"...because C# is one higher than C. There are doubtless other reasons a bunch of soulless marketing trolls thought this was clever."
Yeah but C# is part of a totally different framework, and(i'm trolling here) shouldn't have anything to do with C.
It seems more of a marketing buzzword to add psychological connotations of C(fast,efficient not bloated like Java) to their new language. And moreso, it is designed by a company who seeks "one language to rule them all, one language to bind them to their OS".
It is but the final piece(along with Pallidium) of the Great Pyramid of Microsoft.
Will this be an election issue? Would this help or hinder the incumbent in the next election? Is it possible that the DA is doing this out of principle, at least to some extent?
Just maybe this is their vengence because they're jealous M$ gave more money to other states than to Massucusetts.
It's like everyone else got $100 bucks, but you only got $50. Of course you'd be pissed. Even though I'm trolling with this argument, I do firmly believe one thing: anyone in power or authority is going to do whatever it takes to better themselves. Similar to the gold rush, "to each his own".
Before shutting down my hotmail account, I was getting an average of 20 spam emails a day with the highest level of spam protection(I had another 20 spams in my junk box). It's like getting mail bombed, 'cause you only have 2megs with hotmail.
But the best way to eliminate spam? Don't ever use your email address to fill any form on the internet for some company located in china. I have two other email accounts and get virtually nill spam. I have only been recently getting spam on my yahoo account(1.5 spam every 2 days), but that's because I said "fuck it, I need to dl this software and I need to get the serial emailed to me".
Sure emusic will let you have "unfettered" access to MP3s and what not, but if you're an artist read further:
EMusic has digital distribution contracts with over 650 independent labels. Because we focus on labels, we are very busy. We do not offer deals with unsigned artists.
So why isn't RIAA hounding emusic? Why aren't they flaming emusic down 'cause they don't have no DRM'ed tech? Could it possibly be that emusic business model protects their "interests"?
You just need to write an obfuscator then, something that takes the inhouse code and changes variable names and adds bogus modules and subroutines.
I know developers who do this part without really trying that hard...
Heck, I know a whole bunch of CS students who are experts at this stuff. It comes in handy when an 'assignment due date' is coming up and have the challenge of taking a working assignment and obfuscating it enough so that TAs won't know the difference between Joey's and Mark's assignments:)
Or push expensive extended warranties onto people using scare tactics like telling the customer how unreliable the item they've decided to buy is (just after telling them how reliable it is in order to get them to buy it). Or force their staff to describe extended warranty schemes to every customer, even if the customer says they're not interested, on pain of losing their job if they don't.
Extended warranties is PURE profit. My brother works as Staples(Business Depot for you Canadian musketeers), and the incentive is to get AS MANY ext. warranties you can milk.
Anyways, extended warranty is useful for things designed to break down in one year(i.e. Laptop), but pointless for other things. But did I ever tell you the people at radio shack are fscking idiots when it comes to ext. warranties? Those losers tried to _force_ me to get ext. warranties on a pair of $40 dollar speakers--get this--for $20 bucks!! The damn mothing-fscking shit head, I think I told them "NO" 20 times! I can get ext. warranty on a $200 video card for $20 bucks, yet these "we have questions, and you have to say yes" dorks wanna make me buy ext. warranty that costs 50% of the actual product!
I'll use as an example Prohibition of Alcohol in the USA. It was a big boost to Organized Crime.
[rant on] I don't give a fuck if the RIAA is on an "angelic" mission to stop file sharing, but don't tell me prohibition of alcohol is a bad thing and brings more problems than intended.
Prohibiting alcohol reduced a lot of crime rates, especially rape. If doing anything reduces homicides, rapes, etc. it's a very good thing not a bad one. It was only deemed "pointless" because the "guys in suits" didn't like losing tax on alcohol breverages.
Last thing anyone wants is for their mother or sister to get rapped, because alcohol zapped their brain and made them into sex drones.
