But that excludes all possibility of company turnover. I foresee that in 100 years there will be a micro-fibre toilet-paper manufacturer that will have its web home on www.microsoft.com
Well don, you've just made us Europeans definately love The US.
First of all, Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, Lockheed-Martin etc basically had all their research done for them in the 70s, 80s and part of nineties by the NASA. Especially under Reagan, and it seems Bush wants to go that way too.
Secondly, Europe is extremely innovative - we're just crap at patenting the daylights out of our stuff and selling it.
Thirdly, who just recently protected their steel market?
Fourthly, MOSAIC was partly developed at the CERN, wherein the E stands for Europeen (European, if you took Spanish as foreign language).
Concerning your blabber about media etc, you've fallen into the very Microsoft-Appleian confusion of associating the GUI with the Operating system. This might be the one point where 3.11 was _architecturally (though th implementation was crap) better than 9.x : THE GUI IS NOT PART OF THE OS! The OS provides a low level interface to your hardware. The GUI provides the frills and spills for the user, and uses the OS. It is the GUIs job to handle file types etc. This is why IMHO Linux has a good development model : the OS guys (personal thank-yous to them) don't do flashy interfaces, they concentrate on getting the most out of your hardware. The GUI guys at XFree, Gnome, K etc* (thankyous to them too) make sure you get a snazzy interface that knows which media player the USER has CHOSEN. It is the media player developers job (keep up the good work) to make sure that their player conforms to the standards that will make their tool usabe by the GUIs.
X.
*I know XFree != window manager, I'm just illustrating...
I think IBM's long-term plan is exactly to stop making money from software. Services seems to be their thing now. The GPL allows them to not be dependent on other companies, while providing services around software.
It seems a pity that we need drivers at all. Why can't devices provide java- or other-based interfaces which neatly plug in to a generic OS layer? Admittedly, some types of devices (read: cutting edge) need specifics, but with open standards, I cannot see why network cards, scanners and printers should require OS-specific drivers.
Yeah, well some people just don't make the effort to discover litterature. Half of them would probably stop when they found a bitmap encoding of X-Men.
In many countries (most of Europe) it is illegal to sell at a loss. If M$ decide to juggle the internal accounts to put hardware development costs on their games, then that is their commercial strategy, and nothing stipulates you must buy more games. If I decided to mod _MY_ hardware to play Linux on it, that's my decision, and MS can only remove my guarantee for it, not stop me using _MY_ hardware.
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What he meant is that he wants broads banned, universally.
What a sexist pig!
But that excludes all possibility of company turnover. I foresee that in 100 years there will be a micro-fibre toilet-paper manufacturer that will have its web home on www.microsoft.com
Well don, you've just made us Europeans definately love The US.
First of all, Boeing, McDonnel Douglas, Lockheed-Martin etc basically had all their research done for them in the 70s, 80s and part of nineties by the NASA. Especially under Reagan, and it seems Bush wants to go that way too.
Secondly, Europe is extremely innovative - we're just crap at patenting the daylights out of our stuff and selling it.
Thirdly, who just recently protected their steel market?
Fourthly, MOSAIC was partly developed at the CERN, wherein the E stands for Europeen (European, if you took Spanish as foreign language).
Concerning your blabber about media etc, you've fallen into the very Microsoft-Appleian confusion of associating the GUI with the Operating system. This might be the one point where 3.11 was _architecturally (though th implementation was crap) better than 9.x : THE GUI IS NOT PART OF THE OS!
The OS provides a low level interface to your hardware. The GUI provides the frills and spills for the user, and uses the OS. It is the GUIs job to handle file types etc. This is why IMHO Linux has a good development model : the OS guys (personal thank-yous to them) don't do flashy interfaces, they concentrate on getting the most out of your hardware. The GUI guys at XFree, Gnome, K etc* (thankyous to them too) make sure you get a snazzy interface that knows which media player the USER has CHOSEN. It is the media player developers job (keep up the good work) to make sure that their player conforms to the standards that will make their tool usabe by the GUIs.
X.
*I know XFree != window manager, I'm just illustrating...
I think IBM's long-term plan is exactly to stop making money from software. Services seems to be their thing now. The GPL allows them to not be dependent on other companies, while providing services around software.
It's not really been their strategy so far, has it? They can live without other OS's.
Could be BETTER performance-wise if the device handles stuff the CPU would normally be bothered with.
It seems a pity that we need drivers at all. Why can't devices provide java- or other-based interfaces which neatly plug in to a generic OS layer? Admittedly, some types of devices (read: cutting edge) need specifics, but with open standards, I cannot see why network cards, scanners and printers should require OS-specific drivers.
Yeah, only useful for getting the guy's password so you can hack his bank account too.
Crackers are above this.
Yeah, well some people just don't make the effort to discover litterature. Half of them would probably stop when they found a bitmap encoding of X-Men.
The sad & sorry state of culture...
For counting I would've done
find . -type f -exec sed -n '/^$/p' {} \; | wc -l
In many countries (most of Europe) it is illegal to sell at a loss. If M$ decide to juggle the internal accounts to put hardware development costs on their games, then that is their commercial strategy, and nothing stipulates you must buy more games. If I decided to mod _MY_ hardware to play Linux on it, that's my decision, and MS can only remove my guarantee for it, not stop me using _MY_ hardware.
Pirating games is, I conceed, a different story.