I mean, sure, once the network is set up, the infrastructure for 30 machines should be perfectly stable.
But then email stops working. Or someone gets spyware on their machine. Or a graphics card plays up. Or someone loses their printer settings. Or a mouse is playing up. Or someone can't get through to google.
As Sysadmin, whenever anything goes wrong you're the person they'll come to. If you're working purely with techies who can handle most problems themselves, then fine. But if there are _any_ non-technical people in your company then I'd estimate 25% of your time will be spent dealing with them.
However, your boss isn't going to listen to this. So what you do is find a free help-desk package (if you're using Windows then Liberum is pretty good) and get people to funnel all of their support calls through that. That way at the end of the month you can go to your boss and say "Look, this is the amount of work it takes to keep a network up and running. That's why I haven't got any programming done."
It's not that I don't like teh shiny, but the shineness of new games doesn't outclass the last generation enough to make that much of a difference to me. Nowadays I'm much more interested in physics and AI (and, of course, the gameplay).
It's like the difference between 5-speaker surround sound and 8-speaker surround sound. Yes, I can tell. No, I don't really care.
Give it 5 more years until it's really photorealistic, then the difference will matter to me.
After all, people haven't been working around these problems so far, which caused customers to complain and Microsoft to fix these problems- which is why Internet Explorer doesn't have any leaks any more!
Individuals tend to find these laws easy to avoid. Having companies deal with it en masse makes it harder to avoid paying for the disposal, and easier for centralised places to manage it.
The same is true of any identity system - although you'd hope that the security will be built in such a way that it depends on more than OS/framework security.
At what point were Microsoft going to rewrite all of Longhorn in.Net?
There are major parts of the new functionality that are.Net only. You can access pretty much all the old functionality via.Net as well. But why on earth would they waste developer time _rewriting_ code that works perfectly well so that it's in managed code rather than in C++?
This sounds to me to be nothing more than people who didn't understand what was going on in the first place feeling disgruntled.
"Everything in Longhorn was supposed to be written in C# and to be managed code. But managed code was going to require machines that weren't going to be available for five years or more. So now Microsoft is rewriting everything in Longhorn, the developer says.
Sounds likethis person _did_ expect the entire OS to be rewritten - and seems to think that managed code is orders of magnitude slower than C++ - yes it's slower - but it's nowhere near that much slower.
Microsoft promised to deliver Avalon and Indigo - the new windows APIs - in managed code - and they're on track to do that. They've dropped WinFS, true, but they haven't fundamentally changed direction for Longhorn at all!
He's already got books, comics and computer games spread throughout his history, written by other people and controlled by him (so that they pretty much all fit together, with a few exceptions). There's no reason not to have films too.
But him not writing/directing them is a good thing - so long as they get someone in who _can_.
shouldn't VOIP users if they are technically savvy to use VOIP
The point being that you no longer have to be technically savvy to use VOIP - it's going mainstream.
My VOIP is a small black box that I got in the mail from my VOIP provider - plug it into my router/hub, plug my phone into it and everything just worked - (almost) no technical knowledge required,
I had always wondered how Media Center pays for their program guide data. I assume that Microsoft is paying for it and then writing it off against the cost of the software. If it costs them (say) £2 a user a month then so long as people upgrade once every two years then they'll still be well in profit.
Well, it was packed out last year and the year before. And Edge seems to advertise it pretty well too. Certainly the people I know in the games industry seem to be pretty well informed of its existence.
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I mean, sure, once the network is set up, the infrastructure for 30 machines should be perfectly stable.
But then email stops working. Or someone gets spyware on their machine. Or a graphics card plays up. Or someone loses their printer settings. Or a mouse is playing up. Or someone can't get through to google.
As Sysadmin, whenever anything goes wrong you're the person they'll come to. If you're working purely with techies who can handle most problems themselves, then fine. But if there are _any_ non-technical people in your company then I'd estimate 25% of your time will be spent dealing with them.
However, your boss isn't going to listen to this. So what you do is find a free help-desk package (if you're using Windows then Liberum is pretty good) and get people to funnel all of their support calls through that. That way at the end of the month you can go to your boss and say "Look, this is the amount of work it takes to keep a network up and running. That's why I haven't got any programming done."
I work for a financial company.
Using webmail is a sacking offence.
