Slashdot: Back in 2001. XP is horrible it looks like it was made by phisher price.... Back in 2002-2004 we giggled in glee as malware like Code Red started to severely infect Windows XP XP is still bad. But Vista was a flop, it took way too long and offered too many issues. So we got use to it. Granted XP was better then ME or 98, but that was due to Microsoft Finally pushing the NT Kernel on consumer OS's.
XP long run was due to Microsoft Failing last decade. Trying to Make Vista (Longhorn) a super mega OS, where they just couldn't do it, taking time away from smaller improvements. Fighting with Apple iPod Halo, where people started to take Mac's seriously again. And Apple was quick to release new versions of it's OS. Bad press from the FTC ruling. Yes they didn't get punished by the feds as much, but in terms of user perception it was got bad. People didn't use Microsoft Products because they wanted to but because they felt like they had to. Firefox - Safari - Chrome: These web browsers kicked the butt on IE 6 and Developers took notice and started making their pages more Other browser friendly. Plus these other Browsers work just as well on other OS's..NET made development too hard. (I actually like programming in.NET myself) but Microsoft sacrificed VB for it. Because VB was meant to be an easy to program language that any poor slob can code..NET turned vb from a GUI scripting language to an OO language. Giving a huge learning curve to the Non-Developers programmers (Businessmen, Engineers,... who wrote a program to fit their need) Yes it created higher quality code and saved us IT professionals form VB hell but if you needed to hire a real developer to make your software. That developer just may choose some more platform independent languages to do the work, even if they did use.NET they would have made more Web Based applications just so they can debug problems better, and have better contol of the software. Good for us, bad for MS.
It is usually in HTML where you have some formatting that break the normal flow of the page. While deprecated by the DIV tag for most usage. it is still there. For the most part it is fairly useless, However if you add CSS to it. you can do additional formatting with it.
There are often multiple companies that work off the same number. Some employees can actually be working for multiple companies at the same time. (This happened twice for me) So if you were to call and their caller ID says you are Company A while you are calling for Company B the customer gets confused.
For the first Job that happened there were two consulting companies. One did Business Intelligence other did system level work. My job was in the middle While I was hired at the Systems Consulting company. The BI company would often have me work under their name and they would pay the Systems Consulting company for my time. However to the customer sees the other company name on the phone, and will get confused and assume it is a sales call from an other company and not answer your business questions.
This is not free energy. However it is converting it from one form to another.
We can use Green Energy such as Solar and Wind, which has the energy but really cannot be stored, and doesn't have 24/7 constant supply of power.
More to the point. Is this or can this, be more efficient than making batteries? However this could extract carbon out of the air, and if we take more then we use, we can rebuild up our reserve, and reduce the carbon in the atmosphere.
In terms of evolution I could see the initial advantage of sleep, is a period of time of reduced activity to allow us to conserve energy better. You stay awake every day you will need an additional food and water to keep going, in scarce areas animals who slept got an advantage of needing less food, compensating for the extra energy it takes to keep them warm blooded.
The next advantage is the fact to sleep we often need to be in a safe area. So we build or find safe areas to keep predators at bay. So the animal that needed to sleep would find a safe location to sleep keeping a fraction of their lives protected.
Third allows for faster healing. If you have a cut or sore muscles, being able rest and not move the injured area allows the healing process to work better because you are not breaking it while it is healing. As well your immune system has more available energy to fight the infection.
So after a period of sleep the animal is better healed and stronger, been safe for a portion of the day and has energy to find food and mate.
But there were a lot of those legacy VB users out there. Most colleges in Comp Sci 101 taught VB first. Then went to C++ or Java. A lot of the Comp Science Majors when offered a chance to develop in whatever language they wanted they did it in VB because it was faster and the output looked nicer. Pre.NET when looking at resumes 80% had VB in their resumes, 30% had C++ 25% had Java.
C# wasn't clear, It could have been another J++. Just because microsoft but faith behind it doesn't mean people will use it. They could have just used VB.NET and liked it.
Class Action Lawsuits are often a big scam by the lawyers for them to make millions of dollars. While the "victims" (A mix of people who were actually a victim, and people who seem to meet the criteria but never really had a problem, but wants a few bucks) get their check for ten bucks.
Yes there are some good Class Actions out there, but most of them are just lawyers grabbing for money. After all is said and done. The company lost a lot of money, which could have gone to making things better earlier, and new jobs. And the real victims get joke change.
