The problem is that MySQL has the lion's share of the market, despite being (relatively speaking) crap. It's a lot like windows in that respect: if you want to ensure that a machine you sell can run random software for grannies, you (sadly) generally put windows on it. Likewise, if you want to ensure easy webapp development, you go with the database that can work with lots of other stuff.
That said, it's ass-backwards. People should fix the bug --- that some software doesn't have a database abstraction layer --- and then choose that best DB.
Unfortunately, Bill makes his money by selling software that he's made mandatory at extortionate prices, to kids who need to learn computers for their future, and to companies that need to use that software to be in business at all. Last I heard, he charged a MONTH's salary for his software in third-world countries, and then pretended to be ethical by donating money to AIDS charities. It's called giving with one hand, and taking with the other. Or in this case, taking with four hands, and giving back with a finger.
There's a fairly famous old quote, which goes something like, "Whenever I hear that someone got rich through hard work, I ask, 'Whose?'".
Oh, and no FreeBSD newer than 4.x will even boot on my x86 box, which runs other OS's just fine. I agree that *some* things are done better in the *BSDs though.
OS X seemed like a good idea once. I even bought an iBook for that. After actually trying to get a decent workflow setup on it, my iBook runs KDE now:)
Ermm... the same way that your entirely baseless accusation of Linux "playing catch-up", and LinuS being a bad manager is related to whether Git is a good solution to an entirely new situation? (Hint: microsoft don't have any of the new situations to deal with that a large open source project has, and they still had to cut back on most of Vista's features, before most of the critics calling their project a failure)
To clarify: Linus gave a talk at google, where he spoke of Git as part of the solution to this problem, and his shear lack of interest in helping "subordinate" (my word, for want of a better one, not his) developers. He said, essentially, that if people don't write proper patches, or if they write patches that conflict with other patches, he doesn't spend time integrating: he throws it back, and says do it again. Likewise, he doesn't manage tons of individual patches; he delegates to others, who spread the load. If the "lieutenants" aren't handling their part, they just need to learn from Linus.
I'm sorry, but you have an inflated sense of your own worth, or a lack of appreciation of the order of things, or both.
Yep. I wish I could remember who said this (Lin Yutang, perhaps?), but someone once said (much more eloquently) that people always have a much-overinflated sense of their own importance, when they look at the huge buildings they've constructed etc. He then went on to say how he'd like to move such people somewhere else, to adjust their sense of place in the world --- somewhere like a very little hill;)
Maybe they are sitting down with their lawyers to ensure compliance absent releasing the source.
If they have acknowledged their use of GPL'd code, but are unwilling to release their changes in compliance with the GPL, it's more likely that they're asking a lawyer whether the employee who used GPL'd code represented the company, and if not, whether they can dodge compliance on that basis.
I don't imagine any heavy processing requirements here. Collision detection on 3D objects is done in almost every 3D game. The nodes in the glove are equivalent to a few other moving game objects colliding with the 3d object in question. How many games have you seen that can handle that workload? Quite a few, I think.
This article is B.S., though. This isn't a "tactile display", it's just a 3D display, much like we've had for decades, with a force feedback glove attached.
Still looks text-based to me:) And yes, that bugged me too. Then I saw it in action, and realised they'd made the right long-term decision yet again. The new installer is very cross-platform, and fits in very well with the existing (and superior) package system; it supports all the bells and whistles, like encrypted drives, custom boot media, live cds, text modes, guis, etc. As someone who's previously written installers (not for Linux), there's making a graphical installer, and then there's making an installer that is also capable of graphics. One can be done in a day, the other's more likely to be worth waiting on.
Technical issues actually went to the background, replaced by legal problems and privacy concerns. Nobody predicted that, IIRC.
Actually, Project Xanadu predicted it (and at least partially designed a solution to it) long before the WWW. Stallman also did a pretty good job of predicting such issues, and wrote a license which actually made sense in the digital age.
What's wrong with that? Well, just that they're pretending to be genuinely interested in the possibilities of something, but instead are making money. It's called a lie.
You did? With the unending trend towards advertising that has people thinking they need to work harder for random things so they'll be happy, and even just so they can have a relationship with someone? Where have you been?
