Well, you could look at the GDI issue from the Microsoft side. They released a tool to try to find vulnerable code in libraries used by the third parties.
So if AT&T creates a dummy corporation called "People for American Security" that donates $100k per candidate on their behalf, you now can't link it directly to AT&T. Unlimited donations will heavily encourage shell corporation/entities for donations.
I'm not sure you've been using C# enough. Let me address a couple points:
* Deployment model is similar to basic executables - for each assembly you create a.dll/.exe and deploy it. That doesn't seem that much different from sticking everything into a single.jar (.zip) * There have been many books\blogs\papers written about how the GC works. There are in general 3 GC options in.Net, with a proper one being picked depending on the application type. (The server GC is a single GC per CPU, with more Gen0, but less Gen2 collections) You can control the GC behavior from within the application somewhat, but it is not as tweakable. * The libraries might be closed source, but there are two easy ways of getting the source.
The first option is the.Net Reflector which lets you see implementation of any non-obfuscated.Net assembly
The second option is the full source released for majority of the libraries.
I am not sure I've seen such large deficiencies in.Net libraries. Can you point some major ones? The rest of the points don't seem to be as applicable now than they used to be a few years back.
And Flash was cross platform from the beginning? What player is Flash compatible with? You are comparing apples and oranges if you want to compare Silverlight to VLC/WMP/Quicktime. I don't remember having a flash player compatible with Linux FF for a long time.
I am not going to defend the bundling of IE with Windows, but programming just for IE is about as "normal" as programming just for Netscape that was common before IE became popular. Neither of the browser followed the standards, so it was common to just pick a specific browser to optimize for. IE6 has sat around without updates for a browser (FF/Opera) to come out that followed the proper standard. Now it makes more sense to program to the standard when you have browsers that follow it. (ie. Netscape didn't do much better than IE back in the days)
As far as Outlook extensions - that has long been true in all industries. iPod works only with iTunes, KDE apps can only copy/paste to KDE apps and not to Gnome unless you used the Xserver's clipboard(until Linux got unified clipboard that was better). FF extensions only run on FF and not on Opera/IE. Quicktime video can only be written by Apple software.
Yes, MS has abused the monopoly to improve bundle their software and get better OEM deals, but interoperability is not a requirement from a monopoly. Standard Oil was not forced to make sure their rail was the same size as everyone else. (Bells weren't forced to allow other phone providers - I don't see any local phone providers in the area) Interoperability is a business decision and is always used by the front-runners to prevent others from entering the market. Pre-IBM PCs were never compatible, apple PCs couldn't take non-Apple approved parts, etc.
You are missing the point that just creating a competitor in another area is NOT abusing monopoly. Abusing monopoly is when you force a new technology by bundling it with your monopoly. I'm not sure how you can claim that having a client-OS monopoly makes MS somehow able to dictate Windows Server/Exchange. Windows client OS has no problems talking Linux Samba, Linux DNS/DHCP servers, running thunderbird against google's IMAP server. All of those areas have competition with MS products.
So on Ubuntu you had to install both Gnome and KDE libraries to get the code running. In your example that would be like installing JVM and.Net runtime on the same machine. At that point, both Java and.Net become "compatible".
And you must have never tried to do low-level programming for a specific chip. Although the general instruction sets are compatible, each one has special extensions. There's 3DNow, MMX, different special instructions to find chipsets, etc. So the CPUs are not completely compatible, but the OS and compiler just target the middle ground usually. When you work on trying to get most performance out of a chip (ie. games), you often need to create different assembly for Intel and AMD.
As far as benefits - you only have to look back at Netscape's behavior when it was the only fish on the internet. There was little innovation between N2 and N3. It was the competition with IE that fueled the rapid improvement in both. It also caused each browser to attempt to extend the standards to make themselves look like a better platform. Most people have forgotten netscape extensions, because they died out with Netscape, but they were there.
In general, lack of competition leads to stagnation, because there's little reason to innovate. Competition, on the other hand, requires you to differentiate from your competition. That may result in attempts to create extensions to a common base standard.
