I agree that 99% of Windows users have no understanding of dual booting and I feel they would be unnecessarily confused by a "DUAL BOOT? YES/NO" option at the install screen. A hidden keystroke to enable a dual boot menu would be great for the rest of us. Maybe press and hold F9 as the installer loads or something. This command wouldn't even need to be shown onscreen as an option - those of us who regularly dual boot know about it soon enough.
While I feel that all projects deserve structure, I also feel that the possibility of fininshing an unstructured project is inversely proportional to project size.
Or EA could -buy them out -crowd them out of the market by buying up a relevant license -kill sales by pre-announcing a similar product
The PC market is much more resistant to these tactics of course, people can go public with a finished game without EA ever even knowing about it. The barriers to entry in the console market are comparatively huge.
This is why you don't see EA dominating the PC space as much. God bless PC gaming.
Per-OS TCO does not exist in a vacuum. Organizational direction, sunk costs from previous IT investments, interoperability with business partners / clients / vendors... each of these is a factor that will be different for EVERY business making the Linux/Windows/etc. choice.
IMO a well-run organization will have a hybrid environment.
That being said, it is useful for planning purposes to know in which situations Linux TCO beats Windows and vice versa.
I agree with your points on Agile Development. It is definitely meant to allow maximum mobility for a development team in the hopes of ensuring relevance and focus.
I would say that LSS is somewhere in the middle, recognizing that a large enough project needs some structure while allowing a certain amount of mobility within said structure.
The problem with blocking IP space, especially in the case of email, is that most valid email traffic is not between sysadmins. When you have Joe user from FizzCo sending a business document from home to Jane User at BangCo, neither of them is going to understand any rejection notices they get, nor will they understand it if a message just disappears.
I've seen small businesses that contracted out their IT help have serious trouble when their ISP suddenly changed their spam filter rules without telling them. Suddenly your lawyer's emails aren't getting through and no one knows why. In this particular instance it fell on me to diagnose the problem and get it fixed simply because I was the only person at either of the two organizations who had any clue how mail servers worked.
Is this a derivative of the methodologies behind Lean Six Sigma?
There's big money in that, my graduate software engineering course last semester had a speaker in from a NASA contractor that pushed LSS as a way to manage all kinds of different engineering and production variances e.g. misfiring rocket engines.
Apple's DRM is simple and consistant unlike MSFT's which change per song. Apple has sold over a half a billion dollars worth of songs. The rest combined barely equal a tenth of that.
Consistent? Apple reserves the right to change their DRM on songs you've already bought. Wikipedia tracks some of the changes made to iTunes DRM since release: "With the introduction of iTunes 4.5, Apple raised the number of machines allowed to use purchased music from 3 to 5. They also cut the number of times a user can burn CDs of the same playlist from 10 to 7. This adjustment was the result of the renegotiation Apple had with major labels. In 4.7.1, users were further restricted: they were limited to sharing their songs with five computers within 24 hours, rather than the previous five at a time."
14. At unknown date or dates, Doe I, alone or in concert with Does I through X, began disseminating Plaintiff's trade secrets to the public, with such information now available on various web sites. Among other things, Defendant or Defendants posted proprietary relating to Plaintiff's solicitation, procedures on publicly accessible areas of the internet.
Seriously, this is much more affordable only because we've already paid for the research.Not entirely. It can also be more affordable if the manufacturing processes for these tactical weapons technologies are already active. Which is cheaper, a production run off of an existing assembly line or building a new factory and then doing a single run?
Isn't it more likely that he just teases up his screenshots and information on his own so that he can get publicity, pageviews, and ad revenue? The idea that he's working directly for MS is perhaps a tad too Orwellian.
On his own site he says "And thanks for reading, seriously. The contents of this site are literally dictated by what readers want. So drop me a line and let me know what you're interested in reading about." Maybe he really does have Windows users out there who are interested in the next Windows release? I'm pretty sure there are at least two or three people left in the world running Windows.
