Personally, I think Gates has a really good point here. Remember all those old OSs? They crashed a lot. Even Linux. Gates wanted to take out some of that.
Well, we if we compare to Microsoft, at least MS has specific end of support dates that you know. Google will just come out of the shadows and announce that support will be ended in one month. And not just support - the whole product will be gone. With desktop products they still at least work. With Google, software-as-service, and cloud they're just gone. No sane business would build their future on such ground.
I cannot take them seriously anymore. Anyone to use them for business would be insane.
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Check out Tremulous
The game features two opposing teams: humans and aliens. Each team must attack the enemy's base and team members, while defending their own base.
Sounds boring and so seen. Is there anything like Team Fortress 2 or Modern Warfare 3? With the good team dynamics and classes of TF2, or perks and leveling system of MW3? What about the huge battles, tanks and aircrafts of Battlefield 3?
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I'm curious because the tech is there. Are there any fun open source games?
Note how I said my money probably doesn't count much. Still, what does it have to do with me visiting there? Should we avoid all countries where things aren't as good as in our home country? I live in Scandinavia and the cost of living here is almost highest on entire earth. Does that mean I cannot visit any other place? I also live in a city. Can't I visit the countryside because someone thinks they have it worse than us who live in cities?
It is, but only to government personnel, large companies and foreign visitors. Their IP allocation has been really fucked though, so they only have 1024 ip's for the whole country (outside the intranet). But that's not their fault. Star Joint Ventures is the North Korea-Thai joint company that handles it mostly.
And what does their food amount per day or length have to do with me visiting there? If anything, I help the general population by visiting there. Sure, that 2000-3000 euros it costs me to do so doesn't matter much, but the people get to see more people from foreign countries. Maybe it indirectly helps in something, I don't know. What have you done, exactly? And again, as I've previously noticed how people (especially those from US) tell how other nationals are suffering so and so much, and when I've visited there it's been nothing like that, I don't really take everything I read on the internet not so seriously. Usually the people are happy, and would be unhappy if things were different. Other people, especially US ones, for some reason like to think they "know better" and try to impose their views on others.
Actually they do, they internal uni and web cafe network is really fast too. They also have internet access to government offices and large companies. It's getting more and more common for general populate to get connection at home too, though I guess it will take some time before they get access to the whole internet.
Are you seriously comparing whole North Korea to concentration camp in Hitler's Germany? Frankly, it's not like that. While it's true that Kim Jong is the sole leader of the country, it's not really that bad for the people there. They have it much like rest of the world, and people seem really happy. Sure, some of it comes from the fact that they don't know better, but to compare it to concentration camp is ludicrous.
I like traveling. I have also spend time in rest of the Asia, including Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Not just visit there, but actually living. I find that the people are really friendly, and interesting. Seeing the world opens your eyes.
I didn't say I'm gonna act like an ass and get my guide punished. I was just pointing out that it's safe from foreigners to visit there, as many might be wondering about that.
North Korea of course:-)
And yeah, I want to see it just for the experience and because it's something so little amount of people have done. Would make awesome small talk subject too.
I also have heard it's really safe country to visit, actually. If you're being an idiot, they don't punish you. At most your guide will get punished for it. There's really interesting video guide to north korea in YouTube (and vbs.tv) about it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG4gL3eAHVs
North Korea has hosted their govermental websites (for outsiders, anyway) in Spain. For example korea-drp.com is hosted on IP 91.142.218.24 in Malaga, Spain. It's been there for years. (I know because I've planned visiting there, and looked it up a few times)
And seriously, hosting services assisting in "crimes against humanity"? They are informational sites about countries. It makes sense for them to outsource their hosting. Hell, even United States uses Akamai. If you want to do censorship against countries or things you don't agree with, sure, go ahead and silence their websites. But country having a website has nothing to do with "crimes against humanity".
I suggest you read the actual discussion. It was more like a Linux fanboy saying how WP7 will have just the same malware problems as Android has when it just gains more market share. The same line that Windows users have said about Linux for decades, and Linux users denying that. But now it's just used other way around and obviously is true in this case!
In this case Oracle had a contract to continue that support. They violated that contract. Red Hat and Microsoft didn't have such contract, so there's nothing wrong with them dropping support.
xp -> vista -> win7
windows server 2003 -> windows server 2008 (R2 contains same kernel as Win7)
Comparing the two doesn't really work, especially when the server line of products is also released in different years (2001 vs 2003, and 2006 vs 2008)
I don't see what's wrong with this. HP is just making sure their existing customers are supported, even if it means making specific contracts with Intel directly. I'd be angry at HP if I bought an expensive server and they wouldn't support it.
Maybe Oracle should come up with better and faster servers so that they can win customers on their own merits?
Every single story I've read so far about malware on Android was people either installing apps off the internet or through a third-party app store. How is Google not doing a good job removing harmful apps from the market?
That's basically just as true for Windows on desktop. Still people on Slashdot bash Microsoft's security, while it's the users installing them from untrusted sources.
Or that's why MS gives your info to the government even without your consent.
Like Google and Apple does too, and every other US company. It's the law, they cant do anything about it. But since you can install and use Exchange with WP7, you can minimize effect of that. Not so with Google or Apple, which want all your data.
I didn't say setting up Exchange server would be easy. If you want easy, you use MS/Google/Apple's hosted services. If you want to host it yourself and gain extra privacy, that's when you install your own solutions.
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Personally, I think Gates has a really good point here. Remember all those old OSs? They crashed a lot. Even Linux. Gates wanted to take out some of that.
And care to show any source for that? I've actually visited Burma a few times.
