I remember using Microsoft Word for DOS version 4.0 back in the era of Wordperfect 4.2. And Wordstar is older than either of them by a long shot.
Excel wasn't Microsoft's first spreadsheet. I can remember running their earlier spreadsheet, Multiplan, on a Microsoft Xenix system (an 8086 system with 512K of RAM that could support five users concurrently on dumb terminals running Microsoft's port of UNIX). Visicalc is older than Multiplan, but I suspect Lotus 123 isn't.
DOS 1.0 was a workalike of CP/M that Microsoft purchased and extended. You've heard of workalikes before, haven't you? Is Linux a 'stolen version of AT&T Unix?
Who said anything about 'outlawing' Open Source. I didn't read that in the article.
What I did see was Microsoft starting to recognize all the tacit ways that the tax money they and their employees and customers pay are used to subidize Linux and Open Source development.
Why should volunteer hackers at Universities across the country be paid tax dollars to develop Free Software on the payroll? Why should US government funded software development (i.e. the guy who wrote most of the ethernet code) be given away for free to China?
These sorts of questions will continue to be asked. Some of you who spend a lot of time at work doing the free software bit might start getting a tap on the shoulder from your boss. Remember, the suits eventually do figure it out.
And the Linux community had better be ready. With the release of Kylix, all the windows shovelware will be ported over to Linux. Tucows and DaveCentral will be pumping tons of binary-only stuff into the channel. We'll see how Linux holds up to the kind of software Windows runs (and crashes becuase of). I predict a reduction by a factor of five or more in the uptime of the average X Server (yeah, we know, you can still ssh into the box and.....)
I think you forgot to mention that Microsoft bundles the GNU C Compiler with Interix. I own two copies at home and use one at work. It's great stuff, as far as it goes. The Microsoft POSIX subsystem (the formerly Privately owned product called Interix) is good stuff. It blows Cygwin entirely out of the water, because it's a native Posix subsystem that talks directly to the NT Kernel, not a kludge like Cygwin that just translates to the Win32 subsystem.
Microsoft views Interix as a 'transition' product. In fact, they've crippled it since purchasing it. My Softway Systems copy has stuff like the vi editor built in. Microsoft stripped a lot of stuff like that out and sells it as a separate package.
It's more than pedantic. I meant to raise the issue of what 'music' is. Music most assuredly is NOT just reproductions of recorded sound. It originates with Musicians. And people who just shuffle around recorded instances of somebody else's musical performances are sad, stunted human beings.
We are all capable of producing music. A part of the 'revolution of distribution' that people herald with the new technology is the ability for many more of us to create music that reaches distribution.
So yes, the UK has the world's second largest 'music industry' if by 'music industry' you mean: 'collection of cartels who distribute the musical output of a very small number of musicians widely to an audience of passive listeners.'
I choose instead to include in the 'music industry' such entities as musical instrument makers, sheet music publishers, travelling folk musicians, piano tuners, etc.
You know, kind of an 'open source' approach as opposed to a 'the music all comes from a big Microsoft-like conglomerate' approach.
Shuffling around waveform data originating from a sound studio at Sony isn't a lot different from shuffling around warez from Redmond.
I don't view trying to drive that point home as being 'pedantic.' It's a pity if you do.
Such 'nails' exist. Various torx screwheads must use patented tool bits to turn the screws in. Even the 'phillips' head is patented (or was, has that patent lapsed yet?).
People buy the specialized tools they need to apply the fasteners (screws, nails, rivets, etc.) that they want to use.
Surely you must have a better argument than this one...
Some of the A/UX tools (well, really just the disk partitioning tool) live on as the method of producing hard drive partitions on old 68K Maintoshes for NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Just a FYI- 'Puffy' is also a favored nickname for the former First Lady. That term, along with 'clymer' to refer to lying SOB journalists, is a recent entry into the the English language, as spoken on sites such as L.dot .
You should try to get that particular block of text incorporated as a unicode character. Youre constantly dropping it into discussions here as a single never-chaning block of text; if you get it accepted as a Unicode character, you can then spam us with it using a single keystroke.
It's probably more like 30 x86 boxes are sold for every Mac, since the Mac is only sold in rather prissy retail channels. The huge volume of 'screwdriver shop' x86 hardware being sold out there doesn't make it onto the same charts as the 'oily saleman in showroom' sales where the Mac commands a 10% marketshare.
(lost in a blind dark cave, looking for the 'ring' that is his lost youth- i.e. chasing after adolescent rock like the Who) Accompanying sound bite: the screaming kids at the end of 'We Don't Need No Education' by Floyd.
