I can go to eat at local McDonalds or I can order a pizza and have it delivered... Does it mean these two businesses don't compete?
People tired of Microsoft's crappy products and business practices want to get away. Distribution methods are two sides of the same coin for them. That coin being getting away from MS.
A monopoly...on a piece of intellectual property brought into existence by a company. That makes sense. I mean, it's not as if there are alternatives, right? Oh, wait, there are literally dozens of them. I forgot.
Apparently one can have a monopoly when there are dozens of alternatives, some of which cost $0. I guess I learned something today.
If I understand it correctly, monopoly is a state of market when there is lack of substitutes for certain product. Now, name an operating system which has remotely comparable SW/HW vendor support. If there isn't one, it's still monopoly. It doesn't matter that there are similiar products, because unfortunately they can't be used instead of Windows in most settings.
Browser - "What's a browser? You mean, like, the internet?"
Address - You are telling me that people who can't tell difference between a search bar and an address bar know what an internet address is?
Error - Sounds scary...
Redirector - "Redi-what?" (I very much doubt average user knows what's a redirect, you can as well tell them it polynormificalizes their antroendoretarterons, it does the same effect)
Every language allows you to write libraries which do things properly. The language is not a limiting factor here. PHP did not for a long time. And no, I don't believe that "magic quotes" allows you to write secure code properly. Any framework which relies on string concatenation for building an SQL command is inviting insecure code, because the programmer has to *actively* seek to fix injection problems. There is statistical certainty he will overlook something sooner or later. Coupled with the fact that PHP4 was (is?) prevalent compared to PHP5/6 for a long time, it just might be the single most contributing factor to why are SQL injections so common.
While 8% are coming to complain about people making terminator jokes or to read about said complaining.
Remaining 2% are those who genuinely thought the article is dealing with Terminator.
People still use ICQ? I wonder if it's really seeing any significant numbers of new users, or if it's just the old people sticking around. ICQ is still doing pretty good in Europe, I think. At least in my country. It is quite surprising when you consider that the official client is obnoxious piece of shit loaded with ads and crapware. Unofficial clients sometimes stop working, because someone decided it is good idea to do some changes in protocol and not tell anyone.
It shows that you don't have to be good at something, as long as you have critical mass of users locked in.
I don't see much explanatory value in talk about "power users".
That I am an expert on speech recognisers does not make me want to manipulate zillions of settings when I'm burning a CD.
I have better things to do.
KDE is not the desktop of choice for "power users", but for people with too much time on their hands.
Nice generalizations you have there. What do you do when you know your CD is scratched and won't copy using the default settings? What do you do when you have to leave in 5 minutes and need to quickly copy a CD directly from one drive to another (on-the-fly)? If your answer is 'I wouldn't know how to do these anyway', you can hardly call yourself a power user. And in either case, you can always ignore the extra settings.
Come to think of it, that's exactly the psychological profile of the average Slashdot reader!
Yes, because IT people are generally known to have lots of free time.
Anyone find it ironic that Microsoft's legal costs have reached the size of a long int? So that's why Microsoft legal department recently had to purchase a 64-bit machine for their accounting...
This is very good point. It is the distinction between transparent society (everybody can spy on everybody) and totalitarian state (government can freely spy on it's citiziens). While China is not shining example of transparent society, or free for that matter, it is way better than secret databases and non-secret databases available exlusively to government agencies. These are the wet dreams of the heads of every counterespionage / homeland security / law enforcement agency on the planet, and likely implemented in many cases.
I like my privacy, but if I had to choose, I would choose transparency over secret government overlook.
These subjects you picked 'at random' are exactly the type people editing Wikipedia (white males from western world middle class, mostly IT or other type "geeks", enlightened atheists) are going to be interested in. Only thing that you illustrated is that while overal popularity of given subject is the natural coverage decider in Wikipedia, not so much in commercial encyclopedias.
