There is nothing to stop Microsoft from deviating from the ECMA standard they submitted. Just like there was nothing that stopped them from deviating from the ECMA standard from Javascript that they passed. MARK MY WORDS: We will implement it, and they will change it. We can't extend them if they have more users than we do. We'll just end up writing a bunch of software that works on the "official" implementations and not end up being able to use stuff from them. (They will eat us alive this way -- and easily).
They will LOVE that Linux developers are doing their work for them in pushing.NET. I think that all of the grumbling they are doing now is a bluff and is not serious.
Also, why not work with a standard that doesn't change? Java is here today, and is VERY open about its future direction. Do you think Java is slow? Well. . . how fast do you think IL interpreters will be on Linux for the next 3 years? (not as fast as Java during that time, I guarantee). Java isn't open source? That may be true, but Sun has a reputation for creating open standards if not open source software(NFS, NIS, their hardware spec, etc.) Microsoft doesn't have this reputation and have already screwed around with developers by "standardizing" ECMAscript and then turning around and breaking it. We know Microsoft isn't trustworthy, so we are going to help them and then try to trick them out of their own game???? What????
If we continue to fall for this, we are too stupid to compete with Microsoft. (So we shouldn't even play with them. . . competing with them wasn't the point anyway - the point was serving our own needs with great software).
The best punishment would be a new sort of "community service". Microsoft should be forced to establish a trust of say 20B that will be distributed equally by the FSF (for free software) and the Software Publisher's Association (targeted for small business). With all of the Linux companies falling by the wayside, this would be great for the country and the industry as a whole.
Linux on the desktop is dead! Long live linux on the desktop!
What needs to happen now is for people to realize that fragmentation of the two desktop camps is too expensive and harmful to the community. KDE and GNOME need to go away and a new standard has to emerge -- with a concerted/compatible effort the Linux desktop will dominate just like apache and the kernel itself.
KDE or GNOME? WHO CARES! The right tool for the job is the one who can make the most progress in the least amount of time. "KDE or GNOME?" is the wrong question and is not worth asking. "How do we dominate the desktop?" is the only desktop question worth answering.
I don't get it. . . PHP has a following that will do ANYTHING to promote it. Why?
This article is a great example of what I'm talking about. PHP vs. Servlets vs. perl CGI? come on!? Any fair comparison would be PHP vs. JSP vs. HTML::Mason. And, you know what? THE CODE EXAMPLES WOULD HAVE LOOKED ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME! Furthermore, relevant issues like CPAN library strength, DB support, and exceptions could have been discussed
Slashdot needs a mechanism so that people can vote down innappropriate top-level articles like this so that it can save its reputation from these stinkers.
In his seminal PBS video series, "Triumph of the Nerds," Robert Cringely notes that engineers like computer coding because it is something that can be understood. . . "unlike the motivations of young women . . . or of the French."
I have some idea about the former, but I'm baffled by the latter.
This is not a comment about the French citizens but IS about French policy-makers... historically they have had a knack for keeping life awkward by confusing all the issues. (read: If I coached a baseball team of French politicians I'd put them all out in left field cause that's where they'd end up anyway).
Music - 80% of computer programmers, mathematicians and physics professionals also know how to play a musical instrument. This is no accident, the pattern-recognition, communication skill, and emotional expression/release need is what many of these folks have in common.
Ethics - The RAMIFICATIONS of what technology creates/enables are not readily apparent. . . we need more learning in this field. The child may not have the emotional maturity to apply this, but should always be thinking about these things.
Religion - REVIEW MANY OF THEM and their commonalities. Learning to relate to other people and understand their motivations is most easily done from this viewpoint. This topic relates to the previous topic and gives a rich framework for understanding things the child will go through and people/institutions the child may face. Emphasize commonalities, then differences and discuss errors and errata in the books from a technical standpoint and discuss why these are not important. Works I would consider: The Bhagavad Gita, Western Old and New Testament, Nostradamus' Predictions, The Talmud.
no, I don't think you get the money. . . your board is too simple.
Try this:
2#1
##2
2#X
#=Covered (unclear if a mine or not)
X=Mine
I think that this is more in the spirit of the problem. You would have to start guessing at which of the #s were mines. There doesn't
seem to be a polynomial way to solve this
problem (because of the guessing requirement, you can't be sure of the number of iterations you will need to ensure consistency).
Note: The person clearly hasn't won the game: but that is not the problem here.
p
The internet is very simple. I don't know why there is so much confusion about its worth or the discussion of it as a "fad". This simply does not make sense to me.
Imagine if everyone got together and decided to take existing businesses and people, string them together with a single, (relatively) high-speed connection and then normalized the data between them (or at least published their access methods). Now you are imagining what people are calling the "internet."
FOLKS, THE INTERNET ECONOMY IS THE REGULAR ECONOMY BUT HIGHLY AUTOMATED. (BY ITSELF THE INTERNET IS NOTHING- WHAT WE ARE CALLING THE INTERNET IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE/BUSINESSES CONNECTED TOGETHER AT HIGHER SPEEDS AND MORE-ACCESIBLE STANDARDS THAN EVER BEFORE)
its not a fad. it's not going away, and its not going to slow down. if you are going to look for the next "fad," you misunderstood the internet, the power of literal and figurative networks, and the value of distributed "processing".
