe
The hyperlink on 'pipe' looks clogged:
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlbe rger/orb/lead.htm
True, but so is the stock market, and the economy as a whole.
As The Onion so scatalogically pseudo-quoted a leading Democratic Presidential candidate:
Calling the American people's enormous shit-belief capacity "one of the cornerstones of our democracy," U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) stressed that it is the patriotic duty of all citizens to grant our leaders the benefit of the doubt with regard to their shit.
"If the American people are no longer willing to believe this shit, who will?" Kerry said. "Somebody's got to take this shit at face value. Otherwise, why are we even doing all this shit in the first place? I am truly saddened by the lack of faith that the citizens of this country are willing to put in my shit, as well as that of my esteemed colleagues. We must repair our society's fraying trust in the shit of our elected officials, or you would not believe the kind of hardcore, heavy-duty shit that will come down."
I can hear MS shouting "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again" already.
Granted, MS might expand its government holdings beyond the Justice Department to include the State Department, but what is the Fed seriously going to do? Some kind of trade embargo?
The current row over claims by The SCO Group that Linux uses code lifted from SCO-owned Unix does not seem to have dampened official enthusiasm for the platform, though the governments are expected to continue to closely monitor the situation.
The only reason they might monitor the SCO situation is for humor value.
Asian countries are going to do unto MS as MS did to IBM. Let's not blame Linux, though; if not for Torvalds, the BSDs would BSOD MS soon enough.
Prediction: MS eventually splits into OS and application companies. The application arm ports the profitable bits of MS software to Linux, and continues to do decent business. The OS arm gradually tapers off, as the inexorable migration away from proprietary operating systems continues.
Mr. Cringely beats around the bush about the following:
Ideas, people, businesses, countries, they all have lifecycles.
Dunno whether it's fear of death or distaste for instability, but we seem to think that there is some possibility of forming a bullet-proof company.
We really mean: one with predictable income until I retire.
Then there is the shock and dismay when that mean old market bites on our naughty bits.
One wise fellow once told me: "Fair" is what you pay to ride a bus. A pun on "fare", which doesn't work anywhere but in English, and after I had internalized the fundamental lack of fairness in life, stuff like "whoops, they stole my company" really doesn't surprise me much.
Some may take comfort in the idea of an ultimate judge, and the knowledge that the misdeeds of all will eventually be required of them...
No, Longhorn is about putting SQueaL Server in between the user and the file system to cock-block any attempts at mounting the filesystem without paying a vig to Redmond.
Longhorn is aptly named. Brings to mind the ithyphallic eidolon from Schrodingers Cat Trilology by Wilson.
Frank Zappa's advice comes to mind: "Keep it greasy, so it'll go down easy".
Which is better than having a dysfunctional, proprietary crap-pile and an opportunity to debug it.
It's not that I mind paying for software, it's the "I've got a secret" attitude that makes me yawn.
Used it in a web-enabled database setting, as well.
Created a crude domain specific language where display control and data type are contained in a hungarian-style prefix of a string that is the field's name.
Had some control information (are we updating/inserting, what table, key field for updates, how many SQL statements) in another string that went into a hidden field.
Result: a library that transformed the Request.Form collection in one pass into an arbitrary number of SQL statements against arbitrary tables, using straight HTML.
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In a bizarre twist of shared mid-life crisis, Anders Hejlsberg, Bjarne Stroustrup, Brian Kernighan, and Andrew Koenig decided to give up software engineering and form a "barbershop disco" quartet.
Initial plans are to take the soaring harmonies of their namesake and give them a doo-wop makeover.
Plans for a tour in 2004 with Spinal Tap are in negotiation.
To quote:
I just want to know why he didn't run for Governor of California...
-1 Offtopic, but this is Lemmy...
C, the language, is to the computer as
C, carbon, is to life.
Save the bigotry for <insert language here>
.
And you try to explain that to the kids today...<head shaking in disdain>
You had arms? You were looky! After a full round of limb amputations, we were suspended in front of the AN/UYK-7 input panel on meathooks, and had to load the memory locations in binary via the push-buttons on the panel with a stylus mounted on our noses!