Non-Class actions where each victim has a separate suite can be more profitable to the victim, and causes the company to change before such suits become more common.
The Zune failed because it was much too late to the market. It came into the market right when iPod adoption was near peak. While iPods are still popular there are no longer as big as they use to be. The Zune was an attempt to make a copy of the iPod at the same price. While you may say that with the surface. The fact that it is using Windows 8 (A desktop level OS?) means it may fill the void about software.
You don't use tablets for High Performance computing.
They will use the tech specs to show that their new device is faster than the old one. But not comparing it to another product. Why? First when you compare different architectures you are comparing apples with oranges.
The available features is really more important to purchase a Table. What do you get for your money in terms of expandability, experience, future use.
How does your license make a crappy product any better? There are thousands if not millions of F/OSS apps out there that just suck. There are a few real Gems, but a lot of cheap crap. There is also a lot of Crap Closed Source apps too. But at least those companies in general will go out of business.
Why would you bet your reputation on an office suite? The nature of software changes rather fast. A perfectly logical and reasonable choice 6 months ago, today may be a bad decision.
When.NET started to get popular, I recommended that they if they are going to go with.NET they should do VB.NET not C#.NET because at the time more people knew VB over C# (in the current area). However after taking that direction in about a year C#.NET became more dominant. Mainly because colleges who taught Java liked doing C# more and didn't bother with VB any more.
OK I was wrong, but my reputation wasn't affected, why? Because I try to be right more than I am wrong, I had a good reasoning behind my decision. However this industry changes, we get factors such as change in college course changes, software delivery methods, Economic pressures, Mistakes made from other companies, unexpected success...
For Open Office vs Libre Office vs Microsoft Office. I wouldn't put my reputation behind it. Ok LibreOffice got popular but Open Office isn't that much better or worse so it may not be worth it to change.
A mars size rock hits the earth, that would create enough heat to melt the rocks and send them into space as a big liquid ball. Those crazy astronauts that play with their drinks show in microgravity that liquid will prefer to be in a sphere shape. So a chunk of liquid rock the size of the moon over Thousands/Millions of years of slowly cooling down would take the shape of a sphere.
Now the moon isn't a perfect sphere, that is because it is spinning while it was cooling and those other gravitational forces shifting it, and once an awhile getting pounded by some other rocks.
I would think a better definition of troll will be needed. If we use the Slashdot definition it would be prison for anyone who think Microsoft actually has some good products. Doesn't agree with RMS view of Free and Open Source Software. Likes patents. Doesn't consider Android Linux when talking about market share. Does consider Android Linux when talking about Free Software. Thinks Religion and Science can get along, or tries to defend their religion. Claims that New Technology is better the older version. Who didn't like "Cloud Technology" before RMS said it was bad. Who Likes "Cloud Technology" after RMS said it was bad. Doesn't jump to the worst possible scenario on a sliding scale argument.
If we used Slashdot definition in essence all the people who actually think for themselves without following the general consensus would be in prison.
For the most part there will be a lot less trying to block access to legitimate page. Vs. Blocking bulk emails.
You have your customers check an RSS Feed. They subscribe. And there is a little traffic all day. They get emails. the server gets 100 emails. the email is then copied hundreds of times. So you are adding 100x the storage for each mass email. Plus you cannout opt out easily. Unlike an RSS feed you just turn it off
Having or not having a moon isn't part of the definition of a planet.
"(a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet#2006_definition]
Pluto meets A,B and not C.
C is there to discredit large asteroids in the asteroid belt.
Most schools have Required Courses and Elective Courses. If you go with all classes required then yes the parent has a point. Because the school isn't flexible enough to engage in other areas of interests. However if you have all elective classes then you have the problem where the child/parent will only take classes they think they are good and not get a broad education.
K-5 There should shouldn't be too much Elective. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Art, Music, Free Play and Structured Play. 6-8 We bring in a smaller amount electives, now that we have the fundamentals, allow some variation in classes. However by this time we need start on the Combined studies, History, Literature, Science, Mathematics. 9-12 We allow a degree of freedom but make sure they are still getting a broad education across the areas, You should have an array of 6 fields of science you need to pick 4. Pick from some forms of Literature... Also add some more open electives to pick and choose from When you get into college you choose your major. You have less required All University Classes to take. Grad school you have less Classes you need to take outside your major for your PHD You are more or less on your own.
