For years I've felt bad for, well for example Americans for corporations having way too much power over there. Now even at my very own home country, the employer of my many friends of mine pulls shit like this, it's unbelievable.
For what? To spy their employees? What the fuck?!
Does Nokia even have the slightest competitive edge on innovation at any frontier? No it does not. In the past few years they've only managed to start copying others.. So I guess they are afraid their employees sending emails telling everyone that they are now starting to copy Apple or RIM or whoever employs innovative people. That's like sending answers to simple math questions like 1+1=2.
The law itself, so called "Lex Nokia" is bad, it's really bad. Any organization can, after it's passed start surveillance on their employees after filing some stupid form. Police won't have any control over these operations. You aren't even required to fill the god damn form, you can do it later on and pay a small fine!
Can you spell out obscene in some other way? This is ridiculous. I do not want to live here anymore if Nokia gets it's way. To hell with them, Finland would be a much better place without them. Poor, maybe a bit shaken but it surely isn't worth of losing every last sense of law in this country.
Just if someone would make sure to collect them every cent of development grants they've received in the past years before they go.
If the upgrade costs more than 1 EUR I can't see myself upgrading, at least legally. Even that 1 EUR would be total ripoff as everyone has pointed out, Windows 7 is Vista the way it should had been, more correctly it's SP3.
Currently I only need Vista to apply HP BIOS upgrade every two years. (I haven't dared to try out that FreeDOS disk of their after it once corrupted one HP's BIOS).
The competition is heating up, and it seems that Finnish Police might be lagging a bit here! They haven't censored anything "high level" sites since w3c.org.
I wonder what will they have to do next not to lose this game entirely... Perhaps slashdot.org for reporting censorship going on or then they just copycat UK ISPs with Internet Archives.
As a side note, I remember seeing some headline on the latest issue of one of Finnish computer magazines on how to get around the local (dns-based) blacklists.
How hard would it be for someone start spreading mp3's with someone elses information in it, and then make RIAA sue them when they find the first one?
Granted that the situation might be solved when Apple checks whether or not this person ("purchased by", "account name", "purchase date") actually bought the song but still it might cause a lot of trouble for someone.
I think this is not a good idea. iTunes should store these separately in some meta-files...
Well of course it depends on what you are training.. I forgot to mention that I had only the gym/weightlifting in mind when I wrote my first comment (who thinks before commenting?!).
When I was in the army we used to do stretch afterwards a running/jogging/march right away, after having had a small break (check your equipment, yourself). Never had any problems with that, but still we aimed to keep stretches below 20 sec.
In fact, I was warned never to stretch with cold muscles because it increases the risk of damaging them.
Totally correct AFAIK. I guess that's the hardest part of doing stretches 2-3 hrs after exercise, you'd need to warm up a bit, but you are all ready to go to sleep after shower and eating, and somehow that TV/bed doesn't require you to do any warm up:)
Where did that come from? I've been taught since being a 6 year old hockey master that you should always do warm up, and then stretch max 10 seconds per muscle...
Right after exercise, you shouldn't stretch as your muscles should be full of blood, you don't want to rip them open – you should walk or do something light and go to sauna.
2-3 hrs after exercise you should do those 20-40 sec stretches.
Actually as obesity has become a western-worldwide effect the cost of 60% or something people eating way too much is already showing up on the environment.
On top of environmental issues there's also the health problem; someone has to pay those people who have to carry your ass to the toilet.
Someone has to pay the shrink who loses his/her own life while helping you move your ass as you are incapacitated.
Someone has to help the person not wealthy enough to get psychiatric help, or he/she might become violent, anti-social and induce other harm on others.
Nice gateway theory but I doubt it can be as simple as "take care of yourself or die" as people don't just die. They stay alive too long and make costs and do not deserve to die just because of society imposed insecurities, lack of mental strength, all of which are bad reasons to die as those could be fixed. But it's a lot cheaper to fix these problems with sports and education rather than psychiatrists.
While making any Ubuntu non-free doesn't sound so good, Canonical could start giving people some reasons to throw money at them..
Someone already mentioned some value adding services (like Apple does.Mac etc.) but how about throwing money at a bug?
Users could throw 1-20€, companies even more if they don't want to pay for a subscription.
