I didn't expect a (respected) mid-level manager to be the road block.
A mid-level manager has a lot of people above him. When are you ready to go to his boss and point out that this person is preventing you from getting your job done?
Or there could be another reason for the delay. Virtually all Vista-ready systems shipping by Q1 2007 (Vista ready means TPC/TCM module on the motherboard, adequate graphics controller w/512MB+, 1GB+ ram, modern processor) will be 64-bit dual processor cores from Intel or AMD.
We're on the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit processors, and unlike Apple who seems foolishly bent on supporting both 32-bit (currently shipping Intel Macs of all types) and 64-bit (Macs after Conroe becomes available Q2/Q3 timeframe) Intel processors, I suspect that in the end Vista will come out as 64-bit only. This will save Microsoft a lot of grief afterwards, and alone would be worth the delay of this additional 6 months. Perhaps all this rewriting is to make Vista true 64-bit all the way through.
My question for Microsoft is, if.NET is so d@mn wonderful to run everything as managed code, then why isn't Vista itself written in it?
Microsoft is d@mn lucky they don't have any real competition in operating systems to worry about. A true competitor would have eaten their lunch by now.
Jobs is an idiot for insisting that his software can only run on his hardware. About all Microsoft makes hardware-wise are mice and XBoxes, and they're 9X the size of Apple.
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Sun should use their Grid to DDoS back the attacking machines. After all, Sun has a formidable weapon here now.
Of course adults love video games. You don't think they're going to spend that much money on video game consoles, games, and gaming PC's just for their kids, do you?
Just what is iron-nuclei radiation, and how is it different from, say, tin-nuclei radiation? It's the term 'radiation' that's throwing me here. Is this like Alpha radiation' which are helium-nuclei? And if it's iron, why not stop it with a magnetic field?
Also, is there an 'At-Rest' speed in the universe where everything else is traveling faster than you against whatever reference the universe uses to measure speed, and hence time at this relative speed passes faster than at any other speed do to no time dilation at all? If so, then how fast is the Earth moving relative to this zero speed?
pointing out the extremely narrow audience this chip would appeal to given that they are moving on to a different core soon.
Corvettes also sell to an extremely narrow audience. However, having the Corvette in the lineup sells a lot more Chevy econo boxes in the process from people pretending that their Impala is a close cousin and next best thing to a Vette.
I'm sure that this isn't the only security warning Microsoft received -- and ignored -- at the time. Will this convince them that they don't know everything while the rest of the world knows nothing yet?
If one jurisdiction deems Fox News to be obscene like it is, then it can be be removed from the air there,
This is where Slashdot needs to add a SCARY +1 moderation. Scary is a positive moderation for insightful thinking that we should all afraid could actually happen -- and us all be worse off for it if it does.
Obscenity is and should always be defined by the community -- preferably by the household.
This thought is so very wrong!
Your idea will allow the least tolerant person to define the standards for everyone else. Perhaps you mean they define it for their household, but if that's the case they'd never be in court. Community is too big and diverse to have exactly the same standard for every member and call it fair.
What the law should say is that Smut cannot be forced on those not desiring it, however they must also take common sense steps to avoid it on their own.
All it would take to fix this selective enforcement problem is to allow the defendant to determine the jurisdiction for the trial. After all, if it's truly bad, then it's truly bad everywhere. The Defendant should be allowed to pick a venue within the United States (these are typically federal prosecutions, so they are country-wide) where their material is available for trial. Especially because viewing such material has long been a completely voluntary activity. And the loser in this trial has to pay all costs. This might make people more selective about clicking on things they already know they won't like, or moving into communities that have public crosses on display just so that they can be offended and have the standing (as a county or city resident) to sue. Most of these harms are self-inflicted, and I wish the courts were much stronger about point that out in dismissing these cases.
In short, Free Speech should be like Marriage (I mean Marriage in the original sense here, and not the redefinition of this word currently being shoved down our throats by some). It used to be that a marriage recognized in one state was legal in all of them, because all states agreed on the general definition of marriage and would accept minor variations in different state's procedures.
