I went to the main "WinFX" page and followed the first link about the rename. Right there in black and white I see all I need to know:
".NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world."
I'm going to put down my cup of coffee, pick up the cool-aid and jump right on it! Just another Microsoft developer blogger trying to market for them. And they wonder why only current customers listen.
On a related note, I thought WinFX was originally just the replacement for WinForms, the original.NET objects for laying out application windows. One reason I dropped Windows development is because I got sick of all the ever-changing libraries. And I don't mean gradual improvements. I mean every year they tell you to drop a whole library and switch to something completely different.
for example a culture that praises money, and not skill, or knowledge.
Right, because the Indian culture doesn't praise money? From the many people I've met from India I can say their culture definitely gives high personal and family value to money. American companies don't move jobs there because their people value skill and knowledge. They move jobs because it's cheaper and they think they'll get roughly equal quality of work. If Indians are more skilled and charged as much for the same work in America no jobs would be outsourced.
Even if the NSA eventually figures out that someone goes by the opposite gender online from what they really are in the real world, how does all this time and effort help national security exactly?
Men acting as women online must be gay. Gayness is a threat to marriage. Any threat to marriage is a threat to our national security. C'mon, get with the program!
So if police and school authorities have been successful at it why should the NSA get involved? Let states and municipalities take care of it, not a federal super-secret agency. I agree that people tracking down information on the internet can help find these potential threats to local institutions. But student school shootings are not a threat to national security, e.g. it won't topple our government. And a file on every individual who posts on the internet doesn't help.
I have no issue with data analysis of personal information available on the web (assuming it got there legally).
But this does absolutely nothing for national security - which is the namesake of the agency. If a hate site goes up and government starts watching it to see if they're promoting violence, then fine. But creating profiles of everyone online is pointless. I'm sure they already have systems that scour the web and raise red flags. But putting my name and profile into a database at the NSA does nothing to aid security (I promise:).
I'm sure that Microsoft has already made their partnership juicy enough for this to not happen any time soon. If enough customers came banging at the doors this would change, but that's not going to happen.
So I'd say that Linux probably accounts for closer to 30-40%, if not even 50% of Dell's server sales.
They probably don't want to sound like they're exaggerating the Linux install base and anger their biggest partner. So they only state the stats that Microsoft can't possibly dispute.
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So tell me again how I should have stuck it out and gone down with the company. I go around talking principles and freedom, I go broke. I stick the word "Microsoft" on my marketing materials, and I make money. Go ahead. Argue with that. Tell me how I should have been happy to lose my house, my car, every dime of my savings, and all the other crap I would have lost riding the open source handbasket.
I left a high paying Microsoft-related job for a low paying open source job. And I'm much happier now. You obviously invested all of your time and money in the wrong market. Don't blame your own failure on open source. That's childish.
Screw you people, I know who butters my bread.
You don't butter your own bread? You apparently don't own your own company for the pleasure of being independant. And if you think you must work with Microsoft to make a living then you're very ignorant.
It makes no technical difference. But when PHBs see numbers dropping for Apache they'll think twice before choosing it.
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If this is what Microsoft is doing (and IMO I suspect it is) this smells of once again abusing their monopoly in OS to extend their control of new markets at the expense of fair competition.
Going into a business and offering to help convert to IIS isn't abusing its OS monopoly. They don't have anywhere near a monopoly on server OSs anyway. But of course I agree Microsoft is using its financial power and businesses shouldn't be quick to oblige.
Doesn't seem to matter much if it's true, the current administration (in general) has shown little interest or appetite in reining Microsoft in.
In fact one of the very first things Bush did when he entered the White House was remove all of the DOJ lawyers on the Microsoft monopoly case who had any legal experience with monopolies. Young lawyers replaced those already working on the case. And the expert independant counsil was fired without any explanation. Bush intentionally sabotaged the case against Microsoft.
... for win 98 users (for whatever reason they are still using it)...
'Cause they don't want to pay for a new version or bother getting a pirate copy, or deal with the headaches of upgrading, and maybe it simply works for them and feel no obligation to change?
Additionally, aren't Win 2000 and Win xp less secure than running an old OS which doesn't have the available OS features which l33t virus people exploit?
All versions of Windows have holes which Microsoft will never fix. But no updates at all will ever come for very old versions. Holes in 98 will forever be there while with 2000 and XP you can at least still hope for fixes. AFAIK most significant exploits and virii are applicable to all versions of Windows since they share the majority of their code base (especially the Win32 API).
Deciding on when to drop compatibility can be a tough problem. I think a good policy would be to drop support for an OS when support from that OS has been dropped by the vendor. In Windows' case I believe the majority of home users are on XP while the majority of office users are on XP or 2000. So it would seem reasonable to drop support for the older OSs.
