They should unleash the world on their software, ala OpenHack; that would be a better security test and/or learning experience.
Uuuh, every day the entire world is unleashed on their software with no set parameters. MS's software is hacked at, picked at, poked, prodded, more than any other software on the planet. Every single day. I'd stake my life that that a hacker, somewhere in the world, is trying to poke holes in MS's software every second of every day. They have had more cumulative experience with security than any software company in the world.
They brought in the pros so that they could try certain products and scenarios in a controlled environment.
The new display which has a 100DPI resolution and is only 300 microns thick has the potential of truely changing the way we read our information."
As long as people like yourself read more, and attempt to become literate, I don't care if it's paper, electronic, or on the back of a cow. The word is "truly".
I disagree 100%. I say that Larry Ellison, like a certain McNealy that I've heard of, is getting scared. Programming used to be done by professionals that cared about quality, skill, and experience. Programming used to be a real science. To be a scientist, you had to have the best tools. Real work is STILL always done on Sun and Oracle.
What they (Larry and Scott) are seeing is hype. There's tons and tons of hype about PC's replacing big iron, etc, etc, etc. Even mid-level servers are often just a PC with an open source OS slapped on it by a college kid. Both of them (Larry and Scott) have made their lunges at grabbing the low-end of the market. Why not? Everybody else has. Both companies have gotten burned (Sun moreso than Oracle) with their low-end market dalliances. Why does this happen? They're companies that are not used to cutting corners and slashing prices. They're core competencies are building stable, robust hardware & software with quality being more important to the end user than price.
What I wish that Larry and Scott would realize is that there will always be customers in need of real solid systems as opposed to hacks (what we see in everyday commercial and open source software). They should stick with doing what they're good at, and leave the low and mid-range systems to the people willing to slit each others' throat for a $0.05 cheaper price on Ebay.
This whole, "Sure, we'll just give away all our code that we spend billions of dollars and decades developing to keep the cheap (but very loud) OSS hacks happy!" thing isn't going to pan out well.
Personally, I can't really imagine a computing industry without Sun and Oracle. What are we left with at that point? Do-it-Yourself Ubuntu installations and mass-produced PC's all running MySQL? I'd rather go back to punchcards, quite honestly.
Already done. They donated one of their first production servers to the museum a while back.
Jesus, that's pretentious. At least Bill didn't give a copy of every OS they ever made along with the $15 mil. Google hasn't been around long enough to have influenced "computing history".
Oracle has been a massive, powerful company (#2 software company on the planet) for a long time. Geeks focus on MS because they all of MS running on their PC's. Database people have known about Oracle for a long, long time. People who don't know, simply don't know. It's always been that way.
And let me tell you right now... no database people would consider MySQL an Oracle rival any more than a NASCAR pit chief would be concerned about the new Honda Civic that may give his custom cars a run for their money. Again, this is something that people who know databases are aware of.
On top of all that mess, I think that they also greatly overestimated their market. I don't know of a single person who has a Tivo, and only a few of my geek friends know what a Tivo is. Most people I know have never heard the word "tivo" before.
And have any writers of "free software" stopped to think what terrible things their software can and is being used for? Should we stop free software makers from distributing their software to anybody who wants it? Or, if a free software program is used to commit, say, war crimes, should its creators be arrested and tried?
Wow. I'm impressed. That was such a smart decision on both of their parts (Yahoo and MS)! I didn't see that coming at all. That's gonna be it for AOL. It'll take a while, but that put the last nail in the coffin for those fuckers.
This is gonna give Yahoo a hell of a boost simply because Yahoo is the best in the industry with integration. No other web portal/brand integrates nearly as well as Yahoo. They're gonna turn that IM traffic into ad revenue, I guarantee it. They're gonna be around to give Google a run for it's money for a long time.
I'm surprised that MS did it, but it was smart. Their MSN properties have always been weak, even with the bonus of the first thing new users see. They've been hoping that that would do it for them, which is why they never really perfected Passport or the web versino of.Net. MS is going to really get some more consumer street cred by hooking up with Yahoo. I don't know where they're going with it, though, since MS isn't going to collect nickels and dimes like Yahoo and Google have to with their advertising revenue.
Put your tin foil hat away. It's not a "Microsoft Tax". As countless of other people have explained quite clearly, it's much cheaper for Dell to support Windows than it is [insert generic Linux here]. Duh.
(Sorry about the "duh", but this is really a very obvious point, here)
A "contractor" is the field of programming is somebody who works at a company, doing a regular job, but gets his/per paycheck from a head shop. I worked as a "contractor" for 5 years, and was never once freelance, and I never "consulted" with anybody: I just worked.
