Among the other things mentioned here. It's actually somewhat of a security thing. A lot of root kits and other exploits rely on fixed addresses so if you move the kernel or other parts of the OS around it's harder to hack.
So let's see on my system IE has a dll to render HTML, Firefox renders HTML, and Word/Rest of Office render's HTML. Doesn't this kinda defeat the purpose of dll's?
If only the antitrust people had actually been tech savy. Then maybe Microsoft would have been required to have an HTML rendering engine capable of being replaced. This has two major benefits:
1. IE/Firefox/Outlook? Doesn't matter it's just the GUI at that point.
2. Security. If I find a bug in how Windows handles this kind of HTML then there only needs to be one fix. But now it might affect IE, Word, and who knows how many other HTML rendering engines Microsoft has lying around in Windows. And all of them would have to be patched... that's a lot more code churn and makes it a lot more likely that a bug gets patched in one place but not the other 50.
"Now we're very aggressively defending our turf."
Let's see the console launches in a couple of weeks and you're just now going to start defending it?
Brilliant marketing strategy...
So now we just need to sit back and wait for Microsoft to claim that Linux stole their source code but not tell anyone what source was supposedly stolen. Then they'll sue some poor smuck...
Did we post when Dell, HP or Lenovo released Core 2 Duos sometime last month I think?
Yeah I'll get modded down for this, but why does Slashdot hang on every single Apple product launch?
Oh look at the shiny white thing... Give me a break.
In the Desktop realm you are correct. Linux is very rarely sold preinstalled. But remember that article a while back about 25% of Dell enterprise sales being linux? So take that plus all the Dell boxes that aren't sold preinstalled... and you blow Apples 2% of the market so far out of the water it isn't even funny. And that's just Dell + Linux, we aren't including HP, IBM, and the other mainstream vendors that sell linux.
I can see Apple beating linux in the desktop space, but the server or embedded spaces? Forget it.
2: Does Dell try to convince you go buy Windows software anyway, even when you don't want it (to keep Microsoft happy)?
Some "operating system additions" but that is stuff like CALs and if you select linux and select one of those it asks you to unselect that.
3: Has Dell ever reported purchases of non-Windows based hardware to the BSA, or any other such organization (haven't heard of it myself, but it's a valid question)?
Umm yeah lets report our customers to the BSA cause they payed us upto $2700 for a supported operating system... yeah I can see that...
4: Are comparable Dell Linux machines without Windows installed truly available at a price that fully reflects the lack of the Microsoft Tax?
See above, looks about right to me.
5: Does Dell preload adware/advertising crap on their Linux boxes?
Nope.
6: Do you get the same level of customer support for a non-Windows box as you do for a Windows loaded one?
but violent video games keep me from being violent. Whenever I get frustrated with people at work, or traffic, or just general high stress times, I can take my frustrations out on virtual people, or demons, or robots, or little mushroom headed guys (or a good old fashion punching bag) instead of having someone push me over the edge to the point where I get so angry that I couldn't control myself and might take my anger out on them...
TVA anybody? This created jobs, provided power to people without eletricity, and helped reduced private utility companies prices.... Anyone see a parallel?
No what we really need is ala carte programing where we can actually pick exactly which channels we want and the networks get money from the providers based on the number of subscribers to that channel.
Hopefully that will force networks into actually trying to produce good shows in order to get subsribers
Of course that would cut into almighty Time Warner's bottom line...
I didn't think the story was all that bad. It didn't quiet live up to the plot twist of the first story but then again what were they going to do manke Revan your father or mother depending on the first game?
The biggest problem i had were with the numerous bugs in the game at its release. Timing issues where entire conversations would fly by without ever pausing for me to read, numerous crashes, and several quests that had no apparent tie to the story or even an end where my biggest problems.
Why can't software developers ever just wait to release a product until it is actually ready?
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Among the other things mentioned here. It's actually somewhat of a security thing. A lot of root kits and other exploits rely on fixed addresses so if you move the kernel or other parts of the OS around it's harder to hack.
The author really isn't trying to make that argument. He's just saying the announcement this early in the game was a bad idea.
So let's see on my system IE has a dll to render HTML, Firefox renders HTML, and Word/Rest of Office render's HTML. Doesn't this kinda defeat the purpose of dll's?
