If you want to make a dot point list in a Slashdot posting, you can use the
and
tags. It looks cleaner and indents nicely.
Your list, for example, would look like this:
<ul> <li>Most don't initiate a topic. Simply reading the latest cool stories.</li> <li>Look at the social network diagram of an answer person. Few interconnections. It indicates introverted social behaviour, which is classic computer/science etc geek/nerd. It's not like we're short of those.</li> <li>Etc...</i> </ul>
but with the 360 it's been an ongoing problem that persists.
Smarthouse news in Australia is reporting that more than 30% of Australian XBox360 owners are returning the consoles with the "Red Ring of Death", which occurs when the console suffers a hardware failure http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13201/Retaile rs_Claim_360_Failure_Rate_Is_Over_30.html.
It appears that the failures are caused by a fundamental design flaw in the cooling of the GPU.
When the GPU heats up enough, not only does it reflow the solder in the ball grid array slightly, it can cause the entire mainboard to flex - a phenomenon largely caused by the X-shaped brackets that hold the heatsinks on under the mainboard.
http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13140/Xbox_36 0_Failures_Explained.html
Some European Xbox 360's are being repaired by Microsoft with extra cooling http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=17870. Hopefully they will now admit the design flaw and retrofit the same repair for the rest of their customers.
It's not about reality, it's about what they will say, how they will spin it
Look, Windows can't even compete on features against Puppy Linux.
No Microsoft sales droid will ever get in a pissing contest against a full blown Linux distro with more than 20,000 packages installable. They'd just end up with a wet leg and a deep-seated sense of personal inadequacy.
If the Linux community reponds that you could get all the features of windows microsoft is going to say: "windows is still better because they come with it by default"
WTF?
Look, I guess you have some axe to grind, but you're not making sense. Have you SEEN the default package list for any Linux distro and compared it to what comes with Windows?
It mentioned that the writer had removed some packages but kept GNOME around, but only about five lines were dedicated to each distro (there were four, though I believe two were Red Hat or strongly Red Hat based).
Some of the issues I noticed in the second report include:
choosing to assess Ubuntu 6.06 instead of 7.04 because "Ubuntu has only committed to long term support for 6.06 and not later releases."
The "apples to apples" feature set didn't compare actual default applications. Windows does have a very minimal application set on install compared to Linux. It would have been easy to compare vulnerabilities for just the comparable products - gedit for wordpad, for example.
His chosen metric doesn't actually assess the security of the product. Interestingly, he was advised this via a comment back in October 06, but chose to continue.
NOTE: I am not asserting that my vulnerability analysis demonstrates that Windows is more secure.
November 07, 2006, Jeff Jones That Microsoft published the results as a valid security assessment tells you a lot about the company and their commitment to real security in their products.
Microsoft will simply respond by saying that they appear less secure only because they have so many more features. And that will make Microsoft more attractive.
That's a nonsensical argument.
Anyone who wants similar functionality on Linux can install it (on Debian; apt-get install miredo).
It's a feature very few people will ever want, so it's not installed by default. That's sensible packaging, not a lacking feature.
Just search for Windows Profit Margins. There's a lot of news and discussion about their SEC filings.
This from the top-ranked page:
Profit margins for desktop versions of Windows came in shy of 86 percent, according to the 10-Q. That's up from about 82 percent during the same period a year earlier. Office profit margins were 78 percent in the first quarter compared with 76 percent a year earlier. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-966219.html
So from their perspective, which is also the shareholders' perspective, they don't have a 99% profit margin on everything they sell.
No, but they have more than 85% profit margins in their Windows line.
It's commonly called "Monopoly rent". Their pricing isn't based on production costs, it's based on the demand curve for their product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_profit
Those R&D costs are probably astronomical for a product like Windows.
Windows makes a profit margin of more than 85 percent. To put this in personal terms, for every dollar you spent licensing the OS last year, Microsoft spent less than 15 cents on all Windows packaging, marketing, support, and, oh yeah, improving the product.
Gee, mass production. Who would have thought you could apply that to the software industry?
Duplication, not production.
Just as the invention of the printing press led to the rise of the media barons, personal computing has created our software barons.
The difference this time is that each computer is fully capable of duplicating any software it can load, so our barons need powerful protection to maintain scarcity of their product.
Hopefully, when our modern Star Chamber is overturned and its support vanishes, the power of the software barons will also evaporate.
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and- tags. It looks cleaner and indents nicely.
Your list, for example, would look like this:
<ul>
<li>Most don't initiate a topic. Simply reading the latest cool stories.</li>
<li>Look at the social network diagram of an answer person. Few interconnections. It indicates introverted social behaviour, which is classic computer/science etc geek/nerd. It's not like we're short of those.</li>
<li>Etc...</i>
</ul>
HTH....
