Given that WPF is all about.NET, this means that Microsoft will have to do something about porting.NET to those platforms as well, and that's a good thing.
Guess you weren't aware that Microsoft is scrapping both the dot.NET and Win32 APIs in favour of WinFX...
Most people don't want Vista. They want Microsoft to fix the stuff they've got now.
Funny how the biggest deal is about eye candy, rather than fixing the suckage that is Windows.
Every spring, when our igloos melt, we gather to decide who should be banished. Those too old, and the infirm, and anyone with extreme radical opinions, is put on one of the melting ice floes and cast adrift.
Its far more humaine than jail, or letting them die of their illnesses, since we don't have much in the way of medical care. Our socialized medicine consists of the local shaman or priest (we're okay with either) offering prayers and sacrifices.
This is one reason why Canadians are so much against global warming. Its getting harder and harder to live the traditional life. I have to leave the AC on all the time during the spring months, or my igloo will melt prematurely.
this will also threaten our ability to render legal judgements. You see, we really believe that justice should be blind, so we put a pine cone and an acorn in a bag, and the defendant has to pick one while blindfolded. If he draws the acorn (a nut) we say that the Great Manitou has spoken, and that he or she must have been nuts at the time. If they get the pine cone, again the Great Manitou has spoken, and we say he is guilty.
Either way, he is not fit to stay with the rest of us, so off to the ice floes he goes. However, in a final act of mercy, we club the insane ones to death, just like baby seals, though we rarely sell their pelts, even though tourists have offered lots of money - up to $5 - per human pelt. We do accept beer in trade though. Good Canadian beer, eh! A couple of two-fours will go a long way, buddy:-)
Of course Quebec has a different system, just to be different. Most quebecers spend the winter months in Florida (where the locals call them "los tabernacos", because they're always complaining about how the local Americans and Cubans refuse to speak french to them).
The system of justice is also different, based on the French Code Civile rather than English Common Law. What this means in practice is that the judges, rather than wearing white powdered wigs, wear a tricorner cap and must make their pronouncements of guilt (as you know, there are no other judgments allowed under French law) with their hand concealed in their vest.
Medecine is also different in Quebec. Pea soup is the miracle cure for everything. If that doesn't work, the evil demons that are causing illness can be cast out with a large plate of "poutine" - cheese curds over french fries, drenched in hot chicken sauce. A side order of mayonaise for dipping the fries is used in extreme cases.
When that doesn't work, or in the case of demon possession, Quebecers used to drive the demons out by forcing them to listen to Celine Dion. That was banned as likely to provoke an international outcry, so they've switched to Tom Cruise or George Bush and, in extreme cases, Jean Chretien.
After which they are put on an ice floe and drift out to sea... after all, "plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme", which is french (sort of) for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Tourism is our big industry up here, but a word of warning - don't bring too much money, or you're likely to end up drifting away on an ice floe.
Just remember to keep a lookout for black helicopters and you should be all right.
Remember, the US is not below "moving people" to more cooperative jurisdictions.
Besides, this is Canada we're talking about. Who gives a fuck anyway...
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(Lets face it, as a Canadian, I knew there was no way this ruling could stand on appeal. We're a bit more reasonable yadda yadda yadda. That Yahoo! and Reuters were worried makes me wonder if maybe medicating the water supply or banning so-called "energy drinks" might not be such a bad idea in certain jurisdictions. Loosen up, people.).
This is true for mirroring (which I obviously wasn't referring to when I said that only a portio of the data is stored on each disk); however, in applications where there are few writes and lots of reads, it still ends up saving wear and tear, because the controller can interleave reads from both disks, giving 2x the throughput, as well as only half the wear per drive.
Cheapie disks are the way to go. Spend the money you save on a second box with a complete backup as a hot spare.
No. If I write 1 gig of data to a 5-disk raid, (4 disks for data, 1 for parity), then only 1/4 gig gets written to each disk, including 1/4 gig to the parity disk...
