Did that guy work for AIG? Why do I feel that way about "Wall Street" now?
Watch the fireworks as large banks merge with governments around the world. I told you trading with China would make us slaves like them more than it would them free. Pervasive spying, corruption and government ownership, the picture is nearly complete. Who owns your house now, eh?
I don't think so. Twitter is less verbose and anyone could have written the above. The very mundane character of the above is more important than who wrote it. Vista's failure and M$'s downfall have been obvious so long, they are now part of IT mythos. In the words of the SLOG.DOC, the thing evangelizes itself at this point. Others are just going to keep piling it on now.
Everyone you ask will tell you the same things. DRM sucks, Vista's main feature is DRM. Silverlight has the same chance of success as Zune or Plays for Sure. After 10 years of sub par OS releases, massive losses in device making and vile narcissistic media involvement by M$ executives, Silverlight is doomed. Belief in a M$ comeback is truly a sign of mental deficiency. This view is not complete but it's not far from truth either.
Twitter's latest observation is that M$ has entered their death spiral. They have run out of cash and is headed into debt. The chances of them getting out of are nill. The richest software on Earth took six years to deliver Vista? Layoffs and decreased advertising will surely follow. No reasonable person would expect them to do better with fewer programmers and mindshare.
There are five days in a week. Don't be fooled by the biggest bounce since March 1933. When M$ misses their expectations again on October 23rd, they will sink for good regardless of where the rest of the economy goes. Everyone knows they can't do any better than Vista in time to save themselves and Vista is a failure.
Boycott Novell people noticed this yesterday, it's nice to see such a quick Slashdot response. Their view of Miguel's behavior was not so favorable, "Miguel de Icaza has complained about such things, but yesterday he ran back to Microsoft, giving them credit and thanking them. "
Steve Ballmer will rescue M$. With his genius understanding of all manner of technical issues like antipersirant and subtle manners, M$ will surely prosper. Who else could get away with chair throwing rants with such memorable quotes as, "I'm going to fucking kill Google," and still think of themselves as cooler than Steve Jobs? It's amazing. To think he has said he would have ended up wasting all of that talent at an insurance company if it were not for Bill Gates. Where would John McCain's cabinet be without this gift to the nation? How else will M$ survive the next few years?
It is disturbing to me that you think there's a real problem to begin with. Mr. Byfield is known for slinging mud on free software. You on the other hand know things. I thought the SSL problem was Debian specific. Has Red Hat ever kept their users in the dark before?
A handy CF to IDE adapter. 16 GB really is enough space for the basics, but you might want more or less. This would be a nice retrofit to lighten up a laptop. Can't say what kind of performance it would bring.
Countries don't matter right now. People still remember that the telephone existed before Total Information Awareness, so the party has yet to claim responsiblity for that. As #2 famously said, "there are no nations anymore, just corporations." Total information awareness eliminates the "stove pipes" and ties it all together. It is not surprising that a company claims to have produced TIA in a single box. The purpose is to track and suppress political dissent, so any old duopoly produced hack should work well enough. If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot treading on a human face forever. If you want to change the future, vote for someone who's not part of the giant corporate fuck fest.
Isn't the point of M$ Exchange and friends that it's easy to use and does not require an expensive operator?
If hardware's the problem, how do you explain the reliability of Google, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia and other users of commodity hardware?
How reliable is your exchange server, really? This thread started off with someone pointing out how much more reliable Google was than the best of M$ solutions. Is it really good or are you some kind of M$ munchkin that has to smear hardworking administrators to make up for the M$'s horrible reputation.
Any attack that M$ can make, they will make. There's never been a weapon M$ has that they have not used and they have always done it with the most charming face they can make. Historical examples include knowingly selling inferior tools to Lotus developers and the ongoing software patent attack and continued. M$ is an evil company and they will attempt all three attacks the article mentioned and one more:
Internal poison - both code and social. They do not fear "open source" they are afraid of software freedom and continue to smear advocates of freedom. If they can't make people think free software is not as good as theirs, they will seek to sabotage it with moles. Neither will work.
Co-option - see Novel and Mono for examples of how M$ would like to make everything dependent on their patented software. This is another form of poison.
