"1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (This was the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA.)"
I actually understand this one. You see, they came up with the idea, which will take two weeks to implement. (And I'd like to see them take 35,000 pictures "on Wednesday"...)
However, they can't actually implement it until Bill says yes, which will happen tomorrow.
It's all very simple when you realize Microsoft's 40,000-odd employees are run by ONE GUY (with some assistance from Steve.) Saddam Hussein had a very efficient dictatorship, too.
What, I can't compare Bill to Saddam? Why not? Enderle compares everybody using Linux to nuclear terrorists. If Rob and George can do it, why can't I?
Right - you're also oblivious to every issue of every IT trade journal on the planet, not to mention the AV and spyware statistics that show 87% of your fucking machines are infected.
You can't even your stupid numbers right. You have 15,000 seats and manage "tens of thousands" of desktops. Nice company - everybody gets at least two workstations to work at?
Run home, Microsoft troll. You're too stupid to blog at MS's expense.
Fascinating, I wonder why Microsoft hires students (other than the brainwashing they can do) when they can hire more professional trolls like Enderle and MoG to do it in more public forums.
Also, they have 35-40,000 employees. Just set them all up with blogs and flog them every time they mention the word "Linux" (except in FUD terms). Since Ballmer would write the blog text himself, they'd never have to worry about "leaks" such as the memo that said UNIX was better than their stuff.
I guess Microsoft is inefficient even in propaganda.
Let's put it this way - it was INTENDED as propaganda.
Nobody said Enderle was competent at it - or anything else, given that he's also an ex-auditor and an ex-sheriff! And soon to be an ex-analyst if he keeps going the way he is.
Uhm, does this mean it contains their bankruptcy application?
"unforeseen legal costs related to the Company's litigation, the Company's inability to develop new products and services, the Company's inability to release SCO OpenServer 6 on June 22, 2005 and the Company's inability to see its litigation through to its conclusion"
Yeah, I'd say all those are pretty much foregone conclusions...
Pinnochio's nose grew when he told a lie. But he was basically a good kid (er, puppet), at least as I remember the story. Supposedly he has a good heart and saves Gepetto and becomes a real little boy at the end.
Larry Ellison ain't a real little boy, but I haven't heard nearly as many lies coming out his mouth as I have Enderle's.
Problem was I couldn't think of anybody truthful to compare Ellison to.
While VB.Net has its admirers, I think Mono was more a response to the need to interoperate and prevent MS from taking over Net apps development and locking it in to MS languages, more than it was any "admiration".
As long as there are people like you supporting Linux I doubt very much we will look at it as being either successful or good for much of anything over time. Threats and name calling are hardly the tools of intelligent adults and I have little doubt that if they represent your behavior you'll be out of a job long before I am. You see, Microsoft doesn't have to pay me, I point out problems with Linux and Open Source because people like you convince me they exist. If you look back at where this all started for me, you'll see that this is true and maybe get a clue. The fact you even need to fabricate a lie like this indicates I'm much closer to the truth then you are.
You see, in my world there is no excuse for behavior like this, none. It is people like you who give Linux a bad name.
By the way, since you appear to be an American, you might want to read up on Free Speech.
Don't write again I have absolutely no desire to communicate with people like you.
Rob Enderle
Principal Analyst
Enderle Group
389 Photinia Lane
San Jose, CA 95127
renderle@enderlegroup.com
(408) 272-8560 work
(408) 272-8554 home
(408) 832-6326 cell
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Rob Enderle wrote:
> Threats and name calling are hardly the tools of > intelligent adults
But you an support calling OSS people "terrorists", "communists", linking us to people being laid off and destitute, connect us to any number of other negative things, and this ISN'T "name calling"?
And you support a fake "journalist" who harasses somebody's mother just to print an attack piece on someone SCO doesn't like, a piece which has been rightly condemned by journalists everywhere as "beyond the pale", and you say this ISN'T "name calling"?
