OSX has run rings around Vista. The resources MSFT has to dedicate to NT would be greatly reduced by open sourcing it or switching to Linux. Considering the fiscal responsibility to shareholders, what would you disagree with here?
I doubt it. The NT kernel is really quite nice. It's all the crud layered on top that sucks (I've coded MFC, please send donuts!). And to port a non-trivial set of Windows apps over, you'd need to drag quite a load of that crud too. MS-Wine??? Or Win95 running on DosX (the Linux retread)!
As for releasing NT open source. Well, look at how long it took for FireFox to emerge from the open source Netscape. I'd like to see it, but even letting aside the probelms with 3rd party code copyrights, I'm prepared to but that's one *crufty* codebase. (You changed comctl32.dll, removing that seemingly unused variable? Well now you wonder why IIS segfaults on Tuesdays in May...)
The Koran's still in the same language, and is considerably more recent... And then there's the writings of L Ron Hubbard. They're still under copyright!
Indonesia does the grunt-work of collecting the samples, for free. The drug companies, Baxter et al., charge for the "IP" of the drugs made based from these samples. Not just the drugs, the IP that Indonesia helped gather. At the very least this warrents some share of the IP, say, gratis licences to manufacture the drugs so researched.
Because it's already too fat with all the AOL crap Dell and the rest preload? Because it's useful?? Because customers want it??? Just tried to download. Didn't work. Just how dows M$ break a site so it doesn't even render in safari???? Firefox is OK, though;=) Now, will this run under parallels?
There was a guy I knew, new to the lab. Was supposed to be doing signal analysis. He got allocated an old 286 (486Dx66 was the mutt's nuts at the time). So the box went on the network with the name "glacial.lab4...." But the floor had a brand new, 25ppm PostScript networked toy. Did you know you can do FFTs in PostScript? They only took about 45mins per page to print...
This is exactly what a professional certification body should be doing.
If an aircraft engineer ups and ignores airflow theory, I want him out before he designs something that flys over me. I want my dentist to understand the pathogen theory of disease *before* my root canal. Electromagnetic theory should not be an optional extra for the guy designing the shielding in my microwave.
So they dissent from current scientific orthodoxy? Fine. Build a model plane. Test it on animal. Try it out in a lab. So what about the climate? Don't think global climate change is happening? Right, get off your butt. Crunch the numbers, run the models, publish the papers. If you're on to something you've got a very nice career ahead of you. But if you're just sounding off without that backing you aren't acting professionally, so no professional certification for you. And the current state of the science is that anthropogenic climate change is far and away the most likely explaination for observation data, so any "professional" that discounts this out of hand isn't acting professionally.
Then again, what did you expect from weather girls chosen for their breast size???
OK, so I get the idea, rabbits aren't any more efficient than, say, cows, at converting vegetable matter to meat, but they are a lot faster. I think I heard about four times. So you can get 4000lb of rabbit meat in the same time you can get 1000lb of beef. OK, but that's for regular bunnies, don't big bunnies grow quite a bit slowler. So what's the "best bunnie" size???
So, let me get this straight: 0.5 assed = 0.196850394 (metric assed), so 1 hole assed = 0.393700788 (metric assed) and therefore 1 (metric assed) = 2.5399999961 assed. WTF is that in standard buttloads???
If Linux Torvalds hadn't got involved in software RMS would have a following of academic lisp gurus numbering nearly in three digits. If Richard Stallman hadn't got involved in software Linux would have a different compiler.
That should be LT/RMS then. Don't like it? He shouldn't claim the work of others.
Thunderbird 1.5 doesn't delete collapsed threads fully unless individually clicked, which makes keeping tabs on high volume mailing lists painful. Has TB2 got this right yet?
I don't say it, secular science does. This is the thing you hear every time NASA collects some rock or debris from space somewhere.
Bullshit! You're making things up!
To terrorists, morals are the same. Moral relativism leaves the door open for absolutely anything.
Erm, aren't most of the terrorist we're worried about right now religious nutjobs???
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OSX has run rings around Vista. The resources MSFT has to dedicate to NT would be greatly reduced by open sourcing it or switching to Linux. Considering the fiscal responsibility to shareholders, what would you disagree with here?
I doubt it. The NT kernel is really quite nice. It's all the crud layered on top that sucks (I've coded MFC, please send donuts!). And to port a non-trivial set of Windows apps over, you'd need to drag quite a load of that crud too. MS-Wine??? Or Win95 running on DosX (the Linux retread)!
