Honestly, you can make them do ANYTHING by hammering a certain topic into their heads with TV every half an hour on all channels. Additional 20-30 bucks a month are NOT going to make or break a family budget. They're NOT a good financial reason to buy a hybrid car. I won't be making any sudden moves until gas is $8-10 a gallon, in fact.
Majority of people upgrade their PCs every 5 to 7 years. Knowing Microsoft a bit, I just don't see them saying to their customers "you're SOL, your system is too old". For Server, maybe this will happen (most people use 64 bit already there), but there's no way in heck this will happen for Client.
How about refunding license payments if this falls through? That'd be cool. Say, you've filed a patent and started charging people licensing fees based on the patent that's not yet granted. The patent is rejected. Shouldn't you refund the licensing fees? Can we do this for all patents, so that there's penalty for filing shitty, obvious patents, or patents where prior art exists?
>> After Iraq aborts the invasion that is being >> carried out by the American and British villains, >> the USA will no longer be a superpower. Its >> deterioration will be rapid.
The dude was kind of right. They're currently in the process of aborting the invasion. Short of total nuclear elimination of Iraq, I have no doubt they will succeed. What this means is, the US can't win a full scale land war. Then Iran and North Korea will finally build their nukes, which will allow them to show a middle finger to everyone else, and this, in turn, will demote the US from the status of a superpower, because there will be countries on which it does not have influence. This place of a superpower will be taken by China within 30 to 50 years, not in a small part because GWB wasted $500B on a pointless war instead of spending them on keeping his country ahead of others in all the right areas.
In fact the only reason why the US is a superpower today is because other countries are benefiting from the status quo. When this is no longer the case, they'll ask the US to repay its debts, which it can not.
And IBM pays to Microsoft. And they both pay to Hitachi (another huge patent holder). In fact, IBM was the company that changed Microsoft's attitude towards software patents. MS was indifferent to patents, by and large. They did file them every now and then but it wasn't a company-wide mandatory thing it is now. That was all good until one day Bill received a nastygram from IBM telling him that Microsoft owes IBM a bajillion dollars because IBMs software patents are being infringed upon. Bill got the message. The very next year they set quotas for every single product unit and middle managers MUST fill their quotas to even have a hope of a promotion. Quality of the patents is pretty much irrelevant. I also heard that big patent holders get together once a year and decide who pays whom and how much.
For all I care this house of cards needs a few cases of _successful_ Eolas-like pwnage. Patent something stupid but fundamental (this costs roughly $10K), sue everyone for billions in "damages". Lather, rinse, repeat. After a while patent holders themselves will lobby the Congress to abolish software patents or at least do a patent reform.
It seems to download the entire apps and libs. That's something we should avoid. You don't need the entire app to run it. You need bits and pieces of it. Treat it as remote file and read it in blocks as they're executed or requested. That way you'll get better startup time and will be able to download the rest of the app later on.
Zero Install would be a huge improvement over the current state of affairs, though.
When someone creates a mechanism to do deployments of just the pieces you need to run an app and installing them in an isolated sandbox - no one will care about the web apps anymore (and by apps I mean apps - word processors, spreadsheets, web editors). The key word here is "just the pieces you need to run". I.e. just the core of the app, 4-5 hundred K of code and relevant parts of libraries. I should be able to literally get up and running within seconds over today's broadband connections and continue working while this mechanism downloads the rest of the app code and data that may or may not get used in the future.
Another key word is "isolated sandbox". I should be able to install apps without the fear that they'll wreck my system. I should be able to remove them at the drop of a hat, too, with no negative consequences. Apps must know how to save both locally and "in the cloud", too, and they must be intuitive with respect to where you save. Once you've fully downloaded the app, you must be able to run it locally.
This just makes sense. You can't run a huge number of apps on the server, because server resources are not limitless. Client resources are pretty much limitless today, though. So no matter how you slice it, apps have to be run on the client and what's missing is a delivery mechanism that would make them as convenient as webapps.
There, I've outlined the strategy for the next 5 years. Now the question is, who will implement it faster, FOSS or Microsoft.
Others will be selling it elsewhere. My point is, it'll be a Wii like situation - Apple won't be able to make them quickly enough. Believe it or not, paying $600 for a cell phone is not an unheard of thing in some parts of the world. Paying $80 a month for a contract is.
Dude, I'll write this down somewhere, and post it on Slashdot by the end of the year. My prediction is, iPhone will sell like wildfire all over the world, easily outpacing the iPod sales. In fact, I'm so sure of this, I've put all my dough into Apple stock.
