That's right. Don't take any guff from these fucking swine.
These rabid Linux enthusiasts who responded to your posts are never going to be able to see the forest for the trees. The postulate "Linux good && Windows bad" dominates every thought they conceive with regards to computing, and they will never be able to expand beyond it and see that if you're happy programming under DirectX, then more power to you.
It's sort of like the missionaries of old. They thought they were "helping" the natives of the cultures they visited, because they were too narrow-minded to conceive that anyone could be happy without living as people in their own culture lived.
SunOS/Solaris libs have "more functionality" than equivalent libs on other unixes. I don't know if it's more functionality or bloat, but it's there. A program linked on a SPARC running RedHat will probably be smaller than the same program linked running SunOS/Solaris.
Yes it is. It's my property, and if I don't want people writing all over it in evaporating ink, that's my right. The fact that someone breaks into my system in the first place is a defilement of my rights.
You do all that for less than a dollar an hour? Damn guy, go flip burgers, you can make five times more.:)
That aside, it doesn't excuse you. No one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to download MP3s.
They are not forcing you to steal their intellectual property, you're doing it because you damn well please, and foresee no personal consequences. This is not new in the world.
Argue against RIAA if you want... just not from that angle. It doesn't hold water.
I'm not really that big a fan of *BSD. I've installed and run it before for a few months, certainly. However, I must say, I think I'm speaking for a lot of us when I say that those of us who don't use *BSD are greatly appreciative of this effort. Thank you!
Sun hardware is usually favored in large data center (for those of you who don't know, large, air-conditioned rooms with hundreds of computers in them) environments. Intel is usually favored in desktop environments. Sun hardware is ridiculously overpriced, but people buy it because it has a mostly un-blemished reputation for reliability, and for the right price, Sun will send an engineer to your facility to work on the hardware, any time, day or night. They also analyze crash dumps, which is great because they make the hardware. This gives them a hard-to-beat advantage, because they know the hardware AND the O/S from top to bottom.
I've noticed that Slashdot and just about every other news-oriented website is based on a much older design - the newspaper. Think about it. You have one big column in the center and two narrow columns on either side on the front page. And if you look at newspapers, you might even be able to trace THEIR layout to ancient manuscripts, if you really look hard enough.
You can't patent or copyright something for which there are examples of prior art, there are a few centuries of prior art to get over first.:)
Unlikely. The "Squall" missles cannot be steered. Slashdot had a story on supercavitation which went into detail on EXACTLY this missile only a few weeks ago, I'm surprised no one remembers.:)
The long and the short of it is this: Shkval can't be steered, so they couldn't have fired on themselves.
I know that the REAL deal is that the DoJ wants to force Microsoft to release full documentation on ALL of their API calls. Nevertheless, I will defend my original post as though I didn't know the full truth, just so that I can enjoy smacking your argument down.
Listen buddy, you jumped a bit away from subject by writing the comment above.
No I didn't.
It's not only completely wrong but it shows your lack of knowledge here.
I would argue that it is completely right and displays a good deal of insight. (See, that's why it says Insightful in the moderation area of the title bar.)
Society you try to describe is anything but communist. There was NO COMPETITION.
The society I describe is completely communist. Robin Hood would love to live in it. Take from the rich and give to the poor. Or in other words: "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs." That doesn't sound at all familiar to you, does it? In this case, the DoJ would be deciding that the society "needs" to have access to Microsoft's complete codebase.
I used to live in there hence I know it rather better than you do, obviously. Next time better stay with subject.
That kind of statement is typical of a person who wishes to win an argument through causing emotion in the reader, rather than through reason. The second half of it is a particularly flawed bit of logic. You are implying that it was wrong of me to put forth the idea in the first place; that way you don't have to challenge the logic itself, just ignore its existence.
