Instead of "squaring his shoulders", "standing tall" and facing the battle of ill health and the other problems in his life, he decided to take the easy way out and commit suicide. It can only be defined as cowardly.
The "provide your config" stuff is imperative to understanding which piece of hardware is sucking his power. To not understand this is to lose plenty of geek cred. Please think this through, without the hardware setup, how are we to know that some specific chip is causing all his troubles? For blinky's sake, I've had hardware on which Linux has lasted longer than Windows, and vice versa. But at least I can then look at the hardware setup and figure out where its going wrong.
Linux Community: "Great news! We've totally made it so you can do X"
Me: 'Wait, last time you told me you could do X, and that it was easy, and free, and better than Windows. When I said I had problem doing X, you all told me I was crazy and to RTFM!'
Linux Community: 'Oh well....yeah...in the past, we've had some problems with X. Some users couldn't do X at all, but now we've totally fixed it! Now Linux is is totally great. Easy to use, great hardware support, best Linux ever. Totally better than Windows!''
I'd like to point out that when the community says, "We've totally made it so you can do X" they mean, "We've made it totally easy for an Average Joe to do X".
This distinction is important when considering what you say after that. Please note, you could always do X, it was just a bit harder before.
sudo apt-get reconfigure is your friend. Fixes a lot of issues like that.
That being said, sound should still not have died - its a royal PITA when upgrades or new programs hose the sound system. To be fair to the sound stack, the most likely reason is that whatever application has done it, its some idiot programmer who has been messing with your hardware/software on the wrong level instead of going through the necessary API.
They are in the business making money and do ALL that is needed to reach their goal.
While that might be seen as 'expected', I cannot condone it as moral - neither should the rest of society. What I find particularly annoying is that people seem to think that if its their raison d'ter then that excuses them from wrongdoing.
If their message is clear, concise and not disagreeable, why can't they convince us with a logical argument?
That made me laugh. You got beat up in school because you tried to' logically argue' with the bullies over your differences didn't you?
The world is run by bullies. You either stand up to them, or do what you do: blow hot air. Speak to a brick wall. Request that the pigs take flight.
There is a place for words, a very prominent place. It is the first port-of-call when dealing with issues. But if you honestly had any idea how long this issue has been going on despite decades of the most carefully crafted arguments, then you would realise that the time for words alone is clearly over.
I'm not advocating aggressive behaviour by default, but I'm certainly not going to sit on my bum and 'talk to the hand' while these idiots continue to put us all at risk. Its been going on for a while now, dude.
It sounds more likely that the developers who made the system were run of the mill "I made a calculator in C#, I'm a real programmer now!" types. You find these guys in any language.
You're absolutely right. Microsoft were heavily involved, as has been pointed out countless times. Their system, from top to bottom just wasn't up to scratch. You cannot have a system that needs millions of concurrent sub 1 millisecond transactions to be running on top of Microsoft Windows. Its inconceivable.
I'm in a similar situation at the moment. The business I work for is stepping up its level of professionalism and as such need a more reliable system. We currently have one heavy Windows 2003 server as our PDC.
While we've been shedding services to Linux servers, we're still looking for a solid solution to email+calendaring+mobile push tech. Unfortunately, the alternatives are pretty expensive. A nice solution (which does, admittedly, work well) from Zimbra costs in the tens of thousands (when covering licences for email+calendaring+mobile push tech). Needless to say, we're not exactly jumping for joy.
it deployed Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 on two 4-node clusters to support its Market Data Dissemination System
What a bunch of crappy marketing spin. My company's own unoptimised MySQL Intranet database runs the same amount of queries per day without breaking a sweat - this is on a crappy old box too. Read the statement I quoted - these MSSQL databases are merely 'support' for the real system. What a crap excuse for marketing - boy I hate marketing.
Oh, you didn't notice how the "healthy choices" menu suddenly appeared in McDonalds? It did here in Australia. Also, you didn't notice the crackdown on fast-food advertising? I did here in Australia. Perhaps it only happened here - but that documentary caused a huge reshuffle in the way McDonalds works.
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It most definitely isn't bravery.
