Not so. He had to choose to die, to pay the price for all our sins so that we can know we have been forgiven and live with Him for eternity.
It's like someone who pushes you out of the way of a train, but dies in th process. They had a choice to do it, but if they love you they really have no choice. You killed them though because it was you who was standing in the path of the train, just as it is all of us that are facing hell for the sins we commit every day.
Yes the Jews and the Romans physically killed him, but it was ultimately His choice to die, and to that end we all killed him by failing to be perfect.
If you think this is about MS vs OSS I think you're wrong. The WTL has always been freely downloadable and freely distributable. The new thing here is having a public CVS and a forum direct to the lead developers.
The other thing to note of course is that there is already a much larger number of windows programmers than linux programmers. There must be, or else there would be more Linux software than windows software, and there is already a serious community at places like Code Project, DevX, Code Guru etc etc.
I really think that with the exception of real linux zealots, many part time OSS hackers are windows Dev's professionally. Certainly one of my fellow coders sitting not 10 feet from me is a professional windows dev, who is also a big noise in the tcl/tk community, and does plenty of both linux and windows OSS work in his spare time. Like it or not, many OSS projects have a Windows version that probably get used far more than the linux version. With that model, all MS has to do is wait until the project developers suddenly find that they spend more time getting the windows version right (because that is what people are using) than the linux one.
Actually that was his Billness personal donation, and as I understand it, they cant give the money away fast enough to avoid making more in interest than they can spend.
Verifying that projects are worthy of money, and ensuring that the money cannot be used for purposes other than that which was specified is a tough job, and takes a lot of administration.
I think the why is quite obvious. It is in the interests of microsoft to have people develop software for their OS, and if that means giving away free source code and wizards to help people do that then thats fine. Of course, most windows developers already have a copy of VS and thus ALT, WTL MFC etc. The major advantage to a software developer is being able to know that you have the latest, bug fixed version of this toolkit, and that we now have a clear route for submitting bug reports direct to the dev team.
Of course, WTL has never really been a product, so much as a development framework, and the licence has always been pretty open so thats not a really dramatic step, but unlike the Wix thing this is actually really useful and we've (my dev group) already learnt that there are fixes and changes in this version of WTL that we didn't know about, so thats pretty cool.
The BBC is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation (QUANGO). IIRC they are empowered by their royal charter to collect the licence fee, which in theory is the source of all tax raising powers in the UK. The board of governors are appointed by the government and are charged with serving the interests of the viewers, and maintaining editorial independence. On of their duties as laid out in the charter is to perform R+D in line with their overall obligations.
I hate having to actually spend time opening and reading it, and most of it is either junk, or demands for money (with menaces).
Worst of all the demands for money expect me to spend time using an arcaic device known as a "pen" to fill in some forms and then actually leave my house to send them my reply!!!
People arent buying typical PCs anymore from Typical OEMs like they were back then.
Really? Someone had better tell Dell, HP and IBM because I think they're still flogging them as fast as they can make them, and we wouldn't want to see them go out of business would we?
Simple answer is that an SMP opteron ('cos only 940 pin opterons work in SMP) would kick ass because they don't share memory bandwidth between processors. In fact available memory size and bandwidth scales linearly as you add processors and all available benchmarks show that overall performance scales at least twice as fast on Opteron systems as Xeon systems.
For a great aticle comparing SMP systems check out this article at Ace's Harware. I know that its not a BSD based comparison, but it should give you some idea.
Yes, give them everything they want. Once someone is pointing a gun at you the chances that you will be able to kill them first are pretty minimal, especially if you don't already have one on them.
what if you jump out of bed, interupt them and they start to run away? Can you shoot them in the back? I hope not or your laws consider property more important than human life.
I was talking about the UK. There is no "or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony" clause here and rightly so. IMHO human life is more important than ANY property right and so using potentially lethal force to protect property only is morally wrong.
There is a famous case here where a farmer shot 2 intruders with a shotgun, one of whom he killed, and was jailed for it. He claimed he fired in self defence but balistics proved that the one he killed was unarmed, and shot in the back from several feet away as he was trying to escape, and thus not a threat. The other was hit outside the house as he tried to escape across the fields.
There was a huge outcry and the more reactionary tabloid newspapers got on his side and the political opposition jumped on the bandwagon, but thankfully they've not managed to change the law yet.
almost right. You have a right to use reasonable force to defend yourself or others from harm. You do not have a right to use force to defend your property. You can attempt a citizens arrest and THEN use appropriate levels of force if they violently resist you, but if you kill someone who had broken into your house but was not threatening you then you might well face arrest.
