Absolutely, MS is well known for their lean, re-usable code which runs anything from watches, Zunes, XBOXes, Origami and mobile phones. It's a program once, use anywhere strategy that's been working quite well for them.
nice, the captcha is "exploit" you got that right.
You're just jaded because your education consisted of the "traveling salesman" problem, towers of Hanoi, and A*, instead of "Road Warrior (Mark II)", "Impregnable Hill Fortress of Hanoi", and "Lincoln MKX with Tom-Tom". Friday's almost here dude, take your jaded attitude to Starbucks, and have some venti latte.
You're right, in that MS still beats teh crap out of most of its competition by the virtue of its monopolies. I do believe, however, that the landscape has changed much in recent years, to the point where people are understanding that adopting open standards, as opposed to proprietary ones (ie. Exchange) is good for the long-term business. I don't believe that that used to be one of the concerns in the past, before FFox came on scene and shown that a better product can in fact, be better and open source, than something that MS squirted out. But no, MS won't go away anytime soon, I know that, however, I think that open standards and software now hitting the enterprise and business market are the beginning of the end of their brash dominance.
Someone in an earlier post mentioned I forgot to add Zune to my list of failures. What's a Zune? another one of their compact devices designed to use their fantastic Mobile OS? Kinda like the Origami? Kudos to you MS on building integrating capable software and devices and being the model company to show how well your software (doesn't) works on the very devices you've made.
All these stories about open source software seem to be joining in a symphony that is ringing a death knoll for MS. I guess not everything needs to be a MS killer, but where will they be once jabber based instant messaging, calDAV calendaring, and SSL IMAP are commonplace, easily integrated, federated and administered? What FireFox did to their web dominance, these open protocols, standards and software will do to the rest of their business. (Embarrass and decimate.)
What advantages will Exchange have over a system that integrates and works nicely on a dozen different hardware devices, from servers to phones, without having to pay MS a single dollar? Sure they'll still have their Visual Studio and Office, but boy they'll be crying over how much money they should/could have been making. Consider their failures: -XBox -XBox 360 (May be early to call it a complete failure, but now that HD-DVD is dead, sony will ride them like a reverse cowgirl) -Live? wtf? -MSN Search -Windows Mobile
They are truly stuck in a rut, a rut that seems to be getting deeper and deeper. (I should add...Thanks to Linux, Mozilla, FOSS, open-ness in general and other ideas that MS simply can't comprehend.)
In defense to MS, (and I'm an OS X/Unix/Linux fan and user myself) these things do happen. And they're made worse by the 12 (SWAG) idiots screaming their heads off on their blogs, making it seem as if this is a common issue, verifiably affecting thousands of users, when in fact, it could be a relatively minor issue, or even a user mistake.
Bleh, now I'm gonna go soap out my mouth for supporting MS.
A malicious software purported for an unrelated application could easily ask a user to authenticate with admin credentials during the installation. Wham-bam, the porn-viewer, or icon-designer has now changed your DNS settings... Considering that most OS X virus scanners are still either in infancy, or completely ineffective this would be an easy target.
What's the best strategy against something like this? Installing apps in ~/Applications vs/Applications ? Maybe Apple could make that the default behavior, or at least a user preference via Account settings.
*sigh* I'm soooo tired of these scare tactics and I'm sure the rest of America is, too
Don't be so sure, my sister in law once said that she is actually glad for all the checkpoints and inspections at public events, as it makes her feel safer. For myself though, I put my faith in my safety-rock. We haven't been attacked ever since I started keeping it in my front yard.
I think Microsoft's sphincter just imploded. Didn't they just figure out a few months ago how to bump up Hotmail storage up from 2 MB? (And still no IMAP or POP for free?)
But I thought that aunt was supposed to set to double the killer for all. Now I'm confused. I think I'm going to go flick a few switches in the registry, and plop in a new sound card. (It gives my life a meaning.)
Immunity for the mercennaires, immunity for the snitches, -- leaves no room to hide for the real criminals - me and you buddy. As those cowardly French say: eqality, liberty, and fraternity...
I was once like you too. But then I coverted the rest of my family (parents, brother in law +sis, mother in law, sis in law) and a couple of friends to Macs, so I no longer need to do tech support for them. (Nothing worse than cleaning up spyware during a Christmas break over a 56k connection while everyone else is sipping cider..) And then I replaced my gaming windows machine since Enemy Territory Quake Wars plays natively on Linux, so I don't even have to worry about the critical updates any more. Good job, and good luck.
