We do have free implementations of Java, such as the GNU Java Compiler and GNU Classpath, but they don't support all the features yet. We are still catching up.
Well, then don't complain when people use the more featured versions. True freedom is the ability to choose whatever tool lets you get the job down without being hounded about how "free" someone thinks it truly is.
It is a fork in spirit--GNOME was started over a disagreement with a commercial license when KDE was in its infancy.
The point is that spreading development efforts when we need as much as we can possibly get to have any chance of competing with commercial efforts is fruitless.
Okay. Like them or not, you've got KDE and GNOME, two competing desktops with competing libraries requiring me to install both of them to run each other's apps, rather than unifying onto one set of libraries. Never has there been a greater barrier to commercial desktop app development and mainstream aceptance for Linux. If all the volunteers for KDE and all the volunteers for GNOME combined their efforts into one super-huge organization, we could have the most complete, polished desktop implementation ever made, and probably even replace X11 in the process and replace it with something new (if people can write advanced OSS engines like Crystal3D, Genesis, Tenebrae, and so on, surely we can finally get off of running hacked desktop emulators on top of an X11 implementation?).
Go up to one of those kids he's vaccinating and tell them, "It's nice you're being vaccinated, but the money used to vaccinate you was leveraged from the pockets of consumers by the monopoly power of Windows market share. He's not a nice man." They'll just blink at you.
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In the event it learns global thermonuclear war, make sure it can play tic-tac-toe against itself.
I know it was funny, but to be fair (and for the sake of informing) it wasn't really an ad. It was an internal company joke. I imagine if you work for a giant like Microsoft, it helps morale to see your bosses not taking themselves quite so seriously once in a while.
As if Microsoft cares. They're happy to pay lawyer's fees if it saves them face. I think they must've recognized that in some way, they simply would not win and that their money is better-spent on some different campaign. Expect them to publicly play "oppressed victim of the EU" soon.
It's shocking how aggressive Slashdotters are being toward the simple idea of there being another choice. It's not like Firefox is some perfect, holy browser that everyone and their mothers are switching to. I hate to tell you this, but Maxthon probably gets more users switching to them then to Firefox.
I predict that, because everyone here has grown so attached to Firefox, everyone will attack the submitters' "geekier" claim and mindlessly defend Firefox without even bothering to try K-Meleon, which really is faster and more configurable. Instead of actually discussing K-Meleon, the discussion will be about defending Firefox, because, for some reason, geeks really hate change or when the things they're used to get criticized or bested. Note that not all of you are like this--but a large majority.
It's totally pointless for Firefox to re-implement its own widgets when I have a GUI that already provides those to apps for a reason! I switched to Opera long ago because it takes up half the memory and works at twice the speed. Cross-platform compatibility, you say? Opera happily exists on multiple platforms while still using native widgets. For crying out loud, Firefox even has its own generic string class! Unless the Mozilla/Firefox developers are intent on constructing their own OS, they should stick to just being a native browser on whichever platform of choice. Otherewise, Mozilla/Firefox will continue to be slower than they should be and will continue to take up ungodly huge amounts of RAM when they shouldn't. And most people will continue to defend it just because they don't like Microsoft and have adopted Firefox as their little badge of rebellion. Sheesh.
That's because it's not really an ad. Just an internal company joke. This is the second time Slashdot has fallen for an anti-Microsoft joke from a submitter. First, the fake "Teen Beat" magazine story, and now this "ad."
Well, it's kind of like GPL source code. On Slashdot, when a company violates the GPL, that code gets "stolen" and it becomes "stolen GPL code." Funny, huh? See: CherryOS.
It's obvious to EVERYONE that the meaning of the word people are using is the one where you take something without paying for it. I don't get people who get so twisted up over the use of the word other than to be argumentative about piracy, for whatever personal reasons or agendas.
They make a ton in USB and Firewire interfaces. The Firewire Audiophile springs to mind. Just a couple of hundred dollars on some sites. Probably even cheaper cards out there dedicated solely to surround out (Audiophile is mainly for recording and has MIDI capability).
I asked him why so many Roland articles get accepted, and he said he doesn't even look at the submitter's name and that Roland must be submitting good articles.
I then told him about the controversy over it in posters' minds, and he said it was just a "new successful troll meme." Good luck getting through to Slashdot's editors, because clearly Malda does not consider this anything to take seriously.
That's not very fair or informative. You've already run Ad-Aware SE, so chances are your system is clean anyway. Then you run this and find nothing and assume it's not worthwhile?
As for lagginess, that could be attributed to anything, from user perception to it still unloading itself from memory (you didn't mention how long the lagginess lasted).
Woman aren't as naturally good at math and 3D space as men, and men aren't as naturally good at speaking, multitasking, and pretty much doing anything else not involving one item at a time.
It's why it's so neat the way men and women fit together as a couple (hey, no sexual innuendos allowed). Seriously, they just naturally work together when the chemistry is right.
