and follow up on the most promising ideas with patent applications
This is exactly why a working prototype of all filed patent applications should ideally and utopistically always be presented. And that could not apply to software, and that's why it shouldn't be allowed to be patented, since every neighbor+dog could make a working prototype of any software idea these days.
and most especially he advocates himself as the leader of it
He founded the darn thing, there's noo need to advocate himself to anything. He earned much respect, doesn't need much advocation for us to acknowledge his work.
While it is true that Einstein looked like most remember in his late years, today it is a sometimes false behaviour to judge people's ideas, words, deeds, plans, etc. by the looks. I don't like this, and I wouldn't care how my people dress or cut their hair unless they are in PR, HR or CRM. But one condition should be always met: results.
And what you left out is that it is not available to anyone and it can not be used in/by FOSS dev. Meaning that... FUD is an easy 3 letters to spread, but sometimes you just might swallow it.
Where's your web development environment that even comes close to ASP.NET?
Ahh, uhmm, what makes you think we want to get closer to asp.net ?
They hate MS so much they don't even know...
You know, being the opposite is just as useless.
Where's your enterprise directory? (don't even start on about Novell
Yup, and who made Novell up in knots not that long ago ? Whatever you say sir.
On a network of over 5,000 machines, we have had exactly ONE (1, uno, etc) problem
That, for one, could happen if your users had so much rights on those machines as my neighbor 90 year old ma on my shoelaces. First you should know that most people out there use their Windows' as administrators (and that is not just my experience). Second, most users out there don't give a damn about AD because they have 1-2-3 machines at home and don't need AD. Hell, even I wouldn't recommend that to them when I'm clear of beers and sane enough. Third, buying 5000 Windows licenses, then updating and patching them, then downloading MS's new anti-spyware toy, and if you're sane enough more from other companies, and plus you have to buy and setup a hardware firewall and/or proxy to make it almost safe, that is safe until some of those users will open a beautiful e-mail in her outlook.
Security that is, if you wish to call it that way. I call it agony.
On top of that as someone who studied programming languages for my masters project
No offence, but there are some people here, who can put a bit more weight behind their arguments. That said, I don't really care about anything regarding Mono besides this: it works, and one can develop x-platform apps with it besides using Java. That is Good Enough for me to be excited.
Then you can take the importance off learning the syntax and place it on to learning structures and algorithms.
Well, it should've started the opposite way. Syntax, one can learn easily, algorithm-, design- and sw engineering knowledge, should be taught well and learned well.
If taking out some apps from being bundled will make people to give up on Windows that would proove one thing: Windows cannot survive without all the bundled wares. Which, my friend, is quite true.
Sarcasm is good for... well, for ths soul I guess.
Not including WMP will make people see and understand, that Windows is NOT WMP+IE+OFFICE+OUTLOOK, but just an OS. WIll make them see and understand, that they can choose what they want to use. f they want to use WMP, so be it, with 3to5 clicks it can be installed, just try to play a video file, you'll see. But maybe, just maybe, there will be some of them, who will start looking for replacement applications, whoch there are a'plenty, very good ones also, and maybe they willr ealize that only because a big cash gorilla tells you that you cannot live without him, it is not necessarily true.
Maybe it will turn some people to understand that they should believe their eyes and experience more than a company telling them whatever they see fit.
You know, there are people for whom interoperability doesn't exactly mean Wibdows working well (to an extent) with another Windows. Interoperability would mean being able to handle widely used file formats (others than theirs that is), widely used file systems, etc. Almost every and each OS out there can show levels of interoperability which is superior to Windows' one way or the other.
Unfortunately, people's way of thinking is a pretty hard thing to change if you don't have the tools for successfull persuation (i.e. money and good marketing train). There were times when I thought that good reasoning, personal talks, gathering proof could make most people understand what's wrong. Today I don't believe that anymore.
Just as an example. I have colleagues who are fairly open minded and highly qualified. During work we almost exclusively use MS products and development tools on a daily basis (otherwise I mostly use linux). I had many talks with them about MS, it's products, market behaviour, etc. and whatever the topic may be and the arguments I present, they just will not admit any (and I mean any) faults or problems that MS OSes or products have. They could just as well be hired as body guards for MS with this attitude.
Usual people just say windows is good because it's easy to use and it just works. But when I hear similar arguments from (fairly) professionals, my mind tends to blow.
Well, making nice profits and rotting at the same time is not a self-contradicting state. At least my economics and management studies say so.
