Bah. Just saying someone has seen some code has nothing to do with proving they've seen it. I'd LOVE to hear how you can prove that someone has read a two line snippet of code out of 17,000 pages of mostly useless documents. Modern coding conventions being what they are, even if your variable names match exactly with theirs you could still call it co-incidence and say you were following M$'s own naming recommendations.
Unless, of course, their code is as horrifically ugly as I have always heard it was.
You've probably never gotten karma points because the site places you among the top 5% considered 'addictive refreshers' or something, and therefore excludes from the karma point pool entirely. I used to be there.
Right now, oddly enough, I somehow have 10 points that I have no intention of actually spending time using.
I run Ubuntu and can use YouTube, could load an iPod until the most recent gen, (f* you Crapple) and I thought the EXACT same thing about games. I thought I'd NEVER get addicted to something that would run on my crappy old Radeon. Then I ran into Battle for Wesnoth and Angry Drunken Dwarves. (and and and... There are some GREAT webgames out there now, and I must indeed again be game-abstinent)
So, um, Linux does my desktop, and the only thing I've ever compiled was the new version of BFW. Period. And I'm both lazy AND a complete noob to Linux.
The really interesting thing about those two articles in tandem is that the quotes go from Wal-Mart being 10% of the record industry's business to 20% in three or four years.
Actually, it depends on whether he had enough karma to get above the default 1+ filter everyone has....
It's actually mildly funny that the comments system is still borked IMHO. It's been a long time, and the comment ranking system still rewards highly fp's and other gaming.
And FreeGeek in Portland is where I take my old stuff. If there's lots of electronics somewhere and some people who care, it's not impossible to get rid of most of it in a good way.
The Internet is the biggest Social Networking site on the planet, and all these subcategories of it are going to be less and less important as larger percentages of the populace can build their own little inter-communicative sites.
Um.... No.
When I was young, there were: Prince, Nine Inch Nails, MC Hammer, Eric Clapton, and Vanilla Ice. All kinda iffy in retrospect.
A few centuries earlier, they had Mozart. A few decades earlier, they had Grand Funk Railroad. And right now Leo Kottke's still making music....
For the open mind, there's always someone making great music. The thing is, from what I can tell people's minds seem to crystallize right around their mid to late twenties, when they actually need security. So, um, people generally have an appreciation for the stuff they have great memories about during their times of freedom. And they build upon that by seeking out more positive inputs while listening to the same thing. So it seems to me like it's a learned response.
Actually, minus the interjected parenthetical statement, the sentence is, "It is expansion markets that M$ needs for stock prices to go up." The grammar did suck, yes, but it did so in a much more subtle and amusing way.
Why not just tell them to use a Mac / Safari combo and have it autokill cookies? I mean, the install and upkeep on a system like you're talking about is a little annoying.... Why not bypass it completely and work with a Mac system? Sure, the cost is higher than a build-it-yourself Linux system, but it DOES mean you don't have to bother the kids all the time for support.
This probably isn't driven by MS strategy. More marketing's realm, one would think.
Add to it that Office has been Microsoft's bread and butter for a decade now, and all truly threatening competition was pretty much quashed when Word Perfect fell. Now you have a situation where there has only been one extremely strong player in the business document production arena since before 'Internet' was a household word. There's a pile of money riding on this - not really in the US, where PC software is pretty sewn up - but overseas. A good rational look at the situation, and do you REALLY think the entire US government is going to go to OpenOffice? Yeah, no. But if OOXML is a standard it gives M$ sales a slight chance at selling developing countries' governments while their technical base is less knowledgeable about OSS.
Microsoft doesn't really HAVE to care about the US anymore; inertia will keep them in business here for the foreseeable future, like it has IBM despite some horrific failure. It's expansion markets (which, amusingly enough, probably won't listen to an American company as well as they would have before Mr. Gates got his way and a Republican shattered our reputation in the world) that M$ needs for stock prices to go up.
