By the way, before you start flaming -- I'm not saying Windows beats Linux at everything and is the best in every possible scenario. I'm just pointing out that some complaints aren't 100% valid:-)
Thanks for the input.
I haven't touched Windows servers in years -- that's why I italicized the "were". Most of the time I see Windows being tauted as a Server platform its for the "ease of management" GUI server tools. One bit of difference between Windows Servers and Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X Server. I can use majority of my management scripts on all three UNIX systems with little or no modifications but I doubt they would run on a Windows server without a heavy re-write.
I think your assumption about CLI is false. But I can't prove it so...*shrug*
Could be a personal choice issue with me but I find myself faster with a CLI than GUI when it comes to server management. Most of the people I have worked with seem to follow the same pattern as myself.
Considering the tools are all there, why didn't you learn how to use the CLI admin tools for Windows?
Just kind of seems to me you shouldn't be calling people idiots when you don't know what you are doing yourself.
Are they built into the OS or do you have to purchase them or download them after the fact? All the Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X Server boxen I deal with have all the CLI tools built-in. I have never seen Microsoft brag about their remote CLI management.
Also, I was calling the "Zombied Windows Server Admins" idiots not all Windows Server Admins. Reading is fundamental...
from the article:The Windows technicians, however, only managed an average of 10 machines each, while Linux or Solaris admins can generally handle several times that.
I am assuming that the Linux and Solaris admins are using the CLI to manage the servers via SSH but I believe the slowest way to manage a server is through a keyboard and mouse -- pointing and clicking away. Most of the Windows servers I have managed in my career were through a GUI interface using a remote control program like PC Anywhere and Microsoft's Remote Admin software. With Linux, Solaris and now Mac OS X Server, I use SSH and a keyboard to do my work. With shell scripts and other tricks, I can blaze through server management that I would never be able to do in a GUI environment at the same speed. Even with Mac OS X Server's great GUI management tools, I prefer to fire up Terminal and remotely manage the system through a CLI -- or maybe I just long for the days of my Apple ][.
On the other hand, with the massive numbers of zombied Windows machines probing my networks, it could be that Windows-only Admins are just plain idiots with a MCSE which accounts for the productivity gains of Linux and Solaris admins.
As long as consumers spend their money on "DRM enhanced" products, they will be viable in the marketplace. So far, that has not happened...yet! The example of the DiVX(?) format was telling. The DVD won out because average consumer was thinking, "Dang it, I bought it, I want to watch the movie as many times as I want, and if my buddy has a movie I want to watch and I got one they want to watch, we trade." With DiVX, they couldn't do it and cost nearly the same as a DVD. Right now, the consumer feels if they are going to the trouble of buying a movie in a tangible medium, it should be able to play anytime and anywhere they want. Once the consumer loses that desire, DRM is in.
The law is slow, deliberate and generally fails the consumer. However, with the marketplace, consumer demand could easily spell the demise of DRM without having to grease one legislator's palms. Fast. Look at DiVX. If no one buys it, no one will want to make it.
Maybe I am hopeful, but I don't think the generic consumer is going to think, "Hey! Great! The DVDs and CDs I am buying are protected by DRM. They only work at my house so my pesky friends can't steal them!". Nothing that DRM does benefits the consumer except for the pesky friend problem. Consumers want better, bigger, faster. Not complicated, rigid and limited.
Is that possible? And how does this give legitimacy to a company that spells its name in mixed case letters? I just love press release speak, says everything, means nothing.
"Our algorithms are adaptive," claims Ishikawa. "You can cut a picture in half and we'll still find it, matching the cut-down version against a database of originals, effectively matching the electronic DNA of the target."
It sounds like Ishikawa is trying to circumvent encryption by piecing a message back together into its original form against the wishes of the orginal owner and storing originals without persmission from the owner.
And what is this guy doing with this massive database of kiddie pr0n? Protecting the public? Yea, that's the ticket. Not buying any used keyboards from this guy. Yeech!
Since when did Portugal become the standard of excellence we measure against? I think I smell some trickery here.
What is wrong with Portugal? Its a modern European nation and an EU member state. Not Bangladesh.
"Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is backed up by hard numbers in many studies I've seen. What makes you say it's a fallacy? The thing I'm looking at is the relative gap between the rich and the poor and that does seem to be growing. In the US of course... I have no idea what you Portugese fellers are up to.
Hard numbers from whom? Organizations that what to redistribute wealth from Western nations to non-Western nations?
Not to get into a flame war, but you statement is biased and unsupported. At best you are very misinformed, at worst you are a dittohead.
