As I understand it (from speaking to someone who's just seen it from the inside) the strategy is to aquire rather than recruit. So 6,000 people or so in North America will get their pay from a different company, they're not creating 6,000 new vacancies.
As the licenses are a complete fantasy anyway (they have to trick people into taking them... for nothing), they might as well go for the biggest publicity bang-per-buck.
Well, that and he directly hosted full length captures of the shows. But let's not bring sordid facts into this, you've got a good angry rant going there.
When Red Hat goes tits up and get bought out lock, stock, barrel and intellectual property portfolio, and their new owner (SUN aka Microsoft) start leveraging those sweet Red Hat "defensive" patents against.com and.edus, don't - I repeat - do not start pissing and whining that you never saw it coming.
Red Hat is a commercial entity. When - not if - they go to the Dark Side, they are going to wreck Linux. Best case, they only poison the chalice for other commercial vendors. Worst case, they pull the full SCO and start going after end users.
Go into a nuclear power station (make sure to wear your I Am Not A Terrorist shirt). You'll find VMS/VAX machines running software that's gone decades without an error or reboot. Old news.
> Reported, not confirmed. MS's security page doesn't say it affects SP2 at all.
It'll be confirmed in SP2 when they release the fix for it in SP3, same as everything else that's so bad that they can't admit that the hole's even there until after they throw a plank over it.
I'd taunt you further, but I have to reboot now after patching the latest five holes that they're admitting to.
It's a release candidate, it's expected that it'll be verified as bug free. Or at least that's the way it works at actual software companies. Get with the program.
(shortly before abandoning it). If you want Linux it, you go out and get it yourself, exactly the flavour that you need. I certainly don't want to be railroaded into paying for a Lin*whatever desktop any more than I want to pay for a Windows install.
Aw, jeez, this is a timothy article? I thought I had that goober in my ignore list. Now I've just remembered why. He's either a troll or a genuine retard.
Before y'all go ahead and rate me as a troll, then please read the article and ask yourself how a paid editor on a tech site could let something so contentious and so badly wrong slip by. Do you see the section? Science. Science.
I think this goes beyond mere common or garden laziness and into the realms of the deliberate. If it is simply incompetence, then let's just outsource the whole damn "editorial" team to India and be done with it.
Look, you dipshit, do you even know what an editor is supposed to do? WTF is with this apologist bootlicking? These guys are (supposedly) paid professionals. That kind of glaring error wouldn't be allowed in my local free news rag. What exactly is it that you think timothy et all do all day?
Hi CmdrTaco. Welcome to Slashdot, where we have read about this about a jillion times already.
Can we please stop pimping "prototypes" and "plans" for this technology over and over and over again. How about waiting until, you know, they actually put one up there, and keep it up, and get it, you know, working. Please. Please.
Our $OUTSOURCED developers are all but strip-searched each day. Also, we don't allow them to see any code. Sure, they can't do any work, but oh boy are they cheap.
If you haven't worked in Dilbert land, you may think I am joking. Oh, how I wish that I was. It's laughable; if they really want to swipe things, they could stick a flash reader in their sock. We can't stop them. But what's important is that we've shown that we don't trust them. That's the kind of lesson that really sinks in.
Lets start - and then end - with something that only runs on Linux and perhaps BSD. What the flying fuck is the point of that? Nobody will support it on Windows. Nobody will use it on Windows. Nobody will fucking care. How many wxWindows apps are there out there right now? Don't bullshit me, how fucking many?
God damn, you basement dwelling open sourcers piss me off. Drive or get off the fucking tee. Do you have a Java/.NET killer? Put up or shut the fuck up.
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> Have you seen "I, robot"?
No, but I've read a book which apparently co-incidentally has the same title.
We should start building that stuff in right now. Making a smart AI is fine and dandy, but let's be sure that it's an obedient AI.
iT's 4 1uNiX ssytesm!!!!!! i cum in myy pannts!!!
As I understand it (from speaking to someone who's just seen it from the inside) the strategy is to aquire rather than recruit. So 6,000 people or so in North America will get their pay from a different company, they're not creating 6,000 new vacancies.
That's not a question, by the way.
As the licenses are a complete fantasy anyway (they have to trick people into taking them... for nothing), they might as well go for the biggest publicity bang-per-buck.
Well, that and he directly hosted full length captures of the shows. But let's not bring sordid facts into this, you've got a good angry rant going there.
