and this is precisely why you're not running a record company. because you're not as dumb as a truckload of bricks.
jobs is telling these people in not as many words that their time is up. the notion of a record company is an outdated BS business model. the world is evolving without them.
as usual, the UN shows that it is an antiquated, useless organization that primarily exists for poking the US in the eyes.
the internet started as a US military technology. the US was nice enough to let others play along. The US is not subservient to the UN. The UN needs to figure this out.
in any case, what does the UN propose to do.. blackhole the US at a bunch of border routers ?:)
darn, then we wouldn't get so much spam here from everywhere else:)
1) i have had high speed driver training - all though not enough to be satisfied with the results.
2) my car has dual piston vented 300mm front calipers. It had the best braking distance of any 4 door car anywhere in the world when it was new in 1988. cross drilled rotors are a total non-issue for street driving. the point of cross drilling is of course to help with pad outgassing.. which can be as easily corrected with slotted rotors. Neither of these are necessary on a car with adequate ducting. In all of the hard stops I've done (and i tend to threshold brake at 100mph to try and refine my skill at it) i've not experienced brake fade nor squishy pedal.. indicating that my fluid is fine and that i don't have an outgassing problem.
The car was deemed safe by TUV standards for operation at 150mph. I don't see anywhere near that speed. The rear rotors are non vented solids. the F/R brake bias is unfortuneately about 73/27 - not ideal but servicable. The tires are RE730s, a summer tire with great rain performance (the car was until recently driven in seattle). On this vehicle, it has a progressive limit and lots of feedback. The next time the car gets new shoes I'll probably put S-03's on it.
The car under discussion is a 1988 M5. If you feel this vehicle isn't up to driving above 70mph, i suppose you can try and justify that position. The car is much more capable than i am (the nut behind the wheel needs the most upgrading)
Incidentally, I'm curious about your claims about BMW brakes. They're typically one of the best vehicles anywhere in the world w.r.t. factory brakes.
I do not speed in residential areas.
I am not advocating constant speeding, or driving beyond the limits of the car or the driver. It is my opinion (the the opinion of many) that highway speed limits in this country are arbitrary and counter productive, and traffic enforcement on said motorways is purely a revenue instrument, and actually works against the goal of safety.
I have no problem conceding that I'm a law breaker. I think this particular law is stupid, so I selectively obey it. The standards are the same for me as they are for you - if a cop happens to see me doing something and he's feeling grumpy, I get a ticket. I am nice and respectful towards the officer, as he's just doing his job, and then the ticket gets faxed straight to a lawyer so that it can be properly contested and the state is denied my money (unfortuneately im feeding money to lawyers, but i suppose its the lesser of two evils - i get to choose my lawyers)
there is plenty of documented evidence that speed limits that have no basis in reality do more harm than good. look at the NMA study of the repeal of the daytime no-limit in montana.
fwiw, i think tailgating is stupid. on the other hand, shooting someone to death because you dont like how they drive seems a bit excessive.
i personally don't mind when people tailgate me unless i am boxed in on all sides. If i can do so, i just get out of the way. If there's nothing i can do about the lane position i am in, then tail gating me serves little point.
in general, i facilitate other cars that are in a hurry -- i have no idea if there's a reason for them to be in a hurry or not.
i don't understand why people think tailgating is innately wrong but coasting in the left lane (which is also illegal) is ok. seems like some selective enforcement (which incidentally is one of the other big problems with speed limit laws, and most moving violations)
remember - relax. Who's to say next time the guy tailgating people wont start shooting because you wont get out of the way ?
I agree with you completely, and i work for microsoft:)
If the police only have enough time to attack one evil, and they get to choose between going after people selling burnt CD's of Longhorn Alpha, or, they get to go after illegal porn (where $illegal is something like snuff films, or child porn, etc), i say go after the illegal porn.
I'd guess that they aren't behaving so virtuously though, if they're anything like most US cops. They probably just don't care about software piracy. Maybe there's no money to be made raiding $1.58 piracy rings as compared to the money to be made going after illegal porn vendors.