You're right on man, but for me, style's got nothing to do with it. I'm typing this on my iPod. How many/. posts do you suppose are posted from a zune?
Curiously, they do not consider it a "standalone gaming machine" that only connects to their servers. This page: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/alldownloads.htm (microsoft's own) allows for connectivity to a special media center PC. What kind of hurdles did those idiots design to keep their fanboys from enjoying their software?
And it's not so much that if I "want a PC, (I should) buy a PC", it's more of a, if I have an XBOX and PC on the same network, I would expect that they may talk to each other considered they were made by the same bunch of monkeys.
The first mention I saw of Macbook Air was on a particular site, where someone reported that googling through Adium logs showed a connection made from a MacBook Air. Now, everyone can make a custom description there, to my understanding, but then people noticed that various macbookair.* websites were registered with ties to Apple. (All of this happened a few days before the keynote.)
Also, can we officially start calling it AirBook? It's much simpler to say.
Yes they do, He Was a Quiet Man, Suburban Girl, Already Dead, Wedding Daze and 3:10 to Yuma for example, are all available, as are many other movies that got released this Tuesday.
If by brand new release you consider a DVD screener or a crappy telesync, then you're right. But new DVD releases they do offer.
Your purchases get backed up to iTunes on your PC. It annoys me to no end that every other week or so I have to delete shows I've paid for because you can't back up programming to your computer. Seriously!? Microsoft doesn't have the vision to connect the XBOX to the computer on the same network using their own software???? Holy crap, what kind of idiots are running their divisions? 3 Stooges on Schlitz?
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Absolutely, MS is well known for their lean, re-usable code which runs anything from watches, Zunes, XBOXes, Origami and mobile phones. It's a program once, use anywhere strategy that's been working quite well for them.
nice, the captcha is "exploit"
you got that right.
You're just jaded because your education consisted of the "traveling salesman" problem, towers of Hanoi, and A*, instead of "Road Warrior (Mark II)", "Impregnable Hill Fortress of Hanoi", and "Lincoln MKX with Tom-Tom".
Friday's almost here dude, take your jaded attitude to Starbucks, and have some venti latte.
I got trashed with the missus on my birthday, and next thing you know, 9 months later we've got a WhizzKid of our own.
(True story.)
You're right, in that MS still beats teh crap out of most of its competition by the virtue of its monopolies.
I do believe, however, that the landscape has changed much in recent years, to the point where people are understanding that adopting open standards, as opposed to proprietary ones (ie. Exchange) is good for the long-term business.
I don't believe that that used to be one of the concerns in the past, before FFox came on scene and shown that a better product can in fact, be better and open source, than something that MS squirted out.
But no, MS won't go away anytime soon, I know that, however, I think that open standards and software now hitting the enterprise and business market are the beginning of the end of their brash dominance.
Someone in an earlier post mentioned I forgot to add Zune to my list of failures.
What's a Zune? another one of their compact devices designed to use their fantastic Mobile OS? Kinda like the Origami? Kudos to you MS on building integrating capable software and devices and being the model company to show how well your software (doesn't) works on the very devices you've made.
Oh, geez, you've got me. The troll/insightful in me made me so feverish, I got my words confused. :)
But thanks for the pretty imagery
All these stories about open source software seem to be joining in a symphony that is ringing a death knoll for MS.
I guess not everything needs to be a MS killer, but where will they be once jabber based instant messaging, calDAV calendaring, and SSL IMAP are commonplace, easily integrated, federated and administered?
What FireFox did to their web dominance, these open protocols, standards and software will do to the rest of their business. (Embarrass and decimate.)
What advantages will Exchange have over a system that integrates and works nicely on a dozen different hardware devices, from servers to phones, without having to pay MS a single dollar?
Sure they'll still have their Visual Studio and Office, but boy they'll be crying over how much money they should/could have been making.
Consider their failures:
-XBox
-XBox 360 (May be early to call it a complete failure, but now that HD-DVD is dead, sony will ride them like a reverse cowgirl)
-Live? wtf?
