"I'm no fan of Microsoft, but [MS bashing is outdated]."
Sorry, it's not outdated. They are a criminal bunch of liars and thieves who need to be shut down for the sake of civilisation.
Once that has been concluded: Bashing Microshit will be done only as a quiant ceremonial gesture when the winning side wishes to celebrate past victories in the great war to save technology from pure sick greed!
In a couple of generations nobody will remember who Microsoft was, or if they do, only for what it truly is: an embarrassing and incalculably costly stain on the history of technology.
(In the drugged sleepwalking nightmare world of falsitude that is the FUD ghetto MS tries to create,) People will choose the software that suits Microsoft's needs best. Unshockingly this is NEVER Linux.
As for "success" - even in/.-land, do you *really* think that being a filesystem genius with your product in the kernel is going to pull glamorous Russian chicks? Women turned on by success and money are looking for a nicer car than a CRX and a little more in the bank than Hans' overdrawn accounts and failing business.
...Because it's well engineered, fast and rock solid.
I've seen ext3 lose a disk. I've never seen R3 lose anything, and that's after decades of runtime and many pull-plug tests on various colocated servers, desktops, laptops, etc.
Besides, the engineering of the filesystems has nothing to do with Hans' personal life. I am hoping he will be able to continue his filesystem work from prison even if it's just with pen and paper; at least society will gain some benefit.
"We may not even bother to charge you, but even if we do, we'll certainly kick you around in Hotel Guantanamo for a few years first, You Filthy Enemy of Capitalism."
While I commented above that she should be able to "disappear" there, she did not seem to have a compelling reason to do so, unless she was already scared that Hans was crazy enough to kill her (and would follow her to Russia to do so).
Hans had a slightly better chance of tracking her down, and he would have been very, very, very motivated to do so, after being charged. But we never heard about any attempts (since he was already locked up, I imagine any attempts were formally through Russian authorities and doomed to failure).
Probably a lot of the youngsters here won't believe it, but particularly in the area he works in, you can do a hell of a lot with pen and paper.
He's internalised the design of R3 and R4, and probably has a roadmap in his head beyond that. If he's allowed to communicate code/designs with the outside world, he could get a great deal done during his sentence. And I hope that happens, because R3 is a fantastic piece of work and R4 pushed things in even more interesting directions.
Some people here can't separate the crime from the man's works. The work of Namesys stands separate from Hans' family's tragic implosion (whatever actually happened).
If Nina is living in Russia, she would almost certainly be living with her children.
In an alternate universe she would be.
I'm not sure what point you're making. The "Nina fled to Russia" story implies that she decided to abandon the children.
She's Russian, and knowing Russians and having visited the place, I am pretty confident she could disappear there if she wanted to. The problem is, as you say, it's very difficult to see why she'd want to.
If one accepts the prosecution's case, then wilful, deliberate, and premeditated not to mention intent to inflict death would seem to fit pretty neatly.
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(Not that I've ever seen a bug in it.)
If not, STFU. Your post is a string of non sequiturs.
They're terrible (I guess they sent the intern). I prescribe 10 years of art school to whoever did these cartoons.
Don't ever serve on a jury.
"I'm no fan of Microsoft, but [MS bashing is outdated]."
Sorry, it's not outdated. They are a criminal bunch of liars and thieves who need to be shut down for the sake of civilisation.
Once that has been concluded: Bashing Microshit will be done only as a quiant ceremonial gesture when the winning side wishes to celebrate past victories in the great war to save technology from pure sick greed!
In a couple of generations nobody will remember who Microsoft was, or if they do, only for what it truly is: an embarrassing and incalculably costly stain on the history of technology.
Product B really does suck.
LinPro. Disclaimer: Friend works there. :)
(In the drugged sleepwalking nightmare world of falsitude that is the FUD ghetto MS tries to create,)
People will choose the software that suits Microsoft's needs best. Unshockingly this is NEVER Linux.
He wasn't rich.
As for "success" - even in /.-land, do you *really* think that being a filesystem genius with your product in the kernel is going to pull glamorous Russian chicks? Women turned on by success and money are looking for a nicer car than a CRX and a little more in the bank than Hans' overdrawn accounts and failing business.
Next theory?
ReiserFS is one of the hundreds of reasons I'll never use gentoo again
That's a pretty dumb remark, don't you think?
Even if reiser3 were problematic (in my experience, it's not) you can certainly use whatever damn fs you want with Gentoo.
...Because it's well engineered, fast and rock solid.
I've seen ext3 lose a disk. I've never seen R3 lose anything, and that's after decades of runtime and many pull-plug tests on various colocated servers, desktops, laptops, etc.
Besides, the engineering of the filesystems has nothing to do with Hans' personal life. I am hoping he will be able to continue his filesystem work from prison even if it's just with pen and paper; at least society will gain some benefit.
Murder is not always 100% wrong all the time no exceptions.
Civilisation to CodyRazor: You've spent way too much time in Hollywood land.
the sudden revelation that any clueless jackhole can build a filesystem
Unfortunately for your ambitions, that's simply not true. :)
Whatever happened in his personal life, Reiser and his team did/are doing a beautiful design and engineering job on R3 and R4.
you don't ask a SQL database engineer to do assembly code programming
I have no trouble doing both well. YMMV.
"We may not even bother to charge you, but even if we do, we'll certainly kick you around in Hotel Guantanamo for a few years first, You Filthy Enemy of Capitalism."
All he had to do was locate Nina in Russia.
While I commented above that she should be able to "disappear" there, she did not seem to have a compelling reason to do so, unless she was already scared that Hans was crazy enough to kill her (and would follow her to Russia to do so).
Hans had a slightly better chance of tracking her down, and he would have been very, very, very motivated to do so, after being charged. But we never heard about any attempts (since he was already locked up, I imagine any attempts were formally through Russian authorities and doomed to failure).
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Probably a lot of the youngsters here won't believe it, but particularly in the area he works in, you can do a hell of a lot with pen and paper.
He's internalised the design of R3 and R4, and probably has a roadmap in his head beyond that. If he's allowed to communicate code/designs with the outside world, he could get a great deal done during his sentence. And I hope that happens, because R3 is a fantastic piece of work and R4 pushed things in even more interesting directions.
Some people here can't separate the crime from the man's works. The work of Namesys stands separate from Hans' family's tragic implosion (whatever actually happened).
n / t
seen silence of the lambs
That's a MOVIE. This case is REAL LIFE. One has nothing to do with the other, despite popular belief.
If Nina is living in Russia, she would almost certainly be living with her children.
In an alternate universe she would be.
I'm not sure what point you're making. The "Nina fled to Russia" story implies that she decided to abandon the children.
She's Russian, and knowing Russians and having visited the place, I am pretty confident she could disappear there if she wanted to. The problem is, as you say, it's very difficult to see why she'd want to.
If one accepts the prosecution's case, then wilful, deliberate, and premeditated not to mention intent to inflict death would seem to fit pretty neatly.
Looks like we're regressing.
Somebody's been paying attention!!
I know I'll be branded elitist for saying this, but if you think /. constitutes any kind of elite, you really need to look that word up.
Only in America is it pejorative. What's with that?
n/t