It's already come down from on high in Microsoft that their sales people selling to large organizations/governments should lose to linux under no circumstances. So if price is the deal breaker, they should give it away I guess...
Considering our initial attempts at crafting and designing, using tools etc resulted in a lot of naked women, I'd say it's been a testbed for technology for quite some time.
Yes, dealing with the paranoids is tricky business at best and is usually better solved by using our secret and proprietary technique which only we know about.
(Hint: rumors indicate our technique might involve certain types of kitchen wrapping material and cranial accessories.)
They may not be the users of those desktops, but it is people who make the choice.
Another poster had mentioned that windows as well is forced upon some employees. This poster also mentions that home users try to stay compatible with work by choosing windows at home. Who thinks microsoft might use this as a marketing ploy if the desktop becomes so "fragmented" with "different" "non compatible" operating systems?
Okay, I feel dumb. I knew this. Thanks for pointing out my flaw though.
But it does pun nicely in the sense that at the time I posted it, the very next listed poster attempted to (jokingly I presume) project the future desktop share of linux in concrete terms.
So with Sun's JDS
sold in China and not to mention
red flag linux -- naturally owned by the king's son -- all over the desktops of an extremely populous nation, and now according to the original slashdot posting, Israel and so forth, worldwide Microsoft is going to take a big hit.
I've also heard rumors that 75 percent of servers are running Microsoft. (I'd guess this is due to the "ease of administration"... probably can pay their admins a lot less.)
My guess is, once the desktop market gets chipped in to, the server market will also get hit since more capable admins will be easier to find (Since those on the bell curve who tend to be admins will become more familiar with linux.)
Thoughts?
Anyway, I always figured some day a tech company whose "technology" is only marketing would eventually fail, but it will still take years and years.
Oh I only make Reynolds berets out of plastic rap, so there should be no need to worry.
As for your initial comment, you might find that references to tin foil hat wearers are common here and it is simply a light hearted way of talking about the "ultra paranoid". (At least for some of us.)
Like my other post about making posession of various RFID "transmitting agents" (I presume they'd be called.) illegal. (Or Weapons of Spectral Destruction.)
They just have to make it illegal to possess certain RFIDs unless you are using them properly.
E.g. only RFIDs designated for drivers licenses can be carried on drivers licenses. Possessing them in any other form would be illegal, and you lose a whole spectrum of rights...
[Outer space becomes the new South America etc etc.]
Re:Running windows code
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Watch out for the Broken windSheild Of Death.
But would you hack Guido the Killer Pimp?
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LMAO Guido the Killer Pimp.
He's probably who the Hollywood execs send after you for hacking your Tivo.
Dire Straits "greatest hits", the song "Money for Nothing" had the entire verse about "That little faggot has his own jet airplane...." completely cut from the song.
Are they worried gay people wil buy this and be offended? Or that impressionable youth more prone to buying cop killing gangsta and gay hating gangsta rap will stumble across a Dire Straits album and decide to buy it because Dire Straits is what all the kids listen to these days?
You do know why the original phreaker was called "Captain Crunch", right
Yes, I do know why. [hyperbole] But my concern is more with the number of captain crunches who's boxes of Frosted Linux Charms come with a free tcpdump or other whistles which might monitor or alter traffic lights, news broadcasts, telephone conversations, atm transactions, etc. [/hyperbole]
As more and more of our traditional communications mediums move onto IP, won't it be easier for crackers to comproomise these things?
For example, it may be difficult for a cracker to get his hands on a pbx let alone a working environment to do his "R & D" in. But as eveything moves to using really common standards, it gets pretty easy to test this stuff in his mom's basement or whatever...
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In Soviet Russia, ad watches you...
(Since it's a satellite and all)
It's already come down from on high in Microsoft that their sales people selling to large organizations/governments should lose to linux under no circumstances. So if price is the deal breaker, they should give it away I guess...
Considering our initial attempts at crafting and designing, using tools etc resulted in a lot of naked women, I'd say it's been a testbed for technology for quite some time.
Yes, dealing with the paranoids is tricky business at best and is usually better solved by using our secret and proprietary technique which only we know about.
(Hint: rumors indicate our technique might involve certain types of kitchen wrapping material and cranial accessories.)
