Staying on topic, M$ trying to make something do everything is typical. So expect the Xbox to try to do many things and fail at all of them.
But that has always been their achilles heel. They have here what could be considered the best console system out there and they would ruin it by adding junk that most don't want and those who do can get elsewhere.
All they'll end up with is a mess. Look at XP, they weren't happy with just an OS, so they added every possible type of utility software they could imagine. What do they end up with? An OS that's good for not much more than being used as a case study in a computer security seminar.
Don't get me wrong, the Xbox does look like a great machine, I'd buy one if'n I had the cash. But MS's management is always so worried about total control that they would turn that into a peice of junk.
Yes, I'm pretty sure Reckless knew who put the quotation marks into the write-up. He's asking why is the submitter putting those quotes in. Here's why:
This analyst, Mosesmann, that the article uses as its source is rather suspect as an impartial source of information here. The first sentence says he works for Prudential and covers Nvidia chips. He then says that this Homestation is true and that it will most likely use an Nvidia chip. As someone else said, this sounds a lot like he's just boosting Nvidia stock.
Most of the software used by the US government is written by a contractor and licensed to specific government agencies. For example, I worked in the pay/travel office at the local air force base for a while. The program we used to process the reimbursement vouchers was licensed by one contractor. This program had a strange caveat in its LA that stated the software couldn't be installed for training purposes. The data from that program was sent to two other programs, each licensed by two other contractors.
Because the software and its code is owned by a private company, you would be hard pressed to get it through FOIA. Of course, if this petition finds its way to law, they'd have to release it as OSS. Which would probably be a good thing, because that program was ridden with the most gods forsaken bugs I have ever seen. It was designed to be integrated (that was part of its name) with other systems, but if you let it integrate with those systems you would get colonels calling to ask why they didn't get paid. This was a problem that lasted several years, despite semi-annual updates, as for as I know it's still unable to properly perform most of the advanced capabilities that are actual menu options.
Actually, humans are quite resistant to Anthrax, which is why you would have to come into such clos contact with so many spores inorder for it to affects you. Apparently, the spores live in the soil and wait for a susceptible animal to walk past. There is currently an Anthrax epidemic amongst African elephants.
Now you may feel like a anti-corporate crusader or whatever for downloading Win2k Server off Gnutella, but still, you are depriving somebody of just compensation for all their hard work.
The people who did the actual hard work for creating Win2K server (to use your example) have already gotten paid all they're gonna get for it. Thus, if I do download it from Gnutella, I'm not hurting the people who are at risk of starving.
...If you're paying for the service, you can purchase your own decoder. That's why the decoders you see for sale in the back of electronics magazines are not considered "illegal circumvention devices" - they have a legitimate, legal use.
In our house we only have one television with a decoder. All the rest are cable ready and can play any channel independent from the other televisions.
Only problem with this is the TVs without a decoder can't play any premium channels. But that's not a problem cause we don't subscribe to any, they're not worth the money.
Those three little letters: FBI. And NSA. Most likely CIA, too.
These folks have techniques to recover data that's been overwritten, cut up, and partially burned.
If you're gonna destroy old media with sensitive data on it, make sure you thouroughly pulverize it. Now I'll have to wait for the Authorities to come pick me up for aiding and abetting terrorists by saying how to get around this.
The class I took last semester as my major CS requirement was simply titled "Computer Programming Languages". We lost a good quater of the class after the first day because of all the folks that thought it was introductory Java or something. It was actually about what makes up a language and how they're described, ie BNF, as well as parsing and lexical analysis.
We did cover some specific languages: Scheme, Prolog, and C++. This was to demonstrate the difference between functional, logic, and procedural languages.
The book we used was Concepts of Programming Languages, 5th edition by Robert Sebesta, if anyone is intersted.
I swear, most of the people who I have encountered in my CS classes don't seem to truly understand the amount of work it takes. They heard that programmers are in hot demand and can make a lot of money, so they decided to make a career change. I'm not the best there is, but some of these people should really reconsider. OTOH, I have seen some works of genius from some folks that make me feel like reconsidering.
[Adams] added: "In contrast, small companies don't even consider such things because they don't have the
luxury to do anything but important things. I personally experienced a huge decrease in bureaucracy at
Pacific Bell that seemed mostly related to the downsizing. It's obviously not an absolute statement, but it's
certainly true for many of the white-collar groups in previously bloated companies."
I agree with him that, in the white-collar world at least, smaller groups are more productive; the workforce should be just sufficient enough to handle the workload. If you're spending all your time at meeting or focus groups, it's time to move some folks out of there and you should bring that up to your boss. I also think that it's better to have 100 small companies than 10 large companies.
Scott Adams has never made it seem that Dilbert was anything more than a money maker for him. I read Dilbert because it's funny, I don't see any of that "officer worker underground" type stuff in it. I'm sure your PHB tapes Dilbert cartoons at his desk because he feels the same way about his PHB.
Yeah the NT family of OSs certainly aren't the crash happy win95 OSs. In the article Barry deals with 98 on a daily basis. This article would have been relevent before 2k came out, but now it seems pretty dated.
Yeah, every home user should be able to afford Win2K. Get real.
