It is a known fact that one full cup of regular table salt is a lethal dose. And those terrorists at Morton crank out hundreds of tons of this "weapon" every year.
His company's stock is way down in the toilet, his cash reserves are rapidly depleting, PC manufacturers are as close to eating into his 64bit marketshare as they've ever been, IBM is making him its bitch in the high-end market, yet his only concern is the market dominance of Microsoft.
Simply amazing. Get REAL, Scott, come up with a valid VIABLE business plan and execute on it. With cheap mainstream 64 bit computing around the corner you gotta do better than you do these days and sell your crap at competitive prices.
And how exactly do POWs held without a trial apply to the security (or lack thereof) of your family? Aren't you being a little bit too receptive to European anti-US propaganda?
God knows what it will become 10 years later. Something tells me it will NOT be strongly secular and it will passionately hate the US who stole (let's give things their real names) shitloads of their oil.
I'm not saying Saddam didn't get what he deserved. I'm just saying that I'd prefer if this government would be direct with the people it serves. I'm pretty confident that if GWB said "we want to kick the shit out of Saddam" he'd get just as much support as he did by linking Iraq to Al Quaeda.
Microsoft has just started playing with the political side of things and everybody's foaming at their mouth. This is how big businesses (software or not) survive in this country.
There is hype and there is delivery. You should learn to recognize the cases where Microsoft can not afford to fail. There were quite a few of those. In these cases they always deliver. They burn people and tons of cash in process, but if they really have to - they'll be there.
User's don't buy Windows because of pretty graphics. The reason they buy it is because there's a shitload of relatively cheap software available for it. And this is about to increase three-fold.
Their entire company is at stake. They can't afford it to tank, and this is why it never will tank. Sorry, but that's just Microsoft, they've done this in the past multiple times (the latest one was.NET effort - four friggin' years, amazing quality delivered), they will do it again.
I've heard somewhere that Windows division at MS has FIVE THOUSAND programmers. Sure, the kernel team must be very small, but for everything else it's manageable if everything is sufficiently componentized.
Windows will become 10 times easier to program for. Apps will need much less debugging because there will be no such thing as memory management problems. There also will be rich API like nothing you've seen before. A school boy will be able to develop shit that only a qualified developer can handle these days, and good developers will put out tons more quality code than they possibly can today. This thing will be like an explosion. Imagine being able to deploy ONLY managed software on multiple architectures simultaneously and being able to rely on full-blown OS support for such software!
They CAN dump existing software by sandboxing it within compatibility mode. Like for example win16 apps that can't crash each other anymore and have to obey security restrictions in Win NT/2000/XP. Remember, there was no security whatsoever in Win 3.11. In my opinion, making Windows secure just requires a lot of education of users and developers. Apps should not require admin accounts to run, every user should know how to run a piece of software under another account (aka runas). Their security model kicks ass, only nobody's using it that's the problem.
Longhorn will be to previous versions of windows what Windows 95 was back in the day - a radical change. Old apps will be supported, but only in compatibility mode (like 16-bit win. 3.11 apps are supported in windows right now). All the new APIs will be managed which means fast, secure and componentized. There will be new security model. There will be new UI library very different from what you can use now, and, again managed. GDI will only be supported in compatibility mode - graphics engine will change as well. This coupled with a shitload of other technologies will make it a worthy target for developers and businesses.
Do not underestimate the power of several thousand quality developers fueled by several billions of dollars. They've hired out creme of the crop in the dotcom bust phase and now their workforce is better and more dedicated than ever.
If they're willing to adjust the schedules on top of that, the resulting product may really be scary good.
Not by themselves (there are phones that are worse than those Motorola makes), but when compared to Nokia and Sony they do. Motorola was my first cell phone and it was bulky as hell, had a huge antenna and drained batteries really quickly. After 3 or 4 months of struggling with it, I bought myself a Nokia and Philips for my wife. They both (even Philips) were MUCH better than Motorola. Lighter, stronger batteries, better UI.
As to Linux in my mobile phone... I don't know about everyone else, but I _TALK_ on mine. And for me the ability to keep a phone book and make calls are the main features. If I need games on the road, I'll buy gameboy advance. If I need web, I have a laptop. If I need a digital camera, I have a digital SLR.
That's BS. Babies are cheaper to produce. And their life span in the most undeveloped countries is about 60 years. Who the heck would pay a fortune for the latest technological marvel if you can have a Mexican illegal immigrant do the same.
I'm a windows user. I apply all the patches as soon as they become available. I've never had a worm or virus on my system, ever.
Now if only someone could explain Joe Sixpack what "patch" is, and tell him to never open executables that come in the mail, script kiddies would be out of business.
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But any innovation that comes from MS deserves to be overlooked by /. standards.
If it were a Linux program it would be called kvtse or gvtse depending on whether it's for Gnome or KDE.
It is a known fact that one full cup of regular table salt is a lethal dose. And those terrorists at Morton crank out hundreds of tons of this "weapon" every year.
Sue them!
