not neccessarily, what we need is something the size of like, a car key, that has "enough" storage, and can holographically project a screen about the size of a sheet of paper.
Also probably should have wireless networking, etc.
hey, build one of those things, and I'll buy one! guaranteed!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"I can't think of that many people who have been tortured and brutally murdered in the name of Athiesm, as for the well know organised religions..."
I think Stalin and Pol Pot can. . .
Religion, be it Athiesm or Christianity, is just a convenient excuse for these "people". Brutality happens. Blame whomever you like - I blame the "god" of the Humanist's religion. Humans. Whether there IS a Christian God or not, it's ultimately Humans who do the slaughtering.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Agreed. I've stood up on this forum and debated athiests to varying degrees, I am a Christian, but I'll say this, I'm pro God, but anti Religion. Nearly every person I know from my rather conservative church who's home schooling their kids, is doing it to avoid having their kids "brainwashed" by the state with sex-ed and evolution. It's kinda scary to think about these kids turned loose on society as adults. Well, I guess we'll see. ..
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Heh, I guess the students are lucky Microsoft wasn't the corporate sponsor. Then they'd have GUIDs on their badges, which would be printed on an IE 5.0 CD to make sure you always had the install disk hanging around your neck.
Of course, if the corporate sponsor was AOL, they'd have their first name, plus a randomly generated 3-digit number +"@aol.com", all printed on, you guessed it, an AOL CD hung around their neck.
And if the corporate sponsor was Intel, they'd have to wear a $4000 Xeon cartridge WITH the 4 pound heat-sink, and the CPU ID number would be the identifier. Only they wouldn't be forced to wear it around their neck. It would be plugged into "slot 1".
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"What cares me, is looking back through history, non-violent protest has only worked once - during the English occupation of India. (But hey, maybe that means we are finally starting to learn as a race."
yeah, and now they're juggling nukes just like the US. Shows how much we're learning.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I swapped a digit by mistake on my original college application, and it ended up on my transcript. I corrected it with them, and I now have TWO transcripts. Now, 10 years later, it's suprising to see where the wrong number pops up. I just can't live this thing down.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"* I just saw on TV that politicians in California are trying to build some kind of remote shutdown into the engines of our cars to stop car chases."
This might be a good thing, seeing as how MOST car chases in CA involve recently stolen cars (engine disabler probably not disabled). My solution to this is my 72 VW. It probably would run after an EMP from an atom bomb. Nary a transistor in sight. Worst-case, I could push-start it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
This is the most shockingly heineously stupid thing I've read in a long time. In fact, I almost can't believe this isn't a hoax - that real-life American school administrators would be so utterly stupid and evil. You can tell them I said so.
In fact, I wasn't really shocked by Columbine; I knew from the time I spent in "the joint" (High School), that such an event was merely a matter of time - but that it would lead to THIS is truly shocking. I would definately pull my kids from such a school. This should not be allowed, it does nothing to prevent "school violence", it's in direct violation of the Department of Education and Department of Justice's guidelines on prevention of school violence ( http://www.air-dc.org/cecp/guide/guidetext.htm ) and it's just plain evil - not just the social security number thing, and not just the fact that they're required to wear the badge on a lanyard (ha, my company "required" all of it's employees to do the same thing, nobody does it. It's retarded!), but the fact that the kids are REQUIRED to wear a Pepsi logo, and advertise for a corporation - now that just plain has nothing to do with education, and should not be tolerated period.
Take the principal out and whoop his 455!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
But in order for those specific definitions to be useful/renderable/recogizable on everybody's system, some piece of code somewhere on that system has to know what those tags mean, and knows how to do the specific things that that tag requires - and that's where I'm having a problem with realizing the usefulness of this technology. How do you get that code onto your client's machine, and why is it any more useful than Java?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh come on, internet trade is NO DIFFERENT than mail-order. It's not some big new mystical magical entity, it's just a different communications medium.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Thanks for all the information, but it still doesn't explain: what does XML DO?
