You actually make the Grandfather's point for him.
win3-win95-win98-winME was a separate product line to NT3-NT4-W2K-XP-2K3. Lumping them in together is like lumping MS Office and MS Works together.
I still don't buy the 5 years claim though, Win 1.0 came out in 1985 (did anyone notice?) Win 2.0 was in 1987 (ditto) Win 3.0 1990 Win 3.1 in 1992 Win 3.11 in 1993 Win95, 98 and ME - well, guess. I would *not* call 3.1 a minor release, and 3.11 was only minor if you did not need any form of networking.
NT3.1 was in 1993 NT3.5 in 94 NT4 in 96 (my work PC was upgraded away from this in February AT LAST:-( ) W2K in 2000 (doh) XP in 2001 not sure I'd count Server 2003, but what the hell.
There are 5-year gaps there, but that is because the MS had noticed that business users are more than reluctant to upgrade. At my previous job, they upgraded from NT4 to W2K in 2002 for some arcane reason. At both places there was a complete hardware + software rollout involved.
Altered data is written back to disc pretty quickly but left in cache as long as possible for obvious reasons. Clearing stuff out of cache is basically a process of deciding which data pages have overstayed their welcome. I/O does not take place.
The whole idea of this is that a SW/HW stop should not cause data loss. All updates are also written to a separate Audit device as well.
If you have a system thread cleaning out blocks of disk cache memory then of course it is going to suffer. The whole point of hyperthreading was that one thread could run while another was waiting for I/O.
The first tests on Linux when Hyperthreading came out were also pretty discouraging.
The main cause is reunification, the secondary causes could be said to be an economic slowdown which started in 2001, some tax cuts which were designed to stimulate growth, and the introduction of the Euro which was often used to hide price increases. Some of those price hikes were perceived rather than real, but consumer spending went way down as a result.
In other words: the Microsoft approach is the best one. Go after the barstewards and make them pay.
Part of the problem is the legal framework, unsolicited mass mailing needs to become 'more illegal'. Paying someone else to spam needs to be targeted, if a company in the US pays someone in Uzbekistan to send spam, that company in the US has to suffer. Follow the money.
Blacklisting entire countries is a different approach, once strong anti-spam laws are in place in some of the main jurisdictions, recalcitrant areas can be *persuaded* to adopt/enforce similar measures by blacklisting. That blacklisting has to be done at the ISP level though, not by law.
Are you sure, Windows is more of a desktop / small server OS, it does not scale up that well. My guess would be more in the direction of Solaris.
What is the largest MS server farm in the world? Hotmail? It will be at least one order of magnitude smaller than Google.
The decision between one of the BSDs and Linux must have been more marginal. OpenBSD (?) is more secure but does not support the same range of hardware and is not as well known (non-professionals are less familiar with it). Nowadays that is not a problem for Google, but it will have been when they started up as a two man outfit.
Allegedly the Ozone is returning much faster than it should be, given the rate at which the Ozone Destroyers are breaking down.
That of course gave rise to another theory, which was that massive amounts of Sulphur from the Mt St Helens had actually caused the depletion. Mt St Helens is in the US so I guess we can still blame the Americans:-)
Having read the article, I am not so sure. He appears to have been seriously pissing people off with his spamming which appears to have been purely within Russia.
He was probably the biggest spammer of Russian e-mail addresses, not the biggest Russian spammer. Whatever.
I found another article on that website interesting, a judge who did not rule the way Putin wants - this is about the Yukos Oil company - has just been sacked. One man, one vote. Putin is the man with the vote.
Summing that up: ATI cards are better when they have been around a while, nVidia cards are only much use when new.
Looks like ATI should think about matching nVidia in offering binary drivers for their new cards, in addition to the open drivers later. They do want to sell new hardware, right?.
Italy, France, (West) Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
One of the original aims of the EEC was to rope Big Bad Germany (TM) into having a common interest with it's neighbours, to integrate them into Western Europe. The 6 original countries also all had a veto-right on any changes.
