Another sorry lie by M$. They fixed these things in Windows 7 RTM, but not earlier versions of Windows, so that they could lie about Windows 7 having better "security" than Vista and XP. Very simple and very evil and also very obvious. The new SMB2 failure blows their little lie up even for the most ignorant of users. M$'s reputation can't get much lower.
The "there could have been anything on those CDs" is a really lame excuse and it's one that's M$ propagated. You can say the same thing about books and speech. Want to ban those in school too? Imagine, "He was handing out notes to his clasmates. I immediately assumed they contained drugs and porn and steped in to uphold the law. My suspicions were only increased when I learned this Constitution was written by adults." I ran into the same objections when I tried to hold a Free Software demonstration in my school. It's a war on sharing, they want you to trust them more than your neighbors.
Fear and ignorance are used to keep you helpless and divided. Its a lie, trust your neighbors.
Zune Sales Still in the Toilet. Not LUZ to you.
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This bout of marketing hype matters less than matters of real substance. Obama, Gates talks are real cause for concern. Obama's platform had nice words about openness, let's hope the dog was wagging the tail in those talks. The conversation should have gone something like, "Gates, you are on notice." Others, worry about even larger platform shifts. It is too early to tell how things will really go.
Contracts can't violate laws, so you can't sign away your rights. They can't, for example, appropriate code you've written before and other people's code you happen to use.
That being said, Look Out! Don't sign anything you don't agree with if you can avoid it. What you have not signed can't be held against you. Talk to a real lawyer, not the mickey mouse guy representing the University against you.
All the GPGPU people use one of the GPU programming languages. The hard core ones use assembly.
Well, yeah. That's what you have to do when you don't have a free implementation. Kind of sucks to rewrite everything when you swap hardware platforms, don't it? Tell me it would not be nicer to have a free, vendor supported framework that would at least port to different generations by the same vendor.
Also, please tell why you would waste with that kind of thing when there are lots of spare cycles at super computes on every University. Learning GPU programming languages and assembly is a nice hobby and all, but I'm not sure you should write it into your grant.
Oh, I see, I'm talking to the CEO Yoyo. I've been trolled. Nice one.
The vast majority of Americans are serviced by one of four "broadband" providers and one of four phone companies. These companies don't compete, ever. ATT's greedy plan makes clear their intention to drive us all back to the Good Olde Days of Broadcast Gateway Services. You will get unlimited entertainment and software, but you won't get any choice unless you pay through the nose. Independent Media will collapse, so you won't have a lot of choices even if you do have a lot of money.
At $1/GB, we will all be driven back to physical media and simply give up cheap software, communications and entertainment. It is designed to limit telco, media and software competition. It will not be applied in a neutral fashion, your favorite big publishers will enjoy your "free" access and the internet will look like cable TV to most people.
Open Spectrum may undo this cluster fuck. It can't happen soon enough. Otherwise, you will find yourself living in some kind of 1980's Compuserve flashback for the rest of your adult life. Yes, Open Spectrum will ruin ATT, and most large publishers. That's OK, others will provide the better services at lower cost. The difference between the paths to slavery and freedom has never been more obvious.
An expert who examined it for The Mail on Sunday said it contained confidential passwords, security software and the technical blueprint to the system known as the 'source code'.... Mr Erasmus, who has previously worked with Government agencies, said that the blueprint to the Government Gateway was 'invaluable' for those who would want to harvest personal details or defraud the Government.
If the technique used could be cracked, it was only a matter of time before it was discovered. Had the process been transparent from the start, better encryption techniques might have been used. Shame on this "expert" for not understanding this fundamental issue.
Your corporate world is full of this kind of expert. They make their living by checking boxes, not thinking.
Sure thing, twitter, tell us how M$ is dying. $60 billion dollars down the drain in three years, universal project rejection, and company debt are signs of strength and unbreakable monopoly! As it was in the early 90s is as it is and alway will be? OK, they are dying.
I'm still waiting for the Wintel press to stop calling Windows viruses "computer viruses." This is FUD for Adobe and PDF which are both in M$'s crosshairs. Elimination of PDF will help decomoditize a uselful standard. Eliminating Adobe will move Adobe's profits to other companies.
The plan is to extend per byte per site, which will effectively end the internet as we know it today. The ability to turn off users will be abused in more than one way. Demand infrastructure upgrades and neutrality, you have already paid for it.
Inexpensive? A $450 OS that requires a $400 "Office" program to get anything done is your idea of cheap? How about a $700 image manipulation program? You have to realize that $400 will get you a very good used laptop or a reasonable new desktop and free software does everything you want to do.