Let someone else innovate, steal the idea, clone it and compete against them without rewarding them for their work.
Name me five open source products that aren't simply a clone of a commercial products.
They'll just try again and again and again until they get their way?
How much will satisfy them? How much power? How much money? I'm reminded of Cerebus the Aardvark.
Q: If you could be rich, how much money would you want?
Cerebus: All of it.
Q: No, I mean, if you could have as much money as you wanted, how much would you really want?
Cerebus: All of it.
Also, live half way around the world, and if pressed say "Go ahead and sue me, fat American imperialist, I've already spent the money."
When Red Hat goes tits up and get bought out lock, stock, barrel and intellectual property portfolio, and their new owner (SUN aka Microsoft) start leveraging those sweet Red Hat "defensive" patents against .com and .edus, don't - I repeat - do not start pissing and whining that you never saw it coming.
Red Hat is a commercial entity. When - not if - they go to the Dark Side, they are going to wreck Linux. Best case, they only poison the chalice for other commercial vendors. Worst case, they pull the full SCO and start going after end users.
You were warned, oh ye of boundless faith.
Go into a nuclear power station (make sure to wear your I Am Not A Terrorist shirt). You'll find VMS/VAX machines running software that's gone decades without an error or reboot. Old news.
> Reported, not confirmed. MS's security page doesn't say it affects SP2 at all.
It'll be confirmed in SP2 when they release the fix for it in SP3, same as everything else that's so bad that they can't admit that the hole's even there until after they throw a plank over it.
I'd taunt you further, but I have to reboot now after patching the latest five holes that they're admitting to.
It's a release candidate, it's expected that it'll be verified as bug free. Or at least that's the way it works at actual software companies. Get with the program.
(shortly before abandoning it). If you want Linux it, you go out and get it yourself, exactly the flavour that you need. I certainly don't want to be railroaded into paying for a Lin*whatever desktop any more than I want to pay for a Windows install.
Aw, jeez, this is a timothy article? I thought I had that goober in my ignore list. Now I've just remembered why. He's either a troll or a genuine retard.
Before y'all go ahead and rate me as a troll, then please read the article and ask yourself how a paid editor on a tech site could let something so contentious and so badly wrong slip by. Do you see the section? Science. Science.
I think this goes beyond mere common or garden laziness and into the realms of the deliberate. If it is simply incompetence, then let's just outsource the whole damn "editorial" team to India and be done with it.
Look, you dipshit, do you even know what an editor is supposed to do? WTF is with this apologist bootlicking? These guys are (supposedly) paid professionals. That kind of glaring error wouldn't be allowed in my local free news rag. What exactly is it that you think timothy et all do all day?
Van Allen belts. Radiation != UV. You're a troll or a junior schooler.
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Hi CmdrTaco. Welcome to Slashdot, where we have read about this about a jillion times already.
Can we please stop pimping "prototypes" and "plans" for this technology over and over and over again. How about waiting until, you know, they actually put one up there, and keep it up, and get it, you know, working. Please. Please.
THIS IS STHE TMOST IMPORATEWNT THING EVIR!!!!!!!!
(just like it was the last ten times I read about it)
Our $OUTSOURCED developers are all but strip-searched each day. Also, we don't allow them to see any code. Sure, they can't do any work, but oh boy are they cheap.
If you haven't worked in Dilbert land, you may think I am joking. Oh, how I wish that I was. It's laughable; if they really want to swipe things, they could stick a flash reader in their sock. We can't stop them. But what's important is that we've shown that we don't trust them. That's the kind of lesson that really sinks in.
Not even remotely. Why do you ask?
Lets start - and then end - with something that only runs on Linux and perhaps BSD. What the flying fuck is the point of that? Nobody will support it on Windows. Nobody will use it on Windows. Nobody will fucking care. How many wxWindows apps are there out there right now? Don't bullshit me, how fucking many?
God damn, you basement dwelling open sourcers piss me off. Drive or get off the fucking tee. Do you have a Java/.NET killer? Put up or shut the fuck up.
Microsoft killed it with their J++ extensions and non compatible VM. Half the stuff that's out there won't run on a Sun JVM. It's over. Let it go.
Get on the .NET bandwagon. Mono is going to have to follow where .NET leads. Compatibility through overwhelming force. Don't compete with the big dog.