There are a few government types that have a clue. The RIAA is going to have a hard time with this one. They don't mention anything about other factors that could cause the down turn. Factors such as (but not listed in an y particular order):
1. The slowing economy combined with #3.
2. The boycott of them because of Napster.
3. The high price of a cd that help spur the huge interest in Napster to begin with.
4. The poor quality of music they have trying to push on to us. In reality, the 80's was the height of most music. The 90s+ have mostly produced cookie-cutter boy bands, bands that can't sing or write music, and whole lot of CRAP.
5. The cry baby artists like Metalica that should have spent more time in the studios working on their latest album instead of sueing Napster. The last couple of albums show there lack of work on the songs on the album.
6. The high cost of concerts and merchandise from these crappy wanna-be musicians.
Nah, those factors didn't contribute anything to the down turn. They KNOW what we want. They have there cookie0cutter perfect formulas!
First, and foremost, you can tell this person is an obvious mac lover. I wonder about his version of the Microsoft side of the story--especiall since when I click on the Microsoft timeline link I get "Sorry, there is no Microsoft.com web page matching your request". Granted, Microsoft does move stuff around a lot, but I thought this article was written recently. Either way, his version of the Microsoft sides sounds too close to the mac worshipers version. I definately skiptical about this. I don't think this author investigated the Microsoft side as much as should have been done to present this article. As far as I am concerned, this is just another Apple Mac raise peice. I see to many possiblities for mistakes.
I will give the author credit for the SmallTalk stuff. I am just not sure of the Microsoft stuff he is saying. I am no big fan of Microsoft, but this article smells fishy.
I am sure I will get trolled for this, but you have to admit that since his link to the one Microsoft webpage doesn't work, makes you wonder about the rest of his sources.
- kernel
- libraries necessary to run C programs
- the most basic interface possible
What is not part of the operating system?
- GUI
- web browser
- office suite
- your mom
Okay... so, you should call linux "GNU/Linux", because GNU tools are a larger percentage of the Operating System itself than even the Linux kernel.
You should not call windows "Windows98/Acrobat Reader" because Acrobat Reader in no way qualifies as a "part of the Operating System". "
The Kernel would be useless without other parts of the os--such as a SHELL! Considering most of the Kernel was done by Linus from scratch as a project to learn about his x86 processor at the time. I do not think it is appropriate to call it GNU/Linux. That's like a painter putting a red dot on the Mona Lisa and saying he/she should have credit for the painting. Get Real!
RMS is just pissed off because his Unix never got finished! Not he is trying to take control of stuff he should be leaving alone. Takeovers are not looked apon nicely within the community.
For the most part you're right, but Linux started out as a project to learn the inner workings of his x86 processor. At least that is how I remember it from Linus' book.
To see quicktime images and movies! Did you read the arcticle? I bet you didn't. Did you read the title? Not that closely apparently. It is talking about Nescape-style pluglins--as in methodology for doing plugins. The quicktime plugin works this way. The quicktime plugin will not work with "IE 5.5 SP2 [for Windows]" (from the article).
What about the fact that it is much easier to decompile a java program? While this may be great for the open source crowd, but the cathedral people will eventually be uncomfortable with it.
Java dooms itself by locking itself into one paradigm--OOP. OOP is alright, but it isn't always the best solution. I don't think Java will take off that fast.
C, & C++, are more flexible, and they are both more powerful. I don't know what I would do without templates and pointers--both of which are missing in Java.
Without templates, you have reinvent the wheel each time for every new data type you want to create which you want to use an alogyrithm(sp?) or storage method, and templates let you get around this problem. Pointers make structures like linked lists (with & without skip lists), double linked lists (with & without skip lists), and al sorts of trees easier. It takes a lot less time to add new elements to a linkedlist than to the add new elements to an array. I never even saw skip lists implemented in Java.
I think java is nice for the web, and playing around with, but their are still several issues with it.
