Quite interesting seeing so many pro-MS articles modded upwards, while the replies that are the stock & staple of Slashdot being scored as 1. Am I missing something here?
You could be right - you have to upgrade your OS before getting stability improvements in all your applications. Buy the new MSOS, get the new MSApps, and pray everyone plays nice-nice. That is, until MS develops their next OS and now the APIs are shot/unsupported/I-was-suppose-to-test-THAT?
Please, tell my local cable company to upgrade their MSOS every 18 months! I'm getting sick of their blue screen of death every weekend on Channel 99 (City Government).
Its incredibly interesting there are references to Third Party Software which seemingly implies MS/OS causes rest of the crash events. Frankly, since an OS is supposedly bulletproof in guarding system resources, could it be the undocumented APIs used by the MS Software Group that - in conjuction with third party use of dated API documents - is leading to these crashes?
Here are two exerpts from the article. I guess MSFT'ites must suffer with CPU upgrades to get the bennies from their ongoing hardware improvements. Another prime example of an "Apple Peeler".
Q. Did Steve Jobs make the right chip decision, choosing IBM for his upcoming G5 processor, or will Apple be missing out on some pretty hot Intel technology.
A. I think Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years, he just added a few more years to the life of his bad decisions. Steve's not an illogical guy, he's passionate and opinionated about the directions he wants is a poor path for the company as well as a poor path for the users.
Q. Let's talk a little bit about Transmetta. They are a small competing company, that designed a small and battery efficient CPU that is getting into more small computing devices, especially in the far East. Their premise is to throw away hardware legacy from the CPU, running it if needed in software mode.
A. You can't ignore backward compatibility. People still run applications in corporate environments that were developed 15-20 years ago, in fact many of those applications, the people who wrote those applications are now dead and their children have no idea what they did. You're just not going to change those compatibility requirements, and that's just a flawed, it sounds good, it feels compelling, but it's wrong. Secondly, when they've looked at the implementation the benefits that it brings, yes initially there were some benefits, their chips had lower power at a certain performance level than Intel did. That was because we were asleep at the wheel.
The problem is that first to market to consumers pretty much drives the technology. Why should Microsoft innovate when Apple can create proven business cases for Microsoft? iTunes Storefront is an excellent example. Want more? iPod. Firewire. Advance Device Bus (ADB - precursor to USB). QuickDraw. QuickTime.
When pointing at commercial implementation of geeky technologies (someone else discovered), then look at the first commercial use of Mouse. Windows. CDE (Quartz).
By no means does this list do Apple justice. The Microsoft Mystics and Soothsayers must be drooling over today's Apple Tech.
I've used mod points for Mattcelt's posting, but just have to reply - I immensely dislike SPAM & spammers that much. Don't knock my karma off for this, CmdrTaco!
SPAMMERs disregard the rules of SMTP fair play (falsified headers, for one), so we should have the tools to deal with these miscreants.
1) Allow users to reply to SPAM with "User unknown" message as if the administrator issued the message.
2) ISPs should allow users to report SPAM and falsified headers, which are then compared to the spooled email messages. E-mail issued from offending domains are rejected with a "Please Resubmit" message. This could be an Opt-in service to allow community policing for SPAM. Imagine the flood of Resubmit Messages back to offending (or falsified) domains. Even if the headers where hacked, the SPAMMERs would not reach their audience, and the postmasters would shrug off the "Please Resubmit" requests. Shouldn't swamp any email server.
3) ISPs should allow users to delete, ignore, and read email messages without informing the entire mailing list of your current status. AOL does this, and I can just imagine SPAMMERs elisting people to parse through email status - Who reads them, who deletes them, and who ignores it.
This is really a cascading patent, that basically encompasses everything that Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Barnes & Noble, et.al., already have implemented. I suppose I should be afraid of multi-threaded functions, A (First), B (Second) and C (Third) groups of services, and even advance concepts like debugging and class libraries.
HA!
I did suspect Microsoft of being brain dead in the innovation department, but THIS REALLY PROVES IT! I suppose the idea of "Caching resources" was especially clever...back in 1985!
Also, did anyone see that the only related applications (i presume patents) were all filed Jul 10, 2001? Netscape and Oracle get no mention at all! Both have significant investments in similar tech.
