This is why I think conspiracy theoriest are totally out of touch with reality. If our government can't keep this, or my taxes, straight at even a basic level - how are they going to keep a huge multi-national 'conspiracy' like UFO's/aliens/crop-circles/Tesla time/space transport/etc? Get a life people.
So.. this super hyped version of the next generation of Windows has gradually had all of its most attractive features stripped out of it just for the sake of getting it out of the door quickly. So this means that its going to be yet another interim OS, and the NEXT version of Windows is going to be the one that you really want.
So, I guess that would make the first version Windows Vista, the second would be Windows Then-Removed-The-Lens-Cap.
I don't know what's scarier, this article or the MS Dev 2005 launch party I just attended that was full of the exact same stuff. I'm also a dev that knows good C++/design patterns/cross-platform linux/win development and helped develop such flagships at Macromedia's Studio suite (parts of the engine not web apps) I kept wondering when it was we were going to learn about how to write a real *app*. The guy just kept scrunching together wizard after wizard to build his web 'solution'. At one point someone asked where the actual data lay on the server - and he couldn't answer - and nobody seemed to flinch! It was just run the wizards and connect the boxes. I didn't see one line of code written the whole time. And it didn't matter what language you used, just select it at the beginning and everything was merged together at the end by some kind of magic. God only knows what would happen if you started digging into this spagetti by hand.
I went there expecting to learn about how to code for new vista features, how to take advantage of the new system features, integration for cross-platform development, new tools for helping design, anything! But this was all web apps, all day long. I don't know what shocked me more, the fact that there was no code written that whole session (none by hand) or that the room was half full of nodding heads. Since when did Dev Studio, with the most harmoniously combined debugger and compiler out there, become Frontpage?
I got a free copy of Dev Studio there and it requires SQL server (also free). But it sits on my desk and I pause long and hard each time I think of unistalling my old version for this one.
Just like nuclear weapons, supersonic flight, and a few others this was bound to happen. Science-fiction is made reality once more. That little
'probe' is surely a katamari ball they used rolled up an asteroid - now on to the planet-size level! And from the Japanese no less.
So, I get a patent and these nice folks hold all legal rights to it. Fast-forward 10 years when they run out of cash and get bought up for 1c/patent at a some judge's bankruptcy sale run by the latest/greatest SCO or lawsuit hungry company. Congratulations, you now own the innovations of open source.
I think this is about as bad a move as I've seen in a long time - better to NOT have a 'repository' company that can get sued, assets siezed, etc. Remember the guy 2 days ago that got tricked into giving MS his program name? Open source strength is in its distributed writing. One hit doesn't knock the house down. I sure hope these guys are really good and smart lawyers to protect you - they all working for an open source community with no income and all...
If I recall corectly, the Pentateuch was writen by Moses as dictated to him by God. This includes Genesis.
Man, it must have been a real bummer when Moses wrote:
"So there, in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of the LORD, died as the LORD had said" Deuteronomy 34:5
and then went on to finish the chapter...
Standford engineers have discovered a method to modulate a beam of laser light up to 100 billion times a second. From the article: "The vision here is that, with the much stronger physics, we can imagine large numbers - Those large numbers could get rid of the bottlenecks"
Image new numbers different than 100 billion?? Like 100,000 million! or 100,000,000 thousands! Awesome! Stanford's l337 rox0rs more than MIT's 'large numbers'!