Just being a non-profit organization, does not make them automatically a charitable cause. You should take look at IKEA - they are pretty much a tax evasion heaven. All of their profits are routed to another non-profit "furniture design" corporation which is owned by the exactly the same people.
I'm not sure where you are getting your internet rate from Sprint, but looking at their website i can see the Vision Pack offered for $15 with the cheapest plan. That means the whole deal with unlimited internet is $35. Pretty long distance from $60 charged by ATT. Obviously upgrading the Sprint plan to 450 minutes raises the price to about $55, but that also gives you 7pm unlimited nights and weekends. (I couldn't find ATT's time for N&W, but I haven't heard anyone with ATT saying they got early nights)
Probably for the simple reason that roads are much more of a shared resource than airspace. The chances of hitting something in the air are much lower than having a collision on the ground. There are also less pedestrians and other bystanders that would be involved in a hit-and-run. A crash of your car into something else wouldn't probably kill you, while a crash of airplane would. That provides a self-filtering, high-risk entries.
By that logic, Windows Mobile should be winning at this time. I have one of the cheaper WM5 phones (Q) from Sprint and can put anything I want on the phone. The problem is that i need to have Visual Studio edition that allows for mobile development to allow me to develop any new applications, but I can install any application I can find on the web. The lockdown for the phones is decided by the telco and not by the manufacturer usually.
The numbers from NPD are for July, while X360 price cut and new games (BioShock/Madden) were only launched in August. That means that the PS3 increased numbers due to the price drop were not being compared with similar increases in X360 number due to price cuts. Additionally, almost anyone still waiting for the X360 console would have expected to get a price cut sometime soon following the PS3 price cut. That would delay the sales for July in favor of August sales.
The speed for which MPG are computed for would probably have very limited amount of lift and drag forces. The computations are supposed to be for 55mph highway and 35mph city speeds. At those speeds the lift created is fairly neglible compared to friction and other forces.
It is smart enough, but now in two clicks I can chose the power settings of the computer. So if I need to play some games on battery, I can change the power setting easily.
It allows you to update either of the parts, but the highlighting starts on the xyz and you need to move the cursor over to change the.doc part. In other words, the action that is most likely to be done - the change of the filename itself, leaves the extension correct.
A lot of people act like XBox Live, wireless controllers, and direct-download games are somehow universal positives that everyone would find appealing. Personally, I don't want to pay extra to play my games online, I don't want to have to recharge my game controllers and deal with input lag and dropouts, and I want a physical backup of my game purchase so I don't have to deal with a computerized phone system when some server decides my game license isn't valid anymore. I'm not going to debate the paid versus free internet play as there have been many people doing comparisons. (And the current implementation of PS3's online system isn't even worth comparing due to the lack of any online experience other than basic multiplayer. Some games don't even have speech messaging - they want me to type with a controller or plugin in a keyboard.) For me the small cost per year is worth better service, otherwise I'd still be playing on dialup (it's cheaper).
You must have never even seen an Xbox or tried one anywhere to say these things. For one, you don't HAVE to use the wireless controllers if you don't want to. They sell the wired controllers at every single store and it comes by default with the core system. Additionally, the wireless controllers on 360 have the same responsiveness as the wired controllers and do not have any input lag or dropouts (unless you run out of battery).
The games you buy online are registered to your profile AND your physical console. You don't have to be online to be able to play the games as long as you are playing them on the same console you bought them on. Alternatively, you can login on any console (yours or your friend's) with your account and have access to your purchased game. You can even have the same game on two consoles by buying it on one console and logging in with your profile on another console.
There is no way in IE7 to remove the URL bar from the window. Even a window with no other UI elements must show the URL to prevent such attacks. (Or other phishing problems.)
The name is more likely to have been: directX Box and as far as the naming for a console is not a bad name by itself. It certainly isn't asking for jokes like the Wii. I do agree that Dreamcast, GameCube and PlayStation have more in their name to tell about what they do, but N64, Atari 2600, etc? The naming really has little effect in making things better, it seem to only make things worse.
