I think we need to give the open source community a bit more credit. I suspect someone much more cleaver than you and I will find a way to use the FoxPro source to create something useful (or at least to make us say, "gee whiz!"). Only time will tell, but we would never have known the potentoinal if the code base was simply abondoned. I welcome this move by MS and applaud them.
You think there is a negative bias against MS because you read Slashdot.
According to Forbe's Magazine 2006 survey, Microsoft is the 6th most admired company on the globe. Here's how the top 10 look:
1 General Electric 2 Toyota Motor 3 Procter & Gamble 4 FedEx 5 Johnson & Johnson 6 Microsoft 7 Dell 8 Berkshire Hathaway 9 Apple Computer 10 Wal-Mart Stores
I personally think MS is terrific. I use many of their products and make a living designing and implementing their server and desktop solutions. Like any company I can point to questionable choices in their product development. But when I look at the big picture I truly admire what they have done and continue to do.
12 years ago I was on dial-up internet access. I kept hearing about how great DSL is, blah blah blah, yet according to dslreports it was nowhere to be found near me.
A year later when DSL was available I said "screw you" to the man and stuck with my trusty dial-up! How dare they not roll out to my neighborhood first! I'll show them.
The guy that owns 9planets.org used his crystal ball and secured 8planets.org on 26-Jun-2006 12:32:54 UTC. He even hedged his bet by securing 12planets.org on 16-Aug-2006 07:28:43 UTC.
In Hawaii they are using Citric Acid as a pesticide to kill the invasive coqui frog. Just spray the fields and PRESTO! They die. Perhaps this could help the Aussies. When life gives you lemons, make pesticide.
Is it possible that the massive intersection of gravitational fields generated by all of the stars in our galaxy circling a common center point create a virtual black hole at the center. Maybe there is no real black hole there at all. Furthermore, the energy emissions detected from the center of our galaxy could be the result of the energy released from the massive high speed collissions of the energy emitted from all the stars. It is such a huge amount of energy released because the collision is at a perfect center point.
I have such great ideas. I should have taken fisiks in skool.
Factual errors are always going to happen. Humans make mistakes. Thurott published a story as fact with no sources. This is just as bad as making up a story. The Times fires people for making up stories.
There is a major down side to the speed with which information can spread on the internet. I'm not talking about blogs or rumor mills, discussion groups or chain emails. I'm talking about overzealous journalists. Get that rumor out there! I've got the scoop! Damned be the sources!
I have lost a lot of respect for Paul Thurrott (did I have any?). I read his article, and he never names a source... never says how he came to this information. Did he have inside information from a source at Microsoft? It seems not. He read the original bogus article and posted the information as somehow coming to him in a vision. Read Thurott's article. Heck, read his first paragraph. He writes it with authority as FACT.
Granted, this was a meaningless story (other than to get the hackles up on the tech crowd). But most readers don't look at the articles and think, "what's the source?" They rely on the journalist to have done his homework and report verifiable facts, or at least mention in the article that the story is rumor or what the source was.
People in the tech world rely on good internet journalism to get the information we need to make decisions, raise a protest, or cheer wildly. This is a major black eye to Windows IT Pro magizine. Plain and simple. The New York Times (or pick your favorite print journal) a) would not have allowed Thurott to publish that rubish, and b) would have fired him if he did.
I had to reinstall it so many times on my At&T brand computer (yes, AT&T used to make PCs), I ended up learning the product inside and out.
I started providing support to the lawyers I worked with, got into the betas for subsequent releases, got certs, and have now been consulting for 10 years.
I love MS. They create products that puts money in my pocket.
It's nice and simple to say MS should be broken into an OS group and an Apps group (or whatever kind of split you want to propose), but what is the goal in doing that? And would you achieve the your goal?
If, using my example for the moment, we broke them into an OS company and Apps company you only succeed in creating a company with a virtual monopoly on the OS and a second company with a virtual monopoly on Office. I don't see the gain here.
It would be more productive to force them to release specs on these products, i.e., source code, file formats, codecs, etc. This way other application developers can make products to compete on a level playing field.
