In the U.S., any new business that starts has less than a 5% chance of surviving (5 or so, don't remember) years. Why should that be different if your business is on the Internet?
Look at the dot bombs, I'd guess that that number holds about true for them too, remember, there are plenty of dot coms that have survived and are profitable. Look at Ebay, they came up with a good business model and are profitable. Plenty of smaller computer resalers are making money selling on the Internet. Look at Amazon, with how much shit they sell they SHOULD be making money, how the hell did such a dumbass of a businessman make Time's Man of the Year? WTF?
Un-fucking-believable how these people feel they have some God given right to make money. If your business plan is stupid, that's YOUR fault, is that so hard to understand?
It appears this guy had a similar problem. It appears to be something with sql server caching certain parts of complex queries, and microsoft's work around is to write them as multiple queries.
There are a bunch of other comments linking directly to more information about these types of bugs in sql server.
I personally wouldn't worry about it myself, I just would be sure to not write complex queries. But if I was doing ANYTHING AT ALL related to nuclear anything I would probably use Oracle or something, and I'd be sure to track down everything possible on paper as well.
The bug only shows up in very specific cases involving complex queries, and it IS a bug that is reproducable. The Russian scientists didn't accept the "solution" because they would have had to modify 5 megs of source code.
Microsoft only offered a work around, not a bug fix.
Yes, that is the perfect example, I should have used that.
Simply put, Konqueror is amazing. It is nearly as good as Mozilla(IMHO), but it's SO NEW.
While I don't use Konqueror as my primary browser, sometimes I load it up just because it's an absolutely amazing project and it amazes me...
Everything said, stupid, insulting, etc. or not, arbitrary numbers are just plain dumb. That's my opinion, and I feel that generalizing things in such manners is potentially damaging, so, sorry to anyone if I seem insulting, deal with it.
about social skills. This is not a party, when someone is spouting a bunch of nonsense, I'm not going to hold anything back, except maybe some excessive swearing and insulting if necessary.
Mozilla is almost entirely new code, and a complete redesign. It is not really in any way similar to the crud that was Netscape. Maybe that still doesn't count, I don't know.
As for Q3A, it is based on entirely different principles than Doom and Wolfenstein. It is as much the same program as Doom and Wolfenstein as Mozilla is the same program as Opera, it just plain isn't. It's the same type of program, but is in no other way similar at all.
And, quite often my opinion is different than that of the majority of the slashdot crowd.
My opinion of the current article is that the guy is an idiot for the reasons I stated, and that has NOT ONE DAMN THING to do with Microsoft, Slashdot, or with anything you've said.
From what I've read from ID, Q3A is mostly new code. It shares NO code from Wolfenstein or Doom, those weren't even true 3D engines.
From quake 1 to 2, there's supposedly little code reused.
Then from 2 to 3 there is again little code reused.
So, maybe, it could be considered at MOST 6 years old if you count Q2.
Doom 3 is in the works now and should be released in the not too distant future, and they have said that the new engine will be completely from scratch.
I can't stand it when people make idiotic statements like this fool. Good software takes 10 years to develop... What a load...
Simply put, software takes... as long as it takes. Some software is incredibly great after only 2 or 3 years, other software takes 10 or even 15 years before it is great. And then there is tons and tons of software that is NEVER great.
Just take a look at Netscape. It was a very widely used piece of software that has NEVER been fully stabilized, and there are countless bugs in that POS. It is a bad piece of software.
Then there is Mozilla (WTF is he laughing about?). It's only 3 years old, 100% new code, and while it's not even to 1.0 yet, I'd say it's good. It is well on it's way to becoming great software well before 10 years.
Another example of a great piece of software, which happens to be one of my favorites, Q3A! ; ) I'm not kidding though, it is a fantastic piece of software. It is almost perfectly stable, I can't even remember the last time I saw Q3A crash. I've played Q3A for countless hours over the last year, and it hasn't crashed in that whole time. And, there is only 1 bug I can think of off the top of my head. Q3A is only (3? 4?...) years old and it is a complicated piece of software.
Shouldn't distributing CDs that are copy protected in this manner without telling people so be false advertising? These CDs will not play properly on most cdrom drives, nor can you exercise your legal digital copying of these CDs onto your hard drive.
Look no further than the responses to your post to find the elitist bastards to explain this too. See all the elitist nitwits responding making excuses for telling people to RTFM.
Sure, lots of newbies always start looking in the wrong places at first, just simply remind them where to look for documentation, but first actually listen to them so you know whether or not their circumstances are special or not.
