Well, I was not even advocating Linux, just pointing out what seems like a mass-hoax.
But since you opened the door, your crappy example shows just how versatile Linux is. That is, users are able to (legally) identify coding problems and correct in a timely fashion. Looking at the time-stamps in the message, there was about a 10 minute period before a fix was created. Had this problem affected a Microsoft product (which it did), a fix would have taken a month to roll out.
It important to note that this was prevalent in ALL WindowsCE devices that used the date driver that was effected. Microsoft's official fix (until a patch can be issued): Turn on device till battery dies, Wait 24 hours, Reset and power on device.
Linux complete fix = 10 minutes
Microsoft time to even start device = 24 hours
Microsoft time till complete fix ~ 1 month
Has it occurred to anyone that this is just a "Mojave Experiment" for the masses? What prompted theses commercials, really? MS has no major competitors campaigning against them on that level (other than Mac, and that is a small market share). So, MS fucked themselves and then campaigned to prove that their crappy OS wasn't so crappy.
So, Windows7 is like Vista but without so much UAC. Same UI, same device support and "virtually identical."
It really doesn't matter how well you polish that turd...in the end, its still just shit.
I often attribute unexplained disk failures and network outages to solar activity, even if none existed at the time. On Earth we are somewhat protected by the earths magnetosphere...but why worry about things that we have no control over. If a large flare or increased solar activity were to wipe out satellites or a large scale EMF was to destroy all electronics on Earth, what could we really do? Turn off the power grids for the entire planet...not going to happen.
Someone please tag this as FUD, it is an obvious attempt to generate funding for events that we know will eventual happen and that we will have no control over.
I just filed for a patent this afternoon to create a harmful-gas electronic-sensor that is created by compressing 2500 live Canaries into a small portable unit. The resulting unit can optionally be placed in the PETA coffin.
I think that if I can handle the impact of virtually beating someone with a baseball-bat, shooting them, stealing their car and hitting the strip club...I can handle a little subliminal apocalyptic chanting in a foreign language...
Researchers discover that previously paralysed monkeys which play more than 200 consecutive hours of GTA-IV have a greater propensity for violence, instigating one-on-one attacks with one-another using blunt objects. In this amazing display of self-realization, the monkeys we able to determine that successive blows to the back with an aluminium baseball-bat would do little damage. One monkey was quoted as saying (in American Sign-Language, of course), "Hey what's the worst that could happen, I wake up tomorrow and I can't walk? The jerk in the lab-coat that snapped my spine already and destroyed all feeling I have below my neck. I can't get any pleasure out of my favorite past-time activity, you know, spanking the monkey..."
Researchers we also amazed that monkeys could sign ellipses with no comprehension of punctuation. A working theory is that the lack of the desire to masturbate has driven the monkey's brain to develop at an accelerated rate. And while frequent masturbation may not make you go blind, it might make you as dumb as a monkey.
On a side-note, I found this secondary article very, if not more, enlightening. It makes me wonder how smart I would get if I jerked it less...
ptmdd: Psychic Troll Message Deletion Daemon: A *nix daemon used by/. to predictively locate dumb assholes and ban access.
Works well with psychics and those who think they can scare anyone with the threat of sicking their "dads lawyer" on them. It has a problem with troll lovers though...one of the editors might secretly be one. See the section in the ToS which allows Slashdot to claim the first-born child of any person who emails them mindless dribble.
Intel is really grabbing at straws here. While there HyperThreading model has proven to be quite a beast... AMD has done far better on the memory access component of the same class processor...
But seriouly...When Will I be able to dual boot my standard laptop, an AMD64 3200+ with 2GB DDR, to run Linux/Mac OSX??? I'll gladly pay the licensing fees to run the ?BSD? based OS...if only to support the 2 of 500 people in my company that actually have Macs...
I guess it also stands to reason that if you can dual-boot a PowerBook with Windows...we could easily find a way of dual-booting into Linux as well...
Anyone know what processor Intel will be adding to these machines? IA64?
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Well, I was not even advocating Linux, just pointing out what seems like a mass-hoax.
But since you opened the door, your crappy example shows just how versatile Linux is. That is, users are able to (legally) identify coding problems and correct in a timely fashion. Looking at the time-stamps in the message, there was about a 10 minute period before a fix was created. Had this problem affected a Microsoft product (which it did), a fix would have taken a month to roll out.
