if you don't think they're doing a good enough job, how about you send a request to betareq@microsoft.com and ask to be on the next beta team for windows. Keep in mind though, they usually only want experienced users and there are checks and balances to make sure you're a functional beta tester - not just someone who enjoys bragging about having teh leet XP build #x.
Or, here's a radical idea, how about I use an OS that doesn't make me go down on my knees for the priviledge of exposing my computer to the risks of a beta version? Who's doing who the favor here, buddy?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
IQ tests are meant to be centered around 100, I believe. So yes, an average person taking an IQ test from 1950 might score 110 (what I've heard is 3 points per decade since 1900, mainly due to less lead paint), but someone taking a new IQ test would still score 100.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Well yeah, smart is smart. If memory serves, Charles Murray's The Bell Curve came up with a figure of about 105 for average MBA IQ. A hair smarter than the general population, but the very principle of a bell curve is that half the people lie below that line. So, whether or not they stayed in school for a few extra years, there's going to be a lot of dumb ones, and education can't save you from being dumb.
Now then, if you're smart, it can help you. Not too much, more than anything else you'll just benefit from having the certificate, but you will learn things. And it will help you get promoted. Up to you whether it's worth it...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You'd get more junk mail, because there'd be higher return. If they currently get a response rate of 0.5%, and it costs them $0.10 per item sent, then they have to make a profit of $20 on each sale made through direct mail. Now then, if they boost their response rate to 2%, they only need to make a profit of $5 per sale. Hence, it will become profitable to advertise much cheaper, crappier stuff.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
...and probably your phone number. Yet another source of junk mail and phone solicitations. Not horribly scary, but if their profiling is good enough, they could probably offer better returns for mass mailings/phone campaigns than other sources.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, revenues count more than earings for WELL CAPITALIZED growth companies. When you're down to less than a year of cash reserves, you'd better start worrying about earnings.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You quoted future projections, as estimated by the (universally bullish) "experts" on Wall Street. Sometimes they're right, sometimes not. Also, those numbers are REVENUE numbers, not earnings numbers. So, subtract expenses and you get earnings.
So, none of that contradicts the historical earnings data I pulled (from TiVo's investor relations site, from their quarterly report).
Don't be so quick to call wild speculation "facts."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Ha! Allow me to reprint for you all a couple numbers gleaned from their April quarterly report (which I also posted to a previous/. story a while back, but it's just too appropriate here not to repeat):
Net loss last quarter: $49 million.
Net loss a year ago last quarter: $23 million.
Cash and equivalents last quarter: $72.7 million.
Cash and equivalents a year ago last quarter: $124.5 million.
So, even assuming that their burn rate does not increase (though, the current trend is doubling from last year to this), they'll be broke by next January. Hmm, right about the same time as Webvan.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes they did, there was a full machine recount of the whole damn state. Oh, you mean a full hand recount? No, there was not one of those, as it would have takend some 2 or 3 months...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You know those phones with the earplugs connected to the phone, so it works hands free? Well one of the original reasons they thought those up was the same, to reduce radiation by moving the phone farther from the brain. Well it turned out that the cord on the earplug acted as an antenna, sending microwaves directly into your brain through your ear.
Oops.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
:P It was an MMX Pentium, 200 mhz. A little weak? Yes. But Win2k was available to us free, and as I tried to explain, it never got past the floppy stage, because it's almost impossible to get 4 floppy disks to all be uncorrupted at the same time.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hmm... buy cheap hardware, buy nothing... I think I'll go with the cheap hardware. The only thing that was a problem was that it can't boot from CD. Red Hat 6.1 worked out of box, Win2k never got past the booting from floppy stage.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
4 boot disks?!? It can't bootstrap itself with a single floppy, it needs 4? That, my friends, is ridiculous. My friend has a fairly cheap mobo with a bios that doesn't support booting from CD, so we made the boot disks, and then it wouldn't even boot correctly. So, instead of dual booting between Win2K (not paid for, obtained from a friend's mother who works on mainframes and got it free at a conference of some sort) and Red Hat (6.1 in those days), he had to go straight out Linux because Windows wouldn't install.
Feh. User friendly indeed.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Net loss last quarter: $49 million.
Net loss a year ago last quarter: $23 million.
Cash and equivalents last quarter: $72.7 million.
Cash and equivalents a year ago last quarter: $124.5 million.
