Microsoft is like the Karl Rove of tech... The only way Microsoft has to promote their inferior product has been FUD campaigns and tons of self-promotion through marketing.
You insult the Bush administration and Microsoft in the same comment on Slashdot and you say "Go ahead, mod me down." You are definitely new here otherwise you would've known that either one of those alone would've given you an instant +5 Insightful.
If you would've thrown in some devotional passages to Linux, you would've been in the running for the extremely rare +6 Super Genius.
With apologies to all the Google fans out there, the Internet has changed the top search engine several times in the past and it will change it again.
Just about every Internet veteran company has now recognized Google for the threat it is and has declared an all out war against them. Basically, it's Google against everyone. In such cases, everyone usually wins. Unfortunately for Google, they should expect many more actions like IE7 having a default search bar just like FireFox, only defaulting to pointing to MSN Search.
I am by nature very skeptical but I read Healing Back Pain by Sarno after I started getting carpal tunnel syndrome about a year ago.
I used to sleep with wrist braces every night and try to cut down computer time which is difficult considering I'm a computer programmer for a living. Now I only think about CPS when it's brought up on Slashdot.
The parent is a fairly accurate description. You can google TMS and Sarno to find additional information or just rent his book from the local library.
Alas I don't like to get into political conversations, but I also don't like people smugly saying something so blatently wrong even more.
Speaking of smug, I find that people that use the word "alas" in common speech typically fit the bill. Score a point for irony.
I'll give you another 4 irony points for misspelling "blatantly wrong". That gives you 5 irony points. Use them well... unlike the moronic mods with an agenda that modded you +5 Informative.
I agree with you and even take it a step further. The article could not be more plain in that even though it was dated 4/7/2006, it did not take events of the last month into account which makes it totally useless in my opinion.
Three major announcements in the last month have radically changed server virtualization and made the article obsolete:
1. VMWare renamed GSX to Virtual Server and made it free.
2. Microsoft made their Virtual Server free.
3. Microsoft announced support for certain Linux distributions in their Virtual Server product.
The parts of the article that show it's obsolete in light of the above facts:
An open source solution will win the cost battle almost every time If you want to use Linux as your host OS, you'll definitely have to go with VMware.
Also, for my own personal review - I'm a pretty heavy Microsoft user and was excited about them making Virtual Server free. Evaluating VMWare's free product against Microsoft makes Microsoft look pretty unpolished though. For instance, compare VMWare's P2V application to convert Physical to Virtual servers against Microsoft's offering which requires having a spare server lying around which must run Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with Automated Deployment Services. Give me a break - the cost becomes so prohibitive it's not even worth it. Microsoft may get there but right now their product looks like what it is - a bunch of things hastily thrown together. VMWare's products have coherence.
You can run 4 instances of Windows Server for free in Windows Virtual Server.
This is only true if you are running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition. And the host operating system counts as an instance. So, you load Windows Server 2003 to act as a Virtual Server host, that means the license allows you to run 3 additional guest operating systems within that host.
These are two important distinctions because the Enterprise edition is far more expensive than the standard edition. It wouldn't make sense to purchase it just for the 3 additional licenses.
I can take 2 gigs of straight 0's and compress it into a file with table and it only be maybe kilobyte in size.
Without putting much thought into it, I can even do that. 2 gigs of straight 0's with a real-world algorithm pretty easily compresses down to 12 bytes, far fewer than the kilobyte you quote. You could store it in just: 2000000000x0
Use an abbreviation for 2 billion or other byte-saving tricks and you could compress it down even more.
I suspect such smoke and mirrors is something similar to what this company has done to achieve their reported compression results.
StorageMojo is reporting that a company named Practical Nano Cold Fusion Duke Nukem Forever at Storage Networking World in San Diego has made a startling claim of 25x data compression for digital...
If every patent victim were to utter those words to the person or corporation attempting to shake them down, the incentive to perpetrate such frauds would be gone.
The problem is that corporations like Microsoft typically have a short-term mentality that tells them, "If we litigate, it will cost X. If we pay them off, it will cost Y." They then pay off the con artists if X > Y. Unfortunately this doesn't take into consideration the fact that this rewards bad behavior and leads to the paying of infinite more Ys in the future.
I applaud Microsoft's decision and I hope Eolas goes down in flames.
I use TurboTax. I normally pay the $29 fee to electronically file it, but I can just as easily not send it to an intermediary by printing it out and mailing it in.
It will be interesting to see how many people go back to paper filing their forms directly to the IRS. Should be a nightmare of un-automation for them.
