You are obviously trying to use some warped logic here, and missing my point entirely.
MS bans use of linux because, if it is freely used, then they cannot honestly know that there is no GPL'd code in their product. This still does not give them 100% knowledge of it, but it at least shows due diligence that they are attempting to not use GPL'd code. If it does happen, then it is expressly in violation of MS's policies and practices.
So what I am saying is that this is a company that is acting responsibly regarding this issue. However, your obvious zealotry will make you contrarian to all things Microsoft, so explaining this to you is about as good a use of my time as explaining it to my Cocker Spaniel.
It doesnt, per sei, bother me that people like their computers. Hell, I like my laptop and my computer at home. I built my computer at home, and all my previous non-laptop computers. However, I have no qualms about ripping their guts out and reassembling them, like Frankenstein's monster, into one great big uber-computer.
They really are just tools. There may be some tools that you like because they work well, but Im not going to hug my computer, or cry if the motherboard blows out (well, I might, but just because of the expense).
What Im saying is I like my computers, but I don't get emotionally attached to them. That just seems, well, kinda gay. I know people who name their cars; that seems really stupid too.
Also, your Harley analogy is really bad too. My friends all own Harleys, and they feel about them pretty much like I feel about computers; you can like it, enjoy using it, but hell man, get over it- its just a bike (or computer).
try going back and rereading what I wrote. Since MS is not going to supply their source code, then they obviously dont want to be legally bound to do so, do they?
The problem with current cell phones is that the OS needs to be custom written, and, as many past articles point out, there are tons of bugs and security holes in the hastily-written OS.
By switching to an established OS, like Linux or MS's new phone OS, they can by-pass the problem of writing a new OS, maintaining it, testing it, etc.
I would say the switch to Linux is more a financial one, as Motorola hasnt been on the money-making end of things for quite a while (RISC processors losing out to Intel, Apple probably going over to Intel, losing the cell phone wars to Nokia, etc). Since there is about zero cost using Linux as their base platform, they can bypass the royalty fees to MS, and increase their profit per phone. Or they could just charge less per phone, but I would imagine they are more interesting in profit per phone than volume sales.
I think this bubble is getting ready to burst. The only thing preventing it previously was its massive size. Too bad for Time-Warner! They really dicked over their company. Im sure the execs promoting the merger got gobs of cash, tho.
First, if this was website was run by microsoft, it would probably be difficult to make disparaging marks towards them, or to promote something that doesn't fit within the microsoft framework of how things should beThats not true at all. In the MS trade publications, they always print legitimate criticizm, and a lot of it is even written by the staff writers. There are no schills from what I have seen. People who work with MS products day in and day out are the first, and most credible, people to complain about how MS does stuff.
And, from what I have seen, MS really does listen. They were going to force expiration of Windows NT certifications, and so many people were against it, that MS will not retire the cert. There was also the proposed changes to their licensing model.
Also, MS is very good at listening for ways to improve their product. Office has been getting steadily better since O95 (the first version I used), the improvements they have made to their OS's have been phenominal. the improvements to other products, like SMS, continue to make them steadily better than their previous versions.
So no, I cannot agree that MS squelches its critics.
Second, the thing that I really like about being a linux advocate is that I can be a zealot if I want to, or I can be reasonable if I don't want to be This is a really bad statement. Its like saying 'the thing I like about living in America is I have the right to say anything, no matter if its true, false, or stupid'. I dont see blind, rabid promotion of anything to be positive. Sure, I dont think people should be silenced, but I view lies and stupidity to be the downside of freedom of speach, not something to celebrate.So should Microsoft, but they aren't (and have never been) free to do so This isnt true either. Many people within MS are Linux advocates, and even contributors. However, MS does have a valid point in banning Linux use within the company- if any GPL'd code is used in an MS product, then, legally, MS cannot charge for that product, and has to make the source available. When you are a for-profit business, giving away your products is hardly conducive to STAYING in business. Take Mandrake for example. Free beer does not a successful tavern make.
oh really? saying that its obvious to anyone who works on servers that RAID is necessart is poorly founded, huh?
your posts are obvious grabs at attention from a person who practically broadcasts their insecurity. "Oh, look at me, Im taking a break from working on an airplane design. Oh, look at me, I work on airplanes, but I tell people Im a rocket scientist. Hey everyone, Im so smart, because I dont make typos. Hey... Hey... (sob) please pay attention to me!!!"
you went WAY overboard with those cost estimates. You can get a license for Win2k server for a few hundred dollars, and since you only NEED to upgrade the domain controllers, rather than every server... After that, you just assign upgrading the network to the IT dept as a project; you are already paying these people, so where is the added cost?
