First of all, it took the company who made the OS eight years to come up with a suitable replacement (or, at least six, if you want to count the relatively usable W2K8 server as a replacement for a desktop system), so I only look at the OS as two years out-of-date at most.
In addition, Win7 requires more processing power than XP to gain reasonable advantage over XP, requires the user to learn new UI and administrative skills, and often requires replacement of software and hardware for which no Win7 versions and/or drivers exist. So, essentially you're saying that planned obsolescence is a wonderful strategy that customers should buy into?
When I hear politicians calling soldiers "warriors" it makes me want to puke, as well. Being a soldier has been (and still is) a noble short-term profession. But we should always look at employing soldiers as, at best, a necessary evil. Give the guys that do it respect, but don't elevate them to exalted levels. And make no mistake, using the term "warrior" seeks to do this. We should never elevate the military above the political. I don't want to become an empire ruled by exalted military commanders (though the Congress seems to be showing too much deference and moving in this direction these days).
Creating high performance growing networks is really a special skill managers and network architects should posses to be ready for the future.
Most software/network designers will never work on any project that has so much traffic that it needs to scale to the levels discussed in this book. In fact, most (note I say most) businesses don't actually need the amount of scalability currently built into their current out-of-the-box hardware and software solutions. Just saying...
When you hand him your soul, too, your happiness for the rest of your life is ensured... It's in the blood-signed EULA. Don't worry about the fine print.
I like to think and contemplate, which if I was still capable of doing so, I'd like to continue that rather than die.
Really? Then you're not really thinking it through. You want to continue living? When you can't move. When you can't adjust the bedclothes that you're put under, even when you're roasting or freezing. When you can't feed yourself and the liquid nutrient they feed you gives you unbearable heartburn because you're not elevated enough. When you can't scratch that itch - for hours. When the cramps because your arm is in the wrong position continues for hours. When the bedsores burn. When you have no actual data input other than the Oxygen network that your aide has tuned your TV to. When you can't actually see the screen, but can only hear the voices drone on hour after hour (because they didn't prop your head in the right direction). When you go slowly mad, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Yes... sounds lovely. Hope you enjoy your stay in Hell. Glad I don't need to make that choice.
The lowest-intelligence portions of our society increasingly sit as dependent breeding stock, suckling at the teat of government social programs generationally whilst producing an overabundance of mentally deficient young who then perpetuate the cycle.
Oddly enough, you seem to have missed the target. Most of the people who survive and have enough money to get into college do not come from the "breeding stock" class. Most are members of the mid-to-upper classes who have never had to nor intend to give a shit. As an example, George W. Bush, the scion of one of the world's most powerful dynasties and once leader of the free world, couldn't string together words into a coherent sentence. I'd give other examples, but that would gild the lily. And as of the "return of disease" argument you put forth? It's generally the upper-middle class with their autism fears and the lower class' lack of access to preventative health care in this country that are driving this ill.
Oddly enough, if one bothers to actually look, you see a fairly large amount of intelligence, drive, and "street smarts" distributed among the supposed "breeding stock" class you disparage. The ones who survive past their twenties need these skills for survival and it is a shame that their talents could not be channeled in a more productive direction, as they would probably achieve much more than the pampered and stupid poodles created by the "higher classes".
Iraq was (supposedly, I'm not an authority on this) a failing state before we even moved in, and if it had fallen apart on its own the most likely successor would either be an official Iranian invasion, or an Iranian puppet government...
Give the man a cigar. He gets it right. However, had the state fallen apart, the Iranians would have had a hell of a time (re-)creating order and taking control. Now that we've put the majority Shia in charge, our "friends" like Chalabi will see that the transition to Iranian puppet-state will be made much more smoothly. All we did was speed up the process by seven-to-twenty years. The question, of course, is who would gain from that? Quick answer: Building Iran's influence while looking like we're containing it is really good for certain industries, while still giving cover for hawkish politicians.
New Jersey and Oregon are very progressive on that front.
