Why do people always look at startup times??? What the heck does that have to do with the ability to do the job? Half the time when you get in the office, you're stuffing your face with a donut, fiddling with your coffee, fixing your hair, etc - and suddenly, you're in a hurry? What's a few additional seconds? You still get to your destination - perhaps even quicker. A few seconds difference in startup isn't going to do diddly to your work-flow. You spend so much more time leaning back in your chair gabbing with your office-mate and other things that do impede your work-flow. Once it's up and running, OO is snappy and easy to use and does the job that it's expected to do. No one here in this office complains about startup times. They double-click, arrange their papers and get comfortable and then, it's up and ready.
PV cells at 17% efficiency is doable - but far far far more efficient is solar-thermal plants. This is cheap to implement, easy to do and we have the technology today to do it. What's stopping us? Hmmm, mamma and pappa oil and coal who don't want to be put out of business perhaps? You'd be surprised at how many strings they've been pulling to stay on top. We could have cheap energy around the world without a drip of oil - but our economy is driven by oil and by energy - cost of production is irrelevant because it's still a commodity product traded and priced on Wall Street. Even cheap solar will have a higher price-tag attached to it when oil and coal decide to get into the ring (like they've done with biofuels) and solar becomes more mainstream because it's not about where the energy comes from, but the virtual economy of futures and perceived supply and demand (independent of actually supply and demand). So if you want cheap energy - better throw up your own axial flux wind-gen and toss on a few solar panels and turn off a few lights and do it yourself.
Mod this up. It has zero to do with the environment and 100% to do with oil and coal agendas. Oh but how convincing a lie that has a speck of truth in it to appease the gullible! The solar industry is on the verge of breaking out into the mainstream. BLM is banking that in 2 years, the economy will have caught up with the new oil prices to bring this down to a niche project instead.
The heat that normally gets to the ground is what is focused and harvested by solar thermal collectors. So... if it is harvested, how is the heat going to hurt the ground and plants or increase the heat? It was going to the ground already in the first place! If anything, it's going to lower the temperature, however slightly. Even PV panels will have a cooling effect at ground level - lifting the heat up overhead where more air circulation can return it up into the atmosphere. We're not talking about spreading nuclear plants all over the desert. Mirrors and plumbing! An occasional ATV to check on things. That's it! And you think 2 years is needed for that? These gubment guys have had over a decade of forewarning about the market for this industry - and only when they have money in hand and contracts and are ready to build TODAY does the gubment suddenly backpedal? Has zero to do with the environment, and everything to do with certain industries making the right calls and pushing the right buttons to suppress competition.
Rubbish. Industries don't like competition and do everything they can to suppress it. Like... stop it for 2 years while some commity spins on their thumbs. We've had the technology to get totally free from oil and coal for decades. But, oil and coal don't want to die and have been fighting for survival for a very long time. It's a well entrenched enemy that has its fingers in the highest levels of government. Some newfangled gadget is going to have a fight on its hands if it's going to step into their territory. If it was all friendly and happy and rosy, we'd have dumped oil and coal a long time ago. But, it's not. No industry likes to die, especially one that basically rules the world.
Thermal solar is far more efficient than photovoltaics and it is basically just mirrors and plumbing. About as "green" as one can get, methinks. I think that has far greater value out there in the SW than photovoltaics and will likely be the primary technology being used out there.
A power grid with diverse sources of power IS that giant battery. And in the SW, there are precious few cloudy days and energy is still generated even thru the clouds. When 360 days are sunny, what's the problem exploiting that energy that's freely raining down on the Earth? It's not a huge drawback and won't replace coal - but will augment it and reduce dependence on it. The more diverse our energy collection is, the less we have to dig the coal. Solar and wind are two big opportunities because over a tri-state area, it's always sunny during the day (and with solar-thermal the heat generates electricity thru the night) and it's always windy somewhere. Spread the plants out and you won't have that problem. Combine that with hydro and other technologies and coal becomes a small part of the whole rather than the main component.
Heh - while an eruption - as certain as the sunrise - may be millenia distant, I'm surprised whole teams of scientists aren't there monitoring this just for the sake that it's a super volcano sitting right off the highway! Geez - 7-11's couldn't be more convenient! It sounds like it's a ho-hum thing to these guys and they're way underplaying this for the sake of tourism dollars. Heck, super volcano. I'd want to go even more because of that than instead of just some weird place with a few geysers.
