"But in 1996, and still in 1998, and even still in 2000 for that matter, most BeOS users were in denial about the company's fate and the possibility that store shelves might soon feature computers with BeOS pre-installed, jonadab
It's fully documented that Microsoft threatened Hitachi over plans to introduce the operating systems into itâ(TM)s product line. Compaq and Gateway were also prevented from marketing BeOS due to the terms of the Microsoft OEM contract. Microsoft also acted to depress the price of the initial BeOS IPO. See here where MS also acted to supress Tron.
"Microsoft sent two U.S. managers to Japan who expressed their 'anger' with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be, and 'reminded' Hitachi of the terms of its Windows license" theregister.co.uk
"BeOS had some cool advantages compared to the operating systems of the day, such as Windows 95 or, heaven help us, Mac System 7", jonadab
"they might want to look into the actions of Lewis Sinko who was documentation manager for the project Apollo.. Orders were sent down from President Nixon and President Ford to destroy the documents"
Did they also manage to erase any historical documents as to the existence of this Lewis Sinko?
This Mike Daisey is a proven liar, it beats me what Steve Wozniak is doing sharing the same stage with him. Doesn't he realise that Daisy is happy to make money out of trashing Apple and the memory of the other Steve. Daisey has never apologized or retracted the lies. Come on Wozniak, just because you're a straight-talking dude don't mean the rest are.
"another article from The Economist goes into greater detail about the steps Huawei has taken to mitigate some of these concerns in England â" including co-operating with the GCHQ in Britain, the UK's signals-intelligence agency, to ensure equipment built by Huawei is not back-doored".
Shouldn't that be the steps Huawei has taken to ensure equipment built by Huawei can be back-doored by GCHQ as easily as the spooks can back-door western companies.
"Internet Security Systems researcher Tom Cross unveiled research on how easily the "lawful intercept" function in Cisco's IOS operating system can be exploited" Feb 2010
"Either Mozilla gets Firefox right.. or Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome.. There has been some discussion and finger-pointing, and it seems that the rapid release process has to take the blame this time. Are we right to blame the rapid release process?"
No, we are not right to blame the 'rapid release process`, nobody forces you to upgrade. The only time such would be the case was if some web site broke on changing your browser. But that's not the case with Mozilla as they wouldn't have a financial stake in doing so. Besides which it is possible to run two versions of Firefox at the same time. This whole 'issue' was thought up in some PR department and is totally bogus, a bit like the Android fragmentation 'issue'...
"Not only has Valve Software successfully ported the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, but it actually runs faster on the open source OS than on Windows.. when Valve developers built a new Windows version of the game based on OpenGL code borrowed from the Linux version, that version also ran faster than the Direct3D version, at 305fps. link
"Either Mozilla gets Firefox right.. or Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome.. There has been some discussion and finger-pointing, and it seems that the rapid release process has to take the blame this time. Are we right to blame the rapid release process?"
No, we are not right to blame the 'rapid release process`, nobody forces you to upgrade. The only time such would be the case was if some web site broke on changing your browser. But that's not the case with Mozilla as they wouldn't have a financial stake in doing so. Besides which it is possible to run two versions of Firefox at the same time. This whole 'issue' was thought up in some PR department and is totally bogus, a bit like the Android fragmentation 'issue'...
"The Wall Street Journal is running an article that it claims seeks to dispel an urban legend about the internet: 'The creation of the Arpanet was not motivated by considerations of war".
It would be easier if techno journalists didn't keep repeatidly repeating that particular fable without first doing any fact checking. Vint Cerf himself has said that surviving a nuclear war was never an original design consideration.
Meanwhile we have self-styled 'guru of the digital age', Ben Hammersley of Wired Magazine erroniously stating that the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack, this on page 2 of '64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then'. If Wired can't even be bothered to do any fact checking, what chance do the rest of us have.
"Linux would still have failed if it had not been backed by google.. and they used their resources to make Android Linux a success, by selling direct to manufacturers
That's incorrect, the reasonGoogle succeded was that the Android OEMs didn't have a special relationship with Microsoft. Which explains MS going after them in court with the 'Microsoft Tax`...
"very few people understand how Gartner works and what makes them tick. In UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence: A complete guide to analyst influence"
Company hires Analyst to write report on their particular sector. Analyst writes positive report on Company. Analyst writes negative report on Companys competitors.
"Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant.
According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact but is based on pure opinion".
"a live Web exploit that detects if the target is running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux and drops a different trojan for each platform".
I typed 186.87.69.249:8081 into the address bar and this came up. Besides which, explain to me again why I would run a Java Applet from an unknown source and give it my root password?
From the financial chart, it doesn't look as if the Nokia-Microsoft deal has produced much results. That a company would abandon its own OS in favor of a rival companies just beggers belief. Yet another case of death-by-microsoft?
