People don't just bash for no reason. I dunno, maybe some do.
But Katz really needs to put his money where is mouth is. If he wants to be a writer, he needs to learn to spell. If he wants to cover "geek stuff", he needs to replace all that image with just a little bit of competance.
If he would at least try, I bet it would cut the flames down by 3/4.
Or did the MSNBC article just cut&paste large sections of the Wired article?
And talk about an astroturfed poll... 3% think that M$ giving us refunds will raise the price of PCs? 25% think windows is part of the machine? Please.
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If you are Microsoft, you'd think this way:
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+ MS DOS (undelete?, scandisk?, doublespace?)
QDOS by SCP ripped off from CPM, licensed by MS/
+ MS SQLServer
Originally Sybase. SQL itself developed by IBM.
+ MS LAN Manager
Not licensed, but developed to compete with Novell using Novell tech.
+ MS Word
An original product, AFAIK. Originally Word for Macintosh.
+ MS MediaPlayer
D'oh! I forgot the name of the company that sold their player to MS.
+ MS IE
Formerly known as Spyglass.
(And here's some "almost" and some future ones)
+ MS Rose
??
+ MS Quicken
MS Money.
+ MS Visio + MS NBC + MS Reserve Bank + MS Security Council
Yes it make for good marketing, but any market niche they could go for would be one currently controlled or at least coveted by intel.
Intel has far more resources. If they had a good idea what Transmeta was up to, they could possibly get a competing product to market first or at least make things hairy for them.
Firstly, 1998 was a very good year for food. So good that a lot of producers just broke even because prices are so low. "Hoarding" (and I hardly call 500 pounds of rice hoarding) will cause no shortage.
The concern is not that the farmers' computers will break. The concern is that 90% of the crops grown in this country are from high-yeild hybridized seeds. This has the side effect of making them sterile. You can't reserve 5%-10% for replanting, you must buy them from the likes of Monsanto and ADM.
The concern is that these companies may (emphasis on may) not be able to produce and distribute more seed.
I don't think it's worth building a compound and stocking AK-47's, but I don't think it's irrational to invest $100-$200 on basic supplies. The Mormons have been doing it for 170 years.
Oooh! Doesn't that sound nice! The government is big and ineffective, so we should hand the reigns of power over to a dangerously unbalanced despot like bill gates!
If too many people end up unproductive and on welfare, our benevolent national CEO could "downsize" them. Every year or so they could "raise the bar" on us and if we can't handle the extra workload, we could go on "work improvement" before we got downsized.
No frills, no waste, a place for everyone and everyone in their place. National dress code, random drug screens and searches, ID worn on the lapel at all times... Free Coke for everyone!
The more I think about it, the better it sounds! Let's let corporations run the country. We'd be a model to the world of national efficiency!
Not with Billy G at the helm, not on your life. MS shied away from the internet initially precisely because it was free. "Communism" is how I believe he first described it.
Bill is the child of a rich corporate lawyer and founded his fortune on inherited money and high-level connections within IBM. (His mother was well acquainted with several members of IBM's board of directors, and she helped him get the DOS deal) His first claim to fame was porting the freeware Dartmouth U. language BASIC to the Altair, and then demanding that the users of "his" language not share it with others.
Bill is an under-socialized hyper-competitive nine year old. He would sooner off Linus than cooperate in an OSS project. Remember Gary Kildall? (may he rest in peace)
MS may eventually out of necessity take advantage of Linux, but I can about guarantee you that Bill would leave the company if it happened.
Having 6-12 months worth of food is a good idea for a lot of reasons, not just for the possible fallout of Y2K. I live in an earthquake zone.
Anyway, I don't think that Y2K is overhyped. I think it is underhyped. The thing most of us who are preparing are afraid of is panicky irrational underprepared neighbors, not starvation.
