Would someone please start a tech news site where people actually talk about the tech?
I read a bunch of +1 or better comments and no one is even talking out the tech, they are just MS bashing.
If folks would read RTFA and do a little research they would find that the tech is actually interesting and worth talking about. Only morons would choose not to learn from what others are doing just because they don't like them.
After watching Slashdot go the way of Usenet and become all trash and no real discussion, the childish, uninformed, and downright selfish comments posted in response to Mr. Buffet's amazing announcement has finally made me realize that it is not worth the time anymore.
If folks knew anything about Mr. Buffet, (or even RTFA) they would know he is a straightforward person with an amazingly successful hands-on approach to investment management. This is a guy who has gone his own way over the years because he has refused to invest in things that others proclaimed to be easy money simply because he did not understand them. He has never put his money (or that of his investors) into anything that he did not research and understand.
I know exactly nothing about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but the simple fact that Mr. Buffet has give then ANY money, let alone a large portion of his net worth, tells me that they doing something right.
Here's hoping I can find a place where people actually have frank discussions about topics they know and care about, and actually take the time to RTFA, because/. is certainly not that place.
You are either a troll or ignorant of the many under-the-hood changes in Vista.
Any one of the followoing is much more then a service pack:
UAP and all the related parts, new network stack that fully supports ipV6, movement of a lot of code from kernel mode to user mode, new display driver model,
1. This is only B2 and UPA is a BIG change. 99.9% of all UAP prompts will be reduced to a single step by RTM.
2. Almost half the UAP prompts I see are caused by applications trying to edit files in system areas of the disk/registry. The applications are broken not vista. Normal user data should be stored in system areas, and I want to know when a program is trying to change them.
3. Because of the bios settings, the last 3 machines I have purchased (over 5 years) defaulted to the *Power* buttton meaning *suspend*, not *power-off*. Vista just does the same thing with the *suspend* button. BTW the button has the same graphic as my *power* buttons on both my Dell D800 and my iBook, (a circle with a vertical line) and guess what! Both button *suspend* the machine! Low and behold, if you select *Shut Down* from the sub menu, Vista does just that.
4. I hate it when these twits try and TELL me what I will like or dislike.
5. I am sure I would have more, but the link is down.
Anyone who knows anything about the subject knows we really don't want a flat rate internet.
Why in the hell should we pay to scale the backbone AND all endpoints to handle all traffic with low enough latency to make latency sensitive protocols work? That is just stupid.
That would be like running a 4 lane highway to every home to make sure the fire department can get their quickly. STUPID. Fire trucks get different rules and have priority so we don't need 4 lanes all the way home.
On the net Video/Voice needs low latency should get it, but NOT by overbuilding the damn network to do it.
It is perfectly reasonable for providers to sell access with QOS. I work for a university and if we had to give the same priority to all protocols, our 150Mb connection to the net would be UNUSABLE for voice/video.
Would someone please write a captcha that forces people to RTFA before the can post?
1. It is not default part of IE and never will be. You will always have to choose to enable it. 2. It does not *correct* your typing and send you to another site without your approval. 3. Entries for sites that are not obvious squatters will not be put in the database. 4. It does nothing to non-existant domains so it does not "break" dns. (Unlike other systems.)
Sheesh, there are more idiots on/. these days then on digg, and that is saying something.
You are actually giving people useable information? On/. that will not be tolerated!
No one on/. is going to believe that MS made decisions that were valid at some point in time. They are too busy assuming that MS does everything they do because they are evil. Everyone will happily ignore the fact that Mozilla took a long time to start supporting CCS (but still not fully) as well as they do now. */sigh/*
Seriously, thanks for the info!
Jorgie
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Critics they can handle... someone giving out option prices they can't and shouldn't.
It would really be nice if someone actually posted something that made it sound like they actually wanted to start a discussion.
More and more everyday slashdot becomes usenet for leet-anti-micsoft-geeks. At this rate the signal to noise ratio will soon be so high that everyone will read the stories from an RSS reader and never even bother reading the comments. I guess I am a minority in thining that will be a sad day.
Didn't Slashdot used to be better read then http://news.google.com/science ?
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Would someone please start a tech news site where people actually talk about the tech?
I read a bunch of +1 or better comments and no one is even talking out the tech, they are just MS bashing.
If folks would read RTFA and do a little research they would find that the tech is actually interesting and worth talking about. Only morons would choose not to learn from what others are doing just because they don't like them.
Unbelievable!
/. is certainly not that place.
