What if? What if the dog didn't stop to have a shit? It would have caught the rabbit. But you ask, what does that have to do with Microsoft migrating everything to the cloud? Everything. Because Microsoft hasn't migrated everything to the cloud, so it's not relevant either. That is, you're begging the question. And for what it's worth I don't think they will ever migrate everything over. There are too many companies out there that would stop buying their products if they did. They don't want to share their company info any more than I want to share mine; and they have a lot more to lose if they do. MS won't shoot themselves in the foot. They want to keep everything under their own roof, not Microsoft's.
Mind you Balmer does seem intent on chasing everyone else instead of coming up with his own ideas (red field not blue field). I think that is more of the reason behind MS's lackluster performance lately. Gates came up with the new ideas that shot them to fame and fortune (even if like Jobs a lot of it was using existing ideas in new novel ways), and Ballmer rode on Gates' coat-tails being employee number 30 and cashing in big with his stock options. i.e. Gates was the innovator. Balmer is the business man. I read a book by Jason Jennings that mentioned that the most successful corporations are run by engineers. Ballmer is not an engineer (math and economics). His advantage is that MS had a lot of momentum by the time Gates retired, but unless they do something innovative soon they'll lose it, are losing it (and are thanking God for the BS business patent rules). So under Ballmer they might just go FR and put it all in the cloud, but I don't think MS as a whole is that stupid. But I'm not a billionaire so meh, I could be wrong.
I have a bunch of Microsoft products that have lasted for years. Office, games, operating systems, even a development environment once when I did some MS programming once upon a time. And they only stopped working when I uninstalled them. Oh that's it, I get it! I bought the stuff and didn't rely on free crap that I didn't know was going to be there from day to day! I had apps that Microsoft made money on from sales instead of from selling my personal data so I could keep my apps as long as I needed them. Yeah I didn't have apps that google keeps around as long as they can absorb data from them and make money from said data. You think google does stuff for free? Get a fucking clue. They are no different than any other company except in the currency they charge to use their stuff. This product obviously didn't generate enough useful data for them to sell, whether directly or indirectly. Personally I would rather pay cash and keep at least some privacy. But likely you like to post pictures of you and your friends doing bong hit on facebook or other stupid crap like that. So go ahead and keep using google services; it probably doesn't matter to you.
On the other hand how many launch failures have Russian space missions experienced lately? Not saying it happened, but destruction and sabotage doesn't need theft.
I see a moderator doesn't agree with me but doesn't understand that just because they don't agree doesn't mean I should be modded out of the discussion.
Right now the only way to find sites on the internet is to use Google or one of its competitors. But they are all based on advertising revenue. So it often makes it brutal to find anything in the usually returned storm of bullshit ads that isn't trying to sell you something when you do an online search. The only choice you have to get away from this are a few well known havens where search terms aren't geared on sales, and in fact spam and unwanted advertising get you kicked. Like on Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and others. Possibly the same with some Apple related sites as well (not really liking Apple's business practices, I don't use their products).
When I search for something on Wikipedia it might have errors in it, but at least I am getting something that is 99% accurate, and more importantly I don't have to wade through a ton of crap to find the results I am interested in learning about. When people search the hash tags in Twitter they can find stuff they are interested in. There are groups on Facebook where people can easily share passions and ideas. Sure, using a search engine like Google you can find the same information outside of these sites, but by the nature of their need to generate revenue, Google, Yahoo, et al have all too often made this far too painful for the average bear.
How many times do we search for something on Google only to get tons of crap that we're not interested in. Mostly stuff trying to sell you something that based on the fact one of your search terms matches one of numerous key words they have registered to respond to. For example yesterday I wanted to see what information was around on why a product Line6 (guitar effects products) called a UX8 was discontinued; but not from the Line6 site. I wanted to hear the 'buzz on the street' so to speak. Whatever I searched I was still presented with almost entirely links to sites that sold music equipment but telling me they don't sell it any more, it was discontinued. I couldn't find a discussion about this based on numerous queries I made to Google. Granted in the mix might have been something I was interested in, but the results are so swamped with crap I don't care about that a mere mortal human is unable to filter it all.
