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Sounds like you've got a great job... my company is also CMMI Level 3 and all of tehse boilerplate templates are a huge freakin waste of time - especially when half of it repeats itself over and over.
On top of that, we have developers filling out documents that a BA or PM are supposed to fill out - leaving even less time to site down and figure out the problem. Yes, PMs seem to love handing off the docs to the developers - claiming that since we are building the system, we are the ones that should be filling out project documentation as well! Might as well give me their salary too!
and I'm be damned if I said that I don't feel it was worth every penny. And that's also 1/3rd of what most of us would consider the complete game!!!
I foresee myself buying the second and third one too!
Personally, I'm really sick (literally - I get of physically sick) of yet another FPS. The last one I played and enjoyed was unreal tournament. Come up with some other types of games and we'll talk!
On the same note... if you're still running RH Linux 9 - which is also EOL'ed - then I'd say good luck trying to find someone to patch your system, instead of telling to upgrade to the latest RHEL.
As an RPG fan you can pick up Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn on Wii. It's a fantastic RPG (with heavy strategy elements). Be warned though, this game will kick your ass. Hard.
Once you're hooked on that you can pick up the GameCube prequel Fire Emblem:Path of Radiance.
Also for the GameCube there is the Baten Kaitos series, another good RPG. There are lots of good RPGs out there, just gotta be open to possibilities.
That's not right. Who do you think provides tech support to your tech support? I remember times when we had Microsoft in our workplace to help setup, configure and troubleshoot stuff. It all depends on what kind of agreement you have with them.
soo.... are you railing against the program or against windows? sounds like all your problems were from the app itself, while windows was just the platform that the developer wrote it on.
how about WFW 3.11? Remember the article about how Microsoft was going to stop licensing WFW 3.11 to embedded manufacturers? I bet alot of those devices are running something along those lines.
Good point! You gotta give book authors more time to play with your tech to be able to write some good material on it. That process could take months. Moving forward with another release is sure to displease these people.
I think more to the point is that Silverlight has been out less than a year, and yet Computerworld somehow thinks that there's going to be lots of books and job demand for it?? Oh brother.
What's a job posting going to say? Wanted: Experienced Silverlight Developer, must have 3+ yrs experience even though the product itself has been out less than a year.
I'm actually looking to consolidate. I don't have an upscaling DVD player currently (just an normal progressive scan one), so I'm not going to miss it if my Wii played my DVDs instead.
If the Wii did play DVDs, then I can get rid of the stand-alone DVD player and have one less item hooked up on the entertainment stand. I'm all for that:)
Having been born in the Philippines and still have most of my family there (last time I was there was 2006), I can tell you that it's not going to make any difference.
Every business is still tied to windows, and every kid's PC at home is still windows (God forbid you give them a PC that can't play Ragnarok!)
Trying to find a computer reseller that will sells pre-loaded boxes with linux is needle in a haystack work.
If you want to really effect change, then you need to change the thinking of the chinese filipinos, they are really the ones running the country (seriously!), not the locals.
Are you for real? Internet Exploder is INTEGRATED. Over the years it has become more and more tied into the operating system. It started by making the CHM help file format, which uses IE to render its contents. Then there's all the Internet libraries and the folders right in the Windows directory.
There is no uninstall procedure. None.
Have you actually tried deleting iexplore.exe? It autmatically reappears soon after. Scary but true. Use nLite.
Also, Opera was apparently calling for MS to separate out Trident with clearly defined APIs so that not only the IE application but also the rendering engine could be replaced by OEMs.
Uh, no they are not.
Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft's abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop.
There is no economic reason why Microsoft should be forced to include competing software on its distribution kits. If the OEMs want to do that, fine! More power to them. I'm all for choice, but I would pissed as hell if I was running a software company and a competitor whined to the regulators and forced me to bundle their software with mine. Give the user the choice at the System Integration level, thats where it belongs.
Should Adobe be forced for bundle Ghostscript alongside Acrobat Reader?
First, all the users that Use IE simply because it is the default are not using Opera.
And you think that this is Microsoft's fault?
If given a choice or if OEMs are given a choice some non-zero number would choose Opera giving them greater market share and more money from contracts with search engine providers.
So you accuse me of being an apologist and then you spew this out? pot, kettle, black.
