"From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for Microsoft's product strategy."
"On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He divided his responsibilities between two successors, placing Ray Ozzie in charge of day-to-day management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy."
Quoth Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates)
This could be entirely arbitrary to whats happening, but, personally I think it has a lot to due with how Microsoft is 'acting' lately.
"I'd rather have someone who just gets the work done rather than goofing off compiling kernels, installing ReiserFS and doing god knows what else other than things that really matter."
Those are the things that really matter, if your Admin takes a couple of weeks to do that, well, thats another story, but taking a few days to properly set up a server (especially since you can normally do it in parallel to the server you already have setup, basically only about 15 minutes downtime), means you probably wont have to touch the setup again for a year or more... instead of just an hour, and then having to fix things every week...
I dunno about you, but im pretty sure the time it takes for a proper setup, is better than possibly years of lost data, and all around confusion over whats there? whats missing? no I didnt get your e-mail, are you sure you sent it? why is my computer acting so strange?...
I never said that they did it without IBM's help, however, if it was all (As in Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Sun?) based on IBM's SOM, then it could be benificial to everyone, and the entire computer industry (interoperability).
Nor did I say that I thought COM+ was good, infact its caused me many headaches both in developing my own software, aswell as other peoples software...
My point was basically that im not sure why the Linux Community as a whole hasnt put more effort into this, even if they had to go through corporate routes, like the more closed-source distro's (some might bitch and yell about that but it would also force/inspire the open source community to try their own)
Set itself apart from what exactly?... Unix (variations) has used/had/does have SOM... and so has Apple, however Steve Jobs ended that "idea" when he returned to Apple... Microsoft has a very similar concept COM+
Seems more like it would bring Linux into this "group" rather than make it "special" for having SOM.
You could be right, although it is just as likely that the scientists just dont want to be known, not because the information may be false or inaccurate, but because of the public lashing they may recieve.
You are right, my bad... I aparently skimmed over it too quick.
the Giant 16point header of "Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products" kinda made me think that they were infact "Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products"...lol...
However, depending on what angle you look at it from... *.12 could seems to either have more issues given that so many were fixed, OR... that the Mozilla team just didnt do much for the *.11 release.
So because Ballmer had a little breakdown, and said some things he shouldnt have, you are judging his entire ability to understand the english language?
Not that I agree with Ballmer, or that I like him on any level (not saying I dont, only that I dont really know him) but its hard to say what led up to these remarks, and I dont mean the previous few sentences, I mean who knows what was happening in his life at that time, for all we know his daughter could have ran away the day before, or maybe his mother died, etc, etc.
I cant think of anyone thats at the head, or close to the head of a business, nevemind a corporation that hasnt lost it at least once...
More Apple advertising?... could you keep me informed about the SATA drives that Dell is offering too?
The iPhone invention/launch was news-worthy because it was a new "innovative" product, its network transfering speed and/or type is a service feature, something you'l find out when you go to buy an iPhone.
"Anonymity and privacy were features that were built in."
Im a huge fan of coinage, especially really shiny ones, but even paper money too although its not real... but Anonymity with coinage/physical money?...what?... yeah, sure, if you leave it in a bag under a bridge at 3:00AM on a Sunday... last time I checked, you had to personally hand it over, and when it comes to cheques, that has your name on it, maybe even the company you work for, if you want to send money in the mail, that has your name on it too, aswell as your address, cause sure you could send it with nothing on it, but how the hell would the perosn you are sending it to know it was you?... unless, you set it up previously, like if an envelope arrives with a picture of a dog eating a cat, it must be John Smith of Oakland California.
Well, i'd like to pretend like (at least) Paris (specifically) isnt as dumb as she appears, but given that she wasnt exactly "poor" to start with, I cant really find a reason for her not to be as stupid as she appears.
But I will give credit to some "Famous" people that are in similar positions, being a guinea pig/stooge to someone who actually has a brain as far as marketing and management goes, gathering millions and then just vanishing from publicity to live out the rest of their life in luxery... however, I disagree with the morality of that, considering it tends to teach people to act that way in "real" life, not just celebrity life.
Bush is just a victim of inbreeding, and being spoiled. "Its not what you know, its who you know" thats how he got to where he is.
I also see the potential for even worse identity theft, from what I gather the gist of it is basically instead of asking you exactly what is required, its now asking you stuff related to what is required?
