For a website that has bill dressed in a Borg outfit there are sure a lot of press releases^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H articles about Microsoft products...
As my boss often says "it is what it is". Let's just wait for the actual RELEASE of the product instead of talking about it with devote admiration and desire.
Personally I don't see any changes that would make me switch from Gentoo Linux on my AMDX2 to it... let's see
I mean I do a lot of development and even I could get by with 256MB of ram [albeit with swapping to disk here and there]. If I didn't compile things of substantial size I could easily run the rest of my desktop applications within 128M, heck even 64M.
The fact that the "newest windows" requires 512M of ram and a gigamahurts processor is a sign things aren't actually improving they're just getting more wasteful.
To be honest I'm not that much into "corporate networking". I think most small companies [200 people] can be easily served by commodity FutureShop equipment.
In the case of where I work we have a 24 port switch, a dedicated bind/etc server and a linksys router plugged into a DSL. It works well for all of us here and we routinely traffic data efficiently from one box to another [e.g. to send stuff to the lab].
I've long booed the EFF but if the picture I'm getting here is correct I'd gladly donate some money to aid in his defense [or settlement].
That is of course, provided that he at least tried the normal avenues. Under NDA means you're under NDA. Whistleblowing is only possible after management has ignored you.
If he just jumped the gun and released the info publicly he deserves to get sued. Think about it. If every employee who was slightly upset just decided to walk off with trade secrets there would be no competition.
Fuck, why not have Intel/AMD picnics? Granted I'd think that would be cool [as far as technology goes] it would also totally ruin the companies...
The point of buying a router is efficiency. Otherwise get a switch and a 386 running BSD or Linux... Having hardware move packets is almost certainly going to be faster (and efficient) then having a general purpose processor do it.
That said you have firmware that controls the hardware which could be "apt-get" though in reality I'd rather see an open source firmware that was also provided as binary images you could just upload.
Do you really want some MCSE throw-back building a firmware image when they can hardly manage cmd.exe?
The normal response to things that are not required for living that cost to much is to just ignore them.
Ignoring the piracy==theft debate for a moment... What do you do when cars cost too much? Start stealing cars? Is that the answer? Fact is you don't need RIAA label music to live or be happy.
I spend most of my time listening to techno and dance music from a shoutcast server in Europe. Yet I managed to write open source software that makes a difference, chat with people all over the world and use it to relax while travelling.
The fact that you think people will die or be unhappy without the latest RIAA label tune just boggles my mind.
The problem is that people are inundated with crap label music. It's in movies, commercials, tv shows, hell even the news, it's on the subway or in the elevator, it's in the supermarket and even that 7-11. You just can't escape crap label music. So they feel compelled to own it. And since it's so pervasive they feel entitled to it.
Of course part of this stems from curiosity. Kids today are just not curious about the world around them. When's the last time you saw a techno song on a FM radio station? When's the last time you heard a French or German artist perform? etc, etc, etc...
People just want their small little safety bubble and to climb in and live there. If that means pirating music that fits in the bubble then so be it.
However, what people do and what is reality are two different things. Just have to rehab people to seek alternatives and blamo free-market has been born.
Yeah, losers like you choose #2. Others would just look around, organize, hell learn to play music yourself.
There are many things you can do to fill in for music other than pirating the music you hate the most. Especially since pirating music just spreads it [and it's mindspace robing effects].
As someone who donates considerable amounts of free time and energy to public domain [not even GPL'ed] software I can tell you that at the end of the day you want to make money or at least be provided for.
The purpose of being a musician is to take part in performances that entertain.
Ok fine, don't buy music, just send bread and milk and meat and shelter and clothing and... to artists. That's a much simpler system. Instead of just PAYING them for the work.
Again none of my arguments are based on the following assumptions
And my point is tough shit. You don't need the latest britney spears hit to survive.
A lot of things in life are unfairly priced [one way or another]. Doesn't mean you can just take them when you want.
