As a Microsoft employee, I can asure you this isn't really big news. Robert is a great guy. He's always blogged the truth about products and the fact that he's leaving won't change that. Since he's always hosted his blog on his own site, his RSS address isn't changing either. About the only thing that is changing is Robert's employer record. I'm sure he'll still be kept up to date with the latest and greatest things going on at Microsoft. His influence on technology will be the same.
The fact is we do still have several thousand bloggers out there and a great number of them do say it how they see it. Most of the people who love to hate Microsoft don't see it that way, but we'll always have sceptics and we'll always have competition.
I see both of those as good things and I look forward to seeing how things progress without or lead blogger at the helm anymore.
I'm happy to see the arms of the empire stretch farther than America now. I develop strictly for the Windows platform right now. I hate silly competition getting in the way of my freedom to innovate.
It is painfully obvious that you are simply bashing Microsoft for the sake of... I dunno, your own Karma? Heaven forbid you take a stand on this board. I can't believe this post was modded to 5, insightful when there is no insight here. Microsoft Office Documents have been opened on many platforms. Hell, I have a small program for my Palm OS that will let me view excel documents and view them well. Microsoft has been doing the exact opposite of what everyone is saying here. They open the standards for their products (ECMAScript,.NET Framework, CLI, etc). While they may still control the direction these technologies can go, they freely allow anyone to implement these technologies on any platform. Look at the Mono project for instance. It's an implementation of.NET for *nix platforms. It has some modifications that even the Windows platform doesn't have. However, look at what Sun did. Instead of allowing Microsoft to add features that they wanted in the Windows version of Java, they decided litigation was the route to take.
While Microsoft is no peach, for God's sake, try to take your own view of these events instead of regurgitating the standard "Microsoft bad, Linux good" crap you hear on this site every day.
Obviously you are knocking on a book you haven't read. This subject, too, is accounted for. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Bible thumper. (sometimes I wish I had the courage to be, though). What I am saying is that it takes more faith to believe in big-bangs and mutating monkeys than it does to believe in God. It was with that realization in mind that I decided to actually study that book to see for myself
As any coder will tell you, it becomes habit to cut and paste existing code. I'm sure when God was coding the world, this was just a failure to omit parts He wasn't going to use.
For real thought. You base your entire belief on the idea of TEETH in birds?
At the risk of sounding like a troll and being somewhat off-topic, I've got some problems with this thinking.
Most of the people who I find screaming bloody murder when they feel their "freedom" to choose has been taken from them, also whine like a sissy when the slightest religious icon is put in front of them. There are people who suspended a teacher for an entire year because she wore her cross pendant to work. Yet these same people were the ones who argued that their son should be allowed to wear the shirt they want -- even if it had racial undertones. Don't get me wrong. I agree with you that it should be our choice, but the next time anyone makes this argument, how about a little fairness on all ends of the spectrum.
In general, if the consensus is that they all leave together, their leaving would be non-actionable and thrown out of course. NDA's are like the babblings of mental patients -- just because they say it and believe it doesn't make it true. They can have you sign NDA's all day long, but the courts and laws prevail for your rights. For instance, North Carolina is a right-to-work state. If I were to be fired and I went to work for a competitor, the ONLY actionable item my former employer would have is if I gave away their trade secrets to my new employer --- and they would have to prove it. Outside of that, the NDA can't prohibit me from gaining work in my career field with my skill sets.
Reason being : North Carolina doesn't want to send me an unemployment check if their is a company willing to hire me.
The series would be better if Robert England would have an identity crisis and confuse his alien role with his Fredie Kruger role. At least then you could have an interesting plot.
I wonder if this will have any affect on the standards used on Plasma HD (and other HD's) for copy protecting HD television signals. Many new HDTV's are coming with a mechanism to handle the HDCP (High Definition Copy PRotection) schemes.
All fine and dandy if your neighbors aren't amping their 2.4 phones so the signal is stronger. I have a neighbor who can walk to the end of the street with their phone -- and does. Of course, phone interference isn't your only concern with wireless networks. You still have other forms of interference that can distort your signal and at best -- only decrease the speed -- but sometimes cripple the network. Will DirectTV signals distort a Wireless network? I doubt it, but I dont' know. There are just too many ways to interrupt a signal that wired networks aren't subjected to. Of course, I will have wireless in my home as well so I can walk out to my wooded garden patio with my laptop and sit on my front porch and code. But for critical services, it's faster and more reliable to go with wired networks IMHO.