I am an emphatic leg jiggler, bouncing one leg or another while I toil at my work or home computer. People gotta HATE watching me do this, but it does flex the toes, ankles and calves (just as the article suggests).
Now I can tell my spouse that my annoying habit is a life-saving technique. Think she'll buy it?
(I must have irked the mighty Bill Gate$ himself).
Take a good look at their 11% and 22% figures. Just what DID they do to arrive at these peculiar numbers? Did Microsoft factor new OS rollouts after 5 years expired and the OS becomes unsupported? Does MS include service patches? Did they include Support Agreements that shake down the industry to buy into the next OS next year? These costs factor into EACH AND EVERY CPU, EVEN WITH MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS! Linux, on the other hand, once a drive is imaged can be mirrored across a network with little cost.
11% and 22% makes as much sense as 111% and 222% in this context. Just numbers floating in the ether to muddy the waters.
Also missing are details on whether the new Software Maintenance Licensing programs forced on the software industry by Microsoft was included in their TCO numbers. Another hilarious aspect is that Microsoft will only support their OSes for 5 years before the whole investment is scrapped.
Suspicious numbers - 11 and 22. It probably gets wiped out after year 5 ASSUMING YOU BOUGHT INTO THE NEW OS IN THE VERY FIRST YEAR. Basically Microsoft said "Invest in our new technologies and you won't be sorry!" Windows NT 4.0 is now up to Service Pack 6a which probably indicates the early release wasn't too TCO friendly.
Egads! He has a mouse and not afraid to use it!...Squeek!
The sorry folks must be IDC. Show me the numbers that magically arranged the 11% to 22% savings when using Win/2K. I wonder how much a hit Win/XP takes in TCO with every computer phoning home every now-and-then!
Lookie at me! I can play the percentages (albeit more accurately) than the sorry folks at CNN/IDT. Who did the monkey-math arrive at the 11% to 22% figure?
Your latest commercial for Priceline.com places you in front of the Priceline.com computer. The first time I saw this, I thought it was a spoof of Star Trek's episode of "Spock's Brain". As I haven't seen Leonard Nimoy lately, can you vouch it isn't Nimoy's Brain in there?
As a Embedded Firmware Engineer, I have been given NO OPTION but to use MSOSes at work, with the exception of a few Sun Workstations that - ahem - several people use SIMULTANEOUSLY (6 or more at a time). My forced use of MSOSes is nothing more than a simple Wandering Salesman problem: How to affect the most people in the shortest time/space?
Funny, but the shortest path is through IS Departments! Those same folks that make sure patches are not applied and software updates gather dust on the shelves.
I like & use MacOS X at home. It has a familiar Solaris CDE feel to it. I wouldn't cry if all our PCs where gathered up and donated to some insane as(s)ylum.
1) If Palladium, in this sense, is a commingling of software and Microprocessor, then a test matrix is needed that must test every combination of Pentium and MS/OS... especially since the new MSOS Licenses grant permission for Win/XP down to Win/31. What public assurances are there this testing will be performed?
2) Does Palladium now provide the "seamless" integration of Internet Explorer into MSOS? (Re: Billy Gates Testimony in Federal Court)
3) A "digital vault" is an intriquing idea. MMUs are also quite useful. Is there a connection between Palladium and the MMU that establishes trusted communications with each running program?
4) Does Palladium disable the vectorizing engine if there's tampering with the "digital vault"? What other components of the Processor/Chipset are disabled?
5) Does Palladium incorporate a "Security Fuse" that when tripped permanently disables the aforementioned features of the Processor/Chipset? (Think "Airbag")
Personally, I think Microsoft is attempting to create a computing paradyme. If there's a chance any "Hello World" computer program will destroy a $5000 machine, then we are looking at the demise of homegrown programming. Imagine a wild pointer triggering a Palladium meltdown.
Actually, with the FPGA chipmakers now paying attention to creating security in their products, it is extremely difficult to read FPGA programmed content. With the new Flash programmable FPGAs, the content is destroyed when the casing is breached and cannot be extracted when the security fuse is blown. The entire design would be created - from a garage - for no more than $100 and a wire wrapped board. Heck, ACTEL, XILINX and ALTERA probably already have PCI boards available...
It looks like slave driver BillyGates has finally found a heart after forcing coders into "Contractor" positions and long work hours (kills the family life), if my memory of 60 Minutes is correct.
