Why should your profits go to Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and all those other closed source companies? Look at the.com companies that survived the 'dot bomb' era. They used open source.
Using expensive proprietary solutions is a sure way to increase your expenses and decrease your profits.
How do you become an open source billionaire? Ask Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Bill Gates stole code for from the dumpster for his BASIC compiler that he based his fortune on, why should Zuckerberg be investigated when Gates isn't?
When will billionaires ever get a fair shake in this world?
Performance is comparable to Google, but I get the impression that Bing's results are more skewed for people looking to purchase things on line. Try some basic 'how to' queries (how to caulk a window, how to make pancakes, etc) and see if you get more product related hits returned near the top with Bing than with Google.
This isn't a criticism, just an observation. It could be a smart thing for MS. It will help them squeeze more advertising dollars out of smaller market share.
It seems to me that Bing may be a better tool for shopping than Google is, but Google is a better tool for searching than Bing is.
Bing's problem then becomes that there are several better tools for shopping and comparing prices than Bing offers.
I have Meniere's syndrome and think this is bogus! I have to carefully limit my salt so I don't build up pressure in my inner ear, so I take care to do so.
If anyone else is concerned about limiting their salt intake, then they should limit their salt intake.
Our elected officials think we are too stupid and too lazy to take responsibility for ourselves. Make sure you let every one of them know how you feel about their opinion of us come election time!
I'm happy you use Linux, but you don't have to be so sarcastic.
It would be a good idea for vendors of Windows-centric software to create a common source for downloads like Apple's app store for i-phone . It would help keep out mal-ware. Altruistic support for small time projects would put a happy face on things.
The current flock of vendors would probably use the repositories to block serious competition.
This is definitely not a Microsoft created problem. It is a problem that affects Windows users, but Microsoft didn't create the problem.
Microsoft should be able to solve it, but probably wouldn't be allowed to set up a solution. Other software vendors would fear giving this power to MS and would complain to the DOJ. Too bad, MS would probably be the best one to certify software as safe and run the thing.
Does the vendor make md5 or sha1 hashes available?
Linux repositories are signed with pgp keys, this is usually pretty good(pun intended) for security. Even when breaches happen things are found out pretty quickly.
Searching the internet for downloads and running downloaded apps to install is a very 1990's way of installing software. Its hard to believe Windows users don't have App repositories yet.
Liberals in America think *public* resources should be used to help others. Conservatives think that private resources should be used.
Liberals in America think *public* resources should be used to help others. Conservatives think that *public* resources should be used to help corporations.
The School is in Pensylvania and Mike & Ike's are made in Illinois. This is obviously a case of corporate funding in public schools gone awry! Hershey's will not allow the children of Pennsylvania to be poisened by the corn syrup generated candies of Illinois!
An even better example would be natural gas prices. Remember when Enron got caught in its scheme to artificially inflate natural gas prices? They had shell companies bidding and selling to each other driving the price up by creating artificial demand.
Of course when the scheme was uncovered the price of natural gas should have dropped down to the consumer set price...
It didn't drop at all. The price is at the still artificial high. The ultimate consumer of the product doesn't have the power to influence the local monopoly enough to drive the price down.
The people still in the gas business are splitting the revenues from the mark up.
I have been doing application development for decades and do not use VS.
It does not support punch cards.
On a more serious note, you have to put in a lot of time with the very complex IDE's in order for them to be truly useful. You can spend many years churning out stuff that runs, but writing code is a small part of development. In the business world maintaining, fixing and enhancing code is the consumer of your time.
A good version control system, testing methodology and deployment methodology is much more important than the IDE. (good IDE's integrate these things well and make your work more seamless).
Testing suite integration (not debugging tools) is probably the area most IDE's fall short in.
Ibuprofin? meclozine? placebo?
They'll be happy if they sell like iPods, but they will have an awful big headache if they are lame like the 'air'-book.
Gas was about $1.26 a gallon when he took office and oil was under $20 per barrel.
So quadrupling the price to over $5.00 per gallon then getting it back 'back under $3 a gallon' is not much of an accomplishment. It started its trend upward in mid 2003.
