Posts by Tyrion

Re: Microsoft has a long term plan

Precisely. FairSearch and ICOMP are lobbying proxies for Microsoft. This is all about damaging Google for being too successful in Europe. The reason that people don't use Bing is because it's crap, not because Google is being anti-competitive. Hell, Microsoft even ships Bing/IE as the default on every new Windows PC, and still can't get any marketshare. Consumers are actively choosing Google over rivals because it's generally better.

It's astonishing that the EU commission wants to breakup Google, yet doesn't do a damn thing about Microsoft's abusive multi-decadal monopoly of the PC market. Browser ballot? Version N? What a joke. How about the commission separates Windows from the rest of Microsoft? Now that's something I'd go along with. Though by the looks of things, there's a better chance of Microsoft going bankrupt than the EU actually doing anything to end that abusive monopoly.

Re: Reap what you sow

>> One could argue Microsoft at least stole less of other people's work even.

I guess you haven't heard of the latest features for Windows 10 then. Namely virtual desktops/workspaces and a package manager. No Microsoft doesn't steal from Linux does it..

As for Systemd, I don't know what any of you are talking about. Microsoft has nothing like it. Systemd goes above and beyond traditional init systems. I've got it running right now on my Arch Linux box and I love it.

Regarding the article, two words - .NET foundation. All controlled by Microsoft and its poster boy Icaza. I wouldn't invest my time, energy, or skills into obsolete Windows platforms. .NET is dead and so is Microsoft. They've been reduced to giving away all their software now because no one wants it.

Re: Too little too late? don't be preposterous!

>WinPhone nwo has over 10% UK market share! And over 10% of the EU big 5 too.

That's a complete and utter lie. In Germany it's hovering about 5-6%, and Germany is the EU's biggest economy. I'm sure that inconvenient truth won't stop you fantasising.

A Travesty

> So - it's lazy good-for-nothing PAS suppliers to blame for this putrid stinking mess - mostly.

Wait, some idiot in the NHS must have approved the idea of purchasing crappy IE based and other proprietary Windoze based software to begin with. That's where the blame lies.

1. The NHS shouldn't be using Windoze full stop. It's a malware magnet.

2. They definitely shouldn't be using IE or any other non-standard and proprietary web platform.

If they continue using MS software, which is inevitable considering our government loves to choose the most expensive solutions, then when it comes time to replace XP, they'll have to replace every single PC. That's going to be one hell of a bonanza for Micro$haft and its avaricious resellers.

It's such a sad situation because all those XP machines could be repurposed for GNU/Linux and given a new lease of life. It would save millions. But as we know government isn't interested in saving money unless it involves stripping citizens of essential services and welfare.

Tosh indeed

>Office 365? I thought they were dropping all the Microsoft tosh.

Governments seem to act like crack addicts when it comes to Microsoft. They just can't seem to wean themselves off them.

It's clear the problem lies with the procurement process and the fact that Microsoft has a legion of partners (shills really) that they use to bid for government contracts. By comparison, FOSS suppliers are massively outnumbered. A similar tactic was employed while trying to ram through the ridiculously complicated (6k pages by all accounts), proprietary, and patent encumbered OOXML.

2100

>What utter rubbish. We are still on target for at least 2 Degrees Centigrade global warming of average surface temperatures by 2100.

Do you ever listen to yourself really? No one can predict what it's going to be like in five years, let alone 76. As stated in the article, all the models assume a linear growth pattern. It never pans out, and every model that's overlapped with the present has been completely wrong.

IPCC reports are poorly written works of fiction.

Re: 20g of "processed meat"

>Fresh meat - straight from the carcass is usually fine

Yes if you like contracting diseases like Taenia Saginata. The same applies to fish as well. Always freeze / cook that stuff well folks.

Re: Lucky

>A review by an independent vendor (HP)

Are you serious? HP is Microsoft. 99% of their products run Windows and Micro$haft software.

He's what a M$ or a vendor pushing M$ products report will always include:

1. ** Retraining costs associated with migrating to Linux. This is basically where they claim all those additional costs will come from.

It's completely bogus though. Every new version of Windows or M$ Office requires retraining, and some might argue are even more of departure from the normal workflow paradigm than switching to Linux/Libre Office. Metro and the Ribbon alone are so far removed from the previous versions that the Linux desktop and Libre Office software are much easier to pickup. Thus it's more costly to retrain in M$ and their every-changing and radical UI overhauls than to go FOSS.

2. ** Document conversion costs. This is another bogus claim. How many times I've seen incompatibilities between different versions of M$ Office file formats. Safe to say, M$ doesn't include those costs in it's assessment of continuing to use its products.

Then there are the savings associated with migrating to FOSS:

1. Licence fees. There are none for software like LibreOffice.

2. Retraining costs are lower going from XP to desktop Linux than from XP to 8. The same applies going from M$ Office 2003 to LibreOffice than 2007+. Metro / Ribbon changes are so alien to users, it's like starting from scratch, whereas, the FOSS option is very familiar.

3. Hardware can be repurposed. There's no need to buy all new hardware when FOSS has lower system requirements than Windows.

4. No risk of malware, rootkits, NSA backdoors. The NHS just recently was infected with malware on their XP systems. You can bet that M$ never includes those costs when it sponsors ROI reports about migrating to FOSS.

5. Vendor neutral standards like ODF, and the plethora of office suites which implement it, guarantees future accessibility, and competitive prices for support contracts.

6. Security. All code can be audited unlike proprietary products from Micro$haft.

Re: You gotta be kidding

> You're joking about not having an understanding of the basic physics behind what has been dubbed the "greenhouse effect", right? You're kidding about not understanding the fundamental physical mechanisms behind the effects that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other anthropogenic fun stuff that are increasing in concentration have in our atmosphere?

The earth is not a closed system like the experiments performed in the lab on the effects of CO2 etc. A runaway greenhouse effect observed in a closed system lab does not mean the same thing will happen in the complicated climate of the earth. Correlation does not imply causation, which is unfortunately what most of the CO2 and AGW hysteria is based around; the assumption that what happens in the lab under strict conditions will reproduce themselves in the real climate.

>but you can't refute the calculable effects of radiative forcing.

The keyword there is 'calculable'. RF theory in climate science is based on the observed effects of Co2 in the lab under controlled conditions. The earth doesn't operate under controlled conditions, which is why every single, yes you heard it right, every single climate model proposed by AGW alarmists that's overlapped with the present has been wrong, and not by a small amount either, we're talking about 500% deviations from what's actually been observed.

If you can show me a single climate model that has predicted past, present, and future temperatures, then I'll admit I'm wrong.

Re: The Big Elephant in the room

> I just spent 5 seconds looking at your posting history.

And 5 seconds looking at yours quickly reveals your pro-M$ anti-FOSS stance. I am pro-FOSS, I don't claim to be otherwise, can you say the same?