Have you read it recently? It promotes creationism, is virulently antiscience or antilifescience and has never seen a space program it couldn't poke fun at. It's being written by people too fundamentalist to get a job at the National Review.
Seriously, the WSJ Op-Ed is just this side of insane white mullah
I don't know how many times my college kids have come home with the key software for specific courses installed as demoware. They get 30 or 60 days to use it and rush like mad to get the work done before the demo expires.
Here in Wake county North Carolina we couldn't give 3 year old computers to the schools. Too old, too slow not sexy enough. The schools went instead to IBM down the road and got brand new Netvistas for either free or something close to free.
All it takes is one call from WilliamSoft Chief Architect William H. Gates III and Wintel suddenly decided that low end hardware which does not support Vista will no longer be manufactured.
As a SprintPCs customer all I can say is too bad for you. You can kiss any notion of service, carrier, coherent billing or being able to rectify any problem no matter how small, out the window. Plus as an added bonus, virtually 100% of the known universe is DIGITAL ROAMING so whatever your plan you will be raped by charges.
In customer satisfaction surveys SprintPCS usually comes out slightly above North Korean Prison Camps, but not always.
As intelligent life science research leaves the US
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We wave goodbye at the good run we had in the US for so long. But now serious life science and the people who are serious about it are going to gradually leave for other countries with less theocratic almost Talibanist world views. Already cutting edge cloning is going on in Italy and South Korea for example.
And that's fine. America has staked out its position in the science world as only being interested in military spending. And as it leaves the field of life sciences, telcom, drug research, medicine and many other fields that have either been abandoned to the free market or been quasi criminalized outright we will start to see a slow degrade in the overall economic and scientific outlook for the US as a whole.
My children will live to see the day when America is niche player and it nowhere near the top five countries in the world in scientific research. We're already near the bottom of industrialized states for education and soon the foreign nationals who make up 40-50% of US graduate students in the hard sciences will stary home or go elsewhere.
Because that's pretty much my uniform. I guess if you're wearing a corporate logo golf shirt that counts too, doesn't it? What about a company parking pass on my car on the weekend in the mall, does THAT identify me?
Next up Windows Aqua. A new multimedia flavor of Windows geared to the multimedia afficionado who used to struggle with Apple. Coming from WilliamSoft in 2007.
You are a cog, a part, a line in the overhead, like lights and rent and shrinkage. You should be grateful you have a job because we are thinking of shipping your job off to the place that had a thousand people drown in the monsoon flooding last week.
It reminds me so much of the company I work for where endlessly arguing about how something is impossible and how change is absolutely the wrong thing to do is what we do in and of itself. Explaining to ourselves why we need to continue to safely fail is really what we spend almost all of our time and effort doing.
I celebrate mediocrity and I cheer that open source is finally in the boat with us!!!!!
Apple discovered that dealing with IBM eventually ends in failure. There simply isn't enough time nor enough conference rooms to sufficiently capture all of the billions of passive-agressive do nothing opinions the naysayers at IBM have to throw at you. Ultimtately the basic truth of dealing with IBM is that success doesn't matter, sales don't matter, nothing matters except slavish compliance with the PROCESS.
I mean what IS science anyway except for some voodoo cooked up by the Big Deity in the Sky to Challenge us. But not too much - can't talk about 'science' related to biology.
Hahahaha - we're ALREADY sending people overseas for medical treatments unavailable here.
I might like it if I had to do massive DDNS/DHCP zone transfers or I had a high performance transactional database.
This leads me though to two conclusions. Either a) all our PCs are horribly poor and cheap construction pretty much on the edge of waiting to explode if a few Gigs of solid state storage with a modicum of reliability costs as much as the whole PC
Or b) we're being sold a bill of goods on the golly geewhizbang factor and the vendor is gouging.
I think even WilliamSoft has GOT to realize that if they hammered home their pricing onto all the WilliamSoft users in the world, they'd all suddenly realize what it really costs. I mean the price of Windows Software has never gone down a dime in the history of the company. Are they going to announce a 50% price cut in the price if piracy is eliminated?
No you say? then what's the upside for me the consumer. How was I benefited. First I shouldered the burden of WilliamSoft's blantant ignorance of their own intellectual property and then when WilliamSoft finally figures out how to fix that problem after what? 25 years? Then they continue to screw me on the price?
hahahahahaha that's real funny. Here's what Steve "Im Dancing Im Dancing" Ballmer needs to do. He needs to announce that anti piracy technology rollout will be coincident with a pricing rollback. Until then they will hurt themselves.
