I second the above. When I started using Google so many years ago, it was more because the page was lean and loaded fast then how relevant the search results were. And the lean simple home page is 100% of the reason al my browsers and the browsers of most of the machines I have worked on over the years have been set to use google.com as their start page. The search results were something I grew to like over time. But even to this day, the lean, simple, search page is at least 50% of the reason I use Google search primarily. Even all the little links and the "iGoogle" thing have been annoying to me at times. I want a page as lean and fast as possible. If they are going to put a bunch of crap on there that makes the page go slow I might as well go use Bing or whatever...there is no longer the big advantage keeping me going back to google.
Those students are nowhere doing anything like landing on the moon. Yes it's an impressive student project but it is mostly useless from a scientific and technical POV. Good for promoting awareness of EVs I guess[1].
Nissan and friends are the ones improving the technology.
[1] But you wouldn't want your friends to be buying EVs till the tech improves a lot more, unless they are really rich and can afford to "donate to progress" or the cars really suit their requirements.
I don't have mod points so I'll just add this: The Tesla Model S prototype has a 300mile range with the "large" battery pack option AND carries up to 7 passengers AND with the help of Toyota and some Government grants, will be going into full production soon...way beyond the "proof of concept" stage. And for that matter, high school kids are building electric cars in their parent's garages these days. So why is this college student project impressive at all?
I think this is a very dangerous precedent all around.
First of all, as the parent alluded to, there is a tendency for "scope creep" in any exception to any law.
Secondly, it's quite obvious that the justices were trying to acknowledge a deficiency in the current laws, however to hand down a verdict like this is a great example of the "slippery slope".. Ultimately, this gives a lot of power to government to do stuff like setup "Gitmo"s for it's own citizens that some official declares to be "dangerous". And ultimately it's punishing people for "thought crimes". I don't doubt that these people would commit crimes again, but if they have already served the maximum sentence under current law, they should be set free until they do actually commit another crime. Yeah it sucks sometimes, but that is how our justice system is supposed to work...you get punished for what you have done, not what you "might do". If what they do is so "dangerous" then the laws for punishment should be strong enough to sentence the person to life without parole once they have committed one of those offenses. What ever happened to the law being blind anyway?
So what are you saying? In 20 years mankind will have somehow managed to create sensors and hardware that can never fail, and completely bug-free software that can handle every situation that will every happen anywhere anytime ever?
Wow, you weren't a "Titanic" engineer in a previous life were you?
There is nothing wrong with trying to improve quality and function, but when people stop being humble epic failures usually follow.
Clippy: "Hi, I noticed you were trying to buy one billion shares of Proctor and Gamble even though there are less than a billion in existence. Would you like me to make that a shortcut for you?"
For the record there are approx 2.88 billion shares of PG in existence.
Tallahassee, having exhausted every supply of twinkies on the earth, goes to Cape Canaveral and hot-wires a space shuttle to go after the big twinkie he saw in the sky. "The gang" goes with him. They find Buzz Aldrin (who has creative zombie killing genius only rivaled by Tallahassee) to pilot the shuttle. Columbus and Witchita get to make out in space. Zombies hitch a ride with them and have to be killed. They make a "pitstop" at the ISS, which has more zombies that have to be killed. And the "big twinkie in the sky" turns out to just be a lame USAF space plane experiment with no twinkies on board but is full of more zombies to be killed.
I have said this before and I'll say it again. There is simply no "software" or "electronic" replacement for a physical disconnect. For regular internal combustion powered cars (including those awful things Honda calls hybrids), a simple disconnect switch on the +12V wire going to the fuel pump mounted within reach of the driver would be cheap and 100% effective. A physical disconnect on vehicles capable of powered movement on electricity alone would require a bit more expensive failsafe disconnect due to the voltages and wire sizes involved, but it's still the only truly 100% effective solution.
