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Comment: My preview of ReFS (Score 5, Funny) 459

by TechGuys (#38724884) Attached to: Microsoft Announces ReFS, a New Filesystem For Windows 8
After my initial tests, I must say that ReFS is incredible advangement. ReFS supports named streams, object IDs, short names, compression, file level encryption (EFS), user data transactions, sparse, hard-links, extended attributes and quotas. It is basically all the best filesystems compiled into one.

Not only is this good for Windows system, but overall network architecture.

Comment: It's not open source, but here it goes (Score -1, Troll) 300

by TechGuys (#38723990) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver?
SilverLight. They technology behind it stunning. You can also use C# to developed. For video sites there's also a HUGE difference compared to flash - with SilverLight the client and server will adjust to the available bandwidth the user has.. in flash this would just show up the loading icon and stop playing. SilverLight is technically much better than Flash.

Comment: Re:Like I said before about China... (Score 1, Interesting) 160

by TechGuys (#38722156) Attached to: Facebook, Google Argue Against Web Censorship In India
What? Do you honestly think no other country could have created those? For example we had multiple local Facebook equivalents since like the 90's. Widely used in my country too, with almost all teens and young adults being on those services. Similarly there was search engines, in fact in larger countries they even to this day dominate Google (In Russia Yandex, in China Baidu and in South Korea Naver)

Comment: Re:Some Discrepancies with Your Bitching (Score -1, Flamebait) 194

by TechGuys (#38721116) Attached to: Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart
But why would anyone start to use this? Google has a huge problem with quickly abandoning projects. They just throw something at wall and see if it sticks. There's no point to start learning and using something that will be dead soon. On top of that something being licensed under BSD license is a moot point if it's Google that dictates the whole "standard" without possibility of other browser makers to voice their opinions. This is why we have W3C and other standard consortium's - so that companies can work out the standard together.

Comment: Re:Not again! (Score -1, Troll) 194

by TechGuys (#38721090) Attached to: Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart
The same problem that there would be with lots of people if Microsoft started suddenly introducing their own "standards" again. There's still some issues because of all that bs 10 years ago, but now it has almost gone away. There really isn't any need to broke the web again. And how to create something better? Work out a standard of it. Don't just create it, but ask others if they have some opinions and make it with others so that they can contribute their opinions too.

Comment: Not again! (Score 2, Insightful) 194

by TechGuys (#38721016) Attached to: Google Ports Box2D Demo To Dart

Note that you'll need Chromium to run the demos

As a web developer and after all the nuisance old IE's gave me and other web developers back in the day, this is really what's stupid with Chromium and Google's approach. They're mimicking the old Microsoft here - make your own "standards" and break the web by making features and sites that only work Google's browser. I seriously thought we would had been past that and the old IE's were the last browsers that didn't adhere to standards. IE9 is now fully standards compliant, and what does Google do? Oh yes, break the web AGAIN.

This isn't the only time they're introduced non-standards compliant features, either. Another example is NaCl, or Native Client, which tries to mimic Microsoft's ActiveX, and again, only works in Chrome. But with all the security headaches. It seems like Google is going out of it's way to copy all the stupid mistakes Microsoft made. I guess Google is at the same point now than Microsoft was back then - antitrust issues, breaking web standards and constant flow of news of how they're done wrong again. It's like Microsoft all again.

Comment: Obvious answer (Score -1, Troll) 316

by TechGuys (#38720222) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Open Source vs Proprietary GIS Solution?
This is a stupid question. Of course you are going to buy product that is ready to do what you want. Writing custom code is always hundreds of times more costly. These commercial products can sell them cheaper because they sell thousands, even millions of them. But if you need someone to write that code for you (which you will be doing regardless of putting it open source), it will cost.

So take the product that is required to get the job done, right now. Don't waste the money on getting some expensive coders on other product. You would also have headaches with testing and bugs. All that is done for you with MSSQL. Take it.

Comment: Re:Google does the same (Score 2) 157

by TechGuys (#38716158) Attached to: Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

With this new Facebook/Politico thing, Facebook is giving the data to Politico to analyze. There's the problem. They are taking what I put on Facebook and giving it to someone else without my permission. That would be like Google taking your emails and giving them to a 3rd party to look at.

That is entirely false. Facebook is not giving Politico any private messages. They will run the statistics tools themselves.

Comment: Re:Google does the same (Score 4, Informative) 157

by TechGuys (#38716136) Attached to: Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

facebook is sharing anonymized personal messages and typed posts. the difference here is night and day.

No they aren't. Summary is just badly worded. Facebook will not share any messages with anyone, they will run the statistics tools themselves. Read the announcement by Facebook, where they clearly state that. Politico will not get the messages.

Comment: Re:Google does the same (Score -1, Troll) 157

by TechGuys (#38716076) Attached to: Facebook To Share Private Data With Politico

Google is taking data that users are providing them, and doing statistical analysis on that data. There's no issue with this, because it's not leaving Google.

Facebook is taking data that users are providing them, and sending it off to a third party to do statistical analysis on it. This is a terrible invasion of privacy, because Facebook users never intended for their private data to be shipped off to other companies.

If you can't see the difference here than you're either dumb or an anti-Google shill.

No, that's only what the summary is claiming. How unsurprising that it is wrong. Read the announcement by Facebook

Facebook will compile mentions of the candidates in U.S. users' posts and comments as well as assess positive and negative sentiments expressed about them. Facebookâ(TM)s data team will use automated software tools frequently used by researchers to infer sentiment from text.

Them as has, gets.