Actually there is some. From PERL in the NT Server Resource kit,
Perl for Win32 Kit, build 100
Portions (C) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed by hip communications inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
b) the "Artistic License" included in this kit.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
You may be mostly sarcastic, but I think you capture the sense of what.gnu should be. helloword.gnu would be a good spot for `hello world' in a large variety of languages. microsoft.gnu would contain most of the NT Server Resource kit, seems like. Another pointer to microsoft.com would not be acceptable use of microsoft.gnu. To be viable it would need be inclusive of the BSDs. The whole point of gnu (gnu's not unix) is to sidestep the trademark issues on the name unix. Seems like.gnu should be much more inclusive than gnu.org
What the $2k really buys is a place in the line ahead of the $200 Pro ahead of the $40 basic ahead of the $4 Cheapbytes ahead of the free download. Even if the support were identical, ther is a big difference between a $2k customer on the line and a $40 customer on the line. In the right circumstances, the $2k is very cheap insurance.
If you do have a difference in ground potential between wings, like with electrical disturbances closer to one than the other,fiber will save a lot of equipment from being fried.
>>is published in a higher education journal, but is filled with grammatical mistakes and doesn't have a consistent flow of ideas. Kinda funny, when you think about it.
As far as I can tell,/. does not "do journalism". They put up a provacative (sp?) headline and see what commentary results. Usually/. posters are pretty good about debunking, but seems to have mostly missed the hoax about a spud powered web-server.;)
Consumers of their own stupidity, since there isn't much else that they are consuming. The con artists consume the stupid "consumers" because of their stupidity. Arrgh.
As I recall it, Ada makes certain "semantic errors" syntactic errors. DoD sponsored Ada to provide a programming language that does not break when compiled on a different hardware platform. Consequently, most would-be programs are not sufficiently rigorous to compile. Microsoft's C# might have syntax superficially resembling Ada's, but being Microsoft, the core reliability should be rather worse than C.
They don't even need to get cracked. Think dining philosophers and how many ways are there to screw up cooperating asynchronous processes.Think of NT Server with everything loaded on. Now scale it an order of magnitude or so.Think of using MSN to actually do work. This sounds like a bigger pie in the sky than the worst of the claims for Artificial Intelligence.
Any truth to the rumor that the real reason Bill Gates is fighting the breakup of Microsoft is that he would lose the ability to have the systems group somehow make the application actually sort of work?
Even Word users sometimes care about how their documents look. Very frustrating. Word has its own ideas. You can fight it but Word will win. The cheapest crappiest plastic ruler at a discount store is at least tolerably accurate and useable.
There is one fundamental difference. IBM and Sun are competitors. IBM and Open Source are not competitors. The relationship of IBM with Open Source will be very interesting to watch. Remember that symbiosis can be defined as mutual parasitism. I think that somehow it is to IBM's long term advantage for Open Source, especially Linux, to prosper.
Here's another. IIRC you can thank the Simplex algorithm for Linear Programs for Kentucky Fried Chicken. In the old days, chicken was expensive. Then Purina (and probably other feed companies) discovered Linear Programming. The chickens have certain nutrient requirements which must be met by some combination of ingredients in the chicken feed. Various ingredients have different amounts of nutrients at prices determined by the current market. Solving the Linear program finds (one of) the cheapest ways to make chicken feed. The feed companies helped set up poultry farmers in a high volume low margin business. Incidentally, solving a Linear Program also gives the cost of each constraint. Some of the algorithms I don't recognize, but they all seem to make major (orders of magnitude) differences is what can be computed.
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Actually there is some. From PERL in the NT Server Resource kit,
Perl for Win32 Kit, build 100
Portions (C) 1995 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Developed by hip communications inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of either:
a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
b) the "Artistic License" included in this kit.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
You can't even leave the game is the third law.
or cr.yp.to
What about .CORN? Imagine microsoft.corn with the right fonts. ;)
You may be mostly sarcastic, but I think you capture the sense of what .gnu should be. .gnu should be much more inclusive than gnu.org
helloword.gnu would be a good spot for `hello world' in a large variety of languages.
microsoft.gnu would contain most of the NT Server Resource kit, seems like. Another pointer to microsoft.com would not be acceptable use of microsoft.gnu.
