lol Call it Brandy or Skotch. Or something. Alchol always motivates someone out there. It would make for some intresting code.
In all seriousness, a fork would is a two edged sword. It took 15 years for WINE to get where it is now. The fork would likley be slower in development even if it draws from the other code. OTOH it could be a good testing ground for better improvements for things that users might want like better DX support. While the core WINE project is working on that others could significantly improve it.
I see alot of pros to a fork...but a good amount of cons too. It is worth a discussion tho:P
The Irony being that it's for Open Source software...not their own.
Microsoft really needs to stop acting desperate and just making good software. Once their marketing machine can ratchet down the bullshit and just sell a solid reliable product instead of a complicated piece of software that has become synonmous with death (BSOD reference here).
If they REALLY want to make money (hope you are reading this Ballmer) They could easily make an OS based on Linux open source it keeping certain elements proprietary while still keeping with the GPL and release at a lower price point. They do something like that that allows existing compatibility with ALL Windows and Linux programs (can you imagine a debian-like OS with 100percent windows compatability) And no not like WINE, great project but still far from 100 percent compatibility.
They get the best of both worlds. They get the linux marketshare...and the anti-trust hawks off their back. Because people still have a choice. And if they do what is right by consumers while respecting their freedom of choice (creating a great product without the lame ass lockin), they will earn their name as a quality software provider.
As it is they create "tools" to find the openings in other products flaws, but seem to miss their own. They had a few thousand bugs still open from 2002 do they not?
If they overhaul the graphics and physics as well as add a gamebrowser but keep the gameplay intact...I will be very happy and so will many gamers. Hell it could ressurrect the genre of carmageddon games again.
Seconded. That has to be one of my alltime faves. If they overhauled the engine and physics but kept the gameplay exactly the same. Oh and obviously a game browser. For its day you had to know the SPX/IPX or TCP/IP address of the machine you were connecting to. Still be a cool feature. but a game browser would be awesome:D
Seeing as Mediasentry has been breached and is near bankruptcy (This may bail them out?)
This is not one of China's smarter moves. Allowing them to provide DRM for the olympics? May as well poke a hole in the Great Firewall, which is likley what will happen.
Skynet.....guess we need to find John Connor before Skynet becomes self aware. And some super model terminator makes modem sounds from her mouth and activates skynet's "consciousness"
Considering how slow those things move anyway, I am doubting birds would even hit it to begin with. Even if they did, I agree with your POV. Same concept could apply to planes.
To be honest, building a wind farm in a place like Nevada or a place where actual farming is not possible seems like a good use of land and resources to me.
Seeing as land like that is good for little else why not? Also looking at more urban setups, why not just build windmills on the rooves of buildings. One large windmill on the top of say a NY Apartment building built circa 1950 with 200 units, could likely have enough power to keep people's electric/gas bills down to a minimum.
You want to jump start the economy and pull us out of a recession? This is a good way to do it.
In places where the area is not so geophysically stable like California, they can be built into the lots.
But this can be done and gain profit for both the builder and the owner. Give people a profit sharing incentive and you will see how quick adoption will happen. And save them more money on their monthly electric/gas bills and it becomes more widespread.
Oh yea this will be the dialogue in the court.
Judge: You have pirated software. You must pay the fine.
SONY/BMG: But we have no money to pay with. Pirates have taken all the money from our once lucrative CD sales...
Plantiff: I object...the defense has lucrative electronics sales
Judge: Objection noted.
Sony/BMG: Please we beg the courts mercy, I mean we really are broke we came with grubby cloths any everything just to make our case.
Judge:....uh sure whatever....pay the fine. 1million Euros for every machine with unlicensed software on it.
I personally find that update "feature" annoying. I am no OS fanboi. This is something I hate about both companies. They force their software on you. That said, it is hard to really take it seriously when the CEO of a competitor is saying it. But I do agree with him.
Heh seeing MS track record, I wonder how much FOSS code actually is in the OS itself. Did they pilfer elements of ReactOS? WINE? SAMBA? Linux iteself? Be intresting to see if the Windows code ever were to be mysteriously leaked. And I am sure it can and will eventually happen.
