Why do you assume Microsoft represents the industry?
Oh I don't. I think I gave you the wrong impression there, but the top tier of Microsoft support does get you fast access to their programmers too.
Just support often doesn't work fast enough for serious situations. I've dealt with Red Hat support and they put your ticket in a queue and if it's really serious get back to you within an hour. By that time I've normally fixed or know how to fix or at least work around the problem.
I worked at a company that had that level of support from Microsoft. It cost millions. When things crashed it still took days to weeks to fix the root cause, by that time it had been worked around somehow. You can spend a fortune on support to buy nothing but a good feeling and when things fall apart and you need a fix fast you are often on your own.
Unless you have the very top level of support it's really rare to find a problem that support can fix faster than one smart dedicated admin who is working on it as top priority.
Support is mostly useful if you don't have good admins, if they are overloaded to the point they can't help, or to reassure PHB types. Plus if you have the budget spare you might want to support open source with it by supporting Red Hat.
The only people who pay significant money for linux support are multinationals, they buy RHEL licenses by the thousand. If everyone else uses CentOS instead of Debian or Ubuntu it's just more people who could use RHEL if they ever got a job at a multinational.
My company uses CentOS. There is no way I'm paying for something that I can get for free when I barely have enough budget to keep the hardware running.
We have the Internet now, and unless the NSA actually starts blocking political messages can't we all just communicate with each other without the need to go though mainstream, and sold out, media?
You suggest voting for a third party who has no chance of getting to power and would almost certainly break all their promises should they get to power?
You know what the solution to this problem is? There isn't one. Not unless you can get a 50%+ voting block with a shoestring campaign budget whilst maintaining the vision to know what's right and the willpower to see it though.
how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?
There are more than two options.
Most people felt there were only two options so they voted for the one that they hated least. It's a two party system held in place with massive campaign budgets that fool the majority of voters who are entirely ignorant about the real issues and the way politics works.
From what I've seen all the big company software has unix backends. Sap, Oracle, and so on. The man from Oracle told me that although they have to make their software run on windows it's faster and more stable on unix.
Also clusters - you can run windows clusters but you get better performance at a far lower cost from Linux.
So what's left for windows servers? Some places run web servers and SQL databases on windows but that can be better done on Linux too.
I find Australians relaxed, friendly, respectful and fair. I find Americans a mix with some really nice people but give them any authority and they become confrontational, arbitrary, and even cruel.
The classic example is customs at the airport. Australian rules about what you can bring in are painfully complex but the customs guy explained them to me in a clear and respectful way, because that guy was respectful to me I was respectful back. At the US border they practically try to provoke me for entertainment, they really seem to believe I'm there to steal their jobs or murder their children or something.
I'm from the UK, it's become a police state. I left and I'd not recommend anyone live in London.
The countryside in the UK is nice but it's not so easy to find jobs there.
If you actually care about freedom and can stand to learn German you might like Germany. They are strong believers in civil rights as they are still going though the backlash from WW2 domestic spying. Germans also have this great habit that they do what they say they are going to do.
I guess I'm in that minority that likes the Daniel Craig Bonds better than most of the older ones.
That's not it, Daniel Craig is a great action actor. The problem I have with the Bond franchise is that it's about a 80 year old indestructible misogynistic super-man. It's a product of the 80's, it's done, finished, run it's course. Time to go do something else.
This is quite the "Oops" on the part of MSFT which, even if this is nothing more than anti-MS FUD, can ill-afford this kind of bad press with a platform which has less than 4% of market share.
The Microsoft mantra has always been that they only get cracked because they have most of the market share. Here they have 4% of the market share and they are still getting cracked.
Every year there is a story on slashdot where the perfect response is 'Use Windows, get screwed.' It seems things have not changed much in the last 15 years.
I remember some of the old assistants being far from helpless. What about Ace who used to blow things up? And Leela who always had a knife to stab people with?
The point is he has lived for a thousand years, is far smarter than any human, can travel though time. Yet the mostly female assistants are absolutely necessary not as eye-candy, but because on some level they are both smarter and more intuitive than him.
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Why do you assume Microsoft represents the industry?
Oh I don't. I think I gave you the wrong impression there, but the top tier of Microsoft support does get you fast access to their programmers too.
Just support often doesn't work fast enough for serious situations. I've dealt with Red Hat support and they put your ticket in a queue and if it's really serious get back to you within an hour. By that time I've normally fixed or know how to fix or at least work around the problem.
That's silly, all open source visualization is shit. no need to be threatened when you already suck.
No it isn't. Xen and KVM are both at least as capable as anything vmware has.
Amazon web services is based on xen.
Rackspace cloud uses xen too.
Linode uses xen.
Digital Ocean uses kvm.
Any of them could have used vmware if they thought it was better.
WOW... Linux has no bugs? The documentation-- haha, man pages-- is 100% correct?
Not everyone needs to pay for support to fix things. All the Red Hat fixes end up in CentOS anyway.
Plus the people Red Hat get the software from are normally receptive to sensible suggestions and patches.
