Maybe it's true maybe it's not. In either case I suspect it's a little bit like NYC banning smoking in a city where walking down the street will get you a lungful of fried hydrocarbon rot bus diesel fumes. I tend to look at the actual effects in a world where the cell phone using population went from about zero to 800 million in 15 years. Is it really that big a risk given the huge numbers of users who aren't manifesting extremely and obviously high incidences of disease?
I use NS7.2 at home and there is nothing at all about it that's bad. The only site I commonly use that doesn't work well with NS is eMachine's product support pages. It handles profiles better than FF/TB and it installs clean and well. I actually like WeatherBug but remove AIM toolbar and the other gewgaws, Wildtangent, etc. It doesn't crash on XP as much as FF. And in terms of bloat, FF on a low powered Linux machine is painfully slow. Use Dillo if you can, so clearly FF is not all about speed, it's about a balance of speed and function just like everything else.
Get some nukes up there to squeegee the most common orbit paths clean of all the crap up there, including frozen Soviet satellite fuel globs which are untrackable by radar.
Anyone in an ISP who has to manage Windows servers already knows what a nightmare it is. Linux simply reduces administrative headcount and improves security by its very design. Whereas it's typical for a commercially managed Windows server to have 30 accounts in the Administrator group just to get the work done, Linux boxes tend to be far far far more tightly managed. They're just built to BE managed, as opposed to Windows which is more of a Desktop machine with a server tacked on to it. So commercial service providers, the ones with thousands and thousands of servers already know that to offer affordable services to their customers they have to do it with Linux, Unix, AIX or Solaris. Windows is always a customer choice not a vendor preference.
I don't really see how this is different from what's happening at all the other tech firms: IBM, all the telcos, SUN etc. etc....Show me something impressive that has come out of any of them in 5 years. No, they are all busy packaging reinvented wheels. Carly may have a bitch about it but IBM and all the others are crushing everyone's souls through sheer process and negligence.
Clearly the entire scienctific aspect of NASA has been cut to the bone in preference to militarisation. Hubble just doesn't fit within the parameters of the new NASA, the NASA of space based weapons, spysats and orbiting nuclear platforms. Let's not forget that the orginal mission parameters of the Space Shuttle were from the military. Whatever scientific mission NASA still has will be funded on a garage-lab best effort basis. The ISS will be allowed to die on its own as well.
Do they seriously propose to put a Windows machine on the TOP500 list? Puhleeeze. These systems were built for performance AND cost rationales. MS isn't going to make an afforable version of this and MS consulting will build one maybe two of these as an interesing project. But that's it.
I bought a CD recently of 50 year old recordings. It hadn't been remastered or cleaned up in any way. I didn't special order order it but when I saw it I figured I'd never see it again. At any rate I'm the fool because I spent USD$23.95 + tax for a single CD. I'm left wondering though how many more fools like me are still around and what the fuck the record companies think the real world notion of value is? I mean, seriously - an old recording repressed to a CD with no post production, probably was sitting in the bins for 10 years and every 'artist' involved is probably dead by now. D'ya think the suits made their money on it, yet? Perhaps the only response we as consumers have is to try to press the copywrite owners into a patent-like situation where they get exclusive rights for a few years and then they lose all rights to the recording and we can do with it whatever we wish.
Of course when there's money to made for large campaign contributors and contractors their call for gubmint intervention reaches all the way to heaven where Jesus H. Cheney and his angelic minions hold court. Once in a while they send Tom "Former pest control bug spray guy" DeLay down to earf to threaten and lie and break federal election laws.
All is good in hebben, all god's chillun got wings.
RHEL and Novell/SuSE have better fit and finish than Debian. The starting point for a good business desktop build is set a little a further forward with these than with Debian which is still an enormous toolkit. Not that having 10,000 packages is a disadavantage. Also, suits like the idea that you can pay some company for support aka blame someone when it goes wrong. With Debian or Slackware you only have yourself to blame and let's face facts, true or not, your own executives think IT is retarded and probably incapable of pulling its own weight
Look dude, keep your ideological jihad to yourself. If you want to accept a priori that all or most of what MS tells you is the unvarnished truth, then do that.
