Java is not a toy, it is an enterprise application. It is running in many financial institutions, many of which are not known by the general public but that handle tons of money, supporting back office operations.
Millions of people died, countries fell and were created, at the whims of monarchs, whose only justification to be in a position of power was that they were born from another monarch (when they were not in fact usurpers, often from their own family members).
To claim they were a force for good is completely ludicrous, it has to be said there was no better alternative, even though the concept of democracy was invented hundreds of years before.
The whole royal construct is offensive to many people, it is an affront to the most basic democratic principles in which people are valued by their deeds, not by their genealogy tree.
One would have a few machines with MS Office accessible for such cases.
Most internal documents could be handled perfectly well with an alternative since they would no be intended for public consumption outside the company.
I have never seen a business collapsing for such an inconsequential thing as word processing formats. When there are issues people do the rational thing: agree to a common format both can work with and move on to important things.
This pseudo argument to scare monger adoption of other products is tired, untrue and irrelevant.
You can copy it illegally. If you are going to enter the debate use the correct terminology, it is not by chance that there is a vast body of law dealing with copyright infringement instead of lumping it with common theft.
Back to topic, in China people have been executed for running piracy businesses, so it is not exactly like they are doing nothing about it, but it is nigh impossible to prosecute everybody in a market where a monopoly is selling goods way above a fair price (this creates a black market for counterfitted goods).
... when Korea and Japan were also just copying, had no innovation, etc, etc, etc.
Japanese products were synonymous with cheap, bad quality.
Some westerners should have learned a lesson or two from that, like innovation may come where you less expect it, as a matter of fact it may be there but we don't recognize it as such yet.
Not to disagree with you, but to note that a capsule *seems* more user friendly compared with the relatively messiness of doing coffee the cheaper, old fashioned, way.
People become dependent on these machines in the same way they lock themselves in to proprietary software solutions: the coffee capsules are not interchangeable, which allows companies to hike prices for them as they see fit.
Think bubblejet printers and the extortionate prices of ink. Any geek/nerd falling for the same trick when it comes to coffee should hand over his geek card immediately frankly.
Iraq was self governing itself under Hussein. This is the best part of 40 years.
There was no reason to destroy the bureaucracy only because they were members of the Baht Party, anybody that was not named in human right abuses should have been used in the reconstruction of the country.
As anybody that has lived under authoritarian regimes knows, membership of varied bodies becomes a necessity if you want to advance your career or just make a living.
I know that for you US guys this must be an iconic figure.
But that Time names a US interviewer, that few people out of the US know, one of the *world's* most influential people, just comes to show the complete and utter lack of journalistic integrity in your country, where the press has stopped to inform you and instead patronizes you and gives you frequent pats in the back.
If this individual was raising the bar a little it is indeed bad news his early demise.
Honestly, many companies are paying for FOSS developers or buying companies producing FOSS products.
Projects that are useful are not abandoned, projects that aren't remain dormant, and nothing stops luminaries at MS to pick them up if they are such great products.
MS is so fixated in money that they have forgotten that computing is also about fun. Many people contribute to projects just because it is fun and satisfying to do. Why should be that monetized as a matter of urgency?
So if MS is so disconnected with the industry trends they should have a hard look at themselves and stop giving advice where none is really needed.
Abortion laws are more restrictive in Europe because sex education is immensely better, thus far less people need late abortions (past 12 weeks) since they are better informed about their reproductive physiology.
I got a Dell machine with Vista (not my fault, I did not have a choice).
I put a live Ubuntu DVD to check speeds and, oh boy, Vista is a completely slow hog compared to the speed of Ubuntu running exactly in the same hardware.
There is a reason for all this: all the unnecessary stuff tossed in top of the OS in MS infected machines, and the fact that Vista is suboptimal (this is so widely documented that is not funny having to reply to somebody who is trying to defend the indefensible).
I have seen ads in newspapers here in the UK where the biggest electronics retailer (PC World) is giving a discount of £150 ($300, give or take) for Vista Ultimate upgrades.
I don't know if that is a big or small discount (I broke the MS habit many moons ago, so I am not very familiar with MS-ware pricing), but keeping in mind that you can nowadays have laptops for £400, it tells me a lot about the state of desperation of companies here in the UK to try to move units of the abomination that Vista obviously is.
People that are too lazy (there is a balance to be struck, but outsourcing every difficult service does not seem balanced to me) get paid less than people than can implement complex solutions.
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Which explains the popularity of Visual Basic....
My guess is that nowadays is C# with healthy dosages of C++ and a bit of C.
Java is not a toy, it is an enterprise application. It is running in many financial institutions, many of which are not known by the general public but that handle tons of money, supporting back office operations.
Millions of people died, countries fell and were created, at the whims of monarchs, whose only justification to be in a position of power was that they were born from another monarch (when they were not in fact usurpers, often from their own family members).
To claim they were a force for good is completely ludicrous, it has to be said there was no better alternative, even though the concept of democracy was invented hundreds of years before.
The whole royal construct is offensive to many people, it is an affront to the most basic democratic principles in which people are valued by their deeds, not by their genealogy tree.
It the queen feels slapped for that, so what?
