They wouldn't be getting blasted so much about their total lack of innovation if they were just honest about it, and instead touted how they "deploy more integrated solutions", or "build more robust solutions", or some such.
unfortunately that is probably marketing 101. until there are more geeks than non-geeks in this world, MS and like companies will continue to attract non-geeks who don't know better. in rare cases, if you get really good at it (think steve jobs), even the geeks will eventually buy into the hype. apple products are pretty good, but walking out of a jobs keynote speech you'll think they're the best in the world.
true innovators are rarely ever in the spotlight, if they even get the spotlight in the first place. they usually toy away in anonymity, come up with an awesome invention, and then have more business savvy (i.e., greedy) people copy or steal their invention to reap fortunes.
do you think mozilla invented tabbed browsing? who was the first person to ever write a popup ad blocker? i don't know. it's all a vicious cycle of copying and refinement, microsoft and mozilla are just a part of it.
the controversy stems from google parsing the content of your emails and generating keyword lists, etc. that determine what ads to display. of course all mail servers touch your emails, but if you liken servers to the mailman then whereas other servers touch your mail to deliver it from A to B, gmail opens up your mail during his lunch break to peek inside before delivering to B.
if i want to email my best friend to tell him that i like to masturbate while watching smurfs, that is my business; i don't want anybody to parse my mail, human or otherwise. what if later on google decides to sponsor banner ads from stockholder pressure to make more profit -- will i be inundated with graphic images pitching toys for men? i don't want to be profiled, and by parsing all your mail google is more than halfway there.
It's not just the Disney name, it's also the Disney trademarks, character portfolio, etc. Disney has a lot of history and tradition, which should never be discounted.
A good laptop bag is a bag that doesn't look like a laptop bag. Keeping this in mind could save you thousands down the road, especially if you go to the airport a lot. What you can do is get any camping or sport bag (e.g., REI, Jansport) and buy a padded slipcover for your notebook. Put the two together and BOOM! you have yourself a nice laptop bag that can be converted to a camping or sport bag on a dime. Hope that helps.
c'mon, you guys aren't geeky enough! what should be high on every alpha geek's wish list is a premium digikey bucket of assorted electronic components and naked pcb boards. wannabe geeks play with legos, real geeks play with silicon.
i stopped watching battlestar after episode #1. the characters were hokey, especially the asian chick who looked like she moonlighted as a power ranger. starbuck was too much of a bitch, apollo was too much of a stick. the female cylon was too much of a slut. there was just too much in-your-face sexual tension in the beginning, it didn't set quite the right tone for me (i guess i wasn't feeling all that horny when i was watching it). though the physics was kind of realistic, the atmosphere was almost non-existent -- this series could've used a ridley scott.
believe me i tried to get excited about the new series, but i just couldn't. there was no redeeming value watching it, especially with the long commercial breaks (what, you pay premium cable to watch commercials!?). basically, i'm in total agreement with this reviewer
(note that i'm not trashing the new series because i cherish the original series with blind sentiment, for i was a little boy when it aired and can't recall too much about it except for the cool special effects.)
...people that talk about how MySQL is better because "it's faster"?
faster in what?? that's such a blanket assessment, and if they think that way then there's a good chance these same people never gave postgres the time of day, much less even downloaded it.
these people also probably never read that phpbuilder article. now i'm not saying this is the end-all postgres/mysql shootout, but it does give another perspective on this debate.
i'll put my money on postgres any day. it's been around longer. more enterprises think it's more robust.
"Just booting back into 9 was a reminder of how slow X was. Panther is faster on my daughters G3 ibook, my dual G4 and tibook."
but panther is still slower than OS 9.x, right? i don't know why it's so, but a lot of open source software is slower than commercial software (i.e., software that is 100% coded in-house). and i'm not just saying this because KDE is slower on my p2 desktop than win98.
well, that's a little bit over-reaching. not sure if max payne is a cookie cutter product because i've never played it, but a lot of games today -- and hollywood movies for that matter -- do seem to lack charm in large part as a result of being polished and scripted to death by a previously proven formula. blame it on henry ford. it is akin to assembly line game mass manufacturing: fast and efficient.
~10bt
all i gotta say is anyone who thinks that 512mb is a limiting factor must not have been around when 16mb was a luxury. and even with 16mb you could do more in less time than most of today's gui eye candy, mouse-handicapped software.
people who say that 512mb is a limiting factor in a sub-3lb notebook computer need to get a grip on reality because they are obviously mistaking subnotebooks for 3d graphics workstations or extreme gaming machines. of course, lazily programmed bloatware is also to blame. give a bloatware programmer 10 megs to work with and i'm still not sure they can program alley cat.
~10bt
Check monster.com. More companies look for people with mySQL experiences. Check the book stores. You will see more books about mySQL. Even though PostgreSQL has more features and is more promising and powerful, mySQL gets more publicity. This means that mySQL will be the open source database that will replace most commercial databases. It's sad but true.
this is a non-issue. if most people are not curious enough to come into contact with postgresql, then more power to 'em (or should i say less power?). there is this saying, "the most interesting things in life are on the periphery." besides, if you know postgresql then picking up mysql will definitely be child's play to you. claim both on your resume -- more power to YOU.
they got the title wrong -- it should read "from doom to BOOM." that's what it's gonna be if carmack plans to build spaceships like they build software.
