Also, in many cases recently, it has even been almost completely useless... So it wasn't as though he bought the Macs out of a well researched need, he bought them because he's a Mac fan, without consideration as to if that's the right tool for the job.
Heh. Just like a company where I worked as a Windows/Symbian programmer. There were two Mac fans at the same firm, very talented Symbian/Palm coders but they just wanted to have Macs as their development platform. Well they got Macs but guess what? They were useful only in reading mail and surfing the web. They couldn't do any work with them! And because of their size they didn't make good paper weights either:)
I also remembered a case where I stumbled to really... weird Mac user. Company X wanted us to write Windows.NET application for them which depended heavily on DirectX. I wrote it from bottom up and it worked and all... Now they wanted to change some icons and stuff and they send their "user interface expert" to us. I was thrilled that I finally get to meet one since I can't really desing good UIs. And one day he came to visit us.
First I was stunned that he was carrying Mac! Well okay, you can desing icons and UIs on Mac of course. Then I was stunned when he hadn't actually designed anything. Only thing that he did in the meeting was to appraise his Macbook which was like a second coming of Jesus to him! Finally, and most unbeliavably, he asked why our software won't run on Mac! Well, maybe because it depends on DirectX... Dunno:)
So if Microsoft were to buy Dell, HP etc. everything would be fine?
But this was not my point at all. My point was that analog_line was trying to distort the meaning of the word "monopoly" in the favor of Apple. Of course Apple hasn't been declared as a monopoly but that could change if they continue these stunts.
But I think everything that is relevant has already been said in this thread so I'm not going to repeat them. Thanks and bye.
I don't understand the claim that the iPod is a monopoly. It's certainly the most popular. Its popularity means that it's a force in the marketplace, but it's by no means a monopoly.
Well, let's change that a bit...
I don't understand the claim that the Windows is a monopoly. It's certainly the most popular. Its popularity means that it's a force in the marketplace, but it's by no means a monopoly.
You might want to tell U.S. judges that Microsoft doesn't have monopoly, they are just the most popular player in the field;)
Yes. Typical answer from person who actually knows something about computers. I was once working as software engineer in a company which made and sold mobile VPN software. There were some steps in installation where user could screw up the whole machine to unbootable state. I said "well let them, just put a warning sticker in user's manual". Need I say that our support and sales managers wanted strangle me?
Linux is gplonly but ndiswrapper is non-gplonly because it can load non-gpl binary modules? Then why Linux is gplonly when it can load non-gplonly wrapper which can load non-gpl modules? What if I write ndiswrapperwrapper which is gplonly and it loads non-gplonly ndiswrapper...
Don't take it seriously. I'm just having a little bit of fun here:)
I've tried for some time now figure out what's the idea behind thread per tab. And it seems to me there isn't any idea in that. And if you take under consideration that in Windows the whole messaging stuff is done in the context of the main thread there is really no idea to spawn threads for every tab. You'd still have to receive every message in one thread and then pass them to others and use nasty synchronization objects and stuff. Brrr.. I wouldn't want to implement that:)
Now process per tab and one container to rule them all is totally a different thing. Tab page doesn't have to wait other tabs to handle their messages. It can go on and process it's stuff when ever processor(s) gives time for it. And if one page crashes and burns, all the others won't follow it. But a lot of context switches here also and even nastier than in multi-thread scenario.
They don't get to keep their monopoly. They get to pay the fine and change their behaviour or get fined again.
That's how it works in the EU, you don't get to continue doing what you were fined for after you pay your fine!
Well, actually that is not how it works in the EU. Monopolies aren't prohibited in EU. If there's no competition then there is no competition. Monopoly doesn't have to stop operating or create competitor for itself if there's no such. And in fact EU has been supporting competitors of MS. Just look all that money poured to Mandrake/Mandriva.
Well I personally don't like this censorship at all. I just thought to use lack of oversight as one argument against this.
You rise more very good points which I haven't considered at all. I thank you for that. I'll think I wait a couple of days if more comments come in and then we'll see what happens:)
Ah. Very good point. But to be exact it is not lawmakers who are in control (well, at least not anymore) but the police. What I understood was that someone at police organization updates this list based totally on his/her whim. So whoever is in control can use this list to drive his/her own political, religional etc. agenda. Maybe I should make a point about liberties and that there's absolutely zero oversight on what is put on that list?
I've tried to discuss this with many others at Helsingin Sanomat message board. But it is hard because when ever you try to convince someone that this isn't the right kind of tool to prevent child porn you get labeled as a child porn consumer or even a pedofile. Those who understands this issue can't do much and those who don't are closing their eyes and ears and shouting I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOU SICK BASTARD.
I'll think I write nice letter to minister Katainen about this. I have Kokoomus membership card in my pocket and I live in Pohjois-Savo, as does Katainen, so hopefully he reads my mail. But I'm not sure how to phrase the mail so that it is polite and informative at the same time:) I'll have to think about this a little...
