Just wait until you are out living on your own, supporting yourself with a cushy "retail sales" position at the local Wal-Mart, and you have to determine which is more important to you: a fancy video card, or more food so you don't, y'know, die.
Then we'll see who can't afford what.. More ramen, anybody?
The real trick would be getting C# programmers in the habit of targeting just the ECMA standard rather than the standard + MS lock-in extensions.
Much like the trick of getting web developers away from IE-only tags, DOM objects and the ever-present VB/JScript...
Unfortunately, with Microsoft pushing both the latest version of IE (and most recently, the latest version of the.NET CLR), down everyone's throats with Windows Update automagic update-while-you-view-pr0n, developers will have little choice but to develop for the largest installed userbase. Unfortunately, that is just how it (usually) goes.
Hmm... if this were changed to say Linux, it'd be flamebait. Say Windows, and it's interesting.
Windows, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2 Warp... pick the one that suits your needs the best. Don't argue with people who think otherwise. Just sit back and grin and know you are right, because after all, we all know deep down that we are all right.:)
Where I work, we run Windows 2000 Professional on the workstations, Windows 2000 Server on the mail servers, FreeBSD on the firewalls and heavy-lifting authentication machines... each one picked because it was the best for the job it is performing at the time the network was put together.
Besides, attempting to force your opinion on others can only cause undue grief for both parties...:-)
How is Microsoft being anti-competitive? They are taking massive losses per unit to try and compete with Sony and Nintendo.
In the long run, sure, Microsoft would like to see Nintendo and Sony put under so they may reign supreme as the console kings. Would Sony not want the same? As for Nintendo, did you notice any portable offerings besides the Game Boy when you were at Wal-Mart recently?
Sony was very successful because they have a massive home entertainment industry and associated marketing gorillas at their disposal. Microsoft assumed they could achieve victory along those same lines, but instead of a home entertainment industry, they are using a home computing industry. I'm sure we all remember the XBox is not a computer rantings before release.
nVidia has finally realized the edge it needs to put ATI under: marketing dollars. No amount of cool tech from ATI will stop the fact that Square signed this deal with nVidia. This is where the GeForce4 will get its' edge against the technically superior Radeon 9700 Pro.
It's the same way with Sony. If you can't win with better games, win with more money and an unstoppable juggernaut of a marketing department.
I am glad that in the post-9/11, terror-stricken world that we seem to live in now, advancements in travel to space are (albeit slowly) continuing to be made. With projects like the Space Shuttle replacement project being cancelled to fund "Homeland Defense" after coming so far along, one can sometimes begin to wonder if any of us will ever get to see things like the manned Mars missions during our lifetime.
You do, of course, realize what Akami is... they do not, themselves, serve up any of that content to you. They are a hosting outsourcing and web caching service. Check it out.
Would you refuse to go into a grocery store, just because it was physically located right next to a telemarketing office?
The design of Windows itself may be worthless, but, can you honestly say the same for the burdgeoning library of Microsoft Windows-compatible software on the market, on the Internet, in the junk bins, etc.. stretching all the way back to Windows 3.1?
The sheer amount of commercial and freeware titles available that utilizes the Windows API is absolutely mind-boggling. To replicate that API and make it compatible with even half of those titles is a guaranteed way to get noticed.
What the WINE project proves, unfortunately, is what many open-source projects prove: open source doesn't move as fast as things developed by large, focused groups of people working towards a very ambitious date.
Besides, there's nothing like a hard deadline set forth by a communist nation known for killing its own citizens to get the blood pumping and the fingers typing.;-)
I don't know about the rest of the people commenting here, but I think that, if this is true, it's absolutely fantastic. Being a computer technician myself (who is devoted to Win2k when it comes to M$ operating systems), I can't say enough for the power of Windows 98 on low-end client workstations. As the Register article says, give it some halfway-decent memory management and you've got yourself a damn good OS.
I'm interested to see the specifics on this. Will it be free? Will it be horrifyingly illegal? Did they set this seemingly unmeetable goal because a hacker stole Microsoft source code during one of the much-publicized raids on the Super-Secret Code Vaults buried hundreds of miles below the surface of Redmond?
The main reason this interested me so much was what, I believe Bill Gates said about Windows in some interview that I'm too lazy to go look up... Windows isn't about the OS itself, it's about the API... give him the API spec, a handful of programmers and a year and he could recreate it in all it's glory, basically. Looks like someone is actually trying.
What I meant was, it seems like people hold programmers on a level above the designers in the open source community, moreso then in commercially developed games. I've worked on a few projects, nothing large scale, but in all of them, I've always considered the designers and the programmers on the same level, each artists in their own respects. The designers work hard to create the great ideas for the software, and then the programmers go into action, working their magic to bring those ideas to life.
IMO, they are all developers. They all work together to develop the game/application/nuclear-powered toaster. That's just me, though.
The concept is nothing new, to be honest... other systems that come with Linux preloaded exist, and they come with much more appealing distributions then Lindows...
Try this, and get yourself a nice Red Hat workstation for only $799.
It's a far cry from retail distribution, but really, do you want one of the most powerful and versatile creations of mankind in the hands of the average, everyday citizen?;-)
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Just wait until you are out living on your own, supporting yourself with a cushy "retail sales" position at the local Wal-Mart, and you have to determine which is more important to you: a fancy video card, or more food so you don't, y'know, die.
Then we'll see who can't afford what.. More ramen, anybody?
Don't worry, they have their best engineers working on it.
Zoidberg is a-foot!
I know dude, can you believe they published the entire script to these movies in book form?! Talk about spoilers...
:)
I saw that in stores and was like, horrified.
The real trick would be getting C# programmers in the habit of targeting just the ECMA standard rather than the standard + MS lock-in extensions.
