MS IE: support the oldest browser which Microsoft still supports and releases patches for Mozilla: Firefox 1.0 Safari: support the oldest Apple supports and releases patches for Opera: Give it a finger, no one is using it anyway
There are only 13% of "African American" people in the US. Historically, significant portion of that population even didn't have access to or didn't have interest in higher education. So there you go. You can realistically expect 5-7% of your IT staff to be black _if_ you only hire Americans. Hiring overseas further dilutes this percentage.
I'm planning to have Catherine Zeta Jones as my wife. The project is in a conceptual stage right now, but I'm planning real hard. If only I could get some private funding to make myself fiscally attractive, I'd be all set.
The guy spent TWO FREAKING DECADES collecting that stuff. Folks guarding it realized it would only last them a few days, so chose not to destroy a valuable scientific artifact. This is HEROISM folks, in its purest form. Not "firefighter" flavor cultivated here in the US.
Except Moore's law does not apply here in its original form. You still have to maintain pixel surface area to capture light. Barring something revolutionarry, I don't think we'll see much of an improvement over what's currently available on the high end.
I'm sorry, but this is SO far behind Office 12, it's ridiculous. When that comes out, no one will care if OOo is offered for free. Because OOo will look retarded and you'd need to pay people to get them to use it. This is not a troll. Microsoft has really nailed the UI (as well as some other things) in Office 12.
The key word here is "eventually". Considering that most Internet users are still (!!!) using dial up, I don't see this "eventually" happening in XBOX360 lifetime.
After paying $60 for a game I don't see why I need to even pay this much. And $50 is BAD for Microsoft. This pretty much means they're not even breaking even with all this shit. They've already burned BILLIONS on XBox and yet the execs continue approving ridiculous bullshit like that. Unbelievable.
Most contractors FUCKING SUCK compared to FTEs (Full Time Employee in MSFT lingo). Those that don't suck are worked on to become FTEs, and usually get an offer they can't refuse. Trubly blessed are those that a) don't suck, b) have no desire to become FTEs. They work 9 to 5, make good money, and get properly compensated for overtime (MSFT FTE's dream).
So Excel, Volt, etc are pretty much glorified recruitment agencies and they wisely choose to not enforce their non-competes against MSFT.;0)
It costs A HECK OF A LOT to run online gaming datacenter. Things get even worse if you run it on Windows (this is ex-Microsoftie speaking:-). Even if they get, say, 2-3 million users there (remember, churn is significant when you put cheapskates on a monthly fee) it will be barely enough to cover the costs. Their belief, you see, is that online gaming is crucial and neither Sony nor Nintendo can offer. The problem with this reasoning is that neither Sony nor Nintendo _want_ to step into this pile of shit, for profitability and just pure common sense reasons. Myself, I'm just NOT going to pay hundreds of dollars every year for a dubious privilege of connecting to Microsoft servers. Especially considering that there's technically NOTHING preventing multiplayer games from being P2P.
>> C#, for all of the claims of performance, is a a JIT based interpretive language. Ditto Java.
True for Java (partially), not true AT ALL for C# (or any other.NET language for that matter). MSIL gets compiled into machine code BEFORE executing it. There's no interpreter in this infrastructure AT ALL (and that's the main difference from Java). While MSIL can, of course, be run using interpreter, its primary design objective was lightning fast, on-demand JIT compilation and as such it won't run well in the interpreter. Java bytecode is the exact opposite - it was designed to be efficient when run on the interpreter, and as such it will never be as fast at JIT compilation as MSIL.
First of all, $400M is not pocket change for anyone. Total cost of one developer in Redmond (including all kinds of overhead, like real estate, insurance, facilities, etc. etc.) is around $250K per year. This means for $400M you can have FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE people working for THREE YEARS on the project without skimping on anything. Probably a lot more if you consider that about 20% of work will be outsourced to India and China.
Second, Microsoft can't just say "sorry, your old stuff won't work anymore" to its enterprise customers. That's just not going to fly for a sales guy trying to get a customer to renew a support contract. So Opera, if they buy it, would have to be made compatible with all quirks of MS browsers down to IE 5.5 (lowest version officially supported by MSFT). Which kind of defeats the purpose of buying Opera in the first place.
Thing is, I don't want this to be easy to defeat. Someone with a perl script could just strip the stuff after "+" and go directly to my mailbox. Then there's also a risk that someone may want to use a funky email client which has no clue that "+" in the email address is a valid character.