All these jokes about Hans... I don't know, have you given any thought that Hans might be NOT GUILTY? Is this how you treat prominent (and talented) hackers - with presumption of guilt instead of innocence? If he's released, why would he ever write any code for people who laugh about the possibility of him riding the lightning (or whatever they do to kill people in that state)?
Seriously, jokes about Hans are disgusting. Please show some dignity and respect.
This takes years for some to understand. Ask and ye shall receive. But you have to ask, no, scratch that, demand career advancement. That's how things work around here in the US. Just doing your job doesn't get you anywhere. You have to also act like a primadonna and tell everyone how cool you are, otherwise someone else will do it instead and get promoted.
Then Microsoft must be full of insane persons. Even folks who use Visual Studio use it as a glorified Notepad most of the time, without even attempting to use its project management.
I know about all sorts of other build environments. They're at a disadvantage now, because the only one that Visual Studio actually supports is MSBuild. Embrace and extend.
It may be interesting to some that a lot of folks at MSFT do not use the very IDEs their company is so good at. A lot of people use Notepad, Notepad2, Ultra Edit, EMACS, vi, Source Insight. Hardly anyone uses Visual Studio for builds in particular on anything but prototypes. The cause of this is the build system that majority of teams use. It's sort of makefile based (but not quite), and it makes using Visual Studio impractical because things can only be built from the command line.
So folks who talk about the advantage that a good IDE gives you as far as productivity most likely have never worked on anything bigger than a few hundred files in a project.
That said, there's a system now that could change all of that. It's called MSBuild and it ships with Visual Studio. For anyone who does command line builds and whose codebase is mostly managed code, I highly recommend looking into it.
The only thing that matters in HD format is studio support. And Blu Ray studio support is vastly better than HD DVD. Repeat after me, HD-DVD has only one exclusive studio (Universal). Blu Ray has half a dozen, including Sony Pictures studios and Disney/Pixar among others. Once Universal throws in the towel on HD-DVD, it'll be pretty much done. And you can bet your ass Sony won't throw in the towel on Blu Ray.
Makes me wonder when election campaigns start to apply the actual science to elections. There are fairly robust natural language processing techniques available for what is called "sentiment classification". You define a set of topics and a machine can analyze, say, local newspapers and blogs to gauge with fairly high precision whether the candidate is getting praised or lambasted on certain issues, and how strongly. Since most of the stuff is on the web, analysis could be done in near-real time. This could then be used to place geotargeted election ads in the area (in papers, or even on Google if it decides to support ip-based geotargeting) crapping onto the other candidates and creating an impression that your candidate isn't as bad as papers portray him. All you need to do this today is one or two PhDs and a small compute cluster. Having seen the results of recent attempts at sentiment classification, I could even say that you could elect a complete turd if you use it creatively and have enough money to buy ads. You will simply _know_ what people want (or don't want) to hear.
It's not like guns are that hard to acquire in countries with gun control. They may be different kind of gun (a hunting rifle, fgzample), but you could kill people with it just as well even if you're not a criminal. And criminals will have any kind of gun they want.
One thing you can't do in such a country is defend yourself against someone with a gun. That someone can kick in your front door, shoot your entire family before your eyes and you'll just sit there and watch and there won't be a damn thing you'll be able to do. In the US the guy with a gun always considers a possibility there's another guy with a gun in there. And that's good. Also, public figures have to consider a possibility that there's a guy with a sniper rifle sitting on the roof. So you don't want to piss off your constituents too much around here.
Quite frankly, if dems oppose the second amendment, I'll vote against dems. I don't think republicans could put out anything worse than GWB even if they wanted to, so by definition they won't be much worse than Billary.
You only need one electromagnetic bomb to fry all electronics within a mile radius. Put a few of those within striking distance of each major datacenter, and Internet will be pretty much gone overnight. And a datacenter is not something you can easily hide - it can be tracked down by its massive electricity requirements and heat output.
If this means that I can deduct the losses from my taxable income - that's great. I usually sell stuff I bought but didn't like on ebay for less than its purchasing price.
Except he won't need a rocket to put him into orbit. He just needs to sit down on the only chair in Ballmer's office and tell him he's going to Google.
Does it still crash on quoted queries? I.e. on "some phrase here". Earlier builds of 2.0 version crashed on that. That's why I'm still using their 1.x version.
>> Searches. Windows Vista beats the pants off my Windows XP with Google Desktop
That's because GDS sucks ass. Try something decent, like Copernic. You'll then uninstall Vista and return back to XP, because Vista search also sucks ass.
It's about getting peoples buy more stuff in stores. You get off your work earlier where there's still sun shining. So what do you do? You go somewhere. Shopping, restaurant, etc. That's what DST is really for.