Well, we if we compare to Microsoft, at least MS has specific end of support dates that you know. Google will just come out of the shadows and announce that support will be ended in one month. And not just support - the whole product will be gone. With desktop products they still at least work. With Google, software-as-service, and cloud they're just gone. No sane business would build their future on such ground.
I cannot take them seriously anymore. Anyone to use them for business would be insane.
Check out Tremulous
The game features two opposing teams: humans and aliens. Each team must attack the enemy's base and team members, while defending their own base.
Sounds boring and so seen. Is there anything like Team Fortress 2 or Modern Warfare 3? With the good team dynamics and classes of TF2, or perks and leveling system of MW3? What about the huge battles, tanks and aircrafts of Battlefield 3?
old ID engines?
I'm curious because the tech is there. Are there any fun open source games?
So why release this?
Note how I said my money probably doesn't count much. Still, what does it have to do with me visiting there? Should we avoid all countries where things aren't as good as in our home country? I live in Scandinavia and the cost of living here is almost highest on entire earth. Does that mean I cannot visit any other place? I also live in a city. Can't I visit the countryside because someone thinks they have it worse than us who live in cities?
It is, but only to government personnel, large companies and foreign visitors. Their IP allocation has been really fucked though, so they only have 1024 ip's for the whole country (outside the intranet). But that's not their fault. Star Joint Ventures is the North Korea-Thai joint company that handles it mostly.
And what does their food amount per day or length have to do with me visiting there? If anything, I help the general population by visiting there. Sure, that 2000-3000 euros it costs me to do so doesn't matter much, but the people get to see more people from foreign countries. Maybe it indirectly helps in something, I don't know. What have you done, exactly? And again, as I've previously noticed how people (especially those from US) tell how other nationals are suffering so and so much, and when I've visited there it's been nothing like that, I don't really take everything I read on the internet not so seriously. Usually the people are happy, and would be unhappy if things were different. Other people, especially US ones, for some reason like to think they "know better" and try to impose their views on others.
Actually they do, they internal uni and web cafe network is really fast too. They also have internet access to government offices and large companies. It's getting more and more common for general populate to get connection at home too, though I guess it will take some time before they get access to the whole internet.
Are you seriously comparing whole North Korea to concentration camp in Hitler's Germany? Frankly, it's not like that. While it's true that Kim Jong is the sole leader of the country, it's not really that bad for the people there. They have it much like rest of the world, and people seem really happy. Sure, some of it comes from the fact that they don't know better, but to compare it to concentration camp is ludicrous.
I like traveling. I have also spend time in rest of the Asia, including Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. Not just visit there, but actually living. I find that the people are really friendly, and interesting. Seeing the world opens your eyes.
I didn't say I'm gonna act like an ass and get my guide punished. I was just pointing out that it's safe from foreigners to visit there, as many might be wondering about that.
North Korea of course :-)
And yeah, I want to see it just for the experience and because it's something so little amount of people have done. Would make awesome small talk subject too.
I also have heard it's really safe country to visit, actually. If you're being an idiot, they don't punish you. At most your guide will get punished for it. There's really interesting video guide to north korea in YouTube (and vbs.tv) about it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG4gL3eAHVs
North Korea has hosted their govermental websites (for outsiders, anyway) in Spain. For example korea-drp.com is hosted on IP 91.142.218.24 in Malaga, Spain. It's been there for years. (I know because I've planned visiting there, and looked it up a few times)
And seriously, hosting services assisting in "crimes against humanity"? They are informational sites about countries. It makes sense for them to outsource their hosting. Hell, even United States uses Akamai. If you want to do censorship against countries or things you don't agree with, sure, go ahead and silence their websites. But country having a website has nothing to do with "crimes against humanity".
Yeah, I don't understand this either. I don't lie online. However, I do nothing but lie in real life. This study is bollocks!
I suggest you read the actual discussion. It was more like a Linux fanboy saying how WP7 will have just the same malware problems as Android has when it just gains more market share. The same line that Windows users have said about Linux for decades, and Linux users denying that. But now it's just used other way around and obviously is true in this case!
In this case Oracle had a contract to continue that support. They violated that contract. Red Hat and Microsoft didn't have such contract, so there's nothing wrong with them dropping support.
Well, they are different line of products.
xp -> vista -> win7
windows server 2003 -> windows server 2008 (R2 contains same kernel as Win7)
Comparing the two doesn't really work, especially when the server line of products is also released in different years (2001 vs 2003, and 2006 vs 2008)
I don't see what's wrong with this. HP is just making sure their existing customers are supported, even if it means making specific contracts with Intel directly. I'd be angry at HP if I bought an expensive server and they wouldn't support it.
Maybe Oracle should come up with better and faster servers so that they can win customers on their own merits?
Which requires rooting your phone, voiding your warranty and other troubles. With WP7 it works out of the box.
Compared to Linux distros like Ubuntu, which releases new major version every 6 months, or Firefox, which releases new major every week?
Every single story I've read so far about malware on Android was people either installing apps off the internet or through a third-party app store. How is Google not doing a good job removing harmful apps from the market?
That's basically just as true for Windows on desktop. Still people on Slashdot bash Microsoft's security, while it's the users installing them from untrusted sources.
Or that's why MS gives your info to the government even without your consent.
Like Google and Apple does too, and every other US company. It's the law, they cant do anything about it. But since you can install and use Exchange with WP7, you can minimize effect of that. Not so with Google or Apple, which want all your data.
I didn't say setting up Exchange server would be easy. If you want easy, you use MS/Google/Apple's hosted services. If you want to host it yourself and gain extra privacy, that's when you install your own solutions.