It has one thing nothing else touches - an ethic. A core aspirational value - striving not for mere technological development, but towards human growth and ennoblement.
I will admit that that dimly reflects the environment of materialism, nihilism and techno-fetishism that has dominated since the end of the Nixon-era. If that is aging badly, I'd ask for more.
Microsoft cannot be fixed overnight. It took 15 years to break it that way.
There are established organizations and cultures that have kingdoms built and armies amassed - built and based on the status quo.
You could bring Steve Jobs back from the dead and put him in charge. He'd still spend five years tunneling like John Henry through a mountain made of shit - with constant fighting off seditious "leaders" - before a glimpse of daylight would be seen.
Microsoft product and engineering are built around "feature teams". What does that mean? Well, the "Start" menu was owned by a few such teams. Look what this did! The NT4/95 menu works right. That stopped working for them, around the time XP shipped. It only got worse...
I JE'd about it, and tried to get a Slashdot frontpage submission. Linked stories?
After what you've learned over the past 3-4 months, it's hard to discredit this, outright.
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.
The first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January 23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not reported. This has not been repaired yet and the cause remains unknown, explained Jaishanker.
AutoDesk were Microsoft's biggest corporate customer for cloud-based Exchange and Sharepoint services, and later Office365. When MS introduced this in 2008, the AutoDesk pilot pointed the way.
They have been also getting there feet wet with cloud-based ancillary products and offerings of their own - usually free ones.
So?
I'd be more surprised if AutoDesk weren't moving to subscription delivery of online product. They are the most widely "pirated" company of non-consumer software, ever.:-)
Not that this makes rentier behaviour any more palatable...
Seriously. Why is this even a question? Did a new stable release show up in your watch or your laptop - or your in flight entertainment system, over night?
Packagers and distribution maintainers aren't exactly up in arms about this...
FACT: All US wars - within the last 40 years or so - are crimes, committed in violation of Constitutional war powers, and in violation of international treaty, signed with binding power of law.
Slashdot Mirror
Here we come. :-)
Add this feature to a chaff-creating plugin, to crapflood servers with fake tags.
Wrong.
Suppression of the individual.
Aged badly?
It has one thing nothing else touches - an ethic. A core aspirational value - striving not for mere technological development, but towards human growth and ennoblement.
I will admit that that dimly reflects the environment of materialism, nihilism and techno-fetishism that has dominated since the end of the Nixon-era. If that is aging badly, I'd ask for more.
You want "age badly"? Try "Red Dwarf".
Microsoft cannot be fixed overnight. It took 15 years to break it that way.
There are established organizations and cultures that have kingdoms built and armies amassed - built and based on the status quo.
You could bring Steve Jobs back from the dead and put him in charge. He'd still spend five years tunneling like John Henry through a mountain made of shit - with constant fighting off seditious "leaders" - before a glimpse of daylight would be seen.
Microsoft product and engineering are built around "feature teams". What does that mean? Well, the "Start" menu was owned by a few such teams. Look what this did! The NT4/95 menu works right. That stopped working for them, around the time XP shipped. It only got worse...
FIRST CANADIEN!
He's pretty old now - but there's no stopping his "going to the moon" business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_submarine_cable_disruption
I JE'd about it, and tried to get a Slashdot frontpage submission. Linked stories?
After what you've learned over the past 3-4 months, it's hard to discredit this, outright.
A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.
The first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January 23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not reported. This has not been repaired yet and the cause remains unknown, explained Jaishanker.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February155.xml§ion=theuae
AutoDesk were Microsoft's biggest corporate customer for cloud-based Exchange and Sharepoint services, and later Office365. When MS introduced this in 2008, the AutoDesk pilot pointed the way.
They have been also getting there feet wet with cloud-based ancillary products and offerings of their own - usually free ones.
So?
I'd be more surprised if AutoDesk weren't moving to subscription delivery of online product. They are the most widely "pirated" company of non-consumer software, ever. :-)
Not that this makes rentier behaviour any more palatable...
"It's a little too little, it's a little too late..."
Years ago...
Can you help? C'mon gang! Let's put on a show!
Actually, I'd pay GOOD MONEY to see anything with Larissa and Chasty prominently featured.
Power management ?
It's worked well for years on Linux. Only problems I ever had were involving nVidia workaround drivers and sleep.
Supposed to be doing?
Yes, if by that you mean running an evil empire built on pillage and oppression.
BTW: When it's "middle east" and they don't mention the country? It's always Israel.
"Memory Hole" the new game, from Milton Bradley!
Look on the bright side. You now live in one of those cool, science fiction dystopias, that made things so interesting for your favorite protagonists.
As a partial Briton, TV licences are a bad analogy. They subsidise state-funded production and broadcasts.
This is more like a public-speaking licence, or a printing-press licence.
Read as: "License to use the Internet".
Pretty fucking clever. Soon, you won't be able to get a stock-quote or the latest XKCD without this thing - much less, send an email.
Let me try and catch up to it, and ask...
Seriously. Why is this even a question? Did a new stable release show up in your watch or your laptop - or your in flight entertainment system, over night?
Packagers and distribution maintainers aren't exactly up in arms about this...
Riffing on Ralph Waldo Emerson, here.
Why do the same people - who wonder how to best kill time on the Internet - want to live forever?
Rob's a cool dude.
He was here, slashdotting back when Perens and Searls still bothered to post.
"Each moment is all. Experience and enjoy."
Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn:
"..that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
If you do this, right? Time is itself extinguished.
FACT:
All US wars - within the last 40 years or so - are crimes, committed in violation of Constitutional war powers, and in violation of international treaty, signed with binding power of law.
Plusgood. He is given 35 years helpwise for Big Brother.
Seriously. Y'all livin' in a deterministic, mechanical materialist dreamworld.
Your mind is not in your brain, like an algorithm in a circuit.
eBay... .co.uk!
"Feed me, Seymour!"
Google outage?
Suckers.
I was actually completely unaware....