" Duh. Apple has made an entire market out of creating "easy to use" software and hardware"
And look where it got them. This bozo who wrote the article, you think he will switch to a mac because it's easier? No. Nobody does. Here is the big dirty secret of this industry.
NOBODY GIVES A SHIT HOW EASY A PROGRAM IS TO USE.
People buy/steal software for a lot of reasons but easy to use is not one of them. If easy to use was important to people everybody would be using macs.
That is the major problem with these books. They contain just one relatively simple idea. To turn it into a book they have to give one anecdote after another and fill it with useless repetition of the basic idea 100 times.
Most business books could be condensed to a 3X5 card or a bumper sticker.
You have to figure that freebsd is in there someplace but I really don't see Aix, irix, solaris or other server operating systems cruising google at all.
What other desktop type of operating systems are there?
I know that. I read the article. The question is what they were using before that. If you are going to say something is 1000 times faster the least you could do is explain both your old setup and your new one.
"They are subject to the same laws as everyone else. Free speech doesn't give you license to do what you just said. "
Show me where it says it's illegal for a reporter to report on leaked secrets. Look at Novak. He committed treason by outing a CIA agent. The FBI is not going after him it's going after the source. The criminal is the person who leaked the classified info not the reporter who reports it.
The article is a bit short on details. There is no mention of the previous hardware or software for example. Did they move from 21 SQL servers running on windows to 1 oracle running on linux? Maybe they just got rid of a bunch of aging unix machines and build a cluster of intel servers running linux.
Either way though the fact that a major exchange is running linux is big news. Their database is their life and they are trusting it to linux. That says a lot.
"Dr. Smith: "Some anonymous coward at Slashdot said it was my duty as a responsible member of the human race...""
You better not listen to some anoymous coward at slashdot. Your priest OTOH is much more qualified to tell you what your duties as a member of the human race is, after all he is reading from a 2000 year old book written by a band of nomadic jews.
Mmmmm. Band of nomadic jews from 2000 years ago or an anomymous slashdot reader.... It's a tough call huh?
What is the "other" that makes up 5% of google hits? Are there that many OS/2 and Amiga machines out there. Is it really possible that there are so many other operating systems each with less then 1% marketshare and yet they still add up to 5%?
Something about that just doesn't make sense to me. Why doesn't google break that 5% down?
"You're saying that a corporation that sucks at the teat of a particular government should feel no qualms at causing the harm of agents of that government?"
Why yes I am saying exactly that. I suppose I am also saying the corporation should not be suckling at the momma sow's teats either but that's another discussion altogether.
"That's a nice set of hypocrisy you've got hanging there, that news companies who find it convenient to base their operations in this country aren't required to follow the laws of this country."
It's no hypocricy. The press should be free to report whatever it wants. The US army has been abdicating too much responsibility to the press already. IT should learn to keep secrets rather then begging the press not to report them. It should make sure it's troops have high morale rather then begging the press to cheerlead them. It's not the job of the press to protect american soldiers it's the job of the military.
"Because it would be stupid to have Dan Rather (or Ed Herlihy) broadcast war plans should he come across them."
It's not the fault of the press if the army can't keep a secret. If the war plan is secret then the army should not tell the press about it. If the secret leaks then all is fair.
The press in America is too weak and afraid of the govt to actually report such a thing anyway so I don't think you have to worry too much.
"And two, when has the press ever been NOT free to question the adequecy of national security, except during wartime?"
Why is there an exception to wartime? Since the govt can declare war anytime it wants for whatever reason it wants can't it simply declare a perpetual war in order to stifle press? Has it done that already?
OK. then the asians and the africans would kick all of them. You can bet your ass china and japan won't blindly follow the americans. In this regard I highly doubt europeans would either. The australians will do whatever we tell them to though. They are our lapdogs.
You are highly mistaken if you think windows will outscale linux anytime soon.
They have no choice but to start giving up on marketshare. They will never beat mainframes or linux on the high scale. All they have left is to become a service company and that's pretty hard when everybody hates you and nobody trusts you. They have stolen from and backstabbed just about everybody who has ever signed a contract with them, I seriously doubt anybody trusts them now for anything.
If America was a family we would have been arrested long ago. Imagine a family which has more weapons then the rest of the state put together. Imagine a family with tanks parked in the front yard and howitzers in the back. Imagine a family that attack another family about every five to ten years.