50 years later the aims, participants and agenda have changed completely. A veto-right with over 20 countries would also have been ridiculous. Apart from that, virtually all of the people of voting age back then are now dead. No irony there.
That may have applied in France, but less so in the Netherlands. The perception there was that it was biased towards the larger countries - like France.
Since they had not officially announced DRM support in the Pentium D processor and the 945 Express Chipset, I think those folks at 'The Register' are justified in taking this Intel statement at face value.
Intel also appeared to have realised that people are 'not keen' on this technology so maybe there is hope yet that it won't become mandatory on all Processors/Chipsets. I suppose the best we can hope for in the ling term is DRM on hardware sold to corporations and none on hardware sold to private customers.
What is the current situation with DVD regonal codes? They were supposed to be mandatory, but I thought it was still easy enough to get stuff without them.
What timezone are you in? The show was broadcast 2 days ago.
The most interesting part for me was seeing things like Turkey giving Greece maximum points, and Serbia and Croatia giving each other a lot of points (hey, the war was a good 10 years ago).
The Germans coming last (less than half the points of anyone else) also provoked a bit of national soul-searching. Only a bit though:-)
Oh yes, and when I drove home that night there were some cars on the road beeping their horns with massive Greek flags being waved from the passenger's side. Looks like it was important to someone.
One of my machines runs WinXP (for remote access to the Outlook server at work, apart from anything else) and I just tried explicitly looking for Security Updates.
The only such update was some utility to remove malicious coding such as Sasser.
I don't buy Crack and have never come into contact with Crack dealers.
I don't buy anything via spam, but have to check my 30-50 mails a day for false positives (two in 6 months) and false negatives (3-5 a day).
My point? A Crack dealer will destroy a few lives, people who let their lives be destroyed. A Spammer will annoy and try to defraud millions.
Maybe that Spammer should have his sentence reduced a bit on appeal, but the sentencing of these arrogant antisocal barstewards should cause them some pain. 3 years is probably enough.
My feeling on this is that if you automate all the jobs and make things correspondingly cheaper, no-one will be able to afford those wonderfully cheap things anyway because everyone will be out of a job.
A lot of people work in construction, and most of them would be in big trouble if we all lived in robot-built houses.
Why do you see this as a troll? We have all seen people thrown out of work by outsourcing. Some of them will find alternative employment (at McWalMart?), but a lot of them are screwed.
I can think of one case when a change like this was beneficial: In Sicily in the 1960's, a lot of people worked in the Sulphur mines. Quite apart from the stink, that job was a death sentence. Life expectancy was under 50. Then a new method of extracting sulphur was invented in the US. The industry collapsed. What happened? Germany was desperately looking for people to work in the factories which fuelled the 'Wirtschaftswunder'. A generation emigrated to Germany. 40 years later, a lot of them have returned; their pensions go further in Sicily, the weather is better and they speak the language.
Unemployment in Germany is over 5 Million so history is not about to repeat itself any time soon.
Given the relative populations, I would expect the EU market to be about the same size as the US and Japanese markets combined.
The fact that a number of medium-large customers in Germany are drifting towards Linux makes very little difference here, walking away from the EU market would cause major problems for both Microsoft and the EU.
I am uncertain what the EU would then do, allow 'piracy' so that addicts in the EU could still get their fixes?
btw: I have not looked it up, but seem to remember that IBM left India in the mid 70's - not the 60's.
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You actually make the Grandfather's point for him.
:-( )
win3-win95-win98-winME was a separate product line to NT3-NT4-W2K-XP-2K3. Lumping them in together is like lumping MS Office and MS Works together.
I still don't buy the 5 years claim though,
Win 1.0 came out in 1985 (did anyone notice?)
Win 2.0 was in 1987 (ditto)
Win 3.0 1990
Win 3.1 in 1992
Win 3.11 in 1993
Win95, 98 and ME - well, guess.
I would *not* call 3.1 a minor release, and 3.11 was only minor if you did not need any form of networking.