Don't want to start a flame war and you start out with insults? Good job. Why didn't you buy the poor African American family a typewriter "Mr. I. Care"? Geesh. You know this is happening, you do nothing and call me insensitive. Sheesh!.
Do you really believe that 100 years of economic thought has produced a consensus as unified as you make out, and as abjectly cretinous as the one you put forward?
Its not thought that proves a point, its action. In the last 100 years, the countries that have adopted a capitalist economic system have prospered and those that have adopted nanny-state socialism and planned-economy communism have failed. That's why former Russia was a failure with communism and modern Russia is kicking economic butt with capitalism--got to love their flat tax system...stolen from Reagan Republicans no less!
I'm not saying that the wealth doesn't need to be spread more evenly- it does. But to imply that "democracy and capitalism will solve poverty!" is naive in the extreme.
Wealth should not be spread like butter on white bread, it should be earned either through labor or smart investing. Democracy/Republic and Capitalism has been proven to solve poverty. When it is practiced, people prosper. Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Monoarchies all fail their citizens. The third world is chuck full of those ideologies.
The falicy of the "Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" has invaded so many minds because of our anti-Western culture education system. In fact, the last 50 years of human existance has seen nearly 50% of the world's population reach a "middle class" income level of the average Portuguese citizen. No other time in history have that many people been able to have leisure time on our planet.
Second of all, what is passed as capitalism and democracy does not cure powerty, take a look around, I can see tons of poor people in the western countries.
Yes, we have a name for them. Lazy idiots. One of easiest things to do in a Western country is break the poverty line. That's why floods of people from non-Western countries flock to the US and Europe. They are not lazy idiots but suffer from economic oppression in their home countries. If they can do it, not knowing our language, culture or geography, why can't a bunch of white people do it?
Are you saying we don't have poor poverty stricken people in the USA? Are you saying we have true capitalisim here? Are you saying we have true democracy here?
We have the richest poor people in the world in America -- our public housing comes with basic cable. Most of US poverty is related to extreme stupidity, drug use and mental illness -- not due to economic conditions within our nation. If you want to see poverty, head over to the third world. We do not have 100% capitalism due to the New Deal policies which the Democratic party keeps voting to keep in place. And no we do not have true democracy, I should have said Republic. If we had a true Democracy, we could just vote the poor out of the country since the middle class and rich out number the poor by a large majority.
There should be an upper limit on how much money a person can have. That to me is the only feasible solution to solve the problem of poverty.
I agree. I think infinity is a legitimate upper limit. The solution to poverty is not stealing from Peter to pay Paul but to bring captialism and democracy to all countries. You will notice that poor nations are those with dictators and tyrants not Presidents and Prime Ministers.
This is a page of 'lego men', led by R2-D2, building a x86 PC from parts delivered by UPS. The event is depicted in digital photos on a white background with a somewhat witty commentary. There was a reason this was submitted by an Anonymous Coward.
Now use the time saved not clicking and do something worthwhile. That is all...
Why not just cut Congress off from the Internet in the first place? I am sure it costs a fortune to operate and secure from hackers. If they are not using it for our benefit, what's the point? If they need to surf and read e-mail, do it at home like most workers have too. Everything that Congress does, anyways, is printed in the Federal Register so disconnecting their offices doesn't prevent them from communicating to the public electronically. Congress ran for over 200+ years without e-mail and it doesn't seem to run better with it. Its not like they have figured why I'm not getting Social Security. Instead of ignoring e-mail, they could focus on fixing that.
Because "If you don't want to look at ads, don't buy the game." won't soon apply since adds will be everywhere, and unless you want a Ted K. type shack to live in, you'll have BigMac's floating around your head as you walk through the mall.
There are a lot of things our eyes are offended by in America. If you visit NYC or most major US cities, you will see it everyday at the extremes--nothing like seeing a naked man in your foyer dry humping the unclaimed yellow pages at 3am...much worse than any ad I have ever seen. What's so vile about ads? Are you afraid that you will lose control and run out and buy something? If so, just close your eyes, cup your hands over your ears and shout out,"Nah, Nah, Nah, I'm not hearing you, Nah, Nah, Nah" when those pesky ads pop up.
Skip the Ted K. shack. The Amish community might be a better solution than hanging out in the wilds of Montana for you. Seems like you need some tranquility.
That is, if Mozilla is still legal to use post Palladium.
Whoa! Get a Mac and calm down there. You can run Mozilla on it. Don't worry, big bad Bill Gates won't be able to get you if you use a Mac.
