Look up Social Darwinism. People really do think that way and it's repulsive. Oddly enough, the contradiction between such cruel social policy was the reason many Christian groups rejected real Darwinism in the last century. Sadly, these groups today continue to reject the real science but have accepted the psuedo science of Social Darwinism and have combined it with formerly repudiated doctrines. Their philosopher, Jesus, taught them that good and bad things happen to good and bad people alike.
In this case, it's hard to see the application. So few people are enriched by media and telco monopolies that it is impossible to say that the success of those few comes from virtuous living. All the evidence points to rather wicked abuse of government, which real Republicans should abhor.
Because you should never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of hard drives. - paraphrase of a not so old M$ report about moving data. Besides backdoors to Winblows, why is it that the NSA wants to partner with M$ clowns again?
Looks like these guys showed how hard it is to innovate something easier than the patented "one click shopping." Anyone, anywhere can have any song, book, movie or other piece of culture if we all just share what we have to create the electronic equivalent of the best public library ever known to man. No one ever need be ignorant again. Will the USPTO reward the creators for their great gift to mankind or will they be thrown in jail?
M$ pays me to nuke billions of dollars in advertising and bullshit by submitting stories like these. While this may be annoying to people in Redmond, I doubt it keeps them or anyone else from moving to free software. If this guy is a typical M$ employee pig headed ignorance keeps them all doing what they do. Everyone else is cool the things I point to.
Don't let that get in the way of your little meme, "twitter is an annoying detriment to free software." Someone in Redmond surely agrees with you.
Each article has some little piece of FUD, but the whole picture dispels it all. You can use your existing hardware. You don't have to give up legacy applications thanks to virtualization. Pretty much any big IT user is going to save money and there are NO downsides.
Hi troll. Up to your usual bullshit and harassment? When you don't see me, you chase shadows. That's almost as dumb as saying that GNU/Linux represents less than 2% of the desktop market. The details of your argument don't support anything else, but I can go through them anyway because your lies are offensive.
If you go back and read Mr. Shen's comments, you will find that he was talking about shipments not sales. There's a big difference between the two that probably explains the reason EEE PC sold 4 million units instead of 5. He's recently been quoted debunking much of what you say, but we really can't expect him to be able to tell the truth thanks to M$'s vendor and OEM lock. M$ obviously whipped his ass.
Windows based netbooks being shipped is channel stuffing that will burn vendors dumb enough to fall for it. The bottom line is that GNU/Linux runs better and provides more features on netbooks than Windows ever will. XP requires an extra 4GB of SD just to load onto the original EEE PC and no one bought that model for Windows. If XP is not bad enough out of the box, it will be after six months of net use. Good luck getting that thing rebuilt at the local mom and pop computer store. Any sales of Windows EEE PCs are coming from dedicated GNU/Linux fan who hold their nose at vendor price fixing and buy an inappropriately cheaper but higher specced version. Casual users know better and are stocking up on full sized Vista failure notebooks at $300 a pop.
These kinds of agreements should be set by law because they serve the public and the parties depend on public servitude. Real value is provided by interconnects and divided networks are worthless. The story presented by Forbes is one of Sprint screwing up and customers being damaged in what should have been a no brainer deal. Sprint lost more than it could have gained but we can't rely on corporate greed to protect the public interest in the future. Sooner or later, it might be in a large company's best interest to bully smaller companies and the public will lose again.
There is a very practical benefits to not promoting binary blobs as "free" or as "non free". The real question is, "Why should a free distribution promote the use of second rate hardware?" People should avoid hardware from non cooperative vendors, they don't deserve your money and the hardware works as well as hardware with really free drivers. As these devices become more complicated, the harm they can do to you increases as well. If the software they run is not free, you won't have anymore control or privacy than you would if you were running Winblows. Even doing so much as putting them in a "non free" repository is essentially promotion that goes against every principle of software freedom. Companies like Broadcom should be left to fail with M$ until they decide to cooperate with their users.