No one said it was bad. On the other hand MS's view of facts is sometimes, uh I dunno....suspect? Remember these are the guys who said Windows is safer because there are more bugs that people find.
I worked for GHI the insurance PPO in NYC years ago and the morons there once interviewed someone offsite. She had never been to the offices. Her first day, that morning, they made her the third person in a widowless office (with a door, not a cube) where the other two were chain smoking consultants who spoke to each other in Spanish. She went out about 11am and never came back.
I once interviewed with some idiot tool at Price Waterhouse who took a phone book sized questionnaire out and began reading, head down, eyes down, one absurdly arcane technical question after another. After about 30 of these I asked him if a) he could answer any of these and b) most of them you could just look up. So I got up, called him a idiot tool and walked out.
I interviewed once at a boutique consultancy long since sold out, for an entire day. 12 people, 12 half hour interviews. Each and every one of them had only one thing to say. That anyone hired would be expected to work at LEAST 100 hrs a week 6.5 days a week. The final interview was with the managing partner who had one question: do you think you can work this hard. My answer was "sure I can but I'd have to be retarded to do it for you." and walked out.
I interviewed with the 'director of applications of a retail chain owned by Trump. The fellow was an insane basket case who said flat out "I want to go to meetings and basically do nothing. You would have to be here 80-90 hrs week banging out CICS programs and screaming at the monkeys who work here to do the same. Are you interested?" I suggested that he should either get off or on drugs, right now and seek help.
I was once lectured for 15 minutes at TIAA-CREF over a misplaced comma on a resume by a guy who made me wait an hour to speak to him. WTF kind of OCD poster child did he want to be?
I interviewed at Gartner by a guy who was on his very last day at the company and told me to me face he didn't care who they hired or why.
In short you really have to retain a sense of humor for the people you interview and ultimately work for. Because nearly all of them are shitheads.
Wow. These trekkies are more gullible than born again Christians who send money to televangelists. Let's say this 'open source' effort fails. Where does the money go? Somehow I picture two guys in the Bahamas under a pile of drunk women.
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Quality is for people who intend to be dead ended in their jobs. My directors and executives stay in their jobs for about one year at which time their mistakes, lazyness and venal corruption become someone else's problem. Quality is for losers.
Seriously. 75%? What do they think that much power will be used for? Do they dream that everyone will suddenly run out and plunk down $2500 for a machine that can Doom 3 faster than than plutonium doped lightening?
I think all that power will used in the same way it always is. Malcontents will write more sophisticated malware. MS will release more shiny glittery gewgaws that do nothing except open up more security holes and antimalware vendors will write more complex and unwieldy antimalware applications. In the meantime all the corporate suits will demand more cumbersome elaborate corporate apps that are specifically written for dual core systems thereby requiring parallel track applications to be maintained while the old machines the suits abandoned still get cycled through the organization for 3 years. And for the first 12-16 months hardware vendors will experience hardware QA and BIOS screw-up hell as they try to appease the 15 year olds in the focus groups who demand 1337 dual core hawtness!!! It will suck and Intel will make make billions.
Sir William H. Gates III and in the same day it seems that open source code in the UK will die. That is not a rhino next to your sofa. No, there is no rhino there.
That's the wonderful thing about OS. If the lawyers and fuckocrats chop off a piece in the EU then a huge amount of wonderful work continues to go on in Brazil, India, Israel, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Russia, Canada and the US.
Screw the EU let them drive all good development away and be stuck with Microsoft. I've always said that the best way to wreak revenge on a control freak is to actually give them control. The EU will rapidly discover what a disaster this is for them and by then it will be too late.
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The one question you have to ask yourself is this - what new function or improved feature set or ease of use or cleaner optimization or better security or better application integration or compatibility does any of this bring you? The short answer is, it doesn't. It's just bright shiny things sucking cycles, that's all. That's what you're going to early-adopt for. Dude.
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Maybe it's true maybe it's not. In either case I suspect it's a little bit like NYC banning smoking in a city where walking down the street will get you a lungful of fried hydrocarbon rot bus diesel fumes. I tend to look at the actual effects in a world where the cell phone using population went from about zero to 800 million in 15 years. Is it really that big a risk given the huge numbers of users who aren't manifesting extremely and obviously high incidences of disease?