People do not like him as an editor here. Michael constantly editorializes by sticking his opinions into the article submission instead of in a comment like the rest of us have to. He often modbombs threads and blacklists people who post in them from moderating. Even if you don't like Taco's endless dupes or typos, at least he lets the submission speak for itself (iPod launch comment excluded). Michael does very unprofessional things like the infamous all-caps attack toward Intel in the 64-bit chip article last year.
No, this is not just a hobby site where those kinds of things fly. This is a highly-visited news site, considered a major source of tech news for geeks, and a corporate-owned entity of OSTG who employs Malda and company. There's an amount of responsibility you ethically must adopt when your site gets so popular that it's name alone becomes a verb due to the server-killing power of its readerbase.
Michael also does things like edit the words of people's submissions, like adding quotation marks around the word "revealed" in this story (now in my sig). Regardless of what you think of the story, that's just plain misleading and twisting the words and intent of the submitter, making it appear they meant something other than what they did. If it was an anonymous submitter, that would be different, but now Michael has stuffed a message into the submitter's mouth that was not there. At least show a little respect for the people who are providing your content.
It doesn't matter if Michael is an "editor." To add quotation marks in someone else's statement is misleading, especially because it's assumed the submission is in unedited form. This is different from simply cutting out some of the submission text for space. Michael is changing the meaning and intent of the submitter. If Michael wants to editorialize YET AGAIN, he should do it in a write-up; or better yet, he should write his opinion in a post like everyone else has to.
They're showing the API and methods by releasing what they've got so far and letting people get used to working with it. It's the reason for last year's WinHEC release. They want developers fully fluent in Longhorn's APIs so that when the time comes, apps will be already ported and ready and the transition will be easier. Hopefully even smoother than XP's was (which, looking back, wasn't as rocky as I thought at the time).
Expect alpha preview releases for all sorts of pre-release technologies. Even Visual Studio 2005 is out in an unfinished beta form for you to play with for free.
We'll just have to hope that app developers take advantage of the multiple tiers in Longhorn. For those who don't know, the OS will scale down based on your hardware, going all the way down to the basic 2D widgets and windows you see in Windows XP.
I don't know how Avalon will translate to that environment. Presumably, DirectNext's software rendering will kick in.
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We do have free implementations of Java, such as the GNU Java Compiler and GNU Classpath, but they don't support all the features yet. We are still catching up.
Well, then don't complain when people use the more featured versions. True freedom is the ability to choose whatever tool lets you get the job down without being hounded about how "free" someone thinks it truly is.
It is a fork in spirit--GNOME was started over a disagreement with a commercial license when KDE was in its infancy.
The point is that spreading development efforts when we need as much as we can possibly get to have any chance of competing with commercial efforts is fruitless.
Okay. Like them or not, you've got KDE and GNOME, two competing desktops with competing libraries requiring me to install both of them to run each other's apps, rather than unifying onto one set of libraries. Never has there been a greater barrier to commercial desktop app development and mainstream aceptance for Linux. If all the volunteers for KDE and all the volunteers for GNOME combined their efforts into one super-huge organization, we could have the most complete, polished desktop implementation ever made, and probably even replace X11 in the process and replace it with something new (if people can write advanced OSS engines like Crystal3D, Genesis, Tenebrae, and so on, surely we can finally get off of running hacked desktop emulators on top of an X11 implementation?).
Go up to one of those kids he's vaccinating and tell them, "It's nice you're being vaccinated, but the money used to vaccinate you was leveraged from the pockets of consumers by the monopoly power of Windows market share. He's not a nice man." They'll just blink at you.
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In the event it learns global thermonuclear war, make sure it can play tic-tac-toe against itself.
Or we will all DIE.
Slashdot posts "Teen Beat" pictures of Bill Gates that aren't from Teen Beat at all (a couple of publicity photos from the launch of Windows 1.0).
Slashdot posts an "ad" from Microsoft that wasn't an ad at all (it was an internal company joke).
Slashdot posts a complete myth about the QWERTY keyboard as an introduction to a hollow press release.
Come on!
I know it was funny, but to be fair (and for the sake of informing) it wasn't really an ad. It was an internal company joke. I imagine if you work for a giant like Microsoft, it helps morale to see your bosses not taking themselves quite so seriously once in a while.
As if Microsoft cares. They're happy to pay lawyer's fees if it saves them face. I think they must've recognized that in some way, they simply would not win and that their money is better-spent on some different campaign. Expect them to publicly play "oppressed victim of the EU" soon.
It's shocking how aggressive Slashdotters are being toward the simple idea of there being another choice. It's not like Firefox is some perfect, holy browser that everyone and their mothers are switching to. I hate to tell you this, but Maxthon probably gets more users switching to them then to Firefox.
I predict that, because everyone here has grown so attached to Firefox, everyone will attack the submitters' "geekier" claim and mindlessly defend Firefox without even bothering to try K-Meleon, which really is faster and more configurable. Instead of actually discussing K-Meleon, the discussion will be about defending Firefox, because, for some reason, geeks really hate change or when the things they're used to get criticized or bested. Note that not all of you are like this--but a large majority.
