That conclusion is incorrect because it presumes that implementing obtrusive 'DRM' (and alienating your user base in the process) is a good way to maximise profit.
This so-called user base would never contribute to profit. They are upset because it is not free.
In the future why should companies such as Sony pay a dime to bands like this? They hope to make it back on the CD sales. And now they cannot.
As someone who has served as a consultant and written applications in both languages this is what I can add:
My VB apps were much quicker to prototype- to provide something to a customer in helping them determine requirements when they aren't really sure what they need. Also, the VB apps are often easier to maintain (less cryptic code can be easier to maintain).
My C# apps were usually written in that language because the client had a preference for it- not that any logical reason was given (unless you count putting C# in marketing information to justify higher costs). Also, because the lanugage can be more difficult to follow (meaning less likely the client's in-house developers can code or update it) than VB, consultans can often charge a higher hourly rate to code in it.
Both languages build to the same IL output.
Comments such as this one from above a great language for people who don't want to know to much about what thier program is actually doing - but VB.NET is, and will always remain a hack.
show a real bias whilst not providing any detail whatsoever. So take them with a grain of salt. Unless your reading machine language, you don't really know what your appp is doing.
It is possible to write great code in each. It is also possible to write really bad code in each. It comes down to the developers ability and preferences.
If you have a nice fat contract and want to perch in your ivory tower looking down upon the commoners, go with C#.
If you have demanding clients and need to give yourself some breathing room, go with VB.
If a human being were cloned would the clone be afforded civil rights equal to the original human being? (of course)
Lets say I write (create) my software product to a server hard drive and 1 guy purchases and copies (clones) it to his hard drive where the license agreement says he can have his 1 copy.
The guy then violates his license agreement by making it available for cloning to anyone who p2p's it-----
Are the clones entitled equal protection? (of course)
If my normal U.S. Postal mail is placed in may mailbox and someone walks up and steals it he goes to jail.
If I burn the product to CD and someone steals the CD he goes to jail.
If I put the product on a hard drive then anyone who can figure a way to access it is allowed to steal it? (no).
High schools should require courses in ethics and what it means to be responsible and respectful members of society. We have more work to do here it seems and this is why there are software protection schemes out there such as CrypKey and Xheo.
My software dev team worked for Atilla-the-dumb once. The guy was so afraid of loosing the mid-management position he had clawed his way to that he spend much of his time getting the team to fight with each other so he could step in to save the day.
We found his resume on the network drive one day, submitted it to Monster, Dice, and a few others. Withn a month he was all excited about his "value" and took another job.
With movie prices high and nairdowells pirating dvd's via the internet it's no wonder they like the gaming option- best if it can be turned into a subscription service whose economic model cannot be subverted.
anyone with even a slight knowledge of computers hates Microsoft.
If software tools and hardware didn't evolve people like me wouldn't have fun software development jobs and our clients would have had to make do with 64K RAM, SSDD floppies, monochrome monitors, and notepad-style documents.
I've got dozens of friends who have made a career of rewriting old code and creating new code as new hardware/software abilities present themselves.
So why do we use Visual Studio.Net? Becuase our clients platforms run it and we can more easily build reusable code that runs on them.
When you have a client that prefers a certain Windows software tool for whatever-purpose and they are dangling a 12 month development contract in front of you, you would be crazy not to sign up to make them happy. Yeah, the money is okay too;-)
With respect to Microsoft haters, Yoda had it correct. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger. Anger leads to destruction. C'mon, snuggle up to.Net!
If one had a ferrari needing a tune up would he let the jiffy lube guys do it?
If one needed brain surgery would he let the ear-nose-and-throat MD do it?
Software development is no different. Anyone can create a static web page. It is quite another thing to create a multi-threaded, web-enabled, windows application.
There are plenty of ways to send data in a normal-looking, non-text file that don't reqire encryption keys.
Sheesh, we know where these guys hang out-- we know how to profile them. Most simply are fearful of upsetting the ACLU (or insert your favorite pricacy rights group here) to step up.
Or is this an after-the-fact forensic computer science (we found some stuff on their hard drive) situation?
So.. a guy willing to blow himself up is suddenly going to be afraid of some new law? Why?
Joe Sixpack can't spell "KDE Desktop" and doesn't have the time, desire, or wherewithall to read OS boxes to see that one has a 64 bit instruction set whilst the other has a 128 bit instruction set.
Here's to you, Joe Sixpack - Mr. just want a computer out of the box so I can get on the net. We luv ya.
Perhaps if Microsoft-hating script kiddies didn't push so many ugly browser-helper objects and other malware then innocent, completely non-technical users such as most grannies, lawyers, doctors, artists, poets, etc. wouldn't throw their hands up and just buy another machine?