I sure wish american cops would spend more time solving problems like rape and murder as opposed to setting up speed traps on highways where the speed limits are set artificially low..
but, speed traps give much better returns than arresting rapists only so that they can get out of jail in 6 months and do it again.
most BMW's are now being sold with the bluetooth kit, which REQUIRES a non BMW phone. BMW is finally getting it shead out of its posterior and getting out of the carphone business.. and letting customers use the handset of their choice (not to mention service plan)
I work for Microsoft. i designed an automated deployment system that over 2000 computers at MS used for 24/7 automated testing. (a follow on technology by some of my co-workers has taken this approach to the next step, so only a little of my code is still running out there, but i digress)
there is nothing crippled about NTFS on XP or otherwise. Imaging works just how you expect it to. we've used Ghost (multiple version) PQDI (multiple versions, including the 16 bit dos version) and some internal-to-MS only stuff even. All of these make and restore images of XP machines perfeclty fine.
Not only is imaging a windows machine not broken, it is a supported and tested product scenario with its own feature and test teams.
enter: SYSPREP
Sysprep is the 100% microsoft supported way of bulk deploying machines and setting them up for imaging. sysprep is fully scriptable as of XP and the same sysprepped image can be restored on hardware of nearly any type. It can automaticly configure the box, set a hostname, join a domain, setup local users/groups, etc etc etc.
I know this because if it doesn't work, nobody in the world can test visual studio.
Please look at microsoft.com and read about sysprep. It's your friend.
Incidentically, before sysprep-XP, when sysprep wasn't quite the cat's meow, you could still image and restore NTFS OSes (even XP, with WPA), even across different hardware. You just had to know what things to change/tweak. (which i found out WITHOUT special MS-only knowledge)
Sysprep for XP also works great with WPA, letting you seal/reseal an image so that the WPA activation bomb goes away.
Honestly people, ask slashdot stories should be ASKING, not presuming. because the presumptions are often wrong, and the meat of the "question" is an uninformed bash as opposed to a legitmate request for help or comments...
the _last_ thing anyone wants is a country as stupid as france getting a say in what happens on the internet at a worldwide level. Or China.
objectionable content is a mental deficiency.
i dont like child porn, i don't support it, and i don't seek it out. there are already laws in this country that relate to child pornography, regardless of medium.
How can you make a world-wide "rule" on child porn in light of the vastly differing national limits as given on ageofconsent.com ?
no government anywhere in the world should get more involved with the internet. Especially not the UN, the meta-combination of all of the worst aspects of each of its constituents.
i access OWA all the time through proxomitron and it works great.
The issue is that most popup blockers are stupid. doing a popup blocker "right" is a hard problem. My proxomitron config does hte right thing 90% of the time, but now and then i need to bypass it and reload a page to get the desired result.
this is not insightful. MS is increasing its R&D budget. Every single developer at MS got a free copy of the "writing secure code" book, everyone stopped what they were doing to go to security training during the original push, and there is now recurring ongoing security stuff happening across the company.
there are a wide variety of problems microsoft has to face w.r.t. security. you have rightly asserted that part of the problem is that their software needs to be better out of the box.
That doesn't help the customers MS has currently. I mean, if they just did nothing but dump money into future code, you'd be bitching about how MS was doing its usual "if you want that, you'll have to upgrade" business
So its doing both. And a lot more. Better design/testing going into new stuff, retroactive work going into old stuff, standards/partnerships with security research firms re: disclosure, and now the latest, paying to try and get rid of the trouble makers.
its a multi-faceted approach to a multi-faceted problem.
you get the T1 card and a 24 port FXS channel bank. Total cost - less than 4 digits
Then you can set the line coding on a per port basis to handle normal pots phones, some vendors custom handsets, etc.
you can get the quad span card and get 96 analog handsets on a single PCI board. Put multiple pci boards in a box and your port density is atrocious. multiple asterisk boxes can switch channels over ethernet, so you can get into multi-hundreds of ports very easily and quickly.
Look into asterisk. It kicks ass. If its missing something - add it yourself:)
note that i conceded that linux had a better firewall than NT. But not the best. And not one worth copying. (if MS were going to steal a firewall, it wouldn't be iptables)
You're right - i ignored all of those. I think most users ignore them as well. I figured i'd get shit for not talking about reiser:)
CODA, as i recall is the successor to AndrewFS and is mainly interesting because it supports offline operation and synchronization. Try "offline files" in windows. For Coda's sake, i hope it works better than the offline files system windows has.
linux has kind of a complex about turning everything into a filesystem. Realistically i am just not sure how these are relevant OS features.
i've been lurking on the asterisk mailing lists for over a year. the project has really grown and picked up steam.. there was just a thread this week about people running it in production for businesses, including a cost analysis for some different implementation proposals.
