If UNIX is so old, how can it be producing offspring like that little scamp, Linux?
Mis-Quoth the Doors, and twang the simitar:
The Penguin awoke before dawn, he put his boots on He took a face from the ancient gallery And he walked on down the hall He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he Paid a visit to his brother, and then he He walked on down the hall, and And he came to a door...and he looked inside Father, yes son, I want to kill you Mother...I want to...fuck you
Dude, he did the Oedipus Tux! Get that asshole out of my club, you guys make me sick!
Yes, that is sick talking about killing and fucking. GNU's Not Unix, it's better because it's free and free could care less about it's parents one way or another. As free software becomes beter, Unix will become free. Sun will continue to make great hardware and they are already putting Linux on it. As for all that M$ junk? They can free it but no one will want to use it. The only real death of code comes from closure and denial. Closed source stagnates as the copyright holders prevent it from being used.
Ahhh! If my byte moved from 8 bits to 16 bits, did my nibble become 8 bits instead of 4? Did my bit beceome 2 bits? If my bits can double, I'm in trouble! - Head Explodes -
It's a cure for Microsoft bloat. Microsoft has tried many things to make their file system work and their code fit on affordable machinery despite it's needlessly huge size. They've tried changing the file system itslelf, actually changing a few constants in their source code to make FAT into the 32 bit VFAT that is now most common. They even pulled out their old patented stand by NTFS, which they ordinarily reserved for "professional" use only. In their extreems, they even considered making the entire file system into a database but the database was just as swamped with M$ bloat and user ineficiencey and it worked even worse than before. Then it came to them.
Redundancy was the problem and redundancy was the answer. Microsoft realized that their operating system was simply a 32 bit GUI bolted onto a 16 bit extention of an 8 bit OS. Their code, when viewed in this light was massivly redundant and users could fit their data inside the code itself! They could even fit code within code this way. So, in this way, the engineers have saved the company from the marketing department without confrontation.
Go the Microsoft way and have either a timed encrypted message or some way to have a message self-delete after so much time.
Don't tell me that people are going to start sending self destructing Micros~.DOC to me! Ahhhh! The normal.DOC are bad enough, but one that demands write access? "This message will self destruct, in good faith, in ten seconds."
Any time we release a document to any other group of people, inside work or out, we are 'encouraged' to copy all, paste into a new document. That document is then password protected from editing (weak, I know, but it shows diligence). Only then is it to be sent out. Of course, following all of that is a royal pain in the arse
Of course that's a pain in the ass, just like the other fifty dumb things you have to do to overcome Word's "features". Don't you wish you had a program that would print to post script of portable document format with a two clicks? Pssst! Open Office does that.
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Tyrany works when you can keep your slaves ignorant and obedient. It's much more a matter of attitude than it is of technology. Were swords expensive or was the Roman Empire democratic? Note also that bows were the primary weapon of the Persian Empire and that England, with it's long bows invented Western Autocracy under William the Conqueror. Ask yourself if the Soviet Union would have colapsed without strong outside pressures and publications.
Power once seated is hard to overthrow. This is why computers will be controlled, as are all other means of electronic publication, unless we defeat things like "Trusted computing", carinvore, and licenses to code.
Thought crime is being defined as we watch. Witness this horror:
Members of the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees copyright law said at a hearing that peer-to-peer piracy was a crime under a 1997 federal law, but universities continued to treat file-swapping as a minor infraction of campus disciplinary codes.
"If on your campus you had an assault and battery or a murder, you'd go down to the district attorney's office and deal with it that way," said Rep. William Jenkins, R-Tenn.
Yes, Mr. Jenkins really compared sharing music to murder as moral equivalents requiring similar responses. This is a large step above the usual loaded language of "piracy". Equating the two actions morally represents the destruction of morals and replaces them with laws guided by self interest rather than moral sense. The punishments are equivalent too. The average murder or rape conviction gets you five year in jail. Violating the oxymoronically named NET act will get you five yars as well. That is the essence of thoughtcrime. Orwel's nightmare society had no laws, as all that was demanded was strict obedience in word, thought and deed. The punishment for violating the one law in any way was, of course, the same. This is very distrubing.
step 3 is GOTO 1. There's a reason this program is called HiSS. Go ahead, turn the dial. There's no difference between recursively sampled noise and static except the lack of adverts between.
