What does Microsoft think it will get from these deals with distributions? I doubt most of them have patents that can be cross licensed. I gather most patents in OSS are retained by individuals, or by companies like IBM or Sun.
...do not let minors purchase anything. Make it a crime to sell anything to minors. They do not have contract rights or many other rights already, there's no reason to give them general buy/sell rights.
This forces their parents to buy everything for them. They can't hire Random Guy to buy their cigs because Random Guy would in effect be selling to the minors (a crime). The parents are presumably giving their offspring what they need, so they commit no crime. This way, I don't have to deal with stupid laws, but more importantly the state doesn't have to decide on the standard by which children are raised, which is a terrible, terrible idea.
Sun is a for-profit entity. How do they expect to make money off of their OS? They should GPL Solaris, let the code monkeys snatch the best bits for Linux, and forget about wasting their money developing Solaris. They can write a "shim layer" on Linux for people needing backward compatibility so they don't alienate long-time customers. They need to figure out where they plan on making money, and scrap the parts that lose money. Open sourcing Java was an indication of desperation; we saw plenty of companies open source their product during the dot-com bust, either because they didn't want their work to die, or because they thought it would magically boost market share and generate revenue. It doesn't.
The reasons I see for using them are 1) central control of network traffic, and 2) blocking the Internet background radiation. NAT is not required for firewalls. The real problem is that so many stupid firewalls block based on port, as if you can't tunnel through any port you can open. That component of firewalling was always stupid.
Linux folk don't want to think outside the box or change things up. They're using a clone of an OS developed in the '70s. They use C, a language from the same period, not C++. They use an interface that literally emulates an ancient teletype.
You can if you freeze it first. -- attribution unknown
On a serious note, I'm ashamed, ASHAMED, that browsers have become thin clients. They suck at it, AJAX is a horrible kludge, they are all incompatible, that's not what they are for, etc. I thought Java would be the thin client foundation for the future, all that was needed was a small caching/comms/app management environment. No...that was too obvious, and nobody wanted to put Sun in a position to call any shots. Microsoft pulls.NET out of its cloning labs, but it turned out to be a cheesy mix of Visual Basic API and Java, and nobody wants to catch the clap from sleeping with Microsoft. We have RDP, but seriously, can we get serious? Whatever this Silverlight thing Microsoft is shilling is poison from inception; I dismiss it knowing it only from this article.
I thought with MySQL going all corporate and proprietary-like, the bandwagon was jumping ship. MySQL always sucked anyway, unless you were operating a flat file type database. In conclusion, quit swinging on MySQL's nuts. Thank you.
Hey, I run Gentoo, I resemble that statement! Hold on, my background emerge -uD is halting, gotta resolve some circular dependencies by tweaking my USE flags. Maybe I shouldn't have gone ~amd64 + crazy CFLAGS + roll-my-own ebuilds. Argh, why is my font messed up? ALSA dmix broken, my tunes not working! Where's that Ubuntu disc? Must not...give in to...dark side...
Network polarity (the opposite of network neutrality, I guess) takes away bandwidth/latency from the common pool and gives it preferentially to a few. This is great if you have specific needs. However, by enforcing network neutrality, if you need improved bandwidth/latency, you have to increase the total so that everyone benefits, including yourself.
It's the old argument about splitting up the pie vs. baking a bigger one. Assholes favor carving up the current pie in their favor. Progressives favor making a bigger pie. It's that simple--you're either an asshole or a progressive on this one. Too bad the assholes run the country and have all the money (redundant, I suppose).
MySpace is responsible because they should have had a staff of researchers poring over birth records and cross-referencing fingerprint and DNA databases for every schmuck who anonymously sets up a page. I believe the People's Republic of China might be able to provide some guidance in this direction.
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A standard that is too broad is no standard at all. For instance, I could define a "universal language standard" that encompasses C++, C, Java, C#, D, Smalltalk, Lisp, Algol, Fortran, and S/360 assembler code. Now how dumb would that be? CORBA dumb, it seems.
Even more depressing, South Africa, after a relatively smooth transition from apartheid, is slowly devolving into the same kind of typically stupid/corrupt sub-Saharan political incompetence, with ANC one-party rule and a stupid AIDS-denying, Mugabe-kissup (Mbeki) on the throne.
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What does Microsoft think it will get from these deals with distributions? I doubt most of them have patents that can be cross licensed. I gather most patents in OSS are retained by individuals, or by companies like IBM or Sun.
I do--you suck.
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...do not let minors purchase anything. Make it a crime to sell anything to minors. They do not have contract rights or many other rights already, there's no reason to give them general buy/sell rights.
