no, that's C# and the CLR which are part of.NET.NET is much more... body nobody knows how much more.
and you just missed a golden opportunity to enlighten us all...
from what i gather, it is microsoft's attempt to steer development off of MFC, dll hell, and the rest of the things (backward compatibility, baby!) that make developing on windows such a pain in the ass.
i think there's some built-in RPC type stuff via SOAP and of course the muli-language-single-bytecode thing that seems to get some people's panties in a bunch.
a lot of the serf's find a lot of oooohh cool with.NET, not realizing that many of us have been doing these things for quite awhile... so it gives them the green light and the happy MS-approved stamp...
So what we need is for some hot shot high end graphics game company to fully support Linux/Mac.
yeah, you're right... we need a company like id software to port quake, quake ii, quake iii and the upcoming doom 3 to linux! it would be cool if we could run unreal tournament and unreal tournament 2003, as well!
the desire for standards compliance is so web designers can write their sites once and have it work everywhere, without having to worry about what browser the client is using...
however, your statement for using IE as a base for a standard is not only silly, it's stupid:
we've written an in-house webapp that only works on IE5.5+ (5.0 does NOT work, something in the DOM or javascript), and testing on IE6 i found using the javascript "prompt" command doesn't work and throws javascript errors -- but everything else seems to work okay.
so, for our in-house webapp, we require IE5.5SP2, because we can ( sidenote: i wanted to target mozilla). having a website on the internet cannot, for the most part, require any specific version of a browser. because they are all incompatible with each other... should we use IE3, IE4, IE5, IE5.5, or IE6???
so, which version of IE should we all use as the standard? and if you come up with a particular version, the penetration % is not nearly as high...
what's funny and/or interesting about this is that bitkeeper's business is likely to increase a great amount just for the fact that it's used for the linux kernel.
what the hell?? how did this get modded up?!? to 5 no less!!!
a "private organization/person" cannot make anybody do anything by using the courts... why? you may ask?
it's called authority, and the only entity that has any authority is called the government: they right the laws, they interpret the laws, they enforce the laws... ($1 for each branch of the US government that does the above if you can name them. hints: congress, courts, police )
now it's quite possible that the BSA has been AUTHORIZED by the government, but i've never heard of it and highly doubt it.
Hmmm. The GPL itself is there to prevent you from redistributing GPL based code however you damn well please. Otherwise the code would be released as public domain.
hmmm... not exactly. the GPL *grants* you rights you normally wouldn't have under normal copyright law, and those are the ability to redistribute the code with the "restriction" that you can't prevent others from doing the same. it's actually quite clever.
under normal copyright law you can't just copy others work and do whatever you want with it, unless it's like you said pulic domain, or BSD which is public domain with an advertising clause;)
you probably installed a theme that wasn't updated for that version of mozilla... something similar happened to me around.8 or so (i think it was with the aqua theme as well).
you have to delete one of the auto-generated xml config files in windows\application data\mozilla\user50\default\>whatever\chrome... i think it's called user-skins.rdf.
the next time it should load up with the default skin.
otherwise, the improvements in speed all around, including the time for it to start up, has been outstanding. and like someone else has said, the new "modern" theme and it's new icons look really nice.
There's still way more Mac boxes on people's desks than LInux boxes.
that may or may not be true, however the majority of "Mac boxes" are not MacOS X by a long shot... plus, point to your numbers about "way more Mac boxes". we have IDC numbers at least showing linux up there and surpassing NT.
i think it's kinda funny that MacOS X will almost immediatly surpas Linux
as long as OSX is stuck on Apple hardware, this will never happen... sorry. and don't talk about Darwin, cause you're better off with FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Other games run great under the new card in direct3d mode, I just wish that game companies would work closer with video card manufacturers to ensure compatibility and decent performance.
Isn't the whole point of DirectX so game companies don't have to "work closer" with video card manufacturers???!
Some facts for you all, so you can actually talk about things without pulling stuff out the air:
- Do you really think Gracenote would sue Roxio without the solid belief that they could win? Do you really think their suit has no basis in law? Think again. You may not agree with the law as it stands, but it probably does favor them in at least one of their claims. That's all it takes to win *something*.
so where's the facts you were just talking about? this little diatribe is full of a lot of questions and "probably"'s for facts. but the thing that could have saved this paragraph is maybe some kind of reasoned thought or something on *why* you think they could win a lawsuit. but you didn't.
