Other than fear there seems to be little overt in the design that can't be managed. And in the end that's what all problems come down to.
We don't SOLVE fossile fuel pollution, we manage it. Likewise we can't SOLVE the nuclear waste/radiation problem, we manage it. It would appear that this is a manageable design.
For high end performance SSA is way faster than SCSI. Way more expensive too. But if you actually need gobs o speed this is the way to go. They are beastly hard to tune in array setups though. Several hundred MBps is the starting point.
One thing is for sure at IBM: there is approximately 1300 lawyers per productive employee. IBM Legal is like the KGB it insinuates itself into every nook and cranny and every aspect of every function in the company.
SCO is cooked, it's a walking dead zombie company that doesn't know it yet. Soon it will have an "I see dead people" moment.
It came home drunk again, pissed off that its boss terminated its useless drunk ass and it started wailing on the little lady, the kids, the dog. Soon the cops will show up and it'll be in the Lay Z Boy, no shirt, one flip flop, screaming for its cigarettes and threatening to bash his crying wife's face in as they duck walk it to the police car.
When I was a kid there were 9 planets, the asteriod belt a few moons and we were happy with it. Now with this new fangled Hubble stuff they're finding new spitwads everyother damn day. This ones' the size of Bangor Maine, that one's the result of two K Mart parking lot sized iceballs crashing into each other. What the f---?
Forrester is essentially wrong about everything because it only looks at the highest of the high end. There will always be pre-adopters to these things. There are already and for people who buy music online they buy 100% of their music online. But when the other 90% of the population tries to do this you can expect your cable bill to quintuple and that is not something anyone will accept.
MS has a microincrmental approach to actual new feature inclusion, a glacial pace for real UI changes and an invisible, it will work when it works if it works at all approach to under the covers patches and design fixes.
So what could possibly be Major? Yet more restrictive DRM?, A new driver model that sends all the HW vendors to hit the bottle? Eh?
If I were deeply cynical which of course I'm not I'd say that 'delays' such as they are are keyed to the symbiotic relationship they have to Intel. When/if Intel bakes a new batch of chips they need to sell suddenly a 'new' version of Windows will come along to 'need' them.
@ UNC Greesboro the ratio of school owned PCs to school owned Macs is about 5:1 if not higher. Why is that? Because owning a computer is not a requirement and students still have to be able to work more or less transparently with the rest of the world. If schools want to buy all their students Mac or subsidize them then fine, let's all use Macs (or Sun machines for that matter) Until then the $400 PC I just bought blows the wheels off any Mac, price performance wise plus its no big if/when it gets stolen or broken.
Take any reasonably slim, boob jobed 'actress' throw some generic blonde look at her face, pump her voice through a synthesizer, teach her some basic ass shaking and dress her up like a slut.
I want 5% of the gross of that so my grandchildren will never have to work a day in their lives.
I work in security and the #1 problem with MS security is PEOPLE. I can't change the fact that MS code is problematic and neither can you and all the soapboxing in the world isn't going to change that one basic fact. So the challenge for us which remains is this: institute processes and controls around the assumption that the code is dangerous and move on. Anything else is simply throwing rocks at a tank.
I know it's hard to believe but if you actually had the patches, kept your AV scanner current and used it once in a while then your personal workstation was unaffected. It's all the idiots who didn't which resulted in net admins pulling whole subnets out to stop the spread.
So is MS insecure. Shit yeah. And people should just understand that by now and work around/with that fact of life.
Hey, when you cure AIDS then you can say that sex is not dangerous by design. Until then it's only rational sense to do what you're supposed to do to protect yourself.
It doesn't matter what the desktop looks like or even how well it works. What matters is how much deskside support it needs. That is the
ONLY
Criterion for corporations to determine if they want to use it. Now if the past two weeks are any measure, when deskside support is too expensive people just don't do it. And when that happens you are just waiting for something to go horribly wrong. And when that happens the support is overwhelmed and they simply start pulling network ports out on their own.
So a useful measure of this new desktop is how cheap it is to run and how much of workload can be automated and administered remotely. The next important metric is how locked down can the desktop be made. Is it possible to head off user inventiveness and build a desktop that can't easily be broken and is VERY resilient and forgiving to user 'stuff'.
I guess they're grading on a fucking curve. Cause the only thing Berkeley is good at is parent subsidized protesting, bullshit, protesting, talking shit, protesting, being self righteous assholes, sponging off mom+dad, smoking weed.
I mean if we have to go look for them then it really makes the harvest a pain in the ass. Hardly worth the effort, even for nice tender juicy veal-child.
They're just waiting for hardrives to become large enough to contain the SP. The next SP will be approximately 500GB installed, 1TB temp space. It will only be possible to attempt to install it once w/o calling MS for special permission. It will require an 8-way Xeonkroplex 2 trillion Gigahertz machine with at least more RAM than has been manufactured in the history of computing, ever.
In fact I want MS to quietly run every aspect of my life unasked. I want multimegabyte SPs unasked. I want new and improved packaging and several dozen applet upgrades unasked. Especially the ones that break something else. I want updates to wipe out competing applications unasked. I want application changes on the fly so that file formats suddently become incompatible. I want their updates to clash with themselves. And mostly I want to pay for it.
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Other than fear there seems to be little overt in the design that can't be managed. And in the end that's what all problems come down to.
We don't SOLVE fossile fuel pollution, we manage it. Likewise we can't SOLVE the nuclear waste/radiation problem, we manage it. It would appear that this is a manageable design.
Disclaimer: I am a nuclear customer today.
This is great - make a new DRM tool and shroud it in Enviro Friendly rhetoric.
You're not against the ENVIRONMENT, are you???????