You beat me to it.
Hi, Ed. Over the years, many of the things you have said have annoyed me. Today, I decided to see if there was any pattern to it and was not entirely surprised to find what I did in the last year of your comments. I then decided to add you to my troll zoo. Feel free to leave your thoughts in my journal.
There's a serious point in your casual observation. The older pictures were worth more when they were relevant. That is the value perpetual copyright robs us of. You still can't publish them yourself. 90+ year copyright means that only the very earliest recordings and photographs can be shared freely. TW is notorious for demaning huge sums of money for the tiniest violation.
No, no one died but the organizers did bring in the heavies to protect their sponsor. Censorship is ugly no matter how you do it.
In this case, it blew right back into their face. Had the organizers left the protesters alone, the whole thing would have blown over. BN may have put some pictures up and that would have been the end of it. Instead the news of ripped up posters, deleted pictures and rough handling has spread all over the world. Here's a lesson for everyone: prevent disruption but allow peaceful protest to avoid incidents.
Good thing it's going to run like crap. The last thing the world needs is newbies demanding Silverblight and Mono, so that Steve Ballmer can point to it and say, "See, the dirty hippies really do need us and my patent claims on the kernel are valid. Pay your license fee now." M$'s monopoly trash might reinforce itself if they implemented it with reasonable standards. Their insistence on booby trapped code will always pull performance down. iPhone and GNU/Linux are not going to help M$ maintain their 25 year old file format lockin and "cash cow".
Whenever you see M$ doing something you have not heard of, look out. If this method can't be done with free software, it's because ACPI was made that way. If it can be but is not, it's because it's a bad idea.
How could this be a bad idea? You think you have a nice "clean" pre boot. Something ordinary users will be able to write because they turn off UAC. What you really have is a good place to put a worm or some other W32 nasty. Everything done on Windows is compromised by poor security and DRM.
It is less absurd to notice that M$ has powerful influence on both elected and non-elected officials. They spend billions a year to make their form of corruption as common as air. No dirty trick is beneath them.
You can't blame the recession when M$ underperforms the economy in general and other companies do better.
Over the year, PC shipments were up by 12% but M$'s software profits were only up 2%. Those profits were actually down over the preceding quarter. Then again, it's not like you can trust M$ numbers because they have been caught cooking the books before. Vista is a failure, so I'm not sure how they managed to do keep themselves from sinking, other than squeezing their existing customers harder than ever. That's bad for good will, you know.
Red Hat, IBM, Google and other companies are doing just fine and are growing.
So, the simple answer is best. M$ is having a hard time competing with free software, just like everyone knew they would.
You also have no reason to believe other companies are so stupid.
Your job is difficult because your internal IT people are idiots. I have cataloged Vista's problems for them and everyone else, with dozens of links to reputable papers and more than 50 videos of errors from angry customers. If they want Vista at this point it is because they want Windows at any price. Brush up your resume.
I'm sorry that you are in such a place, especially if you are who you say you are. Promoting free software at a big dumb M$ partner company for any reason is fatal. You will be slogged and eventually fired. This has nothing to do with me, ESR, Bruce Perens, Allen Cox, Richard Stallman or anyone else who stood up for your rights. It has to do with step 12 of the slog. Your salary will be given to a more willing tool and the costs will be shifted to customers, until the whole company collapses. My advice is to find another job before they get rid of you or fail.
You trolls are where you always are. When overwhelmed, you pick off points later as you did with this post which was also once at +5 but has been hammered down to 0. Would you seriously tell anyone that you and your friends at M$ are not gaming the system like this?
I play my games because you cheated the community. Every one of my accounts posts at -1, I never see mod points and you try to scrub the firehose of my submissions. You do this to shut me up but have failed again and again. I will not restrict myself in getting around your censorship. I will continue to amuse and inform people who come here and people will laugh at your attempts to smear and intimidate me. You can't win because, ultimately, you are lying and people are smart enough to tell.
