Programming in Assembler is like shaving your balls with a machete. If you are *really* careful, you can have a clean, smooth pair of balls. A slight hiccup, and you are without balls.
If this is not an Onion story, then the farmer better be prepared for some serious court expenses. He would be sued by the Farm Industry and its associated EPA: 1) Pollution by releasing unauthorized elements- never mind that larger corporates do it all the time. 2) Poisoning the food deliberately- never mind the frequent salmonella outbreaks are because of unsafe corporate practices. 3) Conspiracy against State - with a view to reduce tax income from corporates by using alternate stuff - ???
Nook will give Kindle a run for its money, only if BN is not stupid enough to limit it to US. Unfortunately, corporations have an innate act for stupidity. So BN is running an also-ran product into a market saturated and broke. Good luck BN. You have a great product, but you are stupid.
If hackers like ParMaster still exist, the best way to ensure this law is repealed is to ensure that MPs and Ministers are caught under this law and disconnected from internet. Like the immortal Jim Hacker once said: "Not until you face it yourself do you realize what a stupid law you have passed."
Ahhh iam a Technet subscriber. I have been running the Windows 7 RTM 64-bit edition on my AMD. Here's what i have to say: 1) You need the AMD dual core optimizer to ensure Windows 7 uses both cores fully, especially in games. Microsoft can say it is not needed. But from practical point i saw it was needed. Before AMD DCO the boot time to GUI was 28 seconds. After AMD DCO it came down to 19 seconds. Figure it out. 2) On my 4GB DDR2 RAM system, its wicked fast. Primary drive was IDE, switched to SATA and i would say it became faster. With IDE the boot time was 33 seconds. 2) The UAC is tamed. Yes it is. 3) Instead of readyBoost, i use eBooStr with 256MB RAM and a flash drive cache of 1GB. Kinda works well, i would say. 4) nVidia drivers actually are faster than same joke of Vista. 5) Self-tuning is evident. I have seen Windows 7 cache slowly accommodate and tune itself over boot ups. 6) The annoying reboot dialog after updates is gone. You can disable it or ask it to prompt you after one or 4 hours. 7) Games run Slowly with DirectX 11. Company of heroes launches slowly has a slower frame rate but consumes less memory. I switched to DirectX 9 and even though launch is still slow, it runs faster. 8) Brutally efficient memory management. I disabled 2Gb and launched Win7 with just 2GB. Its boot time was slightly up, but programs still ran faster and snappy. Of course it disabled some funky Aero UI.
At LAst! After 8 years of absolut corruption and wholesale defanging of FCC by Bush, the FCC is truly rising like a phoenix terrifying AT&T, Verizon and now corporate shills. Good. Very Good. My only wish is the penalty for someone not disclosing he is a paid corporate shill should be de-balling. Simple.
Of course. Without competition, we would still be running 80286 processors and loading up DOSShell -:) As far as MS Office is concerned, am sorry: they DID go through real free market competition. Their Windows monopoly didn't helpt them. People preferred Wordperfect. Hell, even in 1996 i had seen people loading up Wordperfect on Windows 95. Office was not just a monopoly. It had to fight the good fight and hard. Speed of the suite was essential: which is why inspite of all its preachings, Microsoft NEVER followed pure OO approach to build MS Office: That OLE wrapper is just that: wrapper. Underneath its wicked fast Assembly code, mixed with C and very little of the C++ crap that MS forced others to follow. In short, it leveraged its knowledge of its own OS to build a wickedly fast Suite that left others in dust. What's wrong in that? Can't i use my own invisible APIs? Who prevented others from exploiting the same?
I agree with many of your points, but i again reiterate this: MS Office and Windows 7 are not jokes. OpenOffice comes free, my IBM subscription provides me with free Lotus SmartOffice, and i hate both. For ease of Use, i prefer MS Office 2003. It gets the job done. Iam pretty sure, Excel was used under battlefield conditions to calculate trajectories of artillery shells in Gulf War I. Java was used for the Mars Rover, and i was the initial adopter of Java in 1996 using JDK 1.0.2 I still love Java, but for Front Office, i prefer MS Office.
