My Favorite all time Best-Buy story. this did happen to me. I was looking to purchase a KVM swithch. I had found a Belkin one that looked like what I needed. Not wanting to wait for shipping I headed out to BB. I found KVM cable sets and belkin usb hubs and the self tag for the KVM but no KVM. I walk up to the desk and ask the blue shirt if they have any more/ when will them be in. This is the conversation starting with his response BB: "What's a KVM?" Me: "Is a device that will allow you to share a monitor,mouse and keyboard between computers" BB: "I don't think they make those" Me: "Actually you sell them here, and I use them everyday at work" BB: "You're living in a fantasy world they don't make anything like that"
That's pretty much the last time I bought anything at a best buy.
this was also just weeks after being told I couldn't buy a computer there because it was the last one they had.
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1) I have DSL line at home and I have never come close to the claimed 2 hours for a 700MB download. Using Prozilla and Download Accelerator I have come close to the 4 hour mark. I find it hard to believe that the average AOL/MSN user on 56K modems will have any interest in this.
2) Who wants to download a movie, pile everyone into the home office/Basement/Den, and watch the movie on their 17" monitor with mediocre speakers. Hell, I can go to Hastings, Family Video or even Blockbuster and rent the movie for the same price or less and watch it at my leisure on the couch. Not to mention that for the price of about 4 rentals I can buy the DVD/VHS and watch it whenver I like.
3) Can it really be that long before there is a work-around for the DRM protection? I have heard MS speakers regularly state that things like DRM and security are "not a game of perfect" meaning that there is no 100% way to protect/secure media and systems. Logically, that would mean this method will be vulnerable. When that is the case I am sure that many consumers will be happy to "rent" movies for 3.99 then burn them to VCD and happily never look back; illeagal or not.
Just my $.02
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout.
L. Long
Just a thought,
Doesn't this sound a bit like the spruce goose. Build the biggest greatest ever plane. Sure it flew but then what? It seems to me that an undertaking of this magnitude has the potential to become a money sucking vortex within MS.
Sure rewriting from scratch and redesigning the OS sounds great but in five years? Linux has taken 10 years to get to its current state. That includes havind 20 years of Unix development to learn from. I think 5 years is a dream. Especially if you are trying to rethink the whole thing and not build on the existing windows world.
There are a few outcomes from this plan.
1. MS develops the greates most user friendly OS and continues to dominate
2. Longhorn drags on for years and years and is eventually dropped. Collapsing under its own weight.
3. In order to release someting, Existing elements from the windows code base are integrated to make a ship date. Thus continuing the windows problems they would like to solve.
On another note: Does anyone else see the humor in BG going to the boss and saying that he wants to scrap it and rewrite from scratch? How many IT managers would accept that from the development staff? Would BG have accepted it prior to becoming "Chief Software Architect"?
this Story on yahoo has some interesting info. Including the following quote ""That's the way good software gets designed. So if you pull out a piece it won't run," Ballmer said. " Hilarious. Maybe if we all continue to be bad Mr Ballmer will come through and take our windows away. Then we'll be all sad
I am astonished that this commentary could completely ignore C++. I am currently enrolled in classes in the ACS department of the university where I work. Java was considered as the teaching language but C++ was the final choice. The reason for this was that a survey of other colleges showed that C++ was still the language to go with. Thus being of greater use to students as they will graduate with the same skills as future competitors.
Making a claim that developers "Must" choose between.NET and JAVA is asinine. Frankly, with the amount of "Legacy" code out there in COBOL I think that is a language that many are "forced" to choose. Additinally what about MAC OS X bening based on objective C or the hundreds of other languages out there. Hell I know some people using RealBasic! As far as moving to.NET or JAVA I would have to say that the development world has quite a while before being forced to make that choice.
This crap should wind up in the editor in chiefs waste basket. And definitely not make it to/.
With this model home users would suffer from an unbearable amount of pop up adds and rediculous redirects. how long before viewing you email on line costs a couple of bucks?
