Yes I laugh whenever I hear/read someone bitch about lowest bidders on a contract. The most impressive enginering feats were done with slave labor. Throwing money at a problem solves nothing.
Making a Unix clone has been done enough times before. Don't get me wrong, I run Linux and work for a company that makes Linux Software but I think the market needs a free Windows replacement.
That works great for this planet but what about sending sending probes to deep space, mars or the moon? I doubt you are going to be able to develop a enzyme or bacteria that can not only survive but thrive and work with other bacteria to build anything on the surface. Nano-machines have uses just not on this world.....
Still I would like to hear what you think about seeing Mars with some bacteria and enzymes.
I agree it is a limitation but its one that can be worked around using RPC or Corba to a degree. There is no reason CoLinux could not have a driver developed to be able to directly access Windows drives via the Volume Manager. Same thing with graphics and the console, a rootless Win32 X server + a Xdnd daemon that talks via OLE could solve the problem of drag and dropping applications from X to Win32.
Would it be perfect? No. But then again it would still be better than what Microsoft is currently offering.
Windows Server 2003 R2 will ship with SFU by default. Microsoft bought Software Systems and Interix because they were planning on adding a ELF loader so make it fully linux binary compatible.
Really I expect the big problem to come if someone can tie CoLinux in as a nice subsystem.
Just because Win32 sucks does not mean the rest of the OS is badly designed. Really givin the option I would have to say both Linux and the NT kernel share in the suckage department with on OS/X getting it right.
Compare the cost to launch per pound via a rocket vs the Shuttle. The Shuttle has turned in to one of the most wasteful pork projects the US has undertaken. I am all for porkbarrel spending in space such as a moon base or mars mission but this project has got to be killed.
I never said we won the war. I said we got involved in it mainly because of French colonialism which if you had bothered to read the fucking comment rather than calling someone a fascist you might have picked up on.
I am not the parent poster that claimed to be a history teacher either proving you not only unable to read but also to follow a threaded discussion.
Its mainly lazyness on my part as I am used to the Windows interface design and most of my time is spent working with either ReactOS or Wine code. At the end of the day you could say I think in Windows but I have the principle to run Linux until ReactOS is ready for prime time. I have given some thought to changing my Desktop Environment as KDE is a bit of a resource hog....I might switch to XFCE or MWM.
If the Windows Paradigm was broken people would not use Windows. Yes there are some things about Windows that suck but MSI and InstallShield installers are not a example. Windows security in most regards does suck but packaging is one of the few things Windows does right. You do know you can sign a package in Windows right? Vendor certificates work, just install any packages from Microsoft or from any other major third party vendor.
I guess you would only be happy if we just pulled everything down from SVN/CVS and built from source.
I never said the US had French interest at heart. In fact my comment was as I said meant as a joke however if you must
1. Yes I did read about the telegram but your comment about France still being on the winning side implies that victory would have happend without US help.
2. I get so sick of comments about the US being late to get involved in another World War, when if the French, English and Russians had stood ground in the first place the damn war would not have even had to happen. Of course you can overlook the invasion of Eastern Europe by Hitler and say "Why didn't the US step in sooner". What bullshit, it was not our job to protect Europe France and England handed Hitler everything he wanted on a silver plater.
If you call Soviet liberators a ideal victory then I suggest you go live in China and run your mouth, have more than one kid or worship a God in anyway not state approved and you will have idea of what a Soviet France would have felt like.
3. Yes I can agree the US involvement in Indo-China was a disaster however the majority of the existing situation can be blamed on French colonialism.
As for your final comment, Hitler could not even pull of a invasion of the UK and we knew it, try reading about operation Sea Lion.
Comments like yours and your revisionist crap makes me glad that we are pulling more troops out of Europe.
One could say we saved France three times as we have Indo-China(Vietnam) we could blame on them as well as WWI and WW2. There is that little favor they did for us in the Revolution so they can't all be bad but it is times like these when I think that maybe all the good Frenchmen were killed in the Nepoleonic wars and WW1/WW2.
Most of the above comment is meant to be a joke but maybe you had better go read some history.
I have talked to a few people on the inside and while they like the ideas they just have a lack of man power. They have a lot more great ideas but no one to implement them all. Thats where the 20% thing comes in. If it can be made to work and can make money then they are all for it.
If I was at google I would spend my time working on
1. Voice to search features 2. Image searching features for iPaqs and the like to take images and search google. 3. A better AI for being able to understand end user questions.
