I remember reading somewhere that the only problem diving on hydrogen is that its explosive when mixed with oxygen at high pressures
Diving on hydrogen??? And the only problem you see is that it can be explosive when mixed??? How about suffocation (or do you not consider that a problem)?
They don't lead, they follow. And follow rather poorly at that.
To an extent, that's been their MO since Gates
If anything, you've just given a good reason for Bill to step back up to the plate. If everything only started to turn to $#it when he started taking a backseat, surely the logic would be to bring him back to prominence to return the company to its heyday?
I'm not saying I think this would be a good idea. It just seems to be the resulting recommendation if you take your analysis to its logical conclusion.
Personally, if I was Bill, I wouldn't want to step back into the CEO role anyway. Find a good replacement for Ballmer (heck... pretty much ANYONE could qualify!) and stick it out as chairman, influencing where possible, but not micromanaging it into the dirt...
He was very tech oriented and worked extensively with people in the field to try to make his novels sound as accurate on the details as he could.
...with the glaring and amazingly stupid exception of the physically implausible "life signs detector" in Rainbow Six. In fact, the whole Rainbow Six book felt a bit weird, even though the plot was cool. The Brain Eater must have gotten him too in the end, it seems.
I did find myself wondering, when I read the book, whether the idea for creating this magical device was just a means of justifying / explaining the "radar" type display that was in the game released around the same time (Hey, guys... how are we going to explain how in the game we're making you'll know the exact location and orientation of enemies and hostages we can't even see? Oh, we'll just conjure a magical doodad that can detect a human heartbeat through walls! Great!).
Since the two were in development at the same time, I figured that this would be a possible explanation for why Clancy's near-habitual technical plausibility seemed to be taking the month off when this device found its way into the books. It's just a guess on my part, though. I guess we'll never know now (unless someone at either the game or the book's publishers fess up to the conversation happening)!
Maybe this unfortunate micromanaging was the reason Lucasarts contracted out their Knights of the Old Republic franchise.
I've got to admit... I think BioWare have done a pretty decent job with the franchise. I only hope that they don't go down the ME route with is and screw it up over future iterations like they did with ME3 vs earlier incarnations!
If there is one sure rule in game design, it's that players don't know what they want. If your business plan involves building the game based on who complains the loudest or longest for a specific feature, you might as well light your money on fire.
True, up to a point. Customers may not know every feature that they DO want in a product, but you can be pretty certain that they will know what features they DO NOT want to see UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES in that product. Too many innovators and developers pay so much heed to the assertion (often true) that customers don't know what they really want, that they forget that they are capable of knowing what they don't want and hence ignore all feedback. This can often be a surefire route to failure.
I would guess that LucasFilm have realised this, as there was only minimal screen-time for JarJar in Ep II & III, but the same does not appear to be quite so true as regards LucasArts.
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That being said... what was the council's planning department doing the day those plans turned up? Oh yeah... Planning departments are all pencil-pushers, not engineers, so they'll rubber stamp anything without giving it any serious consideration! Didn't even check the architect's track record and query if he'd made sure he didn't repeat the same mistake! And they wonder why many of us in the UK do not see our Council Tax as value for money?!?
Removal of recent documents, you say?
I run Win 7 pro x64 and have a recent documents menu under start. Did you try turning it back on under properties -> customise? It was an option for me, so I used it. Did you not look, or did you see it and decide that if it's not turned on by default, that you have a free pass to rag on Microsoft about it?
20 year lifespan, you say? What's the guarantee you won't be over a barrel needing to upgrade something in it due to an OS upgrade, forced by the software vendor EoLing the existing one, in less than half that timescale?
anything younger than 2007 will probably have a core 2 duel core Intel chip ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2) or one of the equivalent AMD duel core chips, and that is not so far of 7 years old now.....
Emphasis mine
Last time I checked... if the various cores in your rig are fighting for supremacy, you've got a seriously suspect OS
Yes, but then you have to pay retail for the license, rather than OEM with the box (ignoring volume licensing agreements, etc), so you're no better off financially with this approach. If anything, it's an argument in favour of virtualising linux on top of the Windows OS that came pre-installed if both OSs are required.
If you can't figure out LIbre Office you shouldn't have your job. Hating any change is just being an evolutionary inferior waste on society.
