If you're anywhere near being a k0der you'll be squeezing your head in digust. for fifteen+ years we've been battling against asm-style two/three letter variable declarations, and finally have languages that have helped us define naming conventions and the like, and you want us to go BACK to TLA's??? (TLA = two/three letter acronym)
...are crappily designed and use lots of bandwidth. imagine the bandwidth wastage on every windoze xp bootup when it checks for updates.
i don't understand why this was posted? with so much unlit fibre and the telecoms industry in a slump, it's only a matter of time before bandwidth is so cheap and ubiquitous we'll be scratching our heads at what to do with it.
...was the violent protestation of both democracy AND capitalism.
Can someone explain to me why sites have been shut down, and banner ads removed (not just here, but all over the show)? Have the terrorists achieved their goal, and shut down (or even severely limited) capitalism, even if only for one day or a few hours, by flying into the towers a year ago?
Microsoft's time to patch a remote hole where the attacker can gain complete access to your computer: two months. Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
Slashdot gloating at yet another Microsoft bug: priceless.
It doesn't matter what *actually* happens to revenues. The MPAA has the voice, and it has the means of making itself heard through its media and lobbying machine. Moreover, it can do this very very quickly, whilst the rest of us send letters to congressmen and make posts and rants on/. Until the voice of opposition (whoever that completely un-coordinated and completely disorganized voice is) has the same lobbying might that the MPAA (and RIAA even) has, it won't change.
Aaah, unless of course Sun is being VERY clever and is trying to trick Microsoft, IBM, et al. into a frenzy over the x86 market. This will send Microsoft execs flying to counter-market solutions on the MS platform, while Sun sits back and grows it's server market even more.
I'm not sure I agree. By creating an app that allows users to create Word.doc documents you are presuming that you've managed to decipher the Word format. As soon as this has occurred MS will go about re-securing their format, spurring the (presumably) open source decoding effort to re-decipher it. This becomes a vicious cycle that turns faster and faster without any possible positive outcome.
I don't agree with this socialistic narrowmindedness at all.
I think that one of the main problems with open source software is that to date there has not been one single successful revenue/business model (that I am aware of) that has brought it's shareholders untold riches.
Corporates taking an interest in OSS also means that the quality of the software may (in certain or most circumstances) end up with improved quality, error handling, robustness, SCALABILITY(!!!) and various other factors that make software appealing and successful in today's world. (Offtopic: The reason Linux has grown over the past few years is not directly related to its evolution, but as a consequence of Microsoft's inability to deliver a stable and open and secure OS, forcing people to begin looking for an alternative.)
There is no way that OSS can stay/get big and survive in its current HAM Radio Enthusiast-esque manner.
"It's glad to see the open source movement doing it's job."
Actually this has less to do with what the open source movement is doing, and more to do with what the open source community is NOT doing, and what companies like Microsoft ARE doing.
The reason that CIO's are making moves to open source software is because there is absolutely no business ambition in the open source community, very little (NEW) innovation (referring specifically to the linux communities focus on the desktop, when the desktop war is over, and they should be focusing on enterprise backend services) AND because they know that they are going to be getting not only a cheap(er) software ride for their money, but will also be attracting more nerds and geeks who won't work for anyone that doesn't have at least one linux installation.
I have just tried this approach for the last ten minutes, and I must confess, this one is not too easy. I wonder if, if this tech ever reached our mobiles, we would be faced with the same conversion as say for example, a QWERTY to DVORAK keyboard change.
People don't tend to change from something that they've grown accustomed to - the phones' interface hasn't really changed in years.
Nevertheless, I'd be excited to see what this brings.
Whatever happened to the widespeard notion of giving every person (affordable) digital certificates on a smartcard, and putting a smartcard reader in every machine?
There's already a chain of trust established that no-one seems to have a problem with these days, just like we don't have problems with trusting banks with our money, and there's the key that identifies me uniquely and PROVES that I am who I say I am.
Also, this way I can install some software on my machine to manage my own information, and set the levels of sharing I wish to enable for sites and services.
For sites/services that require additional information, I can then choose to share or hide that information.
The way I see it, everyone's just sort of sitting around like a tree-huggin' hippy, waiting for Microsoft to roll this out, and then bitching and moaning about it. I have to admire Microsoft, not for the way they are going about their strategies, but rather that they have strategies and have the guts to stake some or all of their business on those strategies. I unfortunately do not see nearly the same level of risk being played by other companies, e.g. for Sun's Java ONE technology, which is meant to be a direct competitor. And neither do I see anybody else making nearly as much use of their corporate PR machines.
Anyway, the main point here is using existing technology: Digital Certificates. make them cheap, put them everywhere, and you don't have to rely on a Microsoft-provided service.
I'm sure even Linux users would be happy with that.