The effectiveness of the OSS development has very little to do with the fact that the work is done at home or at some office. The real difference is the interest/passion in the specific task. A task that someone is very interested in and feels empowered with motivates much better than any external motivation. (At least cheaper and less damaging, though a gun to the head or "must ship or be fired" probably do a decent job in short term.)
One good example recently was when a co-worker felt that he came up with a really cool tool idea. Even though it was work related, he spent his nights and weekends for a couple weeks to get it done. Once the tool was protyped and became a work-project, the motivation for long nights disappeared, though some of the personal responsibility remained. So the work done on the tool was still good, but not as motivated when it was a personal tool.
The same can be seen with many OSS projects where the main people start out from a passion and then continue for a while feeling it is their duty/interest and then completely forget about the project whenever something else happens.
They aren't taking any features away from the original OS. They are just adding the 'new' feature of displaying HD-DVD/BluRay to only the x64 Vista. That means that the user is not losing anything by upgrading.
And nobody would be poor if we'd just enact a living wage.
That is such a bad generationlization. There are large number of people in the world who make sufficient amount of money to live, but spend/save it badly. I have seen people spend thousands on gambling/drinking/drugs and completely destroy their own lives.
The definition of a living wage is also extremely vague. Should a living wage include one person working, two people working, no kids, two kids? And why should one of those win over the others? Without defining the specific requirement, the idea of living wage is just a good slogan.
From my understanding of large amount of different research, the embryonic stem cells are rarely rejected. (Even post-embryonic cells from babies upto 7 days old have very low rejection. That is why the skin from circumcision is often used for skin grafts - very low chance of rejection.) Since the embryo has not developed an individual cell signature, the host's immune system completely ignores the cells. The embryonic stem cells have also been used in some research as "rejuvination" potion, by putting them into the damaged area and having them induce the local cells to heal.
Yes, because the games will be delayed by a couple months just to give the localization team finish all of the translation. I'm sorry, but even if all of the versions of the game can fit on one game, the need to properly localize the game would put too much delay for most developers/publishers. The primary release will almost always be in one language (english/japanese) with later europe release in a few months containing the localized versions.
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Well, you could look at the GDI issue from the Microsoft side. They released a tool to try to find vulnerable code in libraries used by the third parties.
So if AT&T creates a dummy corporation called "People for American Security" that donates $100k per candidate on their behalf, you now can't link it directly to AT&T.
Unlimited donations will heavily encourage shell corporation/entities for donations.
I'm not sure you've been using C# enough. Let me address a couple points:
.dll/.exe and deploy it. That doesn't seem that much different from sticking everything into a single .jar (.zip) .Net, with a proper one being picked depending on the application type. (The server GC is a single GC per CPU, with more Gen0, but less Gen2 collections) You can control the GC behavior from within the application somewhat, but it is not as tweakable. .Net Reflector which lets you see implementation of any non-obfuscated .Net assembly
.Net libraries. Can you point some major ones? The rest of the points don't seem to be as applicable now than they used to be a few years back.
* Deployment model is similar to basic executables - for each assembly you create a
* There have been many books\blogs\papers written about how the GC works. There are in general 3 GC options in
* The libraries might be closed source, but there are two easy ways of getting the source.
The first option is the
The second option is the full source released for majority of the libraries.
I am not sure I've seen such large deficiencies in
And Flash was cross platform from the beginning? What player is Flash compatible with? You are comparing apples and oranges if you want to compare Silverlight to VLC/WMP/Quicktime. I don't remember having a flash player compatible with Linux FF for a long time.