The idea is really brilliant, frankly. Early on asterisk i think was really geared towards doing VOIPPTSN gateway work, but it's really become a full featured PBX replacement. I plan on gutting the RJ11 wiring in my next home and running star-config wires for all phones, and setting up asterisk as a traditional PBX. THe notion that i could programmatically ring my telephones based on the power of UNIX and perl is not something to sneeze at. Especially since asterisk sucks callerID info right up. I mean consider the integration you could have with the system time, your ical calender, and the callerID that shows up. Asterisk can play a friendly message for your grandmother mentioning that you are unable to come to the phone at 6am on a saturday morning. Your phones will NEVER ring:)
1. point taken. SGI and IBM contributed relevant filesystems to linux.
2. this is a non-feature until you can tell me how linux is "Better" or what this even means to you in your everyday work.
3. this is bullshit. you come up with a non-bag-of-anecdotes way to measure that "linux is more stable than NT" and i'll listen
4. see #3. My UNIX machines have been hacked more than my windows machines. where's the evidence to go with the conjecture ?
5. point conceded - the builtin firewall in Windows is not best of breed. neither is linux's.
6. there's some meat to this, but a lot of whats in here is correcting unix-specific deficiencies (i.e. you have to run as root to do _anything_ in unix....not an intrinsic windows problem)
7. tell me what you'd like to find out about a windows process that you feel you cant currently..
8. what ? on a unix system i do some bullshit with grep and xargs in/etc, maybe/usr/local/etc, maybe some man -k action, maybe reading through the source.. who knows..
on windows - regedit; F3
9. Please see - Unisys ES 7000
10. Windows runs 64 bit native on IA64 and AMD64
11. How does windows NOT have crypto? built in cert store, cert publishing, 2 factor auth system, CryptoAPI, EFS, etc etc etc
12. if you can explain to me how linux has superior memory management, i'm all ears. It sure didn't a couple years ago, when running out of physical ram panic()'d th box. Alan Cox told me to "buy more ram". Nice.
i get really tired of seeing people suggesting that microsoft has some reason to build an OS on top of linux. Technology wise, it would be a giant step backwards from NT.
You heard me right.
Let's put it this way. NT can emulate most of what you use linux for with its SFU _subsystem_.
There is nothing about linux technology wise that Microsoft wants to steal. Let's be honest - what features does linux have that NT needs ?
It's like saying BMW wants to start stealing engines from Fiat.
not really, because thats probably a bit harsh and my child would go to jail.
plus, i dont have a child.
(nor a gun)
i want my child to know everything there is to know, and have a proper rational framework for evaluating the inputs they are exposed to. i want to be an active participant in forming my child's analysis skills. nobody at symantec is qualified to raise my children or impart value judgements on them.
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this is not accurate
there is more to weight loss than caloric intake restriction. atkins sort of gets it right by cutting carbs, but cuts carbs that don't need to be cut and makes no distinction between carb types and their various effects.
the primary issue with the modern american diet and excercize is the huge glycemic load our diets have. matched with our trivial levels of exertion, our bodies are constantly saturating our blood stream with insulin to keep blood sugar levels in check. insulin is the hormone the body uses to tell fat cells to open up and suck sugar out of the bloodstream. the vast majority of fat on the human body comes from absorbing sugar, not from digesting fats and then storing the lipids.
our diets are extremely rich in sucrose and fast-burning carbs, which spikes the blood sugar level. since insulin is the fat storage hormone, it is completely reasonable to see why we're so damn fat. furthermore, elevated blood sugars mean elevated insulin levels, meaning systems develop insulin resistance, requiring even more insulin in the blood stream to have the proper effect. it is virtually impossible for people with insulin resistance to be thin.
finally, the near 24/7 hour job most peoples pancreas do to keep insulin pumping through the body (due to the double whammy of insulin resistance and high blood sugar) wears out the pancreas at an accelerated rate. the incidence of type 2 diabeties in america has made obesity the #1 killer in the US.. even more so than smoking.
source: "the sugar busters diet" please read the book before disagreeing with me. it's very informative. my doctor recommended it to me in february. i've lost ~30 lbs and i just pay attention to what i eat, not how much of it i eat.
i think people's computing needs changed at about the time OS/2 2.1 should have really picked up steam.
