I wonder where their contributions would rank if you counted the actual use of the lines of code, instead of simply raw changes. Changes is bad enough already, in that code desperately in need of support, and thus requiring lots of SLOC to fix, can "reward" a contributor by boosting his ranking... but even worse if the code is hardly ever used.
Has anyone seen a preponderance of Linux running under Hyper-V? I sure haven't, in spite of having been involved in a fair number of datacenter and private cloud initiatives. It certainly sounds like a very niche function point to count.
All in all, real world space combat is going to be a lot more like submarine warfare than is generally depicted in popular SF TV and movies.
Charles Stross' Singularity Sky gets this part right, I think... good depiction of the thinking process that a ship's captain would have to go through in executing during a battle. Of course, that captain was totally whooped by someone with a different category of technology... but in inter-cultural battles, that's probably realistic as well.
And that's probably why the best battle-depicting Star Trek episode of all time was, in my opinion, Balance of Terror - it was based on submariner tactics, before everything went all don't-bother-trying-to-suspend-your-disbelief-ey, in all subsequent episodes...
In "Makers", Cory Doctorow has a segment on what would happen if RFID tags were easily printable this way - he depicted it as an opportunity to tag basically everything in your house, and then you'd never lose anything -- can't find the remote, just search it's current location.
Most of the people who react to MS's "borrowing" of ideas have no issue whatsoever with MS using the ideas... it's the way that MS portrays itself as the epitome of innovation, as if it invented the ideas. The level of hubris it takes to create the various MS marketing campaigns inflicted on us over the years is... staggering.
In my experience, on a one-on-one basis, most of the technical staff at MS don't display this attitude (most - i've met a couple of exceptions). But as a corporate whole, the level of disingenuousness is... well, repulsive, and arguably unethical.
Unlike Apple, Windows doesn't really have a history of charging for anything but the largest OS updates. Windows Phone 7 to 7.5 was a free update, even though they were a full year apart.
Yeah, but I don't believe they've ever changed to an entirely new kernel before for free. What do you think they are, an open source company or something?
I'm not sure I'm understanding it correctly, but that you can pipeline menu commands from within a text window seems to imply a standardized way to employ GUI-based applications just like we do for text-based CLI apps within *ix.
That seems extremely useful to me... they pitched it as enhancing testability (presumably, permitting testing of GUI apps in a very simple, standardized echo-to-a-pipeline way, instead of having to contort yourself through a proprietary scripted-test approach), but more generally, being able to employ functions within GUI based apps just like we do sed/awk/grep now.... yummy.
Run, do not walk, to research the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's offerings. And be aware, neo-geos devote their efforts primarily to PostGIS, which builds on the very capable PostreSQL database, adding in geospatial capabilities that by many accounts rival the best that that Oracle Spatial and MS SQL provide.
Strange. You actually have a paid ad for Chrome in position #1 as well!
I was going to go all conspiracy theory and suggest they may have changed it over the course of the day -- but I just did it again, and again got exactly position #72 (though this time, somewhere in the 50s, there was an article on Chrome overtaking Firefox that wasn't there before). It's still way behind Crazy Browser (whatever that is), lynx, evolt, etc. Possibly you're a regular Bing user, and it's factoring in your search history or whatever it's determined to be your personal preferences? I only use Bing occasionally.
Gee, what a surprise. Search for "browser" on Bing, and Chrome's homepage is hit #72. Well ahead of it are highly relevant things like: Netscape (I kid you not, a link to Netscape's home page is #8, on the first page... who knew it was even still around??); that the BOLT browser is discontinued; Zac, a specialized browser for autistic children (surely a worthy effort, but more relevant than Chrome?); Orca (the browser variant, not the aquatic variant); blog articles about people browsing in bookstores and grocery markets; etc. etc.
IE's home page is hit #6 in Bing. (I'm actually surprised it wasn't higher). By the time you get to the Chrome homepage link, you've read 4 articles on how IE9 use is growing faster than Chrome use. It's not until link #76 that there's an article whose main point is that Chrome use growing.
Search on Google for "browser", and IE's home page is hit #8, right in the mix with Firefox, Opera, Safari.
Hmm... sometimes, it's not that bashing MS is so fun, it's that they make it so easy.
He just said he's a tinkerer/maker, and Android is better for that (which, um, it clearly is... whether you can write Perl on a Mac or not). How does that make him a snob?
