Hell, they have 25 Bil in cash in the bank, and just raised another 5 yesterday. And the thing is, Intel actually has some competition. Microsoft has essentially none, got a smaller fine, and continues to do exactly what they have ever done.
Yeah, there are bars, but nowhere near the numbers in the real world. When you go to a bar, the lady at the front door asks if you have a "sponsor". You say "oh, that guy is sponsoring me". And they let you in. People mostly roll their eyes at the silly, inane law, but it makes the good little Mormons happy. And, it only makes the Mormons happy because for the most part they don't socialize at bars (that's what church is for). If they realized how stupid and backwards the whole process is, and how it makes Utah (continue to) look like a bunch of 19th century Puritans, they might get rid of this sillyness.
Couldn't help but rant for a second.
Incidentally, at restaurants you can order drinks but only as long as you order food.
I have a Tivo with two cablecards. When I first got the Tivo, one of the cards that Comcast gave me was bad. It was an insanely painful process to figure this out. The one card wasn't just "bad" it would work, then not, then work. Call after call to "troubleshoot" the problem was a complete waste of time. I finally pulled one out, ran the Tivo for a few days, then repeated. My hell, finally. Comcast happily replaced the bad card, and to their credit, it has worked fine ever since.
Moral? Ditto to what everyone says. Cable sucks as bad as Windows. Sadly, however, there's no GNU/Cable.
Laserdisc, not Laserdisk. But I guess that's the point. My wife would say "laser what?". And most buyers of that format would say "DAMN, what am I going to do with these huge fucking obsolete discs".
Your comment makes me wonder if you're a professional software developer. Maybe you're a manager?
"Cruft" generally means shit code that is somewhere between incomprehensible and don't-touch-it-I-don't-know-what-the-hell-it-does. Code like this is always frail and impossible to maintain, so it tends to hold back any potential new feature that would rely on it. Normally, the author has long since moved on, so it makes sense in the LONG RUN to throw it out (the open source mentality).
Obviously, manager types can't see much past this quarter, so they saddle people with this garbage, and people eventually quit over such trivial things. Sometimes you just have to realize what you did wrong, press delete, and bang out something that you hope will last 3 years or so.
Sorry, but Vegas only gets small percentage of the power from Hoover Dam, like around 20%. That, and the fact that there won't be enough water to support its population in 10-20 years means it's a bad place for a datacenter. I'm not trying to diss Vegas, I was born and raised there, but this sounds like a bad idea.
Hell, not only did I not notice the change, but I actually like the change better. 99.9% of my IMing is one sentence long. The thing I hate about Trillian is that you can accidentally fuck your whole UI up by dragging a window border somewhere unintentionally.
Give me a break, forkers. I'm glad they have the power to do what they see is right, but I think their project will be dead in six months. God, some people have too much time on their hands. Monty
Exactly. It seems like the article is missing the point. Why aren't there different competing ticket agencies?
Distribute 5000 seats equally to TM, company X, company Y, etc. The outrageous fees will be the first thing to drop. Magically, the broker-avoidance security features might actually work. If you know that outlet X "never" seems to have tickets, you won't buy tickets from that outlet for the NON-SELLOUT concerts.
But this is all pie in the sky, of course. Even communism looked good from a bird's eye view.
Let's face it, there simply needs to be a ticket auction right from day one. This, of course, sucks because you can't ever "score" great seats, but at least then you KNOW how bad you're getting screwed. As it is, with hidden fees, and carefully orchestrated seat releases, pre-sales, and broker work-arounds, you're getting played and don't even realize it.
Ok, first let me say that I believe Novell when they say this. I think that they're so beaten up right now by the open source community, that they're going to be walking on eggshells for a long time. Plus they've learned their lesson...What's to gain? Not much, since there's not much of a case (if any) in the first place.
A lot of people may not know that one of the reasons Caldera was started in the first place (SCO's parent) was that Ransom Love recuited a load of engineers to get Zen works to run on Linux. Internally, Novell rejected the idea after they saw a massively failed WordPerfect on Linux project, and thought they had better stay clear of alternative OS's for a while.