Dang dude - slow down. You're really accusing NASA scientists who are trying to explain the loss of a $10mil spacecraft, who have the data in front of them (we don't) that they are being influenced by Middle Age-era theology that the Vatican has apologized and said it was wrong about? That's not what the article seemed to be saying to me. Sure they're a little defensive/wierd in the way they said they were wrong or apparently were wrong. But wouldn't you be a little hat-in-hand/butt-covering/backpeddling if you'd just lost a $10mil piece of hardware, thought you found it, but then didn't, to a public that might want answers? That's way different than what you did which was jumping from their explanation to "It must be because they've been brainwashed by Middle Age theology and they wish to perpetuate and force on us!". I hardly believe most of the people at NASA are that slow. Kudos for coming up with possible explanations (which I liked and think very good avenues to investigate) but you are making a lot of assumptions about what they saw ihn the data (which we don't have) and drawing your own conclusions based on, to be honest, biased opinions of how much you see religion influencing research. What ax are you grinding? The data or your opinions? Science is about arguing facts and data, not your opinions about 'religious influences'. Accusing them like this is no different than religious zealots that do the same. Keep science clean folks.
I find this notion interesting - I've heard people say it about laptop screens, camera lcd's, etc and I start wondering. Why build something that is gorgeous, sleek, and looks like art in motion (and it is beautiful) if you instantly have to pack it in bulky neoprene, clear plastic protector wraps, etc - if you want it to survive at any functional level. What was the point of the original slick design if you can't actually SEE it that way when using it 99% of the time? What's the advantage over a 3rd party cheaper-but-not-so-pretty solution again?
Why is it that no one sees this glaring disparity of image vs actions! I'm no fan of the way MS does software but as bad as Microsoft is in it's tactics, they *tend* to use legality as a shield - not a sword. I can't imagine what our world or the state of technological development would be if Apple had 'won' the cold war of MS/Intel vs Apple - and the world was on 90% Apple platforms. Witness how they brutally squashed and law-suit HW competitors out of their market (Kangaroo clones), design militantly closed environments (iTunes, OS's before OS X, etc) and do so with law-suit friendly tactics that border on criminal infringement - such as this. For positing itself as such an 'open' 'free-thinking' 'different-oriented' image, it's got some of the shadiest/closed legal/marketing/engineering tactics I've ever witnessed from any company.
They do have killer designers, but it sure seems that once you really try to write your own software/hardware or criticize/open their development environments to 3rd party expansion - you can expect a hammer very soon. It's almost as bad as the RIAA. Imagine trying to come up with extensibility/behavior changing programs (such as Windowsblinds, etc) in the Apple world? Why don't my iTunes - songs I *purchased* and own the license too - work anywhere else? No wonder so many innovative companies have stopped/limited development for their platforms. People bitch as MS all the time for not opening things up; but they have done so many, many more times than Apple's has in the past - or at least it starts a dialog for change. Yet, if you try to argue or expose Apple they take their toys out and go home. It's like extending the warm handshake of perceived innovation/creativity to the world with the right hand, then slap the tar out of them with the left once their in.
I find this to be an interesting trend in companies that try to present them as 'artistic'/'free-thinking'. Witness Nike that militantly defends its branding - but gets its hand caught in the cookie-jar (sweatshops) just as bad, if not worse, as any 'bad corporate' giant.
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This is why I think conspiracy theoriest are totally out of touch with reality. If our government can't keep this, or my taxes, straight at even a basic level - how are they going to keep a huge multi-national 'conspiracy' like UFO's/aliens/crop-circles/Tesla time/space transport/etc? Get a life people.
So, I guess that would make the first version Windows Vista, the second would be Windows Then-Removed-The-Lens-Cap.
I went there expecting to learn about how to code for new vista features, how to take advantage of the new system features, integration for cross-platform development, new tools for helping design, anything! But this was all web apps, all day long. I don't know what shocked me more, the fact that there was no code written that whole session (none by hand) or that the room was half full of nodding heads. Since when did Dev Studio, with the most harmoniously combined debugger and compiler out there, become Frontpage?
I got a free copy of Dev Studio there and it requires SQL server (also free). But it sits on my desk and I pause long and hard each time I think of unistalling my old version for this one.
Then all Catholics are Baptist. QED. (I love induction)
Just like nuclear weapons, supersonic flight, and a few others this was bound to happen. Science-fiction is made reality once more. That little 'probe' is surely a katamari ball they used rolled up an asteroid - now on to the planet-size level! And from the Japanese no less.
