I imagine it might be the same guy who is responsible for renewing other memberships, subscriptions, patents, etc. You don't seriously think domain names are the only product or service that fall under the subscription model, do you?
Ximian create Evolution and sell a connector for plugging into Exchange. What if MS, in a break from funding SCO to go after Linux users, have funded development of Mono, attempt to get as great a dependence upon the platform as they can so that they can then pull the plug, in a lawsuit sense, wiping out a plethora of applications ported to Mono.
I'm also suspicious because Java has been around for god-knows how long now and I've not seen anywhere near the comotion for using that for Linux apps -- and why not? Sun understand and support the Linux cause more that MS ever will. Gnu even have an open source implementation of the platform. The Java libraries are superior to.NET and a lot more mature. Why not create Linux apps on the Java language and platform?
The earliest game I can remember that caused concern was Barbarian. This was a combat game for the Spectrum and others that had lots of blood, decapitation novel for the time. I think the cover of Crash magazine (Oley Frey, I think the artist was called) caused most of it, I reckon!
Syndicate was another memorable game, one of the first to allow mass carnage and easy access to fire.
Bit of a non argument don't you think? I know a lot of bright people who have built their own cars. The personal abuse also hints that it is you who is the school kid, I'm close to 30. It's all about motives: I enjoy tinkering about getting Linux to work with my hardware and getting everything the way I want it -- others prefer to spend that time telling various bits of Windows and its applications that, no, you don't want to set this app as the default browser, no I don't care that I'm entering a trusted zone, no, I don't want tips, no, I don't need help with feature X. God, why I'm bothering to reply to an idiot like you I don't know, in fact I'm
For Pete's sake (whoever he is). Every time I install a Gentoo box they release a new version. I'm flobadobbled if I'm going to upgrade it now: it took me close to a week to get it this far and I still haven't installed OpenOffice. Not that I'm complaining, Gentoo installation is easy and let's me feel (correctly or not) that I'm in control. Shame they don't do Gentoo for bladders;)
Must admit though, I fought for about three days just trying to get the Debian CDs of the 'net with Jigdo as I thought I'd give that distro a taster. Finally managed to download the right ones (I downloaded Sarge and when it failed to work I found in a forum that you can't install Sarge from CD -- think they'd mention that on the download page) and found I couldn't even partition the disk how I wanted to -- try as I might I couldn't set it up with separate root and boot partitions, boot first, like I am accustomed to in Gentoo.
I think it may have been a colloquilism. Companies sell 'unbreakable plates' and 'shatterproof rulers', etc. Usually they're not unbreakable, nor shatterproof, nor unstealable, or whatnot, they're just a lot harder to break, a lot less likely to shatter, a lot more difficult to steal, more time consuming to pick and more inappropriate to lick (don't ask) than the typical, or more likely common, alternatives.
In case you hadn't noticed, and good or not, we live in a world of marketing.
Has anyone done any research to identify what these seals actually provide? As a paying customer, I'm forced to sit through these annoyances whenever I watch a DVD which is especially annoying then I've removed a rented CD to clean the muck off the disc surface. I'm having to pay financially for a product and in my frustration and time sitting through this FBI crap because I chose to purchase the legitimate product.
From what I can tell, the pirated copies will not include these warnings, so I'd get an instant win from buying pirated versions. I very much doubt its makes an ounce of difference to whether the material is pirated or not. So what's the gain? Does it stop a significant percentage of pirating crime?
Microsoft rules the desktop. The majority of users run Windows in one flavour or another. Later versions can also update themselves regularly to deploy new features.
MS can easily make their search services more attractive by making it the most accessible and fastest service: something they can do by placing it in a very accessible area in Internet Explorer and by running software on the desktop machines that caches searches locally. If it were to also download results that it thinks you may try next (based upon studying other users) it would react blindigly fast when compared to Google.
Whether they can actually pull it off is another matter. It could easily become another Hotmail fiasco.
In the world of terrestrial television in the UK, we have the BBC. They provide a service whereby they choose the content and everyone who wants to use a TV (regardless of whether they watch BBC broadcasts or not) have to pay a fee.
That, obviously, would not work for the Internet but maybe a network of ad-free sites would work. It could involve a new top-level domain and sites would lose their right to use the domain if they use advertising. A subscription to the network could be later introduced (once it has some faithful followers) to provide income to the sites on the network based upon ratings, visitor numbers or some other (carefully thought through) criteria.
I'm gagging for one but they are still around 20,000 GBP here at the moment so I think I'll wait. I reckon the printing shops will have them by the end of the decade and we'll all be taking our home CAD attempts down the shops at Christmas:)
After that, I can't wait until I own my first 3D printer at home and am busy printing out huge numbers of plastic trinkets.
Try http://www.toybuilders.com/ as they have those rather nifty 3D printing machines so you could whip them the original and your CAD attempts and they may be able to make you something.
I reckon there will come a time when we will all be printing out our replacement parts at home.
