No, its just that Microsoft's bugs are all just abstract non-repeatable bugs that are too strange to be able to simply explain to tech support.
Rillopy
Putting anti-piracy labels on media would probably scare some people away from copying the stuff. And that, of course, is the whole purpose of law in the first place: stopping people from breaking it (pirating stuff in this case). The purpose isn't to catch as many people as possible.
If that were so, the keeping the laws a secret would do a grand job of filling the jails. So, by putting these labels on, it would do a good thing by preventing piracy without using force.
Microsoft is a company #1, not some organization out to make the world a better place. Putting their seal of approval on a hacked Xbox would not help their business out at all, seeing as it supports an operating system that is not their own.
Also, seeing as the Xbox is not making them lots of money, making it popular for use other than profit-generating games is kind of pointless. Unless of course they are out to improve society. Ha!
I've always wondered how they made Windows, and finally reading about it was quite inspirational. Its amazing how 50+ million lines of code are managed and actually improved within a huge company.
Its different for an opensource project due to the remoteness and sporadicness(sp?) of the developers.
Regardless, I'm kind of annoyed by how no one seems to be commented on how much of a cool feat it is, and all they can comment on is how bad the reputation of Windows is. That's not what the article was about, folks. I mean, who among you didn't drool when the 3 "best" developers out of 5000 were picked to fix the last minute bugs. What a head trip!
Admit that it was inspirational and made you wanna code an OS and make a killer kernel.
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If someone is willing to go to the lengths of putting a bullet in your harddrive, they might have the determination to hunt down your backups to.
Woah. Talk about a strange new world. I probably knew that, but it'd be weird to wear a weird scuba suit and go swimming in a gas planet.
This sounds like a whole lot of vague ideas and nothing concrete. Let go land on Jupiter while we are at it, using a rocket.
If I only had a dime for everything that promised to remake computing...
Microsoft will not last forever. The Roman empire was far larger and monopolaic, yet it crumbled.
Hmmm, very powerful.
Your comment is like reading Isaac Watts...
In terms of business, consistency is one of the more important things. Training people is a lot easier if the tools are the same.
Rillopy
No, its just that Microsoft's bugs are all just abstract non-repeatable bugs that are too strange to be able to simply explain to tech support. Rillopy
Putting anti-piracy labels on media would probably scare some people away from copying the stuff. And that, of course, is the whole purpose of law in the first place: stopping people from breaking it (pirating stuff in this case). The purpose isn't to catch as many people as possible.
If that were so, the keeping the laws a secret would do a grand job of filling the jails. So, by putting these labels on, it would do a good thing by preventing piracy without using force.
Rillopy
Microsoft is a company #1, not some organization out to make the world a better place. Putting their seal of approval on a hacked Xbox would not help their business out at all, seeing as it supports an operating system that is not their own.
Also, seeing as the Xbox is not making them lots of money, making it popular for use other than profit-generating games is kind of pointless. Unless of course they are out to improve society. Ha!
Rillopy
I've always wondered how they made Windows, and finally reading about it was quite inspirational. Its amazing how 50+ million lines of code are managed and actually improved within a huge company.
Its different for an opensource project due to the remoteness and sporadicness(sp?) of the developers.
Regardless, I'm kind of annoyed by how no one seems to be commented on how much of a cool feat it is, and all they can comment on is how bad the reputation of Windows is. That's not what the article was about, folks. I mean, who among you didn't drool when the 3 "best" developers out of 5000 were picked to fix the last minute bugs. What a head trip!
Admit that it was inspirational and made you wanna code an OS and make a killer kernel.
Rillopy
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