Maybe you should spend less time at Slashdot and more time looking for at least temporary job? "End it all" is an easy and irreversible solution. And dude, your wife sucks bigtime if she'll leave in a situation like this. Put your shit together! *
They'd better spend the money they pay their lawyers on schools, that don't get enough funding, or on some kind of medical research. There's no way in hell they can succeed. If you ask me, I think MS settlement is exactly what was needed to be done. Now flex your muscle, competition, and show Microsoft that you can not only litigate, but innovate, too. The truth is, Microsoft's stuff is 10 times better than competition, be it Office,.NET, Windows, XBox or whatever else they produce. I'll reinforce the point, it's 10 times better THAN THE COMPETITION offerings, however bad by itself it can be. *
You can learn C++ for years and then open a good book about it and understand that you still don't know SHIT. Don't agree? Buy yourself the following books: Effective C++ More Effective C++ Exceptional C++
I read these books to humiliate myself, and other people when I pull something that I read in them from my head and even the "experts" start talking crap.
The more you know, the better you understand how much more you don't know. *
MS were told to open the protocols to whomever wants to see them. They did EXACTLY what they've been told to do. You can come in tomorrow, sign the freakin' NDA, pay the freakin' fee and enjoy the bliss of opennes of protocols. IBM can do it. RH can do it. Even stinkin' Sun can do it. They have to pay, so what, developers don't work for free you know. Neither do testers and program managers.
I laughed to tears on the essays that they've published. Don't get me wrong, I sincerely condole with Americans, I lost a few friends in Russia just because they were glad about what happened, but some of you (meaning Americans) sound funny sometimes. Looks like you should be taught history better and brainwashed less. You, for example, keep forgetting that Osama Bin Laden was born, raised and funded by CIA. That Taliban regime in Afghanistan was a direct result of US intervention into USSR's military action against them. We (meaning Russians) were doing the same that the US did this year, the only difference that this year nobody was supporting taliban. If we supported them, you'd still be fighting.
And now these folks think that they can intervene freely into other countries' internal problems and declare war on whoever they want.
Again, don't get me wrong, what was done in Afghanistan was a right thing to do, unlike in many other places on this troubled planet where there was absolutely no need in US intervention.
And tying all this to Jews and Holocaust is FUCKING RIDICULOUS. I understand that Israel wanst to protect itself, but the kind of subliminal brainwash they're putting in the US press is just DISGUSTING. *
Argue with your deeds, not with your mouth. You were an employee, "won't bite the partners" clause was in your contract, you were warned several times. With all due respect, I have to ask: what kind of the dumb punk are you? You aren't the God, nor are you HPQ owner or major shareholder. Who are you to bite one of their biggest partnes? Linux advocate? Aw, come on, nobody gives a shit about Linux advocacy. NOBODY in the business world, that is. What people do give shit about is real solutions, because they speak for themselves. ESR, RS, Perens - who gives a shit, they talk too much. *
DOUBLE THE FREAKIN' DISPLAY RESOLUTION!!! I couldn't care less what operating system my PDA has, but if I can't confortably read from its screen - I WON'T BUY IT.
I owned an iPAQ. Fine piece of machinery, but the screen resolution was 320x240. Ebooks look like crap, text in general is hard to read (even with Clear Type which improves things a great deal).
Guys who design all this gear, please REALIZE - if it's hard to read off the device, it's not worth the money! If you want to improve the sales, double the screen resolution and leave screen size the same. This will enable crisp text and reduce the pixelization. Maybe some day people could read books and news off their Sharps and HPAQ's. *
Russia still has an autocratic government accountable to no one. And it's even more corrupted than it was (I'd say by a factor of 10). They can't also steal trade secrets anymore. Most of Russian software, processors and DSP's came right from Intelligence. Some space and military technologies, too. Heck, I was told by my university professor (in Russia) that we couldn't make our first military satellites because the technology was stolen and american ones used better components. We just didn't (and still don't) make components of such a high quality. *
And after that they're saying "there's no cult of personality".:0) I'm afraid there's nothing to be proud of. The entire "economic growth" was a situative thing caused by high oil prices. Putin has nothing to do with that. The decrease in taxes was purely populist. If you count all the taxes, still around 48% of your potential income goes to the government. The Russian economy is made for oil and gas companies and for them alone. Average business (we're not even talking about small business) can not survive in these conditions legally. 80% of businesses are not paying taxes in full and can be closed at any given moment by charging them with "tax escaping". Significant portion of the economy is in untracked cash. "Real" salaries are usually paid with untracked cash. Old people collect beer bottles from dumpsters. This list can go on and on and on. Sorry, I see no signs of recovery here.
