This is false. Itanium was (and is) very powerful in specific domains (scientific computing, database servers, etc...). The design is fine, it's just not been nurtured as much because Intel finally realized it wouldn't be a mainstream processor anytime soon.
Sure I'll go back, if the price is right. I'm not an anti-DRM fanatic, I don't have any moral objections to DRM products - I just don't want them if they don't fit my needs.
Haha, good point. Okay, so Ballmer is a complete and utter jackass - I'll give you that;) But he is correct, Microsoft's coddling of the software developer is the reason they are where they are.
Oh yes, I have. I copy the DVD to my hard drive using AnyDVD and I put the DVD for the games in when I want to play. Not exactly rocket surgery. If a particular DRM scheme doesn't fit my needs, I don't use it. Otherwise, I don't care.
Case in point - Itunes. I used to use it because the Hymn project had a crack for the content. I could buy the music and decrypt it and use it however the hell I wanted. When they changed the Itunes scheme and Hymn no longer worked, I stopped buying Itunes. Problem solved with a minimum of tears or whining.
Good lord you people are living in your own little world, aren't you. I develop software in Java and Perl on Linux, and I develop software in.NET for Windows. I can absolutely assure you that going back to developing in Linux is like putting a hot fucking needle in your eyeball once you've been immersed in the Windows world for a while. It's absolutely horrible and primitive.
Microsoft's OS's may not be "sexy" anymore, but the server tools and software development environment they provide is light years ahead of anything anyone else has. There are a few cool UNIX-ish development tools like Ruby on RAILS, PHP, etc... but when it comes to real software development most of the UNIX stuff is absolutely tinker toy.
You people focus on the desktop OS too much. Go look around msdn.microsoft.com and tell me Microsoft is doing nothing intriguing today. I can crank out a WS-I compliant web service with WSE-Security compliant Kerberos authentication, loggging, workflow automation, role based authorization, and Policy injection in literally one hour. Doing the same with Java or your average random open source tools would take days, and it wouldn't be nearly as simple, maintainable, or functional. You'd have to use commercial tools to even come close, and you'd still be missing functionality and it would take several hours.
You people seem to be on some kind of nerd jihad against Microsoft. The first rule of warfare is don't underestimate your enemy. The fact is that Microsoft has the best software minds in the world working for them. You all focus on Windows, but Microsoft will win this war nn the server and in the enterprise because they cater to the software developer.
This is just nonsense. Software developers and enterprise engineers use Microsoft because they provide the best software development available anywyere. Eclipse has made great strides in the last few years and it's at least in the league of Visual Studio, but it's still quite a ways behind. Nothing else even comes close to VS 2005. Team Foundation Server is another product that is class-leading in the area of source control, process management, work item tracking, etc...
It amuses me every time some genius claims "only dumb people use Microsoft". Have you seen what they're doing to enable software developers? The WPF/WCF/WWF trifecta from.NET 3.0 are amazing pieces of technology and the automation they provide, like Enterprise Library 3.0, the software guidance libraries, etc... are innovative and stunningly useful. Biztalk 2006 is an amazing product. SQL Server 2005 is an amazing product.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere and the people _really_ into computers are using their technology. Microsoft will always win because they enable software developers to a level your average Linux sysadmin dude who drools when he hears about the latest GTK toolkit (give me a fucking break, how primitive) cannot understand.
You know, it's the damnedest thing. My computer is controlled by me. Everytime I see people whining about DRM I wonder what the fuss is. I run Windows XP and have had no issues with DRM because I don't buy DRM'd media. Instead of whining, I just put my money where my mouth is and so far I haven't fallen asleep cursing Microsoft or anyone else because I don't have any DRM issues to speak of. It's God Damned amazing.
I have an idea - move to Venezuela. There, your ridiculous socialist ideals will be realized and you can help drive the takeover of private companies by the government. After all, the government is so good at being efficient I'm sure all these companies will be more successful and we'll be much happier when you're finished.
God I can't wait until Venezuela collapses completely and the rabble who used to support Chavez mob and tear him to pieces. Fucking socialist, rabble rousing populist scum.
Too bad these are lies and inaccuracies. Microsoft's Kerberos implementation is working fine for many companies with Linux, Solaris, and many other clients.
Give me a fucking break. You're proposing that the government get their corrupt little hands in the software business and mandate that a private company develop software according to "standards" developed by their competitors and inept committees? There's no nice way to say this - you're a fucking idiot and your idea is the stupidest damn thing I've read in this anti-MS whinefest so far.
Person A didn't think this was a very good movie because he didn't agree with the "political" message. Of course, the "political" message of this movie was only part of the movie, and the same "political message" isn't exactly new and has been in movies for decades and decades and in art for as long as there has been art. Namely, how shittily the masses can treat people out of fear or ignorance.