The fact that G.W. stood up to the V.P. and opposed the use of military force on U.S. soil surprised me and is something to remember Bush for.
Gas 'under $3'? We had that before he took office and well after 9/11.
The government has a responsibility to ensure the privacy and security of the data it owns. There may be equipment cost savings in using a third party 'cloud' hosting solution. Will those savings offset the new infrastructure the state government will have to build for compliance and auditing of the third parties?
Also, going to a 'cloud' will not just mean moving current systems from existing data centers to a new data center custom built to house the equipment that supports current systems (ie Z/OS and such). Going to the cloud will mean re-writing every system to fit into the cloud infrastructure. The re-writing would probably cost 10-20 years worth of the current IT budget for the state and take the better part of a decade.
If they are writing new systems, they should consider the 'cloud' as a base for the new system. Then in 30-40 years they will have a sizeable presence in the cloud. Of course by then we will be coding for the asteroid belt.
(And they will still be using a descendant of Z/OS in their datacenters)
If I had 2p for every time my grandmother took the lord's name in vain, I'd have enough to pay off several offender's fines.
This is a woman who used to carry food to republican fighters hiding in fields and graveyards at night during the revolution.
Though she was a deeply devout woman, she would have had no qualms about any divine beings know just how screwed up they were. If she felt she should take the belt to God or Jesus, no blasphemy laws would have stopped her.
If they classify the abuse of minors by clergy and religious orders as a form of blasphemy, there might night be enough room in gaol.
And even with all those problems they are faster and more stable than the LSE trade elect system!
Amazing!
The LSE system jointly developed by MS and Accenture must really be bad if the systems you and the poster above you have those problems and still run circle's around the LSE!
Just about everyone below 'C' level executives in IT already know not to hire Accenture, I guess we should add never use Microsoft to do your coding to that rule.
Even 30 Year old mainframe systems I've worked on have hiccups, but they are simple and easy to recover. There aren't a lot of 'moving parts' in most mainframe based systems and the hardware is extremely reliable. I can't imagine when.NET or J2EE will match that.
It seems almost impossible for large corporations to have a simple J2EE or.NET implementation. They seem to attract bloat like the underside of the couch attracts dust-balls. No wonder good developers in those disciplines are called 'gurus'. They would have to have the aesthetics extreme discipline of a Zen monk to fore go the bloat and wasteful design decisions and keep everything clean and simple.
It was not entirely outsourced to Accenture. It was a joint Acenture Microsoft project. Microsoft was involved at all levels of development, testing, deployment, and support.
As one poster to the SJVN article (Bernard) points out, both Microsoft and LSE confirm Microsoft's complete involvement in the project:
"In the development, roll-out, and implementation processes, Microsoft worked closely with the London Stock Exchange to ensure not only that they understood their immediate requirements, but that the solution fitted their long-term business plans as specified in the TRM project."
"Robin Paine, Chief Technical Officer at the Exchange, says: âoeThe London Stock Exchange was looking for a responsive partner to engage across all phases of the Technology Roadmap programme. The collaborative approach Microsoft offered made it an ideal choice."
Any more questions on whether Microsoft was "really" involved?
There never was any doubt -- Microsoft was deeply and intimately involved, and bragged about it as loudly as they could. In fact, it was Microsoft which presented this an issue of Windows and Microsoft "technology" capabilities as compared to Linux -- Ironic, isn't it?"
Given Microsoft's history of FUD, their habitual use of paid commentors, or even dead people writing letters, I think we should all sit back and enjoy the spin the paid apologists will have to go through to tell everyone how it wasn't MS's fault.
I bet that link on Microsoft's own site telling hoe closely involved they were in the project won't last through the Holiday weekend! Any takers?
Slashdot Mirror
Just ask Google.
Why should your profits go to Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and all those other closed source companies? Look at the .com companies that survived the 'dot bomb' era. They used open source.
Using expensive proprietary solutions is a sure way to increase your expenses and decrease your profits.
How do you become an open source billionaire? Ask Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Bill Gates stole code for from the dumpster for his BASIC compiler that he based his fortune on, why should Zuckerberg be investigated when Gates isn't?