What do people see in Barry anyways? A pun here a stupid reference there and he's selling books and getting posted here when he writes something criticizing well-know problems with win98.
If it's so easy, why aren't you selling the humour books like crazy? The reason he got posted here is because he's a mainstream writer who is read by many folks. We know it's not going to change the world, but it's a step forward.
Maybe college Computer Science programs should start requiring a class on quality control. That is, of course, assuming that most programmers out there get a formal education.
That makes sense. The "total crap" appearance of South Park is, after all, an artistic (I know I'm gonna get it for that) choice. That is to say, that is not the best the animators can do.
The Flintstones done CGI... Because on can never reuse an old idea enough...
You mean like this?
"Ice Age," the story of a human infant found by a trio of Ice Age animals, is the kind of film that likely would not have been made were it not being produced digitally.
I wonder if they'll even bother crediting Rudyard Kipling.
All attempts on the federal level to ammend Civil Rights laws to include sexual orientation have been shot down in the US. So at this point sexual orientation would protected only on the stat level, and most states don't have suh protections.
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Microsoft execs are lawyers. They have to be; otherwise, how do they know where all the legal loopholes are?
But that has always been their achilles heel. They have here what could be considered the best console system out there and they would ruin it by adding junk that most don't want and those who do can get elsewhere.
All they'll end up with is a mess. Look at XP, they weren't happy with just an OS, so they added every possible type of utility software they could imagine. What do they end up with? An OS that's good for not much more than being used as a case study in a computer security seminar.
Don't get me wrong, the Xbox does look like a great machine, I'd buy one if'n I had the cash. But MS's management is always so worried about total control that they would turn that into a peice of junk.
This analyst, Mosesmann, that the article uses as its source is rather suspect as an impartial source of information here. The first sentence says he works for Prudential and covers Nvidia chips. He then says that this Homestation is true and that it will most likely use an Nvidia chip. As someone else said, this sounds a lot like he's just boosting Nvidia stock.
Because the software and its code is owned by a private company, you would be hard pressed to get it through FOIA. Of course, if this petition finds its way to law, they'd have to release it as OSS. Which would probably be a good thing, because that program was ridden with the most gods forsaken bugs I have ever seen. It was designed to be integrated (that was part of its name) with other systems, but if you let it integrate with those systems you would get colonels calling to ask why they didn't get paid. This was a problem that lasted several years, despite semi-annual updates, as for as I know it's still unable to properly perform most of the advanced capabilities that are actual menu options.
National Geographic Explorer, I salute you.
To which you answered: we haven't bought any new licenses yet, we can't seem to agree on which distro of Linux to get.
The people who did the actual hard work for creating Win2K server (to use your example) have already gotten paid all they're gonna get for it. Thus, if I do download it from Gnutella, I'm not hurting the people who are at risk of starving.
From the PowerPoint thingy:
Boost your revenue - millions generated through the channel!
Yep, this is about piracy alright.
In our house we only have one television with a decoder. All the rest are cable ready and can play any channel independent from the other televisions.
Only problem with this is the TVs without a decoder can't play any premium channels. But that's not a problem cause we don't subscribe to any, they're not worth the money.
These folks have techniques to recover data that's been overwritten, cut up, and partially burned.
If you're gonna destroy old media with sensitive data on it, make sure you thouroughly pulverize it. Now I'll have to wait for the Authorities to come pick me up for aiding and abetting terrorists by saying how to get around this.
That's because they have MTV.
And I previewed that and still missed it until after hitting submit.
We did cover some specific languages: Scheme, Prolog, and C++. This was to demonstrate the difference between functional, logic, and procedural languages.
The book we used was Concepts of Programming Languages, 5th edition by Robert Sebesta, if anyone is intersted.
I swear, most of the people who I have encountered in my CS classes don't seem to truly understand the amount of work it takes. They heard that programmers are in hot demand and can make a lot of money, so they decided to make a career change. I'm not the best there is, but some of these people should really reconsider. OTOH, I have seen some works of genius from some folks that make me feel like reconsidering.
I agree with him that, in the white-collar world at least, smaller groups are more productive; the workforce should be just sufficient enough to handle the workload. If you're spending all your time at meeting or focus groups, it's time to move some folks out of there and you should bring that up to your boss. I also think that it's better to have 100 small companies than 10 large companies.
Scott Adams has never made it seem that Dilbert was anything more than a money maker for him. I read Dilbert because it's funny, I don't see any of that "officer worker underground" type stuff in it. I'm sure your PHB tapes Dilbert cartoons at his desk because he feels the same way about his PHB.
Yeah, every home user should be able to afford Win2K. Get real.
What do people see in Barry anyways? A pun here a stupid reference there and he's selling books and getting posted here when he writes something criticizing well-know problems with win98.
If it's so easy, why aren't you selling the humour books like crazy? The reason he got posted here is because he's a mainstream writer who is read by many folks. We know it's not going to change the world, but it's a step forward.
You mean like this?
"Ice Age," the story of a human infant found by a trio of Ice Age animals, is the kind of film that likely would not have been made were it not being produced digitally.
I wonder if they'll even bother crediting Rudyard Kipling.