As for the cause of the un-intentional acceleration. I agree with most people who have said that it is some type of user error. Most likely people get the floor mat stuck over the pedal and are too dumb to reach down and pull it off. Has happened to me in a couple different vehicles over the years...but I survived each incident without accident or injury due to my excellent "reach down and pull the #$% thing off" skills. That said, I DONT trust fly by wire systems and do think that there should be a physical disconnect on any such system as mentioned above.
A very good description of what is probably the problem. Given that these cars are now "fly by wire", I am no longer thinking about buying one. Given the number of times I have seen "redundant" electronic devices that are not supposed to ever completely go down fail due to "multiple catastrophic failures" in my relatively short lifetime, I'm not keen on trusting my life to a fly by wire system...even with double, triple or quadruple redundant paths. Just why is it that we need to do away with a physical throttle cable anyway? There was nothing wrong with throttle cables. They have been giving us reliable acceleration (and provided a means of "brute forcing" deceleration in "sticky" situations more or less since the dawn of automobiles. If they must do "fly by wire", then I want a "failsafe" kill switch accessible by the driver that cuts off power to the fuel pump. This whole business of putting in "code" to compensate is a dirty, ugly and downright dangerous hack...period.
Agreed. Molalla, Oregon started a co-op way way way back whenever to get phone service to the little logging town. 90% of their service area is very very rural...not just "the burbs", were talking mostly farms and forests. The town only just got it's first stop light a few years ago (and there is still only one so far). When DSL became available, people wanted it so they rolled it out. When fibre to the doorstep became affordable they rolled it out too. It's not 100mbps yet and they are still building, but you can get 40x10 fibre anywhere within city limits (and some places outside city limits) now for $49/month and 6x1 DSL anywhere in the service area (including some areas where there isn't even grid power available yet) for $60/mo. The only downside? We didn't get the annual profit sharing checks for a few years in the mail that had traditionally been given out since that money was what was paying for all the infrastructure upgrades:) The moral of the story? They proved that decent broadband can be provided to the "boondocks" or "sticks" or "suburban areas" for very reasonable prices if you aren't greedy, and still somewhat reasonable prices if you are trying to make a buck or two. At this point I would be willing to pay $75/mo for 40x10 internet, which according to what I have seen play out first hand should be enough to build and make a healthy profit.
I'm not generally a big fan of communal style ideas, but when it comes to communicating with your neighbors (next door or in the next country), I think communications co-ops make more sense then the likes of Comca$tic, Qwe$t and Veri$on. It's just difficult to get people on board to start one these days...
There are companies that just handle mergers and selling your company or buying someone else's.
One such company is Corum Group. (http://www.corumgroup.com/)
For the record, I do not work for Corum group, nor does the company I currently work for have any current ties to them.
Yes, well said. Based on the sketchy news reports I have seen, there are at least 30 million Iphones out there now while there are only about 1 million android devices so far. I think that gap will start to narrow with the introduction of the Droid phone and Verizon's accompanying ad campaigns. But dev for android should be considered investment in the future at this point, not a source of instant riches.
Portland, OR is not on the list...but then that's probably because travelers through PDX already enjoy free wi-fi courtesy of the Port of Portland and have for several years now. Now tell me again why other airports don't extend this courtesy already?
Same here. It took a while with all the programs I have installed on my development laptop, and it told me to uninstall the programs first that I would need to re-install after upgrading (only a couple, not a big deal) , but that was not unexpected and overall the process went very smoothly. This was over a month ago (yes, I get stuff early. No, I don't work for MSFT) Speed has not been greatly improved as I would have hoped, but it freed up a TON of space on my hard drive (not sure WHAT Vista was doing with all that space???) and memory usage seems to be a bit better.
No, with Fox's history of scuttling anything Sci-fi, I would not want them touching any comic book stuff. That being said, it frightens me alot that Disney is doing this. I can't imagine future movie adaptations of Marvel comic stories/characters will be all that good now. If ever I was to support anti-trust action, now would be the time.
