I think you need to do a little re-reading. That particular point was just saying that if you are willing to browse dodgy websites, then expect the same results as associating with easy partners (i.e your gonna catch a virus.)
Middle class parents are more likely to actually have a clue about rasing their kids, rather than expecting the goverment to do it for them. Well, that's the theory anyway.
I find wikipedia is great for getting a quick brush up on a topic I don't know about, but I'd never take anything in it as gospel. It still only one source, so if I absolutly need to know the nitty gritty, I'll read the article and then borrow/buy a couple of books/magazines by diffrent authors. That usually gives you enough of an idea to know when you are being shoveled crap.
Expecting any one source of information to be pure and without bias is just plain stupid.
But in Australia, software is considered a product, and a product comes with a 12 month warranty (exceptions for anything more expensive than about $10k+ though). IANAL, but I work retail so I am quite familiar with said laws.
So Microsoft has 3 choices if it provides 'broken' software to Australian consumers, patch it, offer a suitable replacement or refund. Of course, swapping the media won't remove a software bug (and they aren't about to give out linux), so that leaves patch or refund. Tough choice on what they would do then, eh?
Anyway, I'm sure there would be other legal avenues you could travel down. False advertising on claims of Windows being secure perhaps? So I'd argue they are legaly obliged, even if not literally.
And why should you have to pay for them to fix their faulty product?
It's good to see at least one person thought of the fact that electricity does not equal clean. So far, most power generation is through methods with high levels of pollution: Coal (Global greenhouse) or Nuclear (Local high radioactivity).
One thing these cars will do is remove the pollution from the cityscape, hopefully reducing asthma like deseases.
What disturbs me when the topic of nanobots come up is how people seem to think they are some magic injection. But time after time, I can't help feeling that the proposed use is nothing more than an inorganic virus.
All machines have some sort of failure rate. Imagine if nanobots went bad? Especially these ones that he proposes will play around in our brains. New terrorist tool anyone?
But even assuming the nanobots worked as discribed on the packet, what about immune system reactions and kidney/liver clogging? Also, there has been research that suggests aluminium (for example) can cause alzheimer. So what if the inorganic materials have a similiar effect?
I want to see some pretty hard core proof that these have been taken into consideration before it gets anywhere near the market. Like GM, once the cat is out of the bag, we are gonna be stuck with the fundimental change forever.
Not really. Just because it's natural, doesn't make it any safer. All drugs have side effects, natural or otherwise.
A lot of the natural suplements are known to cause things like water retention on their own, or life threatening side effects if commbined with conventional medication.
So IMHO, just eat a normal diet (read: non-fast food) and stay away from the suplements unless your doctor/dietition recommended them.
Well, well, you seem to be quite the optimist. Time to add the cynical perspective.
"Anybody on the ground level knows this. And these people are tomorrow's CEOs." That statement annoys me no end. Your assuming that the people that go up the ladder are:
a)From the company from day 1
b)Are competent
c)Aren't going to loose their head when assulted with more management buzzwords than you can shake a management book at.
And for your dot points:
1) Purchasing costs now, maintenance doesn't. Managers don't consider long term costs in the same light as what is going to hurt now, because the manager of the department next year can worry about that problem
2)Again, your assuming compentency. Most Comp Sci's will just program what they think the user wants, and not even that if there is low moral in the programming pool.
3) But it looks so much better to say 'Look, I got 20 programmers on the payroll for the same price as 3'. That quote might work for a management book, but lets take a reality check, people love the idea of more for less, and capitilism encourages that thinking.
4)And training your employees is even more expensive if you have to worry about keeping their skill set up to speed, employee turnover. Also just because you have the power to fire them, it doesn't mean it can't end up in a court.
While your points are not exactly invalid, they are hardly going to make people suddenly see the light.
Yeah, from what I've seen Direct Connect hubs start getting unstable at about 1000 people. I hear that even 400 people put a hell of a bandwidth strain on the server.
What I don't understand is how they can be classed as 'Inventing' this, under the US Patent system, when Nintendo has never launched, or mentioned launching something similiar in the US.
If it was a Japanese patent (or whatever thier IP laws give) then I can understand. But this is a very big reach by any strech of the imagination.
And the best bit, Australia is pulling itself into line with those stupid laws.
I swear, what he says is true. People just don't read signs anymore. You could have it in size 72 font with no conditions applying, and people would still screw it up. I've had someone ask me where a product was, when the sign saying where it was was directly behing my shoulder!!!
That, and people only want to hear what they want to hear.
If the radiator mount is strong, how can it be brittle at the same time?
It means that as long as the weight is applied how it is meant to be (staight down for example) it is strong, but it can't take stress from other angles, hence is considered to also be brittle (easy to break).
Have you had a job in retail? At all? Most retail places employ the bare minimum they have to, you know, rationalising and all that. So that's why the crap hits the fan so regularly. Sure, bad things don't happen on schedule, but they are usually caused by demoralised staff that have been worked to an inch of their lives.