If I do this for a 3-disk raid, it still only ends up with less than half as much data ( 41-2/3%) on each disk, even including the parity data that is distributed among the partitions.
But yeah, even simple striping will also reduce wear, though it won't give you redundancy. However, anything that reduces wear per drive is better for your data than nothing at all:-)
I'd be skeptical. The "eventually backported" is all very nice, but if its only backported after the version its backported to is no longer available (or if they delay until that happens), they can hope nobody will notice.
It won't be the first time they've prematurely shot their wad about a product with the specific purpose of harming the competition (pre-emptive strike).
Theoretically, any cheap drive used in a raid will experience less wear per gig of RAID data storage, since it is only storing a portion of the data. It's a cheat. Also, MTBF is a theoretical extrapolation from failure time of individual components. In the hard disk industry, its relation to reality is about the same as Harry Potters'. But we should be used to that, just like a megabyte ain't a megabyte when they calculate capacities.
Its like this quote from the article:
In (sic) works better in RAID than other drives because of features like its time-limited error recovery and 32-bit CRC error checking, so it is an option when previously only SCSI drives would be considered."
It's all bullshit. Sure, it might be better than another drive for use in a raid, but its not like people couldn't consider IDE drives in the past, and that this is some miracle cure.
Just look at what RAID means - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Lots of people use cheapie IDE hard disks in RAID setups. We've got a 4-drive terrabyte raid. Why would we consider expensive drives when the whole idea is to use cheap drives in a redundant array?
Fuck the marketing departments. And fuck the PHBs who make their buying decisions based on them. Oh, right, the PHBs *ARE* getting fucked by the marketing departments. Sorry lads, carry on.
What with your infatuation with XML? Oh, right, buzzward compliance.
As I said, KDE has had translucent menus, menu shadows, and translucent windows for years, something you STILL don't have, and won't have with Vista unless you get a top-of-the-line machine. Otherwise, you still end up with "Vista Craptic", oh, sorry, "Vista Classic".
And you are going to pay HOW MUCH for this "privilege" of being the last kid on the block to be able to do this stuff?
Your knee-jerk reaction about what Windows will have in the future compared to what we've had for years shows just how far Redmond has to go to play catch-up. And even when they include their own subscription anti-virus "solution" in Vista, it'll still be encumbered by all sorts of licensing issues. Like if your mb goes, you won't be able to recover all your data on your main partition if you were suckered into "trusted computing". And you'll have to buy another copy of the OS, since it was keyed to the hardware. Windows User == Sucker. That hasn't changed in a decade.
... but still behind the aftermarket, which has been making limited-range fm transmitters that let you play your mp3 player, portable compact disk, or whatever through the stereo w/o any wires.
This way you can even share your music at a tailgate party or in a traffic jam.
Sometimes there's no spare pin to park them (esp.if there's more than one, like on some hard drives). Fortunately, sata drives are removing that problem.
I guess he *would* be jumping around if you clipped it to him:-)
I've got a couple, but I never use them. Its always easier to grab whatever's close at hand (a knife, a paperclip, a folded business card) to pry them off.
What pisses me off is they're almost impossible to find if you drop them, and you can never remember where you've stashed them when you need to put them back a few months later and want to change the config.
What was so evil about dip switches, anyway?
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I read the decision. You obviosly failed to note how the judge set very strict limits on its applicability, due to the acts of the defendants, who were INVOLVED IN COPYRIGHT INFIRNGEMENT!!!
He formed Silken Mountain Web Services, Inc., to resell the information in the SelectPhone (trademark) database. The corporation makes the database available on the Internet to anyone willing to pay its price
So, before accusing me of not reading the decision, I suggest you look at the ENTIRE CONTEXT.
An EULA that was there to assert copyright (a pre-existing right of the vendor) is NOT the same as an EULA that takes away the purchasers statutory rights under that same copyright law, and one of those is first purchase.
KDE users already have translucent menus, translucent xterms, multiple-desktop pagers, completely configurable widgets, etc.
Porting the Vista gui to linux would be a step backwards for us.