This could work like first defining a bug, it gets confirmations, dev sees it, and it doesn't seem like too interesting to tackle with. People start throwing money at it until someone fixes it. All this could be open, and the one who posts the patch would get money and canonical could keep the some percentage of it. Or if their dev's fix it before everyone else, it's another PR stunt, more trust in the system, and cash to pay for a dev's day at canonical.
I think that you answered it yourself with the very next sentence:
The Debian release cycle is too long and uncertain so out comes Ubuntu.
I totally agree. Debian is great, but as they don't have as good release cycle as Ubuntu, there are quite many packages which are way beyond usable as those cannot be upgraded in a stable Debian.
Of course it's a matter of stability also, but a release cycle would eventually do only good for Debian also. Just think what would happen if Debian and Ubuntu Server could unite at one point.. Not knowing the specifics, but I guess many debian devs/maintainers already receive paychecks from Canonical.
Debian has great number of great maintainers, and have set the bar on package management to a whole another level for everyone in the operating system field.
Ubuntu in the other end has revolutionalized the desktop, essentially by adding "listening users needs" and "release cycle" to already good Debian recipe.
For support, Debian based (server) system is something I could consider buying that. As long as they can handle cost being accessible to ISV's.
Of course since once you've chosen a MQ and adapted all your applications to use it you're basically tied forever and ever to your MQ vendor who hold you by the balls and can continuously rape you over and over with astronomical maintenance fee since you now have a single coordinated point of failure that can and will eventually take everything down at some point.
While it's still in incubation, Apache's qpid, might be worth a look. If it sucks now, throw a developer to help with it, and you'll have a sustainable MQ for well.. Your applications whole life-cycle.
Apache already has ActiveMQ which AFAIK is not AMQP but something still. Perhaps you could abstract the use of either in your architecture, and jump over to AMQP when you feel like it.
Why don't you just go ahead and install the minimum java support (sun-java6-jdk i believe is the package's name)?
After that you can download eclipse binaries from their website, and run the binary from the directory! That's at least how I been doing my Java development on linux (kubuntu) for the past year.
Agreed, those packages don't work, but those seem a bit redundant. Eclipse does have it's own upgrading and addon system, there's really no need for a system wide installation!
If you screw something up, you just do a fresh install (unpack the.tar.gz). If you want to back up, or even better, transfer your whole eclipse distribution, you just tar your eclipse installation directory.
APT and dpkg are great tools, but as eclipse moves on with continiusly higher pace, and it's you the developer who wants to use it I believe you should be able to find a way around all the shelly stuff. Otherwise you could consider changing from Java to for example Visual Basic.
According to Wikipedia's page it'd seem the following codecs need to be supported:
mpeg-2
mpeg-4 avc
vc-1
VC-1 is Microsoft's shit all over again, and I don't remember libavcodec supporting it yet, if ever.
Even when you've got support for all the X codecs required by BD you'll still have to crack the encryption (you bought it right?... instead of downloading a hdrip).
For example Blender's renderer's scale on a system like this? Of course something like MentalRay might scale easily but has anyone any hands on experience?
One might argue if you are throwing away $25,000 on a system like that you might use software that costs, but then again, Blender has made tremendous progress these last years..
After for once reading the article (very interesting let me tell you) it'd seem that the summary is a bit off course.
Adrew Lahde talks about the need for George Soros (or alike) to fund or start a forum that'd discuss a new form of Goverment/economics, that could grow in the sense of Linux (one guy starts it up, other start contributing).
He does not want Linus or Soros to run a country. He wants people like Soros (anyone with loads of money) to help wise people (not necessarily oil owners) to think about a new world order past capitalism.
He also talks about number of different good ideas which should be put in play.
Now that I've just upgraded it seems that those "performance upgrades" don't show up at least on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 beta.
Running without desktop effects, under firefox or konqueror it still needs the whole core to do simple low quality video decoding. mplayer (w/ ffdshow) does videos with same resolution with less than 10% of total cpu usage.
First of all, as some have already pointed out, where's the *BSD binaries and 64-bit binaries?
Why doesn't Adobe go (L)GPLv3 with their flash plugin, keep all the products that produce flashes commercial and watch how other people (while being angry at their original plugin's performance) fix their bad code?