Controlling the user experience allows sites to provide a kind of coherence lacking in hoards of websites howling for you money. Until Google and the other search services provide a search filter to remove online retailers (and/or other options) without having to figure out our own search terms to do so, these sites will live, thrive, and survive, and will be one of the futures of the internet.
Point taken, but this time the talk was interesting. It sounded like the people asking listening and asking questions put a bit too much into the guy than he might deserve, but still the talk had quite a few valid points IMHO. I don't read much of his stuff and just know his name, so I'm not a follower of his. i.e. pretty much neutral standpoint. So take that for what it's worth (and that varies based on state and time of the month).
Oh that's crap. And I learned C as my second language after VAX BASIC, and worked professionally as a C programmer on Unix for years. VB is a decent language/environment and has its place. Don't blame the tool because the worker holding it has no talent or other issues. Or to draw from one of my favourite sayings, it is the carpenter who cut the board three times and still found it too short. But it sure as hell wasn't the saw's fault. The worst you can really say about VB is that it allows bad programmers to create working programs in a similar way that poorly written SQL can appear to work until you realize the result set is missing data that you need (which was a similar complaint some C programmers had about Java when it first came out). But in the hands of a competent programmer there isn't really anything wrong with it. I don't use VB, but I have seen it used well. I have seen C used really freakin' badly too. So give up already.
I had to do some work in Providence a while back. Flew in back and fourth and spent 7 to 8 months of one year there. Every time I flew in via Logan and drove down. The first time there I learned the meaning of 'Boston Defensive Driving'. That is, the best defense is a strong offense. Psycho drivers and fast. Even the state police didn't seem to work in the same parameters as the rest of the country. I remember doing 85 - 90 north up 95 between Attleboro and Foxboro running a little behind. I was passing a bunch of people but wasn't the fastest on the road by any means. What got me was I looked out the side window one time and a marked highway patrol was passing me and the trooper didn't even look over... looked like he was just relaxed and cruising along. And the driving got crazier the closer you got to Boston. It was fun.
Obviously not, but neither did the moderators who marked him insightful. He obviously had a soapbox in mind when he saw Doctorow's name and just used it as a convenience. Or in other words, ssn. Slashdot Situation Normal.
America needs to follow someone who has some (un)common sense instead of idiots who thinks a bunch of printed words like the constitution or the bible has all the answers, and wasn't written by men who are fallible, anywhere from two hundred to thousands of years ago, totally out of chronological context to today's world. Boy those slave owning slave fucking plantation owners sure knew how to lay down some good wisdom that works in the information technology age! Tell me another scifi/fantasy story daddy, the one about the guy walking on water.
It is my observation that in the United States and even Canada it is the religious right who make up the highest proportion of global warming nay-sayers. Go figure.
And worrying about maybe having to buy ten one dollar apps to get one one dollar app that works the way you need it to. Not much of a bargain in that. Plus the temptation to just buy 'just one more app' whenever you see one that looks interesting can be costly after a while, especially when it only shows up at the end of the month. In other words, some of this might also be self censoring in terms of curbing unnecessary buys to avoid my previously mentioned pitfalls.
You've probably seen there are hundreds of replies on this. But seriously I have to say yours is the only one that was really needed. It isn't that complicated.
On one hand Slashdotters are yelling about how untrustable corporate software is, an on the other had they are yelling about how much they want the ability to hook up their personal laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. to the corporate networks when they go to work. WTF!? Come on guys, give your fucking heads a collective shake. What's it to be then, the corporate software is safe enough to expose your personal devices or it's... what?
This is why I never could fucking understand this "I want to use my own laptop or smartphone at work" bullshit. I have never wanted to or trusted a corporate infrastructure enough to have full access to their systems; and conversely allow them to have access to my personal devices. If they want to have accounting and software tracking software look at the various nodes (and unless we're talking seriously small start up companies, they all do this), then I want them to supply me with a laptop, PC, tablet, smartphone, or whatever else is needed.
