Absolutely! We're just standing around and doing nothing. The United States and other countries everywhere need to help out our good friends down under!
They'd do the same for us. We need an international effort to kick some sense in the Australian legislature.
I'd roll out a program like that, no problem. The lawyer development team at Unisys would love it too. You'd have to appeal for a little license from Unisys and do you think the we-screw-everyone-who-makes-money patent lawyers at Unisys would actually license a prank like that?
It would have be to be done outside the US. Of course, it would be apropriate to add unisys to that server's hosts.deny - hec, I'll add that to my system anyway!
Yeah, it's fast, on databases the size billg's "little black book." But for real databases of actual size, MySQL really starts to cough. Postgres handles larger data without loosing speed, up to 400 gigs I understand. MySQL? 400 megs MAYBE...
Persuasive. It's better than Mac and Windows. That says very little. Being the best doesn't mean there is no room for improvement. X is ugly in several respects:
Doesn't thread
Fonts unscalable. (Yes, I know about the TrueType servers
Better high tail it outa here, reformat that nonstandard ext2 partition with that odd non-standard Linux kernel. It's not standard. UNIX is the standard, and it's a GOOD standard. Who needs Linux when we have UNIX, which is the superior standard.
Understand the reasoning behind the standard. Standards are good, but need to be well-thought-out, not blindly adhered to.
Let's not make our decisions based on competing with anyone else. That is the Unix way, the Be way, the Windows way. Linux is above that. Do what's technically superior.
Rushing to develop because of competition is VERY BAD THING. Any PHB's are sure to endorce rushing development: that's proof. Do what's technically best, not what is best for Red Hat's marketing drones.
Gnome is a perfect example. EXCELLENT PROJECT. But what is 1.0 should have been 0.1. Be patient. It might be a few years before we have everything together. Maybe GNUstep running on Berlin?
The web is just plain gross. HTML is horrific. Writing CGI software is inefficient, tramatic, and very limiting. The web as we know it is very contemporary. It's a way to exchange documents, nothing more. When XML rolls through, the web will be a little better. Still, it is only a tool for publishing documents.
I really don't understand this recent fad with making user interfaces like web browsers. This a bad idea. No, HTML should not be inside a GUI or even mentioned. Bundling a web browser inside a desktop is very unscientific. Remember every program does one thing and does it well? That was a good idea. A file manager is not a web browser is not a word processor is not a mail reader.
That is a very valid question. What Christians don't get is that just because you can find a good question for Darwinism doesn't mean that there is the totally impossible is true: supernaturalism.
That's a good question. Why don't you actually ask a biologist? I'm sure there's good answer.
It strikes me as both erie and a little amusing that I honestly can't tell whether that comment was just a joke or a serious chirstian!! Given that this is slashdot, I'm going with joke. Anyone sure?
Okay, I think we all interpreted the reports correctly. This isn't news.
What I think you are ignoring is that this is really something that should be taught. Of all the things that are of little consequence that are regardless in high school (PE, health clas, etc) and are required, why drop this one?
The theory of evolution is possibly the most important theory ever. Of all the things to drop requirements on!!
Maybe it's different in Canada, but in the US, most federal money promised for Education doesn't get there. When our feds promise something to education, it doesn't just come floating down the ranks to schools - if it did, our schools would be wealthy enough! After about 50% in administration drain (this is the fed; 50% efficiency is quiet high for it), the money that does come is on some condition, some requisite.
When a high school, for example, wants federal funding, they have to jump through loops and red tape to get it. The fed will allocate say ten million dollars for new English books - for example. The schools will have to remake their whole English programs to adapt to Federal regulation.
For these two reasons, the money will not actually get there. I would rather spend that few hundred dollars a year (I order a lot over the web) on my own education - buying books from fatbrain.com. Spend more on education? that's MY poragative, and for MY education.
It was a marketing move, indeed, but I don't think it to be one as you portray it. This is AOL; they market; they send out millions of coasters.
The objective of a marketing agency is to promote and distribute products. Not merging two competing products allows them to simply corner a market - the instant messaging market. It's a leverage decision. When the time comes, they will be able to push either one by eliminating the other, and not risk competition - if they keep buying out instant messages.
I think AOL does plan to phase out ICQ - that is pretty clear. The decision to put AIM in communicator and not ICQ shows you that much, as well as the bloating of ICQ. Eventually, they'll force everyone (well, instant message users anyway) over to AIM.
