This book seems to let us see a side of the company I've often wondered about but rarely seen. Amid all the hype, lawsuits, and more, I've often wondered who the guys in the cubes are; what are they like, what do they think of their employer, how do they live.
This looks to provide a great picture of the people who make the corporate giant run. I'm not entirely anti-MS...they DO have some friendly, intelligent people working for them.
It's nice to see this side of things. Great looking book, good review.
Right on. Although really we didn't have too much of a problem with this sort of thing happening when the gameboy first came out, I can see it developing. At the very least I'll be really annoyed when the light turns green and my lane isn't moving because some kid up in front hasn't looked up to notice.
How long before we see downloadable cellphone roms for our PCs?
Of course there will be illegal distros of the games online. I just find it funny that, aside from the people getting the games for their other phones (not nokia) you KNOW people will be running roms.
And the big question is: WHY?
Seriously, Honda's Asimo needs to be on this list. Unless I missed it, of course.
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
And how could we forget the Rhoomba vacuum? Both robots of our time that are paving the way for things to come. Obvious choices, maybe, but necessary choices nonetheless.
However, at these numbers, even IF they only make one penny of profit per song, with the new McD's and Pepsi contracts were talking about $10 million in profits.
I can understand that they've made little to nothing yet, but they will, and soon.
What about Pepsi and McDonalds? Reportedly both companies are paying full price-per-song (.99) for their promotional give-aways...you can't tell me that $1.1 billion isn't a profit; if not, their overhead to profit ratio is more rediculous than 3DFX. Considering Apple's history with that company, they should know better than to repeat their mistakes.
I'm not buying it.
Perhaps they think they aren't turning a profit yet, but $4 million on the first day of the iTunes for Windows launch seems like a fair bit of money to me.
"Abundance of choice?" I get the feeling Microsoft still doesn't understand that they aren't "special". If ever I get to go to court over a traffic violation, I'm going to ask for the same thing.
That is, if I feel like making the judge laugh that day.
"I actually don't mind banner ads, in general. What I do mind is banner ads that interfere with the content. That basically means anything animated, anything that requires plug-ins, anything that pops up windows, etc. I've come to read articles, not have some asshole in marketing induce a seizure."
My guess is that if this really does become a problem (and I'm guessing it won't...we've been able to do this for a while with Norton) rather than everyone panicking and trying to find a new medium by which to advertise, a simple javascript would fix the problem. It could even be a good thing. If you have a problem with people stealing your bandwidth by linking to images on your server, you might consider pushing this. Running a banner ad with a banner YOU host and using a simple javascripted redirect really won't be any different than the way things are run now, and should fix the problem. If Norton filters words, rename the file, simple as that.
I for one have to applaud this. Doesn't matter where the funds come from, these viruses did a lot of damage. Yes, it make sense for Microsoft to spend the money on upping the quality of their own security, but offering this bounty now, in a timeframe where they won't be releasing a new OS for a few years, may help make future virus writers think twice before they write to exploit next week's security hole and knock half the country out of the loop once again.
Yes, of course I patched my machine right away and was reasonably safe behind my own firewall, but my ISP was still disrupted and when I DID have service, it was very slow. I was still affected, and would rather not have such a thing happen again. This is a positive effort on Microsoft's part to help attone for the damage cause by someone taking advantage of a flaw of THEIRS; doing this may help ensure that as a whole, people have more time around next time to PATCH and be protected before someone is brave enough to exploit.
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This book seems to let us see a side of the company I've often wondered about but rarely seen. Amid all the hype, lawsuits, and more, I've often wondered who the guys in the cubes are; what are they like, what do they think of their employer, how do they live.
This looks to provide a great picture of the people who make the corporate giant run. I'm not entirely anti-MS...they DO have some friendly, intelligent people working for them.
It's nice to see this side of things. Great looking book, good review.
Damon,
Right on. Although really we didn't have too much of a problem with this sort of thing happening when the gameboy first came out, I can see it developing. At the very least I'll be really annoyed when the light turns green and my lane isn't moving because some kid up in front hasn't looked up to notice.
Damon,
How long before we see downloadable cellphone roms for our PCs? Of course there will be illegal distros of the games online. I just find it funny that, aside from the people getting the games for their other phones (not nokia) you KNOW people will be running roms. And the big question is: WHY?
Seriously, Honda's Asimo needs to be on this list. Unless I missed it, of course.
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
And how could we forget the Rhoomba vacuum? Both robots of our time that are paving the way for things to come. Obvious choices, maybe, but necessary choices nonetheless.
Damon,
However, at these numbers, even IF they only make one penny of profit per song, with the new McD's and Pepsi contracts were talking about $10 million in profits.
I can understand that they've made little to nothing yet, but they will, and soon.
Damon,
What about Pepsi and McDonalds? Reportedly both companies are paying full price-per-song (.99) for their promotional give-aways...you can't tell me that $1.1 billion isn't a profit; if not, their overhead to profit ratio is more rediculous than 3DFX. Considering Apple's history with that company, they should know better than to repeat their mistakes.
I'm not buying it.
Perhaps they think they aren't turning a profit yet, but $4 million on the first day of the iTunes for Windows launch seems like a fair bit of money to me.
Damon,
I'd love to see this syndicated on public radio, though internet radio will have to do for now. Anyone know of any BBC stations listed on iTunes?
Damon,
"Abundance of choice?" I get the feeling Microsoft still doesn't understand that they aren't "special". If ever I get to go to court over a traffic violation, I'm going to ask for the same thing.
That is, if I feel like making the judge laugh that day.
Damon,
"I actually don't mind banner ads, in general. What I do mind is banner ads that interfere with the content. That basically means anything animated, anything that requires plug-ins, anything that pops up windows, etc. I've come to read articles, not have some asshole in marketing induce a seizure."
Right on! I'm sick of those too.
Damon,
My guess is that if this really does become a problem (and I'm guessing it won't...we've been able to do this for a while with Norton) rather than everyone panicking and trying to find a new medium by which to advertise, a simple javascript would fix the problem. It could even be a good thing. If you have a problem with people stealing your bandwidth by linking to images on your server, you might consider pushing this. Running a banner ad with a banner YOU host and using a simple javascripted redirect really won't be any different than the way things are run now, and should fix the problem. If Norton filters words, rename the file, simple as that.
I see this as a positive thing, mostly.
Damon,
I for one have to applaud this. Doesn't matter where the funds come from, these viruses did a lot of damage. Yes, it make sense for Microsoft to spend the money on upping the quality of their own security, but offering this bounty now, in a timeframe where they won't be releasing a new OS for a few years, may help make future virus writers think twice before they write to exploit next week's security hole and knock half the country out of the loop once again.
Yes, of course I patched my machine right away and was reasonably safe behind my own firewall, but my ISP was still disrupted and when I DID have service, it was very slow. I was still affected, and would rather not have such a thing happen again. This is a positive effort on Microsoft's part to help attone for the damage cause by someone taking advantage of a flaw of THEIRS; doing this may help ensure that as a whole, people have more time around next time to PATCH and be protected before someone is brave enough to exploit.
Damon,
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