Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 284
Is there a citeable example of MS infringing copyright and then acting "wrong"?
Windows 1.0.
Any questions?
Is there a citeable example of MS infringing copyright and then acting "wrong"?
Windows 1.0.
Any questions?
If ONLY the tool was "Internet Explorer"... sigh...
I think you're overgeneralizing. Not all IDEs separate the code in menus and popdown lists. Unfortunately, some of Microsoft's tools don't give you access to the full source code and it's a royal pain in the ass to refactor code.
This is the problem that perhaps the article is talking about: When the source code is tied to the IDE, everything becomes impossible to maintain.
I've worked with
Perhaps not reloading Windows, but pretty close: Try installing SQL Server 2005 one of these days. The
Recently I've joined a gigantic project involving Classic ASP and SQL Server.
Te lead developer only knows to program using Dreamweaver.
When I looked at the code, this is what I saw:
I tried to make an automated dependency table on their giant blob monster attempt of a project by using grep and a graph-visualizing tool, but there were dozens of orphan files and isolated clusters which lead to absolutely nowhere (it was by analyzing them by hand that I realized lots of validation functions were in one same javascript file).
When I asked the lead developer why he stored all the javascript in a single file instead of putting it in the same asps (they were all spaghetti anyway. It would've been much better to not mix them up with the
The only reason I didn't lecture him on multi-tier programming and advanced grep tools was because he's the manager's star developer, and since the company hired our company for consulting, they're still above us in hierarchy and these matters need to be handled with tweezers. Had I been hired before, I'd have recommended my boss to ask twice the money.
Anyway - If you want my opinion on automated GUI tools (at least for web projects), they only procreate idiots and promote short-term productivity. Of course, when something breaks, it won't be the idiot's fault. It'll be the guy in turn who happened to write perfectly-well-designed code that somehow triggered a hidden bug in the sacred-cow spaghetti code.
BTW, if you want to know the idiot's name, his name is Josh. I won't mention his surname to protect the "innocent" (rofl), but at least his name will be preserved for posterity
Whoever said Sci-Fi ran out of steam should watch all the Ghost in the Shell movies and series. I've never seen a series address technology ethics in such an elaborate way.
Times are changing. Science fiction should just adapt with the current trends and start from it. What dangers await society? What opportunities? In the cyberpunk era, we didn't even imagine open source gaining power. What about SPAM? What about the degeneration of society? What about the growth of social networking? What about the fight between freedom of speech and the copyright police? (We've read 1984, but where are the media companies?)
As you can see, there's a lot of material to work on. It only takes some imagination and connecting the dots.
Oh, and I must rant:
Please don't call it the "God particle". This unfortunate nickname was coined as a marketing ploy and is not apt. Physicists do not call it the God particle. Reporters call it the God particle. And the main result is that people become confused, frightened, or angry.
(sighs) Only in America...
I don't think everyone here believes you can't steal music, first off.
Speak for yourself. I do believe you can't steal music.
You could steal the original copies. You could steal a famous painting. But "stealing" music? For instance, what IS music? It's nothing but a mathematical concept involving harmonics and sound.
What are words? You can't "steal" what I said. This isn't like the little mermaid where you could steal someone's voice and leave him/her mute.
Non-physical works CANNOT be stolen. Unless you're talking about a PHYSICAL COPY, you cannot steal it by definition. Copying a work? That's completely different. But if it's a non-destructive process, you're not stealing it. You're just COPYING it.
If you want to use an appropriate term for what Microsoft supposedly did with this GPL code, it's called plagiarism. Sure, it's called "stealing" nowadays, but using this word is oversimplifying.
Microsoft is evil. Always has been. Always will be.
Maybe you're very young, but I seem to recall that Microsoft was at one time held as a sort of liberator from IBM's hegemony. I guess it's all a matter of perspective...
Bill Gates' open letter to hobbyists. Any questions?
Happiness is twin floppies.