In recent years, Google's "parser" was tweaked to get semantics from natural language constructs...so often, typing your question is the best way to get search in Google.
A few months back, someone at work was asking me for how to implement something specific in Java... Not having done any java in several years, I copy and pasted her question, word for word (no editing or cleanup) in google, and the answer came up as the very first search result.
When I asked her what she searched for, she tried to be too clever: she would search for specific keywords, instead of searching for her question, which would have worked fine in the Google of several years ago, but not with the Google of today. You're now better off "asking" Google what you want, and it will understand better.
Searching for just 58.44 will make google search for those numbers, and potentially even have it ignore the period. Not good.
Europe or not, changes little, if you thought you were so far ahead in technology (at least for this). The only times I've used checks myself in the last 2 decades is to setup direct deposit with an employer (I could just give them my numbers, but I had the check laying around), and when I had to pay rent to a landlord that still does things old school.
But there's lots of market segments that will require paper trail for certain types of transfers, so even in europe, there's a lot of checks going around, just not between individuals.
Mice and keyboards are inputs to a application, but why must it be local? Why can't my mouse scroll from one computer system to another? Cut and paste between computer systems?
Im guessing you were refering to something more...but we already do that, and have for years. At work Ill have multiple RDP sessions (one per monitor), representing several computers on my network, some devs, some production...and Ill regularly copy and paste anything (not just text, but files to) between them like if they were just one computer. RDP has supported copy and paste of text, blobs and even files between RDP (Im talking ctrl+c, ctrl+v anywhere, graphically, not just on the shared disks or whatever) for a long time...
The only real issue is that the standard setups need a client OS to run the RDP client... thin clients are available, but aren't always versatile enough. Thats really the only thing that needs to be perfected and put in the mainstream (its already common in the enterprise space)
The CRTC imposes monetary penalties in the form of fines for non-compliance with its rules. So if a complain is made, and the CRTC decides there are issues, fines are imposed for the duration of the violation, for example. I dont know the details of this particular case, but thats generally how it works. So its not a court order or criminal action or whatever... they just have corporations by the balls (well, wallet)
And thats perfectly fine. Obviously you can tell what tastes better for you rather easily (though I'd say just trying different brands of chicken will probably end up with finding good tasting non-organic chicken... because I don't eat organic chicken much, and there's really a wide range of taste, even in the "normal" chicken).
The issue is only when it comes to things people can't measure on their own (such as health benefits). Just yesterday I was talking to a girl who ate exclusively organic (when possible).
Her words were "I have to eat organic food". My first reaction was "why??". "Its what I've been told. Its much better for me."
Cattle that eats grass is better because grass > corn. Not because someone slapped an Organic logo on it, and some things that result in that Organic logo are probably -worse- for you...
Thus my take on it is: make your decisions on a case by case basis and on facts, not based on which section of the super market the food is in:)
The lower end editions of Windows have pretty always been "given away" (or close) to OEMs. The rest of the price gets cancelled out by the crapware sellers paying to have their stuff on the machines (which doesn't happen with Linux).
Get a quote for a massive amount of Windows licenses to bundle for kicks (try and pass for an ISV). And when I mean massive, I mean a few hundred thousands licenses. You'll be surprised how low it ends up. And keep in mind if your name was "Dell" or "HP", you'd probably get it for even lower.
Windows XP on netbooks is probably not being priced (much) lower than on normal desktops, when it comes to OEMs. As long as there's some crapware on the machine, the OEM breaks even or close with the free offering.
I just tried for kicks... if I move a folder to another that contains a folder with the same name, it pops the message asking me what I want to do, and then at the bottom there's a tick box "Do this for the following X conflicts". Click that, popup doesnt happen again.
Thats with a folder with a very complex directory tree and thousands of files (I tried with a backup, basically)
The source folder does stay behind (though empty), however.
You're right about the file copy progress though. It gives you the entire path up to the containing folder, but not the file itself. On the upside, the progress dialog is a lot more precise.
Bing is actually decent, as a first "serious" attempt at taking on Google. The search results are not as good as Google's (then again, Google's have been going gradually down, too), but it has a lot of nice features to allow you to filter and narrow down common types of searches, like restaurant searches by price, or finding good stores to buy something.
The drawback? If you're anywhere except the US, then it sucks. Hard. Search results are awfully bad, and all the nifty features that makes it different from Google are gone. I almost suspect that for non-US countries, Bing is just a skin over Windows Live Search, because its really night and day compared to US Bing.
End result: if you're in the US, give it a shot...regular search won't be as good, but many types of searches will have tools to assist you, bringing it up a notch. If you're not in the US, don't even try.
