Unfortunately, the article itself is a work of fiction. The guy has lots of bad reasoning, poor memory and is desperately lacking in technical understanding. You really aren't kidding. The article is pathetic and it begins with the first sentence (or lack thereof):
In the face of the mass-media criticism of Windows Vista, mainly with regards to the performance issues present when compared to Windows XP on hardware with similar specifications. Then there's this hopelessly deluded insight:
In response to this, Microsoft made fundamental changes to the way Windows Vista was linked together; shifting more towards modular designs rather than the monolithic processes used in previous versions of Windows. This increased amount of componentization, while satisfying the DoJ and EU, also led to performance issues due to the increased number of libraries which comprise the operating system. On traditional hard drives, the more separate files which the operating system has to load, the more seeking across the hard drive is required, and therefore overall performance takes a hit. (emphasis not mine)
Yeah, because we all know how bloated and unstable *nix machines are. I don't really know what to make of that, or this:
The operating system stores multiple copies of core system libraries, as each revision of a library typically adds/removes functions, and applications compiled with dynamic links to a specific version of a DLL file may call on functions not present in the currently installed library. Apparently the author is unaware of how to type "ln -s" or whatever it is on Windows. I'm not familiar with Vista at all, but I have trouble believing anything that this article is saying. I don't care how big of a piece of crap it may or may not be, the things in this article just plain don't make sense.
I hadn't looked at the editor before reading the article, but around the third paragraph I thought, "This had to have been posted by kdawson."
I've begun to notice that Comcast's extended cable channels aren't even being broadcast well anymore (I don't have an HDTV, just the digital cable). It's really started annoying me how regular channels will randomly become choppy and break up. It kind of reminds me of when a satellite signal goes to hell or you get lag on streaming internet video. This used to happen only rarely, but lately it's gotten to the point where certain channels simply don't work anymore, and others will break up randomly. It's kind of funny that they called my house a few weeks ago saying to "expect some outages" because they were upgrading their lines. Of course, Verizon has been installing FiOS in the area as well, although it still isn't available in my particular neighborhood.
On the other hand, the torrent throttling appears to have stopped here at least. I've observed the throttling first hand (everything disconnects simultaneously for no reason), but that hasn't happened in over a month. (Not to defend them, I still hope they get shafted by the FCC, et al.)
and if you don't allow patents, and therefore don't allow programmers to get money in exchange for coding, you have cut off about 98% of your source of new code And if you don't allow music patents, you're not going to allow musicians to get money in exchange for writing songs. And you have to allow writing patents or else authors aren't going to get money for writing books. We should give painting patents too, otherwise nobody would even think about painting again, much less sculpting. Oh shit, we need sculpting patents too!
Wait, you're trying to say that you got something 100% free, source code and all, ZERO license restrictions, and you're going to bitch that the author isn't doing your work for you? Well, I guess someone with your principles has never agreed to an EULA at least.
Without patents, the result will be predictable: most people will keep their algorithms a closely guarded secret. You're right. Because nobody would ever be able to figure out the secret behind a single click.
Sorry, I'm in America, not Europe. I guess our free speech is a little bit freer than yours. I knew there was some weird laws regarding the holocaust over there but I didn't realize you could go to prison for talking about it. Although I suppose there are some equally weird laws to get tossed into prison for here anymore.
But regardless, my point is still valid. If I see a movie or cartoon that offends me, I stop watching it. Or, if I'm particularly pissed, maybe I'll say something or write something, etc. I most certainly do not strap bombs to my chest and charge headlong at the author (or whatever else happens to be around).
Now if a Muslim is insulted, lookout! Something is getting blown to hell.
I wasn't trying to be hateful, it's just that any time something crops up that pisses Muslims off there's this knee jerk reaction to hurry up and remove it and apologize. I mean honestly, if a movie like Dogma was made except substituting Christianity for Islam, Muslims would be blowing themselves up all over the place. Free speech and satire are worlds away from hate speech, but Muslims don't seem to understand that.
Hurry up, take down offending content! We're so sorry Muslims, we didn't realize our free speech enraged you so. We promise we'll never do it again! Praise Allah!
No, they just get elected President and proceed to regular bomb "Islamofascists". Then they give Israel a bunch of free weapons to "defend" themselves from Palestinian "terrorists".
Whoa there, calm down big guy I was just screwing around. I don't have any tattoos or green hair, nor do I have anything against Apple or Macs. I was jokingly pointing out what others have already said: being different means being the same as all the other people being different.
