I cant help but think this is a job done for hire by Microsoft. Why on earth would the DOJ want to attack Google for their deal with Yahoo? It was a helping hand to let them survive without Microsoft gobbling them up and spitting the rotten corpse to the wayside. If any company should be under DOJ scrutiny it would be Microsoft for using their ill gotten monopoly to break into the search market.
This really reeks of backroom deals. I thought capitalism was about free markets and stuff but obviously its just about who knows who and whos palms you greese.
For every spare cpu cycle that gets released some schmuck developes another high level platform that eats them away. The biggest untapped area of energy savings are in making our software more efficient. While we can shave a couple of percents in hardware there are very big gains to be had in software.
Breaking the trend of hardware companies making more efficient computers that software quickly eats up is hard.
This looks like a bashing that went wrong. Complain about Googles bad EULA and they turn around on a dime and change it to the better the very next day. It must be very very hard to run a smear campaign against a company like that. Sucks to be Microsofts astroturfers nowadays.
I can understand the performance gains that can be had by having roughly as many threads as CPU cores but spawning one for each page is going to eat resources like nothing before. Crashing plugins and rendering engines isnt going to be solved by letting that perticular thread die. It would be better if they solved the bugs from where they came, bandaid solutions is so Microsoft.
My familys three eeepc and the one i have at work would be utter pain if they had spinning disks and not SSD. Cheap laptop drives is terrible when it comes to sequential reads but even worse at access times.
Ubuntu runs faster in some areas on the eee than on my brand spanking new desktop.
What i long for is faster speeds and more write cycles. Servers is what i think would benefit the most from SSD and thats where i suspect it will take off soon.
Apple knows that the moment their OS becomes avaliable on general x86 hardware Microsoft will be all over them. Rather than to take the fight they pick up the crumbs left over by Microsoft. They are just youre average cowards at Apple.
I think they have a huge windows of opportunity here because of the Windows Vista mess that they wilfully let slip by.
This is just the usual Microsoft trying to badmouth the competition. In this case its about developer mindshare and staff.
I keep seeing these articles about Googles demise, evilness and other complaints but to date not one of them has been of any value whatsoever. To an outsider it really looks like a concentrated effort from Microsoft of purporting a pretty descent company in a bad light.
Im not into copyrights at all and i think all they do is concentrate money in a few hands. At worst copyright should be a very short and temporary monopoly. Long enought to give limited profit but short enough to spur more content and not let people live the rest of their life on old works.
Piracy is a very small offense in most peoples mind. No matter if its commercial or private its a petty theft and not much to bother about. Do something about the enviroment instead or anything else that affects our life. Who cares about letters, images or ones and zeros?
It is one of those proffesions where youre never done with your job. The industry is inherently uninterested in real security from the get go. Band-aid solutions to things the vendors doesnt give a crap about isnt a viable solution. Its an endless treadmill that goes nowhere. Some people can get a bit down because of that and the only thing i can think of is for you to change career. Either that or become that grumpy guy who people almost hide from or twitch when he speak.
I would suggest a job where you can feel that by the end of the day you made some difference. Avoid service and try to get into manufacturing.
Some companies have little to none bureaucracy while some make it take months to get a simple account. I think some people use policys, rules and red tape to put a blanket to alterations and new installations. The reasoning might be that the less you change the less people you need. In reality the shops that works best is the ones who bend the rules and dont think so much. Being practical and to do what it takes goes a long way. If some arcane policy makes you do a insecure and cumbersume setup its better to just break that rule than to spend months trying to get it changed.
Its also important very important for management to draw a clear line between whats support and what the users are supposed to do themselves. I have seen many people who leech on support just because they can get away with it. The user is supposed to know how to use the software in a daily basis except perhaps installation and some customization. Support isnt supposed to do the users part of the work in using the software. It is supposed to fill their needs, not their whims or desires.
I suspect China, Iran, Russia and some smaller countries to band together to form an alliance for protection from the US and its allies. The US economy is a house of cards and when it fails its not farfetched that panic will ensue and much aggression will surface against countries that threatens the US economy.
China and Iran is a match i think could work pretty well. Iran isnt some crazy fundamentalist state with rabid suicide bombers at the helm. There are much movement for reforms in Iran and should they go trough Iran could very well become a big economic player in the middle east. A much less fundamentalist Iran is a bigger threat in the long run against the US since its all about the money.
The reason Iran want long range missiles and in the longer run nukes is the US and Israel. Without them running around making threats about "using any force nessecary" Iran coldnt care less. Face it Cowboys, you are the new Russia.