I have been heavily addicted to caffeinated soft drinks, mainly diet Pepsi but more recently Pepsi Max, for as long as I can remember. I can easily get through around 2 litres a day which I'm sure is not good for my insides let alone my brain. Whenever I try to give up I get the symptoms mentioned -- the headache, the accelerated hyperactive and slothful cycles, the anxiety to always be doing something but without the energy or concentration to, actually, do anything.
Strangely, I've never been addicted to coffee and I don't get the cravings that I get for cola for coffee even if I give up the cola for a few days. I do, however, find myself subconciously moving onto other caffeinated products when I do give one up -- this is hardest thing to avoid.
The best way I've found to give up caffeinated drinks is to transition to other drinks. From Pepsi I went to Dr Pepper (which I can drink less of in a day as it makes my mouth sore after about 3 cans) and from there I moved to the caffeine free lemon drinks: Sprite and 7-Up, which I don't enjoy but which I can use, when I'm out and about, in to fooling my addicted brain cells into submission. There's nothing worse, when trying to give something up, than working in a city where one is tempted by a myriad vending machines, confectionary stores and cafes throughout the course of a day: picking up a lemon soda can help avoid the white powder's temptation:)
As for the coffee, try drinking green tea although it's an acquired taste and still contains a little caffeine.
I'd imagine that, as none of the rockets have been designed for orbital flight(?), they won't stand up to the stresses of exit/reentry and will simply disintegrate. It takes a whole lot of design to get a rocket in one piece through those strains.
I'm a software developer and I hear managers saying this sort of stuff all the time. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing rings true on many an occasion.
A simple search engine is simple to create. If it has one user, it only has to contend with one user. Hell, you could even write in VB or Delphi and plug it into a lovely Access database.
Try scaling your search engine up to thousands or millions of users and millions of pages and see if it still holds up. I'm sure you may come across the concurrency issues you didn't even realise existed or the performance limitations of the technologies you chose that you weren't aware of.
To illustrate my point, try reading about Google's custom file system. http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-g hemawat.pdf or, in HTML, http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:m0TMQYgIlIoJ: www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf+google+file+system&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
This will show you the months of thought and years of development that are required for a world class search engine. That PDF covers just one aspect.
Yes, Microsoft could write a search engine, I'm pretty sure they will, but it will take them time, cost them loads and may actually work out more expensive than buying an existing one. Not to mention the swarms of developers an investment that will be tied up that could be better deployed working on Longhorn or.NET improvements, etc.
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And hopefully a lowercase K, otherwise who knows what multiplier they're using.
I imagine it might be the same guy who is responsible for renewing other memberships, subscriptions, patents, etc. You don't seriously think domain names are the only product or service that fall under the subscription model, do you?
I'm a suspicious kind of chap.
.NET and a lot more mature. Why not create Linux apps on the Java language and platform?
Ximian create Evolution and sell a connector for plugging into Exchange. What if MS, in a break from funding SCO to go after Linux users, have funded development of Mono, attempt to get as great a dependence upon the platform as they can so that they can then pull the plug, in a lawsuit sense, wiping out a plethora of applications ported to Mono.
I'm also suspicious because Java has been around for god-knows how long now and I've not seen anywhere near the comotion for using that for Linux apps -- and why not? Sun understand and support the Linux cause more that MS ever will. Gnu even have an open source implementation of the platform. The Java libraries are superior to
I'm certain it was Oliver Frey or Phray, or such -- he did the covers for Crash! and Zzap! magazines:
:)
Oli Frey
Those were some good covers
The earliest game I can remember that caused concern was Barbarian. This was a combat game for the Spectrum and others that had lots of blood, decapitation novel for the time. I think the cover of Crash magazine (Oley Frey, I think the artist was called) caused most of it, I reckon!
Syndicate was another memorable game, one of the first to allow mass carnage and easy access to fire.
Bit of a non argument don't you think? I know a lot of bright people who have built their own cars. The personal abuse also hints that it is you who is the school kid, I'm close to 30. It's all about motives: I enjoy tinkering about getting Linux to work with my hardware and getting everything the way I want it -- others prefer to spend that time telling various bits of Windows and its applications that, no, you don't want to set this app as the default browser, no I don't care that I'm entering a trusted zone, no, I don't want tips, no, I don't need help with feature X. God, why I'm bothering to reply to an idiot like you I don't know, in fact I'm
That I know -- it's a just having to emerge world every time I want to install anything (because I don't keep it up to date enough).
For Pete's sake (whoever he is). Every time I install a Gentoo box they release a new version. I'm flobadobbled if I'm going to upgrade it now: it took me close to a week to get it this far and I still haven't installed OpenOffice. Not that I'm complaining, Gentoo installation is easy and let's me feel (correctly or not) that I'm in control. Shame they don't do Gentoo for bladders ;)
Must admit though, I fought for about three days just trying to get the Debian CDs of the 'net with Jigdo as I thought I'd give that distro a taster. Finally managed to download the right ones (I downloaded Sarge and when it failed to work I found in a forum that you can't install Sarge from CD -- think they'd mention that on the download page) and found I couldn't even partition the disk how I wanted to -- try as I might I couldn't set it up with separate root and boot partitions, boot first, like I am accustomed to in Gentoo.