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Honestly, you can make them do ANYTHING by hammering a certain topic into their heads with TV every half an hour on all channels. Additional 20-30 bucks a month are NOT going to make or break a family budget. They're NOT a good financial reason to buy a hybrid car. I won't be making any sudden moves until gas is $8-10 a gallon, in fact.
Majority of people upgrade their PCs every 5 to 7 years. Knowing Microsoft a bit, I just don't see them saying to their customers "you're SOL, your system is too old". For Server, maybe this will happen (most people use 64 bit already there), but there's no way in heck this will happen for Client.
How about refunding license payments if this falls through? That'd be cool. Say, you've filed a patent and started charging people licensing fees based on the patent that's not yet granted. The patent is rejected. Shouldn't you refund the licensing fees? Can we do this for all patents, so that there's penalty for filing shitty, obvious patents, or patents where prior art exists?
>> After Iraq aborts the invasion that is being
>> carried out by the American and British villains,
>> the USA will no longer be a superpower. Its
>> deterioration will be rapid.
The dude was kind of right. They're currently in the process of aborting the invasion. Short of total nuclear elimination of Iraq, I have no doubt they will succeed. What this means is, the US can't win a full scale land war. Then Iran and North Korea will finally build their nukes, which will allow them to show a middle finger to everyone else, and this, in turn, will demote the US from the status of a superpower, because there will be countries on which it does not have influence. This place of a superpower will be taken by China within 30 to 50 years, not in a small part because GWB wasted $500B on a pointless war instead of spending them on keeping his country ahead of others in all the right areas.
In fact the only reason why the US is a superpower today is because other countries are benefiting from the status quo. When this is no longer the case, they'll ask the US to repay its debts, which it can not.
And IBM pays to Microsoft. And they both pay to Hitachi (another huge patent holder). In fact, IBM was the company that changed Microsoft's attitude towards software patents. MS was indifferent to patents, by and large. They did file them every now and then but it wasn't a company-wide mandatory thing it is now. That was all good until one day Bill received a nastygram from IBM telling him that Microsoft owes IBM a bajillion dollars because IBMs software patents are being infringed upon. Bill got the message. The very next year they set quotas for every single product unit and middle managers MUST fill their quotas to even have a hope of a promotion. Quality of the patents is pretty much irrelevant. I also heard that big patent holders get together once a year and decide who pays whom and how much.
For all I care this house of cards needs a few cases of _successful_ Eolas-like pwnage. Patent something stupid but fundamental (this costs roughly $10K), sue everyone for billions in "damages". Lather, rinse, repeat. After a while patent holders themselves will lobby the Congress to abolish software patents or at least do a patent reform.
It seems to download the entire apps and libs. That's something we should avoid. You don't need the entire app to run it. You need bits and pieces of it. Treat it as remote file and read it in blocks as they're executed or requested. That way you'll get better startup time and will be able to download the rest of the app later on.
Zero Install would be a huge improvement over the current state of affairs, though.
When someone creates a mechanism to do deployments of just the pieces you need to run an app and installing them in an isolated sandbox - no one will care about the web apps anymore (and by apps I mean apps - word processors, spreadsheets, web editors). The key word here is "just the pieces you need to run". I.e. just the core of the app, 4-5 hundred K of code and relevant parts of libraries. I should be able to literally get up and running within seconds over today's broadband connections and continue working while this mechanism downloads the rest of the app code and data that may or may not get used in the future.
Another key word is "isolated sandbox". I should be able to install apps without the fear that they'll wreck my system. I should be able to remove them at the drop of a hat, too, with no negative consequences. Apps must know how to save both locally and "in the cloud", too, and they must be intuitive with respect to where you save. Once you've fully downloaded the app, you must be able to run it locally.
This just makes sense. You can't run a huge number of apps on the server, because server resources are not limitless. Client resources are pretty much limitless today, though. So no matter how you slice it, apps have to be run on the client and what's missing is a delivery mechanism that would make them as convenient as webapps.
There, I've outlined the strategy for the next 5 years. Now the question is, who will implement it faster, FOSS or Microsoft.
They should call it Goatse.
Others will be selling it elsewhere. My point is, it'll be a Wii like situation - Apple won't be able to make them quickly enough. Believe it or not, paying $600 for a cell phone is not an unheard of thing in some parts of the world. Paying $80 a month for a contract is.
Dude, I'll write this down somewhere, and post it on Slashdot by the end of the year. My prediction is, iPhone will sell like wildfire all over the world, easily outpacing the iPod sales. In fact, I'm so sure of this, I've put all my dough into Apple stock.
