No, the New York Times was 'holding the story in a can' in order to release it when it could be used to the most political advantage: when it could be used as propaganda to defeat the PATRIOT act.
Which Democrats and leftists should be happy about. (it lets them slam the NYT where they like, yet claim 'it is not an organ of the left' where they like.)
Yet we know that Microsoft's approach to code quality assurance is to..
The thing is, you don't know, so you throw out your parody of the Microsoft development process. If you just want to say humorous things to amuse the slashdot crowd, that is fine. But we can't have a meaningful discussion if you're just going to make light of things.
Correct. But they could adopt 'Firefox' (or the superior Mozilla suite, if they're not lightweight dilletantes who only 'browse' the web) and use it for their own.
If MS actually wanted Opera technology, instead of paying $400 million for the company, they could just spend 1% of that and hire away a few top coders.
Clearly said 'top coders' are bonded, indentured properties of said companies. It is just an outrage that they be allowed to leave and move to a new company willing to pay them more.
Hadn't you heard? 'Web Services' was going to undermine the whole Windows Desktop.
Lil' Marc-boy said so right up on a podium. He was very tuFF about it at the time.
So Microsoft had to compete with Netscape to prevent 'Web Services' from undermining their 'Monopoly.'
It had nothing to do with the WWW taking off, and Microsoft wanting to provide features for their customers to take advantage of this without needing to load in buggy third-party addins.
My first 'PC' system back in the day was an XT clone motherboard, an original IBM-PC 63-1/2 watt power supply, and a "Leading Edge Model D" case. It was all components I had bought cheap at a Hamfest.
The Model D case didn't have the standard ISA card slot spacing, so I had to dremel out all the slot guides except for slot one. So the first card in the motherboard was an IBM MDA video card, which 'anchored' the rest of the works in the case. Other cards had to be screwed down to a strip of metal running along the top with tapped holes at the right places.
An original IBM-PC 63-1/2 watt power supply is in a big XT-style case, and wouldn't fit into a Leading Edge Model D case. So I had to tear the PS case open and take out the several circuit boards and mount them on standoffs directly inside the Model D case. This worked, but the 'shock hazard' of full line voltage (plus) was right out there in the open.
Oh, and my keyboard was an original IBM-PC keyboard, but one which the outer shell had been removed from. And the cord was missing when I acquired it so I had to attach a homebrew one of my own.
My monitor was an 'open frame' TTL monitor salvaged out of an old dumb terminal. I didn't have schematics for it, but you can figure out which is the video, vertical and horizontal syncs by looking at the size of the coupling capacitors from each signal fed in on the header.
My 'case mod' actually constituted a real piece of work, and it got me my first 'IBM-PC' for under $400. I can't imagine why anybody finds this junk people do today impressive.
Jobs couldn't have developed his own office, though. They could have warmed up the Claris Works codebase, which might have sufficed for the 'productivity suite' a 3rd grade school teacher needs to administer her classroom, but that's about it.
Buying WordPerfect outright is not 'developing an Office suite.' Jobs is smarter to make that sort of ridiculous claim. And, uh, Jobs is not a techie. He's the kind of guy who hangs around the techies and knows how to trick them into producing something he can shill to the marks.
Said 'powerful European entities' are the very people who know exactly what nationalizing an industry accomplishes. You'd have to be out of your mind to believe they would advocate the producer of a key tool for their infrastucture be nationalized.
Put a different way: If the entity known as Pixar was siezed and turned into a 'public domain' entity, do you think the tight team would remain needed to still produce their fine animated films?
You can handwave about the fine result of collectivization if you like. I'll just point to the history of Industrialization in the early Soviet Union.
Apple had to look outside the company for their next-Gen OS. By that point in the company's history, the rank and file employees had taken over, and the most important 'initiative' for them was making sure they had the right to keep their dogs in their cubicles. The history of Copeland puts a kabosh on the notion of 'something magic at Apple.' There was something 'magic' earlier, but it had dissipated by then.
Naw. What he said made it sound like Microsoft has to actively do something.