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My Favorite all time Best-Buy story. this did happen to me. I was looking to purchase a KVM swithch. I had found a Belkin one that looked like what I needed.
Not wanting to wait for shipping I headed out to BB. I found KVM cable sets and belkin usb hubs and the self tag for the KVM but no KVM.
I walk up to the desk and ask the blue shirt if they have any more/ when will them be in. This is the conversation starting with his response
BB: "What's a KVM?"
Me: "Is a device that will allow you to share a monitor,mouse and keyboard between computers"
BB: "I don't think they make those"
Me: "Actually you sell them here, and I use them everyday at work"
BB: "You're living in a fantasy world they don't make anything like that"
That's pretty much the last time I bought anything at a best buy.
this was also just weeks after being told I couldn't buy a computer there because it was the last one they had.
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I only have a couple issues with this:
1) I have DSL line at home and I have never come close to the claimed 2 hours for a 700MB download. Using Prozilla and Download Accelerator I have come close to the 4 hour mark. I find it hard to believe that the average AOL/MSN user on 56K modems will have any interest in this.
2) Who wants to download a movie, pile everyone into the home office/Basement/Den, and watch the movie on their 17" monitor with mediocre speakers. Hell, I can go to Hastings, Family Video or even Blockbuster and rent the movie for the same price or less and watch it at my leisure on the couch. Not to mention that for the price of about 4 rentals I can buy the DVD/VHS and watch it whenver I like.
3) Can it really be that long before there is a work-around for the DRM protection? I have heard MS speakers regularly state that things like DRM and security are "not a game of perfect" meaning that there is no 100% way to protect/secure media and systems. Logically, that would mean this method will be vulnerable. When that is the case I am sure that many consumers will be happy to "rent" movies for 3.99 then burn them to VCD and happily never look back; illeagal or not.
Just my $.02
When in danger or in doubt,
run in circles scream and shout.
L. Long
Just a thought,
Doesn't this sound a bit like the spruce goose. Build the biggest greatest ever plane. Sure it flew but then what? It seems to me that an undertaking of this magnitude has the potential to become a money sucking vortex within MS.
Sure rewriting from scratch and redesigning the OS sounds great but in five years? Linux has taken 10 years to get to its current state. That includes havind 20 years of Unix development to learn from. I think 5 years is a dream. Especially if you are trying to rethink the whole thing and not build on the existing windows world.
There are a few outcomes from this plan.
1. MS develops the greates most user friendly OS and continues to dominate
2. Longhorn drags on for years and years and is eventually dropped. Collapsing under its own weight.
3. In order to release someting, Existing elements from the windows code base are integrated to make a ship date. Thus continuing the windows problems they would like to solve.
On another note: Does anyone else see the humor in BG going to the boss and saying that he wants to scrap it and rewrite from scratch? How many IT managers would accept that from the development staff? Would BG have accepted it prior to becoming "Chief Software Architect"?
this Story on yahoo has some interesting info. Including the following quote ""That's the way good software gets designed. So if you pull out a piece it won't run," Ballmer said. " Hilarious. Maybe if we all continue to be bad Mr Ballmer will come through and take our windows away. Then we'll be all sad
I am astonished that this commentary could completely ignore C++. I am currently enrolled in classes in the ACS department of the university where I work. Java was considered as the teaching language but C++ was the final choice. The reason for this was that a survey of other colleges showed that C++ was still the language to go with. Thus being of greater use to students as they will graduate with the same skills as future competitors.
.NET and JAVA is asinine. Frankly, with the amount of "Legacy" code out there in COBOL I think that is a language that many are "forced" to choose. Additinally what about MAC OS X bening based on objective C or the hundreds of other languages out there. Hell I know some people using RealBasic! As far as moving to .NET or JAVA I would have to say that the development world has quite a while before being forced to make that choice.
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Making a claim that developers "Must" choose between
This crap should wind up in the editor in chiefs waste basket. And definitely not make it to
With this model home users would suffer from an unbearable amount of pop up adds and rediculous redirects. how long before viewing you email on line costs a couple of bucks?