If only IT people had that sort of power. Microsoft would be nothing and this whole discussion would be irrelevant. Maybe in a hundred years our professional opinion won't be ignored by the PHBs.
Time to move to another country where the protection of the individual is just as important as the protection of giant companies. Unfortunately we're running out of those. The EU is trying it's best (VW got their asses seriously kicked for ripping off UK and German consumers recently), but it's hard to turn down those bri.....er....campaign contributions.
Good point, but OS/390 can do just about everything that Linux can, so I can't see a huge advantage (except in kudos for my favourite OS) in running it under VM.
Yes indeed, Unix has won. That's why all your bank statements, telephone bills and any other statements from large organisations are produced by OS/390 instead of Solaris. Who gives a shit what the disk controller runs. The mainframe IO channels each have a dedicated Pentium II. Does this mean that the PC architecture has 'won'? IBM takes the best solution for each part of it's architecture and currently whips Solaris and HP-UX out of sight for IO-intensive tasks.
But then the internet wouldn't have existed had a Brit not invented the computer, monitors would not exist had a Brit not invented the CRT, and you would not be able to dial up and pretend the US did anything but throw money at other people's ideas and bully competition out of the way if a Brit hadn't invented the telephone (Alexander Graham-Bell was a Scotsman, even if he did invent his phone in the US).
And then you start crashing because the 'fix' has broken something else, and you have to re-install Windows which takes about an hour and requires 4 reboots, and then you have to restore from your latest backup (if you were sensible enough to take one) and then you have to redo all the work you did in between the backup and when windowsupdate screwed your system. Think I'm making this up. This is exactly the reason why I switched from Windows to Linux. Bill Gates will get no more money from me, after he cost me a great deal of time and money, not to mention lost hair and extra wrinkles.
That the former Evil Communist Empire(TM) and the Mad Mullahs could very well be bastions of freedom against the corporate empire. Piracy sucks, but so does corporate control. When will the corporates stop funding the lawyers' extra holiday homes and work on a reasonable way to work with the internet that satisfies both sides of the argument.
What utter crap. France is the seventh or eighth richest country in the world, not exactly poor. The French voted in the socialists, after the previous pro-market party made a huge hash of the economy. As to high unemployment, so what. Unemployment in Western Europe (with the dishonourable exception of the UK) does not lead to poverty and starvation. Hence the low crime rate in Western Europe and the high crime rate in the UK and the USA. It's all very well being richer than Europe, but then again you're far less likely to have someone point a gun in your face and take your hard-earned money away. So, in other words, until you know what you're talking about, shut up.
Once an AOLer always an AOLer - hah! I started on AOL and Windows 95, and due to the poor quality of the software I switched to Linux, and will NEVER go back (except at work thanks to clueless PHBs).
Oh yes, all us Europeans are dead envious of a country where old ladies get shot by their next-door neighbours, and six year-olds shoot their classmates.
We are AOL, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile. What is this - Microsoft aren't so bad, look at AOL, well AOL doesn't have much hold on the world, mainly being the choice of non-techie Americans. Microsoft has a lock in on 90% of the world's x86 PCs and therefore is a monopoly, and a pretty nasty one at that. AOL cannot control the internet, and the guy with the `submissive bottom' has a huge choice of other ISPs to flash his bottom on.
Slow and unstable? Compared to what. It's definitely faster than NS 4.7 and hasn't crashed on me yet. It's not perfect, but then it's a BETA. It took a long time precisely because the people trying to build NS 5.0 couldn't work out the arcane mess that NS 4 was then. I personally am looking forward to the final version, if this beta is anything to go by.
With a company with a long history of security flaws, should those of you living in Washington state be worried about Microsoft using prison labour. What's it going to be, 'no bars on the windows for this guy, he's Microsoft?'
Well, thanks to OS, the all new Netscape 6 beta is available and absolutely flies, compared to IE and NS4.7. I'm looking forward to the release with baited breath. Go Netscape.
The Vietnam war started as a way of propping up a fascist right-wing government against the populist communist forces. When we talk about injustice, who was responsible for the bombing of Cambodia, or the subsequent support of Pol Pot. Which country today supports one of the most repressive and unjust regimes in the world, China, and which country's 'intelligence' organisation supported many, many drug lords in the 'fight against Communism'. So spare me your sanctimonious bull, and stop pretending that the US was the only country, or even the driver of 'humanitarian' wars, such as the Gulf War.
I was just working on my PC today and humming a track that I'd heard on the radio. I haven't bought it, but yet I'm getting the pleasure of hearing it and depriving the artist of their revenue. I expect jackbooted American goons to kick my door in at any moment. Roll on brain-encryption, so I can't do anything the American corporate empire doesn't like.
But Oracle doesn't come preloaded on your PC, and Oracle has competition from DB2, MySQL, PostGreSQL, SQL Server ad infinitum...... The benefit (see I can spell) of this lawsuit is to open the OS market to fair competition. OS/2 has almost died due to MS policy and the cowardice of the other PC manufacturers, Netscape for almost the same reason, but at the centre of this is the Machiavellian monopoly at Redmond. Remember that you would not have such a huge choice of hardware as you do if IBM had kept the PC architecture closed, what we want now is the same opportunities on the software side without MS putting pressure on the PC makers. We need compatibility until the playing field is level again and we have a number of competing OSs with real innovation coming from competition.
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If only IT people had that sort of power. Microsoft would be nothing and this whole discussion would be irrelevant. Maybe in a hundred years our professional opinion won't be ignored by the PHBs.
Time to move to another country where the protection of the individual is just as important as the protection of giant companies. Unfortunately we're running out of those. The EU is trying it's best (VW got their asses seriously kicked for ripping off UK and German consumers recently), but it's hard to turn down those bri.....er....campaign contributions.