You said that a sales drop in "The Sims" would indicate that this is a bad business move, but it could also be the public's lack of interest in the franchise, bad game design, or in the case of "The Sims Online", rampant grief players.
Well, if you don't like advertisements in video games, the failure of "The Sims" either by playing quality or advertising placement would be a good thing. Other companies will be looking towards "The Sims" on the viability of ads in video games. Since essence of management creativity involves the act of seeing what other successful companies are doing and trying to copy it before the gravy train leaves, if "The Sims" w/ ads fails, the idea will not be as 'hot' as if it works.
If the companies get their act together, like the US Army, they will be giving away awesome video games for free with their products as an inducement for consumption. Would be a good market for companies like EA...
1) The price of the game should be reduced by a percentage of the advertising revenue, since it's our eyeballs doing the work of watching the add.
Why? If you don't want to look at ads, don't buy the game. No one is forcing your eyeballs to watch ads. You are making a choice to do it. EA should sell "The Sims" at any price the market will bear. If product placement fails, their bottom line will show and they will make a different decision in the future. I am always bothered by people thinking they are "owed" something from a company. You get what you pay for and if you don't like it, don't spend the cash.
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Thanks for the info. I figured a lot of these were bolt-on tools.
Thanks for the input. I haven't touched Windows servers in years -- that's why I italicized the "were". Most of the time I see Windows being tauted as a Server platform its for the "ease of management" GUI server tools. One bit of difference between Windows Servers and Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X Server. I can use majority of my management scripts on all three UNIX systems with little or no modifications but I doubt they would run on a Windows server without a heavy re-write.
I promise to take it back when the zombied probes end.
Could be a personal choice issue with me but I find myself faster with a CLI than GUI when it comes to server management. Most of the people I have worked with seem to follow the same pattern as myself.
Are they built into the OS or do you have to purchase them or download them after the fact? All the Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X Server boxen I deal with have all the CLI tools built-in. I have never seen Microsoft brag about their remote CLI management.
Also, I was calling the "Zombied Windows Server Admins" idiots not all Windows Server Admins. Reading is fundamental...
I am assuming that the Linux and Solaris admins are using the CLI to manage the servers via SSH but I believe the slowest way to manage a server is through a keyboard and mouse -- pointing and clicking away. Most of the Windows servers I have managed in my career were through a GUI interface using a remote control program like PC Anywhere and Microsoft's Remote Admin software. With Linux, Solaris and now Mac OS X Server, I use SSH and a keyboard to do my work. With shell scripts and other tricks, I can blaze through server management that I would never be able to do in a GUI environment at the same speed. Even with Mac OS X Server's great GUI management tools, I prefer to fire up Terminal and remotely manage the system through a CLI -- or maybe I just long for the days of my Apple ][.
On the other hand, with the massive numbers of zombied Windows machines probing my networks, it could be that Windows-only Admins are just plain idiots with a MCSE which accounts for the productivity gains of Linux and Solaris admins.
You seem to have no problem reading Slashdot -- the mecca of "Stupid Rantings" (though I haven't seen Katz in a while).
The law is slow, deliberate and generally fails the consumer. However, with the marketplace, consumer demand could easily spell the demise of DRM without having to grease one legislator's palms. Fast. Look at DiVX. If no one buys it, no one will want to make it.
Maybe I am hopeful, but I don't think the generic consumer is going to think, "Hey! Great! The DVDs and CDs I am buying are protected by DRM. They only work at my house so my pesky friends can't steal them!". Nothing that DRM does benefits the consumer except for the pesky friend problem. Consumers want better, bigger, faster. Not complicated, rigid and limited.
Still better than AtI and nViDiA.
Is that possible? And how does this give legitimacy to a company that spells its name in mixed case letters? I just love press release speak, says everything, means nothing.
It sounds like Ishikawa is trying to circumvent encryption by piecing a message back together into its original form against the wishes of the orginal owner and storing originals without persmission from the owner.
And what is this guy doing with this massive database of kiddie pr0n? Protecting the public? Yea, that's the ticket. Not buying any used keyboards from this guy. Yeech!
I am sure your are clicking, 'Fair'. Thanks!
Yea, Sweden is such an economic powerhouse.
What is wrong with Portugal? Its a modern European nation and an EU member state. Not Bangladesh.
"Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is backed up by hard numbers in many studies I've seen. What makes you say it's a fallacy? The thing I'm looking at is the relative gap between the rich and the poor and that does seem to be growing. In the US of course... I have no idea what you Portugese fellers are up to.