NT3.1 was in 1993
NT3.5 in 94
NT4 in 96 (my work PC was upgraded away from this in February AT LAST
W2K in 2000 (doh)
XP in 2001
not sure I'd count Server 2003, but what the hell.
There are 5-year gaps there, but that is because the MS had noticed that business users are more than reluctant to upgrade. At my previous job, they upgraded from NT4 to W2K in 2002 for some arcane reason. At both places there was a complete hardware + software rollout involved.
I work on a mainframe.
Altered data is written back to disc pretty quickly but left in cache as long as possible for obvious reasons. Clearing stuff out of cache is basically a process of deciding which data pages have overstayed their welcome. I/O does not take place.
The whole idea of this is that a SW/HW stop should not cause data loss. All updates are also written to a separate Audit device as well.
If you have a system thread cleaning out blocks of disk cache memory then of course it is going to suffer. The whole point of hyperthreading was that one thread could run while another was waiting for I/O.
The first tests on Linux when Hyperthreading came out were also pretty discouraging.
The main cause is reunification, the secondary causes could be said to be an economic slowdown which started in 2001, some tax cuts which were designed to stimulate growth, and the introduction of the Euro which was often used to hide price increases. Some of those price hikes were perceived rather than real, but consumer spending went way down as a result.
It would be scrambled rather than sunny side up - you forgot the fan. Cleaning it afterwards would be a bitch as well.
I beg you to reconsider, we would get along just fine. My knowledge of anti-virus solutions for Linux e-mail servers needs brushing up.
Tell me, are you a *day* person or a nighttime person?
I thought you were harking back to Frankie's: He ranks as high as any man in Rome.
How old was I then? Young enough to find it sewiously amusing.
You really remember 'Up Pompeii'?
With Frankie Howerd, released around 1974.
Or were you quoting something else?
In other words: the Microsoft approach is the best one. Go after the barstewards and make them pay.
Part of the problem is the legal framework, unsolicited mass mailing needs to become 'more illegal'. Paying someone else to spam needs to be targeted, if a company in the US pays someone in Uzbekistan to send spam, that company in the US has to suffer. Follow the money.
Blacklisting entire countries is a different approach, once strong anti-spam laws are in place in some of the main jurisdictions, recalcitrant areas can be *persuaded* to adopt/enforce similar measures by blacklisting. That blacklisting has to be done at the ISP level though, not by law.
Seriously-- yeah it is MS
Are you sure, Windows is more of a desktop / small server OS, it does not scale up that well. My guess would be more in the direction of Solaris.
What is the largest MS server farm in the world? Hotmail? It will be at least one order of magnitude smaller than Google.
The decision between one of the BSDs and Linux must have been more marginal. OpenBSD (?) is more secure but does not support the same range of hardware and is not as well known (non-professionals are less familiar with it). Nowadays that is not a problem for Google, but it will have been when they started up as a two man outfit.
Slashdot ran a story on this guy almost exactly 2 years ago. When it comes to being obnoxious, he was up there with the big ones.
I saw an article recently on Ozone depletion.
:-)
Allegedly the Ozone is returning much faster than it should be, given the rate at which the Ozone Destroyers are breaking down.
That of course gave rise to another theory, which was that massive amounts of Sulphur from the Mt St Helens had actually caused the depletion. Mt St Helens is in the US so I guess we can still blame the Americans
Having read the article, I am not so sure. He appears to have been seriously pissing people off with his spamming which appears to have been purely within Russia.
He was probably the biggest spammer of Russian e-mail addresses, not the biggest Russian spammer. Whatever.
I found another article on that website interesting, a judge who did not rule the way Putin wants - this is about the Yukos Oil company - has just been sacked. One man, one vote. Putin is the man with the vote.
Summing that up: ATI cards are better when they have been around a while, nVidia cards are only much use when new.
Looks like ATI should think about matching nVidia in offering binary drivers for their new cards, in addition to the open drivers later. They do want to sell new hardware, right?.
and France was not?
Italy, France, (West) Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.
One of the original aims of the EEC was to rope Big Bad Germany (TM) into having a common interest with it's neighbours, to integrate them into Western Europe. The 6 original countries also all had a veto-right on any changes.