If only the antitrust people had actually been tech savy. Then maybe Microsoft would have been required to have an HTML rendering engine capable of being replaced. This has two major benefits:
1. IE/Firefox/Outlook? Doesn't matter it's just the GUI at that point.
2. Security. If I find a bug in how Windows handles this kind of HTML then there only needs to be one fix. But now it might affect IE, Word, and who knows how many other HTML rendering engines Microsoft has lying around in Windows. And all of them would have to be patched... that's a lot more code churn and makes it a lot more likely that a bug gets patched in one place but not the other 50.
Because this is Slashdot and Apple is automatically good, Microsoft is automatically bad, and everything needs to run Linux.
"Now we're very aggressively defending our turf."
Let's see the console launches in a couple of weeks and you're just now going to start defending it?
Brilliant marketing strategy...
"They are trying to be mainstream respectable."
And plagiarism is going to change the mainstream's respect level for Wikipedia?
So now we just need to sit back and wait for Microsoft to claim that Linux stole their source code but not tell anyone what source was supposedly stolen. Then they'll sue some poor smuck...
That said, this sounds like a fairly major bug to catch this late in the game.
Exactly makes you wonder how many other major bugs are slipping through...
Sounds like they have some pretty major flaws in the test plans for major bugs to be revealed this late in the game.
Someone please tell me why is this important?
Did we post when Dell, HP or Lenovo released Core 2 Duos sometime last month I think?
Yeah I'll get modded down for this, but why does Slashdot hang on every single Apple product launch?
Oh look at the shiny white thing...
Give me a break.
In the Desktop realm you are correct. Linux is very rarely sold preinstalled. But remember that article a while back about 25% of Dell enterprise sales being linux? So take that plus all the Dell boxes that aren't sold preinstalled... and you blow Apples 2% of the market so far out of the water it isn't even funny. And that's just Dell + Linux, we aren't including HP, IBM, and the other mainstream vendors that sell linux.
I can see Apple beating linux in the desktop space, but the server or embedded spaces? Forget it.
1: Are non-Windows preloaded Linux servers as easy to find as Windows 2003 Server machines?
x ?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1675&s=biz. There are actually more linux options than windows.
Umm... yeah its just a radio button See http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.asp
2: Does Dell try to convince you go buy Windows software anyway, even when you don't want it (to keep Microsoft happy)?
Some "operating system additions" but that is stuff like CALs and if you select linux and select one of those it asks you to unselect that.
3: Has Dell ever reported purchases of non-Windows based hardware to the BSA, or any other such organization (haven't heard of it myself, but it's a valid question)?
Umm yeah lets report our customers to the BSA cause they payed us upto $2700 for a supported operating system... yeah I can see that...
4: Are comparable Dell Linux machines without Windows installed truly available at a price that fully reflects the lack of the Microsoft Tax?
See above, looks about right to me.
5: Does Dell preload adware/advertising crap on their Linux boxes?
Nope.
6: Do you get the same level of customer support for a non-Windows box as you do for a Windows loaded one?
Yeah, actually better support in my experience.
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but violent video games keep me from being violent. Whenever I get frustrated with people at work, or traffic, or just general high stress times, I can take my frustrations out on virtual people, or demons, or robots, or little mushroom headed guys (or a good old fashion punching bag) instead of having someone push me over the edge to the point where I get so angry that I couldn't control myself and might take my anger out on them...
The thing that supprises me is Dell's involvement. They are heavily investing in Linux servers.
x /solutions/en/clustering_hpcc?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=b iz
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.asp
Just a little tidbit that promotes Linux servers in their High Performance Computing Clusters.
Looks like Microsoft is wearing down Dell on the issue hoping that they can control Dell the way Intel does.
TVA anybody?
This created jobs, provided power to people without eletricity, and helped reduced private utility companies prices.... Anyone see a parallel?
No what we really need is ala carte programing where we can actually pick exactly which channels we want and the networks get money from the providers based on the number of subscribers to that channel.
Hopefully that will force networks into actually trying to produce good shows in order to get subsribers
Of course that would cut into almighty Time Warner's bottom line...
I didn't think the story was all that bad. It didn't quiet live up to the plot twist of the first story but then again what were they going to do manke Revan your father or mother depending on the first game?
The biggest problem i had were with the numerous bugs in the game at its release. Timing issues where entire conversations would fly by without ever pausing for me to read, numerous crashes, and several quests that had no apparent tie to the story or even an end where my biggest problems.
Why can't software developers ever just wait to release a product until it is actually ready?