The adapter I'm describing requires nothing from the OS vendor. Yes, someone will still have to code the OS specific adapter code, but that's not necessarily the vendor. Once completed, the adapter would plug in like a normal driver and all Cross Platform drivers would plug into the adapter.
If Microsoft doesn't support the driver model, none of the current Windows IHVs will either.
Anyone have any thoughts on why this would or wouldn't work?
Because there's absolutely no business reason why Microsoft would care to support such a standard? And if Microsoft isn't on board, it is just an academic exercise with very little real world value?
Why should they buy the program if they have legal grounds to believe they already own it?
Employee morale?
Not looking like assholes in public?
An action like this can easily undo millions of dollars spent on public relations, especially when their whole company message is about being "different" and not the faceless, corportate company so many other computer businesses have become...so in the end doing this may cost them much more than just buying the code off the employee would have.
Google is smart, not "Good". If you think they are really the champions of the common man, consider the fact that they actively help the Chinese government censor most of the net for its citizens.
I use google all the time, because they know what I want, not because they are some sort of do-gooders... Because they aren't.
Remember the good old days when someone would actually implement a technology (C, TCP/IP, OpenGL, etc) and then specify it later, after some real world shake-down?
These days you hear about some potential technology, then a group of 10-50 companies form a committee, then maybe 10 years later if you're lucky the technology will actually be implemented. Of course, by then the technology is pretty much obsolete, and probably unusable by most of the industry due to patent encumberance since most of the companies on the technology committee fought to have the pet patent inserted into the standard...
For music media, the size of a Gamecube disc is pretty ideal, if you ask me. Anything smaller would just be a pain in the ass. Even if you didn't lose the things, how are you going to store them? In a giant pile? Have fun finding the album you're dying to hear in that situation.. And while smaller-than-CD would be ideal, it wouldn't be ideal enough for most people to go through the trouble of another format switch. Sorry, record companies, but CD quality audio is more than enough for 98% of the people in the world... and CD size isn't really an issue (and if it is, mp3 players can easily take care of it without requiring a wholesale format change). You're going to have to find some other way to make money than with a forced format change, this time.
I think the music industry will lose a ton of money on this if they really push it. Either give us the convinience of owning the songs in a digital format we can shuttle to any type of device we'd like or stay with CDs. I don't see consumers, even the mainstream consumers, going for anything else right now.
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The software should be runnable on any similarly equipped Series 60 phone such as the 3650 - but more likely these games will simply live on in PC based emulators.
But from a practical standpoint, who cares? All of these games are cut-down versions of games available on PC or on systems already well-emulated on PCs...
Speaking as a professional programmer for the past 9 years, including much Java work, all of the similarities that are documented in that letter look like they are due to:
A) Both systems calling into the same API (IBM's log4j), which has a fixed interface, so of course the code is going to look similar
and..
B) Both systems implementing the same API, namely J2EE, which also has a fixed interface with well known conventions.
This is *insane*. By the same logic, and with a much more convincing looking 'code-theft' letter from an attorney, Microsoft could shut down both Mono and PortableNET in a heartbeat, saying that they have stolen code from Rotor. The fact that Microsoft hasn't and JBoss has says a lot about JBoss, and the fact that just because code is Open Source and the code works really well doesn't mean the people who own the code aren't power-mad cocksuckers.
It was actually announced that it would take place after Revolutions way back at this year's E3 (mid-May), so even before Reloaded it was known among anyone who heard the announcements that the Matrix would still be around after the trilogy ended.
Google is so immensely popular, it is practically "a must" for most web surfers now.
I think Google is in a great position and will be around for a long time, but your basic argument isn't that sound based on history.
Back in the 2.0 browser days, something like 98% of all browsers were Netscape. They were more popular as a browser than even the mighty Google is as a search engine, and were without a doubt considered "a must".
Google's current popularity alone isn't enough to keep it on top, just like Netscape's wasn't. However, I do think Google will continue to thrive since unlike Netscape they aren't making business mistake after business mistake...
The whole gift card system isn't all that unique to iTunes. Various MMORPGs have had similar systems in place since before iTunes shipped (yes, even before it shipped on the Mac).
Of course they are trying to get rid of Win32 AND MFC. They don't try to hide this. Look at recent versions of the MSDN documentation, where all the old Win32 API and MFC calls are marked deprecated in favor of.NET libraries...
It seems that people do not want to learn any longer.
