The rest of what you said is your opinion, your speculation.
No, I've sat in presentations and discussions with Microsoft engineers who came to our development site to tell us about.Net. I asked them point blank about Mono, Linux, etc, etc.
With standards in place, supported platforms and vendors will increase naturally with time.
These C# "standards" have nothing to do with allowing other vendors or supported platforms. There will not be other vendors or supported platforms for C# other than Microsoft Windows.
Mono (Linux or Windows) is not supported whatsoever by Microsoft. Just because it happens to implement the C# language a bit doesn't change that. Microsoft will never allow it to play in the true.Net space, "standards" or not.
Supported platforms: C# 1 (Windows), Java 3 (Windows, Linux, Solaris) (and that's just from Sun).
Vendors: C# 1 (Microsoft), Java 5 (Sun, IBM, BEA, Oracle, Allaire) (in fairness there are many more Java vendors... those are the 'big ones').
So the score is already 8 to 4, and what you'd find is a lot more '1s' in the C# column which read 'Microsoft', 'Microsoft', 'Windows', 'Windows', etc.
And going back to 'public standards': when Microsoft Office publishes a set of DTDs which comprise a very public 'standard'... I'll be shocked. Their 'XML-based openness' in Office 11 is far from that goal.
The proposal itself goes into some detail about the power source, which would be based on Polonium 210. Indeed, one of the problems is what to do with all the excess thermal energy being generated while the rifle isn't being fired.
Sounds like 'Reason' or one of the 'Rat Things' from Snow Crash. 'Reason' cools off by spinning rapidly, the 'Rat Thing' cannot stand still while powered on, they must move very fast to dissipate the thermal energy.
Perhaps the CPU overclocker can help out these weapons manufacturers, proving that lessons learned in Quake do indeed transfer to the real battlefield?
To be a successful publicly traded company, Google would need to sustain year-to-year growth, year after year, etc, etc. They are not selling the kinds of things which support that goal.
Personally I would keep Google privately held. What are they going to do with more capital, anyways?
If only I wasn't still using my Palm III, having to replace batteries every couple weeks anyway. Why didn't I wait for Li-ION???!? Sounds great for the cell phone though.
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If you don't see now Bio/Chemical weapons, simply DONT EXIST, if exist and used against your army, think that these CHEMICAL WEAPONS are shell by your own goverment 15 years ago.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. No one has denied (at least recently) that yes, the US sold arms to Iraq. Once Iraq used those arms to invade Kuwait, however, the US (and the World) united to drive Iraq out of Kuwait, and one of the terms of Iraqi surrender was to destroy all those armaments.
If Iraq uses any chemical or biological weapons, it doesn't matter where they came from. It will be proof that they did not follow the terms of surrender and were all along betraying the trust of the world.
Still, I for one hope they do not use such weapons, even though it would mean vindication for much of my country's behavior, because it would result in the grizzly death of thousands of American troops, or more likely, thousands of Kuwaiti, Israeli, and even Iraqi citizens whom Saddam chooses to strike instead.
US Goverment present FALSE evidence to the UN against Iraq.
Please present your counter-evidence. I'm not a big fan of this war, either, without UN backing. I'm a fan of letting France, Germany, and Russia take the fall when Saddam eventually does rebuild his nuclear weapons programs and uses them to strike. The major problem with that is that by that time, hundreds of thousands of people will have just been killed, but apparently that is the only justification for war. So be it. However it is much preferable to be called liars, murderers, and thugs than to sit back and wait for a hundred thousand people to die just to be able to say "I told you so."
You are correct, but that is the consumer market. Government, business, and education are increasingly finding open source attractive, so to compete in those markets it is becoming a prerequisite to having an open source offering.
Congratulations. In your haste to advocate open source, you have just prevented them from using most of the best software in the world. Well done.
No. Microsoft would be preventing the use of their own software by refusing to license it according to the demands of the market. Only in a very strongly held monopolistic market can the seller set the terms for the sale in contradiction to the demands of the market.
set up two desktop machines, one running the Windows version of your choice, and the other running the Linux distro of your choice. Perform the following tasks on each:
(1) check email (2) browse the web (3) type a paper and print it (4) (Windows only) reboot frozen machine (5) (Windows only) recover corrupt registry file...
Or he could go the way of Venezuela and other countries, and declare that instead of saying "no Microsoft" just say "no closed source software". Then Microsoft is free to bring an open source offering to the university, nobody is being 'locked out', and nobody can complain about unfairness.
Users won't understand Linux enough to be able to install P2P apps such as Kazaa, and so on, so the school saves tons on bandwidth alone. Not to mention the difficulties of setting up Quicktime players preventing downloading of large media files...
Unless Sony intends to make every console backwards compatible to the PS1
I think a better thing for Sony to shoot for is to just keep one generation of backwards compatibility. The PS2 can play PS1 games. The PS3 should play PS2 games, but not necessarily keep the cruft around for PS1 games (10 years old by the time the PS3 rolls out).
OK, mod me off-topic, but I'm genuinely interested in any news about GameCube online games coming out this year, about which I've heard ZERO. Any takers?
