[ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment

[Stephen R. Blevins]

According to The Weather Channel's program series, "It Could Happen 
Tomorrow," .... in fact Seattle is indeed right on such a fault line.  
We just don't know when, and what kind of collateral damage (people and 
places we *do* want to keep) might result.

Stephen R. Blevins
srblevi at worldnet.att.net



Jim Kinney wrote:
> GAAAAAAGGGGG! Is Redmond in an earthquake zone or near an active
> volcano? Or maybe in a direct line of flight for a passing large chunk
> of intergalactic rock? Can we shift the Earth just a bit to get the
> alignment right?
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> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com> wrote:
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>> Round 2:
>> in http://twit.tv/floww14  34:50 A story is relayed of a former MSFT
>> developer stating that in development of SMB2 they were explicitly
>> told to F**K with Samba. A delete transaction that required 2 packets
>> on SMB1 now uses 1500 packets via the Vista GUI using SMB2. How much
>> waste is produced at the expense of their own customers (in the form
>> of productivity and energy/money) and society (in the form of
>> resources and pollution) for the sake of thwarting competition? Now
>> consider that the majority of all workstations are now wireless
>> capable (even if not always used wireless) notebook computes. This is
>> a problem of scale, and it is severe.
>>
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