Get your company to front for some M$ premier support.
I dont get the idea from her description that her company is ready to tackle that nut. I think she is better off picking up a book like Minasi's on W2K3 and spending a few late nights getting comfortable with her servers.
Do you know how many qualified folks would love to take your job? Active Directory is not hard. In fact is is jokingly easy. (Which is why unqualified people are not exposed when using it) Take the opportunity (and responsibility) to learn something. Get good at it. Become an asset to your company. If they dont support your efforts to learn, take your new skills to someone else. You dont even have to get certified, because the MCSE means nothing. But see your position as an opportunity to grow, not just an opportuntity to bitch.
There are not a large number of designers at Microsoft.
In fact, those that are there are hired based on their willingness to perform double duty.
When their designs are being reviewed, they are kept busy driving the shuttle vans, getting coffee for the programmers that matter, crawling under desks to hook up switches for programmers with 5 or more computers in their offices, and wash the windows of those who rate offices on the windowed side of the hall.
If you kneejerk liberal assholes would bother to READ, you might discover that Congress, especially that jerk Senator Rockefeller knew about this program and signed off on it.
Also, again if you had a fucking clue, you would know that no crime was committed, because the President can sign Executive Orders whenever he wants.
So no crime done, and if you want to blame someone, why not your fellow Congressional Senators who signed off on the deal?
So, are we to think that Slashdot is being paid by Sony? A completly unfair headline. Not a word suggesting the possibility of poor software (which is highly likely on a new platform), just another opportunity to bash Microsoft, which has gone beyond all reason and fairness. This does little for the credibility of this forum.
It might mean you more poor than I rich. Time to back away from Slashdot and hit the books, maybe? I dont think I'm rich at all, but if you want a state of the art gaming rig, why go cheap? Look at companies like Alienware, which I almost bought from; if only "rich" people were buying high-performance rigs, then I dont think they would be in business for long.
Now, if YOU are poor, then all you said would be true, if you were refering to what to do with YOUR finances. Just thought I would clear that up.
Now with the newest Nvidia drivers, you dont even have to have matching cards anymore. Though I have matching 7800GTXs, I could just as easily pop one of them into another machine, and still SLI with a 6800 or even a 6600GTX board. The newest games at 1600X1200 with full options on almost require SLI to play right. If you saw what Battlefield 2 looks like on my new rig, with everything turned up and NO lag, you would eat those words. Yeah, I got cash for nice game rigs, but you dont have to be rich to reap the benefits of SLI.
I thought it was a lot for a motherboard, but when I saw that the damn board could do everything, I had to have it. Newegg sells refurbs of the board for $110.00, but you have to be an idiot to buy a refurb motherboard.
I needed a new game machine, so I went to Newegg and splurged on an Athlon64X2 4400, a couple of XFX 7800GTX boards on top of a ASUS A8N SLI motherboard, and 2Gs of Corsair RAM. I have to say, this is the fastest computer I have ever had, and it aint even the top of the AMD line.
With all this new hardware, the case is 10deg cooler than when I had a P4 in there, off the same 500W power supply. I was still buying P4s when all my buddies had screaming AMD boxes, and I could not keep up in either Battlefield 2 or just recently in Call of Duty 2. I wasted a lot of time (and watts) sticking with Intel trying to cool their CPUs, but never again unless they take back the power/performance/price curve from AMD.
Google has done their job, just like Lotus, Word Perfect, Novell, Borland and Netscape before them. Their job was to show Microsoft where the money is, and then get the hell out of the way.
Hate them all you want, but if BillG knows one thing, it is how to crush the enemy. Google is smarter, faster and more aware of history than the others, but Microsoft has the desktop, still most of the browser space, and a shitload of money to throw any direction they please.
Google wont die, they might make a fine adversary, but we are talkin about Office here. Google and nobody else, is going to make a better Office than Microsoft, whether on the web, desktop or anywhere else.
Get your FUD dictionary out, buddy. FUD does not have to be lies. FUD can be a simple strategic idea to slow adoption of a competing product. Example: "Internet Explorer 4 will blow Netscape out of the water, with better performance and closer adherance to standards." Major FUD, but it was also quite true at the time. FUD is just competitive business, and not always just some lie about a competitor's product or vision.
Until recently, I would have to say that Microsoft as a partner, has been 'berry-berry good to me', so to speak. This one caught me by surprise because I heard nothing about this at all. I guess there was just no good way to break this to us. The bad news is that they have probably destroyed the market until they flesh out what they want to do. Clients will just wait to find out the best way to go.
Uh, I used to work for Microsoft. I think I know FUD when I see it. I dont hate the company, it just aint the company anymore that I worked for years ago. I dont see how Microsoft makes money on this, because customer service has never been their best weapon. I think this is all about customer lock-in, a familiar tactic. What I hope, is that they find a way to bring their partners along in this, and let us benefit from this initiative. But I aint holding my breath.
