The thing is, these results (I mean TPC) are provided by HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS, not Microsoft. It's not like there's a bunch of people in Redmond sitting and faking these numbers. And it's pretty legally dangerous to fake them.
I delete the MP3s that failed to inspire me to support the author by buying a CD. If I find something great, I'll buy a CD even if there's just one good song on it. MP3s just aren't good enough for my headphones. If there was a standard that's "good enough" (WMA comes close) I think 50-70 cents would be a fair price for an electronic copy of one song with no copying restrictions (after all I'll need this track at work and in my car, too).
Among the enterprise-level DBs, SQL Server beats the crap outta every other DB both in price/performance, price AND performance. So TPC says it's got the highest-performance and it's the cheapest DB available on the market. See http://www.tpc.org/ for more information.
V1's have never been profitable for MS. XBox is just that - V1. By V3 their competition will be in tears and they'll own the market. Why? Because instead of planning well ahead they think MS is short-sighted, etc. XBox is just too big of a bet to lose.
>> The problem is Microsoft doesn't understand the model
It looks like YOU understand the model. If you do, send them your resume, you'll get hired immediately if you pass their nightmarish 5-hour interview. Although I doubt you know you know anything better than folks at MS. You just fail to see a long term strategy here.
See, I'm not saying I won't buy it. Maybe I will. But before I buy I'd like to try a full-blown product, not castrated demo version. I buy tons of audio CDs this way. I download music and buy CDs if I like it or delete it if I don't.
Another thing is, I don't think paying $80 every god damn year is a good deal. I just don't think this such a high price is justified.
Ever heard of eDonkey? I bet ISOs will be shared 15 minutes after they start selling actual boxes. Or maybe even earlier, if someone steals an unreleased *.ISO.
Had you lived in the USSR? Lemme tell you, you wouldn't like it. I didn't. I'd rather live in today's dirty, poor and corrupted Russia than in the USSR. Why? Because USSR was stupid and illogical. There was absolutely no way to rise above the crowd. Even less so for those who weren't party members. Those who lived in Moscow and Leningrad don't really know what the life was like in the USSR.
Anyone who suggests using sprinklers in the datacenter should be immediately fired. Datacenter fire extinguishing systems should only be gas-based. That's in fact the way it is in any well-equipped datacenter.
How much money do you want to bet that if somebody released an operating system called Molaris (or even Polaris, for chrissakes) for example Sun would sue? The would apply Uracle DB server, MocOS operating system, or Fotoshop or AvtoCAD.
Ozone is also a much better oxidant than O2. Gotta be VERY careful with that grain, a bunch of it can just burn at a smallest spark. The environment at the grain elevators also becomes much more explosive. Right now it's prohibited to smoke or create any open fire on the facilities there. Why? Because flour (it's not really flour, but microscopic particles of wheat) suspended in the air is highly explosive. Now imagine this air has high ozone content. Also, there always WILL be leaks from grain storage and ozone is poisonous.
Terminal Services for Windows has been available for like 4 or 5 years now. Why not use terminal approach with windows, too, if you need it that much? *
I'm Russian, living in Bellevue, WA and guess what, after returning from Russia last week, I like US media more than ever before. Why? Because in Russia around 80% of news broadcast time is NOT about Russia. You never know what the heck is going on in your own country! Moreover, around 50-60% of news time is targeted at putting down the US and its policy (not because of Iraq, it has always been this way). This hate towards the US is cultivated to distract people from real problems, like poverty, corruption, bureocracy, unemployment rates, omnipresent dirt, people freezing in Siberia, etc. If I lived in Russia, I'd rather have the news American way, i.e. in reverse proportions, and talking about the problems in my own country. I guess that's in part is why I live here. *
And it's not only my opinion. What's the advantage in transferring the signal in digital form if you still have to convert it back to analog to run it through a tube amp? I fail to see it. Don't tell me about all this "modelling" crap - it's nowhere near in terms of quality and depth of tone to the "old" tube stuff. Some people say modelling gear does a good job, but let me tell you this - it does a good job for as long as there's no real amp in the room.
Another thing is the quality of ADCs and DACs. A good monaural ADC can easily cost $1500 and more. A good DAC is in the same price range. Now imagine 6 of these at each end of the wire. If Gibson is planning to put crappy ADC/DACs in their gear, then no, thanks - any high gain amplifier will make their artifacts grotesque and easily audible.
