The people that RedHat gets benefit from - free developers (open source volunteers) are developing primarily for benefit of people. And platform of use is always going to be personal computers or whatever we will have in our rooms.
You are absolutely right. Some of things are fault of us, citizens - for not making laws that protect a worker or citizen from corporate abuse.
An example is a company who makes record profits and lays off people, just to please analysts and maintain stock price.
In "at will" states worker have almost 0 rights. The illusion of rights comes from that workers have unique talent or skills that are not easily replaceable in a high numbers. So company "plays nice" just to keep the workers because they are irreplaceable.
Interoperability simply means that Microsoft stuff that was not used (or possible to use) with OSS projects, will be used now. Which leads to more sales.
Microsoft still charges for its products, it just has opened doors to more customers.
800Hz Pentium 3 is hardware old 8+ years. You can't use modern stuff with that ancient machine. 10 yrs old computer is like 100 yrs old car. Do you see 100 yrs cars on interstate? Minimum system requirements = game runs as crap.
... because they have only effective anti-piracy tool in world: Steam.
This is some PR to embrace the pirates to join the Steam.
Second part of Valve's success is figuring out that every game has to have very good multiplier that is controlled from the central server, so that pirates can't do much beside play on some hacked high-latency server with bunch of losers.
I do that practice, because I never know what other sites are doing.
However this might not be sufficient for two reasons:
1. Well crafted site could manage to remain hidden after you navigate it, by simply having some event-driven routine that is called when user leaves page - we all have seen these popups when you leave the page.
2. Firefox is known to keep your viewed pages in RAM, even after you leave the site. I assume that this is well guarded and probably secure.
It is possible, and Samsung has being doing it for its desktop panels. I am saying having wide gamut on TN beats the purpose - simply because large part of colors are emulated, so it becomes only marketing gimmick.
Now, Anand (http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3246&p=8) claims that MacBook Pro actually has an IPS panel.
Since Andand is usually correct, so it is to expect that newest Macbook Pro has IPS panel as well.
Wide gamut on TN type flat panels is useless. About 99% notebooks use them. They have 262K colors, poor viewing angles, dithering. Unless it is an PVA or IPS panel with true 8-bit colors and wide viewing angles.
This is what happens when there are no serious consequences for the bad work.
They seriously need to lay off the bottom 10% (or 20?) of their workforce for the first time in company lifetime. Some people ought to be scared of bad work they do. There's no way for any company that all 100% of workforce are productive and useful. I bet remaining workforce and end-users would thank them.
I absolutely agree that there are things where VS are better, but even you have stated some advantages of Eclipse.
Evaluating which is better is a very difficult task. Even if one would try to make an objective analysis of each, not many would agree with such findings. Eclipse and Visual Studio are covering two different platforms and they don't have much common ground. Eclipse doesn't support.NET; and VS doesn't support Java. VS doesn't support makefiles, but you might not need them. Even code editors have different features; for example I haven't seen 'Call Hierarchy' feature in VS.
Generally, NetBeans is more polished than Eclipse, it needs less configuring, but is still underdog compared to Eclipse.
My conclusion is that you can work decently with all things they support. And they do support a lot of things.
They cover C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, UML, XML, SVN, and many more - totally free. The compilers and interpreters for listed languages exist freely on Windows, and all are open source.
The best part is - these platforms are as good, and often better than paid versions such as Visual Studio.
Yes - it is possible. In this case, pirated copy is better than original - and free. No, I'm not calling for mass pirating, just stating the facts. No DRM vs DRM - easy choice.
just look at what Eclipse today is: a standard IDE for most development languages. Everybody uses it. It helps corporations; it helps workers find jobs.
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you made it boot half hour, originally before you put crap on, it would take less than minute even on abysmal hardware.
The people that RedHat gets benefit from - free developers (open source volunteers) are developing primarily for benefit of people. And platform of use is always going to be personal computers or whatever we will have in our rooms.
OP misses to say this spacecraft will rotate around sun and listen to the stars. That's it, no special quest.
That thing breaks havoc on every machine it is installed on. They too make over $100K a week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_2009#Earnings
Microsoft has total count of web sites: 2400
You are absolutely right. Some of things are fault of us, citizens - for not making laws that protect a worker or citizen from corporate abuse.
