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...MS says Outlook.com does not scan emails...

Microsoft is very grateful that you paraphrased what they actually said. You see, they actually do scan Subject headers, but not the body itself. But they don't mention that in their campaign and they're very happy that you assumed that they weren't scanning your email at all. But they are.

Oh please, read your own links. Right there it says:

Update: According to The Verge, Microsoft denies that it scans email subject lines in order to deliver ads.

...MS says Outlook.com does not scan emails...

Microsoft is very grateful that you paraphrased what they actually said. You see, they actually do scan Subject headers, but not the body itself. But they don't mention that in their campaign and they're very happy that you assumed that they weren't scanning your email at all. But they are.

And Microsoft is certainly profiling you. Here's what they say:

"The extraordinary profile and behavioral targeting on Hotmail, combined with customizable advertising packages and Rich Media solutions, enable you to connect with your audience at the point of influence."

And I'd assume if you didn't want any computer (not people) scanning (not reading) your emails, I'd assume you didn't want a computer tracking your profile/search history. But that's exactly what Microsoft does.

The security setting for Java defaults to High anyway. You would have to either A) change your security settings specifically lower or B) specifically allow an untrusted applet to run for this to (sometimes) work. I'm starting to get tired of the anti-Java FUD, there are a vulnerabilities found all the time in other languages/frameworks, how come all we seem to hear about is lame Java applet sandboxing issues?

Didn't realize I wasn't logged in when I made that post

The security setting for Java defaults to High anyway. You would have to either A) change your security settings specifically lower or B) specifically allow an untrusted applet to run for this to (sometimes) work. I'm starting to get tired of the anti-Java FUD, there are a vulnerabilities found all the time in other languages/frameworks, how come all we seem to hear about is lame Java applet sandboxing issues?

Didn't realize I wasn't logged in when I made that post

The security setting for Java defaults to High anyway. You would have to either A) change your security settings specifically lower or B) specifically allow an untrusted applet to run for this to (sometimes) work. I'm starting to get tired of the anti-Java FUD, there are a vulnerabilities found all the time in other languages/frameworks, how come all we seem to hear about is lame Java applet sandboxing issues?

The security setting for Java defaults to High anyway. You would have to either A) change your security settings specifically lower or B) specifically allow an untrusted applet to run for this to (sometimes) work. I'm starting to get tired of the anti-Java FUD, there are a vulnerabilities found all the time in other languages/frameworks, how come all we seem to hear about is lame Java applet sandboxing issues?

Skillset momentum aside, why would anyone choose Ruby over Node.JS?

Node is *significantly* faster right out of the box (while Ruby JIT is still in its infancy). With so many well-funded implementations (Google, Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft) competing to be a tiny bit faster in any way possible, JavaScript is very likely to remain the fastest dynamically-typed language. Node is also built with a specific emphasis on scalability / parallel performance.

Node.JS also has the advantage of using the same language on the server that you inevitably have to use on the client end of Web-based applications. This avoids the overlap where you end up writing the same thing in different languages, adding complexity to the project. JavaScript / EcmaScript is also the preferred language of browser extensions, many desktop / mobile widget kits, GNOME apps, QtScript, etc. By focusing on one language instead of several (in a finite amount of time), you'd gain more expertise with that one language and be able to accomplish more things with it.

Of course JS syntax leaves much to be desired, but that will be revised some time in the future. CoffeeScript's syntax is even more intuitive and compact that Ruby's!

--libman

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/when-in-china-dont-leave-your-laptop-alone-208168

The intention of Topaz is to be the fastest Ruby implementation. With Just-In-Time code generation, a high-level language can be quite fast. (V8 uses about 3x as much CPU as C on average, but some operations can be optimized at run-time to be just as fast as C). I was just making a point that some vastly more popular dynamically-types scripting languages can also be faster than Scheme - so why would anyone want to use Scheme?

PS: in my list of copyfree Scheme implementations above, I forgot the most important one - Chicken (and possibly some others).

--libman

Hi Mrs AC shill? How is the pay from MSFT these days? in case you want to know what gave it away its the fact that you said Win 8 "launched" only 2 days ago. We all know that is a crock of shit but MSFT in its memos have been calling the release of Surface pro a "relaunch" of Win 8 so only those that are following the "reboot" theory, which is pretty much confined to Redmond, are buying that bullshit.

