Now if they could fix the memory leaks that seem to be so rampant in Windows Server and its applications I might have an average uptime that is longer than 1 month.
I'm going to make the presumption that you're ignorant, as Windows 2003, and to a lesser degree 2000, is pretty well known for being rock solid operating systems (the whole "only up for x days!" argument is circa 1999 and is very, very stale).
What you may be talking about, and I've seen this mistake a few times, are uninformed admins that monitor their servers and note that SQL Server, or Exchange, as a couple of quick examples, keep consuming more and more memory until finally your machine is saturated.
Super diligent admins schedule regular reboots, all while muttering and complaining about those leaky MS apps.
Of course the reality is that the apps are proactively enlisting memory for cache, and if you haven't restricted them they'll use all available memory eventually (they'll release memory if other apps make memory demands).
Amazing how frequently that is misidentified as a "memory leak".
I seriously doubt Microsoft is in need of a PageRank boost, or the miniscule effect a bunch of incestuous bloggers would have on the same.
Blogging, and bloggers, is one of the most grossly overrated technology realm currently - everyone seems to imagine a world of hyper-influential bloggers who'll gesture a certain way and the sheep will follow (such as "Longhorn really is l33t!"). This is so absurdly incorrect, and fails based upon a couple of simple fundamentals of blogs.
-The only people who read a given blog are the people who already agree with it. Liberals aren't out reading the conservative blogs, and hippies aren't reading The Man's blog. Windows developers aren't reading a Linux kernel developers blog. These blogs have zero influence outside of the already converted.
-Blog readers have an enormously short patience. If someone doesn't honour the prior fundamental, and decides to do something other than gently assure their readers that they're the smartest, more righteous people's on the Earth, their readership will go elsewhere.
This isn't sour grapes, and I'm not yet-another "why do these people think anyone wants to hear them"er, I'm just saying it like it is - blogs are just an bunch of incestuous chatter of trackbacks and circle jerking.
To actually really reply to your post. Firstly I will entirely agree with you that there are a lot of people on the bottom half of the curve - this is a tremendous contingent for whom caching will be a remarkable revalation.
# Many apps do SQL queries to get the names of the days of the week. And the names of the months. And the abbreviations for same.
I don't see a big problem with this. Of course it should be cached, as this article covers, however this is a fairly typical technique to support multilingualism.
Its failure to take off prolly has nothing to do with the ubiquitious support for Flash..
Fair point, however I'd say that no, Flash hasn't supplanted the role that SVG could perform, and there still is a huge void waiting to be filled.
The reality is that the web is largely full of static, raster graphics (most graphs, as a simple example, exist as tiny craptacularly printing, non-interactive GIFs) - most of which would be better served by interactive, "infinite resolution" vector graphics.
Face it. If you don't stop at a military checkpoint, you will be assumed to be an attacker.
Do you know what a "checkpoint" is in Iraq? I know that you're probably imagining barriers across the road, clear signage, plenty of warning.
Well you'd be wrong.
In Iraq a checkpoint is "anywhere that soldiers happen to be and decide to stop vehicles". In several cases now people have been shot up because they drove past soldiers on the side of the road - shivering, legitimately fearful soldiers put in a crappy situation, who naturally shoot rather than risk their own hides. That isn't a "checkpoint", it's a recipe for endless mistakes.
Personally I think this is a tragic case of miscommunications, coupled with a "checkpoint" standard that is absurdly biased towards presuming guilt; however if someone did want to have someone neutrilized, it would a lot more deniable, and likely to happen, "forgetting" to pass on some communications - Encourage them to drive fast and they'll be waved through checkpoints, and let the rules of engagement do the dirty work. Afterwards claim that they misheard what you said. Nice and clean.
Comparing this to explicitly telling a unit to murder this person, or having units shoot TOW missiles completely outside of normal rules of engagement, is the height of absurdity.
Yes, exactly. Just like Microsoft hilariously bitched and moaned when AOL stopped letting them into their IM network - Microsoft was the small guy in the IM world, so suddenly IM "standards" were super important. On the flip side when Netscape was dominant, they did whatever they wanted. Hello BLINK.
Apple droids are far worse than even Linux droids - I see that my completely factual, sober post was marked a "troll" by one wanker, in the same way that a bunch of Apple apologists stormed the prior discussion about Apple strong-arming a book publisher. What a sad, sad bunch.
As an aside - I thought Wikipedia banned or deters ego pages such as the one on Dave Hyatt. I'm sorry but he's simply not that important to the world at large, though his brilliance in replicating Opera tabbed browsing will be remembered for eternity.
Well if some random Slashdotters call me on it, I'll happily provide the compensatory gmail account.