This is completely irrelevant to my riposte and should not be evaluated as a part of it, but it bears saying: You probably read the word "communist" in my post, got all upset, and decided to lash out at me for no good reason. I don't have to live in a communist country to know how the government works, any more than I have to live in England to understand the English language.
Regarding that institutionalised rape - well M$'s behavior looks sometimes like a corporate rape, doesn't it?
Two wrongs don't make a right. You can't say something is wrong and then turn around and do it yourself; that is hypocrisy. Lead by example and rule golden.
Yay for Macs in orbit, just as long as they don't use that ridiculous MacOS 9 (or 8 or any other previous version) with its hilarious pre-Win3.1 memory architecture...
They better not force Microsoft to open source Windows. That would be pretty much on par with the judge who wanted to force Intel to give up its designs to its competitors for free.
There is a name for the kind of a society in which no one and no corporation can own anything and decide how it gets stored, used, etc. The name for that kind of society is communist.
It may sound "greedy," but it really isn't. If you have a cow, the police shouldn't bust the lock on your barn, milk your cows, and give the milk away. YOU put down the money for the cow. YOU paid for its care and feeding. And now someone comes along and forces you to let a bunch of freeloaders get a drink? Institutionalized rape, I say.
If MS WANTS to GPL or PD or whatever its windows source, then that's their perogative. But if they don't want to give it away, they shouldn't have to.
I think XML is great for pulling headlines off a server, but I think it's starting to become that "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. Dependencies will only complicate things. Simple alphabetization works great for me, folks.
The "professionals" he refers to are the ones that travel in his circles, namely Mac users. The "vast majority" of computer professionals I know laugh heartily at the Mac OS.
Why?
Because Windows has taken advantage of hardware-based memory protection since 3.1 came out in 1992. (Is that the right year? Suffice it to say it's been a hell of a long time.) Linux has taken advantage of it since day one.
MacOS started out on processors that did not have memory protection capabilities. Same with DOS. The difference is that when the 386 processors started shipping and had memory protection capabilities, Microsoft realized this and built support for it into Windows. Granted, it wasn't the best in the world, but it was sure as hell better than nothing. The Motorola 68040 ('30?) was the first 68000-series processor to have memory protection capabilities. Did the MacOS ever take advantage of this?
No.
When Apple decided to ditch the 680x0 in favor of IBM's new PowerPC architecture, did they finally make the move to memory protection?
No.
When John Carmack ported Quake 3 to the Mac platform, he wrote of how stupid it was. If he wrote some bad code on a Windows or Linux PC, the protected mode handler would successfully dump the program the majority of times. On the Mac, he'd have to hardware-reset the machine, because even though the processors that MacOS runs on have had protected mode capabilities for about TEN YEARS, Apple never built the MacOS to take advantage of it.
Of course, NOW they're taking advantage of it with Mac OS X. But why did they wait so long? Because like a teen starlet, their O/S is pretty but there ain't much between the ears.
The author also says something about Windows users getting tired of IRQ conflicts. Do you think MacOS is going to have an easier time? It's not, because IRQ conflicts happen in hardware. The x86 hardware has only 15 IRQ lines. It's a cross we have to bear. If your modem is conflicting with an onboard serial port, it's not going to run in Windows, OR Linux, OR MacOS. I also don't get what he says about "clunky interface design and painful aesthetics." That is totally subjective. I like the Win98 interface much better than the Mac interface.
One last thing. I'd rather not be forced to run a GUI on my servers. The best server is a machine you can rack up, power up, and control from your office 40 feet away. I'd rather not waste any memory or CPU time on a GUI. SSH rocks, and people like me tend to compare certain tasks in a GUI to certain tasks via CLI the same way we'd compare a skateboard and a Ferarri.
I might be alone here, but I got D3 for xmas and I thought it was ass. The new engine is a nice idea but still ridiculous. The "glass ceiling" is not amusing. And the guide-bot has a habit of telling you "Go in there!"...and so you shoot every switch you can find and the damn force field still won't open.
