Microsoft doesn't like all the anti-trust stuff arranged around them, right? So Korea is anti-Microsoft (or neutral, but definetly not pro-Microsoft). Well, allow them to go away if they don't like the rules. Microsoft will be happy, Korea will be happy (the beast got rid of itself). If only Microsoft did this in ALL countries, we wouldn't have any Windows around!
Actually, it's only 10000 that have to leave Microsoft to make it smaller than Oracle: 60000-10000=50000(MS) 41000+10000=51000(Oracle) Which is by the way about 3 Googles, 2 Novells, 2 Electronic Arts or 3 quarters of an Apple =) And size doesn't mean anything. Take Russia, China and Japan for example. Russia is the largest in size, China is the largest in population and yet they have less income that Japan that is hundreds smaller.
First there was DEC (Dairy Equipment Company), with a name exactly like the Digital Equipment Company. Now, there's Voluntary Milking System (VMS), named after an operating system. It even runs its own copy of Linux.
I play games like Doom III, Half-life 2 etc. about twice a week (or even less). Personally, I don't need a fast PC for my work (in fact, I use a Pentium III-1000, Radeon 9200, no dedicated soundcard etc). But paying 500+ bucks for a new PC just for 2 hours of gaming per week seems stupid to me. If I really want to do a lot of gaming, I'd get an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 etc. But to play modern games (Doom III especially with its lighting&shadows), I don't need to buy any new hardware if a software-based option is avaliable for stuff like shaders etc. And if I really like the game, I may even upgrade. Oh, and I've used MS Reference Rasterizer as a game developer. It gave me something like 0.2 FPS on a very very simple game @ 320x240.
Yeah, no QT support means I have to stick with Konqueror. GTK fonts look different on my SUSE 10 box, cursors also look different in Firefox and the rest of KDE. And firefox-qt seems to have died quietly...
I don't understand how this is modded TROLL. It can be unfunny or redundant or something else if the moderator didn't like it. The TROLL moderation is trollish itself, making people like me post statements that this post isn't TROLL. Oh, never mind...
Gentoo creator joins MS, Ward Cunningham and the guy who the chair was thrown at leave. I guess that we'll see more brains joining MS and leaving it. I wonder what the ratio is between gain/loss of great programmers in MS.
I did a hard-reset on my Palm Zire 71 a year ago. No problems. On my Toshiba (which I've had before) the longest time Windows lived for was four months after which everything went crap. Oh, and I did my last soft-reset a month ago... There was a bug in IE back in Pocket PC2002 (released in 2001) when instead of loading a page the IE logo flashed for a secong and stopped all navigation. To fix it, you have to run \Windows\welcome.exe Well, one of my friends bought a Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX 720 (or something like that) and another bought something like hp iPaq 2110 (the most recent entry-level one with Bluetooth). Guess what? In 2005 they still have that problem! The only good thing about WinMob is a great variety of games. Palm (or Palmone?) too has some crappy bugs, but these are usually related not with the system but with third-party Palm-branded apps like Novarra (Palm Web Pro), Multimail (Palm Versamail) etc. So, when Palm have announced a Windows-powered Treo 650 (on their front page), they're losing a customer in me. IMHO PalmOS is just too old and Winmob too buggy. Zaurus failed to gain marketshare (and it costs a lot). So, in this situation I fail to see a PDA that would suit me. For non-gamers the best solution is probably a Palm m500-like PDA for reading books (maybe with a better screen) + iPod or other good music player. Beleive me, I use my Zire 90% for music and 9% for reading books while on the road. The rest 1% is PIM and stuff like dictionaries/calculators. If I exclude music, a B&W-screened PDA with a 100Mhz processor would fit perfectly.
I have used Ubuntu for something like 6 months and finally switched to SuSE. Here are the reasons: 1) Ubuntu is a Gnome desktop. I don't like Gnome, I prefer KDE. This is an entirely personal matter since Gnome apps work in KDE and KDE's stuff works in Gnome. But in their rush to usability Gnome developers strip off so many stuff that you end up with an IMHO not usable but crippled desktop. 2) They don't have a nicely polished distro with a graphical boot screen and GUI configuration tools. Making bluetooth work was a nightmare. However, Ubuntu doesn't interfere you carefully-crafted configs. So, in this way it's closer to Slack or Gentoo. In SuSE for example, I haven't touched the console to do any configuration. In Ubuntu, it is not possible. 3) One CD is not enough. To get a decent development workstation you have to download about 200 megs, and network traffic can be quite costly. 4) Brown theme, unpronouncable name, dark Gnome icons, Clearlooks theme. I simply hate those. They have some good points, too: 1) Free CDs by mail! 2) All packages are avaliable through Synaptic. And Synaptic (and apt-get) is really good. 3) Packages included in Ubuntu are as close to the original ones as possible. 4) They don't charge money for forums, updates, packages etc. unlike Mandriva and some others.
