I'd say its because theres still millions of newbies out there who still think they'll become fabulously wealthy, just as soon as they learn how to program a computer.
That and once a programmer gets sufficiently advanced, their need for dead tree references diminishes to nothing. I know I rarely use any references, except maybe for the odd syntactical thing that I'll forget. (the "how do you call strncpy again?" type things)
It's not like I've nothing left to learn, it's that anything I learn from here on in will be through experience and doing.
I'm past the "this is what a stream and a class and an object is" stage, which is the real learning curve.
To be fair, this is saying that not only will your light start leaking out of the bend (ending your transmissions), but it will basically "melt" the cable and screw it up permanently. And the higher the power, the faster it melts.
Of course, we all know you shouldnt bend the cables in the first place so it's a moot point.
So your saying if police have information that someone is randomly murdering people, possibly from a white van, they should do nothing about it?
There was no "backlash". I live in the area, one of the shootings was a handful of blocks from my work. One of my coworkers in a light beige van was searched.
The general opinion was "we'll do anything we can to help catch this lunatic", not "oh my god my rights are being infringed upon by the man".
I dont do any online banking or shopping. And even if I did, I see no reason to place any more trust in mozilla or opera than in IE. The problem is the web in general.
I'll believe in eCommerce when IPSec becomes ubiquitous.
This shit already exists, this is no different from existing systems like NIBRS or MILES. Everyone's out to either reinvent the wheel or bitch about it.
Besides the nostalgia/geek factor of running a web browser on your C64 (which I've been doing for years, well cheating by using the 64 as a dumb terminal and running lynx)
Maybe a Contiki based PDA? Contiki based email stations? Seems you could make such things dirt cheap using this as the OS.
I dont want any government telling me what my OS can or cannot do.
Like I've said many times, if the government wants to "level the playing field", then THEY should switch to open formats and OS's. A huge section of the market uses MS Office because the government expects them too.
I write software that's sold to the government (US mostly, but we're negotiating with some other nations). They want it to dump reports in excel format, they want it to populate Word templates, they want it to use SQL Server and MS Access, etc, etc.
How about a committee of techies to write open formats for documents? Like W3C for the office. "Level playing field" achieved almost instantly.
I use MediaPlayer, and there's nothing special about it whatsoever. I use it simply because it works most of the time, and most importantly, I haven't seen ANYTHING better.
If there was something better out there, I'd use it.
WinAMP is buggy and has a clumsy interface, it plays mpegs back with incorrect colors sometimes, for instance.
Quicktime is a crippled piece of crap and I'm not going to cut Apple a cheque just to see if it's better.
The less said about RealPlayer, the better.
Everything else either has annoying spyware or nagscreens or missing features. They can pass all the laws they want saying that MSFT cannot ship WMP with Windows, and it'll be the first thing I download and install after setting up a box. Nothing else works right.
There's a HUGE opportunity, as I see it, to create something better. I'd be all over it, and so, I'm sure, would many others. But, know what? I wouldnt pay for it. They can make their money through licensing encoders to content providers, not by shoving ads in my face or charging me a subscription.
I feel the same way about the browser thing. I'm not forced to use IE, I only do so because it works and theres no compelling reason to install something else - except for goofy ideological arguments about Free vs free.
It's vague and makes a few general allegations, but provides not even a hint of specifics or proof.
An overwhelming majority of customers responding to this market enquiry highlighted that Microsoft's non-disclosure of interface information - necessary for competing servers to properly "talk" with Windows PCs and servers - did indeed artificially alter their choice in favour of Microsoft's server products.
To "talk" with windows PCs? Huh? You mean SMB? ODBC? DCOM? Oh wait, those are all known.
They must be talking about ActiveDirectory, right? That's more of a nice new feature than a necessity for business. Will it be the case that every new feature MSFT comes up with must be given away to all?
The Media Player thing is stupid too. It's already "uncoupled" from the OS. You need not install or use it, they even made a special little control panel applet to "uninstall" it. If someone made a better media player, I'd be using it right now.
