I think the GP talked about WebDav: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV In Word, you can access files from an URL, with any server supporting WebDav. It adds CVS capabilities to the files.
However, it's quite different from MS' offer, which is to provide online access to Office. I guess they are using downloadable dotNet components, and use a local cache to speedup access (at least that's how I would implement it).
As usual, after Vista's debacle, Microsoft communicates about their next generation OS, trying to keep the users focused on their software, to prevent them for looking for competition.
What has changed recently is that the economy crisis will force most of the companies to reduce their cost. This will be done in two phases:
- the first one is reducing the number of employees.
- the second phase will be about reducing the cost of software.
Microsoft is as always very expensive, even though the cost of their development has been largely returned. I think they will need to reduce the price of their software, or the next years will be difficult for them, especially when competing with free software.
Microsoft has turned IE from a piece of crap that had languished for years into a modern, legitimate browser
Uh ? When did IE7 become a legitimate browser ? It's super crappy, slow as hell and almost as buggy as IE6. And IE8 will continue with a super slow Javascript engine, when Javascript becomes more and more important.
And you also argue that Microsoft won't do the same error twice. Well, I think they lost the edge since XP. They are no more the leaders since a few years ago. They keep copying excellent ideas from their competitors, and transform them into underwhelming features. Because of Vista's aggressive pushing, I think that a lot of consumers have lost their faith in Microsoft.
Step 1: Sell cheap XBox 360. Step 2: Sell expensive games ($60) Step 3: Wait for the consumer to scratch the disk (should not take too long) Step 4: Blame the consumer, and do not reimburse him, because he misused the XBox Step 5: Sell another copy of the same game Step 6: Profit !!!
And don't bother for the legal issues, since it's all Microsoft's fault !
I don't think that the data mining will be dedicated on spying american citizens, since NSA is probably trying to spy the whole world electronically. Of course, american citizens will be the first victims, as usual. And this is called 'beta-testers' in Microsoft terminology;-)
What I discovered after all my coding years is that you need to learn a lot of different languages, since some are suitable for given problems and not for other ones.
Learn ASM, C, C++, Java, HTML+Javascript, Python, etc... The more languages you master, the more jobs you can pretend.
Also, learn the eXtreme Programming concepts:
- TDD (Test Driven Development) = write your tests before your code. It's really important !!!
- use source control for each of your projects
- practice pair programming, you'll progress faster
Once you'll master this methodology, you'll be in the 10% of the good coders.
The QA never test the DRMed version (I know I have been a long time game programmer), they work on the non-DRM version ! Protection is added at the last moment, and expected to not break the game.
Also, they have been in a hurry to ship the game, so the QA were probably told to skip testing the DRM.
"I donâ(TM)t believe weâ(TM)re headed into a recession, I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong and I believe they will remain strong." McCain
BTW, don't you think it's strange that there was no recession during Bush's governance, and suddenly, Obama is confronted to recession even before starting.
Windows 7 has had glowing reports from everyone I know who's installed the beta and they find it incredibly fast, reliable and easy to use and that's only a beta> Microsoft have gone through every major critisism of Vista and fixed it or taken a better approach to it.
Windows 7 is similar to Vista, just fine-tuned to appear faster. Benchmarks show that it's as slow as Vista. I bet your friends installed it on top-notch computers.
The only thing that was 'wrong' with Vista that currently remains is the DRM but that was a whole load of FUD to begin with. Don't want DRM? Don't buy DRM protected content that won't play on software without the DRM features Vista has.
Explain me why transferring music/video files is so slow, even when we don't use DRM ? The only thing that is wrong with Vista is that it's slow as an overweighted pig. And even if you disable a ton of features (which requires a lot of technicity), it's still slow.
software is starting to hit the 4gb ram limit of 32bit OS' and it's not going to be worth spending a lot of time and money 'upgrading' to xp 64 when it would cost them little extra to upgrade to 7.
Sorry, but not all computers are XP64 ready (I don't even speak about drivers problems). The only advance of Vista is IPV6.
Let's take a real example: I use Vista32 with 4 Gb of RAM, and it only accesses 3 Gb !!! Vista is able to use USB with ReadyBoost, but unable to access the last gigabyte, even by swapping RAM banks, WTF ?
