"a disk operating system" is hiding there in Linux as well. He is trying to differentiate between Windows and Linux. Why would he cite a similarity to support Linux superiority?
I think he really did mean DOS, as in MS-DOS, otherwise that statement would have been counter productive.
Cringely doesn't seem to know his as... well, anyway. XP is NOT based on DOS, as others have already said, it's the current version of what was called NT a couple years ago. He shows great ignorance for claiming otherwise.
MS has one big huge overwhelming reason not to put Windows on Linux, or any other kernel for that matter. Control. Simple as that. They will not give someone else *any* control over any of they're products. That's just the way they work, and they've made billions because of it. Why do you think there is a thing called.NET? Why do you think they didn't start on a Unix kernel from the get go? If Cringely thinks there's a snowball's chance in hell of MS ever doing this, he really needs to have his head examined. He talks about what would be neat, and what would be good for the industry, and what would make/. have a happy frolic through the tulips. All in the face of reality.
And it wouldn't even be that good an idea. Linux isn't such a wonderful kernel as good kernels go. Sure, it's stable and performs well, but it's not the only good kernel out there. More importantly, Linux the kernel is not the reason that Linux the distro rocks. The distros rock because they, like they're Unix precursors, provide huge piles of control over the system on which they run, and a nice clean interface to the hardware. It would be perfectly conceivable to build a full-featured Unix-like distro running on top of the NT kernel. MS would have to be the ones to do it of course, but that isn't the point. The point is that the NT kernel isn't the problem. The problem is MS. Slapping Linux under Windows would provide us with the same problem we have now: a monopoly exerting too much control on the industry, with a product no better than they offer now.
I could spend the next hour picking the article to pieces, and I'm not even that good at it. I think I'll just stop now:-)
Apples and oranges are the same thing too. They have at least these things in common:
1) Grow on trees. 2) Round. 3) Taste good. 4) Good for you. 5) Make great juice. 6) Same size. 7) Used as an analogy for things that do not compare well.
Turning off gravity = Free Energy. Unless turning off gravity consumes at least the amount of energy potentially generated by turning it back on. It's the law.
"So what's the point? Why not get rid of it altogether?"
It matters because most people will value the opinion of someone with high karma.
Just because some people choose to see karma differently than you and I do, doesn't mean it's pointless. It still shows that moderators in general like what you say more often than dislike (that's all it ever said).
If you disagree with the average moderator, then by all means, disagree. I rather like the fact that it's now confurable. Now when you disagree with the moderators you aren't forced to read what CmdTaco or whoever thinks the average moderator likes, you read what you like.
I just think it was a mistake to make the default different than the old static setting.
"Go ahead, mod me down as a troll or whatever, I don't see how it matters."
Grr, nice of em to tell us. I've been trying to figure this one out all day. Also, nice of em to set the default to match the old static behavior.
Rule number 1: WHENEVER POSSIBLE, SET THE DEFAULT OF A NEWLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLE TO MATCH THE OLD BEHAVIOR. This way you create the least amount of chaos in the user base.
But then, who could expect a Perl programmer to follow common rules of good software design?
"...would the Earth continue to hold its orbit for 8 or so minutes..."
There would be no clue that anything happened to the sun until 8 minutes after it happened. Or so the scientests are telling us. And if you think about it, it seems to make some sense when compared against other relativistic theories.
For one thing, if gravity was instananeous it could conceivably be used to send information anywhere in the universe with zero ping time. Imagine a gravity-wave wireless link that would enable us to communicate with civilizations in other galaxies. Imagine playing Q3 with an alien on a planet in M3 and still having a 20ms ping.
Now imagine sending energy via gravity waves. With the right technology you (in energy form) could be beamed, Star Trek style, to another galaxy. You could go visit your alien buddy for a lan party and be back in time for dinner.
Unfortunately, the notion of energy (and indirectly, matter) moving at infinite velocity seems to violate the entire theory of relativity. Moving you from here to another galaxy instantly certainly seems to violate the theory of relativity.
We're talking about Microsoft here, so naturally this is sweet. And considering MS is a convicted monopolist it even makes some sense. And it's sweet, did I mention that?
But does this set a precident? Could AOL force MS to include the AOL software? Netscape? Where do you draw the line?
Is this really the way we'd like to see MS punished? I guess since the DOJ botched their case so badly, maybe this is the best we'll get now.
Because they use seeds. The fruit provides nourishment to the seedlings, and helps the seeds spread (animal eats fruit, walks around, craps, bananas grow in new place). It has nothing to do with sex. Get your mind out of the gutter.
Heh, I can see it now. The latest FUD page at MS.com... an egg being cracked open onto a hot CPU core, with the caption 'This is your brain on Linux. Any questions?'
Or...
Myth: Linux does better brain surgery. Reality: After brain surgery, people will say anything!
OK I'm pretty convinced now. And here is a picture I found with no caption, but I think it's the same guy. For a guy who was on TV, he sure doesn't like to have pictures floating around, I wonder why?
So how exactly do we know that Philyaw is Pulitzer? Nothing I saw jumped out at me as a firm connection. Same with the crystals; where is the connection? They could be for sale by GW for all we know.