Why's that? Akamai probably handles multiple foundational financial systems' networking, so if they got compromised it could be a much bigger deal.
Having worked for a bank, I'd be floored if financial systems' defenses ever caught up with technical systems'. The problem is that in a financial organization financial skills are valued on a cultural level rather than technical skills. This is quite different from a technical company, at least one in its early to mid life. (in, of course, my experience and readings. Perhaps this is not completely true)
"He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class badmotherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb."
For some reason this passage comes to mind. I can now just learn to blow glass better; computers are never going to be my bag.
People in my corporation in EVE had this kind of thing happen to them a year or so ago. The problem is systemic. And probably not going away.
My problem with EVE was that there isn't a whole lot of room among the "high end content" areas for individual players. Hopefully CCP will come up with better for the White Wolf universe.
No. Restoring a comment and apologizing once it hits the Slashdot homepage is slow. And not cool. Systemic problems solved in small doses are still problems.
"best food producing." I like to qualify my blanket statements. Generally, I meant arable land, though. Wouldn't it, say, make sense to build cities somewhere OTHER than the most fertile areas?
We've spent the last hundred years or so covering all the best food-producing land with asphalt. (ex: Silicon Valley) Just look at it as a second chance at not screwing up our food supply.
My qualm about Dvorak has always been that I don't exactly know where the brackets and schtuff all go in Dvorak, so I would have a bit of a problem with that. I still look at my keyboard for squigglies and the top row of characters. My Bad. But if they change in Dvorak, how can I find them without labels on my keys?
Yeah, yeah. Lazy lazy me, and all. But then, I didn't 'take' to touch typing for a very, very long time.
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Bah. Just saying someone has seen some code has nothing to do with proving they've seen it. I'd LOVE to hear how you can prove that someone has read a two line snippet of code out of 17,000 pages of mostly useless documents. Modern coding conventions being what they are, even if your variable names match exactly with theirs you could still call it co-incidence and say you were following M$'s own naming recommendations. Unless, of course, their code is as horrifically ugly as I have always heard it was.
You've probably never gotten karma points because the site places you among the top 5% considered 'addictive refreshers' or something, and therefore excludes from the karma point pool entirely. I used to be there. Right now, oddly enough, I somehow have 10 points that I have no intention of actually spending time using.
Um. I just watched like an hour of glassblowing videos just to prove you wrong.
I run Ubuntu and can use YouTube, could load an iPod until the most recent gen, (f* you Crapple) and I thought the EXACT same thing about games. I thought I'd NEVER get addicted to something that would run on my crappy old Radeon. Then I ran into Battle for Wesnoth and Angry Drunken Dwarves. (and and and... There are some GREAT webgames out there now, and I must indeed again be game-abstinent)
So, um, Linux does my desktop, and the only thing I've ever compiled was the new version of BFW. Period. And I'm both lazy AND a complete noob to Linux.
The really interesting thing about those two articles in tandem is that the quotes go from Wal-Mart being 10% of the record industry's business to 20% in three or four years.
Can anyone say, "Vlasic"?
Because Google is the best company there has ever been at Internet marketing. It's just that simple.
Actually, it depends on whether he had enough karma to get above the default 1+ filter everyone has....
It's actually mildly funny that the comments system is still borked IMHO. It's been a long time, and the comment ranking system still rewards highly fp's and other gaming.
And FreeGeek in Portland is where I take my old stuff. If there's lots of electronics somewhere and some people who care, it's not impossible to get rid of most of it in a good way.
Except monitors. They, apparently, are evil.
This is the Internet. Proof by sarcasm is the most defensible kind.
I've never been to a Clapton show, but if he puts on a better one than Kottke, I'll definitely buy tickets next time he comes through town...
The Internet is the biggest Social Networking site on the planet, and all these subcategories of it are going to be less and less important as larger percentages of the populace can build their own little inter-communicative sites.