Ha ha ha ha ha you come here to Slashdot to for nothing but pure physics talk with other Aspergers victims and no chance of people being sociable or jokes, hah hah ha ha hah! FAIL
You reminded me about when a couple of us were talking to an instructor in his office which he shared with someone else, a very uptight, very proper female instructor with an old school sense of propriety. This was very shortly after the www/commercial internet came into being. She was searching the web for something personal at lunch when we heard her gasp in horror. You see, she owned purebred great danes and liked to show them. She was searching the web for great danes and show. We turned around to see her frozen in horror at a picture of some chick and her great dane showing everything (for the less subtle, she was letting the great dane fuck her brains out). She (the instructor) couldn't even move for a few seconds just gasping like a fish out of water and finally kept repeating that "it just came up," "it's not my fault," "gabba gabba gabba." When we cracked up she changed the page got all indignant and stormed out of the room. Higher learning indeed.
Correct. They are actually socialists which explains their running in packs, groups raising children, sharing food gathering, etc. They are highly idealistic even allowing humans into their packs.
And similarly, you should provide a couple of links otherwise it looks like you guys are just shooting bullshit canons at each other. My gut feeling based on your two points goes to the other guy; but gut feeling is all we have to go on since neither of you cites anything. However, whatever study you cite I think it behooves you to also find out who funded it. There are a lot of studies espousing the benefits of technology that we end up finding were funded by the companies selling the technology, or at best by "non-profit research institutes" that are just sock-puppets for the companies selling the technology. And even 'government studies' sometimes use their money too.
including an underground antenna that listens to children's thoughts
When I read this the first thing I thought of was that it is a good thing kids stop believing in Santa Claus not too long before they figure out how to beat off. Saves a lot on psychiatric treatment later.
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What if? What if the dog didn't stop to have a shit? It would have caught the rabbit. But you ask, what does that have to do with Microsoft migrating everything to the cloud? Everything. Because Microsoft hasn't migrated everything to the cloud, so it's not relevant either. That is, you're begging the question. And for what it's worth I don't think they will ever migrate everything over. There are too many companies out there that would stop buying their products if they did. They don't want to share their company info any more than I want to share mine; and they have a lot more to lose if they do. MS won't shoot themselves in the foot. They want to keep everything under their own roof, not Microsoft's.
Mind you Balmer does seem intent on chasing everyone else instead of coming up with his own ideas (red field not blue field). I think that is more of the reason behind MS's lackluster performance lately. Gates came up with the new ideas that shot them to fame and fortune (even if like Jobs a lot of it was using existing ideas in new novel ways), and Ballmer rode on Gates' coat-tails being employee number 30 and cashing in big with his stock options. i.e. Gates was the innovator. Balmer is the business man. I read a book by Jason Jennings that mentioned that the most successful corporations are run by engineers. Ballmer is not an engineer (math and economics). His advantage is that MS had a lot of momentum by the time Gates retired, but unless they do something innovative soon they'll lose it, are losing it (and are thanking God for the BS business patent rules). So under Ballmer they might just go FR and put it all in the cloud, but I don't think MS as a whole is that stupid. But I'm not a billionaire so meh, I could be wrong.
I have a bunch of Microsoft products that have lasted for years. Office, games, operating systems, even a development environment once when I did some MS programming once upon a time. And they only stopped working when I uninstalled them. Oh that's it, I get it! I bought the stuff and didn't rely on free crap that I didn't know was going to be there from day to day! I had apps that Microsoft made money on from sales instead of from selling my personal data so I could keep my apps as long as I needed them. Yeah I didn't have apps that google keeps around as long as they can absorb data from them and make money from said data. You think google does stuff for free? Get a fucking clue. They are no different than any other company except in the currency they charge to use their stuff. This product obviously didn't generate enough useful data for them to sell, whether directly or indirectly. Personally I would rather pay cash and keep at least some privacy. But likely you like to post pictures of you and your friends doing bong hit on facebook or other stupid crap like that. So go ahead and keep using google services; it probably doesn't matter to you.