OK, to stay on-topic... IBM made the processor for the GameCube, and IBM makes the hardware and software behind Butterfly.net. So why isn't this demo coming out with GameCube games instead of PS2 games?
What happens to privacy when everything you buy can be tracked from inside the store to the door?
You left the privacy of your own home to go to their store. They could just install 100 cameras on the ceiling and hire a staff of thousands to watch everyone's every move. Or they can RFID things. One of those options would make a gallon of milk cost $10, the other leaves the cost at $3. Neither are especially infringing upon anyone's privacy.
Having done a lot of data recovery work for friends and family, I have to say this is a good idea. After being successful a few times in data recovery from mangled HDD, and then gently preaching the benefits of backups and such, and then the next time preaching the benefits of 'save early, save often', and then the next time preaching the benefits of using an OS which doesn't blue screen in the middle of your work... and then the next time, saying 'there is absolutely nothing I can do' and watch them fall apart.
Then, naturally, the cycle starts all over again.
C'mon people. Your laptop comes with a CD burner. It doesn't get ANY easier than that. Drag the 'My Documents' folder onto your CD icon. For Pete's sake. Please do it, do it now. Do it every week.
I have a friend who recently bought what he claimed was 5.2 channel surround sound. So I asked him, "Uh, what's the difference between that and good old 5.1 channel surround sound?"
Apparently the extra 0.1 is a "virtual" speaker that only "audiophiles" can hear.
I then spent the next half hour explaining the "Emporer has no clothes" story.
If this product comes as promised (with OGG support) it will be purchased by me. I was browsing through my Crutchfield catalog last night, picking out something, ended up throwing the catalog away in disgust because not a single player had Ogg compatibility (my entire collection is self-ripped Ogg files).
With this player and its features (especially like the MyFi radio broadcast feature) it WILL be in my possession as shortly after March 1st as humanly possible! And please, please, please let that be before mid-March and the annual road trip season.
If MySQL was using patented code, just because it was open source licensed to you doesn't make you a valid user of that patented code. This is a case in point for using software which contains 0 lines of patented code. While in most cases that happens to be free software rather than proprietary, patents can encumber free software projects as well (and have many times).
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The rest of what you said is your opinion, your speculation.
.Net. I asked them point blank about Mono, Linux, etc, etc.
No, I've sat in presentations and discussions with Microsoft engineers who came to our development site to tell us about
With standards in place, supported platforms and vendors will increase naturally with time.
.Net space, "standards" or not.
These C# "standards" have nothing to do with allowing other vendors or supported platforms. There will not be other vendors or supported platforms for C# other than Microsoft Windows.
Mono (Linux or Windows) is not supported whatsoever by Microsoft. Just because it happens to implement the C# language a bit doesn't change that. Microsoft will never allow it to play in the true
Public Standards: C# 2, Java 0
Supported platforms: C# 1 (Windows), Java 3 (Windows, Linux, Solaris) (and that's just from Sun).
Vendors: C# 1 (Microsoft), Java 5 (Sun, IBM, BEA, Oracle, Allaire) (in fairness there are many more Java vendors... those are the 'big ones').
So the score is already 8 to 4, and what you'd find is a lot more '1s' in the C# column which read 'Microsoft', 'Microsoft', 'Windows', 'Windows', etc.
And going back to 'public standards': when Microsoft Office publishes a set of DTDs which comprise a very public 'standard'... I'll be shocked. Their 'XML-based openness' in Office 11 is far from that goal.
The proposal itself goes into some detail about the power source, which would be based on Polonium 210. Indeed, one of the problems is what to do with all the excess thermal energy being generated while the rifle isn't being fired.
Sounds like 'Reason' or one of the 'Rat Things' from Snow Crash. 'Reason' cools off by spinning rapidly, the 'Rat Thing' cannot stand still while powered on, they must move very fast to dissipate the thermal energy.
Perhaps the CPU overclocker can help out these weapons manufacturers, proving that lessons learned in Quake do indeed transfer to the real battlefield?
APT (as used in Debian) does not offer any security (neither package signatures are verified, nor can you use HTTPS for download).
:)
You are free to write and submit patches for that
What does Google really sell?
Answers:
1. Intranet search appliances
2. Search hosting solutions
To be a successful publicly traded company, Google would need to sustain year-to-year growth, year after year, etc, etc. They are not selling the kinds of things which support that goal.
Personally I would keep Google privately held. What are they going to do with more capital, anyways?
So are you saying that microsoft is telling the NT server community to also buy new hardware, rip out all the wiring, and start from scratch?
Try examining the hardware requirements for Windows 2003 and comparing them to the hardware requirements for Windows NT 4.0 sometime...
The final extended version DVD (Christmas 2004, anyone?) will probably be at least 12 hours, not including 'making of' and commentary footage.
If only I wasn't still using my Palm III, having to replace batteries every couple weeks anyway. Why didn't I wait for Li-ION???!? Sounds great for the cell phone though.
