"Why doesn't Microsoft just bite the bullet and base the next version of Windows on Linux or BSD?"
Because the only ego in the world greater than Steve Jobs' is Steve Ballmer's. I'm praying that Microsoft's -11% profits this quarter due to the whole Vista fiasco will prompt a changing of the guard. Ballmer's bad for Microsoft. He's picking fights with Google and Yahoo! when he should be focusing on his degenerating core businesses: Windows and Office. Office adoption is less than stellar, and Windows Vista has petitions demanding its demise circulating around on the Internet. Meanwhile, Ballmer is trying to break into the Internet advertising market to try and kill Google. Bad idea. Microsoft tried to buy Google a while back, and was denied. So now he's trying to kill Google dead. He should focus on his own products first, not killing other people. If he keeps this up, Windows will be dead. True, he'll have the Internet ads market, but then he'll only hope to be as big as Google. It doesn't bode well for Microsoft to keep Steve. I hope a few of their deluded chairmen figure that out.
That would do nothing more than create more funds for faster chips. It takes time to legitimately decrypt data as well as to break the encryption, too! If everyone started encrypting their data, and assuming that the government started actively breaking everyone's encryption, people would simply buy bigger and faster chips, as would the government.
Also, this would fuel an interest in better encryption technologies. Hopefully it would also start people using stronger hashing techniques. I'm amazed that there aren't many services that use the much stronger Whirlpool hashing algorithm, instead opting for weaker SHA1 and MD5 sums. You can go to sites which will break those digests and find you a collision - for free!
In the end, that which does not kill us makes us stronger. Wouldn't harming privacy only make it stronger? Assuming its not killed to the point that it's beyond recussitation, of course. It wouldn't be funny if we actually had a 1984 going on for real.
...This makes it seem like google will see the text box and input random content from the site, then post it....
No, the Google Bot sees raw HTML and CSS code, plus maybe some basic JavaScript. All of/.'s new js additions will throw off the bots immediately.
In addition, you're forgetting that GET and POST are completely different things. They look identical to you, but the HTML is different, and it's not difficult to differentiate between them. One is <form method="GET"> and the other is <form method="POST">
... I've personally had two interviewers confide in me post-selection that I was picked over (to me) obviously more qualified candidates because they didn't believe that someone from [X. State] could be better qualified than a person from [ABC] and that they had just assumed that I flubbed the interviews....
I'm not sure I'd want to work with an employer like that. I mean, geez, if they're making misconceptions like that, what kind of internal tools will they be prescribing? Rationale ClearCase horror stories from the '90s come to mind... the good 'ole days with rogue CVS server appearing on the network. Good times, good times.
Eh, the point is that it can register 1400 accounts per day so they can distribute the email. No major behavior difference. Just a bunch of accounts.
If they tracked it to an IP (gee, 10.25.7.8.9 has registered 1400 accounts today!), now that I can see.
I also think that we need some kind of licensing for computer use. Like how you need to get a license to drive a car, a license to use the computer. There are too many people who just don't know. It hurts to see a person say "gee, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was infected!" It's sort of like Eternal September still, with everyone still getting used to the whole "interwebs" thing.
I'm not one to determine a proper licensing program, however. That'd require some major research!
Yeah, right now Java's getting a firm Ruby in the butt though. The number of RonR apps I'm seeing developed is quite interesting. Personally this Ruby on Trains crap gives me a massive headache, but it does work and if you take the time to learn the extensive API it can truly magnify the agility of your site. As soon as I saw RonR I said to myself "how is PHP not dead yet?"
Beyond that, it's the consitutional perogative and duty of the DOJ to oversee all activities from all other branches of government. I think that some of these congresspeople need to be kicked out of office permenently by the DOJ for direct attempt at circumventing the Judicial Oversight clause, and for blatantly breaking constitutional law. Remember, the Supreme Court cannot try its own cases. You need to bring the scumbags to them.
It's unconstitutional. Take it to court. You have the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. Do they have probably cause that you are a terrorist? Probably not. Do they have corroborating evidence that you are engaged in any activities with terrorists. Probably not.
They can't just void the bill of rights, especially such an important part of the criminal justice code. If they did that, there wouldn't be much reason to give people their Miranda rights anymore, anyways.
Total BS, it'll never last. If it isn't struck down, the Supreme Court will.
