In the Windows platform it would be a matter of building a COM server that implemented the all of the MS Active Scripting interfaces. Some company did this for perl. It'd be hard to do for open source shit because you'd have do everything from scratch.
How dare the fundamentalists curse at my touch of profanity. I am an enraged deity and will now craft the most amazing trule ever. For centuries man has been reaping the cotton field. It is now that I will attempt to topple the city of sodom with my trule of truth. Linux users and some HP customers are bad trules that use anti-perspirants containing aluminum zirconium. This is very naughty and so is Linux. It's nothing but hype and most of its users do not engage in intercourse with exotic asian women. I like Microsoft a lot. They make great software.
My troll stays in the yard. It never goes far. Linux is like jelly bracelets. Cool when you're an insecure highschooler, but when you need to make blueberry jam out of toast crumbs in twenty seconds, only Microsoft software will get you very far.
Totally not worth reading. It was just some happy-to-spout-out-idiotic-nonsense that probably wrote part of the Linux kernel. OOP is what builds nice software. It makes things nice and neat. That guy just didn't get the idea.
Scott Lloyd
You sound like you've got it all figured out. You must be a fucking genius. Hell... I admire you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister. Give me a break, you know-it-all jackass linux biggot.
ChessProzac
Microsoft will not do anything that durastic. I'm sure that there will be some anti-piracy measures in Windows Whistler's Final Release but nothing that will cause them to lose too many customers. They are hated by many but they are not stupid. The scheme may end up being broken down to where registrations are monitored for irregularities. I am a software engineer and I drafted and built a very simmilar registration system for my company's software. It had three methods of registering your license (including an automated phone system). It would not refuse to give an authorization code unless it detected irregularities in licensing. Even then, the license was only locked and they could still register by calling and talking to one of our representitives. Don't get discouraged, though. Some assembly god will write a crack for those of you who are still bent on stealing software.
ChessProzac
Out of business soon? May I remind you that MS is a fourtune 500 company. It makes profits. RedHat and most Linux firms are losing money every single day. How the fuck do you think they'll be out of business? People aren't switching over? Every year I give Linux another shot (I've been doing it for about 4 years now). Every year I uninstall it within days after getting pissed off about something being designed in a totally fucked up way. Win2k has NEVER crashed on me. It is stable. Even the biggotted linux-loving sysadmin at our company admitted that win2k is very stable. Windows evolves because the company behind it is extremely organized. Linux is thousands of people doing little jobs all out of sync each with their own goals and visions about the future of the OS. It hinders the developement to the point where it's absolutely a joke. Linux 2.4 was as much hype as ever. Woohoo... They added better multiple processor code and some USB shit. I read over the release notes, nothing too impressive. It was A YEAR LATE. Because it's unorganized. It is THREE YEARS BEHIND or more in the GUI section. Not everyone has the intelligence to use a console. I write software. I can use a console. Thing is, I write software for a wide array of people. Some of them are really dumb. That's why I write software for Windows. Windows and most windows apps have a very standard interface. This lets users pick up my software and be able to use it right away without reading anything. Nobody wants to read the manuals. Many software companies don't even ship paper manuals with their products anymore. If they want to, however, they can use HTMLHelp--a standard, feature-rich, and intuitive help system found in most windows apps. Users of cryptic linux apps (even the GUI ones) can't just install a peice of software and use it without going through a discovery phase. It's a complete peice of shit and hell will freeze over before Linux replaces Windows. You can bitch all you want but you'd be doing the world a favor if you'd wait until it actually happens (which it won't). You'll be less likely to make yourself look like an idiot.
Scott
Yes..Net is used to develope both clients and servers..Net is not a language, it's an almost undefinable concept. Basically, under the.Net movement, applications will migrate to a language called C# which is simmilar to C++ and Java (only not carrying over the shitty parts or slowness of java). C# will make writing code a hell of a lot easier and to answer your question, yes, you can still write conventional non-internet-centric apps.
Scott
Let's sum it all up:
Hype, CNN, a couple of confusing upgrades, insecure jerks raving on about it, a bunch of companies trying to make money off it (ha! good luck). Nobody's really using it... Hmmmm... Guess nobody noticed. Oh well. I'm glad Linux had such a great year. I'm going to go out to the break room, grab a cup of coffee, get into tool mode, and help hype it up just a bit more.
Oh... Because if I had to make a system secure, I'd use Linux. Today I'm going to go throw out my EFS on Win2k. Instead of using a sensible OS and securing my system with a few clicks, I'll be able to do it some really fucked up way, I'd bet. Maybe they have a cool command line feature. Yeah....emfn -cf -or | exfss. Way to go/.!
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In the Windows platform it would be a matter of building a COM server that implemented the all of the MS Active Scripting interfaces. Some company did this for perl. It'd be hard to do for open source shit because you'd have do everything from scratch.
