This is very true, at least here in Sweden, you never ask/say what profession you're in as a means of introduction. Nor do you adress someone with their Profession.Name as in Professor Doe, Officer Doe or Dr.Doe.
However, at an office/department party I think talking shop and current affairs is hard to avoid. So you might aswell try to make it amusing.
hmm, I can't agree with you there, the rewrite part consisted of a new kernel NT3.x, it seems every other part was slapped on from the existing OS. I think this have cleared up somewhat with win2000 and XP with rewrites of more applications and services to bring them up to date.
I remember reading way back in ancient history (96-97?) that the reason for releasing win95 was as a stepstone to move to the NT platform. 95 was 16/32bit and as such it was a nice idea to ease the world into 32bit NT. However, it took win95, Win98, WinME, NT 4, Win2000 until we finally arived at the common base with XP. Each version introducing new bugs and new pains for the users, I think MS decided to a large extent ignored this and chose to patch rather than rewrite because they could see the merger coming and were busy rewriting for that.
Speaking for myself as an introvert geek, the worst possible thing at a party/kick-off is to be bunched up with a group of morons to play a stupid social game the point of which is only to make an ass of yourself. Some (management) seem to love this after taking some 2 day team-building class at a spa last winter and they're aching to try it - Avoid this at all costs!
If these are your average geeks, Developers, Techs, Support personel etc, the most common factor that everyone shares has to be war stories, stupid users|clients|bosses|coding etc, it's the enemy that geeks world wide share and team up to battle. Worst(best?) tale of the eve wins a prize (no matter if it's made up, all to spur creativity and get a few laughs).
heh, the thought has struck me to. An interesting concept. Considering the amount of time and cash spent on.Net it's not likely to happen anytime soon though. However, with the amount of *nix server side systems, I think even MS will eventually begin to look at it, SQL Server, Exchange, MSIE, and yes, even the dreaded IIS;-) might make it onto the *nix platform. It's too big a potential market for MS to ignore. Perhaps wishful thinking, but it is a possibility.
If DOS support had been dead and buried in Windows 95|NT, would the industries have lost money because "Windows95|NT is a richer, easier to use, more productive FUN! OS", or, would they have saved a ton of money by sticking to old trusted and tested hardware/OS/Apps until they had succesfully rewritten the application for the Win32 enviroment?
IMHO there's very little point in using a $1500 computer and a $300 OS to run a 10-20 year old product.
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Personal data may not be processed for purposes concerning direct marketing, if the registered
person gives notice in writing to the controller of personal data that he/she opposes such
processing.
One of many many restictions regarding storage of personal data that exist here, basically, you can't store data about someone unless they agree to it. If they do, you can't share it with someone else unless they agree. You can't make it public nor store it in an unsafe manner. All to protect the individual from having various (commercial) forces build a profile that can be used|shared|sold to benefit them.
To be honest I'm surprised that the US doesn't seem to have as strong a protection, an interesting battle between commercial forces and individual integrity for sure.
Very true, and that is the sense that I meant it in, not in $$$/marketshare terms, but in the more esoteric world that is underlying function and development for it. MS is a succesful biz thanks to marketing and shrewd tactics alone imho, they make some good applications that eventually became industry standard and daily tools for all common users. Not because they were the best, but because that's what the people in charge were told was the best.
However, without having had an in depth look at it, I'm assuming that large parts of Office and other common tools still bear legacy code from very early versions of them. And while this works reasonably well at the moment, there comes a limit when 90% of code is legacy and old patches and patches for patches and it's time to rewrite and use the parts that work and redo the parts that don't.
Microsoft has afaik been working on.Net for at least 4 years, and we won't see it fully in action for another couple years when the move is complete, a huge undertaking to say the least. And one I think will bring a vastly improved enviroment for the Wintel developer
But, and a big but, how many times can they afford to do this? How much marketshare do they lose in the transitions and with old versions screaming for rewrite? Take IIS, IIS is frowned upon today because it's considered highly unsafe, how much marketshare do they lose before the rewritten version has proved itself and start gaining again? Is.Net the strategy that'll last for a decade or two? Very doubtful in my mind...patches will be made and patched again, until it's time for a rewrite, and so the MS saga continues...
