You are correct. They have a right to pass this law. However, while trying to avoid repeating what's been said here already : They are alienating any manufacturer or business that cannot afford to dual-market theier products.
For example, dual-language markets are always smaller, since businesses have to pick their battles, and multi-language isn't always worth the investment. But in some markets (Southern US), dual markets are great; Spanish/English commercials, labels and instructions attract a wider audience.
Quite frankly, Quebec suffers from a lack of purchasing clout. If/When their population grew in (and stayed agressive in accepting only) the French-only purchasing, we'd see businesses releasing dual-language products from the start. But right now they don't unless Quebec is tied to their survival (CA originated businesses mostly).
Curturally, I enjoy multilanguage environments, if they are ubiquitous. For people who don't know remedial Spanish, a trip to some areas can send them reeling. Same for Quebec; if we had French everywhere, I wouldn't mind, but since I don't know it, when I'm there i'm frustrated as hell to figure out things.
India is a prime example of a multi-language environment. There has been some cronyism and lack of cooperation due to language barriers, but since Hindi survives as a common level, India manages to form a cohesive country. If Quebec became too strict on the French-only rules, they may find themselves locked out of a lot of innovations or products that have no French equivalents.
PS. I doubt they'll ever impose this rule this for medical devices, car parts, or anything else deemed "essential" to their way of life.
Sizes of the offers don't really matter, whats important is news of the service reaching the masses. If enough people who *arn't using* P2P can download enough goodies to form a nice Xmas gift (like label images), we could see a new market shift. I sure would like to give away a few discs for the holiday season (actually I'd love to give iTunes credit), but just handing someone a CD-R with my sloppy sharpie writing on it isn't that great.
However, without something like that, the only change in market is connected to the sales of PCs and bandwidth to new people. Converting P2P to iTunes may be happening, but I think it's going to be slow.
more links to shared-drive files rather than copies of such in the emails
create a web page that scrapes/shows the timestamps on files/urls. allow users to add/remove items on this list (self-customized per user)
focus employees to avoid "CC to all" mentality unless collaborative work is actually going on. "FYI" emails are best put on a bulletin board or bb-page
break employees into stronger focus groups that work within themselves and deliver results on a set schedule (1x a week, month, etc)
tighten the spam filters
update everyone's email address names and have them send out a notice to crucial clients
employ a local web-based email system, save your network's bandwidth for when people really download the attachments
encourage more IM-based conversations (more immediate, more collaborative) over email
You bring up a good point, but ultimately sci-fi movies have to embrace some element of fantasy, IMO. It's pretty hard to get away from that "humans as batteries" device once started, but anything's possible...i like the neural net concept. Nuclear Reactors would probably have removed the need for human characters at all. Given their performance, this may not have been a bad thing. The sun as a prime mover is also pretty grounded, I think. But little else in the series.
Now that Neo has been sacrificed to save the balance of power between humans and machines, there are still some who will not accept the interdependence. Led by Morpheus, who now believes Neo was led astray by an infection from the Architect, a small band of humans attempt Wrenching the newest incarnation of the Matrix.
Energy is more expensive than ever as humans begin suffering from a disease that reduces their capacity to feed the machines. Because of this, the sources of EMPs built by the Matrix machines are reduced and become more important. Morpheus hatches a plot to spoil the explosives of EMPs by inserting a new program into their factories : he can arm and fire them remotely, before they are carried to their destination.
As the setups in the factories are completed, the rebels suffer from fracturing as Morpheus begins to doubt the plan. In losing his fight to an even-stronger charasmatic rebel leader, the EMPs are set off in timed sequence. The machines nearby are shut-down, and chos begins to ensue across the surface of the planet. For the moment, there is celebration. End chapter one.
The machines deploy a geothermic well to begin removing the energy from core of the earth, planning for a hibernation phase. They begin to again bore into ground, but while readying themselves for a fight, the humans are surprised to learn they are relatively ignored. Once close to the core, the earth quickly begins to cool as cold water is steamed throughout Zion. End chapter two.
Inside the matrix, there is a population blight, as new births become rare, and people begin scrambling for survival. Quite a few renegade programs conspire to resurrect Neo for guidance. With the help of a brash (an incredible fighting) infiltration into The Architect's domain, the programs murder him when he refuses to give them Neo. Fortunately, they achieve their goal and Neo stand among them. End chapter three.
