If you wanted consistency and all that, you'd buy a mandrake, redhat or suse distribution.
The thing about OSS is choice, of course, but it's also innovation as well. Yeah, X/*nix may suffer from TOO many clocks, but how many times have you seen a really cool clock that's implemented on X vs windows? I'm not talking about the importance of "the clock" but the cool factor and the possibilities.
Inovations in unix? Well.. lesse.. kerberos, window transparancy in X, themes.. all ideas that have been ported over to the "other" platforms. Why were they carried over? 'cause they are cool, or useful.
So forgive the Y guy (why oh why!). He didn't like how the current system works.. so he made a new one, with the improvements people want for so long. And a little competition and guidance through competition isn't unhealthy, eh?:)
if i register abacadaba.com, and abacadaba.com becomes the biggest thing next to yahoo and slashdot combined with sex.com... everyone would want to go to abacadaba.com, or so i hope.
all mispellings on my idea, and my trademark if ihave it trademarked, will go to versign. they'd effectively be making money off of me via a transitive property.. sorta. people want to see my site which makes money, verisign takes all mispellings of my site.. people make verisign money!
register.com lost a suit similar to what you are talking about.
when you buy a domain from rcom, your page automagically defaults to a page. This page is pretty much an advertisement for rcom and such. it drives revenue towards rcom.
many MANY people thought this was crooked, so there was a civil suit.. which rcom lost.
I couldn't see a case like this wouldn't run the same, since both the rcom parked-page service and this have search links and nifo that drive revnue to their respective companies...
This can be a little dangerous, if placed near to highways.
If you live in NYC, and have driven down the west side high way, there's a billboard, a tv billboard, which you see when you drive south around 23rd street in Manhattan. Am I the only one who gets a little distracted by these things? Anytime I pass by, I have to make a concerted effort NOT to have my eyes flit back and forth.
What about the ones in Times Square you may ask? They are MUCH MUCH higher up, out of line of sight for drivers. This one is about 3 stories high at about a few hundred feet away from the road. Ideal for drivers watching.
Then explain to your boss why you have to write the same code MULTIPLE times, once for the web, once for say, a java two/three tier client, then command line utilities...
Let's not forget having to write the same query N times.
If your password is LSKdfSLJ, if you get it wrong, it's human error until you type it right. If you use a fingerprint scan, it has to do more work to figure out that your finger isn't perfectly aligned with the picture. Just like OCR.
Yeah, most people have many fingers and toes, but until it becomes infalable, getting locked out of your work machine on a daily basis, or 10% of the time, would make your workday a lot longer. Think of the time you waste on slashdot daily!
For something that is either, "allowed in" or "locked out", I'd rather a password, RSA SecureID or some sorta smart card anyday. For a tool to help find information, sorta the baysan filter for people, it makes sense. Think about it. You can walk freely through your office, no key card or whatever, but you are restricted by a face scan. If you fail that, go to your good ol' backup of a secureid, where you need a password AND token.
So where does style come in? There are many, MANY forms of style, which make writters unique. For instance, I've found that when I write, even the shortest essays, I tend to break up my thoughts into multipart sentences... like this one. They tend to be very long and drawn out. I also use "granted" and "don't forget". I also seem to create a lot of sentences that are self contradicting: Though this, something else. It's part of my style.
My style isn't completely mine. I'm sure over-use would be bad. Granted this. Granted that. Where do those softer features of writing come in? Or are we all to be sterile and write with no tone or style.
It's still extra software you need to install just for a DB. Would it be normal to expect apache or gcc to work via gui? Doubtful, especially in the unix world.
How often have we chastized someone who wasted their time doing something they prolly aren't making money off of. Sure, they could be doing something "better" with your dime if you were paying them:)
Realize, that the diff between running apache on linux 2.4 or 2.6 is a miniscule difference. Usually winders breaks compatability. Also, because unicies are so.. component driven, you wind up getting fixes, seperate. glibc gets fixed. gtk gets fixed. gnome gets fixed. and they are all distributed seperately.
Right move in terms of "intellectual property". But I bet you dollars do donuts that instead of people paying, they just get dropped. As people don't find them to be a viable solution, some will leave, and some will force themselves to use MS9.
Wow, what a prejiduced look at things. Have you thought that maybe, just maybe, the poster didn't have any live X servers around? Oh that's right. All self righteous linux zealots have X running before they even have it installed on the HD making things a happy land, right?
You forget about the home stuff, the people in wheel chairs and the people who suffer in the ovens which were once subways underground, in the festering bowls of nyc.
Yeah, too bad all the people on emergency/medical devices, up 42nd floor ofices, in our 90degree weather or 15 miles from home w/o a subway would be screwed.
Not to mention people IN electrically driven devices when the power dies, such as elevators, rollercoasters, subways../end rant
Slashdot Mirror
If you wanted consistency and all that, you'd buy a mandrake, redhat or suse distribution.
:)
The thing about OSS is choice, of course, but it's also innovation as well. Yeah, X/*nix may suffer from TOO many clocks, but how many times have you seen a really cool clock that's implemented on X vs windows? I'm not talking about the importance of "the clock" but the cool factor and the possibilities.
Inovations in unix? Well.. lesse.. kerberos, window transparancy in X, themes.. all ideas that have been ported over to the "other" platforms. Why were they carried over? 'cause they are cool, or useful.