Joel: Hmm. That reminds me that Microsoft learned the "no rewrite" lesson the hard way.
Obviously, MS biggest problem though is that they don't know when to give up and actually rewrite. For instance, it seems that the windows series of operating systems are all made with the intent of being backwards compatible and reusing core parts back to early DOS systems. Backwards compatability and code reuse is nice and all, but there is a limit to it and a time to give up.
It will however be interesting to see what comes out of the "total rewrite" of IIS.
The syntax of sign language is vastly different from the spoken one, so reading/writing gets trickier. But I really fail to see how that websites implementation helps them. To me it sems to be an act of just putting something up so they can be called accessible, now, a ultralight version for the vision impaired would be a good idea. But strangely, that doesn't exist.
Accessability is very important, however I think this Swedish site took it a bit too far with its
Information for deaf people. (follow the numbered links for quicktime movies)
What? Suddenly deaf people can't read?
Nice gesture, but oh so useless. Moral of the story: Accesability is good, but only when it's done in a way that really helps those that need it.
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Hey, give Bush a little time...:-)
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*BZZZZT*
You get partial credit, but I'm sorry, that's incorrect, but hey, thanks for playing!
Using software without a license might not be illegal per se here, but it is a violation of the EULA (You know that thing you never read), which demands you have a license. Thus you're free game for the mean men in uniforms to come whack you over the head
Sidenote, just a moment ago someone in #dreamhack asked for a halflife serial#, it's a farking $10 game! Buy it! 100 hrs (counting very low) of online play means $0.1/hr...
Here you can see how the total number of threads varies with the workload throughout the day. The maximum number of concurrent threads shown here is 117. The average is around 90 to 100 until later on in the day when the thread count drops down into the 80s and then finally around 75 by midnight.
Resident memory size for the web application (the entire Java process) remained at 260 MB for the entire day. In fact, it has never really grown far beyond this size. The size remains relatively static because the caches are a fixed size and the applications do not grow over time (i.e. no memory leaks).
The database acquires a fixed amount of memory upon initialization, and it is configured to use 512 MB. Currently, the server reports a total of roughly 1 GB of free, unallocated memory. So, we have quite a bit of room to grow with our new system.
I remember the days of the Tienenman Square massacre. I worked in an international scientific research institute at the time. Some of the people who worked with me were Chinese and spent a lot of time FAXing pictures of the massacre to their friends in China. People in China, of course, couldn't get press.
I remember the day of Windows95 release. I worked in an international scientific research institute at the time. Some of the people who worked with me were UNIX devs and spent a lot of time sending pictures of Windows to their friends in Universities. People in Universities, of course, couldn't get Windows.
I've been hearing a lot of pretty outraged people griping about us western imperialist pigs and how we want to force things like democracy down other countries' throats. It's bothered me for a long time. However, I've heard so much of it that I no longer care.
I've been hearing a lot of pretty outraged people griping about us western imperialist pigs and how we want to force things like Windows down other competitors throats. It's bothered me for a long time. However, I've heard so much of it that I no longer care.
You think other countries have the right to live in the Middle Ages? Fine. But independence means accountability. I don't want to hear a bunch of boo-hoo-hooing the next time a bunch of them kill each other or die of famine.
You think businesses have the right to use any software? Fine. But independence means accountability. I don't want to hear a bunch of boo-hoo-hooing the next time a bunch of them kill each other or die of dotcom death.
Moral of the story? To large parts of Europe(and the world), The US is seen the same way slashdotters see Microsoft. The US/MS are both the big bullies of their respective schoolyard and don't mind cutting a few corners and dealing a few blows to make sure they stay on top. And neither really has to take competition into consideration, FUD is truly a universal tool.
