t is, in all honesty, a bit scary to think there are a growing number of both Power Plants (Gas, Coal, Oil, Hydro, and Wind) and Offshore Oil Rigs that run entire solutions based around Microsoft Windows platforms.
Only because you don't understand why your PC running Windows is unstable.
You'll have a pretty hard time taking out a generic Windows install without doing something intentionally to make it crash, like writing code known to cause an issue.
When you have a machine running known code only, using specific hardware with reliable drivers, and you aren't connected to the Internet... Windows is trivial to keep running.
Windows crashes are 99.999999999999999999999% of the time due to shitty drivers. Its a safe bet that the last 11 out of 10 times your Windows machines crashed it was because of nVidia or ATI drivers, with a lower chance that it was due to sound drivers.
I'm not saying its not possible, but with solid hardware drivers and not intentionally doing something to take Windows out using known exploits where you are intentionally doing things to evade builtin safety features, it starts to get rather difficult.
Intelligent people who want to know that they aren't working with something brand new that no one really understands yet.
You don't use cutting edge tech on safety equipment when the cutting edge tech is incredibly complex.
You don't want retarded bugs in new software killing someone. You run something 12 years old, which is perfectly capable of doing the job and has been patched to all hell and back because its been used for so long by so many people.
And really... name one reason why NT4 isn't up to the job? Never versions of Windows, for the most part, are GUI enhancements and would offer no additional value, and a lot more bloat to the system.
Intelligent people generally don't follow the bleeding edge of technology, its too much work and risk.
If it cost 600 mil, but they lease it for 0.5 mil/day. Then they would have saved money by buying it outright since in 120 days would pay for it... and they've been using it for well over 120 days.
Yea, you know what, hang the management of all 3 companies.
I don't give a flying fuck who was the final 'at fault' person, they are all involved. If you only go after one they just figure out a way to make a shell company to hide the dangerous stuff in.
Fuck that.
Take them all out, with some sort of punishment that will make them consider what they are doing rather than saying 'if I get caught, I'll just loose 15% of my 750 million'.
Wipe the drives, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever works.
Then turn it off
Then say 'its the new replacement for timothy and kdawson. They are now new and improved and no longer post stupid shit like a question that should have been asked on some random forum somewhere rather than on a site with a title of 'News for nerds'.
Listen, its not 'help for newbies'. Its not 'your personal place to question people with an actual clue'.
In reality though, just throw it away. You'll spend more in electricity in the next year than if you bought a brand new Atom PC that will whip its ass. G5s are horrible power hogs compared to current chips.
So you have low standards, many of those of us on slashdot have considerable higher standards than the normal person because we've seen good and bad and know that good really isn't that hard if you have a clue and/or natural talent for programming.
The funny part is, you are far more likely to end up dead because that overhead light burns your house down due to hiring an apprentice than the big machine because that big machine you bought more than likely comes with a real electrician to wire it up according to the manufactures specification.
Fortunately, we don't know each other so I don't have to worry about being at your house when it burns down because you're a cheapskate hiring the lowest bidder.
UTF8 was something he contributed too, barely, not invented, and he wasn't the reason its useful, but nice try.
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but at the end of the day we still need email clients in our pockets.
No you don't. You really aren't that important. People that ARE that important have underlings that read their email for them.
You don't NEED an email client in your pocket. And you're probably be more useful if you didn't respond to email with a twitch reaction like you were playing an FPS.
You might want an email client in your pocket because its convenient or because you think your that important, but the definition of want and need are different, you should look them up.
You mean you didn't realize that the carriers would force this one the phones regardless of who wrote the OS?
Really? You didn't expect this? Cell phones have never been 'open', the fleeting few moments that you could get an android device that didn't have to be broken to modify the OS are few and drawing near a to a close.
If you didn't expect this than you really do need to take your fanboy blinders off.
I'm aware of who he is, what he does now and what he's done in the past. I've now seen his keynote.
My opinion hasn't changed. He has nothing to say and talks himself in circles, I'm guess you just don't see it due to lack of understanding, of course maybe I'm the one that doesn't understand.
Who knows, but I'm going to stick with my original assessment that he's just a blow hard spewing about his latest creation and how everyone elses sucks because his creation some how mysteriously fixes the problem that no one else has.
You go listen to what he has to say, I'll continue getting things done while you go play with a new language because its 'better' until you realize that its exactly the same as all the others.
