This is *RIDICULOUS*. Assumming the Wine team only worked 2 hour per day, they've been at least 5 years working on it, which means 3650 hours.
Working 24 hours-a-day, 15 days would only mean 360 hours. Assumming they're not the EA-slavery kind of guys and give decent schedules (12 hours a day), that'd be 180 hours.
It's impossible, period. I say we bring the whole GNU community and investigate them.
Think about this. Is it possible that someone *outside* Microsoft can save Microsoft?
No way. It has to be someone inside to do it. THAT's what makes this whole business so interesting.
Microsoft has an incredible potential (after all it has all those programmers, who btw, designed the.NET platform, AND WinXP, and that's no easy task). The thing is to stop hindering the workers and letting them do their work.
Have one big program and different courses of action (like if's / while's). The tiles can have programming sentences or evaluations, and you could add or change sentences in ANY execution line. (yours or your opponent's). Who knows, you might add some conditional loops or something!
Surely we don't expect someone to start publishing instructions for "analog audio recording into your storage device"?
Yeah, we lose a few bits of quality but hey, it's what people have been doing for decades. I just hope the RIAA don't start using DRM'ed brain implants so there's no analog audio at all... *rolls eyes*
Let's not forget that when geocities was bought by Yahoo!, it became a corporate monster with zero tech support (in a maze of help files where you couldn't find an e-mail or phone number), with ads popping up in your webpage almost anywhere. Geocities filters for the Proxomitron (remember the little triangle buddy that served as an ad filter?) were very popular, and the freaking geocities pages weren't valid html because of their "anti-hack" hacks.
So, is it a mystery that Yahoo fell again in the "annoying users for money" habit? By the way, speaking of annoyances, the stupid ads in Yahoo! mail are all in flash, consuming most of the CPU. I'm beginning to adblock them ALL. Hint: That's BAD for business, yahoo!
I don't think that will be necessary. I predict that 15 years from now on, Microsoft will either be sweeping their own ashes, or haved moved completely to the gaming business. The reason? In about 10 years, OpenOffice (or another clone) will kick MS-Office's arse, taking away Microsoft's main revenue. And maybe (MAYBE) by that time, ReactOS will have replaced windows in the same way FreeDOS can replace MS-DOS today. I'm also confident that by that time Linux will have slowly evolved into a really-userfriendly OS.
Unless of course, in the edge of bankruptcy, Microsoft takes the decision to open source their OS and switch their business model to services - but that seems too far fetched.
(Oh - in any case you wonder what the talk was about, I was stating the reasons why Microsoft can't be suing Samba for their networking software)
I agree with most of what you said, but you fumbled in this paragraph:
Now you have to design a system that is capable of not only keeping users (who only have access to a limited UI) from messing with it, but operators as well (who have access to the internals). That's a much tougher design spec.
Printing date, time and votes is a tough design spec? Oh, and adding some digital signature (RSA public key) to each of the votes isn't that hard, either.
But demonizing them for kicking elf, stepping on spiders, and scaring babies is just taking it too far.
You're right - we should only demonize them for bullying families, enslaving the artists, stealing from their own customers (with overinflated prices) and suing people to bankruptcy.
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I got a better idea. Replace the chairs with these ergonomic, impact-proof models!
but I wish eDonkey would be the one leaving. I hate those 2500+ queues.
:(
For starters, why not make a trackerless bittorrent-like network? Oh well, back to the land of unicorns and castles in the air.
but unless the security hole is being actively exploited, it's probably more important to make sure nothing else gets broken by the fix.
Enter the paradox: If the fix isn't released until a month, the security hole CAN and WILL be actively exploited.
In other words, is it worth to replace a critical bug (security) with a minor bug (annoyance)?
This is *RIDICULOUS*. Assumming the Wine team only worked 2 hour per day, they've been at least 5 years working on it, which means 3650 hours.
Working 24 hours-a-day, 15 days would only mean 360 hours. Assumming they're not the EA-slavery kind of guys and give decent schedules (12 hours a day), that'd be 180 hours.
It's impossible, period. I say we bring the whole GNU community and investigate them.
Anyone else wondering if Symantec placed the infected files in Korea to boost sales of either their Linux AV product
If wondering means "being almost convinced", then yes, I'm wondering, too.
Here are the LSB 3.0 Release notes. I'd appreciate it if somebody explained if there is a significant or revolution or something. Thank you.
Think about this. Is it possible that someone *outside* Microsoft can save Microsoft?