Oh, this is great. I look forward to calls from all my hosting clients asking me about this. "Will Microsoft be cheaper?" "Will they help me design my web parts, since I am just too stupid to do it right myself?" Oh, its a beautiful thing.
But then, we partners cant say "Hey, if we host you, we'll knock off 30% on that Open Licence Agreement". Thank you, Microsoft. If for anything, just for tossing a big FUD ball into the pool.
They dont tell me what to purchase, but they make a hell of a lot of suggestions. Especially when I get that Newegg newsletter in email. Just the other day, the Mastercard said "Psst, hey bitch, dont you need some RAM? Oh, and Newegg has got a sale goin on for all things Plextor."
First idiot, an IDE is not supposed to teach you ANYTHING.
It is a tool. Does your socket wrench teach you how to build a house? Do your credit cards tell you how to spend your money?
Someday, somehow the Microsoft bashing needs to end, or at least be about something intelligent. If you are a programmer, well versed in the basic concepts of code, both procedural and OO, then all that Visual Studio will do for you is increase your productivity in what ever you are planning to create in the programming languages that it supports.
Now, some might argue that features like 'intellisense' can help you remember the depth and breath of the WIN32-64 APIs but that is not close to doing what it takes to become a profiecient programmer. The only thing that teaches you how to code, is to CODE, CODE and CODE SOME MORE. In addition to that, it wouldnt hurt to learn from others, from books, from classrooms, user groups, etc, what programming is all about.
If you (or your good(but not so brilliant) friend think that by picking up an IDE that it will teach you how to really program, then you both need counseling.
Well you were lied to. I've got the Audigy 4 Pro, which was short lived because of X-Fi, but it carries the same high-end DACs that the top X-Fi board has. I drive a set of Klipsch 5.1 Pro speakers with it and it sounds so good, I now drive the optical output from my DirecTivo in my office into the breakout box, where the Dolby surround signal is decoded by the sound card. If there is a better sounding board than the Audigy 4, I dont need it, cause the thing sounds great. Oddly enough, I waited a year to buy this card because Creative's drivers have a reputation for suckage. I was using a Turtle Beach 5.1 card before, and there is no comparison.
The pilot had made a slow pass over the field, and when he tried to pull the plane up, the computer overrode his commands thinking he was trying to land, and that is why they crashed into the forest. After that, an emergency pilot override was placed in AirBus jets.
The Boeing 777 can takeoff and land automatically. Hell, that airplane can do anything.
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I dont get the idea from her description that her company is ready to tackle that nut. I think she is better off picking up a book like Minasi's on W2K3 and spending a few late nights getting comfortable with her servers.
Do you know how many qualified folks would love to take your job? Active Directory is not hard. In fact is is jokingly easy. (Which is why unqualified people are not exposed when using it) Take the opportunity (and responsibility) to learn something. Get good at it. Become an asset to your company. If they dont support your efforts to learn, take your new skills to someone else. You dont even have to get certified, because the MCSE means nothing. But see your position as an opportunity to grow, not just an opportuntity to bitch.
I swear sometimes that some people are just too stupid to live. How is the water, you idiot?
In fact, those that are there are hired based on their willingness to perform double duty.
When their designs are being reviewed, they are kept busy driving the shuttle vans, getting coffee for the programmers that matter, crawling under desks to hook up switches for programmers with 5 or more computers in their offices, and wash the windows of those who rate offices on the windowed side of the hall.
It aint a glamor job in Redmond.
Start a business and let someone else be your code monkey. By 50 if you are still staring at streams of code all day, you will fucking go blind.
You are quite the clueless fuck.
Democrats.
One fact. One ounce of proof.
Idiot.
While YOU, bright boy have spare time to post bullshit on Slashdot every day.
I'm sure he wishes he was you!
If you kneejerk liberal assholes would bother to READ, you might discover that Congress, especially that jerk Senator Rockefeller knew about this program and signed off on it.
Also, again if you had a fucking clue, you would know that no crime was committed, because the President can sign Executive Orders whenever he wants.
So no crime done, and if you want to blame someone, why not your fellow Congressional Senators who signed off on the deal?
Asshole.
So, are we to think that Slashdot is being paid by Sony? A completly unfair headline. Not a word suggesting the possibility of poor software (which is highly likely on a new platform), just another opportunity to bash Microsoft, which has gone beyond all reason and fairness. This does little for the credibility of this forum.
Now, if YOU are poor, then all you said would be true, if you were refering to what to do with YOUR finances. Just thought I would clear that up.