The alternative, that intruders leave their rights at the door, is essentially that if someone breaks in, you have the right to torture them to death.
If you don't care if they don't find out then why should you care that they use Windows rather than Linux?
Personally I don't use Linux. It has nothing I need apart from some nice disk utils that I'd use about once every few months, and I really don't want to have to make choices about distros, text editors, sound systems, graphics layers, etc that I am in no position to make an informed decision about. Frankly I don't even care about the available choices enough to look into them a great deal.
Uninformed choice is not really a choice at all. It's russian roulette. In the end most of us just take advice from someone we trust, and are often so terrified of making the wrong decision we will leap on advice from anyone. This is how unscrupulous car dealers sell crap cars to the uninformed. Offer them a battery of useless options and then steer them towards the one with the biggest mark up.
Too lazy to think for myself? Sure! Why should I spend hours trying to decide what keyboard and mouse I'm going to buy if I was only going to use them for 10 minutes a day? Why should I have to choose a distro, a GUI, a text editor, a window manager, a file manager, a kernel, a firewall, an office suite, a browser, an email editor etc, just to spend a few hours a week browsing the internet and sending email?
I don't get it. On one hand you moan about microsoft being a monopoly and abusing it's IP, and on the other you defend Apple for trying to prevent a small company from making a GUI that is similar to an existing one. Had Apple won their look and feel lawsuit there would be no KDE or Gnome today. Hell there would probably be no linux at all. Apple, lest we forget, is a company that refuses to allow anyone to make comodity hardware that will run its OS's.
Personally I believe that if there had been no microsoft then the development of the PC as an essential part of modern living might never have happened. OK they might be somewhat over zealous and use dubious business methods, but what company doesn't. Let us also not forget that they could, if they so wished, use their position for rather more unpleasant things that just squashing the competition. Imagine what would happen if microsoft was owned by Rupert Murdoch for example *shiver*
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Not so. He had to choose to die, to pay the price for all our sins so that we can know we have been forgiven and live with Him for eternity.
It's like someone who pushes you out of the way of a train, but dies in th process. They had a choice to do it, but if they love you they really have no choice. You killed them though because it was you who was standing in the path of the train, just as it is all of us that are facing hell for the sins we commit every day.
What if they have independently developed (been given) a similar belief system to ours?
That would be pretty spectacular.
Yes the Jews and the Romans physically killed him, but it was ultimately His choice to die, and to that end we all killed him by failing to be perfect.
Can you really evangelize as an AC? Now there's a moral question.
If you think this is about MS vs OSS I think you're wrong. The WTL has always been freely downloadable and freely distributable. The new thing here is having a public CVS and a forum direct to the lead developers.
The other thing to note of course is that there is already a much larger number of windows programmers than linux programmers. There must be, or else there would be more Linux software than windows software, and there is already a serious community at places like Code Project, DevX, Code Guru etc etc.
I really think that with the exception of real linux zealots, many part time OSS hackers are windows Dev's professionally. Certainly one of my fellow coders sitting not 10 feet from me is a professional windows dev, who is also a big noise in the tcl/tk community, and does plenty of both linux and windows OSS work in his spare time. Like it or not, many OSS projects have a Windows version that probably get used far more than the linux version. With that model, all MS has to do is wait until the project developers suddenly find that they spend more time getting the windows version right (because that is what people are using) than the linux one.
it's pure win32. It's the same thing WTL has always been. A cool, lightweight version of MFC with no dependencies.
Actually that was his Billness personal donation, and as I understand it, they cant give the money away fast enough to avoid making more in interest than they can spend.
Verifying that projects are worthy of money, and ensuring that the money cannot be used for purposes other than that which was specified is a tough job, and takes a lot of administration.
I think the why is quite obvious. It is in the interests of microsoft to have people develop software for their OS, and if that means giving away free source code and wizards to help people do that then thats fine. Of course, most windows developers already have a copy of VS and thus ALT, WTL MFC etc. The major advantage to a software developer is being able to know that you have the latest, bug fixed version of this toolkit, and that we now have a clear route for submitting bug reports direct to the dev team.
Of course, WTL has never really been a product, so much as a development framework, and the licence has always been pretty open so thats not a really dramatic step, but unlike the Wix thing this is actually really useful and we've (my dev group) already learnt that there are fixes and changes in this version of WTL that we didn't know about, so thats pretty cool.
Kudos to Microsoft on this one I think.
The BBC is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation (QUANGO). IIRC they are empowered by their royal charter to collect the licence fee, which in theory is the source of all tax raising powers in the UK. The board of governors are appointed by the government and are charged with serving the interests of the viewers, and maintaining editorial independence. On of their duties as laid out in the charter is to perform R+D in line with their overall obligations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/charter/
Snail mail must die!!!