Actually, backroom deals may have cemented the positions, but excellence in quality also mattered a lot. Please tell me MS Office is a bad, ball buster like Lotus Office or even Wordperfect. Please. SQL Server,especially after 2000 didn't come through freebies and shoddy deals. Enterprise Architects don't like them. SQL Server stands today higher in penetration BECAUSE it has actually improved the years.
Windows XP is still the beloved of IT so much that they uninstall Vista instantly. It may have taken Microsoft backroom deals to come to the top, but it takes excellence to stay there. Just ask any IT admin which systems he would prefer to administer: 4,000 seats of Windows XP or 4,000 seats of Ubuntu.
In Singapore and Asia in General, Education is given PRIME importance. The marks you score decide whether your parents let you play or thrash you for not scoring enough. Its all about numbers. In USA, the attitude is somewhat relaxed. Grades instead of marks make it imprecise. Secondly, the pressure to learn is absent since anyways the emphasis is on earning money quickly with or without a college education. A college drop-out who makes it rich is feted. Its ironical since in Asia this is frowned upon.
Corporations are the new Royalty. They are above law. They can commit crimes, but cannot be sent to prison BECAUSE their diffuse nature and virtual human being bullshit prevents the cops from cuffing and dragging their CEO through streets. Best way to counter them is to file a child assault case against them for exposing in front of your daughter wilfully.
...when a corporate is involved it always is a MISTAKE. When an individual hacker exposes weak security, he is a terrorist. Wow! Talk about double standards. Why can't the corporate be sued on SAME grounds like hackers?
True, All very true. The culture of Microsoft changed from an innovative one to a dictatorship and arrogance and now back to excellence. It is a pity that a company that produces such excellent books like "Code Complete" can't follow its own books. The pressure in market place forced them to produce an excellent product: Windows 7. But it also validates Vista's architecture base. Which means Vista's architecture was great, its execution shoddy. I agree that money plays a very important role in all these. But as you said it money doesn't mean everything. In 1990s i would have loved to work at Microsoft. In 2000s i preferred to work at Sun. Now i prefer IBM.
I don't agree. Money is a GREAT motivator. Plus what makes Apple a great brand is the pride its salespeople have in it. Kinda like snooty, Lords who think anyone who does not own a Mac is inferior. Microsoft's many systems may be a Joke, but NOT Windows 7 and MS Office. Inspite of what Open Office/Star Office and Lotus can do, you just CANNOT beat MS Office.
And Windows 7 is a very worthy competitor to Mac OS X. I have run Windows 7 since its RC-1 days (and now i have the RTM installed: i became a technet subscriber to take advantage). I have found it the MOST stable MS has produced to far. Far stable than XP and a faster than Vista.
Till today i did NOT face a single BSOD: which is surprising since every 3 months i usually have to hard-reboot XP for some reason. Even when it appeared it had crashed, Windows 7 recovered and continued to shut down when it appeared unresponsive.
I would be proud to work for Microsoft now. (and NO, iam NOT joking. I love Java/J2EE a lot. I also own an iBook).
This is probably the first time i like the artificial body called Corporation: but this EXACTLY what the law intends. A corporation is separate from its shareholders. Financially and legally. If a company declared bankruptcy, the court can appoint a receiver and make sure every one gets their money. If not, then tough luck. Suing individuals behind the corporation however much shares they own, is a strict no-no. BUT, OTOH, its the lawmakers who have sued. So they can change the law to make sure pirate bay's backers pay up.
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Programming in Assembler is like shaving your balls with a machete.
If you are *really* careful, you can have a clean, smooth pair of balls.
A slight hiccup, and you are without balls.
Why do you need backups, when you have a Time Machine?
...that Economics is all about people and culture and NOT about money and resources.
Of course No other country's laws apply in US.
However the reverse is not true.
...isn't a baguette a hand bag thingy?
Or did i understand it wrongly?
