Letting Microsoft loose the right to its IP. No need to force them to do anything. It seems to me that this would be the most cost-efficient way to solve the problem.
It just seems appropiate that if they abuse intellectual property rights, they should just loose them.
I'd be interested if this is true, and all these companies are selling seeds for sterile plants. My understanding was that Monsanto gave up on those 'terminator' seeds.
I've been in the same situation you are alot of times. I haven't found a solution for the situation, as the company i'm working for has spent about 1/2 million on sun and oracle stuff (at least not windows), that could have done with one pc running linux and mysql, but here are
a couple of ideas:
1. Install the box, regardless of what anyone says. Once it's there they will probably use it.
2. Work for another company, where geting things done is valued more than politics
3. Install whatever equipment they want. You are a techie, and you are expected to like expensive equipment. Enjoy it and encourage them to buy more, remember it's not your money!
Your math is wrong. If there's a 1/200 risk of cancer per microgram of plutonium, the risk for 10 micrograms will be closer to 4.88898697% ( as opposed to 5%)
Perl will probably be the overall best language. It's got the three important things that you'll need for cgi programming, which are regular expressions, the best string quoting there is, and the manipulation of sets of data easily.
The regular expressions (Perl's implementation is far and away the most useful out there) are useful for doing validation of input, output of programs, and other things. Perl's flexible string quoting is important, because you often want to be able to quote stuff written in other languages, such as SQL, and HTML, with Perl's quoting operators, you can include several lines of code written in what ever in a way that looks neat. Most other web programming languages will at most have a useful operator for quoting HTML to print out, but not for putting this stuff into variables, or executing SQL (or any other random language).
The data structures that Perl has, hash tables and array, as well as the built in functions for using the map, foreach, can help you shorten your code a lot, making only a few perl lines the equivalent of hundreads of lines of code written in java, for example.
In addition perl code parses and executes extremely quickly. While it is possible to speed it up using mod_perl, many high-volume sites do just fine using plain cgi.
For web programming I don't see any reason to use anything else.
Such horseshit! I'm not religious or radical. I still don't see how it's my responsability to pay for the children of others, if I didn't make them pregnant.
Is that this means that M$ is now getting into lobbying, and even if UCITA fails, they'll probably be in there trying to get similar laws to pass for a long time.
BTW I don't know why articles about UCITA always refer to it being backed by 'large software companies'? Is there any other company involved besides M$$??
This might be their contingency planning in case Linux really takes off. Then they could still try to keep their 'Office' monopoly in spite of the fact.
Maybe these rumors all true. 34 developers is probably very little for M$. To make an usable port of their Office, it would have to be better than their ports of IE to Solaris and HP/UX, as well as also consuming an large amount of resources.
which are those? I've been ssh for quite a while, and the only thing I had heard about was a buffer overflow. Are there any questionable architecture design deciscions on ssh?
Also, does anybody have a mirror, it like this site is getting slashdotted already.
Discovering 90% of what is known the universe is unconsequential if you can't feel it or touch it. I do hope it's a major break thorugh and produces something useful in every day life.
They said the development "is just the tip of an incredible iceberg, if this is right."
So what can we do with the WIMPs? I hope./ is not posting a story that would have no impact on hour lives whatsoever. We'll they give us space travel? Eternal youth? Oral sex?
Yup, way before the internet became popular, AOL was there, and I subscribed to them. I didn't like their service so I cancelled, they kept charging me for several months to my credit card. And lots of other people had the same problem
Slashdot Mirror
Letting Microsoft loose the right to its IP. No need to force them to do anything. It seems to me that this would be the most cost-efficient way to solve the problem.
It just seems appropiate that if they abuse intellectual property rights, they should just loose them.
I'd be interested if this is true, and all these companies are selling seeds for sterile plants. My understanding was that Monsanto gave up on those 'terminator' seeds.
It was already slashdoted b4 the first comment was posted...
