Never happen. To personify the company, Microsoft's ego is too big;
Apple had a pretty massive ego before Copland cratered, too.
MS has just been through the biggest development project failure ever in the private sector. Their current management is on the way out before the shareholders lynch them. Think the new guy is going to commit to another six-year train wreck?
MS has two choices: cut a deal with SJ, or try to turn Solaris into a viable desktop system. The first option would cost more but ship sooner. What they really can't afford, is another Longhorn.
That's a pretty good summary, but I see that you left out the fact that the ChiComs have murdered many more Chinese than the Japanese Imperial Army did in WW2. With a body count around 77 million, Mao tops the all-time mass murderers list, and his party is still in power.
Are you the same AC that was trolling this on Digg.com?
Sure, MS needs to do something smarter than repeat the Longhorn disaster, but I really doubt that BG and Monkey-boy have the guts to admit that they can't ship a major revision to their OS anymore.
Its syntax is also simple enough that I can use it for an application scripting language that users can pick up in a few minutes.
It's syntax is Smalltalk, which happens to map very well to Objective-C.
-jcr
Re:FS contruction is extremely complicatied
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I'm really curious now if OS X Leopard will utilize CoreData/SQLite to create their own relational database filesystem in "Spotlight 2.0."
No, they won't.
What Spotlight demonstrates is that it's not necessary to shoehorn everything into rows in a DB to index it. When you write an app for OS X, you decide what's significant to index, and write an importer for your file types.
I think the main thing we'll see in Spotlight for Leopard is just increased speed, both in initial indexing and searching. When it comes to features, Spotlight is pretty much done. The only thing on my wish-list is for it to work with XSan volumes.
Simply call it what it is, fraud, from a company that knowingly engages in deceptive business practices.
To be fair, I would call this a failure rather than a fraud. They probably believed their own claims about WinFS at the time that they made their promises.
They don't want to let you go if they think they can meet your needs. Be sure your needs are not met by their walled garden.
What they want is completely immaterial. If I were unfortunate enough to have an AOL account to cancel, I would call them once to cancel it, and if they didn't do so immediately without any form of runaround, I would cancel by sending a registered letter to their general counsel, advising them that if they didn't terminate my account as of the date of the phone call and immediately inform me that they had done so, I would go down to my local courthouse, file suit, and ask the court to certify a class.
The key is to make it far more expensive to jerk you around than to just do the right thing.
I dont think Bill Gates has murdered anyone, or any other serious crime as such.
My point is that what one does with ill-gotten gains doesn't excuse the crime. Gates has indeed committed serious crimes, (criminal copyright infringement), but has been able to buy his way out of trouble after IBM showed him how, when they screwed Gary Kildall over.
Bill Gates may have gotten most of his fortune through Monopolistic Practises, but hhe has already pledges to give away 90% or more to charity,
Giving away his ill-gotten gains is a great thing, but it doesn't really make him less of a crook. Carnegie built a university and a lot of libraries, but he still had blood on his hands from the people his Pinkerton thugs murdered.
I've never been able to decide whether or not Bill Gates himself is evil.
He was quite aware that he sold IBM code that was stolen from DR. I'm also quite certain that stealing Stacker's code and putting it in DOS 6 happened on his orders.
So, yeah: he's evil. Of course, it's great that he's trying to spend his way to a clear conscience now.
why would they all be leaving prior to Vista's launch?
Same reason so many people bailed out of Apple once the scope of the Copland disaster was realized. This was before Apple started talking to NeXT or Be, and it was pretty clear that having Apple on your resume would Not Be a Good Thing once it all hit the fan.
We also had a lot of people who were quite capable of editing, designing motion graphics and compositing, who couldn't afford to produce a film before Apple brought the capabilities of million-dollar systems down into an under-$3K package. Get over yourself, you snob.
Cutting and running is always the wrong thing to do, in all situations, under all circumstances.
Thank god that Hitler subscribed to that belief. If he'd had the sense to abandon failed campaigns, world war two might have lasted another three years or more.
The only way to prevent this from happening is to move into countries with brutal kleptocracies that will insure that the wages you pay never stimulate the local economy too much and the strong armed government thugs keep the people from setting up any sort of fair or equitable government.
Interesting theory, but the worst of the kleptocracies tend to have a hell of a time attracting any foreign capital or orders (Zimbabwe, Burma).
The important figure isn't the wage, it's the productivity. You might be able to hire someone for ten cents a day in some countries, but they're not going to be able to build as many computers in a shift as workers in India, China, or Indonesia.
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Where did Mach come from? That's right. BSD.
You really haven't got a clue just what Mach is, do you? Your statement is nonsensical.
-jcr
Never happen. To personify the company, Microsoft's ego is too big;
Apple had a pretty massive ego before Copland cratered, too.
MS has just been through the biggest development project failure ever in the private sector. Their current management is on the way out before the shareholders lynch them. Think the new guy is going to commit to another six-year train wreck?
MS has two choices: cut a deal with SJ, or try to turn Solaris into a viable desktop system. The first option would cost more but ship sooner. What they really can't afford, is another Longhorn.
-jcr
Why assume there's a revolution coming?
Does "Tienanmen Square" ring a bell with you, sparky?
-jcr
Look up the "cultural revolution" and the "great leap forward".