I am not going to defend the bundling of IE with Windows, but programming just for IE is about as "normal" as programming just for Netscape that was common before IE became popular. Neither of the browser followed the standards, so it was common to just pick a specific browser to optimize for. IE6 has sat around without updates for a browser (FF/Opera) to come out that followed the proper standard. Now it makes more sense to program to the standard when you have browsers that follow it. (ie. Netscape didn't do much better than IE back in the days)
As far as Outlook extensions - that has long been true in all industries. iPod works only with iTunes, KDE apps can only copy/paste to KDE apps and not to Gnome unless you used the Xserver's clipboard(until Linux got unified clipboard that was better). FF extensions only run on FF and not on Opera/IE. Quicktime video can only be written by Apple software.
Yes, MS has abused the monopoly to improve bundle their software and get better OEM deals, but interoperability is not a requirement from a monopoly. Standard Oil was not forced to make sure their rail was the same size as everyone else. (Bells weren't forced to allow other phone providers - I don't see any local phone providers in the area) Interoperability is a business decision and is always used by the front-runners to prevent others from entering the market. Pre-IBM PCs were never compatible, apple PCs couldn't take non-Apple approved parts, etc.
You are missing the point that just creating a competitor in another area is NOT abusing monopoly. Abusing monopoly is when you force a new technology by bundling it with your monopoly.
I'm not sure how you can claim that having a client-OS monopoly makes MS somehow able to dictate Windows Server/Exchange. Windows client OS has no problems talking Linux Samba, Linux DNS/DHCP servers, running thunderbird against google's IMAP server. All of those areas have competition with MS products.
So on Ubuntu you had to install both Gnome and KDE libraries to get the code running. In your example that would be like installing JVM and .Net runtime on the same machine. At that point, both Java and .Net become "compatible".
And you must have never tried to do low-level programming for a specific chip. Although the general instruction sets are compatible, each one has special extensions. There's 3DNow, MMX, different special instructions to find chipsets, etc. So the CPUs are not completely compatible, but the OS and compiler just target the middle ground usually. When you work on trying to get most performance out of a chip (ie. games), you often need to create different assembly for Intel and AMD.
As far as benefits - you only have to look back at Netscape's behavior when it was the only fish on the internet. There was little innovation between N2 and N3. It was the competition with IE that fueled the rapid improvement in both. It also caused each browser to attempt to extend the standards to make themselves look like a better platform. Most people have forgotten netscape extensions, because they died out with Netscape, but they were there.
In general, lack of competition leads to stagnation, because there's little reason to innovate. Competition, on the other hand, requires you to differentiate from your competition. That may result in attempts to create extensions to a common base standard.
Have you looked at PowerShell V2 CTP? It seems that remote administration has been the focus of that release.
Just being a non-profit organization, does not make them automatically a charitable cause. You should take look at IKEA - they are pretty much a tax evasion heaven. All of their profits are routed to another non-profit "furniture design" corporation which is owned by the exactly the same people.
I'm not sure where you are getting your internet rate from Sprint, but looking at their website i can see the Vision Pack offered for $15 with the cheapest plan. That means the whole deal with unlimited internet is $35. Pretty long distance from $60 charged by ATT.
Obviously upgrading the Sprint plan to 450 minutes raises the price to about $55, but that also gives you 7pm unlimited nights and weekends. (I couldn't find ATT's time for N&W, but I haven't heard anyone with ATT saying they got early nights)
Probably for the simple reason that roads are much more of a shared resource than airspace. The chances of hitting something in the air are much lower than having a collision on the ground. There are also less pedestrians and other bystanders that would be involved in a hit-and-run. A crash of your car into something else wouldn't probably kill you, while a crash of airplane would. That provides a self-filtering, high-risk entries.
By that logic, Windows Mobile should be winning at this time. I have one of the cheaper WM5 phones (Q) from Sprint and can put anything I want on the phone. The problem is that i need to have Visual Studio edition that allows for mobile development to allow me to develop any new applications, but I can install any application I can find on the web. The lockdown for the phones is decided by the telco and not by the manufacturer usually.
The numbers from NPD are for July, while X360 price cut and new games (BioShock/Madden) were only launched in August. That means that the PS3 increased numbers due to the price drop were not being compared with similar increases in X360 number due to price cuts. Additionally, almost anyone still waiting for the X360 console would have expected to get a price cut sometime soon following the PS3 price cut. That would delay the sales for July in favor of August sales.
