All the decisions that get made are a result of multiple compromises in order to deal with each members agenda. Consequently committee mentality takes over and therefore any decisions take an overly long time and are all mediocre. Any truly innovative or out-of-the-box thinking doesn't ever survive the gauntlet.
The most innovative results actually comes from dictatorships where the few most visionary risk-takers have enough authority to overrule the closed-minded majority.
is the law of Conservation of Energy. You can't create energy. You can only convert it between forms. Hence no energy creation tax can ever be collected on.
Probably the respective governments will tell all the scanning software companies to make a point of not identifying it. That is, if the virus doesn't already modify the scanning software directly.
Cool down, fanboy. I'm not doubting that the apps for OS/X are good, or aren't better than MS apps (although thats not hard). My point was that not many _3rd party_ developers (ie. NOT apple) are writing products specifically for OS/X. How many less then, would write for Amiga?
>> I can't tell you how much it frustrates me as a scientists that more people can't see the obvious.
Unfortunately it seems most Americans believed Bush when he said that all the scientists are wrong. It seems Bush's obvious financial relationships with the Oil Industry are not blatant enough to penetrate the average American's thick skull as a reason for possbile bias.
I wonder if it actually removes the downloaded toolbar files from your HD and registry, or if it just hides them from the ie display. I mean could they still be in the system and doing stuff behind the scenes? (such as planting virusses or opening backdoors, or even just using CPU/memory/disk?).
Its bad that the auto-cleanup thing didn't remove Yahoo. Either Microsoft explicitly made an exception for Yahoo or Yahoo found a workaround (I'm not sure which is worse). If yahoo can do that then so will all the others pretty soon.
>> Just because the machines aren't making money translates that they are dead.
No thats not it. They're dead because hardware fails over time and no-one is making replacements.
Actually the same effect is happening with the users too, as the current crop of teenagers don't even know/care what an Amiga or a C64 is. They're currently discovering their own iconic symbols to get nostalgic about in 20 years time.
I can't help feel that they're missing out though, because consoles and ipods don't provide for any level of personal creativity. Its all done for you. Making an mp3 playlist is hardly the same as creating a jawdropping realtime 3d demo from scratch that fits in a few k and doesn't rely on 3d hardware for rendering.
a hardcore Amiga fan back in the day. So were all my friends. I loved my Amiga 500... it got me through a CS degree when there was little to no chance of getting enough time on the departments own systems to do my project. And wow what an operating system... it made Windows 3.1 look positively stupid. The Amiga defined and fit the zeitgeist of that time perfectly and will always hold a special place in my heart. Then there was the day Amiga corp. died (to the tune of bye-bye Ms. American pie). All us CS nerds felt like Elvis had just died. I stayed with my Amiga for years after, even though the parent company were long gone. It had a special place for me as it had unfailingly been there for me when I needed it and we had been through some of the best times of my life together. However eventually it was beyond impossible to deny any more that my little buddy had seen his day and I sadly moved over to PC.
However, now is not then, and we're all grown-up now with our business laptops. Where on earth can Amiga find a market now? They're not even close to being the same company or attempting to appeal to the same market. Is the market demnographic that defined the original Amiga buyer even still there?
Even the Amiga vision and sense of community has been fulfilled by Linux, which has unassailable advantages over Amiga Os and any other commercial product in that you can download for free and install on the hardware that you have already. I would love to see Amiga OS on sale again but I'm not sure even I could really find a need for it other than some misplaced sense of nostalgia, which would probably fade as soon as I booted it and realised I didn't recognise the new AmigaOs at all. Another nice OS with no third parties writing apps or games for it? If I wanted that I'd buy OS/X.
No, I'm really not lying. XP and even Halflife 2 under XP is way faster than just the Vista RC1 GUI. why don't you check it yourself before making wild accusations?
>> validated my decision to NOT get a diploma. It is clear secondary education still has no idea how to blah blah blah.
why, just because secondary education doesn't teach microsoft-specific product-speak? There's much more to education than just being brainwashed with Microsoft marketing-speak.
