Sony, here's a list of recomendations from me regarding R1: 1. You NEED a movie mode in this camera. Decent movie mode alone would make it a cult gadget because with such a large sensor it would beat the crap out of camcorders three times the price (which is why I guess movie mode was not included in R1 - Sony makes camcorders too). 2. LCD on top is stupid. Give me flip-out-and-twist LCD that's on the back and flips out to the side. For the love of god make it 2.5" and at least 250K pixels. 3. At $1K I'm going to require some sort of image stabilization. 4. Better image processing. There's no excuse to having a good sensor and screwing up the images in software after they're shot.
The lawsuit will take five years and 50 million dollars (out of Creative's scarce profits), and at the end it will be thrown out by the judge. Good business strategy, there.
Some big-ass Solaris boxes there. Front-end is Windows, though. This will soon change, due mainly to competitive pressure (storage, mostly). Once the new Hotmail is deployed (the AJAXified version), the backend will run Windows, too.
Launch MSN Messenger. Ask your dad to ask you for remote assistance. Use his desktop transparently. Disconnect. Works every time, firewall or not. I've fixed PCs halfway across the globe with that thing.
I'm an introvert (I think). Why? Because I'm more interesting to myself than a lot of people around me. I know more than they do, and it's frustrating to me when someone doesn't know things that I know. I also have very low tolerance for mediocrity and I very rarely lie to make others feel good. There you go, my reasons to be introverted.
As opposed to a caste system used at Microsoft - where management and marketing people are first class, and Dev and Test are replaceable cogs?
You know, if that article has a bit of truth to it, I might consider applying for a job at Google. Not even because of stock (it's not going to quadruple again, anyway), but because of respect that their engineers have from the management.
When there's strict censorship, how do you know? I bet if there was more censorship in the US, 99.9% of folks would think that GWB is a genius and all the rest of the world is ruled by evil tyrants with their WMD targeted squarely at Washington, DC. That, and no one would even know of evolution.
Why, I don't even have to say "if". Just remember the "commie" hysteria back in the day. You could ruin your career (and life) just by saying you're a communist. Or somebody else could, by saying the same about you.
If it is liquid cooled, all you need is a few huge radiators on the top or on the side and a few electric motors to pump the water and power the fans blowing at the radiators. One other thing they could do is submerge motherboards in mineral oil and pump _that_ through the radiators on the outside. The point grandparent tried to make is that since these things are in open air anyway, there's endless supply of it and in general it will be cooler than the stuff that needs cooling.
>> CPU usage increases significantly but SQL Server performance degrades
That's called "saturation". Happens to every piece of server software. There is ALWAYS a point where "requests per second" start going down and latencies begin to go up. And from there it usually goes WAY downhill unless you take the load off or reduce it significantly to let the software catch up and recover.
God, I hate when developers are allowed to do perf testing. They test a simple scenario without full understanding of what's going on and make wild conclusions from it to get "visibility" which at large companies like MSFT often leads to promotion. Then they go ahead and solve a "problem" which doesn't exist.
This is not to say that HT doesn't degrade performance. I've heard that from Intel folks themselves that in some scenarios it does. But when a "developer" does perf testing, I take that with a three pound grain of salt.
It's "one small team at Microsoft is adopting" SCRUM. There have been agile development crazy teams at Microsoft for quite a while. Guess what, they're no faster than the "regular" teams, and the quality of the output is no different in most cases. But folks in management feel good about themselves.
Layoffs will continue until morale improves. Good luck to those dipshits in management who came up with this. Pretty soon they'll have to do the "real actual work" themselves, because employees will be gone.
At last, a logo for a major open source product that doesn't look retarded in any way. Kudos to the designer. Free BSD should expect a boost because of this. Linux penguin needs to go.
Had some serious wrist pain (couldn't sleep for a week), bought TrackMan Marble FX on eBay. Struggled with it for two weeks, and got used to it. No pain since then. I've bought two more. One for use at home and one just in case either of the other two breaks (which I don't think it will - there's nothing in it that can break).
