Database applications are the biggies, followed by cad/cgi.
These also happen to be the applications which essentially pay the bills to may companies, so signifigant gains in processing can greatly impact profits.
I say forget fixing it, scrap it and put a new model into place. Band-aid solutions generally suck, and now they have a completely working model of what not to do.
Foster innovation my ass, this patent is older than I am! I'm digging up those fuckers! Franklin, I'm starting with you!
Actually, they would just have to release all the specs for all the API's. We wouldn't need code, just the method name, expected input, and expected output. And that means ALL the api's, not just the end-user ones, but the internal communications ones as well.
If MS does that, then.NET would be an actual standards-compliant language. We'd do the cross-platform work for them. But that would cut into their bottom-line.
Hell, I'm not going to pay the extra money, but someone will. Let the CAD shops and rich kids pay for the R&D costs on this chip, and maybe I'll buy it when it's down to it's actual price.
They complain when we don't pay for their music, then they complain that we do pay for their music. I wish they'd just make up their minds on how they want to exploit us, and just exploit us already!
I will answer this one directly. I used to work for a truck rental business. One day I get a call to go change a tire for a renter, who got a flat in a trailer park. He broke the jack, and needed a replacement. So I run over with a brand new jack salvaged from one of our other trucks, some tools, and a whole lot of innocence.
When I find the truck, I find half of a steak knife protruding from the tire. I ask the guy what happened, and he told me that he was hired to pick up all the junk in the trailer park, and had inadvertantly picked up a guy's collection of aluminum cans. The canowner disapproved of this and came bursting out of the trailer with a knife, and jammed it into the tire.
I looked at the guy who rented the truck, half in amazement, half in bewilderment, then promptly dropped the tools and jack right in front of him, told him I'm not being paid enough to stick around here. Good fucking luck! and left the trailer park as fast as was safely possible. I still have the knife tip in my toolbox as a souvenir, and a reminder of how crazy people can be. And that's all people, because I've met more than my fair share of them. Due to the fact that crazy people generally don't make as much money as the sane ones, and people don't get paid for being stupid (unless they're on MTV), I think that it's a safe bet that you're going to find more crazy and stupid people in a trailer park than in, say, Beverly Hills.
And don't blame me, I didn't set the world up this way, it just kind of happened.
Donate them to charity instead of burning them.
That way the current board will know what they're going to look like in five years. Sitting on a street corner with a tin cup and a sco shirt.
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Database applications are the biggies, followed by cad/cgi. These also happen to be the applications which essentially pay the bills to may companies, so signifigant gains in processing can greatly impact profits.
How about a desktop UNIX running on fast 64 bit hardware?
See Topicvs!
I say forget fixing it, scrap it and put a new model into place. Band-aid solutions generally suck, and now they have a completely working model of what not to do.
Foster innovation my ass, this patent is older than I am! I'm digging up those fuckers!
Franklin, I'm starting with you!
Man, Orville's gonna be pissed!
Actually, they would just have to release all the specs for all the API's. We wouldn't need code, just the method name, expected input, and expected output.
.NET would be an actual standards-compliant language. We'd do the cross-platform work for them. But that would cut into their bottom-line.
And that means ALL the api's, not just the end-user ones, but the internal communications ones as well.
If MS does that, then
It's still early.
Hell, I'm not going to pay the extra money, but someone will. Let the CAD shops and rich kids pay for the R&D costs on this chip, and maybe I'll buy it when it's down to it's actual price.
I thought it was the Lindburgs?
I will not donate any more money to him so that it can go back to the RIAA, but I will chip in on a plane ticket to Europe...
They complain when we don't pay for their music, then they complain that we do pay for their music. I wish they'd just make up their minds on how they want to exploit us, and just exploit us already!
Uhhm, no. Money is the difference between crazy and eccentric.
Let us delight in our mediocrity - It's people like us that made the world the way it is today!
You delight in mediocrity, I'll keep working on owning the world you created!
Now if only Bill Gates hadn't gotten such a head start on me....
I will answer this one directly. I used to work for a truck rental business. One day I get a call to go change a tire for a renter, who got a flat in a trailer park. He broke the jack, and needed a replacement. So I run over with a brand new jack salvaged from one of our other trucks, some tools, and a whole lot of innocence.
When I find the truck, I find half of a steak knife protruding from the tire. I ask the guy what happened, and he told me that he was hired to pick up all the junk in the trailer park, and had inadvertantly picked up a guy's collection of aluminum cans. The canowner disapproved of this and came bursting out of the trailer with a knife, and jammed it into the tire.
I looked at the guy who rented the truck, half in amazement, half in bewilderment, then promptly dropped the tools and jack right in front of him, told him I'm not being paid enough to stick around here. Good fucking luck! and left the trailer park as fast as was safely possible.
I still have the knife tip in my toolbox as a souvenir, and a reminder of how crazy people can be. And that's all people, because I've met more than my fair share of them.
Due to the fact that crazy people generally don't make as much money as the sane ones, and people don't get paid for being stupid (unless they're on MTV), I think that it's a safe bet that you're going to find more crazy and stupid people in a trailer park than in, say, Beverly Hills.
And don't blame me, I didn't set the world up this way, it just kind of happened.
They're only famous because they were named after ninja turtles.
Trailer Parks.
I don't care who's playing who, as long as I get to throw a rock!
Donate them to charity instead of burning them. That way the current board will know what they're going to look like in five years. Sitting on a street corner with a tin cup and a sco shirt.
That's the only reason to go to tradeshows. I have enough pens and mousepads, shirts, jackets, etc to supply the local gradeschool.
That and business cards.
Why else would you go to a computer tradeshow, to pick up chicks?
Or Martha Stewart Omnimedia. Let's boycott them
(It's not, but I hate that bitch!)
That's so crazy it just might work.....
So that stupid comedians like myself don't have to read books to contribute.
It makes one think that SCO might not have a case.
As opposed to anything else mentioned here?
The title of the book is 'The Start of Summer'.
But other than that, I'd have to agree with you.
Adultury ain't so bad, and thank goodness not illegal either.