Don't you ever stop giving people ideas?
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Some people are always going to try the "don't try this at home" tricks.
I remember having a physics lession; something about sound. Anyway, we had a couple of tuning forks. The teacher said: "Oh, by the way, don't put it to your teeth! That would make your enamel shatter". You can guess the rest.
I, for one, don't want to give anyone any bad ideas. So forget you ever read this!
> Hello, I am Eliza. * U HAVE ANY COOL MEGADEATH MP3S? > Don't you ever say Hello? * DAMIT WHY DONT YOU LOSERS TALK ABOUT MUSIC NOT NO GAY SHIT > We were discussing you, not me. * GET A ROOM, THIS IS HEAVY METAL, NOT PANSYLAND > I see. ...
I think this is a major promo issue for Mozilla, since more and more people are getting handhelds.
I have a WinCE device, and have to jump through several loops to sync my IMAP mail at work - using Outlook. Isn't that awkward?
If people could get a simple, generic calendar/mail/contacts system that worked on both their PC and (any-brand) handheld, they wouldn't miss IE or Outlook for a second.
Seriously, comparing it to... stealing xeroxed practice exams would be a better analogy. Not a very good one, though. Ahem.
Someone please Re: and help me out here!:-)
Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service
By JOHN MARKOFF
AN FRANCISCO, April 10 -- Microsoft (news/quote) has quietly shelved a consumer information service that was once planned as the centerpiece of the company's foray into the market for tightly linked Web services.
The service, originally code-named Hailstorm and later renamed My Services, was to be the clearest example of the company's ambitious.Net strategy. It was intended to permit an individual to keep an online persona independent of his or her desktop computer, supposedly safely stored as part of a vast data repository where there could be easy access to it from any point on the Internet.
At the time of the introduction of My Services, Microsoft also proclaimed that it would have a set of prominent partners in areas like finance and travel for the My Services system. However, according to both industry consultants and Microsoft partners, after nine months of intense effort the company was unable to find any partner willing to commit itself to the program.
Industry executives said the caution displayed by consumer giants like American Express (news/quote) and Citigroup (news/quote) illuminated a bitter tug of war being fought over consumer information by some of the largest financial and information companies.
"They ran into the reality that many companies don't want any company between them and their customers," said David Smith, vice president for Internet services at the Gartner Group (news/quote), a computer industry consulting and research firm.
The lack of interest also indicates that in a variety of industries outside the desktop computer business there remain significant concerns about Microsoft's potential to use its personal computer monopoly and its.Net software to leverage its brand into a broad range of service businesses.
An early signal that the My Services idea was in trouble came last fall at Microsoft's annual developer's conference, attended by more than 6,000 programmers. The sessions on My Services were poorly attended, an attendee said.
"There was incredible customer resistance," said a Microsoft.Net consultant, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. Microsoft was unable to persuade either consumer companies or software developers that it had solved all of the privacy and security issues raised by the prospect of keeping personal information in a centralized repository, he said.
Microsoft executives acknowledged the shift in strategy and said the company was still contemplating how it would bring out a revised version of the My Services technology. The decision resulted in a relocation of several dozen programmers in December from a consumer products development group run by Robert Muglia to the company's operating systems division.
"We're sort of in the Hegelian synthesis of figuring out where the products go once they've encountered the reality of the marketplace," said Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's general manager for platform strategy.
He said part of the decision to back away from a consumer version of My Services was based on industry concerns about who was going to manage customer data. The issue, he asserted, was more of a sticking point within the industry, rather than among consumers.
"We heard a lot of concern about that point from competitors in the industry but very little from our users," he said.
Microsoft is now considering selling My Services to corporations in a traditional package form, rather than as a service. The companies would maintain the data for their own users.
"Frankly selling this stuff to people who build large data centers with our software is not a bad model," Mr. Fitzgerald said.
Microsoft first introduced the Hailstorm services idea at a news conference at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash., in March 2001. At the time, the technology received endorsements from a handful of corporations including American Express, Expedia (news/quote), eBay (news/quote), Click Commerce (news/quote) and Groove Networks.