Does it replace JavaScript? Does it replace Java? What is required to implement it - a web browser that "does" XML? - an office app (like Word or StarOffice) that can parse XML and execute it's "commands"? Is it a programming language? If so, do we consider it to be an "interperated" language? I really don't understand it's use for doing configuration files - though your explanation of what XML is is the best one I've read so far. (most explanations, including the dissapointingly LAME-ASS one in Scientific American, simply say - it's a way for people to create their own extensions to HTML - without saying anything about how those extensions are implemented or acted on, and how a specialized extension is used on a system that doesn't know the extension (platform-specific code? browser plug-in? what? how?)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Just to pick nits here, the Windows registry IS NOT a single, monolithic file. On NT, it's the contents of \winnt\system32\config, a bunch of files.
Of course all the other things you say do apply, and in fact it makes no difference, it's still an impenetrable black box, and irreparable given a basic text editor or shell (DOS) commands as your only tools.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, this story has been spammed out on all the newsfeeds since early this morning, and if you look at the stocks - particularly the internet stocks he was attacking, you can see that the market doesn't buy what he's saying.
Yes Mr. Ballmer, you're a big, important guy, what you say goes, and sacrificing a few points off of MSFT to attack your newly aquired target(s) bought you lots of credibility.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
well, the auto industry has rather successfully adopted that model - who here has bought a new car in the last 5 years, where the salesperson didn't pitch leasing first?
Anybody else notice that no matter how what the car's sticker price is, they always manage to end up making it a $350/mo. payment? That monthly bill keeps their revenue flowing in a nice, constant predictible stream. Of course, with software "rental", MS can cut out the middle-man of the finance company that car dealers have to deal with.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
On the other hand, WinCE will run as a Terminal Server client, so I'm sure that's a strong candidate OS for the network computer they have in mind, which is decidedly not an intel machine.
If this catches on, I'd unload all my stocks in disk drives - on the other hand, maybe this would be good for the disk drive manufacturers, shift them away from the commodity items they are today, back to the profitable state they lost about two years ago when they were forced to compete for value among other components in the sub-$1k market. What I'm trying to say is, if the sub-$1k market goes diskless (WinCE-running NC), then that would cause a big shift in the disk drive market, which, on the surface would look bad, but in the long run would restore strength to the disk drive industry (drive up disk drive prices). Good for stockholders, probably not good for high-end consumers who want workstations with real OSes and disks.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, maybe the MS employee was doing exactly what he was supposed to be doing, in testing the useability, of the whole package, including tech support. (in useability studies, you generally try to document at what point in the installation or use process a tech support call would be required - that's a spot you generally try to fix).
On the other hand, though I'm very much enjoying this story on Slashdot, and it's given us very valuable information (ie. MS is probably planning on slamming Linux publicly for useability lapses), as a tech support person myself, I think it's rather unprofessional to "kiss-and-tell" on a client. I know I've done it in the past, and it's done ALL THE TIME internally - I feel kind of creepy about this, Microsoft's internal problems broadcast out on Slashdot for all the world to read. If tech support were lawyers, this would be strictly forbidden as "attorney-client privilege".
my zwei pfennnig.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Intel weren't suckered, it was just another lame attempt in a series of lame attempts to dictate PC platform standards in a way that hurts it's competitors and makes them play "catch-up".
I'm very glad it's blowing up in their monopolistic faces.
Alternatives are looking more and more attractive every day.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
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not neccessarily,
what we need is something the size of like, a car key, that has "enough" storage, and can holographically project a screen about the size of a sheet of paper.
Also probably should have wireless networking, etc.
hey, build one of those things, and I'll buy one! guaranteed!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
What if rolling-papers were made of hemp?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's because there are more people than names to go around. That happened the day the second John Smith was born.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
TRANSPARENT BOOKS!
Get it? You couldn't READ them!
