Technologically, they are a success. Everyone I know who owns one is happy about their Tablet. Tablets are a huge flop as far as marketing is concerned. They deserve 10 times stronger marketing push than what they're getting. It truly is one of the most significant UI innovations to hit the market since mouse.
Sad thing is, if Apple released the very same technology in lickable white design everyone would be raving about tablets like there's no tomorrow. Why? Because Apple knows how to appeal to the irrational and subconscious. Would you say it's rational to pay $600 for the latest iPod? No I don't think it is. A friend of mine is considering buying a dual proc G5. When I asked why is iMac not good enough, he could not answer rationally. See it's all about polished aluminum and perforated front panel, $2K+ of extra expense seems insignificant.
So you don't have to be sarcastic here. But I seriously think this is just another ploy to milk MSFT for money or a good contract. Not for IE, but for W2K3, Office, XP, etc.
Since nowadays everyone and their dog are releasing desktop search engines, here's the thing that can give a commercial/technological advantage - implement plugin mechanism for searching other file types. I'd kill to be able to search my Thunderbird mail archives, yet neither Copernic, nor Google will do this, because they only understand MS email clients. Same applies to my digital camera files. I always make sure I attach IPTC metadata to them to desicribe roughly where and when the picture was taken, and what's on the picture. Current desktop search engines simply ignore this.
That would be, ahem, _copying_ innovations from Redmond (and don't start the usual BS about Newton, notice that _Tablet_ PC has a _tablet_, not a touch screen). And it's morally hard to copy your competitor's innovations when you blast them at every trade show for copying your own. So mark my word, there will never be a Tablet Mac, except if Tablet PCs become a wild, raging commercial success that's too tough even for Jobs to ignore.
Back in the day, folks would drink coffee from Amdahl mugs whenever IBM salespeople came in. This is the same thing I think. They "ditch" IE, Ballmer comes with sweat running down his back and strikes a deal with the school, and maybe makes a million dollar donation. Everyone's happy, everyone's using IE again.
Seriously, though, how are they going to enforce this?
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It's the same thing. They were exploited and they couldn't just leave and find a better life. They were "attached" to the person (pomeschik) who exploited them, and sold and bought like property.
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Makes you scandalous and popular. Did you know that in Russia they still call the African dark skinned people "Negroes"? And folks don't get all offended by this. I guess that's because Russians practiced slavery in a different way - on their own people. It all depends on context, doesn't it.
It's not even funny anymore. Ladies, the guy needs your help, but doesn't know how to tell you about it. This of course assumes that there are any ladies reading slashdot. Fat chance of that, for sure.
My parents exerted control over my academic achievements until about 8th grade. I would not get a good treatment for bringing in "B's" and "C's", and for lower grades, I'd get my ass spanked. They also emphasized countless times just how important it is to get good education. There was "labor therapy" as well. They'd have me work in the garden with them for hours on end and after this they'd tell me that I can drop out of high school if I want to be doing this till the end of my life. And I didn't want to, so I studied well. I think if more kids in the US had the attention they deserve from their parents, the education system would rank among the best in the world.
and multiply the "math". Also, while I agree with most of what you said, the general unwillingnes to learn is not the problem of the education system.
I strongly disagree about the geniuses though. Geniuses are the ones who move the mankind forward, not the average Joes. You can have hundred million plumbers, but for a scientific breakthrough you need a scientist and funds to sponsor his research. The US education system creates plenty of scientists, and when it doesn't, it imports them pretty successfully. And this makes it overwhelmingly and ultimately good, even though most kids don't know what hyperbolic sine is.
The purpose of any education system is to provide the opportunity to learn to those who _want_ to learn. I'd rather have an education system that puts out a few brilliant people a year than the one that's good "on average" but doesn't put out any geniuses.
When I was in high school (and this wasn't in the US), about 80% of the class didn't give a fuck about learning. They've completed their mandatory nine year courses and left the school. About a half of those who stayed really did care about their future and studied really hard for the last two years at least. This allowed them (including yours truly) to enter all kinds of schools in the country, and some of them (including yours truly) graduated with honors from them.
Did this education system succeed? I think it did. Would the average results look good? I think they would not.
Let's face it, you don't need math to flip hamburgers or to do plumbing work. Heck, many programmers in the company where I work are puzzled by the most trivial math formulae. Despite of this they do their jobs fairly well.
I'm not saying that good education is not essential for those who want to achieve things in life (even though "american dream" proves time after time, that you don't have to have any education to make a shitload of money). To the contrary, I feel that people who don't have good education miss out on a lot of things in life.
