It looks like the company (Unaoil) is acting as a "bribery go-between," when oil companies want to drill in oil-rich countries, they contract out the necessary bribery to Unaoil.
Is it really necessary to bribe officials in oil-rich countries?
Here are more technical details.
It looks like they are loading the ELF file, then translating Linux syscalls into WinAPI calls on the fly. They've done a good job making it efficient, so it's almost as fast as standard windows calls.
I think there is also the medieval mindset, where it's ok to kill people you disagree with, and kings are considered a good thing, etc. Like, the whole region is still in medieval times, and these are just typical fundamentalists from medieval times doing typical medieval things.
Don't know, I'm cheering because I never have to target the Win32 API ever again. If I can completely forget about HANDLE and DWORD my life will be happy
Perhaps Linus is willing to be wrong, but he's unwilling to admit when he's wrong.
Sometimes people focus on Linus' insults, but lost in all that is how often he insults himself. Even in the article, he mentions times when he was wrong.
Especially if you're a programmer pulling in a six digit salary. Making money has a way of giving you a feeling of accomplishment (and if it doesn't, you can always drown your sorrow in crack and vodka).
Windows provides around 10% of Microsoft revenue now. Source. At that point, it's just not the cash cow it used to be. Their CEO is heavily focused on building up their cloud offerings, and doesn't seem to care about the desktop much.
So yeah, by the end of the decade, Windows could be essentially on life support.
Do decent A/V editing tools qualify as "legacy enterprise cruft?"
Yes. Eventually they will run on Unix, because that will be the way to target both OSX and Windows users. (And there's a pretty large market for that on A/V editing tools on OSX).
I like it over cygwin and/or MobaXterm as those environments try to make an island of *nix rather than map well to the general filesystem.
I find that "ln -s hd/cygdrive/c/Users/phantomfive/" so that I can just do "cd hd" to get to my windows home directory makes Cygwin feel a lot more integrated.
I'm pretty sure that they're gonna kick me out on Day One. Probably for the overstuffed, giant, waving hand with the pointer finger pointing up and "#!" written on it.
Probably for trying to get your AK-47 through security
Another thing I thought was interesting about the case is they didn't rule on the copyrightability of the language itself, rather the entire case revolves around some APIs.
Your other comment was quite a bit deeper than this one, so I'm going to guess you understand by now that they are copyrightable, but there may still be a fair use defense.
I don't know, Scott McNealy testified against them in the trial, so if he did give them a blessing, he certainly had a change of heart. Of course, money can do that, but I don't know if Oracle paid them.
The reports I read said that Sun didn't like Google stealing Java, they tried to get licensing money, but when negotiations broke down, they just dropped the issue. There is no doubt that internally they Iiked Java being used more, and I think that's what the GGP was referring to, but I don't think that is the same as a blessing.
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It looks like the company (Unaoil) is acting as a "bribery go-between," when oil companies want to drill in oil-rich countries, they contract out the necessary bribery to Unaoil.
Is it really necessary to bribe officials in oil-rich countries?
Here are more technical details.
It looks like they are loading the ELF file, then translating Linux syscalls into WinAPI calls on the fly. They've done a good job making it efficient, so it's almost as fast as standard windows calls.
They're just going to make themselves more and more annoying (which means realistically, kill more and more people) until they get slapped around.
I think there is also the medieval mindset, where it's ok to kill people you disagree with, and kings are considered a good thing, etc. Like, the whole region is still in medieval times, and these are just typical fundamentalists from medieval times doing typical medieval things.
Don't know, I'm cheering because I never have to target the Win32 API ever again. If I can completely forget about HANDLE and DWORD my life will be happy
So what is it exactly? A Linux compatibility layer (like BSD has)? Or did they finally finish POSIX? Or are Linux specific system calls supported?
Perhaps Linus is willing to be wrong, but he's unwilling to admit when he's wrong.
Sometimes people focus on Linus' insults, but lost in all that is how often he insults himself. Even in the article, he mentions times when he was wrong.
Especially if you're a programmer pulling in a six digit salary. Making money has a way of giving you a feeling of accomplishment (and if it doesn't, you can always drown your sorrow in crack and vodka).
Windows provides around 10% of Microsoft revenue now. Source. At that point, it's just not the cash cow it used to be. Their CEO is heavily focused on building up their cloud offerings, and doesn't seem to care about the desktop much.
So yeah, by the end of the decade, Windows could be essentially on life support.
Do decent A/V editing tools qualify as "legacy enterprise cruft?"
Yes. Eventually they will run on Unix, because that will be the way to target both OSX and Windows users. (And there's a pretty large market for that on A/V editing tools on OSX).
I like it over cygwin and/or MobaXterm as those environments try to make an island of *nix rather than map well to the general filesystem.
I find that "ln -s hd /cygdrive/c/Users/phantomfive/" so that I can just do "cd hd" to get to my windows home directory makes Cygwin feel a lot more integrated.
By portraying ISIS as evil incarnate and letting them provoke a reaction out of us, we are helping them get what they want.
The propaganda from ISIS themselves paints them as worse than anything I've seen from our government.
I'm pretty sure that they're gonna kick me out on Day One. Probably for the overstuffed, giant, waving hand with the pointer finger pointing up and "#!" written on it.
Probably for trying to get your AK-47 through security
I would love to see it.
Yeah. I'm thinking of the bunches of articles we had like this one. My current thinking is that languages are not copyrightable.
Another question is who owns the C standard libraries, and can they sue anyone? I don't really know the answer to that one.
Yeah, but this is better. It's hackable. From my arm-chair.
This article does a good job investigating what ISIS wants.
we are helping them get what they want.
Do you even know what they want?
Oil sales in Iraq and Syria from wells they've taken over. Here's a good link, wikipedia also has some info.
When the "record" is only 35 years, 'record setting' really isn't that big a deal.
That's a good point.
Another thing I thought was interesting about the case is they didn't rule on the copyrightability of the language itself, rather the entire case revolves around some APIs.
Your other comment was quite a bit deeper than this one, so I'm going to guess you understand by now that they are copyrightable, but there may still be a fair use defense.
I don't know, Scott McNealy testified against them in the trial, so if he did give them a blessing, he certainly had a change of heart. Of course, money can do that, but I don't know if Oracle paid them.
The reports I read said that Sun didn't like Google stealing Java, they tried to get licensing money, but when negotiations broke down, they just dropped the issue. There is no doubt that internally they Iiked Java being used more, and I think that's what the GGP was referring to, but I don't think that is the same as a blessing.
Oracle doesn't scale
When you say 'it doesn't scale' do you mean it isn't hadoop? Because reports are distributed Oracle DB works pretty well......
Stop revealing my rhetorical tricks, please!