At the same time, I doubt.NET & C# are going to take off that fast either. How many companies have you heard that will actually upgrade their products to use any of the.NET stuff?
D doesn't support templates and operator overloading, and these are two very powerful features that can make code a lot easier to read. I don't think D will catch on that quickly.
There are a couple for windows. I do most of my searching at work. (Unfortunately, on windows machines.) I only use metaengines. For windows there is web Ferret and then there is copernic 2001. I use Copernic 2001 the most because it also let's you filter the results. You can use logical the operators "and", "or", "not", "near", "except" (and not), & "or not". It stores the in a db offline. I found this to be very useful because I can keep several queries for any amount of time.
Haven't you paid attention to the news? Russia and China both arrest US poeple all the time. Usually on bogus charges of spying.
Sklyarov not only broke the code, but he sold it. I think that is what got hime into the most trouble. As far as breaking a US law while in another country, look at the British diamond cartel nobody from that company (for the exact company's name) can step foot on American soil anywhere because the will be arrested for various laws regarding anti-trust monopolies and some other stuff.
The same goes for Sklyarov. He was selling his method of by passing the security, and that is really what got him in the most trouble. What did was then considered a crimal act of piracy. Every other country in the World would do something similar and they have--except China where piracy if thought of as a good thing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like the DMCA, but this guy is not exactly inocent. It's like pulling the trigger on a gun pointed at someone to test whether the safety works or not. If it doesn't you'll initially get arrested, and you'll have a hard time proving it wasn't your fault becuase you willingly pointed the gun at the person. Sklyarov basically did the same thing when he sold his solution.
"Perhaps they are already, but if the Republicans in general are opposed to destroying new embryos because they have the "potential for life," then why aren't they calling for the unfreezing and implanting of those embryos to allow them to continue on their way? Not to mention a ban on creating more embryos? "
Simple it is not practical at this time. What are you going to force people to have an embryo implanted in them?
You are acting like this is 100% gaurenteed to produce something? Remember the test on fetuses that showed great promise? Well, not much has come from that research. The same is possibly true with this one.
The reason why people who don't support this are happy is because it slows down the chances of sliding down the slope of biological morals. Unlike some of the research in the past, the President wants to insure we continue forward--just not a break neck speed where our children's children will not be ashamed of us because we hurried into researching on humans.
When you get your photo taken for your driver's license in New hampshire, you are allowed to say whether or not you want the photo stored in their database. I can't remember how because I know that I forgot to specify I didn't want my photo in there database last time I had my picture taken. I wonder how many states ask you? I would think they'd have to ask you, or at the very least let you know they are keeping the information. Any else out there know of states that ask you?
You forget. Microsoft is going to want to own this. I doubt they would like to "license" the patent, and I doubt they want to make their user go through the hassle if the users produce a web service. This might also cause problems for the Open Source version of.NET. I think ALL Software Patents should go the way of the Dinosaurs.
As geeky as that may be, that solution might cost a lot in the long run. You have to continually buy the fuel, and that would cut into my Computer money.;) Plus you would be adding to global warming problem.
I have a better solution, and it cost anywhere for $12 (or less) to $21+. Buy a plastic cooler ($10 to $20) of the appropiate size you need. Then buy a few bags of ice. Around here, it's about $1 for a decent sized bag. Fill the coller with the ice, and place the beer in the cooler.
If you have electricity in the shed, buy a compact refridgerator.
I don't think it was suppossed to be a wormhole, but rather a "time storm" of sorts. I also don't think Katz was right in saying "gets lost in a nebula". This "time storm" sent people to various point in time (and various different realities of time--hence the apes in the 21st century). Perecles & Marky Marky, followed the same course (for the most part) into the storm. They were not sent backwards or forwards in time until they hit one of "pink lights". The difference in when they get to planet can be explained in the fact that the time storm didn't send them to a specific time.
In the end, Marky Mark ends up in an alternate reality o the planet Earth. The whole story take place on Earth (like the original). The planet of the Apes is Earth.
