What's the threshhold for being a monopoly. Just being the most popular isn't enough. Some make of car would be the most popular, but that doesn't mean they have a monopoly. If Apple and Linux continue to make strides on the desktop, could MS have their monopoly status revoked? At what point is MS no longer a monopoly?
I'm not sure where office fits into this though. Office has never been part of Windows, and MS has never stopped anyone from running any other word processor. When you buy MS Office, you have to buy it seperately, and it doesn't interfere with the use of other office products like OO.O, or WordPerfect. I see the problem with things like IE, which MS gives away for free, and which is unable to be removed from the system. But I don't see a problem with them not releasing the format specification for a completely separate product. Would they be required to release documents for every other application they produce?
Some actual competition does exist. However, just because competition exists, doesn't mean it's easy to switch from one product to another. If you're whole company relied on Ruby On Rails, and then it was outlawed (let's just say it happened, don't ask why), you'd have quite a hard time reimplementing your entire system in PHP,.Net, J2EE, or whichever other system you chose. If you're using MySQL, and all of a sudden that disappears, it takes a lot of work to switch over to some other RDBMS. Sure, having open standards help to resolve some of the lock in, but I don't think there will ever be a time when you aren't "locked in" to whatever system you are using.
We had gum banned throughout grade school and I think in highschool it was dependent on the teacher. The result was that most kids used cough drops instead. They seemed to have a cough for almost the entire school year, and used about 4 or 5 cough drops a day. I wonder if that's worse or better than chewing gum.
But if the original author didn't look for another means of publication after getting rejected, then that's their own fault for not following through with the book. The publisher could publish the work, but so could every other publisher. So the amount of money to be made by going back and digging out some old work would be very little.
If they pass a law that says you can't smoke indoors, then it is illegal. Therefore you can't operate a bar and let people smoke in it. By creating the laws, they have made it illegal. Just like they don't allow you do drink alcohol in public, and they don't let you go hunting in central park. Just because something is legal, doesn't mean you can do it wherever you want, especially when doing it affects others around you.
Exactly bring back the 17 years of copyright with no renewal. I could even argue that since works can be distributed much more quickly than 2 centuries ago, that works should be covered by copyright for an even shorter period. After 10 years your work should go into the public domain. If you haven't generated enough cash by that point, you're probably never going to generate any cash with that work.
How do you vote with your wallet, when absolutely every restaurant has smoking in it? You could just not to go restaurants at all, but that's quite a sacrifice. Also, most restaurants (in my area at least) have seen increased business since they banned smoking. Most smoker's actually say they like that the restaurants aren't filled with smoke anymore. It's beneficial to all patrons that smoking not be allowed. They just never realized it until the government instituted a law against it.
That's why universal health care is nice (I live in Canada). It's nice to be able to get tests, just in case there is something wrong. Obviously it's not a good idea to investigate all colds to this level, but it's nice not to go bankrupt in the instance when you do get a sinus infection.
Yeah, but until then, I'm enjoying not having the taste of smoke mixed in with my food when I visit restaurants. I quite enjoy that peopel aren't allowed to smoke in most indoor places anymore. Regardless of the health effects, it makes your clothes stink. In some places (bingo parlors anyone?) it's actualy quite difficult to breath properly. Even if there is no health effects, I still don't like the feeling of going into a room that's filled with smoke.
Doesn't removing the timeline make courses a whole lot easier? I know I would have done much better in my classes, and got a much higher GPA if I didn't have to take 6-7 course a semester, or if I had 8 months to absorb all the material. I used webCT in 2 or 3 of my university courses, and most of us didn't really see much need for it. Most of the time the server would be unavailable when you really needed it, because everybody wanted to submit the assignment in the last 1 hour before it was due.
When I went to university, all we had was the Professors webspace. And we liked it. Do we really need anything more complicated? Or is this a solution in search of a problem? A lot of professors I had didn't even use the webspace. We seemed to do fine without it.
I personally loved Twilight Princess. Played it on the GC, although I'm pretty sure it's the exact same game. I don't know why people found the game so boring. I loved it. Seems the consensus based on user reviews, and the website review are that the game was pretty good.
That's very true. Go see a movie. That's $12 for 2 hours of entertainment. $10 for a copy of Mario64 or Zedla OOT is a much better deal than most of the other forms of entertainment. It's $5 to rent a movie at most places now. Download Excitebike, and you'll probably get much more enjoyment.