In defense of those who live here in Oregon, it's really not a lot of fun getting out of your car to fill it in the rain. We'll let the folks in Washington do that, if they want.
This thing would have been far more appealing to me if it ran a customized version of OSX...
He wasn't building it for you.
OK, snottiness aside, it probably would be much better for the geeks out here (and maybe a few professional Mac users out there) if it did have a full OS X running on it. On the other hand, most people don't give a rat's ass about what OS is on their computer. What they care about is (a) can it do what I want; (b) if it can't do what I want right now, can I easily get software that lets me do what I want; (c) is it easy to use; and (d) is it not a PITA to maintain/keep stable. The iPad, as a closed environment with a ton of apps and good enough connectivity (OK, good enough connectivity if you get AT&T to get it's act together) provides that. Most people won't care what OS it runs. And, in fact, as a device that converges music playing, e-book reading and movie watching I think he's hit the entertainment-oriented market he wanted to hit.
And for those who want a full-featured OS, there's still the Mac.
how many people read or skin the slashdot summary[?]
Very few of us find the summary big enough to skin. It would be like skinning a vole - too small to be worth the effort. However, skimming the summary is a tact[sic] usually taken by Slashdot readers, many of whom cannot seem to write a reasonable sentence (i.e., using capitalization, proper spelling, using the words they mean, plausible grammatical construction, etc.).
... first the "health care reform" that does nothing but line insurance executives' pockets, now Tanenbaum and the RIAA.
Don't forget the whole wiretap thing and refusal to investigate torture (let alone giving back Presidential powers).
But don't worry! The backlash is the left's fault for making him "too left-leaning". If he just hadn't listened to all of those leftists pushing for the single payer^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W Medicare expansion^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W public option^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W never mind... health plan the Democrats wouldn't have lost in Massachusetts last night. Not to mention the whole nationalize^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W break up^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W re-regulate^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W never mind... the bank thing - when will the Democrats stop listening to their radical leftist members?!?!?!
The bottom line is that the nation is pretty close to a populist breaking point. If it were channeled correctly, it could be a key impetus to let people actually have a real say in their government. It will, of course, be co-opted to turn into a Fascist state unlike any of the retarded people on the right have seen since 1938. Thanks, guys...
Labels write checks. That's what no one else does. They are very much like loan sharks, the interest rate on the checks they write are terrifying, but if you are a small band, or a young band, many times you can afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do all those things you mentioned above.
There's one other difference. They forgive the loans if the band can't pay them back. This may seem like very thin gruel if you're working on what seems like indentured servitude for years to make your act big, but 90% of all bands break up (or are released from their contract) before the terms of those contracts expire.
A better model to view this under might be that of venture capital funds. In exchange for money and "management expertise" (in addition to a fair amount of buzz in the money community), you sell off large chunks of your ownership and IP. You may slave for years for little more than a mediocre paycheck. In the end, a lot (if not most) of what you make goes back to the VC firm. If you're lucky, you hit it big, too.
Granted, most VC firms don't sue their customers... that often. And, that being said, there's a lot to dislike about the VC money marketplace, too. But if you can see (labels funding bands) (VCs funding startups), the kids in the band don't have that bad of a deal - like they say, they get paid for making cool stuff (that actually sounds like all the other cool stuff out there, but... see! It is like the VC industry!).
Slashdot Mirror
... when can I get a basic pleasure model?
We'll take your order now! Do you want it to look like Harrison Ford or Rutger Hauer?
All right! Now we have a chip that we can get rid of using an eraser!
First of all, it took the company who made the OS eight years to come up with a suitable replacement (or, at least six, if you want to count the relatively usable W2K8 server as a replacement for a desktop system), so I only look at the OS as two years out-of-date at most.
In addition, Win7 requires more processing power than XP to gain reasonable advantage over XP, requires the user to learn new UI and administrative skills, and often requires replacement of software and hardware for which no Win7 versions and/or drivers exist. So, essentially you're saying that planned obsolescence is a wonderful strategy that customers should buy into?
