No-one ever said that XP or Vista or Win7 are a "complete rewrite".
Actually, to generate interest and fight the perception that the Windows is bloated old mess of code, MS does periodically state that the new version is a rewrite. For example the "MinWin" rubbish they started before Windows 7 came out. Is Windows 7 really a slimmed down version of Vista? No, it's a rubbish assertion by MS. Was Vista really a new kernel? No, that was rubbish again.
But just because it's rubbish doesn't mean that the MS Marketing Machine doesn't churn this stuff out in the lead up to a new release. And they say Apple's marketing is bad.
Oh, please. Remember when Microsoft said that Windows 7 was a new version? When everyone knew it was Vista SP1? And Vista was a complete rewrite, but it turned out it had the same kernel bugs as XP SP3? And XP was a complete rewrite, but the same kernel bugs as Win2000?
This is just more of MS trying to put lipstick on a pig. And the pig in question is the Windows kernel.
Nor have the foreign car makers been "doing it for years".
30mpg? yes, years. Maybe decades.
If you make a big heavy vehicle it is going to get crappy fuel efficiency. US consumers, for better or worse, love big heavy cars. All automakers know how to make more fuel efficient cars but those are not the ones most people buy.
There's a disconnect here. If people are buying big heavy cars which aren't fuel efficient, why did the US auto makers need a bailout? Because consumers were still buying cars, they just weren't buying the cars the big three were making.
Furthermore when your most profitable vehicles are the least fuel efficient (true for every auto manufacturer) and best selling, that is a major problem.
This appears to be the source of the disconnect. If the car manufacturer is being outsold in the small and medium car markets, then their bestsellers being the largest and most profitable cars is irrelevant. It appears that for every large car sold dozens of small and medium sized ones are sold. And the big three weren't selling those. Hence why they hit the wall and needed a bailout.
Oracle won't release MySQL. MySQL is a long-term, strategic threat to their primary product, Oracle database. 10 years ago in the finance sector in London every database was on Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL or DB2. Even the most noddy little applications got an Oracle or other database license bought for them. Now, only customer-facing services get an Oracle or Sybase license bought for them - the rest got MySQL. That's a lot of money Oracle isn't making any more.
So, just to get it straight, it's irrelevant that a cease-fire has been agreed and is holding, it's irrelevant that the Israeli army is using it's own civilians as human shields, and it's irrelevant who the money belongs to when the Israeli government gives it or withholds it from the Palestinian Authority.
While I'd love to point out, again, exactly where you've gone wrong or even add to it, you're genuinely not going to get it. I could spend hours pointing out the Israeli accusations of Hamas using human shields, and then point to known instances of the Israeli army using human shields, both Palestinian, Israeli Arab and Jewish, but you genuinely don't care. The existence of the cease-fire was both unknown and irrelevant to you. You don't even care who owns the money the PA that was transferred to the PA. All you care about it saying that the Gaza Palestinians are evil. Very open minded of you. Do please go on and defend Israel's actions some more, it will be amusing if nothing else.
It's disturbing to me that RMS, a person who has dedicated his life to freedom, would be willing to speak in Palestine at all. It is ruled by people who deny the right to live to anyone who don't follow a bloodthirsty religion that aims to dictate all parts of its believers' life -- that's pretty much the definition of "totalitarian".
Was one of his speaking engagements in Bethlehem, a majority Christian city? Maybe you should learn a bit more about Palestine and Palestinians, who are majority Muslim but have a vary large and varied set of minorities, including Christian, Druze and Bedouin, living with them.
I will give up the point above about Israelis being more even handed - they do appear to be equal opportunity oppressors of Palestinians, and will oppress regardless of race, religion or gender.
You ignore the fact that rockets and mortar shells are still fired daily from Hamas controlled territory
Really? When was the last one? Was it 3 days ago? Was it the first for 2 weeks?
and are deliberately targeted at Israeli civilian towns with no military purpose.
So you know where Israel's military bases are, right? You know there's a camp on the outskirts of Sderot, right? It's still not ok, because the weapons fired by Palestinians are wildly inaccurate, and can and do go anywhere, but if you're going to claim the moral high ground, don't build your military bases right next to civilian towns.
