I dont know, I guess it depends on what deals if any they have with their feeders. I think the way they handle RSS is nice, but who ISNT grabbing content from other sites these days?
I only remembered reading that their site was developed using Microsoft's AJAX plugin called Atlas. I only mentioned.NET, because as far as I know, its the only popular Web 2.0 app that I know of that has anything at all to do with Microsoft's dev tools, even though AJAX is supposedly their invention?
I hate the Web 2.0 hype as much as anyone, but if you havent checked out Pageflakes at www.pageflakes.com, you dont know what Web 2.0 is, or can be. Very cool implementation (no, I dont work for them, or know anyone who works with them) and some of their stuff was done with.NET. Go figure?
"We anticipate some redeployment will begin before the end of this quarter and all redeployment will be started by the end of Q3."
Why not just say it like a man?
"We will be redeploying many of you from your Aeron to your SOFA just in time for you to file for unemployment insurance before taking back the Christmas presents you were hoping to buy for your parents, so that your car is not repo'd as you struggle like mad to pay your rent or mortgage in the wonderful Bay Area."
I've got a Home Theater Calibration DVD that contains all the recent variations of that THX sound. They made dozens of them. The coolest one? The one made for the movie Aliens, by far. I think they did a few for the Star Wars movies too, and other movies where sound quality was paramount. (no pun intended) It cost a ton of money to get my theater to the point where it sounded just like a cinema, but now it is sometimes the highlight of the movie watching experience. Which says a lot about the quality of movies these days. Only the overhead rumble of the first Star Wars movie matches that THX sound clip in its viceral sound impact, along with the opening segment of Top Gun with the subwoofer cranked up.
Office 2007 is absolultely killer software. It is really the first time since Office 95, where it is a must-upgrade. Betas are pretty stable, the new interfaces are well thought-out, its good stuff.
If you run Windows, you spend it repairing your system in between gaming lockups.
If you run Linux, you spend it masterbating and looking for more fuel for masterbation on the Internet until the the re-compile is done.
If you run MacOS, you spend it bragging about running MacOS until Starbucks closes.
If you run Solaris, you spend it looking for a job where you can still run Solaris.
If you run none of the above, you spend it having a life, playing with your children, or humping your wife.
I run Windows, but I'm getting a divorce, so I will soon be switching to Linux.
I ask that, because I went to my current setup, (see above reply) from a Parhelia, because PowerDesk made me crazy. It would not keep settings after a reboot, and I was limited to 1280X1024 across 3 screens. Since I have 3 Viewsonics capable of 1600x1200, the nView solution has worked great for me. I still have trouble sometimes saving configurations through a reboot, but only with the TV out switching from Component-out to Composite-out. My 4th screen is an HDTV. When PowerDesk would lock up, nothing could get out of it, except a hard reboot. nView is much more stable and has more features. If money is no object, I would recommend nView every time, though the Matrox picture is superior in both DVI and analog modes.
Dont use the Matrox solution for what you want. Get a couple Nvidia cards with dual DVI output. You have the option for 3 or 4 independent screens, or to combine all of them into one. This way, you can maximize a window to a single monitor, but then you can still drag a window from one monitor to another or have it span between two monitors if you want.
The way to insure that is to stick with Viewsonic. I run 3 VP201b monitors at 1600x1200 resolution and the color temps are identical across them all. You can select 9300, 6500, 5400, 5000, RGB and user adjusted from the front panel. The bezel is.5 inches and Viewsonic sells a stand that will let you mount 3 monitors on a single center leg. This only works with an Nvidia SLI setup, I use dual 7800GTX cards. WHen I am not gaming, I can run Visual studio on one monitor, Watch a DVD or a TiVo feed from WinDVR/S-video on another, and Excel, Word and Outlook on the third. I could never go back to working on one monitor.
Why no national holiday? The VCR did more to take Pornography from the seedy theater into your homes. In fact, were it not for the VCR, many people would still be thinking of motor oil whenever the subject of 'lube' came up.
