Microsoft Research actually employs some of the most respected figures in the computer industry today. Ever heard of Jim Gray? Probably not, because it seems you like to spout off without trying to properly investigate your complaints. Anyways, I'm sure you've heard of such a thing as a "relational database". He shared an award with 8 other folks for inventing it. If you care to actually do some reading before you show off your ignorance, perhaps you should visit MS Research. Microsoft actually funnels tons of money to R&D. It's critical to their continued existence. (incidentally, Jim Gray's site is here)
Daniel Weise is a respected researcher at Microsoft and was a contributer to the book. Since this is part of his private webspace, I find it unlikely that any negative action will be taken.
Technical managers are not requried to express technical knowledge during an interview?
Actually, the Program Manager (or PM) isn't a position of management over people. It's a position of management over a feature area. They design features, make decisions about the way they should work, and are they ultimate authority with respect to the feature. However, they don't code. PMs are asked more design-related questions. Of course, PMs in more technical groups (like... say... networking) tend to be more techinical than persons in less technical groups (perhaps PMs on a game).
So in move one, we weigh G1 and G2. There are two possible outcomes:
If G1 == G2, then they all weigh the same, and B is in G3. Now we weigh 9 and 10 against 11 and 8. If they balance, then B is 12, and we can find out if it's heavier or lighter by comparing it to any other ball. If they do not balance, then we know that either 9 or 10 is light, or 11 is heavy. If this is the case, we weigh 9 against 10. If they balance, B is 11. If they don't balance, the lighter one is B.
If G1 != G2, then G3 doesn't contain B. Either the heavier group contains a heavy ball, or the lighter group contains a light ball. Now we can weigh 1 2 and 5 against 3 6 and 9. If they balance, we know that either 7 or 8 is heavy, or 4 is light. So we weigh 7 and 8. If they balance, then B is 4. If 1 2 and 5 are lighter. Then either 1 or 2 is light, or 6 is heavy. We can weigh 1 against 2 to find out which is true. If 1 2 and 5 are heavier, then either 3 is light, or 5 is heavy. We can weigh 3 against any ball other than 5 to find out which is true. A similar argument can be made for the other situations.
From this we see that you can determine the answer in only 3 weighings.
Integrated directory authentication service: cost of wasted wages on Linux admin work + cost of WS2k3 Solution guaranteed to be supported for at least 7 years: cost of wasted wages on Linux admin work + cost of WS2k3
agreed. the one-user limitation makes sense from a licensing standpoint (I won't argue about licensing here). if XP Pro allowed large numbers of concurrent users, wouldn't that make it a Terminal Server?
also, rdp may be old, but it's certainly predated by the X protocol. old doesn't necessarily mean sucky.
erm... well... this device... "Mira" I believe was the codename. It was intended as just a Remote Desktop thin client. XP Home didn't include a Remote Desktop server. Seems to me that it's only obvious that this device would require Pro.
only 8 years? I guess this would qualify as one of those bugs made shallow by many eyes. just because open source software *can* be examined doesn't mean it *will*.
Actually... the fault *is* the user's. You can turn on password strength enforcement via a local security policy. Crank up "Local Security Settings" under the administrative tools. Then go to Local Security Policies|Password Policy, then enable "Passwords must meet complexity requirements". It'd also be worth cranking up the minimum password length, enabling "Enforce password history", and lowering the Maximum Password Age. The reason it's off by default is because Joe User doesn't understand password complexity requirements.
Fortunately for those of us in the know, they'll have to crack your admin account first. By default, you can only boot to an XP Recovery Console if you can supply the administrator password. You can turn this behavior off via a local security policy, if you wish, but I wouldn't suggest it:)
gnus has been doing this for years... as well as other neat things like mail scoring (similar to news scoring) so that mail you don't want to read gets filtered to the bottom of your list or (if you tell it to) doesn't even show up at all. Similarly, mail that you most want to read (based on past response) gets bubbled up to the top. gnus also supports mail expiry (once again, similar to news) so that old mail gets Handled(TM).
that's not really the point, though... the point is that they'll not only have the general consumer complaining, but the retailers will start complaining too.
I disagree. Everyone should go out and buy one, then return with a complaint something like "Uh... this didn't play on my mac...". Record companies will have no choice but to return them up the chain to the distributors.
There seems to be a bit of annoyance in the community pertaining to the closed-source nature of Winamp. I'm not Nullsoft, but I'd wager that if they weren't part of a larger corporation, they would have probably open-sourced Winamp by now. Nullsoft isn't against open-source. Check out [nullsoft.com] to see (the most notable contribution here is their open-source installer software... no more InstallShield!). Don't forget that Gnutella started out as a Nullsoft project. Besides, the past has shown that competition breeds innovation. Has anyone looked at the new media database thingy? It's pretty sharp. Of course, when it all comes down to it, it's Just Another MP3 Player.... *shrug*
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Microsoft Research actually employs some of the most respected figures in the computer industry today. Ever heard of Jim Gray? Probably not, because it seems you like to spout off without trying to properly investigate your complaints. Anyways, I'm sure you've heard of such a thing as a "relational database". He shared an award with 8 other folks for inventing it. If you care to actually do some reading before you show off your ignorance, perhaps you should visit MS Research. Microsoft actually funnels tons of money to R&D. It's critical to their continued existence. (incidentally, Jim Gray's site is here)
Hi,
Daniel Weise is a respected researcher at Microsoft and was a contributer to the book. Since this is part of his private webspace, I find it unlikely that any negative action will be taken.