You might actually be wrong. Remember Microsoft tied MSN INTO the operating system. If they have the view that all internet applications must go through the internet via some MSN stuff that the companies don't realise is there, it could very well be that way. Remember when they tied IE to the OS? I was running Netscape and watched the difference inthe speed at which it connected to the internet befre and after I had to install VC 6.0 (which requires the OS tieing version of IE to access the help files).
There is definately a chance they did that. What is going to stop them? Remember they think they ca tie in everything into the OS. They also think the OS is the way to access the hardware on the machine. Thus by default they can control how certain aspects like require Passport service in order to access the various parts of the computers hard used for connecting to the internet.
It's a feature. You too can have that Blue Screen of death for 15 years! Yes, you heard us right. We guarantee the last state you were in will be saved for 15 years....
It also says the profession version ships with dual liscence. One is GPLed and the other is not. Personally, I think this is a good move. I like the RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools such as C++Builder. Now if they would only do something similar with the windows version.
You're still missing the point. They were VERY, very, very paranoid back then. They make today's FBI look like amateurs. Remember this was at the height of the Red Scare! You remember those quotes that went somethign like, "We have to stop those evil Communists from spreading like the disease they are at all costs!"
We were paranoid about anybody who even came close to a Communist idea. Thus, just about every public figure, and many more, ended up with a record in the FBI. The Red Scare is over. America is not that paranoid. Companies may be paranoid over other things, but the Red Scare is over.
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There are a few government types that have a clue. The RIAA is going to have a hard time with this one. They don't mention anything about other factors that could cause the down turn. Factors such as (but not listed in an y particular order):
1. The slowing economy combined with #3.
2. The boycott of them because of Napster.
3. The high price of a cd that help spur the huge interest in Napster to begin with.
4. The poor quality of music they have trying to push on to us. In reality, the 80's was the height of most music. The 90s+ have mostly produced cookie-cutter boy bands, bands that can't sing or write music, and whole lot of CRAP.
5. The cry baby artists like Metalica that should have spent more time in the studios working on their latest album instead of sueing Napster. The last couple of albums show there lack of work on the songs on the album.
6. The high cost of concerts and merchandise from these crappy wanna-be musicians.
Nah, those factors didn't contribute anything to the down turn. They KNOW what we want. They have there cookie0cutter perfect formulas!
Where would on see this ac tree growing? err... I mean where can I find the code tree/patches?
First, and foremost, you can tell this person is an obvious mac lover. I wonder about his version of the Microsoft side of the story--especiall since when I click on the Microsoft timeline link I get "Sorry, there is no Microsoft.com web page matching your request". Granted, Microsoft does move stuff around a lot, but I thought this article was written recently. Either way, his version of the Microsoft sides sounds too close to the mac worshipers version. I definately skiptical about this. I don't think this author investigated the Microsoft side as much as should have been done to present this article. As far as I am concerned, this is just another Apple Mac raise peice. I see to many possiblities for mistakes.
I will give the author credit for the SmallTalk stuff. I am just not sure of the Microsoft stuff he is saying. I am no big fan of Microsoft, but this article smells fishy.
I am sure I will get trolled for this, but you have to admit that since his link to the one Microsoft webpage doesn't work, makes you wonder about the rest of his sources.
" Okay, lets set this straight once and for all.
What is part of the operating system?
- kernel
- libraries necessary to run C programs
- the most basic interface possible
What is not part of the operating system?
- GUI
- web browser
- office suite
- your mom
Okay... so, you should call linux "GNU/Linux", because GNU tools are a larger percentage of the Operating System itself than even the Linux kernel.
You should not call windows "Windows98/Acrobat Reader" because Acrobat Reader in no way qualifies as a "part of the Operating System". "
The Kernel would be useless without other parts of the os--such as a SHELL! Considering most of the Kernel was done by Linus from scratch as a project to learn about his x86 processor at the time. I do not think it is appropriate to call it GNU/Linux. That's like a painter putting a red dot on the Mona Lisa and saying he/she should have credit for the painting. Get Real!
