Parents are asked to buy books for their kids that are used once and then sold back for much less than what they bought it for. So I don't see what the big deal is in asking parents to purchase software that will last them several years that costs about the same as a single college textbook (if they get it discounted, as the article mentions). Asking parents to fork out $500 is unreasonable, but asking them to fork out $80 is not.
Speaking from experience, earlier versions of Office used to be just about as unreliable as OpenOffice. I, too, used to use OpenOffice, but mostly because it could export to PDF. Office 2007, however, is much much more reliable and I have never lost my work. OpenOffice still has issues with data loss.
Also, kids don't know that they have to save to Office 2007 format from OpenOffice. They'll save in the default OpenOffice format, and get yelled at by their instructors for not having the right version. They'll also get yelled at because of formatting issues. Whenever I converted between OpenOffice and Office 2003 I always had to edit my paper.
So, if MS is accountable for underage people buying their software from stores they don't control, then does Jack Thompson think individual alcoholic drink prodcers should be responsible for preventing underage people from buying their products too? What can they do but trust retailers to do the right thing? This kind of rampant suing is ridiculous.
I'm running Vista on a laptop with 1GB of RAM and a 1.6GHz duo processor. I'm also running the beta on a 2.6GHz hyperthreaded machine with 1GB of RAM. Neither of them have performance issues. 4GB might be nice, but I have been playing World of Warcraft on my laptop since beta with no problems.
I'm curious about your design of the "find" window. What considerations did you have for the ease of use?
How do you think it compares to having the "find" window built into the browser window (like Firefox). Did you find that users were not be able to locate the "find" text box?
Adding an option for having the "find" window as part of the browser window (internet only, as opposed to the Windows explorer) might be a nice feature. This enables multiple windows or tabs to have their own search, and users can have many searches going on at the same time.
Beside finding other planets, over time the human race is going to have to change its ability to live with itself. It needs to mature. Currently we are so caught up with our own lives that there are people so poor that they die from starvation. Small groups of people hold power and money. If we would spread it around, we could raise the quality of living for the general population of earth. However, that is extremely idealistic, and will probably never happen.
I think that the way things are going, we'll be able to survive the next 100 years, as long as no one jumps the gun on setting off bombs and other weapons. The human race has an extraordinary ability to adapt, and evolution is inevitable. If countries get too crowded, plague or disease will remove the excess people. However, evolution is a relatively weak natural progression fighting against a strong unnatural force of weapons. It might take a thousand years for us to weed out a flaw in our genetics, but we can all be blown up within a matter of seconds.
The human race doesn't seem to realize how much it tends to bring the torch of destruction close to the oiled wick of death. If we can teach people to put out the flame, then we will not only survive the next hundred years, but we will excel at them.
You'll notice that they CARE about the people who use their product. People might give Office crap about how they keep pushing products back, but they only do it so you get the best product. Do you complain when Blizzard does it?
You do?
Well, you shouldn't:-P. It's worth it to wait.
Why would they block a search engine? Just because people liked using Google over MSN, doesn't mean they will block it. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, since it would reduce productivity until (if) they can improve MSN search.
Also, the images were made to be recognized by military gurus from a very high distance above the field. They don't need to look realistic as long as they look similar to what they are used to, and they are recognized from a long distance away.
There are patent lawsuits going on all the time. Microsoft gets picked on frequently because they are the giant of today's software industry. They've also been around for over 30 years. It's interesting how everyone tries to take a chunk of a company that makes money and is very public, while hardly noticing those companies that are very small. It is possible that people actually try to find ways to step on the toes of large corporations like Microsoft when it comes to patents, so that they can go to court and win money. I'm not saying whether or not Microsoft violated a patent here, but just because someone went to court with them doesn't mean they actually did it. If it was Linux, most of the comments here would be about how Linux did nothing wrong simply because the opinions of them in this population tend to be more positive. I think we need to sit back and look at this situation more objectively. It is easy in the corporate world to patent something almost identical to someone else. In fact, it is getting very difficult to determine differences in software. It is possible teams in the companies came up with the same idea on their own, and now it is up to them to prove it.
"Those StraLites can do this, their only 140000ft high, maybe too far, but just boost the signal perhaps, at least to augment more signal space perhaps.
Might be a bit high for laptops to send to."
Oh, but I enjoy climbing 140,000 ft-tall towers to connect to the internet! It's what all the cool people are doing:)
Part of the lack of access is due to the fact that people live in areas that have no existing wiring, which is expensive to install. They don't want to install one wire to one house in a whole neighborhood or small town, unless they can guarantee more clients. If there was a fast, reliable, wireless internet connection, those places could get access.
All popular technology tends to start out proprietary and expensive. Remember when blank DVDs were too expensive for the common person to buy? Now they're a dollar or so apiece! Maybe this technology will catch on too... I guess time and society will tell.
No more trying to angle my laptop in weird directions just to get a single bar of signal in class!