Frightened people have a great capacity to be grand-mahl shitheads, especially in large groups. If the government or the media could convince people to plunk down $50-$100 on minimal food storage, anything else that might happen would be bearable.
Yes, at home I have Debian, PHT, 3 versions of RedHat, and Slackware 1.2.13 (and one running Linux box) At work OTOH, we bought 1 copy of Caldera and installed it on about 10 machines.
Is RedHat using it's might to advance Linux, or are they using the might of Linux for their own advancement?
If RedHat started using the penguin logo rather than plastering their own logo on everything they do, and stop refering to Linux as "their" OS, I would beieve the former.
Look how many programs come out as RedHat 5.x binary RPMs only.
Bad trend. Bad bad bad.
Of course any distro could be made to be RH-compatible, but it doesn't seem like they should have to.
Know what would be cool?
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3Dfx/Mesa directly supported by X and the window manager.
Rasterman? Are you listening?
But SMP *is* more economical.
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It may be a bit spendy to have an SMP system *today*, but imagine how much money you could save on upgrades.
You could fork out $700 for a pentium III, or you could plug another $80 Celeron 300a into your SMP board. (mine was only $100 more than a regular PII board)
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People don't just bash for no reason. I dunno, maybe some do.
But Katz really needs to put his money where is mouth is. If he wants to be a writer, he needs to learn to spell. If he wants to cover "geek stuff", he needs to replace all that image with just a little bit of competance.
If he would at least try, I bet it would cut the flames down by 3/4.
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Real geeks don't do MS. You shouldn't be offended.
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No really, this is the way it always is.
/. is if all the cogent people left.
The best way to rectify the situation is to set a good example. You may not think anyone notices you if you post intelligently, but they do.
The worst thing that could happen to
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Anyone feel just a little bit patronized? I enjoyed Katz's stuff in the past, but recently I've started feeling like his sociology experiment.
I don't want him to leave, I just want him to return to relevance. Tell us more of your Linux adventures, Katz!
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Which brought us the word "wardialer".
I understand Joshua's access code is also in several password dictionaries.
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Or did the MSNBC article just cut&paste large sections of the Wired article?
And talk about an astroturfed poll...
3% think that M$ giving us refunds will raise the price of PCs? 25% think windows is part of the machine? Please.
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Let me try this. I like quizzes.
+ MS DOS (undelete?, scandisk?, doublespace?)
QDOS by SCP ripped off from CPM, licensed by MS/
+ MS SQLServer
Originally Sybase. SQL itself developed by IBM.
+ MS LAN Manager
Not licensed, but developed to compete with Novell using Novell tech.
+ MS Word
An original product, AFAIK. Originally Word for Macintosh.
+ MS MediaPlayer
D'oh! I forgot the name of the company that sold their player to MS.
+ MS IE
Formerly known as Spyglass.
(And here's some "almost" and some future ones)
+ MS Rose
??
+ MS Quicken
MS Money.
+ MS Visio
+ MS NBC
+ MS Reserve Bank
+ MS Security Council
MSN.GOV 1(800)WEGVRN-U
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Yes it make for good marketing, but any market niche they could go for would be one currently controlled or at least coveted by intel.
Intel has far more resources. If they had a good idea what Transmeta was up to, they could possibly get a competing product to market first or at least make things hairy for them.
Firstly, 1998 was a very good year for food. So good that a lot of producers just broke even because prices are so low. "Hoarding" (and I hardly call 500 pounds of rice hoarding) will cause no shortage.
The concern is not that the farmers' computers will break. The concern is that 90% of the crops grown in this country are from high-yeild hybridized seeds. This has the side effect of making them sterile. You can't reserve 5%-10% for replanting, you must buy them from the likes of Monsanto and ADM.
The concern is that these companies may (emphasis on may) not be able to produce and distribute more seed.
I don't think it's worth building a compound and stocking AK-47's, but I don't think it's irrational to invest $100-$200 on basic supplies. The Mormons have been doing it for 170 years.
