To do a true raid-5, cost of the drives is fairly negligible.
While you are absolutely correct about cost, I think your definition of what a true raid-5 is needs a little work.
The purpose of RAID-n is to survive failures with near-zero downtime. The larger the disparity grows between capacity and performance as array sizes increase, the less and less these RAID's are serving their purpose. The chance of a drive failure while rebuilding a multi-TB array is quite significant, an occurrence that RAID-n was supposed to minimize to near-zero levels.
In the future, there will only be RAID-0 and RAID-JBOD for conventional drives. Uptime will have to be solved another way, because RAID-n solves it less and less as the years (and thus, capacity) tick away.
A persons mental age is equal to the average life expectancy multiplied by the reciprocal of the largest number of times they have used the 'M$' pejoratively in a slashdot post.
In this case, the posters mental age is 65 * (1 / 13) = 5
As someone who has been writing code for decades, I know the difference between compilers and interpreters.
Firstly, I have you beat in # of years programming. Secondly, you apparently don't because...
VB, C#, etc., are interpreted, and require the presence of a runtime.
I didn't realize that 'runtime' = 'interpreter'.. A runtime could be, as in the case of.NET, a compiler. Thats right, a run time compiler. The technology is called JIT and.NET isnt the first. Apparently you didn't know that this was possible, which is hard to believe since you have several decades of programming experience... oh wait, you probably don't... you must have lied.
If it has to be interpreted, it's not compiled
What do you think compilers do, exactly? The fact of the matter is that a compiler translates source code into machine code... just like the.NET framework.
Where's the distinction? They chose to patch the same bug in another OS, so they must think it's worthy of being patched.
The other OS's are in a different situation. A freshly installed XP + SP3 does not have a problem, but a freshly installed Vista + SP2 does.
Support does not mean what you are claiming. Your tactic has been used time and time again in religion. Make up your own definition, then vilify your target. In modern times we have a name for this sort of horse shit from fuckwads like you.
No civilized person would refuse to help someone who is seriously sick or injured when they show up at a hospital.
In America, we don't refuse to treat seriously sick or injured people when they show up at a hospital.
So whats your point? Did you mistakenly think that we did refuse emergency services?
These two things are not the same. The fact is that the GP did get healthcare. His complaint is that he got wiped out financially in the process. Boo fucking hoo. If I don't pay for fire insurance and my building gets burned down, I get wiped out financially too. Do we need ObamaFireCare too? If I only have liability coverage insurance on my car, and someone steals it.. I again take a big financial hit. Do we need ObamaTheftProtection too?
Cry me a fucking river. You do not have a right to your health at my expense. When you have nothing left at all, then start looking for help. Until then, fuck off.
Do you even know the difference between a compiled and an interpreted language?
Yes I do.
The reason your are fucking stupid is not that you don't know the difference between compilers and interpreters, its that you dont know the facts. Someone at some point apparently told you that these languages were interpreted, and instead of finding out for yourself if it was true, you believed them just like a Christian believes in God. Your language religion had made you stupid.
Suppose instead of refusing to patch an XP flaw that they fixed in Vista/7, suppose instead they refuse to patch an XP flaw that they also didn't patch in Vista/7.
Is this also reneging?
No, no its not. Support doesnt mean "microsoft is my bitch"
Over 20 years ago they were the same way.. spawning demo groups such as the Free Tools Association. Apple developers have been bitching at Apple for over 2 decades now about their horse-shit over-protectiveness of their development tools.
VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET are not compiled languages - they're interpreted
More ignorance from the ignorant.
VC++ is a separate product. So no compilers shipped with the OS.
VC does in fact come with the.NET framework, and thus, Windows 7.
Also included is MASM64.
I would like to think that you confused the Visual Studio IDE's (which are not included) with the compilers, but based on the extensive ignorance you have presented.. I am not going to think that.. I'm simply going to think that you are arguing from a position of extreme ignorance and are too stupid to give it up.
I think he does have a good idea what comes with other operating systems, and if you read his entire message instead of picking a single sentence to take out of context, you would know that too.