Now I got it why our software project was so successful even when our client in healthcare business didn't have any fricking idea what they wanted and our other business partners we're totally clueless too. I never passed the 70-316 exam! I'll make a mental note not to try it again, ever...;)
TAC2 FTW! It survived Decathlon. It survived crazied teenager (me) who died in the game on too many time. It even survived crazied teenager's (me) mods (I attached autofire switch in one of them). I think my little brother still has one the them:)
Singularity avoids context switches by running everything in kernel mode. This works because it's all written in C# and can thus be verified before loading.
Kernel mode? I thought it is all run in user mode and inside a single process but in separate threads. Compiler makes sure that those threads can safely pass messages, like someone already pointed out, and that those "processes" don't end up messing with each other memory space. No kernel involvement here.
Kernel in Singularity is, if I understood correctly, just a small layer which handles memory, disk, I/O, whatever access. Everything else is in the user land.
And cut down that flaming part a bit or I'll tell you mom;)
I don't see the point in buying QNX. They already have Singularity which seems very interesting to me. Now I don't know much about microkernels but the idea looks nice. Let compiler handle all the nasty IPC stuff at compile time to lower the performance penalty which comes from process context switches and such.
A consistent picture in every company that I have seen from the inside, with not a single exception: The Unix (or in some places, the mainframe) department is an order of magnitude more professional than the windos group.
So in other words the companies you've been inside of have had managers that are unable to hire competent Windows admins?
Norton 2003 Internet Security was in imo pretty good package. It worked well, didn't grind computer to it's knees etc. 2005 version was almost as good as 2003 but if I remember correctly I had to actually delete one.exe file so that it wouldn't eat all my CPU time. I think that EXE's purpose was to filter email messages but since I don't use rich email clients I didn't need it. I don't know why it ate my CPU though.
Now-a-days I suggest people to install free Avast! AV software and use Windows own firewall and of course install all the latest Service Packs and patches. I recommend to buy Vista also for it's improved (compared to XP) security features. Works like a charm for me at least.
It is even easier where I live. I just type "pub 15" and receiver immediately understands that it means a hectic beer drinking festival at the pub starting 15 minutes from now, put on your clothes and get your ass to the pub. So the compression rate is enormous! It also helps that there is only one pub in the town...
Heh. Familiar feeling. Combine that with 4 project managers breathing on your neck and your boss asking why isn't any of those projects going forward. So you can't get your projects going _and_ you need to explain to every (add long list of curses here) PHB why it is so.
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Heh. Just like a company where I worked as a Windows/Symbian programmer. There were two Mac fans at the same firm, very talented Symbian/Palm coders but they just wanted to have Macs as their development platform. Well they got Macs but guess what? They were useful only in reading mail and surfing the web. They couldn't do any work with them! And because of their size they didn't make good paper weights either :)
I also remembered a case where I stumbled to really ... weird Mac user. Company X wanted us to write Windows .NET application for them which depended heavily on DirectX. I wrote it from bottom up and it worked and all... Now they wanted to change some icons and stuff and they send their "user interface expert" to us. I was thrilled that I finally get to meet one since I can't really desing good UIs. And one day he came to visit us.
First I was stunned that he was carrying Mac! Well okay, you can desing icons and UIs on Mac of course. Then I was stunned when he hadn't actually designed anything. Only thing that he did in the meeting was to appraise his Macbook which was like a second coming of Jesus to him! Finally, and most unbeliavably, he asked why our software won't run on Mac! Well, maybe because it depends on DirectX... Dunno :)
So if Microsoft were to buy Dell, HP etc. everything would be fine?
But this was not my point at all. My point was that analog_line was trying to distort the meaning of the word "monopoly" in the favor of Apple. Of course Apple hasn't been declared as a monopoly but that could change if they continue these stunts.
But I think everything that is relevant has already been said in this thread so I'm not going to repeat them. Thanks and bye.
Well, let's change that a bit...
You might want to tell U.S. judges that Microsoft doesn't have monopoly, they are just the most popular player in the field ;)
Yes. Typical answer from person who actually knows something about computers. I was once working as software engineer in a company which made and sold mobile VPN software. There were some steps in installation where user could screw up the whole machine to unbootable state. I said "well let them, just put a warning sticker in user's manual". Need I say that our support and sales managers wanted strangle me?
Vampires. Hot, sexy female vampires. Kate Beckinsdale. Need I say more?!
Linux is gplonly but ndiswrapper is non-gplonly because it can load non-gpl binary modules? Then why Linux is gplonly when it can load non-gplonly wrapper which can load non-gpl modules? What if I write ndiswrapperwrapper which is gplonly and it loads non-gplonly ndiswrapper...