Sure, but does it mean you would synergistically leverage user-empowered paradigms creating a success-driven win-win solution on the global web 2.0 scale? I think not.
The money ends up in the pockets of the copyright and publishing rights holders. Fortunately, in many European nations (including Germany, I think), you cannot sell or give up your copyright right. Large distributing company still keep the big bucks of course, for making your records available in stores, but at least they can't push you to sell rights on your work. The artist is always the copyright owner, no matter what.
HP PSC 1350... has a hard disk as it is able to "photocopy" pages on the scanner bed and print them out without having to be connected to a computer Or maybe, just maybe, it simply stores temporal data it on a SRAM module. Who in their mind would sell a desktop printer with such expensive and fault prone component as a hard disk drive?
I can see Leningrad and Stalingrad scenarios where you could build barricades with frozen corpses.
Only corpses you could pile up in Leningrad was those of starved civilians. Russians never got to fight for the sieged city. I kind of hope nobody would go that far in game realism.
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I will say again and again that VB simply doesn't encourage good practice. Abominations like "On Error Resume Next" should have never seen day light. There are languages and frameworks better and worse in that, and VB is in my opinion one of the latter. That doesn't mean I think it's a really bad language, there aren't any, there are only bad 'tools for the job'. And in some people's hands any tool is bad for the job, shame for VB that it's pretty commonly tool of choice for them.
here are a number of interesting, unproven, and contradictory assumptions built-in to your statement:
1) All VB code is a mess
2) VB applications are successful enough to justify being maintained
3) Despite the success of the application implemented in VB, it makes sense to rewrite it in another language
4) The orginal developer isn't willing revise it, but somehow some other developer is willing to rewrite it.
Not quite. You should read my reply in the context of what I was replying to.
I never said all code in VB is mess, I was refering to "quickly create applications to fulfil their requirements" which screams "hack it quickly, nevermind that nobody will be able to understand it or alter it later".
That they often are. If something is somewhat functional but with an horrid codebase, is it successful? In bussiness setting, it is.
Not rewritten because of being unsuccessful, rewritten because of being unmaintanable. What good is working application if nobody is going to touch it with 3 feet pole to add even the simplest feature?
How is that contradictory with anything I said?
If by "non developers" you mean VB programmers, and given that a fairly large percentage of people in the industry with some experience are VB programmers than your statement is incorrect.
How much percent of actual professional VB developers is out there? (that is what I meant by "in the industry")
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This is exactly the kind of reply I would expect from a VB developer or "non developer". By "quickly create applications to fulfil their requirements" you probably mean "create a horrible unmaintenable mess which not even the original author will touch, and which has is almost certainly going to be rewritten by a developer at some point in future". Enabling non developers make production code is *NOT* a good thing, I think most people with some experience in the industry will agree with this.
And where did this inventor get their education from
Absolutely. All discoveries are done based on previous published research. If every pharmaceutical company kept their research to themselves, there wouldn't be much progress really. Not to mention that in academia, if you don't publish you don't exist. That's where patents sort of come in, to allow and encourage publishing of results done by private companies.
Think of it this way: if those companies weren't guaranteed profit in case of discovering something useful, they wouldn't do the research in the first place.
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I can go to eat at local McDonalds or I can order a pizza and have it delivered... Does it mean these two businesses don't compete? People tired of Microsoft's crappy products and business practices want to get away. Distribution methods are two sides of the same coin for them. That coin being getting away from MS.
Apparently one can have a monopoly when there are dozens of alternatives, some of which cost $0. I guess I learned something today.
If I understand it correctly, monopoly is a state of market when there is lack of substitutes for certain product. Now, name an operating system which has remotely comparable SW/HW vendor support. If there isn't one, it's still monopoly. It doesn't matter that there are similiar products, because unfortunately they can't be used instead of Windows in most settings.Are you being sarcastic?
Browser - "What's a browser? You mean, like, the internet?"
Address - You are telling me that people who can't tell difference between a search bar and an address bar know what an internet address is?