Distraction of developers - this is part of #1 really. Mindshare is everything to them, when developers discover the benefits of freedom they don't come back. The effort to retain them is too little too late, that's M$ is prowling Open Source instead of their own conferences.
Create fights between free software projects. Developers who are busy fighting instead of cooperating can't compete. All of this reflects M$'s inability to compete with free software.
At the end of the day, M$ wants you to pay them when you use your computer. Vista, IIS, and Visual Studio all show that they don't have much that merits that pay, so they need to steal a new set of software.
How many days of the Iraq war could have been paid for with CERN's budget? The inverse question is more intersting, given collapse of the US supercollider effort.
So, the angle is "Outsmarting" GNU/Linux by getting all the nice parts to run under Windoze, so Linux dies? That sounds about right, but it only works if Windows can run itself well. It's not obvious Windows works at all these days and the converse strategy is more true than Softies would like to imagine. Windows programs are easier to run and keep running under wine or VMs. Users would rather have the power and flexibility of X than all the clunk of Windoze and its clumsy screen handling.
You had better go read your UP Libel handbook and understand it before you act like no harm can be done on the internet. What this idiot did is pure libel and it has caused its victim ireperable harm. Don't do that at home.
Public figures, people who manipulate the public for their own good, are fair game to talk about but even then you have to tell the truth.
Private individuals are almost never fair game, unless they do something that is of obvious public interest and even then you had better tell the truth. Now if you make up a page that leads people to believe that a private person you don't like is something they are not you are in deep shit if that person is somehow harmed. People look down on malice and they will reward a victim that's someone like themselves.
Now what harm can a Facebook page do? Ask someone who's looking for a job, or trying to do business. Reputation harm has direct monetary cost. Even a hint of controversy can cost a person their job and livelyhood, depending on the job. The perpetrator, in this case, is lucky to have gotten off with $44,000 in payments. Ask Ralph Nader about overzealous investigation if you are still unclear about this.
I'm not aware of any federal laws which require a proctor watching students take tests. Schools that wish to offer a video alternative to proctored exams can do so without being required to install Big Brother type equipment in people's houses. Next thing you know, they will legislate the use of digital restrictions to make sure you are not playing any tricks with the interweb. After all, people pay others to take tests for them IRL, we had better make sure the internet equivalent is "secure" by requiring the most rooted software in history.
There is not a lot of useful stuff to add to this story. Vista has disk thrashing issues and everyone knows it. That kills flash memory no matter how good your controller is at wear leveling. Of course, this contradicts what M$ marketing people told the world about "Ready Boost" but most who took that seriously gave up from lack of performance increase before they burned out their flash drive. A major flash maker confirming the problem is a nice thing to show people who might think Vista is OK, but there's nothing really new in this story.
So, why do you flame GNU/Linux advocates when there is nothing useful to say?
Everyone else had the same idea too, and big hospital management is having the same H1B ideas that everyone else had too. Engineering is a zero, which is a good reason for declining enrollment. Law has always been a crap shot as are most insurance/sales/bank cubicle jobs. Medicine still pays well and there are lots of employers. But guess what, the same kind of regional consolidation is taking over and the biggest hospitals have started to import H1B, aka slave, labor. Insurance companies are doing their part to force the same kind of throat/cost cutting all around. The downturn is only going to accelerate these trends. If we get another republican administration, Medicine will look like software, aviation or broadcast media.
Bottom line, keep doing what you do best. Trends will always betray you.
75% of users only have one browser, IE, which won't be safe no matter how updated it is. If there were real diversity in browsers and OS the net would not be the botnet infested mess it is. No one likes these messages and people who use them will only anger their customers.
Along the lines of diversity, "update your browser" messages are particularly obnoxious to free software users. They are both pointless and wrong because my favorite browsers always fall outside of those silly scripts. My browsers are the best my distribution has to offer.
Non free software users are not happy with these messages either. Their systems are tricky to upgrade and often break when they try. Corporate users are allways several versions out of date because the "patches" invariably break some important piece of business software.
