Why would Balmer care? He doesn't make money on the hardware either way. And I'm pretty sure, if you want to compare OSX to Vista operating systems off the shelf, Apple wins.
Uhg. Freelancing is not kindergarden. People expect you to know what you're doing, and rely on your skills and opinions. If you don't know what you're doing, freelancing is the worst place to be.
... but they always seem to self-destruct on their own.
They either:
1) Take of too much work because they never know how to balance things, and burn themselves out.
2) Stop working on needed projects, and only focus on the fun ones, which loses their value in the company
3) Get Hooked on drugs and/or alchohol, and mess up their own future (MODERATION, people, moderation).
4) Piss off management by sh!tting one to many times in the lobby.
5) Get shown-up by some newbie coder who knows less than them, but is willing to learn new things (Josh doesn't like to learn new things, because it would imply that he wasn't a master of everything in the universe).
I wish idiots who used this line of thinking would stop what they're doing and go take a micro-economics class.
It has been pretty well shown (in my opinion) that if you want to limit the use of development tools to only those who are really serious about using them, you raise the price, not raise the level of effort to develop in the tools. Then, when the tools and frameworks have matured, you lower the price and let in the masses.
Peter Bright, of "Peter Bright Productions" wrote the main article. He describes himself as having "Three decades of Television & Video Production, Promotion, Marketing, and Corporate Communications."
Now, look at the articles he has written for Ars:
- Paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar versus the OS X Dock
- Deep inside the Windows 7 Public Beta: an in-depth tour
- Exploit for unpatched WordPad, IE flaws in the wild
- Microsoft releases open source CMS "Oxite" to developers
- SQL-as-a-Service with CloudSQL bridges cloud and premises
- Ars@PDC: Windows 7 Libraries under the microscope
- Ars@PDC: Windows 7's streamlined UAC
- Hands on: Windows Media Player 12's surprising new features
- Understanding Windows Live Essentials in Windows 7
- First look at Windows 7's User Interface
- Ars@PDC: More on Windows Azure
- Microsoft releases emergency patch for 0day exploits
I'm surprised to hear Belkin is even around, I always thought of them as the low-cost house brand of CompUSA, which is pretty much gone, 'cept for a tiger-direct run web site.
Rather than stocking quality options, they always seemed to stock the cheapest made product, which usually was Belkin.
Who would buy a Belkin product online if they could choose from other manufacturers?
Anyway, to answer the question, the Apple Application store seems to be chock filled with fake reviews from friends of developers. I wish they did a better job of weeding out the obvious astroturf.
Slashdot Mirror
Problem Solved.
So you're saying this "network law" is, if fact, a law?
I don't get it.
Maybe I need more sleep.
Every time I post something on slashdot, someone tells me I'm wrong, and then never disprove what I'm saying or make a case for the other side.
It's like everyone just likes to hear themselves type.
Just a theory.
I thought to call something a "law" in science you needed a much firmer proof.
???
Could have guessed that on my own.
Even if it's well written and modular, it's still .net.
(Sorry, had to be said)
I seem to post the following every week here:
Asking slashdot for legal advice is like asking you plumber to fix your car.
Go to Amazon and buy the NoLo book on the topic ya' need help with. You'll be much better off.
Why would Balmer care? He doesn't make money on the hardware either way. And I'm pretty sure, if you want to compare OSX to Vista operating systems off the shelf, Apple wins.
Uhg. Freelancing is not kindergarden. People expect you to know what you're doing, and rely on your skills and opinions. If you don't know what you're doing, freelancing is the worst place to be.
Just watched it again the other night. Amazing how funny (and oddly dead-on) it is after all these years.
There's evidence that the brain goes through a spurt every seven years where we remember more, become more creative, and learn new stuff.
I had a reference but forgot where I put it.
Now get off my lawn.
... but they always seem to self-destruct on their own.
They either:
1) Take of too much work because they never know how to balance things, and burn themselves out.
2) Stop working on needed projects, and only focus on the fun ones, which loses their value in the company
3) Get Hooked on drugs and/or alchohol, and mess up their own future (MODERATION, people, moderation).
4) Piss off management by sh!tting one to many times in the lobby.
5) Get shown-up by some newbie coder who knows less than them, but is willing to learn new things (Josh doesn't like to learn new things, because it would imply that he wasn't a master of everything in the universe).
Thank you for saving me a lot of typing. :-)
The reason why javascript and popups are needed is the two major protocols used by all major learning management systems, AICC and SCORM require them.