Sort of like, they need to know that you are 21, so they ask you what your Grad year was, and what school you went to instead of how old are you?
Maybe I dont get it, but it seems like a possibility of "Personality" theft not just Identity theft...
Millionaire's Problem: Alice and Bob want to find out who has more money without disclosing the amount of their fortunes to each other, or even to a mutually trusted third party. By applying special functions to their information that disguised it, Yao proved that each could know who was richer without either revealing their true holdings.
No wonder Millionaires are so stupid... if this is what they consider a "Problem"...
I'm not discouraging it, all I am saying is that its one reason that Linux hasnt "caught on" yet... I personally think there should be choices, but not hundreds of choices... Im almost positive that if we woke up tomorrow morning and there was only 8 Linux Distributions, that the market share would start increasing at a far greater rate.
Also, its sort of a problem unto Linux itself, for instance if you have 6 people all working on the same distribution, 3 of them decide to leave and start working for a different distro, you potentially scatter hundreds of people in different directions, not just splitting up these 6 people... some of the developers that were creating applications (or inspired by) for a certain distro are now going "well what the fuck?"... some might stop doing it altogether, others might try and start wars, or boycotting... those 3 remaining people will probably stick with their (most likely now developement crippled) distro instead of moving with the other 3 people, or to another Distro thats active, the community essentially loses those 3 people. If the same 12,000 people working on the 500 distributions, were instead 12,000 people working on 50 distributions, I think it would be far better.
Sure you could argue that it would be too crowded, too complex, hard to manage... but at the same time thats the reason why websites like Wikipedia work well, the more eyes the better...
But inevitably I think Linux will become 'one' anyways, its basically the nature of living creatures to gather things into a pile, the "Operating System" originally wasnt just *THERE*... there was 10 to 20 that all sprang up within a few years, eventually most dropped off or merged, and there was only 3 or 4, step along further and there is still only 3 or 4, but 3 of those 4 are different... then Linux comes along, that turns into 10 to 20 all by itself, then 100 to 200... the thicker the branch, the stronger it is... although you could also argue that with hundreds of small branches you can catch birds or something... or that if you break 100 branches, you still have a few hundred left...but like I said, im not against diversity, just against over-population...
(Obviously most of this arguement applies to Consumer Desktop Computers, not specialized mainframes and such)
I don't really have any first hand knowledge (outside of network rendering at a pretty small scale) but the concept is deffinetly sound, its the same reason why software uses "threads" and why processors now have more than one core...
As for scaling, it would scale at the same rate as Non-Commodity Computers... if you have 999 computers all of equal performance, and then you add another one, you could expect a 0.1% change over-all...however its largely based on what sort of controllers you use, the same as how when Hyper-Threading first came out, many OS's (and far more software) couldnt take very good advantage of the second (pseudo) processor, it would still try and send to the first processor, and if it couldnt, wait until it could...
As for this specific implimentation? I Dunno, if you plan on using this storage system, jump aboard, it is "Open Source"
Commody PC's are often (if not always?) cheaper as far as performance goes, and although they are generally less reliable, because they are cheap, its...well... cheap... I mean its far cheaper to replace a $500 system every 2 years than a $10,000 every 5 years...
Slashdot Mirror
It's... Wizard Gay Alliance... geezus, get your shit "straight".
"From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006, Gates had primary responsibility for Microsoft's product strategy."
"On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate more time to philanthropy. He divided his responsibilities between two successors, placing Ray Ozzie in charge of day-to-day management and Craig Mundie in charge of long-term product strategy."
Quoth Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates)
This could be entirely arbitrary to whats happening, but, personally I think it has a lot to due with how Microsoft is 'acting' lately.
Im not sure if there has been a more direct "Rejection" but...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/09/1812239
Was on Feb 9th.
Extortion is basically the (ab)use of power to obtain something you wouldnt be able to obtain without the power.
Blackmail is generally the use of information or threats to extort something you desire from someone else.
Blackmail is essentially a method of extortion.
"I'd rather have someone who just gets the work done rather than goofing off compiling kernels, installing ReiserFS and doing god knows what else other than things that really matter."
Those are the things that really matter, if your Admin takes a couple of weeks to do that, well, thats another story, but taking a few days to properly set up a server (especially since you can normally do it in parallel to the server you already have setup, basically only about 15 minutes downtime), means you probably wont have to touch the setup again for a year or more... instead of just an hour, and then having to fix things every week...