In 95% of cases people who disagree with this "political message" or think the "libral media" is behind it are right wing wingnuts. These same people love the idea of the government doing whatever is necessary to get information from "terrists", whether they're really terrorists or not. Ergo, they love the torture-the-terrists part of "24". They do, however, probably dislike the commentary on how the evil lunatics in the government are trying to lock up all the muslims because many of them think that's probably a reasonable thing to do.
Yeah, art should never include any kind of political message no matter how vague or realistic. I like my movies like I like my women - bland and opinionless.
If you whiny fucking right wing lugnuts didn't love the torture so much in "24" I'm sure you'd crybaby about its political message this season, too.
Anyone with any sense instantly ignores any review that whines about the politics of the movie unless the movie is blatantly political. This is a sci-fi/drama movie and your inane comments about it being some kind of "libral media[sic]" propoganda movie is laugable. It's about as smart as people who bitch about violence against children or violence against women in movies. Such violence happens in real life every day, but for some reason people think you can't put it in a movie.
As for the violence - I've got two words for you. Fuck yeah. Sometimes a jolt of the old ultraviolence is just what you need. Hence my term for people who give bad reviews to Children of Men or 300 - "fucking pansies".
Ooh, good point. Because yeah, it doesn't make sense that people are irrational and would want to conserve resources considering they are the last generation.
Ahh yes, the classic "Your shoes are untied" - one of the greatest comedic moments possible in any person's life. That one, like this one, is fall on the floor, run-out-of-breath-laughing funny for the same reason this one is - it's so very intricate and full of second and third level auxillary meanings and Nth degree levels of intricate plotting and cleverness.
If anything, I'd say you're underselling "Your shoes are untied." I know "Your shoes are untied" - I've utilized it and comprehended it in all its thrilling vibrancy. This, my friend, is no "Your shoes are untied." To compare it to "Your shoes are untied" is to belittle the wonderful work "Your shoes are untied" has done throughout the ages to bring rich, fullfilling laughter to our lives.
Oooh, yeah, the great big "I want to run x86 instructions on SPARC/PA-RISC/Power/etc..." market! That's _huge_ and useful!!!
OK, sarcasm aside - I find this to be a pointless exercise. Interesting in a very abstract kind of way, but of very, very, very limited usefulness. Java isn't slow in all things, this is true. However, I'm willing to bet this is dirt slow. Using native VM solutions running on x86 are painful enough, especially in terms of IO, this is going to perform horrifyingly bad.
Pretty much only simple minded dolts hate Wal-mart. The alternative to Wal-mart is more expensive products, which dirt poor people can't afford, and fewer jobs.
So please explain to me how giving someone a low paying job with no benefits is somehow, in some magical fairy tale land you've concocted, worse than giving them no job? If Wal-Mart behaved like a socialist utopia and effectively implemented private enterprise socialism (paying more than the market requires), they would be nowhere near as large as they are, and the net effect would be less people with jobs in the US.
Or, more simply, who else is hiring those worthless old farts and giving them huge health insurance plans and paying them $12 an hour? Give me a fucking break.
Nobody thinks Microsoft is evil but their competitors and a few thousand filthy, angry geeky dweeb nerds. I doubt they're even in the top 20 - nobody cares what a small number of dweebs think.
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This is false. Itanium was (and is) very powerful in specific domains (scientific computing, database servers, etc...). The design is fine, it's just not been nurtured as much because Intel finally realized it wouldn't be a mainstream processor anytime soon.
Wouldn't work - you can't get a good weight ratio on an electric bike with respect to overall performance. The batteries would be too heavy.
Sure I'll go back, if the price is right. I'm not an anti-DRM fanatic, I don't have any moral objections to DRM products - I just don't want them if they don't fit my needs.
Haha, good point. Okay, so Ballmer is a complete and utter jackass - I'll give you that ;) But he is correct, Microsoft's coddling of the software developer is the reason they are where they are.
Case in point - Itunes. I used to use it because the Hymn project had a crack for the content. I could buy the music and decrypt it and use it however the hell I wanted. When they changed the Itunes scheme and Hymn no longer worked, I stopped buying Itunes. Problem solved with a minimum of tears or whining.
Guh? I don't have any DRM issues at work, either. Not sure what you could possibly mean.
Microsoft's OS's may not be "sexy" anymore, but the server tools and software development environment they provide is light years ahead of anything anyone else has. There are a few cool UNIX-ish development tools like Ruby on RAILS, PHP, etc... but when it comes to real software development most of the UNIX stuff is absolutely tinker toy.
