They've had a bit more luck with their Xbox division, although one could argue that video game consoles wasn't exactly a new field when they joined it. They still managed to steal Sega's spot in the market and push their way to number two for a few years... and number one in the North America and European markets for some of that time as I recall.
Of course, we all know that they already messed up the launch of their next console. It's pathetic when you can make a defective company like Sony look good.
So why do I have Firefox 22 with an enable/disable Javascript option? I downloaded this from Mozilla so you are saying they built a special version just for me? How nice of them.. Or perhaps Firefox still allows the user to enable/disable Javascript at this time.
You'll be unpleasantly surprised when you download Firefox 23 and find out it's gone. Which was released today, btw.
It seems silly to conflate this with Microsoft making products for Linux.
This is just an app that's a wrapper for a web app. The same web app you can already run on Desktop Linux.
Besides which, last I checked this wasn't a free webapp and was, in fact, a way for Microsoft to milk more money out of companies that would have otherwise only had to pay Microsoft for each Office license once. Now it's a monthly fee.
The fact that it also works on other OSes is just a "bonus."
A common interpretation is that copies from storage to RAM are copies, and thus, you have to get a copyright holder's permission to run the software. I HATE this interpretation, I think it's a vile distortion of the original intent.
Which is why 17 USC 117 exists. It's pretty clear that 117(a)(1) in intended to refers to a copy in RAM, but it's worded vaguely enough that it could refer to copies installed to a hard disk during installation as well.
Make no mistake, in US Copyright law, a EULA exists to take the end user's rights away, not give them permission to run the program.
First thing I did was install Opera.. Since Google has been basically up FF rear from square one I figured Opera would be an easy choice to get out of the Googlopoly.. I went Opera before I even jumped to Linux.. also fwiw.. Ive been DDG for a while too.. cant blame them for tryin to make money.. even so.. its been a worthwhile learning experience and i am enjoying it..
Unless you want to use something that uses GLIBC features added in the last two and half year... RHEL is stuck on 2.12 released in December 2010.
Which, incidentally, includes Valve's Steam games (and possible Steam itself) which are compiled against GLIBC 2.15.
And since this is primarly a server OS, I'll also note that Valve's game servers have been compiled against newer GLIBCs as well, including the ones for older games like Counter-Strike 1.6.
There's something wrong when another distribution* makes Debian Stable look modern... although Debian Stable is still stuck at GLIBC 2.13 itself. Clearly RHEL can change GLIBC versions between minor versions because when 6.0 released, GLIBC 2.11 was the latest GLIBC version... and 6.4 is using GLBIC 2.12.
Incidentally, Fedora doesn't have this problem.
* Two distributions actually, since CentOS is a clone of RHEL.
Hotel Dusk was created by Cing... who went bankrupt after producing a sequel to Hotel Dusk called The Last Window, which came out in Japan and Europe (but not North America) in late 2009/early 2010.
Visual Studio Express editions are not a substitute for the real, combined Visual Studio You-Paid-How-Much? Edition(no "s").
If you have a solution that contains a database project, a C# WCF service, and a web application using Razor, you can't use the Express editions to manage that in any useful or meaningful way. VS Express is either a demo or is for "developers" that don't care about sane architecture and aren't doing this for money. It is most certainly not "the same great product that the full version of Visual Studio is".
And a subscription to Office (only!) costs about what TechNet did, so that's in the less-value-for-more-money category, too.
The first paragraph implies that VS Ultimate is the only edition that can do this, but I'm pretty sure VS Professional can handle it as well.
The TL;DR from that link is that Windows now stores what is basically a copy of the install DVD on the hard drive. Not only that, but when you install libraries, Windows keeps a second copy of them in WinSxS. Forever. Even if you upgrade to a newer version of that library, the old one is still kept and the new version is also added to WinSxS.
It even keeps pre-Service Pack copies of files that got upgraded in a Service Pack.
Like the current way to install Windows XP is to do this: Hope you have a XPSP3 disc, if not... Install XP without a connection to the internet (VERY IMPORTANT) Download SP1a offline on another machine, transfer to the XP machine install Download SP2 offline on another machine, transfer to the XP machine, install Download SP3 offline on another machine, transfer to the XP machine, install Connect to the internet, and keep hitting Windows update until there are no more updates Once you've managed to install everything... Install Chrome, Firefox or Opera, and never use MSIE. Download the drivers for your hardware if you can find them.
Hell, the last time my brother installed XP on his machine back in 2008*, he had to actually download the latest service pack on a different computer, and create a WinXP + SP3 (possibly SP2 as SP3 came out mid-2008) disc simply because the base XP installer would just crash if you tried installing it on hard drives larger than a certain size...
Then again, modern XP discs have SP3 built-in for various reasons, including this one.
* My brother died a few days into 2009, which is how I know the year was 2008.
Stop using jQuery and stop trying to force JavaScript to act like a class-based oo language. That should fix most of your JavaScript complaints.
JavaScript being kludgy is why JQuery and others like it came into existence in the first place.
