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W. Churchill
Some guy famous for being a pretentious asshole and insisting on gassing people in the Middle East decades before Saddam Hussein.
Can we, please, stop hiding behind famous people's backs? Microsoft "proves" that their OS design is not crap because Dave Cutler wrote something for it, "democracy" fans cite some early US slave-owners and that British asshole. Thatcher was just as British and just as Prime Minister, and she was nuts.
That's Cristian Weston Chandler's favorite place to eat, you insensitive clod!
Who, do you think, invented instruction sets and memory models?
Speaking of which, even Intel had to fundamentally re-do its memory model -- in fact, three times in the history of x86 series.
No, in the sense of "Tolstoy wrote about cowboys and Indians."
Maybe he did, but they were search/replaced with Russian soldiers and Tartars?
lol butthurt
The U.S. and Soviets did this for decades and no hot war ever broke out. Sabotage, assassination, espionage, territorial incursion and the whole ball of wax.
"Cold War" did not involve sabotage, killing of government officials or members of the military.
Nothing is an act of war unless war is actually declared subsequent to that.
No. There is a clear definition what is and what isn't an act of war, and it is consistently used when countries have to deal with each other. What is a war in the opinion of some US government officials has nothing to do with it.
Actually, it shows your lack of intelligence that you cannot think of a single thing to improve in UNIX design.
This is not what I claim. Anything can be improved. I claim that no EXISTING system is better or even comparable.
That does not prove anything other than Plan9 did not gain significant momentum or developer interest.
The fact that Plan9 didn't reach wide acceptance, indeed, proves nothing.
The fact that Plan9 was never implemented in a way superior to modern Unix-like system, stands by itself.
LOL.. None of the currently popular OS has survived because of technical merits. Windows survived because of monopoly. Linux only became popular because it was free.
There are plenty of systems that are "free" in whatever meaning you use that word.
After that initial small level of success lots of Linux services companies have hired people to improve Linux and it has become quite good, but the primary reason it took off was that it was free and a "good enough" clone of UNIX. In a capitalist society, 'technical merits' are useless talking points in marketing brochures. Its like CPU Megahertz wars.
And if it wasn't Linux, it would be another Unix-like system. There were no alternatives, and there are unlikely to appear in a foreseeable future. Maybe 5-10 decades after Microsoft OS will be eradicated, there will be a worthwhile OS with a non-Unix design. Until then, it's all pointless mental masturbation, there is Microsoft and there are Unix-like systems. Everything else is specialized or irrelevant.
Where has anyone claimed that UNIX is satan? Are you high or something? The majority of the people that worked on NT have a UNIX background and they sought to improve it - Which they did.
Every time Microsoft tries to imitate a feature of a Unix-like OS, they do it terribly wrong. It demonstrates that Unix-like thinking is incompatible with Microsoft culture.
Nobody 'rejected' IBMs architecture, they just find it cheaper and easier to buy someone else's chip instead of designing their own around zArchitecture (IBM does not sell those chips to anyone else).
"Someone else" (all of them) chosen a simpler CPU architecture for a reason.
EAL5 does not say or imply that there are no bugs. EAL5 says that specific international standards were followed in the design and implementation. Suse and Red Hat enterprise Linux have been certified at EAL4, as has Windows 7 and Windows XP.
And as long as there are full-compromise bugs slipping through certifications, those "standards" are meaningless.
That said, I'm not 100% sure Google is right here. Microsoft seems to be fairly open about wanting a slice of the Android phone cash bonanza, and is negotiating with phone manufacturers (as it should be - those are the people actually selling devices that have a price on them) without demanding amounts that would make Android phones impossible or uncompetitive.
You are right, extortion is ok if it doesn't kill you. Please send me $655.37 every month, or else...
Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.