Seriously Linux was taking over, then Apple was taking over. I hardly ever see a serious game changing IDC prediction that pans out. Oddly enough back in 2000 and maybe earlier I heard execs from Sun saying the network is the computer. Cloud is just a few companies trying to claim this is a new idea rather than the latest push to let others own your data. To ensure it works they have spent the last 10 plus years convincing everyone that privacy is dead and not required.
Been seeing this guy make his rounds lately. Information Week seems pretty bent on anti-Linux FUD in recent years (or are they just hiring redmond-ites and assigning them to cover "the enemy"?
Hate to point out to you your poor geography skills but technically Pakistan is part of Asia (I live in Japan, which is also part of Asia) Back to the real point though most of our current "terrorist" in Iraq/Lebanon are of the same cloth as the American founding fathers (I may live in Japan but am an American, born and raised-even served, in the Gulf, in the Navy). George Washington was not born in the US in fact he was militarily trained and fought side by side with his enemy (sound familiar-looks just like most the Middle East). What does the Middle East want? Freedom, which it will never have with the US or a US puppet government installed. Also please note they do not hate Americans, they hate America and the opressions it imposses on them for it own self serving interest.
I am appaled at the actions of Isreal (all out war on a country based on the actions of a religeous group) and find myself embarassed to be called an American.
anyone who "doesn't contribute" but uses credit cards for purchases, store cards for the discounts, orders from Amazon is kidding themselves. Social sites have some information but the real value comes from Amazon and credit card comapnies.
To the earlier poster who compared writing code to airplane design. basically remember that airplane dynamics and stresses and struture is dictated on by a series of "specs" that were worked out by trail and error. When they found something they do not understand you typically see the wonderful "constant" which goes like first yo multiply this form by the factor of the weight and airpraesure and then forget all that and multiply by the this and magiccaly you are now in Oz. (honestly when I took calc II years ago my professor did that I said "huh" and got back a "trust me" response. (real good for a scientific understanding-no explanation-just trust me)
In truth building software to specs is almost worse than useless. design to Interfaces(YES), but when making interop software you cannot and should not rely on how another piece does its calcs just that it does its part and spits out a response (or does its part) if it returns a structure you should use the proper accessors to read the structures data as structures change from iteration to iteration. Linus is correct in that specs are wrong in fact after a few more iterative releases they usually are out of sync and cause more problems than they could have ever fixed. If programming was like an engineering project where we had a base set to use (dynamics of metals and properties of power systems) then great specs would be good, but in truth when getting past base libs we have very little of a solid unchanging base to base a spec on. hence why computer programming is less science and more "art of"
Get real even if they manage to create some self aware organism you really cant have a MORAL problem with it. For you to have a moral problem with this implies you are involved otherwise you are forcing your moral view on others which incidentally is immoral (quite a predicament for you)
Anyway the best part was when they mentioned "Human dignity". How dignified are we when elect drunks as our leaders? How dignified are we when the Person in charge of the US is "as moral" as the people he is kicking out of other countries. Human dignity has been on its death bed for as long as I have been alive.
Sudamm insane hides his weapons of mass distruction. As no one can disprove it we get another unverifiable statement from 1600 Penn Ave. Nasa suddenly gets huge fund to "confirm" bushes claims:)
and MS stands behind their "misappropriated" work
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It was about a year ago after years of dragging out the case that it was proven the MS SQL 7 was stolen from or illegally used from another company MS response was "we will cover legal cost and suits up to the cost of the product" yeah MS really stand behind their work but the limit is as much as you paid to get it. So by those terms FLOSS is on equal grounds with MS support policy.
So now tell me was it a joke or for real? The questions are pretty loaded and it is impossible to either avoid being a total windows bigot and answer truthfully. BTW I am an MCSE because my company needed one and none of the Windows admins could pass the test. (Yes MS many of your supporters are stone illeterate even in your own OS and come to us Lin admins as we actually read the RFCs and study.) Yes I also have RHCE, LPI and Sair LCA a CCNA and other so cut me a break on the (MCP, MCSA, MCSE) The test were actually funy and the only one that gave me a worry was the Designing AD =---=what a pain answer read a huge paragraph and then answer a question that is nothing more than an opinion and and there are two-to-three technically correct ways to do it listed.
Anyway MS can have me back when 1-they drop the GUI requirement 2-drop IIS and use Apache. 3-change their licenses away from me being a crook to use my system the way I want (Guess I am with Linux for Life then:) )
If you do anything you WILL be sued is more like it. I am sure that the current system "encourages progress" after all some bonehead company patents a vague idea, then sits around for about 10 years watching everyone else using that idea and then sues for backpayment of all lost royalties. This (and US breaking international law showing Moron Hussein POW on TV) make me sad to admit being American
OKay so SCO stop using GPL software--oh thats right then you wouldn't have a product worth offering. (Samba and other unamerican pieces are key to their business) Also you are forgetting that the American paranoia that was so rampant during the 70's is largely going away as we are a GLOBAL comunity (Hey I am an American living in Japan) so that your America is best B.S. and shove it.
your allusions to the MickeyMouse extension is drawing on one of the worst court decisions in recent history and one that needs to be overturned.
