It's bad enough to read all the claptrap, half-truths and 'M$' FUD in comments splattered all over almost every single Slashdot story, but for the "editors" to allow that to make it to the front page in such a crass way is really amazing.
I think most people who read Slashodt are at least half-intelligent sentient beings. Most can tell FUD from truth. When criticism of Microsoft is called for and valid, fine. But this sort of thing is starting to get tiresome: bashing the Evil Empire for the sake of bashing. No more, no less. And on the fucking front page, with the tacit approval and blessing of the "editors".
A "news organization", if nothing else, has to maintain a modicum of impartiality. At the very least, please keep the garbage in the comments where it belongs, right next to the goatse and fecal trolls.
And I'll repeat something I read here once: The twig can only bend so much before breaking. Keep this up and Slashdot will be reduced to nothing more than a quivering hysterical mass of negative trolls whose only purpose in life is to attack someone else instead of celebrating what's good about the culture that spawned it.
I disagree. All things being equal, it pretty much comes down to developer productivity and costs (development costs and operational costs). The benchmarks really don't show how well any of the solutions scale - for example, you can use MS Application Center to create clusters with up to 32 boxes and serve your apps from them. I don't know how well Java can scale, either.
Corporations put this sort of thing waaay down in the priority list when making decisions about which technology to go with, trust me.
So essentially this boils down to actually, that thing we said was killer in fact sucks, so your comparison is unfair. We also ain't fixing it, so there.
I mean, "...excessive exception handling"? WTF?
This only underscores the by now expected knee-jerk reaction these types of pissing contests bring. There's always some expert who can refute every single point of the whitepaper, who in turns gets dissected by someone else ad nauseaum.
In the end it's never been about benchmarks or raw speed. It's about how productive you can be writing these applications, time to "market" and total cost. It doesn't matter if J2EE is 14.3% faster than.NET or viceversa.
d00d, you've obviously never purchased or had to deal with enforcement of enterprise-scale software licenses. What makes you think that at that level Sun's or Oracle's licensing practices are any different from Microsoft's?
Someone please explain how Oracle, Novell, Sun or CA would just sit there and go "oh, look. KMart is tranferring $XX millions of dollars worth of our enterprise software to who-knows-who. Oh well. Let's go get a bagel".
Also, how this move from 'M$' is the only thing screwing KMart since it's clear that everyone and their mother wants a piece of the sale.
Otherwise, please create a new/. section called "Gratuitous FUD" and post this there instead. k? thx.
The guy came in, connected the modem, called in the serial number and waited for it to "find" itself in the network and make sure the diagnostics were OK.
Then he suggested installation of his crapware, so I politely declined and asked if they used DHCP. "Yes" he said. Thankyouverymuch, have a nice day. He did give me a spare CAT5 cable, which was kinda nice of him.
After he left I plugged in my router, configured it and obtained the IP address and DNS servers, and then connected the other boxes to the router. Voila.
I don't believe the company can *force* you to install anything. I think they mostly have their own software so they can help non-technical users solve problems and lower their support costs (I remember browsing the old @Home CD and seeing a crapload of diagnostic utilities). But if you're clueless about how to set up your OS of choice to work with the thing then you can hardly complain, eh?
That's nice, but you also can't spell worth a shit.
So please remove that penguin from your ass and try to post again. This time, boot into your pirated copy of Windows 3.1 and use Word's spell checker, fer fucks sake.
You miserable fuckhead. No, this is not a "somewhat related note". No, it wasn't Microsoft that brought down the darling of Slashdot, Lik-Sang (whatever the fuck).
Just for a moment, for a single solitary fucking second, remove your head from your rectum and think. How the fuck is The Evil Empire supposed to force RCA to plaster 'XBox' on a TV?
OK, I don't want to troll here... or something. But... the movie... isn't that voice the same that used to do the "descriptions" for bad 70's porno films from Sweden?
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That's very interesting indeed. Now we get to the meat, eh?
Please provide spacific examples of how my freedoms are being abridged and limited, and how Microsoft owns my computer(s). Please, be specific and don't rely on what you've "heard" here in Slashdot since that's about as balanced and valid as sexual guidance from the Vatican.
That's nice. But "well, as far as I'm concerned" doesn't either validate your point or make it any more, well, relevant.
You seem to think that because you have figured out how to have beautiful fonts in Linux then ergo, Windows sucks and is not necessary. That's kind of a stretch, mmm?
Also, the "well, if I want them or not blah blah blah" choice (and I use the term lightly since I can't imagine myself thinking "hey, I want my apps to look crappy!") is pretty fucking irrelevant to the topic. I don't give a shit if you can do something like '#fontometric -i -r00 -l -pr3 -tti -font' or some such weird incantation to reach anti-aliasing Nirvana. If it doesn't do it out of the god damn box then it's pretty much useless.
Being forced to put up with someone else's choices
Spare me the communist claptrap bud.
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I did read it. And so your point is that if I accept the EULA I'm "pathetic"?