They let the EU bureaucrats close them down. 'Government action makes it impossible for us to meet the terms of our contract.' Sounds pretty good, and the bureaucrats look like what they are: meddlesome government bureaucrats.
Its also possible powerful entities in Europe who are planning on buying 10,000 seats will say 'wtf' and bitchslap a few judges. For them, this is like a government agency telling them 'your supply of copier paper is going to be cut off.'
Almost ALL the meaningful software I have written runs on batteries. In fact, I had to write battery voltage monitoring routines so that when the battery is close to depletion, the device can shut down gracefully.
Java and.NET want to be your OS, and seem to make a point of reinventing as many wheels as possible, hoping you forget how to use the ones you already have in the process.
That is called 'being cross platform by being OS agnostic.' You choose a different tact, 'being cross platform by being OS specific.' Your cross-platformedness is at the hardware level. But not everybody wants to run a Unix, and not everbody wants to code only for Unix.
An elegant solution is a real POSIX subsystem that talks directly to the NT kernel, not a wonky set of DLLs that translate the POSIX calls to Win32 and rides on top of the Win32 subsystem.
They should have written cygwin to run on top of the character-mode OS/2 1.0 subsystem built into NT. At least that would have been interesting.
Can't you just block the graphics from whatever server is pumping them out?
As far as I can tell, there is NO advertising on Slashdot (NetBSD version of Mozilla with no 'Flash' installed and all adweb sites have eventually been blocked)
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Clinton pardoned people who committed high crimes, too.
For one instance, look into the connection behind Mark Rich and the Oil-For-Food swindle.
The big difference is.... wait.. there's no big difference....
No, the New York Times was 'holding the story in a can' in order to release it when it could be used to the most political advantage: when it could be used as propaganda to defeat the PATRIOT act.
Which Democrats and leftists should be happy about. (it lets them slam the NYT where they like, yet claim 'it is not an organ of the left' where they like.)
Except Vince Foster.
(and, really, who knows how many other unknowns?)
Actually, for the bearded hacker chickenhawks who hang out in the back of the meeting room, this is indeed the case.
But not in the sense intended.
National Heritage? Isn't that usually concerned with human artifacts?
It would seem, since the bird is extinct, that the 'heritage' of the people there would be for there to be no trace or remains.
there should be an off wikipedia level of entry and edit..
There is. Open up emacs or vi (yes, there is even FREE CHOICE involved!) and type in whatever you want.
There is time for it NOW, and there's no need to plan for it.
Yet we know that Microsoft's approach to code quality assurance is to ..
The thing is, you don't know, so you throw out your parody of the Microsoft development process. If you just want to say humorous things to amuse the slashdot crowd, that is fine. But we can't have a meaningful discussion if you're just going to make light of things.
Correct. But they could adopt 'Firefox' (or the superior Mozilla suite, if they're not lightweight dilletantes who only 'browse' the web) and use it for their own.
If MS actually wanted Opera technology, instead of paying $400 million for the company, they could just spend 1% of that and hire away a few top coders.
Clearly said 'top coders' are bonded, indentured properties of said companies. It is just an outrage that they be allowed to leave and move to a new company willing to pay them more.
Something needs to be done about it.
Hadn't you heard? 'Web Services' was going to undermine the whole Windows Desktop.
Lil' Marc-boy said so right up on a podium. He was very tuFF about it at the time.
So Microsoft had to compete with Netscape to prevent 'Web Services' from undermining their 'Monopoly.'
It had nothing to do with the WWW taking off, and Microsoft wanting to provide features for their customers to take advantage of this without needing to load in buggy third-party addins.
I just hope someone has had the sense to 'dust' off the old script from the movie 'The Andromeda Strain.' Just in case.
My first 'PC' system back in the day was an XT clone motherboard, an original IBM-PC 63-1/2 watt power supply, and a "Leading Edge Model D" case. It was all components I had bought cheap at a Hamfest.
The Model D case didn't have the standard ISA card slot spacing, so I had to dremel out all the slot guides except for slot one. So the first card in the motherboard was an IBM MDA video card, which 'anchored' the rest of the works in the case. Other cards had to be screwed down to a strip of metal running along the top with tapped holes at the right places.
