MS will be able to track purchases, and if it looks like you're building your own systems, they come to mess you up. Afterall, pirates are just like terrorists, except for the eyepatch, the big hat, and the dead parot.
People seem to fear things they don't understand more than things they do understand. Doesn't make sense, from a survival point of view, bit it seems to be how fear itself works in people.
I'll try that and see if I can get ciscoworks' and fluke's and mci's java to play together, which they don't right now. Of course, it still doesn't change the fact the all those products, to name just a few, because they need java to run, don't work, and the workaround/kludge required to get them to work is needed for one reason only - java. Other languages don't have this problem. Why java?
Does this guy have any excuse why Java isn't compatible with itself? Why won't something written to run in 1.4.1 run in 1.4.2, or 1.5? All this ends up meaning is that no matter how interesting java the language is, when you get something written in java, it comes out of the box broken. Seriously, if I install two java products on my computer, each written in a different version of java, they break one another, unless I come up with a work-around.
For a language to be so incompatible with itself, no matter how you cut it, or what last-minute workaround you manage to cough up, that is so wrong there is no final verdict to pass on java other than "FAILURE".
I've had to tell people walking in the door with 30k$ products to get lost because it written in java. Why? Because it was found to break the 100k$ product written in another version on java. That makes it range anywhere from 100% dysfunctional to just a run of the mill nightmare to deal with. Other bendors trot out their java-powered web sites, and it ends up either not working because of another currently deployed java product or it breaks the currently deployed java product. Unfortunety for that vender, they get the distinction of being labeled 'unable to support services' - for no reason other than that they just had to do it in java.
As a matter of practice, anyone suggesting using java to implement something should just have their tounge cut out and stapled to their foreheads. Before they're fired.
Remember that longhorn(now scrapped) was MS's first attempt at an OS since DOS. They hired a team from digital to produce the NT/2k/XP codebase and OS architecture, and gave that group a significant degree of insulation from the MS management structure, including billg. MS is very likely going to have to do the same thing again to deliver Vista in any decent form, or whatever it will be called by then. After all, if they scrapped longhorn, whose to say they won't have to scrap vista.
I'm surprised that more foreign goverments aren't calling for similar investigations of US-based suppliers of IT resources to other goverments. This move, even if justified, seems to take things in a bad direction for all.
Anyway, wouldn't outsorcing to other countries have some similar exposures?
In any business, purchasing (or other wise doing business with) from someone who has sued you to gain control of how you run your business is never an option. The outcome would be one more shop looking like hell to drop MS ASAP. People in general will put up with a lot of shit from a vender, but being threatened as a form of coersion is most definetly outside the envelope.
If MS owes their stockholders anything at all, it would be to keep up with the changing face of technology, instead of relying on threats and an illegal monopoly to get by. If the day of the 'buy this operating system' has seen it zenith, then they should put their ear to the ground and see where things are going, and offer customers something of real value, instead of trying to scare people into buying their crap. Or, maybe they owe it to their shareholders not to keep selling xboxen at such a huge loss. This has nothing at all to do with what they owe their shareholders, and everything to do with fear.
The more they tighten their grasp, the more customers will slip through their fingers.
I have contacted the City's network administrator wnd he has done nothing to
install your CentOS software. I have contacted our Internet provider and
they know nothing about your software. I am computer literate! I have 22
years in computer systems engineering and operation.
Hmm... 22 years as a manager, maybe. As if that counted for anything. Then, to make matters worse, he talked to a 'network administrator', who thanks to MS always refering to windows admins as 'network administrators' is a just a windows admin. A case of the blind leading the blind. Or, the windows admins leading the windows users.
Remeber that MS hired primarly from outside (Digital) to build windows NT. Makes you wonder what happened to those folks, mostly Dave Cutler who left Digital to oversee building NT for MS.
If the issue is really preventing snort technology from falling into foreign hands, then shouldn't someone tell them that snort is opensource, and already in the hands of those nasty foreign devils?