While WHS doesn't do ghost backups, it does come with an ISO in one of the built in folders, that you burn to a CD, and in the event of a catastrophe, you boot the hosed machine from that CD, it finds the WHS, and will reinstall the machine back to working condition from any one of the backups. Don't even need to reinstall Windows yourself.
There's a lot of really good independants out there (I know, captain obvious just called...), and a 30% cut, while not the best thing in the world, is still better than a lot of what these artists would make otherwise in the current environment (so lets call it "baby steps", or "progression"). That will encourage the bests to do even more, and even bring some independants into the mainstream spotlight. Whats not to like?
If there's some good stuff that pops in there, Ill happily burn hundreds of dollars on this. Im a sucker for good, original music.
SharePoint works fine. And you don't exactly need to pay a bundle for it if you just want document sharing and collabortion (since Sharepoint Services is a component of Windows Server. Only the souped up "enhanced" version costs, and has a million pieces to support).
I run Sharepoint on a one server virtual machine, and probably have an higher than average load on it, and its fine, and I definately don't need to maintain it much at all. And at work we're running one of the largest non-Microsoft sharepoint farm in the world, in a unix based environment (no active directory, lots of *nix clients, box linux box than windows box, etc) and while it sure has the hiccups than any webfarm of the size ends up having, it does work pretty good.
In any case, as of the latest version, Alfresco is a very respectable open source alternative that will run on Linux boxes and uses mainstream open source components, and is seen as "Sharepoint" from Office 2003/2007's point of view, and it integrates quite seemlessly with it. Give it a shot, its pretty damn good.
The Windows 7 editions don't work like Vista's. In Vista, you had the Home Premium that had stuff like Media Center, the Business that had all of the business-y features, and if you wanted both, you needed Ultimate.
In Windows 7, its not like that... Home Premium is the same as in Vista, Professional has all of the Home Premium features, plus the business/network stuff, and Ultimate has that, plus a couple of features only useful on corporate domains (such as more Group Policites and fancier VPN functionalities for Windows Server 2008 R2) and VHD booting.
I swear by Vista Ultimate, but for Windows 7, Professional is sufficient. Ultimate is pointless, at least at home, EVEN if you have a fancy home network.
Unlikely. Microsoft partners have bigger customers already have had access to the Office 2010 preview for months now. I'm amazed it took that long for it to be seen in public (though there were already some previews and screenshots, including official ones by microsoft bloggers, for a while now)
here (douzens of thousands of heavy Office users), we're not quite done testing all our stuff with 2007 (our documents are fine, but some plugins have to be upgraded, and integration with in house apps have to be tested, etc), but we have to hold users back with chains from upgrading to 2007 (well, its a metaphore obviously, they can't upgrade on their own). -EVERYONE- wants it. Bad. The UI is a lot better for people who don't know Office by heart, and there's a lot of new features, mainly in the business intelligence integration and collaboration that make people drool over it.
Im not too sure whats the difference, but Outlook has had thread support for years too. So this is probably a fancier rehash of the same deal, or maybe natively integrated with Exchange or something.
Have you set foot in a typical large business lately? These people live and die by these things, on -TOP- of using wikis and such. A big part of it is that you can't really link a customer waiting to sign a 15 million dollar contract a link to a wiki, and the accounting department can't do their "one shot deal" calculations on their blog.
At least in RC1 it didn't. Which is fucking ridiculous if you ask me. The funniest shit however, is that Windows Server 2008 (server!!) doesn't either! Sure, a server admin will easily put it back, but...whats the idea of making it default?
Yeah it can. Plus there's a fair amount of plugins, some free, some commercials, that will actually outdo Eclipse's abilities (though I wouldn't be surprised if Eclipse had plugins to push it even further...and there -is- IntelliJ.)
Swing is nice if you understand GUI programming. What the GP was saying, is that for those who have had very little exposure to GUIs in general, learning a GUI toolkit that requires you to understand event models, widget placement, and the rest of the "theory" of UI, is a bit brutal. Of course, once you grasp the basics, Swings' "everything is really a container when you get down to it, even non-container components" model is quite slick..NET however has a much smoother learning curve. You can do most basic apps with just drag, drop, double click. Then later on you can move on to the more advanced models. While Java IDEs do have very powerful GUI editors, they still require you to understand much more, not unlike.NET's WPF. And WPF is also brutal on those new to UI.
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In recent years, Google's "parser" was tweaked to get semantics from natural language constructs...so often, typing your question is the best way to get search in Google.
A few months back, someone at work was asking me for how to implement something specific in Java... Not having done any java in several years, I copy and pasted her question, word for word (no editing or cleanup) in google, and the answer came up as the very first search result.