? Why are my document files stored one way, my contacts another way, and my e-mail and instant-messaging buddy list still another, and why aren't they related to my calendar or to one another and easy to search en masse?
It exists and called Palm Desktop
? Why can't my computer protect me from distractions by screening phone calls and e-mails, and why can't it track me down when I'm out of the office or forward things to me automatically?
Verizon Call Forwarding
3rd Party Caller ID Boxes
? Why can't our computers arrange conference calls and online meetings for us?
I thought Outlook 2000/Office had conferencing?
? Why is it so hard for a soccer mom to set up a simple Website and e-mail group to keep people informed about who's driving and who's bringing treats?
(AOL Anywhere?)
? Why can't I tap into all my stuff at home or at work from any device that's mine, and have it just be available because it knows I'm me?
Summary : Apple Announces ARA 3.0.Adds Support for PPP and Open Transport Offers Ease-of-Use and Improved Stability and Performance . ARA 3.0 Product Family . Two Types of Connections Possible . Completion of Three-phase Product Roadmap Plan . System Requirements.
? Why can't I read digital versions of magazines on my portable computer that look the way they're supposed to look?
>>> If I suddenly magically increased c by 10%, that would be indisinguishable from stretching the universe by 10% in every spacial direction.
I believe you meant that increasing c by 10% would be indistinguishable from SHRINKING the universe by 10% in every radial direction. Also, with hyperspacial geometry, the universe would only have to shrink significantly less than 10%. Shrinking the time domain alone would magically increase c.
Ben Franklin had it right, you BUM GUESSERS!
Wil Wheaton Reprises Role on Enterprise?
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April Fools Wrap Up
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Let's be kind and just say the timing of THAT announcement is highly suspect. In the "Spirit" of AF'sD, I hope those producers at Paramount get an earful and he really does reprise his role on ST-E. I'm hitting his site now... just to make sure!
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Quite interesting seeing so many pro-MS articles modded upwards, while the replies that are the stock & staple of Slashdot being scored as 1. Am I missing something here?
You could be right - you have to upgrade your OS before getting stability improvements in all your applications. Buy the new MSOS, get the new MSApps, and pray everyone plays nice-nice. That is, until MS develops their next OS and now the APIs are shot/unsupported/I-was-suppose-to-test-THAT?
Please, tell my local cable company to upgrade their MSOS every 18 months! I'm getting sick of their blue screen of death every weekend on Channel 99 (City Government).
Its incredibly interesting there are references to Third Party Software which seemingly implies MS/OS causes rest of the crash events. Frankly, since an OS is supposedly bulletproof in guarding system resources, could it be the undocumented APIs used by the MS Software Group that - in conjuction with third party use of dated API documents - is leading to these crashes?
... oh damn!
Its DOJ To The Rescu
Here are two exerpts from the article. I guess MSFT'ites must suffer with CPU upgrades to get the bennies from their ongoing hardware improvements. Another prime example of an "Apple Peeler".
Q. Did Steve Jobs make the right chip decision, choosing IBM for his upcoming G5 processor, or will Apple be missing out on some pretty hot Intel technology.
A. I think Steve Jobs has made the wrong CPU choice for 20 years, he just added a few more years to the life of his bad decisions. Steve's not an illogical guy, he's passionate and opinionated about the directions he wants is a poor path for the company as well as a poor path for the users.
Q. Let's talk a little bit about Transmetta. They are a small competing company, that designed a small and battery efficient CPU that is getting into more small computing devices, especially in the far East. Their premise is to throw away hardware legacy from the CPU, running it if needed in software mode.
A. You can't ignore backward compatibility. People still run applications in corporate environments that were developed 15-20 years ago, in fact many of those applications, the people who wrote those applications are now dead and their children have no idea what they did. You're just not going to change those compatibility requirements, and that's just a flawed, it sounds good, it feels compelling, but it's wrong. Secondly, when they've looked at the implementation the benefits that it brings, yes initially there were some benefits, their chips had lower power at a certain performance level than Intel did. That was because we were asleep at the wheel.
The problem is that first to market to consumers pretty much drives the technology. Why should Microsoft innovate when Apple can create proven business cases for Microsoft? iTunes Storefront is an excellent example. Want more? iPod. Firewire. Advance Device Bus (ADB - precursor to USB). QuickDraw. QuickTime.