You also ignore the fact that despite this Israel transports sick Palestinians from the same hostile territory for treatment at Israeli facilities and pays for their treatment.
Before or after it shot them? No, that's unkind. Israel also permits sick people to travel on the condition that their relatives spy for Israel. No spying, and your relatives die with no medical care. (No medicines or medical equipment are allowed in the Gaza Strip, after all.)
Then you ignore the fact that Israel has been paying the Palestinian Authority (and arming and training their Police) for all that time...
Actually, you'll find that Israel hasn't paid a penny, it's all been the US and EU.
...and have just stopped due to the recent political union between the PA (who Israel with deal with) and Hamas (who have sworn to destroy Israel and have never stated any other intention in Arabic [they will say anything in English, but never in Arabic]).
You've read or listened to the original Arabic, have you? Or did you read it from the much-discredited MEMRI? You really should check your sources, or apply critical thinking.
Then there is the fact that Israeli Universities have money because their country is hell-bent on making money, not on wiping the Palestinians off the face of the Earth (unlike Hamas). There are plenty of Arab Israeli citizens who have the same rights as everyone else (although they're not very well trusted). The Israelis actually spent their effort making things (eg. Intel CPUs and CPU designs, desalination equipment, weapons etc) that the rest of the World will pay for. The Palestinians make nothing significant for export in their territory (the first thing the Palestinians did when the Israelis unilaterally withdrew from Gaza was smash the greenhouses and infrastructure that was left in perfectly working order, when they could have made a lot of money exporting food in the region).
Israel is far from perfect, and makes plenty of mistakes, but admit to yourself you have such a poor understanding of what is going on in the region that you come across as an ill-informed anti-Semite. Disclaimer: I come from a country about as far away as it is to be, am not Jewish, but have visited Israel and all the countries that neighbour it. Israel is trying to survive in a very rough and unreasonable neighbourhood.
Sorry, but this is just a pro-Israel rant, and not a very good one either. The Palestinian economy depends almost entirely on export of produce - which is why Israel stopping exports (which it has quite frequently done) or withholding the export duty (which it also has quite frequently done) impacts the Palestinian economy so devastatingly.
Don't stress yourself wondering why Palestinians object to what's happened - "it's the occupation, stupid."
Would you care to point out where those borders are? Israel refuses to state them, and I'm sure the UN would like to know where to draw the line in September...
This dispute's not petty. People die over this dispute.
I'm for the Palestinians on this - over the last few years Israel's army has demolished university buildings, closed universities for extended periods of time, banned students from travel, both in and between Palestinian areas and outside them, and imprisoned, shot or killed students and lecturers.
Tell me again why Palestinian universities should fund RMS to give talks at Israeli universities?
Nope, sorry, you've got the wrong end of the stick. US foreign aid to Israel is anywhere from 10% to 25% of the Israeli government's entire spend, per year. It varies a bit, but there were a couple of years in the 90s where it was almost 50% if you counted the loan guarantees, direct loans, military aid, non-military aid, special construction projects funded entirely by the US, etc.
The US is currently debating how badly to cut, but no one in power is suggesting 10% of the US budget be cut.
Let me guess: $10billion a year for 10 years - that should make it cost effective and entirely private.
Note he doesn't mention what 12mbit (I have that now in London) will cost the end user. It must be fun to be a Telco in Australia - both the government and the people pay you.
Not to mention the fact that most of those features will likely have equivalents with GPL-compatible licensing within a year or two.
I've been hearing that since DTrace was announced. Before then, I was hearing it when Solaris 8 was new and Linux servers had to be rebooted to see new disk, or a reboot caused them to renumber the disks they had. It takes years to get these features implemented, tested, stable and bug-free. Pretending Linux will magically have something that's taken years for a major OS company to get right is delusional.
That's only the start of the list. There's also:
Dynamic (hardware) reconfiguration, projects, resource management and resource pools, processor sets and binding, investigative tools and fault management.