So, even assuming that their burn rate does not increase (though, the current trend is doubling from last year to this), they'll be broke by next January. Hmm, right about the same time as Webvan.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
But you don't want to pay for information that is free over the internet? It's not free in the first place
How about free over my cable service? In San Francisco, AT&T cable service provides complete listings of all channels, and is completely browsable. And before you go moaning about how I'm paying for cable service (well, I'm not paying for cable, I use an antenna, but back home at my parents' place, they have cable), what the hell is the point of a Tivo if you don't have cable? A VCR is more than adequate if all you want to record is Star Trek: TNG every night, because you missed out on getting a complete collection back when it was originally airing.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'll admit, there are some points, but I think it's important to make a distinction. The kernel, by itself, is just plain Linux, agreed? Now, for the proposed PS 2 box, I'd say again that Linux would be the preferred name. Just because it's compiled with gcc doesn't make it GNU, anymore than we would call Windows Codewarrior/Windows (or whatever they use to compile it). If most users are not using GNU apps, I think the prefix GNU is undeserved.
For Debian, otoh, GNU/Linux is perfectly appropriate because most users DO use GNU tools.
Okay, I'll shut up now, it's a fairly silly debate, and the only reason I'm discussing it is because I don't want to work:)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I don't care if he thinks Linus is from Holland, let's all thank this guy for using the term GNU/Linux.
Why? Linus says it's Linux, and he made up the damn thing. It's not like these newbie-oriented systems are going to be running gcc, emacs and bash. Probably X, Mozilla, an AOL client, and a word processor (Star Office? A new Sony productivity suite?). Which of those was part of GNU?
The term GNU/Linux, even if accepted as correct for the majority of Linux (which it is not), is not correct in this circumstance. You might as well call it AOL-TW/Linux.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
What about the PS 2 as a wearable?
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Admittedly, I haven't seen it up close, but with Firewire for input, ethernet or more firewire for wireless net connections, and TV out for hooking to a $500 Sony Glasstron, wouldn't this make a pretty cheap wearable?
Admittedly, you'd need a power supply, but consoles tend to use power pretty meagerly, don't they? It might also be a little bulky, but should be more ruggedized due to being designed at least in part for hyperactive 5 year olds.
What do people think?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
My 3dfx (R.I.P.) TV Tuner software for my STB (Really R.I.P.) TV Tuner card has the ability to set up recordings, like a vcr or a Tivo. However, it can only record in.avi format. It appears to support the mpeg format, but lacks some sort of a plugin? In.avi format, I hit the 4 gig filesize limit under Windoze in about 15 minutes. So, does anyone know what I need to do to get it to record in.mpeg?
Alternatively, does anyone know why this same TV Tuner won't work under Linux? On Mandrake 8, I just get the same channel it was playing last under Windows, and under Red Hat I don't get anything at all. With both I use XawTV.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Right! Just like how Larry Flynn got stomped because it was framed as "dirty pornographer destroying our children." Judges generally aren't that stupid.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
This may not seem obvious if you only tried Netscape 6.0 and don't use nightlies.
Er, it's still not obvious. I agree with you that 0.9 is very solid (though Mozilla is showing a disturbing tendancy to miss deadlines by a greater and greater margin each time), but let me reprint the poster's original comment for you again:
Without a reasonably strong browser in popular use, how on earth can NETSCAPE.com attract visitors?
(Bold and caps mine) If Mozilla magically becomes the dominant browser, believe you me, it ain't gonna help Netscape one bit. Netscape will still need to get people to use their "branded" version of Mozilla, which won't happen unless they at least keep it up to date with Mozilla.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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Or, here's a radical idea, how about I use an OS that doesn't make me go down on my knees for the priviledge of exposing my computer to the risks of a beta version? Who's doing who the favor here, buddy?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
IQ tests are meant to be centered around 100, I believe. So yes, an average person taking an IQ test from 1950 might score 110 (what I've heard is 3 points per decade since 1900, mainly due to less lead paint), but someone taking a new IQ test would still score 100.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Now then, if you're smart, it can help you. Not too much, more than anything else you'll just benefit from having the certificate, but you will learn things. And it will help you get promoted. Up to you whether it's worth it...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You'd get more junk mail, because there'd be higher return. If they currently get a response rate of 0.5%, and it costs them $0.10 per item sent, then they have to make a profit of $20 on each sale made through direct mail. Now then, if they boost their response rate to 2%, they only need to make a profit of $5 per sale. Hence, it will become profitable to advertise much cheaper, crappier stuff.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
...and probably your phone number. Yet another source of junk mail and phone solicitations. Not horribly scary, but if their profiling is good enough, they could probably offer better returns for mass mailings/phone campaigns than other sources.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, revenues count more than earings for WELL CAPITALIZED growth companies. When you're down to less than a year of cash reserves, you'd better start worrying about earnings.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So, none of that contradicts the historical earnings data I pulled (from TiVo's investor relations site, from their quarterly report).