When I asked her what she searched for, she tried to be too clever: she would search for specific keywords, instead of searching for her question, which would have worked fine in the Google of several years ago, but not with the Google of today. You're now better off "asking" Google what you want, and it will understand better.
Searching for just 58.44 will make google search for those numbers, and potentially even have it ignore the period. Not good.
Europe or not, changes little, if you thought you were so far ahead in technology (at least for this). The only times I've used checks myself in the last 2 decades is to setup direct deposit with an employer (I could just give them my numbers, but I had the check laying around), and when I had to pay rent to a landlord that still does things old school.
But there's lots of market segments that will require paper trail for certain types of transfers, so even in europe, there's a lot of checks going around, just not between individuals.
Im guessing you were refering to something more...but we already do that, and have for years. At work Ill have multiple RDP sessions (one per monitor), representing several computers on my network, some devs, some production...and Ill regularly copy and paste anything (not just text, but files to) between them like if they were just one computer. RDP has supported copy and paste of text, blobs and even files between RDP (Im talking ctrl+c, ctrl+v anywhere, graphically, not just on the shared disks or whatever) for a long time...
The only real issue is that the standard setups need a client OS to run the RDP client... thin clients are available, but aren't always versatile enough. Thats really the only thing that needs to be perfected and put in the mainstream (its already common in the enterprise space)
The CRTC imposes monetary penalties in the form of fines for non-compliance with its rules. So if a complain is made, and the CRTC decides there are issues, fines are imposed for the duration of the violation, for example. I dont know the details of this particular case, but thats generally how it works. So its not a court order or criminal action or whatever... they just have corporations by the balls (well, wallet)
And thats perfectly fine. Obviously you can tell what tastes better for you rather easily (though I'd say just trying different brands of chicken will probably end up with finding good tasting non-organic chicken... because I don't eat organic chicken much, and there's really a wide range of taste, even in the "normal" chicken).
The issue is only when it comes to things people can't measure on their own (such as health benefits). Just yesterday I was talking to a girl who ate exclusively organic (when possible).
Her words were "I have to eat organic food". My first reaction was "why??". "Its what I've been told. Its much better for me."
Cattle that eats grass is better because grass > corn. Not because someone slapped an Organic logo on it, and some things that result in that Organic logo are probably -worse- for you...
Thus my take on it is: make your decisions on a case by case basis and on facts, not based on which section of the super market the food is in :)
The lower end editions of Windows have pretty always been "given away" (or close) to OEMs. The rest of the price gets cancelled out by the crapware sellers paying to have their stuff on the machines (which doesn't happen with Linux).
Get a quote for a massive amount of Windows licenses to bundle for kicks (try and pass for an ISV). And when I mean massive, I mean a few hundred thousands licenses. You'll be surprised how low it ends up. And keep in mind if your name was "Dell" or "HP", you'd probably get it for even lower.
Windows XP on netbooks is probably not being priced (much) lower than on normal desktops, when it comes to OEMs. As long as there's some crapware on the machine, the OEM breaks even or close with the free offering.
(Note that this was on Vista, not Win7...my Win7 box doesnt have a good set of data to make some meaningful test and im too lazy to make one =P)
I just tried for kicks... if I move a folder to another that contains a folder with the same name, it pops the message asking me what I want to do, and then at the bottom there's a tick box "Do this for the following X conflicts". Click that, popup doesnt happen again.
Thats with a folder with a very complex directory tree and thousands of files (I tried with a backup, basically)
The source folder does stay behind (though empty), however.
You're right about the file copy progress though. It gives you the entire path up to the containing folder, but not the file itself. On the upside, the progress dialog is a lot more precise.
Bing is actually decent, as a first "serious" attempt at taking on Google. The search results are not as good as Google's (then again, Google's have been going gradually down, too), but it has a lot of nice features to allow you to filter and narrow down common types of searches, like restaurant searches by price, or finding good stores to buy something.
The drawback? If you're anywhere except the US, then it sucks. Hard. Search results are awfully bad, and all the nifty features that makes it different from Google are gone. I almost suspect that for non-US countries, Bing is just a skin over Windows Live Search, because its really night and day compared to US Bing.
End result: if you're in the US, give it a shot...regular search won't be as good, but many types of searches will have tools to assist you, bringing it up a notch. If you're not in the US, don't even try.
While WHS doesn't do ghost backups, it does come with an ISO in one of the built in folders, that you burn to a CD, and in the event of a catastrophe, you boot the hosed machine from that CD, it finds the WHS, and will reinstall the machine back to working condition from any one of the backups. Don't even need to reinstall Windows yourself.
