You ought to get out more. I've been using VS for some time now, but the old Borland IDEs were much cleaner, not cobbled together like VS. VS has been trying to imitate those IDEs for years, with their typical bolt-on rather than designed-in approach to things-- they've finally gotten *close* to what the Borland IDE was like years ago, and I suppose would be closer if it wasn't for the hapazard way they grew into it. But comparing the two still seems much like comparing Mac System 6 to Windows 3.1.
The open source community doesn't really need any contributions from Microsoft. But in fact, it could represent some self-pressure on them to clean up their code-- it's not like they have a reputation of quality or anything. Perhaps cleaning a few things up for "public consumption" isn't a bad habit for them to get into-- it's comforting to see they actually found a few modules they were willing to spend some time on to do that. The only possible downside I could see is that such contributions will divide the "community" into two camps:
- those that will never use MS "open source."
- those that will use MS "open source."
Is that a big problem? Are they at each other's throats yet? No, I can't really see much of a reason to care about this one way or the other...
I have a Turtle Beach Maui soundcard that I can D/L my own custom 56000 DSP code into. Until you can do that with a $100 non-ISA card, ISA ain't dead...
It seems to me from this that it is pretty clear (and no surprise) that Linux mainstream kernel development favors the server over the desktop. However, there are various real-time kernels available.
Might development in the real-time arena ultimately be a closer fit to the desktop than the mainstream kernels? I realize that real-time may not currently be targeted or completely appropriate (at least in its current form) for the desktop, but I would think a more real-time approach to the user interface is what is necessary for optimum user experience. Even Microsoft has "server" and "desktop" versions of their OS and options you can set to tune it for one use or the other. Wouldn't a completely alternative kernel or distribution that you could select at install time that is designed for the desktop be a good idea-- and possibly this might grow out of some of the real-time efforts?
I've been using Linux sporadically since 1991 (Slackware 0.9), but primarily my UI there has been svgalib. I never found Gnome or KDE or any of that very compelling-- these are great in a *server* environment as remote-desktop style capabilities where you are willing to live with less-than-optimal performance, but on a non-server desktop I expect something that performs more like running on one of those real-time kernels from the link above. I've tried to use the Linux desktop, many times, but always give it up ovar a dual-boot to Windows because it just ain't impressive enough to counter the relative lack of compatibility or availablility of relevant applications. It could be mind you (IMHO), but that's simply not the focus of the mainstream developers.
Leave the server optimization to the current mainstream kernel developers, they're pretty good at it and obviously have little interest in trading off any of that for better optimization of the desktop-- not necessarily a bad thing, IMHO. Not only that, they're too wedded to some form of network-connected GUI which again, is fine for what it is but not what I want to work on when the machine is sitting right here in front of me and I'm wanting it to run my user interface. I look to other sources for a bleeding-edge user experience, it's clear that the core developers are either uninterested or inexperienced in this regard. And that's not a slight, I've never believed in a one-size-fits-all solution, the nice thing about Linux distributions, is there are so many to choose from (to paraphrase Tannenbaum).
See, Billy G. and Stevie B. really, genuinely are corrupt, horrible monopolist pigs who eat babies. Why do you think that antitrust suit exists?
Well, not exactly. Actually, Billy G. and Stevie B. simply have such a low opinion of their own ability to compete on a level playing field that they are desperate to find some way to game the system. And it's clear their problem is endemic-- a fundamental part of the way they've been operating the business for decades.
Firefox appears to be suffering from the same problems that Netscape had. At one time, Netscape was a pretty good browser-- then they kept enhancing it and enhancing it, and before long it started to behave weirdly-- hanging, going to sleep for long periods of time and otherwise apparently getting confused trying to do the basic job of aquiring pages and displaying them. Out of frustration, I eventually went with IE for awhile, which didn't have this trouble. I never went back to Netscape. When Firefox came out I tried it as a hopeful alternative to IE which it was at the time. But now I'm seeing some of these same quirky behaviours that plagued Netscape in Firefox. If it gets much worse I'll be moving on again, though this time probably to Opera or Safari or something else...
Yes, I'd like to see a Firefox-lite-- and I'd probalby use that even on my high end machines, actually. I want a browser that just does the basics-- "Less is More" should be the rule in browser design...
I do think part of it is space.
Computers have never really fit into home decor. Laptops allow "normal people" to get out there computer and do work then put it away.
Ever live in an old building that once had an icebox-- I'll bet they said that about refrigerators once. No doubt Radios, TVs and automobiles as well...