This would me MS's second try at a sucessor to the NT/2K/XP legacy. Best of luck - I'd rather see it late with the usual problems than 'ontime' and hopelessly broken.
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MS will make you upgrade to this version of MSO the same way the did the last time around. One component or another of the office 'suite' (or not-so-suite) will save files in a format that the previous version of that component can't read, like they did with Visio. You won't be able to upgrade one component, or at least it will expensive and awkward enough that just a wholesale purchase of the new suite will be the only practical option. So, most businesses will just cough up the dough and rollout (or rollover as the case may be).
Yeah I know there's a free visio03 viewer app before all the ms-shills pop their furry little heads up out of the prairie-msdog-village to defend poor flagging microsoft. But, I don't recall it coming out at the same time as office 2003, nor was it announced with the new version of office. That said, I don't think ms planned on the incompatibility, it was just the usual ms-incompetance(TM).
Too bad openoffice really isn't quite up to offering a better alternative. It can't just be 'as good' or do a few things better that MSO does - it has to pull way ahead to give people a reason to break their addiction. I don't think OOo will beat MS at their own game - I think they need to find a new way to approach and streamline making documents and managing them, or something along those lines.
Yes! Look even now - the mighty republicans are tirelessly ripping laws from the books, amendments from the constitution, and shrinking the size of the government even as we speak! Watch as they spend less money, reduce debt, throw out laws, and shrink the bill of rights in their ongoing crusade to stay out of your life!
I'd give them credit for running circles around democrats, but that's like shooting fish in a barrel. How many democrats does it take to fall off a log? 3. One to actually fall down, and two to debate which way down should be.
Its not really the fault of capitalism, as such. Perhaps the larger problem is that corporations are aritficial persons in the view of the law, with the full protections of the 14th amendment. They are legally persons, yet are bereft of internal moral codes and common senses. They have far more defacto rights that any human being could hope to have. They have never nor can ever shed blod for their country, and have no vested interest in the welfare of the society that lets them exist.
People will always be greedy. Artificial people walking the earth immune from the realities of living a life is a new twist on things. Its no wonder that endangering human life is of no interest to them. Sadly, corporations don't need to be given the same rights as humans in order to be profitable or create jobs. They have nearly all the rights as you and I but one. The right to die. Give them that right, and see if things change.
Or, go ahead and treat them just like a person. Next time one is one trial, give the corporate entity a psycological evaluation and see if they are fit to stand trial. Also see if, lacking any of the mental abilities that enable a person to be a positive member of society such as a sense of right and wrong or the intrinsic value of life, see if a guardian needs to be appointed to handle their affairs, just like any dangerously mentally ill psycotic person, including the capacity to enter into a contract. They like having the same rights and privileges as human beings, then judge them as people.
I've had to provide care and restraint for psycotic individuals. They're just like corporations. Fine one minute, dangerous to all life around them them next.
Have they not tradmarked supevillian? They really should, otherwise the message sent to impressionable children and adults will be that in order to stay free, you need to be super-evil.
I'm having a hard time seeing the point of it. Do you want to be able to unplug your computer from a wired network, and still have it communicate? Or, do you want to be able to plug your laptop into a wired network and have no interruption of data communications? While this technology would seem to accomplish a seemless switch between the two, I don't know that such a goal is something that the marketplace of ideas is looking for. It is intriguing, but I'm not sure that its something people are looking for, although it would be convenient for the ineveitable dead spots in any wireless deployment. It'd be cool for that.
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For when I buy a laptop without an operating system, so I can deflect bullets from MS 'security auditors'.
MS will be able to track purchases, and if it looks like you're building your own systems, they come to mess you up. Afterall, pirates are just like terrorists, except for the eyepatch, the big hat, and the dead parot.
That's because in most other cultures, fetching beer for dad is one of the first things kids learn to do.