I guess stealing fonts from Microsoft so that you can have a decent-looking OS is heroic.
And please don't give me the stupid "M$ is evil" spiel. It's as tired as a hooker at a GeekWorld convention.
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Why in the nether fucking hell would I want to use the GPL? What's the point?
Go ahead and tell us why it's hilarious. Come on, we're waiting.
I think most people who read Slashodt are at least half-intelligent sentient beings. Most can tell FUD from truth. When criticism of Microsoft is called for and valid, fine. But this sort of thing is starting to get tiresome: bashing the Evil Empire for the sake of bashing. No more, no less. And on the fucking front page, with the tacit approval and blessing of the "editors".
A "news organization", if nothing else, has to maintain a modicum of impartiality. At the very least, please keep the garbage in the comments where it belongs, right next to the goatse and fecal trolls.
And I'll repeat something I read here once: The twig can only bend so much before breaking. Keep this up and Slashdot will be reduced to nothing more than a quivering hysterical mass of negative trolls whose only purpose in life is to attack someone else instead of celebrating what's good about the culture that spawned it.
It would have to be... you'd be hard pressed to connect the entire British empire with a puny 5,500km cable.
OTOH, the thought of that fat pipe moving *more* spam is scary.
Corporations put this sort of thing waaay down in the priority list when making decisions about which technology to go with, trust me.
I mean, "...excessive exception handling"? WTF?
This only underscores the by now expected knee-jerk reaction these types of pissing contests bring. There's always some expert who can refute every single point of the whitepaper, who in turns gets dissected by someone else ad nauseaum.
In the end it's never been about benchmarks or raw speed. It's about how productive you can be writing these applications, time to "market" and total cost. It doesn't matter if J2EE is 14.3% faster than .NET or viceversa.
I can put DOS 6.0 and Norton Commander in a 1.4MB floppy... that would be roughly equivalent to your "kernel on a floppy", wouldn't it?
You are so 1337! I bet supermodels line up to have your babies!
d00d, you've obviously never purchased or had to deal with enforcement of enterprise-scale software licenses. What makes you think that at that level Sun's or Oracle's licensing practices are any different from Microsoft's?
Perhaps the FUD is getting to you, mmmm?
I'm taking bets on who will give a fuck about your inane and retarded comments. Any takers?
Also, how this move from 'M$' is the only thing screwing KMart since it's clear that everyone and their mother wants a piece of the sale.
Otherwise, please create a new /. section called "Gratuitous FUD" and post this there instead. k? thx.
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Quality?
Then he suggested installation of his crapware, so I politely declined and asked if they used DHCP. "Yes" he said. Thankyouverymuch, have a nice day. He did give me a spare CAT5 cable, which was kinda nice of him.
After he left I plugged in my router, configured it and obtained the IP address and DNS servers, and then connected the other boxes to the router. Voila.
I don't believe the company can *force* you to install anything. I think they mostly have their own software so they can help non-technical users solve problems and lower their support costs (I remember browsing the old @Home CD and seeing a crapload of diagnostic utilities). But if you're clueless about how to set up your OS of choice to work with the thing then you can hardly complain, eh?
So please remove that penguin from your ass and try to post again. This time, boot into your pirated copy of Windows 3.1 and use Word's spell checker, fer fucks sake.
Just for a moment, for a single solitary fucking second, remove your head from your rectum and think. How the fuck is The Evil Empire supposed to force RCA to plaster 'XBox' on a TV?
C'mon fucktard, enlighten us. Please.
No, not really. Why, you got milk?
OK, I don't want to troll here... or something. But... the movie... isn't that voice the same that used to do the "descriptions" for bad 70's porno films from Sweden?
Please provide spacific examples of how my freedoms are being abridged and limited, and how Microsoft owns my computer(s). Please, be specific and don't rely on what you've "heard" here in Slashdot since that's about as balanced and valid as sexual guidance from the Vatican.
Breathlessly awaiting your insight.
Buy a one-way plane ticket to Aruba and use it with alacrity.
Well, we know what *someone* was thinking, don't we?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You seem to think that because you have figured out how to have beautiful fonts in Linux then ergo, Windows sucks and is not necessary. That's kind of a stretch, mmm?
Also, the "well, if I want them or not blah blah blah" choice (and I use the term lightly since I can't imagine myself thinking "hey, I want my apps to look crappy!") is pretty fucking irrelevant to the topic. I don't give a shit if you can do something like '#fontometric -i -r00 -l -pr3 -tti -font' or some such weird incantation to reach anti-aliasing Nirvana. If it doesn't do it out of the god damn box then it's pretty much useless.
Being forced to put up with someone else's choices
Spare me the communist claptrap bud.
I guess stealing fonts from Microsoft so that you can have a decent-looking OS is heroic.
And please don't give me the stupid "M$ is evil" spiel. It's as tired as a hooker at a GeekWorld convention.
Who the fuck cares.