>> The code isn't meant to be "compilable". Then it's useless, how do you even know that you are getting real code.
>> It's to be used as reference material to supplement the already 1200 pages of documentation and 500 hours of free technical support that Microsoft is already offering for the network protocols in question.
They aren't giving it away. They are charging up the ass for it. It's like opening up a new market to "punish" a company that broke the law.
these things that are supposed to fix the market are retarded. Software needs to be treated like any other business. What needs to happen is that companies like dell need to be allowed to sell another os, without repricussions from microsoft.
Just like the government had to step if and force Boeing to offer other engines on their jets than just prat+whitney. It's lame to think that just because it's software special rules apply.
> It's YOU who is the problem. I didn't create the situation the manufacturers did. If even one manufacturer provided good linux support I would buy their pci card. Closed source doesn't count as good support. Open docs does.
Right now I have an atheros card and it's ok. I don't like having to compile a seperate set of modules.
>> bithin' bout free gifts from others, I didn't bith(sic) about any free gift. So far I haven't gotten one. In fact I've paid for wireless cards that are sub optimal. That's like the opposite of a free gift.
I misunderstood how this page worked. It is still useless because it's filled with a bunch of cards no longer sold.
An actually usefull page would be one with links to actual places you can purchase the card. Someone could make some money linking to amazon or something. The truth is no one knows which card to buy it's a roulette thing.
>>Yeah but a Sempron 2200+ will stomp all over a 2.2 Celeron. It has way more cache ( 128k/256k in the Sempron vs 8k/128K L2 in the Celeron) and also a generally better pipeline. You can't judge a CPU on MHZ alone.
Yeah good thing that the MHZ for the sempron was not even mentioned. The 2200+ is just a label amd gives it and has little to do with MHz
I'm a car guy, just not into that whole German thing. I can't tell you the difference between the mercedes. The corvette is a chevy model because it's not a luxury car. There are luxury version of it from Cadillac.
the annoying thing about cars these days I find is that muscle and sports cars tend to also be luxury cars. Perhaps, it's just because I don't like leather.
no when you ask most people, they do care. They simply want a fast cpu for little money. They have no way to compare cpu's. Or at least a more confusing way of comparing them. This move makes people less educated about this stuff.
I've totally lost track of all the processors and what they do. Things were much easier when there was just pentium, celeron, amd.
and sun said they won't release a 64 bit java because there is no official 64bit firefox. I'm so happy that even the open source world is looking more and more like a dilbert cartoon.
looks to me that amd wins the tests of doing stuff that people do. While intel wins some kind of synthetic benchmark. I'll agree that they should have done many more multi threaded tests
>> You might think so, the people that modded it up clearly disagree, perhaps they know how to click on a hyperlink?
so while you criticize someone for an ad hominem. You simply say, I'm right because someone agrees with me. Yeah, that's sooooo much better. You could just try explaining how advances in.net are exciting for a java developer.
>> My post contained a link to as much information as you could ever need about LINQ,
yet still failed to answer why YOU personally like it so much. Like I said no substance, just a link and then buzzwords like "interesting exciting, catching up, etc. .."
be more transparent. There are alot of things you could to help your cause. Showing rejected story list may be nice. I trully doubt only one user posted that story. If it's true that he was the only one to catch it then if people knew it they might be more ok with it. That's one way to be more transparent, you may have to be creative to think of others.
One more thing. Denying that what happened was suspicious is calling your community stupid. Also try having the editors perticipate in a conversation about them and directly answer some of the comments(not sure if this hasn't happened, but it didn't when I was looking at it.).
> If you disagree with something I said then why not offer more than a childish ad hominem?
and make a crappy retort. The truth is that your original post was light on substance but heavy on the use of marketing words like "exciting". You made statements without qualifying them. Why is it exciting? How will it change the way we communicate? Furthermore how can it change the way you communicate, if you program in java? Your post made little sense, yet was filled with marketing words. That's why. There was little to disagree about.
That's not exactly correct. The genesis project was a program designed to grant life where there is none. It was doomed by the use of unstable protomatter.
I'm not gonna spend hours looking for something that doesn't exist.
Even supposedly linux shops like emperor linux sell laptops with the windows tax paid. They have poor selection and will sell you a wifi card for which only closed source drivers are available. Or I could just get a dell, and since I'm buying it through my department that makes it easy. Also I get a reasonably priced contract for the hardware.
Dell is the wall-mart of computers and I can't buy a cheap alternative to the mainstream through dell. For everything you could buy at wall-mart you can buy a generic version. Sometimes you can't get the name brand. There is no price competition on x86 computers.
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>> The code isn't meant to be "compilable".
Then it's useless, how do you even know that you are getting real code.
>> It's to be used as reference material to supplement the already 1200 pages of documentation and 500 hours of free technical support that Microsoft is already offering for the network protocols in question.
They aren't giving it away. They are charging up the ass for it. It's like opening up a new market to "punish" a company that broke the law.
these things that are supposed to fix the market are retarded. Software needs to be treated like any other business.
What needs to happen is that companies like dell need to be allowed to sell another os, without repricussions from microsoft.
Just like the government had to step if and force Boeing to offer other engines on their jets than just prat+whitney.
