Isn't windows supposed to work with 3rd party party apps? If so, then msft can't excuse msie security flaws because users dared to use a 3rd party app.
It's a fact that Ross Perot was/is a psycho? I've heard this many times, but nobody has ever offered an expanation as to exactly what was so insane about Perot.
I'll ask again: what makes you think Perot is insane? What idea did Perot propose that are so crazy?
I guess that would explain how he got so much done. Remember the episode of Seinfield where George Crastansa decides to stop thinking about sex, and becomes some great intellectual?
But, if you want to record broadcasted music into a mp3 file, wouldn't it make more sense to rig your computer to record music being broadcast over the internet?
In fact, aren't there services that will broadcast songs at your request? I suppose you could record whatever songs you wanted with a service like that.
A) Stolen B) Communism C) Cancer D) Terrorism E) Un-American F) Destructive to US jobs G) Destructive to US competitive advantage H) Non-standard I) Inferior technology J) Has a higher cost of Ownership H) Anything other negative msft can imagine
Whatever your answer, please send money to msft.
BTW: I think msft has accused F/OSS of being all of the above.
A series of hurricans hit the same area about 40 years ago. According to some weather scientist I saw on TV, it's a normal pattern. We can expect the same thing in another 40 years.
Clearly, the future will be a guys paradise. Woman will all be engineered to have great boobs. Everybody will dress alike, no need for fashion. Guys will spend their time in hot-rod spaceships shooting lazers at one another.
I use debian. I'm one of those weirdos who uses linux, but I don't worship every aspect of linux.
I don't want a distro just for me because that sort of thinking slows linux adoption, especially on the desktop. As it is, few desktop developers want to bother with an OS that has about 1% of the market. Then you take that 1%, and fragment that with 200 distros and a dozen different windows managers, and the situation becomes hopeless.
I've worked in IT for 24 years. But, I can't say I've seen it all.
FWIW: in my experience, *NIX pros usually cost more, but you usually get more. *NIX people tend to be more "gear heads" they understanding networking, security, and computer technology, at a deeper level. *NIX people are usually comfortable on a command line (I know windows vets with 10+ years experience who are uncomfortable with *any* CLI). *NIX admins usually know at least a little about configuring routers, and writing scripts, and programming in C. *NIX admins can usually administrate windows systems, but windows only types are often lost on *NIX.
A lot of windows-only types got in during the late 90s as easy way to make a buck. They have no real love for the technology. *NIX types tend to be the "real geeks."
As I said, that's just from my experience, your milage may vary.
Lots of people use Win98 or NT4. Fair to say most people keep their OS about four years?
A lot of linux advocates try to make a BFD about the expense involved with using windows. Usually using such funny math as: XP at $300 + MS-Office at $350, etc. But, you can run OpenOffice on XP just as easially as Linux.
I don't know about Russia, but here in the USA, $20 is nothing. I spend that on lunch. I bet a lot of linux advocates spend more than $20 a year on linux.
There may be good reasons to use instead of windows, but price isn't one of them.
Tradition big-iron achieves redundancy at the component level, i.e.two stripes of mirrored drives. Also, hot-upgrading can be achieved at the component level: pull memory, put in a new card while the system is running.
With PCs, you get the same redundancy and ability to upgrade, but it's done at the system level. Cheap servers mirror each other, you have system level redundancy. Pull one server off the network, and the backup server takes over.
Just two different ways to accomplish the same thing. But the PC way is much cheaper. You can get a decent PC for under $500.
>>when they have ZERO history of pulling that sort of crap.
Maybe you aren't aware of sunw financially supporting the scox-scam? Do you remember how secretive sunw tried to be about it? How about when McNeally was parroting McBride? Or how about McNeally making his smug comments about having the only legal linux? Or how about sunw helping msft set things up so that msft can sue OpenOffice users?
Pffft. The economy colasped during during the end of the Clinton administration. GWB *did* inherit the recession. During Clinton, NAZ went from over 5000 to under 1650.
So please, stop this none-sense that Clinton was some kind of economic miracle worker. He wasn't. Most the Clinton era prosperety came from the internet bubble. Which means false prosperety.
GWB certainly could have done better. But let's keep things in perspective.
Sunw just thinks that Linux should know it's place. Which - according to sunw - is on the desktop, competing with msft. Sunw has specifically stated this.
Notice the name of Sunw's Linux? "Java Desktop" ? It has nothing to do with Java, but sunw thinks Java = Sunw. And notice it's only "desktop" there is no "Java Server".