"but the Russian approach to safety makes American administrators wet themselves in fear."
Yes, and still its US shuttles that blows up left and right. Not one single astronaut has been injured or killed since 1971 in a Soyuz rocket. Thats pretty impressive considering the number of missions it has flewn. One would think that licensing and building on that technology would be far cheaper than to engineer the biggest vibrator in the world.
To an outsider it seems that the US did a terrible mistake then they abandoned rockets in favor of the Space Shuttle. Yes it looks cool but its very expensive and not really the best tool for the job. The fastest way to get up to speed would be to side with some country that has good rocket technology instead of trying to build it themselves. It feels like this has more with politics than practical reasons.
This rocket has epic fail written all over it. If vibrations are an issue fixing those vibrations should be priority one, not mitigating them.
"If SCO's lawsuit failed because Novell rather than SCO owns UNIX, does that mean Linux is now infringing on Novell IP rather than SCO IP?"
I would say give a resounding nope! to that question. First of all the lawsuit failed because SCO couldn't find any evidence that Linux infringes any of their/Novells IP at all. The APA was just the final nail in the coffin. SCO couldn't find anything even remotely tangible in Linux when compared to the AT&T/Novell code base. If they had found anything they wouldn't had their whole case thrown in whole out the window after having gotten years of extensive discovery without finding anything.
Linux is in the clear and Novell isn't much to worry about. Most if not all of the AT&T code base is in the clear because of the agreement with BSD that made any BSD code or derivative in the clear. That makes it very hard for eg. Novell to make claims against Linux or any *nix derivative. That and the fact that UNIX is a standard that Novell doesn't own or control. AT&T isn't UNIX, AT&T is a UNIX variant.
Its actually more likely that Novell infact infringes on the Linux kernel than the other way around. I havent researched but i guess an audit of SUSE or OES would turn out some questions to investigate, like NSS and novfs and how they interact with the kernel etc and if sourcecode is avaliable.
I don't know what these people compare to but Google in particular has stellar performance when it comes to keeping their stuff running. I could only dream of getting those uptimes and availability on our servers. First of all failsafe systems is very expensive, mostly insanely so. Second of all they demand enormous amount of staff and maintenance. Tossing a service into the mix or upgrading is a year long process.
The admins who complains about outsourced services are just trying to keep their jobs. When enough managers see that the service they paid through their nose to get is a bargain from Google admins will be in the hot seat indeed.
Other outsourced services might not be that good but Google is a very bad example if you want to badmouth cloud computing.
My dad bought an electric Renault a couple of years ago and after i took it for a spin i was totally lost. First of all an electric car has a very flat torque curve, it accelerates pretty evenly from standstill to 90 Km/h. Its easy to drive it very smoothly and elegantly. The next thing is sound, the car is dead silent until you hit 60+ km/h and road noise starts. Electric cars arent all about the enviroment.
Myself i really want one but sadly you cant buy one no matter how much you are willing to spend. The demand is here but for some strange reason no western or japanese manufacturer wants the money. The Chinese on the other hand are getting up to speed very quickly and at current pace of development it wont be long before their EV's start pouring into the west.
"Because they want someone they can call up and say, "Product X is broke. Fix it.""
In reality the most common answer to that sentence is that you should buy their next version. Fixing things is rarely an answer i get from any propriarity vendor support. Possibly youre told to try some stupid workarounds that doesnt fix the underlying issue at all. Some workarounds is so stupid that they just mitigate the problems, making it take longer time between fails instead of making them go away.
If linux is used by someone like me that likes to make my own decisions and research problems paid support isnt critical in most cases. I do like the possibility to get support if i should get stuck but that has only happened with commercial code so far. Linux transparency makes it possible to solve almost any problem by myself.
But, most shops i know is consultant based. When you need a solution, toss out a hook towards some consultants and when someone bites you buy their solution. Support is a must since you dont know much about the systems you have. Theese people are the ones that need readymade nice packages with turnkey solutions. You dont sell them Linux, you sell them specific solutions to specific problems.
If you want to make money the people who rather pay than think are the ones to sell support to.
China is just trying to catch up with the US in business esionage. They have a long way to go yet but thanks to all the greed in the US most of the technology and pretty much all thats worth to know is already outsourced to China.
For some reason i cant feel a bit sorry for the ones who bought the "app". I guess i have to acquaintances who run around buying cars, snowmobiles and stuff just to show off. This is the perfect application for them and really does what its supposed to, brag about some useless thing they dont have the time to use because they have to work their butt off to get enough money to buy stuff to impress people who just dont care about how much money other people have.
