Java dwarfs.NET, no matter what the MS shills claim. Whether or not Java is superior to C# is rather besides the point, rather how it was fairly irrelevant how superior any number of languages were to C in the 70s through the 90s (or by some definitions even now). It's simply a matter that Java was for a long time the only major cross platform application ecosystem, so the big enterprise outfits used it, and it's become rather like COBOL.
Microsoft flunkies love to get into these pissing matches with dominant technologies, and try to rejig the question so their products and technologies have the appearances of being on top (just look at how the shills try to act like Surface has any relevance at all).
If I was looking at getting back into coding (which I'm not, I've happily left that world behind), I'd sharpen up my Java skills, as I'm more likely to find sustainable employment there than with whatever Microsoft is trying to fool me into using now.
Yeah. Nothing says "You're computer is going to be rendered unusable for a couple of hours" like.NET updates. I swear to god I think the HD LED is just going to burn out during.NET updates. In the time it takes a.NET update to go through, I can usually update a Debian kernel and core libraries for a system and have it rebooted and already running again.
And, even if you believe MS's patent commitments, still a very crippled subset of.NET. With MS committing to bringing.NET to other platforms, I doubt Mono is even going to have a reason to exist.
Let's put it this way. People will be writing and maintaining C/C++ and Java applications in 20 years. C# and the.NET ecosystem will amount to some old books you see getting thrown in the dumpster outside your friendly neighborhood college library. Microsoft's record of dumping it's "latest and greatest" development tools is notorious. I remember back in the day coding in FoxPro after MS had bought it, because it was going to be the big prototyping/fast development platform, before Microsoft fell out of love with it and jumped to the VB version 4-6, before they jumped to.NET with C# and VB.NET. Remember when COM-based development was the wave of the future, and everybody in their dog was building applications that amounted to bits of VB or C glue linking ActiveX controls together? Let's talk about Silverlight, that was going to kill Flash.
I guarantee you, whatever Microsoft dev platform you're using, unless your sticking to the C/C++ compilers on top of the Win core APIs, will be a distant memory, while Java and C++ with libraries like QT are still plugging along.
Do you really think a $100 million dollar fine is going to be a significant deterrent to a company like AT&T? Now, a multibillion dollar fine would likely lead to shareholders forcing the board out, the firing of pretty much all the senior management, and certainly would inform the company's future governance structures that they had better bloody well behave.
If megacorporations can just treat fines like a tax, then what the hell is the point? This judgement should have been ten times larger if the intent was to adjust bad behavior.
Microsoft will do what it has always done; develop a technology, push it everywhere it can, then let it stagnate, and deprecate it in favor of the newest and bestest thing ever, before announcing that the next version of Windows will be the last to support it, so be sure to buy our new even more expensive suite of development and distribution tools while you can!!!!
Java is a reasonably mediocre language with a mediocre set of standard libraries, but you know what, I'm fairly confident that the application I write in Java today will still be usable in a decade (heck, I've got Java utils running that I first wrote in 2002 to 2003). In other words, Java may be far from perfect, but it is an enormous ecosystem with enormous penetration, particularly in the enterprise world. Even if I bought into the notion that C# is lightyears better than Java (which I don't), it is almost never purely about objective or subjective technological superiority.
Beyond that, if MS keeps to its word to port.NET over to other platforms, why on the hell would I want to use a crappy half-completed variant like Mono?
Exactly. That's why fines should never be in fixed dollar amounts. They should be in percentages; either of revenue or assets (no considering net anything, to easy to hide true value that way). I suspect if AT&T were faced with, say, a 13 billion, it probably would very quickly alter its behavior.
In terms of legislation, you may be right. In terms of actually enforcing such protections, not so much. The US is hardly perfect and this regard, but it is light years ahead of India in protecting women's rights, minority rights, and civil liberties in general.
The Tories, with their majority in hand, are moving swiftly to get the Snooper's Charter into law. It's almost certain that there are Tories, possibly even cabinet ministers, who, even with the cover the LibDem's offered now removed, do not want Theresa May's Snoopers Charter enacted. By making this claim, May is able to basically smash down any internal opposition. Snowden has become, sadly, not a means to liberty, but a means for further tyranny.
Because private management of resources isn't better. That's just you're invocation of your magic sky faerie god; the Invisible Hand. Some of the worst environmental disasters in history have been the product of private corporations.
At least we can throw governments out. Corporations are bequeathed a nearly impenetrable shield by way of the legal system and the brain dead religiosity of the Libertarian church of the Free Market.