I would think that if they try to force independent artists into using DRM via any of these methods they're looking to get slapped with a class-action lawsuit for something like restraint of trade. An independent artist that is willing to provide free music in order to get gigs, sell other music, or to develop a following, may not want its use hampered by DRM or to be refused by net radio stations for not having it, and that such restrictions would unfairly impair such an artist's ability to make money from his/her creations. IANAL, but if they actually have the gall to try to block non-DRM independent music from net radio, or levy a charge from net stations purportedly on behalf of the independent that the independent does not want, someone is opening themselves up to some new lawsuit possibilities here...
Microsoft's "Roadmap to the Future," generally includes things like:
- Introduce subtle compatiblity differences at each new rev in order to force users to upgrade as their current version becomes more and more incompatible with outsiders and the newest Microsoft OS.
- Change the interface needlessly at every new rev so users will think they're actually getting something for their <strike>subscripion</strike> upgrade money.
I mean, you Word users ask yourself: when was the last time you upgraded your Word version because it actually had a new feature you wanted that wasn't a bug or compatibility fix?
Just think of the great and functional technologies MS could develop if they would invest the time and resources into their product instead of ganking the system.
Yes, but to do that would require some actual confidence in one's own abilities to succeed on a level playing field.
The video shows a front-screen configuration, and according to TFA the technology used in order to recognize distinct users has some conduction requirements or something to that effect-- makes me wonder if it will in fact support rear-screen. I find front-screen and the associated shadow-casting on these sort of displays far from optimum, and of course is impractical on a vertical wall.
Also, I'd like to see an open implementation that is less-dependent on what detection technology is utilized-- something that can take a detection array that could be produced either via vidcap (from FITR or whatever) or by the method this demo actually uses.
There are thousands if not millions of excellent artists who *currently* play all the time for no pay. I personally know dozens of folk artists who do this ever weekend who, if they are lucky get compensated only about enough for the gas money to get to the venue. Others I know get compensated only in beer at a local pub. I also know that there are similar networks of them all over the country (US) and suspect it is not dissimilar in other parts of the world. Some sell a few CDs at their performances, but that is not why they are there. Most are excellent musicians.
The difference between these sort of artists and those who do it for pay is primarily, exposure. The main reason these artists don't get paid is because they don't have A&R departments from big corporations pumping their stuff all over the radio. But that means the successful bands are successful at the expense of those who don't get the attention from the PR machine. By clamping down on internet radio's independence, the big corporations can keep their cherished exploitation money train. Music is a supply and demand economy, and the corporations only survive because they are able to constrict the supply via tactics that control exposure. On a level playing field, their artists will not garner the big $$$ because they won't be more likely to be heard than any other artist out there, including those who are willing to play for next-to-nothing or simply for the exposure.
The music economy has a similar dynamic to the US political system-- the more money you have to pay to dress-up your candidate, for your candidate's exposure, and the better you can control the exposure pipe (such as refusing to allow third party candidates into the debates), the better chance your chosen candidate has of succeeding. It's working like sh** in the US political system, because those who get elected are based solely on the "invisible hands" of greed and fear which generate the required $$$ to fuel the machine. Not the best way to fuel a government IMHO, and similarly, not the best way to fuel the music industry. We need finance reform in the music industry just like we need it in government.
Bah... Who pays any attention to the Surgeon General's office anyway? There's been no doubt for years that the office is totally politicized. Anyone who bases their behavior, or pays any attention whatsoever, on anything produced by the office is a complete moron. Regardless of what party is in office, it's just another megaphone for political opinion. Might as well listen to Rush Limbaugh for your medical opinions...
Well here's a "lefty" that sure drank the Dem's Kool-Aid. What a hoot-- he actually believes they're detectably different than Republicans when it comes to Commercial Interests...
...the iPhone, I'd say it must be a pretty fantastic product...
I'll bet none of these whiners even bought an iPhone, and are looking for a reason to diss it because their momma's too cheap to buy them one...
There may be some issues with the iPhone, but IMHO soldered-in batteries is not even on the list as far as I'm concerned.
-- disclaimer: I don't have an iPhone and don't generally like the restrictiveness of Macs, but I can recognize pathentic arguments as much as the next guy...
let them in to look around, this idea is about as stupid as it gets. Do they really want to expose themselves to the liability of opening up your computer's defenses in order to allow inspections such as this? The article should have been dated April 1st...
More importantly, will your cellphone tell you that the product was manufactured by slave labor in a third world country? Or that the manufacturer also makes war products that you are philosophically opposed to and want to boycott? Exactly *whose* interests is the phone access to a database of information going to be serving here anyway?
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You ought to get out more. I've been using VS for some time now, but the old Borland IDEs were much cleaner, not cobbled together like VS. VS has been trying to imitate those IDEs for years, with their typical bolt-on rather than designed-in approach to things-- they've finally gotten *close* to what the Borland IDE was like years ago, and I suppose would be closer if it wasn't for the hapazard way they grew into it. But comparing the two still seems much like comparing Mac System 6 to Windows 3.1.