A censored internet will look nothing like the free net of '92. It will look like broadcast TV because the same people who censor that will be deciding who gets kicked off.
Microsoft Vista adoption numbers are submarined. They are going to be driven by enterprise adoption, most of whom are still in the process of validating it.
Vista has been rejected by most large federal agencies and businesses large and small. Not even Intel is going to use Vista. These issues are all cataloged here. There are just too many performance, compatibility and trust issues that can be solved better they way your company is doing it. Vista is more rejected at work than it is at home. Don't count on Windows 7 to turn things around for M$, the only thing that's submarined is their cash on hand which will soon be followed by the rest of their business.
Oh yeah, for the AC troll above. A 19% Vista share and less than 2% for GNU/linux is clearly out of touch with reality. Hitslink methodology is flawed.
Run it all on Wine or in a VM instance of XP? That will work for all of six months before the upgrade train moves on.
This stuff is never going to fly and M$ has made all the arguments before. One minute Google Apps are toys dependent on a tenuous network connection and a service provider's whims. The next minute M$ follows through with an inferior copy. In order for this junk to work you need:
M$ Office - Local, non free binaries.
Silverlight - a patent encumbered, non free replacement for Flash, which also sucked.
All the patience and trust you were willing to give Google.
You can do all of that, or use the software you have now. Google Apps is already an easy way to share across platforms. People on free platforms can just "apt-get install openoffice." Perhaps Vista's backward incompatiblity was intentional, to get you ready for the own nothing future.
All of this comes down to massive disruption and breakage of investment in Windows Land. You might as well move to a platform that's stable, works and is free. Goog luck to all you die hard Softies that have to implement this pile.
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Look up Social Darwinism. People really do think that way and it's repulsive. Oddly enough, the contradiction between such cruel social policy was the reason many Christian groups rejected real Darwinism in the last century. Sadly, these groups today continue to reject the real science but have accepted the psuedo science of Social Darwinism and have combined it with formerly repudiated doctrines. Their philosopher, Jesus, taught them that good and bad things happen to good and bad people alike.
In this case, it's hard to see the application. So few people are enriched by media and telco monopolies that it is impossible to say that the success of those few comes from virtuous living. All the evidence points to rather wicked abuse of government, which real Republicans should abhor.
Because you should never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of hard drives. - paraphrase of a not so old M$ report about moving data. Besides backdoors to Winblows, why is it that the NSA wants to partner with M$ clowns again?
Looks like these guys showed how hard it is to innovate something easier than the patented "one click shopping." Anyone, anywhere can have any song, book, movie or other piece of culture if we all just share what we have to create the electronic equivalent of the best public library ever known to man. No one ever need be ignorant again. Will the USPTO reward the creators for their great gift to mankind or will they be thrown in jail?
M$ pays me to nuke billions of dollars in advertising and bullshit by submitting stories like these. While this may be annoying to people in Redmond, I doubt it keeps them or anyone else from moving to free software. If this guy is a typical M$ employee pig headed ignorance keeps them all doing what they do. Everyone else is cool the things I point to.
Don't let that get in the way of your little meme, "twitter is an annoying detriment to free software." Someone in Redmond surely agrees with you.
Each article has some little piece of FUD, but the whole picture dispels it all. You can use your existing hardware. You don't have to give up legacy applications thanks to virtualization. Pretty much any big IT user is going to save money and there are NO downsides.
Hi troll. Up to your usual bullshit and harassment? When you don't see me, you chase shadows. That's almost as dumb as saying that GNU/Linux represents less than 2% of the desktop market. The details of your argument don't support anything else, but I can go through them anyway because your lies are offensive.