In other words, I don't know what kind of weed people at Gibson are smoking, but this shit isn't gonna take off anytime soon. Sorry Gibson, I'm happy with my passive pickups, analog cable and tube amp with spring reverb. *
I don't give a flying fuck whether the software my tax dollars are buying is free or not. What I do care about if it's the right software for the job, and whether the government will be more effective as a result of buying this software. It is unwise (at best) to base your decisions solely on whether the software is open or not. *
Our QA people have developed their own framework for running tests in C#. It automatically discovers test cases via Reflection API, allows to group them into suites, run suites, generate reports, debug. It took 2 people 1.5 months to write it (while also dogfooding it to themselves and writing actual tests). No big fanfare, no buzzwords.
"Refactoring" - holy fuck, where do you get such words? *
1. They strike a fat deal with MS 2. They fail several deadlines borrowing the money from MS to continue 3. MS folks' patience reaches the boiling point (they get fucked by their management too, you know!). MS pulls out of the deal 4. Sendo makes a huge amount of stink when Microsoft pulls out of the deal 4. Sendo is about to go bankrupt. No wonder, because it hasn't shipped anything 5. Microsoft finds two other companies and strikes the same deal as with Sendo 6. These companies deliver prototypes 7. Sendo makes even more stink by going to court
Mod me down if you want, but I fail to see where's Microsoft's fault here. Another thing, I highly doubt they haven't read their own fine print, which makes all this stink by Sendo a moot point. Contracts are negotiated before you sign them, not after that.
Maybe you guys should get better education? Many of you don't know this, but it is prohibited by law to pay a H1B worker LESS than an American for the same job. So tech companies hire H1B workers, spend buttload of money bringing them in and then pays them MORE than Americans. Why? Because we're better educated. We're not getting lost when task at hand is outside of the scope of university textbooks. Simply put, tech companies save money in the end by hiring better educated people from say Russia or India. I'm not being nationalist or anything. There are totally brilliant people among Americans, too. The problem is, they're usually already employed and satisfied with their compensation. *
This made it 10 times faster than Sun's implementation. At the time it WAS a big deal. I'm with Microsoft here. Even now, on 2GHz+ P4's Sun Java is VERY slow. Back then it was even slower. Nobody would ever have adopted this POS if it wasn't screaming fast. And MS VM WAS screaming fast. *
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The thing is, these results (I mean TPC) are provided by HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS, not Microsoft. It's not like there's a bunch of people in Redmond sitting and faking these numbers. And it's pretty legally dangerous to fake them.
I delete the MP3s that failed to inspire me to support the author by buying a CD. If I find something great, I'll buy a CD even if there's just one good song on it. MP3s just aren't good enough for my headphones. If there was a standard that's "good enough" (WMA comes close) I think 50-70 cents would be a fair price for an electronic copy of one song with no copying restrictions (after all I'll need this track at work and in my car, too).
Among the enterprise-level DBs, SQL Server beats the crap outta every other DB both in price/performance, price AND performance. So TPC says it's got the highest-performance and it's the cheapest DB available on the market. See http://www.tpc.org/ for more information.
This story is featured on Google News. It will be interesting to see if Google slashdots Slashdot.
V1's have never been profitable for MS. XBox is just that - V1. By V3 their competition will be in tears and they'll own the market. Why? Because instead of planning well ahead they think MS is short-sighted, etc. XBox is just too big of a bet to lose.
>> The problem is Microsoft doesn't understand the model
It looks like YOU understand the model. If you do, send them your resume, you'll get hired immediately if you pass their nightmarish 5-hour interview. Although I doubt you know you know anything better than folks at MS. You just fail to see a long term strategy here.
I don't play games. At all. If I did, I'd have applied the same algorithm as to music.
See, I'm not saying I won't buy it. Maybe I will. But before I buy I'd like to try a full-blown product, not castrated demo version. I buy tons of audio CDs this way. I download music and buy CDs if I like it or delete it if I don't.
Another thing is, I don't think paying $80 every god damn year is a good deal. I just don't think this such a high price is justified.
Ever heard of eDonkey? I bet ISOs will be shared 15 minutes after they start selling actual boxes. Or maybe even earlier, if someone steals an unreleased *.ISO.
Had you lived in the USSR? Lemme tell you, you wouldn't like it. I didn't. I'd rather live in today's dirty, poor and corrupted Russia than in the USSR. Why? Because USSR was stupid and illogical. There was absolutely no way to rise above the crowd. Even less so for those who weren't party members. Those who lived in Moscow and Leningrad don't really know what the life was like in the USSR.
Anyone who suggests using sprinklers in the datacenter should be immediately fired. Datacenter fire extinguishing systems should only be gas-based. That's in fact the way it is in any well-equipped datacenter.
How much money do you want to bet that if somebody released an operating system called Molaris (or even Polaris, for chrissakes) for example Sun would sue? The would apply Uracle DB server, MocOS operating system, or Fotoshop or AvtoCAD.
