I'm going to call BS. I work for a fortune 500 company, and we still run XP and I would say that 95% run in XP mode instead of classic. And I think that's a low percentage, its probably closer to 99.9%
The idea of a cloud device that had basic computing functionality and relied on a large master computer elsewhere can be found in science fiction dating back to the 60's.
The problem with the Zune was that Microsoft was fighting yesterday's battle with it.
This is the same problem with the Windows Phone. The Smart Phone market is almost run its course and Microsoft has taken too long to respond.
Microsoft needs to be fighting today's battles, not fighting yesterdays wars.
Your universal statement about no law being defect free is unprovable, but I get your point.
You are saying that laws proceed from certain universal principals that can not take into account the details of every specific situation.
I recommend that you try a different datacenter design.
My point is that we are not talking about storing a file on a hard drive we are talking about storing a movie in a storage system. Just abstract the file system away from the physical hardware and the movie away from the file, and you solve this problem. These layers of abstraction, including with the codec, are all very easy, and very old, problems to solve in enterprise computing.
Actually it all happened when someone cornered Bill Gates about how the IE team hadn't been communicating like he had promised they would, and how they were behind in their deliverables.
I would have loved to be in the Room when the call came in.
"Please hold for Bill Gates." --CRAP, what did I do now-- "Hey, Junior, why did you make me look like an ass in front of the whole world?" "Ummm..." "SHUT UP AND DON'T TALK. I just got out of an interview, and they asked me why you were are not communicating. Don't answer that. You know how I hate interviews. You also know how I hate looking like an ass. You also know I told the world we would release IE8 in early 2008. So what gives. Do I need to fire you all and rebrand a version of FireFox as IE8? Cause I'm this close to doing it. Its people like you who give this company a bad name. Now stop wasting my time, start communicating, and the next time we talk you had better have numbers on how many people are switching from IE7 to IE8. If not, please be aware that the next group guy you talk to here at Microsoft will be our security guards escorting you off property. Oh, and by the way, Channel 9 will be there in the morning. The marketing department will be there in the afternoon, and you have been registered in the company communication 101 classes that are offered the first week of every month in Redmond. I've already spoken to the trainer and she is looking forward to working with you each month for the next year. I also what you to be aware that all this work will not impact our deliver date of 1st Quarter 2008. "Why are you still on the phone. I thought you had code to check in." -click-
Lesson: Never make the richest guy in the world look like a liar. Especially if he is signing your paycheck.
The Statement: "Nothing is." is false. Nothingness and beingness (isness) are opposites. Nothing is not the absence of some-thing. It is the absense of existance.
I have been using it now on a laptop for more than 18 months. Granted I am an employee of a very large corporation, but that is indeed the point.
I would also agree with the article. I miss some of the features in Vista when I'm in XP, but I also miss some of the XP features when I'm in Vista. The software was -kinda- (not exactly) like upgrading from Windows 98SE to Windows 2000. An improvement, but not all that visible until everyone else had upgraded and software was written to take advantage of all the cool new features.
Now, some of our clients compete against each other and we are *very* careful to firewall information so that the data from client A is not seen by client B. Not only could a breach like this resutl in losing client A and/or getting sued by client A, but would ruin our reputation and make it difficult to attract other clients.
And I'm sure that Google / Microsoft / Amazon / IBM / SAP will be very careful to make sure that your data is firewalled and secured from your competitors. I think your paragraph here proves the point that the article makes.
As network speeds / security / reliability increase the need to have data both here and there decreases. Once this happens the data will migrate towards a large natural repository. The only forseable problem problem with this model of computing is electrical generation to power the grids, and this two will be solved in good time.
If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker.
So what exactly is the scope of this phrase, does it include using an active directory user and limiting their rights to the file to be read only, say on a webserver? So lets say I want to put a picture up on a website and give access to just the.NET account so it can serve it up with the web server. The server is running on Vista which is running in VMware on a much larger machine. This being a standard way of deploying webservers in an enterprise.
Is the above a violation of the EULA?
Now lets say it's not a picture that I'm serving but a Web Service?
I can't see this in any other way than killing Vista in the enterprise.