It's totally pointless for Firefox to re-implement its own widgets when I have a GUI that already provides those to apps for a reason! I switched to Opera long ago because it takes up half the memory and works at twice the speed. Cross-platform compatibility, you say? Opera happily exists on multiple platforms while still using native widgets. For crying out loud, Firefox even has its own generic string class! Unless the Mozilla/Firefox developers are intent on constructing their own OS, they should stick to just being a native browser on whichever platform of choice. Otherewise, Mozilla/Firefox will continue to be slower than they should be and will continue to take up ungodly huge amounts of RAM when they shouldn't. And most people will continue to defend it just because they don't like Microsoft and have adopted Firefox as their little badge of rebellion. Sheesh.
That's because it's not really an ad. Just an internal company joke. This is the second time Slashdot has fallen for an anti-Microsoft joke from a submitter. First, the fake "Teen Beat" magazine story, and now this "ad."
Well, it's kind of like GPL source code. On Slashdot, when a company violates the GPL, that code gets "stolen" and it becomes "stolen GPL code." Funny, huh? See: CherryOS.
It's obvious to EVERYONE that the meaning of the word people are using is the one where you take something without paying for it. I don't get people who get so twisted up over the use of the word other than to be argumentative about piracy, for whatever personal reasons or agendas.
They make a ton in USB and Firewire interfaces. The Firewire Audiophile springs to mind. Just a couple of hundred dollars on some sites. Probably even cheaper cards out there dedicated solely to surround out (Audiophile is mainly for recording and has MIDI capability).
Spyware is typically installed by the user. What does Microsoft have to do with that? User education is more important than blaming Microsoft.
If Gentoo was used by 90% of the install base, spyware vendors would find a way.
I asked him why so many Roland articles get accepted, and he said he doesn't even look at the submitter's name and that Roland must be submitting good articles.
I then told him about the controversy over it in posters' minds, and he said it was just a "new successful troll meme." Good luck getting through to Slashdot's editors, because clearly Malda does not consider this anything to take seriously.
That's not very fair or informative. You've already run Ad-Aware SE, so chances are your system is clean anyway. Then you run this and find nothing and assume it's not worthwhile?
As for lagginess, that could be attributed to anything, from user perception to it still unloading itself from memory (you didn't mention how long the lagginess lasted).
Come on. This isn't even out of beta form yet.
None. I presume X.org and XFree86 both use the same X11 protocol.
And most juvenile comments ever. As if you guys are all number 10s on the scale.
That is all.
Woman aren't as naturally good at math and 3D space as men, and men aren't as naturally good at speaking, multitasking, and pretty much doing anything else not involving one item at a time.
It's why it's so neat the way men and women fit together as a couple (hey, no sexual innuendos allowed). Seriously, they just naturally work together when the chemistry is right.
People do not like him as an editor here. Michael constantly editorializes by sticking his opinions into the article submission instead of in a comment like the rest of us have to. He often modbombs threads and blacklists people who post in them from moderating. Even if you don't like Taco's endless dupes or typos, at least he lets the submission speak for itself (iPod launch comment excluded). Michael does very unprofessional things like the infamous all-caps attack toward Intel in the 64-bit chip article last year.
No, this is not just a hobby site where those kinds of things fly. This is a highly-visited news site, considered a major source of tech news for geeks, and a corporate-owned entity of OSTG who employs Malda and company. There's an amount of responsibility you ethically must adopt when your site gets so popular that it's name alone becomes a verb due to the server-killing power of its readerbase.
Michael also does things like edit the words of people's submissions, like adding quotation marks around the word "revealed" in this story (now in my sig). Regardless of what you think of the story, that's just plain misleading and twisting the words and intent of the submitter, making it appear they meant something other than what they did. If it was an anonymous submitter, that would be different, but now Michael has stuffed a message into the submitter's mouth that was not there. At least show a little respect for the people who are providing your content.
It doesn't matter if Michael is an "editor." To add quotation marks in someone else's statement is misleading, especially because it's assumed the submission is in unedited form. This is different from simply cutting out some of the submission text for space. Michael is changing the meaning and intent of the submitter. If Michael wants to editorialize YET AGAIN, he should do it in a write-up; or better yet, he should write his opinion in a post like everyone else has to.
I imagine Photoshop would happily take advantage of that too for greatly increased performance. Imagine its layers being managed in hardware.
They're showing the API and methods by releasing what they've got so far and letting people get used to working with it. It's the reason for last year's WinHEC release. They want developers fully fluent in Longhorn's APIs so that when the time comes, apps will be already ported and ready and the transition will be easier. Hopefully even smoother than XP's was (which, looking back, wasn't as rocky as I thought at the time).
Expect alpha preview releases for all sorts of pre-release technologies. Even Visual Studio 2005 is out in an unfinished beta form for you to play with for free.
We'll just have to hope that app developers take advantage of the multiple tiers in Longhorn. For those who don't know, the OS will scale down based on your hardware, going all the way down to the basic 2D widgets and windows you see in Windows XP.
I don't know how Avalon will translate to that environment. Presumably, DirectNext's software rendering will kick in.