Regarding MS, I wouldn't bet on their rot without a bit deeper insight. Just remember, they have so much cash piled up that they could easily spread to any area they see fit and make more cash. But problems exist, and some of them are such that I don't think any company can live with too long without doing something.
Because they can't even get the low tech stuff right.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against using GPS data for this purpose (or whatever else for that matter).
But usually, from an engineering point of view, is usually not a good thing to replace a fairly sophisticated system with problems with a system with even higher dergee of complexity. Giving more control to automation can lead to more problems if the system is not good enough (and every system has it's problems), giving more control to humans can also lead to problems if they are not competent enough. Both ends need to be improved if general operational improvement is the goal. Just pouring a few million pounds into new tech stuff won't solve the problems but easily could create new ones of proper care is not taken.
and there is no copyright infringement going on, don't worry about it
I don't like how your lines sound, like you seem to suggest MythTV has anything even remotely connected to illegal activities regarding (C) infringement, which it doesn't, as well as your dvd-recorder and vcr don't.
Same old same old, so I'll just ask you another "same old" one: you would expect everyone to re-rip everything (me having absolutely nothing against ogg, I love it) ? That is everyone who has more then 3 albums.
Yup, and just a quick one: how would MP3 player manufacturers and resellers feel about such a move ? I hope they would feel reaaaly bad and make something about it.
Well, yup, only we're talking about making digital copies (and not downloading) of your protected CDs - which, mind you, means you could not rip CDs at all, given that most new albums come out with some kind of (usually useless but still) protection.
Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft
Thing is, nobody downloaded any movie from that site. They could just download.torrent files. And any **AA would have a very hard time proving what those.torrent files were or could have been or might have been or weren't used for.
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The MPAA needs to concentrate on setting these up themselves. People want the content and will most probably pay (a reduced) fee to download it. If the MPAA set up an iTunes type service they'd probably make a lot of money without p***ing everybody off. Their current behaviour makes me want to go download a mass of stuff just to spite them.
Thing is, they would probably make those sites/services area dependent, similar to iTunes. Some people use.torrent sources to download shows and series not available to them otherwise. Of course that can also be a source of debate, but I for one would gladly pay a few bucks to be able to legally download my weekly SG-1, Atlantis and Galactica. I hardly watch tv anymore, don't have the time, don't feel the need. But some shows I like to watch and I really would consider paying for being able to download (and keep !) them in good quality.
the millions of users trained from birth to believe that windows id the worlds only operating system
Well, I wasn't, let's say about half of my close friends weren't, my and their children won't, and wherever I go those who didn't know will come to know. And this doesn't even cost us or me any money. Do you figure how many millions of bucks MS keeps spending year by year just to keep people dumb or lazy enough to not care ?
It doesn't really matter if MS is the biggest nor that it has the largest gold pile in fairyland. What matters is that people need to be raised and educated to be open minded and not fall easily to any cash-packed company's marketing industry. They need to be self- and otherwise enlightened to be aware that it's not a bulling company who can best tell you what you they need, and it is not their task. It's the people's task to realize what they need and demand that. Not fall for anybody's shining claims and be burried for the rest of their lives under at least partly false illusions.
My personal favourite was when a configure script (I don't recall what I was configureing though, it was a while ago) dumped a line like: checking for intelligent life: not found:)) I remember having a real hard time not falling out of my chair from laughing out real loud:))
How come, that in 2005, the Windows installer still does not
I ask this because it happened multiple times in the last ~1 year that I had to install Windows on machines _not_ having floppy drives (I don't own or have one for about 6 years now). And it was a real pain in the ass to hunt for a working FDD.
Thing is, the main difference between Galileo and the US GPS/NavSat is that Galileo is _not_ built for military purposes, but for civilian use. Of course there may be military applications in the future, if well paid for it, but that's not its main purpose. It's funded by the EU and the ESA (european space agency). The first satellites will be launched sometimes this year.
A good thing is that it will be US GPS-compatible on the average user's level, that is very good, and another good thing is that will provide better coverage for northern Europe countries (where GPS doesn't do a very good job, goven the lower altitute and lower degree of its satellites).
And another good thing is Uncle Sam's actual government or president won't be able to switch it over to full US military use (which it can, it being a standard feature of GPS) if the sudden need arises.