I'm no power user, but I can figure out LibreOffice just fine, thank you...
HOWEVER
Can you point out to me how exactly I am supposed to get it to integrate seamlessly with SharePoint etc. in an enterprise environment?
For better or for worse, the bulk of businesses out there are using products from the MS stack for collaborative working. To such businesses, if a F/OSS alternative to MS Office doesn't integrate seamlessly without major hackery then it isn't just a non-preferred alternative, it is a waste of everybody's time to suggest even putting it forward.
To be fair, it could be argued that, given their market penetration, Microsoft should be forced to license the SharePoint integration APIs on a FRAND basis, such that the F/OSS alternatives can join in the party and stand more of a chance in the corporate arena, but how likely is that to happen before MS's apparent goal of getting everyone (particularly in corporate environments) onto subscription-based productivity tools is realised? On the same note, how likely is it that MS would even comply?
To be honest, I prefer both OO and LO over MS Office, primarily on the grounds of MSs UI changes (yes, I am as unimpressed as a lot of people are with the ribbon. Don't get me wrong, I can find my way around it fine, and, up to a point, understand why MS felt that forcing it down our throats was necessary. I just prefer the "classic" interfaces of older versions and their alternatives), but I am a realist at heart and as such I don't foresee the death of MS Office (other than by migration to its "big brother" in the cloud) any time soon...
At the previous company I worked for, a nightly software build ran for 15 hours on a couple of quad-core machines with 16GB of RAM. Building for a single target could easily take 6 hrs. I'd love to have a 32-core build machine with 128GB RAM and a terabyte of SSD.
Yes, but....
Run it off a battery and (try to... with current tech, this thing would be kinda chunky!) stick it in your pocket. You'll have a very short race between two end results, your trousers igniting from the heat or the battery dying.
Call me eccentric, but I think I'd be interested to watch such a test just to see which end result wins out!
Overhead? One of these techniques requires one person, one mower, and one transport vehicle. The other requires twenty-four people, twenty-four mowers, and twenty-four transport vehicles.
Oh, it comes along with twenty-four people to insure, twenty-four people to calculate taxes on, twenty-four people to provide parking for, twenty-four people to feed at the Christmas party, twenty-four people [...].
Eight people, actually... The 24 was a pass-count where an 8-wide mower would require three passes per lawn (8x3=24).
I guess you're the type of person who doesn't test well? Been there myself, but I've found that it helps to read the d*#n question properly before answering!?!
Generally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but for the fact that my Windows 7 PC wakes from hibernation on keyboard events (USB).
What I found curious was that it doesn't wake from mouse events (also USB), but I am assuming that this may be down to the mouse being wireless. If it being wireless is the issue, however, then why does it wake from sleep on mouse events?!?
I still keep at least one PS/2 device, either keyboard or mouse, on every computer. Why? Because no BIOS I have ever seen has the capability to wake up a PC from USB events. Presumably this is due to USB controllers not using hardware interrupts (IRQs), instead relying on polling to give some software-emulated interrupts.
It's so much more convenient to be able to hit the space bar or jiggle the mouse to switch the computer on rather than fumbling beneath the desk for a flimsy power button.
I guess that partly depends on what state you are looking to wake from. My desktop will wake from sleep on either keyboard or mouse inputs. From hibernation it will wake via keyboard, but not mouse. Might be due to the mouse being wireless whilst the keyboard is corded, but if that were true, why does it wake from sleep?
I really don't think their intention in the proliferation of CCTV in the UK was to make it easier for police officers to covertly check out the rear ends of females! Then again...?
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I remember reading somewhere that the only problem diving on hydrogen is that its explosive when mixed with oxygen at high pressures
Diving on hydrogen??? And the only problem you see is that it can be explosive when mixed??? How about suffocation (or do you not consider that a problem)?
Hot air has killed...
[Insert your favourite joke about politicians here!!!]
And it never occurs to ask you what separates a Turkey from a Saudi Arabia?
If trying to do it with the least possible number of border crossings, yet still remaining on dry land, the answer is "An Iraq"
Disobeying your parents is punishable by death (in The Bible).
Yes, but...
Being one third of the holy trinity, he was his own father... how could he possibly disobey himself?