Well, not every large enterprises cuts deals with Microsoft. Some of these large enterprises tell Microsoft to shove it on the years they don't release products and buy from VARs
6. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system on the licensed device. If you do so, you may not play or access content or use applications protected by any Microsoft digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other Microsoft rights management services or use BitLocker. We advise against playing or accessing content or using applications protected by other digital, information or enterprise rights management technology or other rights management services or using full volume disk drive encryption.
And in a large enterprise where we use VMware to run Windows servers on our big IBM boxes, how in the world will we be able to insall Vista.
This will mean that Large Enterprises who do hardware virtualization for security and performance uptime will be screwed.
So now why is this "vevent" class special, and who decided it would be "vevent" and not "scheduledevent" or "calendarevent" or "microsoftcalendarhassomethingforyoutodotoday"?
The idea is to leverage standards that are already out there, and in this case it would be the iCalendar standard.
DRM can not only protect a musician's songs, or a film makers movies, but if it is rolled out fully it could protect your own data. For example using DRM to protect your personal information that is in the hands of a large corporation or government. Just think about the ability to turn on and turn off the access to your ID and personal info, based on who looks at it, not just based on who copied it out of one database and into another.
Think about moving from one cell phone company to another, and when they get down to your record in the database all they see is random noise, because they no longer have the DRM to your phone number and can't call you.
I really don't get how all this Anti-DRM / anti-crypto think that is out there. DRM is just another type of technology that should be used rightly. Much of the antics pulled off by groups like this remind me of the groups which protest the genetically modified foods or the peta folks who throw paint on people. Gaining headlines doesn't equate to changing the hearts and minds of people.
I got Whooping cough last year for about 5 months. Man did that suck. You can't sleep well at all. You wake up all the time not being able to breath. The bigger problem is that my Dr. didn't believe me and thought I had a bunch of other problems until the CDC sent out a letter. Anyway, the basic problem, I think, is that the shots I got back in the early 70's last only 30 years. So guess what. It's 30 (well 29) years later, and I got it, almost 29 years to the day that I got the shot.
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The tear really sells it!
I'm going to call BS. I work for a fortune 500 company, and we still run XP and I would say that 95% run in XP mode instead of classic. And I think that's a low percentage, its probably closer to 99.9%
-Insert joke about girlfriends / wives-
The idea of a cloud device that had basic computing functionality and relied on a large master computer elsewhere can be found in science fiction dating back to the 60's.
The problem with the Zune was that Microsoft was fighting yesterday's battle with it. This is the same problem with the Windows Phone. The Smart Phone market is almost run its course and Microsoft has taken too long to respond. Microsoft needs to be fighting today's battles, not fighting yesterdays wars.
Your universal statement about no law being defect free is unprovable, but I get your point. You are saying that laws proceed from certain universal principals that can not take into account the details of every specific situation.
Wow, Godwin's law already? after around 10 posts.
I hear that's how the framed the Butcher of Bakersfield... Time to start RUNNING!!
I recommend that you try a different datacenter design. My point is that we are not talking about storing a file on a hard drive we are talking about storing a movie in a storage system. Just abstract the file system away from the physical hardware and the movie away from the file, and you solve this problem. These layers of abstraction, including with the codec, are all very easy, and very old, problems to solve in enterprise computing.
Actually it all happened when someone cornered Bill Gates about how the IE team hadn't been communicating like he had promised they would, and how they were behind in their deliverables.
I would have loved to be in the Room when the call came in.
"Please hold for Bill Gates."
--CRAP, what did I do now--
"Hey, Junior, why did you make me look like an ass in front of the whole world?"
"Ummm..."
"SHUT UP AND DON'T TALK. I just got out of an interview, and they asked me why you were are not communicating. Don't answer that. You know how I hate interviews. You also know how I hate looking like an ass. You also know I told the world we would release IE8 in early 2008. So what gives. Do I need to fire you all and rebrand a version of FireFox as IE8? Cause I'm this close to doing it. Its people like you who give this company a bad name. Now stop wasting my time, start communicating, and the next time we talk you had better have numbers on how many people are switching from IE7 to IE8. If not, please be aware that the next group guy you talk to here at Microsoft will be our security guards escorting you off property. Oh, and by the way, Channel 9 will be there in the morning. The marketing department will be there in the afternoon, and you have been registered in the company communication 101 classes that are offered the first week of every month in Redmond. I've already spoken to the trainer and she is looking forward to working with you each month for the next year. I also what you to be aware that all this work will not impact our deliver date of 1st Quarter 2008.