Don't be so quick to call wild speculation "facts."
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Net loss last quarter: $49 million.
Net loss a year ago last quarter: $23 million.
Cash and equivalents last quarter: $72.7 million.
Cash and equivalents a year ago last quarter: $124.5 million.
So, even assuming that their burn rate does not increase (though, the current trend is doubling from last year to this), they'll be broke by next January. Hmm, right about the same time as Webvan.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes they did, there was a full machine recount of the whole damn state. Oh, you mean a full hand recount? No, there was not one of those, as it would have takend some 2 or 3 months...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Oops.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes and yes. And because we just didn't care that much. If it wasn't easy to install, we were just as happy to go linux-only.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
:P It was an MMX Pentium, 200 mhz. A little weak? Yes. But Win2k was available to us free, and as I tried to explain, it never got past the floppy stage, because it's almost impossible to get 4 floppy disks to all be uncorrupted at the same time.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hmm... buy cheap hardware, buy nothing... I think I'll go with the cheap hardware. The only thing that was a problem was that it can't boot from CD. Red Hat 6.1 worked out of box, Win2k never got past the booting from floppy stage.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Feh. User friendly indeed.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Net loss last quarter: $49 million.
Net loss a year ago last quarter: $23 million.
Cash and equivalents last quarter: $72.7 million.
Cash and equivalents a year ago last quarter: $124.5 million.
So, even assuming that their burn rate does not increase (though, the current trend is doubling from last year to this), they'll be broke by next January. Hmm, right about the same time as Webvan.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
How about free over my cable service? In San Francisco, AT&T cable service provides complete listings of all channels, and is completely browsable. And before you go moaning about how I'm paying for cable service (well, I'm not paying for cable, I use an antenna, but back home at my parents' place, they have cable), what the hell is the point of a Tivo if you don't have cable? A VCR is more than adequate if all you want to record is Star Trek: TNG every night, because you missed out on getting a complete collection back when it was originally airing.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'll admit, there are some points, but I think it's important to make a distinction. The kernel, by itself, is just plain Linux, agreed? Now, for the proposed PS 2 box, I'd say again that Linux would be the preferred name. Just because it's compiled with gcc doesn't make it GNU, anymore than we would call Windows Codewarrior/Windows (or whatever they use to compile it). If most users are not using GNU apps, I think the prefix GNU is undeserved.
For Debian, otoh, GNU/Linux is perfectly appropriate because most users DO use GNU tools.
Okay, I'll shut up now, it's a fairly silly debate, and the only reason I'm discussing it is because I don't want to work :)
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Why? Linus says it's Linux, and he made up the damn thing. It's not like these newbie-oriented systems are going to be running gcc, emacs and bash. Probably X, Mozilla, an AOL client, and a word processor (Star Office? A new Sony productivity suite?). Which of those was part of GNU?
The term GNU/Linux, even if accepted as correct for the majority of Linux (which it is not), is not correct in this circumstance. You might as well call it AOL-TW/Linux.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Admittedly, you'd need a power supply, but consoles tend to use power pretty meagerly, don't they? It might also be a little bulky, but should be more ruggedized due to being designed at least in part for hyperactive 5 year olds.
What do people think?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
That's why I go to Slashdot for my unbiased news!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Alternatively, does anyone know why this same TV Tuner won't work under Linux? On Mandrake 8, I just get the same channel it was playing last under Windows, and under Red Hat I don't get anything at all. With both I use XawTV.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Right! Just like how Larry Flynn got stomped because it was framed as "dirty pornographer destroying our children." Judges generally aren't that stupid.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
"It is more important to be feared than to be loved" -Machiavelli, The Prince
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Er, it's still not obvious. I agree with you that 0.9 is very solid (though Mozilla is showing a disturbing tendancy to miss deadlines by a greater and greater margin each time), but let me reprint the poster's original comment for you again:
Without a reasonably strong browser in popular use, how on earth can NETSCAPE.com attract visitors?
(Bold and caps mine) If Mozilla magically becomes the dominant browser, believe you me, it ain't gonna help Netscape one bit. Netscape will still need to get people to use their "branded" version of Mozilla, which won't happen unless they at least keep it up to date with Mozilla.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.