As usual, the problem is approached from the wrong direction. When the dam bursts and the floodwaters cover the town, it's a waste of time to develop bigger and better waders. The correct thing to do is repair the dam. So instead of developing ever more elaborate ways to handle the spam flood, just shoot spammers. Put a cash bounty on them, dead or... dead. Problem quickly solved.
Can you give some examples? I don't see where you're going to minimize power consumption no matter what you use, because your drive array is going to require a good-quality power supply that can handle multiple 12v lines. You can run it headless, but hard drives are power-hungry no matter what.
who gives a rip about bundled software? Everyone bundles. Duh. Their biggest crime is their illegal collusion with hardware vendors. That's their biggest lock on the market. Everything else flows from that- all those nice customers to bully and abuse, all those captive devs trapped in lardy Microsoft Foundation Classes, and their giant politician-purchasing war chest.
The DOJ doesn't want to punish MS, it's just a big empty show.
The author is either a bigtime suckup, a twit, or too overpaid and comfortable to work for a company that is truly not evil. Hey, just admit that evil pays better and we'll respect you more. These hollow justifications sound more like he's trying to convince himself.
You are wrong. I suggest you rent a wheelchair and try it out for yourself. Do the entire experience- parking, buying tickets, getting into the theater, concessions, restrooms, and actually watching the movie. I wager you'll give up and call it impossible.
Agreed. Going to the theater is not fun for all the reasons you stated, plus: -FRIKKEN SOUND VOLUMES IN THEATERS ARE DEAFENING -sound leakage from the other movies -bad overpriced food, and if you bring your own treats you have to smuggle them in -just try to get a person in a wheelchair into a movie theater. Regal are the biggest buttheads of all, they're getting sued all over the place and they still refuse to make any kind of accessibility
So scroomall. When they make it a good experience, I'll go. Until then i have Netflix.
Nothing new here, except a slightly different form of doubletalk. Microsoft's only interest in OSS is co-opting and controlling as much of it as possible, and destroying the rest. Just like they've always done with all of their competitors. And please spare the silly "we just want to build great software" baloney. The richest software company on the planet can't build diddly-squat, sheesh.
The article doesn't give much information, but I'm curious why they would just roll over and comply? Or did they get legal advice that said "yep, you better do what they say"? Or did they just go "eee I'm scared, better change stuff." Just because you get a letter from some corporate lawyer saying "you have to do this" doesn't mean you have to do this.
At the best of times Cowboy Neal writes like a drunken monkey. You'd think that a person who is so proud of being a Real Editor would actually have some skills with the language.
Then why has Windows been so easily and frequently compromised from its inception, without access to source code? Oh, I know! "because there are more Windows machines." Noooo. Wrong again. Because it is trivially easy. I know, all these years and tens of thousands of windows viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc. really don't mean a thing! Because the source code is closed! Logic wins again!
so what's the point? Lack of 32-bit support nearly killed it out of the gate. Then they added software 32-bit emulation that sucked, and no one wanted it. Then they added 32-bit support in the hardware. Still nobody wanted it. Now they're going back to software 32-bit emulation. Sooo...how many enterprise servers really want to be running a WinCPU?
I'm just a dumb IT droid, but this makes no sense. Unless the $10 billion is going for bribes.
Ever notice how many posts critical of microsoft are modded "troll"? I can live with "flamebait." But "troll" is just plain stupid. Just like people who like Windows.
They wouldn't have to release these multi-hundreds-of-megabyte horrors. No other operating system does such a thing- Not SunOS, Solaris, the BSDs, Linux, OS X, OS/2- you get nice little security patches and bugfixes on a continual basis. Oh, and they work right, and don't break things. It's not a big job until you upgrade to the next release.
sheesh. And how did this conglomeration of incompetence come to dominate?
Slashdot is a for-profit site, and Taco et al make their livings from it. Since Taco is unwilling to learn English fundamentals, hire a proofreader. At least try to act like professionals. All of his other advice on article selection and blurb-writing is good, and the success of the site speaks for itself. So why is paying attention to grammar and spelling so difficult? Is this just another case of pasty flabby geeks trying to act butch in all the wrong ways?
Hee, lotsa luck- he made it clear that spelling and grammar are unimportant. Sheesh, the occasional typo wouldn't matter, but Slashdot is on a mission to continually lower the bar. Hey, who needs literacy anyway? Does it get you dates with supermodels? No? Then why bother?:P
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As usual, the problem is approached from the wrong direction. When the dam bursts and the floodwaters cover the town, it's a waste of time to develop bigger and better waders. The correct thing to do is repair the dam. So instead of developing ever more elaborate ways to handle the spam flood, just shoot spammers. Put a cash bounty on them, dead or... dead. Problem quickly solved.
Can you give some examples? I don't see where you're going to minimize power consumption no matter what you use, because your drive array is going to require a good-quality power supply that can handle multiple 12v lines. You can run it headless, but hard drives are power-hungry no matter what.
