Posts by Oninoshiko 1937 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2008
The real annoyance at the question isn't that "window"s is mentioned, it's that the answer is in the FAQ, the sticky at the top of the forum, in 50 other messages, AND you didn't even indicate that you would be asking about windows (and wasting everyone's time) in the title.
If you ask this question on the Raspi forums you are an idiot and deserve all the vitrol you get for not taking the time to read anything.
He's quite remorseful....
remoreseful he got cought.
He either lacks the ability to judge right from wrong, or knew DAMN well what he was doing was wrong and just didn't care. If it's the first then he is a danger to socity (and needs removed from it for the protection of all). If its the second, he needs the full force of the law brought to bare.
I'm really tired of hearing how people are "sorry" for a multi-year pattern of behavior.
"Also smart phones with real or virtual qwerty keyboards make it easy to use full words and cheap deals mean there no need anymore to shortern ur txts"
I rejoice! We only have part of a generation that thinks randomly dropping letters is acceptable in professional writing!
It's not, I can get 1.50 on 25USD stocks all day. That said, stock value and divedends are not normally tightly coupled.
What this signals is that apple is moveing out of the rapid growth phase that started when Jobs reaquired the helm into a long-term sustaining phase. This is fairly normal when a company has saturated it's core-markets (music players, tablets, and premium smart phones in the case of APPL).
As pointed out by the Raspi guys, distributors all price in USD.
I Think the article was refering to commercal distributors (like Ingram Micro, AVNet, etc), not retail merchants (Amazon, Newegg, CDW, etc.). Retail mercants fall at a slower rate then distributors.
Speak for yourself.
Some of us buy for companies, multiple in some cases. I buy windows (well rent for all practical purposes, once you consider SA) in larger quantaties then anyone in a PCWorld. I forsee my downgrade rights being utilized on this one. If the experence at work is better then the one at home, there will be a backlash. It's already started, I'm seeing some of my clients moving to corparate deployments of apple kit.
"Maplin used to sell gold plated battery terminals for cars - it supposedly made the ICE sound better!"
I think you are missing the point, Toslink is an fiberoptic cable. Atleast battery terminals are actually useing the metal for energy transmission. With Toslink it's just bling for blings sake.
"A better analogy would be to say that if there existed a car manufacturer that also sold fuel, it would be legal to sell the car at below cost if it would encourage you to buy the fuel. A Kindle without content to read on it is almost as useless as a car without fuel."
Or if there was a razor manuafacturer who gave away the razor to get you to buy bla...
Oh, wait.
Presumably, for some of the books which are not being subsidised.
(off the topic of this thread, but something about this that bothers me)
The reality is, the arguement of collusion is somewhat silly. It assumes that all books are equivlent, this is clearly not the case. There are a number of works I would hold as great prose and important ideas, there are others I wouldn't accept to use as heating material. (I leave sorting what is in what catagory as an exersize to the reader).
"The DaVinici Code" isn't "Harry Potter" isn't "The Foundation" isn't "The Fountanhead" isn't "A Midsummernight's Dream" isn't "Das Kapital"
You want to solve the problem of monipolistic behavior in publishing, fix copyright.
Cars are not Books.
With books it is a loss-leader. The idea is to use a below cost item to get you to go somewhere and convence you to ALSO buy enough other stuff to still profit. This is a long-held and common-place (legal) marketing tactic.
Auto distributors cannot clam to be doing this though. It would be a idiotic."oh we where selling the minivan below costs to get you to also by the sports car! Ergo, dumping, not a loss-leader.
"The way I had it explained to me: PowerShell made sense because it was an easy and familiar approach for the squillions of extant .net programmers that existed.
Also: the APIs exist independent of PowerShell. Nothing is holding anyone back from extending another scripting language to do the same thing, if they like it better. If you are willing to make a serious attempt, I am almost positive Microsoft will not only welcome it, but probably devote resources to help."
Yes, you like MS and Windows. It is the only solution for you, WE GET IT. I'm in a hederogeneus enviroment. I have Linux, Solaris, BSD, MacOS, Windows (server and desktop), and ESXi; best tool for the job, wouldn't have it any other way.
"Don’t assume malice here; Microsoft have a strong business case for openness. They are making a cloud play. Public and private. That means making sure that their software can be managed and addressed by as many people as possible. .net made sense to start with – it was the community that already existed around their products. Thus PowerShell made sense."
I never assumed malice. I assumed ANOTHER case of NIH-syndrome, but now that you mention it, MS's busness case is for getting users onto their platform and keeping them there. Promoting skills which are useful outside of their platform is not something which, long term, is useful for them.
I've used it, It's an okay scripting language, BUT I can see no compelling advantage to useing it over any number of other languages, except MS has taken care of the API-bindings for me (that IS a compelling reason to use it (in the windows enviroment), but not enough to justify it's existance). It also means I CANNOT reuse ANY code from other platforms, nor as effecently use my existing staff.
Later on...
"My time is worth money. The time of my staff are worth money. If you save me so much time by making you product easy to use that you offset the cost of "proprietary," then there is a damned good reason to buy that product."