It is hard to believe the FBI won't do the study to get real numbers, but we've been here before. These are the same people who presented bullet lead evidence with equal certainty. The science is impressive but it means nothing when your original premise is wrong. In the bullet lead case, it turns out that matches were common and single boxes often had differences. The coincidence between two people is good reason to review the data and make sure DNA statistics are correct. Until that is done, the odds of DNA matches should be looked on with great skepticism.
It's screw ups like this that make the death penalty a bad idea. While life in prison is a terrible punishment, perhaps more cruel than death, it gives the state a chance to fix its mistakes.
Why change things the original speakers did not care about? What's funny about they way they talk? At it's worse, it represents a lack of rules from a lack of education. That is a shame the internet may correct. Insisting on conformity is something that will be corrected by global justice.
Not everyone has the privilege of that education which includes slavish language conformity to those currently with wealth and power. Shakespeare's plays preserve artful English for a 15th century English lawyer. Most people familiar with the rules of Standard English, as practiced in the North East of the United States in the late 20th century, would consider Shakespeare "moronizing," whatever that means.
Thank heavens for representative government that works better than our own. The EU has been watching Intel for more than 8 years and already has outstanding charges that Intel thwarted AMD sales by selling at a loss. We've all seen how they crushed OLPC. Good for the EU for doing something, we can only hope it's not too little too late given worsening economic conditions.
The story's "AMD sucks" slant is puzzling. Advantages come and go, but AMD has almost always been better for number crunching since 2000. They also have had significantly better interconnects and architecture for multi core processors. It's like blaming the victim.
Another factor in this sad story is the Vista failure which has hurt all hardware sales. In the last year or so, we've seen spectacular bargains like $500 and less dual core laptops on clearance and the collapse of CompUSA and other big box stores. AMD will suffer more in this downturn because it comes as they were gaining share.
Yeah, no experience at all. But yeah, that you can pass two light beams through each other and emerge without loss of signal shows that the "radio interference story" the public has been fed is a lie.
Anyone who pays for telecommunication services or publishes should care about spectrum. The spectrum belongs to the public and there is no longer a need for it to be allocated by government the way 100 year old radios required. Free spectrum would bring you vastly cheaper communications and true always on internet.
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Did that guy work for AIG? Why do I feel that way about "Wall Street" now?
Watch the fireworks as large banks merge with governments around the world. I told you trading with China would make us slaves like them more than it would them free. Pervasive spying, corruption and government ownership, the picture is nearly complete. Who owns your house now, eh?
I don't think so. Twitter is less verbose and anyone could have written the above. The very mundane character of the above is more important than who wrote it. Vista's failure and M$'s downfall have been obvious so long, they are now part of IT mythos. In the words of the SLOG.DOC, the thing evangelizes itself at this point. Others are just going to keep piling it on now.
Everyone you ask will tell you the same things. DRM sucks, Vista's main feature is DRM. Silverlight has the same chance of success as Zune or Plays for Sure. After 10 years of sub par OS releases, massive losses in device making and vile narcissistic media involvement by M$ executives, Silverlight is doomed. Belief in a M$ comeback is truly a sign of mental deficiency. This view is not complete but it's not far from truth either.
Twitter's latest observation is that M$ has entered their death spiral. They have run out of cash and is headed into debt. The chances of them getting out of are nill. The richest software on Earth took six years to deliver Vista? Layoffs and decreased advertising will surely follow. No reasonable person would expect them to do better with fewer programmers and mindshare.
There are five days in a week. Don't be fooled by the biggest bounce since March 1933. When M$ misses their expectations again on October 23rd, they will sink for good regardless of where the rest of the economy goes. Everyone knows they can't do any better than Vista in time to save themselves and Vista is a failure.
Boycott Novell people noticed this yesterday, it's nice to see such a quick Slashdot response. Their view of Miguel's behavior was not so favorable, "Miguel de Icaza has complained about such things, but yesterday he ran back to Microsoft, giving them credit and thanking them. "
Steve Ballmer will rescue M$. With his genius understanding of all manner of technical issues like antipersirant and subtle manners, M$ will surely prosper. Who else could get away with chair throwing rants with such memorable quotes as, "I'm going to fucking kill Google," and still think of themselves as cooler than Steve Jobs? It's amazing. To think he has said he would have ended up wasting all of that talent at an insurance company if it were not for Bill Gates. Where would John McCain's cabinet be without this gift to the nation? How else will M$ survive the next few years?