They don't lead, they follow. And follow rather poorly at that. To an extent, that's been their MO since Gates
If anything, you've just given a good reason for Bill to step back up to the plate. If everything only started to turn to $#it when he started taking a backseat, surely the logic would be to bring him back to prominence to return the company to its heyday?
I'm not saying I think this would be a good idea. It just seems to be the resulting recommendation if you take your analysis to its logical conclusion.
Personally, if I was Bill, I wouldn't want to step back into the CEO role anyway. Find a good replacement for Ballmer (heck... pretty much ANYONE could qualify!) and stick it out as chairman, influencing where possible, but not micromanaging it into the dirt...
He was very tech oriented and worked extensively with people in the field to try to make his novels sound as accurate on the details as he could.
...with the glaring and amazingly stupid exception of the physically implausible "life signs detector" in Rainbow Six. In fact, the whole Rainbow Six book felt a bit weird, even though the plot was cool. The Brain Eater must have gotten him too in the end, it seems.
I did find myself wondering, when I read the book, whether the idea for creating this magical device was just a means of justifying / explaining the "radar" type display that was in the game released around the same time (Hey, guys... how are we going to explain how in the game we're making you'll know the exact location and orientation of enemies and hostages we can't even see? Oh, we'll just conjure a magical doodad that can detect a human heartbeat through walls! Great!).
Since the two were in development at the same time, I figured that this would be a possible explanation for why Clancy's near-habitual technical plausibility seemed to be taking the month off when this device found its way into the books. It's just a guess on my part, though. I guess we'll never know now (unless someone at either the game or the book's publishers fess up to the conversation happening)!
Maybe this unfortunate micromanaging was the reason Lucasarts contracted out their Knights of the Old Republic franchise.
I've got to admit... I think BioWare have done a pretty decent job with the franchise. I only hope that they don't go down the ME route with is and screw it up over future iterations like they did with ME3 vs earlier incarnations!
If there is one sure rule in game design, it's that players don't know what they want. If your business plan involves building the game based on who complains the loudest or longest for a specific feature, you might as well light your money on fire.
True, up to a point. Customers may not know every feature that they DO want in a product, but you can be pretty certain that they will know what features they DO NOT want to see UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES in that product. Too many innovators and developers pay so much heed to the assertion (often true) that customers don't know what they really want, that they forget that they are capable of knowing what they don't want and hence ignore all feedback. This can often be a surefire route to failure.
I would guess that LucasFilm have realised this, as there was only minimal screen-time for JarJar in Ep II & III, but the same does not appear to be quite so true as regards LucasArts.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-hotel-death-ray-leaves-guests-severe-burns.html No, building engineers need to be VERY CAREFUL about how concave-shaped buildings are oriented, relative to the sun. They still haven't learned, see link above.
They???
No... One guy, both cases!
That being said... what was the council's planning department doing the day those plans turned up? Oh yeah... Planning departments are all pencil-pushers, not engineers, so they'll rubber stamp anything without giving it any serious consideration! Didn't even check the architect's track record and query if he'd made sure he didn't repeat the same mistake! And they wonder why many of us in the UK do not see our Council Tax as value for money?!?
That would be because the ratio of miles to kilometers is a constant, unaffected by what or how you drive.
Removal of recent documents, you say? I run Win 7 pro x64 and have a recent documents menu under start. Did you try turning it back on under properties -> customise? It was an option for me, so I used it. Did you not look, or did you see it and decide that if it's not turned on by default, that you have a free pass to rag on Microsoft about it?
20 year lifespan, you say? What's the guarantee you won't be over a barrel needing to upgrade something in it due to an OS upgrade, forced by the software vendor EoLing the existing one, in less than half that timescale?
anything younger than 2007 will probably have a core 2 duel core Intel chip ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2) or one of the equivalent AMD duel core chips, and that is not so far of 7 years old now .....
Emphasis mine
Last time I checked... if the various cores in your rig are fighting for supremacy, you've got a seriously suspect OS
Yes, but then you have to pay retail for the license, rather than OEM with the box (ignoring volume licensing agreements, etc), so you're no better off financially with this approach. If anything, it's an argument in favour of virtualising linux on top of the Windows OS that came pre-installed if both OSs are required.
If you can't figure out LIbre Office you shouldn't have your job. Hating any change is just being an evolutionary inferior waste on society.
I'm no power user, but I can figure out LibreOffice just fine, thank you...
