No offense, but there is no way Microsoft could compete with the product that Google has... M$ will just get their butt kicked all over the place. Google is incredibly efficient, among other things... perhaps Microsoft could buy Google and keep it exactly 100% the same, but i doubt it. Eventually they'd get the idea to go and muck it up like they do with all their acquisitions.
I can see the screen flickering now and then on older (or especially low refresh rate) setups, but wouldn't the screen vibrating to sound really mess with the picture? Still, it sounds like a good idea in that it would save more desk space, especially if you had a really BIG LCD on the wall that did away with really big desktop speakers.
It's decent, kinda quiet and garbled, but intelligible... yet it's really hard to understand just the audio without seeing what's going on. It seems clear (for my quasi-feeble, 1-track mind) why people go to these events, versus just listening to them on the internet.
Doesn't sound like "certified" or "gold" mean much, since there were 6(?) service packs on Win 2000 alone, which was supposed to be so much better than NT (also like 6 service packs). I use Win2k, and it's "OK", but crashes too much for me.
I think the real catch would be exchanging the virtual items for real dollar-value items in the physical world. If you could sell the "ring of zelda" (or what have you) for 500 real dollars, then people could most certainly make money... also, that would probably bring about a huge hacking effort to obtain said items for free, then sell them.
I heard some of this "some stuff bad, other stuff good", and while in general it may apply, GOTO certainly serves a great purpose IF you can program well in the first place. For rank amateurs i suppose it would be bad... i guess... oh well.
I am planning to patent the following, under the category of software: 1. breathing air 2. eating pizza 3. sleeping on a bed 4. entering data into a computer with a keyboard 5. numbered lists of stuff
maybe patents should be free, that way we could all patent stuff right away, instead of waiting to have that 7 grand for the lawyer, etc. So that big companies don't have that cash edge.
Everyone get together and hack anything that Microsoft presents on that. Let's make them look extra, extra dumb this time. Of course, I'm not saying I'm gonna break any law, cause i'm not, I'm just saying it would be funny.
Maybe there should be a collective spam filter applied to the whole internet somehow. If possible, it would "eat" spams before they ever got to anyone, and the more you block, the less everyone gets.
I wonder, what special tactics (if any) does he truly recommend for programming within the company he works for?
Will this affect network stuff in any way?
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I've never been much of a network expert, but doesn't this just add to the Cisco certification headache? Are they going to discontinue the other products? interesting stuff!
Do you just jail the guy who traded 90,000 mp3's, or someone who did 2? Does the former get 90,000 felony counts? That seems ridiculous. Making it illegal will just make us all law-breakers, like prohibition did to alcohol, file sharing would immediately become a horrible plague on peaceful citizens.
Amazon goes out of business from fulfilling 80 billion iPAQ orders at 7 dollars each... I don't think so! Or maybe they can offset the loss by collecting ~10% on the sale of Eminem's childhood house.
Use the BASIC stamp interface, or something like it... all our art-robotics labs use that, and it seems to be a pretty easy way to control something with your PC/etc. heh heh, glowing balls. ok i'm done.
I know a lot of older folks who get really used to the one system, and just want it to run better but look the same. If this runs better than regular windows but looks the same, a TON of people will find it accessible -- so long as program installation can catch up too, so installing a program is (more or less) the same/as easy. When I say easy, I mean click and it's on there.
Yeah, it might be hard to find wireless, considering at least 80% of folks around these here parts don't have *electricity*.:) Here's what wireless sounds like here: (john boy, from across the holler): Hey maw! (maw): What is it, John Boy? (john boy): I got me a wireless! yeee hawww! (maw): Well, shut my mouth and paint me red!
It seems farfetched, but could Microsoft have bullied the shipper (financially of course) to not ship Lindows boxes? Does ANYONE have a Lindows machine that they bought commercially? I'd like to know, for real.
I want to know how so many suckers held onto 90K per person for that long in the first place! Youd' think if they would fall for the Nigerian scam, they'd have bought 800 AB-ENERGIZERs or Ionic Breeze air purifiers by now.
It would be great if they installed that program to run on mp3.com or a site like that, and used that to discover new "talent"... at least the playing field would level out for people like myself versus Master P's kid or connected insiders like that.
That's a good one, patenting the electronic forum. I guess I'll have to sue, since I own the patent on looking at the monitor, and most sighted folks who use his patent will also use mine.
There's still a big block of text in there... just use the plain editor to read it. It'll be extra fun to read the DRM tags and say, "oh, hi there mr. privacy manager, i think i'll just scroll down... heh heh heh." sir_haxalot
Wow, I feel bad if the movies don't portray the typical IT job accurately... Office space was pretty close for most folks, from my experience. Of course, My current job is *exactly* like the movie TRON, so yeah.
and they don't call it scrum, it's called overlord-peasants. The overlord picks what to do , and the peasants do it. The trouble with scrum is that it's only as good as the overlord / manager can be, because if they are adding features that 1) take too long to implement, or 2) don't really help in the long run, then the whole process is wasted. You turn out crap really, really fast instead of turning out crap slowly... fast or slow, it's still crap.
