MS-DOS no longer exists in Windows. I don't think it was compatible with the NT kernel. The "Command Prompt" is confusingly similar though, but I don't think they share code.
Strange timing on this one. They should at least wait for the Mars Science Lab to touchdown - it won't even be too long until it does, since it's already on its way. That way, media attention on Mars and public awareness/interest in Mars missions will be far greater.
Microsoft already has the technology necessary in their own audio/video/text Windows Live Messenger platform. So I don't think it's about that. And yes, I feel sorry for the Skype staff today -- I don't think this move bodes well for them at all. Their competence may not be what Microsoft is looking for here.
And as for other reasons, the paying customer base (compared to the non-paying WLM user base) of Skype could perhaps be attractive to Microsoft. Keep in mind that Skype is running with losses despite all these users, though.
In the end, taking all these thoughts together, I can only imagine that this is a risky move by Microsoft. I think they are hoping for awesome synergy effects from some forthcoming integration with their products. I assume something big, and no minor idea, since it needs to pay these $8.5 billion and more.
My first idea was integrating this with Windows Phone 7 (8? 9?) to get phone calls at data rates, but I have no idea how they'll going to get the providers to accept that. That would be a feat as grand as Steve Jobs getting the music companies to sign on to iTunes back in the days, if not greater.
Otherwise... Hmm, someone mentioned Xbox or Kinect integration to communicate with others with these devices... Well that's a thought but why shouldn't they be able to just implement that feature with their Live network? Write a WLM client for these - done. No $8.5 billion wasted.
Not sure if there are other ideas about where MS may be going with this?
Sony said on Wednesday that Anonymous targeted it several weeks ago using a denial of service attack in protest of Sony defending itself against a hacker in federal court in San Francisco.
The attack that stole the personal data of millions of Sony customers was launched separately, while the company was distracted protecting itself against the denial of service campaign, Sony said.
Sony said it was not sure whether the organizers of the two attacks were working together.
So they know Anonymous DDOS'ed them, and Anonymous have admitted this too.
They also were attacked separately where the theft took place. They don't know if these groups were working together. They blame the latter on Anonymous too. How did they draw that final conclusion??
This will obviously not happen (sharing off by default!? haha, good one!), and even Sophos probably knows that.
They're just coming forward because they want to get free advertising as a security company that cares for user privacy. That is all. Empty story here.
I agree with you, except that I don't need the high bitrate and mobile support, and get away with half the price.:)
It's not that bad IMHO to pay $8/month for unlimited access to that music library. At least not enough to speak of Spotify being "killed". It's far better than anything you could get in the nineties, or even early 2000's, so I still think that this is definitely progress in the right direction. Yes, you don't get to "own" your music, but I consider it like I do with movie visits or (back in the bad old days) visits to music stores to buy CD's more or less regularly.
Won't happen. What *is* insanity today, however, is sticking to a yearly or bi-yearly release cycle when the HTML standards evolve faster than that. Shorter cycles implies less features indeed, but this also means that there's not as much to test before each release, so the risks of following the evolution of the web better isn't increased despite following it better.
This is basically a very simplified version of the Chromium dev's motivation to move to this.
But it's of course more fun to think it's a version number game. However, just wait 'til Chrome 27 and you'll see that version numbers will lose their meaning soon enough, just like Google and others intended.
Maybe it will die as a product and I can go back to using something better for organising events with people. One large message box sure is fun.
Why would it die? To the contrary, even if I dislike ads as anyone else, I have to admit that a hundred million-large social networking backing an ad platform seems like a powerful weapon against AdWords. And if successful, it'll do the opposite of killing it, with even more company acquisitions, etc.
I think the answer is that small holes don't do anything (i.e. don't start sucking loose papers etc towards them), but huge gaping holes in planes might...
if supposed early builds are to be believed... "Bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, in a series of April postings on Rivera’s Within Windows blog, have described the various features of what they claim is an early build of Windows 8: an Office-style ribbon integrated into Windows Explorer, complete with tools for viewing libraries, manipulating images and managing drive assets; an unlock screen that harkens to the 'Metro' design style already present in Windows Phone 7; an 'immersive' user interface and a built-in PDF reader they call 'Modern Reader.'"