Where are the moderators man? this stuff is FUNNY!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"I can't think of that many people who have been tortured and brutally murdered in the name of
Athiesm, as for the well know organised religions..."
I think Stalin and Pol Pot can. . .
Religion, be it Athiesm or Christianity, is just a convenient excuse for these "people". Brutality happens. Blame whomever you like - I blame the "god" of the Humanist's religion. Humans. Whether there IS a Christian God or not, it's ultimately Humans who do the slaughtering.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Agreed. I've stood up on this forum and debated athiests to varying degrees, I am a Christian, but I'll say this, I'm pro God, but anti Religion. Nearly every person I know from my rather conservative church who's home schooling their kids, is doing it to avoid having their kids "brainwashed" by the state with sex-ed and evolution. It's kinda scary to think about these kids turned loose on society as adults. Well, I guess we'll see. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Heh, I guess the students are lucky Microsoft wasn't the corporate sponsor. Then they'd have GUIDs on their badges, which would be printed on an IE 5.0 CD to make sure you always had the install disk hanging around your neck.
Of course, if the corporate sponsor was AOL, they'd have their first name, plus a randomly generated 3-digit number +"@aol.com", all printed on, you guessed it, an AOL CD hung around their neck.
And if the corporate sponsor was Intel, they'd have to wear a $4000 Xeon cartridge WITH the 4 pound heat-sink, and the CPU ID number would be the identifier. Only they wouldn't be forced to wear it around their neck. It would be plugged into "slot 1".
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"What cares me, is looking back
through history, non-violent protest has only worked once - during the English occupation of India.
(But hey, maybe that means we are finally starting to learn as a race."
yeah, and now they're juggling nukes just like the US. Shows how much we're learning.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I swapped a digit by mistake on my original college application, and it ended up on my transcript. I corrected it with them, and I now have TWO transcripts. Now, 10 years later, it's suprising to see where the wrong number pops up. I just can't live this thing down.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
given a transparent backpack, and a desire to carry a firearm into school, I'd use the trusty-old hollowed out book.
What's next? Transparent books? Knowing our government, probably.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"* I just saw on TV that politicians in California are trying to build some kind of remote shutdown
into the engines of our cars to stop car chases."
This might be a good thing, seeing as how MOST car chases in CA involve recently stolen cars (engine disabler probably not disabled).
My solution to this is my 72 VW. It probably would run after an EMP from an atom bomb. Nary a transistor in sight. Worst-case, I could push-start it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh my GOD! That man in the ski-mask! That's Eric!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
This is the most shockingly heineously stupid thing I've read in a long time. In fact, I almost can't believe this isn't a hoax - that real-life American school administrators would be so utterly stupid and evil. You can tell them I said so.
In fact, I wasn't really shocked by Columbine; I knew from the time I spent in "the joint" (High School), that such an event was merely a matter of time - but that it would lead to THIS is truly shocking. I would definately pull my kids from such a school. This should not be allowed, it does nothing to prevent "school violence", it's in direct violation of the Department of Education and Department of Justice's guidelines on prevention of school violence ( http://www.air-dc.org/cecp/guide/guidetext.htm ) and it's just plain evil - not just the social security number thing, and not just the fact that they're required to wear the badge on a lanyard (ha, my company "required" all of it's employees to do the same thing, nobody does it. It's retarded!), but the fact that the kids are REQUIRED to wear a Pepsi logo, and advertise for a corporation - now that just plain has nothing to do with education, and should not be tolerated period.
Take the principal out and whoop his 455!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
But in order for those specific definitions to be useful/renderable/recogizable on everybody's system, some piece of code somewhere on that system has to know what those tags mean, and knows how to do the specific things that that tag requires - and that's where I'm having a problem with realizing the usefulness of this technology. How do you get that code onto your client's machine, and why is it any more useful than Java?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
McCain has also been an outspoken opponent of the DOJ's prosecution of the antitrust case against Microsoft.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh come on, internet trade is NO DIFFERENT than mail-order. It's not some big new mystical magical entity, it's just a different communications medium.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Thanks for all the information, but it still doesn't explain: what does XML DO?
