Reminds me of a day in my OS class:
: Today we're going to learn about Multics, it'll make a man out of you.
*laughter*
: Good thing there is no woman here
*laughter but much softer this time*
The Microsoft Office formats themselves aren't that great. I work at a investment company which relies heavily on Excel. Over the years they've been using a few spreadsheets that has been around since Office 2000 at least. When we upgraded again to Office 2003, we had a few sheets exhibiting really, really strange behavior such the sheets wouldn't update unless you do a cut and paste first. We ended up having to simply rebuild those sheets cell by cell in Excel 2003. Once that was done, everything was many times faster and no more strange behaviors. The resulting file was also many times smaller. If we had access to those formats, at least we could have looked at it and see what was going on.
Some of the traders have become so annoyed by the degree of control Microsoft has over what an user can do that they joke, "Microsoft is trying to protect me from myself again".
Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.'
The author comes across being very emotional and too judgmental for me to take the review seriously. Why was it even necessariy to add the arrogant bit? Oh right! That's the common sterotype Google has on Wall Street. I forgot! No doing a traditional IPO and not taking themselves too seriously apparently runs counter to Wall Street traditions so Google is automatically arrogant. I guess then all innovators are in a sense arrogant because they refuse to do things the same way it has been done.
I work in the finance industry but some of the narrow minded people who work there makes me want to puke. If trying new ideas and being innovative are arrogant, then I hope everyone is as arrogant as Google is. On one hand, Wall Street throws out terms like "think outside of the box" but on the other hand some elements hates change. Take this quote for example:
By contrast, Gmail has none of these new, fluid, desktop-like features.
Uh... hello? This is WEB mail, not desktop mail? Maybe things aren't all the same in both realms? My Gmail is fast as hell and gets the job done. I go on there and answer my mails as needed. Then I'm out of there. Total time taken is usually under one minute. That's how I want it to be.
I would mod you up even higher if it goes pass 5. Maybe I'll mod you down first and then mod you back up just so I can mod you up. Oh well, too late now.
Wireless notification device? You mean like the hi-jacking transponders the 9/11 terrorists turned off after hijacking the plane? I never knew there was such a thing until I read the 9/11 commission report. I guess it was somewhat of a secret to allow pilots to subtly notify controllers of a hijacking until the hijackers found out. My point is that once this little "secret" is out, how are we going to stop hijackers from disabling it as well? Would it be something wore under the cloth? It should be easy to activate so that activation can be disguised. But if it is easy to activate, what's to stop someone from accidentally activating it? I guess it's better than the conspicuous[sp?] intercom system.
Oh I'm outraged alright. I'm so outraged that I'm going sit here, post on the Internet, and make incendiary posts until someone else gets up from their chair and go do something about it! That's how outraged I am!
Anyone know anything about MPI? How is it different from other middleware like TIBCO? If it is better and does something similar I might bring it to my CIO's attention.
They must be able to think of a better experiment than that. Even having school children come up with one that's picked by a panel of judges is better since at least that stimulates interests in science in the next generation.
"The national space agency has already announced plans for a research programme to send the country's favourite foods into orbit and the selection process to find the Malaysian who will taste them in zero gravity is already well advanced."
And some people complain that NASA's manned space program was a waste of money!
"So far, only 200 short listed candidates have managed to run 3.5km (2.2 miles) in under 20 minutes and pass a medical."
Any reasonably healthy person should be able to do that. I know I risk sounding very arrogant but don't send someone into space just for the sake of doing it. Pick someone with high qaulifications and do something useful. It's really a waste of money and an unnecessary risk otherwise.
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
-Abraham Lincoln
I'm not convinced that MS' only road to victory is to destroy everyone. I know it has kind of worked for them in the past but maybe they should consider other alternatives. I don't understand why they don't port.Net over to Linux. People who are using Linux now aren't going to stop because there's no.Net. So what's the point? Why not just get half a loaf of bread and get people to use.Net at least even if it's not on Windows. If MS really wants.Net to take off, they need to ensure that it's adopted by as many people as possible. Otherwise people will continue to look to Java and other languages for cross-platform applications.
It develops a complete theory of planar Euclidean geometry over a general field without any reliance on `axioms'.
Uh... that's not just redefining trig, that's totally redefining mathematics and logic. I find that hard to believe. Is it just marketing talk? Or did this guy revolutionize the axiomatic system upon which we built all human knowledge? I find the latter doubtful.
And it shows how to apply this new theory to a wide range of practical problems from engineering, physics, surveying and calculus.
