As soon as Sun GPL'd Java, it would start to diverge from Sun's commercial Java. Sun would not be able to incorporate changes made under the GPL into their corporate version. Sure, they could maintain their own "official" GPL version, but the dual license argument is complete rubbish. Java wouldn't die, but Sun would lose most or all control over it.
The vast majority of that money is because of the "due process" part where we pay lawyers lots of money to fight legal battles over whether or not this person should really be put to death... Toss that out and it would be much cheaper to just execute them...
Some languages are harder to pick up than others. Sure, any decent programmer given enough time can eventually pick up any new language. I seriously doubt that most programmers who are unfamiliar with perl would be comfortable being thrown into a large perl project.
Someone who is familiar with C++ shouldn't have a very hard time moving to Java or C#, but I don't think you can generalize that to all languages.
Printing can be a huge problem in the unix world. I would certainly call the exclusion of that part a cop-out. Otherwise it sounds like a very interesting book. However, saying that KDE is easier to use and faster than Windows XP very subjective. I usually try a new version of a linux distro or two every 6 months. Sure, everything has gradually gotten nicer, and there was even a time when I thought KDE had an advantage over Windows (when it was alpha and before windows 98 came out). But time and time again, I find myself drawn back to the Windows interface. The ease of use just isn't quite on the same level as Microsoft and Apple.
I got a forwarded e-mail from Steve Ballmer (to MS employees) about the anti-trust settlement. To all appearances, Microsoft really is trying to change the way they do business.
I really only have one big complaint about OpenOffice. It works just about as well as you could hope for importing and exporting microsoft office documents. The one problem I ran into was with regard to printing (arguably a pretty important point). When printing spreadsheets, I couldn't select only one tab to print. OpenOffice printed all the tabs. Does anyone have a good way to get around this limitation?
Well, frankly I don't see what's so bad about killing the connection of the sucker who decided to make a web page about a case mod. It IS redundant. Everyone click it a lot!
It is all true and not intended to "sucker" people into responding. I actually use a netgear router for my cable modem. I worry that something similar might affect me sometime in the near future. Additionally I worry that router companies are in collusion with the US government for purposes of spying.
Actually they said SATA 3 (600 MB/sec) will debut in 2007.
I was a bit confused by this article. They talk as if this thing is the Second Coming of Christ, but then they talk about how desktop pcs are just going to keep taking baby steps. Also at the beginning of the article they say that serial seems to be a step back from parallel (ya think?) but it is faster and better and Oh! Look! An elephant!
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Isn't this onion routing thing exactly what freenet uses?
As soon as Sun GPL'd Java, it would start to diverge from Sun's commercial Java. Sun would not be able to incorporate changes made under the GPL into their corporate version. Sure, they could maintain their own "official" GPL version, but the dual license argument is complete rubbish. Java wouldn't die, but Sun would lose most or all control over it.
maybe you don't WANT to run MOL. maybe you like BSD better.
The vast majority of that money is because of the "due process" part where we pay lawyers lots of money to fight legal battles over whether or not this person should really be put to death... Toss that out and it would be much cheaper to just execute them...
you're misreading. they claim to have a contract with IBM that says IBM won't leak their trade secrets. This is the essence of the lawsuit.
programmers make more than 150K per year? where do i sign up for that job?
What does the article create Fear, Uncertainty OR Doubt about?
But Cliff hadn't got to post a story all day!
Not everyone reads the register.
oh, that's cold. ;-)
Does anyone know if they have a legal leg to stand on? Are they pursuing software patents?
How about asking "When will Falcon's Eye actually be updated to work with Nethack 3.4.0?"
Some languages are harder to pick up than others. Sure, any decent programmer given enough time can eventually pick up any new language. I seriously doubt that most programmers who are unfamiliar with perl would be comfortable being thrown into a large perl project.
Someone who is familiar with C++ shouldn't have a very hard time moving to Java or C#, but I don't think you can generalize that to all languages.
Printing can be a huge problem in the unix world. I would certainly call the exclusion of that part a cop-out. Otherwise it sounds like a very interesting book. However, saying that KDE is easier to use and faster than Windows XP very subjective. I usually try a new version of a linux distro or two every 6 months. Sure, everything has gradually gotten nicer, and there was even a time when I thought KDE had an advantage over Windows (when it was alpha and before windows 98 came out). But time and time again, I find myself drawn back to the Windows interface. The ease of use just isn't quite on the same level as Microsoft and Apple.
I got a forwarded e-mail from Steve Ballmer (to MS employees) about the anti-trust settlement. To all appearances, Microsoft really is trying to change the way they do business.
I really only have one big complaint about OpenOffice. It works just about as well as you could hope for importing and exporting microsoft office documents. The one problem I ran into was with regard to printing (arguably a pretty important point). When printing spreadsheets, I couldn't select only one tab to print. OpenOffice printed all the tabs. Does anyone have a good way to get around this limitation?
Last time I checked, x86 darwin only supported a very limited set of hardware.
Having installed .NET server RC1, I can tell you with some certainty that its version number is 5.2.
Well, frankly I don't see what's so bad about killing the connection of the sucker who decided to make a web page about a case mod. It IS redundant. Everyone click it a lot!
90% of the world IS a slave if you look at who has the majority of the wealth in this world.
Why is this trolling?
It is all true and not intended to "sucker" people into responding. I actually use a netgear router for my cable modem. I worry that something similar might affect me sometime in the near future. Additionally I worry that router companies are in collusion with the US government for purposes of spying.
I use netgear :)
Not to say that something like this won't happen to netgear. Plus you have to be concerned about those companies putting backdoors in for the NSA.
Yea. I've had this happen with older versions too. Kind of annoying, isn't it?
Actually they said SATA 3 (600 MB/sec) will debut in 2007.
I was a bit confused by this article. They talk as if this thing is the Second Coming of Christ, but then they talk about how desktop pcs are just going to keep taking baby steps. Also at the beginning of the article they say that serial seems to be a step back from parallel (ya think?) but it is faster and better and Oh! Look! An elephant!