I do, but not so much that these are the things developers want to create, but everyone wants to be successful, and game development is a great risk. Some ideas are sure fire hits, while others fail and developers are looking for work. I think most developers want to create something that shows their talents to the largest possible audience. If nobody buys your game, you cant do that.
Today's games are really really great, but like with everything else they get old unless allowed to push the envelope of what is socially acceptable. I was playing my favorite (Call of Duty) last evening, and thinking about how cool it would be to see limbs flying off the bad guys when I toss a grenade at them, instead of them just doing that nice backflip they do. Why dont the dead guys have their guts spilling out on beach at Point Du Hoc? Why no scenes of allies freeing Jewish prisoners from gas chambers? Where is the abuse and rape and torture of POWs at the Bataan death march? I know, it might be sick, but you bastards would buy it were it there, because it is art immitating life.
You wont see games like this, because the government would never allow it. Moms would be marching like illegal aliens demanding these games be toned down to a nice, pleasant peek at reality.
Let developers model what really went on throughout history or model society without hiding its rougher edges, and you will see no shortage of innovation.
Its getting to the point where you cant walk out your front door in the morning without tripping over another book on SQL 2005,.NET or anything else about Microsoft products. I love the fact that there is an answer either on MSDN or elsewhere that I can find in minutes, and its cool that there are books out there, but are we reaching the saturation point on these books? Didnt Microsoft provide free EXPRESS versions of all the.NET 2005 stuff already?
IMHO, the Microsoft document dump is what really keeps them afloat these days, as developers are not going to find this kind of support anywhere else, and while its cool, I think it getting over done to the point where is is hard to differentiate between somebody with SOME knowledge who wants to sell a book, and those versions that truly cause large numbers of admins and developers to become better at what they do.
I mean, who didnt (and maybe still does) have a red wall lined with WROX trash that didnt really cause a lot of learning to occur, but made people feel smart just for having all those dead trees in their bookcases?
We dont need more books, we need better books with perfect grammar and code samples that work the FIRST TIME. Nothing is more frustrating when you are trying to learn something than to have to constantly reference the errors file from the web site, or debug code from someone who is getting paid to teach YOU something.
DirecTV is one of my clients, so if they are lying dont blame me. But they are not, and as the obvious TiVo employee or fanboy you are, you should know that. They say that TiVo did the severing. It is a FACT that DirecTV made an offer on TiVo which was rejected. A FACT. Also, the only feature I mentioned was direct-digital recording, not all those meaningless bell-and-whistle crumbs that are of value to to only a small subset of the total audience. To most, picture quality is THE REASON that people go with DirecTV over cable or other competitors. TiVo series 3 means nothing to me, if there is an D-A conversion in the mix, regardless of whatever else is in the package. Besides that, there may never be another innovation from TiVo if they lose this law suit, because they wont have the cash flow to support their business operations.
Now, get back to work, you TiVo employee you.
Every taxi driver, waiter, flight attendant and plumber I ever met tried to convince that they were brilliant! Maybe I should not have been a sceptic? I have learned to sit back and enjoy that cab ride from JFK into downtown, if only because I know the driver is going to teach me the meaning of life before we reach my hotel. If you want to learn politics, hot stocks, fashion trends, foreign policy, and what is going to happen on the next episode of '24', do yourself a favor and skip the limo and take that cab into Manhattan, baby. You will be a genius by the time you reach for your wallet.
A particular greedy CEO better call DirecTV today,
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If he ever hopes to retire a wealthy man. DirecTV offered that bastard big money, and he turned his nose up at it, even though his company HAS NEVER MADE A DIME OF PROFIT, thinking that he could be all things to all people. Never mind that TiVo sucked on early cable systems, and anyone who tried to use that IR thingy wished they hadnt. Those of us who got our TiVos through DirecTV are the only ones who ever experienced what TiVo could really be, because our recording never had to be converted from digital to analog, unlike the rest of you out there with your sucky DVRs. We got the TiVo interface, the best picture, and could have had even more if not for the greedy bastards at TiVo who thought that their product alone would make them rich.
