It's too easy and too soon to say told ya, it could be a clever MS strategy to instill panic and when hordes of devs cry release a new shiny net for win8, with Ballmer chanting "we care for you!!" in front of some burning chairs sacrificed for the occasion.
If things go wrong... till a couple months ago slashdot was full of people telling.net is good, 'cause there is a free implementation... since it appears to be true, to an extent,.net developers should regroup on mono, at least to keep investments already committed to.net safe for a few years. It's not like a full free software stack when you run it on windows and MS will make sure that their own stuff runs better than mono on their own OS, but bitching about microsoft is a sign of little attention to their track record.
With a proprietary compiler, likely. The difference between building a toolchain and in perspective an OS for an eventually self hosted environment vs. building stuff using the.net framework, especially when targeting windows, should have been obvious to a low ID slashdotter. Open hardware would be better, ditto for open firmware, and free compilers are here already. But as long as their specification are correct / no backdoors, showstopping bugs, and as long as I am the owner of the product they issue (which is not true h264 video, for example), I say "close enough".
The.NET Framework source is being released under a read-only reference license....If the software you are developing is for Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that software has "the same or substantially the same features or functionality" as the.NET Framework.
It's open source but not FOSS, and not granting any freedom from software patents, a safety which cannot be granted anyway, until obvious stuff can be patented.
A system closed in some key parts is closed, no matter how many layers of FOSS depend on it. Wanna build up on a closed system? It's a bet, pray that open alternatives come indirectly to your rescue by simply being there.
> Just saying. People didn't pick Ubunutu for the G, they picked it because it is the easiest, most "stable" (it just works), most friendly out there. and a few lines later > Debian(...)If you want software versions everyone has been using for a decade, try "experimental" branch. Cat is still under review for inclusion in stable.
Decide: either stable + just works (in my experience, that's debian stable), or fresh, with the latest packages. New users should prefer the former. I like newer packages and personally prefer aptosid over ubuntu with its 6 month cycle + less focus on kde.
Finally, for some hyperbolic sarcasm in your reviews just like you did with debian (firefox, that is iceweasel, is 4.0.1 on website and 4.0.1 on debian experimental):
"Ubuntu: finger tightly crossed on updates, new functionality you didn't ask for, deprecation of old ways of doing stuff that you were comfortable with, works better on powerful hardware. That is, exactly like windows but with a tighter release cycle. Possibly the most successful linux distro ever, in the niche market of troll distros. Beats linpus for sure."
PS surpasses bash in terms of language features? Sure, bash is more a collection of commands than a language. If you need object orientation, remoting for automation purposes you get ruby or newlisp, iolanguage or a dozen other languages. But Windows and OSX automation do not surpass a FOSS unix environment because total control in the hand of the sysadmin is against the interest of the OS and applications owners. Possibly, powershell exists because and until bash does.
You assume they look for keywords but the most likely and doable thing is monitoring employees' activity. (keystrokes + mouse clicks)/hour * ratio of work-related websites visited = "productivity" It has begun.
I do not think sony will pull another stunt with the phones. They made enough trouble for their users already.
But I am not gonna buy stuff from them, they showed no respect, I show no interest. Or I should say "they show no respect" because blaming anonymous for a stolen data case without no solid proof sounds like a tactic to deflect attention from the lousy way they lost data or push the equation hacking=bad, which has many more counterexamples than the equation corporation=bunch of psychos.
I guess law enforcement will be very happy to share the knowledge that make you JMP to this conclusion.
This seems the work of crackers, the average hacker is more likely to get a handful of credit card details and publish the breach telling how his skillz went through mighty sony defense.
Last sony product I owned is a second hand trinitron, but there's nothing to feel superior about. With sony rootkit, the consumers were screwed. With this fiasco the consumers were screwed, and most of them don't know what a rootkit or an otheros is.
There is a well named product for movies called kino. Kdenlive in very short time dwarfed it in terms of features without being much more difficult to use for simple stuff. Names might be important but features/price, documentation and stability count more, especially when softpedia and countless others will tag software product by function whatever their name is.
> China hasn't learned that "lesson" at all... China does everything with a view towards the long-term good of the country...
Strange, because China had an edge for surviving the upcoming energy/materials crisis by simply adopting greener technology at a slow pace. Their elite is all about acquiring control as our elite is, therefore they do the same things in the same way, getting the same good results (considering the amount of control over people's life, not the health of the planet or other metrics).
MS has decided this is the next major step in trying to make a user interface different from the one adopted by mac and linux users, hoping that the current advantage in OEM installs and games will create a new class of win users that consider mac and linux too unfamiliar. FTFY
It may not succeed because phone interfaces might teach users there is more than one way to perform a task, but it will do enough damage.
Feeling part of something bigger than your own self, that is your family, your country, geekdom, whatever, means a lot of things. Discussing which ones are appropriate or misplaced is fair, making general statements is a waste of time.