Just curious - since Android uses Linux as its kernel, is this list of patents representative of the "best" that MS has as claims against Linux? I.e., are these the best of the famed 237 patents Ballmer claimed that Linux violates?
If so... that's, uh, pretty weak.
Lead stories on/. are interesting today - Raspberry PI, printable explosive detectors, open source hardware in the data center... feels like Doctorow's world in "Makers" might be appearing, right on schedule!
I call BS - many Linux repositories package and provide Adobe and Oracle software all the time, without issue, and without "extra toolbars and such" being installed when you use their packages. Are you really really sure that MS isn't imposing a requirement that Adobe and Oracle find unacceptable? (go ahead, call me cynical) Or possibly that MS won't allow the licenses under which such packages are provided?
Streamed movies, TV shows, a full browser, email, their own Android market with games and apps (yes, including Angry Birds), intelligent magazines designed for the tablet form factor...
Just a touch more than your typical e-reader. But hopefully you're right about the giving away...
Still waiting to hear if the USB port can handle e.g. a hub, webcam, keyboard... if so, and if it had video out options... FTW, Amazon!
Clearly it would be sub-optimal to x86 instruction set on an ARM chipset. But will your license for an x86 version of e.g. Office entitle you to the ARM version of said product, when released? Or will MS double-dip?
If the Open Invention Network gets the patents, FTW and Google can do whatever they want with the company!!! Hopefully they DO intend to put the whole set of patents in the pool. THAT could change things.
If this catches on, and people start using it for their normal desktop, we're in serious danger of not giving the key VDI vendors billions and billions of dollars to "revolutionize" our desktop experience!! Isn't somebody going to, like, issue a petition or organize a protest or something? (Oh wait... i see the paid lobbyists cronies of the beltway IT hegemony circling already -- never mind).
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SkyDrive probably has one or two similar exclusions, but I doubt in aggregate that it exceeds what Google is providing free.
I wonder where their contributions would rank if you counted the actual use of the lines of code, instead of simply raw changes. Changes is bad enough already, in that code desperately in need of support, and thus requiring lots of SLOC to fix, can "reward" a contributor by boosting his ranking ... but even worse if the code is hardly ever used.
Has anyone seen a preponderance of Linux running under Hyper-V? I sure haven't, in spite of having been involved in a fair number of datacenter and private cloud initiatives. It certainly sounds like a very niche function point to count.
... trying to imply that Windows vibrantly competes with Linux in the embedded or run-on-a-mainframe space?
/. member #, Ken, can we assume you're doing the former? :-)
You have a 4-digit
All in all, real world space combat is going to be a lot more like submarine warfare than is generally depicted in popular SF TV and movies.
Charles Stross' Singularity Sky gets this part right, I think ... good depiction of the thinking process that a ship's captain would have to go through in executing during a battle. Of course, that captain was totally whooped by someone with a different category of technology ... but in inter-cultural battles, that's probably realistic as well.
And that's probably why the best battle-depicting Star Trek episode of all time was, in my opinion, Balance of Terror - it was based on submariner tactics, before everything went all don't-bother-trying-to-suspend-your-disbelief-ey, in all subsequent episodes ...
In "Makers", Cory Doctorow has a segment on what would happen if RFID tags were easily printable this way - he depicted it as an opportunity to tag basically everything in your house, and then you'd never lose anything -- can't find the remote, just search it's current location.
Most of the people who react to MS's "borrowing" of ideas have no issue whatsoever with MS using the ideas ... it's the way that MS portrays itself as the epitome of innovation, as if it invented the ideas. The level of hubris it takes to create the various MS marketing campaigns inflicted on us over the years is ... staggering.
... well, repulsive, and arguably unethical.
In my experience, on a one-on-one basis, most of the technical staff at MS don't display this attitude (most - i've met a couple of exceptions). But as a corporate whole, the level of disingenuousness is
Unlike Apple, Windows doesn't really have a history of charging for anything but the largest OS updates. Windows Phone 7 to 7.5 was a free update, even though they were a full year apart.
Yeah, but I don't believe they've ever changed to an entirely new kernel before for free. What do you think they are, an open source company or something?
You say that like it's a good thing.
I'm sure we're all so surprised.
I'm not sure I'm understanding it correctly, but that you can pipeline menu commands from within a text window seems to imply a standardized way to employ GUI-based applications just like we do for text-based CLI apps within *ix.