I mean do I REALLY have to wallpaper this page with all the figures showing win 8 has been bombing since it flopped onto the market in Oct, how the MSFT team is trying to blame OEMs for not building a pile of $1000 WinTabs that the OEMs rightly pointed out would sell about as well as the few $1000 Tablets they had which is to say none at all, so they would have ended up in the same warehouse the failed ultrabooks is now rotting in. I can also of course paste link after link of OEMs saying the same thing, win 8 is a flop that makes the Vista launch look like Win95, and of course the press have dubbed it "Windows Frankenstein" and written articles that say "Windows 8 yes its THAT bad". and even the tech writers are uninstalling it. Of course some of us and some tech sites pointed out this would happen awhile ago because it ignores even basic user conventions. while giving ZERO context or even hints as to WTF the user is supposed to do. in my own experience this is what I saw in my shop only with more frustration and cursing involved.

So if you need more links Mrs AC shill please feel free to ask, not like anything I've been saying is exactly new or radical. Nice thing about speaking the truth, you can provide plenty of citations. and just for the record i have been a Windows user and seller since 3.1 and there have only been TWO, count 'em two, times I've not stayed with and sold a version of Windows. First was WinME which was inferior in every way to Win98, the second is Windows 8. Yes I ran Vista and sold Vista units until I saw it was gonna take MSFT ages to fix the bugs I kept running into but with both winME and Win 8 the experience was just too nasty for me to dump on users, I'm sorry but they sucked the big wet titty.

Hi Mrs AC shill? How is the pay from MSFT these days? in case you want to know what gave it away its the fact that you said Win 8 "launched" only 2 days ago. We all know that is a crock of shit but MSFT in its memos have been calling the release of Surface pro a "relaunch" of Win 8 so only those that are following the "reboot" theory, which is pretty much confined to Redmond, are buying that bullshit.

I mean do I REALLY have to wallpaper this page with all the figures showing win 8 has been bombing since it flopped onto the market in Oct, how the MSFT team is trying to blame OEMs for not building a pile of $1000 WinTabs that the OEMs rightly pointed out would sell about as well as the few $1000 Tablets they had which is to say none at all, so they would have ended up in the same warehouse the failed ultrabooks is now rotting in. I can also of course paste link after link of OEMs saying the same thing, win 8 is a flop that makes the Vista launch look like Win95, and of course the press have dubbed it "Windows Frankenstein" and written articles that say "Windows 8 yes its THAT bad". and even the tech writers are uninstalling it. Of course some of us and some tech sites pointed out this would happen awhile ago because it ignores even basic user conventions. while giving ZERO context or even hints as to WTF the user is supposed to do. in my own experience this is what I saw in my shop only with more frustration and cursing involved.

So if you need more links Mrs AC shill please feel free to ask, not like anything I've been saying is exactly new or radical. Nice thing about speaking the truth, you can provide plenty of citations. and just for the record i have been a Windows user and seller since 3.1 and there have only been TWO, count 'em two, times I've not stayed with and sold a version of Windows. First was WinME which was inferior in every way to Win98, the second is Windows 8. Yes I ran Vista and sold Vista units until I saw it was gonna take MSFT ages to fix the bugs I kept running into but with both winME and Win 8 the experience was just too nasty for me to dump on users, I'm sorry but they sucked the big wet titty.

Oh, and they do target ads based on the subject line of the email. But that's a completely different thing.

Hey, my first job was in a brogramming environment. This was back in 2003 and it was a little company with young CS majors trying to do their 3 month job university credits, as the Education Ministry passed a "University-Workplaces bridging" directive making every single fucking student work for three months for free as an apprentice in various companies, otherwise you would not have gotten the credits required to publish your thesis. The problem is that the law helped fueling many tiny rubbish companies like that one, trying to sell them in the "widely expanding opensource sector with their e-commerce solutions".

After that stint I landed a real job for a real company working for the public administration, and no one else was brogramming. They used tons of technical documentation. I had a pile with all the requirements for the user cases I had to develop and to fix too, and I learned two things: first, requirements lie, second requirements lie because clients know jack shit of what they want. And they whine too. And if you catch them contradicting in e-mail instead of fixing your code yesterday, you are soon shown the door. Or rather someone else (not at the first big company but at the second) would go to a guy two desks farther away and make them implement the code that will eventually break the whole flow of application, like you predicted it would showing on the diagram what would happen with a big red marker.