"Well, that's pretty much how all other professional disciplines work (except architecture, which tends to have the same problems as software development for some strange reason)."
Not so strange, both suffer from the same problem, the client changing the intentions or functionality. In fact, given there is usually a lot more emotional buy in for things like houses, so I'd actually imagine it would be even worse.
Please excuse me if I take this with a grain of salt.
I got to see this particular Microsoft shrill during the games developers confrence in Melbourne, Australia (see: AGDC) where she was trying to convince me (and the rest of the audience) that we could absolutly trust the Xbox live security system because it was made Microsoft.
But I digress, the point I'm trying to make is that it seems to be just a ploy to make it seem like MS really 'takes fun seriously'. I have no reason to believe that she has given the topic much thought at all.
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We know diamonds can be turned into computers, and people can be turned into diamonds. So when your old uncle Joe turns up his toes, you can finally put him to some real work in your new Athlon Joe XP.
I think the reasoning behind RH bashing is twofold.
One, they are seen as 'selling out' as far as the zealots are concerned. Even though they are not earning money off the code itself, it still can be percived as being explotation of many man-hours of programing effort.
Two, Red Hat et al are partially responsible for the sanitisation of Linux (i.e. making it acceptable for the masses). I remember a similiar undercurrent when Windows 95 came into being. All of the 'leet' Dos tweakers were up in arms about how it dumbed down things and so on. While I don't think that linux will ever get as rigid as Windows, it could be percived as such.
Or if you want a really good example of exclusive recognition programs, you could always go for the one Descreet has for 3Dmax. You get to pay them for making improvements to their product for them to distribute. I think that program is the reward in itself.
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Going off my crude understanding of the thrust behind C#, and the emphasis by Microsoft on things like asp.net and vbscript, I get the feeling that the foundations are already in place.
I realise that C# is intended as a Java replacement, but all you'd need to do is make a Visual C# for web apps studio, a few specialised graphic classes and your already on your way to a Flash look-a-like.
Personally though, this is one case where I don't think I'd be sorry to see Microsoft smiting someone out of existance.
I'm not sure if I'd call it rude, but it sure is condescending. I always find it amusing when one person feels he can talk with such an air of confidence about the ideals of a company with as many people as Microsoft.
Also, is it just me, or did that first chapter read more like a high school physics book rather than a 101 to blind platform faith?
Except for the fact that Microsoft has thrown it's weight behind the 'plus' standard. I don't care how much people here hate Microsoft, but the reality is that MS endorsing something makes a lot of diffrence to manafactures. USB anyone?
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I think you need to do a little re-reading. That particular point was just saying that if you are willing to browse dodgy websites, then expect the same results as associating with easy partners (i.e your gonna catch a virus.)
Middle class parents are more likely to actually have a clue about rasing their kids, rather than expecting the goverment to do it for them. Well, that's the theory anyway.
I find wikipedia is great for getting a quick brush up on a topic I don't know about, but I'd never take anything in it as gospel. It still only one source, so if I absolutly need to know the nitty gritty, I'll read the article and then borrow/buy a couple of books/magazines by diffrent authors. That usually gives you enough of an idea to know when you are being shoveled crap. Expecting any one source of information to be pure and without bias is just plain stupid.
As the topic says, how the hell is a myth based episodic series set in the era of ancient Greece qualify as Sci-fi?
But in Australia, software is considered a product, and a product comes with a 12 month warranty (exceptions for anything more expensive than about $10k+ though). IANAL, but I work retail so I am quite familiar with said laws.
So Microsoft has 3 choices if it provides 'broken' software to Australian consumers, patch it, offer a suitable replacement or refund. Of course, swapping the media won't remove a software bug (and they aren't about to give out linux), so that leaves patch or refund. Tough choice on what they would do then, eh?
Anyway, I'm sure there would be other legal avenues you could travel down. False advertising on claims of Windows being secure perhaps? So I'd argue they are legaly obliged, even if not literally.
And why should you have to pay for them to fix their faulty product?
It's good to see at least one person thought of the fact that electricity does not equal clean. So far, most power generation is through methods with high levels of pollution: Coal (Global greenhouse) or Nuclear (Local high radioactivity). One thing these cars will do is remove the pollution from the cityscape, hopefully reducing asthma like deseases.
All machines have some sort of failure rate. Imagine if nanobots went bad? Especially these ones that he proposes will play around in our brains. New terrorist tool anyone?
But even assuming the nanobots worked as discribed on the packet, what about immune system reactions and kidney/liver clogging? Also, there has been research that suggests aluminium (for example) can cause alzheimer. So what if the inorganic materials have a similiar effect?
I want to see some pretty hard core proof that these have been taken into consideration before it gets anywhere near the market. Like GM, once the cat is out of the bag, we are gonna be stuck with the fundimental change forever.
A lot of the natural suplements are known to cause things like water retention on their own, or life threatening side effects if commbined with conventional medication.
So IMHO, just eat a normal diet (read: non-fast food) and stay away from the suplements unless your doctor/dietition recommended them.