It is disturbing to me that you think there's a real problem to begin with. Mr. Byfield is known for slinging mud on free software. You on the other hand know things. I thought the SSL problem was Debian specific. Has Red Hat ever kept their users in the dark before?
A handy CF to IDE adapter. 16 GB really is enough space for the basics, but you might want more or less. This would be a nice retrofit to lighten up a laptop. Can't say what kind of performance it would bring.
Countries don't matter right now. People still remember that the telephone existed before Total Information Awareness, so the party has yet to claim responsiblity for that. As #2 famously said, "there are no nations anymore, just corporations." Total information awareness eliminates the "stove pipes" and ties it all together. It is not surprising that a company claims to have produced TIA in a single box. The purpose is to track and suppress political dissent, so any old duopoly produced hack should work well enough. If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot treading on a human face forever. If you want to change the future, vote for someone who's not part of the giant corporate fuck fest.
I've been trying to jam punch cards into my iPhone
That's natural, after it ate your credit card.
Isn't the point of M$ Exchange and friends that it's easy to use and does not require an expensive operator?
If hardware's the problem, how do you explain the reliability of Google, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia and other users of commodity hardware?
How reliable is your exchange server, really? This thread started off with someone pointing out how much more reliable Google was than the best of M$ solutions. Is it really good or are you some kind of M$ munchkin that has to smear hardworking administrators to make up for the M$'s horrible reputation.
240K, like the number of OLPC sold? Wooohooo, now there's a best seller.
Any attack that M$ can make, they will make. There's never been a weapon M$ has that they have not used and they have always done it with the most charming face they can make. Historical examples include knowingly selling inferior tools to Lotus developers and the ongoing software patent attack and continued. M$ is an evil company and they will attempt all three attacks the article mentioned and one more:
At the end of the day, M$ wants you to pay them when you use your computer. Vista, IIS, and Visual Studio all show that they don't have much that merits that pay, so they need to steal a new set of software.
How many days of the Iraq war could have been paid for with CERN's budget? The inverse question is more intersting, given collapse of the US supercollider effort.
So, the angle is "Outsmarting" GNU/Linux by getting all the nice parts to run under Windoze, so Linux dies? That sounds about right, but it only works if Windows can run itself well. It's not obvious Windows works at all these days and the converse strategy is more true than Softies would like to imagine. Windows programs are easier to run and keep running under wine or VMs. Users would rather have the power and flexibility of X than all the clunk of Windoze and its clumsy screen handling.
That's the 22,000 pound question, isn't it?
You had better go read your UP Libel handbook and understand it before you act like no harm can be done on the internet. What this idiot did is pure libel and it has caused its victim ireperable harm. Don't do that at home.
Public figures, people who manipulate the public for their own good, are fair game to talk about but even then you have to tell the truth.
Private individuals are almost never fair game, unless they do something that is of obvious public interest and even then you had better tell the truth. Now if you make up a page that leads people to believe that a private person you don't like is something they are not you are in deep shit if that person is somehow harmed. People look down on malice and they will reward a victim that's someone like themselves.
Now what harm can a Facebook page do? Ask someone who's looking for a job, or trying to do business. Reputation harm has direct monetary cost. Even a hint of controversy can cost a person their job and livelyhood, depending on the job. The perpetrator, in this case, is lucky to have gotten off with $44,000 in payments. Ask Ralph Nader about overzealous investigation if you are still unclear about this.
On that note, I'm sure BRLUG member Will Hill would love to know who set up the willyhill Slashdot user who's posted all sorts of outrageous bullshit under his name while pointing to his homepage. Whoever set that up is a particularly obnoxious troll. They have maliciously misrepresented an innocent private person.