The last version of Firefox to support 98 and earlier should be kept up for easy download.
Due to its high bandwidth, it's also been considered as an A/V cable replacement. The problem is that UWB radio performance degrades precipitously, effectively confining it to a single room.
I'd love to have all of my A/V electronics connected wirelessly. I don't care if it would only work within one room for now cause all of my stuff's in one room, probably like most people. So why isn't this commonplace yet? I hate all the wires running around my living room.
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FWIW, I have 10 years of experience with Oracle and MS SQL and I still don't consider myself an expert. I wrote reporting queries against one of the largest Oracle databases in the US and our truely expert DBAs were always teaching me something new.
Some people talk to me about databases like I'm Yoda. But I label myself as "very experienced." When performing the right kind of work I'd say it takes at least 4 or 5 years to gain significant experience.
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I disagree, but only to a small extent. I have extensive experience with MS SQL, Oracle, and mySQL. The basics of retrieving information are the same across all, but change very much when working on large systems. Select queries have to be written very differently on each system when tables get huge. For example, Oracle scripts with cursors are often much faster then regular joins if you know your data well. Yet on MS SQL cursors are the slowest way to go. On mySQL using temp tables in memory often outperforms outer joins, but not in the same cases as MS SQL.
When working in the extremes the strengths and weaknesses of each system have to be considered.
If one million Americans are reading political blog posts, that's only around 1 in 300. But it's still a million people, which is not an insignificant number. And in fact I believe if there are tens of millions of blogs there are tens of millions of people reading political blog posts.
Let's not forget the influence just a few thousand people can have. It only took a few thousand complaints (and from only one organization) to get the FCC to fine the famous superbowl nipple incident. It took the difference of only a few hundred thousand votes to choose a president.
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I disagree. A large portion of the millions of new blogs have been created to rant. Check the search terms and popular tags on technorati. There's a lot of political discussion going on. Google isn't the only gateway to information. Millions of people are reading political blog posts in their RSS readers every day.
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I went to the main "WinFX" page and followed the first link about the rename. Right there in black and white I see all I need to know:
.NET objects for laying out application windows. One reason I dropped Windows development is because I got sick of all the ever-changing libraries. And I don't mean gradual improvements. I mean every year they tell you to drop a whole library and switch to something completely different.
".NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world."
I'm going to put down my cup of coffee, pick up the cool-aid and jump right on it! Just another Microsoft developer blogger trying to market for them. And they wonder why only current customers listen.
On a related note, I thought WinFX was originally just the replacement for WinForms, the original
Dups only count on Slashdot when they're within the same week. After than any reposted story is new again.
It's a car analogy, so it'll do. :)
for example a culture that praises money, and not skill, or knowledge.
Right, because the Indian culture doesn't praise money? From the many people I've met from India I can say their culture definitely gives high personal and family value to money. American companies don't move jobs there because their people value skill and knowledge. They move jobs because it's cheaper and they think they'll get roughly equal quality of work. If Indians are more skilled and charged as much for the same work in America no jobs would be outsourced.
Wow. An appropriate car analogy. You're definitely new here.
I think we should call this "social spamming".
Even if the NSA eventually figures out that someone goes by the opposite gender online from what they really are in the real world, how does all this time and effort help national security exactly?
Men acting as women online must be gay. Gayness is a threat to marriage. Any threat to marriage is a threat to our national security. C'mon, get with the program!
So if police and school authorities have been successful at it why should the NSA get involved? Let states and municipalities take care of it, not a federal super-secret agency. I agree that people tracking down information on the internet can help find these potential threats to local institutions. But student school shootings are not a threat to national security, e.g. it won't topple our government. And a file on every individual who posts on the internet doesn't help.
I have no issue with data analysis of personal information available on the web (assuming it got there legally).
:).
But this does absolutely nothing for national security - which is the namesake of the agency. If a hate site goes up and government starts watching it to see if they're promoting violence, then fine. But creating profiles of everyone online is pointless. I'm sure they already have systems that scour the web and raise red flags. But putting my name and profile into a database at the NSA does nothing to aid security (I promise
I'm sure that Microsoft has already made their partnership juicy enough for this to not happen any time soon. If enough customers came banging at the doors this would change, but that's not going to happen.
So I'd say that Linux probably accounts for closer to 30-40%, if not even 50% of Dell's server sales.
They probably don't want to sound like they're exaggerating the Linux install base and anger their biggest partner. So they only state the stats that Microsoft can't possibly dispute.
When will it really be the Final Fantasy?
