is that the West thinks that the Chinese are so helpless and so ignorant that they need us to save them from their corrupt government. China is a huge, diverse country that is working its way toward modernization and first-world status. It's tough going, but I have no doubts that they will get there eventually. I don't think that the West can make the process go any quicker. That said, Google should stay and just be there as things open up.
> This isn't about stealing of ideas, this is stealing work pixel-for-pixel. That's never OK.
I have two questions. How does one "steal" pixels and why is it not ok? If elements of their UI look good, I say use them. There is NO WAY that it harms the original application, and I'm pretty sure that you can't copyright a piece of a UI.
You know what the correct word for something that's "borderline illegal"?
Legal.
You could make the argument that pretty much anything is borderline illegal. Driving the speed limit is borderline illegal. Filing your taxes on April 15 is borderline illegal. Stopping at a red light is borderline illegal.
Good use of the lawyer imagery though to get support behind you though. Everyone hates lawyers.
"One of the first questions I get when someone hears I work on Xbox is "So, what operating system do you guys use? Windows 2000, right?" I am honestly not sure where the Win2K misperception comes from, but Xbox runs a custom operating system built from the ground up. While our operating system exports many of the same APIs found in Win32 (e.g. CreateThread or WaitForSingleObject), not everything is there. For instance, there is no use for CreateWindow on Xbox - all graphics are done through (our own flavor of) Direct3D."
YAY! Let's lecture the mutlibillion dollar software company about how to make software in a veiled attempt to show other Slashdotters how much we know about the RIGHT way to program!
You fail. All of those distributions are still Linux. Windows XP/7, Windows Mobile, and Xbox are not all running Windows. They are all entirely independent code-bases that were developed separately.
That sounds insightful, but it's not. First off, PC's, the Xbox, and Windows Mobile devices all run completely different operating systems. There is no common Windows kernel that they all use. So they ALL are different platforms. Second, radically different hardware can be considered to be a different platform even if the OS is the same. The software that you can use on a 3 inch screen is going to be a lot different that what you would use on a 15 inch screen.
Surgeons get paid around $300k. System admins get paid around $70k. (Those are median wages pulled from salary.com). It seems that society places a much higher value and importance on surgeons.
It's fucking computer. He can learn how to secure it. There's no reason to hire someone else to do something that he can do himself, especially when it's something that he needs to know how to do.
Ok captain literal, calm down. Obviously he meant that the hardware was useless without drivers...kind of like how cars are useless without roads or gas. In that case, the drivers could be considered to be part of the hardware....perhaps saying "hardware package" would suit you better.
"desktop window manager is DWM.exe, you goof. It has nothing to do with the calls svchost makes in any form. 0 of it is the desktop window manager."
Wrong. In Windows 7 (and probably Vista too) there is a service called Desktop Window Manager Session Manager that sucks up around 100mb of RAM. You can right-click on svchost.exe in the Task Manager and click Go To Services to see which services are running under that particular instance of svchost.
Yes, because Microsoft is the only company that puts out software with vulnerabilities it in. I suppose that's why my Mac and Linux boxes install security updates all the time too.
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is that the West thinks that the Chinese are so helpless and so ignorant that they need us to save them from their corrupt government. China is a huge, diverse country that is working its way toward modernization and first-world status. It's tough going, but I have no doubts that they will get there eventually. I don't think that the West can make the process go any quicker. That said, Google should stay and just be there as things open up.
> This isn't about stealing of ideas, this is stealing work pixel-for-pixel. That's never OK.
I have two questions. How does one "steal" pixels and why is it not ok? If elements of their UI look good, I say use them. There is NO WAY that it harms the original application, and I'm pretty sure that you can't copyright a piece of a UI.
Fuck that. If something is a good idea, everyone should use it. If you don't like it, patent it or copyright it. Oh, you can't? Tough.
When Paypal works for everyone else who uses Newegg, but not you...the problem is probably not with Newegg.
You know what the correct word for something that's "borderline illegal"?
Legal.
You could make the argument that pretty much anything is borderline illegal. Driving the speed limit is borderline illegal. Filing your taxes on April 15 is borderline illegal. Stopping at a red light is borderline illegal.
Good use of the lawyer imagery though to get support behind you though. Everyone hates lawyers.
There's no such thing as "borderline-illegal". That's just stupid shit people say when they don't like something someone else is doing.
So you just like to make things up. Nice.
The XBox is not a fork of Windows at all.
15 seconds of research would have saved you from looking stupid.
From the XBox Engineering Blog:
"One of the first questions I get when someone hears I work on Xbox is "So, what operating system do you guys use? Windows 2000, right?" I am honestly not sure where the Win2K misperception comes from, but Xbox runs a custom operating system built from the ground up. While our operating system exports many of the same APIs found in Win32 (e.g. CreateThread or WaitForSingleObject), not everything is there. For instance, there is no use for CreateWindow on Xbox - all graphics are done through (our own flavor of) Direct3D."
Apache doesn't run under the admin account in Windows unless you've configured it that way.
Actually, they're not. The Xbox OS and Windows Mobile share nothing in common with the version of Windows on your desktop.
YAY! Let's lecture the mutlibillion dollar software company about how to make software in a veiled attempt to show other Slashdotters how much we know about the RIGHT way to program!
You can collect your gold star on your way out.
You fail. All of those distributions are still Linux. Windows XP/7, Windows Mobile, and Xbox are not all running Windows. They are all entirely independent code-bases that were developed separately.
That sounds insightful, but it's not. First off, PC's, the Xbox, and Windows Mobile devices all run completely different operating systems. There is no common Windows kernel that they all use. So they ALL are different platforms. Second, radically different hardware can be considered to be a different platform even if the OS is the same. The software that you can use on a 3 inch screen is going to be a lot different that what you would use on a 15 inch screen.
You're talking about pay. I'm talking about value.
You're finding the 1% of cases where a server crashing might cause lost lives.
If a surgeon messes up, the chances are near 100% that someone will die or be maimed for the rest of their life.
Surgeons get paid around $300k. System admins get paid around $70k. (Those are median wages pulled from salary.com). It seems that society places a much higher value and importance on surgeons.
Reasonable people understand that economic damages do not equate with lost lives. Drop the pedantry...you sound like a moron.
It's fucking computer. He can learn how to secure it. There's no reason to hire someone else to do something that he can do himself, especially when it's something that he needs to know how to do.
If everyone gets told that, it's not long before there are no surgeons left.
Also, running a server is not a critical as surgery. No one is going to die if a server crashes or gets hacked.
Ok captain literal, calm down. Obviously he meant that the hardware was useless without drivers...kind of like how cars are useless without roads or gas. In that case, the drivers could be considered to be part of the hardware....perhaps saying "hardware package" would suit you better.
I don't think EnergyStar certification is important to most people when it comes to charging their portable devices.
"desktop window manager is DWM.exe, you goof. It has nothing to do with the calls svchost makes in any form. 0 of it is the desktop window manager."
Wrong. In Windows 7 (and probably Vista too) there is a service called Desktop Window Manager Session Manager that sucks up around 100mb of RAM. You can right-click on svchost.exe in the Task Manager and click Go To Services to see which services are running under that particular instance of svchost.
Yes, because Microsoft is the only company that puts out software with vulnerabilities it in. I suppose that's why my Mac and Linux boxes install security updates all the time too.
"That is not what the legal injunction against them says they can do"
How do you know?