I can say personally that i realized that linux was the way for me to go when i never felt like doing anything with a computer unless my 9600 SLIP connection was active. Suddenly, i had usenet, irc, ftp servers, etc. The local BBS scene was already dying out and with linux i didn't have to use dos-mode terminal software (which KILLED OS/2 performance during irq 14 downloading) to get out into the world.. i got a native IP stack and 6 text mode consoles...
if the internet hadn't taken off, i think OS/2 might have done better, perhaps. i was in a situation where there were no apps for OS/2 or linux (compared to what i was used to with DOS5 and Win3.1), so i might as well choose the one that sucks less when doing heavy serial port work (linux)
no, for as technically progressive as MS tries to be, they put an awful high premium on having everyone together for face to face meetings, hallway conversations, etc. telecommuting just isn't really done for product group positions.
alternatively, you might try this: http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/sugges tion.as p
probably wont be any compensation, but if nothing else the things that annoy you might get fixed in the future:)
if you have realistic, actionable suggestions on how MS can write software thats more secure and still meets customer expectations, MS will hire you and pay you a lot of money. Enough so that you wont be so angry all the time, I'd suspect.
try them - http://www.microsoft.com/careers/
Include in your resume "you are fucking morons, i can improve your products. if you hire me you can fire all your stupid developers because i know how to fix all the problems". Just be prepared to know what you're talking about when they ask.
Nobody at MS will argue with you - our stuff needs to be better than it is, we make a lot of stupid mistakes, and fixing them is a big pain for everyone, not least of all us. If you've got realistic ways to help fix that, we'll hire you and you'll be paid very well if you actually know what you're talking about, can change things for the better.
However, im guessing you're just mad about something. The ball is strictly in your court though - either you're not able or not willing to fix microsoft's problems. in which case, you're just wasting bits by posting this.
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and this is precisely why you're not running a record company. because you're not as dumb as a truckload of bricks.
jobs is telling these people in not as many words that their time is up. the notion of a record company is an outdated BS business model. the world is evolving without them.
as usual, the UN shows that it is an antiquated, useless organization that primarily exists for poking the US in the eyes.
:)
:)
the internet started as a US military technology. the US was nice enough to let others play along. The US is not subservient to the UN. The UN needs to figure this out.
in any case, what does the UN propose to do.. blackhole the US at a bunch of border routers ?
darn, then we wouldn't get so much spam here from everywhere else
funny of you to be so presumptive!
actually:
1) i have had high speed driver training - all though not enough to be satisfied with the results.
2) my car has dual piston vented 300mm front calipers. It had the best braking distance of any 4 door car anywhere in the world when it was new in 1988. cross drilled rotors are a total non-issue for street driving. the point of cross drilling is of course to help with pad outgassing.. which can be as easily corrected with slotted rotors. Neither of these are necessary on a car with adequate ducting. In all of the hard stops I've done (and i tend to threshold brake at 100mph to try and refine my skill at it) i've not experienced brake fade nor squishy pedal.. indicating that my fluid is fine and that i don't have an outgassing problem.
The car was deemed safe by TUV standards for operation at 150mph. I don't see anywhere near that speed. The rear rotors are non vented solids. the F/R brake bias is unfortuneately about 73/27 - not ideal but servicable. The tires are RE730s, a summer tire with great rain performance (the car was until recently driven in seattle). On this vehicle, it has a progressive limit and lots of feedback. The next time the car gets new shoes I'll probably put S-03's on it.
The car under discussion is a 1988 M5. If you feel this vehicle isn't up to driving above 70mph, i suppose you can try and justify that position. The car is much more capable than i am (the nut behind the wheel needs the most upgrading)
Incidentally, I'm curious about your claims about BMW brakes. They're typically one of the best vehicles anywhere in the world w.r.t. factory brakes.
I do not speed in residential areas.
I am not advocating constant speeding, or driving beyond the limits of the car or the driver. It is my opinion (the the opinion of many) that highway speed limits in this country are arbitrary and counter productive, and traffic enforcement on said motorways is purely a revenue instrument, and actually works against the goal of safety.