Wait... This is math. There are no theories. It's either proven or unproven. There might be conjectures waiting to be proven but I've never heard of theories being used in mathematic. Then again, I am not a mathematician.
Maybe someone much more knowledgable can explain this for me.
What effect will this have on the employees' pension plans? Anyone know? It seems like IBM might have an incentive to do this to help ease the pain of paying pension as older employees retire. I don't know anything about their arrangements and rules. I'm not saying IBM is doing this out of evil but rather that it could be an arrangement that benefits both IBM and its older employees and not to mention students in the US. It seems a plan like this just to benefit American students is too long term for a corporation. Furthermore, the cost of pensions is proving to be a serious drag for many US companies. Just have a hunch and am wondering.
Wow, no wonder some companies hate revolutions and advancements. You would think that tech. companies would always aim for the next step but now that you look at the numbers it's different. Once you invested all that money to R&D, you would want to just sit and make a ton of those high margin products. This may explain why Microsoft or other tech companies aren't always so keen on exploring new ideas.
The Nano is thinner than a pencil and lighter than two bucks in quarters.
In addition to Libraries of Congress and football fields, today we add two need units of measurement: "pencil width" and "bucks in quarters". Alas, Google has yet to enter the new units into the search engine as this search produced no useful results. But just you wait! Apple has always been a trendsetter. Soon all the models will be listing their measurements in terms of pencils and weight in terms of bucks in quarters!
You get the typical line out of them at an interview "I didn't learn C# in Comp Science but I could learn it in an afternoon.." I'm a young guy (22) and I've been programing professionally for nearly four years and I can tell you that this is simply false.
CS major here with the same number years of experience (although mixed with part time and internships). I didn't do it in an afternoon. I did it over 3 nights. I read the APIs and learned the syntax. Where's the challenge?
It's kind of cool that they're asking for the domain back as a sovereign part of their nation. It's kind of weird in the sense that a name space is just some abstract string of data. On the other hand, certain combinations of characters in the domain is given the same or similar status or importance as a piece of land. How times have changed... and it will only become more so over time.
That would be true if they made a special site for Katrina but it is NOT. It is a generic site for ANY disaster. Go check it out. It has hurricane listed as an option among other disasters. They've had A LONG time to do this and decided to spend it making it use ASP or something bandwidth intensive.
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Reminds me of a day in my OS class: : Today we're going to learn about Multics, it'll make a man out of you. *laughter* : Good thing there is no woman here *laughter but much softer this time*
That was the MOST brilliant/witty thing I've ever seen posted on Slashdot. Bravo!
The Microsoft Office formats themselves aren't that great. I work at a investment company which relies heavily on Excel. Over the years they've been using a few spreadsheets that has been around since Office 2000 at least. When we upgraded again to Office 2003, we had a few sheets exhibiting really, really strange behavior such the sheets wouldn't update unless you do a cut and paste first. We ended up having to simply rebuild those sheets cell by cell in Excel 2003. Once that was done, everything was many times faster and no more strange behaviors. The resulting file was also many times smaller. If we had access to those formats, at least we could have looked at it and see what was going on.
Some of the traders have become so annoyed by the degree of control Microsoft has over what an user can do that they joke, "Microsoft is trying to protect me from myself again".
The author comes across being very emotional and too judgmental for me to take the review seriously. Why was it even necessariy to add the arrogant bit? Oh right! That's the common sterotype Google has on Wall Street. I forgot! No doing a traditional IPO and not taking themselves too seriously apparently runs counter to Wall Street traditions so Google is automatically arrogant. I guess then all innovators are in a sense arrogant because they refuse to do things the same way it has been done.
I work in the finance industry but some of the narrow minded people who work there makes me want to puke. If trying new ideas and being innovative are arrogant, then I hope everyone is as arrogant as Google is. On one hand, Wall Street throws out terms like "think outside of the box" but on the other hand some elements hates change. Take this quote for example:
By contrast, Gmail has none of these new, fluid, desktop-like features.
Uh... hello? This is WEB mail, not desktop mail? Maybe things aren't all the same in both realms? My Gmail is fast as hell and gets the job done. I go on there and answer my mails as needed. Then I'm out of there. Total time taken is usually under one minute. That's how I want it to be.
Quick! Someone set us up a torrent!
Yeah but thank God they're cash cows not cash bunnies.
I would mod you up even higher if it goes pass 5. Maybe I'll mod you down first and then mod you back up just so I can mod you up. Oh well, too late now.
