" Are we speaking of this world region where 1 licence is usually enough to cover the needs of thousands of servers ?"
Asians pay exactly what their devalued currencies permit their conscience.
"THE Place where information, if not free, comes dirt cheap at 1$/cd ?"
Actually, $1/cd is a bit high. About 30 cents is the current going price.
"And you tell me Microsoft is trying to cultivate it's business there ?" Coupla' months ago, His Billness spent 4 days in Asia, wooing Indians to buy his 'visionary' Tablet PC... he also apparently arm-twisted a few big firms there into taking off Linux from their offerings.
Asia is home to nearly half the World population. It's a huge market for anyone to ignore.
can be summarised as: 1. Providing RHCE certfication exams, and certs. 2. Poor or no mirrors for downloading distros. 3. Little or no support offerings for their products. 4. Few relationshipd with h/w vendors that matter in Asia.
Only the last is being addressed here. Even little known firms like Turbo Linux have a huge base in Asia, by virtue of having strong support base and relationships.
"the overkill of.NET branding has muddied and confused the perception of what.NET is."
And yet you've written a thousand words to reach the same conclusion! Brilliant!!
"But hey, everyone in the world knows the name, so mission accomplished?"
You mean, the mission was to confuse everyone in the world, including Microsoft? Well, you can be sure that's accomplished a long ago, with Service Packs.
It seems that all Passport Update Services have been disabled, owing to millions of user complaints about spam! All mail accounts will need to be checked manually for spam. (all software MS Junk mail filters etc. have been junked already).
Of course, this means that Full Control of user accounts is needed. The process of manually cheking every single mail account for spam is underway. When all the billion accounts are checked and spam deleted, Passport.Net will be re-activated.
This is the beginning of the Passport Update Synchronized Service Year (PUSSY) efforts. Thanks for your attention.
"It's not their fault Outlook kept crashing, right?"
Nope... actually support@hotmail.com was taken over by rms-gnu@hotmail.com The GNU team folks are promising a fix faster than MS, provided they can make the entire code GPL!
"A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft.NET Passport, also affecting Hotmail user accounts. "
I fail to u'stand what Microsoft.NET Passport means. I only know Hotmail said: In 1999: Login to Hotmail In 2000: Login to Passport 2001 and later: Login to.Net
Nobody seems to know what the hell.Net is all about (including MS). Visual Studio.Net is the only branded.Net product out there, and Hotmail is supposed to be on.Net, whatever that means.
Is Passport or Passport.Net used by any other service except Hotmail? Terribly confusing.
isn't gonna rescue the artists, but the recording industry. Neither the artists nor nusic lovers gain a cent out of DRM - it's only Apple and the recording chaps - so this is a step in the WRONG direction.
Yeah right..so, in a year of 53 Tuesdays, we'd have about a 1000 complete albums:-(. About less than 1% of all new albums. Speaks a lot for the popularity of AAC and DRM
"Why the hell are we clinging to this model where things can be released on one side of the world, and then released on the other side of the world 6 months later?"
Probably 'cos the other half doesn't respect patents, doesn't like DRM etc.! Also, since views and tastes differ a bit, the albums would like to release region-specific versions:-)
"Are you saying that writing articles and telling people are ineffective?"
There's supposed to be a body overseeing the MS Code of Conduct in the anti-trust case and keep us periodically informed. Has this helped?
MS implements WordML, and calls user defined schemas as Arbitrary. MS offers WinCE code under a sort of GPL-like license, but not the XP code. MS offers to release 100% of the source code to non-US nations, and yet cites National Security within the US. MS deters and threatens users from using Foxpro under other OSes.
It's obvious this isn't gonna work at all for the FSF chaps. Mere documentation and reports about a disease aren't going to help victims. By your logic, SARS can be cured by publishing statistics!
1. Patents aren't yet world-wide, but SARS apparently is already so. If the DNA sequence is out in the open, why should a researcher in China, say, respect the patent in the US and pay royalties? In other words, how is this a windfall?
2. From the article: a. Abraham said the initial plan is to ensure 50 per cent of any money goes to the research facility and the remaining 50 per cent to the scientists.
b. "Patenting per se is not a bad thing," he said. "One proper reason for patenting is to make sure it's freely available to everybody."
What is the point in free avblty., when royalties have to be paid for access? These idiots have to exposed for what they are. It's like MS saying they implement Open XML standards in O2K3, but these standards can't work without O2K3.
3. Marra said: " "This stems largely from a personal belief that DNA sequence is a discovery as opposed to an invention and should not be patentable".
