Dupes aren't that bad, it's just two inches of wasted real estate on the front page.
All the giddy Dupe! messages are really annoying though, because there are about 100 of them interspersed with people who are trying to say something relevant.
As this cuts out the main revenue from WinCE, I can only see them doing this as a spoiling tactic.
You obviously have no idea what you are talking about and seem to be trying to disseminate FUD. You cannot redistribute the source code and all changes have to be reported to Microsoft. Also, Microsoft makes money off of licensing Pocket PC and SmartPhone, and doesn't make as much off of Windows CE itself.
Windows CE was released under Shared Source to aid developers and nothing more.
Do you honestly believe that Microsoft is doing this to help developers from the goodness of their hearts, and not to gain competitive advantage? Please.
Embedded developers work close to hardware and aren't crazy for abstraction and black boxes. Microsoft is sharing this source because they're afraid of losing the market, and nothing more. Competition is forcing them to offer more value, and that's how it should be.
It would be nice if the same thing were to happen on the desktop.
Sure, it's a safe bet that your favorite govt. agency is currently using a Microsoft enterprise application to exchange email and calendaring information. But WHICH ONE! Ha! Which is why the so-called "email virus" remains a mythical notion.
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One thing I would like to see is reduction in functionality duplication in distributions.
There is no need to have 2,3 or more implementations of the same thing in a distribution.
Yes there is, because, to put it simply, some people like vi and some like emacs.
Comparing a linux distro to a Windows CD is silly, the 4 RedHat CDs are more like the linux equivalent of CompUSA. I agree a distro should only *install* one of each type of app by default. Maybe there shouldn't even be an "install everything" button, because people don't really know what it means and then moan about disk space.
Then again, maybe the whole point is moot. Network-based installs are the future, like BSD, debian, gentoo. (RedHat seems to be getting there with up2date, though I haven't tried it). Nobody wines about too many packages because they aren't on a stack of CDs in your posession, they're just out there in cyberspace somewhere. After getting used to a network-based distro it's awfully hard to imagine going back.
Frankly it amazes me that Microsoft hasn't copied the approach. They would have a standard "installation service," which would present a big list of available programs. Click on the program, authorize the charge to your credit card, and boom, Photoshop or Quicken or whatever is downloaded and installed. Companies would pay MS a lot of money to put their software in the list, because the convenience and immediacy is great.
I thought shrinkwrapped software was doomed the minute I switched to debian. But that was years ago and CDs still seem to be the common thing, maybe it's the slow uptake of broadband that's holding things back?
Duke Nukem 3d was a fabulous game at the time, but the source code to more advanced games (quake) has already been released. Remember, Duke Nukem 3d didn't even have 3d characters, so technically it's closer to Doom.
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Me neither, find + grep, baby! None of this "spatial orientation" rubbish:)
If people can get it for free, then they likely will. That isn't a good thing for Red Hat.
Remember, linux distro companies are for the most part in the business of "selling" what they do not own. I don't care whether the RedHat CEO gets rich because he didn't write the software that I use. I do feel slightly guilty sometimes about all the use I've gotten from emacs for free, but since its primary author is heppy to let me use it I might as well.
Actually I am a Debian guy anyhow. I am happy to give a little something back (bandwidth and code) to Debian, Gentoo, and for that matter to RedHat so long as RedHat allows me to do so. Even if the GPL were ultimately the end of RedHat, remember it was also the beginning. If nobody had shared with RedHat, they woudn't even be another BeOS.
That's pretty cool. I'm assuming you didn't stop it though, and were getting some kind of glowplug effect. I wonder if you could have just run it dry and gone back to gasoline?
We did just run the diesel out!
It was kind of a funny engine; even running on normal gas, it would sometimes 'diesel' (continue running for a second or two) after you cut the ignition, if the engine was good and hot.
helicopters provided by the United States, spraying gas provided by the United States, ordered by a dictator who was placed into power by the United States.
Heh, I used to drive a 4 cylinder 1982 Bronco. One time it got a tank full of diesel, because the gas station screwed up and filled their gas pumps with diesel. But we didn't realize until it started running funny - but it still ran. After the station heard back from several other drivers, they said that Bronco was the only gas car they'd seen that could run on diesel!
