My wife does not want a mac because its not windows and windows and office is all she knows so why change?
The problem is business loves ms standards as ms can decide what standards to chose from and what to buy rather than think from themselves and be fired if the solution doesn't work. Bill Gates once said we set the standards when he was CEO. The result was the adoption of ms office because everyone uses ms windows. Oh I guess we can use ms active directory too which requires ms server with ms exchange serve to tie in with office and then use ms visual studio.
The result is a proprietary eco system that is the defacto standard that can't be broken. Its like IBM all over again and how many banks still run mainframe 360 apps in emulators still?
I was thinking Larrabee might be really great for physics engines which are starting to make a debut in games. The pentium had a very strong FPU that rivaled some risc chips (except the alpha) during release time.
32 pentiums working in sync might unseat all the small physics chips that are on expensive cards and laptops. World of Warcraft The wrath of the Lich King will use these engines to destroy buildings and provide other effects.
The intel card might perform quite well. For older games I do wonder how much it will perform simple GPU and graphics if a physics engine is not needed?
I think Intel might be on to something long term but there is alot of x86 overhead that should not be needed for gaming.
Management is stupid indeed and like another post said they do not know the difference between a language and an app. Management loves one big app such as peoplesoft or something that integrates and assume languages or like software programs to lower costs.
If you pick Netbeans or Eclipse you can then use other languages for it and management wont realize it. You do not have to be stuck with java even if the ide is written in it. Management assumes everyone is using the same thing.
Or if your an ms shop vs.net can use perl.net and python.net for small scripting and text searching while all using the same.NET framework for small admin jobs while still retaining your web (C#) and desktop C++/VB languages. This ensures your on the same platform but can still choose the right language for the job.
I read here on/. that Catupiller uses C for everything including shell scripting and its obvious its a very bad idea as one language such as java has vast api's for serving dynamic pages while C is good for getting close to hardware and using assembly calls.
Maybe recommending 2 or 3 languages using the same framework (.net) can be a selling point as they can integrate and retraining is low. But yes web programming is not desktop nor low level hacking as different tools are needed for different things.
Standardize on 3 and chose a common framework for all. You do not have to use.NET if you do not want too but its commonly used. Java is getting better for non server use. But try to sell the ide as a language to get around any dumb requirements. ALso remind management that every language has a sub language within it like AJAX, SQL, etc so its its impossible to standardize anyway.
IF we had true competition we would. We need them for work and family and pay $175 a month for ours.
I want to leave our 2 year contracts but can't without heavy fines. We txt message alot but I figured we lost thousands of dollars to our mega phone companies and rely on our phone numbers from colleges from work and to communicate with my wife.
Unfortunately the sales and marketing teams make the sale and not the quality of your products. Micorosft did this quite well.
I wish E-directory services and Novell were still around rather than active directory junk with Windows Server. But that sales guy from Microsoft made a point that I should pay $$$ because everyone else did so it can't be bad. I objected to it but wow that salesmen said it would cure cancer and end world poverty, etc.
If you own a business your opinion about salesmen would change and I hate them too on a personal level but like the way my employer can sell as it ensures an income for myself.
Marketing at least listens to customers and tries to figure out where to go with product development unlike sales.
Virtual pc will be used to run really old windows apps for compatibility.
The windows 7 kernel is only 26 megs as was demonstrated and vista provides alot of layers in software to port to the new kernel to make it easy.
If anything windows 7 is turning more exokernel in alot of ways which will prevent what happened with vista where it was so bad ms had to start over many times with a new design with layers.
PRessure is quite on for me to be a provider, finish school, do homework, make the kids happy, and last spend time with my wife.
The pressure is on her too because of high gas prices, job performance criteria, high housing costs, and outrageously high student loans.
So yes its stressfull and if we have unstable jobs that could be replaced tomorrow we are screwed.
WIth limited resources we can't advocate coexisting as a society. Greedy bastards make sure supplies are limited to increase profit and the only way to beat them is to join and outdue everyone else to your advantage.
It exists in the animal kingdom and exists with humans in capitalism.
My amd turion-x64 dual core laptop with 2 gigs of ram and a 200 gig hd costs the same price. It also has a 15.1 wide inch screen that is not too bad for cheap notebooks. I prefer my wife's viao but for $750 I agree is too much for a subnotebook when I could get a full thing many times faster for cheaper.
Nope Nokia will just develop its own os or use netbsd.
Drm is here to stay whether we like it or not. Their whole business model is to lock up and take ownership of other people's phones so they can charge for apps and ringtones.