This is hypocrisy at it's best. If discoveries ought not to be patentable, why then should he patent it at all? Why not put it out on a web page with a datestamp, to ensure nobody else patents this later?
Intel isn't very clear with Linux on Centrino, their WLAN offering - funny to see them offering exotic stuff on Linux. Intel seems to resemble MS more and more these days. Time to clip wings, perhaps?
I thought only sheeple lived there...they've invented new spelling, new measures, new colo(u)rs..even messed around with date formats, temperature measurements..and drive on the wrong right side of the road!
No wonder they struggle to understand what the real people of the world are telling them. There may be exceptions though:-). Some Slashdot moderators seem to be....No Carrier.
OMG! Good ol' Jamie, the culprit?? No wonder 'tis said "The female of the species is more deadlier than the male". This color scheme looks so very evil...or should I say bewitching?
The color reminded me about "Robin Ultramarine Blue". I suppose you look like Cruella DeVil of 101 Dalmatians fame:-)? Your website doesn't carry your pic:-(
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How Steve Ballmer claims Windows is cheaper than Linux - the RAW price may be higher, but the scaled and relative prices can be played around with!!
How Windows XP is faster than Windows 98 - the tests are not done on the same m/cs, but measured globally, I suppose, and graded accordingly.
How Gartner reports are prepared.
How Linux has more viruses than Windows.
How Slashdot moderation works, moderators and their methods!!
How votes are counted in US elections.
and so on... maybe it's time for me to take a SAT test myself
How Steve Ballmer claims Windows is cheaper than Linux - the RAW price may be higher, but the scaled and relative prices can be played around with!!
How Windows XP is faster than Windows 98 - the tests are not done on the same m/cs, but measured globally, I suppose, and graded accordingly.
How Gartner reports are prepared.
How Linux has more viruses than Windows.
How Slashdot moderation works, moderators and their methods!!
How votes are counted in US elections.
and so on... maybe it's time for me to take a SAT test myself
How Steve Ballmer claims Windows is cheaper than Linux - the RAW price may be higher, but the scaled and relative prices can be played around with!!
How Windows XP is faster than Windows 98 - the tests are not done on the same m/cs, but measured globally, I suppose, and graded accordingly.
How Gartner reports are prepared.
How Linux has more viruses than Windows.
How Slashdot moderation works, moderators and their methods!!
How votes are counted in US elections.
and so on... maybe it's time for me to take a SAT test myself.
No wonder they're fighting hard to keep the name.
" Are we speaking of this world region where 1 licence is usually enough to cover the needs of thousands of servers ?"
Asians pay exactly what their devalued currencies permit their conscience.
"THE Place where information, if not free, comes dirt cheap at 1$/cd ?"
Actually, $1/cd is a bit high. About 30 cents is the current going price.
"And you tell me Microsoft is trying to cultivate it's business there ?"
Coupla' months ago, His Billness spent 4 days in Asia, wooing Indians to buy his 'visionary' Tablet PC... he also apparently arm-twisted a few big firms there into taking off Linux from their offerings.
Asia is home to nearly half the World population. It's a huge market for anyone to ignore.
can be summarised as:
1. Providing RHCE certfication exams, and certs.
2. Poor or no mirrors for downloading distros.
3. Little or no support offerings for their products.
4. Few relationshipd with h/w vendors that matter in Asia.
Only the last is being addressed here. Even little known firms like Turbo Linux have a huge base in Asia, by virtue of having strong support base and relationships.
"the overkill of .NET branding has muddied and confused the perception of what .NET is."
And yet you've written a thousand words to reach the same conclusion! Brilliant!!
"But hey, everyone in the world knows the name, so mission accomplished?"
You mean, the mission was to confuse everyone in the world, including Microsoft? Well, you can be sure that's accomplished a long ago, with Service Packs.
"I use it every single day."
.Net is XML .Net.
You mean, you use Hotmail?
After reading your referenced site, I've come to the conclusion:
The Benfit of
and
XML can be done without
If anything, I'm more confused.
Thanks for a very instructive link.
It seems that all Passport Update Services have been disabled, owing to millions of user complaints about spam! All mail accounts will need to be checked manually for spam. (all software MS Junk mail filters etc. have been junked already).
.Net will be re-activated.
Of course, this means that Full Control of user accounts is needed. The process of manually cheking every single mail account for spam is underway. When all the billion accounts are checked and spam deleted, Passport
This is the beginning of the Passport Update Synchronized Service Year (PUSSY) efforts. Thanks for your attention.