If the Supreme Court won't, I don't care. I'm moving.
Seeing as how alcohol is a depressant and a drug, should we be happy that it's finally being treated as the dangerous neurological inhibitor that it is?
But, one of the main problems to Linux adoption is the install process. Have you even seen XP's install? Its much more complex then Ubuntu's install (albeit much easier then Gentoo's)
Are you mad? XP's installer is worse than even Gentoo's! Press F6 to install a SCSI/RAID driver my butt! What if the user doesn't want to baby-sit the install? Even OEM installations aren't a bucket of laughs!
Linux isn't quite as good as treating the user as a danger to him or herself by hiding important details from the user, but it at least doesn't waste your time with inane things like floppy-only driver installs and timed you-miss-it-you-reboot driver installations. And thank heavens it doesn't have to reboot a zillion times during the installation (Vista, I'm looking at you!)
Because it's not his consitutional right to respond to natural disasters. To provide for the safety and general welfare is expressly the state's right. Mr. Bush can legally try to get the states federal funds and make federal assets available to the states for cleanup purposes; from where I sit FEMA itself is an illegal government administration unless its mission objective is exclusively to prepare reports and facilitate coordination between state and federal assets.
Yes, I think Bush should respond to Katrina, but I don't think he should let other leaders at the state level abdicate their duty to their constituients by simply ignoring their perogative. PS: sorry about the spelling, this is a public terminal with a really old version of Firefox.
I blanked out the first two paragraphs in, but what you're trying to say is that you want people to pay people once to make something, and then that be the end of the money trail. Am I close to being right?
The flaw with that is that then only the interests shared by people with big bucks will get made.
The current system is the worst system ever, except for all others tried, and your hypothetical one. Work on it a bit more and I'm sure it'd be good though!
MS is the king of calendaring because MS is a business. They understand scheduling and calendaring best because they are slaves to it. It's one of the only instances of Microsoft using the stuff they make.
Vista does NOT make applications take more memory. Vista uses so much memory it forces the same application onto a mere postage stamp in memory, compared to the free RAM available in XP. XP isn't even that memory-wise. Microsoft OSes have been steadily climbing in idle memory use for a long time now, and it's closely related to their need to support old libraries and their want to make massive runtimes for everything so it's harder to port.
Microsoft Managed C++ code don't port to GNU, DMC, or BCC. If it did, it'd be possible for it to run on something silly, like OS X or Linux. That'd be a threat to Microsoft, so to discourage cross-platform applications without blantantly breaking their own compiler, they do everything they can to force "managed" and runtimed code on you. This cranks up their memory footprint, to the point that in Vista it's totally outrageous.
Don't get me wrong, the Linux memory footprint is climbing too, as is the OS X footprint, but their rate of climb is more reasonable, compared to the 200MB to 1.2Gb jump we saw going from XP to Vista.
Microsoft is boxing themselves in with a web of dependencies and lies. They have potential though, they could possibly fix this and be a better product if they want. However, I see no evidence of any movement in that direction yet. But they could fix themselves, and not admiting that is as fatal as blindly following them off a cliff.
The people of Russia? I wouldn't put much faith in them.
They're the ones that sat by during the purges of Stalin. They let themselves be deluded by the single most evil man in recorded history.
Unless something has changed in this latest generation, I would place zero trust in the people of Russia, simply because they've been historically very apathetic to causes, particularly their own!
I have nothing against the people of Russia, but historically speaking they have everything against themselves. It pains me to see such people so abused by so many horrible people.
So what you're saying is that I can't be sued because someone says someone else is a poopoohead?
Is it just me, or did the world get slightly more sane?
As MSIE and WMP have shown this is a battle which third parties cannot win (at least in the consumer space).
Ya you're right; that's why FF isn't gaining any ground, and third party video players don't come pre-installed on dells and others!
No, the real issue is that you shouldn't be forced to get an update you didn't consent to.
Microsoft is good at finding ways of having other "critical" system services "depend" on half-assed features like WMP and WDS so that Microsoft can whine "But plague! Critical Windows services depend upon WDS! We can't just remove it!"
In other news, researchers have recently concluded that levels of personal privacy increase inversely to the number of people you live with!
In other words, THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!! WE WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN!