But monopolies don't understand what market pricing really means. They operate from the perspective that they can rape and pillage at will. It will be interesting to see if they can do something like this or they screw it up in a painfully transparent effort to make us think we're getting value while at the same time pulling out a WilliamSoft wristwatch left behind in our sphincters.
If you have nothing to hide then we just have to dig a little deeper, don't we?
Is this for availability or currency?
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I mean if you just want fault tolerance then use straight up mirroring. If it's for currency then perhaps you need a journalling file system with checkpoint rollback/rollforward.
Seriously, am I the only person who's sick of some public speaking rep from the biggest richest most powerful self professed technically exotic company on the planet snarkily explain to be why something is 'hard' or we're 'getting better' at something.
Dan, MS security is for shit by any fucking metric you want to hurl at it. And no amount of hemming and hawing about hats and China and whatnot is ever going to alter the profound and terrifying reality of that a company larger than the GDP of fucking Belgium can't or won't figure this shit out.
No one cares about your excuses anymore - you've won the battle you own EVERYTHING. So shut up and crunch the damn code that will keep ME personally from getting raped by your sloppiness, inattention, lack of concern or cynicism because I swear to god this is why revolutions happen.
Yeah yeah Bill MS will crush the running dawg lackies and herald in a new era where the people's blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.....
Honestly Bill & Steve take your fucking heads out of your asses, stop whining and threatening about everything else and just make a very good product that does what I want the way I want it for a price that doesn't make me feel like Abu Ghriab christmas tree guy.
Other than that you can shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
I think this is great news because it will render the phone as useless as my mailbox. My mailbox is 99% crap and 1% useful material and packages. When they start calling me I'll just stop answering the phone and eventually everyone else will to and we'll have an entire industry that uses machine to leave messages with other machines for goods and services no one ever learns about let alone buy.
When they start spamming my cell phone, it won't matter I rarely pick up an unrecognized call anyhow.
So let er rip telephone spammers. Please accelerate the end of the home land line phone.
Most American jobs require, at most, 3 to 4 hrs of concerted effort per day. Beyond that, you're just making work for yourself to appear busy and aquire asskissing points.
This is absolute nonsense. I can't tell you how many websites I've stopped doing business with because of their insane registration and logon requirements. This will just make that worse.
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Have you read it recently? It promotes creationism, is virulently antiscience or antilifescience and has never seen a space program it couldn't poke fun at. It's being written by people too fundamentalist to get a job at the National Review.
Seriously, the WSJ Op-Ed is just this side of insane white mullah
I don't know how many times my college kids have come home with the key software for specific courses installed as demoware. They get 30 or 60 days to use it and rush like mad to get the work done before the demo expires.
Here in Wake county North Carolina we couldn't give 3 year old computers to the schools. Too old, too slow not sexy enough. The schools went instead to IBM down the road and got brand new Netvistas for either free or something close to free.
I live in Raleigh North Carolina - hardly West Gopherfuck. And my problems have more to do with outright fraud from Sprint.
All it takes is one call from WilliamSoft Chief Architect William H. Gates III and Wintel suddenly decided that low end hardware which does not support Vista will no longer be manufactured.
Gee who didn't see that one coming?
As a SprintPCs customer all I can say is too bad for you. You can kiss any notion of service, carrier, coherent billing or being able to rectify any problem no matter how small, out the window. Plus as an added bonus, virtually 100% of the known universe is DIGITAL ROAMING so whatever your plan you will be raped by charges.
In customer satisfaction surveys SprintPCS usually comes out slightly above North Korean Prison Camps, but not always.
We wave goodbye at the good run we had in the US for so long. But now serious life science and the people who are serious about it are going to gradually leave for other countries with less theocratic almost Talibanist world views. Already cutting edge cloning is going on in Italy and South Korea for example.
And that's fine. America has staked out its position in the science world as only being interested in military spending. And as it leaves the field of life sciences, telcom, drug research, medicine and many other fields that have either been abandoned to the free market or been quasi criminalized outright we will start to see a slow degrade in the overall economic and scientific outlook for the US as a whole.
My children will live to see the day when America is niche player and it nowhere near the top five countries in the world in scientific research. We're already near the bottom of industrialized states for education and soon the foreign nationals who make up 40-50% of US graduate students in the hard sciences will stary home or go elsewhere.
Because that's pretty much my uniform. I guess if you're wearing a corporate logo golf shirt that counts too, doesn't it? What about a company parking pass on my car on the weekend in the mall, does THAT identify me?
Next up Windows Aqua. A new multimedia flavor of Windows geared to the multimedia afficionado who used to struggle with Apple. Coming from WilliamSoft in 2007.