At the time of the announcement, Microsoft described Hailstorm as a way for a consumer to have a consistent set of services, like e-mail, contacts, a calendar and an electronic "wallet" -- whether sitting at a desk or traveling and using a wireless personal digital assistant.
"Microsoft's `Hailstorm' technologies open exciting new opportunities for us to use the Web in ways never thought of before, helping us to continue to deliver service that is truly unmatched in the industry," Glen Salow, the chief information officer of American Express, said at the time in a statement.
More recently, however, American Express officials have told computer industry executives that they remain concerned about being displaced by Microsoft's brand in such a partnership.
A company spokesman said in a telephone interview today that American Express had intended to endorse the broader notion of integrated Internet services last March, not My Services specifically. He said he did not know if the company had discussions with Microsoft about becoming a My Services repository.
Several industry consultants who work with Microsoft said that the company was now planning to deploy My Services as a software product for corporate computer users some time next year, after the company introduces its.Net operating system.
"Enterprise customers were telling Microsoft, `We like this idea but we don't want to be part of this huge public database,' " said Matt Rosoff, an analyst who follows the company at Directions on Microsoft, a market research firm in Kirkland, Wash.
When it was introduced, the Hailstorm plan quickly became a lightning rod for privacy advocates who saw dangers in concentrating vast amounts of personal information in a single repository.
Last fall a coalition of privacy groups complained in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission about the potential risks inherent in Microsoft's collecting personal information from and about several hundred million personal computer users.
My Services also created thorny privacy issues for Microsoft in Europe, because of restrictions on transborder data transfers there. Microsoft has not resolved how personal information stored in one country can be easily transmitted internationally.
It's too bad Gandalf, I mean McKellen, didn't get an Oscar. (It's been said before, but here we go) He sure did a great job as leading actor. (Beacuse, admit it, if FOTR has a leading character, it is Gandalf)
Denzel deserves his Oscar, though.
(With the risk being offtopic - sorry!)
When maintaining and expanding software, the documentation you usually miss in a project are decisions that have been taken along the way.
You know, the things that makes you go "That's an awkward solution. Why in the world did they do that?!"
(E.g., it may be because of implicit customer requirements, or bugs in third party software, that otherwise would have been the obvious choice.)
Since these decisions are above source code, yet below the 'requirements and specification'-level, they often go undocumented, and then the guys who inherit the project have to start all over.
If you think this sounds interesting, but don't have any clue what it's about (is that possible?:-), CIELab describes a color using three decimal values (L, a & b).
The difference between two CIELab values is called Delta E. You can find a formula here.
Classes and APIs more important than language
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What is .NET?
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Programming Windoze for a living, I couldn't care less about language interoperability and all that hype.
It's neat. But that's it.
In my experience, language skills comes a distant second to knowing your OS.
What I really hope for are quirk-free class libraries, and bugfree APIs. I'd have to find a new job then, of course...:)
To answer your first (and less religious) question:
Why not code the GUI in a fast language like VB or perl, then connect it (using COM/CORBA/...) to a main app coded in a more capable language like C++?
Or wait for.NET, which hopefully makes this even easier.
Or, if you want to stick to one language, use Delphi/C++-Builder, which may make porting easier (using Kylix).
Slashdot Mirror
Some people are always going to try the "don't try this at home" tricks.
I remember having a physics lession; something about sound. Anyway, we had a couple of tuning forks.
The teacher said: "Oh, by the way, don't put it to your teeth! That would make your enamel shatter".
You can guess the rest.
I, for one, don't want to give anyone any bad ideas. So forget you ever read this!
You misunderstand me, AC. What I mean is you'll never have to use the DOS prompt, or 'dir' again.
you have to manually select every little package you want
Actually, you just have to select Install/Default/etc of the 'All' (top) package.
After that you can select/unselect individual packages...
'ls' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>
Never again.
