Let's be serious now. Microsoft rolled out SP3 partly in an effort to break WINE? Think about it for a second. If SP3 does voodoo magic that causes incompatibility with WINE, does that break WINE? No! Everything that used to work with WINE still will!
Sure, they can introduce something to cause future applications targeted to XP SP3 to not run on current WINE (which would probably get fixed pretty quickly by WINE devs anyways). But (1) who will write an app that only works on XP SP3+ and leave everyone else out in the cold? and (2) does MS really want to annoy its own "ecosystem" and all its developers just to annoy a few WINE devs?
So what do I do to enable focus-follows mouse, and to make the cursor disappear when I start typing (yes, I do realize that my second request is not available under KDE, and I fake it with unclutter)?
I've never fiddled with the hide-cursor-when-typing setting, and on almost all text boxes (one-line text boxes, konsole, khtml, kword, to name a few) on my Fedora and Kubuntu boxen hide the cursor when I start typing. The only text area that didn't hide the cursor was the Kate editor.
Ok, I've used Firefox since 0.7 and I think IE is crap, but let's be honest here. Back in the days of IE 4/5 and NS 4-4.7, Netscape was NOT fast by any measure. It was slow to start, slow to load pages, and crashed (at least for me) far more often than IE. Eventually, sometime during the IE 5 or 6 era, I finally gave up on Netscape and switched to IE because IE really was catching up and Netscape was going nowhere.
Times were different then. For the past few years IE has been stagnating, but 8 years ago it was the other way around.
On one hand, photos you take can be traced back to you. On the other hand, the watermarking or metadata could probably be removed by a third party.
Luckily, though, only one of the above can be true, since if you can remove or alter the watermark then it's not foolproof and can't be unambiguously traced to you.
A large bureaucratic organization like MSFT will have code reviews before anything can be committed. Sure, we all know that a clever programmer can obfuscate his code in such a way as to prevent it from being detected by a simple code review -- but what would he be doing in a low-paid job?
Also, Microsoft pays very well. An entry-level job pays anywhere from 1.5-4x the hourly rate of an investment banking job, depending on the bank's bonus that year.
This worked on my Fedora box both locally (i.e. keyboard) as well as through SSH. However, it did NOT work on my CentOS 5 installation. The box locked up hard and now I have to call someone to reboot it... silly me...
Although Yahoo's P/E is indeed 62 and that is high in many industries, it is not a valid measure alone and can vary across industries. Consider the following current P/E ratios:
Amazon: 66.00
Ebay: 115.75
Redhat: 51.11
I'm just pointing out that P/E is not a definitive measure, and that this number alone does not mean refusing borders on illegal, and does not mean the offer was an "amazing" amount of money. I do agree though, that this is a pretty good offer from MS. I think Yahoo is trying to at least put up a fight before giving in.
I don't know where you got those numbers, but Yahoo has 1.34B shares outstanding. At $19.18 closing on Thursday (before the spike following the announcement), that's $25.7B market cap. Yahoo's 2004, 2005, and 2006 profits were 840 M, 1.9B, and 751M respectively, according to their public filings (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). That's quite a far cry from $3.75 billion.
According to Microsoft's latest quarterly report (available on www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), they have 21 billion in cash, equivalents, and short-term investments. Microsoft can make up the difference by issuing new shares, but that is an unlikely strategy. They will almost certainly fund most of the buyout by issuing debt (e.g. bonds), and considering their $4.7B profit (not revenue) in the 3 months of Sep-Dec 2007, I don't think they'll have a hard time paying it off.
Maybe they will finally decide to package the 32-bit standard c++ headers for 64-bit machines? Other distros don't mess this up, but Gutsy still doesn't have this. I got modded flamebait when I brought this up before because somebody pointed out Gutsy was beta, but what's the excuse now?
$ apt-cache search lib32stdc
lib32stdc++6 - The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (32 bit Version)
lib32stdc++6-4.1-dbg - The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (debugging files)
lib32stdc++6-4.2-dbg - The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (debugging files)
Gutsy, even in its development state, is missing some really basic things. If you do "apt-cache search stdc++" on an x86_64, you can see that libstdc++6 and lib32stdc++ are available, but that only the 64-bit version has a -dev package.
So I can't compile 32-bit c++ apps on Gutsy, when this really is a basic thing that, for example, Fedora gets right. This is something that most "users" probably won't notice... but isn't that Windows mentality?
And I'm not really just complaining pedantically -- my CS class provides some 32-bit reference binaries, so to link to those I have to compile against 32-bit.
It will matter if the laptops are produced in the US and certain raw materials or components have to be imported, because the American manufacturers will have to pay more USD to get the same amount of input materials.
I used it a couple of weeks ago... accidentally. I thought I was doing things the way I always used to, so that there would be a confirmation screen, but there wasn't. I had to cancel the order because it was placed to the wrong shipping address.
This is the biggest thing that I hated about VS. Clicking on a variable, type, function,..., in Eclipse highlights the others like it in the editor, and there just is no equivalent in VS. There is not even a plugin that can provide this functionality.
Also, the automatic parenthesis/bracket/brace pairing (type a { and it shows the } automatically) was pretty nice. In VS, you can get this too but you have to buy a plugin from a 3rd party.
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Let's be serious now. Microsoft rolled out SP3 partly in an effort to break WINE? Think about it for a second. If SP3 does voodoo magic that causes incompatibility with WINE, does that break WINE? No! Everything that used to work with WINE still will!