Why I can play Halflife 2 and get an excellent framrate at 1920x1200 with all image qualites maxxed out, and all sorts of traditionally GPU-intensive fire/smoke/reflections moving around on the screen, yet just running the Vista desktop and dragging a window or two around is like walking through mud...
You don't need to spend $200 million to mae a great movie. Lucas himself proved that in the 70's with the original Star Wars costing like 4 million or something.
Hollywood have lost sight of the fact that what makes a great movie is not expensive special effects. the movie industry in the US is failing because its dominated by the big hollywood studios, who, just like the 'popular' music industry, continually produce formulaic mindless crap.
There are lots of excellent movies done on relatively shoestring budgets by independent companies, but they never get into general circulation because the big boys have a monopoly at the theatres.
Funny how Americans can win the Nobel Prize for Big Bang work, but Bush is still trying deny it and replace real empirical science being taught in schools with religious mumbo-jumbo.
At least in the UK, a masters in CS means nothing. Back in the dotcom days, people with degrees in stuff like history of art were doing 9 month courses to get a masters in CS, then acting like they were the big cheese. Unfortunately most personnel departments didn`t know any better and hired them.
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Thankfully the industry has got a lot wiser to these people, but now its agents we have to work on. I`m a very experienced C++ programmer and was told I can`t apply for a C job baceuse I don`t have any experience in that language!.
>> The UAC implementation in Vista is heavy-handed and intrusive -- it halts what you're doing, even if you want to do something as simple as change your clock. My sense here is that Microsoft has been criticized so often for security vulnerabilities that it decided to club users over the head with its new operating system-in-lockdown-mode...
I'm not clear how Microsoft think repeated 'Are you sure' dialog boxes add security to a system. Can't hackers also click 'yes'? Anyway, do hackers really use the gui? Surely most if not all hack attempts all come via the network.
It seems Microsoft are spending their security investment on marketing-style perception management not actual product quality.
The only reason I don't use a laoptop is becuase they suck at gaming compared to the same money spent on a desktop solution. Plus desktop GPUs and lots of ram are pretty much a necesssity for hardcore gamers.
Even though they have a perfect track record of inability to develop a single truly secure product, they presume this guy must have stolen the source in order to use any of their gaping holes.
Microsoft's own track record on security is this guy's own perfect legal defense.
>> From what I can gather, Microsoft made a lot of improvement when it comes to high end machines, but clearly doesn't expect low end machines to handle it,
Heres my machine specs: intel dual core 6800 extreme two western digital 150GB raptors in raid 0 a factory-overclocked nvidia 6800 ultra (256mb video ram) 1Gb fast system ram
I guess my machine must be classed as a low-end machine then, because vista was noticeably (too much) slower than XP. The GUI has so many fades etc, it feels like walking through mud when you do anything. After a very short while all the graphical crap and bloatware going on is just annoying and distracting.
It seems funny that I can run a graphically intense game like Halflife 2 with all the graphical features on max and still get an excellent framerate, but Vista just crawls, relatively.
Furthermore vista's gui is way less productive. The GUI designers seem to have designed and prioritised the whole gui from about 20 use-cases written by business secretaries with no technical skills that IM or buy on-line media all day.
If you don't fit their mold the gui just plain gets in the way. Furthermore you can't do a damn thing any more without it asking you if you're really sure all the friggin time. Its all VERY annoying. Enough that Vista is really a functional downgrade from Linux or even XP (don't even get me started about all the DRM), so I won't be installing it again anytime soon.
I tried the RC1 (release) candidate of Vista. Very buggy, very bloated, very slow compared to XP, the GUI has been redesigned to hide (even more) the system from you so now you can't do anything even slightly technical without really digging deep. Also it kept crashing and wouldn't play a lot of my own media.
I used to think XP had lots of room for improvement. I went back to it after 20 minutes with Vista.
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All the decisions that get made are a result of multiple compromises in order to deal with each members agenda. Consequently committee mentality takes over and therefore any decisions take an overly long time and are all mediocre. Any truly innovative or out-of-the-box thinking doesn't ever survive the gauntlet.
