Windows XP is about to lose support
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along with Windows 2003. which means that any new applications you buy next year will probably not support XP and Windows 2003
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other than the fact that new desktop PC's are dirt cheap, i'm typing this on a 6 year old P4 desktop PC that originally came with XP and runs WIndows 7 perfectly with no issues. Just get more RAM
managers learn to use software tools to prioritize. Outlook calendar, tasks, MS Project and the others. this is about the ADHD people that think they are the borg, but they are not. and making things worse for themselves. it's like a small family business i recently dealt with. one guy they hired was very overworked and they needed another person. but they probably don't want to hire someone because they think it's money out of their pocket instead of growing the business. so i gave my business to someone that gave me better service
i carry a blackberry and an iphone and think tech is great, but some of these people that are trying to do 5 things at once look like ADHD or OCD cases that can't do one thing right. they get halfway done with something until the next email or IM comes in and it's off to the next thing.
i don't even have the corporate IM client installed because i think it's annoying. worst thing is to be constantly interrupted while writing SQL code or reading an interesting article by someone asking about something not important that can easily be done over email. where i'll read it when i have the chance. i already have all kinds of alerts set up for a real emergency that needs to be looked at right away. the worst people are those that want to call on the phone about things that can be done over email and need to have a written record of communication
it still amazes me that we're in a software dev reboot where our most used OS's and software are going from multi-gigabyte sizes to less than 1GB on mobile devices. and yet it's still full of bugs. sometimes worse than the bloat of desktop software. this may be a reason why. people don't concentrate and are always jumping from one thing to the next.
as communications improve it's easier to govern a nation. The Romans built roads and were able to govern the largest empire at the time. in the US as communications improved people have looked to washington DC more and more for everything. the critical point was television. only the president could get on it so everyone assumed the president did everything. no one cares about their senator/governor/mayor anymore. the president does everything.
the problem is that it's not true and there are laws in place to prevent it and people don't understand why the president and the federal government can't do everything. yet blame everything on it
in NYC and i have an iphone 3GS and a sprint blackberry. speedtests on the iphone average around 600 - 3500kbps download. even in midtown manhattan. depends on the exact location and time of day. and response is pretty good. the Sprint BB is like watching trees grow. Google maps is slow. and there are tons of deadspots around NYC. only time it's better is in one of the old factory buildings on the west side. last year when AT&T had problems i would listen to pandora and slacker on my BB.
with iphone OS 4 coming out next week i would throw the blackberry in the trash if it didn't belong to my employer
unless congress passes a law i don't see this surviving a lawsuit. and with the clout of the electronics industry i doubt a law will pass allowing this
in the 1990's when i lived in Italy i saw the police beating some people bloody on TV. Turned out they were farmers demonstrating against something. I asked an Italian why the police beat them, and he said that they demonstrated without a permit. I think we need the same thing here in the US. Especially against Critical Mass
and almost everyone i know and have ever met has never been in trouble with the law. some people always get in trouble because they are idiots and refuse to follow the law. things like participating in bike rides with hundreds of people and disrupting traffic is against the law. so is selling crap on the street with no license. some of these laws go back decades if not hundreds of years
except when the news reported about the dumb ass getting beat down in times square they said he disobeyed police orders. the video on youtube didn't mention it. only that some innocent person was knocked off his bike for no reason
what slide? in each of those cases the person violated a law. the NYC one was by a bunch of idiots called Critical Mass who think it's OK to disrupt traffic. they deserve to get beat down for what they do. 99% of the people on bikes are always breaking traffic laws running red lights or going the wrong way.
i'm almost 40, i've only had a few traffic tickets and that's the extent of my contact with police officers. and i'm free to do whatever i want
when you get to be the size of MS and Intel the way things are done is you take an existing product, dumb it down so it won't compete with higher margin products, run it through a few dozen MBA's and ship. no one would dare say lets build it from scratch and do a complete reboot. MS seems to have done it with WinMO 7 though. Intel seems to want to sell Xeons and their dumbed down Xeons otherwise known as Core i3, i5, i7 and Atom. To create something fresh like Arm with a new instruction set would mean setting up a new assembly line which is too much of a financial risk and not worth risking your job security
it's called ActiveSync. Apple and Google both license it. Google even licenses it for Google Docs sync over the internet and have extended it. Microsoft doesn't need to pour money into R&D and market a phone since they probably make more money by taking a cut of every iphone, ipod touch, ipod and most Android phones sold.