In all seriousness, what bad could releasing flash renderer as a GPLv3 or LGPLv3 mean for adobe? They have the market for 90s style websites (one big graphic) and 100% of Internet's video sites already, their actual closed source not so well performing plugin is the first reason why people don't think flash is great for anything other than attracting teenager users.
If the do not open source it, one day it will a better alternative will grow out of the open source community or flash simply ceases to exist as it's replaced by more open standard X or better renderer Y.
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I was not going to reply to this until I saw the sentence on the but lets clear this up (while it was rather off-topic).
Is the issue you mention between Vista and XP a C# issue? Or an issue of the XP user not being on the latest and greatest release of.net (3.5 right now) ? I believe you can download the current framework for use on XP if that is the case.
The issue were with.NET 2.0, on both workstations. I believe Microsoft is calling those.NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.5, so that when I write code that depends on.NET 2.0 it will work on my friends computer that has.NET 2.0, regardless of the operating system..
Besides, this is slashdot, why would anyone on slashdot be promoting MS Vista?
Heh... As not everyone here does all their coding just for fun they do it because they have to – in order to get payed.
I'm happy that the most I've been doing lately have involved more server side Java than anything related to.NET.
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Well there is fragmentation produces as they introduce YET another language.
So? That's a problem for Windows developers. Why should a Java programmer care? In the realms where Java is popular, C# has had basically no influence. So MS has, at worst, fragmented the Windows development ecosystem... big deal.:)
Correct, but I was trying to write this as my position of part-time Windows application programmer. The point that I was trying to make was Microsoft could had just attempted to follow the latest and greatest with C++, not create fragmentation.
I believe that the issues with C++ are there but could had been fixed. Many people are/have been fixing those issues. To name a few the guys from Boost and Trolltech.
You currently cannot say C# replaces C++ on Windows platform as using any DirectX components for example is nightmare through C#.
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More on the major downside of writing.NET applications is that you cannot guarantee that the stuff I work on my Vista workstation works on my co-workers XP workstation.
But none of this has anything to do with fragmentation to begin with. You're getting off-point. And that's ignoring the fact that, once again, this is a problem for MS... the rest of the programming world doesn't care one whit how hard DirectX is to integrate with C#.
Correct again, off-point and all that, but when you have to implement this part of your "solution" with C++ and that over there with C# I'd call that fragmentation.
For writing programs with GUI's the sad thing for ISV's is that you really cannot do it in many other ways. With C# anyone can do it (I guess opposed to C++) meaning it's as simple as Java. But Java cannot use because customer does not want to install JRE on every desktop.
Can it be a success when it cannot be used to produce major parts of their own operating system.
Last I checked Java wasn't being used to write operating system components, yet no one claims it's a failure. Now, that's not to say C# and.NET are unbridled successes, but that's a pretty crappy metric for making the call.
Well last time I checked I use some kind of mix between GTK and Java GUI on simple thin-clients at my University, which are backed by large SUN server doing all the hard lifting. I'd call that writing at least some of the operating system components with Java, GTK running as the painter for the UI. Then again I might be wrong on this one too.
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Well there is fragmentation produces as they introduce YET another language.
You currently cannot say C# replaces C++ on Windows platform as using any DirectX components for example is nightmare through C#. Which I think is a rather major obstacle if you have an application that would like to use something other than simple sound output facilities. (Reasons for this might be as simple as choosing a sound output device, on at least.NET 2.0.)
More on the major downside of writing.NET applications is that you cannot guarantee that the stuff I work on my Vista workstation works on my co-workers XP workstation. This is a very sad "feature" that has been bugging as even with very simple applications. (Side note: We have tried to code using all the best practices you can find from MSDN.)
Also, GP's point 3 sounds very interesting. Can it be a success when it cannot be used to produce major parts of their own operating system. (No, I'm not talking about writing their kernel with C#).
Though, the GP doesn't list any sources for point 3, which at least I would be very interested to read as I seem to have missed those articles.
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Could someone clarify the parent's post up a bit or was it simply a troll? What would be a better architecture to handle all those IO reqs?
For years I've felt bad for, well for example Americans for corporations having way too much power over there. Now even at my very own home country, the employer of my many friends of mine pulls shit like this, it's unbelievable.
