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It took them 35 million dollars to re-create "Dragon's Lair"? Govenrment funding at work.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
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We'uns about as close as we gonna gets
Nope, sorry. Actually, the Earth is furthest away from the sun right now. Solstice is when the Northern Hemisphere is most inclined towards the sun, giving maximum possible daylight. 11th Grade Astronomy is a wonderful thing.
Adabas, included with StarOffice, is a perfectly good desktop (single-user) database for Linux, if that's all you're looking for. IMHO, Access is a decent Windows desktop database, while Foxpro is an aging monlith, built on 20-year-old flat-file technology(i.e. dBase II for CP/M).
Anyway, the current market for Linux is the server market, not the desktop market, so they really don't have much to gain by building a desktop database.
I'd seen the Internix stuff before, but Jeez, everyone look at the the second link! M$ is shipping GPL'ed code, with the GPL, while bashing the GPL! Damn, I wish the CNET interviewer had asked Bill about this.
Selling a "power user" desktop system with NO integrated networking. It took numerous SKUs ($$$) and lots of futzing just to get an OS/2 box on a company network. TCP/IP for OS/2 2.x was $300 per machine, for example.
I don't think that's entirely correct. Remember, IBM was heavily pushing Token-Ring and OS/2 LanMan at the time. All the shops that I worked for that bought into the OS/2 - PS/2 deal were already running Token-Ring or installed Token-Ring as their networking platform. Getting OS/2 on a Token-Ring/LanMan network was a snap. Ethernet and TCP/IP didn't kick Token-Ring out until years later.
I am sure that this is being justified as an expenditure that will make this generation of Canadians more productive, and the generation who are coming of age now smarter and more competitive.
Now all they have to do is get the hi-tech jobs in place and stop letting Canadian software companies like Alias, Softimage, and (who the hell was it who made WinFax?) be bought up by American companies.
That's why I'm working in the states right now; factoring in the exchange rate I'm making twice what I made in Canada.
National broadband is nice, I just hope they do something to stop the brain drain.
After watching 'Frontline' lasst night, I think you'd better worry more about sustainable electricity supplies before you worry about nation-wide broadband.
Canada has the covered, too. We've been selling surplus electrons to our neighbours to the south for years now:)
Call Microsoft what you want, but you can't call them stupid.
Can I call them Bob? (I was going to putting a link to MS Bob here, but I got a 500 - Internal Server error from Microsoft.com)
Okay, Hotmail is part of the 'Passport' system, which I believe is going to become part of the whole '.Net' strategy and the subscription-based services model, so you could end up paying for Hotmail on a monthly basis. But I'm just guessing...
I like that. From the Internix web page: "its tools include make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip, gbd, gcc, g++, and g77 comilers."
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"The source code for the utilities bc, ci, co, cpio, csplit, dc, diff, diff3, gawk, gzip, gunzip, ident, merge, nl, rcs, rcsdiff, rcsmerge and rlog is made available via CD media."
Now someone explain again, in small words, what's Microsoft's problem with Open Source?
an even stupider name for a vaguely defined tech company
I don't think it's as dumb as "Zero Knowledge" from last week's/. an in-joke that just looks stupid to those who aren't crypto-geeks.
But it is a dumb name; has nothing to do with gaming, like 'PlayStation' does.
By my math the company is worth all of $7600, but even if I slipped a decimal point, they're still not worth much. I think Microsoft is the luckiest thing to ever happen to them.
Are you trolling or something? Ultradev is available for the Mac, with an OS X port coming soon, and I'd never heard of Databeacon before you mentioned it, so I looked it up. It's a Java app! It'll run on Mac or Linux, or anything else that supports java. There's no mention of Windows-only anywhere on their website.
You're just propogating the "Windows-only" myth.