When you start telling me that the language is the problem I realize instantly that you aren't that great of a programmer. My one exception to this is Visual Basic (not BASIC, VB specifically). It is a shitty environment because of the shit support library MS made for it.
It lets you play doctor without actually being one, or in this case, you get to play programmer without actually being one.
That most certainly has its usefulness as you are well aware, but that doesn't make it a tool that programmers should be using.
Doctors and programmers use a different set of tools than you use at home.
I spend most of my time now converting crappy VB apps to real applications, I have a license to hate VB and shitty VB writers who think they are programmers.
Yes, and it doesn't impress me. Writing isn't hard.
He also promptly called UNIX dead, and pretty much trash talks about everything that isn't his and how his is better, yet no one seems to give a shit and no one that matters uses it.
Anything he's contributed too that people actually use, they use because of what other people did, not his contributions.
Thats because you've made assumptions about Kodachrome that are simply wrong.
Digitals don't compete with it yet, and you could debate for years over 'better' films.
Kodachrome and its processing is pretty much like nothing else and the result is a slide that will last for 50 years and look exactly the same as it did the day it was developed. Blacks don't fad, blues 'pop'. You won't find other films that have its vibrance and its longevity.
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Or maybe its my numbers, ignore me, apparently I'm too stupid to add in the required zeros.
Only because you don't understand why your PC running Windows is unstable.
You'll have a pretty hard time taking out a generic Windows install without doing something intentionally to make it crash, like writing code known to cause an issue.
When you have a machine running known code only, using specific hardware with reliable drivers, and you aren't connected to the Internet ... Windows is trivial to keep running.
Windows crashes are 99.999999999999999999999% of the time due to shitty drivers. Its a safe bet that the last 11 out of 10 times your Windows machines crashed it was because of nVidia or ATI drivers, with a lower chance that it was due to sound drivers.
I'm not saying its not possible, but with solid hardware drivers and not intentionally doing something to take Windows out using known exploits where you are intentionally doing things to evade builtin safety features, it starts to get rather difficult.
The company that sold it was MS.
They have not went under.
For something like this, its trivial to get the source code to Windows if you need it.
OSS offers no advantage to them in this situation and several disadvantages.
Please to be getting a clue before spewing your ignorance.
Intelligent people who want to know that they aren't working with something brand new that no one really understands yet.
You don't use cutting edge tech on safety equipment when the cutting edge tech is incredibly complex.
You don't want retarded bugs in new software killing someone. You run something 12 years old, which is perfectly capable of doing the job and has been patched to all hell and back because its been used for so long by so many people.
And really ... name one reason why NT4 isn't up to the job? Never versions of Windows, for the most part, are GUI enhancements and would offer no additional value, and a lot more bloat to the system.
Intelligent people generally don't follow the bleeding edge of technology, its too much work and risk.
Your numbers are wrong somewhere.
If it cost 600 mil, but they lease it for 0.5 mil/day. Then they would have saved money by buying it outright since in 120 days would pay for it ... and they've been using it for well over 120 days.
Yea, you know what, hang the management of all 3 companies.
I don't give a flying fuck who was the final 'at fault' person, they are all involved. If you only go after one they just figure out a way to make a shell company to hide the dangerous stuff in.
Fuck that.
Take them all out, with some sort of punishment that will make them consider what they are doing rather than saying 'if I get caught, I'll just loose 15% of my 750 million'.
Public hanging.
The kind that they announce on their web page constantly when you visit it from another browser.
The kind that makes it to slashdot and other news outlets.
Its not to get people already using chrome to do anything, its for people not using chrome to switch to chrome.
I assure you, it does.
Your inability to include the O and the Es in people is probably another indication of our lowering levels of education.
Really? It takes me longer to type and read this kind of short hand than if you just typed it all out.
Or ... you could just plug a mouse and keyboard into your xbox360 and save a lot of money ...
Wipe the drives, dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/whatever works.
Then turn it off
Then say 'its the new replacement for timothy and kdawson. They are now new and improved and no longer post stupid shit like a question that should have been asked on some random forum somewhere rather than on a site with a title of 'News for nerds'.
Listen, its not 'help for newbies'. Its not 'your personal place to question people with an actual clue'.