as far as shipping crap, Apple and Google do the same thing. Only reason Apple shipped the iPad during the slowest shopping time of the year is to work out the bugs before the next holiday season and get market share before everyone else. my iphone hasn't been completely stable until 3.1.3. there are reports of Droid phones rebooting for no reason. The Nexus One had all kinds of problems. It took HP 2-3 years of firmware and driver updates to make their Proliant G5 servers stop rebooting due to a bug in the iLO firmware. OS X 10.6 hasn't been out a year and it's almost on service pack 4 where all the updates are larger than the OS that shipped last year. everyone ships crap these days.
the big mistake that Microsoft seems to be making is they have given up the low end of computing. Smartphones and tablets. historically every time a new competitor takes over a market is by getting the low end first and then using that to attack the high end of the market. MS did this with Windows. it was crap compared to other OS's but cleaned house because it was easy to use and deploy. now with Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft is finally shipping a server OS with features that UNIX had in the 1990's. SQL Server is the same way. not as good as Oracle of DB2, but good enough at the right price for a lot of customers.
that was $115,000 in revenue. how much did it cost to make this monstrosity? i bet they lost money.
all the news i've read about the digital magazines on the iPad is that they are a bust. the print media screwed up their business model 10 years ago and no one wants to pay crazy prices to bail them out
mine is the same price except it's $12.95 to rent the DVR. Tivo is like $300 plus the service. the Time Warner DVR may not be as good as the Tivo, but it's good enough for my son't cartoons and the 5 shows my wife watches every week
i have it in NYC, $130 a month for cable, internet, telephone, DVR and all the local taxes they have to charge.i always have a month of cartoons DVRd for my son to watch. the DRV software is laggy and slow but overall the service is good. can't remember when i had an internet outage. unlimited calling phone is nice along with caller ID info being on the TV when someone calls. i have hundreds of channels to choose from. sometimes i'll turn on Dirty Jobs or some show on Discovery Channel with lots of trucks building something and my 2 year old loves to watch it.
i have more HD channels than I need and it's included in that price. every time i wanted to switch i looked up the competition like RCN and no one had the HD channel selection. or they wanted more money for it. over the last 7 years i had one billing problem. if equipment breaks i take it to a time warner store and get it replaced with no questions asked. almost like the Apple Store.
my inaws have Cablevision with the same package and are happy as well. a few weeks after they got it FIOS came to their neighborhood. They showed me the card and I looked it up. it costs more than cable, less international channels, they nickel and dime you for features included in the all in one cable package. i'll stay with cable.
used to buy them for $200 a pop. then i bought a cheapo hercules or whatever and never noticed a difference. built a PC with a soundmax or whatever was onboard and never noticed a difference either. since i don't sorround myself with speakers i don't care
microsoft became big by starting in the cheapo PC market and working their way up. PC's were cheap crap in the 1980's compared to the cool workstations and mainframes. same thing with tablets and phones. for now they don't do as much but in 10-15 years the technologies will improve and who ever gains the marketshare today will rule in the future. I personally prefer Apple's fat client over Google's cloud model, but they are way ahead of MS in the mobile space
how big was the footprint? even if they got it down to 5GB - 10GB it's still too much when iphone OS is 500MB or less and does most things people want in a tablet
windows 7 is nice, but the cool things now are cell phones and tablets. for that you need a mobile OS with a footprint of under 1GB. Windows Phone 7 is still months away and a few years behind iPhone OS and Android.
i've been hearing about a nuclear bomb in a suitcase for over a decade now form missle defense opponents. if it was that easy al-queda would have done it already. it's not that easy. you have to hide the radiation.