As a contractor, I was paid significantly more. I was paid hourly instead of salaried, so I was actually paid for my time. I got to take off time between contracts as I liked, because most of the contracting firms had tons and tons of jobs waiting. Also, I wasn't generally involved in inter-office politics. I got to "job-hop" without being damaged by it on my resume... I simply chose 3-6 month contracts so I wouldn't get bored. Switching jobs that frequently allowed me to grow my skill set and experience very quickly. I never did any more paperwork than anybody else because I was a regular W-2 employee. I had all of the benefits that I wanted because I could easily afford benefits and much more.
As a contractor, I usually felt bad for the "permanent" schlubs.
Could anybody using this please tell me if they've fixed the (currently non-working) ability to disable all Flash? In IE, I just uninstall the Active X control. In Firefox, you can disable it, but it doesn't work. I certainly hope that they're fixing bugs before adding more features...
It's a shitty format if the goddamn player is horribly broken and bloated. Besides, what PDF's do, faxes have been doing better and easier for decades.
It's tough to increase the sum of knowledge when you're building on questionable facts. There are many, many everyday scientific myths that are widespread. Wikipedia is controlled by quantity, not quality.
What's to say that these myths don't become "facts" in Wikipedia due to sheer numbers? Is that increasing the sum of human knowledge? If anything, it's damaging it, because everybody who reads thsi "fact" will assume that it's true.
Wikipedia is the opposite of knowledge: it's based on majority rule. Wikipedia in 1805 would have described the "wonders of the African Ape-Man and his Ability to Pick Cotton." After all, the majority believed that it was true.
Postgres isn't available on 80% of web hosting firms and 90% of off-the shelf web scripts (that require a DBMS). (I wish it was)
I haven't seen a lot of web sites that are on a shared server with shared scripts that needed much more than MySQL already offers. MySQL does fine for blogs, shopping carts, etc. That's all *very* basic stuff, most of which MS Access could handle if done correctly.
You can have it. PDF's are banned from my business. I won't even allow Acrobat to be installed on any machines. If a vendor can't furnish documents in some other format, too bad for that vendor.
Can you define "evil"? It's a word that I've personally only heard used in children's fairy tales and by George Bush. In all honesty, I don't know what "evil" means in real life.
Anybody can build a word processor. Take a 1st year college kid's programming project. Add features. Add features. Repeat. Spreadsheet, same thing. The question is, does Star Office contain a perfect replacement for OUTLOOK? If it doesn't, there's no chance in hell it'll be used outside of the geek community. On top of that, is it 100% scriptable by office clerk types, like MS Office is?
You're missing the point. They stopped trying to troubleshoot a long time ago because THEIR CORE BUSINESS was being impacted. The ultimate goal of their business (and most businesses) is NOT to get the servers running. It's a moot point. It didn't work. They dumped Linux. 1. They're not interested in any more support. The car died. It's been trashed and crushed already. 2. They're not interested in spending any more time or money on this problem just so that "the Linux community" (ie: a bunch of pretentious know-it-all) can point at what they think the problem is and say, "A-Ha! I knew it! Crest Electronics are morons, and I'm brilliant. The problem is right THERE (I think)!!).
The simple facts are that they bought Red Hat and SAP. They worked with both vendors for 7 months and never had a working solution. If you think that you are personally smarter than Red Hat and SAP engineers working for 7 months on a problem, then you are a God, and we should be worshipping you.
If Red Hat does not work try SUSE, if SUSE does not work, try Slackware, if Slackware does not work, try Debian, if Debian does not work try Red Hat.
Do you work, on a professional level, on making businesses go bankrupt via grossly inflated IT budgets for non-working solutions while their core business whithers away? Just curious.
The customer wasn't interested in helping the support engineers do their own jobs. I've seen this situation many times before. I'm sure that they had been working with these support engineers for a while, were getting nowhere, and this situation was the last of many where the engineers would request their internal IT department to spend a lot of time getting the support guys data, and the support guys would still shrug their shoulders. Makes total sense to me. After a point, I would've done the same. At some point, you have to move on with your business, and stop troubleshooting something that obviously isn't working.
Wow. That's staggering evidence. You're talking about ONE server with medium sized data storage, and one cluster. Wow. I'm convinced. You're right. I can see very clearly from these two, well-documented situations that Windows does indeed suck. Thanks for providing so much evidence that I have no choice but to immediately switch out all of our Windows boxes in my business for Linux and OSX.
So then, because this company's IT philosophy differs from your your personal, religious philosophy about operating systems on personal computers, they must be either lying or incompetent? Boy, that's open minded.
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They should unleash the world on their software, ala OpenHack; that would be a better security test and/or learning experience.
