Great post. The (rather mundane) truth is that Java is so hugely successful because its syntax was designed to be comfortable for C/C++ programmers. Language transitions tend to be painful and it was a smart strategy, though it burdened Java with kind of a clunky syntax.
Sun shipped with NeWS. NeXT shipped with Display Postscript. SGI shipped with MEX and later 4Sight. I guess none of these were "proper" Unixes in your godlike eyes - someone better alert The Open Group.
Wayland reuses X's drivers. It can also host X with a negligible performance loss.
All in all, this is a great thing for desktop Linux, which needs all the help it can get. With commercial vendors rallying around Qt, which already has good Wayland support, the future looks hopeful.
Are you some kind of junior sysadmin? A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
There's enough legacy enterprise Java deployed now to keep every Java programmer busy for the next twenty years in maintenance alone, without another new line being written. It's the new COBOL.
Are you a programmer, by the way? I mean one who writes code for a living, not because they're in school or in their spare time or whatever.
No, purchasing smaller companies for their dev staff has been a strategy for larger companies from day one. That's why they'll even buy consulting firms who have no products at all, just a talented bunch of analysts and programmers.
To be honest, you sound like you made up your entire argument on the spot. Trust me, if you offer a lot of stock options which mature over a period of years, then people stick around.
2. Qt contains far more than just gui code, and many of the underlying KDE libs would fit in well. I've seen MIME handling mentioned as just one example.
Actually, MS is huge in the server market. There are certainly more Windows servers in existence than ones running Linux, for example. Put simply, there are no credible replacements for Exchange, Sitepoint, Active Directory, etc., which is unfortunate.
Fully agree. That said, you just have to pick your games: Assassin's Creed 2, Red Dead Redemption, GTA4 and many others offer extensive single player content. I love stuff like the Modern Warfare games, but I make sure to buy them used and cheap.
Sad that this guy was modded down. He is 100% right, and anyone who thinks otherwise knows nothing about the history of Russia and Finland, or about the Muslim immigrant situation there (summary: not good).
Eh, that's a lot of toasters to use up 3.4*10^38 addresses. If a toaster takes up a square metre (big toaster), you'd have to stack them ten billion high over every single metre of the Earth to use them up.
I wonder what happened to some of the guys who wrote articles in the magazines I devoured in my youth - David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, or Jim Butterworth of The Transactor fame. I think JB is dead, actually.
I was digging around at my parents' place and I found several years' worth of Transactors, most of them in good shape. I also have a copy of the Complete C64 Inner Space Anthology somewhere - I wonder what the eBay-ability of these things are.
Sorry, I totally misunderstood - I thought you were implying that MS in the '80s was not what he described, when in fact it was just that. My apologies.
However, having contributed to lots of projects from Gentoo to Debian to Asterisk, I will say that not only did I not know any of my fellow contributors other than by the occasional email conversation, I have no idea what they even looked like. The atmosphere of early MS was like a startup - a very close atmosphere that builds some pretty intense relationships, nothing like open source in my opinion.
Yes Apple, the same company that runs this site: http://www.opensource.apple.com/ They are big contributors and users of open source.
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fanotify seems interesting because it allows you to watch for arbitrary events on a global basis without specifying which file descriptors you want to watch. It seems to pass the actual file descriptor back to the original object. You read events via getsockopt().
So, for example, it's very easy to say "notify me of all file open events", for example.
You can also do the opposite of a global watch, of course, and have it watch for specific file events, much like inotify.
As I understand it, fanotify came about because of vendor demand for an efficient, non-hackish way to watch for arbitrary filesystem events without ever specifying precise files, paths, etc. An example would be malware vendors.
Actually, all the relevant particulars of Flash are openly available (see Adobe's Open Screen project). The big exception is Sorenson Spark, but that's already available via ffmpeg. Basically, Gnash just isn't there yet.
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Great post. The (rather mundane) truth is that Java is so hugely successful because its syntax was designed to be comfortable for C/C++ programmers. Language transitions tend to be painful and it was a smart strategy, though it burdened Java with kind of a clunky syntax.
Sun shipped with NeWS. NeXT shipped with Display Postscript. SGI shipped with MEX and later 4Sight. I guess none of these were "proper" Unixes in your godlike eyes - someone better alert The Open Group.