Zune 30 Leap bug
It important to note that this was prevalent in ALL WindowsCE devices that used the date driver that was effected. Microsoft's official fix (until a patch can be issued): Turn on device till battery dies, Wait 24 hours, Reset and power on device.
Linux complete fix = 10 minutes
Microsoft time to even start device = 24 hours
Microsoft time till complete fix ~ 1 month
Who has a toy OS now, you talentless lackey...
Has it occurred to anyone that this is just a "Mojave Experiment" for the masses? What prompted theses commercials, really? MS has no major competitors campaigning against them on that level (other than Mac, and that is a small market share). So, MS fucked themselves and then campaigned to prove that their crappy OS wasn't so crappy.
So, Windows7 is like Vista but without so much UAC. Same UI, same device support and "virtually identical."
It really doesn't matter how well you polish that turd...in the end, its still just shit.
I often attribute unexplained disk failures and network outages to solar activity, even if none existed at the time. On Earth we are somewhat protected by the earths magnetosphere...but why worry about things that we have no control over. If a large flare or increased solar activity were to wipe out satellites or a large scale EMF was to destroy all electronics on Earth, what could we really do? Turn off the power grids for the entire planet...not going to happen. Someone please tag this as FUD, it is an obvious attempt to generate funding for events that we know will eventual happen and that we will have no control over.
The other two women were killed by using this "personal massager" on their naughty parts, skinning them alive.
I just filed for a patent this afternoon to create a harmful-gas electronic-sensor that is created by compressing 2500 live Canaries into a small portable unit. The resulting unit can optionally be placed in the PETA coffin.
I think that if I can handle the impact of virtually beating someone with a baseball-bat, shooting them, stealing their car and hitting the strip club...I can handle a little subliminal apocalyptic chanting in a foreign language...
Researchers discover that previously paralysed monkeys which play more than 200 consecutive hours of GTA-IV have a greater propensity for violence, instigating one-on-one attacks with one-another using blunt objects. In this amazing display of self-realization, the monkeys we able to determine that successive blows to the back with an aluminium baseball-bat would do little damage. One monkey was quoted as saying (in American Sign-Language, of course), "Hey what's the worst that could happen, I wake up tomorrow and I can't walk? The jerk in the lab-coat that snapped my spine already and destroyed all feeling I have below my neck. I can't get any pleasure out of my favorite past-time activity, you know, spanking the monkey..."
Researchers we also amazed that monkeys could sign ellipses with no comprehension of punctuation. A working theory is that the lack of the desire to masturbate has driven the monkey's brain to develop at an accelerated rate. And while frequent masturbation may not make you go blind, it might make you as dumb as a monkey.
On a side-note, I found this secondary article very, if not more, enlightening. It makes me wonder how smart I would get if I jerked it less...
Stay tuned to Slashdot for our next featured article, "The Mysterious Wheel."
When we will discover:
1. What is a wheel?
2. Why does a wheel roll?
3. What magic has created such a device?
Snake Oil is a term of the 1800s...I vote for a new term...Penis Oil. Sounds a little more appropriate in the world of Enzyte, Extenze and friends.
ptmdd: Psychic Troll Message Deletion Daemon: A *nix daemon used by /. to predictively locate dumb assholes and ban access.
Works well with psychics and those who think they can scare anyone with the threat of sicking their "dads lawyer" on them. It has a problem with troll lovers though...one of the editors might secretly be one. See the section in the ToS which allows Slashdot to claim the first-born child of any person who emails them mindless dribble.
Intel is really grabbing at straws here. While there HyperThreading model has proven to be quite a beast... AMD has done far better on the memory access component of the same class processor... But seriouly...When Will I be able to dual boot my standard laptop, an AMD64 3200+ with 2GB DDR, to run Linux/Mac OSX??? I'll gladly pay the licensing fees to run the ?BSD? based OS...if only to support the 2 of 500 people in my company that actually have Macs... I guess it also stands to reason that if you can dual-boot a PowerBook with Windows...we could easily find a way of dual-booting into Linux as well... Anyone know what processor Intel will be adding to these machines? IA64?