I like how Windows arranges it's GUI, start button, quicklaunch, then task list,
>>then systray and clock. Less real estate, all the same functionality, but without a top AND bottom bar.
I'm currently pushing virtualisation as the solution to the configuration nightmare that is our salespeople laptops (multiple versions of multiple products in multiple configurations) and at 8gig a pop + a backup copy to restore from 64gig don't go too far.
The one thing I keep hearing from silverlight fans is how it will be so easy to use it to shift processing load onto clients instead of the server as we will have a 'real' programming model for the browser. They keep going on about how everyone has under-utilized multi-core machines with gigs of ram & how this will be so great.
Personally I think that sounds like the stupidest idea I've heard in a while. So much for low power consumption mobile web-browsing devices. So much for low-cost computing for the masses
It all comes down to: must keep forcing people to buy new computers so we ship more units of WindowsXXXXX
A few years ago a friend studying sociology told me of a study in Canada (I think) trying to evaluate the 'reading to kids' theory.
Basically they found that many of the kids who were read to did do well academically. However some didn't. It turns out that most of the ones that did do well (including the ones who weren't read to) had parents who read regularly themselves & 'had books in the house'. So these kids were in environments where reading & studying were considered 'normal' & more important than 'drinking beer & watching football'.
I wish I had details on this study. I wonder about genetic pre-disposition as a factor as well.
Ok, most of the negative comments on shows what I listen to/watch (including WindowsWeekly & CGeeks) falls into one of two groups:
1 - Vista is bad because it doesn't support my hardware / drivers are crap or it runs poorly. 2 - Vista is bad because I don't like some part of it that is different from 2000/XP/OSX whatever 3 - Vista is bad because my product/service doesn't support it
1 is for tech people wanting to buy it and put it onto an existing system. This is the same problem that occurs for every release of the OS.. New drivers have to be written, there are greater demands on the hardware & people have dodgy cheap-ass unsupported hardware which is probably starting to fail anyway. People made the same comments about XP, move along nothing new here.
2 is generally so called 'power-users' like 99% of gamers & many tech journalists who do not have the comp-sci/development/ITsystems experience to really know what is going on in the OS. They have simply memorised where things are in XP (or whatever) and how to do certain tasks. Vista shuffles things around a bit, or changes how things work & they have to learn it again. Therefore it sucks and XP is better.
3 will change their tune in 12 months when they have a Vista version that they want to sell.
The are another 2 groups: those to have invested a lot of time & effort into customising their XP installs to make it behave a certain way & they can't acheive that on Vista (thus it sucks) and Joe Public who has no idea of any of the above & just listens & takes for gospel what the above groups tell him.
Most of the Vista fear-mongering in the press is simply pandering to the 'change is bad' mentality.
I put Vista on my Althon64 desktop 6 months ago to evaluate it. It ran like crap, I declared it the new 'WinME'. When I got my DellXPSm1330 last month I found that it ran beautifully. Now I have to deal with co-workers who have memorised the 'Vista is bad' from 6 months ago.
Its not a lack of vision. The unfortunate thing about MS is that it has too many heads each with their own visions, mostly going in different directions. The vision of some of the heads are 'increase shareholder value at all costs', some of the others are 'create cool products to increase shareholder value'. Lookup some of the recent interviews with J Allard about the Zune & XBoxLive.
The failure for me is the fact that it doesn't integrate into the rest of the MS ecosystem.
I don't mind the new Zune software, its a 1.0 so I can live with a few missing bits but not having integration between MediaCenter the 360 as an extender is a big boo-boo. Plugging the Zune into the 360 to play stuff off it or using the Zune sharing to the 360 media player does not compared to having it integrated into MediaCenter.
Ipod -> Itunes -> AppleTV works really well.
Zune -> MediaCenter -> XBox360 as extender is a non-event.
I watched them screw it up with v1, had hopes for v2, maybe v4 or 5 ? By then I will probably have a 300Gig Flash Ipod touch PDA.
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Anyone saying that once BSG is over it's the end clearly hasn't watched BSG for the last 2 seasons. The end has been and gone.
... then get George Lucas to do it. At least he has talent in that regard.
I'm suprised he didn't just write his own.
Then I should be seeing unicorns & emerald fairies by midday
So they are telling us that we are easily dis
Look! A sparkly thingy!
"listen to iTunes"
Apple has either ported iTunes to it, it runs Windows... or is Apple sending their lawyers over after they are done with Phystar.
Or what they really mean is 'listen to digital music' in which case that is deliberate deceptive advertising.
I like how Windows arranges it's GUI, start button, quicklaunch, then task list, >>then systray and clock. Less real estate, all the same functionality, but without a top AND bottom bar.
I'm normally a pretty tolerant sorta guy but this garbage boils my blood.