For what? To spy their employees? What the fuck?!
Does Nokia even have the slightest competitive edge on innovation at any frontier? No it does not. In the past few years they've only managed to start copying others.. So I guess they are afraid their employees sending emails telling everyone that they are now starting to copy Apple or RIM or whoever employs innovative people. That's like sending answers to simple math questions like 1+1=2.
The law itself, so called "Lex Nokia" is bad, it's really bad. Any organization can, after it's passed start surveillance on their employees after filing some stupid form. Police won't have any control over these operations. You aren't even required to fill the god damn form, you can do it later on and pay a small fine!
Can you spell out obscene in some other way? This is ridiculous. I do not want to live here anymore if Nokia gets it's way. To hell with them, Finland would be a much better place without them. Poor, maybe a bit shaken but it surely isn't worth of losing every last sense of law in this country.
Just if someone would make sure to collect them every cent of development grants they've received in the past years before they go.
If the upgrade costs more than 1 EUR I can't see myself upgrading, at least legally. Even that 1 EUR would be total ripoff as everyone has pointed out, Windows 7 is Vista the way it should had been, more correctly it's SP3.
Currently I only need Vista to apply HP BIOS upgrade every two years. (I haven't dared to try out that FreeDOS disk of their after it once corrupted one HP's BIOS).
Offtopic but how do you practically backup 100TB and keep many backups? Hopefully you aren't using Seagate drives ;) Does your project have a site?
The competition is heating up, and it seems that Finnish Police might be lagging a bit here! They haven't censored anything "high level" sites since w3c.org.
I wonder what will they have to do next not to lose this game entirely... Perhaps slashdot.org for reporting censorship going on or then they just copycat UK ISPs with Internet Archives.
As a side note, I remember seeing some headline on the latest issue of one of Finnish computer magazines on how to get around the local (dns-based) blacklists.
How hard would it be for someone start spreading mp3's with someone elses information in it, and then make RIAA sue them when they find the first one?
Granted that the situation might be solved when Apple checks whether or not this person ("purchased by", "account name", "purchase date") actually bought the song but still it might cause a lot of trouble for someone.
I think this is not a good idea. iTunes should store these separately in some meta-files...
I for one believe that firing the employees in question would be enough, instead of termination. Perhaps it'd even be cheaper choice.
Congrats to UK, now they have freed people of UK from child pornography!
Are we running out of terrirists and actual child pornographers so bad that someone actually has to be given salary for censoring Wikipedia?
I'd guess even UK could do much better with using the money to for example burning it and warming their houses than this.
I wonder how many times has this been pointed out that someone should roll up a RICO class action suit against RIAA?
Great that it is finally coming to life :) Real life imitating slashdot :)
Wouldn't the judge/others have to do their decisions only based on the laws that were at the time of this very criminal act?
Wouldn't it be unconstitutional for someone get convicted of something that might not had been illegal when the act was committed?
That is, if *AA would get some more horrendous laws passed while they are on Hawaii...
Light cardio before exercise = warm up.
Well of course it depends on what you are training.. I forgot to mention that I had only the gym/weightlifting in mind when I wrote my first comment (who thinks before commenting?!).
When I was in the army we used to do stretch afterwards a running/jogging/march right away, after having had a small break (check your equipment, yourself). Never had any problems with that, but still we aimed to keep stretches below 20 sec.
Totally correct AFAIK. I guess that's the hardest part of doing stretches 2-3 hrs after exercise, you'd need to warm up a bit, but you are all ready to go to sleep after shower and eating, and somehow that TV/bed doesn't require you to do any warm up :)
Where did that come from? I've been taught since being a 6 year old hockey master that you should always do warm up, and then stretch max 10 seconds per muscle...
Right after exercise, you shouldn't stretch as your muscles should be full of blood, you don't want to rip them open – you should walk or do something light and go to sauna.
2-3 hrs after exercise you should do those 20-40 sec stretches.
Actually as obesity has become a western-worldwide effect the cost of 60% or something people eating way too much is already showing up on the environment.
On top of environmental issues there's also the health problem; someone has to pay those people who have to carry your ass to the toilet.
Someone has to pay the shrink who loses his/her own life while helping you move your ass as you are incapacitated.
