One of the inaccurate statements this moron made was that you couldn't remove browsing functionality from KDE or Gnome without losing the entire GUI.
Those respective projects should bust their butts to immediated deliver updates of the latest version with absolutely no integrated web browsing functionality, just to further demonstrate the worthlessness of this clown's testimony.
Why do OEM's care so much about altering the desktop?
That's an easy one. Product differentiation. OEMs are sick of having to compete solely on price, where only the most efficient operations manage to make any money. If they can add enhancements, like they used to do back in the Windows 3.1 days (e.g., custom shells/desktops to replace the standard Windows desktop) they can compete more on things like ease of use, and perhaps make slightly larger margins.
. . . Mono is in it's infancy, while there are at least two high-quality commercial JREs for Linux . ..
There are at least three for Linux. JRocket is now free. It was recently aquired by BEA (makers of WebLogic). There's also a Windows version, for those of you stuck on legacy systems. (Before anyone mods this as a troll - it's just a joke - lighten up!)
There should be not be fear of a new programming language. It is the new girl in town.
Don't date that C# slut! Next thing you know, she'll be knocked up, and you'll be gettin' married whether you love her or not, because Bill Gates will be pointing a shotgun at your back.
It is true that one has to be wary that C# is a Microsoft baby. If it turns out that you cannot use C# without paying MS big bucks and the returns are not justifiable there are always other alternatives to look to.
Just try to leave her, and Bill will hunt you down. Stay away from her - she's trouble!
Let's see, ".EXE" files are those nasty things that sometimes spead viruses when attached to emails, and ".DLL" files are those nasty things that inspired the term "DLL Hell".
".CLASS" files sound pretty classy, so I think I'll stick with Java.
I disagree. Microsoft's "natural" monopoly developed because of our copyright laws.
Don't forget the proprietary document file formats, especially Word (*.doc) and Excel (*.xls). As long as MS controls those file formats, Office will never truly be threatened, and hence Windows will never truly be threatened on the desktop. In my opinion, this is the single biggest reason for their stranglehold on consumers.
I think the original statement, that NDS is the only enterprise class directory, is true.
While I don't doubt that iPlanet is superior to AD, it doesn't even come close to having the reliability and scalability of NDS. Read this article, which mentions some of the well-known problems with iPlanet replication. iPlanet may be fine when you've got it on a single server, but once you distribute the directory, NDS is superior. I wouldn't bet my enterprise on iPlanet's replication.
NDS is also available on a lot more platforms than iPlanet, including Linux.
Go to the CNN website and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Look over to the right.
CNN uses eDirectory to track the stories you read, and then serve you custom content (and advertising) based on your apparent interests.
What an incredible double-standard there is here at Slashdot whenever the subject of Microsoft comes up.
If Redhat were to donate $1 billion in free software to all the poorest schools in America, they'd be hailed as saviors of the poor, and nominated for sainthood. But when Microsoft does it, it's just another evil conspiracy.
Here at Slashdot, Microsoft is damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
Thanks to the moderators that had a clue and modded the original post down to a 2, which was about what it deserved in the first place.
If anybody has any spare mod points left, I'd appreciate one of my posts here being modded back up to it's original value of 1, just so I break even in karma. (This isn't karma whoring - I just can't afford to lose even 1 point).
So some moderator modded my previous post down as Flamebait. Does that mean that moderator believes the original post deserved a 5? You've got to be kidding!
Please, waste another moderation point on this one. Whatever you do, don't give that other post an "Overrated" because it is really incredibly insightful.
Many APIs use reflection as a convenient replacement for the lack of method pointers - it is so much easier to use a method name and a object reference than creating a new (inner) class for each method.
So let's add pointers to Java? And while we're at it, let's add multiple inheritance, operator overloading, a macro preprocessor, etc., and end up with a slower version of C++. And then we can address the slowness by getting rid of the JVM and compiling to native machine code. Of course, we'll have to add a sizeof operator, and fill our headers will lot's of #ifdef I386 macros, but that's OK, because then Java would be almost as good as C++.
Pointers don't exist in Java for a reason. Are pointers evil? Of course not, they're great! But they have some serious drawbacks, so Java chose to avoid them to improve stability and security.
That there are people who are fed up with writing Classname.methodname for each invocation of a static method so they use inheritance to get rid of it.
You either have to write 20 or more characters for each invocation, which can make complicated code unreadable and is annoying to type, or you write wrappers for each static method in your own class, or you inherit from the class that is providing the static methods.