In the last 4 years, they have blown through $40 billion dollars in cash. everyone hates their new OS, which is supposed to be a cash cow. Our stock price has been flat years and never recovered from the 1999 crash. How are we supposed to afford enough coke for our kids?
What's worse is that EVERYONE LOVES GOOGLE like we want them to love us. Those evil stininkng free sofware using Google people have sollen what is ours. Give us back our money! I need more coke now! Say hello to my little friend, fuckers! Whaaaaaaa!
It's all twitters fault, whaaaaa, smash killllllll. -=drool=-... slop, flop.
Here's the article, with some minor adjustments for amusement:
[I work for Google, trust me but don't think they believe anything I say.]
Image of me leering in blue lights.
I hate blogs and most wankers but read them anyway and enjoy the ones that troll. I'm better than them because I write less and have friends who publish in real papers.
LinuxHaters blog sucks but it's a great troll based on the ancient "UNIX Haters Handbook" that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. LinuxHaters trolls Linux like Unix Haters trolled Unix when I was young.
Reading the LinuxHaters blog is a wonderful way to waste an afternoon. Teh are the Linux experts and people who know better are drawn into their trap every day. People responding dont seem to know (or maybe they just dont care) that the whole blog itself is a way to goad fanatical Linux supporters into attacking the author. Remember, I work for Google so you should trust me when I laugh at other people who work for Google. You should also trust me when I say that Linux Haters is 100% accurate and truthful. Hopefully, you will waste your time flaming me! I feel giddy just thinking about it.
The point of my troll here is to get you to read Linux Haters. To do that I'm going to tell you that the authors are Linux Lovers. That seemed to sell a lot of coppies of Unix Haters. It will also get me some more flames.
To make myself perfectly obvious, I'll invoke Godwin's Law and enlist the wisdom and good will of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. As Elie Wiesel said, the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. Whenever you see hate, it's really love. Linux Hater is not the work of a bunch of PR hacks, ala Fake Steve Jobs, and it's not the complete waste of time I said it was. Go read it, damn it.
This week, LinuxHater pisses all over KDE. Most of my readers don't know what that is, so they will believe that it is the suck. They will also believe the rest of my ancient FUD about how free software programmers don't pay attention to details and can't deliver an "integrated" user experience, ever. This really is the programmer's fault because I have used an embedded Linux device that did one thing well. OK, that does not really follow but I don't care. I used to say the same things about Unix but no one cares about that anymore. Go read Linux Haters!
Trolling, for me, is both fun and profitable. My real job is to making free software talk to Windows. You should trust me when I say that free software sucks because I write some. You should also continue to use Windows so that I'll still have my job. I don't think I'd cut it as a blogger.
I cant help being reminded of the Mindcraft benchmark in 1999. Sponsored by Microsoft it was supposedly an independent test of the relative speed of Linux vs. Windows NT servers. Unsurprisingly for a Microsoft sponsored benchmark, Windows came out best. Linus Torvalds eventually realized that Linuxs failure in the rather contrived benchmark conditions should be treated as a bug report, however unusual the submission mechanism, and he and the kernel hackers promptly fixed it. This is like the same thing, but daily and less well founded. If everything goes well, all sorts of time will be wasted by real coders. Perfect troll!
Because Hate is Love, everyone will use and love Linux if you say bad things about it and pretend to hate it. I'm so clever.
Remember, I work for Google and write free software. The universal truth disclosed here should be trusted, but most of all you should waste lots of time. My job depends on your waste! Cheers.
Did anyone else parse the article as "Scientific Microsoft" instead of "Scientific Misconduct"? Get the facts, thankfully, is not part of the "Scientific Record".
Just give up already, you want to spend the money and buy a nice new Vista PC. Piano black, the ribbon, veterans love it and newbies grok it. It all works together so well it's like a dream. Opens your old documents and saves the new ones in a better than internationally accepted standards way. Worth every penny, $450 for the ultimate OS and $450 for the bestes Office suite, so your computer should not cost much less than $1000. Think of how it will train your children in the skills every office demands. Yeah, now your wallet is moving.
A +5 post describing how "snappy" this is from a "diehard" Linux user who should know better? Did I see the same words in another post a few seconds ago? Let's look:
by mrterrysilver (826735), aka mr silver, who says "i highly recommend windows 2008" and "windows server is pimp" like it would beat and sell my daughters behind my back. Street cred zero.
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Another sorry lie by M$. They fixed these things in Windows 7 RTM, but not earlier versions of Windows, so that they could lie about Windows 7 having better "security" than Vista and XP. Very simple and very evil and also very obvious. The new SMB2 failure blows their little lie up even for the most ignorant of users. M$'s reputation can't get much lower.
