Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?

[Paul Lalonde]

Microsoft: Yesterday's Technology, Tomorrow. On 13-Dec-05, at 8:26 AM, LiteStar numnums wrote: Let's see, first there was the Cyclone clone (Vault C), now there is a Plan9-ish/EROS-ish kernel... Before all of this was "Active Directory" (Kerberos/LDAP)... The 'research' seems to be focused upon many things already released into the wild & brining them to the point of being 'Microsoft' products...  -- Stefan On 12/13/05, Sergey Zhilkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Microsoft reinventing the wheels since 1980 :) Any sources of Sing ? Inferno IS better :) and also OpenSource :) On 12/13/05, Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this is old news to you all. It's something > that MS Research calls 'Singularity'. > > ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-135.pdf > > and a some interviews with the (re)inventors here: > > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=68302 > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=141858 > > -- Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him goes without saying and is "contructive and radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a kind of crisis and a final decision about the problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and there is nothing final about it. Thus God is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted something -- and here we recognize the traditional forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume responsiblity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency which would debase the entire value of being born." -- Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté