Aspects of WinFS are being rolled into other products, WinFS is going away, and that grand relational-filesystem is going back into ivory-tower incubation. Great. So how much money and cross-team integrated innovation randomization did we invest in WinFS?
Is this why Mark Zbikowski left Microsoft (for those that wonder why I keep bringing up MarkZ: he had been with the company for over 25 years. Only Bill and Steve have been at Microsoft longer. His departure: mmm, kind of big. The silence about it, internal and external, is weird, to me.)?
WinFS now joins a series of other broken promises from Microsoft. Interesting that just two weeks ago, they were demoing WinFS at TechEd. At this point, I'm really surprised customers don't treat this as flat-out lying on the part of Microsoft. Overpromise and never deliver. This company is a sinking ship.
A theory is a proposed explanation that can predict future events and be tested and falsified. I'm sorry, but string "theory" does not fit the definition.
Don't worry, with string theory, he exists in the Easter Bunny Universe.
I hated Quake
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I thought Quake sucked. I was a big Doom guy, so I was used to creepy levels, memorable monsters, fantastic weapons, and seeing my face in the HUD screen.
Quake was a disappointment. The graphics were all brown and green, and the enemies were totally generic. No memorable monsters compared to the Imp or the Cacodemon.
The sound effects SUCKED. The shotgun in Doom has a loud boom and an animation of cocking the gun. Quake has this wimpy click and no animation. I never understood why I seemed to be the only one who noticed the much weaker sounds.
The music was just noisy industrial sound effects, not the fun and catchy tunes of Doom. Quake just had no character at all for me. It felt extremely generic and bland.
The data shows a flat line for several hundred years
Official temperature records don't even go back that far.
Actually, the global temperature record shows a flatline beginning in 1998 (as pointed out by Bob Carter), but it's interesting that it's not being reported. The moral is that there's always another side to the story being ignored.
Speaking for myself, I was responding to the guy who said never buy first-gen Apple hardware. Well, I did and have never had a problem. Apparently, some wiseguys are taking it as a joke because of no battery in the iMac, but that wasn't the point I was responding to.
1.) Vista is an operating system. 2.) Vista fights ALL the time. 3.) The purpose of Vista is to flip out and kill people.
Vista can kill anyone it wants! Vista cuts off heads ALL the time and doesn't even think twice about it. This thing is so crazy and awesome that it flips out ALL the time. I heard that Vista was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Vista killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Vista totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
Is timothy drunk today or something? We've got that crazy "VOiP users probably use Firefox" submission, and now we've got Shinese censorship from a browser that's not new at all (Maxthon has been around for quite a while).
THANK YOU! Finally, someone gets it. The way people scapegoat the RIAA/MPAA constantly to sort of distract from the motivation behind piracy sickens me. Just admit it! You're pirating stuff so you can get it for free and not have to pay anybody for it.
As for this article:
The group patterns itself after Piratpartiet, the Swedish political party associated with The Pirate Bay, and says it wants to reform intellectual property and privacy laws
Then they shouldn't be calling themselves the "Pirate Party," because piracy has nothing to do with reforming intellectual property and privacy laws. It's all about freeloading stuff so you don't have to pay for it. Reforming intellectual property laws is a different movement that isn't about ripping artists off the way piracy is. Nobody will take this group seriously if they actually call themselves the "Pirate Party."
Ads up the grill, huh? Can you please cite an example so that Google can be arrested for kidnapping, coercion, and rape? I will file the report immediately, promise!
What part of "legally convicted as an abusive monopoly" are you missing? A court of law found them guilty of being a monopolist. Microsoft is the #1 supplier and owns over 98% of the market. They are a monopoly.
No one uses force to coerce others into using Windows.
Microsoft did in the 1990s, which led to the antitrust trial. Again, please actually read the evidence presented in the antitrust trial and get back to me. Threatening the livelihood of PC makers by leveraging your monopoly position to oust competing software is an abuse of monopoly. Microsoft has a monopoly on the PC desktop.
Microsoft IS a monopoly, by definition. They were convicted in a court of law of being an abusive monopoly. No one is forced to run Windows? Why, yes, they are.