AOL? It guess that would go something like this:
...
> Hello, I am Eliza.
* U HAVE ANY COOL MEGADEATH MP3S?
> Don't you ever say Hello?
* DAMIT WHY DONT YOU LOSERS TALK ABOUT MUSIC NOT NO GAY SHIT
> We were discussing you, not me.
* GET A ROOM, THIS IS HEAVY METAL, NOT PANSYLAND
> I see.
...Here, as Alice herself is busy being slashdotted.
Maybe I shouldn't quit my job for a standup comedy career after all...
I'll buy that big red nose though.
Again ! And you tell us to check our URLs...
Well, if you bothered to check your own, I might get to see that slashdot effect too !
(PS Is it something like those java water ripples ?)
Here
:-)
I pity anyone who mods this obviously karma whoring post higher than (3, Informative), though
I think this is a major promo issue for Mozilla, since more and more people are getting handhelds.
I have a WinCE device, and have to jump through several loops to sync my IMAP mail at work - using Outlook. Isn't that awkward?
If people could get a simple, generic calendar/mail/contacts system that worked on both their PC and (any-brand) handheld, they wouldn't miss IE or Outlook for a second.
For a second there, I read "My memory is so poor I forget friends" :
"Hello, Cliff!"
"Oh hi, eh..." (quickly glances at PDA) "Hemos."
Well I though it was funny...
No signs or monuments to make people curious, and samples of the bad stuff...
Best idea I've heard so far.
...you should use those that are funny too.
:-)
Seriously, comparing it to... stealing xeroxed practice exams would be a better analogy.
Not a very good one, though. Ahem.
Someone please Re: and help me out here!
April 11, 2002
.Net strategy. It was intended to permit an individual to keep an online persona independent of his or her desktop computer, supposedly safely stored as part of a vast data repository where there could be easy access to it from any point on the Internet.
.Net software to leverage its brand into a broad range of service businesses.
.Net consultant, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. Microsoft was unable to persuade either consumer companies or software developers that it had solved all of the privacy and security issues raised by the prospect of keeping personal information in a centralized repository, he said.
.Net operating system.
Microsoft Has Shelved Its Internet 'Persona' Service
By JOHN MARKOFF
AN FRANCISCO, April 10 -- Microsoft (news/quote) has quietly shelved a consumer information service that was once planned as the centerpiece of the company's foray into the market for tightly linked Web services.
The service, originally code-named Hailstorm and later renamed My Services, was to be the clearest example of the company's ambitious
At the time of the introduction of My Services, Microsoft also proclaimed that it would have a set of prominent partners in areas like finance and travel for the My Services system. However, according to both industry consultants and Microsoft partners, after nine months of intense effort the company was unable to find any partner willing to commit itself to the program.
Industry executives said the caution displayed by consumer giants like American Express (news/quote) and Citigroup (news/quote) illuminated a bitter tug of war being fought over consumer information by some of the largest financial and information companies.
"They ran into the reality that many companies don't want any company between them and their customers," said David Smith, vice president for Internet services at the Gartner Group (news/quote), a computer industry consulting and research firm.
The lack of interest also indicates that in a variety of industries outside the desktop computer business there remain significant concerns about Microsoft's potential to use its personal computer monopoly and its
An early signal that the My Services idea was in trouble came last fall at Microsoft's annual developer's conference, attended by more than 6,000 programmers. The sessions on My Services were poorly attended, an attendee said.
"There was incredible customer resistance," said a Microsoft
Microsoft executives acknowledged the shift in strategy and said the company was still contemplating how it would bring out a revised version of the My Services technology. The decision resulted in a relocation of several dozen programmers in December from a consumer products development group run by Robert Muglia to the company's operating systems division.
"We're sort of in the Hegelian synthesis of figuring out where the products go once they've encountered the reality of the marketplace," said Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's general manager for platform strategy.
He said part of the decision to back away from a consumer version of My Services was based on industry concerns about who was going to manage customer data. The issue, he asserted, was more of a sticking point within the industry, rather than among consumers.
