Agreed! It is a common misconception that the only way to fix a problem is to start over. Here is a good article about not needing to rewrite code just because it sucks, and where it is better most of the time to revamp the existing code rather than throw it out the window:
I would assume the majority of the time would be spent fixing bugs in Office XP, Windows XP, etc. Also, a great number of those '60k bugs' could have been anything from a spelling error to something 99.999% of users would never see under any circumstances; so, if they can fix all of the major bugs that most people do experience, I'd say that would be the important part.
They are soliciting user feedback, if you've used XP, you'll know that anytime any program crashes you are given the option to "send error report" to MS, (it doesn't send any personal information, only memory dumps, etc. of effected areas)
They used these error reports in making fixes and adjustment for Office XP SP1, so yes, they do use user feedback. They also listen to you if you can write an intelligent letter reporting bugs to them.
There are few cases were regulation is needed, and it has often overstepped its bounds. Many people would argue that no regulation is better, even if you have monopolies in control of certain markets. If capitalism works like it is supposed to, then everything would still be find and dandy without regulation.
Yeah, I think many people on here don't understand how economies work or something. Hell, I've only had 1 semester of economics class, and I know that nearly every product that is sold is at least sold for 200% of what it cost to make it, if not much more than that. (The exception would be in the case of computer manufacturers, who will markup the price on certain parts of the computer, then through in the keyboard for free or something (which is why if you buy something from dell and tell them you don't want the keyboard trying to say $10, it won't save you anything), but it doesn't really matter, because in the end, you end up paying something equivicable to 200% or more of what is cost them.)
I hate paying any amount for gasoline, but I still pay for it, because I have to get places (and Indianapolis has no decent public transportation, but I would still have to pay for that!)
The consumer does NOT set the price. While demand does have an impact on the price, in the end the price is also determined by the cost to create the product.
I will admit that I have used pirated software that I indeed would have paid for if the pirated version was not so easily available to me. (and often times out of guilt, I almost bought it anyway.)
I sure hope that you never create anything of worth in your life that you want to offer to others, and then try to tell me that all the hours you put into its development wasn't worth anything, and when someone stole your product and gave it out to hundreds of people, that you hadn't lost anything.
Unless you are poor and hungry and are stealing something that you need to survive, I see no justification for theft of any kind.
Another question for you, if you never would have purchased it in the first place, why did you bother downloading it to obtain a pirated version? If you wouldn't even pay $1 for it, why did you go through the trouble of even trying to get it? I'm lost on that one.
If it's shareware, and someone is using a pirated copy, that means that most likely, everything has been enabled, if it was a restricted copy, and if there were any annoying pop-up messages, etc. they are most likely gone now.
Therefore, if you received a pirated copy of a shareware product, why would you pay for it, since you already have the full capabilities of it enabled?
Piracy is not a good marketing tool. The fact that people are willing to use my product, but do not feel it is worth paying for tells me that my product isn't good enough.
If someone goes to a store and steals xyz product, then gives copies of it away to everyone, no one is going to say "oh hey, I think I'll go back to that store and pay them for this free product I just got".
You need to get your university to make a deal with Microsoft then. I know that IU, Purdue, and all their satellite campuses have some good deals with MS, where just about all MS software (excluding games, so basically, Operating systems, Office stuff, and Development tools) are available free to students to download from the Internet, or for $5 per cd you can get cds of them.
As far as shareware, the only shareware I've ever paid for was AdSubtract, http://www.adsubtract.com There's not too much shareware I use anymore anyway, i.e., Since MS has included some compression utilities in XP now, I don't need winzip.
You know, in a few hundred years, it won't be so near the south pole anymore. Heh. I also find it amusing that the "south pole" (as in an actual pole stuck in the ice/snow) has to be readjusted constantly. I guess that's what you get for building stuff on a glacier =]
However, the supreme court is there to interpret the constituion, bill of rights, and other amendments and laws. For reference:
The U.S. Supreme Court did rule in 1942, in a case called Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, that intimidating speech directed at a specific individual in a face-to-face confrontation amounts to "fighting words," and that the person engaging in such speech can be punished if "by their very utterance [the words] inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
(from http://www.aclu.org/library/pbp16.html )
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"But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. Aikens v. Wisconsin, 195 U.S. 194, 205, 206. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force. Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U.S. 418, 439. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).
