You can hold your breath and claim "there is no 'Linux'" all you want. In common parlance, Linux is a group of operating systems based on the "Linux" kernel. In other words, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.. -> Linux. This is kind of like those people who refuse to acknowledge they lost the "hacker vs. cracker" word definition war.
Usually the most ardent Linux loving MS hating zealots are pretty clueless about technology, as well. They have their little Penguin blinders on and are completely oblivious to anything else. If some fat Linux nerd with a marinara stained T-shirt showing a Penguin smashing a Windows logo with a sledgehammer walked into my office when I was hiring, I would tell him to get his fat ass out of my office - interview over. Even if I was hiring a Linux admin.
There's no room for close mindedness in computing - it ends up costing money.
Cite? The NYTimes has a policy of not using his quotes when commenting on companies with which he has a financial relationship. Do you have a reference for them "boycotting" him? Not that he isn't a complete douchebag...
Quit quoting this populist shit. What you just said is simply untrue and is a lie. Most of the tax burden in this country is paid by the upper-middle class and above.
Gamers will be willing to take it until the point where they won't, then the producers will stop at exactly that point. Yeah, I know, it's not rocket surgery.
Games are getting more and more expensive to produce. This seems like a reasonable extra revenue stream, unless taken to extremes. The market will adjust itself so it's not taken to extremes.
It's amusing to see people bashing Specter. He's not perfect, but he's one of the few stand-up Republicans left. 90% of the time he says something, it makes sense - he doesn't cow-tow to the rest of the party like most of those assholes.
The article indicates they don't want _broadcasters_ to have new rights over content.
And.. that makes it easier? 471 people out of 100,000. It's like trying to herd cats, it's not going to work perfectly.
It's really a shame Intel didn't do this correctly, though. Ideally Intel should just follow the letter of the law and do exactly what is required of them, and not be sleazebags like AMD trying this in the press and trying to innovate by litigating.
As repayment for their abuse of the legal system, AMD deserves to fade into obscurity. AMD likes to make big announcements and sleazy "challenges" in the press, like when they challenged the Xeon back in the day to some kind of kindergarten fight "by the monkeybars". They're oddly silent now on the technical front now, except for making ridiculous claims about Barcelona. AMD has the class of a telemarketing firm run by a guy who tans too much and slicks back his hair with 3 ounces of motor oil every morning.
Yeah, they're just trolling for something they can use to smear Intel. It's amazing to me that the justice system allows trolling like this versus specific requests for specific emails.
What AMD is actually looking for is a "we must crush AMD" type email that looks like bad press for Intel. Of course, in real life all companies say stuff like that in email, including AMD - it's part of the business culture. Like you, this makes me view AMD as a sleazy company one (small) step above patent trolls and spammers.
This just in - company charges money to do work for companies who are using an unsupported suite of products! Film at 11!
I know in Soviet Russia that work was done for free for the betterment of ones comrades, but this isn't Soviet Russia quite yet. Companies charge you when they provide a service for you.
He didn't say that. He said they may not take him as a juror because he will be honest about his feelings concerning criminal convictions. The prosecutor would then probably dismiss him in favor of the scared soccer mom who's more likely to believe anything the prosecutor says.
In this entitlement based society, what you propose isn't good enough. They _also_ want to be able to force large companies to help them because it's their "right". Not only does he expect to get the webpage put up, but he thinks he also has some special right to have the page advertised by a private company regardless of if they choose to or not.
I think this mentality of entitlement is very common in people born after about 1960. Hence the explosion of the civil law system and the "frivolous lawsuit". Most of us Americans are just a bunch of spoiled twits is what it really boils down to. When you're so fat and pampered that all your primary needs are taken for granted, you start to obsess over your secondary, tertiary, etc... needs.
Yeah, they tried that. It's called "socialism". It doesn't work.
Just because a company becomes successful doesn't mean the government suddenly owns them and gets to dictate every little thing they do or don't do. I know some people think the "Internet" is as important as air, food, water, or oil - but it's really not. There's no justification for imposing ridiculous government regulations on it.
Oooh, zinger! You have smitten me with your +2 jab of deep insight, kudos to you sir.
I like the way you pointed out the obvious (the implication that others are less intelligent). There's a certain kind of irony to your post, which you half-assed alluded to but I'll leave it to the reader.
Wow, I assume you're trolling. Postgres is a tinker toy compared to MSSQL. Seriously. Tinker toy. Making this claim, as well as the laughably false claim about Windows not running headless (I have one running headless right now in my house) marks you as -1(Clueless).
Don't get me wrong - sometimes you don't need more than postgres or mysql, and they're great for simple systems.
I predict this will be the most predictable Windows whinefest we've had on here in a while.
Don't let facts get in your way. Nevermind that they'll use hardened versions and will have testing regimes that will be damn near insane. Nevermind that Windows 2k as a server OS without all the other crap people typically put on it is extremely stable.
I predict countless variations of "Zeke, der puttin Windoze (from M$) on battleships! Yuk Yuk, sure gives new meaning to 'lue screen of (mass) death!'yuk yuk."