Is this really a good thing? Probably not. I don't think it will be too harmful after all. Instant messaging systems like ICQ and AIM are already going out of style -- they are FAD programs - like doublespace and stacker were. They aren't useful, so eventually they will fade away. Hopefully, AOL will too.
I don't think of it like that. As an owner of a Voodoo3 card (if I knew 3dfx was going to be like this, I wouldn't have purchased the card), I have a few comments.
First of all. "Win32 native games" having a majority in Direct3D doesn't constitute winning a market. The 3d acceloration market extends beyond games, and certainly beyond Windows.
Consider CAD and modelling software. Most CAD software is either in Unix/X or Windows NT, and almost none of it uses Direct3D. The high-end CAD software is fairly consistantly OpenGL-based, Windows CAD software included. Go find a few modellers for ray tracing: OpenGL.
In short, there's more to life than fun and games, and there is certainly more to life than Windows programs.
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They'd do the same for us. We need an international effort to kick some sense in the Australian legislature.
It would have be to be done outside the US. Of course, it would be apropriate to add unisys to that server's hosts.deny - hec, I'll add that to my system anyway!
Yeah, it's fast, on databases the size billg's "little black book." But for real databases of actual size, MySQL really starts to cough. Postgres handles larger data without loosing speed, up to 400 gigs I understand. MySQL? 400 megs MAYBE...
*cough* Postgres has always been free and is waaay better.
Berlin and Y are both better. Why not use them?
Understand the reasoning behind the standard. Standards are good, but need to be well-thought-out, not blindly adhered to.
Rushing to develop because of competition is VERY BAD THING. Any PHB's are sure to endorce rushing development: that's proof. Do what's technically best, not what is best for Red Hat's marketing drones.
Gnome is a perfect example. EXCELLENT PROJECT. But what is 1.0 should have been 0.1. Be patient. It might be a few years before we have everything together. Maybe GNUstep running on Berlin?
Too late. The Y Windowing System already exists. It's like X only better.
I really don't understand this recent fad with making user interfaces like web browsers. This a bad idea. No, HTML should not be inside a GUI or even mentioned. Bundling a web browser inside a desktop is very unscientific. Remember every program does one thing and does it well? That was a good idea. A file manager is not a web browser is not a word processor is not a mail reader.
Programs are not documents either.
That's a good question. Why don't you actually ask a biologist? I'm sure there's good answer.
It strikes me as both erie and a little amusing that I honestly can't tell whether that comment was just a joke or a serious chirstian!! Given that this is slashdot, I'm going with joke. Anyone sure?
What I think you are ignoring is that this is really something that should be taught. Of all the things that are of little consequence that are regardless in high school (PE, health clas, etc) and are required, why drop this one?
The theory of evolution is possibly the most important theory ever. Of all the things to drop requirements on!!
When a high school, for example, wants federal funding, they have to jump through loops and red tape to get it. The fed will allocate say ten million dollars for new English books - for example. The schools will have to remake their whole English programs to adapt to Federal regulation.
For these two reasons, the money will not actually get there. I would rather spend that few hundred dollars a year (I order a lot over the web) on my own education - buying books from fatbrain.com. Spend more on education? that's MY poragative, and for MY education.
Down with new taxes.
The objective of a marketing agency is to promote and distribute products. Not merging two competing products allows them to simply corner a market - the instant messaging market. It's a leverage decision. When the time comes, they will be able to push either one by eliminating the other, and not risk competition - if they keep buying out instant messages.
I think AOL does plan to phase out ICQ - that is pretty clear. The decision to put AIM in communicator and not ICQ shows you that much, as well as the bloating of ICQ. Eventually, they'll force everyone (well, instant message users anyway) over to AIM.
Is this really a good thing? Probably not. I don't think it will be too harmful after all. Instant messaging systems like ICQ and AIM are already going out of style -- they are FAD programs - like doublespace and stacker were. They aren't useful, so eventually they will fade away. Hopefully, AOL will too.
First of all. "Win32 native games" having a majority in Direct3D doesn't constitute winning a market. The 3d acceloration market extends beyond games, and certainly beyond Windows.
Consider CAD and modelling software. Most CAD software is either in Unix/X or Windows NT, and almost none of it uses Direct3D. The high-end CAD software is fairly consistantly OpenGL-based, Windows CAD software included. Go find a few modellers for ray tracing: OpenGL.
In short, there's more to life than fun and games, and there is certainly more to life than Windows programs.