I agree, for Windows uswes this is a really good tool. They have come a long way in their work and have developed a very stable product which lets the user navigate by ideas and relationships as well as more traditional methods.
While holographic technology is involved in the manufacture and access to/from this media it is not (IMHO) truly Holographic Storage.
Take a Hologram (preferably on glass) and drop it about 6 feet to a hard floor. Yes, it shatters. Now pick up any piece of the hologram and look at it closely. While the data has lost some detail, the whole image is still recorded in each piece.
What happens if I take a hole punch to this thing? Do I still get the meaning if not the details? Heck, it probably can't be read at all!
So true, so true. I should have said: when it becomes expediant for them Microsoft will fix it.
Maybe this will be the wakeup call for Microsoft; with this many potential problems on the horizon, they might have to stop smashing the competition and start shoring up their product for real. I mean there are thousands of programmers at Microsoft. New features can wait. Right now the losses in productivity worldwide due to bugs and virii, spam and bugs may be as high as 10%. (But we'll never know) Wouldn't it be nice for Microsoft to address the issues of virii, spam & bugs so that we didn't have to deal with them on a daily basis?
With these issues fixed and a more responsive business model Microsoft could market a 10% improvement in productivity; they could make money the old fashioned way, they could earn it.
Sometimes I dream that we will find the SCO-Microsoft link and that will be that, but it didn't work for George and it probably will never come true for me either!;^)
Good points all around. I'm only a partial zelot when it comes to operating systems. My alltime favorite being Digital's DSM-11. Which was a pretty decent MUMPS implementation where the language was also the operating system, but that's another point.
I agree that everyone would be better off if Microsoft wrote better code. But I want to see survival of the fittest in the markletplace, as it well should be, not a virtual monopoly built on illegal business practices.
I was a huge fan of Microsoft for years; back when Microsoft stood for good coding practices and was the industry underdog. And they <smote> IBM; and it was good. But, let's face it, Microsoft IS the 800 lb. gorilla and they do what is best for them so as not to be confused with what is best for their customers. Bill Gates, was one of my heros when I was a struggling young programmer. But he's not a lean mean coding machine any longer. Let's get him out from behind that desk and back with the guys writing the code; who obviously need guidance and support, instead of him yelling at and re-arrainging 'project-managers.' I mean how long has it been since he's written or reviewed a line of code? Is he now so lazy that he has to surriptitiously outsource his source code by proxy; begging analysis by the opensource community? Is he so scared that he will do anything to degrade the open source movement?
The test is biased by the presence of Microsoft's Office software. Are their any similar studies for Mac sites where Office is not a factor? It seems to me that more than half of support questions usually involve application software, so I'd like to see a study where Microsoft Office was not a factor.
I think the best thing we can do is to just ignore the code. That's right, I said IGNORE IT!
Whether it's finding exploits, bugs or whatever; anything that anyone does with it will eventually make Microsoft stronger. If it's a security problem they 'll fix it. Maybe Microsoft is trying to capture open source developers and their free services; I don't know.
What I don't want to see is Microsoft making improvements on their product based on this experience. I don't want to see as much as two adjacent assembler instructions from it end up in Linux.
If you want to do something constructive, run the 2.6 kernel and start making the supporting software more secure. Don't waste your time supporting losers like Microsoft who demand your money up front and then deliver whatever crap they feel like.
There are over 300 messages on their message boards concerning MP. Additionally MP is supposedly in beta since October. So IMHO they are aware there is a problem. Unfortunately, in all likelyhood, the company isn't doing well enough to afford the class action suit.
Rather than a suit or other damaging (or disparaging) claims, perhaps an on-line petition , where the company could verify that X% of registered users are dissatisfied might be considered 'constructive criticism,' when compared to a class action lawsuit.
Additionally; it should be made absolytly clear to the comapny that these people have no desire to purchase any further games if they are not MP from the start.
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I went through three of them. Wrote core code for each, then got squeezed out when it was time to get profitable. Startups are abusive by design and you as a programmer mean nothing to them. My advice, a larger, more stable, long term profitable company is probably not such a bad thing. Definately not as sexy, but what's wrong with a little of comfort and security to look forward to?
For about 100 bucks I got an external 80 GB HD that really rocks. That gives me enough extra space for games, downloads, etc. And I can shoot 'em through to the CDR/DVDR drive for quick backups.
Another really good thing to have is a copule of regular pencils (unsharpened) which I use to raise the laptop up (has no flip out feet) which I use to imporve the air circulation under the laptop.
HEAT is the #1 ENEMY of laptops, keep it COOL!
Go for the longest most feature filled warrenty you can get. In one laptop I had to replace a CDRW/DVD drive and 3 months out of warrenty they wanted $650 for the spare!
