I'll byte. What you say is true, but entirely beside the point. He meant C for GNOME or C++ for KDE, and the bindings for Qt/ KDE are not so varied as for Gtk. Also, two of those languages, Perl and Python, are unsuited for developing sizeable desktop applications. As for Ada, I suppose you could, but I don't know of any such applications, so finding an existing project to work on would be a difficult task itself.
Ximian isn't writing all the front ends to target CLI/ CLR because they don't have the resources to. Microsoft is doing it because they want instant widespread acceptance and they do have the resources.
What you can do until someone writes a (Python or insert your favourite language here) frontend for Mono is compile using Microsoft's tools and run on the Mono backend. That's the nice thing about standards, and it appears (so far, at least) that Microsoft is playing fair this time.
According to the article $10-20 monthly is about 10% of their income. That's only cheap when you compare it to the dry cell batteries it replaces. And it says nothing about sustainability. Are repairs made locally, or is it creating a dependence upon imported USian parts?
Solar power doesn't do them much good if they have to buy expensive replacements every time it breaks. Environmentally this is great, and it also provides electric power where it wasn't available before, but you have to wonder at what cost.
Unless the technology can be maintained with local expertise it is just putting the people in a dependant relationship on more industrialized nations. There is a path that technological development has to go on to empower the people, and sometimes that means that less good technologies have to be used.
Of course casinos do this. People spend a lot of money there. Mass produced red carpet treatment is still expensive, so they don't want to waste it on customers who aren't worth it. They need to know who does what, to improve the take at the table, and to coerce people into returning. They sure want to invest a lot in this, because of the huge payback.
Grocery stores don't bother with this. They are starting to get into the game with things like Air Miles, which associate personal info with exact product items, locations and times. But the payback isn't nearly so large; people just don't spend thousands of dollars a day at grocery stores.
Probably the only other industry that really has the resources and desire for this information is the tobacco industry. You can bet they do their best to track trends. They have a big disadvantage, though, namely that they don't have direct access to consumers. You can be sure that the healthcare industry keeps the data, but they don't have as much concern since medical treatments are much less discretionary than grocery selection or casinos. I wouldn't be surprised to see them team up with tobacco companies though, since they have pretty much all the requisite information.
I think the idea here is to stop counterfitters who would have much more difficulty putting in the appropriate microchips. Right now American money is ridiculously easy to fake. Having a government signed encrypted serial number or something would make it that much harder.
As for tracking, I suppose they could attach my name to it when it came out of the bank machine, but they lose it when I do any number of things. It could given to the neighbour's kid for cutting grass, or to any small store that doesn't have a scanner, or even just broken into smaller bills that aren't associated with me at the nearest Kwiki-Mart.
Microsoft has said that their plans include a reference implementation on a free UNIX platform, likely some BSD or Linux. They are staking their future on this platform, so they want it to be adopted widely and they definitely don't want the DOJ to kill it. I think they may play it safe and make their own port under a free license.
It sounds like of the many companies making digital cameras, only Kodak has a problem with this anti-competitive practise. I'm guessing it is because the others don't want to make software. Since Kodak's is better than Microsoft's, they want everybody to use the default software and take away Kodak's advantage. I hope that Microsoft can not get away with this. It is a conspiracy to reduce competition
I loved Myth II; paid $80 or whatever for Loki's port, and it was worth every cent.
I hope that GoD and company can live up the the same high standards as Bungie. From the screenshots, there are obviously still a lot of issues with the game. I hope they will put in the effort to fix them and make it a wonderful game before they release. Far too many developers now are satisifed with releasing crap, and even if they do fix the issues eventually, the game does not do nearly so well as if they just did it right in the first place.
That the slowest workers in the world are adopting the slowest office suite in the world.
By the way, does anyone know if they are using StarOffice (the proprietary product from Sun available under the non-free SCSL) or OpenOffice.org (the free version that Sun made available under the GPL)? The ZDNet article seemed to indicate the former, but I'm not sure they could tell the difference anyway. The difference to the Free Software community would be significant, though.
You can never have too much bandwidth. The situation is more comparable to post world war II United States, where there was a massive government program to build highways.
Initially, it looked really silly, since there weren't many cars and there weren't many people driving all over. Now the highways are full. Same with fiber; traffic will grow to fill them to capacity. It will just take a few years.
I'll leave it up to other people to decide if that's a good thing.
Linux is Linux. Why give it it's own name (Red Hat Linux)? I don't understand it completely myself, especially since they are selling something they already include in the box.