Northing here is about why it should be a cross-platform OS.
I may be kind of drunk right now, but I sure know when I read a bad summary!
I'm kind of surprised how Google has kept failing when trying to become a social network. You'd think they'd have everything. The by far largest search engine to market their network on, a crapload of Google accounts already, and most importantly - lots of smart people that are used to designing stuff for the web.
And yet, I'm not sure they get it this time either. I think Ars Technica put it best so far:
Given the size of the Internet, limiting the crowd that is able to sort through it for you to your circle of friends doesn't seem like the best solution. In the same vein, the assumption that Google users only have contacts whose opinion they respect may be a little off-base. The service could prove useful if you have a cadre of impeccably tasteful friends, but we hope this isn't meant to be the magic bullet for Google's increasingly SEO-burdened results.
I don't need to remember that I'm using Chrome 10.0.648.204 stable. Chrome 10 is often more than enough. Usually "Chrome since the last year" suffice to give a good idea of the web standards it's supporting, for someone who follows the latest standards developments like a webmaster.
After many years of Firefox being a solid, well performing browser, it appears it's going to end in bloat just like Netscape did...
Why do you think this? More frequent updates != more bloat. The updates are also spent on fixing bugs. You can't say this before you've seen what Firefox 5 will end up covering. Sure, if it'll become much slower and crashy, I don't question you, but we've so far seen no indication that this more frequent schedule of releasing bug fixes and now less features at a time will lead to that...
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MS-DOS no longer exists in Windows. I don't think it was compatible with the NT kernel. The "Command Prompt" is confusingly similar though, but I don't think they share code.
Eagerly awaiting the first fork! MS-DOS for Linux? Mac? It can finally happen!
Of course they are. It's called competition. As far as they stick with laws, it's all fair game trying to use tactics to "undermine" them.
Strange timing on this one. They should at least wait for the Mars Science Lab to touchdown - it won't even be too long until it does, since it's already on its way. That way, media attention on Mars and public awareness/interest in Mars missions will be far greater.
Oh please. When was the last time a photographer went around the world to take a picture of every single fscking road?
Does the quantity really matter? Would you feel less concerned if "only" your entire city and your whereabouts was photographed?
Or even just the city block where you live?
Haha, you may be right and you just reignited my IT bubble fears... :-/
Microsoft already has the technology necessary in their own audio/video/text Windows Live Messenger platform. So I don't think it's about that. And yes, I feel sorry for the Skype staff today -- I don't think this move bodes well for them at all. Their competence may not be what Microsoft is looking for here.
And as for other reasons, the paying customer base (compared to the non-paying WLM user base) of Skype could perhaps be attractive to Microsoft. Keep in mind that Skype is running with losses despite all these users, though.
In the end, taking all these thoughts together, I can only imagine that this is a risky move by Microsoft. I think they are hoping for awesome synergy effects from some forthcoming integration with their products. I assume something big, and no minor idea, since it needs to pay these $8.5 billion and more.
My first idea was integrating this with Windows Phone 7 (8? 9?) to get phone calls at data rates, but I have no idea how they'll going to get the providers to accept that. That would be a feat as grand as Steve Jobs getting the music companies to sign on to iTunes back in the days, if not greater.
Otherwise... Hmm, someone mentioned Xbox or Kinect integration to communicate with others with these devices... Well that's a thought but why shouldn't they be able to just implement that feature with their Live network? Write a WLM client for these - done. No $8.5 billion wasted.
Not sure if there are other ideas about where MS may be going with this?
Sony said on Wednesday that Anonymous targeted it several weeks ago using a denial of service attack in protest of Sony defending itself against a hacker in federal court in San Francisco.
The attack that stole the personal data of millions of Sony customers was launched separately, while the company was distracted protecting itself against the denial of service campaign, Sony said.
Sony said it was not sure whether the organizers of the two attacks were working together.
So they know Anonymous DDOS'ed them, and Anonymous have admitted this too.
They also were attacked separately where the theft took place. They don't know if these groups were working together. They blame the latter on Anonymous too. How did they draw that final conclusion??
I can only wish.
It's because the OP isn't trolling about Linux.
This will obviously not happen (sharing off by default!? haha, good one!), and even Sophos probably knows that.