Marketing alone cant help a cementblock company like Microsoft. Their products are dull and boring, their every essence breathe just nothing to get revved up about.
What they need is to step down from their high horses and put themselves in their customers shoes. What can they as a company do to make life easier and more fun for my customers. Doing that would demand Microsoft refocus on their users instead of RIAA, MPAA and a few of the biggest corporate accounts.
You can polish a turd but you cant make people feel like their new steaming pile of manure is the greatest thing since birth control.
By supporting Microsoft you are in reality impeding on others freedom since Microsoft is on an all out war against anything that can have even the slightest chance of removing their monopoly. Also by showing people all the faults in Windows design decisions some people (in my mind futile) think that Microsoft will pay more attention to security in future releases and not just tack on stupid things like UAC and other false security stuff.
I couldn't care less about Microsoft if they would just leave others alone. They're yesterdays news and the only things that annoys me personally is their hellbent intent on destroying open source.
Well, since many security holes gets a very low rating thanks to ASLR and DEP Microsoft dont fix them and mark them as pure bugs or nuisances. This is part of their quest for low patch statistics.
Also most of the times the first proof of concepts are very crude. Expect others to find shortcuts to easier exploits of this shortly.
Vista does not bring anything worth the effort, expense and hard work of implementing it at a business. If you have spent four years working the worst kinks out of a platform its really not that fun implementing a new one that isn't any perceivable improvement.
The only security enhancement comes from the fact that any security related decision is lumped onto the lap of your average corporate drone.
Its incompatible with scoures of business applications and some webapp vendors even tell their customers to use firefox on Vista instead of making them IE7 compatible.
If you have an older client enviroment that runs pretty well on XP you can rest assured that imlementing Vista will demand a rip and replace of most hardware.
The drawbacks are big and the reward is a step back in many areas without any benefit business wise. For most its a matter of holding out on Vista as long as humanly possible in the hope that Windows 7 will be right. Like a step back to let say a polished version of W2k8 for desktops.
The sad part for Microsoft is that they can only finetune what they have and lag behind everyone else. Any major mucking about in the spaghetti they trapped themselves in will b futile.
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I cant help but think this is a job done for hire by Microsoft. Why on earth would the DOJ want to attack Google for their deal with Yahoo? It was a helping hand to let them survive without Microsoft gobbling them up and spitting the rotten corpse to the wayside. If any company should be under DOJ scrutiny it would be Microsoft for using their ill gotten monopoly to break into the search market.
This really reeks of backroom deals. I thought capitalism was about free markets and stuff but obviously its just about who knows who and whos palms you greese.
For every spare cpu cycle that gets released some schmuck developes another high level platform that eats them away. The biggest untapped area of energy savings are in making our software more efficient. While we can shave a couple of percents in hardware there are very big gains to be had in software.
Breaking the trend of hardware companies making more efficient computers that software quickly eats up is hard.
This looks like a bashing that went wrong. Complain about Googles bad EULA and they turn around on a dime and change it to the better the very next day. It must be very very hard to run a smear campaign against a company like that. Sucks to be Microsofts astroturfers nowadays.
I can understand the performance gains that can be had by having roughly as many threads as CPU cores but spawning one for each page is going to eat resources like nothing before. Crashing plugins and rendering engines isnt going to be solved by letting that perticular thread die. It would be better if they solved the bugs from where they came, bandaid solutions is so Microsoft.
My familys three eeepc and the one i have at work would be utter pain if they had spinning disks and not SSD. Cheap laptop drives is terrible when it comes to sequential reads but even worse at access times.
Ubuntu runs faster in some areas on the eee than on my brand spanking new desktop.
What i long for is faster speeds and more write cycles. Servers is what i think would benefit the most from SSD and thats where i suspect it will take off soon.
Apple knows that the moment their OS becomes avaliable on general x86 hardware Microsoft will be all over them. Rather than to take the fight they pick up the crumbs left over by Microsoft. They are just youre average cowards at Apple.
I think they have a huge windows of opportunity here because of the Windows Vista mess that they wilfully let slip by.
This is just the usual Microsoft trying to badmouth the competition. In this case its about developer mindshare and staff.
I keep seeing these articles about Googles demise, evilness and other complaints but to date not one of them has been of any value whatsoever. To an outsider it really looks like a concentrated effort from Microsoft of purporting a pretty descent company in a bad light.
