Actually, I'm not sure that the editors are doing it. Enough people modding something down will have the same effect. It's entirely possible that we are just looking at suppression of the few by a mob who want their head on a pike for possessing startling or unpopular views.
You know, kind of like the real world.
Excuse me, I have to go organize the pitchforks and torches brigade. It's our Wednesday in the park and if we miss our turn, the peasants get really snippy.
They allow people with varying levels of knowledge, access to technology.
But if we toss the standards, then only those with certain arcane knowledge (like nerds and geeks) will rule those tiny-brained jocks and cheerleaders and shoved us around in high school.
So, personally, I say get rid of the standards and make all those mouth breathers suffer.
But, then again, you know me. Always wanting absolute and total power to crush those perceived as weaker.
About the only non-compete I will ever agree to (and in fact, have agreed to) is that I won't go seeking business from his customers. If they come to me, I feel somewhat obligated to let him know about it, so that he can fix whatever issue may have caused them to seek me out.
Other than that, I will never sign an NCA (an NDA is another matter) nor would I ever expect anyone I hire to do so. Stuff like that gives me a rash.
I'm not understanding - how can this be Mozilla or even a Mozilla-clone, if it's not using the Gecko renderer? I mean, kudos and all for doing it, but Gecko is the key to Mozilla. Everything else is eye-candy.
Who in the hell funds hackers to write viruses that attack networks? Sure, the military and intelligence agencies do it, but I really doubt that they're writing stuff like the SQL Slammer.
So what corporate SOB is funding this sort of thing?
Against a human being, only depending on the severity and circumstances of the crime, and certainly not with the circus-like atmosphere that surrounds executions today.
Against a record company or any corporation that attacks my computer, for any reason, absolutely and without question or hesitation.
I disagree - the Vatican is not a Christian Fundamentalist state; it is instead a Catholic state. The primary difference is that Christian Fundamentalism is an offshoot of the Protestant Reformation. Fundamentalist Christians follow a different hierarchy completely and do not recognize the Pope as their leader.
While fundamentalist Catholics may think that mainstream Catholicism is a libertine farce and may believe that the person in the office of the Pope is a completely immoral person, they still recognize The Pope as the head of the Catholic church.
NOTE: I'm not saying that the Pope IS an immoral person, just that from what I know of Catholic fundamentalism, they probably would. We are talking about people who are just as fervent in their beliefs about the Catholic church as Fundamentalist Christians are about whatever it is they believe in.
As for the bit about the Christian Right, I totally agree and we have reached a point where the President is prone to caving in to those on the far right of Christian thought.
And who would they get to perform an audit of their source code? Finding enough qualified software security experts to go over everything in Windows would be extraordinarily expensive. Then, out of that, you have to find those you can trust not to give away the keys to the kingdom by releasing it on the net.
You see, they can't just go over it in bits and pieces, they have to be able to go over the whole thing and that opens up Microsoft to a world of hurt if just one reviewer is not trustworthy.
It's really a catch-22 for them. They can't open the source, and they can't let anyone see the whole source at one go.
"Some people who use a PDA a lot, but don't play games enough to justify buying a GBA might play games on their PDA. The same goes for people who play their GBA a lot, but don't need a PDA enough to buy one, but might need that functionality occasionly."
it's so 8-year olds can remember to make their crack hookup on the fifteenth at 3 a.m., their parole board appt. at 9 a.m., and show off their "mad skilz" at 4 p.m. and STILL not forget to pick up a load of bread and a box of 9mm at the corner convenience store for their grandma.
Seriously, isn't there a law of diminishing returns on doing something just because you can?
No, WE are paying the embedded costs for them finding a clever way to stop UNSCRUPULOUS SELLERS from speeding up chips BEFORE they sell it to THE PUBLIC.
It's called FIGHTING BACK against FRAUDULENT VENDORS. Intel doesn't care one way or another about YOU speeding up a chip for your own purposes, but they have to sell the same chips to vendors and hobbyists alike.
Yeah, I sent them some cash after five minutes with the program. I don't even need the Rendezvous features (I'm the lone OS X user in my office), but it's the cleanest and best I've seen in a while.
jEdit's good but it's written in Java and is fine on a fast machine, but a little slow on my 500 mHz iBook.
I think this Hydra's going to be a good piece of software.
Your argument seems predicated on the idea that we'll all magically wake up and a headline reading "Microsoft dead. Hell frozen.", but companies do not usually die that way.
A more realistic approach is that Microsoft will start to slim down as profits fall below a certain margin, forcing them to terminate employees. As employees leave, then Microsoft becomes more efficient and more than likely, either their corporate mission will change, or they will produce software with less staff.
As they get leaner and more efficient, then expect the quality of the code to rise a certain, as-yet, unknown amount on new projects. Their old products may languish, but newer stuff will more than likely improve overall.
I seriously doubt that Microsoft will ever disappear in my or your lifetime.
