apple owned the personal computer market with Radio Shack (tandy), Texas Instruments, and Commodore behind them with Commodore and Atari on the rise just as IBM came in and kicked everyone out, with MSFT garage software running it. The original PC was really the first open architecture mass marketed computer. (Altair and CPM machines were available but not to the typical home).
Ahh Sigh. Couldn't we just all call it Public Domain with no restrictions at all. Then it would truly be free, like in the halcyon days of Apple II's and Commodore 64's when I used Public Domain software all the time and never worried about politicians like RMS.
The folks who keep extolling the virtues of putting everything on the server and that "the network IS the computer" sound more and more like the unemployed mainframe application designers that can usually be found with a shot and a beer in front of them at some smoky bar verbally jousting about the merits of FastPath drives with HighBandWidth Channel support for their CICS and COBOL projects from ages past. The PC is incredibly powerful. Servers are too but we neutered a lot of applications tieing them like mule teams to distributed applications with centralized processing. Let them stay free and develop apps that servers - can't - do. That said, The WWW is a decent use of server power but should not get involved with day to day real workloads IMHO.
Hell, if everyone followed the philosophy of "well, [programing language] isn't broken, why make another." We'd all be programming in assembly... or worse, bytecode.
Actually, we all do. It's just that most of us have "expert mode" filters turned off and are using applications (high level languages) to guide the development environment to produce our machine code. Same thing for javalike langs as ultimately we are shaping the instructions run by the virtual machine. It's all machine code.
according to the election laws and Federal and Florida state constitutions at the time of the elections. Bush won. Twice in fact in you include the lawful recounts. Gore and the 'rats tried to steal this election and they came **damn ** close.
EU's claims are ridiculous. MS should also have to pay millions to vendors of competitors to Notepad.exe, Wordpad.exe, Calc.exe, and Outlook Express since other companies do not get a free ride on their installed distribution. This is so insane. Alternative products can be downloaded in the modern world if you don't like the defaults. And if you don't like MS, don't buy it. The EU is just looking for a mugging like the state's AG's. Should Red Hat be forced to include Internet Explorer and.NET/Rotor someday? Anybody agreeing with the EU logic is just a cheerleader for free(loader) software and cheating in normal business competition.
>>>with a tag of $15 in the hope that he/she can make a quick buck off it.
Maybe he(she) was trying to pay their heating bill since they were laid off by their company that formerly sold lots of "commercial software" but now just offshores and does service work.
generics it seems to me have little to do with subclassing but everything to do with macro preprocessing. You have to step outside of the "object-oriented" mindset to use them. But they can make some operations safer and (in C++) faster.
Only releasing to Club Mems does this violate GPL?
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By indirectly charging for the right to have access to source code - available to some with $$$ but not to me without??? Can someone fill me in on the nuances that permit this if it is not noncompliant?
string handling in all varieties and data structure/collection manipulation. In my experience, C++ is orders of magnitude faster than java in these areas and.net will not catch up until it gets typed collections/templates next release. Java string handling makes ones hair hurt.
(NOT ZEOSOFT - modding myself down for typo) ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss. That would be at least an order of magnitude beyond current known algorithms for compacting data. More here. (Via brushstroke.) ZeoSynch press release here.
Remember the breakthrough that was supposed to compress random data to 10% of its size? I inquired and was given an unreadable prospectus and had a goon call me asking for an investment. I honestly felt threatened by the Sopranos-style approach of the caller. I called him Guido and bravely hung up the phone. Then watched my windows and doors for weeks.
The author did not get the memo that states everyone must use one language (Java) on one OS (Linux) and use one set of clearly defined designs (patterns). Oh yeah, and it must only come in Black.
financed by one of the leading academic institutions - that's the real problem with making any money developing open source software - one HAS to be a (effective) government employee or be willing to work for nothing. Oh sure, there are some who will eek out a living on support of vertical market expertise - but that leaves little or no room for real, commercial competition and ergo, less innovation and more stagnation as budgets get centralized. See Soviet Union 1917-1990.
No kidding! Oracle has been an overblown/hyped/marketed upgrade to an essentially dos-level app that has not really changed under the covers since the 80's. It's garbage but well supported garbage. I don't grudge him the money/business bit it ain't no nirvana.
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apple owned the personal computer market with Radio Shack (tandy), Texas Instruments, and Commodore behind them with Commodore and Atari on the rise just as IBM came in and kicked everyone out, with MSFT garage software running it. The original PC was really the first open architecture mass marketed computer. (Altair and CPM machines were available but not to the typical home).
or attorneys for that matter.