Face it, they're just trying to slow down the DVD pirates
Made up facts sure are convenient, but that doesn't make them true. More likely, what Netflix is doing is trying to reduce their shipping charges by taking steps to limit their advertised "unlimited" movie rentals per month. Both are speculation. Which one is more likely?
It does look damn suspicious for a guy to turn around 3-5 movies a day
I suggest you look at the data at the Netflix Queue Tracker. People are apparently getting throttled for getting as few as 6 movies per month. That's a little less than the 90-150 movies per month you're quoting as being suspicious.
the DVD pirates are turning around 10-15 discs a week (or more).
Where in the world are you getting these numbers? I challenge anyone to turn around 10 to 15 discs a week (or more) with Netflix. Maybe if you're on the 8 at a time plan, this might be possible. With the three at a time plan, you're lucky to turn over 6 discs a week. That's assuming you're not being throttled at all. Is it unreasonable to speculate that someone that doesn't have cable and doesn't watch broadcast TV might watch one movie per night? (and even take off a night every week!) No, they must be a pirate.
Sad? Everyone in the tech industry should get laid off at least twice. Except me, but I'm really fucking good. (and I mean this in the least arrogant sense possible - most of you will never even glimpse my level, never mind achieve it.)
Based on this rant, I'm going to guess you just got a job in IT working at the help desk and can't believe how stupid those idiot users are. You know a lot about Windows XP and still think you know everything. You're likely a few years away from realizing just how little you do know and attaining humility.
It's OK. Many IT people go through this phase. Best of luck to you.
It should read, "Oracle to layoff 2000 people" Not jobs, people. People are losing their jobs. Its a sad thing.
A person losing their job is a scary thing for that person and their family. It's not necessarily sad. What is your philosophy when it comes to this? Once someone is given a job, does that mean they have it for life regardless of performance of the person or the company that person has chosen to align themself with? I can understand this statement coming from a brief moment of idealism or naiveness, but people lose their jobs. That's a necessary and proper action to maintain the economy as a whole. The realistic viewpoint is that most of the people laid off (especially the good ones) will go on to even better jobs.
I have an idea, if your fortune gets to be so large that even the IRS can't figure it all out, you should be required to give some of it away to the poor until they can do the necessary calculations.
Part of the problem is likely that Gates gives so much to the poor already. He's the richest man in the world, but name someone that gives more money to the poor than he.
You missed my point. It was that if your site relies on a secure browser (as the article stated) or data that is stored client side (cookies), you have many worries, not just the one outlined in the article.
Please accept my sincere apologies. I should've realized that the ability to spell words properly has nothing to do with the ability to read words properly. How silly of me.
No site should trust client-side information.
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A basic rule of web design is that information submitted from forms and cookies stored on a client computer should at the very least be validated before processing.
Otherwise, insecure browsers like TFA mentions are only one of your worries. What's to stop someone from modifying a cookie file with a hex editor? What's to stop someone from saving a local copy of your form and modifying it and submitting the modified form to your form processor?
Do we need any further evidence that congress people and their staff have too much time on their hands? I hope in the contentious atmosphere that plagues Washington these days that people from all sides of the political spectrum can agree that Congress is given too many resources to accomplish too little.
Next they'll be wasting all their time on Slashdot.
You are looking at it from a flawed perspective. "If I don't do it, somebody else will" is a pragmatic argument, not a moral argument. You're still doing evil.
I was starting to think the world has gone insane until I read your comment. Absolutely amazing the opinions that are being modded up. Makes it very apparent that the average Slashdot user is enamored with Google and thinks just about anything they do is just dandy.
You often witnesses a party acting more like their "opponent" because a very effective tactic of late has been to steal your opponent's position. There are dozens of very recent examples, but two glaring ones are Clinton's welfare reform and Bush's Medicare prescription drug coverage. This really helps swing voters to think that you're not an idealogue for one side or the other. Of course, it does nothing to sway radicals but then nothing would sway them.
The sorry fact though is that this has gone on long enough that there aren't very many differences between the two parties today.
I couldn't imagine the hell that America would be without swing voters. As much as the radicals from both sides think the world is coming to an end when "the other side" comes to power, they just need to realize the pendulum will eventually swing a little more in their direction.
I hated the way staunch conservatives acted during the Clinton years and I loathe the way mega liberals are acting now.
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Microsoft is like the Karl Rove of tech...
The only way Microsoft has to promote their inferior product has been FUD campaigns and tons of self-promotion through marketing.
You insult the Bush administration and Microsoft in the same comment on Slashdot and you say "Go ahead, mod me down." You are definitely new here otherwise you would've known that either one of those alone would've given you an instant +5 Insightful.