Neo stands before the rebels in an attempt to explain their mistake and ask for their help in fueling a cooporative effort invented by him. The Humans will re-enter the pods to power the machines again, if only temporarily. Then, a massive tower will be built to reach beyond the dark cloud of the sky to tap back into the sun, again bringing power to the earth. Then, the machine will no longer require humans to power themselves, and a truce will be brokered.
After quite a bit of kung-fu fighting and several backstabs among the different groups, Morpheus returns to lead the people back into the pods. We are are given a scene of a long machine arm, opening in flower-like fashion in high atmosphere, silloetted by the bright sun. Not all questions are answered. Fade out.
Of course there are a lot of ways to mess with the system as it's built. Electricity, water, satelites, currency, food, weaponry, disease, asteroids. We're exposed to dangers on many fronts.
Parent post screaming about what will happen doesn't make it any more/less likely. If you're going to prepare for all the scenarios, have a fun time watching the news from your bunker eating freeze dried sausages. Save it for the screenplay.
The rest of the world will think about it for a little bit, then click. Humanity is too fragile to contemplate all the ways you could suffer and die. You, dear sir, are pooping on the party. Dance a bit on the blue ball and then dust off like a good human.
This is continuing an already-stupid train of thought. On the contrary, people play games occasionally on the PC because they use it as a multi-purpose machine. Upgrading the video card or adding some memory is what open standards are about. So if someone wants to play RTCW on their PC, why would assume it's going to be buggy and error-prone? PC games simply have to deal with this same mix of hardware, so there's less stability in them, but greefully they can be patched, upgraded and modded way beyond the console's customization abilities.
However, I'll take the multipurpose machine simply because I don't need bleeding edge nor want a basement full of discarded consoles. $199 buys a much better PC for many applications (natural keyboard, wireless mouse, cheap digital cam) instead of another ouch-TV-resolution arcade box. But thats just my preference.
People want to make the world in their image. So, they hot-rod their cars, paint their rooms new colors and ask for new software. That software need to do something that hasn't been done *and published in a coherent way* before. So the programmers delve into the details of APIs and language capabilities and create complexity.
Also, the migration between new hardware, capabilities (higher bandwidth, wireless) or goals (FPS gaming) and such are always going to create a complex "first example" that need many iterations before commodization.
I think this guy is premature to assume all programming goals are easily commoditized right now. If people were to give up behaviors when the plug-ins given to them don't exist or are buggy, thee'd be a lot of hodge-podge solutions.
Example: Visual Basic programming was supposed to be a "glue" for clicking together COM ocmponents, and MS was touting a new era of component "publishers" and "subscribers" (and next up is the same thing via.NET and web services) We all know how Visual Basic attracted lots of newbie programmers without formal degrees who clamored to read Compu-Mags for tips, and MS beefed it into a full-fledged development environment (compiled exe's, generate COM natively, getting away from variants). It has solved many problems, but didn't create a world of commodization as hope (even if there are 100's of OCX vendors in those same Compu-mags)
But it just doesn't happen in the long run. You can buy enterprise that does thing from soup to nuts and still find tons of work in "making it your own" with interfaces, reports and other customizations (talk to an SAP project manager).
Anyway, this is an interesting topic, but ultimately limited.
Well, one has to keep coming back to "others' content" and "my content". If MS becomes strict is checking for permissions to play another's content, but allow files where permissions are removed because they were created elsewhere - we're narrowing where the jump is: massaging the file.
Personally, although MS may seem really open towards unsigned formats, they would rather people author content through their own tools and allow the "personal signature" to exist, even if it says "anyone can read/copy/play inifitely" than having nothing at all. There's still a difference.
The stories of Bluetooth's feasibility are long over. Basically, standardization was knocked around for so long, WiFi maes and engulfed it. Market factors like the lack of US demand for linked devices from multiple vendors also spelled the end, much like a www.pizzain30minutesorless.com idea. No lack of shame, since it was the best idea at the time, but the increase in wireless bandwidth just isn't coming up to push XML fast enough for more than trivial apps. But that's only what I've heard, since I never used the stuff. I like RPCs way too much to get away from them.