I have no problem conceding that I'm a law breaker. I think this particular law is stupid, so I selectively obey it. The standards are the same for me as they are for you - if a cop happens to see me doing something and he's feeling grumpy, I get a ticket. I am nice and respectful towards the officer, as he's just doing his job, and then the ticket gets faxed straight to a lawyer so that it can be properly contested and the state is denied my money (unfortuneately im feeding money to lawyers, but i suppose its the lesser of two evils - i get to choose my lawyers)
nice troll
there is plenty of documented evidence that speed limits that have no basis in reality do more harm than good. look at the NMA study of the repeal of the daytime no-limit in montana.
fwiw, i think tailgating is stupid. on the other hand, shooting someone to death because you dont like how they drive seems a bit excessive.
i personally don't mind when people tailgate me unless i am boxed in on all sides. If i can do so, i just get out of the way. If there's nothing i can do about the lane position i am in, then tail gating me serves little point.
in general, i facilitate other cars that are in a hurry -- i have no idea if there's a reason for them to be in a hurry or not.
i don't understand why people think tailgating is innately wrong but coasting in the left lane (which is also illegal) is ok. seems like some selective enforcement (which incidentally is one of the other big problems with speed limit laws, and most moving violations)
remember - relax. Who's to say next time the guy tailgating people wont start shooting because you wont get out of the way ?
I agree with you completely, and i work for microsoft :)
If the police only have enough time to attack one evil, and they get to choose between going after people selling burnt CD's of Longhorn Alpha, or, they get to go after illegal porn (where $illegal is something like snuff films, or child porn, etc), i say go after the illegal porn.
I'd guess that they aren't behaving so virtuously though, if they're anything like most US cops. They probably just don't care about software piracy. Maybe there's no money to be made raiding $1.58 piracy rings as compared to the money to be made going after illegal porn vendors.
I sure wish american cops would spend more time solving problems like rape and murder as opposed to setting up speed traps on highways where the speed limits are set artificially low..
but, speed traps give much better returns than arresting rapists only so that they can get out of jail in 6 months and do it again.
if you think the US would find a war with the EU inconvenient, consider how much more inconvenient the EU would find it
made my day. thanks :)
most BMW's are now being sold with the bluetooth kit, which REQUIRES a non BMW phone. BMW is finally getting it shead out of its posterior and getting out of the carphone business.. and letting customers use the handset of their choice (not to mention service plan)
Hi.
I work for Microsoft. i designed an automated deployment system that over 2000 computers at MS used for 24/7 automated testing. (a follow on technology by some of my co-workers has taken this approach to the next step, so only a little of my code is still running out there, but i digress)
there is nothing crippled about NTFS on XP or otherwise. Imaging works just how you expect it to. we've used Ghost (multiple version) PQDI (multiple versions, including the 16 bit dos version) and some internal-to-MS only stuff even. All of these make and restore images of XP machines perfeclty fine.
Not only is imaging a windows machine not broken, it is a supported and tested product scenario with its own feature and test teams.
enter: SYSPREP
Sysprep is the 100% microsoft supported way of bulk deploying machines and setting them up for imaging. sysprep is fully scriptable as of XP and the same sysprepped image can be restored on hardware of nearly any type. It can automaticly configure the box, set a hostname, join a domain, setup local users/groups, etc etc etc.
I know this because if it doesn't work, nobody in the world can test visual studio.
Please look at microsoft.com and read about sysprep. It's your friend.
Incidentically, before sysprep-XP, when sysprep wasn't quite the cat's meow, you could still image and restore NTFS OSes (even XP, with WPA), even across different hardware. You just had to know what things to change/tweak. (which i found out WITHOUT special MS-only knowledge)
Sysprep for XP also works great with WPA, letting you seal/reseal an image so that the WPA activation bomb goes away.
Honestly people, ask slashdot stories should be ASKING, not presuming. because the presumptions are often wrong, and the meat of the "question" is an uninformed bash as opposed to a legitmate request for help or comments...
bzzt. wrong again.
the _last_ thing anyone wants is a country as stupid as france getting a say in what happens on the internet at a worldwide level. Or China.
objectionable content is a mental deficiency.
i dont like child porn, i don't support it, and i don't seek it out. there are already laws in this country that relate to child pornography, regardless of medium.
How can you make a world-wide "rule" on child porn in light of the vastly differing national limits as given on ageofconsent.com ?
no government anywhere in the world should get more involved with the internet. Especially not the UN, the meta-combination of all of the worst aspects of each of its constituents.
i access OWA all the time through proxomitron and it works great.