Bullshit. The soviet days and the cult of personality are back. It was nauseating to see how people humiliate themselves by licking ass to Putin and whatever crap is behind him and whatever crap he supports. To see all these portraits and sculptures of him. To hear women who think this skinny and partially bald man with fish-like eyes is sexually appealing.
He's a former KGB agent, he's a man without rules and morals and now he's got the amout of power only Tzars have had. I'd bet this guy will change the constitution to rule some more. He's got a puppet parliament, he can do whatever he wants to and will still have 70% approval rating, because all this submissiveness is in genes of Russian people. It was cultivated by hundreds of years of tzarism with absolute power given to a few morons (just like now) and everybody else thinking this is a right thing and every word of these morons comes right from the God himself. As famous Russian poet Nekrasov said: "Slaves resemble dogs, the harder you beat them, the more they like you" (or in transliterated Russian "ljudi kholopskogo zvania - suschie psy inogda, chem tyazhelei nakazanie, tem im milei gospoda).
I recall Stalin has a tremendous approval rating, too. And nobody had read your mail unless there was a reason to do that (a neighbour who didn't like you, for example).
Heh. Why do you thing Putin had such a high approval rating? Because of Berezovsky-supported PR efforts, chechen war (_mostly_ because of it, because around 80% of Russia's population are racists) and the fact that he wasn't an alcoholic like Yeltsin was.
If you're Russian, you know that yourself.
As to "patriotic" FSB agents... NKVD and KGB agents were as patriotic as they are, maybe more, which didn't prevent them from killing millions of Russians back in thirties. "The goal justifies the methods" - this is their main principle of operation. And their goal isn't always what you think their goal is.
You don't even have to be in FAPSI to read my mail in Russia. Every motherfucker in gray uniform (policeman) can do that.
Guys, you don't even know what FSB is. It is, in fact, re-branded KGB. To give you some perspective, considerable percent of Russians thinks that those explosions in Moscow and other Russian cities were performed by FSB. And yes, there are some facts that say it might be true. For example this "training" in Ryazan, when police has found a bomb, and experts were shown on TV saying there were explosives, next day FSB comes into play and says it was sugar and these bombs were a "training" for police. Show me the expert in explosives who can't tell sugar from heavy explosives! Show me the the training when even the minister of internal affairs (in charge of police) doesn't know what's going on and says _on TV_ that a bomb was found!
Now to the FSB practices related to information. According to Russian laws, all ISPs have to implement a System for Operative Search Actions. Which basically means they have to provide network traffic and uncontrolled means of intercepting and invading any network activity that goes through them. In other words, FSB doesn't even have to get a warrant to read your mail, and the cost associated with these activities (ILLEGAL in USA) gets passed on you. You pay for your email being read by "men in gray".
Their charges against FBI agents (who did absolutely the right thing, IMO) are the worst case of hypocrisy I've seen in years.
Heck, for money it should not only be "done", but "well-tested" and "carefully wrapped". That's not something open source developers are very good at. My observation is that 98% of open source projects stall in beta- and alpha stages forever. Nobody's gonna pay the money for an alpha that crashes if you click the wrong submenu. *
Can you please show me something like massive migration of windows shops to Linux? It's UNIX shops that migrate. Scott McNealy should experience "mild case of indigestion", not Ballmer or Gates. More and more people pull the plug on old Sun servers and upgrade to racks of Compaq DL360's with linux on them.
Microsoft's primary cash cows are desktop OS'es, Office and Business apps. Linux is present in NONE of these areas (and don't expect it anytime soon).
>> $250 million seems a relatively small figure to me
A quarter billion bucks is nothing for this Yale dude.:0) Wow, now I understand what kind of deep-pocketed-parent kids study there.