Many would argue that forcing the programmer to put the explicit "class.method()" instead of just "method()" in their code makes it clearer to later maintainers exactly what's being called.
And Martin Fowler would argue that if the code is that complicated, you need to do some refactoring!
Just look at the Jakarta stuff.
Which Jakarta stuff? There are over 20 distinct projects. Most of them are very, very good. Ant is gaining a lot of momentum and is being included with many new open source projects. The same can be said of Struts, and Velocity is a very important component of ArgoUML. And we all know that Tomcat, with version 4.0, has evolved into a very good quality JSP/Servlet platform.
Was the world's foremost software designer worried about offending dullards, dunces and dolts? Are there actually people out there who identify themselves that way? Even if so, you wouldn't think they'd represent Microsoft's target demographic.
This author obviously doesn't understand Microsoft marketing.
If you keep MP3s on your hard drive at work, you may lose your job! Better to put a bunch of ".ogg" files out there, that nobody will be searching for, than to have hundreds of ".mp3" files on your disk.
Michael Dell heard from their Microsoft rep that if you install Linux on a PC, you can no longer sell the PC - you have to give it away for free because of the GPL.
"NuSphere doesn't want to get in bad odor with the prickly, outspoken, dogmatic, GPL-happy open source community . .."
First he makes the above statement. Nothing wrong with that statement, except that it's coming from the editor of the "LinuxGram" site. You'd think a Linux-oriented site would be a little more supportive of the GPL. Sounds more like something Craig Mundie would say.
Second, he needs to teach his writers that they can put more that 1-2 sentences in a paragraph.
Doesn't anybody actually read the linked articles before posting? The guy stated that POSE is slow and bloated because its primary function is to be an application debugging tool.
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One of the inaccurate statements this moron made was that you couldn't remove browsing functionality from KDE or Gnome without losing the entire GUI.
Those respective projects should bust their butts to immediated deliver updates of the latest version with absolutely no integrated web browsing functionality, just to further demonstrate the worthlessness of this clown's testimony.
Why do OEM's care so much about altering the desktop?
That's an easy one. Product differentiation. OEMs are sick of having to compete solely on price, where only the most efficient operations manage to make any money. If they can add enhancements, like they used to do back in the Windows 3.1 days (e.g., custom shells/desktops to replace the standard Windows desktop) they can compete more on things like ease of use, and perhaps make slightly larger margins.And Java also has ".JAR" files, which remind me of peanut butter. Yummy!
Server-side Java isn't so nice though. It has ".EAR" files (yuck!) and ".WAR" files (scary!).
There are at least three for Linux. JRocket is now free. It was recently aquired by BEA (makers of WebLogic). There's also a Windows version, for those of you stuck on legacy systems. (Before anyone mods this as a troll - it's just a joke - lighten up!)
There should be not be fear of a new programming language. It is the new girl in town.
Don't date that C# slut! Next thing you know, she'll be knocked up, and you'll be gettin' married whether you love her or not, because Bill Gates will be pointing a shotgun at your back.
It is true that one has to be wary that C# is a Microsoft baby. If it turns out that you cannot use C# without paying MS big bucks and the returns are not justifiable there are always other alternatives to look to.
Just try to leave her, and Bill will hunt you down. Stay away from her - she's trouble!
Let's see, ".EXE" files are those nasty things that sometimes spead viruses when attached to emails, and ".DLL" files are those nasty things that inspired the term "DLL Hell".
".CLASS" files sound pretty classy, so I think I'll stick with Java.
I disagree. Microsoft's "natural" monopoly developed because of our copyright laws.
Don't forget the proprietary document file formats, especially Word (*.doc) and Excel (*.xls). As long as MS controls those file formats, Office will never truly be threatened, and hence Windows will never truly be threatened on the desktop. In my opinion, this is the single biggest reason for their stranglehold on consumers.
I wish something like that had existed back when I was in high school. I really could've used some beginner's shag lessons.
The show did not go downhill after Mulder left.
Agreed.
The show went downhill after Cancer Man left.
Close, but IMHO the show went downhill after Cancer Man became known as Cigarette Smoking Man. Political correctness strikes again.
I think the original statement, that NDS is the only enterprise class directory, is true.
