Microsoft is begging to differ with you. Again. They're going to call the successor to Vista, "Windows 7." Not "Windows 2009", not "Windows AB", not even "Windows VII".
I'm quite surprised by this about-face. I thought the whole "Windows Server 2000" or "Office 2003" was a great marketing move. Look at the typical reaction: "Here I am in 2008, and I'm still using Visual Studio 2005 -- why haven't we upgraded to VS 2008 yet?" Yet those same people aren't complaining that their Windows XP installation should be replaced by Windows Vista.
Hmm... maybe it has nothing to do with the version numbers, after all...
Also, make sure you throw in some crappy versions every once in a while, or people won't feel the need to upgrade.
For example, Windows NT worked too well, so Microsoft released Windows 98, so that people would upgrade to Windows 2000, which worked too well, so Microsoft then released Windows ME, so that people would upgrade to Windows XP, which worked too well, so Microsoft released Windows Vista...
Yahoo! is compelling with the acquisition of Zimbra. Zimbra is amazing Ajax. Don't build your own - it is as nonstandard as you can make postfix/courier, and very intolerant of customising the backend. Instead, license Zimbra as a service, elastically as needed. Downside? Is Yahoo! still with us in 9 mos? Yang turned down Ballmers' USD 38/share, and last I looked today, they were trading at USD 11 and going down, while the CFO is looking to bypass the nominal severance minimums demanded by California for their mass bloodletting.
Let's see...Zimbra is the best alternative to Exchange. Yahoo owns Zimbra. Microsoft will soon own Yahoo.
next BT need to sort out their network architecture so that packets to your mate down the road on the same isp as you go into the local exchange and back out again, instead of go down to the local exchange, get trunked down to the isp's network, back out again to the local exchange and finally to ur mate.
How often does that happen? Usually you're communicating with a server somewhere, or, if your ISP is smart, a caching server.
I wish the current G.W. would have read this excerpt:
30 As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue; that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.
It would be great if Mozilla, or somebody else, would make a light version of Firefox, which only had web browsing. It could be extendable, so that user's could have just what they want, and not a lot of feature creep. Perhaps they could call it Phoenix, or Firebird.
Wasn't that the whole idea behind having extensions in the first place?
I love the idea of IPv6, but whenever we start discussing it I keep thinking "IPv6 is godsend for anyone trying to tie IP addresses to individuals." What is being (or can be) done about the terrible privacy implications of every device having its own address? Will the addresses still be dynamic?
Currently IPv6 addresses are based on a globally unique MAC address that won't change if your dynamic IP address changes. I'm sure this practice will change as more privacy advocates become aware of it.
Going with your fridge analogy, why should it be a bad thing for a grocery store to connect to all the fridges it knows about in order to tell them about new products? Why this artificial distinction between "inbound" and "outbound" traffic?
Gah, we don't need fridges to suffer from cell phone syndrome. That is, having manufacturers fiercely competitive on things like ringtones and cameras, so much so that they can't make a phone that works all the time and gives you decent call quality.
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Microsoft is begging to differ with you. Again. They're going to call the successor to Vista, "Windows 7." Not "Windows 2009", not "Windows AB", not even "Windows VII".
I'm quite surprised by this about-face. I thought the whole "Windows Server 2000" or "Office 2003" was a great marketing move. Look at the typical reaction: "Here I am in 2008, and I'm still using Visual Studio 2005 -- why haven't we upgraded to VS 2008 yet?" Yet those same people aren't complaining that their Windows XP installation should be replaced by Windows Vista.
Hmm... maybe it has nothing to do with the version numbers, after all...
Also, make sure you throw in some crappy versions every once in a while, or people won't feel the need to upgrade.
For example, Windows NT worked too well, so Microsoft released Windows 98, so that people would upgrade to Windows 2000, which worked too well, so Microsoft then released Windows ME, so that people would upgrade to Windows XP, which worked too well, so Microsoft released Windows Vista...
so that people will upgrade to Windows 7?
Why didn't they do something like for vista?
Because it uses so much memory that you *can't* run multiple apps at once?