And for all the fucks who are going to reply and say, "they should drink responsibly", here is my response: Give some booze to 10 people, 9 people will become regular drinkers, 1 will just drink casually. It's the same with drugs or smoking. You can't "take drugs responsibly" or "smoke responsibly"(the terms are like oxymorons).
"Unless the.GNU project aims to bring ActiveX functionality over to *NIX, and port all of the cool ActiveX objects like ADO (Database), DOM (XML), System.DirectoryServices (LDAP), FSO (Files), etc."
That's why I don't know why people are embracing.net for other non-windows platforms. If you need a language to be dependant on vendor specific libraries that are difficult to implement, is your language really portable? Now I admit I'm speaking out of my ass right now(I don't really know the specific libraries), but I hear the.net interfacing with Window systems will be difficult(from Mono).
Maybe someone could pull my head out of me ass, and tell me honestly why a developer would want to write a.net program in Linux.
"If it is a success, now that's a whole different question. I guess people prefer not having to reboot their phones."
You think a phone that reboots is bad? Well, our home's natural gas water heater needs a 'reboot' everytime the pilot flame goes out.
I mean, we tell the technician, "how come it goes out[the flame]?". He just shrugs and says, "pull the plug, and put in back in. That should fix it."
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO??? IS REBOOTING THE ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS? WHY CAN"T HUMANS REBOOT THEMSELVES IN THE MORNING!! I SAY THIS: MICROSOFT: YOUR REBOOT SYNDROME IS CREEPING INTO THE REGULAR LIFE!
Pico is refuge for those students afraid of vi and emacs. Emacs requires finger-twisting multi-button action to operate, while vi requires a reboot because clueless users don't know why vi doesn't respond to any input:)
Of course, with the advent of samba, Notepad.exe is the successor of pico. Who would use Notepad to write a program, then compile it with gcc under *NIXes?
But pico's most important invention: it allows interoptability between Windows and Unices, simply because it converts all the CR/LFs to CRs.
Before you demand a country to make a switch, why not ask your friendly slashdot users? As much as this site is pro-(Linux|MAC|*NIX|BeOS), there are a significant number of Windows users(according to the recent windows poll even though "thou shalt not use poll to due anything serious").
Now if you can't get your slash buddies to convert, how the hell are you going to get the gov't, companies, organization, etc. to convert? I mean you can go from step 1 to step 4, without doing steps 2 and 3.
My idea of Mr. Robertson is that he's looking for the quick buck, i.e. he's more interested in signing contracts with companies to provide Lindows-based PCs. Especially to the companies who don't want to sell OS-less computers because M$ assumes they are supporting piracy...
All that stuff about "Lindows is like Windows", "can run all your Windows apps", "runs Office", "is easy to use", "one-click software purchase" is all marketing BULLSHIT Robertson needs to promote his ideas. It was nothing more than a fucking hype machine with very bad execution.
I don't even think he gives a shit about the desktop, other than showing nice themes with a simple menu layout.
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The Great Pyramid of Microsoft has completed?
"...because C# is one higher than C. There are doubtless other reasons a bunch of soulless marketing trolls thought this was clever."
Yeah but C# is part of a totally different framework, and(i'm trolling here) shouldn't have anything to do with C.
It seems more of a marketing buzzword to add psychological connotations of C(fast,efficient not bloated like Java) to their new language. And moreso, it is designed by a company who seeks "one language to rule them all, one language to bind them to their OS".
It is but the final piece(along with Pallidium) of the Great Pyramid of Microsoft.
Will this be an election issue? Would this help or hinder the incumbent in the next election? Is it possible that the DA is doing this out of principle, at least to some extent?
Just maybe this is their vengence because they're jealous M$ gave more money to other states than to Massucusetts.
It's like everyone else got $100 bucks, but you only got $50. Of course you'd be pissed. Even though I'm trolling with this argument, I do firmly believe one thing: anyone in power or authority is going to do whatever it takes to better themselves. Similar to the gold rush, "to each his own".