After these experiences, I never found neither brogrammers nor uml cases, and nobody uses UML diagrams or software engineering practices, because they lead to make the client actually think about their software and their wishes. Behind all of this it's the idea that software development must be a mercenary discipline without the eventual shielding that real gun for hires get from their companies. And nobody in marketing or management wants that because, "what the hell, we have to keep our clients happy and shower them with PhD majors".

The brogramming environment? It was designed by the management, because they did not want to pay people. The no-uml environments? Software engineering at large failed because it does not scale well within most cultures. If software engineering does not infect your management then nobody will use it. > (Answer: because Office 6 and Windows 95 did not scale and were full of problems and gremlins until Microsoft adopted the engineering practices that they had in place for NT).

In any case, this is not the first time I've read articles against "developers". This pos of an article was linked by slashdot too: http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/6-home-truths-about-rockstar-developers-205098

You want more links? Be careful what you wish for as i can wallpaper with all the fail that is Windows 8. First we have Acer saying its a fail, we have the press writing articles saying yes its THAT bad, we have usability experts calling it a broken mess and yet another OEM calling it a flop.

So I'm sorry but stick a fork, the fat lady is down the street having a sammich, its done. Win 8 will go next to WinME and MS Bob on the "WTF were they thinking?" lists next year and no matter how many warehouses full MSFT buys they won't be able to give that megabomb away, its over.

By default all code that does not have a license is "all rights reserved" http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-needs-take-open-source-seriously-208046

What are the terms under which the code in all those GitHub projects is made available? A precise answer depends on your jurisdiction and would require a lawyer's advice, but it's likely that the answer for most people is "all rights reserved" -- in other words, you have no rights to use the code. GitHub does not include any useful default licensing terms in its terms of service; the most likely scenario is that any use of the copyrighted material in one of those no-license projects is formally a breach of copyright. Under copyright law, code without a license cannot be legally shared, as the default for copyrighted materials is that all rights are reserved.

Brian Doll, GitHub's VP of Marketing, confirmed this arrangement is intentional:

Code without an explicit license is protected by copyright and is by default All Rights Reserved. The person or people who wrote the code are protected as such. Any time you're using software you didn't write, licensing should be considered and abided.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/oracle-patches-latest-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-java-210762

January 14, 2013

Oracle released two out-of-band patches on Sunday for vulnerabilities in its Java programming language, both of which pose a high risk to users browsing the Web.

The company's speed in issuing patches may be due to part that exploit code for at least one of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2013-0422, has already been wrapped into two "exploit kits" or packages of attack code inserted into websites that already have other vulnerabilities. The problem became public last week...

Sorry but you are wrong and here is why: when looking at the numbers and comparing them to the previous year at the exact same period, which just FYI had an even worse economic outlook than we did this year, computer sales are down by more than 13% and I'm sorry but you don't have THAT big a drop, especially during the run up to Xmas, unless something is REALLY wrong or you have a product people don't want to buy. Even the OEMs are flat footed saying that Win 8 units just aren't selling which is why you see more and more places like Tiger showing Win 7 machines for sale, nobody wants Win 8.

So frankly it doesn't have a damned thing to do with ME or MY opinion, honestly if I wanted to i could put up with the bullshit or just hack the shell, i just don't see enough benefits to put up with bullshit like tying everything to a MSFT Live account or hacking the shell to make it worth fooling with. Nope what this is about is the simple fact that this is the typical user reaction to Windows 8 only she doesn't get frustrated as badly or curse like many of those trying it at the shop did. Hell I got people calling me I haven't heard from in years going "You still got that shop? Yeah see i went to look at Best Buy for a laptop and all they had was that 'weird new Windows' and I REALLY don't like it. Is there any way you can get me one with the 'good Windows' on it?"

