The Gates Foundation has made a number of suspicious purchases that look like more of the same M$ business under a different name. Mr. Gates interest in medicine is particularly disturbing, because the general formula of getting Governments and regulated industry to buy things by the kind of tactics we see at the ISO have already been bad for your health. Inefficiency in records keeping is one thing, profiteering off medicine via government intrusion, patents and so on and so forth is quite another. Big pharmacy companies have learned a lot from Mr. Gates. The only way to make it worse is to have Mr. Gates and friends at the Carlyle group really be in charge.
All non GNAA first posters are Twitter and Twitter is all non GNA first posts. Think about it, I'm everywhere you want to be and everything you are not. In other words, nanny, nanny boo boo, you can't catch Twitter and watching you chase your tail is fun.
So, will you stand up for your rights and demand network neutrality and the removal of port blocks? Nothing else will give you network freedom and all other freedoms die without a free press.
Don't be confused, adults have made all the decisions. The whole set up is cruel for the 11 year old, who's being used for marketing "Fresh Start" and it's bad for the school. This poor kid has been pushed down the M$ road and it's not going to end well for the school.
Simply moving the rest of their computers to W2K will cost a lot of money, work and control but dooms them to the same problems they have now. A competent institution would think about terminal service that would be better use their existing equipment. M$ forbids the use of all other software for years with their typical "charity" school deals, so this school is going to get locked into disaster for the sake of eight year old software that has long since been surpassed by the free software world. The school could do better by asking the parents for real help.
No one has accepted M$'s crappy new formats, the vote is currently a fail and fraud is being investigated. The ISO wants to maintain it's reputation and will. Companies and governments do care about money and they will reject M$XML regardless of it's ISO status. M$ is wasting money on a useless game. Their little document format and it's dependent OS monopoly are over. Really, when the US Navy says you suck, it's over.
I don't have to make money from a program for that program to compete with another. If I give my program away with freedom it will be a better competitor than one without freedom. Pull your business model out of the 80s and you will make more money.
If the book he's publishing is not a DMCA circumvention, his talk was not. Still, it would not be surprising for Apple to want this guy to get lots of attention before they smear and sue him.
M$ likes to blame "3rd party" applications and plugins for all their problems. It will be a cold day in hell when they release a browser that would deny them that dodge.
M$ has a malware problem. I'm all for better design but we should avoid sweeping generalizations about computer security. It's not a "computer virus" it's a Word Macro, a pdf pass through exploit, an Outlook problem, etc. People who pretend to be "platform neutral" are either ignorant or trying to sell you something second rate. Any platform can use more security but only one of them really needs it.
The general approach sounds much like what any browser, or any program for that matter, already does. A main process calls and monitors subroutines that do different things on demand. Calling the main program a kernel and it's messaging "OS level" does not do much for me. All modern software is as modularized as possible. What's really going on here besides Microsoft Research hype?
I'm sure it will be bearable, right before M$ decides to sell you a new OS and break it. That time should be very soon because no one is buying Vista. Non free software is always this way.
when Tony says that he gave up Vista a few months ago and, "XP on the same hardware can saturate [his 2Gb network]" we can safely assume he has no hardware problems.
you said I'd highly recommend that Vista users install SP1. That's commendably honest of you. You have to be high to recommend Vista and SP1 has not helped. If you have anything useful to add to the Vista failure log, I'd be happy to hear it but I can wait until you sober up. Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend.
This is not all my work. The CIO bit is old and I may have submitted it separately but you can look at my journal to find that out for yourself. Someone else on the firehose pulled it up again and people seem to have liked it when someone else put it forward. The article, as I recall, does say some good things about Vista - like what a fucking disaster it is.
Oh and no, I don't really scour the internet to find bad things about Vista. I just go to Google News and type "Microsoft Vista" from time to time. Stories about what a mess SP1 are were right on top when I looked, so I submitted it and.... people seem to have liked it.
I think it's a valuable story. It's good to have this kind of experience from the field when real systems are on the line. Microsoft has been hyping it as a great improvement but that does not seem to be true. There are some people who have moved to Vista and those people should be aware of the problems SP1 has. SP1 might be free, but their time is not and they will probably want to turn off auto update to prevent these problems. There are even more people out there who thought they would wait for SP1 to make the move. For one reason or another they think that such a move is inevitable. More than anyone else, they need to know that Vista is not ready.
Taking apart M$ spin on the other hand has earned me "Karma Hell". That's what the ACs who taunt me have to say about their obvious abuse of the moderation system.
Government emails are public records and it's against the law to destroy them the same way it's against the law to destroy any other public record. It is NOT standard practice to destroy email at the state, local and federal level. There's also evidence Bush and friends used a separate, private email system at commercial ISP to avoid being snooped on the way he is snooping on everyone else. The only thing that's consistent here is Bush telling a lie.