Um.... No. When I was young, there were: Prince, Nine Inch Nails, MC Hammer, Eric Clapton, and Vanilla Ice. All kinda iffy in retrospect. A few centuries earlier, they had Mozart. A few decades earlier, they had Grand Funk Railroad. And right now Leo Kottke's still making music.... For the open mind, there's always someone making great music. The thing is, from what I can tell people's minds seem to crystallize right around their mid to late twenties, when they actually need security. So, um, people generally have an appreciation for the stuff they have great memories about during their times of freedom. And they build upon that by seeking out more positive inputs while listening to the same thing. So it seems to me like it's a learned response.
Actually, minus the interjected parenthetical statement, the sentence is, "It is expansion markets that M$ needs for stock prices to go up." The grammar did suck, yes, but it did so in a much more subtle and amusing way.
Why not just tell them to use a Mac / Safari combo and have it autokill cookies? I mean, the install and upkeep on a system like you're talking about is a little annoying.... Why not bypass it completely and work with a Mac system? Sure, the cost is higher than a build-it-yourself Linux system, but it DOES mean you don't have to bother the kids all the time for support.
This probably isn't driven by MS strategy. More marketing's realm, one would think.
Add to it that Office has been Microsoft's bread and butter for a decade now, and all truly threatening competition was pretty much quashed when Word Perfect fell. Now you have a situation where there has only been one extremely strong player in the business document production arena since before 'Internet' was a household word. There's a pile of money riding on this - not really in the US, where PC software is pretty sewn up - but overseas. A good rational look at the situation, and do you REALLY think the entire US government is going to go to OpenOffice? Yeah, no. But if OOXML is a standard it gives M$ sales a slight chance at selling developing countries' governments while their technical base is less knowledgeable about OSS.
Microsoft doesn't really HAVE to care about the US anymore; inertia will keep them in business here for the foreseeable future, like it has IBM despite some horrific failure. It's expansion markets (which, amusingly enough, probably won't listen to an American company as well as they would have before Mr. Gates got his way and a Republican shattered our reputation in the world) that M$ needs for stock prices to go up.
Why's that? Akamai probably handles multiple foundational financial systems' networking, so if they got compromised it could be a much bigger deal.
Having worked for a bank, I'd be floored if financial systems' defenses ever caught up with technical systems'. The problem is that in a financial organization financial skills are valued on a cultural level rather than technical skills. This is quite different from a technical company, at least one in its early to mid life. (in, of course, my experience and readings. Perhaps this is not completely true)
"He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class badmotherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb."
For some reason this passage comes to mind. I can now just learn to blow glass better; computers are never going to be my bag.
Sounds like a pretty boring movie to me.
People in my corporation in EVE had this kind of thing happen to them a year or so ago. The problem is systemic. And probably not going away.
My problem with EVE was that there isn't a whole lot of room among the "high end content" areas for individual players. Hopefully CCP will come up with better for the White Wolf universe.
No. Restoring a comment and apologizing once it hits the Slashdot homepage is slow. And not cool. Systemic problems solved in small doses are still problems.
Comcast boxen definitely suck. Buying a Tivo is a good idea.
"best food producing." I like to qualify my blanket statements. Generally, I meant arable land, though. Wouldn't it, say, make sense to build cities somewhere OTHER than the most fertile areas?
We've spent the last hundred years or so covering all the best food-producing land with asphalt. (ex: Silicon Valley) Just look at it as a second chance at not screwing up our food supply.
Yay for the 20,000$ Hello World Programs.
My qualm about Dvorak has always been that I don't exactly know where the brackets and schtuff all go in Dvorak, so I would have a bit of a problem with that. I still look at my keyboard for squigglies and the top row of characters. My Bad. But if they change in Dvorak, how can I find them without labels on my keys? Yeah, yeah. Lazy lazy me, and all. But then, I didn't 'take' to touch typing for a very, very long time.