I have been amazed at big a deal everyone is making about the Vista delays. How often are software projects late?
It's a matter of scale, really. Longhorn is the biggest failed project in software development history, at least in the private sector. The previous record holder would be IBM Office Vision.
It's bullshit because it's a lie designed to make you feel sorry for the poor company that would lose all its business if it opened its specs so that you'll forgive them for not having open specs.
He persists in his asinine assumption that the vendors aren't perfectly entitled to keep their specs as trade secrets if they so choose. There's nothing to forgive.
Try to absorb this information: there is no excuse needed. A company has no obligation to offer its products on any particular platform, unless they are bound by a contract to do so.
Nvidias and ATIs "value proposition" is the hardware. The driver is just a required evil.
What's your next guess?
The driver is a major part of their value proposition because they sell a graphics subsystem, and not all of its functionality is implemented in the hardware.
Immediate total naval blockade, with steady escalation through air strikes, destruction of Iranian air and naval forces, and invasion if Iran failed to release the hostages.
I guess you missed the news about the naval blockade of Cuba, then. The soviet provocation was answered with a rather extensive show of force, causing kruschev to back down.
As for Iran -- He did pull off the Camp David Accords, you know.
That's quite the non-sequitur, but once again you give credit where little is due. Ever heard of Sadat and Begin? ( You know, the people who actually made the agreement?)
You want to give him credit for a severe recession?
People just blame him for the hostages.
Siezing an embassy is an act of war. By failing to react appropriately, Carter abandoned the people of Iran to a theocracy, and exposed the United States and the rest of the world to a growing threat of islamist extremism. Backing down in the face of such a provocation is an extremely dangerous thing to do, as history has shown time and time again.
iPods are pretty bad as supporting a variety of audio formats goes
iPods will play: MP3, AIFF, WAV, AAC, and Apple Lossless files. If any other format accounts for even 1% of the digitally-recorded music that exists, I would be very surprised indeed.
Dell, HP, Panasonic, and Sony all make crappy PC's compared to an Apple product.
The sad fact is, they simply can't afford to do otherwise. The windows vendors can't differentiate their products in any meaningful way; every high-quality PC vendor has been defeated by Dell's race to the bottom, and the margins on those products are so thin that they can't even afford to use polycarbonate instead of polystyrene cases.
The lion's share of the profit in the windows world goes to Microsoft. With Apple, it's a different story.
But it uses Ogg vorbis! It's GPL! Really, GPL is a feature, it's not just something to puff up your chest about! Oh, and it's got to be better, because otherwise rockbox is just somebody wanking for geek cred!
Lindzen uses his credentials to make Greenhouse denials in public.
Why does it sound to me like you're trying to lump him in with holocaust deniers?
His credentials, which you are dismissing, are directly relevant to climatology. He's come to a different conclusion than you have; why should I dismiss his opinion just because you consider him a heretic?
I'm very tempted to get the procedure, but I'm procrastinating because the whole "fold back a flap of your cornea" business kind of freaks me out. So, let me ask, how bad is it to sit there while a surgeon is operating on your eyes?
this is state-sponsored, not the actions of a few bad apples.
Bullshit. Lt. Calley was arrested, tried, and convicted for My Lai. The soldiers who abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib were prosecuted. These incidents get a lot of press, because they're unusual. They get prosecuted, because they're not state-sponsored.
What was state sponsored was the slaughter of thirty million soviets by Stalin, and 77 million Chinese by Mao.
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I have been amazed at big a deal everyone is making about the Vista delays. How often are software projects late?
It's a matter of scale, really. Longhorn is the biggest failed project in software development history, at least in the private sector. The previous record holder would be IBM Office Vision.
-jcr
No, he isn't right. He wrote:
It's bullshit because it's a lie designed to make you feel sorry for the poor company that would lose all its business if it opened its specs so that you'll forgive them for not having open specs.
He persists in his asinine assumption that the vendors aren't perfectly entitled to keep their specs as trade secrets if they so choose. There's nothing to forgive.
-jcr
So the pessimistic naysayers would have said five years ago upon being told that Sun would soon make the bulk of its software OSS.
Dude, Sun is desperate for attention. Open-sourcing Solaris was a stunt.
-jcr
No, it's a bullshit excuse
Grow up.
-jcr
They'd just have to open the hardware spec enough to allow open driver coding.
What an active imagination you have.
