1. It must be physically smaller than iPod of the same capacity 2. It must have click wheel or some other sort of touch sensitive technology that allows me to intuitively navigate and quickly change volume. 3. Wi-Fi sharing must work over the internet. I mean, really, why the fuck not? 4. It must be able to stream music from my PC wirelessly. 5. It must cost $50 less than iPod. 6. A marketing campaign without penises and asses in commercials.
Tall order? You bet. But that's what you have to do when you're entering a well established market.
Cutler hated OS/2 with white hot, foaming at the mouth hatred that only Cutler is capable of. He even tried pretty hard to fight Gates' requirement that NT runs OS/2 as a subsystem (alongside POSIX and Windows).
They (the police) don't believe in copyright (nor do they know what it is in minute detail, I'm sure), but they do believe in edicts from their superiors. They were told to enforce, and they did enforce. Just a few years ago they couldn't even do it since there was no legal mechanism for doing so.
I'm sure the guy could have gotten away with it for much less if he had connections in the police, though.
Heard of this from a sysadmin friend who lives in Saratov, Russia. His company got raided and its owner was dragged to court and had to pay fines. Fines were substantial. He was also required to comply with licensing requirements in full, so fines weren't his only expenditure. I tried to "sell" them on Linux at least on the servers, but the boss is afraid of anything "free as in beer" now.
BTW, this is the guy who lectures MS devs on security and likes to point out how insecure Linux is compared to W2K3. He's living in a bubble, which is fine by him as long as he gets a paycheck. To be fair, most of what I heard him say was sound advice, if overly verbose. I wish he wouldn't degrade himself to a bullshit robot when talking about Linux and Vista, though.
At Microsoft some VPs don't even have any reports. In fact a lot of the time it's not clear to anyone what they're for, what they do and what their accountabilities are.
Ballmer's recipe to the "thousands of people working at random goes something like this": 1. Pick 900 senior folks, give them "partner" monikers and give them a million dollars each, just because they're so senior, they fart dust. 2. Allow 170 (and counting) VPs in a 70K company. 3. Hire a bunch of "Program Managers" who are supposed to write the specs, but since they don't know jack about problem domain (most of them don't even want to know anything about it) they write up lame excuses and developers end up back-filling. In the meanwhile PMs pat each other on the back, take the credit for developer's work and travel to Japan and Europe on company's dime. Oh, and they also "report status" to each other in endless meetings. 4. Never, ever produce a coherent, forward looking vision. Try to get the fingers in every pie in the industry, but don't give enough resources to the teams to succeed, just dangle a carrot and crack the whip. 5. Give people in the trenches sub-inflation raises and laughable amounts of stock.
<sarcasm> Ballmer seems to know a thing or two about running a software business, don't you think? If that's not a recipe for success, then I don't know what is. </sarcasm>
WB supports both Blu Ray and HD-DVD. There's no way in heck it'll be HD-DVD only. Pirates, on the other hand, will be BR only because it's a Disney flick, and Disney is BR-only.
Fast forward to November. There are quite a few major PS3 releases and Blu Ray movies outnumber HD DVD by 30% and outsell them 3:1. And now Sony knocks $100 off their console, finally kills PS2 and launches an insanely intensive marketing campaign, showing off upcoming games in all their "impossible on Xbox 360" glory. Kids all over the US and Europe beg their parents for a PS3. Parents cave in (given that they'll also be able to use it to watch Blu Ray titles).
Just come to work at 10AM and leave after 7PM like I did. You'll experience much lighter traffic. Folks who complain about traffic are the ones who leave at 5PM. Certainly this doesn't compare to the gridlock they have in California.
Any MSFT employee can ride Metro Transit buses for free. There's a "Flex Pass" thing that FTEs get every year from the receptionist. The buses are just regular buses, nothing fancy and in 6 years that I've spent at Microsoft I haven't used one once. Traffic isn't really that bad around there, and I lived 15 minutes away anyway.
It prepares kids for 10x the stress levels that they'll receive once they're on their own. Homework is also good - it keeps kids off the street and off the TV. Life's hard, little folks. Deal with it.
