MSN's online maps copied Google Maps? That's news to me! IIRC, Terraserver came into existence not long after Google was incorporated... long before their maps.
Make sure you are behind a nat router or decent firewall and do not have any redirected ports (or DMZ) to the private ip address you machine should be using... and you will be pretty safe... not entirely, but your chances of getting infected are relatively low provided you do not stray too far from the path while updating.
Or... just that: "one of the busiest websites on earth was having problems with the current generation and what benefits they achieved with the new stuff... and of course if that works for such a high traffic website... just imagine what it could do for yours or mine... let alone our desktops!"
The summary is missing the fact that many of their problems went away after upgrading to an early 64 bit version of Vista with its improved networking stack.
Not to mention the idea that the powers that be already have all of our dna on file so they know who is good... as well as the dna of every suspected terrorist. At last... we may be safe!
Recall the old days of the BBS movement when warez BBSes had MOTDs prohibiting law enforcement officers from connecting?
Because such a post of course prevents such activity, not unlike a drug dealer asking someone who is buying "Hey man, are you a cop" or putting a sign that reads "officers of the law and all those reporting to them are bared from buying here" above a crack house.
I am well aware of their election law changes, as well as the ability for Mexican nationals within the US to go to official polling places in the US... the fact that they are elsewhere and with a higher quality of life makes political or social revolutions much less likely.
FWIW, the Mexician government doesn't like its citizens coming up to the US any more than the US governemnt does; they are losing potiential workforce and it just looks bad for them.
Unfortunately that is not true, hell, their economy depends upon the money being sent home from workers in the US.
Add to that the fact that by having so many people leave the country, it actually benefits the government further by removing a large number of lower class persons who might just vote for the other guy in the next election or worse.
It's a little more complicated than that. The Mexican government has gone out of its way to try to get special protections for Mexican nationals living and working (often illegally) in the US. Of course, this isn't surprising considering the Mexican economy heavily depends on the funds sent back home from workers in the US.
That's a pretty trollish remark... care to support your assertions?
Even still, copied or not, they've implemented a great many features in a world class IDE that people want to use and in terms of market share have done it far better than any of their competitors, free or otherwise.
Of course, your logic also holds Bowing and Lockheed guilty of copying the Wright Brothers. After all, all of their designs are really just modifications of those planes that came before them.
I agree, hostnames alone is pretty worthless. Personally I would like to see statistics based on IP address and not host names.
It's pretty easy for any person to colo a LAMP setup and host the webpage of everyone they know who doesn't want to be on geocities anymore... far easier than plunking down the cash for a Windows 2003 install with IIS6.
Of course, there are always studies like that of Port 80 software who found that 53.7% of corporate web servers were running IIS, vs the 22.7% of Apache.
Na... add the CLR (from Mono perhaps) into the DB so that stored procedures can be written in high level languages like C# and we might shut up as you will have come closer to catching up with what Microsoft will be releasing on November 7th.
Since VISTA is turning out to be just a theme upgrade
I would suggest you crawl out from underneath your rock (where from your sig I am guessing you've been for 8 years now) and take a look at the real world... Saying Vista is just a theme upgrade is like saying that upgrading from a 2.0 Linux kernel to 2.6 only gives you USB support.
User mode audio stack, rewritten (and better performing) networking stack, application level audio control, application remoting (why remote an entire desktop when you can remote a single app?) are just some of the new features coming in Vista.
On second thought... stay under your rock and keep thinking the world is falling... you'll be passed by and the world will be better for it
If you run X and it comes with Y, why would you use/buy Z?
In one fell swoop...
Because Z is leaps and bounds better than Y!
Why don't Windows users buy Photoshop or Paintshop Pro when MS Paint came for free?!?! Why do Windows users download FireFox when they already have IE? Why buy or use MS Word when you have notepad AND wordpad for free?!?!?!
Doubtful... my bet would be competing with Microsoft Virtual PC which is free to any serious developer with an MSDN subscription and is used in a world where large amounts of developing, testing and demoing is done inside of DLed VPC images.
Isn't that much the same logic that lead to the.com bust? Lots of companies eating lots of money and not actually making any? Nice and idealistic concepts my friend... but still awful naive.
Microsoft has only released licenses, not any code under any of these licenses.
Incorrect, they do so and have done so for years.
I could be wrong... but no part of 'release' means 'to the world at large'... Microsoft has been making the Windows source code available to various colleges and companies for years under rather tight control because they don't want (for obvious reasons) the world at large to have access to it.
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MSN's online maps copied Google Maps? That's news to me! IIRC, Terraserver came into existence not long after Google was incorporated... long before their maps.
Make sure you are behind a nat router or decent firewall and do not have any redirected ports (or DMZ) to the private ip address you machine should be using... and you will be pretty safe... not entirely, but your chances of getting infected are relatively low provided you do not stray too far from the path while updating.
People have been doing it for years, just do a Google search for "hard drive window" or better yet an images search for the same string.