So forgive the Y guy (why oh why!). He didn't like how the current system works.. so he made a new one, with the improvements people want for so long. And a little competition and guidance through competition isn't unhealthy, eh?
Well, I for one, welcome our new advertisment overlords.
/horribly misconfigured
When our (the US) government isn't backed by the money of the lobbyers that want to manipulate and again, is backed by the common voice of the people.
Well, for one, someone is paying for the domain out of pocket, but if you ask me, if someone creates a page just to drive traffic like that..
it's still bad. Their intentions are lame, no?
http://futuresite.register.com/
That's site is what we are talking about, right?
Those search results and ads... do you think YOU make money off of those?
a second note:
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if i register abacadaba.com, and abacadaba.com becomes the biggest thing next to yahoo and slashdot combined with sex.com... everyone would want to go to abacadaba.com, or so i hope.
all mispellings on my idea, and my trademark if ihave it trademarked, will go to versign. they'd effectively be making money off of me via a transitive property.. sorta. people want to see my site which makes money, verisign takes all mispellings of my site.. people make verisign money!
whoa.. i think i just proved step 2
register.com lost a suit similar to what you are talking about.
when you buy a domain from rcom, your page automagically defaults to a page. This page is pretty much an advertisement for rcom and such. it drives revenue towards rcom.
many MANY people thought this was crooked, so there was a civil suit.. which rcom lost.
I couldn't see a case like this wouldn't run the same, since both the rcom parked-page service and this have search links and nifo that drive revnue to their respective companies...
Too bad php sux0rs and prolly should be replaced by ruby or anything else.
This can be a little dangerous, if placed near to highways.
If you live in NYC, and have driven down the west side high way, there's a billboard, a tv billboard, which you see when you drive south around 23rd street in Manhattan. Am I the only one who gets a little distracted by these things? Anytime I pass by, I have to make a concerted effort NOT to have my eyes flit back and forth.
What about the ones in Times Square you may ask? They are MUCH MUCH higher up, out of line of sight for drivers. This one is about 3 stories high at about a few hundred feet away from the road. Ideal for drivers watching.
Holy FCUK!
'cause. C is a simpler language to write a compiler for. :)
Then explain to your boss why you have to write the same code MULTIPLE times, once for the web, once for say, a java two/three tier client, then command line utilities...
Let's not forget having to write the same query N times.
Yeah, a server os (bsd/os) died and recently, a new os based mostly on bsd was born (darwin).
BSD/OS had some kick ass SMP support. They were also great live support. Terrible package support, but that was the worst of it.
Isn't their music also supposed to be available via itunes?
marklar?
Until biometrics works flawlessly too.
If your password is LSKdfSLJ, if you get it wrong, it's human error until you type it right. If you use a fingerprint scan, it has to do more work to figure out that your finger isn't perfectly aligned with the picture. Just like OCR.
Yeah, most people have many fingers and toes, but until it becomes infalable, getting locked out of your work machine on a daily basis, or 10% of the time, would make your workday a lot longer. Think of the time you waste on slashdot daily!
For something that is either, "allowed in" or "locked out", I'd rather a password, RSA SecureID or some sorta smart card anyday. For a tool to help find information, sorta the baysan filter for people, it makes sense. Think about it. You can walk freely through your office, no key card or whatever, but you are restricted by a face scan. If you fail that, go to your good ol' backup of a secureid, where you need a password AND token.
So where does style come in? There are many, MANY forms of style, which make writters unique. For instance, I've found that when I write, even the shortest essays, I tend to break up my thoughts into multipart sentences... like this one. They tend to be very long and drawn out. I also use "granted" and "don't forget". I also seem to create a lot of sentences that are self contradicting: Though this, something else. It's part of my style.
My style isn't completely mine. I'm sure over-use would be bad. Granted this. Granted that. Where do those softer features of writing come in? Or are we all to be sterile and write with no tone or style.
It's still extra software you need to install just for a DB. Would it be normal to expect apache or gcc to work via gui? Doubtful, especially in the unix world.
How often have we chastized someone who wasted their time doing something they prolly aren't making money off of. Sure, they could be doing something "better" with your dime if you were paying them :)
Realize, that the diff between running apache on linux 2.4 or 2.6 is a miniscule difference. Usually winders breaks compatability. Also, because unicies are so.. component driven, you wind up getting fixes, seperate. glibc gets fixed. gtk gets fixed. gnome gets fixed. and they are all distributed seperately.
:)
When windows updates, it's WW3
Right move in terms of "intellectual property". But I bet you dollars do donuts that instead of people paying, they just get dropped. As people don't find them to be a viable solution, some will leave, and some will force themselves to use MS9.
Wow, what a prejiduced look at things. Have you thought that maybe, just maybe, the poster didn't have any live X servers around? Oh that's right. All self righteous linux zealots have X running before they even have it installed on the HD making things a happy land, right?
moron.
You forget about the home stuff, the people in wheel chairs and the people who suffer in the ovens which were once subways underground, in the festering bowls of nyc.
Yeah, excitement.
You know, that is a little insensitive.
/end rant
Yeah, too bad all the people on emergency/medical devices, up 42nd floor ofices, in our 90degree weather or 15 miles from home w/o a subway would be screwed.
Not to mention people IN electrically driven devices when the power dies, such as elevators, rollercoasters, subways..