An example is a company who makes record profits and lays off people, just to please analysts and maintain stock price.
In "at will" states worker have almost 0 rights. The illusion of rights comes from that workers have unique talent or skills that are not easily replaceable in a high numbers. So company "plays nice" just to keep the workers because they are irreplaceable.
This is true for every company to some degree.
Have bad angles and limited colors. They all suck, some more or less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD#TN
And they are used in virtually all laptops.
Interoperability simply means that Microsoft stuff that was not used (or possible to use) with OSS projects, will be used now. Which leads to more sales.
Microsoft still charges for its products, it just has opened doors to more customers.
Assuming that Microsoft has 100K employees, that 30Mil is less than amount that MS pays daily... its employees.
800Hz Pentium 3 is hardware old 8+ years. You can't use modern stuff with that ancient machine. 10 yrs old computer is like 100 yrs old car. Do you see 100 yrs cars on interstate? Minimum system requirements = game runs as crap.
... because they have only effective anti-piracy tool in world: Steam.
This is some PR to embrace the pirates to join the Steam.
Second part of Valve's success is figuring out that every game has to have very good multiplier that is controlled from the central server, so that pirates can't do much beside play on some hacked high-latency server with bunch of losers.
I do that practice, because I never know what other sites are doing. However this might not be sufficient for two reasons: 1. Well crafted site could manage to remain hidden after you navigate it, by simply having some event-driven routine that is called when user leaves page - we all have seen these popups when you leave the page. 2. Firefox is known to keep your viewed pages in RAM, even after you leave the site. I assume that this is well guarded and probably secure.
As soon as happy user loads the trojan, he/she won't use torrent anymore (or at least he gets rid of it), thus how can this thing spread?
It is possible, and Samsung has being doing it for its desktop panels. I am saying having wide gamut on TN beats the purpose - simply because large part of colors are emulated, so it becomes only marketing gimmick.
Now, Anand (http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3246&p=8) claims that MacBook Pro actually has an IPS panel.
Since Andand is usually correct, so it is to expect that newest Macbook Pro has IPS panel as well.
Wide gamut on TN type flat panels is useless. About 99% notebooks use them. They have 262K colors, poor viewing angles, dithering. Unless it is an PVA or IPS panel with true 8-bit colors and wide viewing angles.
How come Microsoft people are using Latex? The PDF from article is produced using tex (dvipdfm).
Perhaps open source is welcome even in Redmond.
This is what happens when there are no serious consequences for the bad work.
They seriously need to lay off the bottom 10% (or 20?) of their workforce for the first time in company lifetime. Some people ought to be scared of bad work they do. There's no way for any company that all 100% of workforce are productive and useful.
I bet remaining workforce and end-users would thank them.
I absolutely agree that there are things where VS are better, but even you have stated some advantages of Eclipse.
Evaluating which is better is a very difficult task. Even if one would try to make an objective analysis of each, not many would agree with such findings. Eclipse and Visual Studio are covering two different platforms and they don't have much common ground. Eclipse doesn't support .NET; and VS doesn't support Java. VS doesn't support makefiles, but you might not need them. Even code editors have different features; for example I haven't seen 'Call Hierarchy' feature in VS.
Generally, NetBeans is more polished than Eclipse, it needs less configuring, but is still underdog compared to Eclipse.
My conclusion is that you can work decently with all things they support. And they do support a lot of things.
NetBeans and Eclipse namely.
They cover C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, UML, XML, SVN, and many more - totally free. The compilers and interpreters for listed languages exist freely on Windows, and all are open source.
The best part is - these platforms are as good, and often better than paid versions such as Visual Studio.
They are also very popular in enterprise...
Can't be good.
I've seen this in laptops leading to drastically decreased storage capacity.
Yes - it is possible. In this case, pirated copy is better than original - and free. No, I'm not calling for mass pirating, just stating the facts. No DRM vs DRM - easy choice.
Way better than paying for revival of the gas guzzlers industry.
11.2 % malfunction rate of electronics ? sound like 11.2% kids dropped it.
called elinks.
just look at what Eclipse today is: a standard IDE for most development languages. Everybody uses it. It helps corporations; it helps workers find jobs.