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Depending on the path you took, a particular tape is played
It took them 35 million dollars to re-create "Dragon's Lair"? Govenrment funding at work.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
We'uns about as close as we gonna gets
Nope, sorry. Actually, the Earth is furthest away from the sun right now. Solstice is when the Northern Hemisphere is most inclined towards the sun, giving maximum possible daylight. 11th Grade Astronomy is a wonderful thing.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Which one has delusions of god-hood, Gates or Ballmer? Or should that be "two would-be gods"?
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
"The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers."
(Okay, flame me if I didn't get the quote exactly right.)
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Anyone else remember that, or has it been erased from the collective conciousness?
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Anyway, the current market for Linux is the server market, not the desktop market, so they really don't have much to gain by building a desktop database.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
There's an article on news.com about it here
Whether or not this is going to mean lower prices remains to be seen.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
(Best Paul Hogan voice:)That's not a Gameboy, (pulls out original puce-colored brick)This is a Gameboy.
My old gen 1 Gameboy is over ten years old, and as long as I keep the contacts clean, it still works fine.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
I'd seen the Internix stuff before, but Jeez, everyone look at the the second link! M$ is shipping GPL'ed code, with the GPL, while bashing the GPL! Damn, I wish the CNET interviewer had asked Bill about this.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
I don't think that's entirely correct. Remember, IBM was heavily pushing Token-Ring and OS/2 LanMan at the time. All the shops that I worked for that bought into the OS/2 - PS/2 deal were already running Token-Ring or installed Token-Ring as their networking platform. Getting OS/2 on a Token-Ring/LanMan network was a snap. Ethernet and TCP/IP didn't kick Token-Ring out until years later.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Welcome to Microsoft FUD.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Now all they have to do is get the hi-tech jobs in place and stop letting Canadian software companies like Alias, Softimage, and (who the hell was it who made WinFax?) be bought up by American companies.
That's why I'm working in the states right now; factoring in the exchange rate I'm making twice what I made in Canada.
National broadband is nice, I just hope they do something to stop the brain drain.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
A gun, singular. And a bullet, too. And they're not afraid to use it!
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
After watching 'Frontline' lasst night, I think you'd better worry more about sustainable electricity supplies before you worry about nation-wide broadband. :)
Canada has the covered, too. We've been selling surplus electrons to our neighbours to the south for years now
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
of the 'missing' Pinky and the Brain episode?
"Faster, Pinky, or my DDoS attack will never work!"
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Call Microsoft what you want, but you can't call them stupid.
Can I call them Bob? (I was going to putting a link to MS Bob here, but I got a 500 - Internal Server error from Microsoft.com)
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Okay, Hotmail is part of the 'Passport' system, which I believe is going to become part of the whole '.Net' strategy and the subscription-based services model, so you could end up paying for Hotmail on a monthly basis. But I'm just guessing...
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
and
"The source code for the utilities bc, ci, co, cpio, csplit, dc, diff, diff3, gawk, gzip, gunzip, ident, merge, nl, rcs, rcsdiff, rcsmerge and rlog is made available via CD media."
Now someone explain again, in small words, what's Microsoft's problem with Open Source?
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Ultradev does JSP and JDBC, so it can connect to almost any database.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Okay, my math was screwed, I was looking at oustanding shares, not total shares. :)
Which explains why I don't invest
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
an even stupider name for a vaguely defined tech company /. an in-joke that just looks stupid to those who aren't crypto-geeks.
I don't think it's as dumb as "Zero Knowledge" from last week's
But it is a dumb name; has nothing to do with gaming, like 'PlayStation' does.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
By my math the company is worth all of $7600, but even if I slipped a decimal point, they're still not worth much. I think Microsoft is the luckiest thing to ever happen to them.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Are you trolling or something? Ultradev is available for the Mac, with an OS X port coming soon, and I'd never heard of Databeacon before you mentioned it, so I looked it up. It's a Java app! It'll run on Mac or Linux, or anything else that supports java. There's no mention of Windows-only anywhere on their website. You're just propogating the "Windows-only" myth.
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
Shut! Up! Eccles!
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"
World Intellectual Property Association? Are you sure this isn't just Microsoft Astroturf?
"What are we going to do tonight, Bill?"