Actually, a lot of the early CD-ROM drives weren't capable of reading, in a digital format, the CD-Audio content on a music CD. There used to be lists compiled of the few CD-ROM drives that would read the disks. The music industry had put a lot of pressure on the drive manufactuerers to tweak the drive firmware to 'copy protect' the CD audio. These days, modern CD-ROM drives that won't rip audio are rare, probably due to market pressure from consumers who won't buy a drive incapable of ripping. But it's wrong to say that 'any computer with a CD-ROM drive can be used for copying digital music', and it's also likely that we may again start seeing more drives that won't rip. It's the kind of thing that will quietly return in the market if people don't watch.
I find it hard to believe that the UK produces 25% of the world's music. They represent a tiny margin of the world's people, and nearly every human being alive produces music of one sort or another. Now, if someone wants to claim the the UK produces 25% of the 'commercial recordings of a few people making music' that would be a different thing. The distinction is very important. The way to 'liberate' music isn't to make yet more (albeit unauthorized) copies of recordings of musical performances. That really represents filling the soundspace with yet more sound-spam. Turn off the equipment driving your loudspeakers and make some real music once in awhile. We're all capable of it, though we're all passivated by the buzz of canned sound we surround ourselves with.
I'm not interested in 95% of the 'music' that's published these days. I do have 600+ blank CDR disks in storage and a 10x CDRW drive, but it's not to burn the kind of crap that's 'pop musick' these days. Count me out on your music tax, guys.
Jewel cases are meant to be thrown away. They take up far too much space in storage, and big clattery piles of them are always falling over. The best alternative I have come up with are tyvek sleeves with a window.
I also have a fondness for long novels. They have to be well-written, however. There's a bookmark permanently stuck in my copy of Cryptonomicon at about 1/3 of the way through. It just wasn't a very well written book.
I much preferred 'The Big U', which doesn't take itself seriously, and was fun to read.
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Are you sure Wordperfect existed before Word?
I remember using Microsoft Word for DOS version 4.0 back in the era of Wordperfect 4.2. And Wordstar is older than either of them by a long shot.
Excel wasn't Microsoft's first spreadsheet. I can remember running their earlier spreadsheet, Multiplan, on a Microsoft Xenix system (an 8086 system with 512K of RAM that could support five users concurrently on dumb terminals running Microsoft's port of UNIX). Visicalc is older than Multiplan, but I suspect Lotus 123 isn't.
DOS 1.0 was a workalike of CP/M that Microsoft purchased and extended. You've heard of workalikes before, haven't you? Is Linux a 'stolen version of AT&T Unix?
Who said anything about 'outlawing' Open Source. I didn't read that in the article.
What I did see was Microsoft starting to recognize all the tacit ways that the tax money they and their employees and customers pay are used to subidize Linux and Open Source development.
Why should volunteer hackers at Universities across the country be paid tax dollars to develop Free Software on the payroll? Why should US government funded software development (i.e. the guy who wrote most of the ethernet code) be given away for free to China?
These sorts of questions will continue to be asked. Some of you who spend a lot of time at work doing the free software bit might start getting a tap on the shoulder from your boss. Remember, the suits eventually do figure it out.
And the Linux community had better be ready. With the release of Kylix, all the windows shovelware will be ported over to Linux. Tucows and DaveCentral will be pumping tons of binary-only stuff into the channel. We'll see how Linux holds up to the kind of software Windows runs (and crashes becuase of). I predict a reduction by a factor of five or more in the uptime of the average X Server (yeah, we know, you can still ssh into the box and.....)
Probably not very many. But I'm sure there are (proportionally) more Linux systems on the Microsoft campus than NT systems at RedHat.
I think you forgot to mention that Microsoft bundles the GNU C Compiler with Interix. I own two copies at home and use one at work. It's great stuff, as far as it goes. The Microsoft POSIX subsystem (the formerly Privately owned product called Interix) is good stuff. It blows Cygwin entirely out of the water, because it's a native Posix subsystem that talks directly to the NT Kernel, not a kludge like Cygwin that just translates to the Win32 subsystem.
Microsoft views Interix as a 'transition' product. In fact, they've crippled it since purchasing it. My Softway Systems copy has stuff like the vi editor built in. Microsoft stripped a lot of stuff like that out and sells it as a separate package.
It's more than pedantic. I meant to raise the issue of what 'music' is. Music most assuredly is NOT just reproductions of recorded sound. It originates with Musicians. And people who just shuffle around recorded instances of somebody else's musical performances are sad, stunted human beings.
We are all capable of producing music. A part of the 'revolution of distribution' that people herald with the new technology is the ability for many more of us to create music that reaches distribution.