Anyways the analogy is irrelevant, anybody can make gas and anybody can make printer cartriges.
Anybody who buys a printer with proprietary cartriges is a moron. They could double the price of those cartriges tomorrow, and whatcha gonna do about it?
We first ran Windows NT 4.0 on 100 and 133MHz Pentiums in 1996 -- you can still run Windows XP on these machines (yes, I've installed it) and it runs about as well as Solaris 9 runs on a 70Mhz SS. Stop talking out of your ass.
I don't know about Solaris, but this is my experience. I have recently run Linux on a 486 laptop (with X and fvwm2) and the newer kernels work BETTER on this hardware than the older kernels. Response time is quicker. That makes a big difference on a slow cpu. This machine has 24 megs of RAM.
I just junked a 64 meg 233 Mhz laptop with Windows 2000 because it was too unbearably painful to use. Every time I clicked an icon it would sit there and spin the disk. Opening a simple folder took many seconds. It was awful.
Sure, I could bog down the linux box just as much by installing KDE or Gnome (if it had the disk space, that is), but the point is *I don't have to.* And since I like a clean desktop anyways, and can get old hardware for free, for me it's a great benefit.
I haven't seen a good way to watch a fps game. The action is too fast. There's no buildup. Two people running at about 100 miles per hour, and most likely hopping all over, see each other. One shoots, the other dies, bam, it's over. No excitement. It's not like soccer or football where they have to fight their way down the field and you can see it coming.
Look at people who registered a domain name, then years later some business registers a similar name as a trademark and sues for the domain name.
Back when the domain name was registered, it wasn't even clear that such a thing could ever happen, any more than somebody would sue over using certain variable names in source code. But money changes everything.
The first thing the telcos will have to do is charge at least $8/mo just to cover billing and advertising, and that's before they even start charging for bandwidth, or the billions upon billions they'll claim to have spent for infrastructure.
I can't decide whether I want the establishment to embrace WiFi. I already have WiFi access at the main places I want it, for free. Once somebody tries to cash in on the trend, how long until conflict arises over the spectrum and we start hearing complaints about "pirate WiFi", akin to "pirate radio"?
Right, the 4GB barrier is for VIRTUAL addresses, and virtual address space could easily be bigger than 4GB. Want to mmap that 5 GB video file for a video editing program? (That's the size of a DVD). Too bad! You'll have to come up with some funky sub-addressing scheme. Sure it's doable, but it takes away from more meaningful development efforts.
No, no. I'm saying refusing to distribute source is no inhibitor to piracy. So what would it hurt to include the source with commercial software, with the same restrictions on the code as for the binaries? I.e. people who pay for the software can use the source for debugging, or even make their own modifications, but can't share the code with anybody, just as they can't share the binaries.
I can't see why people equate selling source code with allowing unrestricted distribution. Binaries are no harder to distribute than source code.
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Ha ha, you just compared your Porsche to a Sentra! They WIN!
IMHO if you wait for a few weeks and then get the consensus on the relevant usenet group, you cannot go wrong.
The End.
All the giddy Dupe! messages are really annoying though, because there are about 100 of them interspersed with people who are trying to say something relevant.
IMHO the B/W screen on my Palm V was better than the color screen on my m515.
Do you honestly believe that Microsoft is doing this to help developers from the goodness of their hearts, and not to gain competitive advantage? Please.
Embedded developers work close to hardware and aren't crazy for abstraction and black boxes. Microsoft is sharing this source because they're afraid of losing the market, and nothing more. Competition is forcing them to offer more value, and that's how it should be.
It would be nice if the same thing were to happen on the desktop.
Sure, it's a safe bet that your favorite govt. agency is currently using a Microsoft enterprise application to exchange email and calendaring information. But WHICH ONE! Ha! Which is why the so-called "email virus" remains a mythical notion.
