Still... what happened to "developers, developers, developers"?
150,000 applications and 3 Billion downloads from Apple App Store happened. It tells Microsoft that developers are gonna be fine. Sure it's not going to make everyone happy, but its enough to be a successful platform in the current mobile phone industry.
Seconded. Give it to a charity or give it away as a gift. If you're short on cash for media center, sell it on eBay and build/buy your favorite flavor of OS for media center box.
Well they Apple has this handy disclaimer on the page you linked - "Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries. See your carrier for availability". No fraud here as value of "some" now approaches "all".
Exchange 2010 fully supports premium OWA experience in Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x (on Mac). That includes HTML mail compose, drag & drop support and flashy UI.
I think the Monad cmdline shell is innovative in its use of rich objects rather than text as output. Exchange 2007 adopted it heavily for their administration tools finaly giving decent cmdline access to that product. Hopefully more server products will follow that trend.
If someone is using Win98 now, they likely have a 6-8 year old computer. They are more than likely will purchase new hardware and with said hardware either get a copy of XP or move to Mac.
Were you interviewing for a developer or a program manager (PM) position? If you were getting interviewed for a PM, then your answer was inappropriate for that position. PMs are supposed to design features on an item and how to intergrate it with other things to "add value". If you were interviewing for a developer position then I think the answer you gave was spot on. In that case you had a shoddy interviewer who should not have been on the developer interview loop.
A more appropriate question to ask is, how long will the patch take to be distributed to end-users? Most people don't run nightly builds. Most non-geek people rely on distributions to provide them their patches. As more Windows/IE users migrate to OSS software, the question "How long until the patch is pushed to me by Redhat/SuSe/etc?" will become more relevant than "How long it took someone to mark the bug as 'fixed'?"
Microsoft has always maintained that XBox was from the get go conceived as a loss leader. They needed to get into console business, they didn't have time to R&D custom hardware like Sony. They used off the shelf parts to give XBox short time to market in exchange for their own fab facilities and eventually being able to break even on hardware.
XBox is a success in terms of what it gained them in the market place though: 1.) Sizeable install base 2.) Best graphics in the industry. Though I'll grant you its only because they were last to market and thus took advantage of latest hardware. 3.)Arguably the best online story of the 3 major consoles. 4.) They are #2 game publisher in the industry according to Game Developers Magazine. That's up from #9 last year and god knows what in pre-Xbox times. 5.) Valuable lessons for development of XBox 2 (remains to be seen if they actually take heed) 6.) As a byproduct, XBox experience gave us the nForce chipsets from nVidia, which are arguably the best chipset family for AMD platform.
So while monetarily XBox is a loss for them, it is not a failure.
Ironically Office & other divisions haven't been using "secret" APIs for years. Partly because of the anti-trust lawsuit, largely because it's a rrreally bad idea to do. Windows guys would make a change to some private function and suddently daily Office builds keel over. Now, what is happening is divisions routinely developing on top of pre-released APIs. VS2005 and.NET Framework 2.0 haven't shipped yet, but there is tons of code in the company built on top of them. Would you consider that an uneven field?
If something happens to the machine or I just choose to not use it anymore, the Windows license which I PAID FOR is now worthless. In any business besides software, this would be shut down as the racket that it is.
I take it you have never purchased heard of restricted (non-refundable, non-transferrable) airline fares.
Let's just settle the dramatic misunderstanding. The license for which YOU PAID FOR is a restricted license which is sold to you at a discount in exchange for the ability to transfer the license to another machine. Check newegg.com or your favorite vendor: XP Pro OEM = $142, XP Pro Retail = 241. That's a pretty substantial discount. The typical user who buys machines from a major OEM doesn't want to transfer licenses. They get a machine, use it for 3-5 years and replace it with a new OEM box. To the majority of Dell's, Compaq's and HP's customers the upfront cost of the machine is obviously more important than being able to transfer the license to a different machine later on. If the majority thought otherwise, then each of these machines would be marked up $100 and sold with retail license of Windows XP.
As to being required to pay for a Windows license, well that's not particularly Microsoft's problem. After the anti-trust they're no longer allowed to discriminate OEMs based on whether or not they sell hardware with other OSs. If you're unable to buy a machine without Windows from a major vendor, then your beef is with the vendor and not Microsoft. Consumers (not businesses) who want to buy hardware without Windows installed are a minority and thus until people like you become numerous enough to make it a competitive disadvantage for Dell to only be pre-installing Windows, no major OEM will bend over for you. Suck it up and exercise your right of choice by sending your business towards an OEM that will sell you what you want.
I started getting Code Red connection attempts and repeated assaults on various four-digit ports. I guess they don't respect geographic boundaries either. By the way, this all happened while I was downloading XP2/SP2. It's not going to help when we don't even have time to install it before getting our machines "owned".
If you're posting on Slashdot you should know by now not to attach a freshly installed XP machine to the Internet without having enabled firewall first. That very small tidbit will make the difference between "owned" and painless install.