RMS is just pissed off because his Unix never got finished! Not he is trying to take control of stuff he should be leaving alone. Takeovers are not looked apon nicely within the community.
For the most part you're right, but Linux started out as a project to learn the inner workings of his x86 processor. At least that is how I remember it from Linus' book.
To see quicktime images and movies! Did you read the arcticle? I bet you didn't. Did you read the title? Not that closely apparently. It is talking about Nescape-style pluglins--as in methodology for doing plugins. The quicktime plugin works this way. The quicktime plugin will not work with "IE 5.5 SP2 [for Windows]" (from the article).
What about the fact that it is much easier to decompile a java program? While this may be great for the open source crowd, but the cathedral people will eventually be uncomfortable with it. .NET & C# are going to take off that fast either. How many companies have you heard that will actually upgrade their products to use any of the .NET stuff?
Java dooms itself by locking itself into one paradigm--OOP. OOP is alright, but it isn't always the best solution. I don't think Java will take off that fast.
C, & C++, are more flexible, and they are both more powerful. I don't know what I would do without templates and pointers--both of which are missing in Java.
Without templates, you have reinvent the wheel each time for every new data type you want to create which you want to use an alogyrithm(sp?) or storage method, and templates let you get around this problem. Pointers make structures like linked lists (with & without skip lists), double linked lists (with & without skip lists), and al sorts of trees easier. It takes a lot less time to add new elements to a linkedlist than to the add new elements to an array. I never even saw skip lists implemented in Java.
I think java is nice for the web, and playing around with, but their are still several issues with it.
At the same time, I doubt
D doesn't support templates and operator overloading, and these are two very powerful features that can make code a lot easier to read. I don't think D will catch on that quickly.
There are a couple for windows. I do most of my searching at work. (Unfortunately, on windows machines.) I only use metaengines. For windows there is web Ferret and then there is copernic 2001. I use Copernic 2001 the most because it also let's you filter the results. You can use logical the operators "and", "or", "not", "near", "except" (and not), & "or not". It stores the in a db offline. I found this to be very useful because I can keep several queries for any amount of time.
Haven't you paid attention to the news? Russia and China both arrest US poeple all the time. Usually on bogus charges of spying.
Sklyarov not only broke the code, but he sold it. I think that is what got hime into the most trouble. As far as breaking a US law while in another country, look at the British diamond cartel nobody from that company (for the exact company's name) can step foot on American soil anywhere because the will be arrested for various laws regarding anti-trust monopolies and some other stuff.
The same goes for Sklyarov. He was selling his method of by passing the security, and that is really what got him in the most trouble. What did was then considered a crimal act of piracy. Every other country in the World would do something similar and they have--except China where piracy if thought of as a good thing.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like the DMCA, but this guy is not exactly inocent. It's like pulling the trigger on a gun pointed at someone to test whether the safety works or not. If it doesn't you'll initially get arrested, and you'll have a hard time proving it wasn't your fault becuase you willingly pointed the gun at the person. Sklyarov basically did the same thing when he sold his solution.
"Perhaps they are already, but if the Republicans in general are opposed to destroying new embryos because they have the "potential for life," then why aren't they calling for the unfreezing and implanting of those embryos to allow them to continue on their way? Not to mention a ban on creating more embryos? "
Simple it is not practical at this time. What are you going to force people to have an embryo implanted in them?
You are acting like this is 100% gaurenteed to produce something? Remember the test on fetuses that showed great promise? Well, not much has come from that research. The same is possibly true with this one.
The reason why people who don't support this are happy is because it slows down the chances of sliding down the slope of biological morals. Unlike some of the research in the past, the President wants to insure we continue forward--just not a break neck speed where our children's children will not be ashamed of us because we hurried into researching on humans.