It has NOTHING to do with opinion, or taste, it has to do with the fact MSFT put out a Frankenstein mess of an OS, designed for an interface that less than 2% of ALL computers made or even sold in stores even has, and which is NOT intuitive, or discoverable, or in any way easier or friendlier than the product that came before. I'm not the one writing articles like "Windows 8..Yes it is THAT bad" I'm simply pointing out the reasons WHY it is THAT bad, just as I did with Vista. Sadly by SP2 they had pretty much fixed the problems with Vista but people had already moved on, I honestly don't think they can fix Windows 8. Even if they kill the Metro UI you still have everything being tied to a MSFT account, ads in the OS, and a mish mash of ribbonized and non ribbonized programs. Not to mention there are SOME controls you can only get to through control panel in desktop mode and SOME that you can only get through metro so unlike some here I don't think they can just "patch metro away" as they moved too much crap into it already.

Like it or not there isn't gonna be a Windows anymore, you are gonna have Apple and ersatz Apple, MSFT is even announced they are building their own hardware and Surface was just the start, you'll have MSFTPhone and MSFTDesktop and MSFTLaptop, all probably priced even higher than Apple just to cement the fail like they did with Surface pricing compared to iPad.

So while you ARE correct that not as many are buying and NO its not that they are replacing them with cellphones like the press keeps harping about, or with tablets, but the average user just can't stress out even a first gen Core Duo or Phenom X4 you just don't have numbers drop THAT bad unless you have a product that the customer is turned off by, and that is Win 8 in a nutshell.

Go to YouTube and look up "Little kid Windows 8" and you'll see it, they say it "proves" that Win 8 is the most intuitive thing out there because some little kid is able to find his games on the thing...LUL WUT? I've seen kids spend hours just trying to draw a circle on an etch-a sketch, all that "proves" to me is that a little kid with infinite time and nothing better to do figured out by random poking where the right place was to get his game, no different than a hamster that spends hours smacking a food dispenser, what better thing does he have to do?

For the rest of us who have better things to do than poke random areas in the hopes of tripping over the right combo that will give us what took 15 seconds with nothing but the mouse before I say avoid Win 8 like an STD. The vast majority of Windows users are "hunt and peckers" that do NOT have all those unintuitive keyboard shortcuts memorized and the fact that an OS that was obviously supposed to be designed for tablets requires a keyboard and a cheat sheet of commands to get anything done just shows you what a mess it is!

The only nice thing I can say about Win 8 is it makes Vista look great by comparison, in fact if i was forced to choose between Win 8 Ultimate or Vista Basic I would take Vista Basic without a second thought. As one reviewer so aptly put it Windows 8 is THAT bad.

I can't seem to find anything on google either way, are win 7 market apps backwards compatible with windows 8?

You mean forwards compatible? I think that MS is doing a one-time only conversion of apps from WP7 to Windows 8.

I'm sorry but if you were any more full of shit your eyes would be brown. First Intel won't let AMD die anymore than MSFT would allow Apple to die in 97, it puts too big a bullseye on Intel for antitrust. if they have to give them the first gen core designs and a couple of guys? they'll do it, because it will cost them too much not to have a token competitor.

Second you are selling the same shit MSFT sold with Vista? remember that? How much easier it was? Didn't go over well though did it? Look at the reviews of 8 and what are the common themes? Stupid, pointless, retarded, frankenstein...these are NOT good words billy! These are the "words of failure" and are actually WORSE than they were for Vista? remember Vista? It amazes me how many Win 8 apologists seem to forget that Vista tanked and the users got what they wanted...which was Win 7, which is XP with better under the hood guts.

But you keep believing the hype Billy, me I'm gonna kick back with my popcorn and laugh! Win 8 is gonna make Vista look like a fricking hit, and Ballmer will most likely FINALLY get the fucking boot, which should have happened 6 fucking years ago when he failed to get a functional OS out the door for so long. In fact if it weren't for the fact that they can fall back on Win 7 I'd bet on MSFT dying before AMD, after all AMD still owns the low end market, you can buy quad laptops for $400 thanks to AMD, MSFT on the other hand has ZERO share in mobile and with intel and AMD selling multicores so cheap nobody needs to replace their OS but once or twice a decade. I have plenty of customers on Phenom I X3s that are happy with the performance.

Finally "young know how to reinstall their OS"? BWA HA HA HA HA HA...oh you were serious? BWA HA HA HA HA...They grew up on cell phones, they know less than shit about computers or OSes or even what to fucking do other than take it to somebody, News Flash I have plenty of under 30 customers, my oldest is in college and sends a LOT of work my way because the college kids know even less than those that grew up on Win9X. I ask them questions and the only answer I get is "Its broke, it needs to be fixed" because they don't even have the vocabulary to explain what is broke. Ever see Star Trek TNG with the retard aliens? Welcome to the future Billy.