Both companies being located in Utah county, there was heavy Novell influence in Caldera internally. In meetings (yes, I worked there for a couple of years), you would always here..."At Novell, we did it this way...". People would come in from or leave to Novell here and there. They were actually very passionate about open source. I even got a t-shirt shortly after the merger was announced, hinting that they'd be opening the source code to UnixWare (silly, huh).
Anyway, once Caldera started all the layoffs after the dot-com boom and SCO merger, a good chunk of engineering ended up at Novell. They closed the German development office (Erlangen), and most of those fellows headed over to Suse.
Then Novell bought Suse. Wow, funny how things come together. So yes, there are plenty of the same people working for Novell as were at SCO for a time, but as far as I can tell, it's mostly (or all) non-execs. Every guy I worked with was passionate about open source, and making the world a better place, etc.
I bought XP thinking... free upgrade to Vista, why wait. What a mistake.
Modus/Microsoft are a nightmare. I could have bought Vista straight out for the same price and not had the "upgrade an existing system only" bullshit. That's assuming I even end up getting a copy of my Vista upgrade CD some time in April, if it ever does arrive. Modus' web site is an absolute joke, it's down often, and the "check on your order" is stuck in some infinite time warp which never updates, never changes, and gives no actual information whatsoever. JOKE. Absolute joke.
I will NEVER, never ever buy any Microsoft upgrade again. Microsoft can blame Modus all they want, but we know who is responsible for this. They farmed this job out to the lowest bidder, and consumers suffer. When will we learn.
The only way to painlessly run Microsoft products is to pirate them.
Incidentally, I've run Gentoo for years on laptops, servers, you name it. I switched to Ubuntu about a year ago for desktops, but still use Gentoo on a server.
What I like about Ubuntu in particular is that every six months you can pretty much EXPECT all your packages, for the most part, to be updated to the most current stable versions. With Gentoo it's so much more haphazard. Yeah, Linux itself is haphazard...right, I know. With Gentoo, however, you're tied to the maintainer of the package deciding when a new version of application X is stable. Maybe there's some formalized internal process for this, but I don't know of one. So I remember waiting for MONTHS for the latest version of KDE or Firefox when other distros were actually shipping these same versions.
Yes, I know I can always just go unstable, but if you live on the unstable Gentoo crack too long, you'll OD sooner or later. No question about it. So I tried to stick stable, and wait and wait until finally a bug is fixed and our benevolent maintainer finally deems us worthy to receive. So even though it has a reputation of being bleeding edge, it's a lot more complicated than that.
Sorry to play the cynic, but you have to ask how long this goodwill will last. Sun has a layoff announcement every 6 months it seems. "Non-core" business units are shut down at every turn.
I love Sun, and I think it's great that they're doing this. I hope they prove me wrong.
Doesn't sound like this will be too effective in stopping spam for Yahoo users, and Yahoo is already a pain to work with.
I setup a proxy and was a spam relay (unknowingly of course) for just under a week. I got blacklisted on a couple of email sites, my ISP bitched and I fixed it. So sorry.
So I'm now off every blacklist I know of, and everyone loves me again. That is except Yahoo, the evil nazi bastards. I've filled out their stupid, "fill this out to get un-blacklisted" form at least 30 times (twice a day normally). It must go into a black hole because they still are rejecting my mail.
Everyone else lets me through but stupid Yahoo, who seem to have NO admins, no technical people, and a violate once banned for life reject policy. Grrr. So I guess, if this new system lets them drop their damn overbearing blacklists, I'm all for it.
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Indeed, it barely slowed Microsoft down a bit.
Hell, they have 25 Bil in cash in the bank, and just raised another 5 yesterday. And the thing is, Intel actually has some competition. Microsoft has essentially none, got a smaller fine, and continues to do exactly what they have ever done.
If the sky isn't falling, it should be.
They're buying the USA. 30 billion is overpriced for us right now.