The "there could have been anything on those CDs" is a really lame excuse and it's one that's M$ propagated. You can say the same thing about books and speech. Want to ban those in school too? Imagine, "He was handing out notes to his clasmates. I immediately assumed they contained drugs and porn and steped in to uphold the law. My suspicions were only increased when I learned this Constitution was written by adults." I ran into the same objections when I tried to hold a Free Software demonstration in my school. It's a war on sharing, they want you to trust them more than your neighbors.
Fear and ignorance are used to keep you helpless and divided. Its a lie, trust your neighbors.
Despite a lot of slippery astroturf, Zune never caught on and sales are still in the toilet. There are few bigger failures out there.
This bout of marketing hype matters less than matters of real substance. Obama, Gates talks are real cause for concern. Obama's platform had nice words about openness, let's hope the dog was wagging the tail in those talks. The conversation should have gone something like, "Gates, you are on notice." Others, worry about even larger platform shifts. It is too early to tell how things will really go.
Contracts can't violate laws, so you can't sign away your rights. They can't, for example, appropriate code you've written before and other people's code you happen to use.
That being said, Look Out! Don't sign anything you don't agree with if you can avoid it. What you have not signed can't be held against you. Talk to a real lawyer, not the mickey mouse guy representing the University against you.
Actually, Sweaty B was telling people, "Advertisers, advertisers, advertisers, baby!", but it's not fair to shift blame outside of the company. They alone made the decisions, which drove Intel out of the graphics market, removed XP driver compatibilty at the last moment and loaded Vista with enough anti-features to insure it's complete failure.
All the GPGPU people use one of the GPU programming languages. The hard core ones use assembly.
Well, yeah. That's what you have to do when you don't have a free implementation. Kind of sucks to rewrite everything when you swap hardware platforms, don't it? Tell me it would not be nicer to have a free, vendor supported framework that would at least port to different generations by the same vendor.
Also, please tell why you would waste with that kind of thing when there are lots of spare cycles at super computes on every University. Learning GPU programming languages and assembly is a nice hobby and all, but I'm not sure you should write it into your grant.
Oh, I see, I'm talking to the CEO Yoyo. I've been trolled. Nice one.
The vast majority of Americans are serviced by one of four "broadband" providers and one of four phone companies. These companies don't compete, ever. ATT's greedy plan makes clear their intention to drive us all back to the Good Olde Days of Broadcast Gateway Services. You will get unlimited entertainment and software, but you won't get any choice unless you pay through the nose. Independent Media will collapse, so you won't have a lot of choices even if you do have a lot of money.
At $1/GB, we will all be driven back to physical media and simply give up cheap software, communications and entertainment. It is designed to limit telco, media and software competition. It will not be applied in a neutral fashion, your favorite big publishers will enjoy your "free" access and the internet will look like cable TV to most people.
Open Spectrum may undo this cluster fuck. It can't happen soon enough. Otherwise, you will find yourself living in some kind of 1980's Compuserve flashback for the rest of your adult life. Yes, Open Spectrum will ruin ATT, and most large publishers. That's OK, others will provide the better services at lower cost. The difference between the paths to slavery and freedom has never been more obvious.
The article has this scare mongering:
If the technique used could be cracked, it was only a matter of time before it was discovered. Had the process been transparent from the start, better encryption techniques might have been used. Shame on this "expert" for not understanding this fundamental issue.
Your corporate world is full of this kind of expert. They make their living by checking boxes, not thinking.
I repeat, never look up big zit on YouTube. Just don't. Fungus are beautiful.
Yeah, ESR predicted this in 2004. Four years and $60 billion dollars later, it looks like he was right.
Everyone love their touch tables, right? ha ha.
Sure thing, twitter, tell us how M$ is dying. $60 billion dollars down the drain in three years, universal project rejection, and company debt are signs of strength and unbreakable monopoly! As it was in the early 90s is as it is and alway will be? OK, they are dying.
I'm still waiting for the Wintel press to stop calling Windows viruses "computer viruses." This is FUD for Adobe and PDF which are both in M$'s crosshairs. Elimination of PDF will help decomoditize a uselful standard. Eliminating Adobe will move Adobe's profits to other companies.
They are chronichally overstaffed there for sure.
Google cache of network scandal article
The plan is to extend per byte per site, which will effectively end the internet as we know it today. The ability to turn off users will be abused in more than one way. Demand infrastructure upgrades and neutrality, you have already paid for it.
Inexpensive? A $450 OS that requires a $400 "Office" program to get anything done is your idea of cheap? How about a $700 image manipulation program? You have to realize that $400 will get you a very good used laptop or a reasonable new desktop and free software does everything you want to do.
Cockroaches have group based decision making that can be compared to thought. I'm not sure the same can be said of phishers and the bohearder crowd.