Don't take it seriously. I'm just having a little bit of fun here :)
I've tried for some time now figure out what's the idea behind thread per tab. And it seems to me there isn't any idea in that. And if you take under consideration that in Windows the whole messaging stuff is done in the context of the main thread there is really no idea to spawn threads for every tab. You'd still have to receive every message in one thread and then pass them to others and use nasty synchronization objects and stuff. Brrr.. I wouldn't want to implement that :)
Now process per tab and one container to rule them all is totally a different thing. Tab page doesn't have to wait other tabs to handle their messages. It can go on and process it's stuff when ever processor(s) gives time for it. And if one page crashes and burns, all the others won't follow it. But a lot of context switches here also and even nastier than in multi-thread scenario.
Ps. I hate tabs
Well, actually that is not how it works in the EU. Monopolies aren't prohibited in EU. If there's no competition then there is no competition. Monopoly doesn't have to stop operating or create competitor for itself if there's no such. And in fact EU has been supporting competitors of MS. Just look all that money poured to Mandrake/Mandriva.
And very bad summary from Slashdot. Silverlight and Perl is like JavaScript and PHP, apples and oranges.
So you are running Apache as root? Scary.
Well I personally don't like this censorship at all. I just thought to use lack of oversight as one argument against this.
You rise more very good points which I haven't considered at all. I thank you for that. I'll think I wait a couple of days if more comments come in and then we'll see what happens :)
Ah. Very good point. But to be exact it is not lawmakers who are in control (well, at least not anymore) but the police. What I understood was that someone at police organization updates this list based totally on his/her whim. So whoever is in control can use this list to drive his/her own political, religional etc. agenda. Maybe I should make a point about liberties and that there's absolutely zero oversight on what is put on that list?
I've tried to discuss this with many others at Helsingin Sanomat message board. But it is hard because when ever you try to convince someone that this isn't the right kind of tool to prevent child porn you get labeled as a child porn consumer or even a pedofile. Those who understands this issue can't do much and those who don't are closing their eyes and ears and shouting I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOU SICK BASTARD.
I'll think I write nice letter to minister Katainen about this. I have Kokoomus membership card in my pocket and I live in Pohjois-Savo, as does Katainen, so hopefully he reads my mail. But I'm not sure how to phrase the mail so that it is polite and informative at the same time :) I'll have to think about this a little ...
Now I got it why our software project was so successful even when our client in healthcare business didn't have any fricking idea what they wanted and our other business partners we're totally clueless too. I never passed the 70-316 exam! I'll make a mental note not to try it again, ever ... ;)
TAC2 FTW! It survived Decathlon. It survived crazied teenager (me) who died in the game on too many time. It even survived crazied teenager's (me) mods (I attached autofire switch in one of them). I think my little brother still has one the them :)
And DRM affects the performance of your computer box exactly how? Of course it plays a role when you are watching DRM'd content.
Kernel mode? I thought it is all run in user mode and inside a single process but in separate threads. Compiler makes sure that those threads can safely pass messages, like someone already pointed out, and that those "processes" don't end up messing with each other memory space. No kernel involvement here.
Kernel in Singularity is, if I understood correctly, just a small layer which handles memory, disk, I/O, whatever access. Everything else is in the user land.
And cut down that flaming part a bit or I'll tell you mom ;)
I don't see the point in buying QNX. They already have Singularity which seems very interesting to me. Now I don't know much about microkernels but the idea looks nice. Let compiler handle all the nasty IPC stuff at compile time to lower the performance penalty which comes from process context switches and such.
Why on earth would I do that? I like our highly competent IT staff to be right here and do their work so that I can do my.
So in other words the companies you've been inside of have had managers that are unable to hire competent Windows admins?
They hire Jesse Ventura to fire it from the hip ;)
Norton 2003 Internet Security was in imo pretty good package. It worked well, didn't grind computer to it's knees etc. 2005 version was almost as good as 2003 but if I remember correctly I had to actually delete one .exe file so that it wouldn't eat all my CPU time. I think that EXE's purpose was to filter email messages but since I don't use rich email clients I didn't need it. I don't know why it ate my CPU though.
Now-a-days I suggest people to install free Avast! AV software and use Windows own firewall and of course install all the latest Service Packs and patches. I recommend to buy Vista also for it's improved (compared to XP) security features. Works like a charm for me at least.
It is even easier where I live. I just type "pub 15" and receiver immediately understands that it means a hectic beer drinking festival at the pub starting 15 minutes from now, put on your clothes and get your ass to the pub. So the compression rate is enormous! It also helps that there is only one pub in the town...
You got it wrong. Smart ones are often lazy but lazy ones aren't always the smart ones. Or I'd be a frickin Einstein! ;)
Heh. Familiar feeling. Combine that with 4 project managers breathing on your neck and your boss asking why isn't any of those projects going forward. So you can't get your projects going _and_ you need to explain to every (add long list of curses here) PHB why it is so.
I think I want to be a lumberjack...