The issue is that most popup blockers are stupid. doing a popup blocker "right" is a hard problem. My proxomitron config does hte right thing 90% of the time, but now and then i need to bypass it and reload a page to get the desired result.
stop stop stop
this is not insightful. MS is increasing its R&D budget. Every single developer at MS got a free copy of the "writing secure code" book, everyone stopped what they were doing to go to security training during the original push, and there is now recurring ongoing security stuff happening across the company.
there are a wide variety of problems microsoft has to face w.r.t. security. you have rightly asserted that part of the problem is that their software needs to be better out of the box.
That doesn't help the customers MS has currently. I mean, if they just did nothing but dump money into future code, you'd be bitching about how MS was doing its usual "if you want that, you'll have to upgrade" business
So its doing both. And a lot more. Better design/testing going into new stuff, retroactive work going into old stuff, standards/partnerships with security research firms re: disclosure, and now the latest, paying to try and get rid of the trouble makers.
its a multi-faceted approach to a multi-faceted problem.
who do you hate more. SCO or the entertainment industry ?
:)
If only there were a way that both sides could lose... ?
you get the T1 card and a 24 port FXS channel bank. Total cost - less than 4 digits
:)
Then you can set the line coding on a per port basis to handle normal pots phones, some vendors custom handsets, etc.
you can get the quad span card and get 96 analog handsets on a single PCI board. Put multiple pci boards in a box and your port density is atrocious. multiple asterisk boxes can switch channels over ethernet, so you can get into multi-hundreds of ports very easily and quickly.
Look into asterisk. It kicks ass. If its missing something - add it yourself
note that i conceded that linux had a better firewall than NT. But not the best. And not one worth copying. (if MS were going to steal a firewall, it wouldn't be iptables)
:)
You're right - i ignored all of those. I think most users ignore them as well. I figured i'd get shit for not talking about reiser
CODA, as i recall is the successor to AndrewFS and is mainly interesting because it supports offline operation and synchronization. Try "offline files" in windows. For Coda's sake, i hope it works better than the offline files system windows has.
linux has kind of a complex about turning everything into a filesystem. Realistically i am just not sure how these are relevant OS features.
the best data you have for #3 is netcraft stuff ?
i've been lurking on the asterisk mailing lists for over a year. the project has really grown and picked up steam.. there was just a thread this week about people running it in production for businesses, including a cost analysis for some different implementation proposals.
:)
The idea is really brilliant, frankly. Early on asterisk i think was really geared towards doing VOIPPTSN gateway work, but it's really become a full featured PBX replacement. I plan on gutting the RJ11 wiring in my next home and running star-config wires for all phones, and setting up asterisk as a traditional PBX. THe notion that i could programmatically ring my telephones based on the power of UNIX and perl is not something to sneeze at. Especially since asterisk sucks callerID info right up. I mean consider the integration you could have with the system time, your ical calender, and the callerID that shows up. Asterisk can play a friendly message for your grandmother mentioning that you are unable to come to the phone at 6am on a saturday morning. Your phones will NEVER ring
1. point taken. SGI and IBM contributed relevant filesystems to linux.
/etc, maybe /usr/local/etc, maybe some man -k action, maybe reading through the source.. who knows..
2. this is a non-feature until you can tell me how linux is "Better" or what this even means to you in your everyday work.
3. this is bullshit. you come up with a non-bag-of-anecdotes way to measure that "linux is more stable than NT" and i'll listen
4. see #3. My UNIX machines have been hacked more than my windows machines. where's the evidence to go with the conjecture ?
5. point conceded - the builtin firewall in Windows is not best of breed. neither is linux's.
6. there's some meat to this, but a lot of whats in here is correcting unix-specific deficiencies (i.e. you have to run as root to do _anything_ in unix....not an intrinsic windows problem)
7. tell me what you'd like to find out about a windows process that you feel you cant currently..
8. what ? on a unix system i do some bullshit with grep and xargs in
on windows - regedit; F3
9. Please see - Unisys ES 7000
10. Windows runs 64 bit native on IA64 and AMD64
11. How does windows NOT have crypto? built in cert store, cert publishing, 2 factor auth system, CryptoAPI, EFS, etc etc etc
12. if you can explain to me how linux has superior memory management, i'm all ears. It sure didn't a couple years ago, when running out of physical ram panic()'d th box. Alan Cox told me to "buy more ram". Nice.
13. You mean like
this one ?
14. what does this even mean ?
yeah. there are none of those in linux.
i get really tired of seeing people suggesting that microsoft has some reason to build an OS on top of linux. Technology wise, it would be a giant step backwards from NT.