You have unlimited storage. Storage isn't free, unlimited means you may be storing a lot of stuff. So after you stop paying what options do you have. 1. Download you stuff... If that is an option you are going to be paying a lot of money for what? Old TV Shows? 2. They will offer all there stuff for free. Sure as a customer is is a good deal, however that means there is an infrastructure for you to access your old stuff. Now to offset they will need to either advertise. 3. One time lump storage sum. Still it goes down to it is a freakin TV show.
You are paying for a service. Once you are no longer paying for the service, you loose it. There are far greater problems with the economy then a company not offering services to non-paying members. Especially for just recorded TV shows.
Sure you can refuse to work with clients. But is Open Source really that important to you?
I prefer to get my paycheck, I get my pay check from working with my clients (and the more clients I can handle more I can often make), I am not opposed to open source, however there are other things in my life I consider more important. Like keeping up with my bills. If they want to release it Open Source I am good with that, I can do the extra work to make sure that everything is GNU pure, I may even express to them that keeping it open source can help offer maintenance beyond the risk of a small set closed developers. However if they want to keep I will be ok with that too, Losing a client isn't worth making a scene about it.
If you like Apple or not, you have to admit they are good at making an OS that works cross different hardware platforms, and maintain their compatability.
Microsoft couldn't even make a clean transition between 32 and 64 bit.
If you had any experience with Linux in Sparc or PowerPC you in essence needed to recompile near everything, and you are out of luck if you have the few closed source apps.
Mainframes is one of the few technologies we can see a life cycle trend with. I hear many of the same arguments when the mainframes were going out. Mainframes were very well balanced systems, 10 year old mainframes can still kick the butt of modern PC based Servers for some tasks.
Now with mobile devices with different UI interfaces we just cannot imagine not using our PC's
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Slashdot: Back in 2001. XP is horrible it looks like it was made by phisher price....
Back in 2002-2004 we giggled in glee as malware like Code Red started to severely infect Windows XP
XP is still bad.
But Vista was a flop, it took way too long and offered too many issues. So we got use to it. Granted XP was better then ME or 98, but that was due to Microsoft Finally pushing the NT Kernel on consumer OS's.
XP long run was due to Microsoft Failing last decade. .NET made development too hard. (I actually like programming in .NET myself) but Microsoft sacrificed VB for it. Because VB was meant to be an easy to program language that any poor slob can code. .NET turned vb from a GUI scripting language to an OO language. Giving a huge learning curve to the Non-Developers programmers (Businessmen, Engineers, ... who wrote a program to fit their need) Yes it created higher quality code and saved us IT professionals form VB hell but if you needed to hire a real developer to make your software. That developer just may choose some more platform independent languages to do the work, even if they did use .NET they would have made more Web Based applications just so they can debug problems better, and have better contol of the software. Good for us, bad for MS.
Trying to Make Vista (Longhorn) a super mega OS, where they just couldn't do it, taking time away from smaller improvements.
Fighting with Apple iPod Halo, where people started to take Mac's seriously again. And Apple was quick to release new versions of it's OS.
Bad press from the FTC ruling. Yes they didn't get punished by the feds as much, but in terms of user perception it was got bad. People didn't use Microsoft Products because they wanted to but because they felt like they had to.
Firefox - Safari - Chrome: These web browsers kicked the butt on IE 6 and Developers took notice and started making their pages more Other browser friendly. Plus these other Browsers work just as well on other OS's.
It is usually in HTML where you have some formatting that break the normal flow of the page. While deprecated by the DIV tag for most usage. it is still there. For the most part it is fairly useless, However if you add CSS to it. you can do additional formatting with it.
There are often multiple companies that work off the same number. Some employees can actually be working for multiple companies at the same time. (This happened twice for me) So if you were to call and their caller ID says you are Company A while you are calling for Company B the customer gets confused.
For the first Job that happened there were two consulting companies. One did Business Intelligence other did system level work. My job was in the middle While I was hired at the Systems Consulting company. The BI company would often have me work under their name and they would pay the Systems Consulting company for my time. However to the customer sees the other company name on the phone, and will get confused and assume it is a sales call from an other company and not answer your business questions.
This is not free energy. However it is converting it from one form to another.
We can use Green Energy such as Solar and Wind, which has the energy but really cannot be stored, and doesn't have 24/7 constant supply of power.