Actually it's Microsoft Next Generation Secure Computing Passport.Net Services Platform (XML) .Net #++ (TM).
" according to a dutch news site this hole was fixed shortly after the posting... "
If sending 404 Page Not Found messages to users trying to update passwords can be called fixing, well, MS indeed fixed it.
"It's not their fault Outlook kept crashing, right?"
Nope... actually support@hotmail.com was taken over by rms-gnu@hotmail.com
The GNU team folks are promising a fix faster than MS, provided they can make the entire code GPL!
You could freak out with all his credit cards! Assuming he's got a good credit rating though :-(
Repeat this rapidly ten times, and watch your tongue get locked faster than Windows XP!!
"the England cricket team haven't won anything"
I thought they won a moral victory by not travelling to Zimbabwe... and a political victory by making Zim fly to England. Bad example?
"A vulnerability was reported in Microsoft .NET Passport, also affecting Hotmail user accounts. "
.NET Passport means. I only know Hotmail said: .Net
.Net is all about (including MS). Visual Studio .Net is the only branded .Net product out there, and Hotmail is supposed to be on .Net, whatever that means.
I fail to u'stand what Microsoft
In 1999: Login to Hotmail
In 2000: Login to Passport
2001 and later: Login to
Nobody seems to know what the hell
Is Passport or Passport.Net used by any other service except Hotmail? Terribly confusing.
isn't gonna rescue the artists, but the recording industry. Neither the artists nor nusic lovers gain a cent out of DRM - it's only Apple and the recording chaps - so this is a step in the WRONG direction.
Yeah right..so, in a year of 53 Tuesdays, we'd have about a 1000 complete albums :-(. About less than 1% of all new albums. Speaks a lot for the popularity of AAC and DRM
"Why the hell are we clinging to this model where things can be released on one side of the world, and then released on the other side of the world 6 months later?"
:-)
Probably 'cos the other half doesn't respect patents, doesn't like DRM etc.! Also, since views and tastes differ a bit, the albums would like to release region-specific versions
"Are you saying that writing articles and telling people are ineffective?"
There's supposed to be a body overseeing the MS Code of Conduct in the anti-trust case and keep us periodically informed. Has this helped?
MS implements WordML, and calls user defined schemas as Arbitrary.
MS offers WinCE code under a sort of GPL-like license, but not the XP code.
MS offers to release 100% of the source code to non-US nations, and yet cites National Security within the US.
MS deters and threatens users from using Foxpro under other OSes.
It's obvious this isn't gonna work at all for the FSF chaps. Mere documentation and reports about a disease aren't going to help victims. By your logic, SARS can be cured by publishing statistics!
1. Patents aren't yet world-wide, but SARS apparently is already so. If the DNA sequence is out in the open, why should a researcher in China, say, respect the patent in the US and pay royalties? In other words, how is this a windfall?
2. From the article:
a. Abraham said the initial plan is to ensure 50 per cent of any money goes to the research facility and the remaining 50 per cent to the scientists.
b. "Patenting per se is not a bad thing," he said. "One proper reason for patenting is to make sure it's freely available to everybody."
What is the point in free avblty., when royalties have to be paid for access? These idiots have to exposed for what they are. It's like MS saying they implement Open XML standards in O2K3, but these standards can't work without O2K3.
3. Marra said: " "This stems largely from a personal belief that DNA sequence is a discovery as opposed to an invention and should not be patentable".
This is hypocrisy at it's best. If discoveries ought not to be patentable, why then should he patent it at all? Why not put it out on a web page with a datestamp, to ensure nobody else patents this later?
Intel isn't very clear with Linux on Centrino, their WLAN offering - funny to see them offering exotic stuff on Linux. Intel seems to resemble MS more and more these days. Time to clip wings, perhaps?
I thought only sheeple lived there...they've invented new spelling, new measures, new colo(u)rs..even messed around with date formats, temperature measurements..and drive on the wrong right side of the road!
:-). Some Slashdot moderators seem to be ....No Carrier.
No wonder they struggle to understand what the real people of the world are telling them. There may be exceptions though
And here I thought Proffessional Philosophy was an Oxymoron :-(
OMG! Good ol' Jamie, the culprit?? No wonder 'tis said "The female of the species is more deadlier than the male". This color scheme looks so very evil...or should I say bewitching?
:-)? Your website doesn't carry your pic :-(
The color reminded me about "Robin Ultramarine Blue". I suppose you look like Cruella DeVil of 101 Dalmatians fame