Also, from the article:
eventually ported to... older versions of Windows
ah, another reason NOT to upgrade. So why are they doing this? Perhaps its to try to keep people from defecting to linux, or to OSX or another of the BSDs.
Their market share has nowhere to go but down, and they know it. It's just a question of how far, how fast. With this anouncement we can say:
Microsoft Confirms: Windows is Dying.
Redmond, December 2007
4 months after the much-delayed release of Vista earlier this year, Microsoft confirms that its market share is the lowest ever.
Steve Ballmer confirms that it is all part of Microsofts' grand strategy to concentrate on the business and consumer desktop market. "We have always been devoted to giving the sheeple, I mean consumers, the best possible user experience. Our
committment to this has led us to rededicate all our resources to that end."
"We are committed to maintaining our technical leadership. That is why I am announcing Windows Utopia, the next version of our OS, due sometime in 2020. It will feature, among other things, a new advanced configuration system based on 7-bit ascii files, which, with our special gui toolkits, will allow the advanced user to modify some parts of how the system functions between reboots, as well as auto-system-restore, which will reimage your system at boot time, so that you ALWAYS have that Original Microsoft Experience."
"To further show our committment to the end user, we will be spending $100,000,000 (One Hundred Million Dollars) in soft money to our partners in congress and the senate during the upcoming election year, to ensure that nothing comes between our customers and their DRM-locked-down computers." Mr. Ballmer said.
"As for the latest attempt of Apple to buy us out, we will be giving one free share of Microsoft with every copy of Vista sold. We want everyone to understand that what's good for Microsoft is good for America, and this is the best way to do that. In your face, Jobs!"
Industry analysts were too embarrassed to comment, except for Maureen(The MOGTroll) O'Gara, who was heard talking with some guy named Biff who was muttering that this latest move would send Microsoft shares "To Teh Moon!", and
Laura Didio, who had 3 white papers to show that Vista had lower TCO and more functionality on a laptop than Slackware 0.9 on a PDP. Unfortunately, while her Vista laptop weighs less than a pound, the optional 40-pound battery pack (necessary if you want to run a fully-patched, DRM-enabled version for more than the 10-minute boot/call home using mandatory satellite link with traceable gps/mandatory reimage/update process) fell off the table, smashing Mr. Ballmers' foot.
In a later interview, Ms. Didio confirmed that Mr. Ballmer's chair-throwing skills have improved. "I think he really has a shot at winning the event in the 2008 Olympics, and that Microsofts' $25 Billion donation to the IOC has nothing to do with adding the event at this late date." she said.
Its nice to have Microsoft as such a deep well for comic material.
I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you...
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Nope. Post-purchase "requirements" are not contracts. No such animal. You must be informed of all the conditions PRIOR to purchase. Any conditions added after the purchase are null and void, and prohibited by law.
(not to in any way compare the harm of smoking with using Windows, just to illustrate the power of marketing)
Well, smoking causes cancer, heart disease, etc.
Using Windows causes stress, which also has been linked to cancer, heart disease, etc. Stress also causes depression, etc.
Be funny if every copy of Windows ends up having to carry a notice saying
The surgeon general has determined that using Windows causes an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, depression, suicide, anti-social personality disorder, paranoia, loss of sex drive, increased masturbation, blindness, social withdrawal and Tourette's Syndrome. Risk increases with use.
Then they could sell "The Patch" for Windows. Add a whole new meaning to "Patch Tuesday."
Also, an Apple a day *would* keep the doctor away...
Maybe you should walk down to your local library and look at some of the biographies or histories of Microsoft. Gates smoked, and unlike Clinton, he inhaled.
Btw, did anyone hear of Linus's attempt to copyright Linux? Does anyone even make a second glance at that incident? Or are you trolls too busy bashing Microsoft to notice or care? Because after all, you can be a hypocrite as long as you are doing it against Microsoft.
Hey, we're not all hypocrites.
I thought it was stupid, and bitched about it in my journal here, and gloated about the ruling earlier this morning here.
