The Chen Camp was the thing that made Microsoft the defacto OS, and the reason why people don't defect to other OSes: applications.
Using the Motley Fool's terminology, it looks like the Chen Camp lived in the Stage 2 days and the MSDN Camp is winning out in Stage 3.
I think your post adds to this guy's article and perhaps sheds some light as to what is going on in Redmond. I have to admit I find it interesting that Longhorn has been delayed for so long and that they have until recently totally dropped the IE ball.
Alright. I'll bite. What would work better? I'm not trying to troll, but I hear a lot of complaining about this idea, but no one is offering a better solution.
Or is the solution just to not do sensitive transactions over the Internet?
Oh man I forgot about that lame mechanical dog! In fact, I forgot about how lame the old show was. Thank goodness they didn't put anything like that in the new SciFi version.
> The rest I leave to the quiet turning of your considered conscience.
>
> J. Michael Straczynski
Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent
it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things
happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV
world a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no
matter who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks
putting in time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I
don't think that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV
series for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can
happen in the interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the
deal, but that should be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes
us, but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the
middle of the night.
Why do you perceive Linux as such a threat, why all of the caustic remarks about open source, and why not port your premiere apps such as Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer to Linux?
Linus Torvalds, in response to a question about strategy against Microsoft, said plainly, that he doesn't care what Microsoft does. "Let them have their operating system and the world. I just want to work on my kernel."
Not to mention KDevelop 3.X http://www.kdevelop.org/. I've been using that for about a year now, and am quite happy.
By day, I develop C++ code using Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE 2003. I think it compares pretty nicely. And it definitely does not crash (no more so than M$'s IDE, anyway).
The DMCA makes it illegal for me to play DVDs using free software, or rip them in order to access content for personal use (not for distribution). It's called Fair Use, and it's been hampered in this respect.
Amen. I really hate the in-theater ad where some stunt man lectures the audience that stealing a candy bar and downloading a movie off the Internet is theft. "Um..hello?! I paid how much to get in here and have you tell me this?!"
Where I work, our Internet guru bitches about Firefox (and Mozilla's) exclusion of ActiveX support by default. Only because that makes watching embedded WMV impossible (and we are all about video streaming).
I would like to see ActiveX in FF only if it could be treated like extensions;.e.g. you only can download from trusted sites.
My wife and I were both blown away by the pilot, suffice to say. I knew right off this would not be a typical SF show.
Your comment made me think of the opening of "Water" with Boomer sitting in a room dripping wet and not knowing how she got that way. It opens just on her fingers, with the water dripping off, then you get to see more of the situation, bit by bit. Nice stuff. Definitely not typical TV grade.
I think BSG's strength is the way it's filmed. The creators are treating it like a motion picture instead of like a TV show. Enterprise looks like a TV show with "on location" shots on the Universal lot. BSG has a more epic feel, with acting, writing, direction and special effects to match.
I've never used Objective-C before, but it sounds like it's kinda like "C++-lite". It seems to me that taking advantage of stack-based construction/destruction would be a big plus-- esp for resource management.
It's been pointed out before--you can do the same crap with macros. You can obfuscate the hell out of straight 'C'. I've spent more than my share of time debugging crap C code with monster switch statements spanning pages and pages of code with hundreds of variables. One small change and the house of cards comes tumbling down.
Bad design happens no matter what language is chosen.:-)
I think the point is that if you're looking at code that has to have multiple nestings of try/catch statements, then it was poorly designed to begin with.
As was said earlier, exceptions are for exceptional circumstances.
Besides, multiple nestings of if/else statements point to poor design. So, should we ban if/else as well?
I admit, I've never written kernel level code. I've done mostly GUI stuff, and I think C++'s object orientedness lends itself well to a GUI paradigm.
I learned coding in straight C first, and then later taught myself C++ when it started becoming popular. When I got into GUI development, I discovered that you have to, <
So, I would imagine, to allow C++ into the kernel would take a big rewrite to allow for it.
Think of the Matrix as the capitalistic system, think of the machines as the corporations.
Instead, you should say "...think of the system we're in as a protectionist system..." True capitalism would allow competition to flourish. The RIAA can't stand competition; so big coporations lobby to have draconian laws like the DMCA passed so that their business model is protected from the very thing a capitalist system depends on: competition
Seems like it could be harder to impelement loop holes in a consumption tax system. I've never heard of loop holes, for example, in state sales tax (at least, in California). The only exception is if you are a wholesaler.
I don't understand how you're coming to that conclusion. The Fair Tax elimates the ability to loop hole out of paying tax. You pay tax it at the register, period. If anything, the current system is regressive because the rich get out of paying taxes. I heard Kerry say he was going to try to "soak the rich" with his version of tax reform.
Good luck. The democrats been trying to "soak the rich" for decades with little success. The rich can afford high priced CPAs and slick lobbyists to alter the tax code in their favor. So who pays the taxes now? The poor and especially the middle class.
Well said. Also, there are hidden taxes that the middle and poor classes pay in the current system. When you buy a good or service, the income tax (and payroll, social security, etc taxes) are all passed on to you, the consumer. Simple economics. So you pay double, triple tax--your income tax plus your vendor's income tax plus his vendor's income tax.
So, if you want to talk about a regressive system, that's our current system. It seems to me we'd be better off under the Fair Tax.
