"I sure feel more secure about putting a fresh openSuSE 10.2 box on the internet unfirewalled than putting a Vista box on the Internet unfirewalled [I wonder if MSFT has actually performed this test with Vista... to see how long it takes before a basic Vista install gets compromised with the software firewall turned off]."
Last August (06), I spoke with a MS security engineer who maintains a lab full of machines that do this as a primary function. These machines even automate IE to spider the web, download everything, accept anything, etc. The machines are also encouraged to spider some "unsavory" pages. He told me that the results were horrifying prior to XP SP2, but the situtation has improved dramatically since then. He also said that try as they might, they have not been able to get a machine nearly as badly owned with malware as many Joe Computer Users who have brought their boxes in to be studied (and fixed).
I know you were joking, but I checked the replies to you because I was almost certain that someone would say "You forgot to mention the URL:" (followed by a link to some sf.net project where you really can write a cross-arch C++ compiler with Ruby on Rails...)
I've played the hell out of Crackdown (a game in the MS/Massive ad network) and have enjoyed it quite a bit. The Dodge ads on billboards and other ads around the game's cities are tasteful and appropriate.
Advertising, if anything, has made Crackdown more realistic and hasn't taken away from my experience.
So if other games follow the same tasteful trend, who cares?
Reguarding your particular question, that post states:
"If you look at my blog, I probably spend less than 5% of my time discussing ODF. The only reason I talk about it is that people have asked me why we didn't use it as our default format. A simple "it wouldn't work" answer obviously isn't good enough, so I had to show specific examples to help explain my view."
"I have to imagine that Microsoft will fight this move to open office formats with a fury never seen before"
You'd imagine wrong. Microsoft is fullly supporting this because they have opted for a more traditional (and ethical) approach to competing in this generation of office suites: simply having a superior product. Office 2007 is leaps and bounds easier and more plesant to use than Office 2003 and it produces prettier results to boot. Let's not even talk about how Office 2007 compares to OO.o....
This is a GOOD THING for everyone. OpenOffice.org users get interopability with MS Office. MS Office meets many government required interopability and open XML format requirements. Win-win.
Let's keep the absurd commentary out of the summary and in the modded down comments, please?
Try http://www.microsoft.com/unix/123 again now and you get some boilerplate text with links to migrating to Windows, interopability, etc.
I'd assume that/. sent enough people trying to view microsoft.com/unix that some trigger was raised on the high number of requests for a particular page which didn't exist.
They were thinking that when you attempt to open a.doc file, Explorer automatically suggests downloading the substantially more capable FREE Word Viewer
It should be pointed out that the 360 has 512 megs of UNIFIED ram, but the PlayStation 3 has 256 megs of system and 256 megs of video ram. Huge difference! The PS3 may have to load some content into both, yeilding effectively less ram.
I agree the Zune's wireless sharing is pretty lame, but everything else you said was just flat out wrong.
The hardcore gaming community is up in arms about Sony's lackluster PS3 delivery. Only the Japanese are going insane over the PS3, everyone else is asking "how is this any better than the 360?". The 360 is cheaper, has more games, provides a superior online service, is arguably better suited for modern games (unified memory architecture, dedicated antialiasing hardware, additional bandwidth) and all around puts Sony to shame. Sony's manufacturing failures are driving developers and publishers to the Xbox 360 in order to make a buck. Assassin's Creed, GTA4, and a bunch of other big PS3 exclusives are now slated for simultaneous 360 release. Hell, even Metal Gear Solid 4 is probably coming to the 360. Besides, anylist project that the 360s sales will only strengthen.
Additionally, Microsoft very often does quite well in markets where they have boat loads of competition. Just look at the server market. Microsoft makes oodles of cash off Windows Server despite FREE alternatives such as Linux (which are in fact widely used). This includes SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, IIS, etc.
1) The order in which you perform this test could influence which DLLs are loaded in which processes 2) Some applications may allocate memory in chunks or do other funky memory management 3) Which pages were used? Was it the same for each browser? 4) Do these pages include Flash, Java, or similar content which may indicate fault of plug-in rather than browser 5) prob a million more, it's late, I'm tired
I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but I was reading Samuel Adams quotes and realized that Adams definitely foresaw this:
"Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There was never a Democracy that did not commit suicide." - Samuel Adams:-)
"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens.... from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams
Clearly Samuel Adams underestimated the stupidity of 21st century man. I'm pretty sure Churchill expected this...
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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"I sure feel more secure about putting a fresh openSuSE 10.2 box on the internet unfirewalled than putting a Vista box on the Internet unfirewalled [I wonder if MSFT has actually performed this test with Vista... to see how long it takes before a basic Vista install gets compromised with the software firewall turned off]."
Last August (06), I spoke with a MS security engineer who maintains a lab full of machines that do this as a primary function. These machines even automate IE to spider the web, download everything, accept anything, etc. The machines are also encouraged to spider some "unsavory" pages. He told me that the results were horrifying prior to XP SP2, but the situtation has improved dramatically since then. He also said that try as they might, they have not been able to get a machine nearly as badly owned with malware as many Joe Computer Users who have brought their boxes in to be studied (and fixed).
I wonder what the Vista results show...
I know you were joking, but I checked the replies to you because I was almost certain that someone would say "You forgot to mention the URL:" (followed by a link to some sf.net project where you really can write a cross-arch C++ compiler with Ruby on Rails...)
Yes, so you better get started soon :-)
I've played the hell out of Crackdown (a game in the MS/Massive ad network) and have enjoyed it quite a bit. The Dodge ads on billboards and other ads around the game's cities are tasteful and appropriate.
