show me evidence of any significant gnu/linux worm
Worm? What do worms have to do with botnets? Oh, I know. You've realized and accepted that Linux botnets do exist and they're not all "M$ powered". How do those 10,000 IRC zombies get pwned twit? Magic? Or operator stupidity? How many are there out there?
Funny that. You understand that all I need is a single happy internet-facing Server 2003 machine to essentially invalidate your implied connection between the "futility" of patching (didn't you call it "silly patches" a few posts ago?) Windows to the probablity of that box being in a botnet. Just one. That's it. That takes care of your beloved but risible "half life" statistics that deal in unpatched machines (circa 1999 no less), as well as your insane "M$ is to blame for everything" argument.
Absolutely, they would have to be serialized like Potter and LOTR. That's why the SciFi channel series were such a disappointment.
Most SciFi books have depth and are not written with an eye towards getting them on the screen (thank god). Unlike, say, Michael Crichton's work. I mean, more power to him and all, but his "books" are essentially scripts.
I think Dune represents a good example of why people don't take Sci-Fi movies seriously. Here's an incredible literary masterpiece that combines ecology, sex, religion, politics, technology and the ultimate essay on the fragility of the human spirit. Yet the movie and the two TV series that have been published not only do not do justice to the depth of the books, they ended up being, for lack of a better word, corny.
Lynch's movie captured the "ambiance" that many people associated with Dune, but slaughtered the story. The SciFi channel series, with more time on their hands, did more justice to the story, but completely slaughtered the ambiance.
Battlefield Earth for example, once you take out the scientology crap out of the ecuation, is a eminently fun and well done sci-fi novel. Yet the movie was a fucking disaster.
What's the difference between the success of say, the Harry Potter and LOTR movies and the failures that are Dune and all the other crappy film treatments of fantasy/sci-fi books? I'm not sure, but hopefully someone will figure it out soon. There are a lot of excellent books out there - who wouldn't want to see a movie based on Niven's Ringworld series? Or Saberhagen's Berserker opera? - that would make fantastic movies.
Whatever. Disney is not the only producer of media in the planet. If you sell a device that only provides their content it will sink faster than you can say "Cinderella". One would think Apple is slightly smarter than that.
On topic now, I don't like the way Russinovich is blowing Vista's horn now. I liked him more when he was more critical and analytical on what could be improved, instead of what has already been done.
Fresh blood always brings fresh perspectives. Mark has been on the outside looking in for long enough that he probably has a fairly asymetrical view of the NT kernel to that of the core MS developers, and in software development (especially at that level) that tends to be extremely useful.
I think you're confusing "JET Blue" (ESE) with the file-based Jet RDBMS engine introduced by Microsoft Access in the 90s. Exchange uses the former, as do many of the new Windows client apps that shipped with Vista, though the API has been available for a while.
ESE might be based on Jet or it might be a superset of it or whatever, but I don't think they're the same thing.
Ahh, how nice. A statement that is everything that it says it is.
I assume you are implying that Microsoft uses those tactics, correct? That's fine, but it doesn't mean you have to lower yourself to that level as well.
IIRC, used cars are one of our biggest exports to Mexico
I can't talk about the rest of Latin America, but this is not true for Mexico. While the import rules are slowly being loosened, Mexico is extremely protective of its new car market (of course made up of American and Japanese cars) and importing a used car into the country is a nightmare, unless you are in one of their "free trade" zones right on the border. Even those have to be ~5 years old or so. Moving them further in is right damn near impossible unless you're willing to pay enough taxes to rival what you paid for the thing to begin with.
The reason for this is of course to keep the "straight" auto importers and dealers happy by allowing them to set artificially high prices on new cars without any competition whatsoever.
Your theory might be correct for other countries, maybe even outside of the Americas, but it's not for Mexico. The amount of cars in the free trade zones would not make a dent on the volume of vehicles that land on the "used" circuit here in the US every year. If you ever travel down to Mexico City or one of the larger cities in the interior of the country, keep your eyes open for a used Pontiac or Mercury. You won't find any.
Why? The 800-lb gorilla doesn't know which of the million gnats gnawing at its flesh to swat to make the rest of them go away
The problem with this heroic-sounding but ultimately flawed view is that Microsoft doesn't care about the million gnats. It cares about the few that want to morph into 600- or 700-lb gorillas (or use the gnats to that effect). Those are the only ones it needs to actively fight. The gnats have never been, are not and probably never will be a threat to them, other than in the gnats' minds.
There's a difference between a rabid OSS drone and a knowledgeable, sane and intelligent FOSS advocate that is consistently capable of making a solid, thorough and informed case for appropriate alternatives to Microsoft (and other commercial) software without resorting to hysterical FUD, irrational and unrealistic claims, stupid generalizations, infantile creative spelling and outright lies.
I'll let you spend a few hours trying to figure out which of the two "personas" you can be identified with.
What happens when someone plays an extension or embedded icon trick on you and you double click it?
Nothing. My email client does not make attachments "executable" by default, nor am I actually stupid enough to execute an attachment from some random fuck on teh interwebs. This is a concept that escapes you, isn't it?
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I've yet to understand what it is about all those links that excites you? Or do you figure anyone who clicks on them will read what you want from them? Maybe they'll suddenly realize that Bill Gates himself hired me to "stalk" you on Slashdot? You are truly demented.
