Something tells me they wouldn't create ActiveX today... they've had well over a decade to learn how bad the technology actually is, and try to mitigate their mistakes with it. It doesn't surprise me they'd make comments on WebGL like this today in 2011. A lot can happen in 15 years.
When MS says Win8 = HTML5/js, couldn't they just mean that apps built with the new tools for Win8 will RENDER using HTML5/js, but all of the platform is still.NET? This seems the likely evolutionary choice for me...
Uhm Office 2007 was a decent product, and came out before Windows 7. So is Office 2010. You put those in the list, and now you have 3 products in a row that customers love. Seriously, people love Office 2k7, Win7, and Office 2010. I think this breaks the "never two decent releases in a row" theory.
From what I've learned from a CFO in the past, an offer to purchase on a good company is usually somewhere between 7-10x the revenue of the company annually. If that holds true, then FB could be bought for up to $16 billion reasonably. $50 billion is assuming 3x that much value. This is ridiculous. No wonder the investor was scratching his head.
"Gilder says the Lego robotics kits can only manage around 1.5 moves per second, whereas human players can make between 5 and 6 moves per second, amazingly enough."
Only if the cubes are greased well, otherwise they're stuck with wrestling the bloody things.
You're right... I'm a douche for not English grammar checking. You're a douche because you can't help it...
To clarify:
At the time I worked at MS, the Hardware User Experience (UX) team was a leading force in UX design at Microsoft. During my employment at MS, I asked the folks who lead UX training for Microsofties who would I talk to at Microsoft to discuss some outside educational opportunities pertaining to UX in post-secondary education. They pointed me to the MS Hardware UX team, stating they would be the best team because they were considered leaders on the UX in Microsoft. This was prior to Windows 7 or Office 2010 hitting the market.
Things might be different now, as other teams within Microsoft have pushed hard to include UX principles in their products (Windows 7 and Office 2010 launched, and they are arguably better products than their predecessors have been). It's hard to say if the Hardware team is in a position of UX leadership today, but at the time, they were highly respected within the company (around 2007).
God, nitpickers are annoying. But useful at times:)
The OP is full of sh*t. I worked in MS Hardware at one point, and the UX team there led the way in many aspects of UX in MS's hardware products at one point. This spilled over into their supporting software products too. The company as a whole has been pushing hard in the UX space for quite some time, and there just aren't enough UX specialists to go around... the industry has been in a deficit for quite some time. Apple learned early on the UX side and this has been a tenet for them for quite some time. This is blatant trolling to say MS doesn't believe in design... making broad statements without really knowing what they are talking about. Windows 7 and Office 2010 represent a new era of MS apps with a strong emphasis on UX. IMHO, I think they are great advances in making MS products better overall for the user.
It's the integrity of how they handled the situation... someone pointed out the possible GPL violation... they pull the tool and let everyone know they're looking into it... then they announce they've looked into it and as a result, they're going to release the source code in accordance with the GPL, something MS would rather not do, to honor the licence, and the community need for the tool.
If you worked at Microsoft, you'd know that it takes patience and time away from the horrific workload and schedules to code review every third-party thing that came through the door. When I worked at Microsoft, our vendor routinely used code they weren't supposed to EVEN THOUGH it was in their contract not to. I would sometimes come across a bug somewhere and I'd find something stolen off the net, and I'd have to pull it and reprimand the vendor, and then get them to do the work and pay them for it again.
It's easy to sit at your computer desk and pontificate about how MS is trying to pull a fast one on everyone. Shit, if you only knew how ingrained in the culture it is to homegrow everything, and steal nothing. Very strong corporate policies there at MS, and everyone is subject to disciplinary action if you've intentionally tried to pull a fast one in one way shape or form.
Trust me, the Program Manager who owns that tool is shitting in his/her pants, as it's going on their performance review for not tightening up on code quality. From my experience there, MS takes this shit seriously.
If you lived in Redmond, WA, you'd know why the article's author is full of shit. Try commuting from main campus, and with a company that has had significant expansion over the last few years, commutes are painful, streets are crowded, and traffic is always challenged either with going to or coming from work. There are traffic studies done ALL THE TIME in Redmond, and if you only felt the pain of the congestion in this small town, you'd know that MS didn't have to offer to pay for anything for this bridge, but they are.