You have every right to.

But you should also understand why many people find it unacceptable.

Actually I'm surprised by the lack of outrage from the open source community. Not regarding the ads themselves, but regarding the serious privacy issues and Canonical's/Shuttleworth's attitude.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/ubuntu-has-bigger-problem-its-amazon-blunder-203467

I wish there was some alternative, where maybe Microsoft would merely control people who have other marketplaces, and it would be up to say..CNET to insure that their download was safe, etc.

I certainly would hope not. CNET/download.com is already one of the worst free software curators in the world.

It already takes free (and sometimes open source) software that's already available elsewhere on the internet for free, and most of which is already free of spyware and free of marketing toolbars, and wraps them inside their own installer that installs their own spyware and installs poorly-worded half-hidden opt-out internet browser toolbars.

Its like the whole "turn the pages" movement. Now on a tablet sitting on your lap? Makes sense as its like turning the pages of a book, even a 5 year old understands that motion. But on a desktop the whole "Hold down mouse and drag from right to left X amount" is not in ANY way intuitive or natural. A natural way to do such a movement would be to drag from top to bottom, like scrolling down a webpage and of course supporting the scroll wheel for doing so.

For a couple of articles written by guys that have spent as much time in 8 as i have and frankly are more articulate there is this one and a second opinion but frankly I could wallpaper this page with 300 opinions ALL bad.

And its not like we came looking for stuff to slam, i was actually excited to try win 8. I love the hell out of 7 and wanted to see what good things they could add to such a solid base, I was hoping for maybe some cool networking features, like making services like "gotomypc" pointless as they could build on EasyConnect and allow you to seamlessly network your computers together and share everything, no matter if at home or office, maybe add tweaks to the UI like letting us save our favorite jumplists, there was a lot of things they could have made even better.

What we got...was a cell phone. Everyone who has tried it at the shop has said cell phone at least once talking to them, they just can't understand why anybody would want a cell phone for a desktop and I have to say I agree with them. I'll probably buy 1 or 2 copies simply because Win 8 will be $40 for pro and I hope that Start8 or Classic Shell can give me an ersatz Win 7 pro for $40, but use it on my main system? Not a chance, it'll be staying with Win 7.

Its like the whole "turn the pages" movement. Now on a tablet sitting on your lap? Makes sense as its like turning the pages of a book, even a 5 year old understands that motion. But on a desktop the whole "Hold down mouse and drag from right to left X amount" is not in ANY way intuitive or natural. A natural way to do such a movement would be to drag from top to bottom, like scrolling down a webpage and of course supporting the scroll wheel for doing so.

For a couple of articles written by guys that have spent as much time in 8 as i have and frankly are more articulate there is this one and a second opinion but frankly I could wallpaper this page with 300 opinions ALL bad.

And its not like we came looking for stuff to slam, i was actually excited to try win 8. I love the hell out of 7 and wanted to see what good things they could add to such a solid base, I was hoping for maybe some cool networking features, like making services like "gotomypc" pointless as they could build on EasyConnect and allow you to seamlessly network your computers together and share everything, no matter if at home or office, maybe add tweaks to the UI like letting us save our favorite jumplists, there was a lot of things they could have made even better.

What we got...was a cell phone. Everyone who has tried it at the shop has said cell phone at least once talking to them, they just can't understand why anybody would want a cell phone for a desktop and I have to say I agree with them. I'll probably buy 1 or 2 copies simply because Win 8 will be $40 for pro and I hope that Start8 or Classic Shell can give me an ersatz Win 7 pro for $40, but use it on my main system? Not a chance, it'll be staying with Win 7.

If you are a multitasker Aero rocks man, try Aero flip or the way you can "slam" one window to one side and instantly make it take up half the screen, perfect for comparing folder or file operations. The resources are frankly tiny on even wimpy hardware, I tried both Aero on and off on my E350 netbook and found it made a whole 12 minutes difference on the battery...big whoop. The only complaint I had was it was obvious MSFT never thought much about the Windows basic UI as there was no themes ever released or any real way to change from the basic grey/silver look which on some of my customers little Atom netbooks it would have been nice to easily pick other colors, maybe a nice black or the nice emerald green like they had on XP.