MS has interest in this too with TCPA and signed executables. Businesses want this too in an effort to prevent piracy. Future versions of windows will be locked to signed drm executables as well and its the wave of the future.
Which explains disasters such as MFC, win16 and win32 and Vista.
Hackers have roles designing operating systems and configuring complex projects.
Good managers understand business demands and customer expectations.
There needs to be both and not too much of one or the other. My old man would plan for over a month before his team woult write a single one line of code. A good project focuses on customer and corporate requirements and then designs the model of the application before any code is written.
Today everyone wants deadlines to be completed yesterday and just get mad and outsource if the desired result is not sufficient or buggy.
I remember using Xfree86 and typing xf86Config in FreeBSD and Linux only a few years ago.
How about a new implementation of x11 written from scratch? Xorg was useful at first with things like the abandonment of imake and true type fonts.
I believe someone had written a new x11 protocal stack in java which I found interesting.
If the code is from the 80's and is unmaintainable then a rewrite is necessary. Perhaps one without legacy macros and algorithms optimized for obsolete hardware like Vesa bus drivers?
The shareholders legally run the company and as such can do whatever they hell they like including firing CEO's who do not sell out for get rich quick schemes.
You can try to protect the company and what you feel is the best but the shareholders can legally fire you for doing so if they disagree with yoru directions. Actually they fire the board and create a new one who replaces you but still.
I wish these financial institutions would return to long term growth.
I have been reading about this and for teh record icann is not a long term shareholder at all.
He only bought teh company after teh failed deal in order to raid it. Read his record here? He will be more than happy to fire 100% of the employees and all assets for pennies on the dollar and then cash out.
The man is a mennace and I am shocked what he did to Time Warner is legal? To me this is gross negligence but I am no lawyer.
Yasng beleived in a couple years he would own more markets in advertising and software development and the internet is still growing in many poorer countries.
The shareholders mostly agree and Icahn has been known to buy up software companies to enforce sales. He pushed several software vendors and fired CEO's to sell to Oracle only to raid and dump later at teh expense of the other shareholders.
Also its been mentioned MS only wants to trade stock and there is no growth for MS. Every market is losing money they are in. Even Vista is barely making them money and they are heavily overvalued. Why else would Bill Gates leave?
Employers will treat H.S. diplomas more seriously as they now can now they will show up for work and can read, write, listen to directions, and do basic math.
Today they are nothing compared to the 1950's when discipline was enforced.
These punks will be out of work and more than likely will grow up maturity wise and get their G.E.D. at a community college when they are ready.
They have not learned their lesson yet.
Life has consequences and what can of lesson are we teaching them when we tell them to disrupt and not show up or show up late is acceptable in society? These kids will see alot of pink slips quickly after H.S. and school supposed to teach these things. If everyone gets a H.S. diploma then we have a situation like now where even custodians need a 1 -2 year certificate at a college to push a broom.
I kid you not on that as I just saw a custodian job require this on monsterboard.com this weekend. In other countries they kick these kids right out on the street and fine their parents. Its a great idea.
Unfortunately the school district is a money making business and do not want to fork the bill to pay for private school for these punks.
So what they do is force their school psychologists to say they are fine in order to cut costs. They fire psychologist all the time and even try to mainstream retarded children with I.Q.s under 65 into mainstream classes in order to save pennies by not having a special ed teacher.
Now if they only tested non abusive and special needs children like most other countries the school districts will change. American schools are not that bad. Its just the bad apples and special needs gets lower the testing average by a very large margin which with no child left behind cuts funding for teh school.
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My wife does not want a mac because its not windows and windows and office is all she knows so why change?
The problem is business loves ms standards as ms can decide what standards to chose from and what to buy rather than think from themselves and be fired if the solution doesn't work. Bill Gates once said we set the standards when he was CEO. The result was the adoption of ms office because everyone uses ms windows. Oh I guess we can use ms active directory too which requires ms server with ms exchange serve to tie in with office and then use ms visual studio.
The result is a proprietary eco system that is the defacto standard that can't be broken. Its like IBM all over again and how many banks still run mainframe 360 apps in emulators still?
You do not need to be a programmer to write a few simple databases and it has a nice interface.
I was thinking Larrabee might be really great for physics engines which are starting to make a debut in games. The pentium had a very strong FPU that rivaled some risc chips (except the alpha) during release time.
32 pentiums working in sync might unseat all the small physics chips that are on expensive cards and laptops. World of Warcraft The wrath of the Lich King will use these engines to destroy buildings and provide other effects.