Next thing he'll tell you is that Sadam hid his email with WMD.
The issue illustrated is that clerks can get anything stored. Governments and companies like to pretend they are better than others when they keep things they should not. Improper access proves the lie, not that passport records are inherently damaging.
The issue is really about what records should be kept and who owns them. The public does not own the record of my travel unless I'm doing public work. I'm the only person who should be able to make that kind of information available when I chose. The state should not waste money tracking things which can only be abused.
Transparency is not a a substitute for doing whats right in the first place. It's not an equalizer when there's a power difference because it only removes one tiny piece of the difference. Your boss can still fire you, your school can expel you and so on and so forth. When someone does not like you and they have information about you and they can make rules that harm you, they will.
No mention is made of how XP driver support was yanked from Vista at the last minute either. Instead, it's the hardware that sucks, yeah, that's the ticket. The hardware you have been using and know is good dies on Vista because Intel slipped some chips on you, see?
What a crock this man is pushing. Is there anyone who's going to believe him? I hope OpenGL and pledges from Intel, Nvidia and ATI/AMD give him nightmares.
I put a picture of Mickey Mouse in front of mine. They got me for copyright and trademark violations too. How did they know?
TV is not worth this. Thanks to MythTV, I considered paying for cable TV again. There is no way in hell I'd sit a camera in my living room for it. What complete morons.
If your electricity comes from coal, the power saved by a CFB prevents a greater amount of heavy metals (including mercury) from being dumped into the air, water and ground downwind of the coal plant. I like eating fish, how about you? This argument won me over, I hope it was not a lie designed to sell me a bunch of expensive light bulbs.
The service life of CFBs and regular bulbs makes me suspicious. CFBs do not last much longer than incandescent bulbs used to. I've had 2 of 12 burn out over a year or so despite the 5 year promise on the box. Incandescent bulbs used to be that good and halogen incandescent bulbs still last longer than CFBs. Ask yourself when the last time you changed your car headlights was.
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The Gates Foundation has made a number of suspicious purchases that look like more of the same M$ business under a different name. Mr. Gates interest in medicine is particularly disturbing, because the general formula of getting Governments and regulated industry to buy things by the kind of tactics we see at the ISO have already been bad for your health. Inefficiency in records keeping is one thing, profiteering off medicine via government intrusion, patents and so on and so forth is quite another. Big pharmacy companies have learned a lot from Mr. Gates. The only way to make it worse is to have Mr. Gates and friends at the Carlyle group really be in charge.
All non GNAA first posters are Twitter and Twitter is all non GNA first posts. Think about it, I'm everywhere you want to be and everything you are not. In other words, nanny, nanny boo boo, you can't catch Twitter and watching you chase your tail is fun.
So, will you stand up for your rights and demand network neutrality and the removal of port blocks? Nothing else will give you network freedom and all other freedoms die without a free press.
Don't be confused, adults have made all the decisions. The whole set up is cruel for the 11 year old, who's being used for marketing "Fresh Start" and it's bad for the school. This poor kid has been pushed down the M$ road and it's not going to end well for the school.
Simply moving the rest of their computers to W2K will cost a lot of money, work and control but dooms them to the same problems they have now. A competent institution would think about terminal service that would be better use their existing equipment. M$ forbids the use of all other software for years with their typical "charity" school deals, so this school is going to get locked into disaster for the sake of eight year old software that has long since been surpassed by the free software world. The school could do better by asking the parents for real help.
but he's actually too young to know better. Give him a year or two and he'll have that virus and spam churning mess fixed with free software.
No one has accepted M$'s crappy new formats, the vote is currently a fail and fraud is being investigated. The ISO wants to maintain it's reputation and will. Companies and governments do care about money and they will reject M$XML regardless of it's ISO status. M$ is wasting money on a useless game. Their little document format and it's dependent OS monopoly are over. Really, when the US Navy says you suck, it's over.
They have some other interesting observations too.
I don't have to make money from a program for that program to compete with another. If I give my program away with freedom it will be a better competitor than one without freedom. Pull your business model out of the 80s and you will make more money.
If the book he's publishing is not a DMCA circumvention, his talk was not. Still, it would not be surprising for Apple to want this guy to get lots of attention before they smear and sue him.
M$ likes to blame "3rd party" applications and plugins for all their problems. It will be a cold day in hell when they release a browser that would deny them that dodge.
M$ has a malware problem. I'm all for better design but we should avoid sweeping generalizations about computer security. It's not a "computer virus" it's a Word Macro, a pdf pass through exploit, an Outlook problem, etc. People who pretend to be "platform neutral" are either ignorant or trying to sell you something second rate. Any platform can use more security but only one of them really needs it.
