"As the market for server technologies continues to diversify it is more important than ever that people with MCSE certification expand their knowledge base. Configuring and administering BSD and Linux servers and interoperating with the Microsoft server platform are skills no sef-respecting IT person should be without."
"Although we have a wide base of users now there is no guarantee that our market penetration will continue to expand, especially as more and more trend-setters in the enterprise sector awaken to the advantages of Open Source, Open Standards, and free alternatives to our overdesigned proprietary solutions."
He continued, "It may surprise you to know that at Microsoft we have many departments running Linux, BSD, and other Unix platforms on a day-to-day basis. Many of our programmers contribute to Open Source projects in their personal time. Historically we have discouraged this kind of activity, but we have had a culture shift in Redmond - an "Enlightenment" if you will. We have come to understand that communication between manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, support, and customers is the essential thing, and we can no longer narrowly focus on market dominance for its own sake."
"You may recall the embarassing flap over Open Source in Peru in which a local politician upbraided one of our representatives but good. We were essentially handed our hat on that one. At the time I was upset, Bill was upset; even Stuart Allchin - who normally shows no emotion at all - was clearly bothered by the incident. That politician, a Mister Villanueva, was the David to our Goliath, and it was a wake up call for us. Since then more and more governing bodies - from Germany to Italy to local, municipal, and state governments here in the United States - are mandating Open Source and Open Standards to meet their essential fiduciary responsibilities. We can't ignore the realities, and we have to face facts. Our software is slow to evolve and slow to recover when flaws are found. Security flaws aren't found as often or fixed as quickly as they could be. Open Source has a lot of lessons for our industry."
"We've been asked many times, by a large share of our user base, to open our software's source code and make it available so that they can customize it to their needs or address the flaws I mentioned. Up to now we've been very reserved about this. It goes back as far as Bill's open letter, where he defended his right to make a little money from programming. That was a big step, and in many ways it was the birth of Microsoft. That same ethos has guided our relationship with our partners and developers. Our partners expect to make money on our Windows platform, whether desktop or server, and they have been more than willing to give something back for the privilege. These partnerships are a continuous exchange of knowledge and innovation. Take a look in the back room of any respectable enterprise and you'll find the evidence. Thousands upon thousands of MSDN disks have been provided to developers over the years. Trillions of lines of source code have been provided to document our APIs and frameworks. The evidence can be weighed in tons."
"Where am I going with this? I'm not really sure. The culture of Microsoft has been sick for a long time. The problems we experience are endemic, and too numerous to list. Recent audits uncovered over twenty development projects and five whole departments we didn't even know existed. Obviously the reforms we need are deep. I hope we'll continue this dialogue for the sake of the whole information ecosystem."
"Normally I would take questions at this point, but I've run a little long and I'm late for my dance lesson."
And don't forget every other application uses Command-N to create a new document, which effectively opens a new document window, so Command-N is more consistent now that it opens a new window in the Finder as well.
They also changed the behavior of the Shift / Command keys when making selections in the Finder, so that Shift-Click extends the selection and Command-Click toggles items in the selection. Much better in terms of consistency with the rest of the system. It also makes it more consistent with Windows, which uses shift/ctrl click this way -- not that Windows is a good example of consistency.
If not for the Internet most Americans would never have heard that much of the intelligence information Colin Powell presented to the U.N. was based on outdated, and plagiarized material. The U.S. press simply didn't report it. So among other things, in wartime the Internet is going to continue to be very important for getting reliable information beyond state propaganda.
Of course if the United States' press didn't have their noses stuck up the ass of the government and the corporate establishment they might learn how to ask probing and difficult questions, and we wouldn't have to go looking for truthful reporting and real analysis from outside sources.
Clearly the reasoning behind this rule is to suppress dissent. I dont know whether this is about N. or S. Korea, but neither one would surprise me.
In North Korea, for example, everyone is required to have a picture of Kim Jong Il prominently displayed in their home. If an official comes to your house and finds the picture missing or displayed in a way which seems unsuitably reverent you can be arrested and jailed for up to two years.
(And what is it about dictators that they insist on splashing their ugly monkey-faces everywhere?