There have been and still are a few implementations of external pci express. But they have all been prohibitively expensive and somewhat "special purpose". Besides ones already mentioned there is also several product options from http://www.magma.com/ Be prepared to drop a Grover Cleveland to get one.
What I don't seem to see mentioned anywhere is what happens when some event happens that causes everyone to go running to their computers to visit the latest fat "web 2.0" sites and suddenly 1000 or 10,000 different users are asking for massive additional capacity from the cloud? I can't imagine they can accurately plan for, much less afford to have on hand, the capacity to respond to that kind of event without everyone suffering poor service. Having inexpensive, instant scalability is great until you need to scale badly and the service is unavailable/crappy and you have locked yourself in to it. And don't get me started on security/audit compliance concerns. IMHO, clouds deserve a big flashing neon "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag.
Yes, you can buy a standalone tom tom gps navigator that has a bigger screen and better GPS reception for $100. Why would anyone want to pay the same price for just the software to power hardware they already own? Especially when the Sygic Mobile Maps US app is available with all the same features for $39.99. Still more then I am willing to pay, but within reason at least! Whoever the greedy bastard was at Tom Tom that decided $99 was as worthy price should be fired for betraying the company.
Agreed. There is that "certain something" missing from Blu-Ray that would make it the next big thing. I was shocked when my wife (who is not terribly tech savvy) flatly stated that there was little point in us buying a Blu-Ray player because we should wait for the "next thing after Blu-Ray". And added that "Blu-Ray feels like laser-disk". I was about to argue that there isn't anything after Blu-Ray but then quickly realized that at the time I bought my ill fated lazer disk player back in the day, DVDs were not out there yet either:) So I took it as simply one of those woman intuition things that I would be wise to heed and decided to leave the Blu-Rays on the shelf.
Hi guys...just had to pop in on this lively discussion. How about some actual references to temper things a bit?
Link to the wayback machine for spacex's website in 2004ish http://web.archive.org/web/20040520043224/http://spacex.com/
If you compare that with the actual launch dates on the current version of the website, you will see that their time line did slip by about 2 years along the way. So Mr. Negative does have some ground to stand on.
On the other hand, 2 years slippage of the schedule does not a death of an industry make. Further, having a couple failures is bad and discouraging, but they have had a success now. Edison had to go through thousands of light bulb failures before he finally got a viable one. Progress is rarely easy, fast or cheap. Proof of the overall reliability of the Falcon rockets good or bad will come with more launches. A couple of test launches tells you little about what the finished product will be like. And frankly I would expect at least one failure of the Falcon 9 design before it's fully ready to fly regular cargo. You can do all the sims you want, but the real tests are in the real world (or real space as the case may be). Oh, and also looking back at SpaceX's history, you will find that they purposely put the Dragon project on a back burner for a while because it was not their main focus. So part of the delay there was simply a business decision and nothing to do with technology hurdles or the like.
bottom line: SpaceX has had some setbacks, but they are still working at it and making admirable progress. Just because their schedule isn't matching up with what the US needs to keep the ISS on schedule doesn't mean they won't "get off the ground" in general. The smaller Falcon rockets were not even meant for that duty anyway...they are for launching commercial and military sats. Anyway, Congress already authorized some $$$ to extend the Shuttle program a few extra missions so SpaceX will have that much more chance to get in there and get the job done.
According to the official email I got from Microsoft this morning announcing the Win 7 RC1 download, the RTM schedule "might be as short as 3 months" if things go well. Which would put the RTM in the July-August time frame.
Personally, I think October is more realistic. Just mentioning what the "official" Microsoft email said.
