And thus, Microsoft continues its grand tradition of being late to the scene, introducing technologies we've been seeing for years in a new and annoying format, and generally maintaining the status quo in the fashion to which we have become accustomed. Mediocrity, ho! But what about the "ribbon". Surely you find that a new technology. There's NO WAY anyone could consider THAT an annoying format.
Computers never make errors.
Humans do, at least in designing, manufacturing and sizing computer systems.
This one seems to me like blaming at a knife once you cut your fingers. Nobody is blaming the computers, the blame is being plopped on the computer "system", which at last I checked, is the hardware and software.
railroads are just the bright shiny ideal model of a succesful industry today aren't they? I wasn't referring to their place in the marketplace TODAY, so much as I was trying to point out that during their early days, they were the model of why business should be able to merge. Combined, they did things that wouldn't have been possible as hundreds of separate businesses.
What he did was arguably in a gray area...on his own time, he used "hacker techniques" (not my preferred wording, sorry. Read the article.) to track down stolen data on foreign sites. That he turned his results over to the FBI is good, even if it screwed over Sandia. Yeah, and how is that "Reverse Hacking"? Isn't that just "hacking"? (ok cracking or whatever) It's like when people say that someone is a "reverse racist". You're either racist or you're not. I didn't think that kind of thing works in a direction.
'buyouts', 'mergers', 'acquisitions' should be banned from business world. All corporations have to go instutitional, in which noone can control 51% share, but a wide board and ceo that are chosen by majority stockholder vote rules the company. You sir, sound like a dumb ass. "All corporations"? You must mean all PUBLIC corporations? I assume you do since, I don't want my corporation which I own 100% of to go "instutitional" which sounds dangerous. Perhaps I am the dumb ass for responding to you, since "noone" in their right mind could take you seriously, but here goes...
Mergers, buyouts and acquisitions are paramount to the business world. It allows for companies to do greater things. I couldn't imagine where the US would be if the great merger period of the early 1900s didn't happen. The resulting companies build the infrastructure of the entire country. The railroad system, for one, would not have been possible without all the smaller companies merging. You're just a silly goose.
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I'm not about to recommend PERL or Java or SQL C'mon, I was just about to recommend Java. It's a good language to start off with since there's a ton of information out there, it's a flexable language that you can use for tons of different use cases, and it's a good introduction to OO programming, which if you're starting from scratch, is the way I'd go. I would stay away from stuff like PERL and PHP since the former is just an explosion at the punctuation factory, and the latter could help instill bad practices from the get-go since it's so easy to hack out crap that will work. Just me though.
They can do it again. It's funny you say that because I've always thought it was funny that you couldn't show a nipple on TV, but you could show a bomb going off and killing people in a crowded hospital or somebody getting shot. America is funny like that. I always thought that violence and sex would even out on TV but I always thought that it would be that more graphic sexual content would be allowed instead of violence being banned. Teee-hee...who knew.
I also think that it's funny that if you do anything under the guise of "news", you've got a free pass. Dateline, 20/20, etc, show the most graphic shit on TV but it's OK because they're "news" programs. Ick.
It's not "their network", it's my network. I paid the taxes that pay their expenses, I have rights to use it to research or communicate as I wish. So I guess the roads they've built for you are yours to do with what you please as well? I'd love to see that stand up in court when you're defending 120 in a 35. It's not your network. It's our network and it's in the hands of our elected officials.
Still, it's public libraries. The can choose which books to carry and which to "ban" and they should be able to choose which sites to ban as well. It's their network, who cares. If you want to rock your my space page, buy a computer. What's the problem? People see the work "ban" and "public library" and they get all bothered. What's the problem?
It's a justified analogy to what the RIAA is doing, but I welcome the work they spend trying to button up music "piracy." For one thing, the costs of the RIAA are pushed onto the consumer -- leading to higher prices of the music they're trying to protect, giving consumers more reason to work with alternative distribution mechanisms. This will also hopefully lead to more anonymous forms of file sharing, or even file-piece sharing, where you're only hosting a tiny portion of a specific songfile. At what point would a "pirate" not really be guilty of much if they're only sharing a small portion of a particular songfile, say 0.01%? All the great heap paradox. I'd say that the method by which to put the parts back together or the part map would be the pirate file.