I hate having to actually spend time opening and reading it, and most of it is either junk, or demands for money (with menaces).
Worst of all the demands for money expect me to spend time using an arcaic device known as a "pen" to fill in some forms and then actually leave my house to send them my reply!!!
Damn it all to hell I say.
it's currently approaching 100 million!!
Really? Someone had better tell Dell, HP and IBM because I think they're still flogging them as fast as they can make them, and we wouldn't want to see them go out of business would we?
Oh we would? My bad.
I want to know the fave chocky bar of whoever manages the payrole where I work.
several security researchers, clearly.
Do what they did in the middle ages. Just open the window and shit into the street. With a bit of luck Bill Gates might be walking past.
Simple answer is that an SMP opteron ('cos only 940 pin opterons work in SMP) would kick ass because they don't share memory bandwidth between processors. In fact available memory size and bandwidth scales linearly as you add processors and all available benchmarks show that overall performance scales at least twice as fast on Opteron systems as Xeon systems.
For a great aticle comparing SMP systems check out this article at Ace's Harware. I know that its not a BSD based comparison, but it should give you some idea.
That would make sense if I had ever seen my Grandma playing Quake III, but I haven't so it doesn't.
I've got to say it. You're new here aren't you?
Yes, give them everything they want. Once someone is pointing a gun at you the chances that you will be able to kill them first are pretty minimal, especially if you don't already have one on them.
You'll be sure to tell those comforting words to the guys starving widow and children won't you.
I'm sorry but I find you views on the price of a human life, regardless of who they are or what they are doing absolutely disgusting.
what if you jump out of bed, interupt them and they start to run away? Can you shoot them in the back? I hope not or your laws consider property more important than human life.
I was talking about the UK. There is no "or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony" clause here and rightly so. IMHO human life is more important than ANY property right and so using potentially lethal force to protect property only is morally wrong.
There is a famous case here where a farmer shot 2 intruders with a shotgun, one of whom he killed, and was jailed for it. He claimed he fired in self defence but balistics proved that the one he killed was unarmed, and shot in the back from several feet away as he was trying to escape, and thus not a threat. The other was hit outside the house as he tried to escape across the fields.
There was a huge outcry and the more reactionary tabloid newspapers got on his side and the political opposition jumped on the bandwagon, but thankfully they've not managed to change the law yet.
almost right. You have a right to use reasonable force to defend yourself or others from harm. You do not have a right to use force to defend your property. You can attempt a citizens arrest and THEN use appropriate levels of force if they violently resist you, but if you kill someone who had broken into your house but was not threatening you then you might well face arrest.
The alternative, that intruders leave their rights at the door, is essentially that if someone breaks in, you have the right to torture them to death.
If you don't care if they don't find out then why should you care that they use Windows rather than Linux?
Personally I don't use Linux. It has nothing I need apart from some nice disk utils that I'd use about once every few months, and I really don't want to have to make choices about distros, text editors, sound systems, graphics layers, etc that I am in no position to make an informed decision about. Frankly I don't even care about the available choices enough to look into them a great deal.
Uninformed choice is not really a choice at all. It's russian roulette. In the end most of us just take advice from someone we trust, and are often so terrified of making the wrong decision we will leap on advice from anyone. This is how unscrupulous car dealers sell crap cars to the uninformed. Offer them a battery of useless options and then steer them towards the one with the biggest mark up.
Too lazy to think for myself? Sure! Why should I spend hours trying to decide what keyboard and mouse I'm going to buy if I was only going to use them for 10 minutes a day? Why should I have to choose a distro, a GUI, a text editor, a window manager, a file manager, a kernel, a firewall, an office suite, a browser, an email editor etc, just to spend a few hours a week browsing the internet and sending email?
I don't get it. On one hand you moan about microsoft being a monopoly and abusing it's IP, and on the other you defend Apple for trying to prevent a small company from making a GUI that is similar to an existing one. Had Apple won their look and feel lawsuit there would be no KDE or Gnome today. Hell there would probably be no linux at all. Apple, lest we forget, is a company that refuses to allow anyone to make comodity hardware that will run its OS's.
Personally I believe that if there had been no microsoft then the development of the PC as an essential part of modern living might never have happened. OK they might be somewhat over zealous and use dubious business methods, but what company doesn't. Let us also not forget that they could, if they so wished, use their position for rather more unpleasant things that just squashing the competition. Imagine what would happen if microsoft was owned by Rupert Murdoch for example *shiver*