If MS is doing this deliberatly is it really going to be effective.
The average person currently will not be using opera, they will use IE or Netscape. The people using Opera are using it for a specific reason, they don't like IE or Netscape etc.., I would also assume they are fairly technically advanced.
I can only assume that if this was on purpose it was to make more people use IE, while that may be the result is it going to actually benefit MS by having this? If I'm a pissed of Opera user who "must" use IE/Netscape to view the microsoft website that will just make me more unhappy with them, it's not going to make me like IE anymore and I sure as hell wouldn't recommened IE to others without at least making this point to them.
It's been stated many times that the only reason these taxes have been absent is that they were too hard to implement/figure out. I really don't see why, but it's been the consencous that there is no legal reason they shouldn't be in place.
Instead of trying to hassle with whether we apply taxes for the state the purchaser is in or taxes for the state the purchasee is in, or taxes the warehouse the items are sent from is in, or any of that, why don't we just have a flat tax of say 5%. It's not perfect and it may hurt a state that has a high tax rate and help one with a low one, but it cuts all the crap out.
I've got mod points and I'm wondering why there isn't a "That's just sad" mod.
I really wish they would have at least left the Wesley stuff in the DVD. I mean they went far enough to tape it. Hell just put another DVD in and show me a lot of cut scenes and out takes.
I just wish they had made this movie for the fans not the general audience.
I mean they find android parts and not once are they worried it's Lore. bleh.
I actually heard a radio ad for the BSA outside of Boston today, rather odd.
Basically it was to upper level people in a medium business talking about an BSA announcement and not knowing if they were in compliance, and then the senior person telling the other person to make it his top priority cause it would suck to tell the investors that they made a profit then had to pay it all in fines to the BSA or whomever.
The Charles River at least has been significantly cleaned up in the past several years. It's even safe to drink they say, though I'm not going to any time soon.
I used to be a student admin for Clemson's College of Engr. and Science. We had several CAD tools that the Engr. students would use. There was this one tool that you could specify a duration the simulation was supposed to last, otherwise if the field was blank it would run forever. Besides that little bit of badness the field was blank by default, so many an unsuspecting student would run their simulations and they would run forever creating these huge output files, which the students also didn't know about.
The killer here, is that if you quit the program the wrong way ( something like Close instead of Quit ) the program would keep going, even after the student would log out.
So now you have N students who are all generating infinite files. However, the files would hit the 2GB limit and stop eating up space. ( Thank You )
The only other nasty ness of this is that once we found the file, if you simply removed it, the program (still running after log out) is just able to finally add more data. So you had to track down where the program was runnging and kill it first.
I was in charge of backups, and man of man was this annoying for them.
I think people are missing a big point, very very few companies are Homogeneous in the technology they use.
I work for Lincoln Laboratory and almost every project we do is for the DoD and is paid for by the federal government. The lab is broken into divisions then groups. My group not only uses windows and employs 2 Windows tech support people, but we also have our own solaris network that is bigger than the windows one and 1.5 full time admins.
My group is not alone, many others are similar in the group.
Just because a company uses Windows, doesn't mean they are devoid of *nix, and vice versa.
Tim also said, "We're right across the street from Microsoft. We sell a lot of stuff to Microsoft people. There's a lot of Linux running at Microsoft. A lot of Microsoft developers prefer to work with Linux."
Not to take away from anything that was said but they are not across from the main Microsoft campus, but rather between the smaller satellite and the main campus. This gives them less MS visibility though, than being across the street.
Doesn't Ultimate TV already do this, the multi channel that is. Get 2 and I'm sure you're still cheaper then 4 computers, though if you need to tape more than 2 channels I think you should really watch less tv
"The logic for open-source is so compelling that after a year of debates we decided to stop talking and declare government an open-source zone," says Moseki.
If it was so compelling why did it take a year of debates? Why did the debates not come across this compelling solution, and have to stop, not decide, and just choose one?
Maybe the person was misquoted but it sounds a bit illogical.
Isn't Snood just a rip off of Bust a Move? I heard of Bust a Move long before Snood. Or is this one of those occassions where Bust a Move is the rip off and happens to be more well known.
Oh sorry guys, we didn't mean to infect the p2p networks, really. It turns out that one of the people responsible for manning our monitoring systems accidently infected the monitoring system with a virus which then found it's way into the p2p network. We're really sorry we know absolutely nothing about technology, oh and please go pay $18 for a cd instead of getting them off of a p2p network, it would really suck if you accidently got a virus because you used p2p.
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If you try enough "different" things you'll eventually come upon one that works, or you'll die.:p
99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
Are there 99 not-for-the-masses widely distro'd linux's yet?