I bet that if Microsoft somehow found itself with a way to make people pay for their software, MS Office would magically find itself displaced by something like Sun Openoffice
Yes and no. MS would lose market share only to the point where they started reducing the price, or more likely, bundling other applications into it (and then removing any other method to buy them). MS is trying to secure your purchase as hard as they can, actually.
nono, I agree. I just can't believe that while the "technology" of Longhorn is getting cudos from people, the marketing of it is just a sickening blast of hot air. I have posted many times about the MS/Linux competition. It's the marketers versus the tinkerers, and innovation happens on both sides.
Ever sit on a bus or plane and listen to someone talk? If the topic isn't compelling, does it drive you nuts? People strolling down the sidewalk with headset cell phones still scare me, given the conditioned response I have from the crazy citizens that inhabit my town. Do you use a digital voice recorder to dictate notes? It's used in movies and TV to provide a easy device for monologues, but how popular is voice?
The alternative, tiny keyboards or crazy script can be good or bad, bu voice isn't going to be more than just another sub-division of users who think murmuring to their PDA is fun. In fact, there's no perfect input except for those crazy fsking monkeys and their mechanical arms!
Reality? Microsoft does well trying to put on a welcoming face to developers, but their marketing is just awful. I've seen requests here for objectivity, but just days ago we were reading garbage from Gates and Balmer mouths about Linux as competition. The site in this article, BTW, is worth reading.
Yeah, remember, "The Windows OS" is more than a kernel. It cannot run without the browser (testify!). So they're rewriting Outlook, IE, SQLServer and many services in C# ? These were the holes over the past few years.
hardware accelerated desktop? Vector widgets? Hmm, I thought 2000 was supposed to have pluggable desktops as well. Maybe in 2008 they'll catch on to what KDE is! Have you seen what's already out?
Replacing Win32, now there is a good idea!.NET is a big step up, but just a small difference from Java, IMO, which will again leapfrog next year.
Custom scripts for installation. Is this a breakthrough?? If MS didn't put every product they had into an OS distribution and license agreement (until a judge's order), perhaps they'd see that installation scripts don't need to be so crazy. But I appreciate them trying, there's always room for improvement.
I appreicate the technology, but we're looking at a lot of hype for what Unix has been experimenting with for years, custom filesystems, graphics, desktops and installation scripts. And it's going to be sold back to you? My point stands: Lots of work to build a product that will provide little new capability.
I stand corrected. However, it doesn't seem to be going anywhre, does it? I haven't seen any of those projects hit the market.
MS seems to be nowhere close to other companies' realization of the practicalities. Simply because they're focused on the grandma home-user or dippy office PHB.
But overall, you're missing my point. You don't need a new Operating System to accomplish stuff like this. Longhorn is a marketing ploy, not something we need to get for "new functionality". Unless of course MS is starting to bundle so much as "a part of the operating system" that you need a new one just to get speech synthesis and recognition working. Doesn't it just irk you that its being sold that way?
But rather than preventing the search of this information, why not mark it as such? In fact, I'll bet it's already dated per page.
I agree that this is yes another step in the misinformation campaign surrounding the current administration. The policies that we've heard flip through hoops like trained seals. There's just no logic to all the reversals of focus, the "misquotes" and the public snafus we've seen happen. This is just another one of them.
The goals of this OS seems pretty much the same as the last one. The productivity gains of having a "sidebar" are probably the same as the MSN website sidebar, which is kinda like having a billboard blinking outside your bedroom window all night : a distraction.
An XM-based FS is going to be a meta-data nightmare, with more churning than one thought possible. The pagefile size will need to be quite large to cache all that crap. But they'll use the extra-speedy Intels to compress is on the fly anyway.
Most of *any* speech recognition is going to be from research done on [cough] *nix machines of the past decade.
Revamping the graphics system is just what the DirectX doctor ordered: new APIs! Everything can be antialiased, from busy dancing icons to cursors to controls. yawn.
By keeping everyone busy adopting the new platform, form ignores function and we get the same stuff in a new box. I hope they keep pushing it out. Then again, we're talking about people who confuse an OS with their desktop images.
Howabout you wood-chip the plants, dehydrate, oxidize and then pulverize the remaining ash? So that 99% of the water, oils, waxes and other soluble components of plant material are removed. Now you're talking about a lot of plants to make a little bit of ash.