If you would've thrown in some devotional passages to Linux, you would've been in the running for the extremely rare +6 Super Genius.
With apologies to all the Google fans out there, the Internet has changed the top search engine several times in the past and it will change it again.
Just about every Internet veteran company has now recognized Google for the threat it is and has declared an all out war against them. Basically, it's Google against everyone. In such cases, everyone usually wins. Unfortunately for Google, they should expect many more actions like IE7 having a default search bar just like FireFox, only defaulting to pointing to MSN Search.
Sorry, Google - it was fun while it lasted.
I am by nature very skeptical but I read Healing Back Pain by Sarno after I started getting carpal tunnel syndrome about a year ago.
I used to sleep with wrist braces every night and try to cut down computer time which is difficult considering I'm a computer programmer for a living. Now I only think about CPS when it's brought up on Slashdot.
The parent is a fairly accurate description. You can google TMS and Sarno to find additional information or just rent his book from the local library.
Alas I don't like to get into political conversations, but I also don't like people smugly saying something so blatently wrong even more.
Speaking of smug, I find that people that use the word "alas" in common speech typically fit the bill. Score a point for irony.
I'll give you another 4 irony points for misspelling "blatantly wrong". That gives you 5 irony points. Use them well... unlike the moronic mods with an agenda that modded you +5 Informative.
I agree with you and even take it a step further. The article could not be more plain in that even though it was dated 4/7/2006, it did not take events of the last month into account which makes it totally useless in my opinion.
Three major announcements in the last month have radically changed server virtualization and made the article obsolete:
1. VMWare renamed GSX to Virtual Server and made it free.
2. Microsoft made their Virtual Server free.
3. Microsoft announced support for certain Linux distributions in their Virtual Server product.
The parts of the article that show it's obsolete in light of the above facts:
An open source solution will win the cost battle almost every time
If you want to use Linux as your host OS, you'll definitely have to go with VMware.
Also, for my own personal review - I'm a pretty heavy Microsoft user and was excited about them making Virtual Server free. Evaluating VMWare's free product against Microsoft makes Microsoft look pretty unpolished though. For instance, compare VMWare's P2V application to convert Physical to Virtual servers against Microsoft's offering which requires having a spare server lying around which must run Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with Automated Deployment Services. Give me a break - the cost becomes so prohibitive it's not even worth it. Microsoft may get there but right now their product looks like what it is - a bunch of things hastily thrown together. VMWare's products have coherence.
You can run 4 instances of Windows Server for free in Windows Virtual Server.
This is only true if you are running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise edition. And the host operating system counts as an instance. So, you load Windows Server 2003 to act as a Virtual Server host, that means the license allows you to run 3 additional guest operating systems within that host.
These are two important distinctions because the Enterprise edition is far more expensive than the standard edition. It wouldn't make sense to purchase it just for the 3 additional licenses.
Eiffel is an object oriented programming language supporting contracts.
I was beginning to get concerned about the incredible lack of object oriented programming languages currently available.
Fortunately, there's now another one to choose from that is now free.
I can take 2 gigs of straight 0's and compress it into a file with table and it only be maybe kilobyte in size.
Without putting much thought into it, I can even do that. 2 gigs of straight 0's with a real-world algorithm pretty easily compresses down to 12 bytes, far fewer than the kilobyte you quote. You could store it in just: 2000000000x0
Use an abbreviation for 2 billion or other byte-saving tricks and you could compress it down even more.
I suspect such smoke and mirrors is something similar to what this company has done to achieve their reported compression results.
The summary should have read...
StorageMojo is reporting that a company named Practical Nano Cold Fusion Duke Nukem Forever at Storage Networking World in San Diego has made a startling claim of 25x data compression for digital...
If every patent victim were to utter those words to the person or corporation attempting to shake them down, the incentive to perpetrate such frauds would be gone.
The problem is that corporations like Microsoft typically have a short-term mentality that tells them, "If we litigate, it will cost X. If we pay them off, it will cost Y." They then pay off the con artists if X > Y. Unfortunately this doesn't take into consideration the fact that this rewards bad behavior and leads to the paying of infinite more Ys in the future.
I applaud Microsoft's decision and I hope Eolas goes down in flames.
I use TurboTax. I normally pay the $29 fee to electronically file it, but I can just as easily not send it to an intermediary by printing it out and mailing it in.
It will be interesting to see how many people go back to paper filing their forms directly to the IRS. Should be a nightmare of un-automation for them.
Face it, they're just trying to slow down the DVD pirates
Made up facts sure are convenient, but that doesn't make them true. More likely, what Netflix is doing is trying to reduce their shipping charges by taking steps to limit their advertised "unlimited" movie rentals per month. Both are speculation. Which one is more likely?