I suppose I'm so non-conformist that I don't even conform to non-conformists. I like to refer to myself as a non-conforming-conformist (or something).
It pisses me off that using Apple products makes you "different". I'm way more different than those preppy jerks. I have a tattoo of a Chinese symbol on my wrist that means 'peace' in English. I have the tips of my semi-dirty long hair dyed green. I even have a nose ring *and* a lip ring (earrings are a given in my non-conformist world). Seriously those Apple fans need to start coming up with commercials with lame yet catchy songs that accompany a minimalist but stylish product line.
Funny you mention Slackware since it doesn't seem to be very popular around here anymore. Anyway, since Slackware scrapped GNOME a while back and made KDE the default, I went for KDE when I upgraded to Slackware 12 recently (I hadn't upgraded for a couple of versions and had been using Xfce mostly). I have been utterly impressed by KDE thus far, about a month now. Everything is smooth and sleek looking and feels very integrated with everything else (in a good way). I had become pretty attached to the sparseness of Xfce, too. I feel like, although KDE has a ton of bells and whistles, they aren't going to start ringing unless you make them.
A patent story in which the little guy (or girl in this case) is sticking it to a big corporation with a real live viable non-trolling patent! I gotta go make sure the sky is still blue...
Seriously though, its nice to see the system actually working for a change.
You pretty much nailed it. This might (should?) be modded off-topic, but Ron Paul was on the Daily Show a few months back and one of his talking points was "A company like Microsoft makes a useful product that we buy" referring to American economic hegemony. The Microsoft influence is incredibly strong in the United States and any kind of ruling against it is a win for the rest of us (in the US anyway).
It's interesting how anytime anything comes up involving "cyber warfare", the Estonian thing is brought up despite being utterly unrelated. The same story of Russian hackers taking down Estonian servers is reiterated again and again regardless of the facts. It's just another example of government using a random event as an excuse to abuse its people.
Something like that seriously happened to me one time. I was visiting a friend out of town and after a night of partying I decided to head back to his apartment alone and see what was up (it was a college town and I knew his roomates). However, when I got back nobody was there. The only accessible window was locked tight and I wasn't sure what to do. Being somewhat inebriated I figured I'd just try some of my keys on the deadbolt. Sure enough, a key to an old garage door opened it right up!
I also used to own a Chrysler car whose ignition key opened my brothers Jeep doors. Both models are made by the same company, so I figured that had something to do with it. Still a little unsettling, though.
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In the face of the mass-media criticism of Windows Vista, mainly with regards to the performance issues present when compared to Windows XP on hardware with similar specifications. Then there's this hopelessly deluded insight:
In response to this, Microsoft made fundamental changes to the way Windows Vista was linked together; shifting more towards modular designs rather than the monolithic processes used in previous versions of Windows. This increased amount of componentization, while satisfying the DoJ and EU, also led to performance issues due to the increased number of libraries which comprise the operating system. On traditional hard drives, the more separate files which the operating system has to load, the more seeking across the hard drive is required, and therefore overall performance takes a hit. (emphasis not mine)
Yeah, because we all know how bloated and unstable *nix machines are. I don't really know what to make of that, or this:
The operating system stores multiple copies of core system libraries, as each revision of a library typically adds/removes functions, and applications compiled with dynamic links to a specific version of a DLL file may call on functions not present in the currently installed library. Apparently the author is unaware of how to type "ln -s" or whatever it is on Windows. I'm not familiar with Vista at all, but I have trouble believing anything that this article is saying. I don't care how big of a piece of crap it may or may not be, the things in this article just plain don't make sense.
I hadn't looked at the editor before reading the article, but around the third paragraph I thought, "This had to have been posted by kdawson."
I've begun to notice that Comcast's extended cable channels aren't even being broadcast well anymore (I don't have an HDTV, just the digital cable). It's really started annoying me how regular channels will randomly become choppy and break up. It kind of reminds me of when a satellite signal goes to hell or you get lag on streaming internet video. This used to happen only rarely, but lately it's gotten to the point where certain channels simply don't work anymore, and others will break up randomly. It's kind of funny that they called my house a few weeks ago saying to "expect some outages" because they were upgrading their lines. Of course, Verizon has been installing FiOS in the area as well, although it still isn't available in my particular neighborhood.
On the other hand, the torrent throttling appears to have stopped here at least. I've observed the throttling first hand (everything disconnects simultaneously for no reason), but that hasn't happened in over a month. (Not to defend them, I still hope they get shafted by the FCC, et al.)
That casts your handle in a whole new light.