Perhaps a better analogy would be for Driver's Licenses. Gain a driver's license in one state and you're legal to drive in all 50 states, even though the motor vehicle laws differ in the details across the different states. Oops, bad example in these days of the Real ID Act, which may result in some states not recognising another's because a state has a policy of giving driver's licenses to (operative word) illegal persons in this country.
But you get the idea. Everything is bad somewhere, but few things are bad everywhere, so what should we really be prohibiting?
Every new installment of ever science fiction show seems to promise to be Darker. Nothing is ever promoted as lighter, more musical, more fun than you've already had in the past. No, it all has to take a turn to the Dark Side. I can only guess that this is what Hollywood thinks sells. Fluff to start with, followed by dark, dismal, gloomy, un-fun stories.
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So have the gotten to them all? Probably not. Just use a new one each issue in protest and your fans will love you.
And since when is a trademark owned by two companies at once for the same product?
I trust this guy has talked to his lawyers and someone believes the comic companies have a case, but it seems to this observer that he was cowed by yet another SLL (Scary Lawyer Letter).
What I'd still like explained in simple enough langauge for the average Slashdot reader is:
If the Universe started out in one place, and expanded at less than the speed of light, how can we only now be receiving light from its early days?
And while you're at it:
If object A is moving one direction at.6c, and object B is moving the opposite direction at.6c, does each object appear to be moving at >1c from the other object?
I once read a quote that goes something like: Programmers know how to build doghouses, but not skyscrapers. So when a programmer is called upon to build a skyscraper, he builds it out of 10,000 doghouses.
That's how I still view Microsoft. They know how to build a Desktop OS, so is their Enterprise system going to be 10,000 Desktops?
If people like him could win lawsuits like this, a great deal of the usefulness of the Internet would vanish overnight.
I'm glad he lost. And I hope he stays lost (word is he's planning a appeal) forever. In fact, someone should cut his phone line now to protect him from himself. For Christ's sake he made the disputed posting himself! I'd call that publishing!
Journalist are understandably upset that confidential information, that has nothing to do with the investigation, will be found and used for retribution.
Which is all just sloppy on the part of the journalists. If you have sensitive information on a hard drive that might be siezed, then encrypt the d@mn thing! Or is that too much trouble to protect your sources?
Blizzard needs to lose a good class action lawsuit over their treatment of their customers. Maybe then they'd treat their players better.
At minimum, this guy should get all the money back he spent on WoW, because they've essentially stolen the value of the characters he has generated. The time can't be recovered, but the money should be.
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A mid-level manager has a lot of people above him. When are you ready to go to his boss and point out that this person is preventing you from getting your job done?
And what if I don't want multiple processor architectures, but instead just lots and lots of the single architecture my code is compiled for?
We're on the transition from 32-bit to 64-bit processors, and unlike Apple who seems foolishly bent on supporting both 32-bit (currently shipping Intel Macs of all types) and 64-bit (Macs after Conroe becomes available Q2/Q3 timeframe) Intel processors, I suspect that in the end Vista will come out as 64-bit only. This will save Microsoft a lot of grief afterwards, and alone would be worth the delay of this additional 6 months. Perhaps all this rewriting is to make Vista true 64-bit all the way through.
My question for Microsoft is, if .NET is so d@mn wonderful to run everything as managed code, then why isn't Vista itself written in it?
Jobs is an idiot for insisting that his software can only run on his hardware. About all Microsoft makes hardware-wise are mice and XBoxes, and they're 9X the size of Apple.
Or will it hurt overall storage because a Bad Sector now requires a full 4KB spare?
The gravity in the Physics building will be shut down tomorrow between 8:00am and noon for maintenance. Please take proper precautions with any fragile items prone to drifting.
And the Grid replied: 101010
Sun should use their Grid to DDoS back the attacking machines. After all, Sun has a formidable weapon here now.
Duh!
Don't know about you, however I want an engine that fires for more than 3 seconds before I'll feel comfortable flying into space with it.
Just what is iron-nuclei radiation, and how is it different from, say, tin-nuclei radiation? It's the term 'radiation' that's throwing me here. Is this like Alpha radiation' which are helium-nuclei? And if it's iron, why not stop it with a magnetic field?