You got an alternative hypothesis? Great. Can you present any evidence? No? Then step back. (and no, 2000 year old parchment doesn't count)
Apple has an advantage in the migration space as they give the developer tools away free with the OS. Here's a new OS & new free toys for devs!
It only seems to be the really good docs & support that cost money AFAIK.
"I beleive God created me in one day!
Yup, look's like he rushed it."
Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy.
While all browsers are standards compliant... some browsers are more compliant than others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction
Has not been commerically viable for a decade. People keep writing it.
I'm currently pushing virtualisation as the solution to the configuration nightmare that is our salespeople laptops (multiple versions of multiple products in multiple configurations) and at 8gig a pop + a backup copy to restore from 64gig don't go too far.
learn how to use google to find some answers before bugging someone else or spinning your wheels for 2 weeks & putting the project behind schedule.
;-)
Ok I have that out of my system now
*cups hand to ear* WHAT?!
The one thing I keep hearing from silverlight fans is how it will be so easy to use it to shift processing load onto clients instead of the server as we will have a 'real' programming model for the browser. They keep going on about how everyone has under-utilized multi-core machines with gigs of ram & how this will be so great.
Personally I think that sounds like the stupidest idea I've heard in a while. So much for low power consumption mobile web-browsing devices. So much for low-cost computing for the masses
It all comes down to: must keep forcing people to buy new computers so we ship more units of WindowsXXXXX
woar!
or to go with the proctology example... the universe is full of shit?
I think the casting decisions for Tron Final Cut is pretty cut & dry.
hmmm, perhaps the dogs do have something going on there ?
Some people's whole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. ;-)
A few years ago a friend studying sociology told me of a study in Canada (I think) trying to evaluate the 'reading to kids' theory.
Basically they found that many of the kids who were read to did do well academically. However some didn't. It turns out that most of the ones that did do well (including the ones who weren't read to) had parents who read regularly themselves & 'had books in the house'. So these kids were in environments where reading & studying were considered 'normal' & more important than 'drinking beer & watching football'.
I wish I had details on this study. I wonder about genetic pre-disposition as a factor as well.
Ok, most of the negative comments on shows what I listen to/watch (including WindowsWeekly & CGeeks) falls into one of two groups:
1 - Vista is bad because it doesn't support my hardware / drivers are crap or it runs poorly.
2 - Vista is bad because I don't like some part of it that is different from 2000/XP/OSX whatever
3 - Vista is bad because my product/service doesn't support it
1 is for tech people wanting to buy it and put it onto an existing system. This is the same problem that occurs for every release of the OS.. New drivers have to be written, there are greater demands on the hardware & people have dodgy cheap-ass unsupported hardware which is probably starting to fail anyway. People made the same comments about XP, move along nothing new here.
2 is generally so called 'power-users' like 99% of gamers & many tech journalists who do not have the comp-sci/development/ITsystems experience to really know what is going on in the OS. They have simply memorised where things are in XP (or whatever) and how to do certain tasks. Vista shuffles things around a bit, or changes how things work & they have to learn it again. Therefore it sucks and XP is better.
3 will change their tune in 12 months when they have a Vista version that they want to sell.
The are another 2 groups: those to have invested a lot of time & effort into customising their XP installs to make it behave a certain way & they can't acheive that on Vista (thus it sucks) and Joe Public who has no idea of any of the above & just listens & takes for gospel what the above groups tell him.
Most of the Vista fear-mongering in the press is simply pandering to the 'change is bad' mentality.
I put Vista on my Althon64 desktop 6 months ago to evaluate it. It ran like crap, I declared it the new 'WinME'. When I got my DellXPSm1330 last month I found that it ran beautifully. Now I have to deal with co-workers who have memorised the 'Vista is bad' from 6 months ago.
Its not a lack of vision. The unfortunate thing about MS is that it has too many heads each with their own visions, mostly going in different directions. The vision of some of the heads are 'increase shareholder value at all costs', some of the others are 'create cool products to increase shareholder value'. Lookup some of the recent interviews with J Allard about the Zune & XBoxLive.
The failure for me is the fact that it doesn't integrate into the rest of the MS ecosystem.
I don't mind the new Zune software, its a 1.0 so I can live with a few missing bits but not having integration between MediaCenter the 360 as an extender is a big boo-boo. Plugging the Zune into the 360 to play stuff off it or using the Zune sharing to the 360 media player does not compared to having it integrated into MediaCenter.
Ipod -> Itunes -> AppleTV works really well.
Zune -> MediaCenter -> XBox360 as extender is a non-event.
I watched them screw it up with v1, had hopes for v2, maybe v4 or 5 ? By then I will probably have a 300Gig Flash Ipod touch PDA.