While that's good news, I was more referring to the historical MS practice of bundling apps and providing default desktop shortcuts to them. When MS VoIP is Vista, will there be a desktop shortcut?
It is possible that 3rd party retailers may choose to bundle Skype and put its icon on the desktops for their HD images, but if MS licensing strongarms them then they may find it far cheaper to lay off of Skype.
Microsoft is preparing to enable computer users to make a normal phone call from their PC. The computer giant has increased its presence in the fast-growing internet phone sector by purchasing leading player Teleo for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft and rivals AOL, Google and Yahoo all currently allow phone calls between computers, but not yet to a domestic or mobile handset. Teleo's technology allows computers to make and receive standard phone calls.
Instant-messaging Yahoo is also in the process of introducing such a system, after it bought internet phone company Dialpad two months ago. Microsoft currently uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology in a number of its products, including its instant-messaging service. The US software firm said it planned to incorporate California-based Teleo's telephone service into its instant messaging service. Microsoft said it hoped to achieve this by the end of the year.
This looks to be another great example of a Microsoft product dominating because users don't know or care enough to stray from the software that comes with their computer.
Will people choose Skype when they already have an MS VoIP icon on their desktop? I'm curious.
On the upside MS could at least be "legitimizing" VoIP for the common user, and maybe Skype et al can benefit from some positive association with an MS product and its heavy marketing.
MIS isn't programming - it's more for IT-related project management. the secret to not getting laid off is trying not to be a faceless member of a programmer farm.
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I agree that 99% of Windows users have no understanding of dual booting and I feel they would be unnecessarily confused by a "DUAL BOOT? YES/NO" option at the install screen. A hidden keystroke to enable a dual boot menu would be great for the rest of us. Maybe press and hold F9 as the installer loads or something. This command wouldn't even need to be shown onscreen as an option - those of us who regularly dual boot know about it soon enough.
In Soviet Russia, /. asks you!
Oracle Guy:
Larry Ellison.
While I feel that all projects deserve structure, I also feel that the possibility of fininshing an unstructured project is inversely proportional to project size.
Or EA could
-buy them out
-crowd them out of the market by buying up a relevant license
-kill sales by pre-announcing a similar product
The PC market is much more resistant to these tactics of course, people can go public with a finished game without EA ever even knowing about it. The barriers to entry in the console market are comparatively huge.
This is why you don't see EA dominating the PC space as much. God bless PC gaming.
Heh, thanks :P
Just thinking that lots of admins are going to have a PDA running WinCE or a linux firewall appliance or a Knoppix CD or something to mix things up.
I didn't intend to imply that absolutely everyone should have Windows and Linux running side by side, sorry.
Per-OS TCO does not exist in a vacuum. Organizational direction, sunk costs from previous IT investments, interoperability with business partners / clients / vendors... each of these is a factor that will be different for EVERY business making the Linux/Windows/etc. choice.
IMO a well-run organization will have a hybrid environment.
That being said, it is useful for planning purposes to know in which situations Linux TCO beats Windows and vice versa.
Touche!
The article's claims of "and an anti-spyware tool that can identify and remove all pests in less then 10 seconds" are exceedingly hard to swallow.
What heuristics are they using that can find and zap all unmentionables in 10 seconds? Has "anonymous reader" ever run a virus/spyware scan before?
I agree with your points on Agile Development. It is definitely meant to allow maximum mobility for a development team in the hopes of ensuring relevance and focus.
I would say that LSS is somewhere in the middle, recognizing that a large enough project needs some structure while allowing a certain amount of mobility within said structure.
The problem with blocking IP space, especially in the case of email, is that most valid email traffic is not between sysadmins. When you have Joe user from FizzCo sending a business document from home to Jane User at BangCo, neither of them is going to understand any rejection notices they get, nor will they understand it if a message just disappears.
I've seen small businesses that contracted out their IT help have serious trouble when their ISP suddenly changed their spam filter rules without telling them. Suddenly your lawyer's emails aren't getting through and no one knows why. In this particular instance it fell on me to diagnose the problem and get it fixed simply because I was the only person at either of the two organizations who had any clue how mail servers worked.
