Silverlight is just a pleasure to program in. Being a subset of dotnet you have just a gazillion great classes at the top of your fingers for you to use in any language you want that just supports.NET.
The CAL has NOTHING to do with active directory at all. If you don't use active directory you need to buy a cal license anyway to access the server's resources.
When you see a place like where the grand-parent's whining gets moderated Insightful and the parent's logical and reasonable post is ignored, you know you must be on Slashdot.
1) They make THINGS as well: mice, keyboards, XBoxes, etc.
2) You don't need to make THINGS to get a pattent. You can patent almost anything these days. Software algorithms are especially important for such companies like Microsoft if they don't want to be eaten by patent trolls, which is so common these days.
Sure, because every Windows developer is a lazy motherfucker that doesn't like his work and plays Solitaire the whole day long, and never ever work fixing things for the love of art. Hard working enthusiastic developers is a Linuzz monopoly.
Unfortunately, there will always be idiotic trials. This reminds me of the infamous Judas Priest trial where "experts" tried to present evidence that an album by the
heavy metal band Judas Priest contained subliminal messages that drove two youngmen to suicide.
An anecdotal case: I am the author of a pretty successful freeware (as in beer) program. After 9 versions I was tired of maintaining it: thousands users screaming for new features every day, etc for years is not an easy task for a single programmer. So 3 years ago I decided to open the source of the program and put it out on SourceForge (the place where 98% of the programs are put to die). And yes, a bunch of people picked it up and began developing a new version. After 2 years nothing new happened. So I decided to create a new closed source version myself, again, and guess what: it is now out and kicking stronger than ever.
I am not telling you that all projects are the same, but you listen every time about a few successful OS projects: mozilla's thingies, linux thingies, etc, but nobody actually talks about the million of OS projects that actually DIE a painful death. And they are many: just visit SourceForge and you'll see.
FOSS software increases productivity. It reduces overhead and costs. The evolution of free software reduces the demand for programming and support labor in the long term.
That all sounds incredibly politically correct, and yes, you can repeat it ad nauseum and it will become one of those myths that people just repeat and repeat because it sounds , oh so good and logical. However there is absolutely no scientific base that confirms (or refute, for that matter) these claims, so please stop stating this as the holy truth. OS and commercial development both have their strong and weak sides and none of them is intrinsically better than the other, OS is not a magic key that solves all problems and cure cancer.
1) Well, yes, you and your culture rule, we all now that elitist blah blah, but that's the problem: Windows have thousand of millions of users, which means hundred of millions potential idiots. Linux with all the distros have perhaps less than 2% of the desktop markes which means s 99% less idiots. Do the math.
2) Long from all the distros use repositories.
3) About the warnings and dialog boxes. That's EXACTLY what the oh so criticized UAC does on Vista, and look all the criticism it gets. In minor scale this is done the same way on XP SP2 or better.
Botton line: when you have a HUGE user base, you get a HUGE idiot base as well. And your culture then goes to hell and you need to welcome the culture of idiocy. So for the elitists out there: better pray that the year of the linuz desktop never come true, or you'll lose your dear status forever.
Puh-lese if you go to pirate bay and download xxscrensav3r.exe and install it you deserve to get infected. Both in Linux or Windows, sanity is in user knowledge. Use only trusted sources (in any system). An uneducated Linux user could download my kcool-kde-xxscrennsAv3r-1.2.23.pcg as well from some site and install it as su as well.
The same guy says in another interview in CNET that it would be pretty easy to find ways to implement the same in OSX (where they are actually experimenting) and in many Linux distros, but nobody pays a shit for that. They can get a lot of cash for pressing their brains to find exploits for hundred of millions of computers than what they would get to find exploits for some thousands in more exotic OSs. Easy like that. A so complex thing like a OS with millions of lines of code will necessarily ALWAYS have a couple of thousand possible holes, be it BeOS, MistOs, NetBSD os whatever. You only need the will (or the cash).
I AM a programmer, and guess what...? I am the producer of one of those free as beer projects. Now I could tell you: "if you re not a programmer you cannot understand the free as beer concept" , but no, I'm not THAT arrogant as , for example, you.
Believe me, after a couple of free beers I no longer care for freedom of speech. I use a lot of software that is "free as in beer" and I'm absolutely happy with it. And non-free software? I use a lot more (including the OS, development tools, etc), and I'm delighted with what I use as well. I'll never understand the ideological "free as in speech" fixation.