Someone has to help the person not wealthy enough to get psychiatric help, or he/she might become violent, anti-social and induce other harm on others.
Nice gateway theory but I doubt it can be as simple as "take care of yourself or die" as people don't just die. They stay alive too long and make costs and do not deserve to die just because of society imposed insecurities, lack of mental strength, all of which are bad reasons to die as those could be fixed. But it's a lot cheaper to fix these problems with sports and education rather than psychiatrists.
While making any Ubuntu non-free doesn't sound so good, Canonical could start giving people some reasons to throw money at them..
Someone already mentioned some value adding services (like Apple does .Mac etc.) but how about throwing money at a bug?
Users could throw 1-20€, companies even more if they don't want to pay for a subscription.
This could work like first defining a bug, it gets confirmations, dev sees it, and it doesn't seem like too interesting to tackle with. People start throwing money at it until someone fixes it. All this could be open, and the one who posts the patch would get money and canonical could keep the some percentage of it. Or if their dev's fix it before everyone else, it's another PR stunt, more trust in the system, and cash to pay for a dev's day at canonical.
I totally agree. Debian is great, but as they don't have as good release cycle as Ubuntu, there are quite many packages which are way beyond usable as those cannot be upgraded in a stable Debian.
Of course it's a matter of stability also, but a release cycle would eventually do only good for Debian also. Just think what would happen if Debian and Ubuntu Server could unite at one point.. Not knowing the specifics, but I guess many debian devs/maintainers already receive paychecks from Canonical.
Debian has great number of great maintainers, and have set the bar on package management to a whole another level for everyone in the operating system field.
Ubuntu in the other end has revolutionalized the desktop, essentially by adding "listening users needs" and "release cycle" to already good Debian recipe.
For support, Debian based (server) system is something I could consider buying that. As long as they can handle cost being accessible to ISV's.
While it's still in incubation, Apache's qpid, might be worth a look. If it sucks now, throw a developer to help with it, and you'll have a sustainable MQ for well.. Your applications whole life-cycle.
Apache already has ActiveMQ which AFAIK is not AMQP but something still. Perhaps you could abstract the use of either in your architecture, and jump over to AMQP when you feel like it.
Why don't you just go ahead and install the minimum java support (sun-java6-jdk i believe is the package's name)?
After that you can download eclipse binaries from their website, and run the binary from the directory! That's at least how I been doing my Java development on linux (kubuntu) for the past year.
Agreed, those packages don't work, but those seem a bit redundant. Eclipse does have it's own upgrading and addon system, there's really no need for a system wide installation!
If you screw something up, you just do a fresh install (unpack the .tar.gz). If you want to back up, or even better, transfer your whole eclipse distribution, you just tar your eclipse installation directory.
APT and dpkg are great tools, but as eclipse moves on with continiusly higher pace, and it's you the developer who wants to use it I believe you should be able to find a way around all the shelly stuff. Otherwise you could consider changing from Java to for example Visual Basic.
According to Wikipedia's page it'd seem the following codecs need to be supported:
VC-1 is Microsoft's shit all over again, and I don't remember libavcodec supporting it yet, if ever.
Even when you've got support for all the X codecs required by BD you'll still have to crack the encryption (you bought it right? ... instead of downloading a hdrip).
For example Blender's renderer's scale on a system like this? Of course something like MentalRay might scale easily but has anyone any hands on experience?
One might argue if you are throwing away $25,000 on a system like that you might use software that costs, but then again, Blender has made tremendous progress these last years..
After for once reading the article (very interesting let me tell you) it'd seem that the summary is a bit off course.
Adrew Lahde talks about the need for George Soros (or alike) to fund or start a forum that'd discuss a new form of Goverment/economics, that could grow in the sense of Linux (one guy starts it up, other start contributing).
He does not want Linus or Soros to run a country. He wants people like Soros (anyone with loads of money) to help wise people (not necessarily oil owners) to think about a new world order past capitalism.
He also talks about number of different good ideas which should be put in play.
Now that I've just upgraded it seems that those "performance upgrades" don't show up at least on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 beta.
Running without desktop effects, under firefox or konqueror it still needs the whole core to do simple low quality video decoding. mplayer (w/ ffdshow) does videos with same resolution with less than 10% of total cpu usage.
Wished at least some kind of performance boost ..