If this is not an Onion story, then the farmer better be prepared for some serious court expenses.
He would be sued by the Farm Industry and its associated EPA:
1) Pollution by releasing unauthorized elements- never mind that larger corporates do it all the time.
2) Poisoning the food deliberately- never mind the frequent salmonella outbreaks are because of unsafe corporate practices.
3) Conspiracy against State - with a view to reduce tax income from corporates by using alternate stuff - ???
Nook will give Kindle a run for its money, only if BN is not stupid enough to limit it to US.
Unfortunately, corporations have an innate act for stupidity.
So BN is running an also-ran product into a market saturated and broke.
Good luck BN.
You have a great product, but you are stupid.
If hackers like ParMaster still exist, the best way to ensure this law is repealed is to ensure that MPs and Ministers are caught under this law and disconnected from internet.
Like the immortal Jim Hacker once said: "Not until you face it yourself do you realize what a stupid law you have passed."
Ahhh iam a Technet subscriber.
I have been running the Windows 7 RTM 64-bit edition on my AMD.
Here's what i have to say:
1) You need the AMD dual core optimizer to ensure Windows 7 uses both cores fully, especially in games. Microsoft can say it is not needed. But from practical point i saw it was needed. Before AMD DCO the boot time to GUI was 28 seconds. After AMD DCO it came down to 19 seconds. Figure it out.
2) On my 4GB DDR2 RAM system, its wicked fast. Primary drive was IDE, switched to SATA and i would say it became faster. With IDE the boot time was 33 seconds.
2) The UAC is tamed. Yes it is.
3) Instead of readyBoost, i use eBooStr with 256MB RAM and a flash drive cache of 1GB. Kinda works well, i would say.
4) nVidia drivers actually are faster than same joke of Vista.
5) Self-tuning is evident. I have seen Windows 7 cache slowly accommodate and tune itself over boot ups.
6) The annoying reboot dialog after updates is gone. You can disable it or ask it to prompt you after one or 4 hours.
7) Games run Slowly with DirectX 11. Company of heroes launches slowly has a slower frame rate but consumes less memory. I switched to DirectX 9 and even though launch is still slow, it runs faster.
8) Brutally efficient memory management. I disabled 2Gb and launched Win7 with just 2GB. Its boot time was slightly up, but programs still ran faster and snappy. Of course it disabled some funky Aero UI.
At LAst!
After 8 years of absolut corruption and wholesale defanging of FCC by Bush, the FCC is truly rising like a phoenix terrifying AT&T, Verizon and now corporate shills.
Good.
Very Good.
My only wish is the penalty for someone not disclosing he is a paid corporate shill should be de-balling.
Simple.
But it is perfectly OK for AIG and BofA to extend their vampiric claws to get $50 BILLION?
Of course.
Without competition, we would still be running 80286 processors and loading up DOSShell -:)
As far as MS Office is concerned, am sorry: they DID go through real free market competition.
Their Windows monopoly didn't helpt them.
People preferred Wordperfect. Hell, even in 1996 i had seen people loading up Wordperfect on Windows 95.
Office was not just a monopoly.
It had to fight the good fight and hard.
Speed of the suite was essential: which is why inspite of all its preachings, Microsoft NEVER followed pure OO approach to build MS Office: That OLE wrapper is just that: wrapper.
Underneath its wicked fast Assembly code, mixed with C and very little of the C++ crap that MS forced others to follow.
In short, it leveraged its knowledge of its own OS to build a wickedly fast Suite that left others in dust.
What's wrong in that?
Can't i use my own invisible APIs?
Who prevented others from exploiting the same?
I agree with many of your points, but i again reiterate this:
MS Office and Windows 7 are not jokes.
OpenOffice comes free, my IBM subscription provides me with free Lotus SmartOffice, and i hate both.
For ease of Use, i prefer MS Office 2003.
It gets the job done.
Iam pretty sure, Excel was used under battlefield conditions to calculate trajectories of artillery shells in Gulf War I.
