I see what you're saying, but we're talking about mass theft here. Not some little guy with a few illegitimate installations. Microsoft is a software business, you can't expect to pirate their wares and expect them to be okay with it.
I agree...a little low-level piracy is one thing but something on this scale is hard to turn a blind eye towards. If this doesn't warrant some sort of response then I don't know what would.
I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft to say the least, but I don't see this as some egregious or unreasonable behavior by them.
No, the next step is to kill Javascript which has now become a cancer that is destroying the Internet.
I'd agree, but sadly, a huge number of sites won't work at all without Javascript. Even sadder, I actually need to use some of those sites.
And when I say "need", I mean "need", they're not optional for me, I have to use them for work or work-related stuff.
To be honest, I like some of the functionality that Javascript provides (ajax, responsive menus, etc) but yeah, it's wormed its way into even the most basic functions of many sites these days- a lot of sites won't even load a page without it.
They also want 25 years of Java experience, 20 years of Ruby/Python experience, plus the ability to transmute water into wine and sheep droppings into tasty chocolate cupcakes.
You probably want them to have a keyboard. All they really need is a keypad with two keys: 0 and 1. If they were really good programmers they could just use a switch like a telegraph operator to input code based on timing. Press down for a 1 and nothing for a 0. The better the programmer the faster they set the timing.
Pfffft. You kids and your "programming languages".
Old-school guys like me used to take a magnetized needle and just tap the spots on the floppy disk where we wanted the ones and zeros. One time we ran out of needles and had to write a program using only zeroes.
Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine - "In this paper I am concerned with instances in which carbon fiber extends performances of masculinity that are attached to particular kinds of hegemonic male bodies. In examining carbon fiber as a prosthetic form of masculinity, I advance three main arguments. Firstly, carbon fiber can be a site of the supersession of disability that is affected through masculinized technology. Disability can be ‘overcome’ through carbon fiber. Disability is often culturally coded as feminine (Pedersen, 2001; Meeuf, 2009; Garland-Thompson 1997). Building on this cultural construction of disability as feminine, in and as a technology of masculine homosociality (Sedgwick, 1985), carbon fiber reproduced disability as feminine when carbon fiber prosthetic lower legs allowed Oscar Pistorius to compete in the non-disabled Olympic games. Secondly, I argue that carbon fiber can be a homosocial surface; that is, carbon fiber becomes both a surface extension of the self and a third party mediator in homosocial relationships, a surface that facilitates intimacy between men in ways that devalue femininity in both male and female bodies. I examine surfaces as material extensions of subjectivity, and carbon fiber surfaces as vectors of the cultural economies of masculine competition to which I refer. Thirdly, the case of Oscar Pistorius is exemplary of the masculinization of carbon fire, and the associated binding of a psychic attitude of misogyny and power to a form of violent and competitive masculine subjectivity.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw up my lunch.
... New exam rule: no wearing of wristwatches, of any kind, while taking an exam. You want to know the time left? See this big clock on the wall. This solution seems too obvious. Am I missing something?
Bingo. This isn't a hard problem to solve.
All watches, smartphones, MP3 players, everything electronic goes in a bag with the student's name on it, returned after the exam. All students to be watched carefully during the exam. Video record the room and do a scan afterwards for anything that looks odd, then take appropriate action.
On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 represents 'I never used it at all', and 5 represents 'I used it all the time': How often did you use the 'Tab Groups' feature in Firefox?
For me, it's a "5". I use it all the time and find it indispensable.
Instead of opening 5 tabs one by one, I group 'em and click "Open all n tabs". For me it's an extremely useful feature. I have about a dozen tab groups that I use all the time, every single day. The feature works perfectly for me, I had no idea it was considered "buggy".
Thanks, Mozilla, you really know how to fuck shit up.
Never, ever going to happen. It's been a decade and a half since the Internet took off and web apps are still "write once, suck anywhere" thanks to the limitations of HTML and the differences between allegedly standards-compliant browsers.
Bullshit. The vast, vast majority of web applications work perfectly well under any modern browser.
I suspect parent was thinking about a "Microsoft Linux" as a client OS. What regular folks run on their desktops & laptops.
Exactly.
I can see an MS-branded version of Linux. For MS it would just be another revenue stream. Microsoft lets everyone else (the open source community) do the heavy lifting of developing it for 20 years and then they swoop in, slap a Microsoft sticker on it and sell it to the masses.