McBride get a clue-give up and admit you messed up and you loose. The GPL is a copyright used to product us developers that prefer to work together rather than be locked by some corporate lackey (like yourself) into doing what you want. We want to be able to inovate (something we can't do under your system)
I was in the Navy from 91 to 95 and we used a program called SUADPS we used the computer to order the parts and arrange payment from our budget log to the supplies log (even tied into shore environs with the same system for ordering items)
AT&Ts patent is BS. Prior art is all over the place.
I have customers that are using providers for hosting their web site (on Linux) and have been approached by the providers that the Linux servers are old (2.2.X kernels) as such they would like to bring them up to date--MS is giving software away to these providers providing they can convert to Windows--funny many of my customers I have talked to about security and cost and they told the provider either no way or switch to Windows and they leave for another provider. Windows just is not worth the cost to security)
I am an ex-patriot (amercan living in Japan for the illeterate). One of the duties of a government is to provide and protect its people from all types of ills. Just because the US bows toward Redmaond three times a day does not mean the rest of the world needs to. Computing has become a necessity for life and as such should be made available to all-MS will not make it so, hence it becomes the governments duty to help its people. I applaud this action!
I remember being told when I was younger thatwhen you say you are doing your best its a lie.
Later on I remember hearing Loosers always cry about doing their best.
Fact:
Any OS that allows permission to a directory because a user has access rights to a file in the dir (even though they have no access permissions to that dir) will never be able to tell me that they are secure.
Fact2:
Contrary to popular belief MS is not the largest software developer IBM holds this distinction. MS is not even close last time I checked.
Fact3:
Until MS gets it through their head that total integration is the anthesis to security they will not clean up their mess.
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Seriously Linux was taking over, then Apple was taking over. I hardly ever see a serious game changing IDC prediction that pans out. Oddly enough back in 2000 and maybe earlier I heard execs from Sun saying the network is the computer. Cloud is just a few companies trying to claim this is a new idea rather than the latest push to let others own your data. To ensure it works they have spent the last 10 plus years convincing everyone that privacy is dead and not required.
Been seeing this guy make his rounds lately. Information Week seems pretty bent on anti-Linux FUD in recent years (or are they just hiring redmond-ites and assigning them to cover "the enemy"?
Hate to point out to you your poor geography skills but technically Pakistan is part of Asia (I live in Japan, which is also part of Asia) Back to the real point though most of our current "terrorist" in Iraq/Lebanon are of the same cloth as the American founding fathers (I may live in Japan but am an American, born and raised-even served, in the Gulf, in the Navy). George Washington was not born in the US in fact he was militarily trained and fought side by side with his enemy (sound familiar-looks just like most the Middle East). What does the Middle East want? Freedom, which it will never have with the US or a US puppet government installed. Also please note they do not hate Americans, they hate America and the opressions it imposses on them for it own self serving interest. I am appaled at the actions of Isreal (all out war on a country based on the actions of a religeous group) and find myself embarassed to be called an American.
So does this mean they still held the sun revolved around earth until 1992 :)
The judge basically is saying you are acting like kids so settle it like kids.
anyone who "doesn't contribute" but uses credit cards for purchases, store cards for the discounts, orders from Amazon is kidding themselves. Social sites have some information but the real value comes from Amazon and credit card comapnies.
Sounds like a thrill incease factor for the gamblers, they should say thanks.......
Just to make the article more appealing wikipedia list tpm as "the phantom menace" sound appropriate
To the earlier poster who compared writing code to airplane design. basically remember that airplane dynamics and stresses and struture is dictated on by a series of "specs" that were worked out by trail and error. When they found something they do not understand you typically see the wonderful "constant" which goes like first yo multiply this form by the factor of the weight and airpraesure and then forget all that and multiply by the this and magiccaly you are now in Oz. (honestly when I took calc II years ago my professor did that I said "huh" and got back a "trust me" response. (real good for a scientific understanding-no explanation-just trust me)
In truth building software to specs is almost worse than useless. design to Interfaces(YES), but when making interop software you cannot and should not rely on how another piece does its calcs just that it does its part and spits out a response (or does its part) if it returns a structure you should use the proper accessors to read the structures data as structures change from iteration to iteration. Linus is correct in that specs are wrong in fact after a few more iterative releases they usually are out of sync and cause more problems than they could have ever fixed. If programming was like an engineering project where we had a base set to use (dynamics of metals and properties of power systems) then great specs would be good, but in truth when getting past base libs we have very little of a solid unchanging base to base a spec on. hence why computer programming is less science and more "art of"
Java doesn't aalow multuple inheritance so how could c# come from Java/C++ and ECMAScript :)
Get real even if they manage to create some self aware organism you really cant have a MORAL problem with it. For you to have a moral problem with this implies you are involved otherwise you are forcing your moral view on others which incidentally is immoral (quite a predicament for you) Anyway the best part was when they mentioned "Human dignity". How dignified are we when elect drunks as our leaders? How dignified are we when the Person in charge of the US is "as moral" as the people he is kicking out of other countries. Human dignity has been on its death bed for as long as I have been alive.