If the EU wanted to actually make a difference, and not headlines, they'd push linux in their own governments. THEY set the standard everyone follows. People use excel, word and access because that's what the federales use.
Then the right choice is the cheaper one. If you spent more for the enermax over an antec, based on some "review site" who's advice boils down to "the more you spend the better!", you're a fool.
You cannot incite a riot in a public place, like screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre.
Authors have long gotten in trouble with the feds for writing "how to" books and manifestos on bombmaking, murder, child molestation, etc.
This isnt new or a sign of the times. This idiot, through his ACTIONS, not his words, seeks to threaten the safety of other citizens. He can believe whatever he wants, but when he starts telling people to put pipe bombs in my mailbox, he crosses a line.
So sad too bad, here's hoping he's raped mercilessy by people with even less respect for the law than he.
You're a superhero. You keep track of "known trolls".
Just because I think that you and the rest of your groupthink idiot ilk are laughable and worthy of ridicule, doesn't mean that you need discount everything I say.
You're like a second grader with his hands over his ears screaming "LALALALAL I CANT HEAR YOU".
Go fuck yourself, put me on your foes list, and dont bother reading my posts.
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And it's called "C:\HACKORING\YOU FAIL IT.vbs"
Dont use so many caps, it's like YELLING.
don't recommend using dollars, however, since the $$$'s make it look like you're using Perl
The dollar sign ($) appears nowhere on a dollar bill (or any denomination).
I'd say its because theres still millions of newbies out there who still think they'll become fabulously wealthy, just as soon as they learn how to program a computer.
That and once a programmer gets sufficiently advanced, their need for dead tree references diminishes to nothing. I know I rarely use any references, except maybe for the odd syntactical thing that I'll forget. (the "how do you call strncpy again?" type things)
It's not like I've nothing left to learn, it's that anything I learn from here on in will be through experience and doing.
I'm past the "this is what a stream and a class and an object is" stage, which is the real learning curve.
You mean like post slashdot articles from war-torn afghanistan on their c64s?
To be fair, this is saying that not only will your light start leaking out of the bend (ending your transmissions), but it will basically "melt" the cable and screw it up permanently. And the higher the power, the faster it melts.
Of course, we all know you shouldnt bend the cables in the first place so it's a moot point.
I always thought this was a given?
Whats new here that everyone whos so much as read a magazine article about fibre optic tech doesnt know?
You cant bend fibres, or light will just come shooting out.
So your saying if police have information that someone is randomly murdering people, possibly from a white van, they should do nothing about it?
There was no "backlash". I live in the area, one of the shootings was a handful of blocks from my work. One of my coworkers in a light beige van was searched.
The general opinion was "we'll do anything we can to help catch this lunatic", not "oh my god my rights are being infringed upon by the man".
Will you all feel better if they promise to use Open Source Free-as-in-Willy software?
MySQL is robust enough now that they could track at least 3 dozen people, give or take.
I dont do any online banking or shopping. And even if I did, I see no reason to place any more trust in mozilla or opera than in IE. The problem is the web in general.
I'll believe in eCommerce when IPSec becomes ubiquitous.
Psst.
You can already do the exact same search through the DMV.
During the DC sniper investigation, hundreds of people driving white vans were pulled over, searched and questioned. Thats how investigations work.
Information wants to be free.
Oh, except to law enforcement.
You are all hypocrites.
This shit already exists, this is no different from existing systems like NIBRS or MILES. Everyone's out to either reinvent the wheel or bitch about it.
But GEOS didnt multitask at all on the C64, though it was truly way ahead of it's time.
Besides the nostalgia/geek factor of running a web browser on your C64 (which I've been doing for years, well cheating by using the 64 as a dumb terminal and running lynx)
Maybe a Contiki based PDA? Contiki based email stations? Seems you could make such things dirt cheap using this as the OS.
Not pro-m$, just anti-stupidity.
I dont want any government telling me what my OS can or cannot do.
Like I've said many times, if the government wants to "level the playing field", then THEY should switch to open formats and OS's. A huge section of the market uses MS Office because the government expects them too.
