Why are the/. ed's posting all these stories for a product that will not be released until 2006?
How is Longhorn possibly relevant at this point in time? Oh wait, Apple just released an OSX upgrade and Microsoft has a habit of releasing a flurry of press releases, product announcements, screenshots, and astroturfing efforts in a sad attempt to redirect public attention to themselves.
If you can't run video on the nightly news or CNN it has the same effect as, and is the equivalent of banning the media. The American public has a right to see those images and the media has a responsibility to show them. To do otherwise is irresponsible.
I think what the original poster meant is that Microsoft has a long history of leaking/releasing screenshots and tidbit about upcoming products when they know damn well that the product won't be available for many months if not years. So in that respect it is "vaporware" - the product won't see public release for at least a year and a half.
Microsoft has a long history of doing this - Exchange, MSSQL, Windows NT2000 & XP, SMS, etc. Why do they do this? To prevent existing customers from changing products. Example:
Tech: (product n.n) sucks ass and is unreliable. We should dump it for (other product). PHB: But the MS rep told me that (product n.n+1) is on the way and going to be released "Real Soon Now(tm)". Tech: They told you that to prevent you from switching to something that actually works. PHB: The MS rep promised that it would be out by the end of the year. Tech: Which really means the end of *next* year. Maybe. Maybe the end of the year after that.
You see how that works now? They lie to keep their customers locked in and on the hook. I have seen this first hand many many times.
Since you bring up OSX and browsers.....I just happened to have been in the middle of testing browsers and trying to figure out where all my memory was going.
All numbers are for startup only as the amount of memory used increases with use/navigation and the number of tabs open. All versions are the most recent (Camino is 10/22 nightly).
Exactly. As a longtime Mozilla user, and a Safari user for the last year or so I have to wonder who is seeing these popups. Perhaps IE is the only major browser that can't block popups (and still doesn't have tabs).
However, I do see pop-ups/under ads as bandwidth theft akin to spam - the use of *my* bandwidth in an execpected or unauthorized way. X10 should have to pay all their theft victims as well.
(And besides, all my X10 stuff stopped working after three years. I say hang 'em).
>I'm not saying that the average person is too dumb to understand science
But we're talking about the *American* public. The same public that elected GW Bush (or not) and The Govenator. The same public that watches Survivor. Yes, they are too dumb.
...admired by legions of fans who cast him as a modern-day warrior courageous enough to challenge the most powerful technology companies in the universe
If Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, et al are the most powerful tech companies in the entire Universe... well it's no wonder that SETI hasn't turned up anything then is it.;-)
The trilogy is showing in only one theater in the Los Angeles area, in Hollywood. That is just stupendously stupid.
According to the 2000 census there are 2.7M people over the age of 18 just in the city of Los Angeles, nevermind the rest of L.A. county which is probably another 3M-4M or so over the age of 18. It's going to be *very* crowded in that theater.
On top of that Hollywood is one of the very worst areas for traffic, and especially for parking (and in SoCal that's really saying something).
The sometime slugishness of the OSX Finder has been attributed by some to the fact that it was written in Carbon. There are someinterestingdiscussions on this around the net.
So, are the changes to the Finder in Panther just an update or has it been re-written using the Cocoa APIs?
We covered the Windows Virus-of-the-Week(tm), EU software patents, and Verisign. But where are todays SCO, linux on odd/small device, spammers get theirs, and Knoppix stories?
(And what the hell is is with/. ed's and Knoppix? Do they friends on the Knoppix team or something?)
Saw this coming this morning. I don't even have to read CERT, or SANS, or/. anymore to know when the 'Microsoft Worm-O-The-Month' has hit the Windows boxen near me. My net connection slows to a crawl, I can no longer get to most of the sites I frequent, and I can't get to my IMAP server.
To add insult to injury I haven't run an MS OS since about 1998 - only Linux, OBSD, & OSX.
I've had to deal with the effects of *others* carelessness and ignorance for *years* now. Lost productivity (I telecommute), the inconvenience, all my extra time having to tweak my firewall, and all the bandwidth that was rightfully mine that was stolen, the load on my mail server. That times the 100M (or whatever it is) people on the net.
If Ford made a car that was this poorly made consumers could sue them. At the very least the Feds would step in and force a recall.
So why haven't the Feds forced a Microsoft recall? Why have there been no class action suits for repeatedly defective products?
If Windows really does have 92-95% of the desktop market then it's a critical resource and should be treated as such. The Feds would never allow a phone system to continue if it crashed every month, or a rail system that had a major accident every month. It goes against national security.