No under-screen tablet? No thank you.
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They seem to be using old-timer touch screen technology. Microsoft Tablet PC (AFAIK) will use the tablet, similar to wacom tablets, placed under the screen. So you won't need to touch your freakin' screen and scratch it (unless you really want to), and you won't have to adjust positioning all the time. Hell, you'll be able to write on the screen as you write on paper (AT LAST!) and search handwritten text (and specify what you want to find in handwriting too). I've seen their demo. You just move your stylus over the screen and mouse pointer follows it.
Lemon laws require full refund by the seller if what he sold was a lemon. MS offers money back on all their products for as long as I can remember. Not sure about RH/SuSE/Whatever, never bought their stuff.
>> Anna Dirks, our UI designer, performed >> many dozens of usability tests on >> various parts of Evolution,
I just wonder what was the point of all that. Evolution UI is stolen from MS Outlook, and MS has already spent millions on usability studies for it. I think that overall GNOME usability study would be money better spent.
1. Telnet isn't evil if it's tunneled through an encrypted VPN connection which is a breeze to setup in Windows.
2. Unused parts of the operating system go to swap file in well-designed operating systems.
3. Terminal services are working fine via 56K analog modem VPN connection to corporate network. It's 256 colors, it's 800x600, but still, it works just freakin' fine. Recently I've helped my friend through Remote Assistance. The trick was that my friend was in Russia (33.6K connection) and I was in the US (768/128 DSL). And still I was able to use remote assistance (read: terminal server) on his PC. Ain't that cool?
AVP (www.avp.ru) is an excellent piece of antivirus software which beats both CA and Symantec shit hands down all over the Europe. I don't think they're bound by US laws, and, mind you, you're downloading your signature updates from Russia, so they aren't constrained by US laws either.
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Maybe you should spend less time at Slashdot and more time looking for at least temporary job? "End it all" is an easy and irreversible solution. And dude, your wife sucks bigtime if she'll leave in a situation like this. Put your shit together!
*
They'd better spend the money they pay their lawyers on schools, that don't get enough funding, or on some kind of medical research. There's no way in hell they can succeed. If you ask me, I think MS settlement is exactly what was needed to be done. Now flex your muscle, competition, and show Microsoft that you can not only litigate, but innovate, too. The truth is, Microsoft's stuff is 10 times better than competition, be it Office, .NET, Windows, XBox or whatever else they produce. I'll reinforce the point, it's 10 times better THAN THE COMPETITION offerings, however bad by itself it can be.
*
You can learn C++ for years and then open a good book about it and understand that you still don't know SHIT. Don't agree? Buy yourself the following books:
Effective C++
More Effective C++
Exceptional C++
I read these books to humiliate myself, and other people when I pull something that I read in them from my head and even the "experts" start talking crap.
The more you know, the better you understand how much more you don't know.
*
It's been 7 years after it was intoduced in Win95. Five more years and we'll get some working plug&play monitor support.
*
MS were told to open the protocols to whomever wants to see them. They did EXACTLY what they've been told to do. You can come in tomorrow, sign the freakin' NDA, pay the freakin' fee and enjoy the bliss of opennes of protocols. IBM can do it. RH can do it. Even stinkin' Sun can do it. They have to pay, so what, developers don't work for free you know. Neither do testers and program managers.
I laughed to tears on the essays that they've published. Don't get me wrong, I sincerely condole with Americans, I lost a few friends in Russia just because they were glad about what happened, but some of you (meaning Americans) sound funny sometimes. Looks like you should be taught history better and brainwashed less. You, for example, keep forgetting that Osama Bin Laden was born, raised and funded by CIA. That Taliban regime in Afghanistan was a direct result of US intervention into USSR's military action against them. We (meaning Russians) were doing the same that the US did this year, the only difference that this year nobody was supporting taliban. If we supported them, you'd still be fighting.
And now these folks think that they can intervene freely into other countries' internal problems and declare war on whoever they want.
Again, don't get me wrong, what was done in Afghanistan was a right thing to do, unlike in many other places on this troubled planet where there was absolutely no need in US intervention.