Of course there is always the C drive fun of the original recorvery cd process.
Thank you Mr. Bill for Visual Studio.Net, SQL Server, and the ever so easy to use Windows Update website that helps us thwart the misguided, disgruntled underbelly of the digital world.
Since I've learned how to max out my browser settings I haven't had a care in the world. Life is guuuuuuud.
Harmony.. Java.. whilst you wrestle with what you ought to be and the collection of features you might someday have.Net assimilating generations of developers in the prime of their coding life- developers bringing applications to market.
Resistance is futile..
You too will become one with the Microsoft.. once you have kids, wives, car payments, and mortgages.
For small companies, having to support multiple operating systems represents a problem. We have limited resources (money / time) as it is. I personally prefer one dominant OS. It allows my company to focus it's limited resources and increase the liklihood it will survive.
Money isn't evil- it allows people to feed their kids and send them to college.
If Linux ever did take a good 40% of the market we might re-evaluate our position. But not today.
The vast majority of computer users are running Windows. This means for small software development companies writing client side applications the biggest market is there.
Using either Linux or Windows we could have written our soon-to-be-released multi-threaded, web-endabled, windows application. However, we want people to buy it- that is to enjoy it AND pay money for it.
If we wrote it to run under Linux sure we could feel good about ourselves in some kind of Jeff Goldblum, we're brainy and our trash pollutes less than your trash kind of hypocritical way.
But loosely quoting Alan Rickman from the movie Die Hard- We'd much rather be on a beach, earning 20%.
And we don't care what the self-anointed intelligencia "community" thinks of our platform selection. Our customer's opinions are the only ones that matter.
If there is no advertising than other than looking at a product on a shelf how would anyone know what might be a better choice for him?
If the email sender had to pay 1 penney per email to help fund "the infrastructure of the internet" would it be okay then?
Email advertising greatly benefits small business:
1. Small business can cut out middle men (stores) and charge you less.
2. Because of the up-front fees, most small business can't afford to get on store shelves at all and you the consumer would not have the option of even seeing a product you might really want.
The truly evil spammers aren't going to follow the email advertising rules. They will hide where they are coming from or pay someone else to do it.
If the U.S Post Office sends people mail they take it.
When people watch TV they are inundated with 20 mins of commericals per hour; no choice.
Yet if a company follows the current federal laws on sending email they still get hammered. Just once I want to see a story about someone dumping an 18 wheeler truck of mail they got from the Post Office back in their parking lot.
The hypocracy of the hipster-dufus-script-writing-underemployed-geekdom can not be underestimated.
..The only thing you have contributed to the world as a whole in the past few years is death, misery, suffering and sadness.
Yeah, things were so much more civil under Sadam in Iraq and the terrorist rabble in Afghanistan- those places where free speech gets you killed and women were kept uneducated and beaten.
Question: when was the last time you saw an American intentionally explode himself in the middle of a group of defensless children?
This is merely Step 1 in a long-term approach to txing internet usage.
1. Form a global council.
2. Make claims of global intellectual inequality
3. The UN, ACLU, and (insert names of politicians trying to buy votes here) decide to "level the playing field" by taxing those who have "won life's lottery" (have a domain name) and redistributing funds to under achieving locations.
Some time in the future.. U.N. Ambassador from Nauru (pop. 10,000) "Mr. Chairman, the people of Nauru beg this body to level the intellectual playing field by providing every man, woman, and child of Nauru a computer and high speed internet access..."
Four years after that..
EBay reports a 0.000002% bump in sales due largely to the army of Nauruvians selling brick-a-brack via their shiny 386 PC's.
I shiver at the thought of the "level playing field." Or, possibly, I've run off in the weeds on this one.
..which also covers warning customers about drug interactions.
Hospitals and clinics have had drug interaction warning software for years. It warns doctors about the same thing. In order for Jeffy's idea to be meaningful, a patient would have to have lied to his doctor(s) in order to get permission to gain access to the controlled substance(s).
If a patient is going to lie to gain access to potential harmful drugs, how much effect do you think Jeffy's javascript OK dialog is going to have?
It doesn't matter if the public archive thinks it is performing a public service here- and that somehow gives them permission to republish the web pages. If the author of the web site had his copyright mark on the pages then what public archive is doing is no different than copying a DVD and passing it out free as a public service.
Unless they had permission from the author it is stealing.
Separately, if there is a hell the lawyers are finding ways to drag out the torture process for a contingency fee. Something like "torture us last."
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That conclusion is incorrect because it presumes that implementing obtrusive 'DRM' (and alienating your user base in the process) is a good way to maximise profit.
:-)
This so-called user base would never contribute to profit. They are upset because it is not free.
In the future why should companies such as Sony pay a dime to bands like this? They hope to make it back on the CD sales. And now they cannot.