Whether "piracy == lost sales" or not doesn't really matter. The whole point of a music career is to make a living producing and performing music. If you feel that paying for that is not worth it then you might as well not have professional musicians.
Are the RIAA and labels totally disgraceful? Doesn't matter. That's how they choose to do business.
Know that there are ways of getting good music without going through the RIAA labels. Local bands, indy bands, etc, are out there and if you were soooo concerned with unfair music practices you'd go look for them.
Imagine if all you stupid children spent energy spreading word-of-mouth about indy bands instead of further spreading label music. You'd have a WIDE VARIETY of music to choose from, it wouldn't cost 20$ per CD and you'd be happier.
But no, you're stupid and ignorant and fuel the things you hate the most.
Tom
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Um if you hang up and 30 seconds later are still connected it means someone else on the line [on your side] is still off hook.
Check your house for nosy people and failing that call your telco to have it looked at.
Of course I've never heard of that problem before. Doesn't mean you're making it up but more than likely the reason is more than a "remote DoS" attack.
Mostly call-centers can only fake their CID information [but not ANI] which makes call display all fucked up [but not their billing]. That's about it. They don't have magical technology to jam your phone line. Once you hang up the call is released and both sides are disconnected.
20$ is not good for CD, nor is 20$ for 200 mins or air time or 0.10$ per SMS or 49.95$ per month for net or 92.5 cents/litre for fuel or 2.60$ per litre of pop or...
Answer, they don't run windows or macos, don't own an ipod, don't care to run their software, etc, yada, etc.
Though to be fair of the friends I have who were mass mp3 "pirates" [arr, avast ye matey!] in last decade or so they're less so [if stopped completely] now.
It's cool when you're a teen and you wanna download everything and anything. For myself, I was part of the generation that grew up with mod/s3m/it/xm tracks and then this "net thing" hit us. So for us it was all new, fresh, cool, etc.
I think most kids grow out of it once they get a good salary and can afford 20$ for a cd...
In reality if you stood on a soap box spouting crap like that I'd tell you to shut up as well.
And it doesn't make me feel better, it makes me sad that there are people like you living amongst us. It makes me weep for the future, do you have or plan on having kids? Seriously consider giving them up for adoption.
It's neat but nothing spectacular. This "oh look at what a 19 yr old kid can do!".
You know what I did when I was 19? Started writing LibTomCrypt. Admitedly it sucked then but now it's a hell of a lot better and used throughout the industry. You can literally buy things in electronic stores that use my software.
And I've never been paid a dime to distribute LibTomCrypt. Though I've gotten other things which is why I don't complain [e.g. free books, tshirts, occasional donation, stipend to conference, etc].
Point is it's neat what they did, certainly more constructive then sitting around doing nothing. I'm glad they're doing it...
The prizes are mostly to get things BOOTING once you get past that... it's just another PC.
I doubt these kids invented a new boot procedure. If anything they'll do what everyone else does and use a game exploit or a modchip.
Whoopy.
Of course when I was 16-17 I was writing 8051 software [this is ca. 1998] on a 80C32 eval board I borrowed from a friend. It had no OS, 8KB of ram and a 12Mhz processor. Nobody gave me a slashdotting for that...
The xbox has a 700Mhz processor, 64MiB of ram [which despite all other claims is a lot for just getting an OS to boot], two IDE channels, video, ethernet, etc...
It's a PC.
I've been booting Linux on my PC for several years now. Big deal.
I don't go to microsofts map website because I HATE microsoft. It has NOTHING todo with Google being better [though to be honest I think Googles website is just fine and dandy].
What fucking battle are they talking about? Are there really legions of people humming and hawing over which to use?
Or is this just yet another overhyped story meant to get people to RTFA and see the ads on the article website?
Hmm I wonder...
GO FUCK YOURSELF ARTICLE POSTER PEOPLE!!! FIND REAL STORIES TO TALK ABOUT!!!
No the money is gaining traction in the ever growing solution delivery platforms while maintaining a hold on your core value asset vertical markets.
