* Posts by Bill Gates

27 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2008

AI flips the script on fingerprint lore – maybe they're not so unique after all

Bill Gates

Its not AI. Its an algorithm. Apparently, we are calling every new algorithm and computer program "AI" now.

'Only 700 new IT jobs' were created in US last year

Bill Gates

lol, AI is just an excuse. It does nothing people think it does. It does not even really exist, its just a marketing term.

Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds

Bill Gates

ENJOY it MORE than commuting and being in a noisy office.

This is someone trying to gaslight workers.

US slaps sanctions on accused fave go-to money launderer of Russia's rich

Bill Gates

Money laundering is good. It is only a crime to the robbers in government.

Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed

Bill Gates

"skills shortage"

TRANSLATION: shortage of willing PAY for the skills

Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux

Bill Gates

UEFI is worthless. It provides nothing of value.

SecureBoot is STILL a windows only joke of a technology.

BIOS still works fine.

Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs

Bill Gates

Did you know that the "reference version" of Java that all others are based on is called OpenJDK.

Did you also know that its fully open source and free?

Amazing huh.

ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon

Bill Gates

What are they going to do when there is clouds?

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

Bill Gates

For gods sake, just run Linux.

Linux kernel Spectre V2 defense fingered for massively slowing down unlucky apps on Intel Hyper-Thread CPUs

Bill Gates

Hyper-threading was a gimmick anyway. Just get rid of it. It is not needed, we have lots of REAL cores now, we don't have to pretend.

Official: IBM to gobble Red Hat for $34bn – yes, the enterprise Linux biz

Bill Gates

Congrats Red Hat, you are marrying massive debts

Congrats Red Hat. You are marrying a girl with 80B in debt that will be more than 3x leveraged soon and will have their credit rating downgraded to a BB or less after this and that means creditors will start charging substantially more interest on that 80B in debt you just married.

Hope you like beans and toast because you will never see steaks again, and don’t ever plan on taking any vacations for the rest of your life. Those days are over.

Likely this will just end up killing both of the companies in a massive debt spiral in pretty quick time but, have fun you newlyweds.

Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion

Bill Gates

Re: Hmm...

Linkedln after MS: Deleted my account, never went back. No big loss.

BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

Bill Gates

Bullshit. Delta Airlines used the same 'power failure' excuse for their outage, and we learned six months later it was due to a network screw up.

Vinyl, filofaxes – why not us too, pleads Nokia

Bill Gates

Imagine if there was an iPhone or Andoid phone that was HALF as rugged and had HALF as much battery life as these ancient Nokias.

Ham-fisted: Chap's radio app killed remotely after posting bad review

Bill Gates

Replace it with open source NOW

HRD desperately needs to be replaced by an open source software package owned and developed by the ham radio community at large.

BEHOLD the magnificent lunar backside in our MOON VIDEO

Bill Gates

What is that big black rectangle sticking out of the surface on the other side of the moon!?!

Bill Gates

What is that big black rectangle sticking out of the surface on the other side of the moon?

Microsoft: It's TIME at LAST. Yes - .NET is going OPEN and X-PLATFORM

Bill Gates

Maybe .NET on OpenShift?

I guess they got tired of totally being locked out of anyone really using their stuff on all the latest trends like OpenShift, CloudStack, Amazon EC2, Google Apps etc..

Nearly every new cloud and PaaS platform is based on OpenSource, because lets face it, what cloud provider wants to deal with software licensing when building platforms to offer their customers?!!

Microsoft has been totally shut out of this ecosystem outside their own Azure stuff, and no one even talks about anything Microsoft these days in the world of the cloud.

BlackBerry slowly pulls out of power dive into toilet

Bill Gates

Just because the dead cat bounces when it hits the ground does not mean its not dead.

Bitcoin or bust: MtGox files for bankruptcy protection

Bill Gates

Ya know what the real interesting thing is, and what scares governments and bankers?

The fact that even all of this.....people are STILL WILLING to go with bitcoin because the huge positives about being able to get out from under their control are worth even more risk than this.

The ability to not be slaves and subservient to the masters with your wealth is worth a HUGE amount of potential risk of not being 'regulated'.

SCRAP the TELLY TAX? Ancient BBC Time Lords mull Beeb's future

Bill Gates

Want to make more money to fund BBC? Allow me in america and other countries to subscribe so I can use iPlayer just like someone in the UK.

You would add millions to the funding of BBC.

Study: Arctic warming at 'stunning' rate – highest temps in 44,000 years

Bill Gates

Unprecedented?!??!?!

Then how the fark did these plants grow in the first place?

Stupid global warming nuts can't even see the obvious.

Red Hat parachutes into crowded PaaS market

Bill Gates

>great opportunity for PaaS companies to lock-in developers.

That's why you use only Open Source in your PaaS development. Then you can go to whichever one you want with your code. Sure the interface for deployments etc might be a little different, but your app will run the same.

A Rails app on OpenShift is the same as a Rails app on Heroku is the same as a Rails app on Rackspace is the same as a Rails app on Stackao.

What you don't want to do is go down any vendor specific languages, or databases etc route..then your actually locked in. That is what you get with Microsoft Azure, or Amazon, or Google. You are not locked in if you go with Redhat, Heroku, Rackspace, Stackato etc..

Pure Storage attacks EMC heartland

Bill Gates
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>array which outperforms VMAX/VNX and costs less

Setting the bar kinda low there.

Nearly every other storage system in the world outperforms EMC and costs about 1000x less.

Fukushima's toxic legacy: Ignorance and fear

Bill Gates

They worked!

1) The plants withstood a 9.0 Earthquake with apparent ease. These are 40 year old reactors, and held up well. Newer reactors like those in the USA, are built on "rollers" to help them withstand even MORE severe of an earthquke as this was.

2) The reactors were shut-down in an orderly manner and the nuclear reaction was stopped.

3) A while later the Tsunami occurred, and we see where the major flaw was, having the diesel generators susceptible to the tsunami, not with a flaw in the reactor design.

4) The storage of the spent fuel pools at the top of the reactor was a big mistake. Although the nuclear hysteria is causing problems with spent fuel storage and probably has some blame.

5) The officials where slow to react and call in external assets(fire truck pumps) to help, which is probably a cultural thing.

If they would have put some more thought into the location of their generators and their spent fuel storage units, we would have had a zero incident.

Most likely we will have a few bannana's worth of radiation, a shit load of media hysteria, and 4 reactors that actually worked very well for being in a 9.0 earthquake and a massive tsunami.

And people will still be afraid of the cleanest and lowest cost energy source known to man.

EMC new storage federation box named V-Plex?

Bill Gates
Gates Horns

Missed...

I could have sworn they were going to call it...

EMSVC.

HP apes IBM's SVC

Bill Gates

Invista is just as in-band as SVC

Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that Invista is 'out of band'.

Invista traffic is all going through the linux box on the director blade... the only difference between Invista and SVC is that the linux inline appliance in Invista is connected directly to the backplane(25Gbits), instead of via physical switch ports like each SVC(16Gbits).

Example, if a server on blade 1 wants to access storage connected to blade 3, the traffic will go in blade 1, across the backplane, into blade 8(Invista), back on the backplane, out to request from the storage on blade 3, back in the storage port on blade 3, back on the backplace to Invista on blade 8, back out the backplace to blade 1, and out to the server.

Draw it out...its the same number of hops just replace the fibre channel cables in SVC with backplane connections on the Invista blade.

And with SVC I can scale to 8 using cheap intel servers, I can't scale any more Invista nodes without having additional DIRECTORS and expensive proprietary intel blades for them (OUCH $$$).