Given the choice between "preprogrammed entertainment" and having to listen to my neighboring coworkers' mindless chatter ("Hey, you emailed me a virus!" or "I was trying to help my mother with her Medicare Part D forms..."), I choose the former every time.
I've seen people who were literally afraid to click on an icon labelled "GIMP". Have you ever seen Microsoft come up with a application name that got that reaction?
You're not thinking far enough ahead. As was pointed out in a previous sub-reply, you can already manage AD remotely using MMC. I'll bet in the next next version of Windows, they'll start pushing web-based administration. As we move in that direction, the built-in GUI becomes more and more unnecessary.
You know, what amazes me most about this--which none of the above replies seem to mention--is that a Slashdot editor actually made a spelling correction at all. It's fascinating and ironic that this correction, which is obviously debatable, was made, while other fundamental spelling errors (there/their/they're, etc) are regularly allowed to stand.
Agreed, so far it's doing a decent job of picking tracks.
I did run into one track that said, "Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features." Guess they haven't worked out all the bugs quite yet.
heh...I plugged in Juno Reactor, and the third track that came up was Karsh Kale. I've never heard of him, but now he's on the top of my "research further" list...very cool.
That is awesome. I never even considered there might be Windows-based rescue CD systems out there. Is BartPE the only/best example, or are there others as well? Can you add third-party apps directly to a BartPE CD, like say Ad-Aware, or do you have to download and install them once you've booted up?
This works fine until the day your power supply dies and takes the drives with it.
Right, which is why you distribute your filesystem across several physical machines, located in different parts of the world, linked to different backbone providers. Isn't your data worth it?:P
True, I should have added that in as well. I mean, hell, the modules on our system that have been around for a while still use COBOL extensively. Fortunately, the newer modules do not. I think I've heard the upcoming version of Financials moves further away from it as well. Now if only they'd find something better than SQR...
PeopleSoft ERP stuff (and I suspect this is true of SAP and Oracle, too) is exceedingly complicated. The only way to truely comprehend the complexity of it all is to work with it on the technical side. After a year of working with it, you will look back on that year and realize that all the knowledge you've obtained comprises only a small fraction of the everything there is to know about the system. Part of the complexity is simply due to the wide variety of business practices that exist throughout the world. Another contributing factor is the constant updating that must be done to ensure that the software keeps up with the equally complex and ever-changing legal requirements for businesses. On top of that, these are commercial software companies, and just like others, they constantly redesign their products to stay ahead of the competition.
And yet here I am about to take a permanant position in this field after 3 1/2 years as an intern and consultant. What the hell am I thinking?:)
I'm sure the Japanese are just as amused by all the westerners who get tatoos of Japanese characters without getting them checked by a native speaker.
Same goes for t-shirts and whatnot. My financeé and I always chuckle when we see those in clothing stores, and we wonder how many say things like "stupid foreigner" or similar.
Hmm...so why did you read the article then? And if you read the second sentence, and it contained a spoiler, why did you go on to read the third? And what about people who had no knowledge of when his last episode would air?
The CNN headline mentioned in Drachemorder's reply came the closest to protecting as many people from the spoiler as possible, because it didn't reveal anything at all. But because it was so vague, some people would still click on it out of curiosity and have the ending spoiled. In this case, I still argue that the only way to 100% protect against spoiling the ending is to not post anything at all.
Actually, if you read the Support Lifecycle Policy, you'll see that "Security update support at no additional cost" is provided as part of Extended Support. The dates you list in your post are for Mainstream Support. There is a substantial timeframe difference (5 years for Win2k and greater, 2 1/2 for WinME).
Our analysis has proved that though Media Center Edition 2004 is a boxed package that is easy to set up and configure, it looks amazingly beautiful, has great features such as On-Demand content, and is fully supported by Microsoft.
A giant thread on grammar, and nobody takes issue with the first sentence quoted from the article (above)? Am I the only one cringing when reading it? The wording implies that it is unusual for an easy to use commercial product to also look pretty and have nice features and support. Where's the logic in that (all kidding about Microsoft aside)?
You know, if they did paint it blue, the obvious reaction would be for some group of students to pull off an MIT-style "hack" to print a full BSOD dump on the side of the building. Or, alternatively, a bunch of fluffy white clouds, with a pixelated gradient bar along the bottom. Or the NT or 2000 "press ctrl-alt-del to login" screen. Or a bunch of desktop icons. Man, it's just asking for it...I hope they do it.:)
Your comment is a bit deceptive. When I first read it, having not read anything but the most brief description of SPF, I thought you meant that it broke forwarding from the client/MUA. In other words, I took what you said to mean that if my mail local servers implemented SPF, and I sent a message to someone, that person would not be able to forward my message to someone else via their client.
But the actual problem you're talking about exists when forwarding is done at the MTA level, which is utilized by a smaller set of users. See this article for more info ("The Price of SPF", about halfway down) for a better explanation.
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Given the choice between "preprogrammed entertainment" and having to listen to my neighboring coworkers' mindless chatter ("Hey, you emailed me a virus!" or "I was trying to help my mother with her Medicare Part D forms..."), I choose the former every time.