A person who knows and respects its own culture (going also beyond the national flag, which often is artificial), listens to facts of life coming from his parents, his relatives, his neighbours, ends up with more ways to filter out propaganda, which currently pushes the idea that identity is at odds with peaceful co-existence. Maybe it is, but surely the absence of identity is *good* for a system of power based on money, because it removes scruples that may clash with the bitchy pursuit of wealth.
So, "be proud of your parents because they are yours", which had been mainstream for ages, today is revolutionary. Go figure.
The incident might be eye opening for some people but the cloud cannot theoretically work because it's not a paradigm. Grid computing is a paradigm. Cloud computing is, as you said, marketspeak describing how providers organize their resources internally. Well that's irrelevant because the provider is the single point of failure. Piss off Amazon for whatever reason, your data becomes unavailable no matter how cloudy it was. It's more "cloudy" to simply replicate data locally and on two different providers.
The efficiency of a new windows release depends on the fear of competition. Vista being the notable exception, but it's better to consider it the beta of win7 rushed out not to lose too much edge. Besides, the only win7 machine I see doesn't seem to outperform debian sid, except I guess games. Games are probably the biggest selling point for bundled windows licenses for homes.
It is fair to compensate the Creators (vs. the copyright holders with their "leave all rights to me or don't get published" contracts) for the work they publish in exchange for payment. It is also fair to punish those who violate copyright IN PROPORTION TO THE ACTUAL DAMAGE done, which doesn't happen with those terror IP campaigns. It is also fair that once a work is acquired, the guy who bought it can format shift it and archive it through 3rd parties, that ownership of a copy gives right to public performing it (venues can pay taxes, if you want). It is also fair that creators do not plunder existing work and put it under copyright (music makers would be mostly SOL). It is also fair that copyright doesn't extend more than 75 years. It would be fair to ban free airing of material whose copyright protection is going to be strongly enforced. Doing otherwise is a form of entrapment.
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It's too easy and too soon to say told ya, it could be a clever MS strategy to instill panic and when hordes of devs cry release a new shiny net for win8, with Ballmer chanting "we care for you!!" in front of some burning chairs sacrificed for the occasion.
If things go wrong... till a couple months ago slashdot was full of people telling .net is good, 'cause there is a free implementation... since it appears to be true, to an extent, .net developers should regroup on mono, at least to keep investments already committed to .net safe for a few years.
It's not like a full free software stack when you run it on windows and MS will make sure that their own stuff runs better than mono on their own OS, but bitching about microsoft is a sign of little attention to their track record.
With a proprietary compiler, likely. The difference between building a toolchain and in perspective an OS for an eventually self hosted environment vs. building stuff using the .net framework, especially when targeting windows, should have been obvious to a low ID slashdotter.
Open hardware would be better, ditto for open firmware, and free compilers are here already. But as long as their specification are correct / no backdoors, showstopping bugs, and as long as I am the owner of the product they issue (which is not true h264 video, for example), I say "close enough".
The .NET Framework source is being released under a read-only reference license....If the software you are developing is for Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that software has "the same or substantially the same features or functionality" as the .NET Framework.
It's open source but not FOSS, and not granting any freedom from software patents, a safety which cannot be granted anyway, until obvious stuff can be patented.
A system closed in some key parts is closed, no matter how many layers of FOSS depend on it. Wanna build up on a closed system? It's a bet, pray that open alternatives come indirectly to your rescue by simply being there.
Bingo. A unified infrastructure would make everybody able to compete. And we'd finally try that fabled capitalism :D
> Just saying. People didn't pick Ubunutu for the G, they picked it because it is the easiest, most "stable" (it just works), most friendly out there.
and a few lines later
> Debian(...)If you want software versions everyone has been using for a decade, try "experimental" branch. Cat is still under review for inclusion in stable.
Decide: either stable + just works (in my experience, that's debian stable), or fresh, with the latest packages. New users should prefer the former.
I like newer packages and personally prefer aptosid over ubuntu with its 6 month cycle + less focus on kde.
Finally, for some hyperbolic sarcasm in your reviews just like you did with debian (firefox, that is iceweasel, is 4.0.1 on website and 4.0.1 on debian experimental):
"Ubuntu: finger tightly crossed on updates, new functionality you didn't ask for, deprecation of old ways of doing stuff that you were comfortable with, works better on powerful hardware. That is, exactly like windows but with a tighter release cycle. Possibly the most successful linux distro ever, in the niche market of troll distros. Beats linpus for sure."
> Some of the pollutants that burning coal dumps into the air? Radioactive uranium.
Fukushima radiation is traced around the globe, how can that happen with all the radioactive uranium dumped daily by coal? I smell BS.