The savings in new features, reliability, and saved man-hours in support far outweigh the costs of standing still.
Next time you want to price an upgrade, talk to a vendor rather than Slashdot's MS-FUD dept.
Also, I DID mean actualy NetBIOS, as opposed to just NetBIOS name resolution. Although AD doesnt have anything to do with replacing NetBIOS, it will enable you to stop using it, which you would have known had you knew what you were talking about.
But dont let me stop you from answering those help desk calls. You will learn all this stuff eventually, kid. It just takes time, experience, and reading. Dont be afraid to pick up a book.
maybe you should read about what happened, rather than listening to Rush Limbaugh's take on it. Making energy producers under-produce, and manufacturing energy shortages for the sole purpose of selling at artifically inflated costs is hardly 'exploiting the system'. It seems more like manipulation and criminal extortion to me.
also, those exploitable rules were put into place BECAUSE of Enron throwing ungodly amounts of money at corrupt lawmakers to DE-REGULATE. Thats right, there were laws repealed to make travisties like this possible.
Enron had a long and cherished history of identifying laws that were prohibiting them from ripping people off, and then lobbying to get them repealed.
And saying I should turn off my computer is really stupid. Consumers happen to be paying for the electricity.
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the reason consoles make more money is manyfold-
1. there is less development cost. You are working on a hardware platform that is a known quantity, and dont have to take into account 100 different video cards and 100 different sound cards, and 50000 different motherboards.
2. little Jimmy is more likely to get $60 for his platform game than Tom the college student is to spring $60 for the newest PC game. However, the price of PC games is steadily increasing, so soon $60 may be the norm.
3. Less support costs. Since you cant add a patch to a buggy PS2 game, once it leaves your hands the only support you need to provide is your $2/minute hint line. But than again, because of #1 its less likely you will release with major bugs (hopefully)
4. higher bar- PC games tend to be selling to a more demanding audience. For example, crappy and derivative games will not sell well in the PC world, where they will generally win Game of the Year in the console world. 10-yr-olds generally dont know (or care) that they are playing a derivative work.
I only disagree about Red Alert, which I found to be tons better than C&C. I mean, come on, how could you not love the Tesla Coil? I still laugh thinking about them frying an infantry rush somebody sent against me!
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We believe NAME is not selling at the same levels as the other gTLDs for the following reasons:
1. The idea is really stupid, and nobody with two brain cells to rub together should have invested in this.
2. There really isnt a need or demand for alternative TLDs
3. The company in charge of.NAME, GNR Ltd, was created for the sole purpose of lining the pockets of its board of directors and the executive staff with the ungodly ammounts of venture capital we raised. Boo-yah!
Was it just me, or did Gibson's Virtual Light seem to be a really crappy version of Stephenson's Snow Crash?
Both had a broke, once well employed, tough-guy male protagonist (Gibson's was a security guard, Stephenson's was a hacker/swordfighter/pizza driver). The both of the second protagonists were a tough young woman with a dysfunctional family situation.
Both had uber-hackers as good guys (or at least helping out), bizarre bad guys, and the city setting in both books was messed up by a natural disaster in the recent past.
I could go on with the similarities, but Gibson basically sawed down Snow Crash and rewrote it in his own words. That guy's a loser now.
thats not true. Everyone you talk to wants to move, and sees the benefits of AD, but moving your entire production network to a new NOS takes lots of planning.
I have been taking the necessary babysteps to get my network on AD for the past year, and am almost there. But when your network has hundreds of users with a whole lot of servers that absolutely have to be up during business hours, and have your normal support stuff to do besides, it is quite a huge undertaking.
Probably the biggest thing that causes problems, but is the biggest reason to switch to AD, is being able to finally say goodbye to NetBIOS (the bane of my existence). Soon we will be deploying the AD Client to the Win9x machines and switching to DDNS for name resolution, replacing WINS. That step alone will solve tons of problems.
