1. MS scopes the part^H^H^H^opposition 2. sees the best programmers 3. invites them to Redmond on the interoperability pretext 4. hires them 5. they help to hire their buddies from the old days later 6. part^H^H^Hopposition dies
Karma to burn. This is troll, right? Why is this insightful? It's gratuitous bollocks. Bullshit. Generalisations of the highest stink.
All those religious wars? All that End Of Days shit where the non-believers are going to be killed? That's killing, right?
Atheists, like myself, care for human-life, do not use our beliefs to make people who do not believe what we believe into the Other, objectify the Other so that they can kill them. In fact, we go one better: we care for those who are alive rather than that which is obviously not alive.
Remember, every sperm is sacred. Every time you wank (let's face it, you don't have sex) you kill a million potential beings... have a nice day
The two design styles are worlds apart. MS pushing this thing into the world, design by committee and one huge focus group oh, like slashdot. Apple never reveals it's design before release, always uses *a designer. For aesthetics, I know which one I prefer.
I'm in a small build team going through major evolutions with our software. We got to the point where we are using at least 7 different languages - C, Perl, JSP, Java, bash, BAT files, XSLT, PHP plus the usual markup languages (home-grown XML, HTML) and SQL. We went through one rev to try and go to Java (using JBOSS with it's JMS implementation, plus JSP etc), we came to the conclusion that, for a small team, it's just too big a cost in development time. We decided on Python in the end, as it covers all our requirements and we relaxed the RPC requirements.
Now we would still have gone with PHP for the interface until TurboGears came along. The chance of homogenising our development language was too big an opportunity to miss. So, as big a library as PHP has, I still don't see it as a standalone replace for a scripting language such as Python. PHP for webpages, yes; fast and easy to use for smaller projects it seems. However, I'm uncertain as it's usefulness in larger projects of 10000 lines. (Then again you wouldn't catch me using Perl for such a big project either.) Python seems well-suited for the heavy-lifting. I like it's OO syntax, it seems to me to be highly suited to maintainance, with less multi-layered dissonance than perl.
kind of makes my point for me. The IDF is having to destroy whole villages to supposedly get at these missles. That's the whole problem with the "they shouldn't be" assertion - how far away do they have to be? And some people can't make it that far.
The IDF failed in 18 years of trying to rid the Lebanon of Hezbollah. What makes them think they can do it now? Even with the full backing of the US.
"A senior IDF official revealed Saturday that Hizbullah has been hiding a large quantity of long-range rockets in specially-designed rooms built in houses in Southern Lebanon villages, operating under the assumption that the Israeli army will have difficulty in locating them and that it would prefer not to harm villages."
Hezbollah have been fighting the Israelis on and off since 1982. They know by now that the Israelis aren't shy of wasting Lebanese blood. The whole of 1982-2000 conflict gives the lie to the words of the "senior IDF official".
The worrying thing is that everyone is accepting the Israeli line on this. 750 Lebanese have died at the hands of the Israelis. Were they all next to missle-launchers? I think not. Why are they at all? Firstly, it's their land. Secondly, they don't have the means to get out.
Olmert - the head chickenhawk here and desperate it seems to prove the size of his cajones - should remember that the IDF got it's collective arse kicked in 2000. They'll suffer the same fate now. This is the IDF's Vietnam.
With my best tin-foil hat on, I think they've thought about charging people for running non-MS apps on windows machines. And may well do so; of course, bigger companies like IBM will be able to pay some sort of fee - call it a rental. The main controlling mechanism would be WGA which would monitor any applications you use. And it would be forced on you by the EULA and presented as being for your Genuine Advantage.
Of course, you would no longer be able to write your own applications but really why would you want to?
Who pays for Open Source apps to run on their machines? Caught between this, patents, and "Trusted Computing", OSS would wither away. Bawahaha!!!
nice of Microsoft to give Google this free publicity, particularly when it makes Google seem so... dangerous. It's even better than a million euro ad campaign
It's *less* regulation that's gotten us into this mess. Now the Common Carrier requirements have been dropped - at the behest of, oh, quess who? - the fun started. Bring back the CC requirements and there wouldn't be any net neutrality arguments. Mind you, the telcos wouldn't be happy, but they never are, and they made a fuck load of money *with* CC requirements.
All the telco technological arguments about Video are bullshit. I watch Video On Demand now, and I don't need any "innovations" from any telco to do so.
