What exactly do you think they were at fault for? Not reverse engineering and subsequently working around MS's broken code enough?
I think his point is that they say they have it working, it didn't work for him, they couldn't suggest a workaround although one was available (by Linux standards of "available") and didn't seem sympathetic.
I don't think it's a big deal, but it seems like at least a legitimate complaint.
Fiorina actually had some decent ideas, but no one in the company liked her, so the execution of her strategies suffered...Hurd is taking the pieces and putting the puzzle together, so to speak.
Plus, if Hurd's predecessor is so despised that he can fire 15,000 people and they're still bitching about her, that allows an enormous amount of room to operate.
(I still have trouble associating the name "Hurd" with efficient development of computer technology, though...)
I would love to see an OS released for the market that combines all of the research done within the past 10-15 years in kernels, file systems, HCI, application development, programming languages and APIs, virtual machines and virtualization, etc. However, look where we are at now. We're still using (for the most part) monolithic kernels, old file systems, old development tools, etc.
Very simply, the people with the inclination and skill to tinker with new operating systems think that Unix, X11, xterms, vi and C are the be-all and end-all of computing. Oddly, they seem to think that Kernighan, Ritchie and the others would want them to have that mentality.
...now everyone in America knows about the racist ad...
The Guardian piece emphasizes some nebulous connection to "the US videogaming community", but this is a Dutch campaign and the ads are limited to the Netherlands. No way would a campaign like this be run in the US.
...c) leverage the massive existing library of software that exists for Linux and X...
Well, there you go! It's hard enough to interest users in Linux on the desktop, just running it locally. Why the hell would they possibly want the same applications and UI in a broken, laggy network environment? Outside of the "Haha, Steve Ballmer through teh chair!!!" crowd, I don't see why anyone thinks this is a good idea.
Doing this in real-time is pretty damn sweet. (Or am I completely out of it and this is nothing novel? The article seems to think it's impressively new.)
I'm still not sure why anyone would pay $3 to watch it, as the only clear benefit over ESPN is not having to listen to Chris Berman and you can do that by hitting the mute button on your TV. But then I'm not a MMR-whatever-it-is'er in the first place...
...and is to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxely.
Actually, everyone who decided that Enron and a handful of others could be extrapolated to the entire US economy are the ones to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxley.
The support guy was telling him to do this, apparently. I can't fault the user -- I'd never heard of it until now, and would have thought he was asking me to open a ticket.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the "right"-est MacOS app ever is, hands-down, Fetch. Every time I ever wondered "Maybe Fetch could do this...?", it always could and the first way I thought to try it always worked.
It's not (at the moment) illegal per se. It does lead to accounting, disclosure and tax improprieties if it's not reported.
In any case, the self-investigation does seem strange -- how could the company not know if it had been done? If they really don't know, I'd say that's an issue in itself.
It's interesting -- you have the same thing with the Simpsons, the Flintstones, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. It always seems to take a half-season to full season (or the equivalent number of cinema shorts) to settle down.
In fact, you see the same thing on live-action shows also, where the actors need a season to find the right style of speech. That show where Leela had two eyes and was married to a shoe salesman comes to mind.
Note that Stanford University, Washington University and Munich University are universities, not pharmaceutical companies. (Stop me if I'm going too fast for you!) From the point of view of an academic research lab, investing some essentially free grad student programming time to possibly generate a paper might make sense. For the pharmaceutical companies the OP is spinning his paranoid fantasies about, it makes zero sense.
Honestly, it always amazes me how some people are willing to spend so much time cutting and pasting and href'ing, and none on reading.
As one of those pharmaceutical researchers, I assure you that it does not make one particle of difference to us (let alone the Wall Street Journal) whether or not some overclocker runs some "fighting cancer" thingy on his computer. If there were a computational problem that we cared about, we'd throw a cluster at it, not wait for a bunch of squabbling AMD and Intel fanboys to solve it.
And as for global warming, I'm no climatologist but I've got to think that turning your damn computer off is more valuable than anything you could run on it.
Not that this work is anywhere near practical utility yet, but creating a network that responds to a specific stimulus with a specific action is much simpler than the kind of complex response you're talking about. Given the biological tools, it shouldn't be much harder than, say, designing an electronic smoke alarm.
It "is", under certain circumstances (overseas dumping, or abuse of a moonoply position), not in general. People here may tell you otherwise, but that's because they're "idiots".