Are they not allowed to charge different prices to different people? If they make a contract that their discounted licenses are only for I.E.-only computers, and the PC maker agrees, what is wrong?
The fact that Microsoft made the fees so high the PC makers couldn't pay it, or in many cases Microsoft would simply threaten to revoke their Windows license. Because of Microsoft's monopoly, that would be commercial suicide, so the PC makers were forced to go along.
I suggest you actually go back and read up on the friggin' antitrust trial.
Microsoft was convicted in a court of law for being an abusive monopoly. No *nix distros have become monopolies and then abused that position (like, for instance, bundling Internet Explorer for free then threatening to pull the Windows licenses of any computer makers who shipped Netscape).
The masses though can't get over the Beta vs VHS thing.. So the non-techies out there can't grasp that this time around the only difference is the discs themselves, and the markets being split for no reason better than competition for the sake of it.
What I don't understand are all the negative opinions about the fact there are two competing formats. This is a free market, and competition means each faction will try to undercut the other and attract customers, which is only good for customers. What, do you only want one format, one choice? I'd imagine we'd then be seeing people complain that there are no alternative HD formats to choose from.
I fully welcome a Blu-ray versus HD-DVD battle. It seems obvious to me that Blu-ray will out last HD-DVD, but it will be beneficial for all of us as both sides compete to win our purchase dollars.
Didn't you know? Slashdot hates Sony and has had an agenda against both HD-DVD and Blu-ray for quite some time. The standard mantra is "consumers don't want HD" or "consumers will be confused by competing formats" (even though it's good for the free market to have competition). There's been little else on HD but negative articles.
Frankly, I can't stand watching 520 (or whatever the resolution is) blurry DVDs on my 1600px monitor. I want to actually take advantage of all the pixels I have and see crystal clear picture. My eyes hurt watching DVDs for too long, it's like seeing movies through a foggy lens.
I agree, both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are severely underwhelming, for some reason.
You won't be saying that when you're in line to re-buy the Star Wars trilogy, the Matrix trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Blade trilogy, etc.
They're obviously testing the waters here because they know only early adopters will have $1,000 Blu-Ray players first, and why waste the marketing and distribution costs on big-name franchises when not as many people will be able to purchase it? When the Playstation 3, expect the popular stuff to follow.
Of course, how would you know if Exchange wasn't running smoothly for Microsoft internally? It's not like they'd tell the public it wasn't working out well for them. They were pretty mum when they failed in switching Hotmail to NT and had to rely on BSD.
In fact, guess who did? The artists. So I don't cry too much when I hear about how much they're supposedly getting shafted by their record labels. Nobody's forcing them to sign up with them.
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Yes. As Mini-Microsoft puts it:
WinFS now joins a series of other broken promises from Microsoft. Interesting that just two weeks ago, they were demoing WinFS at TechEd. At this point, I'm really surprised customers don't treat this as flat-out lying on the part of Microsoft. Overpromise and never deliver. This company is a sinking ship.
A theory is a proposed explanation that can predict future events and be tested and falsified. I'm sorry, but string "theory" does not fit the definition.
Don't worry, with string theory, he exists in the Easter Bunny Universe.
I thought Quake sucked. I was a big Doom guy, so I was used to creepy levels, memorable monsters, fantastic weapons, and seeing my face in the HUD screen.
Quake was a disappointment. The graphics were all brown and green, and the enemies were totally generic. No memorable monsters compared to the Imp or the Cacodemon.
The sound effects SUCKED. The shotgun in Doom has a loud boom and an animation of cocking the gun. Quake has this wimpy click and no animation. I never understood why I seemed to be the only one who noticed the much weaker sounds.
The music was just noisy industrial sound effects, not the fun and catchy tunes of Doom. Quake just had no character at all for me. It felt extremely generic and bland.
Official temperature records don't even go back that far.
Actually, the global temperature record shows a flatline beginning in 1998 (as pointed out by Bob Carter), but it's interesting that it's not being reported. The moral is that there's always another side to the story being ignored.
Speaking for myself, I was responding to the guy who said never buy first-gen Apple hardware. Well, I did and have never had a problem. Apparently, some wiseguys are taking it as a joke because of no battery in the iMac, but that wasn't the point I was responding to.
