Netscape had the market volume and could easily have survived a few bad versions with their market share. However Microsoft made sure that didn't happen.
Microsoft was not in a position at the time to bury Netscape. They did it themselves.
Way back in April, I wrote that Netscape made the "single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make" by deciding to rewrite their code from scratch. Lou Montulli, one of the 5 programming superstars who did the original version of Navigator, emailed me to say, "I agree completely, it's one of the major reasons I resigned from Netscape." This one decision cost Netscape 3 years. That's three years in which the company couldn't add new features, couldn't respond to the competitive threads from Internet Explorer, and had to sit on their hands while Microsoft completely ate their lunch.
Developers are also users, there's the old argument about scratching your own itch. I've written stuff solely for my own use, and it's been a nice bonus to find that others are using it too.
I tend to be sloppy when I write stuff for myself. Case in point: an NMDC (p2p protocol) client I've written for myself to chat. It includes support for winamp and amarok, but has no facilities for file transfer, other than sending a pre-generated empty share list on request. Since I don't download, it was not worth the effort. It also includes millisecond-precise logging I've used to prove my ISP's throttling practices to their customer support, since they kept denying it. Extremely useful for my itch, but still: a p2p client that can't download files.
If my male housemate ever try this, all they'd accomplish is me backed into a corner, one hand on an my revolver, half looking at them and half looking at my computer screen.
Corporate death penalty: revocation of corporate charter, seizure of all corporate assets.
Not good enough. Hang the members of the board and the C-level execs first, then dismember the corporation. They pay themselves enough to take the risk, anyway. And after the first round of public executions, the others will get their shit together, I promise you.
Seriously. They'd let a man die for $20?! Read it again until you realize what society is becoming.
I would, though, be fascinated to see if anybody ends up trying to shoot systems like this down, as delicately as possible of course.
I'd like to see all other ways the alarm can be triggered, first. Rainwater (acidic or otherwise)? Particles dissolved from the riverbed? A frog swimming in front of the sensors?
Again... it's a driver issue, it does not reflect on the operating system.
Windows 95...
it would probably be every bit as stable as the Windows driver.
I had troubles with the Vista driver, too. Difference: Vista recovered instantly, I got a little balloon telling me the driver crashed, and happily ever after. Linux didn't even notice there was something wrong, the screen just hung. I could reboot cleanly with ctrl+alt+f1 ctrl+alt+del, but that's all that separated it from a BSOD.
If a piece of hardware is unsupported or flaky, it's not the OS's fault!
I don't give a shit whose fault it is. I'm using what works. In this case, it's Vista. Of course, I did need a livecd to download the ethernet drivers for it.
Exactly, it's a driver issue. If Intel created a good Linux driver, or provided the specifications to those who would happily write it for them, it would perform equally as well(if not better) than it does with Windows.
When you develop for something, you want to develop for a stable feature set. If there's going to be a dozen forks of a database, it becomes much more work to test all the versions and apply patches.
The very existence of these forks proves MySQL could easily be better, and/or there are major problems with the development method. Either way, it's a sinking ship. OTOH, a dead project provides the ultimate stability.
1. The kid can do whatever the hell they want with the computer, as long as they remember it's not necessarily reality.
2. There is no rule 3.
I want my children to think for themselves, and gain as much experience about it as possible, while they're under my supervision, so when they're not, they can lead a life worth living. Isn't that what raising a child should be all about?
Exactly. If they are actually good at tech and pay any attention to it at all, they don't have a reason to switch.
Not to mention Linux is still not quite ready for the desktop. Flame away, I just migrated back to Vista, and I'm happy now. At least I will be, when I finally set up Eclipse with MinGW.
P.S. The X log told me direct rendering is not supported with the intel driver. After hours of frustration, and seeing Vista doing just fine, taking about 3 mouse clicks.
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the only uncertain part was what the next NASA administrator would try to change.
And how much the next president cuts their budget.
THAT is what happened kids. Bill Gates saw that the web was a computing platform that made his desktop monopoly irrelevant, so he attacked it.
Sounds good, doesn't it? Now let me show you how big Netscape was:
IE8 on Windows 7
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0)
Netscape had the market volume and could easily have survived a few bad versions with their market share. However Microsoft made sure that didn't happen.
Microsoft was not in a position at the time to bury Netscape. They did it themselves.
Way back in April, I wrote that Netscape made the "single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make" by deciding to rewrite their code from scratch. Lou Montulli, one of the 5 programming superstars who did the original version of Navigator, emailed me to say, "I agree completely, it's one of the major reasons I resigned from Netscape." This one decision cost Netscape 3 years. That's three years in which the company couldn't add new features, couldn't respond to the competitive threads from Internet Explorer, and had to sit on their hands while Microsoft completely ate their lunch.
Developers are also users, there's the old argument about scratching your own itch. I've written stuff solely for my own use, and it's been a nice bonus to find that others are using it too.