Im not into copyrights at all and i think all they do is concentrate money in a few hands. At worst copyright should be a very short and temporary monopoly. Long enought to give limited profit but short enough to spur more content and not let people live the rest of their life on old works.
Piracy is a very small offense in most peoples mind. No matter if its commercial or private its a petty theft and not much to bother about. Do something about the enviroment instead or anything else that affects our life. Who cares about letters, images or ones and zeros?
It is one of those proffesions where youre never done with your job. The industry is inherently uninterested in real security from the get go. Band-aid solutions to things the vendors doesnt give a crap about isnt a viable solution. Its an endless treadmill that goes nowhere. Some people can get a bit down because of that and the only thing i can think of is for you to change career. Either that or become that grumpy guy who people almost hide from or twitch when he speak.
I would suggest a job where you can feel that by the end of the day you made some difference. Avoid service and try to get into manufacturing.
Some companies have little to none bureaucracy while some make it take months to get a simple account. I think some people use policys, rules and red tape to put a blanket to alterations and new installations. The reasoning might be that the less you change the less people you need. In reality the shops that works best is the ones who bend the rules and dont think so much. Being practical and to do what it takes goes a long way. If some arcane policy makes you do a insecure and cumbersume setup its better to just break that rule than to spend months trying to get it changed.
Its also important very important for management to draw a clear line between whats support and what the users are supposed to do themselves. I have seen many people who leech on support just because they can get away with it. The user is supposed to know how to use the software in a daily basis except perhaps installation and some customization. Support isnt supposed to do the users part of the work in using the software. It is supposed to fill their needs, not their whims or desires.
I suspect China, Iran, Russia and some smaller countries to band together to form an alliance for protection from the US and its allies. The US economy is a house of cards and when it fails its not farfetched that panic will ensue and much aggression will surface against countries that threatens the US economy.
China and Iran is a match i think could work pretty well. Iran isnt some crazy fundamentalist state with rabid suicide bombers at the helm. There are much movement for reforms in Iran and should they go trough Iran could very well become a big economic player in the middle east. A much less fundamentalist Iran is a bigger threat in the long run against the US since its all about the money.
The reason Iran want long range missiles and in the longer run nukes is the US and Israel. Without them running around making threats about "using any force nessecary" Iran coldnt care less. Face it Cowboys, you are the new Russia.
"but the Russian approach to safety makes American administrators wet themselves in fear."
Yes, and still its US shuttles that blows up left and right. Not one single astronaut has been injured or killed since 1971 in a Soyuz rocket. Thats pretty impressive considering the number of missions it has flewn. One would think that licensing and building on that technology would be far cheaper than to engineer the biggest vibrator in the world.
To an outsider it seems that the US did a terrible mistake then they abandoned rockets in favor of the Space Shuttle. Yes it looks cool but its very expensive and not really the best tool for the job. The fastest way to get up to speed would be to side with some country that has good rocket technology instead of trying to build it themselves. It feels like this has more with politics than practical reasons.
This rocket has epic fail written all over it. If vibrations are an issue fixing those vibrations should be priority one, not mitigating them.
"If SCO's lawsuit failed because Novell rather than SCO owns UNIX, does that mean Linux is now infringing on Novell IP rather than SCO IP?"
I would say give a resounding nope! to that question. First of all the lawsuit failed because SCO couldn't find any evidence that Linux infringes any of their/Novells IP at all. The APA was just the final nail in the coffin. SCO couldn't find anything even remotely tangible in Linux when compared to the AT&T/Novell code base. If they had found anything they wouldn't had their whole case thrown in whole out the window after having gotten years of extensive discovery without finding anything.
Linux is in the clear and Novell isn't much to worry about. Most if not all of the AT&T code base is in the clear because of the agreement with BSD that made any BSD code or derivative in the clear. That makes it very hard for eg. Novell to make claims against Linux or any *nix derivative. That and the fact that UNIX is a standard that Novell doesn't own or control. AT&T isn't UNIX, AT&T is a UNIX variant.
Its actually more likely that Novell infact infringes on the Linux kernel than the other way around. I havent researched but i guess an audit of SUSE or OES would turn out some questions to investigate, like NSS and novfs and how they interact with the kernel etc and if sourcecode is avaliable.
I don't know what these people compare to but Google in particular has stellar performance when it comes to keeping their stuff running. I could only dream of getting those uptimes and availability on our servers. First of all failsafe systems is very expensive, mostly insanely so. Second of all they demand enormous amount of staff and maintenance. Tossing a service into the mix or upgrading is a year long process.