This happens not only with emplyers, but border guards are now looking at people's activity online to make sure you represent what you say you are, especially if you're a valid foreign worker working in the US. Beware the blog and social networking site if you're on a visa, because what you post can hurt you.
Yes, but the patents on the (generic) x86 instruction set are all expired, considering that the 80286 is more than 20 years old. So while Intel (32-bits) and AMD (64-bits) may hold a number of patents on the design of those chips, NVidia might be able to pull a Transmeta on them (ie converting the x86 instruction set to their own execution format as part of the Instruction Decode phase) without bending over for royalties.
If they play their cards right and get to market first, they might even set the standard for future x86 MIMD instructions. That would allow them to collect royalties from both the other players, much like AMD beat Intel on getting a workable 64-bit implementation.
But I think the odds are 90% that NVidia is screwed, unless they get a judicial clearance first (like a monopoly case against Intel).
I'm thinking the same thing, with a twist. Instead of creating a CPU, they might be trying to build a Transmeta-like converter to work with their GPU technology to support Larabee-like extensions to the x86 instruction set. Perhaps NVidia knows that the future is in hygrid ray-tracing with rasterization, and one of the ways to get developers to keep supporting the NVidia platform is to make NVidia's platform support the same crap that Intel is devising with Larabee. That way, game and graphics devs don't need to work as hard trying to fit Larabee ray-tracing techniques into a rasterization engine on the GeForce platform.
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oh god...
Ding ding ding ding! You win the prize for the most common sense comment yet!
Never trust a tech reviewer with a tie... just sayin'... his geek cred is like 2/10 in my book.
I actually kinda see the point of this "troll".
Something tells me they wouldn't create ActiveX today... they've had well over a decade to learn how bad the technology actually is, and try to mitigate their mistakes with it. It doesn't surprise me they'd make comments on WebGL like this today in 2011. A lot can happen in 15 years.
When MS says Win8 = HTML5/js, couldn't they just mean that apps built with the new tools for Win8 will RENDER using HTML5/js, but all of the platform is still .NET? This seems the likely evolutionary choice for me...
It's shit like this that makes me VERY happy I don't buy Apple products.
God please no.
Uhm Office 2007 was a decent product, and came out before Windows 7. So is Office 2010. You put those in the list, and now you have 3 products in a row that customers love. Seriously, people love Office 2k7, Win7, and Office 2010. I think this breaks the "never two decent releases in a row" theory.
Because expecting the one line a submitter has to be write to be factually correct is pedantic? It even says 6990 in the story, for fuck's sake.
Yes, please fix this editors... it's 6990, not 5990 like it says in the title.
From what I've learned from a CFO in the past, an offer to purchase on a good company is usually somewhere between 7-10x the revenue of the company annually. If that holds true, then FB could be bought for up to $16 billion reasonably. $50 billion is assuming 3x that much value. This is ridiculous. No wonder the investor was scratching his head.
Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
"Gilder says the Lego robotics kits can only manage around 1.5 moves per second, whereas human players can make between 5 and 6 moves per second, amazingly enough."
Only if the cubes are greased well, otherwise they're stuck with wrestling the bloody things.
You're right... I'm a douche for not English grammar checking. You're a douche because you can't help it...
To clarify:
At the time I worked at MS, the Hardware User Experience (UX) team was a leading force in UX design at Microsoft. During my employment at MS, I asked the folks who lead UX training for Microsofties who would I talk to at Microsoft to discuss some outside educational opportunities pertaining to UX in post-secondary education. They pointed me to the MS Hardware UX team, stating they would be the best team because they were considered leaders on the UX in Microsoft. This was prior to Windows 7 or Office 2010 hitting the market.
Things might be different now, as other teams within Microsoft have pushed hard to include UX principles in their products (Windows 7 and Office 2010 launched, and they are arguably better products than their predecessors have been). It's hard to say if the Hardware team is in a position of UX leadership today, but at the time, they were highly respected within the company (around 2007).