An original IBM-PC 63-1/2 watt power supply is in a big XT-style case, and wouldn't fit into a Leading Edge Model D case. So I had to tear the PS case open and take out the several circuit boards and mount them on standoffs directly inside the Model D case. This worked, but the 'shock hazard' of full line voltage (plus) was right out there in the open.
Oh, and my keyboard was an original IBM-PC keyboard, but one which the outer shell had been removed from. And the cord was missing when I acquired it so I had to attach a homebrew one of my own.
My monitor was an 'open frame' TTL monitor salvaged out of an old dumb terminal. I didn't have schematics for it, but you can figure out which is the video, vertical and horizontal syncs by looking at the size of the coupling capacitors from each signal fed in on the header.
My 'case mod' actually constituted a real piece of work, and it got me my first 'IBM-PC' for under $400. I can't imagine why anybody finds this junk people do today impressive.
Hopefully their resume's
Jobs couldn't have developed his own office, though. They could have warmed up the Claris Works codebase, which might have sufficed for the 'productivity suite' a 3rd grade school teacher needs to administer her classroom, but that's about it.
Buying WordPerfect outright is not 'developing an Office suite.' Jobs is smarter to make that sort of ridiculous claim. And, uh, Jobs is not a techie. He's the kind of guy who hangs around the techies and knows how to trick them into producing something he can shill to the marks.
Said 'powerful European entities' are the very people who know exactly what nationalizing an industry accomplishes. You'd have to be out of your mind to believe they would advocate the producer of a key tool for their infrastucture be nationalized.
Put a different way: If the entity known as Pixar was siezed and turned into a 'public domain' entity, do you think the tight team would remain needed to still produce their fine animated films?
You can handwave about the fine result of collectivization if you like. I'll just point to the history of Industrialization in the early Soviet Union.
Apple had to look outside the company for their next-Gen OS. By that point in the company's history, the rank and file employees had taken over, and the most important 'initiative' for them was making sure they had the right to keep their dogs in their cubicles. The history of Copeland puts a kabosh on the notion of 'something magic at Apple.' There was something 'magic' earlier, but it had dissipated by then.
Naw. What he said made it sound like Microsoft has to actively do something.
They let the EU bureaucrats close them down. 'Government action makes it impossible for us to meet the terms of our contract.' Sounds pretty good, and the bureaucrats look like what they are: meddlesome government bureaucrats.
Its also possible powerful entities in Europe who are planning on buying 10,000 seats will say 'wtf' and bitchslap a few judges. For them, this is like a government agency telling them 'your supply of copier paper is going to be cut off.'
Since we're conjecturing about possibilities.
Almost ALL the meaningful software I have written runs on batteries. In fact, I had to write battery voltage monitoring routines so that when the battery is close to depletion, the device can shut down gracefully.
Four-bit assembly language, though. Not Python.
Java and .NET want to be your OS, and seem to make a point of reinventing as many wheels as possible, hoping you forget how to use the ones you already have in the process.
That is called 'being cross platform by being OS agnostic.' You choose a different tact, 'being cross platform by being OS specific.' Your cross-platformedness is at the hardware level. But not everybody wants to run a Unix, and not everbody wants to code only for Unix.
You said 'a lot of sites' up above, but then listed only MSN and Hotmail, the only marginally useful Microsoft sites on the 'net.
In my BSD-using opinion, almost as useful as any other form of Linux, but now I am posting flamebait.
An elegant solution is a real POSIX subsystem that talks directly to the NT kernel, not a wonky set of DLLs that translate the POSIX calls to Win32 and rides on top of the Win32 subsystem.
They should have written cygwin to run on top of the character-mode OS/2 1.0 subsystem built into NT. At least that would have been interesting.
Can't you just block the graphics from whatever server is pumping them out?
As far as I can tell, there is NO advertising on Slashdot (NetBSD version of Mozilla with no 'Flash' installed and all adweb sites have eventually been blocked)
Whose job is it to report news or provide useful information?
That would be the bloggers' job.