I use NS7.2 at home and there is nothing at all about it that's bad. The only site I commonly use that doesn't work well with NS is eMachine's product support pages. It handles profiles better than FF/TB and it installs clean and well. I actually like WeatherBug but remove AIM toolbar and the other gewgaws, Wildtangent, etc. It doesn't crash on XP as much as FF. And in terms of bloat, FF on a low powered Linux machine is painfully slow. Use Dillo if you can, so clearly FF is not all about speed, it's about a balance of speed and function just like everything else.
Get some nukes up there to squeegee the most common orbit paths clean of all the crap up there, including frozen Soviet satellite fuel globs which are untrackable by radar.
Anyone in an ISP who has to manage Windows servers already knows what a nightmare it is. Linux simply reduces administrative headcount and improves security by its very design. Whereas it's typical for a commercially managed Windows server to have 30 accounts in the Administrator group just to get the work done, Linux boxes tend to be far far far more tightly managed. They're just built to BE managed, as opposed to Windows which is more of a Desktop machine with a server tacked on to it. So commercial service providers, the ones with thousands and thousands of servers already know that to offer affordable services to their customers they have to do it with Linux, Unix, AIX or Solaris. Windows is always a customer choice not a vendor preference.
That's great. They got with the program and screwed all their customers.
I don't really see how this is different from what's happening at all the other tech firms: IBM, all the telcos, SUN etc. etc....Show me something impressive that has come out of any of them in 5 years. No, they are all busy packaging reinvented wheels. Carly may have a bitch about it but IBM and all the others are crushing everyone's souls through sheer process and negligence.
Clearly the entire scienctific aspect of NASA has been cut to the bone in preference to militarisation. Hubble just doesn't fit within the parameters of the new NASA, the NASA of space based weapons, spysats and orbiting nuclear platforms. Let's not forget that the orginal mission parameters of the Space Shuttle were from the military. Whatever scientific mission NASA still has will be funded on a garage-lab best effort basis. The ISS will be allowed to die on its own as well.
Do they seriously propose to put a Windows machine on the TOP500 list? Puhleeeze. These systems were built for performance AND cost rationales. MS isn't going to make an afforable version of this and MS consulting will build one maybe two of these as an interesing project. But that's it.
I bought a CD recently of 50 year old recordings. It hadn't been remastered or cleaned up in any way. I didn't special order order it but when I saw it I figured I'd never see it again. At any rate I'm the fool because I spent USD$23.95 + tax for a single CD. I'm left wondering though how many more fools like me are still around and what the fuck the record companies think the real world notion of value is? I mean, seriously - an old recording repressed to a CD with no post production, probably was sitting in the bins for 10 years and every 'artist' involved is probably dead by now. D'ya think the suits made their money on it, yet? Perhaps the only response we as consumers have is to try to press the copywrite owners into a patent-like situation where they get exclusive rights for a few years and then they lose all rights to the recording and we can do with it whatever we wish.
Of course when there's money to made for large campaign contributors and contractors their call for gubmint intervention reaches all the way to heaven where Jesus H. Cheney and his angelic minions hold court. Once in a while they send Tom "Former pest control bug spray guy" DeLay down to earf to threaten and lie and break federal election laws.
All is good in hebben, all god's chillun got wings.
GFS in a loosely distributed network making all PCs in the world part of the Infinite Google Brain. Resistance is fucking Futile, dude.
Pimp my ride, beotch. Put da PC in the dashboard where it will control noting, but it will look phat. Blue neon flames.
RHEL and Novell/SuSE have better fit and finish than Debian. The starting point for a good business desktop build is set a little a further forward with these than with Debian which is still an enormous toolkit. Not that having 10,000 packages is a disadavantage. Also, suits like the idea that you can pay some company for support aka blame someone when it goes wrong. With Debian or Slackware you only have yourself to blame and let's face facts, true or not, your own executives think IT is retarded and probably incapable of pulling its own weight
Look dude, keep your ideological jihad to yourself. If you want to accept a priori that all or most of what MS tells you is the unvarnished truth, then do that.