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This is very true, at least here in Sweden, you never ask/say what profession you're in as a means of introduction. Nor do you adress someone with their Profession.Name as in Professor Doe, Officer Doe or Dr.Doe.
However, at an office/department party I think talking shop and current affairs is hard to avoid. So you might aswell try to make it amusing.
hmm, I can't agree with you there, the rewrite part consisted of a new kernel NT3.x, it seems every other part was slapped on from the existing OS. I think this have cleared up somewhat with win2000 and XP with rewrites of more applications and services to bring them up to date.
I remember reading way back in ancient history (96-97?) that the reason for releasing win95 was as a stepstone to move to the NT platform. 95 was 16/32bit and as such it was a nice idea to ease the world into 32bit NT. However, it took win95, Win98, WinME, NT 4, Win2000 until we finally arived at the common base with XP. Each version introducing new bugs and new pains for the users, I think MS decided to a large extent ignored this and chose to patch rather than rewrite because they could see the merger coming and were busy rewriting for that.
Ein folk, Ein reich, Ein RDBMS?
What? The form you must fill as you enter the US asking if you're a terrorist, nazi or have participated in any genocides recently isn't enough?
Speaking for myself as an introvert geek, the worst possible thing at a party/kick-off is to be bunched up with a group of morons to play a stupid social game the point of which is only to make an ass of yourself. Some (management) seem to love this after taking some 2 day team-building class at a spa last winter and they're aching to try it - Avoid this at all costs!
If these are your average geeks, Developers, Techs, Support personel etc, the most common factor that everyone shares has to be war stories, stupid users|clients|bosses|coding etc, it's the enemy that geeks world wide share and team up to battle. Worst(best?) tale of the eve wins a prize (no matter if it's made up, all to spur creativity and get a few laughs).
heh, the thought has struck me to. An interesting concept. Considering the amount of time and cash spent on .Net it's not likely to happen anytime soon though. However, with the amount of *nix server side systems, I think even MS will eventually begin to look at it, SQL Server, Exchange, MSIE, and yes, even the dreaded IIS ;-) might make it onto the *nix platform. It's too big a potential market for MS to ignore. Perhaps wishful thinking, but it is a possibility.
If DOS support had been dead and buried in Windows 95|NT, would the industries have lost money because "Windows95|NT is a richer, easier to use, more productive FUN! OS", or, would they have saved a ton of money by sticking to old trusted and tested hardware/OS/Apps until they had succesfully rewritten the application for the Win32 enviroment?
IMHO there's very little point in using a $1500 computer and a $300 OS to run a 10-20 year old product.
One of many many restictions regarding storage of personal data that exist here, basically, you can't store data about someone unless they agree to it. If they do, you can't share it with someone else unless they agree. You can't make it public nor store it in an unsafe manner. All to protect the individual from having various (commercial) forces build a profile that can be used|shared|sold to benefit them.
To be honest I'm surprised that the US doesn't seem to have as strong a protection, an interesting battle between commercial forces and individual integrity for sure.
Very true, and that is the sense that I meant it in, not in $$$/marketshare terms, but in the more esoteric world that is underlying function and development for it. MS is a succesful biz thanks to marketing and shrewd tactics alone imho, they make some good applications that eventually became industry standard and daily tools for all common users. Not because they were the best, but because that's what the people in charge were told was the best.
However, without having had an in depth look at it, I'm assuming that large parts of Office and other common tools still bear legacy code from very early versions of them. And while this works reasonably well at the moment, there comes a limit when 90% of code is legacy and old patches and patches for patches and it's time to rewrite and use the parts that work and redo the parts that don't.
Microsoft has afaik been working on .Net for at least 4 years, and we won't see it fully in action for another couple years when the move is complete, a huge undertaking to say the least. And one I think will bring a vastly improved enviroment for the Wintel developer
But, and a big but, how many times can they afford to do this? How much marketshare do they lose in the transitions and with old versions screaming for rewrite? Take IIS, IIS is frowned upon today because it's considered highly unsafe, how much marketshare do they lose before the rewritten version has proved itself and start gaining again? Is .Net the strategy that'll last for a decade or two? Very doubtful in my mind...patches will be made and patched again, until it's time for a rewrite, and so the MS saga continues...