Stupid management always kills cool products. They priced the orignal service way beyond what most people were willing to pay, while DirecTV users got the unit for $99 and $5 a month! What are you NON DirecTV folks paying for the inferior analog-recorded service that you get?
I hope TiVo loses and has to take LESS money from DirecTV the second time around for their insolence, because if they win the case it is bad for the consumer.
This kind of thinking is what keeps Microsoft busy counting their money, while their detractors have time to post bad shit about them on Slashdot. You think that you can win by sliming the other guy, while the other guy, even with all their problems has their nose to the grindstone, thinking of real ways to kick your ass in the marketplace.
Just like all the people who think George Bush is stupid. Stupid or not, he beats Democrat ass on Election day. Microsoft haters spend their free time trashing Microsoft, while Microsoft spends its time making everything you do or say totally irrelevant.
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I dont know, I guess it depends on what deals if any they have with their feeders. I think the way they handle RSS is nice, but who ISNT grabbing content from other sites these days?
Shit, did you go to DeVry or something?
I only remembered reading that their site was developed using Microsoft's AJAX plugin called Atlas. I only mentioned .NET, because as far as I know, its the only popular Web 2.0 app that I know of that has anything at all to do with Microsoft's dev tools, even though AJAX is supposedly their invention?
I hate the Web 2.0 hype as much as anyone, but if you havent checked out Pageflakes at www.pageflakes.com, you dont know what Web 2.0 is, or can be. Very cool implementation (no, I dont work for them, or know anyone who works with them) and some of their stuff was done with .NET. Go figure?
"We anticipate some redeployment will begin before the end of this quarter and all redeployment will be started by the end of Q3."
Why not just say it like a man?
"We will be redeploying many of you from your Aeron to your SOFA just in time for you to file for unemployment insurance before taking back the Christmas presents you were hoping to buy for your parents, so that your car is not repo'd as you struggle like mad to pay your rent or mortgage in the wonderful Bay Area."
How hard is that?
Happy selling!
I've got a Home Theater Calibration DVD that contains all the recent variations of that THX sound. They made dozens of them. The coolest one? The one made for the movie Aliens, by far. I think they did a few for the Star Wars movies too, and other movies where sound quality was paramount. (no pun intended) It cost a ton of money to get my theater to the point where it sounded just like a cinema, but now it is sometimes the highlight of the movie watching experience. Which says a lot about the quality of movies these days. Only the overhead rumble of the first Star Wars movie matches that THX sound clip in its viceral sound impact, along with the opening segment of Top Gun with the subwoofer cranked up.
No, he's not. He worked for Microsoft for years and says stuff like this whenever kicked in the head by reflex.
With pride and a dose of humility, I accept your love.
Must I end everything with "-NOT" for some of you?
I thought my sarcasm was well known on Slashdot by now.
Office 2007 is absolultely killer software. It is really the first time since Office 95, where it is a must-upgrade. Betas are pretty stable, the new interfaces are well thought-out, its good stuff.
If you run Linux, you spend it masterbating and looking for more fuel for masterbation on the Internet until the the re-compile is done.
If you run MacOS, you spend it bragging about running MacOS until Starbucks closes.
If you run Solaris, you spend it looking for a job where you can still run Solaris.
If you run none of the above, you spend it having a life, playing with your children, or humping your wife.
I run Windows, but I'm getting a divorce, so I will soon be switching to Linux.
I ask that, because I went to my current setup, (see above reply) from a Parhelia, because PowerDesk made me crazy. It would not keep settings after a reboot, and I was limited to 1280X1024 across 3 screens. Since I have 3 Viewsonics capable of 1600x1200, the nView solution has worked great for me. I still have trouble sometimes saving configurations through a reboot, but only with the TV out switching from Component-out to Composite-out. My 4th screen is an HDTV. When PowerDesk would lock up, nothing could get out of it, except a hard reboot. nView is much more stable and has more features. If money is no object, I would recommend nView every time, though the Matrox picture is superior in both DVI and analog modes.
Dont use the Matrox solution for what you want. Get a couple Nvidia cards with dual DVI output. You have the option for 3 or 4 independent screens, or to combine all of them into one. This way, you can maximize a window to a single monitor, but then you can still drag a window from one monitor to another or have it span between two monitors if you want.