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and follow up on the most promising ideas with patent applications
This is exactly why a working prototype of all filed patent applications should ideally and utopistically always be presented. And that could not apply to software, and that's why it shouldn't be allowed to be patented, since every neighbor+dog could make a working prototype of any software idea these days.
and most especially he advocates himself as the leader of it
He founded the darn thing, there's noo need to advocate himself to anything. He earned much respect, doesn't need much advocation for us to acknowledge his work.
While it is true that Einstein looked like most remember in his late years, today it is a sometimes false behaviour to judge people's ideas, words, deeds, plans, etc. by the looks. I don't like this, and I wouldn't care how my people dress or cut their hair unless they are in PR, HR or CRM. But one condition should be always met: results.
And what you left out is that it is not available to anyone and it can not be used in/by FOSS dev. Meaning that... FUD is an easy 3 letters to spread, but sometimes you just might swallow it.
Where's your web development environment that even comes close to ASP.NET?
...
Ahh, uhmm, what makes you think we want to get closer to asp.net ?
They hate MS so much they don't even know
You know, being the opposite is just as useless.
Where's your enterprise directory? (don't even start on about Novell
Yup, and who made Novell up in knots not that long ago ? Whatever you say sir.
On a network of over 5,000 machines, we have had exactly ONE (1, uno, etc) problem
That, for one, could happen if your users had so much rights on those machines as my neighbor 90 year old ma on my shoelaces. First you should know that most people out there use their Windows' as administrators (and that is not just my experience). Second, most users out there don't give a damn about AD because they have 1-2-3 machines at home and don't need AD. Hell, even I wouldn't recommend that to them when I'm clear of beers and sane enough. Third, buying 5000 Windows licenses, then updating and patching them, then downloading MS's new anti-spyware toy, and if you're sane enough more from other companies, and plus you have to buy and setup a hardware firewall and/or proxy to make it almost safe, that is safe until some of those users will open a beautiful e-mail in her outlook.
Security that is, if you wish to call it that way. I call it agony.
On top of that as someone who studied programming languages for my masters project
No offence, but there are some people here, who can put a bit more weight behind their arguments. That said, I don't really care about anything regarding Mono besides this: it works, and one can develop x-platform apps with it besides using Java. That is Good Enough for me to be excited.
Then you can take the importance off learning the syntax and place it on to learning structures and algorithms.
Well, it should've started the opposite way. Syntax, one can learn easily, algorithm-, design- and sw engineering knowledge, should be taught well and learned well.
If taking out some apps from being bundled will make people to give up on Windows that would proove one thing: Windows cannot survive without all the bundled wares. Which, my friend, is quite true.
Sarcasm is good for... well, for ths soul I guess.
Not including WMP will make people see and understand, that Windows is NOT WMP+IE+OFFICE+OUTLOOK, but just an OS. WIll make them see and understand, that they can choose what they want to use. f they want to use WMP, so be it, with 3to5 clicks it can be installed, just try to play a video file, you'll see. But maybe, just maybe, there will be some of them, who will start looking for replacement applications, whoch there are a'plenty, very good ones also, and maybe they willr ealize that only because a big cash gorilla tells you that you cannot live without him, it is not necessarily true.
Maybe it will turn some people to understand that they should believe their eyes and experience more than a company telling them whatever they see fit.
You know, there are people for whom interoperability doesn't exactly mean Wibdows working well (to an extent) with another Windows. Interoperability would mean being able to handle widely used file formats (others than theirs that is), widely used file systems, etc. Almost every and each OS out there can show levels of interoperability which is superior to Windows' one way or the other.
Unfortunately, people's way of thinking is a pretty hard thing to change if you don't have the tools for successfull persuation (i.e. money and good marketing train). There were times when I thought that good reasoning, personal talks, gathering proof could make most people understand what's wrong. Today I don't believe that anymore.
Just as an example. I have colleagues who are fairly open minded and highly qualified. During work we almost exclusively use MS products and development tools on a daily basis (otherwise I mostly use linux). I had many talks with them about MS, it's products, market behaviour, etc. and whatever the topic may be and the arguments I present, they just will not admit any (and I mean any) faults or problems that MS OSes or products have. They could just as well be hired as body guards for MS with this attitude.
Usual people just say windows is good because it's easy to use and it just works. But when I hear similar arguments from (fairly) professionals, my mind tends to blow.
Well, making nice profits and rotting at the same time is not a self-contradicting state. At least my economics and management studies say so.
Regarding MS, I wouldn't bet on their rot without a bit deeper insight. Just remember, they have so much cash piled up that they could easily spread to any area they see fit and make more cash. But problems exist, and some of them are such that I don't think any company can live with too long without doing something.