So, I get a patent and these nice folks hold all legal rights to it. Fast-forward 10 years when they run out of cash and get bought up for 1c/patent at a some judge's bankruptcy sale run by the latest/greatest SCO or lawsuit hungry company. Congratulations, you now own the innovations of open source. I think this is about as bad a move as I've seen in a long time - better to NOT have a 'repository' company that can get sued, assets siezed, etc. Remember the guy 2 days ago that got tricked into giving MS his program name? Open source strength is in its distributed writing. One hit doesn't knock the house down. I sure hope these guys are really good and smart lawyers to protect you - they all working for an open source community with no income and all...
If I recall corectly, the Pentateuch was writen by Moses as dictated to him by God. This includes Genesis. Man, it must have been a real bummer when Moses wrote: "So there, in the land of Moab, Moses, the servant of the LORD, died as the LORD had said" Deuteronomy 34:5 and then went on to finish the chapter...
Image new numbers different than 100 billion?? Like 100,000 million! or 100,000,000 thousands! Awesome! Stanford's l337 rox0rs more than MIT's 'large numbers'!
Dang dude - slow down. You're really accusing NASA scientists who are trying to explain the loss of a $10mil spacecraft, who have the data in front of them (we don't) that they are being influenced by Middle Age-era theology that the Vatican has apologized and said it was wrong about? That's not what the article seemed to be saying to me. Sure they're a little defensive/wierd in the way they said they were wrong or apparently were wrong. But wouldn't you be a little hat-in-hand/butt-covering/backpeddling if you'd just lost a $10mil piece of hardware, thought you found it, but then didn't, to a public that might want answers? That's way different than what you did which was jumping from their explanation to "It must be because they've been brainwashed by Middle Age theology and they wish to perpetuate and force on us!". I hardly believe most of the people at NASA are that slow. Kudos for coming up with possible explanations (which I liked and think very good avenues to investigate) but you are making a lot of assumptions about what they saw ihn the data (which we don't have) and drawing your own conclusions based on, to be honest, biased opinions of how much you see religion influencing research. What ax are you grinding? The data or your opinions? Science is about arguing facts and data, not your opinions about 'religious influences'. Accusing them like this is no different than religious zealots that do the same. Keep science clean folks.
XML is like violence. If a little doesn't solve the problem, just use more.
I find this notion interesting - I've heard people say it about laptop screens, camera lcd's, etc and I start wondering. Why build something that is gorgeous, sleek, and looks like art in motion (and it is beautiful) if you instantly have to pack it in bulky neoprene, clear plastic protector wraps, etc - if you want it to survive at any functional level. What was the point of the original slick design if you can't actually SEE it that way when using it 99% of the time? What's the advantage over a 3rd party cheaper-but-not-so-pretty solution again?
They do have killer designers, but it sure seems that once you really try to write your own software/hardware or criticize/open their development environments to 3rd party expansion - you can expect a hammer very soon. It's almost as bad as the RIAA. Imagine trying to come up with extensibility/behavior changing programs (such as Windowsblinds, etc) in the Apple world? Why don't my iTunes - songs I *purchased* and own the license too - work anywhere else? No wonder so many innovative companies have stopped/limited development for their platforms. People bitch as MS all the time for not opening things up; but they have done so many, many more times than Apple's has in the past - or at least it starts a dialog for change. Yet, if you try to argue or expose Apple they take their toys out and go home. It's like extending the warm handshake of perceived innovation/creativity to the world with the right hand, then slap the tar out of them with the left once their in.
I find this to be an interesting trend in companies that try to present them as 'artistic'/'free-thinking'. Witness Nike that militantly defends its branding - but gets its hand caught in the cookie-jar (sweatshops) just as bad, if not worse, as any 'bad corporate' giant.