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They're trying to make it a future-tech world's fair event, but looking at the event website, it looks more like demos and marketing. Although it does look really cool, it's not cool enough for me to pay to see their advertisements!
Sorry, but I'm not paying $15/person/day (even if there's really only one day's worth of stuff according to the schedule), to see a bunch of companies throw their future-tech marketing at me. It doesn't seem that cool (and yes, I live in the area, so I could go, and I'm employed, so I could afford to go).
Although your thought is correct, the "modern" (at least as defined by Microsoft) OS needs to do much more than just be an interface between the users and the machine.
It shouldn't just run applications, it should run them well (Let's, for the sake of argument, ignore whether they're letting anyone else write apps that run well). Developers don't need to write a bunch of low-level stuff, the OS will handle that for them. BTW, the trend seems to be that streaming multimedia is now low-level. LOL.
The bloating of OSes (any OS, not just Microsoft's) isn't all because of making the core of the systems work, I believe it is due to the developers providing the features they believe the users want. Remember when Microsoft, or any other company, didn't provide a disk defragger with the OS? Disk defraggers were third party. Now, everyone expects them to be part of the OS.
I have the same feeling about all this stuff becoming part of the "OS" as I do about having all the video, disk controllers, I/O interfaces and NICs built into the motherboards. It's convenient and cheaper when you can do that, but it sucks when something breaks and it's so integrated that you lose your whole system until it can be repaired!
How can Microsoft compete with that argument? It's hard, and the internal struggle to come up with a good response is evident in Ballmer's remarks. They certainly won't respond on price, since there is no way to undercut free. So we're back to the usual campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt.
I'm not sure how it could work for Microsoft, but they could offer to pay people to use their products...:-)
I suspect much of the 95% of PCs you speak of are safely walled up in institutions, schools and corporations private networks, which are generally out of scope for a worm like blaster to target.
Huh? That doesn't jibe with the blaster stuff I've seen, unless their NATed. Oddly enough, a friend of mine was hit by blaster when she VPNed into her corporate network, which was NATed.
Make it a drama with contiguous episodes. We need mutli-season plot arcs, and an over-arching theme.
I agree, having more obviously contiguous episodes would be cool. I think they do have multi-season plot arcs and a built-in over-arching restriction.
They can't really do much that would be so inconsistent with the rest of the Star Treks that everyone would complain. Even the stuff they have gone out on a limb with have spurred lots of controversy.
One of the worst abuses EVER was in Enterprise, when they found out one of the crewman was FROM THE FUTURE and that there was a time "cold war". They didnt mention it again for like 6 episodes... they just kept flying to different planets to talk to aliens...
Hmm. The time cold war started with the series premier, didn't it? The crewman from the future was a revisit to that. His quarters were sealed, and they occasionally go back in to look up stuff. The first season finale? Am I dreaming that I've seen these eps? I think the time cold war is the multi-season plot arc, and that they are being fairly subtle about it (i.e., not hammering us with it every other episode). If B5 hammered us with key eps every other episode, it wouldn't have lasted two years.
I can accept new alien races that weren't in the original series because there were lots of minor member races in the Federation in the original series. I just wish they would do more with the races that were established. It's nice to see that they've done a few episodes with Andorians and at least mentioned the Tellerites and even showed some Tholian ships! There was even an encounter with the Romulans. Be patient, give it time, let it grow.
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They're trying to make it a future-tech world's fair event, but looking at the event website, it looks more like demos and marketing. Although it does look really cool, it's not cool enough for me to pay to see their advertisements!
Sorry, but I'm not paying $15/person/day (even if there's really only one day's worth of stuff according to the schedule), to see a bunch of companies throw their future-tech marketing at me. It doesn't seem that cool (and yes, I live in the area, so I could go, and I'm employed, so I could afford to go).
But then, maybe I'm just in a bad mood.
Although your thought is correct, the "modern" (at least as defined by Microsoft) OS needs to do much more than just be an interface between the users and the machine.
It shouldn't just run applications, it should run them well (Let's, for the sake of argument, ignore whether they're letting anyone else write apps that run well). Developers don't need to write a bunch of low-level stuff, the OS will handle that for them. BTW, the trend seems to be that streaming multimedia is now low-level. LOL.
The bloating of OSes (any OS, not just Microsoft's) isn't all because of making the core of the systems work, I believe it is due to the developers providing the features they believe the users want. Remember when Microsoft, or any other company, didn't provide a disk defragger with the OS? Disk defraggers were third party. Now, everyone expects them to be part of the OS.
I have the same feeling about all this stuff becoming part of the "OS" as I do about having all the video, disk controllers, I/O interfaces and NICs built into the motherboards. It's convenient and cheaper when you can do that, but it sucks when something breaks and it's so integrated that you lose your whole system until it can be repaired!
Not wanting to troll, yet I haven't reviewed the older article or RTFA, but isn't this a rehash of Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs" ?
(sorry for reposting the same info, I didn't see the parent post until after I'd already posted...timing issues)
Not wanting to troll, yet I haven't reviewed the older article or RTFA, but isn't this a rehash of Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs ?
"Sign up for Cisco and Microsoft training! Get the pay and respect you deserve!"
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From what I've seen, most people with Microsoft Certifications (who are un^H^Hemployed) *are* getting the pay and respect they deserve!
They can't really do much that would be so inconsistent with the rest of the Star Treks that everyone would complain. Even the stuff they have gone out on a limb with have spurred lots of controversy.
Hmm. The time cold war started with the series premier, didn't it? The crewman from the future was a revisit to that. His quarters were sealed, and they occasionally go back in to look up stuff. The first season finale? Am I dreaming that I've seen these eps? I think the time cold war is the multi-season plot arc, and that they are being fairly subtle about it (i.e., not hammering us with it every other episode). If B5 hammered us with key eps every other episode, it wouldn't have lasted two years.
I can accept new alien races that weren't in the original series because there were lots of minor member races in the Federation in the original series. I just wish they would do more with the races that were established. It's nice to see that they've done a few episodes with Andorians and at least mentioned the Tellerites and even showed some Tholian ships! There was even an encounter with the Romulans. Be patient, give it time, let it grow.