Instead of "squaring his shoulders", "standing tall" and facing the battle of ill health and the other problems in his life, he decided to take the easy way out and commit suicide. It can only be defined as cowardly.
+5 Insightful?
why?
The "provide your config" stuff is imperative to understanding which piece of hardware is sucking his power. To not understand this is to lose plenty of geek cred. Please think this through, without the hardware setup, how are we to know that some specific chip is causing all his troubles? For blinky's sake, I've had hardware on which Linux has lasted longer than Windows, and vice versa. But at least I can then look at the hardware setup and figure out where its going wrong.
I'd like to point out that when the community says, "We've totally made it so you can do X" they mean, "We've made it totally easy for an Average Joe to do X".
This distinction is important when considering what you say after that. Please note, you could always do X, it was just a bit harder before.
"Free to be abused" and "Free" are two entirely different things. Contemplate them.
I tried that too, but I got a segmentation fault.
sudo apt-get reconfigure is your friend. Fixes a lot of issues like that.
That being said, sound should still not have died - its a royal PITA when upgrades or new programs hose the sound system. To be fair to the sound stack, the most likely reason is that whatever application has done it, its some idiot programmer who has been messing with your hardware/software on the wrong level instead of going through the necessary API.
For what its worth, time travel is a terrible and dangerous idea.
Yeh, you've been totally slashmemed.
ok, so that was lame.
It depends, are we also talking about Microsoft or micro+soft?
While that might be seen as 'expected', I cannot condone it as moral - neither should the rest of society. What I find particularly annoying is that people seem to think that if its their raison d'ter then that excuses them from wrongdoing.
That doesn't work if the HDD is removed though.
I'll take one of your openmoko phones off your hands if you're offering.
Back on topic, having to re-build the OS because you forgot to stop the cron job would be an almighty PITA.
+1 Slapdown
That made me laugh. You got beat up in school because you tried to' logically argue' with the bullies over your differences didn't you?
The world is run by bullies. You either stand up to them, or do what you do: blow hot air. Speak to a brick wall. Request that the pigs take flight.
There is a place for words, a very prominent place. It is the first port-of-call when dealing with issues. But if you honestly had any idea how long this issue has been going on despite decades of the most carefully crafted arguments, then you would realise that the time for words alone is clearly over. I'm not advocating aggressive behaviour by default, but I'm certainly not going to sit on my bum and 'talk to the hand' while these idiots continue to put us all at risk. Its been going on for a while now, dude.
You're absolutely right. Microsoft were heavily involved, as has been pointed out countless times. Their system, from top to bottom just wasn't up to scratch. You cannot have a system that needs millions of concurrent sub 1 millisecond transactions to be running on top of Microsoft Windows. Its inconceivable.
Yeah, Accenture - AND Microsoft. Microsoft were heavily involved, promised the earth and failed to deliver.
I heard the train was connected to the train tracks - until it came off.
Accenture is going to be the scapegoat in all of this. They're Microsoft's puppet and they're going to get publicly blamed.
I'm in a similar situation at the moment. The business I work for is stepping up its level of professionalism and as such need a more reliable system. We currently have one heavy Windows 2003 server as our PDC.
While we've been shedding services to Linux servers, we're still looking for a solid solution to email+calendaring+mobile push tech. Unfortunately, the alternatives are pretty expensive. A nice solution (which does, admittedly, work well) from Zimbra costs in the tens of thousands (when covering licences for email+calendaring+mobile push tech). Needless to say, we're not exactly jumping for joy.
What a bunch of crappy marketing spin. My company's own unoptimised MySQL Intranet database runs the same amount of queries per day without breaking a sweat - this is on a crappy old box too. Read the statement I quoted - these MSSQL databases are merely 'support' for the real system. What a crap excuse for marketing - boy I hate marketing.
Aaaagh! Run Johnny! Its the UNPAID!!!!!
And why did customers start demanding it? Cause and effect my friend, cause and effect.
Oh, you didn't notice how the "healthy choices" menu suddenly appeared in McDonalds? It did here in Australia. Also, you didn't notice the crackdown on fast-food advertising? I did here in Australia. Perhaps it only happened here - but that documentary caused a huge reshuffle in the way McDonalds works.
Or what an "Exchane" is...