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They wouldn't be getting blasted so much about their total lack of innovation if they were just honest about it, and instead touted how they "deploy more integrated solutions", or "build more robust solutions", or some such.
unfortunately that is probably marketing 101. until there are more geeks than non-geeks in this world, MS and like companies will continue to attract non-geeks who don't know better. in rare cases, if you get really good at it (think steve jobs), even the geeks will eventually buy into the hype. apple products are pretty good, but walking out of a jobs keynote speech you'll think they're the best in the world.
true innovators are rarely ever in the spotlight, if they even get the spotlight in the first place. they usually toy away in anonymity, come up with an awesome invention, and then have more business savvy (i.e., greedy) people copy or steal their invention to reap fortunes.
do you think mozilla invented tabbed browsing? who was the first person to ever write a popup ad blocker? i don't know. it's all a vicious cycle of copying and refinement, microsoft and mozilla are just a part of it.
http://qualitysound.bose.com/pg/learning/project_s ound/bose_suspension.jsp
i don't know if it'll ever be affordable enough to implement in a $20k car, but it's very intriguing stuff.
the controversy stems from google parsing the content of your emails and generating keyword lists, etc. that determine what ads to display. of course all mail servers touch your emails, but if you liken servers to the mailman then whereas other servers touch your mail to deliver it from A to B, gmail opens up your mail during his lunch break to peek inside before delivering to B.
if i want to email my best friend to tell him that i like to masturbate while watching smurfs, that is my business; i don't want anybody to parse my mail, human or otherwise. what if later on google decides to sponsor banner ads from stockholder pressure to make more profit -- will i be inundated with graphic images pitching toys for men? i don't want to be profiled, and by parsing all your mail google is more than halfway there.
i had an exchange co-worker from france. he once made a casual comment: "americans live to work. europeans work to live." i think he is mostly right.
It's not just the Disney name, it's also the Disney trademarks, character portfolio, etc. Disney has a lot of history and tradition, which should never be discounted.
how many syllables is "perl"? just making sure...
A good laptop bag is a bag that doesn't look like a laptop bag. Keeping this in mind could save you thousands down the road, especially if you go to the airport a lot. What you can do is get any camping or sport bag (e.g., REI, Jansport) and buy a padded slipcover for your notebook. Put the two together and BOOM! you have yourself a nice laptop bag that can be converted to a camping or sport bag on a dime. Hope that helps.
c'mon, you guys aren't geeky enough! what should be high on every alpha geek's wish list is a premium digikey bucket of assorted electronic components and naked pcb boards. wannabe geeks play with legos, real geeks play with silicon.
i stopped watching battlestar after episode #1. the characters were hokey, especially the asian chick who looked like she moonlighted as a power ranger. starbuck was too much of a bitch, apollo was too much of a stick. the female cylon was too much of a slut. there was just too much in-your-face sexual tension in the beginning, it didn't set quite the right tone for me (i guess i wasn't feeling all that horny when i was watching it). though the physics was kind of realistic, the atmosphere was almost non-existent -- this series could've used a ridley scott.
believe me i tried to get excited about the new series, but i just couldn't. there was no redeeming value watching it, especially with the long commercial breaks (what, you pay premium cable to watch commercials!?). basically, i'm in total agreement with this reviewer
(note that i'm not trashing the new series because i cherish the original series with blind sentiment, for i was a little boy when it aired and can't recall too much about it except for the cool special effects.)
one of the more recent outcries: macromedia flash is dying. an outcry i heard from a french coworker a few years back: the internet is dying.
...But none of those beat Final Fantasy X.
I'd really like one of these.
;)
yeah but can it play doom III at 60 fps?
read this book with water and everything in your life will be solved.
faster in what?? that's such a blanket assessment, and if they think that way then there's a good chance these same people never gave postgres the time of day, much less even downloaded it.
these people also probably never read that phpbuilder article. now i'm not saying this is the end-all postgres/mysql shootout, but it does give another perspective on this debate.
i'll put my money on postgres any day. it's been around longer. more enterprises think it's more robust.
"Just booting back into 9 was a reminder of how slow X was. Panther is faster on my daughters G3 ibook, my dual G4 and tibook."
but panther is still slower than OS 9.x, right? i don't know why it's so, but a lot of open source software is slower than commercial software (i.e., software that is 100% coded in-house). and i'm not just saying this because KDE is slower on my p2 desktop than win98.
Does this remind anyone eles of the Sega Game Gear? It looks more like Nokia is going for a gaming stance.
what?! they've given up on their N-GAGE already?
the MSRP really spells DOA. any questions?
The game are all cookie cutter now.
well, that's a little bit over-reaching. not sure if max payne is a cookie cutter product because i've never played it, but a lot of games today -- and hollywood movies for that matter -- do seem to lack charm in large part as a result of being polished and scripted to death by a previously proven formula. blame it on henry ford. it is akin to assembly line game mass manufacturing: fast and efficient. ~10bt
all i gotta say is anyone who thinks that 512mb is a limiting factor must not have been around when 16mb was a luxury. and even with 16mb you could do more in less time than most of today's gui eye candy, mouse-handicapped software.
people who say that 512mb is a limiting factor in a sub-3lb notebook computer need to get a grip on reality because they are obviously mistaking subnotebooks for 3d graphics workstations or extreme gaming machines. of course, lazily programmed bloatware is also to blame. give a bloatware programmer 10 megs to work with and i'm still not sure they can program alley cat. ~10bt
i enjoy getting paper cuts, can ebooks do that for me? NO. there goes the visceral experience...
some folks on here are oblivious to or seem to have forgotten that VIA of taiwan now own S3. no vaporware here.
i will never download an email client that is bigger than my browser. that is just ridiculous.
this is a non-issue. if most people are not curious enough to come into contact with postgresql, then more power to 'em (or should i say less power?). there is this saying, "the most interesting things in life are on the periphery." besides, if you know postgresql then picking up mysql will definitely be child's play to you. claim both on your resume -- more power to YOU.
they got the title wrong -- it should read "from doom to BOOM." that's what it's gonna be if carmack plans to build spaceships like they build software.