Capitalism IS slavery, by another name. In fact, slavery is more common now than it ever was, and it's driven by people who want to make products cheaply, for other people to buy, so they can make money to buy products that someone else made...
This is NOT a troll. I'm not saying Capitalism is all bad. It does do a few things well. Not necessarily well enough to be chosen over other systems, but some things, yes. HOWEVER, if you don't understand the nature of it, then yes, you'll be a slave to it.
Why exactly did Direct3D take off, anyway? Other "standards" of MS's have failed. OpenGL was already a success, in the high-end world. Was it just too high-end 3D for the low-end-3D game devs back when D3D started out? Maybe they've gradually grown up with D3D now, and are more comfortable with it?
D3D used to have a more high-level layer than OpenGL, I think (right?), but no one used it because it was slow. Was that at least a factor in drawing people in, even if they had to move to more low-level stuff to get performance?
Or is it did hardware manufacturers go with D3D for some reason, and everyone else had to follow? It did seem like Quake was the only thing forcing gaming gfx card manufacturers to implement OpenGL for a while there. That might even be more the case now (I'm not sure; haven't used windows in a LONG time).
Is there something about OpenGL implementation that's harder? Does it make it easier to identify cards with crappy performance, or something?
Don't worry, someone will be able to hack a player for Linux/Mac faster than BBC's official one.
This is a lot like the "They came for the jews, but I wasn't a jew..." argument. You can dodge the bullet for a while, but eventually, you have to take a stand. The sooner you start, the more time you'll have to find others who'll stand with you.
Go to http://silverlight.net/ and click the "Silverlight in action" link on the right hand side. Then tell me that Flash still has them beat;)
Link didn't work on a standards-compliant browser, and silverlight (whatever the hell it is) probably wouldn't either, from first impressions (what you said, how the site says "download silverlight", etc.)
Flash still has them beat. Both are non-standards-compliant junk, that has no place on the web, other than as a modern animated gif.
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Actually, being forced to give money to a convicted monopoly might well put more principled people off buying from Dell without this.
The problem is that MySQL has the lion's share of the market, despite being (relatively speaking) crap. It's a lot like windows in that respect: if you want to ensure that a machine you sell can run random software for grannies, you (sadly) generally put windows on it. Likewise, if you want to ensure easy webapp development, you go with the database that can work with lots of other stuff.
That said, it's ass-backwards. People should fix the bug --- that some software doesn't have a database abstraction layer --- and then choose that best DB.
Unfortunately, Bill makes his money by selling software that he's made mandatory at extortionate prices, to kids who need to learn computers for their future, and to companies that need to use that software to be in business at all. Last I heard, he charged a MONTH's salary for his software in third-world countries, and then pretended to be ethical by donating money to AIDS charities. It's called giving with one hand, and taking with the other. Or in this case, taking with four hands, and giving back with a finger.
There's a fairly famous old quote, which goes something like, "Whenever I hear that someone got rich through hard work, I ask, 'Whose?'".
Oh, and no FreeBSD newer than 4.x will even boot on my x86 box, which runs other OS's just fine. I agree that *some* things are done better in the *BSDs though.
OS X seemed like a good idea once. I even bought an iBook for that. After actually trying to get a decent workflow setup on it, my iBook runs KDE now :)
Ermm... the same way that your entirely baseless accusation of Linux "playing catch-up", and LinuS being a bad manager is related to whether Git is a good solution to an entirely new situation? (Hint: microsoft don't have any of the new situations to deal with that a large open source project has, and they still had to cut back on most of Vista's features, before most of the critics calling their project a failure)
He tried. Luckily turtles evolved a hard shell after the last such incident.
Sure, keep telling yourself that, as you PAY THOUSANDS at Microsoft to make an inferior but shiny OS.
To clarify: Linus gave a talk at google, where he spoke of Git as part of the solution to this problem, and his shear lack of interest in helping "subordinate" (my word, for want of a better one, not his) developers. He said, essentially, that if people don't write proper patches, or if they write patches that conflict with other patches, he doesn't spend time integrating: he throws it back, and says do it again. Likewise, he doesn't manage tons of individual patches; he delegates to others, who spread the load. If the "lieutenants" aren't handling their part, they just need to learn from Linus.