I like Linux. It has some definite advantages over Solaris. But Solaris is the best server OS I've used, and after 15 years of being a Unix admin I've used most of them - certainly everything currently Unix or Linux and supported today. It's going to be a real shame when Oracle kills it.
More specifically, it's a vector of attack against the Human Rights Act. It allows the Tory faithful to post up the Human Rights act as a law that should be repealed, lots of Tory supporters jump on the website and say they agree, and the 'debate' will be declared over as 'the people' have spoken.
I don't know what it is about the Human Rights Act that has the Tory party so riled up about it, but to repeal it seems to have been on the Tory agenda for a while. And there's nothing on any website that allows support for any laws - at least not on any government website.
By restricting the use of abstraction layers, they want to make devs choose between writing their app for the iPhone or for Android, it would seem (or, of course, writing it twice).
Really? Won't it simply be that the translation will go the other way - write for iPhone and then translate to Android? Or is there a reason that is bad? App quality, perhaps?
Having downloaded some really poor free apps on the iPhone, I'm all for keeping the quality up. If this is a way to do it, great!
I can't think of a single bank across the pond (London) that doesn't use Solaris and Linux, and usually AIX as well. That applies to the London Stock Exchange as well. What do the rest of US banks use?
I'd be happy to fill out a (quite intrusive, but non-identifying) survey about my habits/details...
I'm a (bored) Japanese housewife with 17 children and 4 cats. I earn 600 million Yen a year. I have six cars, I do 8 hours of housework a day, and my hobbies are neco-equine flagellation and computer games.
And the fix is ridiculously easy - install or re-install the kernel. Whether by sources or just an rpm, it solves a problem that doesn't exist and may never exist.
This must upset the windows fan boys....
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No-one ever said that XP or Vista or Win7 are a "complete rewrite".
Actually, to generate interest and fight the perception that the Windows is bloated old mess of code, MS does periodically state that the new version is a rewrite. For example the "MinWin" rubbish they started before Windows 7 came out. Is Windows 7 really a slimmed down version of Vista? No, it's a rubbish assertion by MS. Was Vista really a new kernel? No, that was rubbish again.
But just because it's rubbish doesn't mean that the MS Marketing Machine doesn't churn this stuff out in the lead up to a new release. And they say Apple's marketing is bad.
...re-architecting old bits of code...
Oh, please. Remember when Microsoft said that Windows 7 was a new version? When everyone knew it was Vista SP1? And Vista was a complete rewrite, but it turned out it had the same kernel bugs as XP SP3? And XP was a complete rewrite, but the same kernel bugs as Win2000?
This is just more of MS trying to put lipstick on a pig. And the pig in question is the Windows kernel.
Nor have the foreign car makers been "doing it for years".
30mpg? yes, years. Maybe decades.
If you make a big heavy vehicle it is going to get crappy fuel efficiency. US consumers, for better or worse, love big heavy cars. All automakers know how to make more fuel efficient cars but those are not the ones most people buy.
There's a disconnect here. If people are buying big heavy cars which aren't fuel efficient, why did the US auto makers need a bailout? Because consumers were still buying cars, they just weren't buying the cars the big three were making.
Furthermore when your most profitable vehicles are the least fuel efficient (true for every auto manufacturer) and best selling, that is a major problem.
This appears to be the source of the disconnect. If the car manufacturer is being outsold in the small and medium car markets, then their bestsellers being the largest and most profitable cars is irrelevant. It appears that for every large car sold dozens of small and medium sized ones are sold. And the big three weren't selling those. Hence why they hit the wall and needed a bailout.
If you're going to misuse trademark law you might as well misuse copyright law as well.
Oracle won't release MySQL. MySQL is a long-term, strategic threat to their primary product, Oracle database. 10 years ago in the finance sector in London every database was on Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL or DB2. Even the most noddy little applications got an Oracle or other database license bought for them. Now, only customer-facing services get an Oracle or Sybase license bought for them - the rest got MySQL. That's a lot of money Oracle isn't making any more.