How much is 'that much radiation'? Do you actually have a reason for disliking it, or are you just jerking your knee in a random manner?
Nobody buys a Mac because it's got a cool processor - they but it because it's got a great interface that makes life easier for them.
Who cares if it's x86 or PowerPC - it's the OS and the Apps that make Macs great.
It's not that I don't like teh shiny, but the shineness of new games doesn't outclass the last generation enough to make that much of a difference to me. Nowadays I'm much more interested in physics and AI (and, of course, the gameplay).
It's like the difference between 5-speaker surround sound and 8-speaker surround sound. Yes, I can tell. No, I don't really care.
Give it 5 more years until it's really photorealistic, then the difference will matter to me.
It's an interesting story, which I wanted to see.
The fact that the same person who submitted it also submitted a whole bunch of other stories is besides the point.
When is ApacheDS coming out for the NintendoDS?
After all, people haven't been working around these problems so far, which caused customers to complain and Microsoft to fix these problems- which is why Internet Explorer doesn't have any leaks any more!
Individuals tend to find these laws easy to avoid. Having companies deal with it en masse makes it harder to avoid paying for the disposal, and easier for centralised places to manage it.
Neither one is 'the real deal'.
There are many people who have high IQs and low EQs that still perform good works, produce amazing things and are worthwhile people.
And vice versa.
Juding someone by how much money they make, by the way, is pretty despicable.
Which is why, if you check out the Box Office Adjusted for Inflation you'll find that Gone with the Wind is number 1.
The same is true of any identity system - although you'd hope that the security will be built in such a way that it depends on more than OS/framework security.
"All they did was akin to walking up to an unlocked filing cabinet and rifling through it."
If you can't trust staff to not go rifling through the filing cabinets, you don't have much trust around the office...
At what point were Microsoft going to rewrite all of Longhorn in .Net?
.Net only. You can access pretty much all the old functionality via .Net as well. But why on earth would they waste developer time _rewriting_ code that works perfectly well so that it's in managed code rather than in C++?
There are major parts of the new functionality that are
This sounds to me to be nothing more than people who didn't understand what was going on in the first place feeling disgruntled.
"Everything in Longhorn was supposed to be written in C# and to be managed code. But managed code was going to require machines that weren't going to be available for five years or more. So now Microsoft is rewriting everything in Longhorn, the developer says.
Sounds likethis person _did_ expect the entire OS to be rewritten - and seems to think that managed code is orders of magnitude slower than C++ - yes it's slower - but it's nowhere near that much slower.
Microsoft promised to deliver Avalon and Indigo - the new windows APIs - in managed code - and they're on track to do that. They've dropped WinFS, true, but they haven't fundamentally changed direction for Longhorn at all!
He's already got books, comics and computer games spread throughout his history, written by other people and controlled by him (so that they pretty much all fit together, with a few exceptions). There's no reason not to have films too.
But him not writing/directing them is a good thing - so long as they get someone in who _can_.
Actually Microsoft had Terraserver before Google even existed...
Hurrah! For years I've been awaiting the ability to....
um....
something!
Something very exciting!
If only this was connected to Vinge's Zones - then we'd have something to be excited about, rather than complete confusion...
The ships are clearly in the upper atmosphere, not in space itself.
My phone (Nokia 6630) has no problems picking phone numbers out of texts. Nor did my previous one (a Motorola). Is your phone, by any chance, ancient?
Because they have to offer rewards kids _want_.
shouldn't VOIP users if they are technically savvy to use VOIP
The point being that you no longer have to be technically savvy to use VOIP - it's going mainstream.
My VOIP is a small black box that I got in the mail from my VOIP provider - plug it into my router/hub, plug my phone into it and everything just worked - (almost) no technical knowledge required,
I had always wondered how Media Center pays for their program guide data. I assume that Microsoft is paying for it and then writing it off against the cost of the software. If it costs them (say) £2 a user a month then so long as people upgrade once every two years then they'll still be well in profit.
I assume that by 'better' you mean 'with more ads, popups and annoying flashing things all over the place.'
Well, it was packed out last year and the year before. And Edge seems to advertise it pretty well too. Certainly the people I know in the games industry seem to be pretty well informed of its existence.
This happens one week after Edinburgh International Games Festival - http://www.eief.co.uk/
Seeing as the big names are going to that, will they also go to another conference shortly afterwards?