More to the point. Is this or can this, be more efficient than making batteries?
However this could extract carbon out of the air, and if we take more then we use, we can rebuild up our reserve, and reduce the carbon in the atmosphere.
In terms of evolution I could see the initial advantage of sleep, is a period of time of reduced activity to allow us to conserve energy better. You stay awake every day you will need an additional food and water to keep going, in scarce areas animals who slept got an advantage of needing less food, compensating for the extra energy it takes to keep them warm blooded.
The next advantage is the fact to sleep we often need to be in a safe area. So we build or find safe areas to keep predators at bay. So the animal that needed to sleep would find a safe location to sleep keeping a fraction of their lives protected.
Third allows for faster healing. If you have a cut or sore muscles, being able rest and not move the injured area allows the healing process to work better because you are not breaking it while it is healing. As well your immune system has more available energy to fight the infection.
So after a period of sleep the animal is better healed and stronger, been safe for a portion of the day and has energy to find food and mate.
But there were a lot of those legacy VB users out there. Most colleges in Comp Sci 101 taught VB first. Then went to C++ or Java. A lot of the Comp Science Majors when offered a chance to develop in whatever language they wanted they did it in VB because it was faster and the output looked nicer. Pre .NET when looking at resumes 80% had VB in their resumes, 30% had C++ 25% had Java.
C# wasn't clear, It could have been another J++. Just because microsoft but faith behind it doesn't mean people will use it. They could have just used VB.NET and liked it.
Class Action Lawsuits are often a big scam by the lawyers for them to make millions of dollars. While the "victims" (A mix of people who were actually a victim, and people who seem to meet the criteria but never really had a problem, but wants a few bucks) get their check for ten bucks.
Yes there are some good Class Actions out there, but most of them are just lawyers grabbing for money. After all is said and done. The company lost a lot of money, which could have gone to making things better earlier, and new jobs. And the real victims get joke change.
Non-Class actions where each victim has a separate suite can be more profitable to the victim, and causes the company to change before such suits become more common.
The Zune failed because it was much too late to the market. It came into the market right when iPod adoption was near peak. While iPods are still popular there are no longer as big as they use to be. The Zune was an attempt to make a copy of the iPod at the same price. While you may say that with the surface. The fact that it is using Windows 8 (A desktop level OS?) means it may fill the void about software.
You don't use tablets for High Performance computing.
They will use the tech specs to show that their new device is faster than the old one. But not comparing it to another product. Why? First when you compare different architectures you are comparing apples with oranges.
The available features is really more important to purchase a Table. What do you get for your money in terms of expandability, experience, future use.
"F/OSS is the superior alternative"
How does your license make a crappy product any better? There are thousands if not millions of F/OSS apps out there that just suck. There are a few real Gems, but a lot of cheap crap. There is also a lot of Crap Closed Source apps too. But at least those companies in general will go out of business.
Sence that newbee who keeps on falling for the rm -rf / trick on the internet.
Why would you bet your reputation on an office suite?
The nature of software changes rather fast. A perfectly logical and reasonable choice 6 months ago, today may be a bad decision.
When .NET started to get popular, I recommended that they if they are going to go with .NET they should do VB.NET not C#.NET because at the time more people knew VB over C# (in the current area). However after taking that direction in about a year C#.NET became more dominant. Mainly because colleges who taught Java liked doing C# more and didn't bother with VB any more.
OK I was wrong, but my reputation wasn't affected, why? Because I try to be right more than I am wrong, I had a good reasoning behind my decision. However this industry changes, we get factors such as change in college course changes, software delivery methods, Economic pressures, Mistakes made from other companies, unexpected success...
For Open Office vs Libre Office vs Microsoft Office. I wouldn't put my reputation behind it. Ok LibreOffice got popular but Open Office isn't that much better or worse so it may not be worth it to change.
A mars size rock hits the earth, that would create enough heat to melt the rocks and send them into space as a big liquid ball. Those crazy astronauts that play with their drinks show in microgravity that liquid will prefer to be in a sphere shape. So a chunk of liquid rock the size of the moon over Thousands/Millions of years of slowly cooling down would take the shape of a sphere.
Now the moon isn't a perfect sphere, that is because it is spinning while it was cooling and those other gravitational forces shifting it, and once an awhile getting pounded by some other rocks.
Sorry was that a troll?