Hardcase, find yourself a nice case or backpack for it, but don't be afraid to add some masonite on the side where the display is.
Try it before you buy it! Be sure that you like the keyboard layout.
Get that external mouse, and maybe a keyboard. If you hunch over that laptop instead of getting a good ergonomic setup you will have lots of back/neck strain. So Make a workspace for it. If the workspace really is your lap and you're in a recliner or something get a lapdesk with a cushion on one side and a board on the other. Don't set it on your lap or you'll either get no ventillation for the laptop or a space heater for your privates!
While built in wireless is great, be sure you can disable it easily when you need to. There's nothing like a portable having a wide open backdoor.
We did a demo on bandwidth several years ago with the Complete Works of William Shakespear. The idea was to show how long the user had to sit in front of the computer. It was something like half an hour for a slow modem and mere seconds for gigabit eithernet connection. While showing the speed is nice, emphasising what can be done with the extra time is the real selling point. So you may end up with something like "get hours of extra productivity with no overtime" sort of thing.
Where cute incompetent teens try and rescue a multi million dollar space tellescope. Starting with 24 teens, the rigors of Network Space Training whittle it down to a crew of two, who use a decommissioned shuttle to retrieve the Hubble.
With any luck, this could be the start of the fund raising for 7, 8 & 9! By the time 9's out it will be on High Definition DVD and we'll be seeing yet another release, probably platnum where for about a thousand bucks you can get a hand autographed boxed edition of the first 9 episodes, with the serialized 10th episode starting the following fall on The George Lucas Channel!
Honey, what channel is TGL on? Do we have any blank HDDVD disks? Where's my walker? I have to get across the living room to the touch screen tv wall to change the channel!
Why don't you use the force you moron!
What do you mean by that!? I knew I should havd traded you for a robot when I had the chance!
Hold onto the cash and sometime in the next year you two will be out and about and he'll see something that is just too cool to pass up. Then instead of arguing about money or lamenting about being broke you can surprise him that you cared enough to hold out for the time he really needed it!
Where I live I can buy the phone, sure. But I can only get 1 company to offer services to use it as a phone and none to provide data services. I don't need camera phones or games. I'd like to quit lugging a laptop! Just try and edit a 2000+ character SQL query or 5000+ line source code file with any of the phones available today, it's almost impossible. With a plug-in on the Nokia I could even get color syntax highlighting, but the crap we get I can't even open it as a text file! Similarly with Simbian I can add my own homegrown apps as opposed to having to go the Visual Studio.Net approach.
But today, I can only get this kind of functionality in about a dozen US cities, the data service runs about 80 bucks a month and only one phone provides it Siemens SX56 Phone, and of course voice minutes are on top of the data rate. Then the SX56 offers no keyboard, and has to be kept in a case to protect its display. Less flexible memory, and of course it's built using a Microsoft OS.
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I liked the Edmond Scientific Catalog even better than the Sears Christmas catalog when I was a kid. And I still have a few of their gadgets.
I agree, for Windows uswes this is a really good tool. They have come a long way in their work and have developed a very stable product which lets the user navigate by ideas and relationships as well as more traditional methods.
Take a Hologram (preferably on glass) and drop it about 6 feet to a hard floor. Yes, it shatters. Now pick up any piece of the hologram and look at it closely. While the data has lost some detail, the whole image is still recorded in each piece.
What happens if I take a hole punch to this thing? Do I still get the meaning if not the details? Heck, it probably can't be read at all!
Maybe this will be the wakeup call for Microsoft; with this many potential problems on the horizon, they might have to stop smashing the competition and start shoring up their product for real . I mean there are thousands of programmers at Microsoft. New features can wait. Right now the losses in productivity worldwide due to bugs and virii, spam and bugs may be as high as 10%. (But we'll never know) Wouldn't it be nice for Microsoft to address the issues of virii, spam & bugs so that we didn't have to deal with them on a daily basis?
With these issues fixed and a more responsive business model Microsoft could market a 10% improvement in productivity; they could make money the old fashioned way, they could earn it.
Sometimes I dream that we will find the SCO-Microsoft link and that will be that, but it didn't work for George and it probably will never come true for me either! ;^)
I agree that everyone would be better off if Microsoft wrote better code. But I want to see survival of the fittest in the markletplace, as it well should be, not a virtual monopoly built on illegal business practices.
I was a huge fan of Microsoft for years; back when Microsoft stood for good coding practices and was the industry underdog. And they <smote> IBM; and it was good. But, let's face it, Microsoft IS the 800 lb. gorilla and they do what is best for them so as not to be confused with what is best for their customers. Bill Gates, was one of my heros when I was a struggling young programmer. But he's not a lean mean coding machine any longer. Let's get him out from behind that desk and back with the guys writing the code; who obviously need guidance and support, instead of him yelling at and re-arrainging 'project-managers.' I mean how long has it been since he's written or reviewed a line of code? Is he now so lazy that he has to surriptitiously outsource his source code by proxy; begging analysis by the opensource community? Is he so scared that he will do anything to degrade the open source movement?
