more reliably this. The last link is from opensecrets.org, which reports that over half of all contributions to him came from businesses.
You didn't actually read that page did you. 98.3% of the money he has raised comes from individuals, and of the PAC money he has received, 50% was from businesses. Granted it is hard to read, and not all the graphs add up, but still, read your source:
His point is less that Java as a language causes brain damage and more that the switch to Java is symptomatic of a move to liquor-up and lacquer-down University Computer Science curriculum.
* Application bundles - drag and drop install, removal. Ability to drag an.app to anywhere in the file system at any time. App resources all contained in the.app directory structure instead of scattered all over the file system
*/Application directory - default place for App bundles to be copied to
Its being worked on, see Glick and Klick. There is also merit to the current system, which allows for stupidly easy maintenance of large amounts of programs. I expect the final solution will be a bit of a hybrid.
*/Preferences - standard place for apps to store their user specific settings instead of hidden . files in the main user home directory
Err... there is/etc for global settings, and ~/.config for user-specific. Why would you store per user settings globally? What's the point? The home directory solution instantly solves all namespacing issues, and cleanly.
* An app interface building tool that has OS X level UI element default spacing when laying out an interface to help with the jarringly hideous problems virtually every Linux app has with visual layout
Wait...you mean somebody actually gave up their NeXT Cube?;)
Yup, they had two or three. At least one was brought in by a large, bearded sysadmin type (with the obligatory swag shirt). He'd gotten a girlfriend, and she made him give it up.
It was a great experience, lots of cool old hardware (I got to actually see and touch a NeXT cube!) and if you are in the bay area and have weekends or a summer to spare, I recommend checking them out.
They also want to have their bases covered when it comes to liability.
Can you point to any instance where Microsoft, or some other comparable company has been held liable for defects in their software? People keep bringing up this argument, but I can not ever recall anyone actually using this in practice.
Linux is under the GPL, and that is an excellent high level interpretation of it. Yes, there are details- lots of open source software IS NOT under the GPL, for instance, and has different requirements- but it's reasonable, and the topic is Linux, not BSD.
Sorry that Richmond elects the wrong people, who hire crooks
s/elects/elected in 1992, fifteen years ago. Besides, if IBM never delivered (no one can find the hardware), should the school have to pay? Then wouldn't it be the majority non-Richmond IBM shareholders who elected the crooks?
Maybe if elections and appointments in your district were based on competency, as opposed to race, you'd be in better shape
Nooo, you're not flaming. While I can't speak for the entire board, the superintendent is definitely a 60 year old white male from the east coast- I've met him. Unless you were insinuating that there are too many white people, except that complaint is usually phrased more explicitly.
Maybe reaping the consequences of ethnic balkanization and race politics will make you all band together, maybe it will tear you apart. The point is, it's YOUR MESS, YOU CLEAN IT UP.
Ahem. It's 'our' mess, fine. So why can't we ask IBM to help us out? RTFA, no one is saying the state should pay, it's just state lawmakers arguing for the WCCUSD.
Contra Costa County is rich. Raise your sales taxes, raise your property taxes, or have your schools go bankrupt and get taken over by the state, which will fire your activist administrator bloat. I'm sick of the rest of the state subsidizing the bay area, which is the richest part of it
You realize this is the WEST Contra Costa County Unified School District, which used to be known as the Richmond Unified School District. If that doesn't ring any bells, suffice to say that no, we aren't that rich. And we did fire our activist administrator bloat. And we did raise property taxes, and probably sales too, but I don't remember.
The basic problem is, in 1992, they got a superintendant who was going to revolutionize everything. New schools, new ways of doing things, the works.
He turned out to be a corrupt bastard, but he disappeared without ever having to pay or atone for anything, and the people who use the schools have been paying for it ever since.
The school district is broke as hell, and quite honestly, will probably go bankrupt before they pay IBM (if by 'pay' you mean 'pay in the next 50 years').
All the other comments here seem to be going 'lol pay up already', but it's not that simple. IBM should forgive the debt, and everyone should learn a lesson from this:
Don't let public institutions pay with credit. The people who make decisions are not held responsible, and thus do not make responsible decisions. They will rip you off, and rip off the people they are supposed to be representing.
Yahoo is of course built around Unix. Are they really going to try to move that whole infrastructure over? Look at how long it took them to convert Hotmail.