Raw JavaScript is such a pain in the ass to deal with that, if I had a time machine, I wouldn't use it for world peace or to stop World War 1/2, I'd use it to go back in time and kill Brendan Eich.
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It doesn't surprise me that Dilbert's office uses PHP.
on the other hand you should never have to ask such a question as "why do you need to rebase so much". It's there, it's a feature of git, there should never be a restriction such as "yeah, you can use it, but not too much".
The reason to use rebase is simple: To avoid clogging up the revision history with those moronic "Merge branch 'master' of [url here]" commit messages.
I've never actually looked - can autorun just be uninstalled on a Windows system?
Uninstalled, probably not. But it can be disabled... and that feature has been in Windows for at least 10 years.
For that matter, Windows Vista and newer don't autorun directly*... they instead bring up a number of options when removable media is inserted, with the top one being the autorun program if one exists.
*Although I seem to remember some atrocity of a flash drive protocol named U3 that did some trickery to autorun its launchpad software, but that may have been back on WinXP.
You are aware that this is the exact sort of situation that Stallman's differentiation between Linux and GNU/Linux fixes? Except to make things more confusing, you've replaced "Linux" with "Linux Based" and "GNU/Linux" with "Linux."
Congrats to the MariaDB team for making quality fork and fulfilling the dream of the GPL: that WHEN corporations try to buy/take our code we'll simply route around the damage.
Here's the real solution: Don't sell it to a corporation in the first place like Monty did.
Do I even need to point out that this kind of thing hurts the perception of Open Source developers and by extension Open Source software? Then again, it's about time we have a term to replace the horribly racist "Indian Giver" term. "MySQLGiver" maybe? "Open Source Giver"?
The first product I became aware of through this service, was a bundle of Double Fine games. Not humble. But a bundle.
I take it you missed the recent Humble Bundle last month that had all of Double Fine's games except The Cave, including (if you paid enough) the next one that they haven't released yet?
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It's not that Microsoft didn't break into new categories, it's just that they were bad at it or the categories they chose sucked.
See Also: Microsoft Tablet PCs AKA "Pen-based computing" circa 2001.
They've had a bit more luck with their Xbox division, although one could argue that video game consoles wasn't exactly a new field when they joined it. They still managed to steal Sega's spot in the market and push their way to number two for a few years... and number one in the North America and European markets for some of that time as I recall.
Of course, we all know that they already messed up the launch of their next console. It's pathetic when you can make a defective company like Sony look good.
But why do you have JS on in the first place?
Because 51 percent of web applications that someone uses require JavaScript.
Only 51%? Isn't that estimate a bit low?
So why do I have Firefox 22 with an enable/disable Javascript option? I downloaded this from Mozilla so you are saying they built a special version just for me? How nice of them.. Or perhaps Firefox still allows the user to enable/disable Javascript at this time.
You'll be unpleasantly surprised when you download Firefox 23 and find out it's gone. Which was released today, btw.
This seems appropriate if you imagine that the yellow-haired person is OpenGL and the PHB is Windows.
It seems silly to conflate this with Microsoft making products for Linux.
This is just an app that's a wrapper for a web app. The same web app you can already run on Desktop Linux.
Besides which, last I checked this wasn't a free webapp and was, in fact, a way for Microsoft to milk more money out of companies that would have otherwise only had to pay Microsoft for each Office license once. Now it's a monthly fee.
The fact that it also works on other OSes is just a "bonus."
Note to self: Read entire parent post before replying.
A common interpretation is that copies from storage to RAM are copies, and thus, you have to get a copyright holder's permission to run the software. I HATE this interpretation, I think it's a vile distortion of the original intent.
Which is why 17 USC 117 exists. It's pretty clear that 117(a)(1) in intended to refers to a copy in RAM, but it's worded vaguely enough that it could refer to copies installed to a hard disk during installation as well.
Make no mistake, in US Copyright law, a EULA exists to take the end user's rights away, not give them permission to run the program.
Forking is a "use" right.
First thing I did was install Opera.. Since Google has been basically up FF rear from square one I figured Opera would be an easy choice to get out of the Googlopoly.. I went Opera before I even jumped to Linux.. also fwiw.. Ive been DDG for a while too.. cant blame them for tryin to make money.. even so.. its been a worthwhile learning experience and i am enjoying it..
We're talking about the same Opera that recently switched its rendering engine to Google Blink... even ahead of Google Chrome doing so?
But RHEL is pretty good.
Unless you want to use something that uses GLIBC features added in the last two and half year... RHEL is stuck on 2.12 released in December 2010.
Which, incidentally, includes Valve's Steam games (and possible Steam itself) which are compiled against GLIBC 2.15.
And since this is primarly a server OS, I'll also note that Valve's game servers have been compiled against newer GLIBCs as well, including the ones for older games like Counter-Strike 1.6.
There's something wrong when another distribution* makes Debian Stable look modern... although Debian Stable is still stuck at GLIBC 2.13 itself. Clearly RHEL can change GLIBC versions between minor versions because when 6.0 released, GLIBC 2.11 was the latest GLIBC version... and 6.4 is using GLBIC 2.12.