I have four bedrooms. Each have 1xCat5 & 2xRG6 cables. I only needed to run one cat5 since my builder already ran cat5 for my phone (it's becoming fairly standard for builders to use cat5 instead of cat3 for phone lines). The exception to the bedrooms was that I ran two to the master bedroom. Downstairs, I ran 3xCat5 to the great room, 1xCat5 to the kitchen and formal living room -- nothing in the dining room. I ran 2xRG6 to the great room, and then from each of those drops I ran a racetrack through the ceiling and walls to above the fireplace. in the racetrack I ran 6xRG6 cables for HDTV components. So at either of the drops, I can place my A/V components and then put my component out to the plasma tv that is going over the fireplace. HD needs 6 components. I'm not buying an HD plasma, but I want to make sure that I had the components run for it in case I upgrade in a few years. Additionally, by running the race track, it makes it easier for me to change the cable types running from components to the TV should standards change. All I have to do is pull it through the track.
Of course, I haven't even begun to discuss my speaker setup yet:)
With all the talk about wireless, this post would almost seem archaic to some. However, I wanted to pointed out that this is probably your best option if you can do it. it requires quite a bit of work in breaking up drywall in spots to run your cable, then patching it up. However it works well. CAT5 doesn't fall prey radio interference. With my wireless network, I've had some interferenece when using my 2.4 Ghz telephones. CAT5 doesnt' have this problem. I might also recommend if you make this investment in CAT5 , go plenum. It will keep intereference down from power cords and light fixtures that would impede plain ole CAT5. It costs more, but definitely worth it. I have a 2500 SF house I'm building and a single box of 1000FT wired EVERY room in my home, sometimes two or three runs to each room. I ran each cable from a spot in the garage (for God's sake, don't run them next to your power box). I then built a patch panel into the wall bought a media cabinet from Blackbox.com (expensive, so look at others such as "Leviton" or their newly aquired company "OnQ" ). You can place your modem, router etc in there.
Of course, this all only takes care of your networking needs in the home. Check out avsforum.com to get help with everything from running cable, to selecting the right equipment for you.
Why is it every time Microsoft makes any move, it must be considered a move to keep Linux out of the market? There are PC's out there with Lindows. Do you suppose this is a move to lock Microsoft out of the market? I don't believe that any of this is directed toward linux and I'm certain that Microsoft has their reasons for their moves outside of "Linus' World". In psychology, I believe they would consider you to be a bit self-involved when when you consider every move relevant to your situation.
This of course was a joke. Security is definitely not my game. When someone says "packet" I think they are talking about those little things that come in Ramen noodles with the flavoring in them.
>In a column titled "Lord of the Webs," The >Washington Post's Leslie Walker looks at Tim >Berners-Lee ("the J.R.R. Tolkien of the > computer world")
Funny, but according the the LOTR extra CD content, J.R.R. Tolkien hated parallelism in story-telling. Therefor this statement would make Tolkien himself roll over in his grave.
If you have been trying to develop.NET for a "few months" and haven't got anywhere, you might want to consider another business. In all seriousness, even the biggest Microsoft skeptics here at work have admitted just how easy the language is to learn. While they throw in their complaints about some of the features (or lack thereof) they all resoundingly admit "I picked it up in a few days".
Minus learning the libraries, the syntax is a no brainer for any C++ or Java developer.
I'm so tired of seeing articles like this. If Microsoft didn't intend to work with the Linux community, they woudln't have put out the shared source CLI. This shared source was intended to provide the knowledge needed for other developers on other platforms to make.NET work on other languages. But like with most other products Microsoft indulges in, they want someone else to do the hard work first before they get their hands in. Microsoft , from what I understand, already has an internal team designated to help with cross-platform ports of.NET.
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As a Microsoft employee, I can asure you this isn't really big news. Robert is a great guy. He's always blogged the truth about products and the fact that he's leaving won't change that. Since he's always hosted his blog on his own site, his RSS address isn't changing either. About the only thing that is changing is Robert's employer record. I'm sure he'll still be kept up to date with the latest and greatest things going on at Microsoft. His influence on technology will be the same.
The fact is we do still have several thousand bloggers out there and a great number of them do say it how they see it. Most of the people who love to hate Microsoft don't see it that way, but we'll always have sceptics and we'll always have competition.