Many, many, many games and ideas are scrapped before they become complete products. Obviously the game was not progressing like it should along with failures in the past so they shut it down. It takes about 5 years to bring a good MMO to market and they were still 1-2 years out.
No, I understand that....but still, it seems like a huge waste. Either commit to something or don't. I know the "sunk cost"fallacy is a huge problem but nonetheless, game development isn't some new, untried process. Either they're not doing it right or they have no idea how to do it at all. It's not like this is magic or some unknown quantity. I understand there are a *lot* of variables in play as well as unforeseen circumstances, but it just seems as though the failure rate is unreasonably high for this kind of thing.
Ten years ago the company I work for wouldn't even entertain the idea of supporting and using Apple products and though I see more and more of them every day it appears even less likely today that we would move away from Microsoft anytime soon.
I think the MS "lock in" effect is fairly common because a lot of companies have mission-critical applications that only run under Windows, or they have applications that have Linux or Apple equivalents, but that would be painful or expensive to move over to.
For example, I'm sure Linux has some capable employee management applications, but transitioning from a Windows application to a Linux analogue might be difficult and time-consuming (and possibly expensive as well). It's a kind of "native lock in" that's hard to break away from. It's not that alternatives aren't available, but moving to them is usually seen as more trouble than it's worth (and that notion is probably justified, too).
As more of these kinds of applications move to the web, however, (HR, employee management, process control) I think we'll see more companies adopt Linux, because a web page works the same under any OS as long as it's written properly.
I'd bet you could sit most average users down and have them use Linux Mint or Ubuntu with hardly a hiccup as long as they were shown what to click on to open whatever it is they need to use to get their job done. If it's a web app then it's basically click-and-go, no need to retrain anyone. It's desktop apps that are the sticking point, but I suspect that may not be the case for much longer.
and the only thing using the microsoft cloud is the colocational datacenter racks that hold it up.
Of everything you wrote, this is the only point I'd differ on. The Azure cloud stuff has actually been pretty successful, to the point where they can barely meet demand. (Personally I don't see why, because AWS seems to be a better platform in nearly every way.)
So Azure has actually been a money-maker so far, but other than that everything you said was spot-on.
How much money has Microsoft pissed away doing stuff like this?
When you count up all the failures and the aborted projects and half-baked shit they've abandoned, it's incredible that this company is still above water.
For example, how many tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours of work did they lose just by crashing the Fable Legends project? It's mind boggling to me.
Okay, this may be a foolish question, but if you encrypted something and then encrypted it again (with a different key) how would you know when you had gotten through the first layer of encryption? How would you know that you'd successfully decrypted the first layer?
The first set of decrypted info would still presumably look like encrypted data (or random shit), so how would you know that it had actually been decrypted?
Ebola is "bad". Nuclear war is "bad". Sliding down a razor-blade banister into a pool of iodine is "bad". Being shot out of a cannon into a barbed-wire fence factory is "bad".
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I see what you're saying, but we're talking about mass theft here. Not some little guy with a few illegitimate installations. Microsoft is a software business, you can't expect to pirate their wares and expect them to be okay with it.
I agree...a little low-level piracy is one thing but something on this scale is hard to turn a blind eye towards. If this doesn't warrant some sort of response then I don't know what would.
I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft to say the least, but I don't see this as some egregious or unreasonable behavior by them.
This is a terrorism case, so the FBI and the NSA are supposed to cooperate.
These days it's hard to tell where one stops and the other begins...the phrase "functional overlap" comes to mind.
No, the next step is to kill Javascript which has now become a cancer that is destroying the Internet.
I'd agree, but sadly, a huge number of sites won't work at all without Javascript. Even sadder, I actually need to use some of those sites.
And when I say "need", I mean "need", they're not optional for me, I have to use them for work or work-related stuff.
To be honest, I like some of the functionality that Javascript provides (ajax, responsive menus, etc) but yeah, it's wormed its way into even the most basic functions of many sites these days- a lot of sites won't even load a page without it.
I have another way to speed up page load times- just install an ad blocker. Seeing a 50% speedup after doing that is not uncommon.
They also want 25 years of Java experience, 20 years of Ruby/Python experience, plus the ability to transmute water into wine and sheep droppings into tasty chocolate cupcakes.
You probably want them to have a keyboard. All they really need is a keypad with two keys: 0 and 1. If they were really good programmers they could just use a switch like a telegraph operator to input code based on timing. Press down for a 1 and nothing for a 0. The better the programmer the faster they set the timing.
Pfffft. You kids and your "programming languages".