When I hear politicians calling soldiers "warriors" it makes me want to puke, as well. Being a soldier has been (and still is) a noble short-term profession. But we should always look at employing soldiers as, at best, a necessary evil. Give the guys that do it respect, but don't elevate them to exalted levels. And make no mistake, using the term "warrior" seeks to do this. We should never elevate the military above the political. I don't want to become an empire ruled by exalted military commanders (though the Congress seems to be showing too much deference and moving in this direction these days).
Creating high performance growing networks is really a special skill managers and network architects should posses to be ready for the future.
Most software/network designers will never work on any project that has so much traffic that it needs to scale to the levels discussed in this book. In fact, most (note I say most) businesses don't actually need the amount of scalability currently built into their current out-of-the-box hardware and software solutions. Just saying...
When you hand him your soul, too, your happiness for the rest of your life is ensured... It's in the blood-signed EULA. Don't worry about the fine print.
I like to think and contemplate, which if I was still capable of doing so, I'd like to continue that rather than die.
Really? Then you're not really thinking it through. You want to continue living? When you can't move. When you can't adjust the bedclothes that you're put under, even when you're roasting or freezing. When you can't feed yourself and the liquid nutrient they feed you gives you unbearable heartburn because you're not elevated enough. When you can't scratch that itch - for hours. When the cramps because your arm is in the wrong position continues for hours. When the bedsores burn. When you have no actual data input other than the Oxygen network that your aide has tuned your TV to. When you can't actually see the screen, but can only hear the voices drone on hour after hour (because they didn't prop your head in the right direction). When you go slowly mad, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Yes... sounds lovely. Hope you enjoy your stay in Hell. Glad I don't need to make that choice.
I'd settle for a 3D script and characters...
The lowest-intelligence portions of our society increasingly sit as dependent breeding stock, suckling at the teat of government social programs generationally whilst producing an overabundance of mentally deficient young who then perpetuate the cycle.
Oddly enough, you seem to have missed the target. Most of the people who survive and have enough money to get into college do not come from the "breeding stock" class. Most are members of the mid-to-upper classes who have never had to nor intend to give a shit. As an example, George W. Bush, the scion of one of the world's most powerful dynasties and once leader of the free world, couldn't string together words into a coherent sentence. I'd give other examples, but that would gild the lily. And as of the "return of disease" argument you put forth? It's generally the upper-middle class with their autism fears and the lower class' lack of access to preventative health care in this country that are driving this ill.
Oddly enough, if one bothers to actually look, you see a fairly large amount of intelligence, drive, and "street smarts" distributed among the supposed "breeding stock" class you disparage. The ones who survive past their twenties need these skills for survival and it is a shame that their talents could not be channeled in a more productive direction, as they would probably achieve much more than the pampered and stupid poodles created by the "higher classes".
In short, remember that there was a reason for Monty Python's "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketch. In fact, you sound like one.
Iraq was (supposedly, I'm not an authority on this) a failing state before we even moved in, and if it had fallen apart on its own the most likely successor would either be an official Iranian invasion, or an Iranian puppet government...
Give the man a cigar. He gets it right. However, had the state fallen apart, the Iranians would have had a hell of a time (re-)creating order and taking control. Now that we've put the majority Shia in charge, our "friends" like Chalabi will see that the transition to Iranian puppet-state will be made much more smoothly. All we did was speed up the process by seven-to-twenty years. The question, of course, is who would gain from that? Quick answer: Building Iran's influence while looking like we're containing it is really good for certain industries, while still giving cover for hawkish politicians.
New Jersey and Oregon are very progressive on that front.
In defense of those who live here in Oregon, it's really not a lot of fun getting out of your car to fill it in the rain. We'll let the folks in Washington do that, if they want.
JWASM is a welcomed tool that supplements the entire x86 assembly language community...
In Korea, only old people use assembler.
I'll live forever if I eat babies?
That's how Dick Cheney does it.
... a great way to breed more socially retarded Slashdotters.
Well, they have to be made somewhere - God knows they'll never have the opportunity to reproduce once they become "socially retarded Slashdotters".