He isnt talking about what windows comes with. Businesses don't give a fuck what comes with the operating system. They care about what they can run with said operating system. Linux is nice, but it just does not compete at all when it comes to proven professional tools.
If you are unwilling to admit that to yourself, then you are caught in a religion, because its fucking obvious to everyone else.
It comes with no less than 4 compilers. VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, and VC++. It probably also comes with F# and J# but I'm too lazy to check.
Just to be clear, anything with the.NET Framework 3.5 installed will have these compilers. Their existence is a requirement of the framework itself.
As far as the scripting languages you listed.. I can think of 2 scripting languages it comes with off the top of my head (javascript and vbscript) and no, this doesnt mean within internet explorer. These are requirements of the Windows Scripting Host.
As for apache.. are you on fucking crack? You don't give apache to your fucking grandparents. Ever.
But hey.. thanks for playing the spew-your-ignorance game for us. We knew it was coming. Didn't know it would be you. But it is what it is.
VBA does more than stuff "to a file" - and thats the point - businesses are using VBA for things that are impossible with programs that can only "do stuff to files."
Microsoft Office is highly integrated because thats what businesses want, and its no surprise that Open Office has some integration as well.
Why dont you try selling the strong points of Open Office to us instead of spewing your opinion about Microsoft Office? Whats the matter.. dont have any convincing arguments? Afraid that for anything you bring up, I can point to Microsoft Office and declare unequivocally that it does it better? All you've got is the ODF argument, and businesses just dont care.
That is, of course, Microsoft's intention and the primary reason for the existence of a programming language built into the office suite.
If your contention is that VBA isnt useful, then explain the billions of lines of VBA code in the world. Integration with the suite is just one of the things that makes the alternatives like Open Office non-competitive. Your idea that VBA is just there as a lock-in is silly.
To translate your argument to reality: "Features that customers use extensively, when the competition doesnt have them, is only a lock-in"
Second, at least with business programs, it's obvious that a programmer designed them them. GNUCash is the worst thing a business can use for their accounting software. They took a home checkbook program, added a couple of other accounts and considered it done. If you're running a business, just shell out the money for Quickbooks, MS Accounting, or Moneyworks.
This. My experience with GNUCash is that I wasted several hours with it, with nothing to show for it but the knowledge that its worthless.
I've said this before, but here goes again.
The biggest problem with Open Source in regards to adoption in the professional industries is that Open Source programs are written by rag-tag groups of developers for themselves. Photoshop is written by developers for graphics industry professionals, while GIMP is written by developers for nobody in the industry at all.
I still use the aging Photoshop 7. Way better than GIMP in the usability department. I do, after all, *use* the thing.
Oracle did not buy Sun for Java, and they certainly didn't buy it because Sun is profitable. Oracle purchased Sun because Oracles business is Database Solutions, and Sun just happens to have hardware and software IP that can make Oracles position better in that market.
Its really that simple. Oracle is not going to be throwing away Solaris, SPARC, or MySQL, because these are the very things that Oracle purchased Sun for.
He shrugged it all off as that google isnt going to make much money, if any, by distributing my work without my permission.. concluding that its ok for them to distribute my work without my permission.
Its fucking bullshit. If you want to distribute my work, which is *currently* not being printed, then call me up and maybe we can hammer out a contract. This isnt about the books owned by publishers, this is about every book currently under copyright.
In this deal, google gets to steal from me with no legal consequences. Google (and only google, no less) is legally protected, and thats bullshit. Period.
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To do a true raid-5, cost of the drives is fairly negligible.
While you are absolutely correct about cost, I think your definition of what a true raid-5 is needs a little work.
The purpose of RAID-n is to survive failures with near-zero downtime. The larger the disparity grows between capacity and performance as array sizes increase, the less and less these RAID's are serving their purpose. The chance of a drive failure while rebuilding a multi-TB array is quite significant, an occurrence that RAID-n was supposed to minimize to near-zero levels.