I also notice that they tried to spin the ruling, but that it doesn't work. One of the original "talking points" was to prevent people from using the term linux in connection with, for example, porn, a la "linuxporn". Now they're pointedly ignoring that one of the consequences of this ruling is that anyone can go and make a "linuxporn" (whatever that would be - I'm sure it would be at least as popular as Lesbian GNU/Linux).
This was a dumb move, and it failed. But back to your problem - have you tried a copy of the knoppix 4.0 dvd? Or SuSE 9.3? It's neat watching it boot off an external usb dvd.
Sure, it takes some work to master the unix toolchain. but in the end, you end up saving time AND money.
Saying that Windows is better because you don't have to learn anything is both untrue and reminiscent of people who go around proud of "not knowing", of "keeping it real, baby!". It figures - only the ignorant WOULD be proud of being ignorant.
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B - U - L - L - S - H - I - T
You can take your OEM license, format the box it come with and install linux on it, and transfer your OEM license to new hardware.
What is so fucking hard to understand about that?
The OEM license is NOT connected to the hardware after the sale. The notice that says "you must afix this sticker to the equipment" is a LIE. There is no requirement under the law to do so. that's just more FUD from Microshit, just like their letters to schools saying it was illegal to accept old Windows PCs and install linux on them.
Grow a set of balls already. Microsoft is NOT going to tell you the truth when it conflicts with their interests. Just like they lied about Wndows 95 being a 32-bit operating system, and that it wold be virus-proof. Or Window Millenium being "the best windows ever" Or DOS 4.0 being the "best DOS ever - and then setting a record for speed in releasing 4.01.
Your OEM license is just that - a copy of Windows that you may run on 1 machine. Remove it from that machine and you're free under copyright law to run it on another machine. Microsoft hasn't bought ALL the lawmakers yet.
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No, OEM licenses ARE transferable. The ProCD case has absolutely nothing to do with it.
In the ProCD case, people were reselling the contents of the CD. This would be akin to selling a copy of your OEM OS.
. Shrinkwrap licenses are enforceable unless their terms are objectionable on grounds applicable to contracts in general (for example, if they violate a rule of positive law, or if they are un­ conscionable). Because no one argues that the terms of the license at issue here are troublesome
In the case of OEM OS licenses:
unless their terms are objectionable on grounds applicable to contracts in general
You have the right as the buyer to sell your interest in what you have bought. this is opposed to selling a COPY of what you have bought, a la ProCD.
(for example, if they violate a rule of positive law, or if they are unconscionable)
first sale doctrine - you CAN give away or sell ALL your rights
US copyright case law supports that consumers cannot make copies of computer programs contrary to a license, but may resell what they own
. Because no one argues that the terms of the license at issue here are troublesome
Since they didn't have a case (they were profiting from reproducing the info while keeping their copy), they lost. Not at all the same as selling your OEM copy.
the lawyer who keeps on spouting that EULAs are enforceable, using this as his point, gets it wrong. Remember, half of all lawyers are losers by definition, just as half of the population is below average in intelligence.
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Most people don't want Vista. They want Microsoft to fix the stuff they've got now.
Funny how the biggest deal is about eye candy, rather than fixing the suckage that is Windows.
Every spring, when our igloos melt, we gather to decide who should be banished. Those too old, and the infirm, and anyone with extreme radical opinions, is put on one of the melting ice floes and cast adrift.
Its far more humaine than jail, or letting them die of their illnesses, since we don't have much in the way of medical care. Our socialized medicine consists of the local shaman or priest (we're okay with either) offering prayers and sacrifices.
This is one reason why Canadians are so much against global warming. Its getting harder and harder to live the traditional life. I have to leave the AC on all the time during the spring months, or my igloo will melt prematurely.
this will also threaten our ability to render legal judgements. You see, we really believe that justice should be blind, so we put a pine cone and an acorn in a bag, and the defendant has to pick one while blindfolded. If he draws the acorn (a nut) we say that the Great Manitou has spoken, and that he or she must have been nuts at the time. If they get the pine cone, again the Great Manitou has spoken, and we say he is guilty.