FOSS bias aside, it will take a lot more then a less broken flagship OS for the general IT community to like them again. They also need to stop removing features from new editions of server products like they did in SQL 2008 and Exchange 2007. And start focusing on quality and usability over useless "new" features. It took me 2 weeks on the phone with support to get the latest edition of CRM installed on my company's domain. Why? Because some developer used a library from another project that caused the CRM install to look for Active Directory entries that are totally unrelated to anything CRM does and kill the install if they are not there. After numerous escalations we finally got to someone who knew about the problem and was able to help me setup the random stuff that needed to be there, but all I got was a weak apology...no indication that they actually intend to fix the problem.(hint: if you have Office Communications Server installed on your domain before you install CRM, you are probably ok). How about the PDF render bug in Reporting Services 2005? They know all about it, no indication that they intend to fix it though. STMP component bugs in SSIS? I could be here all day...
Um, except that Vista is NOT completely stable. Everybody in my office was forced to "upgrade" to HP laptops with Vista. There is at least one blue screen in the office on a good week...more like 6-10 on a typical week. Productivity has gone in the toilet but we are pretty much stuck for now.
A friend of mine just bought a new Dell laptop and it's almost unusable with all the crashes and freezes. The hardware checks out...it's just some weirdness with Vista and the particular networking settings he has. Yes, the network stack in Vista sucks monkey ass. It works for me pretty good most of the time, but other times DNS will not work for no reason and other times it completely ignores it's routing table for no reason.
Pretty much all these things probably can be traced back to driver issues. Microsoft likes to point the finger at the vendors for putting out bad drivers, but as most of us know, there is a reason that the driver framework was completely re-done in Windows 7.
Finally, where are these reviews of windows 7 that are "cautiously optimistic"? I have only seen one review so far and it said that except for the driver framework possibly being more stable (wait and see), it looked like mostly the same Vista crap. I guess you could call that cautiously optimistic, but that seems like a bit of a stretch...
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I second the above. When I started using Google so many years ago, it was more because the page was lean and loaded fast then how relevant the search results were. And the lean simple home page is 100% of the reason al my browsers and the browsers of most of the machines I have worked on over the years have been set to use google.com as their start page. The search results were something I grew to like over time. But even to this day, the lean, simple, search page is at least 50% of the reason I use Google search primarily. Even all the little links and the "iGoogle" thing have been annoying to me at times. I want a page as lean and fast as possible. If they are going to put a bunch of crap on there that makes the page go slow I might as well go use Bing or whatever...there is no longer the big advantage keeping me going back to google.
Those students are nowhere doing anything like landing on the moon. Yes it's an impressive student project but it is mostly useless from a scientific and technical POV. Good for promoting awareness of EVs I guess[1].
The previous Tesla models already HAD a 53kWh battery pack, 90% battery-to-wheel efficiency and > 248 mile range (under good conditions). The newer models might do better. Tesla even did a road trip too ( http://detroit.about.com/b/2010/01/19/detroit-auto-show-tesla-roadster-road-trip.htm ).
Nissan and friends are the ones improving the technology.
[1] But you wouldn't want your friends to be buying EVs till the tech improves a lot more, unless they are really rich and can afford to "donate to progress" or the cars really suit their requirements.
I don't have mod points so I'll just add this: The Tesla Model S prototype has a 300mile range with the "large" battery pack option AND carries up to 7 passengers AND with the help of Toyota and some Government grants, will be going into full production soon...way beyond the "proof of concept" stage. And for that matter, high school kids are building electric cars in their parent's garages these days. So why is this college student project impressive at all?
I think this is a very dangerous precedent all around.
First of all, as the parent alluded to, there is a tendency for "scope creep" in any exception to any law.
Secondly, it's quite obvious that the justices were trying to acknowledge a deficiency in the current laws, however to hand down a verdict like this is a great example of the "slippery slope".. Ultimately, this gives a lot of power to government to do stuff like setup "Gitmo"s for it's own citizens that some official declares to be "dangerous". And ultimately it's punishing people for "thought crimes". I don't doubt that these people would commit crimes again, but if they have already served the maximum sentence under current law, they should be set free until they do actually commit another crime. Yeah it sucks sometimes, but that is how our justice system is supposed to work...you get punished for what you have done, not what you "might do". If what they do is so "dangerous" then the laws for punishment should be strong enough to sentence the person to life without parole once they have committed one of those offenses. What ever happened to the law being blind anyway?