The policy of locking people up for their dissent is foolhardy, especially in a bankrupt country. Likewise, policies which suppress free expression prevent the free exchange and evolution of ideas. Considering that North Korea's best idea for helping their economy is to use nuclear weapons to extort help from the West, the region needs as much free exchange as it can get.
If this new law applied to South Korea it would seem to indicate a sea change in the political climate. Such a shift is not unprecedented in their history. People there still hold to the ideals of Confucianism which values the needs of the collective over the individual. Nevertheless South Koreans value freedom and the right of protest, so this law could not be upheld there for very long.
I just watched The Matrix again after seeing Reloaded. There is a cool transition at the beginning of the scene where Neo first meets Agent Smith. On several video screens we see Neo sitting in a featureless room, and the camera slowly moves into the screens and then we're in the room.
Those screens. I had wondered about those screens. Where were they? Who was watching the interrogation? Apparently it was The Architect.
I use NetBSD every day. I use Mac OS X every day. They're both UNIX as far as I'm concerned, regardless of how many Erdos points they are removed from their AT&T ancestry.
You know what the Mac Window Manager is? It's a UNIX daemon. You know what Mac OS X "Web Sharing" is? It's Apache. You know what the core compiler of ProjectBuilder is? It's gcc.
Perhaps my definition of "UNIX" is too broad for some, but I see no reason to split hairs about something built around the same foundation and principles. However I will happily agree that Windows NT is not UNIX.
Indeed. The only thing that really helps teachers teach is attentive students. Such as these are sharply in decline due to media-shock. On the bright side there will be plenty of grunts available to build the new olympic swimming pool at my impregnable media fortress.
Seriously, I want a few clear intelligent voices with multi-platform and real-world experience - you know who you are - to contribute some sanity that unfortunate K5 thread. No flaming required if you don't feel like it.
It's the internet, people. IF we don't cross threads once in awhile then stupidity just keeps spinning around and around and around.... Don't let the 'net become like a clothes dryer.
As long as we're on the subject, take a moment to set these morons straight about the realities of marketing, business partnerships, "coalition building," and the absurdity of platform-bashing. I'd keep flaming away there myself but I'm too flabbergasted by the uncharacteristic silliness I'm seeing on Kuro5hin in the wake of what appears to me as a promising turn of events. A healthy dose of SlashDotting is what those wannabes need right about now.
Most of the marijuana I get seems to come from British Columbia these days. As we all know the Al-Canuck and Hoser-amas cartels are notorious terrorist groups funded through Molson and the Canadian Snack-Food Industry.
According to Shawn King of the "Your Mac Life" radio show, Apple is planning to release an FM transmitter for the iPod that will be more flexible and better integrated than the 3rd-party offerings. That should be music to your... airs.
As I understand it quartz and other crystals have a periodic vibration. (So accurate you could set your watch by it!) Once nanotechnology reaches a certain level I could see harnessing this minute vibration to produce an almost unlimited energy supply.
Recent experiments by Japanese scientists working with extremely thin (a few atoms wide) strands of nickel have seen inexplicable "amplification" effects on the signals that run along these filaments. I wouldn't be surprised if microscopic filaments of nickel or other exotic materials could be coupled with quartz or diamond to produce devices that generate their own energy - albeit on a very minute scale.
I don't know why they still keep going through these convolutions trying to make "cel phones" - which are powerful networking devices - behave like traditional telephones.
The cel companies should employ modern network standards along the lines of IPv6, DHCP, and ZeroConf. When you turn on your phone you're on the network. Who else is on the network? Your phone tells you. Want to call someone? Select their name from your buddy list. All this archaic ten-digit dialing, ringing, answering, messaging is all going to seem very quaint in ten years....
They were once only divisible by 1 and P. Now it turns out they're all divisible by -1 and -P as well. Dammit, all the textbooks are going to have to be changed!
Ha, just when you thought the field was closed, suddenly it's open again.... And since it's being exposed and marketed by Dr. Steven Greer you know it has to be true.
Slashdot Mirror
It's about following the links in the article to find out.
"As the market for server technologies continues to diversify it is more important than ever that people with MCSE certification expand their knowledge base. Configuring and administering BSD and Linux servers and interoperating with the Microsoft server platform are skills no sef-respecting IT person should be without."
