I recall reading something a long while ago that claim that the samba guys knew more about the workings of SMB than MS does.
Well, of course they do.
They've been working on it longer than the drones that MS assigns to SMB, and I'll bet you that the four or five coders that MS has who might be almost half as good as Andrew Tridgell are busy working on blue-sky demos that will never ship.
flat, dead, and often hilariously insipid narrative.
Insipid? What? How can you possibly fail to enjoy Jeff Goldblum babbling about Chaos theory, and little girls saying "this is unix, I know this" as a shout-out to the geeks in the crowd?
They would not connect him without a SSN, and he asked about myriad ways of avoiding that.
Your officemate was apparently talking to a brain-dead clerk. Try calling their corporate counsel instead. Drop hints about religious discrimination charges, and you'll be amazed how reasonable they suddenly become.
My officemate today had a situation where the f'ing gas company required it.
Umm.. Demanded, not required. If you refuse to give it, they can't deny you service. They'll just demand an asinine deposit before they turn your gas on.
The Stasi was the bureacracy that carried out the oppression of half of Germany for about fifty years. That's about as obscure as, oh, the Cultural Revolution.
Wasn't there a story on/. about a year or so ago about running all manner of organic waste through a refinery? IIRC, it's possible to generate everything from axle grease to alcohol by cooking up turkey carcasses.
Do you think the same will happen to Apple, if they continue to grow?
It already did, and that's why Apple was at death's door in 1997. Who knows, MS might get their act together if they have a near-death experience in the next decade or so.
I don't see it happenning to Apple again within the next 25 years or so.
They hired him for important work expanding their market into China and hamstrung him in his ideas and proposals.
This is why I'm not worried about MS dominating the industry in the long term. A company just can't get that big without becoming hidebound. Ballmer is not the kind of leader that a technology company needs.
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But, once I read TFA, I looked them on the iTMS. Not really my thing, but I hope that they get a lot of sales from this exposure.
-jcr
Yes, because FOSS advocates always present levelheaded, well reasoned arguments dont they :/
Hey, leave RMS out of this!
-jcr
I recall reading something a long while ago that claim that the samba guys knew more about the workings of SMB than MS does.
Well, of course they do.
They've been working on it longer than the drones that MS assigns to SMB, and I'll bet you that the four or five coders that MS has who might be almost half as good as Andrew Tridgell are busy working on blue-sky demos that will never ship.
-jcr
Mono may be open and that may be all well and good, but it is not a better implementation of .NET, period.
So shut your mouth, bitch!
Thanks for that demonstration of the persuasive skills of the typical MS advocate. What a brilliant technical analysis.
-jcr
Film at 11...
Come on now, is anyone surprised by churlish behavior by MS towards the Mono developers? Does "Samba" ring a bell?
-jcr
flat, dead, and often hilariously insipid narrative.
Insipid? What? How can you possibly fail to enjoy Jeff Goldblum babbling about Chaos theory, and little girls saying "this is unix, I know this" as a shout-out to the geeks in the crowd?
-jcr
They would not connect him without a SSN, and he asked about myriad ways of avoiding that.
Your officemate was apparently talking to a brain-dead clerk. Try calling their corporate counsel instead. Drop hints about religious discrimination charges, and you'll be amazed how reasonable they suddenly become.
-jcr
Yes, but AMD has a history of smooth transitions.
Tell Steve. I'm sure that nobody pointed that out to him already.
-jcr
This will change when AMDs new fab comes online this year.
Maybe.
Apple learned a very hard lesson about relying on newly-built fabs from IBM.
-jcr
Isn't that "Mestah Spakoru"?
-jcr
My officemate today had a situation where the f'ing gas company required it.
Umm.. Demanded, not required. If you refuse to give it, they can't deny you service. They'll just demand an asinine deposit before they turn your gas on.
-jcr
Why does the school have the SSN's of all the students? They can't all be getting financial aid, or be employed by the school.
-jcr
Paris should get 11 years for her acting ability and general ability to annoy people.
I'd have to check with a lawyer, but I don't think California has a law to charge anyone with aggravated bimboism.
-jcr
Thanks for the link. I'd like to invest in that technology. Too bad they're not publicly traded yet...
-jcr
Want a lower price? No problem. How many million units do you want?
-jcr
The Stasi was the bureacracy that carried out the oppression of half of Germany for about fifty years. That's about as obscure as, oh, the Cultural Revolution.
-jcr
I'll kill another 1000 cats if I have to!
Cool. Let me know if you get funding for that.
-jcr
Wasn't there a story on /. about a year or so ago about running all manner of organic waste through a refinery? IIRC, it's possible to generate everything from axle grease to alcohol by cooking up turkey carcasses.
-jcr
A use for a cat? Who could have imagined it?
-jcr
Nazi Germany?
Not too sharp on your history there, are you?
The really sad thing is that you think it was an obscure reference. People really need to pay more attention.
-jcr
why no country has attempted to do this sort of thing?
Oh, but they have! Look for "Stasi" on wikipedia.
-jcr
While I suspect that this has good intentions
I think you can put that suspicion to rest.
-jcr
Actaully the backside of the Nano is aluminum.
Are you sure of that? It looks like stainless steel to me, just like the full-size iPods.
-jcr
Do you think the same will happen to Apple, if they continue to grow?
It already did, and that's why Apple was at death's door in 1997. Who knows, MS might get their act together if they have a near-death experience in the next decade or so.
I don't see it happenning to Apple again within the next 25 years or so.
-jcr
They hired him for important work expanding their market into China and hamstrung him in his ideas and proposals.
This is why I'm not worried about MS dominating the industry in the long term. A company just can't get that big without becoming hidebound. Ballmer is not the kind of leader that a technology company needs.
-jcr