"We heard a lot of concern about that point from competitors in the industry but very little from our users," he said.
Microsoft is now considering selling My Services to corporations in a traditional package form, rather than as a service. The companies would maintain the data for their own users.
"Frankly selling this stuff to people who build large data centers with our software is not a bad model," Mr. Fitzgerald said.
Microsoft first introduced the Hailstorm services idea at a news conference at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash., in March 2001. At the time, the technology received endorsements from a handful of corporations including American Express, Expedia (news/quote), eBay (news/quote), Click Commerce (news/quote) and Groove Networks.
At the time of the announcement, Microsoft described Hailstorm as a way for a consumer to have a consistent set of services, like e-mail, contacts, a calendar and an electronic "wallet" -- whether sitting at a desk or traveling and using a wireless personal digital assistant.
"Microsoft's `Hailstorm' technologies open exciting new opportunities for us to use the Web in ways never thought of before, helping us to continue to deliver service that is truly unmatched in the industry," Glen Salow, the chief information officer of American Express, said at the time in a statement.
More recently, however, American Express officials have told computer industry executives that they remain concerned about being displaced by Microsoft's brand in such a partnership.
A company spokesman said in a telephone interview today that American Express had intended to endorse the broader notion of integrated Internet services last March, not My Services specifically. He said he did not know if the company had discussions with Microsoft about becoming a My Services repository.
Several industry consultants who work with Microsoft said that the company was now planning to deploy My Services as a software product for corporate computer users some time next year, after the company introduces its
"Enterprise customers were telling Microsoft, `We like this idea but we don't want to be part of this huge public database,' " said Matt Rosoff, an analyst who follows the company at Directions on Microsoft, a market research firm in Kirkland, Wash.
When it was introduced, the Hailstorm plan quickly became a lightning rod for privacy advocates who saw dangers in concentrating vast amounts of personal information in a single repository.
Last fall a coalition of privacy groups complained in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission about the potential risks inherent in Microsoft's collecting personal information from and about several hundred million personal computer users.
My Services also created thorny privacy issues for Microsoft in Europe, because of restrictions on transborder data transfers there. Microsoft has not resolved how personal information stored in one country can be easily transmitted internationally.
Don't tell my girlfriend!! :-)
My leash is short enough as it is...
It's too bad Gandalf, I mean McKellen, didn't get an Oscar. (It's been said before, but here we go) He sure did a great job as leading actor.
(Beacuse, admit it, if FOTR has a leading character, it is Gandalf)
Denzel deserves his Oscar, though.
(With the risk being offtopic - sorry!)
When maintaining and expanding software, the documentation you usually miss in a project are decisions that have been taken along the way.
You know, the things that makes you go "That's an awkward solution. Why in the world did they do that?!"
(E.g., it may be because of implicit customer requirements, or bugs in third party software, that otherwise would have been the obvious choice.)
Since these decisions are above source code, yet below the 'requirements and specification'-level, they often go undocumented, and then the guys who inherit the project have to start all over.
...until personal integrity really is being violated?
If someone want's to know my length, or if I bought milk today or not - fine!
We're not talking about a mind-reading device here...
If you think this sounds interesting, but don't have any clue what it's about (is that possible? :-), CIELab describes a color using three decimal values (L, a & b).
The difference between two CIELab values is called Delta E. You can find a formula here.
Programming Windoze for a living, I couldn't care less about language interoperability and all that hype. :)
It's neat. But that's it.
In my experience, language skills comes a distant second to knowing your OS.
What I really hope for are quirk-free class libraries, and bugfree APIs. I'd have to find a new job then, of course...
To answer your first (and less religious) question: .NET, which hopefully makes this even easier.
Why not code the GUI in a fast language like VB or perl, then connect it (using COM/CORBA/...) to a main app coded in a more capable language like C++?
Or wait for
Or, if you want to stick to one language, use Delphi/C++-Builder, which may make porting easier (using Kylix).