After watching Slashdot go the way of Usenet and become all trash and no real discussion, the childish, uninformed, and downright selfish comments posted in response to Mr. Buffet's amazing announcement has finally made me realize that it is not worth the time anymore.
If folks knew anything about Mr. Buffet, (or even RTFA) they would know he is a straightforward person with an amazingly successful hands-on approach to investment management. This is a guy who has gone his own way over the years because he has refused to invest in things that others proclaimed to be easy money simply because he did not understand them. He has never put his money (or that of his investors) into anything that he did not research and understand.
I know exactly nothing about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but the simple fact that Mr. Buffet has give then ANY money, let alone a large portion of his net worth, tells me that they doing something right.
Here's hoping I can find a place where people actually have frank discussions about topics they know and care about, and actually take the time to RTFA, because
So long, and thanks for all the fish! - D.A.
Jorgie
Yea! Slashdot is catching up!
/. I am sure you saw it when it was only old news by 12 to 14 hours! ;)
This was on DIGG less than 24 hours ago!
Of course if you pay for your
You are either a troll or ignorant of the many under-the-hood changes in Vista.
Any one of the followoing is much more then a service pack:
UAP and all the related parts,
new network stack that fully supports ipV6,
movement of a lot of code from kernel mode to user mode,
new display driver model,
and many, many more.
Jorgie
1. This is only B2 and UPA is a BIG change. 99.9% of all UAP prompts will be reduced to a single step by RTM.
2. Almost half the UAP prompts I see are caused by applications trying to edit files in system areas of the disk/registry. The applications are broken not vista. Normal user data should be stored in system areas, and I want to know when a program is trying to change them.
3. Because of the bios settings, the last 3 machines I have purchased (over 5 years) defaulted to the *Power* buttton meaning *suspend*, not *power-off*. Vista just does the same thing with the *suspend* button. BTW the button has the same graphic as my *power* buttons on both my Dell D800 and my iBook, (a circle with a vertical line) and guess what! Both button *suspend* the machine! Low and behold, if you select *Shut Down* from the sub menu, Vista does just that.
4. I hate it when these twits try and TELL me what I will like or dislike.
5. I am sure I would have more, but the link is down.
Jorgie
and yes, I know that THEIR != THERE, a typo is a typo.
Anyone who knows anything about the subject knows we really don't want a flat rate internet.
Why in the hell should we pay to scale the backbone AND all endpoints to handle all traffic with low enough latency to make latency sensitive protocols work? That is just stupid.
That would be like running a 4 lane highway to every home to make sure the fire department can get their quickly. STUPID. Fire trucks get different rules and have priority so we don't need 4 lanes all the way home.
On the net Video/Voice needs low latency should get it, but NOT by overbuilding the damn network to do it.
It is perfectly reasonable for providers to sell access with QOS. I work for a university and if we had to give the same priority to all protocols, our 150Mb connection to the net would be UNUSABLE for voice/video.
Jorgie
Would someone please write a captcha that forces people to RTFA before the can post?
/. these days then on digg, and that is saying something.
1. It is not default part of IE and never will be. You will always have to choose to enable it.
2. It does not *correct* your typing and send you to another site without your approval.
3. Entries for sites that are not obvious squatters will not be put in the database.
4. It does nothing to non-existant domains so it does not "break" dns. (Unlike other systems.)
Sheesh, there are more idiots on
Jorgie
Umm... if you take a *Visual Studion Integration PlugIn* and remove the *Visual Studio integration code* what the hell are you left with to release?
We are not talking about ActiveState/Perl, only the VS plugin...
Jorgie
You are actually giving people useable information? On /. that will not be tolerated!
/. is going to believe that MS made decisions that were valid at some point in time. They are too busy assuming that MS does everything they do because they are evil. Everyone will happily ignore the fact that Mozilla took a long time to start supporting CCS (but still not fully) as well as they do now. */sigh/*
No one on
Seriously, thanks for the info!
Jorgie
Critics they can handle... someone giving out option prices they can't and shouldn't.
He quoted the stike price that stock options were being given at. That is NOT public information and would likely get you canned from many places.
jorgie
Ok, we get it Microsoft = Bad.
It would really be nice if someone actually posted something that made it sound like they actually wanted to start a discussion.
More and more everyday slashdot becomes usenet for leet-anti-micsoft-geeks. At this rate the signal to noise ratio will soon be so high that everyone will read the stories from an RSS reader and never even bother reading the comments. I guess I am a minority in thining that will be a sad day.
Didn't Slashdot used to be better read then http://news.google.com/science ?
Jorgie