That's where the money is at.
In short, swindling people out of their hard earned money because you bought a key part of infrastructure that makes the world go round [oil, engines, cell towers, cable lines, satelites] and are not in it to be fair and participating in a free market.
The sole purpose in life is to make money, short of that you're a failure two-bit hussler trying to rain on an otherwise sunny day.
I don't know many people using win2k at home. Most have moved to WinXP. Most have also not bought winxp.
They're the type of people who realize windows is crap and not worth buying but then go out of their way to avoid linux/bsd... Annoying to say the least.
Mostly I just shake my head at friends/family who bitch about the latest humbug with Windows.
Sure you have humbugs with Linux, but it's free and usually a lot less painful to work out and when it does work [re: 99.999% of the time] it works extremely well.
Oh well... I still game and I never boot windows. I'm happy.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's see
1. shiny windows
2. Crumbled paper shows up in recycle
3. Some sense of a symlink.
WAY TO INNOVATE MSFT!! WOWSERS!!!
Why don't they just drop all this 8.3 namespace bullshit and get with the times. Stop using drive letters, use mount points....
Tom
For a website that has bill dressed in a Borg outfit there are sure a lot of press releases^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H articles about Microsoft products...
.net, VB, ...]
As my boss often says "it is what it is". Let's just wait for the actual RELEASE of the product instead of talking about it with devote admiration and desire.
Personally I don't see any changes that would make me switch from Gentoo Linux on my AMDX2 to it... let's see
1. Incompetent shell. check.
2. Single desktop desktop. check.
3. High price for "complete" copy. check.
4. Activation. check.
5. Poorly documented closed source kernel. check.
6. Feeding generations of inept developers. check. [re: C#, anything
7. Resource intense OS. check.
I mean I do a lot of development and even I could get by with 256MB of ram [albeit with swapping to disk here and there]. If I didn't compile things of substantial size I could easily run the rest of my desktop applications within 128M, heck even 64M.
The fact that the "newest windows" requires 512M of ram and a gigamahurts processor is a sign things aren't actually improving they're just getting more wasteful.
Tom
Then what's the point?
To be honest I'm not that much into "corporate networking". I think most small companies [200 people] can be easily served by commodity FutureShop equipment.
In the case of where I work we have a 24 port switch, a dedicated bind/etc server and a linksys router plugged into a DSL. It works well for all of us here and we routinely traffic data efficiently from one box to another [e.g. to send stuff to the lab].
Tom
I've long booed the EFF but if the picture I'm getting here is correct I'd gladly donate some money to aid in his defense [or settlement].
That is of course, provided that he at least tried the normal avenues. Under NDA means you're under NDA. Whistleblowing is only possible after management has ignored you.
If he just jumped the gun and released the info publicly he deserves to get sued. Think about it. If every employee who was slightly upset just decided to walk off with trade secrets there would be no competition.
Fuck, why not have Intel/AMD picnics? Granted I'd think that would be cool [as far as technology goes] it would also totally ruin the companies...
I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this story.
Tom
I'm from Canada and have been to the US and France. In all three countries if the receiver hangs up the call is disconnected usually within seconds.
... it's called three-way calling.
The CALLER can hang up quickly
But on EITHER end a hangup of more than 3-4 seconds is enough to totally disconnect the call.
Maybe you are confusing "hang up" with "put on hold"? Calls on hold are still off-hook just the audio has been muted.
Tom
How do you apt-get hardware?
The point of buying a router is efficiency. Otherwise get a switch and a 386 running BSD or Linux... Having hardware move packets is almost certainly going to be faster (and efficient) then having a general purpose processor do it.
That said you have firmware that controls the hardware which could be "apt-get" though in reality I'd rather see an open source firmware that was also provided as binary images you could just upload.
Do you really want some MCSE throw-back building a firmware image when they can hardly manage cmd.exe?
hehehee sick.
Tom
That's the stupidest post I've ever seen.
