Let's see... 1,000,000 knowledgeable geeks vs a couple dozen at nVidia... Yeah, I'd say we could.
They might have more direct knowledge of the hardware, but there is strength in numbers.
And those million geeks could get it done in about 4 seconds too right? I mean it took the couple of dozen at Nvidia a couple of years working on the Vista drivers, so 1,000,000 geeks should be able to get it done in a flash and 9 women can have a baby in 1 month.
Well SP1 saved me some crucial time this morning.... by suggesting that the 4gb memory stick would operate a lot faster if I put it into a high speed plug which was available on my Dell 2407wfp rather than in the top tray of the Antec 900 case. I hadn't figured that one out myself for some reason.
That's old functionality, XP has done that for years. I guess it's good to see that it only took until SP1 for Vista to catch up to XP in this area.
Microsoft will always have office to generate refenue, for what it's worth...
Always? It will make them money for a long time but not always. Open Office is getting better all the time, it's closer to deposing MS Office than Linux is to deposing Windows on the desktop. Right now MS Office can go no where but down in marketshare. They've "won" they have as close to 100% of the business desktops as anyone can get, that means at best they can maintain their position but over time they are sure to lose more and more of those desktops.
maybe I'm missing something here but what repair could possibly justify the work of scrubbing signatures off of a gaming console?
Cleaning the console is probably SOP, would YOU work on some scummy, nasty game box covered in dust and who knows what? They surely have a policy of having someone with gloves wipe down every box with some cleaning solvent before working on it.
People talk about faster adoption rate and less problems with Vista than XP
Talk about needing a reality check. Where did you read that? Microsoft.com? Ever other source cites slower adoption of Vista than XP and slower than expected sales. Even on non technical sites the overwhelming opinion is that Vista is a train wreck.
Of course it comes from a press release, do you think that ABC/CBS/CNN/etc would ever print something positive about either the military or a recruitment tool?
It is California afterall. And they wonder why people in other states don't want Californians moving in - we don't want them doing to our states what they did to CA! We don't want them passing the same laws or electing the same kind of officials here that they did there.
You're making the assumption that they would be unattended. They wouldn't need drivers but who says they wouldn't have security? I certainly wouldn't send a truck full of valuable merchandise across the country or across the city unattended, I'd send some kind of security guard to ride along to make sure it arrived safe and secure.
But on the flip side of that you seem to have no problem with his tax dollars being spent for your bot driven roads, or are these robot only roads going to be 100% toll/use fee supported?
If MS stops selling XP to Dell, Dell can't sell it to consumers. Once Dell (or other OEM) runs out of XP licenses to sell they'll be left with selling Vista or something non MS.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier and cheaper to just buy a copy of XP Pro and install it than buying a Mac and ramping up on it's differences vs what you're used to?
And besides them shipping, do they know how many VISTA installs where replaced...
100% in my house and in several other households I know of. Only MS can really kill Vista off completely, as long as OEMs are shipping it the install base will (sadly) continue to grow.
We don't call people crazy when they pay shitloads of money for some piece of abstract art that looks like something done by a moderately talented three-year-old with finger paints, but happens to have a famous name attached to it.
Yes we do, most people do. The ones who don't are the NEA, holier than thou art snobs who think anyone who disagrees and think that crap is actually crap just doesn't understand the "art".
It's to bad there isn't any warning when a drive interface is going to be retired, also to bad it happens so often people can hardly keep up...oh wait...
Even if it did cost a quarter million a year that's still a fraction of the salary the so called "talent" makes for the big movies, there is plenty of money in the movie industry to pay for a datacenter for long term storage of the film.
Maybe the movie industry should hire some people from Google to help them design a large scale redundant storage facility, Google seems to have the entire web cached, adding movies - even at a few TB each - shouldn't be a problem for them.
People may view it negatively because not everyone is as lucky as you. I've been working in an open floor office for years, and we don't have a "DND area". Imagine working as a programmer, trying to concentrate on a problem, while you can hear the people stacking boxes talking about what goes where, the constant BEEEEPing of their barcode reader, the guy next to you who is working from home today didn't set his phone to "away", so it's ringing constantly, and the boss of one of the other groups is having a loud meeting at his desk behind you.
If the conditions are so terrible why have you worked there for years? No job is worth that kind of stress, quit and find a job somewhere that doesn't treat their employees like cows at a dairy farm.
know of several people who have private offices who generally prefer to work in centralized lounges from their laptop...and their office sits empty most of the time.
How many of those people have offered to give up their private offices to people who DON'T want to work in a lounge? None right?
The idea that it makes it easier to collaborate is terrific and does make that easier but not many people in the technical industry spend a majority of their time in face to face collaboration and get far more done when they can isolate themselves and get heads down into the work.
it is purely cost savings, and not the education of Indian and Chinese workers, or a shortage of American engineers that has caused offshore outsourcing.