The admins who complains about outsourced services are just trying to keep their jobs. When enough managers see that the service they paid through their nose to get is a bargain from Google admins will be in the hot seat indeed.
Other outsourced services might not be that good but Google is a very bad example if you want to badmouth cloud computing.
My dad bought an electric Renault a couple of years ago and after i took it for a spin i was totally lost. First of all an electric car has a very flat torque curve, it accelerates pretty evenly from standstill to 90 Km/h. Its easy to drive it very smoothly and elegantly. The next thing is sound, the car is dead silent until you hit 60+ km/h and road noise starts. Electric cars arent all about the enviroment.
Myself i really want one but sadly you cant buy one no matter how much you are willing to spend. The demand is here but for some strange reason no western or japanese manufacturer wants the money. The Chinese on the other hand are getting up to speed very quickly and at current pace of development it wont be long before their EV's start pouring into the west.
"Because they want someone they can call up and say, "Product X is broke. Fix it.""
In reality the most common answer to that sentence is that you should buy their next version. Fixing things is rarely an answer i get from any propriarity vendor support. Possibly youre told to try some stupid workarounds that doesnt fix the underlying issue at all. Some workarounds is so stupid that they just mitigate the problems, making it take longer time between fails instead of making them go away.
If linux is used by someone like me that likes to make my own decisions and research problems paid support isnt critical in most cases. I do like the possibility to get support if i should get stuck but that has only happened with commercial code so far. Linux transparency makes it possible to solve almost any problem by myself.
But, most shops i know is consultant based. When you need a solution, toss out a hook towards some consultants and when someone bites you buy their solution. Support is a must since you dont know much about the systems you have. Theese people are the ones that need readymade nice packages with turnkey solutions. You dont sell them Linux, you sell them specific solutions to specific problems.
If you want to make money the people who rather pay than think are the ones to sell support to.
China is just trying to catch up with the US in business esionage. They have a long way to go yet but thanks to all the greed in the US most of the technology and pretty much all thats worth to know is already outsourced to China.
For some reason i cant feel a bit sorry for the ones who bought the "app". I guess i have to acquaintances who run around buying cars, snowmobiles and stuff just to show off. This is the perfect application for them and really does what its supposed to, brag about some useless thing they dont have the time to use because they have to work their butt off to get enough money to buy stuff to impress people who just dont care about how much money other people have.
*pant*
Marketing alone cant help a cementblock company like Microsoft. Their products are dull and boring, their every essence breathe just nothing to get revved up about.
What they need is to step down from their high horses and put themselves in their customers shoes. What can they as a company do to make life easier and more fun for my customers. Doing that would demand Microsoft refocus on their users instead of RIAA, MPAA and a few of the biggest corporate accounts.
You can polish a turd but you cant make people feel like their new steaming pile of manure is the greatest thing since birth control.
By supporting Microsoft you are in reality impeding on others freedom since Microsoft is on an all out war against anything that can have even the slightest chance of removing their monopoly. Also by showing people all the faults in Windows design decisions some people (in my mind futile) think that Microsoft will pay more attention to security in future releases and not just tack on stupid things like UAC and other false security stuff.
I couldn't care less about Microsoft if they would just leave others alone. They're yesterdays news and the only things that annoys me personally is their hellbent intent on destroying open source.
Well, since many security holes gets a very low rating thanks to ASLR and DEP Microsoft dont fix them and mark them as pure bugs or nuisances. This is part of their quest for low patch statistics.
Also most of the times the first proof of concepts are very crude. Expect others to find shortcuts to easier exploits of this shortly.
Vista does not bring anything worth the effort, expense and hard work of implementing it at a business. If you have spent four years working the worst kinks out of a platform its really not that fun implementing a new one that isn't any perceivable improvement.
The only security enhancement comes from the fact that any security related decision is lumped onto the lap of your average corporate drone.
Its incompatible with scoures of business applications and some webapp vendors even tell their customers to use firefox on Vista instead of making them IE7 compatible.
If you have an older client enviroment that runs pretty well on XP you can rest assured that imlementing Vista will demand a rip and replace of most hardware.
The drawbacks are big and the reward is a step back in many areas without any benefit business wise. For most its a matter of holding out on Vista as long as humanly possible in the hope that Windows 7 will be right. Like a step back to let say a polished version of W2k8 for desktops.
The sad part for Microsoft is that they can only finetune what they have and lag behind everyone else. Any major mucking about in the spaghetti they trapped themselves in will b futile.