microsoft has a long history of this. I remember netmeeting. It was great and it worked great. They replaced it with something I have forgotten and in a couple of weeks everyone stop using it as it did not work. If they had built up netmeeting they might have never needed to buy Skype. Looks like they are repeating the same pattern decades later.
That is a bit revisionist and naive regarding age. Everyone loved windows xp because the previous release windows me was sooooo bad. People clinged to windows xp because windows vista was terrible. I remember more praise and upgrades to windows 7 than hate personally, because windows 7 worked better and had stuff people wanted. So now the issue is not change is scary or old people it is that windows 8 is crap and windows 10 is crap. I have yet to hear anything compelling to upgrade to windows 10 aside from a timid performance upgrade. And there is lots and lots to dislike moving from selling an operating system to selling an operating system service.
the tsa is not about "being safer" it is to "feeling safer" and a way for well connected people to bilk taxpayers with expensive scanning machines. the tsa should just be shut down and removed from airports, security would not change.
Are you sure you understand what is going on in Austin? Public transportation is terrible in the city after decades of squabbling over a "perfect" plan instead of making any kind of reasonable progress. Meanwhile, taxis are purposely limited to maximize profits for the taxi companies. So uber and lyft come in an offer a service that is desperately needed from the failure of Austin and Texas government and other options like taxis and drunk driving falls 20%+ according to the Country Sheriff. uber and lyft may not be angels, but they are solving the problem and forcing the public transportation issue. If anything they should be deregulating taxis eliminating the medallion system to get more of them on the road.
uh, the US and other countries have been purposely trying to keep the focus on him to keep people from paying attention to their bad behavior Wikileaks has been shedding light on.
so true. tsa is still security theater and they should be disbanded. All those guns would be caught with metal detectors too, no need for super expensive and worthless body scanners.
Sanders' thing is bribing the voters with my money. Turns out, it's pretty popular, no matter the current year. Communism is a disease.
communism is not a good system, but Sanders does not support communism, he supports some socialist policies, which do make sense. The US has double the cost of healthcare compared to the next closest country. And if you work your whole life and do everything right including having health insurance why should you have to declare medical bankruptcy from getting a treatable illness? Privatization of healthcare makes absolutely no sense and there are other issues where privatization is also dumb.
every bankruptcy means someone does not get paid what they are owed. The biggest problem with trump declaring bankruptcy so often is he is screwing over his creditors and has no problem with it, making him is a corporate welfare queen. Now what do you think he would do if he became President?
totally different. Almost everyone driving a car does not have a mandate to use lethal force if necessary like police. And the goal should be keeping the peace not making the most money from any device that can be put in a public space.
Really, any more a content company complaining is on them. At any time they could copy Valve's successful media distribution model and make huge amounts of money. My hope is that Valve pulls an Amazon and enters other media types or teams up with Netflix.
My experience for most of these development methods and problems almost always comes back to requirements gathering. People typically want to jump on what ever solution they seize on or what is being asked of them instead of taking the time to truly understand the problem space and only then designing their solution. Often your Customer has no idea how a software implementation will change their work so I have watched agile being the blind leading the blind a lot. Rapid iteration is good, but to be successful in the end it requires an upfront understanding of the domain, thinking, and how it might change with different solutions.
sorry, but Musicans see no cash from music sales. They make their money playing live shows. So what your meant to say is it is wrong to steal from shady music execs who legally steal from Musicians.
except when there is a disruptive technology. Only reason cable companies would even discuss this is that they are being abandoned and less revenue is better than no revenue.
no, the gop is able to get voters to focus on issues that more or less unimportant to most of those voter's lives to get bad policies passed to benefit the rich. An example is abortion.
not scared of islamic radicals who are thousands of miles away. I am worried about the number of crazies like this guy and the complete lack of adequate mental health services due to decades of budget cuts.
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microsoft has a long history of this. I remember netmeeting. It was great and it worked great. They replaced it with something I have forgotten and in a couple of weeks everyone stop using it as it did not work. If they had built up netmeeting they might have never needed to buy Skype. Looks like they are repeating the same pattern decades later.
They took it down, but of course the Wayback machine has it. https://web.archive.org/web/20...
