I understand Stac and Netscape. What the heck did Microsoft ever do to IBM or Apple? Are you upset Apple was given competition? Well, I guess IBM was sort of screwed over by the OEM deals MS did that locked OS2 out. So what did Microsoft do to Apple that was that terrible?
Take a look at their most popular downloads. Not a who's who in OSS. All of the top projects are built in and around the Microsoft universe. If they are serious about breaking the NIH syndrome, they need to step out of their sandbox.
Thats a blog about Microsoft culture written by a Microsoft employee. I commend his brutal honesty. If you had read the article, you would have remarked on how there is a strong aversion to using code from other Microsoft products. Developers at Microsoft, don't want to use code written by an unfamiliar Microsoft team and apparently get away with reimplementing the same functionality. That's messed up beyond belief. IS Google or IBM that way as well? I don't know. I should hope not,but to an outsider it paints a pretty grim picture.
What usually ends up happening with skins or themes, is the user selects one they like atheistically the best. Then they sit there in confusion. They can't figure out how to use the thing because the buttons are all shaped and colored strangely. They don't make good usability decisions. Heck look at myspace vs facebook for what you should and should not allow for themes. Myspace allows anything and as a result every one's page is ugly as sin and difficult to look at much less use, Facebook allows less ui modifications and is thus more usable.
The article doesn't say " Linus is right, no one should ever look at patents when developing software". Instead it says " We are a large cooperation with a legal department that will take care of any patent issues, we do not want our developers making adhoc decisions about them. ". Big difference.
The article wasn't that close to the summary, guess I should expect that here. I don't see any endorsement of anything open source at all. Codeplex is devoid of any meaningful opensource programs. The patent subject is only briefly tocuhced upon as a warning when using third party stuff. Its mostly a indictment of the Microsoft NIH culture. Which I had always suspected. Their experience is rarely a seamlessly integrated one. But mostly it just game me new reasons why I don't want to work for Microsoft.
Some inside info is more interesting than others. When I run for office, my computers are going to be full of misinformation. Plans to attack Washington State, Possible treaty negotiations with Germany for increased import of good beer. And other things that are closer to actual policy positions.
Maybe I would make a terrible politician, because I can't figure out what information they had as candidates would be of use to anyone. Even campaign strategies seem to be pointless to me. The only strategy that makes any sense is to win receiving more votes than your opponent. Anything else is voodoo politics. The people who practice it thinks it works, despite an overwhelming body of evidence that it does not. I think the loser of any campaign is the one who practices more voodoo.
No, not the fake ones they publish. The secret ones they don't publish. The plans for world domination. The ones containing the election script written two years ago by the Illuminati's dictator for life: Ron Paul.
The word elect is unessential in this context. Correcting me does not inform anyone of anything they shouldn't have already known. If you want to get extremely technical he's not even the president elect. Not a single electoral vote has been cast for him. We just elected a bunch of people who said they will vote for him.
So by that logic Obama is not the new president, as they said he was last night. Due to Heisenberg's uncertainty clause there is a non zero probability of them stating a true fact or having a valid opinion.
Mod up! There are only a few spots in which you would run into trouble with hibernate ( such as dealing with scaled out DB's*), I'd be really interested to see if you really hit one or not. I want to hear more about the alleged problem.
*(I understand there is hibernate Shards, but I have some philosophical issues with that approach)
What do you mean by "finally"? Fermi has discovered tons of particles over its lifetime and probably will continue to be very useful in particle physics.
Yeah, no. Apple tv announced in 2006, Xbox released in 2001. The ipod was also released in 2001. It wasn't really that ubiquitous or even successful ( mac only at that point) at the time the xbox was released. Microsoft has always had their eye on the living room. From web tv, to ultimate tv to the xbox.
Maybe the quote you read was referring to the xbox 360? In any case, the 360 is cool. No one gets made fun of because they have a 360. Not like when they admit they have a zune anyways.
Yeah, it is a bit winy. But I have no doubt that google will eventually release a linux port it if no one else does. I don't believe that they don't already have a linux port in house. So I think there is even less incentive for someone outside to do it, outside of the academic exercise and brief fleeting fame of it. I'd think about helping the port, but it lacks no script and adblock capabilities so I probably wouldn't use it. Once its been linuxized, then I might take a look at incorporating similar features.