When pointing at commercial implementation of geeky technologies (someone else discovered), then look at the first commercial use of Mouse. Windows. CDE (Quartz).
By no means does this list do Apple justice. The Microsoft Mystics and Soothsayers must be drooling over today's Apple Tech.
I've used mod points for Mattcelt's posting, but just have to reply - I immensely dislike SPAM & spammers that much. Don't knock my karma off for this, CmdrTaco!
SPAMMERs disregard the rules of SMTP fair play (falsified headers, for one), so we should have the tools to deal with these miscreants.
1) Allow users to reply to SPAM with "User unknown" message as if the administrator issued the message.
2) ISPs should allow users to report SPAM and falsified headers, which are then compared to the spooled email messages. E-mail issued from offending domains are rejected with a "Please Resubmit" message. This could be an Opt-in service to allow community policing for SPAM. Imagine the flood of Resubmit Messages back to offending (or falsified) domains. Even if the headers where hacked, the SPAMMERs would not reach their audience, and the postmasters would shrug off the "Please Resubmit" requests. Shouldn't swamp any email server.
3) ISPs should allow users to delete, ignore, and read email messages without informing the entire mailing list of your current status. AOL does this, and I can just imagine SPAMMERs elisting people to parse through email status - Who reads them, who deletes them, and who ignores it.
Bets anyone?
This is really a cascading patent, that basically encompasses everything that Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Barnes & Noble, et.al., already have implemented. I suppose I should be afraid of multi-threaded functions, A (First), B (Second) and C (Third) groups of services, and even advance concepts like debugging and class libraries.
HA!
I did suspect Microsoft of being brain dead in the innovation department, but THIS REALLY PROVES IT! I suppose the idea of "Caching resources" was especially clever...back in 1985!
Also, did anyone see that the only related applications (i presume patents) were all filed Jul 10, 2001? Netscape and Oracle get no mention at all! Both have significant investments in similar tech.
Ditch Microsoft. Buy Apple. Any Questions?
I am an emphatic leg jiggler, bouncing one leg or another while I toil at my work or home computer. People gotta HATE watching me do this, but it does flex the toes, ankles and calves (just as the article suggests).
Now I can tell my spouse that my annoying habit is a life-saving technique. Think she'll buy it?
(I must have irked the mighty Bill Gate$ himself).
Take a good look at their 11% and 22% figures. Just what DID they do to arrive at these peculiar numbers? Did Microsoft factor new OS rollouts after 5 years expired and the OS becomes unsupported? Does MS include service patches? Did they include Support Agreements that shake down the industry to buy into the next OS next year? These costs factor into EACH AND EVERY CPU, EVEN WITH MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS! Linux, on the other hand, once a drive is imaged can be mirrored across a network with little cost.
11% and 22% makes as much sense as 111% and 222% in this context. Just numbers floating in the ether to muddy the waters.
Also missing are details on whether the new Software Maintenance Licensing programs forced on the software industry by Microsoft was included in their TCO numbers. Another hilarious aspect is that Microsoft will only support their OSes for 5 years before the whole investment is scrapped.
...Squeek!
Suspicious numbers - 11 and 22. It probably gets wiped out after year 5 ASSUMING YOU BOUGHT INTO THE NEW OS IN THE VERY FIRST YEAR. Basically Microsoft said "Invest in our new technologies and you won't be sorry!" Windows NT 4.0 is now up to Service Pack 6a which probably indicates the early release wasn't too TCO friendly.
Egads! He has a mouse and not afraid to use it!
Must be another fine mathematician from Microsoft. Say something nice about Linux and they always go nuts!
Man, gotta start using that Preview button.
The sorry folks must be IDC. Show me the numbers that magically arranged the 11% to 22% savings when using Win/2K. I wonder how much a hit Win/XP takes in TCO with every computer phoning home every now-and-then!
Lookie at me! I can play the percentages (albeit more accurately) than the sorry folks at CNN/IDT. Who did the monkey-math arrive at the 11% to 22% figure?
Your latest commercial for Priceline.com places you in front of the Priceline.com computer. The first time I saw this, I thought it was a spoof of Star Trek's episode of "Spock's Brain". As I haven't seen Leonard Nimoy lately, can you vouch it isn't Nimoy's Brain in there?