SLI has to be turned off for the 3 monitors to be active.
The way to insure that is to stick with Viewsonic. I run 3 VP201b monitors at 1600x1200 resolution and the color temps are identical across them all. You can select 9300, 6500, 5400, 5000, RGB and user adjusted from the front panel. The bezel is .5 inches and Viewsonic sells a stand that will let you mount 3 monitors on a single center leg. This only works with an Nvidia SLI setup, I use dual 7800GTX cards. WHen I am not gaming, I can run Visual studio on one monitor, Watch a DVD or a TiVo feed from WinDVR/S-video on another, and Excel, Word and Outlook on the third. I could never go back to working on one monitor.
Why no national holiday? The VCR did more to take Pornography from the seedy theater into your homes. In fact, were it not for the VCR, many people would still be thinking of motor oil whenever the subject of 'lube' came up.
I do, but not so much that these are the things developers want to create, but everyone wants to be successful, and game development is a great risk. Some ideas are sure fire hits, while others fail and developers are looking for work. I think most developers want to create something that shows their talents to the largest possible audience. If nobody buys your game, you cant do that.
You wont see games like this, because the government would never allow it. Moms would be marching like illegal aliens demanding these games be toned down to a nice, pleasant peek at reality.
Let developers model what really went on throughout history or model society without hiding its rougher edges, and you will see no shortage of innovation.
IMHO, the Microsoft document dump is what really keeps them afloat these days, as developers are not going to find this kind of support anywhere else, and while its cool, I think it getting over done to the point where is is hard to differentiate between somebody with SOME knowledge who wants to sell a book, and those versions that truly cause large numbers of admins and developers to become better at what they do.
I mean, who didnt (and maybe still does) have a red wall lined with WROX trash that didnt really cause a lot of learning to occur, but made people feel smart just for having all those dead trees in their bookcases?
We dont need more books, we need better books with perfect grammar and code samples that work the FIRST TIME. Nothing is more frustrating when you are trying to learn something than to have to constantly reference the errors file from the web site, or debug code from someone who is getting paid to teach YOU something.
But then, maybe thats just me?
DirecTV is one of my clients, so if they are lying dont blame me. But they are not, and as the obvious TiVo employee or fanboy you are, you should know that. They say that TiVo did the severing. It is a FACT that DirecTV made an offer on TiVo which was rejected. A FACT. Also, the only feature I mentioned was direct-digital recording, not all those meaningless bell-and-whistle crumbs that are of value to to only a small subset of the total audience. To most, picture quality is THE REASON that people go with DirecTV over cable or other competitors. TiVo series 3 means nothing to me, if there is an D-A conversion in the mix, regardless of whatever else is in the package. Besides that, there may never be another innovation from TiVo if they lose this law suit, because they wont have the cash flow to support their business operations. Now, get back to work, you TiVo employee you.
Every taxi driver, waiter, flight attendant and plumber I ever met tried to convince that they were brilliant! Maybe I should not have been a sceptic? I have learned to sit back and enjoy that cab ride from JFK into downtown, if only because I know the driver is going to teach me the meaning of life before we reach my hotel. If you want to learn politics, hot stocks, fashion trends, foreign policy, and what is going to happen on the next episode of '24', do yourself a favor and skip the limo and take that cab into Manhattan, baby. You will be a genius by the time you reach for your wallet.
Stupid management always kills cool products. They priced the orignal service way beyond what most people were willing to pay, while DirecTV users got the unit for $99 and $5 a month! What are you NON DirecTV folks paying for the inferior analog-recorded service that you get?
I hope TiVo loses and has to take LESS money from DirecTV the second time around for their insolence, because if they win the case it is bad for the consumer.
Just like all the people who think George Bush is stupid. Stupid or not, he beats Democrat ass on Election day. Microsoft haters spend their free time trashing Microsoft, while Microsoft spends its time making everything you do or say totally irrelevant.
Mod away people, I got Karma to burn!