The candidates are non rectangular solids of varying volume, with some sections more rigid than others. They do not stack up well. I suggest we find some some replacements from the cube planet, to fulfill our stacking needs.
Really? The details of how it happened aren't important? Would you say the same thing if you just saw a horrific airplane crash at the airport, right before you were about to take off in the exact same airplane make, year, and operating airline? Would you still get on the plane, or would you want them to figure out what made the other one crash, first?
Good points all. Still, the fact remains that voters don't have confidence in the machines. If it does appear to the voter to be switching votes in formant of them, they aren't going to trust that it won't do the same thing after they walk away. For what its worth, I've hears similar stories from friends that have tried early voting in cook county, Il. If that county goes for McCain, we know we have something seriously screwed up.
Those aren't major differences. Major differences are what you will notice between emacs and vim. Those are major. Word count is not. As you said, it won't matter to the majority of people, but I'm willing to guess the percentage of affected people is probably less than 20%. Far less.
The good news about the opensource ones is that they can theoretically be changed to your liking ( open office is a beast of a code base, but I've been told abiword and koffice are better). So if there were a sizable 20% of the word processing market that was not served well by existing products, there should be some intensive for someone to commission those changes.
Your rose colored glasses have blinded you to the blood stained corpse that is window's security. Never trust anyone using windows without anti-virus real time scanning turned on. Especially not yourself. It's like representing yourself in a murder trial, unless you are incredibly innocent, you're going to get screwed repeatedly.
And what do you suppose would happen if the recipients of the bailout hired a private army of 2,000,000 strong and armed them better? Do you still want a system that depends upon the number of people you can get to show up with weaponry, or one that doesn't require the constant travel and blood loss?
Just because we have a system where those with the most money get the best treatment, doesn't mean we'd be any better off if we switched it to those with the most guns. We'd just be more dead.
You are a fool, if you think the problems we face today are because of the youth. But don't worry, today's youth will grow greedy and arrogant in time enough to make even worse mistakes.
You should never mistake age for wisdom, nor youth with innocence.
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I understand Stac and Netscape. What the heck did Microsoft ever do to IBM or Apple? Are you upset Apple was given competition? Well, I guess IBM was sort of screwed over by the OEM deals MS did that locked OS2 out. So what did Microsoft do to Apple that was that terrible?
Take a look at their most popular downloads. Not a who's who in OSS. All of the top projects are built in and around the Microsoft universe. If they are serious about breaking the NIH syndrome, they need to step out of their sandbox.
Thats a blog about Microsoft culture written by a Microsoft employee. I commend his brutal honesty. If you had read the article, you would have remarked on how there is a strong aversion to using code from other Microsoft products. Developers at Microsoft, don't want to use code written by an unfamiliar Microsoft team and apparently get away with reimplementing the same functionality. That's messed up beyond belief. IS Google or IBM that way as well? I don't know. I should hope not,but to an outsider it paints a pretty grim picture.
What usually ends up happening with skins or themes, is the user selects one they like atheistically the best. Then they sit there in confusion. They can't figure out how to use the thing because the buttons are all shaped and colored strangely. They don't make good usability decisions. Heck look at myspace vs facebook for what you should and should not allow for themes. Myspace allows anything and as a result every one's page is ugly as sin and difficult to look at much less use, Facebook allows less ui modifications and is thus more usable.
The article doesn't say " Linus is right, no one should ever look at patents when developing software". Instead it says " We are a large cooperation with a legal department that will take care of any patent issues, we do not want our developers making adhoc decisions about them. ". Big difference.
The article wasn't that close to the summary, guess I should expect that here. I don't see any endorsement of anything open source at all. Codeplex is devoid of any meaningful opensource programs. The patent subject is only briefly tocuhced upon as a warning when using third party stuff. Its mostly a indictment of the Microsoft NIH culture. Which I had always suspected. Their experience is rarely a seamlessly integrated one. But mostly it just game me new reasons why I don't want to work for Microsoft.
Some inside info is more interesting than others. When I run for office, my computers are going to be full of misinformation. Plans to attack Washington State, Possible treaty negotiations with Germany for increased import of good beer. And other things that are closer to actual policy positions.
Maybe I would make a terrible politician, because I can't figure out what information they had as candidates would be of use to anyone. Even campaign strategies seem to be pointless to me. The only strategy that makes any sense is to win receiving more votes than your opponent. Anything else is voodoo politics. The people who practice it thinks it works, despite an overwhelming body of evidence that it does not. I think the loser of any campaign is the one who practices more voodoo.