So, just to get it straight, it's irrelevant that a cease-fire has been agreed and is holding, it's irrelevant that the Israeli army is using it's own civilians as human shields, and it's irrelevant who the money belongs to when the Israeli government gives it or withholds it from the Palestinian Authority. While I'd love to point out, again, exactly where you've gone wrong or even add to it, you're genuinely not going to get it. I could spend hours pointing out the Israeli accusations of Hamas using human shields, and then point to known instances of the Israeli army using human shields, both Palestinian, Israeli Arab and Jewish, but you genuinely don't care. The existence of the cease-fire was both unknown and irrelevant to you. You don't even care who owns the money the PA that was transferred to the PA. All you care about it saying that the Gaza Palestinians are evil. Very open minded of you. Do please go on and defend Israel's actions some more, it will be amusing if nothing else.
It's disturbing to me that RMS, a person who has dedicated his life to freedom, would be willing to speak in Palestine at all. It is ruled by people who deny the right to live to anyone who don't follow a bloodthirsty religion that aims to dictate all parts of its believers' life -- that's pretty much the definition of "totalitarian".
Was one of his speaking engagements in Bethlehem, a majority Christian city? Maybe you should learn a bit more about Palestine and Palestinians, who are majority Muslim but have a vary large and varied set of minorities, including Christian, Druze and Bedouin, living with them.
I will give up the point above about Israelis being more even handed - they do appear to be equal opportunity oppressors of Palestinians, and will oppress regardless of race, religion or gender.
You ignore the fact that rockets and mortar shells are still fired daily from Hamas controlled territory
Really? When was the last one? Was it 3 days ago? Was it the first for 2 weeks?
and are deliberately targeted at Israeli civilian towns with no military purpose.
So you know where Israel's military bases are, right? You know there's a camp on the outskirts of Sderot, right? It's still not ok, because the weapons fired by Palestinians are wildly inaccurate, and can and do go anywhere, but if you're going to claim the moral high ground, don't build your military bases right next to civilian towns.
You also ignore the fact that despite this Israel transports sick Palestinians from the same hostile territory for treatment at Israeli facilities and pays for their treatment.
Before or after it shot them? No, that's unkind. Israel also permits sick people to travel on the condition that their relatives spy for Israel. No spying, and your relatives die with no medical care. (No medicines or medical equipment are allowed in the Gaza Strip, after all.)
Then you ignore the fact that Israel has been paying the Palestinian Authority (and arming and training their Police) for all that time...
Actually, you'll find that Israel hasn't paid a penny, it's all been the US and EU.
...and have just stopped due to the recent political union between the PA (who Israel with deal with) and Hamas (who have sworn to destroy Israel and have never stated any other intention in Arabic [they will say anything in English, but never in Arabic]).
You've read or listened to the original Arabic, have you? Or did you read it from the much-discredited MEMRI? You really should check your sources, or apply critical thinking.
Then there is the fact that Israeli Universities have money because their country is hell-bent on making money, not on wiping the Palestinians off the face of the Earth (unlike Hamas). There are plenty of Arab Israeli citizens who have the same rights as everyone else (although they're not very well trusted). The Israelis actually spent their effort making things (eg. Intel CPUs and CPU designs, desalination equipment, weapons etc) that the rest of the World will pay for. The Palestinians make nothing significant for export in their territory (the first thing the Palestinians did when the Israelis unilaterally withdrew from Gaza was smash the greenhouses and infrastructure that was left in perfectly working order, when they could have made a lot of money exporting food in the region).
Israel is far from perfect, and makes plenty of mistakes, but admit to yourself you have such a poor understanding of what is going on in the region that you come across as an ill-informed anti-Semite. Disclaimer: I come from a country about as far away as it is to be, am not Jewish, but have visited Israel and all the countries that neighbour it. Israel is trying to survive in a very rough and unreasonable neighbourhood.
Sorry, but this is just a pro-Israel rant, and not a very good one either. The Palestinian economy depends almost entirely on export of produce - which is why Israel stopping exports (which it has quite frequently done) or withholding the export duty (which it also has quite frequently done) impacts the Palestinian economy so devastatingly.