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There is nothing to stop Microsoft from deviating from the ECMA standard they submitted. Just like there was nothing that stopped them from deviating from the ECMA standard from Javascript that they passed. MARK MY WORDS: We will implement it, and they will change it. We can't extend them if they have more users than we do. We'll just end up writing a bunch of software that works on the "official" implementations and not end up being able to use stuff from them. (They will eat us alive this way -- and easily).
.NET. I think that all of the grumbling they are doing now is a bluff and is not serious.
They will LOVE that Linux developers are doing their work for them in pushing
Also, why not work with a standard that doesn't change? Java is here today, and is VERY open about its future direction. Do you think Java is slow? Well. . . how fast do you think IL interpreters will be on Linux for the next 3 years? (not as fast as Java during that time, I guarantee). Java isn't open source? That may be true, but Sun has a reputation for creating open standards if not open source software(NFS, NIS, their hardware spec, etc.) Microsoft doesn't have this reputation and have already screwed around with developers by "standardizing" ECMAscript and then turning around and breaking it. We know Microsoft isn't trustworthy, so we are going to help them and then try to trick them out of their own game???? What????
If we continue to fall for this, we are too stupid to compete with Microsoft. (So we shouldn't even play with them. . . competing with them wasn't the point anyway - the point was serving our own needs with great software).
The best punishment would be a new sort of "community service". Microsoft should be forced to establish a trust of say 20B that will be distributed equally by the FSF (for free software) and the Software Publisher's Association (targeted for small business). With all of the Linux companies falling by the wayside, this would be great for the country and the industry as a whole.
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Here's an excerpt from the merger documents that I happened to see at our law offices. . . "the asset value of the combined entities will be net zero"
I couldn't resist, don't Juno it.
Linux on the desktop is dead! Long live linux on the desktop!
What needs to happen now is for people to realize that fragmentation of the two desktop camps is too expensive and harmful to the community. KDE and GNOME need to go away and a new standard has to emerge -- with a concerted/compatible effort the Linux desktop will dominate just like apache and the kernel itself.
KDE or GNOME? WHO CARES! The right tool for the job is the one who can make the most progress in the least amount of time. "KDE or GNOME?" is the wrong question and is not worth asking. "How do we dominate the desktop?" is the only desktop question worth answering.
It looks a lot like it would be pronounced like "cocks" because no-one is going to go through
the trouble of saying "cee-plus-plus-oh-ex".
They need to change that. . .
I don't get it. . . PHP has a following that will do ANYTHING to promote it. Why?
This article is a great example of what I'm talking about. PHP vs. Servlets vs. perl CGI? come on!? Any fair comparison would be PHP vs. JSP vs. HTML::Mason. And, you know what? THE CODE EXAMPLES WOULD HAVE LOOKED ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME! Furthermore, relevant issues like CPAN library strength, DB support, and exceptions could have been discussed
Slashdot needs a mechanism so that people can vote down innappropriate top-level articles like this so that it can save its reputation from these stinkers.
Thomas Jefferson said:
"Those who give up a freedom for a little security deserve neither freedom nor security"
People may be worse than that. . . they may be giving up security AND freedom for comfort.
VNC (If you are talking about VNC Viewer) came from Oracle/Olivetti labs. (who also gave us databases and the typewriters to perch on top of them).
Just want to give credit where credit is due.
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Was this traitor using proprietary software or "un-american" free software to do this double-crossing?
I certainly hope all of the other agents are using taxpayer-supported, Microsoft owned, C2 Secure (cough) copies of Windows.
A thought: maybe we should start infiltrating M$ with free-software double-agents that sneak around and plant bug-fixes everywhere. . .
In his seminal PBS video series, "Triumph of the Nerds," Robert Cringely notes that engineers like computer coding because it is something that can be understood. . . "unlike the motivations of young women . . . or of the French."
...bum.
I have some idea about the former, but I'm baffled by the latter.
This is not a comment about the French citizens but IS about French policy-makers... historically they have had a knack for keeping life awkward by confusing all the issues. (read: If I coached a baseball team of French politicians I'd put them all out in left field cause that's where they'd end up anyway).
bahdum
Maybe we need a way to mark a top-level post as "flame-bait" now.
Actually, A better board would be this one:
2#1
##2
2#0
p
no, I don't think you get the money. . . your board is too simple.
Try this:
2#1
##2
2#X
#=Covered (unclear if a mine or not)
X=Mine
I think that this is more in the spirit of the problem. You would have to start guessing at which of the #s were mines. There doesn't
seem to be a polynomial way to solve this
problem (because of the guessing requirement, you can't be sure of the number of iterations you will need to ensure consistency).
Note: The person clearly hasn't won the game: but that is not the problem here.
p
The internet is very simple. I don't know why there is so much confusion about its worth or the discussion of it as a "fad". This simply does not make sense to me.
.com-mie bastards"
Imagine if everyone got together and decided to take existing businesses and people, string them together with a single, (relatively) high-speed connection and then normalized the data between them (or at least published their access methods). Now you are imagining what people are calling the "internet."
FOLKS, THE INTERNET ECONOMY IS THE REGULAR ECONOMY BUT HIGHLY AUTOMATED. (BY ITSELF THE INTERNET IS NOTHING- WHAT WE ARE CALLING THE INTERNET IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE/BUSINESSES CONNECTED TOGETHER AT HIGHER SPEEDS AND MORE-ACCESIBLE STANDARDS THAN EVER BEFORE)
its not a fad. it's not going away, and its not going to slow down. if you are going to look for the next "fad," you misunderstood the internet, the power of literal and figurative networks, and the value of distributed "processing".
yours truly,
puppetluva
- "I'm sick of all of these