The only thing I want to say is PARNET. Way before Beowulf clusters... I so miss my Amiga's... non symmetrical multiprocessing... pushing the boundaries. Doing funky stuff with genlock and all. Maybe the PS3 with Linux onboard will have the same hacking aura, I wish it will.
you are not alone. 10 years of wonderful coding experiences before the total collapse and NO marketplace after that... NEVER again will I use closed source. My coding is far too important for that. Bitter doesn't even begin to describe how bitter I am.
That could equally be read as "Linux wouldn't be open if it was a viable player in the market place"
Having it open source is to ensure that it will be available even if the main company dies. How much great closed technology have been lost because of being jousted out of the market place by ignorant consumerism when decades later it resurfaces as if it was the hot-shit du jour?
It is costing us humans a great deal to reinvent things all the time... imagine if we needed to start from scratch now and then where General Relativity/Space exploration is concerned or something like that.
We have only limited resources and we better damn use them efficiently.
ok lets say that works... Microsoft's next step would be to make the same agreement with other distributions and it can do so for a great while without hurting their own bottom line. This cancerous scheme will definitely push many hard core Linux users into one distribution and thus weakening the Linux community because it wouldn't be as diversified.
I agree that Novell should be made into an example for future Microsoft Friendly Linux Dists how NOT to engage in dealings with Microsoft.
The world does not need Microsoft and the sooner we get off if it the better.
"interpersonal skills" AKA "how to be a brown nose", "Backstabbing go getter" more of a Managerial type of person...
If you can't do you teach.
If you can't teach you manage.
If you can't manage then you become a politician.
Anyone wanting a good programmer to have good social skills is doomed to failure. The reason they are good in the first place is that they don't care about the social scene directly (note: DIRECTLY)
Regardless if you are with or against Richard Stallman the Forbes article is just VERY bad journalism. I would rather call it flamebait than an article.
But for instance if a criminal gets hold of your fingerprint from a database somewhere and makes latex gloves that will imprint YOUR fingerprint on things that the criminal does WHAT THEN?
"...makes heavy use of ASICs..." only from someone raised in the x86 culture would find it flabbergasting that special purpose ICs are 3 magnitudes faster than a general purpose program.
Excellent post! Especiialy #17 and #19. It took PIII 800 MHz for an x86 to get to #17 (obviously with no ISA nor bad PCI cards in the machine.) And #19... well thats why I have a Mac Powerbook:-D
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The only thing I want to say is PARNET. Way before Beowulf clusters... I so miss my Amiga's... non symmetrical multiprocessing... pushing the boundaries. Doing funky stuff with genlock and all. Maybe the PS3 with Linux onboard will have the same hacking aura, I wish it will.
you are not alone. 10 years of wonderful coding experiences before the total collapse and NO marketplace after that... NEVER again will I use closed source. My coding is far too important for that. Bitter doesn't even begin to describe how bitter I am.
That could equally be read as "Linux wouldn't be open if it was a viable player in the market place"
Having it open source is to ensure that it will be available even if the main company dies. How much great closed technology have been lost because of being jousted out of the market place by ignorant consumerism when decades later it resurfaces as if it was the hot-shit du jour?
It is costing us humans a great deal to reinvent things all the time... imagine if we needed to start from scratch now and then where General Relativity/Space exploration is concerned or something like that.
We have only limited resources and we better damn use them efficiently.
So the sparc processor doesn't count?
http://www.sun.com/processors/opensparc/
Enlightened yet?
This approach does not fly with me, I wouldn't use it in a million years.
"Lick ones wounds" actually works! Who would have thought!
Awww... Flamebait??? This was Funny 5+ FCOL!
ok lets say that works... Microsoft's next step would be to make the same agreement with other distributions and it can do so for a great while without hurting their own bottom line. This cancerous scheme will definitely push many hard core Linux users into one distribution and thus weakening the Linux community because it wouldn't be as diversified.
I agree that Novell should be made into an example for future Microsoft Friendly Linux Dists how NOT to engage in dealings with Microsoft.
The world does not need Microsoft and the sooner we get off if it the better.
"A new IBM-sponsored study on Linux sent m..."
Hahahaha.... thank you IBM for fudding the Microsoft way. Down Microsoft DOWN! I have a boat load of nails for your new coffin.
It is a poor programmer if he/she/it only programs in one language.
I wouldn't say that they need to. Mono (and my experiences with beagled) is a dog.. pun intended too.
What Microsoft could do is to actually make a fast runtime for Linux so it can compete against Java.
Microsoft is ~8 year behind though if they wanted that so its most probably moot.
"interpersonal skills" AKA "how to be a brown nose", "Backstabbing go getter" more of a Managerial type of person...
If you can't do you teach.
If you can't teach you manage.
If you can't manage then you become a politician.
Anyone wanting a good programmer to have good social skills is doomed to failure. The reason they are good in the first place is that they don't care about the social scene directly (note: DIRECTLY)
No it is definitely not true. I have fired more than a couple that came walzing in with Microsoft solutions thinking they are all hotshots.
"coda non grata" Ok... Coda means tail and not code.
"Formula non grata" would be way more appropriate.
"If you can't beat them join them"
mmmm how does it feel now Microsoft?
Want us to ease the pressure?
Not until Windows is insignificant.
Regardless if you are with or against Richard Stallman the Forbes article is just VERY bad journalism. I would rather call it flamebait than an article.
I for one would NOT welcome these new tax overlords!
"...here's a good chance we could cause a major disruption in thier entertainment products."
hahahaha... much like Windows was twarted because it was a shoddy product back in the day.
Sorry it doesn't fly like that, welcome to reality kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik-sang
But for instance if a criminal gets hold of your fingerprint from a database somewhere and makes latex gloves that will imprint YOUR fingerprint on things that the criminal does WHAT THEN?
If something can get abused IT WILL get abused.
"...while still running high end apps like Visual Studio..."
VS high end app? common I don't think you meant what you wrote there.
Wooohooo. Audio is finally fixed. Thanks!
"...makes heavy use of ASICs..." only from someone raised in the x86 culture would find it flabbergasting that special purpose ICs are 3 magnitudes faster than a general purpose program.
Aug 2005! And here I thought it was 2006 for almost a year now... weee I am one year younger... oh... maybe not.
Excellent post! Especiialy #17 and #19. It took PIII 800 MHz for an x86 to get to #17 (obviously with no ISA nor bad PCI cards in the machine.) And #19... well thats why I have a Mac Powerbook :-D