Good point, but OS/390 can do just about everything that Linux can, so I can't see a huge advantage (except in kudos for my favourite OS) in running it under VM.
Didn't NT bluescreen and stop a US warship dead in the water for about 4 hours. What did the Navy do about that?
Yes indeed, Unix has won. That's why all your bank statements, telephone bills and any other statements from large organisations are produced by OS/390 instead of Solaris. Who gives a shit what the disk controller runs. The mainframe IO channels each have a dedicated Pentium II. Does this mean that the PC architecture has 'won'? IBM takes the best solution for each part of it's architecture and currently whips Solaris and HP-UX out of sight for IO-intensive tasks.
But then the internet wouldn't have existed had a Brit not invented the computer, monitors would not exist had a Brit not invented the CRT, and you would not be able to dial up and pretend the US did anything but throw money at other people's ideas and bully competition out of the way if a Brit hadn't invented the telephone (Alexander Graham-Bell was a Scotsman, even if he did invent his phone in the US).
Are you sure? Is that your final answer? Steve, you had 1 karma point........... you now have 3 (funny) karma points!!!!!!!!!!!
And then you start crashing because the 'fix' has broken something else, and you have to re-install Windows which takes about an hour and requires 4 reboots, and then you have to restore from your latest backup (if you were sensible enough to take one) and then you have to redo all the work you did in between the backup and when windowsupdate screwed your system. Think I'm making this up. This is exactly the reason why I switched from Windows to Linux. Bill Gates will get no more money from me, after he cost me a great deal of time and money, not to mention lost hair and extra wrinkles.
That the former Evil Communist Empire(TM) and the Mad Mullahs could very well be bastions of freedom against the corporate empire. Piracy sucks, but so does corporate control. When will the corporates stop funding the lawyers' extra holiday homes and work on a reasonable way to work with the internet that satisfies both sides of the argument.
What utter crap. France is the seventh or eighth richest country in the world, not exactly poor. The French voted in the socialists, after the previous pro-market party made a huge hash of the economy. As to high unemployment, so what. Unemployment in Western Europe (with the dishonourable exception of the UK) does not lead to poverty and starvation. Hence the low crime rate in Western Europe and the high crime rate in the UK and the USA. It's all very well being richer than Europe, but then again you're far less likely to have someone point a gun in your face and take your hard-earned money away. So, in other words, until you know what you're talking about, shut up.
This must be one of those dumb AOLers I've been hearing about. FUCK OFF YOU NAZI WANKER.
But then they'll be more vulnerable to hackers, since they only have to hack one password database. Har har har.
Anybody surfing porn for 90 hours a week will find their 'tool' rather limp and lifeless.
Sieg heil! Fuck off Adolf, this is News for Nerds, not News for Braindead Nazi scum.
Once an AOLer always an AOLer - hah! I started on AOL and Windows 95, and due to the poor quality of the software I switched to Linux, and will NEVER go back (except at work thanks to clueless PHBs).
Oh yes, all us Europeans are dead envious of a country where old ladies get shot by their next-door neighbours, and six year-olds shoot their classmates.
We are AOL, you will be assimilated, resistance is futile. What is this - Microsoft aren't so bad, look at AOL, well AOL doesn't have much hold on the world, mainly being the choice of non-techie Americans. Microsoft has a lock in on 90% of the world's x86 PCs and therefore is a monopoly, and a pretty nasty one at that. AOL cannot control the internet, and the guy with the `submissive bottom' has a huge choice of other ISPs to flash his bottom on.
Slow and unstable? Compared to what. It's definitely faster than NS 4.7 and hasn't crashed on me yet. It's not perfect, but then it's a BETA. It took a long time precisely because the people trying to build NS 5.0 couldn't work out the arcane mess that NS 4 was then. I personally am looking forward to the final version, if this beta is anything to go by.
With a company with a long history of security flaws, should those of you living in Washington state be worried about Microsoft using prison labour. What's it going to be, 'no bars on the windows for this guy, he's Microsoft?'
Well, thanks to OS, the all new Netscape 6 beta is available and absolutely flies, compared to IE and NS4.7. I'm looking forward to the release with baited breath. Go Netscape.
The Vietnam war started as a way of propping up a fascist right-wing government against the populist communist forces. When we talk about injustice, who was responsible for the bombing of Cambodia, or the subsequent support of Pol Pot. Which country today supports one of the most repressive and unjust regimes in the world, China, and which country's 'intelligence' organisation supported many, many drug lords in the 'fight against Communism'. So spare me your sanctimonious bull, and stop pretending that the US was the only country, or even the driver of 'humanitarian' wars, such as the Gulf War.
Yes, kind of funny in a nerdy sort of way. How many books were there, I only read the first 2.
I was just working on my PC today and humming a track that I'd heard on the radio. I haven't bought it, but yet I'm getting the pleasure of hearing it and depriving the artist of their revenue. I expect jackbooted American goons to kick my door in at any moment. Roll on brain-encryption, so I can't do anything the American corporate empire doesn't like.
But Oracle doesn't come preloaded on your PC, and Oracle has competition from DB2, MySQL, PostGreSQL, SQL Server ad infinitum...... The benefit (see I can spell) of this lawsuit is to open the OS market to fair competition. OS/2 has almost died due to MS policy and the cowardice of the other PC manufacturers, Netscape for almost the same reason, but at the centre of this is the Machiavellian monopoly at Redmond. Remember that you would not have such a huge choice of hardware as you do if IBM had kept the PC architecture closed, what we want now is the same opportunities on the software side without MS putting pressure on the PC makers. We need compatibility until the playing field is level again and we have a number of competing OSs with real innovation coming from competition.