Old-school guys like me used to take a magnetized needle and just tap the spots on the floppy disk where we wanted the ones and zeros. One time we ran out of needles and had to write a program using only zeroes.
Is this an ad? Because it sure reads like an ad.
"...A feminist glaciology framework..."
Read no further, it's utter bullshit. More SJW horsecrap being thrown out there in an attempt to gain some measure of relevancy.
It's as bad as "Carbon fiber masculinity: Disability and surfaces of homosociality", which, believe it or not, is apparently a real paper. Here's an excerpt from the abstract:
Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine - "In this paper I am concerned with instances in which carbon fiber extends performances of masculinity that are attached to particular kinds of hegemonic male bodies. In examining carbon fiber as a prosthetic form of masculinity, I advance three main arguments. Firstly, carbon fiber can be a site of the supersession of disability that is affected through masculinized technology. Disability can be ‘overcome’ through carbon fiber. Disability is often culturally coded as feminine (Pedersen, 2001; Meeuf, 2009; Garland-Thompson 1997). Building on this cultural construction of disability as feminine, in and as a technology of masculine homosociality (Sedgwick, 1985), carbon fiber reproduced disability as feminine when carbon fiber prosthetic lower legs allowed Oscar Pistorius to compete in the non-disabled Olympic games. Secondly, I argue that carbon fiber can be a homosocial surface; that is, carbon fiber becomes both a surface extension of the self and a third party mediator in homosocial relationships, a surface that facilitates intimacy between men in ways that devalue femininity in both male and female bodies. I examine surfaces as material extensions of subjectivity, and carbon fiber surfaces as vectors of the cultural economies of masculine competition to which I refer. Thirdly, the case of Oscar Pistorius is exemplary of the masculinization of carbon fire, and the associated binding of a psychic attitude of misogyny and power to a form of violent and competitive masculine subjectivity.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw up my lunch.
... New exam rule: no wearing of wristwatches, of any kind, while taking an exam. You want to know the time left? See this big clock on the wall. This solution seems too obvious. Am I missing something?
Bingo. This isn't a hard problem to solve.
All watches, smartphones, MP3 players, everything electronic goes in a bag with the student's name on it, returned after the exam. All students to be watched carefully during the exam. Video record the room and do a scan afterwards for anything that looks odd, then take appropriate action.
Hell, I haven't had Java installed in years, maybe a decade.
It was of limited use and screwed up other stuff, and it made my PC slow to a crawl.
On a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 represents 'I never used it at all', and 5 represents 'I used it all the time': How often did you use the 'Tab Groups' feature in Firefox?
For me, it's a "5". I use it all the time and find it indispensable.
Instead of opening 5 tabs one by one, I group 'em and click "Open all n tabs". For me it's an extremely useful feature. I have about a dozen tab groups that I use all the time, every single day. The feature works perfectly for me, I had no idea it was considered "buggy".
Thanks, Mozilla, you really know how to fuck shit up.
Remove an extremely useful feature rather than fix it? What the fuck is wrong with you ninnies??
Firefox is officially jumping the shark.
"Herr derr, we're too dumb to fix our own shit, let's just yank it out and pretend no one ever used it, herr derr"
Never, ever going to happen. It's been a decade and a half since the Internet took off and web apps are still "write once, suck anywhere" thanks to the limitations of HTML and the differences between allegedly standards-compliant browsers.
Bullshit. The vast, vast majority of web applications work perfectly well under any modern browser.
Ever heard of Facebook? SalesForce.com? Twitter? Pinterest? Instagram? Wikipedia? Amazon? YouTube? Google? Linkedin? Ebay?
They all work just fine with any browser that isn't 100 years old. Stop with the bullshit FUD.
I suspect parent was thinking about a "Microsoft Linux" as a client OS. What regular folks run on their desktops & laptops.
Exactly.
I can see an MS-branded version of Linux. For MS it would just be another revenue stream. Microsoft lets everyone else (the open source community) do the heavy lifting of developing it for 20 years and then they swoop in, slap a Microsoft sticker on it and sell it to the masses.
How long before we see a version of "Microsoft Linux"?
You laugh now, but I can see them glomming onto Linux, especially as more businesses and desktop move over to Linux.
And yes, of course it will have subtle incompatibilities that grow more and more pronounced over time. That's what it's all about with Microsoft.
"MS Linux- Because We Care" or maybe, MS Linux- The Most Stable OS We've Ever Produced!*
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* and by "produced", we mean "stolen"
Many, many, many games and ideas are scrapped before they become complete products. Obviously the game was not progressing like it should along with failures in the past so they shut it down. It takes about 5 years to bring a good MMO to market and they were still 1-2 years out.