Isn't this what Linus said that Git was supposed to fix?
I wonder are the rest using it... I wonder are the rest even delegating.
Yep. I wish I could remember who said this (Lin Yutang, perhaps?), but someone once said (much more eloquently) that people always have a much-overinflated sense of their own importance, when they look at the huge buildings they've constructed etc. He then went on to say how he'd like to move such people somewhere else, to adjust their sense of place in the world --- somewhere like a very little hill
If they have acknowledged their use of GPL'd code, but are unwilling to release their changes in compliance with the GPL, it's more likely that they're asking a lawyer whether the employee who used GPL'd code represented the company, and if not, whether they can dodge compliance on that basis.
I don't imagine any heavy processing requirements here. Collision detection on 3D objects is done in almost every 3D game. The nodes in the glove are equivalent to a few other moving game objects colliding with the 3d object in question. How many games have you seen that can handle that workload? Quite a few, I think.
This article is B.S., though. This isn't a "tactile display", it's just a 3D display, much like we've had for decades, with a force feedback glove attached.
Still looks text-based to me :) And yes, that bugged me too. Then I saw it in action, and realised they'd made the right long-term decision yet again. The new installer is very cross-platform, and fits in very well with the existing (and superior) package system; it supports all the bells and whistles, like encrypted drives, custom boot media, live cds, text modes, guis, etc. As someone who's previously written installers (not for Linux), there's making a graphical installer, and then there's making an installer that is also capable of graphics. One can be done in a day, the other's more likely to be worth waiting on.
Well, you know, if you let them all talk amongst themselves for long enough, they'll soon believe they can
Actually, Project Xanadu predicted it (and at least partially designed a solution to it) long before the WWW. Stallman also did a pretty good job of predicting such issues, and wrote a license which actually made sense in the digital age.
Good job, that man.
More people would get the distinction between cooperative communities and commercial companies, and move to Debian.
I think it goes Micro->Transputer->Mini->Supercomputer. Could be wrong.
On the other hand, most of these technologies seem kind of obsolete now, as distinctions are falling away.
What's wrong with that? Well, just that they're pretending to be genuinely interested in the possibilities of something, but instead are making money. It's called a lie.
You did? With the unending trend towards advertising that has people thinking they need to work harder for random things so they'll be happy, and even just so they can have a relationship with someone? Where have you been?
Capitalism IS slavery, by another name. In fact, slavery is more common now than it ever was, and it's driven by people who want to make products cheaply, for other people to buy, so they can make money to buy products that someone else made...
This is NOT a troll. I'm not saying Capitalism is all bad. It does do a few things well. Not necessarily well enough to be chosen over other systems, but some things, yes. HOWEVER, if you don't understand the nature of it, then yes, you'll be a slave to it.
Why exactly did Direct3D take off, anyway? Other "standards" of MS's have failed. OpenGL was already a success, in the high-end world. Was it just too high-end 3D for the low-end-3D game devs back when D3D started out? Maybe they've gradually grown up with D3D now, and are more comfortable with it?
D3D used to have a more high-level layer than OpenGL, I think (right?), but no one used it because it was slow. Was that at least a factor in drawing people in, even if they had to move to more low-level stuff to get performance?
Or is it did hardware manufacturers go with D3D for some reason, and everyone else had to follow? It did seem like Quake was the only thing forcing gaming gfx card manufacturers to implement OpenGL for a while there. That might even be more the case now (I'm not sure; haven't used windows in a LONG time).
Is there something about OpenGL implementation that's harder? Does it make it easier to identify cards with crappy performance, or something?
Independent from standards means non-standards-compliant. Using the DOM means it's using a standard.
This is a lot like the "They came for the jews, but I wasn't a jew..." argument. You can dodge the bullet for a while, but eventually, you have to take a stand. The sooner you start, the more time you'll have to find others who'll stand with you.
Link didn't work on a standards-compliant browser, and silverlight (whatever the hell it is) probably wouldn't either, from first impressions (what you said, how the site says "download silverlight", etc.)
Flash still has them beat. Both are non-standards-compliant junk, that has no place on the web, other than as a modern animated gif.