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Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud
A few days ago, we ran word of a report alleging that Windows 7 consumed more memory than it should, based on a report from Devil Mountain Software; a followup post linked to Ars Technica's robust deconstruction of that claim. Now the story gets weird: Fred Flowers writes The original story quoted the company's CTO, Craig Barth on the issue. Now, InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr has still more to add. From Knorr's blog at InfoWorld.com: 'On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics. ... There is no Craig Barth.' Knorr's post goes on to say that Kennedy has been fired from his blogging gig at InfoWorld over this 'serious breach of trust,' and that his blog will be removed."
I see, makes me wonder what he would lie about to get sex.
... just had a memory problem of his own?
Of the 17 HD's used between my family and I haven't seen a HD failure since 2005 and at least 7 of those are older than 2004... note that punching or kicking your computer anytime you're mad at it will increase HD failure rates. So maybe Vista does have something to do with your increased failure rates.
I wonder what his motivation for lying like about it was.
I'm not sure, but Craig Barth is an anagram for Hair Grab Ct, which is obviously the location of the next clue.
Was he also CEO of Jukt Micronics?
Incidentally, it is also an anagram for Grab at Rich
And since what he did was rig a bar _chart_, we know that the culprit must be from Boston. Let's travel there and see if we can find another clue leading to Carmen Sandiego.
So Slashdot posted a second hand story from another site with a (potentially) misleading headline, without checking the facts, because it would drive traffic? And now they've had a letter from a lawyer? Big surprise. I'd be proud to get banned for this post.
Please consider this account deleted, I just can't be bothered with the spam anymore.
That's simple. Money.
Come on Infoworld, you need to learn a thing or two from Cnet! If you're going to have a writer make dubious claims, pimp his own software, and bash Microsoft repeatedly, at least have them do it openly! http://news.cnet.com/openroad/
Based on your acute observations I suspect he meant to post on a sight other than /.
I'll say...
I never claimed, and I don't think anyone claimed, that all the design decisions in Vista were bad. No, the issue is that the Vista release, like most Microsoft products, was at best beta quality, more like alpha quality.
By the same criteria, most userland open-source software is released as alpha-quality. And a lot of kernel-space drivers. OpenOffice, GIMP, all media players, X.org, most wireless drivers... you name it, they all have major issues and shipped as "stable" in distros. Desktop Linux has been, on the whole, far buggier than Vista ever was.
i think you'd appreciate this.
1178161 is prime...
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Makes sense, he lies to get money, lies about money to get sex, then gets fucked.
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