One feature I need in GMail is this (and I hope someone from Google is reading). I want to have several mailboxes under the same signin name. In other words, I want bar@gmail.com and quux@gmail.com both show up when I login as foo@gmail.com. If they share the same storage quota, I don't care. What I do care about is that emails are in the same mailbox, and when I reply, the reply comes from bar@gmail.com or quux@gmail.com correspondingly. I'd use one address for people who I trust, and another for people who I don't trust with a different set of filters for each group.
This one feature would allow me to abandon native email clients for good (aside from firing them up do back up my email from time to time).
Microsoft is changing from engineer led company (Gates was an engineer) to a salesperson lead company (Ballmer is a salesperson). Flying pigs will freeze in hell before this new guy changes anything.
1. Pretend you're bidding for AOL to "cut off Google's air supply" 2. Let Google win the bid at astronomical and unreasonable price 3. Have your golf buddies at AOL force Google to fuck up its advertising practices by showing penis enlargement and bonzi buddy ads 4. Microsoft launches its own contextual ad system based solely on text ads 5. People pissed off by animated gifs at Google use MSN Search instead (as a search engine it's already pretty good, it's user experience is not as good as Google, tho) 6. Profit!
If this is what it is, Microsoft has made a brilliant move and fucked up Google without spending a dime. Bravo.
And that, my friend, is why I believe we'll see an Excel replacement coming out of Apple as soon as next year. They'll have their own word processor, their own presentation program, and their own spreadsheet. Best of all, they'll bundle it all together and sell it for $99.95.
This is why I carefully secure my wireless connections. The guy may be guilty or he may be not, but the fact remains - if you have an unsecured wireless AP, for all you know someone may be using it to upload/download kiddie porn. Enable WPA, disable SSID broadcast, enable MAC and IP filtering, use strong password on your router, plug all firewall holes and it will be a lot harder for folks to use your AP without your permission.
Or you can just sit there and wait for the police knocking on your door and charging you with a crime you know nothing about.
How is 8MP camera with a small sensor different from a camera with a 10MP large sensor? I'm not talking about capturing full-res video. I'm not even talking about capturing high-def. 640x480 at 30fps would be more than enough for me. What's important here is that due to sensor size (or, really, focal length range) I'd be able to blur the background, and there would be _zero_ noise, even at ISO 1600.
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MS IE: support the oldest browser which Microsoft still supports and releases patches for
Mozilla: Firefox 1.0
Safari: support the oldest Apple supports and releases patches for
Opera: Give it a finger, no one is using it anyway
There are only 13% of "African American" people in the US. Historically, significant portion of that population even didn't have access to or didn't have interest in higher education. So there you go. You can realistically expect 5-7% of your IT staff to be black _if_ you only hire Americans. Hiring overseas further dilutes this percentage.
The less they know, the more I can charge for my services. :0)
I'm planning to have Catherine Zeta Jones as my wife. The project is in a conceptual stage right now, but I'm planning real hard. If only I could get some private funding to make myself fiscally attractive, I'd be all set.
Is there any chance that car GPS navigation systems will come down in price because of this? Right now a decent one is $500+.
The guy spent TWO FREAKING DECADES collecting that stuff. Folks guarding it realized it would only last them a few days, so chose not to destroy a valuable scientific artifact. This is HEROISM folks, in its purest form. Not "firefighter" flavor cultivated here in the US.
Mod the parent Insightful.
Except Moore's law does not apply here in its original form. You still have to maintain pixel surface area to capture light. Barring something revolutionarry, I don't think we'll see much of an improvement over what's currently available on the high end.
I'm sorry, but this is SO far behind Office 12, it's ridiculous. When that comes out, no one will care if OOo is offered for free. Because OOo will look retarded and you'd need to pay people to get them to use it. This is not a troll. Microsoft has really nailed the UI (as well as some other things) in Office 12.
The key word here is "eventually". Considering that most Internet users are still (!!!) using dial up, I don't see this "eventually" happening in XBOX360 lifetime.
After paying $60 for a game I don't see why I need to even pay this much. And $50 is BAD for Microsoft. This pretty much means they're not even breaking even with all this shit. They've already burned BILLIONS on XBox and yet the execs continue approving ridiculous bullshit like that. Unbelievable.
Most contractors FUCKING SUCK compared to FTEs (Full Time Employee in MSFT lingo). Those that don't suck are worked on to become FTEs, and usually get an offer they can't refuse. Trubly blessed are those that a) don't suck, b) have no desire to become FTEs. They work 9 to 5, make good money, and get properly compensated for overtime (MSFT FTE's dream).
;0)
So Excel, Volt, etc are pretty much glorified recruitment agencies and they wisely choose to not enforce their non-competes against MSFT.