"We are on the verge of a purely HTML/JavaScript client world. Or we would be, if it weren't for mobile pushing us back to client-side development"
We would be except Microsoft killed the NetPC and Microsoft doesn't have the same influence in the mobile space to do the same thing.
"On the NetPC - Pat thinks we are being slow to follow-up and get the spec's out, and he is telling his guys to go ahead and start drafting.. the NC attack plan.. We have been closely monitoring, attacking, and winning NC threatened accounts"
"Last July I discussed another ExxonMobil deceit: They are still funding climate science deniers despite their public pledge to âoediscontinue contributions to several public policy research groups whose positions on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner" link
"Billionaire Mark Cuban talks in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about how he thinks high-frequency trading can be quite damaging to stock markets. He goes so far as to call high-frequency traders the 'ultimate hackers.'"
Not hackers, the people writing such HFT systems are more likely to be undergraduates from some School of Economics, writing the algorithms in Eclipse as that's the easiest IDE out there.
"When software programs are trying to outsmart other software programs and hack the world's trading platforms, that is a recipe for disaster.... How many times an hour are there failures across individual equities around the world because of software running algorithms battling each other for supremacy to make a profitable trade?"
Exactly, and as the number of such platforms increases the instability increases, creating huge positive feedback loops. I see it as once there are a critical mass of such systems they will become less usefull and there has been calls to ban HFT platforms outright.
"We have no idea. It's not a question of if or when we have meltdowns, it's just a question of how big and where".
"At some point in recent American history, we started assuming that if people are rich enough, they must be experts in all things. That's why we trust Mark Zuckerberg to save Newark schools and Bill Gates to rid the world of malaria. Expertise is so 20th century". link
'Bill Gates has certainly proven that he can make a pile of money, but does founding Microsoft make him an expert or even an authority on education?', bowl_haircut
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I suspect that a large part of the 'interview` process is for the interviewer to pick the brains of the latest batch of graduates and then present the re-hashed new ideas as their own to senior management.
Slashdot Mirror
"But in 1996, and still in 1998, and even still in 2000 for that matter, most BeOS users were in denial about the company's fate and the possibility that store shelves might soon feature computers with BeOS pre-installed, jonadab
It's fully documented that Microsoft threatened Hitachi over plans to introduce the operating systems into itâ(TM)s product line. Compaq and Gateway were also prevented from marketing BeOS due to the terms of the Microsoft OEM contract. Microsoft also acted to depress the price of the initial BeOS IPO. See here where MS also acted to supress Tron.
"Microsoft sent two U.S. managers to Japan who expressed their 'anger' with Hitachi over its arrangement with Be, and 'reminded' Hitachi of the terms of its Windows license" theregister.co.uk
"BeOS had some cool advantages compared to the operating systems of the day, such as Windows 95 or, heaven help us, Mac System 7", jonadab
WINDOWS_7 vs BeOS from 1999
"This story is complete BS"
I tend to agree, doesn't anyone do fact checking anymore?
"they might want to look into the actions of Lewis Sinko who was documentation manager for the project Apollo .. Orders were sent down from President Nixon and President Ford to destroy the documents"
Did they also manage to erase any historical documents as to the existence of this Lewis Sinko?
This Mike Daisey is a proven liar, it beats me what Steve Wozniak is doing sharing the same stage with him. Doesn't he realise that Daisy is happy to make money out of trashing Apple and the memory of the other Steve. Daisey has never apologized or retracted the lies. Come on Wozniak, just because you're a straight-talking dude don't mean the rest are.
"another article from The Economist goes into greater detail about the steps Huawei has taken to mitigate some of these concerns in England â" including co-operating with the GCHQ in Britain, the UK's signals-intelligence agency, to ensure equipment built by Huawei is not back-doored".
Shouldn't that be the steps Huawei has taken to ensure equipment built by Huawei can be back-doored by GCHQ as easily as the spooks can back-door western companies.
"Internet Security Systems researcher Tom Cross unveiled research on how easily the "lawful intercept" function in Cisco's IOS operating system can be exploited" Feb 2010
"Either Mozilla gets Firefox right .. or Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome .. There has been some discussion and finger-pointing, and it seems that the rapid release process has to take the blame this time. Are we right to blame the rapid release process?"
...
No, we are not right to blame the 'rapid release process`, nobody forces you to upgrade. The only time such would be the case was if some web site broke on changing your browser. But that's not the case with Mozilla as they wouldn't have a financial stake in doing so. Besides which it is possible to run two versions of Firefox at the same time. This whole 'issue' was thought up in some PR department and is totally bogus, a bit like the Android fragmentation 'issue'
> You seem to have posted in the wrong topic. Are you by any chance using Chrome and haven't got used to it? ;-)
I got interrupted by the phone ... &^!`1###
"Not only has Valve Software successfully ported the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, but it actually runs faster on the open source OS than on Windows .. when Valve developers built a new Windows version of the game based on OpenGL code borrowed from the Linux version, that version also ran faster than the Direct3D version, at 305fps. link
"Either Mozilla gets Firefox right .. or Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome .. There has been some discussion and finger-pointing, and it seems that the rapid release process has to take the blame this time. Are we right to blame the rapid release process?"
...
No, we are not right to blame the 'rapid release process`, nobody forces you to upgrade. The only time such would be the case was if some web site broke on changing your browser. But that's not the case with Mozilla as they wouldn't have a financial stake in doing so. Besides which it is possible to run two versions of Firefox at the same time. This whole 'issue' was thought up in some PR department and is totally bogus, a bit like the Android fragmentation 'issue'
"still waiting for your explanation...
Ref:
The article states that very few people understand how Analysts works, I offer one explanation ...
"The Wall Street Journal is running an article that it claims seeks to dispel an urban legend about the internet: 'The creation of the Arpanet was not motivated by considerations of war".
It would be easier if techno journalists didn't keep repeatidly repeating that particular fable without first doing any fact checking. Vint Cerf himself has said that surviving a nuclear war was never an original design consideration.
Meanwhile we have self-styled 'guru of the digital age', Ben Hammersley of Wired Magazine erroniously stating that the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack, this on page 2 of '64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then'. If Wired can't even be bothered to do any fact checking, what chance do the rest of us have.
"Linux would still have failed if it had not been backed by google .. and they used their resources to make Android Linux a success, by selling direct to manufacturers
...
That's incorrect, the reasonGoogle succeded was that the Android OEMs didn't have a special relationship with Microsoft. Which explains MS going after them in court with the 'Microsoft Tax`
The Open University has been available on television since at least 1969 and online at OpenLearn since 2006.
"very few people understand how Gartner works and what makes them tick. In UP and to the RIGHT: Strategy and Tactics of Analyst Influence: A complete guide to analyst influence"
Company hires Analyst to write report on their particular sector. Analyst writes positive report on Company. Analyst writes negative report on Companys competitors.
"Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant.
According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact but is based on pure opinion".
See also: MS-Gartner in tangle over Linux-knocking reports, and 'paying the analyst tax'
"a live Web exploit that detects if the target is running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux and drops a different trojan for each platform".
I typed 186.87.69.249:8081 into the address bar and this came up. Besides which, explain to me again why I would run a Java Applet from an unknown source and give it my root password?
"we just started buying boxes from a different vendor that are licensed for Win7"
There's your problem, time was and the software vendors had to make sure their software ran on the hardware not other-way-round.
From the financial chart, it doesn't look as if the Nokia-Microsoft deal has produced much results. That a company would abandon its own OS in favor of a rival companies just beggers belief. Yet another case of death-by-microsoft?
I would go with the latter ....
Why is this deemed a whole article on slashdot?
"We are on the verge of a purely HTML/JavaScript client world. Or we would be, if it weren't for mobile pushing us back to client-side development"
.. the NC attack plan .. We have been closely monitoring, attacking, and winning NC threatened accounts"
We would be except Microsoft killed the NetPC and Microsoft doesn't have the same influence in the mobile space to do the same thing.
"On the NetPC - Pat thinks we are being slow to follow-up and get the spec's out, and he is telling his guys to go ahead and start drafting
"Last July I discussed another ExxonMobil deceit: They are still funding climate science deniers despite their public pledge to âoediscontinue contributions to several public policy research groups whose positions on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner" link
"Billionaire Mark Cuban talks in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about how he thinks high-frequency trading can be quite damaging to stock markets. He goes so far as to call high-frequency traders the 'ultimate hackers.'"
... How many times an hour are there failures across individual equities around the world because of software running algorithms battling each other for supremacy to make a profitable trade?"
Not hackers, the people writing such HFT systems are more likely to be undergraduates from some School of Economics, writing the algorithms in Eclipse as that's the easiest IDE out there.
"When software programs are trying to outsmart other software programs and hack the world's trading platforms, that is a recipe for disaster.
Exactly, and as the number of such platforms increases the instability increases, creating huge positive feedback loops. I see it as once there are a critical mass of such systems they will become less usefull and there has been calls to ban HFT platforms outright.
"We have no idea. It's not a question of if or when we have meltdowns, it's just a question of how big and where".
You don't have to wait, it's already happened, see the Flash Crash of 2010, and how HFT Quote Stuffing Caused The Market Crash Of May 6.
"At some point in recent American history, we started assuming that if people are rich enough, they must be experts in all things. That's why we trust Mark Zuckerberg to save Newark schools and Bill Gates to rid the world of malaria. Expertise is so 20th century". link
'Bill Gates has certainly proven that he can make a pile of money, but does founding Microsoft make him an expert or even an authority on education?', bowl_haircut
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The Halo Effect
I suspect that a large part of the 'interview` process is for the interviewer to pick the brains of the latest batch of graduates and then present the re-hashed new ideas as their own to senior management.