Actually, I'd rather be called a Software Developer, since it's more of an evolutionary process, not a fixed science. There are fewer physical principles that drive software development than something like Mechanical or Chemical engineering. There are also way more philosophical ramifications to our job, since software driven computing equipment is so pervasive in our society.
In fact, I'd rather NOT be called an Engineer, it's kind of demeaning.
The whole point of using a gun for criminal acts like robbery, mugging, rape, etc. is to cause as much fear as possible, not because it is "clean and quick".
The primary reason for releasing Open Darwin on x86 is as a check for cross-platform coding. The reason it is public at all, is that it generates publicity with the/. crowd and costs them little or nothing in the process. While some Apple developers are putting time into stabilizing the sofware on the x86 platform, very little is being done to actually advance the project in it's current form.
It is not very stable and you would gain no advantages in networking between x86 and Macs by using OpenDarwin, since there is NO gui whatsoever.
"Also someone leaked a project going on at National Instruments that really lit up my interest in this."
Labview has been available for quite some time now. It's very specialized software with almost no use in the mainstream that I can think of, but it's out there.
1) while MSs' current offerings are based on the NT kernel, the overall systems are greatly expanded. A kernel by itself is all well and good, but it takes a lot more than that to make an operating system.
2) historically, Microsoft HAS pretty much ignored the competition, except in the marketing area, where they are extraordinarily successful. I have yet to see a major lawsuit involving patent infringement emananating from the Microsoft lawyer's lair, or any other type of lawsuit, aside from trademark infringment.
While marketing might be considered dirty tricks by those with less money, that's pretty much the only weapon a business has these days, aside from lawsuits.
I really don't think ReactOS has anything to worry about from Microsoft. Like I said, it's probably not on their radar and by the time it is, Microsoft will have passed them way up.
The only other response I can see happening is that Microsoft changes core API's to force incompatibility, but that is a very hard charge to prove, since it can also be claimed that API's are changed to meet new technological demands or because someone thought of a better or different way of doing things.
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That's MR. rabid, frothing, nuclear-bombing madman of the world to you, you commie pinko.
Actually, I'm not sure that the editors are doing it. Enough people modding something down will have the same effect. It's entirely possible that we are just looking at suppression of the few by a mob who want their head on a pike for possessing startling or unpopular views.
You know, kind of like the real world.
Excuse me, I have to go organize the pitchforks and torches brigade. It's our Wednesday in the park and if we miss our turn, the peasants get really snippy.
They allow people with varying levels of knowledge, access to technology.
... damn.
But if we toss the standards, then only those with certain arcane knowledge (like nerds and geeks) will rule those tiny-brained jocks and cheerleaders and shoved us around in high school.
So, personally, I say get rid of the standards and make all those mouth breathers suffer.
But, then again, you know me. Always wanting absolute and total power to crush those perceived as weaker.
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Great. So now you're reducing /. to a warez board.
FINALLY! I can go home now!
About the only non-compete I will ever agree to (and in fact, have agreed to) is that I won't go seeking business from his customers. If they come to me, I feel somewhat obligated to let him know about it, so that he can fix whatever issue may have caused them to seek me out.
Other than that, I will never sign an NCA (an NDA is another matter) nor would I ever expect anyone I hire to do so. Stuff like that gives me a rash.
I'm not understanding - how can this be Mozilla or even a Mozilla-clone, if it's not using the Gecko renderer? I mean, kudos and all for doing it, but Gecko is the key to Mozilla. Everything else is eye-candy.
And there was much rejoicing in the land.
And then they ate the developers.
Who in the hell funds hackers to write viruses that attack networks? Sure, the military and intelligence agencies do it, but I really doubt that they're writing stuff like the SQL Slammer.
So what corporate SOB is funding this sort of thing?
You probably support the death sentence as well.
Against a human being, only depending on the severity and circumstances of the crime, and certainly not with the circus-like atmosphere that surrounds executions today.
Against a record company or any corporation that attacks my computer, for any reason, absolutely and without question or hesitation.
Geez, how long has this story been up, and no one of any note has proclaimed FreeBSD dead?
You guys are slacking off.
Personally, I hope it never dies - I rather like it.
before they discover the evil-bit quark?
Yup. Recycling old jokes ad nauseam.
I disagree - the Vatican is not a Christian Fundamentalist state; it is instead a Catholic state. The primary difference is that Christian Fundamentalism is an offshoot of the Protestant Reformation. Fundamentalist Christians follow a different hierarchy completely and do not recognize the Pope as their leader.
While fundamentalist Catholics may think that mainstream Catholicism is a libertine farce and may believe that the person in the office of the Pope is a completely immoral person, they still recognize The Pope as the head of the Catholic church.
NOTE: I'm not saying that the Pope IS an immoral person, just that from what I know of Catholic fundamentalism, they probably would. We are talking about people who are just as fervent in their beliefs about the Catholic church as Fundamentalist Christians are about whatever it is they believe in.