They mention Mozilla, but not Firefox. BTW, my friend has crap coming in through IE 6.0. About 4-6 spyware in half a year. Some really ceverly made, including a modified TCP/IP stack that sometimes redirected all requests to pr0n sites. Another one was the one that a pr0n site the default page, even if about:blank is set. To fix that, I had to go deep in the registry and modify several keys. With Firefox, you have to check not all the system's data for malicious URLS but rather only Mozilla's homedir. Also, how many of Firefox's vulns were really critical? IE is a part of the system, so if IE is hijacked, the system is in danger.
No they didn't! I bought my first PC with a pirated version of MS-DOS included and then bought pirated versions of Windows afterwards. Now I'm happily using Ubuntu 5.04 and I'm waiting for 5.10.
Amid the anniversary festivities, Microsoft's founder and chairman will set out a confident vision of the software giant's future.
Oh no, not again! The only confident thing we'll be seeing is Vista. More chair-throwing, possibly (I love that, it's much funnier than comedies). and expects to generate billions of dollars in new sales.
Sure, Xbox 360 will make negative billions of dollars' revenue. People just think there's no growth
How can you become bigger than 96% of the OS market?
What I like about Microsoft-related articles is that they're all the same. Take an article about Windows 95 and compare it with an article about Vista. Nothing has changed. More eyecandy, more possibilities, easier than ever, more features. But while they were adequate in 1995, they don't get the picture in 2005. People are tired of continuosly paying for upgrades just to get more features they don't need. I use a Pentium III and won't upgrade my CPU because I don't need to. Everything works, any app I install won't give a message that I need to pay for a new PC. I'm able to even play Doom3 in low-res.
As I understand, Vista uses MFC as their widget set (or how else will it be compatible with XP-based apps?) or at least has MFC bindings to their new widget set.
If you ask anyone who has worked with MFC or tried to work with it, make sure the person doesn't get too angry and doesn't do any violence.
And now they're saying they're bringing good old MFC to other platforms. What did they do to deserve this?
So, if your car eats 20 liters of gas per 100 km and you patch it to consume about 7, you might get sued. But something must be terribly wrong if a company is considered to be good for just not doing evil things. I'm not trying to say that what Lego is doing is not enough (actually, it's great that in this we-sue-you economy some companies do what they think is right and think not just of money but also of making customers happy) but the fact that making a product you use better is not considered by a mere fraction of companies makes me shiver.
"Alien is a computer program that converts between different Linux package distribution file formats. It supports conversion between Linux Standard Base, RPM, deb, Stampede (.slp) and Slackware (tgz) packages." (From wikipedia) Homepage So, create a package for your favorite distro and then convert it into all possible formats. No support for Gentoo, Arch and other systems though, but Gentoo's users are usually advanced enough to figure everything out themselves. What I don't like about script-based installers is that such programs don't appear in apt-get or rpm -e, they also don't handle dependencies in a nice way (e.g. automatically downloading them). So, what I think is best is creating.RPM,.DEB and.TGZ packages, and a script-based installer like nVidia's drivers for users who don't like extracting TGZ but don't have a.RPM or.DEB -capable distro.
Not badly but poorly is the original version.
My favorite quote by the way, can be applied to anything, including non-UNIX stuff (Windows), post-UNIX stuff(SCO, HP-UX, etc.) and UNIX-related stuff (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, etc.)
If you can't kill them with quality, you can kill them with quantity. MSN Dialup is not enough, now if they own a part in AOL they can ask them to redirect all google.com requests to search.msn.com. Or, even worse, break Google's pages randomly and then claim that "MSN is better than Google". They are already saying it, now they'll have proof. Remember how they broke MSN's homepage if the browser reported it was Opera? This is just the case. So, all n00bs who use AOL will think that Google has become crap and Ballmer will have his dream fulfilled. Additionally, Microsoft will save money on broken chairs.
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Microsoft doesn't like all the anti-trust stuff arranged around them, right?
So Korea is anti-Microsoft (or neutral, but definetly not pro-Microsoft).
Well, allow them to go away if they don't like the rules. Microsoft will be happy, Korea will be happy (the beast got rid of itself).
If only Microsoft did this in ALL countries, we wouldn't have any Windows around!