The most innovative results actually comes from dictatorships where the few most visionary risk-takers have enough authority to overrule the closed-minded majority.
is the law of Conservation of Energy. You can't create energy. You can only convert it between forms. Hence no energy creation tax can ever be collected on.
> so if we can find another method to inhibit metabolism..
Yeah asphyxation/suffocation.. that does it every time.
...or not...
Probably the respective governments will tell all the scanning software companies to make a point of not identifying it. That is, if the virus doesn't already modify the scanning software directly.
Cool down, fanboy. I'm not doubting that the apps for OS/X are good, or aren't better than MS apps (although thats not hard).
My point was that not many _3rd party_ developers (ie. NOT apple) are writing products specifically for OS/X. How many less then, would write for Amiga?
>> I can't tell you how much it frustrates me as a scientists that more people can't see the obvious.
Unfortunately it seems most Americans believed Bush when he said that all the scientists are wrong. It seems Bush's obvious financial relationships with the Oil Industry are not blatant enough to penetrate the average American's thick skull as a reason for possbile bias.
Its tough, but if you bring your boot down on it at exactly the right angle...
I wonder if it actually removes the downloaded toolbar files from your HD and registry, or if it just hides them from the ie display. I mean could they still be in the system and doing stuff behind the scenes? (such as planting virusses or opening backdoors, or even just using CPU/memory/disk?).
Its bad that the auto-cleanup thing didn't remove Yahoo. Either Microsoft explicitly made an exception for Yahoo or Yahoo found a workaround (I'm not sure which is worse). If yahoo can do that then so will all the others pretty soon.
>> Just because the machines aren't making money translates that they are dead.
No thats not it. They're dead because hardware fails over time and no-one is making replacements.
Actually the same effect is happening with the users too, as the current crop of teenagers don't even know/care what an Amiga or a C64 is. They're currently discovering their own iconic symbols to get nostalgic about in 20 years time.
I can't help feel that they're missing out though, because consoles and ipods don't provide for any level of personal creativity. Its all done for you. Making an mp3 playlist is hardly the same as creating a jawdropping realtime 3d demo from scratch that fits in a few k and doesn't rely on 3d hardware for rendering.
a hardcore Amiga fan back in the day. So were all my friends. I loved my Amiga 500... it got me through a CS degree when there was little to no chance of getting enough time on the departments own systems to do my project. And wow what an operating system... it made Windows 3.1 look positively stupid. The Amiga defined and fit the zeitgeist of that time perfectly and will always hold a special place in my heart. Then there was the day Amiga corp. died (to the tune of bye-bye Ms. American pie). All us CS nerds felt like Elvis had just died. I stayed with my Amiga for years after, even though the parent company were long gone. It had a special place for me as it had unfailingly been there for me when I needed it and we had been through some of the best times of my life together. However eventually it was beyond impossible to deny any more that my little buddy had seen his day and I sadly moved over to PC.
However, now is not then, and we're all grown-up now with our business laptops. Where on earth can Amiga find a market now? They're not even close to being the same company or attempting to appeal to the same market. Is the market demnographic that defined the original Amiga buyer even still there?
Even the Amiga vision and sense of community has been fulfilled by Linux, which has unassailable advantages over Amiga Os and any other commercial product in that you can download for free and install on the hardware that you have already. I would love to see Amiga OS on sale again but I'm not sure even I could really find a need for it other than some misplaced sense of nostalgia, which would probably fade as soon as I booted it and realised I didn't recognise the new AmigaOs at all. Another nice OS with no third parties writing apps or games for it? If I wanted that I'd buy OS/X.
No, I'm really not lying. XP and even Halflife 2 under XP is way faster than just the Vista RC1 GUI. why don't you check it yourself before making wild accusations?
>> validated my decision to NOT get a diploma. It is clear secondary education still has no idea how to blah blah blah. why, just because secondary education doesn't teach microsoft-specific product-speak? There's much more to education than just being brainwashed with Microsoft marketing-speak.
Why I can play Halflife 2 and get an excellent framrate at 1920x1200 with all image qualites maxxed out, and all sorts of traditionally GPU-intensive fire/smoke/reflections moving around on the screen, yet just running the Vista desktop and dragging a window or two around is like walking through mud...