> You see, Microsoft doesn't have to pay me, I point out problems with Linux and Open Source > because people like you convince me they exist. If you look back at > where this all started for me, you'll see that this is true and maybe > get a clue. The fact you even need to fabricate a lie like this > indicates I'm much closer to the truth then you are.
"A few years back, when I was first starting out as an analyst, I got myself into a lot of hot water by doing something I knew was wrong to prevent a crime from being committed. I am both an ex-auditor and an ex-sheriff and took the related vows very seriously and still, for the most part, live by them.
By all accounts I would have lost my job and probably had to change careers again if it weren't for Bill Gates personally coming to my defense and pointing out that what I did probably kept a lot of folks out of jail. He didn't have to do that and, to this day I doubt he even remembers he did, but I remember.
A few years later Steve Ballmer invested a great deal in our company on my word, although this agreement grew well beyond my intent and control, after taking the money, we started to destroy the value that Steve had relied upon. I made the call to Steve and suggested he move to cover his own ass and had an instant day off. I knew the risks but it was my word, and trust is also incredibly important to me. Steve protected my job in return."
You recognize the above text? You want to tell me again how you have no ax to grind for Microsoft?
Now to mention that I've told you before what your admission that you're an ex-sheriff means to anybody who can read. You made your living throwing your weight around long before you got into IT, apparently. You have no conscience and no balls. I KNOW cops - they're the most gutless punks walking the street. They can't go up against anybody without "backup". They taser sixty-year-old women and five-year-old kids. They need sixteen cops to beat a drunk black man.
> You see, in my world there is no excuse for behavior like this, none.
In MY world, there is no excuse for people deliberat
RE: The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux?
I don't know where to begin, but it doesn't matter since nothing you said made any sense - and of course, you knew that. You were just paid by Microsoft to dribble it out anyway like snot out of a crack whore's nose.
You HAVE to be either directly paid by Microsoft to be a shill - or you HAVE to be THE biggest asshole in IT right now.
You make Larry Ellison look "fair and balanced". You make George Bush look like George Washington.
I have news for you, monkey-boy: Linux is going to take away your job and leave you in the unemployment line where you belong. Ten years from now, Microsoft will be on the ropes and no longer willing to pay you for anything since you obviously weren't effective. And you damn sure won't be getting any money from anyone on the OSS side of the industry.
This asshole is absolutely being PAID by Microsoft - either that or he IS literally the biggest asshole in IT.
Once again, these Microsoft shills have attacked the entire OSS movement, branding them "fanatics", DoS perpetrators, serial harassers, and probably beanie-wearers as well.
The only thing we haven't been accused of being is actual Muslims! Or maybe "child molesters!" We've already been called "terrorists" and "communists"!
Enderle proclaims that if we'd all ignored the bullshit MoG put out, it would have been ignored by everybody. Oh, really? Is that why HE'S babbling right now? He expects to be ignored? (He should be, but that's not the case.)
This jerk is hawking the same crap that a multi-billion corporation (who shall be cough!RedmondCough! nameless) and we're supposed to just sit back and enjoy? Who has the power to attack who here?
Read my lips, Enderle!
FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE GENETIC HISTORY!
In due time, Microsoft will be go into bankruptcy and YOUR pissant ass will go on the unemployment line where you belong! (Or maybe become the "Minister of Information" for the new Iraqi government...)
"However, if you are using nanotechnology to synthesize a form of energy storage, you still need the energy as an input in one form or another. Nanotechnology is primarily materials science; it does not provide new energy sources."
Irrelevant. Nanotech provides the technology to construct new ways to IMPLEMENT existing energy sources and discover NEW energy sources. Synergistic effects.
Orbital materials transport? WHO GIVES A SHIT? You get your resources from the entire freakin' solar system by transporting a few grams of nanotech assemblers! Christ! Get some imagination! You're so locked in to low-tech five-years-from-now concepts you can't see the forest for the trees!
"Nanotech is primarily an improvement in materials science, not physics."
Nonsense. Get some more knowledge about nanotech. Limited to materials science indeed!