This forces their parents to buy everything for them. They can't hire Random Guy to buy their cigs because Random Guy would in effect be selling to the minors (a crime). The parents are presumably giving their offspring what they need, so they commit no crime. This way, I don't have to deal with stupid laws, but more importantly the state doesn't have to decide on the standard by which children are raised, which is a terrible, terrible idea.
Another effective way to stop terrorists is kill everyone. Let's start with people like this librarian.
Yes, a good admin denormalizes his tables and removes all referential integrity because MySQL really roars as a flat-file database.
No, the aluminum prevents unwanted reactions that interfere with the battery's longevity, at least that's what I got from the article.
This stuff is less flexible than your average overhead projector film. Let's get serious: until you can fold it, it's not "e-paper".
Sun is a for-profit entity. How do they expect to make money off of their OS? They should GPL Solaris, let the code monkeys snatch the best bits for Linux, and forget about wasting their money developing Solaris. They can write a "shim layer" on Linux for people needing backward compatibility so they don't alienate long-time customers. They need to figure out where they plan on making money, and scrap the parts that lose money. Open sourcing Java was an indication of desperation; we saw plenty of companies open source their product during the dot-com bust, either because they didn't want their work to die, or because they thought it would magically boost market share and generate revenue. It doesn't.
The reasons I see for using them are 1) central control of network traffic, and 2) blocking the Internet background radiation. NAT is not required for firewalls. The real problem is that so many stupid firewalls block based on port, as if you can't tunnel through any port you can open. That component of firewalling was always stupid.
That ain't no dream, buddy.
Linux folk don't want to think outside the box or change things up. They're using a clone of an OS developed in the '70s. They use C, a language from the same period, not C++. They use an interface that literally emulates an ancient teletype.
"You can't polish a turd."
.NET out of its cloning labs, but it turned out to be a cheesy mix of Visual Basic API and Java, and nobody wants to catch the clap from sleeping with Microsoft. We have RDP, but seriously, can we get serious? Whatever this Silverlight thing Microsoft is shilling is poison from inception; I dismiss it knowing it only from this article.
You can if you freeze it first.
-- attribution unknown
On a serious note, I'm ashamed, ASHAMED, that browsers have become thin clients. They suck at it, AJAX is a horrible kludge, they are all incompatible, that's not what they are for, etc. I thought Java would be the thin client foundation for the future, all that was needed was a small caching/comms/app management environment. No...that was too obvious, and nobody wanted to put Sun in a position to call any shots. Microsoft pulls
I thought with MySQL going all corporate and proprietary-like, the bandwagon was jumping ship. MySQL always sucked anyway, unless you were operating a flat file type database. In conclusion, quit swinging on MySQL's nuts. Thank you.
Not so unusual in academia, they still run UNIX not because it's the latest fad but because they haven't upgraded their expertise from the '70s.
Hey, I run Gentoo, I resemble that statement! Hold on, my background emerge -uD is halting, gotta resolve some circular dependencies by tweaking my USE flags. Maybe I shouldn't have gone ~amd64 + crazy CFLAGS + roll-my-own ebuilds. Argh, why is my font messed up? ALSA dmix broken, my tunes not working! Where's that Ubuntu disc? Must not...give in to...dark side...
Maybe somebody should make a Firefox ActiveX control for IE, then even the IE users could be somewhat standards compliant.
If so, the SEC might be interested in administering the coup de grace.
I'm one out of three...well, it's not that big.
What company is this? I need a job. I might be overqualified, though.
Network polarity (the opposite of network neutrality, I guess) takes away bandwidth/latency from the common pool and gives it preferentially to a few. This is great if you have specific needs. However, by enforcing network neutrality, if you need improved bandwidth/latency, you have to increase the total so that everyone benefits, including yourself.
It's the old argument about splitting up the pie vs. baking a bigger one. Assholes favor carving up the current pie in their favor. Progressives favor making a bigger pie. It's that simple--you're either an asshole or a progressive on this one. Too bad the assholes run the country and have all the money (redundant, I suppose).
MySpace is responsible because they should have had a staff of researchers poring over birth records and cross-referencing fingerprint and DNA databases for every schmuck who anonymously sets up a page. I believe the People's Republic of China might be able to provide some guidance in this direction.
A standard that is too broad is no standard at all. For instance, I could define a "universal language standard" that encompasses C++, C, Java, C#, D, Smalltalk, Lisp, Algol, Fortran, and S/360 assembler code. Now how dumb would that be? CORBA dumb, it seems.
Even more depressing, South Africa, after a relatively smooth transition from apartheid, is slowly devolving into the same kind of typically stupid/corrupt sub-Saharan political incompetence, with ANC one-party rule and a stupid AIDS-denying, Mugabe-kissup (Mbeki) on the throne.
I feel your pain. The blogosphere is rife with Web 2.0 leveraged mashups.