I love the interview tho. I can compare it with a similar interview with the Mnt Vesuvius National Park Scientists back in the day:
"So, do you think the tremors we're feeling amount to anything?"
"No, it's from all the mules and it's also a windy day."
"What about the smoke from the top of the mountain? Wouldn't that indicate that this may actually be a volcano."
[chortles] "Of course not, silly. There's a god in the mountain making beef jerky. Shuh, volcano?"
"So, visitors needn't worry?"
"Not at all. Bring your friends and family - younguns get in for 10 denari a day - and be sure to stop by the gift shop and buy buy buy..."
"So, you don't do any monitoring of changes?"
"None at all."
"And, have you detected any changes with your monitoring?"
"None at all."
"Have you inspected the suspicious bulge over by the pond?"
"We went there once. Fishing was good."
"If anything were to happen, do you have an escape plan?"
"No. Not my job. Besides, ya'll need to come by for a day or three - entry fees are only 25 denari or 3 goats and a donkey. No danger here."
"So, there you have it from the proper authority. Mnt Vesuvius is not a volcano and not in imminent danger of exploding like those volcano freaks are claiming. Thelonius signing off... Okay - are we thru? Whew - those volcano freaks are a bunch of overzealous liars. Hey - do ya'll have cotton candy? Caramel apples? I want to see the new rides... [Thel, your mic's still on...]":)
I can't imagine *not* refering to them as S-C-O. At least in polite company. I mean - Sco is just... well... it begs to be finished. For me to try to phonetically pronounce Sco always seems to come out as "Scum". Or "Scam". Infrequently "Scee Sci Sco Scum, I smell the blood of a..." then I lose the rhyme. And it's always usually with a spit afterwards.
That's where the "They may very well have room for critisism, and I'm not endorsing them" comes in. However, they do give credit to CDex saying that it's based on that project.
And what about the copyright? Look and feel alterations - no matter how minor, logos, tweaks, minor changes, etc could justify them putting their names on the copyright.
Okay, I'm not going to jump in and defend them - this is more a principal thing to me than defending these guys specifically - they may very well be crooks. But on the surface - given their credit to CDex and retaining the GPL, it looks like they have the best intentions. They took a GPL project, gave credit to it, kept the license, and commercialized it some for their purposes. AOL does that to Mozilla (well, it also funds Mozilla too, but that's beside the point - Galeon also does that to Mozilla and any number of independant companies could easily do that to Mozilla), Ximian does that to Gnome...oh heck - the examples are everywhere.
If they've not dotted their i's and crossed their t's in certain areas, would it not be better to gently remind them rather than slam them and call them thieves (which sounds very Bill Gate'ish), especially since they've taken great care on the other extraordinarily important issues of credit and license? "Hey guys, you need to ammend the copyright, not replace it." or something like that.
According to: http://www.neonapster.com/license.html they've retained the GPL.
and: http://www.neonapster.com/download.html gives credit to the CDex project.
Before you guys jump in and start flaming, do a little bit of homework. Could be easily a Galeon/Mozilla type thing. Heck - a Netscape/Mozilla thing. GPL software is there for the sharing - that's what the GPL is for. Linux is repackaged over and over again by many distro's - no one is whining about that, are they? "Redhat ripped off Linux from Linus!". "Mandrake is copying Redhat!". Come on guys, before you knock it, research it. They may very well have room for critisism, and I'm not endorsing them - but I'm not going to bash them until I know for sure.
I develop code myself, and having a bunch of morons flaming me because they're too lazy to research my license and credits could very well encourage me to take the closed source proprietory route...I wouldn't blame these guys if they did just that. And what about all the potential developers watching the shark-fest from the sidelines. Do you think they'll want to jump into the fray after watching this? I know Slashdot tends to jump in before testing the waters, but please, reserve judgement before you make a fool of yourself.
It seems the GPL community is very antagonistic and overly fanatical to the point of witch hunts. Let's not burn any witches yet until we've without a doubt verified that they're indeed witches!
RH Linux 7.1 on a Celeron 533mhz 128mb with a GF2 MX400 64mb at 24bit running between 69fps and 109fps - wow. Neat engine - wayyyyy better than my cheasy little engine.
