Parent wrote: ""tried to make Visual C++ more conformant to the ISO C++ standard... Note, must now buy out all members of the C++ ISO standards development team.""
I do realize you were kidding, but did you realize that they did hire Herb Sutter (The chair of the ISO C++ standards committee) to be the Visual C++ architect for Microsoft.
I always thought P2P would be a good infrastructure for a search engine.
That way, I could share the load with people with similar interests as myself.
For example, I would like a search engine that was more up-to-date crawling the PR of my competitors, but couldn't care less about most other companies. If I were running my own node of a P2P engine, I could set my node to focus on that, and anyone else who shared my interests could tap into it.
Ctrl-C == 003 = ETX ("End of Text")
Ctrl-V == 026 = SYN (something about sync...)
Ctrl-X == 030 = CAN ("Cancel previous data")
(if this doesn't make sense, 'man ascii' or whatever the equivalent windows command may be)
Just because Windows decided to embrace&extend doesn't make it a standard any more than emacs's (stupid) decision to make backspace (ASCII 'BS' otherwise known as ctrl-h) not work as a backspace.
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So, it should come as no surprise that SCO Group's (Nasdaq: SCOX) lawsuit against the Linux industry has produced what could either be a profitable new market niche or a spectacular new scam: open source insurance."
I think you're mis-interpreting the philosophy of Microsoft Security. They'll have it insecure yet have all ports _open_ so people can buy expensive stateful firewalls that watch all the ports; and so their cable-modem company will block port 25 for them to keep them "safe". The whole industry of firewalls, anti-virus-guys, etc is a benefit to Microsoft, not a liability.
Just think, without them you can't have a "all computers connected to our network must have an anti-virus program from one of our approved vendors" policy.
It's quite possible security sells more products ( == more revenue) from Microsoft and their partners than good security.
That's true of most large established industries.
I don't expect GM to stop making cars, or Wal*Mart to give up retail, or P&G to stop making consumer products either.
Just another sign that software is leaving high-tech and becoming a mature industry.
If you want high-tech for the next decade or so, think bio, nano, and robotics, not software.
I used to think this until I saw some of the Apple designs - especially of their multimedia speakers that apparently their same designers did with
Harmon Kardon.
Apple proved that a good design for a computer is possible.
Now if only Apple started designing kitchen appliances and livingroom fixtures so everything could look as nice.
" The three major components of CSR are as follows.
* postgreSQL Database "
I, for one, wish they used more OSS components, since at least these parts have been peer-reviewed to not have trojans or backdoors as mentioned in the article.
"The Taipei District Court on Tuesday here ruled that executives from Intel Corp. and other parties were not guilty of destroying Via Technologies Inc.'s property, including an alleged move to pop the company's balloons at a trade show in 2001"
parent wrote: " This practice is only safe to do if the resulting program is closed-source. If it's open-source someone will find out too easily."
Perhaps a better survey should have been - "how many people does your organization have doing thorough code-reviews before checkins so such cases of illegal code-copying can be caught?".
I bet closed-source organizations have worse practices than open-source organizations in that respect.
No it wasn't just a PR stunt.
It's clarifying the legal matter of
generic mark doctrine
on the grounds that "windows" is a term that described the GUI element of windows on computers long before Microsoft started using the word to describe their implementation of a GUI based on windows on computers.
I got hate mail from other employees, and my employer, Forrester, was threatened to a level they had never seen before either. I was actually told, subsequent to this, that I was never to write about Linux again which was something that had never, to my knowledge, ever happened before.
This actually became one of the core reasons I used when I resigned from Forrester, no one had ever dictated a position to me before and that had clearly changed. I've always had a problem with opinions for hire and had been very active in fighting that trend; opinions as a result of personal threat seemed much worse and, while this was hardly the only reason for my departure, it was a major one.
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- So I can write large scale enterpise software in QT?
- So I can write applets in Java?
- So QT'll run in smartcards?
Oh, perhaps it's this aspect that they're shooting to duplicate.I do realize you were kidding, but did you realize that they did hire Herb Sutter (The chair of the ISO C++ standards committee) to be the Visual C++ architect for Microsoft.
They have tons of cash, so why can't they just to a cash stock-buyback from all but 499 of their shareholders?
That way, I could share the load with people with similar interests as myself.
For example, I would like a search engine that was more up-to-date crawling the PR of my competitors, but couldn't care less about most other companies. If I were running my own node of a P2P engine, I could set my node to focus on that, and anyone else who shared my interests could tap into it.
Ctrl-C == 003 = ETX ("End of Text")
Ctrl-V == 026 = SYN (something about sync...)
Ctrl-X == 030 = CAN ("Cancel previous data")
(if this doesn't make sense, 'man ascii' or whatever the equivalent windows command may be)
Just because Windows decided to embrace&extend doesn't make it a standard any more than emacs's (stupid) decision to make backspace (ASCII 'BS' otherwise known as ctrl-h) not work as a backspace.
" So, it should come as no surprise that SCO Group's (Nasdaq: SCOX) lawsuit against the Linux industry has produced what could either be a profitable new market niche or a spectacular new scam: open source insurance."
To your "how a drive ... can operate next to it"... I think this is the explanation.
That way the field will be super-strong next to the magnet, but super-week even a short distance away.You mean like the guys who called this non-silver stuff "silver"
He explicitly writes"
"I'm confused to... I thought Stevenson was too busy working at this spaceship company to write books.
60GB hard drive 700GB traffic - split 5-ways, with 10GB for the OS.
I think they started doing it when they saw the demand after the early Apr google announcement and people thought it was an april fools joke.
Disk space is so cheap this isn't an amazing size -- I get 10GB (email+web hosting) for $10/month.
Well, a good idea and a mother who shared a position on the board of United Way with John Opel (the then chairman of IBM).
Just think, without them you can't have a "all computers connected to our network must have an anti-virus program from one of our approved vendors" policy.
It's quite possible security sells more products ( == more revenue) from Microsoft and their partners than good security.
Looks like Sun's doing Intel favors too, killing their UltraSparc V processor today. Even after it taped out!
Ideas like that make microsoft india sound like a good idea.
Just another sign that software is leaving high-tech and becoming a mature industry.
If you want high-tech for the next decade or so, think bio, nano, and robotics, not software.
Now if only Apple started designing kitchen appliances and livingroom fixtures so everything could look as nice.
Just because it runs Linus doesn't mean the whole product's open source/free/whatever.
Not true. From Cisco's web sites we read:
I, for one, wish they used more OSS components, since at least these parts have been peer-reviewed to not have trojans or backdoors as mentioned in the article.
Perhaps a better survey should have been - "how many people does your organization have doing thorough code-reviews before checkins so such cases of illegal code-copying can be caught?".
I bet closed-source organizations have worse practices than open-source organizations in that respect.
No it wasn't just a PR stunt. It's clarifying the legal matter of generic mark doctrine on the grounds that "windows" is a term that described the GUI element of windows on computers long before Microsoft started using the word to describe their implementation of a GUI based on windows on computers.
See pine-tracker : "
"Rob Enderle, formerly of Forrester writes: