Please try to package whatever you are smoking, I think it will have a great market.
But the perpetual motion machine that you are working, on the other hand, is a non starter.
Almost all the mails coming out of many corporations have some standard boilerplate appended to them. Something like, this email communication is super confidential and if you got it by mistake, promptly delete it or we will come and sue you, your brother and your guardian angel too. Really really bizarre language, sometimes stretching for half a screen or more, with the actual email contents less than one line. So are these lawyers going to find the value of adding that boilerplate or what?
I never knew people coveted to be called engineers. Class conscious England clubbed the Engineers with tradespeople and snubbed them regularly. Even in USA I am not sure people really took the engineers seriously, mostly mistaking them for railway locomotive drivers. Not many people with engineering degrees sit for PE examns and qualify themselves as Professional Engineer. Those who do, seem to be mainly expert witnesses for defense for the ambulance chasers.
A few decades back there was this movement to persuade engineers to prefix Er. to their names like the doctors and try get addressed as Engineer, in India. This blatant aping of doctors failed miserably, nobody bothered. That too in India, where mothers stay up as long as their sons are up burning midnight oil preparing for engineering entrance examns supplying them with bottomless pots of tea.
So why is this Canadian cribbing he can't call himself an Engineer?
MSFT countered the Google announcement that, "What Google is doing is throwing some FUD. Trying to scare people using monopoly, proprietary and other such terms. MSFT considers this tactic illegal, since we have
innovated, invented and patented the FUD technique. We consider all forms of FUD dissemination to be an exclusive intellectual property right of MSFT and nobody else has any legitimate claim to it. We will add
this to the tally to 293 patent violations against MSFT by Linux and its accomplice Google."
The techies and engineers might respect the startups, the innovators and the one who finds the next big thing, But almost all the startups dream of being acquired by the big boys. In fact for the people with the money, the sugar daddies and the venture capitalists, being acquired is really the business plan.
Vut that is true for the small startups. For a company that used to be a big boy itself, may be it is not a very "respectable" thing. But respect is probably over rated anyway.
If India buys some technology and know how from USA, it will help reduce the trade deficit USA has with India. But if NASA sells some of the technology to India, where will it set up the tech support center?
One of the links claims yahoo is the number 1 destination in the internet. But on machines where I run the netcraft toolbar, google.com was #1 for a long time. And many variations of google, gmail, were leading yahoo. Dont know where they got the claim yahoo being #1 destination.
If you think that is bad, think of me man! Some slashdotter named commisaro totally ripped off a comment I was thinking of posting. Talk about preemptive plagiarism!!!
And like it or not, Vista was started from scratch and went the wrong way. Monolithic kernels ain't the answer hence MinWin.
Monolithic kernels aren't the answer if you are trying to build a great computing platform. But if your
plan is to sabotage rival software and to maintain the King-of-the-hill position, then it is the perfect
set up. Bloated API makes it difficult for people to write emulators and virtualizers. I am sure there
is a lot of internal opposition to the very idea of MinWin. If a clean, lean and mean API exists that will
execute all the byte code of Windows executables, a reimplemented MinWin will run as a process in
Linux and Apple in no time. And I am sure MSFT knows that, and there are people inside MSFT who will throw
monkey wrenches in that process. Finally when MinWin comes out, it will be as big as Vista.
Lance Ulanoff, like most other people, make the mistake of thinking the people who fork over money to buy Vista are the customers of Microsoft. Sorry, Lance, that is not true. They are not. They have been vendor locked into MSFT "environment" and it would be impossible for them to get out without paying a lot. So
them getting ticked off is not a major concern for MSFT.
On the other hand, if MSFT can show that it plug the "digital hole" and tell the media giants that "Windows is the delivery platform for digital content that cant be pirated" then all of them will provide content only
in MSFT approved format, and they will achieve a vendor-lock in the media sphere similar to the vendor-lock
they got in the corporate world. So the thinking goes in Redmond. So they add layers and layers of stuff,
signed drivers, protected video path, protected audio path etc etc. MSFT is trying to sell vista to media
companies. Not to the poor dolts who own/buy the PCs.
Some of his suggestions look quaint. "Start all over, and forget 100% backward compatibility!" he urges. Vista has already given up on compatibility. So much of old software, libraries and drivers don't work in
Vista. Active X is dead. OpenGL support is being eviscerated to supplant it with MSFT owned rendering
schema. Office2005 SP3 just announced it is going to stop importing Office97 files due to "security concerns". (Just when OpenOffice started rendering and saving Office97 format files better than MSFT itself. coincidence?). No. It is a myth that the backward compatibility makes MSFT code slow.
MSFT never had long term focus. It flits about from this latest thing to the next latest thing in a desultory manner. As long as the vendor-lock in Office product keeps pumping money into its coffers it
does not have any real incentive to find the managers who manage the projects well and those who build
empires under them. Right now the bee in the bonnet of MSFT is to get a lock on entertainment somehow.
It compromises everything else for that goal. And that is why Vista sucks as a computing platform.
Even if the government taxes bio fuels, the money stays in your country. It does not go to the unstable Arab states, where many people do not distinguish between donating money for charity and donating money to wage terrorism. Cut off their money supply first.
The right amount of tax? We car argue all the time. The key thing is to become independent.
One thing going for the BluRay player is that it can play AVCHD format hi-def video from camcorders natively. That is make a DVD-ROM with an MT2S file. Many hard-disk based camcorders (Canon HG10, Sony SR5?, panasonic) produce this format file 1920x1080i (or 1440x1080i). Just copy it using an existing DVD burner and drop it into the blue ray player and you can play hidef home video.
True, a regular DVD-ROM can only hold 4.7 GB of data, which works out to some 20 minutes. But to play your child's stellar performance in the nativity play at the church, 20 minutes is more than most people can stand such stuff. No need to wait for a home bluray burner or hd-dvd burner.
I am sure HD-DVD will play hi-def video that is encoded in some microsoft format. But presently no camcorder creates such files. The only other way to create hi-def content in HD-DVD is to rip and pirate other hi-def sources. Which is difficult with all that secure video path cruft from MSFT.
So personally I like blu-ray because I bought a HG10 Canon camcorder.
All these pesky trade regulators, monopoly restricters, interoperability demanders, vendor-lock-in resistors, competition promoters... What kind of nonsense are these things? We need a better capitalistic system than this morass. Kinder to monopolies, freedom from having to obey the laws, ability to hoodwink customers into locking them in for ever... you see what I mean?
That is what BG means by a kinder gentler Capitalism, kinder and gentler to MSFT.
Nope. Word 2005 Sp3 disables the ability to import Word97 files. One would be tempted to think it will detect the fingerprints of OpenOffice as the author and then refuse to import it.
As a sincere C++ programmer, I always provide a clean destructor for all my trees. AVL, binary, oct/quad, nnary... I have written it so many times. And they cleanly self destruct when they go out of scope.
Google announced that it is developing a monitoring program that is fully web based that runs on all platforms and claims this patent does not cover the web application. Open Source community cites numerous
prior art to argue the patent will be null and void. The cited prior arts are:
1. Dr Chaplin, Charles, Modern Times, 1932.
2. Mr Orwell, George, 1984, 1948.
I have a hunch they decided there is no money in building highly insecure hardware systems and moved on to write highly insecure software systems. No prizes for guessing their current employer.
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Please try to package whatever you are smoking, I think it will have a great market. But the perpetual motion machine that you are working, on the other hand, is a non starter.
... Well, I don't have the creativity to write something this nice, and certainly I don't have the right to spoil it. Check out one of the most enjoyable short stories written by Aasimov
Can the entropy of the universe be reversed? will be the question we will be asking this computer.
Almost all the mails coming out of many corporations have some standard boilerplate appended to them. Something like, this email communication is super confidential and if you got it by mistake, promptly delete it or we will come and sue you, your brother and your guardian angel too. Really really bizarre language, sometimes stretching for half a screen or more, with the actual email contents less than one line. So are these lawyers going to find the value of adding that boilerplate or what?
Thanks for the correction. What you say seems to make sense.
A few decades back there was this movement to persuade engineers to prefix Er. to their names like the doctors and try get addressed as Engineer, in India. This blatant aping of doctors failed miserably, nobody bothered. That too in India, where mothers stay up as long as their sons are up burning midnight oil preparing for engineering entrance examns supplying them with bottomless pots of tea.
So why is this Canadian cribbing he can't call himself an Engineer?
MSFT countered the Google announcement that, "What Google is doing is throwing some FUD. Trying to scare people using monopoly, proprietary and other such terms. MSFT considers this tactic illegal, since we have innovated, invented and patented the FUD technique. We consider all forms of FUD dissemination to be an exclusive intellectual property right of MSFT and nobody else has any legitimate claim to it. We will add this to the tally to 293 patent violations against MSFT by Linux and its accomplice Google."