In this venue obviously the guarantee is completely empty, however I'm just stating confidence in how Microsoft will indirectly monetize those products.
i.e. WinFS and the 3D accelaration-type stuff (Aero?) are apparently going to be backported to XP
I guarantee that Avalon (and Indigo) will run smoother...faster...stronger.. on Longhorn than it will on prior versions. Whether it's by actual architectural plumbing changes to support it (for instance the video driver model in Longhorn has changed fairly substantially to support multiple hardware assisted applications at once..perhaps in prior OS' it'll be software-run and thus much slower and resource hungry), or a boolean check if it's not Longhorn a busy loop is run -- Microsoft will ensure that their significant investment in Avalon and Indigo pays off. If it means that XP and others can run them, but with a less satisfactory experience, then it will sufficiently motivate upgrades, but avoid the classic chicken/egg syndrome.
That chicken/egg syndrome is the only reason these tools are being backported (at substantial expense I'm sure), e.g. developers would have shunned Avalon and Indigo until there was sufficient marketshare.
Secondly, companies are vastly more generous when it comes to luring new customers than they are retaining existing customers. I'm not going to give examples because you just have to look around (cable, cell phones, satellite dishes, whatever).
Well, I thought that he was over-careful until I got to this part of the article...
Maybe I'm misreading your reply, however if I'm not please note his use of the word don't - this word is very important for understand the phrase (and many others in the article) He is saying that his motive ISN'T that he thinks someone is reading his notes, but rather that he is motivated simply by following best practices of security, or at least what he thinks are the best practices of security.
Of course personally I think he's way over the top. On the flip side there are countless drones that are under the bottom, using the same password all over the place (and not changing it for years), trusting anyone and everything, and so on.
It can also be seen as a strong potential for astroturfing, where one could make up a fluff story and slyly put in a referral link in the submission.
Excellent point, and I won't disagree with it. On the flip side in a way it's a way for Slashdot to yield the bounty of "cheap labour" - hundreds or thousands of people trying daily to bring the dish to Slashdot to pimp their blog or to try to earn a pittance from Amazon referrals.
Did somebody go with guns to the publishers' homes and forcefully strongarm them into doing something?
Right...and it isn't theft unless it's a physical object...I get it.
So Steve Jobs having a pissy fit, using Apple as his personal playground, dumping an entire publisher of books that Apple has long carried because they want to send a message to other publishers (that they'd better dump writers that might say something not-nice about Apple or, ridiculously, Jobs), is just normal everyday business. Uh huh.
They are not entitled to Apple's shelf space in the copy of the Constitution I'm looking at.
You know it is absolutely fascinating that the dyed in the wool Apple nuts keep bringing this up. Well you do realize that the constitution also grants people the right to CRITICIZE THEM FOR DOING IT, right? No one is calling for the army to shut down Apple, they're just saying that it's a really shitty thing to do.
So until you hear someone calling for the government to force them to sell these books, shut the trap about the constitution or free speech, because it is completely and absolutely irrelevant.
Think what you want, but businesses shouldn't be forced to support other businesses they disagree with.
They're trying to forcefully strongarm the actions of another company. In this case it isn't even for corporate self-interests, but rather for someone's ego, which makes it all the more insidious. Customers should be aware of this sort of coercion (which I think is the whole reason why this is news).
In the case of the instances that you provided, GM overtly changing advertising based upon the friendliness of reviews is a disturbing precedent, and it undermines the credibility of anything positive stated about them (in my town, a suburb of a large metropolitan, the local paper is nothing but recast fawning fluff press releases, and beside each one are ads from the respective companies). Maybe that's just fair business, but when you're hoping for a critical, honest press that isn't a great thing.
Further, it looks like there's a referrer in the submitter's amazon link.:-(
I would really love to know what is going through people's heads when they complain about something like this. Seriously, so what? Would it be better for you if it contained no referral, the only difference being that Amazon makes more? Unless you're an Amazon shareholder, I don't get what the issue is (unless it's jealousy).
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Now if they could fix the memory leaks that seem to be so rampant in Windows Server and its applications I might have an average uptime that is longer than 1 month.
I'm going to make the presumption that you're ignorant, as Windows 2003, and to a lesser degree 2000, is pretty well known for being rock solid operating systems (the whole "only up for x days!" argument is circa 1999 and is very, very stale).
What you may be talking about, and I've seen this mistake a few times, are uninformed admins that monitor their servers and note that SQL Server, or Exchange, as a couple of quick examples, keep consuming more and more memory until finally your machine is saturated.
Super diligent admins schedule regular reboots, all while muttering and complaining about those leaky MS apps.