Ozone is also a much better oxidant than O2. Gotta be VERY careful with that grain, a bunch of it can just burn at a smallest spark. The environment at the grain elevators also becomes much more explosive. Right now it's prohibited to smoke or create any open fire on the facilities there. Why? Because flour (it's not really flour, but microscopic particles of wheat) suspended in the air is highly explosive. Now imagine this air has high ozone content. Also, there always WILL be leaks from grain storage and ozone is poisonous.
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>> and having to buy software they did not need to get the parts they DID need
That's not because a pirated version of MS office is available for $2 there, not at all!!!
Terminal Services for Windows has been available for like 4 or 5 years now. Why not use terminal approach with windows, too, if you need it that much?
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>> Its a free country
So many Americans use this cliche phrase without even thinking. How do you define "freedom" here?
Only there's no such thing as a "KGB symbol". They didn't have one and they still don't have it. There's simply no need.
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I'm Russian, living in Bellevue, WA and guess what, after returning from Russia last week, I like US media more than ever before. Why? Because in Russia around 80% of news broadcast time is NOT about Russia. You never know what the heck is going on in your own country! Moreover, around 50-60% of news time is targeted at putting down the US and its policy (not because of Iraq, it has always been this way). This hate towards the US is cultivated to distract people from real problems, like poverty, corruption, bureocracy, unemployment rates, omnipresent dirt, people freezing in Siberia, etc. If I lived in Russia, I'd rather have the news American way, i.e. in reverse proportions, and talking about the problems in my own country. I guess that's in part is why I live here.
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And it's not only my opinion. What's the advantage in transferring the signal in digital form if you still have to convert it back to analog to run it through a tube amp? I fail to see it. Don't tell me about all this "modelling" crap - it's nowhere near in terms of quality and depth of tone to the "old" tube stuff. Some people say modelling gear does a good job, but let me tell you this - it does a good job for as long as there's no real amp in the room.
Another thing is the quality of ADCs and DACs. A good monaural ADC can easily cost $1500 and more. A good DAC is in the same price range. Now imagine 6 of these at each end of the wire. If Gibson is planning to put crappy ADC/DACs in their gear, then no, thanks - any high gain amplifier will make their artifacts grotesque and easily audible.
In other words, I don't know what kind of weed people at Gibson are smoking, but this shit isn't gonna take off anytime soon. Sorry Gibson, I'm happy with my passive pickups, analog cable and tube amp with spring reverb.
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I don't give a flying fuck whether the software my tax dollars are buying is free or not. What I do care about if it's the right software for the job, and whether the government will be more effective as a result of buying this software. It is unwise (at best) to base your decisions solely on whether the software is open or not.
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Our QA people have developed their own framework for running tests in C#. It automatically discovers test cases via Reflection API, allows to group them into suites, run suites, generate reports, debug. It took 2 people 1.5 months to write it (while also dogfooding it to themselves and writing actual tests). No big fanfare, no buzzwords.
"Refactoring" - holy fuck, where do you get such words?
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1. They strike a fat deal with MS
2. They fail several deadlines borrowing the money from MS to continue
3. MS folks' patience reaches the boiling point (they get fucked by their management too, you know!). MS pulls out of the deal
4. Sendo makes a huge amount of stink when Microsoft pulls out of the deal
4. Sendo is about to go bankrupt. No wonder, because it hasn't shipped anything
5. Microsoft finds two other companies and strikes the same deal as with Sendo
6. These companies deliver prototypes
7. Sendo makes even more stink by going to court
Mod me down if you want, but I fail to see where's Microsoft's fault here. Another thing, I highly doubt they haven't read their own fine print, which makes all this stink by Sendo a moot point. Contracts are negotiated before you sign them, not after that.
Maybe you guys should get better education? Many of you don't know this, but it is prohibited by law to pay a H1B worker LESS than an American for the same job. So tech companies hire H1B workers, spend buttload of money bringing them in and then pays them MORE than Americans. Why? Because we're better educated. We're not getting lost when task at hand is outside of the scope of university textbooks. Simply put, tech companies save money in the end by hiring better educated people from say Russia or India. I'm not being nationalist or anything. There are totally brilliant people among Americans, too. The problem is, they're usually already employed and satisfied with their compensation.
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This made it 10 times faster than Sun's implementation. At the time it WAS a big deal. I'm with Microsoft here. Even now, on 2GHz+ P4's Sun Java is VERY slow. Back then it was even slower. Nobody would ever have adopted this POS if it wasn't screaming fast. And MS VM WAS screaming fast.
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