Seriously. Just dont even pirate their shit. Dont buy it. Avoid it and find other alterntaive means. That does mean you limit the music, BUT you start to show the Music industry that it needs to change or consumers will just stay away from it. Eventually people will get so fed up they will just avoid the music altogether. Too man liabilities to worry about. Best to just not worry about it. Personally I think the RIAA needs to go away and studios compete to get their shit out. Do it that way and they will start doing well again. Sue your customers and CD sales will just keep on dropping and dropping. It is not MP3s causing it. They are full of shit and numbers can be manipulated to work in favor of or against.
Marketing. Plain and Simple. Apple and MS have Marketing. Linux does not. Novell and RH market to enterprises. Not end users. I have yet to see ads that actually market to end-users. In the Linux world there are pretty developers and no real marketing. I have not seen Ubuntu ads on TV, Billboards (except that one on Highway 101 in the bay area) Subway ads and traditional ads. The article neglects that important detail. Until linux gets some kick ass marketing, and a usage experience that rivals Apple's as far as OS use, This trend will continue.
To be honest, the cloud is falling routine is getting old. I am pretty much content with knowing that someone somewhere with a sick mind will actually unleash a pandemic, and it will cause people to be quarantined and all that. At this point I have given up caring because it will come one way or another manmade or naturally. Don't rely on technology so much if this scares you. If so put yourself in a position to live without tech should you be in that situation. It will either be a plot to thin humanity down to a more mangeable size (Ras Al Ghul plot for Batman comics and cartoon) or just a freak occurance that results in the same thing anyway. However you slice it dont make yourself dependent on the tech and have a backup plan. See more below for zombie attacks.
As to the question of zombies a baseball bat should be sufficient for slow zombies. With larger numbers be ready with a car. If Gas is an issue then it might just be easier to setup a barrier. A really big an powerful barrier that is well supplied with food for you and your brain. Zombies will make it in. IF they get you the least you can do is give them a good meal by eating brain foods Just watch shaun of the dead for a good howto on the subject of zombie fighting. Fast Zombies will require some ingenuity. Dress up cauliflower with some goo and ketchup as brains or make yourself look like zombie as well and groan BRAAIIINS. Kind of makes you blend in. I figure they are dead so they cant exactly smell you or sense you are alive. If they can tell you are alive well....BRAAIINS are whats for dinner.
To quote JJJameson in Spiderman. "In print it's Libel" Slander is in spoken word. SO Ballmer already has that against him if he cannot prove it. I think it is either a bait tactic. Here is hoping IBM, RH, and all the *nix bigwigs go after MS with that. They can really doom them with that and shut them up if they cannot produce the evidence. Incidentally Did'nt the SCO case determine that there were still 200+ patents in the case but they were not obvious? I could be way off there but I recall something about that. Or was it 4? Anyway It seems like MS may be using what little crap leftover from the SCO fiasco to try to attack directly. Seems like it anyway.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Antimatter the same crap that Star Trek says is bad. Malon Frieghters (people in hazmat suits without helmets real smart bunch there) polluted space with that stuff in Voyager, Warp Cores on starships explode when antimatter leaks and all that fun stuff and here we are making laser beams of the shit? Yep I see lots more military applications there than I do "Scientific"
Ahh crap get ready. PETA will be on the roll. Altho I am guessing they only work on saving the cute animals. Otherwise they would be going after ranchers for cows and crap like that.
I agree with that comment. I think the names of the branches easily denotes their roles. Legislative creates the laws. Executive executes the laws (enforces) Judicial judges the laws. This may be oversimplification, but it pretty much is the gist of it.
This happened with the comic book industry in the 50s and 60s. Hell even the early 70s. Look at where that industry is now. The Comics industry had its Jack Thompson of the day. This will blow over too. Guys on hypocritical crusades like this never win out in the long term. They may make one or two minor battles but by and large they lose the war due to the conflicting parts of their positions.