I hate to break this to you all, but Postgres is a competitor to Microsoft SQL Server like DOS is a competitor to Linux. Seriously, people who can get by with Postgres wouldn't buy SQL server anyway - it's not even in the same league. This is like how VMWare gives away VMWare server, the capabilities of their real products that they charge for are so far above and beyond that it's no problem for them.
You're right, I was a little too cranky when I wrote that. I just get so bored of the pointless Microsoft bashing.
The 2GB limit is because a section of the address space is reserved for the kernel. The same thing happens in Linux (though being a smaller kernel, you can probably eek out more overall address space) - you can't use, in a single process, all the memory on your system. Not only does the kernel take up physical memory, but it reserves address space. The amount it reserves is usually configurable by various "bigmem" settings. In Windows it's a boot.ini option (I think/3gig or something like that), don't remember what it is in Linux. Anyway, this shaves down the amount of address space the kernel reserves, leaving more per-process addressable user space memory.
You're retarded. It has nothing to do with negative signed integers and all to do with reserved kernel address space. Not Linux has some of the same limitations. Go read a book on basic kernel architecture.
But yeah, MS programmers are _dumb_. That's it. They hire the best and brightest but dog gone it they're just dumb! Mayhaps they should hire you instead, and you can explain all about "negative signed integers".
Wait, what? I'm confused. Microsoft had the only Java runtime? The power to decide Java's fate was in Microsoft's hands, not Sun's? Sure seems like...poor planning on Sun's part, no?
I wondered about that too. They make it sound like CDDB actually does some kind of musical analysis of the CD and it detected that the CDs were similar.
Give me a break, this is your evidence? Their foundation invests in countless businesses, some of which are "good" and some probably have "evil" aspects. One sleezebag working for a mortgage company doesn't really mean anything unless you're easily manipulated by sob stories about poor old couples. All kinds of businesses have sleazy people who work for them. This mortgage lender is no exception.
I've seen the usual crybabying about them investing in polluters in third world countries, etc... The fact is that it's not black and white. Many companies may have some negative aspects, and other greater overriding positive aspects. A non-profit is not an investment bank, they can't spend their time and money nitpicking over tiny details. If they did, they would never invest in any large company - they all have dirty laundry.
As for the vaccine thing, let's see some evidence other than your vague blatherings. I also assume that "his" vaccine companies charge more than their competitors, else it would be rather silly to ding them for buying the cheapest vaccine, nevermind the fact that a huge amount of the money is _his own money_.
Seriously, I don't follow your logic. He's moving money around nefariously between his own companies and charities for...some evil reason only you know about?
Of course they spin. I'm mainly on here for a hoot and to mock and heckle people, but seriously it seems there are about 5 different opinions on Slashdot and they get posted over and over again by the same ridiculous, self-righteous ponces.
"Microsoft is a 'convicted monopolist'!"
"Gates' philanthropy is a fraud!"
"Gates is in many ways comparable with Hitler in terms of evil!"
"Microsoft has held back computers! We'd have much better shit now without them!"
"DRM is evil!"
It's really quite a joke. You'd think they'd be ashamed of being parodies of themselves, but apparently not.
Lol, you are such a lying, bitter scumbag it's not even funny. You are basically claiming that Gates is committing fraud (using a nonprofit to make money for shill corporations). I think you should make these bald-faced lies more specific - just come out and accuse him of fraud. That way I can at least hope his lawyers will decide to ruin your life and sue for libel.
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You can hold your breath and claim "there is no 'Linux'" all you want. In common parlance, Linux is a group of operating systems based on the "Linux" kernel. In other words, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc.. -> Linux. This is kind of like those people who refuse to acknowledge they lost the "hacker vs. cracker" word definition war.
Usually the most ardent Linux loving MS hating zealots are pretty clueless about technology, as well. They have their little Penguin blinders on and are completely oblivious to anything else. If some fat Linux nerd with a marinara stained T-shirt showing a Penguin smashing a Windows logo with a sledgehammer walked into my office when I was hiring, I would tell him to get his fat ass out of my office - interview over. Even if I was hiring a Linux admin.
There's no room for close mindedness in computing - it ends up costing money.
Cite? The NYTimes has a policy of not using his quotes when commenting on companies with which he has a financial relationship. Do you have a reference for them "boycotting" him? Not that he isn't a complete douchebag...
Quit quoting this populist shit. What you just said is simply untrue and is a lie. Most of the tax burden in this country is paid by the upper-middle class and above.
Games are getting more and more expensive to produce. This seems like a reasonable extra revenue stream, unless taken to extremes. The market will adjust itself so it's not taken to extremes.
The article indicates they don't want _broadcasters_ to have new rights over content.
Huh huh. You said.. "pocket gopher".
It's really a shame Intel didn't do this correctly, though. Ideally Intel should just follow the letter of the law and do exactly what is required of them, and not be sleazebags like AMD trying this in the press and trying to innovate by litigating.