Transhumans reliant on food supply? Epidemics? Jesus Baron von Christ! You really have no clue what you're talking about, do you?
Let me give you a hint: TRANSHUMANS DON'T EAT!
Let me give you another clue: TRANSHUMANS ARE NOT A BIOLOGICAL SPECIES! They are POST-biological!
Also, nanotech eliminates the concept of "infrastructure". The only things a Transhuman needs are: 1) Energy sources; 2) matter; 3) knowledgebases; 4) nanomass; 5) computing power. The latter three are self-contained within the Transhuman; the former two are EVERYWHERE!
You're so limited in your concept of nanotech and its applications that you really have no business discussing it publicly.
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"Because computers use base-12 counting" /. - where a typo REALLY means something!
Like five pages of posts as everybody demonstrates their community college math degree.
Rob, don't you have more important work to do at the Enderle Group?
"1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. (This was the winning quote from Fred Dales at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, WA.)"
I actually understand this one. You see, they came up with the idea, which will take two weeks to implement. (And I'd like to see them take 35,000 pictures "on Wednesday"...)
However, they can't actually implement it until Bill says yes, which will happen tomorrow.
It's all very simple when you realize Microsoft's 40,000-odd employees are run by ONE GUY (with some assistance from Steve.) Saddam Hussein had a very efficient dictatorship, too.
What, I can't compare Bill to Saddam? Why not? Enderle compares everybody using Linux to nuclear terrorists. If Rob and George can do it, why can't I?
Right - you're also oblivious to every issue of every IT trade journal on the planet, not to mention the AV and spyware statistics that show 87% of your fucking machines are infected.
You can't even your stupid numbers right. You have 15,000 seats and manage "tens of thousands" of desktops. Nice company - everybody gets at least two workstations to work at?
Run home, Microsoft troll. You're too stupid to blog at MS's expense.
"since the administraton would hardly care which American company an agency signed a contract with."
Unless you're Halliburton, of course.
Fascinating, I wonder why Microsoft hires students (other than the brainwashing they can do) when they can hire more professional trolls like Enderle and MoG to do it in more public forums.
Also, they have 35-40,000 employees. Just set them all up with blogs and flog them every time they mention the word "Linux" (except in FUD terms). Since Ballmer would write the blog text himself, they'd never have to worry about "leaks" such as the memo that said UNIX was better than their stuff.
I guess Microsoft is inefficient even in propaganda.
"It's like sore dick; you can't beat it. "
/.! People RESEMBLE that remark!
Hey! This is
And you've never read the MS memo in which MS engineers talk about the capabilities of UNIX in comparison with their own stuff?
Google is your friend.
Personally I like the headline "Microsoft's New Search Service Protected By Penguin"!
I have my old Dell monitor still sitting on the floor for the last, oh, nine months after it died.
Good points.
Let's put it this way - it was INTENDED as propaganda.
Nobody said Enderle was competent at it - or anything else, given that he's also an ex-auditor and an ex-sheriff! And soon to be an ex-analyst if he keeps going the way he is.
"owner of the UNIX operating system"
Says who? Them?
Bwahahahahahah!!!
"This press release contains forward-looking statements"
Uhm, does this mean it contains their bankruptcy application?
"unforeseen legal costs related to the Company's litigation, the Company's inability to develop new products and services, the Company's inability to release SCO OpenServer 6 on June 22, 2005 and the Company's inability to see its litigation through to its conclusion"
Yeah, I'd say all those are pretty much foregone conclusions...
Yeah, but where's the mindshare? /. has thousands of readers. Who reads Enderle and MoG?
/. readers...
Oh, wait, thousands of
Never mind.
Oh, right, I let you have valuable hardware, while I get stuck with useless obsolete code!
No thanks, pal! We split the servers; I get the secretaries; you get McBride!
Another pedant.
The point was Enderle lies more than Ellison does.
Anybody who can't comprehend what I meant is a moron.
Plain enough?
Now kindly fuck off.
It's little obscure, I grant you.
