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Virtualization Disallowed For Vista Home
Maxx writes to mention a ZDNet article about Microsoft's dictum on Vista as a virtual machine. The software giant has declared that home versions of their upcoming OS may not be run virtually, because 'virtualization is not mature enough for broad adoption.' From the article: "'Microsoft says that consumers don't understand the risks of running virtual machines, and they only want enterprises that understand the risks to run Vista on a VM. So, Microsoft removes user choice in the name of security,' says Gartner analyst Michael Silver. 'The other option is to pay Microsoft US$300 for Windows Vista Business or US$399 for Windows Ultimate, instead of US$200 for Home Basic or US$239 for Home Premium,' Silver suggested."
My work here is dung.
The parent is not Insightful, or anything close to it...it gets +5, Insightful for no other reason than that it conforms with the Slashdot groupthink.
The people running this place really need to come up with a new form of moderation...one which doesn't merely allow juvenile idiots to ensure that only their perspectives/belief system gets read or promoted. This is a problem which has existed for a long time...there are fairly clearly a number of people who get mod points who shouldn't.
That's basically all the current moderation system does...it measures how strongly the people with points agree/disagree with the post in question. Obviously that is abuse of the system...it isn't how it was intended to work. The problem however is that there is nothing to force people to be genuinely objective or honest.
I always metamod down any funny posts that get marked insightful. and yet are not. The purpose of the moderation system is to improve the readability of the discussions, not reward. Karma is simply a general measure of someone's contributions. If a poster needs to be rewarded for posting something humorous then the rest of their posts are probably not all that worthwhile. My karma's been pegged at excellent for years, even though my posts are not all that insightful or informative. So it's not hard to do. The occasional offtopic mod, as this one should be, aren't going to kill it.