Why has Microsoft's marketing team picked the name of an animal that was proven in the marketplace to be 1. difficult to transport (picture horns sticking out of cattle cars or OS boxes sticking out of Fed Ex trucks) 2. difficult to maneuver without being gored?
Um, I thought it was an, um, phallic allusion...
Which probably tells you what MS's marketing drones hope "Longhorn" will do to Tux...
Can an 800 pound gorilla known for deceit and the ability to subtly infiltrate and influence almost any industry it touches really be trusted?
Maybe the 800 pound gorilla is willing to try to see if another approach works for a particular situation. Yes, MS got where it is today in part by using a plethora of less-than-aboveboard tactics. But that doesn't mean MS is run by stupid people. If something looks like a good idea, ultimately MS will try it. And if it pans out to be a really good idea, MS will eventually try to make it look like they invented it.
This particular project probably looks like a "safe" place for MS to test the open source waters. But why did they jump in at SourceForge? I think it may be that the project wasn't "big" enough to merit MS doing its usual trick of creating an all-new "improved" open source site.
I was trained as an ecologist & environmental scientist. The stone cold truth is that, yes, it is often cheaper to pay the fine than to install pollution controls & employ the technicians to monitor them properly. The bottom line is the bottom line.
Something even scarier is that businesses can buy "permits to pollute" & barter, buy & sell those permits within their respective industries.
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Do they have any idea what Object Oriented means? Do they know the advantages and disadvantages to using it? Do they care?
I'm probably like the majority of/. readers -- cynical about MBAs in general. In my experience, an MBA candidate isn't interested in learning what "object oriented" or "platform independent" means. The MBA candidate is interested in learning buzz words.
Go look at the ads at sites like Monster.com & see if all the buzz words really match up with what they're trying to hire.
...when will someone write a worm that infects vulnerable Windows (or Linux, for that matter) boxen & surreptitiously applies all the latest security patches, cleans out the mal-ware & defrags the hard drive?
The folks whose machines are that vulnerable probably need a little "housekeeping" help...
..is a nice C++ GUI framework. Once you have one of these, be it gtkmm, qt or wxWidgets you're set.
IANAC++P (I am not a C++ programmer), so I'll take you word on that. But I do agree with the virtual machines complaint. The GUI should not be something run on a VM.
I've seen plenty of Java apps that either refused to run at all or caused lock-ups when the installed version of Java was older or newer than the app required. Perhaps they were poorly written apps, I dunno.
Somebody else here posted the observation that the WinXP desktop is faster than Gnome or KDE. How much slower would KDE run under Java or some other VM-based scheme? "Overhead" has a lot to do with speed & VM is overhead.
Go ahead & mod me down for not toeing the party line about Java... <sigh>
But my 1926 Victrola always makes my old 78s sound "right." I've tried recording them on modern equipment but the result sounds "thin" compared to the old crank-model player.
And oh yes, hand-cranked ice cream freezers never fail to produce a product that beats store-bought hands down.:-)
If the hood is welded shut (or the car doesn't even have a hood), how the hell am I going to install my Edelbrock manifold, Hooker headers & nitrous oxide system?
Won't see many Volvos running in NHRA Super Stock, I guess...;-)
A certain preacher became disturbed that his congregation was showing too much interest in the occult. So he decided to preach a sermon against ghosts. At what he thought was the pivotal moment, he asked, "How many of you believe in ghosts?"
About 3/4s of the people in the church raised their hands. The preacher then asked, "And how many of you have SEEN a ghost?"
About half the folks raised their hands. This was not going in the direction the preacher intended, so he asked, "And how many of you have SPOKEN to a ghost?" Still about a quarter of the hands were raised, so the preacher bellowed, "And how many of you have had SEX with a ghost?"
One hand remained up. Billy Bob Six-Pack, the town drunk, had his hand up. The preacher leapt from the pulpit, ran down the aisle & shouted, "Billy Bob! You have had sex with a GHOST?"
