ICANN can revoke their authorization last I heard. They are pretty much push-overs for corporations so I don't see any top down remedies to this blatent miss-representation of their powers.
On second thought, here is my idea: Have Verisign pay ICANN for every bogus returned DNS request, since technically Verisign has registered billions of domains, I'd say that ICANN is entitled to a mightly large chunk of Verisign revenues. More than the service is worth? One can only hope.
Every single change they have EVER made to their DNS control realms have been sleazy, underhanded, or monopolistic.
Domain Holding with the option for payments to free them up faster? They still do it. Hell just look at the slashdoty article history. The question should really be: What the hell have they done to improve the state of the internet? Their agenda's differ from those of us here because we want a free Internet and they want dollar signs.
those hard drives that are sold as 80gb drives, but have 20GB partitions allocated for the OS 'backup'. That's my pet peave. Luckally I don't buy systems with that 'feature'
If PDA manufacturers can get sued for it, why not their desktop counterparts?
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Just to clearify, I am a low level hacker with C on the brains. I am not a bread and butter VB guy. If I wanted to make a quick and dirty GUI though, I could use VB 6 because my company owns it but more importantly, there was no complexity at all. Almost half the things I did were in the realm setting property X to value Y. Simple, quick, done.
VB is not as much a programming language that became a GUI, but a prototyping tool that became a programming language. The move to VB.NET has taken away all the language simplicity making it a fully fledged language, but made it difficult enough to negate its benefits over other products that fall within its same niche. I do my quick and dirty GUI's in Jbuilder now. If I have to use a fully fledged language, I would rather use a portable one.
It is fantastic for java development. I have spent a lot of time doing relatively simple work, but my company uses it exstensively for development of java.
These are the same guys who have yet to migrate our existing VC6 programs to.NET simply because there is no advantage from their standpoint. For our entrprise applications, Java is a lot easier to develop and release.
Plus, look at the price scalability: With windows, you have fixed licensing costs that start at what, like $1000 per server for basic server functionality. I don't know if VS.NET clients count as CAL connections, so that would rase the price exponentially. Add MSSQL and the price is easily $3500 at ground zero.
As for Java, you can start with 0 dollars using JDK, Jboss, Mysql / Postgress. If you need mroe reliability, you can super-size those fries and get the Jbuilder / Weblogic / Oracle combo reap the time / reliability benefits for the cost you pay. There are also dozens of alternatives for Java has that can only be matched with the same Microft exclusive offering.
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Ack! I hated that!! If I wanted to write really simple GUI apps for windows, I would have used VB. I won't even bother with VB.NET. I see no advantage to using.NET for what VB was ment for.
#6 IS the reason that people use Outlook,and the fact that it ties in with the rest of the office software they bought as part of Office 2k2 anyways.
1. Not all would say so. If nothing else, Mozilla doesn't have MAPI, which like it or not, IS used. 2. Taken care of on a server (w/extra software) 3. Taken care of on a server (w/extra software) 4. HTML is optional, but yes, web views are annoying in Outlook, but since you aren't getting spam from #3, who cares? 5. How many companies develop Extensions to Exchange? The API's are there. They don't because they don't care. That is the vendor's job to care. 6. Is optional, but anyone would be stupid to use a fully featured Client without a fully featured backend. 7. Included in Office which is essential to them anyways. Plus real corporations pay a lot less in volume.
The fewer the vendors, the better, so having email,file,web,email,etc.. under the same umbrella is a good alternative as long as that vendor isn't IBM:-)
In short, I predict that Microsoft Outlook will be dead within 1.5 months.
>>What happened to the Unix Philosophy? Nowadays we have all these Explorer wannabe programs that purport to do everything you want and more all in one program
Well, in the real world, where nerds are not the prodominant species, people don't care about phylosophical architectural styles. They care about getting work done, and fast. The computer industry is slowing down because we haven't made the real world any more efficient for a few years at least.
Now, why you should care about file managers:
- Consumer firendly software makes consumers more likely to buy into Linux (duh)
- With consumers, brings money into Linux providers, like distributors, program developers, support, etc..
- With this added revenue in the "Linux Sector", the more likely someone will want more market penetration and continue to make Linux a better place. Now, much of that may be in the brain dead GUI's, but then again, there has too be some trickle down effect into the programs that you use on a daily bases, and I think a few oft posts are ok once and a while for better Linux, don't you?