No human could survive the beating he takes. Don't need the director to spell it out.
who gives a rip about bundled software? Everyone bundles. Duh. Their biggest crime is their illegal collusion with hardware vendors. That's their biggest lock on the market. Everything else flows from that- all those nice customers to bully and abuse, all those captive devs trapped in lardy Microsoft Foundation Classes, and their giant politician-purchasing war chest. The DOJ doesn't want to punish MS, it's just a big empty show.
WTF?? Maybe you should read your own articles before posting them. Slashdot should change its motto to "we don't need no steenking English skillz."
hey no fair. This morning I was +5 Insightful. Now I'm a troll. Why did the retarded mod come after the smart one? I am saddened.
The author is either a bigtime suckup, a twit, or too overpaid and comfortable to work for a company that is truly not evil. Hey, just admit that evil pays better and we'll respect you more. These hollow justifications sound more like he's trying to convince himself.
"oh biiillll, what color do you paint your nails? ooo can we have a sleepover? Buy me a pony, pleeeeez!""
Good luck, when the editors of the site are the least literate. Especially the ones who brag about what great editors they are!
You are wrong. I suggest you rent a wheelchair and try it out for yourself. Do the entire experience- parking, buying tickets, getting into the theater, concessions, restrooms, and actually watching the movie. I wager you'll give up and call it impossible.
Agreed. Going to the theater is not fun for all the reasons you stated, plus:
-FRIKKEN SOUND VOLUMES IN THEATERS ARE DEAFENING
-sound leakage from the other movies
-bad overpriced food, and if you bring your own treats you have to smuggle them in
-just try to get a person in a wheelchair into a movie theater. Regal are the biggest buttheads of all, they're getting sued all over the place and they still refuse to make any kind of accessibility
So scroomall. When they make it a good experience, I'll go. Until then i have Netflix.
Nothing new here, except a slightly different form of doubletalk. Microsoft's only interest in OSS is co-opting and controlling as much of it as possible, and destroying the rest. Just like they've always done with all of their competitors. And please spare the silly "we just want to build great software" baloney. The richest software company on the planet can't build diddly-squat, sheesh.
The article doesn't give much information, but I'm curious why they would just roll over and comply? Or did they get legal advice that said "yep, you better do what they say"? Or did they just go "eee I'm scared, better change stuff." Just because you get a letter from some corporate lawyer saying "you have to do this" doesn't mean you have to do this.
Of course, what was I thinking. :)
At the best of times Cowboy Neal writes like a drunken monkey. You'd think that a person who is so proud of being a Real Editor would actually have some skills with the language.
Then why has Windows been so easily and frequently compromised from its inception, without access to source code? Oh, I know! "because there are more Windows machines." Noooo. Wrong again. Because it is trivially easy. I know, all these years and tens of thousands of windows viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, rootkits, etc. really don't mean a thing! Because the source code is closed! Logic wins again!
"IA-32 EL is OS-based and is only available after an OS has booted,"
http://www.digit-life.com/archive.shtml?2006/0125
Betcha money it's not any form of Unix.
so what's the point? Lack of 32-bit support nearly killed it out of the gate. Then they added software 32-bit emulation that sucked, and no one wanted it. Then they added 32-bit support in the hardware. Still nobody wanted it. Now they're going back to software 32-bit emulation. Sooo...how many enterprise servers really want to be running a WinCPU?
I'm just a dumb IT droid, but this makes no sense. Unless the $10 billion is going for bribes.
Ever notice how many posts critical of microsoft are modded "troll"? I can live with "flamebait." But "troll" is just plain stupid. Just like people who like Windows.
It was a rhetorical question. :)
They wouldn't have to release these multi-hundreds-of-megabyte horrors. No other operating system does such a thing- Not SunOS, Solaris, the BSDs, Linux, OS X, OS/2- you get nice little security patches and bugfixes on a continual basis. Oh, and they work right, and don't break things. It's not a big job until you upgrade to the next release. sheesh. And how did this conglomeration of incompetence come to dominate?
Microsoft's abysmal security record speaks for itself, no matter how much PR blather they pour over the holes.
Slashdot is a for-profit site, and Taco et al make their livings from it. Since Taco is unwilling to learn English fundamentals, hire a proofreader. At least try to act like professionals. All of his other advice on article selection and blurb-writing is good, and the success of the site speaks for itself. So why is paying attention to grammar and spelling so difficult? Is this just another case of pasty flabby geeks trying to act butch in all the wrong ways?
Hee, lotsa luck- he made it clear that spelling and grammar are unimportant. Sheesh, the occasional typo wouldn't matter, but Slashdot is on a mission to continually lower the bar. Hey, who needs literacy anyway? Does it get you dates with supermodels? No? Then why bother? :P
Yes, that's the brilliant part. I wonder if the doof's lawyers brought this up? Because IBM bears partial responsibility for not locking him out.