If I had a dollar for every time I've walked into a meeting with a prospective client and heard the phrase "well, the application runs on Access now..." I'd buy me a Ferrari and hire a full-time clown.
But yes, you're right, people tend to abuse the tools they have at hand.
One thing that I've heard from IT folks at a few companies about this whole "documents on the web" thing is the potential of being able to host a cloud service internally to do that and avoid having to dedicate slow network shares or SharePoint installations to enable people to view other people's documents.
Within the corporate world this would be a huge deal. I don't know if Microsoft would be interested in creating a prepackaged solution for this like SBS that works and scales well at the enterprise level.
SharePoint is really great, but large companies tend to have a mishmash of disconnected SP sites all over the place, mostly at the OU or departmental level, and maintaining them ends up being expensive in the long run (although SP itself really is stable in my experience).
I think this would be more attractive than the edit-files-on-your-browser novelty.
We hardly needed these to tell us there are other solar systems with planets in them. I mean they're nice and probably good for creationists or whatever, but other non-visual data proved a long time ago that our star-planet orbit configuration is far from unique.
I was looking for a 1TB HDD recently to set up some long-overdue backup of the machines I have in my house. After pricing online I ended up driving three blocks to a Best Buy near my sister's home in SF and finding a Western Digital for about $10 less than everywhere else. With tax it ended up costing the same as if I had bought it online and shipped it.
I also remember buying a laptop bag a few years ago from them that was cheaper than what I'd seen online.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't buy a lot of things there, but their retail prices are not that far off the online ones from other places, unless you happen to find a super great deal.
Get ready to see that kind of thing more and more in the next few years. I think a recent event finally managed to push a lot of racist people over the edge.
Racism also inflicts people with acute stupidity, so hopefully they'll also start drinking engine coolant and die.
That's interesting. My data point is of course not better than anyone else's, but after more than 10 years of working with large companies, my take on the issue is that most (again, my perception) users don't give a crap about what their computer looks like. I see people with 3-year old corporate XP Pro image laptop installs that still have the same wallpaper, window decorations and screensaver as the original image. They fill up their desktop with a thousand files or folders (one wonders what the point of 'My Documents' is) and generally work harder than they have to because they can't take 5 minutes to figure out that Win+E opens the Explorer - no, they have to right-click on the Start button, and select 'Explore' or sometimes 'Explore all users', then traverse the tree back up to the root drive to get where they were going.
And on these laptops you can actually change the wallpaper and screensaver (although of course you can't install screensavers).
Note that the "I don't give a rat's ass about the theme I'm using" is not a bad thing, again, my point is that Windows computers have become appliances that are used to get work done rather than something you (potentially) sit there and ogle at.
Frankly, I don't believe the drooling masses exist.
Never browsed the Ubuntu forums, I see.
The only people I see pretending to be drooling over MS's second-rate eye candy
Angry boy hand-waving aside, the problem with these things in the context of Windows is that the OS has become essentially a business commodity article, so in general the vast majority of people who use Windows (I think) couldn't really give a crap about eye candy in general, because they're busy getting stuff done. I personally read these articles and wonder if Microsoft is going to add X or Y to the OS in the next iteration to make my job(s) easier, rather than how cool I can make the window decorations look if I'm bored.
Codeplex is devoid of any meaningful opensource programs.
Hmm, I think I'm going to go with an "O RLY?" here. There are some projects on Codeplex that are released under some of Microsoft's more restrictive licenses (and the vast majority of those are Microsoft's own), but by and large there are enough projects there licensed under BSD/MIT/GPL/etc that your statement is nothing more than a gross generalization. Works great with the mods, though.
the Microsoft NIH culture
Like any other large software company, Microsoft does of course buy a lot of code that they later incorporate into their products. Of course companies like Google and IBM don't do that at all... oh wait.
gF: Open the file under the cursor, for #include statements and even classes for languages like C# or Python (if they're in the same directory). Very nifty.
%: Match the brace under the cursor.
Some of my favs are the text object commands in visual mode, like placing the cursor inside a string literal and doing vi" to select the inner portion of the string and then c to start changing it without having to re-type the quotes. viB selects the current inner brace block, vaB the outer block (including braces), good for refactoring and so on.
* Start an auto search for the word under the cursor.
Other languages call that functionality 'list comprehension'.
Being a relatively decent Python developer, I can tell you that LCs are not even in the same ballpark as LINQ, although of course that's one of its applications.
I suppose there might be a language out there that has something similar, but that would certainly not be the mainstream 'P' languages or Ruby.
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Haha, no, but he does have a name troll for me. Does that count?
If you behave, maybe he'll create one for you as well.
Things like these are proof positive that intelligent != smart
Good as in "there you go, you ignorant idiot" :)
If I had a dollar for every time I've walked into a meeting with a prospective client and heard the phrase "well, the application runs on Access now..." I'd buy me a Ferrari and hire a full-time clown.
But yes, you're right, people tend to abuse the tools they have at hand.