I wonder if they're going to charge as much for this new service as Cable internet. Wireless makes a lot of sense; we wouldn't have to string cables throughout houses or apartments.
Wireless today can be tricky since passing through zones can cause flakey connections. If the zone is as large as a city... well that problem isn't so bad. In fact, it would be awesome if there could be nationwide coverage, and we could use wireless on our laptops in our cars!
I think this crosses the line. Here we are telling kids that the games are not real life, and then the military comes in and says "hey you can kill people in a game, and then kill them in real life!!" Someone's probably going to build one of a school or US building and then think it's ok to go shoot people there. I'm not saying all people are unintelligent, but there are some people out there who will take this game the wrong way.
UML is nice for modeling most aspects of a piece of software. It shows relationships between objects. UML mostly works best, in my opinion, with larger pieces of software.
I think it would be nice to come up with another modeling technique so there would be more selection, but UML itself isn't all that bad.
First of all, WMP isn't that bad! Real Player is much worse! WMP doesn't flood your screen with spam. I like having it there because if I don't have another program installed, it's there to play my files. Next thing you know, they'll want a stripped down OS and you'll have to choose from a hundred different boxes because of cases like this. I think it would be better to have an option when you're installing (Like Linux!).
Second of all, what's with the huge lawsuit? Is suing Microsoft for that much really going to do any good, or is it just going to give the EU money? It's one thing to force the company to change something to comply with law or whatever, because they should... but fining them seems to be just an attempt to get more money.
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So, if Kazaa loses this... do you really think the music industry is going to get more CD buyers? Probably not.
It seems to me that the reason most people even download music from Kazaa is because they want to see what other music is on a CD before they buy it. At least there are a few more alternatives now such as Apple's iTunes or some other internet sites. Maybe if the rest of the music industry would wake up and smell the modern age, there wouldn't have to be things like Kazaa to cause them to panic.
Why use this device? I have one built into my head. Oh wait, weren't you all assimilated too? In that case...
In reality, I think this is an *interesting* concept, however unless you're watching the teletubbies you're not going to fit much on the screen. I bet with current technology though if they made the screen bigger the picture would have crappy quality.
I played this game, and though I found it interesting, my mentor didn't help much after the first day and I lost interest when no one wanted to talk. Part of the MMORPG is supposed to be the interaction with other people, it's almost like playing the game alone... with AI generated in the background talking about supplies and updating locations of various people.
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Parents are asked to buy books for their kids that are used once and then sold back for much less than what they bought it for. So I don't see what the big deal is in asking parents to purchase software that will last them several years that costs about the same as a single college textbook (if they get it discounted, as the article mentions). Asking parents to fork out $500 is unreasonable, but asking them to fork out $80 is not.
Speaking from experience, earlier versions of Office used to be just about as unreliable as OpenOffice. I, too, used to use OpenOffice, but mostly because it could export to PDF. Office 2007, however, is much much more reliable and I have never lost my work. OpenOffice still has issues with data loss.
Also, kids don't know that they have to save to Office 2007 format from OpenOffice. They'll save in the default OpenOffice format, and get yelled at by their instructors for not having the right version. They'll also get yelled at because of formatting issues. Whenever I converted between OpenOffice and Office 2003 I always had to edit my paper.
So, if MS is accountable for underage people buying their software from stores they don't control, then does Jack Thompson think individual alcoholic drink prodcers should be responsible for preventing underage people from buying their products too? What can they do but trust retailers to do the right thing? This kind of rampant suing is ridiculous.
I'm running Vista on a laptop with 1GB of RAM and a 1.6GHz duo processor. I'm also running the beta on a 2.6GHz hyperthreaded machine with 1GB of RAM. Neither of them have performance issues. 4GB might be nice, but I have been playing World of Warcraft on my laptop since beta with no problems.
I'm curious about your design of the "find" window. What considerations did you have for the ease of use? How do you think it compares to having the "find" window built into the browser window (like Firefox). Did you find that users were not be able to locate the "find" text box? Adding an option for having the "find" window as part of the browser window (internet only, as opposed to the Windows explorer) might be a nice feature. This enables multiple windows or tabs to have their own search, and users can have many searches going on at the same time.
Microsoft is doing something nice?? *gasp*! Let's not be happy no matter what they do! ;)
Beside finding other planets, over time the human race is going to have to change its ability to live with itself. It needs to mature. Currently we are so caught up with our own lives that there are people so poor that they die from starvation. Small groups of people hold power and money. If we would spread it around, we could raise the quality of living for the general population of earth. However, that is extremely idealistic, and will probably never happen. I think that the way things are going, we'll be able to survive the next 100 years, as long as no one jumps the gun on setting off bombs and other weapons. The human race has an extraordinary ability to adapt, and evolution is inevitable. If countries get too crowded, plague or disease will remove the excess people. However, evolution is a relatively weak natural progression fighting against a strong unnatural force of weapons. It might take a thousand years for us to weed out a flaw in our genetics, but we can all be blown up within a matter of seconds. The human race doesn't seem to realize how much it tends to bring the torch of destruction close to the oiled wick of death. If we can teach people to put out the flame, then we will not only survive the next hundred years, but we will excel at them.