It costs A HECK OF A LOT to run online gaming datacenter. Things get even worse if you run it on Windows (this is ex-Microsoftie speaking :-). Even if they get, say, 2-3 million users there (remember, churn is significant when you put cheapskates on a monthly fee) it will be barely enough to cover the costs. Their belief, you see, is that online gaming is crucial and neither Sony nor Nintendo can offer. The problem with this reasoning is that neither Sony nor Nintendo _want_ to step into this pile of shit, for profitability and just pure common sense reasons. Myself, I'm just NOT going to pay hundreds of dollars every year for a dubious privilege of connecting to Microsoft servers. Especially considering that there's technically NOTHING preventing multiplayer games from being P2P.
>> C#, for all of the claims of performance, is a a JIT based interpretive language. Ditto Java.
.NET language for that matter). MSIL gets compiled into machine code BEFORE executing it. There's no interpreter in this infrastructure AT ALL (and that's the main difference from Java). While MSIL can, of course, be run using interpreter, its primary design objective was lightning fast, on-demand JIT compilation and as such it won't run well in the interpreter. Java bytecode is the exact opposite - it was designed to be efficient when run on the interpreter, and as such it will never be as fast at JIT compilation as MSIL.
True for Java (partially), not true AT ALL for C# (or any other
Terrorists, quick, copy all the secret places using Print Screen key. :0)
First of all, $400M is not pocket change for anyone. Total cost of one developer in Redmond (including all kinds of overhead, like real estate, insurance, facilities, etc. etc.) is around $250K per year. This means for $400M you can have FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE people working for THREE YEARS on the project without skimping on anything. Probably a lot more if you consider that about 20% of work will be outsourced to India and China.
Second, Microsoft can't just say "sorry, your old stuff won't work anymore" to its enterprise customers. That's just not going to fly for a sales guy trying to get a customer to renew a support contract. So Opera, if they buy it, would have to be made compatible with all quirks of MS browsers down to IE 5.5 (lowest version officially supported by MSFT). Which kind of defeats the purpose of buying Opera in the first place.
Any other robot would just punch you in the face.
Thing is, I don't want this to be easy to defeat. Someone with a perl script could just strip the stuff after "+" and go directly to my mailbox. Then there's also a risk that someone may want to use a funky email client which has no clue that "+" in the email address is a valid character.
One feature I need in GMail is this (and I hope someone from Google is reading). I want to have several mailboxes under the same signin name. In other words, I want bar@gmail.com and quux@gmail.com both show up when I login as foo@gmail.com. If they share the same storage quota, I don't care. What I do care about is that emails are in the same mailbox, and when I reply, the reply comes from bar@gmail.com or quux@gmail.com correspondingly. I'd use one address for people who I trust, and another for people who I don't trust with a different set of filters for each group.
This one feature would allow me to abandon native email clients for good (aside from firing them up do back up my email from time to time).
Microsoft is changing from engineer led company (Gates was an engineer) to a salesperson lead company (Ballmer is a salesperson). Flying pigs will freeze in hell before this new guy changes anything.
1. Pretend you're bidding for AOL to "cut off Google's air supply"
2. Let Google win the bid at astronomical and unreasonable price
3. Have your golf buddies at AOL force Google to fuck up its advertising practices by showing penis enlargement and bonzi buddy ads
4. Microsoft launches its own contextual ad system based solely on text ads
5. People pissed off by animated gifs at Google use MSN Search instead (as a search engine it's already pretty good, it's user experience is not as good as Google, tho)
6. Profit!
If this is what it is, Microsoft has made a brilliant move and fucked up Google without spending a dime. Bravo.
"Core strategic web application paradigm development with AJAX, Synergistic go-to-market edition"
>> If you're not making them money, you're not going to get their ear
Hmm, maybe it's time to invest in RHAT.
And that, my friend, is why I believe we'll see an Excel replacement coming out of Apple as soon as next year. They'll have their own word processor, their own presentation program, and their own spreadsheet. Best of all, they'll bundle it all together and sell it for $99.95.
This is why I carefully secure my wireless connections. The guy may be guilty or he may be not, but the fact remains - if you have an unsecured wireless AP, for all you know someone may be using it to upload/download kiddie porn. Enable WPA, disable SSID broadcast, enable MAC and IP filtering, use strong password on your router, plug all firewall holes and it will be a lot harder for folks to use your AP without your permission.
Or you can just sit there and wait for the police knocking on your door and charging you with a crime you know nothing about.
How is 8MP camera with a small sensor different from a camera with a 10MP large sensor? I'm not talking about capturing full-res video. I'm not even talking about capturing high-def. 640x480 at 30fps would be more than enough for me. What's important here is that due to sensor size (or, really, focal length range) I'd be able to blur the background, and there would be _zero_ noise, even at ISO 1600.