For high end performance SSA is way faster than SCSI. Way more expensive too. But if you actually need gobs o speed this is the way to go. They are beastly hard to tune in array setups though. Several hundred MBps is the starting point.
As opposed to the US?
That's the real issue.
One thing is for sure at IBM: there is approximately 1300 lawyers per productive employee. IBM Legal is like the KGB it insinuates itself into every nook and cranny and every aspect of every function in the company.
SCO is cooked, it's a walking dead zombie company that doesn't know it yet. Soon it will have an "I see dead people" moment.
It came home drunk again, pissed off that its boss terminated its useless drunk ass and it started wailing on the little lady, the kids, the dog. Soon the cops will show up and it'll be in the Lay Z Boy, no shirt, one flip flop, screaming for its cigarettes and threatening to bash his crying wife's face in as they duck walk it to the police car.
That's SCO; an episode of COPS.
Which of course will run only 12-15% slower than Windows 2003 does today on the fastest CPU available.
Tomorrow there will be a mudslide that wipes out 400 people looking for survivors of the meteor. And then the monkey man will show up.
Go ahead patch your damn penguin till it shits out easter eggs. Go pick your Windows cardiac cases off the floor.
Be a damn hero.
Or run with the BSD Devil. Forged in Hell, bulletproof.
When I was a kid there were 9 planets, the asteriod belt a few moons and we were happy with it. Now with this new fangled Hubble stuff they're finding new spitwads everyother damn day. This ones' the size of Bangor Maine, that one's the result of two K Mart parking lot sized iceballs crashing into each other. What the f---?
Forrester is essentially wrong about everything because it only looks at the highest of the high end. There will always be pre-adopters to these things. There are already and for people who buy music online they buy 100% of their music online. But when the other 90% of the population tries to do this you can expect your cable bill to quintuple and that is not something anyone will accept.
Looks to me like the 'next' 'version' of Office will vaguely lash Office DRM with Outlook to provide something like Notes 2 circa 1995.
MS has a microincrmental approach to actual new feature inclusion, a glacial pace for real UI changes and an invisible, it will work when it works if it works at all approach to under the covers patches and design fixes.
So what could possibly be Major? Yet more restrictive DRM?, A new driver model that sends all the HW vendors to hit the bottle? Eh?
If I were deeply cynical which of course I'm not I'd say that 'delays' such as they are are keyed to the symbiotic relationship they have to Intel. When/if Intel bakes a new batch of chips they need to sell suddenly a 'new' version of Windows will come along to 'need' them.
Yeah. Code crunching monkeys, if you bring nothing special to the table then you are replaceable as Tijuana circuit board assemblers.
Seriously though.
@ UNC Greesboro the ratio of school owned PCs to school owned Macs is about 5:1 if not higher. Why is that? Because owning a computer is not a requirement and students still have to be able to work more or less transparently with the rest of the world. If schools want to buy all their students Mac or subsidize them then fine, let's all use Macs (or Sun machines for that matter) Until then the $400 PC I just bought blows the wheels off any Mac, price performance wise plus its no big if/when it gets stolen or broken.
Take any reasonably slim, boob jobed 'actress' throw some generic blonde look at her face, pump her voice through a synthesizer, teach her some basic ass shaking and dress her up like a slut.
I want 5% of the gross of that so my grandchildren will never have to work a day in their lives.
I work in security and the #1 problem with MS security is PEOPLE. I can't change the fact that MS code is problematic and neither can you and all the soapboxing in the world isn't going to change that one basic fact. So the challenge for us which remains is this: institute processes and controls around the assumption that the code is dangerous and move on. Anything else is simply throwing rocks at a tank.
I know it's hard to believe but if you actually had the patches, kept your AV scanner current and used it once in a while then your personal workstation was unaffected. It's all the idiots who didn't which resulted in net admins pulling whole subnets out to stop the spread.
So is MS insecure. Shit yeah. And people should just understand that by now and work around/with that fact of life.
Hey, when you cure AIDS then you can say that sex is not dangerous by design. Until then it's only rational sense to do what you're supposed to do to protect yourself.
It doesn't matter what the desktop looks like or even how well it works. What matters is how much deskside support it needs. That is the
ONLY
Criterion for corporations to determine if they want to use it. Now if the past two weeks are any measure, when deskside support is too expensive people just don't do it. And when that happens you are just waiting for something to go horribly wrong. And when that happens the support is overwhelmed and they simply start pulling network ports out on their own.
So a useful measure of this new desktop is how cheap it is to run and how much of workload can be automated and administered remotely. The next important metric is how locked down can the desktop be made. Is it possible to head off user inventiveness and build a desktop that can't easily be broken and is VERY resilient and forgiving to user 'stuff'.
I guess they're grading on a fucking curve. Cause the only thing Berkeley is good at is parent subsidized protesting, bullshit, protesting, talking shit, protesting, being self righteous assholes, sponging off mom+dad, smoking weed.
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I mean if we have to go look for them then it really makes the harvest a pain in the ass. Hardly worth the effort, even for nice tender juicy veal-child.
They're just waiting for hardrives to become large enough to contain the SP. The next SP will be approximately 500GB installed, 1TB temp space. It will only be possible to attempt to install it once w/o calling MS for special permission. It will require an 8-way Xeonkroplex 2 trillion Gigahertz machine with at least more RAM than has been manufactured in the history of computing, ever.
In fact I want MS to quietly run every aspect of my life unasked. I want multimegabyte SPs unasked. I want new and improved packaging and several dozen applet upgrades unasked. Especially the ones that break something else. I want updates to wipe out competing applications unasked. I want application changes on the fly so that file formats suddently become incompatible. I want their updates to clash with themselves. And mostly I want to pay for it.
Can you find someone to start your car in the morning?