- There is little doubt that there is stuff in the contract between the two companies that is not being made public. For all we know there could be something that bars them from switching services, or a million other possibilities. WHO KNOWS? Unless you KNOW, it's a waste of time to argue that the suit is baseless.
again there is a remarkable lack of fact in this paragraph. it takes you to the last sentence to answer your own damn questions. everything that's being discussed here is based on everything that's been publicly released... understand? what are you saying, no one can comment until the trial is over and done with and everything is for public review? that makes sense.
- You don't see them suing companies using other similar services, so I'm guessing their objection is to Roxio using one that's based on IP they fancy to be theirs. Comments about them suing because Roxio won't use *their* service are probably naive. Those would be totally baseless grounds to sue on, and it's a safe bet that they're not using Luigi's cousin's brother-in-law lawyer as their counsel.
the problem is roxio is not using their IP!!! they have switched to a competitor that arguably offers a similar service. that's it. end of story. if anything, they should be suing freedb, but there's no money there, is there (as opposed to adaptec/roxio, who have deep pockets i'm sure). everyone seems to be missing this point.
unfortunately, you have offered no facts, just opinions. you offered no "info which may be relevant". you haven't even given any well reasoned *opinions*.
the only alternative that wouldn't have put them in this same position would of been straight binaries-only proprietary software.
how good would the database been, then??
it's unknown cause that didn't happen!
speakin of 1995: *i* remember back in '95 when win95 came out and it had a built in cd player and you could enter all that same kinda data into the cd player and it saved it into a text file in the windows directory. that was cool. not as cool as CDDB was at the time though. too bad MS didn't think of a central network database of CD titles available over the internet... i mean, they knew the internet was going to be a big thing, right?;)
the burden of proof is clearly on the prosecution. the prosecution has to show *beyond a reasonable doubt* that the accused is guilty.
what you are saying is that someone is guilty until proven innocent, which ain't the case.
you also couldn't have picked a worse case to demonstrate your view, because OJ was clearly guilty, however the defense raised enough doubt (for those jurors, anyway) to acquit(sp?) him...
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tee hee, they've already sued microsoft!
google for "dr. dos lawsuit"...
i think it was settled for $120 million or so.
and you just missed a golden opportunity to enlighten us all...
from what i gather, it is microsoft's attempt to steer development off of MFC, dll hell, and the rest of the things (backward compatibility, baby!) that make developing on windows such a pain in the ass.
i think there's some built-in RPC type stuff via SOAP and of course the muli-language-single-bytecode thing that seems to get some people's panties in a bunch.
a lot of the serf's find a lot of oooohh cool with .NET, not realizing that many of us have been doing these things for quite awhile... so it gives them the green light and the happy MS-approved stamp...
yeah, you're right... we need a company like id software to port quake, quake ii, quake iii and the upcoming doom 3 to linux! it would be cool if we could run unreal tournament and unreal tournament 2003, as well!
the desire for standards compliance is so web designers can write their sites once and have it work everywhere, without having to worry about what browser the client is using...
however, your statement for using IE as a base for a standard is not only silly, it's stupid:
we've written an in-house webapp that only works on IE5.5+ (5.0 does NOT work, something in the DOM or javascript), and testing on IE6 i found using the javascript "prompt" command doesn't work and throws javascript errors -- but everything else seems to work okay.
so, for our in-house webapp, we require IE5.5SP2, because we can ( sidenote: i wanted to target mozilla). having a website on the internet cannot, for the most part, require any specific version of a browser. because they are all incompatible with each other... should we use IE3, IE4, IE5, IE5.5, or IE6???
so, which version of IE should we all use as the standard? and if you come up with a particular version, the penetration % is not nearly as high...
i'm rambling and responding to a troll... oh boy
shouldn't "informed" voters be able to remember the freaking date to vote...?
HINT: it's always the first Tuesday in November on even years...
what's funny and/or interesting about this is that bitkeeper's business is likely to increase a great amount just for the fact that it's used for the linux kernel.
i know i've never heard of them before...
you might find the following link very useful, as i did... (hint: google search 'sapdb with debian')
http://www.mybytes.de/sapdb/
doesn't microsoft already fit into all three categories???
#1 and #2 are a given...