... they pitched it as enhancing testability (presumably, permitting testing of GUI apps in a very simple, standardized echo-to-a-pipeline way, instead of having to contort yourself through a proprietary scripted-test approach), but more generally, being able to employ functions within GUI based apps just like we do sed/awk/grep now .... yummy.
That seems extremely useful to me
Run, do not walk, to research the Open Source Geospatial Foundation's offerings. And be aware, neo-geos devote their efforts primarily to PostGIS, which builds on the very capable PostreSQL database, adding in geospatial capabilities that by many accounts rival the best that that Oracle Spatial and MS SQL provide.
As always, there are significant tradeoffs to evaluate in your situation. Be ready to study the many evaluations and comparisons of the various solutions.
Strange. You actually have a paid ad for Chrome in position #1 as well!
I was going to go all conspiracy theory and suggest they may have changed it over the course of the day -- but I just did it again, and again got exactly position #72 (though this time, somewhere in the 50s, there was an article on Chrome overtaking Firefox that wasn't there before). It's still way behind Crazy Browser (whatever that is), lynx, evolt, etc. Possibly you're a regular Bing user, and it's factoring in your search history or whatever it's determined to be your personal preferences? I only use Bing occasionally.
Gee, what a surprise. Search for "browser" on Bing, and Chrome's homepage is hit #72. Well ahead of it are highly relevant things like: Netscape (I kid you not, a link to Netscape's home page is #8, on the first page ... who knew it was even still around??); that the BOLT browser is discontinued; Zac, a specialized browser for autistic children (surely a worthy effort, but more relevant than Chrome?); Orca (the browser variant, not the aquatic variant); blog articles about people browsing in bookstores and grocery markets; etc. etc.
... sometimes, it's not that bashing MS is so fun, it's that they make it so easy.
IE's home page is hit #6 in Bing. (I'm actually surprised it wasn't higher). By the time you get to the Chrome homepage link, you've read 4 articles on how IE9 use is growing faster than Chrome use. It's not until link #76 that there's an article whose main point is that Chrome use growing.
Search on Google for "browser", and IE's home page is hit #8, right in the mix with Firefox, Opera, Safari.
Hmm
He just said he's a tinkerer/maker, and Android is better for that (which, um, it clearly is ... whether you can write Perl on a Mac or not). How does that make him a snob?
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YOU, on the other hand
Just curious - since Android uses Linux as its kernel, is this list of patents representative of the "best" that MS has as claims against Linux? I.e., are these the best of the famed 237 patents Ballmer claimed that Linux violates? If so ... that's, uh, pretty weak.
Lead stories on /. are interesting today - Raspberry PI, printable explosive detectors, open source hardware in the data center ... feels like Doctorow's world in "Makers" might be appearing, right on schedule!
I call BS - many Linux repositories package and provide Adobe and Oracle software all the time, without issue, and without "extra toolbars and such" being installed when you use their packages. Are you really really sure that MS isn't imposing a requirement that Adobe and Oracle find unacceptable? (go ahead, call me cynical) Or possibly that MS won't allow the licenses under which such packages are provided?
This answers it once and for all, robots will be vegetarians!
Streamed movies, TV shows, a full browser, email, their own Android market with games and apps (yes, including Angry Birds), intelligent magazines designed for the tablet form factor ...
Just a touch more than your typical e-reader. But hopefully you're right about the giving away ...
Still waiting to hear if the USB port can handle e.g. a hub, webcam, keyboard ... if so, and if it had video out options ... FTW, Amazon!
Or maybe you believe that the whole idea of having principles and a backbone is "short-sighted and quaint".
Clearly it would be sub-optimal to x86 instruction set on an ARM chipset. But will your license for an x86 version of e.g. Office entitle you to the ARM version of said product, when released? Or will MS double-dip?
Everything else is SO day-before-yesterday!
We just received notice that the Pentagon is being evacuated, as a precaution.
If the Open Invention Network gets the patents, FTW and Google can do whatever they want with the company!!! Hopefully they DO intend to put the whole set of patents in the pool. THAT could change things.
If this catches on, and people start using it for their normal desktop, we're in serious danger of not giving the key VDI vendors billions and billions of dollars to "revolutionize" our desktop experience!! Isn't somebody going to, like, issue a petition or organize a protest or something? (Oh wait ... i see the paid lobbyists cronies of the beltway IT hegemony circling already -- never mind).