In the future, there will only be RAID-0 and RAID-JBOD for conventional drives. Uptime will have to be solved another way, because RAID-n solves it less and less as the years (and thus, capacity) tick away.
I have discovered a new law.
A persons mental age is equal to the average life expectancy multiplied by the reciprocal of the largest number of times they have used the 'M$' pejoratively in a slashdot post.
In this case, the posters mental age is 65 * (1 / 13) = 5
He thinks like a typical 5 year old.
As someone who has been writing code for decades, I know the difference between compilers and interpreters.
Firstly, I have you beat in # of years programming. Secondly, you apparently don't because...
VB, C#, etc., are interpreted, and require the presence of a runtime.
I didn't realize that 'runtime' = 'interpreter' .. A runtime could be, as in the case of .NET, a compiler. Thats right, a run time compiler. The technology is called JIT and .NET isnt the first. Apparently you didn't know that this was possible, which is hard to believe since you have several decades of programming experience... oh wait, you probably don't... you must have lied.
If it has to be interpreted, it's not compiled
What do you think compilers do, exactly? The fact of the matter is that a compiler translates source code into machine code... just like the .NET framework.
Where's the distinction? They chose to patch the same bug in another OS, so they must think it's worthy of being patched.
The other OS's are in a different situation. A freshly installed XP + SP3 does not have a problem, but a freshly installed Vista + SP2 does.
Support does not mean what you are claiming. Your tactic has been used time and time again in religion. Make up your own definition, then vilify your target. In modern times we have a name for this sort of horse shit from fuckwads like you.
No civilized person would refuse to help someone who is seriously sick or injured when they show up at a hospital.
In America, we don't refuse to treat seriously sick or injured people when they show up at a hospital.
So whats your point? Did you mistakenly think that we did refuse emergency services?
These two things are not the same. The fact is that the GP did get healthcare. His complaint is that he got wiped out financially in the process. Boo fucking hoo. If I don't pay for fire insurance and my building gets burned down, I get wiped out financially too. Do we need ObamaFireCare too? If I only have liability coverage insurance on my car, and someone steals it.. I again take a big financial hit. Do we need ObamaTheftProtection too?
Cry me a fucking river. You do not have a right to your health at my expense. When you have nothing left at all, then start looking for help. Until then, fuck off.
Ah, so there's yet ANOTHER person that likes being half a century behind the rest of the CIVILIZED WORLD in health care standards.
So countries that dont have state mandated health care funding are uncivilized?
I didn't realize that your health was my responsibility. Oh wait.. it isn't.. you just want it to be.
Do you even know the difference between a compiled and an interpreted language?
Yes I do.
The reason your are fucking stupid is not that you don't know the difference between compilers and interpreters, its that you dont know the facts. Someone at some point apparently told you that these languages were interpreted, and instead of finding out for yourself if it was true, you believed them just like a Christian believes in God. Your language religion had made you stupid.
Went right over your head, didnt it?
Microsoft didnt refuse to support XP. They simply refused to patch THIS bug.
Suppose instead of refusing to patch an XP flaw that they fixed in Vista/7, suppose instead they refuse to patch an XP flaw that they also didn't patch in Vista/7.
Is this also reneging?
No, no its not. Support doesnt mean "microsoft is my bitch"
This agenda isnt a secret.
Over 20 years ago they were the same way.. spawning demo groups such as the Free Tools Association. Apple developers have been bitching at Apple for over 2 decades now about their horse-shit over-protectiveness of their development tools.
This
Is
Not
New
As if there arent enough free ones available...
VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET are not compiled languages - they're interpreted
More ignorance from the ignorant.
VC++ is a separate product. So no compilers shipped with the OS.
VC does in fact come with the .NET framework, and thus, Windows 7.
Also included is MASM64.
I would like to think that you confused the Visual Studio IDE's (which are not included) with the compilers, but based on the extensive ignorance you have presented.. I am not going to think that.. I'm simply going to think that you are arguing from a position of extreme ignorance and are too stupid to give it up.
I think he does have a good idea what comes with other operating systems, and if you read his entire message instead of picking a single sentence to take out of context, you would know that too.