Error - Sounds scary...
Redirector - "Redi-what?" (I very much doubt average user knows what's a redirect, you can as well tell them it polynormificalizes their antroendoretarterons, it does the same effect)
While 8% are coming to complain about people making terminator jokes or to read about said complaining. Remaining 2% are those who genuinely thought the article is dealing with Terminator.
It shows that you don't have to be good at something, as long as you have critical mass of users locked in.
I think the difference between KDE and Gnome can be explained sufficiently well by two screenshots, taken from random places on the web.
Copying a CD with KDE
Copying a CD with Gnome
I don't see much explanatory value in talk about "power users". That I am an expert on speech recognisers does not make me want to manipulate zillions of settings when I'm burning a CD. I have better things to do. KDE is not the desktop of choice for "power users", but for people with too much time on their hands.
Nice generalizations you have there. What do you do when you know your CD is scratched and won't copy using the default settings? What do you do when you have to leave in 5 minutes and need to quickly copy a CD directly from one drive to another (on-the-fly)? If your answer is 'I wouldn't know how to do these anyway', you can hardly call yourself a power user. And in either case, you can always ignore the extra settings.Come to think of it, that's exactly the psychological profile of the average Slashdot reader!
Yes, because IT people are generally known to have lots of free time.Java runtime has to be installed separately, while .NET is preinstalled on Windows.
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What if Smith had no legs and wasn't able to fish? Would it still be morally right Jones doesn't have to share with him?
This is one of the warning signs that you spend too much time on Wikipedia.
You see, some pages on the internet don't have an "Edit" button you can click on.
This is very good point. It is the distinction between transparent society (everybody can spy on everybody) and totalitarian state (government can freely spy on it's citiziens). While China is not shining example of transparent society, or free for that matter, it is way better than secret databases and non-secret databases available exlusively to government agencies. These are the wet dreams of the heads of every counterespionage / homeland security / law enforcement agency on the planet, and likely implemented in many cases.
I like my privacy, but if I had to choose, I would choose transparency over secret government overlook.
These subjects you picked 'at random' are exactly the type people editing Wikipedia (white males from western world middle class, mostly IT or other type "geeks", enlightened atheists) are going to be interested in. Only thing that you illustrated is that while overal popularity of given subject is the natural coverage decider in Wikipedia, not so much in commercial encyclopedias.
Sure, but does it mean you would synergistically leverage user-empowered paradigms creating a success-driven win-win solution on the global web 2.0 scale? I think not.
Well, you elected GWB twice and nobody suspects a thing. Now tell me what makes you think people would pay attention if Mickey Mouse got elected... ?
I thought so.
Not quite. You should read my reply in the context of what I was replying to.
- I never said all code in VB is mess, I was refering to "quickly create applications to fulfil their requirements" which screams "hack it quickly, nevermind that nobody will be able to understand it or alter it later".
- That they often are. If something is somewhat functional but with an horrid codebase, is it successful? In bussiness setting, it is.
- Not rewritten because of being unsuccessful, rewritten because of being unmaintanable. What good is working application if nobody is going to touch it with 3 feet pole to add even the simplest feature?
- How is that contradictory with anything I said?
How much percent of actual professional VB developers is out there? (that is what I meant by "in the industry")This is exactly the kind of reply I would expect from a VB developer or "non developer". By "quickly create applications to fulfil their requirements" you probably mean "create a horrible unmaintenable mess which not even the original author will touch, and which has is almost certainly going to be rewritten by a developer at some point in future". Enabling non developers make production code is *NOT* a good thing, I think most people with some experience in the industry will agree with this.
You can ZZ as well, with one hand and you don't even have to enter the command mode!
As you can plainly see, vi is the best. QED. And by QED I mean ZZ
Think of it this way: if those companies weren't guaranteed profit in case of discovering something useful, they wouldn't do the research in the first place.
Bollocks! Revolution is coming, any time now!