The Pulitzer site claims the company has been around since 1988. And the story was posted by an AC. Hmmm. I smell bullshit. Problem is I can't tell where the smell is coming from. Anyone else?
Haven't you seen Star Wars? All you have to do to get past that is either shoot the keypad with a lazer gun, or tear it off the wall and short out the wires in the back.
It would, but an axis can only have 3 members. You'd have to join the axis of pretty evil, or the axis of trying to be evil but really we're pretty nice.
Magically enough so do air conditioners which are also in server rooms. We have invented magical devices called condensers, pipes and drains to deal with this."
Not quite. The cold surface if the AC evaporator collects condensation from water vapor in the surrounding air. It actually has a drying affect as long as the liquid water is removed before it can evaporate again.
A fuel cell on the other hand really does generate water that wasn't there to begin with.
Interestingly, the AC unit already present in the server room will probably prove adequate to remove the water vapor generated by that shiny new fuel cell.
std::basic_string class keeps the string length stored. basic_string::size() does not have to scan the data for the NULL byte, it just looks at the size value it has stored.
Plain old NULL-terminated strings are horribly inefficient. You have to do a full scan every time you want to find the length or append. Ugh!
"...bucketfuls of code in obscure control events to buffer up changes to be written when the form closes."
I've had to solve this same type of problem myself. The way I did it was to find a data source object that stores its data in memory. I use SQL (sometimes ODBC, sometimes an app server) to get data into it, and an app server to get data changes from it back into the DB. The grid doesn't know the difference, and I don't stress anything, so upgrades don't break things (too badly). You should invest some time in either finding a similar control, or implementing your own. It'll save you a ton of pain and money, and you won't have 'buckets' of spaghetti code (admit it, its a mess, isn't it?) to explain to someone later on.
IMHO it sounds like your team made a huge design mistake by forcing a component to do something it doesn't know how to do. You also made a huge mistake by not somehow putting your 'buckets' of code in a central library to minimize your pain when an upgrade does break things.
Like most VB controls, the Sheridan Grid is designed to be a drop-in, no-code way to display database information.
It sounds like you well may have made another mistake: binding your grid in some cases directly to an SQL server. One thing I've learned over the past 5 years or so, is that RAD tools are great for some things, but the promise of transparent database access is a complete crock. It's an abstraction that almost always leaks for a variety of reasons. Binding on-screen data access objects to a database server is a huge no-no in my book.
George drove by my house one night (I'm pretty sure) and saw one of the shrubs in front of my house. I know because it looks just like the shrubs in episode 1. I want him to call me and thank me personally for growing such a fabulous shrub for him to copy. And give me money. And I want to be Darth in episode 3.
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The way I see it, dealing with a company named after toilet paper seems like the perfect time to be in deep sh*t.
"a disk operating system" is hiding there in Linux as well. He is trying to differentiate between Windows and Linux. Why would he cite a similarity to support Linux superiority?
I think he really did mean DOS, as in MS-DOS, otherwise that statement would have been counter productive.
Cringely doesn't seem to know his as... well, anyway. XP is NOT based on DOS, as others have already said, it's the current version of what was called NT a couple years ago. He shows great ignorance for claiming otherwise.
.NET? Why do you think they didn't start on a Unix kernel from the get go? If Cringely thinks there's a snowball's chance in hell of MS ever doing this, he really needs to have his head examined. He talks about what would be neat, and what would be good for the industry, and what would make /. have a happy frolic through the tulips. All in the face of reality.
:-)
MS has one big huge overwhelming reason not to put Windows on Linux, or any other kernel for that matter. Control. Simple as that. They will not give someone else *any* control over any of they're products. That's just the way they work, and they've made billions because of it. Why do you think there is a thing called
And it wouldn't even be that good an idea. Linux isn't such a wonderful kernel as good kernels go. Sure, it's stable and performs well, but it's not the only good kernel out there. More importantly, Linux the kernel is not the reason that Linux the distro rocks. The distros rock because they, like they're Unix precursors, provide huge piles of control over the system on which they run, and a nice clean interface to the hardware. It would be perfectly conceivable to build a full-featured Unix-like distro running on top of the NT kernel. MS would have to be the ones to do it of course, but that isn't the point. The point is that the NT kernel isn't the problem. The problem is MS. Slapping Linux under Windows would provide us with the same problem we have now: a monopoly exerting too much control on the industry, with a product no better than they offer now.
I could spend the next hour picking the article to pieces, and I'm not even that good at it. I think I'll just stop now
Apples and oranges are the same thing too. They have at least these things in common:
1) Grow on trees.
2) Round.
3) Taste good.
4) Good for you.
5) Make great juice.
6) Same size.
7) Used as an analogy for things that do not compare well.
See? Apples will become oranges.
Turning off gravity = Free Energy. Unless turning off gravity consumes at least the amount of energy potentially generated by turning it back on. It's the law.
Just because some people choose to see karma differently than you and I do, doesn't mean it's pointless. It still shows that moderators in general like what you say more often than dislike (that's all it ever said).