I dunno about you, but im pretty sure the time it takes for a proper setup, is better than possibly years of lost data, and all around confusion over whats there? whats missing? no I didnt get your e-mail, are you sure you sent it? why is my computer acting so strange?...
GLAST... then call the next one GLAST II, and the one after that GLAST III... etc...
What it can do is far more important than what its called, and GLAST is easy enough to say.
"A caveat: there is no external confirmation that Amazon did what is claimed here."
Didnt they erase the evidence so that it couldnt be proven?
I never said that they did it without IBM's help, however, if it was all (As in Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Sun?) based on IBM's SOM, then it could be benificial to everyone, and the entire computer industry (interoperability).
Nor did I say that I thought COM+ was good, infact its caused me many headaches both in developing my own software, aswell as other peoples software...
My point was basically that im not sure why the Linux Community as a whole hasnt put more effort into this, even if they had to go through corporate routes, like the more closed-source distro's (some might bitch and yell about that but it would also force/inspire the open source community to try their own)
Set itself apart from what exactly?... Unix (variations) has used/had/does have SOM... and so has Apple, however Steve Jobs ended that "idea" when he returned to Apple... Microsoft has a very similar concept COM+
Seems more like it would bring Linux into this "group" rather than make it "special" for having SOM.
You could be right, although it is just as likely that the scientists just dont want to be known, not because the information may be false or inaccurate, but because of the public lashing they may recieve.
You are right, my bad... I aparently skimmed over it too quick.
the Giant 16point header of "Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products" kinda made me think that they were infact "Known Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products"...lol...
However, depending on what angle you look at it from... *.12 could seems to either have more issues given that so many were fixed, OR... that the Mozilla team just didnt do much for the *.11 release.
At the risk of being modded as FlameBait...
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html)
"Critical" ones marked with *
MFSA 2008-11 Web forgery overwrite with div overlay
MFSA 2008-10 URL token stealing via stylesheet redirect
MFSA 2008-09 Mishandling of locally-saved plain text files
MFSA 2008-08 File action dialog tampering
*MFSA 2008-06 Web browsing history and forward navigation stealing
MFSA 2008-05 Directory traversal via chrome: URI
MFSA 2008-04 Stored password corruption
*MFSA 2008-03 Privilege escalation, XSS, Remote Code Execution
MFSA 2008-02 Multiple file input focus stealing vulnerabilities
*MFSA 2008-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.12)
There's quite a few problems with 2.0.0.12, infact more bugs in *.12 than *.11
Wait holdup...
So because Ballmer had a little breakdown, and said some things he shouldnt have, you are judging his entire ability to understand the english language?
Not that I agree with Ballmer, or that I like him on any level (not saying I dont, only that I dont really know him) but its hard to say what led up to these remarks, and I dont mean the previous few sentences, I mean who knows what was happening in his life at that time, for all we know his daughter could have ran away the day before, or maybe his mother died, etc, etc.
I cant think of anyone thats at the head, or close to the head of a business, nevemind a corporation that hasnt lost it at least once...
More Apple advertising?... could you keep me informed about the SATA drives that Dell is offering too?
The iPhone invention/launch was news-worthy because it was a new "innovative" product, its network transfering speed and/or type is a service feature, something you'l find out when you go to buy an iPhone.
Yeah but thats not part of a network, other people can't search the contents of your computer (at least thats not an advertised "Feature"...lol)
"Anonymity and privacy were features that were built in."
...what?... yeah, sure, if you leave it in a bag under a bridge at 3:00AM on a Sunday... last time I checked, you had to personally hand it over, and when it comes to cheques, that has your name on it, maybe even the company you work for, if you want to send money in the mail, that has your name on it too, aswell as your address, cause sure you could send it with nothing on it, but how the hell would the perosn you are sending it to know it was you?... unless, you set it up previously, like if an envelope arrives with a picture of a dog eating a cat, it must be John Smith of Oakland California.
Im a huge fan of coinage, especially really shiny ones, but even paper money too although its not real... but Anonymity with coinage/physical money?
Well, i'd like to pretend like (at least) Paris (specifically) isnt as dumb as she appears, but given that she wasnt exactly "poor" to start with, I cant really find a reason for her not to be as stupid as she appears.