Oh you mean UML version, we'll check out UML page on sourceforge.
If I have software called Linux Commander, do you really think its part of the kernel?
Yes, because you didn't call it GNU/Linux Commander.
Dimmwit:)
According to the Jargon File [tuxedo.org], it was so named because it was the successor of an earlier window system called "W".
In the beginning there was 'B', then came from it 'C'. Followed by C++, which is technically 'D'(stemming from the ++ operator).
Unfortunately an infidel has broken the 'ye olde code of law' and mistified everyone with C#. How does C# follow? Is it from C? or is it from C++?
Rather, the infidel has created a bastard language after sipping some java!
Before shutting down my hotmail account, I was getting an average of 20 spam emails a day with the highest level of spam protection(I had another 20 spams in my junk box). It's like getting mail bombed, 'cause you only have 2megs with hotmail.
But the best way to eliminate spam? Don't ever use your email address to fill any form on the internet for some company located in china. I have two other email accounts and get virtually nill spam. I have only been recently getting spam on my yahoo account(1.5 spam every 2 days), but that's because I said "fuck it, I need to dl this software and I need to get the serial emailed to me".
This would be the Henry Ford definition of choice then? "You can choose any supplier you like, so long as it's us."
Funny thing, monoplies ensure that you don't get any other supplier, so the choice because trivial.
a DoS attack would sound like a bomb, right?
"Captain, we're hit!"
Or how about...
PISM..Phoenix Is Not Mozilla
It has a nice pissy ring to it too.
Informative.
Voxels?
Sure emusic will let you have "unfettered" access to MP3s and what not, but if you're an artist read further:
EMusic has digital distribution contracts with over 650 independent labels. Because we focus on labels, we are very busy. We do not offer deals with unsigned artists.
So why isn't RIAA hounding emusic? Why aren't they flaming emusic down 'cause they don't have no DRM'ed tech? Could it possibly be that emusic business model protects their "interests"?
You just need to write an obfuscator then, something that takes the inhouse code and changes variable names and adds bogus modules and subroutines.
I know developers who do this part without really trying that hard...
Heck, I know a whole bunch of CS students who are experts at this stuff. It comes in handy when an 'assignment due date' is coming up and have the challenge of taking a working assignment and obfuscating it enough so that TAs won't know the difference between Joey's and Mark's assignments:)
Or push expensive extended warranties onto people using scare tactics like telling the customer how unreliable the item they've decided to buy is (just after telling them how reliable it is in order to get them to buy it). Or force their staff to describe extended warranty schemes to every customer, even if the customer says they're not interested, on pain of losing their job if they don't.
Extended warranties is PURE profit. My brother works as Staples(Business Depot for you Canadian musketeers), and the incentive is to get AS MANY ext. warranties you can milk.
Anyways, extended warranty is useful for things designed to break down in one year(i.e. Laptop), but pointless for other things. But did I ever tell you the people at radio shack are fscking idiots when it comes to ext. warranties? Those losers tried to _force_ me to get ext. warranties on a pair of $40 dollar speakers--get this--for $20 bucks!! The damn mothing-fscking shit head, I think I told them "NO" 20 times! I can get ext. warranty on a $200 video card for $20 bucks, yet these "we have questions, and you have to say yes" dorks wanna make me buy ext. warranty that costs 50% of the actual product!
Yeah, I got flamebaited and you seem very intelligent.
First you don't give any valid critiscm(aside from calling me a troll), and secondly you're a cowardly AC who can't put his/her name to their post.
What is slashdot coming to? Moderators who mod down people because they don't like my opinion, who can't reply for chicken shit?
Yeah, if media puts a spotlight on anything, public awareness grows to the effect of the matter being very close to them.
I'll use as an example Prohibition of Alcohol in the USA. It was a big boost to Organized Crime.
