Microsoft couldn't write a decent API if their lives depended on it.
Microsoft's APIs are seamless, coherent and reliably engineered. They are flexible enough to enable seamless integration of all their apps into every aspect of the operating system in such a way that they seem to be part of it. They even build into the APIs current developers of their apps need to implement various features.
Although I'm a Windows programmer by training,
Oh. You mean the APIs they let you use. Never mind.
If Microsoft owns the desktop, browser, server, and data center, what's going to motivate them to follow standards?
Erm, you might have a point on the desktop and the browser. Both are shrinking share. Server and data center never was wholly owned. Though they did get some good sports inserted in there, not enough of them will ascend to senior management to make a difference in the long run. They totally owned the laptops for a while but they're losing it on the laptops as netbooks are taking a good chunk. They're losing a bit even on desktops - I hear they just lost all of Russian schools. That's a bite right there. We had a good laugh with their attempts at HPC, but those folks do their own ROI math don'tcha know and they never had a chance there.
Folks in phones haven't given them much thought since they so publicly cannibalized their first partner there, and phones look like the high volume platform for the next decade. They could OEM systems, but that's a short trip to the grave as the top 20 OEMs deprecate their brand overnight for the sake of their own survival.
In short, a declining share of a declining market doesn't look good for continued growth. Long term outlook: negative.
I cant wait to see how sucktacular it is. All the reliability and stability of Microsoft software delivered through Microsoft's legendary networking skill.
Friends, the LHC has nothing on this. We're about to see an example of negative energy, when modern physics had all but proved it completely impossible.
... are just another language. They all do the same stuff and 95% of what you want to do happens in the library anyway, so the language is just a framework for iterating your library calls or instantiating your objects if you prefer. They all have corners of stupidity you have to work around - some more than others, but what does it matter really?
My PCs boot with a thin client option. If you choose to boot thin client it PXE boots from the server, downloads a minimal OS and starts a session on the server. I get a desktop in about 10 seconds.
I have to think that delays getting the computer up and running with a full desktop is about these things:
IOPS. Data is scattered all over the drive and you've got to get thousands of little settings to provide the environment. It's not a huge amount of data, but it is thousands of data requests. A good SLC (Single Level Cell) SSD will help here. They get 80-100 thousand IOPS, or a little more that a thousand times as many as a spinning drive. These are spendy right now but they will come down in price. There is no good reason why a SLC costs 10 times what a MLC costs based on the technology. Implementation of the SLC is simpler and more reliable and individual cells are only half as dense - not.1x. Or you could just drop it to 2 or three I/O requests by compiling System, Network and User configuration data into single blocks to be loaded each with a single read. But they won't do that as syncing issues are a nuisance.
Hardware waits - Video and network mostly. These should be done in parallel. This is probably what they're working on in TFA. It's such a small part of the problem, though, that it's unlikely to yield the results they claim to be looking for.
The three laws are a thought experiment. Sort of like Brain-in-a-pan and multipersonal pantheistic solipsism. What makes them relevant is the depth that its author has explored the potential issues in fiction, and persistence against an increasingly stochastic culture.
You missed it. Asimov's works were about how robotic intelligence transcended biological intelligence, to the point where a robotic intelligence realized that the biological intelligence was ultimately the way forward, but that biological intelligence needed the robotic intelligence to survive the transitional periods in its development that would have been otherwise fatal. Perhaps it acknowledges a transcendent human intelligence that created crafted the future history in the first place, but he left the cause deliberately ambiguous. That's art.
Now go back and read it again. It may have been humanist perspective on his part, but that's what it is.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by stature nor common law.
Who thinks this is the last hole in this particular service Microsoft will have to issue an emergency patch for? Anybody? Anybody at all?
I think it's 50/50 whether the patch itself ads a new vulnerability. Will we never learn?
BTW, there are still remotely exploitable full control vulnerabilities in a fully patched Windows machine, even before you install any apps. There always will be. Windows: it's not for networking (tm).
Please, attack Microsoft on legitimate issues (e.g. prior extreme anticompetitive behavior, and incomplete reform), not pointless ad hominem attacks.
You're not from around here, are you?
Incomplete reform? I think you meant "continuing current extreme anticompetitive behavior", and omitted "expected future extreme anticompetetive behavior." The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Or, as a famed technology leader once said:
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it." Jean-Louis Gassée, former CEO, BeOS
Yeah but you can customize the Linux kernel. If you don't want features, just don't compile them in.
As we seek the common market it's best not to mention this whole "compiling" thing. Sure, people can do it, but they don't have to and it has the market appeal of Vista. It's best to leave references of it to howto pages and geek sites where optimization is key and proficiency is assumed. Slashdot is not quite that, yet.
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Azure is a platform like the beach is a platform for building sand castles on.
Sooner or later comes the tide.
Microsoft couldn't write a decent API if their lives depended on it.
Microsoft's APIs are seamless, coherent and reliably engineered. They are flexible enough to enable seamless integration of all their apps into every aspect of the operating system in such a way that they seem to be part of it. They even build into the APIs current developers of their apps need to implement various features.
Although I'm a Windows programmer by training,
Oh. You mean the APIs they let you use. Never mind.
For all their ISV "partners"....
If Microsoft owns the desktop, browser, server, and data center, what's going to motivate them to follow standards?