No one said it was bad. On the other hand MS's view of facts is sometimes, uh I dunno....suspect? Remember these are the guys who said Windows is safer because there are more bugs that people find.
You know the MS PR warmachine will make the most of this, don't you?
I worked for GHI the insurance PPO in NYC years ago and the morons there once interviewed someone offsite. She had never been to the offices. Her first day, that morning, they made her the third person in a widowless office (with a door, not a cube) where the other two were chain smoking consultants who spoke to each other in Spanish. She went out about 11am and never came back.
I once interviewed with some idiot tool at Price Waterhouse who took a phone book sized questionnaire out and began reading, head down, eyes down, one absurdly arcane technical question after another. After about 30 of these I asked him if a) he could answer any of these and b) most of them you could just look up. So I got up, called him a idiot tool and walked out.
I interviewed once at a boutique consultancy long since sold out, for an entire day. 12 people, 12 half hour interviews. Each and every one of them had only one thing to say. That anyone hired would be expected to work at LEAST 100 hrs a week 6.5 days a week. The final interview was with the managing partner who had one question: do you think you can work this hard. My answer was "sure I can but I'd have to be retarded to do it for you." and walked out.
I interviewed with the 'director of applications of a retail chain owned by Trump. The fellow was an insane basket case who said flat out "I want to go to meetings and basically do nothing. You would have to be here 80-90 hrs week banging out CICS programs and screaming at the monkeys who work here to do the same. Are you interested?" I suggested that he should either get off or on drugs, right now and seek help.
I was once lectured for 15 minutes at TIAA-CREF over a misplaced comma on a resume by a guy who made me wait an hour to speak to him. WTF kind of OCD poster child did he want to be?
I interviewed at Gartner by a guy who was on his very last day at the company and told me to me face he didn't care who they hired or why.
In short you really have to retain a sense of humor for the people you interview and ultimately work for. Because nearly all of them are shitheads.
Quit your job today. I for one am either going to quit or go to KMart, buy a cheap deer gun and 'terminate' everyone else.
Wow. These trekkies are more gullible than born again Christians who send money to televangelists. Let's say this 'open source' effort fails. Where does the money go? Somehow I picture two guys in the Bahamas under a pile of drunk women.
Quality is for people who intend to be dead ended in their jobs. My directors and executives stay in their jobs for about one year at which time their mistakes, lazyness and venal corruption become someone else's problem. Quality is for losers.
Seriously. 75%? What do they think that much power will be used for? Do they dream that everyone will suddenly run out and plunk down $2500 for a machine that can Doom 3 faster than than plutonium doped lightening?
I think all that power will used in the same way it always is. Malcontents will write more sophisticated malware. MS will release more shiny glittery gewgaws that do nothing except open up more security holes and antimalware vendors will write more complex and unwieldy antimalware applications. In the meantime all the corporate suits will demand more cumbersome elaborate corporate apps that are specifically written for dual core systems thereby requiring parallel track applications to be maintained while the old machines the suits abandoned still get cycled through the organization for 3 years. And for the first 12-16 months hardware vendors will experience hardware QA and BIOS screw-up hell as they try to appease the 15 year olds in the focus groups who demand 1337 dual core hawtness!!! It will suck and Intel will make make billions.
Sir William H. Gates III and in the same day it seems that open source code in the UK will die. That is not a rhino next to your sofa. No, there is no rhino there.
That's the wonderful thing about OS. If the lawyers and fuckocrats chop off a piece in the EU then a huge amount of wonderful work continues to go on in Brazil, India, Israel, China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Russia, Canada and the US.
Screw the EU let them drive all good development away and be stuck with Microsoft. I've always said that the best way to wreak revenge on a control freak is to actually give them control. The EU will rapidly discover what a disaster this is for them and by then it will be too late.
The one question you have to ask yourself is this - what new function or improved feature set or ease of use or cleaner optimization or better security or better application integration or compatibility does any of this bring you? The short answer is, it doesn't. It's just bright shiny things sucking cycles, that's all. That's what you're going to early-adopt for. Dude.