I see both of those as good things and I look forward to seeing how things progress without or lead blogger at the helm anymore.
I'm happy to see the arms of the empire stretch farther than America now. I develop strictly for the Windows platform right now. I hate silly competition getting in the way of my freedom to innovate.
It is painfully obvious that you are simply bashing Microsoft for the sake of ... I dunno, your own Karma? Heaven forbid you take a stand on this board. I can't believe this post was modded to 5, insightful when there is no insight here. Microsoft Office Documents have been opened on many platforms. Hell, I have a small program for my Palm OS that will let me view excel documents and view them well. Microsoft has been doing the exact opposite of what everyone is saying here. They open the standards for their products (ECMAScript, .NET Framework, CLI, etc). While they may still control the direction these technologies can go, they freely allow anyone to implement these technologies on any platform. Look at the Mono project for instance. It's an implementation of .NET for *nix platforms. It has some modifications that even the Windows platform doesn't have. However, look at what Sun did. Instead of allowing Microsoft to add features that they wanted in the Windows version of Java, they decided litigation was the route to take.
While Microsoft is no peach, for God's sake, try to take your own view of these events instead of regurgitating the standard "Microsoft bad, Linux good" crap you hear on this site every day.
Obviously you are knocking on a book you haven't read. This subject, too, is accounted for.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Bible thumper. (sometimes I wish I had the courage to be, though). What I am saying is that it takes more faith to believe in big-bangs and mutating monkeys than it does to believe in God. It was with that realization in mind that I decided to actually study that book to see for myself
As any coder will tell you, it becomes habit to cut and paste existing code. I'm sure when God was coding the world, this was just a failure to omit parts He wasn't going to use.
For real thought. You base your entire belief on the idea of TEETH in birds?
At the risk of sounding like a troll and being somewhat off-topic, I've got some problems with this thinking.
Most of the people who I find screaming bloody murder when they feel their "freedom" to choose has been taken from them, also whine like a sissy when the slightest religious icon is put in front of them. There are people who suspended a teacher for an entire year because she wore her cross pendant to work. Yet these same people were the ones who argued that their son should be allowed to wear the shirt they want -- even if it had racial undertones. Don't get me wrong. I agree with you that it should be our choice, but the next time anyone makes this argument, how about a little fairness on all ends of the spectrum.
In general, if the consensus is that they all leave together, their leaving would be non-actionable and thrown out of course. NDA's are like the babblings of mental patients -- just because they say it and believe it doesn't make it true. They can have you sign NDA's all day long, but the courts and laws prevail for your rights. For instance, North Carolina is a right-to-work state. If I were to be fired and I went to work for a competitor, the ONLY actionable item my former employer would have is if I gave away their trade secrets to my new employer --- and they would have to prove it. Outside of that, the NDA can't prohibit me from gaining work in my career field with my skill sets.
Reason being : North Carolina doesn't want to send me an unemployment check if their is a company willing to hire me.
The series would be better if Robert England would have an identity crisis and confuse his alien role with his Fredie Kruger role. At least then you could have an interesting plot.
The flight computer runs a stripped-down version of Debian Linux
I'm hoping this isn't someones attempt to help the rocket reach a higher altitude by keeping the weight of the software down.
Cheers.
I wonder if this will have any affect on the standards used on Plasma HD (and other HD's) for copy protecting HD television signals. Many new HDTV's are coming with a mechanism to handle the HDCP (High Definition Copy PRotection) schemes.
Does this remind anyone of a south park episode?
All fine and dandy if your neighbors aren't amping their 2.4 phones so the signal is stronger. I have a neighbor who can walk to the end of the street with their phone -- and does. Of course, phone interference isn't your only concern with wireless networks. You still have other forms of interference that can distort your signal and at best -- only decrease the speed -- but sometimes cripple the network. Will DirectTV signals distort a Wireless network? I doubt it, but I dont' know. There are just too many ways to interrupt a signal that wired networks aren't subjected to. Of course, I will have wireless in my home as well so I can walk out to my wooded garden patio with my laptop and sit on my front porch and code. But for critical services, it's faster and more reliable to go with wired networks IMHO.
I have four bedrooms. Each have 1xCat5 & 2xRG6 cables. I only needed to run one cat5 since my builder already ran cat5 for my phone (it's becoming fairly standard for builders to use cat5 instead of cat3 for phone lines). The exception to the bedrooms was that I ran two to the master bedroom.