I tend to be sloppy when I write stuff for myself. Case in point: an NMDC (p2p protocol) client I've written for myself to chat. It includes support for winamp and amarok, but has no facilities for file transfer, other than sending a pre-generated empty share list on request. Since I don't download, it was not worth the effort. It also includes millisecond-precise logging I've used to prove my ISP's throttling practices to their customer support, since they kept denying it. Extremely useful for my itch, but still: a p2p client that can't download files.
One wouldn't be the first post if the first post was zero - zero would.
First indicates a relative position. Zero is an index.
Does that mean that OSX are vampires? And what is Solaris?
The dodo bird.
If my male housemate ever try this, all they'd accomplish is me backed into a corner, one hand on an my revolver, half looking at them and half looking at my computer screen.
Evolution at work.
To the developers, at least, marketshare is absolutely irrelevant to their efforts.
Nobody wants to program a user application for a platform without users. Except as a training excercise, perhaps.
Not sure about the army, but it is (now) stable enough for my purposes, especially on an AMD Athlon 3000+ based system.
I'm sure any OS that can stay up for two weeks can be used to manage nuclear weapons.
Read it again until you realize what society is becoming.
All sarcasm aside, I think this a perfect example of Military Intelligence! ;)
The Russians use Linux, so they figured they'll be incompatible to avoid spying.
Corporate death penalty: revocation of corporate charter, seizure of all corporate assets.
Not good enough. Hang the members of the board and the C-level execs first, then dismember the corporation. They pay themselves enough to take the risk, anyway. And after the first round of public executions, the others will get their shit together, I promise you.
Seriously. They'd let a man die for $20?! Read it again until you realize what society is becoming.
Look how long it took Vista to get stable.
Who said it was stable yet?
in my experience, overly judgmental and overly critical people, such as yourself, i have often found to be the biggest morons around
I didn't fuck up the economics of a whole planet, thank you very much.
They need a crash course in understanding factual reality, not some wacky sci fi hallucination.
The voters, too. Someone keeps electing these morons.
How can a copyright law be used to take down a protocol implementation?
DMCA against Sourceforge? You know, the one with the mirrors in 13000 different countries. Good luck taking it down.
I would, though, be fascinated to see if anybody ends up trying to shoot systems like this down, as delicately as possible of course.
I'd like to see all other ways the alarm can be triggered, first. Rainwater (acidic or otherwise)? Particles dissolved from the riverbed? A frog swimming in front of the sensors?
Again... it's a driver issue, it does not reflect on the operating system.
Windows 95...
it would probably be every bit as stable as the Windows driver.
I had troubles with the Vista driver, too. Difference: Vista recovered instantly, I got a little balloon telling me the driver crashed, and happily ever after. Linux didn't even notice there was something wrong, the screen just hung. I could reboot cleanly with ctrl+alt+f1 ctrl+alt+del, but that's all that separated it from a BSOD.
If a piece of hardware is unsupported or flaky, it's not the OS's fault!
I don't give a shit whose fault it is. I'm using what works. In this case, it's Vista. Of course, I did need a livecd to download the ethernet drivers for it.
Exactly, it's a driver issue. If Intel created a good Linux driver, or provided the specifications to those who would happily write it for them, it would perform equally as well(if not better) than it does with Windows.
Sigh. The Intel driver is open source, and they have released the specs. http://intellinuxgraphics.org/
The driver is still crappy, stop searching for excuses and accept it.
When you develop for something, you want to develop for a stable feature set. If there's going to be a dozen forks of a database, it becomes much more work to test all the versions and apply patches.
The very existence of these forks proves MySQL could easily be better, and/or there are major problems with the development method. Either way, it's a sinking ship. OTOH, a dead project provides the ultimate stability.
It's not a hardware issue. It's the driver that sucks. It actually blue-screened until two versions ago. Vista does just fine.
Now read your post again.
Let me suggest a different ruleset:
1. The kid can do whatever the hell they want with the computer, as long as they remember it's not necessarily reality.
2. There is no rule 3.
I want my children to think for themselves, and gain as much experience about it as possible, while they're under my supervision, so when they're not, they can lead a life worth living. Isn't that what raising a child should be all about?
P.S. The X log told me direct rendering is not supported with Xinerama and the intel driver.
Fixed. Sorry.
Exactly. If they are actually good at tech and pay any attention to it at all, they don't have a reason to switch.
Not to mention Linux is still not quite ready for the desktop. Flame away, I just migrated back to Vista, and I'm happy now. At least I will be, when I finally set up Eclipse with MinGW.
P.S. The X log told me direct rendering is not supported with the intel driver. After hours of frustration, and seeing Vista doing just fine, taking about 3 mouse clicks.
That would be about 1620km past the center of the earth...
I hear the 2.0 is a lot bigger. It's also only 6000 years old, and never ages any further.