9fps is seriously bad - check your configurations, drivers, SDL versions, etc...even for Microsoft, that's real bad. I think enough people on MS chimed in that they're getting good fps.
Even for Slashdot, this is depressing - Slashdot paints the guy as the victim. Read the freaking story guys - this guy is part of the reason all the regulatory crap and bills are being put forth. Let's see - he sold 400+ pirated games, and installed a mod chip that did nothing more than allow pirated games to be played.
Huh? No performance increase? No fair use? Just for pirating games? And he's the victim?!?!?! He's just plain stupid - and knew exactly what he was doing. How do you not mod a PS2 to play pirated games and sell those games without knowing it's wrong???
Read the article before you post it - he should have gotten hard time. There's a big difference between a mod-chip that enhances performance and a mod-chip that facilitates an obvious crime. He deserved more than what he got and I hope they track down those modded ps2's - that kind of crap makes it harder on the rest of us who try to do what should be legitimate and fair use excepting the harrassment we get from MPAA and friends. This guy just gave them fuel for the fire to screw the rest of us. Get over your fanatisism and see crime as a crime for crying out loud!
NaN Holding and the Blender creator have been going through some interesting negotiations. NH looks amiable to reviving Blender in a different incarnation. Needless to say, Blender *is* coming back, and in an OSS approved license:
http://www.blender3d.com/
Yay - I've been using Blender for a while and the one big problem was the closed source nature of it - now we're gonna have an open source 3D environment.
Participate in it and help fund it, guys. Blender's just too cool to let it die!
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All it basically did was mention that Linux was popular in the server market and was not popular in the desktop market. That's old news. Who among you can disagree? The facts are before you. Could this article, then, be a challenge to spur us on? Perhaps we need to step up to the challenge robustly rather than in baby-steps. MacOSX did it - slammed on a kicking GUI on top of Unix for the average Joe to use. Why can't we? Progress is being made in that direction - it's time to put it to the test...
Just how much easier can they make it? You can already walk right in the front door whistling Dixie with the way things are currently. It's scary - they're admitting that their API's are so full of holes that it can be that much worse than it already is. It's not like they're trying to make crackers work for it - they sneeze and a new crack is born. At least with open API's the public will be exposed to how atrociosly bare bellied Microsoft really is and perhaps either: A. Put serious legal pressure on Microsoft to fix them. B. Switch to Linux, FreeBSD or MaxOSX. C. Dump computers altogether and move to Tibet.
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Jim Allchin, who oversees the Windows operating system, said that disclosures sought by the states "would make it easier for hackers to break into computer networks, for malicious individuals or organizations to spread destructive computer viruses and for unethical people to pirate" Microsoft's flagship software. >>
I believe there is a port of GCC that works with MPW. I use MPW the way it is to compile code on Mac that I wrote and worked with on Linux and it works great. Haven't gone beyond it to the GCC port yet...
Strange - in the article the MShit spokesman claimed to be allowing in only standards compliant browsers (weren't standards created to give more people access, not less?) - and we all know that Netscape 4.* is abysmal when it comes to supporting standards, and Mozilla is significantly more advanced and even stricter on standards than IE? Aren't they being a bit conceited to say that IE is the "ONLY" standards compliant browser?
Doesn't any of the DoJ team find this a just bit like more monopoly abuse? Bill the Ripper Mr. Convicted Monopoly Abuser just raped and murdered another of us and meanwhile the DoJ is sitting on their thumbs twirling in circles and Almighty Bush is setting limits on what they can do - as if they were actually going to do something... Much longer and MShit will be protected by National Security - if they get too deep, upsetting them will pose a significant threat to all online activities which could cause potential economic disaster and even though they're illegal, they'll be protected. Whatever happened to injuctions and freezes on development pending a decision. They do it on everything else. Perhaps we should start our own Internet and let MS go screw itself...
Hmmm, lessee - Word takes, what, 10 seconds or so if portions of MS Office had been pre-loaded on bootup. On a 900Mhz 256Ram machine. Cost? $300+. OO takes 20s on a 500Mhz laptop (not exactly a PC there, nor a muscle machine either). Cost? Free.