It probably has to due with branding and product recongition. If they sell it and make an effort to offer support for it, it has to have their name. As for why not Red Hat PostgreSQL, I think their marketing team probably just didn't think of it. It sounds awful, but I doubt that would stop a marketing team.
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Isn't the amortized part money they haven't had for some time, and are writing off now for tax purposes? They are writing off goodwill and intangibles, which have book value because of what they paid, but that doesn't affect cash flow at all. There was also about 7 million dollars in other one time expenses; it's probably more useful to go over them and the revenue figures to see how closely doctored they are. Probably more informative is that they didn't give any guidance whatsoever. I really don't know what that means.
Lucky for me, all my copies of Debian are on cd-r. I pity all those poor people who paid $200 for a copy of Windows 2000. We always knew it was more vulnerable to viruses, well now we know it's more vulnerable to fungi as well!
A changer is just a hierarchically ordered pair of numbers. You don't get much info about a song from the number. Try navigating an arbitrarilly deep layer of text labels. You'll find what you want much faster, but you will definitely have to look at it.
It really depends how you organize your songs, whether it is as safe as a changer, but if you read things while choosing songs, it would be much more dangerous.
If outbound traffic is subject to this limitation, it will certainly be the bane of many script kiddies the world over. Anyone without the charging option would get cut off shortly if their computer was part of a ddos, and anyone who was on the plan would quickly rectify the situation after receiving their multi-million dollar bill...
2.4 series have data corruption problems, particularly with some SCSI controllers. Check the mailing lists for details to make sure you aren't affected if you want to live on the edge, but I'm keeping my servers on 2.2. My home box is running 2.4.3 without problems, though.
This was somewhat relevant the first time this article was posted on/. several months (or was it even a year or two?) ago. Anyway, since then, we've got new releases of gtk and Qt, and they support internationalization much better. New releases of GNOME and KDE, and they have component models of some sort. All in addition to being much nicer to code for.
That's a big advantage of open source--over time it matures and improves if there is developer interest. Obviously in this case, there was. There will probably also be developer interest in motif, as long as there are legacy apps to support. But I wouldn't hold the former lack of features of Qt and gtk against them any more than I would hold it against motif that at one time there was no computer powerful enough to run a motif application.
When I run it on Linux, it has all the features I expect in a modern OS, except for auto update. I use Debian, which gives me that, though. Some application software, like a decent word pro and media players, would be really nice.
Of course, Windows 2000 has all of the features, plus good apps. But its command line is less useful, and that's what I use most of the time, so I'll stick with Linux. I'm hardly an average user, though.
I'd hardly call professional baseball players intellectual elite. Ditto for football, basketball, etc.. So I wouldn't go making statments about jock geeks on the basis that they play everquest.
Besides, wouldn't you expect them to play more video games? After all, they don't have real work to do all day.
Many of the Wince devices suffer from serious interface issues. Start button on a handheld, anyone???
Also, the power use issues on them won't go away. They have true multitasking, lots of memory and fast processors. While I'd normally say this is good, it is such a drain on batteries that they just can't hold up to Palm devices. They need big expensive batteries just to get acceptable lifespan, whereas Palms can last much longer on a single charge.
Making lightweight devices just isn't Micro$oft's strong point. The only way that Palm can lose is by making their new devices so expensive that they look like Wince competitors. Oh wait, they are doing that. Oh well, I can't help it if they hang themselves when they have the better product.
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I'll byte. What you say is true, but entirely beside the point. He meant C for GNOME or C++ for KDE, and the bindings for Qt/ KDE are not so varied as for Gtk. Also, two of those languages, Perl and Python, are unsuited for developing sizeable desktop applications. As for Ada, I suppose you could, but I don't know of any such applications, so finding an existing project to work on would be a difficult task itself.
What you can do until someone writes a (Python or insert your favourite language here) frontend for Mono is compile using Microsoft's tools and run on the Mono backend. That's the nice thing about standards, and it appears (so far, at least) that Microsoft is playing fair this time.
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Unless the technology can be maintained with local expertise it is just putting the people in a dependant relationship on more industrialized nations. There is a path that technological development has to go on to empower the people, and sometimes that means that less good technologies have to be used.
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Grocery stores don't bother with this. They are starting to get into the game with things like Air Miles, which associate personal info with exact product items, locations and times. But the payback isn't nearly so large; people just don't spend thousands of dollars a day at grocery stores.
Probably the only other industry that really has the resources and desire for this information is the tobacco industry. You can bet they do their best to track trends. They have a big disadvantage, though, namely that they don't have direct access to consumers. You can be sure that the healthcare industry keeps the data, but they don't have as much concern since medical treatments are much less discretionary than grocery selection or casinos. I wouldn't be surprised to see them team up with tobacco companies though, since they have pretty much all the requisite information.