You are a cog, a part, a line in the overhead, like lights and rent and shrinkage. You should be grateful you have a job because we are thinking of shipping your job off to the place that had a thousand people drown in the monsoon flooding last week.
It reminds me so much of the company I work for where endlessly arguing about how something is impossible and how change is absolutely the wrong thing to do is what we do in and of itself. Explaining to ourselves why we need to continue to safely fail is really what we spend almost all of our time and effort doing.
I celebrate mediocrity and I cheer that open source is finally in the boat with us!!!!!
Huzzah Huzzah!!
Stem cell therapies and directed organ transplants for two.
Apple discovered that dealing with IBM eventually ends in failure. There simply isn't enough time nor enough conference rooms to sufficiently capture all of the billions of passive-agressive do nothing opinions the naysayers at IBM have to throw at you. Ultimtately the basic truth of dealing with IBM is that success doesn't matter, sales don't matter, nothing matters except slavish compliance with the PROCESS.
I mean what IS science anyway except for some voodoo cooked up by the Big Deity in the Sky to Challenge us. But not too much - can't talk about 'science' related to biology.
Hahahaha - we're ALREADY sending people overseas for medical treatments unavailable here.
I might like it if I had to do massive DDNS/DHCP zone transfers or I had a high performance transactional database.
This leads me though to two conclusions. Either a) all our PCs are horribly poor and cheap construction pretty much on the edge of waiting to explode if a few Gigs of solid state storage with a modicum of reliability costs as much as the whole PC
Or b) we're being sold a bill of goods on the golly geewhizbang factor and the vendor is gouging.
I think even WilliamSoft has GOT to realize that if they hammered home their pricing onto all the WilliamSoft users in the world, they'd all suddenly realize what it really costs. I mean the price of Windows Software has never gone down a dime in the history of the company. Are they going to announce a 50% price cut in the price if piracy is eliminated?
No you say? then what's the upside for me the consumer. How was I benefited. First I shouldered the burden of WilliamSoft's blantant ignorance of their own intellectual property and then when WilliamSoft finally figures out how to fix that problem after what? 25 years? Then they continue to screw me on the price?
hahahahahaha that's real funny. Here's what Steve "Im Dancing Im Dancing" Ballmer needs to do. He needs to announce that anti piracy technology rollout will be coincident with a pricing rollback. Until then they will hurt themselves.
But monopolies don't understand what market pricing really means. They operate from the perspective that they can rape and pillage at will. It will be interesting to see if they can do something like this or they screw it up in a painfully transparent effort to make us think we're getting value while at the same time pulling out a WilliamSoft wristwatch left behind in our sphincters.
The old one will still browse, won't it?
If you have nothing to hide then we just have to dig a little deeper, don't we?
I mean if you just want fault tolerance then use straight up mirroring. If it's for currency then perhaps you need a journalling file system with checkpoint rollback/rollforward.
Seriously, am I the only person who's sick of some public speaking rep from the biggest richest most powerful self professed technically exotic company on the planet snarkily explain to be why something is 'hard' or we're 'getting better' at something.
Dan, MS security is for shit by any fucking metric you want to hurl at it. And no amount of hemming and hawing about hats and China and whatnot is ever going to alter the profound and terrifying reality of that a company larger than the GDP of fucking Belgium can't or won't figure this shit out.
No one cares about your excuses anymore - you've won the battle you own EVERYTHING. So shut up and crunch the damn code that will keep ME personally from getting raped by your sloppiness, inattention, lack of concern or cynicism because I swear to god this is why revolutions happen.
Yeah yeah Bill MS will crush the running dawg lackies and herald in a new era where the people's blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.....
Honestly Bill & Steve take your fucking heads out of your asses, stop whining and threatening about everything else and just make a very good product that does what I want the way I want it for a price that doesn't make me feel like Abu Ghriab christmas tree guy.
Other than that you can shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
I think this is great news because it will render the phone as useless as my mailbox. My mailbox is 99% crap and 1% useful material and packages. When they start calling me I'll just stop answering the phone and eventually everyone else will to and we'll have an entire industry that uses machine to leave messages with other machines for goods and services no one ever learns about let alone buy.
When they start spamming my cell phone, it won't matter I rarely pick up an unrecognized call anyhow.
So let er rip telephone spammers. Please accelerate the end of the home land line phone.
Most American jobs require, at most, 3 to 4 hrs of concerted effort per day. Beyond that, you're just making work for yourself to appear busy and aquire asskissing points.
That's what happens with installed base, Bob.
This is absolute nonsense. I can't tell you how many websites I've stopped doing business with because of their insane registration and logon requirements. This will just make that worse.