Trying to figure what other companies they should push out of business.
That's true because the information can't be used to insure software compatibility. If Microsoft designed modular code the information would be useful. If the software Microsoft was learning about was free or open, it could also be true. Unfortunatly, Microsoft spagetti codes things like reading floppies through the GUI so that DLLs must be replaced by third party software. Because that third party software is closed source, there is no way for M$ to make sure their, "updates" won't break that code. So, in an absence of benificial uses of the information, we are left with malice. Microsoft will use the information to put their competitors at a disadvantage. Microsoft will know, before their competitors do, how many people are using certian code. When the market for a certian type of code is large enough, they can take it over by feeding DLLs that they know will break the their new adversary. They won't say it that way, bue everyone knows it's true so the advantage exists even if they don't use it.
This was the predicted use of the software update and others have reported it working this way before. I remember reading a post here about a lab that quit using the update program when it wholesale broke unix interfacing software. With the information decoded, we can see the mechanism but we already knew what the black box was doing.
Behold the ugly! It's the logical conclusion of the sick and paranoid thinking that goes into closed source comercial software.
Hello!? How do they know what patches you need if they can't look at your system and tell their servers what you've already got.... They could send a complete list of available patches to your system and let the client running on your computer pick which ones are neccesary, without microsoft ever knowing what software you have installed.
And how, pray tell, does even the Beast know what DLLs third parties have replaced? They can't because it's all closed source junk. No, this can only be used for "marketing" data so that the beast can know who to destroy next in their never ending quest to dominate all computing.
Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. None of this configuration information can be used to identify you.
Which essentially means that so long as they don't take an email address or phone number they can take what they want.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If M$ software was required to run your computer or it ran your computer better than other software or there were no free alternatives available, putting up with M$ terms might be understandable. As it is free software runs your computer better than M$'s pricey junk. Why, oh why, does anyone continue to trust the beast?
Well, I've been wandering around with a handful of mod points looking for some posts about the actual new Office UI/features to mod up, but there aren't any because everyone was trolled by the cloning bit in the original item!
What, you can't find another fanboy crowing about how wonderful the new features are? Where are the IE trolls when you need them? I wonder why you are having such a hard time.
Wait a minute, those idiots never did mention anything specific now did they? They always say silly general things about "lots of features" "great user interface" and what not that means nothing.
Perhaps you can do something useful and NAME A USEFUL FEATURE anyone might find on M$. In two years of slaving as an engineer in a M$ "partner" I never saw anything impressive. Most of the newer features, such as autolist and auto spell change were anoyances. The older features, like drawing tools were inferior to those available in free or no cost drawing packages such as the GIMP or Paint Shop Pro. Synching my visor to Outlook was nice, but Outlook was vastly inferior to the applications that came with the Visor itself. Outlook lacked the ability to tack notes into appointments and the notes it did have did not fit enough information to be useful. So, tell me a nice story of innovation instead of bitching about your fellow troll and fanboy posts not meeting your expectations.
Yeah, it's true, they will catch up to Emacs one day and have a browser in Word. Of course Emacs does it all in 20 megs, Windoze will do it in about 2 gigs of hard drive space. Netscape/Mozilla has had an editor with a spell check for years, also fitting in less than 30 megs.
Bloat Rule: No simple text editor is complete untill it contains a web browser. No web browser is complete untill it contains a simple text editor.
M$ rule: Do what everyone else has been doing for ten years, say you invented it and call it innovation.
Use all you can, destroy what you will. Always be unwilling to admit the possibility that someone else might be right, that you might be doing irreparable damage to the planet, and that, in a few decades, you could actually feasibly wipe mankind completely from the earth. After all, even if they're right, you'll have had a hell of a good time, and you probably won't live long enough to be forced to believe them when they say 'I told you so'.
Oh, wait, that's not a straw man... that's exactly what you said.
I'm sorry you did not understand. Nuclear does what windmills and what not does but cheaper and better. Oil is better used for plastics than burning. You still need it but you don't have to smog up the sky with it. That is all.