Good call. Specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Terrier
Yeah, there are bars, but nowhere near the numbers in the real world. When you go to a bar, the lady at the front door asks if you have a "sponsor". You say "oh, that guy is sponsoring me". And they let you in. People mostly roll their eyes at the silly, inane law, but it makes the good little Mormons happy. And, it only makes the Mormons happy because for the most part they don't socialize at bars (that's what church is for). If they realized how stupid and backwards the whole process is, and how it makes Utah (continue to) look like a bunch of 19th century Puritans, they might get rid of this sillyness.
Couldn't help but rant for a second.
Incidentally, at restaurants you can order drinks but only as long as you order food.
I feel like griping.
I have a Tivo with two cablecards. When I first got the Tivo, one of the cards that Comcast gave me was bad. It was an insanely painful process to figure this out. The one card wasn't just "bad" it would work, then not, then work. Call after call to "troubleshoot" the problem was a complete waste of time. I finally pulled one out, ran the Tivo for a few days, then repeated. My hell, finally. Comcast happily replaced the bad card, and to their credit, it has worked fine ever since.
Moral? Ditto to what everyone says. Cable sucks as bad as Windows. Sadly, however, there's no GNU/Cable.
WTF? VMWare Fusion.
Dude.
Laserdisc, not Laserdisk. But I guess that's the point. My wife would say "laser what?". And most buyers of that format would say "DAMN, what am I going to do with these huge fucking obsolete discs".
Newsflash: It's never a good time to buy a Dell.
I've just started a new project based on this code. I'm calling it KGnokia.
Holy Fucking Shit
Your comment makes me wonder if you're a professional software developer. Maybe you're a manager?
"Cruft" generally means shit code that is somewhere between incomprehensible and don't-touch-it-I-don't-know-what-the-hell-it-does. Code like this is always frail and impossible to maintain, so it tends to hold back any potential new feature that would rely on it. Normally, the author has long since moved on, so it makes sense in the LONG RUN to throw it out (the open source mentality).
Obviously, manager types can't see much past this quarter, so they saddle people with this garbage, and people eventually quit over such trivial things. Sometimes you just have to realize what you did wrong, press delete, and bang out something that you hope will last 3 years or so.
Sorry, but Vegas only gets small percentage of the power from Hoover Dam, like around 20%. That, and the fact that there won't be enough water to support its population in 10-20 years means it's a bad place for a datacenter. I'm not trying to diss Vegas, I was born and raised there, but this sounds like a bad idea.
How about your dual monitor
Hell, not only did I not notice the change, but I actually like the change better. 99.9% of my IMing is one sentence long. The thing I hate about Trillian is that you can accidentally fuck your whole UI up by dragging a window border somewhere unintentionally.
Give me a break, forkers. I'm glad they have the power to do what they see is right, but I think their project will be dead in six months. God, some people have too much time on their hands.
Monty
They might as well ship that vicodin on a freight ship from the other side of the planet.
Thank you for that well written rebuttal, Microsoft. Your shares in Astroturf, Inc. seem to be paying off.
Exactly. It seems like the article is missing the point. Why aren't there different competing ticket agencies?
Distribute 5000 seats equally to TM, company X, company Y, etc. The outrageous fees will be the first thing to drop. Magically, the broker-avoidance security features might actually work. If you know that outlet X "never" seems to have tickets, you won't buy tickets from that outlet for the NON-SELLOUT concerts.
But this is all pie in the sky, of course. Even communism looked good from a bird's eye view.
Let's face it, there simply needs to be a ticket auction right from day one. This, of course, sucks because you can't ever "score" great seats, but at least then you KNOW how bad you're getting screwed. As it is, with hidden fees, and carefully orchestrated seat releases, pre-sales, and broker work-arounds, you're getting played and don't even realize it.
Ok, first let me say that I believe Novell when they say this. I think that they're so beaten up right now by the open source community, that they're going to be walking on eggshells for a long time. Plus they've learned their lesson...What's to gain? Not much, since there's not much of a case (if any) in the first place.