The general approach sounds much like what any browser, or any program for that matter, already does. A main process calls and monitors subroutines that do different things on demand. Calling the main program a kernel and it's messaging "OS level" does not do much for me. All modern software is as modularized as possible. What's really going on here besides Microsoft Research hype?
Nice image and write up.
I'm sure it will be bearable, right before M$ decides to sell you a new OS and break it. That time should be very soon because no one is buying Vista. Non free software is always this way.
That 2000 year hardware must be getting a little slow feeling. Especially with all the bots your box must support by now.
Because your journal is empty. Put up or shut up.
when Tony says that he gave up Vista a few months ago and, "XP on the same hardware can saturate [his 2Gb network]" we can safely assume he has no hardware problems.
you said I'd highly recommend that Vista users install SP1. That's commendably honest of you. You have to be high to recommend Vista and SP1 has not helped. If you have anything useful to add to the Vista failure log, I'd be happy to hear it but I can wait until you sober up. Enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend.
This is not all my work. The CIO bit is old and I may have submitted it separately but you can look at my journal to find that out for yourself. Someone else on the firehose pulled it up again and people seem to have liked it when someone else put it forward. The article, as I recall, does say some good things about Vista - like what a fucking disaster it is.
Oh and no, I don't really scour the internet to find bad things about Vista. I just go to Google News and type "Microsoft Vista" from time to time. Stories about what a mess SP1 are were right on top when I looked, so I submitted it and .... people seem to have liked it.
I think it's a valuable story. It's good to have this kind of experience from the field when real systems are on the line. Microsoft has been hyping it as a great improvement but that does not seem to be true. There are some people who have moved to Vista and those people should be aware of the problems SP1 has. SP1 might be free, but their time is not and they will probably want to turn off auto update to prevent these problems. There are even more people out there who thought they would wait for SP1 to make the move. For one reason or another they think that such a move is inevitable. More than anyone else, they need to know that Vista is not ready.
I recently blogged about a Visit to an Apple Store and no one bothered with it. This is despite all sorts of ACs posting the thing around here to call attention to it.
Taking apart M$ spin on the other hand has earned me "Karma Hell". That's what the ACs who taunt me have to say about their obvious abuse of the moderation system.
Government emails are public records and it's against the law to destroy them the same way it's against the law to destroy any other public record. It is NOT standard practice to destroy email at the state, local and federal level. There's also evidence Bush and friends used a separate, private email system at commercial ISP to avoid being snooped on the way he is snooping on everyone else. The only thing that's consistent here is Bush telling a lie.
Next thing he'll tell you is that Sadam hid his email with WMD.
The issue illustrated is that clerks can get anything stored. Governments and companies like to pretend they are better than others when they keep things they should not. Improper access proves the lie, not that passport records are inherently damaging.
The issue is really about what records should be kept and who owns them. The public does not own the record of my travel unless I'm doing public work. I'm the only person who should be able to make that kind of information available when I chose. The state should not waste money tracking things which can only be abused.
Transparency is not a a substitute for doing whats right in the first place. It's not an equalizer when there's a power difference because it only removes one tiny piece of the difference. Your boss can still fire you, your school can expel you and so on and so forth. When someone does not like you and they have information about you and they can make rules that harm you, they will.
Does Intel make aftermarket cards yet? I'd really like to have one or two.
No mention is made of how XP driver support was yanked from Vista at the last minute either. Instead, it's the hardware that sucks, yeah, that's the ticket. The hardware you have been using and know is good dies on Vista because Intel slipped some chips on you, see?
What a crock this man is pushing. Is there anyone who's going to believe him? I hope OpenGL and pledges from Intel, Nvidia and ATI/AMD give him nightmares.
I put a picture of Mickey Mouse in front of mine. They got me for copyright and trademark violations too. How did they know?
TV is not worth this. Thanks to MythTV, I considered paying for cable TV again. There is no way in hell I'd sit a camera in my living room for it. What complete morons.
If your electricity comes from coal, the power saved by a CFB prevents a greater amount of heavy metals (including mercury) from being dumped into the air, water and ground downwind of the coal plant. I like eating fish, how about you? This argument won me over, I hope it was not a lie designed to sell me a bunch of expensive light bulbs.
The service life of CFBs and regular bulbs makes me suspicious. CFBs do not last much longer than incandescent bulbs used to. I've had 2 of 12 burn out over a year or so despite the 5 year promise on the box. Incandescent bulbs used to be that good and halogen incandescent bulbs still last longer than CFBs. Ask yourself when the last time you changed your car headlights was.