>>How many commercial linux systems out there scale to above 64 processors
And how many companies really need that? That is nothing but a tiny niche market. Even in that that tiny niche market sunw pust must compete with IBM, HPQ, and SGI. And it won't be long before Linux catches up.
If I was a software developer, I wouldn't want to go anywhere near that code. You can be sure that anybody who views this code will no longer be able to work in software development. After you view that code anything you write that works with msft files, will be considered a stolen idea.
>>If anything, Gates drove a company that put computer science on the map.
Okay, let's see just what msft invented for the PC:
First PC: no First widely used PC: no Hardware: no - ibm 16-bit OS: no - no msft bought it 32-bit OS: no - no: x86 *way* late GUI: no - apple LAN: no - novell wordprocessor: no - wordstar(?) spreadsheet: no - visicalc database: no - dBase(?) email: no internet access: no
Contrast this to Apple:
First practical PC First practical GUI Ran the first practical application: visicalc First widely used 32-bit PC OS?
BTW: I am no fan of apple, I use a PC with linux and win2k partitions. But I like to give credit where it's due.
>To me the recession seemed to follow the election's outcome quite fittingly.
Except the recession didn't "follow" the election. Hint: Nasdaq fell from over 5000 to under 1650 during the end of the Clinton administration.
>I've lived in third-world countries enough to know that the very poor are kept in poverty by the very wealthy -- who hold, not just most of the wealth, but most of the power.
Oh I see, so if it happens in the 3rd world, then obviously the exact same thing must be happening in the USA. In spite of the fact that the USA has a completely different economic and political systems, and completely different results.
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Isn't windows supposed to work with 3rd party party apps? If so, then msft can't excuse msie security flaws because users dared to use a 3rd party app.
P.J. O'Rourke is a libertarian, and he used to be hilarious. Try reading "Parlament of Whores."
If only for the sake of amusement, I would have found this much more interesting if they explained why being an IT manager is so bad.
>>and the fact that he's a psycho
It's a fact that Ross Perot was/is a psycho? I've heard this many times, but nobody has ever offered an expanation as to exactly what was so insane about Perot.
I'll ask again: what makes you think Perot is insane? What idea did Perot propose that are so crazy?
Thank you.
>>It's said that he died a virgin
I guess that would explain how he got so much done. Remember the episode of Seinfield where George Crastansa decides to stop thinking about sex, and becomes some great intellectual?
I don't know how all this works.
But, if you want to record broadcasted music into a mp3 file, wouldn't it make more sense to rig your computer to record music being broadcast over the internet?
In fact, aren't there services that will broadcast songs at your request? I suppose you could record whatever songs you wanted with a service like that.
From what I've seen. I also find PHP more readable. I think Perl has better pattern matching and string handling.
Just my $0.02. I'm not an expert in either.
Please chose all that apply:
A) Stolen
B) Communism
C) Cancer
D) Terrorism
E) Un-American
F) Destructive to US jobs
G) Destructive to US competitive advantage
H) Non-standard
I) Inferior technology
J) Has a higher cost of Ownership
H) Anything other negative msft can imagine
Whatever your answer, please send money to msft.
BTW: I think msft has accused F/OSS of being all of the above.
A series of hurricans hit the same area about 40 years ago. According to some weather scientist I saw on TV, it's a normal pattern. We can expect the same thing in another 40 years.
Clearly, the future will be a guys paradise. Woman will all be engineered to have great boobs. Everybody will dress alike, no need for fashion. Guys will spend their time in hot-rod spaceships shooting lazers at one another.
I use debian. I'm one of those weirdos who uses linux, but I don't worship every aspect of linux.
I don't want a distro just for me because that sort of thinking slows linux adoption, especially on the desktop. As it is, few desktop developers want to bother with an OS that has about 1% of the market. Then you take that 1%, and fragment that with 200 distros and a dozen different windows managers, and the situation becomes hopeless.
I've worked in IT for 24 years. But, I can't say I've seen it all.
FWIW: in my experience, *NIX pros usually cost more, but you usually get more. *NIX people tend to be more "gear heads" they understanding networking, security, and computer technology, at a deeper level. *NIX people are usually comfortable on a command line (I know windows vets with 10+ years experience who are uncomfortable with *any* CLI). *NIX admins usually know at least a little about configuring routers, and writing scripts, and programming in C. *NIX admins can usually administrate windows systems, but windows only types are often lost on *NIX.
A lot of windows-only types got in during the late 90s as easy way to make a buck. They have no real love for the technology. *NIX types tend to be the "real geeks."
