You know, there's a lot of good causes that could use those million dollars. I believe in right to privacy and not being hassled and what not, but I also believe in the common good.
I imagine if that happens, China would stab Microsoft in the back and start stealing their IP and putting it on their own computers. And if they started selling those knockoff computers worldwide, who would stop them? It's not like the US government would have any say in things, since we owe them billions of dollars. The best they could do is write a sternly-worded letter.
Actually, all he needs to stop looking silly is to attach a straw to the device and two beers to the side of his head. If you see a guy like that on the street, you won't think he's a creative blind man, you'll just think it's a guy ready for a party at any given moment.
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Right, because before putting wifi on the bus, there were so many opportunities for learning and self-achievement
If anything, making people shut the fuck up in the bus will help the introspective types that just want to be left alone so they can get some reading done. From personal experience, the most distracting thing about reading in the bus was not trying to read through the bumpiness and the constant starting and stopping. No, the most distracting thing was the guy next to me trying to get into a fight with the dude directly in front of me, reducing my personal space to whatever my eye's shortest focal length could be.
While much of Microsoft's recent push into search has been on the consumer side with Bing, Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer has helped the software giant make inroads in the enterprise search market.
More than 10,000 of Microsoft's enterprise customers have deployed Fast's technology to date, and Microsoft's free Search Server Express product has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, according to Whittinghill.
Fast's enterprise search technology will also be part of Office 2010, Whittinghill says. Office 2010 is being offered to selected testers as a Release Candidate, and is slated for launch by June.
Danger (February 2008)
At this point in time, a week before the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, it's hard to look at Microsoft's $500 million pickup of Danger, developer of the software and services stack for the Sidekick, as anything but a disappointment.
Much of the Danger talent landed in Microsoft's Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division. PMX not only was responsible for a Sidekick outage last October that caused T-Mobile subscribers to lose data, it's also leading Microsoft's Pink smartphone project, which has been rumored to be on the rocks for several months. Many former Danger staffers have either been laid off or left Microsoft of their own accord.
According to Whittinghill, the goal of the Danger acquisition was to combine all the different Microsoft experiences, including MSN, Zune and Windows Live Search For Mobile, and "start creating a connected entertainment and communications experience." Microsoft may still be planning to launch Pink, and it may actually fulfill this vision, but right now, the Danger deal looks like a dud.
Kidaro (March 2008)
Microsoft's acquisition of Israel-based Kidaro, reportedly for $100 million, added desktop virtualization to its portfolio and gave the company the all important backward compatibility necessary for upgrading to new versions of Windows.
Kidaro is now called Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), which is essentially Windows XP Mode with management capability layered on top. Kidaro's technology allows companies to continue using legacy business apps after Windows upgrades, and it's also well suited to mobile environments with large numbers of notebook PCs, where the ability to deploy and move PC images quickly and easily is an advantage.
Kidaro is part of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which includes desktop and application virtualization, inventory services, System Center desktop error monitoring and group policy management tools, and is only available as part of a Software Assurance subscription.
DATAllegro (September 2008)
Microsoft deepened its data warehousing portfolio with its September 2008 acquisition of DATAllegro, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based firm whose technology allows SQL Server to handle massive amounts of data. "They allow you to scale out to hundreds of terabytes," says Whittinghill.
The DATAllegro deal, which reportedly cost $275 million, was Microsoft's entry to the data warehousing space. According to Whittinghill, Microsoft was interested both in DATAllegro's talent and its core IP. Given the growing role that data warehousing and business intelligence are playing within the enterprises, and the rapid increase in the amount of data enterprises are generating, this acquisition will continue paying dividends for the next several years.`
Calista Technologies (January 2008)
Microsoft's acquisition of Calista brought in a collection of GPU virtualization technologies that stream multimedia (Flash, Silverlight, Windows Media and Direct3D) content from a Hyper-V host to thick and thin clients.
"Calista provided the essential technology for increasing the ease of experience around watching video and
So after all the ditches are dug, everything just magically becomes great and stable again? I agree that the most important thing right now is mostly physical labor, but I imagine there's some kind of transitional phase where having people with counseling and networking backgrounds WOULD come in handy.