The normal response to things that are not required for living that cost to much is to just ignore them.
Ignoring the piracy==theft debate for a moment... What do you do when cars cost too much? Start stealing cars? Is that the answer? Fact is you don't need RIAA label music to live or be happy.
I spend most of my time listening to techno and dance music from a shoutcast server in Europe. Yet I managed to write open source software that makes a difference, chat with people all over the world and use it to relax while travelling.
The fact that you think people will die or be unhappy without the latest RIAA label tune just boggles my mind.
The problem is that people are inundated with crap label music. It's in movies, commercials, tv shows, hell even the news, it's on the subway or in the elevator, it's in the supermarket and even that 7-11. You just can't escape crap label music. So they feel compelled to own it. And since it's so pervasive they feel entitled to it.
Of course part of this stems from curiosity. Kids today are just not curious about the world around them. When's the last time you saw a techno song on a FM radio station? When's the last time you heard a French or German artist perform? etc, etc, etc...
People just want their small little safety bubble and to climb in and live there. If that means pirating music that fits in the bubble then so be it.
However, what people do and what is reality are two different things. Just have to rehab people to seek alternatives and blamo free-market has been born.
Tom
Yeah, losers like you choose #2. Others would just look around, organize, hell learn to play music yourself.
There are many things you can do to fill in for music other than pirating the music you hate the most. Especially since pirating music just spreads it [and it's mindspace robing effects].
Tom
If they're still making quality music when they're "big" so be it.
If not then find the next big thing and they burn out.
The trick is to stop blindly being a "fan". Fuck my parents listen to the Nylons and other 40 yr old bands FFS.
Tom
As someone who donates considerable amounts of free time and energy to public domain [not even GPL'ed] software I can tell you that at the end of the day you want to make money or at least be provided for.
... to artists. That's a much simpler system. Instead of just PAYING them for the work.
The purpose of being a musician is to take part in performances that entertain.
Ok fine, don't buy music, just send bread and milk and meat and shelter and clothing and
Again none of my arguments are based on the following assumptions
1. They're worth it
2. Piracy == theft
3. RIAA == fair
That's not the point.
Point is either look for better alternatives or pay up.
Tom
"few seconds". It usually takes 3-4 seconds to hang up. Anything longer and your phones and/or telco is broken.
Tom
And my point is tough shit. You don't need the latest britney spears hit to survive.
A lot of things in life are unfairly priced [one way or another]. Doesn't mean you can just take them when you want.
Whether "piracy == lost sales" or not doesn't really matter. The whole point of a music career is to make a living producing and performing music. If you feel that paying for that is not worth it then you might as well not have professional musicians.
Are the RIAA and labels totally disgraceful? Doesn't matter. That's how they choose to do business.
Know that there are ways of getting good music without going through the RIAA labels. Local bands, indy bands, etc, are out there and if you were soooo concerned with unfair music practices you'd go look for them.
Imagine if all you stupid children spent energy spreading word-of-mouth about indy bands instead of further spreading label music. You'd have a WIDE VARIETY of music to choose from, it wouldn't cost 20$ per CD and you'd be happier.
But no, you're stupid and ignorant and fuel the things you hate the most.
Tom
Um if you hang up and 30 seconds later are still connected it means someone else on the line [on your side] is still off hook.
Check your house for nosy people and failing that call your telco to have it looked at.
Of course I've never heard of that problem before. Doesn't mean you're making it up but more than likely the reason is more than a "remote DoS" attack.
Mostly call-centers can only fake their CID information [but not ANI] which makes call display all fucked up [but not their billing]. That's about it. They don't have magical technology to jam your phone line. Once you hang up the call is released and both sides are disconnected.
Tom
20$ is not good for CD, nor is 20$ for 200 mins or air time or 0.10$ per SMS or 49.95$ per month for net or 92.5 cents/litre for fuel or 2.60$ per litre of pop or ...
What's your point?
