MS is not interested in forcing your average hobbyist upgrader to buy new licenses. In fact, it looks like the same activation key will be usable "several" times. They're really just trying to stop people from simply grabbing activation keys off the Internet.
That's cool. My main point was that it's process (including code reviews) that makes good software, not just good programmers. Open projects don't necessarily have any advantage or disadvantage when it comes to process.
Everyone hates testing, that's why lots of companies have dedicated QA departments. Many well-managed open projects have automated unit and regression tests, but functional testing is boring and better left to early adopters.
Users of open software are used to seeing "stable" and "unstable" releases both available, and they choose what's appropriate to their needs and level of risk tolerance.
Do you people who post this kind of thing actually write code for a living? Better individual programmers don't guarantee better software, although they certainly help. Humans are fallible and bad at keeping track of details. It's communication, creativity, discretion and process, mostly group effects, that make good, large software possible.
Whether a project team is centralized or distributed, whether the code is proprietary or open, make little difference. Terabytes of crappy software has been spewing out of proprietary teams for over half a century; why should open projects be any different?
It's easy to look at the hundreds of crappy open source projects and deduce that open source software sucks in general, but they're *visible*. You don't see the bad code in proprietary software, you just swear at Bill Gates and reboot.
The open projects that really have it together are an order of magnitude better organized, managed, documented and tested than most proprietary software.
Screw DOS, thousands of character-based interfaces (including the Linux kernel's 'make config', ancient BBS's, etc.) have used similar prompts.
I don't think anyone really needed the explanation. Then again, no one needed this flame either!;)
Because a new protocol requires a browser plugin to implement. Using an existing protocol (HTTP) makes perfect sense, because a proxy server is very easy to write, and you don't need to ask users to install anything in their already highly unstable browsers.
Isn't it frightfully fortunate that this universe just happens to be the way it is, and not radically different?
We evolved here. That means our universe can support life, at least our kind. It isn't lucky, it just happened. If one of those six "cosmological constants" were different, we wouldn't be here to speculate and Beowulf about it.
Our universe is interesting to us because we live in it.
I wish the media would use their power to cover things that are important instead of the movie-style violence at these conventions, just like the police should use their powers to arrest real trouble makers instead of people who just look like trouble:) Maybe people would actually start to become interested in issues that affect their every day lives and become educated voters instead of partisian zombies.
Uh, hello? The media don't have any power per se, they're advertising outlets. Where have you been? Content is created for the sole purpose of keeping you entertained long enough to see a few ads. The media are publishing exactly what you, the American public, want to see/hear/read, because whatever it is, it keeps you coming back and sitting through the advertising.
If you're after journalistic integrity (what the media use to exercise whatever "power" hasn't been ceded to advertisers) try other, non-corporate media outlets. The CBC, BBC, NPR, PBS, etc.
What's really at fault here is the class of news that can be described as "not that interesting to the general public." An educated, democratically empowered public does find sociopolitical issues interesting. But where are you gonna find one of those?
Just today, I managed to get 3400 requests per second (1000 requests, sent ten at a time) out of Resin, a pure Java, open-source Java servlet 2.2/JSP engine. This was on a dual 600MHz PIII machine.
Have a look at this patent, issued to its inventor, Kent L. Gilson.
Abstract: An integrated circuit computing device is comprised of a dynamically configurable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This gate array is configured to implement a RISC processor and a Reconfigurable Instruction Execution Unit. Since the FPGA can be dynamically reconfigured, the Reconfigurable Instruction Execution Unit can be dynamically changed to implement complex operations in hardware rather than in time-consuming software routines. This feature allows the computing device to operate at speeds that are orders of magnitude greater than traditional RISC or CISC counterparts. In addition, the programmability of the computing device makes it very flexible and hence, ideally suited to handle a large number of very complex and different applications.
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The most commonly accepted term is actually ETLA, or Extended Three-Letter Acronym. It's actually funny that way.
If you READ MICROSOFT'S EMAIL!!! you'll note the following tidbit:
You can't get a site license that covers new hardware.
As usual, The Reg has some intelligent coverage of this issue.
Everyone hates testing, that's why lots of companies have dedicated QA departments. Many well-managed open projects have automated unit and regression tests, but functional testing is boring and better left to early adopters.
Users of open software are used to seeing "stable" and "unstable" releases both available, and they choose what's appropriate to their needs and level of risk tolerance.
Whether a project team is centralized or distributed, whether the code is proprietary or open, make little difference. Terabytes of crappy software has been spewing out of proprietary teams for over half a century; why should open projects be any different?
It's easy to look at the hundreds of crappy open source projects and deduce that open source software sucks in general, but they're *visible*. You don't see the bad code in proprietary software, you just swear at Bill Gates and reboot.
The open projects that really have it together are an order of magnitude better organized, managed, documented and tested than most proprietary software.
Screw DOS, thousands of character-based interfaces (including the Linux kernel's 'make config', ancient BBS's, etc.) have used similar prompts. I don't think anyone really needed the explanation. Then again, no one needed this flame either! ;)
Because a new protocol requires a browser plugin to implement. Using an existing protocol (HTTP) makes perfect sense, because a proxy server is very easy to write, and you don't need to ask users to install anything in their already highly unstable browsers.
On an 8-way Dell PowerEdge 8450/700,
The rematch has already been quietly won, by Linux.
I'm ashamed to even share a border with some of these troglodytes. It's just YARSS (Yet Another Reason Slashdot Sucks)
How could an allegory be true? What's undeniable about it?
- By saying that religion tends to evolve and fit the scientific facts of the day, I have to point out that so does science.
That's what science is for, you idiot.When it finally became known that Bush had won the US election, my wife was distraught.
I told her, "Don't worry, the US will continue to be a corporate oligarchy. Nothing will really change."
I'm Canadian, FWIW.
A Klingon does not release software!
Our software escapes, leaving a bloody trail of designers and QA people in its wake!
Isn't it frightfully fortunate that this universe just happens to be the way it is, and not radically different?
We evolved here. That means our universe can support life, at least our kind. It isn't lucky, it just happened. If one of those six "cosmological constants" were different, we wouldn't be here to speculate and Beowulf about it.
Our universe is interesting to us because we live in it.
Uh, hello? The media don't have any power per se, they're advertising outlets. Where have you been? Content is created for the sole purpose of keeping you entertained long enough to see a few ads. The media are publishing exactly what you, the American public, want to see/hear/read, because whatever it is, it keeps you coming back and sitting through the advertising.
If you're after journalistic integrity (what the media use to exercise whatever "power" hasn't been ceded to advertisers) try other, non-corporate media outlets. The CBC, BBC, NPR, PBS, etc.
What's really at fault here is the class of news that can be described as "not that interesting to the general public." An educated, democratically empowered public does find sociopolitical issues interesting. But where are you gonna find one of those?
I was impressed.
AFAIK The term "factoid" was coined, or at least first popularized, by Faith Popcorn, a marketroid/capitalist futurist type.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit computing device is comprised of a dynamically configurable Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This gate array is configured to implement a RISC processor and a Reconfigurable Instruction Execution Unit. Since the FPGA can be dynamically reconfigured, the Reconfigurable Instruction Execution Unit can be dynamically changed to implement complex operations in hardware rather than in time-consuming software routines. This feature allows the computing device to operate at speeds that are orders of magnitude greater than traditional RISC or CISC counterparts. In addition, the programmability of the computing device makes it very flexible and hence, ideally suited to handle a large number of very complex and different applications.