First of all, as some have already pointed out, where's the *BSD binaries and 64-bit binaries?
Why doesn't Adobe go (L)GPLv3 with their flash plugin, keep all the products that produce flashes commercial and watch how other people (while being angry at their original plugin's performance) fix their bad code?
In all seriousness, what bad could releasing flash renderer as a GPLv3 or LGPLv3 mean for adobe? They have the market for 90s style websites (one big graphic) and 100% of Internet's video sites already, their actual closed source not so well performing plugin is the first reason why people don't think flash is great for anything other than attracting teenager users.
If the do not open source it, one day it will a better alternative will grow out of the open source community or flash simply ceases to exist as it's replaced by more open standard X or better renderer Y.
I was not going to reply to this until I saw the sentence on the but lets clear this up (while it was rather off-topic).
Is the issue you mention between Vista and XP a C# issue? Or an issue of the XP user not being on the latest and greatest release of .net (3.5 right now) ? I believe you can download the current framework for use on XP if that is the case.
The issue were with .NET 2.0, on both workstations. I believe Microsoft is calling those .NET 1.0, 2.0, 3.5, so that when I write code that depends on .NET 2.0 it will work on my friends computer that has .NET 2.0, regardless of the operating system..
Besides, this is slashdot, why would anyone on slashdot be promoting MS Vista?
Heh... As not everyone here does all their coding just for fun they do it because they have to – in order to get payed.
I'm happy that the most I've been doing lately have involved more server side Java than anything related to .NET.
Well there is fragmentation produces as they introduce YET another language.
So? That's a problem for Windows developers. Why should a Java programmer care? In the realms where Java is popular, C# has had basically no influence. So MS has, at worst, fragmented the Windows development ecosystem... big deal. :)
Correct, but I was trying to write this as my position of part-time Windows application programmer. The point that I was trying to make was Microsoft could had just attempted to follow the latest and greatest with C++, not create fragmentation.
I believe that the issues with C++ are there but could had been fixed. Many people are/have been fixing those issues. To name a few the guys from Boost and Trolltech.
You currently cannot say C# replaces C++ on Windows platform as using any DirectX components for example is nightmare through C#.
More on the major downside of writing .NET applications is that you cannot guarantee that the stuff I work on my Vista workstation works on my co-workers XP workstation.
But none of this has anything to do with fragmentation to begin with. You're getting off-point. And that's ignoring the fact that, once again, this is a problem for MS... the rest of the programming world doesn't care one whit how hard DirectX is to integrate with C#.
Correct again, off-point and all that, but when you have to implement this part of your "solution" with C++ and that over there with C# I'd call that fragmentation.
For writing programs with GUI's the sad thing for ISV's is that you really cannot do it in many other ways. With C# anyone can do it (I guess opposed to C++) meaning it's as simple as Java. But Java cannot use because customer does not want to install JRE on every desktop.
Can it be a success when it cannot be used to produce major parts of their own operating system.
Last I checked Java wasn't being used to write operating system components, yet no one claims it's a failure. Now, that's not to say C# and .NET are unbridled successes, but that's a pretty crappy metric for making the call.
Well last time I checked I use some kind of mix between GTK and Java GUI on simple thin-clients at my University, which are backed by large SUN server doing all the hard lifting. I'd call that writing at least some of the operating system components with Java, GTK running as the painter for the UI. Then again I might be wrong on this one too.
Well there is fragmentation produces as they introduce YET another language.
You currently cannot say C# replaces C++ on Windows platform as using any DirectX components for example is nightmare through C#. Which I think is a rather major obstacle if you have an application that would like to use something other than simple sound output facilities. (Reasons for this might be as simple as choosing a sound output device, on at least .NET 2.0.)
More on the major downside of writing .NET applications is that you cannot guarantee that the stuff I work on my Vista workstation works on my co-workers XP workstation. This is a very sad "feature" that has been bugging as even with very simple applications. (Side note: We have tried to code using all the best practices you can find from MSDN.)
Also, GP's point 3 sounds very interesting. Can it be a success when it cannot be used to produce major parts of their own operating system. (No, I'm not talking about writing their kernel with C#).
Though, the GP doesn't list any sources for point 3, which at least I would be very interested to read as I seem to have missed those articles.