You'll be in an endless cycle of listening to up-and-coming bands as they work on their routine, always leaving them off once they hit the big-time. Yes, not all bands aim for million-dollar deals, stadiums, world tours, etc., but as I said before, no band is going to keep playing local bars forever, no matter how much hometown/non-label support you can drum up.
So what? With one in three thousand bands, "making it big", you won't meet one. You will hear music that's just as good because the average top 40 is still working on their routine. Those that are not working on their routine never had one to begin with.
I'm wating for web casts from bars to break the RIAA hold on entertainment. It won't be much longer if the internet itself is not destroyed and people get smart about promoting themselves.
What fool thinks they can have a modern economy without supplies from around the world? Try this for starters. Tugnsten is a good example of a vital material needed machine tools, light bulbs and many other things. The US stockpiles it, but would run out in a few weeks if ever supplies were halted. Wanna try to build windmills, solar cells and other Green ferry-tale energy sources without machine tools? Good Luck, Mr. Blair, making the UK less dependent on imports.
As for energy policy, I'm less than impressed. Nuclear plays second fiddle, what a shame. The UK will pay a high price in than high electric costs when it uglifies it's landscapes with windmills and it's shores with tideal generators. Reprocessing and the rest of the renewable nuclear power generating scheme was dropped a generation ago by people who feared "nuclear proliferation". The idea was to keep nuclear technology and materials from the rest of the world so that the rest of the world could be dominated and terrorist would not have weapons. That policy has failed because you can't keep nature a secret. We have simply lost the benifits of cheaper and more reliable power generation. The bombs are being made but there is no corresonding peaceful benifit. Here is another paper trying to put the future off two years more. Oh well, at least they are not trying to close plants down and mention nuclear in positve terms.
I like how they predicted a 6 C increase in temperature for this centruy when there was a 0.6 C increase in the whole last polute till you drop, make even Dikens sick, centry.. There has been a radical departure since 1940, others will tell you. Now, three years into this century, someone got out a pen and drew the curve out 97 years, HA! Some reputable scientists might tell you that missing neutrinos from the sun indicate a solar minimum and that temperatures will drop.
What to do? Nothing at all say the Greens, bottle yourself up, stop having children and use as little as possible till there's nothing left in our closed system. No, thank you. Build, make, exploit the rest of the solar system and the universe. Do not go quietly, the system is not closed.
Russ Smith is guilty of poor writing. Arrogent, insulting, clueless and shallow, that article was well below what most people expect from Salon. I expect much better from the Wall Street Journal. Was a letter to the editor or what? Let's have a look at some of the ruder sections:
let's enter the bubble of media narcissism.
Holy Narcissus, Batman, a 20 year old pop culture insult! Russ, you seem to be in love with yourself too.
David Talbot, a founder of Salon, will raise a glass at a San Francisco wake, comforting his staff that the online magazine, which is currently on the verge of extinction, "fought the good fight" and other such blather.
How insightful, no? No. Let me give you some help, Mr. Smith.
When you want to do a slam job, you need to understand the thing your are slaming. You need real inside details taken from personal experience or interviews. You might also have a clue as to what the slamee does, what made it different and explain those things to your reader. An excellent example of how to do that is Tom Wolf's "Tinny Mummies", a slam of the New Yorker magazine, now reprinted in his book, "Hooking Up". When you lack such insight, or fail to deliver it, your slam ends up derivative and unconvincing, just a rehash of what anyone paying attention could have picked up from the Associated Press, clueless abstracted jibberish with a mean twist.
Chinese people might be free to copy and share music they enjoy with their friends? Unless it's political, then they shoot you and the band. Here they just put you in jail. How's that for killed dead?
Someone in China was complaining about having to work so hard? Say it ain't so! ''In China, we have to give so many concerts that we do not have time to rest our voices.'' It must be true.
It's possible that one day you'll be choosing between commercial software that explicitly protect against patent lawsuits, and free software with a third-party patent insurance.
You just witnessed a comercial software vendor LIE to their customers and those customers getting burnt,and still you trust that vendor? That's really stupid. M$ thought they could buy their way out of things, lied, got caught and are taking down a host of fools who trusted them. Do you want to be next or what?
you appear to be guaranteeing that all free software authors obey patent laws.
