borland PIONEERED this in delphi and it works great! i think cafe can do it as well. netbeans sucks! it's way too strict with where you can add source code. cafe is not as bad but still too strict for my liking. plus it tries to unnecessarily inject its components in places where you don't really need them. that just adds more baggage imho. jbuilder does what i want but it's too slow. so i just use scopeedit and jikes. compiler and editor is the best way to go anyway. the loss in autofill is a small price to pay.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
a surprisingly viable solution to all this nonsense is to start ignoring software patents outright. there is no way they can stop all of us. it would be a form of civil disobedience until more reasonable standards are discussed. the system has obviously been abused and it really is time to get this out into the forefront.
another idea would be to start applying for the most outrageous patents you can think of and start suing companies over them. this really needs to end!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
When will these companies say hey do we really need to make stereos that hook up to the interent?
i can't even count the number of times that i've been in my car listening to my radio and said, "this song is cool, i wonder who sings it.." and then waited for the end of the song so the dj could say the name of the song and group who sings it. instead of that happening, the dj cuts to commercial and i spent the rest of the month listenting to the radio, watching mtv, stupidly humming the song and sporadic lyrics trying to figure out what the goddamn song was. all of this could be avoidable by being able to press a button and getting the title of the song. it's simple things like that that makes the internet a compelling consumer platform...
imagine watching a show and being able to point to an item on the screen that tells you where you can get it. or imagine tuning into a movie and being able to get the name of the movie, actors, what other movies made by the same producer or with the same actors, etc.. this is where the internet fits. we're not talking web browsers on everything!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
EGCS is a cygnus project. I think glibc is as well. They have produced a version of the GNU development suite called "GNUPro" which includes some moderately enhanced stuff. They have produced their own Real Time operating system called Ecos (if I remember right). They have produced a complete port of all the GNU stuff to Windows called "Cyg-Win" which they sell for $99.
your description is a little off. cygwin is still quite alive and well and it is quite free. gnupro is the package for sale.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
When Microsoft introduced Excel, it was lightyears ahead of other spreadsheet programs of the time, including Lotus 1-2-3. Excel had things like WYSIWYG, background recalc, and other things that made the spreadsheet concept usable to people who never would have used Lotus 123, VisiCalc, etc.
hate to burst your bubble but the excel "innovations" microsoft had came from quattro pro. the dos version was wysiwyg and they came up with the idea of workbooks et all. and it was light years ahead of lotus.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
Didn't they learn from their DreamCast fiasco? Anyway, I'm predicting that this project will be killed anyway and if it does make the light of day it will be lackluster. It's way too late for MicroSoft to get into the game.
Sony is the clear winner in this space and the fact that they already have a base for connectivity with their consumer appliances makes them tough to beat. Sony is very serious about becoming not only the defacto standard for gaming but the defacto standard for home entertainment. They've been putting FireWire (a method of connecting media devices) into their digital cameras, PCs, Laptops, televisions, stereo components, etc.. The (MIPS-based) video chip in PlayStation has nothing that comes close to it. This could also be used to make a settop box out of the PlayStation II as well.
Let's also not forget that PlayStation I has about 80% market share. I believe the new PlayStation II will blow away the records set by DreamCast.
That said Sony is forecasting lower than expected earnings due to PlayStation's costs and competition:
If you're going to send that, then I suggest reading "Civil Actions for Dummies"... several times... all six thousand volumes.
In case you haven't noticed, these people are attorneys. They are paid hundreds of dollars an hour by corporations like IDG just to stomp on people like you. Just writing that letter probably cost IDG a cool $300. If you get pissy with them, then they will drop the hammer on you.
They honestly don't give a shit if you're polite to them or not. What they care about is protecting and preserving the intellectual-property rights of their client, IDG. Snippiness is completely irrelevant to them.
If you want to avoid a long, prolonged flamewar with a lawyer -- and when lawyers flame, they do it in ways that your pocketbook will feel -- then I suggest writing back a polite, professional letter.