I would think a better definition of troll will be needed. If we use the Slashdot definition it would be prison for anyone who think Microsoft actually has some good products. Doesn't agree with RMS view of Free and Open Source Software. Likes patents. Doesn't consider Android Linux when talking about market share. Does consider Android Linux when talking about Free Software. Thinks Religion and Science can get along, or tries to defend their religion. Claims that New Technology is better the older version. Who didn't like "Cloud Technology" before RMS said it was bad. Who Likes "Cloud Technology" after RMS said it was bad. Doesn't jump to the worst possible scenario on a sliding scale argument.
If we used Slashdot definition in essence all the people who actually think for themselves without following the general consensus would be in prison.
For the most part there will be a lot less trying to block access to legitimate page. Vs. Blocking bulk emails.
You have your customers check an RSS Feed. They subscribe. And there is a little traffic all day.
They get emails. the server gets 100 emails. the email is then copied hundreds of times. So you are adding 100x the storage for each mass email. Plus you cannout opt out easily. Unlike an RSS feed you just turn it off
Except for when they pinpoint the nurse or tech who used to device to connect to another site.
It is a Damn if you do and Damn if you don't situation.
You don't update your OS you could get hacked. You do update the updates makes the device unusable.
Yea too bad Pluto didn't clear up the debris in its area like a real planet.
Having or not having a moon isn't part of the definition of a planet.
"(a) is in orbit around the Sun,
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and
(c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet#2006_definition]
Pluto meets A,B and not C.
C is there to discredit large asteroids in the asteroid belt.
Most schools have Required Courses and Elective Courses.
If you go with all classes required then yes the parent has a point. Because the school isn't flexible enough to engage in other areas of interests.
However if you have all elective classes then you have the problem where the child/parent will only take classes they think they are good and not get a broad education.
K-5 There should shouldn't be too much Elective. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Art, Music, Free Play and Structured Play.
6-8 We bring in a smaller amount electives, now that we have the fundamentals, allow some variation in classes. However by this time we need start on the Combined studies, History, Literature, Science, Mathematics.
9-12 We allow a degree of freedom but make sure they are still getting a broad education across the areas, You should have an array of 6 fields of science you need to pick 4. Pick from some forms of Literature... Also add some more open electives to pick and choose from
When you get into college you choose your major. You have less required All University Classes to take.
Grad school you have less Classes you need to take outside your major
for your PHD You are more or less on your own.
Normal use of service base commerce.
You have unlimited storage. Storage isn't free, unlimited means you may be storing a lot of stuff. So after you stop paying what options do you have.
1. Download you stuff... If that is an option you are going to be paying a lot of money for what? Old TV Shows?
2. They will offer all there stuff for free. Sure as a customer is is a good deal, however that means there is an infrastructure for you to access your old stuff. Now to offset they will need to either advertise.
3. One time lump storage sum. Still it goes down to it is a freakin TV show.
You are paying for a service. Once you are no longer paying for the service, you loose it. There are far greater problems with the economy then a company not offering services to non-paying members. Especially for just recorded TV shows.
Sure you can refuse to work with clients. But is Open Source really that important to you?
I prefer to get my paycheck, I get my pay check from working with my clients (and the more clients I can handle more I can often make), I am not opposed to open source, however there are other things in my life I consider more important. Like keeping up with my bills. If they want to release it Open Source I am good with that, I can do the extra work to make sure that everything is GNU pure, I may even express to them that keeping it open source can help offer maintenance beyond the risk of a small set closed developers. However if they want to keep I will be ok with that too, Losing a client isn't worth making a scene about it.
If you like Apple or not, you have to admit they are good at making an OS that works cross different hardware platforms, and maintain their compatability.
Microsoft couldn't even make a clean transition between 32 and 64 bit.
If you had any experience with Linux in Sparc or PowerPC you in essence needed to recompile near everything, and you are out of luck if you have the few closed source apps.
Mainframes is one of the few technologies we can see a life cycle trend with. I hear many of the same arguments when the mainframes were going out. Mainframes were very well balanced systems, 10 year old mainframes can still kick the butt of modern PC based Servers for some tasks.
Now with mobile devices with different UI interfaces we just cannot imagine not using our PC's
This looks like a Job for Roger Wilco Space Guy!
Sigh I wish there were more comments. We need Space Quest VII the return to roman numerals!
A luxury or a human right. What there isn't a middle ground here?