Now compress and heat all this ash into crude over a long time. Distill this crude oil into *many* components, only some of which are refined into gasoline. It doesn't surprise me that quite a lot of plants have to make 1 gallon of gas.
What insight does this perspective give us? It seems like nothing new to me. Burn away! The sooner we're into a panic about the price of fossil fuels, the sooner we'll have some real change towards weening ourselves off of it. Human nature acts no other way. We are an emotional animal, powered by greed and stupid at the macro level.
There are quite a few scenarios online detailing the coming tragedy of this oil scarcity. They seem plausible to me and are all quite scary.
Seems like you're drawing an arbitrary line between educated and not. I think you may simply be noticing an averaging effect from inclusivity. So, in the same way, the "facts" of an event or situation will become diluted when aspects of emotion and opinion come into play.
So, I'm saying the this emotion, this effect, is part of the situation. From sentencing guidelines to intervening in FL with vegetables, the information flow is tainted. The "quality of the decision is worse" than ? There is no Vulcan committee to decide the fate of these things. To make a group decision, the education of the group is the factor of "quality".
So, I'm saying that I disagree with having a ruling class that is more educated. I'd rather raise the collective bar, however slowly and inefficiently, to continue group participation. And yes, I'm willing to accept less that perfect decision-making along the way.
By the very nature of *nix environment, one should be able to switch shells without much problem. Leftover habits when coding may keep creeping in, but consistency is key. If you've done any awk/sed/csh/bash/ksh like programming, one realizes that not all the world is one language - yet.
Presupposing that people will have "trouble" switching is kind of assuming we're dealing with a "who moved my cheese" user seen more on corporate win32 desktops. Any techie worth their salt knows how to get a job done in a shell. Perhaps the most exasperating are the escape sequences. But one just see the runtime differences and plods through the changes. no magic here.
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You are correct. They have a right to pass this law. However, while trying to avoid repeating what's been said here already : They are alienating any manufacturer or business that cannot afford to dual-market theier products.
For example, dual-language markets are always smaller, since businesses have to pick their battles, and multi-language isn't always worth the investment. But in some markets (Southern US), dual markets are great; Spanish/English commercials, labels and instructions attract a wider audience.
Quite frankly, Quebec suffers from a lack of purchasing clout. If/When their population grew in (and stayed agressive in accepting only) the French-only purchasing, we'd see businesses releasing dual-language products from the start. But right now they don't unless Quebec is tied to their survival (CA originated businesses mostly).
Curturally, I enjoy multilanguage environments, if they are ubiquitous. For people who don't know remedial Spanish, a trip to some areas can send them reeling. Same for Quebec; if we had French everywhere, I wouldn't mind, but since I don't know it, when I'm there i'm frustrated as hell to figure out things.
India is a prime example of a multi-language environment. There has been some cronyism and lack of cooperation due to language barriers, but since Hindi survives as a common level, India manages to form a cohesive country. If Quebec became too strict on the French-only rules, they may find themselves locked out of a lot of innovations or products that have no French equivalents.
PS. I doubt they'll ever impose this rule this for medical devices, car parts, or anything else deemed "essential" to their way of life.
mug
Sizes of the offers don't really matter, whats important is news of the service reaching the masses. If enough people who *arn't using* P2P can download enough goodies to form a nice Xmas gift (like label images), we could see a new market shift. I sure would like to give away a few discs for the holiday season (actually I'd love to give iTunes credit), but just handing someone a CD-R with my sloppy sharpie writing on it isn't that great.
However, without something like that, the only change in market is connected to the sales of PCs and bandwidth to new people. Converting P2P to iTunes may be happening, but I think it's going to be slow.
more links to shared-drive files rather than copies of such in the emails
create a web page that scrapes/shows the timestamps on files/urls. allow users to add/remove items on this list (self-customized per user)
focus employees to avoid "CC to all" mentality unless collaborative work is actually going on. "FYI" emails are best put on a bulletin board or bb-page
break employees into stronger focus groups that work within themselves and deliver results on a set schedule (1x a week, month, etc)
tighten the spam filters
update everyone's email address names and have them send out a notice to crucial clients
employ a local web-based email system, save your network's bandwidth for when people really download the attachments
encourage more IM-based conversations (more immediate, more collaborative) over email
You bring up a good point, but ultimately sci-fi movies have to embrace some element of fantasy, IMO. It's pretty hard to get away from that "humans as batteries" device once started, but anything's possible...i like the neural net concept. Nuclear Reactors would probably have removed the need for human characters at all. Given their performance, this may not have been a bad thing. The sun as a prime mover is also pretty grounded, I think. But little else in the series.