One thing that I've heard from IT folks at a few companies about this whole "documents on the web" thing is the potential of being able to host a cloud service internally to do that and avoid having to dedicate slow network shares or SharePoint installations to enable people to view other people's documents.
Within the corporate world this would be a huge deal. I don't know if Microsoft would be interested in creating a prepackaged solution for this like SBS that works and scales well at the enterprise level.
SharePoint is really great, but large companies tend to have a mishmash of disconnected SP sites all over the place, mostly at the OU or departmental level, and maintaining them ends up being expensive in the long run (although SP itself really is stable in my experience).
I think this would be more attractive than the edit-files-on-your-browser novelty.
Do you figure there's a single moderator on Slashdot that doesn't know about your fourteen accounts and what you do with them?
Three different ones used in this article inside of 10 minutes.
And riddle me this, why do you reply to yourself as you did here instead of just making your point in a single post? I'm actually curious.
We hardly needed these to tell us there are other solar systems with planets in them. I mean they're nice and probably good for creationists or whatever, but other non-visual data proved a long time ago that our star-planet orbit configuration is far from unique.
How did they get your CC number to begin with? Seems to me there's something more here than "I just clicked on a button".
You're wasting your time.
At least he's posting it at -1 where the loser trolls and crapflooders belong.
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No, I did. It was a 7200RPM SATA 1.0GB WD retail package. It was about $10-15 less everywhere else online.
And their "M$ heavy stock", whatever the hell that means.
Maybe. But who's laughing now :)
I was looking for a 1TB HDD recently to set up some long-overdue backup of the machines I have in my house. After pricing online I ended up driving three blocks to a Best Buy near my sister's home in SF and finding a Western Digital for about $10 less than everywhere else. With tax it ended up costing the same as if I had bought it online and shipped it.
I also remember buying a laptop bag a few years ago from them that was cheaper than what I'd seen online.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't buy a lot of things there, but their retail prices are not that far off the online ones from other places, unless you happen to find a super great deal.
You have no idea. No idea whatsoever. twitter famously even blamed the Mississippi bridge collapse on Microsoft.
Get ready to see that kind of thing more and more in the next few years. I think a recent event finally managed to push a lot of racist people over the edge.
Racism also inflicts people with acute stupidity, so hopefully they'll also start drinking engine coolant and die.
That's interesting. My data point is of course not better than anyone else's, but after more than 10 years of working with large companies, my take on the issue is that most (again, my perception) users don't give a crap about what their computer looks like. I see people with 3-year old corporate XP Pro image laptop installs that still have the same wallpaper, window decorations and screensaver as the original image. They fill up their desktop with a thousand files or folders (one wonders what the point of 'My Documents' is) and generally work harder than they have to because they can't take 5 minutes to figure out that Win+E opens the Explorer - no, they have to right-click on the Start button, and select 'Explore' or sometimes 'Explore all users', then traverse the tree back up to the root drive to get where they were going.
And on these laptops you can actually change the wallpaper and screensaver (although of course you can't install screensavers).
Note that the "I don't give a rat's ass about the theme I'm using" is not a bad thing, again, my point is that Windows computers have become appliances that are used to get work done rather than something you (potentially) sit there and ogle at.
Never browsed the Ubuntu forums, I see.
Angry boy hand-waving aside, the problem with these things in the context of Windows is that the OS has become essentially a business commodity article, so in general the vast majority of people who use Windows (I think) couldn't really give a crap about eye candy in general, because they're busy getting stuff done. I personally read these articles and wonder if Microsoft is going to add X or Y to the OS in the next iteration to make my job(s) easier, rather than how cool I can make the window decorations look if I'm bored.
Which reminds me of this [NSFW]
That's a waste of good tequila, c'mon...
Seriously, Shampoo totally rocks. He's even better than that guy... I forget his name, Alex Choi or something?
Complete win.
Hmm, I think I'm going to go with an "O RLY?" here. There are some projects on Codeplex that are released under some of Microsoft's more restrictive licenses (and the vast majority of those are Microsoft's own), but by and large there are enough projects there licensed under BSD/MIT/GPL/etc that your statement is nothing more than a gross generalization. Works great with the mods, though.
Like any other large software company, Microsoft does of course buy a lot of code that they later incorporate into their products. Of course companies like Google and IBM don't do that at all... oh wait.
gF: Open the file under the cursor, for #include statements and even classes for languages like C# or Python (if they're in the same directory). Very nifty.
%: Match the brace under the cursor.
Some of my favs are the text object commands in visual mode, like placing the cursor inside a string literal and doing vi" to select the inner portion of the string and then c to start changing it without having to re-type the quotes. viB selects the current inner brace block, vaB the outer block (including braces), good for refactoring and so on.
* Start an auto search for the word under the cursor.
~: Swap the case of the char under the cursor.
So many...
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
Being a relatively decent Python developer, I can tell you that LCs are not even in the same ballpark as LINQ, although of course that's one of its applications.
I suppose there might be a language out there that has something similar, but that would certainly not be the mainstream 'P' languages or Ruby.