"Although we have a wide base of users now there is no guarantee that our market penetration will continue to expand, especially as more and more trend-setters in the enterprise sector awaken to the advantages of Open Source, Open Standards, and free alternatives to our overdesigned proprietary solutions."
He continued, "It may surprise you to know that at Microsoft we have many departments running Linux, BSD, and other Unix platforms on a day-to-day basis. Many of our programmers contribute to Open Source projects in their personal time. Historically we have discouraged this kind of activity, but we have had a culture shift in Redmond - an "Enlightenment" if you will. We have come to understand that communication between manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, support, and customers is the essential thing, and we can no longer narrowly focus on market dominance for its own sake."
"You may recall the embarassing flap over Open Source in Peru in which a local politician upbraided one of our representatives but good. We were essentially handed our hat on that one. At the time I was upset, Bill was upset; even Stuart Allchin - who normally shows no emotion at all - was clearly bothered by the incident. That politician, a Mister Villanueva, was the David to our Goliath, and it was a wake up call for us. Since then more and more governing bodies - from Germany to Italy to local, municipal, and state governments here in the United States - are mandating Open Source and Open Standards to meet their essential fiduciary responsibilities. We can't ignore the realities, and we have to face facts. Our software is slow to evolve and slow to recover when flaws are found. Security flaws aren't found as often or fixed as quickly as they could be. Open Source has a lot of lessons for our industry."
"We've been asked many times, by a large share of our user base, to open our software's source code and make it available so that they can customize it to their needs or address the flaws I mentioned. Up to now we've been very reserved about this. It goes back as far as Bill's open letter, where he defended his right to make a little money from programming. That was a big step, and in many ways it was the birth of Microsoft. That same ethos has guided our relationship with our partners and developers. Our partners expect to make money on our Windows platform, whether desktop or server, and they have been more than willing to give something back for the privilege. These partnerships are a continuous exchange of knowledge and innovation. Take a look in the back room of any respectable enterprise and you'll find the evidence. Thousands upon thousands of MSDN disks have been provided to developers over the years. Trillions of lines of source code have been provided to document our APIs and frameworks. The evidence can be weighed in tons."
"Where am I going with this? I'm not really sure. The culture of Microsoft has been sick for a long time. The problems we experience are endemic, and too numerous to list. Recent audits uncovered over twenty development projects and five whole departments we didn't even know existed. Obviously the reforms we need are deep. I hope we'll continue this dialogue for the sake of the whole information ecosystem."
"Normally I would take questions at this point, but I've run a little long and I'm late for my dance lesson."
If we'd lit up a cigarette the buses would have arrived right away.
And don't forget every other application uses Command-N to create a new document, which effectively opens a new document window, so Command-N is more consistent now that it opens a new window in the Finder as well.
They also changed the behavior of the Shift / Command keys when making selections in the Finder, so that Shift-Click extends the selection and Command-Click toggles items in the selection. Much better in terms of consistency with the rest of the system. It also makes it more consistent with Windows, which uses shift/ctrl click this way -- not that Windows is a good example of consistency.
Good to hear you'll be back, Rob. Developers need to understand more about the nuances of The Sims.
Come on, now. Have you looked at Ford lately?
What a misleading article. That does it. I'm never choosing the CowboyNeal poll option ever again!
If not for the Internet most Americans would never have heard that much of the intelligence information Colin Powell presented to the U.N. was based on outdated, and plagiarized material. The U.S. press simply didn't report it. So among other things, in wartime the Internet is going to continue to be very important for getting reliable information beyond state propaganda.
Of course if the United States' press didn't have their noses stuck up the ass of the government and the corporate establishment they might learn how to ask probing and difficult questions, and we wouldn't have to go looking for truthful reporting and real analysis from outside sources.
God's an advanced organic chemist
and
the chemistry itself.
Clearly the reasoning behind this rule is to suppress dissent. I dont know whether this is about N. or S. Korea, but neither one would surprise me.
In North Korea, for example, everyone is required to have a picture of Kim Jong Il prominently displayed in their home. If an official comes to your house and finds the picture missing or displayed in a way which seems unsuitably reverent you can be arrested and jailed for up to two years.
(And what is it about dictators that they insist on splashing their ugly monkey-faces everywhere?