Or... just that: "one of the busiest websites on earth was having problems with the current generation and what benefits they achieved with the new stuff... and of course if that works for such a high traffic website... just imagine what it could do for yours or mine... let alone our desktops!"
Perhaps... but not all of us receive the amount of traffic that they do.
The summary is missing the fact that many of their problems went away after upgrading to an early 64 bit version of Vista with its improved networking stack.
Not to mention the idea that the powers that be already have all of our dna on file so they know who is good... as well as the dna of every suspected terrorist. At last... we may be safe!
Recall the old days of the BBS movement when warez BBSes had MOTDs prohibiting law enforcement officers from connecting?
Because such a post of course prevents such activity, not unlike a drug dealer asking someone who is buying "Hey man, are you a cop" or putting a sign that reads "officers of the law and all those reporting to them are bared from buying here" above a crack house.
I am well aware of their election law changes, as well as the ability for Mexican nationals within the US to go to official polling places in the US... the fact that they are elsewhere and with a higher quality of life makes political or social revolutions much less likely.
FWIW, the Mexician government doesn't like its citizens coming up to the US any more than the US governemnt does; they are losing potiential workforce and it just looks bad for them.
Unfortunately that is not true, hell, their economy depends upon the money being sent home from workers in the US.
Add to that the fact that by having so many people leave the country, it actually benefits the government further by removing a large number of lower class persons who might just vote for the other guy in the next election or worse.
It's a little more complicated than that. The Mexican government has gone out of its way to try to get special protections for Mexican nationals living and working (often illegally) in the US. Of course, this isn't surprising considering the Mexican economy heavily depends on the funds sent back home from workers in the US.
I thought that is why we had the SEALs... as well as Delta Force, Green Berets and other special forces groups.
So the Mexican government doesn't mind its citizens running across the border into the US illegally... but does mind US nationals running down there?
Yea... Vicente Fox is my personal hero for the rest of the month!
That's a pretty trollish remark... care to support your assertions?
Even still, copied or not, they've implemented a great many features in a world class IDE that people want to use and in terms of market share have done it far better than any of their competitors, free or otherwise.
Of course, your logic also holds Bowing and Lockheed guilty of copying the Wright Brothers. After all, all of their designs are really just modifications of those planes that came before them.
Perhaps... but then shouldn't Google be ashamed for copying Microsoft's start.com with their own personalized homepage?
I agree, hostnames alone is pretty worthless. Personally I would like to see statistics based on IP address and not host names.
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It's pretty easy for any person to colo a LAMP setup and host the webpage of everyone they know who doesn't want to be on geocities anymore... far easier than plunking down the cash for a Windows 2003 install with IIS6.
Of course, there are always studies like that of Port 80 software who found that 53.7% of corporate web servers were running IIS, vs the 22.7% of Apache.
See http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webs
Because of course there have already been so many exploits for the CLR.
FYI: Open code is released under the GPL, open documents like what is found on Wikipedia is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
To summarize:
GPL != FDL
Na... add the CLR (from Mono perhaps) into the DB so that stored procedures can be written in high level languages like C# and we might shut up as you will have come closer to catching up with what Microsoft will be releasing on November 7th.
Since VISTA is turning out to be just a theme upgrade
I would suggest you crawl out from underneath your rock (where from your sig I am guessing you've been for 8 years now) and take a look at the real world... Saying Vista is just a theme upgrade is like saying that upgrading from a 2.0 Linux kernel to 2.6 only gives you USB support.
User mode audio stack, rewritten (and better performing) networking stack, application level audio control, application remoting (why remote an entire desktop when you can remote a single app?) are just some of the new features coming in Vista.
On second thought... stay under your rock and keep thinking the world is falling... you'll be passed by and the world will be better for it
I'll try to answer your generic question of:
If you run X and it comes with Y, why would you use/buy Z?
In one fell swoop...
Because Z is leaps and bounds better than Y!
Why don't Windows users buy Photoshop or Paintshop Pro when MS Paint came for free?!?! Why do Windows users download FireFox when they already have IE? Why buy or use MS Word when you have notepad AND wordpad for free?!?!?!
Doubtful... my bet would be competing with Microsoft Virtual PC which is free to any serious developer with an MSDN subscription and is used in a world where large amounts of developing, testing and demoing is done inside of DLed VPC images.
Isn't that much the same logic that lead to the .com bust? Lots of companies eating lots of money and not actually making any? Nice and idealistic concepts my friend... but still awful naive.
Microsoft has only released licenses, not any code under any of these licenses.
Incorrect, they do so and have done so for years.
I could be wrong... but no part of 'release' means 'to the world at large'... Microsoft has been making the Windows source code available to various colleges and companies for years under rather tight control because they don't want (for obvious reasons) the world at large to have access to it.
Don't believe me? Just take a look at a list of current licensees.
Now perhaps Google should to pony up
Already done. They donated one of their first production servers to the museum a while back.