Of course the reality is that the apps are proactively enlisting memory for cache, and if you haven't restricted them they'll use all available memory eventually (they'll release memory if other apps make memory demands).
Amazing how frequently that is misidentified as a "memory leak".
Google PageRank still falls for this trick
I seriously doubt Microsoft is in need of a PageRank boost, or the miniscule effect a bunch of incestuous bloggers would have on the same.
Blogging, and bloggers, is one of the most grossly overrated technology realm currently - everyone seems to imagine a world of hyper-influential bloggers who'll gesture a certain way and the sheep will follow (such as "Longhorn really is l33t!"). This is so absurdly incorrect, and fails based upon a couple of simple fundamentals of blogs.
-The only people who read a given blog are the people who already agree with it. Liberals aren't out reading the conservative blogs, and hippies aren't reading The Man's blog. Windows developers aren't reading a Linux kernel developers blog. These blogs have zero influence outside of the already converted.
-Blog readers have an enormously short patience. If someone doesn't honour the prior fundamental, and decides to do something other than gently assure their readers that they're the smartest, more righteous people's on the Earth, their readership will go elsewhere.
This isn't sour grapes, and I'm not yet-another "why do these people think anyone wants to hear them"er, I'm just saying it like it is - blogs are just an bunch of incestuous chatter of trackbacks and circle jerking.
The HD signal's still there...
Especially given that 540p is still HD. 540p is a hell of lot better looking that 480i. In fact 540p is one of the HD standard resolutions.
To actually really reply to your post. Firstly I will entirely agree with you that there are a lot of people on the bottom half of the curve - this is a tremendous contingent for whom caching will be a remarkable revalation.
# Many apps do SQL queries to get the names of the days of the week. And the names of the months. And the abbreviations for same.
I don't see a big problem with this. Of course it should be cached, as this article covers, however this is a fairly typical technique to support multilingualism.
Looks like you had an SQL Statement timeout there.
Its failure to take off prolly has nothing to do with the ubiquitious support for Flash..
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Fair point, however I'd say that no, Flash hasn't supplanted the role that SVG could perform, and there still is a huge void waiting to be filled.
The reality is that the web is largely full of static, raster graphics (most graphs, as a simple example, exist as tiny craptacularly printing, non-interactive GIFs) - most of which would be better served by interactive, "infinite resolution" vector graphics.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/07/Sc
Face it. If you don't stop at a military checkpoint, you will be assumed to be an attacker.
Do you know what a "checkpoint" is in Iraq? I know that you're probably imagining barriers across the road, clear signage, plenty of warning.
Well you'd be wrong.
In Iraq a checkpoint is "anywhere that soldiers happen to be and decide to stop vehicles". In several cases now people have been shot up because they drove past soldiers on the side of the road - shivering, legitimately fearful soldiers put in a crappy situation, who naturally shoot rather than risk their own hides. That isn't a "checkpoint", it's a recipe for endless mistakes.
Commandos? Are you for real?
Personally I think this is a tragic case of miscommunications, coupled with a "checkpoint" standard that is absurdly biased towards presuming guilt; however if someone did want to have someone neutrilized, it would a lot more deniable, and likely to happen, "forgetting" to pass on some communications - Encourage them to drive fast and they'll be waved through checkpoints, and let the rules of engagement do the dirty work. Afterwards claim that they misheard what you said. Nice and clean.
Comparing this to explicitly telling a unit to murder this person, or having units shoot TOW missiles completely outside of normal rules of engagement, is the height of absurdity.
Oh damn. So I missed out on an up mod? I guess it's time to end it all.
BTW: Your post = -1 Lame 2nd Grader I-Was-Gonna-Give-You-A-Candy
Yes, exactly. Just like Microsoft hilariously bitched and moaned when AOL stopped letting them into their IM network - Microsoft was the small guy in the IM world, so suddenly IM "standards" were super important. On the flip side when Netscape was dominant, they did whatever they wanted. Hello BLINK.
Apple droids are far worse than even Linux droids - I see that my completely factual, sober post was marked a "troll" by one wanker, in the same way that a bunch of Apple apologists stormed the prior discussion about Apple strong-arming a book publisher. What a sad, sad bunch.
Dave Hyatt works at Apple, though, doesn't he?
As an aside - I thought Wikipedia banned or deters ego pages such as the one on Dave Hyatt. I'm sorry but he's simply not that important to the world at large, though his brilliance in replicating Opera tabbed browsing will be remembered for eternity.
Big companies care about standards when they're the underdog and it suits them.
Well if some random Slashdotters call me on it, I'll happily provide the compensatory gmail account.