I have the same laptop. Check what BIOS you have on the machine. If the version is 0F02.P00, then you need to update it to at least 0F05.P00. The older BIOS was incompatible with the NX bit on the Athlon64 chip. You can get the BIOS unofficially from here. Personally I'd suggest going the BIOS route.
Alternately you can remove "/noexecute" option from your boot.ini.
And since virtually every Windows User out there works with administrator rights, worms/spyware/whatever can simply deactivate the firewall with a simple API call.As opposed to stopping/uninstalling the 3rd party firewall since the worm is running with admin priviliges and can do whatever it pleases on the box? Let's face it, once the malicious code gets admin rights on the box, nothing on that machine can stop it.
Does AIM have an option to automatically block messages from anyone not on your buddy list? MSNIM does (by default) and if there is IM spam on that network, I certainly don't get any of it.
I've still seen MCSEs around here unable to fix a crashing XP or 2k box and just give up and reinstall the OS
Sometimes it may not be worth wasting your time trying to diagnose a machine. A few months ago my dev machine suddenly decided to stop booting. Couldn't find ntoskrnl.dll you see. So I Googled for a while and tried a few things and an hour later I've admitted defeat and called IT. And we were on the phone for an hour trying stuff like repair console and other good things. And then I realized that my working source was on a different drive than my OS, my documents are stored on a network folder and my 200MB mailbox is sitting on the Exchange server. The only thing I had to lose by reinstall was VS.NET / Office and Opera installations. I flattened the box and was back up and running.
So in the end, I was down for 3 hours of which 2 were spent trying to fix windows and 1 reinstalling. Had I just reinstalled it I'd be down for 1 hour only. Guess, I'm getting too old for this "Goddamn it I can fix it" pride shit.
Hmmm, and then WHY do the W2K and XP machines here Bluescreen at least 3 times a quarter?
Perhaps your analog video encoding hardware has shitty drivers? If BSOD's are so disruptive to your business, set Windows to take full crashdumps and call either Microsoft support or the vendor for the crashing driver. Microsoft waives the support call fee if its a genuine bug in their softaware. Just don't let the support tech close the case until you get a satisfactory resolution.
And the point is? Growing those soybeans for food using current methods requires anywhere between 12-18 times the energy that you receive from the food, including lots of nasty things like fossil fuels and fertilizer!
Is that for one acre of soy for one harvest season?
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Still... what happened to "developers, developers, developers"?
150,000 applications and 3 Billion downloads from Apple App Store happened. It tells Microsoft that developers are gonna be fine. Sure it's not going to make everyone happy, but its enough to be a successful platform in the current mobile phone industry.
Microsoft would make money by running the services themselves and pocket the subscription fees instead of licensing fees.
Ballmer gave a talk at the University of Washington on Microsoft's cloud strategy: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/cloud/videogallery.aspx
Seconded. Give it to a charity or give it away as a gift. If you're short on cash for media center, sell it on eBay and build/buy your favorite flavor of OS for media center box.
Well they Apple has this handy disclaimer on the page you linked - "Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries. See your carrier for availability". No fraud here as value of "some" now approaches "all".
Exchange 2010 fully supports premium OWA experience in Firefox 3.x and Safari 3.x (on Mac). That includes HTML mail compose, drag & drop support and flashy UI.
I think the Monad cmdline shell is innovative in its use of rich objects rather than text as output. Exchange 2007 adopted it heavily for their administration tools finaly giving decent cmdline access to that product. Hopefully more server products will follow that trend.
If someone is using Win98 now, they likely have a 6-8 year old computer. They are more than likely will purchase new hardware and with said hardware either get a copy of XP or move to Mac.
Were you interviewing for a developer or a program manager (PM) position? If you were getting interviewed for a PM, then your answer was inappropriate for that position. PMs are supposed to design features on an item and how to intergrate it with other things to "add value". If you were interviewing for a developer position then I think the answer you gave was spot on. In that case you had a shoddy interviewer who should not have been on the developer interview loop.
A more appropriate question to ask is, how long will the patch take to be distributed to end-users?
Most people don't run nightly builds. Most non-geek people rely on distributions to provide them their patches. As more Windows/IE users migrate to OSS software, the question "How long until the patch is pushed to me by Redhat/SuSe/etc?" will become more relevant than "How long it took someone to mark the bug as 'fixed'?"
Microsoft has always maintained that XBox was from the get go conceived as a loss leader. They needed to get into console business, they didn't have time to R&D custom hardware like Sony. They used off the shelf parts to give XBox short time to market in exchange for their own fab facilities and eventually being able to break even on hardware.
XBox is a success in terms of what it gained them in the market place though:
1.) Sizeable install base
2.) Best graphics in the industry. Though I'll grant you its only because they were last to market and thus took advantage of latest hardware.
3.)Arguably the best online story of the 3 major consoles.
4.) They are #2 game publisher in the industry according to Game Developers Magazine. That's up from #9 last year and god knows what in pre-Xbox times.
5.) Valuable lessons for development of XBox 2 (remains to be seen if they actually take heed)
6.) As a byproduct, XBox experience gave us the nForce chipsets from nVidia, which are arguably the best chipset family for AMD platform.
So while monetarily XBox is a loss for them, it is not a failure.