#3, can you say: the total cost of Melissa, ILOVEU, code red[1-*], etc, etc...
what the hell?? how did this get modded up?!? to 5 no less!!!
a "private organization/person" cannot make anybody do anything by using the courts... why? you may ask?
it's called authority, and the only entity that has any authority is called the government: they right the laws, they interpret the laws, they enforce the laws... ($1 for each branch of the US government that does the above if you can name them. hints: congress, courts, police )
now it's quite possible that the BSA has been AUTHORIZED by the government, but i've never heard of it and highly doubt it.
hmmm... not exactly. the GPL *grants* you rights you normally wouldn't have under normal copyright law, and those are the ability to redistribute the code with the "restriction" that you can't prevent others from doing the same. it's actually quite clever.
under normal copyright law you can't just copy others work and do whatever you want with it, unless it's like you said pulic domain, or BSD which is public domain with an advertising clause ;)
ummm... maybe you're not aware that microsoft had to change the syntax of VB to make it '.NET compatible'
please explain how a tax benefits a company...
as far as i know, taxes usually go to the government in charge...
uhh, shouldn't you be practicing what you preach?
or is this the only way you can drive traffic to your site???
you probably installed a theme that wasn't updated for that version of mozilla... something similar happened to me around .8 or so (i think it was with the aqua theme as well).
you have to delete one of the auto-generated xml config files in windows\application data\mozilla\user50\default\>whatever\chrome... i think it's called user-skins.rdf.
the next time it should load up with the default skin.
otherwise, the improvements in speed all around, including the time for it to start up, has been outstanding. and like someone else has said, the new "modern" theme and it's new icons look really nice.
yes, i agree...
did you also notice the annoying market-speak for the "developer ecosystem"??
whatever...
that may or may not be true, however the majority of "Mac boxes" are not MacOS X by a long shot... plus, point to your numbers about "way more Mac boxes". we have IDC numbers at least showing linux up there and surpassing NT.
i think it's kinda funny that MacOS X will almost immediatly surpas Linux
as long as OSX is stuck on Apple hardware, this will never happen... sorry. and don't talk about Darwin, cause you're better off with FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Isn't the whole point of DirectX so game companies don't have to "work closer" with video card manufacturers???!
I mean, that's what it's for, isn't it??
anyway:
Some facts for you all, so you can actually talk about things without pulling stuff out the air:
- Do you really think Gracenote would sue Roxio without the solid belief that they could win? Do you really think their suit has no basis in law? Think again. You may not agree with the law as it stands, but it probably does favor them in at least one of their claims. That's all it takes to win *something*.
so where's the facts you were just talking about? this little diatribe is full of a lot of questions and "probably"'s for facts. but the thing that could have saved this paragraph is maybe some kind of reasoned thought or something on *why* you think they could win a lawsuit. but you didn't.
- There is little doubt that there is stuff in the contract between the two companies that is not being made public. For all we know there could be something that bars them from switching services, or a million other possibilities. WHO KNOWS? Unless you KNOW, it's a waste of time to argue that the suit is baseless.
again there is a remarkable lack of fact in this paragraph. it takes you to the last sentence to answer your own damn questions. everything that's being discussed here is based on everything that's been publicly released... understand? what are you saying, no one can comment until the trial is over and done with and everything is for public review? that makes sense.
- You don't see them suing companies using other similar services, so I'm guessing their objection is to Roxio using one that's based on IP they fancy to be theirs. Comments about them suing because Roxio won't use *their* service are probably naive. Those would be totally baseless grounds to sue on, and it's a safe bet that they're not using Luigi's cousin's brother-in-law lawyer as their counsel.
the problem is roxio is not using their IP!!! they have switched to a competitor that arguably offers a similar service. that's it. end of story. if anything, they should be suing freedb, but there's no money there, is there (as opposed to adaptec/roxio, who have deep pockets i'm sure). everyone seems to be missing this point.
unfortunately, you have offered no facts, just opinions. you offered no "info which may be relevant". you haven't even given any well reasoned *opinions*.
the only alternative that wouldn't have put them in this same position would of been straight binaries-only proprietary software.
;)
how good would the database been, then??
it's unknown cause that didn't happen!
speakin of 1995: *i* remember back in '95 when win95 came out and it had a built in cd player and you could enter all that same kinda data into the cd player and it saved it into a text file in the windows directory. that was cool. not as cool as CDDB was at the time though. too bad MS didn't think of a central network database of CD titles available over the internet... i mean, they knew the internet was going to be a big thing, right?
That means you('re) free to go after 4th grade.
looks like they let you out early
this is exactly why the bsd license sucks.
heh heh heh heh heh
;)
i *almost* didn't catch the sarcasm here... ;)
i must say, i got a good chuckle out of this...
;)
not only that, but then it would need to be ratified by 3/4 of the states, which *AIN'T* gonna happen (good)....!
ummm, no... i don't think so.
the burden of proof is clearly on the prosecution. the prosecution has to show *beyond a reasonable doubt* that the accused is guilty.
what you are saying is that someone is guilty until proven innocent, which ain't the case.
you also couldn't have picked a worse case to demonstrate your view, because OJ was clearly guilty, however the defense raised enough doubt (for those jurors, anyway) to acquit(sp?) him...