If MS has that much market-share then they should be treated as a critical system just like phones or rail and held to the same standards.
and everyone who has ever tried to run a Java client application (without drinking Sun's Kool-Aid first) knows that, too.
I've always considered Suns Reality Distortion Field to be much stronger than Apples. The tired, underperforming hardware platform. The miserable performance of Java on both on the client and the server sides, Jini, etc, etc, etc.
Java is a piece of crap. All you Java fanboys (and girls) look deep into your souls - deep down you already know it's a piece of crap. I could go on with a lot of urls and references and proofs to prove my point and you would come back with a lot of counter-proofs, and it's pointless. You already know the truth.
Using one server as a master and n servers as slaves. Just make sure to write everything to the master. Replication to the slaves generally takes about a second or maybe two depending on load.
OK, not quite the same thing but this works quite well for ready heavy applications, and is very reliable unless you get a slave out of sync.
This was on v3.n.n - the good folks at MySQL have made many improvements to the replication facilities in the 4.n series I believe.
Blackmask is an OK resource, but they very few (none?) of the books in.doc (PalmReader) format, which is a shame. MSReader, iSilo, MobiPocket, Easyread and Rocket are all proprietary formats and Acrobat and HTML are a PITA to convert to text and then to.doc.
I've never used a P2P app (swear to Shiva) and I had no idea I could search for porn on the P2P networks.
This is excellent news! I'm going to try all them all later today and post an analysis of the quality and quantity of porn found on the various P2P networks.
Good lord, why muck through the porn sites when I can just search for 'medium breasted teutonic goddess' on P2P.
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Why are the /. ed's posting all these stories for a product that will not be released until 2006?
How is Longhorn possibly relevant at this point in time? Oh wait, Apple just released an OSX upgrade and Microsoft has a habit of releasing a flurry of press releases, product announcements, screenshots, and astroturfing efforts in a sad attempt to redirect public attention to themselves.
If you can't run video on the nightly news or CNN it has the same effect as, and is the equivalent of banning the media. The American public has a right to see those images and the media has a responsibility to show them. To do otherwise is irresponsible.
Oh you Perl people, always making things more complicated than they need to be.
wget -e robots=off -R cgi -m --no-parent http://www.whitehouse.gov/
I think what the original poster meant is that Microsoft has a long history of leaking/releasing screenshots and tidbit about upcoming products when they know damn well that the product won't be available for many months if not years. So in that respect it is "vaporware" - the product won't see public release for at least a year and a half.
Microsoft has a long history of doing this - Exchange, MSSQL, Windows NT2000 & XP, SMS, etc. Why do they do this? To prevent existing customers from changing products. Example:
Tech: (product n.n) sucks ass and is unreliable. We should dump it for (other product).
PHB: But the MS rep told me that (product n.n+1) is on the way and going to be released "Real Soon Now(tm)".
Tech: They told you that to prevent you from switching to something that actually works.
PHB: The MS rep promised that it would be out by the end of the year.
Tech: Which really means the end of *next* year. Maybe. Maybe the end of the year after that.
You see how that works now? They lie to keep their customers locked in and on the hook. I have seen this first hand many many times.
Since you bring up OSX and browsers.....I just happened to have been in the middle of testing browsers and trying to figure out where all my memory was going.
All numbers are for startup only as the amount of memory used increases with use/navigation and the number of tabs open. All versions are the most recent (Camino is 10/22 nightly).
Safari: 13.9M
Camino: 30.5M
iCab: 11.5M
Explorer: 17.5M
Mozilla: 27.9M
Firebird: 27.2M
Draw your own conclusions. Personally I can't see the supposed advantage of Firebird over Mozilla, but then I use Safari 99% of the time.
Exactly. As a longtime Mozilla user, and a Safari user for the last year or so I have to wonder who is seeing these popups. Perhaps IE is the only major browser that can't block popups (and still doesn't have tabs).
However, I do see pop-ups/under ads as bandwidth theft akin to spam - the use of *my* bandwidth in an execpected or unauthorized way. X10 should have to pay all their theft victims as well.
(And besides, all my X10 stuff stopped working after three years. I say hang 'em).
>I'm not saying that the average person is too dumb to understand science
But we're talking about the *American* public. The same public that elected GW Bush (or not) and The Govenator. The same public that watches Survivor. Yes, they are too dumb.
Maybe in Germany, Sweden, Norway or China.
What, now I have to upload to download to get a Linux distro? Get a fuxing grip Timothy.
Really? Please please point out exactly where on that page is a review, or a link to a review, of Panther.