Well, if Linuzzz can be installed for free at schools and Windows cost a little bit (MS Select and Campus contracts are really a good deal at schools and universities), how do you explain the fact that Windows and Macs still have the edge in education over GNU/Linuzzz?
Couldn't be that this is the tool (I repeat, the TOOL, not the religion) that is, for good or bad, the defacto standard out there in the real world? Couldn't be a good think that you are preparing your students to use the tools (I repeat, not the religion) that could help them to face the real world market?
Sure, it could be a cool think to get Basquian language to be obligatory for all schools in Sweden, but I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) that students would be more happy having a good English language education, just for their future sake. Basquian? Sure, be my guest, get a book and learn.
No, that's not really my point. My point is: let people use whatever they want. People should stop advocating for their dear tools and let those who like Windows, MSoffice, MacOS , KDE, OpenOffice use them. Do you think that Ubuntu is awesome? Use it, more power to you, let idiots like me who think Vista is a good system use. Do you think that GIMP is the greatest thing since chocolate pizza? Good, keep your money and use it. Let ME throw my money at Adobe's monopoly and use Photoshop.
Advocates remind me sometime of Jehovah's Witnesses. Yeah, I know Jehovah is great and I'm going to hell as the agnostic atheist I am. Now enjoy your paradise and let me watch my Simpsons episode in peace.
So please, stop using Open Office and switch to GoogleDocs, MS Office, AbiWord or whatever so Open Office feels the competition and you get a better product. See?
In a media course in the university I work for, it is a requirement to use a Mac with garage band to create some sound (not music!!!) tracks for pod content. Go figure.
But why would I want to switch, pray tell me? I'm perfectly happy with my Office 2007 and I happily pay my money for it. I don't care for ideologies, so being "free" (as speech, beer, sex, idiocy or whatever) if not important for me. Again, why should I switch?
A lot of things are done "out of habit", but if it is something that people want, let it be. is it so hard to understand that people may really **like** something even if there is some habit in this behavior? Or maybe it's just wishful thinking from the author side....
No. I own the same player and no updates, but I would really be happy if that happened in my case.
And there's nothing scary with Windows update. Just look and see how almost any other OS out there, Linuzz distros inclusive, are now using the same kind of service.
I don't hate Apple, the company. I simply dislike all their products with all my heart. From the telettuby-cutie underpowered iphones, ipods, iEvereything to the oversimplified and full of annoyances OSX. And don't get me started about old MacOS.
I do hate how many people talk about Apple products like being heavenly perfection, as if that was the holy truth.
And yes, I do think that Apple is more monopolistic, closed and lawyer-happy than Google, Sun, Adobe and MS put together.
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Silverlight is just a pleasure to program in. Being a subset of dotnet you have just a gazillion great classes at the top of your fingers for you to use in any language you want that just supports .NET.
The CAL has NOTHING to do with active directory at all. If you don't use active directory you need to buy a cal license anyway to access the server's resources.
When you see a place like where the grand-parent's whining gets moderated Insightful and the parent's logical and reasonable post is ignored, you know you must be on Slashdot.
2) You don't need to make THINGS to get a pattent. You can patent almost anything these days. Software algorithms are especially important for such companies like Microsoft if they don't want to be eaten by patent trolls, which is so common these days.
Sure, because every Windows developer is a lazy motherfucker that doesn't like his work and plays Solitaire the whole day long, and never ever work fixing things for the love of art. Hard working enthusiastic developers is a Linuzz monopoly.
* Discovered the phases of Venus
* Discovered the rings of Saturn
* Discovered sunspots
* Observed and described the Milky way
* Confirmed in details the heliocentric model
* Discovered the satellites of Jupiter, thus confirming the the Earth was nothing "especial" but only one planet like any other
* And MUCH more...
What makes Galileo a giant was not only the quality of his observations but the enormous quantity as well.
Unfortunately, there will always be idiotic trials. This reminds me of the infamous Judas Priest trial where "experts" tried to present evidence that an album by the heavy metal band Judas Priest contained subliminal messages that drove two youngmen to suicide.
I am not telling you that all projects are the same, but you listen every time about a few successful OS projects: mozilla's thingies, linux thingies, etc, but nobody actually talks about the million of OS projects that actually DIE a painful death. And they are many: just visit SourceForge and you'll see.