After that I will work on switching the PDC to Win2k and run it in PDC emulation mode until the other DCs are upgraded and AD is ready to go.
fabulous. Apple finally discovered that Servers should have RAID controllers. Maybe next they will figure out something else that should be blatently obvious to anyone who actaully works on servers.
actaully, Enron did a real good job fucking over California, basically making them pay hundreds of times more for electric than they should have. And, now that Enron is gone, there is nobody to sue to recover that money.
lol, I complain about Apple's shitty Quicktime crashing my machine, and get called flamebait. Oh ya, youre right- Apple's programmers are perfect. Not only can they make fantastic programs for their second-tier operating system, but they program for Windows better than MS does!
I guess buggy programs are ok if you work for Apple, Netscape, etc. Heaven forbid you work for MS.
I agree. If you can filter out the tons of nonsense statements, brainless antagonism, and downright rabid stupidity of the posters on Slashdot, dealing with merely braindead customers should be a walk in the park.
Human Resource and Customer Support people should also be allowed time to surf fuckedcompany.com's message base. That is pretty much the same problems as/.'s message base, but throw in swearing, racism, and blatent trolling.
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MS bans use of linux because, if it is freely used, then they cannot honestly know that there is no GPL'd code in their product. This still does not give them 100% knowledge of it, but it at least shows due diligence that they are attempting to not use GPL'd code. If it does happen, then it is expressly in violation of MS's policies and practices.
So what I am saying is that this is a company that is acting responsibly regarding this issue. However, your obvious zealotry will make you contrarian to all things Microsoft, so explaining this to you is about as good a use of my time as explaining it to my Cocker Spaniel.
They really are just tools. There may be some tools that you like because they work well, but Im not going to hug my computer, or cry if the motherboard blows out (well, I might, but just because of the expense).
What Im saying is I like my computers, but I don't get emotionally attached to them. That just seems, well, kinda gay. I know people who name their cars; that seems really stupid too.
Also, your Harley analogy is really bad too. My friends all own Harleys, and they feel about them pretty much like I feel about computers; you can like it, enjoy using it, but hell man, get over it- its just a bike (or computer).
well, thats close enough to be true
read before you post...
By switching to an established OS, like Linux or MS's new phone OS, they can by-pass the problem of writing a new OS, maintaining it, testing it, etc.
I would say the switch to Linux is more a financial one, as Motorola hasnt been on the money-making end of things for quite a while (RISC processors losing out to Intel, Apple probably going over to Intel, losing the cell phone wars to Nokia, etc). Since there is about zero cost using Linux as their base platform, they can bypass the royalty fees to MS, and increase their profit per phone. Or they could just charge less per phone, but I would imagine they are more interesting in profit per phone than volume sales.
I think this bubble is getting ready to burst. The only thing preventing it previously was its massive size. Too bad for Time-Warner! They really dicked over their company. Im sure the execs promoting the merger got gobs of cash, tho.
And, from what I have seen, MS really does listen. They were going to force expiration of Windows NT certifications, and so many people were against it, that MS will not retire the cert. There was also the proposed changes to their licensing model.
Also, MS is very good at listening for ways to improve their product. Office has been getting steadily better since O95 (the first version I used), the improvements they have made to their OS's have been phenominal. the improvements to other products, like SMS, continue to make them steadily better than their previous versions.
So no, I cannot agree that MS squelches its critics.
Second, the thing that I really like about being a linux advocate is that I can be a zealot if I want to, or I can be reasonable if I don't want to be This is a really bad statement. Its like saying 'the thing I like about living in America is I have the right to say anything, no matter if its true, false, or stupid'. I dont see blind, rabid promotion of anything to be positive. Sure, I dont think people should be silenced, but I view lies and stupidity to be the downside of freedom of speach, not something to celebrate. So should Microsoft, but they aren't (and have never been) free to do so This isnt true either. Many people within MS are Linux advocates, and even contributors. However, MS does have a valid point in banning Linux use within the company- if any GPL'd code is used in an MS product, then, legally, MS cannot charge for that product, and has to make the source available. When you are a for-profit business, giving away your products is hardly conducive to STAYING in business. Take Mandrake for example. Free beer does not a successful tavern make.
your posts are obvious grabs at attention from a person who practically broadcasts their insecurity. "Oh, look at me, Im taking a break from working on an airplane design. Oh, look at me, I work on airplanes, but I tell people Im a rocket scientist. Hey everyone, Im so smart, because I dont make typos. Hey... Hey... (sob) please pay attention to me!!!"