Garage bands everywhere can thank Switchfoot.
As someone who has served as a consultant and written applications in both languages this is what I can add:
.NET is, and will always remain a hack.
My VB apps were much quicker to prototype- to provide something to a customer in helping them determine requirements when they aren't really sure what they need. Also, the VB apps are often easier to maintain (less cryptic code can be easier to maintain).
My C# apps were usually written in that language because the client had a preference for it- not that any logical reason was given (unless you count putting C# in marketing information to justify higher costs). Also, because the lanugage can be more difficult to follow (meaning less likely the client's in-house developers can code or update it) than VB, consultans can often charge a higher hourly rate to code in it.
Both languages build to the same IL output.
Comments such as this one from above a great language for people who don't want to know to much about what thier program is actually doing - but VB
show a real bias whilst not providing any detail whatsoever. So take them with a grain of salt. Unless your reading machine language, you don't really know what your appp is doing.
It is possible to write great code in each. It is also possible to write really bad code in each. It comes down to the developers ability and preferences.
If you have a nice fat contract and want to perch in your ivory tower looking down upon the commoners, go with C#.
If you have demanding clients and need to give yourself some breathing room, go with VB.
If a human being were cloned would the clone be afforded civil rights equal to the original human being? (of course)
Lets say I write (create) my software product to a server hard drive and 1 guy purchases and copies (clones) it to his hard drive where the license agreement says he can have his 1 copy.
The guy then violates his license agreement by making it available for cloning to anyone who p2p's it-----
Are the clones entitled equal protection? (of course)
If my normal U.S. Postal mail is placed in may mailbox and someone walks up and steals it he goes to jail.
If I burn the product to CD and someone steals the CD he goes to jail.
If I put the product on a hard drive then anyone who can figure a way to access it is allowed to steal it? (no).
High schools should require courses in ethics and what it means to be responsible and respectful members of society. We have more work to do here it seems and this is why there are software protection schemes out there such as CrypKey and Xheo.
I think I see a lot of Linux-is-great stories here and Microsoft-is-bad stories here.
Gotta start keeping score and start ignoring my customers so I'll know what to buy.
My software dev team worked for Atilla-the-dumb once. The guy was so afraid of loosing the mid-management position he had clawed his way to that he spend much of his time getting the team to fight with each other so he could step in to save the day.
We found his resume on the network drive one day, submitted it to Monster, Dice, and a few others. Withn a month he was all excited about his "value" and took another job.
That's what we call a win-win.
With movie prices high and nairdowells pirating dvd's via the internet it's no wonder they like the gaming option- best if it can be turned into a subscription service whose economic model cannot be subverted.
Another stupid law. Using this reasoning any web browser manufacturer could be found criminally liable.
1. Open mozilla browser.
2. Download image and share with friend.
3. Lawyer sues mozilla because they let me do it.
If I buy a pencil and poke my neighbor in they eye with it the lumber company should not be sued either.
They should go after the actual criminals but they don't because there isn't any money in it.
This law should be called the EU Extortion Act.
anyone with even a slight knowledge of computers hates Microsoft.
If software tools and hardware didn't evolve people like me wouldn't have fun software development jobs and our clients would have had to make do with 64K RAM, SSDD floppies, monochrome monitors, and notepad-style documents.
I've got dozens of friends who have made a career of rewriting old code and creating new code as new hardware/software abilities present themselves.
So why do we use Visual Studio
When you have a client that prefers a certain Windows software tool for whatever-purpose and they are dangling a 12 month development contract in front of you, you would be crazy not to sign up to make them happy. Yeah, the money is okay too
With respect to Microsoft haters, Yoda had it correct. Fear leads to hate. Hate leads to anger. Anger leads to destruction. C'mon, snuggle up to
If one had a ferrari needing a tune up would he let the jiffy lube guys do it?
If one needed brain surgery would he let the ear-nose-and-throat MD do it?
Software development is no different. Anyone can create a static web page. It is quite another thing to create a multi-threaded, web-enabled, windows application.
There are plenty of ways to send data in a normal-looking, non-text file that don't reqire encryption keys.
Sheesh, we know where these guys hang out-- we know how to profile them. Most simply are fearful of upsetting the ACLU (or insert your favorite pricacy rights group here) to step up.
Or is this an after-the-fact forensic computer science (we found some stuff on their hard drive) situation?
So.. a guy willing to blow himself up is suddenly going to be afraid of some new law? Why?
Joe Sixpack can't spell "KDE Desktop" and doesn't have the time, desire, or wherewithall to read OS boxes to see that one has a 64 bit instruction set whilst the other has a 128 bit instruction set.
Here's to you, Joe Sixpack - Mr. just want a computer out of the box so I can get on the net. We luv ya.
