What I understand (which admittedly isn't much!) is that Msft licenses Java from Sun, and violates the agreement, doing something that wasn't in the contract, even if that something actually does improve the user experience by integrating it with Windows proprietary specialsauce, which already tantamount to proprietary 'embrace, extent, make incompatible, extinguish or appropriate'. The fact remains it's Sun's property, not Msft's. What seems belligerent to me is OTHER companies have to follow Msft's license agreements but Msft doesn't, and do whatever they want with other companies products??? Sure, Sun may have 'laid a trap' for Msft, but wtf has Msft been doing for the last 25 years that's any different?? It certainly hasn't been producing quality software!!
MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) was developed by IBM as full featured system bus for use on theirs servers and personal computers. Besides being using in PS/2, RS/6000 and AS/400, NCR and Apricot also made MCA clones. There is also MCA-based Tandy Model 5000. However, MCA failed to become significant industry standard (partly due to IBM keeping the technology proprietary) and other vendors went with EISA and later with PCI.
MCA supports clean plug-and-play capability, has very advanced bus mastering capability (to some regard better than PCI), supports up to 65280 device addresses. Supported transfer speed is up to 160 MBytes/sec on 32-bit MCA.
There are holes in the sun's corona!!! We must force the US to sign international treasties, abandon all industrial activity and revert to an agrarian society immediately before it's too late!!
I heard of one freeware project that someone at Msft like so much that they chipped in to buy them an all-expense-paid vacation to Bangalor, India, and the programmer was never heard from again.
Plot: The heartwarming story small group of colorful, eccentric young programmers who take on a media sector dominated by a highy successful, overshadowing, looming, darkly controlling business conglomerate. They work hard and produce quality products but slowly go into bankruptcy due to the machinations of the competition and just as the owners are about to close up shop they're saved by a combination of a Deus Ex Machina software innovation, a sentimental old banker who grew up in the video arcades of yesteryear and hordes of loyal followers who come out of the woodwork and give them the best quarter of sales ever recorded. Walt may have liked it but I don't think CapCities/ABC/Disney would touch it.
That actually happened to me several times last when our normally great ISP was have problems with the telco CO overheating - "Maybe they got that CR virus??" people would say. "No, it's a heat prob in the phone CO, besides our ISP uses Linux which isn't affected by CR".
they will never have to compile that new, sexy app that only seasoned veterans can.
It's quite appearent by now that only seasoned veterans know how to download and apply IIS security patches too.
Heck, my office of 50+ Windohs users regularly need professional assistance. Not a one of them installed Windohs, the office suite, or setup the file & print systems, mapped network drives, etc etc etc. When the acctng dept gets a new app to access an online banking service or something the first person they call is the Net Admin.
Really - if the Olymipics were meant to include mental gymnastics then the original sponsors would have invited Plato, Aristotle et al to participate in some kind of rhetoric, oratory or philosophy debate; could you imagine Pathagoras & Euclid battling it out for the gold medal in geometry?
Obviously not Msft, since their FU's are protected by the EULA; society seems to want to blame the virus authors who exploit the holes, but I think the blame belongs to: people who take the path of least resistance and buy Msft licenses. Yes, people should be FIRED, sacked, terminated, let go, finito', by company's for recommending Msft Exchange/Outlook/IIS when they get a plague of viruses. And I mean TOP IT mgmt should get the old heave-ho onto the street from the suits when there's a major business disruption. After they dump the McSE fakirs and the "40 Billion Dollar RipOff Goliath" they should look around for some credible, broad computer business information systems experience willing to look at alternatives other than a simple minded 'single source' from budget sucking vendor lock in thieves leading them further down the primrose path to madness, mayhem & self destruction.
Very good rant - but there's several things a properly done e-book would have that the paper&ink ones don't: the ability to electronically search for keywords and other indexing or hypertext schemes, something essential for modern day research, altho overkill for pleasure reading. However, the traditional bookseller business model relied heavily on selling individual units of dead trees so it's not too suprising that the current incarnation of e-books is so heavily laden with protection and controls that's it's a big turn off.
Those power figures can be misleading, depending on the pulse duration, power being energy/second. I've plans for a 100,000 Watt Laser that runs off of a 6v lantern battery. Sure, it actually is 100,000 watts, but the pulse duration is only 10 nanoseconds, and the light pulse that comes out is only about 6 feet long, so the amount of energy is, well, what can be supplied by a 6v lantern battery, nothing earth shattering there.