Is not gnutella. Freenet sounds like the best concept out there. All it needs is a nifty end-user client for pix and mp3's.
Metallica and drde wouldn't have anybody to sue..
I've been in the same situation you are alot of times. I haven't found a solution for the situation, as the company i'm working for has spent about 1/2 million on sun and oracle stuff (at least not windows), that could have done with one pc running linux and mysql, but here are
a couple of ideas:
1. Install the box, regardless of what anyone says. Once it's there they will probably use it.
2. Work for another company, where geting things done is valued more than politics
3. Install whatever equipment they want. You are a techie, and you are expected to like expensive equipment. Enjoy it and encourage them to buy more, remember it's not your money!
Monkeys used primitive technology ... to create people .. about 4 million years ago...
are we smarter than they are?
Your math is wrong. If there's a 1/200 risk of
cancer per microgram of plutonium, the risk
for 10 micrograms will be closer to
4.88898697% ( as opposed to 5%)
Perl will probably be the overall best language. It's got the three important things that you'll need for cgi programming, which are regular expressions, the best string quoting there is, and the manipulation of sets of data easily.
The regular expressions (Perl's implementation is far and away the most useful out there) are useful for doing validation of input, output of programs, and other things. Perl's flexible string quoting is important, because you often want to be able to quote stuff written in other languages, such as SQL, and HTML, with Perl's quoting operators, you can include several lines of code written in what ever in a way that looks neat. Most other web programming languages will at most have a useful operator for quoting HTML to print out, but not for putting this stuff into variables, or executing SQL (or any other random language).
The data structures that Perl has, hash tables and array, as well as the built in functions for using the map, foreach, can help you shorten your code a lot, making only a few perl lines the equivalent of hundreads of lines of code written in java, for example.
In addition perl code parses and executes extremely quickly. While it is possible to speed it up using mod_perl, many high-volume sites do just fine using plain cgi.
For web programming I don't see any reason to use anything else.
It'd be great to have some information on how to replicate this experiment at home. This would be great fun.
Such horseshit! I'm not religious or radical. I still don't see how it's my responsability to pay for the children of others, if I didn't make them pregnant.
Could anything be possibly less newsworthy than this?
That ain't going to be easy, I mean look at IPv6. Is the Linux/UNIX/BSD community adopting it? As far as I know next to no one is using it.
And also wat are those protocols going to be?
Is that this means that M$ is now getting into lobbying, and even if UCITA fails, they'll probably be in there trying to get similar laws to pass for a long time.
BTW I don't know why articles about UCITA always refer to it being backed by 'large software companies'? Is there any other company involved besides M$$??
Now that china has our Nuclear technology, however, the forces of peace, freedom and television need the ultra-force of Nanotech to gain leverage!
This might be their contingency planning in case Linux really takes off. Then they could still try to keep their 'Office' monopoly in spite of the fact.
Maybe these rumors all true. 34 developers is probably very little for M$. To make an usable port of their Office, it would have to be better than their ports of IE to Solaris and HP/UX, as well as also consuming an large amount of resources.
which are those? I've been ssh for quite a while, and the only thing I had heard about was a buffer overflow. Are there any questionable architecture design deciscions on ssh?
Also, does anybody have a mirror, it like this site is getting slashdotted already.
Discovering 90% of what is known the universe is unconsequential if you can't feel it or touch it. I do hope it's a major break thorugh and produces something useful in every day life.
This is absolutely awesome. i want these displays!
the development "is just the tip of an incredible iceberg, if this is right."
So what can we do with the WIMPs? I hope
Anybody's got a mirror?
...or to each other, embed ll sorts of interpreters inside each other!!!
hnn says that there seems to have been an attack on excite this mornning.
Yup, way before the internet became popular, AOL was there, and I subscribed to them. I didn't like their service so I cancelled, they kept charging me for several months to my credit card. And lots of other people had the same problem
Their lack of principles is nothing new..
Moderate this one up!
There have also been DOS against buy.com, and another company. This is pretty interesting.