And why should Europe be any different from the US
Sudamm insane hides his weapons of mass distruction. As no one can disprove it we get another unverifiable statement from 1600 Penn Ave. Nasa suddenly gets huge fund to "confirm" bushes claims :)
My money is because it is pre-sales of the new Harry Potter book (from the dumb enough to be true category)
come on its more a comedy than anything else
It was about a year ago after years of dragging out the case that it was proven the MS SQL 7 was stolen from or illegally used from another company MS response was "we will cover legal cost and suits up to the cost of the product" yeah MS really stand behind their work but the limit is as much as you paid to get it. So by those terms FLOSS is on equal grounds with MS support policy.
yes but the same bug introduced by the same programmer on two separate and individual (but similar) programs is very likely its a matter of mindset.
You may get off the hook for campaign contributions in some places but eventually it catches up to you.
So now tell me was it a joke or for real? The questions are pretty loaded and it is impossible to either avoid being a total windows bigot and answer truthfully. BTW I am an MCSE because my company needed one and none of the Windows admins could pass the test. (Yes MS many of your supporters are stone illeterate even in your own OS and come to us Lin admins as we actually read the RFCs and study.) Yes I also have RHCE, LPI and Sair LCA a CCNA and other so cut me a break on the (MCP, MCSA, MCSE) The test were actually funy and the only one that gave me a worry was the Designing AD =---=what a pain answer read a huge paragraph and then answer a question that is nothing more than an opinion and and there are two-to-three technically correct ways to do it listed. Anyway MS can have me back when 1-they drop the GUI requirement 2-drop IIS and use Apache. 3-change their licenses away from me being a crook to use my system the way I want (Guess I am with Linux for Life then :) )
If you do anything you WILL be sued is more like it. I am sure that the current system "encourages progress" after all some bonehead company patents a vague idea, then sits around for about 10 years watching everyone else using that idea and then sues for backpayment of all lost royalties. This (and US breaking international law showing Moron Hussein POW on TV) make me sad to admit being American
OKay so SCO stop using GPL software--oh thats right then you wouldn't have a product worth offering. (Samba and other unamerican pieces are key to their business) Also you are forgetting that the American paranoia that was so rampant during the 70's is largely going away as we are a GLOBAL comunity (Hey I am an American living in Japan) so that your America is best B.S. and shove it. your allusions to the MickeyMouse extension is drawing on one of the worst court decisions in recent history and one that needs to be overturned. McBride get a clue-give up and admit you messed up and you loose. The GPL is a copyright used to product us developers that prefer to work together rather than be locked by some corporate lackey (like yourself) into doing what you want. We want to be able to inovate (something we can't do under your system)
I was in the Navy from 91 to 95 and we used a program called SUADPS we used the computer to order the parts and arrange payment from our budget log to the supplies log (even tied into shore environs with the same system for ordering items) AT&Ts patent is BS. Prior art is all over the place.
I have customers that are using providers for hosting their web site (on Linux) and have been approached by the providers that the Linux servers are old (2.2.X kernels) as such they would like to bring them up to date--MS is giving software away to these providers providing they can convert to Windows--funny many of my customers I have talked to about security and cost and they told the provider either no way or switch to Windows and they leave for another provider. Windows just is not worth the cost to security)
I am an ex-patriot (amercan living in Japan for the illeterate). One of the duties of a government is to provide and protect its people from all types of ills. Just because the US bows toward Redmaond three times a day does not mean the rest of the world needs to. Computing has become a necessity for life and as such should be made available to all-MS will not make it so, hence it becomes the governments duty to help its people. I applaud this action!
I remember being told when I was younger thatwhen you say you are doing your best its a lie. Later on I remember hearing Loosers always cry about doing their best. Fact: Any OS that allows permission to a directory because a user has access rights to a file in the dir (even though they have no access permissions to that dir) will never be able to tell me that they are secure. Fact2: Contrary to popular belief MS is not the largest software developer IBM holds this distinction. MS is not even close last time I checked. Fact3: Until MS gets it through their head that total integration is the anthesis to security they will not clean up their mess.