So does this mean I can start shooting my photos in ISO 400 and cleaning them up later?
Get a better camera and you won't need to clean them up at ISO 400 and sometimes not at ISO 1600. Nikons new entry level DSLR, the D40, can take outstanding photos at ISO 1600 and even boosted to 3200 looks better than most P&S cameras do at ISO 200-400.
Canon makes some terrific DSLRs as well, some with even better high ISO performance, I'm simply more familar with the Nikon line.
Sure it will get better over time, just look at this quote from the article:
"We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
They're going to tweak the tool to do better in the test, maybe that means it will actually work better, maybe not, but you can bet it will do better in future tests.
However, once said records are replicated across thousands of servers on a multinational basis I don't how you can possibly consider it "secure" anymore. There's also the issue of keeping those records accurate and up to date, which is arguably even more important.
That statemeent made me think of medical records being hosted on Usenet. They'll probably call it 'mednet' and use a similar push/pull system, and be just as secure.
I have XP installation CDs. Not SP2, XP barebone. I had to reinstall. I made it once. I got Blaster in less than 5 minutes. Then I installed it again, this time with the network unplugged. I don't know how I could have downloaded the service pack without a knoppix CD at hand...
You figured out Knoppix but aren't you bright enough to simply turn on the Windows Firewall before connecting XP to the Internet??
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And those million geeks could get it done in about 4 seconds too right? I mean it took the couple of dozen at Nvidia a couple of years working on the Vista drivers, so 1,000,000 geeks should be able to get it done in a flash and 9 women can have a baby in 1 month.
That's old functionality, XP has done that for years. I guess it's good to see that it only took until SP1 for Vista to catch up to XP in this area.
Always? It will make them money for a long time but not always. Open Office is getting better all the time, it's closer to deposing MS Office than Linux is to deposing Windows on the desktop. Right now MS Office can go no where but down in marketshare. They've "won" they have as close to 100% of the business desktops as anyone can get, that means at best they can maintain their position but over time they are sure to lose more and more of those desktops.
Cleaning the console is probably SOP, would YOU work on some scummy, nasty game box covered in dust and who knows what? They surely have a policy of having someone with gloves wipe down every box with some cleaning solvent before working on it.
Of course it comes from a press release, do you think that ABC/CBS/CNN/etc would ever print something positive about either the military or a recruitment tool?
You're making the assumption that they would be unattended. They wouldn't need drivers but who says they wouldn't have security? I certainly wouldn't send a truck full of valuable merchandise across the country or across the city unattended, I'd send some kind of security guard to ride along to make sure it arrived safe and secure.
But on the flip side of that you seem to have no problem with his tax dollars being spent for your bot driven roads, or are these robot only roads going to be 100% toll/use fee supported?
If MS stops selling XP to Dell, Dell can't sell it to consumers. Once Dell (or other OEM) runs out of XP licenses to sell they'll be left with selling Vista or something non MS.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier and cheaper to just buy a copy of XP Pro and install it than buying a Mac and ramping up on it's differences vs what you're used to?
Even if it did cost a quarter million a year that's still a fraction of the salary the so called "talent" makes for the big movies, there is plenty of money in the movie industry to pay for a datacenter for long term storage of the film.
Maybe the movie industry should hire some people from Google to help them design a large scale redundant storage facility, Google seems to have the entire web cached, adding movies - even at a few TB each - shouldn't be a problem for them.
If the conditions are so terrible why have you worked there for years? No job is worth that kind of stress, quit and find a job somewhere that doesn't treat their employees like cows at a dairy farm.
How many of those people have offered to give up their private offices to people who DON'T want to work in a lounge? None right?
The idea that it makes it easier to collaborate is terrific and does make that easier but not many people in the technical industry spend a majority of their time in face to face collaboration and get far more done when they can isolate themselves and get heads down into the work.
How do you know he didn't account for that? Maybe he's a 500 lb chair bound computer geek.
No kidding. And in other news, water is wet.
Get a better camera and you won't need to clean them up at ISO 400 and sometimes not at ISO 1600. Nikons new entry level DSLR, the D40, can take outstanding photos at ISO 1600 and even boosted to 3200 looks better than most P&S cameras do at ISO 200-400.
Canon makes some terrific DSLRs as well, some with even better high ISO performance, I'm simply more familar with the Nikon line.
"We are looking closely at the methodology and results of the test to ensure that Windows Live OneCare performs better in future tests," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
They're going to tweak the tool to do better in the test, maybe that means it will actually work better, maybe not, but you can bet it will do better in future tests.
That statemeent made me think of medical records being hosted on Usenet. They'll probably call it 'mednet' and use a similar push/pull system, and be just as secure.
It's probably a crisis to academics who are convinced they're never wrong and have the answers to all of the universes mysteries.
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