Vista was pre-beta. Vista SP1 was beta 1, Win7 is beta 2, Win 7 RC is beta 3, and Vista SP2 is RC1. When we finally get the win 7 RTM, it should be pretty solid!
I think the key point is that we're talking about public betas and RCs. The letter also says that builds are being provided to partners (eg intel) on an ongoing basis. I agree that microsoft is rebranding the traditional terms. Internally, it's going to be exactly what you'd expect. The build must survive testing for some fixed length of time with no recall class bugs before it goes to RTM.
When you look at marriage as a religious union, I think you must concede that different religious organizations should be allowed whatever requirements they wish. However, marriage is unique in that it's recognized by many non-religious entities and government. Under a secular government with no church involved, I think of marriage as a contract with obligations and benefits. It doesn't seem right to me that I would only be able to enter into this contract with a women. With any other contract, that wouldn't be true (afaik).
If one were to allow the same contract under a different name (eg civil union), I think that just wreaks of discrimination.
I honestly don't think this goes against his campaign. The take-home message I got was that Obama would be diplomacy first. I was never under the impression that he would be afraid to use military strength. Diplomacy won't work if he doesn't put his money where his mouth is. I'm no fan of violence. I've never shot a gun in my life.
But I also believe that the first world needs to use brains AND brawn AND dollars to improve the 3rd world. I may be free in our borders but it's a whole other dream to be able to walk the world freely and invite the rest of the world to do the same.
I don't know enough about the deal you referenced to say it's the right move. I'm just saying that I agree with the spending priorities. The US can be active and appreciated. I'd like to look at Canada as an example. Peace-keeping, etc on a budget. Let's do the most with what we have.
256 is not a set maximum. It's a target for consumer applications. It's about breaking the major windows subsystems down to work with many cores. 4096 processor scalability is great. But how much benefit would you see in KDE and open office if you could drop a 4096 core 2 duo in your machine right now?
To me, it's important to cover both the internal and external cases in any scheme.
For the internal, it's important that your organization is capable of finding owners for failures/bugs quickly. So when a developer hits an error they don't understand or your BVTs break, an owner can be identified. Nine times out of ten, they can get you a solution in an hour or two once they've seen the error. In addition, an automation framework should work closely with your logging to bubble up the relevant errors. That can save a LOT of time.
For the external case, it's important that the errors are professional. A casual user won't dig into logs. But technical users (admins, etc) will rely on your output. The logs should be search-engine friendly. I recommend unique error codes for any log output. Localization is not always appropriate as it can cause problems for non-english searches. If support needs to involve developers, it also helps if these logs are in the developer's native language.
It's fun to project out to 101 years but it doesn't make much sense. Really, as soon as wireless becomes the standard, the US has the opportunity win. As wonderful as population density is to begin with, everyone shares the air. Analogy: ever used a cell phone at the end of a concert?
You must not have signed up with the same email you use for facebook and adult websites. I get coupons for the local strip club printed on the back of my receipt every time I go in for some fruit.
You can send messages to multiple people. Hell, you can send messages to up to 5000 (groups) last I checked. You can send mass emails to people attending an event (not those who opt out), etc. It's handy. Do I want all those group/event organizers to have my actual email address? No, not really. I'd much rather they send mail through a proxy and have facebook send me an email with the contents of the message (not just a notification). I think you're just trying to come up for reasons why it's a bad idea. It's not.
The most likely reason is usually overheating if you leave them on the carpet or somesuch. Load can have an impact. Wireless hardware is going to be less stable than wired due to complexity and age (newer in market). Remember to upgrade the firmware. Many people forget to update that once they're up and running, leaving their home networks open to attack down the road. And well, cheap devices are going to be buggy. If you value stability, go for brands known for better hardware. You can often replace the OS with an open source alternative as well.
They're doing this in response to an invasive wire-tapping law that applies to all traffic. This has nothing to do with piracy. This is about the government watching and logging everything you do without you ever knowing. Some people (imho, rightly) dislike living in a police state.
Awesome. What right does Viacom have to my data? If they want access to individual data, they should have to request it that way. I could buy an argument for aggregated data but not this level of detail. It feels like we need some new laws to handle situations like this where companies own data of their uses like this to protect our privacy.. Ugh.
Who said a clone would be agreeable?:) But I say we let people make clones and made-to-order children if they want. To me, that's our next big step in our evolution. Although, it would be much nicer if we developed the ability to change ourselves and evolve without needing a thousand generations of crappy offspring first:) It'd be like changing your resolution. If it turns out badly, just revert back and try something else.