I have. Over there change comes from the bottom only to be fucked up by those on the top. People five levels up in the management chain have not a slightest clue about customer needs. All they do is throw buzzwords around and sell their stock grants. Microsoft will SERIOUSLY benefit from reduction in managerial headcount. In fact, I'm convinced things would go much better if tomorrow SteveB fired half of mid-to-top level management and threatened to fire the other half if stock doesn't go up.
One other thing about large orgs is that there are no irreplaceable people. When someone departs there's usually a line of better qualified (or better connected, which happens more often) candidates waiting to take his/her place. There are TONS of smart people at Microsoft, yet it seems only dirt comes to the top. Exceptions are rare and only confirm the observation.
So cry me a fucking river. Two folks with overinflated egos have parted ways with MSFT, therere are twenty lined up to replace them. With any luck this will be the change for the better.
It's the engineers who do the actual work, anyway. A good executive just doesn't get in the way of engineers doing their work. A bad one tells engineers what to do in unnecessarily great detail. Of the two DonGa is a moderate loss. HadiP is not a loss at all. What did MSN achieve under him? Start.com? Puhleeze.
I live in Seattle area and over here it's IMPOSSIBLE to buy a diesel based vehicle without either overpaying A LOT, or getting onto multi-year waiting list or both. I was in the market for a second car, and I ended up buying a "fun" GTI VR6 instead of Golf TDI because TDI are sold out until 2007. Incentive wouldn't do me any good in this situation.
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Sony, here's a list of recomendations from me regarding R1:
1. You NEED a movie mode in this camera. Decent movie mode alone would make it a cult gadget because with such a large sensor it would beat the crap out of camcorders three times the price (which is why I guess movie mode was not included in R1 - Sony makes camcorders too).
2. LCD on top is stupid. Give me flip-out-and-twist LCD that's on the back and flips out to the side. For the love of god make it 2.5" and at least 250K pixels.
3. At $1K I'm going to require some sort of image stabilization.
4. Better image processing. There's no excuse to having a good sensor and screwing up the images in software after they're shot.
The lawsuit will take five years and 50 million dollars (out of Creative's scarce profits), and at the end it will be thrown out by the judge. Good business strategy, there.
That's why you should leave well hidden backdoors behind. So that you have something to do in the remaining couple of weeks.
Just kidding.
MSN until recently stood all by itself and did not depend on Entertainment. It still doesn't. It's now a part of Windows division.
>> Internet Operations: Losses in the billions
Hundred million of pure, net profit last year.
Some big-ass Solaris boxes there. Front-end is Windows, though. This will soon change, due mainly to competitive pressure (storage, mostly). Once the new Hotmail is deployed (the AJAXified version), the backend will run Windows, too.
Launch MSN Messenger. Ask your dad to ask you for remote assistance. Use his desktop transparently. Disconnect. Works every time, firewall or not. I've fixed PCs halfway across the globe with that thing.
How does it compare to Windows XP Remote Assistance? Remote Assistance comes with Windows and it has been available for three years now.
How do you know what they will or will not include?
Apple is supposed to roll out their Media Center Macs with everything you need, sans fifty-button remote. As an added bonus they'll look nice.
I'm an introvert (I think). Why? Because I'm more interesting to myself than a lot of people around me. I know more than they do, and it's frustrating to me when someone doesn't know things that I know. I also have very low tolerance for mediocrity and I very rarely lie to make others feel good. There you go, my reasons to be introverted.
As opposed to a caste system used at Microsoft - where management and marketing people are first class, and Dev and Test are replaceable cogs?
You know, if that article has a bit of truth to it, I might consider applying for a job at Google. Not even because of stock (it's not going to quadruple again, anyway), but because of respect that their engineers have from the management.