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lol Call it Brandy or Skotch. Or something. Alchol always motivates someone out there. It would make for some intresting code. In all seriousness, a fork would is a two edged sword. It took 15 years for WINE to get where it is now. The fork would likley be slower in development even if it draws from the other code. OTOH it could be a good testing ground for better improvements for things that users might want like better DX support. While the core WINE project is working on that others could significantly improve it. I see alot of pros to a fork...but a good amount of cons too. It is worth a discussion tho :P
The Irony being that it's for Open Source software...not their own. Microsoft really needs to stop acting desperate and just making good software. Once their marketing machine can ratchet down the bullshit and just sell a solid reliable product instead of a complicated piece of software that has become synonmous with death (BSOD reference here). If they REALLY want to make money (hope you are reading this Ballmer) They could easily make an OS based on Linux open source it keeping certain elements proprietary while still keeping with the GPL and release at a lower price point. They do something like that that allows existing compatibility with ALL Windows and Linux programs (can you imagine a debian-like OS with 100percent windows compatability) And no not like WINE, great project but still far from 100 percent compatibility. They get the best of both worlds. They get the linux marketshare...and the anti-trust hawks off their back. Because people still have a choice. And if they do what is right by consumers while respecting their freedom of choice (creating a great product without the lame ass lockin), they will earn their name as a quality software provider. As it is they create "tools" to find the openings in other products flaws, but seem to miss their own. They had a few thousand bugs still open from 2002 do they not?
If they overhaul the graphics and physics as well as add a gamebrowser but keep the gameplay intact...I will be very happy and so will many gamers. Hell it could ressurrect the genre of carmageddon games again.
Seconded. That has to be one of my alltime faves. If they overhauled the engine and physics but kept the gameplay exactly the same. Oh and obviously a game browser. For its day you had to know the SPX/IPX or TCP/IP address of the machine you were connecting to. Still be a cool feature. but a game browser would be awesome :D
Seeing as Mediasentry has been breached and is near bankruptcy (This may bail them out?) This is not one of China's smarter moves. Allowing them to provide DRM for the olympics? May as well poke a hole in the Great Firewall, which is likley what will happen.
Meant NAMBLA, typo :P
NANBLA is up in arms over this.
Or you could run synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Pot + Kettle = Black And http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=527_1205782611 The old mediums are dying out and going down fighting.
Skynet.....guess we need to find John Connor before Skynet becomes self aware. And some super model terminator makes modem sounds from her mouth and activates skynet's "consciousness"
We generate power with our feet? Didn't the flintstones do something like this with their driving?
Considering how slow those things move anyway, I am doubting birds would even hit it to begin with. Even if they did, I agree with your POV. Same concept could apply to planes.
To be honest, building a wind farm in a place like Nevada or a place where actual farming is not possible seems like a good use of land and resources to me. Seeing as land like that is good for little else why not? Also looking at more urban setups, why not just build windmills on the rooves of buildings. One large windmill on the top of say a NY Apartment building built circa 1950 with 200 units, could likely have enough power to keep people's electric/gas bills down to a minimum. You want to jump start the economy and pull us out of a recession? This is a good way to do it. In places where the area is not so geophysically stable like California, they can be built into the lots. But this can be done and gain profit for both the builder and the owner. Give people a profit sharing incentive and you will see how quick adoption will happen. And save them more money on their monthly electric/gas bills and it becomes more widespread.
Oh yea this will be the dialogue in the court. Judge: You have pirated software. You must pay the fine. SONY/BMG: But we have no money to pay with. Pirates have taken all the money from our once lucrative CD sales... Plantiff: I object...the defense has lucrative electronics sales Judge: Objection noted. Sony/BMG: Please we beg the courts mercy, I mean we really are broke we came with grubby cloths any everything just to make our case. Judge:....uh sure whatever....pay the fine. 1million Euros for every machine with unlicensed software on it.
I personally find that update "feature" annoying. I am no OS fanboi. This is something I hate about both companies. They force their software on you. That said, it is hard to really take it seriously when the CEO of a competitor is saying it. But I do agree with him.
Heh seeing MS track record, I wonder how much FOSS code actually is in the OS itself. Did they pilfer elements of ReactOS? WINE? SAMBA? Linux iteself? Be intresting to see if the Windows code ever were to be mysteriously leaked. And I am sure it can and will eventually happen.