Yes, you have a good point. Guys are more open to going into CS/IT because of the money factor, where I think women make their choices for more logical reasons, like actually wanting too.:)
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I think part of the problem is that male geeks tend to have a bit of a superiority complex as a generalization, and that same is not true for female engineers, so they tend to feel like they are not as good as the guys simply because all the guys make them feel as such. It's not really inviting
I would say that the environment is not one to be condusive to a female. Let alone the hormone factor.
I think that much like females outperforming males in elementary school they also do so in engineering programs. I knew a few Engineers at school that could kick any guys but in what they did.
My big thing is with how much time commitment a "Virtual World" type game requires. I have never played any type of online static VW game, just things like Battle.net.
My main reason for this is that it seems like the commitment is too great. It seems like one I play I have to keep playing everyday or else my previous effort isn't really useful, like I have to live a second life almost to make anything useful/fun out of the MMOG.
I am currently playing Animal Crossing on the GCN, and while this game is ultimately experienced best if you play a little each day or for an hour or two on the weekends, Or both in my casse, I could stop playing for a while and nothing would go wrong or bad, I would be able to pick right back up. The same goes for the non MMOG Sims. From outside of MMOG it seems like I couldn't do this with those.
Am I off base with my impressions of MMOG? Are there any that exhibit play whenever you want/can better than others without degrading the experience?
Last time I checked, MS offered very very very little that you could install linux on. Afaik the XBox is the only thing that's been hacked to run linux, maybe their PDA to?
So I don't see how this would actually work.
"Hi RedHat, I bought a Microsoft gamepad, would you install linux on it please?"
I think that instead of making people display such accredidation it should be optional. BUT, there should also be some central form/way of distinguishing an accredited IT person from another. If you do this and make it known to those who will make use of their services then it is in the IT persons best interest to get and display their accredidation.
I think this should apply to software engineers as well as system maintenance people.
The biggest problem being that there is little centralization and validation of such accrediation, at least for software.
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If MS is doing this deliberatly is it really going to be effective.
The average person currently will not be using opera, they will use IE or Netscape. The people using Opera are using it for a specific reason, they don't like IE or Netscape etc.., I would also assume they are fairly technically advanced.
I can only assume that if this was on purpose it was to make more people use IE, while that may be the result is it going to actually benefit MS by having this? If I'm a pissed of Opera user who "must" use IE/Netscape to view the microsoft website that will just make me more unhappy with them, it's not going to make me like IE anymore and I sure as hell wouldn't recommened IE to others without at least making this point to them.
I am not an Opera user BTW, I use IE.
It's been stated many times that the only reason these taxes have been absent is that they were too hard to implement/figure out. I really don't see why, but it's been the consencous that there is no legal reason they shouldn't be in place.
Instead of trying to hassle with whether we apply taxes for the state the purchaser is in or taxes for the state the purchasee is in, or taxes the warehouse the items are sent from is in, or any of that, why don't we just have a flat tax of say 5%. It's not perfect and it may hurt a state that has a high tax rate and help one with a low one, but it cuts all the crap out.
I've got mod points and I'm wondering why there isn't a "That's just sad" mod.
I really wish they would have at least left the Wesley stuff in the DVD. I mean they went far enough to tape it. Hell just put another DVD in and show me a lot of cut scenes and out takes.
I just wish they had made this movie for the fans not the general audience.
I mean they find android parts and not once are they worried it's Lore. bleh.
I actually heard a radio ad for the BSA outside of Boston today, rather odd.
Basically it was to upper level people in a medium business talking about an BSA announcement and not knowing if they were in compliance, and then the senior person telling the other person to make it his top priority cause it would suck to tell the investors that they made a profit then had to pay it all in fines to the BSA or whomever.
The Charles River at least has been significantly cleaned up in the past several years. It's even safe to drink they say, though I'm not going to any time soon.
I used to be a student admin for Clemson's College of Engr. and Science. We had several CAD tools that the Engr. students would use. There was this one tool that you could specify a duration the simulation was supposed to last, otherwise if the field was blank it would run forever. Besides that little bit of badness the field was blank by default, so many an unsuspecting student would run their simulations and they would run forever creating these huge output files, which the students also didn't know about.
The killer here, is that if you quit the program the wrong way ( something like Close instead of Quit ) the program would keep going, even after the student would log out.
So now you have N students who are all generating infinite files. However, the files would hit the 2GB limit and stop eating up space. ( Thank You )
The only other nasty ness of this is that once we found the file, if you simply removed it, the program (still running after log out) is just able to finally add more data. So you had to track down where the program was runnging and kill it first.
I was in charge of backups, and man of man was this annoying for them.
I think people are missing a big point, very very few companies are Homogeneous in the technology they use.