My father in law is a farmer and lost most of his crop last year because the local university took 6 weeks to get back with him and tell him what was eating his crops. If instead he has a iPaq hooked up to google with a camra and speach search software he could have said "Hey google what the hell is this yellow stuff in the picture eating my plants"
"For menu shortcuts, thats a problem for the distributor when they create native packages of your application."
I am talking about desktop shortcuts as well. The company I work for makes a product that runs on linux and we have distributed our product for quite a few years now and its not as simple as you make it out to be. Each distro has done menus in slightly different ways and while the format of the *.desktop file has been mostly constant the locations of the the files and the functionality for say REFRESHING the stupid kicker or foot differs slight with each minor rev of the desktop or distro you are talking about.
Compare Suse 9.2 to NLD vs Fedora Core 2 vs Fedora Core 3 vs Ubuntu with any modern third party application and you will see that dealing with menus it not that simple. The menu format HAS CHANGED and so I as a application maker have to ship support for how many types of shortcuts?
I am guessing you have never developed a application that runs on more than one distro with gnome/kde/etc.
Symlinks are great but what about icons for the user? How about tooltips on the icon?
hmm well Windows has had this idea called shortcuts for about 10 years and the file format of the *.lnk structure has hardly changed in all that time. As compared with *.desktop, xdg-menus, shell scripts for shotcuts, etc. With linux its no wonder users get confused. Under Windows it does not matter much where it gets installed as in 99% of the cases it just works from the start menu. Compare that to 50% of the time installing a app on Suse vs Fedora vs Debian.
I know I support a Linux application that has to deal with this menu crap.
I guess you mean allowing Terri's case to be heard in Federal court. Go check out out buddy, artical three: congress has the power to expand or limit the courts power. Not to mention the fact in this country we at least put dogs to sleep when they are lame which is more than can be said for this poor woman.
I guess it would be to much to ask for the young woman to not get in to that situation you outlined. I dont agree with this law at all but......why doesnt see just go to the doctor to get tested? There are these nice places called health departments that you and I already pay for out of our pockets so that young woman can get her "cure" if needed or get tested. I say "cure" in qoutes because the only cure she needs is to not sleep with whoever and catch whatever new bug is going around this week.
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Wow. Its nice to hear from someone on the other side of the pond that has some logic. =)
Yes I laugh whenever I hear/read someone bitch about lowest bidders on a contract. The most impressive enginering feats were done with slave labor. Throwing money at a problem solves nothing.
For the record I am a Protestant so I have no vested interest in who the pope is or what he does.
That being said you should know he was conscripted in to the Army out of the Hitler youth and deserted his unit rather than serving for Hitler.
Making a Unix clone has been done enough times before. Don't get me wrong, I run Linux and work for a company that makes Linux Software but I think the market needs a free Windows replacement.
Is the link at the bottom which talks about the idea of using a nuke to drop a probe to the earths core.
That works great for this planet but what about sending sending probes to deep space, mars or the moon? I doubt you are going to be able to develop a enzyme or bacteria that can not only survive but thrive and work with other bacteria to build anything on the surface. Nano-machines have uses just not on this world.....
Still I would like to hear what you think about seeing Mars with some bacteria and enzymes.
I agree it is a limitation but its one that can be worked around using RPC or Corba to a degree. There is no reason CoLinux could not have a driver developed to be able to directly access Windows drives via the Volume Manager. Same thing with graphics and the console, a rootless Win32 X server + a Xdnd daemon that talks via OLE could solve the problem of drag and dropping applications from X to Win32.
Would it be perfect? No. But then again it would still be better than what Microsoft is currently offering.
Windows Server 2003 R2 will ship with SFU by default. Microsoft bought Software Systems and Interix because they were planning on adding a ELF loader so make it fully linux binary compatible.
Really I expect the big problem to come if someone can tie CoLinux in as a nice subsystem.
Just because Win32 sucks does not mean the rest of the OS is badly designed. Really givin the option I would have to say both Linux and the NT kernel share in the suckage department with on OS/X getting it right.
I know its April Fools but come on its not a half bad idea.
Compare the cost to launch per pound via a rocket vs the Shuttle. The Shuttle has turned in to one of the most wasteful pork projects the US has undertaken. I am all for porkbarrel spending in space such as a moon base or mars mission but this project has got to be killed.
I never said we won the war. I said we got involved in it mainly because of French colonialism which if you had bothered to read the fucking comment rather than calling someone a fascist you might have picked up on.
I am not the parent poster that claimed to be a history teacher either proving you not only unable to read but also to follow a threaded discussion.
Our ntoskrnl and hal is a close as you are going to get without having to sign a NDA for life.