As for tracking, I suppose they could attach my name to it when it came out of the bank machine, but they lose it when I do any number of things. It could given to the neighbour's kid for cutting grass, or to any small store that doesn't have a scanner, or even just broken into smaller bills that aren't associated with me at the nearest Kwiki-Mart.
Microsoft has said that their plans include a reference implementation on a free UNIX platform, likely some BSD or Linux. They are staking their future on this platform, so they want it to be adopted widely and they definitely don't want the DOJ to kill it. I think they may play it safe and make their own port under a free license.
It sounds like of the many companies making digital cameras, only Kodak has a problem with this anti-competitive practise. I'm guessing it is because the others don't want to make software. Since Kodak's is better than Microsoft's, they want everybody to use the default software and take away Kodak's advantage. I hope that Microsoft can not get away with this. It is a conspiracy to reduce competition
Sounds like it's time for me to dig out my BB Gun of Camera Slaying.
I hope that GoD and company can live up the the same high standards as Bungie. From the screenshots, there are obviously still a lot of issues with the game. I hope they will put in the effort to fix them and make it a wonderful game before they release. Far too many developers now are satisifed with releasing crap, and even if they do fix the issues eventually, the game does not do nearly so well as if they just did it right in the first place.
By the way, does anyone know if they are using StarOffice (the proprietary product from Sun available under the non-free SCSL) or OpenOffice.org (the free version that Sun made available under the GPL)? The ZDNet article seemed to indicate the former, but I'm not sure they could tell the difference anyway. The difference to the Free Software community would be significant, though.
Initially, it looked really silly, since there weren't many cars and there weren't many people driving all over. Now the highways are full. Same with fiber; traffic will grow to fill them to capacity. It will just take a few years.
I'll leave it up to other people to decide if that's a good thing.
It probably has to due with branding and product recongition. If they sell it and make an effort to offer support for it, it has to have their name. As for why not Red Hat PostgreSQL, I think their marketing team probably just didn't think of it. It sounds awful, but I doubt that would stop a marketing team.
Isn't the amortized part money they haven't had for some time, and are writing off now for tax purposes? They are writing off goodwill and intangibles, which have book value because of what they paid, but that doesn't affect cash flow at all. There was also about 7 million dollars in other one time expenses; it's probably more useful to go over them and the revenue figures to see how closely doctored they are. Probably more informative is that they didn't give any guidance whatsoever. I really don't know what that means.
Lucky for me, all my copies of Debian are on cd-r. I pity all those poor people who paid $200 for a copy of Windows 2000. We always knew it was more vulnerable to viruses, well now we know it's more vulnerable to fungi as well!
It really depends how you organize your songs, whether it is as safe as a changer, but if you read things while choosing songs, it would be much more dangerous.
If outbound traffic is subject to this limitation, it will certainly be the bane of many script kiddies the world over. Anyone without the charging option would get cut off shortly if their computer was part of a ddos, and anyone who was on the plan would quickly rectify the situation after receiving their multi-million dollar bill...
2.4 series have data corruption problems, particularly with some SCSI controllers. Check the mailing lists for details to make sure you aren't affected if you want to live on the edge, but I'm keeping my servers on 2.2. My home box is running 2.4.3 without problems, though.
That's a big advantage of open source--over time it matures and improves if there is developer interest. Obviously in this case, there was. There will probably also be developer interest in motif, as long as there are legacy apps to support. But I wouldn't hold the former lack of features of Qt and gtk against them any more than I would hold it against motif that at one time there was no computer powerful enough to run a motif application.
Of course, Windows 2000 has all of the features, plus good apps. But its command line is less useful, and that's what I use most of the time, so I'll stick with Linux. I'm hardly an average user, though.
Besides, wouldn't you expect them to play more video games? After all, they don't have real work to do all day.
Also, the power use issues on them won't go away. They have true multitasking, lots of memory and fast processors. While I'd normally say this is good, it is such a drain on batteries that they just can't hold up to Palm devices. They need big expensive batteries just to get acceptable lifespan, whereas Palms can last much longer on a single charge.
Making lightweight devices just isn't Micro$oft's strong point. The only way that Palm can lose is by making their new devices so expensive that they look like Wince competitors. Oh wait, they are doing that. Oh well, I can't help it if they hang themselves when they have the better product.
If you used P3/ P4/ Athlon machines, then you'd have a much cheaper cluster.