They may not be the users of those desktops, but it is people who make the choice.
Another poster had mentioned that windows as well is forced upon some employees. This poster also mentions that home users try to stay compatible with work by choosing windows at home. Who thinks microsoft might use this as a marketing ploy if the desktop becomes so "fragmented" with "different" "non compatible" operating systems?
Como? Donde?
Okay, I feel dumb. I knew this. Thanks for pointing out my flaw though.
But it does pun nicely in the sense that at the time I posted it, the very next listed poster attempted to (jokingly I presume) project the future desktop share of linux in concrete terms.
Sorry again for the spelling error. Good catch.
I can see how many years and years it will take :)
So with Sun's JDS sold in China and not to mention red flag linux -- naturally owned by the king's son -- all over the desktops of an extremely populous nation, and now according to the original slashdot posting, Israel and so forth, worldwide Microsoft is going to take a big hit.
I've also heard rumors that 75 percent of servers are running Microsoft. (I'd guess this is due to the "ease of administration"... probably can pay their admins a lot less.)
My guess is, once the desktop market gets chipped in to, the server market will also get hit since more capable admins will be easier to find (Since those on the bell curve who tend to be admins will become more familiar with linux.)
Thoughts?
Anyway, I always figured some day a tech company whose "technology" is only marketing would eventually fail, but it will still take years and years.
lmao that's definately a way of dealing with paranoids. (Probably make them more paranoid though if they knew they would be dealt with this way.)
Sometimes a bit of paranoia is a good thing.
Oh I only make Reynolds berets out of plastic rap, so there should be no need to worry.
As for your initial comment, you might find that references to tin foil hat wearers are common here and it is simply a light hearted way of talking about the "ultra paranoid". (At least for some of us.)
Like my other post about making posession of various RFID "transmitting agents" (I presume they'd be called.) illegal. (Or Weapons of Spectral Destruction.)
"Back in 2010, Crayola introduced this RFID into it's standard box."
For all the tin foil hat wearers...
They just have to make it illegal to possess certain RFIDs unless you are using them properly.
E.g. only RFIDs designated for drivers licenses can be carried on drivers licenses. Possessing them in any other form would be illegal, and you lose a whole spectrum of rights...
[Outer space becomes the new South America etc etc.]
Watch out for the Broken windSheild Of Death.
LMAO Guido the Killer Pimp.
He's probably who the Hollywood execs send after you for hacking your Tivo.
She quotes Einstein's "simple as possible" bit.
Perhaps it should be:
Everything intuitive should be as fast as possible, but not faster.
Oh, I guess I've heard of them now. Nice PR. Thanks to the Digital Marketing Courtroom Advertisement.
From this tragic story, I must conclude that AM Radio is the only medium ready for critical infrastructure.
Seems a bit all encompassing to me. I think I sold lemonade at a "financial institution" on my street corner when I was six.
We've since gotten rid of all of our records of transactions. I hope the FBI doesn't come looking for any of them.
Here's a link to a page which links to these and other similar projects
They don't censor stuff
Dire Straits "greatest hits", the song "Money for Nothing" had the entire verse about "That little faggot has his own jet airplane...." completely cut from the song.
Are they worried gay people wil buy this and be offended? Or that impressionable youth more prone to buying cop killing gangsta and gay hating gangsta rap will stumble across a Dire Straits album and decide to buy it because Dire Straits is what all the kids listen to these days?
Take the big blue pill
You do know why the original phreaker was called "Captain Crunch", right
Yes, I do know why. [hyperbole] But my concern is more with the number of captain crunches who's boxes of Frosted Linux Charms come with a free tcpdump or other whistles which might monitor or alter traffic lights, news broadcasts, telephone conversations, atm transactions, etc. [/hyperbole]
I can only assume this is a large motivation behind moving _80_ percent of their human resources to this.
This may be a dumb question but....
As more and more of our traditional communications mediums move onto IP, won't it be easier for crackers to comproomise these things?
For example, it may be difficult for a cracker to get his hands on a pbx let alone a working environment to do his "R & D" in. But as eveything moves to using really common standards, it gets pretty easy to test this stuff in his mom's basement or whatever...
"Hello, this is the operator." Is it?