HOWEVER
Can you point out to me how exactly I am supposed to get it to integrate seamlessly with SharePoint etc. in an enterprise environment?
For better or for worse, the bulk of businesses out there are using products from the MS stack for collaborative working. To such businesses, if a F/OSS alternative to MS Office doesn't integrate seamlessly without major hackery then it isn't just a non-preferred alternative, it is a waste of everybody's time to suggest even putting it forward.
To be fair, it could be argued that, given their market penetration, Microsoft should be forced to license the SharePoint integration APIs on a FRAND basis, such that the F/OSS alternatives can join in the party and stand more of a chance in the corporate arena, but how likely is that to happen before MS's apparent goal of getting everyone (particularly in corporate environments) onto subscription-based productivity tools is realised? On the same note, how likely is it that MS would even comply?
To be honest, I prefer both OO and LO over MS Office, primarily on the grounds of MSs UI changes (yes, I am as unimpressed as a lot of people are with the ribbon. Don't get me wrong, I can find my way around it fine, and, up to a point, understand why MS felt that forcing it down our throats was necessary. I just prefer the "classic" interfaces of older versions and their alternatives), but I am a realist at heart and as such I don't foresee the death of MS Office (other than by migration to its "big brother" in the cloud) any time soon...
At the previous company I worked for, a nightly software build ran for 15 hours on a couple of quad-core machines with 16GB of RAM. Building for a single target could easily take 6 hrs. I'd love to have a 32-core build machine with 128GB RAM and a terabyte of SSD.
Yes, but....
Run it off a battery and (try to... with current tech, this thing would be kinda chunky!) stick it in your pocket. You'll have a very short race between two end results, your trousers igniting from the heat or the battery dying.
Call me eccentric, but I think I'd be interested to watch such a test just to see which end result wins out!
Overhead? One of these techniques requires one person, one mower, and one transport vehicle. The other requires twenty-four people, twenty-four mowers, and twenty-four transport vehicles.
Oh, it comes along with twenty-four people to insure, twenty-four people to calculate taxes on, twenty-four people to provide parking for, twenty-four people to feed at the Christmas party, twenty-four people [...].
Eight people, actually... The 24 was a pass-count where an 8-wide mower would require three passes per lawn (8x3=24).
I guess you're the type of person who doesn't test well? Been there myself, but I've found that it helps to read the d*#n question properly before answering!?!
Generally, I'd be inclined to agree with you, but for the fact that my Windows 7 PC wakes from hibernation on keyboard events (USB).
What I found curious was that it doesn't wake from mouse events (also USB), but I am assuming that this may be down to the mouse being wireless. If it being wireless is the issue, however, then why does it wake from sleep on mouse events?!?
I still keep at least one PS/2 device, either keyboard or mouse, on every computer. Why? Because no BIOS I have ever seen has the capability to wake up a PC from USB events. Presumably this is due to USB controllers not using hardware interrupts (IRQs), instead relying on polling to give some software-emulated interrupts.
It's so much more convenient to be able to hit the space bar or jiggle the mouse to switch the computer on rather than fumbling beneath the desk for a flimsy power button.
I guess that partly depends on what state you are looking to wake from. My desktop will wake from sleep on either keyboard or mouse inputs. From hibernation it will wake via keyboard, but not mouse. Might be due to the mouse being wireless whilst the keyboard is corded, but if that were true, why does it wake from sleep?
I am now, as you can imagine, a rabid, frothing Binger.
There is no cure. We have to shoot you, just to be sure.
I thought the only way to be sure was to nuke from orbit?
Summery: You get fucked in the ass by Microsoft outside the US of A
Actually, it's all year round, not just in the summer!
iFuzz?
iPork?
Of course... it's reassuring to know that one of the reasons to implement it is to prevent suspects from being able to claim iSore!
making a posteriori investigation easier
I really don't think their intention in the proliferation of CCTV in the UK was to make it easier for police officers to covertly check out the rear ends of females! Then again...?
If you've got a desktop usually it is under the desk
I'm guessing the official response from not only Microsoft, but also most hardware vendors here would be "You're doing it wrong!"
The clue is in the name... Desktop... i.e. it goes on top of the desk!
Tipple digits? I don't believe drink-driving had even been brought up so far in this conversation!