-jcr
Linux NEEDS to work, out of the box, and work well. Now either the FSF have to realise this
You're assuming that the FSF gives a shit whether Linux gains further penetration. RMS isn't noted for pragmatism.
-jcr
bullshit excuses
Try to absorb this information: there is no excuse needed. A company has no obligation to offer its products on any particular platform, unless they are bound by a contract to do so.
-jcr
Nvidias and ATIs "value proposition" is the hardware. The driver is just a required evil.
What's your next guess?
The driver is a major part of their value proposition because they sell a graphics subsystem, and not all of its functionality is implemented in the hardware.
-jcr
Iran is the size of California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico put together.
Nearly all of their oil exports were by sea at the time.
Sometimes war just isn't an option
It's always an option, and it's generally a better option than capitulation.
-jcr
all it does is imply that Microsoft's lawyers thought that Burst.com had a strong case.
It implies nothing of the kind. Companies with deep pockets routinely cave to shakedown attempts just to get them out of their hair.
-jcr
So, what would you have suggested he do?
Immediate total naval blockade, with steady escalation through air strikes, destruction of Iranian air and naval forces, and invasion if Iran failed to release the hostages.
-jcr
Is nuclear waste any better than the CO2 emissions?
Yes, because you can stash it under a mountain in Nevada.
-jcr
I guess you missed the news about the naval blockade of Cuba, then. The soviet provocation was answered with a rather extensive show of force, causing kruschev to back down.
-jcr
As for JFK
When did I mention JFK?
-jcr
You didn't respond to either of my other examples, though.
Of course not. They're no more relevant to Carter's handling of the Tehran Vaudeville Show than the camp david accords are.
-jcr
As for Iran -- He did pull off the Camp David Accords, you know.
That's quite the non-sequitur, but once again you give credit where little is due. Ever heard of Sadat and Begin? ( You know, the people who actually made the agreement?)
-jcr
He did cut oil usage by 2/3rds, you know.
You want to give him credit for a severe recession?
People just blame him for the hostages.
Siezing an embassy is an act of war. By failing to react appropriately, Carter abandoned the people of Iran to a theocracy, and exposed the United States and the rest of the world to a growing threat of islamist extremism. Backing down in the face of such a provocation is an extremely dangerous thing to do, as history has shown time and time again.
-jcr
Why can't we have an engineer presient?
We did. He was a disaster.
-jcr
iPods are pretty bad as supporting a variety of audio formats goes
iPods will play: MP3, AIFF, WAV, AAC, and Apple Lossless files. If any other format accounts for even 1% of the digitally-recorded music that exists, I would be very surprised indeed.
-jcr
Dell, HP, Panasonic, and Sony all make crappy PC's compared to an Apple product.
The sad fact is, they simply can't afford to do otherwise. The windows vendors can't differentiate their products in any meaningful way; every high-quality PC vendor has been defeated by Dell's race to the bottom, and the margins on those products are so thin that they can't even afford to use polycarbonate instead of polystyrene cases.
The lion's share of the profit in the windows world goes to Microsoft. With Apple, it's a different story.
-jcr
How, exactly, is this better than auto-sync?
But it uses Ogg vorbis! It's GPL! Really, GPL is a feature, it's not just something to puff up your chest about! Oh, and it's got to be better, because otherwise rockbox is just somebody wanking for geek cred!
-jcr
Lindzen uses his credentials to make Greenhouse denials in public.
Why does it sound to me like you're trying to lump him in with holocaust deniers?
His credentials, which you are dismissing, are directly relevant to climatology. He's come to a different conclusion than you have; why should I dismiss his opinion just because you consider him a heretic?
-jcr
Lindzen is part of a professional network of Greenhouse deniers.
Lindzen is a professor at MIT.
-jcr
Congratulations on your great results.
I'm very tempted to get the procedure, but I'm procrastinating because the whole "fold back a flap of your cornea" business kind of freaks me out. So, let me ask, how bad is it to sit there while a surgeon is operating on your eyes?
-jcr
this is state-sponsored, not the actions of a few bad apples.
Bullshit. Lt. Calley was arrested, tried, and convicted for My Lai. The soldiers who abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib were prosecuted. These incidents get a lot of press, because they're unusual. They get prosecuted, because they're not state-sponsored.
What was state sponsored was the slaughter of thirty million soviets by Stalin, and 77 million Chinese by Mao.
-jcr