.NET platform, AND WinXP, and that's no easy task). The thing is to stop hindering the workers and letting them do their work.
No way. It has to be someone inside to do it. THAT's what makes this whole business so interesting.
Microsoft has an incredible potential (after all it has all those programmers, who btw, designed the
How about using tiles like in Spy vs. Spy?
:)
Have one big program and different courses of action (like if's / while's).
The tiles can have programming sentences or evaluations, and you could add or change sentences in ANY execution line. (yours or your opponent's).
Who knows, you might add some conditional loops or something!
The first one to do N iterations wins
Adding more bureaucracy doesnt help anything, especially in an organization already totally overbloated.
:)
From the summary:
"...for helping drive its software-based services strategy and execution across all three divisions."
And what's their software-based services strategy? Overbloat, i.e. Office. Everything fits!
Is it just me, or does the idea of a "Hurricane Alpha" sound kinda scary?
:) hey, that gives me an idea! Let's use Windows names!
Well, as long as Hurricane Beta isn't infested with bugs...
"Oh no! Hurricane Millenium Edition approaches our coasts!" *jumps out the window*
I think you got the numbers wrong...
what the RIAA is doing is:
1) Profit!
2) Kill off all the distribution channels for your product.
3) ????
Nelson) HAH HAH!
Surely we don't expect someone to start publishing instructions for "analog audio recording into your storage device"?
Yeah, we lose a few bits of quality but hey, it's what people have been doing for decades. I just hope the RIAA don't start using DRM'ed brain implants so there's no analog audio at all... *rolls eyes*
Yes, but you carry your creditcard with you, if you lose it you usally report it stolen. But what will happen if your hotel keycard gets lost?
I think it's going to be called "dupeware" :P
Let's not forget that when geocities was bought by Yahoo!, it became a corporate monster with zero tech support (in a maze of help files where you couldn't find an e-mail or phone number), with ads popping up in your webpage almost anywhere. Geocities filters for the Proxomitron (remember the little triangle buddy that served as an ad filter?) were very popular, and the freaking geocities pages weren't valid html because of their "anti-hack" hacks.
So, is it a mystery that Yahoo fell again in the "annoying users for money" habit? By the way, speaking of annoyances, the stupid ads in Yahoo! mail are all in flash, consuming most of the CPU. I'm beginning to adblock them ALL. Hint: That's BAD for business, yahoo!
Now i can effectively download my linux ISO's with my C64 to save download time! :D
*rubs hands with excitement*
I don't think that will be necessary. I predict that 15 years from now on, Microsoft will either be sweeping their own ashes, or haved moved completely to the gaming business.
The reason? In about 10 years, OpenOffice (or another clone) will kick MS-Office's arse, taking away Microsoft's main revenue. And maybe (MAYBE) by that time, ReactOS will have replaced windows in the same way FreeDOS can replace MS-DOS today. I'm also confident that by that time Linux will have slowly evolved into a really-userfriendly OS.
Unless of course, in the edge of bankruptcy, Microsoft takes the decision to open source their OS and switch their business model to services - but that seems too far fetched.
(Oh - in any case you wonder what the talk was about, I was stating the reasons why Microsoft can't be suing Samba for their networking software)
What? You know you guys are ugly as sin, admit it!
That's not true, Dr. Sin had some charm after all!
I agree with most of what you said, but you fumbled in this paragraph:
Now you have to design a system that is capable of not only keeping users (who only have access to a limited UI) from messing with it, but operators as well (who have access to the internals).
That's a much tougher design spec.
Printing date, time and votes is a tough design spec? Oh, and adding some digital signature (RSA public key) to each of the votes isn't that hard, either.
You can't delete paper with rm -rf *
:(
And unfortunately, you can't delete the president that way, either
The only difference is the ways in which we use the resources of earth in our day-to-day lives from one epoch to the next.
Yes, but the ways in which we waste the resources of earth, are the same.
the google query is:
"are we more stupider than we used to was?"
Is technology making us smarter?
I don't know, lemme google for it.
But demonizing them for kicking elf, stepping on spiders, and scaring babies is just taking it too far.
You're right - we should only demonize them for bullying families, enslaving the artists, stealing from their own customers (with overinflated prices) and suing people to bankruptcy.
Does "Samba" ring a bell?
:)
If it's the same bell that comes in the phrase "for whom the bell tolls", and the answer of the question is "Microsoft", then yes, I agree with you