Billy Bob looked up blearily & replied, "Oh. No. I thought you said 'goat'..."
<UH OH>
Not THAT guy. (Link intentionally omitted. You know which one;-)
</UH OH>
Ellison looks exactly like what you'd expect Satan to look like.
I never saw any resemblance between Larry Ellison & Bill Gates... Except, of course, that they're both insanely wealthy...
The Java applet running in the iframe ought to be outlawed, too. Is it just my bad luck or is there an increasing number of pseudo-Java-written-for-IE applets out there that seem designed for the sole purpose of locking up Mozilla? (OK, it didn't lock up, but it never loaded.)
So let's add "bad website design" to the list here... Writing for a browser that will not be upgraded for at least another year is analogous to having sex with the dead...
I did think the "visual autopsy" was a bit sketchy on the way the system was attached to the "host" ATM. It would've been useful if they'd taken a few pix before ripping the thing off the ATM.
The captions, while semi-helpful, left a lot unanswered...
OK, OK, I was using the mirror because the original was already in/. heaven... Maybe the original site had more detail?
There are also a handful of tracks from his set at Carnegie Hall in 1964 that claim to be exclusive to iTunes.
Actually, this is soon to be a "legit." Titled Bootleg Series 6, it now has a release date of 23 Mar 2004. The iTunes "exclusive" is a pre-release promo.
Remember, if it's on iTunes, it is approved by the artist's record company. Last time I checked, Dylan was not contracted to Doberman, Wanted Man, Yellow Dog, Sick Cat, Crystal Cat, or Trademark of Quality, although those labels have definitely released more of his stuff than Sony/Columbia...
...is that you can't download surreptitiously-recorded concerts, studio outtakes, or other "bootleg" materials.
I already own all the legit releases by the artists that interest me, but last time I checked I still need about 1,000 Bob Dylan shows just to get that part of my collection up-to-date. God help me when I start on the Grateful Dead or Phish!
Thank goodness for broadband & good ole FTP server software!
After obtaining a Palm Tungesten T3, I attempted to locate a cellphone service that supported Bluetooth phones in my area. This wasn't tough -- I just strolled through the mall in a nearby city. (The place where I live can hardly be described as a "city" & our version of a "mall" is WalMart.) For background, this city is supposedly one of the top 20-25 areas as far as cellphone market penetration.
Not a single cell company rep knew what Bluetooth was! And that included two companies that "supposedly" sell Bluetooth phones (according to their websites).
I went to Circuit City & Office Depot in two nearby cities. Nothing with Bluetooth, except for the PDAs. No access points, no dongles, no nothing. Those stores had wi-fi equipment out the wazoo.
Until the cellphone companies support Bluetooth, the automobile applications are moot.
Among the contributions, Microsoft made $60,000 in soft money donations to the National Republican Congressional Committee on March 23, the same day the company first attempted to settle its antitrust lawsuit with the Justice Department. On May 17, the company reported a $60,000 contribution to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and on July 16, the company gave the Republican National Committee $85,000.
We are talking a total of around $800,000, mostly donated to Republicans, between January & September 1999.
And then we'll have to refer to those household objects as casements, skylights, transoms, portholes, panes, windowpanes, or glass. (Yes, I got all those synonyms from M$ Word's "thesaurus", which interestingly did not provide "operating system" as a synonym for "windows";-)
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... it's "hot rodder".
Performance chips have been on the market almost as long as there have been electronic ignitions & I remember "hacking" point ignitions by changing to centrifugal advance distributors, tweaking the timing advance, etc.
Of course, the ultimate "hardware hackers" in the automotive world begin by changing parts like cams, headers, pistons & rods, etc.
I used to wrench on a sportsman class NHRA bracket racing car. Even though we were pretty much shoestring, the car had electronics to compensate for driver reaction time at the starting line, to control shifting based on optimum rpm & limit revs at the top end to keep the car from "breaking out" of its dial-in E.T.