You're right, I hope it scales.
With my AT&T card though, I got much lower speeds when I was moving than when I stayed in one place.
Bah, that's what I was going to say.
Plus, there would be more smart kids.
Yahoo! is compelling with the acquisition of Zimbra. Zimbra is amazing Ajax. Don't build your own - it is as nonstandard as you can make postfix/courier, and very intolerant of customising the backend. Instead, license Zimbra as a service, elastically as needed. Downside? Is Yahoo! still with us in 9 mos? Yang turned down Ballmers' USD 38/share, and last I looked today, they were trading at USD 11 and going down, while the CFO is looking to bypass the nominal severance minimums demanded by California for their mass bloodletting.
Let's see...Zimbra is the best alternative to Exchange. Yahoo owns Zimbra. Microsoft will soon own Yahoo.
Shit.
next BT need to sort out their network architecture so that packets to your mate down the road on the same isp as you go into the local exchange and back out again, instead of go down to the local exchange, get trunked down to the isp's network, back out again to the local exchange and finally to ur mate.
How often does that happen? Usually you're communicating with a server somewhere, or, if your ISP is smart, a caching server.
They'll just NAT the world.
I hope I get to share an IP with an RIAA executive.
Close your eyes; it's not illegal.
The freedom of information act would disagree.
Maybe she was just trying to get around having to use Outlook?
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I wish the current G.W. would have read this excerpt:
30 As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue; that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.
What makes you think the final result will be any better than what you have now?
Could it be any worse?
Can we keep Ron Paul? Please?
Thanks to wireless hotspots, you don't even need that anyway. 99% of hotspots send your personal data in the clear.
It would be great if Mozilla, or somebody else, would make a light version of Firefox, which only had web browsing. It could be extendable, so that user's could have just what they want, and not a lot of feature creep. Perhaps they could call it Phoenix, or Firebird.
Wasn't that the whole idea behind having extensions in the first place?
This has already been done
Unfortunately, it just tells you where you are. I'd like to see it give turn-by-turn directions.
Just use a repeater. Or Chrome, Safari, Konqueror, or Internet Exp- well, maybe not that last one.
I speak from about 15 years experience at multiple companies and not bias that the more "Microsofty" the programmer is, the worse they are.
Works the same for users, too.
Someone is trying to hack your contest (Cancel/Allow)?
I guess even Microsoft employees are just used to clicking 'Allow' now.
I love the idea of IPv6, but whenever we start discussing it I keep thinking "IPv6 is godsend for anyone trying to tie IP addresses to individuals."
What is being (or can be) done about the terrible privacy implications of every device having its own address? Will the addresses still be dynamic?
Currently IPv6 addresses are based on a globally unique MAC address that won't change if your dynamic IP address changes. I'm sure this practice will change as more privacy advocates become aware of it.
Going with your fridge analogy, why should it be a bad thing for a grocery store to connect to all the fridges it knows about in order to tell them about new products? Why this artificial distinction between "inbound" and "outbound" traffic?
Gah, we don't need fridges to suffer from cell phone syndrome. That is, having manufacturers fiercely competitive on things like ringtones and cameras, so much so that they can't make a phone that works all the time and gives you decent call quality.
It would be interesting to get EA's reaction to having a ton of people buy the game and never activate it (due to using the crack).
If you go this route, make sure you register it so that EA knows you bought it!
Lucky you. I called T-Mobile and tried to disable text messages and they said it wasn't possible.
So they're forcing me to pay for something I don't want.
P.S, we'll make an additional $24 million in fees by charging said voters for incoming text messages that they don't want.
Personally I think the Dems were the better party up until after JFK. (And after the whole slavery thing.)
Lyndon Johnson created the big government programs and turned them into the welfare party.
Of course it will be standards complaint.
1. Microsoft will pay off the standards committee to adopt their rendering API as the new standard.
2. Firefox, et al, will be incompliant!
3. ???
4. Profit!
Except lawyers *usually* can be counted on to turn on other lawyers and devour them, just like sharks in a feeding frenzy.
Yeah, but do they have frickin' laser beams on their heads?