I'm not aware of any federal laws which require a proctor watching students take tests. Schools that wish to offer a video alternative to proctored exams can do so without being required to install Big Brother type equipment in people's houses. Next thing you know, they will legislate the use of digital restrictions to make sure you are not playing any tricks with the interweb. After all, people pay others to take tests for them IRL, we had better make sure the internet equivalent is "secure" by requiring the most rooted software in history.
There is not a lot of useful stuff to add to this story. Vista has disk thrashing issues and everyone knows it. That kills flash memory no matter how good your controller is at wear leveling. Of course, this contradicts what M$ marketing people told the world about "Ready Boost" but most who took that seriously gave up from lack of performance increase before they burned out their flash drive. A major flash maker confirming the problem is a nice thing to show people who might think Vista is OK, but there's nothing really new in this story.
So, why do you flame GNU/Linux advocates when there is nothing useful to say?
Everyone else had the same idea too, and big hospital management is having the same H1B ideas that everyone else had too. Engineering is a zero, which is a good reason for declining enrollment. Law has always been a crap shot as are most insurance/sales/bank cubicle jobs. Medicine still pays well and there are lots of employers. But guess what, the same kind of regional consolidation is taking over and the biggest hospitals have started to import H1B, aka slave, labor. Insurance companies are doing their part to force the same kind of throat/cost cutting all around. The downturn is only going to accelerate these trends. If we get another republican administration, Medicine will look like software, aviation or broadcast media.
Bottom line, keep doing what you do best. Trends will always betray you.
75% of users only have one browser, IE, which won't be safe no matter how updated it is. If there were real diversity in browsers and OS the net would not be the botnet infested mess it is. No one likes these messages and people who use them will only anger their customers.
Along the lines of diversity, "update your browser" messages are particularly obnoxious to free software users. They are both pointless and wrong because my favorite browsers always fall outside of those silly scripts. My browsers are the best my distribution has to offer.
Non free software users are not happy with these messages either. Their systems are tricky to upgrade and often break when they try. Corporate users are allways several versions out of date because the "patches" invariably break some important piece of business software.
It is hard to believe the FBI won't do the study to get real numbers, but we've been here before. These are the same people who presented bullet lead evidence with equal certainty. The science is impressive but it means nothing when your original premise is wrong. In the bullet lead case, it turns out that matches were common and single boxes often had differences. The coincidence between two people is good reason to review the data and make sure DNA statistics are correct. Until that is done, the odds of DNA matches should be looked on with great skepticism.
It's screw ups like this that make the death penalty a bad idea. While life in prison is a terrible punishment, perhaps more cruel than death, it gives the state a chance to fix its mistakes.
Why change things the original speakers did not care about? What's funny about they way they talk? At it's worse, it represents a lack of rules from a lack of education. That is a shame the internet may correct. Insisting on conformity is something that will be corrected by global justice.
Not everyone has the privilege of that education which includes slavish language conformity to those currently with wealth and power. Shakespeare's plays preserve artful English for a 15th century English lawyer. Most people familiar with the rules of Standard English, as practiced in the North East of the United States in the late 20th century, would consider Shakespeare "moronizing," whatever that means.
Thank heavens for representative government that works better than our own. The EU has been watching Intel for more than 8 years and already has outstanding charges that Intel thwarted AMD sales by selling at a loss. We've all seen how they crushed OLPC. Good for the EU for doing something, we can only hope it's not too little too late given worsening economic conditions.
The story's "AMD sucks" slant is puzzling. Advantages come and go, but AMD has almost always been better for number crunching since 2000. They also have had significantly better interconnects and architecture for multi core processors. It's like blaming the victim.
Another factor in this sad story is the Vista failure which has hurt all hardware sales. In the last year or so, we've seen spectacular bargains like $500 and less dual core laptops on clearance and the collapse of CompUSA and other big box stores. AMD will suffer more in this downturn because it comes as they were gaining share.
Yeah, no experience at all. But yeah, that you can pass two light beams through each other and emerge without loss of signal shows that the "radio interference story" the public has been fed is a lie.
Anyone who pays for telecommunication services or publishes should care about spectrum. The spectrum belongs to the public and there is no longer a need for it to be allocated by government the way 100 year old radios required. Free spectrum would bring you vastly cheaper communications and true always on internet.