> Be fair... there have been previous Wars on Christmas. Puritans banned it for a time in England, considering the holiday two full of Catholic and Pagan influences and having objections to celebrating the solumn occasion of Christ's birth with drunkenness and partying.
...and to a certain extent, they were right.
Which is not to say I personally shall be eschewing drunkenness and partying...
Agreed. It makes one wonder how the country can continue to keep itself going.
Re-reading that, my meaning wasn't clear, but not sure how to phrase it. A country so mismanaged, so corrupt, so relentlessly evil, would, one would think, collapse under its own weight. I find it strange that north korea continues to exist.
I use PrinterShare. It requires a service running on a Windows box, but you can print through the service to a printer from outside the network, which means I can print to my home computer (for instance) from anywhere in the world I can get signal. Available from android store. Not affiliated, just a user.
Well, ok, I'm the one who was accused of bias for using "M$" as shorthand for "Microsoft", and I have to say, doesn't everyone do it for the money, or the things that money can accomplish?
On reading the synopsis, the first phrase that entered my head is "thought crime".
I wonder how far this will go. Virtual animal rights have already been discussed... I suppose the case can be made that virtual aliens have rights too...
This of course will cross over into movies and TV shows, which won't be allowed to show behavior that violates humanitarian laws. (Hawaii 50 will be off the air...) And fiction, of course. A lot of thriller authors are out of a job.
Oh, fer cryin' out loud. I can't even write that with a straight face. Can someone please explain to these clowns that it's just BITS ON A SCREEN?
Is GM, a company that's been around over 100 years, truly this incompetent? Or is this whole progression -- design, execution, tax credits, coverup, part of a larger plan?
I think part of the reason it was blown out of proportion was that a cover-up attempt was made. Had they come clean immediately and made the point you just made, the story would have died out almost immediately.
Well that's curious because I ran > 4 gigs of ram on my 64bit version of XP just fine for graphics rendering. The 64 bit version can use up to 128 gigs.
Good point, I was being sloppy. I had a 32 bit version of Windows XP running on my computer. 32 bit XP was common, 64 bit XP was rare and initially problematic.
At the point where I needed more than 3.8 gigs (or whatever the magic number was) I couldn't buy any kind of XP anymore, (due to the fact that XP was no longer for sale) and I certainly wasn't going to spend hard earned cash on Vista. So I waited another month and picked up Windows 7 64 bit. So since the transition couldn't be from XP_32 to XP_64, it had to be XP_32 to Win7_64. Which kind of goes along with the original theme of using an operating system until there is an overriding reason to change. ("Overriding" *not* meaning "a new version has come out". Oooh, shiny!)
Incidentally, my current PC was first purchased just before the turn of the century. Everything has been replaced at least once except the floppy (which I never use) and the case itself, which basically never wears out. Think about that next time you drop another grand on yet another minisculely improved imac.
Really? I own a Windows 7 (Pro) tablet PC and fought with the accessibility tools that they have misnamed "touch support" for awhile, really trying to figure out how to do real work, and finally gave up. How masochistic do you have to be? Access now is by keyboard and mouse only, until I can install a real touch based OS on it.
It's such an accepted shortcut for "Microsoft" that I don't even think about it anymore. Everyone knows what one means by "M$" in the context of the computer industry.
> Considering the past track record, we MIGHT go from 7 to 9. W8 isn't even a remote possibility.
...or from XP to 9. But that's fine, because there will be a lot of early adopters, and they'll debug W8 and find most of the usability issues that will hopefully be fixed by the time we're ready to give 9 a try. It's all good.
Windows 7 was an exception, being essentially a service pack on Vista. I suspect the name change was to distance themselves from a name that people had come to associate with failure.
> The only reason I felt (keyword felt) the need to upgrade to 7 was because XP/2K (yes.. some of my boxes ran 2k) were getting too old for my liking.