I got better...
Offering beta versions of movies vie P2P is a great way "sex up" the product through illegality.
You might even make a buck by suing someone not "in the loop" who does it.
A possibly better way to advertise products might simply be to have better products.
But then, I'm known for my unorthodox ideas.
I erlyla od.
Looks like your spelling checker has a case of sexylaid, Eugenia...
At a higher level of abstraction, capitalism is darwinian.
The zero-sum games balance out in the long run.
While the trend of world governments away from MS is alarming, particularly if there is a lot of MSFT in your portfolio, it really is a cause of rejoicing for the rest of us.
The death of the 800 pound gorilla will foment a golden age of IT employment. Somebody has to figure out what to do with the bazillion different configurations that are going to come out of all this.
Massive Shift! Multi-lateralism Superior! Monopoly Sucks!
just to play Tetris under Emacs...
My completely untestable theory is that you really need to be an order of magnitude "better" than whatever currently exists in order to overcome the static friction of the end user.
People hate the current state of affairs less than they hate change.
Dry cleaning, man; it's the wave of the future.e rger/orb/lead.htm
I like having technology at hand, but I also don't like having it touching me.
Given the complexity of human life, I wonder if all of these gadgets will be a modern lead pipe
The hyperlink on 'pipe' looks clogged:
http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlb
And was it blistering fast? Did you feed it a stack of Office 4.3 floppies, as well? ;)
Virus-of-the-week
Governments at all levels rebelling
New version aversion
I say that your view is tactical at best.
Apple?
Oracle?
True, but so is the stock market, and the economy as a whole.
As The Onion so scatalogically pseudo-quoted a leading Democratic Presidential candidate:
I can hear MS shouting "Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again" already.
Granted, MS might expand its government holdings beyond the Justice Department to include the State Department, but what is the Fed seriously going to do? Some kind of trade embargo?
The only reason they might monitor the SCO situation is for humor value.
Asian countries are going to do unto MS as MS did to IBM. Let's not blame Linux, though; if not for Torvalds, the BSDs would BSOD MS soon enough.
Prediction: MS eventually splits into OS and application companies. The application arm ports the profitable bits of MS software to Linux, and continues to do decent business. The OS arm gradually tapers off, as the inexorable migration away from proprietary operating systems continues.
When 8 figures amounts to decimal dust, who cares?
Probably a fraction of what the lawyers were paid, anyway.
Mr. Cringely beats around the bush about the following:
Ideas, people, businesses, countries, they all have lifecycles.
Dunno whether it's fear of death or distaste for instability, but we seem to think that there is some possibility of forming a bullet-proof company.
We really mean: one with predictable income until I retire.
Then there is the shock and dismay when that mean old market bites on our naughty bits.
One wise fellow once told me: "Fair" is what you pay to ride a bus.
A pun on "fare", which doesn't work anywhere but in English, and after I had internalized the fundamental lack of fairness in life, stuff like "whoops, they stole my company" really doesn't surprise me much.
Some may take comfort in the idea of an ultimate judge, and the knowledge that the misdeeds of all will eventually be required of them...
No, Longhorn is about putting SQueaL Server in between the user and the file system to cock-block any attempts at mounting the filesystem without paying a vig to Redmond.
Longhorn is aptly named. Brings to mind the ithyphallic eidolon from Schrodingers Cat Trilology by Wilson.
Frank Zappa's advice comes to mind: "Keep it greasy, so it'll go down easy".
Which is better than having a dysfunctional, proprietary crap-pile and an opportunity to debug it.
It's not that I mind paying for software, it's the "I've got a secret" attitude that makes me yawn.
Used it in a web-enabled database setting, as well.
Created a crude domain specific language where display control and data type are contained in a hungarian-style prefix of a string that is the field's name.
Had some control information (are we updating/inserting, what table, key field for updates, how many SQL statements) in another string that went into a hidden field.
Result: a library that transformed the Request.Form collection in one pass into an arbitrary number of SQL statements against arbitrary tables, using straight HTML.
Then I was accused of over-engineering.
This is known as "The Law of Obstructive Conformity".