Either way, he is not fit to stay with the rest of us, so off to the ice floes he goes. However, in a final act of mercy, we club the insane ones to death, just like baby seals, though we rarely sell their pelts, even though tourists have offered lots of money - up to $5 - per human pelt. We do accept beer in trade though. Good Canadian beer, eh! A couple of two-fours will go a long way, buddy :-)
Of course Quebec has a different system, just to be different. Most quebecers spend the winter months in Florida (where the locals call them "los tabernacos", because they're always complaining about how the local Americans and Cubans refuse to speak french to them).
The system of justice is also different, based on the French Code Civile rather than English Common Law. What this means in practice is that the judges, rather than wearing white powdered wigs, wear a tricorner cap and must make their pronouncements of guilt (as you know, there are no other judgments allowed under French law) with their hand concealed in their vest.
Medecine is also different in Quebec. Pea soup is the miracle cure for everything. If that doesn't work, the evil demons that are causing illness can be cast out with a large plate of "poutine" - cheese curds over french fries, drenched in hot chicken sauce. A side order of mayonaise for dipping the fries is used in extreme cases.
When that doesn't work, or in the case of demon possession, Quebecers used to drive the demons out by forcing them to listen to Celine Dion. That was banned as likely to provoke an international outcry, so they've switched to Tom Cruise or George Bush and, in extreme cases, Jean Chretien.
After which they are put on an ice floe and drift out to sea ... after all, "plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme", which is french (sort of) for "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Tourism is our big industry up here, but a word of warning - don't bring too much money, or you're likely to end up drifting away on an ice floe.
Remember, the US is not below "moving people" to more cooperative jurisdictions.
Besides, this is Canada we're talking about. Who gives a fuck anyway ...
(Lets face it, as a Canadian, I knew there was no way this ruling could stand on appeal. We're a bit more reasonable yadda yadda yadda. That Yahoo! and Reuters were worried makes me wonder if maybe medicating the water supply or banning so-called "energy drinks" might not be such a bad idea in certain jurisdictions. Loosen up, people.).
Cheapie disks are the way to go. Spend the money you save on a second box with a complete backup as a hot spare.
If I do this for a 3-disk raid, it still only ends up with less than half as much data ( 41-2/3%) on each disk, even including the parity data that is distributed among the partitions.
But yeah, even simple striping will also reduce wear, though it won't give you redundancy. However, anything that reduces wear per drive is better for your data than nothing at all :-)
It won't be the first time they've prematurely shot their wad about a product with the specific purpose of harming the competition (pre-emptive strike).
there's usually more beer and fewer guns at a tailgate party :-)
Its like this quote from the article:
It's all bullshit. Sure, it might be better than another drive for use in a raid, but its not like people couldn't consider IDE drives in the past, and that this is some miracle cure.Just look at what RAID means - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Lots of people use cheapie IDE hard disks in RAID setups. We've got a 4-drive terrabyte raid. Why would we consider expensive drives when the whole idea is to use cheap drives in a redundant array?
Fuck the marketing departments. And fuck the PHBs who make their buying decisions based on them. Oh, right, the PHBs *ARE* getting fucked by the marketing departments. Sorry lads, carry on.
As I said, KDE has had translucent menus, menu shadows, and translucent windows for years, something you STILL don't have, and won't have with Vista unless you get a top-of-the-line machine. Otherwise, you still end up with "Vista Craptic", oh, sorry, "Vista Classic".
And you are going to pay HOW MUCH for this "privilege" of being the last kid on the block to be able to do this stuff?
Your knee-jerk reaction about what Windows will have in the future compared to what we've had for years shows just how far Redmond has to go to play catch-up. And even when they include their own subscription anti-virus "solution" in Vista, it'll still be encumbered by all sorts of licensing issues. Like if your mb goes, you won't be able to recover all your data on your main partition if you were suckered into "trusted computing". And you'll have to buy another copy of the OS, since it was keyed to the hardware. Windows User == Sucker. That hasn't changed in a decade.
