all those studies microsoft did about higher TCO for OpenSource turned out to be true.
*ducks*
In retrospect, they are telling us things that we already know for years - OpenSource / Linux on desktop is NOT ready. Linux / OpenSource is great on the server side. Definitely 2011 is not the year of the Linux desktop:)
Nothing to see, move along...
Disclaimer: For the utterly daft, my statement about the TCO study was sarcasm incase you missed it.
Which actually seems reasonably fair; if someone takes a car and decides to tinker in the brake system and try to come up with their own antilock braking system they feel is better, that's fine. But if they then have an accident, they can't realistically hold the car manufacturer responsible for the ABS they modified.
Your analogy is flawed. It would make sense to say, you buy a car. Tinker with the brakes. After a while send it for "upgrades" ( say, they put in a fly-by-wire instead of the hydraulics ) and that "upgrade" bricks your car. You sue the manufacturer for the bricked car:P THAT would be a correct analogy.
Excuse me. I am an Indian and I live in Mumbai. Within 6-8 hours of the blasts the railway system had resumed completely. Everybody resumed their work on the very next day. Schools, Colleges, Offices - everything remained open. Nobody panicked. There was no chaos. There were no riots. Life was as it was before the bombings. Only thing that is worth mentioning was that the telephone networks ( cellular and POTS ) were jammed due to excessive calls. Oh and yes, people were searching for the dead / injured ones. But that has nothing to do with technology right?:/
Now compare this with what happened in London, Madrid, NYC. Being in a particular region doesnt make you 100% safe from such things. It can happen to anywhere, at any place without any warning.
why is this such a big deal? So what? One more service outsourced to India? If they can't handle it, they will go out of business... Finally, if the customers keep nagging about Indian support, they will cut jobs there too.
umm...as i see it. It's all Microsoft's fault. Here are some of the questions I find interesting:
1. How do the spammers send their emails? Shady servers & Zombie PCs.
2. How did the spammers bring down blue's website? Zombie PCs ( botnets )
3. How does your PC start sending out SPAM? May be yours is a Zombie PC?
Now lets all take a wild guess which OS is running on these "Zombies"...
I thought so:)
Disclaimer: Not meant to be a flame bait _
This is their own doing. In the zeal to become the manufacturing giant, they compromized quality and their brand value. The Chinese government does nothing to stop its companies from dumping, smuggling cheap goods on other countries. It fails to punish companies manufacturing duplicate goods of big brands. The end result is that people dont trust a Chinese manufacturer however good they may be.
What you sow is what you reap. I don't think Chinese brands will ever be able to get respect / following as other brands. I personally am for banning trade with China unless it stops its unfair trade practices. It needs to make its businessmen more accountable.
Insightful. But you fail to judge the ingenuity of the Open Source community. We won't sit quiet and allow these companies to control what, where, when, how we access the media. Linux personifies everything that is free in this world. If something that I've bought doesn't work with it. Then I'll happily return it. IMHO DRM is killing competition & innovation and making the lives of ordinary people miserable. They have to realize that we wont bend and start using DRMed stuff. We love our freedom and will do _anything_ to protect it!
lol. better setup WPA or atleast WEP ( 128 bit ). I've secured my wifi network with WPA but the problem is that WPA can also be broken with just 4 packets. It's difficult but not impossible.
New architecture - yes. But Yonah's still x86:) I agree that there are better technologies than x86 but for the consumer market none of them are economically viable.
havent the spybot guys put up the address of the product marketing manager of Symantec - Mr. Guido Sanchidrian as a plain mailto: address? Prolly they want his inbox to be filled with SPAM:| Not fair IMO.
Is apple going to become the dominant player in the market? With Apple going x86 with Intel's processors it seems to be more likely than ever. I mean we could run GNU/Linux on a PowerPC but the _cost_ factor to own a Mac was too high. With Macs going x86 the users hopefully will see a large fall in the prices and a choice of more OSes than ever - Mac OS, GNU/Linux, BSD and Windoze (no flames please:P).
oh yeah! It's starting out great. Just hope that other countries soon follow suite. It is inevitable. This news is in contrast with what Sony BMG have done. Shouldn't they be deported to Australia? Hehehe...
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all those studies microsoft did about higher TCO for OpenSource turned out to be true. *ducks* In retrospect, they are telling us things that we already know for years - OpenSource / Linux on desktop is NOT ready. Linux / OpenSource is great on the server side. Definitely 2011 is not the year of the Linux desktop :)
Nothing to see, move along...