Wayland reuses X's drivers. It can also host X with a negligible performance loss.
All in all, this is a great thing for desktop Linux, which needs all the help it can get. With commercial vendors rallying around Qt, which already has good Wayland support, the future looks hopeful.
Are you some kind of junior sysadmin? A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
I completely agree with the concept of teaching on very basic machines where students can learn everything.
This is pretty much the ultimate "get off my lawn" post.
There's enough legacy enterprise Java deployed now to keep every Java programmer busy for the next twenty years in maintenance alone, without another new line being written. It's the new COBOL.
Are you a programmer, by the way? I mean one who writes code for a living, not because they're in school or in their spare time or whatever.
No, purchasing smaller companies for their dev staff has been a strategy for larger companies from day one. That's why they'll even buy consulting firms who have no products at all, just a talented bunch of analysts and programmers.
To be honest, you sound like you made up your entire argument on the spot. Trust me, if you offer a lot of stock options which mature over a period of years, then people stick around.
1. It's Qt, not QT.
2. Qt contains far more than just gui code, and many of the underlying KDE libs would fit in well. I've seen MIME handling mentioned as just one example.
Yours is probably the best post I've read in a month.
Actually, MS is huge in the server market. There are certainly more Windows servers in existence than ones running Linux, for example. Put simply, there are no credible replacements for Exchange, Sitepoint, Active Directory, etc., which is unfortunate.
Certainly nothing in the US. Note that to the outside world, the D and R parties seem indistinguishable.
Fully agree. That said, you just have to pick your games: Assassin's Creed 2, Red Dead Redemption, GTA4 and many others offer extensive single player content. I love stuff like the Modern Warfare games, but I make sure to buy them used and cheap.
Who cares? It's today that counts. And as of today, Islam is about as compatible with the West as Android is with the iPhone App Store.
Sad that this guy was modded down. He is 100% right, and anyone who thinks otherwise knows nothing about the history of Russia and Finland, or about the Muslim immigrant situation there (summary: not good).
This would be so sweet and such a logical thing to have happen. I guess that means it never will.
Eh, that's a lot of toasters to use up 3.4*10^38 addresses. If a toaster takes up a square metre (big toaster), you'd have to stack them ten billion high over every single metre of the Earth to use them up.
I wonder what happened to some of the guys who wrote articles in the magazines I devoured in my youth - David Ahl, founder of Creative Computing, or Jim Butterworth of The Transactor fame. I think JB is dead, actually.
I was digging around at my parents' place and I found several years' worth of Transactors, most of them in good shape. I also have a copy of the Complete C64 Inner Space Anthology somewhere - I wonder what the eBay-ability of these things are.
Why the heck don't people like you post more often? I love hearing this stuff.
Sorry, I totally misunderstood - I thought you were implying that MS in the '80s was not what he described, when in fact it was just that. My apologies.
However, having contributed to lots of projects from Gentoo to Debian to Asterisk, I will say that not only did I not know any of my fellow contributors other than by the occasional email conversation, I have no idea what they even looked like. The atmosphere of early MS was like a startup - a very close atmosphere that builds some pretty intense relationships, nothing like open source in my opinion.
I guess you were working at MS back in the '80s to make such a comparison. Can you share any other gems from that era with us?
Er, "for example...for example". Great proofreading there. And I meant ANTI-malware vendors, of course...
Fair enough. I was responding in the context of open/close source code, not openness as an abstract concept.
Yes Apple, the same company that runs this site: http://www.opensource.apple.com/ They are big contributors and users of open source.
fanotify seems interesting because it allows you to watch for arbitrary events on a global basis without specifying which file descriptors you want to watch. It seems to pass the actual file descriptor back to the original object. You read events via getsockopt().
So, for example, it's very easy to say "notify me of all file open events", for example.
You can also do the opposite of a global watch, of course, and have it watch for specific file events, much like inotify.
As I understand it, fanotify came about because of vendor demand for an efficient, non-hackish way to watch for arbitrary filesystem events without ever specifying precise files, paths, etc. An example would be malware vendors.
Actually, all the relevant particulars of Flash are openly available (see Adobe's Open Screen project). The big exception is Sorenson Spark, but that's already available via ffmpeg. Basically, Gnash just isn't there yet.
You can always tell the people that don't work in "the biz" when they make comments like the parent's.