Frankly, I'll take OO and drink my coffee for a few extra seconds knowing at the end of the day I can afford to take my family out to Chili's and a movie... Big deal if it takes a little longer to start up. It does what you need it to do. Edit documents, spreadsheets and all that jaz (hopefully sans Clippy [tm]). It looks fairly decent and feature full. It can open and save a variety of formats. And your cash-flow doesn't dip into the negative when you license the thing...
I think the average user/company will take that into account too - also the fact that it will only get better and faster as development continues and that you and/or your company won't be ripped off with yearly per seat/per user license fees and forced upgrades... An extra few seconds - that's all? Fella, take another sip of that coffee and enjoy the pace - you've just been given 10 more seconds or so to enjoy life before the grinding stone hits...:)
Of course it will. It will stipulate that since it's so stable and reliable, you'll only be allowed to save your work when you have completed it. Saving often indicates a lack in confidence in Microsoft which will not be allowed.
When you get the "Blue Screen of Death" the EULA will stipulate that you are forbiden to cuss out Microsoft while you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del.
When you get a GPF - you'll be forbiden to yell and holler about those MS morons while you watch hours of work disappear.
When you get a Outlook Express virus, you'll be forbiden to say it's an exploit of MS, but rather you'll have to concede it's a feature.
When your network crashes, you will be forbiden to call anyone and tell them that Microsoft crashed - you'll have to blame it on yourself or proclaim that it's a result of Microsoft ceasing function to end a critical memory leak for your benefit.
When the internet becomes YAMM - Yet Another Microsoft Monopoly - you'll be forbiden to get online and complain about Microsoft in any way - even to Microsoft's own support staff. You will only be able to praise Microsoft's infinite wisdom and grace.
When entertainment centers become YAMM, you'll be forbiden to play any music that uses Microsoft's name in vain.
When toilets become YAMM, you'll be forbiden to fart in any way that sounds like Microsoft or Bill Gates.
When churches become yet another YAMM, you'll be required to... well, we'll wait and see...
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Why do people always look at startup times??? What the heck does that have to do with the ability to do the job? Half the time when you get in the office, you're stuffing your face with a donut, fiddling with your coffee, fixing your hair, etc - and suddenly, you're in a hurry? What's a few additional seconds? You still get to your destination - perhaps even quicker. A few seconds difference in startup isn't going to do diddly to your work-flow. You spend so much more time leaning back in your chair gabbing with your office-mate and other things that do impede your work-flow. Once it's up and running, OO is snappy and easy to use and does the job that it's expected to do. No one here in this office complains about startup times. They double-click, arrange their papers and get comfortable and then, it's up and ready.
PV cells at 17% efficiency is doable - but far far far more efficient is solar-thermal plants. This is cheap to implement, easy to do and we have the technology today to do it. What's stopping us? Hmmm, mamma and pappa oil and coal who don't want to be put out of business perhaps? You'd be surprised at how many strings they've been pulling to stay on top. We could have cheap energy around the world without a drip of oil - but our economy is driven by oil and by energy - cost of production is irrelevant because it's still a commodity product traded and priced on Wall Street. Even cheap solar will have a higher price-tag attached to it when oil and coal decide to get into the ring (like they've done with biofuels) and solar becomes more mainstream because it's not about where the energy comes from, but the virtual economy of futures and perceived supply and demand (independent of actually supply and demand). So if you want cheap energy - better throw up your own axial flux wind-gen and toss on a few solar panels and turn off a few lights and do it yourself.
Mod this up. It has zero to do with the environment and 100% to do with oil and coal agendas. Oh but how convincing a lie that has a speck of truth in it to appease the gullible! The solar industry is on the verge of breaking out into the mainstream. BLM is banking that in 2 years, the economy will have caught up with the new oil prices to bring this down to a niche project instead.
The heat that normally gets to the ground is what is focused and harvested by solar thermal collectors. So... if it is harvested, how is the heat going to hurt the ground and plants or increase the heat? It was going to the ground already in the first place! If anything, it's going to lower the temperature, however slightly. Even PV panels will have a cooling effect at ground level - lifting the heat up overhead where more air circulation can return it up into the atmosphere. We're not talking about spreading nuclear plants all over the desert. Mirrors and plumbing! An occasional ATV to check on things. That's it! And you think 2 years is needed for that? These gubment guys have had over a decade of forewarning about the market for this industry - and only when they have money in hand and contracts and are ready to build TODAY does the gubment suddenly backpedal? Has zero to do with the environment, and everything to do with certain industries making the right calls and pushing the right buttons to suppress competition.