In all fairness, IIS has improved significantly since then, and so has Windows, in terms of both security and general brain-damage.
and compatibility isn't as good as CrossOver -- there's no Direct3D support at all, as far as I can see
Really? Direct3D works fine in Wine for Linux, and considering the license (LGPL) the possibility that there are significant code differences between Wine and CrossOver Office seems remote.
No, the real reason to buy CrossOver Office is the GUI. If you want maximum compatibility, consider compiling from Wine's git repository.
The only counterexamples that come to my mind are: Enemy Territory.
And it's a good one. Your argument is that the libraries on Linux aren't stable enough to distribute binary programs long-term. I would like to point out that the nearly four-year old Enemy Territory still installs and runs fine on Edgy Eft, a Linux distribution hot off the compiler, a Linux distribution not even a week old. So while there has been alot of change, there hasn't been that much.
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You didn't actually read that page did you. 98.3% of the money he has raised comes from individuals, and of the PAC money he has received, 50% was from businesses. Granted it is hard to read, and not all the graphs add up, but still, read your source:
Not exactly your smoking gun.
Its being worked on, see Glick and Klick. There is also merit to the current system, which allows for stupidly easy maintenance of large amounts of programs. I expect the final solution will be a bit of a hybrid.
Err... there is
Not everyone likes NeXT.
Yup, they had two or three. At least one was brought in by a large, bearded sysadmin type (with the obligatory swag shirt). He'd gotten a girlfriend, and she made him give it up.
I don't think so, I managed to miss all the install fests. I went to go install the media labs on the USS Hornet though, were you there for that?
It was a great experience, lots of cool old hardware (I got to actually see and touch a NeXT cube!) and if you are in the bay area and have weekends or a summer to spare, I recommend checking them out.
Resume your regularly scheduled Con vs Ingo flamewar.
Sorry man, after 2000 years you don't get to be 'new' anymore.
Why do you keep insisting on using logic?
Switch to Avahi!
Linux is under the GPL, and that is an excellent high level interpretation of it. Yes, there are details- lots of open source software IS NOT under the GPL, for instance, and has different requirements- but it's reasonable, and the topic is Linux, not BSD.
What is so wrong, again? Why do we have editors?
Where'd all the Libre people go, anyway? It looks like only Perens is carrying the torch.
*cough*
s/elects/elected in 1992, fifteen years ago. Besides, if IBM never delivered (no one can find the hardware), should the school have to pay? Then wouldn't it be the majority non-Richmond IBM shareholders who elected the crooks?
Nooo, you're not flaming. While I can't speak for the entire board, the superintendent is definitely a 60 year old white male from the east coast- I've met him. Unless you were insinuating that there are too many white people, except that complaint is usually phrased more explicitly.
Ahem. It's 'our' mess, fine. So why can't we ask IBM to help us out? RTFA, no one is saying the state should pay, it's just state lawmakers arguing for the WCCUSD.
Thanks for the flame, though.
The basic problem is, in 1992, they got a superintendant who was going to revolutionize everything. New schools, new ways of doing things, the works.
He turned out to be a corrupt bastard, but he disappeared without ever having to pay or atone for anything, and the people who use the schools have been paying for it ever since.
The school district is broke as hell, and quite honestly, will probably go bankrupt before they pay IBM (if by 'pay' you mean 'pay in the next 50 years').
All the other comments here seem to be going 'lol pay up already', but it's not that simple. IBM should forgive the debt, and everyone should learn a lesson from this:
Don't let public institutions pay with credit. The people who make decisions are not held responsible, and thus do not make responsible decisions. They will rip you off, and rip off the people they are supposed to be representing.
Well, his first name /is/ Doc. He must know what he's talking about!
You, good sir, are well named.
In all fairness, IIS has improved significantly since then, and so has Windows, in terms of both security and general brain-damage.
No, the real reason to buy CrossOver Office is the GUI. If you want maximum compatibility, consider compiling from Wine's git repository.
Though it would have been nice to see more of this sort of thing over the past few years.
*cough*. It does. TFAs version is slightly different. Observe:
You missed the cast :).
Funny, except for Linux distro torrents, the vast majority of peers seem to be using utorrent.
And it's a good one. Your argument is that the libraries on Linux aren't stable enough to distribute binary programs long-term. I would like to point out that the nearly four-year old Enemy Territory still installs and runs fine on Edgy Eft, a Linux distribution hot off the compiler, a Linux distribution not even a week old. So while there has been alot of change, there hasn't been that much.
Wow, who would have guessed?