I can't believe you actually gathered enough testicular mass to actually reply to me with one of your lame sockpuppets. I really didn't know if I should cry or laugh uncontrollably. Listen, do me a big favor and reply with the same account, or FOAD.
And to stay on topic, no, GFS is nowhere close to ZFS and in any case it has an installed base that rapidly approaches zero. ZFS is tested and mature, mostly due to the fact that it is used in Solaris. Nice try though. Not every technological innovation comes from your bearded and unwashed godlets, no matter how much you want to pretend that's the case.
You're missing the point. He's not annoyed at twitter because of "negative evaluation" or even the ever-hilarious "M$" thing that just never gets old. It's the fact that he's posted in this article with three different accounts already. Very soon now you're going to see three different people jump into the thread, agree with him and complain if there's any moderation he doesn't like.
Seriously, is there some sort of reality distortion field problem here where someone with seven or eight accounts that humps all over Slashdot shilling his own posts can happily get away with it, no repercussions? Screw the controls that this website has in place to prevent things like these, along with crapflooders, GNAA trolls and erotic stories about CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal?
There is a reason why his first two accounts are in negative karma hell, but he doesn't understand that people mod him down, not his opinions. As if criticizing Microsoft on Slashdot was reason to be modded down? People are tired of him, but he just blames everything on Microsoft, claims that anyone who disagrees with him "hates" him, and then proceeds to create seven or eight accounts, and reply to himself so that moderators think "wow, this gnutoo/inTheLoo/Erris/westbake/willeyhill/twitter/Mactrope fellow sure has a lot of friends who agree with him" and play the karma game to his full satisfaction.
Aside from my personal dislike of his "evangelism" style that does more harm than good to free software, that should not be allowed. I don't reply to myself pretending I'm someone else to see if I get modded up, I say what I think and I'm responsible for it. Within the community that is Slashdot, that means you are moderated up or down and deal with the consequences of that. The next time you find yourself getting stacked upon on a discussion thread by three people who sound exactly the same you'll see what the problem is with sockpuppets.
Anyway, it's just the internet, and some people take all this too seriously (probably including myself sometimes) but even here there are rules and an etiquette that people follow or things go the way of Kuro5hin and Digg.
(And now I'm sure he'll use one of those sockpuppets to mod me down like he's been doing the past few weeks with his gnutoo and inTheLoo accounts, which are the only ones that are not posting at zero or less for obvious trolling.)
No, it comes from people who use Microsoft products and can't be bothered to patch their systems, or in the best of cases are dumb enough to install that REALLY SUPER COOL SCREENSAVER!!!! that britaney3345@zuppahfiles.cc was kind enough to send to them.
It took a while to get used to. One thing about the SW, it's big. If you have smaller hands you might want to stay away from it. But other than that, once you get the hang of it it's great.
Another thing, the buttons (especially the thumb ones) need some force to actuate. Mine have gotten a bit softer now, but it does take a few weeks. All in all, I'm really happy. The weights make a big difference at higher DPI settings, and I settled on the white sliders (teflon?) based on how they perform on my desk. I think the point is that it's so customizable that you really can't go wrong with it - as long as you're comfortable with the size.
If this thread had been started by anyone other than twitter the troll, I'd be inclined to discuss loss leaders and segmented pricing in the PC industry with you. It wasn't, and I'm not. twitter's brain can deal only with absolutes, so that's what I'm providing, even though quite frankly it's sort of stupid. It's like talking to a 5-year old child.
So, the question was "can you buy a Vista laptop for $300". The answer is "yes". End of discussion.
A few weeks ago I bought a SW mouse at BestBuy. I was a little worried about dropping that much money on a rodent, but my standard came-with-the-PC optical mouse just wasn't cutting it. After a few days I couldn't be happier. The size and chunky construction of that thing makes it a no-brainer for FPS.
I used to think dedicated gaming hardware was just a selling point, but really, if you're into FPS and you're still using the OEM crap that came with your box, you're missing out on a lot. Take it from someone who doesn't take his games that seriously.
Except that I regularly get printed catalogs for HP, with ~$400 laptops on it. Combine with coupons or the occasional $50-100 off you get on their website (also on Dell's) and you can sure as hell buy a Vista laptop for $300 or thereabouts. You might even get free shipping. I've noticed Dell tends to do that sort of thing early in the week, and then more rarely on Saturdays and Sundays, probably because that's when they get the majority of their sales.