It does look damn suspicious for a guy to turn around 3-5 movies a day
I suggest you look at the data at the Netflix Queue Tracker. People are apparently getting throttled for getting as few as 6 movies per month. That's a little less than the 90-150 movies per month you're quoting as being suspicious.
the DVD pirates are turning around 10-15 discs a week (or more).
Where in the world are you getting these numbers? I challenge anyone to turn around 10 to 15 discs a week (or more) with Netflix. Maybe if you're on the 8 at a time plan, this might be possible. With the three at a time plan, you're lucky to turn over 6 discs a week. That's assuming you're not being throttled at all. Is it unreasonable to speculate that someone that doesn't have cable and doesn't watch broadcast TV might watch one movie per night? (and even take off a night every week!) No, they must be a pirate.
Sad? Everyone in the tech industry should get laid off at least twice. Except me, but I'm really fucking good. (and I mean this in the least arrogant sense possible - most of you will never even glimpse my level, never mind achieve it.)
Based on this rant, I'm going to guess you just got a job in IT working at the help desk and can't believe how stupid those idiot users are. You know a lot about Windows XP and still think you know everything. You're likely a few years away from realizing just how little you do know and attaining humility.
It's OK. Many IT people go through this phase. Best of luck to you.
It should read, "Oracle to layoff 2000 people" Not jobs, people. People are losing their jobs. Its a sad thing.
A person losing their job is a scary thing for that person and their family. It's not necessarily sad. What is your philosophy when it comes to this? Once someone is given a job, does that mean they have it for life regardless of performance of the person or the company that person has chosen to align themself with? I can understand this statement coming from a brief moment of idealism or naiveness, but people lose their jobs. That's a necessary and proper action to maintain the economy as a whole. The realistic viewpoint is that most of the people laid off (especially the good ones) will go on to even better jobs.
That is not sad. Scary for them, but not sad.
I have an idea, if your fortune gets to be so large that even the IRS can't figure it all out, you should be required to give some of it away to the poor until they can do the necessary calculations.
Part of the problem is likely that Gates gives so much to the poor already. He's the richest man in the world, but name someone that gives more money to the poor than he.
Moe: "Say, Barn. Uh, remember when I said I'd have to send away to NASA to calculate your bar tab?"
Barney: "Oh ho, oh yeah. We all had a good laugh, Moe."
Moe: "The results came back today."
You missed my point. It was that if your site relies on a secure browser (as the article stated) or data that is stored client side (cookies), you have many worries, not just the one outlined in the article.
I said literacy not spelling.
Please accept my sincere apologies. I should've realized that the ability to spell words properly has nothing to do with the ability to read words properly. How silly of me.
A basic rule of web design is that information submitted from forms and cookies stored on a client computer should at the very least be validated before processing.
Otherwise, insecure browsers like TFA mentions are only one of your worries. What's to stop someone from modifying a cookie file with a hex editor? What's to stop someone from saving a local copy of your form and modifying it and submitting the modified form to your form processor?
Quite honestly, I move to give literacy tests before giving voting privelidges...
Just so long as one doesn't require spelling tests before giving commenting privileges.
Do we need any further evidence that congress people and their staff have too much time on their hands? I hope in the contentious atmosphere that plagues Washington these days that people from all sides of the political spectrum can agree that Congress is given too many resources to accomplish too little.
Next they'll be wasting all their time on Slashdot.
You are looking at it from a flawed perspective. "If I don't do it, somebody else will" is a pragmatic argument, not a moral argument. You're still doing evil.
I was starting to think the world has gone insane until I read your comment. Absolutely amazing the opinions that are being modded up. Makes it very apparent that the average Slashdot user is enamored with Google and thinks just about anything they do is just dandy.
You often witnesses a party acting more like their "opponent" because a very effective tactic of late has been to steal your opponent's position. There are dozens of very recent examples, but two glaring ones are Clinton's welfare reform and Bush's Medicare prescription drug coverage. This really helps swing voters to think that you're not an idealogue for one side or the other. Of course, it does nothing to sway radicals but then nothing would sway them.
The sorry fact though is that this has gone on long enough that there aren't very many differences between the two parties today.
I couldn't imagine the hell that America would be without swing voters. As much as the radicals from both sides think the world is coming to an end when "the other side" comes to power, they just need to realize the pendulum will eventually swing a little more in their direction.
I hated the way staunch conservatives acted during the Clinton years and I loathe the way mega liberals are acting now.
I think everything you just said every time I see an episode of MTV's Cribs.