That said I have to agree with the reviewer who called Windows 8 Windows Frankenstein as you just have to go back and forth too damned much. i should be able to pick metro and stay in metro or pick desktop and stay in desktop, the switching is just jarring and irritating.

It sure is...if your screen is 1366x768 or less, and if its touch enabled. Everywhere else? Its sucks big hairy balls. I could list all the royal PITA moments I had with that OS but why bother when this article appropriately entitled Windows 8, yes its THAT bad sums it up better than I ever could. the only thing I'd add is that their "desktop mode" is frankly a crippled ribbon happy joke compared to the feature rich desktop of Windows 7.

So while I'll buy a couple of copies, simply because at $40 a piece for Win 8 Pro they are giving it away and I hope either Start8 or Classic Shell will give me an ersatz Win 7 Pro for $40 I can say if they offered both Win 7 and Win 8 at the same price? I doubt seriously they'd get enough takers of Win 8 to even bother. Yes its THAT bad.

Infoworld had an article on this in which the reporter wrote: It was unclear whether the optical microscopes needed to read the storage medium will still be available in the year 100002012.

Still, I hear that Hitachi is offering 10x your money back if the data is unreadable 100 million years from now.

So you're calling yourself an Oracle professional and you're not aware of this: http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/fundamental-oracle-flaw-revealed-184163-0 ?

I mean - PostgreSQL does have 32 bit transactions IDs and a well designed process to prevent wraparound.

Oracle has 48bit transaction IDs, a number of bugs that speed up transaction ID growth, a feature that "synchronizes" transaction IDs through the whole cluster (thus the IDs are growing according to the busiest of the instances) and a soft SCN limit (16k * seconds since 1988) that when reached, bad things happen. I'm not saying this happens every other day, but with new shiny HW the soft SCN limit is rather easily reachable.

So while PostgreSQL has this sorted out long time ago in a quite reasonable way, Oracle issued / is issuing patches that are rather workarounds than patches. So saying "Until they fix the TX number issue ..." sounds a bit strange to me.

And if you get it pre-installed there is a checkbox in Action center that kills it, which if you are so clueless that you can't even uncheck a checkbox in a GUI? Really having a hard time feeling sorry for you.

Besides frankly the whole subject is moot anyway, you are talking about an OS that gets articles like Windows 8...yes its THAT bad and is the subject of parody before its even released so I kinda doubt its gonna be seeing much use on anything but tablets. Hell the only reason it'll be seeing ANY use on tablets is because it looks like Ballmer is gonna shit another MSFT billion down the toilet by selling their $500 iPad knockoff for $199 thus taking the Sony way to profitability.../snicker/.

Look its simple folks, anything Apple does MSFT does badly or half assed or just plain wrong under Ballmer...who doesn't know this? I mean you should have gotten the memo when Ballmer was squirting his shit brown Zune all over the place trying to ape iPod. Win 8 is so obviously a "Please God buy our tablets!" move it ain't even funny anymore, so why even care? Anyone with half a brain cell functioning is gonna stay with Win 7 anyway or at least make sure they get a "Win 8" system that is just Win 7 with a DVD in the bottom of the box that'll never get used except as a coaster.

I'm sorry, I didn't think I needed to clarify the statement that "Bulldozer is AMD's netburst" but since it is obvious that I do need to clarify allow me to do so.

What I meant is that in both cases the company threw out good design practices chasing a single metric, higher clocks in the case of Intel, higher core count per TDP in the case of AMD, and both paid/are paying for it. In both cases you get chips that run hotter, suck more power, and give less IPC.

And having good Linux support really doesn't help when more than 90% of your market is NOT running Linux, you might as well say "Well if the world switched to netBSD all the problems would disappear!" because the world isn't gonna switch to Linux or NetBSD thanks to all the mission critical programs that are Windows only and will never be ported.

And while I agree that theoretically the problems could be partially fixed by the scheduler, in reality MSFT has made it clear they WILL NOT FIX in ANY version of their OS except...Windows 8. Considering Windows 8 is getting press such as Windows 8...Yes its THAT bad and is the source of parody and ridicule you again have the NetBSD problem, as the majority of your potential customers won't run the "fixed" OS so will be gimped if they take your product. If I refuse to run Win 8, would I be better off with Intel or AMD? The choice is obvious as AMD will be crippled on my OS while Intel won't.