Uuuh, every day the entire world is unleashed on their software with no set parameters. MS's software is hacked at, picked at, poked, prodded, more than any other software on the planet. Every single day. I'd stake my life that that a hacker, somewhere in the world, is trying to poke holes in MS's software every second of every day. They have had more cumulative experience with security than any software company in the world.
They brought in the pros so that they could try certain products and scenarios in a controlled environment.
The new display which has a 100DPI resolution and is only 300 microns thick has the potential of truely changing the way we read our information."
As long as people like yourself read more, and attempt to become literate, I don't care if it's paper, electronic, or on the back of a cow. The word is "truly".
I disagree 100%. I say that Larry Ellison, like a certain McNealy that I've heard of, is getting scared. Programming used to be done by professionals that cared about quality, skill, and experience. Programming used to be a real science. To be a scientist, you had to have the best tools. Real work is STILL always done on Sun and Oracle.
What they (Larry and Scott) are seeing is hype. There's tons and tons of hype about PC's replacing big iron, etc, etc, etc. Even mid-level servers are often just a PC with an open source OS slapped on it by a college kid. Both of them (Larry and Scott) have made their lunges at grabbing the low-end of the market. Why not? Everybody else has. Both companies have gotten burned (Sun moreso than Oracle) with their low-end market dalliances. Why does this happen? They're companies that are not used to cutting corners and slashing prices. They're core competencies are building stable, robust hardware & software with quality being more important to the end user than price.
What I wish that Larry and Scott would realize is that there will always be customers in need of real solid systems as opposed to hacks (what we see in everyday commercial and open source software). They should stick with doing what they're good at, and leave the low and mid-range systems to the people willing to slit each others' throat for a $0.05 cheaper price on Ebay.
This whole, "Sure, we'll just give away all our code that we spend billions of dollars and decades developing to keep the cheap (but very loud) OSS hacks happy!" thing isn't going to pan out well.
Personally, I can't really imagine a computing industry without Sun and Oracle. What are we left with at that point? Do-it-Yourself Ubuntu installations and mass-produced PC's all running MySQL? I'd rather go back to punchcards, quite honestly.
Now perhaps Google should to pony up
Already done. They donated one of their first production servers to the museum a while back.
Jesus, that's pretentious. At least Bill didn't give a copy of every OS they ever made along with the $15 mil. Google hasn't been around long enough to have influenced "computing history".
Kid, relax. It's called "art". Ask your parents to bring you to an "art museum". Don't bring your iPod.
Oracle has been a massive, powerful company (#2 software company on the planet) for a long time. Geeks focus on MS because they all of MS running on their PC's. Database people have known about Oracle for a long, long time. People who don't know, simply don't know. It's always been that way.
And let me tell you right now... no database people would consider MySQL an Oracle rival any more than a NASCAR pit chief would be concerned about the new Honda Civic that may give his custom cars a run for their money. Again, this is something that people who know databases are aware of.
On top of all that mess, I think that they also greatly overestimated their market. I don't know of a single person who has a Tivo, and only a few of my geek friends know what a Tivo is. Most people I know have never heard the word "tivo" before.
I agree.
They're celebrating a bit early.
And have any writers of "free software" stopped to think what terrible things their software can and is being used for? Should we stop free software makers from distributing their software to anybody who wants it? Or, if a free software program is used to commit, say, war crimes, should its creators be arrested and tried?
Wow. I'm impressed. That was such a smart decision on both of their parts (Yahoo and MS)! I didn't see that coming at all. That's gonna be it for AOL. It'll take a while, but that put the last nail in the coffin for those fuckers.
.Net. MS is going to really get some more consumer street cred by hooking up with Yahoo. I don't know where they're going with it, though, since MS isn't going to collect nickels and dimes like Yahoo and Google have to with their advertising revenue.
This is gonna give Yahoo a hell of a boost simply because Yahoo is the best in the industry with integration. No other web portal/brand integrates nearly as well as Yahoo. They're gonna turn that IM traffic into ad revenue, I guarantee it. They're gonna be around to give Google a run for it's money for a long time.
I'm surprised that MS did it, but it was smart. Their MSN properties have always been weak, even with the bonus of the first thing new users see. They've been hoping that that would do it for them, which is why they never really perfected Passport or the web versino of
Actually, "over the top" flights are the standard procedure for the suggested New York to Tokyo and similar flights. Happens every day.
Put your tin foil hat away. It's not a "Microsoft Tax". As countless of other people have explained quite clearly, it's much cheaper for Dell to support Windows than it is [insert generic Linux here]. Duh.
(Sorry about the "duh", but this is really a very obvious point, here)
A "contractor" is the field of programming is somebody who works at a company, doing a regular job, but gets his/per paycheck from a head shop. I worked as a "contractor" for 5 years, and was never once freelance, and I never "consulted" with anybody: I just worked.