While I don't doubt that iPlanet is superior to AD, it doesn't even come close to having the reliability and scalability of NDS. Read this article, which mentions some of the well-known problems with iPlanet replication. iPlanet may be fine when you've got it on a single server, but once you distribute the directory, NDS is superior. I wouldn't bet my enterprise on iPlanet's replication.
NDS is also available on a lot more platforms than iPlanet, including Linux.
Go to the CNN website and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Look over to the right. CNN uses eDirectory to track the stories you read, and then serve you custom content (and advertising) based on your apparent interests.
What an incredible double-standard there is here at Slashdot whenever the subject of Microsoft comes up.
If Redhat were to donate $1 billion in free software to all the poorest schools in America, they'd be hailed as saviors of the poor, and nominated for sainthood. But when Microsoft does it, it's just another evil conspiracy.
Here at Slashdot, Microsoft is damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
I'm a moron, and yet the post which was originally modded up to "5 - Insightful", which is what I was complaining about, currently has a score of 1.
The true morons were those who modded that crappy post up to a 5. Hopefully, they too will lose karma after some meta-moderation.
Unfortunately, you won't, because you're such a chicken-shit you had to post as an AC.
Thanks to the moderators that had a clue and modded the original post down to a 2, which was about what it deserved in the first place.
If anybody has any spare mod points left, I'd appreciate one of my posts here being modded back up to it's original value of 1, just so I break even in karma. (This isn't karma whoring - I just can't afford to lose even 1 point).
Have a nice day.
So some moderator modded my previous post down as Flamebait. Does that mean that moderator believes the original post deserved a 5? You've got to be kidding!
Please, waste another moderation point on this one. Whatever you do, don't give that other post an "Overrated" because it is really incredibly insightful.
Score 5 - Insightful?
Please cancel my subscription to Slashdot.
Many APIs use reflection as a convenient replacement for the lack of method pointers - it is so much easier to use a method name and a object reference than creating a new (inner) class for each method.
So let's add pointers to Java? And while we're at it, let's add multiple inheritance, operator overloading, a macro preprocessor, etc., and end up with a slower version of C++. And then we can address the slowness by getting rid of the JVM and compiling to native machine code. Of course, we'll have to add a sizeof operator, and fill our headers will lot's of #ifdef I386 macros, but that's OK, because then Java would be almost as good as C++.Pointers don't exist in Java for a reason. Are pointers evil? Of course not, they're great! But they have some serious drawbacks, so Java chose to avoid them to improve stability and security.
That there are people who are fed up with writing Classname.methodname for each invocation of a static method so they use inheritance to get rid of it.
You either have to write 20 or more characters for each invocation, which can make complicated code unreadable and is annoying to type, or you write wrappers for each static method in your own class, or you inherit from the class that is providing the static methods.
Many would argue that forcing the programmer to put the explicit "class.method()" instead of just "method()" in their code makes it clearer to later maintainers exactly what's being called.
And Martin Fowler would argue that if the code is that complicated, you need to do some refactoring!Just look at the Jakarta stuff.
Which Jakarta stuff? There are over 20 distinct projects. Most of them are very, very good. Ant is gaining a lot of momentum and is being included with many new open source projects. The same can be said of Struts, and Velocity is a very important component of ArgoUML. And we all know that Tomcat, with version 4.0, has evolved into a very good quality JSP/Servlet platform.Was the world's foremost software designer worried about offending dullards, dunces and dolts? Are there actually people out there who identify themselves that way? Even if so, you wouldn't think they'd represent Microsoft's target demographic.
This author obviously doesn't understand Microsoft marketing.
Sombody mod THIS guy down.
Maybe it's the Banjo effect. Does anybody have a mirror? : )
Michael Dell heard from their Microsoft rep that if you install Linux on a PC, you can no longer sell the PC - you have to give it away for free because of the GPL.
"NuSphere doesn't want to get in bad odor with the prickly, outspoken, dogmatic, GPL-happy open source community . . ."
First he makes the above statement. Nothing wrong with that statement, except that it's coming from the editor of the "LinuxGram" site. You'd think a Linux-oriented site would be a little more supportive of the GPL. Sounds more like something Craig Mundie would say.
Second, he needs to teach his writers that they can put more that 1-2 sentences in a paragraph.
Doesn't anybody actually read the linked articles before posting? The guy stated that POSE is slow and bloated because its primary function is to be an application debugging tool.
Haven't checked in a while, have you? The newest Sony Clie maxes out at 136MB of RAM when you add a 128MB memory stick.