If you don't see now Bio/Chemical weapons, simply DONT EXIST, if exist and used against your army, think that these CHEMICAL WEAPONS are shell by your own goverment 15 years ago.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. No one has denied (at least recently) that yes, the US sold arms to Iraq. Once Iraq used those arms to invade Kuwait, however, the US (and the World) united to drive Iraq out of Kuwait, and one of the terms of Iraqi surrender was to destroy all those armaments.
If Iraq uses any chemical or biological weapons, it doesn't matter where they came from. It will be proof that they did not follow the terms of surrender and were all along betraying the trust of the world.
Still, I for one hope they do not use such weapons, even though it would mean vindication for much of my country's behavior, because it would result in the grizzly death of thousands of American troops, or more likely, thousands of Kuwaiti, Israeli, and even Iraqi citizens whom Saddam chooses to strike instead.
US Goverment present FALSE evidence to the UN against Iraq.
Please present your counter-evidence. I'm not a big fan of this war, either, without UN backing. I'm a fan of letting France, Germany, and Russia take the fall when Saddam eventually does rebuild his nuclear weapons programs and uses them to strike. The major problem with that is that by that time, hundreds of thousands of people will have just been killed, but apparently that is the only justification for war. So be it. However it is much preferable to be called liars, murderers, and thugs than to sit back and wait for a hundred thousand people to die just to be able to say "I told you so."
You are correct, but that is the consumer market. Government, business, and education are increasingly finding open source attractive, so to compete in those markets it is becoming a prerequisite to having an open source offering.
Congratulations. In your haste to advocate open source, you have just prevented them from using most of the best software in the world. Well done.
No. Microsoft would be preventing the use of their own software by refusing to license it according to the demands of the market. Only in a very strongly held monopolistic market can the seller set the terms for the sale in contradiction to the demands of the market.
set up two desktop machines, one running the Windows version of your choice, and the other running the Linux distro of your choice. Perform the following tasks on each:
...
(1) check email
(2) browse the web
(3) type a paper and print it
(4) (Windows only) reboot frozen machine
(5) (Windows only) recover corrupt registry file
Or he could go the way of Venezuela and other countries, and declare that instead of saying "no Microsoft" just say "no closed source software". Then Microsoft is free to bring an open source offering to the university, nobody is being 'locked out', and nobody can complain about unfairness.
Users won't understand Linux enough to be able to install P2P apps such as Kazaa, and so on, so the school saves tons on bandwidth alone. Not to mention the difficulties of setting up Quicktime players preventing downloading of large media files...
And the new Gameboy Advance SP is about to kick everything's ass... again.
Unless Sony intends to make every console backwards compatible to the PS1
I think a better thing for Sony to shoot for is to just keep one generation of backwards compatibility. The PS2 can play PS1 games. The PS3 should play PS2 games, but not necessarily keep the cruft around for PS1 games (10 years old by the time the PS3 rolls out).
How about:
OK, mod me off-topic, but I'm genuinely interested in any news about GameCube online games coming out this year, about which I've heard ZERO. Any takers?
OK, to stay on-topic... IBM made the processor for the GameCube, and IBM makes the hardware and software behind Butterfly.net. So why isn't this demo coming out with GameCube games instead of PS2 games?
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I think I speak for everyone when I say that obviously the "Learn Perl" is a
What happens to privacy when everything you buy can be tracked from inside the store to the door?
You left the privacy of your own home to go to their store. They could just install 100 cameras on the ceiling and hire a staff of thousands to watch everyone's every move. Or they can RFID things. One of those options would make a gallon of milk cost $10, the other leaves the cost at $3. Neither are especially infringing upon anyone's privacy.
Having done a lot of data recovery work for friends and family, I have to say this is a good idea. After being successful a few times in data recovery from mangled HDD, and then gently preaching the benefits of backups and such, and then the next time preaching the benefits of 'save early, save often', and then the next time preaching the benefits of using an OS which doesn't blue screen in the middle of your work... and then the next time, saying 'there is absolutely nothing I can do' and watch them fall apart.
Then, naturally, the cycle starts all over again.
C'mon people. Your laptop comes with a CD burner. It doesn't get ANY easier than that. Drag the 'My Documents' folder onto your CD icon. For Pete's sake. Please do it, do it now. Do it every week.
I have a friend who recently bought what he claimed was 5.2 channel surround sound. So I asked him, "Uh, what's the difference between that and good old 5.1 channel surround sound?"
Apparently the extra 0.1 is a "virtual" speaker that only "audiophiles" can hear.
I then spent the next half hour explaining the "Emporer has no clothes" story.
If this product comes as promised (with OGG support) it will be purchased by me. I was browsing through my Crutchfield catalog last night, picking out something, ended up throwing the catalog away in disgust because not a single player had Ogg compatibility (my entire collection is self-ripped Ogg files).
With this player and its features (especially like the MyFi radio broadcast feature) it WILL be in my possession as shortly after March 1st as humanly possible! And please, please, please let that be before mid-March and the annual road trip season.
If MySQL was using patented code, just because it was open source licensed to you doesn't make you a valid user of that patented code. This is a case in point for using software which contains 0 lines of patented code. While in most cases that happens to be free software rather than proprietary, patents can encumber free software projects as well (and have many times).