Actually, it's only 10000 that have to leave Microsoft to make it smaller than Oracle:
60000-10000=50000(MS)
41000+10000=51000(Oracle)
Which is by the way about 3 Googles, 2 Novells, 2 Electronic Arts or 3 quarters of an Apple =)
And size doesn't mean anything. Take Russia, China and Japan for example. Russia is the largest in size, China is the largest in population and yet they have less income that Japan that is hundreds smaller.
Mod parent up, it's really funny.
http://www.gentoo.org/images/poster.jpg
First there was DEC (Dairy Equipment Company), with a name exactly like the Digital Equipment Company.
Now, there's Voluntary Milking System (VMS), named after an operating system. It even runs its own copy of Linux.
I play games like Doom III, Half-life 2 etc. about twice a week (or even less).
Personally, I don't need a fast PC for my work (in fact, I use a Pentium III-1000, Radeon 9200, no dedicated soundcard etc). But paying 500+ bucks for a new PC just for 2 hours of gaming per week seems stupid to me. If I really want to do a lot of gaming, I'd get an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 etc.
But to play modern games (Doom III especially with its lighting&shadows), I don't need to buy any new hardware if a software-based option is avaliable for stuff like shaders etc. And if I really like the game, I may even upgrade.
Oh, and I've used MS Reference Rasterizer as a game developer. It gave me something like 0.2 FPS on a very very simple game @ 320x240.
Yeah, no QT support means I have to stick with Konqueror.
GTK fonts look different on my SUSE 10 box, cursors also look different in Firefox and the rest of KDE. And firefox-qt seems to have died quietly...
And if you buy/download an ISO (or get a package from your distro mantainer) with the Firefox installer, it will count as zero.
I don't understand how this is modded TROLL.
It can be unfunny or redundant or something else if the moderator didn't like it.
The TROLL moderation is trollish itself, making people like me post statements that this post isn't TROLL.
Oh, never mind...
Gentoo creator joins MS, Ward Cunningham and the guy who the chair was thrown at leave.
I guess that we'll see more brains joining MS and leaving it.
I wonder what the ratio is between gain/loss of great programmers in MS.
I did a hard-reset on my Palm Zire 71 a year ago. No problems. On my Toshiba (which I've had before) the longest time Windows lived for was four months after which everything went crap.
Oh, and I did my last soft-reset a month ago...
There was a bug in IE back in Pocket PC2002 (released in 2001) when instead of loading a page the IE logo flashed for a secong and stopped all navigation. To fix it, you have to run \Windows\welcome.exe
Well, one of my friends bought a Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket LOOX 720 (or something like that) and another bought something like hp iPaq 2110 (the most recent entry-level one with Bluetooth).
Guess what? In 2005 they still have that problem! The only good thing about WinMob is a great variety of games.
Palm (or Palmone?) too has some crappy bugs, but these are usually related not with the system but with third-party Palm-branded apps like Novarra (Palm Web Pro), Multimail (Palm Versamail) etc.
So, when Palm have announced a Windows-powered Treo 650 (on their front page), they're losing a customer in me.
IMHO PalmOS is just too old and Winmob too buggy. Zaurus failed to gain marketshare (and it costs a lot).
So, in this situation I fail to see a PDA that would suit me. For non-gamers the best solution is probably a Palm m500-like PDA for reading books (maybe with a better screen) + iPod or other good music player. Beleive me, I use my Zire 90% for music and 9% for reading books while on the road. The rest 1% is PIM and stuff like dictionaries/calculators. If I exclude music, a B&W-screened PDA with a 100Mhz processor would fit perfectly.
You've provided an old link to the page. The new one is http://www.mono-project.com/Windows_Forms
Actually, they don't have divx or mp3 codecs installed by default (at least on my 5.04 distro).
I have used Ubuntu for something like 6 months and finally switched to SuSE.
Here are the reasons:
1) Ubuntu is a Gnome desktop. I don't like Gnome, I prefer KDE. This is an entirely personal matter since Gnome apps work in KDE and KDE's stuff works in Gnome. But in their rush to usability Gnome developers strip off so many stuff that you end up with an IMHO not usable but crippled desktop.
2) They don't have a nicely polished distro with a graphical boot screen and GUI configuration tools. Making bluetooth work was a nightmare. However, Ubuntu doesn't interfere you carefully-crafted configs. So, in this way it's closer to Slack or Gentoo. In SuSE for example, I haven't touched the console to do any configuration. In Ubuntu, it is not possible.
3) One CD is not enough. To get a decent development workstation you have to download about 200 megs, and network traffic can be quite costly.
