Wow. Suggesting a Windows solution on Slashdot. Brave man (excuse the assumption that you are male, but I like my odds).
You're also right on the money. It's pretty much configure and forget. The best part is that the restore is pretty fast and painless. Backing up is easy... backing up in such a way that you can easily and reliably restore is the trick and WHS succeeds at this.
Using it to produce 3D video seems gimmicky and, as someone pointed out, who wants to look at everybody wearing 3D glasses? I think a better use would be to use the two cameras to allow calculation of distances and then replace everything beyond a certain distance. Sort of a green screen effect but without the green screen. Now that would be useful (and cool).
Oh come off it... denying evolution, given the overwhelming evidence supporting it, is no better than denying that the holocaust ever happened. And it's time we treated it as such.
Those of us who are trained on the latest technology are having a hard time finding jobs. I suspect that the few job openings out there are swamped with resumes. It's hard to get noticed in a sea of thousands.
So, while it might be great to increase the education level of the general populace, I hope they don't expect to automatically get a job with their new skills.
You want to create tech jobs, Mr. Government? Send back the H1B Visas to their home countries, and stop letting more in here for big corporations to hire cheaper than Americans.
Amen! I know of very few companies that are hiring right now and those that are receive tons of resumes to sort through. Good luck getting noticed in that avalanche... It used to be that anytime I updated my resume on one of the online career sites, I would get a great number of inquiries. Now that I actually need a job, I got only a couple (and none close by or relevant). I'm not feeling too upbeat about the IT job market right now...
The universe is old. VERY old. About 14 billion years. Earth is fairly young, about 4.5 billion years.
Assuming intelligent alien life take about as long as intelligent Earth life to evolve (give or take a billion years), these other civilizations would have billions and billions of years ahead of us.
That's the risk of showing up fashionable late to a party. There's always the chance that everyone else will already have gone home.
I know that slashdotters don't like Microsoft, but isn't it a little too obsessive to be criticising them for their version numbering scheme? Isn't that like hating someone because their hair is just the wrong shade of brown or the daiameter of the buttons on their shirt are a millimetre too small?
Google isn't asking for profitable ideas or anything like that.
Sure, some of them could end up being profitable, but that's not the point. They want to invest in nice ideas which could improve the life quality of people. From the video, you can clearly see they're interested in ideas that could, for instance, ease the burden put on poor people in countries like Africa. You can hardly profit from that.
This is called philanthropy. And it's amazing how people from the US find this so absurd.
Sometimes, there really isn't a catch.
Ahhhh... but then they get to live in that improved better world don't they? Eh, Mr. Smarty Pants?
Some of you may remember that Bob Cringely had announced plans to enter the competition. They pulled out of the competition but still plan to land on the moon.
Ok, time to throw some karma on the fire. Silverlight supports vector graphics. If you ask for the spec on the Silverlight vector graphics, MS will direct you to the XPS spec. In there you will find a very complete 2D graphic markup specification that will look a lot like SVG (in fact converting SVG to XPS is fairly trivial). This is a legitimate specification that is currently be made into an open standard (TC46).
I know bashing Microsoft is a popular pastime on Slashdot (and most of the time they deserve it). But sometimes, MS does the right thing (e.g. DirectX and Silverlight) -- perhaps only be accident, but still.
Hmm... the Mac version also snaps a photo with each update. I hope no one is doing anything inappropriate while in front of their computer. Here's hoping that your Macbook isn't stolen by the Goatse guy.
If I recall correctly, Disney wasn't particularly well-liked by his employees or colleagues.
A creative force to be reckoned with, to be sure. However, not a terribly ethical individual on the other hand.
Oh, he was a demanding SOB, no doubt about that. But to call him unethical... I don't recall any actions that would warrant that label.
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Wow. Suggesting a Windows solution on Slashdot. Brave man (excuse the assumption that you are male, but I like my odds). You're also right on the money. It's pretty much configure and forget. The best part is that the restore is pretty fast and painless. Backing up is easy... backing up in such a way that you can easily and reliably restore is the trick and WHS succeeds at this.
Using it to produce 3D video seems gimmicky and, as someone pointed out, who wants to look at everybody wearing 3D glasses? I think a better use would be to use the two cameras to allow calculation of distances and then replace everything beyond a certain distance. Sort of a green screen effect but without the green screen. Now that would be useful (and cool).
Oh come off it... denying evolution, given the overwhelming evidence supporting it, is no better than denying that the holocaust ever happened. And it's time we treated it as such.
Um.. yeah it's pretty obvious to me now... I plead lack of caffeine...
It's time we stopped referring to them as creationist and start calling them what they really are: evolution deniers.
Congratulations on your enlightenment by the way. It takes an open mind to weigh the evidence and change your point of view. You are to be commended.
Next time they might want to consider putting two developers on the project.
Those of us who are trained on the latest technology are having a hard time finding jobs. I suspect that the few job openings out there are swamped with resumes. It's hard to get noticed in a sea of thousands.
So, while it might be great to increase the education level of the general populace, I hope they don't expect to automatically get a job with their new skills.
No. That would be something totally different and unrelated (other than both being XML based).
XPS is not proprietary. It is currently being finalized by ECMA as Open XPS.
Ok, I can understand ODF for collaboration, but is that the best format for publication? Why not PDF or XPS?
Amen! I know of very few companies that are hiring right now and those that are receive tons of resumes to sort through. Good luck getting noticed in that avalanche... It used to be that anytime I updated my resume on one of the online career sites, I would get a great number of inquiries. Now that I actually need a job, I got only a couple (and none close by or relevant). I'm not feeling too upbeat about the IT job market right now...
Back in my university days, we used these for offline archival.
That's the risk of showing up fashionable late to a party. There's always the chance that everyone else will already have gone home.
That's a good point. I can't tell you how many times I've almost left my AS/400 on an airplane!
Said the stupid Nehru jacket wearing towhead...
Ahhhh... but then they get to live in that improved better world don't they? Eh, Mr. Smarty Pants?
Some of you may remember that Bob Cringely had announced plans to enter the competition. They pulled out of the competition but still plan to land on the moon.
That bastard ate my balls!
Ok, time to throw some karma on the fire. Silverlight supports vector graphics. If you ask for the spec on the Silverlight vector graphics, MS will direct you to the XPS spec. In there you will find a very complete 2D graphic markup specification that will look a lot like SVG (in fact converting SVG to XPS is fairly trivial). This is a legitimate specification that is currently be made into an open standard (TC46). I know bashing Microsoft is a popular pastime on Slashdot (and most of the time they deserve it). But sometimes, MS does the right thing (e.g. DirectX and Silverlight) -- perhaps only be accident, but still.
Hmm... the Mac version also snaps a photo with each update. I hope no one is doing anything inappropriate while in front of their computer. Here's hoping that your Macbook isn't stolen by the Goatse guy.
That explains why the Europeans are paying so much more for gas/petro... silly fools are buying it by the liter!
I'm running Firefox 3.0 now! My god, the net has never looked so beautiful! I think I'm going to cry... *sniff* *sniff*
All your base are belong to us.