Hmmm. If they've been out of fashion since the '80s, maybe they're back in a retro way, like Motley Crue and Poison going on tour last year? C.C., pick up that guitar and talk to me!
Those things (I believe Balans invented them) were trendy back in 1990-something, but never really caught on. I assume there's a reason for that, although the reason could be that they don't work or just that you look like a dork sitting that way.
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I think his point is that they say they have it working, it didn't work for him, they couldn't suggest a workaround although one was available (by Linux standards of "available") and didn't seem sympathetic.
I don't think it's a big deal, but it seems like at least a legitimate complaint.
Plus, if Hurd's predecessor is so despised that he can fire 15,000 people and they're still bitching about her, that allows an enormous amount of room to operate.
(I still have trouble associating the name "Hurd" with efficient development of computer technology, though...)
Very simply, the people with the inclination and skill to tinker with new operating systems think that Unix, X11, xterms, vi and C are the be-all and end-all of computing. Oddly, they seem to think that Kernighan, Ritchie and the others would want them to have that mentality.
The Guardian piece emphasizes some nebulous connection to "the US videogaming community", but this is a Dutch campaign and the ads are limited to the Netherlands. No way would a campaign like this be run in the US.
Nitpick: This is Merriam-Webster, not "Webster". The various American dictionaries with "Webster" in the title are mostly unrelated to each other.
(By the way -- "cybrary"? "mouse potato"? Did they get these words out of a 1995 issue of Wired?)
Well, there you go! It's hard enough to interest users in Linux on the desktop, just running it locally. Why the hell would they possibly want the same applications and UI in a broken, laggy network environment? Outside of the "Haha, Steve Ballmer through teh chair!!!" crowd, I don't see why anyone thinks this is a good idea.
I'm still not sure why anyone would pay $3 to watch it, as the only clear benefit over ESPN is not having to listen to Chris Berman and you can do that by hitting the mute button on your TV. But then I'm not a MMR-whatever-it-is'er in the first place...
Actually, everyone who decided that Enron and a handful of others could be extrapolated to the entire US economy are the ones to thank for our having to live with Sarbanes-Oxley.
The support guy was telling him to do this, apparently. I can't fault the user -- I'd never heard of it until now, and would have thought he was asking me to open a ticket.
My guess is that this lost a lot in the transition from voice to print.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the "right"-est MacOS app ever is, hands-down, Fetch. Every time I ever wondered "Maybe Fetch could do this...?", it always could and the first way I thought to try it always worked.
Freedb is a knockoff of cddb, so I'd imagine that the grandknockoff is going to continue with the same protocol.
Hmmm, I'm getting p = 0.07 in the most favorable chi-square test I can come up with.
In any case, the self-investigation does seem strange -- how could the company not know if it had been done? If they really don't know, I'd say that's an issue in itself.
In fact, you see the same thing on live-action shows also, where the actors need a season to find the right style of speech. That show where Leela had two eyes and was married to a shoe salesman comes to mind.
Honestly, it always amazes me how some people are willing to spend so much time cutting and pasting and href'ing, and none on reading.
And as for global warming, I'm no climatologist but I've got to think that turning your damn computer off is more valuable than anything you could run on it.
If you read to the second line of the article, MEPIS got a threatening letter from the FSF.
- American-made, non-sweatshop products
- A creepy pervert owner and creepy, sleazy advertising
SoThe Berkeley CS61 lectures are available as free podcasts on iTMS, by the way.
Not that this work is anywhere near practical utility yet, but creating a network that responds to a specific stimulus with a specific action is much simpler than the kind of complex response you're talking about. Given the biological tools, it shouldn't be much harder than, say, designing an electronic smoke alarm.
It "is", under certain circumstances (overseas dumping, or abuse of a moonoply position), not in general. People here may tell you otherwise, but that's because they're "idiots".
Hmmm. If they've been out of fashion since the '80s, maybe they're back in a retro way, like Motley Crue and Poison going on tour last year? C.C., pick up that guitar and talk to me!
He linked to a page of Balans knockoffs, so I assumed that's what he meant by "ergonomic".
Those things (I believe Balans invented them) were trendy back in 1990-something, but never really caught on. I assume there's a reason for that, although the reason could be that they don't work or just that you look like a dork sitting that way.