All these jokes about Hans... I don't know, have you given any thought that Hans might be NOT GUILTY? Is this how you treat prominent (and talented) hackers - with presumption of guilt instead of innocence? If he's released, why would he ever write any code for people who laugh about the possibility of him riding the lightning (or whatever they do to kill people in that state)?
Seriously, jokes about Hans are disgusting. Please show some dignity and respect.
This takes years for some to understand. Ask and ye shall receive. But you have to ask, no, scratch that, demand career advancement. That's how things work around here in the US. Just doing your job doesn't get you anywhere. You have to also act like a primadonna and tell everyone how cool you are, otherwise someone else will do it instead and get promoted.
Then Microsoft must be full of insane persons. Even folks who use Visual Studio use it as a glorified Notepad most of the time, without even attempting to use its project management.
I know about all sorts of other build environments. They're at a disadvantage now, because the only one that Visual Studio actually supports is MSBuild. Embrace and extend.
It may be interesting to some that a lot of folks at MSFT do not use the very IDEs their company is so good at. A lot of people use Notepad, Notepad2, Ultra Edit, EMACS, vi, Source Insight. Hardly anyone uses Visual Studio for builds in particular on anything but prototypes. The cause of this is the build system that majority of teams use. It's sort of makefile based (but not quite), and it makes using Visual Studio impractical because things can only be built from the command line.
So folks who talk about the advantage that a good IDE gives you as far as productivity most likely have never worked on anything bigger than a few hundred files in a project.
That said, there's a system now that could change all of that. It's called MSBuild and it ships with Visual Studio. For anyone who does command line builds and whose codebase is mostly managed code, I highly recommend looking into it.
The only thing that matters in HD format is studio support. And Blu Ray studio support is vastly better than HD DVD. Repeat after me, HD-DVD has only one exclusive studio (Universal). Blu Ray has half a dozen, including Sony Pictures studios and Disney/Pixar among others. Once Universal throws in the towel on HD-DVD, it'll be pretty much done. And you can bet your ass Sony won't throw in the towel on Blu Ray.
Makes me wonder when election campaigns start to apply the actual science to elections. There are fairly robust natural language processing techniques available for what is called "sentiment classification". You define a set of topics and a machine can analyze, say, local newspapers and blogs to gauge with fairly high precision whether the candidate is getting praised or lambasted on certain issues, and how strongly. Since most of the stuff is on the web, analysis could be done in near-real time. This could then be used to place geotargeted election ads in the area (in papers, or even on Google if it decides to support ip-based geotargeting) crapping onto the other candidates and creating an impression that your candidate isn't as bad as papers portray him. All you need to do this today is one or two PhDs and a small compute cluster. Having seen the results of recent attempts at sentiment classification, I could even say that you could elect a complete turd if you use it creatively and have enough money to buy ads. You will simply _know_ what people want (or don't want) to hear.
It's not like guns are that hard to acquire in countries with gun control. They may be different kind of gun (a hunting rifle, fgzample), but you could kill people with it just as well even if you're not a criminal. And criminals will have any kind of gun they want.
One thing you can't do in such a country is defend yourself against someone with a gun. That someone can kick in your front door, shoot your entire family before your eyes and you'll just sit there and watch and there won't be a damn thing you'll be able to do. In the US the guy with a gun always considers a possibility there's another guy with a gun in there. And that's good. Also, public figures have to consider a possibility that there's a guy with a sniper rifle sitting on the roof. So you don't want to piss off your constituents too much around here.
Quite frankly, if dems oppose the second amendment, I'll vote against dems. I don't think republicans could put out anything worse than GWB even if they wanted to, so by definition they won't be much worse than Billary.
You only need one electromagnetic bomb to fry all electronics within a mile radius. Put a few of those within striking distance of each major datacenter, and Internet will be pretty much gone overnight. And a datacenter is not something you can easily hide - it can be tracked down by its massive electricity requirements and heat output.
If this means that I can deduct the losses from my taxable income - that's great. I usually sell stuff I bought but didn't like on ebay for less than its purchasing price.
Except he won't need a rocket to put him into orbit. He just needs to sit down on the only chair in Ballmer's office and tell him he's going to Google.
That'd be lpszCharles lpszSimonyi, thank you very much.
Does it still crash on quoted queries? I.e. on "some phrase here". Earlier builds of 2.0 version crashed on that. That's why I'm still using their 1.x version.
>> Searches. Windows Vista beats the pants off my Windows XP with Google Desktop
That's because GDS sucks ass. Try something decent, like Copernic. You'll then uninstall Vista and return back to XP, because Vista search also sucks ass.
It's about getting peoples buy more stuff in stores. You get off your work earlier where there's still sun shining. So what do you do? You go somewhere. Shopping, restaurant, etc. That's what DST is really for.