The process model in Vista is no different than in XP.
And yes, *nix is generally process-oriented while NT kernels have always favored threading. Having written lower-level software for both platforms (ie daemons/services but not drivers and things like that) I cannot honestly see the benefits of one over the other for most processing-type scenarios, though I assume that there are types of applications that do benefit from a specific model.
And Star Wars plagiarizes many other works that precede it. Kurosawa, Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, et.al. Perhaps "plagiarizes" is too strong a term, but maybe one day a court will decide that "inspiration" also represents copyright infringement.
SciFi and fantasy literature are not 30 years old.
One of my high school teachers once told me that pretty much everything can eventually be traced back to Shakespeare or the Bible.
I have to say I'm actually for this judgment. Copyright issues aside, and the always amusing cries of "greed", I think it's important that something like the Potter concept remain under the control of the original author.
Who knows, maybe Rowling will see the value in collaboration with her readers and fans and create a wiki or something.
Is it the same software? It could be the software then, not necessarily the platform.
I mean, you can fsck up an application on any language and platform. I wouldn't be posting here arguing about this if I didn't write those types of systems for a living (well, used to).
Let's see. So far I know that the source does not blame Microsoft or.NET for that matter. It appears to have been some sort of network problem.
Then, if memory serves me, the LSE went down for a whole day as well about 7 or 8 years ago. Sure as hell wasn't running on.NET back then. Probably some sort of midrange sys. One of those highly reliable deals you mention, except that it wasn't so reliable. Since I know those platforms are reliable, then there must be something wrong with the LSE, maybe.
Third, IIRC this whole deal was developed by one of the Big5 consulting boys, no doubt outsourced half out to India. Not that Indian developers are not good, it's usually the process that sucks.
So no, starting off your argument with "quicksand" analogies and "negligence" claims is probably not a good idea.
After all, you posted this on a website that survives largely thanks to posting these kinds of stories. I'd probably wait a few days, yah? I'd hate to think all the MC apps I've written in the past 6 years or so are in some sort of danger just because they run on.NET/Windows Server.
Same here. I heard from someone about Google and after the first few searches I dropped AltaVista (which back then was the best search engine) and never looked back.
The fact that they took over DejaNews also helped.
Well, there's nothing for him to "handle", it's prison. I take it you've never been to one?:)
But what is better for the society?
That's an interesting problem that has been hashed over by many people at different times. As a developer, I know that writing software is a fun and enjoyable process. Should Reiser be enjoying himself while in prison? I don't think he should. But your point about what's better for society is a valid one. I'm afraid that's not how the penal system works in the US (or anywhere) at the moment, though.
Dell's entire product infrastructure was Windows-based until a year ago or so. An OEM license of XP Pro is going for $45 these days. Dell can't install crapware on the Linux machines. All that probably means their per-unit costs are higher for Ubuntu than for XP machines.
But lets all spin this as Windows is now the option nobody wants and see what happens
You can spin it however you want, but I doubt this is some evil Microsoft tricksie, and I very much doubt the $20 difference is swaying your potential Linux users from buying the machine in the first place.
But what exactly do you think will happen when everyone using IE visits www.google.com and finds out about a replacement for IE brought to them by the same people who make that awesome search engine and web mail they use all the time?
Kinda makes you wonder why they didn't do that for Mozilla in the first place, eh? Oh, there's that "Google App Pack" or whatever, but that was half-hearted at best. If Google had been interested in Firefox being more widely adopted, they would have pushed it, and they would have succeeded because they have a billion eyeballs on their landing page.
They were just bidding their time.
For all the bluster from the Mozilla folks on this article, I'd be very worried if I were them. Google is their cash cow, and the cow is about to get tipped.
Considering that McCain has almost no chance of winning this election
Starting your argument with an incorrect assumption is usually not a good idea.
You might wish that was the case, but merely wishing things does not make them come true.
As far as I can tell, current polling has Obama and McCain in a statistical dead heat (and that was the case 8 and 4 years ago with Gore/Bush and Kerry/Bush). How do you translate that into "no chance" again?
Where you said you didn't care about DRM in fonts, wouldn't use them, and don't even run Linux when I mentioned why msttcorefonts had helped the alleged "monopoly" to grow.
If you read your own posts maybe you can make some sense out of them. I know I had a hard time of it.
What kind of sick weirdo decided that Times Roman was a sane default?
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Microsoft. That's besides the point though, whether you think this is useful for you is irrelevant. There are people who want everyone to browse the web with Lynx. That doesn't mean we listen to them.
but my free UNIX of choice is FreeBSD
Right, so I fail to see the reason for your faux outrage over this. Again, you don't care either way about all this, so why are you even discussing it?
If you want "special" fonts on your web pages, you're going to have to accept some form of DRM. Font designers are not going to allow their creations to be installed and used for free on a million PCs. That, regardless of whether a font can be considered a form of IP or not, etc.
