True, to a point. Studies do show girls losing interest as they age, but nobody can agree on why.
What are the numbers of women in science and technology in different countries? I'd bet that even in places where women have higher representation in the sciences it's still way below 50/50.
Agreed. There are fewer women in science and technology not because they lack the ability, but because they lack the interest. This is not a bad thing, but too often it gets interpreted as an issue of perceived inferiority.
Thanks to the miracle of cable TV, I actually have seen portions of it many times, except for the beginning. I always wondered how he wound up in prison.
MS might be able to steer Ruby, but that's not really what they're after. They'd be happier with more IronX languages so that they can take mindshare away from Java. I'm not sure how much Sun makes from Java (it seems that so much of what you can do with Java is given away), but I don't think it's anywhere near as much as MS could make from.NET.
I mentioned before that Silverlight will always be 2nd banana as long as it remains Windows only. Flash works well enough on Linux, and Adobe AIR is coming to Linux, too, so what does Silverlight offer besides slightly fewer deployable platforms? Right now only a choice of languages. That might be enough for the Ruby hackers out there whose day jobs require hacking for Windows-only browsers to consider Silverlight. MS isn't going to be able convert OSS hackers en masse, but a little here and there might make a difference.
It will be interesting to see how far the Iron family of languages can work their way into the OSS world. Gates never would've allowed something like this, but he's out of the picture and Ballmer is too obsessed with advertising to pay much attention to Ruby on.NET.
It's malicious because it prevents people from using platforms which silverlight isn't well-supported on -- anything but Windows and OS X right now, and if things worked out they'd eventually make things less functional on OS X.
Not supporting every possible platform in an early release is malicious? If MS expects Silverlight to supplant Flash, they'll have to release a Linux version or help Moonlight as much as possible. Especially with AIR on the way. Not doing so is dumb, but not malicious.
I missed the part about how this will make things less functional on OS X. Why is that exactly?
If someone wanted to invest the effort, you could similarly create IronPerl, IronVBA, IronVBScript, IronJavaScript, IronTCL... IronTCL? I like that. What's the worst IronX you can think of? IronCOBOL, IronLOGO? Whatever it is, you know someone will try it just so they can say they did.
What's malicious about it? They're not going to be able to kill Ruby by adding it to Silverlight.
I have no doubt that AJAX works just fine in.NET, but nothing gets developers more excited than a surplus of options. Even if the options don't add anything other than choice.
It will be interesting to see how much traction IronPython and IronRuby are able to get with non-MS devs. I have no experience with Ruby and only a little with.Net and Python, but I keep hearing about these integrations in places I least expect.
Just because they were caught by surprise doesn't mean that they won't adapt.
Exactly. Microsoft misses everything. They always have. What makes them who they are is their response. Vista is a big slip, but they have too much money to just fade away.
The question is, what will be the response to the ultra mini segment? Can Vista be downsized or does Windows Mobile come up? I see Windows Mobile coming up.
Apparently the Realtors didn't pay enough to their lobbiests and lawyers. Just look at how the MAFIAA has done at getting policies and laws to lock in a outmoded business model. It's not just money that helps the **AA, it's movie and rock stars. Nobody gets excited about getting lobbying calls from a realtor.
I guess it was only a matter of time for something like this to come along after product placement became the norm.
And after the DVR makes commercial-skipping so much easier. The business model must evolve. Unknown if it will survive. And while I know everyone will say that this will turn most viewers off, the truth is if it's entertaining people will watch.
I love this quote:
The collaboration... offers a unique way of giving brands a seat at the table with writers and producers in developing episodic programming that ties directly to brand needs.
BSOD jokes aside, I'm trying to figure out how you can communicate helpful technical product information in a science fiction drama show. Is it going to be like the time Jeff Goldblum used Mac OS 9 to take down the alien computer systems? Or is Rosario Dawson going to chase aliens and time travel with a Zune and an MSDN subscription? It's one thing to have a Coke can sitting in plain view, it's another to show how the protagonists succeed using shrinkwrapped software.
Linux and Mac are not real competitors to Vista (although Mac is closer than Linux is). Vista's biggest problem is that it doesn't give people a reason to move from XP, and there is no killer app right now that requires new hardware. New boxen was how MS sold new software. My 4-yr-old 2.6ghz p4 is still humming right along. I don't play many games, so I have no real reason to buy anything new. I can't even say off the top of my head what speed the zippiest processors are these days.
No, but it is fun to watch you vent in a forum where your message goes nowhere. Why not post Linux distro arguments or Vista complaints at Little Green Footballs?
Sorry I got caid confused with care, but what's the difference for your argument? Income redistribution isn't anything new. Bummed about all them pesky old people scarfing viagra and nitroglycerin? Rather we just let them die and pile their bodies in the streets? At least the poor ones, anyway? We could all get heart transplants for the cost of the war. If the gov't is going to squander money away, better for health care than for oil.
Insurance costs reflect health care costs, or are you not participating in economics this week? Medicare revenues go to poor young people who can't afford their bills, but there aren't as many kids visiting doctors as the old.
The young pay for the old. It's been that way for a long time, and it makes sense when the population is growing. It becomes a problem after the boom, like we're going to see in the next few years.
Agreed. One problem with pricing is one-or-two-size fits all method. What I use and what my mother uses are two different things. She'd be fine with a 256k down/56k up. All she wants to do is email some pictures and surf a few web sites. I'm the one sucking down linux isos.
Pricing by usage should be the norm. Have plans that charge a small amount per mb ($0.001 or something like that), that then max out at a certain level (the unlimited price). Maybe you could charge 0.0001 per mb down and 0.001 per mb up, since most of us/. readers who are going to be clogging our neighborhood lines are going to be running servers.
But as one poster below has noted (hey, this new posting inline thing is cool!), telcos would probably drool over and abuse anything metered. Where are the honest brokers?
Agreed. MS made a monumental effort to ensure that Win 3.1 and DOS apps & hardware worked as well as humanly possible on Win95. They knew that successful adoption depended on a painless transition. There was a great story in the Seattle Times back then where an MS employee with a pickup truck drove to Egghead and filled the truck bed (scroll down about halfway) with a copy of every shrink-wrapped software product available in the store. He drove back to campus and handed out the boxes to the QA people and said "see if this works". The other great bit about that article is how the descriptions of the work atmosphere (near the bottom) sound like google today. I wonder if anyone would describe MS like that these days?
I'm surprised that they didn't make the same QA effort for Vista. Backwards compatibility has been their ace in the hole for a long time. People put up with the rest because moving from one OS to another wasn't that hard. Most stuff worked almost immediately and if it didn't it got fixed quickly. But the attitude that all vendors would have to write all new drivers is surprising. Granted that the vendors wouldn't have to write as many as MS would, but for an end-of-lifed product there's no financial incentive for the vendor to update it. While MS would seem to have one, given that people who have now-broken hardware are going to be mostly upset with the company that just took their money. Or if someone learns ahead of time that upgrading will disable their hardware they won't want to buy.
Valentine is the guy who led Exchange in the 90s as it took over corporate mail servers and then led the Windows releases of 2K (still my favorite), XP, and apparently Vista. Love or hate the products, he's been in charge of groups who have shipped some big stuff.
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I didn't get that either. I don't see any way that increased OS X market share is going to help Linux on the desktop.
Oh, and I already have a cat. One is enough for me.
True, to a point. Studies do show girls losing interest as they age, but nobody can agree on why. What are the numbers of women in science and technology in different countries? I'd bet that even in places where women have higher representation in the sciences it's still way below 50/50.
Agreed. There are fewer women in science and technology not because they lack the ability, but because they lack the interest. This is not a bad thing, but too often it gets interpreted as an issue of perceived inferiority.
Thanks to the miracle of cable TV, I actually have seen portions of it many times, except for the beginning. I always wondered how he wound up in prison.
Was Fabio on the cover of this book?
He may have had knowledge of the murder, and use that to reduce the sentence.
I would be interested in your theories of how he could have had knowledge of the murder and not be guilty.
Ruby is actually older than Java.
MS might be able to steer Ruby, but that's not really what they're after. They'd be happier with more IronX languages so that they can take mindshare away from Java. I'm not sure how much Sun makes from Java (it seems that so much of what you can do with Java is given away), but I don't think it's anywhere near as much as MS could make from .NET.
I mentioned before that Silverlight will always be 2nd banana as long as it remains Windows only. Flash works well enough on Linux, and Adobe AIR is coming to Linux, too, so what does Silverlight offer besides slightly fewer deployable platforms? Right now only a choice of languages. That might be enough for the Ruby hackers out there whose day jobs require hacking for Windows-only browsers to consider Silverlight. MS isn't going to be able convert OSS hackers en masse, but a little here and there might make a difference.
It will be interesting to see how far the Iron family of languages can work their way into the OSS world. Gates never would've allowed something like this, but he's out of the picture and Ballmer is too obsessed with advertising to pay much attention to Ruby on .NET.
Just wait for IronAssembler and then the circle will be complete.
Cool entry, but the linked bug is old and none of this seems to be in any upcoming FF release.
Not supporting every possible platform in an early release is malicious? If MS expects Silverlight to supplant Flash, they'll have to release a Linux version or help Moonlight as much as possible. Especially with AIR on the way. Not doing so is dumb, but not malicious.
I missed the part about how this will make things less functional on OS X. Why is that exactly?
What's malicious about it? They're not going to be able to kill Ruby by adding it to Silverlight.