The open source community doesn't really need any contributions from Microsoft. But in fact, it could represent some self-pressure on them to clean up their code-- it's not like they have a reputation of quality or anything. Perhaps cleaning a few things up for "public consumption" isn't a bad habit for them to get into-- it's comforting to see they actually found a few modules they were willing to spend some time on to do that. The only possible downside I could see is that such contributions will divide the "community" into two camps:
- those that will never use MS "open source."
- those that will use MS "open source."
Is that a big problem? Are they at each other's throats yet? No, I can't really see much of a reason to care about this one way or the other...
You could claim it wasn't your doing, you were a victim of Ransomware...
I have a Turtle Beach Maui soundcard that I can D/L my own custom 56000 DSP code into. Until you can do that with a $100 non-ISA card, ISA ain't dead...
It seems to me from this that it is pretty clear (and no surprise) that Linux mainstream kernel development favors the server over the desktop. However, there are various real-time kernels available.
Might development in the real-time arena ultimately be a closer fit to the desktop than the mainstream kernels? I realize that real-time may not currently be targeted or completely appropriate (at least in its current form) for the desktop, but I would think a more real-time approach to the user interface is what is necessary for optimum user experience. Even Microsoft has "server" and "desktop" versions of their OS and options you can set to tune it for one use or the other. Wouldn't a completely alternative kernel or distribution that you could select at install time that is designed for the desktop be a good idea-- and possibly this might grow out of some of the real-time efforts?
I've been using Linux sporadically since 1991 (Slackware 0.9), but primarily my UI there has been svgalib. I never found Gnome or KDE or any of that very compelling-- these are great in a *server* environment as remote-desktop style capabilities where you are willing to live with less-than-optimal performance, but on a non-server desktop I expect something that performs more like running on one of those real-time kernels from the link above. I've tried to use the Linux desktop, many times, but always give it up ovar a dual-boot to Windows because it just ain't impressive enough to counter the relative lack of compatibility or availablility of relevant applications. It could be mind you (IMHO), but that's simply not the focus of the mainstream developers.
Leave the server optimization to the current mainstream kernel developers, they're pretty good at it and obviously have little interest in trading off any of that for better optimization of the desktop-- not necessarily a bad thing, IMHO. Not only that, they're too wedded to some form of network-connected GUI which again, is fine for what it is but not what I want to work on when the machine is sitting right here in front of me and I'm wanting it to run my user interface. I look to other sources for a bleeding-edge user experience, it's clear that the core developers are either uninterested or inexperienced in this regard. And that's not a slight, I've never believed in a one-size-fits-all solution, the nice thing about Linux distributions, is there are so many to choose from (to paraphrase Tannenbaum).
See, Billy G. and Stevie B. really, genuinely are corrupt, horrible monopolist pigs who eat babies. Why do you think that antitrust suit exists?
Well, not exactly. Actually, Billy G. and Stevie B. simply have such a low opinion of their own ability to compete on a level playing field that they are desperate to find some way to game the system. And it's clear their problem is endemic-- a fundamental part of the way they've been operating the business for decades.
Firefox appears to be suffering from the same problems that Netscape had. At one time, Netscape was a pretty good browser-- then they kept enhancing it and enhancing it, and before long it started to behave weirdly-- hanging, going to sleep for long periods of time and otherwise apparently getting confused trying to do the basic job of aquiring pages and displaying them. Out of frustration, I eventually went with IE for awhile, which didn't have this trouble. I never went back to Netscape. When Firefox came out I tried it as a hopeful alternative to IE which it was at the time. But now I'm seeing some of these same quirky behaviours that plagued Netscape in Firefox. If it gets much worse I'll be moving on again, though this time probably to Opera or Safari or something else...
Yes, I'd like to see a Firefox-lite-- and I'd probalby use that even on my high end machines, actually. I want a browser that just does the basics-- "Less is More" should be the rule in browser design...
I do think part of it is space. Computers have never really fit into home decor. Laptops allow "normal people" to get out there computer and do work then put it away.
Ever live in an old building that once had an icebox-- I'll bet they said that about refrigerators once. No doubt Radios, TVs and automobiles as well...
And servers won't be going away....
I would think that if they try to force independent artists into using DRM via any of these methods they're looking to get slapped with a class-action lawsuit for something like restraint of trade. An independent artist that is willing to provide free music in order to get gigs, sell other music, or to develop a following, may not want its use hampered by DRM or to be refused by net radio stations for not having it, and that such restrictions would unfairly impair such an artist's ability to make money from his/her creations. IANAL, but if they actually have the gall to try to block non-DRM independent music from net radio, or levy a charge from net stations purportedly on behalf of the independent that the independent does not want, someone is opening themselves up to some new lawsuit possibilities here...