Half the world was telling him that.
He didn't pay any attention to millions of people. Why the fuck would he care what one computer predicts?
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/sales.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
And I for one stand ready to be your new patriotic overlord.
Kodos.
Yeah, I'd have thought a can of Raid would be more effective than dumping 'em in space.
Smarthouse news in Australia is reporting that more than 30% of Australian XBox360 owners are returning the consoles with the "Red Ring of Death", which occurs when the console suffers a hardware failure http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13201/Retaile rs_Claim_360_Failure_Rate_Is_Over_30.html.
It appears that the failures are caused by a fundamental design flaw in the cooling of the GPU.
When the GPU heats up enough, not only does it reflow the solder in the ball grid array slightly, it can cause the entire mainboard to flex - a phenomenon largely caused by the X-shaped brackets that hold the heatsinks on under the mainboard. http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13140/Xbox_36 0_Failures_Explained.html
Some European Xbox 360's are being repaired by Microsoft with extra cooling http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=17870. Hopefully they will now admit the design flaw and retrofit the same repair for the rest of their customers.
How much did you earn for that?
Look, Windows can't even compete on features against Puppy Linux.
No Microsoft sales droid will ever get in a pissing contest against a full blown Linux distro with more than 20,000 packages installable. They'd just end up with a wet leg and a deep-seated sense of personal inadequacy.
WTF?
Look, I guess you have some axe to grind, but you're not making sense. Have you SEEN the default package list for any Linux distro and compared it to what comes with Windows?
Some of the issues I noticed in the second report include:
- choosing to assess Ubuntu 6.06 instead of 7.04 because "Ubuntu has only committed to long term support for 6.06 and not later releases."
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The "apples to apples" feature set didn't compare actual default applications. Windows does have a very minimal application set on install compared to Linux. It would have been easy to compare vulnerabilities for just the comparable products - gedit for wordpad, for example.
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His chosen metric doesn't actually assess the security of the product. Interestingly, he was advised this via a comment back in October 06, but chose to continue.
There's a bit more discussion of his methodology in his own blog here.http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2006/10
I'll leave the final comment to the man himself;
NOTE: I am not asserting that my vulnerability analysis demonstrates that Windows is more secure.November 07, 2006, Jeff Jones That Microsoft published the results as a valid security assessment tells you a lot about the company and their commitment to real security in their products.
That's a nonsensical argument.
Anyone who wants similar functionality on Linux can install it (on Debian; apt-get install miredo).
It's a feature very few people will ever want, so it's not installed by default. That's sensible packaging, not a lacking feature.
Yes, that's why bloggers were initially percieved as a breath of fresh air in an arena dominated by shills.
The honeymoon didn't last long, and now many of the journos who used to tout in the magazines have transferred their skills (and bad habits) to blogs.
Just search for Windows Profit Margins. There's a lot of news and discussion about their SEC filings.
This from the top-ranked page:
Profit margins for desktop versions of Windows came in shy of 86 percent, according to the 10-Q. That's up from about 82 percent during the same period a year earlier. Office profit margins were 78 percent in the first quarter compared with 76 percent a year earlier.http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-966219.html
This sort of campaign blurs the distinction between comment and advertising.
It diminishes the value of the opinions being blogged and potentially tars all tech bloggers with the same brush.
It's not for Windows Mobile either.
LiveDrive is one of the Vista features that slipped from the actual release. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsof t-confirms-Live-Drive-plans/0,130061733,139267189, 00.htm
Looks like the space they're offering has slipped a bit too. Still, size isn't important, is it guys?
No, but they have more than 85% profit margins in their Windows line.
It's commonly called "Monopoly rent". Their pricing isn't based on production costs, it's based on the demand curve for their product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_profit
I'll do that. Thanks for the advice.
Windows makes a profit margin of more than 85 percent. To put this in personal terms, for every dollar you spent licensing the OS last year, Microsoft spent less than 15 cents on all Windows packaging, marketing, support, and, oh yeah, improving the product.
Duplication, not production.
Just as the invention of the printing press led to the rise of the media barons, personal computing has created our software barons. The difference this time is that each computer is fully capable of duplicating any software it can load, so our barons need powerful protection to maintain scarcity of their product.
Hopefully, when our modern Star Chamber is overturned and its support vanishes, the power of the software barons will also evaporate.
Yep, it's a town in Switzerland.
I think the OP's suggesting it's an expensive place.
It's not the most professional writing I've seen, but I believe most of the points made are valid.
There's another commentary here. http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/mi crosoft_is_counting_bugs_again.html
It's a pretty contrived review.
The bulk of it has already been debunked here http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jun/0528.h tml
Some people put their hearts into their jobs.
I just wanted them to get some practice before they did mine.