>> [Singapore] has a very uncorrupt government
When there's strict censorship, how do you know? I bet if there was more censorship in the US, 99.9% of folks would think that GWB is a genius and all the rest of the world is ruled by evil tyrants with their WMD targeted squarely at Washington, DC. That, and no one would even know of evolution.
Why, I don't even have to say "if". Just remember the "commie" hysteria back in the day. You could ruin your career (and life) just by saying you're a communist. Or somebody else could, by saying the same about you.
If it is liquid cooled, all you need is a few huge radiators on the top or on the side and a few electric motors to pump the water and power the fans blowing at the radiators. One other thing they could do is submerge motherboards in mineral oil and pump _that_ through the radiators on the outside. The point grandparent tried to make is that since these things are in open air anyway, there's endless supply of it and in general it will be cooler than the stuff that needs cooling.
>> CPU usage increases significantly but SQL Server performance degrades
That's called "saturation". Happens to every piece of server software. There is ALWAYS a point where "requests per second" start going down and latencies begin to go up. And from there it usually goes WAY downhill unless you take the load off or reduce it significantly to let the software catch up and recover.
God, I hate when developers are allowed to do perf testing. They test a simple scenario without full understanding of what's going on and make wild conclusions from it to get "visibility" which at large companies like MSFT often leads to promotion. Then they go ahead and solve a "problem" which doesn't exist.
This is not to say that HT doesn't degrade performance. I've heard that from Intel folks themselves that in some scenarios it does. But when a "developer" does perf testing, I take that with a three pound grain of salt.
I'm holding out for "Teach yourself neurosurgery in 24 hours".
It's "one small team at Microsoft is adopting" SCRUM. There have been agile development crazy teams at Microsoft for quite a while. Guess what, they're no faster than the "regular" teams, and the quality of the output is no different in most cases. But folks in management feel good about themselves.
Office 12 supports PDF as output format. Believe it or not.
Layoffs will continue until morale improves. Good luck to those dipshits in management who came up with this. Pretty soon they'll have to do the "real actual work" themselves, because employees will be gone.
At last, a logo for a major open source product that doesn't look retarded in any way. Kudos to the designer. Free BSD should expect a boost because of this. Linux penguin needs to go.
Had some serious wrist pain (couldn't sleep for a week), bought TrackMan Marble FX on eBay. Struggled with it for two weeks, and got used to it. No pain since then. I've bought two more. One for use at home and one just in case either of the other two breaks (which I don't think it will - there's nothing in it that can break).
"We reserve the right to deny service to anyone". This is exactly what's happening. MS doesn't _have_ to sell them software.
I have. Over there change comes from the bottom only to be fucked up by those on the top. People five levels up in the management chain have not a slightest clue about customer needs. All they do is throw buzzwords around and sell their stock grants. Microsoft will SERIOUSLY benefit from reduction in managerial headcount. In fact, I'm convinced things would go much better if tomorrow SteveB fired half of mid-to-top level management and threatened to fire the other half if stock doesn't go up.
One other thing about large orgs is that there are no irreplaceable people. When someone departs there's usually a line of better qualified (or better connected, which happens more often) candidates waiting to take his/her place. There are TONS of smart people at Microsoft, yet it seems only dirt comes to the top. Exceptions are rare and only confirm the observation.
So cry me a fucking river. Two folks with overinflated egos have parted ways with MSFT, therere are twenty lined up to replace them. With any luck this will be the change for the better.
It's the engineers who do the actual work, anyway. A good executive just doesn't get in the way of engineers doing their work. A bad one tells engineers what to do in unnecessarily great detail. Of the two DonGa is a moderate loss. HadiP is not a loss at all. What did MSN achieve under him? Start.com? Puhleeze.
I live in Seattle area and over here it's IMPOSSIBLE to buy a diesel based vehicle without either overpaying A LOT, or getting onto multi-year waiting list or both. I was in the market for a second car, and I ended up buying a "fun" GTI VR6 instead of Golf TDI because TDI are sold out until 2007. Incentive wouldn't do me any good in this situation.