Pinnochio's nose grew when he told a lie. But he was basically a good kid (er, puppet), at least as I remember the story. Supposedly he has a good heart and saves Gepetto and becomes a real little boy at the end.
Larry Ellison ain't a real little boy, but I haven't heard nearly as many lies coming out his mouth as I have Enderle's.
Problem was I couldn't think of anybody truthful to compare Ellison to.
Sun has THREE billion in cash.
Sun spends FOUR billion in cash to buy a company.
Sun is posting a loss on their revenue.
Sun is buying a company with a $190 million profit.
Does this look like desperation to you or is it just me?
"Tie it with a properly configured Exchange Server"
/. article - it'll be "stuff that matters."
When you find one, open a
While VB.Net has its admirers, I think Mono was more a response to the need to interoperate and prevent MS from taking over Net apps development and locking it in to MS languages, more than it was any "admiration".
Christ, talk about geekiness - still worrying about the performance of one pointer style vs another pointer style with machines in excess of 1GHz.
Look, moron. That sort of thing went out ten or fifteen years ago when the Pentium came in.
You probably program in assembler only, right?
This rule has been true for the last two decades:
1) Don't optimize.
2) Don't optimize - yet.
The costs and problems caused by a binary only format in interoperability, error recovery, etc. FAR exceed anything having to do with performance.
Get a clue.
As long as there are people like you supporting Linux I doubt very much we will look at it as being either successful or good for much of
anything over time. Threats and name calling are hardly the tools of intelligent adults and I have little doubt that if they represent your behavior you'll be out of a job long before I am. You see, Microsoft doesn't have to pay me, I point out problems with Linux and Open Source because people like you convince me they exist. If you look back at where this all started for me, you'll see that this is true and maybe get a clue. The fact you even need to fabricate a lie like this indicates I'm much closer to the truth then you are.
You see, in my world there is no excuse for behavior like this, none. It is people like you who give Linux a bad name.
By the way, since you appear to be an American, you might want to read up on Free Speech.
Don't write again I have absolutely no desire to communicate with people like you.
Rob Enderle
Principal Analyst
Enderle Group
389 Photinia Lane
San Jose, CA 95127
renderle@enderlegroup.com
(408) 272-8560 work
(408) 272-8554 home
(408) 832-6326 cell
(408) 904-5274 eFAX
www.enderlegroup.com
Rob Enderle wrote:
> Threats and name calling are hardly the tools of
> intelligent adults
But you an support calling OSS people "terrorists", "communists", linking us to people being laid off and destitute, connect us to any number of other negative things, and this ISN'T "name calling"?
And you support a fake "journalist" who harasses somebody's mother just to print an attack piece on someone SCO doesn't like, a piece which has been rightly condemned by journalists everywhere as "beyond the pale", and you say this ISN'T "name calling"?
> You see, Microsoft doesn't have to pay me, I point out problems with Linux and Open Source
> because people like you convince me they exist. If you look back at
> where this all started for me, you'll see that this is true and maybe
> get a clue. The fact you even need to fabricate a lie like this
> indicates I'm much closer to the truth then you are.
"A few years back, when I was first starting out as an analyst, I got myself into a lot of hot water by doing something I knew was wrong to prevent a crime from being committed. I am both an ex-auditor and an ex-sheriff and took the related vows very seriously and still, for the most part, live by them.
By all accounts I would have lost my job and probably had to change careers again if it weren't for Bill Gates personally coming to my defense and pointing out that what I did probably kept a lot of folks out of jail. He didn't have to do that and, to this day I doubt he even remembers he did, but I remember.
A few years later Steve Ballmer invested a great deal in our company on my word, although this agreement grew well beyond my intent and control, after taking the money, we started to destroy the value that Steve had relied upon. I made the call to Steve and suggested he move to cover his own ass and had an instant day off. I knew the risks but it was my word, and trust is also incredibly important to me. Steve protected my job in return."
You recognize the above text? You want to tell me again how you have no ax to grind for Microsoft?