This is not Usenet, and you do not get style points for creative flamage.
you'd be pretty surprised. getting into a fight with these guys isn't that hard. the lawyers don't have a case and all he needs is a lawyer that has at least half a brain to embarrass the fuck out of those overpaid egomaniacs.
also, don't forget they still have to think of p.r.. then there are the civil liberties organizations that will bring attention to these things as well. that letter is not out of line and i think he should send it.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
They can't just be abandoning their opportunity to make money on Solaris.
sun makes its money selling servers. so proliferating their platform makes sense. they'll just say, "hey! this code runs best on a sparc so buy one already!" they've seen linux' phenomenal growth and rapid advancement and they want a piece of that.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
what criminal in his right mind would use government endorsed encryption anyway? the definition of a criminal is "someone who breaks the law". if he was breaking the law, do you think he would use encryption with a government back door? the u.s. government's agenda is obvious and transparent. they are trying to survail innocent citizens. this survailence leads to oppression. our days are numbered
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
my experiences in team development tend to make me agree with you. i don't mean to sound conceited but projects usually go better when i'm the lead because i have final say on the code. i think the linux model is great where there are hierarchies of decision making and code is accepted, rejected or improved. this works for small groups as well. i go through all the code that's added and make corrections or reject the code for a rewrite. i think alot of leads are afraid of stepping on peoples toes but you really have to be somewhat dictatorial to make the project go right.
by the way, are there ever summaries compiled on the ask slashdots?
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
The only reason I bring this up is because me and my best friend, Dead Republican, were just talking about this the other day. He wrote a song called "Come and Get Yours" on his first album and he's working on a followup to that song in light of the recent incidents. Check it out on his website. I'm not allowed to link the song directly here but it's in mp3 on the Dead Republican page on my site.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
So America Online and MicroSoft are fighting over instant messaging. I think AOL is in the right here though. To access the AOL Instant Messenger users, the user must provide his AOL screen name and password to the MicroSoft software. It doesn't take a rocket science to surmise that this could potentially expose sensitive AOL information to MicroSoft. This could also expose other unintended holes to the outside world. I'm willing to bet there will be a cease and desist or a lawsuit filed by the end of the week. To me what MicroSoft is doing is no different than what they accuse the creators of BackOrifice of doing:
The case for Yahoo! and Prodigy is somewhat different since they used AOL's publicly posted information to gain access to the IM features of AOL. I disagree with what AOL has done to them and do agree that there should be an Instant Messaging standard but it's not MicroSoft's place to enforce it by hacking around AOL's security. What MicroSoft is doing is hacking, plain and simple.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
And, there's more non-x86 competition at the server level, with Sun, IBM, SGI, Compaq, etc. So either non-x86 Merced has to be better at x86 than Athlon; or it has to be better at high-end work than entrenched RISC designs.
In short, there's a reason why Intel went after the low end with Celeron. Without the consumer market, Intel can't maintain its dominance.
I seriously disagree with this one. Intel doesn't make margins off of its lowend chips so this argument is flawed. Their margins come from the P3s and Xeons. That's why I thought that going after the low end with the Celeron price cuts with stupid because these prices got low enough to attract customers away from the P3! So the consumer flushout theory does make sense.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
This has been explained, I believe through official Lucas sources, as a strong rule of thumb, not as a law of the universe (like those of thermodynamics). A lone master would naturally seek out an assistant (and, I presume, someone with whom to gloat); but two apprentices (or an apprentice with his own sub-apprentice) would overpower the master and reduce the count to two (just as Vader offered to Luke in ESB). And of course two independent masters could not co-exist.
this actually gives credence to brin's "anankin master plan" then.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
Surely I'm not alone in feeling cheated of what could happen if those movies were directed at adults. Whatever mythic quality they have is diluted to uselessness by the action figures that follow.
Exactly, I also wrote about this in my review of the movie. I felt totally cheated!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
like those aol guys did. if they make money off of your site, you should demand payment. without the members there would be no draw. more popular sites should get payment too.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
I don't agree with the author's proposals to open the MS Office file formats -- that would only lead to even stronger support of MS Office which we don't want -- we want MS Office file format to die and go away not become even more common.
that's crazy! why would it matter if you use the program of your choice to manipulate it. the money goes to your favorite software company not microsoft! that's assuming software is still going to be sold. even in the service model opening up document specs is a good idea.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
So are you saying that perl code should be platform independant like Java was supposed to be? This seems like a ridiculous expectation. According to that notion I should be able to use the same perl script that I use to change passwords in/etc/passwd, to change passwords in the WinNT registry!