They're just coming forward because they want to get free advertising as a security company that cares for user privacy. That is all. Empty story here.
Yes... What's more surprising than the closure is that it wasn't on YouTube.
For some reason, I always thought that Google, years ago, decided to make Google Video simply mirror the contents of YouTube and vice versa.
I agree with you, except that I don't need the high bitrate and mobile support, and get away with half the price. :)
It's not that bad IMHO to pay $8/month for unlimited access to that music library. At least not enough to speak of Spotify being "killed". It's far better than anything you could get in the nineties, or even early 2000's, so I still think that this is definitely progress in the right direction. Yes, you don't get to "own" your music, but I consider it like I do with movie visits or (back in the bad old days) visits to music stores to buy CD's more or less regularly.
Similar yearly cost, but much more convenient.
Won't happen. What *is* insanity today, however, is sticking to a yearly or bi-yearly release cycle when the HTML standards evolve faster than that. Shorter cycles implies less features indeed, but this also means that there's not as much to test before each release, so the risks of following the evolution of the web better isn't increased despite following it better.
This is basically a very simplified version of the Chromium dev's motivation to move to this.
But it's of course more fun to think it's a version number game. However, just wait 'til Chrome 27 and you'll see that version numbers will lose their meaning soon enough, just like Google and others intended.
For those of us who desire organizing groups of people online - Facebook is pretty much the only option.
I wonder how they did it before Facebook?
Maybe it will die as a product and I can go back to using something better for organising events with people. One large message box sure is fun.
Why would it die? To the contrary, even if I dislike ads as anyone else, I have to admit that a hundred million-large social networking backing an ad platform seems like a powerful weapon against AdWords. And if successful, it'll do the opposite of killing it, with even more company acquisitions, etc.
Yeah. Because SPDY is a protocol that's worse than HTTP, and not open to boot... :p
The author makes it sounds like there's air resistance in space that makes it possible to go to the Moon but not to Mars... :p
"See, it's the air drag that makes the journey to Mars simply consume too much rocket fuel!"
I think the answer is that small holes don't do anything (i.e. don't start sucking loose papers etc towards them), but huge gaping holes in planes might...
MythBusters tested for bullet-sized holes.
if supposed early builds are to be believed... "Bloggers Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott, in a series of April postings on Rivera’s Within Windows blog, have described the various features of what they claim is an early build of Windows 8: an Office-style ribbon integrated into Windows Explorer, complete with tools for viewing libraries, manipulating images and managing drive assets; an unlock screen that harkens to the 'Metro' design style already present in Windows Phone 7; an 'immersive' user interface and a built-in PDF reader they call 'Modern Reader.'"
Northing here is about why it should be a cross-platform OS.
I may be kind of drunk right now, but I sure know when I read a bad summary!
Let's hope we can finally find out what The Bloop really was then.
I'm kind of surprised how Google has kept failing when trying to become a social network. You'd think they'd have everything. The by far largest search engine to market their network on, a crapload of Google accounts already, and most importantly - lots of smart people that are used to designing stuff for the web.
And yet, I'm not sure they get it this time either. I think Ars Technica put it best so far:
Given the size of the Internet, limiting the crowd that is able to sort through it for you to your circle of friends doesn't seem like the best solution. In the same vein, the assumption that Google users only have contacts whose opinion they respect may be a little off-base. The service could prove useful if you have a cadre of impeccably tasteful friends, but we hope this isn't meant to be the magic bullet for Google's increasingly SEO-burdened results.
Because releasing slower requires more time testing the release instead of fixing bugs.
Why would you need to remember all numbers?
I don't need to remember that I'm using Chrome 10.0.648.204 stable. Chrome 10 is often more than enough. Usually "Chrome since the last year" suffice to give a good idea of the web standards it's supporting, for someone who follows the latest standards developments like a webmaster.
After many years of Firefox being a solid, well performing browser, it appears it's going to end in bloat just like Netscape did...
Why do you think this? More frequent updates != more bloat. The updates are also spent on fixing bugs. You can't say this before you've seen what Firefox 5 will end up covering. Sure, if it'll become much slower and crashy, I don't question you, but we've so far seen no indication that this more frequent schedule of releasing bug fixes and now less features at a time will lead to that...