Shortened version: When MS last had an OS flop, they followed it up with their most successful OS ever.
Everybody tries to learn from their mistakes. This does not mean that they are always successful. How can you build a rule with only one case ?
These programs direct you in your writing, and are also able to suggest plots.
He strongly recommends that you MUST follow rules to write a storyboard. These programs are perfect for forcing you to declare all interactions, and it also eases the addition of new characters. Of course, the programs won't write the storyboard for you.
Find an appealing plot, then build some charismatic heroes. Good luck !
I remember a vague video from them at that time, but all these groups were not known from their clips. From 1980, the only video I remember was from a group named Aha.
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Easy with some recursion:
int f(n)
{
if (n==0) return 0;
return n+f(n-1);
}
Do I pass ?
I think the GP talked about WebDav: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV
In Word, you can access files from an URL, with any server supporting WebDav. It adds CVS capabilities to the files.
However, it's quite different from MS' offer, which is to provide online access to Office.
I guess they are using downloadable dotNet components, and use a local cache to speedup access (at least that's how I would implement it).
Why did it take them so long for that ?
I think it's the same cure as the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Movement_Desensitization_and_Reprocessing
It's meant to resolve the development of trauma-related disorders as resulting from exposure to a traumatic or distressing event.
Tetris seems to require constantly moving your eyes.
Games requiring concentrating your vision on one point should not be as much efficient.
Does Win7 seem faster than Vista or XP ?
Don't worry, Microsoft has still plenty of time to fix this behaviour !
BTW, the article is really lame, since there is absolutely no indication why Win7 is faster.
How much did the writer get paid by Microsoft for this advertisement ?
As usual, after Vista's debacle, Microsoft communicates about their next generation OS, trying to keep the users focused on their software, to prevent them for looking for competition.
What has changed recently is that the economy crisis will force most of the companies to reduce their cost.
This will be done in two phases:
- the first one is reducing the number of employees.
- the second phase will be about reducing the cost of software.
Microsoft is as always very expensive, even though the cost of their development has been largely returned.
I think they will need to reduce the price of their software, or the next years will be difficult for them, especially when competing with free software.
Your post was interesting until I read:
Microsoft has turned IE from a piece of crap that had languished for years into a modern, legitimate browser
Uh ? When did IE7 become a legitimate browser ?
It's super crappy, slow as hell and almost as buggy as IE6. And IE8 will continue with a super slow Javascript engine, when Javascript becomes more and more important.
And you also argue that Microsoft won't do the same error twice. Well, I think they lost the edge since XP. They are no more the leaders since a few years ago. They keep copying excellent ideas from their competitors, and transform them into underwhelming features.
Because of Vista's aggressive pushing, I think that a lot of consumers have lost their faith in Microsoft.
I have a better plan:
Step 1: Sell cheap XBox 360.
Step 2: Sell expensive games ($60)
Step 3: Wait for the consumer to scratch the disk (should not take too long)
Step 4: Blame the consumer, and do not reimburse him, because he misused the XBox
Step 5: Sell another copy of the same game
Step 6: Profit !!!
And don't bother for the legal issues, since it's all Microsoft's fault !
I really love the comment:
Submitted On 07-FEB-2005
The_Crusher
Please fix for Tiger. We certainly won't appreciate having to wait 18 months for a fix that's probably trivial on Sun's part.
He also reviewed Mac OSX Leopard
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1SM2V0UJ2MM9L
I don't think that the data mining will be dedicated on spying american citizens, since NSA is probably trying to spy the whole world electronically. ;-)
Of course, american citizens will be the first victims, as usual.
And this is called 'beta-testers' in Microsoft terminology
What I discovered after all my coding years is that you need to learn a lot of different languages, since some are suitable for given problems and not for other ones.
Learn ASM, C, C++, Java, HTML+Javascript, Python, etc...
The more languages you master, the more jobs you can pretend.
Also, learn the eXtreme Programming concepts:
- TDD (Test Driven Development) = write your tests before your code. It's really important !!!
- use source control for each of your projects
- practice pair programming, you'll progress faster
Once you'll master this methodology, you'll be in the 10% of the good coders.
