Wait for them to get bored. They have a short attention span and the nature of the beast is that they will start infighting and tearing this effort apart before all that long.
"This nails it in a nutshell. It's a transparent attempt at FUD. We've been hearing from some people how much of a failure Windows Phone 7 was since 5 minutes after it was released."
Yeah, yeah we have. And a while ago all we heard in the tech press and in the comments here at/. and elsewhere was how fscking AMAZING it was even though it wasn't out yet. But it sure is awesome, even though nobody's had a chance to use it yet, a guaranteed success!
The FUD is coming in thick and fast on this one, but frankly I have yet to hear of anyone IRL that gives a rats arse about a windows phone, unlike with android or iPhone. I strongly suspect that when the dust settles MS will have made little to no impact on the marketplace because they're late to the game and don't have a compelling sales pitch. I guess we'll see.
But shouting about FUD on the anti-MS side... LOL. Really.
I thought that was the benefit of going on wars of adventure with no clear goal. Oops, silly me, it's our respect for human life that holding us back from... imposing democracy on these people for their own good. What?
... just get the BEARs to do the fighting in the first place?
Then if we ever get into an equal fight, our bears can fight their bears, we'll televise the whole damn thing and make millions in concessions and merch!
If easy access to guns isn't related to murder rate then what the fuck is wrong with the USA? Because if it's not the guns then you yanks must just love murder or something.
Without people looking for vulnerabilities in SSL and publishing the results there would be other people looking for vulnerabilities in SSL and not publishing, just using them to steal.
Security crackers that publish their results are essential to making sure we are really secure, not that we just think we are.
But that's because I was playing it with a housemate and playing story missions when the other wasn't there was 'bad'. So things like feathers allowed us to get our game fix when the other wasn't there.
" To get a good IT job, one needs to have additional expertise, besides coding what he is told"
I disagree. There are lots of good coding jobs and ample time to get to know the various market areas as you go. Besides which, spending even more time in education is time you could be using to gain experience.
Sorry, but a lot of folks are wilfully ignorant of computers and others are just incapable of learning about them properly.
I don't blame the incapable ones, they should be guided to a safer net experience on a Mac or something, where it's hard to screw up. The wilfully ignorant should be beaten in the streets!
This is I think the whole "browser as an application platform" thing we've had going for the last few years.
I know, I know, we need advances and you web programmer types can do some great things with your languages these days. But it's no longer just a browser at that point, is it? And when it gets to interact with the OS on various levels, and when there are holes (which there always are) bad things happen. The fact that web-apps and their multitude of up-popping windows can and do frequently look the same as messages from the OS is probably not a very good thing. I know, we can't stop people faking it with images, but IMHO some sort of inbuilt restrictions on the appearance of web-originating content vs local programs would be a good thing.
"It's like those game consoles that can take a hard drive upgrade, but only if they get to dip their hand into your wallet during the upgrade, selling you an "upgrade kit" that gets you past their clandestine restrictions on swapping of hardware."
You mean the Microsoft Xbox 360? The PS3 will take any hard drive you can fit in the 2.5" slot (some of the newer, 1TB drives are too fat).
For once Sony did something that doesn't screw the customer.
Also 'investors'. A little while back I read an online article by someone congratulating themselves on investing in.com names. He was going through a dictionary, finding obscure words and testing to see if they were available, then buying them up. He had about 30 dictionary words and he was going to make money on the idea, also encouraging others to do the same.
It's one of those times when you wish you could reach through the screen and strangle the person on the other side. Squatters, 'investors' and other assorted asshats have between them sat on pretty much and word or word combination in existence, meaning that 99% of them just aren't used, ever.
It's a shame that money-hungry tools have been able to do this. Maybe the internet was better in the early 90s.
Parallel and distributed programming has been around for a long time.
pthreads and C can address the area perfectly well as long as you think about what you're doing and how you apply locks/monitors/message passing etc etc.
Some people have this thing called a moral code, which allows them to sell on things they consider they own (like a game bought from Steam) but not just to rip things off from the net, wholesale.
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Wait for them to get bored. They have a short attention span and the nature of the beast is that they will start infighting and tearing this effort apart before all that long.
Yeah, yeah we have. And a while ago all we heard in the tech press and in the comments here at /. and elsewhere was how fscking AMAZING it was even though it wasn't out yet. But it sure is awesome, even though nobody's had a chance to use it yet, a guaranteed success!
The FUD is coming in thick and fast on this one, but frankly I have yet to hear of anyone IRL that gives a rats arse about a windows phone, unlike with android or iPhone. I strongly suspect that when the dust settles MS will have made little to no impact on the marketplace because they're late to the game and don't have a compelling sales pitch. I guess we'll see.