Now to mention that I've told you before what your admission that you're an ex-sheriff means to anybody who can read. You made your living throwing your weight around long before you got into IT, apparently. You have no conscience and no balls. I KNOW cops - they're the most gutless punks walking the street. They can't go up against anybody without "backup". They taser sixty-year-old women and five-year-old kids. They need sixteen cops to beat a drunk black man.
> You see, in my world there is no excuse for behavior like this, none.
In MY world, there is no excuse for people deliberat
RE: The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux?
I don't know where to begin, but it doesn't matter since nothing you said made any sense - and of course, you knew that. You were just paid by Microsoft to dribble it out anyway like snot out of a crack whore's nose.
You HAVE to be either directly paid by Microsoft to be a shill - or you HAVE to be THE biggest asshole in IT right now.
You make Larry Ellison look "fair and balanced". You make George Bush look like George Washington.
I have news for you, monkey-boy: Linux is going to take away your job and leave you in the unemployment line where you belong. Ten years from now, Microsoft will be on the ropes and no longer willing to pay you for anything since you obviously weren't effective. And you damn sure won't be getting any money from anyone on the OSS side of the industry.
Take another shot of crack and "Have a nice day!"
Moron.
He's NOT "off the mark" - it's FUCKING PROPAGANDA!
Propaganda is not "off the mark" - it's deliberately deceptive crap. He knows PRECISELY that he is completely full of shit and he spouts it anyway.
In that, he is EXACTLY like Bill Gates and George Bush.
He makes Larry Ellison look like Pinochio.
This asshole is absolutely being PAID by Microsoft - either that or he IS literally the biggest asshole in IT.
Once again, these Microsoft shills have attacked the entire OSS movement, branding them "fanatics", DoS perpetrators, serial harassers, and probably beanie-wearers as well.
The only thing we haven't been accused of being is actual Muslims! Or maybe "child molesters!" We've already been called "terrorists" and "communists"!
Enderle proclaims that if we'd all ignored the bullshit MoG put out, it would have been ignored by everybody. Oh, really? Is that why HE'S babbling right now? He expects to be ignored? (He should be, but that's not the case.)
This jerk is hawking the same crap that a multi-billion corporation (who shall be cough!RedmondCough! nameless) and we're supposed to just sit back and enjoy? Who has the power to attack who here?
Read my lips, Enderle!
FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE GENETIC HISTORY!
In due time, Microsoft will be go into bankruptcy and YOUR pissant ass will go on the unemployment line where you belong! (Or maybe become the "Minister of Information" for the new Iraqi government...)
Jesus, and people wonder why I hate Microsoft!
"However, if you are using nanotechnology to synthesize a form of energy storage, you still need the energy as an input in one form or another. Nanotechnology is primarily materials science; it does not provide new energy sources."
Irrelevant. Nanotech provides the technology to construct new ways to IMPLEMENT existing energy sources and discover NEW energy sources. Synergistic effects.
Orbital materials transport? WHO GIVES A SHIT? You get your resources from the entire freakin' solar system by transporting a few grams of nanotech assemblers! Christ! Get some imagination! You're so locked in to low-tech five-years-from-now concepts you can't see the forest for the trees!
"Nanotech is primarily an improvement in materials science, not physics."
Nonsense. Get some more knowledge about nanotech. Limited to materials science indeed!
Transhumans reliant on food supply? Epidemics? Jesus Baron von Christ! You really have no clue what you're talking about, do you?
Let me give you a hint: TRANSHUMANS DON'T EAT!
Let me give you another clue: TRANSHUMANS ARE NOT A BIOLOGICAL SPECIES! They are POST-biological!
Also, nanotech eliminates the concept of "infrastructure". The only things a Transhuman needs are: 1) Energy sources; 2) matter; 3) knowledgebases; 4) nanomass; 5) computing power. The latter three are self-contained within the Transhuman; the former two are EVERYWHERE!
You're so limited in your concept of nanotech and its applications that you really have no business discussing it publicly.