The intel card might perform quite well. For older games I do wonder how much it will perform simple GPU and graphics if a physics engine is not needed?
I think Intel might be on to something long term but there is alot of x86 overhead that should not be needed for gaming.
Management is stupid indeed and like another post said they do not know the difference between a language and an app. Management loves one big app such as peoplesoft or something that integrates and assume languages or like software programs to lower costs.
If you pick Netbeans or Eclipse you can then use other languages for it and management wont realize it. You do not have to be stuck with java even if the ide is written in it. Management assumes everyone is using the same thing.
Or if your an ms shop vs.net can use perl.net and python.net for small scripting and text searching while all using the same .NET framework for small admin jobs while still retaining your web (C#) and desktop C++/VB languages. This ensures your on the same platform but can still choose the right language for the job.
I read here on /. that Catupiller uses C for everything including shell scripting and its obvious its a very bad idea as one language such as java has vast api's for serving dynamic pages while C is good for getting close to hardware and using assembly calls.
Maybe recommending 2 or 3 languages using the same framework (.net) can be a selling point as they can integrate and retraining is low. But yes web programming is not desktop nor low level hacking as different tools are needed for different things.
Standardize on 3 and chose a common framework for all. You do not have to use .NET if you do not want too but its commonly used. Java is getting better for non server use. But try to sell the ide as a language to get around any dumb requirements. ALso remind management that every language has a sub language within it like AJAX, SQL, etc so its its impossible to standardize anyway.
True but where is competition?
Rarely do companies ever charge that high due to competition.
There are two players in every market which are supplies and consumers. Either one can dictate to the other if one or more is limited.
IF we had true competition we would. We need them for work and family and pay $175 a month for ours.
I want to leave our 2 year contracts but can't without heavy fines. We txt message alot but I figured we lost thousands of dollars to our mega phone companies and rely on our phone numbers from colleges from work and to communicate with my wife.
It looks like you folks have it made. Sigh
Unfortunately the sales and marketing teams make the sale and not the quality of your products. Micorosft did this quite well.
I wish E-directory services and Novell were still around rather than active directory junk with Windows Server. But that sales guy from Microsoft made a point that I should pay $$$ because everyone else did so it can't be bad. I objected to it but wow that salesmen said it would cure cancer and end world poverty, etc.
If you own a business your opinion about salesmen would change and I hate them too on a personal level but like the way my employer can sell as it ensures an income for myself.
Marketing at least listens to customers and tries to figure out where to go with product development unlike sales.
Virtual pc will be used to run really old windows apps for compatibility.
The windows 7 kernel is only 26 megs as was demonstrated and vista provides alot of layers in software to port to the new kernel to make it easy.
If anything windows 7 is turning more exokernel in alot of ways which will prevent what happened with vista where it was so bad ms had to start over many times with a new design with layers.
Capitalism provides this.
PRessure is quite on for me to be a provider, finish school, do homework, make the kids happy, and last spend time with my wife.
The pressure is on her too because of high gas prices, job performance criteria, high housing costs, and outrageously high student loans.
So yes its stressfull and if we have unstable jobs that could be replaced tomorrow we are screwed.
WIth limited resources we can't advocate coexisting as a society. Greedy bastards make sure supplies are limited to increase profit and the only way to beat them is to join and outdue everyone else to your advantage.
It exists in the animal kingdom and exists with humans in capitalism.
My amd turion-x64 dual core laptop with 2 gigs of ram and a 200 gig hd costs the same price. It also has a 15.1 wide inch screen that is not too bad for cheap notebooks. I prefer my wife's viao but for $750 I agree is too much for a subnotebook when I could get a full thing many times faster for cheaper.
I imagined they were getting alot of support calls wondering why wow and ms word can't run on the 901's.
It shows monopoly abuse by Microsoft owning all the proprietary apis that the software market uses.
I would support a verison of Eee with windowsxp too for that reason but also offer linux. THe market demands win32 software unfortunately
DVI requires expensive TCPA drm chips I am guessing and perhaps expensive patents as well.
ATM is here to stay.
Every ISP I have used since cable uses ATM for dsl or fiber.
The ATM packet merely encapsulates the tcp/ip packet in each packet.
HDTV uses ATM and so does my DSL ISP. I see the error message whenever their network has some outage.
Nope Nokia will just develop its own os or use netbsd.
Drm is here to stay whether we like it or not. Their whole business model is to lock up and take ownership of other people's phones so they can charge for apps and ringtones.