The richer folks had sophisticated data logging equipment on their cars, usually feeding into a laptop for analysis between runs. And the pros? Whoo hoo! Hacker heaven!
Now, for street cars, things are a bit different. There is an inverse relationship between how much you can push an engine & engine life. Putting a modded chip into an otherwise stock automobile is often an quick way to buy a new engine.
For the nitrous oxide crowd, take a look at a tear down of an nitroussed engine. The pistons end up being pretty rapidly oxidized...
Your argument is that if perfection is impossible in an aera, we can't grade something as more or less close to perfection!
I didn't say that. You said that.
What I said is that you'll be hard-pressed to find any theory that isn't colored to some extent by politics. It may be the politics of publication, or the politics of peer review, or the politics of tenure, but it's there. If the state of the discipline within which the person is working is "revolutionary," you're likely to see some wild ideas. If the discipline is doing "normal science," there's intense pressure on scientists not to rock the boat.
Gould rocked the boat in a discipline that wasn't exactly ready for it. And made money doing it. Man, I can figure why his "peer group" decided the best thing to do was dismiss him as a "Marxist."
I'll rely on my thermometer, inaccurate & relative though it may be, because it is reliably inaccurate.;-)
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Um, I thought it was an, um, phallic allusion...
Which probably tells you what MS's marketing drones hope "Longhorn" will do to Tux...
Maybe the 800 pound gorilla is willing to try to see if another approach works for a particular situation. Yes, MS got where it is today in part by using a plethora of less-than-aboveboard tactics. But that doesn't mean MS is run by stupid people. If something looks like a good idea, ultimately MS will try it. And if it pans out to be a really good idea, MS will eventually try to make it look like they invented it.
This particular project probably looks like a "safe" place for MS to test the open source waters. But why did they jump in at SourceForge? I think it may be that the project wasn't "big" enough to merit MS doing its usual trick of creating an all-new "improved" open source site.
Something even scarier is that businesses can buy "permits to pollute" & barter, buy & sell those permits within their respective industries.
I'm probably like the majority of /. readers -- cynical about MBAs in general. In my experience, an MBA candidate isn't interested in learning what "object oriented" or "platform independent" means. The MBA candidate is interested in learning buzz words.
Go look at the ads at sites like Monster.com & see if all the buzz words really match up with what they're trying to hire.
The folks whose machines are that vulnerable probably need a little "housekeeping" help...
IANAC++P (I am not a C++ programmer), so I'll take you word on that. But I do agree with the virtual machines complaint. The GUI should not be something run on a VM.
I've seen plenty of Java apps that either refused to run at all or caused lock-ups when the installed version of Java was older or newer than the app required. Perhaps they were poorly written apps, I dunno.
Somebody else here posted the observation that the WinXP desktop is faster than Gnome or KDE. How much slower would KDE run under Java or some other VM-based scheme? "Overhead" has a lot to do with speed & VM is overhead.
Go ahead & mod me down for not toeing the party line about Java... <sigh>
A fridge & two cases of Shiner Bock.
And oh yes, hand-cranked ice cream freezers never fail to produce a product that beats store-bought hands down. :-)
Won't see many Volvos running in NHRA Super Stock, I guess... ;-)
Have you told her what a "spag" is yet? :-D
About 3/4s of the people in the church raised their hands. The preacher then asked, "And how many of you have SEEN a ghost?"
About half the folks raised their hands. This was not going in the direction the preacher intended, so he asked, "And how many of you have SPOKEN to a ghost?" Still about a quarter of the hands were raised, so the preacher bellowed, "And how many of you have had SEX with a ghost?"
One hand remained up. Billy Bob Six-Pack, the town drunk, had his hand up. The preacher leapt from the pulpit, ran down the aisle & shouted, "Billy Bob! You have had sex with a GHOST?"
Billy Bob looked up blearily & replied, "Oh. No. I thought you said 'goat'..."