The speed for which MPG are computed for would probably have very limited amount of lift and drag forces. The computations are supposed to be for 55mph highway and 35mph city speeds. At those speeds the lift created is fairly neglible compared to friction and other forces.
I am pretty sure there is an option to do that. It is also able to use the index generated by remote machine to search.
It is smart enough, but now in two clicks I can chose the power settings of the computer. So if I need to play some games on battery, I can change the power setting easily.
It allows you to update either of the parts, but the highlighting starts on the xyz and you need to move the cursor over to change the .doc part. In other words, the action that is most likely to be done - the change of the filename itself, leaves the extension correct.
You must have never even seen an Xbox or tried one anywhere to say these things. For one, you don't HAVE to use the wireless controllers if you don't want to. They sell the wired controllers at every single store and it comes by default with the core system. Additionally, the wireless controllers on 360 have the same responsiveness as the wired controllers and do not have any input lag or dropouts (unless you run out of battery).
The games you buy online are registered to your profile AND your physical console. You don't have to be online to be able to play the games as long as you are playing them on the same console you bought them on. Alternatively, you can login on any console (yours or your friend's) with your account and have access to your purchased game. You can even have the same game on two consoles by buying it on one console and logging in with your profile on another console.
There is no way in IE7 to remove the URL bar from the window. Even a window with no other UI elements must show the URL to prevent such attacks. (Or other phishing problems.)
The silver account has gamerscore and can get all of the achievement. Paying is only required for having online multiplayer.
The name is more likely to have been: directX Box and as far as the naming for a console is not a bad name by itself. It certainly isn't asking for jokes like the Wii. I do agree that Dreamcast, GameCube and PlayStation have more in their name to tell about what they do, but N64, Atari 2600, etc? The naming really has little effect in making things better, it seem to only make things worse.
The effectiveness of the OSS development has very little to do with the fact that the work is done at home or at some office. The real difference is the interest/passion in the specific task. A task that someone is very interested in and feels empowered with motivates much better than any external motivation. (At least cheaper and less damaging, though a gun to the head or "must ship or be fired" probably do a decent job in short term.)
One good example recently was when a co-worker felt that he came up with a really cool tool idea. Even though it was work related, he spent his nights and weekends for a couple weeks to get it done. Once the tool was protyped and became a work-project, the motivation for long nights disappeared, though some of the personal responsibility remained. So the work done on the tool was still good, but not as motivated when it was a personal tool.
The same can be seen with many OSS projects where the main people start out from a passion and then continue for a while feeling it is their duty/interest and then completely forget about the project whenever something else happens.
They aren't taking any features away from the original OS. They are just adding the 'new' feature of displaying HD-DVD/BluRay to only the x64 Vista. That means that the user is not losing anything by upgrading.
And nobody would be poor if we'd just enact a living wage.
That is such a bad generationlization. There are large number of people in the world who make sufficient amount of money to live, but spend/save it badly. I have seen people spend thousands on gambling/drinking/drugs and completely destroy their own lives.
The definition of a living wage is also extremely vague. Should a living wage include one person working, two people working, no kids, two kids? And why should one of those win over the others? Without defining the specific requirement, the idea of living wage is just a good slogan.
From my understanding of large amount of different research, the embryonic stem cells are rarely rejected. (Even post-embryonic cells from babies upto 7 days old have very low rejection. That is why the skin from circumcision is often used for skin grafts - very low chance of rejection.) Since the embryo has not developed an individual cell signature, the host's immune system completely ignores the cells. The embryonic stem cells have also been used in some research as "rejuvination" potion, by putting them into the damaged area and having them induce the local cells to heal.
Yes, because the games will be delayed by a couple months just to give the localization team finish all of the translation. I'm sorry, but even if all of the versions of the game can fit on one game, the need to properly localize the game would put too much delay for most developers/publishers. The primary release will almost always be in one language (english/japanese) with later europe release in a few months containing the localized versions.