Microsoft Bob.
You're not thinking far enough ahead. As was pointed out in a previous sub-reply, you can already manage AD remotely using MMC. I'll bet in the next next version of Windows, they'll start pushing web-based administration. As we move in that direction, the built-in GUI becomes more and more unnecessary.
Yep, our hot water is generated directly from our oil furnace, which is 20 years old. Nothing new.
You know, what amazes me most about this--which none of the above replies seem to mention--is that a Slashdot editor actually made a spelling correction at all. It's fascinating and ironic that this correction, which is obviously debatable, was made, while other fundamental spelling errors (there/their/they're, etc) are regularly allowed to stand.
Agreed, so far it's doing a decent job of picking tracks.
." Guess they haven't worked out all the bugs quite yet.
I did run into one track that said, "Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features
heh...I plugged in Juno Reactor, and the third track that came up was Karsh Kale. I've never heard of him, but now he's on the top of my "research further" list...very cool.
you could try reading the Features and Benefits page...
But the image is distorted, so while you might be able to determine what it is, your Manager-Bot won't.
if this guy's story is any evidence, they should be able to get themselves unbanned by cleaning up the offending pages...
Can't blame you there, but you didn't really miss much. The entire article amounts to 9 sentences.
Wasn't Quake 3 supposed to be able to take advantage of SMP?
That is awesome. I never even considered there might be Windows-based rescue CD systems out there. Is BartPE the only/best example, or are there others as well? Can you add third-party apps directly to a BartPE CD, like say Ad-Aware, or do you have to download and install them once you've booted up?
This works fine until the day your power supply dies and takes the drives with it.
:P
Right, which is why you distribute your filesystem across several physical machines, located in different parts of the world, linked to different backbone providers. Isn't your data worth it?
True, I should have added that in as well. I mean, hell, the modules on our system that have been around for a while still use COBOL extensively. Fortunately, the newer modules do not. I think I've heard the upcoming version of Financials moves further away from it as well. Now if only they'd find something better than SQR...
PeopleSoft ERP stuff (and I suspect this is true of SAP and Oracle, too) is exceedingly complicated. The only way to truely comprehend the complexity of it all is to work with it on the technical side. After a year of working with it, you will look back on that year and realize that all the knowledge you've obtained comprises only a small fraction of the everything there is to know about the system. Part of the complexity is simply due to the wide variety of business practices that exist throughout the world. Another contributing factor is the constant updating that must be done to ensure that the software keeps up with the equally complex and ever-changing legal requirements for businesses. On top of that, these are commercial software companies, and just like others, they constantly redesign their products to stay ahead of the competition.
:)
And yet here I am about to take a permanant position in this field after 3 1/2 years as an intern and consultant. What the hell am I thinking?
"Solylent RAM is people! It's people!!!"
hmm...maybe not...
Same goes for t-shirts and whatnot. My financeé and I always chuckle when we see those in clothing stores, and we wonder how many say things like "stupid foreigner" or similar.
Hmm...so why did you read the article then? And if you read the second sentence, and it contained a spoiler, why did you go on to read the third? And what about people who had no knowledge of when his last episode would air?
The CNN headline mentioned in Drachemorder's reply came the closest to protecting as many people from the spoiler as possible, because it didn't reveal anything at all. But because it was so vague, some people would still click on it out of curiosity and have the ending spoiled. In this case, I still argue that the only way to 100% protect against spoiling the ending is to not post anything at all.
Let's be realistic here. If you saw a headline that read "Ken Jennings (SPOILER WARNING)" or something similar, wouldn't it obvious what happened?
Actually, if you read the Support Lifecycle Policy, you'll see that "Security update support at no additional cost" is provided as part of Extended Support. The dates you list in your post are for Mainstream Support. There is a substantial timeframe difference (5 years for Win2k and greater, 2 1/2 for WinME).
A few more hours of free time, or if you prefer, a little less hassle in one's life.
A giant thread on grammar, and nobody takes issue with the first sentence quoted from the article (above)? Am I the only one cringing when reading it? The wording implies that it is unusual for an easy to use commercial product to also look pretty and have nice features and support. Where's the logic in that (all kidding about Microsoft aside)?
You know, if they did paint it blue, the obvious reaction would be for some group of students to pull off an MIT-style "hack" to print a full BSOD dump on the side of the building. Or, alternatively, a bunch of fluffy white clouds, with a pixelated gradient bar along the bottom. Or the NT or 2000 "press ctrl-alt-del to login" screen. Or a bunch of desktop icons. Man, it's just asking for it...I hope they do it. :)
Your comment is a bit deceptive. When I first read it, having not read anything but the most brief description of SPF, I thought you meant that it broke forwarding from the client/MUA. In other words, I took what you said to mean that if my mail local servers implemented SPF, and I sent a message to someone, that person would not be able to forward my message to someone else via their client.
But the actual problem you're talking about exists when forwarding is done at the MTA level, which is utilized by a smaller set of users. See this article for more info ("The Price of SPF", about halfway down) for a better explanation.