"Anybody on the ground level knows this. And these people are tomorrow's CEOs." That statement annoys me no end. Your assuming that the people that go up the ladder are:
a)From the company from day 1
b)Are competent
c)Aren't going to loose their head when assulted with more management buzzwords than you can shake a management book at.
And for your dot points:
1) Purchasing costs now, maintenance doesn't. Managers don't consider long term costs in the same light as what is going to hurt now, because the manager of the department next year can worry about that problem
2)Again, your assuming compentency. Most Comp Sci's will just program what they think the user wants, and not even that if there is low moral in the programming pool.
3) But it looks so much better to say 'Look, I got 20 programmers on the payroll for the same price as 3'. That quote might work for a management book, but lets take a reality check, people love the idea of more for less, and capitilism encourages that thinking.
4)And training your employees is even more expensive if you have to worry about keeping their skill set up to speed, employee turnover. Also just because you have the power to fire them, it doesn't mean it can't end up in a court.
While your points are not exactly invalid, they are hardly going to make people suddenly see the light.
Yeah, from what I've seen Direct Connect hubs start getting unstable at about 1000 people. I hear that even 400 people put a hell of a bandwidth strain on the server.
What I don't understand is how they can be classed as 'Inventing' this, under the US Patent system, when Nintendo has never launched, or mentioned launching something similiar in the US. If it was a Japanese patent (or whatever thier IP laws give) then I can understand. But this is a very big reach by any strech of the imagination. And the best bit, Australia is pulling itself into line with those stupid laws.
Nah, I think some burbon and a crossbow has more class. Inspire real panic when people just start falling over ;)
I swear, what he says is true. People just don't read signs anymore. You could have it in size 72 font with no conditions applying, and people would still screw it up. I've had someone ask me where a product was, when the sign saying where it was was directly behing my shoulder!!! That, and people only want to hear what they want to hear.
If the radiator mount is strong, how can it be brittle at the same time? It means that as long as the weight is applied how it is meant to be (staight down for example) it is strong, but it can't take stress from other angles, hence is considered to also be brittle (easy to break).
Have you had a job in retail? At all? Most retail places employ the bare minimum they have to, you know, rationalising and all that. So that's why the crap hits the fan so regularly. Sure, bad things don't happen on schedule, but they are usually caused by demoralised staff that have been worked to an inch of their lives.
"Well, that's pretty much how all other professional disciplines work (except architecture, which tends to have the same problems as software development for some strange reason)."
Not so strange, both suffer from the same problem, the client changing the intentions or functionality. In fact, given there is usually a lot more emotional buy in for things like houses, so I'd actually imagine it would be even worse.
Please excuse me if I take this with a grain of salt. I got to see this particular Microsoft shrill during the games developers confrence in Melbourne, Australia (see: AGDC) where she was trying to convince me (and the rest of the audience) that we could absolutly trust the Xbox live security system because it was made Microsoft. But I digress, the point I'm trying to make is that it seems to be just a ploy to make it seem like MS really 'takes fun seriously'. I have no reason to believe that she has given the topic much thought at all.
We know diamonds can be turned into computers, and people can be turned into diamonds. So when your old uncle Joe turns up his toes, you can finally put him to some real work in your new Athlon Joe XP.
I think the reasoning behind RH bashing is twofold. One, they are seen as 'selling out' as far as the zealots are concerned. Even though they are not earning money off the code itself, it still can be percived as being explotation of many man-hours of programing effort. Two, Red Hat et al are partially responsible for the sanitisation of Linux (i.e. making it acceptable for the masses). I remember a similiar undercurrent when Windows 95 came into being. All of the 'leet' Dos tweakers were up in arms about how it dumbed down things and so on. While I don't think that linux will ever get as rigid as Windows, it could be percived as such.
Downloading roms will just not be the same again.
Or if you want a really good example of exclusive recognition programs, you could always go for the one Descreet has for 3Dmax. You get to pay them for making improvements to their product for them to distribute. I think that program is the reward in itself.
Going off my crude understanding of the thrust behind C#, and the emphasis by Microsoft on things like asp.net and vbscript, I get the feeling that the foundations are already in place.
I realise that C# is intended as a Java replacement, but all you'd need to do is make a Visual C# for web apps studio, a few specialised graphic classes and your already on your way to a Flash look-a-like.
Personally though, this is one case where I don't think I'd be sorry to see Microsoft smiting someone out of existance.
I'm not sure if I'd call it rude, but it sure is condescending. I always find it amusing when one person feels he can talk with such an air of confidence about the ideals of a company with as many people as Microsoft.
Also, is it just me, or did that first chapter read more like a high school physics book rather than a 101 to blind platform faith?
Except for the fact that Microsoft has thrown it's weight behind the 'plus' standard. I don't care how much people here hate Microsoft, but the reality is that MS endorsing something makes a lot of diffrence to manafactures. USB anyone?
Yeah, sorta reminds of the quote "Women who aspire to be equal to men lack ambition."