On the other hand how many launch failures have Russian space missions experienced lately? Not saying it happened, but destruction and sabotage doesn't need theft.
GLaDOS is an S&M Robot, just look at these pics.
I see a moderator doesn't agree with me but doesn't understand that just because they don't agree doesn't mean I should be modded out of the discussion.
Right now the only way to find sites on the internet is to use Google or one of its competitors. But they are all based on advertising revenue. So it often makes it brutal to find anything in the usually returned storm of bullshit ads that isn't trying to sell you something when you do an online search. The only choice you have to get away from this are a few well known havens where search terms aren't geared on sales, and in fact spam and unwanted advertising get you kicked. Like on Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and others. Possibly the same with some Apple related sites as well (not really liking Apple's business practices, I don't use their products).
When I search for something on Wikipedia it might have errors in it, but at least I am getting something that is 99% accurate, and more importantly I don't have to wade through a ton of crap to find the results I am interested in learning about. When people search the hash tags in Twitter they can find stuff they are interested in. There are groups on Facebook where people can easily share passions and ideas. Sure, using a search engine like Google you can find the same information outside of these sites, but by the nature of their need to generate revenue, Google, Yahoo, et al have all too often made this far too painful for the average bear.
How many times do we search for something on Google only to get tons of crap that we're not interested in. Mostly stuff trying to sell you something that based on the fact one of your search terms matches one of numerous key words they have registered to respond to. For example yesterday I wanted to see what information was around on why a product Line6 (guitar effects products) called a UX8 was discontinued; but not from the Line6 site. I wanted to hear the 'buzz on the street' so to speak. Whatever I searched I was still presented with almost entirely links to sites that sold music equipment but telling me they don't sell it any more, it was discontinued. I couldn't find a discussion about this based on numerous queries I made to Google. Granted in the mix might have been something I was interested in, but the results are so swamped with crap I don't care about that a mere mortal human is unable to filter it all.
Controlling the user experience allows sites to provide a kind of coherence lacking in hoards of websites howling for you money. Until Google and the other search services provide a search filter to remove online retailers (and/or other options) without having to figure out our own search terms to do so, these sites will live, thrive, and survive, and will be one of the futures of the internet.
4. CDMA available only if iPhone 4S is sold and activated for use on a CDMA network.
So don't slag people if you aren't willing to actually read the whole specification.
Point taken, but this time the talk was interesting. It sounded like the people asking listening and asking questions put a bit too much into the guy than he might deserve, but still the talk had quite a few valid points IMHO. I don't read much of his stuff and just know his name, so I'm not a follower of his. i.e. pretty much neutral standpoint. So take that for what it's worth (and that varies based on state and time of the month).
Oh that's crap. And I learned C as my second language after VAX BASIC, and worked professionally as a C programmer on Unix for years. VB is a decent language/environment and has its place. Don't blame the tool because the worker holding it has no talent or other issues. Or to draw from one of my favourite sayings, it is the carpenter who cut the board three times and still found it too short. But it sure as hell wasn't the saw's fault. The worst you can really say about VB is that it allows bad programmers to create working programs in a similar way that poorly written SQL can appear to work until you realize the result set is missing data that you need (which was a similar complaint some C programmers had about Java when it first came out). But in the hands of a competent programmer there isn't really anything wrong with it. I don't use VB, but I have seen it used well. I have seen C used really freakin' badly too. So give up already.
I had to do some work in Providence a while back. Flew in back and fourth and spent 7 to 8 months of one year there. Every time I flew in via Logan and drove down. The first time there I learned the meaning of 'Boston Defensive Driving'. That is, the best defense is a strong offense. Psycho drivers and fast. Even the state police didn't seem to work in the same parameters as the rest of the country. I remember doing 85 - 90 north up 95 between Attleboro and Foxboro running a little behind. I was passing a bunch of people but wasn't the fastest on the road by any means. What got me was I looked out the side window one time and a marked highway patrol was passing me and the trooper didn't even look over... looked like he was just relaxed and cruising along. And the driving got crazier the closer you got to Boston. It was fun.