As for releasing NT open source. Well, look at how long it took for FireFox to emerge from the open source Netscape. I'd like to see it, but even letting aside the probelms with 3rd party code copyrights, I'm prepared to but that's one *crufty* codebase. (You changed comctl32.dll, removing that seemingly unused variable? Well now you wonder why IIS segfaults on Tuesdays in May...)
The Koran's still in the same language, and is considerably more recent...
And then there's the writings of L Ron Hubbard. They're still under copyright!
Indonesia does the grunt-work of collecting the samples, for free. The drug companies, Baxter et al., charge for the "IP" of the drugs made based from these samples. Not just the drugs, the IP that Indonesia helped gather. At the very least this warrents some share of the IP, say, gratis licences to manufacture the drugs so researched.
That's shocking.
But at least you know how to conduct yourself.
Free linux workstations coming soon to a dumpster near you!!!
(Worked for my Masters, could work for you, too...)
They are religion based, but not because of the choice of zero year, 'coz they haven't got this newfangled idea of "zero" yet...
Because it's already too fat with all the AOL crap Dell and the rest preload? Because it's useful?? Because customers want it??? ;=)
Just tried to download. Didn't work. Just how dows M$ break a site so it doesn't even render in safari????
Firefox is OK, though
Now, will this run under parallels?
How long will it be before the scam isn't aimed at the regular traders any more, but those who try to make a quick buck shorting the stock???
There was a guy I knew, new to the lab. Was supposed to be doing signal analysis. He got allocated an old 286 (486Dx66 was the mutt's nuts at the time). So the box went on the network with the name "glacial.lab4...." But the floor had a brand new, 25ppm PostScript networked toy.
Did you know you can do FFTs in PostScript? They only took about 45mins per page to print...
I used to get the LaserJet 4's to say "White toner low" ...
This is exactly what a professional certification body should be doing.
If an aircraft engineer ups and ignores airflow theory, I want him out before he designs something that flys over me.
I want my dentist to understand the pathogen theory of disease *before* my root canal.
Electromagnetic theory should not be an optional extra for the guy designing the shielding in my microwave.
So they dissent from current scientific orthodoxy? Fine. Build a model plane. Test it on animal. Try it out in a lab.
So what about the climate? Don't think global climate change is happening? Right, get off your butt. Crunch the numbers, run the models, publish the papers. If you're on to something you've got a very nice career ahead of you. But if you're just sounding off without that backing you aren't acting professionally, so no professional certification for you. And the current state of the science is that anthropogenic climate change is far and away the most likely explaination for observation data, so any "professional" that discounts this out of hand isn't acting professionally.
Then again, what did you expect from weather girls chosen for their breast size???
[Q] Why is American beer like sex in a canoe?
[A] They're both fucking close to water...
OK, so I get the idea, rabbits aren't any more efficient than, say, cows, at converting vegetable matter to meat, but they are a lot faster. I think I heard about four times. So you can get 4000lb of rabbit meat in the same time you can get 1000lb of beef. OK, but that's for regular bunnies, don't big bunnies grow quite a bit slowler. So what's the "best bunnie" size???
So, let me get this straight:
0.5 assed = 0.196850394 (metric assed), so 1 hole assed = 0.393700788 (metric assed) and therefore 1 (metric assed) = 2.5399999961 assed.
WTF is that in standard buttloads???
If Linux Torvalds hadn't got involved in software RMS would have a following of academic lisp gurus numbering nearly in three digits.
If Richard Stallman hadn't got involved in software Linux would have a different compiler.
That should be LT/RMS then. Don't like it? He shouldn't claim the work of others.
Intel Hex. Anything less is for quiche-eaters.
Thunderbird 1.5 doesn't delete collapsed threads fully unless individually clicked, which makes keeping tabs on high volume mailing lists painful. Has TB2 got this right yet?
Dense *is* good. Suck all the bugs out of your code, you just need a perl regex with an event horizon.
That ignores the time taken to learn it.
That's what real life's for!
1.) Go back to school.
2.) Get your MBA.
3.) Outsource all the programmers' jobs.
4.) Profit!
And there's the problem, too often kids aren't encouraged to be independant and questioning but to STFU and OBEY.
Anyone got a procmail that just deletes everything with a GIF attachment???
Now just a minute.
We can draw reasonable conclusions about this entity.
Whoever said anything about an entity? Don't jump to unwarrented conclusions.
K.I.S.S.
I don't say it, secular science does. This is the thing you hear every time NASA collects some rock or debris from space somewhere.
Bullshit! You're making things up!
To terrorists, morals are the same. Moral relativism leaves the door open for absolutely anything.
Erm, aren't most of the terrorist we're worried about right now religious nutjobs???
SNIP
I'll gladly admit I have added nothing new
Hey - you finally got something right!