with a properly designed perl object this should be a reasonable expectation. but as far as this whole thing goes, i don't see any real danger. if they destroy that version of perl, i'm sure another version will come up. i tried to be a purist and use the win32 compile of perl and all i got were headaches. the activeperl distribution just installed it. i liked that. i still have some problems with some custom modules though. i do wish that i could just do a make on the modules in either platform and have it work. but yeah it would be nice to have it only as a module. i hope that's what they're thinking!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
Perhaps Lucas has introduced these micro-organisms in Episode 1 only to have them debunked in Episodes 2 & 3 in favor of more spiritual explanation for the force.
this was just lousy writing on lucas' part. if the jedi were indeed an ancient culture as described by the older obi wan kenobi in episode iv then the metachloriants would have been long ignored and discredited. obi wan should have sensed the force in the boy as soon as he hit tattoine. especially the force at the level described. my official review is here for your perusing.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
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borland PIONEERED this in delphi and it works great! i think cafe can do it as well. netbeans sucks! it's way too strict with where you can add source code. cafe is not as bad but still too strict for my liking. plus it tries to unnecessarily inject its components in places where you don't really need them. that just adds more baggage imho. jbuilder does what i want but it's too slow. so i just use scopeedit and jikes. compiler and editor is the best way to go anyway. the loss in autofill is a small price to pay.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
another idea would be to start applying for the most outrageous patents you can think of and start suing companies over them. this really needs to end!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
i can't even count the number of times that i've been in my car listening to my radio and said, "this song is cool, i wonder who sings it.." and then waited for the end of the song so the dj could say the name of the song and group who sings it. instead of that happening, the dj cuts to commercial and i spent the rest of the month listenting to the radio, watching mtv, stupidly humming the song and sporadic lyrics trying to figure out what the goddamn song was. all of this could be avoidable by being able to press a button and getting the title of the song. it's simple things like that that makes the internet a compelling consumer platform...
imagine watching a show and being able to point to an item on the screen that tells you where you can get it. or imagine tuning into a movie and being able to get the name of the movie, actors, what other movies made by the same producer or with the same actors, etc.. this is where the internet fits. we're not talking web browsers on everything!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
your description is a little off. cygwin is still quite alive and well and it is quite free. gnupro is the package for sale.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
hate to burst your bubble but the excel "innovations" microsoft had came from quattro pro. the dos version was wysiwyg and they came up with the idea of workbooks et all. and it was light years ahead of lotus.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
MicroSoft is supposedly planning to release a gaming system:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/991026 -000014.html
Didn't they learn from their DreamCast fiasco? Anyway, I'm predicting that this project will be killed anyway and if it does make the light of day it will be lackluster. It's way too late for MicroSoft to get into the game.
Sony is the clear winner in this space and the fact that they already have a base for connectivity with their consumer appliances makes them tough to beat. Sony is very serious about becoming not only the defacto standard for gaming but the defacto standard for home entertainment. They've been putting FireWire (a method of connecting media devices) into their digital cameras, PCs, Laptops, televisions, stereo components, etc.. The (MIPS-based) video chip in PlayStation has nothing that comes close to it. This could also be used to make a settop box out of the PlayStation II as well.
Let's also not forget that PlayStation I has about 80% market share. I believe the new PlayStation II will blow away the records set by DreamCast.
That said Sony is forecasting lower than expected earnings due to PlayStation's costs and competition:
http://dailynews.yaho o.com/h/nm/19991026/tc/japan_sony_1.html
I was hoping something like this would drive the stock down but I'm having no luck there. I guess no one's buying it. I'm not either.
You can read about Sony's plans in this month's Wired (which I still haven't read myself ).
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
i liked it! at least it was alot more entertaining than that godawful movie!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
In case you haven't noticed, these people are attorneys. They are paid hundreds of dollars an hour by corporations like IDG just to stomp on people like you. Just writing that letter probably cost IDG a cool $300. If you get pissy with them, then they will drop the hammer on you.
They honestly don't give a shit if you're polite to them or not. What they care about is protecting and preserving the intellectual-property rights of their client, IDG. Snippiness is completely irrelevant to them.