Now that Neo has been sacrificed to save the balance of power between humans and machines, there are still some who will not accept the interdependence. Led by Morpheus, who now believes Neo was led astray by an infection from the Architect, a small band of humans attempt Wrenching the newest incarnation of the Matrix.
Energy is more expensive than ever as humans begin suffering from a disease that reduces their capacity to feed the machines. Because of this, the sources of EMPs built by the Matrix machines are reduced and become more important. Morpheus hatches a plot to spoil the explosives of EMPs by inserting a new program into their factories : he can arm and fire them remotely, before they are carried to their destination.
As the setups in the factories are completed, the rebels suffer from fracturing as Morpheus begins to doubt the plan. In losing his fight to an even-stronger charasmatic rebel leader, the EMPs are set off in timed sequence. The machines nearby are shut-down, and chos begins to ensue across the surface of the planet. For the moment, there is celebration. End chapter one.
The machines deploy a geothermic well to begin removing the energy from core of the earth, planning for a hibernation phase. They begin to again bore into ground, but while readying themselves for a fight, the humans are surprised to learn they are relatively ignored. Once close to the core, the earth quickly begins to cool as cold water is steamed throughout Zion. End chapter two.
Inside the matrix, there is a population blight, as new births become rare, and people begin scrambling for survival. Quite a few renegade programs conspire to resurrect Neo for guidance. With the help of a brash (an incredible fighting) infiltration into The Architect's domain, the programs murder him when he refuses to give them Neo. Fortunately, they achieve their goal and Neo stand among them. End chapter three.
Neo stands before the rebels in an attempt to explain their mistake and ask for their help in fueling a cooporative effort invented by him. The Humans will re-enter the pods to power the machines again, if only temporarily. Then, a massive tower will be built to reach beyond the dark cloud of the sky to tap back into the sun, again bringing power to the earth. Then, the machine will no longer require humans to power themselves, and a truce will be brokered.
After quite a bit of kung-fu fighting and several backstabs among the different groups, Morpheus returns to lead the people back into the pods. We are are given a scene of a long machine arm, opening in flower-like fashion in high atmosphere, silloetted by the bright sun. Not all questions are answered. Fade out.
Anyone remember [insert doomsday scenario book/movie/tvshow here]
Of course there are a lot of ways to mess with the system as it's built. Electricity, water, satelites, currency, food, weaponry, disease, asteroids. We're exposed to dangers on many fronts.
Parent post screaming about what will happen doesn't make it any more/less likely. If you're going to prepare for all the scenarios, have a fun time watching the news from your bunker eating freeze dried sausages. Save it for the screenplay.
The rest of the world will think about it for a little bit, then click. Humanity is too fragile to contemplate all the ways you could suffer and die. You, dear sir, are pooping on the party. Dance a bit on the blue ball and then dust off like a good human.
mug
This is continuing an already-stupid train of thought. On the contrary, people play games occasionally on the PC because they use it as a multi-purpose machine. Upgrading the video card or adding some memory is what open standards are about. So if someone wants to play RTCW on their PC, why would assume it's going to be buggy and error-prone? PC games simply have to deal with this same mix of hardware, so there's less stability in them, but greefully they can be patched, upgraded and modded way beyond the console's customization abilities.
However, I'll take the multipurpose machine simply because I don't need bleeding edge nor want a basement full of discarded consoles. $199 buys a much better PC for many applications (natural keyboard, wireless mouse, cheap digital cam) instead of another ouch-TV-resolution arcade box. But thats just my preference.
People want to make the world in their image. So, they hot-rod their cars, paint their rooms new colors and ask for new software. That software need to do something that hasn't been done *and published in a coherent way* before. So the programmers delve into the details of APIs and language capabilities and create complexity.
.NET and web services) We all know how Visual Basic attracted lots of newbie programmers without formal degrees who clamored to read Compu-Mags for tips, and MS beefed it into a full-fledged development environment (compiled exe's, generate COM natively, getting away from variants). It has solved many problems, but didn't create a world of commodization as hope (even if there are 100's of OCX vendors in those same Compu-mags)
Also, the migration between new hardware, capabilities (higher bandwidth, wireless) or goals (FPS gaming) and such are always going to create a complex "first example" that need many iterations before commodization.
