First the VMWARE free; now VirtualPC free; one day later.
One might wish their security department would roll as fast as their customer relations department do;)
I don't think MS got the news about free VMWARE from Slashdot or any other news site for that matter. They must have their own information sources and insiders in such companies. So, setting VirtualPC free just day after VMWare may be just what they have planned ahead.
OK, I acknoledge that I'm paranoid, but the thing that makes me nervous about google services is that thay use single account for all purposes. This not only allows to keep track of my whole life, but also allows a person, who hijacks my email account, take control over my mail, internet messenger (IM was used for several famous frauds in Russia), and now money directly!
I don't really find this odd at all. If you like your company/friends/coworkers you tend to identify them as "yours".
I think parent found it odd that he uses the phrase "my guys" as opposed to "we". It does sound somewhat unnatural: the person works 18 years for the company and still does not identify himself as a part of it.
At the end of the day bad programmers will write bad code, it's just easy to learn languages (such as Basic and PHP) means they can write more bad code a lot quicker with (arguably) more negative impact when it folds in on it'self.
The real problem is that those easy-to-learn-but-crappy languages got expanded. If they were still small and allowed bad programmers (read: non-programmer) to write some simple apps, I wouldn't mind and I would've hailed their developers. But now these languages are getting bigger and bigger, causing bigger and bigger problems.
...confuse the concept of "intelligence" with "knowledge about computers"
Agree. Totally.
As a programmer, I think that *all* programmers have to spend some time supporting customers on some stuff. Or at least read articles like this or talk to tech support from time to time. Not for the amusement ("hey, they are stupid") part, but in order to better understand how usual people see computers, in order to be able to adopt software to their views/habits.
This mostly applies to UI designers/developoers, but every software component has its human users, and knowing these users is a key point in creating a successful application.
Before the advent of illegal downloads, artists had an incentive to underprice their concerts, because bigger audiences translated into higher record sales
Now "illegal downloads" are translated into more popularity (for free btw) and thus, higher concert tickets prices. Did I miss something?
...Microsoft will unleash an abundance of next-generation applications that will take everyone by surprise.
Anyone aware of "next-generation [stuff]" that was born inside a huge corp and not in a startup? May be it just because in huge corps info is far more likely to leak, than in small startup, but anyway I never expect something "too cool" from big corps: they are too deep inside their bureaucracy and other sh** to innovate.
Why are these countries opposed to something that would allow contgrol over what most of the conservatives in those countries claim to hate?
They don't want to control pr0n, they want to eliminate it, no matter how impossible this sounds. Allowing an.xxx domain is somehow accepting presence of pr0n in the net.
Their real fear is that it is becoming easier and easier for people to make THEIR OWN CONTENT and distribute it for free, aka youtube.com. Some of the best movies have been low budget movies produced by a few people with vision.
Moreover, as blogs success shown this threat is very real. But blogs, as a form of cheap novel art is just a beginning. Music and movies will catch up soon.
Apparently it gets confusing if you move your contacts to the card because the phone will continue to save new contacts to its internal memory and you need to keep track of that. Why not just use the permanent, removable storage for such vital information? Or better yet, have the option to copy it to both places (but only display it once, which it can't currently do)?
Hmmm, I know nothing about nokia 6600, but my old-as-time nokia 7110 can do that just fine, I can select memory to use: SIM card or phone and easily sync both.
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As a russian language speaker, I have to say that "eBay" does sound terrible enough already.
FYI: eBay sounds close to russian word meaning "f*ck"
OK, I acknoledge that I'm paranoid, but the thing that makes me nervous about google services is that thay use single account for all purposes. This not only allows to keep track of my whole life, but also allows a person, who hijacks my email account, take control over my mail, internet messenger (IM was used for several famous frauds in Russia), and now money directly!
Two words summary: duck and cover.
Google tells me that 3 145 miles per gallon = 1 337.07695 kilometers per liter
:)
This means that in Europe, this guys would be really 1337 hax0rs
It is irrelevant. The real question is when this guy will start supporting yahoo downloads?
Write once, debug till the end of time.
As a programmer, I think that *all* programmers have to spend some time supporting customers on some stuff. Or at least read articles like this or talk to tech support from time to time. Not for the amusement ("hey, they are stupid") part, but in order to better understand how usual people see computers, in order to be able to adopt software to their views/habits.
This mostly applies to UI designers/developoers, but every software component has its human users, and knowing these users is a key point in creating a successful application.
You don't even want to imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
Wife, that fetches beer? I'll take it!!
'nuff said.
Am I the only one who sick of this Cartman-Google "you can't come" marketing strategy?
The bad news is that married /.'ers can't get dates too!