a warhead is pretty fragile and a lot of things have to work in unison and perfectly together to produce a nuclear explosion. if you hit it hard enough to damage it and prevent an explosion it's good enough
i like the iphone app situation and management better than android. downloading apps to my computer and backing them up for later use is better than doing it on the phone. and the stupid app restriction in android is annoying for me. If Google can fix these issues quick they have a big chance to beat the iphone. a good cross platform dev environment will make it easier to develop applications for all the different android phones out there
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along with Windows 2003. which means that any new applications you buy next year will probably not support XP and Windows 2003
other than the fact that new desktop PC's are dirt cheap, i'm typing this on a 6 year old P4 desktop PC that originally came with XP and runs WIndows 7 perfectly with no issues. Just get more RAM
managers learn to use software tools to prioritize. Outlook calendar, tasks, MS Project and the others. this is about the ADHD people that think they are the borg, but they are not. and making things worse for themselves. it's like a small family business i recently dealt with. one guy they hired was very overworked and they needed another person. but they probably don't want to hire someone because they think it's money out of their pocket instead of growing the business. so i gave my business to someone that gave me better service
i carry a blackberry and an iphone and think tech is great, but some of these people that are trying to do 5 things at once look like ADHD or OCD cases that can't do one thing right. they get halfway done with something until the next email or IM comes in and it's off to the next thing.
i don't even have the corporate IM client installed because i think it's annoying. worst thing is to be constantly interrupted while writing SQL code or reading an interesting article by someone asking about something not important that can easily be done over email. where i'll read it when i have the chance. i already have all kinds of alerts set up for a real emergency that needs to be looked at right away. the worst people are those that want to call on the phone about things that can be done over email and need to have a written record of communication
it still amazes me that we're in a software dev reboot where our most used OS's and software are going from multi-gigabyte sizes to less than 1GB on mobile devices. and yet it's still full of bugs. sometimes worse than the bloat of desktop software. this may be a reason why. people don't concentrate and are always jumping from one thing to the next.
as communications improve it's easier to govern a nation. The Romans built roads and were able to govern the largest empire at the time. in the US as communications improved people have looked to washington DC more and more for everything. the critical point was television. only the president could get on it so everyone assumed the president did everything. no one cares about their senator/governor/mayor anymore. the president does everything.
the problem is that it's not true and there are laws in place to prevent it and people don't understand why the president and the federal government can't do everything. yet blame everything on it
in NYC and i have an iphone 3GS and a sprint blackberry. speedtests on the iphone average around 600 - 3500kbps download. even in midtown manhattan. depends on the exact location and time of day. and response is pretty good. the Sprint BB is like watching trees grow. Google maps is slow. and there are tons of deadspots around NYC. only time it's better is in one of the old factory buildings on the west side. last year when AT&T had problems i would listen to pandora and slacker on my BB.
with iphone OS 4 coming out next week i would throw the blackberry in the trash if it didn't belong to my employer
unless congress passes a law i don't see this surviving a lawsuit. and with the clout of the electronics industry i doubt a law will pass allowing this
in the 1990's when i lived in Italy i saw the police beating some people bloody on TV. Turned out they were farmers demonstrating against something. I asked an Italian why the police beat them, and he said that they demonstrated without a permit. I think we need the same thing here in the US. Especially against Critical Mass
and almost everyone i know and have ever met has never been in trouble with the law. some people always get in trouble because they are idiots and refuse to follow the law. things like participating in bike rides with hundreds of people and disrupting traffic is against the law. so is selling crap on the street with no license. some of these laws go back decades if not hundreds of years
except when the news reported about the dumb ass getting beat down in times square they said he disobeyed police orders. the video on youtube didn't mention it. only that some innocent person was knocked off his bike for no reason
what slide? in each of those cases the person violated a law. the NYC one was by a bunch of idiots called Critical Mass who think it's OK to disrupt traffic. they deserve to get beat down for what they do. 99% of the people on bikes are always breaking traffic laws running red lights or going the wrong way.
i'm almost 40, i've only had a few traffic tickets and that's the extent of my contact with police officers. and i'm free to do whatever i want
when you get to be the size of MS and Intel the way things are done is you take an existing product, dumb it down so it won't compete with higher margin products, run it through a few dozen MBA's and ship. no one would dare say lets build it from scratch and do a complete reboot. MS seems to have done it with WinMO 7 though. Intel seems to want to sell Xeons and their dumbed down Xeons otherwise known as Core i3, i5, i7 and Atom. To create something fresh like Arm with a new instruction set would mean setting up a new assembly line which is too much of a financial risk and not worth risking your job security
it's called ActiveSync. Apple and Google both license it. Google even licenses it for Google Docs sync over the internet and have extended it. Microsoft doesn't need to pour money into R&D and market a phone since they probably make more money by taking a cut of every iphone, ipod touch, ipod and most Android phones sold.