So what are you saying? In 20 years mankind will have somehow managed to create sensors and hardware that can never fail, and completely bug-free software that can handle every situation that will every happen anywhere anytime ever?
Wow, you weren't a "Titanic" engineer in a previous life were you?
There is nothing wrong with trying to improve quality and function, but when people stop being humble epic failures usually follow.
Clippy: "Hi, I noticed you were trying to buy one billion shares of Proctor and Gamble even though there are less than a billion in existence. Would you like me to make that a shortcut for you?"
For the record there are approx 2.88 billion shares of PG in existence.
Tallahassee, having exhausted every supply of twinkies on the earth, goes to Cape Canaveral and hot-wires a space shuttle to go after the big twinkie he saw in the sky. "The gang" goes with him. They find Buzz Aldrin (who has creative zombie killing genius only rivaled by Tallahassee) to pilot the shuttle. Columbus and Witchita get to make out in space. Zombies hitch a ride with them and have to be killed. They make a "pitstop" at the ISS, which has more zombies that have to be killed. And the "big twinkie in the sky" turns out to just be a lame USAF space plane experiment with no twinkies on board but is full of more zombies to be killed.
There is no Cyber-War ...and these are not the droids you are looking for.
I have said this before and I'll say it again. There is simply no "software" or "electronic" replacement for a physical disconnect. For regular internal combustion powered cars (including those awful things Honda calls hybrids), a simple disconnect switch on the +12V wire going to the fuel pump mounted within reach of the driver would be cheap and 100% effective. A physical disconnect on vehicles capable of powered movement on electricity alone would require a bit more expensive failsafe disconnect due to the voltages and wire sizes involved, but it's still the only truly 100% effective solution.
As for the cause of the un-intentional acceleration. I agree with most people who have said that it is some type of user error. Most likely people get the floor mat stuck over the pedal and are too dumb to reach down and pull it off. Has happened to me in a couple different vehicles over the years...but I survived each incident without accident or injury due to my excellent "reach down and pull the #$% thing off" skills. That said, I DONT trust fly by wire systems and do think that there should be a physical disconnect on any such system as mentioned above.
A very good description of what is probably the problem. Given that these cars are now "fly by wire", I am no longer thinking about buying one. Given the number of times I have seen "redundant" electronic devices that are not supposed to ever completely go down fail due to "multiple catastrophic failures" in my relatively short lifetime, I'm not keen on trusting my life to a fly by wire system...even with double, triple or quadruple redundant paths. Just why is it that we need to do away with a physical throttle cable anyway? There was nothing wrong with throttle cables. They have been giving us reliable acceleration (and provided a means of "brute forcing" deceleration in "sticky" situations more or less since the dawn of automobiles. If they must do "fly by wire", then I want a "failsafe" kill switch accessible by the driver that cuts off power to the fuel pump. This whole business of putting in "code" to compensate is a dirty, ugly and downright dangerous hack...period.
Agreed. Molalla, Oregon started a co-op way way way back whenever to get phone service to the little logging town. 90% of their service area is very very rural...not just "the burbs", were talking mostly farms and forests. The town only just got it's first stop light a few years ago (and there is still only one so far). When DSL became available, people wanted it so they rolled it out. When fibre to the doorstep became affordable they rolled it out too. It's not 100mbps yet and they are still building, but you can get 40x10 fibre anywhere within city limits (and some places outside city limits) now for $49/month and 6x1 DSL anywhere in the service area (including some areas where there isn't even grid power available yet) for $60/mo. The only downside? We didn't get the annual profit sharing checks for a few years in the mail that had traditionally been given out since that money was what was paying for all the infrastructure upgrades:) The moral of the story? They proved that decent broadband can be provided to the "boondocks" or "sticks" or "suburban areas" for very reasonable prices if you aren't greedy, and still somewhat reasonable prices if you are trying to make a buck or two. At this point I would be willing to pay $75/mo for 40x10 internet, which according to what I have seen play out first hand should be enough to build and make a healthy profit.