And has this reporter ever heard of WEEKENDS!?... Not Speculation - Just plain silly. Not to mention the fact that people use the internet at work. So like, what difference does it make? If you're using the internet at work, that's bandwidth. Granted it's not thousands of VPNs but still.
So does that make Computer Scientists better? Or software developers? Which is more important, knowing advanced algorithms and data structures, or knowing the intricate details of a programming language so you can optimize that much more. I suppose if you're 100% of one and 0% of the other, you're pretty much useless. I don't think it's a better or worse situation.
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I could go on and on. These are just the facts. What I ignored are the countless hours I wasted trying to debug some perfectly good looking piece of code only to find out in the end that PHP is the problem. On that occasions PHP ate away a part of my soul. (pretty poignant, eh?)
Are you SURE it was PHP? I wonder how you could spend "countless hours" debugging PHP code? I've been at the PHP language for years and the one thing you CAN say about PHP vs other languages is that it shouldn't take "countless hours" to debug. I mean...countless hours? Ate your soul? Perhaps programming isn't really for you. Maybe sales? or marketing?
Oh let's see, here are a few suggestions: - make the product affordable - make the product so that I can freely move it from one PC to another as I upgrade - stop crippling the OS so I can use it the way I need to. e.g. removing the ability to join a domain for Home editions. - allow me the choice of what I want to use and not use for my tools and utilities - allow me the choice of whether you will spy on me or not - allow me to choose the interface I want, not the newest eye candy you think I need.
Um...I asked you to suggest a way for Microsoft to protect their IP and slow piracy of their products, not a way for them to make them more enjoyable/productive/whatever for *you* to use. The only thing you posted that came close was "Make the product affordable" and I don't see what that has to do with anything. If you can't afford to use Windows then don't. There's lots of other free or cheap OSes out there. But even that's not my point.
My point is that everybody bitches about WGA and what they do in the arena of validation and activation and whatnot, but nobody ever offers alternatives. What's a company to do? What would you do if you knew there were nearly as many pirated copies of your product in use than valid ones? Plus, the bandwidth and support costs of "supporting" these pirate versions. Would you see that as a HUGE problem or would you just allow it to continue? I know that MS does crappy things but what do you expect them to do to insure that they get paid for their efforts? Even the DRM stuff I can understand where MS is coming from a bit, if even from the point of view of having sympathy since their products are probably the most pirated of all.
So I ask you again Sir...What would you suggest they do to stop piracy of their product and all the lost revenue/bandwidth/CS hours/et cetera?
They have much more power, are more prevalent, pervasive and their influence reaces further into our lives than any terrorist group ever will. They and their autoimmune attacks on us are 'some scary shit'. They're the ones who are assaulting our 'way of life' on a daily basis; they're the ones we really have to contend with.
So wait, we went from this ATHF stunt being a ruse, to a threat, to an over-reaction to an "attack"? How is the government committing an autoimmune "attack" on you by shutting down some subways and bridges? Way of life? What? I know it's cool to hate the government but still, how has the government assaulted your way of life personally? I'd take it easy on the whole "assaulting our 'way of life'" shit. I'm the first one to say that they should just pave the roads and shut up, but since they can't even do that, I can't really see where the fear should be coming from. Maybe I'm just stupid.
Because of Activation and WGA/WPA I decided to switch to Linux on my desktop and OSX on my laptop. While I beleive in innocence before guilt MS not only wants the user to prove innocence just to install Windows but once installed wants to continually spy on the user and assumes guilt at all tymes.
Not that I disagree with you but I'm always interested...How would you suggest that Microsoft protect its IP and stop *widespread* piracy of their product?
Oh please, for a country that had made itself "safer" since 9/11 we are still scared shitless by our own shadow on a daily basis. We are going to live like this too until people accept one simple fact. Shit happened, shit will still happen, and no amount of perceived "security" is going to change that simple fact. There is only so much you can do to prevent a determined enemy. We need to learn to live with the fact that we are not living in a safe world and get back to a point where we can live our lives without being scared of everything. Until that day, the terrorists are winning because we live in fear.