But shouting about FUD on the anti-MS side... LOL. Really.
I thought that was the benefit of going on wars of adventure with no clear goal. Oops, silly me, it's our respect for human life that holding us back from... imposing democracy on these people for their own good. What?
Only problem with that is if BEAR gets damaged. The soldier is then trapped.
The basic fact that most people are morons?
Yeah, that's the one that irks me.
... just get the BEARs to do the fighting in the first place?
Then if we ever get into an equal fight, our bears can fight their bears, we'll televise the whole damn thing and make millions in concessions and merch!
Diaspora, the anti-social network!
Tired of social networks with their data sharing, privacy leaks and too many people looking at your stuff?
Join Diaspora! Write status updates nobody can see! Or don't, it's all the same in the end!
I always find this line of reasoning funny.
If easy access to guns isn't related to murder rate then what the fuck is wrong with the USA?
Because if it's not the guns then you yanks must just love murder or something.
I would ask if anyone knows what the Chinese government would do to an American engineer who did the same thing to a Chinese company.
FTFS - "Chinese division of a US rival of Ford's."
Sounds like american companies doing it to each other, to me.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Even if nobody looks through it, the data should be available to the citizenry if they want it. This is good in and of itself.
I don't really agree on the difference.
If there's a tool to exploit the problem then companies using SSL/TLS/whatever can see a clear and present danger.
If someone publishes a vulnerability it's easy to write it off as theoretical and we're back to the situation where black-hats can exploit things.
You mean like Guantanamo bay?
Without people looking for vulnerabilities in SSL and publishing the results there would be other people looking for vulnerabilities in SSL and not publishing, just using them to steal.
Security crackers that publish their results are essential to making sure we are really secure, not that we just think we are.
To me the feathers were a godsend in AC2.
But that's because I was playing it with a housemate and playing story missions when the other wasn't there was 'bad'. So things like feathers allowed us to get our game fix when the other wasn't there.
" To get a good IT job, one needs to have additional expertise, besides coding what he is told"
I disagree. There are lots of good coding jobs and ample time to get to know the various market areas as you go. Besides which, spending even more time in education is time you could be using to gain experience.
I wish I had them.
Sorry, but a lot of folks are wilfully ignorant of computers and others are just incapable of learning about them properly.
I don't blame the incapable ones, they should be guided to a safer net experience on a Mac or something, where it's hard to screw up. The wilfully ignorant should be beaten in the streets!
This is I think the whole "browser as an application platform" thing we've had going for the last few years.
I know, I know, we need advances and you web programmer types can do some great things with your languages these days. But it's no longer just a browser at that point, is it? And when it gets to interact with the OS on various levels, and when there are holes (which there always are) bad things happen. The fact that web-apps and their multitude of up-popping windows can and do frequently look the same as messages from the OS is probably not a very good thing. I know, we can't stop people faking it with images, but IMHO some sort of inbuilt restrictions on the appearance of web-originating content vs local programs would be a good thing.
"It's like those game consoles that can take a hard drive upgrade, but only if they get to dip their hand into your wallet during the upgrade, selling you an "upgrade kit" that gets you past their clandestine restrictions on swapping of hardware."
You mean the Microsoft Xbox 360? The PS3 will take any hard drive you can fit in the 2.5" slot (some of the newer, 1TB drives are too fat).
For once Sony did something that doesn't screw the customer.
Yes, but most often that's in use, which is a different thing.
This.
Also 'investors'. A little while back I read an online article by someone congratulating themselves on investing in .com names. He was going through a dictionary, finding obscure words and testing to see if they were available, then buying them up. He had about 30 dictionary words and he was going to make money on the idea, also encouraging others to do the same.
It's one of those times when you wish you could reach through the screen and strangle the person on the other side. Squatters, 'investors' and other assorted asshats have between them sat on pretty much and word or word combination in existence, meaning that 99% of them just aren't used, ever.
It's a shame that money-hungry tools have been able to do this. Maybe the internet was better in the early 90s.
Parallel and distributed programming has been around for a long time.
pthreads and C can address the area perfectly well as long as you think about what you're doing and how you apply locks/monitors/message passing etc etc.
No, you don't have a moral code, you're a pussy that takes the path of least resistance.
Some people have this thing called a moral code, which allows them to sell on things they consider they own (like a game bought from Steam) but not just to rip things off from the net, wholesale.
That's my only problem with the online distribution thing - they usually cost more than the store copy.
hell, when SC2 came out it was 99 AUD online, or 69 bucks at Game. With a T-Shirt. So, umm, why am I paying so much less for physical goods?