For the longest time I was sure that illiad was Berke Breathed. The artistic styles often matched far too well, the style of the humor and stories so close.
Are you out of your fucking mind? illiad has never been funny. not even once.
no way. Delphi's problem was *not* in the complier. In fact that may have been the best part. That thing was FAST. I always felt confidant that what was happening in the IDE at runtime was the same as the EXE. I don't feel that with VB or powerbulder (do they still make powerbuilder?)
In ver 5 they added some dumb feature that allowed you to inherit just a portion of a screen, instead of the whole thing. Nifty I suppose but I'd rather just have a help file that doesn't suck.
I hated the non-data bound controls. They were weak and slow. The free vcl controls on the net were even slower. Don't even get me started on the BDE.
Delphi had problems but none of the major ones had anything at all to do with Microsoft. Sometimes companies make mistakes all on their own. Stop laying blame at Microsoft's feel. I really believe that if Delphi had VB3-like help the sales would have doubled (to a still insignificant level)
Look at Microsoft's plan from this point of view. You've got two typewriters (one called Star which represents StarOffice, and one called Word, which represents MS Office/Word). The Star typewriter doesn't cost anything to put in your house, and costs very little for a business to put into place. Meanwhile, the Word typewriter has to be rented every time you use it. It's like having a payphone in your house. Also, the Word typewriter doesn't support the Star typewriter's native format, while the Star typewriter supports both the Word and Star typewriter formats (wierd typewriters, eh?).
Well... where do you start with this?...
The first problem is you don't rent word every time you use it. That's just an outright lie. The other issue is that star office is fucking embarrassment. Advantage word.
Now here's where the REAL fun begins: Microsoft has to not only convince consumers to use.NET software, but it's got to convince programmers to write.NET software - which has its own programming language.
This shouldn't be too hard since vs.net is fantastic. It has all the nice things from Delphi from a company powerful enough to get it done. Delphi always had a "not quite finished" feel to it. Its version of intelisense made me cringe.
VS.net truly gives developers capabilities they didn't have before on any platform. With web forms you can now separate the code from the crummy html in a very elegant way. Who else has this?
The article that this story is in reference to also states that Microsoft is planning to use the.NET server software to boost Win 2K sales. The infers that.NET server software will only be made for the Win 2K platform. That leaves some people on the other side of the wall
duh. fuckhead. Yes. The point here is to sell windows. duh. duh. duh. What part do you not understand about a commerical enterprise? Build stuff..sell it... collect money. Easy, no?
you are ignoring the finical numbers. Red Hat has sales of 87million and income of negative (NEGATIVE!!!) 83 million. That's totally their fault for having a dumb business model.
When you are a public company you have a responsiblilty to the shareholders to make money. You owe them. So when your dad's pension fund (i assume you're 12 years old) invests in a company's stock and it tanks because the company doesn't care about making money, your dad gets fucked.
Its about using the best tool for the job. If the job is playing games, the best tool by far is windows. Using linux because being a geek gives you a hardon is just dumb. You're not accomplishing anything by it unless you are trying to avoid good recent games.
Look, linux has it's place, but that place isn't on the desktop and it certainly isn't in game playing.
This revolution you speak ok looks like the express train to bankruptcy to me. None of the public linux companies make money and have no plans to anytime soon. I will be developing on windows long after the linux bubble bursts.
The whole revolution thing is exactly what I'm talking about. Making technical decisions on polital grounds is always doomed to failure. Ask the OS/2 guys...
yes. yes it does. If you don't beat the linux drum you are not only wrong, but you're evil.
Its so sad, this linux community. Perhaps worse than the os/2 guys. At least those guys were professionals. This group is just a bunch of dirty hippies. "A complete git"? Who talks like that?
I belive linux will be around in the post rhat, lnux world. Linux will survive in some nitch even when these dopey companies fall over. When one or two of the "big" (120 million in sales is not a fly on ms's ass) linux companies fail the hype will fade from the trade mags and linux will be no more relevent than java. god forbid.
