The link is set up so that if you actually buy the book (yeah, right), slashdot.org gets a percent or two. It's part of a deal they have with amazon.com to refer people to them to buy books.
The whole megaserver thing sounds like Big Brother.
Some day it will be illegal to have local storage > a certain small amount. After all, if you don't have anything to hide, why would you not want to put all your data on a distant server?;)
If it's true at all, and remember MS is a big company and considers lots of projects, it's probably part of a brace and extend potential study. We all know that Windows NT has a shit kernel. Win98/95 are much worse.
Well, what if MS could start a new "standard", without that buggy kernel.. Might they consider something known for stability? They may not be so concerned over the control of the kernel in the future if they can ship a package that provides the GUI, IE5 (or 6 or whatever), and a standard set of programs for email, document writing, etc. Then computers could come with LINUX + MS Office bundled. They could still make a whole wad of money. And they wouldn't have to worry nearly so much about crashing provided they kept out of the kernel.
Then a few years later that could start shipping with another kernel, developed inhouse or purchased from a UNIX vendor.
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The link is set up so that if you actually buy the book (yeah, right), slashdot.org gets a percent or two. It's part of a deal they have with amazon.com to refer people to them to buy books.
VMWare has debugging and logging turned on right now. Which is why it's so slow.
as said before.
The whole megaserver thing sounds like Big Brother.
;)
Some day it will be illegal to have local storage > a certain small amount. After all, if you don't have anything to hide, why would you not want to put all your data on a distant server?
If it's true at all, and remember MS is a big company and considers lots of projects, it's probably part of a brace and extend potential study. We all know that Windows NT has a shit kernel. Win98/95 are much worse.
Well, what if MS could start a new "standard", without that buggy kernel.. Might they consider something known for stability? They may not be so concerned over the control of the kernel in the future if they can ship a package that provides the GUI, IE5 (or 6 or whatever), and a standard set of programs for email, document writing, etc. Then computers could come with LINUX + MS Office bundled. They could still make a whole wad of money. And they wouldn't have to worry nearly so much about crashing provided they kept out of the kernel.
Then a few years later that could start shipping with another kernel, developed inhouse or purchased from a UNIX vendor.
Well that was quick.
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1 million year half-life predicted at the island of stability is not exactly "not radioactive".
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He just based the 115 drive on current physics theories, to make it believable.
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