But I will give credit to some "Famous" people that are in similar positions, being a guinea pig/stooge to someone who actually has a brain as far as marketing and management goes, gathering millions and then just vanishing from publicity to live out the rest of their life in luxery... however, I disagree with the morality of that, considering it tends to teach people to act that way in "real" life, not just celebrity life.
Bush is just a victim of inbreeding, and being spoiled. "Its not what you know, its who you know" thats how he got to where he is.
I also see the potential for even worse identity theft, from what I gather the gist of it is basically instead of asking you exactly what is required, its now asking you stuff related to what is required?
Sort of like, they need to know that you are 21, so they ask you what your Grad year was, and what school you went to instead of how old are you?
Maybe I dont get it, but it seems like a possibility of "Personality" theft not just Identity theft...
Millionaire's Problem: Alice and Bob want to find out who has more money without disclosing the amount of their fortunes to each other, or even to a mutually trusted third party. By applying special functions to their information that disguised it, Yao proved that each could know who was richer without either revealing their true holdings.
No wonder Millionaires are so stupid... if this is what they consider a "Problem"...
I'm not discouraging it, all I am saying is that its one reason that Linux hasnt "caught on" yet... I personally think there should be choices, but not hundreds of choices... Im almost positive that if we woke up tomorrow morning and there was only 8 Linux Distributions, that the market share would start increasing at a far greater rate.
Also, its sort of a problem unto Linux itself, for instance if you have 6 people all working on the same distribution, 3 of them decide to leave and start working for a different distro, you potentially scatter hundreds of people in different directions, not just splitting up these 6 people... some of the developers that were creating applications (or inspired by) for a certain distro are now going "well what the fuck?"... some might stop doing it altogether, others might try and start wars, or boycotting... those 3 remaining people will probably stick with their (most likely now developement crippled) distro instead of moving with the other 3 people, or to another Distro thats active, the community essentially loses those 3 people. If the same 12,000 people working on the 500 distributions, were instead 12,000 people working on 50 distributions, I think it would be far better.
Sure you could argue that it would be too crowded, too complex, hard to manage... but at the same time thats the reason why websites like Wikipedia work well, the more eyes the better...
But inevitably I think Linux will become 'one' anyways, its basically the nature of living creatures to gather things into a pile, the "Operating System" originally wasnt just *THERE*... there was 10 to 20 that all sprang up within a few years, eventually most dropped off or merged, and there was only 3 or 4, step along further and there is still only 3 or 4, but 3 of those 4 are different... then Linux comes along, that turns into 10 to 20 all by itself, then 100 to 200... the thicker the branch, the stronger it is... although you could also argue that with hundreds of small branches you can catch birds or something... or that if you break 100 branches, you still have a few hundred left...but like I said, im not against diversity, just against over-population...
(Obviously most of this arguement applies to Consumer Desktop Computers, not specialized mainframes and such)
Right... BJ, PissCum, all a part of the Crotch Galaxy...
Yeah, what a wonderful idea, I mean whatcouldpossiblygowrong if Google could access the hard drive of everyone who signed up to it?
"Please wait while the Index is updated"
"Please wait while we Upload new entries"
"Please wait for the FBI to knock on your door"
And if he really wanted to be funny, he would have quoted it from the webpage that the Story/Blog was posted on on W3C
I don't really have any first hand knowledge (outside of network rendering at a pretty small scale) but the concept is deffinetly sound, its the same reason why software uses "threads" and why processors now have more than one core...
As for scaling, it would scale at the same rate as Non-Commodity Computers... if you have 999 computers all of equal performance, and then you add another one, you could expect a 0.1% change over-all...however its largely based on what sort of controllers you use, the same as how when Hyper-Threading first came out, many OS's (and far more software) couldnt take very good advantage of the second (pseudo) processor, it would still try and send to the first processor, and if it couldnt, wait until it could...
As for this specific implimentation? I Dunno, if you plan on using this storage system, jump aboard, it is "Open Source"
Commody PC's are often (if not always?) cheaper as far as performance goes, and although they are generally less reliable, because they are cheap, its...well... cheap... I mean its far cheaper to replace a $500 system every 2 years than a $10,000 every 5 years...
If I could mod you up I would...
Its basically the same reason why someone with a troubled life often makes the best art... "constraint creates innovation"