Engineer Deconstructs Literary Criticism

DNS-and-BIND writes "This is the story of one computer professional's explorations in the world of postmodern literary criticism. Wouldn't it be nice to work in a field where nobody can say you're wrong?"

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*WHO* is wrong?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.

I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:

Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:

• Staffing expenses were 33.5% better.
  
• Training costs were 32.3% better.
  

They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:

• $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
  
• $1.79 per peak request per second.
  

Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:

• 28.2% less for large enterprises.
  
• 25.0% less for medium organizations.
  

A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:

• Is nearly three hours faster.
  
• Requires 77% fewer steps.
  

Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:

• Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
  
• Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.
  

These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.

Who do you think we professionals trust more?
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwalds who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???

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Jacko Joke of the day

[CreamOfWheat]

Why did Michael Jackson go to Wal-Mart? Because He heard boys' pants were half off

pateNTdead eyecon0meter: don't be MiSled buy sum

[Anonymous Coward]

wwwords. it's the motives of the author(s) that need investigation?

unless, of course, you're sure there's only won way to do things?

usually, spontaneous criticism is the result of fear/not wanting to understand?

lookout bullow's not just a joke?

[Anonymous Coward]

unless you have a ticket on the manned mars shot, you might want to consider how we're going to survive the georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi life0cide against this planet/population?

Offtopic ???

[Anonymous Coward]

This is like one of the few slashdot
articles where flaming and trolling
should be scored +5

JFK was gay ????

Only interesting thing from this story.

[CmdrTostado]

Got spare time? Earn extra cash :-) No MLM !!!!!!

When you click on DNS-and-BIND (submitter of this story) you link to this web site. It looks fake, particularly the page about their spokeswoman. But you can google and find recipes with their product mentioned. If the company is real, some industrious /.er should make a new page, and sell it to them. It would be an offer they couldn't refuse.

Crap, crap, crap

[nucal]

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and crap; egg bacon and crap; egg bacon sausage and crap; crap bacon sausage and crap; crap egg crap crap bacon and crap; crap sausage crap crap bacon crap tomato and crap;
Vikings: crap crap crap crap...
Waitress: ...crap crap crap egg and crap; crap crap crap crap crap crap diarhea crap crap crap...
Vikings: crap! Lovely crap! Lovely crap!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and crap.
Wife: Have you got anything without crap?
Waitress: Well, there's crap egg sausage and crap, that's not got much crap in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY crap!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon crap and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got crap in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much crap in it as crap egg sausage and crap, has it?
Vikings: crap crap crap crap... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon crap and sausage without the crap then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like crap!
Vikings: Lovely crap! Wonderful crap!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely crap! Wonderful crap!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon crap and sausage without the crap.
Wife: I don't like crap!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your crap. I love it. I'm having crap crap crap crap crap crap crap diarhea crap crap crap and crap!
Vikings: crap crap crap crap. Lovely crap! Wonderful crap!
Waitress: Shut up!! Diarhea are off.
Man: Well could I have her crap instead of the diarhea then?
Waitress: You mean crap crap crap crap crap crap... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (Singing elaborately...) crap crap crap crap. Lovely crap! Wonderful crap! crap cra-a-a-a-a-ap crap cra-a-a-a-a-ap crap. Lovely crap! Lovely crap! Lovely crap! Lovely crap! Lovely crap! crap crap crap crap!