Don't be a dumbfuck, what you say to a newbie can determine whether or not they will eventually learn or not. Not everyone has thick skin, nor should they be required to just to learn to use an OS.
Every time I go into a linux channel, I see the same thing every time. There's always some elitist dumbfuck who thinks he knows everything telling newbies to RTFM, while in fact he himself doesn't even know half of what he thinks he does, so I have to correct HIM while at the same time helping the newbies.
IBM is a giant-super-mega-huge-monstrosity of a corporation, they will do whatever they can to make money. Lucky for us, Linux is a kickass OS and IBM can make money supporting it. Also lucky for us, IBM is huge enough to tell Microsoft where to go and they can support whatever the hell they want without fearing Microsoft, which means we get support for all kinds of cool IBM hardware and software, and help with kickass software like Apache that directly competes with Microsoft.
Unlucky for us, IBM stands to make plenty of money with CPRM, so they will support it.
On the positive side of that, at least CPRM itself is open so at least we will be able to interoperate with it if we want.
What it boils down to is that we need to destroy any demand for CPRM, and that needs to be done by making sure no one buys CPRM "protected" products.
The difference is irrelevent. The point is they broke the law and have been found guilty, their punishment should be enforced now, which is how most crimes are dealt with, just not with big business.
I think 80% of the people here would agree that they deserve it, and if not then why? They used their monopoly to drive countless people out of the market, why not give them a taste of their own medicine, seems pretty appropriate to me.
As far as it not being over yet, that's nonsense. They have already been found guilty and should be punished immediately. They have a right to appeal, and if they win then the punishment can be withdrawn.
Murderers don't go walking around free during their appeal process, why should MS?
Of course air pollution is bad. In lots of cities you can smell it all the time, and even see it. It covers trees with soot, and probably causes lung disease. However, we have already seen the affects of air pollution, and we have even been able to control it somewhat. Cities like L.A. actually have cleaner air than in the past. It's not good, but it's simply not endangering our species, while the argument with global warming is completely different in that no one has a fucking clue what it amounts to, or that it really exists.
With all that said, I am extremely in favor of cutting back on polution, and especially finding alternative fuel solutions. Not only is fossil fuel dirty, but it's also going to run out someday, that is an undisputable fact.
Learn to read. The climatic changes over the last 50 - 100 years are perfectly consistent with climatic changes that happen over such timespans. What we have is approximately a 1 1/2 degree temperature difference from ~100 years ago, which is perfectly consistent. What's got people worried is the fact that it coincides with the tremendous burning of fossil fuels. Creating CO2 SHOULD increase the temperature, that's a fact, but no one knows how much. We have NOT seen any changes that are undeniably the result of increased CO2.
You do realize that the earth's climate fluctuates wildly over long periods of time. Every few thousand years there is an ice age, during which time thousands of species can become extinct. With this in mind, please tell me why the human race is doomed to become extinct due to global warming? If we're affraid for the very existence of our race over adversely affecting the climate, then we need to be equally, if not more, concerned about the natural changes to our climate.
Also, who is to say that global warming isn't going to save the human race from the next ice age?
Please note, I am not proposing that *I* know the answers to any of this, but the truth is that no one does. No one even has a clue what global warming will do, or that it is even really happening. The climate changes observed during the last 100 years are in no way out of sorts with the normal climate changes that natually occur.
That's pretty insulting. The slashdot crowd is not nearly so bad as yo... hey, check this out, sweet!!
Seriously, the problem is the fact that the punishment is about the equivalent of executing someone for smoking in a no-smoking section.
Do you want to go to jail the next time you check out a non-work-related website while at work, or any similar infraction? Because, that is what this amounts to.
You can take the license agreement and shove it, yeah, way up there. Next time you do something stupid, remember what you just said here, and go to your local police station and ask to be put in jail for 15 years.
Mod the parent down, it's total bullshit.
geez, the things people mod up these days, 15 years for d.net and he's got no one to blame but himself? yeah, and people should be executed for singing happy birthday publicly and not paying the appropriate royalties...
I don't like pico, it sucks. But I use it though, because it's simple and easy to use.
Then there's vi, I f***ing hate vi. It is the most cryptic thing ever, I can never remember all the editor commands, my memory simply isn't good enough. Every time I learn to use it(because of being forced to for one reason or another) I completely forget the next day, I'm not kidding.
Interesting though is the fact that I have never had problems remembering unix commands, they're fairly intuitive, in a Unix sort of way.