Tom
Answer, they don't run windows or macos, don't own an ipod, don't care to run their software, etc, yada, etc.
Though to be fair of the friends I have who were mass mp3 "pirates" [arr, avast ye matey!] in last decade or so they're less so [if stopped completely] now.
It's cool when you're a teen and you wanna download everything and anything. For myself, I was part of the generation that grew up with mod/s3m/it/xm tracks and then this "net thing" hit us. So for us it was all new, fresh, cool, etc.
I think most kids grow out of it once they get a good salary and can afford 20$ for a cd...
Tom
Dude, I wish I was skinn[y|ier].
In reality if you stood on a soap box spouting crap like that I'd tell you to shut up as well.
And it doesn't make me feel better, it makes me sad that there are people like you living amongst us. It makes me weep for the future, do you have or plan on having kids? Seriously consider giving them up for adoption.
Tom
It's neat but nothing spectacular. This "oh look at what a 19 yr old kid can do!".
You know what I did when I was 19? Started writing LibTomCrypt. Admitedly it sucked then but now it's a hell of a lot better and used throughout the industry. You can literally buy things in electronic stores that use my software.
And I've never been paid a dime to distribute LibTomCrypt. Though I've gotten other things which is why I don't complain [e.g. free books, tshirts, occasional donation, stipend to conference, etc].
Point is it's neat what they did, certainly more constructive then sitting around doing nothing. I'm glad they're doing it...
Tom
remotely over the net while in your underware listening to Ska?
Really?
Oh ok.
SHUT UP.
The prizes are mostly to get things BOOTING once you get past that ... it's just another PC.
...
I doubt these kids invented a new boot procedure. If anything they'll do what everyone else does and use a game exploit or a modchip.
Whoopy.
Of course when I was 16-17 I was writing 8051 software [this is ca. 1998] on a 80C32 eval board I borrowed from a friend. It had no OS, 8KB of ram and a 12Mhz processor. Nobody gave me a slashdotting for that
The xbox has a 700Mhz processor, 64MiB of ram [which despite all other claims is a lot for just getting an OS to boot], two IDE channels, video, ethernet, etc...
It's a PC.
I've been booting Linux on my PC for several years now. Big deal.
Tom
Wow, 50dB S/N ratio, 25Khz bandwidth and nearly stereo! That's almost like a 50Khz 10-bit PCM file!!! wow!!!! :-)
No... but old school sounds so much better...
Tom
What?
I don't go to microsofts map website because I HATE microsoft. It has NOTHING todo with Google being better [though to be honest I think Googles website is just fine and dandy].
What fucking battle are they talking about? Are there really legions of people humming and hawing over which to use?
Or is this just yet another overhyped story meant to get people to RTFA and see the ads on the article website?
Hmm I wonder...
GO FUCK YOURSELF ARTICLE POSTER PEOPLE!!! FIND REAL STORIES TO TALK ABOUT!!!
Tom
That's just to make the code smaller. There is no technological reason why you must call int 13h to read the disk.
Tom
No the money is gaining traction in the ever growing solution delivery platforms while maintaining a hold on your core value asset vertical markets.
That's where the money is at.
In short, swindling people out of their hard earned money because you bought a key part of infrastructure that makes the world go round [oil, engines, cell towers, cable lines, satelites] and are not in it to be fair and participating in a free market.
The sole purpose in life is to make money, short of that you're a failure two-bit hussler trying to rain on an otherwise sunny day.
That's what it's about.
Tom
I don't know many people using win2k at home. Most have moved to WinXP. Most have also not bought winxp.
They're the type of people who realize windows is crap and not worth buying but then go out of their way to avoid linux/bsd... Annoying to say the least.
Tom
I can dream can't I?
Mostly I just shake my head at friends/family who bitch about the latest humbug with Windows.
Sure you have humbugs with Linux, but it's free and usually a lot less painful to work out and when it does work [re: 99.999% of the time] it works extremely well.
Oh well... I still game and I never boot windows. I'm happy.