Vut that is true for the small startups. For a company that used to be a big boy itself, may be it is not a very "respectable" thing. But respect is probably over rated anyway.
If India buys some technology and know how from USA, it will help reduce the trade deficit USA has with India. But if NASA sells some of the technology to India, where will it set up the tech support center?
Copyright is after all, a man made law. Watching superbowl on a Sunday violates, the Sabbath, God's law. Doesn't it?
One of the links claims yahoo is the number 1 destination in the internet. But on machines where I run the netcraft toolbar, google.com was #1 for a long time. And many variations of google, gmail, were leading yahoo. Dont know where they got the claim yahoo being #1 destination.
If you think that is bad, think of me man! Some slashdotter named commisaro totally ripped off a comment I was thinking of posting. Talk about preemptive plagiarism!!!
Monolithic kernels aren't the answer if you are trying to build a great computing platform. But if your plan is to sabotage rival software and to maintain the King-of-the-hill position, then it is the perfect set up. Bloated API makes it difficult for people to write emulators and virtualizers. I am sure there is a lot of internal opposition to the very idea of MinWin. If a clean, lean and mean API exists that will execute all the byte code of Windows executables, a reimplemented MinWin will run as a process in Linux and Apple in no time. And I am sure MSFT knows that, and there are people inside MSFT who will throw monkey wrenches in that process. Finally when MinWin comes out, it will be as big as Vista.
On the other hand, if MSFT can show that it plug the "digital hole" and tell the media giants that "Windows is the delivery platform for digital content that cant be pirated" then all of them will provide content only in MSFT approved format, and they will achieve a vendor-lock in the media sphere similar to the vendor-lock they got in the corporate world. So the thinking goes in Redmond. So they add layers and layers of stuff, signed drivers, protected video path, protected audio path etc etc. MSFT is trying to sell vista to media companies. Not to the poor dolts who own/buy the PCs.
Some of his suggestions look quaint. "Start all over, and forget 100% backward compatibility!" he urges. Vista has already given up on compatibility. So much of old software, libraries and drivers don't work in Vista. Active X is dead. OpenGL support is being eviscerated to supplant it with MSFT owned rendering schema. Office2005 SP3 just announced it is going to stop importing Office97 files due to "security concerns". (Just when OpenOffice started rendering and saving Office97 format files better than MSFT itself. coincidence?). No. It is a myth that the backward compatibility makes MSFT code slow.
MSFT never had long term focus. It flits about from this latest thing to the next latest thing in a desultory manner. As long as the vendor-lock in Office product keeps pumping money into its coffers it does not have any real incentive to find the managers who manage the projects well and those who build empires under them. Right now the bee in the bonnet of MSFT is to get a lock on entertainment somehow. It compromises everything else for that goal. And that is why Vista sucks as a computing platform.
If you are going to insert electrodes into politicians, why waste it on their head? There are better choices available.
You flunk reverse polish notation expression evaluation test. With + and - operators taking precedence over * and / operators, 28 - 23.2/23/2 = 27
But given the hype and meddling by politicians, they might be pouring money in Godforsaken places like the Bihar-Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan corridor.
The right amount of tax? We car argue all the time. The key thing is to become independent.
True, a regular DVD-ROM can only hold 4.7 GB of data, which works out to some 20 minutes. But to play your child's stellar performance in the nativity play at the church, 20 minutes is more than most people can stand such stuff. No need to wait for a home bluray burner or hd-dvd burner.
I am sure HD-DVD will play hi-def video that is encoded in some microsoft format. But presently no camcorder creates such files. The only other way to create hi-def content in HD-DVD is to rip and pirate other hi-def sources. Which is difficult with all that secure video path cruft from MSFT.
So personally I like blu-ray because I bought a HG10 Canon camcorder.
That is what BG means by a kinder gentler Capitalism, kinder and gentler to MSFT.
Nope. Word 2005 Sp3 disables the ability to import Word97 files. One would be tempted to think it will detect the fingerprints of OpenOffice as the author and then refuse to import it.
As a sincere C++ programmer, I always provide a clean destructor for all my trees. AVL, binary, oct/quad, nnary... I have written it so many times. And they cleanly self destruct when they go out of scope.
1. Dr Chaplin, Charles, Modern Times, 1932. 2. Mr Orwell, George, 1984, 1948.
... I am brushing my teeth in the morning in the mirror, grinning back at me, saying what a great programmer I am. :-)
I have a hunch they decided there is no money in building highly insecure hardware systems and moved on to write highly insecure software systems. No prizes for guessing their current employer.