The question here is whether or not we want the special fonts. To me personally, the answer is no. Some people might feel differently, and so this might be a good option for them. Choice is important, as I am constantly told by the same people who think DRM is evil. As long a I can opt out of installing the font, just as I can opt out of installing an add-on I don't want, then fine. It's up to me to decide whether the degradation (if any) is acceptable.
As to how this is "slimy", I leave it to the "badvista" and "defectivebydesign" champions to create another series of cute FSF-sponsored attack blogs to explain in minute detail and clever creating spelling the why of it to everyone, whether we are interested or not.
And BTW, that "monopoly" was greatly aided by the early Linux desktop adopters. You sleep in the bed you make.
Actually even more annoying are the sites that leech USENET feeds, format them in crappy HTML, splat a ton of ads around them and put them out to be indexed. The ones that actually require you to register to read the friggin' comments are especially nasty.
The problem is that nowadays less and less people know about USENET so the fact that they can get the exact same thing by searching Google Groups is lost on them. Google placing "Groups" in a dropdown menu on the search results page doesn't really help either.
This review is pure comedy and absolutely balls. The part where he tries to figure out the code is bloody brilliant. I have to thank Slashdot for putting this up. It's hit and miss in the "idle" section, but this was fantastic.
So even if it's not "news", I say give us more AC book reviews for god's sake!
It's a pity this is featured in what is supposed to be the "funny" section of Slashdot, although "funny" is probably stretching it a bit to begin with.
I lived in Mexico City for four years. I went to college there. Kidnapping is not a joke there, and if it was bad back then, I can only imagine how bad it is now. In all honesty, fuck Slashdot for putting this up. Getting the body parts of your relatives in the mail (or finding your child murdered in the trunk of a car) is not funny.
BTW, the posting on this section is completely fucking broken.
But FUD is fun. For example, when IE7 was released, it was widely reported by Slashdot and everyone else that it would be "forced" on to poor unsuspecting IE6 users. The truth of it of course was that you could just refuse the update. Forever. And then when you were ready, just go to the IE download page and get it. Or not.
FUD is always fun... until it turns around and bites you in the ass.
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The process model in Vista is no different than in XP.
And yes, *nix is generally process-oriented while NT kernels have always favored threading. Having written lower-level software for both platforms (ie daemons/services but not drivers and things like that) I cannot honestly see the benefits of one over the other for most processing-type scenarios, though I assume that there are types of applications that do benefit from a specific model.
And Star Wars plagiarizes many other works that precede it. Kurosawa, Heinlein, Asimov, Herbert, et.al. Perhaps "plagiarizes" is too strong a term, but maybe one day a court will decide that "inspiration" also represents copyright infringement.
SciFi and fantasy literature are not 30 years old.
One of my high school teachers once told me that pretty much everything can eventually be traced back to Shakespeare or the Bible.
I have to say I'm actually for this judgment. Copyright issues aside, and the always amusing cries of "greed", I think it's important that something like the Potter concept remain under the control of the original author.
Who knows, maybe Rowling will see the value in collaboration with her readers and fans and create a wiki or something.
Is it the same software? It could be the software then, not necessarily the platform.
I mean, you can fsck up an application on any language and platform. I wouldn't be posting here arguing about this if I didn't write those types of systems for a living (well, used to).
Let's see. So far I know that the source does not blame Microsoft or .NET for that matter. It appears to have been some sort of network problem.
Then, if memory serves me, the LSE went down for a whole day as well about 7 or 8 years ago. Sure as hell wasn't running on .NET back then. Probably some sort of midrange sys. One of those highly reliable deals you mention, except that it wasn't so reliable. Since I know those platforms are reliable, then there must be something wrong with the LSE, maybe.
Third, IIRC this whole deal was developed by one of the Big5 consulting boys, no doubt outsourced half out to India. Not that Indian developers are not good, it's usually the process that sucks.
So no, starting off your argument with "quicksand" analogies and "negligence" claims is probably not a good idea.
After all, you posted this on a website that survives largely thanks to posting these kinds of stories. I'd probably wait a few days, yah? I'd hate to think all the MC apps I've written in the past 6 years or so are in some sort of danger just because they run on .NET/Windows Server.
Same here. I heard from someone about Google and after the first few searches I dropped AltaVista (which back then was the best search engine) and never looked back.
The fact that they took over DejaNews also helped.
Well, there's nothing for him to "handle", it's prison. I take it you've never been to one? :)
That's an interesting problem that has been hashed over by many people at different times. As a developer, I know that writing software is a fun and enjoyable process. Should Reiser be enjoying himself while in prison? I don't think he should. But your point about what's better for society is a valid one. I'm afraid that's not how the penal system works in the US (or anywhere) at the moment, though.
That's big of him, but what makes you think they let you have a computer and internet access while you're in prison for murder?