>> track my CALs and update based on membership in Active Directory.
What is this technobabble? I don't recongise any of that from my CS course.
Thats not true.
I have a 3 yr old compaq laptop with an ATI gpu in it that ATI don't make linux drivers for at all.
Cool. Where can I download gusto?
You don't need to spend $200 million to mae a great movie. Lucas himself proved that in the 70's with the original Star Wars costing like 4 million or something.
Hollywood have lost sight of the fact that what makes a great movie is not expensive special effects. the movie industry in the US is failing because its dominated by the big hollywood studios, who, just like the 'popular' music industry, continually produce formulaic mindless crap.
There are lots of excellent movies done on relatively shoestring budgets by independent companies, but they never get into general circulation because the big boys have a monopoly at the theatres.
Funny how Americans can win the Nobel Prize for Big Bang work, but Bush is still trying deny it and replace real empirical science being taught in schools with religious mumbo-jumbo.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
At least in the UK, a masters in CS means nothing. Back in the dotcom days, people with degrees in stuff like history of art were doing 9 month courses to get a masters in CS, then acting like they were the big cheese. Unfortunately most personnel departments didn`t know any better and hired them. ````` Thankfully the industry has got a lot wiser to these people, but now its agents we have to work on. I`m a very experienced C++ programmer and was told I can`t apply for a C job baceuse I don`t have any experience in that language!.
Of course the PARENTS THEMSELVES are not at all at fault for allowing their kid to become a homicidal maniac, right?
>> The UAC implementation in Vista is heavy-handed and intrusive -- it halts what you're doing, even if you want to do something as simple as change your clock. My sense here is that Microsoft has been criticized so often for security vulnerabilities that it decided to club users over the head with its new operating system-in-lockdown-mode...
I'm not clear how Microsoft think repeated 'Are you sure' dialog boxes add security to a system. Can't hackers also click 'yes'? Anyway, do hackers really use the gui? Surely most if not all hack attempts all come via the network.
It seems Microsoft are spending their security investment on marketing-style perception management not actual product quality.
The only reason I don't use a laoptop is becuase they suck at gaming compared to the same money spent on a desktop solution. Plus desktop GPUs and lots of ram are pretty much a necesssity for hardcore gamers.
Microsoft are so arrogant.
Even though they have a perfect track record of inability to develop a single truly secure product, they presume this guy must have stolen the source in order to use any of their gaping holes.
Microsoft's own track record on security is this guy's own perfect legal defense.
>> From what I can gather, Microsoft made a lot of improvement when it comes to high end machines, but clearly doesn't expect low end machines to handle it,
Heres my machine specs:
intel dual core 6800 extreme
two western digital 150GB raptors in raid 0
a factory-overclocked nvidia 6800 ultra (256mb video ram)
1Gb fast system ram
I guess my machine must be classed as a low-end machine then, because vista was noticeably (too much) slower than XP. The GUI has so many fades etc, it feels like walking through mud when you do anything. After a very short while all the graphical crap and bloatware going on is just annoying and distracting.
It seems funny that I can run a graphically intense game like Halflife 2 with all the graphical features on max and still get an excellent framerate, but Vista just crawls, relatively.
Furthermore vista's gui is way less productive. The GUI designers seem to have designed and prioritised the whole gui from about 20 use-cases written by business secretaries with no technical skills that IM or buy on-line media all day.
If you don't fit their mold the gui just plain gets in the way. Furthermore you can't do a damn thing any more without it asking you if you're really sure all the friggin time. Its all VERY annoying. Enough that Vista is really a functional downgrade from Linux or even XP (don't even get me started about all the DRM), so I won't be installing it again anytime soon.
I tried the RC1 (release) candidate of Vista.
Very buggy, very bloated, very slow compared to XP, the GUI has been redesigned to hide (even more) the system from you so now you can't do anything even slightly technical without really digging deep.
Also it kept crashing and wouldn't play a lot of my own media.
I used to think XP had lots of room for improvement. I went back to it after 20 minutes with Vista.