-MSN Search
-Windows Mobile
They are truly stuck in a rut, a rut that seems to be getting deeper and deeper. (I should add...Thanks to Linux, Mozilla, FOSS, open-ness in general and other ideas that MS simply can't comprehend.)
In defense to MS, (and I'm an OS X/Unix/Linux fan and user myself) these things do happen. And they're made worse by the 12 (SWAG) idiots screaming their heads off on their blogs, making it seem as if this is a common issue, verifiably affecting thousands of users, when in fact, it could be a relatively minor issue, or even a user mistake.
Bleh, now I'm gonna go soap out my mouth for supporting MS.
A malicious software purported for an unrelated application could easily ask a user to authenticate with admin credentials during the installation.
/Applications ?
Wham-bam, the porn-viewer, or icon-designer has now changed your DNS settings...
Considering that most OS X virus scanners are still either in infancy, or completely ineffective this would be an easy target.
What's the best strategy against something like this? Installing apps in ~/Applications vs
Maybe Apple could make that the default behavior, or at least a user preference via Account settings.
*sigh* I'm soooo tired of these scare tactics and I'm sure the rest of America is, too
Don't be so sure, my sister in law once said that she is actually glad for all the checkpoints and inspections at public events, as it makes her feel safer.
For myself though, I put my faith in my safety-rock. We haven't been attacked ever since I started keeping it in my front yard.
That's all fine and good, but where does Kevin Bacon fit in all that?
Yeah, but it also comes with Windows, which takes all those things and throws them down the toilet.
A titty tag?
"homephobic basement dweller"?
Dude, he's the one that has it tough!
I think Microsoft's sphincter just imploded.
Didn't they just figure out a few months ago how to bump up Hotmail storage up from 2 MB? (And still no IMAP or POP for free?)
But I thought that aunt was supposed to set to double the killer for all.
Now I'm confused.
I think I'm going to go flick a few switches in the registry, and plop in a new sound card. (It gives my life a meaning.)
hear hear!
effing netzero still has 10 hours/month free dialup.
i've about had it with time-warner...
Immunity for the mercennaires, immunity for the snitches, -- leaves no room to hide for the real criminals - me and you buddy.
As those cowardly French say: eqality, liberty, and fraternity...
I was once like you too.
But then I coverted the rest of my family (parents, brother in law +sis, mother in law, sis in law) and a couple of friends to Macs, so I no longer need to do tech support for them. (Nothing worse than cleaning up spyware during a Christmas break over a 56k connection while everyone else is sipping cider..)
And then I replaced my gaming windows machine since Enemy Territory Quake Wars plays natively on Linux, so I don't even have to worry about the critical updates any more.
Good job, and good luck.
You're right on man, but for me, style's got nothing to do with it. /. posts do you suppose are posted from a zune?
:wq! ftw!
I'm typing this on my iPod. How many
For me, it's about usability and unix.
Man, I have to feel sorry for bob@aol.com.
I've been using that account for various spammy registrations since 1998.
3 cheers for Bob!
Thanks, well, I was referring to getting the DVDs through the mail, as opposed to the streaming ones.
Curiously, they do not consider it a "standalone gaming machine" that only connects to their servers.
This page:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/alldownloads.htm
(microsoft's own) allows for connectivity to a special media center PC. What kind of hurdles did those idiots design to keep their fanboys from enjoying their software?
And it's not so much that if I "want a PC, (I should) buy a PC", it's more of a, if I have an XBOX and PC on the same network, I would expect that they may talk to each other considered they were made by the same bunch of monkeys.
The first mention I saw of Macbook Air was on a particular site, where someone reported that googling through Adium logs showed a connection made from a MacBook Air.
Now, everyone can make a custom description there, to my understanding, but then people noticed that various macbookair.* websites were registered with ties to Apple.
(All of this happened a few days before the keynote.)
Also, can we officially start calling it AirBook? It's much simpler to say.
Yes they do,
He Was a Quiet Man, Suburban Girl, Already Dead, Wedding Daze and 3:10 to Yuma for example, are all available, as are many other movies that got released this Tuesday.
If by brand new release you consider a DVD screener or a crappy telesync, then you're right. But new DVD releases they do offer.
Microsoft doesn't have the vision to connect the XBOX to the computer on the same network using their own software????
Holy crap, what kind of idiots are running their divisions?
3 Stooges on Schlitz?