Facts:
1.) Vista is an operating system.
2.) Vista fights ALL the time.
3.) The purpose of Vista is to flip out and kill people.
Vista can kill anyone it wants! Vista cuts off heads ALL the time and doesn't even think twice about it. This thing is so crazy and awesome that it flips out ALL the time. I heard that Vista was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Vista killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Vista totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.
I haven't had any problem with my iMac Core Duo since I got it in February.
Is timothy drunk today or something? We've got that crazy "VOiP users probably use Firefox" submission, and now we've got Shinese censorship from a browser that's not new at all (Maxthon has been around for quite a while).
Works for me in OS X. Are you saying Firefox uses a different engine for non-Microsoft platforms?
Yeah, I think he misspelled "Skype."
Not only that, but Firefox loads the page just fine. What an idiotic submission.
As for this article:
Then they shouldn't be calling themselves the "Pirate Party," because piracy has nothing to do with reforming intellectual property and privacy laws. It's all about freeloading stuff so you don't have to pay for it. Reforming intellectual property laws is a different movement that isn't about ripping artists off the way piracy is. Nobody will take this group seriously if they actually call themselves the "Pirate Party."
Ads up the grill, huh? Can you please cite an example so that Google can be arrested for kidnapping, coercion, and rape? I will file the report immediately, promise!
Microsoft did in the 1990s, which led to the antitrust trial. Again, please actually read the evidence presented in the antitrust trial and get back to me. Threatening the livelihood of PC makers by leveraging your monopoly position to oust competing software is an abuse of monopoly. Microsoft has a monopoly on the PC desktop.
The fact that Microsoft made the fees so high the PC makers couldn't pay it, or in many cases Microsoft would simply threaten to revoke their Windows license. Because of Microsoft's monopoly, that would be commercial suicide, so the PC makers were forced to go along.
I suggest you actually go back and read up on the friggin' antitrust trial.
Microsoft was convicted in a court of law for being an abusive monopoly. No *nix distros have become monopolies and then abused that position (like, for instance, bundling Internet Explorer for free then threatening to pull the Windows licenses of any computer makers who shipped Netscape).
Are you the same guy who heckles comedians by snidely explaining the implausibility of the jokes?
What I don't understand are all the negative opinions about the fact there are two competing formats. This is a free market, and competition means each faction will try to undercut the other and attract customers, which is only good for customers. What, do you only want one format, one choice? I'd imagine we'd then be seeing people complain that there are no alternative HD formats to choose from.
I fully welcome a Blu-ray versus HD-DVD battle. It seems obvious to me that Blu-ray will out last HD-DVD, but it will be beneficial for all of us as both sides compete to win our purchase dollars.
Didn't you know? Slashdot hates Sony and has had an agenda against both HD-DVD and Blu-ray for quite some time. The standard mantra is "consumers don't want HD" or "consumers will be confused by competing formats" (even though it's good for the free market to have competition). There's been little else on HD but negative articles.
Frankly, I can't stand watching 520 (or whatever the resolution is) blurry DVDs on my 1600px monitor. I want to actually take advantage of all the pixels I have and see crystal clear picture. My eyes hurt watching DVDs for too long, it's like seeing movies through a foggy lens.
You won't be saying that when you're in line to re-buy the Star Wars trilogy, the Matrix trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Blade trilogy, etc.
That's not an abnormal growth, it's Vin Diesel's head.
They're obviously testing the waters here because they know only early adopters will have $1,000 Blu-Ray players first, and why waste the marketing and distribution costs on big-name franchises when not as many people will be able to purchase it? When the Playstation 3, expect the popular stuff to follow.
Let me know when I can watch The Matrix Trilogy or Lord of the Rings in glorious HD. I think I'll pass on 50 First Dates and something called xXx.
Of course, how would you know if Exchange wasn't running smoothly for Microsoft internally? It's not like they'd tell the public it wasn't working out well for them. They were pretty mum when they failed in switching Hotmail to NT and had to rely on BSD.
In fact, guess who did? The artists. So I don't cry too much when I hear about how much they're supposedly getting shafted by their record labels. Nobody's forcing them to sign up with them.