The test is biased by the presence of Microsoft's Office software. Are their any similar studies for Mac sites where Office is not a factor? It seems to me that more than half of support questions usually involve application software, so I'd like to see a study where Microsoft Office was not a factor.
Good Luck!
Whether it's finding exploits, bugs or whatever; anything that anyone does with it will eventually make Microsoft stronger. If it's a security problem they 'll fix it. Maybe Microsoft is trying to capture open source developers and their free services; I don't know.
What I don't want to see is Microsoft making improvements on their product based on this experience. I don't want to see as much as two adjacent assembler instructions from it end up in Linux.
If you want to do something constructive, run the 2.6 kernel and start making the supporting software more secure. Don't waste your time supporting losers like Microsoft who demand your money up front and then deliver whatever crap they feel like.
Just ignore it!
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Rather than a suit or other damaging (or disparaging) claims, perhaps an on-line petition , where the company could verify that X% of registered users are dissatisfied might be considered 'constructive criticism,' when compared to a class action lawsuit.
Additionally; it should be made absolytly clear to the comapny that these people have no desire to purchase any further games if they are not MP from the start.
I went through three of them. Wrote core code for each, then got squeezed out when it was time to get profitable. Startups are abusive by design and you as a programmer mean nothing to them. My advice, a larger, more stable, long term profitable company is probably not such a bad thing. Definately not as sexy, but what's wrong with a little of comfort and security to look forward to?
Another really good thing to have is a copule of regular pencils (unsharpened) which I use to raise the laptop up (has no flip out feet) which I use to imporve the air circulation under the laptop.
HEAT is the #1 ENEMY of laptops, keep it COOL!
Go for the longest most feature filled warrenty you can get. In one laptop I had to replace a CDRW/DVD drive and 3 months out of warrenty they wanted $650 for the spare!
Hardcase, find yourself a nice case or backpack for it, but don't be afraid to add some masonite on the side where the display is.
Try it before you buy it! Be sure that you like the keyboard layout.
Get that external mouse, and maybe a keyboard. If you hunch over that laptop instead of getting a good ergonomic setup you will have lots of back/neck strain. So Make a workspace for it. If the workspace really is your lap and you're in a recliner or something get a lapdesk with a cushion on one side and a board on the other. Don't set it on your lap or you'll either get no ventillation for the laptop or a space heater for your privates! While built in wireless is great, be sure you can disable it easily when you need to. There's nothing like a portable having a wide open backdoor.
What about VCD, SVCD or DVD? There are portables Or maybe a jukebox?
We did a demo on bandwidth several years ago with the Complete Works of William Shakespear. The idea was to show how long the user had to sit in front of the computer. It was something like half an hour for a slow modem and mere seconds for gigabit eithernet connection. While showing the speed is nice, emphasising what can be done with the extra time is the real selling point. So you may end up with something like "get hours of extra productivity with no overtime" sort of thing.
It shows he was paid, but no one ever remembers seeing him!
Democracy? Hell no sonny!
We live in a kleptocracy!
What would life have been like if the sign had read "INTUIT"?
Now that it's shown that TransMeta may have borrowed from IBM, how long until SCO makes claims against it!
Where cute incompetent teens try and rescue a multi million dollar space tellescope. Starting with 24 teens, the rigors of Network Space Training whittle it down to a crew of two, who use a decommissioned shuttle to retrieve the Hubble.
Note: Orbital Sex Scenes a must for ratings week!
September first you could get him the Original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD! ;^)
Honey, what channel is TGL on? Do we have any blank HDDVD disks? Where's my walker?
I have to get across the living room to the touch screen tv wall to change the channel!
Why don't you use the force you moron!
What do you mean by that!? I knew I should havd traded you for a robot when I had the chance!
It was an interesting site, and I was pleased to find out that I started using computers two years before that first guy there! ;^)
Hold onto the cash and sometime in the next year you two will be out and about and he'll see something that is just too cool to pass up. Then instead of arguing about money or lamenting about being broke you can surprise him that you cared enough to hold out for the time he really needed it!
That's the problem! var is the datatype and JavaScript's first inclination is to deal with it as a string! Too bad JavaScript does not offer an int!
But today, I can only get this kind of functionality in about a dozen US cities, the data service runs about 80 bucks a month and only one phone provides it Siemens SX56 Phone, and of course voice minutes are on top of the data rate. Then the SX56 offers no keyboard, and has to be kept in a case to protect its display. Less flexible memory, and of course it's built using a Microsoft OS.