Second, MS's taking over the browser market and intentionally breaking the standards has led to the Web filled with IE-only pages that do not render properly in Opera or other compliant browsers. This makes it harder for Opera to license their browser to cell phone makers and other hardware companies. Likewise the domination of IE by unfair means has resulted in Web application lock in, providing a serious financial barrier to transition to neutral technologies. All this costs Opera hard cash.
Red Herring. Back when I did web development I specifically did browser detection for either Netscape 4 or IE4 and branched off from there. Nowadays its FF or IE, but the logic still applies. If developers are too lazy to properly code web sites for mutliple browsers thats hardly the fault of the browser developer!
No, that isn't silly at all. Charlie Manson is forced to stop killing people by being put in prison
uh no.. again, wrong argument. The argument is not whether Manson should have been put in prison or not, the argument is whether the EU can force a company to code according to another standard, which it cannot.
Sure, Opera can't read some Web pages that include either proprietary MS technologies, or broken standards (like IE's broken CSS support). That is caused directly by MS's illegal bundling coupled with their intentionally broken implementation.
Again, Red Herring. Isn't Opera one of the few browsers that can change it's user agent to be IE? Why would they do that? oh wait, thats because lazy developers haven't taken the time to properly code for other browsers!
No the sad part is that in a free market, most users would probably choose Opera or Firefox or Safari or something else and have a better user experience
Your argument falls apart exactly because of the inroads that FF has made. Firefox was in the exact same position as Opera. Now it is a recognized alternative to IE and developers do indeed target that browser (this site being a prime example). If Mozilla was able to do it (gain traction on the desktop) with having to whine to the EU, but rather proving that they have a better browser, then what the hell is Opera's problem?
Like I said in my first post, compete on Merit!
Calling me ignorant (or uneducated, take your pick) really speaks volumes about you considering you know nothing of my background
Do you have evidence to indicate that they are contractually allowed and have not been coerced by MS's monopoly influence into keeping it? Are there parts of Windows built specifically to rely upon IE? Contractually they are not allowed to install anything other Microsoft software as Microsoft has stated in their OEM agreement
However, in practice that rarely the case as you can see with an OEM such as Dell, who does pre-install a large number of third-part products.
You do realize that "unbundling IE" can be as simple as removing all shortcuts to Internet Explorer and the iexplore.exe file itself? Afterwards, you can install any default browser you like. Your argument doesn't hold water.
Microsoft is breaking the law in a way that costs Opera money. They've been convicted in numerous criminal and civil cases now. MS is obligated to reach a settlement with Opera or the courts will award whatever damages and injunctions they see fit. How is Microsoft costing Opera money? They do not prevent anyone from installing Opera on their OS. They do not prevent the normal function of the Opera browser on their OS. They do not hinder the development, marketing or distribution of the Opera browser. Lack of awareness of alternatives is not the fault of Microsoft!
The EU is sovereign government body and can pass whatever laws they want. MS is already convicted of breaking those laws, so yeah, the EU can pretty much order MS to do whatever they see fit as punishment for those crimes. I don't think you're really looking at this in the proper perspective. For an analogy, try imagining a surviving victim of the Manson family murders. There is no longer doubt of a crime and if that person brings civil suit against Charles Manson the courts may well award them all the money from Manson's new book deal. Arguing that Manson is not obligated to give away money he is earning himself, is a bit naive. Wrong argument. To put in your analogy, asking the EU to enforce development to "accepted web-standards" is akin to forcing the Manson family to commit their crimes only with "accepted weapon standards". Now do see how silly that sounds?
Microsoft does not compete. That is the whole point. Rather than users or even OEMs having a choice, MS introduces artificial problems with competing products, by subverting the standards using their overwhelming influence in the desktop OS market. This is criminal in the EU and US. Name one artificial problem with Opera caused by a deliberate, malicious act on the part of Microsoft.
Go ahead, but if you want to be taken seriously I suggest you educate yourself on the topic first. I would say the same to you. Every argument you've provided has held no substance and reeks of anti-Microsoft bias that its not even funny. Even Wired doesn't agree with Opera. Everything they've said so far sounds like whining about their roughly 1% marketshare as of Nov 2007.
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Sounds like you've got a great job... my company is also CMMI Level 3 and all of tehse boilerplate templates are a huge freakin waste of time - especially when half of it repeats itself over and over.
On top of that, we have developers filling out documents that a BA or PM are supposed to fill out - leaving even less time to site down and figure out the problem. Yes, PMs seem to love handing off the docs to the developers - claiming that since we are building the system, we are the ones that should be filling out project documentation as well! Might as well give me their salary too!
and I'm be damned if I said that I don't feel it was worth every penny. And that's also 1/3rd of what most of us would consider the complete game!!!
I foresee myself buying the second and third one too!
Personally, I'm really sick (literally - I get of physically sick) of yet another FPS. The last one I played and enjoyed was unreal tournament. Come up with some other types of games and we'll talk!
damn, beat me to it....
On the same note... if you're still running RH Linux 9 - which is also EOL'ed - then I'd say good luck trying to find someone to patch your system, instead of telling to upgrade to the latest RHEL.
+1 to you sir... man, now I know why I don't bother reading comments most of the time
As an RPG fan you can pick up Fire Emblem:Radiant Dawn on Wii. It's a fantastic RPG (with heavy strategy elements). Be warned though, this game will kick your ass. Hard.
Once you're hooked on that you can pick up the GameCube prequel Fire Emblem:Path of Radiance.
Also for the GameCube there is the Baten Kaitos series, another good RPG. There are lots of good RPGs out there, just gotta be open to possibilities.
That's not right. Who do you think provides tech support to your tech support? I remember times when we had Microsoft in our workplace to help setup, configure and troubleshoot stuff. It all depends on what kind of agreement you have with them.
oh man.. I can't stand putty. Exceed FTW for me!
yeah.. I clicked on the link and got an empty page... weird..
soo.... are you railing against the program or against windows? sounds like all your problems were from the app itself, while windows was just the platform that the developer wrote it on.
how about WFW 3.11? Remember the article about how Microsoft was going to stop licensing WFW 3.11 to embedded manufacturers? I bet alot of those devices are running something along those lines.
This is probably the most balanced post I have ever read here when comes to linux and windows.
Well done!
I point you to this comment, http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=483066&cid=22712872, which supports the notion that people were returning these machines in droves, which is what caused WalMart to discontinue them.
Good point! You gotta give book authors more time to play with your tech to be able to write some good material on it. That process could take months. Moving forward with another release is sure to displease these people.
I think more to the point is that Silverlight has been out less than a year, and yet Computerworld somehow thinks that there's going to be lots of books and job demand for it?? Oh brother.
What's a job posting going to say? Wanted: Experienced Silverlight Developer, must have 3+ yrs experience even though the product itself has been out less than a year.
NewsFlash!! Brand new technology has less presence in market compared to entrenched, established technology!
Holy Cow! Stop the presses! This is big news!
Freakin' Troll of a story if I've ever seen one.
I'm actually looking to consolidate. I don't have an upscaling DVD player currently (just an normal progressive scan one), so I'm not going to miss it if my Wii played my DVDs instead.
:)
If the Wii did play DVDs, then I can get rid of the stand-alone DVD player and have one less item hooked up on the entertainment stand. I'm all for that
I'd be happy to play regular DVDs on my Wii. A DivX player is icing on the cake for me!
Holy Mother of Christ... that's some tinfoil hat you've got on there! Sheesh...
Having been born in the Philippines and still have most of my family there (last time I was there was 2006), I can tell you that it's not going to make any difference.
Every business is still tied to windows, and every kid's PC at home is still windows (God forbid you give them a PC that can't play Ragnarok!)
Trying to find a computer reseller that will sells pre-loaded boxes with linux is needle in a haystack work.
If you want to really effect change, then you need to change the thinking of the chinese filipinos, they are really the ones running the country (seriously!), not the locals.
There is no uninstall procedure. None.
Have you actually tried deleting iexplore.exe? It autmatically reappears soon after. Scary but true. Use nLite.
Also, Opera was apparently calling for MS to separate out Trident with clearly defined APIs so that not only the IE application but also the rendering engine could be replaced by OEMs.
Uh, no they are not.
Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft's abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop.
From here: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/12/13/
There is no economic reason why Microsoft should be forced to include competing software on its distribution kits. If the OEMs want to do that, fine! More power to them. I'm all for choice, but I would pissed as hell if I was running a software company and a competitor whined to the regulators and forced me to bundle their software with mine. Give the user the choice at the System Integration level, thats where it belongs.
Should Adobe be forced for bundle Ghostscript alongside Acrobat Reader?
First, all the users that Use IE simply because it is the default are not using Opera.
And you think that this is Microsoft's fault?
If given a choice or if OEMs are given a choice some non-zero number would choose Opera giving them greater market share and more money from contracts with search engine providers.
So you accuse me of being an apologist and then you spew this out? pot, kettle, black.
Second, MS's taking over the browser market and intentionally breaking the standards has led to the Web filled with IE-only pages that do not render properly in Opera or other compliant browsers. This makes it harder for Opera to license their browser to cell phone makers and other hardware companies. Likewise the domination of IE by unfair means has resulted in Web application lock in, providing a serious financial barrier to transition to neutral technologies. All this costs Opera hard cash.
Red Herring. Back when I did web development I specifically did browser detection for either Netscape 4 or IE4 and branched off from there. Nowadays its FF or IE, but the logic still applies. If developers are too lazy to properly code web sites for mutliple browsers thats hardly the fault of the browser developer!
No, that isn't silly at all. Charlie Manson is forced to stop killing people by being put in prison
uh no.. again, wrong argument. The argument is not whether Manson should have been put in prison or not, the argument is whether the EU can force a company to code according to another standard, which it cannot.
Sure, Opera can't read some Web pages that include either proprietary MS technologies, or broken standards (like IE's broken CSS support). That is caused directly by MS's illegal bundling coupled with their intentionally broken implementation.
Again, Red Herring. Isn't Opera one of the few browsers that can change it's user agent to be IE? Why would they do that? oh wait, thats because lazy developers haven't taken the time to properly code for other browsers!
No the sad part is that in a free market, most users would probably choose Opera or Firefox or Safari or something else and have a better user experience
Your argument falls apart exactly because of the inroads that FF has made. Firefox was in the exact same position as Opera. Now it is a recognized alternative to IE and developers do indeed target that browser (this site being a prime example). If Mozilla was able to do it (gain traction on the desktop) with having to whine to the EU, but rather proving that they have a better browser, then what the hell is Opera's problem?
Like I said in my first post, compete on Merit!
Calling me ignorant (or uneducated, take your pick) really speaks volumes about you considering you know nothing of my background
However, in practice that rarely the case as you can see with an OEM such as Dell, who does pre-install a large number of third-part products.
You do realize that "unbundling IE" can be as simple as removing all shortcuts to Internet Explorer and the iexplore.exe file itself? Afterwards, you can install any default browser you like. Your argument doesn't hold water. Microsoft is breaking the law in a way that costs Opera money. They've been convicted in numerous criminal and civil cases now. MS is obligated to reach a settlement with Opera or the courts will award whatever damages and injunctions they see fit. How is Microsoft costing Opera money? They do not prevent anyone from installing Opera on their OS. They do not prevent the normal function of the Opera browser on their OS. They do not hinder the development, marketing or distribution of the Opera browser. Lack of awareness of alternatives is not the fault of Microsoft! The EU is sovereign government body and can pass whatever laws they want. MS is already convicted of breaking those laws, so yeah, the EU can pretty much order MS to do whatever they see fit as punishment for those crimes. I don't think you're really looking at this in the proper perspective. For an analogy, try imagining a surviving victim of the Manson family murders. There is no longer doubt of a crime and if that person brings civil suit against Charles Manson the courts may well award them all the money from Manson's new book deal. Arguing that Manson is not obligated to give away money he is earning himself, is a bit naive. Wrong argument. To put in your analogy, asking the EU to enforce development to "accepted web-standards" is akin to forcing the Manson family to commit their crimes only with "accepted weapon standards". Now do see how silly that sounds? Microsoft does not compete. That is the whole point. Rather than users or even OEMs having a choice, MS introduces artificial problems with competing products, by subverting the standards using their overwhelming influence in the desktop OS market. This is criminal in the EU and US. Name one artificial problem with Opera caused by a deliberate, malicious act on the part of Microsoft. Go ahead, but if you want to be taken seriously I suggest you educate yourself on the topic first. I would say the same to you. Every argument you've provided has held no substance and reeks of anti-Microsoft bias that its not even funny. Even Wired doesn't agree with Opera. Everything they've said so far sounds like whining about their roughly 1% marketshare as of Nov 2007.
The sad part is, I actually like their browser!