"Why are you still on the phone. I thought you had code to check in."
-click-
Lesson: Never make the richest guy in the world look like a liar. Especially if he is signing your paycheck.
I guess they should have used a search engine and looked on Ebay....
What if you built it and no one came? This sounds like a huge money pit for the folks in Hollywood.
The Statement: "Nothing is." is false. Nothingness and beingness (isness) are opposites. Nothing is not the absence of some-thing. It is the absense of existance.
I have been using it now on a laptop for more than 18 months. Granted I am an employee of a very large corporation, but that is indeed the point.
I would also agree with the article. I miss some of the features in Vista when I'm in XP, but I also miss some of the XP features when I'm in Vista. The software was -kinda- (not exactly) like upgrading from Windows 98SE to Windows 2000. An improvement, but not all that visible until everyone else had upgraded and software was written to take advantage of all the cool new features.
And I'm sure that Google / Microsoft / Amazon / IBM / SAP will be very careful to make sure that your data is firewalled and secured from your competitors. I think your paragraph here proves the point that the article makes.
As network speeds / security / reliability increase the need to have data both here and there decreases. Once this happens the data will migrate towards a large natural repository. The only forseable problem problem with this model of computing is electrical generation to power the grids, and this two will be solved in good time.
So what exactly is the scope of this phrase, does it include using an active directory user and limiting their rights to the file to be read only, say on a webserver? So lets say I want to put a picture up on a website and give access to just the
Is the above a violation of the EULA?
Now lets say it's not a picture that I'm serving but a Web Service?
I can't see this in any other way than killing Vista in the enterprise.
Well, not every large enterprises cuts deals with Microsoft. Some of these large enterprises tell Microsoft to shove it on the years they don't release products and buy from VARs
And in a large enterprise where we use VMware to run Windows servers on our big IBM boxes, how in the world will we be able to insall Vista.
This will mean that Large Enterprises who do hardware virtualization for security and performance uptime will be screwed.
Backslash = Dupe 2.0 on Slashdot 2.0 with it's Web 2.0 look and feel.
Until 10 - 15 years later when that person wants to take an airplane trip to a college out of state to start working on a degree.
So now why is this "vevent" class special, and who decided it would be "vevent" and not "scheduledevent" or "calendarevent" or "microsoftcalendarhassomethingforyoutodotoday"?
The idea is to leverage standards that are already out there, and in this case it would be the iCalendar standard.
OpenGL and DirectX are in the bottom left corner.
I agree with this.
DRM can not only protect a musician's songs, or a film makers movies, but if it is rolled out fully it could protect your own data. For example using DRM to protect your personal information that is in the hands of a large corporation or government. Just think about the ability to turn on and turn off the access to your ID and personal info, based on who looks at it, not just based on who copied it out of one database and into another.
Think about moving from one cell phone company to another, and when they get down to your record in the database all they see is random noise, because they no longer have the DRM to your phone number and can't call you.
I really don't get how all this Anti-DRM / anti-crypto think that is out there. DRM is just another type of technology that should be used rightly. Much of the antics pulled off by groups like this remind me of the groups which protest the genetically modified foods or the peta folks who throw paint on people. Gaining headlines doesn't equate to changing the hearts and minds of people.
I got Whooping cough last year for about 5 months. Man did that suck. You can't sleep well at all. You wake up all the time not being able to breath. The bigger problem is that my Dr. didn't believe me and thought I had a bunch of other problems until the CDC sent out a letter. Anyway, the basic problem, I think, is that the shots I got back in the early 70's last only 30 years. So guess what. It's 30 (well 29) years later, and I got it, almost 29 years to the day that I got the shot.
Shocked, Shocked I tell you Shocked, a large corporation not knowing how to properly do it's accounting.