We're in the final stages of retiring our Server 2003 servers. The big trick here is that we use NTFRS, and we're going to have to move to DFS. Other than that, it's been fairly seamless. We did the switch over to Exchange 2010 last year, with the expected headaches, but all in all, other than the awful cost of licensing, it's not been too bad.
As someone who was the victim of a litigation started by greedy family members using a lawyer who failed at some his basic fiduciary responsibilities, I can concur that there are some damned shady, or just as often incompetent lawyers. In a nutshell, my grandmother gave me a piece of property, some family members agreed with that while she was still of sound mind, but as soon as she started suffering dementia, they got a lawyer to sue my ass off. This lawyer was effectively acting as my grandmother's legal council, and he never actually even met her. That was one among a number of serious ethical lapses that ended up costing me about $100,000 (my legal costs plus the pay out I made because, I confess, three years of legal hell just made me make the problem go away).
But to counter that awful story, my lawyer, who cost me about 40% of that $100k, was absolute fantastic, worth every penny, and who would inform me before making statements or depositions that I wasn't to lie and was to take my oath to tell the truth seriously.As with all occupations, the fact that there are bad, even sociopathically evil lawyers, does not mean all lawyers are of a similar bent.
We just see Dotcom for what he is, a con artist who paints on a thin veneer of anti-establishment rhetoric to legitimize what always end up being criminal operations.
I know that Windows Media Player in Windows Vista could play DVDs, because I accidentally used it a couple of times, but honestly that was several years ago, and like I said, I just automatically install VLC with every new machine so I doubt I would have ever have noticed if Win10 no longer had the feature.
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How much did that low UID cost Microsoft?
Java dwarfs .NET, no matter what the MS shills claim. Whether or not Java is superior to C# is rather besides the point, rather how it was fairly irrelevant how superior any number of languages were to C in the 70s through the 90s (or by some definitions even now). It's simply a matter that Java was for a long time the only major cross platform application ecosystem, so the big enterprise outfits used it, and it's become rather like COBOL.
Microsoft flunkies love to get into these pissing matches with dominant technologies, and try to rejig the question so their products and technologies have the appearances of being on top (just look at how the shills try to act like Surface has any relevance at all).
If I was looking at getting back into coding (which I'm not, I've happily left that world behind), I'd sharpen up my Java skills, as I'm more likely to find sustainable employment there than with whatever Microsoft is trying to fool me into using now.
Yeah. Nothing says "You're computer is going to be rendered unusable for a couple of hours" like .NET updates. I swear to god I think the HD LED is just going to burn out during .NET updates. In the time it takes a .NET update to go through, I can usually update a Debian kernel and core libraries for a system and have it rebooted and already running again.
Mono is open source!
And, even if you believe MS's patent commitments, still a very crippled subset of .NET. With MS committing to bringing .NET to other platforms, I doubt Mono is even going to have a reason to exist.
Let's put it this way. People will be writing and maintaining C/C++ and Java applications in 20 years. C# and the .NET ecosystem will amount to some old books you see getting thrown in the dumpster outside your friendly neighborhood college library. Microsoft's record of dumping it's "latest and greatest" development tools is notorious. I remember back in the day coding in FoxPro after MS had bought it, because it was going to be the big prototyping/fast development platform, before Microsoft fell out of love with it and jumped to the VB version 4-6, before they jumped to .NET with C# and VB.NET. Remember when COM-based development was the wave of the future, and everybody in their dog was building applications that amounted to bits of VB or C glue linking ActiveX controls together? Let's talk about Silverlight, that was going to kill Flash.
I guarantee you, whatever Microsoft dev platform you're using, unless your sticking to the C/C++ compilers on top of the Win core APIs, will be a distant memory, while Java and C++ with libraries like QT are still plugging along.
Yeah, Eclipse is just such a piece of junk...
Oh wait, it isn't, and it's written in Java.
Or to put it another way, fuck off MS shill. Java has had responsive GUI libraries for a decade now.
Do you really think a $100 million dollar fine is going to be a significant deterrent to a company like AT&T? Now, a multibillion dollar fine would likely lead to shareholders forcing the board out, the firing of pretty much all the senior management, and certainly would inform the company's future governance structures that they had better bloody well behave.
If megacorporations can just treat fines like a tax, then what the hell is the point? This judgement should have been ten times larger if the intent was to adjust bad behavior.