I also don't see the logic in providing a stripped down version of the OS that nobody is going to buy. Windows XP already has the tools one needs to change the default media player and web browser,etc. Why remove something I might decide later that I want?
It seems a waste of time and makes good press for the governments suing MS. However, the results with the current remedies seem silly.
You think XM landing an auto company like Hyundai is going to break Sirius? When you buy a budget car I don't think the first thing on your mind is a monthly subscription for satellite radio.
Now let's look at Sirius partners:
Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Mercury, Monaco Logo, Nissan, Volvo, Winnebago Industries, Inc., Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler Chrysler, Dodge, Fleetwood Enterprises, Ford Motor Company, Hertz, Infiniti, Jaguar, Jeep, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mini.
Yep, I think Sirius will survive not being loaded in a Hyundai.
When you do a word search for some of the redacted material on the original PDF it highlights the blacked out portion where the redacted word resides.
This is just silly.
He didn't turn off domain grouping
on
Inspecting MSN Search
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· Score: 4, Informative
I searched for keywords britney spears and randomly checked few pages upto page number 20 and found that the 400 images were only from 3 domains:| 5in9.com, celebritypicturesarchive.com and nabou.com.
Perhaps this guy didn't know the default setting on MSN search is to group results by domain. Maybe he should try agian with this setting off if he wants to see more variety of domains providing Britney pics.
I cannot recall in my LIFE picking up my home phone and not hearing a dial tone. Even with a power failure the phone keeps working.
By contrast, every month or so I will sit down to use the internet and find my Comcast service completely down or the service degraded significantly. When the service is down it can be for minutes, hours, or in a few cases, days.
How sucky would it be to have unreliable phone service? I just can't risk it right now.
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I cannot see how leaving Windows Indexing Service enabled hinders performance. It automatically goes idle when you are using your PC.
If this research is true then I know a few selfish SOBs that are seriously brain damaged.
I think we need to give the open source community a bit more credit. I suspect someone much more cleaver than you and I will find a way to use the FoxPro source to create something useful (or at least to make us say, "gee whiz!"). Only time will tell, but we would never have known the potentoinal if the code base was simply abondoned. I welcome this move by MS and applaud them.
You think there is a negative bias against MS because you read Slashdot.
According to Forbe's Magazine 2006 survey, Microsoft is the 6th most admired company on the globe. Here's how the top 10 look:
1 General Electric
2 Toyota Motor
3 Procter & Gamble
4 FedEx
5 Johnson & Johnson
6 Microsoft
7 Dell
8 Berkshire Hathaway
9 Apple Computer
10 Wal-Mart Stores
I personally think MS is terrific. I use many of their products and make a living designing and implementing their server and desktop solutions. Like any company I can point to questionable choices in their product development. But when I look at the big picture I truly admire what they have done and continue to do.
Nothing evil to see here.
12 years ago I was on dial-up internet access. I kept hearing about how great DSL is, blah blah blah, yet according to dslreports it was nowhere to be found near me. A year later when DSL was available I said "screw you" to the man and stuck with my trusty dial-up! How dare they not roll out to my neighborhood first! I'll show them.
Recently I read an article in NYT Magazine about "Life Hacking." Part of the article talks about Microsoft research into productivity and how they have also found that more screen space = greater productivity. A great read found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/magazine/16guru. html?ei=5088&en=2864cc65d74cefb8&ex=1287115200&par tner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
The guy that owns 9planets.org used his crystal ball and secured 8planets.org on 26-Jun-2006 12:32:54 UTC. He even hedged his bet by securing 12planets.org on 16-Aug-2006 07:28:43 UTC.
In Hawaii they are using Citric Acid as a pesticide to kill the invasive coqui frog. Just spray the fields and PRESTO! They die. Perhaps this could help the Aussies. When life gives you lemons, make pesticide.
People like us aren't running web sites that process 10 to 15 Gigabits per second.
Is it possible that the massive intersection of gravitational fields generated by all of the stars in our galaxy circling a common center point create a virtual black hole at the center. Maybe there is no real black hole there at all. Furthermore, the energy emissions detected from the center of our galaxy could be the result of the energy released from the massive high speed collissions of the energy emitted from all the stars. It is such a huge amount of energy released because the collision is at a perfect center point.
