BK uses a more distributed development model instead of having one central server, which allows people to maintain their own version controlled source tree from which Linus (or anyone) can pull patches from. This is more like Arch or SVK than CVS or Subversion. Although in the end it performs a similar function, the difference is fairly significant.
The MS APIs are probably the best-documented in the industry.
Say what?!?! The way MS has been insuring that MS Office and other MS-AP products work better than anyone else is through the use of non-documented APIs. If you really think MS has published documents for all it's OS APIs, talk to the WINE people who are attempting to duplicate it.
I believe the actualy trademark is "Coca-Cola" not "coke", although I may be misinformed. The word "coke" itself has meanings outside of the soft drink. (Someone else posted an actual dictionary definition, if you don't feel like taking the effort to look it up yourself (I didn't).)
As an aside, I dislike the increasing ownership rights that corporations are being granted by both the law and public apathy. Trademarks, to my knowledge, do -not- grant a corporation ownership of all possibly related words in the language.
To avoid being off-topic I'm not going to rant about things like the DMCA and the UCITA giving these same companies rights to more and more of our life.
(Remember, like most of/., IANAL. These are just my personal opinions.)
Looks like, to me at least, that Transmeta is starting out the safe way. They don't yet want to do the really cool stuff/.ers want to because that's a risky market. Maybe in a year (if they're still there) they'll release a processor that allows you to switch ISAs on the fly. Untill then it's kinda pointless, since the Crusoe's VLIW set might change before then.
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NT focuses heavily on Java in its CS program. They use Java because of its extensive use on the web, platform independance, and OO features. They also have classes in C++ and some other languages (Perl?).
Classes on Network Management and the like are also avalible as well as an Information Technology major for those who don't want to be a programmer but want to be in the field (some programming but more networking and admin as I understand).
Remember, it's Internet Exploder on all those AOL CDs we like to use as frisbees, and AOL owns Netscape! So even if MS is a part-owner of Qwest, it doesn't mean they won't ship with Netscape.
AOL made that deal before they bought out Netscape. AOL uses MSIE for a place on the Windows disk. If I remember the rumors correctly, AOL will switch to a Mozilla based browser sometime in the future (AOL 5?). But for the time being AOL doesn't want to give up their place on the Windows desktop.
> have the Governement buy NetZero for a day and use them
If you're going to hijack an already existing system, I doubt NetZero is capible of handling enough people for the entire nation to vote... I doubt even AOL's system (designed to handle more than 13+ million members) could handle such a task. The backups and bandwidth needed would be INSANE. Maybe using something like Canada's CA*Net would work, but not any one ISP's.
There is a reason/. has moderation. It's to let people read messages with actual content w/o reading the trash that has apparently been posted on this thread (I haven't seen the actual messages, just the responces to the morons. I set my prefs so that I only read messages with a score >= 2.) If you're tired of reading the idiotic trash some people post, set the filter to 1 or 2!
AOL provides the free service not as a nicety, but as a way to produce cash. AOL gets profits from AIM in the form of advertising. MS's users use the servers w/o any compensation to AOL at all.
Remember, companies rarely to anything to be nice, but rather to make money.
And AOL has the right to do anything they want with their servers... They own them! It's like the signs in restaurants: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."
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Really?
*looks at his Mac OS X laptop*
*looks at the Incredibles web page loaded on it*
Huh. Never knew my Powerbook was running WindBlows. I thought it was Panther. Good to know.
BK uses a more distributed development model instead of having one central server, which allows people to maintain their own version controlled source tree from which Linus (or anyone) can pull patches from. This is more like Arch or SVK than CVS or Subversion. Although in the end it performs a similar function, the difference is fairly significant.
Say what?!?! The way MS has been insuring that MS Office and other MS-AP products work better than anyone else is through the use of non-documented APIs. If you really think MS has published documents for all it's OS APIs, talk to the WINE people who are attempting to duplicate it.
--Benabik Alvar
Pardon?
/., IANAL. These are just my personal opinions.)
I believe the actualy trademark is "Coca-Cola" not "coke", although I may be misinformed. The word "coke" itself has meanings outside of the soft drink. (Someone else posted an actual dictionary definition, if you don't feel like taking the effort to look it up yourself (I didn't).)
As an aside, I dislike the increasing ownership rights that corporations are being granted by both the law and public apathy. Trademarks, to my knowledge, do -not- grant a corporation ownership of all possibly related words in the language.
To avoid being off-topic I'm not going to rant about things like the DMCA and the UCITA giving these same companies rights to more and more of our life.
(Remember, like most of
Looks like, to me at least, that Transmeta is starting out the safe way. They don't yet want to do the really cool stuff /.ers want to because that's a risky market. Maybe in a year (if they're still there) they'll release a processor that allows you to switch ISAs on the fly. Untill then it's kinda pointless, since the Crusoe's VLIW set might change before then.
Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NT focuses heavily on Java in its CS program. They use Java because of its extensive use on the web, platform independance, and OO features. They also have classes in C++ and some other languages (Perl?).
Classes on Network Management and the like are also avalible as well as an Information Technology major for those who don't want to be a programmer but want to be in the field (some programming but more networking and admin as I understand).
Remember, it's Internet Exploder on all those AOL CDs we like to use as frisbees, and AOL owns Netscape! So even if MS is a part-owner of Qwest, it doesn't mean they won't ship with Netscape.
AOL made that deal before they bought out Netscape. AOL uses MSIE for a place on the Windows disk. If I remember the rumors correctly, AOL will switch to a Mozilla based browser sometime in the future (AOL 5?). But for the time being AOL doesn't want to give up their place on the Windows desktop.
I'm expecting a message from Mars soon...
ALL OF THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT MARS. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
Who says Clarke got all the details right?
> have the Governement buy NetZero for a day and use them
If you're going to hijack an already existing system, I doubt NetZero is capible of handling enough people for the entire nation to vote... I doubt even AOL's system (designed to handle more than 13+ million members) could handle such a task. The backups and bandwidth needed would be INSANE. Maybe using something like Canada's CA*Net would work, but not any one ISP's.
There is a reason /. has moderation. It's to let people read messages with actual content w/o reading the trash that has apparently been posted on this thread (I haven't seen the actual messages, just the responces to the morons. I set my prefs so that I only read messages with a score >= 2.) If you're tired of reading the idiotic trash some people post, set the filter to 1 or 2!
AOL provides the free service not as a nicety, but as a way to produce cash. AOL gets profits from AIM in the form of advertising. MS's users use the servers w/o any compensation to AOL at all.
Remember, companies rarely to anything to be nice, but rather to make money.
And AOL has the right to do anything they want with their servers... They own them! It's like the signs in restaurants: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."