Anti-trust was one of the very few tactics I didn't hear discussed as possible ways to stop Verisign.
Arguing that they get for free what other companies must pay for is probably one of the easier arguments for win, since it proves itself nearly by definition.
I applaud the jackass who pays to abuse typos. At least they've finally proven their worth.
Fortunately, the CA attorney general understands the case better than the average "MS is bad" slash-drone.
As a California resident, I can assure you that the California attorney general is interested in nothing more than pandering to special interests.
Someone with enough money stepped forward to make this happen. I assume it was someone from either Sun or Oracle.
Issues like the recent 'drivers license for anyone who has a piece of paper with a number on it'* bill show how little the powers-that-be in the state care about the wellbeing of the people.
*: The bill was vetoed twice by the 'governor' because "it lacked safety measures". The bill that was eventually signed, in the last week that the governor facing recall was able to sign bills, had even fewer 'safety measures' than the previous, but was rushed through to pander to minority action groups.
Hard drives are less than a dollar a gig. This is $1300 for 500GB. You'd be better off buying a nice little shuttle box (small, like you want, not entirely hideous), tossing in two 250 GB drives, and having the whole thing cost less than $700.
Integration with Excel Integration with Powerpoint Integration with Outlook, and by extention, Integration with Exchange
How about perfect compatibility with everyone in the business world.
I'd also point out that Microsoft isn't the first to DRM their documents: Adobe has a new server that requires authentication over the web to open PDF files.
I can't imagine they'd start from scratch when there's code lying around to build upon. But that doesn't mean their modified version will be open source. Somehow I don't think the GPL will stand in their way.
Especially when there's code around with an extra 10-20 years of maturity under a more friendly (BSD) license.
I predict that we'll start seeing a change in consoles to make game development easier, rather than harder.
Consider, for instance, Infinium Labs'Phantom Game Console. There's no scheduled ship date yet, but having seen and touched one with my own hands, I'm sure they're not vaporware. It's just a small PC, with a 3 GHz p4 and 256 MB of memory, 100 GB hard drive, and high speed internet running on Windows XP (embedded?). The result? Games like Half Life, Quake 3, Doom 3, Wolfenstein already run. There is no added cost.
Of course, their business model is suspect (once the DRM is cracked, Infinium is basically out of business), but in the mean time, a 3 GHz PC built for games for $400 doesn't sound like that bad of an idea.
1) CPAN isn't flawless: yesterday, I tried using it to install File::Temp and it tried upgrading perl from 5.6 to 5.8. That simply isn't the correct thing to do, under any circumstance.
2) Having used FreeBSD, which has perl modules in the ports/package system, I can absolutely say that it's a nice thing to have. Being able to pkg_add a perl module in half a second, no compile time, no dependency hell, it's a good thing.
Wouldn't it be something if you realized that Gentoo was nothing more than an attempt to mimic FreeBSD with a Linux kernel...
What would happen if you then realized that FreeBSD outperforms linux in nearly all real world tasks?
What if you realized that FreeBSD, like NetBSD and OpenBSD, are both better organized and significantlly cleaner than any Linux distribution, with documentation that makes Linux look amateurish?
Well, it's true, so now ask yourself this: why, again, are you using Gentoo, instead of the "best tool for the job," no matter what that job might be?
Now that they've confirmed that they do this, there's only one thing to remember:
Before you fly up to Redmond for your interview, make sure you post a year's worth of insightful commentary on major relevant newsgroups, with your name and email attached
If you had any common sense, you'd know that for small databases, access is orders of magnitude easier and faster than any of the major SQL daemons. MySQL can't touch Access for databases with less than 5 tables or 100,000 rows.
It doesn't matter how good your corporate security is if you don't train your users (including managers) in basic security practices.
Lots of people put sensitive documents in public webspace, primarily because they don't know any better. Eventually the cost-benefit analysis will be done, and corporations will pay to have their users trained. Until then, this type of thing will continue to happen.
Problem? It wouldn't be technically difficult, but it would never happen. The philosophies are different. BSDs are trying to get more and more POSIX compliant, in order to better co-exist with commercial variants of Unix. You'd have to find a BSD committer who would be willing to throw away compliance with every other POSIX operating system in order to be compatible with Linux. I don't think that is going to happen.
Rather, what you'll see are authors of programs with a few dozen #ifdef's around differing sections. I see it a lot (mostly because I use networking code more than say, desktop code) in gethostbyname() calls, where there's at least three versions depending on OS, and Linux is one by itself.
But remember, LSB refers to a single operating system, that OS being (as it's name states) Linux.
It completely ignores FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, Solaris, and even Windows NT (which has limited POSIX compatibility). Is that really what you want?
So it's better to be compliant with a single operating system than an open, published standard? It's OK to go against the standard, because your way is better and developers will still write code for your operating system?
Is that really what you're saying?
Someone inform Microsoft, they were right all along.
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Anti-trust was one of the very few tactics I didn't hear discussed as possible ways to stop Verisign.
Arguing that they get for free what other companies must pay for is probably one of the easier arguments for win, since it proves itself nearly by definition.
I applaud the jackass who pays to abuse typos. At least they've finally proven their worth.
And of course I meant CPI (cycles per instruction) instead of IPC.
Long night.
733 MHz, and I'm supposed to celebrate?
Transmeta missed the boat. Even in thin clients, they're underpowered. At 733 MHz, even low IPC won't help.
Transmeta was a good company, but they didn't get their product to market in time.
What's funny is this line:
Fortunately, the CA attorney general understands the case better than the average "MS is bad" slash-drone.
As a California resident, I can assure you that the California attorney general is interested in nothing more than pandering to special interests.