So tell me again how I should have stuck it out and gone down with the company. I go around talking principles and freedom, I go broke. I stick the word "Microsoft" on my marketing materials, and I make money. Go ahead. Argue with that. Tell me how I should have been happy to lose my house, my car, every dime of my savings, and all the other crap I would have lost riding the open source handbasket.
I left a high paying Microsoft-related job for a low paying open source job. And I'm much happier now. You obviously invested all of your time and money in the wrong market. Don't blame your own failure on open source. That's childish.
Screw you people, I know who butters my bread.
You don't butter your own bread? You apparently don't own your own company for the pleasure of being independant. And if you think you must work with Microsoft to make a living then you're very ignorant.
Market share == Mind share
It makes no technical difference. But when PHBs see numbers dropping for Apache they'll think twice before choosing it.
If this is what Microsoft is doing (and IMO I suspect it is) this smells of once again abusing their monopoly in OS to extend their control of new markets at the expense of fair competition.
Going into a business and offering to help convert to IIS isn't abusing its OS monopoly. They don't have anywhere near a monopoly on server OSs anyway. But of course I agree Microsoft is using its financial power and businesses shouldn't be quick to oblige.
Doesn't seem to matter much if it's true, the current administration (in general) has shown little interest or appetite in reining Microsoft in.
In fact one of the very first things Bush did when he entered the White House was remove all of the DOJ lawyers on the Microsoft monopoly case who had any legal experience with monopolies. Young lawyers replaced those already working on the case. And the expert independant counsil was fired without any explanation. Bush intentionally sabotaged the case against Microsoft.
Exactly. I read the title and thought of course we can't trust the people who write malware... they write malware!!
... for win 98 users (for whatever reason they are still using it)...
'Cause they don't want to pay for a new version or bother getting a pirate copy, or deal with the headaches of upgrading, and maybe it simply works for them and feel no obligation to change?
Additionally, aren't Win 2000 and Win xp less secure than running an old OS which doesn't have the available OS features which l33t virus people exploit?
All versions of Windows have holes which Microsoft will never fix. But no updates at all will ever come for very old versions. Holes in 98 will forever be there while with 2000 and XP you can at least still hope for fixes. AFAIK most significant exploits and virii are applicable to all versions of Windows since they share the majority of their code base (especially the Win32 API).
Deciding on when to drop compatibility can be a tough problem. I think a good policy would be to drop support for an OS when support from that OS has been dropped by the vendor. In Windows' case I believe the majority of home users are on XP while the majority of office users are on XP or 2000. So it would seem reasonable to drop support for the older OSs.
The last version of Firefox to support 98 and earlier should be kept up for easy download.
Incorrect. The Seventh Circuit found that a shrink wrap license (EULA) is an enforceable software license.
Due to its high bandwidth, it's also been considered as an A/V cable replacement. The problem is that UWB radio performance degrades precipitously, effectively confining it to a single room.
I'd love to have all of my A/V electronics connected wirelessly. I don't care if it would only work within one room for now cause all of my stuff's in one room, probably like most people. So why isn't this commonplace yet? I hate all the wires running around my living room.
FWIW, I have 10 years of experience with Oracle and MS SQL and I still don't consider myself an expert. I wrote reporting queries against one of the largest Oracle databases in the US and our truely expert DBAs were always teaching me something new.
Some people talk to me about databases like I'm Yoda. But I label myself as "very experienced." When performing the right kind of work I'd say it takes at least 4 or 5 years to gain significant experience.
I disagree, but only to a small extent. I have extensive experience with MS SQL, Oracle, and mySQL. The basics of retrieving information are the same across all, but change very much when working on large systems. Select queries have to be written very differently on each system when tables get huge. For example, Oracle scripts with cursors are often much faster then regular joins if you know your data well. Yet on MS SQL cursors are the slowest way to go. On mySQL using temp tables in memory often outperforms outer joins, but not in the same cases as MS SQL.
When working in the extremes the strengths and weaknesses of each system have to be considered.
If one million Americans are reading political blog posts, that's only around 1 in 300. But it's still a million people, which is not an insignificant number. And in fact I believe if there are tens of millions of blogs there are tens of millions of people reading political blog posts.
Let's not forget the influence just a few thousand people can have. It only took a few thousand complaints (and from only one organization) to get the FCC to fine the famous superbowl nipple incident. It took the difference of only a few hundred thousand votes to choose a president.
I disagree. A large portion of the millions of new blogs have been created to rant. Check the search terms and popular tags on technorati. There's a lot of political discussion going on. Google isn't the only gateway to information. Millions of people are reading political blog posts in their RSS readers every day.
Really?