4) Brown theme, unpronouncable name, dark Gnome icons, Clearlooks theme. I simply hate those.
They have some good points, too:
1) Free CDs by mail!
2) All packages are avaliable through Synaptic. And Synaptic (and apt-get) is really good.
3) Packages included in Ubuntu are as close to the original ones as possible.
4) They don't charge money for forums, updates, packages etc. unlike Mandriva and some others.
I think that if you press BACKSPACE when Linux is loading, you'll get ^H in the terminal in the place where you pressed the key.
I, for one, welcome our new automatic sentry gun overlords.
They mention Mozilla, but not Firefox.
BTW, my friend has crap coming in through IE 6.0. About 4-6 spyware in half a year. Some really ceverly made, including a modified TCP/IP stack that sometimes redirected all requests to pr0n sites. Another one was the one that a pr0n site the default page, even if about:blank is set. To fix that, I had to go deep in the registry and modify several keys. With Firefox, you have to check not all the system's data for malicious URLS but rather only Mozilla's homedir.
Also, how many of Firefox's vulns were really critical? IE is a part of the system, so if IE is hijacked, the system is in danger.
they got their money off you long ago
No they didn't! I bought my first PC with a pirated version of MS-DOS included and then bought pirated versions of Windows afterwards. Now I'm happily using Ubuntu 5.04 and I'm waiting for 5.10.
Netcraft confirms that Microsoft is dying ...Oh, wait! Never mind.
Amid the anniversary festivities, Microsoft's founder and chairman will set out a confident vision of the software giant's future.
Oh no, not again! The only confident thing we'll be seeing is Vista. More chair-throwing, possibly (I love that, it's much funnier than comedies).
and expects to generate billions of dollars in new sales.
Sure, Xbox 360 will make negative billions of dollars' revenue.
People just think there's no growth
How can you become bigger than 96% of the OS market?
What I like about Microsoft-related articles is that they're all the same. Take an article about Windows 95 and compare it with an article about Vista. Nothing has changed. More eyecandy, more possibilities, easier than ever, more features. But while they were adequate in 1995, they don't get the picture in 2005. People are tired of continuosly paying for upgrades just to get more features they don't need. I use a Pentium III and won't upgrade my CPU because I don't need to. Everything works, any app I install won't give a message that I need to pay for a new PC. I'm able to even play Doom3 in low-res.
As I understand, Vista uses MFC as their widget set (or how else will it be compatible with XP-based apps?) or at least has MFC bindings to their new widget set.
If you ask anyone who has worked with MFC or tried to work with it, make sure the person doesn't get too angry and doesn't do any violence.
And now they're saying they're bringing good old MFC to other platforms. What did they do to deserve this?
So, if your car eats 20 liters of gas per 100 km and you patch it to consume about 7, you might get sued.
But something must be terribly wrong if a company is considered to be good for just not doing evil things. I'm not trying to say that what Lego is doing is not enough (actually, it's great that in this we-sue-you economy some companies do what they think is right and think not just of money but also of making customers happy) but the fact that making a product you use better is not considered by a mere fraction of companies makes me shiver.
"Alien is a computer program that converts between different Linux package distribution file formats. It supports conversion between Linux Standard Base, RPM, deb, Stampede (.slp) and Slackware (tgz) packages." (From wikipedia) .RPM, .DEB and .TGZ packages, and a script-based installer like nVidia's drivers for users who don't like extracting TGZ but don't have a .RPM or .DEB -capable distro.
Homepage
So, create a package for your favorite distro and then convert it into all possible formats.
No support for Gentoo, Arch and other systems though, but Gentoo's users are usually advanced enough to figure everything out themselves.
What I don't like about script-based installers is that such programs don't appear in apt-get or rpm -e, they also don't handle dependencies in a nice way (e.g. automatically downloading them).
So, what I think is best is creating
Not badly but poorly is the original version.
My favorite quote by the way, can be applied to anything, including non-UNIX stuff (Windows), post-UNIX stuff(SCO, HP-UX, etc.) and UNIX-related stuff (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, etc.)
If you can't kill them with quality, you can kill them with quantity. MSN Dialup is not enough, now if they own a part in AOL they can ask them to redirect all google.com requests to search.msn.com. Or, even worse, break Google's pages randomly and then claim that "MSN is better than Google". They are already saying it, now they'll have proof. Remember how they broke MSN's homepage if the browser reported it was Opera? This is just the case.
So, all n00bs who use AOL will think that Google has become crap and Ballmer will have his dream fulfilled. Additionally, Microsoft will save money on broken chairs.