Because they want to monazite any parts of it they can pilfer. I used to refer to this practice as 'Frankensteining', but when it comes to Oracle I don't want to tarnish the good name of Frankenstein.
Ding! Someone mod this up because this is exactly the issue. The guy bought a cheaper saw and then wanted to cry about the fact that Ryobi cut corners when he did exactly the same thing. I'd give him a sarcastic thumbs up but it might be seen as in bad taste.
I think those are moot points on the basis that you post on Slashdot and claim to have a girlfriend.
Beware: there are indeed outliers among us... and they may be the ones who are reporting our clever-yet-misundertstood posts to the fairer sex. That's the only reason I can think of that Heidi Klum's younger, hotter sister hasn't wandered down these stairs into my parent's basement yet.
Seriously, its a dumb plan. My girlfriend is on Facebook, and I'm pretty sure she would have the following objections:
1) New people couldn't find her.
2) This new plan is already WAY too complicated. She can't point a browser at some weird piece of hardware that she has to install herself, no matter how "easy" it is to install or point to.
3) She can't play with her facebook farm(s).
What about 4) Who's going to randomly click on the cute pics that turn up while I play 'Facebook Roulette'?
Every major project always takes longer than expected because so many small details are exposed as you uproot any existing system or workflow process. Instead of looking at this as something that may have been "more trouble than they bargained for" we should learn from it and understand that migrating to Linux won't be any easier than migrating to or from any other platform. I think there are two things to take away from Munich's Linux migration:
* It can be done.
* Being on the leading edge carries with it a lot of responsibility to those who will follow you.
Maybe they should have just found a way to shut them down with a DMCA Takedown Notice. No one in government cares when those things are used inappropriately.
More like the left hand and the right hand can't agree on what they need to do (or should be doing).
I'm sure both sides have legitimate reasons for their positions, but it would seem like this type of thing could (and should) be avoided... and kept quiet too. I'm going to go check out their Facebook pages and see who's got the most Fans.
When there are differences between standards compliant browsers, theres something wrong with the standard imho.
Each browser developer seems to interpret the standard differently... or only implement it partially (or rather, incompletely). When the five largest browser developers (among others) don't implement the standard properly or completely it's the developers and not the standard.
We code for, and test against, IE 6+, FireFox 2+, Safari 3+, Chrome 4+ and Opera 9+. And it sucks.
With all the supposedly intelligent and future thinking people pushing the Internet forward, I am stunned at their inability to comply with W3C standards. Yeah, yeah, W3C documents are the 'drying paint' of the internet, but they are what all browser developers are supposed to be aiming for. I think they all need new glasses.
Your tongue-in-cheek request for attention hits the nail right on the head: Hello, Big Brother, can you please keep track of everything I ever buy and everywhere I ever go for me? Who knows, maybe they'll offer a CD at the end of the year with a summary of your purchases and travels for only £14.99.
A more important question though, is how on earth do you last two months with only a 4 pack of toilet paper?
Give me the option to have -1 given emphasis and leave me to post as much as I fuckin' like down here, you google-dick-sucking fucktards.
Um, not to be one of those self-absorbed, uninformed heavily biassed assholes, but I believe the first 'G' in google in you google-dick-sucking fucktards should be capitalized.
Who would you rather have controlling a large chunk of the flow of information on the internet, Google, or Viacom?
Luckily for everyone those aren't the only two choices. They happen to be the only two dogs in this race... at least until more companies are exposed for 'Viacomming' or YouTube turns out not to be the only company Viacom did this to.
Stay tuned kids, this is just the first act in a loooong play.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not like they could have just Googled them back then. They could now, of course.
D'oh! Damn Apple's autocorrect ...
oraclepleasedontkillmysql.com is still available ... I sure hope Oracle doesn't get it first ...
Because they want to monazite any parts of it they can pilfer. I used to refer to this practice as 'Frankensteining', but when it comes to Oracle I don't want to tarnish the good name of Frankenstein.
Another nail in the once proud legacy of Sun.
Ding! Someone mod this up because this is exactly the issue. The guy bought a cheaper saw and then wanted to cry about the fact that Ryobi cut corners when he did exactly the same thing. I'd give him a sarcastic thumbs up but it might be seen as in bad taste.
