MS might release a press release, which might read "You should have updated", but they will not "go"anything. Your choice of vernacular marks you as an American, and your high user ID marks you as a student, most likely living in your parents' basement. Don't they teach English in schools anymore?
For if you don't, you'll buy a decent photo inkjet, that will take up space on your desk, its wall-wart will consume 2-3 plugs worth of space, on which you will print several photos periodically, that is, when the ink hasn't dried up. Better, buy a cheap HP laser off eBay, have it take up the same space, suck less at B&W, never run out of ink, never clog, and for those pictures you need every once in a while, upload them to ritzcamera.com, and have them MAIL you back the prints in a few days.
We're fresh out of ideas, viz. we killed the instrumentation market, we EOLed our CPU, we EOLed our OS on said CPU, we lost the laser printer edge, and the PC market's margins are so thin we're bleeding to death. Can we have some of your ideas? Maybe HP should go down in flames, as a warning to other companies.
Notice how most of the posts are along the lines of "we're in the middle of upgrading from VB to.Net" or "we're currently porting all our apps from C++ to.Net" or "we're currently upgrading everything to.Net".
Here's a hint: Microsoft LOVES you guys. People who jump on the upgrade bandwagon even BEFORE they declare your old gear obsolete.
I love the writing style in the submission (or is it TFA?)... ok, so say my company has 'a database' with 'client information' in it. Nobody is going to have "select * from foo" privileges. And the data is probably meaningless without a client application. They make it sound like the Wargames movie - where some guy 'gets into' 'the system' and gets 'the data'. Its a lot harder than this. I know from experience that its easy enough to compromise an employee, who can print pages of stuff out, or save things as an Excel file, and put it on a thumbdrive, than its going to be to get on a wireless network, manage to connect to 'the database' and run 'the query' that magically dumps you all the right data.
Yes, its mostly modern fiber and VOIP internally, but there's copper to every house, and poles, and those discrete switching stations in the bushes. Who paid for all that? Since we (the US Taxpayers) did (whether its good or bad is irrelevant to this discussion), it should be open to all. Those who live by the government teat (Telcos) should have to die by it, too.
Macs were/are more expensive, but because Apple maintained tight control over the hardware, things Just Worked. PCs were/are cheaper, but because there are so many flavors of hardware (hint: do a Newegg search for an nVidia FX5500 card, or similar), MS can't possibly write decent drivers for all, and so must rely on 3rd parties, and things didn't Just Work. PCs were/are easier to add (cheap) hardware to (ISA NE2000 NIC anyone?) but you needed to know jumpers and IRQs.
The problem with the "I can be more productive at home" argument is that it blurs still further the distinction between work and personal life. IT people are already subject to odd-hours, psuedo or real on-call schedules, VPN access "just to check your email", etc. People need to stop this trend - its not healthy. When I walk out the door of my job, I'm done. They pay me for 40 hours a week, and they get it. No more. If I work an extra 4 hours a week at home, I just gave myself a 10% pay cut.
The best thing I ever did was to exclude 'timothy' stories from my homepage. Notice how the two suckiest editors, 'timothy' and 'michael' were both lowercase names? These two fuckwads didn't even have the self-esteem (or hygiene, most likely) to capitalize their own names.
Why add the tagline "depends on your definition" ? Is the point of the article to incite a Free vs. Free definition flamewar? Is the merit of a Slashdot thread measured in the number of RMS references?
I haven't gotten any since I visited Slashdot via links on Anti-Slash. If you go there, copy and paste the URLs rather than clicking their links back to here. Apparently the HTTP-Referer identifies you as a persona non grata.
to the neared Apple store so that you can buy one of these. Take your old $50 cordless nuclear vibrating Hello Kitty mouse and throw it away. Buy a new mouse, making sure to discard all the plastic packaging in the nearest landfill. Help ensure that the Chinese government stays in the black by consuming the latest trendware. Then, simultaneously, lord it over your friends that you are a fanboy, and vote for someone who will improve the balance of trade with the enemy, who incidentally is a nation of murderous rogues.
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Is that like h4cking teh gibson?
MS might release a press release, which might read "You should have updated", but they will not "go" anything.
Your choice of vernacular marks you as an American, and your high user ID marks you as a student, most likely living in your parents' basement. Don't they teach English in schools anymore?
For if you don't, you'll buy a decent photo inkjet, that will take up space on your desk, its wall-wart will consume 2-3 plugs worth of space, on which you will print several photos periodically, that is, when the ink hasn't dried up.
Better, buy a cheap HP laser off eBay, have it take up the same space, suck less at B&W, never run out of ink, never clog, and for those pictures you need every once in a while, upload them to ritzcamera.com, and have them MAIL you back the prints in a few days.
is that it turns you into an Ubuntu-loving, cock-smoking tea-bagger.
