LOL...and if you remember the premise in that movie (Sneakers) it was the simple fact that an outside party (outside of the US) had developed a peice of decryption hardware that broke all algorithms used on major services.
You also don't control the connections outside official territory and this is where international agreements to spy on the citizens of 'friendly' nations comes in.
Sounds like the movie inspired some people who developed Echelon and Carnivore. As well as lots of other tech:)
Curious that there were seven found, and they chose to call them hobbits instead of dwarves, maybe they're consider proportions rather than simply height. Nothing new really. Third incarnation of Vishnu was the dwarf Vaamana, and there's many accounts of smaller stature humanoids around the world.
...it's (SCO) Some Company's Other code. How's that for ironic, a SOFTWARE company takes out a lawsuit over SOFTWARE and a computer scientist uses SOFTWARE to prove there is no case. I'm waiting for SCO to claim rights to the comparator concept. How high will the level of ludicrous behaviour will over-paid, executives in companies loosing money get? Has anyone during this entire process given thought that maybe SCO took the code and claims it as their own? How will they ever prove this case is beyond me, since Unix was in existence before SCO was established as a company.
Wee Bill Wonka's FUDge Factory is...
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Ballmer on Linux
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· Score: 3, Interesting
in overdrive again.
But Ballmer shed his visionary mantle soon after, taking shots at the open source software development community and warning participants to think twice before adopting open source products like Linux.
Translation: We're ticked people put software out there that we charge exorbitantly for and they have the nerve to code it better than we do.
"I'm as fired up now as I've ever been in 24 years at Microsoft," Ballmer said.
Translation: I've nerver been so damned mad and scared for my own cushy job security in 24 years of being at Microsoft.
"In the next ten years, you're going to see more positive change than in the last ten," Ballmer said.
Translation: This keeps up we're going to miss our quarterly projections again and continue to loose our monopolistic stranglehold on the home computing industry that we've had in the last ten over the next ten.
Ballmer promoted his company's products as a key to that transformation, including the next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed "Longhorn," and the company's.NET computing architecture.
Poster's commentary: Makes me wanna revive the "Where's the Beef" commercials from over 10 years ago with all the hooplah, smoke and mirrors I keep reading about "Longhorn". I can see it now, They'll start calling computer viruses on "Longborn" (intentional mis-spelling) Mad Cow Disease and we see more countries banning the sale and distribution of Microsoft "beef" possibly.
Joking about recent news regarding a curtailed list of features in Longhorn, Ballmer said that cutting back on the promised features at least allowed the company to announce a release date for the product, which was a "major accomplishment."
Poster's commentary: Only at Microsoft would a major overshoot of a release become the joke to them that it is to the rest of us.
Despite the focus on the next version of Windows, Microsoft is also working to make its offerings more interoperable with products using other software platforms such as Linux, Unix and XML (Extensible Markup Language), Ballmer said.
Ballmer singled out XML and Web services as the "big breakthrough" of the next decade that will spur innovation.
"The fact that companies like Oracle (Corp.), IBM (Corp.) and (Microsoft) have bet on an architected approach to interoperability is huge," he said.
Translation: Since our corporate peers are lining up to kick our butt with Open Source we better buckle and see what all the fuss is about. This is merely another move by Microsoft to catch the last of the waves as the sun sets and they're "Johnny Come-lately" to the next trend.
While not perfect on security, Microsoft has a defined process for addressing security vulnerabilities, compared with the open source community, which he called "all over the map," when it came to addressing vulnerabilities in Linux, Ballmer said.
Translation: We better suck it up and realize we have to straighten out our backyard since the Open Source is making so many significant innovations and has an ability to patch their software so fast we don't even get to read the patch update notice before it's done, damn it! It's not far that Open Source has the ability to call on developers "all over the map", woe is us, how can we compete with the world? You can't Stevie, so suck it up and bask in your glory while it lasts.
"In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims," he said, noting that Microsoft could be forced to swallow a $550 million judgement if it loses its ongoing case with Eolas Technologies Inc., but that its customers would be protected.
Translation: For them (Open Source), there too many targets. For us, (Microsoft) the litigants have an easy target. Strength in numbers, Steve! *grin*
"I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt," Ballmer said. "I just think people should go out and res
Microsoft will either perpetuate their poor programming practices to a platform that will allow viruses to become even more virulent and worms to spread even faster. Wonderful. Or they'll take this opportunity to build apps that will run cross platform. Alot of potential good here. Mixed with alot of potential bad. Increasing the need for the Windows Server platform if they don't create Office as a cross-platform collaborative environment. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
So in essence we end up with systems that crash harder and faster, much like Steve Austin did in that 70s Series, The Six Million Dollar Man. How about coders get their overall quality of code production up before we hand them MORE computing horsepower to waste and continue to perpetuate the insane computational power increase while all the while not really addressing the CORE issues around a solid stable code base. Once again, Linux and the BSDs will leap ahead of Windows thanks to their more stable code base and we'll see the distance stretched between Mainstream and the techies.