Don't stress yourself wondering why Palestinians object to what's happened - "it's the occupation, stupid."
At least Israel is defending its borders...
Would you care to point out where those borders are? Israel refuses to state them, and I'm sure the UN would like to know where to draw the line in September...
This dispute's not petty. People die over this dispute. I'm for the Palestinians on this - over the last few years Israel's army has demolished university buildings, closed universities for extended periods of time, banned students from travel, both in and between Palestinian areas and outside them, and imprisoned, shot or killed students and lecturers. Tell me again why Palestinian universities should fund RMS to give talks at Israeli universities?
Nope, sorry, you've got the wrong end of the stick. US foreign aid to Israel is anywhere from 10% to 25% of the Israeli government's entire spend, per year. It varies a bit, but there were a couple of years in the 90s where it was almost 50% if you counted the loan guarantees, direct loans, military aid, non-military aid, special construction projects funded entirely by the US, etc. The US is currently debating how badly to cut, but no one in power is suggesting 10% of the US budget be cut.
Let me guess: $10billion a year for 10 years - that should make it cost effective and entirely private.
Note he doesn't mention what 12mbit (I have that now in London) will cost the end user. It must be fun to be a Telco in Australia - both the government and the people pay you.
Not to mention the fact that most of those features will likely have equivalents with GPL-compatible licensing within a year or two.
I've been hearing that since DTrace was announced. Before then, I was hearing it when Solaris 8 was new and Linux servers had to be rebooted to see new disk, or a reboot caused them to renumber the disks they had. It takes years to get these features implemented, tested, stable and bug-free. Pretending Linux will magically have something that's taken years for a major OS company to get right is delusional.
That's only the start of the list. There's also:
Dynamic (hardware) reconfiguration, projects, resource management and resource pools, processor sets and binding, investigative tools and fault management.
I like Linux. It has some definite advantages over Solaris. But Solaris is the best server OS I've used, and after 15 years of being a Unix admin I've used most of them - certainly everything currently Unix or Linux and supported today. It's going to be a real shame when Oracle kills it.
What is this "rest of your life" that everyone keeps talking about? is it another MMORPG?
More specifically, it's a vector of attack against the Human Rights Act. It allows the Tory faithful to post up the Human Rights act as a law that should be repealed, lots of Tory supporters jump on the website and say they agree, and the 'debate' will be declared over as 'the people' have spoken.
I don't know what it is about the Human Rights Act that has the Tory party so riled up about it, but to repeal it seems to have been on the Tory agenda for a while. And there's nothing on any website that allows support for any laws - at least not on any government website.
By restricting the use of abstraction layers, they want to make devs choose between writing their app for the iPhone or for Android, it would seem (or, of course, writing it twice).
Really? Won't it simply be that the translation will go the other way - write for iPhone and then translate to Android? Or is there a reason that is bad? App quality, perhaps?
Having downloaded some really poor free apps on the iPhone, I'm all for keeping the quality up. If this is a way to do it, great!
I haven't seen anyone look at the ".com" button and freak out.
I have. An ex-windows programmer friend of mine. Freaked right out, started screaming and everything.
He does Java now.
While alive, probably....
Now I don't know what to write here.
I can't think of a single bank across the pond (London) that doesn't use Solaris and Linux, and usually AIX as well. That applies to the London Stock Exchange as well. What do the rest of US banks use?
I'd be happy to fill out a (quite intrusive, but non-identifying) survey about my habits/details...
I'm a (bored) Japanese housewife with 17 children and 4 cats. I earn 600 million Yen a year. I have six cars, I do 8 hours of housework a day, and my hobbies are neco-equine flagellation and computer games.
I want to see what ads target "me"...
And the fix is ridiculously easy - install or re-install the kernel. Whether by sources or just an rpm, it solves a problem that doesn't exist and may never exist. This must upset the windows fan boys....
This is an obvious patent that copies part of what WINS does. Maybe we can use Microsoft for good, not evil, by squashing such an idiotic lawsuit.
Definitely English...