That all sounds incredibly politically correct, and yes, you can repeat it ad nauseum and it will become one of those myths that people just repeat and repeat because it sounds , oh so good and logical. However there is absolutely no scientific base that confirms (or refute, for that matter) these claims, so please stop stating this as the holy truth. OS and commercial development both have their strong and weak sides and none of them is intrinsically better than the other, OS is not a magic key that solves all problems and cure cancer.
1) Well, yes, you and your culture rule, we all now that elitist blah blah, but that's the problem: Windows have thousand of millions of users, which means hundred of millions potential idiots. Linux with all the distros have perhaps less than 2% of the desktop markes which means s 99% less idiots. Do the math. 2) Long from all the distros use repositories. 3) About the warnings and dialog boxes. That's EXACTLY what the oh so criticized UAC does on Vista, and look all the criticism it gets. In minor scale this is done the same way on XP SP2 or better. Botton line: when you have a HUGE user base, you get a HUGE idiot base as well. And your culture then goes to hell and you need to welcome the culture of idiocy. So for the elitists out there: better pray that the year of the linuz desktop never come true, or you'll lose your dear status forever.
Puh-lese if you go to pirate bay and download xxscrensav3r.exe and install it you deserve to get infected. Both in Linux or Windows, sanity is in user knowledge. Use only trusted sources (in any system). An uneducated Linux user could download my kcool-kde-xxscrennsAv3r-1.2.23.pcg as well from some site and install it as su as well.
And many eyeballs to easily study the holes as well, if only the will (or the cash) exists.
The same guy says in another interview in CNET that it would be pretty easy to find ways to implement the same in OSX (where they are actually experimenting) and in many Linux distros, but nobody pays a shit for that. They can get a lot of cash for pressing their brains to find exploits for hundred of millions of computers than what they would get to find exploits for some thousands in more exotic OSs. Easy like that. A so complex thing like a OS with millions of lines of code will necessarily ALWAYS have a couple of thousand possible holes, be it BeOS, MistOs, NetBSD os whatever. You only need the will (or the cash).
I promise you, I'll stop with Abble and Linuzz when no M$ could be found in any post on this site. Happy now? I guess no ;-P
So you react to the Linuzzz word but not to the parent's M$? How convenient.
I AM a programmer, and guess what...? I am the producer of one of those free as beer projects. Now I could tell you: "if you re not a programmer you cannot understand the free as beer concept" , but no, I'm not THAT arrogant as , for example, you.
Believe me, after a couple of free beers I no longer care for freedom of speech. I use a lot of software that is "free as in beer" and I'm absolutely happy with it. And non-free software? I use a lot more (including the OS, development tools, etc), and I'm delighted with what I use as well. I'll never understand the ideological "free as in speech" fixation.
Couldn't be that this is the tool (I repeat, the TOOL, not the religion) that is, for good or bad, the defacto standard out there in the real world? Couldn't be a good think that you are preparing your students to use the tools (I repeat, not the religion) that could help them to face the real world market?
Sure, it could be a cool think to get Basquian language to be obligatory for all schools in Sweden, but I think (and correct me if I'm wrong) that students would be more happy having a good English language education, just for their future sake. Basquian? Sure, be my guest, get a book and learn.
Advocates remind me sometime of Jehovah's Witnesses. Yeah, I know Jehovah is great and I'm going to hell as the agnostic atheist I am. Now enjoy your paradise and let me watch my Simpsons episode in peace.
So please, stop using Open Office and switch to GoogleDocs, MS Office, AbiWord or whatever so Open Office feels the competition and you get a better product. See?
In a media course in the university I work for, it is a requirement to use a Mac with garage band to create some sound (not music!!!) tracks for pod content. Go figure.
But why would I want to switch, pray tell me? I'm perfectly happy with my Office 2007 and I happily pay my money for it. I don't care for ideologies, so being "free" (as speech, beer, sex, idiocy or whatever) if not important for me. Again, why should I switch?
A lot of things are done "out of habit", but if it is something that people want, let it be. is it so hard to understand that people may really **like** something even if there is some habit in this behavior? Or maybe it's just wishful thinking from the author side....
And there's nothing scary with Windows update. Just look and see how almost any other OS out there, Linuzz distros inclusive, are now using the same kind of service.
I do hate how many people talk about Apple products like being heavenly perfection, as if that was the holy truth.
And yes, I do think that Apple is more monopolistic, closed and lawyer-happy than Google, Sun, Adobe and MS put together.