Cheers!
Technical managers are not requried to express technical knowledge during an interview?
Actually, the Program Manager (or PM) isn't a position of management over people. It's a position of management over a feature area. They design features, make decisions about the way they should work, and are they ultimate authority with respect to the feature. However, they don't code. PMs are asked more design-related questions. Of course, PMs in more technical groups (like... say... networking) tend to be more techinical than persons in less technical groups (perhaps PMs on a game).
this is correct even when you don't know whether the marble is lighter or heavier.
let's take a look, shall we?
We number the balls and seperate them into three differen groups, as below:
(1 2 3 4) we'll call G1
(5 6 7 8) we'll call G2
(9 10 11 12) we'll call G3
The ball we seek shall be dubbed B.
So in move one, we weigh G1 and G2. There are two possible outcomes:
If G1 == G2, then they all weigh the same, and B is in G3. Now we weigh 9 and 10 against 11 and 8. If they balance, then B is 12, and we can find out if it's heavier or lighter by comparing it to any other ball. If they do not balance, then we know that either 9 or 10 is light, or 11 is heavy. If this is the case, we weigh 9 against 10. If they balance, B is 11. If they don't balance, the lighter one is B.
If G1 != G2, then G3 doesn't contain B. Either the heavier group contains a heavy ball, or the lighter group contains a light ball. Now we can weigh 1 2 and 5 against 3 6 and 9. If they balance, we know that either 7 or 8 is heavy, or 4 is light. So we weigh 7 and 8. If they balance, then B is 4. If 1 2 and 5 are lighter. Then either 1 or 2 is light, or 6 is heavy. We can weigh 1 against 2 to find out which is true. If 1 2 and 5 are heavier, then either 3 is light, or 5 is heavy. We can weigh 3 against any ball other than 5 to find out which is true. A similar argument can be made for the other situations.
From this we see that you can determine the answer in only 3 weighings.
Cost of switching for:
Integrated directory authentication service: cost of wasted wages on Linux admin work + cost of WS2k3
Solution guaranteed to be supported for at least 7 years: cost of wasted wages on Linux admin work + cost of WS2k3
agreed. the one-user limitation makes sense from a licensing standpoint (I won't argue about licensing here). if XP Pro allowed large numbers of concurrent users, wouldn't that make it a Terminal Server?
also, rdp may be old, but it's certainly predated by the X protocol. old doesn't necessarily mean sucky.
> Has a processor, an OS, and memory, but needs a host-pc to run?
wow! that is shitty! almost sounds like the NEC thin clients that everyone (read: Largo, FL) is raving about.
erm... well... this device... "Mira" I believe was the codename. It was intended as just a Remote Desktop thin client. XP Home didn't include a Remote Desktop server. Seems to me that it's only obvious that this device would require Pro.
only 8 years? I guess this would qualify as one of those bugs made shallow by many eyes. just because open source software *can* be examined doesn't mean it *will*.
Actually... the fault *is* the user's. You can turn on password strength enforcement via a local security policy. Crank up "Local Security Settings" under the administrative tools. Then go to Local Security Policies|Password Policy, then enable "Passwords must meet complexity requirements". It'd also be worth cranking up the minimum password length, enabling "Enforce password history", and lowering the Maximum Password Age. The reason it's off by default is because Joe User doesn't understand password complexity requirements.
But then it can't read the registry or the SAM. Therefore, changes to accounts can't occur.
Fortunately for those of us in the know, they'll have to crack your admin account first. By default, you can only boot to an XP Recovery Console if you can supply the administrator password. You can turn this behavior off via a local security policy, if you wish, but I wouldn't suggest it :)
Sounds like we could all use a trip to the plan-i-arium...
Actually, WM9 contains a mathematically lossless encoding scheme. See notes here.
mmmmm.... unexplained petrified rodent... *drool*
you kiddin'?
you need to catch up on your geek lore.
this stuff's been happenin' since the dawn of computing!
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Thank you.
like...
:)
Maybe he can get a U N I V E R S I T Y D I P L O M A for his life experience
You'll be stone dead in a moment!
gnus has been doing this for years... as well as other neat things like mail scoring (similar to news scoring) so that mail you don't want to read gets filtered to the bottom of your list or (if you tell it to) doesn't even show up at all. Similarly, mail that you most want to read (based on past response) gets bubbled up to the top. gnus also supports mail expiry (once again, similar to news) so that old mail gets Handled(TM).
'cause we use spambouncer...
Why not just do subdomains (e.g. web01.joesdeli.domain.com)? Ease of use... ease of maintenance (due to seperated dns entries). Just plain easy :)
that's not really the point, though... the point is that they'll not only have the general consumer complaining, but the retailers will start complaining too.
I disagree. Everyone should go out and buy one, then return with a complaint something like "Uh... this didn't play on my mac...". Record companies will have no choice but to return them up the chain to the distributors.
There seems to be a bit of annoyance in the community pertaining to the closed-source nature of Winamp. I'm not Nullsoft, but I'd wager that if they weren't part of a larger corporation, they would have probably open-sourced Winamp by now. Nullsoft isn't against open-source. Check out [nullsoft.com] to see (the most notable contribution here is their open-source installer software... no more InstallShield!). Don't forget that Gnutella started out as a Nullsoft project. Besides, the past has shown that competition breeds innovation. Has anyone looked at the new media database thingy? It's pretty sharp. Of course, when it all comes down to it, it's Just Another MP3 Player.... *shrug*