For editing text, I usually use NEdit. It's a really great editor, such a pity that it uses Motif.
Anyone have any suggestions for an X editor as powerful and easy to use as NEdit, but using a better gui toolkit? And also, how about an easy to use but fairly powerful cli editor?
Hmmm... I can't view the changelog right now because the ftp server is full, however I read the other day that 8.0 is using GCC 2.95.3 and GNU Libc 2.2.3. I hope this isn't correct, because there is a serious incompatibility with these two where the libc_nonshared.a library does not get compiled into programs in some situations.
This breaks all sorts of things and you will have a hell of a time getting things working when you build them. I think there may be patches that fix this, but I dunno. GCC 3.0 doesn't have this problem.
If I'm right about that, I'd seriously doubt that the slack guys haven't done something to correct it, as every version of slack I've ever used has been extremely well put together.
Personally, I like Mozilla, and even more than that I like using Galeon, all the greatness of Mozilla with a nice GTK interface.
Then there is Konqueror, which, while I think it has a disgustingly ugly interface, the latest version which I just tried out yesterday is absolutely great. It renders things (IMO) almost as well as Mozilla, some things even better. It's very good, without Mozilla I might use it.
But there is also Opera. I dislike it because it is not Free, as in closed source. You can get a free (as in beer) version, but it has a banner ad that always displays in the top. Aside from that, it is absolutely excellent. It's very fast, and (other than the damn banner ad) it has a pretty slick interface. It's definately different than any other browser interface out there, better or worse it's definately interesting. It renders html extremely well, not as good as Mozilla, and not quite as good as Konq, it seems to have a few nasty rendering bugs here and there, but it's still really great. One really great thing about it is it is EXTREMELY light weight. The version, with QT statically linked, is under 3 megs!
Funny story, last night I accidentally rm -rf'ed my/usr/include dir while building mozilla (don't ask me how!) and was left with no browser to use, but I downloaded Opera in just a few minutes so I could keep entertaining myself while fixing my machine ; ) There's no other browser you could do that with while being stuck on a 56k line.
Enough friggin rambling from me...
So anyway, my point is that now we actually have multiple alternatives on Linux. Imagine that! I was worried it would never happen, but check it out, the state of browsing the web in Linux is almost on par with windows! Only thing lacking now is plugins(if you even care about that sort of thing). For those that do, there is a wine based plugin being developed by codeweavers that will allow windows plugings to be used in Linux! Quicktime, Active _BLAH_, etc. is all going to work.
Things are really looking up. Soon Distributions will be shipping with perfectly stable IE rivaling browsers, one of the most important thing Linux has always lacked which turned away many newbies.
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In the U.S., any new business that starts has less than a 5% chance of surviving (5 or so, don't remember) years. Why should that be different if your business is on the Internet?
Look at the dot bombs, I'd guess that that number holds about true for them too, remember, there are plenty of dot coms that have survived and are profitable. Look at Ebay, they came up with a good business model and are profitable. Plenty of smaller computer resalers are making money selling on the Internet. Look at Amazon, with how much shit they sell they SHOULD be making money, how the hell did such a dumbass of a businessman make Time's Man of the Year? WTF?
Un-fucking-believable how these people feel they have some God given right to make money. If your business plan is stupid, that's YOUR fault, is that so hard to understand?
DUH!
You'd think people would learn, but then you'd also think that we'd learn that thinking people would learn is incorrect... heh, ; )
There are a bunch of other comments linking directly to more information about these types of bugs in sql server.
I personally wouldn't worry about it myself, I just would be sure to not write complex queries. But if I was doing ANYTHING AT ALL related to nuclear anything I would probably use Oracle or something, and I'd be sure to track down everything possible on paper as well.
Microsoft only offered a work around, not a bug fix.
moderators - please mod the parent accordingly
Yes, that is the perfect example, I should have used that.
Simply put, Konqueror is amazing. It is nearly as good as Mozilla(IMHO), but it's SO NEW.
While I don't use Konqueror as my primary browser, sometimes I load it up just because it's an absolutely amazing project and it amazes me...
Everything said, stupid, insulting, etc. or not, arbitrary numbers are just plain dumb. That's my opinion, and I feel that generalizing things in such manners is potentially damaging, so, sorry to anyone if I seem insulting, deal with it.
about social skills. This is not a party, when someone is spouting a bunch of nonsense, I'm not going to hold anything back, except maybe some excessive swearing and insulting if necessary.