As I said, that's just from my experience, your milage may vary.
Lots of people use Win98 or NT4. Fair to say most people keep their OS about four years?
A lot of linux advocates try to make a BFD about the expense involved with using windows. Usually using such funny math as: XP at $300 + MS-Office at $350, etc. But, you can run OpenOffice on XP just as easially as Linux.
I don't know about Russia, but here in the USA, $20 is nothing. I spend that on lunch. I bet a lot of linux advocates spend more than $20 a year on linux.
There may be good reasons to use instead of windows, but price isn't one of them.
As I understand it:
Tradition big-iron achieves redundancy at the component level, i.e.two stripes of mirrored drives. Also, hot-upgrading can be achieved at the component level: pull memory, put in a new card while the system is running.
With PCs, you get the same redundancy and ability to upgrade, but it's done at the system level. Cheap servers mirror each other, you have system level redundancy. Pull one server off the network, and the backup server takes over.
Just two different ways to accomplish the same thing. But the PC way is much cheaper. You can get a decent PC for under $500.
>>when they have ZERO history of pulling that sort of crap.
Maybe you aren't aware of sunw financially supporting the scox-scam? Do you remember how secretive sunw tried to be about it? How about when McNeally was parroting McBride? Or how about McNeally making his smug comments about having the only legal linux? Or how about sunw helping msft set things up so that msft can sue OpenOffice users?
As it is, there are only about 200 linux distrobutions, and there must be 400 people who use linux. Obviously we need way more distros.
The linux community will not be happy until Linux is hopelessly fragmented. So, they're pretty close to being happy, but not quite.
Pffft. The economy colasped during during the end of the Clinton administration. GWB *did* inherit the recession. During Clinton, NAZ went from over 5000 to under 1650.
So please, stop this none-sense that Clinton was some kind of economic miracle worker. He wasn't. Most the Clinton era prosperety came from the internet bubble. Which means false prosperety.
GWB certainly could have done better. But let's keep things in perspective.
BTW: yes, I'm the same guy from yahoo.
Sunw just thinks that Linux should know it's place. Which - according to sunw - is on the desktop, competing with msft. Sunw has specifically stated this.
Notice the name of Sunw's Linux? "Java Desktop" ? It has nothing to do with Java, but sunw thinks Java = Sunw. And notice it's only "desktop" there is no "Java Server".
>>How many commercial linux systems out there scale to above 64 processors
And how many companies really need that? That is nothing but a tiny niche market. Even in that that tiny niche market sunw pust must compete with IBM, HPQ, and SGI. And it won't be long before Linux catches up.
But closer to evil, IMO. To me, it seems mean to invade somebody's privacy like that.
But, I'm from a different era. Civility still existed when I was growing up. I can't seem to shake those antiquated ideas.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
If I was a software developer, I wouldn't want to go anywhere near that code. You can be sure that anybody who views this code will no longer be able to work in software development. After you view that code anything you write that works with msft files, will be considered a stolen idea.
Besides, who needs it?
I think it has already happened. I can't remember the names of the sites; but there are some sites where consultants bid on IT jobs.
It's a joke. These guys are bidding down to $5 an hour.
>>If anything, Gates drove a company that put computer science on the map.
Okay, let's see just what msft invented for the PC:
First PC: no
First widely used PC: no
Hardware: no - ibm
16-bit OS: no - no msft bought it
32-bit OS: no - no: x86 *way* late
GUI: no - apple
LAN: no - novell
wordprocessor: no - wordstar(?)
spreadsheet: no - visicalc
database: no - dBase(?)
email: no
internet access: no
Contrast this to Apple:
First practical PC
First practical GUI
Ran the first practical application: visicalc
First widely used 32-bit PC OS?
BTW: I am no fan of apple, I use a PC with linux and win2k partitions. But I like to give credit where it's due.
Should individuals not go into IT? If in IT, sould they look to get out? Are some IT fields safer than others?
BTW: In deference to the article, I don't consider this to be a temporary setback.
>To me the recession seemed to follow the election's outcome quite fittingly.
Except the recession didn't "follow" the election. Hint: Nasdaq fell from over 5000 to under 1650 during the end of the Clinton administration.
>I've lived in third-world countries enough to know that the very poor are kept in poverty by the very wealthy -- who hold, not just most of the wealth, but most of the power.
Oh I see, so if it happens in the 3rd world, then obviously the exact same thing must be happening in the USA. In spite of the fact that the USA has a completely different economic and political systems, and completely different results.