Sure, they can introduce something to cause future applications targeted to XP SP3 to not run on current WINE (which would probably get fixed pretty quickly by WINE devs anyways). But (1) who will write an app that only works on XP SP3+ and leave everyone else out in the cold? and (2) does MS really want to annoy its own "ecosystem" and all its developers just to annoy a few WINE devs?
while true; do
./install-openoffice.sh
done
muahaha... my brilliant plan should be killing MS any minute now...
So the US went to war to help China? Not because uh, you know, the little incident at Pearl Harbor which you even linked to?
Did I hear that correctly? NVidia is going to beat Intel in the GPU department? What a breaking development!
In other news, Aston Martin makes better cars than Hyundai!
I agree. Only small* companies can allow their employees full control over their work computers.
*for large values of "small"
Microsoft allows their employees full control over their boxes, how well that's working is a different debate.
I've never fiddled with the hide-cursor-when-typing setting, and on almost all text boxes (one-line text boxes, konsole, khtml, kword, to name a few) on my Fedora and Kubuntu boxen hide the cursor when I start typing. The only text area that didn't hide the cursor was the Kate editor.
And don't even think about getting near him if you're Mallory...
What is this software that you run? Even Microsoft's own solution, Dynamics AX, runs and is fully supported on Oracle.
Ok, I've used Firefox since 0.7 and I think IE is crap, but let's be honest here. Back in the days of IE 4/5 and NS 4-4.7, Netscape was NOT fast by any measure. It was slow to start, slow to load pages, and crashed (at least for me) far more often than IE. Eventually, sometime during the IE 5 or 6 era, I finally gave up on Netscape and switched to IE because IE really was catching up and Netscape was going nowhere.
Times were different then. For the past few years IE has been stagnating, but 8 years ago it was the other way around.
My life will be complete the day that WINE embraces, extends, and extinguishes the Windows API... ahhh, one can dream!
Luckily, though, only one of the above can be true, since if you can remove or alter the watermark then it's not foolproof and can't be unambiguously traced to you.
A large bureaucratic organization like MSFT will have code reviews before anything can be committed. Sure, we all know that a clever programmer can obfuscate his code in such a way as to prevent it from being detected by a simple code review -- but what would he be doing in a low-paid job?
Also, Microsoft pays very well. An entry-level job pays anywhere from 1.5-4x the hourly rate of an investment banking job, depending on the bank's bonus that year.
This worked on my Fedora box both locally (i.e. keyboard) as well as through SSH. However, it did NOT work on my CentOS 5 installation. The box locked up hard and now I have to call someone to reboot it... silly me...
Although Yahoo's P/E is indeed 62 and that is high in many industries, it is not a valid measure alone and can vary across industries. Consider the following current P/E ratios:
Amazon: 66.00
Ebay: 115.75
Redhat: 51.11
I'm just pointing out that P/E is not a definitive measure, and that this number alone does not mean refusing borders on illegal, and does not mean the offer was an "amazing" amount of money. I do agree though, that this is a pretty good offer from MS. I think Yahoo is trying to at least put up a fight before giving in.
Massively parallel? I can't even manage to do things right one at a time, never mind a bunch in parallel... =(
I don't know where you got those numbers, but Yahoo has 1.34B shares outstanding. At $19.18 closing on Thursday (before the spike following the announcement), that's $25.7B market cap. Yahoo's 2004, 2005, and 2006 profits were 840 M, 1.9B, and 751M respectively, according to their public filings (available at www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). That's quite a far cry from $3.75 billion.
According to Microsoft's latest quarterly report (available on www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), they have 21 billion in cash, equivalents, and short-term investments. Microsoft can make up the difference by issuing new shares, but that is an unlikely strategy. They will almost certainly fund most of the buyout by issuing debt (e.g. bonds), and considering their $4.7B profit (not revenue) in the 3 months of Sep-Dec 2007, I don't think they'll have a hard time paying it off.
Right, because nobody downloads Linux distros?
The year I applied to colleges (2005), GA Tech's average SAT score was 1337.
Gutsy, even in its development state, is missing some really basic things. If you do "apt-cache search stdc++" on an x86_64, you can see that libstdc++6 and lib32stdc++ are available, but that only the 64-bit version has a -dev package.
So I can't compile 32-bit c++ apps on Gutsy, when this really is a basic thing that, for example, Fedora gets right. This is something that most "users" probably won't notice... but isn't that Windows mentality?
And I'm not really just complaining pedantically -- my CS class provides some 32-bit reference binaries, so to link to those I have to compile against 32-bit.
It will matter if the laptops are produced in the US and certain raw materials or components have to be imported, because the American manufacturers will have to pay more USD to get the same amount of input materials.
I used it a couple of weeks ago... accidentally. I thought I was doing things the way I always used to, so that there would be a confirmation screen, but there wasn't. I had to cancel the order because it was placed to the wrong shipping address.
This is the biggest thing that I hated about VS. Clicking on a variable, type, function, ..., in Eclipse highlights the others like it in the editor, and there just is no equivalent in VS. There is not even a plugin that can provide this functionality.
Also, the automatic parenthesis/bracket/brace pairing (type a { and it shows the } automatically) was pretty nice. In VS, you can get this too but you have to buy a plugin from a 3rd party.
So is that like, really fat and hypocritical?