Oooh! Doesn't that sound nice! The government is big and ineffective, so we should hand the reigns of power over to a dangerously unbalanced despot like bill gates!
If too many people end up unproductive and on welfare, our benevolent national CEO could "downsize" them. Every year or so they could "raise the bar" on us and if we can't handle the extra workload, we could go on "work improvement" before we got downsized.
No frills, no waste, a place for everyone and everyone in their place. National dress code, random drug screens and searches, ID worn on the lapel at all times... Free Coke for everyone!
The more I think about it, the better it sounds! Let's let corporations run the country. We'd be a model to the world of national efficiency!
A joke my brother, a joke. Yeesh.
Not with Billy G at the helm, not on your life.
MS shied away from the internet initially precisely because it was free. "Communism" is how I believe he first described it.
Bill is the child of a rich corporate lawyer and founded his fortune on inherited money and high-level connections within IBM. (His mother was well acquainted with several members of IBM's board of directors, and she helped him get the DOS deal) His first claim to fame was porting the freeware Dartmouth U. language BASIC to the Altair, and then demanding that the users of "his" language not share it with others.
Bill is an under-socialized hyper-competitive nine year old. He would sooner off Linus than cooperate in an OSS project. Remember Gary Kildall? (may he rest in peace)
MS may eventually out of necessity take advantage of Linux, but I can about guarantee you that Bill would leave the company if it happened.
One day you will pay for your crimes against the people, and I will be there laughing while I burn your campus and nail you all to trees.
Having 6-12 months worth of food is a good idea for a lot of reasons, not just for the possible fallout of Y2K. I live in an earthquake zone.
Anyway, I don't think that Y2K is overhyped. I think it is underhyped. The thing most of us who are preparing are afraid of is panicky irrational underprepared neighbors, not starvation.
Frightened people have a great capacity to be grand-mahl shitheads, especially in large groups.
If the government or the media could convince people to plunk down $50-$100 on minimal food storage, anything else that might happen would be bearable.
The VxD system which NT 4.0 and 98 use came from 95. Prior to that, NT = 3.51 still used OEMSETUP.INF just like WFW 3.11.
The features of the "Memphis" project got split up between 95-OSR2, 98, Outlook, and IE4. I still have an internal release of Memphis :)
The integration between NT and 95 (Cairo) should have been the latest version of both products though, yes.
Yes, at home I have Debian, PHT, 3 versions of RedHat, and Slackware 1.2.13 (and one running Linux box)
At work OTOH, we bought 1 copy of Caldera and installed it on about 10 machines.
So all the trade rags were saying when it came out, remember?
We all know better than that.
I defy you to find *any* MS product released since 3Q 97 that does not require IE4.
:) (Not actually written by MS)
Age of Empires does not count
Big corporations always get away with murder.
Remember in the late '70's when Gulf Oil defrauded the government out of like, 60 million dollars?
The government settled with them for the return of $30 million of it.
Think the average citizen could return half of what he stole and thus avoid jail time?
Ballmer is less paranoid, less obnoxious and more honest than Emperor Billpitine, right?
Is RedHat using it's might to advance Linux, or are they using the might of Linux for their own advancement?
If RedHat started using the penguin logo rather than plastering their own logo on everything they do, and stop refering to Linux as "their" OS, I would beieve the former.
Ditto for Caldera.
Look how many programs come out as RedHat 5.x binary RPMs only.
Bad trend. Bad bad bad.
Of course any distro could be made to be RH-compatible, but it doesn't seem like they should have to.
3Dfx/Mesa directly supported by X and the window manager.
Rasterman? Are you listening?
It may be a bit spendy to have an SMP system *today*, but imagine how much money you could save on upgrades.
/proc/cpuinfo
You could fork out $700 for a pentium III, or you could plug another $80 Celeron 300a into your SMP board. (mine was only $100 more than a regular PII board)
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