My [unreleased Microsoft software] runs [x] faster than your [available and fully released software].
What B$ from M$.
The apple store is a great example of the free market at work.
The daily whines here at slashdot don't change that.
Fierce competition is the sign of a WORKING market, not one that's broken.
Compare the 30% cut you give apple to the 80% cut you'll give a distributor and store in the real world.
I have yet to see a single useful app developed for the "open" G1 that isn't available on the iPhone because some API's are "closed".
That was my first thought as well. Well put.
I wish idiots who used this line of thinking would stop what they're doing and go take a micro-economics class.
It has been pretty well shown (in my opinion) that if you want to limit the use of development tools to only those who are really serious about using them, you raise the price, not raise the level of effort to develop in the tools. Then, when the tools and frameworks have matured, you lower the price and let in the masses.
Asking Slashdot for legal advice is like asking your plumber to repair your car.
Document everything and talk to someone who really knows what they're talking about.
Who cares how many versions of the new windows I won't be buying?
Until my clients have a reason to migrate from XP Pro on the desktop, that's what I'll be using.
Mac gets by with two versions; I've never heard anyone complain.
(Sung to Surfing USA)
Everybody is turfing',
Cross the USA,
Everybody is turfing',
Turfing' USA.
What a non-story. Windows 7 should be the next service pack for Vista, but then they wouldn't get to charge for it.
Peter Bright, of "Peter Bright Productions" wrote the main article. He describes himself as having "Three decades of Television & Video Production, Promotion, Marketing, and Corporate Communications."
Now, look at the articles he has written for Ars:
- Paradigms lost: The Windows 7 Taskbar versus the OS X Dock
- Deep inside the Windows 7 Public Beta: an in-depth tour
- Exploit for unpatched WordPad, IE flaws in the wild
- Microsoft releases open source CMS "Oxite" to developers
- SQL-as-a-Service with CloudSQL bridges cloud and premises
- Ars@PDC: Windows 7 Libraries under the microscope
- Ars@PDC: Windows 7's streamlined UAC
- Hands on: Windows Media Player 12's surprising new features
- Understanding Windows Live Essentials in Windows 7
- First look at Windows 7's User Interface
- Ars@PDC: More on Windows Azure
- Microsoft releases emergency patch for 0day exploits
- Amazon EC2 leaves beta, adds Windows; Rackspace joins cloud
- Windows 7 before 2010? Magic 8 Ball says "don't count on it"
- Microsoft casting about for viable mobile browser strategy
- Windows enters the cloud with new Microsoft, Amazon services
- Windows 7 to finally go public in late October
- Chrome antics: did Google reverse-engineer Windows?
- IE8 Beta 2 shows Microsoft is serious about playing catch-up
- Surfing on the sly with IE8's new "InPrivate" Internet
- The sky isn't falling: a look at a new Vista security bypass
- Midori musings: Thoughts on a "post-Windows" OS
- IE8 Beta 2 getting heavy performance, crash-recovery tweaks
- Microsoft bets on cloud computing as Amazon suffers outage
- A victim of its own success: troubled times ahead for VMware
- Looking back and looking ahead: Bill Gates leaves Microsoft
- Microsoft fires shot across VMware bow with Hyper-V release
- IE8 to boost ActiveX security on Vista
- New IE8 beta 1 tantalizes, rough edges and all
- Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode
- Windows Server 2008 arrives with high hopes, great fanfare
- Microsoft: Vista's not as insecure as XP. Please buy it!
- Wisdom and folly: IE8's super standards mode cuts both ways
- Windows Vista: Under the Hood
- Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face
WHO is paying this guy's bills?
This story is an obvious MS plant.
Is Windows 7 REALLY the secret sauce they were unable to ship in Vista?
No.
Do I care if it boots faster than Vista?
No.
MS is doing everything they can to change public opinion, including planting articles on SlashDot.
I'm surprised to hear Belkin is even around, I always thought of them as the low-cost house brand of CompUSA, which is pretty much gone, 'cept for a tiger-direct run web site.
Rather than stocking quality options, they always seemed to stock the cheapest made product, which usually was Belkin.
Who would buy a Belkin product online if they could choose from other manufacturers?
Anyway, to answer the question, the Apple Application store seems to be chock filled with fake reviews from friends of developers. I wish they did a better job of weeding out the obvious astroturf.
The 5D Mark II is amazing.