About 90% of the (Anonymous) commenters at MiniMSFT. - The notorious bitchy insider blog.
As expected in a company that size, at the lower levels one is expendable, and any higher up one's energy is entirely consumed with political survival.
This may help explain the quality of the product, management and strategy that we have been seeing for the last few years...
After a lot of looking around, I found the uncharted territory (it was tough, being off all maps, natch) and it has a nice cave, but a weird foreign-looking guy named Mr Bin Laden told me to fuck off, he got there first.
Paying twice for the same "benefit" (if running Windows can be called a benefit). Or, put another way, being forced to pay for something you can't use. (Monopoly effects.)
Why ask Monty? Why not ask every major web player on the planet why they choose 'Microsoft Access level technology'.
You might find yourself laughed out of the room (as Microsoft would be, if they tried to sell Access to Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Slashdot, imdb, SABRE, YouTube, Wikipedia, NASA, US Census,... and most major MySQL users).
We're globally paying the price for the fact that someone so corrupt was allowed to seize so much power and money (the misuse of that power continues via the Foundation).
development was well underway when Danger got bought by MS. That means it was likely cheaper to just continue doing what they were doing rather than scrap the work and start again using Microsoft's stuff.
Hm, if only it worked that way. But out there in Biznis land that kind of rationality rarely prevails in my experience. The "NIH" and "OMG ITZ NOT MS" factors rank higher than "faster, better, cheaper" (i.e. anything not MS).
Plus, executives are, often, ah, "incented" to choose the Microsoft solution in the face of any technical or common sense objection. (See: Windows 4 Warships, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc)
It's damn hard to imagine a BSD system going anywhere these days without gcc, autotools, GNU make (especially)... OS X certainly wouldn't be OS X without GNU.
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Eric Philips is a pioneer of using Quadrifoils in icecap crossings. In 2002, with fellow explorer Jon Muir, he walked/kited from Russian territory to the North Pole.
Nobody was listening to RMS?
About 90% of the (Anonymous) commenters at MiniMSFT. - The notorious bitchy insider blog.
As expected in a company that size, at the lower levels one is expendable, and any higher up one's energy is entirely consumed with political survival.
This may help explain the quality of the product, management and strategy that we have been seeing for the last few years...
Things are much easier (and more current) on Gentoo and even the binary packaged Linux distributions.
So I use my Linux box for my "day job" development, and the Mac for "everything else" - but I can certainly develop on the Mac at a pinch.
After a lot of looking around, I found the uncharted territory (it was tough, being off all maps, natch) and it has a nice cave, but a weird foreign-looking guy named Mr Bin Laden told me to fuck off, he got there first.
Bwahahahahah hHAHAHAHAHA Bwahahahaha AHAHAAHAHAH Hhahahahahah HAHAHAHh LOL
Paying twice for the same "benefit" (if running Windows can be called a benefit). Or, put another way, being forced to pay for something you can't use. (Monopoly effects.)
They got away with murder.
Nothing has changed. Still the same monopoly, still the same criminal tactics.
Thankfully the EU is less tolerant of corporate crime.
...or you'll be permanently out of a job.
planning to install them in its next version of the Humvee.
Cuz with these things fitted, an IED going off underneath you should just about fill your battery!
Thanks Bill - enjoy your retirement.
Why ask Monty? Why not ask every major web player on the planet why they choose 'Microsoft Access level technology'.
You might find yourself laughed out of the room (as Microsoft would be, if they tried to sell Access to Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Slashdot, imdb, SABRE, YouTube, Wikipedia, NASA, US Census, ... and most major MySQL users).
http://mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/
http://mysql.com/customers/
InnoDB does support foreign key constraints. (And I'll mention that it has ACID transactions as well, since you may not know that either.)
Next question?
de Icaza can go to Hell along with his bosses at Microsoft.
His company has repeatedly been convicted of criminality, and this trait is Gates'. The leopard does not change its spots.
We're globally paying the price for the fact that someone so corrupt was allowed to seize so much power and money (the misuse of that power continues via the Foundation).
Bwahhhha! The monopoly was built on privilege, luck, raw opportunism, and a total lack of ethics.
Technology isn't even a factor.
Microsoft embodies his brand of heedless, amoral greed. The damage he's done to civilisation is incalculable.
There are much bigger, real, crimes to go after Billg for, anyway.
Microsoft is still evil.
development was well underway when Danger got bought by MS. That means it was likely cheaper to just continue doing what they were doing rather than scrap the work and start again using Microsoft's stuff.
Hm, if only it worked that way. But out there in Biznis land that kind of rationality rarely prevails in my experience. The "NIH" and "OMG ITZ NOT MS" factors rank higher than "faster, better, cheaper" (i.e. anything not MS).
Plus, executives are, often, ah, "incented" to choose the Microsoft solution in the face of any technical or common sense objection. (See: Windows 4 Warships, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc)
I <3 my VAX-11/750
It's damn hard to imagine a BSD system going anywhere these days without gcc, autotools, GNU make (especially)... OS X certainly wouldn't be OS X without GNU.
Just sayin'
Would be very nice I agree.
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