The first article tries to push the idea that all problems Microsoft is experiencing come from the antitrust wrist slapping they have got. This is stupid. Also takes some jabs at Apple and Linux.
The second part of the article is telling us the real problem Microsoft is facing. Code bloat. Dll hell. They have decided that they canÂt hold it any longer and they are going to start from scratch and run the old windows apps on a virtual machine for backwards compatibility.
There is a third part that is missing in the article. Most people around here suspects that some of VistaÂs performance problems, specifically on the the multimedia department are caused by the interference of DRM code. Is Microsoft removing all this code from Windows 7?
Yes, you could use ice as an oxygen source, but you need energy to separate the oxygen from the hydrogen, and you know what? when you burn your fuel you get less energy than what you used to process the ice. In fact, you could just burn the resulting hydrogen as well, taking fuel out of the equation.
Is it just me thinking that increases in computing power are much slower this days? I know that Moore's law is an observation about the number of transistors in a chip and not about the power of that chip, but Moore's law as usually thought as increases in computing power seems to have slowed down a lot.
I think a part of what has happened to Microsoft with Vista is that they expected computers to be much more powerful this days from what they really are, so they bloated the operating system to dead with DRM and visual effects thinking that the extra power would take care of the extra bloat.
The reason *I* dislike C# is because it is so similar to java that it it a waste of effort. It only has one advantage over Java and that is M$ have full control over it. That advantage is an advantage for M$, not for me.
It is a technical fight. If it wasn't, we would be hosed anyway. If comcast or anyone can show politicians that using some technology (deep packet inspection or whatever) they can stop people from communicating freely, the politicians will take the chance and use the technology straight away.
After this attack, it is clear that changing the EU law and allowing software patents becomes much more difficult.
There are lots of people in EU using linux distributions without any legal concerns that would be very damaged the very day that EU suddenly recognizes this troll patent.
This days krita is a very good (if not better, as it supports colorspaces) OSS alternative to the GIMP, without the user interface problems the GIMP has.
Humanity won't get together and agree three laws of robotics. The first thing they do when they have enough technology is to turn robots into weapons.
Stephen Hawkins has been right all the way. We need to move to other planets. This way it will be more difficult to get rid of the whole human species.
"It has bugs, and so's every consumer CPU since before the infamous Pentium floating point bug"
So Intels "professional" CPUs dont have bugs? or what you mean is that all of Intel CPUs are "consumer" CPUs? because server CPUs are affected by the bugs as well. I guess that they are "consumer servers".
Well, I agree. My point here is that lots of companies are doing the same. I would be really happy if the system admins that read Slashdot would read this and boycott Checkpoint.
I have been running Linux as my primary desktop for about seven years, but recently I had to use windows for work. I run it on vmware inside Linux so I can keep all the utilities that I love close to me, but the fact is that I need to run windows for work.
The reason? Checkpoint's VPN client. There is no version for Linux. They advertise one on their website, but it is for RedHat 7.2 and it doesn't work with anything else, so it is obviously there so PHB can tick the checkbox.
I write this because I am sure that this situation is stopping a lot of IT professionals from moving to Linux. Checkpoint's VPN is quite common in corporate setups.
What is really ironic is that their firewalls and VPN gateways are implemented in Linux and use a slightly modified version of IPSEC. But the fact is that if you are behind a NATted adsl connection with dynamic ip address (the usual case), you can't connect to it unless you use Windows.
And yes, they know about the situation. And yes, they are very happy taking advantage of the linux kernel without giving anything back.
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The first article tries to push the idea that all problems Microsoft is experiencing come from the antitrust wrist slapping they have got. This is stupid. Also takes some jabs at Apple and Linux.
The second part of the article is telling us the real problem Microsoft is facing. Code bloat. Dll hell. They have decided that they canÂt hold it any longer and they are going to start from scratch and run the old windows apps on a virtual machine for backwards compatibility.
There is a third part that is missing in the article. Most people around here suspects that some of VistaÂs performance problems, specifically on the the multimedia department are caused by the interference of DRM code. Is Microsoft removing all this code from Windows 7?
Even the KDE foundation voted for it !!!
