Affirmative action is a way to level the playing field.
No, it is not. It is a way to punish the inocent, because somebody other is discriminating, and by doing that to increase the discrimination against the "affirmated" group.
You solve that by making it faster and fixing bugs. The reason to retire an application is only if there isn't any market for it (it doesn't even need to be a big market, as it was already written).
I won't second guess the current CEO. The former one wasn't much good, but he could have got that one thing right. Time will tell.
By the time of Java 5 I read the license, and you could bundle a JRE with your installer. Maybe they changed it earlier/later, I don't know. There were conditions, ok, but most companies wouldn't trigger those.
Anyway, you said you couldn't bundle the JDK. That's true, you never could. But one never needed to.
I do belive you. It is not that I don't belive in it...
I just can't imagine what pass on the head of somebody so dumb to fall into such an obvious con game. I try to understand, but I can't conceive how they think (and no, it is not the case that they don't - I can rule that out).
First, I'd like to point out that Apple dos not follow what you described as "the Apple way" on PCs
I think you are completely right in that it will lead nowhere. And for that reasons that MS themselves helped to demonstrate at the 90's; because people like plataforms that run their stuff, instead of the ones that refuse to run it.
Now, Microsoft has a viable exit strategy, it's called Windows 9. If they are prepared to use it or not, I have no idea.
Debuggers are very usefull, mostly when you are looking into complex thirdy party code. IT is the easiest and fastest route to verify any hypotesis about the code, even to verify that yeah, you understood it.
requiring a third-party runtime like that is pretty inelegant
Windows is the land of the "installer". Nothing is stopping you from bundling a JRE in your installer and installing it alongside your software if needed. (Ok, nothing was stopping you when Sun existed. The JRE license permits it, but it looks like contracts aren't relevant for Oracle.) Also, you can do the same for Python, Ruby, LISP, Haskel, any free language that you want.
ARM is currently undergoing its own MHz war but when that peters out i have NO doubt you'll see the exact same thing you see now in X86...
Tablets currently come with 1GHz processors and 1GB of RAM. That is nearly enough for anything. ARM has at most 1 more generation on the MHz wars before battery becomes so hard a constraint that speed will not matter anymore.
By the other side, portables are now in a kWH war, that will grant a few more generations of easy selling for the manufacturers.
That's true. The PC isn't going away, that is a fact. Yeah, portables may get even bigger than it, but the PC isn't getting any smaller.
Now, Microsoft has a great position at the PC. They are betting that position with the hope of getting better at the portables (that MAY get bigger than the PC, or maybe not). At the same time they are forgetting the lessons that MS itself helped to teach us in the past, that in a competitive market, the most flexible (AKA free) plataforms win.
The only question is how stuborn MS is. Will they retreat they bet before or after they lose their position at the PC?
Now that you said it. The preview Google shows of one of my sites has all the CSS aplied, including some that is aplied by javascript after the page load.
That's why you make backups of the data after you rsync it.
If it is in some space that the original server can write, it is not safe from problems at the original server. That is the reason you have a second server (could be quite a cheap one, you only need disks) managing the backups.
Why backup both servers? The reason for a backup server is to centralize everything and not letting an attacker get hold of your backup. You've done that, why also backup the original server?
If you are afraid of a single point of failure (hell, your requisites are more stringent than mine, I'd be ok with a monitoring system, but that is a business decision) add a second backup server.
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No, it is not. It is a way to punish the inocent, because somebody other is discriminating, and by doing that to increase the discrimination against the "affirmated" group.
You are right in that. But that is not a function of the size of the market.
You solve that by making it faster and fixing bugs. The reason to retire an application is only if there isn't any market for it (it doesn't even need to be a big market, as it was already written).
I won't second guess the current CEO. The former one wasn't much good, but he could have got that one thing right. Time will tell.
pdf2txt is your friend.
Yep, I stand corrected.
By the time of Java 5 I read the license, and you could bundle a JRE with your installer. Maybe they changed it earlier/later, I don't know. There were conditions, ok, but most companies wouldn't trigger those.
Anyway, you said you couldn't bundle the JDK. That's true, you never could. But one never needed to.
I do belive you. It is not that I don't belive in it...
I just can't imagine what pass on the head of somebody so dumb to fall into such an obvious con game. I try to understand, but I can't conceive how they think (and no, it is not the case that they don't - I can rule that out).
First, I'd like to point out that Apple dos not follow what you described as "the Apple way" on PCs
I think you are completely right in that it will lead nowhere. And for that reasons that MS themselves helped to demonstrate at the 90's; because people like plataforms that run their stuff, instead of the ones that refuse to run it.
Now, Microsoft has a viable exit strategy, it's called Windows 9. If they are prepared to use it or not, I have no idea.
No, Ubuntu does not listen. Why would anybody ask that once again?
Change to Mint and, once enough people do that, maybe, they'll listen.
Debuggers are very usefull, mostly when you are looking into complex thirdy party code. IT is the easiest and fastest route to verify any hypotesis about the code, even to verify that yeah, you understood it.
No, we are going into GCC and free toolkits.
You'll have to keep waiting.
That's an understating. It does not even fully support Windows 8, since Metro apps run in a sandbox and can't access many of the native APIs.
Allow what? One to copy header files?
Take a look if copyrights cover those at your country.
Windows is the land of the "installer". Nothing is stopping you from bundling a JRE in your installer and installing it alongside your software if needed. (Ok, nothing was stopping you when Sun existed. The JRE license permits it, but it looks like contracts aren't relevant for Oracle.) Also, you can do the same for Python, Ruby, LISP, Haskel, any free language that you want.
Yes, that is true. MS started distributing it for free for a reason. And it wasn't because they are nice guys.
Tablets currently come with 1GHz processors and 1GB of RAM. That is nearly enough for anything. ARM has at most 1 more generation on the MHz wars before battery becomes so hard a constraint that speed will not matter anymore.
By the other side, portables are now in a kWH war, that will grant a few more generations of easy selling for the manufacturers.
That's true. The PC isn't going away, that is a fact. Yeah, portables may get even bigger than it, but the PC isn't getting any smaller.
Now, Microsoft has a great position at the PC. They are betting that position with the hope of getting better at the portables (that MAY get bigger than the PC, or maybe not). At the same time they are forgetting the lessons that MS itself helped to teach us in the past, that in a competitive market, the most flexible (AKA free) plataforms win.
The only question is how stuborn MS is. Will they retreat they bet before or after they lose their position at the PC?
Now that you said it. The preview Google shows of one of my sites has all the CSS aplied, including some that is aplied by javascript after the page load.
That's why you make backups of the data after you rsync it.
If it is in some space that the original server can write, it is not safe from problems at the original server. That is the reason you have a second server (could be quite a cheap one, you only need disks) managing the backups.
Why backup both servers? The reason for a backup server is to centralize everything and not letting an attacker get hold of your backup. You've done that, why also backup the original server?
If you are afraid of a single point of failure (hell, your requisites are more stringent than mine, I'd be ok with a monitoring system, but that is a business decision) add a second backup server.
My current computer doesn't understand that concept of an "open file". Should I care to explain it through Linux?
Are you sure Amazon's P/E is 200+? Or are you talking about the old times, when they made their IPO?
I don't follow ads on my PC when I'm driving either.
Ok, if we both get to be competitors, I'll let you keep nearly all the market share, and you let me keep the profits. Deal?
Well, you are not really defending Android.