As repayment for their abuse of the legal system, AMD deserves to fade into obscurity. AMD likes to make big announcements and sleazy "challenges" in the press, like when they challenged the Xeon back in the day to some kind of kindergarten fight "by the monkeybars". They're oddly silent now on the technical front now, except for making ridiculous claims about Barcelona. AMD has the class of a telemarketing firm run by a guy who tans too much and slicks back his hair with 3 ounces of motor oil every morning.
What AMD is actually looking for is a "we must crush AMD" type email that looks like bad press for Intel. Of course, in real life all companies say stuff like that in email, including AMD - it's part of the business culture. Like you, this makes me view AMD as a sleazy company one (small) step above patent trolls and spammers.
I know in Soviet Russia that work was done for free for the betterment of ones comrades, but this isn't Soviet Russia quite yet. Companies charge you when they provide a service for you.
He didn't say that. He said they may not take him as a juror because he will be honest about his feelings concerning criminal convictions. The prosecutor would then probably dismiss him in favor of the scared soccer mom who's more likely to believe anything the prosecutor says.
I think this mentality of entitlement is very common in people born after about 1960. Hence the explosion of the civil law system and the "frivolous lawsuit". Most of us Americans are just a bunch of spoiled twits is what it really boils down to. When you're so fat and pampered that all your primary needs are taken for granted, you start to obsess over your secondary, tertiary, etc... needs.
Just because a company becomes successful doesn't mean the government suddenly owns them and gets to dictate every little thing they do or don't do. I know some people think the "Internet" is as important as air, food, water, or oil - but it's really not. There's no justification for imposing ridiculous government regulations on it.
Oooh, zinger! You have smitten me with your +2 jab of deep insight, kudos to you sir. I like the way you pointed out the obvious (the implication that others are less intelligent). There's a certain kind of irony to your post, which you half-assed alluded to but I'll leave it to the reader.
Go lookup WCF. In a league of its own, all the Java vendors are trying to play catchup.
Don't get me wrong - sometimes you don't need more than postgres or mysql, and they're great for simple systems.
Don't let facts get in your way. Nevermind that they'll use hardened versions and will have testing regimes that will be damn near insane. Nevermind that Windows 2k as a server OS without all the other crap people typically put on it is extremely stable.
I predict countless variations of "Zeke, der puttin Windoze (from M$) on battleships! Yuk Yuk, sure gives new meaning to 'lue screen of (mass) death!'yuk yuk."
I hate to break this to you all, but Postgres is a competitor to Microsoft SQL Server like DOS is a competitor to Linux. Seriously, people who can get by with Postgres wouldn't buy SQL server anyway - it's not even in the same league. This is like how VMWare gives away VMWare server, the capabilities of their real products that they charge for are so far above and beyond that it's no problem for them.
The 2GB limit is because a section of the address space is reserved for the kernel. The same thing happens in Linux (though being a smaller kernel, you can probably eek out more overall address space) - you can't use, in a single process, all the memory on your system. Not only does the kernel take up physical memory, but it reserves address space. The amount it reserves is usually configurable by various "bigmem" settings. In Windows it's a boot.ini option (I think /3gig or something like that), don't remember what it is in Linux. Anyway, this shaves down the amount of address space the kernel reserves, leaving more per-process addressable user space memory.
But yeah, MS programmers are _dumb_. That's it. They hire the best and brightest but dog gone it they're just dumb! Mayhaps they should hire you instead, and you can explain all about "negative signed integers".
Wait, what? I'm confused. Microsoft had the only Java runtime? The power to decide Java's fate was in Microsoft's hands, not Sun's? Sure seems like...poor planning on Sun's part, no?
I wondered about that too. They make it sound like CDDB actually does some kind of musical analysis of the CD and it detected that the CDs were similar.
I've seen the usual crybabying about them investing in polluters in third world countries, etc... The fact is that it's not black and white. Many companies may have some negative aspects, and other greater overriding positive aspects. A non-profit is not an investment bank, they can't spend their time and money nitpicking over tiny details. If they did, they would never invest in any large company - they all have dirty laundry.
As for the vaccine thing, let's see some evidence other than your vague blatherings. I also assume that "his" vaccine companies charge more than their competitors, else it would be rather silly to ding them for buying the cheapest vaccine, nevermind the fact that a huge amount of the money is _his own money_.
Seriously, I don't follow your logic. He's moving money around nefariously between his own companies and charities for...some evil reason only you know about?
"Microsoft is a 'convicted monopolist'!"
"Gates' philanthropy is a fraud!"
"Gates is in many ways comparable with Hitler in terms of evil!"
"Microsoft has held back computers! We'd have much better shit now without them!"
"DRM is evil!"
It's really quite a joke. You'd think they'd be ashamed of being parodies of themselves, but apparently not.
Lol, you are such a lying, bitter scumbag it's not even funny. You are basically claiming that Gates is committing fraud (using a nonprofit to make money for shill corporations). I think you should make these bald-faced lies more specific - just come out and accuse him of fraud. That way I can at least hope his lawyers will decide to ruin your life and sue for libel.