Erm, you might have a point on the desktop and the browser. Both are shrinking share. Server and data center never was wholly owned. Though they did get some good sports inserted in there, not enough of them will ascend to senior management to make a difference in the long run. They totally owned the laptops for a while but they're losing it on the laptops as netbooks are taking a good chunk. They're losing a bit even on desktops - I hear they just lost all of Russian schools. That's a bite right there. We had a good laugh with their attempts at HPC, but those folks do their own ROI math don'tcha know and they never had a chance there.
Folks in phones haven't given them much thought since they so publicly cannibalized their first partner there, and phones look like the high volume platform for the next decade. They could OEM systems, but that's a short trip to the grave as the top 20 OEMs deprecate their brand overnight for the sake of their own survival.
In short, a declining share of a declining market doesn't look good for continued growth. Long term outlook: negative.
I cant wait to see how sucktacular it is. All the reliability and stability of Microsoft software delivered through Microsoft's legendary networking skill.
Friends, the LHC has nothing on this. We're about to see an example of negative energy, when modern physics had all but proved it completely impossible.
The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.
The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.
Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.
But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.
- The Tao of Programming
I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson
... are just another language. They all do the same stuff and 95% of what you want to do happens in the library anyway, so the language is just a framework for iterating your library calls or instantiating your objects if you prefer. They all have corners of stupidity you have to work around - some more than others, but what does it matter really?
My PCs boot with a thin client option. If you choose to boot thin client it PXE boots from the server, downloads a minimal OS and starts a session on the server. I get a desktop in about 10 seconds.
I have to think that delays getting the computer up and running with a full desktop is about these things:
IOPS. Data is scattered all over the drive and you've got to get thousands of little settings to provide the environment. It's not a huge amount of data, but it is thousands of data requests. A good SLC (Single Level Cell) SSD will help here. They get 80-100 thousand IOPS, or a little more that a thousand times as many as a spinning drive. These are spendy right now but they will come down in price. There is no good reason why a SLC costs 10 times what a MLC costs based on the technology. Implementation of the SLC is simpler and more reliable and individual cells are only half as dense - not .1x. Or you could just drop it to 2 or three I/O requests by compiling System, Network and User configuration data into single blocks to be loaded each with a single read. But they won't do that as syncing issues are a nuisance.
Hardware waits - Video and network mostly. These should be done in parallel. This is probably what they're working on in TFA. It's such a small part of the problem, though, that it's unlikely to yield the results they claim to be looking for.
It's free and it's the best there is.
Your purpose is to serve as a warning to others.
The three laws are a thought experiment. Sort of like Brain-in-a-pan and multipersonal pantheistic solipsism. What makes them relevant is the depth that its author has explored the potential issues in fiction, and persistence against an increasingly stochastic culture.
You missed it. Asimov's works were about how robotic intelligence transcended biological intelligence, to the point where a robotic intelligence realized that the biological intelligence was ultimately the way forward, but that biological intelligence needed the robotic intelligence to survive the transitional periods in its development that would have been otherwise fatal. Perhaps it acknowledges a transcendent human intelligence that created crafted the future history in the first place, but he left the cause deliberately ambiguous. That's art.
Now go back and read it again. It may have been humanist perspective on his part, but that's what it is.
Asimov will be proven right eventually. We may all be dead by then. The three laws are derivative of Turing's work.
It may be that the purpose for biological intelligence is to create machine intelligence.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by stature nor common law.
- R.A.H.
Who thinks this is the last hole in this particular service Microsoft will have to issue an emergency patch for? Anybody? Anybody at all?
I think it's 50/50 whether the patch itself ads a new vulnerability. Will we never learn?
BTW, there are still remotely exploitable full control vulnerabilities in a fully patched Windows machine, even before you install any apps. There always will be. Windows: it's not for networking (tm).
Please, attack Microsoft on legitimate issues (e.g. prior extreme anticompetitive behavior, and incomplete reform), not pointless ad hominem attacks.
You're not from around here, are you?
Incomplete reform? I think you meant "continuing current extreme anticompetitive behavior", and omitted "expected future extreme anticompetetive behavior." The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. Or, as a famed technology leader once said:
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it." Jean-Louis Gassée, former CEO, BeOS
By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94).
The parts of the kernel that could be converted to APL would reduce its size by 90%.
OTOH, APL bests perl in "write only" language contests.
As we seek the common market it's best not to mention this whole "compiling" thing. Sure, people can do it, but they don't have to and it has the market appeal of Vista. It's best to leave references of it to howto pages and geek sites where optimization is key and proficiency is assumed. Slashdot is not quite that, yet.
The PHB problem is that they must have metrics to measure so they can list their datapoints in Excel and turn it into a nice Powerpoint slide.
I am SO glad Linux is invulnerable to this sort of attack.
Is get a computer to do stuff like the first world does, with a third world power infrastructure.
Hint: They get their electricity from carbon fuels. We don't want them to build out their power infrastructure because we're fond of our Gulf Stream.
Capiche?
/* 3k lines of workaround for 8 lines of code. WTF were they thinking? */
//This might work.
//Blocks undocumented interface used only by WordPerfect.
//Passes test. Ship it. I'm done. <Allchin>
An all-expense paid vacation in scenic Guantanamo Bay!
For an indeterminate time you'll enjoy the hospitality of our former navy base converted to a luxury resort. Entertainment will be provided for 24 hours a day whether you want it or not! Guided tours of the deluxe facility will be provided by highly skilled members of our "intelligence" corps. Activities include water sports, audio/visual entertainments and sleep deprivation. Your personal trainer will introduce you to our unique training regimen: a balanced blend of Pilates, Yoga and Triathalon training.
Our prize team will be around presently to explain the terms of the DMCA lottery and arrange your transportation.
It's right here