I disagree. In 1988, IBM was trying to gain some control over the monster it had created by collaborating on OS/2. It didn't work. Gates realized that control of the desktop API was MS's biggest asset so he canned the IBM deal and launched the NT project.
Gates was right, but he did overestimate the importance of the API. He thought that he could beat the Internet with a proprietary MSWindows network. It took several years for him to realize his mistake, bundle TCP/IP and embrace the Net. They used their desktop monopoly to promote IE to dominance of the WWW. Then they tried to turn the Web inside-out with various tricks like Active-X.
MS cannot be crushed, but IMO they are likely to self-destruct. I hope we're witnessing that now.
We can't stop them from stealing what they want from us, but we can surely stop them from trading inside our borders. And to a lesser extent, fuck Japan and the EU. We should simply deduct what they've stolen from our debts and keep our business to ourselves. We should do this while we still have the power to blow them off the face of the Earth.
Bushco notwithstanding, the USA is the best country on Earth and we should start acting like it.
I'm sure some pinko with mod points will mod me troll, but no true American will.
I don't know how much money this woman has, but $222k would hurt me in such a big way I'd be tempted to invest in S&W and take a joy ride out to L.A. where murderers go free.
The biggest memory leak does not show up in firefox itself. It shows up in the X process:
TIME+ PID USER CODE VIRT SWAP RES SHR S %CPU %MEM P COMMAND
391:42.00 30262 root 1712 864m 481m 383m 5636 R 20.5 38.0 0 X:0 -auth/home/me/.serverauth.30245
19:54.97 5473 me 9.9m 350m 202m 148m 18m S 0.0 14.7 0 firefox/firefox-bin
xrestop shows this:
res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
3600000 295 62 1 2664 119 621592K 12K 621604K ? Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks - Mozilla Firefox
In other words, X has over 600MB of memory holding pixmaps for firefox. This grows every time I open a page/tab with images in it.
Closing pages/tabs does not free the memory from X, nor does lowering firefox's various cache settings in the preferences dialog and about:config. Quiting firefox causes X to release the memory. I have to do this at least once a week.
"I'm talking about operating systems that people actually use(d)."
What is that supposed to mean? Are you telling me that I didn't buy a Dell 386 with Unix back in 1989? Was I the only one?
The fact that few people used it compared to the offerings of monopolist MS is irrelevant. If you want to ignore A/UX and put Apple behind MS, then so be it. The fact remains that MS was very late in putting a real OS on the 386.
They beat Apple? Apple had A/UX before MS had NT. The founder of Apple had Next well before NT.
And why do choose Apple as "the one to beat". Bill and Lynn Jolitz had BSD running on the 386 long before MS came to the game. Ever hear of an ATT 3B2? DEC sold VMS running on microVAX in 1984. Those are just examples of what already existed on micros. Even in the day of discrete component CPUs, you could get a proper OS for cheap 8-bit hardware.
What is this so-called reality you're trying to inject? Do some research before you speak of things which you obviously know very little about.
Circa 2001, many people said the browser wars are over and MS has won. They were wrong. The browser wars ended when the majority of websites realized that they can't be MS-only. That's when legitimate competitors like Opera reappeared. IMO, what we have now is healthy competition, although MS certainly retains the ability to wield unfair power over the WWW.
MS claims to have paved the way for Google, yet their initial goal was to make the Internet irrelevant with "The Microsoft Network". Ever since they embraced the Net, they've been creating speedbumps, potholes and tollbooths. In my estimation they have set the computing world back at least a decade from where it could have been without them.
Just look at how late they were in offering a memory-protected multitasking OS. How many years were lost fighting "The browser wars"? How many good software companies have been destroyed by their predatory practices? How many serious security problems did they fail to address? How much extra hardware has been deployed in order to cope with the inefficiencies of MSWindows? How much data is locked away in their proprietary formats?
The one that let MS off the hook with a slap on the wrist? The one whose head just stepped down in disgrace? Yeah, I believe their findings. I also believe I'm married to Morgan Fairchild.
The Bush administration and Microsoft Corporation are both rotten.
He licked my bag last night pre-flight Queero hour for a trans And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I urinate so much I'll need depends My ass is dressed in lace On such a shameless flight
And I think we're gonna screw for a long time Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the girl they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket girl Rocket girl burning out her fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to fondle kids My dick is cold as hell And there's nothing like Uranus if you did And all these morals I don't understand Just a blow job for a freak A rocket girl, a rocket girl
And the only contracts that are enforceable are the ones that don't contain unconscionable clauses like the one in question here. It's not even reasonable to expect a person to read a contract like this.
Your use of the term "blind masses" shows a contempt for democracy. ATT and their lawyers tried to put the corporation above the law and they failed. They should have skipped some of their legal schooling and taken a course in decency.