People seem to fear things they don't understand more than things they do understand. Doesn't make sense, from a survival point of view, bit it seems to be how fear itself works in people.
I'll try that and see if I can get ciscoworks' and fluke's and mci's java to play together, which they don't right now. Of course, it still doesn't change the fact the all those products, to name just a few, because they need java to run, don't work, and the workaround/kludge required to get them to work is needed for one reason only - java. Other languages don't have this problem. Why java?
Does this guy have any excuse why Java isn't compatible with itself? Why won't something written to run in 1.4.1 run in 1.4.2, or 1.5? All this ends up meaning is that no matter how interesting java the language is, when you get something written in java, it comes out of the box broken. Seriously, if I install two java products on my computer, each written in a different version of java, they break one another, unless I come up with a work-around.
For a language to be so incompatible with itself, no matter how you cut it, or what last-minute workaround you manage to cough up, that is so wrong there is no final verdict to pass on java other than "FAILURE".
I've had to tell people walking in the door with 30k$ products to get lost because it written in java. Why? Because it was found to break the 100k$ product written in another version on java. That makes it range anywhere from 100% dysfunctional to just a run of the mill nightmare to deal with. Other bendors trot out their java-powered web sites, and it ends up either not working because of another currently deployed java product or it breaks the currently deployed java product. Unfortunety for that vender, they get the distinction of being labeled 'unable to support services' - for no reason other than that they just had to do it in java.
As a matter of practice, anyone suggesting using java to implement something should just have their tounge cut out and stapled to their foreheads. Before they're fired.
Remember that longhorn(now scrapped) was MS's first attempt at an OS since DOS. They hired a team from digital to produce the NT/2k/XP codebase and OS architecture, and gave that group a significant degree of insulation from the MS management structure, including billg. MS is very likely going to have to do the same thing again to deliver Vista in any decent form, or whatever it will be called by then. After all, if they scrapped longhorn, whose to say they won't have to scrap vista.
I'm surprised that more foreign goverments aren't calling for similar investigations of US-based suppliers of IT resources to other goverments. This move, even if justified, seems to take things in a bad direction for all.
Anyway, wouldn't outsorcing to other countries have some similar exposures?
Never judge a book by its cover. Didn't these guys pay attention to their grandmas?
In any business, purchasing (or other wise doing business with) from someone who has sued you to gain control of how you run your business is never an option. The outcome would be one more shop looking like hell to drop MS ASAP. People in general will put up with a lot of shit from a vender, but being threatened as a form of coersion is most definetly outside the envelope.
If MS owes their stockholders anything at all, it would be to keep up with the changing face of technology, instead of relying on threats and an illegal monopoly to get by. If the day of the 'buy this operating system' has seen it zenith, then they should put their ear to the ground and see where things are going, and offer customers something of real value, instead of trying to scare people into buying their crap. Or, maybe they owe it to their shareholders not to keep selling xboxen at such a huge loss. This has nothing at all to do with what they owe their shareholders, and everything to do with fear.
The more they tighten their grasp, the more customers will slip through their fingers.
I have contacted the City's network administrator wnd he has done nothing to install your CentOS software. I have contacted our Internet provider and they know nothing about your software. I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation.
Hmm... 22 years as a manager, maybe. As if that counted for anything. Then, to make matters worse, he talked to a 'network administrator', who thanks to MS always refering to windows admins as 'network administrators' is a just a windows admin. A case of the blind leading the blind. Or, the windows admins leading the windows users.
From Dave regarding NT:
Or, get someone with a trackercord of delivering a modern OS. Like Maybe Linus.
Or, hire Christopher Walken as a Project manager
Remeber that MS hired primarly from outside (Digital) to build windows NT. Makes you wonder what happened to those folks, mostly Dave Cutler who left Digital to oversee building NT for MS.
Maybe MS should make Linus a tender offer.