This way you can even share your music at a tailgate party or in a traffic jam.
Sometimes there's no spare pin to park them (esp.if there's more than one, like on some hard drives). Fortunately, sata drives are removing that problem.
I've got a couple, but I never use them. Its always easier to grab whatever's close at hand (a knife, a paperclip, a folded business card) to pry them off.
What pisses me off is they're almost impossible to find if you drop them, and you can never remember where you've stashed them when you need to put them back a few months later and want to change the config.
What was so evil about dip switches, anyway?
An EULA that was there to assert copyright (a pre-existing right of the vendor) is NOT the same as an EULA that takes away the purchasers statutory rights under that same copyright law, and one of those is first purchase.
Sheesh!
And people wonder why we make fun of lawyers.
Porting the Vista gui to linux would be a step backwards for us.
Also, from the article:
ah, another reason NOT to upgrade. So why are they doing this? Perhaps its to try to keep people from defecting to linux, or to OSX or another of the BSDs.Their market share has nowhere to go but down, and they know it. It's just a question of how far, how fast. With this anouncement we can say:
Its nice to have Microsoft as such a deep well for comic material.I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you ...
So fuck off, troll
Using Windows causes stress, which also has been linked to cancer, heart disease, etc. Stress also causes depression, etc.
Be funny if every copy of Windows ends up having to carry a notice saying
Then they could sell "The Patch" for Windows. Add a whole new meaning to "Patch Tuesday."Also, an Apple a day *would* keep the doctor away ...
I thought it was stupid, and bitched about it in my journal here, and gloated about the ruling earlier this morning here.
I also notice that they tried to spin the ruling, but that it doesn't work. One of the original "talking points" was to prevent people from using the term linux in connection with, for example, porn, a la "linuxporn". Now they're pointedly ignoring that one of the consequences of this ruling is that anyone can go and make a "linuxporn" (whatever that would be - I'm sure it would be at least as popular as Lesbian GNU/Linux).
This was a dumb move, and it failed. But back to your problem - have you tried a copy of the knoppix 4.0 dvd? Or SuSE 9.3? It's neat watching it boot off an external usb dvd.
Sure, it takes some work to master the unix toolchain. but in the end, you end up saving time AND money.
Saying that Windows is better because you don't have to learn anything is both untrue and reminiscent of people who go around proud of "not knowing", of "keeping it real, baby!". It figures - only the ignorant WOULD be proud of being ignorant.
You can take your OEM license, format the box it come with and install linux on it, and transfer your OEM license to new hardware.
What is so fucking hard to understand about that?
The OEM license is NOT connected to the hardware after the sale. The notice that says "you must afix this sticker to the equipment" is a LIE. There is no requirement under the law to do so. that's just more FUD from Microshit, just like their letters to schools saying it was illegal to accept old Windows PCs and install linux on them.
Grow a set of balls already. Microsoft is NOT going to tell you the truth when it conflicts with their interests. Just like they lied about Wndows 95 being a 32-bit operating system, and that it wold be virus-proof. Or Window Millenium being "the best windows ever" Or DOS 4.0 being the "best DOS ever - and then setting a record for speed in releasing 4.01.
Your OEM license is just that - a copy of Windows that you may run on 1 machine. Remove it from that machine and you're free under copyright law to run it on another machine. Microsoft hasn't bought ALL the lawmakers yet.
In the ProCD case, people were reselling the contents of the CD. This would be akin to selling a copy of your OEM OS.
In the case of OEM OS licenses:You have the right as the buyer to sell your interest in what you have bought. this is opposed to selling a COPY of what you have bought, a la ProCD.first sale doctrine - you CAN give away or sell ALL your rights Since they didn't have a case (they were profiting from reproducing the info while keeping their copy), they lost. Not at all the same as selling your OEM copy.the lawyer who keeps on spouting that EULAs are enforceable, using this as his point, gets it wrong. Remember, half of all lawyers are losers by definition, just as half of the population is below average in intelligence.