This system is capitalism with baggage. In true capticalism, SCO would never sue anyone because there would be no laws copyrights, IP, etc.. for them to use. That is where the free market idea comes in. You can do whatever you like even if it monopolizes the markets. You would have a very few very powerful corporations, much like G8 countries of today. These countries control the world economic system to the extent that it maintains their perpetual leadership in the market.
1. Multiply the cost of your software by number of servers (since most software is based on named user licenses)
2. Multiply your workload from managing 1 large server to managing many smaller servers.
After a few servers, consolidation saves major bank.
Remember, hardware is cheap, software is kinda cheap, support is heavy. 20K may seem like a lot up front, but hey, that is 4mo. of my Salary. For a system that is probably planned for 3-5 years, hardware is a trivial cost in the lifetime of the product.
I use binaries because it is simple and straight forward. It is fine for 90% of all my package installs to be of this variety at this point.
I use source packages when I need to make something fit in the system, even if it means hacing code.
Generally, only if a program is of critical importance, or I am curious do I ever bother source browsing. I am not lazy, just practical. I have real work to do, and wasting my time being -anally- paranoid about legitimate distribution channels doesn't help me do my job.
What a surprise, it is the microsoft indexer that "actually works"!
It is basically (from my point of view) a meta-data database that actaully points at the files instead of descriptors to files!! What a concept..
Realistically, if I am reading this right, it is JUST a further abstraction for 'beginners' and those that just don't care about computers or how they work. It has 0% usability / performance / availability gains by the looks of it. It is simply to make ignorant users navigation of the systems easier.
The word is Deterance, and North Korea is building nuclear weapons to defend their soverenty against Bush and his fanatically aggressive millitary campaigns.. and you wonder why you have no friends... *sigh*
PS: Although that is one way to look at things, it is also possible that North Korea has always wanted nukes and has used the Iraqi war as an excuse to build them. Either way, America has made North Korea a lot more justified in building up their weapons programs.
Teacher: Peace begets peace and war begets war. Bush: But they are crazy! Teacher: Hmm.. so, what have we learned children? Bush: Kill them before the kill us!
Where was the outcry when manufacturing and textiles took a flying leap into ASIA?
Whenever I hear about outsourcing to other countries, I have to retrospect that this has been happening for at least 20 years in one industry or another.
Whenever there is a labour force to do simple training to do the same job you do at half the price, I would be stupid not to say yes. STUPID.
Of course that is where the laws of tarrifs, etc try to balance the deficits of greedy companies.
In My Biased Opinion, I believe that many social woes from America come from a society of consumers constantly wanting more. This makes them greedy, greedier than other countries anyways.
"Can someone spread some light on how they'd prove how old their code is?"
Escrow is the only way I can see it being done in a totally legal way. One can assume that code licensed to company xyz at would also be a good indicator of what is and what was not in the SCO OS and when.
Having this case settled out of court leaves a bad taste in everyones mouth, and I can see SCO picking on any and all companies in the Linux space. Even if it doesn't effect Linux for individuals, the cost of the trial is nothing compared to their lost revenues of watching Linux die comercially.
The main difference between the ASM->C/C++ and C/C++ ->.NET leap is that the.NET cdoe cannot be tracked down to efficeincy buy looking at it. A skilled C++ programmer will know the weight of the commands they call, and in a lot of cases, optimize the code to be close to ASM levels of performance most of the time..NET has no to-hardware pass-through by design which means optimization lay in the jit-type area where programmers cannot control performance.
About your first statement, the only (slight) adcantage that your first statement means is that instead of having an in-game scripting language in your game, you could compile a real scripting engine into your code. Otherwise, there is no use for cross-language games programming.
Porttability hasn't been touched yet. Does anyone think this would help games development to other platforms???
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You are on DOPE!!
There is persistance but there certainly is NO RPG in there at all! Please stop trying to inflate your dwindling market share.
ICANN can revoke their authorization last I heard. They are pretty much push-overs for corporations so I don't see any top down remedies to this blatent miss-representation of their powers.
On second thought, here is my idea: Have Verisign pay ICANN for every bogus returned DNS request, since technically Verisign has registered billions of domains, I'd say that ICANN is entitled to a mightly large chunk of Verisign revenues. More than the service is worth? One can only hope.