I would agree. Mine still works. It survived 5 moves 3 of them it took a beating. Will it blend though? Probably. Gameboy 1 is the new chuck norris.
Seriously. Just dont even pirate their shit. Dont buy it. Avoid it and find other alterntaive means. That does mean you limit the music, BUT you start to show the Music industry that it needs to change or consumers will just stay away from it. Eventually people will get so fed up they will just avoid the music altogether. Too man liabilities to worry about. Best to just not worry about it. Personally I think the RIAA needs to go away and studios compete to get their shit out. Do it that way and they will start doing well again. Sue your customers and CD sales will just keep on dropping and dropping. It is not MP3s causing it. They are full of shit and numbers can be manipulated to work in favor of or against.
Marketing. Plain and Simple. Apple and MS have Marketing. Linux does not. Novell and RH market to enterprises. Not end users. I have yet to see ads that actually market to end-users. In the Linux world there are pretty developers and no real marketing. I have not seen Ubuntu ads on TV, Billboards (except that one on Highway 101 in the bay area) Subway ads and traditional ads. The article neglects that important detail. Until linux gets some kick ass marketing, and a usage experience that rivals Apple's as far as OS use, This trend will continue.
To be honest, the cloud is falling routine is getting old. I am pretty much content with knowing that someone somewhere with a sick mind will actually unleash a pandemic, and it will cause people to be quarantined and all that. At this point I have given up caring because it will come one way or another manmade or naturally. Don't rely on technology so much if this scares you. If so put yourself in a position to live without tech should you be in that situation. It will either be a plot to thin humanity down to a more mangeable size (Ras Al Ghul plot for Batman comics and cartoon) or just a freak occurance that results in the same thing anyway. However you slice it dont make yourself dependent on the tech and have a backup plan. See more below for zombie attacks. As to the question of zombies a baseball bat should be sufficient for slow zombies. With larger numbers be ready with a car. If Gas is an issue then it might just be easier to setup a barrier. A really big an powerful barrier that is well supplied with food for you and your brain. Zombies will make it in. IF they get you the least you can do is give them a good meal by eating brain foods Just watch shaun of the dead for a good howto on the subject of zombie fighting. Fast Zombies will require some ingenuity. Dress up cauliflower with some goo and ketchup as brains or make yourself look like zombie as well and groan BRAAIIINS. Kind of makes you blend in. I figure they are dead so they cant exactly smell you or sense you are alive. If they can tell you are alive well....BRAAIINS are whats for dinner.
To quote JJJameson in Spiderman. "In print it's Libel" Slander is in spoken word. SO Ballmer already has that against him if he cannot prove it. I think it is either a bait tactic. Here is hoping IBM, RH, and all the *nix bigwigs go after MS with that. They can really doom them with that and shut them up if they cannot produce the evidence. Incidentally Did'nt the SCO case determine that there were still 200+ patents in the case but they were not obvious? I could be way off there but I recall something about that. Or was it 4? Anyway It seems like MS may be using what little crap leftover from the SCO fiasco to try to attack directly. Seems like it anyway.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Antimatter the same crap that Star Trek says is bad. Malon Frieghters (people in hazmat suits without helmets real smart bunch there) polluted space with that stuff in Voyager, Warp Cores on starships explode when antimatter leaks and all that fun stuff and here we are making laser beams of the shit? Yep I see lots more military applications there than I do "Scientific"
Ahh crap get ready. PETA will be on the roll. Altho I am guessing they only work on saving the cute animals. Otherwise they would be going after ranchers for cows and crap like that.
I agree with that comment. I think the names of the branches easily denotes their roles. Legislative creates the laws. Executive executes the laws (enforces) Judicial judges the laws. This may be oversimplification, but it pretty much is the gist of it.
This happened with the comic book industry in the 50s and 60s. Hell even the early 70s. Look at where that industry is now. The Comics industry had its Jack Thompson of the day. This will blow over too. Guys on hypocritical crusades like this never win out in the long term. They may make one or two minor battles but by and large they lose the war due to the conflicting parts of their positions.