I guess that's why GameCube has so much better load times than PS2 and XBox. Being the owner of a GC, I don't know how anybody put up with the atrocious load times of the PS2.
I'd like to see you fit that old hardware, including a DVD drive, in something the size of a Nintendo Wii. The Wii is about the same size as most PC DVD drives, not even counting room for the actual motherboard, and power supply.
You don't have to navigate MSDN. You put your cursor on the desired function, and press F1. Alternately you can search for the function/class name, and it usually shows the correct item in the first 3 or 4 results. With.Net, you get all the documentation on your local machine. No need for a net connection. I will admit that the user comments on PHP.Net are nice. However, a lot of the comments are just useless, and don't really offer much. With.Net, you can install the free IDE, and there's no configuration necessary. It even has it's own web server that it installs. You can edit the code while debugging and changes take effect immediately. You can even rewind from an exception that has already happened, fix the problem, and continue on debugging, without ever even stopping. Try getting a debuggable PHP install working on your local machine, and compare that to the ease of installing VS.Net. You can also get a lot of cheap hosting providers that support ASP.Net now.
One of the worst examples I ever saw was somebody asking how to make a timer go off at a specific time. In.Net, the timers can only be programmed to fire after x milliseconds. So the response was to fire the timer every second, and then check the time, to see if it was the time you wanted it to be. The correct solution would be to just set the timer interval to DesiredTime.Subtract(Now).TotalMilliseconds. However I went to about 15 different sites before I decided to create a better solution on my own.
The best practices and ideal implementation should be the only thing covered in the books/tutorials. If you don't have room for multiple implementations, you should at least include the most correct solution.
I tried ZendStudio and their Eclipse project. Last time I checked, it didn't have autocomplete/intellisense for the functions that were part of my code at least the ones from other files that had to be included. I seem to remember it working for the core PHP functions, but not for any of the code I had actually written. Despite how much I don't like Microsoft's server products, VS.Net is an amazing IDE.
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What's the threshhold for being a monopoly. Just being the most popular isn't enough. Some make of car would be the most popular, but that doesn't mean they have a monopoly. If Apple and Linux continue to make strides on the desktop, could MS have their monopoly status revoked? At what point is MS no longer a monopoly?
You're assuming that MS even knows the details of their own file format.
I'm not sure where office fits into this though. Office has never been part of Windows, and MS has never stopped anyone from running any other word processor. When you buy MS Office, you have to buy it seperately, and it doesn't interfere with the use of other office products like OO.O, or WordPerfect. I see the problem with things like IE, which MS gives away for free, and which is unable to be removed from the system. But I don't see a problem with them not releasing the format specification for a completely separate product. Would they be required to release documents for every other application they produce?
Some actual competition does exist. However, just because competition exists, doesn't mean it's easy to switch from one product to another. If you're whole company relied on Ruby On Rails, and then it was outlawed (let's just say it happened, don't ask why), you'd have quite a hard time reimplementing your entire system in PHP, .Net, J2EE, or whichever other system you chose. If you're using MySQL, and all of a sudden that disappears, it takes a lot of work to switch over to some other RDBMS. Sure, having open standards help to resolve some of the lock in, but I don't think there will ever be a time when you aren't "locked in" to whatever system you are using.
We had gum banned throughout grade school and I think in highschool it was dependent on the teacher. The result was that most kids used cough drops instead. They seemed to have a cough for almost the entire school year, and used about 4 or 5 cough drops a day. I wonder if that's worse or better than chewing gum.
But if the original author didn't look for another means of publication after getting rejected, then that's their own fault for not following through with the book. The publisher could publish the work, but so could every other publisher. So the amount of money to be made by going back and digging out some old work would be very little.
If they pass a law that says you can't smoke indoors, then it is illegal. Therefore you can't operate a bar and let people smoke in it. By creating the laws, they have made it illegal. Just like they don't allow you do drink alcohol in public, and they don't let you go hunting in central park. Just because something is legal, doesn't mean you can do it wherever you want, especially when doing it affects others around you.
Exactly bring back the 17 years of copyright with no renewal. I could even argue that since works can be distributed much more quickly than 2 centuries ago, that works should be covered by copyright for an even shorter period. After 10 years your work should go into the public domain. If you haven't generated enough cash by that point, you're probably never going to generate any cash with that work.