You heard me right.
Let's put it this way. NT can emulate most of what you use linux for with its SFU _subsystem_.
There is nothing about linux technology wise that Microsoft wants to steal. Let's be honest - what features does linux have that NT needs ?
It's like saying BMW wants to start stealing engines from Fiat.
i want my child to shoot you for being so stupid.
not really, because thats probably a bit harsh and my child would go to jail.
plus, i dont have a child.
(nor a gun)
i want my child to know everything there is to know, and have a proper rational framework for evaluating the inputs they are exposed to. i want to be an active participant in forming my child's analysis skills. nobody at symantec is qualified to raise my children or impart value judgements on them.
this is not accurate
there is more to weight loss than caloric intake restriction. atkins sort of gets it right by cutting carbs, but cuts carbs that don't need to be cut and makes no distinction between carb types and their various effects.
the primary issue with the modern american diet and excercize is the huge glycemic load our diets have. matched with our trivial levels of exertion, our bodies are constantly saturating our blood stream with insulin to keep blood sugar levels in check. insulin is the hormone the body uses to tell fat cells to open up and suck sugar out of the bloodstream. the vast majority of fat on the human body comes from absorbing sugar, not from digesting fats and then storing the lipids.
our diets are extremely rich in sucrose and fast-burning carbs, which spikes the blood sugar level. since insulin is the fat storage hormone, it is completely reasonable to see why we're so damn fat. furthermore, elevated blood sugars mean elevated insulin levels, meaning systems develop insulin resistance, requiring even more insulin in the blood stream to have the proper effect. it is virtually impossible for people with insulin resistance to be thin.
finally, the near 24/7 hour job most peoples pancreas do to keep insulin pumping through the body (due to the double whammy of insulin resistance and high blood sugar) wears out the pancreas at an accelerated rate. the incidence of type 2 diabeties in america has made obesity the #1 killer in the US.. even more so than smoking.
source: "the sugar busters diet"
please read the book before disagreeing with me. it's very informative. my doctor recommended it to me in february. i've lost ~30 lbs and i just pay attention to what i eat, not how much of it i eat.
i think people's computing needs changed at about the time OS/2 2.1 should have really picked up steam.
I can say personally that i realized that linux was the way for me to go when i never felt like doing anything with a computer unless my 9600 SLIP connection was active. Suddenly, i had usenet, irc, ftp servers, etc. The local BBS scene was already dying out and with linux i didn't have to use dos-mode terminal software (which KILLED OS/2 performance during irq 14 downloading) to get out into the world.. i got a native IP stack and 6 text mode consoles...
if the internet hadn't taken off, i think OS/2 might have done better, perhaps. i was in a situation where there were no apps for OS/2 or linux (compared to what i was used to with DOS5 and Win3.1), so i might as well choose the one that sucks less when doing heavy serial port work (linux)
no, for as technically progressive as MS tries to be, they put an awful high premium on having everyone together for face to face meetings, hallway conversations, etc. telecommuting just isn't really done for product group positions.
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alternatively, you might try this:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/sugge
probably wont be any compensation, but if nothing else the things that annoy you might get fixed in the future
http://www.microsoft.com/careers/careerpath/techni cal/softwaretesting.aspx
you can search for open positions without getting a passport, if thats a blocking issue for you...
http://www.microsoft.com/careers/search/
thanks :)
it would rule a lot more if it was running right now. Allegedly my crank speed sensor will get mailed to me this week.
it's a lot of fun to drive, but a lot of hassle to keep running. i've learned a lot about maintaining cars from owning it
if you have realistic, actionable suggestions on how MS can write software thats more secure and still meets customer expectations, MS will hire you and pay you a lot of money. Enough so that you wont be so angry all the time, I'd suspect.
try them - http://www.microsoft.com/careers/
Include in your resume "you are fucking morons, i can improve your products. if you hire me you can fire all your stupid developers because i know how to fix all the problems". Just be prepared to know what you're talking about when they ask.
Nobody at MS will argue with you - our stuff needs to be better than it is, we make a lot of stupid mistakes, and fixing them is a big pain for everyone, not least of all us. If you've got realistic ways to help fix that, we'll hire you and you'll be paid very well if you actually know what you're talking about, can change things for the better.
However, im guessing you're just mad about something. The ball is strictly in your court though - either you're not able or not willing to fix microsoft's problems. in which case, you're just wasting bits by posting this.