Well,
Every single change they have EVER made to their DNS control realms have been sleazy, underhanded, or monopolistic.
Domain Holding with the option for payments to free them up faster? They still do it. Hell just look at the slashdoty article history. The question should really be: What the hell have they done to improve the state of the internet? Their agenda's differ from those of us here because we want a free Internet and they want dollar signs.
those hard drives that are sold as 80gb drives, but have 20GB partitions allocated for the OS 'backup'. That's my pet peave. Luckally I don't buy systems with that 'feature'
If PDA manufacturers can get sued for it, why not their desktop counterparts?
Just to clearify, I am a low level hacker with C on the brains. I am not a bread and butter VB guy. If I wanted to make a quick and dirty GUI though, I could use VB 6 because my company owns it but more importantly, there was no complexity at all. Almost half the things I did were in the realm setting property X to value Y. Simple, quick, done.
VB is not as much a programming language that became a GUI, but a prototyping tool that became a programming language. The move to VB.NET has taken away all the language simplicity making it a fully fledged language, but made it difficult enough to negate its benefits over other products that fall within its same niche. I do my quick and dirty GUI's in Jbuilder now. If I have to use a fully fledged language, I would rather use a portable one.
Lest you forget the 35MB windows update to install the .NET framework to begin with(which is not a critical update). It is just like the JVM, IMHO.
JBuilder anyone?
.NET simply because there is no advantage from their standpoint. For our entrprise applications, Java is a lot easier to develop and release.
It is fantastic for java development. I have spent a lot of time doing relatively simple work, but my company uses it exstensively for development of java.
These are the same guys who have yet to migrate our existing VC6 programs to
Plus, look at the price scalability:
With windows, you have fixed licensing costs that start at what, like $1000 per server for basic server functionality. I don't know if VS.NET clients count as CAL connections, so that would rase the price exponentially. Add MSSQL and the price is easily $3500 at ground zero.
As for Java, you can start with 0 dollars using JDK, Jboss, Mysql / Postgress. If you need mroe reliability, you can super-size those fries and get the Jbuilder / Weblogic / Oracle combo reap the time / reliability benefits for the cost you pay. There are also dozens of alternatives for Java has that can only be matched with the same Microft exclusive offering.
Ack! I hated that!! If I wanted to write really simple GUI apps for windows, I would have used VB. I won't even bother with VB.NET. I see no advantage to using .NET for what VB was ment for.
They all have Weapons of mass destruction. Is anyone old enough to remember the cold war? They got their weapons from either A. or B.
This is one reason you see So much Russian support for countries that are hated by the US. Syria Anyone?
#6 IS the reason that people use Outlook ,and the fact that it ties in with the rest of the office software they bought as part of Office 2k2 anyways.
:-)
1. Not all would say so. If nothing else, Mozilla doesn't have MAPI, which like it or not, IS used.
2. Taken care of on a server (w/extra software)
3. Taken care of on a server (w/extra software)
4. HTML is optional, but yes, web views are annoying in Outlook, but since you aren't getting spam from #3, who cares?
5. How many companies develop Extensions to Exchange? The API's are there. They don't because they don't care. That is the vendor's job to care.
6. Is optional, but anyone would be stupid to use a fully featured Client without a fully featured backend.
7. Included in Office which is essential to them anyways. Plus real corporations pay a lot less in volume.
The fewer the vendors, the better, so having email,file,web,email,etc.. under the same umbrella is a good alternative as long as that vendor isn't IBM
In short, I predict that Microsoft Outlook will be dead within 1.5 months.
>>What happened to the Unix Philosophy? Nowadays we have all these Explorer wannabe programs that purport to do everything you want and more all in one program
Well, in the real world, where nerds are not the prodominant species, people don't care about phylosophical architectural styles. They care about getting work done, and fast. The computer industry is slowing down because we haven't made the real world any more efficient for a few years at least.
Now, why you should care about file managers:
- Consumer firendly software makes consumers more likely to buy into Linux (duh)
- With consumers, brings money into Linux providers, like distributors, program developers, support, etc..
- With this added revenue in the "Linux Sector", the more likely someone will want more market penetration and continue to make Linux a better place. Now, much of that may be in the brain dead GUI's, but then again, there has too be some trickle down effect into the programs that you use on a daily bases, and I think a few oft posts are ok once and a while for better Linux, don't you?