I might be alone in thinking that it shouldn't take more than ten minutes to find a switch, but I rather doubt it.
I met maddog in the airport after Comdex '99 in Las Vegas. He likes Sam Adams, so if you have the chance, buy him that. He put away two tall glasses of it.:)
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It's "Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"
I just confirmed this by listening to the MP3...
from Napster...
EHEHEHEH
These rabid Linux enthusiasts who responded to your posts are never going to be able to see the forest for the trees. The postulate "Linux good && Windows bad" dominates every thought they conceive with regards to computing, and they will never be able to expand beyond it and see that if you're happy programming under DirectX, then more power to you.
It's sort of like the missionaries of old. They thought they were "helping" the natives of the cultures they visited, because they were too narrow-minded to conceive that anyone could be happy without living as people in their own culture lived.
SunOS/Solaris libs have "more functionality" than equivalent libs on other unixes. I don't know if it's more functionality or bloat, but it's there. A program linked on a SPARC running RedHat will probably be smaller than the same program linked running SunOS/Solaris.
Yes it is. It's my property, and if I don't want people writing all over it in evaporating ink, that's my right. The fact that someone breaks into my system in the first place is a defilement of my rights.
Lars Ulrich did an interesting skit for the MTV Video Music Awards in which he said, "Sharing is fun when it's other people's stuff."
That aside, it doesn't excuse you. No one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to download MP3s.
They are not forcing you to steal their intellectual property, you're doing it because you damn well please, and foresee no personal consequences. This is not new in the world.
Argue against RIAA if you want... just not from that angle. It doesn't hold water.
I'm not really that big a fan of *BSD. I've installed and run it before for a few months, certainly. However, I must say, I think I'm speaking for a lot of us when I say that those of us who don't use *BSD are greatly appreciative of this effort. Thank you!
Here's how it ends!
Sun hardware is usually favored in large data center (for those of you who don't know, large, air-conditioned rooms with hundreds of computers in them) environments. Intel is usually favored in desktop environments. Sun hardware is ridiculously overpriced, but people buy it because it has a mostly un-blemished reputation for reliability, and for the right price, Sun will send an engineer to your facility to work on the hardware, any time, day or night. They also analyze crash dumps, which is great because they make the hardware. This gives them a hard-to-beat advantage, because they know the hardware AND the O/S from top to bottom.
Is it just for goods, or also for services (i.e. ISPs)?
You can't patent or copyright something for which there are examples of prior art, there are a few centuries of prior art to get over first. :)
The long and the short of it is this: Shkval can't be steered, so they couldn't have fired on themselves.
Dude. MARUCHAN RULES!!! That other stuff is crap.
What I'd REALLY like to see is Debian with built-in support for ReiserFS, so I don't have to hack together a ReiserFS boot/install disk.
Uhhhhh... IMO, ClarisWorks is ass compared to Office. I've used both. We've already got StarOffice and ApplixWare. I think we're set for now.
Listen buddy, you jumped a bit away from subject by writing the comment above.
No I didn't.
It's not only completely wrong but it shows your lack of knowledge here.
I would argue that it is completely right and displays a good deal of insight. (See, that's why it says Insightful in the moderation area of the title bar.)
Society you try to describe is anything but communist. There was NO COMPETITION.
The society I describe is completely communist. Robin Hood would love to live in it. Take from the rich and give to the poor. Or in other words: "From each according to his ability, and to each according to his needs." That doesn't sound at all familiar to you, does it? In this case, the DoJ would be deciding that the society "needs" to have access to Microsoft's complete codebase.
I used to live in there hence I know it rather better than you do, obviously. Next time better stay with subject.
That kind of statement is typical of a person who wishes to win an argument through causing emotion in the reader, rather than through reason. The second half of it is a particularly flawed bit of logic. You are implying that it was wrong of me to put forth the idea in the first place; that way you don't have to challenge the logic itself, just ignore its existence.
