It is just an inventive way of making the point that OSS is not free. Which it clearly isnt, any network or computer system needs to be maintained after all.
And as for everyone upset about the comments about who is involved in coding open source, the article does not say that everyone involved is in that group, but simply that such undesirables can and do contribute to open source projects.
Read the article and then think, not the other way round:P
Netscape might have been one of the first, but it wasn't exactly an area void of competition. I think Netscape won this battle amongst a competition of browsers; but this was a relatively immature technology. There was competition, but it was one of the first full featured browsers.
Google is no different, a few simple yet brilliant ideas allowed them to come out on top, but those ideas can still be emulated, and new ideas can be thought up that put another engine on top. So google is the first full featured search engine, if I use your words.
I don't think there is as much zealotry around (i hope) about search engines as other areas, and if something linked by default to the search button on IE helps you find what you want most of the time, nobody is going to care -- they will use it.
Spam is more effective when it is difficult to distinguish it from genuine messages.
Based on how well short messages I have had sent to me are written, it is sure to be a lot more difficult to filter spam than it is with email -- see those bayesian filter zealots solve this one:P
I can just imagine how much fun you could have with this though. Hey you, see me over here with the brown hair and the blue eyes, come over and... !!
This looks like an interesting move. Novell used to make some interesting products before being owned and pushing to linux might make it easier to keep up with the boring hardware compatibility, performance crap.
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* The percentage is of the number of web sites, not the number of internet connected machines.
* Because of the nature of the game there are many more active versions of apache than IIS.
* Plus, many people want to take down Microsoft, while taking down apache isn't nearly as cool.
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I think the sheer number of spammers makes it an impossible suggestion. At that rate it would eat through MS's cash reserves almost instantly..
The number of worms that have had a big impact is substantially fewer.
I mean you would expect the l33t hackers that wrote the worms to tell a few close contacts...
I suppose we just have to ask the question, in the l33t hacker circles, is money or loyalty worth more?
With that sort of inside knowledge I should report you!
I do not think this is an anti-linux article...
:P
It is just an inventive way of making the point that OSS is not free. Which it clearly isnt, any network or computer system needs to be maintained after all.
And as for everyone upset about the comments about who is involved in coding open source, the article does not say that everyone involved is in that group, but simply that such undesirables can and do contribute to open source projects.
Read the article and then think, not the other way round
This sounds like a really complicated program... how should we write it?... Oh.... shit!
Netscape might have been one of the first, but it wasn't exactly an area void of competition. I think Netscape won this battle amongst a competition of browsers; but this was a relatively immature technology. There was competition, but it was one of the first full featured browsers.
Google is no different, a few simple yet brilliant ideas allowed them to come out on top, but those ideas can still be emulated, and new ideas can be thought up that put another engine on top. So google is the first full featured search engine, if I use your words.
I don't think there is as much zealotry around (i hope) about search engines as other areas, and if something linked by default to the search button on IE helps you find what you want most of the time, nobody is going to care -- they will use it.
Sorry for the long delay, was playing some q3 rocket arena..
I mean playing games on little mobile devices... I have always thought of them as ways to save sanity when in really boring situations...
Does anyone other than noisy, annoying, 10 year old kids really care about the quality of the games on a PDA/GB?
I mean seriously, has anyone here actually played a game for any reason other than being so bored that playing pong would be a relief?
We scrap IP totally and all band together to create a big token ring network?
X sends higher order primitives, true.
My super-leet replacement would not.
We are talking about replacing X, remember. This is an important aspect of the grand plan.
Should I apply for a patent?
I'll take all the addresses I can :-)
If I get enough for free, we will have to use IPV6..
I think I want a screensaver where each pixel has an ip, and then we can replace X with a simple protocol just sending colors!!
Spam is more effective when it is difficult to distinguish it from genuine messages.
:P
Based on how well short messages I have had sent to me are written, it is sure to be a lot more difficult to filter spam than it is with email -- see those bayesian filter zealots solve this one
I can just imagine how much fun you could have with this though. Hey you, see me over here with the brown hair and the blue eyes, come over and... !!
This looks like an interesting move. Novell used to make some interesting products before being owned and pushing to linux might make it easier to keep up with the boring hardware compatibility, performance crap.
X? Kill it :P
:-)
Make a Y
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* The percentage is of the number of web sites, not the number of internet connected machines.
* Because of the nature of the game there are many more active versions of apache than IIS.
* Plus, many people want to take down Microsoft, while taking down apache isn't nearly as cool.
And how good would that be for strings, or integers?
If operators are not necessary, then Java shouldn't need them for 'magical' things either...