You can always boot DSL or other minimal distro off a USB drive. I believe you can even boot off CF and other types of cards if your BIOS supports it.
Dell's entire product infrastructure was Windows-based until a year ago or so. An OEM license of XP Pro is going for $45 these days. Dell can't install crapware on the Linux machines. All that probably means their per-unit costs are higher for Ubuntu than for XP machines.
You can spin it however you want, but I doubt this is some evil Microsoft tricksie, and I very much doubt the $20 difference is swaying your potential Linux users from buying the machine in the first place.
No. Of course Slashdot only posts the sensationalist bullshit to sell ads, not the subsequent rebuttals.
Keep getting your Microsoft news from Slashdot though, nothing better than shaping your opinions through sponsored FUD.
When confronted by large quantities of beer protein.
Kinda makes you wonder why they didn't do that for Mozilla in the first place, eh? Oh, there's that "Google App Pack" or whatever, but that was half-hearted at best. If Google had been interested in Firefox being more widely adopted, they would have pushed it, and they would have succeeded because they have a billion eyeballs on their landing page.
They were just bidding their time.
For all the bluster from the Mozilla folks on this article, I'd be very worried if I were them. Google is their cash cow, and the cow is about to get tipped.
Of course they have. The FUD storm is just getting underway a bit early this time.
And your polls and data sets are better and more relevant than mine, of course.
Starting your argument with an incorrect assumption is usually not a good idea.
You might wish that was the case, but merely wishing things does not make them come true.
As far as I can tell, current polling has Obama and McCain in a statistical dead heat (and that was the case 8 and 4 years ago with Gore/Bush and Kerry/Bush). How do you translate that into "no chance" again?
The premise of the article...?
Where you said you didn't care about DRM in fonts, wouldn't use them, and don't even run Linux when I mentioned why msttcorefonts had helped the alleged "monopoly" to grow.
If you read your own posts maybe you can make some sense out of them. I know I had a hard time of it.
Too bad Vista does exactly the same thing.
What they want is for people to stop pirating their products.
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't Microsoft. That's besides the point though, whether you think this is useful for you is irrelevant. There are people who want everyone to browse the web with Lynx. That doesn't mean we listen to them.
Right, so I fail to see the reason for your faux outrage over this. Again, you don't care either way about all this, so why are you even discussing it?
So you don't care and you're not going to use this. Good for you. You've enhanced the conversation enormously.
Look up msttcorefonts, and if you're old enough, remember what what Linux desktops used to look like before 2003.
If you want "special" fonts on your web pages, you're going to have to accept some form of DRM. Font designers are not going to allow their creations to be installed and used for free on a million PCs. That, regardless of whether a font can be considered a form of IP or not, etc.
The question here is whether or not we want the special fonts. To me personally, the answer is no. Some people might feel differently, and so this might be a good option for them. Choice is important, as I am constantly told by the same people who think DRM is evil. As long a I can opt out of installing the font, just as I can opt out of installing an add-on I don't want, then fine. It's up to me to decide whether the degradation (if any) is acceptable.
As to how this is "slimy", I leave it to the "badvista" and "defectivebydesign" champions to create another series of cute FSF-sponsored attack blogs to explain in minute detail and clever creating spelling the why of it to everyone, whether we are interested or not.
And BTW, that "monopoly" was greatly aided by the early Linux desktop adopters. You sleep in the bed you make.
Actually even more annoying are the sites that leech USENET feeds, format them in crappy HTML, splat a ton of ads around them and put them out to be indexed. The ones that actually require you to register to read the friggin' comments are especially nasty.
The problem is that nowadays less and less people know about USENET so the fact that they can get the exact same thing by searching Google Groups is lost on them. Google placing "Groups" in a dropdown menu on the search results page doesn't really help either.
This review is pure comedy and absolutely balls. The part where he tries to figure out the code is bloody brilliant. I have to thank Slashdot for putting this up. It's hit and miss in the "idle" section, but this was fantastic.
So even if it's not "news", I say give us more AC book reviews for god's sake!
It's a pity this is featured in what is supposed to be the "funny" section of Slashdot, although "funny" is probably stretching it a bit to begin with.
I lived in Mexico City for four years. I went to college there. Kidnapping is not a joke there, and if it was bad back then, I can only imagine how bad it is now. In all honesty, fuck Slashdot for putting this up. Getting the body parts of your relatives in the mail (or finding your child murdered in the trunk of a car) is not funny.
BTW, the posting on this section is completely fucking broken.
But FUD is fun. For example, when IE7 was released, it was widely reported by Slashdot and everyone else that it would be "forced" on to poor unsuspecting IE6 users. The truth of it of course was that you could just refuse the update. Forever. And then when you were ready, just go to the IE download page and get it. Or not.
FUD is always fun... until it turns around and bites you in the ass.
Maybe you'll need some WINE with that.