-jcr
That's a pretty good summary, but I see that you left out the fact that the ChiComs have murdered many more Chinese than the Japanese Imperial Army did in WW2. With a body count around 77 million, Mao tops the all-time mass murderers list, and his party is still in power.
-jcr
What right do we have to say that OUR way is correct and take action against THEIR way?
Get a life, you stupid pinko twat.
-jcr
It is irresponsible for people to post ways of bypassing the security restrictions a sovereign nation has enacted upon its people.
Why wait for the revolution before taking any other action? Your position is ridiculous.
-jcr
Are you the same AC that was trolling this on Digg.com?
Sure, MS needs to do something smarter than repeat the Longhorn disaster, but I really doubt that BG and Monkey-boy have the guts to admit that they can't ship a major revision to their OS anymore.
-jcr
Its syntax is also simple enough that I can use it for an application scripting language that users can pick up in a few minutes.
It's syntax is Smalltalk, which happens to map very well to Objective-C.
-jcr
I'm really curious now if OS X Leopard will utilize CoreData/SQLite to create their own relational database filesystem in "Spotlight 2.0."
No, they won't.
What Spotlight demonstrates is that it's not necessary to shoehorn everything into rows in a DB to index it. When you write an app for OS X, you decide what's significant to index, and write an importer for your file types.
I think the main thing we'll see in Spotlight for Leopard is just increased speed, both in initial indexing and searching. When it comes to features, Spotlight is pretty much done. The only thing on my wish-list is for it to work with XSan volumes.
-jcr
I hope Vista will come with some serious eye-candy
If the betas are any indication, you'll be disappointed.
-jcr
Simply call it what it is, fraud, from a company that knowingly engages in deceptive business practices.
To be fair, I would call this a failure rather than a fraud. They probably believed their own claims about WinFS at the time that they made their promises.
-jcr
However, the Colt 1911 model still works fine - not really a computer, unless it involves questions where the answer is BANG!
Oh, I don't know... It's a dandy analog machine for solving parabolic trajectory equations of quite a few variables.
-jcr
They don't want to let you go if they think they can meet your needs. Be sure your needs are not met by their walled garden.
What they want is completely immaterial. If I were unfortunate enough to have an AOL account to cancel, I would call them once to cancel it, and if they didn't do so immediately without any form of runaround, I would cancel by sending a registered letter to their general counsel, advising them that if they didn't terminate my account as of the date of the phone call and immediately inform me that they had done so, I would go down to my local courthouse, file suit, and ask the court to certify a class.
The key is to make it far more expensive to jerk you around than to just do the right thing.
-jcr
I dont think Bill Gates has murdered anyone, or any other serious crime as such.
My point is that what one does with ill-gotten gains doesn't excuse the crime. Gates has indeed committed serious crimes, (criminal copyright infringement), but has been able to buy his way out of trouble after IBM showed him how, when they screwed Gary Kildall over.
-jcr
Bill Gates may have gotten most of his fortune through Monopolistic Practises, but hhe has already pledges to give away 90% or more to charity,
Giving away his ill-gotten gains is a great thing, but it doesn't really make him less of a crook. Carnegie built a university and a lot of libraries, but he still had blood on his hands from the people his Pinkerton thugs murdered.
-jcr
I've never been able to decide whether or not Bill Gates himself is evil.
He was quite aware that he sold IBM code that was stolen from DR. I'm also quite certain that stealing Stacker's code and putting it in DOS 6 happened on his orders.
So, yeah: he's evil. Of course, it's great that he's trying to spend his way to a clear conscience now.
-jcr
why would they all be leaving prior to Vista's launch?
Same reason so many people bailed out of Apple once the scope of the Copland disaster was realized. This was before Apple started talking to NeXT or Be, and it was pretty clear that having Apple on your resume would Not Be a Good Thing once it all hit the fan.
-jcr
labeling themselves as composite artists/designers/editors.
So, you look at samples of their work before you hire them. What does this have to do with the cost of the tools?
-jcr
We also had a lot of people who were quite capable of editing, designing motion graphics and compositing, who couldn't afford to produce a film before Apple brought the capabilities of million-dollar systems down into an under-$3K package. Get over yourself, you snob.
-jcr
Cutting and running is always the wrong thing to do, in all situations, under all circumstances.
Thank god that Hitler subscribed to that belief. If he'd had the sense to abandon failed campaigns, world war two might have lasted another three years or more.
-jcr
The only way to prevent this from happening is to move into countries with brutal kleptocracies that will insure that the wages you pay never stimulate the local economy too much and the strong armed government thugs keep the people from setting up any sort of fair or equitable government.
Interesting theory, but the worst of the kleptocracies tend to have a hell of a time attracting any foreign capital or orders (Zimbabwe, Burma).
The important figure isn't the wage, it's the productivity. You might be able to hire someone for ten cents a day in some countries, but they're not going to be able to build as many computers in a shift as workers in India, China, or Indonesia.
-jcr
It can be useful to remember that the US had its share of horrid working conditions back when the industrial economy was getting going.
Indeed. Working in a factory in those days was nearly as bad as staying home on the farm.
-jcr
most have gone to South Africa and the UK as they are paid better wages.
Doesn't fleeing a dictatorship have something to do with it as well?
-jcr
Gee, they actually found someone who liked it?
-jcr