Because they can't even get the low tech stuff right.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against using GPS data for this purpose (or whatever else for that matter).
But usually, from an engineering point of view, is usually not a good thing to replace a fairly sophisticated system with problems with a system with even higher dergee of complexity. Giving more control to automation can lead to more problems if the system is not good enough (and every system has it's problems), giving more control to humans can also lead to problems if they are not competent enough. Both ends need to be improved if general operational improvement is the goal. Just pouring a few million pounds into new tech stuff won't solve the problems but easily could create new ones of proper care is not taken.
and there is no copyright infringement going on, don't worry about it
I don't like how your lines sound, like you seem to suggest MythTV has anything even remotely connected to illegal activities regarding (C) infringement, which it doesn't, as well as your dvd-recorder and vcr don't.
Same old same old, so I'll just ask you another "same old" one: you would expect everyone to re-rip everything (me having absolutely nothing against ogg, I love it) ? That is everyone who has more then 3 albums.
Yup, and just a quick one: how would MP3 player manufacturers and resellers feel about such a move ? I hope they would feel reaaaly bad and make something about it.
Atually I quite like that "word", copywrite :) It could be the official caricature for copyright.
Well, yup, only we're talking about making digital copies (and not downloading) of your protected CDs - which, mind you, means you could not rip CDs at all, given that most new albums come out with some kind of (usually useless but still) protection.
Thing is, it is a sad day when handling images (PNG or else) can be so dumbly done so as to give room for such exploits - again.
By spreading to everyone in your buddy list, a worm based on this exploit could infect 90% of the world in a couple hours.
:D So now 90% of the world uses MSN Messenger :)
ROTFLMAO
That should be on the front page up ahead
Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft
.torrent files. And any **AA would have a very hard time proving what those .torrent files were or could have been or might have been or weren't used for.
Thing is, nobody downloaded any movie from that site. They could just download
The MPAA needs to concentrate on setting these up themselves. People want the content and will most probably pay (a reduced) fee to download it. If the MPAA set up an iTunes type service they'd probably make a lot of money without p***ing everybody off. Their current behaviour makes me want to go download a mass of stuff just to spite them.
.torrent sources to download shows and series not available to them otherwise. Of course that can also be a source of debate, but I for one would gladly pay a few bucks to be able to legally download my weekly SG-1, Atlantis and Galactica. I hardly watch tv anymore, don't have the time, don't feel the need. But some shows I like to watch and I really would consider paying for being able to download (and keep !) them in good quality.
Thing is, they would probably make those sites/services area dependent, similar to iTunes. Some people use
the millions of users trained from birth to believe that windows id the worlds only operating system
Well, I wasn't, let's say about half of my close friends weren't, my and their children won't, and wherever I go those who didn't know will come to know. And this doesn't even cost us or me any money. Do you figure how many millions of bucks MS keeps spending year by year just to keep people dumb or lazy enough to not care ?
It doesn't really matter if MS is the biggest nor that it has the largest gold pile in fairyland. What matters is that people need to be raised and educated to be open minded and not fall easily to any cash-packed company's marketing industry. They need to be self- and otherwise enlightened to be aware that it's not a bulling company who can best tell you what you they need, and it is not their task. It's the people's task to realize what they need and demand that. Not fall for anybody's shining claims and be burried for the rest of their lives under at least partly false illusions.
My personal favourite was when a configure script (I don't recall what I was configureing though, it was a while ago) dumped a line like: checking for intelligent life: not found :)) I remember having a real hard time not falling out of my chair from laughing out real loud :))
Ok, so just a simple question:
How come, that in 2005, the Windows installer still does not
I ask this because it happened multiple times in the last ~1 year that I had to install Windows on machines _not_ having floppy drives (I don't own or have one for about 6 years now). And it was a real pain in the ass to hunt for a working FDD.
Thing is, the main difference between Galileo and the US GPS/NavSat is that Galileo is _not_ built for military purposes, but for civilian use. Of course there may be military applications in the future, if well paid for it, but that's not its main purpose. It's funded by the EU and the ESA (european space agency). The first satellites will be launched sometimes this year.
A good thing is that it will be US GPS-compatible on the average user's level, that is very good, and another good thing is that will provide better coverage for northern Europe countries (where GPS doesn't do a very good job, goven the lower altitute and lower degree of its satellites).
And another good thing is Uncle Sam's actual government or president won't be able to switch it over to full US military use (which it can, it being a standard feature of GPS) if the sudden need arises.