The QA never test the DRMed version (I know I have been a long time game programmer), they work on the non-DRM version !
Protection is added at the last moment, and expected to not break the game.
Also, they have been in a hurry to ship the game, so the QA were probably told to skip testing the DRM.
A new one: Sleipnir http://www.fenrir-inc.com/us/
It uses a custom renderer (written by japanese programmers).
You forgot:
"I donâ(TM)t believe weâ(TM)re headed into a recession, I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong and I believe they will remain strong."
McCain
BTW, don't you think it's strange that there was no recession during Bush's governance, and suddenly, Obama is confronted to recession even before starting.
Windows 7 has had glowing reports from everyone I know who's installed the beta and they find it incredibly fast, reliable and easy to use and that's only a beta> Microsoft have gone through every major critisism of Vista and fixed it or taken a better approach to it.
Windows 7 is similar to Vista, just fine-tuned to appear faster. Benchmarks show that it's as slow as Vista.
I bet your friends installed it on top-notch computers.
The only thing that was 'wrong' with Vista that currently remains is the DRM but that was a whole load of FUD to begin with. Don't want DRM? Don't buy DRM protected content that won't play on software without the DRM features Vista has.
Explain me why transferring music/video files is so slow, even when we don't use DRM ?
The only thing that is wrong with Vista is that it's slow as an overweighted pig. And even if you disable a ton of features (which requires a lot of technicity), it's still slow.
software is starting to hit the 4gb ram limit of 32bit OS' and it's not going to be worth spending a lot of time and money 'upgrading' to xp 64 when it would cost them little extra to upgrade to 7.
Sorry, but not all computers are XP64 ready (I don't even speak about drivers problems).
The only advance of Vista is IPV6.
Let's take a real example:
I use Vista32 with 4 Gb of RAM, and it only accesses 3 Gb !!!
Vista is able to use USB with ReadyBoost, but unable to access the last gigabyte, even by swapping RAM banks, WTF ?
Shortened version: When MS last had an OS flop, they followed it up with their most successful OS ever.
Everybody tries to learn from their mistakes.
This does not mean that they are always successful.
How can you build a rule with only one case ?
The ultimate algorithm is called Warnsdorf's heuristic:
http://www.delphiforfun.org/programs/knights_tour.htm
It solves all possible orders (>100x100) in less than a second.
The algorithm cited in the article is really shitty, because it requires recursion.
Hint: I implemented an algorithm to enumerate all magic knight tours (magic, like in magic squares):
http://magictour.free.fr/
In France, we have the BVP (bureau de vérification des publicités).
They ban ads that are misleading, but a lot of lying ads still pass the censorship.
One of my game designer colleagues (now a successful comic writer) suggested to use programs for storyboarding.
My colleague uses Dramatica http://www.dramatica.com/
but it seems Movie Magic Screenwriter is more suitable for movies/series http://www.screenplay.com/
There is also an open source alternative:
http://celtx.com/
These programs direct you in your writing, and are also able to suggest plots.
He strongly recommends that you MUST follow rules to write a storyboard.
These programs are perfect for forcing you to declare all interactions, and it also eases the addition of new characters.
Of course, the programs won't write the storyboard for you.
Find an appealing plot, then build some charismatic heroes.
Good luck !
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/software.html
and
http://www.isc.ro/lists/
They should sue the CD/DVD recorders companies, since they encourage piracy, much more than BitTorrent itself.
Sure, it's useful for doing backups ;-)
And it would probably be like shooting in oneself foot, since Sony sells DVD recorders.
How about economic modeling?
Nothing beats a pair of dice.
Use this free service: http://www.virustotal.com/
Upload your exe, and it will check if the last updated antiviruses tag it as a virus.
Kaspersky Boot CD, daily build:
http://dnl-eu3.kaspersky-labs.com/devbuilds/RescueDisk/
(although it seems dated from 15th of October)
Come on, all these groups are more than 30 years old.
I'm also a fan of Human League, and it's a group from 1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_League
I remember a vague video from them at that time, but all these groups were not known from their clips. From 1980, the only video I remember was from a group named Aha.
Argh, I'm feeling old now !
Link to nightly Webkit: http://nightly.webkit.org/