Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2K, Windows XP, Windows 2K3, Windows Vista
Office 95, Office 97, Office 2K
MFC . . .
Yeah, I see what you mean.
In your haste to (correctly) point out all the bullshit in TFA, you guys are missing a golden kernel of truth here, probably written be an editor:
Contrary to what the headlines would have us believe, the biggest threat to Microsoft's continued dominance, at present, is not Linux. It is older versions of Windows. The biggest threat to Linux is not Microsoft, but rather integration and interoperability issues among various Linux distributions and their applications.
Although they missed mentioning the problems of interoperability between Linux and Windows and their applications.
In the "where are they now" vein, I'd also like to know what happened to Stu Feldman (author of make), Mike Lesk (author of lex) and Steve Bourne (author of the bourne shell).
I use what happened to Jim Ossanna (author of troff) as a parable - when he died, the troff code was so Complex and Wonderful that nobody could understand it - they just had to rewrite it with less features - hence nroff (new runoff).
Because the Bush administration is much more concerned with appearances than results. By fighting the establishment of an XXX porn wonderland, they're fighting smut and standing up for all the God-fearing people they pander to. If they were to do the thing the left-wing is panicking about, i.e. round up all the porn kings over there, for eventual extermination, they would be "sending the message" that they're cooperating with porn. So, of course, they have to fight it.
The Register is reporting that the letter to the ICANN board of directors couldn't include the phrase "xxx" for fear of it not getting past e-mail spam filters.
That's only because that's the limit of what they can set it to. The time is typically kept in a signed 32-bit long integer, representing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight 12/31/69-01/01/70. This counter will overflow (go negative) on January 19, 2038. By then, we will have moved that counter to a 64-bit number.
> How do they think they will be supported?
I think they expect to be supported by the OSS community itself, without any intervention on their part. Corporate IT managers are smart enough to know that in-house apps are supported in-house, but it's the out-house (sorry, couldn't resist) apps like operating systems, browsers, mail servers and clients that cause them 98 percent of their headaches, mostly in the realm of security. The OSS community has a far better track record of producing fewer exploitable holes, and plugging them faster and better than a certain monopoly. The largest hurdle for most corporations at present is the incompatabilities between the Office suites. If Open Office could really handle every single.doc or.xls that a vendor or a customer sent in, I think the final resistance to Linux would start to disappear.
As to the question of how these companies will add to OSS, the answer is: they won't. There are damn few business application programmers who understand operating systems ot HTML rendering, and they're working on the companies internal problems.
That's just beautiful.
Seriously, why do they keep posting these flamebait "Microsoft contemplates yet another evil thing" articles? It's not like we don't know what the response is going to be.
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Does anyone else get the delicious irony that this got modded "troll"?
Exactly. It's only 100 years in this frame of reference.
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2K, Windows XP, Windows 2K3, Windows Vista
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Office 95, Office 97, Office 2K
MFC
Yeah, I see what you mean.
I'm sure you're wrong. Microsoft will undoubtedly implement RSS 3.0 into Longhorn with no changes. After all, they're committed to Open Standards.
You could use your foreskin for eyelids - but then you'd always be cockeyed.
BA DUM CHING! Try the veal!
All I want is a frickin' router with a laser microscope on its head. Is that too much to ask?
My Honeywell/GCOS system can run rings around your NT 4 system.
And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
You don't seem to understand the basic point: we use Linux/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX because we don't develop for Windows.
Contrary to what the headlines would have us believe, the biggest threat to Microsoft's continued dominance, at present, is not Linux. It is older versions of Windows. The biggest threat to Linux is not Microsoft, but rather integration and interoperability issues among various Linux distributions and their applications.
Although they missed mentioning the problems of interoperability between Linux and Windows and their applications.
Regular expressions (everywhere)?
The bourne shell?
Plug-in device drivers?
Hierarchical (tree) directory structures?
Devices as operating system files?
Mountable file systems?
Command line pipes and redirection?
A portable OS?
SUID/SGID?
awk, sed, grep, lex, yacc and make?
I use what happened to Jim Ossanna (author of troff) as a parable - when he died, the troff code was so Complex and Wonderful that nobody could understand it - they just had to rewrite it with less features - hence nroff (new runoff).
Weird and backwards, but true.
The Register is reporting that the letter to the ICANN board of directors couldn't include the phrase "xxx" for fear of it not getting past e-mail spam filters.
Considering that the amenities on Mir and ISS make a World War II era submarine look like a 5-star hotel.
That's only because that's the limit of what they can set it to. The time is typically kept in a signed 32-bit long integer, representing the number of seconds elapsed since midnight 12/31/69-01/01/70. This counter will overflow (go negative) on January 19, 2038. By then, we will have moved that counter to a 64-bit number.
Are you available this Friday evening?
Funniest. Subject line. Ever.
I think they expect to be supported by the OSS community itself, without any intervention on their part. Corporate IT managers are smart enough to know that in-house apps are supported in-house, but it's the out-house (sorry, couldn't resist) apps like operating systems, browsers, mail servers and clients that cause them 98 percent of their headaches, mostly in the realm of security. The OSS community has a far better track record of producing fewer exploitable holes, and plugging them faster and better than a certain monopoly. The largest hurdle for most corporations at present is the incompatabilities between the Office suites. If Open Office could really handle every single
As to the question of how these companies will add to OSS, the answer is: they won't. There are damn few business application programmers who understand operating systems ot HTML rendering, and they're working on the companies internal problems.
That's just beautiful.
Seriously, why do they keep posting these flamebait "Microsoft contemplates yet another evil thing" articles? It's not like we don't know what the response is going to be.
I wish Slashdot would put a "Fuck Microsoft" button on the comment submittal page - it would save sooo much time for all of us.
I could write a short story (plot stolen from Heinlein) about "The Bio-engineered Energy Source That Got Away And Ate The Planet" in a heartbeat.
Shit, there's about 17 research projects to do this funded ritght now:
1) Sunlight + Microbes == Hydrogen
2) ???
3) Profit!!!
Gold has a government?
Damn that's funny. Wish I had mods today.
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