Advertising, if anything, has made Crackdown more realistic and hasn't taken away from my experience.
So if other games follow the same tasteful trend, who cares?
There is plenty of good information on motivation, etc. here: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/default.aspx
/ 21/interoperability-of-the-office-open-xml-formats .aspx
/ 27/679703.aspx
A great summary of arguments can be in this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/09
Reguarding your particular question, that post states:
"If you look at my blog, I probably spend less than 5% of my time discussing ODF. The only reason I talk about it is that people have asked me why we didn't use it as our default format. A simple "it wouldn't work" answer obviously isn't good enough, so I had to show specific examples to help explain my view."
In this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07
Brian lists a whole bunch of examples of why it "wouldn't work" with references to previous posts with more details:
"
The OASIS ODF technical committee claims it's still over a year away from defining spreadsheet functions and tables in presentations, and no mention of solutions to the international numbering issues or even simple things like character highlighting.
"
"I have to imagine that Microsoft will fight this move to open office formats with a fury never seen before"
You'd imagine wrong. Microsoft is fullly supporting this because they have opted for a more traditional (and ethical) approach to competing in this generation of office suites: simply having a superior product. Office 2007 is leaps and bounds easier and more plesant to use than Office 2003 and it produces prettier results to boot. Let's not even talk about how Office 2007 compares to OO.o....
This will do squat for putting any nails in anything.
/ 02/openoffice-support-for-the-openxml-formats.aspx
Microsoft wanted this. Infact, Microsoft helped Novel do this: http://www.novell.com/ctoblog/?p=43
And the Microsoft Open XML developers were more than helpful to advertise this: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/03
This is a GOOD THING for everyone. OpenOffice.org users get interopability with MS Office. MS Office meets many government required interopability and open XML format requirements. Win-win.
Let's keep the absurd commentary out of the summary and in the modded down comments, please?
6 or 7 year olds in the USA
WHOOSH!
Google's word processor and spreadsheet app have an interface which have a striking similar UI to that of Microsoft Office 2007's (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007 #User_interface)
s heets, docs and spreadsheets went public in October 2006, but Microsoft publicly showed Office 12 as early as September 2005 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/09/13/4 64879.aspx)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs_&_Spread
Why hasn't anyone called out Google on this? Had Microsoft done it, Slashdot would have been up in arms!
And no, I'm not new here.
LOL -- I wish I had a whole bag of mod points for you...
Of course American Idol viewers can vote as many times as they want! Carriers make mega bucks off of American Idol vote txt messages!
Microsoft's web guys are on top of things:
/. sent enough people trying to view microsoft.com/unix that some trigger was raised on the high number of requests for a particular page which didn't exist.
Try http://www.microsoft.com/unix/123 again now and you get some boilerplate text with links to migrating to Windows, interopability, etc.
I'd assume that
On a hunch, I typed this into my address bar:
microsoft.com/crm
I followed the handy "Product Information" link and then the even more handy "See it: View the online demos" links.
Wow, I didn't even have to use Google. That's the first time I have used the address bar in weeks!
The .net Compact Framework also runs on the Xbox 360 (PowerPC) and plenty of other devices (ARM, etc).
They were thinking that when you attempt to open a .doc file, Explorer automatically suggests downloading the substantially more capable FREE Word Viewer
Um... He made a reference to Toy Story...
It should be pointed out that the 360 has 512 megs of UNIFIED ram, but the PlayStation 3 has 256 megs of system and 256 megs of video ram. Huge difference! The PS3 may have to load some content into both, yeilding effectively less ram.
I agree the Zune's wireless sharing is pretty lame, but everything else you said was just flat out wrong.
The hardcore gaming community is up in arms about Sony's lackluster PS3 delivery. Only the Japanese are going insane over the PS3, everyone else is asking "how is this any better than the 360?". The 360 is cheaper, has more games, provides a superior online service, is arguably better suited for modern games (unified memory architecture, dedicated antialiasing hardware, additional bandwidth) and all around puts Sony to shame. Sony's manufacturing failures are driving developers and publishers to the Xbox 360 in order to make a buck. Assassin's Creed, GTA4, and a bunch of other big PS3 exclusives are now slated for simultaneous 360 release. Hell, even Metal Gear Solid 4 is probably coming to the 360. Besides, anylist project that the 360s sales will only strengthen.
Additionally, Microsoft very often does quite well in markets where they have boat loads of competition. Just look at the server market. Microsoft makes oodles of cash off Windows Server despite FREE alternatives such as Linux (which are in fact widely used). This includes SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, IIS, etc.
This is an extremely unscientific measurement.
1) The order in which you perform this test could influence which DLLs are loaded in which processes
2) Some applications may allocate memory in chunks or do other funky memory management
3) Which pages were used? Was it the same for each browser?
4) Do these pages include Flash, Java, or similar content which may indicate fault of plug-in rather than browser
5) prob a million more, it's late, I'm tired
I prefer Wild Wacky Action Bike: http://mrbucket33.tripod.com/
You can, however, make commercial _Windows_ games using XNA.
I know it's bad form to reply to myself, but I was reading Samuel Adams quotes and realized that Adams definitely foresaw this:
:-)
"Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There was never a Democracy that did not commit suicide."
- Samuel Adams
"The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress .... from keeping their own arms."
to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable
citizens
- Samuel Adams
Clearly Samuel Adams underestimated the stupidity of 21st century man. I'm pretty sure Churchill expected this...
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
- Winston Churchill
Check out Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth!
:-)
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/
That's just about as cool, new, and exciting as you can get