Then try to explain why Vancouver BC is constantly ranked near or at the top of the most livable cities in the world. The northwest is a great place to live. The weather contributes to the variety of activities we have. You have snowboarding and beaches all in one city. It keeps things fresh. Sure a little more sun in the summer would be nice but when I add it all up, there isn't really anywhere else I'd rather live geographically. Disclaimer: I've only lived in Vancouver and Seattle though I've certainly traveled to the bay area.
In a corporate environment it can pull a list of programs from the network that you can install. I've used it tons at my company for internal tools, etc. I don't imagine this is the norm though. Certainly it's confusing in the context of consumer usage.
I disagree with your statement that it's technically uninteresting. I think it's a fine example of what a web application should strive for from a technical perspective. They've done many interesting things. Like how they handle authentication between the main site and the image caching Akamai provides. They were the first to do that. Akamai had to write a lot of custom code to support them. Each little part is simple in function but when you consider the scale and distributed nature of what they do, I think they have an extremely interesting architecture.
The safer end of the modern SUVs have reasonable centers of gravity. MUCH better than 5-10 years ago. They also have stability control and such which has shown to make an incredible difference in the number of fatal accidents. Side-curtain airbags help with rollover safety as well. They're now designed to deploy longer for rollovers (as opposed to a side-impact). I think we've seen a lot of growing pains and the consumers are (rightly) pissed off.
I disagree. I value the 10mbit uploader who's there are release time a whole lot more than someone who comes by a month later with saturated upload. Credit should be given where it's due. Sites often give bonus for seeders over regular peers. About the only tweak I'd make is to increase the bonus for near-dead torrents.
If there's a valid reason to perform a full search, they'll pay to get the job done, regardless of weather or not they can do it internally. Of course, by handling the windows case in-house, most searches can be handled internally.
They don't just give up if they get a unix shell and let the killer go.
The blurb completely misquotes the article. The article clearly states pages as reported by google. Plus, Google is hardly a live metric for the state of the internet. It really gives us a very poor estimate of how much impact this is having.
Also, which browsers are affected? It sounds like most of the exploits being used against the browsers have already been patched. Is there a new one there?
Sure, but the intended path is H-1B -> Greencard -> citizenship. It's by design that you can't easily obtain citizenship. That's a whole different issue.
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Vista was pre-beta. Vista SP1 was beta 1, Win7 is beta 2, Win 7 RC is beta 3, and Vista SP2 is RC1. When we finally get the win 7 RTM, it should be pretty solid!
I think the key point is that we're talking about public betas and RCs. The letter also says that builds are being provided to partners (eg intel) on an ongoing basis. I agree that microsoft is rebranding the traditional terms. Internally, it's going to be exactly what you'd expect. The build must survive testing for some fixed length of time with no recall class bugs before it goes to RTM.
The market has after hours trading.
When you look at marriage as a religious union, I think you must concede that different religious organizations should be allowed whatever requirements they wish. However, marriage is unique in that it's recognized by many non-religious entities and government. Under a secular government with no church involved, I think of marriage as a contract with obligations and benefits. It doesn't seem right to me that I would only be able to enter into this contract with a women. With any other contract, that wouldn't be true (afaik).
If one were to allow the same contract under a different name (eg civil union), I think that just wreaks of discrimination.
I honestly don't think this goes against his campaign. The take-home message I got was that Obama would be diplomacy first. I was never under the impression that he would be afraid to use military strength. Diplomacy won't work if he doesn't put his money where his mouth is. I'm no fan of violence. I've never shot a gun in my life.
But I also believe that the first world needs to use brains AND brawn AND dollars to improve the 3rd world. I may be free in our borders but it's a whole other dream to be able to walk the world freely and invite the rest of the world to do the same.
I don't know enough about the deal you referenced to say it's the right move. I'm just saying that I agree with the spending priorities. The US can be active and appreciated. I'd like to look at Canada as an example. Peace-keeping, etc on a budget. Let's do the most with what we have.
256 is not a set maximum. It's a target for consumer applications. It's about breaking the major windows subsystems down to work with many cores. 4096 processor scalability is great. But how much benefit would you see in KDE and open office if you could drop a 4096 core 2 duo in your machine right now?
I'm more of a ?? fan myself.
How many controllers, HDMI cables, and taxes does that $460 include again?
To me, it's important to cover both the internal and external cases in any scheme.
For the internal, it's important that your organization is capable of finding owners for failures/bugs quickly. So when a developer hits an error they don't understand or your BVTs break, an owner can be identified. Nine times out of ten, they can get you a solution in an hour or two once they've seen the error. In addition, an automation framework should work closely with your logging to bubble up the relevant errors. That can save a LOT of time.