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Because the only ego in the world greater than Steve Jobs' is Steve Ballmer's. I'm praying that Microsoft's -11% profits this quarter due to the whole Vista fiasco will prompt a changing of the guard. Ballmer's bad for Microsoft. He's picking fights with Google and Yahoo! when he should be focusing on his degenerating core businesses: Windows and Office. Office adoption is less than stellar, and Windows Vista has petitions demanding its demise circulating around on the Internet. Meanwhile, Ballmer is trying to break into the Internet advertising market to try and kill Google. Bad idea. Microsoft tried to buy Google a while back, and was denied. So now he's trying to kill Google dead. He should focus on his own products first, not killing other people. If he keeps this up, Windows will be dead. True, he'll have the Internet ads market, but then he'll only hope to be as big as Google. It doesn't bode well for Microsoft to keep Steve. I hope a few of their deluded chairmen figure that out.
Windows not working? That's expected!
Oh, wait, you're one of those candyland people... nvm.
I smell a fanboi...
Also, this would fuel an interest in better encryption technologies. Hopefully it would also start people using stronger hashing techniques. I'm amazed that there aren't many services that use the much stronger Whirlpool hashing algorithm, instead opting for weaker SHA1 and MD5 sums. You can go to sites which will break those digests and find you a collision - for free!
In the end, that which does not kill us makes us stronger. Wouldn't harming privacy only make it stronger? Assuming its not killed to the point that it's beyond recussitation, of course. It wouldn't be funny if we actually had a 1984 going on for real.
...This makes it seem like google will see the text box and input random content from the site, then post it.No, the Google Bot sees raw HTML and CSS code, plus maybe some basic JavaScript. All of
In addition, you're forgetting that GET and POST are completely different things. They look identical to you, but the HTML is different, and it's not difficult to differentiate between them. One is <form method="GET"> and the other is <form method="POST">
... I've personally had two interviewers confide in me post-selection that I was picked over (to me) obviously more qualified candidates because they didn't believe that someone from [X. State] could be better qualified than a person from [ABC] and that they had just assumed that I flubbed the interviews.I'm not sure I'd want to work with an employer like that. I mean, geez, if they're making misconceptions like that, what kind of internal tools will they be prescribing? Rationale ClearCase horror stories from the '90s come to mind... the good 'ole days with rogue CVS server appearing on the network. Good times, good times.
Eh, the point is that it can register 1400 accounts per day so they can distribute the email. No major behavior difference. Just a bunch of accounts.
If they tracked it to an IP (gee, 10.25.7.8.9 has registered 1400 accounts today!), now that I can see.
I also think that we need some kind of licensing for computer use. Like how you need to get a license to drive a car, a license to use the computer. There are too many people who just don't know. It hurts to see a person say "gee, I'm sorry, I didn't know it was infected!" It's sort of like Eternal September still, with everyone still getting used to the whole "interwebs" thing.
I'm not one to determine a proper licensing program, however. That'd require some major research!
> Zero loss of power while sending it all over North America (or Europe, Asia, etc).
Not zero, but really close to. Much better than current electrical impedance over existing wires, that's for sure.
I was thinking the next big thing in superconductors would come from nanotech. Guess I was wrong.
Yeah, right now Java's getting a firm Ruby in the butt though. The number of RonR apps I'm seeing developed is quite interesting. Personally this Ruby on Trains crap gives me a massive headache, but it does work and if you take the time to learn the extensive API it can truly magnify the agility of your site. As soon as I saw RonR I said to myself "how is PHP not dead yet?"
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Beyond that, it's the consitutional perogative and duty of the DOJ to oversee all activities from all other branches of government. I think that some of these congresspeople need to be kicked out of office permenently by the DOJ for direct attempt at circumventing the Judicial Oversight clause, and for blatantly breaking constitutional law. Remember, the Supreme Court cannot try its own cases. You need to bring the scumbags to them.
Godmode?
In Soviet Russia, Doctor calls YOU!
Oh wait, now that can happen in Capitalist America too!
It's unconstitutional. Take it to court. You have the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures. Do they have probably cause that you are a terrorist? Probably not. Do they have corroborating evidence that you are engaged in any activities with terrorists. Probably not.
They can't just void the bill of rights, especially such an important part of the criminal justice code. If they did that, there wouldn't be much reason to give people their Miranda rights anymore, anyways.
