Absolutely true. Please accept the thanks of a grateful United States for your gallant and indespensable support. Our gratitude, incidentally, is such that we have striven for nearly two centuries to repay it. The unpopularity of the French can best be explained by a popular notion here that she spit in our eye when we needed her.
As you say, the point of the article was to question the lack of respect this product receives from open source folks, and my response pointed to the irrelevance of that body of opinion. It's obvious to most people that the availability of source code for a product built to leverage the single most popular computing platform in the world today is significant and useful. The respect or lack thereof of "open source zealots" (your words, not mine) is simply uninteresting and not worth the development team's time to worry about. That was my decidedly on-topic, non-trolling point.
Of course, DNN might be free, but it promotes using propriteary software, and that is bad thing for free software, so that's why it wouldn't get _my_ respect, even if I knew what it does.
Fortunately, the success of DotNetNuke does not teeter on the fulcrum of your respect. Lots of folks use it, modify it and make a living from it, just the way we were all told free software is supposed to work.
There are so very many ways the parent comment is full of shit that I implore the author of the comment to bash his own skull in with a ball-peen hammer simply to save us all the trouble of having to respond to his multi-faceted horse shit. Thank you.
It's easy; Intel ships chips, IBM struggles to meet demand. That's the beginning and end of the story.
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The Microsoft monopoly was not illegaly acquired, the zombie-like insistence of slash-dotters to the contrary notwithstanding, and the actions taken by Microsoft prior to its being declared a monopoly were not illegal until after that declaration occurred. This is a unique aspect of anti-trust law. Subsequent actions by Microsoft have been subject to continual DOJ review, so by definition, the monopoly is not illegally maintained.
Microsoft is a corporation, not a person, as is Google. Your notion that the paper-entity that is Google will be somehow more good and soft and cuddly for humanity is both misguided and pathetic.
You know, I think that's the point here, that computer generated capabilities have opened whole new areas of artistic exploration beyond games. I'm pretty excited to see what the next generation of artists conjure up.
Games drive the development of this technology, but I can imagine lots of fabulous uses for photo-realistic simulations, from the 2008's smash hit new Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall movie to advanced medical training for young surgeons. Bring it on!
Jeez, a Valium with your morning OJ would do you a lot of good. He never said that he thought it should look like a garage funnel, he merely asked, "Why not a funnel?" And it's a damned good question, and one which you still haven't bothered to try to answer other than to say it's because they say so.
Why a flower? Why not a shape like a funnel, or a garbage pail lid or a Waring blender? Why? It's the fundamental question of science, and the first step toward enlightenment.
I sincerely wish you luck with your blind faith in the judgment of professionals.
You haven't answered his question. Why must it be shaped like a flower rather than a funnel? Not being a sophisticated equipment designer myself (I must have missed that requirement when I signed up for/. sorry) I'd like to know.
You might have simply said, "Why, I don't know," rather than attacking the questioner's intelligence.
... and forget the UNESCO, the UNICEF, the Peace Corps and a miriad of other actions that do not interest you.
The Peace Corps is an organization created and funded by the U.S. Government. See http://www.peacecorp.gov./ You might also wish to consider US Aid, the organization that dispenses US taxpayer dollars to countries in dire need of relief. http://www.usaid.gov/
lest we forget that the real problem with Microsoft are their anti-comptetive business practices.
All corporation's actions are anti-competitive. That's what they do.
"Standards" designed to make a competitors entry into any given market controlled by microsoft impossible.
Sounds like a pretty good strategy to me. Kind of like creating yet another printer cartride type when there are 34,515 perfectly functional types already on the market.
An endless FUD compaign against competitors
This is called "marketing."
and choosing to stifle innovation in self interest of controlling the direction of the market to areas they already control.
See first comment above. Business practices that are perfectly legal at the time they are implemented magically become retroactively illegal when a court declares the company a monopoly.
Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before? Oh yes...
I don't think any of us are going to "have to hate Microsoft" for much longer. Linux is a credible alternative and very usable. Even if you switched to Mac right now you'd find yourself with much less hate for Microsoft. In a few years, I don't think there will be any reason to choose Windows.
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The left went from fighting political Christians to embracing Islam.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Nah, Obama aimed his shots against republicans.
I concur with your protestations despite other concurrences.
That's Obama's campaign strategy imploding.
Maybe most Americans are simply too busy being free to protest their lack of freedom?
It can compute the solution instantaneously, but reading the answer will take several quadrillion years.
