My father bought one of these Walmart linux boxes. At first I was impressed, not at the machine but that HE spent the money on one. It was a dissapointment with the flavor of linux that it had installed, it seemed to be missing a lot of stuff I've come to expect like a compiler etc.
Any refusal to comply with government enforced measures is not a great idea, and usually ends up with a nice trip to jail and/or a criminal record or, at the very least, being inconvenienced by the authorities.
Right, and I think the police have a lot to answer for here. I mean, the government are a very small bunch of people, and maybe you can say they are just concentrated evil. That's the nature of the beast. But, the police are from a much wider and more diverse community, supposedly. And yet, not only do they accept and enforce these ever-more-draconian laws, but you regularly hear groups like the ACPO calling for MORE draconian measures; if they had their way, no doubt, there would be a totalitarian state.
This diverse group, called the police, ought to start using their brains, and refusing to enforce certain laws. Stop and search with NO cause for suspicion of criminal activity? Disgusting.
Microsoft is also working to get the Linux version of Silverlight going by working with the Mono peeps
Doesn't Mono exist so that, once MS have locked enough people into.net, they can pull ther support out from underneath it and make all *nix/.net solutions come crashing down?
My old co-worker used PERL for XML filtering, etc and I am motivated to learn it myself. I will be attending a PERL class soon, just so I can maintain our current code base.
The first thing you should learn is not to call it PERL.
The big difference is that PHP gets more readable as the skill level of the person who wrote it increases, while Perl gets less readable as the skill level of the person who wrote it increases.
So what you're saying is, PHP code is usually very unreadable?
This is the real problem with a guy sitting in his basement writing your platform for you. Unlike a team where there is proper documentation, notes and usually decently documented source code,
I can testify to the fact that you can work in a team, and yet fail to have any of that stuff because certain members can't be bothered to implement it.:-)
Cleveland is the most tedious, annoying character in the WHOLE of Family Guy. Well, at least maybe they can take Cleveland out of Family Guy now so we can concentrate all the crap of his storyline into this one and ignore it.:-)
If you want to develop with Visual Studio, C#, and.net, you pretty much need Windows Server. Unless you want to torture yourself getting it working with Mono.
I heard a minister on the radio today talking about how we had "liberty" over here, in a country where you can't smoke marijuana in your own home without being arrested.
The cost of development of both drugs and mathematical concepts (software) can be extremely high. And if you don't give companies the options of patents to protect their developments, you can immediately say goodbye to all open standards and scientific sharing. It'll all instantly switch to undocumented and obfusticated binary-only code.
Organizations that support patents: MS - MS Office (binary-only) Adobe - Adobe Photoshop (binary-only)
And ones that oppose them: Ubuntu - Linux (OSS, Free) Apache - http daemon (OSS, Free)
Aside from all the other posts criticzing your position, I'm just gonna point out that you wouldn't necessarily lose out; the SysInternals people created some good programs and MS paid them millions to buy them out instead of recreating their work.
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My father bought one of these Walmart linux boxes. At first I was impressed, not at the machine but that HE spent the money on one. It was a dissapointment with the flavor of linux that it had installed, it seemed to be missing a lot of stuff I've come to expect like a compiler etc.
Hahahaha.
However, armed police have killed more people in the last five years than terrorists have, and our police are not routinely armed.
:-S
The government ARE the terrorists.
If you stood up and said that in a loud voice in central London, you might well be arrested.
Any refusal to comply with government enforced measures is not a great idea, and usually ends up with a nice trip to jail and/or a criminal record or, at the very least, being inconvenienced by the authorities.
Right, and I think the police have a lot to answer for here. I mean, the government are a very small bunch of people, and maybe you can say they are just concentrated evil. That's the nature of the beast. But, the police are from a much wider and more diverse community, supposedly. And yet, not only do they accept and enforce these ever-more-draconian laws, but you regularly hear groups like the ACPO calling for MORE draconian measures; if they had their way, no doubt, there would be a totalitarian state.
This diverse group, called the police, ought to start using their brains, and refusing to enforce certain laws. Stop and search with NO cause for suspicion of criminal activity? Disgusting.
Why the Brits keep re-electing the socialist Labor party is a mystery.
I can reveal the answer to that mystery. It's our electoral system.
Genuine question: Please tell me which policies the BNP officially hold that make them extremist.
Losing my job is not a 'small amount of personal sacrifice'. It means losing my house, my car and probably my wife.
Well, at least there's one benefit.
But I still fail to see how Web 2.0 will make an operating system irrelevant. The browser has to run on something.
No, it's web browsers all the way down.
The real damage can be that no one learns anything other than how to sign-up to Facebook and troll for answers.
:-S
God forbid that you learn something in a way not approved by universities.
Microsoft is also working to get the Linux version of Silverlight going by working with the Mono peeps
.net, they can pull ther support out from underneath it and make all *nix/.net solutions come crashing down?
Doesn't Mono exist so that, once MS have locked enough people into
My old co-worker used PERL for XML filtering, etc and I am motivated to learn it myself. I will be attending a PERL class soon, just so I can maintain our current code base.
The first thing you should learn is not to call it PERL.
So because 'most' businesses do that, you have to do it too if you use Java?
The big difference is that PHP gets more readable as the skill level of the person who wrote it increases, while Perl gets less readable as the skill level of the person who wrote it increases.
So what you're saying is, PHP code is usually very unreadable?
This is the real problem with a guy sitting in his basement writing your platform for you. Unlike a team where there is proper documentation, notes and usually decently documented source code,
:-)
I can testify to the fact that you can work in a team, and yet fail to have any of that stuff because certain members can't be bothered to implement it.
For some reason, acid2. and acid3. respond, but acid1. times out. *shrug*
Cleveland is the most tedious, annoying character in the WHOLE of Family Guy. Well, at least maybe they can take Cleveland out of Family Guy now so we can concentrate all the crap of his storyline into this one and ignore it. :-)
And all managers enter from the eastern gate, as it's close to The Bahamas. :-)
They've got to make back the money they lost to the EU fine somehow!
Before anyone says, I'm talking about ASP.net, not just .net.
If you want to develop with Visual Studio, C#, and .net, you pretty much need Windows Server. Unless you want to torture yourself getting it working with Mono.
Don't you know? He wants to squirt you a picture of his kids.
I heard a minister on the radio today talking about how we had "liberty" over here, in a country where you can't smoke marijuana in your own home without being arrested.
The cost of development of both drugs and mathematical concepts (software) can be extremely high. And if you don't give companies the options of patents to protect their developments, you can immediately say goodbye to all open standards and scientific sharing. It'll all instantly switch to undocumented and obfusticated binary-only code.
Organizations that support patents:
MS - MS Office (binary-only)
Adobe - Adobe Photoshop (binary-only)
And ones that oppose them:
Ubuntu - Linux (OSS, Free)
Apache - http daemon (OSS, Free)
QED.
Aside from all the other posts criticzing your position, I'm just gonna point out that you wouldn't necessarily lose out; the SysInternals people created some good programs and MS paid them millions to buy them out instead of recreating their work.
The problem is that software patents mostly patent ideas instead of ready to use building blocks.
Indeed, and let us not forget Vonage having to pay Verizon a cool $120 million.
And they'd go bankrupt trying to sell it.