As a contractor, I was paid significantly more. I was paid hourly instead of salaried, so I was actually paid for my time. I got to take off time between contracts as I liked, because most of the contracting firms had tons and tons of jobs waiting. Also, I wasn't generally involved in inter-office politics. I got to "job-hop" without being damaged by it on my resume... I simply chose 3-6 month contracts so I wouldn't get bored. Switching jobs that frequently allowed me to grow my skill set and experience very quickly. I never did any more paperwork than anybody else because I was a regular W-2 employee. I had all of the benefits that I wanted because I could easily afford benefits and much more.
As a contractor, I usually felt bad for the "permanent" schlubs.
Could anybody using this please tell me if they've fixed the (currently non-working) ability to disable all Flash? In IE, I just uninstall the Active X control. In Firefox, you can disable it, but it doesn't work. I certainly hope that they're fixing bugs before adding more features...
Hopefully, like science, Wikipedia will develop functional correction mechanisms, if they aren't in place already.
That sounds a bit too much like faith to me. I'll stick with my hard science, thanks.
It's a shitty format if the goddamn player is horribly broken and bloated. Besides, what PDF's do, faxes have been doing better and easier for decades.
It's tough to increase the sum of knowledge when you're building on questionable facts. There are many, many everyday scientific myths that are widespread. Wikipedia is controlled by quantity, not quality.
What's to say that these myths don't become "facts" in Wikipedia due to sheer numbers? Is that increasing the sum of human knowledge? If anything, it's damaging it, because everybody who reads thsi "fact" will assume that it's true.
Wikipedia is the opposite of knowledge: it's based on majority rule. Wikipedia in 1805 would have described the "wonders of the African Ape-Man and his Ability to Pick Cotton." After all, the majority believed that it was true.
Postgres isn't available on 80% of web hosting firms and 90% of off-the shelf web scripts (that require a DBMS). (I wish it was)
I haven't seen a lot of web sites that are on a shared server with shared scripts that needed much more than MySQL already offers. MySQL does fine for blogs, shopping carts, etc. That's all *very* basic stuff, most of which MS Access could handle if done correctly.
You can have it. PDF's are banned from my business. I won't even allow Acrobat to be installed on any machines. If a vendor can't furnish documents in some other format, too bad for that vendor.
Can you define "evil"? It's a word that I've personally only heard used in children's fairy tales and by George Bush. In all honesty, I don't know what "evil" means in real life.
Anybody can build a word processor. Take a 1st year college kid's programming project. Add features. Add features. Repeat. Spreadsheet, same thing. The question is, does Star Office contain a perfect replacement for OUTLOOK? If it doesn't, there's no chance in hell it'll be used outside of the geek community. On top of that, is it 100% scriptable by office clerk types, like MS Office is?
You're missing the point. They stopped trying to troubleshoot a long time ago because THEIR CORE BUSINESS was being impacted. The ultimate goal of their business (and most businesses) is NOT to get the servers running. It's a moot point. It didn't work. They dumped Linux. 1. They're not interested in any more support. The car died. It's been trashed and crushed already. 2. They're not interested in spending any more time or money on this problem just so that "the Linux community" (ie: a bunch of pretentious know-it-all) can point at what they think the problem is and say, "A-Ha! I knew it! Crest Electronics are morons, and I'm brilliant. The problem is right THERE (I think)!!).
The simple facts are that they bought Red Hat and SAP. They worked with both vendors for 7 months and never had a working solution. If you think that you are personally smarter than Red Hat and SAP engineers working for 7 months on a problem, then you are a God, and we should be worshipping you.
If Red Hat does not work try SUSE, if SUSE does not work, try Slackware, if Slackware does not work, try Debian, if Debian does not work try Red Hat.
Do you work, on a professional level, on making businesses go bankrupt via grossly inflated IT budgets for non-working solutions while their core business whithers away? Just curious.
The customer wasn't interested in helping the support engineers do their own jobs. I've seen this situation many times before. I'm sure that they had been working with these support engineers for a while, were getting nowhere, and this situation was the last of many where the engineers would request their internal IT department to spend a lot of time getting the support guys data, and the support guys would still shrug their shoulders. Makes total sense to me. After a point, I would've done the same. At some point, you have to move on with your business, and stop troubleshooting something that obviously isn't working.
Wow. That's staggering evidence. You're talking about ONE server with medium sized data storage, and one cluster. Wow. I'm convinced. You're right. I can see very clearly from these two, well-documented situations that Windows does indeed suck. Thanks for providing so much evidence that I have no choice but to immediately switch out all of our Windows boxes in my business for Linux and OSX.
So then, because this company's IT philosophy differs from your your personal, religious philosophy about operating systems on personal computers, they must be either lying or incompetent? Boy, that's open minded.