Yeah, right, they've saved you a billion bucks on NASA while at the same time blowing hundreds of billions on Iraq. That's what I call "looking out for my money".
They would get buried under a pile of money then. On the plus side, they'll be able to buy the entire US government and get us (or better yet, them) in two years.
40 hour work weeks (36, like in France, would be even better), and no "ifs" and "buts". Mandatory for every hi-tech company in the US. Severely punishable if not implemented.
They call themselves "researchers". I doubt they know the meaning of this word.:0) One of those Gartner "researches" once came over presenting his "research". The slices on his pie charts showing market share distribution summed up to 108%, at which point he was laughed at and folks started leaving the conference room. I sometimes envy these fellas. They pull numbers out of their asses and sell them for big bucks to large corporations without even a trace of responsibility or accountability. They don't even specify the margin of error of their predictions. I guess that would be too much of a liability.
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It's called, "Don't have sex with random people". Works fine for most of Earth's population.
Except if you're, say, a MIT graduate and you get interviewed by a MIT guy, I doubt it will make much difference where you got your degree (except if you got it at DeVry "University"). Even in this case, your experience (or experience of other candidates that compete with you) will outweigh the degree.
You should get into a better program for two different reasons: 1. You'll get better education 2. Schools with such programs usually attract recruiters, and it's not uncommon for students to spend their last summer as an intern for a large company, and get hired a year later.
Because what you said is stupid. Five to ten people who know what they're doing is enough to put something like this together in two years time, tops. Granted, their product won't give you GeForce 6800 performance in its first incarnation, but these days it has become a lot easier to design custom logic. Besides, they're essentially "standing on the shoulders of the giants", so they already know what _not_ to do.
A tiny software company who put it together "on their lap" literally, without any billion dollar investments a-la Microsoft. Never underestimate the power of a small group of highly educated, passionate individuals. I bet most of the work that goes into cutting-edge graphics chips is done by a team of 5-10 people. Can such a team be put together outside NVidia/ATI? You bet!
"No, it's impossible to build a replacement for Microsoft Office. Do you realize how much time, how many thousands of man hours went into this software?"
But there you go, Open Office is doing pretty well.
If anything, development of a good "open-source" 3D card could be hampered by patents.
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Technologically, they are a success. Everyone I know who owns one is happy about their Tablet. Tablets are a huge flop as far as marketing is concerned. They deserve 10 times stronger marketing push than what they're getting. It truly is one of the most significant UI innovations to hit the market since mouse.
Sad thing is, if Apple released the very same technology in lickable white design everyone would be raving about tablets like there's no tomorrow. Why? Because Apple knows how to appeal to the irrational and subconscious. Would you say it's rational to pay $600 for the latest iPod? No I don't think it is. A friend of mine is considering buying a dual proc G5. When I asked why is iMac not good enough, he could not answer rationally. See it's all about polished aluminum and perforated front panel, $2K+ of extra expense seems insignificant.
So you don't have to be sarcastic here. But I seriously think this is just another ploy to milk MSFT for money or a good contract. Not for IE, but for W2K3, Office, XP, etc.
Since nowadays everyone and their dog are releasing desktop search engines, here's the thing that can give a commercial/technological advantage - implement plugin mechanism for searching other file types. I'd kill to be able to search my Thunderbird mail archives, yet neither Copernic, nor Google will do this, because they only understand MS email clients. Same applies to my digital camera files. I always make sure I attach IPTC metadata to them to desicribe roughly where and when the picture was taken, and what's on the picture. Current desktop search engines simply ignore this.
That would be, ahem, _copying_ innovations from Redmond (and don't start the usual BS about Newton, notice that _Tablet_ PC has a _tablet_, not a touch screen). And it's morally hard to copy your competitor's innovations when you blast them at every trade show for copying your own. So mark my word, there will never be a Tablet Mac, except if Tablet PCs become a wild, raging commercial success that's too tough even for Jobs to ignore.
Back in the day, folks would drink coffee from Amdahl mugs whenever IBM salespeople came in. This is the same thing I think. They "ditch" IE, Ballmer comes with sweat running down his back and strikes a deal with the school, and maybe makes a million dollar donation. Everyone's happy, everyone's using IE again.
Seriously, though, how are they going to enforce this?
It's the same thing. They were exploited and they couldn't just leave and find a better life. They were "attached" to the person (pomeschik) who exploited them, and sold and bought like property.
Makes you scandalous and popular. Did you know that in Russia they still call the African dark skinned people "Negroes"? And folks don't get all offended by this. I guess that's because Russians practiced slavery in a different way - on their own people. It all depends on context, doesn't it.
