If you look at the Visio diagram in the patent document you'll see.

I don't think he smokes crack, I think he's a SJW injecting the SJW acronym as often as possible in SJW off-topic comments so SJW becomes a cliche.

Can't find that #DEFINE on my twitter

Duh I've seen that kind of comment years ago

Quite. With the tape recorder sitting in front of the radio. So you can capture the sound of A/C, the whiny fridge, the clock ticking, and the neighbor beating his wife, allowing you to recreate the whole experience later when you listen to this music on your yellow walkman.

That's fine for in-house stuff. The problem is when the organization buys an ERP or accounting package that requires Oracle. Maybe it could technically run on MySQL, but the vendor doesn't support that.

Usually the only other supported database is SQL Server, but this means having Windows servers, and for an organization that has made a substantial investment in big AIX or HPUX, it's a show stopper.

Red Hat has done a terrific job of making Linux enterprise-friendly. It's common nowadays to have organizations run RHEL on their old PowerPC or Itanium monsters. Now if Microsoft could release a version of SQL Server that runs on Linux we could all forget Oracle.

Is that the new politically correct term so people with a colostomy bag don't fell ostracized?

"Moooooooooommy, a stranger on internet says I'm not awesome."
          -You

Software Justice Warriors. The SJW are people who are mad because they were born too late to fight the actual software injustices of the past, such as the Netscape debacle or the decision to call the unix command "umount" instead of "unmount", so they join digital lynch mobs at the slightest hint of possible software controversy, hoping to fill the void in their existence with strongly worded paragraphs of significantly misinformed opinions about problems that either don't exist or that are blown out of proportions.

Well he did not hack the NSA, he just basically used his rental sysadmin credentials to copy stuff. That would be like Mark Zuckerberg "leaking" Facebook data.

Yes there is some serious incoherence in Microsoft's strategy, always been like that. Just look at mobile - on one hand they buy a handset manufacturer, on the other they fail to improve their suboptimal and antiquated mobile SDK. Or on Windows 8 they push the tablet paradigm, but they lock down their app store so badly that most developers give up on making Metro apps.

From what I've seen, with Windows 10 most of the metro fluff will be gone. Doesn't mean that the whole 8.0/8.1 thing was garbage; there were a lot of improvements besides the metro snafu.

What exactly is offered by Solaris crossbow that doesn't exist in a similar fashion in the IBM (LPAR) or HP (VPAR) virtualization technologies? Nothing but fluff.
 

You find life unbearable on a Zenbook running Windows 8.1, and you say Ubuntu Jr makes things easier? Unlikely.

What obviously happened is that you got your panties in a bunch when you saw that metro screen and weird start button, and you couldn't be bothered to spend 5 minutes to read or watch a Windows 8.1 tutorial to learn about all the nice features. Instead you blamed Microsoft and went back to your zone of comfort.

It's ok to prefer Linux; I use Fedora on my desktop. But you didn't even give a chance to Windows, so don't come bitching about that O/S and be a drama queen on top of it. Millions of people use Windows on a daily basis on hardware that is a lot worse than your Zenbook and they don't jump from the balcony 20 minutes after powering up their machine for the first time. It's people like you that make Linux users look like petulant idiots.

Netra (SparcStation, Ultra, etc.) among others had this "feature". You were expected to change it if you needed those adapters to work on the same network, and of course this had to be done with the shitty LOM connection, which itself was a huge pain in the ass.

I'd rather take a job at Best Buy running Windows Update and antivirus scans on cheap HP laptops all day than touch another Solaris machine.

That one is easy. Just find a 15 years old version of KDE.