As we know it, we live in a symbioses, the earth's climate and all things within is a closed system, why not life evolved in different cirecumstances where water is gas, and other materials are liquids? Can't there be a life form based under different balanced chemical circumstances? Balance is what its all about!
Laws apply for the country the server holding the data stands in. So US laws apply for US servers, 3 years ago, there was a pariody on dutch TV union 'BNN', it was hosted by geocities and could not be sued.
As we Europeans put our libel on US sites, the US should use our servers to do such.
I think that splitting up MS into 3 comp's being OS/Apps and IE has some fuzzy criteria.
Just because the internet is so much popular don't mean that IE is NOT an application.
On the other hand, they haven't integrated the whole Office thing into the OS...
The whole criteria to put what product into what company seems ambiguous to me. Setting IE apart means Netscape 'win' their claim, while the splitting up should be done to create equal competition, and MS has more competitors than only Netscape.
Borland / Inprise had a great application 'IntraBuilder' back in 1997, it was based on server side Javascripting, ODBC support, and session orientation without the use of cookies.
Unfortunately the product had only limited success.
I also used ASP, C/C++ for CGI apps, don't like both because for even the uttermost simple modification you need to code too much.
IntraBuilder was really good as it seperated content and functionality. Access to both content and functionality was quick 'n easy, I haven't seen that elsewhere yet.
Like most people here I agree that paper manuals are necesary.
On-Line help can be pretty handy, but there is a difference how your brain absorbs information when using paper or a screen.
Reading from paper tends to be more relaxing than reading from a screen, therefore most people prefer to use paper manuals.
I myself remember paper information better. When it gets technical (i.e. looking up how that pointer-to-a-method-in-C++-works) I like to read from paper, as I forget within one second what I just read. With paper you can lookup the info more quickly, while on a screen I usually have to re-open some window again.
I'm not much of a chemist, but I saw a documentory once about scientific research on getting some atom/molecule into the bucky, does this article actually tell me that they finally did this?
I've had cell-phones for years, you get one even if you rent some video, or open a new bank account. You shouldn't make it a big deal anyway, cell-phones are disposable. I had an Erricson-crap-model first, I now have a Siemens C25 (great!) but I bought it too early, you see, we now get m-commerce and WAP technology, so I can throw my phone away again.
If you're too anxious on quality, review the phone companies, the cheapest here in Holland have very bad communication lines, services like SMS and stuff.
If you want quality, look for the brands Ericsonn, Nokia, Panasonic, Siemens, and don't seek a bargain.
Too bad you did not understand it. MCSE does mean diddley, it's a very important certification (oh yeah):
Some of our customers won't accept any solution but a Microsoft solution, so to invoice or not to invoice is the diddley MCSE.
And this is the said thing, because a person with MCSE can't do anything better than anyone without MCSE.
Note my point: MCSE is marketing, it does not give any extra qualifications. Yes, technically speaking, MCSE doesn't mean diddley, but marketing speaking - it can make a lot of difference.
As I remember, it was that game Discworld they used penguins to trod on some piece of wood to test dragon detectors...
But cut the fun, there's a point here... Linux support for installation as I have experienced it, is bad during installation, if you don't have internet connection, who d'you gonna call? (i.e. this is in Europe huh!)
Even support on Linux stuff after installation is very aquward, like, if you don't know the-man-who-does, then who're you gonna mail? Don't expect my mom to know anything about xfree.org! I use Linux for 1.5 years now, and I still don't know all the community behind it, I'm just Joe user you know...
There's another point here by the way:
Yeeeeeaaaaah, Microsoft comes to your door to install things, well, that's nice, but once it goes wrong, they let you down, and you know it!
Linux community vendors chickens, while Microsoft vendors eggs,;-).
It would be a real pity if MP3.com needed to stop their business, I really enjoy their music.
But I really don't get the case here, if the site offers music from less-known bands for free download, don't they have some contract with those bands that this is legal.
Like me, all copyrights of software I produce for my employer go to my employer... software and music, isn't that just 'content'?
Porting of Office is very likely, -releasing- it is another story. The sequel Windows-Office is absolutely true, but one could kill Linux with office, i.e. give it some bad propperties and blame Linux.
You can do all sorts of things, I don't think MS ports Office to Linux because they want to support Linux. Consider this: if Microsoft is bringing you flowers, they're most likely decorating your grave.
Yes I believe the Office port, I won't use it, but what will the mass do?
No I don't, not because he is foreign to me, because of Echelon, JFK, black-ops etc.
"Do you trust your government?" : Blair is not your government, Rupert Murdock and Bill Gates are your government (well, just some examples then).
The cattle just follow orders - the police, army and the SAS.
you planning to do anything that you really don't want the government knowing about?
This thing threatens the right of freedom of speech, any sadism, or witch-hunts can harm the innocent, like the commies in the States were flamed during the cold war (i.e. Harvy lee Oswald was a marxist, not a communist).
