http://www.computerworld.com/a...

'Nuff said.

We've been hearing that every year for the past (almost) 5 years since WP came out.

Yeah but GP was talking about soldier housing. The housing at Fort Knox is located just off of that public highway.

BTW for historical reference:

Sega Genesis, SNES, and Turbo Graphix 16

Windows, Mac OS, and OS/2.

Android, iOS, Windows Phone

There are a lot of examples, but while people have heard of the third, basically nobody uses it.

In technology platform wars, there tends to only be two major competitors at any given time, with the third being niche at best, and almost always ignored by the dominant two anyways, so it doesn't change things much IMO.

I kinda doubt it. Satya Nadella really didn't seem to like the first Nokia purchase, only backpedaling after he himself was stuck with it. Likewise, buying here maps sounds like such a Ballmer move.

In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft finally kills windows phone. It's really not Microsoft's bread and butter. Their bread and butter is enterprise grade SaaS and enterprise grade workstations and applications.

Xbox *may* have a future as this third generation is finally profitable, however they've already dumped so much money into the first two that they're still in the hole, and will be for some time.

I think that competition is coming in the form of Apple, who it seems is poised to compete with Google's search, in addition to their maps service.

Depends on the base. Fort Knox, which all of the movies have you believe is lock down tight secure, has a public highway going right through the middle of it. When I used to serve there, I sometimes went through this trailer park called Radcliff to get to the mall in the hillbilly city of Elizabethtown. No checkpoints anywhere along the way, just plain open road, with lots of deer and tick filled bushes.

I think it's worse than that. He's a real life Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti. Makes himself look knowledgeable but is really just fucking worthless.

Wow. Not only is everything you said way wrong (way way way WAY wrong,) but it's also approaching retardation.

In fact, I strongly recommend there be a restraining order to prevent you from going anywhere within a mile of any enterprise grade network. You're of those guys who talks down to other employees at IT shops while always being the biggest cause of down time. 100% Dunning-Kruger.

Quite a difference between using any old Linux server as a router, and using an actual device that is purpose built for that which includes an ASIC to make faster and more efficient forwarding decisions.

A layer 3 switch is in many ways better than a router because it makes forwarding decisions in hardware. Meanwhile dedicated routers don't offer any big advantages over a layer 3 switch unless you happen to be using old shit like frame relay where you need special WICs and can't use ordinary ethernet or SFP adapters.

Well at least we can now distinguish protest from celebration, because it seems that in France, setting your neighbors car into a blazing inferno is a sign of celebration.

http://europe.newsweek.com/940...

So there you have it:

Car flipped, somebody is angry.
Car burned, somebody is happy.

The shuttle wasn't a rocket, rather it was the rocket's payload.

Cisco is very much a "configure it yourself" type of deal. In fact their whole certification track above the CCENT level revolves heavily around knowing the IOS command syntax.

You can substitute their routers for Linux, but NOT their layer 3 switches, unless you really don't give a shit about performance in an enterprise environment.