If you disagree with the average moderator, then by all means, disagree. I rather like the fact that it's now confurable. Now when you disagree with the moderators you aren't forced to read what CmdTaco or whoever thinks the average moderator likes, you read what you like.
I just think it was a mistake to make the default different than the old static setting.
I bet you'd take a +1 without complaining thoGrr, nice of em to tell us. I've been trying to figure this one out all day. Also, nice of em to set the default to match the old static behavior.
Rule number 1: WHENEVER POSSIBLE, SET THE DEFAULT OF A NEWLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLE TO MATCH THE OLD BEHAVIOR. This way you create the least amount of chaos in the user base.
But then, who could expect a Perl programmer to follow common rules of good software design?
For one thing, if gravity was instananeous it could conceivably be used to send information anywhere in the universe with zero ping time. Imagine a gravity-wave wireless link that would enable us to communicate with civilizations in other galaxies. Imagine playing Q3 with an alien on a planet in M3 and still having a 20ms ping.
Now imagine sending energy via gravity waves. With the right technology you (in energy form) could be beamed, Star Trek style, to another galaxy. You could go visit your alien buddy for a lan party and be back in time for dinner.
Unfortunately, the notion of energy (and indirectly, matter) moving at infinite velocity seems to violate the entire theory of relativity. Moving you from here to another galaxy instantly certainly seems to violate the theory of relativity.
We're talking about Microsoft here, so naturally this is sweet. And considering MS is a convicted monopolist it even makes some sense. And it's sweet, did I mention that?
But does this set a precident? Could AOL force MS to include the AOL software? Netscape? Where do you draw the line?
Is this really the way we'd like to see MS punished? I guess since the DOJ botched their case so badly, maybe this is the best we'll get now.
IANABB (I am not a banana botanist) but...
Because they use seeds. The fruit provides nourishment to the seedlings, and helps the seeds spread (animal eats fruit, walks around, craps, bananas grow in new place). It has nothing to do with sex. Get your mind out of the gutter.
Heh, I can see it now. The latest FUD page at MS.com... an egg being cracked open onto a hot CPU core, with the caption 'This is your brain on Linux. Any questions?'
Or...
Myth: Linux does better brain surgery.
Reality: After brain surgery, people will say anything!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
*shudder*
What a sleeze bag.
So how exactly do we know that Philyaw is Pulitzer? Nothing I saw jumped out at me as a firm connection. Same with the crystals; where is the connection? They could be for sale by GW for all we know.
The Pulitzer site claims the company has been around since 1988. And the story was posted by an AC. Hmmm. I smell bullshit. Problem is I can't tell where the smell is coming from. Anyone else?
Haven't you seen Star Wars? All you have to do to get past that is either shoot the keypad with a lazer gun, or tear it off the wall and short out the wires in the back.
It is also vastly hugely mind-bogglingley big.
Anybody remember 'radio'? On the radio people read the news to you. They even play music. Old idea.
Believe it or not, that's a serious question. Who can explain why classification is so often said to be a failing?
It would, but an axis can only have 3 members. You'd have to join the axis of pretty evil, or the axis of trying to be evil but really we're pretty nice.
Yeah OK, its stolen... *shrug*
Not quite. The cold surface if the AC evaporator collects condensation from water vapor in the surrounding air. It actually has a drying affect as long as the liquid water is removed before it can evaporate again.
A fuel cell on the other hand really does generate water that wasn't there to begin with.
Interestingly, the AC unit already present in the server room will probably prove adequate to remove the water vapor generated by that shiny new fuel cell.
It may not be apparant, but apparantly so.
std::basic_string class keeps the string length stored. basic_string::size() does not have to scan the data for the NULL byte, it just looks at the size value it has stored.
Plain old NULL-terminated strings are horribly inefficient. You have to do a full scan every time you want to find the length or append. Ugh!
I've had to solve this same type of problem myself. The way I did it was to find a data source object that stores its data in memory. I use SQL (sometimes ODBC, sometimes an app server) to get data into it, and an app server to get data changes from it back into the DB. The grid doesn't know the difference, and I don't stress anything, so upgrades don't break things (too badly). You should invest some time in either finding a similar control, or implementing your own. It'll save you a ton of pain and money, and you won't have 'buckets' of spaghetti code (admit it, its a mess, isn't it?) to explain to someone later on.
IMHO it sounds like your team made a huge design mistake by forcing a component to do something it doesn't know how to do. You also made a huge mistake by not somehow putting your 'buckets' of code in a central library to minimize your pain when an upgrade does break things.
It sounds like you well may have made another mistake: binding your grid in some cases directly to an SQL server. One thing I've learned over the past 5 years or so, is that RAD tools are great for some things, but the promise of transparent database access is a complete crock. It's an abstraction that almost always leaks for a variety of reasons. Binding on-screen data access objects to a database server is a huge no-no in my book.
George drove by my house one night (I'm pretty sure) and saw one of the shrubs in front of my house. I know because it looks just like the shrubs in episode 1. I want him to call me and thank me personally for growing such a fabulous shrub for him to copy. And give me money. And I want to be Darth in episode 3.