In the end I truly believe the only hope left we have for AMD, and this is from someone who hasn't built a single Intel PC since finding out about the bribery and compiler rigging, is that the new chief chip architect they hired away from Apple will right the ship. Because XP is supported until 2014, Vista until 2017, and Win 7 until 2020 and the new chips will run like ass on all of the above. Can AMD afford to literally sit on ass for THAT long, until all the other OSes are no longer used? I don't think so and since they were stupid enough not to give MSFT the heads up as to what was going on and by killing Thuban and the successor to Brazos they've locked themselves into a path where the most hated Windows OS since MS Bob is the ONLY hope they have...bad move AMD, seriously bad move.

Actually, this was on the first page of the article:

[ Move over, Amazon -- IaaS providers are elbowing into the cloud. [0] See how they compare in InfoWorld's slideshow. | Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in the InfoWorld editors' "Cloud computing in 2012" PDF special report. [1] | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. [2] ]

[0] http://infoworld.com/slideshow/57435/amazons-cloud-feels-the-heat-google-hp-microsoft-198319
[1] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-in-2012-infoworld-special-report-187077 (free registration required)
[2] http://www.infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_cloud_computing (free registration required)

Actually, this was on the first page of the article:

[ Move over, Amazon -- IaaS providers are elbowing into the cloud. [0] See how they compare in InfoWorld's slideshow. | Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in the InfoWorld editors' "Cloud computing in 2012" PDF special report. [1] | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. [2] ]

[0] http://infoworld.com/slideshow/57435/amazons-cloud-feels-the-heat-google-hp-microsoft-198319
[1] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-in-2012-infoworld-special-report-187077 (free registration required)
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Actually, this was on the first page of the article:

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[0] http://infoworld.com/slideshow/57435/amazons-cloud-feels-the-heat-google-hp-microsoft-198319
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If nothing else though you just gotta laugh when the same site that has TFA has article like Windows 8...Yes its that bad. But sadly we all know what this is, its Ballmer's Hail Mary.

Lets face it with triples and quad cheaper than ever PCs are way past good enough so folks simply won't be replacing until they die, which because they aren't even stressing the chips will be longer than ever, and Google and Apple are drinking MSFT's milkshake while it cries like a little bitch in mobile.

So no matter how many laugh at them Ballmer is gonna throw that Hail Mary in the hopes of scoring some mobile sales? Will it work....I'd love to say "LOL Fuck no!" but if the rumors are true and Ballmer is willing to shit a billion down the toilet to sell an iPad quality tablet at Kindle prices? He may just manage to buy himself some sales.

But in any case i think it'll be DOA on desktops, both the chip makers and the OEMs are having a hard enough time moving units as it is, they sure as hell ain't gonna raise the price 40% to throw in touchscreens nobody wants because MSFT wants to be Apple.

Do you have a citation that SCO was proxy for Microsoft or that Microsoft had funded SCO litigation?

Unless you believe Larry Goldfarb committed perjury, it's clear that Microsoft had a hand in arranging SCO's funding in a bigger way than merely buying licenses to patents SCO didn't own.

Print version here: http://www.infoworld.com/print/198012

Yes, developers should fall in behind Google instead. It's totally not building a patent arsenal, that's just unfounded speculation....

Face it, corporations are scum. Microsoft is scum, Apple is scum, and Google is doing the world no favors.

GPL v3 alone was used in over 2,000 different software projects in 2008

That's not counting GPL v2, LGPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, or any one of quite a number of other open source licenses. And of course, that's not counting how many other projects have become open source since that count was taken.

There's a *LOT* of programmers that give away code they write for free... and I highly doubt that even a significant percentage of them are in the category of being well enough off that they don't need to worry about earning a living. I certainly am not, and I've contributed to GPL software in the past, and I would do so again, when I found a project that I felt passionate enough about.

http://www.infoworld.com/print/195144

Why the fuck aren't the single page print versions ever TFA link?

Another job well-done, by the alleged editors. That link goes to the second page of a two-page article.

First page.

I get this one, which has Chrome and Firefox tied, on my first page of Google results. It doesn't look like Google is deliberately and directly biasing those search results like Apple.