50 years later the aims, participants and agenda have changed completely. A veto-right with over 20 countries would also have been ridiculous. Apart from that, virtually all of the people of voting age back then are now dead. No irony there.
That may have applied in France, but less so in the Netherlands. The perception there was that it was biased towards the larger countries - like France.
Since they had not officially announced DRM support in the Pentium D processor and the 945 Express Chipset, I think those folks at 'The Register' are justified in taking this Intel statement at face value.
Intel also appeared to have realised that people are 'not keen' on this technology so maybe there is hope yet that it won't become mandatory on all Processors/Chipsets. I suppose the best we can hope for in the ling term is DRM on hardware sold to corporations and none on hardware sold to private customers.
What is the current situation with DVD regonal codes? They were supposed to be mandatory, but I thought it was still easy enough to get stuff without them.
Funny?
Who moderated that funny?
I was searching for a way of calling the original Dr. Byeon Jae-jeong quote 'paranoid ravings'. You did it so much better.
Frequently, especially if I am trying to weight my search by using the domain suffix of that country.
Looking for something specifically english? www.google.co.uk is your friend.
What timezone are you in? The show was broadcast 2 days ago.
:-)
The most interesting part for me was seeing things like Turkey giving Greece maximum points, and Serbia and Croatia giving each other a lot of points (hey, the war was a good 10 years ago).
The Germans coming last (less than half the points of anyone else) also provoked a bit of national soul-searching. Only a bit though
Oh yes, and when I drove home that night there were some cars on the road beeping their horns with massive Greek flags being waved from the passenger's side. Looks like it was important to someone.
One of my machines runs WinXP (for remote access to the Outlook server at work, apart from anything else) and I just tried explicitly looking for Security Updates.
The only such update was some utility to remove malicious coding such as Sasser.
This has to be about Software Patents? Companies patenting processes which are blindingly obvious or for which prior art exists.
I can see why this could be important to Microsoft - they are not just sinners on this one, they have also been sinned against.
Describing it as Thoughtcrime is still a bit rich though.
I don't buy Crack and have never come into contact with Crack dealers.
I don't buy anything via spam, but have to check my 30-50 mails a day for false positives (two in 6 months) and false negatives (3-5 a day).
My point? A Crack dealer will destroy a few lives, people who let their lives be destroyed. A Spammer will annoy and try to defraud millions.
Maybe that Spammer should have his sentence reduced a bit on appeal, but the sentencing of these arrogant antisocal barstewards should cause them some pain. 3 years is probably enough.
My feeling on this is that if you automate all the jobs and make things correspondingly cheaper, no-one will be able to afford those wonderfully cheap things anyway because everyone will be out of a job.
A lot of people work in construction, and most of them would be in big trouble if we all lived in robot-built houses.
Why do you see this as a troll? We have all seen people thrown out of work by outsourcing. Some of them will find alternative employment (at McWalMart?), but a lot of them are screwed.
I can think of one case when a change like this was beneficial: In Sicily in the 1960's, a lot of people worked in the Sulphur mines. Quite apart from the stink, that job was a death sentence. Life expectancy was under 50. Then a new method of extracting sulphur was invented in the US. The industry collapsed. What happened? Germany was desperately looking for people to work in the factories which fuelled the 'Wirtschaftswunder'. A generation emigrated to Germany.
40 years later, a lot of them have returned; their pensions go further in Sicily, the weather is better and they speak the language.
Unemployment in Germany is over 5 Million so history is not about to repeat itself any time soon.
Given the relative populations, I would expect the EU market to be about the same size as the US and Japanese markets combined.
The fact that a number of medium-large customers in Germany are drifting towards Linux makes very little difference here, walking away from the EU market would cause major problems for both Microsoft and the EU.
I am uncertain what the EU would then do, allow 'piracy' so that addicts in the EU could still get their fixes?
btw: I have not looked it up, but seem to remember that IBM left India in the mid 70's - not the 60's.