When was the last time you were in a pleasant hailstorm? Sure, the balls of ice look neat as they hurtle toward your car, but they rarely do anything good when they hit. Hail wrecks stuff.
Actually, Microsoft is using reverse psychology. Make it sound so bad that people decide it *can't* be that bad.
I don't want to analyze this to death. I just want to say: I appreciate that Sun has chosen to follow this path. This is great news to me, and hopefully it will help Sun in some way.
I know a lot of people say that SUNW is a Big Evil Corporation like MSFT, but I disagree. I really like products such as Java (slow, but the APIs are fairly symmetric, and the JVM is predictable), whereas the stuff Microsoft puts out often is less than satisfactory (who here *likes* Visual Studio? who here uses Visual Studio just to get the job done, but secretly wishes it was called GCC Studio? that's what I thought).
I'm even willing to pay for some of Sun's stuff (e.g. Solaris Media Kit). The horror of it!
P.S. I know gcc is available for win32, so don't flame me about that. Please.
to kick MSFT's ass with software than it is to do the same with the law? Y'all act like you don't trust free software to win the day on its own merits.
I totally agree. In fact, I think it is pretentious for anyone to believe that the universe just *is*.
Why is the sky such a fabulous blue? Why does every tree resemble a unique artistic masterpiece of unequaled beauty? This stuff just happens...right. Just remember that nothing people have devised matches the awesome magnificence of the universe.
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the FBI always seems so eager to do "this sort of thing" (e.g. Carnivore)? What motivates these people? They are people, by the way. The FBI is usually referred to as an entity separate from any individual, but it boils down to some people trying to spy on their fellow citizens.
If your point of view differs from mine, try thinking about this comment as if it were sarcastic.
Moderators, I will save you some time reading this diatribe - this is flamebait.
Every time Slashdot announces something neato, a goodly amount of the readership poo-poos it. This is annoying by itself, but what I really dislike is the way such comments are moderated. I browse at 5, yet I still have to wade through the sour grapes and inflated egos.
It is easy to look down on an accomplishment that you didn't achieve. It seems to be hard to add useful content (some of you do a good job, though). Moderation trends perpetuate the problem.
Here are a couple of suggestions for good moderating:
Moderate up posts that tell how that neato thing was done
Moderate up hard, verifiable facts, not "I don't think this will work because the problem doesn't exist/it has been solved before/it's ok to make money and anyone who doesn't appreciate big business interests is harming open source/free software/freedom" Notice the illogical conclusion of the quoted material. I get the sense some people argue just for the sake of appearing cynically knowledgeable.
My own post is irritating me at this point. I am going to stop right now.
I just read a Todd Fries post on misc@ re: this issue. He says that OpenBSD will likely switch to ipfw. So it really isn't a big deal anyway. I guess projections are in the several months range. You can find the discussion on Geocrawler
Everyone here has heard of OpenSSH, right? I don't know why so many of you are gloating about OpenBSD's "misfortune" when OpenIPF will possibly be better than anything previously designed. I don't mean to sound like a troll, but the reactions posted here are disgusting.
I think it would be nice to have arrow buttons like the keyboard has so I could easily make straight movements. 9 buttons, 8 to send the mouse in 8 directions and one to restore to previous location. Plus a joystick/ball/whatever...sounds kind of big, but I would really like it.
So would this happen if the entity using the domain name was in another country? Do United States companies own the internet (or at least the most popular TLDs)?
...learning how to use what we have more efficiently? I guess programming languages have become better over time - I guess. Except C is still very fast (I didn't expect it to get slower, BTW) and Java is difficult to deal with when it comes to things like not echoing characters obtained from the keyboard to the console. You can always go lower level if you want.
I think, insofar as programming languages are concerned, we should stop creating new puzzles to figure out and solve the ones we have. This is all a lot of opinion, though.
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There is a simple solution to all of this: find a way to make boatloads of cash from environmental protection activities.
I bet you there's a way to do it, too.
When was the last time you were in a pleasant hailstorm? Sure, the balls of ice look neat as they hurtle toward your car, but they rarely do anything good when they hit. Hail wrecks stuff.