God, nitpickers are annoying. But useful at times :)
The OP is full of sh*t. I worked in MS Hardware at one point, and the UX team there led the way in many aspects of UX in MS's hardware products at one point. This spilled over into their supporting software products too. The company as a whole has been pushing hard in the UX space for quite some time, and there just aren't enough UX specialists to go around... the industry has been in a deficit for quite some time. Apple learned early on the UX side and this has been a tenet for them for quite some time. This is blatant trolling to say MS doesn't believe in design... making broad statements without really knowing what they are talking about. Windows 7 and Office 2010 represent a new era of MS apps with a strong emphasis on UX. IMHO, I think they are great advances in making MS products better overall for the user.
Funny, I missed the "GPL is a virus" point in their press release... I just thought they had integrity.
It's the integrity of how they handled the situation... someone pointed out the possible GPL violation... they pull the tool and let everyone know they're looking into it... then they announce they've looked into it and as a result, they're going to release the source code in accordance with the GPL, something MS would rather not do, to honor the licence, and the community need for the tool.
Integrity = Awesome, in my humble opinion...
If you worked at Microsoft, you'd know that it takes patience and time away from the horrific workload and schedules to code review every third-party thing that came through the door. When I worked at Microsoft, our vendor routinely used code they weren't supposed to EVEN THOUGH it was in their contract not to. I would sometimes come across a bug somewhere and I'd find something stolen off the net, and I'd have to pull it and reprimand the vendor, and then get them to do the work and pay them for it again. It's easy to sit at your computer desk and pontificate about how MS is trying to pull a fast one on everyone. Shit, if you only knew how ingrained in the culture it is to homegrow everything, and steal nothing. Very strong corporate policies there at MS, and everyone is subject to disciplinary action if you've intentionally tried to pull a fast one in one way shape or form. Trust me, the Program Manager who owns that tool is shitting in his/her pants, as it's going on their performance review for not tightening up on code quality. From my experience there, MS takes this shit seriously.
Awesome!
Using TVersity, you can use it as a media player for your HDTV. Very handy.
Back up your argument before making blanket statements like that. I think you're full of shit. Prove me wrong.
If you lived in Redmond, WA, you'd know why the article's author is full of shit. Try commuting from main campus, and with a company that has had significant expansion over the last few years, commutes are painful, streets are crowded, and traffic is always challenged either with going to or coming from work. There are traffic studies done ALL THE TIME in Redmond, and if you only felt the pain of the congestion in this small town, you'd know that MS didn't have to offer to pay for anything for this bridge, but they are.
This happens not only with emplyers, but border guards are now looking at people's activity online to make sure you represent what you say you are, especially if you're a valid foreign worker working in the US. Beware the blog and social networking site if you're on a visa, because what you post can hurt you.
Yes, but the patents on the (generic) x86 instruction set are all expired, considering that the 80286 is more than 20 years old. So while Intel (32-bits) and AMD (64-bits) may hold a number of patents on the design of those chips, NVidia might be able to pull a Transmeta on them (ie converting the x86 instruction set to their own execution format as part of the Instruction Decode phase) without bending over for royalties.
If they play their cards right and get to market first, they might even set the standard for future x86 MIMD instructions. That would allow them to collect royalties from both the other players, much like AMD beat Intel on getting a workable 64-bit implementation.
But I think the odds are 90% that NVidia is screwed, unless they get a judicial clearance first (like a monopoly case against Intel).
I'm thinking the same thing, with a twist. Instead of creating a CPU, they might be trying to build a Transmeta-like converter to work with their GPU technology to support Larabee-like extensions to the x86 instruction set. Perhaps NVidia knows that the future is in hygrid ray-tracing with rasterization, and one of the ways to get developers to keep supporting the NVidia platform is to make NVidia's platform support the same crap that Intel is devising with Larabee. That way, game and graphics devs don't need to work as hard trying to fit Larabee ray-tracing techniques into a rasterization engine on the GeForce platform.
Thoughts?
Fuck that bullshit... that's complete dickwadishness. First Amendment, you fucking assholes! Suck it!
All the swearing was for effect. I hope I got my point across! :)