Any ignorance, witch-hunts, stubberness causes a lot of pain. Reading a communist leaflet could result in a phone call from your local-secret-service-agent in the old days here in Holland.
When you enter a society you give up your rights, to gain protection
And then came a powerful man - someone more equal than others, who claims that open source is threatening (econonomic) society, starts a witch-hunt, and then they will kill our employment-contracts, and then at the death of this man, the medics discouver he'd been senile all the time.
No, this is a very good thing for at home too (well, for me it is).
When I bought a new computer, I refused everything I did not need (Windows, internal modem and yes... monitor). My old 486 now runs with a terminal, no monitor, no keyboard. I use my old monitor for my new Celeron, but sometimes I need to boot the old 486, this device is very nice, I have lot's of BIOS related problems on my 486, spares indeed the time of rewireing the old monitor.
In my computer science class we typically did some small projects on producer/consumer problems. If I were you (or your proffessor) I wouldn't pick an open source project for teaching.
You will be working with existing code from guys who have absolutely more experience than you (like you said, you're not really masters of programming). It will take an awfull lot of time to get into the code and understand how it works.
When I was at college, they tought me the basic principles. Well it is an OS-course, so learn OS-things. I worked with Unix/Minix and some other stuff, but you could use Linux.
Try this book for fundamental problems with producer/consumer problems, semaphores and dining philosefers problems: "Operating System Concepts" by A. Silberschatz, J. Peterson and P. Galvin (ISBN 0-201-55793-2 or ISBN 0-201-54873-9)
This is a good book for teaching. In my RedHat installation, there were several pthread examples which demonstrate consumer/producer situations, why don't you try it with processes instead of threads, then you must work with that awfull 'fork' command, something very common to Operating Systems (not MS-DOS!;-) ).
Open source is hype, but has a certain history. Open Source is a community, not a product.
Choosing a good license model is important. According to this article you can make decisions on this, which won't be appreciated. Choose a license, and be clear what you want with open source.
You want complete control? Do you want control like Linus Thorvalds has? Do you want control like Sun has?
What do you want to give to the community? What do you expect to get back (i.e. customers?
Is it a project with a couple of sequal projects (like MS-Office can be seen as a sequal for Windows, Windows is step 1, Office is step 2)
I think you can only think of arguments for or against the choice of going open source when it is fully clear what you want, and what you don't want.
According to my information, Kerebros was developed by MIT as an Open Standard. Microsoft used an normally unused field, this is implemented in W2K and it is unsure whether they want to collaborate on this, they were a member of the development group.
Side effect is that Unix and Linux boxes could get their connection to printers refused because of this.
I also heard that the open-source movement is very irritated by this thing... I have been surfing for hours, but I couldn't get any confirmation on this.
I think it's worth waiting for FMD, if you get rewritables of these, you can listen to your MP3's making a trip around the world in 80 days, without putting it on repeat.
Maybe MS forged all of their E-mails, then no-one knows what's happening, internal communications are very bad, and you get inconsistent products in the end;-)
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As we know it, we live in a symbioses, the earth's climate and all things within is a closed system, why not life evolved in different cirecumstances where water is gas, and other materials are liquids? Can't there be a life form based under different balanced chemical circumstances? Balance is what its all about!
As we Europeans put our libel on US sites, the US should use our servers to do such.
How?
i.e. Now we have MS-Kerebros, next we'll get MS-TCP/IP or MS-IPX... you know:
1. There are more protocols than internet protocols
2. Taking away their right to develop a new internet protocol, takes away the same right from me as well - this means nothing new will be developed.
3. I think you just made a silly statement
Just because the internet is so much popular don't mean that IE is NOT an application.
On the other hand, they haven't integrated the whole Office thing into the OS...
The whole criteria to put what product into what company seems ambiguous to me. Setting IE apart means Netscape 'win' their claim, while the splitting up should be done to create equal competition, and MS has more competitors than only Netscape.
1. Why does MS mutate this protocol instead of developing something completely propriety and depreciate Kerberos at all?
2. If Mac is doing an implementation, will they violate that bit where MS said that one may not implement the specifications?
Unfortunately the product had only limited success.
I also used ASP, C/C++ for CGI apps, don't like both because for even the uttermost simple modification you need to code too much.
IntraBuilder was really good as it seperated content and functionality. Access to both content and functionality was quick 'n easy, I haven't seen that elsewhere yet.
On-Line help can be pretty handy, but there is a difference how your brain absorbs information when using paper or a screen.
Reading from paper tends to be more relaxing than reading from a screen, therefore most people prefer to use paper manuals.
I myself remember paper information better. When it gets technical (i.e. looking up how that pointer-to-a-method-in-C++-works) I like to read from paper, as I forget within one second what I just read. With paper you can lookup the info more quickly, while on a screen I usually have to re-open some window again.
So my statement here is: kill those trees! ;)
If you're too anxious on quality, review the phone companies, the cheapest here in Holland have very bad communication lines, services like SMS and stuff.