Wireless notification device? You mean like the hi-jacking transponders the 9/11 terrorists turned off after hijacking the plane? I never knew there was such a thing until I read the 9/11 commission report. I guess it was somewhat of a secret to allow pilots to subtly notify controllers of a hijacking until the hijackers found out. My point is that once this little "secret" is out, how are we going to stop hijackers from disabling it as well? Would it be something wore under the cloth? It should be easy to activate so that activation can be disguised. But if it is easy to activate, what's to stop someone from accidentally activating it? I guess it's better than the conspicuous[sp?] intercom system.
Oh I'm outraged alright. I'm so outraged that I'm going sit here, post on the Internet, and make incendiary posts until someone else gets up from their chair and go do something about it! That's how outraged I am!
Anyone know anything about MPI? How is it different from other middleware like TIBCO? If it is better and does something similar I might bring it to my CIO's attention.
You're probably right about the running issue.
And some people complain that NASA's manned space program was a waste of money!
"So far, only 200 short listed candidates have managed to run 3.5km (2.2 miles) in under 20 minutes and pass a medical."
Any reasonably healthy person should be able to do that. I know I risk sounding very arrogant but don't send someone into space just for the sake of doing it. Pick someone with high qaulifications and do something useful. It's really a waste of money and an unnecessary risk otherwise.
I'm not convinced that MS' only road to victory is to destroy everyone. I know it has kind of worked for them in the past but maybe they should consider other alternatives. I don't understand why they don't port .Net over to Linux. People who are using Linux now aren't going to stop because there's no .Net. So what's the point? Why not just get half a loaf of bread and get people to use .Net at least even if it's not on Windows. If MS really wants .Net to take off, they need to ensure that it's adopted by as many people as possible. Otherwise people will continue to look to Java and other languages for cross-platform applications.
Uh... that's not just redefining trig, that's totally redefining mathematics and logic. I find that hard to believe. Is it just marketing talk? Or did this guy revolutionize the axiomatic system upon which we built all human knowledge? I find the latter doubtful.
And it shows how to apply this new theory to a wide range of practical problems from engineering, physics, surveying and calculus. Wait... This is math. There are no theories. It's either proven or unproven. There might be conjectures waiting to be proven but I've never heard of theories being used in mathematic. Then again, I am not a mathematician.
Maybe someone much more knowledgable can explain this for me.
What effect will this have on the employees' pension plans? Anyone know? It seems like IBM might have an incentive to do this to help ease the pain of paying pension as older employees retire. I don't know anything about their arrangements and rules. I'm not saying IBM is doing this out of evil but rather that it could be an arrangement that benefits both IBM and its older employees and not to mention students in the US. It seems a plan like this just to benefit American students is too long term for a corporation. Furthermore, the cost of pensions is proving to be a serious drag for many US companies. Just have a hunch and am wondering.
Wow, no wonder some companies hate revolutions and advancements. You would think that tech. companies would always aim for the next step but now that you look at the numbers it's different. Once you invested all that money to R&D, you would want to just sit and make a ton of those high margin products. This may explain why Microsoft or other tech companies aren't always so keen on exploring new ideas.
Well of course the data got stolen! Nobody expects the Spanish Astronomers!
In addition to Libraries of Congress and football fields, today we add two need units of measurement: "pencil width" and "bucks in quarters". Alas, Google has yet to enter the new units into the search engine as this search produced no useful results. But just you wait! Apple has always been a trendsetter. Soon all the models will be listing their measurements in terms of pencils and weight in terms of bucks in quarters!
Making ice without any electricity happens everytime I try to talk to a girl.
You get the typical line out of them at an interview "I didn't learn C# in Comp Science but I could learn it in an afternoon.." I'm a young guy (22) and I've been programing professionally for nearly four years and I can tell you that this is simply false. CS major here with the same number years of experience (although mixed with part time and internships). I didn't do it in an afternoon. I did it over 3 nights. I read the APIs and learned the syntax. Where's the challenge?
New Microsoft motto: "Gotta Catch'Em All"
I kid, I kid. I mean one of us must have gotten laid right?
What are you talking about? I get it everytime I go to McDonalds.
It's kind of cool that they're asking for the domain back as a sovereign part of their nation. It's kind of weird in the sense that a name space is just some abstract string of data. On the other hand, certain combinations of characters in the domain is given the same or similar status or importance as a piece of land. How times have changed... and it will only become more so over time.
That would be true if they made a special site for Katrina but it is NOT. It is a generic site for ANY disaster. Go check it out. It has hurricane listed as an option among other disasters. They've had A LONG time to do this and decided to spend it making it use ASP or something bandwidth intensive.