Eventually, the future will consist of two classes of people. Those obedient peons that follow all the rules laid down by Big Brother and Big Corporations, and those that just say fuck it and carve their path in life.
Your comments would make sense were it not for the fact that the Record companies are themselves in a monopolistic situation. The simple fact of the matter is that they totally control the market forces and distribution of the medium. Thus, they can make changes that people may not want and there is nothing beyond legislation that we can do. I agree that the ideal situation is to sit back and let the "invisible hand" deal with this but that only works in a situation of true competition.
I agree with what you're saying, however, there is basically no resolution for my issues #3 concerning the increase in network load. Technically, I can block all the outbound ports and filter everything inbound and outbound at the router level but realistically, I shouldn't have to not trust the o/s in the first place. Many small and medium companies... you say ACL (access control list) or anything like that and you get a blank look from the so-called local systems guru. Most are under-trained, barely skilled, and very opinionated.
The core point that I was making is that customer perception is that XP is getting ugly. Microsoft is starting to add many non-technical features into it's products and some are useful and some are not. Placing spyware in their systems is not good. Not documenting it is worse. Continuing to do it and increase the amount of it is not only worse, it simply means one of two things: 1 - MS doesn't care 2 - MS is a monopoly and if we want to use their products then we have to simply suck it up.
Well, they can be a monopoly and I don't really care. However, if they are then they should be regulated like all of the others so that when they shit, it gets documented and made public and people know about it. The problem with XP is that you don't know what it's really doing. How come MS's ISA doesn't pick up many of the MS broadcasts? Doesn't that inherently piss you off too?
I work for a MS Certified Partner, and we're seeing massive fragmentation with MS products at customer sites. Many, many customers simply don't want to move to XP at all. They consider it to be spyware and counter-productive to their employees. We've done a number of W9x/NT4 migrations to W2K Pro and many customers are happy with it. We recently moved one customer from NT4 to XP and a few weeks later, they called us back and had us reconfigure every single desktop and notebook in the company to W2K Pro.
The major complaints that they had were: 1 - XP takes longer to do things since the Start bar is not as cleanly laid out other Wxx products 2 - XP has too many "bells and whistles" that do not fit into a corporate environment where work and results are valued 3 - The Network Admin was getting pissed with having to go through his router and network transaction logs every single day and clean them out. Apparently they were filling up rapidly with various broadcasts to MS servers and stuff. The guy was pissed!
Anyways, my take on it is this: MS may see a future in multimedia-ready, loaded and bloated Windows but customers don't. The want a stable system that doesn't keep costing them more, doesn't encourage employees to goof off at work and download MP3s, and they want a system that allows them to keep their company's business in their company's business. They don't like all the spyware and broadcasting technology that's in it.
MS seems to forget that there is people that simply use an O/S and there is people that both use and demand more. The later people are the ones that drive new technology and new systems into companies. And it's the later people that MS is pissing off.
Interestingly, I've found that Microsoft's own ISA software won't report when the server it's running on is calling home. Yah, nothing like security...
Have you ever started up your connection and not been able to connect? Have you ever not been able to download, well in excess of 5kbps? In my opinion, big deal if 1% is sucking down 16% of the bandwidth. According to Sympatico marketing, it's not a shared connection anyways. And where is the bandwidth being primarily consumed? Around the university student areas? Downtown in the big apartment block corriders?
Dude, your reasoning for approving of the cap is totally stupid. Not only that, but running a server, any type of server, is a violation of your user agreement. You are simply another one of the morons that I see every day who listen to corporate marketing and believe it. You are the idiot target audience. I know. I'm in marketing.
I hope that they standardize on SuSE and add Turbolinux's clustering capabilities...that would be cool. Caldera blows and personally, I think that they've let SCO die a violent and unnecessary death.
I thought that it was illegal for a company to basically charge 2 different prices for the same product/service that is advertised to end-users? Isn't this known as price discrimination, which is illegal under law by the Sherman Act and by the FTC?
Sounds like today's new and up-and-coming business leaders haven't studied their relevant business history lesson's in B-school. Or their ethics for that matter...
Actually, the pretty picture does appear to suggest that my overall theory that Evolution is best caused by continual Conflict is essentially correct.
Now, if only I can convince everyone that the separation of State, Justice, and Religion is the only way to run a nation then we'll all be in a relatively happier place...
As a former Cobalt business partner... we dropped them shortly after Sun acquired them. They tech support was virtually non-existent and they yanked updates and stuff. It was just too much of a pain to go through it.
So, you know what we did? We built our own 1U rack server that is SMP-capable, has dual 10/100 ethernet, and supports RAID0/1 (IDE or SCSI) internally. I can run almost any OS on it, and we came out with it almost 6 months before Dell started advertising their 1U rack server.
The software contract for $95mil is suspicious, but I have to agree with you: 5 people can't support an entire state IT system. The auditor's numbers do not stand up under scrutiny.
1,800 Intel processors, eh! Damn, I can't think of a MS O/S that will run on it. Maybe it's because MS doesn't have a truly scalable O/S. Yah, yah, cheap shot.
Why are so many people thinking of algorithms in terms of precise computations and, more literally, formulas? How about the Scientific Method as an algorithm? Without it, much of modern technology and science would be lost.
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Sweet Jesus, was that one ever personal! You must be one of the project members.
It sounds to me from the original post that API's and some type of schedule was done (at least in someone's mind).
Yah, Siegal only bends over for the Mob...
Nice one.
I'd love to see Carmack write a book on C language development too. Ahh... probably be waiting just as long as for Starcraft 2...
Doh!!
Eventually, the future will consist of two classes of people. Those obedient peons that follow all the rules laid down by Big Brother and Big Corporations, and those that just say fuck it and carve their path in life.