US public schools suck as it is. If they also abolish homework they'll be even more of a laughing stock for the rest of the world and in 10-15 years US of A will be paying dearly for this decision. I bet kids in China, India and Russia don't dare to open their mouths about getting too much homework.
You do know you can't really multitask, right? Any multitasking requires context switching. Any additional task makes you 20% slower and dumber than you'd be if you concentrated at just one task. So I'd rather live in a future that took this into account and at least tried to serialize tasks for individuals somewhat. That's where the next productivity boost will come from.
IE7 on Vista runs in a "jail". There's a new thing in Vista called Integrity Levels. Low IL has the lowest privileges and can't write anywhere. High IL is "root". User normally operates in Medium IL. Thing is, IE7 is started in Low IL. So even if it's broken, no one can silently install anything, write anywhere or even infect its binary.
It's almost like SELinux, but without process isolation. Entire layers of processes are isolated instead. And in contract to SELinux, you can't turn it off.
Firefox folks need to consider using Low IL for Firefox as well. There's nothing in there preventing them from doing so.
This consumer here is buying two. One for himself and one for his wife. And I'll have to bail out of Verizon contract, which will cost some more. Apple just makes good shit, and they're going balls out with this one.
Not if standalone player costs more than a console. I bought PS3 solely to watch Blu-Ray. A standalone 1080p player is slower, more expensive and can't play games. Not that I'm interested in games much, but I do play a round of Ridge Racer every now and then.
On the other hand, Iraq is paying off handsomely. Remember this next time you vote for someone. Don't elect dyslexic retarded cowboys into public offices.
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BIG improvement. Not quite LaTeX level yet, but it's at least usable now. And you can enter formulas entirely from the keyboard, no mouse involved.
1. It must be physically smaller than iPod of the same capacity
2. It must have click wheel or some other sort of touch sensitive technology that allows me to intuitively navigate and quickly change volume.
3. Wi-Fi sharing must work over the internet. I mean, really, why the fuck not?
4. It must be able to stream music from my PC wirelessly.
5. It must cost $50 less than iPod.
6. A marketing campaign without penises and asses in commercials.
Tall order? You bet. But that's what you have to do when you're entering a well established market.
Does it come with unlimited "skyscraper" ads? That's the question. Seriously, why would anyone use anything but GMail anymore?
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Cutler hated OS/2 with white hot, foaming at the mouth hatred that only Cutler is capable of. He even tried pretty hard to fight Gates' requirement that NT runs OS/2 as a subsystem (alongside POSIX and Windows).
They (the police) don't believe in copyright (nor do they know what it is in minute detail, I'm sure), but they do believe in edicts from their superiors. They were told to enforce, and they did enforce. Just a few years ago they couldn't even do it since there was no legal mechanism for doing so.
I'm sure the guy could have gotten away with it for much less if he had connections in the police, though.
A disgruntled employee has left and tipped off the authorities. This stuff is all the rage over there right now.
Heard of this from a sysadmin friend who lives in Saratov, Russia. His company got raided and its owner was dragged to court and had to pay fines. Fines were substantial. He was also required to comply with licensing requirements in full, so fines weren't his only expenditure. I tried to "sell" them on Linux at least on the servers, but the boss is afraid of anything "free as in beer" now.
BTW, this is the guy who lectures MS devs on security and likes to point out how insecure Linux is compared to W2K3. He's living in a bubble, which is fine by him as long as he gets a paycheck. To be fair, most of what I heard him say was sound advice, if overly verbose. I wish he wouldn't degrade himself to a bullshit robot when talking about Linux and Vista, though.
>> and explain to them that it's their (management's) way or the highway
Given that management doesn't know shit about what they do in 99.9% of cases, that's a sure fire way to kill an IT org.
Pretty easy. Over time good people who can find jobs elsewhere leave and dilbertesque organisations die by themselves.
At Microsoft some VPs don't even have any reports. In fact a lot of the time it's not clear to anyone what they're for, what they do and what their accountabilities are.