Any longer? I must have missed that part of human history where the majority of people had an interest in science and other pursuits of knowledge.
Always keep in mind that we look back through history in a narrow tube which shows us the important events (in hindsight) and people. The majority have and will always be of the type who don't question things to any great degree. This is not new, it is not caused by MTV or reality TV (both symptoms, not causes).
I imagine it would take the form of the ghostly white snow of a dead channel within a few weeks of launching. Since my local cable carrier won't pick the channel up to begin with anyways, at least I won't have to mourn the loss.
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This Homeland Security thing is really working!
If Microsoft doesn't support the driver model, none of the current Windows IHVs will either.
Because there's absolutely no business reason why Microsoft would care to support such a standard? And if Microsoft isn't on board, it is just an academic exercise with very little real world value?
And I, for one, welcome our new nanobot masters?
Employee morale?
Not looking like assholes in public?
An action like this can easily undo millions of dollars spent on public relations, especially when their whole company message is about being "different" and not the faceless, corportate company so many other computer businesses have become...so in the end doing this may cost them much more than just buying the code off the employee would have.
And no, Bluetooth is not dying like most of the USian /.er's think.
Cost. Think, THEN post.
I use google all the time, because they know what I want, not because they are some sort of do-gooders... Because they aren't.
These days you hear about some potential technology, then a group of 10-50 companies form a committee, then maybe 10 years later if you're lucky the technology will actually be implemented. Of course, by then the technology is pretty much obsolete, and probably unusable by most of the industry due to patent encumberance since most of the companies on the technology committee fought to have the pet patent inserted into the standard...
Sigh...The good ol' days!
My plain & simple question is, why does Red Hat suck so much ass?
I think the music industry will lose a ton of money on this if they really push it. Either give us the convinience of owning the songs in a digital format we can shuttle to any type of device we'd like or stay with CDs. I don't see consumers, even the mainstream consumers, going for anything else right now.
But from a practical standpoint, who cares? All of these games are cut-down versions of games available on PC or on systems already well-emulated on PCs...
A) Both systems calling into the same API (IBM's log4j), which has a fixed interface, so of course the code is going to look similar
and..
B) Both systems implementing the same API, namely J2EE, which also has a fixed interface with well known conventions.
This is *insane*. By the same logic, and with a much more convincing looking 'code-theft' letter from an attorney, Microsoft could shut down both Mono and PortableNET in a heartbeat, saying that they have stolen code from Rotor. The fact that Microsoft hasn't and JBoss has says a lot about JBoss, and the fact that just because code is Open Source and the code works really well doesn't mean the people who own the code aren't power-mad cocksuckers.
It was actually announced that it would take place after Revolutions way back at this year's E3 (mid-May), so even before Reloaded it was known among anyone who heard the announcements that the Matrix would still be around after the trilogy ended.
Wow "winshit". Did you think that one up all by yourself? Get out of your parent's basement much?
Because of my awesome goodness I am able to make the post that is the first one in this thread.
First California, now THE SUN!!!
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I think Google is in a great position and will be around for a long time, but your basic argument isn't that sound based on history.
Back in the 2.0 browser days, something like 98% of all browsers were Netscape. They were more popular as a browser than even the mighty Google is as a search engine, and were without a doubt considered "a must".
Google's current popularity alone isn't enough to keep it on top, just like Netscape's wasn't. However, I do think Google will continue to thrive since unlike Netscape they aren't making business mistake after business mistake...
Not that it matters a hell of a lot, and not that one should expect better from a Slashdot submission or Slashdot editor, but still...
Of course they are trying to get rid of Win32 AND MFC. They don't try to hide this. Look at recent versions of the MSDN documentation, where all the old Win32 API and MFC calls are marked deprecated in favor of .NET libraries...
You could pick up some crazy ass mermaid chicks in this fly ride.
But they charge you 1/2 the cost, which is probably about the wholesale cost... So its still kind of a ripoff.
Any longer? I must have missed that part of human history where the majority of people had an interest in science and other pursuits of knowledge.
Always keep in mind that we look back through history in a narrow tube which shows us the important events (in hindsight) and people. The majority have and will always be of the type who don't question things to any great degree. This is not new, it is not caused by MTV or reality TV (both symptoms, not causes).
I imagine it would take the form of the ghostly white snow of a dead channel within a few weeks of launching. Since my local cable carrier won't pick the channel up to begin with anyways, at least I won't have to mourn the loss.