No, I said that the distributors do. That in turn works its way back to the authors. Reputable distributors won't carry programs that infinge in any way. It seems obvious that you are less likely to get burnt that way.
I want to find out if a fundamental paradox really causes the universe to end! I mean, suicide is not my bag, but if I had the chance to take all of you with me...
But the chances are that you will simply horrify your 12 year old self by imploding as soon as the 12 year old understands who you are. Meeting yourself is generally embarassing, but altering your life would obviously invalidate your existance and you would dissapear in a puff of logic.
Microsoft should be responsible...I hope not. Beacuse if they are responsible for patent violations of their software by users then open source developers are going to be in for a world of hurt.
Sure thing, chicken little. That would be why most free developers avoid patented garbage. You are familiar, I'm sure with some of the efforts such as Portable Net Graphics format? While it's disgusting that there would be patents on something so obvious as a file format that uses well know compresion routines, free developers obey the law even when it's stupid.
The irony is that you can trust the major distributions of free software more than you can trust M$. M$ knew that their developers would be in violation of Timeline's patents and licenses, yet told them they were OK. That's right, the people taking your money LIED to you, while the free software people with nothing but their reputation at stake, have not. Well, what do you expect from closed source crap? It's a lie from start to finish.
The sooner people give up trying to make money off silly patents and closed source binaries, the better off everyone will be. The result of this kind of business model has been massive waste, from overpriced code that everyone has to use to keeping people from using reasonable techniques to the cost of the litigation to tell the difference. And all of that is before you count the costs of the Microsoft upgrade train and the massive intentional waste of changed document formats. Barf!
And this is from a *confirmed* ANTI-MICROSOFT junkie, not one of your astro-turfers...
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Why? Between OpenSSH and X forwarding why bother to mount NFS? What does it offer?
If UNIX is so old, how can it be producing offspring like that little scamp, Linux?
Mis-Quoth the Doors, and twang the simitar:
The Penguin awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and...then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door...and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother...I want to...fuck you
Dude, he did the Oedipus Tux! Get that asshole out of my club, you guys make me sick!
Yes, that is sick talking about killing and fucking. GNU's Not Unix, it's better because it's free and free could care less about it's parents one way or another. As free software becomes beter, Unix will become free. Sun will continue to make great hardware and they are already putting Linux on it. As for all that M$ junk? They can free it but no one will want to use it. The only real death of code comes from closure and denial. Closed source stagnates as the copyright holders prevent it from being used.
Ahhh! If my byte moved from 8 bits to 16 bits, did my nibble become 8 bits instead of 4? Did my bit beceome 2 bits? If my bits can double, I'm in trouble! - Head Explodes -
Redundancy was the problem and redundancy was the answer. Microsoft realized that their operating system was simply a 32 bit GUI bolted onto a 16 bit extention of an 8 bit OS. Their code, when viewed in this light was massivly redundant and users could fit their data inside the code itself! They could even fit code within code this way. So, in this way, the engineers have saved the company from the marketing department without confrontation.
It's a joke, laugh.
Don't tell me that people are going to start sending self destructing Micros~.DOC to me! Ahhhh! The normal .DOC are bad enough, but one that demands write access? "This message will self destruct, in good faith, in ten seconds."
Of course that's a pain in the ass, just like the other fifty dumb things you have to do to overcome Word's "features". Don't you wish you had a program that would print to post script of portable document format with a two clicks? Pssst! Open Office does that.
Power once seated is hard to overthrow. This is why computers will be controlled, as are all other means of electronic publication, unless we defeat things like "Trusted computing", carinvore, and licenses to code.
Thought crime is being defined as we watch. Witness this horror:
Members of the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees copyright law said at a hearing that peer-to-peer piracy was a crime under a 1997 federal law, but universities continued to treat file-swapping as a minor infraction of campus disciplinary codes.
"If on your campus you had an assault and battery or a murder, you'd go down to the district attorney's office and deal with it that way," said Rep. William Jenkins, R-Tenn.