Total BS, it'll never last. If it isn't struck down, the Supreme Court will.
If the Supreme Court won't, I don't care. I'm moving.
Seeing as how alcohol is a depressant and a drug, should we be happy that it's finally being treated as the dangerous neurological inhibitor that it is?
Are you mad? XP's installer is worse than even Gentoo's! Press F6 to install a SCSI/RAID driver my butt! What if the user doesn't want to baby-sit the install? Even OEM installations aren't a bucket of laughs!
Linux isn't quite as good as treating the user as a danger to him or herself by hiding important details from the user, but it at least doesn't waste your time with inane things like floppy-only driver installs and timed you-miss-it-you-reboot driver installations. And thank heavens it doesn't have to reboot a zillion times during the installation (Vista, I'm looking at you!)
I'm sorry, but you're just plain WRONG!
the laid-back approach to Katrina disaster relief
Because it's not his consitutional right to respond to natural disasters. To provide for the safety and general welfare is expressly the state's right. Mr. Bush can legally try to get the states federal funds and make federal assets available to the states for cleanup purposes; from where I sit FEMA itself is an illegal government administration unless its mission objective is exclusively to prepare reports and facilitate coordination between state and federal assets.
Yes, I think Bush should respond to Katrina, but I don't think he should let other leaders at the state level abdicate their duty to their constituients by simply ignoring their perogative. PS: sorry about the spelling, this is a public terminal with a really old version of Firefox.
I blanked out the first two paragraphs in, but what you're trying to say is that you want people to pay people once to make something, and then that be the end of the money trail. Am I close to being right?
The flaw with that is that then only the interests shared by people with big bucks will get made.
The current system is the worst system ever, except for all others tried, and your hypothetical one. Work on it a bit more and I'm sure it'd be good though!
MS is the king of calendaring because MS is a business. They understand scheduling and calendaring best because they are slaves to it. It's one of the only instances of Microsoft using the stuff they make.
Imagine your RAM is a tour bus. You application takes ten seats. Windows XP takes 15 seats. Vista takes 30 seats.
You're going to need more seats because Vista uses them, not the application.
HTH.
WRONG!
Vista does NOT make applications take more memory. Vista uses so much memory it forces the same application onto a mere postage stamp in memory, compared to the free RAM available in XP. XP isn't even that memory-wise. Microsoft OSes have been steadily climbing in idle memory use for a long time now, and it's closely related to their need to support old libraries and their want to make massive runtimes for everything so it's harder to port.
Microsoft Managed C++ code don't port to GNU, DMC, or BCC. If it did, it'd be possible for it to run on something silly, like OS X or Linux. That'd be a threat to Microsoft, so to discourage cross-platform applications without blantantly breaking their own compiler, they do everything they can to force "managed" and runtimed code on you. This cranks up their memory footprint, to the point that in Vista it's totally outrageous.
Don't get me wrong, the Linux memory footprint is climbing too, as is the OS X footprint, but their rate of climb is more reasonable, compared to the 200MB to 1.2Gb jump we saw going from XP to Vista.
Microsoft is boxing themselves in with a web of dependencies and lies. They have potential though, they could possibly fix this and be a better product if they want. However, I see no evidence of any movement in that direction yet. But they could fix themselves, and not admiting that is as fatal as blindly following them off a cliff.
The people of Russia? I wouldn't put much faith in them.
They're the ones that sat by during the purges of Stalin. They let themselves be deluded by the single most evil man in recorded history.
Unless something has changed in this latest generation, I would place zero trust in the people of Russia, simply because they've been historically very apathetic to causes, particularly their own!
I have nothing against the people of Russia, but historically speaking they have everything against themselves. It pains me to see such people so abused by so many horrible people.
So what you're saying is that I can't be sued because someone says someone else is a poopoohead?
Is it just me, or did the world get slightly more sane?
Ya you're right; that's why FF isn't gaining any ground, and third party video players don't come pre-installed on dells and others!
No, the real issue is that you shouldn't be forced to get an update you didn't consent to.
Microsoft is good at finding ways of having other "critical" system services "depend" on half-assed features like WMP and WDS so that Microsoft can whine "But plague! Critical Windows services depend upon WDS! We can't just remove it!"
In other news, researchers have recently concluded that levels of personal privacy increase inversely to the number of people you live with!
In other words, THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!! WE WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN!