First of all, complain to the OEMS. They are the ones that can unbundle IE from the OS and install your browser if you can strike a deal with them. Microsoft is under no obligation to include competitor software on a CD they publish and distribute (unless Opera wants to pay them to do so).
Secondly, the EU is in no position to try to enforce MS to using international standards. That's Microsoft's choice. If they want to go propietary, let them and compete on your own merits.
They're complaining to the wrong people about the wrong items. Christ, this ticks me off enough that I'm actually thinking of sending a nastygram to Opera.
If someone were to say that they have a firewall on their linux box by cutting off port 25, would that be considered a firewall? No, you naturally would want not only port filtering, but also IP filtering with default-deny or default-allow rules to also be in place. Simply blocking ports does not constitute a firewall.
You honestly don't think that if a hacker managed to deface a microsoft site they wouldn't be blaring trumpets for the world to hear?
Not only would they be advertising their 7337 h4x0r skillz on every hacker newsgroup and forum but they'd also be sending press releases to places like here. This would be front page news and they would be a legend.
Crap, I still haven't unlocked Crazy Monster Truck... I'm still working on completing the Super Excite races.
I freakin' hate the Finland courses! why can't they be all like mexico?? *sigh*
Don't even have time to look at SMG right now.. after Excite truck I've got Ikaruga for the GC to finish, and thats already kicking my butt on level 1!
MP3 is pretty linear.. I don't have a clue how you got "lost".
If you want a fun racing game.. pick up Excite Truck. I think I've logged more hours in Excite Truck than any other Wii game I own except maybe Wii Sports.
Heck, up until a few months ago I was doing front-end development for a multi-million dollar web-based subscription offering. For the business end of things (the site the customers used), it was IE6/7 and FF1/2 compatible. For our internal Admin site, it was IE only, since it was easy for us to dictate which browser we were going to support.
Probably.. I'm most likely one of the exceptions though. I got four wiimotes + nunchucks, 2 classic controllers, two DDR pads, 2000 wii pts and about 15-16 games.
Overall I'm having a great time with the wii.. though I have to admit that there are ALOT of shit games out there. Excite Truck (go figure) is pretty damn fun!
Then again, I don't own a 360 or PS3 (yet - may get one of those two in a near future) so I don't have anything to distract me:)
So wait, your system isn't a word processor but rather a home-brew sharepoint portal? In that case, what are you using for the actual "word processing" side of things?
He's correct, the best case scenario saved at most 25 cents per document. Its highly unlikely that purchasing site licenses for Word would have amounted to that much over 7 years. And I say Word on purpose. Its highly unlikely that any home-grown web-based spreadsheet solution can match the analytical functions that Excel has built in (Google doesn't do it, and lets not even get started with PowerPoint and Access). So basically it sounds like they've spent a heck of money developing a system that would have cost far less than purchasing Office itself, in order to save far less money that it would have cost to purchase Word over the last 7 years.
Seriously.. this guy is nothing more than an attention whore. How the hell does he not know about the 3yr warranty on his console? if he's even had a single support call his console would have been replaced. Sheesh.
This made me annoyed enough to actually post something!
That's unfair. The problem with the lead in the paint was due to the standards being changed during production. As such, toys that were made prior to the change in standards could not be magically "unmade" and had already reached the retail shelves. Admittedly, some factories in China were using the inferior paint but for those that weren't, they got a raw deal.
the RROD warranty was accounted for in the last quarter. It has no basis on the results for this quarter.
I'm not going to speculate as to whether or not the console itself is making money, since I don't have a clue (and neither does anyone else here for that matter)
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oooh... Netrek.. lost so much time at the computer labs playing that game!
Damn, someone needs to make a modern client (as in DirectX or OpenGL based) and revive this game!
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First of all, I did point out that those were Java lectures. Whether or not it's killing MS is up for debate.
Secondly, I took up your request and viewed one of your presentations, the one on threading (thought it would be interesting - java 2, lecture 2). You have some incorrect information out there, with regards to preemption.
If a thread with the same priority is waiting to run, the scheduler on the OS will take a round-robin approach. There is no thread starvation in a preemptive scheduler. This has been true since Windows 95* and for Unix-like systems as long as I can remember (though the caveat is that I don't know enough of Solaris' scheduler to know if what you said is true). I stopped reading at this point.
Lastly, while you are correct in your statement that it is easier to create Threads in java than C++ (and I don't understand what you mean by C# supporting a form of threading), how hard is it to call CreateThread and pass it a callback (for win32 threads anyway)?
*while pure win32 applications were subject to preemption, any calls to 16bit code (or 16bit applications) were not. The reason being is that the old 16bit Win3.1 threads were not re-entrant, therefore the scheduler was not able to preempt them.
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Yet your website faithfully serves up Powerpoint slides (and even Visio! *gasp*) for Java lectures?
Oops, I should have clarified. I'm with the Canadian Army. And as such, the rank of Seargeant Major isn't a rank at all, but rather an appointment. This appointment can be held by anyone with the rank of Warrant Officer or above. Of course there are different types of Seargeant Majors, Regiment SMs, Brigade SMs, Area SMs, etc. Typically, these are staffed by people who have the rank of a Chief Warrant Officer, the highest non-commissioned rank we have in the army.
It never confused me either (I'm army). The Master Chief would the equivalent to a Chief Warrant Officer of a Regiment, pretty much answerable only to the CO (although technically he is answerable to the officers, but that doesn't happen in practice).
Because Master Chief (in actuality it's Master Chief Petty Officer, but Master Chief for short) is a rank in the US Navy, the highest non-commissioned officer rank.
And wouldn't you know it.... practically all space games use naval terminology.
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First of all, complain to the OEMS. They are the ones that can unbundle IE from the OS and install your browser if you can strike a deal with them. Microsoft is under no obligation to include competitor software on a CD they publish and distribute (unless Opera wants to pay them to do so).
Secondly, the EU is in no position to try to enforce MS to using international standards. That's Microsoft's choice. If they want to go propietary, let them and compete on your own merits.
They're complaining to the wrong people about the wrong items. Christ, this ticks me off enough that I'm actually thinking of sending a nastygram to Opera.
No, you're reading too much into it.
If someone were to say that they have a firewall on their linux box by cutting off port 25, would that be considered a firewall? No, you naturally would want not only port filtering, but also IP filtering with default-deny or default-allow rules to also be in place. Simply blocking ports does not constitute a firewall.
port filtering is just one property of a firewall, that alone does not constitute a firewall
You honestly don't think that if a hacker managed to deface a microsoft site they wouldn't be blaring trumpets for the world to hear?
Not only would they be advertising their 7337 h4x0r skillz on every hacker newsgroup and forum but they'd also be sending press releases to places like here. This would be front page news and they would be a legend.
Crap, I still haven't unlocked Crazy Monster Truck... I'm still working on completing the Super Excite races.
I freakin' hate the Finland courses! why can't they be all like mexico?? *sigh*
Don't even have time to look at SMG right now.. after Excite truck I've got Ikaruga for the GC to finish, and thats already kicking my butt on level 1!
MP3 is pretty linear.. I don't have a clue how you got "lost".
If you want a fun racing game.. pick up Excite Truck. I think I've logged more hours in Excite Truck than any other Wii game I own except maybe Wii Sports.
How can they collude together if they are actively discouraged from having any relations to other divisions?
I think you're on to something here. Perhaps spinning off divisions wouldn't be a bad idea after all.
There's no way Gates or Ballmer can keep track of this massive company.
Good Lord, people are still using IE5?
Heck, up until a few months ago I was doing front-end development for a multi-million dollar web-based subscription offering. For the business end of things (the site the customers used), it was IE6/7 and FF1/2 compatible. For our internal Admin site, it was IE only, since it was easy for us to dictate which browser we were going to support.
Probably.. I'm most likely one of the exceptions though. I got four wiimotes + nunchucks, 2 classic controllers, two DDR pads, 2000 wii pts and about 15-16 games.
:)
Overall I'm having a great time with the wii.. though I have to admit that there are ALOT of shit games out there. Excite Truck (go figure) is pretty damn fun!
Then again, I don't own a 360 or PS3 (yet - may get one of those two in a near future) so I don't have anything to distract me
So wait, your system isn't a word processor but rather a home-brew sharepoint portal? In that case, what are you using for the actual "word processing" side of things?
Mod parent up to insightful.
He's correct, the best case scenario saved at most 25 cents per document. Its highly unlikely that purchasing site licenses for Word would have amounted to that much over 7 years. And I say Word on purpose. Its highly unlikely that any home-grown web-based spreadsheet solution can match the analytical functions that Excel has built in (Google doesn't do it, and lets not even get started with PowerPoint and Access). So basically it sounds like they've spent a heck of money developing a system that would have cost far less than purchasing Office itself, in order to save far less money that it would have cost to purchase Word over the last 7 years.
Seriously.. this guy is nothing more than an attention whore. How the hell does he not know about the 3yr warranty on his console? if he's even had a single support call his console would have been replaced. Sheesh.
This made me annoyed enough to actually post something!
That's unfair. The problem with the lead in the paint was due to the standards being changed during production. As such, toys that were made prior to the change in standards could not be magically "unmade" and had already reached the retail shelves. Admittedly, some factories in China were using the inferior paint but for those that weren't, they got a raw deal.
Mattel simply wanted a scapegoat.
If you're a windows sys admin then you MUST know about driver verifier right? right?
Do you know this for a fact? that they are still losing money on each console as of this quarter? If so, please provide linkage.
Or perhaps you're just talking out of your ass, which I suspect is the case.
the RROD warranty was accounted for in the last quarter. It has no basis on the results for this quarter.
I'm not going to speculate as to whether or not the console itself is making money, since I don't have a clue (and neither does anyone else here for that matter)
oooh... Netrek.. lost so much time at the computer labs playing that game!
Damn, someone needs to make a modern client (as in DirectX or OpenGL based) and revive this game!
First of all, I did point out that those were Java lectures. Whether or not it's killing MS is up for debate.
Secondly, I took up your request and viewed one of your presentations, the one on threading (thought it would be interesting - java 2, lecture 2).
You have some incorrect information out there, with regards to preemption.
If a thread with the same priority is waiting to run, the scheduler on the OS will take a round-robin approach. There is no thread starvation in a preemptive scheduler. This has been true since Windows 95* and for Unix-like systems as long as I can remember (though the caveat is that I don't know enough of Solaris' scheduler to know if what you said is true). I stopped reading at this point.
Lastly, while you are correct in your statement that it is easier to create Threads in java than C++ (and I don't understand what you mean by C# supporting a form of threading), how hard is it to call CreateThread and pass it a callback (for win32 threads anyway)?
*while pure win32 applications were subject to preemption, any calls to 16bit code (or 16bit applications) were not. The reason being is that the old 16bit Win3.1 threads were not re-entrant, therefore the scheduler was not able to preempt them.
Yet your website faithfully serves up Powerpoint slides (and even Visio! *gasp*) for Java lectures?
Oh the hypocrisy!
Sounds similar to what I described, except that Seargeant Major is an appointment, not a rank (Canadian army, see my comment below).
So if the Chief is the big fish on ship, why bother going up to Warrant?
Oops, I should have clarified. I'm with the Canadian Army. And as such, the rank of Seargeant Major isn't a rank at all, but rather an appointment. This appointment can be held by anyone with the rank of Warrant Officer or above. Of course there are different types of Seargeant Majors, Regiment SMs, Brigade SMs, Area SMs, etc. Typically, these are staffed by people who have the rank of a Chief Warrant Officer, the highest non-commissioned rank we have in the army.
It never confused me either (I'm army). The Master Chief would the equivalent to a Chief Warrant Officer of a Regiment, pretty much answerable only to the CO (although technically he is answerable to the officers, but that doesn't happen in practice).
Because Master Chief (in actuality it's Master Chief Petty Officer, but Master Chief for short) is a rank in the US Navy, the highest non-commissioned officer rank.
And wouldn't you know it.... practically all space games use naval terminology.
Maybe because he played the Xbox 360 version?