I think this guy is premature to assume all programming goals are easily commoditized right now. If people were to give up behaviors when the plug-ins given to them don't exist or are buggy, thee'd be a lot of hodge-podge solutions.
Example: Visual Basic programming was supposed to be a "glue" for clicking together COM ocmponents, and MS was touting a new era of component "publishers" and "subscribers" (and next up is the same thing via
But it just doesn't happen in the long run. You can buy enterprise that does thing from soup to nuts and still find tons of work in "making it your own" with interfaces, reports and other customizations (talk to an SAP project manager).
Anyway, this is an interesting topic, but ultimately limited.
Well, one has to keep coming back to "others' content" and "my content". If MS becomes strict is checking for permissions to play another's content, but allow files where permissions are removed because they were created elsewhere - we're narrowing where the jump is: massaging the file.
Personally, although MS may seem really open towards unsigned formats, they would rather people author content through their own tools and allow the "personal signature" to exist, even if it says "anyone can read/copy/play inifitely" than having nothing at all. There's still a difference.
The stories of Bluetooth's feasibility are long over. Basically, standardization was knocked around for so long, WiFi maes and engulfed it. Market factors like the lack of US demand for linked devices from multiple vendors also spelled the end, much like a www.pizzain30minutesorless.com idea. No lack of shame, since it was the best idea at the time, but the increase in wireless bandwidth just isn't coming up to push XML fast enough for more than trivial apps. But that's only what I've heard, since I never used the stuff. I like RPCs way too much to get away from them.
I bet that if Microsoft somehow found itself with a way to make people pay for their software, MS Office would magically find itself displaced by something like Sun Openoffice
Yes and no. MS would lose market share only to the point where they started reducing the price, or more likely, bundling other applications into it (and then removing any other method to buy them). MS is trying to secure your purchase as hard as they can, actually.
Who needs MSNBC anymore?
Do they ever provide any first-breaking news, unique insight, or ask questions what seem anything more than a cheap ploy for mindless debate?
nono, I agree. I just can't believe that while the "technology" of Longhorn is getting cudos from people, the marketing of it is just a sickening blast of hot air. I have posted many times about the MS/Linux competition. It's the marketers versus the tinkerers, and innovation happens on both sides.
Ever sit on a bus or plane and listen to someone talk? If the topic isn't compelling, does it drive you nuts? People strolling down the sidewalk with headset cell phones still scare me, given the conditioned response I have from the crazy citizens that inhabit my town. Do you use a digital voice recorder to dictate notes? It's used in movies and TV to provide a easy device for monologues, but how popular is voice?
The alternative, tiny keyboards or crazy script can be good or bad, bu voice isn't going to be more than just another sub-division of users who think murmuring to their PDA is fun. In fact, there's no perfect input except for those crazy fsking monkeys and their mechanical arms!
Reality? Microsoft does well trying to put on a welcoming face to developers, but their marketing is just awful. I've seen requests here for objectivity, but just days ago we were reading garbage from Gates and Balmer mouths about Linux as competition. The site in this article, BTW, is worth reading.
Yeah, remember, "The Windows OS" is more than a kernel. It cannot run without the browser (testify!). So they're rewriting Outlook, IE, SQLServer and many services in C# ? These were the holes over the past few years.
Yeah well, I'm here to talk so I gotta say something ;)
SQL-integrated filesystem? You need a new OS to integrate a filesystem? spare me. Nobody else is having this trouble.
.NET is a big step up, but just a small difference from Java, IMO, which will again leapfrog next year.
hardware accelerated desktop? Vector widgets? Hmm, I thought 2000 was supposed to have pluggable desktops as well. Maybe in 2008 they'll catch on to what KDE is! Have you seen what's already out?
Replacing Win32, now there is a good idea!
Custom scripts for installation. Is this a breakthrough?? If MS didn't put every product they had into an OS distribution and license agreement (until a judge's order), perhaps they'd see that installation scripts don't need to be so crazy. But I appreciate them trying, there's always room for improvement.