Microsoft will do what it has always done; develop a technology, push it everywhere it can, then let it stagnate, and deprecate it in favor of the newest and bestest thing ever, before announcing that the next version of Windows will be the last to support it, so be sure to buy our new even more expensive suite of development and distribution tools while you can!!!!
Java is a reasonably mediocre language with a mediocre set of standard libraries, but you know what, I'm fairly confident that the application I write in Java today will still be usable in a decade (heck, I've got Java utils running that I first wrote in 2002 to 2003). In other words, Java may be far from perfect, but it is an enormous ecosystem with enormous penetration, particularly in the enterprise world. Even if I bought into the notion that C# is lightyears better than Java (which I don't), it is almost never purely about objective or subjective technological superiority.
Beyond that, if MS keeps to its word to port .NET over to other platforms, why on the hell would I want to use a crappy half-completed variant like Mono?
Care to quantify that risk for us? Go on, I'd like to see how you have done this assessment.
Exactly. That's why fines should never be in fixed dollar amounts. They should be in percentages; either of revenue or assets (no considering net anything, to easy to hide true value that way). I suspect if AT&T were faced with, say, a 13 billion, it probably would very quickly alter its behavior.
I'm not really clear on how you ban encryption. Do you lock up all the mathematicians?
Back doors are line anal sex. Once you've lubed up, anyone can enter.
In terms of legislation, you may be right. In terms of actually enforcing such protections, not so much. The US is hardly perfect and this regard, but it is light years ahead of India in protecting women's rights, minority rights, and civil liberties in general.
The Tories, with their majority in hand, are moving swiftly to get the Snooper's Charter into law. It's almost certain that there are Tories, possibly even cabinet ministers, who, even with the cover the LibDem's offered now removed, do not want Theresa May's Snoopers Charter enacted. By making this claim, May is able to basically smash down any internal opposition. Snowden has become, sadly, not a means to liberty, but a means for further tyranny.
And what exactly is stuntrd about Chrome on Android? In desktop mode it displays exactly the same content as Chrome on Windows.
Because private management of resources isn't better. That's just you're invocation of your magic sky faerie god; the Invisible Hand. Some of the worst environmental disasters in history have been the product of private corporations.
At least we can throw governments out. Corporations are bequeathed a nearly impenetrable shield by way of the legal system and the brain dead religiosity of the Libertarian church of the Free Market.
If I post an anti-Libertarian statement on Slashdot, I'm very damned likely to get modded down. It, in other words, your claim is bullshit.
We're in the final stages of retiring our Server 2003 servers. The big trick here is that we use NTFRS, and we're going to have to move to DFS. Other than that, it's been fairly seamless. We did the switch over to Exchange 2010 last year, with the expected headaches, but all in all, other than the awful cost of licensing, it's not been too bad.
As someone who was the victim of a litigation started by greedy family members using a lawyer who failed at some his basic fiduciary responsibilities, I can concur that there are some damned shady, or just as often incompetent lawyers. In a nutshell, my grandmother gave me a piece of property, some family members agreed with that while she was still of sound mind, but as soon as she started suffering dementia, they got a lawyer to sue my ass off. This lawyer was effectively acting as my grandmother's legal council, and he never actually even met her. That was one among a number of serious ethical lapses that ended up costing me about $100,000 (my legal costs plus the pay out I made because, I confess, three years of legal hell just made me make the problem go away).
But to counter that awful story, my lawyer, who cost me about 40% of that $100k, was absolute fantastic, worth every penny, and who would inform me before making statements or depositions that I wasn't to lie and was to take my oath to tell the truth seriously.As with all occupations, the fact that there are bad, even sociopathically evil lawyers, does not mean all lawyers are of a similar bent.
Defending Dotcom is like defending a known fraudster because "this time, it really isn't a scam!"
Anyone who puts legitimate important data on one of Dotcom's sites deserves what they get.
We just see Dotcom for what he is, a con artist who paints on a thin veneer of anti-establishment rhetoric to legitimize what always end up being criminal operations.
Oh, and get off my lawn!
Were you born a criminal sociopath and con-artist, or did you evolve into one?
Yahoo should concentrate on figuring out who will be the last person out of the building, so they can make sure to turn off the lights.
I know that Windows Media Player in Windows Vista could play DVDs, because I accidentally used it a couple of times, but honestly that was several years ago, and like I said, I just automatically install VLC with every new machine so I doubt I would have ever have noticed if Win10 no longer had the feature.
You mean someone uses Windows built-in DVD playback? The first thing I've done on a new computer for the last five or six years is install VLC.