If you want quality, look for the brands Ericsonn, Nokia, Panasonic, Siemens, and don't seek a bargain.
When applying for programmer-job-descriptions, the WinCE source code will be open for you too!!!!
Is it then possible that the program forks, in the sense that you have:
1. Propriaty code with all recreated bug fixes;
2. GPL code
both on continues base?
Can't the community keep on supporting the GPL'ed versions then?
Too bad you did not understand it. MCSE does mean diddley, it's a very important certification (oh yeah):
Some of our customers won't accept any solution but a Microsoft solution, so to invoice or not to invoice is the diddley MCSE.
And this is the said thing, because a person with MCSE can't do anything better than anyone without MCSE.
Note my point: MCSE is marketing, it does not give any extra qualifications. Yes, technically speaking, MCSE doesn't mean diddley, but marketing speaking - it can make a lot of difference.
But cut the fun, there's a point here... Linux support for installation as I have experienced it, is bad during installation, if you don't have internet connection, who d'you gonna call? (i.e. this is in Europe huh!)
Even support on Linux stuff after installation is very aquward, like, if you don't know the-man-who-does, then who're you gonna mail? Don't expect my mom to know anything about xfree.org! I use Linux for 1.5 years now, and I still don't know all the community behind it, I'm just Joe user you know...
There's another point here by the way:
Yeeeeeaaaaah, Microsoft comes to your door to install things, well, that's nice, but once it goes wrong, they let you down, and you know it!
Linux community vendors chickens, while Microsoft vendors eggs, ;-).
Why 'the' or 'and', why not 'Poe', it's a letter adressed to him, isn't it?
But I really don't get the case here, if the site offers music from less-known bands for free download, don't they have some contract with those bands that this is legal.
Like me, all copyrights of software I produce for my employer go to my employer... software and music, isn't that just 'content'?
I'm very confused with American law here...
You can do all sorts of things, I don't think MS ports Office to Linux because they want to support Linux. Consider this: if Microsoft is bringing you flowers, they're most likely decorating your grave.
Yes I believe the Office port, I won't use it, but what will the mass do?
I pity this, I will look sometime later.
No I don't, not because he is foreign to me, because of Echelon, JFK, black-ops etc.
"Do you trust your government?" : Blair is not your government, Rupert Murdock and Bill Gates are your government (well, just some examples then).
The cattle just follow orders - the police, army and the SAS.
you planning to do anything that you really don't want the government knowing about?
This thing threatens the right of freedom of speech, any sadism, or witch-hunts can harm the innocent, like the commies in the States were flamed during the cold war (i.e. Harvy lee Oswald was a marxist, not a communist).
Any ignorance, witch-hunts, stubberness causes a lot of pain. Reading a communist leaflet could result in a phone call from your local-secret-service-agent in the old days here in Holland.
When you enter a society you give up your rights, to gain protection
And then came a powerful man - someone more equal than others, who claims that open source is threatening (econonomic) society, starts a witch-hunt, and then they will kill our employment-contracts, and then at the death of this man, the medics discouver he'd been senile all the time.
When I bought a new computer, I refused everything I did not need (Windows, internal modem and yes... monitor). My old 486 now runs with a terminal, no monitor, no keyboard. I use my old monitor for my new Celeron, but sometimes I need to boot the old 486, this device is very nice, I have lot's of BIOS related problems on my 486, spares indeed the time of rewireing the old monitor.
You will be working with existing code from guys who have absolutely more experience than you (like you said, you're not really masters of programming). It will take an awfull lot of time to get into the code and understand how it works.
When I was at college, they tought me the basic principles. Well it is an OS-course, so learn OS-things. I worked with Unix/Minix and some other stuff, but you could use Linux.
Try this book for fundamental problems with producer/consumer problems, semaphores and dining philosefers problems: "Operating System Concepts" by A. Silberschatz, J. Peterson and P. Galvin (ISBN 0-201-55793-2 or ISBN 0-201-54873-9)
This is a good book for teaching. In my RedHat installation, there were several pthread examples which demonstrate consumer/producer situations, why don't you try it with processes instead of threads, then you must work with that awfull 'fork' command, something very common to Operating Systems (not MS-DOS! ;-) ).
Have fun!
Choosing a good license model is important. According to this article you can make decisions on this, which won't be appreciated. Choose a license, and be clear what you want with open source.
You want complete control? Do you want control like Linus Thorvalds has? Do you want control like Sun has?
What do you want to give to the community? What do you expect to get back (i.e. customers?
Is it a project with a couple of sequal projects (like MS-Office can be seen as a sequal for Windows, Windows is step 1, Office is step 2)
I think you can only think of arguments for or against the choice of going open source when it is fully clear what you want, and what you don't want.
Side effect is that Unix and Linux boxes could get their connection to printers refused because of this.
I also heard that the open-source movement is very irritated by this thing... I have been surfing for hours, but I couldn't get any confirmation on this.
For the mean time, it sounds very interesting.