A lot of people may not know that one of the reasons Caldera was started in the first place (SCO's parent) was that Ransom Love recuited a load of engineers to get Zen works to run on Linux. Internally, Novell rejected the idea after they saw a massively failed WordPerfect on Linux project, and thought they had better stay clear of alternative OS's for a while.
Both companies being located in Utah county, there was heavy Novell influence in Caldera internally. In meetings (yes, I worked there for a couple of years), you would always here..."At Novell, we did it this way...". People would come in from or leave to Novell here and there. They were actually very passionate about open source. I even got a t-shirt shortly after the merger was announced, hinting that they'd be opening the source code to UnixWare (silly, huh).
Anyway, once Caldera started all the layoffs after the dot-com boom and SCO merger, a good chunk of engineering ended up at Novell. They closed the German development office (Erlangen), and most of those fellows headed over to Suse.
Then Novell bought Suse. Wow, funny how things come together. So yes, there are plenty of the same people working for Novell as were at SCO for a time, but as far as I can tell, it's mostly (or all) non-execs. Every guy I worked with was passionate about open source, and making the world a better place, etc.
Yeah, try installing it on Ubuntu. There's no menu item anywhere in any category (at least that I can tell).
Is there anyone out there that remembers Aurora?
Absolutely.
... free upgrade to Vista, why wait. What a mistake.
I bought XP thinking
Modus/Microsoft are a nightmare. I could have bought Vista straight out for the same price and not had the "upgrade an existing system only" bullshit. That's assuming I even end up getting a copy of my Vista upgrade CD some time in April, if it ever does arrive. Modus' web site is an absolute joke, it's down often, and the "check on your order" is stuck in some infinite time warp which never updates, never changes, and gives no actual information whatsoever. JOKE. Absolute joke.
I will NEVER, never ever buy any Microsoft upgrade again. Microsoft can blame Modus all they want, but we know who is responsible for this. They farmed this job out to the lowest bidder, and consumers suffer. When will we learn.
The only way to painlessly run Microsoft products is to pirate them.
It's even worse than that.
Incidentally, I've run Gentoo for years on laptops, servers, you name it. I switched to Ubuntu about a year ago for desktops, but still use Gentoo on a server.
What I like about Ubuntu in particular is that every six months you can pretty much EXPECT all your packages, for the most part, to be updated to the most current stable versions. With Gentoo it's so much more haphazard. Yeah, Linux itself is haphazard...right, I know. With Gentoo, however, you're tied to the maintainer of the package deciding when a new version of application X is stable. Maybe there's some formalized internal process for this, but I don't know of one. So I remember waiting for MONTHS for the latest version of KDE or Firefox when other distros were actually shipping these same versions.
Yes, I know I can always just go unstable, but if you live on the unstable Gentoo crack too long, you'll OD sooner or later. No question about it. So I tried to stick stable, and wait and wait until finally a bug is fixed and our benevolent maintainer finally deems us worthy to receive. So even though it has a reputation of being bleeding edge, it's a lot more complicated than that.
Sorry to play the cynic, but you have to ask how long this goodwill will last. Sun has a layoff announcement every 6 months it seems. "Non-core" business units are shut down at every turn.
I love Sun, and I think it's great that they're doing this. I hope they prove me wrong.
Doesn't sound like this will be too effective in stopping spam for
Yahoo users, and Yahoo is already a pain
to work with.
I setup a proxy and was a spam relay (unknowingly of course) for just
under a week. I got blacklisted on a couple of email sites, my ISP
bitched and I fixed it. So sorry.
So I'm now off every blacklist I know of, and everyone loves me again.
That is except Yahoo, the evil nazi bastards. I've filled out their
stupid, "fill this out to get
un-blacklisted" form at least 30 times (twice a day normally).
It must go into a black hole because they still are rejecting my mail.
Everyone else lets me through but stupid Yahoo, who seem to have NO
admins, no technical people, and a violate once banned for life reject
policy. Grrr. So I guess, if this new system lets them drop their damn
overbearing blacklists, I'm all for it.
That's funny you're right. Is it premature to laugh at the JBoss dudes already?
Monty