"They consume few manufactured goods, thus very few suppliers are wholly dependant on Microsoft as a customer for their survival. "
Are you nuts ?
There is a HUGE industry build around MS software ( Office, VB, MSCE) You missed the point.
The author was saying that there is very little money that goes from MS to other companies in the economy. However, as you were saying, there is a great deal of money going from other companies to MS.
While I won't disagree with your assessment of the study as being biased, I do question how you conclude that the study was funded by IBM. That is not stated in the article. Perhaps I'm being hopelessly naive to assume that a study released at a corportation's conference isn't necessarily funded by that corporation.
Did anybody else notice the incredibly poor grammar in the "Wide Open News" article on this topic? Consistant misuse of "its" for "it's" and other solicisms were prevelent.
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Heck, now that's funny!
I'd give you +2 Funny, were it possible.
Mind you, that's not because of the Java suggestion; rather it's the mod point filer request that cracks me up.
I searched for "vim" on Teoma and noticed while the normal results did rank the original site above any mirrors, the "Expert Links" placed mirrors above the originals.
But the expert sites that it did return were certainly good sites that I wish I would've found long ago.
That's right. Use the platform owned by the other behemoth and feel good about staying away from a monopoly power.
Re:Because Ruby Rocks! :-)
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As has been posted other places. There is a ruby equivalent to CPAN; it's called the Ruby Application Archive.
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Actually, Borland's C++ Builder also supported this through a proprietary C++ extension. Then again, you were just trolling, so clarification doesn't matter to you.
Re:I can tell you why *I* am not using Ruby.
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I think the fact that you find Ruby's iterating style strange is because you didn't understand it. I know I didn't get it when I first looked at it.
For example, what you'd do in Java with something like:
Iterator i = myList.iterator()
while (i.hasNext())
{
SomeObject a = (SomeObject) i.next();//some stuff on a...
}
you'd do in Ruby like this:
myList.each { |a|
#some stuff on a...
}
What's happening is that the stuff in the curly braces gets turned into a Proc object (Oh, by the way, instead of just making functions objects, Ruby lets you turn blocks of code into objects which retain their context.) which gets passed to the each function, which in turn assigns each element of the list to a and executes the Proc.
I have no idea how you'd do that in Python... (which certainly isn't to say that you can't...)
A friend of mine got sick of our university's clunky email server, so he figured out (ok, reverse engineered) the HTTPMail protocol that Hotmail uses. He wrote a proxy server, initially in perl, and more recently in ruby, which allows you to point your mail client at your local machine and it will proxy requests to the HTTPmail server (i.e., Hotmail). It's OSS and hosted on SourceForge. Give it a try. It beats whining on/. about not being about to use POP3.
Sure this is a picky point, but the author of the post called gold the oldest currency. Certainly other things (shells, rocks, etc.) were used before gold.
So what good does it really do whomever to have all that anonymous data? They'll learn things like Wal-Mart did that men buy beer and diapers on Sunday afternoon or that men surf for cars and porn. Wow.
I saw one of these recently at the IBM sponsored ACM International Programming Contest in Vancouver, BC; they really are cool. The four coolest things about them have to be the new organic LED displays they're putting on them, the built in GPS chip (which is about the size of your pinky fingernail), the built in BlueTooth chips (which is about 3/4" x 1/4"), and the fact that it's running X11.
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Honestly, will you (or anyone else) please provide a link to such a study?
"They consume few manufactured goods, thus very few suppliers are wholly dependant on Microsoft as a customer for their survival. "
Are you nuts ?
There is a HUGE industry build around MS software ( Office, VB, MSCE)
You missed the point.
The author was saying that there is very little money that goes from MS to other companies in the economy.
However, as you were saying, there is a great deal of money going from other companies to MS.
While I won't disagree with your assessment of the study as being biased, I do question how you conclude that the study was funded by IBM. That is not stated in the article. Perhaps I'm being hopelessly naive to assume that a study released at a corportation's conference isn't necessarily funded by that corporation.
Gosh, at a starting contribution level of $12,500, I think I, were I in the original poster's shoes, just go for a check to charity.
Did anybody else notice the incredibly poor grammar in the "Wide Open News" article on this topic? Consistant misuse of "its" for "it's" and other solicisms were prevelent. </rant>
Heck, now that's funny!
I'd give you +2 Funny, were it possible.
Mind you, that's not because of the Java suggestion; rather it's the mod point filer request that cracks me up.
I searched for "vim" on Teoma and noticed while the normal results did rank the original site above any mirrors, the "Expert Links" placed mirrors above the originals. But the expert sites that it did return were certainly good sites that I wish I would've found long ago.
The Canadian-built space station arm actually worked!
Eh? What are you saying abut [sic] Canadians, hoser? Eh?
That's right. Use the platform owned by the other behemoth and feel good about staying away from a monopoly power.
As has been posted other places. There is a ruby equivalent to CPAN; it's called the Ruby Application Archive.
Actually, Borland's C++ Builder also supported this through a proprietary C++ extension. Then again, you were just trolling, so clarification doesn't matter to you.
I think the fact that you find Ruby's iterating style strange is because you didn't understand it. I know I didn't get it when I first looked at it. For example, what you'd do in Java with something like: Iterator i = myList.iterator() while (i.hasNext()) { SomeObject a = (SomeObject) i.next(); //some stuff on a...
}
you'd do in Ruby like this:
myList.each { |a|
#some stuff on a...
}
What's happening is that the stuff in the curly braces gets turned into a Proc object (Oh, by the way, instead of just making functions objects, Ruby lets you turn blocks of code into objects which retain their context.) which gets passed to the each function, which in turn assigns each element of the list to a and executes the Proc.
I have no idea how you'd do that in Python... (which certainly isn't to say that you can't...)
Trust me; I grew up in MT on that very farm you mentioned in those dark days of programming and we were using GWBasic. It's all we had with MSDOS 2.0.
A friend of mine got sick of our university's clunky email server, so he figured out (ok, reverse engineered) the HTTPMail protocol that Hotmail uses. He wrote a proxy server, initially in perl, and more recently in ruby, which allows you to point your mail client at your local machine and it will proxy requests to the HTTPmail server (i.e., Hotmail). It's OSS and hosted on SourceForge. Give it a try. It beats whining on /. about not being about to use POP3.
Looks like it was just time for the /. admins to have a break. ;-)
Sure this is a picky point, but the author of the post called gold the oldest currency. Certainly other things (shells, rocks, etc.) were used before gold.
So what good does it really do whomever to have all that anonymous data? They'll learn things like Wal-Mart did that men buy beer and diapers on Sunday afternoon or that men surf for cars and porn. Wow.
I saw one of these recently at the IBM sponsored ACM International Programming Contest in Vancouver, BC; they really are cool. The four coolest things about them have to be the new organic LED displays they're putting on them, the built in GPS chip (which is about the size of your pinky fingernail), the built in BlueTooth chips (which is about 3/4" x 1/4"), and the fact that it's running X11.