May not be a ghost, but its damn close.
Especially since the 100$ to register is yearly. So they can make a lot of songs for their 100$.
There's a lot of really good independants out there (I know, captain obvious just called...), and a 30% cut, while not the best thing in the world, is still better than a lot of what these artists would make otherwise in the current environment (so lets call it "baby steps", or "progression"). That will encourage the bests to do even more, and even bring some independants into the mainstream spotlight. Whats not to like?
If there's some good stuff that pops in there, Ill happily burn hundreds of dollars on this. Im a sucker for good, original music.
Oh boy, talk about a typo I made there... the zealots will have a field day with this one. Whoops.
SharePoint works fine. And you don't exactly need to pay a bundle for it if you just want document sharing and collabortion (since Sharepoint Services is a component of Windows Server. Only the souped up "enhanced" version costs, and has a million pieces to support).
I run Sharepoint on a one server virtual machine, and probably have an higher than average load on it, and its fine, and I definately don't need to maintain it much at all. And at work we're running one of the largest non-Microsoft sharepoint farm in the world, in a unix based environment (no active directory, lots of *nix clients, box linux box than windows box, etc) and while it sure has the hiccups than any webfarm of the size ends up having, it does work pretty good.
In any case, as of the latest version, Alfresco is a very respectable open source alternative that will run on Linux boxes and uses mainstream open source components, and is seen as "Sharepoint" from Office 2003/2007's point of view, and it integrates quite seemlessly with it. Give it a shot, its pretty damn good.
You can access your documents via WebDav, and map the sites as Web Folders (Windows XP) or drive letters (Vista and up).
Doesn't exactly get much easier than that.
Its not as straightforward as it should be, but the Win7 taskbar can be changed to be almost exactly like the old one, complete with the quickbar.
The Windows 7 editions don't work like Vista's. In Vista, you had the Home Premium that had stuff like Media Center, the Business that had all of the business-y features, and if you wanted both, you needed Ultimate.
In Windows 7, its not like that... Home Premium is the same as in Vista, Professional has all of the Home Premium features, plus the business/network stuff, and Ultimate has that, plus a couple of features only useful on corporate domains (such as more Group Policites and fancier VPN functionalities for Windows Server 2008 R2) and VHD booting.
I swear by Vista Ultimate, but for Windows 7, Professional is sufficient. Ultimate is pointless, at least at home, EVEN if you have a fancy home network.
You guys aren't on software insurance or something? On our side, that we upgrade or not is cost neutral, license wise.
Unlikely. Microsoft partners have bigger customers already have had access to the Office 2010 preview for months now. I'm amazed it took that long for it to be seen in public (though there were already some previews and screenshots, including official ones by microsoft bloggers, for a while now)
here (douzens of thousands of heavy Office users), we're not quite done testing all our stuff with 2007 (our documents are fine, but some plugins have to be upgraded, and integration with in house apps have to be tested, etc), but we have to hold users back with chains from upgrading to 2007 (well, its a metaphore obviously, they can't upgrade on their own). -EVERYONE- wants it. Bad. The UI is a lot better for people who don't know Office by heart, and there's a lot of new features, mainly in the business intelligence integration and collaboration that make people drool over it.
Im not too sure whats the difference, but Outlook has had thread support for years too. So this is probably a fancier rehash of the same deal, or maybe natively integrated with Exchange or something.
Have you set foot in a typical large business lately? These people live and die by these things, on -TOP- of using wikis and such. A big part of it is that you can't really link a customer waiting to sign a 15 million dollar contract a link to a wiki, and the accounting department can't do their "one shot deal" calculations on their blog.
At least in RC1 it didn't. Which is fucking ridiculous if you ask me. The funniest shit however, is that Windows Server 2008 (server!!) doesn't either! Sure, a server admin will easily put it back, but...whats the idea of making it default?
Yeah it can. Plus there's a fair amount of plugins, some free, some commercials, that will actually outdo Eclipse's abilities (though I wouldn't be surprised if Eclipse had plugins to push it even further...and there -is- IntelliJ.)
Swing is nice if you understand GUI programming. What the GP was saying, is that for those who have had very little exposure to GUIs in general, learning a GUI toolkit that requires you to understand event models, widget placement, and the rest of the "theory" of UI, is a bit brutal. Of course, once you grasp the basics, Swings' "everything is really a container when you get down to it, even non-container components" model is quite slick. .NET however has a much smoother learning curve. You can do most basic apps with just drag, drop, double click. Then later on you can move on to the more advanced models. While Java IDEs do have very powerful GUI editors, they still require you to understand much more, not unlike .NET's WPF. And WPF is also brutal on those new to UI.