But after they've sold their product to e.g. compaq or AOL. they should be able to do with it whatever they like.
They don't 'sell the product' - they sell a 'license to use' the product - anyone who doesn't understand that difference shouldn't even be participating in the debate, let along being modded 'insightful' - more like 'clueless'.
If you buy a license, the product remains the property of Msft. Corp.
Should a theatre that bought the rights to show "Planet of the Apes" be allowed to 'do anything they want' with it? Like re-edit it? Put ads for the local hardware store in it?? Of course not- the movie is still the property of the production company or whatever, not the theatre that is charging per-seat tickets to view the movie. Now a theatre could actually purchase the product and do whatever they want with it, but it's going to be VERY expensive because the owners will want the production costs plus whatever profits they expect to get in the future from second run theatres, videos, television, mktng tie-ins, etc. etc. etc. Similarly, Compaq could purchase XP from Microsoft and do whatever they want with it but it'll be very expensive and would ammount to a corporate takeover of msft.
The real question in the courts is how much can companies like Msft can use their license terms for monopoly maintenance and abuse?
the 'arbitrary precision calculator' that *nix people (usually) have it right at their fingertips. Don't know what Windows users have to accomplish the task.
Ok - my little story does indeed reek of 'urban legend' and just 'sounds' credible (hey, it got +4 here already!) I did a more indepth research and found one Phd who makes a distinction between MRI as a type of NMR, but then again here is another site that repeats my story.
That's why medicine took the 'nuclear' out of Nuclear Magnetic Resonant Imaging - patients would freak out at the mere mention of 'nuclear' so they changed it to just MRI. It still involved the nuclei of atoms.
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What I understand (which admittedly isn't much!) is that Msft licenses Java from Sun, and violates the agreement, doing something that wasn't in the contract, even if that something actually does improve the user experience by integrating it with Windows proprietary specialsauce, which already tantamount to proprietary 'embrace, extent, make incompatible, extinguish or appropriate'. The fact remains it's Sun's property, not Msft's. What seems belligerent to me is OTHER companies have to follow Msft's license agreements but Msft doesn't, and do whatever they want with other companies products??? Sure, Sun may have 'laid a trap' for Msft, but wtf has Msft been doing for the last 25 years that's any different?? It certainly hasn't been producing quality software!!
From netbsd.org:
MicroChannel Architecture (MCA) was developed by IBM as full featured system bus for use on theirs servers and personal computers. Besides being using in PS/2, RS/6000 and AS/400, NCR and Apricot also made MCA clones. There is also MCA-based Tandy Model 5000. However, MCA failed to become significant industry standard (partly due to IBM keeping the technology proprietary) and other vendors went with EISA and later with PCI.
MCA supports clean plug-and-play capability, has very advanced bus mastering capability (to some regard better than PCI), supports up to 65280 device addresses. Supported transfer speed is up to 160 MBytes/sec on 32-bit MCA.
Msft lost their appeal a /long/ time ago.
Now banana's, those have appeal.
There are holes in the sun's corona !!! We must force the US to sign international treasties, abandon all industrial activity and revert to an agrarian society immediately before it's too late!!
We used to create worms on punch cards and you had to mail them around to get infected!
Actually there WAS a game in the mid 70's that reproduced itself on UNIVAC's with tapes that were send around; details here.
They also need to come up with some soothing, high positive energy Aquarius phrases for the following:
"This application has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown"
"Please wait"
"Would you like to reboot now?"
"We are going to MSN today"
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that".
I heard of one freeware project that someone at Msft like so much that they chipped in to buy them an all-expense-paid vacation to Bangalor, India, and the programmer was never heard from again.
Plot: The heartwarming story small group of colorful, eccentric young programmers who take on a media sector dominated by a highy successful, overshadowing, looming, darkly controlling business conglomerate. They work hard and produce quality products but slowly go into bankruptcy due to the machinations of the competition and just as the owners are about to close up shop they're saved by a combination of a Deus Ex Machina software innovation, a sentimental old banker who grew up in the video arcades of yesteryear and hordes of loyal followers who come out of the woodwork and give them the best quarter of sales ever recorded. Walt may have liked it but I don't think CapCities/ABC/Disney would touch it.
That actually happened to me several times last when our normally great ISP was have problems with the telco CO overheating - "Maybe they got that CR virus??" people would say. "No, it's a heat prob in the phone CO, besides our ISP uses Linux which isn't affected by CR".
they will never have to compile that new, sexy app that only seasoned veterans can.
