I turned on my Zune (bought for 90$ last year) today morning only to find it die a sad death with the hard disk humming in the highest pitch. I do not think the hard disk will survive 3 more hours of such grueling ordeal. I feel sorry for MSFT. Best of luck, guys.
>>>The problem is that they're very bad at taking initiative;
Yeah, that's why you see Indians traveling in space shuttles, Indian minds filling in the PHd openings in MIT, Microsoft opening research centers in India and so on...
Talk about stereotyping!
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Before the slashdot crowd turns akin to angry villagers wielding pitchforks, let us just put things in perspective. Money *IS A GOOD* tool although it may not be the *ONLY GOOD* tool. However it is a darn good yardstick to bring the best in everyone (which is why capitalism has worked so well for this country over all these years).
If you feel that you lost your job to a fellow "Starvin Marvin" in India, there is a good chance that there is at least *one thing* that is wrong with you. I agree that *outsourcing* is not the best thing since sliced bread. All these outsourcing-bets-on-quantity-not-quality rants aside, not all outsourcing sucks balls. However if you want to prove otherwise, show your company that how outsourcing will not be a good strategical choice, how communication gap could be a stumbling block in the progress of the company, why you cannot find Haskell programmers in India....
>>>C-level executives and managers do not have that understanding
This kind of geek bone headedness is what irritates me sometimes. Have you ever thought that they think about the actual prohibitive maintenance cost (instead of the *insert uber-geek cutting edge stuff*) involved in these things?
No matter how many times someone says this, neither the Linux/Apple community does not seem to get it. Make application development a breeze. Windows has given away free Visual Studio express editions that can enable developers to program next generation WPF applications for free. The Linux world... Programming languages are all the rage here. Still there is no single decent tool to create GUI applications (No, Glade does not qualify). XCode comes only if you buy the expensive Mac.
GNOME HCI guidelines are one of the best I know of. Following the HCI leads to surprisingly good physical and mental health.
1) Navigating the GNOME dialog box with just the keyboard provides a rejuvenating and rigorous finger and mental exercise at the same time.
2) The font choices make pupil dilation effortless
3) The occlusion of "OK/Cancel" in elongated dialog boxes make accepting/rejecting dialog boxes into a fun hideAndSeek activity.
The link leads to a tersely worded page which captures the entire essence of the plans for GTK+3.0:) which in turn leads to another blog with a color scheme that threatens my corneal legerdemain.
That is the reason most people use it. To show off that they are somehow superior to troggledites (who actually get work done!!). Imagine how the world would be if all car driving experts drove with nitro-methane fuel (assuming all cars supported it) just to show off that they are great in driving. People, wisen up, operating systems are just means to an end. They are not the end themselves.
All the "First taste is free" comments apart, can some slashdotters recommend an equivalent in the open source software that is as mature and robust as the three said software listed in the page. A *real* development environment, designer tools and a server are given away free by a corporation and suddenly some geeks want to comment on how this is not what they want and Windows source would be the holy grail.
Even if there were no alternative other than to buy software, people would still Windows because that is what is *usable as of now*. Get over it. You may argue that Grandma is just content with "just web browsing, email blah blah". But when her grandson wants to call them through Google Talk, (U/Ku/Xu)buntu are not the choices that will reassure them.
Mod me down. But the single best thing that the Linux community can do is to develop a free IDE for wxPython development (the only sane environment so far for cross-platform development). Imagine the number of applications you would have when you have a single IDE which can provide you with installers for n-number of operating systems without any additional effort other than learning python. Also since the next generation.NET applications (WPF and the like) cannot run without a huge runtime (since.NET does not have a linker), this is the best time for such a killer IDE. Can the open source community wake up atleast now?
Why not try "bluebottle" http://mail.bluebottle.com./ It offers free POP mail with limited storage. Yes I know Gmail also can be accessed through the POP interface but the amount of junk mail is far more limited in my bluebottle account.
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I turned on my Zune (bought for 90$ last year) today morning only to find it die a sad death with the hard disk humming in the highest pitch. I do not think the hard disk will survive 3 more hours of such grueling ordeal. I feel sorry for MSFT. Best of luck, guys.
>>>The problem is that they're very bad at taking initiative; Yeah, that's why you see Indians traveling in space shuttles, Indian minds filling in the PHd openings in MIT, Microsoft opening research centers in India and so on... Talk about stereotyping!