He isnt talking about what windows comes with. Businesses don't give a fuck what comes with the operating system. They care about what they can run with said operating system. Linux is nice, but it just does not compete at all when it comes to proven professional tools.
If you are unwilling to admit that to yourself, then you are caught in a religion, because its fucking obvious to everyone else.
no compiler
It comes with no less than 4 compilers. VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, and VC++. It probably also comes with F# and J# but I'm too lazy to check.
.NET Framework 3.5 installed will have these compilers. Their existence is a requirement of the framework itself.
Just to be clear, anything with the
As far as the scripting languages you listed.. I can think of 2 scripting languages it comes with off the top of my head (javascript and vbscript) and no, this doesnt mean within internet explorer. These are requirements of the Windows Scripting Host.
As for apache.. are you on fucking crack? You don't give apache to your fucking grandparents. Ever.
But hey.. thanks for playing the spew-your-ignorance game for us. We knew it was coming. Didn't know it would be you. But it is what it is.
Because needs change. It used to be that I didnt need an office suite at all.
..and for the record, I'm using Open Office at home.
Its informative when Safari vs IE vs FF vs Opera is one of the choices the *average* person faces.
Let us know when Open Office becomes better that Microsoft Office.
VBA does more than stuff "to a file" - and thats the point - businesses are using VBA for things that are impossible with programs that can only "do stuff to files."
Microsoft Office is highly integrated because thats what businesses want, and its no surprise that Open Office has some integration as well.
Why dont you try selling the strong points of Open Office to us instead of spewing your opinion about Microsoft Office? Whats the matter.. dont have any convincing arguments? Afraid that for anything you bring up, I can point to Microsoft Office and declare unequivocally that it does it better? All you've got is the ODF argument, and businesses just dont care.
But it is worse when its worse, in spite of it being free.
That is, of course, Microsoft's intention and the primary reason for the existence of a programming language built into the office suite.
If your contention is that VBA isnt useful, then explain the billions of lines of VBA code in the world. Integration with the suite is just one of the things that makes the alternatives like Open Office non-competitive. Your idea that VBA is just there as a lock-in is silly.
To translate your argument to reality: "Features that customers use extensively, when the competition doesnt have them, is only a lock-in"
They didnt use it because they knew the weaknesses already. That hasnt changed.. so I guess a new manager decided to justify himself?
Second, at least with business programs, it's obvious that a programmer designed them them. GNUCash is the worst thing a business can use for their accounting software. They took a home checkbook program, added a couple of other accounts and considered it done. If you're running a business, just shell out the money for Quickbooks, MS Accounting, or Moneyworks.
This. My experience with GNUCash is that I wasted several hours with it, with nothing to show for it but the knowledge that its worthless.
I've said this before, but here goes again.
The biggest problem with Open Source in regards to adoption in the professional industries is that Open Source programs are written by rag-tag groups of developers for themselves. Photoshop is written by developers for graphics industry professionals, while GIMP is written by developers for nobody in the industry at all.
I still use the aging Photoshop 7. Way better than GIMP in the usability department. I do, after all, *use* the thing.
Microsoft audio and visual appliances and Microsoft cars.
This is pretty much spot on.
Oracle did not buy Sun for Java, and they certainly didn't buy it because Sun is profitable. Oracle purchased Sun because Oracles business is Database Solutions, and Sun just happens to have hardware and software IP that can make Oracles position better in that market.
Its really that simple. Oracle is not going to be throwing away Solaris, SPARC, or MySQL, because these are the very things that Oracle purchased Sun for.
Yes he did.
He shrugged it all off as that google isnt going to make much money, if any, by distributing my work without my permission.. concluding that its ok for them to distribute my work without my permission.
Its fucking bullshit. If you want to distribute my work, which is *currently* not being printed, then call me up and maybe we can hammer out a contract. This isnt about the books owned by publishers, this is about every book currently under copyright.
In this deal, google gets to steal from me with no legal consequences. Google (and only google, no less) is legally protected, and thats bullshit. Period.