Actually, Microsoft is using reverse psychology. Make it sound so bad that people decide it *can't* be that bad.
Give 'em an inch and they take a mile.
This is why privacy "freaks" are necessary. At least they believe strongly enough about something to fight for it.
Point taken.
I don't want to analyze this to death. I just want to say: I appreciate that Sun has chosen to follow this path. This is great news to me, and hopefully it will help Sun in some way.
I know a lot of people say that SUNW is a Big Evil Corporation like MSFT, but I disagree. I really like products such as Java (slow, but the APIs are fairly symmetric, and the JVM is predictable), whereas the stuff Microsoft puts out often is less than satisfactory (who here *likes* Visual Studio? who here uses Visual Studio just to get the job done, but secretly wishes it was called GCC Studio? that's what I thought).
I'm even willing to pay for some of Sun's stuff (e.g. Solaris Media Kit). The horror of it!
P.S. I know gcc is available for win32, so don't flame me about that. Please.
The bad thing about systems that do that is they actually reduce the number of possible keys. The implication is there...
well said...I'd mod that up if I had points right now
...to kick MSFT's ass with software than it is to do the same with the law? Y'all act like free software can't win on its own merits.
to kick MSFT's ass with software than it is to do the same with the law? Y'all act like you don't trust free software to win the day on its own merits.
That is a very good idea. Someone moderate up the post to which I am replying - it's a good point.
"Our analysis is that many users of Linux don't want their organizations or their competitors knowing what they're running. "
Why is this? Why don't many users of Linux want their organizations or their competitors to know what they're running?
I honestly don't understand that statement. What does it mean?
Please mod the post to which I am replying up a point (Interesting). It is true.
What does this have to do with Pac-Man? I read the article and I still don't get the connection.
Is Bill's inability to steal luxman the last straw, and he is simply lashing out at the pill muncher out of frustration???
I totally agree. In fact, I think it is pretentious for anyone to believe that the universe just *is*.
Why is the sky such a fabulous blue? Why does every tree resemble a unique artistic masterpiece of unequaled beauty? This stuff just happens...right. Just remember that nothing people have devised matches the awesome magnificence of the universe.
W3C has many member companies, and it manages to publish tons of standards...
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the FBI always seems so eager to do "this sort of thing" (e.g. Carnivore)? What motivates these people? They are people, by the way. The FBI is usually referred to as an entity separate from any individual, but it boils down to some people trying to spy on their fellow citizens.
If your point of view differs from mine, try thinking about this comment as if it were sarcastic.
Moderators, I will save you some time reading this diatribe - this is flamebait.
Every time Slashdot announces something neato, a goodly amount of the readership poo-poos it. This is annoying by itself, but what I really dislike is the way such comments are moderated. I browse at 5, yet I still have to wade through the sour grapes and inflated egos.
It is easy to look down on an accomplishment that you didn't achieve. It seems to be hard to add useful content (some of you do a good job, though). Moderation trends perpetuate the problem.
Here are a couple of suggestions for good moderating:
You are not allowed to distribute modified code.
I just read a Todd Fries post on misc@ re: this issue. He says that OpenBSD will likely switch to ipfw. So it really isn't a big deal anyway. I guess projections are in the several months range. You can find the discussion on Geocrawler
Everyone here has heard of OpenSSH, right? I don't know why so many of you are gloating about OpenBSD's "misfortune" when OpenIPF will possibly be better than anything previously designed. I don't mean to sound like a troll, but the reactions posted here are disgusting.
Putting two fibers together wouldn't work. First of all, the cladding stops the light from mingling, but even if it did, all you would get is loss.
I think it would be nice to have arrow buttons like the keyboard has so I could easily make straight movements. 9 buttons, 8 to send the mouse in 8 directions and one to restore to previous location. Plus a joystick/ball/whatever...sounds kind of big, but I would really like it.
So would this happen if the entity using the domain name was in another country? Do United States companies own the internet (or at least the most popular TLDs)?
I think, insofar as programming languages are concerned, we should stop creating new puzzles to figure out and solve the ones we have. This is all a lot of opinion, though.
Is the faster growth of speed due to convenience provided by physical properties of modern chips, or is it a product of human innovation?