Rubbish. Industries don't like competition and do everything they can to suppress it. Like... stop it for 2 years while some commity spins on their thumbs. We've had the technology to get totally free from oil and coal for decades. But, oil and coal don't want to die and have been fighting for survival for a very long time. It's a well entrenched enemy that has its fingers in the highest levels of government. Some newfangled gadget is going to have a fight on its hands if it's going to step into their territory. If it was all friendly and happy and rosy, we'd have dumped oil and coal a long time ago. But, it's not. No industry likes to die, especially one that basically rules the world.
Private property locations boosts the cost significantly, tho, over the cheap leases of public lands. It's a super idea, but money talks.
Thermal solar is far more efficient than photovoltaics and it is basically just mirrors and plumbing. About as "green" as one can get, methinks. I think that has far greater value out there in the SW than photovoltaics and will likely be the primary technology being used out there.
A power grid with diverse sources of power IS that giant battery. And in the SW, there are precious few cloudy days and energy is still generated even thru the clouds. When 360 days are sunny, what's the problem exploiting that energy that's freely raining down on the Earth? It's not a huge drawback and won't replace coal - but will augment it and reduce dependence on it. The more diverse our energy collection is, the less we have to dig the coal. Solar and wind are two big opportunities because over a tri-state area, it's always sunny during the day (and with solar-thermal the heat generates electricity thru the night) and it's always windy somewhere. Spread the plants out and you won't have that problem. Combine that with hydro and other technologies and coal becomes a small part of the whole rather than the main component.
Heh - while an eruption - as certain as the sunrise - may be millenia distant, I'm surprised whole teams of scientists aren't there monitoring this just for the sake that it's a super volcano sitting right off the highway! Geez - 7-11's couldn't be more convenient! It sounds like it's a ho-hum thing to these guys and they're way underplaying this for the sake of tourism dollars. Heck, super volcano. I'd want to go even more because of that than instead of just some weird place with a few geysers.
:)
I love the interview tho. I can compare it with a similar interview with the Mnt Vesuvius National Park Scientists back in the day:
"So, do you think the tremors we're feeling amount to anything?"
"No, it's from all the mules and it's also a windy day."
"What about the smoke from the top of the mountain? Wouldn't that indicate that this may actually be a volcano."
[chortles] "Of course not, silly. There's a god in the mountain making beef jerky. Shuh, volcano?"
"So, visitors needn't worry?"
"Not at all. Bring your friends and family - younguns get in for 10 denari a day - and be sure to stop by the gift shop and buy buy buy..."
"So, you don't do any monitoring of changes?"
"None at all."
"And, have you detected any changes with your monitoring?"
"None at all."
"Have you inspected the suspicious bulge over by the pond?"
"We went there once. Fishing was good."
"If anything were to happen, do you have an escape plan?"
"No. Not my job. Besides, ya'll need to come by for a day or three - entry fees are only 25 denari or 3 goats and a donkey. No danger here."
"So, there you have it from the proper authority. Mnt Vesuvius is not a volcano and not in imminent danger of exploding like those volcano freaks are claiming. Thelonius signing off... Okay - are we thru? Whew - those volcano freaks are a bunch of overzealous liars. Hey - do ya'll have cotton candy? Caramel apples? I want to see the new rides... [Thel, your mic's still on...]"
I can't imagine *not* refering to them as S-C-O. At least in polite company. I mean - Sco is just... well... it begs to be finished. For me to try to phonetically pronounce Sco always seems to come out as "Scum". Or "Scam". Infrequently "Scee Sci Sco Scum, I smell the blood of a..." then I lose the rhyme. And it's always usually with a spit afterwards.
...does it run Linux. :)
That's where the "They may very well have room for critisism, and I'm not endorsing them" comes in. However, they do give credit to CDex saying that it's based on that project.
And what about the copyright? Look and feel alterations - no matter how minor, logos, tweaks, minor changes, etc could justify them putting their names on the copyright.