Use SeaMonkey! I've made the switch recently, after being a die-hard Firefox user since the beginning. I couldn't be happier. The interface is old-school, and it functions well enough for the simple work for which I use a browser. Just try the darned thing - you'll be very happy you did. If you're the kind of person (like me) that was seething with every release of new "features" in Firefox (awesomebar, et al.), give SeaMonkey a try.

It makes me very sad to say it, but I've moved on from Firefox, (and I don't like to touch Chrome or IE), but then again - the world seems to have moved-on from the ideal of clean code and efficient applications, as much as it has moved on from that old idea of language evolving logically from etymologically sound roots.

There's no stopping the tide, but there are indeed viable options. I highly recommend reading Paul Venezia's post about quarantining services to specific browsers. It's not hard to do. Use Chrome for watching crud on Youtube or using any Google services, (and nothing else!), and block it on your usual browser with NoScript, etc. Use a different one for Facebook (if you use that gawdawful service), and block the scripts on your usual browser. It's a simple solution, but it probably helps mitigate tracking a tiny bit.

Can anyone provide any good reasons to not use SeaMonkey?

Yeah, I think the bigger problem is that the updates are weird. It's been a while since I've had Java installed on my main machines, but the way I remember it, you'd end up with a long list of updates in your Programs and Settings panel, even when they all have the same major version number. Like... you could keep Java 1.6.19 even when you uninstalled Java 1.6.12. And they don't seem to be patches, either... like, each one adds another 350MB subdirectory to some folder in your system disk, and they all just sit there like turds.

Then there was the time Oracle tried to bundle a McAfee "security scan" in the Java updates. That really inspired confidence. "Hey, I know -- let's interrupt this vital security procedure to push crapware from our marketing partners."

No, I think Roger Grimes is wrong -- folks can and will uninstall Java. I've been avoiding it just fine, and those bespoke Java applications that we're told all these Fortune 500 companies are sitting on will eventually be replaced with Web applications.

(None of this is to say Java doesn't have a strong future in the datacenter, though.)

Microsoft is one of the biggest Linux contributors http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/microsoft-counted-key-linux-contributor-now-anyway-190104. In my view they have absolutely all the right to use it, if it fits their solution.

Most of you people who say "there's no use for this" have probably never used a Chromebook. I have -- and though my initial reaction was not too far off from yours, I have to admit that I ended up using the thing way more than I ever expected I would.

My particular use case can be described as: "Eehhh, I guess I'll just leave it in the bedroom for when I need to look something up real quick."

Now, previously I might have done the same thing with some old laptop. But the genius of the Chromebook is that it's a Chrome browser and nothing but, so it never bothers you with anything that would go along with being able to do more than that. It never tells you there's a security fix for the printer driver, or asks if you want to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu distro (which changes the entire UI). If you have a few PCs lying around the house, you've probably rolled your eyes at least once when Microsoft's Patch Tuesday rolled around. That never happens here. It's just a Web browser that sits on the dresser.

There are security updates and it even gets new features, but it all happens behind the scenes, while you aren't paying attention, just like it does with the Chrome browser. Which is totally what you want when you really don't plan to use it for anything but browsing the Web.

Now, I'll go ahead and point out that this makes the Chromebook sort of a luxury item, because for most people who live in today's real world it's going to be a secondary computing device. You're going to buy another computer first, and then you'll buy one of these. But that's fine -- they aren't that expensive, and wasn't that pretty much the case with the entire netbook category, too?

You might say "but a netbook can do a lot more than a Chromebook, a Chromebook can hardly do anything" -- but I have no plans to do anything with it but surf the Web. Could I get a netbook and install Chrome on it? Yes, but that wouldn't be as convenient. Here, I grab it off the dresser, open the screen, and I've got a browser window. Three seconds.

It really is a pretty neat product. Google just hasn't done the best job of marketing it. Maybe that's because, unlike tablets, it looks like something you already have -- a laptop -- even though it's not one.

It may be that the price just has to come down even further. If Chromebooks sold for $199 and still had reasonable build quality, would that seem like a value to you?

http://www.infoworld.com/print/190061

here

Seriously, why can't we just do this for every article?

yes: http://www.infoworld.com/t/hacking/apple-security-under-attack-the-view-windows-169586