Obviously not, but neither did the moderators who marked him insightful. He obviously had a soapbox in mind when he saw Doctorow's name and just used it as a convenience. Or in other words, ssn. Slashdot Situation Normal.
America needs to follow someone who has some (un)common sense instead of idiots who thinks a bunch of printed words like the constitution or the bible has all the answers, and wasn't written by men who are fallible, anywhere from two hundred to thousands of years ago, totally out of chronological context to today's world. Boy those slave owning slave fucking plantation owners sure knew how to lay down some good wisdom that works in the information technology age! Tell me another scifi/fantasy story daddy, the one about the guy walking on water.
It is my observation that in the United States and even Canada it is the religious right who make up the highest proportion of global warming nay-sayers. Go figure.
Yeah I do the same thing except I paraphrase. I just say 'shit happens'.
And worrying about maybe having to buy ten one dollar apps to get one one dollar app that works the way you need it to. Not much of a bargain in that. Plus the temptation to just buy 'just one more app' whenever you see one that looks interesting can be costly after a while, especially when it only shows up at the end of the month. In other words, some of this might also be self censoring in terms of curbing unnecessary buys to avoid my previously mentioned pitfalls.
You've probably seen there are hundreds of replies on this. But seriously I have to say yours is the only one that was really needed. It isn't that complicated.
On one hand Slashdotters are yelling about how untrustable corporate software is, an on the other had they are yelling about how much they want the ability to hook up their personal laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. to the corporate networks when they go to work. WTF!? Come on guys, give your fucking heads a collective shake. What's it to be then, the corporate software is safe enough to expose your personal devices or it's ... what?
This is why I never could fucking understand this "I want to use my own laptop or smartphone at work" bullshit. I have never wanted to or trusted a corporate infrastructure enough to have full access to their systems; and conversely allow them to have access to my personal devices. If they want to have accounting and software tracking software look at the various nodes (and unless we're talking seriously small start up companies, they all do this), then I want them to supply me with a laptop, PC, tablet, smartphone, or whatever else is needed.
Ha ha ha ha ha you come here to Slashdot to for nothing but pure physics talk with other Aspergers victims and no chance of people being sociable or jokes, hah hah ha ha hah! FAIL
You reminded me about when a couple of us were talking to an instructor in his office which he shared with someone else, a very uptight, very proper female instructor with an old school sense of propriety. This was very shortly after the www/commercial internet came into being. She was searching the web for something personal at lunch when we heard her gasp in horror. You see, she owned purebred great danes and liked to show them. She was searching the web for great danes and show. We turned around to see her frozen in horror at a picture of some chick and her great dane showing everything (for the less subtle, she was letting the great dane fuck her brains out). She (the instructor) couldn't even move for a few seconds just gasping like a fish out of water and finally kept repeating that "it just came up," "it's not my fault," "gabba gabba gabba." When we cracked up she changed the page got all indignant and stormed out of the room. Higher learning indeed.
Correct. They are actually socialists which explains their running in packs, groups raising children, sharing food gathering, etc. They are highly idealistic even allowing humans into their packs.
And similarly, you should provide a couple of links otherwise it looks like you guys are just shooting bullshit canons at each other. My gut feeling based on your two points goes to the other guy; but gut feeling is all we have to go on since neither of you cites anything. However, whatever study you cite I think it behooves you to also find out who funded it. There are a lot of studies espousing the benefits of technology that we end up finding were funded by the companies selling the technology, or at best by "non-profit research institutes" that are just sock-puppets for the companies selling the technology. And even 'government studies' sometimes use their money too.
This comment is the first one about this article that I have read that makes any real sense to me. Mind you a skimmed over a bunch but still.
What about subspace? Errrrrrr.... Reality .... REALITY.... sorry I'm ok now. Never mind.
When I read this the first thing I thought of was that it is a good thing kids stop believing in Santa Claus not too long before they figure out how to beat off. Saves a lot on psychiatric treatment later.
Sorry, we're talking about a fork of Judaism. You need to log in to a different project.