as far as shipping crap, Apple and Google do the same thing. Only reason Apple shipped the iPad during the slowest shopping time of the year is to work out the bugs before the next holiday season and get market share before everyone else. my iphone hasn't been completely stable until 3.1.3. there are reports of Droid phones rebooting for no reason. The Nexus One had all kinds of problems. It took HP 2-3 years of firmware and driver updates to make their Proliant G5 servers stop rebooting due to a bug in the iLO firmware. OS X 10.6 hasn't been out a year and it's almost on service pack 4 where all the updates are larger than the OS that shipped last year. everyone ships crap these days.
the big mistake that Microsoft seems to be making is they have given up the low end of computing. Smartphones and tablets. historically every time a new competitor takes over a market is by getting the low end first and then using that to attack the high end of the market. MS did this with Windows. it was crap compared to other OS's but cleaned house because it was easy to use and deploy. now with Windows Server 2008 R2 Microsoft is finally shipping a server OS with features that UNIX had in the 1990's. SQL Server is the same way. not as good as Oracle of DB2, but good enough at the right price for a lot of customers.
that was $115,000 in revenue. how much did it cost to make this monstrosity? i bet they lost money.
all the news i've read about the digital magazines on the iPad is that they are a bust. the print media screwed up their business model 10 years ago and no one wants to pay crazy prices to bail them out
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StemCells is part of Stanford and were the first to create this technique
mine is the same price except it's $12.95 to rent the DVR. Tivo is like $300 plus the service. the Time Warner DVR may not be as good as the Tivo, but it's good enough for my son't cartoons and the 5 shows my wife watches every week
i have it in NYC, $130 a month for cable, internet, telephone, DVR and all the local taxes they have to charge.i always have a month of cartoons DVRd for my son to watch. the DRV software is laggy and slow but overall the service is good. can't remember when i had an internet outage. unlimited calling phone is nice along with caller ID info being on the TV when someone calls. i have hundreds of channels to choose from. sometimes i'll turn on Dirty Jobs or some show on Discovery Channel with lots of trucks building something and my 2 year old loves to watch it.
i have more HD channels than I need and it's included in that price. every time i wanted to switch i looked up the competition like RCN and no one had the HD channel selection. or they wanted more money for it. over the last 7 years i had one billing problem. if equipment breaks i take it to a time warner store and get it replaced with no questions asked. almost like the Apple Store.
my inaws have Cablevision with the same package and are happy as well. a few weeks after they got it FIOS came to their neighborhood. They showed me the card and I looked it up. it costs more than cable, less international channels, they nickel and dime you for features included in the all in one cable package. i'll stay with cable.
and the crappy software which almost no one used
used to buy them for $200 a pop. then i bought a cheapo hercules or whatever and never noticed a difference. built a PC with a soundmax or whatever was onboard and never noticed a difference either. since i don't sorround myself with speakers i don't care
microsoft became big by starting in the cheapo PC market and working their way up. PC's were cheap crap in the 1980's compared to the cool workstations and mainframes. same thing with tablets and phones. for now they don't do as much but in 10-15 years the technologies will improve and who ever gains the marketshare today will rule in the future. I personally prefer Apple's fat client over Google's cloud model, but they are way ahead of MS in the mobile space
how big was the footprint? even if they got it down to 5GB - 10GB it's still too much when iphone OS is 500MB or less and does most things people want in a tablet
windows 7 is nice, but the cool things now are cell phones and tablets. for that you need a mobile OS with a footprint of under 1GB. Windows Phone 7 is still months away and a few years behind iPhone OS and Android.
i've been hearing about a nuclear bomb in a suitcase for over a decade now form missle defense opponents. if it was that easy al-queda would have done it already. it's not that easy. you have to hide the radiation.
a warhead is pretty fragile and a lot of things have to work in unison and perfectly together to produce a nuclear explosion. if you hit it hard enough to damage it and prevent an explosion it's good enough
i like the iphone app situation and management better than android. downloading apps to my computer and backing them up for later use is better than doing it on the phone. and the stupid app restriction in android is annoying for me. If Google can fix these issues quick they have a big chance to beat the iphone. a good cross platform dev environment will make it easier to develop applications for all the different android phones out there