I think those are moot points on the basis that you post on Slashdot and claim to have a girlfriend.
Beware: there are indeed outliers among us ... and they may be the ones who are reporting our clever-yet-misundertstood posts to the fairer sex. That's the only reason I can think of that Heidi Klum's younger, hotter sister hasn't wandered down these stairs into my parent's basement yet.
Seriously, its a dumb plan. My girlfriend is on Facebook, and I'm pretty sure she would have the following objections:
1) New people couldn't find her.
2) This new plan is already WAY too complicated. She can't point a browser at some weird piece of hardware that she has to install herself, no matter how "easy" it is to install or point to.
3) She can't play with her facebook farm(s).
What about 4) Who's going to randomly click on the cute pics that turn up while I play 'Facebook Roulette'?
1. Move them all into CLOUD computing
2. ???
3. Profit!
I believe #2 is "pray", unless you're a 'cloud host' and then it's "prey".
But we couldn't find a catchy pun or play on words to name the project, so we ditched it altogether.
Really? What about "Canux"? Isn't that already your nickname?
Indeed.
Every major project always takes longer than expected because so many small details are exposed as you uproot any existing system or workflow process. Instead of looking at this as something that may have been "more trouble than they bargained for" we should learn from it and understand that migrating to Linux won't be any easier than migrating to or from any other platform. I think there are two things to take away from Munich's Linux migration:
* It can be done.
* Being on the leading edge carries with it a lot of responsibility to those who will follow you.
But they will be blocked in China. Remember the motto of the Chinese DNS servers: All your search are belong to us.
Maybe they should have just found a way to shut them down with a DMCA Takedown Notice. No one in government cares when those things are used inappropriately.
More like the left hand and the right hand can't agree on what they need to do (or should be doing).
... and kept quiet too. I'm going to go check out their Facebook pages and see who's got the most Fans.
I'm sure both sides have legitimate reasons for their positions, but it would seem like this type of thing could (and should) be avoided
Especially the AOL ones...they seemed to soak up more liquid than any of the others.
That's because they were specifically designed to withstand the tears of users installing AOL.
When there are differences between standards compliant browsers, theres something wrong with the standard imho.
Each browser developer seems to interpret the standard differently ... or only implement it partially (or rather, incompletely). When the five largest browser developers (among others) don't implement the standard properly or completely it's the developers and not the standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_rule
Statistics can be misleading.
Links can be misleading, too. That link had absolutely nothing to do with the Simpsons.
We code for, and test against, IE 6+, FireFox 2+, Safari 3+, Chrome 4+ and Opera 9+. And it sucks.
With all the supposedly intelligent and future thinking people pushing the Internet forward, I am stunned at their inability to comply with W3C standards. Yeah, yeah, W3C documents are the 'drying paint' of the internet, but they are what all browser developers are supposed to be aiming for. I think they all need new glasses.
Spinal Tap will start streaming through all 11 copies of Opera simultaneously.
Your tongue-in-cheek request for attention hits the nail right on the head: Hello, Big Brother, can you please keep track of everything I ever buy and everywhere I ever go for me? Who knows, maybe they'll offer a CD at the end of the year with a summary of your purchases and travels for only £14.99.
A more important question though, is how on earth do you last two months with only a 4 pack of toilet paper?
No.
Sincerely yours,
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
But isn't the First Law of Thermodynamics to never talk about the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Give me the option to have -1 given emphasis and leave me to post as much as I fuckin' like down here, you google-dick-sucking fucktards.
Um, not to be one of those self-absorbed, uninformed heavily biassed assholes, but I believe the first 'G' in google in you google-dick-sucking fucktards should be capitalized.
you Google-dick-sucking fucktards.
There, FTFY. Have a nice day.
But can it produce enough electricity to power a small radio that plays the music used to create the vibrations necessary to produce the electricity?
Who would you rather have controlling a large chunk of the flow of information on the internet, Google, or Viacom?
Luckily for everyone those aren't the only two choices. They happen to be the only two dogs in this race ... at least until more companies are exposed for 'Viacomming' or YouTube turns out not to be the only company Viacom did this to.
Stay tuned kids, this is just the first act in a loooong play.
Dr Zoidberg: Yay! So I didn't lose my job!