If the issue is really preventing snort technology from falling into foreign hands, then shouldn't someone tell them that snort is opensource, and already in the hands of those nasty foreign devils?
This would me MS's second try at a sucessor to the NT/2K/XP legacy. Best of luck - I'd rather see it late with the usual problems than 'ontime' and hopelessly broken.
MS will make you upgrade to this version of MSO the same way the did the last time around. One component or another of the office 'suite' (or not-so-suite) will save files in a format that the previous version of that component can't read, like they did with Visio. You won't be able to upgrade one component, or at least it will expensive and awkward enough that just a wholesale purchase of the new suite will be the only practical option. So, most businesses will just cough up the dough and rollout (or rollover as the case may be).
Yeah I know there's a free visio03 viewer app before all the ms-shills pop their furry little heads up out of the prairie-msdog-village to defend poor flagging microsoft. But, I don't recall it coming out at the same time as office 2003, nor was it announced with the new version of office. That said, I don't think ms planned on the incompatibility, it was just the usual ms-incompetance(TM).
Too bad openoffice really isn't quite up to offering a better alternative. It can't just be 'as good' or do a few things better that MSO does - it has to pull way ahead to give people a reason to break their addiction. I don't think OOo will beat MS at their own game - I think they need to find a new way to approach and streamline making documents and managing them, or something along those lines.
They'll want them. Perhaps 'necessary' is not as relevant as 'desired'. Or 'Halo'.
Yes! Look even now - the mighty republicans are tirelessly ripping laws from the books, amendments from the constitution, and shrinking the size of the government even as we speak! Watch as they spend less money, reduce debt, throw out laws, and shrink the bill of rights in their ongoing crusade to stay out of your life!
I'd give them credit for running circles around democrats, but that's like shooting fish in a barrel. How many democrats does it take to fall off a log? 3. One to actually fall down, and two to debate which way down should be.
Its not really the fault of capitalism, as such. Perhaps the larger problem is that corporations are aritficial persons in the view of the law, with the full protections of the 14th amendment. They are legally persons, yet are bereft of internal moral codes and common senses. They have far more defacto rights that any human being could hope to have. They have never nor can ever shed blod for their country, and have no vested interest in the welfare of the society that lets them exist.
People will always be greedy. Artificial people walking the earth immune from the realities of living a life is a new twist on things. Its no wonder that endangering human life is of no interest to them. Sadly, corporations don't need to be given the same rights as humans in order to be profitable or create jobs. They have nearly all the rights as you and I but one. The right to die. Give them that right, and see if things change.
Or, go ahead and treat them just like a person. Next time one is one trial, give the corporate entity a psycological evaluation and see if they are fit to stand trial. Also see if, lacking any of the mental abilities that enable a person to be a positive member of society such as a sense of right and wrong or the intrinsic value of life, see if a guardian needs to be appointed to handle their affairs, just like any dangerously mentally ill psycotic person, including the capacity to enter into a contract. They like having the same rights and privileges as human beings, then judge them as people.
I've had to provide care and restraint for psycotic individuals. They're just like corporations. Fine one minute, dangerous to all life around them them next.
Redundant? Silly mod-bots, tricks are for kids.
Have they not tradmarked supevillian? They really should, otherwise the message sent to impressionable children and adults will be that in order to stay free, you need to be super-evil.
Early adopters experiece bugs...?
Things released from hand fall towards the ground...?
I'm having a hard time seeing the point of it. Do you want to be able to unplug your computer from a wired network, and still have it communicate? Or, do you want to be able to plug your laptop into a wired network and have no interruption of data communications? While this technology would seem to accomplish a seemless switch between the two, I don't know that such a goal is something that the marketplace of ideas is looking for. It is intriguing, but I'm not sure that its something people are looking for, although it would be convenient for the ineveitable dead spots in any wireless deployment. It'd be cool for that.
I'll be back
How about Global Thermonuclear war?