I'd say that 5 billion USD is a lot for 3.6 TB.
Oh wait, did you mean $5k ?? Well, call me "-1, Pedantic".
Eventually he'll be right, and perhaps, once, before he dies, he'll actually have something insightful to say.
We're fresh out of ideas, viz. we killed the instrumentation market, we EOLed our CPU, we EOLed our OS on said CPU, we lost the laser printer edge, and the PC market's margins are so thin we're bleeding to death.
Can we have some of your ideas?
Maybe HP should go down in flames, as a warning to other companies.
I think I've read that speech before, I think it was in a leaked memo from ZDNet to Microsoft.
Notice how most of the posts are along the lines of "we're in the middle of upgrading from VB to .Net" or "we're currently porting all our apps from C++ to .Net" or "we're currently upgrading everything to .Net".
Here's a hint: Microsoft LOVES you guys. People who jump on the upgrade bandwagon even BEFORE they declare your old gear obsolete.
How about things, instead, like C, or Java, Perl?
I love the writing style in the submission (or is it TFA?) ...
ok, so say my company has 'a database' with 'client information' in it.
Nobody is going to have "select * from foo" privileges.
And the data is probably meaningless without a client application.
They make it sound like the Wargames movie - where some guy 'gets into' 'the system' and gets 'the data'. Its a lot harder than this.
I know from experience that its easy enough to compromise an employee, who can print pages of stuff out, or save things as an Excel file, and put it on a thumbdrive, than its going to be to get on a wireless network, manage to connect to 'the database' and run 'the query' that magically dumps you all the right data.
Yes, its mostly modern fiber and VOIP internally, but there's copper to every house, and poles, and those discrete switching stations in the bushes. Who paid for all that? Since we (the US Taxpayers) did (whether its good or bad is irrelevant to this discussion), it should be open to all.
Those who live by the government teat (Telcos) should have to die by it, too.
Old News for Nerds, Stuff that Mattered.
is the turf war between Internet news portals, or airports vs. airlines?
We want total freedom from censorship and total creative control!
We want to be protected from malicious actions of both others and ourselves!
Profit!
making P2P piracy a crime is not the same as making software vendors whose product is USED for P2P piracy liable.
Piracy already is a crime. It's the whole 'facilitation' issue thats up for debate here.
Macs were/are more expensive, but because Apple maintained tight control over the hardware, things Just Worked.
PCs were/are cheaper, but because there are so many flavors of hardware (hint: do a Newegg search for an nVidia FX5500 card, or similar), MS can't possibly write decent drivers for all, and so must rely on 3rd parties, and things didn't Just Work.
PCs were/are easier to add (cheap) hardware to (ISA NE2000 NIC anyone?) but you needed to know jumpers and IRQs.
Which is cheaper in the long run?
I saw the subject icon on the top of the main page - it was the NASA logo, so I clicked it, figuring that it was about the Shuttle.
The problem with the "I can be more productive at home" argument is that it blurs still further the distinction between work and personal life. IT people are already subject to odd-hours, psuedo or real on-call schedules, VPN access "just to check your email", etc.
People need to stop this trend - its not healthy. When I walk out the door of my job, I'm done. They pay me for 40 hours a week, and they get it. No more. If I work an extra 4 hours a week at home, I just gave myself a 10% pay cut.
Do you Canadians ever do anything? Ever?
The best thing I ever did was to exclude 'timothy' stories from my homepage. Notice how the two suckiest editors, 'timothy' and 'michael' were both lowercase names? These two fuckwads didn't even have the self-esteem (or hygiene, most likely) to capitalize their own names.
if network access is causing "load" and not "cpu usage", you need to look at kernel stuff - drivers, TCP/UDP windows, ethernet statistics, etc.
Why add the tagline "depends on your definition" ? Is the point of the article to incite a Free vs. Free definition flamewar? Is the merit of a Slashdot thread measured in the number of RMS references?
I haven't gotten any since I visited Slashdot via links on Anti-Slash. If you go there, copy and paste the URLs rather than clicking their links back to here. Apparently the HTTP-Referer identifies you as a persona non grata.
It was 15-20 years ago, and would have, were it not for the Chinese, and the aleration of American policy towards them.
to the neared Apple store so that you can buy one of these. Take your old $50 cordless nuclear vibrating Hello Kitty mouse and throw it away. Buy a new mouse, making sure to discard all the plastic packaging in the nearest landfill. Help ensure that the Chinese government stays in the black by consuming the latest trendware. Then, simultaneously, lord it over your friends that you are a fanboy, and vote for someone who will improve the balance of trade with the enemy, who incidentally is a nation of murderous rogues.