His company's stock is way down in the toilet, his cash reserves are rapidly depleting, PC manufacturers are as close to eating into his 64bit marketshare as they've ever been, IBM is making him its bitch in the high-end market, yet his only concern is the market dominance of Microsoft.
Simply amazing. Get REAL, Scott, come up with a valid VIABLE business plan and execute on it. With cheap mainstream 64 bit computing around the corner you gotta do better than you do these days and sell your crap at competitive prices.
And how exactly do POWs held without a trial apply to the security (or lack thereof) of your family? Aren't you being a little bit too receptive to European anti-US propaganda?
Linux is not immune from memory leaks (or any other software problems for that matter).
God knows what it will become 10 years later. Something tells me it will NOT be strongly secular and it will passionately hate the US who stole (let's give things their real names) shitloads of their oil.
I'm not saying Saddam didn't get what he deserved. I'm just saying that I'd prefer if this government would be direct with the people it serves. I'm pretty confident that if GWB said "we want to kick the shit out of Saddam" he'd get just as much support as he did by linking Iraq to Al Quaeda.
Explain me a link between 9/11 and Iraq. Bush keeps referring to it, yet there's no link whatsoever!
You don't just drop a job like this these days.
Microsoft has just started playing with the political side of things and everybody's foaming at their mouth. This is how big businesses (software or not) survive in this country.
And then they'll scan your IDs and put them on Kazaa.
I say it won't tank, and I bet you $1K it won't. It may be delayed a little, but it will be delivered.
There is hype and there is delivery. You should learn to recognize the cases where Microsoft can not afford to fail. There were quite a few of those. In these cases they always deliver. They burn people and tons of cash in process, but if they really have to - they'll be there.
User's don't buy Windows because of pretty graphics. The reason they buy it is because there's a shitload of relatively cheap software available for it. And this is about to increase three-fold.
On this scale you've only hear this once - when Win 95 was released. So shut up and write some code - hard times are coming for desktop Linux.
Their entire company is at stake. They can't afford it to tank, and this is why it never will tank. Sorry, but that's just Microsoft, they've done this in the past multiple times (the latest one was .NET effort - four friggin' years, amazing quality delivered), they will do it again.
I've heard somewhere that Windows division at MS has FIVE THOUSAND programmers. Sure, the kernel team must be very small, but for everything else it's manageable if everything is sufficiently componentized.
Windows will become 10 times easier to program for. Apps will need much less debugging because there will be no such thing as memory management problems. There also will be rich API like nothing you've seen before. A school boy will be able to develop shit that only a qualified developer can handle these days, and good developers will put out tons more quality code than they possibly can today. This thing will be like an explosion. Imagine being able to deploy ONLY managed software on multiple architectures simultaneously and being able to rely on full-blown OS support for such software!
They CAN dump existing software by sandboxing it within compatibility mode. Like for example win16 apps that can't crash each other anymore and have to obey security restrictions in Win NT/2000/XP. Remember, there was no security whatsoever in Win 3.11. In my opinion, making Windows secure just requires a lot of education of users and developers. Apps should not require admin accounts to run, every user should know how to run a piece of software under another account (aka runas). Their security model kicks ass, only nobody's using it that's the problem.
Longhorn will be to previous versions of windows what Windows 95 was back in the day - a radical change. Old apps will be supported, but only in compatibility mode (like 16-bit win. 3.11 apps are supported in windows right now). All the new APIs will be managed which means fast, secure and componentized. There will be new security model. There will be new UI library very different from what you can use now, and, again managed. GDI will only be supported in compatibility mode - graphics engine will change as well. This coupled with a shitload of other technologies will make it a worthy target for developers and businesses.
Do not underestimate the power of several thousand quality developers fueled by several billions of dollars. They've hired out creme of the crop in the dotcom bust phase and now their workforce is better and more dedicated than ever.
If they're willing to adjust the schedules on top of that, the resulting product may really be scary good.
That's for sure. :0)
Not by themselves (there are phones that are worse than those Motorola makes), but when compared to Nokia and Sony they do. Motorola was my first cell phone and it was bulky as hell, had a huge antenna and drained batteries really quickly. After 3 or 4 months of struggling with it, I bought myself a Nokia and Philips for my wife. They both (even Philips) were MUCH better than Motorola. Lighter, stronger batteries, better UI.
As to Linux in my mobile phone... I don't know about everyone else, but I _TALK_ on mine. And for me the ability to keep a phone book and make calls are the main features. If I need games on the road, I'll buy gameboy advance. If I need web, I have a laptop. If I need a digital camera, I have a digital SLR.
I like this feature. Do you?
That's BS. Babies are cheaper to produce. And their life span in the most undeveloped countries is about 60 years. Who the heck would pay a fortune for the latest technological marvel if you can have a Mexican illegal immigrant do the same.
I'm a windows user. I apply all the patches as soon as they become available. I've never had a worm or virus on my system, ever.
Now if only someone could explain Joe Sixpack what "patch" is, and tell him to never open executables that come in the mail, script kiddies would be out of business.