And tying all this to Jews and Holocaust is FUCKING RIDICULOUS. I understand that Israel wanst to protect itself, but the kind of subliminal brainwash they're putting in the US press is just DISGUSTING.
*
Argue with your deeds, not with your mouth. You were an employee, "won't bite the partners" clause was in your contract, you were warned several times. With all due respect, I have to ask: what kind of the dumb punk are you? You aren't the God, nor are you HPQ owner or major shareholder. Who are you to bite one of their biggest partnes? Linux advocate? Aw, come on, nobody gives a shit about Linux advocacy. NOBODY in the business world, that is. What people do give shit about is real solutions, because they speak for themselves. ESR, RS, Perens - who gives a shit, they talk too much.
*
DOUBLE THE FREAKIN' DISPLAY RESOLUTION!!! I couldn't care less what operating system my PDA has, but if I can't confortably read from its screen - I WON'T BUY IT.
I owned an iPAQ. Fine piece of machinery, but the screen resolution was 320x240. Ebooks look like crap, text in general is hard to read (even with Clear Type which improves things a great deal).
Guys who design all this gear, please REALIZE - if it's hard to read off the device, it's not worth the money! If you want to improve the sales, double the screen resolution and leave screen size the same. This will enable crisp text and reduce the pixelization. Maybe some day people could read books and news off their Sharps and HPAQ's.
*
Russia still has an autocratic government accountable to no one. And it's even more corrupted than it was (I'd say by a factor of 10). They can't also steal trade secrets anymore. Most of Russian software, processors and DSP's came right from Intelligence. Some space and military technologies, too. Heck, I was told by my university professor (in Russia) that we couldn't make our first military satellites because the technology was stolen and american ones used better components. We just didn't (and still don't) make components of such a high quality.
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Try updating Konqueror without shutting down KDE. :0)
Bruhahahaha!
And after that they're saying "there's no cult of personality". :0) I'm afraid there's nothing to be proud of. The entire "economic growth" was a situative thing caused by high oil prices. Putin has nothing to do with that. The decrease in taxes was purely populist. If you count all the taxes, still around 48% of your potential income goes to the government. The Russian economy is made for oil and gas companies and for them alone. Average business (we're not even talking about small business) can not survive in these conditions legally. 80% of businesses are not paying taxes in full and can be closed at any given moment by charging them with "tax escaping". Significant portion of the economy is in untracked cash. "Real" salaries are usually paid with untracked cash. Old people collect beer bottles from dumpsters. This list can go on and on and on. Sorry, I see no signs of recovery here.
Bullshit. The soviet days and the cult of personality are back. It was nauseating to see how people humiliate themselves by licking ass to Putin and whatever crap is behind him and whatever crap he supports. To see all these portraits and sculptures of him. To hear women who think this skinny and partially bald man with fish-like eyes is sexually appealing.
He's a former KGB agent, he's a man without rules and morals and now he's got the amout of power only Tzars have had. I'd bet this guy will change the constitution to rule some more. He's got a puppet parliament, he can do whatever he wants to and will still have 70% approval rating, because all this submissiveness is in genes of Russian people. It was cultivated by hundreds of years of tzarism with absolute power given to a few morons (just like now) and everybody else thinking this is a right thing and every word of these morons comes right from the God himself.
As famous Russian poet Nekrasov said: "Slaves resemble dogs, the harder you beat them, the more they like you" (or in transliterated Russian "ljudi kholopskogo zvania - suschie psy inogda, chem tyazhelei nakazanie, tem im milei gospoda).
I recall Stalin has a tremendous approval rating, too. And nobody had read your mail unless there was a reason to do that (a neighbour who didn't like you, for example).
You guys are like blind there. I pity you.
*
Heh. Why do you thing Putin had such a high approval rating? Because of Berezovsky-supported PR efforts, chechen war (_mostly_ because of it, because around 80% of Russia's population are racists) and the fact that he wasn't an alcoholic like Yeltsin was.
If you're Russian, you know that yourself.
As to "patriotic" FSB agents... NKVD and KGB agents were as patriotic as they are, maybe more, which didn't prevent them from killing millions of Russians back in thirties. "The goal justifies the methods" - this is their main principle of operation. And their goal isn't always what you think their goal is.