If you're going to make a 3D processor, you might as well just integrate the heatsink, no? Build it with a large surface area and just dip the entire thing in copper... (IANAE)
If this includes Beta releases, then that effectively means that the software company would have to much more testing in-house and ramp up the prices of the finished product to compensate.
If it doesn't include Beta releases, then everything everyone makes will be labeled a Beta until kingdom come.
Seems like a pretty difficult law to write. Perhaps limit how long a Beta test can last?
Actually, going to the bottom of any experts-exchange page will give you the full answer. Just keep your Page Down button pressed until the page loads.
Like this Linux Wireless question
Now, is that something that search engines are legally bound to, like some sort of contract, or is it just a "suggestion" or something done out of good faith? Because in the end, it's Google's choice if they're going to index something or not.
Just rip the book's spine off. At this point, it's probably easier and faster to learn how to re-sew a book than to do all the software voodoo (unskewing, OCR) to get a somewhat usable ebook.
Did IBM provide a workaround or text file for configuration competitor's devices? Because iTunes already provides a way for third party products to sync with iTunes (using the iTunes Music Library.xml file).
And adding a Vista machine to a network is exactly the same as adding an XP machine? I'm not saying you're wrong, necessarily, but the example you gave of "keeping interfaces and GUIs stable" isn't very true with Microsoft either.
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You know, there's a lot of good causes that could use those million dollars. I believe in right to privacy and not being hassled and what not, but I also believe in the common good.
I imagine if that happens, China would stab Microsoft in the back and start stealing their IP and putting it on their own computers. And if they started selling those knockoff computers worldwide, who would stop them? It's not like the US government would have any say in things, since we owe them billions of dollars. The best they could do is write a sternly-worded letter.
Actually, all he needs to stop looking silly is to attach a straw to the device and two beers to the side of his head. If you see a guy like that on the street, you won't think he's a creative blind man, you'll just think it's a guy ready for a party at any given moment.
As children always rebel against their parents, however, the contemporary Norse rebels against his ancestors by being quiet, polite and sane.
...imagine a 1000x1000 pixel image with 24 bit color. There are 24 ^ 1000000 unique pixel configurations to fill that image....
My brain had a buffer overflow. Can I imagine a smaller image, say 10x10 pixels, 256 colors?
Holy shit. That's reason enough to move to Latvia.
Switch her to a pay as you go contract?
I believe those are called "hookers." Oh wait, you meant the phone.
Google is already a dangerous hacker tool.
Right, because before putting wifi on the bus, there were so many opportunities for learning and self-achievement
If anything, making people shut the fuck up in the bus will help the introspective types that just want to be left alone so they can get some reading done. From personal experience, the most distracting thing about reading in the bus was not trying to read through the bumpiness and the constant starting and stopping. No, the most distracting thing was the guy next to me trying to get into a fight with the dude directly in front of me, reducing my personal space to whatever my eye's shortest focal length could be.
It's not that far-fetched, actually. Just write a greasemonkey script to replace "Anonymous Coward" with "The Stranger"
Entire article in one post:
Fast Search & Transfer (January 2008)
While much of Microsoft's recent push into search has been on the consumer side with Bing, Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer has helped the software giant make inroads in the enterprise search market. More than 10,000 of Microsoft's enterprise customers have deployed Fast's technology to date, and Microsoft's free Search Server Express product has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, according to Whittinghill.
Fast's enterprise search technology will also be part of Office 2010, Whittinghill says. Office 2010 is being offered to selected testers as a Release Candidate, and is slated for launch by June.
Danger (February 2008)
At this point in time, a week before the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, it's hard to look at Microsoft's $500 million pickup of Danger, developer of the software and services stack for the Sidekick, as anything but a disappointment.
Much of the Danger talent landed in Microsoft's Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) team, a group within the Mobile Communications Business (MCB) of the Entertainment and Devices Division. PMX not only was responsible for a Sidekick outage last October that caused T-Mobile subscribers to lose data, it's also leading Microsoft's Pink smartphone project, which has been rumored to be on the rocks for several months. Many former Danger staffers have either been laid off or left Microsoft of their own accord.