As for the bit about the Christian Right, I totally agree and we have reached a point where the President is prone to caving in to those on the far right of Christian thought.
And who would they get to perform an audit of their source code? Finding enough qualified software security experts to go over everything in Windows would be extraordinarily expensive. Then, out of that, you have to find those you can trust not to give away the keys to the kingdom by releasing it on the net.
You see, they can't just go over it in bits and pieces, they have to be able to go over the whole thing and that opens up Microsoft to a world of hurt if just one reviewer is not trustworthy.
It's really a catch-22 for them. They can't open the source, and they can't let anyone see the whole source at one go.
Why should Canada pay taxes to the US for military protection? They haven't pissed of the entire world like we have.
Canada's biggest enemy is Quebec.
"Some people who use a PDA a lot, but don't play games enough to justify buying a GBA might play games on their PDA. The same goes for people who play their GBA a lot, but don't need a PDA enough to buy one, but might need that functionality occasionly."
it's so 8-year olds can remember to make their crack hookup on the fifteenth at 3 a.m., their parole board appt. at 9 a.m., and show off their "mad skilz" at 4 p.m. and STILL not forget to pick up a load of bread and a box of 9mm at the corner convenience store for their grandma.
Seriously, isn't there a law of diminishing returns on doing something just because you can?
No, WE are paying the embedded costs for them finding a clever way to stop UNSCRUPULOUS SELLERS from speeding up chips BEFORE they sell it to THE PUBLIC.
It's called FIGHTING BACK against FRAUDULENT VENDORS. Intel doesn't care one way or another about YOU speeding up a chip for your own purposes, but they have to sell the same chips to vendors and hobbyists alike.
You are a TWIT. GROW up. AND STOP SHOUTING.
Yeah, I sent them some cash after five minutes with the program. I don't even need the Rendezvous features (I'm the lone OS X user in my office), but it's the cleanest and best I've seen in a while.
jEdit's good but it's written in Java and is fine on a fast machine, but a little slow on my 500 mHz iBook.
I think this Hydra's going to be a good piece of software.
Your argument seems predicated on the idea that we'll all magically wake up and a headline reading "Microsoft dead. Hell frozen.", but companies do not usually die that way.
A more realistic approach is that Microsoft will start to slim down as profits fall below a certain margin, forcing them to terminate employees. As employees leave, then Microsoft becomes more efficient and more than likely, either their corporate mission will change, or they will produce software with less staff.
As they get leaner and more efficient, then expect the quality of the code to rise a certain, as-yet, unknown amount on new projects. Their old products may languish, but newer stuff will more than likely improve overall.
I seriously doubt that Microsoft will ever disappear in my or your lifetime.
Actually, I'd rather be called a Software Developer, since it's more of an evolutionary process, not a fixed science. There are fewer physical principles that drive software development than something like Mechanical or Chemical engineering. There are also way more philosophical ramifications to our job, since software driven computing equipment is so pervasive in our society.
In fact, I'd rather NOT be called an Engineer, it's kind of demeaning.
And your point is? Who needs to know what the server software is when what they should really be concerned about is the actual content I'm serving?
The whole point of using a gun for criminal acts like robbery, mugging, rape, etc. is to cause as much fear as possible, not because it is "clean and quick".
BSD. Definitely BSD.
/. crowd and costs them little or nothing in the process. While some Apple developers are putting time into stabilizing the sofware on the x86 platform, very little is being done to actually advance the project in it's current form.
The primary reason for releasing Open Darwin on x86 is as a check for cross-platform coding. The reason it is public at all, is that it generates publicity with the
It is not very stable and you would gain no advantages in networking between x86 and Macs by using OpenDarwin, since there is NO gui whatsoever.
"Also someone leaked a project going on at National Instruments that really lit up my interest in this."
Labview has been available for quite some time now. It's very specialized software with almost no use in the mainstream that I can think of, but it's out there.
I disagree on two counts:
1) while MSs' current offerings are based on the NT kernel, the overall systems are greatly expanded. A kernel by itself is all well and good, but it takes a lot more than that to make an operating system.
2) historically, Microsoft HAS pretty much ignored the competition, except in the marketing area, where they are extraordinarily successful. I have yet to see a major lawsuit involving patent infringement emananating from the Microsoft lawyer's lair, or any other type of lawsuit, aside from trademark infringment.
While marketing might be considered dirty tricks by those with less money, that's pretty much the only weapon a business has these days, aside from lawsuits.
I really don't think ReactOS has anything to worry about from Microsoft. Like I said, it's probably not on their radar and by the time it is, Microsoft will have passed them way up.
The only other response I can see happening is that Microsoft changes core API's to force incompatibility, but that is a very hard charge to prove, since it can also be claimed that API's are changed to meet new technological demands or because someone thought of a better or different way of doing things.
I stand by my comments.