IMO, Redhat is a good $500M operation. They have lots of cash, are doing well with expectations, and are slimming down operations in the post-dotcom-internet-irrationalstockblitz era.
WHAT? This is just insane. This company doesn't need to exist. They are loosing 2 dollars for ever dollar they make with no end in site. This company is the very def. of a dotcom.
I work at a small company that just got hit from a letter from MS's lawyers. They gave up 2 weeks to reply. Needless to say it was scramble time for the network guys.
Even though we are a all MS shop and do our best to comply we still owe about 65k. Free software is more expensive.
the dc ver of half-life is more than a port. They replaced the models with higher poly versions. The game is more of a companion to half-life like opfor than a dc version of half-life.
The sin port, is just that. A port. The new linux biniary will read the old datafiles. Nothing more.
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Don't they do this already?
In ver 5 they added some dumb feature that allowed you to inherit just a portion of a screen, instead of the whole thing. Nifty I suppose but I'd rather just have a help file that doesn't suck.
I hated the non-data bound controls. They were weak and slow. The free vcl controls on the net were even slower. Don't even get me started on the BDE.
Delphi had problems but none of the major ones had anything at all to do with Microsoft. Sometimes companies make mistakes all on their own. Stop laying blame at Microsoft's feel. I really believe that if Delphi had VB3-like help the sales would have doubled (to a still insignificant level)
Well... where do you start with this?...
The first problem is you don't rent word every time you use it. That's just an outright lie. The other issue is that star office is fucking embarrassment. Advantage word.
This shouldn't be too hard since vs.net is fantastic. It has all the nice things from Delphi from a company powerful enough to get it done. Delphi always had a "not quite finished" feel to it. Its version of intelisense made me cringe.VS.net truly gives developers capabilities they didn't have before on any platform. With web forms you can now separate the code from the crummy html in a very elegant way. Who else has this?
duh. fuckhead. Yes. The point here is to sell windows. duh. duh. duh. What part do you not understand about a commerical enterprise? Build stuff..sell it... collect money. Easy, no?
The impact goes beyond just you. That was the whole point. Try re-reading.
you are ignoring the finical numbers. Red Hat has sales of 87million and income of negative (NEGATIVE!!!) 83 million. That's totally their fault for having a dumb business model.
When you are a public company you have a responsiblilty to the shareholders to make money. You owe them. So when your dad's pension fund (i assume you're 12 years old) invests in a company's stock and it tanks because the company doesn't care about making money, your dad gets fucked.
Dumb companies hurt everyone.
Look, linux has it's place, but that place isn't on the desktop and it certainly isn't in game playing.
This revolution you speak ok looks like the express train to bankruptcy to me. None of the public linux companies make money and have no plans to anytime soon. I will be developing on windows long after the linux bubble bursts.
The whole revolution thing is exactly what I'm talking about. Making technical decisions on polital grounds is always doomed to failure. Ask the OS/2 guys...
When are you jackoffs going to give it up and just run windows? Does everything in your empty lives have to be a political statement?
Its so sad, this linux community. Perhaps worse than the os/2 guys. At least those guys were professionals. This group is just a bunch of dirty hippies. "A complete git"? Who talks like that?
I belive linux will be around in the post rhat, lnux world. Linux will survive in some nitch even when these dopey companies fall over. When one or two of the "big" (120 million in sales is not a fly on ms's ass) linux companies fail the hype will fade from the trade mags and linux will be no more relevent than java. god forbid.
Even though we are a all MS shop and do our best to comply we still owe about 65k. Free software is more expensive.
linux.. they can't *give* that shit away.
the difference between a hobby and a business is paying customers. Having a product or a service helps too.
look into it.
The sin port, is just that. A port. The new linux biniary will read the old datafiles. Nothing more.
Looks good? Nigga please. That piece of shit didn't look good when it was new.