OS world will not be drained of value. Open source will be illegal in the US and US corporations will be forced to pay for their software. Other countries will not have the same restriction and will outcompete the US companies in just about everything.
in the SQL server market MS went from zero to 30% and seems stuck there. I would predict that the same thing will happen with open source. Open source will have 30% of the office, OS, database markets in a few years. I imagine Ballmer is not too happy to lose 30% of his market share in all those fields.
Yes he will have to morph his company to a service one just like IBM did and I don't think he is too happy about that either.
The truth bit Bill Gates in the ass today. Mr Gates was quoted as saying "what the fuck was that? I have never seen anything like that before". When informed that it was the truth he replied "I am not familiar with that, please take it out the back and kill it before it bites somebody else".
This is what this country has come to. Half the people in the country call the other hald demoncrat and republitards. Why do republicans compare democrats to demons? Demons? Truly evil residents of hell? Just because you vote for candidate A that makes you a demon?
Same for the democrats. Just because somebody votes for candidate B that makes them a fascist nazi? Or a sadistic killer? or a religious warmonger bent on genocide of non cristians?
All I can say is that people working doubletime to divide this country have been very successful. The radio and TV stations which broadcast hate filled programs hour after hour must all be delighted.
After 9/11 the country was united. That lasted for about two weeks now we are back to being two countries who hate each other again.
Whoever outlaws open source is going to lose in the end. If your competition is spending less then you then they can sell their products cheaper. If American companies are not able to turn to open source for money savings they might leave the country altogether.
I used to hang out at the MS SQL server newsgroups back in the day. In those days you'd have periodic flamewars with the oracle proponents. The MS people always ended up saying that SQL server might not be as good as oracle but it was "good enough for what you need to do" and "a hell of a lot cheaper".
It gives me warm and fuzzy feelings to see the same argument now being made against them. Not just in databases but virtually every other product they make too.
Oracle survived but lost a lot of market share to SQL server and I predict the same will happen to MS.
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" Duh. Apple has made an entire market out of creating "easy to use" software and hardware"
And look where it got them. This bozo who wrote the article, you think he will switch to a mac because it's easier? No. Nobody does. Here is the big dirty secret of this industry.
NOBODY GIVES A SHIT HOW EASY A PROGRAM IS TO USE.
People buy/steal software for a lot of reasons but easy to use is not one of them. If easy to use was important to people everybody would be using macs.
How would writing your newspaper to carry conservative columnists make your software better?
Be careful. If the ID is injected I am sure a kidnapper would have no qualms about removing it with a knife.
Sometimes I swear we are just asking for it.
Try ruby.
It is a shame that people are still trying to rewrite lisp and smalltalk and still not getting it right.
That is the major problem with these books. They contain just one relatively simple idea. To turn it into a book they have to give one anecdote after another and fill it with useless repetition of the basic idea 100 times.
Most business books could be condensed to a 3X5 card or a bumper sticker.
Most are also collasal waste of money.
You have to figure that freebsd is in there someplace but I really don't see Aix, irix, solaris or other server operating systems cruising google at all.
What other desktop type of operating systems are there?
I know that. I read the article. The question is what they were using before that. If you are going to say something is 1000 times faster the least you could do is explain both your old setup and your new one.
"They are subject to the same laws as everyone else. Free speech doesn't give you license to do what you just said. "
Show me where it says it's illegal for a reporter to report on leaked secrets. Look at Novak. He committed treason by outing a CIA agent. The FBI is not going after him it's going after the source. The criminal is the person who leaked the classified info not the reporter who reports it.
The article is a bit short on details. There is no mention of the previous hardware or software for example. Did they move from 21 SQL servers running on windows to 1 oracle running on linux? Maybe they just got rid of a bunch of aging unix machines and build a cluster of intel servers running linux.
Either way though the fact that a major exchange is running linux is big news. Their database is their life and they are trusting it to linux. That says a lot.
"Dr. Smith: "Some anonymous coward at Slashdot said it was my duty as a responsible member of the human race...""
You better not listen to some anoymous coward at slashdot. Your priest OTOH is much more qualified to tell you what your duties as a member of the human race is, after all he is reading from a 2000 year old book written by a band of nomadic jews.
Mmmmm. Band of nomadic jews from 2000 years ago or an anomymous slashdot reader.... It's a tough call huh?
