I wish I lived in the same magical and fantastic world where Microsoft Corporation might actually be innocent of wrong doing and practice honorable business practices. Unfortunately, I reside in reality.
Haven't you learned that our legal system was bought and sold a long time ago? Microsoft will never be given any sound defeat in a US court. This very sad, but very true.
You won't have any problems with an Nvidia card under Linux using XFree86 4.x.x. I have installed maybe 50 systems with Nvidia cards, and use a GeForce 2 400MX myself.
Instead of putting all of your efforts into one drawn out television series, focus instead on one or two strong mini-series of documentaries. "Blue Planet" and "Evolution" (PBS) come to mind as quick examples. The Discovery channel has made a market out of this kind of a thing, with all of the dinosaur and "what if" based shows. Good stuff, and the production quality (I.E. entertainment value) of such ventures are great. Next, interesting works of modern man are always entertaining, like "Modern Marvels". I'm sure that the producers could find some other interesting topic and make a similar show.
A secretary, accountant, or pointy haired manager doesn't know how to use Windows - rather, they know where to click in what application to make something happen. This analogy is important, because a huge amount of an operating system making company's income comes from corporate settings where such things occur. What operating system running doesn't matter to anyone but IT and the people spending money on it. If you worked IT you would know this.
As for how easy the operating system is to use for the standard home user, that can be debated rather easily, and again, if you worked IT and actually dealt with this stuff, then you would already know everything that I was about to say. It isn't easier, it is more famailar. You're stupid, congrats.
I played this game (Ever Quest) for a whole 45 minutes. In that 45 minutes I realized that Ever Quest is a crappy game, and I quit.
Anyone with common sense already knows all of what was mentioned above when it comes to subscription games and the companies that run them. The same comparisons can be made to other subscription services. The same corporate mentality is common.
I think that this article is just an example of an addictive personality (and it's painful to read, as well. This is a very sad person). I have played UO and the new Camelot game and never got into them this much. To me, they were games, and after a few months they got old and I quit. The company that runs the Camelot game sent me a free month's voucher, so I am playing for another month. Besides, my new mainboard and CPU aren't here yet, so I can't do any worthwhile FPS.
I just bought Redhat 8.0 a couple months back and love it. I used to use Mandrake, and still promote the company (they do some awesome work and make inroads in Europe for Linux). They are good for the consumers, good for Linux overall, and might even be a future OS choice for me again. I want to give them my support, but I paid for Redhat, and likely won't "upgrade" (or even recompile my kernel) for at least a year.
I think that I will just buy a hat and 30 shares of stock.
This is like limiting what one can write in their journal. Well, except that these journals have the potential to reach a billion people. Anyways, no one that would happen to stray across my blog could ever mistake it as anything serious or to be taken literally. The same goes for most blogs. I mean, while it might be interesting to hear what Wesley Crusher thinks about the political strife in the Middle East, or why CamGURL8080XXX chooses Microsoft operating systems over Macintosh, they are not going to start any controversy or spark rebellion.
But Star Wars had a partially nude Carrie Fisher and now sports Natalie Portman in skin tight, white vixen uniforms. No alien fish-like humanoid from Beta Hydri can contend with that.
I'll just stick to real, factual intellectual works that will actually expand my horizons about science and astronomy. Among the books I own are "The Demon Haunted World", "Cosmos", and "Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan - "A Breif History of Time" by Hawking, and "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. Why anyone would waste their time on such utter non-sense and psuedo science is beyond me.
Thank you! After suffering many long and terrible months under an oath of involuntary celibacy, this new found knowledge in superscalar execution is sure to win me a date with one of the many "cam girl amatuers" that have been offering me free services through email for months. Thank you for restoring my confidence. Now I must learn how to convey my thoughts without using run-on sentences.
While many might chime in here saying this story would be better suited on security sites, I for one just heard about it now. I also plugged about 3 vulnerabilities because of it.