If you go back and read Mr. Shen's comments, you will find that he was talking about shipments not sales. There's a big difference between the two that probably explains the reason EEE PC sold 4 million units instead of 5. He's recently been quoted debunking much of what you say, but we really can't expect him to be able to tell the truth thanks to M$'s vendor and OEM lock. M$ obviously whipped his ass.
Windows based netbooks being shipped is channel stuffing that will burn vendors dumb enough to fall for it. The bottom line is that GNU/Linux runs better and provides more features on netbooks than Windows ever will. XP requires an extra 4GB of SD just to load onto the original EEE PC and no one bought that model for Windows. If XP is not bad enough out of the box, it will be after six months of net use. Good luck getting that thing rebuilt at the local mom and pop computer store. Any sales of Windows EEE PCs are coming from dedicated GNU/Linux fan who hold their nose at vendor price fixing and buy an inappropriately cheaper but higher specced version. Casual users know better and are stocking up on full sized Vista failure notebooks at $300 a pop.
These kinds of agreements should be set by law because they serve the public and the parties depend on public servitude. Real value is provided by interconnects and divided networks are worthless. The story presented by Forbes is one of Sprint screwing up and customers being damaged in what should have been a no brainer deal. Sprint lost more than it could have gained but we can't rely on corporate greed to protect the public interest in the future. Sooner or later, it might be in a large company's best interest to bully smaller companies and the public will lose again.
There is a very practical benefits to not promoting binary blobs as "free" or as "non free". The real question is, "Why should a free distribution promote the use of second rate hardware?" People should avoid hardware from non cooperative vendors, they don't deserve your money and the hardware works as well as hardware with really free drivers. As these devices become more complicated, the harm they can do to you increases as well. If the software they run is not free, you won't have anymore control or privacy than you would if you were running Winblows. Even doing so much as putting them in a "non free" repository is essentially promotion that goes against every principle of software freedom. Companies like Broadcom should be left to fail with M$ until they decide to cooperate with their users.
You beat me to it. Hi, Ed. Over the years, many of the things you have said have annoyed me. Today, I decided to see if there was any pattern to it and was not entirely surprised to find what I did in the last year of your comments. I then decided to add you to my troll zoo. Feel free to leave your thoughts in my journal.
It will be a lot of money four year from now too.
no, thank you.
There's a serious point in your casual observation. The older pictures were worth more when they were relevant. That is the value perpetual copyright robs us of. You still can't publish them yourself. 90+ year copyright means that only the very earliest recordings and photographs can be shared freely. TW is notorious for demaning huge sums of money for the tiniest violation.
No, no one died but the organizers did bring in the heavies to protect their sponsor. Censorship is ugly no matter how you do it.
In this case, it blew right back into their face. Had the organizers left the protesters alone, the whole thing would have blown over. BN may have put some pictures up and that would have been the end of it. Instead the news of ripped up posters, deleted pictures and rough handling has spread all over the world. Here's a lesson for everyone: prevent disruption but allow peaceful protest to avoid incidents.
Good thing it's going to run like crap. The last thing the world needs is newbies demanding Silverblight and Mono, so that Steve Ballmer can point to it and say, "See, the dirty hippies really do need us and my patent claims on the kernel are valid. Pay your license fee now." M$'s monopoly trash might reinforce itself if they implemented it with reasonable standards. Their insistence on booby trapped code will always pull performance down. iPhone and GNU/Linux are not going to help M$ maintain their 25 year old file format lockin and "cash cow".
Whenever you see M$ doing something you have not heard of, look out. If this method can't be done with free software, it's because ACPI was made that way. If it can be but is not, it's because it's a bad idea.
How could this be a bad idea? You think you have a nice "clean" pre boot. Something ordinary users will be able to write because they turn off UAC. What you really have is a good place to put a worm or some other W32 nasty. Everything done on Windows is compromised by poor security and DRM.
It is less absurd to notice that M$ has powerful influence on both elected and non-elected officials. They spend billions a year to make their form of corruption as common as air. No dirty trick is beneath them.