In reality though, just throw it away. You'll spend more in electricity in the next year than if you bought a brand new Atom PC that will whip its ass. G5s are horrible power hogs compared to current chips.
to something else by the time this is done.
WTF, why are you bringing common sense into this discussion? I see your low UID but you must still be new here ...
So you have low standards, many of those of us on slashdot have considerable higher standards than the normal person because we've seen good and bad and know that good really isn't that hard if you have a clue and/or natural talent for programming.
The funny part is, you are far more likely to end up dead because that overhead light burns your house down due to hiring an apprentice than the big machine because that big machine you bought more than likely comes with a real electrician to wire it up according to the manufactures specification.
Fortunately, we don't know each other so I don't have to worry about being at your house when it burns down because you're a cheapskate hiring the lowest bidder.
Objective-C has the absolute most fucking retarded 'memory management' model I have ever seen.
Its got all the disadvantages of ref counting and non-ref counting allocation, and absolutely none of the advantages of either.
Anyone who thinks Objective-C is simpler is sorely confused.
And a bunch of if statements on the return value is much different than a bunch of catch statements for different exceptions?
Let me guess, you also think using GOTO is never acceptable but don't realize that an IF statement boils down to a goto.
I use it, as a programmer, every single day.
UTF8 was something he contributed too, barely, not invented, and he wasn't the reason its useful, but nice try.
No you don't. You really aren't that important. People that ARE that important have underlings that read their email for them.
You don't NEED an email client in your pocket. And you're probably be more useful if you didn't respond to email with a twitch reaction like you were playing an FPS.
You might want an email client in your pocket because its convenient or because you think your that important, but the definition of want and need are different, you should look them up.
You mean you didn't realize that the carriers would force this one the phones regardless of who wrote the OS?
Really? You didn't expect this? Cell phones have never been 'open', the fleeting few moments that you could get an android device that didn't have to be broken to modify the OS are few and drawing near a to a close.
If you didn't expect this than you really do need to take your fanboy blinders off.
I'm aware of who he is, what he does now and what he's done in the past. I've now seen his keynote.
My opinion hasn't changed. He has nothing to say and talks himself in circles, I'm guess you just don't see it due to lack of understanding, of course maybe I'm the one that doesn't understand.
Who knows, but I'm going to stick with my original assessment that he's just a blow hard spewing about his latest creation and how everyone elses sucks because his creation some how mysteriously fixes the problem that no one else has.
You go listen to what he has to say, I'll continue getting things done while you go play with a new language because its 'better' until you realize that its exactly the same as all the others.
When you start telling me that the language is the problem I realize instantly that you aren't that great of a programmer. My one exception to this is Visual Basic (not BASIC, VB specifically). It is a shitty environment because of the shit support library MS made for it.
You like VB for the same reason you like Tylenol.
It lets you play doctor without actually being one, or in this case, you get to play programmer without actually being one.
That most certainly has its usefulness as you are well aware, but that doesn't make it a tool that programmers should be using.
Doctors and programmers use a different set of tools than you use at home.
I spend most of my time now converting crappy VB apps to real applications, I have a license to hate VB and shitty VB writers who think they are programmers.
Yes, and it doesn't impress me. Writing isn't hard.
He also promptly called UNIX dead, and pretty much trash talks about everything that isn't his and how his is better, yet no one seems to give a shit and no one that matters uses it.
Anything he's contributed too that people actually use, they use because of what other people did, not his contributions.
Thats because you've made assumptions about Kodachrome that are simply wrong.
Digitals don't compete with it yet, and you could debate for years over 'better' films.
Kodachrome and its processing is pretty much like nothing else and the result is a slide that will last for 50 years and look exactly the same as it did the day it was developed. Blacks don't fad, blues 'pop'. You won't find other films that have its vibrance and its longevity.
He and I are very much alike.
I too have written OSes and programming languages that no one gives a flying fuck about :)
The things he had any involvement with that people do care about, like UTF8 aren't because of anything he did, but the work of others.
He's just a blow hard. He's one of those 'If I didn't invent the wheel, it sucks' guys.
He offers nothing of actual value.
Why? I haven't used anything he's ever done.
I have used stuff Google has done.
What he's created is shit no one cares about.
I've written almost all the same sort of things he has, and guess what, no one has used my stuff either!
Just because you do something doesn't mean anyone else cares or that its important.
Plan9 is a shining example of 'no one gives a fuck'