This is completely irrelevant to my riposte and should not be evaluated as a part of it, but it bears saying: You probably read the word "communist" in my post, got all upset, and decided to lash out at me for no good reason. I don't have to live in a communist country to know how the government works, any more than I have to live in England to understand the English language.
Regarding that institutionalised rape - well M$'s behavior looks sometimes like a corporate rape, doesn't it?
Two wrongs don't make a right. You can't say something is wrong and then turn around and do it yourself; that is hypocrisy. Lead by example and rule golden.
Well if THAT's the case, then... jolly good.
Yay for Macs in orbit, just as long as they don't use that ridiculous MacOS 9 (or 8 or any other previous version) with its hilarious pre-Win3.1 memory architecture...
One acronym - one killer app:
GIMP.
There is a name for the kind of a society in which no one and no corporation can own anything and decide how it gets stored, used, etc. The name for that kind of society is communist.
It may sound "greedy," but it really isn't. If you have a cow, the police shouldn't bust the lock on your barn, milk your cows, and give the milk away. YOU put down the money for the cow. YOU paid for its care and feeding. And now someone comes along and forces you to let a bunch of freeloaders get a drink? Institutionalized rape, I say.
If MS WANTS to GPL or PD or whatever its windows source, then that's their perogative. But if they don't want to give it away, they shouldn't have to.
ghey
I think XML is great for pulling headlines off a server, but I think it's starting to become that "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. Dependencies will only complicate things. Simple alphabetization works great for me, folks.
Why?
Because Windows has taken advantage of hardware-based memory protection since 3.1 came out in 1992. (Is that the right year? Suffice it to say it's been a hell of a long time.) Linux has taken advantage of it since day one.
MacOS started out on processors that did not have memory protection capabilities. Same with DOS. The difference is that when the 386 processors started shipping and had memory protection capabilities, Microsoft realized this and built support for it into Windows. Granted, it wasn't the best in the world, but it was sure as hell better than nothing. The Motorola 68040 ('30?) was the first 68000-series processor to have memory protection capabilities. Did the MacOS ever take advantage of this?
No.
When Apple decided to ditch the 680x0 in favor of IBM's new PowerPC architecture, did they finally make the move to memory protection?
No.
When John Carmack ported Quake 3 to the Mac platform, he wrote of how stupid it was. If he wrote some bad code on a Windows or Linux PC, the protected mode handler would successfully dump the program the majority of times. On the Mac, he'd have to hardware-reset the machine, because even though the processors that MacOS runs on have had protected mode capabilities for about TEN YEARS, Apple never built the MacOS to take advantage of it.
Of course, NOW they're taking advantage of it with Mac OS X. But why did they wait so long? Because like a teen starlet, their O/S is pretty but there ain't much between the ears.
The author also says something about Windows users getting tired of IRQ conflicts. Do you think MacOS is going to have an easier time? It's not, because IRQ conflicts happen in hardware. The x86 hardware has only 15 IRQ lines. It's a cross we have to bear. If your modem is conflicting with an onboard serial port, it's not going to run in Windows, OR Linux, OR MacOS. I also don't get what he says about "clunky interface design and painful aesthetics." That is totally subjective. I like the Win98 interface much better than the Mac interface.
One last thing. I'd rather not be forced to run a GUI on my servers. The best server is a machine you can rack up, power up, and control from your office 40 feet away. I'd rather not waste any memory or CPU time on a GUI. SSH rocks, and people like me tend to compare certain tasks in a GUI to certain tasks via CLI the same way we'd compare a skateboard and a Ferarri.
If you were paying attention you'd notice that I already posted an "I'm sorry" notice. Pull your dong out of your ass.
I might be alone in thinking that it shouldn't take more than ten minutes to find a switch, but I rather doubt it.
I met maddog in the airport after Comdex '99 in Las Vegas. He likes Sam Adams, so if you have the chance, buy him that. He put away two tall glasses of it. :)