Ballmer's recipe to the "thousands of people working at random goes something like this":
1. Pick 900 senior folks, give them "partner" monikers and give them a million dollars each, just because they're so senior, they fart dust.
2. Allow 170 (and counting) VPs in a 70K company.
3. Hire a bunch of "Program Managers" who are supposed to write the specs, but since they don't know jack about problem domain (most of them don't even want to know anything about it) they write up lame excuses and developers end up back-filling. In the meanwhile PMs pat each other on the back, take the credit for developer's work and travel to Japan and Europe on company's dime. Oh, and they also "report status" to each other in endless meetings.
4. Never, ever produce a coherent, forward looking vision. Try to get the fingers in every pie in the industry, but don't give enough resources to the teams to succeed, just dangle a carrot and crack the whip.
5. Give people in the trenches sub-inflation raises and laughable amounts of stock.
<sarcasm>
Ballmer seems to know a thing or two about running a software business, don't you think? If that's not a recipe for success, then I don't know what is.
</sarcasm>
WB supports both Blu Ray and HD-DVD. There's no way in heck it'll be HD-DVD only. Pirates, on the other hand, will be BR only because it's a Disney flick, and Disney is BR-only.
Fast forward to November. There are quite a few major PS3 releases and Blu Ray movies outnumber HD DVD by 30% and outsell them 3:1. And now Sony knocks $100 off their console, finally kills PS2 and launches an insanely intensive marketing campaign, showing off upcoming games in all their "impossible on Xbox 360" glory. Kids all over the US and Europe beg their parents for a PS3. Parents cave in (given that they'll also be able to use it to watch Blu Ray titles).
Just come to work at 10AM and leave after 7PM like I did. You'll experience much lighter traffic. Folks who complain about traffic are the ones who leave at 5PM. Certainly this doesn't compare to the gridlock they have in California.
Any MSFT employee can ride Metro Transit buses for free. There's a "Flex Pass" thing that FTEs get every year from the receptionist. The buses are just regular buses, nothing fancy and in 6 years that I've spent at Microsoft I haven't used one once. Traffic isn't really that bad around there, and I lived 15 minutes away anyway.
It prepares kids for 10x the stress levels that they'll receive once they're on their own. Homework is also good - it keeps kids off the street and off the TV. Life's hard, little folks. Deal with it.
US public schools suck as it is. If they also abolish homework they'll be even more of a laughing stock for the rest of the world and in 10-15 years US of A will be paying dearly for this decision. I bet kids in China, India and Russia don't dare to open their mouths about getting too much homework.
You do know you can't really multitask, right? Any multitasking requires context switching. Any additional task makes you 20% slower and dumber than you'd be if you concentrated at just one task. So I'd rather live in a future that took this into account and at least tried to serialize tasks for individuals somewhat. That's where the next productivity boost will come from.
Why in the world would you disclose the fucking key? By disclosing it you pretty much guarantee future movies won't work with it!
IE7 on Vista runs in a "jail". There's a new thing in Vista called Integrity Levels. Low IL has the lowest privileges and can't write anywhere. High IL is "root". User normally operates in Medium IL. Thing is, IE7 is started in Low IL. So even if it's broken, no one can silently install anything, write anywhere or even infect its binary.
It's almost like SELinux, but without process isolation. Entire layers of processes are isolated instead. And in contract to SELinux, you can't turn it off.
Firefox folks need to consider using Low IL for Firefox as well. There's nothing in there preventing them from doing so.
This consumer here is buying two. One for himself and one for his wife. And I'll have to bail out of Verizon contract, which will cost some more. Apple just makes good shit, and they're going balls out with this one.
A few more of these and software industry will abolish patents on its own volition.
Not if standalone player costs more than a console. I bought PS3 solely to watch Blu-Ray. A standalone 1080p player is slower, more expensive and can't play games. Not that I'm interested in games much, but I do play a round of Ridge Racer every now and then.
On the other hand, Iraq is paying off handsomely. Remember this next time you vote for someone. Don't elect dyslexic retarded cowboys into public offices.