They have fun jobs but not for long if things keep going so poorly for VA. WE CAN MAKE MONEY BY GIVING AWAY SHITTY SOFTWARE... REALLY!
MSNBC has it covered. There's no use for you open source pigfuckers. Timothy is gay and I hope he gets hit by a hijacked aircraft.
PS: I fuck all of your mothers.
How dare the fundamentalists curse at my touch of profanity. I am an enraged deity and will now craft the most amazing trule ever. For centuries man has been reaping the cotton field. It is now that I will attempt to topple the city of sodom with my trule of truth. Linux users and some HP customers are bad trules that use anti-perspirants containing aluminum zirconium. This is very naughty and so is Linux. It's nothing but hype and most of its users do not engage in intercourse with exotic asian women. I like Microsoft a lot. They make great software.
My troll stays in the yard. It never goes far. Linux is like jelly bracelets. Cool when you're an insecure highschooler, but when you need to make blueberry jam out of toast crumbs in twenty seconds, only Microsoft software will get you very far.
Oh... JonKatz... I just want to fuck you. have a penis bird.
You forgot about them being idiots as well as criminals. Scott
Totally not worth reading. It was just some happy-to-spout-out-idiotic-nonsense that probably wrote part of the Linux kernel. OOP is what builds nice software. It makes things nice and neat. That guy just didn't get the idea. Scott Lloyd
You sound like you've got it all figured out. You must be a fucking genius. Hell... I admire you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister. Give me a break, you know-it-all jackass linux biggot. ChessProzac
Microsoft will not do anything that durastic. I'm sure that there will be some anti-piracy measures in Windows Whistler's Final Release but nothing that will cause them to lose too many customers. They are hated by many but they are not stupid. The scheme may end up being broken down to where registrations are monitored for irregularities. I am a software engineer and I drafted and built a very simmilar registration system for my company's software. It had three methods of registering your license (including an automated phone system). It would not refuse to give an authorization code unless it detected irregularities in licensing. Even then, the license was only locked and they could still register by calling and talking to one of our representitives. Don't get discouraged, though. Some assembly god will write a crack for those of you who are still bent on stealing software. ChessProzac
Out of business soon? May I remind you that MS is a fourtune 500 company. It makes profits. RedHat and most Linux firms are losing money every single day. How the fuck do you think they'll be out of business? People aren't switching over? Every year I give Linux another shot (I've been doing it for about 4 years now). Every year I uninstall it within days after getting pissed off about something being designed in a totally fucked up way. Win2k has NEVER crashed on me. It is stable. Even the biggotted linux-loving sysadmin at our company admitted that win2k is very stable. Windows evolves because the company behind it is extremely organized. Linux is thousands of people doing little jobs all out of sync each with their own goals and visions about the future of the OS. It hinders the developement to the point where it's absolutely a joke. Linux 2.4 was as much hype as ever. Woohoo... They added better multiple processor code and some USB shit. I read over the release notes, nothing too impressive. It was A YEAR LATE. Because it's unorganized. It is THREE YEARS BEHIND or more in the GUI section. Not everyone has the intelligence to use a console. I write software. I can use a console. Thing is, I write software for a wide array of people. Some of them are really dumb. That's why I write software for Windows. Windows and most windows apps have a very standard interface. This lets users pick up my software and be able to use it right away without reading anything. Nobody wants to read the manuals. Many software companies don't even ship paper manuals with their products anymore. If they want to, however, they can use HTMLHelp--a standard, feature-rich, and intuitive help system found in most windows apps. Users of cryptic linux apps (even the GUI ones) can't just install a peice of software and use it without going through a discovery phase. It's a complete peice of shit and hell will freeze over before Linux replaces Windows. You can bitch all you want but you'd be doing the world a favor if you'd wait until it actually happens (which it won't). You'll be less likely to make yourself look like an idiot. Scott
So so true. Scott
Yes. .Net is used to develope both clients and servers. .Net is not a language, it's an almost undefinable concept. Basically, under the .Net movement, applications will migrate to a language called C# which is simmilar to C++ and Java (only not carrying over the shitty parts or slowness of java). C# will make writing code a hell of a lot easier and to answer your question, yes, you can still write conventional non-internet-centric apps.
Scott
Let's sum it all up: Hype, CNN, a couple of confusing upgrades, insecure jerks raving on about it, a bunch of companies trying to make money off it (ha! good luck). Nobody's really using it... Hmmmm... Guess nobody noticed. Oh well. I'm glad Linux had such a great year. I'm going to go out to the break room, grab a cup of coffee, get into tool mode, and help hype it up just a bit more.
Oh... Because if I had to make a system secure, I'd use Linux. Today I'm going to go throw out my EFS on Win2k. Instead of using a sensible OS and securing my system with a few clicks, I'll be able to do it some really fucked up way, I'd bet. Maybe they have a cool command line feature. Yeah... .emfn -cf -or | exfss. Way to go /.!