Thus is complete crap. USB sockets are powered or not powered but there's no driver deciding to turn power on or off for a particular device. I recharge plenty of devices via usb under windows without bothering to install drivers. Try again troll. Actually, you're the crap holder. Windows won't charge the blackberry line of phones without drivers. I know a *ton* of USB phones that won't charge under windows without drivers. So like...you're totally wrong.
You'd think though, that with all the liability falling on banks as far as fraud goes, that they'd want to protect themselves a little better. I mean, the BOFA sitekey deal is a good step to prevent phishing if all their clients understand what that means, but they don't.
I've found though, that even worse, is people use the same password for _everything_ online. For example, I've recently taken over development of a web_store where the previous developer didn't encrypt passwords or saved credit card numbers. So basically, I could browse the records, get the name, address, credit card number, expiration date of over 2000 people. Plus I could see their passwords for the site. Assuming that at least 50% of those folks are the *one password* type, I could probably have done some real damage. When we took it over the first thing we did was md5 passwords and encrypt credit card numbers. Still though, this isn't the first time I've see the exact same situation. I figure that since ROR and PHP make development of e-commerce sites relatively easy these days, it's only going to get worse. I think people put way too much trust in online retailers with their banking information and that seems like a bigger problem than the phishing situation these days. Just my two cents though.
Whether or not you use Tivo should not affect if your shows are counted as being watched.
Actually, that's false. TiVo in fact monitors what you're recording. So I think the parent was more talking about that aspect of what Tivo is monitoring. Monitoring the skipped commercials, I would assume, would be of more value to Madison Avenue to build better commercials than the actual companies paying for em. I wonder though, why anyone doesn't skip EVERY commercial if they have the ability and knowledge of how to do so. (ie don't start watching any show till like 22 minutes into the hour)
Therefore, shows you watch will be offered less money per viewer to advertise on than shows whose viewers don't skip commercials. Therefore, shows you like will be canceled earlier.
While I disagree with your forecast, I can't argue with your logic. However, I would imagine that if there is a highly rated show that nobody watches the commercials for, the pressure would be on the show's production staff to figure out a better way to monetize the show. (read: product placement...EXPENSIVE product placement) No advertiser is going to give up on a highly rated show. Especially if that show has high "Tivo" ratings.
As someone involved in implementing e-commerce websites, numerous user focus groups and usability analysis sessions indicate that people just wouldn't read the information even if you did bother to provide it, and moreoever they'd see it as off-putting and a detriment to using the site
I couldn't agree more. People don't read. After our focus groups preceeding a recent launch, it was explained to me by a marketing fellow that we needed to explain a process and provide instructions for something that was already explained - in plain view. The Marketing Guy: We need to provide instructions about > Me: You mean THESE instructions (pointing to the paragraph clearly notated "Instructions") The Marketing Guy: Hrm...maybe we should make that in all red.
It's a common problem with website users in general. They don't read. They just look for things in red, or pictures to click, or forms to fill in and rely on the system to catch mistakes for them and warn them.
That's not going to change anytime soon. Maybe a better approach to the problem would be for BOFA to make a random phishing attempt on their customers and when fooled, the customer would get the ole'
The system encountered an error, when you entered your FUCKING BANKING PASSWORD INTO A NON BOFA site. Please come back when you're not a complete dolt.
DirectX 10 is a marketing gimic to force people to upgrade, Directx 9.0c works fine for World of Warcraft, from what friends have told me, DirectX 10 is unstable while playing WoW so that's a good number of people that won't be upgrading.
Ok. So you're clearly a dummy. What else have you heard from your friends? I'm still trying to figure out if you're kidding or serious.
That stampede sound you are hearing....are former Windows users running to the Apple Store to buy a Mac
Amazon Software Bestsellers (January 29 12:45 PM ET)
2 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
4 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade
5 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade
12 Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Upgrade
13 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Full Version
14 Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003
15 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Full Version
Microsoft has twenty titles in the top fifty.
I'd say these numbers suggest that Vista is going to do just fine in the domestic consumer market.
SHhhhhh. This is Slashdot, there's no place for money talk here. The POINT is that everyone will NOT buy it and only HATE it. I'll stick with BeOS thank you.