Incidentally, Fedora doesn't have this problem.
* Two distributions actually, since CentOS is a clone of RHEL.
Hotel Dusk was created by Cing... who went bankrupt after producing a sequel to Hotel Dusk called The Last Window, which came out in Japan and Europe (but not North America) in late 2009/early 2010.
Visual Studio Express editions are not a substitute for the real, combined Visual Studio You-Paid-How-Much? Edition(no "s").
If you have a solution that contains a database project, a C# WCF service, and a web application using Razor, you can't use the Express editions to manage that in any useful or meaningful way. VS Express is either a demo or is for "developers" that don't care about sane architecture and aren't doing this for money. It is most certainly not "the same great product that the full version of Visual Studio is".
And a subscription to Office (only!) costs about what TechNet did, so that's in the less-value-for-more-money category, too.
The first paragraph implies that VS Ultimate is the only edition that can do this, but I'm pretty sure VS Professional can handle it as well.
So, apparently you do need that "s" after all.
What is the WinSxS directory and why is it so large?
The TL;DR from that link is that Windows now stores what is basically a copy of the install DVD on the hard drive. Not only that, but when you install libraries, Windows keeps a second copy of them in WinSxS. Forever. Even if you upgrade to a newer version of that library, the old one is still kept and the new version is also added to WinSxS.
It even keeps pre-Service Pack copies of files that got upgraded in a Service Pack.
Like the current way to install Windows XP is to do this:
Hope you have a XPSP3 disc, if not...
Install XP without a connection to the internet (VERY IMPORTANT)
Download SP1a offline on another machine, transfer to the XP machine install
Download SP2 offline on another machine, transfer to the XP machine, install
Download SP3 offline on another machine, transfer to the XP machine, install
Connect to the internet, and keep hitting Windows update until there are no more updates
Once you've managed to install everything...
Install Chrome, Firefox or Opera, and never use MSIE. Download the drivers for your hardware if you can find them.
Hell, the last time my brother installed XP on his machine back in 2008*, he had to actually download the latest service pack on a different computer, and create a WinXP + SP3 (possibly SP2 as SP3 came out mid-2008) disc simply because the base XP installer would just crash if you tried installing it on hard drives larger than a certain size...
Then again, modern XP discs have SP3 built-in for various reasons, including this one.
* My brother died a few days into 2009, which is how I know the year was 2008.
JavaScript is kludgy?
Stop using jQuery and stop trying to force JavaScript to act like a class-based oo language. That should fix most of your JavaScript complaints.
JavaScript being kludgy is why JQuery and others like it came into existence in the first place.
Raw JavaScript is such a pain in the ass to deal with that, if I had a time machine, I wouldn't use it for world peace or to stop World War 1/2, I'd use it to go back in time and kill Brendan Eich.
It doesn't surprise me that Dilbert's office uses PHP.
The point of a Notary Public is that it's a trusted person representing the government doing the notarizing.
Something this service isn't.
on the other hand you should never have to ask such a question as "why do you need to rebase so much". It's there, it's a feature of git, there should never be a restriction such as "yeah, you can use it, but not too much".
The reason to use rebase is simple:
To avoid clogging up the revision history with those moronic "Merge branch 'master' of [url here]" commit messages.
As I found out the hard way.
I've never actually looked - can autorun just be uninstalled on a Windows system?
Uninstalled, probably not. But it can be disabled... and that feature has been in Windows for at least 10 years.
For that matter, Windows Vista and newer don't autorun directly*... they instead bring up a number of options when removable media is inserted, with the top one being the autorun program if one exists.
*Although I seem to remember some atrocity of a flash drive protocol named U3 that did some trickery to autorun its launchpad software, but that may have been back on WinXP.
You are aware that this is the exact sort of situation that Stallman's differentiation between Linux and GNU/Linux fixes? Except to make things more confusing, you've replaced "Linux" with "Linux Based" and "GNU/Linux" with "Linux."
Congrats to the MariaDB team for making quality fork and fulfilling the dream of the GPL: that WHEN corporations try to buy/take our code we'll simply route around the damage.
Here's the real solution: Don't sell it to a corporation in the first place like Monty did.
Do I even need to point out that this kind of thing hurts the perception of Open Source developers and by extension Open Source software? Then again, it's about time we have a term to replace the horribly racist "Indian Giver" term. "MySQLGiver" maybe? "Open Source Giver"?
The first product I became aware of through this service, was a bundle of Double Fine games. Not humble. But a bundle.
I take it you missed the recent Humble Bundle last month that had all of Double Fine's games except The Cave, including (if you paid enough) the next one that they haven't released yet?
As I recall, it was required nation-wide during the late 70s. Then Reagan happened.
Surely this is a typo -- I could have sworn that MS pledged never to put that into one of their consoles.
That was before HD-DVD died.
funny :)
steam is the gateway drm...
Mass Effect 2 isn't on Steam any more because Valve wasn't happy about DLC for it only being sold by EA through an in-game store.
To clarify: It's not that it had an in-game store they disagreed with, only that users couldn't pay for it from their Steam wallets.