Frankly, I'm tired of hearing stuff like this. M$ took an ass-backwards approach to security and it bites them repeatedly. My old Netware servers gave you NOTHING by default. UNIX gives you NOTHING by default. Linux gives you NOTHING by default. "Tell me more about this John Smith, otherwise he can't do shit!" Windows has always been about, "Hi John, welcome to the farm. Feel free to take our women and horses." And people wonder why it's insecure? W2k3 has don't alot to mitigate this. But *IX will always have a better security model as long as M$ panders to idiocy. Windows is an app server. It should have stayed an app server. It sucks as a file server and in many other areas. But every marketing-addicted suit wanted to consolidate everything into one environment. We build this city on "My Document" folders on the desktop of every server and wonder why we get bubble-gum service. Frankly, I hope they keep this attitude.
Let's see, "America, like your money we the rest of the world expects you to turn over your technology to us as well. Thanks!" True, many technologies on the Internet were developed globally, but it was developed here as an infrastructure. Turning it over to the U.N. is just stupid. Anyone that thinks this is a good thing is frighteningly stupid.
My buddy and I used to get into heated arguments over my contention that the floppy is vastly more convenient than the CD-ROM. His contention was, of course, you can fill a CD with so much more data. Yet, the CD has to be burned. Even if you set it up to be written to more than once you rick not all platforms reading it. I scored big when I said, "Okay, I plug a floppy into my computer you put a blank CD in yours. Let's see who can copy a file quicker." It was a satisfying moment. I don't have a floppy on my laptops but I do think technology has been hard pressed to match it's handiness. However, that's probably more due to manufacturers holding onto them so long.
in the U.S. the primary problem is funding. There's TOO much of it. More specifically, it's backwards. More funding is at the top than the bottom. Think of the education beauracracy as an upside down triangle. It's wider at the top and more money goes there. We've pumped ever-increasing dollars into education but performance has gotten worse. This isn't a clue, this is someone screaming at the top of their lungs, "Don't give me more money, I'll blow it on booze!" Yet, what do we always hear? "We need more money spent on education." Meanwhile, some backwoods kid from some poor school in BFE winds up taking top honors in acedemia and we wonder how. Easy, his school had less money for "growth programs" and had to actually TEACH!
I wonder if my podcasts and audio files could get contaminated?
"Hello, Joe. Mom here. Hope you're doing well. You Father is much better thanks to" *static*"VIAGRA! 50% OFF!!"
It's booting Windows; I should have been more specific. I don't know what the contributing factor is, I mean it's a different OS on different HW. Once Apple goes to Intel, the hardware will be much more similar. Will we see better or worse performance? How will those comparisons play out? That's what I was getting at.
I'd agree with you, but I'd also say that the parent didn't exactly say this was bad or good. Granted, I've seen enough liberal tantrums to be sensitive to it but the parent might actually agree with you (us). I think its easy to see the plus side here. What are the negatives? We already give up a lot by flying, not that that's good or bad.
Yeah, it's called research. Sorry, I don't have $12K to fork out for a machine that will run it. So yeah, I rely on what I read. You read and read and read and if you get a chance to see one you look for yourself. If not, you go with the preponderance of evident. So, how does the one YOU bought perform?
My Powerbook boots faster than my new Thinkpad. So this could go the other way. Apple fans could find that the Apple hardware my behave considerably different. Even if not, now Apple has to compete with high-end gamer boxes when trying to be the fastest. Perhaps they won't try to be the fastest, but faster than Dell/HP. It's going to get very interesting, to say the least.
And how good is patching the workstation? Just this week I had 2 servers infected with a virus that were a) up to date on all M$ patches and b) were running only 2 days behind current AV patches. Granted, they very well likely were infected internally, but who knows?
People are still buying Sun for a couple of reasons. One is perception. Sun is still seen as a player. The second reason is obligation. If you have Sun as a big vendor you will go back to them. In the long run you may pull back on them, but if they start offering incentives, you will stay with them. This is what's happening now. Yes, they will likely eventually go the way of SGI but who knows? Linux adoption is in a bit of a slump at the moment, it seems. Hopefully something will kick it off again.
It looks more like they are just lining their sights. They see Google as actually innovating but this probably has more to do with the fact that Google is king in an area of technology that M$ has failed at. So they will ignore others for the moment and fire on Google. Slamming IBM, OSS, and the like is really to insult the intelligence of the audience; esp. with OSS. Let's see, Linux is able to offer mail, web, file sysetems, and application services with considerably less overhead but no innovation? M$ has conceded the moderate growth of Linux for now. They are likely counting on an adoption surge for Longhorn. We shall see.