Bitten by the ole RTFA bug eh. The quote from the article is
He found that even if the alien ships could hurtle through space at a tenth of the speed of light, or 30,000km a second, - Nasa's current Cassini mission to Saturn is plodding along at 32km a second - it would take 10bn years, roughly half the age of the universe, to explore just 4% of the galaxy. His study is reported in New Scientist today.
No mention of colonization there.
Plus
Mr Bjork confined the probes to search only solar systems in what is called the "galactic habitable zone" of the Milky Way, where solar systems are close enough to the centre to have the right elements necessary to form rocky, life-sustaining planets, but are far enough out to avoid being struck by asteroids, seared by stars or frazzled by bursts of radiation.
So there's that too. Looks like you should have taken a look at the article first.
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Mergers, buyouts and acquisitions are paramount to the business world. It allows for companies to do greater things. I couldn't imagine where the US would be if the great merger period of the early 1900s didn't happen. The resulting companies build the infrastructure of the entire country. The railroad system, for one, would not have been possible without all the smaller companies merging. You're just a silly goose.
I also think that it's funny that if you do anything under the guise of "news", you've got a free pass. Dateline, 20/20, etc, show the most graphic shit on TV but it's OK because they're "news" programs. Ick.
Still, it's public libraries. The can choose which books to carry and which to "ban" and they should be able to choose which sites to ban as well. It's their network, who cares. If you want to rock your my space page, buy a computer. What's the problem? People see the work "ban" and "public library" and they get all bothered. What's the problem?
Are you SURE it was PHP? I wonder how you could spend "countless hours" debugging PHP code? I've been at the PHP language for years and the one thing you CAN say about PHP vs other languages is that it shouldn't take "countless hours" to debug. I mean...countless hours? Ate your soul? Perhaps programming isn't really for you. Maybe sales? or marketing?
Um...I asked you to suggest a way for Microsoft to protect their IP and slow piracy of their products, not a way for them to make them more enjoyable/productive/whatever for *you* to use. The only thing you posted that came close was "Make the product affordable" and I don't see what that has to do with anything. If you can't afford to use Windows then don't. There's lots of other free or cheap OSes out there. But even that's not my point.
My point is that everybody bitches about WGA and what they do in the arena of validation and activation and whatnot, but nobody ever offers alternatives. What's a company to do? What would you do if you knew there were nearly as many pirated copies of your product in use than valid ones? Plus, the bandwidth and support costs of "supporting" these pirate versions. Would you see that as a HUGE problem or would you just allow it to continue? I know that MS does crappy things but what do you expect them to do to insure that they get paid for their efforts? Even the DRM stuff I can understand where MS is coming from a bit, if even from the point of view of having sympathy since their products are probably the most pirated of all.
So I ask you again Sir...What would you suggest they do to stop piracy of their product and all the lost revenue/bandwidth/CS hours/et cetera?
So wait, we went from this ATHF stunt being a ruse, to a threat, to an over-reaction to an "attack"? How is the government committing an autoimmune "attack" on you by shutting down some subways and bridges? Way of life? What? I know it's cool to hate the government but still, how has the government assaulted your way of life personally? I'd take it easy on the whole "assaulting our 'way of life'" shit. I'm the first one to say that they should just pave the roads and shut up, but since they can't even do that, I can't really see where the fear should be coming from. Maybe I'm just stupid.
Not that I disagree with you but I'm always interested...How would you suggest that Microsoft protect its IP and stop *widespread* piracy of their product?
I'm not scared shitless. Are you?
You'd think though, that with all the liability falling on banks as far as fraud goes, that they'd want to protect themselves a little better. I mean, the BOFA sitekey deal is a good step to prevent phishing if all their clients understand what that means, but they don't.
I've found though, that even worse, is people use the same password for _everything_ online. For example, I've recently taken over development of a web_store where the previous developer didn't encrypt passwords or saved credit card numbers. So basically, I could browse the records, get the name, address, credit card number, expiration date of over 2000 people. Plus I could see their passwords for the site. Assuming that at least 50% of those folks are the *one password* type, I could probably have done some real damage. When we took it over the first thing we did was md5 passwords and encrypt credit card numbers. Still though, this isn't the first time I've see the exact same situation. I figure that since ROR and PHP make development of e-commerce sites relatively easy these days, it's only going to get worse. I think people put way too much trust in online retailers with their banking information and that seems like a bigger problem than the phishing situation these days. Just my two cents though.