I worked at a company that had that level of support from Microsoft. It cost millions. When things crashed it still took days to weeks to fix the root cause, by that time it had been worked around somehow. You can spend a fortune on support to buy nothing but a good feeling and when things fall apart and you need a fix fast you are often on your own.
Unless you have the very top level of support it's really rare to find a problem that support can fix faster than one smart dedicated admin who is working on it as top priority.
Support is mostly useful if you don't have good admins, if they are overloaded to the point they can't help, or to reassure PHB types. Plus if you have the budget spare you might want to support open source with it by supporting Red Hat.
The only people who pay significant money for linux support are multinationals, they buy RHEL licenses by the thousand. If everyone else uses CentOS instead of Debian or Ubuntu it's just more people who could use RHEL if they ever got a job at a multinational.
My company uses CentOS. There is no way I'm paying for something that I can get for free when I barely have enough budget to keep the hardware running.
We have the Internet now, and unless the NSA actually starts blocking political messages can't we all just communicate with each other without the need to go though mainstream, and sold out, media?
R: 99% evil.
D: 98% evil
Third party:50% evil
Third party: estimated to be 50% evil but we can't be totally sure until they get in power. They could quite easily turn out to be 99.5% evil.
Judge these people on their actions because their promises are just meaningless words. With a third party you have nothing to judge.
You suggest voting for a third party who has no chance of getting to power and would almost certainly break all their promises should they get to power?
You know what the solution to this problem is? There isn't one. Not unless you can get a 50%+ voting block with a shoestring campaign budget whilst maintaining the vision to know what's right and the willpower to see it though.
how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?
There are more than two options.
Most people felt there were only two options so they voted for the one that they hated least. It's a two party system held in place with massive campaign budgets that fool the majority of voters who are entirely ignorant about the real issues and the way politics works.
And most of you voted for him. I hope you are proud of yourselves.
Almost all the voters voted for the Republican/Democrat alliance, most felt there was no alternative.
From what I've seen all the big company software has unix backends. Sap, Oracle, and so on. The man from Oracle told me that although they have to make their software run on windows it's faster and more stable on unix.
Also clusters - you can run windows clusters but you get better performance at a far lower cost from Linux.
So what's left for windows servers? Some places run web servers and SQL databases on windows but that can be better done on Linux too.
Exit strategy? Who exactly are these people who have not exited already?
All the enterprise software runs on some kind of UNIX, all the web hosting is done on Linux or *BSD, all the heavyweight computation is done on Linux.
What server applications still need windows? The only two I can think of are active directory and SQL server, there must be a lot more.
I find Australians relaxed, friendly, respectful and fair. I find Americans a mix with some really nice people but give them any authority and they become confrontational, arbitrary, and even cruel.
The classic example is customs at the airport. Australian rules about what you can bring in are painfully complex but the customs guy explained them to me in a clear and respectful way, because that guy was respectful to me I was respectful back. At the US border they practically try to provoke me for entertainment, they really seem to believe I'm there to steal their jobs or murder their children or something.
Given the choice I'd much rather visit Australia.
You have come to your senses, but your government never will.
I'm from the UK, it's become a police state. I left and I'd not recommend anyone live in London.
The countryside in the UK is nice but it's not so easy to find jobs there.
If you actually care about freedom and can stand to learn German you might like Germany. They are strong believers in civil rights as they are still going though the backlash from WW2 domestic spying. Germans also have this great habit that they do what they say they are going to do.
It's a product of 40 years after its creation and 20 years after the first films? Impressive.
Didn't they get to the time traveling arc yet? How else do you thing Bond is regenerating?
From a purely pragmatic point of view it doesn't matter why he is doing what he is doing, it only matters that he is doing it.
I guess I'm in that minority that likes the Daniel Craig Bonds better than most of the older ones.
That's not it, Daniel Craig is a great action actor. The problem I have with the Bond franchise is that it's about a 80 year old indestructible misogynistic super-man. It's a product of the 80's, it's done, finished, run it's course. Time to go do something else.
This is quite the "Oops" on the part of MSFT which, even if this is nothing more than anti-MS FUD, can ill-afford this kind of bad press with a platform which has less than 4% of market share.
The Microsoft mantra has always been that they only get cracked because they have most of the market share. Here they have 4% of the market share and they are still getting cracked.
Maybe the things MS make are just no good?
Six wives and a half-dozen girlfriends? You must be tired!
Every year there is a story on slashdot where the perfect response is 'Use Windows, get screwed.' It seems things have not changed much in the last 15 years.
I remember some of the old assistants being far from helpless. What about Ace who used to blow things up? And Leela who always had a knife to stab people with?
The point is he has lived for a thousand years, is far smarter than any human, can travel though time. Yet the mostly female assistants are absolutely necessary not as eye-candy, but because on some level they are both smarter and more intuitive than him.
Pretty much what you said but more of it.
The next James Bond should be Jessica Alba. Now that would breathe new life into a tired out francise.
Leave Dr Who alone.