As a Embedded Firmware Engineer, I have been given NO OPTION but to use MSOSes at work, with the exception of a few Sun Workstations that - ahem - several people use SIMULTANEOUSLY (6 or more at a time). My forced use of MSOSes is nothing more than a simple Wandering Salesman problem: How to affect the most people in the shortest time/space?
Funny, but the shortest path is through IS Departments! Those same folks that make sure patches are not applied and software updates gather dust on the shelves.
I like & use MacOS X at home. It has a familiar Solaris CDE feel to it. I wouldn't cry if all our PCs where gathered up and donated to some insane as(s)ylum.
1) If Palladium, in this sense, is a commingling of software and Microprocessor, then a test matrix is needed that must test every combination of Pentium and MS/OS ... especially since the new MSOS Licenses grant permission for Win/XP down to Win/31. What public assurances are there this testing will be performed?
2) Does Palladium now provide the "seamless" integration of Internet Explorer into MSOS? (Re: Billy Gates Testimony in Federal Court)
3) A "digital vault" is an intriquing idea. MMUs are also quite useful. Is there a connection between Palladium and the MMU that establishes trusted communications with each running program?
4) Does Palladium disable the vectorizing engine if there's tampering with the "digital vault"? What other components of the Processor/Chipset are disabled?
5) Does Palladium incorporate a "Security Fuse" that when tripped permanently disables the aforementioned features of the Processor/Chipset? (Think "Airbag")
Personally, I think Microsoft is attempting to create a computing paradyme. If there's a chance any "Hello World" computer program will destroy a $5000 machine, then we are looking at the demise of homegrown programming. Imagine a wild pointer triggering a Palladium meltdown.
Call it the "Redmond Syndrome".
I can imagine what CmdrTaco's dog would say:
... the Cat did it!
You're Late!
I'm Hungry
Why don't we go out anymore?
It wasn't me
What does "Neuter" mean?
Actually, with the FPGA chipmakers now paying attention to creating security in their products, it is extremely difficult to read FPGA programmed content. With the new Flash programmable FPGAs, the content is destroyed when the casing is breached and cannot be extracted when the security fuse is blown. The entire design would be created - from a garage - for no more than $100 and a wire wrapped board. Heck, ACTEL, XILINX and ALTERA probably already have PCI boards available...
It looks like slave driver BillyGates has finally found a heart after forcing coders into "Contractor" positions and long work hours (kills the family life), if my memory of 60 Minutes is correct.
.Adds Support for PPP and Open Transport Offers Ease-of-Use and Improved Stability and Performance . ARA 3.0 Product Family . Two Types of Connections Possible . Completion of Three-phase Product Roadmap Plan . System Requirements .
? Why are my document files stored one way, my contacts another way, and my e-mail and instant-messaging buddy list still another, and why aren't they related to my calendar or to one another and easy to search en masse?
It exists and called Palm Desktop
? Why can't my computer protect me from distractions by screening phone calls and e-mails, and why can't it track me down when I'm out of the office or forward things to me automatically?
Verizon Call Forwarding
3rd Party Caller ID Boxes
? Why can't our computers arrange conference calls and online meetings for us?
I thought Outlook 2000/Office had conferencing?
? Why is it so hard for a soccer mom to set up a simple Website and e-mail group to keep people informed about who's driving and who's bringing treats?
(AOL Anywhere?)
? Why can't I tap into all my stuff at home or at work from any device that's mine, and have it just be available because it knows I'm me?
Summary : Apple Announces ARA 3.0
? Why can't I read digital versions of magazines on my portable computer that look the way they're supposed to look?
Adobe Acrobat Reader?
>>> If I suddenly magically increased c by 10%, that would be indisinguishable from stretching the universe by 10% in every spacial direction.
I believe you meant that increasing c by 10% would be indistinguishable from SHRINKING the universe by 10% in every radial direction. Also, with hyperspacial geometry, the universe would only have to shrink significantly less than 10%. Shrinking the time domain alone would magically increase c.
Ben Franklin had it right, you BUM GUESSERS!
Let's be kind and just say the timing of THAT announcement is highly suspect. In the "Spirit" of AF'sD, I hope those producers at Paramount get an earful and he really does reprise his role on ST-E. I'm hitting his site now ... just to make sure!
In C# (or !C as I think of it), all programs start with
#include "msio.h"
... the US has no plans to nuke Canada !!!
Then I look forward to the federal judge modularizing Micro$oft into several Pico$ofts!