If you want to avoid a long, prolonged flamewar with a lawyer -- and when lawyers flame, they do it in ways that your pocketbook will feel -- then I suggest writing back a polite, professional letter.
This is not Usenet, and you do not get style points for creative flamage.
you'd be pretty surprised. getting into a fight with these guys isn't that hard. the lawyers don't have a case and all he needs is a lawyer that has at least half a brain to embarrass the fuck out of those overpaid egomaniacs.
also, don't forget they still have to think of p.r.. then there are the civil liberties organizations that will bring attention to these things as well. that letter is not out of line and i think he should send it.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
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"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
sun makes its money selling servers. so proliferating their platform makes sense. they'll just say, "hey! this code runs best on a sparc so buy one already!" they've seen linux' phenomenal growth and rapid advancement and they want a piece of that.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
ibm has jike
symantec has their jit and cafe
inprise has jbuilder
there is plenty of competition that sun isn't trying to kill!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
what criminal in his right mind would use government endorsed encryption anyway? the definition of a criminal is "someone who breaks the law". if he was breaking the law, do you think he would use encryption with a government back door? the u.s. government's agenda is obvious and transparent. they are trying to survail innocent citizens. this survailence leads to oppression. our days are numbered
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
by the way, are there ever summaries compiled on the ask slashdots?
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
The only reason I bring this up is because me and my best friend, Dead Republican, were just talking about this the other day. He wrote a song called "Come and Get Yours" on his first album and he's working on a followup to that song in light of the recent incidents. Check it out on his website. I'm not allowed to link the song directly here but it's in mp3 on the Dead Republican page on my site.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
I heard about this last week. He said that the Internet was a passing fad and likened it to the CB radio of the 90s! I'll post a link if I find one.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
So America Online and MicroSoft are fighting over instant messaging. I think AOL is in the right here though. To access the AOL Instant Messenger users, the user must provide his AOL screen name and password to the MicroSoft software. It doesn't take a rocket science to surmise that this could potentially expose sensitive AOL information to MicroSoft. This could also expose other unintended holes to the outside world. I'm willing to bet there will be a cease and desist or a lawsuit filed by the end of the week. To me what MicroSoft is doing is no different than what they accuse the creators of BackOrifice of doing:
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/news/pr1 9990719.html
The case for Yahoo! and Prodigy is somewhat different since they used AOL's publicly posted information to gain access to the IM features of AOL. I disagree with what AOL has done to them and do agree that there should be an Instant Messaging standard but it's not MicroSoft's place to enforce it by hacking around AOL's security. What MicroSoft is doing is hacking, plain and simple.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
In short, there's a reason why Intel went after the low end with Celeron. Without the consumer market, Intel can't maintain its dominance.
I seriously disagree with this one. Intel doesn't make margins off of its lowend chips so this argument is flawed. Their margins come from the P3s and Xeons. That's why I thought that going after the low end with the Celeron price cuts with stupid because these prices got low enough to attract customers away from the P3! So the consumer flushout theory does make sense.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
this actually gives credence to brin's "anankin master plan" then.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
Exactly, I also wrote about this in my review of the movie. I felt totally cheated!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
like those aol guys did. if they make money off of your site, you should demand payment. without the members there would be no draw. more popular sites should get payment too.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
that's crazy! why would it matter if you use the program of your choice to manipulate it. the money goes to your favorite software company not microsoft! that's assuming software is still going to be sold. even in the service model opening up document specs is a good idea.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
Try Delphi.
exactly. the object model is alot better too!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
with a properly designed perl object this should be a reasonable expectation. but as far as this whole thing goes, i don't see any real danger. if they destroy that version of perl, i'm sure another version will come up. i tried to be a purist and use the win32 compile of perl and all i got were headaches. the activeperl distribution just installed it. i liked that. i still have some problems with some custom modules though. i do wish that i could just do a make on the modules in either platform and have it work. but yeah it would be nice to have it only as a module. i hope that's what they're thinking!
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."
this was just lousy writing on lucas' part. if the jedi were indeed an ancient culture as described by the older obi wan kenobi in episode iv then the metachloriants would have been long ignored and discredited. obi wan should have sensed the force in the boy as soon as he hit tattoine. especially the force at the level described. my official review is here for your perusing.
"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."