This may all be true, but Microsoft never achieved the technological prowess and glory (IMHO) that Sun Microsystems enjoys with their achievement of making the computer the network.
If they really wanted to join the open market and truly compete, then they would just open the.doc format. This is nothing more then a pitiful pandering to open source advocates or those businesses that are interested in OSS. Any person with a shred of common sense and a basic knowledge of technology developments over the past 5 years can plainly see how pointless this is.
No company whom's livelyhood is in an industry as volatile and sudden as gaming would agree to a "20 year" payment plan. That is absurd. I could see a massive corporation like Canon agreeing to maybe a 10 year suit of this magnitude with a much smaller company like Hewlitt-Packard/Compaq (in case you didn't know, Canon has patents on almost all laser printer and camera technologies, and builds almost all of HP's printers and the components that go in cameras - such a suit could be concievable if HP slipped up). This is because Canon knows that it will be around for at least another 20 years, and HP at least 15. But 20 billion from Sony over 20 years? Not likely. Nintendo would rather have 3 billion right now. The market in which Nintendo thrives would demand it.
The number of IT staff usually depends more on the complexity of the network then the number of users. Two seasoned techs can handle 4 hundred (been there, done that) users when it is nothing but a basic cubicle farm, where all you have to do is ghost, reset passwords, and replace hardware once in a while. But this same network might also have 20 servers, SQL databases, third party solutions that need scripters, two T3 lines, isolated data farms, etc, that demand two telecommunication specialists, 5 admins, a dba, and 2 developers. If the only factor that you went off of was the amount of users involved, then two techs and an admin would have been fine.
I would subscribe if better news was posted. As it stands now, you can submit a truly remarkable piece of news that everyone here would want to know about only to have it rejected immediately. Then, 5 minutes later, you see a dupe go up, or some crap about a book, or the next horrible "interview" by that one editor that writes like a 10th grader.
I come here for the discussion with my peers, which is great. I don't care for the editor's writings. For real news I go to newsfactor.com or kur05hin.
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Can you see a ghost? If so, then how can such a thing (something that reflects or emits photons) act as they do? How could such a thing pass through solid material, materials such as concrete and wood (if it was capable of reflecting or emitting photons)? Why would a camera, a device that is less complicated, slower, and efficient then a human eye ball detect ghosts while we cannot?
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I wish I lived in the same magical and fantastic world where Microsoft Corporation might actually be innocent of wrong doing and practice honorable business practices. Unfortunately, I reside in reality.
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Haven't you learned that our legal system was bought and sold a long time ago? Microsoft will never be given any sound defeat in a US court. This very sad, but very true.
You won't have any problems with an Nvidia card under Linux using XFree86 4.x.x. I have installed maybe 50 systems with Nvidia cards, and use a GeForce 2 400MX myself.
Instead of putting all of your efforts into one drawn out television series, focus instead on one or two strong mini-series of documentaries. "Blue Planet" and "Evolution" (PBS) come to mind as quick examples. The Discovery channel has made a market out of this kind of a thing, with all of the dinosaur and "what if" based shows. Good stuff, and the production quality (I.E. entertainment value) of such ventures are great. Next, interesting works of modern man are always entertaining, like "Modern Marvels". I'm sure that the producers could find some other interesting topic and make a similar show.
As for how easy the operating system is to use for the standard home user, that can be debated rather easily, and again, if you worked IT and actually dealt with this stuff, then you would already know everything that I was about to say. It isn't easier, it is more famailar. You're stupid, congrats.
Be entertained. No, be amazed at the wonders that await you just past this portal. Shocking, tantilizing, and wonderous are they.
Anyone with common sense already knows all of what was mentioned above when it comes to subscription games and the companies that run them. The same comparisons can be made to other subscription services. The same corporate mentality is common.