In this venue obviously the guarantee is completely empty, however I'm just stating confidence in how Microsoft will indirectly monetize those products.
i.e. WinFS and the 3D accelaration-type stuff (Aero?) are apparently going to be backported to XP
I guarantee that Avalon (and Indigo) will run smoother...faster...stronger.. on Longhorn than it will on prior versions. Whether it's by actual architectural plumbing changes to support it (for instance the video driver model in Longhorn has changed fairly substantially to support multiple hardware assisted applications at once..perhaps in prior OS' it'll be software-run and thus much slower and resource hungry), or a boolean check if it's not Longhorn a busy loop is run -- Microsoft will ensure that their significant investment in Avalon and Indigo pays off. If it means that XP and others can run them, but with a less satisfactory experience, then it will sufficiently motivate upgrades, but avoid the classic chicken/egg syndrome.
That chicken/egg syndrome is the only reason these tools are being backported (at substantial expense I'm sure), e.g. developers would have shunned Avalon and Indigo until there was sufficient marketshare.
Firstly, $99 != free.
Secondly, companies are vastly more generous when it comes to luring new customers than they are retaining existing customers. I'm not going to give examples because you just have to look around (cable, cell phones, satellite dishes, whatever).
Well, I thought that he was over-careful until I got to this part of the article...
Maybe I'm misreading your reply, however if I'm not please note his use of the word don't - this word is very important for understand the phrase (and many others in the article) He is saying that his motive ISN'T that he thinks someone is reading his notes, but rather that he is motivated simply by following best practices of security, or at least what he thinks are the best practices of security.
Of course personally I think he's way over the top. On the flip side there are countless drones that are under the bottom, using the same password all over the place (and not changing it for years), trusting anyone and everything, and so on.
What are DIRECTV's plans on giving their consumers new receivers?
Bwahahahahahahahaha! Bwahahahahahaha!
You're a funny guy kusanagi374 (776658)!
It can also be seen as a strong potential for astroturfing, where one could make up a fluff story and slyly put in a referral link in the submission.
Excellent point, and I won't disagree with it. On the flip side in a way it's a way for Slashdot to yield the bounty of "cheap labour" - hundreds or thousands of people trying daily to bring the dish to Slashdot to pimp their blog or to try to earn a pittance from Amazon referrals.
Err, if I walked into a store and the books they were selling were calling the CEO a "con" I'd probably walk right out.
Apple didn't have to carry this book in particular, just as they likely don't carry many other books from that publisher.
The stores aren't even 5 years old. Long carried my ass.
What are we talking? Relative to the age of Amazon? B&N? The Grand Canyon? The Sun?
Clearly it's relative to Apple's retail venture.
Did somebody go with guns to the publishers' homes and forcefully strongarm them into doing something?
Right...and it isn't theft unless it's a physical object...I get it.
So Steve Jobs having a pissy fit, using Apple as his personal playground, dumping an entire publisher of books that Apple has long carried because they want to send a message to other publishers (that they'd better dump writers that might say something not-nice about Apple or, ridiculously, Jobs), is just normal everyday business. Uh huh.
They are not entitled to Apple's shelf space in the copy of the Constitution I'm looking at.
You know it is absolutely fascinating that the dyed in the wool Apple nuts keep bringing this up. Well you do realize that the constitution also grants people the right to CRITICIZE THEM FOR DOING IT, right? No one is calling for the army to shut down Apple, they're just saying that it's a really shitty thing to do.
So until you hear someone calling for the government to force them to sell these books, shut the trap about the constitution or free speech, because it is completely and absolutely irrelevant.
Stabbed???? Pah, geez. SHANKED!
You happened to see that cnn link in the submission?
Think what you want, but businesses shouldn't be forced to support other businesses they disagree with.
:-(
They're trying to forcefully strongarm the actions of another company. In this case it isn't even for corporate self-interests, but rather for someone's ego, which makes it all the more insidious. Customers should be aware of this sort of coercion (which I think is the whole reason why this is news).
In the case of the instances that you provided, GM overtly changing advertising based upon the friendliness of reviews is a disturbing precedent, and it undermines the credibility of anything positive stated about them (in my town, a suburb of a large metropolitan, the local paper is nothing but recast fawning fluff press releases, and beside each one are ads from the respective companies). Maybe that's just fair business, but when you're hoping for a critical, honest press that isn't a great thing.
Further, it looks like there's a referrer in the submitter's amazon link.
I would really love to know what is going through people's heads when they complain about something like this. Seriously, so what? Would it be better for you if it contained no referral, the only difference being that Amazon makes more? Unless you're an Amazon shareholder, I don't get what the issue is (unless it's jealousy).
So with photoshop and a blog, I can get on slashdot?
Sure, you just need to find a way to get your pictures hosted on an fcc.gov server as well. Good luck!