Also, is there an 'At-Rest' speed in the universe where everything else is traveling faster than you against whatever reference the universe uses to measure speed, and hence time at this relative speed passes faster than at any other speed do to no time dilation at all? If so, then how fast is the Earth moving relative to this zero speed?
Corvettes also sell to an extremely narrow audience. However, having the Corvette in the lineup sells a lot more Chevy econo boxes in the process from people pretending that their Impala is a close cousin and next best thing to a Vette.
I'm sure that this isn't the only security warning Microsoft received -- and ignored -- at the time. Will this convince them that they don't know everything while the rest of the world knows nothing yet?
This is where Slashdot needs to add a SCARY +1 moderation. Scary is a positive moderation for insightful thinking that we should all afraid could actually happen -- and us all be worse off for it if it does.
This thought is so very wrong!
Your idea will allow the least tolerant person to define the standards for everyone else. Perhaps you mean they define it for their household, but if that's the case they'd never be in court. Community is too big and diverse to have exactly the same standard for every member and call it fair.
What the law should say is that Smut cannot be forced on those not desiring it, however they must also take common sense steps to avoid it on their own.
In short, Free Speech should be like Marriage (I mean Marriage in the original sense here, and not the redefinition of this word currently being shoved down our throats by some). It used to be that a marriage recognized in one state was legal in all of them, because all states agreed on the general definition of marriage and would accept minor variations in different state's procedures.
Perhaps a better analogy would be for Driver's Licenses. Gain a driver's license in one state and you're legal to drive in all 50 states, even though the motor vehicle laws differ in the details across the different states. Oops, bad example in these days of the Real ID Act, which may result in some states not recognising another's because a state has a policy of giving driver's licenses to (operative word) illegal persons in this country.
But you get the idea. Everything is bad somewhere, but few things are bad everywhere, so what should we really be prohibiting?
Every new installment of ever science fiction show seems to promise to be Darker. Nothing is ever promoted as lighter, more musical, more fun than you've already had in the past. No, it all has to take a turn to the Dark Side. I can only guess that this is what Hollywood thinks sells. Fluff to start with, followed by dark, dismal, gloomy, un-fun stories.
How about, Certainly worth investing in SLI if it works on the specific game(s) you most want to play at higher speeds and/or resolutions.
Otherwise, not worth investing in at all.
Wonderful Hero
Great Hero
Marvelous Hero
Fabulous Hero
Tremendous Hero
Very good Hero
Excellent Hero
Splendid Hero
Terrific Hero
Superb Hero
Brilliant Hero
Superior Hero
Super Hero
Better Hero
Enhanced Hero
Improved Hero
Outstanding Hero
High-quality Hero
Best quality Hero
First class Hero
High-class Hero
So have the gotten to them all? Probably not. Just use a new one each issue in protest and your fans will love you.
And since when is a trademark owned by two companies at once for the same product?
I trust this guy has talked to his lawyers and someone believes the comic companies have a case, but it seems to this observer that he was cowed by yet another SLL (Scary Lawyer Letter).
If the Universe started out in one place, and expanded at less than the speed of light, how can we only now be receiving light from its early days?
And while you're at it:
If object A is moving one direction at .6c, and object B is moving the opposite direction at .6c, does each object appear to be moving at >1c from the other object?
Thanks!
That's how I still view Microsoft. They know how to build a Desktop OS, so is their Enterprise system going to be 10,000 Desktops?
I'm glad he lost. And I hope he stays lost (word is he's planning a appeal) forever. In fact, someone should cut his phone line now to protect him from himself. For Christ's sake he made the disputed posting himself! I'd call that publishing!
Which is all just sloppy on the part of the journalists. If you have sensitive information on a hard drive that might be siezed, then encrypt the d@mn thing! Or is that too much trouble to protect your sources?
At minimum, this guy should get all the money back he spent on WoW, because they've essentially stolen the value of the characters he has generated. The time can't be recovered, but the money should be.
Are you sure that isn't Bill Clinton speaking?