Wait, you're trying to say that you got something 100% free, source code and all, ZERO license restrictions, and you're going to bitch that the author isn't doing your work for you? Well, I guess someone with your principles has never agreed to an EULA at least.
Sorry, I'm in America, not Europe. I guess our free speech is a little bit freer than yours. I knew there was some weird laws regarding the holocaust over there but I didn't realize you could go to prison for talking about it. Although I suppose there are some equally weird laws to get tossed into prison for here anymore.
But regardless, my point is still valid. If I see a movie or cartoon that offends me, I stop watching it. Or, if I'm particularly pissed, maybe I'll say something or write something, etc. I most certainly do not strap bombs to my chest and charge headlong at the author (or whatever else happens to be around).
Now if a Muslim is insulted, lookout! Something is getting blown to hell.
I wasn't trying to be hateful, it's just that any time something crops up that pisses Muslims off there's this knee jerk reaction to hurry up and remove it and apologize. I mean honestly, if a movie like Dogma was made except substituting Christianity for Islam, Muslims would be blowing themselves up all over the place. Free speech and satire are worlds away from hate speech, but Muslims don't seem to understand that.
Hurry up, take down offending content! We're so sorry Muslims, we didn't realize our free speech enraged you so. We promise we'll never do it again! Praise Allah!
No, they just get elected President and proceed to regular bomb "Islamofascists". Then they give Israel a bunch of free weapons to "defend" themselves from Palestinian "terrorists".
Whoa there, calm down big guy I was just screwing around. I don't have any tattoos or green hair, nor do I have anything against Apple or Macs. I was jokingly pointing out what others have already said: being different means being the same as all the other people being different.
I suppose I'm so non-conformist that I don't even conform to non-conformists. I like to refer to myself as a non-conforming-conformist (or something).
It pisses me off that using Apple products makes you "different". I'm way more different than those preppy jerks. I have a tattoo of a Chinese symbol on my wrist that means 'peace' in English. I have the tips of my semi-dirty long hair dyed green. I even have a nose ring *and* a lip ring (earrings are a given in my non-conformist world). Seriously those Apple fans need to start coming up with commercials with lame yet catchy songs that accompany a minimalist but stylish product line.
Funny you mention Slackware since it doesn't seem to be very popular around here anymore. Anyway, since Slackware scrapped GNOME a while back and made KDE the default, I went for KDE when I upgraded to Slackware 12 recently (I hadn't upgraded for a couple of versions and had been using Xfce mostly). I have been utterly impressed by KDE thus far, about a month now. Everything is smooth and sleek looking and feels very integrated with everything else (in a good way). I had become pretty attached to the sparseness of Xfce, too. I feel like, although KDE has a ton of bells and whistles, they aren't going to start ringing unless you make them.
Just my quick 3am opinion.
A patent story in which the little guy (or girl in this case) is sticking it to a big corporation with a real live viable non-trolling patent! I gotta go make sure the sky is still blue...
Seriously though, its nice to see the system actually working for a change.
Bullshit. If Windows can be as locked up and secure as *nix, why isn't it? (And UAC is not a valid answer).
I didn't think they had macs in Iraq.
As much as I respect RMS and co., it is a shame that they waste any time at all trying to mimic proprietary functionality. Make something new, dammit!
(For the record, I'm generally one of those left wing GNU guys.)
You pretty much nailed it. This might (should?) be modded off-topic, but Ron Paul was on the Daily Show a few months back and one of his talking points was "A company like Microsoft makes a useful product that we buy" referring to American economic hegemony. The Microsoft influence is incredibly strong in the United States and any kind of ruling against it is a win for the rest of us (in the US anyway).
It's interesting how anytime anything comes up involving "cyber warfare", the Estonian thing is brought up despite being utterly unrelated. The same story of Russian hackers taking down Estonian servers is reiterated again and again regardless of the facts. It's just another example of government using a random event as an excuse to abuse its people.
Something like that seriously happened to me one time. I was visiting a friend out of town and after a night of partying I decided to head back to his apartment alone and see what was up (it was a college town and I knew his roomates). However, when I got back nobody was there. The only accessible window was locked tight and I wasn't sure what to do. Being somewhat inebriated I figured I'd just try some of my keys on the deadbolt. Sure enough, a key to an old garage door opened it right up!
I also used to own a Chrysler car whose ignition key opened my brothers Jeep doors. Both models are made by the same company, so I figured that had something to do with it. Still a little unsettling, though.
They must have changed something because I tried Konqueror 3.5.7 and it crashed, which is also what happened in the article.
That sounds so familiar.