Before the slashdot crowd turns akin to angry villagers wielding pitchforks, let us just put things in perspective. Money *IS A GOOD* tool although it may not be the *ONLY GOOD* tool. However it is a darn good yardstick to bring the best in everyone (which is why capitalism has worked so well for this country over all these years). If you feel that you lost your job to a fellow "Starvin Marvin" in India, there is a good chance that there is at least *one thing* that is wrong with you. I agree that *outsourcing* is not the best thing since sliced bread. All these outsourcing-bets-on-quantity-not-quality rants aside, not all outsourcing sucks balls. However if you want to prove otherwise, show your company that how outsourcing will not be a good strategical choice, how communication gap could be a stumbling block in the progress of the company, why you cannot find Haskell programmers in India....
>>>C-level executives and managers do not have that understanding This kind of geek bone headedness is what irritates me sometimes. Have you ever thought that they think about the actual prohibitive maintenance cost (instead of the *insert uber-geek cutting edge stuff*) involved in these things?
No matter how many times someone says this, neither the Linux/Apple community does not seem to get it. Make application development a breeze. Windows has given away free Visual Studio express editions that can enable developers to program next generation WPF applications for free. The Linux world... Programming languages are all the rage here. Still there is no single decent tool to create GUI applications (No, Glade does not qualify). XCode comes only if you buy the expensive Mac.
GNOME HCI guidelines are one of the best I know of. Following the HCI leads to surprisingly good physical and mental health. 1) Navigating the GNOME dialog box with just the keyboard provides a rejuvenating and rigorous finger and mental exercise at the same time. 2) The font choices make pupil dilation effortless 3) The occlusion of "OK/Cancel" in elongated dialog boxes make accepting/rejecting dialog boxes into a fun hideAndSeek activity.
The link leads to a tersely worded page which captures the entire essence of the plans for GTK+3.0 :) which in turn leads to another blog with a color scheme that threatens my corneal legerdemain.
Can somebody change the typo "relatime" to "realtime" in this page: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta Thanks, Sundar
That is the reason most people use it. To show off that they are somehow superior to troggledites (who actually get work done!!). Imagine how the world would be if all car driving experts drove with nitro-methane fuel (assuming all cars supported it) just to show off that they are great in driving. People, wisen up, operating systems are just means to an end. They are not the end themselves.
I completely agree. Slow news day?? CmdrTaco, I think you can also link to the letter that reveals your newly found wealth in Cambodia.
This can hardly be called as a blow to MSFT considering their revenue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
Sir, I am now enlightened. Eight different tools to accomplish a task is the dream of every employee on a project deadline.
You forgot to add one more feature: * Takes 15 minutes to start up
All the "First taste is free" comments apart, can some slashdotters recommend an equivalent in the open source software that is as mature and robust as the three said software listed in the page. A *real* development environment, designer tools and a server are given away free by a corporation and suddenly some geeks want to comment on how this is not what they want and Windows source would be the holy grail.
So what is the point anyway? Can they hold a candle to VMWare and Xen? Please feel free to enlighten me.
Even if there were no alternative other than to buy software, people would still Windows because that is what is *usable as of now*. Get over it. You may argue that Grandma is just content with "just web browsing, email blah blah". But when her grandson wants to call them through Google Talk, (U/Ku/Xu)buntu are not the choices that will reassure them.
But but.....don't many eyeballs watch the mozilla codebase?
So tell me how exactly does Open source plan to counter the fact that "Utopian societies do not work in large scale".
What is the point of the post anyway. Is this sort of aggregation of all the Vista whining since it was released?
>>Not only does this *reeks* of desperation on the part of Microsoft. There fixed that for ya.
Mod me down. But the single best thing that the Linux community can do is to develop a free IDE for wxPython development (the only sane environment so far for cross-platform development). Imagine the number of applications you would have when you have a single IDE which can provide you with installers for n-number of operating systems without any additional effort other than learning python. Also since the next generation .NET applications (WPF and the like) cannot run without a huge runtime (since .NET does not have a linker), this is the best time for such a killer IDE. Can the open source community wake up atleast now?
Why not try "bluebottle" http://mail.bluebottle.com./ It offers free POP mail with limited storage. Yes I know Gmail also can be accessed through the POP interface but the amount of junk mail is far more limited in my bluebottle account.
I totally agree with you. Also why would it matter even if MSFT change the kernel given that the enterprise deployments of Vista are still lukewarm.
But still is proving correctness of such complex interactions necessary given the current mission-critical nature of microkernels?
But you see it is not as pure as the purists would expect it to be.