For the external case, it's important that the errors are professional. A casual user won't dig into logs. But technical users (admins, etc) will rely on your output. The logs should be search-engine friendly. I recommend unique error codes for any log output. Localization is not always appropriate as it can cause problems for non-english searches. If support needs to involve developers, it also helps if these logs are in the developer's native language.
It's fun to project out to 101 years but it doesn't make much sense. Really, as soon as wireless becomes the standard, the US has the opportunity win. As wonderful as population density is to begin with, everyone shares the air. Analogy: ever used a cell phone at the end of a concert?
Um, doesn't the DMCA make it illegal to circumvent the Wii's anti-piracy protection? I'm no lawyer but this seems blatantly illegal in the US.
You must not have signed up with the same email you use for facebook and adult websites. I get coupons for the local strip club printed on the back of my receipt every time I go in for some fruit.
You can send messages to multiple people. Hell, you can send messages to up to 5000 (groups) last I checked. You can send mass emails to people attending an event (not those who opt out), etc. It's handy. Do I want all those group/event organizers to have my actual email address? No, not really. I'd much rather they send mail through a proxy and have facebook send me an email with the contents of the message (not just a notification). I think you're just trying to come up for reasons why it's a bad idea. It's not.
The most likely reason is usually overheating if you leave them on the carpet or somesuch. Load can have an impact. Wireless hardware is going to be less stable than wired due to complexity and age (newer in market). Remember to upgrade the firmware. Many people forget to update that once they're up and running, leaving their home networks open to attack down the road. And well, cheap devices are going to be buggy. If you value stability, go for brands known for better hardware. You can often replace the OS with an open source alternative as well.
They're doing this in response to an invasive wire-tapping law that applies to all traffic. This has nothing to do with piracy. This is about the government watching and logging everything you do without you ever knowing. Some people (imho, rightly) dislike living in a police state.
Awesome. What right does Viacom have to my data? If they want access to individual data, they should have to request it that way. I could buy an argument for aggregated data but not this level of detail. It feels like we need some new laws to handle situations like this where companies own data of their uses like this to protect our privacy.. Ugh.
Who said a clone would be agreeable? :) But I say we let people make clones and made-to-order children if they want. To me, that's our next big step in our evolution. Although, it would be much nicer if we developed the ability to change ourselves and evolve without needing a thousand generations of crappy offspring first :) It'd be like changing your resolution. If it turns out badly, just revert back and try something else.
Then try to explain why Vancouver BC is constantly ranked near or at the top of the most livable cities in the world. The northwest is a great place to live. The weather contributes to the variety of activities we have. You have snowboarding and beaches all in one city. It keeps things fresh. Sure a little more sun in the summer would be nice but when I add it all up, there isn't really anywhere else I'd rather live geographically. Disclaimer: I've only lived in Vancouver and Seattle though I've certainly traveled to the bay area.
In a corporate environment it can pull a list of programs from the network that you can install. I've used it tons at my company for internal tools, etc. I don't imagine this is the norm though. Certainly it's confusing in the context of consumer usage.
I disagree with your statement that it's technically uninteresting. I think it's a fine example of what a web application should strive for from a technical perspective. They've done many interesting things. Like how they handle authentication between the main site and the image caching Akamai provides. They were the first to do that. Akamai had to write a lot of custom code to support them. Each little part is simple in function but when you consider the scale and distributed nature of what they do, I think they have an extremely interesting architecture.
The safer end of the modern SUVs have reasonable centers of gravity. MUCH better than 5-10 years ago. They also have stability control and such which has shown to make an incredible difference in the number of fatal accidents. Side-curtain airbags help with rollover safety as well. They're now designed to deploy longer for rollovers (as opposed to a side-impact). I think we've seen a lot of growing pains and the consumers are (rightly) pissed off.
I disagree. I value the 10mbit uploader who's there are release time a whole lot more than someone who comes by a month later with saturated upload. Credit should be given where it's due. Sites often give bonus for seeders over regular peers. About the only tweak I'd make is to increase the bonus for near-dead torrents.
If there's a valid reason to perform a full search, they'll pay to get the job done, regardless of weather or not they can do it internally. Of course, by handling the windows case in-house, most searches can be handled internally.
They don't just give up if they get a unix shell and let the killer go.
The blurb completely misquotes the article. The article clearly states pages as reported by google. Plus, Google is hardly a live metric for the state of the internet. It really gives us a very poor estimate of how much impact this is having.
Also, which browsers are affected? It sounds like most of the exploits being used against the browsers have already been patched. Is there a new one there?
Sure, but the intended path is H-1B -> Greencard -> citizenship. It's by design that you can't easily obtain citizenship. That's a whole different issue.