I'll say it since no one else will. If you're buying gold you're cheating. I've been playing WoW since it premiered, have a couple 70's, and a life that almost always gets in the way of farming, running quests for purples, or playing PvP until my eyes bleed.
There *is* a cap to the monitary wealth of the game, it *is* time! By paying real currency for someone elses time outside the game, you've artifically juiced your character within the game. You've manipulated your position in the game from outside the game for your own reasons. You might as well hack the game as buy gold IMO, they are the same thing. Cheating.
Actually its not much of a simplification. SUS can deploy patches across M$ networks with little to no impact. The biggest problem most sadmins find in large enterprises are legacy systems that are only patched periodically (once a quarter). Microsoft exposes patches ahead of their automated install date (via Auto-Update) too. So, if you're a good sadmin you're probably waiting for the out-of-cycle release of said fix so that you can smoke it on your enterprise *long before* "patch Tuesday."
Its actually kind of funny to read all this belly aching. Cry me a river, how hard can it really be? Back in the day, we had ~10,000 servers to update and used VBS and batch files to make most of that happen. If you're still deploying.msi by remoting to each and every server in your stable your making it difficult on yourself.
Is Slashdot really news for geeks (or just news for a certain type of geek)? The funny thing is that M$ employs a whole bunch of geeks, many of which worked very hard to deliver the patching software that now comes as a standard (and free) service in any OS the company makes.
Seemingly its easier to bandwagon for most no-talent hacks. I mean how many people actually build an OS let alone find and repair the flaws in a body of code that large?
Yeah that's never happened before. They give us a war for oil and then use that to increase the price of gas. They over sell corn futures and starve central America. They sell you cable TV and riddle it with commercials. Pretty soon there will be a threshold tax and we'll all be living outside our houses so that we can afford to own them.
Your metaphors are nice, but not equivalent. Chevy, because its more prevalent, is easier to chop and resell -- all cars are equally easy to break into and drive away the difference is in the reuse of the stolen resource. The simple truth is that for exactly the same reason you posted the above M$ has been a much bigger target than anything else on the market. The company's software gets more attention (positive and negative).
But seriously, I'd love to see all those folks that think life would be better without M$ switch. And good luck to ya! Knowing what life in the enterprise was like years ago, I thank my lucky stars that M$ has done as much good work as they have. So switch and make my life easier.
"Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $12.54 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, a 6% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $3.47 billion, $2.63 billion and $0.26, respectively."
There sits the very image of a healthy company. When you cut away all the foregone conclusions and supernatural claptrap in this blog post what you're left with is Graham's assertion that the company is failing -- twice.
So he's not afraid of MSFT? My impression is that the company would rather that you wouldn't be afraid of them. They'd like it if you bought their software, actually. Which many many many people, small businesses, medium businesses, big businesses, and governments do.
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I'll say it since no one else will. If you're buying gold you're cheating. I've been playing WoW since it premiered, have a couple 70's, and a life that almost always gets in the way of farming, running quests for purples, or playing PvP until my eyes bleed. There *is* a cap to the monitary wealth of the game, it *is* time! By paying real currency for someone elses time outside the game, you've artifically juiced your character within the game. You've manipulated your position in the game from outside the game for your own reasons. You might as well hack the game as buy gold IMO, they are the same thing. Cheating.
Actually its not much of a simplification. SUS can deploy patches across M$ networks with little to no impact. The biggest problem most sadmins find in large enterprises are legacy systems that are only patched periodically (once a quarter). Microsoft exposes patches ahead of their automated install date (via Auto-Update) too. So, if you're a good sadmin you're probably waiting for the out-of-cycle release of said fix so that you can smoke it on your enterprise *long before* "patch Tuesday." Its actually kind of funny to read all this belly aching. Cry me a river, how hard can it really be? Back in the day, we had ~10,000 servers to update and used VBS and batch files to make most of that happen. If you're still deploying .msi by remoting to each and every server in your stable your making it difficult on yourself.
Is Slashdot really news for geeks (or just news for a certain type of geek)? The funny thing is that M$ employs a whole bunch of geeks, many of which worked very hard to deliver the patching software that now comes as a standard (and free) service in any OS the company makes. Seemingly its easier to bandwagon for most no-talent hacks. I mean how many people actually build an OS let alone find and repair the flaws in a body of code that large?
Maybe they should cut both ways and offer her a Math degree?
Yeah that's never happened before. They give us a war for oil and then use that to increase the price of gas. They over sell corn futures and starve central America. They sell you cable TV and riddle it with commercials. Pretty soon there will be a threshold tax and we'll all be living outside our houses so that we can afford to own them.
Your metaphors are nice, but not equivalent. Chevy, because its more prevalent, is easier to chop and resell -- all cars are equally easy to break into and drive away the difference is in the reuse of the stolen resource. The simple truth is that for exactly the same reason you posted the above M$ has been a much bigger target than anything else on the market. The company's software gets more attention (positive and negative). But seriously, I'd love to see all those folks that think life would be better without M$ switch. And good luck to ya! Knowing what life in the enterprise was like years ago, I thank my lucky stars that M$ has done as much good work as they have. So switch and make my life easier.
"Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $12.54 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2006, a 6% increase over the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $3.47 billion, $2.63 billion and $0.26, respectively." There sits the very image of a healthy company. When you cut away all the foregone conclusions and supernatural claptrap in this blog post what you're left with is Graham's assertion that the company is failing -- twice. So he's not afraid of MSFT? My impression is that the company would rather that you wouldn't be afraid of them. They'd like it if you bought their software, actually. Which many many many people, small businesses, medium businesses, big businesses, and governments do.