There's nothing normal about refusing to pay your staff a reasonable rate and then demanding the customer get involved in compensating them.
I can only quote you in the name of truth. The moment the UK government found out that was happening here they started taking steps to make it illegal, as it damn well should be.
The search giant is retaining the right to delete applications from Android handsets on a whim
Good use of 'whim', makes it seem utterly random rather than based on a particular criteria.
Yes, they can remove apps you buy at the App Store from your phone. Unlike Apple and the iPhone however, you can get applications from other places that aren't subject to the kill-switch.
Accusing Microsoft of abusing the H1-B system, as the GGP clearly does, is not an opinion.
Companies like Microsoft complain there aren't enough skilled people but by abusing the H1B program, they depress the pay scale
That's not opinion, and it's also false. People have found enough legitimate problems to blame Microsoft for, why does anybody feel it's necessary to invent something else?
I misunderstood your point, but I still have to disagree.
If the major players are having problems, it doesn't just affect the sales of proprietary products. Funding for open-source projects will also dry up and development will stagnate. Recession does favour cost-cutting, but that doesn't only affect things that the consumer has to pay for. I think you're missing the bigger picture.
Absolutely not. However, somebody asked why he was modded flamebait, and I answered - because he baited people into an insult-fight rather than just making a point.
My only problem with Vista was the elevated level of RAM you need to get it running efficiently, but getting there cost me less than a hundred dollars, so I'm not that bothered. I needed to up my RAM for my games anyway.
1) Writing a license doesn't require you to be a good coder.
2) The original GCC was so poor that they eventually gave up on it and instead used EGCS, which was a much better fork of the same software which they then merged back in to GCC. I will go on to quote another Slashdot user who had the misfortune of working on some of his code:
I know from personal experience that he is a control freak. All "official sanctioned" GNU code is owned by him, by copyright assignment. It is not enough for software to be under the GPL. My only direct experience was a phone call right after I had taken over the job of Mr. XEmacs and he told me how he must "wage war" (direct quote) against me and XEmacs because even though we were true blue GPL, he must have FSF copyright assignment.
The Emacs source code which we inherited and forked is littered with 1000+ line functions, 6+ levels of nested if-else and assorted other crap that looks like it was being written to violate as many rules of good programming style as possible. The amount of time it took to get the code in a state where we could display CJK fonts in Emacs (and in a stable state) was staggering, especially considering that we were basing our work off the good folks' at ETL Mule.
I have no respect for the man, no respect for his (programming) work. I find the names Linux/GNU and worse GNU/Linux to be as childish and offensive as the children who like to write Micro$oft and M$ and similar crap. (You might as well also write "you can't spell gOatse without the Gates and a big O". It's equally as witty.) Anyone can develop userland tools. Only a handful of people, of which Richard is NOT one, can develop a successful kernel.
So, my point stands - Linus is a good coder. Stallman is not.
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What I still am unclear of, is why you have to bitch and moan? If you don't want to use it, don't use it. Simple as that.
If only everyone who doesn't like Windows did that, Slashdot would be much better off.
Hitslink methodology is flawed.
Feel free to explain why.
You've always been able to automatically update even cracked copies of Windows automatically, you just can't do it via update.microsoft.com.
I'm not sure where you've got your information from.
Poo comes in various shades of brown.
Um, I would imagine...
The fact that you think Bush should be free from attack shows that you know nothing about political debate in it's entirity.
Look harder. Linked from the front page and everything.
God dammit.
I need to sleep more.
I have to say, I heard the term "Mac tax" years ago. It's been around for a long time, I'm afraid.
How is giving parents control of their kids viewing in any way "censorship"? It's not like the government forces you to turn it on.
There's nothing normal about refusing to pay your staff a reasonable rate and then demanding the customer get involved in compensating them.
I can only quote you in the name of truth. The moment the UK government found out that was happening here they started taking steps to make it illegal, as it damn well should be.
Yawn, yet another inflammatory Slashdot article.
The search giant is retaining the right to delete applications from Android handsets on a whim
Good use of 'whim', makes it seem utterly random rather than based on a particular criteria.
Yes, they can remove apps you buy at the App Store from your phone. Unlike Apple and the iPhone however, you can get applications from other places that aren't subject to the kill-switch.
I acknowledge Microsoft's faults but point out that someone isn't telling the truth:- called a fanboy.
Offering nothing except insult:- +1 insightful.
I love this place sometimes.
Accusing Microsoft of abusing the H1-B system, as the GGP clearly does, is not an opinion.
Companies like Microsoft complain there aren't enough skilled people but by abusing the H1B program, they depress the pay scale
That's not opinion, and it's also false. People have found enough legitimate problems to blame Microsoft for, why does anybody feel it's necessary to invent something else?
I second this, which is why you only ever see me dismantling his posts when he either:
a) Says something abnormally stupid, or
b) Shills himself to oblivion.
Accusing random people of being twitter and flaming him when he actually has a point are not kosher.
Whoosh!
(Check the spelling)
I misunderstood your point, but I still have to disagree.
If the major players are having problems, it doesn't just affect the sales of proprietary products. Funding for open-source projects will also dry up and development will stagnate. Recession does favour cost-cutting, but that doesn't only affect things that the consumer has to pay for. I think you're missing the bigger picture.
Why not try comparing to companies in at least vaguely the same field of endeavour? Like IBM and Apple.
I think this is possibly the first time ever that I have seen somebody predict Microsoft's downfall because they aren't performing as well as soup.
Absolutely not. However, somebody asked why he was modded flamebait, and I answered - because he baited people into an insult-fight rather than just making a point.
No, you're really not alone.
My only problem with Vista was the elevated level of RAM you need to get it running efficiently, but getting there cost me less than a hundred dollars, so I'm not that bothered. I needed to up my RAM for my games anyway.
Why should everyone else's defaults be configured to what you think is sane?
Factually correct =/= well phrased or polite.
Comment is here, attributed to SL Baur.
SL Baur is Steve Baur, one of the developers for XEmacs, and his homepage is here.
As to whether the code still exists - you'd have to ask him. I see no reason to disbelieve him.
Fair enough - serves me right for not researching enough.
1) Writing a license doesn't require you to be a good coder.
2) The original GCC was so poor that they eventually gave up on it and instead used EGCS, which was a much better fork of the same software which they then merged back in to GCC. I will go on to quote another Slashdot user who had the misfortune of working on some of his code:
I know from personal experience that he is a control freak. All "official sanctioned" GNU code is owned by him, by copyright assignment. It is not enough for software to be under the GPL. My only direct experience was a phone call right after I had taken over the job of Mr. XEmacs and he told me how he must "wage war" (direct quote) against me and XEmacs because even though we were true blue GPL, he must have FSF copyright assignment.
The Emacs source code which we inherited and forked is littered with 1000+ line functions, 6+ levels of nested if-else and assorted other crap that looks like it was being written to violate as many rules of good programming style as possible. The amount of time it took to get the code in a state where we could display CJK fonts in Emacs (and in a stable state) was staggering, especially considering that we were basing our work off the good folks' at ETL Mule.
I have no respect for the man, no respect for his (programming) work. I find the names Linux/GNU and worse GNU/Linux to be as childish and offensive as the children who like to write Micro$oft and M$ and similar crap. (You might as well also write "you can't spell gOatse without the Gates and a big O". It's equally as witty.) Anyone can develop userland tools. Only a handful of people, of which Richard is NOT one, can develop a successful kernel.
So, my point stands - Linus is a good coder. Stallman is not.
Open Source is full of guys with huge egos, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't see any difference between Linus and say, RMS.
Then again, at least Linus is a good coder...