Mozilla is almost entirely new code, and a complete redesign. It is not really in any way similar to the crud that was Netscape. Maybe that still doesn't count, I don't know.
As for Q3A, it is based on entirely different principles than Doom and Wolfenstein. It is as much the same program as Doom and Wolfenstein as Mozilla is the same program as Opera, it just plain isn't. It's the same type of program, but is in no other way similar at all.
Dude, like, stick your time-out.
You are an idiot, _I_ AM NOT THE SLASHDOT CROWD.
And, quite often my opinion is different than that of the majority of the slashdot crowd.
My opinion of the current article is that the guy is an idiot for the reasons I stated, and that has NOT ONE DAMN THING to do with Microsoft, Slashdot, or with anything you've said.
So STFU and leave me alone.
From quake 1 to 2, there's supposedly little code reused.
Then from 2 to 3 there is again little code reused.
So, maybe, it could be considered at MOST 6 years old if you count Q2.
Doom 3 is in the works now and should be released in the not too distant future, and they have said that the new engine will be completely from scratch.
I never slagged Microsoft in this post. I simply explained why idiotic statements like the one this guy made are... idiotic.
Learn to read!
Simply put, software takes... as long as it takes. Some software is incredibly great after only 2 or 3 years, other software takes 10 or even 15 years before it is great. And then there is tons and tons of software that is NEVER great.
Just take a look at Netscape. It was a very widely used piece of software that has NEVER been fully stabilized, and there are countless bugs in that POS. It is a bad piece of software.
Then there is Mozilla (WTF is he laughing about?). It's only 3 years old, 100% new code, and while it's not even to 1.0 yet, I'd say it's good. It is well on it's way to becoming great software well before 10 years.
Another example of a great piece of software, which happens to be one of my favorites, Q3A! ; ) I'm not kidding though, it is a fantastic piece of software. It is almost perfectly stable, I can't even remember the last time I saw Q3A crash. I've played Q3A for countless hours over the last year, and it hasn't crashed in that whole time. And, there is only 1 bug I can think of off the top of my head. Q3A is only (3? 4?...) years old and it is a complicated piece of software.
Sure, lots of newbies always start looking in the wrong places at first, just simply remind them where to look for documentation, but first actually listen to them so you know whether or not their circumstances are special or not.
Don't be a dumbfuck, what you say to a newbie can determine whether or not they will eventually learn or not. Not everyone has thick skin, nor should they be required to just to learn to use an OS.
Every time I go into a linux channel, I see the same thing every time. There's always some elitist dumbfuck who thinks he knows everything telling newbies to RTFM, while in fact he himself doesn't even know half of what he thinks he does, so I have to correct HIM while at the same time helping the newbies.
Unlucky for us, IBM stands to make plenty of money with CPRM, so they will support it.
On the positive side of that, at least CPRM itself is open so at least we will be able to interoperate with it if we want.
What it boils down to is that we need to destroy any demand for CPRM, and that needs to be done by making sure no one buys CPRM "protected" products.
The difference is irrelevent. The point is they broke the law and have been found guilty, their punishment should be enforced now, which is how most crimes are dealt with, just not with big business.
I think 80% of the people here would agree that they deserve it, and if not then why? They used their monopoly to drive countless people out of the market, why not give them a taste of their own medicine, seems pretty appropriate to me.
As far as it not being over yet, that's nonsense. They have already been found guilty and should be punished immediately. They have a right to appeal, and if they win then the punishment can be withdrawn.
Murderers don't go walking around free during their appeal process, why should MS?
Of course air pollution is bad. In lots of cities you can smell it all the time, and even see it. It covers trees with soot, and probably causes lung disease. However, we have already seen the affects of air pollution, and we have even been able to control it somewhat. Cities like L.A. actually have cleaner air than in the past. It's not good, but it's simply not endangering our species, while the argument with global warming is completely different in that no one has a fucking clue what it amounts to, or that it really exists.
With all that said, I am extremely in favor of cutting back on polution, and especially finding alternative fuel solutions. Not only is fossil fuel dirty, but it's also going to run out someday, that is an undisputable fact.
Learn to read. The climatic changes over the last 50 - 100 years are perfectly consistent with climatic changes that happen over such timespans. What we have is approximately a 1 1/2 degree temperature difference from ~100 years ago, which is perfectly consistent. What's got people worried is the fact that it coincides with the tremendous burning of fossil fuels. Creating CO2 SHOULD increase the temperature, that's a fact, but no one knows how much. We have NOT seen any changes that are undeniably the result of increased CO2.