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No offense, but there is no way Microsoft could compete with the product that Google has... M$ will just get their butt kicked all over the place. Google is incredibly efficient, among other things... perhaps Microsoft could buy Google and keep it exactly 100% the same, but i doubt it. Eventually they'd get the idea to go and muck it up like they do with all their acquisitions.
I can see the screen flickering now and then on older (or especially low refresh rate) setups, but wouldn't the screen vibrating to sound really mess with the picture? Still, it sounds like a good idea in that it would save more desk space, especially if you had a really BIG LCD on the wall that did away with really big desktop speakers.
It's decent, kinda quiet and garbled, but intelligible... yet it's really hard to understand just the audio without seeing what's going on. It seems clear (for my quasi-feeble, 1-track mind) why people go to these events, versus just listening to them on the internet.
Doesn't sound like "certified" or "gold" mean much, since there were 6(?) service packs on Win 2000 alone, which was supposed to be so much better than NT (also like 6 service packs). I use Win2k, and it's "OK", but crashes too much for me.
I think the real catch would be exchanging the virtual items for real dollar-value items in the physical world. If you could sell the "ring of zelda" (or what have you) for 500 real dollars, then people could most certainly make money... also, that would probably bring about a huge hacking effort to obtain said items for free, then sell them.
I heard some of this "some stuff bad, other stuff good", and while in general it may apply, GOTO certainly serves a great purpose IF you can program well in the first place. For rank amateurs i suppose it would be bad... i guess... oh well.
I am planning to patent the following, under the category of software:
1. breathing air
2. eating pizza
3. sleeping on a bed
4. entering data into a computer with a keyboard
5. numbered lists of stuff
maybe patents should be free, that way we could all patent stuff right away, instead of waiting to have that 7 grand for the lawyer, etc. So that big companies don't have that cash edge.
Everyone get together and hack anything that Microsoft presents on that. Let's make them look extra, extra dumb this time. Of course, I'm not saying I'm gonna break any law, cause i'm not, I'm just saying it would be funny.
Maybe there should be a collective spam filter applied to the whole internet somehow. If possible, it would "eat" spams before they ever got to anyone, and the more you block, the less everyone gets.
I wonder, what special tactics (if any) does he truly recommend for programming within the company he works for?
I've never been much of a network expert, but doesn't this just add to the Cisco certification headache? Are they going to discontinue the other products? interesting stuff!
Do you just jail the guy who traded 90,000 mp3's, or someone who did 2? Does the former get 90,000 felony counts? That seems ridiculous. Making it illegal will just make us all law-breakers, like prohibition did to alcohol, file sharing would immediately become a horrible plague on peaceful citizens.
Amazon goes out of business from fulfilling 80 billion iPAQ orders at 7 dollars each... I don't think so! Or maybe they can offset the loss by collecting ~10% on the sale of Eminem's childhood house.
Or will i end up driving to Iraq instead of the pizza place? I don't think this will affect stuff that much. 100 yards is still pretty close.
Use the BASIC stamp interface, or something like it... all our art-robotics labs use that, and it seems to be a pretty easy way to control something with your PC/etc. heh heh, glowing balls. ok i'm done.
I know a lot of older folks who get really used to the one system, and just want it to run better but look the same. If this runs better than regular windows but looks the same, a TON of people will find it accessible -- so long as program installation can catch up too, so installing a program is (more or less) the same/as easy. When I say easy, I mean click and it's on there.
Yeah, it might be hard to find wireless, considering at least 80% of folks around these here parts don't have *electricity*. :)
Here's what wireless sounds like here:
(john boy, from across the holler): Hey maw!
(maw): What is it, John Boy?
(john boy): I got me a wireless! yeee hawww!
(maw): Well, shut my mouth and paint me red!
It seems farfetched, but could Microsoft have bullied the shipper (financially of course) to not ship Lindows boxes? Does ANYONE have a Lindows machine that they bought commercially? I'd like to know, for real.
I want to know how so many suckers held onto 90K per person for that long in the first place! Youd' think if they would fall for the Nigerian scam, they'd have bought 800 AB-ENERGIZERs or Ionic Breeze air purifiers by now.
It would be great if they installed that program to run on mp3.com or a site like that, and used that to discover new "talent"... at least the playing field would level out for people like myself versus Master P's kid or connected insiders like that.
That's a good one, patenting the electronic forum. I guess I'll have to sue, since I own the patent on looking at the monitor, and most sighted folks who use his patent will also use mine.
the price is too high, the other 97% aren't buying because all new music sucks!
There's still a big block of text in there... just use the plain editor to read it. It'll be extra fun to read the DRM tags and say, "oh, hi there mr. privacy manager, i think i'll just scroll down... heh heh heh."
sir_haxalot
Wow, I feel bad if the movies don't portray the typical IT job accurately... Office space was pretty close for most folks, from my experience. Of course, My current job is *exactly* like the movie TRON, so yeah.
and they don't call it scrum, it's called overlord-peasants. The overlord picks what to do , and the peasants do it. The trouble with scrum is that it's only as good as the overlord / manager can be, because if they are adding features that 1) take too long to implement, or 2) don't really help in the long run, then the whole process is wasted. You turn out crap really, really fast instead of turning out crap slowly... fast or slow, it's still crap.