Really? I upgraded one (1) of my boxes to Windows 7 for one and only one reason -- to run more than 4 Gbytes memory, because I do a lot of memory intensive work on that machine. The rest? XP is fine. M$ no longer doing updates? Don' care. I'll upgrade when it becomes an issue. Probably to Windows 9 SP1. (Yes, I did say "nine".)
Dunno about you, but I do useful work daily on Android. I can do all correspondence, most reports, do command line work on *NIX boxes, from the Android environment. Even give presentations from my Android phone with the proper HDMI cable. It's nice not having to carry a laptop around. Many of my work associates manage to get work done just fine on their iPads.
I admit, for a small part of the time, I'm remotely logged into a Windows 7 box, because some things still only run on Windows. Which is a pain in the behind, as Windows doesn't work at all well with a touch interface, going back to my original point.
What iOS and Android have that Microsoft does not, is a touch-only paradigm that actually works. It's not at all apparent even now that Microsoft gets what a touch-only interface really means. It does *not* mean a set of cabalistic gestures that imitate the actions of a 3 button mouse so they don't have to re-think the gui. (Every other M$ attempt at a touch interface except Surface, which would have been great, if they had actually made it available.)
> Enterprises are in various states of completing their transition to Win 7. Very few enterprises are going to begin another rip and replace cycle next year,
Hell yes. We've barely started transition to Win7/Server 2008 and it's mostly through attrition. If it ain't broke, etc. Tell them we'll have to churn this year on 7 and then churn again next year on 8, and you'll have desktop admins quitting wholesale. Even in this economy.
Besides which, 8 is a real departure from 7, (or is an additional gui on top of the old gui that's a real departure, how ever you want to count it) and it has always taken M$ at least one major release to fix a major departure. (And one service pack after that major release before it becomes useful to serious users.)
Slashdot Mirror
> Be fair... there have been previous Wars on Christmas. Puritans banned it for a time in England, considering the holiday two full of Catholic and Pagan influences and having objections to celebrating the solumn occasion of Christ's birth with drunkenness and partying.
Which is not to say I personally shall be eschewing drunkenness and partying...
I think that'll be in the sequel.
Agreed. It makes one wonder how the country can continue to keep itself going.
Re-reading that, my meaning wasn't clear, but not sure how to phrase it. A country so mismanaged, so corrupt, so relentlessly evil, would, one would think, collapse under its own weight. I find it strange that north korea continues to exist.
IT tech workers need a warrant??
I use PrinterShare. It requires a service running on a Windows box, but you can print through the service to a printer from outside the network, which means I can print to my home computer (for instance) from anywhere in the world I can get signal. Available from android store. Not affiliated, just a user.
> Don't assign to malice what can be explained by mere incompetence.
Agreed, but at some point mere incompetence starts to seem unlikely.
> 'The demands are so great that H&M, among the poor photo models, cannot find someone with both body and face that can sell their bikinis.'
This seems a bit disingenuous. It is much more likely that it's easier and cheaper to create the images online, but that wouldn't make a good story.
Seriously, doesn't ANYONE remember when clothing catalogs had artists renderings instead of photographs?
Acknowledged. Except for him?
Just NOW?
Well, ok, I'm the one who was accused of bias for using "M$" as shorthand for "Microsoft", and I have to say, doesn't everyone do it for the money, or the things that money can accomplish?
On reading the synopsis, the first phrase that entered my head is "thought crime".
I wonder how far this will go. Virtual animal rights have already been discussed... I suppose the case can be made that virtual aliens have rights too...
This of course will cross over into movies and TV shows, which won't be allowed to show behavior that violates humanitarian laws. (Hawaii 50 will be off the air...) And fiction, of course. A lot of thriller authors are out of a job.
Oh, fer cryin' out loud. I can't even write that with a straight face. Can someone please explain to these clowns that it's just BITS ON A SCREEN?
Is GM, a company that's been around over 100 years, truly this incompetent? Or is this whole progression -- design, execution, tax credits, coverup, part of a larger plan?