Okay, I'm not going to jump in and defend them - this is more a principal thing to me than defending these guys specifically - they may very well be crooks. But on the surface - given their credit to CDex and retaining the GPL, it looks like they have the best intentions. They took a GPL project, gave credit to it, kept the license, and commercialized it some for their purposes. AOL does that to Mozilla (well, it also funds Mozilla too, but that's beside the point - Galeon also does that to Mozilla and any number of independant companies could easily do that to Mozilla), Ximian does that to Gnome...oh heck - the examples are everywhere.
If they've not dotted their i's and crossed their t's in certain areas, would it not be better to gently remind them rather than slam them and call them thieves (which sounds very Bill Gate'ish), especially since they've taken great care on the other extraordinarily important issues of credit and license? "Hey guys, you need to ammend the copyright, not replace it." or something like that.
According to:
http://www.neonapster.com/license.html they've retained the GPL.
and:
http://www.neonapster.com/download.html gives credit to the CDex project.
Before you guys jump in and start flaming, do a little bit of homework. Could be easily a Galeon/Mozilla type thing. Heck - a Netscape/Mozilla thing. GPL software is there for the sharing - that's what the GPL is for. Linux is repackaged over and over again by many distro's - no one is whining about that, are they? "Redhat ripped off Linux from Linus!". "Mandrake is copying Redhat!". Come on guys, before you knock it, research it. They may very well have room for critisism, and I'm not endorsing them - but I'm not going to bash them until I know for sure.
I develop code myself, and having a bunch of morons flaming me because they're too lazy to research my license and credits could very well encourage me to take the closed source proprietory route...I wouldn't blame these guys if they did just that. And what about all the potential developers watching the shark-fest from the sidelines. Do you think they'll want to jump into the fray after watching this? I know Slashdot tends to jump in before testing the waters, but please, reserve judgement before you make a fool of yourself.
It seems the GPL community is very antagonistic and overly fanatical to the point of witch hunts. Let's not burn any witches yet until we've without a doubt verified that they're indeed witches!
RH Linux 7.1 on a Celeron 533mhz 128mb with a GF2 MX400 64mb at 24bit running between 69fps and 109fps - wow. Neat engine - wayyyyy better than my cheasy little engine.
9fps is seriously bad - check your configurations, drivers, SDL versions, etc...even for Microsoft, that's real bad. I think enough people on MS chimed in that they're getting good fps.
Good luck...
Even for Slashdot, this is depressing - Slashdot paints the guy as the victim. Read the freaking story guys - this guy is part of the reason all the regulatory crap and bills are being put forth. Let's see - he sold 400+ pirated games, and installed a mod chip that did nothing more than allow pirated games to be played.
Huh? No performance increase? No fair use? Just for pirating games? And he's the victim?!?!?! He's just plain stupid - and knew exactly what he was doing. How do you not mod a PS2 to play pirated games and sell those games without knowing it's wrong???
Read the article before you post it - he should have gotten hard time. There's a big difference between a mod-chip that enhances performance and a mod-chip that facilitates an obvious crime. He deserved more than what he got and I hope they track down those modded ps2's - that kind of crap makes it harder on the rest of us who try to do what should be legitimate and fair use excepting the harrassment we get from MPAA and friends. This guy just gave them fuel for the fire to screw the rest of us. Get over your fanatisism and see crime as a crime for crying out loud!
NaN Holding and the Blender creator have been going through some interesting negotiations. NH looks amiable to reviving Blender in a different incarnation. Needless to say, Blender *is* coming back, and in an OSS approved license:
http://www.blender3d.com/
Yay - I've been using Blender for a while and the one big problem was the closed source nature of it - now we're gonna have an open source 3D environment.
Participate in it and help fund it, guys. Blender's just too cool to let it die!
All it basically did was mention that Linux was popular in the server market and was not popular in the desktop market. That's old news. Who among you can disagree? The facts are before you. Could this article, then, be a challenge to spur us on? Perhaps we need to step up to the challenge robustly rather than in baby-steps. MacOSX did it - slammed on a kicking GUI on top of Unix for the average Joe to use. Why can't we? Progress is being made in that direction - it's time to put it to the test...