"his unscrupulous attempts to capitalize off of September 11th"
It couldn't have worked out better for him if he had planned it. I think he did plan it, or at least purposely ignore information that could have prevented it. God speaks to him and assures him that the ends will justify the means. He's a weak person under the control of evil puppeteers Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
The problem with all of that is that it means that the insurer and government gets to know everything about you.
Here in Massachusetts, we are now REQUIRED to buy health insurance. Can't afford it? Sell your house. Religiously opposed to medical treatment? Too bad, pay anyway. You smoke? Ski? Power walk on heavily traveled roads? You're a bad risk, pay us more.
Stay in your house, ride your exercycle, eat everything mayor bloomberg tells you too and be a good consumer and taxpayer. And oh yeah, when you live to be 100, we won't have any money to support your health anyway.
FUCK THAT! They told me America is great because it's free. They are damned liars. People should get their exercise by kicking insurance CEO's and politicians in the ass. Live long and slowly if that's what you want, but leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
"And are the concrete blocks falling down because the general design was crap, or was it because the original engineering wasn't followed?"
The engineers said "Use this glue" and the constructors said "Glue? To hang tons of concrete? Wtf?" It's all documented and the NTSB investigation blames the engineering.
"That the implementation was crap doesn't mean the engineering wasn't a marvel."
You can ask someone to polish a turd, but it's still gonna be a turd.
I took exception to the way the OP referred to MIT as an engineering school down the road from Harvard. It's an old line and it generally comes from people who are trying a little too hard to not *appear* presumptuous.
There's nothing marvelous about the big dig. It may contain some good engineering, but on the whole it's a giant sucking vortex. Other roads in the state are being neglected because so much money was wasted on that ill-conceived project.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene is massively parallel. z series mainframes are not.
"IBM could have crushed them 20 years ago."
I disagree. In 1988, IBM was trying to gain some control over the monster it had created by collaborating on OS/2. It didn't work. Gates realized that control of the desktop API was MS's biggest asset so he canned the IBM deal and launched the NT project.
Gates was right, but he did overestimate the importance of the API. He thought that he could beat the Internet with a proprietary MSWindows network. It took several years for him to realize his mistake, bundle TCP/IP and embrace the Net. They used their desktop monopoly to promote IE to dominance of the WWW. Then they tried to turn the Web inside-out with various tricks like Active-X.
MS cannot be crushed, but IMO they are likely to self-destruct. I hope we're witnessing that now.
GWB: We been attacked by a guy in a towel. Go kill people in towels.
Army: Duh, OK boss.
And I'm the simpleton?
Just remember that he works for George W. Bush. Then decide how to treat him.
We can't stop them from stealing what they want from us, but we can surely stop them from trading inside our borders. And to a lesser extent, fuck Japan and the EU. We should simply deduct what they've stolen from our debts and keep our business to ourselves. We should do this while we still have the power to blow them off the face of the Earth.
Bushco notwithstanding, the USA is the best country on Earth and we should start acting like it.
I'm sure some pinko with mod points will mod me troll, but no true American will.
I don't know how much money this woman has, but $222k would hurt me in such a big way I'd be tempted to invest in S&W and take a joy ride out to L.A. where murderers go free.
The biggest memory leak does not show up in firefox itself. It shows up in the X process:
:0 -auth /home/me/.serverauth.30245
TIME+ PID USER CODE VIRT SWAP RES SHR S %CPU %MEM P COMMAND
391:42.00 30262 root 1712 864m 481m 383m 5636 R 20.5 38.0 0 X
19:54.97 5473 me 9.9m 350m 202m 148m 18m S 0.0 14.7 0 firefox/firefox-bin
xrestop shows this:
res-base Wins GCs Fnts Pxms Misc Pxm mem Other Total PID Identifier
3600000 295 62 1 2664 119 621592K 12K 621604K ? Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks - Mozilla Firefox
In other words, X has over 600MB of memory holding pixmaps for firefox. This grows every time I open a page/tab with images in it.
Closing pages/tabs does not free the memory from X, nor does lowering firefox's various cache settings in the preferences dialog and about:config. Quiting firefox causes X to release the memory. I have to do this at least once a week.
"I'm talking about operating systems that people actually use(d)."
What is that supposed to mean? Are you telling me that I didn't buy a Dell 386 with Unix back in 1989? Was I the only one?
The fact that few people used it compared to the offerings of monopolist MS is irrelevant. If you want to ignore A/UX and put Apple behind MS, then so be it. The fact remains that MS was very late in putting a real OS on the 386.
They beat Apple? Apple had A/UX before MS had NT. The founder of Apple had Next well before NT.