In the last 4 years, they have blown through $40 billion dollars in cash. everyone hates their new OS, which is supposed to be a cash cow. Our stock price has been flat years and never recovered from the 1999 crash. How are we supposed to afford enough coke for our kids?
What's worse is that EVERYONE LOVES GOOGLE like we want them to love us. Those evil stininkng free sofware using Google people have sollen what is ours. Give us back our money! I need more coke now! Say hello to my little friend, fuckers! Whaaaaaaa!
It's all twitters fault, whaaaaa, smash killllllll. -=drool=-... slop, flop.
Here's the article, with some minor adjustments for amusement:
[I work for Google, trust me but don't think they believe anything I say.]
Image of me leering in blue lights.
I hate blogs and most wankers but read them anyway and enjoy the ones that troll. I'm better than them because I write less and have friends who publish in real papers.
LinuxHaters blog sucks but it's a great troll based on the ancient "UNIX Haters Handbook" that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. LinuxHaters trolls Linux like Unix Haters trolled Unix when I was young.
Reading the LinuxHaters blog is a wonderful way to waste an afternoon. Teh are the Linux experts and people who know better are drawn into their trap every day. People responding dont seem to know (or maybe they just dont care) that the whole blog itself is a way to goad fanatical Linux supporters into attacking the author. Remember, I work for Google so you should trust me when I laugh at other people who work for Google. You should also trust me when I say that Linux Haters is 100% accurate and truthful. Hopefully, you will waste your time flaming me! I feel giddy just thinking about it.
The point of my troll here is to get you to read Linux Haters. To do that I'm going to tell you that the authors are Linux Lovers. That seemed to sell a lot of coppies of Unix Haters. It will also get me some more flames.
To make myself perfectly obvious, I'll invoke Godwin's Law and enlist the wisdom and good will of holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. As Elie Wiesel said, the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. Whenever you see hate, it's really love. Linux Hater is not the work of a bunch of PR hacks, ala Fake Steve Jobs, and it's not the complete waste of time I said it was. Go read it, damn it.
This week, LinuxHater pisses all over KDE. Most of my readers don't know what that is, so they will believe that it is the suck. They will also believe the rest of my ancient FUD about how free software programmers don't pay attention to details and can't deliver an "integrated" user experience, ever. This really is the programmer's fault because I have used an embedded Linux device that did one thing well. OK, that does not really follow but I don't care. I used to say the same things about Unix but no one cares about that anymore. Go read Linux Haters!
Trolling, for me, is both fun and profitable. My real job is to making free software talk to Windows. You should trust me when I say that free software sucks because I write some. You should also continue to use Windows so that I'll still have my job. I don't think I'd cut it as a blogger.
I cant help being reminded of the Mindcraft benchmark in 1999. Sponsored by Microsoft it was supposedly an independent test of the relative speed of Linux vs. Windows NT servers. Unsurprisingly for a Microsoft sponsored benchmark, Windows came out best. Linus Torvalds eventually realized that Linuxs failure in the rather contrived benchmark conditions should be treated as a bug report, however unusual the submission mechanism, and he and the kernel hackers promptly fixed it. This is like the same thing, but daily and less well founded. If everything goes well, all sorts of time will be wasted by real coders. Perfect troll!
Because Hate is Love, everyone will use and love Linux if you say bad things about it and pretend to hate it. I'm so clever.
Remember, I work for Google and write free software. The universal truth disclosed here should be trusted, but most of all you should waste lots of time. My job depends on your waste! Cheers.
Did anyone else parse the article as "Scientific Microsoft" instead of "Scientific Misconduct"? Get the facts, thankfully, is not part of the "Scientific Record".
Just give up already, you want to spend the money and buy a nice new Vista PC. Piano black, the ribbon, veterans love it and newbies grok it. It all works together so well it's like a dream. Opens your old documents and saves the new ones in a better than internationally accepted standards way. Worth every penny, $450 for the ultimate OS and $450 for the bestes Office suite, so your computer should not cost much less than $1000. Think of how it will train your children in the skills every office demands. Yeah, now your wallet is moving.
Put it in the ceiling, LOL.
A +5 post describing how "snappy" this is from a "diehard" Linux user who should know better? Did I see the same words in another post a few seconds ago? Let's look:
The MSTF accounts are out in force, evenly divided between convincing people of two lies. Both are right on target for the "Slashdot demographic"
1. That this is to Vista what W2K was to Win98 or
2. That Vista can be lean and mean if you turn off a few services.
Truth is that it's all the same reworked code with activation and other nasty DRM that can't be turned off.
Someone we all know and love noticed months ago, this is another admission of Vista failure and everyone is better off with free software.