Funny, that's EXACTLY the reason why writing an entirely new scripting language to expose these features makes no sense. MS isn't looking after me with this, they are trying to get me to aquire a MS-excluseive skill. I'll admit, It did work, although I am still nowhere near as fast in PS then in any number of other scripting languages.
"An open standard/language/interface/source code/whatever that can only be understood after having 50 years of theory injected directly into your eyeball then jacking into the matrix whilst whistling the Dr. Who theme in exactly the right pitch is completely useless."
I've yet to encounter more then a handful of scripting languages which fall under this, and I wouldn't advocate them for wide-spread usage. Noone here is, as far as I can tell. Ergo, this is a non-sequitor.
"Whereas an application that costs me $750, takes 5 minutes to set up, and just works for the next ten years pays for itself in no time."
PLEASE call me when MS provides this in the virtualization space. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. I have been hearing MS claim to be the best platform for vitrtualization since they where trying to bribe us with 1USD chips at VMWorld '08. The weren't then. They may be getting more useable, but I'm not yet convenced. As it stands, the last time I needed a fix because MS screwed something up, the responce I got from support (at my cost, both monitarily and a couple weeks of my time, mind you) was: Yep that's a bug. The fix will require massive disruption to you're entire user-base with and hundreds of man-hours of downtime for your userbase to fix.
I Think you are missing his point.
PowerShell is YASL (Yet ANOTHER Scripting Language). We already have more scripting languages then I can count,all of which are known and understood by programmers and (more importantly) sysadmins everywhere. WHY make a new one?
Ideally, if they really DID have a commitment to openness, they would have designed interfaces to existing languages, preferably with the API being as similar as possible to exestiting APIs on other system. I see NO advantage of PowerShell over scripting facilites on other OSes.
(Note: I HAVE used powershell for interfacing with both Windows and VMWare, so I'm not (completely) talking out of my ass here)
You all realize we are talking about EMAIL here, right?
It's about a private as a postcard.
If this is REALLY a concern (and I understand it probibly is), maybe they should have a board somewhere and their members can anonymously go to it, maybe RSS feed so they know when it's been updated?
I thin \k you miss the point.
Even if that's all they are using it for, it's a solid defence. We call that "subastanal non-infringing use." Of all, Sony knows about that better then anyone.
In addition, with all the clams that there is NO use which is justified comming out of washington and that Mr. Dotcom is a evil pirate hellbent on destroying the entertainment industry (rather then an ex-con who has served his time, and a bit of a twat (not a crime, last I looked)) it will be fun to watch the squirming and doublespeak out of whoever he names.
I don't think the OP was slagging off the planners. I think he was saying they are different roles, with difference skillsets.
If that's what he is saying, then I agree.
There are a lot of roles, many I'm not good at. Phone support, sales... there are reasons I don't do these things, but I don't badmouth those who do. If not for them, I wouldn't get a paycheck either!
Optical media in gaming was really a 90s innovation. The use of LaserDisc for games was not widespread, and while it *IS* true that the Yellow Book standard was written in 1985, it did not really see wide-spread deployment until the early 90s.
When you think about it, five years from getting the standard written to using it for entertainment isn't bad.
I'd buy that, EXCEPT (atleast based on the bootnotes) they don't accelerate anything. They make test equipment. Maybe "Accelerating your engineers?"
This slogan makes me think they make a compression tech, or maybe some radios that give larger range (meaning you can put up less towers).
Really, I hate marketing. They all have a BS in BS.
"If I have a web page with pictures of my wife in a bikini should I have to block access to it to Muslim countries? No."
Maybe not, but to you think you'd get away with advertiseing it in a Muslim country?
Bodog.net did a hell of a lot of (television) advertiseing and sponsorships in the US. This isn't a case of "oh some USAians happened to go to this site" they actually ran ads in the US, targeted at USAians.
(Full disclosure: Frankly, provided they are running a fair game, I think it should be legal. That doesn't change the fact that your analogy is flawed)
First correction, you mean CDDL. CDDL is a license, ZFS is a file system.
Intentional or not, it's the viral nature of the GPL that is the issue. If it was wasnt for the idiotic scoping and the viral clause maybe it wouldn't be such a nightmare to move between GPL v2 and GPL v3 (nor will it be to move to the GPL v4 when it comes out (and dont even TALK to be about the "vX or later" licensing, you have to be a serious moron to agree to terms that not only have you not read, but haven't even been written yet)).
I can't put GPL code in BSD software (without relicensing the BSD software first). OTOH I *CAN* combine CDDL and BSD code (or MPL code, or even propritary code, the list is as long as my arm), without changing the license on either. This is specificly BECAUSE both are non-viral. Personally, I happen to LIKE the license because of this feature. While I do think you should keep the code *I* wrote open, I dont think it's right for me to dictate to you what you can do with what YOU wrote, just because you built them into a binary.
Yes, you should always respect the license, but badmouthing other licenses because your prefered license INSISTS that it rules the whole binary is whats rich.
yes, it was cashflow.
But banks have nothing to do with ramping it up from here on out, they went with Farnell and RS because Farnell and RS will be funding future batches (from what I have read). This way batches can be made to equal demand, rather then to equal the amount Liz can pull out of equity.
Long term this was definitely the right call, even if both sites where totally incompetant when saying they could deal with load.
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