No. This is about GoogleAmazonYahoo's PotOGold. Pure and simple. Extortion. The FCC have allowed the telcos even more power to extort money from people.
BTW preferential services across interwebs will need a ton-load of accounting beauracracy. This will raise the entry-barrier no end. This is what closes the market.
Umm, yes. In *very* *very* old days, just when Dikshunairies were invented, it was common practice for the mainstream Dikshunairies to *ignore* words used in commerce and trade. I'm not sure when the convention changed - possibly mid-late 19th century - but for a long time, this was so. Nowadays, massive computer-generated concordances and frequency tables are much in vogue.
That's because he started out in CORBBA, found it not to his liking, then moved on to building ICE...He's an apostate. Like I said, nothing to see here, move along please.
Michi Henning owns a company which develops ICE...which is a competing product to CORBA. Nothing to see here, move along please.
As for complexity, SOAP is heading the CORBA way, thanks to Microsoft, IBM et al. SOAP has lots of interoperability problems btn languages, Java and Perl for example.
You could use xml-rpc but most of the implementations are brain-dead, and unusable for complex apps.
If you have to go btn two languages, just use sockets.
It *is* a trap, but not for you, noble GPL'ed application but for the gubmint regulator. Imagine the conversation:
EU Droid: Listen, you have to interoperate with OSS, why can't you Just Do It? MS Droid: We tried, we really tried, but those pesky GPL pirates just won't cooperate. It's not our fault, it's not *us* that's causing the problems. We've tried but failed nobly. Can we carry being a monopoly without all this bothersome interoperability? EU Droid: OK then
Slashdot Mirror
I believe the alternate name for this theory is "the pork scratchings theory". This probably only works in England.
This is all it is.
1. MS scopes the part^H^H^H^opposition
2. sees the best programmers
3. invites them to Redmond on the interoperability pretext
4. hires them
5. they help to hire their buddies from the old days later
6. part^H^H^Hopposition dies
Karma to burn. This is troll, right? Why is this insightful? It's gratuitous bollocks. Bullshit. Generalisations of the highest stink.
... have a nice day
All those religious wars? All that End Of Days shit where the non-believers are going to be killed? That's killing, right?
Atheists, like myself, care for human-life, do not use our beliefs to make people who do not believe what we believe into the Other, objectify the Other so that they can kill them. In fact, we go one better: we care for those who are alive rather than that which is obviously not alive.
Remember, every sperm is sacred. Every time you wank (let's face it, you don't have sex) you kill a million potential beings
The two design styles are worlds apart. MS pushing this thing into the world, design by committee and one huge focus group oh, like slashdot. Apple never reveals it's design before release, always uses *a designer. For aesthetics, I know which one I prefer.
Bush budget deficit
versus
Clinton budget surplus
way to go ...
"Firefox users need to install the following ActiveX compatibility plug-in:"
"they own your arse and every search query you ever use" Hang on...
Clause 5, Subsection a: Under no circumstance must you take away a human's SUV ...
Thankyou, thankyou. I'll be here all week.
the girl with the mousy hair? Or the sailors fighting in the dancehalls?
I'm in a small build team going through major evolutions with our software. We got to the point where we are using at least 7 different languages - C, Perl, JSP, Java, bash, BAT files, XSLT, PHP plus the usual markup languages (home-grown XML, HTML) and SQL. We went through one rev to try and go to Java (using JBOSS with it's JMS implementation, plus JSP etc), we came to the conclusion that, for a small team, it's just too big a cost in development time. We decided on Python in the end, as it covers all our requirements and we relaxed the RPC requirements.
Now we would still have gone with PHP for the interface until TurboGears came along. The chance of homogenising our development language was too big an opportunity to miss. So, as big a library as PHP has, I still don't see it as a standalone replace for a scripting language such as Python. PHP for webpages, yes; fast and easy to use for smaller projects it seems. However, I'm uncertain as it's usefulness in larger projects of 10000 lines. (Then again you wouldn't catch me using Perl for such a big project either.) Python seems well-suited for the heavy-lifting. I like it's OO syntax, it seems to me to be highly suited to maintainance, with less multi-layered dissonance than perl.
...being taught nutrition
. stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5216960
I'm new here. Does the constitution allow you to become as fat as you want so eventually you crush the health system?
kind of makes my point for me. The IDF is having to destroy whole villages to supposedly get at these missles. That's the whole problem with the "they shouldn't be" assertion - how far away do they have to be? And some people can't make it that far.