How do you vote with your wallet, when absolutely every restaurant has smoking in it? You could just not to go restaurants at all, but that's quite a sacrifice. Also, most restaurants (in my area at least) have seen increased business since they banned smoking. Most smoker's actually say they like that the restaurants aren't filled with smoke anymore. It's beneficial to all patrons that smoking not be allowed. They just never realized it until the government instituted a law against it.
That's why universal health care is nice (I live in Canada). It's nice to be able to get tests, just in case there is something wrong. Obviously it's not a good idea to investigate all colds to this level, but it's nice not to go bankrupt in the instance when you do get a sinus infection.
Yeah, but until then, I'm enjoying not having the taste of smoke mixed in with my food when I visit restaurants. I quite enjoy that peopel aren't allowed to smoke in most indoor places anymore. Regardless of the health effects, it makes your clothes stink. In some places (bingo parlors anyone?) it's actualy quite difficult to breath properly. Even if there is no health effects, I still don't like the feeling of going into a room that's filled with smoke.
Doesn't removing the timeline make courses a whole lot easier? I know I would have done much better in my classes, and got a much higher GPA if I didn't have to take 6-7 course a semester, or if I had 8 months to absorb all the material. I used webCT in 2 or 3 of my university courses, and most of us didn't really see much need for it. Most of the time the server would be unavailable when you really needed it, because everybody wanted to submit the assignment in the last 1 hour before it was due.
When I went to university, all we had was the Professors webspace. And we liked it. Do we really need anything more complicated? Or is this a solution in search of a problem? A lot of professors I had didn't even use the webspace. We seemed to do fine without it.
I personally loved Twilight Princess. Played it on the GC, although I'm pretty sure it's the exact same game. I don't know why people found the game so boring. I loved it. Seems the consensus based on user reviews, and the website review are that the game was pretty good.
That's very true. Go see a movie. That's $12 for 2 hours of entertainment. $10 for a copy of Mario64 or Zedla OOT is a much better deal than most of the other forms of entertainment. It's $5 to rent a movie at most places now. Download Excitebike, and you'll probably get much more enjoyment.
I guess that's why GameCube has so much better load times than PS2 and XBox. Being the owner of a GC, I don't know how anybody put up with the atrocious load times of the PS2.
can you even see the entire 42 inch screen from 5 feet away? That's like sitting front row in a movie theatre. How is that even comfortable for you?
Just because they've introduced namespaces as a feature in the language, doesn't mean the entire API gets organized using namespaces.
I'd like to see you fit that old hardware, including a DVD drive, in something the size of a Nintendo Wii. The Wii is about the same size as most PC DVD drives, not even counting room for the actual motherboard, and power supply.
Yeah, but the Wii looks a lot nicer than most old computers.
You don't have to navigate MSDN. You put your cursor on the desired function, and press F1. Alternately you can search for the function/class name, and it usually shows the correct item in the first 3 or 4 results. With .Net, you get all the documentation on your local machine. No need for a net connection. I will admit that the user comments on PHP.Net are nice. However, a lot of the comments are just useless, and don't really offer much. With .Net, you can install the free IDE, and there's no configuration necessary. It even has it's own web server that it installs. You can edit the code while debugging and changes take effect immediately. You can even rewind from an exception that has already happened, fix the problem, and continue on debugging, without ever even stopping. Try getting a debuggable PHP install working on your local machine, and compare that to the ease of installing VS.Net. You can also get a lot of cheap hosting providers that support ASP.Net now.
One of the worst examples I ever saw was somebody asking how to make a timer go off at a specific time. In .Net, the timers can only be programmed to fire after x milliseconds. So the response was to fire the timer every second, and then check the time, to see if it was the time you wanted it to be. The correct solution would be to just set the timer interval to DesiredTime.Subtract(Now).TotalMilliseconds. However I went to about 15 different sites before I decided to create a better solution on my own.
The best practices and ideal implementation should be the only thing covered in the books/tutorials. If you don't have room for multiple implementations, you should at least include the most correct solution.
I tried ZendStudio and their Eclipse project. Last time I checked, it didn't have autocomplete/intellisense for the functions that were part of my code at least the ones from other files that had to be included. I seem to remember it working for the core PHP functions, but not for any of the code I had actually written. Despite how much I don't like Microsoft's server products, VS.Net is an amazing IDE.