See twitter? No need to accuse people of stealing just to be clever.
The movie itself is an advertisement for non free software
Well twitter, considering the demographics of the vast majority of people who will watch this movie, it's safe to say that your self-aggrandizing concerns about that are unimportant.
By the way, I lost track of your sockpuppets in the last few days. How many now, ten? twelve?
A copy of software in the public domain can be made "propietary". The software itself will invariably remain in the public domain, as long as there isn't an enforceable prior patent that affects it. But that's also true for any software, including code released under the GPL.
If nothing else, M$ has a copy of the pst files because they can and would.
For the uninitiated, twitter is cleverly implying here that "M$" can read your email at will. You know, because "they can and would", which is appropriate because it sounds like something Bush would say.
So twitter, I suppose we are all waiting for proof of what you're saying. Some sort of proof that Microsoft is reading the.PST file on my computer? I'm sure every single Slashdot reader would love to get their hands on that kind of evidence.
More to the point, someone should mod your comment up to +5, given the importance of your assertion. That is of course if you actually can prove it in some way.
Just remember to use this same account to reply, not one of your other 9 or 10 sockpuppets.
I don't think SPs are painful or intrusive, on the contrary. As long as you keep business logic out of them, they're excellent. Can you do most everything that you can with an SP using parametrized inline SQL? Sure. In my particular niche however (Really Large (TM) Financial Applications), they are a must because of security/audit/management issues.
This is not rocket science here. The 100% certified, no-assembly-required, Makes Baby Jesus Happy (TM) solution to this "problem" is to use your database's built-in programmability feature (better known as stored procedures) every single time you need to pull data push data from your database. No exceptions. And that's it. Stop using lame inline SQL.
I hear even MySQL supports stored procedures now, so I don't see what the problem is, other than millions of lines of sloppy existing code that won't die. But the "fix" has always been there.
This whole case struck me from the beginning as a situation where an intelligent person thought he could be smart. In general terms, whenever you try to cover up a murder the lack of the latter is usually more damning than the former, especially if you lack a gazillion-dollar legal team like OJ Simpson.
Right now I'm just glad that a guy that permanently denied his own children of the presence of their mother will probably spend the rest of his natural life in prison.
it looks like it would have been prevented if Microsoft had disallowed multiple statements in the driver.
So what you are saying is that (and quoting the article you reference) Microsoft is at fault for providing these "high end features"? Even considering that it's not necessary to write sloppy VBScript code, and that it's ridiculously easy to use ADO to put together parameterized database commands, regardless of how many resultsets they are supposed to return?
And that the lack of that feature is actually an advantage for platforms like PHP and Perl? I'm curious, is the lack of that feature the reason for the multiple and well-documented injection attacks against LAMP applications? Or is it something else?
You will forgive me here if I imagine for a second what the general sentiment would be if the PHP MySQL driver actually provided this useful time- and bandwidth-saving feature while ADO/ADO.NET didn't. You would be telling me that it's the developers' fault, since all they need to do is write half-decent code that uses simple and well-documented features in the DB framework that prevent exposure to injection attacks. The PHP folks would not to blame, and in fact it would be so cool of them to out-innovate Microsoft.
you cannot execute more than one query in a single mysql_query() call
...is that an actual feature?
Seriously though, does it prevent you from running more than one *statement*, or a query *and* a DDL statement together? I guess that would be impressive.
I use mostly C# and MSSQL, and I routinely write stored procs that return multiple datasets, which wouldn't be a problem in this case, but would PHP prevent me from running an ad hoc statement that returns more than one resultset at a time? As far as I know I can do that with the SqlClient in.NET, but I graduated from the inline SQL happy club about a decade ago so I wouldn't really know.
As a coder, I don't agree with that. You make a tool/language/framework for developers
So stock Java protects me from things like "SELECT * FROM users WHERE Name = 'eldavojohn'; DELETE FROM orders", correct?
Wait, it doesn't. Neither does PHP or Python or Perl.
So I guess you can spin it as this somehow being Microsoft's fault, and Slashdot can post it again (and maybe again tomorrow FTW), deliberately confusing pages vs sites and using titillating article titles and editorial bylines about how corporate spin is "bad".
That doesn't change the fact that this is an application vulnerability, much like the endless stream of exploits against applications like phpBB that run on Linux and Apache.