According to Whittinghill, the goal of the Danger acquisition was to combine all the different Microsoft experiences, including MSN, Zune and Windows Live Search For Mobile, and "start creating a connected entertainment and communications experience." Microsoft may still be planning to launch Pink, and it may actually fulfill this vision, but right now, the Danger deal looks like a dud.
Kidaro (March 2008)
Microsoft's acquisition of Israel-based Kidaro, reportedly for $100 million, added desktop virtualization to its portfolio and gave the company the all important backward compatibility necessary for upgrading to new versions of Windows.
Kidaro is now called Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), which is essentially Windows XP Mode with management capability layered on top. Kidaro's technology allows companies to continue using legacy business apps after Windows upgrades, and it's also well suited to mobile environments with large numbers of notebook PCs, where the ability to deploy and move PC images quickly and easily is an advantage.
Kidaro is part of Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which includes desktop and application virtualization, inventory services, System Center desktop error monitoring and group policy management tools, and is only available as part of a Software Assurance subscription.
DATAllegro (September 2008)
Microsoft deepened its data warehousing portfolio with its September 2008 acquisition of DATAllegro, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based firm whose technology allows SQL Server to handle massive amounts of data. "They allow you to scale out to hundreds of terabytes," says Whittinghill.
The DATAllegro deal, which reportedly cost $275 million, was Microsoft's entry to the data warehousing space. According to Whittinghill, Microsoft was interested both in DATAllegro's talent and its core IP. Given the growing role that data warehousing and business intelligence are playing within the enterprises, and the rapid increase in the amount of data enterprises are generating, this acquisition will continue paying dividends for the next several years.`
Calista Technologies (January 2008)
Microsoft's acquisition of Calista brought in a collection of GPU virtualization technologies that stream multimedia (Flash, Silverlight, Windows Media and Direct3D) content from a Hyper-V host to thick and thin clients.
"Calista provided the essential technology for increasing the ease of experience around watching video and
Oh goodie! I'm already throwing chairs in excitement!
So after all the ditches are dug, everything just magically becomes great and stable again? I agree that the most important thing right now is mostly physical labor, but I imagine there's some kind of transitional phase where having people with counseling and networking backgrounds WOULD come in handy.
If you're going to make a 3D processor, you might as well just integrate the heatsink, no? Build it with a large surface area and just dip the entire thing in copper... (IANAE)
If this includes Beta releases, then that effectively means that the software company would have to much more testing in-house and ramp up the prices of the finished product to compensate.
If it doesn't include Beta releases, then everything everyone makes will be labeled a Beta until kingdom come.
Seems like a pretty difficult law to write. Perhaps limit how long a Beta test can last?
The posts I find usually tell me to "just fucking Google it." It gets quite maddening when I get into a recursive loop like that.
Ah, apparently it's not working anymore. It was working earlier, and here's the google cache to prove it.
Actually, going to the bottom of any experts-exchange page will give you the full answer. Just keep your Page Down button pressed until the page loads. Like this Linux Wireless question
Used my last mod point on him. Wish we had a -1 Spammer.
Now, is that something that search engines are legally bound to, like some sort of contract, or is it just a "suggestion" or something done out of good faith? Because in the end, it's Google's choice if they're going to index something or not.
But a "+1 Drunk" mod would so much more useful.
Just rip the book's spine off. At this point, it's probably easier and faster to learn how to re-sew a book than to do all the software voodoo (unskewing, OCR) to get a somewhat usable ebook.
Did IBM provide a workaround or text file for configuration competitor's devices? Because iTunes already provides a way for third party products to sync with iTunes (using the iTunes Music Library.xml file).
And adding a Vista machine to a network is exactly the same as adding an XP machine? I'm not saying you're wrong, necessarily, but the example you gave of "keeping interfaces and GUIs stable" isn't very true with Microsoft either.
Now I want the Windows 95 TADA noise when my airbags are deployed. I love for my cars to have a sense of sarcasm.