Its mainly lazyness on my part as I am used to the Windows interface design and most of my time is spent working with either ReactOS or Wine code. At the end of the day you could say I think in Windows but I have the principle to run Linux until ReactOS is ready for prime time. I have given some thought to changing my Desktop Environment as KDE is a bit of a resource hog....I might switch to XFCE or MWM.
If the Windows Paradigm was broken people would not use Windows. Yes there are some things about Windows that suck but MSI and InstallShield installers are not a example. Windows security in most regards does suck but packaging is one of the few things Windows does right. You do know you can sign a package in Windows right? Vendor certificates work, just install any packages from Microsoft or from any other major third party vendor.
I guess you would only be happy if we just pulled everything down from SVN/CVS and built from source.
I never said the US had French interest at heart. In fact my comment was as I said meant as a joke however if you must 1. Yes I did read about the telegram but your comment about France still being on the winning side implies that victory would have happend without US help. 2. I get so sick of comments about the US being late to get involved in another World War, when if the French, English and Russians had stood ground in the first place the damn war would not have even had to happen. Of course you can overlook the invasion of Eastern Europe by Hitler and say "Why didn't the US step in sooner". What bullshit, it was not our job to protect Europe France and England handed Hitler everything he wanted on a silver plater. If you call Soviet liberators a ideal victory then I suggest you go live in China and run your mouth, have more than one kid or worship a God in anyway not state approved and you will have idea of what a Soviet France would have felt like. 3. Yes I can agree the US involvement in Indo-China was a disaster however the majority of the existing situation can be blamed on French colonialism. As for your final comment, Hitler could not even pull of a invasion of the UK and we knew it, try reading about operation Sea Lion. Comments like yours and your revisionist crap makes me glad that we are pulling more troops out of Europe.
One could say we saved France three times as we have Indo-China(Vietnam) we could blame on them as well as WWI and WW2. There is that little favor they did for us in the Revolution so they can't all be bad but it is times like these when I think that maybe all the good Frenchmen were killed in the Nepoleonic wars and WW1/WW2. Most of the above comment is meant to be a joke but maybe you had better go read some history.
I have talked to a few people on the inside and while they like the ideas they just have a lack of man power. They have a lot more great ideas but no one to implement them all. Thats where the 20% thing comes in. If it can be made to work and can make money then they are all for it.
If I was at google I would spend my time working on
1. Voice to search features
2. Image searching features for iPaqs and the like to take images and search google.
3. A better AI for being able to understand end user questions.
My father in law is a farmer and lost most of his crop last year because the local university took 6 weeks to get back with him and tell him what was eating his crops. If instead he has a iPaq hooked up to google with a camra and speach search software he could have said "Hey google what the hell is this yellow stuff in the picture eating my plants"
"For menu shortcuts, thats a problem for the distributor when they create native packages of your application." I am talking about desktop shortcuts as well. The company I work for makes a product that runs on linux and we have distributed our product for quite a few years now and its not as simple as you make it out to be. Each distro has done menus in slightly different ways and while the format of the *.desktop file has been mostly constant the locations of the the files and the functionality for say REFRESHING the stupid kicker or foot differs slight with each minor rev of the desktop or distro you are talking about.
Compare Suse 9.2 to NLD vs Fedora Core 2 vs Fedora Core 3 vs Ubuntu with any modern third party application and you will see that dealing with menus it not that simple. The menu format HAS CHANGED and so I as a application maker have to ship support for how many types of shortcuts?
I am guessing you have never developed a application that runs on more than one distro with gnome/kde/etc. Symlinks are great but what about icons for the user? How about tooltips on the icon?
hmm well Windows has had this idea called shortcuts for about 10 years and the file format of the *.lnk structure has hardly changed in all that time. As compared with *.desktop, xdg-menus, shell scripts for shotcuts, etc. With linux its no wonder users get confused. Under Windows it does not matter much where it gets installed as in 99% of the cases it just works from the start menu. Compare that to 50% of the time installing a app on Suse vs Fedora vs Debian. I know I support a Linux application that has to deal with this menu crap.
I guess you mean allowing Terri's case to be heard in Federal court. Go check out out buddy, artical three: congress has the power to expand or limit the courts power. Not to mention the fact in this country we at least put dogs to sleep when they are lame which is more than can be said for this poor woman.
I guess it would be to much to ask for the young woman to not get in to that situation you outlined. I dont agree with this law at all but......why doesnt see just go to the doctor to get tested? There are these nice places called health departments that you and I already pay for out of our pockets so that young woman can get her "cure" if needed or get tested. I say "cure" in qoutes because the only cure she needs is to not sleep with whoever and catch whatever new bug is going around this week.