That is a bit revisionist and naive regarding age. Everyone loved windows xp because the previous release windows me was sooooo bad. People clinged to windows xp because windows vista was terrible. I remember more praise and upgrades to windows 7 than hate personally, because windows 7 worked better and had stuff people wanted. So now the issue is not change is scary or old people it is that windows 8 is crap and windows 10 is crap. I have yet to hear anything compelling to upgrade to windows 10 aside from a timid performance upgrade. And there is lots and lots to dislike moving from selling an operating system to selling an operating system service.
the tsa is not about "being safer" it is to "feeling safer" and a way for well connected people to bilk taxpayers with expensive scanning machines. the tsa should just be shut down and removed from airports, security would not change.
Are you sure you understand what is going on in Austin? Public transportation is terrible in the city after decades of squabbling over a "perfect" plan instead of making any kind of reasonable progress. Meanwhile, taxis are purposely limited to maximize profits for the taxi companies. So uber and lyft come in an offer a service that is desperately needed from the failure of Austin and Texas government and other options like taxis and drunk driving falls 20%+ according to the Country Sheriff. uber and lyft may not be angels, but they are solving the problem and forcing the public transportation issue. If anything they should be deregulating taxis eliminating the medallion system to get more of them on the road.
uh, the US and other countries have been purposely trying to keep the focus on him to keep people from paying attention to their bad behavior Wikileaks has been shedding light on.
so true. tsa is still security theater and they should be disbanded. All those guns would be caught with metal detectors too, no need for super expensive and worthless body scanners.
Sanders' thing is bribing the voters with my money. Turns out, it's pretty popular, no matter the current year. Communism is a disease.
communism is not a good system, but Sanders does not support communism, he supports some socialist policies, which do make sense. The US has double the cost of healthcare compared to the next closest country. And if you work your whole life and do everything right including having health insurance why should you have to declare medical bankruptcy from getting a treatable illness? Privatization of healthcare makes absolutely no sense and there are other issues where privatization is also dumb.
every bankruptcy means someone does not get paid what they are owed. The biggest problem with trump declaring bankruptcy so often is he is screwing over his creditors and has no problem with it, making him is a corporate welfare queen. Now what do you think he would do if he became President?
totally different. Almost everyone driving a car does not have a mandate to use lethal force if necessary like police. And the goal should be keeping the peace not making the most money from any device that can be put in a public space.
Looks like the netflix dvd model is coming around to be in vogue again.
Really, any more a content company complaining is on them. At any time they could copy Valve's successful media distribution model and make huge amounts of money. My hope is that Valve pulls an Amazon and enters other media types or teams up with Netflix.
My experience for most of these development methods and problems almost always comes back to requirements gathering. People typically want to jump on what ever solution they seize on or what is being asked of them instead of taking the time to truly understand the problem space and only then designing their solution. Often your Customer has no idea how a software implementation will change their work so I have watched agile being the blind leading the blind a lot. Rapid iteration is good, but to be successful in the end it requires an upfront understanding of the domain, thinking, and how it might change with different solutions.
anymore, I find a lot of the music I like is self published by the band. It is getting to where you don't need the labels and that is a good thing.
sorry, but Musicans see no cash from music sales. They make their money playing live shows. So what your meant to say is it is wrong to steal from shady music execs who legally steal from Musicians.
This is what I thought to. I can't think of anything that is harder without facebook.
why not Python and ANSI C? Then you have productivity and glue code of Python and the raw speed of C without all the clutter.
all these people using Obamacare are not being screwed by private healthcare. How's that?
A lot of these issues were painfully learned with mainframes decades ago. The lessons are not changing.
no one cares about your data as much as you do. On average, companies are willing to put more effort into protecting it than some "cloud" vendor..
I am surprised people were naive to think "cloud" vendors could be trusted with their data.
except when there is a disruptive technology. Only reason cable companies would even discuss this is that they are being abandoned and less revenue is better than no revenue.
no, the gop is able to get voters to focus on issues that more or less unimportant to most of those voter's lives to get bad policies passed to benefit the rich. An example is abortion.
not scared of islamic radicals who are thousands of miles away. I am worried about the number of crazies like this guy and the complete lack of adequate mental health services due to decades of budget cuts.
that would be a good start.