Ahh Sigh. Couldn't we just all call it Public Domain with no restrictions at all. Then it would truly be free, like in the halcyon days of Apple II's and Commodore 64's when I used Public Domain software all the time and never worried about politicians like RMS.
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Linux, though. Confused individual.
caffeine overclocking is cheating!
The folks who keep extolling the virtues of putting everything on the server and that "the network IS the computer" sound more and more like the unemployed mainframe application designers that can usually be found with a shot and a beer in front of them at some smoky bar verbally jousting about the merits of FastPath drives with HighBandWidth Channel support for their CICS and COBOL projects from ages past. The PC is incredibly powerful. Servers are too but we neutered a lot of applications tieing them like mule teams to distributed applications with centralized processing. Let them stay free and develop apps that servers - can't - do. That said, The WWW is a decent use of server power but should not get involved with day to day real workloads IMHO.
Actually, we all do. It's just that most of us have "expert mode" filters turned off and are using applications (high level languages) to guide the development environment to produce our machine code. Same thing for javalike langs as ultimately we are shaping the instructions run by the virtual machine. It's all machine code.
according to the election laws and Federal and Florida state constitutions at the time of the elections. Bush won. Twice in fact in you include the lawful recounts. Gore and the 'rats tried to steal this election and they came **damn ** close.
EU's claims are ridiculous. MS should also have to pay millions to vendors of competitors to Notepad.exe, Wordpad.exe, Calc.exe, and Outlook Express since other companies do not get a free ride on their installed distribution. This is so insane. Alternative products can be downloaded in the modern world if you don't like the defaults. And if you don't like MS, don't buy it. The EU is just looking for a mugging like the state's AG's. Should Red Hat be forced to include Internet Explorer and .NET/Rotor someday? Anybody agreeing with the EU logic is just a cheerleader for free(loader) software and cheating in normal business competition.
>>>with a tag of $15 in the hope that he/she can make a quick buck off it.
Maybe he(she) was trying to pay their heating bill since they were laid off by their company that formerly sold lots of "commercial software" but now just offshores and does service work.
LOL
generics it seems to me have little to do with subclassing but everything to do with macro preprocessing. You have to step outside of the "object-oriented" mindset to use them. But they can make some operations safer and (in C++) faster.
By indirectly charging for the right to have access to source code - available to some with $$$ but not to me without??? Can someone fill me in on the nuances that permit this if it is not noncompliant?
answer too... I'm losing my mind.
$ kill -9 nasajvm.exe
ought to do the trick. If that fails, maybe we can upload the depenguinator and run BSD.
or maybe release your community work into the real PUBLIC DOMAIN.
string handling in all varieties and data structure/collection manipulation. In my experience, C++ is orders of magnitude faster than java in these areas and .net will not catch up until it gets typed collections/templates next release. Java string handling makes ones hair hurt.
(NOT ZEOSOFT - modding myself down for typo) ZeoSync said its scientific team had succeeded on a small scale in compressing random information sequences in such a way as to allow the same data to be compressed more than 100 times over -- with no data loss. That would be at least an order of magnitude beyond current known algorithms for compacting data. More here. (Via brushstroke.) ZeoSynch press release here.
Remember the breakthrough that was supposed to compress random data to 10% of its size? I inquired and was given an unreadable prospectus and had a goon call me asking for an investment. I honestly felt threatened by the Sopranos-style approach of the caller. I called him Guido and bravely hung up the phone. Then watched my windows and doors for weeks.
The author did not get the memo that states everyone must use one language (Java) on one OS (Linux) and use one set of clearly defined designs (patterns). Oh yeah, and it must only come in Black.
If you aren't into obscure syntax, Linux (or Unix) may not be for you... :)
financed by one of the leading academic institutions - that's the real problem with making any money developing open source software - one HAS to be a (effective) government employee or be willing to work for nothing. Oh sure, there are some who will eek out a living on support of vertical market expertise - but that leaves little or no room for real, commercial competition and ergo, less innovation and more stagnation as budgets get centralized. See Soviet Union 1917-1990.
No kidding! Oracle has been an overblown/hyped/marketed upgrade to an essentially dos-level app that has not really changed under the covers since the 80's. It's garbage but well supported garbage. I don't grudge him the money/business bit it ain't no nirvana.
no, France did however think that Saddams money was good - enough to make them an enemy of US policies.