This system is capitalism with baggage. In true capticalism, SCO would never sue anyone because there would be no laws copyrights, IP, etc.. for them to use. That is where the free market idea comes in. You can do whatever you like even if it monopolizes the markets. You would have a very few very powerful corporations, much like G8 countries of today. These countries control the world economic system to the extent that it maintains their perpetual leadership in the market.
Think about it:
1. Multiply the cost of your software by number of servers (since most software is based on named user licenses)
2. Multiply your workload from managing 1 large server to managing many smaller servers.
After a few servers, consolidation saves major bank.
Remember, hardware is cheap, software is kinda cheap, support is heavy. 20K may seem like a lot up front, but hey, that is 4mo. of my Salary. For a system that is probably planned for 3-5 years, hardware is a trivial cost in the lifetime of the product.
I use binaries because it is simple and straight forward. It is fine for 90% of all my package installs to be of this variety at this point.
I use source packages when I need to make something fit in the system, even if it means hacing code.
Generally, only if a program is of critical importance, or I am curious do I ever bother source browsing. I am not lazy, just practical. I have real work to do, and wasting my time being -anally- paranoid about legitimate distribution channels doesn't help me do my job.
The word you are looking for is grit. Maybe if you actually watched movies outside your box, you would be familiar with the concept.
nak.
They write compatability layers (in nt based kernels) so core OS stays the same while writing a wrapper around the legacy software.
Any weaknesses in Windows would be clearly Higher level developer incompetance.
What a surprise, it is the microsoft indexer that "actually works"!
It is basically (from my point of view) a meta-data database that actaully points at the files instead of descriptors to files!! What a concept..
Realistically, if I am reading this right, it is JUST a further abstraction for 'beginners' and those that just don't care about computers or how they work. It has 0% usability / performance / availability gains by the looks of it. It is simply to make ignorant users navigation of the systems easier.
Just admit it, HENTAI!
There, I said it.. what a load off my chest.. so to speak...
You can blame our somewhat socialistic government for THAT one :-)
The word is Deterance, and North Korea is building nuclear weapons to defend their soverenty against Bush and his fanatically aggressive millitary campaigns.. and you wonder why you have no friends... *sigh*
PS: Although that is one way to look at things, it is also possible that North Korea has always wanted nukes and has used the Iraqi war as an excuse to build them. Either way, America has made North Korea a lot more justified in building up their weapons programs.
Teacher: Peace begets peace and war begets war.
Bush: But they are crazy!
Teacher: Hmm.. so, what have we learned children?
Bush: Kill them before the kill us!
Then again with friendly fire as it is, the South might get it in the butt just as much as the north does :-)
Where was the outcry when manufacturing and textiles took a flying leap into ASIA?
Whenever I hear about outsourcing to other countries, I have to retrospect that this has been happening for at least 20 years in one industry or another.
Whenever there is a labour force to do simple training to do the same job you do at half the price, I would be stupid not to say yes. STUPID.
Of course that is where the laws of tarrifs, etc try to balance the deficits of greedy companies.
In My Biased Opinion, I believe that many social woes from America come from a society of consumers constantly wanting more. This makes them greedy, greedier than other countries anyways.
"Can someone spread some light on how they'd prove how old their code is?"
Escrow is the only way I can see it being done in a totally legal way. One can assume that code licensed to company xyz at would also be a good indicator of what is and what was not in the SCO OS and when.
Having this case settled out of court leaves a bad taste in everyones mouth, and I can see SCO picking on any and all companies in the Linux space. Even if it doesn't effect Linux for individuals, the cost of the trial is nothing compared to their lost revenues of watching Linux die comercially.
The main difference between the ASM->C/C++ and C/C++ -> .NET leap is that the .NET cdoe cannot be tracked down to efficeincy buy looking at it. A skilled C++ programmer will know the weight of the commands they call, and in a lot of cases, optimize the code to be close to ASM levels of performance most of the time. .NET has no to-hardware pass-through by design which means optimization lay in the jit-type area where programmers cannot control performance.
About your first statement, the only (slight) adcantage that your first statement means is that instead of having an in-game scripting language in your game, you could compile a real scripting engine into your code. Otherwise, there is no use for cross-language games programming.
Porttability hasn't been touched yet. Does anyone think this would help games development to other platforms???