Can you say Vista Failure? I can. So goes the M$ retail chain.
You can't blame the recession when M$ underperforms the economy in general and other companies do better.
Over the year, PC shipments were up by 12% but M$'s software profits were only up 2%. Those profits were actually down over the preceding quarter. Then again, it's not like you can trust M$ numbers because they have been caught cooking the books before. Vista is a failure, so I'm not sure how they managed to do keep themselves from sinking, other than squeezing their existing customers harder than ever. That's bad for good will, you know.
Red Hat, IBM, Google and other companies are doing just fine and are growing.
So, the simple answer is best. M$ is having a hard time competing with free software, just like everyone knew they would.
As much as you like to say it is so, no one is confusing your actions for those of the community.
You also have no reason to believe other companies are so stupid.
Your job is difficult because your internal IT people are idiots. I have cataloged Vista's problems for them and everyone else, with dozens of links to reputable papers and more than 50 videos of errors from angry customers. If they want Vista at this point it is because they want Windows at any price. Brush up your resume.
I'm sorry that you are in such a place, especially if you are who you say you are. Promoting free software at a big dumb M$ partner company for any reason is fatal. You will be slogged and eventually fired. This has nothing to do with me, ESR, Bruce Perens, Allen Cox, Richard Stallman or anyone else who stood up for your rights. It has to do with step 12 of the slog. Your salary will be given to a more willing tool and the costs will be shifted to customers, until the whole company collapses. My advice is to find another job before they get rid of you or fail.
You trolls are where you always are. When overwhelmed, you pick off points later as you did with this post which was also once at +5 but has been hammered down to 0. Would you seriously tell anyone that you and your friends at M$ are not gaming the system like this?
I play my games because you cheated the community. Every one of my accounts posts at -1, I never see mod points and you try to scrub the firehose of my submissions. You do this to shut me up but have failed again and again. I will not restrict myself in getting around your censorship. I will continue to amuse and inform people who come here and people will laugh at your attempts to smear and intimidate me. You can't win because, ultimately, you are lying and people are smart enough to tell.
A censored internet will look nothing like the free net of '92. It will look like broadcast TV because the same people who censor that will be deciding who gets kicked off.
Microsoft Vista adoption numbers are submarined. They are going to be driven by enterprise adoption, most of whom are still in the process of validating it.
Vista has been rejected by most large federal agencies and businesses large and small. Not even Intel is going to use Vista. These issues are all cataloged here. There are just too many performance, compatibility and trust issues that can be solved better they way your company is doing it. Vista is more rejected at work than it is at home. Don't count on Windows 7 to turn things around for M$, the only thing that's submarined is their cash on hand which will soon be followed by the rest of their business.
Oh yeah, for the AC troll above. A 19% Vista share and less than 2% for GNU/linux is clearly out of touch with reality. Hitslink methodology is flawed.
With Vista adoption rates hovering under 10%, aka about as many people who think the moon missions were fake, you can rest assured that human stupidity is limited. Even cockroaches can avoid being burnt twice.
Run it all on Wine or in a VM instance of XP? That will work for all of six months before the upgrade train moves on.
This stuff is never going to fly and M$ has made all the arguments before. One minute Google Apps are toys dependent on a tenuous network connection and a service provider's whims. The next minute M$ follows through with an inferior copy. In order for this junk to work you need:
You can do all of that, or use the software you have now. Google Apps is already an easy way to share across platforms. People on free platforms can just "apt-get install openoffice." Perhaps Vista's backward incompatiblity was intentional, to get you ready for the own nothing future.
Really, own nothing. Windows has never been a very complete distribution but Windows 7 is going to come stripped of what little people liked about Vista.
All of this comes down to massive disruption and breakage of investment in Windows Land. You might as well move to a platform that's stable, works and is free. Goog luck to all you die hard Softies that have to implement this pile.