This is boring; I consider my point being made in my original post to you. Here's a tip: snappy one-liners do not interesting posts make.
I dont make idiots, I only read what they post
The savings in new features, reliability, and saved man-hours in support far outweigh the costs of standing still.
Next time you want to price an upgrade, talk to a vendor rather than Slashdot's MS-FUD dept.
Also, I DID mean actualy NetBIOS, as opposed to just NetBIOS name resolution. Although AD doesnt have anything to do with replacing NetBIOS, it will enable you to stop using it, which you would have known had you knew what you were talking about.
But dont let me stop you from answering those help desk calls. You will learn all this stuff eventually, kid. It just takes time, experience, and reading. Dont be afraid to pick up a book.
So, in closing, either make a valid point regarding something I have written, or STFU, moron.
also, those exploitable rules were put into place BECAUSE of Enron throwing ungodly amounts of money at corrupt lawmakers to DE-REGULATE. Thats right, there were laws repealed to make travisties like this possible.
Enron had a long and cherished history of identifying laws that were prohibiting them from ripping people off, and then lobbying to get them repealed.
And saying I should turn off my computer is really stupid. Consumers happen to be paying for the electricity.
1. there is less development cost. You are working on a hardware platform that is a known quantity, and dont have to take into account 100 different video cards and 100 different sound cards, and 50000 different motherboards.
2. little Jimmy is more likely to get $60 for his platform game than Tom the college student is to spring $60 for the newest PC game. However, the price of PC games is steadily increasing, so soon $60 may be the norm.
3. Less support costs. Since you cant add a patch to a buggy PS2 game, once it leaves your hands the only support you need to provide is your $2/minute hint line. But than again, because of #1 its less likely you will release with major bugs (hopefully)
4. higher bar- PC games tend to be selling to a more demanding audience. For example, crappy and derivative games will not sell well in the PC world, where they will generally win Game of the Year in the console world. 10-yr-olds generally dont know (or care) that they are playing a derivative work.
I only disagree about Red Alert, which I found to be tons better than C&C. I mean, come on, how could you not love the Tesla Coil? I still laugh thinking about them frying an infantry rush somebody sent against me!
1. The idea is really stupid, and nobody with two brain cells to rub together should have invested in this.
2. There really isnt a need or demand for alternative TLDs
3. The company in charge of .NAME, GNR Ltd, was created for the sole purpose of lining the pockets of its board of directors and the executive staff with the ungodly ammounts of venture capital we raised. Boo-yah!
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Both had a broke, once well employed, tough-guy male protagonist (Gibson's was a security guard, Stephenson's was a hacker/swordfighter/pizza driver). The both of the second protagonists were a tough young woman with a dysfunctional family situation.
Both had uber-hackers as good guys (or at least helping out), bizarre bad guys, and the city setting in both books was messed up by a natural disaster in the recent past.
I could go on with the similarities, but Gibson basically sawed down Snow Crash and rewrote it in his own words. That guy's a loser now.
I have been taking the necessary babysteps to get my network on AD for the past year, and am almost there. But when your network has hundreds of users with a whole lot of servers that absolutely have to be up during business hours, and have your normal support stuff to do besides, it is quite a huge undertaking.
Probably the biggest thing that causes problems, but is the biggest reason to switch to AD, is being able to finally say goodbye to NetBIOS (the bane of my existence). Soon we will be deploying the AD Client to the Win9x machines and switching to DDNS for name resolution, replacing WINS. That step alone will solve tons of problems.
After that I will work on switching the PDC to Win2k and run it in PDC emulation mode until the other DCs are upgraded and AD is ready to go.
So, my point is just that its a lot of work.
fabulous. Apple finally discovered that Servers should have RAID controllers. Maybe next they will figure out something else that should be blatently obvious to anyone who actaully works on servers.
An open-source book on open source... that reminds me of Kramer's Coffee Table book about coffee tables.
actaully, Enron did a real good job fucking over California, basically making them pay hundreds of times more for electric than they should have. And, now that Enron is gone, there is nobody to sue to recover that money.
now literally.
Does anyone know if Gates was involved in the Masons?
I guess buggy programs are ok if you work for Apple, Netscape, etc. Heaven forbid you work for MS.
Human Resource and Customer Support people should also be allowed time to surf fuckedcompany.com's message base. That is pretty much the same problems as /.'s message base, but throw in swearing, racism, and blatent trolling.