I write software that's sold to the government (US mostly, but we're negotiating with some other nations). They want it to dump reports in excel format, they want it to populate Word templates, they want it to use SQL Server and MS Access, etc, etc.
How about a committee of techies to write open formats for documents? Like W3C for the office. "Level playing field" achieved almost instantly.
I use MediaPlayer, and there's nothing special about it whatsoever. I use it simply because it works most of the time, and most importantly, I haven't seen ANYTHING better.
If there was something better out there, I'd use it.
WinAMP is buggy and has a clumsy interface, it plays mpegs back with incorrect colors sometimes, for instance.
Quicktime is a crippled piece of crap and I'm not going to cut Apple a cheque just to see if it's better.
The less said about RealPlayer, the better.
Everything else either has annoying spyware or nagscreens or missing features. They can pass all the laws they want saying that MSFT cannot ship WMP with Windows, and it'll be the first thing I download and install after setting up a box. Nothing else works right.
There's a HUGE opportunity, as I see it, to create something better. I'd be all over it, and so, I'm sure, would many others. But, know what? I wouldnt pay for it. They can make their money through licensing encoders to content providers, not by shoving ads in my face or charging me a subscription.
I feel the same way about the browser thing. I'm not forced to use IE, I only do so because it works and theres no compelling reason to install something else - except for goofy ideological arguments about Free vs free.
There's absolutely no mention of any law or laws they're violating.
No it isn't.
It's vague and makes a few general allegations, but provides not even a hint of specifics or proof.
An overwhelming majority of customers responding to this market enquiry highlighted that Microsoft's non-disclosure of interface information - necessary for competing servers to properly "talk" with Windows PCs and servers - did indeed artificially alter their choice in favour of Microsoft's server products.
To "talk" with windows PCs? Huh? You mean SMB? ODBC? DCOM? Oh wait, those are all known.
They must be talking about ActiveDirectory, right? That's more of a nice new feature than a necessity for business. Will it be the case that every new feature MSFT comes up with must be given away to all?
The Media Player thing is stupid too. It's already "uncoupled" from the OS. You need not install or use it, they even made a special little control panel applet to "uninstall" it. If someone made a better media player, I'd be using it right now.
If the EU wanted to actually make a difference, and not headlines, they'd push linux in their own governments. THEY set the standard everyone follows. People use excel, word and access because that's what the federales use.
For 250 bucks I can get a gig of SDRam for my PDA/Smartphone which can play mp3s.
Whoopity do. This article was only posted so michael could add his "wah wah DRM" comment to the end.
It's not really news or at all thrilling, just another in a sea of "me too" products.
Then the right choice is the cheaper one. If you spent more for the enermax over an antec, based on some "review site" who's advice boils down to "the more you spend the better!", you're a fool.
I do.
I will license it to you for 699 dollars.
This the same Jefferson who raped his black slave and started a line of illegitmate mulattos?
Just because some long since dead guy said something doesnt make it correct or wise or insightful.
Is not freedom of action.
You cannot incite a riot in a public place, like screaming "fire" in a crowded theatre.
Authors have long gotten in trouble with the feds for writing "how to" books and manifestos on bombmaking, murder, child molestation, etc.
This isnt new or a sign of the times. This idiot, through his ACTIONS, not his words, seeks to threaten the safety of other citizens. He can believe whatever he wants, but when he starts telling people to put pipe bombs in my mailbox, he crosses a line.
So sad too bad, here's hoping he's raped mercilessy by people with even less respect for the law than he.
GPL is about distribution, this is a license to use the binary in a commercial environment. The two don't conflict.
Basically, you can look at the sourcecode all you want, but you can't legally run it unless you've paid SCO.
You're a superhero. You keep track of "known trolls".
Just because I think that you and the rest of your groupthink idiot ilk are laughable and worthy of ridicule, doesn't mean that you need discount everything I say.
You're like a second grader with his hands over his ears screaming "LALALALAL I CANT HEAR YOU".
Go fuck yourself, put me on your foes list, and dont bother reading my posts.
Thank you for your (no doubt worthless) time.
The less convinced I am that they're just blowing smoke.
I really want to know what people plan to do if they prove themselves right.