Dilbert? Is that you?!
Obviously, MS biggest problem though is that they don't know when to give up and actually rewrite. For instance, it seems that the windows series of operating systems are all made with the intent of being backwards compatible and reusing core parts back to early DOS systems. Backwards compatability and code reuse is nice and all, but there is a limit to it and a time to give up.
It will however be interesting to see what comes out of the "total rewrite" of IIS.
The syntax of sign language is vastly different from the spoken one, so reading/writing gets trickier. But I really fail to see how that websites implementation helps them. To me it sems to be an act of just putting something up so they can be called accessible, now, a ultralight version for the vision impaired would be a good idea. But strangely, that doesn't exist.
Accessability is very important, however I think this Swedish site took it a bit too far with its Information for deaf people. (follow the numbered links for quicktime movies)
What? Suddenly deaf people can't read?
Nice gesture, but oh so useless. Moral of the story: Accesability is good, but only when it's done in a way that really helps those that need it.
Isn't it funny that he uses "anything called" instead of "anything like" or "anything such as what echelon is supposed to do"?
I've seen some screenshots and they don't look that hot, have a look for yourself
I vote the guy who made that the least likely to ever have sex...
Really? Well someone's gotta start the rebellion...
Introducing Athlon XP 5000 - Now self powered!
Hey, give Bush a little time... :-)
*BZZZZT*
You get partial credit, but I'm sorry, that's incorrect, but hey, thanks for playing!
Using software without a license might not be illegal per se here, but it is a violation of the EULA (You know that thing you never read), which demands you have a license. Thus you're free game for the mean men in uniforms to come whack you over the head
Sidenote, just a moment ago someone in #dreamhack asked for a halflife serial#, it's a farking $10 game! Buy it! 100 hrs (counting very low) of online play means $0.1/hr...
I remeber the days when a phone was actually used to call with, damn i feel old now...
I do, sooner or later night falls, that's a bad time to be in a solar powered airplane 10k ft over the pacific
doh, I wish I learned how to copy and paste properly
Regarding load on their serverI really wanna see todays numbers...
*bork* Looks like they should have gotten a bigger machine afterall, got halfway through it here...
Nah, there's something charming with an OS that has a help that fits every command there is in it on ~2 screens.
I remember the days of the Tienenman Square massacre. I worked in an international scientific research institute at the time. Some of the people who worked with me were Chinese and spent a lot of time FAXing pictures of the massacre to their friends in China. People in China, of course, couldn't get press.
I remember the day of Windows95 release. I worked in an international scientific research institute at the time. Some of the people who worked with me were UNIX devs and spent a lot of time sending pictures of Windows to their friends in Universities. People in Universities, of course, couldn't get Windows.
I've been hearing a lot of pretty outraged people griping about us western imperialist pigs and how we want to force things like democracy down other countries' throats. It's bothered me for a long time. However, I've heard so much of it that I no longer care.
I've been hearing a lot of pretty outraged people griping about us western imperialist pigs and how we want to force things like Windows down other competitors throats. It's bothered me for a long time. However, I've heard so much of it that I no longer care.
You think other countries have the right to live in the Middle Ages? Fine. But independence means accountability. I don't want to hear a bunch of boo-hoo-hooing the next time a bunch of them kill each other or die of famine.
You think businesses have the right to use any software? Fine. But independence means accountability. I don't want to hear a bunch of boo-hoo-hooing the next time a bunch of them kill each other or die of dotcom death.
Moral of the story? To large parts of Europe(and the world), The US is seen the same way slashdotters see Microsoft. The US/MS are both the big bullies of their respective schoolyard and don't mind cutting a few corners and dealing a few blows to make sure they stay on top. And neither really has to take competition into consideration, FUD is truly a universal tool.
You'd think the point of blocking would be kinda lost if there were widely known examples...