It's not even funny anymore. Ladies, the guy needs your help, but doesn't know how to tell you about it. This of course assumes that there are any ladies reading slashdot. Fat chance of that, for sure.
My parents exerted control over my academic achievements until about 8th grade. I would not get a good treatment for bringing in "B's" and "C's", and for lower grades, I'd get my ass spanked. They also emphasized countless times just how important it is to get good education. There was "labor therapy" as well. They'd have me work in the garden with them for hours on end and after this they'd tell me that I can drop out of high school if I want to be doing this till the end of my life. And I didn't want to, so I studied well. I think if more kids in the US had the attention they deserve from their parents, the education system would rank among the best in the world.
and multiply the "math". Also, while I agree with most of what you said, the general unwillingnes to learn is not the problem of the education system.
I strongly disagree about the geniuses though. Geniuses are the ones who move the mankind forward, not the average Joes. You can have hundred million plumbers, but for a scientific breakthrough you need a scientist and funds to sponsor his research. The US education system creates plenty of scientists, and when it doesn't, it imports them pretty successfully. And this makes it overwhelmingly and ultimately good, even though most kids don't know what hyperbolic sine is.
The purpose of any education system is to provide the opportunity to learn to those who _want_ to learn. I'd rather have an education system that puts out a few brilliant people a year than the one that's good "on average" but doesn't put out any geniuses.
When I was in high school (and this wasn't in the US), about 80% of the class didn't give a fuck about learning. They've completed their mandatory nine year courses and left the school. About a half of those who stayed really did care about their future and studied really hard for the last two years at least. This allowed them (including yours truly) to enter all kinds of schools in the country, and some of them (including yours truly) graduated with honors from them.
Did this education system succeed? I think it did. Would the average results look good? I think they would not.
Let's face it, you don't need math to flip hamburgers or to do plumbing work. Heck, many programmers in the company where I work are puzzled by the most trivial math formulae. Despite of this they do their jobs fairly well.
I'm not saying that good education is not essential for those who want to achieve things in life (even though "american dream" proves time after time, that you don't have to have any education to make a shitload of money). To the contrary, I feel that people who don't have good education miss out on a lot of things in life.
Yeah, right, they've saved you a billion bucks on NASA while at the same time blowing hundreds of billions on Iraq. That's what I call "looking out for my money".
They would get buried under a pile of money then. On the plus side, they'll be able to buy the entire US government and get us (or better yet, them) in two years.
40 hour work weeks (36, like in France, would be even better), and no "ifs" and "buts". Mandatory for every hi-tech company in the US. Severely punishable if not implemented.
They call themselves "researchers". I doubt they know the meaning of this word. :0) One of those Gartner "researches" once came over presenting his "research". The slices on his pie charts showing market share distribution summed up to 108%, at which point he was laughed at and folks started leaving the conference room. I sometimes envy these fellas. They pull numbers out of their asses and sell them for big bucks to large corporations without even a trace of responsibility or accountability. They don't even specify the margin of error of their predictions. I guess that would be too much of a liability.
It's called, "Don't have sex with random people". Works fine for most of Earth's population.
Except if you're, say, a MIT graduate and you get interviewed by a MIT guy, I doubt it will make much difference where you got your degree (except if you got it at DeVry "University"). Even in this case, your experience (or experience of other candidates that compete with you) will outweigh the degree.
You should get into a better program for two different reasons:
1. You'll get better education
2. Schools with such programs usually attract recruiters, and it's not uncommon for students to spend their last summer as an intern for a large company, and get hired a year later.
You can go to microsoft.com and order a CD, free of charge.
MONTHS now. If you don't have it already, you deserve severe punishment.
"I'm not so bad once you get to know me".
Because what you said is stupid. Five to ten people who know what they're doing is enough to put something like this together in two years time, tops. Granted, their product won't give you GeForce 6800 performance in its first incarnation, but these days it has become a lot easier to design custom logic. Besides, they're essentially "standing on the shoulders of the giants", so they already know what _not_ to do.
A tiny software company who put it together "on their lap" literally, without any billion dollar investments a-la Microsoft. Never underestimate the power of a small group of highly educated, passionate individuals. I bet most of the work that goes into cutting-edge graphics chips is done by a team of 5-10 people. Can such a team be put together outside NVidia/ATI? You bet!
It's like saying:
"No, it's impossible to build a replacement for Microsoft Office. Do you realize how much time, how many thousands of man hours went into this software?"
But there you go, Open Office is doing pretty well.
If anything, development of a good "open-source" 3D card could be hampered by patents.
Oh yeah? And who's gonna enforce this treaty against the US vested interest?
Mod the parent up! It's true!