I think part of the reason it was blown out of proportion was that a cover-up attempt was made. Had they come clean immediately and made the point you just made, the story would have died out almost immediately.
(1) Um, no?
(2) As safe as the cloud wants it to be.
Well that's curious because I ran > 4 gigs of ram on my 64bit version of XP just fine for graphics rendering. The 64 bit version can use up to 128 gigs.
Good point, I was being sloppy. I had a 32 bit version of Windows XP running on my computer. 32 bit XP was common, 64 bit XP was rare and initially problematic.
At the point where I needed more than 3.8 gigs (or whatever the magic number was) I couldn't buy any kind of XP anymore, (due to the fact that XP was no longer for sale) and I certainly wasn't going to spend hard earned cash on Vista. So I waited another month and picked up Windows 7 64 bit. So since the transition couldn't be from XP_32 to XP_64, it had to be XP_32 to Win7_64. Which kind of goes along with the original theme of using an operating system until there is an overriding reason to change. ("Overriding" *not* meaning "a new version has come out". Oooh, shiny!)
Incidentally, my current PC was first purchased just before the turn of the century. Everything has been replaced at least once except the floppy (which I never use) and the case itself, which basically never wears out. Think about that next time you drop another grand on yet another minisculely improved imac.
Um, well, they look identical except Windows 7 works?
Really? I own a Windows 7 (Pro) tablet PC and fought with the accessibility tools that they have misnamed "touch support" for awhile, really trying to figure out how to do real work, and finally gave up. How masochistic do you have to be? Access now is by keyboard and mouse only, until I can install a real touch based OS on it.
>>and it has always taken M$
> I sense bias. :)
It's such an accepted shortcut for "Microsoft" that I don't even think about it anymore. Everyone knows what one means by "M$" in the context of the computer industry.
> Considering the past track record, we MIGHT go from 7 to 9. W8 isn't even a remote possibility.
Windows 7 was an exception, being essentially a service pack on Vista. I suspect the name change was to distance themselves from a name that people had come to associate with failure.
> The only reason I felt (keyword felt) the need to upgrade to 7 was because XP/2K (yes.. some of my boxes ran 2k) were getting too old for my liking.
Really? I upgraded one (1) of my boxes to Windows 7 for one and only one reason -- to run more than 4 Gbytes memory, because I do a lot of memory intensive work on that machine. The rest? XP is fine. M$ no longer doing updates? Don' care. I'll upgrade when it becomes an issue. Probably to Windows 9 SP1. (Yes, I did say "nine".)
Dunno about you, but I do useful work daily on Android. I can do all correspondence, most reports, do command line work on *NIX boxes, from the Android environment. Even give presentations from my Android phone with the proper HDMI cable. It's nice not having to carry a laptop around. Many of my work associates manage to get work done just fine on their iPads.
I admit, for a small part of the time, I'm remotely logged into a Windows 7 box, because some things still only run on Windows. Which is a pain in the behind, as Windows doesn't work at all well with a touch interface, going back to my original point.
What iOS and Android have that Microsoft does not, is a touch-only paradigm that actually works. It's not at all apparent even now that Microsoft gets what a touch-only interface really means. It does *not* mean a set of cabalistic gestures that imitate the actions of a 3 button mouse so they don't have to re-think the gui. (Every other M$ attempt at a touch interface except Surface, which would have been great, if they had actually made it available.)
> Enterprises are in various states of completing their transition to Win 7. Very few enterprises are going to begin another rip and replace cycle next year,
Hell yes. We've barely started transition to Win7/Server 2008 and it's mostly through attrition. If it ain't broke, etc. Tell them we'll have to churn this year on 7 and then churn again next year on 8, and you'll have desktop admins quitting wholesale. Even in this economy.
Besides which, 8 is a real departure from 7, (or is an additional gui on top of the old gui that's a real departure, how ever you want to count it) and it has always taken M$ at least one major release to fix a major departure. (And one service pack after that major release before it becomes useful to serious users.)