<UH OH> ;-)
Not THAT guy. (Link intentionally omitted. You know which one
</UH OH>
You mean you've never played them? (The nature of VHS & oxide media in general is that, when you play 'em, you alter 'em. ;-)
See any number of references to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge." You'll find plenty of references to my personal favorite Brooklyn Bridge here.
But yeah, what SCO is doing is similar to a person selling a car for which he doesn't have a clear title.
Ellison looks exactly like what you'd expect Satan to look like. I never saw any resemblance between Larry Ellison & Bill Gates... Except, of course, that they're both insanely wealthy...
So let's add "bad website design" to the list here... Writing for a browser that will not be upgraded for at least another year is analogous to having sex with the dead...
The captions, while semi-helpful, left a lot unanswered...
OK, OK, I was using the mirror because the original was already in /. heaven... Maybe the original site had more detail?
Actually, this is soon to be a "legit." Titled Bootleg Series 6, it now has a release date of 23 Mar 2004. The iTunes "exclusive" is a pre-release promo.
Remember, if it's on iTunes, it is approved by the artist's record company. Last time I checked, Dylan was not contracted to Doberman, Wanted Man, Yellow Dog, Sick Cat, Crystal Cat, or Trademark of Quality, although those labels have definitely released more of his stuff than Sony/Columbia...
I already own all the legit releases by the artists that interest me, but last time I checked I still need about 1,000 Bob Dylan shows just to get that part of my collection up-to-date. God help me when I start on the Grateful Dead or Phish!
Thank goodness for broadband & good ole FTP server software!
Not a single cell company rep knew what Bluetooth was! And that included two companies that "supposedly" sell Bluetooth phones (according to their websites).
I went to Circuit City & Office Depot in two nearby cities. Nothing with Bluetooth, except for the PDAs. No access points, no dongles, no nothing. Those stores had wi-fi equipment out the wazoo.
Until the cellphone companies support Bluetooth, the automobile applications are moot.
You might find this information about Micro$oft contributions during the 2000 Presidential campaign interesting. From that article (remember, the dates are 1999)...
We are talking a total of around $800,000, mostly donated to Republicans, between January & September 1999.
And then we'll have to refer to those household objects as casements, skylights, transoms, portholes, panes, windowpanes, or glass. (Yes, I got all those synonyms from M$ Word's "thesaurus", which interestingly did not provide "operating system" as a synonym for "windows" ;-)
It may be less romantic than you though ;-)
Performance chips have been on the market almost as long as there have been electronic ignitions & I remember "hacking" point ignitions by changing to centrifugal advance distributors, tweaking the timing advance, etc.
Of course, the ultimate "hardware hackers" in the automotive world begin by changing parts like cams, headers, pistons & rods, etc.
I used to wrench on a sportsman class NHRA bracket racing car. Even though we were pretty much shoestring, the car had electronics to compensate for driver reaction time at the starting line, to control shifting based on optimum rpm & limit revs at the top end to keep the car from "breaking out" of its dial-in E.T.
The richer folks had sophisticated data logging equipment on their cars, usually feeding into a laptop for analysis between runs. And the pros? Whoo hoo! Hacker heaven!
Now, for street cars, things are a bit different. There is an inverse relationship between how much you can push an engine & engine life. Putting a modded chip into an otherwise stock automobile is often an quick way to buy a new engine.
For the nitrous oxide crowd, take a look at a tear down of an nitroussed engine. The pistons end up being pretty rapidly oxidized...
I didn't say that. You said that.
What I said is that you'll be hard-pressed to find any theory that isn't colored to some extent by politics. It may be the politics of publication, or the politics of peer review, or the politics of tenure, but it's there. If the state of the discipline within which the person is working is "revolutionary," you're likely to see some wild ideas. If the discipline is doing "normal science," there's intense pressure on scientists not to rock the boat.
Gould rocked the boat in a discipline that wasn't exactly ready for it. And made money doing it. Man, I can figure why his "peer group" decided the best thing to do was dismiss him as a "Marxist."
I'll rely on my thermometer, inaccurate & relative though it may be, because it is reliably inaccurate. ;-)