Not to mention, I don't think it's the federal goverment's business to know how much I make. My finances are my own, and I resent having to report intimate details of my life like that. It goes against the fundemental precepts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Why is there no question about this? Specifically, I'd like to hear what the canidates have to say about the Fair Tax proposal http://www.fairtax.org/.
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The Chen Camp was the thing that made Microsoft the defacto OS, and the reason why people don't defect to other OSes: applications.
Using the Motley Fool's terminology, it looks like the Chen Camp lived in the Stage 2 days and the MSDN Camp is winning out in Stage 3.
I think your post adds to this guy's article and perhaps sheds some light as to what is going on in Redmond. I have to admit I find it interesting that Longhorn has been delayed for so long and that they have until recently totally dropped the IE ball.
Or is the solution just to not do sensitive transactions over the Internet?
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
The dumping of VB6 really underscores how Microsoft no longer cares about being backward compatible.
Oh man I forgot about that lame mechanical dog! In fact, I forgot about how lame the old show was. Thank goodness they didn't put anything like that in the new SciFi version.
...man I thought they had found a way to deliver a virus via video stream. :-)
Rats. Sorry about being redundant, but I just didn't see the above post.
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:03:38 +0000 (UTC)
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> The rest I leave to the quiet turning of your considered conscience.
>
> J. Michael Straczynski
Actually...belay everything I just said.
In the 24 hours between the time I composed the prior note, and sent it, and it made its way through the moderation software, two things happened:
1) I heard from a trusted source that Paramount is giving the Trek TV world a rest for maybe one to two years, depending on circumstances, no matter who would come along to run it. So it's not right to have folks putting in time doing something that ultimately would be pointless, I don't think that's a proper use of anybody's time.
2) At the same time as the above, an offer came in to run a new TV series for fall of '06, and since there's no way anything Trek can happen in the interim, I've said yes (now we have to negotiate the deal, but that should be fairly straightforward).
So on two counts, the whole thing is kind of moot.
We can reconvene a year or two down the road to see where this takes us, but in the interim...my apologies for waking everybody up in the middle of the night.
As you were.
Thanks and with great chagrinedness --
jms
Linus Torvalds, in response to a question about strategy against Microsoft, said plainly, that he doesn't care what Microsoft does. "Let them have their operating system and the world. I just want to work on my kernel."
Why not employ a live and let live stragedy?
Not to mention KDevelop 3.X http://www.kdevelop.org/. I've been using that for about a year now, and am quite happy. By day, I develop C++ code using Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE 2003. I think it compares pretty nicely. And it definitely does not crash (no more so than M$'s IDE, anyway).
The DMCA makes it illegal for me to play DVDs using free software, or rip them in order to access content for personal use (not for distribution). It's called Fair Use, and it's been hampered in this respect.
Amen. I really hate the in-theater ad where some stunt man lectures the audience that stealing a candy bar and downloading a movie off the Internet is theft. "Um..hello?! I paid how much to get in here and have you tell me this?!"
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2062 13/
I would like to see ActiveX in FF only if it could be treated like extensions; .e.g. you only can download from trusted sites.
Your comment made me think of the opening of "Water" with Boomer sitting in a room dripping wet and not knowing how she got that way. It opens just on her fingers, with the water dripping off, then you get to see more of the situation, bit by bit. Nice stuff. Definitely not typical TV grade.
I think BSG's strength is the way it's filmed. The creators are treating it like a motion picture instead of like a TV show. Enterprise looks like a TV show with "on location" shots on the Universal lot. BSG has a more epic feel, with acting, writing, direction and special effects to match.
...but 'find / -exec grep -Hni bork \{\} \;' does... :-)
I've never used Objective-C before, but it sounds like it's kinda like "C++-lite". It seems to me that taking advantage of stack-based construction/destruction would be a big plus-- esp for resource management.
Bad design happens no matter what language is chosen. :-)
As was said earlier, exceptions are for exceptional circumstances.
Besides, multiple nestings of if/else statements point to poor design. So, should we ban if/else as well?
I learned coding in straight C first, and then later taught myself C++ when it started becoming popular. When I got into GUI development, I discovered that you have to, < So, I would imagine, to allow C++ into the kernel would take a big rewrite to allow for it.
Instead, you should say "...think of the system we're in as a protectionist system..." True capitalism would allow competition to flourish. The RIAA can't stand competition; so big coporations lobby to have draconian laws like the DMCA passed so that their business model is protected from the very thing a capitalist system depends on: competition
Seems like it could be harder to impelement loop holes in a consumption tax system. I've never heard of loop holes, for example, in state sales tax (at least, in California). The only exception is if you are a wholesaler.
Good luck. The democrats been trying to "soak the rich" for decades with little success. The rich can afford high priced CPAs and slick lobbyists to alter the tax code in their favor. So who pays the taxes now? The poor and especially the middle class.
So, if you want to talk about a regressive system, that's our current system. It seems to me we'd be better off under the Fair Tax.
Not to mention, I don't think it's the federal goverment's business to know how much I make. My finances are my own, and I resent having to report intimate details of my life like that. It goes against the fundemental precepts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Why is there no question about this? Specifically, I'd like to hear what the canidates have to say about the Fair Tax proposal http://www.fairtax.org/.