Does it replace JavaScript?
Does it replace Java?
What is required to implement it - a web browser that "does" XML? - an office app (like Word or StarOffice) that can parse XML and execute it's "commands"? Is it a programming language? If so, do we consider it to be an "interperated" language? I really don't understand it's use for doing configuration files - though your explanation of what XML is is the best one I've read so far. (most explanations, including the dissapointingly LAME-ASS one in Scientific American, simply say - it's a way for people to create their own extensions to HTML - without saying anything about how those extensions are implemented or acted on, and how a specialized extension is used on a system that doesn't know the extension (platform-specific code? browser plug-in? what? how?)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Just to pick nits here, the Windows registry IS NOT a single, monolithic file. On NT, it's the contents of \winnt\system32\config, a bunch of files.
Of course all the other things you say do apply, and in fact it makes no difference, it's still an impenetrable black box, and irreparable given a basic text editor or shell (DOS) commands as your only tools.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, this story has been spammed out on all the newsfeeds since early this morning, and if you look at the stocks - particularly the internet stocks he was attacking, you can see that the market doesn't buy what he's saying.
Yes Mr. Ballmer, you're a big, important guy, what you say goes, and sacrificing a few points off of MSFT to attack your newly aquired target(s) bought you lots of credibility.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
well, the auto industry has rather successfully adopted that model - who here has bought a new car in the last 5 years, where the salesperson didn't pitch leasing first?
Anybody else notice that no matter how what the car's sticker price is, they always manage to end up making it a $350/mo. payment? That monthly bill keeps their revenue flowing in a nice, constant predictible stream. Of course, with software "rental", MS can cut out the middle-man of the finance company that car dealers have to deal with.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
On the other hand, WinCE will run as a Terminal Server client, so I'm sure that's a strong candidate OS for the network computer they have in mind, which is decidedly not an intel machine.
If this catches on, I'd unload all my stocks in disk drives - on the other hand, maybe this would be good for the disk drive manufacturers, shift them away from the commodity items they are today, back to the profitable state they lost about two years ago when they were forced to compete for value among other components in the sub-$1k market. What I'm trying to say is, if the sub-$1k market goes diskless (WinCE-running NC), then that would cause a big shift in the disk drive market, which, on the surface would look bad, but in the long run would restore strength to the disk drive industry (drive up disk drive prices). Good for stockholders, probably not good for high-end consumers who want workstations with real OSes and disks.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
In the immortal words of Grimjack:
"I only believe in a fair fight when I can't rig it in my favor."
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I especially liked how he said (sic) that "Yahoo. . . is not customizable."
He's a bit more outspoken than old Bill was, and a bit more WRONG.
Besides, just looking at him, I see an orange jumpsuit. Ya think his prison numbers are going to be in hex? Little-endian or big-endian?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, maybe the MS employee was doing exactly what he was supposed to be doing, in testing the useability, of the whole package, including tech support. (in useability studies, you generally try to document at what point in the installation or use process a tech support call would be required - that's a spot you generally try to fix).
On the other hand, though I'm very much enjoying this story on Slashdot, and it's given us very valuable information (ie. MS is probably planning on slamming Linux publicly for useability lapses), as a tech support person myself, I think it's rather unprofessional to "kiss-and-tell" on a client. I know I've done it in the past, and it's done ALL THE TIME internally - I feel kind of creepy about this, Microsoft's internal problems broadcast out on Slashdot for all the world to read. If tech support were lawyers, this would be strictly forbidden as "attorney-client privilege".
my zwei pfennnig.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Intel weren't suckered, it was just another lame attempt in a series of lame attempts to dictate PC platform standards in a way that hurts it's competitors and makes them play "catch-up".
I'm very glad it's blowing up in their monopolistic faces.
Alternatives are looking more and more attractive every day.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."