You people focus on the desktop OS too much. Go look around msdn.microsoft.com and tell me Microsoft is doing nothing intriguing today. I can crank out a WS-I compliant web service with WSE-Security compliant Kerberos authentication, loggging, workflow automation, role based authorization, and Policy injection in literally one hour. Doing the same with Java or your average random open source tools would take days, and it wouldn't be nearly as simple, maintainable, or functional. You'd have to use commercial tools to even come close, and you'd still be missing functionality and it would take several hours.
You people seem to be on some kind of nerd jihad against Microsoft. The first rule of warfare is don't underestimate your enemy. The fact is that Microsoft has the best software minds in the world working for them. You all focus on Windows, but Microsoft will win this war nn the server and in the enterprise because they cater to the software developer.
It amuses me every time some genius claims "only dumb people use Microsoft". Have you seen what they're doing to enable software developers? The WPF/WCF/WWF trifecta from .NET 3.0 are amazing pieces of technology and the automation they provide, like Enterprise Library 3.0, the software guidance libraries, etc... are innovative and stunningly useful. Biztalk 2006 is an amazing product. SQL Server 2005 is an amazing product.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere and the people _really_ into computers are using their technology. Microsoft will always win because they enable software developers to a level your average Linux sysadmin dude who drools when he hears about the latest GTK toolkit (give me a fucking break, how primitive) cannot understand.
You know, it's the damnedest thing. My computer is controlled by me. Everytime I see people whining about DRM I wonder what the fuss is. I run Windows XP and have had no issues with DRM because I don't buy DRM'd media. Instead of whining, I just put my money where my mouth is and so far I haven't fallen asleep cursing Microsoft or anyone else because I don't have any DRM issues to speak of. It's God Damned amazing.
Nonsense. Theft is theft, "Cletus told me to do it" doesn't absolve you of the crime. The idea of that is ridiculous and untenable.
God I can't wait until Venezuela collapses completely and the rabble who used to support Chavez mob and tear him to pieces. Fucking socialist, rabble rousing populist scum.
What a load of shit. All the cases against Microsoft were instigated by their "competitors" and the politicians in _their_ back pockets.
Too bad these are lies and inaccuracies. Microsoft's Kerberos implementation is working fine for many companies with Linux, Solaris, and many other clients.
Give me a fucking break. You're proposing that the government get their corrupt little hands in the software business and mandate that a private company develop software according to "standards" developed by their competitors and inept committees? There's no nice way to say this - you're a fucking idiot and your idea is the stupidest damn thing I've read in this anti-MS whinefest so far.
Person A didn't think this was a very good movie because he didn't agree with the "political" message. Of course, the "political" message of this movie was only part of the movie, and the same "political message" isn't exactly new and has been in movies for decades and decades and in art for as long as there has been art. Namely, how shittily the masses can treat people out of fear or ignorance.
In 95% of cases people who disagree with this "political message" or think the "libral media" is behind it are right wing wingnuts. These same people love the idea of the government doing whatever is necessary to get information from "terrists", whether they're really terrorists or not. Ergo, they love the torture-the-terrists part of "24". They do, however, probably dislike the commentary on how the evil lunatics in the government are trying to lock up all the muslims because many of them think that's probably a reasonable thing to do.
If you whiny fucking right wing lugnuts didn't love the torture so much in "24" I'm sure you'd crybaby about its political message this season, too.
As for the violence - I've got two words for you. Fuck yeah. Sometimes a jolt of the old ultraviolence is just what you need. Hence my term for people who give bad reviews to Children of Men or 300 - "fucking pansies".
Wait, it wasn't a good point - it was retarded.
If anything, I'd say you're underselling "Your shoes are untied." I know "Your shoes are untied" - I've utilized it and comprehended it in all its thrilling vibrancy. This, my friend, is no "Your shoes are untied." To compare it to "Your shoes are untied" is to belittle the wonderful work "Your shoes are untied" has done throughout the ages to bring rich, fullfilling laughter to our lives.
OK, sarcasm aside - I find this to be a pointless exercise. Interesting in a very abstract kind of way, but of very, very, very limited usefulness. Java isn't slow in all things, this is true. However, I'm willing to bet this is dirt slow. Using native VM solutions running on x86 are painful enough, especially in terms of IO, this is going to perform horrifyingly bad.
So please explain to me how giving someone a low paying job with no benefits is somehow, in some magical fairy tale land you've concocted, worse than giving them no job? If Wal-Mart behaved like a socialist utopia and effectively implemented private enterprise socialism (paying more than the market requires), they would be nowhere near as large as they are, and the net effect would be less people with jobs in the US.
Or, more simply, who else is hiring those worthless old farts and giving them huge health insurance plans and paying them $12 an hour? Give me a fucking break.
Nobody thinks Microsoft is evil but their competitors and a few thousand filthy, angry geeky dweeb nerds. I doubt they're even in the top 20 - nobody cares what a small number of dweebs think.