I have no doubt that AJAX works just fine in .NET, but nothing gets developers more excited than a surplus of options. Even if the options don't add anything other than choice.
It will be interesting to see how much traction IronPython and IronRuby are able to get with non-MS devs. I have no experience with Ruby and only a little with .Net and Python, but I keep hearing about these integrations in places I least expect.
Doing a little something for developer mindshare. But then this is really just a way to push .NET.
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Exactly. Microsoft misses everything. They always have. What makes them who they are is their response. Vista is a big slip, but they have too much money to just fade away.
The question is, what will be the response to the ultra mini segment? Can Vista be downsized or does Windows Mobile come up? I see Windows Mobile coming up.
DLR is much older now. Just having to look at him is borderline offensive.
And after the DVR makes commercial-skipping so much easier. The business model must evolve. Unknown if it will survive. And while I know everyone will say that this will turn most viewers off, the truth is if it's entertaining people will watch.
I love this quote:
The collaborationBSOD jokes aside, I'm trying to figure out how you can communicate helpful technical product information in a science fiction drama show. Is it going to be like the time Jeff Goldblum used Mac OS 9 to take down the alien computer systems? Or is Rosario Dawson going to chase aliens and time travel with a Zune and an MSDN subscription? It's one thing to have a Coke can sitting in plain view, it's another to show how the protagonists succeed using shrinkwrapped software.
Linux and Mac are not real competitors to Vista (although Mac is closer than Linux is). Vista's biggest problem is that it doesn't give people a reason to move from XP, and there is no killer app right now that requires new hardware. New boxen was how MS sold new software. My 4-yr-old 2.6ghz p4 is still humming right along. I don't play many games, so I have no real reason to buy anything new. I can't even say off the top of my head what speed the zippiest processors are these days.
No, but it is fun to watch you vent in a forum where your message goes nowhere. Why not post Linux distro arguments or Vista complaints at Little Green Footballs? Sorry I got caid confused with care, but what's the difference for your argument? Income redistribution isn't anything new. Bummed about all them pesky old people scarfing viagra and nitroglycerin? Rather we just let them die and pile their bodies in the streets? At least the poor ones, anyway? We could all get heart transplants for the cost of the war. If the gov't is going to squander money away, better for health care than for oil.
Insurance costs reflect health care costs, or are you not participating in economics this week? Medicare revenues go to poor young people who can't afford their bills, but there aren't as many kids visiting doctors as the old. The young pay for the old. It's been that way for a long time, and it makes sense when the population is growing. It becomes a problem after the boom, like we're going to see in the next few years.
Agreed. One problem with pricing is one-or-two-size fits all method. What I use and what my mother uses are two different things. She'd be fine with a 256k down/56k up. All she wants to do is email some pictures and surf a few web sites. I'm the one sucking down linux isos. Pricing by usage should be the norm. Have plans that charge a small amount per mb ($0.001 or something like that), that then max out at a certain level (the unlimited price). Maybe you could charge 0.0001 per mb down and 0.001 per mb up, since most of us /. readers who are going to be clogging our neighborhood lines are going to be running servers.
But as one poster below has noted (hey, this new posting inline thing is cool!), telcos would probably drool over and abuse anything metered. Where are the honest brokers?
But we already do. Health insurance for the young is cheaper than health insurance for the old.
Yes, but only when dressed like a bear at a basketball game below an underpass.
Agreed. MS made a monumental effort to ensure that Win 3.1 and DOS apps & hardware worked as well as humanly possible on Win95. They knew that successful adoption depended on a painless transition. There was a great story in the Seattle Times back then where an MS employee with a pickup truck drove to Egghead and filled the truck bed (scroll down about halfway) with a copy of every shrink-wrapped software product available in the store. He drove back to campus and handed out the boxes to the QA people and said "see if this works". The other great bit about that article is how the descriptions of the work atmosphere (near the bottom) sound like google today. I wonder if anyone would describe MS like that these days?
I'm surprised that they didn't make the same QA effort for Vista. Backwards compatibility has been their ace in the hole for a long time. People put up with the rest because moving from one OS to another wasn't that hard. Most stuff worked almost immediately and if it didn't it got fixed quickly. But the attitude that all vendors would have to write all new drivers is surprising. Granted that the vendors wouldn't have to write as many as MS would, but for an end-of-lifed product there's no financial incentive for the vendor to update it. While MS would seem to have one, given that people who have now-broken hardware are going to be mostly upset with the company that just took their money. Or if someone learns ahead of time that upgrading will disable their hardware they won't want to buy.
Valentine is the guy who led Exchange in the 90s as it took over corporate mail servers and then led the Windows releases of 2K (still my favorite), XP, and apparently Vista. Love or hate the products, he's been in charge of groups who have shipped some big stuff.