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well, let's hope it's not ads ;)
If you're anywhere near being a k0der you'll be squeezing your head in digust. for fifteen+ years we've been battling against asm-style two/three letter variable declarations, and finally have languages that have helped us define naming conventions and the like, and you want us to go BACK to TLA's??? (TLA = two/three letter acronym)
are you insane?
...are crappily designed and use lots of bandwidth. imagine the bandwidth wastage on every windoze xp bootup when it checks for updates.
i don't understand why this was posted? with so much unlit fibre and the telecoms industry in a slump, it's only a matter of time before bandwidth is so cheap and ubiquitous we'll be scratching our heads at what to do with it.
...was the violent protestation of both democracy AND capitalism.
Can someone explain to me why sites have been shut down, and banner ads removed (not just here, but all over the show)? Have the terrorists achieved their goal, and shut down (or even severely limited) capitalism, even if only for one day or a few hours, by flying into the towers a year ago?
Microsoft's time to patch a remote hole where the attacker can gain complete access to your computer: two months.
Open Source's time to patch a much less serious bug where the attacker can merely crash your computer: three days.
Slashdot gloating at yet another Microsoft bug: priceless.
It doesn't matter what *actually* happens to revenues. /.
The MPAA has the voice, and it has the means of making itself heard through its media and lobbying machine. Moreover, it can do this very very quickly, whilst the rest of us send letters to congressmen and make posts and rants on
Until the voice of opposition (whoever that completely un-coordinated and completely disorganized voice is) has the same lobbying might that the MPAA (and RIAA even) has, it won't change.
Aaah, unless of course Sun is being VERY clever and is trying to trick Microsoft, IBM, et al. into a frenzy over the x86 market. This will send Microsoft execs flying to counter-market solutions on the MS platform, while Sun sits back and grows it's server market even more.
I'm not sure I agree.
By creating an app that allows users to create Word.doc documents you are presuming that you've managed to decipher the Word format. As soon as this has occurred MS will go about re-securing their format, spurring the (presumably) open source decoding effort to re-decipher it. This becomes a vicious cycle that turns faster and faster without any possible positive outcome.
Well, for starters, don't let Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor work as a security advisor for the White House.
I don't agree with this socialistic narrowmindedness at all.
I think that one of the main problems with open source software is that to date there has not been one single successful revenue/business model (that I am aware of) that has brought it's shareholders untold riches.
Corporates taking an interest in OSS also means that the quality of the software may (in certain or most circumstances) end up with improved quality, error handling, robustness, SCALABILITY(!!!) and various other factors that make software appealing and successful in today's world. (Offtopic: The reason Linux has grown over the past few years is not directly related to its evolution, but as a consequence of Microsoft's inability to deliver a stable and open and secure OS, forcing people to begin looking for an alternative.)
There is no way that OSS can stay/get big and survive in its current HAM Radio Enthusiast-esque manner.
My 18 non-socialist, competitively earned cents.
"It's glad to see the open source movement doing it's job."
Actually this has less to do with what the open source movement is doing, and more to do with what the open source community is NOT doing, and what companies like Microsoft ARE doing.
The reason that CIO's are making moves to open source software is because there is absolutely no business ambition in the open source community, very little (NEW) innovation (referring specifically to the linux communities focus on the desktop, when the desktop war is over, and they should be focusing on enterprise backend services) AND because they know that they are going to be getting not only a cheap(er) software ride for their money, but will also be attracting more nerds and geeks who won't work for anyone that doesn't have at least one linux installation.
This is not a rant, I'm just highly opinionated
I have just tried this approach for the last ten minutes, and I must confess, this one is not too easy. I wonder if, if this tech ever reached our mobiles, we would be faced with the same conversion as say for example, a QWERTY to DVORAK keyboard change.
People don't tend to change from something that they've grown accustomed to - the phones' interface hasn't really changed in years.
Nevertheless, I'd be excited to see what this brings.
Whatever happened to the widespeard notion of giving every person (affordable) digital certificates on a smartcard, and putting a smartcard reader in every machine?
There's already a chain of trust established that no-one seems to have a problem with these days, just like we don't have problems with trusting banks with our money, and there's the key that identifies me uniquely and PROVES that I am who I say I am.
Also, this way I can install some software on my machine to manage my own information, and set the levels of sharing I wish to enable for sites and services.
For sites/services that require additional information, I can then choose to share or hide that information.
The way I see it, everyone's just sort of sitting around like a tree-huggin' hippy, waiting for Microsoft to roll this out, and then bitching and moaning about it. I have to admire Microsoft, not for the way they are going about their strategies, but rather that they have strategies and have the guts to stake some or all of their business on those strategies. I unfortunately do not see nearly the same level of risk being played by other companies, e.g. for Sun's Java ONE technology, which is meant to be a direct competitor. And neither do I see anybody else making nearly as much use of their corporate PR machines.
Anyway, the main point here is using existing technology: Digital Certificates. make them cheap, put them everywhere, and you don't have to rely on a Microsoft-provided service.
I'm sure even Linux users would be happy with that.