Yes, Mr. Jenkins really compared sharing music to murder as moral equivalents requiring similar responses. This is a large step above the usual loaded language of "piracy". Equating the two actions morally represents the destruction of morals and replaces them with laws guided by self interest rather than moral sense. The punishments are equivalent too. The average murder or rape conviction gets you five year in jail. Violating the oxymoronically named NET act will get you five yars as well. That is the essence of thoughtcrime. Orwel's nightmare society had no laws, as all that was demanded was strict obedience in word, thought and deed. The punishment for violating the one law in any way was, of course, the same. This is very distrubing.
That's true because the information can't be used to insure software compatibility. If Microsoft designed modular code the information would be useful. If the software Microsoft was learning about was free or open, it could also be true. Unfortunatly, Microsoft spagetti codes things like reading floppies through the GUI so that DLLs must be replaced by third party software. Because that third party software is closed source, there is no way for M$ to make sure their, "updates" won't break that code. So, in an absence of benificial uses of the information, we are left with malice. Microsoft will use the information to put their competitors at a disadvantage. Microsoft will know, before their competitors do, how many people are using certian code. When the market for a certian type of code is large enough, they can take it over by feeding DLLs that they know will break the their new adversary. They won't say it that way, bue everyone knows it's true so the advantage exists even if they don't use it.
This was the predicted use of the software update and others have reported it working this way before. I remember reading a post here about a lab that quit using the update program when it wholesale broke unix interfacing software. With the information decoded, we can see the mechanism but we already knew what the black box was doing.
Behold the ugly! It's the logical conclusion of the sick and paranoid thinking that goes into closed source comercial software.
And how, pray tell, does even the Beast know what DLLs third parties have replaced? They can't because it's all closed source junk. No, this can only be used for "marketing" data so that the beast can know who to destroy next in their never ending quest to dominate all computing.
Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. None of this configuration information can be used to identify you.
Which essentially means that so long as they don't take an email address or phone number they can take what they want.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. If M$ software was required to run your computer or it ran your computer better than other software or there were no free alternatives available, putting up with M$ terms might be understandable. As it is free software runs your computer better than M$'s pricey junk. Why, oh why, does anyone continue to trust the beast?
What, you can't find another fanboy crowing about how wonderful the new features are? Where are the IE trolls when you need them? I wonder why you are having such a hard time.
Wait a minute, those idiots never did mention anything specific now did they? They always say silly general things about "lots of features" "great user interface" and what not that means nothing.
Perhaps you can do something useful and NAME A USEFUL FEATURE anyone might find on M$. In two years of slaving as an engineer in a M$ "partner" I never saw anything impressive. Most of the newer features, such as autolist and auto spell change were anoyances. The older features, like drawing tools were inferior to those available in free or no cost drawing packages such as the GIMP or Paint Shop Pro. Synching my visor to Outlook was nice, but Outlook was vastly inferior to the applications that came with the Visor itself. Outlook lacked the ability to tack notes into appointments and the notes it did have did not fit enough information to be useful. So, tell me a nice story of innovation instead of bitching about your fellow troll and fanboy posts not meeting your expectations.
Bloat Rule: No simple text editor is complete untill it contains a web browser. No web browser is complete untill it contains a simple text editor.
M$ rule: Do what everyone else has been doing for ten years, say you invented it and call it innovation.
Oh, wait, that's not a straw man... that's exactly what you said.
I'm sorry you did not understand. Nuclear does what windmills and what not does but cheaper and better. Oil is better used for plastics than burning. You still need it but you don't have to smog up the sky with it. That is all.
So what? With one in three thousand bands, "making it big", you won't meet one. You will hear music that's just as good because the average top 40 is still working on their routine. Those that are not working on their routine never had one to begin with.
I'm wating for web casts from bars to break the RIAA hold on entertainment. It won't be much longer if the internet itself is not destroyed and people get smart about promoting themselves.
As for energy policy, I'm less than impressed. Nuclear plays second fiddle, what a shame. The UK will pay a high price in than high electric costs when it uglifies it's landscapes with windmills and it's shores with tideal generators. Reprocessing and the rest of the renewable nuclear power generating scheme was dropped a generation ago by people who feared "nuclear proliferation". The idea was to keep nuclear technology and materials from the rest of the world so that the rest of the world could be dominated and terrorist would not have weapons. That policy has failed because you can't keep nature a secret. We have simply lost the benifits of cheaper and more reliable power generation. The bombs are being made but there is no corresonding peaceful benifit. Here is another paper trying to put the future off two years more. Oh well, at least they are not trying to close plants down and mention nuclear in positve terms.