No, I understand that....but still, it seems like a huge waste. Either commit to something or don't. I know the "sunk cost"fallacy is a huge problem but nonetheless, game development isn't some new, untried process. Either they're not doing it right or they have no idea how to do it at all. It's not like this is magic or some unknown quantity. I understand there are a *lot* of variables in play as well as unforeseen circumstances, but it just seems as though the failure rate is unreasonably high for this kind of thing.
A Facebook security problem? I can hardly believe that, seeing as how it's never happened before. *cough*
Ten years ago the company I work for wouldn't even entertain the idea of supporting and using Apple products and though I see more and more of them every day it appears even less likely today that we would move away from Microsoft anytime soon.
I think the MS "lock in" effect is fairly common because a lot of companies have mission-critical applications that only run under Windows, or they have applications that have Linux or Apple equivalents, but that would be painful or expensive to move over to.
For example, I'm sure Linux has some capable employee management applications, but transitioning from a Windows application to a Linux analogue might be difficult and time-consuming (and possibly expensive as well). It's a kind of "native lock in" that's hard to break away from. It's not that alternatives aren't available, but moving to them is usually seen as more trouble than it's worth (and that notion is probably justified, too).
As more of these kinds of applications move to the web, however, (HR, employee management, process control) I think we'll see more companies adopt Linux, because a web page works the same under any OS as long as it's written properly.
I'd bet you could sit most average users down and have them use Linux Mint or Ubuntu with hardly a hiccup as long as they were shown what to click on to open whatever it is they need to use to get their job done. If it's a web app then it's basically click-and-go, no need to retrain anyone. It's desktop apps that are the sticking point, but I suspect that may not be the case for much longer.
and the only thing using the microsoft cloud is the colocational datacenter racks that hold it up.
Of everything you wrote, this is the only point I'd differ on. The Azure cloud stuff has actually been pretty successful, to the point where they can barely meet demand. (Personally I don't see why, because AWS seems to be a better platform in nearly every way.)
So Azure has actually been a money-maker so far, but other than that everything you said was spot-on.
How much money has Microsoft pissed away doing stuff like this?
When you count up all the failures and the aborted projects and half-baked shit they've abandoned, it's incredible that this company is still above water.
For example, how many tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours of work did they lose just by crashing the Fable Legends project? It's mind boggling to me.
Okay, this may be a foolish question, but if you encrypted something and then encrypted it again (with a different key) how would you know when you had gotten through the first layer of encryption? How would you know that you'd successfully decrypted the first layer?
The first set of decrypted info would still presumably look like encrypted data (or random shit), so how would you know that it had actually been decrypted?
TLDR: ted cruz is bad.
No.
Ebola is "bad".
Nuclear war is "bad".
Sliding down a razor-blade banister into a pool of iodine is "bad".
Being shot out of a cannon into a barbed-wire fence factory is "bad".
Ted Cruz is far worse than any of those things.
Because he's a fuckin' scumbag, that's why. As bad as it is, his smile is the least of his worries.
He's aggressive, aloof, arrogant, belligerent, big-headed, bitchy, boastful, bone-idle, boring, bossy, callous, cantankerous, careless, changeable, clinging, compulsive, conservative, cowardly, cruel, cunning, cynical, deceitful, detached, dishonest, dogmatic, domineering, finicky, flirtatious, foolish, foolhardy, fussy, greedy, grumpy, gullible, harsh , impatient, impolite, impulsive, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indecisive, indiscreet, inflexible, interfering, intolerant, irresponsible, jealous, lazy, Machiavellian, materialistic, mean, miserly, moody, narrow-minded, nasty, naughty, nervous, obsessive, obstinate, overcritical, overemotional, parsimonious, patronizing, perverse, pessimistic, pompous, possessive, pusillanimous, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, resentful, rude, ruthless, sarcastic, secretive, selfish, self-centred, self-indulgent, silly, sneaky, stingy, stubborn, stupid, superficial, tactless, timid, touchy, thoughtless, truculent, unkind, unpredictable, unreliable, untidy, untrustworthy, vague, vain, vengeful, and vulgar.
And those are his good qualities.
The recently-released cumulative update for Windows 10 (KB3140743) is reportedly causing problems.
No way, I simply cannot believe such a thing. That's unpossible!
"Our CRM system suffered a data loss, and it looks like we were too fucking stupid to have a recent backup."