.NET CLR), down everyone's throats with Windows Update automagic update-while-you-view-pr0n, developers will have little choice but to develop for the largest installed userbase. Unfortunately, that is just how it (usually) goes.
Much like the trick of getting web developers away from IE-only tags, DOM objects and the ever-present VB/JScript...
Unfortunately, with Microsoft pushing both the latest version of IE (and most recently, the latest version of the
Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) 98,ME,2000,XP.
:)
:-)
Well, it won't survive in my business anyway.
Hmm... if this were changed to say Linux, it'd be flamebait. Say Windows, and it's interesting.
Windows, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2 Warp... pick the one that suits your needs the best. Don't argue with people who think otherwise. Just sit back and grin and know you are right, because after all, we all know deep down that we are all right.
Where I work, we run Windows 2000 Professional on the workstations, Windows 2000 Server on the mail servers, FreeBSD on the firewalls and heavy-lifting authentication machines... each one picked because it was the best for the job it is performing at the time the network was put together.
Besides, attempting to force your opinion on others can only cause undue grief for both parties...
How is Microsoft being anti-competitive? They are taking massive losses per unit to try and compete with Sony and Nintendo.
In the long run, sure, Microsoft would like to see Nintendo and Sony put under so they may reign supreme as the console kings. Would Sony not want the same? As for Nintendo, did you notice any portable offerings besides the Game Boy when you were at Wal-Mart recently?
Sony was very successful because they have a massive home entertainment industry and associated marketing gorillas at their disposal. Microsoft assumed they could achieve victory along those same lines, but instead of a home entertainment industry, they are using a home computing industry. I'm sure we all remember the XBox is not a computer rantings before release.
FedEx envelope delivered to IT manager's desk with an old, analog cell phone in it. IT manager takes it out, and answers it when it starts ringing...
Then, of course, fifty FBI agents come bursting into his office.
(Unfortunately, the agent who was working on this plan was transferred before he could perfect the "call him on the phone" part.)
Am I the only person that just cracks up every time they type WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN?
I mean, come on...
The XBox has an integrated GeForce3 GPU. ;-)
nVidia has finally realized the edge it needs to put ATI under: marketing dollars. No amount of cool tech from ATI will stop the fact that Square signed this deal with nVidia. This is where the GeForce4 will get its' edge against the technically superior Radeon 9700 Pro.
It's the same way with Sony. If you can't win with better games, win with more money and an unstoppable juggernaut of a marketing department.
I am glad that in the post-9/11, terror-stricken world that we seem to live in now, advancements in travel to space are (albeit slowly) continuing to be made. With projects like the Space Shuttle replacement project being cancelled to fund "Homeland Defense" after coming so far along, one can sometimes begin to wonder if any of us will ever get to see things like the manned Mars missions during our lifetime.
You do, of course, realize what Akami is... they do not, themselves, serve up any of that content to you. They are a hosting outsourcing and web caching service. Check it out.
Would you refuse to go into a grocery store, just because it was physically located right next to a telemarketing office?
The design of Windows itself may be worthless, but, can you honestly say the same for the burdgeoning library of Microsoft Windows-compatible software on the market, on the Internet, in the junk bins, etc.. stretching all the way back to Windows 3.1?
The sheer amount of commercial and freeware titles available that utilizes the Windows API is absolutely mind-boggling. To replicate that API and make it compatible with even half of those titles is a guaranteed way to get noticed.
What the WINE project proves, unfortunately, is what many open-source projects prove: open source doesn't move as fast as things developed by large, focused groups of people working towards a very ambitious date.
;-)
Besides, there's nothing like a hard deadline set forth by a communist nation known for killing its own citizens to get the blood pumping and the fingers typing.
I don't know about the rest of the people commenting here, but I think that, if this is true, it's absolutely fantastic. Being a computer technician myself (who is devoted to Win2k when it comes to M$ operating systems), I can't say enough for the power of Windows 98 on low-end client workstations. As the Register article says, give it some halfway-decent memory management and you've got yourself a damn good OS.
I'm interested to see the specifics on this. Will it be free? Will it be horrifyingly illegal? Did they set this seemingly unmeetable goal because a hacker stole Microsoft source code during one of the much-publicized raids on the Super-Secret Code Vaults buried hundreds of miles below the surface of Redmond?
The main reason this interested me so much was what, I believe Bill Gates said about Windows in some interview that I'm too lazy to go look up... Windows isn't about the OS itself, it's about the API... give him the API spec, a handful of programmers and a year and he could recreate it in all it's glory, basically. Looks like someone is actually trying.
What I meant was, it seems like people hold programmers on a level above the designers in the open source community, moreso then in commercially developed games. I've worked on a few projects, nothing large scale, but in all of them, I've always considered the designers and the programmers on the same level, each artists in their own respects. The designers work hard to create the great ideas for the software, and then the programmers go into action, working their magic to bring those ideas to life.
IMO, they are all developers. They all work together to develop the game/application/nuclear-powered toaster. That's just me, though.
If it were a commercially-released game, that would be considered something that would be a product of the content designers, who are developers.
Funny how it changes in this context...?
What's next, is if Microsoft throws their muscle into the font arena with the new FontAsAService technology:
Monthly Font Summary
You looked at Comic Sans MS 24 times
You looked at Tahoma 13 times
You owe: $12.35
Man, Adobe would be all over that!
The concept is nothing new, to be honest... other systems that come with Linux preloaded exist, and they come with much more appealing distributions then Lindows...
;-)
Try this, and get yourself a nice Red Hat workstation for only $799.
It's a far cry from retail distribution, but really, do you want one of the most powerful and versatile creations of mankind in the hands of the average, everyday citizen?