This thing would have been far more appealing to me if it ran a customized version of OSX...
He wasn't building it for you.
OK, snottiness aside, it probably would be much better for the geeks out here (and maybe a few professional Mac users out there) if it did have a full OS X running on it. On the other hand, most people don't give a rat's ass about what OS is on their computer. What they care about is (a) can it do what I want; (b) if it can't do what I want right now, can I easily get software that lets me do what I want; (c) is it easy to use; and (d) is it not a PITA to maintain/keep stable. The iPad, as a closed environment with a ton of apps and good enough connectivity (OK, good enough connectivity if you get AT&T to get it's act together) provides that. Most people won't care what OS it runs. And, in fact, as a device that converges music playing, e-book reading and movie watching I think he's hit the entertainment-oriented market he wanted to hit.
And for those who want a full-featured OS, there's still the Mac.
I am intrigued by your newsletter and would like to subscribe...
Cb
I think you mean B, unless you like really tough key signatures.
But I'm married, so I guess I'm not a 'single person who pays for support.'
OK, now we know you're lying.
You're posting on Slashdot - you don't even know what a woman looks like.
a 1"x1" oval viewing screen strapped to your wrist
Nah, it's going to be a "Flavor Flav"-style wearable that goes around your neck - 17" screen and all.
The very fact that The Family Circus is still in print is a testament to the utter incompetence and out-of-touchery of newspapers.
Either that or, truly, the end times are upon us and Little Billy is the Antichrist.
how many people read or skin the slashdot summary[?]
Very few of us find the summary big enough to skin. It would be like skinning a vole - too small to be worth the effort. However, skimming the summary is a tact[sic] usually taken by Slashdot readers, many of whom cannot seem to write a reasonable sentence (i.e., using capitalization, proper spelling, using the words they mean, plausible grammatical construction, etc.).
... first the "health care reform" that does nothing but line insurance executives' pockets, now Tanenbaum and the RIAA.
Don't forget the whole wiretap thing and refusal to investigate torture (let alone giving back Presidential powers).
But don't worry! The backlash is the left's fault for making him "too left-leaning". If he just hadn't listened to all of those leftists pushing for the single payer^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W Medicare expansion^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W public option^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W never mind... health plan the Democrats wouldn't have lost in Massachusetts last night. Not to mention the whole nationalize^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W break up^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W re-regulate^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W never mind... the bank thing - when will the Democrats stop listening to their radical leftist members?!?!?!
The bottom line is that the nation is pretty close to a populist breaking point. If it were channeled correctly, it could be a key impetus to let people actually have a real say in their government. It will, of course, be co-opted to turn into a Fascist state unlike any of the retarded people on the right have seen since 1938. Thanks, guys...
A good set of teeth and strain meters for use on the fibers...
You know... FLOSS! Get it?
Thanks, folks! I'll be here all week! Try the veal!
Labels write checks. That's what no one else does. They are very much like loan sharks, the interest rate on the checks they write are terrifying, but if you are a small band, or a young band, many times you can afford tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to do all those things you mentioned above.
There's one other difference. They forgive the loans if the band can't pay them back. This may seem like very thin gruel if you're working on what seems like indentured servitude for years to make your act big, but 90% of all bands break up (or are released from their contract) before the terms of those contracts expire.
A better model to view this under might be that of venture capital funds. In exchange for money and "management expertise" (in addition to a fair amount of buzz in the money community), you sell off large chunks of your ownership and IP. You may slave for years for little more than a mediocre paycheck. In the end, a lot (if not most) of what you make goes back to the VC firm. If you're lucky, you hit it big, too.
Granted, most VC firms don't sue their customers... that often. And, that being said, there's a lot to dislike about the VC money marketplace, too. But if you can see (labels funding bands) (VCs funding startups), the kids in the band don't have that bad of a deal - like they say, they get paid for making cool stuff (that actually sounds like all the other cool stuff out there, but... see! It is like the VC industry!).
CBS is more likely to be comprised of horses.
But only a portion of them.