Java was used for the Mars Rover, and i was the initial adopter of Java in 1996 using JDK 1.0.2
I still love Java, but for Front Office, i prefer MS Office.
Actually, backroom deals may have cemented the positions, but excellence in quality also mattered a lot.
Please tell me MS Office is a bad, ball buster like Lotus Office or even Wordperfect.
Please.
SQL Server,especially after 2000 didn't come through freebies and shoddy deals. Enterprise Architects don't like them.
SQL Server stands today higher in penetration BECAUSE it has actually improved the years.
Windows XP is still the beloved of IT so much that they uninstall Vista instantly.
It may have taken Microsoft backroom deals to come to the top, but it takes excellence to stay there.
Just ask any IT admin which systems he would prefer to administer: 4,000 seats of Windows XP or 4,000 seats of Ubuntu.
In Singapore and Asia in General, Education is given PRIME importance.
The marks you score decide whether your parents let you play or thrash you for not scoring enough.
Its all about numbers.
In USA, the attitude is somewhat relaxed. Grades instead of marks make it imprecise.
Secondly, the pressure to learn is absent since anyways the emphasis is on earning money quickly with or without a college education.
A college drop-out who makes it rich is feted. Its ironical since in Asia this is frowned upon.
Corporations are the new Royalty.
They are above law.
They can commit crimes, but cannot be sent to prison BECAUSE their diffuse nature and virtual human being bullshit prevents the cops from cuffing and dragging their CEO through streets.
Best way to counter them is to file a child assault case against them for exposing in front of your daughter wilfully.
I don't why you were modded as Funny.
Its actually most insightful.
...when a corporate is involved it always is a MISTAKE.
When an individual hacker exposes weak security, he is a terrorist.
Wow!
Talk about double standards.
Why can't the corporate be sued on SAME grounds like hackers?
RTFA, not just the headlines
This is slashdot. Not Reuters.
So, Microsoft is breaking the law in Brazil
True,
All very true.
The culture of Microsoft changed from an innovative one to a dictatorship and arrogance and now back to excellence.
It is a pity that a company that produces such excellent books like "Code Complete" can't follow its own books.
The pressure in market place forced them to produce an excellent product: Windows 7.
But it also validates Vista's architecture base. Which means Vista's architecture was great, its execution shoddy.
I agree that money plays a very important role in all these.
But as you said it money doesn't mean everything.
In 1990s i would have loved to work at Microsoft.
In 2000s i preferred to work at Sun.
Now i prefer IBM.
I don't agree.
Money is a GREAT motivator.
Plus what makes Apple a great brand is the pride its salespeople have in it.
Kinda like snooty, Lords who think anyone who does not own a Mac is inferior.
Microsoft's many systems may be a Joke, but NOT Windows 7 and MS Office.
Inspite of what Open Office/Star Office and Lotus can do, you just CANNOT beat MS Office.
And Windows 7 is a very worthy competitor to Mac OS X.
I have run Windows 7 since its RC-1 days (and now i have the RTM installed: i became a technet subscriber to take advantage).
I have found it the MOST stable MS has produced to far.
Far stable than XP and a faster than Vista.
Till today i did NOT face a single BSOD: which is surprising since every 3 months i usually have to hard-reboot XP for some reason.
Even when it appeared it had crashed, Windows 7 recovered and continued to shut down when it appeared unresponsive.
I would be proud to work for Microsoft now.
(and NO, iam NOT joking. I love Java/J2EE a lot. I also own an iBook).
Saw it. Read it carefully.
It still says there is NO Federal law for it.
Various states, various judgements and customers dictate it locally.
There is NO Anti-Defamation law.
This is probably the first time i like the artificial body called Corporation: but this EXACTLY what the law intends.
A corporation is separate from its shareholders. Financially and legally.
If a company declared bankruptcy, the court can appoint a receiver and make sure every one gets their money.
If not, then tough luck.
Suing individuals behind the corporation however much shares they own, is a strict no-no.
BUT, OTOH, its the lawmakers who have sued.
So they can change the law to make sure pirate bay's backers pay up.