I like how they predicted a 6 C increase in temperature for this centruy when there was a 0.6 C increase in the whole last polute till you drop, make even Dikens sick, centry.. There has been a radical departure since 1940, others will tell you. Now, three years into this century, someone got out a pen and drew the curve out 97 years, HA! Some reputable scientists might tell you that missing neutrinos from the sun indicate a solar minimum and that temperatures will drop.
What to do? Nothing at all say the Greens, bottle yourself up, stop having children and use as little as possible till there's nothing left in our closed system. No, thank you. Build, make, exploit the rest of the solar system and the universe. Do not go quietly, the system is not closed.
let's enter the bubble of media narcissism.
Holy Narcissus, Batman, a 20 year old pop culture insult! Russ, you seem to be in love with yourself too.
David Talbot, a founder of Salon, will raise a glass at a San Francisco wake, comforting his staff that the online magazine, which is currently on the verge of extinction, "fought the good fight" and other such blather.
How insightful, no? No. Let me give you some help, Mr. Smith.
When you want to do a slam job, you need to understand the thing your are slaming. You need real inside details taken from personal experience or interviews. You might also have a clue as to what the slamee does, what made it different and explain those things to your reader. An excellent example of how to do that is Tom Wolf's "Tinny Mummies", a slam of the New Yorker magazine, now reprinted in his book, "Hooking Up". When you lack such insight, or fail to deliver it, your slam ends up derivative and unconvincing, just a rehash of what anyone paying attention could have picked up from the Associated Press, clueless abstracted jibberish with a mean twist.
Chinese people might be free to copy and share music they enjoy with their friends? Unless it's political, then they shoot you and the band. Here they just put you in jail. How's that for killed dead?
Someone in China was complaining about having to work so hard? Say it ain't so! ''In China, we have to give so many concerts that we do not have time to rest our voices.'' It must be true.
My fingers are sore, and so are my sides.
You just witnessed a comercial software vendor LIE to their customers and those customers getting burnt,and still you trust that vendor? That's really stupid. M$ thought they could buy their way out of things, lied, got caught and are taking down a host of fools who trusted them. Do you want to be next or what?
you appear to be guaranteeing that all free software authors obey patent laws.
No, I said that the distributors do. That in turn works its way back to the authors. Reputable distributors won't carry programs that infinge in any way. It seems obvious that you are less likely to get burnt that way.
and kill it now. Those hours would have been better spent playing marbles or just about anything else. Hang out in the library more.
I want to find out if a fundamental paradox really causes the universe to end! I mean, suicide is not my bag, but if I had the chance to take all of you with me...
But the chances are that you will simply horrify your 12 year old self by imploding as soon as the 12 year old understands who you are. Meeting yourself is generally embarassing, but altering your life would obviously invalidate your existance and you would dissapear in a puff of logic.
He didn't know the gun was loaded!
Sure thing, chicken little. That would be why most free developers avoid patented garbage. You are familiar, I'm sure with some of the efforts such as Portable Net Graphics format? While it's disgusting that there would be patents on something so obvious as a file format that uses well know compresion routines, free developers obey the law even when it's stupid.
The irony is that you can trust the major distributions of free software more than you can trust M$. M$ knew that their developers would be in violation of Timeline's patents and licenses, yet told them they were OK. That's right, the people taking your money LIED to you, while the free software people with nothing but their reputation at stake, have not. Well, what do you expect from closed source crap? It's a lie from start to finish.
The sooner people give up trying to make money off silly patents and closed source binaries, the better off everyone will be. The result of this kind of business model has been massive waste, from overpriced code that everyone has to use to keeping people from using reasonable techniques to the cost of the litigation to tell the difference. And all of that is before you count the costs of the Microsoft upgrade train and the massive intentional waste of changed document formats. Barf!
And this is from a *confirmed* ANTI-MICROSOFT junkie, not one of your astro-turfers...
You post looks like pure FUD to me.
and what iluminates it? It's bright enough to see with a telescope, but it's -272? So is it also the coldest fusion around?
Is that Intel speak for Paladium? No thanks, Intel.