But hey, it's all in the name of freedom and increased ad revenue, right?
twitter fancies himself an intellectual, having allegedly run through the gauntlet of some sort of higher education. He truly and honestly believes he is more intelligent than you, me and most everyone on Slashdot. A sort of "hick" intellectual with an extremely narrow field of knowledge, but an intellectual nonetheless.
If you read his posts closely, you'll see that most of them are nothing but buzzword-compliant but meaningless semantic soup packaged up with some links that almost always fail to support the point he's making (though no one actually bothers to check them, apparently). This tends to look impressive, and so usually he gets modded up.
He does make sense sometimes, normally in the context of a RIAA or Patriot Act article and things like that. But the rest of the time, when he's wearing his "free software advocate" T-shirt, he makes no sense whatsoever.
It's weird, that someone actually has a skill that lets them write things that look interesting but convey no meaningful information whatsoever. The only other two types of human being I can think of that manage to pull that off are politicians and religious fundamentalists.
Hahaha! Oh my god twitter, you are a real piece of work.
It's working though, I suppose. Since you post at -1 for trolling, any immediate positive-sounding replies tend to garner attention. I guess that's really the reason why you insult everyone's intelligence this way, isn't it? Just hoping to see if you can muster up a few mod points to bring your account out of karma hell?
Well, once you're done you'll need to work on the Erris account as well. That's gonna be rough.
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And to stay on topic, no, GFS is nowhere close to ZFS and in any case it has an installed base that rapidly approaches zero. ZFS is tested and mature, mostly due to the fact that it is used in Solaris. Nice try though. Not every technological innovation comes from your bearded and unwashed godlets, no matter how much you want to pretend that's the case.
Seriously, is there some sort of reality distortion field problem here where someone with seven or eight accounts that humps all over Slashdot shilling his own posts can happily get away with it, no repercussions? Screw the controls that this website has in place to prevent things like these, along with crapflooders, GNAA trolls and erotic stories about CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal?
There is a reason why his first two accounts are in negative karma hell, but he doesn't understand that people mod him down, not his opinions. As if criticizing Microsoft on Slashdot was reason to be modded down? People are tired of him, but he just blames everything on Microsoft, claims that anyone who disagrees with him "hates" him, and then proceeds to create seven or eight accounts, and reply to himself so that moderators think "wow, this gnutoo/inTheLoo/Erris/westbake/willeyhill/twitter/Mactrope fellow sure has a lot of friends who agree with him" and play the karma game to his full satisfaction.
Aside from my personal dislike of his "evangelism" style that does more harm than good to free software, that should not be allowed. I don't reply to myself pretending I'm someone else to see if I get modded up, I say what I think and I'm responsible for it. Within the community that is Slashdot, that means you are moderated up or down and deal with the consequences of that. The next time you find yourself getting stacked upon on a discussion thread by three people who sound exactly the same you'll see what the problem is with sockpuppets.
Anyway, it's just the internet, and some people take all this too seriously (probably including myself sometimes) but even here there are rules and an etiquette that people follow or things go the way of Kuro5hin and Digg.
(And now I'm sure he'll use one of those sockpuppets to mod me down like he's been doing the past few weeks with his gnutoo and inTheLoo accounts, which are the only ones that are not posting at zero or less for obvious trolling.)
Ha ha, good one.
make its way.
Read the GP of the comment you're replying. It doesn't work that way. Hubris is bad for your health, you know?
No, it comes from people who use Microsoft products and can't be bothered to patch their systems, or in the best of cases are dumb enough to install that REALLY SUPER COOL SCREENSAVER!!!! that britaney3345@zuppahfiles.cc was kind enough to send to them.
Another thing, the buttons (especially the thumb ones) need some force to actuate. Mine have gotten a bit softer now, but it does take a few weeks. All in all, I'm really happy. The weights make a big difference at higher DPI settings, and I settled on the white sliders (teflon?) based on how they perform on my desk. I think the point is that it's so customizable that you really can't go wrong with it - as long as you're comfortable with the size.
Happy gaming =)
So, the question was "can you buy a Vista laptop for $300". The answer is "yes". End of discussion.
I used to think dedicated gaming hardware was just a selling point, but really, if you're into FPS and you're still using the OEM crap that came with your box, you're missing out on a lot. Take it from someone who doesn't take his games that seriously.
See twitter? No need to accuse people of stealing just to be clever.
Eeew, that's gross.
Well twitter, considering the demographics of the vast majority of people who will watch this movie, it's safe to say that your self-aggrandizing concerns about that are unimportant.
By the way, I lost track of your sockpuppets in the last few days. How many now, ten? twelve?