Speaking of the fight against the Brits, we are also often led to believe that everyone was behind the fight. In actuality, about 25-30% of the population was for it, more were against it, and the rest were indifferent. I find it amusing that most of the original "citizens" of the United States wanted to stay British Colonies.
Hmm... you trust information you find on the Internet? (Okay, so there are MANY reputable sources online, but there also many more that aren't, same goes for offline sources as well.)
If what he says is true, then we're all going to have to wave goodbye to SNL, Jon Stewart, and Conan O'Brien, since they all publicly have disagreed with many of the policies of the US. The news media tends to do so more now than they did a few months ago.
Yeah, but the one I'm talking about, you are hanging basically from a real handglider setup, surrounded by a sort of 'virtual reality' world I guess....
17) 1st person Skydiver -use fans or stereo sound to indicate wind direction.
We have one of those in our local arcade, more like a hangglider than a skydiver, but freefall wouldn't be THAT exciting in an arcade!
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That'd the GDP, not per capita income. They were referring to GNI per capita; how much money each person in the country makes on average. Not how much money the country makes all together. In other words, Russia may be worth a lot of money, but that's just because they have a lot of people.
Most of the people on the Apollo missions were engineers of some sort, and had college educations. The Mercury missions (what The Right Stuff was about) were mainly "let's find the first guy dumb enough to sit on top of a rocket and send him up there". Doesn't mean they were stupid, just emphasising that the Apollo missions required more brains. A monkey could handle the Mercury rockets.
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It was Apollo 11, the first ones to land on the moon.
If drivers on windows suck, name me an operating system with good support for all the hardware out there today. At least Windows recognizes every piece of hardware on my computer (internal and external) with no problem, and I have not had any problems at all with any of my hardware.
As far as redhat or other linux's go, it wasn't until just recently that my USB mouse would even work, and it randomly stops working as it is. If I boot up with a disk in my zip drive, it complains. Redhat 7.2 was the first to fully recognize my video card, etc, etc, etc.
One more complaint, why can't X figure out for itself what my monitor's specs are? Windows sure doesn't have any problems....
I'd hope so. Especially considering that the entire.NET SDK is free for download for all from MS, it would be a good idea for others to follow suit. If you ask me, vi/notepad makes a great IDE when you can get the rest for free =]
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Agreed! It is a common misconception that the only way to fix a problem is to start over. Here is a good article about not needing to rewrite code just because it sucks, and where it is better most of the time to revamp the existing code rather than throw it out the window:
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http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000
I would assume the majority of the time would be spent fixing bugs in Office XP, Windows XP, etc. Also, a great number of those '60k bugs' could have been anything from a spelling error to something 99.999% of users would never see under any circumstances; so, if they can fix all of the major bugs that most people do experience, I'd say that would be the important part.
They used these error reports in making fixes and adjustment for Office XP SP1, so yes, they do use user feedback. They also listen to you if you can write an intelligent letter reporting bugs to them.
There are few cases were regulation is needed, and it has often overstepped its bounds. Many people would argue that no regulation is better, even if you have monopolies in control of certain markets. If capitalism works like it is supposed to, then everything would still be find and dandy without regulation.
Yeah, I think many people on here don't understand how economies work or something. Hell, I've only had 1 semester of economics class, and I know that nearly every product that is sold is at least sold for 200% of what it cost to make it, if not much more than that. (The exception would be in the case of computer manufacturers, who will markup the price on certain parts of the computer, then through in the keyboard for free or something (which is why if you buy something from dell and tell them you don't want the keyboard trying to say $10, it won't save you anything), but it doesn't really matter, because in the end, you end up paying something equivicable to 200% or more of what is cost them.)
You've confused democracy and capitalism here. While they may go hand in hand nicely, they aren't the same thing.
The consumer does NOT set the price. While demand does have an impact on the price, in the end the price is also determined by the cost to create the product.
I will admit that I have used pirated software that I indeed would have paid for if the pirated version was not so easily available to me. (and often times out of guilt, I almost bought it anyway.)