Keep it up, BTW. At this rate Microsoft will probably contact you to negotiate some sort of compensation for your infatigable efforts to completely discredit the free software community.
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Of course there is, it's called Visual SlickEdit.
It will set you back north of $250 for a single-user license, but then if you're a developer it will probably pay for itself inside of three months.
That's no good. It would have to be a vim script.
I'll pass, kthx.
Worm? What do worms have to do with botnets? Oh, I know. You've realized and accepted that Linux botnets do exist and they're not all "M$ powered". How do those 10,000 IRC zombies get pwned twit? Magic? Or operator stupidity? How many are there out there?
Funny that. You understand that all I need is a single happy internet-facing Server 2003 machine to essentially invalidate your implied connection between the "futility" of patching (didn't you call it "silly patches" a few posts ago?) Windows to the probablity of that box being in a botnet. Just one. That's it. That takes care of your beloved but risible "half life" statistics that deal in unpatched machines (circa 1999 no less), as well as your insane "M$ is to blame for everything" argument.
Reality sucks, doesn't it?
Also, is your sockpuppet relevant here, or is that a "righteous" sockpuppet account?
And this matters because....?
Most SciFi books have depth and are not written with an eye towards getting them on the screen (thank god). Unlike, say, Michael Crichton's work. I mean, more power to him and all, but his "books" are essentially scripts.
Lynch's movie captured the "ambiance" that many people associated with Dune, but slaughtered the story. The SciFi channel series, with more time on their hands, did more justice to the story, but completely slaughtered the ambiance.
Battlefield Earth for example, once you take out the scientology crap out of the ecuation, is a eminently fun and well done sci-fi novel. Yet the movie was a fucking disaster.
What's the difference between the success of say, the Harry Potter and LOTR movies and the failures that are Dune and all the other crappy film treatments of fantasy/sci-fi books? I'm not sure, but hopefully someone will figure it out soon. There are a lot of excellent books out there - who wouldn't want to see a movie based on Niven's Ringworld series? Or Saberhagen's Berserker opera? - that would make fantastic movies.
Your problem is that you can't distinguish between the two. But that's an issue you seem to be afflicted with anyway.
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Attacked &
Pwned.
Oh noes! It's all so unfair!
Not yet. Definitely closer to it than you though.
Whatever. Disney is not the only producer of media in the planet. If you sell a device that only provides their content it will sink faster than you can say "Cinderella". One would think Apple is slightly smarter than that.
Um, you figure they'll sell many of these if ony "Disney content" is available?
I don't know about you, but I get tired of Mickey Mouse cartoons rather fast.
Fresh blood always brings fresh perspectives. Mark has been on the outside looking in for long enough that he probably has a fairly asymetrical view of the NT kernel to that of the core MS developers, and in software development (especially at that level) that tends to be extremely useful.
ESE might be based on Jet or it might be a superset of it or whatever, but I don't think they're the same thing.
But that qualifies as reverse engineering, doesn't it? If so, then it's perfectly legal under current law.
Do you?
If ReactOS is a clean-room implementation, they probably can't do squat about it.
I assume you are implying that Microsoft uses those tactics, correct? That's fine, but it doesn't mean you have to lower yourself to that level as well.
I can't talk about the rest of Latin America, but this is not true for Mexico. While the import rules are slowly being loosened, Mexico is extremely protective of its new car market (of course made up of American and Japanese cars) and importing a used car into the country is a nightmare, unless you are in one of their "free trade" zones right on the border. Even those have to be ~5 years old or so. Moving them further in is right damn near impossible unless you're willing to pay enough taxes to rival what you paid for the thing to begin with.
The reason for this is of course to keep the "straight" auto importers and dealers happy by allowing them to set artificially high prices on new cars without any competition whatsoever.
Your theory might be correct for other countries, maybe even outside of the Americas, but it's not for Mexico. The amount of cars in the free trade zones would not make a dent on the volume of vehicles that land on the "used" circuit here in the US every year. If you ever travel down to Mexico City or one of the larger cities in the interior of the country, keep your eyes open for a used Pontiac or Mercury. You won't find any.
The problem with this heroic-sounding but ultimately flawed view is that Microsoft doesn't care about the million gnats. It cares about the few that want to morph into 600- or 700-lb gorillas (or use the gnats to that effect). Those are the only ones it needs to actively fight. The gnats have never been, are not and probably never will be a threat to them, other than in the gnats' minds.
There's a difference between a rabid OSS drone and a knowledgeable, sane and intelligent FOSS advocate that is consistently capable of making a solid, thorough and informed case for appropriate alternatives to Microsoft (and other commercial) software without resorting to hysterical FUD, irrational and unrealistic claims, stupid generalizations, infantile creative spelling and outright lies.
I'll let you spend a few hours trying to figure out which of the two "personas" you can be identified with.
Hey! I thought you were my sockpuppet! When did this happen??
Nothing. My email client does not make attachments "executable" by default, nor am I actually stupid enough to execute an attachment from some random fuck on teh interwebs. This is a concept that escapes you, isn't it?
I've yet to understand what it is about all those links that excites you? Or do you figure anyone who clicks on them will read what you want from them? Maybe they'll suddenly realize that Bill Gates himself hired me to "stalk" you on Slashdot? You are truly demented.
But as the Scorpions once said, there's no one like you.
Keep it up, BTW. At this rate Microsoft will probably contact you to negotiate some sort of compensation for your infatigable efforts to completely discredit the free software community.