Overall, this will just mean users will see the blue screen and crashes all that much faster.
As a friend of mine said a few nights ago when he fired up his new PC with WindowsXP. Why isn't this working better, they've had 3 years to fix this??? Why fix it when people keep paying for your crap?
Mr. Gates has openly stated that he sees a disappearance of the revenue from hardware (previously ) with it becoming FREE. ('scuse me while I chuckle at his hope that hardware is faced with the same dilema Open Source has present to him in software)
Make a the gaming console common to America's living room entertainment suite, and by wrote, the rest of the world will follow suite.
Over time continue to expand the use of the XBox as a pseudo PC and people stop using the PC and network their Xboxes using said 'free' hardware.
How does his idea account for any recovery of innovation in hardware? Let alone developments in software? Wait, would he actually consider improvements in quality of software coding?
majority of corporations, which are run by people, are slow to wakeup to the realization that most of us/.ers know. In time, the truth will be self-evident, and is becoming so for more and more. As this quote says.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860
I believe it's only a matter of time. It doesn't mean we're complacent, we still have to continue our efforts at debunking the FUD.
Maybe he's also expressing a general frustration wiht the lack of understanding outside of the Open Source community that don't realize the work involved in such projects?
light photons, if you think of how light is structured according to quantum mechanics from what I've read so far. Kind of neat when you think about it. Free air pulse packets without the need for a carrier like like.
Slashdot Mirror
LOL...and if you remember the premise in that movie (Sneakers) it was the simple fact that an outside party (outside of the US) had developed a peice of decryption hardware that broke all algorithms used on major services.
:)
You also don't control the connections outside official territory and this is where international agreements to spy on the citizens of 'friendly' nations comes in.
Sounds like the movie inspired some people who developed Echelon and Carnivore. As well as lots of other tech
Curious that there were seven found, and they chose to call them hobbits instead of dwarves, maybe they're consider proportions rather than simply height. Nothing new really. Third incarnation of Vishnu was the dwarf Vaamana, and there's many accounts of smaller stature humanoids around the world.
...it's (SCO) Some Company's Other code. How's that for ironic, a SOFTWARE company takes out a lawsuit over SOFTWARE and a computer scientist uses SOFTWARE to prove there is no case. I'm waiting for SCO to claim rights to the comparator concept. How high will the level of ludicrous behaviour will over-paid, executives in companies loosing money get? Has anyone during this entire process given thought that maybe SCO took the code and claims it as their own? How will they ever prove this case is beyond me, since Unix was in existence before SCO was established as a company.
in overdrive again.
.NET computing architecture.
But Ballmer shed his visionary mantle soon after, taking shots at the open source software development community and warning participants to think twice before adopting open source products like Linux.
Translation: We're ticked people put software out there that we charge exorbitantly for and they have the nerve to code it better than we do.
"I'm as fired up now as I've ever been in 24 years at Microsoft," Ballmer said.
Translation: I've nerver been so damned mad and scared for my own cushy job security in 24 years of being at Microsoft.
"In the next ten years, you're going to see more positive change than in the last ten," Ballmer said.
Translation: This keeps up we're going to miss our quarterly projections again and continue to loose our monopolistic stranglehold on the home computing industry that we've had in the last ten over the next ten.
Ballmer promoted his company's products as a key to that transformation, including the next version of the Windows operating system, dubbed "Longhorn," and the company's
Poster's commentary: Makes me wanna revive the "Where's the Beef" commercials from over 10 years ago with all the hooplah, smoke and mirrors I keep reading about "Longhorn". I can see it now, They'll start calling computer viruses on "Longborn" (intentional mis-spelling) Mad Cow Disease and we see more countries banning the sale and distribution of Microsoft "beef" possibly.
Joking about recent news regarding a curtailed list of features in Longhorn, Ballmer said that cutting back on the promised features at least allowed the company to announce a release date for the product, which was a "major accomplishment."
Poster's commentary: Only at Microsoft would a major overshoot of a release become the joke to them that it is to the rest of us.
Despite the focus on the next version of Windows, Microsoft is also working to make its offerings more interoperable with products using other software platforms such as Linux, Unix and XML (Extensible Markup Language), Ballmer said.