You'll notice that they CARE about the people who use their product. People might give Office crap about how they keep pushing products back, but they only do it so you get the best product. Do you complain when Blizzard does it? :-P. It's worth it to wait.
You do?
Well, you shouldn't
It's about time! I love Futurama but you can only watch that show so many hundreds of times.
Why would they block a search engine? Just because people liked using Google over MSN, doesn't mean they will block it. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot, since it would reduce productivity until (if) they can improve MSN search.
This is a sad day for me. My salute to a great mind: *salute*.
Actually, they do test it with various rights.
Also, the images were made to be recognized by military gurus from a very high distance above the field. They don't need to look realistic as long as they look similar to what they are used to, and they are recognized from a long distance away.
There are patent lawsuits going on all the time. Microsoft gets picked on frequently because they are the giant of today's software industry. They've also been around for over 30 years. It's interesting how everyone tries to take a chunk of a company that makes money and is very public, while hardly noticing those companies that are very small. It is possible that people actually try to find ways to step on the toes of large corporations like Microsoft when it comes to patents, so that they can go to court and win money. I'm not saying whether or not Microsoft violated a patent here, but just because someone went to court with them doesn't mean they actually did it. If it was Linux, most of the comments here would be about how Linux did nothing wrong simply because the opinions of them in this population tend to be more positive. I think we need to sit back and look at this situation more objectively. It is easy in the corporate world to patent something almost identical to someone else. In fact, it is getting very difficult to determine differences in software. It is possible teams in the companies came up with the same idea on their own, and now it is up to them to prove it.
"Those StraLites can do this, their only 140000ft high, maybe too far, but just boost the signal perhaps, at least to augment more signal space perhaps. Might be a bit high for laptops to send to." Oh, but I enjoy climbing 140,000 ft-tall towers to connect to the internet! It's what all the cool people are doing :)
All popular technology tends to start out proprietary and expensive. Remember when blank DVDs were too expensive for the common person to buy? Now they're a dollar or so apiece! Maybe this technology will catch on too... I guess time and society will tell.
No more trying to angle my laptop in weird directions just to get a single bar of signal in class! I wonder if they're going to charge as much for this new service as Cable internet. Wireless makes a lot of sense; we wouldn't have to string cables throughout houses or apartments. Wireless today can be tricky since passing through zones can cause flakey connections. If the zone is as large as a city... well that problem isn't so bad. In fact, it would be awesome if there could be nationwide coverage, and we could use wireless on our laptops in our cars!
This article is titled "Intel And Others Push CE-ATA Interface" http://news.designtechnica.com/article5316.html
I think this crosses the line. Here we are telling kids that the games are not real life, and then the military comes in and says "hey you can kill people in a game, and then kill them in real life!!" Someone's probably going to build one of a school or US building and then think it's ok to go shoot people there. I'm not saying all people are unintelligent, but there are some people out there who will take this game the wrong way.
UML is nice for modeling most aspects of a piece of software. It shows relationships between objects. UML mostly works best, in my opinion, with larger pieces of software. I think it would be nice to come up with another modeling technique so there would be more selection, but UML itself isn't all that bad.
First of all, WMP isn't that bad! Real Player is much worse! WMP doesn't flood your screen with spam. I like having it there because if I don't have another program installed, it's there to play my files. Next thing you know, they'll want a stripped down OS and you'll have to choose from a hundred different boxes because of cases like this. I think it would be better to have an option when you're installing (Like Linux!). Second of all, what's with the huge lawsuit? Is suing Microsoft for that much really going to do any good, or is it just going to give the EU money? It's one thing to force the company to change something to comply with law or whatever, because they should... but fining them seems to be just an attempt to get more money.
So, if Kazaa loses this... do you really think the music industry is going to get more CD buyers? Probably not. It seems to me that the reason most people even download music from Kazaa is because they want to see what other music is on a CD before they buy it. At least there are a few more alternatives now such as Apple's iTunes or some other internet sites. Maybe if the rest of the music industry would wake up and smell the modern age, there wouldn't have to be things like Kazaa to cause them to panic.
Why use this device? I have one built into my head. Oh wait, weren't you all assimilated too? In that case... In reality, I think this is an *interesting* concept, however unless you're watching the teletubbies you're not going to fit much on the screen. I bet with current technology though if they made the screen bigger the picture would have crappy quality.
*takes out her bazooka and aims it*
I played this game, and though I found it interesting, my mentor didn't help much after the first day and I lost interest when no one wanted to talk. Part of the MMORPG is supposed to be the interaction with other people, it's almost like playing the game alone... with AI generated in the background talking about supplies and updating locations of various people.
>:-O