When you get your photo taken for your driver's license in New hampshire, you are allowed to say whether or not you want the photo stored in their database. I can't remember how because I know that I forgot to specify I didn't want my photo in there database last time I had my picture taken. I wonder how many states ask you? I would think they'd have to ask you, or at the very least let you know they are keeping the information. Any else out there know of states that ask you?
Can you come up with a better title for the movie covering part (or all) of the Clone Wars? If so, let's here it.
You knew it had to covered somewhere. Aside from Anakin and Ben, Boba Fet(sp?) is a veteran of the Clone Wars.
>What next, Microsoft(R) TCP/IP(R)?
Nah, they are having too much fun ripping that off from BSD. Just run strings.
You forget. Microsoft is going to want to own this. I doubt they would like to "license" the patent, and I doubt they want to make their user go through the hassle if the users produce a web service. This might also cause problems for the Open Source version of .NET. I think ALL Software Patents should go the way of the Dinosaurs.
Definately Knuth. He wrote some hardcore books on rogramming that are still sold in stores even though they were written years ago.
I would also suggest:
- "An Introduction to Database Systems" by Date, C. J.; Addison Wesley (ISBN: 0-201-38590-2)
- "C/C++ Programmer's Reference" by Schildt, Herbert; Osborne (ISBN: 0-07-882367-6)
- "Algorithms in C 3rd Edition" by Sedgewick, Robert (ISBN: 0-201-31452-5)
What ever books you list, be sure to include the ISBNs. Most good book stores can work with these easily.
As geeky as that may be, that solution might cost a lot in the long run. You have to continually buy the fuel, and that would cut into my Computer money. ;) Plus you would be adding to global warming problem.
I have a better solution, and it cost anywhere for $12 (or less) to $21+. Buy a plastic cooler ($10 to $20) of the appropiate size you need. Then buy a few bags of ice. Around here, it's about $1 for a decent sized bag. Fill the coller with the ice, and place the beer in the cooler.
If you have electricity in the shed, buy a compact refridgerator.
I don't think it was suppossed to be a wormhole, but rather a "time storm" of sorts. I also don't think Katz was right in saying "gets lost in a nebula". This "time storm" sent people to various point in time (and various different realities of time--hence the apes in the 21st century). Perecles & Marky Marky, followed the same course (for the most part) into the storm. They were not sent backwards or forwards in time until they hit one of "pink lights". The difference in when they get to planet can be explained in the fact that the time storm didn't send them to a specific time.
In the end, Marky Mark ends up in an alternate reality o the planet Earth. The whole story take place on Earth (like the original). The planet of the Apes is Earth.
You might actually be wrong. Remember Microsoft tied MSN INTO the operating system. If they have the view that all internet applications must go through the internet via some MSN stuff that the companies don't realise is there, it could very well be that way. Remember when they tied IE to the OS? I was running Netscape and watched the difference inthe speed at which it connected to the internet befre and after I had to install VC 6.0 (which requires the OS tieing version of IE to access the help files).
There is definately a chance they did that. What is going to stop them? Remember they think they ca tie in everything into the OS. They also think the OS is the way to access the hardware on the machine. Thus by default they can control how certain aspects like require Passport service in order to access the various parts of the computers hard used for connecting to the internet.
You can't cancel your Social Security number. Date of birth would be an obvious one that is impossible.
It's a feature. You too can have that Blue Screen of death for 15 years! Yes, you heard us right. We guarantee the last state you were in will be saved for 15 years....
It also says the profession version ships with dual liscence. One is GPLed and the other is not. Personally, I think this is a good move. I like the RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools such as C++Builder. Now if they would only do something similar with the windows version.
You're still missing the point. They were VERY, very, very paranoid back then. They make today's FBI look like amateurs. Remember this was at the height of the Red Scare! You remember those quotes that went somethign like, "We have to stop those evil Communists from spreading like the disease they are at all costs!"
We were paranoid about anybody who even came close to a Communist idea. Thus, just about every public figure, and many more, ended up with a record in the FBI. The Red Scare is over. America is not that paranoid. Companies may be paranoid over other things, but the Red Scare is over.