I'm not generally a big fan of communal style ideas, but when it comes to communicating with your neighbors (next door or in the next country), I think communications co-ops make more sense then the likes of Comca$tic, Qwe$t and Veri$on. It's just difficult to get people on board to start one these days...
There are companies that just handle mergers and selling your company or buying someone else's. One such company is Corum Group. (http://www.corumgroup.com/) For the record, I do not work for Corum group, nor does the company I currently work for have any current ties to them.
Yes, well said. Based on the sketchy news reports I have seen, there are at least 30 million Iphones out there now while there are only about 1 million android devices so far. I think that gap will start to narrow with the introduction of the Droid phone and Verizon's accompanying ad campaigns. But dev for android should be considered investment in the future at this point, not a source of instant riches.
Portland, OR is not on the list...but then that's probably because travelers through PDX already enjoy free wi-fi courtesy of the Port of Portland and have for several years now. Now tell me again why other airports don't extend this courtesy already?
Same here. It took a while with all the programs I have installed on my development laptop, and it told me to uninstall the programs first that I would need to re-install after upgrading (only a couple, not a big deal) , but that was not unexpected and overall the process went very smoothly. This was over a month ago (yes, I get stuff early. No, I don't work for MSFT) Speed has not been greatly improved as I would have hoped, but it freed up a TON of space on my hard drive (not sure WHAT Vista was doing with all that space???) and memory usage seems to be a bit better.
No, with Fox's history of scuttling anything Sci-fi, I would not want them touching any comic book stuff. That being said, it frightens me alot that Disney is doing this. I can't imagine future movie adaptations of Marvel comic stories/characters will be all that good now. If ever I was to support anti-trust action, now would be the time.
There have been and still are a few implementations of external pci express. But they have all been prohibitively expensive and somewhat "special purpose". Besides ones already mentioned there is also several product options from http://www.magma.com/ Be prepared to drop a Grover Cleveland to get one.
What I don't seem to see mentioned anywhere is what happens when some event happens that causes everyone to go running to their computers to visit the latest fat "web 2.0" sites and suddenly 1000 or 10,000 different users are asking for massive additional capacity from the cloud? I can't imagine they can accurately plan for, much less afford to have on hand, the capacity to respond to that kind of event without everyone suffering poor service. Having inexpensive, instant scalability is great until you need to scale badly and the service is unavailable/crappy and you have locked yourself in to it. And don't get me started on security/audit compliance concerns. IMHO, clouds deserve a big flashing neon "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag.
Yes, you can buy a standalone tom tom gps navigator that has a bigger screen and better GPS reception for $100. Why would anyone want to pay the same price for just the software to power hardware they already own? Especially when the Sygic Mobile Maps US app is available with all the same features for $39.99. Still more then I am willing to pay, but within reason at least! Whoever the greedy bastard was at Tom Tom that decided $99 was as worthy price should be fired for betraying the company.
Agreed. There is that "certain something" missing from Blu-Ray that would make it the next big thing. I was shocked when my wife (who is not terribly tech savvy) flatly stated that there was little point in us buying a Blu-Ray player because we should wait for the "next thing after Blu-Ray". And added that "Blu-Ray feels like laser-disk". I was about to argue that there isn't anything after Blu-Ray but then quickly realized that at the time I bought my ill fated lazer disk player back in the day, DVDs were not out there yet either:) So I took it as simply one of those woman intuition things that I would be wise to heed and decided to leave the Blu-Rays on the shelf.