I have such great ideas. I should have taken fisiks in skool.
Factual errors are always going to happen. Humans make mistakes. Thurott published a story as fact with no sources. This is just as bad as making up a story. The Times fires people for making up stories.
There is a major down side to the speed with which information can spread on the internet. I'm not talking about blogs or rumor mills, discussion groups or chain emails. I'm talking about overzealous journalists. Get that rumor out there! I've got the scoop! Damned be the sources!
I have lost a lot of respect for Paul Thurrott (did I have any?). I read his article, and he never names a source... never says how he came to this information. Did he have inside information from a source at Microsoft? It seems not. He read the original bogus article and posted the information as somehow coming to him in a vision. Read Thurott's article. Heck, read his first paragraph. He writes it with authority as FACT.
Granted, this was a meaningless story (other than to get the hackles up on the tech crowd). But most readers don't look at the articles and think, "what's the source?" They rely on the journalist to have done his homework and report verifiable facts, or at least mention in the article that the story is rumor or what the source was.
People in the tech world rely on good internet journalism to get the information we need to make decisions, raise a protest, or cheer wildly. This is a major black eye to Windows IT Pro magizine. Plain and simple. The New York Times (or pick your favorite print journal) a) would not have allowed Thurott to publish that rubish, and b) would have fired him if he did.
I had to reinstall it so many times on my At&T brand computer (yes, AT&T used to make PCs), I ended up learning the product inside and out. I started providing support to the lawyers I worked with, got into the betas for subsequent releases, got certs, and have now been consulting for 10 years. I love MS. They create products that puts money in my pocket.
Make sure that sucker is discharged before filling. bzzzzzzzt! YEEEOWWCH!
Nice try jackass. He quoted the article, gave credit to the source and linked to the original location. By any definition, this is not plagiarism.
It's nice and simple to say MS should be broken into an OS group and an Apps group (or whatever kind of split you want to propose), but what is the goal in doing that? And would you achieve the your goal?
If, using my example for the moment, we broke them into an OS company and Apps company you only succeed in creating a company with a virtual monopoly on the OS and a second company with a virtual monopoly on Office. I don't see the gain here.
It would be more productive to force them to release specs on these products, i.e., source code, file formats, codecs, etc. This way other application developers can make products to compete on a level playing field.
I also don't see the logic in providing a stripped down version of the OS that nobody is going to buy. Windows XP already has the tools one needs to change the default media player and web browser,etc. Why remove something I might decide later that I want?
It seems a waste of time and makes good press for the governments suing MS. However, the results with the current remedies seem silly.
Now that's cool.
You think XM landing an auto company like Hyundai is going to break Sirius? When you buy a budget car I don't think the first thing on your mind is a monthly subscription for satellite radio.
Now let's look at Sirius partners:
Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Mercury, Monaco Logo, Nissan, Volvo, Winnebago Industries, Inc., Aston Martin, Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler Chrysler, Dodge, Fleetwood Enterprises, Ford Motor Company, Hertz, Infiniti, Jaguar, Jeep, Land Rover, Lincoln, Mini.
Yep, I think Sirius will survive not being loaded in a Hyundai.
Where should I park my DeLorean?
When you do a word search for some of the redacted material on the original PDF it highlights the blacked out portion where the redacted word resides.
This is just silly.
Perhaps this guy didn't know the default setting on MSN search is to group results by domain. Maybe he should try agian with this setting off if he wants to see more variety of domains providing Britney pics.
I suspect if the phone service goes down their support people won't be getting any calls.
I cannot recall in my LIFE picking up my home phone and not hearing a dial tone. Even with a power failure the phone keeps working.
By contrast, every month or so I will sit down to use the internet and find my Comcast service completely down or the service degraded significantly. When the service is down it can be for minutes, hours, or in a few cases, days.
How sucky would it be to have unreliable phone service? I just can't risk it right now.
This looks pretty serious too:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10248
Why no headlines?
Oh yah? In Soviet Russia robotic insects terminate you!