MS has interest in this too with TCPA and signed executables. Businesses want this too in an effort to prevent piracy. Future versions of windows will be locked to signed drm executables as well and its the wave of the future.
Which explains disasters such as MFC, win16 and win32 and Vista.
Hackers have roles designing operating systems and configuring complex projects.
Good managers understand business demands and customer expectations.
There needs to be both and not too much of one or the other. My old man would plan for over a month before his team woult write a single one line of code. A good project focuses on customer and corporate requirements and then designs the model of the application before any code is written.
Today everyone wants deadlines to be completed yesterday and just get mad and outsource if the desired result is not sufficient or buggy.
Mozilla was mostly rewritten and it sucked before a total rewrite.
Firefox was yet another fork with an almost complete rewrite from scratch based on netscape libraries.
Like Firefox we need a new X based on the protocol written from scratch. Someone already did it in java so it can be ported to C or C++.
I remember using Xfree86 and typing xf86Config in FreeBSD and Linux only a few years ago.
How about a new implementation of x11 written from scratch? Xorg was useful at first with things like the abandonment of imake and true type fonts.
I believe someone had written a new x11 protocal stack in java which I found interesting.
If the code is from the 80's and is unmaintainable then a rewrite is necessary. Perhaps one without legacy macros and algorithms optimized for obsolete hardware like Vesa bus drivers?
Their DSL service in my area is the fastest I have seen at truly 680k a second for only $39 a month which is not bad.
They are going to install fiber next month.
AT&T is putting in U-verse fiber optics in my neighborhood this summer which is surprising considering its an older one.
THey may not be as agressive as Verizon for its fios but Uverse is not throttled and unlike verizon they are not doing long term contracts.
Teh surpreme court ruling does not matter.
The shareholders legally run the company and as such can do whatever they hell they like including firing CEO's who do not sell out for get rich quick schemes.
You can try to protect the company and what you feel is the best but the shareholders can legally fire you for doing so if they disagree with yoru directions. Actually they fire the board and create a new one who replaces you but still.
I wish these financial institutions would return to long term growth.
I have been reading about this and for teh record icann is not a long term shareholder at all.
He only bought teh company after teh failed deal in order to raid it. Read his record here? He will be more than happy to fire 100% of the employees and all assets for pennies on the dollar and then cash out.
The man is a mennace and I am shocked what he did to Time Warner is legal? To me this is gross negligence but I am no lawyer.
Yasng beleived in a couple years he would own more markets in advertising and software development and the internet is still growing in many poorer countries.
The shareholders mostly agree and Icahn has been known to buy up software companies to enforce sales. He pushed several software vendors and fired CEO's to sell to Oracle only to raid and dump later at teh expense of the other shareholders.
Also its been mentioned MS only wants to trade stock and there is no growth for MS. Every market is losing money they are in. Even Vista is barely making them money and they are heavily overvalued. Why else would Bill Gates leave?
Actually the smartest CHinese outgrow America's entire population!
This is a problem as many employers want these smarter cheaper workers overseas.
I am for that.
Employers will treat H.S. diplomas more seriously as they now can now they will show up for work and can read, write, listen to directions, and do basic math.
Today they are nothing compared to the 1950's when discipline was enforced.
These punks will be out of work and more than likely will grow up maturity wise and get their G.E.D. at a community college when they are ready.
They have not learned their lesson yet.
Life has consequences and what can of lesson are we teaching them when we tell them to disrupt and not show up or show up late is acceptable in society? These kids will see alot of pink slips quickly after H.S. and school supposed to teach these things. If everyone gets a H.S. diploma then we have a situation like now where even custodians need a 1 -2 year certificate at a college to push a broom.
I kid you not on that as I just saw a custodian job require this on monsterboard.com this weekend. In other countries they kick these kids right out on the street and fine their parents. Its a great idea.
They have them in California.
Unfortunately the school district is a money making business and do not want to fork the bill to pay for private school for these punks.
So what they do is force their school psychologists to say they are fine in order to cut costs. They fire psychologist all the time and even try to mainstream retarded children with I.Q.s under 65 into mainstream classes in order to save pennies by not having a special ed teacher.
Now if they only tested non abusive and special needs children like most other countries the school districts will change. American schools are not that bad. Its just the bad apples and special needs gets lower the testing average by a very large margin which with no child left behind cuts funding for teh school.
Then we lose teachers as student population drops.
Two kids in my wife's class have already been deported back to Mexico.