Is this a derivative of the methodologies behind Lean Six Sigma?
There's big money in that, my graduate software engineering course last semester had a speaker in from a NASA contractor that pushed LSS as a way to manage all kinds of different engineering and production variances e.g. misfiring rocket engines.
Apple's DRM is simple and consistant unlike MSFT's which change per song. Apple has sold over a half a billion dollars worth of songs. The rest combined barely equal a tenth of that.
Consistent? Apple reserves the right to change their DRM on songs you've already bought. Wikipedia tracks some of the changes made to iTunes DRM since release:
"With the introduction of iTunes 4.5, Apple raised the number of machines allowed to use purchased music from 3 to 5. They also cut the number of times a user can burn CDs of the same playlist from 10 to 7. This adjustment was the result of the renegotiation Apple had with major labels. In 4.7.1, users were further restricted: they were limited to sharing their songs with five computers within 24 hours, rather than the previous five at a time."
Aw heck while I'm at it here's the coral cache of the above link: http://www.seobook.com.nyud.net:8090/archives/0011 30.shtml#more
The lameness filter blocked me, so find it here.
14. At unknown date or dates, Doe I, alone or in concert with Does I through X, began disseminating Plaintiff's trade secrets to the public, with such information now available on various web sites. Among other things, Defendant or Defendants posted proprietary relating to Plaintiff's solicitation, procedures on publicly accessible areas of the internet.
Seriously, this is much more affordable only because we've already paid for the research.Not entirely. It can also be more affordable if the manufacturing processes for these tactical weapons technologies are already active. Which is cheaper, a production run off of an existing assembly line or building a new factory and then doing a single run?
Isn't it more likely that he just teases up his screenshots and information on his own so that he can get publicity, pageviews, and ad revenue? The idea that he's working directly for MS is perhaps a tad too Orwellian.
On his own site he says "And thanks for reading, seriously. The contents of this site are literally dictated by what readers want. So drop me a line and let me know what you're interested in reading about." Maybe he really does have Windows users out there who are interested in the next Windows release? I'm pretty sure there are at least two or three people left in the world running Windows.
id like to read the article but its already slashdotted (congrats)
The article loaded fine for me (11:10 Eastern), but just in case here is a Coral Cache mirror link.
While that's good news, I was more referring to the historical MS practice of bundling apps and providing default desktop shortcuts to them. When MS VoIP is Vista, will there be a desktop shortcut?
It is possible that 3rd party retailers may choose to bundle Skype and put its icon on the desktops for their HD images, but if MS licensing strongarms them then they may find it far cheaper to lay off of Skype.
Microsoft Plans Telephone Service
Microsoft is preparing to enable computer users to make a normal phone call from their PC. The computer giant has increased its presence in the fast-growing internet phone sector by purchasing leading player Teleo for an undisclosed sum. Microsoft and rivals AOL, Google and Yahoo all currently allow phone calls between computers, but not yet to a domestic or mobile handset. Teleo's technology allows computers to make and receive standard phone calls.
Instant-messaging
Yahoo is also in the process of introducing such a system, after it bought internet phone company Dialpad two months ago. Microsoft currently uses Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology in a number of its products, including its instant-messaging service. The US software firm said it planned to incorporate California-based Teleo's telephone service into its instant messaging service. Microsoft said it hoped to achieve this by the end of the year.
This looks to be another great example of a Microsoft product dominating because users don't know or care enough to stray from the software that comes with their computer.
Will people choose Skype when they already have an MS VoIP icon on their desktop? I'm curious.
On the upside MS could at least be "legitimizing" VoIP for the common user, and maybe Skype et al can benefit from some positive association with an MS product and its heavy marketing.
powerpoint.exe 53
It's powerpnt.exe. Jeez, no wonder you never get any work done.
MIS isn't programming - it's more for IT-related project management. the secret to not getting laid off is trying not to be a faceless member of a programmer farm.
FP!
i read that in PC Gamer's NFL game round-up too.