I'm in latter category. You won't see me coming.
Ahh...an interesting point of view. How refreshing!
Your comments would make sense were it not for the fact that the Record companies are themselves in a monopolistic situation. The simple fact of the matter is that they totally control the market forces and distribution of the medium. Thus, they can make changes that people may not want and there is nothing beyond legislation that we can do. I agree that the ideal situation is to sit back and let the "invisible hand" deal with this but that only works in a situation of true competition.
I agree with what you're saying, however, there is basically no resolution for my issues #3 concerning the increase in network load. Technically, I can block all the outbound ports and filter everything inbound and outbound at the router level but realistically, I shouldn't have to not trust the o/s in the first place. Many small and medium companies... you say ACL (access control list) or anything like that and you get a blank look from the so-called local systems guru. Most are under-trained, barely skilled, and very opinionated.
The core point that I was making is that customer perception is that XP is getting ugly. Microsoft is starting to add many non-technical features into it's products and some are useful and some are not. Placing spyware in their systems is not good. Not documenting it is worse. Continuing to do it and increase the amount of it is not only worse, it simply means one of two things:
1 - MS doesn't care
2 - MS is a monopoly and if we want to use their products then we have to simply suck it up.
Well, they can be a monopoly and I don't really care. However, if they are then they should be regulated like all of the others so that when they shit, it gets documented and made public and people know about it. The problem with XP is that you don't know what it's really doing. How come MS's ISA doesn't pick up many of the MS broadcasts? Doesn't that inherently piss you off too?
And to quote..."all that WPA-invasion-of-privacy Gestapo crap makes me feel sick in the pit of my stomach".
Your words eloquently express my mutual feelings.
I work for a MS Certified Partner, and we're seeing massive fragmentation with MS products at customer sites. Many, many customers simply don't want to move to XP at all. They consider it to be spyware and counter-productive to their employees. We've done a number of W9x/NT4 migrations to W2K Pro and many customers are happy with it. We recently moved one customer from NT4 to XP and a few weeks later, they called us back and had us reconfigure every single desktop and notebook in the company to W2K Pro.
The major complaints that they had were:
1 - XP takes longer to do things since the Start bar is not as cleanly laid out other Wxx products
2 - XP has too many "bells and whistles" that do not fit into a corporate environment where work and results are valued
3 - The Network Admin was getting pissed with having to go through his router and network transaction logs every single day and clean them out. Apparently they were filling up rapidly with various broadcasts to MS servers and stuff. The guy was pissed!
Anyways, my take on it is this: MS may see a future in multimedia-ready, loaded and bloated Windows but customers don't. The want a stable system that doesn't keep costing them more, doesn't encourage employees to goof off at work and download MP3s, and they want a system that allows them to keep their company's business in their company's business. They don't like all the spyware and broadcasting technology that's in it.
MS seems to forget that there is people that simply use an O/S and there is people that both use and demand more. The later people are the ones that drive new technology and new systems into companies. And it's the later people that MS is pissing off.
Interestingly, I've found that Microsoft's own ISA software won't report when the server it's running on is calling home. Yah, nothing like security...
Have you ever started up your connection and not been able to connect? Have you ever not been able to download, well in excess of 5kbps? In my opinion, big deal if 1% is sucking down 16% of the bandwidth. According to Sympatico marketing, it's not a shared connection anyways. And where is the bandwidth being primarily consumed? Around the university student areas? Downtown in the big apartment block corriders?
Dude, your reasoning for approving of the cap is totally stupid. Not only that, but running a server, any type of server, is a violation of your user agreement. You are simply another one of the morons that I see every day who listen to corporate marketing and believe it. You are the idiot target audience. I know. I'm in marketing.
I hope that they standardize on SuSE and add Turbolinux's clustering capabilities...that would be cool. Caldera blows and personally, I think that they've let SCO die a violent and unnecessary death.
I thought that it was illegal for a company to basically charge 2 different prices for the same product/service that is advertised to end-users? Isn't this known as price discrimination, which is illegal under law by the Sherman Act and by the FTC?
Sounds like today's new and up-and-coming business leaders haven't studied their relevant business history lesson's in B-school. Or their ethics for that matter...
Actually, the pretty picture does appear to suggest that my overall theory that Evolution is best caused by continual Conflict is essentially correct.
Now, if only I can convince everyone that the separation of State, Justice, and Religion is the only way to run a nation then we'll all be in a relatively happier place...
Shit. /.'ed in under 10min. I swear that some people just wanna see their server collapse on purpose...
As a former Cobalt business partner... we dropped them shortly after Sun acquired them. They tech support was virtually non-existent and they yanked updates and stuff. It was just too much of a pain to go through it.
So, you know what we did? We built our own 1U rack server that is SMP-capable, has dual 10/100 ethernet, and supports RAID0/1 (IDE or SCSI) internally. I can run almost any OS on it, and we came out with it almost 6 months before Dell started advertising their 1U rack server.
The software contract for $95mil is suspicious, but I have to agree with you: 5 people can't support an entire state IT system. The auditor's numbers do not stand up under scrutiny.
1,800 Intel processors, eh! Damn, I can't think of a MS O/S that will run on it. Maybe it's because MS doesn't have a truly scalable O/S. Yah, yah, cheap shot.
Yah, because they need the horsepower to run solitaire...
"And in some techie circles, it has caused great excitement because it runs on Linux, the renegade operating system that many techies worship."
If that doesn't sum it up then I don't know what does. The author had a slight bias.
That IS the meaning of life: "don't use recursion". Pretty deep, eh.
Why are so many people thinking of algorithms in terms of precise computations and, more literally, formulas? How about the Scientific Method as an algorithm? Without it, much of modern technology and science would be lost.
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