I think that this article is just an example of an addictive personality (and it's painful to read, as well. This is a very sad person). I have played UO and the new Camelot game and never got into them this much. To me, they were games, and after a few months they got old and I quit. The company that runs the Camelot game sent me a free month's voucher, so I am playing for another month. Besides, my new mainboard and CPU aren't here yet, so I can't do any worthwhile FPS.
Sensibility wins out over pig ignorance. Expect the trend to continue.
I think that I will just buy a hat and 30 shares of stock.
This is like limiting what one can write in their journal. Well, except that these journals have the potential to reach a billion people. Anyways, no one that would happen to stray across my blog could ever mistake it as anything serious or to be taken literally. The same goes for most blogs. I mean, while it might be interesting to hear what Wesley Crusher thinks about the political strife in the Middle East, or why CamGURL8080XXX chooses Microsoft operating systems over Macintosh, they are not going to start any controversy or spark rebellion.
But Star Wars had a partially nude Carrie Fisher and now sports Natalie Portman in skin tight, white vixen uniforms. No alien fish-like humanoid from Beta Hydri can contend with that.
For the slide show on the Forbes web page, you have to hit "next" like 3 or 4 times until it starts showing up. In other words, it does work.
I'll just stick to real, factual intellectual works that will actually expand my horizons about science and astronomy. Among the books I own are "The Demon Haunted World", "Cosmos", and "Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan - "A Breif History of Time" by Hawking, and "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. Why anyone would waste their time on such utter non-sense and psuedo science is beyond me.
Thank you! After suffering many long and terrible months under an oath of involuntary celibacy, this new found knowledge in superscalar execution is sure to win me a date with one of the many "cam girl amatuers" that have been offering me free services through email for months. Thank you for restoring my confidence. Now I must learn how to convey my thoughts without using run-on sentences.
While many might chime in here saying this story would be better suited on security sites, I for one just heard about it now. I also plugged about 3 vulnerabilities because of it.
This may all be true, but Microsoft never achieved the technological prowess and glory (IMHO) that Sun Microsystems enjoys with their achievement of making the computer the network.
If they really wanted to join the open market and truly compete, then they would just open the .doc format. This is nothing more then a pitiful pandering to open source advocates or those businesses that are interested in OSS. Any person with a shred of common sense and a basic knowledge of technology developments over the past 5 years can plainly see how pointless this is.
No company whom's livelyhood is in an industry as volatile and sudden as gaming would agree to a "20 year" payment plan. That is absurd. I could see a massive corporation like Canon agreeing to maybe a 10 year suit of this magnitude with a much smaller company like Hewlitt-Packard/Compaq (in case you didn't know, Canon has patents on almost all laser printer and camera technologies, and builds almost all of HP's printers and the components that go in cameras - such a suit could be concievable if HP slipped up). This is because Canon knows that it will be around for at least another 20 years, and HP at least 15. But 20 billion from Sony over 20 years? Not likely. Nintendo would rather have 3 billion right now. The market in which Nintendo thrives would demand it.
The number of IT staff usually depends more on the complexity of the network then the number of users. Two seasoned techs can handle 4 hundred (been there, done that) users when it is nothing but a basic cubicle farm, where all you have to do is ghost, reset passwords, and replace hardware once in a while. But this same network might also have 20 servers, SQL databases, third party solutions that need scripters, two T3 lines, isolated data farms, etc, that demand two telecommunication specialists, 5 admins, a dba, and 2 developers. If the only factor that you went off of was the amount of users involved, then two techs and an admin would have been fine.
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You guys have to be planning all of these dupes, right? Big joke, big ha-ha?
Hey, look at that flying pig!
I would subscribe if better news was posted. As it stands now, you can submit a truly remarkable piece of news that everyone here would want to know about only to have it rejected immediately. Then, 5 minutes later, you see a dupe go up, or some crap about a book, or the next horrible "interview" by that one editor that writes like a 10th grader. I come here for the discussion with my peers, which is great. I don't care for the editor's writings. For real news I go to newsfactor.com or kur05hin.
Think harder grass hopper.