Whether or not you use Tivo should not affect if your shows are counted as being watched.
Actually, that's false. TiVo in fact monitors what you're recording. So I think the parent was more talking about that aspect of what Tivo is monitoring. Monitoring the skipped commercials, I would assume, would be of more value to Madison Avenue to build better commercials than the actual companies paying for em. I wonder though, why anyone doesn't skip EVERY commercial if they have the ability and knowledge of how to do so. (ie don't start watching any show till like 22 minutes into the hour)
Therefore, shows you watch will be offered less money per viewer to advertise on than shows whose viewers don't skip commercials. Therefore, shows you like will be canceled earlier.
While I disagree with your forecast, I can't argue with your logic. However, I would imagine that if there is a highly rated show that nobody watches the commercials for, the pressure would be on the show's production staff to figure out a better way to monetize the show. (read: product placement...EXPENSIVE product placement) No advertiser is going to give up on a highly rated show. Especially if that show has high "Tivo" ratings.
As someone involved in implementing e-commerce websites, numerous user focus groups and usability analysis sessions indicate that people just wouldn't read the information even if you did bother to provide it, and moreoever they'd see it as off-putting and a detriment to using the site
I couldn't agree more. People don't read. After our focus groups preceeding a recent launch, it was explained to me by a marketing fellow that we needed to explain a process and provide instructions for something that was already explained - in plain view.
The Marketing Guy: We need to provide instructions about >
Me: You mean THESE instructions (pointing to the paragraph clearly notated "Instructions")
The Marketing Guy: Hrm...maybe we should make that in all red.
It's a common problem with website users in general. They don't read. They just look for things in red, or pictures to click, or forms to fill in and rely on the system to catch mistakes for them and warn them.
That's not going to change anytime soon. Maybe a better approach to the problem would be for BOFA to make a random phishing attempt on their customers and when fooled, the customer would get the ole'
The system encountered an error, when you entered your FUCKING BANKING PASSWORD INTO A NON BOFA site. Please come back when you're not a complete dolt.
What else can they do?
DirectX 10 is a marketing gimic to force people to upgrade, Directx 9.0c works fine for World of Warcraft, from what friends have told me, DirectX 10 is unstable while playing WoW so that's a good number of people that won't be upgrading.
Ok. So you're clearly a dummy. What else have you heard from your friends? I'm still trying to figure out if you're kidding or serious.
That stampede sound you are hearing....are former Windows users running to the Apple Store to buy a Mac
Amazon Software Bestsellers (January 29 12:45 PM ET)
2 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
4 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade
5 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade
12 Microsoft Office Professional 2007 Upgrade
13 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Full Version
14 Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003
15 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Full Version
Microsoft has twenty titles in the top fifty.
I'd say these numbers suggest that Vista is going to do just fine in the domestic consumer market.
SHhhhhh. This is Slashdot, there's no place for money talk here. The POINT is that everyone will NOT buy it and only HATE it. I'll stick with BeOS thank you.
Slashdotted before the first post. Tough luck. Free games post on slashdot...who would have figured?
I've always been a fan of conquest myself.
Bitten by the ole RTFA bug eh. The quote from the article is
He found that even if the alien ships could hurtle through space at a tenth of the speed of light, or 30,000km a second, - Nasa's current Cassini mission to Saturn is plodding along at 32km a second - it would take 10bn years, roughly half the age of the universe, to explore just 4% of the galaxy. His study is reported in New Scientist today.
No mention of colonization there.
Plus
Mr Bjork confined the probes to search only solar systems in what is called the "galactic habitable zone" of the Milky Way, where solar systems are close enough to the centre to have the right elements necessary to form rocky, life-sustaining planets, but are far enough out to avoid being struck by asteroids, seared by stars or frazzled by bursts of radiation.
So there's that too. Looks like you should have taken a look at the article first.