To be viable it would need be inclusive of the BSDs. The whole point of gnu (gnu's not unix) is to sidestep the trademark issues on the name unix. Seems like
What the $2k really buys is a place in the line ahead of the $200 Pro ahead of the $40 basic ahead of the $4 Cheapbytes ahead of the free download. Even if the support were identical, ther is a big difference between a $2k customer on the line and a $40 customer on the line.
In the right circumstances, the $2k is very cheap insurance.
They are accustomed to being a monopoly serving the public interest.
Another example where he's flat wrong. Walk up to the Pentagon and "size up the whole space from outside".
bash-2.03$ telnet 172.30.0.30
Trying 172.30.0.30...
telnet: connect to address 172.30.0.30: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
FUD, right.
If you do have a difference in ground potential between wings, like with electrical disturbances closer to one than the other,fiber will save a lot of equipment from being fried.
>>is published in a higher education journal, but is filled with grammatical mistakes and doesn't have a consistent flow of ideas.
Kinda funny, when you think about it.
As far as I can tell, /. does not "do journalism". They put up a provacative (sp?) headline and see what commentary results. Usually /. posters are pretty good about debunking, but seems to have mostly missed the hoax about a spud powered web-server. ;)
Begin Transaction; ...
Update some stuff
Die and leave it hanging.
The design objectives of MySQL are completely different from those of Oracle. Transactions are expensive, probably in more ways than I can think of.
Consumers of their own stupidity, since there isn't much else that they are consuming. The con artists consume the stupid "consumers" because of their stupidity. Arrgh.
As I recall it, Ada makes certain "semantic errors" syntactic errors. DoD sponsored Ada to provide a programming language that does not break when compiled on a different hardware platform. Consequently, most would-be programs are not sufficiently rigorous to compile.
Microsoft's C# might have syntax superficially resembling Ada's, but being Microsoft, the core reliability should be rather worse than C.
That's what it takes. Keep up the good work.
They don't even need to get cracked. Think dining philosophers and how many ways are there to screw up cooperating asynchronous processes.Think of NT Server with everything loaded on. Now scale it an order of magnitude or so.Think of using MSN to actually do work. This sounds like a bigger pie in the sky than the worst of the claims for Artificial Intelligence.
Any truth to the rumor that the real reason Bill Gates is fighting the breakup of Microsoft is that he would lose the ability to have the systems group somehow make the application actually sort of work?
The prostitute has better morals.
Something like Larry Flint being the social conscience of Washington.
Even Word users sometimes care about how their documents look. Very frustrating. Word has its own ideas. You can fight it but Word will win.
The cheapest crappiest plastic ruler at a discount store is at least tolerably accurate and useable.
I think you are right. Completely in line with Microsoft's practices and ethics, or lack of same.
Any bets that Linux is _THE_ Enterprise-level OS in 5 years?
There is one fundamental difference. IBM and Sun are competitors. IBM and Open Source are not competitors. The relationship of IBM with Open Source will be very interesting to watch. Remember that symbiosis can be defined as mutual parasitism. I think that somehow it is to IBM's long term advantage for Open Source, especially Linux, to prosper.
From the same folks that gave us .BMP.
(OT) Why does Microsoft like to print 2-color graphics with white lines on a black background?
Here's another. IIRC you can thank the Simplex algorithm for Linear Programs for Kentucky Fried Chicken.
In the old days, chicken was expensive. Then Purina (and probably other feed companies) discovered Linear Programming. The chickens have certain nutrient requirements which must be met by some combination of ingredients in the chicken feed. Various ingredients have different amounts of nutrients at prices determined by the current market. Solving the Linear program finds (one of) the cheapest ways to make chicken feed. The feed companies helped set up poultry farmers in a high volume low margin business. Incidentally, solving a Linear Program also gives the cost of each constraint.
Some of the algorithms I don't recognize, but they all seem to make major (orders of magnitude) differences is what can be computed.