Partly thanks to in particular the "shareholder value" revolution. Remember Jack Welch? Nowadays I consider it obsolete and not recommended, of course, due to fundamental flaws I mentioned before.
Most of them have their heads so far up their asses with regard to "you can't manage what you can't measure" that all they really care about is numbers.
Now of course this is fundamentally flawed in more ways than one. And I am sure there are high-level execs that are moving away from this.
Yea, that artificial scarcity business model. It happens that in high school, I am doing an assignment of building a web site using tables for the navigation bar. It happens that the topic I chose is about how digital goods are easily copyable, and the flaws of artificial scarcity and attempts to create it, including how copyright, copy protection and DRM was used in the attempts. It is not even limited to software, the record and movie industries have the same problem too. And now thanks to E-books, the publishing industry have the same problem too. I will probably toward or after the end of the school year publish the index page and the 12 sub-topics that talks about this onto my blog (without the navigation, of course) and submit it to Slashdot, Reddit and Techdirt.
Yea, I know. In fact, I still remember the Amazon 1-Click patent disaster, where something similar happened, and it was covered on Slashdot over the years, and I always have wondered why too.
Not mentioned is that Stardock promotes modding. In fact, it's CEO/founder Brad Wardell, who often hangs out on forums and chat (how many other CEOs do that?), went on a modding sabbatical recently.
Though if you use Boot Camp, it get a little trickier. When will Apple add enough UEFI support in the Intel Mac's EFI firmware so that it can load 64-bit Vista/7 natively via EFI, so we can finally ditch the hybrid MBR/GPT scheme currently used with Boot Camp?
Yea, with DOS 4.0 and Compaq DOS 3.31 they started increasing the FAT16 cluster size to support larger drives. Eventually with 2 GB drives, the cluster size reached the maximum of 32 KB, which was very inefficient due to slack. In fact, actually NT-based Windows supported 64 KB clusters raising the maximum of 4 GB, but the most common use for this was for installation, and that was because the NT 4.0 and earlier installer, when you choose to format a drive as NTFS, actually formatted the drive as FAT16 first and then convert to NTFS later, which left you with 512 byte clusters (this was fixed with XP, but by then they already switched to formatting as NTFS directly). Eventually 95 OSR2 introduced FAT32 to fix the slack problem. It was similar with HFS, except that the cluster size increase was more gradual, and unlike Windows, when they added support for up to 4 GB volumes in System 7.5 in 1994 and later added support for up to 2 TB volumes in the ROMs of the PCI Power Macs and the NuBus PowerPC PowerBooks released back in 1995 and even later backported this support to all 68040 and PowerPC Macs in Mac OS 7.6 in Jan 1997, they initially kept increasing the cluster size beyond 64 KB. It was not until Mac OS 8.1 in Jan 1998 that Apple introduced HFS+ to fix the slack problem.
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Windows 3.0 did not have AARD.
No, it was the same on the real 3.x calculator, making it targets of jokes:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/25/141253.aspx
Yea, anti-trust laws are about competition, not privacy.
In fact, thinking about it, it is likely just plain wrong, particularly in the first part.
Resubmitted: http://slashdot.org/submission/1243514/Why-Modern-Business-Is-Bad-for-Your-Mental-Health
And shareholder value and agency theory only make it worse: http://slashdot.org/submission/1188074/Why-Modern-Business-Is-Bad-for-Your-Mental-Health
That is an interesting theory, but is incomplete, sorry. Guess what does it miss?
Here is a article by Joel, a former MS manager: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html
In fact, here is my Slashdot submission on this topic: http://slashdot.org/submission/1188074/Why-Modern-Business-Is-Bad-for-Your-Mental-Health
Partly thanks to in particular the "shareholder value" revolution. Remember Jack Welch? Nowadays I consider it obsolete and not recommended, of course, due to fundamental flaws I mentioned before.
Of course, that was back in the olden days of legacy PR and top-down command and control, both of which is getting obsolete nowadays.
In fact, MS used DCE's RPC implementation as the base for their RPC implementation.
Yea, in fact even DOS was bought from SCP and licensed to IBM for it's PC. It was not until version 2.0 that it was rewritten.
HBR has these articles about it, in fact: http://blogs.hbr.org/martin/2010/01/why-good-spreadsheets-make-bad.html http://blogs.hbr.org/martin/2010/01/management-by-imagination.html
What is even worse about it is that quarterly EPS game is fundamentally flawed: http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/restoring-american-competitiveness/2009/10/can-we-break-the-tyranny-of-qu.html
That part is I think for the .NET Framework, and it is included because it is bundled with Windows Server 2003 and later.
Most of them have their heads so far up their asses with regard to "you can't manage what you can't measure" that all they really care about is numbers.
Now of course this is fundamentally flawed in more ways than one. And I am sure there are high-level execs that are moving away from this.
And they also are integrating the graphics/PCIe controller on some chips, which need another socket.
most people with a 386 had a sound card
The first 386 PC was released in 1986 by Compaq.
Yea, that artificial scarcity business model. It happens that in high school, I am doing an assignment of building a web site using tables for the navigation bar. It happens that the topic I chose is about how digital goods are easily copyable, and the flaws of artificial scarcity and attempts to create it, including how copyright, copy protection and DRM was used in the attempts. It is not even limited to software, the record and movie industries have the same problem too. And now thanks to E-books, the publishing industry have the same problem too. I will probably toward or after the end of the school year publish the index page and the 12 sub-topics that talks about this onto my blog (without the navigation, of course) and submit it to Slashdot, Reddit and Techdirt.
Yea, I know. In fact, I still remember the Amazon 1-Click patent disaster, where something similar happened, and it was covered on Slashdot over the years, and I always have wondered why too.
Not mentioned is that Stardock promotes modding. In fact, it's CEO/founder Brad Wardell, who often hangs out on forums and chat (how many other CEOs do that?), went on a modding sabbatical recently.
Though if you use Boot Camp, it get a little trickier. When will Apple add enough UEFI support in the Intel Mac's EFI firmware so that it can load 64-bit Vista/7 natively via EFI, so we can finally ditch the hybrid MBR/GPT scheme currently used with Boot Camp?
Yea, with DOS 4.0 and Compaq DOS 3.31 they started increasing the FAT16 cluster size to support larger drives. Eventually with 2 GB drives, the cluster size reached the maximum of 32 KB, which was very inefficient due to slack. In fact, actually NT-based Windows supported 64 KB clusters raising the maximum of 4 GB, but the most common use for this was for installation, and that was because the NT 4.0 and earlier installer, when you choose to format a drive as NTFS, actually formatted the drive as FAT16 first and then convert to NTFS later, which left you with 512 byte clusters (this was fixed with XP, but by then they already switched to formatting as NTFS directly). Eventually 95 OSR2 introduced FAT32 to fix the slack problem. It was similar with HFS, except that the cluster size increase was more gradual, and unlike Windows, when they added support for up to 4 GB volumes in System 7.5 in 1994 and later added support for up to 2 TB volumes in the ROMs of the PCI Power Macs and the NuBus PowerPC PowerBooks released back in 1995 and even later backported this support to all 68040 and PowerPC Macs in Mac OS 7.6 in Jan 1997, they initially kept increasing the cluster size beyond 64 KB. It was not until Mac OS 8.1 in Jan 1998 that Apple introduced HFS+ to fix the slack problem.
Partitioning is not even possible, because on XP, only IA-64 supported GPT. Server 2003 SP1 resolved this and XP x64 is based on Server 2003 SP1.