Disclaimer: For the utterly daft, my statement about the TCO study was sarcasm incase you missed it.
Which actually seems reasonably fair; if someone takes a car and decides to tinker in the brake system and try to come up with their own antilock braking system they feel is better, that's fine. But if they then have an accident, they can't realistically hold the car manufacturer responsible for the ABS they modified.
Your analogy is flawed. It would make sense to say, you buy a car. Tinker with the brakes. After a while send it for "upgrades" ( say, they put in a fly-by-wire instead of the hydraulics ) and that "upgrade" bricks your car. You sue the manufacturer for the bricked car :P THAT would be a correct analogy.
Did you?
wtf? last time i checked M$ was trying to squish F/OSS like a bug! strange indeed.........
Excuse me. I am an Indian and I live in Mumbai. Within 6-8 hours of the blasts the railway system had resumed completely. Everybody resumed their work on the very next day. Schools, Colleges, Offices - everything remained open. Nobody panicked. There was no chaos. There were no riots. Life was as it was before the bombings. Only thing that is worth mentioning was that the telephone networks ( cellular and POTS ) were jammed due to excessive calls. Oh and yes, people were searching for the dead / injured ones. But that has nothing to do with technology right? :/
Now compare this with what happened in London, Madrid, NYC. Being in a particular region doesnt make you 100% safe from such things. It can happen to anywhere, at any place without any warning.
may be Slashdot needs an internal shake up as well! We have seen too many of these typos lately.
I guess this will make it much faster to build black lists. But doesn't this also increase the potential risk of submitting wrong messages?
Seems Microsoft's insanity knows no bounds!
you're not alone :)
why is this such a big deal? So what? One more service outsourced to India? If they can't handle it, they will go out of business... Finally, if the customers keep nagging about Indian support, they will cut jobs there too.
umm...as i see it. It's all Microsoft's fault. Here are some of the questions I find interesting: 1. How do the spammers send their emails? Shady servers & Zombie PCs. 2. How did the spammers bring down blue's website? Zombie PCs ( botnets ) 3. How does your PC start sending out SPAM? May be yours is a Zombie PC? Now lets all take a wild guess which OS is running on these "Zombies"... I thought so :)
Disclaimer: Not meant to be a flame bait _
ooops...! am i in the wrong channel here? I thought this was slashdot and not english-spellcheckers-addicted-anonymous :P
can i still use my harddrive? :)
This is their own doing. In the zeal to become the manufacturing giant, they compromized quality and their brand value. The Chinese government does nothing to stop its companies from dumping, smuggling cheap goods on other countries. It fails to punish companies manufacturing duplicate goods of big brands. The end result is that people dont trust a Chinese manufacturer however good they may be.
What you sow is what you reap. I don't think Chinese brands will ever be able to get respect / following as other brands. I personally am for banning trade with China unless it stops its unfair trade practices. It needs to make its businessmen more accountable.
Insightful. But you fail to judge the ingenuity of the Open Source community. We won't sit quiet and allow these companies to control what, where, when, how we access the media. Linux personifies everything that is free in this world. If something that I've bought doesn't work with it. Then I'll happily return it. IMHO DRM is killing competition & innovation and making the lives of ordinary people miserable. They have to realize that we wont bend and start using DRMed stuff. We love our freedom and will do _anything_ to protect it!
right. atleast there won't be any monopoly.
lol. better setup WPA or atleast WEP ( 128 bit ). I've secured my wifi network with WPA but the problem is that WPA can also be broken with just 4 packets. It's difficult but not impossible.
thats wrong. It's unethical imho.
New architecture - yes. But Yonah's still x86 :) I agree that there are better technologies than x86 but for the consumer market none of them are economically viable.
havent the spybot guys put up the address of the product marketing manager of Symantec - Mr. Guido Sanchidrian as a plain mailto: address? Prolly they want his inbox to be filled with SPAM :| Not fair IMO.
Is apple going to become the dominant player in the market? With Apple going x86 with Intel's processors it seems to be more likely than ever. I mean we could run GNU/Linux on a PowerPC but the _cost_ factor to own a Mac was too high. With Macs going x86 the users hopefully will see a large fall in the prices and a choice of more OSes than ever - Mac OS, GNU/Linux, BSD and Windoze (no flames please :P).
oh yeah! It's starting out great. Just hope that other countries soon follow suite. It is inevitable. This news is in contrast with what Sony BMG have done. Shouldn't they be deported to Australia? Hehehe...