I sure hope that you never create anything of worth in your life that you want to offer to others, and then try to tell me that all the hours you put into its development wasn't worth anything, and when someone stole your product and gave it out to hundreds of people, that you hadn't lost anything.
Unless you are poor and hungry and are stealing something that you need to survive, I see no justification for theft of any kind.
Another question for you, if you never would have purchased it in the first place, why did you bother downloading it to obtain a pirated version? If you wouldn't even pay $1 for it, why did you go through the trouble of even trying to get it? I'm lost on that one.
Therefore, if you received a pirated copy of a shareware product, why would you pay for it, since you already have the full capabilities of it enabled?
Piracy is not a good marketing tool. The fact that people are willing to use my product, but do not feel it is worth paying for tells me that my product isn't good enough.
If someone goes to a store and steals xyz product, then gives copies of it away to everyone, no one is going to say "oh hey, I think I'll go back to that store and pay them for this free product I just got".
As far as shareware, the only shareware I've ever paid for was AdSubtract, http://www.adsubtract.com There's not too much shareware I use anymore anyway, i.e., Since MS has included some compression utilities in XP now, I don't need winzip.
You know, in a few hundred years, it won't be so near the south pole anymore. Heh. I also find it amusing that the "south pole" (as in an actual pole stuck in the ice/snow) has to be readjusted constantly. I guess that's what you get for building stuff on a glacier =]
The south pole is also on one giant glacier. It's not exactly safe either.
The U.S. Supreme Court did rule in 1942, in a case called Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, that intimidating speech directed at a specific individual in a face-to-face confrontation amounts to "fighting words," and that the person engaging in such speech can be punished if "by their very utterance [the words] inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
(from http://www.aclu.org/library/pbp16.html )
Also:
"But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. Aikens v. Wisconsin, 195 U.S. 194, 205, 206. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force. Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U.S. 418, 439. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919).
Speaking of the fight against the Brits, we are also often led to believe that everyone was behind the fight. In actuality, about 25-30% of the population was for it, more were against it, and the rest were indifferent. I find it amusing that most of the original "citizens" of the United States wanted to stay British Colonies.
Hmm... you trust information you find on the Internet? (Okay, so there are MANY reputable sources online, but there also many more that aren't, same goes for offline sources as well.)
Isn't there still an active Communist party in the United States? I believe they occasional work their way onto a ballot every know and then too.
If what he says is true, then we're all going to have to wave goodbye to SNL, Jon Stewart, and Conan O'Brien, since they all publicly have disagreed with many of the policies of the US. The news media tends to do so more now than they did a few months ago.
Yeah, but the one I'm talking about, you are hanging basically from a real handglider setup, surrounded by a sort of 'virtual reality' world I guess....
We have one of those in our local arcade, more like a hangglider than a skydiver, but freefall wouldn't be THAT exciting in an arcade!
That'd the GDP, not per capita income. They were referring to GNI per capita; how much money each person in the country makes on average. Not how much money the country makes all together. In other words, Russia may be worth a lot of money, but that's just because they have a lot of people.
Most of the people on the Apollo missions were engineers of some sort, and had college educations. The Mercury missions (what The Right Stuff was about) were mainly "let's find the first guy dumb enough to sit on top of a rocket and send him up there". Doesn't mean they were stupid, just emphasising that the Apollo missions required more brains. A monkey could handle the Mercury rockets.
It was Apollo 11, the first ones to land on the moon.
We can checkout various software titles at our public library here in my town....
As far as redhat or other linux's go, it wasn't until just recently that my USB mouse would even work, and it randomly stops working as it is. If I boot up with a disk in my zip drive, it complains. Redhat 7.2 was the first to fully recognize my video card, etc, etc, etc.
One more complaint, why can't X figure out for itself what my monitor's specs are? Windows sure doesn't have any problems....
Slashdot != journalism. They just find stuff that interests people and post it here, but they don't write the stories or find the stories. =]
I'd hope so. Especially considering that the entire .NET SDK is free for download for all from MS, it would be a good idea for others to follow suit. If you ask me, vi/notepad makes a great IDE when you can get the rest for free =]