He is sitting in Newton's chair, for bunnies sakes.
You simply can't get much better than that.
One would have a few machines with MS Office accessible for such cases.
Most internal documents could be handled perfectly well with an alternative since they would no be intended for public consumption outside the company.
I have never seen a business collapsing for such an inconsequential thing as word processing formats. When there are issues people do the rational thing: agree to a common format both can work with and move on to important things.
This pseudo argument to scare monger adoption of other products is tired, untrue and irrelevant.
MS is a monopoly (legally recognized as such).
You saying it isn't will not change the facts.
You can copy it illegally. If you are going to enter the debate use the correct terminology, it is not by chance that there is a vast body of law dealing with copyright infringement instead of lumping it with common theft.
Back to topic, in China people have been executed for running piracy businesses, so it is not exactly like they are doing nothing about it, but it is nigh impossible to prosecute everybody in a market where a monopoly is selling goods way above a fair price (this creates a black market for counterfitted goods).
... when Korea and Japan were also just copying, had no innovation, etc, etc, etc.
Japanese products were synonymous with cheap, bad quality.
Some westerners should have learned a lesson or two from that, like innovation may come where you less expect it, as a matter of fact it may be there but we don't recognize it as such yet.
Imaging a master disk is a very simple task that ensures machines are clean and up to date.
I am beginning to believe that you should re-imagine any laptop every 6 months or thereabouts as a matter of policy.
Or depending on the nature of your app one or two of those.
Or distribute as tar.gz bundle (with all the necessary libraries).
Not to disagree with you, but to note that a capsule *seems* more user friendly compared with the relatively messiness of doing coffee the cheaper, old fashioned, way.
People become dependent on these machines in the same way they lock themselves in to proprietary software solutions: the coffee capsules are not interchangeable, which allows companies to hike prices for them as they see fit.
Think bubblejet printers and the extortionate prices of ink. Any geek/nerd falling for the same trick when it comes to coffee should hand over his geek card immediately frankly.
It is precisely because they are suspected terrorists that they should receive the protection of the US Constitution to its fullest extent.
Doing otherwise just puts you at the same arbitrary, lawless level as the terrorists.
If you think Terror is the right tool to combat Terror, well, good luck with that, but frankly does not seem to be working.
You guys in the US regularly jail and even execute people that have not reached adulthood when they committed a crime.
No wonder some of you think imparting Bush's "justice" on a child is entirely justifiable.
Iraq was self governing itself under Hussein. This is the best part of 40 years.
There was no reason to destroy the bureaucracy only because they were members of the Baht Party, anybody that was not named in human right abuses should have been used in the reconstruction of the country.
As anybody that has lived under authoritarian regimes knows, membership of varied bodies becomes a necessity if you want to advance your career or just make a living.
Somebody advocating for the freedom of companies to create cartels, as part of upholding freedom.
Un-fucking-believable.
I know that for you US guys this must be an iconic figure.
But that Time names a US interviewer, that few people out of the US know, one of the *world's* most influential people, just comes to show the complete and utter lack of journalistic integrity in your country, where the press has stopped to inform you and instead patronizes you and gives you frequent pats in the back.
If this individual was raising the bar a little it is indeed bad news his early demise.
There are many places in the "civilized" world that are like that.
Also it is a very well documented fact that these tribes accumulate a vast knowledge about medicinal plants that covers most of their needs.
Honestly, many companies are paying for FOSS developers or buying companies producing FOSS products.
Projects that are useful are not abandoned, projects that aren't remain dormant, and nothing stops luminaries at MS to pick them up if they are such great products.
MS is so fixated in money that they have forgotten that computing is also about fun. Many people contribute to projects just because it is fun and satisfying to do. Why should be that monetized as a matter of urgency?
So if MS is so disconnected with the industry trends they should have a hard look at themselves and stop giving advice where none is really needed.
Abortion laws are more restrictive in Europe because sex education is immensely better, thus far less people need late abortions (past 12 weeks) since they are better informed about their reproductive physiology.
I got a Dell machine with Vista (not my fault, I did not have a choice).
I put a live Ubuntu DVD to check speeds and, oh boy, Vista is a completely slow hog compared to the speed of Ubuntu running exactly in the same hardware.
There is a reason for all this: all the unnecessary stuff tossed in top of the OS in MS infected machines, and the fact that Vista is suboptimal (this is so widely documented that is not funny having to reply to somebody who is trying to defend the indefensible).
I have seen ads in newspapers here in the UK where the biggest electronics retailer (PC World) is giving a discount of £150 ($300, give or take) for Vista Ultimate upgrades.
I don't know if that is a big or small discount (I broke the MS habit many moons ago, so I am not very familiar with MS-ware pricing), but keeping in mind that you can nowadays have laptops for £400, it tells me a lot about the state of desperation of companies here in the UK to try to move units of the abomination that Vista obviously is.
But Ballmer thinks we are stupid. Whatever.
To use a technique that has given us food for thousands of years!
The iniquity!
Which is why we have a State.
People that are too lazy (there is a balance to be struck, but outsourcing every difficult service does not seem balanced to me) get paid less than people than can implement complex solutions.
One less admin to compete against !