When will billionaires ever get a fair shake in this world?
Jut use Free and Open source software. Why risk using pirated anything?
If you really have to use a commercial product, then pay for it.
Performance is comparable to Google, but I get the impression that Bing's results are more skewed for people looking to purchase things on line. Try some basic 'how to' queries (how to caulk a window, how to make pancakes, etc) and see if you get more product related hits returned near the top with Bing than with Google.
This isn't a criticism, just an observation. It could be a smart thing for MS. It will help them squeeze more advertising dollars out of smaller market share.
It seems to me that Bing may be a better tool for shopping than Google is, but Google is a better tool for searching than Bing is.
Bing's problem then becomes that there are several better tools for shopping and comparing prices than Bing offers.
I have Meniere's syndrome and think this is bogus! I have to carefully limit my salt so I don't build up pressure in my inner ear, so I take care to do so.
If anyone else is concerned about limiting their salt intake, then they should limit their salt intake.
Our elected officials think we are too stupid and too lazy to take responsibility for ourselves. Make sure you let every one of them know how you feel about their opinion of us come election time!
Windows 7 - Primitive Edition is certified by Microsoft to run on this processor.
Keep an eye on the blogs for announcement of the Ubuntu lead-block remix for this real soon now.
I'm happy you use Linux, but you don't have to be so sarcastic.
It would be a good idea for vendors of Windows-centric software to create a common source for downloads like Apple's app store for i-phone . It would help keep out mal-ware. Altruistic support for small time projects would put a happy face on things.
The current flock of vendors would probably use the repositories to block serious competition.
This is definitely not a Microsoft created problem. It is a problem that affects Windows users, but Microsoft didn't create the problem.
Microsoft should be able to solve it, but probably wouldn't be allowed to set up a solution. Other software vendors would fear giving this power to MS and would complain to the DOJ. Too bad, MS would probably be the best one to certify software as safe and run the thing.
Does the vendor make md5 or sha1 hashes available?
Linux repositories are signed with pgp keys, this is usually pretty good(pun intended) for security. Even when breaches happen things are found out pretty quickly.
Searching the internet for downloads and running downloaded apps to install is a very 1990's way of installing software. Its hard to believe Windows users don't have App repositories yet.
Liberals in America think *public* resources should be used to help others. Conservatives think that private resources should be used.
Liberals in America think *public* resources should be used to help others. Conservatives think that *public* resources should be used to help corporations.
There, fixed that for you.
The School is in Pensylvania and Mike & Ike's are made in Illinois. This is obviously a case of corporate funding in public schools gone awry! Hershey's will not allow the children of Pennsylvania to be poisened by the corn syrup generated candies of Illinois!
They are just acting to protect our youth!
Think of the children.
Switch to annual view and your point becomes clearer. Enron collapsed at the end of 2001.
The annual chart clearly shows a drop at that time when the artificial 'propping up' Enron was engaged in was ended.
Thank you for this information
An even better example would be natural gas prices. Remember when Enron got caught in its scheme to artificially inflate natural gas prices? They had shell companies bidding and selling to each other driving the price up by creating artificial demand.
Of course when the scheme was uncovered the price of natural gas should have dropped down to the consumer set price...
It didn't drop at all. The price is at the still artificial high. The ultimate consumer of the product doesn't have the power to influence the local monopoly enough to drive the price down.
The people still in the gas business are splitting the revenues from the mark up.
Some free market huh?
"To the very best of the collective ecosystem knowledge, ..."
The collective has spoked.
Your battery has been assimilated to power the collective.
I have been doing application development for decades and do not use VS.
It does not support punch cards.
On a more serious note, you have to put in a lot of time with the very complex IDE's in order for them to be truly useful. You can spend many years churning out stuff that runs, but writing code is a small part of development. In the business world maintaining, fixing and enhancing code is the consumer of your time.
A good version control system, testing methodology and deployment methodology is much more important than the IDE. (good IDE's integrate these things well and make your work more seamless).
Testing suite integration (not debugging tools) is probably the area most IDE's fall short in.
Ibuprofin? meclozine? placebo? They'll be happy if they sell like iPods, but they will have an awful big headache if they are lame like the 'air'-book.