The policy of locking people up for their dissent is foolhardy, especially in a bankrupt country. Likewise, policies which suppress free expression prevent the free exchange and evolution of ideas. Considering that North Korea's best idea for helping their economy is to use nuclear weapons to extort help from the West, the region needs as much free exchange as it can get.
If this new law applied to South Korea it would seem to indicate a sea change in the political climate. Such a shift is not unprecedented in their history. People there still hold to the ideals of Confucianism which values the needs of the collective over the individual. Nevertheless South Koreans value freedom and the right of protest, so this law could not be upheld there for very long.
Here's a cool study about Political Protest in East Asia.
I just watched The Matrix again after seeing Reloaded. There is a cool transition at the beginning of the scene where Neo first meets Agent Smith. On several video screens we see Neo sitting in a featureless room, and the camera slowly moves into the screens and then we're in the room.
Those screens. I had wondered about those screens. Where were they? Who was watching the interrogation? Apparently it was The Architect.
I use NetBSD every day. I use Mac OS X every day. They're both UNIX as far as I'm concerned, regardless of how many Erdos points they are removed from their AT&T ancestry.
You know what the Mac Window Manager is? It's a UNIX daemon. You know what Mac OS X "Web Sharing" is? It's Apache. You know what the core compiler of ProjectBuilder is? It's gcc.
Perhaps my definition of "UNIX" is too broad for some, but I see no reason to split hairs about something built around the same foundation and principles. However I will happily agree that Windows NT is not UNIX.
Yeah, I think so.
You can go back to sleep now.
It should read:
Rat Brain Uses Hybrid Robot
Indeed. The only thing that really helps teachers teach is attentive students. Such as these are sharply in decline due to media-shock. On the bright side there will be plenty of grunts available to build the new olympic swimming pool at my impregnable media fortress.
Seriously, I want a few clear intelligent voices with multi-platform and real-world experience - you know who you are - to contribute some sanity that unfortunate K5 thread. No flaming required if you don't feel like it.
It's the internet, people. IF we don't cross threads once in awhile then stupidity just keeps spinning around and around and around.... Don't let the 'net become like a clothes dryer.
As long as we're on the subject, take a moment to set these morons straight about the realities of marketing, business partnerships, "coalition building," and the absurdity of platform-bashing. I'd keep flaming away there myself but I'm too flabbergasted by the uncharacteristic silliness I'm seeing on Kuro5hin in the wake of what appears to me as a promising turn of events. A healthy dose of SlashDotting is what those wannabes need right about now.
Most of the marijuana I get seems to come from British Columbia these days. As we all know the Al-Canuck and Hoser-amas cartels are notorious terrorist groups funded through Molson and the Canadian Snack-Food Industry.
Ah, darn. You're quite right!
According to Shawn King of the "Your Mac Life" radio show, Apple is planning to release an FM transmitter for the iPod that will be more flexible and better integrated than the 3rd-party offerings. That should be music to your ... airs.
As I understand it quartz and other crystals have a periodic vibration. (So accurate you could set your watch by it!) Once nanotechnology reaches a certain level I could see harnessing this minute vibration to produce an almost unlimited energy supply.
Recent experiments by Japanese scientists working with extremely thin (a few atoms wide) strands of nickel have seen inexplicable "amplification" effects on the signals that run along these filaments. I wouldn't be surprised if microscopic filaments of nickel or other exotic materials could be coupled with quartz or diamond to produce devices that generate their own energy - albeit on a very minute scale.
I don't know why they still keep going through these convolutions trying to make "cel phones" - which are powerful networking devices - behave like traditional telephones.
The cel companies should employ modern network standards along the lines of IPv6, DHCP, and ZeroConf. When you turn on your phone you're on the network. Who else is on the network? Your phone tells you. Want to call someone? Select their name from your buddy list. All this archaic ten-digit dialing, ringing, answering, messaging is all going to seem very quaint in ten years....
...and next year they'll both be jointly nominated for the Darwin Award!
They were once only divisible by 1 and P. Now it turns out they're all divisible by -1 and -P as well. Dammit, all the textbooks are going to have to be changed!
Ha, just when you thought the field was closed, suddenly it's open again.... And since it's being exposed and marketed by Dr. Steven Greer you know it has to be true.
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