[rant on]
I don't give a fuck if the RIAA is on an "angelic" mission to stop file sharing, but don't tell me prohibition of alcohol is a bad thing and brings more problems than intended.
Prohibiting alcohol reduced a lot of crime rates, especially rape. If doing anything reduces homicides, rapes, etc. it's a very good thing not a bad one. It was only deemed "pointless" because the "guys in suits" didn't like losing tax on alcohol breverages.
Last thing anyone wants is for their mother or sister to get rapped, because alcohol zapped their brain and made them into sex drones.
And for all the fucks who are going to reply and say, "they should drink responsibly", here is my response: Give some booze to 10 people, 9 people will become regular drinkers, 1 will just drink casually. It's the same with drugs or smoking. You can't "take drugs responsibly" or "smoke responsibly"(the terms are like oxymorons).
[rant off]
"Unless the .GNU project aims to bring ActiveX functionality over to *NIX, and port all of the cool ActiveX objects like ADO (Database), DOM (XML), System.DirectoryServices (LDAP), FSO (Files), etc."
.net for other non-windows platforms. If you need a language to be dependant on vendor specific libraries that are difficult to implement, is your language really portable? Now I admit I'm speaking out of my ass right now(I don't really know the specific libraries), but I hear the .net interfacing with Window systems will be difficult(from Mono).
.net program in Linux.
That's why I don't know why people are embracing
Maybe someone could pull my head out of me ass, and tell me honestly why a developer would want to write a
"If it is a success, now that's a whole different question. I guess people prefer not having to reboot their phones."
You think a phone that reboots is bad? Well, our home's natural gas water heater needs a 'reboot' everytime the pilot flame goes out.
I mean, we tell the technician, "how come it goes out[the flame]?". He just shrugs and says, "pull the plug, and put in back in. That should fix it."
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO??? IS REBOOTING THE ANSWER TO ALL PROBLEMS? WHY CAN"T HUMANS REBOOT THEMSELVES IN THE MORNING!! I SAY THIS: MICROSOFT: YOUR REBOOT SYNDROME IS CREEPING INTO THE REGULAR LIFE!
Pico is refuge for those students afraid of vi and emacs. Emacs requires finger-twisting multi-button action to operate, while vi requires a reboot because clueless users don't know why vi doesn't respond to any input:)
Of course, with the advent of samba, Notepad.exe is the successor of pico. Who would use Notepad to write a program, then compile it with gcc under *NIXes?
But pico's most important invention: it allows interoptability between Windows and Unices, simply because it converts all the CR/LFs to CRs.
"Why can't the US make such a switch?"
Before you demand a country to make a switch, why not ask your friendly slashdot users? As much as this site is pro-(Linux|MAC|*NIX|BeOS), there are a significant number of Windows users(according to the recent windows poll even though "thou shalt not use poll to due anything serious").
Now if you can't get your slash buddies to convert, how the hell are you going to get the gov't, companies, organization, etc. to convert? I mean you can go from step 1 to step 4, without doing steps 2 and 3.
(no profit jokes, please)
Yeah, microsoft is that desparate to take out Debian. Or...
It may be a university that didn't want M$ 'donation' so that they could have more windoze courses.
Either way, I think the monkey is trying to do a rain dance!
My idea of Mr. Robertson is that he's looking for the quick buck, i.e. he's more interested in signing contracts with companies to provide Lindows-based PCs. Especially to the companies who don't want to sell OS-less computers because M$ assumes they are supporting piracy...
All that stuff about "Lindows is like Windows", "can run all your Windows apps", "runs Office", "is easy to use", "one-click software purchase" is all marketing BULLSHIT Robertson needs to promote his ideas. It was nothing more than a fucking hype machine with very bad execution.
I don't even think he gives a shit about the desktop, other than showing nice themes with a simple menu layout.
Of course this is just my opinion.
I'm pretty sure we'll see companies trying to lease or rent segways to the end consumers similar to cars.