Just how much easier can they make it? You can already walk right in the front door whistling Dixie with the way things are currently. It's scary - they're admitting that their API's are so full of holes that it can be that much worse than it already is. It's not like they're trying to make crackers work for it - they sneeze and a new crack is born. At least with open API's the public will be exposed to how atrociosly bare bellied Microsoft really is and perhaps either:
A. Put serious legal pressure on Microsoft to fix them.
B. Switch to Linux, FreeBSD or MaxOSX.
C. Dump computers altogether and move to Tibet.
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Jim Allchin, who oversees the Windows operating system, said that disclosures sought by the states "would make it easier for hackers to break into computer networks, for malicious individuals or organizations to spread destructive computer viruses and for unethical people to pirate" Microsoft's flagship software.
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I believe there is a port of GCC that works with MPW. I use MPW the way it is to compile code on Mac that I wrote and worked with on Linux and it works great. Haven't gone beyond it to the GCC port yet...
Strange - in the article the MShit spokesman claimed to be allowing in only standards compliant browsers (weren't standards created to give more people access, not less?) - and we all know that Netscape 4.* is abysmal when it comes to supporting standards, and Mozilla is significantly more advanced and even stricter on standards than IE? Aren't they being a bit conceited to say that IE is the "ONLY" standards compliant browser?
Doesn't any of the DoJ team find this a just bit like more monopoly abuse? Bill the Ripper Mr. Convicted Monopoly Abuser just raped and murdered another of us and meanwhile the DoJ is sitting on their thumbs twirling in circles and Almighty Bush is setting limits on what they can do - as if they were actually going to do something... Much longer and MShit will be protected by National Security - if they get too deep, upsetting them will pose a significant threat to all online activities which could cause potential economic disaster and even though they're illegal, they'll be protected. Whatever happened to injuctions and freezes on development pending a decision. They do it on everything else. Perhaps we should start our own Internet and let MS go screw itself...
Yeah, but Dat's some fine H2O...
Hmmm, lessee - Word takes, what, 10 seconds or so if portions of MS Office had been pre-loaded on bootup. On a 900Mhz 256Ram machine. Cost? $300+. OO takes 20s on a 500Mhz laptop (not exactly a PC there, nor a muscle machine either). Cost? Free.
:)
Frankly, I'll take OO and drink my coffee for a few extra seconds knowing at the end of the day I can afford to take my family out to Chili's and a movie... Big deal if it takes a little longer to start up. It does what you need it to do. Edit documents, spreadsheets and all that jaz (hopefully sans Clippy [tm]). It looks fairly decent and feature full. It can open and save a variety of formats. And your cash-flow doesn't dip into the negative when you license the thing...
I think the average user/company will take that into account too - also the fact that it will only get better and faster as development continues and that you and/or your company won't be ripped off with yearly per seat/per user license fees and forced upgrades... An extra few seconds - that's all? Fella, take another sip of that coffee and enjoy the pace - you've just been given 10 more seconds or so to enjoy life before the grinding stone hits...
Of course it will. It will stipulate that since it's so stable and reliable, you'll only be allowed to save your work when you have completed it. Saving often indicates a lack in confidence in Microsoft which will not be allowed.
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Well, see, now they'll have to revise their future EULA to reflect that. :>
When you get the "Blue Screen of Death" the EULA will stipulate that you are forbiden to cuss out Microsoft while you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del.
When you get a GPF - you'll be forbiden to yell and holler about those MS morons while you watch hours of work disappear.
When you get a Outlook Express virus, you'll be forbiden to say it's an exploit of MS, but rather you'll have to concede it's a feature.
When your network crashes, you will be forbiden to call anyone and tell them that Microsoft crashed - you'll have to blame it on yourself or proclaim that it's a result of Microsoft ceasing function to end a critical memory leak for your benefit.
When the internet becomes YAMM - Yet Another Microsoft Monopoly - you'll be forbiden to get online and complain about Microsoft in any way - even to Microsoft's own support staff. You will only be able to praise Microsoft's infinite wisdom and grace.
When entertainment centers become YAMM, you'll be forbiden to play any music that uses Microsoft's name in vain.
When toilets become YAMM, you'll be forbiden to fart in any way that sounds like Microsoft or Bill Gates.
When churches become yet another YAMM, you'll be required to... well, we'll wait and see...