:)
Downstairs, I ran 3xCat5 to the great room, 1xCat5 to the kitchen and formal living room -- nothing in the dining room. I ran 2xRG6 to the great room, and then from each of those drops I ran a racetrack through the ceiling and walls to above the fireplace. in the racetrack I ran 6xRG6 cables for HDTV components. So at either of the drops, I can place my A/V components and then put my component out to the plasma tv that is going over the fireplace. HD needs 6 components. I'm not buying an HD plasma, but I want to make sure that I had the components run for it in case I upgrade in a few years. Additionally, by running the race track, it makes it easier for me to change the cable types running from components to the TV should standards change. All I have to do is pull it through the track.
Of course, I haven't even begun to discuss my speaker setup yet
With all the talk about wireless, this post would almost seem archaic to some. However, I wanted to pointed out that this is probably your best option if you can do it. it requires quite a bit of work in breaking up drywall in spots to run your cable, then patching it up. However it works well. CAT5 doesn't fall prey radio interference. With my wireless network, I've had some interferenece when using my 2.4 Ghz telephones. CAT5 doesnt' have this problem. I might also recommend if you make this investment in CAT5 , go plenum. It will keep intereference down from power cords and light fixtures that would impede plain ole CAT5. It costs more, but definitely worth it. I have a 2500 SF house I'm building and a single box of 1000FT wired EVERY room in my home, sometimes two or three runs to each room. I ran each cable from a spot in the garage (for God's sake, don't run them next to your power box). I then built a patch panel into the wall bought a media cabinet from Blackbox.com (expensive, so look at others such as "Leviton" or their newly aquired company "OnQ" ). You can place your modem, router etc in there.
Of course, this all only takes care of your networking needs in the home. Check out avsforum.com to get help with everything from running cable, to selecting the right equipment for you.
One of the best sites around for this sort of information is http://www.avsforum.com/
Do your research in their FAQs and then post any questions you have to the board. The site is ass-ugly, but it's great information!
Why is it every time Microsoft makes any move, it must be considered a move to keep Linux out of the market? There are PC's out there with Lindows. Do you suppose this is a move to lock Microsoft out of the market? I don't believe that any of this is directed toward linux and I'm certain that Microsoft has their reasons for their moves outside of "Linus' World". In psychology, I believe they would consider you to be a bit self-involved when when you consider every move relevant to your situation.
This of course was a joke. Security is definitely not my game. When someone says "packet" I think they are talking about those little things that come in Ramen noodles with the flavoring in them.
When you are big enough to hire, let us know!
I've even got a cool slogun:
Crackerz bring you to your kn33z?
Quit yelling, "Help pl33z3!"
Put yourself at 33z3
Hire the Sl33z3
Taking care of your security d33dz
Of course, I don't know anything about security for real, but I can code some javascript!
(Dr Evil)
Is it (air quote) Evil (air quote) javascript?
To the average VB Developer, the words "Obfuscated C" is redundant.
But isn't it interesting that the words "fed" and "worm" appear in the same sentence for a GOOD reason this time?
>In a column titled "Lord of the Webs," The
>Washington Post's Leslie Walker looks at Tim
>Berners-Lee ("the J.R.R. Tolkien of the
> computer world")
Funny, but according the the LOTR extra CD content, J.R.R. Tolkien hated parallelism in story-telling. Therefor this statement would make Tolkien himself roll over in his grave.
If you have been trying to develop .NET for a "few months" and haven't got anywhere, you might want to consider another business. In all seriousness, even the biggest Microsoft skeptics here at work have admitted just how easy the language is to learn. While they throw in their complaints about some of the features (or lack thereof) they all resoundingly admit "I picked it up in a few days".
Minus learning the libraries, the syntax is a no brainer for any C++ or Java developer.
I'm so tired of seeing articles like this. If Microsoft didn't intend to work with the Linux community, they woudln't have put out the shared source CLI. This shared source was intended to provide the knowledge needed for other developers on other platforms to make .NET work on other languages. But like with most other products Microsoft indulges in, they want someone else to do the hard work first before they get their hands in. Microsoft , from what I understand, already has an internal team designated to help with cross-platform ports of .NET.
Many of these silicones and phosphates were my friends! To war!
Trixy! False! Thievzes!
They stolez it, my one DRAM -- my precious.