It's quite appearent by now that only seasoned veterans know how to download and apply IIS security patches too.
Heck, my office of 50+ Windohs users regularly need professional assistance. Not a one of them installed Windohs, the office suite, or setup the file & print systems, mapped network drives, etc etc etc. When the acctng dept gets a new app to access an online banking service or something the first person they call is the Net Admin.
Really - if the Olymipics were meant to include mental gymnastics then the original sponsors would have invited Plato, Aristotle et al to participate in some kind of rhetoric, oratory or philosophy debate; could you imagine Pathagoras & Euclid battling it out for the gold medal in geometry?
Who causes this mess?
Obviously not Msft, since their FU's are protected by the EULA; society seems to want to blame the virus authors who exploit the holes, but I think the blame belongs to: people who take the path of least resistance and buy Msft licenses. Yes, people should be FIRED , sacked, terminated, let go, finito', by company's for recommending Msft Exchange/Outlook/IIS when they get a plague of viruses. And I mean TOP IT mgmt should get the old heave-ho onto the street from the suits when there's a major business disruption. After they dump the McSE fakirs and the "40 Billion Dollar RipOff Goliath" they should look around for some credible, broad computer business information systems experience willing to look at alternatives other than a simple minded 'single source' from budget sucking vendor lock in thieves leading them further down the primrose path to madness, mayhem & self destruction.
Thank you.
Very good rant - but there's several things a properly done e-book would have that the paper&ink ones don't: the ability to electronically search for keywords and other indexing or hypertext schemes, something essential for modern day research, altho overkill for pleasure reading. However, the traditional bookseller business model relied heavily on selling individual units of dead trees so it's not too suprising that the current incarnation of e-books is so heavily laden with protection and controls that's it's a big turn off.
It is a waste of bandwidth ... So what?
Indeed, most of the Universe is just a tremendous waste of time, space, matter and energy. Somehow I think that's the way God meant it to be.
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right here. Enjoy.
Those power figures can be misleading, depending on the pulse duration, power being energy/second. I've plans for a 100,000 Watt Laser that runs off of a 6v lantern battery. Sure, it actually is 100,000 watts, but the pulse duration is only 10 nanoseconds, and the light pulse that comes out is only about 6 feet long, so the amount of energy is, well, what can be supplied by a 6v lantern battery, nothing earth shattering there.
Just like these guys.
But after they've sold their product to e.g. compaq or AOL. they should be able to do with it whatever they like.
They don't 'sell the product' - they sell a 'license to use' the product - anyone who doesn't understand that difference shouldn't even be participating in the debate, let along being modded 'insightful' - more like 'clueless'.
If you buy a license, the product remains the property of Msft. Corp.
Should a theatre that bought the rights to show "Planet of the Apes" be allowed to 'do anything they want' with it? Like re-edit it? Put ads for the local hardware store in it?? Of course not- the movie is still the property of the production company or whatever, not the theatre that is charging per-seat tickets to view the movie. Now a theatre could actually purchase the product and do whatever they want with it, but it's going to be VERY expensive because the owners will want the production costs plus whatever profits they expect to get in the future from second run theatres, videos, television, mktng tie-ins, etc. etc. etc. Similarly, Compaq could purchase XP from Microsoft and do whatever they want with it but it'll be very expensive and would ammount to a corporate takeover of msft.
The real question in the courts is how much can companies like Msft can use their license terms for monopoly maintenance and abuse?
GNU bc 1.05 can't even multiply 10(bignum 1)7779
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106603(bignum2)62808643 w/o segfault & core dump. Bah.
[lameness filter - those are #'s, not CAPS!)
the 'arbitrary precision calculator' that *nix people (usually) have it right at their fingertips. Don't know what Windows users have to accomplish the task.
Ok - my little story does indeed reek of 'urban legend' and just 'sounds' credible (hey, it got +4 here already!) I did a more indepth research and found one Phd who makes a distinction between MRI as a type of NMR, but then again here is another site that repeats my story.
That's why medicine took the 'nuclear' out of Nuclear Magnetic Resonant Imaging - patients would freak out at the mere mention of 'nuclear' so they changed it to just MRI. It still involved the nuclei of atoms.
right here
work, work, work.
Now they're going to be in trouble with this outfit - I'm SURE Kill^h^h^hontour could be used for real estate sales.