Gas was about $1.26 a gallon when he took office and oil was under $20 per barrel.
So quadrupling the price to over $5.00 per gallon then getting it back 'back under $3 a gallon' is not much of an accomplishment. It started its trend upward in mid 2003.
The fact that G.W. stood up to the V.P. and opposed the use of military force on U.S. soil surprised me and is something to remember Bush for.
Gas 'under $3'? We had that before he took office and well after 9/11.
If I missed your sarcasm tags, then I'm sorry
Not to mention his appearances on 'Dancing With the Stars'
Oh wait, wrong Steve.
Never mind
Applications -> display
choose the resolution you want
click apply
Repeat the process to return to your original resolution.
I just tried it on Ubuntu and on Xubuntu.
Worked for me, but I'm a scientist not an engineer.
Let's not bring the German's like of David Hasselhoff as pop singing star into this thread!
I think the world is ready to forgive them over that.
The government has a responsibility to ensure the privacy and security of the data it owns. There may be equipment cost savings in using a third party 'cloud' hosting solution. Will those savings offset the new infrastructure the state government will have to build for compliance and auditing of the third parties?
Also, going to a 'cloud' will not just mean moving current systems from existing data centers to a new data center custom built to house the equipment that supports current systems (ie Z/OS and such). Going to the cloud will mean re-writing every system to fit into the cloud infrastructure. The re-writing would probably cost 10-20 years worth of the current IT budget for the state and take the better part of a decade.
If they are writing new systems, they should consider the 'cloud' as a base for the new system. Then in 30-40 years they will have a sizeable presence in the cloud. Of course by then we will be coding for the asteroid belt.
(And they will still be using a descendant of Z/OS in their datacenters)
If I had 2p for every time my grandmother took the lord's name in vain, I'd have enough to pay off several offender's fines.
This is a woman who used to carry food to republican fighters hiding in fields and graveyards at night during the revolution.
Though she was a deeply devout woman, she would have had no qualms about any divine beings know just how screwed up they were. If she felt she should take the belt to God or Jesus, no blasphemy laws would have stopped her.
If they classify the abuse of minors by clergy and religious orders as a form of blasphemy, there might night be enough room in gaol.
Good Luck!
There is no guarantee of Free speech in the UK
It is simply a fact.
The vast majority of countries do not allow simple basic freedoms. Even the freedom for stupid people to say stupid things.
The drop in IE use is probably inversely proportional to the rise in unemployment.
With millions of people being laid off work, they are surfing at home and using sensible browsers.
Only people surfing at work get stuck using IE. My current gig is still using IE6!
And even with all those problems they are faster and more stable than the LSE trade elect system!
Amazing!
The LSE system jointly developed by MS and Accenture must really be bad if the systems you and the poster above you have those problems and still run circle's around the LSE!
Just about everyone below 'C' level executives in IT already know not to hire Accenture, I guess we should add never use Microsoft to do your coding to that rule.
Even 30 Year old mainframe systems I've worked on have hiccups, but they are simple and easy to recover. There aren't a lot of 'moving parts' in most mainframe based systems and the hardware is extremely reliable. I can't imagine when .NET or J2EE will match that.
It seems almost impossible for large corporations to have a simple J2EE or .NET implementation. They seem to attract bloat like the underside of the couch attracts dust-balls. No wonder good developers in those disciplines are called 'gurus'. They would have to have the aesthetics extreme discipline of a Zen monk to fore go the bloat and wasteful design decisions and keep everything clean and simple.
It was not entirely outsourced to Accenture. It was a joint Acenture Microsoft project. Microsoft was involved at all levels of development, testing, deployment, and support.
As one poster to the SJVN article (Bernard) points out, both Microsoft and LSE confirm Microsoft's complete involvement in the project:
Given Microsoft's history of FUD, their habitual use of paid commentors, or even dead people writing letters, I think we should all sit back and enjoy the spin the paid apologists will have to go through to tell everyone how it wasn't MS's fault.
I bet that link on Microsoft's own site telling hoe closely involved they were in the project won't last through the Holiday weekend! Any takers?