Ironically Office & other divisions haven't been using "secret" APIs for years. Partly because of the anti-trust lawsuit, largely because it's a rrreally bad idea to do. Windows guys would make a change to some private function and suddently daily Office builds keel over. Now, what is happening is divisions routinely developing on top of pre-released APIs. VS2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 haven't shipped yet, but there is tons of code in the company built on top of them. Would you consider that an uneven field?
If something happens to the machine or I just choose to not use it anymore, the Windows license which I PAID FOR is now worthless. In any business besides software, this would be shut down as the racket that it is.
I take it you have never purchased heard of restricted (non-refundable, non-transferrable) airline fares.
Let's just settle the dramatic misunderstanding. The license for which YOU PAID FOR is a restricted license which is sold to you at a discount in exchange for the ability to transfer the license to another machine. Check newegg.com or your favorite vendor: XP Pro OEM = $142, XP Pro Retail = 241. That's a pretty substantial discount. The typical user who buys machines from a major OEM doesn't want to transfer licenses. They get a machine, use it for 3-5 years and replace it with a new OEM box. To the majority of Dell's, Compaq's and HP's customers the upfront cost of the machine is obviously more important than being able to transfer the license to a different machine later on. If the majority thought otherwise, then each of these machines would be marked up $100 and sold with retail license of Windows XP.
As to being required to pay for a Windows license, well that's not particularly Microsoft's problem. After the anti-trust they're no longer allowed to discriminate OEMs based on whether or not they sell hardware with other OSs. If you're unable to buy a machine without Windows from a major vendor, then your beef is with the vendor and not Microsoft. Consumers (not businesses) who want to buy hardware without Windows installed are a minority and thus until people like you become numerous enough to make it a competitive disadvantage for Dell to only be pre-installing Windows, no major OEM will bend over for you. Suck it up and exercise your right of choice by sending your business towards an OEM that will sell you what you want.
I started getting Code Red connection attempts and repeated assaults on various four-digit ports. I guess they don't respect geographic boundaries either. By the way, this all happened while I was downloading XP2/SP2. It's not going to help when we don't even have time to install it before getting our machines "owned".
If you're posting on Slashdot you should know by now not to attach a freshly installed XP machine to the Internet without having enabled firewall first. That very small tidbit will make the difference between "owned" and painless install.
I have the same laptop. Check what BIOS you have on the machine. If the version is 0F02.P00, then you need to update it to at least 0F05.P00. The older BIOS was incompatible with the NX bit on the Athlon64 chip. You can get the BIOS unofficially from here. Personally I'd suggest going the BIOS route.
Alternately you can remove "/noexecute" option from your boot.ini.
And since virtually every Windows User out there works with administrator rights, worms/spyware/whatever can simply deactivate the firewall with a simple API call.As opposed to stopping/uninstalling the 3rd party firewall since the worm is running with admin priviliges and can do whatever it pleases on the box? Let's face it, once the malicious code gets admin rights on the box, nothing on that machine can stop it.
Does AIM have an option to automatically block messages from anyone not on your buddy list? MSNIM does (by default) and if there is IM spam on that network, I certainly don't get any of it.
I've still seen MCSEs around here unable to fix a crashing XP or 2k box and just give up and reinstall the OS
Sometimes it may not be worth wasting your time trying to diagnose a machine. A few months ago my dev machine suddenly decided to stop booting. Couldn't find ntoskrnl.dll you see. So I Googled for a while and tried a few things and an hour later I've admitted defeat and called IT. And we were on the phone for an hour trying stuff like repair console and other good things. And then I realized that my working source was on a different drive than my OS, my documents are stored on a network folder and my 200MB mailbox is sitting on the Exchange server. The only thing I had to lose by reinstall was VS.NET / Office and Opera installations. I flattened the box and was back up and running.
So in the end, I was down for 3 hours of which 2 were spent trying to fix windows and 1 reinstalling. Had I just reinstalled it I'd be down for 1 hour only. Guess, I'm getting too old for this "Goddamn it I can fix it" pride shit.
Hmmm, and then WHY do the W2K and XP machines here Bluescreen at least 3 times a quarter?
Perhaps your analog video encoding hardware has shitty drivers? If BSOD's are so disruptive to your business, set Windows to take full crashdumps and call either Microsoft support or the vendor for the crashing driver. Microsoft waives the support call fee if its a genuine bug in their softaware. Just don't let the support tech close the case until you get a satisfactory resolution.
And the point is? Growing those soybeans for food using current methods requires anywhere between 12-18 times the energy that you receive from the food, including lots of nasty things like fossil fuels and fertilizer!
Is that for one acre of soy for one harvest season?
I think he's referring to Raymond's comment policy
I'm curious, what's your beef with .NET?
Google points that they haven't deployed yet:
Munich Migration Hits Speed Bump
Munich Linux migration hits serious snags, Users finding Linux learning curve steep, city council calls for investigation
Munich Open Source Plows Ahead
Perhaps someone from Germany could track down the infamous Computerwoche article?
Could you please elaborate more on how OpenOffice "runs better" than MS Office? Links to studies would be helpful.