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First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed
Hack Jandy writes "DVD dual-layer burners finally seem ready for the public - today, a review of the Sony DRU-700A was posted by Anandtech, and teasers of the BenQ 830A posted at CDRInfo.com. Unfortunately, the drives seem too slow to to really warrant a purchase."
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It is official; OSDN confirms: Windows is dying. One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows community when IDC confirmed that Windows market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent OSDN survey which plainly states that Windows has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Windows is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Roblimo to predict Windows's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows because Windows is dying. Things are looking very bad for Windows. As many of us are already aware, Windows continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Windows Server 2003 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Windows Server 2003 developers Dave Cutler and Rick Rashid only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Windows Server 2003 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Windows 2000 leader Brian Valentine states that there are 7000 users of Windows 2000. How many users of Windows 98 are there? Let's see. The number of Windows 2000 versus Windows 98 posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Windows 98 users. Longhorn posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Windows 98 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Longhorn. A recent article put Windows Server 2003 at about 80 percent of the Windows market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Windows Server 2003 users. This is consistent with the number of Windows Server 2003 Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on, Windows Server 2003 went out of business and was taken over by SCO who sell another troubled OS. Now SCO is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Windows has steadily declined in market share. Windows is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Windows is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Windows continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Windows is dead.
Fact: Windows is dying.
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A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care.
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Dear me, the mods were really on the sauce last night. Was it the ninth anniversary of Duke Nukem Forever's first press release or something?
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
* If you expect companies to follow the copyright of the GPL, you should support the RIAA going after infringers of its copyright. If not, you're a hypocrite.
* There is absolutely nothing wrong with a company being upset that its product is being pirated freely over online networks. A recent Slashdot poll showed that the majority of Slashotters are unemployed or are students ("academics"), which explains a lot. Try getting a real job sometime and see what it feels like when your work is everywhere, and you start worrying that your days are numbered. Does John Carmack want you to "sample" his new game via the "free advertising" happening on eMule?
* At the 2004 WinHEC, Allchin demonstrated an alpha version of Longhorn that played six high-resolution videos at the same time while playing Quake III in the background. An equivalent XP machine couldn't play more than four videos. Meanwhile, I can't even get xmms to play without skipping, and windows to drag without visual tearing! That's because KDE and GNOME are hacks to emulate a desktop on top of the crufty XFree86 architecture that people won't let die (Linux users absolutely fear change).
* VA Linux-owned Slashdot thinks its niche opinion represents the majority of the world. This is a result of people visiting every day and buying into the groupthink. Nobody outside of Slashdot knows or cares about "Linux," "RIAA", "M$," or anything else Slashdotters think is such a huge issue in today's society. Go to a mall or coffee shop sometime and see what people actually talk
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* Speaking of VA Linux--it's a Linux company...that owns a "tech news" site...that posts news stories negative toward competitors like Microsoft. If a Windows company or even Microsoft itself owned a "tech news" site and posted anti-Linux articles all the time, everyone would be up in arms. But with VA Linux, it's a-okay.
* Slashbots think people don't like the music coming out these days, which is the cause of the piracy. Never mind that if people didn't like the music they wouldn't be pirating it, most Slashbots--again, this goes back to the niche opinion thing--don't realize that most people these days love the music coming out and want to hear all of it. Probing around, you discover that Slashdot is made up of nerds and fogies who listen to things like The Who and Blind Guardian and techno--not what mainstream society enjoys.
* Any company ending in "AA" is evil. Especially if it doesn't want you distributing its works without paying for it. Somehow, this mindset is supposed to make sense.
* The inevitable result of all this is a world in which nothing can be profitable because people simply pirate free copies. Is that really what Slashbots want? OSS and free-ness in general reminds me of the hippie era of the 60s--idealistic socialism that only exists because of the surrounding capitalism around it that provides the environment for it to exist. We all know what happened to that idea.
* Linux rules the desktop, when in reality [google.com]: Windows = 91%; Mac = 4%; Linux = 1%
* Slashdot editors are abusive. We all remember The Post. It's amusing the editors never mention the issue. The worst editor is michael, who will mod you down, insult you for your post count, and post unprofessional color commentary along with the article. This is the same bizarre person who cybersquatted Censorware for years--even as Slashdot posted articles negative toward cybersquatting! Michael played it off like he was some sort of stalking victim, which made it all the more bizarre.
* The moderation system is broken. If you mod someone as "Overrated," you can't be metamodded. People abuse this all the time to gang up and knock you down into oblivion.
* If "Linux" just refers to the kernel and not the operating system, how can "FreeBSD" refer to the operating system (userland tools, standard libraries, etc.) and not just the kernel? Face it, "GNU/Linux" looks and sounds ridiculous.
* Slashdot is all about spinning truth fo
I like his off beat style, and humor. Its the kind of cooking show I think "I" would have if I had one. Thankfully, I've never been much of one for sweets...but, I'm an entree, sauce and side dish person. Its fun to be a cooking computer geek...I have my old wireless laptop in the kitchen for quick recipe access and email. I'm putting together a web accessed database for recipes. I'm not happy with what I've seen out there...going to add in on the fly nutritional calculations, metric/US measurement conversions...etc.
Best of both worlds....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........