Damn straight! I'm still waiting for hovercars with clear bubbletops. Hell, I'd even settle for one of these, or these, even these
The closest commercial vehicle we've gotten so far is the AMC Pacer. Truly pathetic...
Microsoft's "Roadmap to the Future," generally includes things like:
- Introduce subtle compatiblity differences at each new rev in order to force users to upgrade as their current version becomes more and more incompatible with outsiders and the newest Microsoft OS.
- Change the interface needlessly at every new rev so users will think they're actually getting something for their <strike>subscripion</strike> upgrade money.
I mean, you Word users ask yourself: when was the last time you upgraded your Word version because it actually had a new feature you wanted that wasn't a bug or compatibility fix?
Just think of the great and functional technologies MS could develop if they would invest the time and resources into their product instead of ganking the system.
Yes, but to do that would require some actual confidence in one's own abilities to succeed on a level playing field.
The video shows a front-screen configuration, and according to TFA the technology used in order to recognize distinct users has some conduction requirements or something to that effect-- makes me wonder if it will in fact support rear-screen. I find front-screen and the associated shadow-casting on these sort of displays far from optimum, and of course is impractical on a vertical wall.
Also, I'd like to see an open implementation that is less-dependent on what detection technology is utilized-- something that can take a detection array that could be produced either via vidcap (from FITR or whatever) or by the method this demo actually uses.
as it'll keep Mr. Jobs from slipping it into a future release...
The Republican's sure aren't going to want to upgrade...
Actually, W & M likely would have caved in as well, but they didn't have to because the judge caught it before it came to that...
There are thousands if not millions of excellent artists who *currently* play all the time for no pay. I personally know dozens of folk artists who do this ever weekend who, if they are lucky get compensated only about enough for the gas money to get to the venue. Others I know get compensated only in beer at a local pub. I also know that there are similar networks of them all over the country (US) and suspect it is not dissimilar in other parts of the world. Some sell a few CDs at their performances, but that is not why they are there. Most are excellent musicians.
The difference between these sort of artists and those who do it for pay is primarily, exposure. The main reason these artists don't get paid is because they don't have A&R departments from big corporations pumping their stuff all over the radio. But that means the successful bands are successful at the expense of those who don't get the attention from the PR machine. By clamping down on internet radio's independence, the big corporations can keep their cherished exploitation money train. Music is a supply and demand economy, and the corporations only survive because they are able to constrict the supply via tactics that control exposure. On a level playing field, their artists will not garner the big $$$ because they won't be more likely to be heard than any other artist out there, including those who are willing to play for next-to-nothing or simply for the exposure.
The music economy has a similar dynamic to the US political system-- the more money you have to pay to dress-up your candidate, for your candidate's exposure, and the better you can control the exposure pipe (such as refusing to allow third party candidates into the debates), the better chance your chosen candidate has of succeeding. It's working like sh** in the US political system, because those who get elected are based solely on the "invisible hands" of greed and fear which generate the required $$$ to fuel the machine. Not the best way to fuel a government IMHO, and similarly, not the best way to fuel the music industry. We need finance reform in the music industry just like we need it in government.
Bah... Who pays any attention to the Surgeon General's office anyway? There's been no doubt for years that the office is totally politicized. Anyone who bases their behavior, or pays any attention whatsoever, on anything produced by the office is a complete moron. Regardless of what party is in office, it's just another megaphone for political opinion. Might as well listen to Rush Limbaugh for your medical opinions...
Name me one programming language that does not take trigonometric angles in radians.
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Well here's a "lefty" that sure drank the Dem's Kool-Aid. What a hoot-- he actually believes they're detectably different than Republicans when it comes to Commercial Interests...
...the iPhone, I'd say it must be a pretty fantastic product...
I'll bet none of these whiners even bought an iPhone, and are looking for a reason to diss it because their momma's too cheap to buy them one...
There may be some issues with the iPhone, but IMHO soldered-in batteries is not even on the list as far as I'm concerned.
-- disclaimer: I don't have an iPhone and don't generally like the restrictiveness of Macs, but I can recognize pathentic arguments as much as the next guy...
So how does a parent OS do a text search of a document that's only readable by a program that's buried inside a VM?
let them in to look around, this idea is about as stupid as it gets. Do they really want to expose themselves to the liability of opening up your computer's defenses in order to allow inspections such as this? The article should have been dated April 1st...
More importantly, will your cellphone tell you that the product was manufactured by slave labor in a third world country? Or that the manufacturer also makes war products that you are philosophically opposed to and want to boycott? Exactly *whose* interests is the phone access to a database of information going to be serving here anyway?