Wolf tits, anyone?
Absolutely true. Please accept the thanks of a grateful United States for your gallant and indespensable support. Our gratitude, incidentally, is such that we have striven for nearly two centuries to repay it. The unpopularity of the French can best be explained by a popular notion here that she spit in our eye when we needed her.
I was wondering what had happened to Dan Quayle.
As you say, the point of the article was to question the lack of respect this product receives from open source folks, and my response pointed to the irrelevance of that body of opinion. It's obvious to most people that the availability of source code for a product built to leverage the single most popular computing platform in the world today is significant and useful. The respect or lack thereof of "open source zealots" (your words, not mine) is simply uninteresting and not worth the development team's time to worry about. That was my decidedly on-topic, non-trolling point.
Of course, DNN might be free, but it promotes using propriteary software, and that is bad thing for free software, so that's why it wouldn't get _my_ respect, even if I knew what it does.
Fortunately, the success of DotNetNuke does not teeter on the fulcrum of your respect. Lots of folks use it, modify it and make a living from it, just the way we were all told free software is supposed to work.
There are so very many ways the parent comment is full of shit that I implore the author of the comment to bash his own skull in with a ball-peen hammer simply to save us all the trouble of having to respond to his multi-faceted horse shit. Thank you.
It's easy; Intel ships chips, IBM struggles to meet demand. That's the beginning and end of the story.
The Microsoft monopoly was not illegaly acquired, the zombie-like insistence of slash-dotters to the contrary notwithstanding, and the actions taken by Microsoft prior to its being declared a monopoly were not illegal until after that declaration occurred. This is a unique aspect of anti-trust law. Subsequent actions by Microsoft have been subject to continual DOJ review, so by definition, the monopoly is not illegally maintained.
Microsoft is a corporation, not a person, as is Google. Your notion that the paper-entity that is Google will be somehow more good and soft and cuddly for humanity is both misguided and pathetic.
You know, I think that's the point here, that computer generated capabilities have opened whole new areas of artistic exploration beyond games. I'm pretty excited to see what the next generation of artists conjure up.
Games drive the development of this technology, but I can imagine lots of fabulous uses for photo-realistic simulations, from the 2008's smash hit new Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall movie to advanced medical training for young surgeons. Bring it on!
Jeez, a Valium with your morning OJ would do you a lot of good. He never said that he thought it should look like a garage funnel, he merely asked, "Why not a funnel?" And it's a damned good question, and one which you still haven't bothered to try to answer other than to say it's because they say so.
Why a flower? Why not a shape like a funnel, or a garbage pail lid or a Waring blender? Why? It's the fundamental question of science, and the first step toward enlightenment.
I sincerely wish you luck with your blind faith in the judgment of professionals.
From TFA:
"RUP is a vast collection of methods and best practices for promoting quality and efficiency throughout software development projects.
Yawn. Books and stuff.
They will say, "Yeah, but Jesus chose us."
You haven't answered his question. Why must it be shaped like a flower rather than a funnel? Not being a sophisticated equipment designer myself (I must have missed that requirement when I signed up for /. sorry) I'd like to know.
You might have simply said, "Why, I don't know," rather than attacking the questioner's intelligence.
Oh man, you beat me to it.
The Peace Corps is an organization created and funded by the U.S. Government. See http://www.peacecorp.gov./ You might also wish to consider US Aid, the organization that dispenses US taxpayer dollars to countries in dire need of relief. http://www.usaid.gov/
lest we forget that the real problem with Microsoft are their anti-comptetive business practices.
All corporation's actions are anti-competitive. That's what they do.
"Standards" designed to make a competitors entry into any given market controlled by microsoft impossible.
Sounds like a pretty good strategy to me. Kind of like creating yet another printer cartride type when there are 34,515 perfectly functional types already on the market.
An endless FUD compaign against competitors
This is called "marketing."
and choosing to stifle innovation in self interest of controlling the direction of the market to areas they already control.
See first comment above. Business practices that are perfectly legal at the time they are implemented magically become retroactively illegal when a court declares the company a monopoly.
Hmmm, that sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before? Oh yes...
I don't think any of us are going to "have to hate Microsoft" for much longer. Linux is a credible alternative and very usable. Even if you switched to Mac right now you'd find yourself with much less hate for Microsoft. In a few years, I don't think there will be any reason to choose Windows.
Plato, 361 B.C.E
Mod this guy up!