You do realize that the earth's climate fluctuates wildly over long periods of time. Every few thousand years there is an ice age, during which time thousands of species can become extinct. With this in mind, please tell me why the human race is doomed to become extinct due to global warming? If we're affraid for the very existence of our race over adversely affecting the climate, then we need to be equally, if not more, concerned about the natural changes to our climate.
Also, who is to say that global warming isn't going to save the human race from the next ice age?
Please note, I am not proposing that *I* know the answers to any of this, but the truth is that no one does. No one even has a clue what global warming will do, or that it is even really happening. The climate changes observed during the last 100 years are in no way out of sorts with the normal climate changes that natually occur.
That's pretty insulting. The slashdot crowd is not nearly so bad as yo... hey, check this out, sweet!!
Seriously, the problem is the fact that the punishment is about the equivalent of executing someone for smoking in a no-smoking section.
Do you want to go to jail the next time you check out a non-work-related website while at work, or any similar infraction? Because, that is what this amounts to.
Yeah, right, more like inciteful.
You can take the license agreement and shove it, yeah, way up there. Next time you do something stupid, remember what you just said here, and go to your local police station and ask to be put in jail for 15 years.
Mod the parent down, it's total bullshit.
geez, the things people mod up these days, 15 years for d.net and he's got no one to blame but himself? yeah, and people should be executed for singing happy birthday publicly and not paying the appropriate royalties...
I don't like pico, it sucks. But I use it though, because it's simple and easy to use.
Then there's vi, I f***ing hate vi. It is the most cryptic thing ever, I can never remember all the editor commands, my memory simply isn't good enough. Every time I learn to use it(because of being forced to for one reason or another) I completely forget the next day, I'm not kidding.
Interesting though is the fact that I have never had problems remembering unix commands, they're fairly intuitive, in a Unix sort of way.
For editing text, I usually use NEdit. It's a really great editor, such a pity that it uses Motif.
Anyone have any suggestions for an X editor as powerful and easy to use as NEdit, but using a better gui toolkit? And also, how about an easy to use but fairly powerful cli editor?
Hmmm... I can't view the changelog right now because the ftp server is full, however I read the other day that 8.0 is using GCC 2.95.3 and GNU Libc 2.2.3. I hope this isn't correct, because there is a serious incompatibility with these two where the libc_nonshared.a library does not get compiled into programs in some situations.
This breaks all sorts of things and you will have a hell of a time getting things working when you build them. I think there may be patches that fix this, but I dunno. GCC 3.0 doesn't have this problem.
If I'm right about that, I'd seriously doubt that the slack guys haven't done something to correct it, as every version of slack I've ever used has been extremely well put together.
Personally, I like Mozilla, and even more than that I like using Galeon, all the greatness of Mozilla with a nice GTK interface.
/usr/include dir while building mozilla (don't ask me how!) and was left with no browser to use, but I downloaded Opera in just a few minutes so I could keep entertaining myself while fixing my machine ; ) There's no other browser you could do that with while being stuck on a 56k line.
Then there is Konqueror, which, while I think it has a disgustingly ugly interface, the latest version which I just tried out yesterday is absolutely great. It renders things (IMO) almost as well as Mozilla, some things even better. It's very good, without Mozilla I might use it.
But there is also Opera. I dislike it because it is not Free, as in closed source. You can get a free (as in beer) version, but it has a banner ad that always displays in the top. Aside from that, it is absolutely excellent. It's very fast, and (other than the damn banner ad) it has a pretty slick interface. It's definately different than any other browser interface out there, better or worse it's definately interesting. It renders html extremely well, not as good as Mozilla, and not quite as good as Konq, it seems to have a few nasty rendering bugs here and there, but it's still really great. One really great thing about it is it is EXTREMELY light weight. The version, with QT statically linked, is under 3 megs!
Funny story, last night I accidentally rm -rf'ed my
Enough friggin rambling from me...
So anyway, my point is that now we actually have multiple alternatives on Linux. Imagine that! I was worried it would never happen, but check it out, the state of browsing the web in Linux is almost on par with windows! Only thing lacking now is plugins(if you even care about that sort of thing). For those that do, there is a wine based plugin being developed by codeweavers that will allow windows plugings to be used in Linux! Quicktime, Active _BLAH_, etc. is all going to work.
Things are really looking up. Soon Distributions will be shipping with perfectly stable IE rivaling browsers, one of the most important thing Linux has always lacked which turned away many newbies.