No, not the fake ones they publish. The secret ones they don't publish. The plans for world domination. The ones containing the election script written two years ago by the Illuminati's dictator for life: Ron Paul.
The word elect is unessential in this context. Correcting me does not inform anyone of anything they shouldn't have already known. If you want to get extremely technical he's not even the president elect. Not a single electoral vote has been cast for him. We just elected a bunch of people who said they will vote for him.
So by that logic Obama is not the new president, as they said he was last night. Due to Heisenberg's uncertainty clause there is a non zero probability of them stating a true fact or having a valid opinion.
Mod up! There are only a few spots in which you would run into trouble with hibernate ( such as dealing with scaled out DB's*), I'd be really interested to see if you really hit one or not. I want to hear more about the alleged problem.
*(I understand there is hibernate Shards, but I have some philosophical issues with that approach)
So in this magical wonderland, I'll be able to watch videos online on my C64, Trash-80, and Apple II e? Awesome.
What do you mean by "finally"? Fermi has discovered tons of particles over its lifetime and probably will continue to be very useful in particle physics.
Here's a link to the top ten discoveries:
Yeah, no. Apple tv announced in 2006, Xbox released in 2001. The ipod was also released in 2001. It wasn't really that ubiquitous or even successful ( mac only at that point) at the time the xbox was released. Microsoft has always had their eye on the living room. From web tv, to ultimate tv to the xbox.
Maybe the quote you read was referring to the xbox 360? In any case, the 360 is cool. No one gets made fun of because they have a 360. Not like when they admit they have a zune anyways.
I don't know about that. Its much more entertaining to a third party observer to see the pinto get rear ended.
Really? I guess the movie had a different ending than the book.
Yeah, it is a bit winy. But I have no doubt that google will eventually release a linux port it if no one else does. I don't believe that they don't already have a linux port in house. So I think there is even less incentive for someone outside to do it, outside of the academic exercise and brief fleeting fame of it. I'd think about helping the port, but it lacks no script and adblock capabilities so I probably wouldn't use it. Once its been linuxized, then I might take a look at incorporating similar features.
The candidates are non rectangular solids of varying volume, with some sections more rigid than others. They do not stack up well. I suggest we find some some replacements from the cube planet, to fulfill our stacking needs.
Really? The details of how it happened aren't important? Would you say the same thing if you just saw a horrific airplane crash at the airport, right before you were about to take off in the exact same airplane make, year, and operating airline? Would you still get on the plane, or would you want them to figure out what made the other one crash, first?
You might not be interested in the cloud, but the cloud is interested in you.
Good points all. Still, the fact remains that voters don't have confidence in the machines. If it does appear to the voter to be switching votes in formant of them, they aren't going to trust that it won't do the same thing after they walk away. For what its worth, I've hears similar stories from friends that have tried early voting in cook county, Il. If that county goes for McCain, we know we have something seriously screwed up.
Those aren't major differences. Major differences are what you will notice between emacs and vim. Those are major. Word count is not. As you said, it won't matter to the majority of people, but I'm willing to guess the percentage of affected people is probably less than 20%. Far less.
The good news about the opensource ones is that they can theoretically be changed to your liking ( open office is a beast of a code base, but I've been told abiword and koffice are better). So if there were a sizable 20% of the word processing market that was not served well by existing products, there should be some intensive for someone to commission those changes.
Your rose colored glasses have blinded you to the blood stained corpse that is window's security. Never trust anyone using windows without anti-virus real time scanning turned on. Especially not yourself. It's like representing yourself in a murder trial, unless you are incredibly innocent, you're going to get screwed repeatedly.
And what do you suppose would happen if the recipients of the bailout hired a private army of 2,000,000 strong and armed them better? Do you still want a system that depends upon the number of people you can get to show up with weaponry, or one that doesn't require the constant travel and blood loss?
Just because we have a system where those with the most money get the best treatment, doesn't mean we'd be any better off if we switched it to those with the most guns. We'd just be more dead.
Not really it was rather gradual of a change. Zimbagwe was still held up as an stellar example of Africa's economic progress as late as the late 90's.
You are a fool, if you think the problems we face today are because of the youth. But don't worry, today's youth will grow greedy and arrogant in time enough to make even worse mistakes.
You should never mistake age for wisdom, nor youth with innocence.