The IDF failed in 18 years of trying to rid the Lebanon of Hezbollah. What makes them think they can do it now? Even with the full backing of the US.
"A senior IDF official revealed Saturday that Hizbullah has been hiding a large quantity of long-range rockets in specially-designed rooms built in houses in Southern Lebanon villages, operating under the assumption that the Israeli army will have difficulty in locating them and that it would prefer not to harm villages."
Hezbollah have been fighting the Israelis on and off since 1982. They know by now that the Israelis aren't shy of wasting Lebanese blood. The whole of 1982-2000 conflict gives the lie to the words of the "senior IDF official".
The worrying thing is that everyone is accepting the Israeli line on this. 750 Lebanese have died at the hands of the Israelis. Were they all next to missle-launchers? I think not. Why are they at all? Firstly, it's their land. Secondly, they don't have the means to get out.
Olmert - the head chickenhawk here and desperate it seems to prove the size of his cajones - should remember that the IDF got it's collective arse kicked in 2000. They'll suffer the same fate now. This is the IDF's Vietnam.
I think it's better/worse than this.
With my best tin-foil hat on, I think they've thought about charging people for running non-MS apps on windows machines. And may well do so; of course, bigger companies like IBM will be able to pay some sort of fee - call it a rental. The main controlling mechanism would be WGA which would monitor any applications you use. And it would be forced on you by the EULA and presented as being for your Genuine Advantage.
Of course, you would no longer be able to write your own applications but really why would you want to?
Who pays for Open Source apps to run on their machines? Caught between this, patents, and "Trusted Computing", OSS would wither away. Bawahaha!!!
http://www.e-sheep.com/spiders/
which is a damn fine webcomic as well
nice of Microsoft to give Google this free publicity, particularly when it makes Google seem so ... dangerous. It's even better than a million euro ad campaign
It's *less* regulation that's gotten us into this mess. Now the Common Carrier requirements have been dropped - at the behest of, oh, quess who? - the fun started. Bring back the CC requirements and there wouldn't be any net neutrality arguments. Mind you, the telcos wouldn't be happy, but they never are, and they made a fuck load of money *with* CC requirements.
All the telco technological arguments about Video are bullshit. I watch Video On Demand now, and I don't need any "innovations" from any telco to do so.
No. This is about GoogleAmazonYahoo's PotOGold. Pure and simple. Extortion. The FCC have allowed the telcos even more power to extort money from people.
BTW preferential services across interwebs will need a ton-load of accounting beauracracy. This will raise the entry-barrier no end. This is what closes the market.
Umm, yes. In *very* *very* old days, just when Dikshunairies were invented, it was common practice for the mainstream Dikshunairies to *ignore* words used in commerce and trade. I'm not sure when the convention changed - possibly mid-late 19th century - but for a long time, this was so. Nowadays, massive computer-generated concordances and frequency tables are much in vogue.
...ah, how little of the mechanics of love you know. *any* position will get you into trouble...
> By the way - to the editors.... It's Winnie not Winny.
Neigh, neigh
Thankyou, thankyou, I'll be here all week, try the chicken
http://frankenstein.monstrous.com/frankenstein_ori gins.htm
from Castle Frankenstein in Germany
That's because he started out in CORBBA, found it not to his liking, then moved on to building ICE...He's an apostate. Like I said, nothing to see here, move along please.
Michi Henning owns a company which develops ICE...which is a competing product to CORBA. Nothing to see here, move along please.
As for complexity, SOAP is heading the CORBA way, thanks to Microsoft, IBM et al. SOAP has lots of interoperability problems btn languages, Java and Perl for example.
You could use xml-rpc but most of the implementations are brain-dead, and unusable for complex apps.
If you have to go btn two languages, just use sockets.
It *is* a trap, but not for you, noble GPL'ed application but for the gubmint regulator. Imagine the conversation:
EU Droid: Listen, you have to interoperate with OSS, why can't you Just Do It?
MS Droid: We tried, we really tried, but those pesky GPL pirates just won't cooperate. It's not our fault, it's not *us* that's causing the problems. We've tried but failed nobly. Can we carry being a monopoly without all this bothersome interoperability?
EU Droid: OK then
Do you see how this works? Do you see?