It's really telling that he was the guy to get but M$ get's off with no responsibility whatsoever. Not that they should be prosecuted, but they could write code to fry your machine and their EULA obfiscates them of any responsibility. This always got me about their position against Linux. "No one is responsible!" they say. Yet, who at M$ is responsible for leaving the door open to such attacks?
I'd agree. And I'm not the biggest supporter of RMS nor am I necessarily of the mind that all software should be free and no proprietary software should ever be installed on my computer. I use Linux and have for years, but I use MAC has my primary system now. But I got to choose Mac on its merits and that's where my feelings lie. I think there should be more choice and I think standards should be open. But I digress. I'd go further to say that RMS often hurts the community as a hole with his ideals but I think RMS represents an extreme.
I'd agree that the OSS community does need to shun piracy. OTOH I think people take things that Richard Stallman says, that software should be free, and try to equate that with "they want to steal stuff." That M$ would profit from piracy I think has long been established. Accusations like this were made years ago concerning usage in Central America. It was believed that M$ had let a dependence on Windows grow then cried fowl on piracy. It's a very effective tactic that has been used for ages by other sordid groups. Now it seems to be the modus operondi in East Asia.
But who's to say they can't still utilize NAT. Public switches route to private trunks now so VoIP can and will evolve. It's already evolving faster than IPv6 is being deployed.
You must love the mob. I mean, hey extortion, strong-arming the competition, buying up competition, yeah they're the best! Add a little kick to a puppy and slaughter some children and they'd be just fab! M$ is evil. They are the stuff that flowed through the sewer in Ghostbusters. I believe this attempt to hijack VoIP will be more evidence. Watch for the usual tactics. They'll attempt to bastardize any standards in VoIP and slowly make competitor's versions "incompatible."
VoIP can work around this easily. True, if everyone on the planet had a VoIP phone your point would be well taken. There's no reason, however, a company couldn't use an entire private segment that never sees the 'Net and use VoIP. It can then be trunked out over land-lines. I'd venture to guess this is how it's done for the most part anyway.
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Frankly, I'm tired of hearing stuff like this. M$ took an ass-backwards approach to security and it bites them repeatedly. My old Netware servers gave you NOTHING by default. UNIX gives you NOTHING by default. Linux gives you NOTHING by default. "Tell me more about this John Smith, otherwise he can't do shit!" Windows has always been about, "Hi John, welcome to the farm. Feel free to take our women and horses." And people wonder why it's insecure? W2k3 has don't alot to mitigate this. But *IX will always have a better security model as long as M$ panders to idiocy. Windows is an app server. It should have stayed an app server. It sucks as a file server and in many other areas. But every marketing-addicted suit wanted to consolidate everything into one environment. We build this city on "My Document" folders on the desktop of every server and wonder why we get bubble-gum service. Frankly, I hope they keep this attitude.
Let's see, "America, like your money we the rest of the world expects you to turn over your technology to us as well. Thanks!" True, many technologies on the Internet were developed globally, but it was developed here as an infrastructure. Turning it over to the U.N. is just stupid. Anyone that thinks this is a good thing is frighteningly stupid.
My buddy and I used to get into heated arguments over my contention that the floppy is vastly more convenient than the CD-ROM. His contention was, of course, you can fill a CD with so much more data. Yet, the CD has to be burned. Even if you set it up to be written to more than once you rick not all platforms reading it. I scored big when I said, "Okay, I plug a floppy into my computer you put a blank CD in yours. Let's see who can copy a file quicker." It was a satisfying moment. I don't have a floppy on my laptops but I do think technology has been hard pressed to match it's handiness. However, that's probably more due to manufacturers holding onto them so long.
My G4 Powerbook still boots faster than my new T43 Laptop.
So...the development Mac's run XP faster than other vendor's boxen? This is getting weird.
in the U.S. the primary problem is funding. There's TOO much of it. More specifically, it's backwards. More funding is at the top than the bottom. Think of the education beauracracy as an upside down triangle. It's wider at the top and more money goes there. We've pumped ever-increasing dollars into education but performance has gotten worse. This isn't a clue, this is someone screaming at the top of their lungs, "Don't give me more money, I'll blow it on booze!" Yet, what do we always hear? "We need more money spent on education." Meanwhile, some backwoods kid from some poor school in BFE winds up taking top honors in acedemia and we wonder how. Easy, his school had less money for "growth programs" and had to actually TEACH!
I wonder if my podcasts and audio files could get contaminated?
"Hello, Joe. Mom here. Hope you're doing well. You Father is much better thanks to"
*static*"VIAGRA! 50% OFF!!"
It's booting Windows; I should have been more specific.