I appreicate the technology, but we're looking at a lot of hype for what Unix has been experimenting with for years, custom filesystems, graphics, desktops and installation scripts. And it's going to be sold back to you? My point stands: Lots of work to build a product that will provide little new capability.
I stand corrected. However, it doesn't seem to be going anywhre, does it? I haven't seen any of those projects hit the market.
MS seems to be nowhere close to other companies' realization of the practicalities. Simply because they're focused on the grandma home-user or dippy office PHB.
But overall, you're missing my point. You don't need a new Operating System to accomplish stuff like this. Longhorn is a marketing ploy, not something we need to get for "new functionality". Unless of course MS is starting to bundle so much as "a part of the operating system" that you need a new one just to get speech synthesis and recognition working. Doesn't it just irk you that its being sold that way?
But rather than preventing the search of this information, why not mark it as such? In fact, I'll bet it's already dated per page.
I agree that this is yes another step in the misinformation campaign surrounding the current administration. The policies that we've heard flip through hoops like trained seals. There's just no logic to all the reversals of focus, the "misquotes" and the public snafus we've seen happen. This is just another one of them.
The goals of this OS seems pretty much the same as the last one. The productivity gains of having a "sidebar" are probably the same as the MSN website sidebar, which is kinda like having a billboard blinking outside your bedroom window all night : a distraction.
An XM-based FS is going to be a meta-data nightmare, with more churning than one thought possible. The pagefile size will need to be quite large to cache all that crap. But they'll use the extra-speedy Intels to compress is on the fly anyway.
Most of *any* speech recognition is going to be from research done on [cough] *nix machines of the past decade.
Revamping the graphics system is just what the DirectX doctor ordered: new APIs! Everything can be antialiased, from busy dancing icons to cursors to controls. yawn.
By keeping everyone busy adopting the new platform, form ignores function and we get the same stuff in a new box. I hope they keep pushing it out. Then again, we're talking about people who confuse an OS with their desktop images.
mug
Howabout you wood-chip the plants, dehydrate, oxidize and then pulverize the remaining ash? So that 99% of the water, oils, waxes and other soluble components of plant material are removed. Now you're talking about a lot of plants to make a little bit of ash.
Now compress and heat all this ash into crude over a long time. Distill this crude oil into *many* components, only some of which are refined into gasoline. It doesn't surprise me that quite a lot of plants have to make 1 gallon of gas.
What insight does this perspective give us? It seems like nothing new to me. Burn away! The sooner we're into a panic about the price of fossil fuels, the sooner we'll have some real change towards weening ourselves off of it. Human nature acts no other way. We are an emotional animal, powered by greed and stupid at the macro level.
There are quite a few scenarios online detailing the coming tragedy of this oil scarcity. They seem plausible to me and are all quite scary.
mug
If I pay my money and fill out the application with completely fake information, is it a crime? Why?
If I miss my flight because the card and/or reader fails at the airport, will I be refunded? Why not?
Will the company indemnify me from losses if my fingerprint and card are stolen?
Once stolen, how long until all points in the system relying on this information are closed to my card?
Can an employer lawfully require me to get this card as a condition of employment?
Seems like you're drawing an arbitrary line between educated and not. I think you may simply be noticing an averaging effect from inclusivity. So, in the same way, the "facts" of an event or situation will become diluted when aspects of emotion and opinion come into play.
So, I'm saying the this emotion, this effect, is part of the situation. From sentencing guidelines to intervening in FL with vegetables, the information flow is tainted. The "quality of the decision is worse" than ? There is no Vulcan committee to decide the fate of these things. To make a group decision, the education of the group is the factor of "quality".
So, I'm saying that I disagree with having a ruling class that is more educated. I'd rather raise the collective bar, however slowly and inefficiently, to continue group participation. And yes, I'm willing to accept less that perfect decision-making along the way.
mug
By the very nature of *nix environment, one should be able to switch shells without much problem. Leftover habits when coding may keep creeping in, but consistency is key. If you've done any awk/sed/csh/bash/ksh like programming, one realizes that not all the world is one language - yet.
Presupposing that people will have "trouble" switching is kind of assuming we're dealing with a "who moved my cheese" user seen more on corporate win32 desktops. Any techie worth their salt knows how to get a job done in a shell. Perhaps the most exasperating are the escape sequences. But one just see the runtime differences and plods through the changes. no magic here.
mug