You don't even have to be in FAPSI to read my mail in Russia. Every motherfucker in gray uniform (policeman) can do that.
*
Guys, you don't even know what FSB is. It is, in fact, re-branded KGB. To give you some perspective, considerable percent of Russians thinks that those explosions in Moscow and other Russian cities were performed by FSB. And yes, there are some facts that say it might be true. For example this "training" in Ryazan, when police has found a bomb, and experts were shown on TV saying there were explosives, next day FSB comes into play and says it was sugar and these bombs were a "training" for police. Show me the expert in explosives who can't tell sugar from heavy explosives! Show me the the training when even the minister of internal affairs (in charge of police) doesn't know what's going on and says _on TV_ that a bomb was found!
Now to the FSB practices related to information. According to Russian laws, all ISPs have to implement a System for Operative Search Actions. Which basically means they have to provide network traffic and uncontrolled means of intercepting and invading any network activity that goes through them. In other words, FSB doesn't even have to get a warrant to read your mail, and the cost associated with these activities (ILLEGAL in USA) gets passed on you. You pay for your email being read by "men in gray".
Their charges against FBI agents (who did absolutely the right thing, IMO) are the worst case of hypocrisy I've seen in years.
*
Heck, for money it should not only be "done", but "well-tested" and "carefully wrapped". That's not something open source developers are very good at. My observation is that 98% of open source projects stall in beta- and alpha stages forever. Nobody's gonna pay the money for an alpha that crashes if you click the wrong submenu.
*
Alexey is working for Microsoft now. Buhahahahaha!
*
What? I can't believe I see people praising Microsoft here. Even though their software is good, they're evil, right?
*
Can you please show me something like massive migration of windows shops to Linux? It's UNIX shops that migrate. Scott McNealy should experience "mild case of indigestion", not Ballmer or Gates. More and more people pull the plug on old Sun servers and upgrade to racks of Compaq DL360's with linux on them.
Microsoft's primary cash cows are desktop OS'es, Office and Business apps. Linux is present in NONE of these areas (and don't expect it anytime soon).
So stop dreaming, get your ass to the ground!
>> $250 million seems a relatively small figure to me
:0) Wow, now I understand what kind of deep-pocketed-parent kids study there.
A quarter billion bucks is nothing for this Yale dude.
They seem to be using old-timer touch screen technology. Microsoft Tablet PC (AFAIK) will use the tablet, similar to wacom tablets, placed under the screen. So you won't need to touch your freakin' screen and scratch it (unless you really want to), and you won't have to adjust positioning all the time. Hell, you'll be able to write on the screen as you write on paper (AT LAST!) and search handwritten text (and specify what you want to find in handwriting too). I've seen their demo. You just move your stylus over the screen and mouse pointer follows it.
Lemon laws require full refund by the seller if what he sold was a lemon. MS offers money back on all their products for as long as I can remember. Not sure about RH/SuSE/Whatever, never bought their stuff.
>> Anna Dirks, our UI designer, performed
>> many dozens of usability tests on
>> various parts of Evolution,
I just wonder what was the point of all that. Evolution UI is stolen from MS Outlook, and MS has already spent millions on usability studies for it. I think that overall GNOME usability study would be money better spent.
1. Telnet isn't evil if it's tunneled through an encrypted VPN connection which is a breeze to setup in Windows.
2. Unused parts of the operating system go to swap file in well-designed operating systems.
3. Terminal services are working fine via 56K analog modem VPN connection to corporate network. It's 256 colors, it's 800x600, but still, it works just freakin' fine. Recently I've helped my friend through Remote Assistance. The trick was that my friend was in Russia (33.6K connection) and I was in the US (768/128 DSL). And still I was able to use remote assistance (read: terminal server) on his PC. Ain't that cool?
Sun and Oracle are the next. "Sun" is a pretty common word, isn't it?
AVP (www.avp.ru) is an excellent piece of antivirus software which beats both CA and Symantec shit hands down all over the Europe. I don't think they're bound by US laws, and, mind you, you're downloading your signature updates from Russia, so they aren't constrained by US laws either.