What is the "other" that makes up 5% of google hits? Are there that many OS/2 and Amiga machines out there. Is it really possible that there are so many other operating systems each with less then 1% marketshare and yet they still add up to 5%?
Something about that just doesn't make sense to me. Why doesn't google break that 5% down?
"You're saying that a corporation that sucks at the teat of a particular government should feel no qualms at causing the harm of agents of that government?"
Why yes I am saying exactly that. I suppose I am also saying the corporation should not be suckling at the momma sow's teats either but that's another discussion altogether.
"That's a nice set of hypocrisy you've got hanging there, that news companies who find it convenient to base their operations in this country aren't required to follow the laws of this country."
It's no hypocricy. The press should be free to report whatever it wants. The US army has been abdicating too much responsibility to the press already. IT should learn to keep secrets rather then begging the press not to report them. It should make sure it's troops have high morale rather then begging the press to cheerlead them. It's not the job of the press to protect american soldiers it's the job of the military.
"Because it would be stupid to have Dan Rather (or Ed Herlihy) broadcast war plans should he come across them."
It's not the fault of the press if the army can't keep a secret. If the war plan is secret then the army should not tell the press about it. If the secret leaks then all is fair.
The press in America is too weak and afraid of the govt to actually report such a thing anyway so I don't think you have to worry too much.
"And two, when has the press ever been NOT free to question the adequecy of national security, except during wartime?"
Why is there an exception to wartime? Since the govt can declare war anytime it wants for whatever reason it wants can't it simply declare a perpetual war in order to stifle press? Has it done that already?
It's simple capitalism. If a country chooses to handcuff it's industry by making them buy softweare other industries get for free they lose.
OK. then the asians and the africans would kick all of them. You can bet your ass china and japan won't blindly follow the americans. In this regard I highly doubt europeans would either. The australians will do whatever we tell them to though. They are our lapdogs.
You are highly mistaken if you think windows will outscale linux anytime soon.
They have no choice but to start giving up on marketshare. They will never beat mainframes or linux on the high scale. All they have left is to become a service company and that's pretty hard when everybody hates you and nobody trusts you. They have stolen from and backstabbed just about everybody who has ever signed a contract with them, I seriously doubt anybody trusts them now for anything.
If America was a family we would have been arrested long ago. Imagine a family which has more weapons then the rest of the state put together. Imagine a family with tanks parked in the front yard and howitzers in the back. Imagine a family that attack another family about every five to ten years.
OS world will not be drained of value. Open source will be illegal in the US and US corporations will be forced to pay for their software. Other countries will not have the same restriction and will outcompete the US companies in just about everything.
in the SQL server market MS went from zero to 30% and seems stuck there. I would predict that the same thing will happen with open source. Open source will have 30% of the office, OS, database markets in a few years. I imagine Ballmer is not too happy to lose 30% of his market share in all those fields.
Yes he will have to morph his company to a service one just like IBM did and I don't think he is too happy about that either.
The truth bit Bill Gates in the ass today. Mr Gates was quoted as saying "what the fuck was that? I have never seen anything like that before". When informed that it was the truth he replied "I am not familiar with that, please take it out the back and kill it before it bites somebody else".
This is what this country has come to. Half the people in the country call the other hald demoncrat and republitards. Why do republicans compare democrats to demons? Demons? Truly evil residents of hell? Just because you vote for candidate A that makes you a demon?
Same for the democrats. Just because somebody votes for candidate B that makes them a fascist nazi? Or a sadistic killer? or a religious warmonger bent on genocide of non cristians?
All I can say is that people working doubletime to divide this country have been very successful. The radio and TV stations which broadcast hate filled programs hour after hour must all be delighted.
After 9/11 the country was united. That lasted for about two weeks now we are back to being two countries who hate each other again.
Whoever outlaws open source is going to lose in the end. If your competition is spending less then you then they can sell their products cheaper. If American companies are not able to turn to open source for money savings they might leave the country altogether.
I used to hang out at the MS SQL server newsgroups back in the day. In those days you'd have periodic flamewars with the oracle proponents. The MS people always ended up saying that SQL server might not be as good as oracle but it was "good enough for what you need to do" and "a hell of a lot cheaper".
It gives me warm and fuzzy feelings to see the same argument now being made against them. Not just in databases but virtually every other product they make too.
Oracle survived but lost a lot of market share to SQL server and I predict the same will happen to MS.