Hi guys...just had to pop in on this lively discussion. How about some actual references to temper things a bit?
Link to the wayback machine for spacex's website in 2004ish http://web.archive.org/web/20040520043224/http://spacex.com/ If you compare that with the actual launch dates on the current version of the website, you will see that their time line did slip by about 2 years along the way. So Mr. Negative does have some ground to stand on.
On the other hand, 2 years slippage of the schedule does not a death of an industry make. Further, having a couple failures is bad and discouraging, but they have had a success now. Edison had to go through thousands of light bulb failures before he finally got a viable one. Progress is rarely easy, fast or cheap. Proof of the overall reliability of the Falcon rockets good or bad will come with more launches. A couple of test launches tells you little about what the finished product will be like. And frankly I would expect at least one failure of the Falcon 9 design before it's fully ready to fly regular cargo. You can do all the sims you want, but the real tests are in the real world (or real space as the case may be). Oh, and also looking back at SpaceX's history, you will find that they purposely put the Dragon project on a back burner for a while because it was not their main focus. So part of the delay there was simply a business decision and nothing to do with technology hurdles or the like.
bottom line: SpaceX has had some setbacks, but they are still working at it and making admirable progress. Just because their schedule isn't matching up with what the US needs to keep the ISS on schedule doesn't mean they won't "get off the ground" in general. The smaller Falcon rockets were not even meant for that duty anyway...they are for launching commercial and military sats. Anyway, Congress already authorized some $$$ to extend the Shuttle program a few extra missions so SpaceX will have that much more chance to get in there and get the job done.
Here is the best technical drawing I could find: link
According to the official email I got from Microsoft this morning announcing the Win 7 RC1 download, the RTM schedule "might be as short as 3 months" if things go well. Which would put the RTM in the July-August time frame.
Personally, I think October is more realistic. Just mentioning what the "official" Microsoft email said.
FOSS bias aside, it will take a lot more then a less broken flagship OS for the general IT community to like them again. They also need to stop removing features from new editions of server products like they did in SQL 2008 and Exchange 2007. And start focusing on quality and usability over useless "new" features. It took me 2 weeks on the phone with support to get the latest edition of CRM installed on my company's domain. Why? Because some developer used a library from another project that caused the CRM install to look for Active Directory entries that are totally unrelated to anything CRM does and kill the install if they are not there. After numerous escalations we finally got to someone who knew about the problem and was able to help me setup the random stuff that needed to be there, but all I got was a weak apology...no indication that they actually intend to fix the problem.(hint: if you have Office Communications Server installed on your domain before you install CRM, you are probably ok). How about the PDF render bug in Reporting Services 2005? They know all about it, no indication that they intend to fix it though. STMP component bugs in SSIS? I could be here all day...
You mean their hot dogs are now nearly rectum free? Wow, I should go buy one!
Um, except that Vista is NOT completely stable. Everybody in my office was forced to "upgrade" to HP laptops with Vista. There is at least one blue screen in the office on a good week...more like 6-10 on a typical week. Productivity has gone in the toilet but we are pretty much stuck for now.
A friend of mine just bought a new Dell laptop and it's almost unusable with all the crashes and freezes. The hardware checks out...it's just some weirdness with Vista and the particular networking settings he has. Yes, the network stack in Vista sucks monkey ass. It works for me pretty good most of the time, but other times DNS will not work for no reason and other times it completely ignores it's routing table for no reason.
Pretty much all these things probably can be traced back to driver issues. Microsoft likes to point the finger at the vendors for putting out bad drivers, but as most of us know, there is a reason that the driver framework was completely re-done in Windows 7.
Finally, where are these reviews of windows 7 that are "cautiously optimistic"? I have only seen one review so far and it said that except for the driver framework possibly being more stable (wait and see), it looked like mostly the same Vista crap. I guess you could call that cautiously optimistic, but that seems like a bit of a stretch...