Ballmer singled out XML and Web services as the "big breakthrough" of the next decade that will spur innovation.
"The fact that companies like Oracle (Corp.), IBM (Corp.) and (Microsoft) have bet on an architected approach to interoperability is huge," he said.
Translation: Since our corporate peers are lining up to kick our butt with Open Source we better buckle and see what all the fuss is about. This is merely another move by Microsoft to catch the last of the waves as the sun sets and they're "Johnny Come-lately" to the next trend.
While not perfect on security, Microsoft has a defined process for addressing security vulnerabilities, compared with the open source community, which he called "all over the map," when it came to addressing vulnerabilities in Linux, Ballmer said.
Translation: We better suck it up and realize we have to straighten out our backyard since the Open Source is making so many significant innovations and has an ability to patch their software so fast we don't even get to read the patch update notice before it's done, damn it! It's not far that Open Source has the ability to call on developers "all over the map", woe is us, how can we compete with the world? You can't Stevie, so suck it up and bask in your glory while it lasts.
"In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims," he said, noting that Microsoft could be forced to swallow a $550 million judgement if it loses its ongoing case with Eolas Technologies Inc., but that its customers would be protected.
Translation: For them (Open Source), there too many targets. For us, (Microsoft) the litigants have an easy target. Strength in numbers, Steve! *grin*
"I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt," Ballmer said. "I just think people should go out and res
Microsoft will either perpetuate their poor programming practices to a platform that will allow viruses to become even more virulent and worms to spread even faster. Wonderful. Or they'll take this opportunity to build apps that will run cross platform. Alot of potential good here. Mixed with alot of potential bad. Increasing the need for the Windows Server platform if they don't create Office as a cross-platform collaborative environment. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
So in essence we end up with systems that crash harder and faster, much like Steve Austin did in that 70s Series, The Six Million Dollar Man. How about coders get their overall quality of code production up before we hand them MORE computing horsepower to waste and continue to perpetuate the insane computational power increase while all the while not really addressing the CORE issues around a solid stable code base. Once again, Linux and the BSDs will leap ahead of Windows thanks to their more stable code base and we'll see the distance stretched between Mainstream and the techies.
Overall, this will just mean users will see the blue screen and crashes all that much faster.
As a friend of mine said a few nights ago when he fired up his new PC with WindowsXP. Why isn't this working better, they've had 3 years to fix this??? Why fix it when people keep paying for your crap?
Just a thought and maybe slightly off-topic.
Mr. Gates has openly stated that he sees a disappearance of the revenue from hardware (previously ) with it becoming FREE. ('scuse me while I chuckle at his hope that hardware is faced with the same dilema Open Source has present to him in software)
Make a the gaming console common to America's living room entertainment suite, and by wrote, the rest of the world will follow suite.
Over time continue to expand the use of the XBox as a pseudo PC and people stop using the PC and network their Xboxes using said 'free' hardware.
How does his idea account for any recovery of innovation in hardware? Let alone developments in software? Wait, would he actually consider improvements in quality of software coding?
majority of corporations, which are run by people, are slow to wakeup to the realization that most of us /.ers know. In time, the truth will be self-evident, and is becoming so for more and more. As this quote says.
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860
I believe it's only a matter of time. It doesn't mean we're complacent, we still have to continue our efforts at debunking the FUD.
Well for one thing, IBM provides support through it's Global Services division since 1999.
Global Services deal with IBM
Then there's this cherry 7 year deal they inked back in 1999 for IBM to manufacture Dell's equipment.
IBM to Manufacture for Dell
Corel created the Corel Linux distribution.
Microsoft invests.
Corel dumps Linux distribution to Xandros.
Microsoft feeds SCO $85 million to finance their lawsuit efforts against IBM.
Novell tells SCO they can't sue IBM cause Novell own the IP.
SCO files suit against numerous other Linux distributions, ie. RedHat.
Novell purchases Suse Linux
Movell purchases Ximian (Gnome Deskop, MONO development platform)
IBM inks $50 Million deal with Novell to put Suse Linux on their machines.
Now IBM's lining up their ducks with subpeonas.
Anyone notice an unhealhty pattern for Microsoft here?
I would suspect that this would fall into the realm of reverse engineering, correct me if I'm wrong.
Maybe he's also expressing a general frustration wiht the lack of understanding outside of the Open Source community that don't realize the work involved in such projects?
light photons, if you think of how light is structured according to quantum mechanics from what I've read so far. Kind of neat when you think about it. Free air pulse packets without the need for a carrier like like.