Perhaps if Microsoft-hating script kiddies didn't push so many ugly browser-helper objects and other malware then innocent, completely non-technical users such as most grannies, lawyers, doctors, artists, poets, etc. wouldn't throw their hands up and just buy another machine?
Of course there is always the C drive fun of the original recorvery cd process.
Thank you Mr. Bill for Visual Studio
Since I've learned how to max out my browser settings I haven't had a care in the world. Life is guuuuuuud.
Harmony.. Java.. whilst you wrestle with what you ought to be and the collection of features you might someday have
Resistance is futile..
You too will become one with the Microsoft.. once you have kids, wives, car payments, and mortgages.
Join us, won't you
For small companies, having to support multiple operating systems represents a problem. We have limited resources (money / time) as it is. I personally prefer one dominant OS. It allows my company to focus it's limited resources and increase the liklihood it will survive.
Money isn't evil- it allows people to feed their kids and send them to college.
If Linux ever did take a good 40% of the market we might re-evaluate our position. But not today.
The vast majority of computer users are running Windows. This means for small software development companies writing client side applications the biggest market is there.
Using either Linux or Windows we could have written our soon-to-be-released multi-threaded, web-endabled, windows application. However, we want people to buy it- that is to enjoy it AND pay money for it.
If we wrote it to run under Linux sure we could feel good about ourselves in some kind of Jeff Goldblum, we're brainy and our trash pollutes less than your trash kind of hypocritical way.
But loosely quoting Alan Rickman from the movie Die Hard- We'd much rather be on a beach, earning 20%.
And we don't care what the self-anointed intelligencia "community" thinks of our platform selection. Our customer's opinions are the only ones that matter.
If there is no advertising than other than looking at a product on a shelf how would anyone know what might be a better choice for him?
If the email sender had to pay 1 penney per email to help fund "the infrastructure of the internet" would it be okay then?
Email advertising greatly benefits small business:
1. Small business can cut out middle men (stores) and charge you less.
2. Because of the up-front fees, most small business can't afford to get on store shelves at all and you the consumer would not have the option of even seeing a product you might really want.
Ill accept a spammers email when he's paying for me to have a T3.
And as a businessman I would be willing to pay 1 penny per email if that would make it more acceptable for me to advertise via email.
The truly evil spammers aren't going to follow the email advertising rules. They will hide where they are coming from or pay someone else to do it.
If the U.S Post Office sends people mail they take it.
When people watch TV they are inundated with 20 mins of commericals per hour; no choice.
Yet if a company follows the current federal laws on sending email they still get hammered. Just once I want to see a story about someone dumping an 18 wheeler truck of mail they got from the Post Office back in their parking lot.
The hypocracy of the hipster-dufus-script-writing-underemployed-geekdo
Yeah, things were so much more civil under Sadam in Iraq and the terrorist rabble in Afghanistan- those places where free speech gets you killed and women were kept uneducated and beaten.
Question: when was the last time you saw an American intentionally explode himself in the middle of a group of defensless children?
Answer: never.
This is merely Step 1 in a long-term approach to txing internet usage.
1. Form a global council.
2. Make claims of global intellectual inequality
3. The UN, ACLU, and (insert names of politicians trying to buy votes here) decide to "level the playing field" by taxing those who have "won life's lottery" (have a domain name) and redistributing funds to under achieving locations.
Some time in the future.. U.N. Ambassador from Nauru (pop. 10,000) "Mr. Chairman, the people of Nauru beg this body to level the intellectual playing field by providing every man, woman, and child of Nauru a computer and high speed internet access..."
Four years after that..
EBay reports a 0.000002% bump in sales due largely to the army of Nauruvians selling brick-a-brack via their shiny 386 PC's.
I shiver at the thought of the "level playing field." Or, possibly, I've run off in the weeds on this one.
Happy Friday!
Hospitals and clinics have had drug interaction warning software for years. It warns doctors about the same thing. In order for Jeffy's idea to be meaningful, a patient would have to have lied to his doctor(s) in order to get permission to gain access to the controlled substance(s).
If a patient is going to lie to gain access to potential harmful drugs, how much effect do you think Jeffy's javascript OK dialog is going to have?
Great, just great. Now what am I going to do with this $42.95 uber-space-making disk notch-cutter I just bought on EBay?
It doesn't matter if the public archive thinks it is performing a public service here- and that somehow gives them permission to republish the web pages. If the author of the web site had his copyright mark on the pages then what public archive is doing is no different than copying a DVD and passing it out free as a public service. Unless they had permission from the author it is stealing. Separately, if there is a hell the lawyers are finding ways to drag out the torture process for a contingency fee. Something like "torture us last."
Could the amount of time it would take the EU to put up a VAT-like name-server interpretation tax be measured in nanoseconds?