Next time actually linking to what you are referring to would be helpful.
If Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, et al are the most powerful tech companies in the entire Universe ... well it's no wonder that SETI hasn't turned up anything then is it. ;-)
Until Firebird has a sidebar that is actually useful, that you can load a url in or one of the many handy Mozilla sidebars, I can't see switching.
It's a shame that the current release of Mozilla is going to be the last when Firebird is so clearly far from feature complete.
It's such a shame you posted AC so that I can't have the pleasure of modding you as the troll you so obviously are.
The trilogy is showing in only one theater in the Los Angeles area, in Hollywood. That is just stupendously stupid.
According to the 2000 census there are 2.7M people over the age of 18 just in the city of Los Angeles, nevermind the rest of L.A. county which is probably another 3M-4M or so over the age of 18. It's going to be *very* crowded in that theater.
On top of that Hollywood is one of the very worst areas for traffic, and especially for parking (and in SoCal that's really saying something).
WTF are they thinking?
The sometime slugishness of the OSX Finder has been attributed by some to the fact that it was written in Carbon. There are some interesting discussions on this around the net.
So, are the changes to the Finder in Panther just an update or has it been re-written using the Cocoa APIs?
Nerdvana
Litigation, no matter what side you're on, tears down businesses. Only the attorneys win.
Unless of course you have stock in the company, and you sell off blocks of it after every press release.
In a post from last week.
Somebody should hire me to predict the future of various aspects of I.T. ;-)
We covered the Windows Virus-of-the-Week(tm), EU software patents, and Verisign. But where are todays SCO, linux on odd/small device, spammers get theirs, and Knoppix stories?
(And what the hell is is with /. ed's and Knoppix? Do they friends on the Knoppix team or something?)
Installing this client allows RM-aware applications to work with Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)
Richard Stallman is going to be pissed
Saw this coming this morning. I don't even have to read CERT, or SANS, or /. anymore to know when the 'Microsoft Worm-O-The-Month' has hit the Windows boxen near me. My net connection slows to a crawl, I can no longer get to most of the sites I frequent, and I can't get to my IMAP server.
To add insult to injury I haven't run an MS OS since about 1998 - only Linux, OBSD, & OSX.
I've had to deal with the effects of *others* carelessness and ignorance for *years* now. Lost productivity (I telecommute), the inconvenience, all my extra time having to tweak my firewall, and all the bandwidth that was rightfully mine that was stolen, the load on my mail server. That times the 100M (or whatever it is) people on the net.
If Ford made a car that was this poorly made consumers could sue them. At the very least the Feds would step in and force a recall.
So why haven't the Feds forced a Microsoft recall? Why have there been no class action suits for repeatedly defective products?
If Windows really does have 92-95% of the desktop market then it's a critical resource and should be treated as such. The Feds would never allow a phone system to continue if it crashed every month, or a rail system that had a major accident every month. It goes against national security.
If MS has that much market-share then they should be treated as a critical system just like phones or rail and held to the same standards.
and everyone who has ever tried to run a Java client application (without drinking Sun's Kool-Aid first) knows that, too.
I've always considered Suns Reality Distortion Field to be much stronger than Apples. The tired, underperforming hardware platform. The miserable performance of Java on both on the client and the server sides, Jini, etc, etc, etc.
Java is a piece of crap. All you Java fanboys (and girls) look deep into your souls - deep down you already know it's a piece of crap. I could go on with a lot of urls and references and proofs to prove my point and you would come back with a lot of counter-proofs, and it's pointless. You already know the truth.
people have to go to a class and get a license to procreate. See if that helps with the problem first.
You must be this (>100IQ) smart to breed
Using one server as a master and n servers as slaves. Just make sure to write everything to the master. Replication to the slaves generally takes about a second or maybe two depending on load.
OK, not quite the same thing but this works quite well for ready heavy applications, and is very reliable unless you get a slave out of sync.
This was on v3.n.n - the good folks at MySQL have made many improvements to the replication facilities in the 4.n series I believe.
Blackmask is an OK resource, but they very few (none?) of the books in .doc (PalmReader) format, which is a shame. MSReader, iSilo, MobiPocket, Easyread and Rocket are all proprietary formats and Acrobat and HTML are a PITA to convert to text and then to .doc.
I've never used a P2P app (swear to Shiva) and I had no idea I could search for porn on the P2P networks.
This is excellent news! I'm going to try all them all later today and post an analysis of the quality and quantity of porn found on the various P2P networks.
Good lord, why muck through the porn sites when I can just search for 'medium breasted teutonic goddess' on P2P.