So yes, the UK has the world's second largest 'music industry' if by 'music industry' you mean: 'collection of cartels who distribute the musical output of a very small number of musicians widely to an audience of passive listeners.'
I choose instead to include in the 'music industry' such entities as musical instrument makers, sheet music publishers, travelling folk musicians, piano tuners, etc.
You know, kind of an 'open source' approach as opposed to a 'the music all comes from a big Microsoft-like conglomerate' approach.
Shuffling around waveform data originating from a sound studio at Sony isn't a lot different from shuffling around warez from Redmond.
I don't view trying to drive that point home as being 'pedantic.' It's a pity if you do.
These days lots of people say Solaris when they really mean to refer to both Solaris and SunOS, which preceeded it.
Such 'nails' exist. Various torx screwheads must use patented tool bits to turn the screws in. Even the 'phillips' head is patented (or was, has that patent lapsed yet?).
People buy the specialized tools they need to apply the fasteners (screws, nails, rivets, etc.) that they want to use.
Surely you must have a better argument than this one...
Now you've switched over. You're straw-man arguing the Napster arguement. Wrong topic heading (but you're on the right website).
oops: L.dot .
Some of the A/UX tools (well, really just the disk partitioning tool) live on as the method of producing hard drive partitions on old 68K Maintoshes for NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Just a FYI- 'Puffy' is also a favored nickname for the former First Lady. That term, along with 'clymer' to refer to lying SOB journalists, is a recent entry into the the English language, as spoken on sites such as L.dot .
You should try to get that particular block of text incorporated as a unicode character. Youre constantly dropping it into discussions here as a single never-chaning block of text; if you get it accepted as a Unicode character, you can then spam us with it using a single keystroke.
It's probably more like 30 x86 boxes are sold for every Mac, since the Mac is only sold in rather prissy retail channels. The huge volume of 'screwdriver shop' x86 hardware being sold out there doesn't make it onto the same charts as the 'oily saleman in showroom' sales where the Mac commands a 10% marketshare.
No. Commander Taco = Gollum.
(lost in a blind dark cave, looking for the 'ring' that is his lost youth- i.e. chasing after adolescent rock like the Who) Accompanying sound bite: the screaming kids at the end of 'We Don't Need No Education' by Floyd.
Actually, a lot of the early CD-ROM drives weren't capable of reading, in a digital format, the CD-Audio content on a music CD. There used to be lists compiled of the few CD-ROM drives that would read the disks. The music industry had put a lot of pressure on the drive manufactuerers to tweak the drive firmware to 'copy protect' the CD audio. These days, modern CD-ROM drives that won't rip audio are rare, probably due to market pressure from consumers who won't buy a drive incapable of ripping. But it's wrong to say that 'any computer with a CD-ROM drive can be used for copying digital music', and it's also likely that we may again start seeing more drives that won't rip. It's the kind of thing that will quietly return in the market if people don't watch.
I find it hard to believe that the UK produces 25% of the world's music. They represent a tiny margin of the world's people, and nearly every human being alive produces music of one sort or another. Now, if someone wants to claim the the UK produces 25% of the 'commercial recordings of a few people making music' that would be a different thing. The distinction is very important. The way to 'liberate' music isn't to make yet more (albeit unauthorized) copies of recordings of musical performances. That really represents filling the soundspace with yet more sound-spam. Turn off the equipment driving your loudspeakers and make some real music once in awhile. We're all capable of it, though we're all passivated by the buzz of canned sound we surround ourselves with.
Sorry.
I'm not interested in 95% of the 'music' that's published these days. I do have 600+ blank CDR disks in storage and a 10x CDRW drive, but it's not to burn the kind of crap that's 'pop musick' these days. Count me out on your music tax, guys.
I buy them bulk right at BestBuy for $29.00 per hundred. A bit before Christmas there was a $10 rebate on those spindles of 100.
Jewel cases are meant to be thrown away. They take up far too much space in storage, and big clattery piles of them are always falling over. The best alternative I have come up with are tyvek sleeves with a window.
Why do you say he's 'interested in puttind down Gnutella.'
Is a cold blast of reality a putdown??
I have a friend who actually believes that kind of shit about musical instruments. He thinks a big bank of MIDI instruments can replace an orchestra.
You were being sarcastic, sadly he isn't.
I also have a fondness for long novels. They have to be well-written, however. There's a bookmark permanently stuck in my copy of Cryptonomicon at about 1/3 of the way through. It just wasn't a very well written book.
I much preferred 'The Big U', which doesn't take itself seriously, and was fun to read.
Support for multiple versions of DLLs is in Windows 2000 and has been since release.
B.L.O.A.T.!!!