And why do choose Apple as "the one to beat". Bill and Lynn Jolitz had BSD running on the 386 long before MS came to the game. Ever hear of an ATT 3B2? DEC sold VMS running on microVAX in 1984. Those are just examples of what already existed on micros. Even in the day of discrete component CPUs, you could get a proper OS for cheap 8-bit hardware.
What is this so-called reality you're trying to inject? Do some research before you speak of things which you obviously know very little about.
I guess it depends on how you define "war".
Circa 2001, many people said the browser wars are over and MS has won. They were wrong. The browser wars ended when the majority of websites realized that they can't be MS-only. That's when legitimate competitors like Opera reappeared. IMO, what we have now is healthy competition, although MS certainly retains the ability to wield unfair power over the WWW.
You're absolutely right.
MS claims to have paved the way for Google, yet their initial goal was to make the Internet irrelevant with "The Microsoft Network". Ever since they embraced the Net, they've been creating speedbumps, potholes and tollbooths. In my estimation they have set the computing world back at least a decade from where it could have been without them.
Just look at how late they were in offering a memory-protected multitasking OS. How many years were lost fighting "The browser wars"? How many good software companies have been destroyed by their predatory practices? How many serious security problems did they fail to address? How much extra hardware has been deployed in order to cope with the inefficiencies of MSWindows? How much data is locked away in their proprietary formats?
It is different. It scales the height of the collective French ego.
And you sir have a well deserved /. nick!!!
The one that let MS off the hook with a slap on the wrist? The one whose head just stepped down in disgrace? Yeah, I believe their findings. I also believe I'm married to Morgan Fairchild.
The Bush administration and Microsoft Corporation are both rotten.
He licked my bag last night pre-flight
Queero hour for a trans
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I urinate so much I'll need depends
My ass is dressed in lace
On such a shameless flight
And I think we're gonna screw for a long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the girl they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket girl
Rocket girl burning out her fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to fondle kids
My dick is cold as hell
And there's nothing like Uranus if you did
And all these morals I don't understand
Just a blow job for a freak
A rocket girl, a rocket girl
And I think we're gonna screw for a long time...
pigs
And the only contracts that are enforceable are the ones that don't contain unconscionable clauses like the one in question here. It's not even reasonable to expect a person to read a contract like this.
Your use of the term "blind masses" shows a contempt for democracy. ATT and their lawyers tried to put the corporation above the law and they failed. They should have skipped some of their legal schooling and taken a course in decency.
"his unscrupulous attempts to capitalize off of September 11th"
It couldn't have worked out better for him if he had planned it. I think he did plan it, or at least purposely ignore information that could have prevented it. God speaks to him and assures him that the ends will justify the means. He's a weak person under the control of evil puppeteers Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
I feel a draft.
You are in Room # 12
Tunnels lead to 3,11,13
M$ will just buy more pawns.
"I don't think Novell has anything to gain from it."
Novell is Microsoft's bitch now. Does MS haev anything to gain by killing Solaris?
They Call Him Flipper! Flipper!
Faster than lightning!
No one you see, is smarter than he!
And we know Flipper
Lives in a world full of wonder,
Lying there under, under the sea!
Everyone loves the King of the Sea
Ever so kind and gentle is he....
The problem with all of that is that it means that the insurer and government gets to know everything about you.
Here in Massachusetts, we are now REQUIRED to buy health insurance. Can't afford it? Sell your house. Religiously opposed to medical treatment? Too bad, pay anyway. You smoke? Ski? Power walk on heavily traveled roads? You're a bad risk, pay us more.
Stay in your house, ride your exercycle, eat everything mayor bloomberg tells you too and be a good consumer and taxpayer. And oh yeah, when you live to be 100, we won't have any money to support your health anyway.
FUCK THAT! They told me America is great because it's free. They are damned liars. People should get their exercise by kicking insurance CEO's and politicians in the ass. Live long and slowly if that's what you want, but leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
"And are the concrete blocks falling down because the general design was crap, or was it because the original engineering wasn't followed?"
The engineers said "Use this glue" and the constructors said "Glue? To hang tons of concrete? Wtf?" It's all documented and the NTSB investigation blames the engineering.
"That the implementation was crap doesn't mean the engineering wasn't a marvel."
You can ask someone to polish a turd, but it's still gonna be a turd.
"You seem a little...tense."
I took exception to the way the OP referred to MIT as an engineering school down the road from Harvard. It's an old line and it generally comes from people who are trying a little too hard to not *appear* presumptuous.
There's nothing marvelous about the big dig. It may contain some good engineering, but on the whole it's a giant sucking vortex. Other roads in the state are being neglected because so much money was wasted on that ill-conceived project.