Someone with enough money stepped forward to make this happen. I assume it was someone from either Sun or Oracle.
Issues like the recent 'drivers license for anyone who has a piece of paper with a number on it'* bill show how little the powers-that-be in the state care about the wellbeing of the people.
*: The bill was vetoed twice by the 'governor' because "it lacked safety measures". The bill that was eventually signed, in the last week that the governor facing recall was able to sign bills, had even fewer 'safety measures' than the previous, but was rushed through to pander to minority action groups.
Just to nit-pick:
Servers and bandwidth are not a fixed cost.
When your load increases by a factor of 19, your costs for servers and bandwidth also go up.
Hard drives are less than a dollar a gig. This is $1300 for 500GB. You'd be better off buying a nice little shuttle box (small, like you want, not entirely hideous), tossing in two 250 GB drives, and having the whole thing cost less than $700.
Oh, and then you could put on a real operating system.
Let me get this straight....
You're preaching the virtues of poor security implementations?
Right....
How about ...
Integration with Excel
Integration with Powerpoint
Integration with Outlook, and by extention, Integration with Exchange
How about perfect compatibility with everyone in the business world.
I'd also point out that Microsoft isn't the first to DRM their documents: Adobe has a new server that requires authentication over the web to open PDF files.
Uh.
It's slower than shit. That absolutely stops it from being in the top 5.
I can't imagine they'd start from scratch when there's code lying around to build upon. But that doesn't mean their modified version will be open source. Somehow I don't think the GPL will stand in their way.
Especially when there's code around with an extra 10-20 years of maturity under a more friendly (BSD) license.
Exhibits:
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For the XBox, you're looking 6 figures.
For the Phantom, you just have to buy a copy of Visual Studio...
I predict that we'll start seeing a change in consoles to make game development easier, rather than harder.
Consider, for instance, Infinium Labs' Phantom Game Console. There's no scheduled ship date yet, but having seen and touched one with my own hands, I'm sure they're not vaporware. It's just a small PC, with a 3 GHz p4 and 256 MB of memory, 100 GB hard drive, and high speed internet running on Windows XP (embedded?). The result? Games like Half Life, Quake 3, Doom 3, Wolfenstein already run. There is no added cost.
Of course, their business model is suspect (once the DRM is cracked, Infinium is basically out of business), but in the mean time, a 3 GHz PC built for games for $400 doesn't sound like that bad of an idea.
Two things:
1) CPAN isn't flawless: yesterday, I tried using it to install File::Temp and it tried upgrading perl from 5.6 to 5.8. That simply isn't the correct thing to do, under any circumstance.
2) Having used FreeBSD, which has perl modules in the ports/package system, I can absolutely say that it's a nice thing to have. Being able to pkg_add a perl module in half a second, no compile time, no dependency hell, it's a good thing.
Except that Debian isn't a corporation.
Wouldn't it be something if you realized that Gentoo was nothing more than an attempt to mimic FreeBSD with a Linux kernel...
What would happen if you then realized that FreeBSD outperforms linux in nearly all real world tasks?
What if you realized that FreeBSD, like NetBSD and OpenBSD, are both better organized and significantlly cleaner than any Linux distribution, with documentation that makes Linux look amateurish?
Well, it's true, so now ask yourself this: why, again, are you using Gentoo, instead of the "best tool for the job," no matter what that job might be?
Now that they've confirmed that they do this, there's only one thing to remember:
Before you fly up to Redmond for your interview, make sure you post a year's worth of insightful commentary on major relevant newsgroups, with your name and email attached
Hey jackass....
If you had any common sense, you'd know that for small databases, access is orders of magnitude easier and faster than any of the major SQL daemons. MySQL can't touch Access for databases with less than 5 tables or 100,000 rows.
It doesn't matter how good your corporate security is if you don't train your users (including managers) in basic security practices.
Lots of people put sensitive documents in public webspace, primarily because they don't know any better. Eventually the cost-benefit analysis will be done, and corporations will pay to have their users trained. Until then, this type of thing will continue to happen.
Problem? It wouldn't be technically difficult, but it would never happen. The philosophies are different. BSDs are trying to get more and more POSIX compliant, in order to better co-exist with commercial variants of Unix. You'd have to find a BSD committer who would be willing to throw away compliance with every other POSIX operating system in order to be compatible with Linux. I don't think that is going to happen.
Rather, what you'll see are authors of programs with a few dozen #ifdef's around differing sections. I see it a lot (mostly because I use networking code more than say, desktop code) in gethostbyname() calls, where there's at least three versions depending on OS, and Linux is one by itself.
Yes, LSB is published.
Yes, LSB is open.
But remember, LSB refers to a single operating system, that OS being (as it's name states) Linux.
It completely ignores FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, Solaris, and even Windows NT (which has limited POSIX compatibility). Is that really what you want?
So it's better to be compliant with a single operating system than an open, published standard? It's OK to go against the standard, because your way is better and developers will still write code for your operating system?
Is that really what you're saying?
Someone inform Microsoft, they were right all along.
I'd recommend Palomar Observatory. Not only is it one of the nicer observatories in the country, it's in beautiful southern California.
You want to come here anyway, right? LA, Hollywood, San Diego? It's between LA and SD, and worth the trip.
MIT is less than anxious to turn over the name and address of the user robotrodney@KaZaA.
About 10 years ... ago.
They exist. They're not as fast, they can't handle as much paper at a time, and they're expensive, but they do exist.
Company with many diverse software offerings, including internet services, wants to be the top search engine.
It's a company, what would you expect?
The news would be if Microsoft said it didn't want to be compared to google, or any other search engines. This, as it stands, is hardly newsworthy.