The entire premise of this article depends on the definition of "spam." One could mark a legitimate business' unsolicited email as spam, but that doesn't mean that purchasing a product because of the material in one of those emails is newsworthy.
Nigerian princes in peril are another matter, though.
I'm not sure if it's a progress metric, just an interesting factoid. I think about it as a developer releasing 175 thousand lines of possible solutions to coding problems that game developers may face.
I'd rather have Microsoft shills than the horde of Cowards. Team Microsoft usually at least contributes something to the discussion, even if it's misinformed at times, as opposed to AC wharrgarbl.
No, it's $300,000. Once. It's not even a fine, really, it's an out-of-court settlement to cover some investigative costs so that the AG's office doesn't have to spend more money gathering evidence.
I can think of a few things that make IE6 (not exclusively, but still) a horrible browser:
ActiveX
Non-standard HTML rendering
Lack of tabs
ActiveX
Lack of support for many standard files (PNG, anyone?)
Crashing when fed simple code
Oh, and ActiveX.
Cheap is cheap. Any RAID controller that comes embedded on a gaming motherboard is guaranteed to be crap. They're usually just software RAID running on a generic processor, with no battery backup.
12 SATA drives that can "still get an easy" 3.2Gbits of pure data bandwidth saturation? Only if you're doing pure sequential reads on multiple SATA buses. Even then, you would be maxing the sequential IOPS of 9 drives to do that.
I wouldn't be so quick to poo-poo those. A 10 or 15K drive from a few years ago is not all that much slower than one today. 2TB of fast (multi-spindle SCSI/SAS/FC) storage is worth a lot more than just the number of bytes it can hold. Businesses still routinely spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to get even a few really fast terabytes. Arrays full of 15K RPM 146GB drives are still being sold in quantity.
Just a clarification: RAID5 protects you against single hard drive failure, and only if there are absolutely zero read errors while it rebuilds.
That being said, I completely agree with your point about backups. It doesn't take much to corrupt an array. Even on-network backups are horrible, in my opinion. Any data loss due to malicious activity will likely take out connected backup systems as well.
The antitrust problem was that they were using a near-monopoly (operating systems) to unfairly influence a separate market (web browsers). If they didn't have a near-monopoly on operating systems, then it wouldn't have been much of an issue.
There won't be any PR damage, unless people make a huge stink out of it. It's not like the world will wake up and think of them as "evil" unless they're told to think of them that way. This is a good time for another couple companies to step in and blast away.
I've tried really hard to be shocked and surprised. I can't. This is just another example of a continuing trend of anti-customer behavior by these guys.
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Sun bought MySQL around the beginning of 2008 for around USD$1 billion.
Oracle won't kill MySQL. MySQL's accessibility hurts Microsoft's database division too much. Oracle and MySQL are two different markets, anyway.
Why did you choose to display your address publicly if you don't want the public using it to send correspondence?
The entire premise of this article depends on the definition of "spam." One could mark a legitimate business' unsolicited email as spam, but that doesn't mean that purchasing a product because of the material in one of those emails is newsworthy.
Nigerian princes in peril are another matter, though.
I'm not sure if it's a progress metric, just an interesting factoid. I think about it as a developer releasing 175 thousand lines of possible solutions to coding problems that game developers may face.
That's a bit of an understatement. Most people would probably agree that Nethack looks a lot better than Freeciv.
According to Wikipedia, it is also used for various psychological disorders, including depression and schizophrenia.
I have never before put that much thought into a scene from Ghostbusters, nor will I ever again.
I'd rather have Microsoft shills than the horde of Cowards. Team Microsoft usually at least contributes something to the discussion, even if it's misinformed at times, as opposed to AC wharrgarbl.
No, it's $300,000. Once. It's not even a fine, really, it's an out-of-court settlement to cover some investigative costs so that the AG's office doesn't have to spend more money gathering evidence.
The botched cover-up kills you. Do it right, and nobody will know.
Hence "not exclusively."
I can think of a few things that make IE6 (not exclusively, but still) a horrible browser:
ActiveX
Non-standard HTML rendering
Lack of tabs
ActiveX
Lack of support for many standard files (PNG, anyone?)
Crashing when fed simple code
Oh, and ActiveX.
We saw what happened to humanity the last time we tried that. Let's remember our lessons, shall we?
As you can see from some of the replies, there are fans of both Adaptec and 3ware. There are even LSI fans, though they seem to have stagnated.
Personal grudges and decade-old history aside, there's no contesting that those are the currently the clear market leaders for a reason.
Cheap is cheap. Any RAID controller that comes embedded on a gaming motherboard is guaranteed to be crap. They're usually just software RAID running on a generic processor, with no battery backup.
12 SATA drives that can "still get an easy" 3.2Gbits of pure data bandwidth saturation? Only if you're doing pure sequential reads on multiple SATA buses. Even then, you would be maxing the sequential IOPS of 9 drives to do that.
I wouldn't be so quick to poo-poo those. A 10 or 15K drive from a few years ago is not all that much slower than one today. 2TB of fast (multi-spindle SCSI/SAS/FC) storage is worth a lot more than just the number of bytes it can hold. Businesses still routinely spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to get even a few really fast terabytes. Arrays full of 15K RPM 146GB drives are still being sold in quantity.
Just a clarification: RAID5 protects you against single hard drive failure, and only if there are absolutely zero read errors while it rebuilds.
That being said, I completely agree with your point about backups. It doesn't take much to corrupt an array. Even on-network backups are horrible, in my opinion. Any data loss due to malicious activity will likely take out connected backup systems as well.
Indeed. If you want to be safe with a RAID controller nowadays, go 3ware or Adaptec. Expect to spend $500 for the cheapest model.
The antitrust problem was that they were using a near-monopoly (operating systems) to unfairly influence a separate market (web browsers). If they didn't have a near-monopoly on operating systems, then it wouldn't have been much of an issue.
The extra work associated with keeping a Windows-based business secure enough to not be affected by worms, viruses, and malware is not free.
Just as much as clients choose vendors, vendors can choose their clients.
There won't be any PR damage, unless people make a huge stink out of it.
It's not like the world will wake up and think of them as "evil" unless they're told to think of them that way.
This is a good time for another couple companies to step in and blast away.
I've tried really hard to be shocked and surprised. I can't. This is just another example of a continuing trend of anti-customer behavior by these guys.