I work for Lincoln Laboratory and almost every project we do is for the DoD and is paid for by the federal government. The lab is broken into divisions then groups. My group not only uses windows and employs 2 Windows tech support people, but we also have our own solaris network that is bigger than the windows one and 1.5 full time admins.
My group is not alone, many others are similar in the group.
Just because a company uses Windows, doesn't mean they are devoid of *nix, and vice versa.
The sad thing is that they could have used their own SMS product to manage all their servers rev versions.
Hmm, it has been about 2.5 years since I interned there, I guess they just kept building buildings. :) sorry for the mistake.
I hope the shuttle buses you take have the tootsie rolls on them, I hate the ones loaded with hard candy.
Tim also said, "We're right across the street from Microsoft. We sell a lot of stuff to Microsoft people. There's a lot of Linux running at Microsoft. A lot of Microsoft developers prefer to work with Linux."
Not to take away from anything that was said but they are not across from the main Microsoft campus, but rather between the smaller satellite and the main campus. This gives them less MS visibility though, than being across the street.
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Don't go telling anyone.
Doesn't Ultimate TV already do this, the multi channel that is. Get 2 and I'm sure you're still cheaper then 4 computers, though if you need to tape more than 2 channels I think you should really watch less tv
Guess I'm still idealistic when it comes to some government.
:)
I've done programming for the government before, but I guess that wasn't the type of work you meant.
"The logic for open-source is so compelling that after a year of debates we decided to stop talking and declare government an open-source zone," says Moseki.
If it was so compelling why did it take a year of debates? Why did the debates not come across this compelling solution, and have to stop, not decide, and just choose one?
Maybe the person was misquoted but it sounds a bit illogical.
Isn't Snood just a rip off of Bust a Move? I heard of Bust a Move long before Snood. Or is this one of those occassions where Bust a Move is the rip off and happens to be more well known.
Oh sorry guys, we didn't mean to infect the p2p networks, really. It turns out that one of the people responsible for manning our monitoring systems accidently infected the monitoring system with a virus which then found it's way into the p2p network. We're really sorry we know absolutely nothing about technology, oh and please go pay $18 for a cd instead of getting them off of a p2p network, it would really suck if you accidently got a virus because you used p2p.
If you try enough "different" things you'll eventually come upon one that works, or you'll die. :p
99% perspiration, 1% inspiration.
Are there 99 not-for-the-masses widely distro'd linux's yet?
Yes, you have a good point. Guys are more open to going into CS/IT because of the money factor, where I think women make their choices for more logical reasons, like actually wanting too. :)
I think part of the problem is that male geeks tend to have a bit of a superiority complex as a generalization, and that same is not true for female engineers, so they tend to feel like they are not as good as the guys simply because all the guys make them feel as such. It's not really inviting
I would say that the environment is not one to be condusive to a female. Let alone the hormone factor.
A very appropriate comic.
I think that much like females outperforming males in elementary school they also do so in engineering programs. I knew a few Engineers at school that could kick any guys but in what they did.
My big thing is with how much time commitment a "Virtual World" type game requires. I have never played any type of online static VW game, just things like Battle.net.
My main reason for this is that it seems like the commitment is too great. It seems like one I play I have to keep playing everyday or else my previous effort isn't really useful, like I have to live a second life almost to make anything useful/fun out of the MMOG.
I am currently playing Animal Crossing on the GCN, and while this game is ultimately experienced best if you play a little each day or for an hour or two on the weekends, Or both in my casse, I could stop playing for a while and nothing would go wrong or bad, I would be able to pick right back up. The same goes for the non MMOG Sims. From outside of MMOG it seems like I couldn't do this with those.
Am I off base with my impressions of MMOG? Are there any that exhibit play whenever you want/can better than others without degrading the experience?
yeah, my bad. A lot of the other comments as well as the story made it sound like it was only for MS stuff.
Last time I checked, MS offered very very very little that you could install linux on. Afaik the XBox is the only thing that's been hacked to run linux, maybe their PDA to?
So I don't see how this would actually work.
"Hi RedHat, I bought a Microsoft gamepad, would you install linux on it please?"
Problem is there is no equivalent of the PE for CS people.
I'm unsure how well the PE would actually speak to a persons software engineering skill as it currently stands.
"They" are currently working on a Profession Software Engineer ( or whatever it is called ) cert though.
I think that instead of making people display such accredidation it should be optional. BUT, there should also be some central form/way of distinguishing an accredited IT person from another. If you do this and make it known to those who will make use of their services then it is in the IT persons best interest to get and display their accredidation.
I think this should apply to software engineers as well as system maintenance people.
The biggest problem being that there is little centralization and validation of such accrediation, at least for software.