Joke ----> :)
You -----> 0_o
Is that a feature or a bug?
A copy of software in the public domain can be made "propietary". The software itself will invariably remain in the public domain, as long as there isn't an enforceable prior patent that affects it. But that's also true for any software, including code released under the GPL.
The AC that seems to have taken up poor twitter's cause is probably feeling dumb right now.
For the uninitiated, twitter is cleverly implying here that "M$" can read your email at will. You know, because "they can and would", which is appropriate because it sounds like something Bush would say.
So twitter, I suppose we are all waiting for proof of what you're saying. Some sort of proof that Microsoft is reading the .PST file on my computer? I'm sure every single Slashdot reader would love to get their hands on that kind of evidence.
More to the point, someone should mod your comment up to +5, given the importance of your assertion. That is of course if you actually can prove it in some way.
Just remember to use this same account to reply, not one of your other 9 or 10 sockpuppets.
I don't think SPs are painful or intrusive, on the contrary. As long as you keep business logic out of them, they're excellent. Can you do most everything that you can with an SP using parametrized inline SQL? Sure. In my particular niche however (Really Large (TM) Financial Applications), they are a must because of security/audit/management issues.
*bows*
I hear even MySQL supports stored procedures now, so I don't see what the problem is, other than millions of lines of sloppy existing code that won't die. But the "fix" has always been there.
Right now I'm just glad that a guy that permanently denied his own children of the presence of their mother will probably spend the rest of his natural life in prison.
So what you are saying is that (and quoting the article you reference) Microsoft is at fault for providing these "high end features"? Even considering that it's not necessary to write sloppy VBScript code, and that it's ridiculously easy to use ADO to put together parameterized database commands, regardless of how many resultsets they are supposed to return?
And that the lack of that feature is actually an advantage for platforms like PHP and Perl? I'm curious, is the lack of that feature the reason for the multiple and well-documented injection attacks against LAMP applications? Or is it something else?
You will forgive me here if I imagine for a second what the general sentiment would be if the PHP MySQL driver actually provided this useful time- and bandwidth-saving feature while ADO/ADO.NET didn't. You would be telling me that it's the developers' fault, since all they need to do is write half-decent code that uses simple and well-documented features in the DB framework that prevent exposure to injection attacks. The PHP folks would not to blame, and in fact it would be so cool of them to out-innovate Microsoft.
Seriously though, does it prevent you from running more than one *statement*, or a query *and* a DDL statement together? I guess that would be impressive.
I use mostly C# and MSSQL, and I routinely write stored procs that return multiple datasets, which wouldn't be a problem in this case, but would PHP prevent me from running an ad hoc statement that returns more than one resultset at a time? As far as I know I can do that with the SqlClient in .NET, but I graduated from the inline SQL happy club about a decade ago so I wouldn't really know.
So stock Java protects me from things like "SELECT * FROM users WHERE Name = 'eldavojohn'; DELETE FROM orders", correct?
Wait, it doesn't. Neither does PHP or Python or Perl.
So I guess you can spin it as this somehow being Microsoft's fault, and Slashdot can post it again (and maybe again tomorrow FTW), deliberately confusing pages vs sites and using titillating article titles and editorial bylines about how corporate spin is "bad".
That doesn't change the fact that this is an application vulnerability, much like the endless stream of exploits against applications like phpBB that run on Linux and Apache.
But hey, it's all in the name of freedom and increased ad revenue, right?
If you read his posts closely, you'll see that most of them are nothing but buzzword-compliant but meaningless semantic soup packaged up with some links that almost always fail to support the point he's making (though no one actually bothers to check them, apparently). This tends to look impressive, and so usually he gets modded up.
He does make sense sometimes, normally in the context of a RIAA or Patriot Act article and things like that. But the rest of the time, when he's wearing his "free software advocate" T-shirt, he makes no sense whatsoever.
It's weird, that someone actually has a skill that lets them write things that look interesting but convey no meaningful information whatsoever. The only other two types of human being I can think of that manage to pull that off are politicians and religious fundamentalists.
It's working though, I suppose. Since you post at -1 for trolling, any immediate positive-sounding replies tend to garner attention. I guess that's really the reason why you insult everyone's intelligence this way, isn't it? Just hoping to see if you can muster up a few mod points to bring your account out of karma hell?
Well, once you're done you'll need to work on the Erris account as well. That's gonna be rough.
We've come a long way from Crazy Glue.