Hard numbers from whom? Organizations that what to redistribute wealth from Western nations to non-Western nations?
Don't want to start a flame war and you start out with insults? Good job. Why didn't you buy the poor African American family a typewriter "Mr. I. Care"? Geesh. You know this is happening, you do nothing and call me insensitive. Sheesh!.
Its not thought that proves a point, its action. In the last 100 years, the countries that have adopted a capitalist economic system have prospered and those that have adopted nanny-state socialism and planned-economy communism have failed. That's why former Russia was a failure with communism and modern Russia is kicking economic butt with capitalism--got to love their flat tax system...stolen from Reagan Republicans no less!
Wealth should not be spread like butter on white bread, it should be earned either through labor or smart investing. Democracy/Republic and Capitalism has been proven to solve poverty. When it is practiced, people prosper. Communism, Socialism, Fascism and Monoarchies all fail their citizens. The third world is chuck full of those ideologies.
The falicy of the "Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" has invaded so many minds because of our anti-Western culture education system. In fact, the last 50 years of human existance has seen nearly 50% of the world's population reach a "middle class" income level of the average Portuguese citizen. No other time in history have that many people been able to have leisure time on our planet.
Yes, we have a name for them. Lazy idiots. One of easiest things to do in a Western country is break the poverty line. That's why floods of people from non-Western countries flock to the US and Europe. They are not lazy idiots but suffer from economic oppression in their home countries. If they can do it, not knowing our language, culture or geography, why can't a bunch of white people do it?
We have the richest poor people in the world in America -- our public housing comes with basic cable. Most of US poverty is related to extreme stupidity, drug use and mental illness -- not due to economic conditions within our nation. If you want to see poverty, head over to the third world. We do not have 100% capitalism due to the New Deal policies which the Democratic party keeps voting to keep in place. And no we do not have true democracy, I should have said Republic. If we had a true Democracy, we could just vote the poor out of the country since the middle class and rich out number the poor by a large majority.
I agree. I think infinity is a legitimate upper limit. The solution to poverty is not stealing from Peter to pay Paul but to bring captialism and democracy to all countries. You will notice that poor nations are those with dictators and tyrants not Presidents and Prime Ministers.
Now use the time saved not clicking and do something worthwhile. That is all...
Why not just cut Congress off from the Internet in the first place? I am sure it costs a fortune to operate and secure from hackers. If they are not using it for our benefit, what's the point? If they need to surf and read e-mail, do it at home like most workers have too. Everything that Congress does, anyways, is printed in the Federal Register so disconnecting their offices doesn't prevent them from communicating to the public electronically. Congress ran for over 200+ years without e-mail and it doesn't seem to run better with it. Its not like they have figured why I'm not getting Social Security. Instead of ignoring e-mail, they could focus on fixing that.
There are a lot of things our eyes are offended by in America. If you visit NYC or most major US cities, you will see it everyday at the extremes--nothing like seeing a naked man in your foyer dry humping the unclaimed yellow pages at 3am...much worse than any ad I have ever seen. What's so vile about ads? Are you afraid that you will lose control and run out and buy something? If so, just close your eyes, cup your hands over your ears and shout out,"Nah, Nah, Nah, I'm not hearing you, Nah, Nah, Nah" when those pesky ads pop up.
Skip the Ted K. shack. The Amish community might be a better solution than hanging out in the wilds of Montana for you. Seems like you need some tranquility.
That is, if Mozilla is still legal to use post Palladium.
Whoa! Get a Mac and calm down there. You can run Mozilla on it. Don't worry, big bad Bill Gates won't be able to get you if you use a Mac.
Well, if you don't like advertisements in video games, the failure of "The Sims" either by playing quality or advertising placement would be a good thing. Other companies will be looking towards "The Sims" on the viability of ads in video games. Since essence of management creativity involves the act of seeing what other successful companies are doing and trying to copy it before the gravy train leaves, if "The Sims" w/ ads fails, the idea will not be as 'hot' as if it works.
If the companies get their act together, like the US Army, they will be giving away awesome video games for free with their products as an inducement for consumption. Would be a good market for companies like EA...
Why? If you don't want to look at ads, don't buy the game. No one is forcing your eyeballs to watch ads. You are making a choice to do it. EA should sell "The Sims" at any price the market will bear. If product placement fails, their bottom line will show and they will make a different decision in the future. I am always bothered by people thinking they are "owed" something from a company. You get what you pay for and if you don't like it, don't spend the cash.