I don't know what the contributing factor is, I mean it's a different OS on different HW. Once Apple goes to Intel, the hardware will be much more similar. Will we see better or worse performance? How will those comparisons play out? That's what I was getting at.
I'd agree with you, but I'd also say that the parent didn't exactly say this was bad or good. Granted, I've seen enough liberal tantrums to be sensitive to it but the parent might actually agree with you (us).
I think its easy to see the plus side here. What are the negatives? We already give up a lot by flying, not that that's good or bad.
Yeah, it's called research. Sorry, I don't have $12K to fork out for a machine that will run it. So yeah, I rely on what I read. You read and read and read and if you get a chance to see one you look for yourself. If not, you go with the preponderance of evident. So, how does the one YOU bought perform?
My Powerbook boots faster than my new Thinkpad. So this could go the other way. Apple fans could find that the Apple hardware my behave considerably different. Even if not, now Apple has to compete with high-end gamer boxes when trying to be the fastest. Perhaps they won't try to be the fastest, but faster than Dell/HP. It's going to get very interesting, to say the least.
How is the first post "redundant!?"
And how good is patching the workstation? Just this week I had 2 servers infected with a virus that were a) up to date on all M$ patches and b) were running only 2 days behind current AV patches.
Granted, they very well likely were infected internally, but who knows?
How come most of the screenshots I see make Longhorn look like AOL for hardware? Where is the "big change?"
There's a solid investment. "Sir, we're moving to Longhorn so we can keep all our Office97 installations running."
People are still buying Sun for a couple of reasons. One is perception. Sun is still seen as a player. The second reason is obligation. If you have Sun as a big vendor you will go back to them. In the long run you may pull back on them, but if they start offering incentives, you will stay with them. This is what's happening now. Yes, they will likely eventually go the way of SGI but who knows? Linux adoption is in a bit of a slump at the moment, it seems. Hopefully something will kick it off again.
It looks more like they are just lining their sights. They see Google as actually innovating but this probably has more to do with the fact that Google is king in an area of technology that M$ has failed at. So they will ignore others for the moment and fire on Google. Slamming IBM, OSS, and the like is really to insult the intelligence of the audience; esp. with OSS. Let's see, Linux is able to offer mail, web, file sysetems, and application services with considerably less overhead but no innovation? M$ has conceded the moderate growth of Linux for now. They are likely counting on an adoption surge for Longhorn. We shall see.
It's really telling that he was the guy to get but M$ get's off with no responsibility whatsoever. Not that they should be prosecuted, but they could write code to fry your machine and their EULA obfiscates them of any responsibility. This always got me about their position against Linux. "No one is responsible!" they say. Yet, who at M$ is responsible for leaving the door open to such attacks?
I'd agree. And I'm not the biggest supporter of RMS nor am I necessarily of the mind that all software should be free and no proprietary software should ever be installed on my computer. I use Linux and have for years, but I use MAC has my primary system now. But I got to choose Mac on its merits and that's where my feelings lie. I think there should be more choice and I think standards should be open. But I digress. I'd go further to say that RMS often hurts the community as a hole with his ideals but I think RMS represents an extreme.
Wow! Flaimbait AND a smartass! Shit, I should go play the lottery!
I believe it was Bobcat Goldthwait who said, "If you go on the Tonight Show, don't set the dressing room on fire!" There's a lesson here for Modman.
I'd agree that the OSS community does need to shun piracy. OTOH I think people take things that Richard Stallman says, that software should be free, and try to equate that with "they want to steal stuff." That M$ would profit from piracy I think has long been established. Accusations like this were made years ago concerning usage in Central America. It was believed that M$ had let a dependence on Windows grow then cried fowl on piracy. It's a very effective tactic that has been used for ages by other sordid groups. Now it seems to be the modus operondi in East Asia.
But who's to say they can't still utilize NAT. Public switches route to private trunks now so VoIP can and will evolve. It's already evolving faster than IPv6 is being deployed.
You must love the mob. I mean, hey extortion, strong-arming the competition, buying up competition, yeah they're the best! Add a little kick to a puppy and slaughter some children and they'd be just fab! M$ is evil. They are the stuff that flowed through the sewer in Ghostbusters. I believe this attempt to hijack VoIP will be more evidence. Watch for the usual tactics. They'll attempt to bastardize any standards in VoIP and slowly make competitor's versions "incompatible."
VoIP can work around this easily. True, if everyone on the planet had a VoIP phone your point would be well taken. There's no reason, however, a company couldn't use an entire private segment that never sees the 'Net and use VoIP. It can then be trunked out over land-lines. I'd venture to guess this is how it's done for the most part anyway.