I think it may have been a colloquilism. Companies sell 'unbreakable plates' and 'shatterproof rulers', etc. Usually they're not unbreakable, nor shatterproof, nor unstealable, or whatnot, they're just a lot harder to break, a lot less likely to shatter, a lot more difficult to steal, more time consuming to pick and more inappropriate to lick (don't ask) than the typical, or more likely common, alternatives.
In case you hadn't noticed, and good or not, we live in a world of marketing.
From what I can tell, the pirated copies will not include these warnings, so I'd get an instant win from buying pirated versions. I very much doubt its makes an ounce of difference to whether the material is pirated or not. So what's the gain? Does it stop a significant percentage of pirating crime?
Highly acidic, surely.
MS can easily make their search services more attractive by making it the most accessible and fastest service: something they can do by placing it in a very accessible area in Internet Explorer and by running software on the desktop machines that caches searches locally. If it were to also download results that it thinks you may try next (based upon studying other users) it would react blindigly fast when compared to Google.
Whether they can actually pull it off is another matter. It could easily become another Hotmail fiasco.
In the world of terrestrial television in the UK, we have the BBC. They provide a service whereby they choose the content and everyone who wants to use a TV (regardless of whether they watch BBC broadcasts or not) have to pay a fee.
That, obviously, would not work for the Internet but maybe a network of ad-free sites would work. It could involve a new top-level domain and sites would lose their right to use the domain if they use advertising. A subscription to the network could be later introduced (once it has some faithful followers) to provide income to the sites on the network based upon ratings, visitor numbers or some other (carefully thought through) criteria.
I'm gagging for one but they are still around 20,000 GBP here at the moment so I think I'll wait. I reckon the printing shops will have them by the end of the decade and we'll all be taking our home CAD attempts down the shops at Christmas :)
After that, I can't wait until I own my first 3D printer at home and am busy printing out huge numbers of plastic trinkets.
Try http://www.toybuilders.com/ as they have those rather nifty 3D printing machines so you could whip them the original and your CAD attempts and they may be able to make you something.
I reckon there will come a time when we will all be printing out our replacement parts at home.
Surely, that should read "potentially go unnoticed"?
Wow, how did they know my name is Shortly?
I have been heavily addicted to caffeinated soft drinks, mainly diet Pepsi but more recently Pepsi Max, for as long as I can remember. I can easily get through around 2 litres a day which I'm sure is not good for my insides let alone my brain. Whenever I try to give up I get the symptoms mentioned -- the headache, the accelerated hyperactive and slothful cycles, the anxiety to always be doing something but without the energy or concentration to, actually, do anything.
:)
Strangely, I've never been addicted to coffee and I don't get the cravings that I get for cola for coffee even if I give up the cola for a few days. I do, however, find myself subconciously moving onto other caffeinated products when I do give one up -- this is hardest thing to avoid.
The best way I've found to give up caffeinated drinks is to transition to other drinks. From Pepsi I went to Dr Pepper (which I can drink less of in a day as it makes my mouth sore after about 3 cans) and from there I moved to the caffeine free lemon drinks: Sprite and 7-Up, which I don't enjoy but which I can use, when I'm out and about, in to fooling my addicted brain cells into submission. There's nothing worse, when trying to give something up, than working in a city where one is tempted by a myriad vending machines, confectionary stores and cafes throughout the course of a day: picking up a lemon soda can help avoid the white powder's temptation
As for the coffee, try drinking green tea although it's an acquired taste and still contains a little caffeine.
GnuWin springs to mind.
Yeah, I agree -- these people really need to start wearing condoms.
A boon for organised crime. Now every terrorist can be absolutely sure they cannot be traced.
It's a wonder they haven't gone after the Google copier (sort of) Teoma.
Maybe they will...?
I'd imagine that, as none of the rockets have been designed for orbital flight(?), they won't stand up to the stresses of exit/reentry and will simply disintegrate. It takes a whole lot of design to get a rocket in one piece through those strains.
Hmm, I guess "suborbital flight" has nothing to do with flying submarines then. Shame, that was such a great image in my head.
I'm a software developer and I hear managers saying this sort of stuff all the time. A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing rings true on many an occasion.
g hemawat.pdf or, in HTML, http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:m0TMQYgIlIoJ: www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat .pdf+google+file+system&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
.NET improvements, etc.
A simple search engine is simple to create. If it has one user, it only has to contend with one user. Hell, you could even write in VB or Delphi and plug it into a lovely Access database.
Try scaling your search engine up to thousands or millions of users and millions of pages and see if it still holds up. I'm sure you may come across the concurrency issues you didn't even realise existed or the performance limitations of the technologies you chose that you weren't aware of.
To illustrate my point, try reading about Google's custom file system. http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-
This will show you the months of thought and years of development that are required for a world class search engine. That PDF covers just one aspect.
Yes, Microsoft could write a search engine, I'm pretty sure they will, but it will take them time, cost them loads and may actually work out more expensive than buying an existing one. Not to mention the swarms of developers an investment that will be tied up that could be better deployed working on Longhorn or