Comparing a linux distro to a Windows CD is silly, the 4 RedHat CDs are more like the linux equivalent of CompUSA. I agree a distro should only *install* one of each type of app by default. Maybe there shouldn't even be an "install everything" button, because people don't really know what it means and then moan about disk space.
Then again, maybe the whole point is moot. Network-based installs are the future, like BSD, debian, gentoo. (RedHat seems to be getting there with up2date, though I haven't tried it). Nobody wines about too many packages because they aren't on a stack of CDs in your posession, they're just out there in cyberspace somewhere. After getting used to a network-based distro it's awfully hard to imagine going back.
Frankly it amazes me that Microsoft hasn't copied the approach. They would have a standard "installation service," which would present a big list of available programs. Click on the program, authorize the charge to your credit card, and boom, Photoshop or Quicken or whatever is downloaded and installed. Companies would pay MS a lot of money to put their software in the list, because the convenience and immediacy is great.
I thought shrinkwrapped software was doomed the minute I switched to debian. But that was years ago and CDs still seem to be the common thing, maybe it's the slow uptake of broadband that's holding things back?
Duke Nukem 3d was a fabulous game at the time, but the source code to more advanced games (quake) has already been released. Remember, Duke Nukem 3d didn't even have 3d characters, so technically it's closer to Doom.
Me neither, find + grep, baby! None of this "spatial orientation" rubbish :)
Actually I am a Debian guy anyhow. I am happy to give a little something back (bandwidth and code) to Debian, Gentoo, and for that matter to RedHat so long as RedHat allows me to do so. Even if the GPL were ultimately the end of RedHat, remember it was also the beginning. If nobody had shared with RedHat, they woudn't even be another BeOS.
Actually, didn't the Japanese car in Cannonball Run have this?
It was kind of a funny engine; even running on normal gas, it would sometimes 'diesel' (continue running for a second or two) after you cut the ignition, if the engine was good and hot.
Anyways the analogy is irrelevant, anybody can make gas and anybody can make printer cartriges.
Anybody who buys a printer with proprietary cartriges is a moron. They could double the price of those cartriges tomorrow, and whatcha gonna do about it?
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You see, SCSI encountered this little issue a few years back...
I just junked a 64 meg 233 Mhz laptop with Windows 2000 because it was too unbearably painful to use. Every time I clicked an icon it would sit there and spin the disk. Opening a simple folder took many seconds. It was awful.
Sure, I could bog down the linux box just as much by installing KDE or Gnome (if it had the disk space, that is), but the point is *I don't have to.* And since I like a clean desktop anyways, and can get old hardware for free, for me it's a great benefit.
The parent is raising the issue of criteria for humanitarian warfare.
And then they call them "metamaterials." Like you, I don't see any connection to "meta" anything. Anybody want to clear this up?
I haven't seen a good way to watch a fps game. The action is too fast. There's no buildup. Two people running at about 100 miles per hour, and most likely hopping all over, see each other. One shoots, the other dies, bam, it's over. No excitement. It's not like soccer or football where they have to fight their way down the field and you can see it coming.
Look at people who registered a domain name, then years later some business registers a similar name as a trademark and sues for the domain name.
Back when the domain name was registered, it wasn't even clear that such a thing could ever happen, any more than somebody would sue over using certain variable names in source code. But money changes everything.
The first thing the telcos will have to do is charge at least $8/mo just to cover billing and advertising, and that's before they even start charging for bandwidth, or the billions upon billions they'll claim to have spent for infrastructure.
I can't decide whether I want the establishment to embrace WiFi. I already have WiFi access at the main places I want it, for free. Once somebody tries to cash in on the trend, how long until conflict arises over the spectrum and we start hearing complaints about "pirate WiFi", akin to "pirate radio"?
Right, the 4GB barrier is for VIRTUAL addresses, and virtual address space could easily be bigger than 4GB. Want to mmap that 5 GB video file for a video editing program? (That's the size of a DVD). Too bad! You'll have to come up with some funky sub-addressing scheme. Sure it's doable, but it takes away from more meaningful development efforts.
I can't see why people equate selling source code with allowing unrestricted distribution. Binaries are no harder to distribute than source code.