"I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003. Several thousand developers - and, let's face it, quite a few garden variety Windows enthusiasts - charged into Hall A at the Los Angeles Convention Center like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert, volleying for the best seats. I've been to more Bill Gates keynotes than I can count, and this was the first time I ever saw anyone climb over other people in order to secure a better view (no offense to Mr. Gates, but he's not exactly a dynamic speaker). It was PDC 2003 and everything was right with my world." Read more of the editorial here.
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Member since:2005-10-19
"Paul hasn't changed his tune, he does this all the time [...] when the new product is released, he'll come out of the closet with his cheerleaders uniformed"
I agree. But i think it's somehow consistent. There is nothing new in this article. He just collected all the bad things to warn Microsoft again.
Member since:2005-07-06
I agree. But i think it's somehow consistent. There is nothing new in this article. He just collected all the bad things to warn Microsoft again.
Some how consistant with his typical cycle; remember he went on a Windows XP slamming feast, then when service pack 2 came out, he was gushing over it like some sort of hot super model.
A few months later, he was back to 'slamming it' with an article on how his wif just *loves* her Mac, this is just more in the cycle.
Like I said, mark my words, when Vista is relased, we'll have a review of it by Paul, and he'll be purring like a kitten.
As for this article, its just 'ooh, look at me, I too can be skeptical, along with other clueless journalists! I'll throw my 5 cents worth into the discussion and hope my website hit goes through the roof!'
The sad fact is, he also tries to play the so-called 'windows fanboy in impartial technology analyst clothing' - he wants people to think that he is impartial so that some how his arguments will carry more weight; sorry, his bad facade and opinions hold even less weight than Dvorak.
I can say, atleast where I stand, when I offer my 5cents worth, I'm open to saying that all software and hardware sucks, some just sucks less than others, and hec, I'm quite willing to bash the software I like, and praise the software I dislike when deserved, the problem is, Paul has turned it into a cycle of hate, love, hate, love based on some sort of 'mission' rather than trying to form impartial opinions on Microsofts products.
Member since:2005-11-14
"The 'Llano' processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU - instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an 'application processor unit', or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11-compatible GPU with four out-of-order CPU cores on a single, 32nm processor die."
"The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for product launches, but it seems clear that IBM wanted to get out in front of a whole lot of processor and systems launches that are expected between now and the summer."
Mozilla has announced that they are going to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger definitively. "Mac OS X 10.4 was released in April of 2005 and a lot has changed since then," Josh Aas writes, "We would like to take advantage of more modern technologies on Mac OS X and 10.4 support has been a hindrance. Where we can work around supporting 10.4, doing so consumes valuable time and effort. Neither Chrome nor Safari has to deal with this."
"The ancient bug was discovered by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy in January 2010 and involves a utility that allows newer versions of Windows to run very old programs. Mr Ormandy has found a way to exploit this utility in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well as Windows Vista and Windows 7. The patch for this vulnerability will appear in the February security update. Five of the vulnerabilities being patched at the same time allow attackers to effectively hijack a Windows PC and run their own programs on it."
"Today, Clang completed its first complete self-host! We built all of LLVM and Clang with Clang (over 550k lines of C++ code). The resulting binaries passed all of Clang and LLVM's regression test suites, and the Clang-built Clang could then build all of LLVM and Clang again. The third-stage Clang was also fully-functional, completing the bootstrap."
With all the virtualization schemes running on top of Linux, how do they exploit the underlying kernel for I/O virtualization? The answer is virtio, which provides an efficient abstraction for hypervisors and a common set of I/O virtualization drivers. Discover virtio, and learn why Linux will soon be the hypervisor of choice.
"The Mono Project releases the first preview of Moonlight 3.0, giving application developers a first look at the open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology for the Linux platform." Sadly, it's still Firefox-only.
"In a definitive defeat for film studios - and in a first case of its kind worldwide - Australia's Federal Court has ruled that ISPs have no obligation to act on copyright infringement notices or to disconnect subscribers after receiving multiple letters. If copyright holders want justice for illegal file-sharing, they need to start by targeting the right people: those who committed the infringement."
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, an advocate of Web 2.0, used Twitter early Thursday to announce his resignation. He was named CEO in 2006 as Sun faced a switch in strategic direction away from proprietary systems and toward open source code, including its valued Solaris 10 operating system. "Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it", he said in a tweet to his followers, reported the New York Times on its Web site at 1:12 a.m. Thursday. He added a bit of haiku: "Financial crisis, Stalled too many customers, CEO no more."
"The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an improved user interface with an optional single-window mode. Although this update is still under heavy development, users can get an early look by compiling the latest source code of the development version from the GIMP's version control repository."
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2005-07-06
Paul hasn't changed his tune, he does this all the time, its like a wave; it does hype, hype, hype, doomsday, doomsday, mini-hype, doomsday, then when the new product is released, he'll come out of the closet with his cheerleaders uniformed.
He'll dance around claiming, "OMG! its unbelievable! how could I ever question Microsoft! they've done something amazing!" then spit out 4 weeks of 'indepth analysis' along with the necessary sound bites from 'those in the know' at Microsoft (more free PR for Microsoft) as if it were the second coming.
Sorry, this is the same Paul over again, hype, deflate then rehype again. Its the equivilance of asking what Bill Gates thinks about their 'future line up'.