Encrypt all traffic. Kill deep packet inspection. What business do they have with the contents of your communications?
Yes, you could use ice as an oxygen source, but you need energy to separate the oxygen from the hydrogen, and you know what? when you burn your fuel you get less energy than what you used to process the ice. In fact, you could just burn the resulting hydrogen as well, taking fuel out of the equation.
Is it just me thinking that increases in computing power are much slower this days? I know that Moore's law is an observation about the number of transistors in a chip and not about the power of that chip, but Moore's law as usually thought as increases in computing power seems to have slowed down a lot.
I think a part of what has happened to Microsoft with Vista is that they expected computers to be much more powerful this days from what they really are, so they bloated the operating system to dead with DRM and visual effects thinking that the extra power would take care of the extra bloat.
That is not the case and now M$ has a problem.
die .wma die a horrible drm'd death!!!
I am not sure computers work well below -10 degrees celsius :-)
At this speed of improvement by 2015 an individual's genome will go for $100 and by 2025 by $10.
:-)
So it looks like they are off by two orders of magnitude
Actually everybody knows that in soviet Russia vodka is ok, but whiskey makes you fat...
This reminds me of Ghost in the shell, "I pwned your eyes".
The reason *I* dislike C# is because it is so similar to java that it it a waste of effort. It only has one advantage over Java and that is M$ have full control over it. That advantage is an advantage for M$, not for me.
Do you guys think that this kind of protection could one day be used to build bikers protecting garments?
It is already happening with Ubuntu, and it will help linux get drivers for all of the hardware that is out there.
It is a technical fight. If it wasn't, we would be hosed anyway. If comcast or anyone can show politicians that using some technology (deep packet inspection or whatever) they can stop people from communicating freely, the politicians will take the chance and use the technology straight away.
So we better encrypt all traffic.
After this attack, it is clear that changing the EU law and allowing software patents becomes much more difficult.
There are lots of people in EU using linux distributions without any legal concerns that would be very damaged the very day that EU suddenly recognizes this troll patent.
This days krita is a very good (if not better, as it supports colorspaces) OSS alternative to the GIMP, without the user interface problems the GIMP has.
You don't need an identity card when you have stored a sample of everyone's dna and dna analysis becomes very cheap, a la Gattacca.
This is what expects us.
yes, and there is something that solaris has that linux doesnt. ZFS.
If zfs is not ported to linux due to license problems, Ill install solaris on my home file/backup server.
Even more, in the fansubs I have for the GITS series, you get translator notes explaining Japanese concepts when they could get "lost in translation"
Humanity won't get together and agree three laws of robotics. The first thing they do when they have enough technology is to turn robots into weapons.
Stephen Hawkins has been right all the way. We need to move to other planets. This way it will be more difficult to get rid of the whole human species.
"It has bugs, and so's every consumer CPU since before the infamous Pentium floating point bug"
So Intels "professional" CPUs dont have bugs? or what you mean is that all of Intel CPUs are "consumer" CPUs? because server CPUs are affected by the bugs as well. I guess that they are "consumer servers".
Yes, I understand you, its like having finished recompiling Gentoo the day they have a new release.
Well, I agree. My point here is that lots of companies are doing the same. I would be really happy if the system admins that read Slashdot would read this and boycott Checkpoint.
Linux already has this, it is the programmers and system administrators desktop of choice.
I have been running Linux as my primary desktop for about seven years, but recently I had to use windows for work. I run it on vmware inside Linux so I can keep all the utilities that I love close to me, but the fact is that I need to run windows for work.
The reason? Checkpoint's VPN client. There is no version for Linux. They advertise one on their website, but it is for RedHat 7.2 and it doesn't work with anything else, so it is obviously there so PHB can tick the checkbox.
I write this because I am sure that this situation is stopping a lot of IT professionals from moving to Linux. Checkpoint's VPN is quite common in corporate setups.
What is really ironic is that their firewalls and VPN gateways are implemented in Linux and use a slightly modified version of IPSEC. But the fact is that if you are behind a NATted adsl connection with dynamic ip address (the usual case), you can't connect to it unless you use Windows.
And yes, they know about the situation. And yes, they are very happy taking advantage of the linux kernel without giving anything back.