Now with the newest Nvidia drivers, you dont even have to have matching cards anymore. Though I have matching 7800GTXs, I could just as easily pop one of them into another machine, and still SLI with a 6800 or even a 6600GTX board. The newest games at 1600X1200 with full options on almost require SLI to play right. If you saw what Battlefield 2 looks like on my new rig, with everything turned up and NO lag, you would eat those words. Yeah, I got cash for nice game rigs, but you dont have to be rich to reap the benefits of SLI.
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail $165.00 Item #: N82E16813131540
I thought it was a lot for a motherboard, but when I saw that the damn board could do everything, I had to have it. Newegg sells refurbs of the board for $110.00, but you have to be an idiot to buy a refurb motherboard.
With all this new hardware, the case is 10deg cooler than when I had a P4 in there, off the same 500W power supply. I was still buying P4s when all my buddies had screaming AMD boxes, and I could not keep up in either Battlefield 2 or just recently in Call of Duty 2. I wasted a lot of time (and watts) sticking with Intel trying to cool their CPUs, but never again unless they take back the power/performance/price curve from AMD.
I aint holding my breath for that to happen.
Google has done their job, just like Lotus, Word Perfect, Novell, Borland and Netscape before them. Their job was to show Microsoft where the money is, and then get the hell out of the way.
Hate them all you want, but if BillG knows one thing, it is how to crush the enemy. Google is smarter, faster and more aware of history than the others, but Microsoft has the desktop, still most of the browser space, and a shitload of money to throw any direction they please.
Google wont die, they might make a fine adversary, but we are talkin about Office here. Google and nobody else, is going to make a better Office than Microsoft, whether on the web, desktop or anywhere else.
Get your FUD dictionary out, buddy. FUD does not have to be lies. FUD can be a simple strategic idea to slow adoption of a competing product. Example: "Internet Explorer 4 will blow Netscape out of the water, with better performance and closer adherance to standards." Major FUD, but it was also quite true at the time. FUD is just competitive business, and not always just some lie about a competitor's product or vision.
Until recently, I would have to say that Microsoft as a partner, has been 'berry-berry good to me', so to speak. This one caught me by surprise because I heard nothing about this at all. I guess there was just no good way to break this to us. The bad news is that they have probably destroyed the market until they flesh out what they want to do. Clients will just wait to find out the best way to go.
Uh, I used to work for Microsoft. I think I know FUD when I see it. I dont hate the company, it just aint the company anymore that I worked for years ago. I dont see how Microsoft makes money on this, because customer service has never been their best weapon. I think this is all about customer lock-in, a familiar tactic. What I hope, is that they find a way to bring their partners along in this, and let us benefit from this initiative. But I aint holding my breath.
But then, we partners cant say "Hey, if we host you, we'll knock off 30% on that Open Licence Agreement". Thank you, Microsoft. If for anything, just for tossing a big FUD ball into the pool.
They dont tell me what to purchase, but they make a hell of a lot of suggestions. Especially when I get that Newegg newsletter in email. Just the other day, the Mastercard said "Psst, hey bitch, dont you need some RAM? Oh, and Newegg has got a sale goin on for all things Plextor."
Exactly right. I owe you mod points.
It is a tool. Does your socket wrench teach you how to build a house? Do your credit cards tell you how to spend your money?
Someday, somehow the Microsoft bashing needs to end, or at least be about something intelligent. If you are a programmer, well versed in the basic concepts of code, both procedural and OO, then all that Visual Studio will do for you is increase your productivity in what ever you are planning to create in the programming languages that it supports.
Now, some might argue that features like 'intellisense' can help you remember the depth and breath of the WIN32-64 APIs but that is not close to doing what it takes to become a profiecient programmer. The only thing that teaches you how to code, is to CODE, CODE and CODE SOME MORE. In addition to that, it wouldnt hurt to learn from others, from books, from classrooms, user groups, etc, what programming is all about.
If you (or your good(but not so brilliant) friend think that by picking up an IDE that it will teach you how to really program, then you both need counseling.
Well you were lied to. I've got the Audigy 4 Pro, which was short lived because of X-Fi, but it carries the same high-end DACs that the top X-Fi board has. I drive a set of Klipsch 5.1 Pro speakers with it and it sounds so good, I now drive the optical output from my DirecTivo in my office into the breakout box, where the Dolby surround signal is decoded by the sound card. If there is a better sounding board than the Audigy 4, I dont need it, cause the thing sounds great. Oddly enough, I waited a year to buy this card because Creative's drivers have a reputation for suckage. I was using a Turtle Beach 5.1 card before, and there is no comparison.
The pilot had made a slow pass over the field, and when he tried to pull the plane up, the computer overrode his commands thinking he was trying to land, and that is why they crashed into the forest. After that, an emergency pilot override was placed in AirBus jets. The Boeing 777 can takeoff and land automatically. Hell, that airplane can do anything.