It's lame to think that just because it's software special rules apply.
>> If someone out there was better than Microsoft.
who is microsoft better than?
>> I think anyone asking them to give up THEIR intellectual property
Just specs.
>> look at Firefox... it works WONDERFULLY on Windows XP
sounds like you think it's better than ie, yet it's usuage is not even close.
>> isn't it time that people start innovating and competing with Microsoft?
damn straight, that's what these repricussions are supposed to do.
ingredients: natural and artificial flavors.
> It's YOU who is the problem.
I didn't create the situation the manufacturers did.
If even one manufacturer provided good linux support I would buy their pci card. Closed source doesn't count as good support. Open docs does.
Right now I have an atheros card and it's ok. I don't like having to compile a seperate set of modules.
>> bithin' bout free gifts from others,
I didn't bith(sic) about any free gift. So far I haven't gotten one. In fact I've paid for wireless cards that are sub optimal. That's like the opposite of a free gift.
I misunderstood how this page worked. It is still useless because it's filled with a bunch of cards no longer sold.
An actually usefull page would be one with links to actual places you can purchase the card. Someone could make some money linking to amazon or something. The truth is no one knows which card to buy it's a roulette thing.
because this page is useless. It assumes you know the chipset. If I knew the chipset I wouldn't need that page.
perhaps it's because those who are more conservative woule be more likely to go into insdustry. Don't confuse correlation with causation.
you're forgetting about the little bit of friction. An apple falls faster than a feather.
>>Yeah but a Sempron 2200+ will stomp all over a 2.2 Celeron. It has way more cache ( 128k/256k in the Sempron vs 8k/128K L2 in the Celeron) and also a generally better pipeline. You can't judge a CPU on MHZ alone.
Yeah good thing that the MHZ for the sempron was not even mentioned. The 2200+ is just a label amd gives it and has little to do with MHz
well, I'm appreciating it. It's been a very long time since we've heard from you.
I think these meta articles on how and why are very good.
I'm a car guy, just not into that whole German thing. I can't tell you the difference between the mercedes. The corvette is a chevy model because it's not a luxury car. There are luxury version of it from Cadillac.
the annoying thing about cars these days I find is that muscle and sports cars tend to also be luxury cars. Perhaps, it's just because I don't like leather.
no when you ask most people, they do care. They simply want a fast cpu for little money. They have no way to compare cpu's. Or at least a more confusing way of comparing them. This move makes people less educated about this stuff.
I've totally lost track of all the processors and what they do. Things were much easier when there was just pentium, celeron, amd.
yeah, it's like car makers these days.
Gone are the Acura integra and legend. now it's rsx, and cl.
Lexus, Mercedes, it's lame.
>> For example how does a democracy prevent a party from getting elected which would end the democracy?
well, in the us which is a republic the 2nd amendment is what ensures it.
and sun said they won't release a 64 bit java because there is no official 64bit firefox.
I'm so happy that even the open source world is looking more and more like a dilbert cartoon.
how about some linux builds for 64-bit.
looks to me that amd wins the tests of doing stuff that people do. While intel wins some kind of synthetic benchmark.
I'll agree that they should have done many more multi threaded tests
>> You might think so, the people that modded it up clearly disagree, perhaps they know how to click on a hyperlink?
.net are exciting for a java developer.
."
so while you criticize someone for an ad hominem. You simply say, I'm right because someone agrees with me.
Yeah, that's sooooo much better.
You could just try explaining how advances in
>> My post contained a link to as much information as you could ever need about LINQ,
yet still failed to answer why YOU personally like it so much.
Like I said no substance, just a link and then buzzwords like "interesting exciting, catching up, etc. .
be more transparent. There are alot of things you could to help your cause. Showing rejected story list may be nice. I trully doubt only one user posted that story. If it's true that he was the only one to catch it then if people knew it they might be more ok with it.
That's one way to be more transparent, you may have to be creative to think of others.
One more thing.
Denying that what happened was suspicious is calling your community stupid.
Also try having the editors perticipate in a conversation about them and directly answer some of the comments(not sure if this hasn't happened, but it didn't when I was looking at it.).
> If you disagree with something I said then why not offer more than a childish ad hominem?
and make a crappy retort.
The truth is that your original post was light on substance but heavy on the use of marketing words like "exciting".
You made statements without qualifying them. Why is it exciting? How will it change the way we communicate?
Furthermore how can it change the way you communicate, if you program in java?
Your post made little sense, yet was filled with marketing words. That's why. There was little to disagree about.
now all three of the xbox 360 owners now know who's overheats the least.
That's not exactly correct.
The genesis project was a program designed to grant life where there is none.
It was doomed by the use of unstable protomatter.
nothing scientific about ID.
I'm not gonna spend hours looking for something that doesn't exist.
Even supposedly linux shops like emperor linux sell laptops with the windows tax paid. They have poor selection and will sell you a wifi card for which only closed source drivers are available. Or I could just get a dell, and since I'm buying it through my department that makes it easy. Also I get a reasonably priced contract for the hardware.
Dell is the wall-mart of computers and I can't buy a cheap alternative to the mainstream through dell. For everything you could buy at wall-mart you can buy a generic version. Sometimes you can't get the name brand. There is no price competition on x86 computers.