PS surpasses bash in terms of language features? Sure, bash is more a collection of commands than a language. If you need object orientation, remoting for automation purposes you get ruby or newlisp, iolanguage or a dozen other languages. But Windows and OSX automation do not surpass a FOSS unix environment because total control in the hand of the sysadmin is against the interest of the OS and applications owners. Possibly, powershell exists because and until bash does.
You assume they look for keywords but the most likely and doable thing is monitoring employees' activity.
(keystrokes + mouse clicks)/hour * ratio of work-related websites visited = "productivity"
It has begun.
I do not think sony will pull another stunt with the phones. They made enough trouble for their users already.
But I am not gonna buy stuff from them, they showed no respect, I show no interest.
Or I should say "they show no respect" because blaming anonymous for a stolen data case without no solid proof sounds like a tactic to deflect attention from the lousy way they lost data or push the equation hacking=bad, which has many more counterexamples than the equation corporation=bunch of psychos.
I guess law enforcement will be very happy to share the knowledge that make you JMP to this conclusion.
This seems the work of crackers, the average hacker is more likely to get a handful of credit card details and publish the breach telling how his skillz went through mighty sony defense.
Last sony product I owned is a second hand trinitron, but there's nothing to feel superior about.
With sony rootkit, the consumers were screwed. With this fiasco the consumers were screwed, and most of them don't know what a rootkit or an otheros is.
There is a well named product for movies called kino.
Kdenlive in very short time dwarfed it in terms of features without being much more difficult to use for simple stuff.
Names might be important but features/price, documentation and stability count more, especially when softpedia and countless others will tag software product by function whatever their name is.
I wonder if the contracts we have with our respective ISPs allow letting third parties use the connection.
> China hasn't learned that "lesson" at all... China does everything with a view towards the long-term good of the country...
Strange, because China had an edge for surviving the upcoming energy/materials crisis by simply adopting greener technology at a slow pace. Their elite is all about acquiring control as our elite is, therefore they do the same things in the same way, getting the same good results (considering the amount of control over people's life, not the health of the planet or other metrics).
While you're at it, ask the guy what is he doing on a linux powered website, inside a linux story thread, if nobody cares.
MS has decided this is the next major step in trying to make a user interface different from the one adopted by mac and linux users, hoping that the current advantage in OEM installs and games will create a new class of win users that consider mac and linux too unfamiliar.
FTFY
It may not succeed because phone interfaces might teach users there is more than one way to perform a task, but it will do enough damage.
Feeling part of something bigger than your own self, that is your family, your country, geekdom, whatever, means a lot of things. Discussing which ones are appropriate or misplaced is fair, making general statements is a waste of time.
A person who knows and respects its own culture (going also beyond the national flag, which often is artificial), listens to facts of life coming from his parents, his relatives, his neighbours, ends up with more ways to filter out propaganda, which currently pushes the idea that identity is at odds with peaceful co-existence. Maybe it is, but surely the absence of identity is *good* for a system of power based on money, because it removes scruples that may clash with the bitchy pursuit of wealth.
So, "be proud of your parents because they are yours", which had been mainstream for ages, today is revolutionary. Go figure.
Try adding soy sauce.
> Maybe you should do the same if you at some point need to prove the government wrong?
A file that can be tampered with is no proof. I hope.
Or an obfuscated list of more precisely computed locations, or whatever. Unfortunately closed systems can't let you find it out easily.
The incident might be eye opening for some people but the cloud cannot theoretically work because it's not a paradigm. Grid computing is a paradigm. Cloud computing is, as you said, marketspeak describing how providers organize their resources internally. Well that's irrelevant because the provider is the single point of failure. Piss off Amazon for whatever reason, your data becomes unavailable no matter how cloudy it was. It's more "cloudy" to simply replicate data locally and on two different providers.
The efficiency of a new windows release depends on the fear of competition. Vista being the notable exception, but it's better to consider it the beta of win7 rushed out not to lose too much edge.
Besides, the only win7 machine I see doesn't seem to outperform debian sid, except I guess games. Games are probably the biggest selling point for bundled windows licenses for homes.
It is fair to compensate the Creators (vs. the copyright holders with their "leave all rights to me or don't get published" contracts) for the work they publish in exchange for payment.
It is also fair to punish those who violate copyright IN PROPORTION TO THE ACTUAL DAMAGE done, which doesn't happen with those terror IP campaigns.
It is also fair that once a work is acquired, the guy who bought it can format shift it and archive it through 3rd parties, that ownership of a copy gives right to public performing it (venues can pay taxes, if you want).
It is also fair that creators do not plunder existing work and put it under copyright (music makers would be mostly SOL).
It is also fair that copyright doesn't extend more than 75 years.
It would be fair to ban free airing of material whose copyright protection is going to be strongly enforced. Doing otherwise is a form of entrapment.
Don't give 'em ideas...